COI C229

Before the end; Altair, Haw, and Maser are running from the room. The boyz are chasing after them as they expected. Once thought as allies turned rogue because of two goblins fighting as Horde chiefs. Maser and Haw have lived in Mountaiwall, and they know all too well. They run, because they think they are sided with the goblin assassin. Haw held the metul spirit into his botic thief. Merging together in secrets as it becomes one. This is going to be part of his report if they survive this.

Haw feels it again, knowing too well he carried the dark past of Mountaiwall’s criminal history. The spirits told the boyz and they won’t dare to mention it. Like animals possessing a potential lore, they will instinctively forget it and play along the situation they are in. All that is left is to stop who is siding with the opposing horde chief. There is nothing left for them to search under the vessel’s high alert system. The robots are spotting them one by one and no spirits are left inside. The vessel starts to move internally.

Altair’s UI returned as he finally understands them “Maser, knocks there on my signal”

“When will Altair understand us again? We are already away that is stopping him. My mana starts talking when we are over there. It annoys my head and I have to shut it”

“It always supposed to happen. Without mana control, people will hear things that they don’t know”

“But! if they purposely mastered it. The threats are nothing. They will become like the heroes . . .”

Haw stops him and points at the direction “THERE!”

They jumped to the platforms as they see a room by itself away from the catwalks and hallways. There where Maser senses a citizen’s powerful spell lie inside the door. Maser says to them

“There are people here. Cough* We need to try to contact with them”

Altair responds as he is coughing “Yes, try calling for help. This environment is killing us”

The two feels relief that Altair gained back his powers. They throw him first to the door as they follow him. Altair gets to the door then pushes and stands near it. He channels his spells and protections to hold the enemies off.

Maser is at his side, and Haw is at the door. The enemies are coming both robots and goblins. Worn in their well-prepared protective suits. They roar as the spirits echoes with them. Powerful rituals calling out the robots’ carved rituals engraved are pulling the sealed spirits inside of their hardware. The robots resisted, but the rituals engulfed them affecting their systems to delay each action. The robots used their lights and quickly nullify the curse. The boyz are enticing the robots as they exposed themselves. The robots see the delusion ritual, enhancing its damage on them with great aggitation.

The robots fired, and thte boyz disappeared, only illusions. The robots’ attacks went directly to the three. Altair was easily being pushed back along with Maser. The archscience enchanted by rituals creating a powerful combination.

“What the?”

Altair fell down in disbelief as he being mounted by one of the robots. Maser knocks the robot off from Altair

“This is not going to work. Those are definitely the Horde chief’s men. We don’t know what they can do”

Haw is tapping on the door “We have made our decision, if those people are inside. They must know how they get us in”

Maser stands up as he pulls Altair up “Comparing what we did, do you think ours are less than them?”

Haw feels the sensation of archscience and rituals mixing together “Is this vessel controlled by spirits? Then those two were not completely . . . Oof!”

His teammates flown on his back getting hit from the goblin’s trickery. They couldn’t defend themselves by the numerous misdirection of the robots’ attacks. Able to use the archscience’s capabilities against them. They can trick the AIs to go in circles. Inside this chaos, it was obvious how the security behaves. They react according to the number of threats. Because the spirits overwhelmed the robots, the automation act automatically.

Altair says to Haw “Did get them to open?”

“They already know, their rituals are channeling”

“Rituals? Citizens didn’t master any shamanistic powers. Silfa is the first with high grade tiers. There is . . .!!!”

A flash of light stops them and the enemies. The door quickly opened and the polarized metal scraps flying aimlessly to the air. Appeared before them is Magnet. Taking aim at the robots and with a surprised look at the boyz, he said

“Goblins? No, it is too obvious where the undead ghouls came from”

Hito pulls the three inside “Miss was right, there are people outside”

“This is not the time to ask question. Pull them in” Flashes shouted at him.

When time returns back in motion, the boyz quickly dodges the high-speed projectiles and able to redirect it to the robots. Magnet was stunned

“How!?”

Flashes uses his device to disrupt them “IGNORE IT! LIKE THE REST WE HAVE ENCOUNTER!”

His devices sent into the speaker made a loud sonic wave, causing knockback as time boosted in high speed. Their bodies move in an unbelievable rate, but let their mind at normal pace. The goblins are confused as they moved faster than they are thinking. The spirits break it the pace confusion.

