COI C76

The adventurers went back to the city guild. The doll had tamed a special monster where Silfa herself don’t know if she could keep it. It swimming inside the swimming pool where other adventurers watch it moves. Waves are turning once it swims and currents weren’t strong to spill the pool from its water. Many watched across the distance out of fear of the monsters while others took pictures and recorded videos to gain attraction of their own personal social media accounts. The serpent controls the water as it flies over the pool.

They couldn’t help themselves to clap of its mysterious abilities to use water and sensing its mana like no other. Silfa reads the detail about this monster.

“I don’t have anything to do with this serpent”

Altair comments “It would be useful for it to eat those monsters”

Illtended disagrees “No, those leftover carcasses are needed for biofuel”

Gemina can’t decide “There are many ways to keep that monster . . . Hmm”

Illtended stares at the serpent “We could build for the serpent to fly around, like rain or something”

Everyone turns to look at him as if he thought something really fantasy like.

Illtended had no intention but he just thought of it by looking at the serpent controlling the waters. Silfa can’t decide

“Whatever, as long as if the guild can take care of it, I will give it to them but if they don’t. That Enders lady proposed a deal with me and I’m going to meet with her after their expedition”

Illtended ask “Expedition?”

A splash coming from the familiars of the adventurers as it tries to interact with it. The serpent glared at them and quickly dispersed, but the spirits were resilient as it comes closer. They were washed away from its water magic as they tried to go back at it. The adventurers laugh and enjoyed the view.

The Enders and the police are handling the situation on the shrine. Myrrkei stands in front of the hole as the time set in the afternoon. Emerald is with him and discuss about the machine.

“Such massive machine composed of with all different metals fused into one”

“All metallic components down to the periodic table, I couldn’t imagine that it has rare materials like chromium”

“I don’t know about your periodic table, but I assume it can’t be found during that transport”

“It’s true, mostly iron and little of other elements. I don’t want to be rude, but where are the other elements?”

“It’s right here. I have to admit, those demands that the Dexters Guild would find”

The metal bars delivered a while back is good enough to maintain their industries and machineries, but sooner or later, the components will soon be in demand. The microchips and other processors would be the next problem in their list. Both of them knew that the Taiyou district will provide the product, but the Enders are still the monopoly for supplying them. Myrrkei suggests to her

“Why not take your guild to search it here?”

“Against those machines, that would be hard for them to get through”

“Of course, and if the prices sky rocket because they pay more to my city to get those resources. The price will get worse when it comes to special materials”

Emerald understands the economy well, and the time it will be harder for them to manufacture those products in an affordable price. He is right and she has to report this to the city hall. If they decide to focus on this new resource they found. As she held a robotic plate of bronze and aluminium exoskeleton, it is certain they could find electrical and electronic materials to further the satellite project that they had told them about. Myrrkei taps her shoulder

“They are starting, are you ready to survey what lies below?”

“Yeah, I am lucky that I’m being escorted with a demon”

The police had set up a perimeter whereas Emerald was given the tools to survey inside the hole. Sanquin and Haw are the only two will be part of the expedition while Rusic returns home after the gods bless him with their wrath. It is quite unsettling to the least for the police to see the dwarf unleash hell because a shrine is being desecrated, but why though. They stared at the shrine and even wondering of their dwarven gods.

“Why would their gods care so much to a shrine?”

“I have no idea but I’ll thank them for not using their powers freely inside the city”

Sanquin sees someone will be joining them, her expression quickly to disappoint as Emerald is joining them.

“Uhm, what’s wrong?”

“Only you and there are no other people left or any archeologist and guards for this expedition”

“It is because they entrusting you two would be able to venture through”

Haw raises his eyes and turns his cheek aside “Don’t . . .”

Sanquin laughs pleasantly “Alright I won’t make you an example. You are making me predictable”

Emerald sees the duo feeling sort it out at the moment, still, Haw said to her

“This is serious though. You alone would be difficult during this journey”

Emerald understands his concern, but she herself can handle it. The tools she had now in her device will proficiently help her become any lone expert toward the expedition.

