COI C130
The cult leader, speaker, and representative in Fuku City; Bokushi Hidari, received words about the internet war. A declaration of hostility under a rule that neither have the time to waste, but only a little. The staff talks about the report
“A needless game, but the rewards are controlling specific websites. The Dexter Guild, whose server got hacked by our group. Because of the taken away of the known computer virus, Code Red, had caused slow performances in the internet. No one knows about the differences because the server can hold millions of users. When it happened, it shows a slight difference when the performances reached 40% of its actual deficiency . . .”
One project after the other, all connected directly with the Dexter Guild. This is the first time he should have been taken it seriously. They are the modern remnants of using technologies such as them. Hearing something putting yourself into the internet is like having VR chat from what he can described as, this is no ordinary world they live in. It makes him wonder what is their latest technology before the Fall. He can’t stay mad if there is opportunity to be hold.
“Let’s stop right here, tell them; I’ll give them supports. As long as the damage is below the minimum. We will cooperate, if the Fuku adventurers are getting a full of themselves, cut them off from the job. We are losing man power than it is”
The staff bows and left his office. Hidari is fine with the misinformation spread throughout the ruins in Mihayara district. Leaving scraps of the first batches of mana battery and taken its components away as soon as it will be discovered. He tested the quality of the realms and sneakily passing throughout the city. With added bonus, two people from the dark green dot enters his office. A loud cheer from an old friend with a woman who introduces themselves respectfully. Those two, they were able to get through all odds when they went outside of the city. Comes back as defectors but has now connection from the rebellion.
The man shakes his hand with glee “It’s good to see each together again. We now know that we are not the only one getting into trouble. The Enders are showing promising results when one specific guild nosey around in our fair city”
“Same goes to you, someone in my city has that sash of yours. My own men were the one who recovered that sash, and you somehow give it to him”
The man smiles at him again with a perfect excuse “I give him the sash while your men are will be giving them the internet. I’d see much alike to a fellow member”
The woman chokes herself from laughing, two known gangsters having to smack each other from their failures. The scout and the gang branch leader are battling out what failures they are. She said,
“I know you’re busy, but we heard that you postpone our wild goose chase”
“Yeah, are you not interested to make our gang the scapegoat of our plan?”
“Enders have gone too deep in their investigation. Even our spies weren’t good enough of their tech. These problems are unique for us. All the strategies in our world won’t work on those people. Magic, Runes, and their technologies are more complex than I have expected”
The man couldn’t stop making faces to see an old friend having trouble “You see that, he starts to care”
The woman looks at him being silly. They both know the works he put up for the advantageous people inside Fuku City. Helping them to make their city their dream city and letting the people who resides from districts as their people. The deluded idea of hierarchy is putting her distaste. It is not because of her being one of the gang members. It is because the potential leaders are not keen to join their sides, relying on this man in front of them until he is no longer of use.
Hidari points it out to them “After I made this city what they wanted. Let’s all go home. Back in our world”
The man shakes his head from his daring plan “I can’t wait for the one who is responsible sabotaging the Foundation. And as for you, can you now tell us who are responsible to bring the ‘goods’ to Enders Bridge that day?”
“When we made it back home, I’ll tell you everything. Even the government tries to cover up the attacks”
They go through to their business regards about the ruins in Mihayara District. The dark green dot gangs are slowly faded away with every Enders step in. Hidari don’t have many manpower to fill it all. Yet, the improvement went smoothly as always.
Back inside of the internet, two sides are eye to eye to each other. Fuku adventurers were in awe to see avatars coming from gaming characters. Until they found someone with a mask. An iconic character, lore wise he is a gentleman, and clearly an assassin. The man looks at them as they look at him. He said to the robot avatar.
“We have the developer, and why are they fixated on me?”
“I don’t know, this is their creation after all. The resemblance of our interest might be crucial”
“I reassure you. This is what they call a video game. I have no importance by looks alone”
The users have received the message from the higher ups, it is now their full authority to deal with it and orders without harming the internet. It is already being set, as the first version of the contract was sent before everyone is coming here. They were the only group of people are getting stressed out to be part of negotiation, but they know how not to get advantage from their tech expertise. They have none, but those people behind the avatars. They look like they are learning from afar.
Fuku adventurers on the other side were taking their time having conversation with them. They could not differentiate if they are Enders at all. The dialogues are fully from their world. The most talkative character is the robot.
