COI C143
“Sir, can I have a moment with you?”
The staff insisted him “Sorry, but he is not going to entertain people at this hour, he is very busy”
“But I am from the web development team”
“If you are from the third-party team, I recommend you to . . .”
The cult leader stops her “There is no need to, I have time to see new businesses helping the organization. Hmm, is there problem with your team?”
The man stuttered “Y-y-eah, about that. I need to clarify with you about our sources”
The cult leader, in his time living in this new world, has rare encounters with people who returned back to their usual selves. Back in their world, there are a lot of doubtful people still in a need of guidance in their rough life. With magic involved, everyone has the courtesy to be confident at their new form strength to whomever they choose. He says to him with open smiles
“I’m gladly interested for what you have to offer”
They go to his office and discuss about the project. The man is already known as a hacker through the cult leader’s intel.
Those arrogant people who knows the basics of programming as the world still not adjust to use protective software. His last meeting with them were innovative to the least. The man explains to him
“Our sources were not made, but taken somewhere else”
“How so? Explain it to me briefly”
The information he told, there was more something they have brought from this world’s internet. They found out that this post-apocalyptic world has more secrets to be unfold. Rediscovered technologies are being found through a forgotten server. A server well protected but somehow has the slowest internet speed.
The cult leader, his first experience to know about the technological advancement of this world. But there is one single problem from the hacker claims, “Then where is the data?”
“It is protected, a different way to safeguard their important files. I mean they scattered the files. I don’t know any of the details how they protect it, but I’m sure in the end it will cause something big in the future”
The cult leader listens to his warning as he reached out his hand. “I’ll be in touch, but the responsible will be your own team. I always support anyone in this kind of business”
The cult leader read his mind, Digidreamhak16, who was an odd fellow because of his name. It was the days after the siege as he can’t remember what exact date, he warned him about it. Without realizing the consequences, it brought to them and already show how painfully obvious it brings them here. Inside this very realm, where everything started. The warning and everything happened before, the virus is actually a demon who found itself venturing through the internet. It causes to slow down the internet, made it into a full advantage for them to get what they wanted from the old server.
The demon partially freed because it has the information about going into the internet, tempted such fantasy, and led into a real thing. Brought it to the Fuku City, got funded, and proceed to made the project as fast as they can. Using already existing projects from the corrupted files and other Dexter Guild’s data. Then finally, proceed to gain more power as they are under attack by the people they stole. This is the chronological path he had to examine, just to make the virus as a threat to ensure the Dexter Guild’s greatest secrets kept.
Back to the present, the cult leader is just reacting the plan of the Dexter Guild. How is it possible they could take advantage so much in their well-prepared pursuit? He read the demon’s mind, still in infant stage as it tries to recover its memories. It was too late. the fight is already here. He is hearing everyone’s thoughts as the Dexter Guild picked the right event to happen. The hackers are already doom, either they slow their inevitable fate or someone else have to give in to the guilt and pressure.
If it wasn’t for Digidreamhak16 to hasten the arrival of those two. Many people, all experienced defectors as well, will die and lose so much more out from their portal. The Fuku adventurers’ guild will probably over with this one encounter. No matter for him to play along their games, as long as his losses are the scripted people they wanted to kill. Even he has to lose the redemption of one hacker. Their fate is sealed, and the rest of what they build for have to be given to the users worked on the main servers.
The Dexter Guild members are here. Minimum in the number of twos, already showing their prowess for destroying the war machines, and seal the portal of the automatons. The aftershock for destroying the portal is the contaminated sea water flooding the area, already drench by the broken machines as it is already start to rust. The protective runes are gone and the nanites lose the demon’s controls. Their equipment has specialized to neutralize any signal based on magic.
Both disrupting auras blocking the air with thick magic, elven wind magic and archscience made tools. The two troopers look around the neutral zone, already starting their system to vanish and physically existing in this realm. Through their scanners, they see conditions of this realm. Old files returning to the screen showing the years that it didn’t been used. It’s more than 50 years or so. The virus’ data is already opens up in front of their screen. The demon, in human form.
The last thorough scanning to the virus, the conditions it had is numerous and almost all of it is man-made. The demon is locked into that form, still didn’t recover to use its abilities to shape shift. Comparably, the actions how it did was predictable enough for them to know that they have properly secured its memory. Like a test subject from the rest of the dying specimen, this one follows the step by step in such a fast pace. Reacting as it wakes up, naturally and logically, and then stops for the moment. There is a rare sign from its actions, it loses its generic behavior and resolve into a stand-off. It is already too late, the threat it brings had already in disadvantage.
