COI C250
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Codename: RH-0
Status: Free
Armory: Accessed
Weaponry: Accessed
Contacts: Accessed
New Inputs Updated: Classified
“Well, this is the same issue with the old man. And I thought using a very old computer would match his brain. I guess someone is not doing his job at gathering data”
The Dexter Guild substitute archscientist is reading Haw’s status profile. After him being drafted out from the guild, there is a document never been deleted, yet. He is the one and only surviving experiment that the guild had ever done from its previous atrocities. Lady Coheld is still keeping him under watch.
She clicks the next button to see what else Haw is been doing. The next page is rather interesting. A report added together with the Raker Mawn guild. Two guilds sharing the same report by the name Haw. She sees his recent mission is going to East Coast. The last report is when he and his companion ready themselves to head out. It was a bit too early consider they go in the dark than the sun rises. There is also a list of papers he took. One of them is an interesting set tools from what Isekai citizens describe as for children.
Her hair sways to her eyes from the strong wind at her back. She pulls back her blonde hair and adjusted her eyeglasses.
“Close the windows, Repair Boy. I’m busy working”
“We’re outside, Archscientist”
“Chuckle* Just stop. I mean it”
She checks her waste to find her weapon. It is a taser like melee weapon and it behaves like a cattle prod. From Dexter Guild weaponry, this is an actual short term knockout stick. One poke nulling all mana type defenses except for runes. It is a powerful weapon only for a second.
Back to the screen, she opens the battle reports. Comparing it with Haw bringing it to the East Coast, he has too much lethal weapons that would hurt Tabitha and the city guild adventurer.
“Strange, RH-0 is bringing that only the military corps are able to survive from it. This serves me right. This must be he is going to other way”
“I see, bringing lethal weaponries”
“This gives raising question why I allow it. Or was it because it was made from Isekai City, partially developed until he overextends, and they let him made it”
“Many people are asking that same thing when they entered Isekai City”
“And his documents are the reasons they prohibit it”
Bombs, poisonous chemicals ready to mix, spells reaction causing destruction, and many complex formulas that would go wrong. It can be defined as devastation or in ancient calling as the apocalypse. Haw is going to make it and used it against his enemies at East Coast. The videos show exactly that. The explosion, the health disfiguration, the unstable compound between mana, and the mental distortion after many attempts. This man can do it with the right amount.
“Repair boy, what Haw was like when he is in combat?”
“Everything is a weapon for him. Only he needs is the Archscience crafting gloves”
“Splendid, his name wasn’t for show at all”
At the East Coast, this is the first time among Tabitha’s team to ever entered this realm. Whether if the Dexter Guild have been in this place before or haven’t. It wasn’t the case. The under the sea realm becomes the place they could barely understand. A different world that made no sense but to follow the flow. So bizarre at the same time too unique. As they breathed through their breather. The filters have already separated the impurities floating from the air. When they exhale, leaving a drop of fluid like slime continuing to sink down through the sands as it disappears.
Silfa can’t believe what she is seeing “To think that everyone who left the city with little to no experience ever dared survive like this. Tabitha, did you read the readings on your UI?”
“There is no need to, I have telepathy connected with R-cord. We’re glad we wore these breathers, huh?”
The readings show high level of foul air and toxic fluids on their breathers. The danger levels are in high peak disastrous to whomever entered this place. The fluids fell off from their breathers continue to drop down giving a disgusting look. Then a figure is formed from the slime flowing on the surface. Silfa accidentally step on it.
A sounds of bone cracking to where she steps on. She looks down and see what it is. The slime covered the surface as they continue to move forward and what she sees are look like broken down reefs.
Silfa calls out to Dexter Guild “Are you sure this is where we are going?”
“It is for the better. We don’t need to see in the far distance”
They continue to go down where the fluid surface like water. They dive in as they walk down. The sounds of cracking bones on their boots or shoes made them wary as their heads reach below.