“Wow, this party looks splendid. There are people who is going to kill us, and ours are here for the vengeance. I thought we’re going to do the inevitable, where we all fighting nonstop until the virus will come here and wreck us all. AAH! Well, I was too ahead of myself. Right, right, you guys are ready the battle for your life. Entertainment for views and spectacular competition to anyone who watch it on . . .”
The other character taps the robot’s head “This is an honorary war. None of them will going to die but pulled out from the internet”
“That’s it? That’s it! I tell you these people are more than just your ordinary players, these are nerds. Spending their lives on the computer like their life are dependent on it. You Sir, speaks the finest people who . . .”
They muted him as it is getting distracting rather a neutral conversation. The users and the Fuku adventurers thought about it. They are in the test phase and no full control in the internet. One of them keep that in mind, when this ‘war’ is done.
“Ahem* I know all of you are confused why we are going to fight like this. There is no good reason for this fight to go on. This people we are facing from the Enders Bridge called by the name Dexter Guild. We have an agreement, and this is what have resulted. All the sayings about peace will be flipped out from the servers. You’re all here just to witness it, and who are willing to manage it to your or our control, to challenge through what logic this internet had to offer. I can’t share the details except reading this agreement. Follow the rules and you’re in-game characters in this world. Be a cheater, then get ban and never to return to that specific site again. Make this fair as exploits are fair too”
They place each other the copies of the contract on opposite sides. They make it quick where the list of rules is being represented. Thanks to the technology inside of the internet. Everyone presses the skip function and auto load the rules into their UIs. Checking for incompatible settings for everyone’s preferred skills and abilities in use, it wasn’t helpful for the Dexter Guild. Other characters were not included into the negotiations as they quickly updated themselves from what the dark web holds.
The honorary contract first begins with the truce, a starting preparation. It shows a similarity of a game, but there are some special agreements to start the war anyway. The dead websites are the neutral zones, barely any traffic of users come and go from the internet are the territories of the citizens. The other dead sites that never been used for how many years are the Dexter Guild now. The users know that they have the advantage against them when it comes to archived remove or hidden sites. They have secret bases, while Fuku adventurers require protective programs to their active sites.
The Dexter Guild have properly thought this through, the users were not expected them to be this clever. Thankfully, they have sites who still have functional ads to the active sites. Which they have a stable business without being disturb by their trespasses. This is surely an honorary contract they need to abide on. Lastly, the battles. The fight will immediately occur in the dead sites. The dark web is sketchy for having click baits ads or trick click on if they accidentally press it. This is going to get annoying for the past week or so without the ad blocks software.
On the other side, the Dexter Guild had comprehended the possibilities. They will never gain access to the well protected sites. However, the users’ accounts can be their gateway to enter to see what contents it had. If they were able to hack it before they will react on time. Others thought about it negatively, their manpower is too small to get it. The companions they have showing good personality and common attitude on the internet. The best thing they could do is to let themselves learn some tricks then execute it without problems.
As the notification finally opens to all of them, one moment reading after a massive wall of texts with pages continue on. The robot reacts on the situation
“That’s it? No crossovers, no special events collaboration of different websites like neighboring allies, no special updates after the first contract weren’t beginner friendly, and more and more I don’t even dare try to say anything else. Where is the content . . .?”
The Fuku adventures stared at the robot as it treated like their usual internet days. It is nostalgic for them to hear this robot acting up one of those drama queens, but he is being based more than his accent appealed by them.
“. . . I have never would of think that we are need to have this started tomorrow. Tomorrow?! We are all here, looking someone to get beat up to whom is the internet belonged to. I am here, we are all here. Why not let’s . . . Hey! Hey! Watch your aim there! You . . . you . . . you?”
This part of the website is neutral and they have figured it out, after the agreement sent to finish. Everybody reset themselves away from the center leaving the Robot and lone random guy in the middle.
“I wasn’t ready, please give me a minute and AAH!”
