COI C66
The team returned after the request. Their preparation is abysmal in their time, without anything left to figure out to deal against an elven monument. The criteria on them now trying to communicate. It will be difficult for them to ask for help inside the city with no experience of facing the elves in their life. Neither the Horsins nor whom met the elves ever fought against or even alongside with them. They have to finish it within the next week. Words got out from Reya’s perspective that they are going to face the Enders, and it explicitly show they probably be alive and well in this world.
Haw looks at the computer to those Enders they say to them. They are indeed Enders by looks but none of them he could know. Even the Enders who is coming to this school to check the sphere, and this woman looks like she knows them but never fought them before. She said,
“They are truly Enders, but I don’t know what years they are in”
“They say 20 years or less”
“In elves’ years that would be less than year for them. I honestly met an elderly since they don’t stay in this world for long”
Haw mentioned about the myths “Then about those Facosian humans you mentioned . . .”
She flats out ends it “It was a long time ago and I would love to bring it too”
The male teachers never have seen a woman to be this big or taller by the least. Sanquin said that she is a demon, but the difference that she is bigger. Andui remembered seeing her never being that big, and the others were dared to see her figure to be slim and the clothes she wears to be more professionally alluring. Having a layer on her suit, she pulls off her coat and place on the table. She wears her glasses and look rather daring than studious. The men were attracted by her looks even her tied hair to tangle at the end and still has her short-tailed hair. Her hair is short but they didn’t lose their eyes on her exposed back neck.
Haw asks Sanquin
“You got yourself bigger”
“Again with that? I got bigger because the mana they have is too good for me not to take. So excessive and look at my form now. If only I notice it before I get a bit bigger”
“That’s why I am worried about that you are one of those demons”
“I’m glad you worried of my potential instead how I look. Men . . . ehem* let’s see what our guildmaster told me what you are capable of”
The two looks at the Enders on screen, she smirks to the side hidden from Haw’s view.
Sanquin stared at Haw intensely to her memory through the records taken from the Dexter’s Guild. Stalemates weren’t they are known for, and their impacts of committing a change of phases in the battlefield. Her attitude kept going on where her stares poking his him. The others taught they are flirting, but the Agatheans know better where a demon stared their prey. Haw said to her
“They seem to look at us differently”
“Of course, they know my killing intent and I hide it in return. Its sadistic and they feel like under a different view”
Sanquin smiles at him and gives a wink.
Coral sees it and thought “Damn, this demon girl has charms”
Quail’s thought “I have a bad feeling why that woman doing it on public”
Andui and Reya are gossiping the woman’s intention “She is up to something, Andui”
“Haw isn’t even flinched. I remember you being sassy about it as if you are winning”
Reya sarcastically laughed “Hahah, we are facing a demon here. Seems like the boys are not happy seeing Haw being close to her”
The male teachers talk about them “Haw looks annoyed of her being so close to him”
“This is the day they have to finish to take control of the last landmark. Of course, they are annoyed after all that time preparing the previous landmarks”
“She seems she starts swinging her hips”
They quickly lean their heads to her, she didn’t swing it, they turned the guy who smiled at them being perverts. He laughs, they respond
“Oh, just have your maid reward your cheesy remarks”
“But you fell for it” He laughs again as they remained themselves silent.
Sanquin is threatening him with her gaze. Her heavenly demonic eyes are preparing what to do next, provoke or relief, that wink nearly show her taunts while he stressed himself where her aura already clinging around him. She intentionally taunts him as she discusses about the elves on screen.
“All of them are Enders, by the look of that woman, she is must be the artificial intelligence. A human with youth and appearance in white, fictional or someone’s imagination . . .”
“She must be inspired from another world”
“. . . I can’t even identify people now if everyone is from another world, Haw”
“There is no other assumption when that the sphere is older than both of our lives combine”
“And I thought you only charmed within your race. I will take notes what you said earlier”
“Huh?”
Haw remained his eyes in furious expression, the way she understands differently and her race as a demon won’t help him to be cautious or having a serious conversation. She teased him with insults and praised altogether, and the tones of her fluent experience.
First enters the simulation room where only the people at the computer are the two Enders, while the others watch them even the women. Leans closer to Thean when he about to get in
“This must be the one who will inspecting the sphere”
“It’s common for someone to supervise the sphere’s progress”
“I don’t mean like that, but you feel in her essence, right?”