They quickly close the door as one of the goblin’s rituals slide in. It quickly cuts off with Hito’s axe kick it as it jams the door. Hito bounces off his kick wasn’t able to make a clean cut. Flashes rewinds his move again. Hito repeats his move over and over again until all the rituals blocking the door are cut off. The door closed leaving Hito’s feet and legs drawn out by the multiple rewinds.

“Breathe* What was that, Flashes?”

“Our secret weapons, and now we saw it became useless. Those goblins already find a way to stop the disproportion”

“Disproportion?”

“It means they were boosted and slowed at the same time”

Hito still raises his eyes. Haw answers for him “I understand only a few moments. It is like an adrenaline with added side effect. It makes you move fast, but the side effect makes your head slow”

“Wow, I never that a Horsin like you understand something like that” Flashes is impressed.

“Well, boosted in a wrong order or disproportion is really confused me. But thanks anyway . . .”

Hito soon recognizes Haw’s clothes. The same clothes worn by Enders, the people who helped him and his friend out from Fuku City. He smacks himself before anyone noticed.

Haw sees him “That was fast for smacking yourself. Did you understand what I said?”

The Fuku adventurers weren’t fooled, they know what was happened in the district. Their guesses were right. Flashes, Magnet, and Miss have known about the outside help. But this incident shouldn’t be a spoiler for them. Rather, it is a good opportunity to have them in. Miss was the one who brought up the idea. Because in her runes and Flashes detection, they found one of them holding precious files of this vessel. They thought they would get it from them, until they realized there is one citizen with them, a city guild adventurer. Their options are easily narrowed. What else they can get from here?

Hito takes the first lead “It’s hard to admit. Those three without any protective gears really made me impressed”

Miss smirks a bit as she chuckles “I admit, I laugh too when Hito didn’t even know Enders are”

“Hey! I’ve seen them in Taiyou Industries in the news. They are heavy suit and stuff”

“Stuff? How about learning the whole news about them even before the siege? I know you have recognized this guy. Say, where are your potions many people mentioned about?”

Pointed to Haw as he has nothing on him. Mostly items can be easily detected from their UIs, and they brush off the average Horsin stats. Haw is more than that.

Altair understood what she is saying. She was able to identify him faster in a blink of an eye is because of the RAPs system. To think that this woman in front of him is taking it seriously with identification traits. He senses her threat level. It is high and there are no other else in mind of why there is unnecessary points needed for it. The threat level is low, but it is enough for him to realize they are allowing their basic information to show him. He remains aware as he reads Fuku City adventurer in their info.

The city guild adventurers respect other people’s info in their UI, except from Fuku City. They can see Altair’s choices of RAPs and they are impressed how it can be used against the archscience. This reunion from different districts shows a little irony to why they wanted to go here this early without proper surveying the ship. The outside is dangerous, the numbers of securities and outside enemies are here, they don’t know either this place is survivable or capable to anyone to exist here.

Maser explains “We are trying to survey this vessel for compatibility as a dungeon”

“Pfft!” Miss can’t help herself

“Sure, like a movable dungeon and news about adventurers can’t even escape from within. It would be safe for any ranks to get inside. What is really you after?”

Altair vouches “It’s true, from left off from the city guild’s quest. This stage of the quest is the requirements for safety and testing our non-combat escapes”

“Like who would anyone to believe that. We’re here because of that jammer is ruining the internet”

“The internet?”

Altair looks at jammer as he sees something that wouldn’t be recognized as a jammer. It has a same presence they felt from the other room, it is shamanism. With those vast discoveries from everywhere, he is starts to get curious

“Now that you mention it. Do you have any idea why the goblins are wanting this vessel so bad?”

Flashes shakes his head “Not a clue, but I’m sure talking to them is near impossible if we could”

“How so?”

“You know they are bunch of savages”

“Savages? Wait a minute? Were you face those tribes before?”

Flashes got hit from back by Miss “Love to chat for more, I can feel the outside is starting to make its move”

They didn’t feel anything, but Haw, Magnet, and Maser feel the pressure getting inside. Magnet’s sensitive polarized senses feel a disturbance. The presence starts to lose his detection then soon to fade.

“It’s the light”

They are getting in. The shades of light blue show their magic are weakening. Flashes said to them

“Guess break time is over. Can you help us with this as we leave?”