Flashes, Miss, C down, and the user recalled back to the main server. The faction war begins as they better off take a day off from this. Flashes stretches himself from the real world, Miss starts to feel numb doing nothing at her apartment, and C wants to continue. Flashes speaks out first
“I think I got bored, and it is almost lunch time. I think I should leave for now”
“I don’t think I could stay longer. Flashes is right, it is almost lunch time and I have some personal activities to keep myself healthy. C, you should go on for now. I don’t think I could learn more when fighting against them”
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The two had logout. Leaving C and the user, similarly, this user is with them since C walks inside where the other users busy on the servers. The user said to him “If you were involved with us before this. Sigh* I don’t think I have to explain it to you”
“It’s fine, what’s with that meeting? We gathered into a gaming launcher website”
“It is because reasons of course. We set that meeting because no one administered that website yet. Sure, they are, but they cracked it and leave the launcher alone. You’d be surprised it can’t download without any payment to an inactive platform, Aarg”
C didn’t understand what he meant, as the morning would be closing. There are other people who is busy on something else. Same websites they are trying to go through, as the new domains kept crawling as they initiate the first website to control. The screen is already showing information of them getting first the websites they wanted. It is like claiming lands or territories, they are now building their defenses on their occupied sites. They are doing fine as they heard one of them talk about the robot.
“Look at the map, one of our guys is pursuing that robot again”
“That loud mouth, I admit he is quite annoying when he jumbles around with words”
C had met it once, it talked about plans to try to fight them. The female robot stops them that is not even happening yet. He made himself be cautious about. There is no way for the Enders to have such dolts. There should be ways how it being used and how it properly planned. C down remembered how they managed to escape from the rat realm. Dexter Guild member in power armor, as if they already know. The one who aims at the portal as with an energy weapon opens fire into a web like static energy going to it then able to stay open without channeling it with magic.
Now here, what are they already planning to do like last time. Many Fuku adventurers shared their stories inside the Taiyou Industries, they thought they were caught. Yet, nothing happened then. It starts so many people not going to help industry as the Dexter Guild continues working in their field of work. Robotic they mention about them, but the sequence of them doing their work is like they follow a schedule. He checks on the map to see one of the Fuku adventurers stayed.
A slight moment of the blinking light as the man is already transferred deep into the dark web territory. An emergency call already been sent to them. He heard them about the situation.
“I knew it, I have the footage that you’re going to see. I let my guard down with this robot. The idiot actually bamboozled me when I was trying to go easy. Don’t underestimate these people. They follow the same mono-procedure if you guys remember in Taiyou Industries”
They scratch their head as they couldn’t take a break “I don’t think he will be having any of danger”
“Yeah, but getting trolled like that. We should be careful or our part of the websites will be taken away like (snapping finger*) that”
C looks at the map and sees he is unidentified area. He returns to the user and said “Do you have any programs to save someone?”
“We already have one. Say, how do you know he is having trouble?”
“I have my experience meeting with Dexter Guild, you could say I was part of the rescue team”
“Here! I don’t want to hear any of it. Let’s test everything we can do to help our companions”
C nods and takes the equipment. The equipment is nothing but a notepad icon. The rest he sees from the user’s hands are icons related to coding. He can’t look away from the man who was trapped. He pressed the icon and the administration notification pops open, quickly press ‘ok’ and on his way.
During the loading process, the sequence of transferring himself deep inside the dark web was relinked elsewhere. He was supposed to head to the man, but appeared in the neutral zone. The female robot appeared
“You think it would be so clever for you hackers to do the same trick again . . . Oh, no. It’s you. Never have the thought to see you again. But here you are. You are one of those hacker escorts. No matter, you have seen how capable we are now than before. Do you know why we settled that honorary contract, hmm?”
The female robot didn’t give him the time to respond “Of course you don’t, because we are inside a tool. Anyway, why did you follow him? It can leave when it is about to lose”
C waited for it to respond, expecting to drag on. It went silent, he replies “I am not used to it. I have an act wanting to help others”
“This is not the same realm you ventured. Your life was lucky when the soldier corps stationed all the hidden exits. Hmm, I am getting off topic. You can let it go and let it fight against one of my colleagues. Now that I think about it, you should go save it. It went too early to see our dark web bases. We were supposed to plan a party. Yes, a party that would be make things . . . enjoyable”
C listens to the female robot as it moves its massive size around. This is no Enders dialogue, and they speak identical to their world’s fictional characters.
The female robot opens him a link “Go, there it is, having fun with the moron you’ve already met before. What are you waiting for?”