“She made inside the city, Fi . . . I mean Woni’es”
He stared at the others who might misheard his foolery. He continues “We already know whereas the papers explain about the inspection will come”
Sanquin easily hears everyone around her, even the whispers of the sphere, deceivingly showing her secrets within the shadow of her heavenly demonic presence. The delightful words about Coral’s impressive equipment she brings to the second landmark. Her shadow smiles gleefully reside hidden closely among one of them. Coral’s shadow is an impressive work of art, and she never thought that he would be making the replica of their powers. How harrowing it feels for the mightiest warrior like her live alone as the proof of her dominance among her owned equals.
The time they are ready to set inside the sphere and the screen shows the location they are heading. Sanquin utters the name of that landmark
“Yjin Kalstan”
No one understands what she said nor the translation shows the correct spelling and pronunciation. The monument is found at the desert, the far west of the region even possibly existing in the Circoston region in the present world. Sanquin is explaining the details of those eight elves, and that are present before Reya and her friends.
“These elves are definitely them 20 years ago, and then it is impossible to face them within your own state of power. I would ask for help on this, but you people managed to make it to the last landmark. There would be no need for help when you got it this far. Either way, I know them by name but there is no need to tell you that. This person is using them because someone who is an Ender either from appearance or performance. Other than that, I can only tell that they are not going to play tricks. They have something to discuss and much more”
Enders elves were waiting for them, expecting to be one of their people will come. Patiently for the paper and others for their own personal interest, hearing them before that they will face them from the original world. That they would easily expect how they will interact. The idea for Quill to set this meeting has multiple reasons, and after losing all of its history after the fall era. They said again
“The last historical views were at the Heroes and Demons Era”
“And ours are called the invasion, I never would have thought outside powerful beings tried to have a chance to co-exist”
“In the end, it led our old kinds to invade their worlds in response”
“How many times we said this story again?”
“I have no telling, and I’d say they might bring new worlders to be part of this nonsensical ‘galaxies’”
“We are the origins of the Triune, and they have their origins. They can escape, if they know where their worlds were”
“From all livings through the Triune, they will possibly know when they get here”
“Yawn* too many times to hear it again made me tired”
“There is no need to, there they are”
Five people entered the landmark, and the people they are expecting are only two of them. Potentially, they see someone to be promising and dangerous. One of them felt a bit remembrance of her presence, what the elf thought
“Hyung . . . almost similar . . . almost”
They present themselves in front of the elves, and the elves’ turn present to them. Thean observes them
“Eight elves, just what they said. All of them are Enders. Haw, do you know anyone of them? I know that woman over there won’t tell their name, at least you know someone”
“I’ll ask, none of them I know is here”
The Enders see the Agatheans being part of the job, previous people won’t recognized them of their hybrid abilities from multiple other worlders. All mediocre but potential hybrid, they are expecting their mastery if they wish it. The Agatheans look at them sensing their elven magic, they felt they have no mana, but Sanquin senses their powers hidden away. The difference of the Enders from Enders Bridge and Purissars from Purissarwell are uses of their gods’ powers as their own skills.
The Enders elves are really skilled fight against familiar power, and these hybrids are familiar to them. They can disrupt them physically than using magic. Sanquin is grinning all the way if they want to test their might, up front with her shadow sharing the good sight in angles to see them struggle. On this moment away from the neutral mana, her tall form is reverted back to her normal height. She is actually taller than Haw, but shorter than Thean.
Haw spoke out “I heard you people are from 20 years ago, then, you don’t know me as a youth and you know this woman”
The elves nod and said her name “Sanquin, the immortal”
The teachers turn their head to the guy who is an anime fan, a coincidence in his expression as it is obvious to be a demon, a sexy demon by the way. Haw continued
“Thank you for knowing her, but I want to ask that you know the name Elrond”
“We have, he is our elder, and there is no reason for an elder to face among you. We expected that you will be is wanting to fight”
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“Agreed in much Enders way, and for now it’s not yet our decision”
The main objective now is to get the landmark. The girls have the opportunity to go there without any fuss, but they wanted to see what Quill said to them. They heard so much in the news about the city guild situation, where there are videos of Enders are fighting with the adventurers. Sanquin added more to details that they never play a duel. Because of that decision, they want them to fight the elves. They thought it would be easy to go to her and access the last landmark, then again, they too want to face the elves but not this many.
Humiliating themselves as their resources already dwindled or confiscated. They ask them, Thean said
“I don’t want to ask from the enemy, but you could see we have no proper equipment”
“You mean to tell me that you are not allowed to carry your own weapons. Are you imprisoned or have reasons not to?”