Behind further from the battlefield, the last portal is closed. The robot, who is with the trooper as it is chosen to activate the command codes. It stares from across the distance, as it sees the two of them take down the large machines.
“Wow, those were magic prism tanks. I never seen it washed out from under the sea. Speechless, I’ve never looking myself surprised. Hey! You two can you hear me?”
The sounds of fighting with the clash of noisy machines and other loud magic blasting along the way.
“I think they can hear me” The robot said it confidently.
“Alright, I have the command codes/consoles/password or anything that name it in this bar of text”
The moment it starts to think to what to do in this fight.
“. . . Ah”
It keeps thinking again and again as if it stalling itself to do the most important thing.
“. . . Oh no, I don’t know what am I supposed to do. I was supposed to find those bastards who hacked our systems”
Its eye is projecting the hologram of the targets, and they are all over there in the opposite direction, but
“How am I going to get them with all those chaos over there? Will it work if I call them out to come here? . . . Ah!”
Suddenly, a dying machine tries to get the robot, then eventually shuts down as the electronic component inside short circuited. A surprised spark spoof it, and starts to move around in the air. The robot forgot
“Oh man, I am not prepared to fight. I am not a killing machine at all”
It looks at the machine parts lying on the ground soak in sea water. The mischievous look at its face going near to the parts and scraps. It whispers to itself
“Or will I?”
Then it looks at the remains of the magic prism tank.
“Would I dare, hmm”
Meanwhile the demon stares at the ruins of its automatons, seawater floods as it floats within its ankle while the others sink within their legs. The debris of machines floating as its runes are weakening by the strong disruption of the Dexter Guild’s equipment. Its body flowing out electrical current, as it spread through the waters. Their armors resist the magic with their rune armors. The demon looks at them with its presence releasing more of its magic. It’s chances to survive and escape are cornered by them and the Dexter Guild.
Its hope tries to get out and left a mark to everyone who are imposing its realm. Everything was planned out by the Dexter Guild. This is not its gruesome defeat as it can’t die anyway. But in the meantime, time will tell when it will return again. They still need the demon to be sealed as the signs of its death. Trapped inside of this avatar, lone to be trapped once again with the people who already prepared its beginning and the end. Its eyes seek deep within itself to realize its preferred body is lock away inside of it.
The demon has to act, and with its powers returning. It releases it with a powerful nova where it summons its own magic objects to its aid and further the magic into an attack. There is no stopping, it was a strong outburst while everyone nears it pushed back leaving the cult leader resist the magic. A sudden strike of its claws landing down as the circuits flow through on the ground. The gang leaders raised their walls and barriers to block its attack, but the circuits didn’t stop and continue to flow and spread all around.
The leader hears the demon’s thought had already made up its mind. All that is happen today, it is clearly a smile to those who takes the opportunity to take advantage of this sufferable creature. With his foot, stomps through the circuits. Magic comes up from the ground as it causes multiple elemental magic effects. Fire, Ice, Earth, and Lightning are clearly seen. The damage was tremendous and the barriers they place shatters as it froze then breaks after lightning erupts to an ending thunder.
Different spells interaction leads to another, the circuit flows go directly at the back as the fight with the remaining automatons. The Fuku adventurers tries to disrupt it by cracking the ground. The circuits flow stopped but redirect around them or blasted away the crumbling ground and opened up underneath it. Persisting itself to flow through the circuits. A group of Fuku adventurer tries to outrun it, yet the circuits blindly follow to fill the ground with circuit grids. At least one of them step on it, the multiple elemental magic burst open, then blows up the man’s feet.
His rune armor boots were not enough to endure the different spells outburst. From all of the elements consecutively punishing the boots, they didn’t see the hidden element they have not experience before. The demon feels the runes they used are not fully implemented the other elements in Horsin. Its eyes stretch further with the circuit as its vision, to look everything with the solid platform touches. The air has no disturbance on the material objects. Through everything on contact, its spells gradually taken into effects.
The troopers are now seeing the demon is starting to remember how to fight, but it still way farther than what it was originally done. They are facing the circuits as it reaches their feet. McS4 pulls out his heavy weapon then slams on it on the ground. An object that looks like a pole with a glass object on top and sharp edge for the standing foundation. It pierced through the ground and siphon the energy it collects from the magic circuit grid. Quickly absorbing it and release to the air. Large eruption of magic coming out harming everything it touches.