Where they almost at the in between their eyes, the breather’s lens clearly sees through the slime. Something floats up before they sink down as they tried to check it. Some of them trip down before they could see what rises up from the slime. Tabitha’s team have reached what the stories they heard are true. The numbers of battles since the Circoston invasion reaching to this very part of the region. Their remains and the marks of battle are piled here. The dead, the broken gears, and drenched of unearthly mana.
Juela hears their footings stepping back. She turns around
“I guess this is the first time you see a dead pile. Tabitha, Silfa?”
The dead bodies are left in bones, the stains and the rotten fleshed are absorbed into the realm. Humans, goblins, and dwarves are all left in ruins. They could not resist the horror they have witness. The entire dead pile stretches farther to the view of the sea water. At the end, there is a deep trench where no light could reach it. That where they expect to go.
Tabitha hears R-cord’s mind “No signs of citizens’ remain. This dated before they have entered this realm. This area mostly caught from the tides and pulled them here. We better get to the trenches. It seems one of you two are starting to have nightmares”
Both Silfa and Tabitha are not feeling too well to see bodies lying around. The mere sight of it caused them to worry about the others trapped here. Their minds are keep thinking what happened to them. Their imagination creeped in as their sight of these bodies began to show expression.
They began hearing noises inside their head. Voices they hear. Their bodies begin to trembles as each step sounds in pain instead of the bones breaking apart. Tabitha responds to R-cord
“This is bad, I think I am getting a mental breakdown”
“Ease yourself, the stress from seeing the dead triggered your high senses. Put down your stats”
“I can’t, my UI. It won’t change my settings and they are blocked”
R-cord calls out to Juela “What is going on back there?”
Juela watches them as she carefully observes their conditions “They can still walk. It’s better for them to adapt it”
“They are otherworlders. It is dangerous to test them here”
Silfa answers R-cord “It’s fine! Ugh! My head hurts, but we can still make it. Go, we have Juela here to back us up”
McS4 taps R-cord from the back, signaling to continue to head forward. R-cord uses his monocle to identify the condition they have. The mental stress happened to both Silfa and Tabitha are crucially high. Juela keeps them going as much as they are able to. During his readings, details about their issues are as their senses increased by the help of their UI. It causes imbalance from their natural condition from the mana intense enhances on their stats.
Tabitha twitches her telepathy to Silfa. As both of them are getting their head turns in such strong strains. The two tries to coordinate really hard to get through this.
“The Enders are not affected by it”
“I can’t to seem to figure out how did they do it. Have they known about this place?”
“I’m not sure, but I am sure that we mustn’t use our mana too much or something bad will happened”
“I’m already on it, Haw taught me before getting here. I honestly admit, I didn’t understand what he is trying to say. Sigh* Why hasn’t he joined us?”
“He has his reason. I hope he will find some traces where we left him”
Their minds keep reaching to themselves, trying to hold back the stress happened in their actual senses. The horrors are emerging in a nightmarish state. The noise is getting louder as their memories are split from reality and fiction. This mental breakdown is one of the reports mentioned from the Raker Mawn outpost. It says it only effected to citizens, but Voldemyr found more about it. This is about their past life bringing this world to harm their heads. The wild noises are coming from their mind who had already move on, but if there is a clear voice, then it means something they regret.
But these two have already resolve it. They are here to save the people who were tricked to come here. The determination they come here through the horrible conditions provided from Enders. They don’t know why they have to be in small numbers and more while recommending them to use a mass teleportation spell to the Foundation when they able to reach here. They have done it in the sphere. So many questions but they are willing to play their games. This is not mean they will succeed. There are dangers they could not identify and neither the people who are trapped successfully left in mass. Only two citizens and four Enders have entered this realm and understand why.
Nightmares begin to shift and form. Their eyes are clouded by the mythical monsters from their world. Eyes glared at them angrily with teeth come out from their closed ugly mouths, their expressions show wrath, and encircling them to make them notice. Tabitha froze as she reacts to the expression of large insectoid monster with a long human face smiling. Its long hair swayed as it smiles more horrifyingly as she notices it. It charges at her with its mouth open wide. The mental stress hits her and made her react as she jolted back out of shock.