“Sigh* I know I have this going, yes, even we want to prepare ourselves here. We would gladly challenge you the best of our abilities”
They were prepared at the beginning and the second time it gets better. Now they acted that they are losing as they never taking the advantage of this artificial world.
They are in haste, and probably don’t want the extinct world to be part of their weapons. They preferred it to be real as the world they are at now. The elves showed empathy as they too experienced many years of changes and the materials they once used are gone. Now treated as artifacts, it is the irony of these people had to make it without progress through reality. Yet, they have the power to set the events to their present world. However, this landmark is the control of settings.
If the past wasn’t in ruins, then this sphere purpose had no longer had importance in use. But it still used it personally, which is kind of funny, the last user was so keen of using the same event all over again. The future was the apocalyptic world and that’s where they are familiar with. The Enders elves understand the logic, and they give them the chance. The control of the landmark reached to them as the exemptions of cause and effects. Where what they are making on this world won’t be affected through time or become fiction of their existence.
“There, you five can ignore the existence of your makings. It will not be part of the effects of this artificial world as you wield it as it won’t age after or before. We are expecting what our future generations have learned. Don’t try to test us if you didn’t know what is it as we can honorably end you”
“We’ll see”
Thean picks up the object from the landmark, carry another item to the other. To see and test what happened as they moved them to the recent update.
Inside the sphere where it starts to move faster, time speed up to the point where everywhere starts to change one after the other events. The monument suddenly disappeared as they moved forward, and the data starts to convert into the next years to come. All around them see in quick sequence where all around them see the start of the Fall era. Drastically where the massive land disappeared and the other parts of the region began to split. The Pangaea look of this world turned to ruins where it divided the other edge of the regions into its independent biomes.
Putrid islands raised, ruins eternally drench in dark color rain, and rose beneath the new sea where monsters rose with hellish disfigured famine, and those so much to see in the sight called Rune Isles. They sent to where they are in Kinteinnou region, as they are located should be Isekai City. Inside the caves of the lost existing mountains of the southern region, it is the place with familiar landscape, and they walk out and see the world 20 years ago. Sanquin remembered this place clearly and there are many shrines and totems shared all around here.
Thean holding the two objects with him, the first was not exempted of their existence and the other that has. The left was already gone, and into dust where the other remained as it was in his hand. It didn’t age nor its texture and looks. They have the last landmark’s interaction settings. Only five of them had it and they had been getting confident of their opportunities. They dared to go somewhere in the region to get the hold of the powerful items they know and possibly mastered it with different methods.
Thean and the other Agatheans said to the other two.
“We need to split up, and we are going to our own city. The update should be under the last user’s control, you are allowed to change a bit if there is something you want something personal during that time”
Sanquin complies “How many days do you think you people could ready yourselves?”
“Two days”
“That’s short, and even I know you can do everything under days notice. You will get kicked out if get slightly hungry once you reached only five to six hours in the real world”
“Five to six days here, it won’t be possible that the items we grab will be gone”
Sanquin sees their excuse, and their faces show they would love to get inside the sphere. They can also extend further in time, why with all the haste they are doing now. Later, they split up and the two Enders headed to Enders Bridge. Sanquin teleported them and sees something that is don’t look like 20 years ago. Haw questioned
“Is this what the bridge looks like?”
“No, the user probably kept it. For personal taste, this is must be a memorable moment”
Empty and no structure in sight, leaving only the dead remains of the monster from either side. Sanquin continues
“I don’t know why someone wanted to keep the victory days of the Founders of Ender Bridge at that time, it was nearly 80 years ago”
“Were you involved at that time?”
“Not only joined them, but I was engaged by their religion too”
“Which religion did persuade you?”
“A dead one, their gods didn’t even come to intervene the fates of their followers. Yet, they created the crusade at the end and the example is the city they built”
Enders Bridge, empty as it is recently conquered. Signs of battle in trails in one direction forward, Sanquin thought it would be difficult to make such equipment but the loots are suitable enough for Haw to use. She later hopes, if that same people are alive and well.
“Let’s go Haw, I think we can make your equipment faster than gathering the raw materials”
“You’re starting to act serious, where’s your devilish smile back then?”
Sanquin moves closer and wraps her hand on his shoulder. “If you weren’t whoring yourself so young, you might learn results”
The camera watches at them, the school is watching with only the teachers as the audience. Sanquin likes to win against filth like him, the school already decided for him, and she is so heavenly told him his past. Partially true and immorally factual, but they never knew how dark this world is. Haw’s response
“Never trying to find insult to my recent self?”
