COI C73
“. . . BREAKING NEWS! A pillar of Jigeram’s light piled down on the highway in between near Chojima, Fuku City, and Mihayara district. Please evacuate as many people are exposed under 40%, they already show sign of minor symptoms and other frail magic affecting their bodies. The public services are only letting healthy people to take action, the dependence of mana is taking a toll to many uninformed communities. Thankfully, many volunteers from Chojima residences come and help other survivors as they are now reaching more than 60%. To anyone will . . .”
The man taps off the news on his mask. As he is now facing the Perb, there is someone else neutralized him. Now surrounded with the same dusts that stop their magic, he is sure that man is a local. He unleashes many spells out of rage and ignoring the man still standing. The man with a pickaxe stared at him, it is not certain if he is the one who will save that man lying down. The Perb broke off the silence
“He is not on my side”
The man with a pickaxe kept quiet then backs away. “. . . That Shithead! I told him he is not (shocked)”
The Perb sees the man coming to him without hesitation bringing the magic he forged into a weapon. The man gathers all the materials around him, from rocks to even the rusts hidden within the metal bars. Collecting the fresh night air and compact it together, he forged a gas mask then equipped it on the fly. He goes in the clouds of dust as his clothes already faint to cold taints around him. The Perb sees his aura manifests but falls down where the light absorbing it then become into snow.
The aura becomes a counter measure as he walks, but revenge is best and his rage gained from humiliation. The Perb’s victim shows himself and his unrecognizable voice
“I’ve been waiting for so long to get my hands on you”
The Perb couldn’t see properly as the light continues to leach him. The man kicks him, it wasn’t effective. Then he later used magic on him, it wasn’t that effective. The man uses his UI and sees the problem. The exposure shows high numbers and he can’t do anything about it. He decides to drag him out from the cloud, and then he said
“God! Why are you so fat?
The night around them seem to be empty, he forgets this place should be crawling with people in this part of the district. That gaping hole he saw few hours ago is it could be the problem. He can’t be sure in most things but that’s how he planned out during that incident. The man tries to pull him up, doesn’t have the strength to carry him as he is too exposed. The Perb buffs himself with an added weight as the man counters it by adding his strength. The Perb chuckled a bit while the man trying to bring him out from the cloud of dust. The man stops and steps out.
The Perb was relief that he gives up so quickly, he even smirk
“Revenge my ass. You give up because I added a little . . . weight?”
The faint of sensing him is still nearby as if he is waiting. His UI is broken and his eyes barely see through the light bluish dust. For the moment he thought he had given up, but something creative happened as it reached toward him. A normal rope thrown to him then quickly wraps around him with magic, the dust froze up the rope enticing the effectiveness of the Jigeram.
The aura of the man lights up outside of the area. Already freezing up and weakening the magic around him. He uses his magic to enhance any spell that will bring him out of the cloud. The Perb slides toward him in one pull. They make their first contact outside the cloud then he kicks him on the gut. The rope wrapped around him including the crystallized magic. It dented but absorbs the magic impact. The man is getting furious from all that dust weakening his power. The Perb felt it but not much for to vomit on the floor. He looks at the stranger one more time and said,
“You’re getting weak. You should’ve gotten the D more than I have hope for”
The man gets furious and used his ultimate. The dusts disperse as the Perb sees it with his own eyes. The man has enough and used it on him, a tremendous power to his control where his magic gathered up and polarized every matter around him. The shout of his rage, he says his ult
“MAGNETIZED METEOR!”
The ult gathered up all the mana and solid objects, slowly dropping on him while it collects its mass.
The Perb feels his mana is coming back as it sucked out the dust off from him. Trying to break free but the man also recovered his. He didn’t expect an ultimate ability wasn’t affect from the dusts. That’s his opportunity, the time he was here to face the bastard who done to him. Many want to savor their revenge, but to Perb. They need to end him quick because of his elusive skills to neutralized and forced charm them to his own consent.
The meteor collects the scrolls as it was left behind by the man with a pickaxe. It gathered around it and can’t seem to be absorbed through the magnetism. His ultimate as is fictionally called, it absorbs all sources of mana and the main polarization. The papers however revolve around it without being consumed by it. The meteor has become the center of polarization. There is nothing much to see from them where the meteor is slowly reaching to him.