C sees the man who is surrounded by movable objects and mechanical machineries. He is having trouble, C steps closer to it, then immediately click on his notepad icon. The buzzing of him being transfer to, left a static line saying
“. . . I . . . zzz tss fool . . . me”
The female robot sees him gone as it tracks him to where he is headed to “Wow, what a moron? I guess he likes to go his way than me offer him help. We won’t be enemies until tomorrow. So sad”
It touches the link and puts it to a different site. The place is empty only a screen where the man and the robot fighting it out. The female robot sighs in disappointed
“Why I can’t get anyone to trap here zzz . . . Zzzz”
The avatar is breaking including the dialogue. The Dexter Guild member revealed into a default character. An empty void avatar staring at the screen. She checks on the interface and sees the progress of her character.
“The data is clearly a fictional character with strange god complex. Even my character is as entertaining along with the others. A well-made disguised, it will continue on until our mission is complete”
Meanwhile, the robot is having trouble “Ok, these platforms go hear”
“You’re so dead when I get your tiny little head”
“Yeah, about that. Could you not defy physics and go there?”
The man lunge forward, and the boost platform set him to high speed. Where he reaches to another trapped, he activated his skill and blink though it. The robot lowers its eye and nods disappointedly
“I finally get you to be here, and now you are getting up in a level. Can we go back to tutorial? I should’ve not skip it and now I have a puzzle when someone is timed to escape my traps, groan*”
The man uses his code to leave, but the code was forced transmitted to the administrator’s permission. “Hey someone is requesting to leave. No wait, it’s you. I told you that to leave here with your data. You have to go to the exit browser. I made this web . . . I mean we made this web to properly secure. Except that you can easily get in (nervously chuckles) but getting out? No! you need permission to leave. Our base, our rules. You have your servers that we can’t get in nor out, unless . . . hey, who goes there?”
C down entered the dark website, far away from the room behind the glass window. The observation is a little bit bugged out. The robot runs to it and blocks the man’s view
“No, no, no don’t look at it. It is still underdeveloped and still need of tuning. Hahah (nervously)”
The robot whispers C at the back. Acting all embarrassed “Ah hey? Would you mind to leave that room alone? I’m not saying to get out from there and join the fun with that guy. Oh no, you see . . . How am I going to put is . . .? There are controls there might change the circumstances from here. Please, don’t press anything ok? Not even staring at any . . .”
“Optimization has been recategorize”
C down looks at where the robot said not to. From the other side of the window, the robot sees the changes is happening. “This is not happening, hey Sir, are you alive?”
The man is overrun with platforms and speed boosts had increased the pacing. Without adding the new features on the platforms, it is just a speed up version of the area. The man feels better as his experience using speed magic fits his preference. The man grins and now able to chase it further away.
“You’re mind bucket head”
He said it in three times speed.
The robot turns to C, “Laugh* I can’t, he starts squeaking like a mouse and . . .”
The man is reaching to it with his hands ready to strangle it. A platform from the roof sprung open and he dodges, but a force event erupts his abilities then take the hit. He is crashing down to where C is at, where the glass breaks through and him sees someone is here. The robot tries to follow, and a screen appeared saying ‘Error’
“Error?!! Who is the guy with a bright idea to come up with a program to . . .? Oh, that’s right, I tested it. Why my plan went so bad . . .”
The robot is minding its own business as the two finally meet. “I don’t ever think someone is going to help me, but thanks”
“Yeah, but I have different reason for it”
“Sure, let me hear it why. You could see I am in a bad situation. I have never thought that idiot made me go here in the first place”
“You mean how it provoke with personal attacks”
“Hmm! So, you already met”
“But for us we never fell for it, this internet world shit is going some nasty tricks”
“People who knows the internet stuff than those hackers . . . Those motherfuckers are . . .”
A slight of disturbance as the robot using the platforms as a clapping mechanism. “I’m sorry to disturb you two, we need to let the man to leave, and I’m here to set all these levels so he could go out the door then be on his way. If you want to join him, I can admit for two players here”
The man cuts it off “I can’t believe I got tricked to be here, with this dumb fuck”
“So, any progress when you get yourself out”
“I did, when the thing moves so far away. It was a great opportunity to escape from this embarrassment, but there is one problem though. When I made it to the door, there is a key needed”
They turn and see the room as it filled with junks, both of them starting to understand more about this world. There is no such thing as junk program like that. It has its purpose, something are extras, others are removed. They have no idea how development works, but one thing they were told of, this is just a game. Then there must be from what they remember to be called debug mode. They first search what the man is facing in the first place. While C looks for some other things, he found something strange, a piece of paper that writes ‘Goodbye Cheater!’. He picks it up and continue searching. Eventually the man found it.