“It’s fine, did we have any mistakes at this point?” “. . .”

She smiles “(I can’t believe I just played him, excited scream inside*)”

But Sanquin has one “Alright Haw, let’s get back to the island. She can handle herself down . . .”

“. . . Wait! I was joking”

Sanquin smiles back “I was too, I guess we can’t coordinate yet since we’re new”

Emerald nervously breathes in “Ye . . . ah. Oh yeah. I forgot, I’m Emerald Diamond”

Emerald reaches out her hand as Sanquin shakes hers

“Nice name. And I’m Sanquin Briannca. Come on Haw, introduce yourself”

“I know him. Doctor Myrrkei told me about him. It’s Haw Edan, right?”

“Oh, don’t be like that. Be ethical to everyone even this is going to be more than once”

Sanquin looks at Haw as he must say it to them “Thank you and yes. I am Haw Edan”

After the greetings, they are preparing to themselves to descend down to the hole and see what lies inside. Sanquin sensed something below hiding secrets.

The machine leaves trails that she could see down. Its parts are gone but the trail she found disappeared before reaching her maximum detection. They are close to where she could believe a magic portal. The hole leaves a tremendous impact of the earthly or natural landscape. It is the most deceptive way that a machine wasn’t even come through there with its drill. Someone is calling out to them, where she sees a man with animal like feature. The cat man stops and looks at her as he starts blushing. Sanquin checks her charm that she might accidently made him reacted.

She turns to Haw, nudge him. He turns around, her eyes were dead serious with her gaze shining brightly. He shakes his head, and then he looks at her as she is confused to see that man blushing at her. Sanquin remains in normal size where the Jigeram ceased everyone’s excess mana. Haw had to reach to him

“Heist!”

“Ah . . . AH! Sorry I got distracted. Ehem* I hear the news from the city guild. I want to join you guys”

Emerald was grateful to see someone is going to join, for free. It is hard enough of those adventurers wanting pay because of the lockdown.

Sanquin is discussing with Emerald

“. . . So, you want him to join us?”

“Heist is a rogue s rank class. He can scout for us”

“Really? . . .” Sanquin grins “. . . I would like that, no. I will love that”

“Love?”

Heist misunderstood and quickly sprints forward. He appears before them in a flash and Sanquin with her eyes wearing her cosmetic glasses look at him as she looks up.

“You’re actually taller, or you use your magic to look that way”

“No, I am actually tall”

“Well then, be amazed when we go down. I can’t control my size”

He gulps as he is already amazed of how she dressed.

Sanquin wears like any office uniform, but dark blue is something new to her with that sexy body. No high heels but she is taller any woman he knows. That mesmerizing body shows her curvy body as if her clothes are magically seductive. He looks away as she turns her head to see Haw.

“Haw, go ahead and set up the lamp post there. Here is the scroll and cover it so that the Jigeram won’t ruin it”

“Consider it done”

She turns to Emerald “Stick with me, I’m doing my way to descend down this hill”

“Sure”

Heist gets himself together as he hears Sanquin is taking orders. He has to calm down or . . . Sanquin suddenly faces him, face to face, she said

“If you want to admire me longer, try to do your job”

Heist can’t help to admire her beautiful face with her glasses on. Her strict look is beauty for him “. . .”

Emerald tries “HEY! WE ARE IN AN IMPORTANT EXPEDITION!”

He jolted back from her shout while everyone sees the commotion. It was Emerald, and it is probably her serious attitude about the job. Making Heist nervous if he gets misjudge from Sanquin.

“Geez, sorry”

Sanquin grabs their hands teleported them on the middle of the hole. Heist reacted again but her grip is firm and her hands felt warm. Emerald tilted and didn’t leave a word to scream. Sanquin stomps on nothing and the floor appeared. Movable stone slabs and blocks where she stands, they descend down where they stop only a one floor. They see a room being made inside the hole. Her powers had built this floor.