The scrolls start to lights up creating magic. Neither of them sees the scrolls activating where the speed of revolution is getting faster and faster. The Perb gets hit by flying debris as it gets closer. As the meteor is at full power so slowly towards him. The Perb is getting wrapped around by heavy debris and mana too powerful to manipulate. The sudden force moves forward as it slams on him. The debris went flying around its polarization then quickly pulled into him one more time with both powerful gravity and unimaginable pressure within the Perb’s mana.
The magnetized meteor disappeared in a blink on an eye. The man moves closer to see any shred happening on the predator. The dusts come back and covered him again, the dusts absorbed his raging aura and to see the man he wants to end is gone. He checks his UI. He is still alive. The last trace was lost after he was teleported. He grabs his mask and squeezed it with his dear life. The magic he infused cycling out damaging and repairing. He kept himself hidden once more, to find him or the opportunity he has will be gone.
The Perb is getting heal and the man with a pickaxe is tending his wounds. The Enders said to him
“You know how to tap your head but you don’t know my role. You think that I can handle people like you”
The man hugs him out of pure craziness that he got out alive. Resisting not kissing him on the lips, he had never thought to see his victims become this powerful. Instead, he swears his way out of his stress. The man with the pickaxe listens
“That son of a bitch learns some new tricks . . . Ultimate my ass. That time wasn’t kidding about the later stages of magic control. Sigh* Still an idiot that wiped off the dust that stopped me”
He brings out his inventory and drinks a mana potion.
The Perb leaves no time to think about it, and he gets lucky using that trick. What he doubted at the time he managed to escape and leaved the police lying inside the secret room. It was a good decision, no, more like it is going to happen eventually. He stared at the man slowly clearing up his blurred eyes. The exposure of the light had suck away because of the man’s ultimate, it was easily described once they can’t counter it. Never thought he could able to use it, and more so he heard that the defectors have theirs.
He summarized what happen outside of the city.
“That crazy man is right, the later stages of mana control are already learned, and now I have to experience it while that moon raining on this city 24/7”
Scrolls around him lights up and give him the pleasant feeling for some reason. The man with a pickaxe silently stares outside. The Perb has nothing to talk about him, and neither would he talk to him in return. The Perb talks to himself
“I don’t think that man is a magic user. Why am I saying this? My state of magic is their highest potential . . . Except using magic tools, his scrolls saved me”
Ironno lies and waits that someone is already here. The thought of getting the last target, traitor or defector, who was involved in the black and white zone, and he already know someone like the man with high mana capacity is being hunted. Rumors about him are essential and his infamy wasn’t known because of his elusive skills, but Haw describes him well in his report. The man outside is rather unique. Tech savvy looking effects, but clearly have more on using metals and other solid objects, and meanwhile starting to use his magic to his preference.
He prepares the scroll to lose, a magic spell that concealed this room that hides any living essence inside. The Perb couldn’t help seeing this man raising his hand near to the magic scrolls. He asks, but in a different topic
“Thanks for saving me, but do you know how to take care of him?”
The man listens, thinking of either reply or continue on the man outside . . . But that man might give chances for him to get inside quicker.
“Take care of him? Just like I did to you earlier until you are tapping on your forehead”
“Forget about what I said. Listen, what he did using a spell on me. I am wondering why I can’t counter it? You already know many magic users can manipulate or even stopping magic on a fly. His . . . however stops that moon dust and still deliver a powerful blow”
Ironno thought something was odd, the man he is talking too is a defector but never reached the peak of control. He can only answer his question.
“Neutral mana as it is called for a reason, in general it called that for anyone could use it. Regards about not able to manipulate it, the man keeps his magic under control. Mana is like that, not because of how much you have . . .”
The Perb responds
“So, he uses his magic in a firm grip”
“. . . To that extend, yes, the man using his magic can do anything he wants if the opposing enemy can’t breach out control his. There is more but let’s focus what he is screaming ‘magnetized meteor’. The spell existed only to him, even replicas can do it but the design of it uses only for them”
“Is there a limit to make your own spells?”
“There is none, but time and mastery are keys to make it powerful. If someone actually surpassed the other with minimal effort, then they know their enemies’ strength”
The room starts to quake where the man has found him.
“Hiding inside the public utility cabinet? I have enough of that magic realm bullshit”
The man tries to pull off the metallic door out, but the scrolls prevent the magic to touch it. He’s confused as he touched it won’t budge. He pulled out a bat from his inventory and begins tapping it on the door. The Perb leans to the open gap and sees him with it. He almost smiled but the UI identifies it. It says ‘Rune effect’. Rune weapons negate magic and added other properties like magnets might work on it.