Altair immediately answers “Sure! But our conversation will continue back to the city. We’re not done about you guys being here”

“You have time, especially we don’t know each other’s names”

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Flashes begins preparing his devices. Altair reaches out to him “Hey! I wasn’t finish . . .!”

Haw stops Altair “There is no time, your city will definitely find them . . .”

He leans his head to see Magnet is looking at Flashes then back to them “. . . You will never know when you found out we actually met them before without knowing”

Altair stared at him blankly then shakes his head “Haw, did you meet those guys before?”

“Not really, but their competence will drive to see each other again. Like the siege”

Magnet watches them go the other way. Hito goes to his side as he roughly nudges him

“Magnet, that guy. Did he really meet you guys before?”

“Yeah and no. My guess their guilds are well informed”

“Oh, you don’t know”

“Great, then let’s go on with this”

They turned around and heard Flashes and he is idling at them as the device is all prepared. The preparation is set and everyone is ready to go.

Flashes calls out to everyone “Okay, once this jammer is gone. All of us will be kicking the bucket here. Everyone gets ready to run for your dear life. The jammer starts to static, numerous interferences surging through in magnetic waves causing bubbles, don’t ask me why, and the matter of seconds it will break. Magnet enforced it with your polarity magic. Miss! You know what to do if he failed”

At that same moment, Haw watches them trying to use archscience. As they begin to leave, Haw brings out his updated botic thief. Small little micro probe pops out as it sees the jammer. It sees something inside and gathered the encrypted ritual data for him.

After it was the done. The jammer reacts and shuts itself down. Actively destroying itself in the process. Flashes calls out to them

“That’s it! I got the signal outside we can get of here. You three, get yourselves out here as this room will going to explode”

Altair, Haw, and Maser heard them as Magnet opens the door. They run out as Miss helped them by casting her spells at the robots outside. Goblins and robots are fighting in the midst of the chaos. A runic spell goes through and pushes them off the platform. Altair throws his gem like a pitcher and bounces off to the wall to get through the hallway. Then they teleported away.

Hito sees they leave with a surprised look at Flashes “You let them go, we have the internet as a getaway”

“Did you forget that they are not part of the gang?”

“I know but they could be useful”

Miss pushes Hito with her magic “Don’t be stupid, this is a secret mission. We won’t be coming back into the city if they found out who we really are”

“But!”

Flashes sternly retaliates “Our lives made so many mistakes, be glad that others help you escape”

Magnet can’t say anything to help Hito out. More to say than that, it is impossible to convince the defectors holding the dark secrets from what they have done. It is fitting to have it because they are here. This chance alone, they can’t escape from the people who helped them. The thought of ‘it’s better be a man as your devil instead of the real thing’. It never been heard before for the citizens to actually said it in their home world. The jammer is gone and they ready to prepare their escape route. A rift is open, where it looks like an internet showing into the screen. Hito blindly goes in as he couldn’t control himself from his denial.

Magnet pulls him back to them.

“Magnet, what gives?”

“That’s not how we should’ve go back to the servers. Look!”

The rift shows nothing the details of their cyberspace world. They only see are the screens that mostly be found on their devices. The obvious background views of UIs are already a given. Flashes slamming his device as he tried to recall them out of this room.

“No good, we can’t teleport back. The signals are fine, but we can’t go back”

Miss shouts “What!? How is that impossible?”

“It’s because our spirits won’t let you guys go”

A group of goblins entered the room, Ogit’s boyz entered the room.

Flashes uses his devices around them to form the barrier. The robots come in as the boyz mischievously guided the robots at his devices. Carefully, steadily, and incidentally fall over on his equipment, the barrier destroyed and his devices nulled as his signals start to disrupt.

He already found out “The robots! The robots have their own jammers!”

“Another big noggin, eh. Tough luck, it’s time to finish you guys off”

Miss channels her spells in quick precision, but her spells can’t be casted. “No, not again!”

She looks at her back as the old mark from the east coast reopens. “Fuck this curse again”

Hito acted quickly as everyone is trouble. His cooldowns are setting up into a combo ready for him to fight. He dashes at them and hits the goblins. Their rituals endure the punishment from his lightning-fast speed and electrical assaults. One of the goblins countered him gathering the punishment he gave to them. One powerful swoop as Hito manages to escape. Then his mind flashes where Cdown is right in front of him. He suddenly come after him in rage then soon realized it was an illusion.