“I’ll be first building down, try to be careful once you descend. It will be getting dark. Do you understand me Heist?”

“Yes!”

Sanquin let’s go both of their hands and said to Emerald “Use those tools of yours”

Emerald goes on it and already found something. She detects hidden small mechanisms trailing downward . . . sideways . . . upwards again. Later using the sonar waves to see what is happening. A new underground cavern is being made. Their old geographic landscape is turned into a hidden burrow network. She discovered more layers of the caverns already built under a short time. The device put her in confusion of how fast that machine to change this hill into a stone form cavern.

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Heist sees nothing in the dark. He activates his feline traits to see it. Sanquin’s senses changed to adapt her new environment. It is good for her as she already moving her feet to move the walls into steps. Sweeping her legs and her hips to shake as she is dancing, Heist sees her looking illusive of her movements. She then slams her hand to the wall then a solid block sprung out and the mechanisms activate. The stone block protects her from the light coming up. But the block bursts to dust on impact. The fight is already begun as she is now preparing for the traps.

She looks up to Heist as he is just standing there in awe. “Let’s get it move on”

He goes down as the two stands side to side. Heist quickly changes his attitude as they are now in a serious situation. His eyes focuses down where his experience as an adventurer kicks in. Sanquin starts to grow bigger where the man on her side already releasing his aura. Too soon for her to leech off his mana but his overconfidence spreads outwardly. The chamber built by Sanquin begins to move down where the two goes down even further. It moves spirally downward slowly whereas the traps start winding up.

The mechanism left from the machine moves up through Sanquin’s presence, provoking everything that their sensors are trying respond in their position. Its intelligence resists it but her magic to removed its Jigeram’s light as it starts to rust through her magic flowing down from the shattered block. Dusts filled with demonic ruins to corrupt them. It had enough, it attacks. Small mechanize critters gathered up piling up the small pebbles engraving it with its combustible runes. It takes aim and showers it to the sky.

Sanquin casts a magic sphere downward where the pebbles shoot like bullets. Heist sees it coming in fast motion, quickly picking up his buffs with items and potions. She didn’t hesitate to grab him by the collar as he almost got hit from the ricochet. Heist feels her touch on his face. Her fingers hit his vitals in quick session. She gets faster as the sphere channeled returned back to her, she said to him

“A rogue huh?”

Heist feels his body starts to break through, his body churned deep within his mana as it fused together with his body. All buffs have become his traits except his items. The potions he drank become part of him.

Densely packed together were he reads his stats.

“I am!” He shouts,

She is determined to smile and her eyeglasses reflected from the light of the bullets.

“GO!”

Heist stands up as he moves in lightning speed. All of his senses lost except for speed. Sanquin collects all the projectiles while Heist deflect every combustible pebbles. He can’t take the sense of time seriously where the combustion happened slowly and the impact is not yet reach at full power when he feels the bullet touching him.

The small pebbles keep going as Heist was grabbed by her again and thrown him down to where the machines are. She follows through as she joins him. The Dark depths of countless traps and little machines are coming up, everything in silent and blinded through the darkness. A similar in drove like the swarm but its mindless size and weak weapons it had. They gradually fell down slower as the others shred in haste. Traps were sprung and can’t reach their target before it released. Already been found and torn to shred as fast as it can react.

Heist can’t believe his powers to exceed such godly speed. His perceptions can’t keep up but his movement is clean. His eyes moved fast but blurred where his mind can’t gain a clear vision as he moves, even moving his head is equal to the movement of his eyes. The mechanized traps and small machines are easily broken through. Sudden and swift, one flash with no lights sparked, and sounds occurred after the shatters. It fell, all of them fell, slowly it drops than the destruction blink in one third of the moment.