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McS4 pulls out another weapon and capturing the harmful magic into the air. Harnessing its dangerous aura, then reconvert it into an energy projectile and fires back at the demon. The demon’s objects detect it and forced itself to block the shot. The floating objects disintegrated as shroud of its magic uncontrollably breaking it into dust. The demon changes its target, but it was being pulled back by one of the gang leaders.
“What’s wrong demon? Someone breaking your little toys?”
The demon suddenly appeared to them in a flash, but one of them reacted so quickly to save him from the surprise attack. They tried to land a hit on it, and able to crack parts of its body. It still able to fend itself and beating them back. Their rune armors are breaking from just one hit, giving themselves time to pull back in disgust. The damage was just one hit, while the circuits connect the attacks had fully destroyed some of their armor pieces. One of the gang leaders has bruises by multiple elements.
“Just one ability and everyone’s gears are breaking. What in the hell are we facing?”
“It’s a demon for god’s sake. You should’ve listened while we are going into this mess”
“Hey, boss! Is it the right time to use those moves of yours?”
The cult leader is pulling out the circuits from the ground, controlling the flow of magic on his fingertips, the light sparks on his hands glowing and hold it into a tight grip. He is controlling the demon’s multiple magic. It forms an unstable orb channeling inside as the center dot is bouncing out of control. He shouted
“Stop thinking, act now or we will be overwhelmed! . . . overwhelmed . . . overwhelmed”
His words echoed, as the magic he took from the circuits is under his will. The demon turns around as its magic being controlled, casting its magic to stop him. The gang leaders distract it every rune weapon they have to the last breaking items. The demon is persisted for stopping the cult leader to use its magic against it. The gang leaders hold it long enough for it to stop its advance, its limbs are breaking, its magic spreading wildly without protecting itself, and it keeps going as it shows no pain.
The demon’s body shred as it shatters the parts of its bodies as it implodes into dust. Spread to the air as the elven magic and the archsience equipment neutralizing the effects of its supposed ashes. Removing what toxification inside of its very digital flesh, as it is now able to transforms. The cult leader finally finishing his channeling spell and throws it like artillery shot, one straight line and a ballistic force, knocking his team away to the air from the sheer force coming through.
It’s a hit, the cult leader suddenly flashes forward before it with his fist reinforcing the force while his spell persists to pierced through. Tearing the demon’s body, the magic pierced deep through its very core, the circuitry of its magic gradually able to resist it as it flows down on the ground, diminishing the full power of his magic. Code Red is losing its old body and statically rebuilding a new one. X2L scans the readings as it is now returning back to its original form. The old seal is lost and they ready for a new one. A signal sent to McS4, as he is not ready to set it up. He pulls out in his bag with parts as he tries to assemble it.
“The restriction has finally removed, proceed to setting up the replacement. The command code is already activating, only use it as the last option”
“Affirmative, neutralizing target until termination”
They watch at the target while taken down the remaining automatons, the demon’s automatons are losing and only remains are at the front. The fight is going into the citizen’s side, even how difficult they are fighting against the automatons along the seismic circuit waves beneath their feet. The currents of circuitry still persist its magic. No spells are nullifying it because of the size of the platforms being runed with circuit grids.
The cult leader sees what hidden lies inside the demon’s body. A human body trapped inside wearing a jumpsuit, its clothes have the same marks from the ground in circuit grid. Its face, its voice, and its behavior has changed. The circuits are now uplifted up the ground as the platforms begin to rise, flat walls with circuit grids loading in images. The realm is becoming like the version of the internet, as others being sucked in by the sudden transformation.
Runes magnetized, and circuit magic broaden the thickness from its grids with heinous multiple elements. The Fuku adventurers from the back are pulled like objects then thrown them to the demon. The cult leader uses his magic to stop it, but the wide area of circuit grids is too much for him to cancel all of it. One by one, bringing them to the demon’s location, crowding themselves in as the outer area raised the thin wall then pushed them in. They tried to escape, going over or breaking through, it wasn’t enough as they didn’t see the invisible ceiling lowering them in tight rooms.
The circuits finally caught everyone inside, as they no longer fight back the circuit grid. It continues to circulate the break after break. The ground raised up with the walls of pillars, stretch into a thin wall, the remaining of the Fuku adventurers, who got through, were caught by the large magic circuits’ static, they no longer resist as the grid is too close for them to evade. Finally, all of them were caught. No one can escape its power. All around as the circuit grid is all over filled to no space for them to go and all corners walled.