Meanwhile the robot starts contemplating itself whereas the two hide beyond the error screen. “Come on think, think. I can call for help to get them out of there. What if, no. I am a dignified user. I don’t need someone to help get through this. There is a wonderful tool that will help me to answer all of my problems. Now I need to input it in then type ‘How to save two people from the error screen wall’. Wait, and wow a lot of results. Let’s see, let’s see. Ah, no? that’s not it. Oh, this could be it, yes. It’s new around a week ago. Nice . . .”
As it went in and distracted, the two have jumped through the error wall. The robot never seen it coming, it quickly returns to reading it and found out. “Oh, I just need to fix it up the error screen. Here it goes and bam, AAH!”
The error screen pushes it towards them. The two running through the platform they hear the robot rumbling through with the error screen on board, smashing through all obstacles.
“You see that, as an administrator, I used this error screen wall to be another platform. Be ready yourself as it will block your exit”
All around it shows visual effects of evil laughing as it accidentally muted itself.
The needs to go fast as they going through movable platforms, platforms that throw you from place to place, and environments that boost or negate their speed. The error screen moved passed through to them as it covers up the exit. The muted robot is now ahead
“How about that, ah?!! You see how impressive being an administrator is. Your effort will always depend on me to, well what is this. Dialogue texts, wait a minute you are using this to distract me, right?”
The two still going through the platform as they shift to the fastest detour.
“You’re distracting me, right!?”
The man feels odd why the robot is silent. It doesn’t matter but he surely is screaming with C on his side “IT FINALLY SHUTS ITS FUCKING MOUTH!”
An ability was used, a war cry to boost up their speed. The robot heard him loud and clear and said “Hey! I am not a censored* mouth. What? I can’t say what he is saying censored* mouth. The censored*, I can’t say censored* . . .”
A line of dialogue keeps going as the two were able to see it. The man grins to see such opportunity and prepared his magic. C notices it too as he be joining along.
The wall of text is piling up on the dialogue box, and the robot turns and see they are on their way. The error screen wall blocked the exit as it starting laugh maniacally
“It’s too late now, we need to make this introduction thanks to that second guy over there. You . . .”
They phased through it and the robot had forgotten about something “. . . Oh yeah, I was the only one who can’t. They are clever than I thought”
A text bubble appeared before it ‘TL;DR’ and ‘LOL!’
The two made it in and with the keycard on hand the door opened. “Laugh* what’s with all the texts? I just glad not to hear it saying anything”
“What did it say to you?”
“Try to treat it as sarcasm. It inspired me from its words of being relatable. I don’t want to say this, but listen to this”
A recording plays only the part he gets to him “. . . I understand, you won’t say anything. I do, I truly do. Born to what your expected by people, feeling like they owe you something after all the amazing things happened to you. Just look at me, the perfect example. After my uses are done because there is some force is better than me, would they think I could be better. In my coding, I am incompatible . . .”
The man laughs “What do you think?”
“Too relatable, for a robot”
Both of them laugh it off as they reach a digital portal and goes in. Another room appeared as the two thought it was over. The robot returns, still muted. “I can’t believe I did that. I genuinely and explicitly did that”
The two were surprised, and thought it was the end. C didn’t want to continue like this, he holds the piece of paper to see what it will react, and the man taps his hand and said “Do it, I am going to freak out after this if we continue on”
The robot keeps walling the dialogue box with texts. It getting to their nerves.
He shows the paper to the robot. When it sees it, it immediately stops working and start to spout nonsense. To many texts filling up the dialogue box, the room around them starts to glitch out as something went wrong. All around them fast forward simultaneously, and the robot follows along the events being triggered. Level signs keep moving forward as it only reach to 25 levels until they lose sight of everything. It ends where the end credits rolled in as the exit open for them in style. NPCs along the way orchestrated for their leave. No music as if it was not even finished yet. The two left as it leaves a creepy vibe.
They escaped, leaving the mute robot alone. One of the Dexter Guild members entered the room to reset the configuration of the character. Playing along the line of its dialogue, it was not even finished yet. Game breaking bugs and the debug room was infiltrated leaded to this incident. The mistake had already piled up, but this is no mistake and shown no impact for them. The robot heads up saying
“I think I over did it with the early access. They skipped so many levels that I can make a good story out of it (disappointed sigh)”