Sanquin takes down what Heist left behind. Projectiles fired and dying machines that has a brink a moment of life. She casts her magic to clean off the energy and the force it had moved. Paused the firing projectiles and the energy contained inside of the machines. It dies off still under a second. They reach to the end where the machinery is station deep under the cavern. A drop of water coming from the stalagmites where there are also water rests here. Heist reaches at the station in godly speed swing at the machine blindly as he is now beyond of his control.

The machinery withstands the sudden blow and pushes him back. He suddenly appeared at the moment where is footings are off from the ground. Sanquin catches him as he tries to recover from the immense buffs, she gives him. She saw the machine and uses her demonic magic and drained its energy. The machine stops and turned off by her sheer power. The two rests where the buff remained active. Their surroundings are slow and only Heist feel the trauma of irregular coordination with his body and mind. Someone touches his head and it was Sanquin pointing him upward that they need to go back.

Temporary given him to balance his mind from all this speed, he never knew how it back fires him leaving his power to her. He can’t feel anything, his movements shaken faster than him stands still, and his head seem to think too slowly than his body moving in such godly speed. He had to go back up. Another swift movement to where they go, his stealth remained unchanged and his quick maneuvering through the cavern’s landscape did nothing from his momentum of speed. He is both surprised and scared. It is the power that disorganized other parts of his body.

They made it back up and Sanquin uses her blessings on him and remove the imprints she gave. She returns his vitals back to what it is used to be and his buffs segregated and his traits weaken to his original effects. He was in shock

“That shit was a doozy”

“You mean woozy, I’m almost impressed that a rogue that knows speed. Your stealth is what mains the rogue”

“Laugh* almost”

“A man like you to learn that class not nearly half a year. I am impressed that you didn’t fall or even trip in the dark”

Heist gets embarrassed and his cat eyes keep his expression fierce but his face childish. Sanquin wouldn’t mind a newbie like him to have that manner, he is the other worlder. Emerald had recorded their fight. The detection can’t reach them beyond a hundred meter. Yet the data shows that they go front and back just under five minutes. It is beyond of any adventurers to have done it. They entered the chamber whereas she looks surprised. Heist’s eyes are still blurred and Sanquin quickly leaves after putting him there.

Emerald asks him “My readings show enemies approaching to the surface. Then you guys suddenly eliminate them all”

He coughs, then he looks refreshed but can’t move an inch “You could say that, woman have buffs that even I don’t know what is made for”

“I know, there is one buff left she leaves you”

“You’re right . . . Redemption and its personally made”

“Named traits, I heard it from doctor Myrrkei. It a self-made skill that no one can copy it”

“Wow and I . . . that’s odd, I can’t read the description”

“Well, it is personally made. Only someone who is a lore reader will decipher it”

The chamber starts to move down again, slowly rotating and moving down fast. Sanquin slams her hand on the walls to have seismic reading at top. Haw is almost done installing the lamp post. She stands on a stepping stone as she glides down and build a pathway for the chamber safely descend down the caverns. She gets efficient as she reaches further downward; tight areas to large ones, she built it to fits only the chamber’s path. Her trails of magic had wiped off the scraps remains of the small machines and gather them all to the end of her passage.

She stops where the machinery lies dead from its energy. Emerald walks out as she is close to what she is looking for.

“Sanquin, I found the source of that machine is coming from”

Heist goes out and pointing at it

“You mean that?”

“No, there is a magic signal beyond this cavern”

The tracker found something close to where the barrier covered. Deep underground from the distance of the city, the barrier did reach underneath the surface and it beholds them of its potential.

Sanquin stops them “Not yet, but we can still go further and not where the magic signal is. I have needed of something over there”

She pointed out where they can’t see. Emerald checks her device to see what’s up from ahead.

“Ok, just be careful”

Heist and Emerald see a spark of light flashing. Sanquin pointed finger change into catch, where a flying object aim to her hand. The object reaches her hand and shows it to them.

“We struck gems”

“Gems? It does not look like it”

“I agreed with Emerald, it looks like a petrified coral reef”

They move forward as she gets excited to see a dead reef, and Emerald thought there is some value from her discovery.