“People judge so easily about the past, my fellow guildmember. Even though it is halves or so little, I have records of trusts than you ever being repented for”
Both smiles and laugh at each other, Haw is constricted on his emotion while she shows smiling and the looks of interest. Continue to move on, they found banners held at the edge of the bridge, not from the end but the sides. They found their guild flag, Raker Mawn, and the others Haw recognized. Dexter Guild and the name spoke of
“Not Worthy . . .”
Sanquin stared at the Not Worthy banner, the controversial of her memories, that the members they have back then. It is a solemnly reminder that what the preachers have said, as she heard the sermon.
She hymns through her humming, while Haw listens. He guessed what it is, timing in the humming she sings. Never forgotten about the song she heard and only the tune matches her hums, Sanquin is more than just a demon and who become the member of . . .
“Thank you, Lord”
Haw knows the hymn, and she admittedly giggles to hear that word.
“Oh, the irony”
The two are the same of their fates, a heavenly demon who joins a religious guild and made her now as she is, while Haw the filth by her words, become the man who is becoming good. Repented or not, both shared secrets they would not tell or never will either of their close friends.
Haw takes the first step “Let’s go, there is no need for us to have this peaceful manner”
“I’m glad you’ve seen my way”
The two walk alongside and see the Enders standing at the end of the broken bridge, attached to no land and hanging on by the curse of the isles. Men, Elves, Dwarves, and Demons standing in front of the edge as they murmuring to one another, Sanquin and Haw listens to their conversation. They noticed there were no people here, and a crusade coming under the hundreds of thousands should had led here. Where are they now?
“We have successfully conquered and defend this place, as long as we have recovered the supplies needed for the foundation, we can further reach to extend through these broken isles”
“My men head back to the spheres. They need rest for the time being”
“Be careful of using it, lads, those spheres may contain a large amount of our men but elven magic won’t last long to contain them all”
“A dwarf truly cares a demonic item, I am amazed”
“Shut it you, sun addict, lucky for us our runes were safe and don’t need those demons”
One of them turns and sees someone standing behind them.
“A repented, you look rather different”
Sanquin never heard that name in years, demons were called that as fake demons . . . repented . . . and it still true to her special race. Others turn and see who is this repented was, one demon turned and see a face that is too recognizable. That same demon hid her face with her helmet, removed it and shows her face. Haw was surprised as Sanquin never thought to see herself like this.
They turn to their demon “Lady Briannca, this demon looks alike like you. Is she your relatives?”
Lady Briannca charmingly laughs as Sanquin joins in with the same tone of voice. They continue to guess
“I think they are twins, even if that’s her clone from what that woman had shown in battle . . .”
“There is no need, if that look alike is here then I know what is to be done. Guard the spheres. We still need planning for the foundation of this place”
Lady Briannca dashes forward and grabs Haw’s arm, while Sanquin takes his other arm. Haw felt the touch of these demons, slowly rubbing on the rest of his body. His body felt paralyzed and the two see each other as they have in mind.
“Acupuncture, I guessed you really are what you sent to me”
“Many people will be confused to see each other”
“But to us, well a little confuse honestly”
The two laughs and Lady Briannca continues
“What are you doing with this man? Is it yours or my future . . .?”
“You’ll hate him if you know, but he resembles such astonish feat if you are interested”
Haw can’t move his body but breathed normally. He has no power against them, letting them handle their mischiefs. They bring him to the camps where they reside hidden within the caves. Where they need time to process this event, but for those two they have already prepared, they just want him to be teased by all this. He didn’t know how they planned out like this, and they seem to get along with it. It must be her personality.
They put him on a bed where Lady Briannca undressed her armor. By the slim of her seductive nature, she casts her magic on him to see her change. Sanquin negates it
“There’s no need for that Lady Briannca”
“There is a need, I don’t trust myself laugh*”
Haw was in the middle of them where the two buying their time, he still remained paralyzed and don’t know how long will it lasts. He is already sweating by the sighting eyes of the audience.
“Ok, I’m going straight to private mode and headed to the other screen instead”
Iggy had enough of the lewd going on. They are already surprised what they saw, and more so her past self is more daring than the present one. Reya stays where the others going to the other screen. Coral complains
“Reya, are you into this?”
“It’s called self . . . ugh! That demon won’t make everything go straight”
Alche agreed “There is nothing you could do to someone who have experience and at the same time a pervert. No one is that pure, right?”