Code Red is flashing with powerful blinding red light. Strengthening everything around it, as its true body emerged. McS4 and X2L entered the fight as the wall pulled them too. They planted a pole on the ground as its magic absorbed then burst out to the air like a geyser. The demon tries to break it, but X2L quickly grabs it head. His heavy armored hands overloaded and the circuit grid marked his hand then pushes him back. Its head crushed but still able to move. Code Red almost reached the pole, then McS4 pulls it out then throws it to the other direction.
The pole still able lands on the ground in a slight angle bursting out from where it was thrown. The geyser of multiple magic continues to spread through the air. Code Red’s magic is draining away, trying to circulate itself back to it when it reaches to the ground surface. The cult leader returns with his gang leaders as they are focusing on protecting the pole.
“Take care of that pole, it’s draining the demon’s power”
“Yes, boss”
“I can’t believe were being helped by them”
“Deep breath* It is getting stronger. The circuits are everywhere for us to . . . what the!??”
Surprised after reaching the pole, they turn around and see the two troopers with their own heavily armored boots on the ground. Erasing the circuit grids without any effort. The demon sees its magic gradually being nullified as it burst after it being erased, their energy shield withstood all its magic. The demon is getting cornered. It becomes desperate and has to use its secret weapon. The virus is finally used, its frustration grew as it consciously brings out the computer virus. It wildly spread out of control. Code Red casts another nova, while trying to reconnect its circuit grid. They continue to cut it off, as the damage touches only their shields.
Code Red sees an opening and hits them as they move around. They block and parry, sliding down to evade, and erased the circuit persistently. It gets wilder as the speed increased to the point of the explosion splashing like water in front of the demon. The flames, the frost, and the earth are coming out like wild combustions. Witnessing such destructible force densely packed, the demon’s power is being concentrated to sheer apocalypse where it stands. As the virus seeps into their shield, they begin to fall back.
The cult leader backs his group off, “It starts to use a different spell. Why didn’t they stop it now? You two, help me. The rest of you gang leaders, save the others and get out of here. I am not going to watch those two orchestrating the fight”
They followed his orders. As they see the walls are gone thanks to the cutting off the circuit grid. The Fuku adventurers are wounded as the virus are kicking in and the effects of the grid endlessly putting them down constantly. The cult leader feels the virus surging through him, his abilities are weakening and his telepathy is gone. The elven wind magic is deteriorating and clouds of smoke appearing from the Dexter Guild’s equipment.
The computer virus plagues them. Code Red was rushed to make it out as it recovers, it has the abilities to counteract the Dexter Guild completely, but slowly affecting the enemies. The two troopers see their screens went static as the virus is destroying their systems. They look at their surroundings to see the conditions; their shields already melted away as the energy shield can’t back it up by the dense virus covering it. The demon slows down after release of the virus. The virus heals the demon as its physically form is almost done.
A large explosion coming behind the two troopers, the robot flies towards them as it rolls on the ground bumping its way to the debris of the automatons. Its eye shows the depression as it is in with mix of rage and failures.
“HOW! I have the resources, and out of nowhere, there was that large red mist start spreading out of control. I was out cold, then everything gone to worse. I almost finished rebuilding the tank. Everything, it’s gone, completely vanished, and I thought I could be any of help, but no . . .”
As it complains, their tainted infection from the virus quickly moves into the robot. Nothing affects it, but eventually it started to notice like it is only a pest. It shakes it off
“. . . Not this again, these things are like slimes. Oh yeah, you guys don’t know what I am saying here. Hey! You guys don’t look so good. You too?! Sorry, I should’ve been thoughtful about what’s going on. I just want to be the part of the team, you know? Anyway, let’s focus that thing you give me, here!”
The command code is already been used. The robot still plays his character telling them that he is ready from the start. X2L and McS4 clearly understand why. The predecessor archscientist was a very clever in disguise as, and the information of the internet persists itself to act that same person as if the command code was used. The problem is, it didn’t know the people here have no idea about the AIs replicating the former Dexter Guild leaders. Their mindset of loyalty to such leaders led them to speak out
“Archscientist Core Vic, the orders of the present Head archscientist, Lady Coheld, had seek for you to act accordingly”
The Robot loses its personality and gives a serious look. All the nonsense it had to portray to belittle by the command orders of the name, it replies cautiously
“It’s Korvic, sigh*, and I thought you brought me back because this supposed to be a peaceful agreement, well for the start anyway. What else did they don’t want me to know?”
“One of your successors have planned to find ways to resecure the target. The secondary is the full termination”
“Uh huh, so this plan was theirs all along. Not mine nor the recent. Sigh* Don’t bother putting me along with you guys. I don’t have my own lab rats”
The robot knows. It never hides away what the internet provides. Playing the act as it always had been, but the urgent to end the demon is needed.