Silfa feels her arm being pulled. Her eyes dulled from the horror and only sees nightmarish monster. A body wore a distinct suit but its head is covered in blood. It drips down as its eyes revealed to her as it cries out. Because of her resolve no recognizable voice reaches her ears and only leaves an annoying scream from a random voice. She raises her hand to hit the annoying monster, but someone grabs her fist.
“Silfa! That’s Tabitha you are hitting”
Silfa can’t see anything clear as the nightmare clouded her mind. Her body feels the stressed pulling everything to stop them.
The two were left numb from their mind fully breaking down. The noise, the nightmarish view, the mental state breaking in, and the rest of their bodies drained from it all. Juela grabbed them both and calls out to the others. A rope throws from the distance as she pulls out her paper made sash and carefully casts her spell. The moment she is going to cast it, there will be something in this dead pile to appear out of nowhere. She looks at R-cord and McS4 as they give an OK sign.
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The paper is burnt and the fire of the magic spread out of control by the little amount of mana released. They pulled them as the rope was put into a spell to entangle them all three. The slime engrossed out from the nightmares made from Tabitha and SIlfa. The small bits of flame opened the breakdown as they tried to enter reality. McS4 detected numerous nightmarish monsters coming out. The realm unleashed its infinite threats from those two. This brave woman daringly uses a spell that also includes wide spells. Such a reckless woman, but they seem to handle it well.
They carried them down to the trenches. The waves of monsters tried to pursue, but the moment of mana used up re-engulfed them back nothing into slime. The team hides only a meter below of them as the fluid pushes down to the trenches. As it falls down like water, slowly down, they look down at the sea bed with its natural habitat. At that same habitat is where the deformed surface sank there. A slight edge to another realm, R-cord slips into it as bubbles are moving up to the surface.
R-cord sees his monocle detecting pressure. “A new area. Tabitha, wake up. This is the realm you were talking about, right?”
Both Tabitha and Silfa are calming down. The life experience they have to go through the dead pile is beyond from their mental stress. They felt the horror and a nightmare spurs out of control the longer they are there. This added the difficulty of bringing them out of this realm. Tabitha takes a deep breath
“First, let’s talk about what we just walk onto. The horrors pushing in our faces felt so real”
R-cord answers her “To lower your stat. We have underestimate what the trap hides for you citizens. We admit the reports are truly lacking when it comes to this place. The information of the caves is exceptional indeed. This is not explained after they have sunken into the sea. We should’ve prepared from the very beginning”
Tabitha responds with an apology “Me too, I guess we now learn the hard way. Right, Silfa?”
Silfa stretches herself with her own mistakes “I think it was mainly my fault”
Juela asks “How so?”
Silfa checks around and sees Fae-chan shows no reaction what they did. Silfa’s mistake of how this doll acts not protecting them. It only helps them only needed. The dead pile is nothing but a head ache from what the doll sees.
All of them look at the doll. R-cord insists “It is better not to use the doll casually. If I remember correctly, they are protecting the daughters’ well-being based on their readiness and learning. Did it still behave that way. . .?”
Fae-chan shakes its head
“. . . I guess I’m wrong. Still, it’s better for it in case of emergency”
Fae-chan didn’t react and only stood idly looking at Silfa. Silfa sees the doll a serious look. No other expression beside her realizing it is acting disappointed. Silfa felt ashamed of her desperation to rescue them lead herself being rescued.
McS4 brings out an orb. “We need all of us to cooperate in this. No one will be channeling unless you can move while doing it. This underwater is too high pressurized from any normal depths at 10m”
Tabitha survey around the area. She notices something off “But why is this place so wide and bottom is so deep”
“A realm plays its rules. This realm co-exists with the natural habitat. Our scanners found both magic and non-magic life organisms. Normal weapons are preferable”
A heavy power tool pulls out from his side. A drill like weapon as its pin looks like any hand drill, but its thin and longer for its size. McS4 completely forgets who is with
“I made a problem here. I mean normal weapons. I mean heavy duty weapons”
R-cord brings a machine-like weapon, a claw powered by pneumatic system. He tested it out how the claw moves. Using both of his hands to carry and takes aim. The aim pumps in and out of it as it grabs then crushes it then releases it like it acts like a ballista. A really confusing mechanism. For R-cord, this is not meant to be. It is a part of a tool after all.