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The utility cabinet door opens, seeing the Perb again. Raising his magic then he retaliates by closing it. The man uses the spell but it dissipates by his own rune item. The Perb looks at him being disappointed of how desperate of him to get through. Ironno sees the two battles it out on the door as he knows two magic can’t correlate well. The rune writings on the bat are made to him and not from him resulted to this. The Perb manages closes the door then turn to Ironno.
“I have never seen this kind of emotion of rage on to me. Even I am the villain, but he is more of a pathetic loser I made him to be”
The man stops and tries some other way. Ironno sees them are nothing but thugs under a powerful mana. The safe rooms are neutral but critical to both sides. Once you entered inside all of them are neutral but the one who are hostile inside will be affected by the scroll’s defenses, so far, and there will be the time that they will destroy it. The Perb readies himself and the Perb’s exposure is now at 17%.
“I think I waited enough, is that dust really persistent?”
“The dust you mention will pile up again. It’s a light, something like reflection or radiation you people called it”
“SHIT!”
The door opens, Ironno took the first step then got knock back to the side with the man’s bat. The scrolls Ironno had quickly activated where his skull cracked. The swing swoop at the Perb. He runs out from the room and punches the man’s mask and it starts to freeze up. Both of their magic used as the Perb’s other hand freeze up as the two hits on contact. On that small area where the crystallized mana appeared, the man’s mask starts to melt from the dust as his face revealed. The Perb’s hand release the dust on his hand as it crystallized the mana on his face.
The man breathes the dust and quickly blocks his mana flow through his body. The man loses control of his mana. Ironno stands up as the scrolls heal him, and sees the two froze up. The Perb’s idea to use the dust to kamikaze himself at him. Ironno chipped off their crystallized layers on their bodies with his pick axe. The two watches Ironno took first his bat then the runes protect them from the crystallization. It is the only item wasn’t caught by the dust. The traps however almost activate from the large mana appearing near the safe room.
The moonlight shines on them where the barriers layers with numerous colors where the dust piles up. The Perb sees around where they hid, it is somewhere closer to the complex highways system near Taiyou district. A road that leads to the cargo train station, it is quite isolated since the supplies were not yet delivered by tracks. It is a wonderful place for the two will soon fated to ruin again. The two look at each other, Ironno breaks free from the faces as they can hear each other now. The Perb smiles devilishly while the man fear for his chastity.
The man panic “PLEASE! This man is a sex predator. I have come to all this way just for him . . . PLEASE!”
Ironno chipped first at the Perb, and removed almost half of the crystallized body. Ironno responds
“Then speak what you know, my pickaxe will be your timer” He quickly starts picking the Perb as fast as he could.
“Fuck! (x3) Shit! Alright I am one of the defectors, but I am here just to take revenge on this bastard”
Already breaks off his lower waist as he stared in disbelief. He needs to continue.
“We gathered back here because the Foundation is nearly complete”
The Perb tries to say something, one move of his lips. Ironno breaks free the man’s hand and his face. Only his face move, he then looks at the Perb looking serious. The Perb never would have thought he too isn’t his side at all, but then again, his hips are thrusting out of nowhere. He gets a bit excited too soon. The man continues
“However, we got in because of this other moon weakening the barrier. We got through it then being gathered around by the gangsters. I am not a member yet but some strangers come invite us this so-called invitation. I decline . . .”
The Perb looks at Ironno for anything he has a chance to respond. Still now, he is starting to chip to the man’s side as he continues to explain to him before it gets worse.
“. . . And, and that’s all I did in this city. I beg you, don’t make that predator win”
The Perb bursts out laughing “Laugh* you could say that, but even you are a let go. I can hunt you down . . .”
“Shut the fuck up! Many people who are part of your team going through that forest . . . You trick them. You are the fucker that made worse to us back in our world”
Ironno switches to both of them and shatters the entire crystallize from their bodies and closely to their feet. Ironno said to them
“Satisfactory, but both of you aim for the worse to each other. Either both you face the truce and fight another day without me in the middle or continue on with conditions to play along without me being the second target”
The two stared at each other, both took the opposite reaction. Determination or hesitation, confidence or fear, and, fulfillment or regret, those two people keep thinking long and hard as they have something planned.
One last crystallized mana left after Ironno put the last hit to both of them. Broken free from their imprisonment together, they feel like the exposure removed a big chunk of their mana pool. Leaving only their feet still stuck on the floor, and anything else they have hidden inside their personal inventory. Ironno pulls out a glove and wear it on his hand. The two focuses at each other, already settled their power to the minimum where they are almost drained their mana from the crystallization. Without them knowing, Ironno bypass their hidden inventory and took out their mana batteries.