The example they could find is the guy with anime merch, mostly adult rated items, and he didn’t mind the criticism as long as he got what he wanted. The others were focus on the detail of the past Sanquin, and she looks the same as she was back then. Even one of them admitted the phrase
“Thousand years old, and still looks bangable”
“Can’t comment on that, we didn’t have friends that outlived us”
“That makes you wonder the years that change you. Sanquin is really helping Haw out while the past Sanquin is trying to getting on with him”
Lead to the moment where Lady Briannca finally changed clothes, Sanquin blocks Haw view and everything the camera sees with her magic. She is a seductress not a prostitute, and teasing men is what she likes. Honestly her desires to have Lady Briannca can have a taste of him, but they both know why the lady acted along with it. It’s because the stress she is having during this campaign. Sanquin just let it flow to the most daring approached as Lady Briannca is willing to help them.
The Lady speaks to them “Now, what do you need? Haw, I heard through communication with my other self. I like it better to hear your side” “. . .”
“Well now, speak up” “. . .”
“Tempting me to go to you while I dressed is something to your liking?” “. . .”
“Giggle*”
Haw is paralyzed and this demon really going through it. Can’t even move, and when Sanquin explains the events happening here.
“This was the hardest experienced I ever had back then. This was the first time I broke my own pride as a warrior”
Lady Briannca breaks the cover and now wearing normal clothes, no dress, but relaxing enough to move freely. She comes closer to him and slammed her hand to his chest and breaks the acupuncture effects. Haw yells in pain,
“Ah! I’m not going to forgive you for that, and I want to know why you’re doing this?”
The two stared each other, as if she is looking herself in the inside. The lady has to do it
“You can say that you have your ways dealing with stress with your sect . . . I mean guild, then what happened next made me realized I’m getting too far and I joined my own natural enemies”
“If you lived this long and you my other self knows it. Haw, you might not know as heavenly demon or what my kind called ascending to demonhood as humans before. Here I am now, my demonic form, no need to look monstrous like the others. My own original born body is now in immortal flesh, I am now the unholy one, a woman at first, and have names to those who lived my legacy. Here I am wielding this seal before you, the irony, that I am converted because the man long ago who escape countless demon during his death, along with the followers after him”
The seal she shows to him is fragments have left, calling it a relic by the two Sanquins, and the mystery to the eyes of others. Alche and the others know what it is
“A cross?”
“A demon carries a cross, that’s uh . . . something I guess”
Sanquin knows more that there are also other people can escape even without that certain religion, but the stories about them is mere luck to her ears before. They were saved without relying on the help they called this world superstition. When her time to convert is this very place, and now becomes one of the leaders of the guild.
Lady Briannca tells him “Now I am part of the guildmember called Not Worthy”
Her stories end there as Sanquin herself will finish the rest. It is too soon that the Lady is recently become a member. She explains the rest
“Later, I left guild after the last crusader dying on his bed. Time wasn’t merciful of their efforts, and neither is the faith being resolves by the other religions. I show you this where I am now”
Sanquin shows her the same cross and her way of saying she still didn’t leave the faith, but there is no reason of staying because of her lost ambition.
Haw understands now why she hates him that much. That faith always hated the seven deadly sins, and it continues on to him like entire religious group destined to hate him like that. Haw was free from the bed and quietly sits and trying to check his limbs. Meanwhile Lady Briannca and Sanquin is making preparation, both knowingly well what they want and the entertainment they wanted to see. Taken their time as the needed equipment Haw needed as she hears something splendid.
“The alchemists or the chemists might handle the potions he needed, and I hope he knows what he is doing”
“He has his uses, and can be entertaining for me to see”
“Entertaining, I guess this is no threat but I don’t know why the elves will be playing with a human before. I still want myself to be enjoyed something else instead of the hymns. I still remember the followers play music about their god”
“You mean the song that is related to their book?”
“Laugh* Yes, but I understand what it meant. We were both humans after all”
On that hour, Haw is presented the equipment he had no experience of. Powerful potions and well-crafted armor alongside with it, going through with magic items that can be bested against any mana types, and it is all well prepared in many situations. Lady Briannca leans to his ears and said calmly.
“You will need training. I want my other self to see you perform”
Haw turns to Sanquin, the eyes are happy and the lips are grinning are both scheming. It is something he would suspect.
“Do you want to be entertained?”
Sanquin slowly and calmly nods, while her face grew more devilishly beautiful with every nod she makes.