Tabitha brings out her wand. Silfa uses only her shield. Juela receives Silfa’s other shield, but this one was enhanced by Haw during their time at the outpost. It is a heater shield where its pointy tip at the bottom has powerful edge as a piercing weapon. This is Silfa’s special shield because of its unique materials made from the elves. The materials were given to her by her friends at the city guild. Because of only letting her going to the East Coast, they provided what Haw needed to make Silfa stronger.
Juela tries to take a swing it for how light it is and the texture for being really hard made her notice its elven origin. She then checks on Silfa what her other shield is. A shield that actually mimics Miyusuki’s gauntlet. Not exactly, but more of her version of an arm weapon. Sifla pointed out as she thrust forward. A hidden extension releases with a sharp pick coming out. It retracts as she pulls it back. She shows off a customizable shield.
“I can’t believe I actually borrowed from Team Platinum. Paladin sure knows how to fit my style”
Everyone is ready. They moved down the trench as they watch many marine lives trapped into this realm. All sea creatures with mana were consumed from the realm while the others that don’t remained here swimming along to the strong current. When McS4 mentioned there are magic life organisms, this made them expect those are probably be enemies. They reached to the sea bed as it was a normal walking distance. The refraction of the light moves as they clearly see the distortion of the distance side by side by other refractions. It is indeed a 10m deep.
McS4 is ready to head out first with his orb. The orb forms a barrier where it becomes their air pocket. The intense seawater pushes them back. They withstood it and keep going forward. None of them were washed by the salty water. The orb keeps them dry as it surrounds them with a special barrier. Unlike Silfa’s forcefield, she is capable to make a better forcefield than the orb has. It wasn’t the case here. The problem is needing more help to what to come as they step in.
Without a single moment at the entrance. The sands shift as something is digging away on the sea bed. Crustaceans steadily walking around near them. Far enough not to get caught and close enough not to get in their way. The behavior is as natural what normal animals behave where they see unusual occurrences. Like anything happened in this realm, the sight is always acting cautious. The non-magical sea creatures swam away from them. Giving them the view in this underwater phenomenon.
The feeling of walking underwater again. Tabitha sees a big difference where there are no magic creatures. Normal ones behave just like any other fishes in the aquarium. They walk as if there is no trouble at all, yet, their eyes aren’t easy to be deceived when the environment begin to move slightly. The orb phases through the reefs as they closed by, many of the coral reefs slightly moved from the exposed air. Others floating at sea drops instantly because of the sea water stops them staying afloat.
McS4 sees through his visor where something creeps beneath the reefs. It reacts as something disturbs them. The mucus stretches or grows trying to connect the rest of the reefs.
“Primary threat spotted, Tabitha. Permission to take assault”
“Is the threat valuable for resource?”
Tabitha responds the same tone as him. R-cord responds
“Is your friend has knowledge of these reefs?”
Juela checks her papercraft sash and finds a hidden note “Ah yes, Haw had given me at first hand”
She gives it to R-cord for clarifications and found out to be accurate
“Confirm . . .”
R-cord is scanning through to find the most efficient way to get through at the same time gathering potential raw resource. Then there is a little blank on his monocle.
“. . . Identification has been compromised. We won’t be getting high essential resources. What we get is what we can find”
Juela has not issue with that “As long as resources are harvestable, we are indeed going to get them”
Confidently ready while she brings out her shield. It is hard to take it seriously as the Dexter Guild carries their heavy tools and the women using magic resisting weapons. Except for Tabitha’s wand, she has something special to use it.