“Let’s follow her Heist, I feel that she got something she wanted us to see”

“I’m already following her”

Emerald didn’t notice as she picks up her flash light as they already sally out. At the end of their steps, an underground aquatic biome appeared through their eyes. Dark and no light exposed these aquatic creatures. Emerald couldn’t believe creatures like these survive without sunlight nor source of fresh water circulating.

Sanquin checks Haw one more time as he is now done with the lamp post. Expecting for him to be teleported, she quickly brings him in through her magic. Haw appears in the dark couldn’t see except for Emerald’s flash light. He was about to drink a potion to see through the dark, but Sanquin slaps it away accidentally. He looks disappointed for his potion being dropped as she looks at him excited of the discovery. Heist got spoof of his sudden appearance.

“Haw? You here”

“You know that demon can summon anyone of us if you allow it”

“Can you? What if she allows me to summon her too?”

Haw silently won’t respond “. . . Hey speak up, is there a problem what I just said”

Sanquin answers for him “You can summon me, but I would expect everything I have on me”

“On you?”

Haw responds “I have other potions until she summons me, the price of being allowed to be summon need to be precise or else . . .”

“Or else what?”

Sanquin’s tone went seductive “You can bring someone to your imagination . . . skin and alike”

Heist felt something and that voice encourage his imagination.

Heist stood there silently as his mind went mush. Haw couldn’t see but he got dragged from her to a place he can hear water splashing.

“That sound”

“Yes Haw, we got ourselves something to trade besides coins”

Emerald raises her flash light to the waters, but Sanquin blocks it. Haw nearly flinched as he forgot about the light

“DON’T . . . point your flashlights here. You don’t know what ‘monsters’ lived these waters”

Haw proceed to bring out an empty bottle place a pebble inside then ring it. He gives it to Sanquin as she infuses the bottle with magic and throws it to the waters.

The bottle floats on the water then her magic forces it to sink underneath the water surface. It begins to shake and its surrounding detects life that pebble inside keep making a sound. Haw feels her hand suddenly grips on to him. Her thrills are getting the better of him. Heist moves closer and look at them as he sees her face. Sanquin shows full of joy, wholesome and true, and he never would have thought a sexy woman like her has innocence within her face. He felt something on the water as they back out.

They all moved away from the waters. Sanquin rejoices and let her excitement be heard through the echoes of this underground cavern.

“I can’t believe it! Haw, I know you can’t use light here but . . . I am in awe by the look of it. The thrill of these sea creatures survived the fall and only found in the Diosugi Ocean”

Haw hears it loud and clear “The deep depth trenches!?”

“YES! It’s the same one, how can this be? How did it reach here after that continent disappeared?”

Emerald sets her visor to night vision as she sees Sanquin gets excited. Wondering how did the habitat managed to flourish here.

Haw can’t see anything and listen to her words. Sanquin speaks about it.

“Haw, you can use these sea creatures as ingredients. The amount of these creatures is phenomenal. They are not good food that’s for sure and it is unbearable when exposed in the air. Yet it thrived and survived through the darkest depths within the largest sea. It has the potent that has none magic property. The demon’s true local creatures . . . also the remedies against all mana”

Heist and Emerald heard that this will also turn against them.

Emerald said to her “You mean this will hurt us too”

“Sorry, why did you say it so terrifyingly?”

Heist joins in “It’s because . . . that means, that’s our poison over there!”

Sanquin stops and poke Haw at the back. He understood but they seem to be at lost from how she wants it so much.

“I’m sorry that she gets excited over this”

Sanquin moves her face looking as if she is getting played of her honest impression to Haw’s face without him knowing as he can’t see. He continues

“She knows better for all of us and I trust her not going to use it against you. I am confident, but it would be best for you two to report it as soon as possible”

The water starts to ripple where the bottle sank. Many sea creatures gathered and trying to interact with it, and one of them rose up from the watery surface as it took a scent from their mana. Heist aura detects the monster and he sees the creature merging out from the water only its elongated stalk. The end point starts to emit a dim light, as Haw and Sanquin quickly spotted it. Both of them begin to flee.