They look surprised where their UIs pop up in high alert. First time that their UIs use the default warning notification where they likely change to their personal settings, Ironno took one of their mana batteries and lock the rest of their stacks.
“WARNING! HACKER INFILTRATED!”
They turn to see Ironno just took away one of their mana batteries and lock it off for the entire duration in 12 hours. The glove he is wearing emitted futuristic looking item as it was made from their own city. They thought it was a secret weapon, while for him looking at them said otherwise.
Ironno explains to them “Like I said, there is no chance for me to survive after freeing you two nor I would let you live if you are committed”
He throws the battery on the ground. “I have listened to you two argued your accusation one another and nothing much change for your decision. In my part, I would easily be defeated like any powerful beings such as you two”
The man mentioned to him “You could apprehend us and end this matter a lot quicker”
The Perb complained “Are you willing to sacrifice yourself just to put me in bars?” “What else that would be me instead to your . . . other victims”
“You just really want a better venue to have me get along with you, or dropping the soap is your thing”
Ironno let them argued whereas the exposure start ticking them both. They finally quiet down.
“I honestly thought of that, but I learn much of your city’s custom of playing a game”
The Perb agrees “Yeah, now an Enders is reading manga . . .”
Ironno judges them. “You two are defectors that I should be apprehending, but you two had no connection with the bigger pack. I will let you slide as my lucky bait. A rapist and future murderer, it’s your night after all”
He raises his pickaxe and starts to pierce through the last remaining mana crystallization. “In a count of three strikes, be ready”
The two then turn look at the mana battery straight away. There is nothing much for them to argue about as the two had no choice. Ironno played along with their game because of the Perb’s message meanwhile the man he is hunting has no value of connection. Maybe soon he will have it but he has time under the Jigeram’s light. Pick*
Both of them ready themselves where their body is the only mana left inside to boost their stats. All buff in speed and agility, even gambling dexterity to grab it first. Their inventory locked their mana battery stacks and nothing much else they could do. They look at their UIs once again . . . Pick* . . . The exposure greatly diminished because their magic inside is almost depleted while Ironno secretly gathering the dust with his special scrolls.
The Perb starts to sweat while the man momentarily checks his inventory. One last swing down on the ground, it frees them as they charged to the battery. During the high-speed moment, the Perb sees him swings his bat towards him as he about to reach it. He got swung off to the air as he grabs it while the man reaches down trying to grab the mana battery. The Perb lands on the ground grab a random rock and throw at the battery. It hits and move to the other direction. The two quickly moves toward it as their eyes grew desperate on the item.
Where their stat buffs had a small duration, and it will take a matter of time that it will wear off. The mana battery tumbling away as it bumps at something and moves to their direction. The Perb slowly moving forward and dodges him as the man attacks. A swing from his bat then maneuvers his way to the battery. The momentum of him getting it then hits the wall as he slides. The Perb charges forwards and used his mass on him, wall slam, and the man couldn’t bear his weight and drops both items from his hand. A wall appeared where the scrolls is used, as Ironno already left.
The Perb moves back and felt the rush of his weight put him off balance. The man’s buff depleted as well, leaving much his injured body crawling towards the mana battery. The walls start flickering with lights where that is affecting it from their interaction with it. The walls keep at it as they are reaching at the mana battery once more. The man is crawling in while the Perb barely trying to stand up. All of their mana used up with only special stats to help them keep awake, their natural bodies are almost return as they rush to it.
The man crawls down on his belly and the Perb crawling to his knees. Nothing for them to say a word where they see light walls appeared around them. Even if they decide to escape, the wall is there to block their escape. Ironno left it in case they are not going to follow his rule. Yet it continues to flick as much light as they blindly see the battery. Their exposures are already setting in both saved by the barrier and doomed to each other’s side. The Perb grit his teeth as his knees soon to waver. Meanwhile the man forced himself through the floor trying to reach as he blinds off from the light wall.
Two desperate people holding in their grievance and hostile answers toward each other, revenge versus rewards. The lunacy of the two both wrath and lust, it was the moment for them show how much they want to live. Blood or lower scars for the man, while gratification or death for him, it was that moment where the spark of light blind them one last time as they grab it. The mana battery is used and a large blast of mana surging through his body, quickly open up their abilities in a single notice. One more laugh that he will bring the worse to the other.