Tabitha picks out a card from her deck. From the three decks she sees other one meant for Haw and Silfa, these two are for her and the those two, McS4 and R-cord. She continues to shuffle the deck leaving the last one slip back into her deck holder. This made her wonder.
“Say, Juela. What did Yui think about making these new decks? My original decks are in her hands now”
“In truth, the most powerful decks you have is the blank one. It adapts rather usefully when it comes to entering new areas you didn’t know”
“Like I remember using those cards at Rune Isles”
She begins to play the cards “Let’s see this would work on you, Silfa”
“Ok”
A card plays on Silfa. It lies on her then pushes the card away once it touches her. Silfa sees the card got deflected as her new suit hidden within her armor.
“Sorry, I think my body feels magic tingling on me. Was it your magic, Tabitha?”
“Yeah, I was about to get ready and . . .!”
Silfa was enhanced by Fae-chan’s magic. This is rather late for it to enchant her. Silfa knows why
“I guess this is not the time for me to get overdosed”
“Overdosed? What do you mean, Silfa?”
Silfa frowns at the word, she feels horrible saying that
“The doll has sure of saying words. Still, there is a term called mana addiction from what the doll said”
Fae-chan hears Silfa’s explanation and begins to speak “There is truly. The voices echo from many spirits. None would know about until show as example . . .”
Silfa interrupts it “. . . And that word keeps bragging nonstop. So, I went along with it. More importantly, I guess that’s why they wanted me to leave my dolls”
“You have a doll”
“Dolls, more likely. I have to leave them in order to get here”
Tabitha continues to play her cards at R-cord and McS4. Then the rest of her hand hold aside to her waist, with her wand ready to act like a mace. They will face what threats hiding among those reefs. The pathway is set, and the entrance is farther than the rest of the other coves. R-cord’s chosen direction made McS4 expected for harvesting needed for Juela’s recipes. The grin out of their mad minds to use only tools are getting out of hand. The envies of his hands twitching for a real weapon. Yet, they must abide the attrition given by the Archscientist.
The boost flows through inside their bodies. They intentionally powered down their armor as the strength provided is strong enough of their bodies to hold it on their own. The archscience runes go silent. All powers directly to their tools; the long drill and the pneumatic powered claw. With this added power, R-cord dismantle the part of his claw and replaced it with a better fluid pressure.
“Manually switching air to water, you have gone mad, R-cord?”
“You have your drill. I have mine for the better”
“Heh, I would’ve been better off to have a good plan instead improvising in the middle”
Dexter Guild usually plan ahead. Tabitha wasn’t the type of person to actually think of way at this kind of environment. They have to do this as soon as possible. Years of planning won’t do for her. The abrupt sudden change of event causes Lady Coheld to initiate it as soon as possible. The one-week delay after the discovery of the demons about the UI conspiracy have already been done. The use of their advanced weaponry is the pinnacle of must successes at this point of their mission. Now Haw leaving the group at the entrance is good and all. They would’ve love to do some mercy killing here. Because citizens might already go mad at this point.
Tabitha signals her team “Forward, MEN!”
The wand releases a soundwave around the orb’s dome. The pulse of the water pushes forward causing a wave spoofs many sea creatures to flee. It provokes hidden magical creatures survive from the realm’s absorption. The forms into seabed rocks carrying the reefs at their backs. The monsters reveal themselves as their very being move against the wave. The release of its underwater spores begins chiseling the orb’s dome. The fight begins.
Tabitha uses her telepathy to all her team. Multiple thoughts shared in synchronization to correct the line formed of information
R-cord: “This is where they harvest the mana. It all concentrated by these spores”
Juela: “They seem to be molding on the barrier. McS4, your orb is vibrating”
McS4: “Small little bunches, aren’t they? Don’t get yourselves distracted like the last time. Same procedures, breached through. And collect whatever you can get. We will figure it out when we get back”
Silfa: “You’re acting a bit cocky there. You’ll think we will be safe bringing a lot people we’re going to rescue”
Tabitha: “Everyone, FOCUS!”