“I am sorry but, Ah! Alright! Throw me to the monster and I’ll have to do it myself. I won’t stay out of character as this is now my persona, my identity, my, just throw me already!”
X2L throws it as it screams its way to the monster. Breaking through the madness as it tries to scream the loudest it can be.
“AAH!” The emergency auto-sequence has been commenced.
The cult leader and his chosen two gang leaders, experienced defectors with abilities he needed. While the others left the area as the circuits are returning, they managed to escape by using their ultimate. The cult leader charges in, as the demon is now fully transformed into a human. Man to man, both its arms able to block the cult leader’s magic. Along with rune weapons alongside with his bracers and gloves, both sides are already few individuals after such a devastated losses to the demon’s side.
The virus is damaging him, while the elven wind magic damaging it in return. The cult leader and his group erased the ground leaving no circuits for it to cast down. The demonic powers are being concentrated to itself, giving off a powerful aura forcing out the elven magic. The two fights while his companions help him from a far. The demon is faster as it able to take pushes forward, as it reaches closer to hit him. His companion appeared suddenly and hits its openings. It falls back as the other one takes in and grab its attack away to a different direction. The demon steps back casts its spell, to space them out.
The cult leader uses his technique as he strikes it down then above. The demon resists the powerful blow. It maneuvered itself around as its abilities are now able to use in the open. The cult leader sweeps around breaking through its magic. The demon grabs him before he lands a hit. He stops as the circuits affecting his arm. His companion comes in again to break the hold, but got disrupted by the circuits. The demon changes target and focus on the man got disrupted. The cult leader helps him, then throws him over to the demon. In mid-air he was grabbed by one his companion with a quick rescue.
The demon casts it circuits down to the ground as it tries to spread. The ground is marked by his companions stopping it to move quickly and slowed. The demon quickly erupts it on to itself, wrapped around with magical damage. Then turns it into its aura as it grabs the cult leader during the eruptions. The cult leader breaks free using one of his items. The pain on his body is now surging in as the virus caught him off guard. The demon feels the effects of the item, forces itself into a sudden stasis.
It quickly releases its nova as it stops, destroying its outer layer of its body. The gang leaders got infected. The virus is seeping through their mind as they react slower. Surging through the pain, he must give the tools to the cult leader before he is going down.
“Boss, catch!”
The weapon throws to the air as it able to cleanse off the virus with intense scourging presence. The cult leader catches it as is in the mix of feeling recovered at the same time damaging his internal body.
The demon sees the item. A weird scepter with shamanistic powers, the aura it releases show horrid rituals inside. As the stasis is almost over, it feels like it can hurt it as it draws near. The stasis is gone and tries to grab the scepter. The cult leader grabs its arm then swing its body to the ground. He grabs the scepter. The touch of the ritual is quickly staggering him, resisting the scourge from its ritual. It changes his skin tone as the curses mending with the virus surging within him.
The spirit hid inside the scepter wakes up as its hunger taste for powerful magic. The virus is being siphon as the spirit grows powerful. The cult leader quickly uses the scepter and stab on the demon’s body. The demon being impaled and the scepter emits a curse to lose its remaining power. The cult leader looks down as the circuit erupts from the ground along with the scourge to his face. He falls down as he is about to bring out the special item to conceal the demon for good.
Two of their heads are looking right at each other, the scourge poison is strong enough to cause both of them to stay down as the ritual searches for powerful entities. The spirit consumed the life who is near as it leans closer to the demon’s side. Whispering through the damnation as it speaks
“Eternal soul, must feed!”
The cult leader never expected the scepter to be this dangerous. It is one of the important items to deal with against powerful enemies. But this is the first time to use against the demon, the most powerful race in the world.
The demon looks at the spirit then to him, already has its jaw fell off as the scourge continues. The cult leader can’t die right here, if he dies then the demon will be revived again without sealing it. Thriving to stands up, he hears a screaming voice.
“AAH!”
The demon reacted as it froze in place. The scepter fell down losing the ability to use the scourge curse. Recovering what left with him and his passives, he brings out the sealing item and inserted on the demon’s body.
The robot falls near them as it witnesses the cult leader is sealing the demon. The demon had already given up as the presence of the eye already hears its voice. The scream made it stop, not by the annoying sound but the traumatic experience it triggers inside its head. The Dexter Guild had ruined its mind with psychological break, as the eye has no idea what it did to it. It doesn’t matter anymore, as the cult leader reaches out with the item and begin to seal the demon. He calmly stands up as the realm is slowly reverting back.