“Heist! Get out of there. Your presence alerted them”

“What?”

Heist sees his aura already siphoning to the monster. He moves away as it starts to react.

Made it out in a far distance, Emerald had enough time to identify the creature and to her surprised she asked them.

“I have no information about this creature, strange. It is also said that it is described as a fictional creature”

“Damn! And I thought our notification can show us everything. I guess we can’t know all of them”

Sanquin remains quiet and Haw clings by her sudden strong movement. Haw was about to tell to her to give him something to see through the dark, but she leans to his ears and said,

“You hear that, their lore is limited”

“So, you’re saying what we talk about at the fort means something”

“Ssh* It’s better off we talk more as we must leave”

The water soon to rise as they hear the waters are coming to them. Emerald sees something moving to their way as it continues to siphon the aura of Heist. She detects more living creatures as it feasts his mana. Everyone doesn’t have the time for it to take actions and decided to leave. They get into the chamber as Sanquin channels her power one more time. Released her demonic powers and counteract the water rising as it moves closer. The water is drained through her as they flee.

The water’s hidden properties start to expand as it grows larger and loses its biological components. Used through her own mana as it fused together with the environment forcing the living creatures to form life under stones and other solid materials. The chamber starts to move as they escape. As they moved back up, Heist feels the chamber moving faster. While Emerald sees the chamber is being morph into something where ooze is leaking inside.

“I don’t think I’m going to like this ride”

They escape, and with Sanquin holds the bottle contain with the pebble inside. A fluid somehow leaks inside and the water remains. Her magic continues to control the chamber as much to her discovery will be reported to Enders Bridge soon. Now reached to the surface, many police watch the chamber stops as they see it stretch further abnormally than what they saw. Emerald and Heist walk out from the chamber and sees the lamp post already releasing mana on to the chamber.

Haw walks out and sees Sanquin held something on her hand. It is the bottle and with fluids inside. She said to him

“I’ll be leaving soon, Haw. I must report to the guild as soon as possible”

“I understand. I’ll bring my report . . .”

Sanquin touches his lips as she grins.

“It doesn’t matter. The important thing you must do now is to find a recruit. After this discovery, I’ll be planning to make an expedition. A quest for the city guild, and you’ll be . . .” She turns to Heist as she is smiling without any care. Heist said

“Oh? I just want to ask you something”

“Yeah?”

“I heard you are going to be leaving soon. I was wondering . . .”

“You want to ask me out?”

He blushed, yeah. Sanquin loses her ethics out of the excitement. Then she decides for him.

“Sure, but I want my friends join too”

“I uh . . .”

He can’t decline because her mood is too good to see her like this. Her charm gets better as her posture moves more seductive than ever before. Slanting her side hip high and her top leans forward closer to Haw, and Haw backs away for Heist to see her better. But he didn’t know that’s her habit to get closer, either trap or leeching.

The Jigeram’s light is here as she reverted back to her size. She continues

“Its fine, how about I want to invite you Heist”

“Wait . . . really!? But as a man I would love to”

“Can a man decline an offer of gratitude from a woman?”

Heist can’t think straight and quickly answer “No!”

“Then, bring your friends to the island and we might have a nice party there. Don’t worry, the rooms are ready for us . . . each of us”

Sanquin leaves and drag Haw with her. Haw looks at Heist as he starts to smile. Haw is worried for him and anyone who will be coming to her invitation. She said to her

“I heard from Ironno about you, you were never held a man before”

“My sweet little man, I never was a wife but a sister to them all. As an immortal, I have to sacrifice everything for that love. I am also pity you that you will never gain it”

“As a manwhore, I can separate from the whores from the ladies”

“Yes you are, I can still kill you anytime if you make ladies into whores”

“A faithful temptress”

“My trusted fool”