The first monster breached through the barrier. A high-pressured seawater bursts in, and Silfa raises her shield to block it. The seawater latches on them as the brink of its mana quickly faded and weakening its grasp. No mana for it to collect as it all of the concentrated mana inside their bodies. They prevented something strong from those slow-moving magic creatures. Those that entered inside the barrier were both crushed and drilled by R-cord and McS4. They stomp them after quickly by just a few hits. The spores released into the air with toxic fumes, easily dissipates after few moments out from their reefs.
McS4: “Look at here, I found a dead body”
Tabitha: “Silfa, don’t look at the reefs. If something comes out from it. Don’t look at it”
Silfa: “Then bring me at the back. Juela go the front and . . .”
Juela goes to the front and used the heater shield to bash the reefs
Juela: “That almost jumps out”
McS4: “Sharp eyes, alright get your things as we move forward”
Juela uses her shield hides the remain for Tabitha and Silfa. As they leave, she uses her sash to collect what she needs to get. Leaving the used paper behind, the mass numbers of spores gathered and grow on the used paper. It was so fast as she accidentally pulled out a limb from the reefs.
Juela quietly not going to shout out in Tabitha’s telepathy, she sees the remains as molds and spores have drained what left of it. A dead piece of flesh, no idea how long it was been there. Its colored flesh mended together with the dirt colored like reefs. Showing itself moves on its own. The flesh grows beside the used paper sash. With little mana left, it able to spread and grows as a body being formed. Juela remembered the stories from U’ecin about these monsters. The beginning of all lives.
“We are definitely inside the daemos domains”
She walks away readies her shield again.
Tabitha held her wand firmly. She is now at R-cord’s back as he is pulling in moving reefs next to her. The claw grips it with all of its power overloaded from the seawater bursting into their protective barrier. They are countering the water getting in and into R-cord’s now hydraulic claw. It was not very powerful than the pneumatic version. Overwhelmed by seawater gaping inside of the claw, R-cord’s forces himself leak every water contain inside. Giving a small high-pressured piston in every joint. One movement on the claw leaks water cutting through the reefs. An exposed bits inside as Tabitha smashes it with her wand.
The blunt force pushes the mana it had disruptively as its inside breaks. It melted on its own to dust as the spores spread more than it should. The spores then created little microscopic thorns trying to stick into their clothes. Their clothes turned brown as they continue to move on. Soon as they reach to the peak where R-cord’s direction leads them to. The mass giant of the reefs bigger than the others they come across. Preserving a large amount of mana, what sticks next to it are the bodies of dead sea creatures. As their bodies sprung out with only their fish heads and strong teeth. Silfa blocks their attack on Tabitha.
Tabitha: “Thanks”
Silfa: “R-cord! Are you sure we are going to walk on it?!”
R-cord: “Walk on it? This threat is blocking the real entrance of the coves”
McS4: “Where’s it trying to block from?”
R-cord grabs McS4’s drill and pierces it down on top of it. The wailing sounds from the creatures roses up the spores beneath them. The orb shields them as it flows around the dome. It starts to shrink as they enclosed them by the powerful attack. Silfa almost used her forcefield, but both Tabitha and Juela piled on her before she casts any spell.
The orb holds as cracks start forming. McS4 pulls out his drill from it, then blood flows as it starts to dry up by the exposing air. Their breathers start filtering it as hard dirt dropping as they exhale. Tabitha orders them
“Start digging”
It was instant, they used all the powers they have into their tools in the highest settings. R-cord’s claw takes its first numbers of reef. Breaking through every broken item and equipment it carried on. Bodily fluids join with it as he throws it out from the dome.
Outside of the dome start growing as the remains are feeding off the other moving reefs. The dome starts shrinking as they dug down. Shields are raised on top of them as the spores and other hidden attacks inside keep going down on them. The walls have no dead remains but only items with fluids along. The texture of the ground with dirt reaches their feet. Tabitha immediately swings her wand with her card to break through as they fall.
“AAH!” To the caves of the citizens.