“Laugh*”
Laughter all around him where the other take his silent. It is fated to be or was unlucky how what they have planned out to the worse. In this short time during the night. It was all hectic, but will he achieve enlightenment for this moment . . .
“YES!”
The man shouts inside the scroll barrier. He starts to aim at his opponent with his fire magic, knowing well that the other can’t protect himself. His inventory is locked and other items won’t be enough mana for him to bring it out. One fire magic covers the man’s body, screeching out loud.
The clothes are gone leaving the man naked. The Perb smirks as he transforms into a woman, luck in most sadistic form he creates a small realm for them to hide their wonderful music and secretly fill this city with full of joy. Even if he will say, ‘No!’, it will be the perfect night to compensate during this awful experience. Her new body posed such seductive look, leaning her hand to her head slowly tilting her head with such beautiful smile. Adding glow to her eyes as if she is beaming lasers from it, this is her moment.
Her new body, tanned and taller and bigger than him, and muscularly ripped body shows she wanted something special. Thighs thick and the breast as big as she wanted it to be, she is sexualizing herself as her creative form will entice him no matter what. Then it all set in just a minute, the man can’t describe how wrong it is for that predator to ruin a man’s fantasy. Someday, more people like himself will chase the predator down and one day kill that man before further his crazed antics. For tonight, this is his last day being alive.
One last effort, with her voice become more feminine and only looks at the man looking lifeless, and also vulnerable. The man never would have thought to be this vulnerable. The magic effects on him. He looks up where her eyes meet his, and already showing her junk and said,
“You like futa, don’t you?”
She uses mind control where he can’t resist anymore. His body loses control and the expression like most hentai that she wanted to portray on him. She can’t hold it anymore and ordered him to his control.
Ironno looks at the safe room ceased its light wall. The scroll will end after the hour, he didn’t know which of them would win. However, this is not the time as he collects so much Jigeram’s light particles. It is now on his bag trying to bypass many securities trying to wipe it off or throw away. One more thing he needs to do to strengthen the rooms scatter around the city. It will be the last upgrade, and everyone will be safe, all of them. This night is the reminder of many dangerous individuals are coming to the city.
One morning happen, four people from the dark green dot gang are following the tracks of their infamous acquaintance. It is never be a good time to be exposed inside the city with those dusts lying around, but there is some news they need to spread around. Two young girls watching the couple argued.
“. . . And that’s it”
“Why didn’t you say that he was involved in the black and white zone”
“Stupid! You already forgot we are on the mission to find them”
“Gang members yes, but a real predator even before coming here”
“Umf! Kyra! I told you to escort him out. I don’t want him to be part of his next meal”
“You think he would suddenly want my ass”
Umf thought “Or maybe it’s going to get worse”
Kyra stares at her and rolls her eyes “Not again”
“Or maybe it is romantic upcoming between master and servant. Where you fell in love with him and secretly cheating against with your girlfriend . . .”
“Laugh* girlfriend? I don’t have such . . .!?”
“. . . Or she gets NTR because two men loves each so much it is about to happen”
She kept bragging on and on where he starts to worry “I already knew, but the internet had made this girl crazy”
The woman replies “Don’t bother, she still gives good information with that attitude of hers”
Umf stops talking where her UI shows danger. The three stops and check their surroundings. A fat man gets out from the realm feeling good. He stretches his body and sees the woman he talks to yesterday.
“Hey! I thought it would be the last”
The woman responds “Do you remember what we agreed?”
“Not anymore, last night was too stressful. I would like a summary or check my device from what I miss”
The man goes to where he gets out from the realm, with only his device and a special robot sneaking through. It sneaks inside the small realm and found someone lying on the ground. Dead or unconscious, the man gulped down his throat as if it was either murdered or rape. The scan shows a sign of sexual interaction but no sign of life on the man lying. He quietly spoke out
“What the fuck is this? Is he really into this? The fuck what changed him? The predator . . . changed?”
He stood there quietly and the Perb notice him.
“HEY! Don’t go in there. I warned you that there is something I am proud off. That man is trying to kill me last night”
The man starts ringing on his head and the two grabs him to their side. Kyra warns him
“I don’t think I want to see who he fucked”
Umf gets curious “Really now, but he fucked his own killer. That man is a beast”
The man couldn’t say anything only ask “A man? Or he is using a sex doll”
The two responds “What!?”
The Perb looks bright and happy as the three stared at him. At this point, they are too afraid to ask.