The goblin took Hito’s lightning magic and was able to land a hit. Hito feels the curse flashing into his head again. Cdown is looking at him giving his cruel look of his eyes forcing again to fight him out of spite. The goblins were able to take him down. Hito falls tired and the curse is taking its effects. Now down as the goblins are trying to pry open his protective equipment. Flashes can’t get any signal to his devices falls helplessly as the robots reach him and pound him to the ground. Miss is trying to get rid of the curse, but the curse grows too fast as the goblins she killed returned to haunt her

“This world is definitely hell” She spites at the ghosts with disgusted intent.

Magnet sees his team is down. He uses his last rune from his team to pause time. Boosted with his own mana, creating an unstable range all around them. It is able to froze them in place and watches everyone near close to their doom. That moment, everyone got their time to experience their last hours or seconds. They thought they are going to escape. Hopes seemed lost and everything about this vessel is the example they will become the cult leader’s examples. None of them are crying, they look rather refreshed to see the spirits have come to avenge the fallen. There is still one man though, Hito. Struggling to come back as he is already in pointless state with the goblins. As time goes back in motion.

The device starts functioning getting the signal they need. It was too late, as the light flashes at them being pixelated. There is no time for Flashes to direct them somewhere else. The bright light covered them blindly. Then time comes back and the sounds of guts and parts are tuning into their demise. The lights gone and only the Jigeram’s light entering the room. The vessel opens its ceiling whereas the robots dive down. The goblins have no time to collect their spoils. They flee as the robots flying are more dangerous the security itself.

The flying robots land where the bodies are, but they only see Flashes’ broken parts of the devices. The drone watches the fight then forced to move as the signal is fading away. It flew through the hallways until it reaches to the vents that had a hole in it. It flew up, there it sees Haw grabs the drone

“There! I got it, now run!”

Magnet and Maser fend off the small robots. Altair pulls the sheet of the vents and turned into a sled. Using Miss’s runes, they can finally move out.

Altair shouts at Maser and Magnet “Go! Go! Go!”

Magnet uses his spell and bring both him and Maser back to their teams. As they finally flee from the vessel, Altair said to Flashes

“Who have thought your plan worked? I never thought you can stop time while we have a teleportation gem. Who knew that we have one of each to get out from that mess?”

Flashes stood silence as his body flattened. Hito carved like wood as his protective equipment is destroyed and the runes are gone.

Miss remained silent and turn to Magnet. Magnet’s eyes give a glare back at her. Only truth at the matter is that they were saved. Haw stops and pointed them at the ceiling. Magnet combined his polarization spell on Maser’s mace. The mace destroyed on impact. Big enough for them to escape. As they got out, the light embraces their presence as their bodies begin to weaken. Through the edges of the cliff on this river, they disappeared before any of the flying robots could spot them.

The vessel releases its ultimate defenses. The AI searches through any forms of life. They start fleeing. Its positive reaction grew intense as all threats are gone, able to conceal their containment rooms. Until something is off, two small creatures are still going around the vessel. They go to the same place where those people trapping themselves. The jammer room, but the real issue is. That is not a jammer room. It’s a summoning room, the secret realm to teleport special powers that hide inside. Compared to the other room when the small creatures got out. The so-called jammer room is hiding a dangerous being inside.

Phasing through a vortex and appeared out of nowhere in molten light, this is being sealed in a dangerous sense. The other room is a ritual room for one of the forgotten tribes, But this one. The AI froze as it founds the data of it. The ritual circle that speaks through all different spirits into one lore. The elder spirits hidden inside. It tries to call the flying machines to go there, but it seems it got distracted by other robots of its own. After a closer look, it found out it was the spirits that trapped one of the robots. Alert goes high as it tries to find a way to get those running small things away from it.

Ogit can’t believe that he is able to move after a good beating with his human spirit. A stab wound is clearly sees on Stilpok’s head. The tinfoil hat of his had saved his life. Never would’ve understand how strong the rituals are, more so if it was from the forgotten spirits and the metul spirits. It’s too late now, Ogit runs without any skills of an agile goblins. His human spirits speak to him

“We need to hurry. He is going where the spirits are”

“I know what it is. I send the boyz to get those humiskis with him and now with that lucky wee limp walka, I failed. They failed too, laugh*”

“I heard that”

Stilpok said it as he is dripping his head with his own blood. His blood slowly moves back to his head where the forgotten spirits controlling his blood. It is hard to believe that this is healing under the Jigeram’s light. Where his head is not coned by the light, the crystallized shell on his head is really improved as a bandage for some reason.

His spirits warned him “The prophecy is coming. Remember what they told you”

While he himself is also in the brink of dying.

The flying machines are here already fighting with the spirits again. So far, even its strongest conditions fell again into a struggle. There he sees the spirit robots combatting them. Not giving a single noise to appreciate their strong efforts. Though he sees that none of them being broken down. The light forever repairs them, not a single one be able to broke off as it was during the past few eras. That graved site, he can’t ponder to see it and even touching it by his own curiosity. Only the spears hitting close to him as the horde chief never ceased his chase.

Ogit calls out his boyz “Come on, boyz. He is almost there”

His boyz weren’t there, but their spirits are fleeing. His human spirit is making them flee. But its presence wasn’t enough to get them to hide forever. He whispers to the echoes and message is sent. The hunt continues as he is forced to let Stiilpok inside. Stilpok hears the forgotten spirit

“There! WHERE HERE!”

“Dinju . . .” The voice of Dinju says its echoes.

The warning set off as he meets the spirit, they all wanted him to meet. A spiritual barrier shift into the vortex protecting him from anyone to venture in. There he finally sees the spirit itself, the elder spirit

“Metul!”

A shout sounds the noise of iron and whistles from smoke. The elder spirits appeared before him and said to him

“It’s been so long as the world trapped us. This era should’ve been the time to flee”

“Flee? But I thought it will make me a Horde chief”

“Yes, yes. I ignore it because you will find another way to get powers eventually”

Stilpok was suffering since because of receiving different rituals. The thought of his hardship will find a way to control mighty powerful spirits. Then this elder spirit won’t tell him otherwise. It made him furious. The elder spirit feels the stone ritual made from Pa’Yn and stab the spirit. That alone triggers the elder metul spirit true vision.

Stilpok sees a vision for why this era the elder spirit wants him to do. “Not even this dagger you used of stone has special chants lie within. We will never be part of the living. We are only your tools”

Stilpok tries to pull it out, his strength is fruitless as he is in pain. The spirits around him bending its own steels and iron bits. Acting itself like the wind, its horrendous noise pierced inside his hears as his head numb by it. Now visions faded as well a dream is formed. Weaved by the essence of the echoes.

“Dinju, Dinju. My ancestors we help you . . .”

Stilpok becomes the Horde Chief.

Ogit breaks through the barrier as he sees the room changed from what the boyz describe it. All of his boyz returned with their spirits sheltering them from the light. The robots are not here and only them and the sole Horde chief. Ogit hears the voices in their heads. Glory is speaking, the old ones are chanting into their heads forcing honorary tribal chants. The human spirit recognized this glory. Yet, the spirit alone felt a little cheeky moment like the other goblins. It’s been so long to meet again with a powerful goblin such as Ogit.

Stilpok appears before them, blood dripped from his head as it covered with metal plates. His appearance is a little different. Molten forge coming from his outer appearance as the rituals are coming out. They can’t recognize what it is and didn’t give him the chance to complete his transformation.

Ogit said to his boyz “Attack!”

They charge forward as their lives start to dwindle in the message of their spirits. The danger ahead, and their deaths are already setting in. The spirits attack as the metul spirits retaliate. They all gang him up with numbers of powerful rituals.

They hit his armor, and his armor wakes up as its eyes appeared from its engraved plates. Weapons appeared from its molten form as plates shed itself from their attacks. Pieces of scrap metals firing like bullets. It kills one of them. Stilpok jumps to the air and rains them down some more. The goblins back away, while the others caught by metal pieces were pulled back in and squashed them like bugs. Bones and guts flying as electrical bolts coming out from his feet. The elder spirit starts to appear itself as a mek.

The armored ritual metal plated body is made. The elder spirit had demonstrated the powers of the might of the metul spirits. Industrious of its appearance, however only powered by spirits. It doesn’t compare from the spirits as it only being controlled by their keepers. The spirits charge after the dead goblin leaved a haunting vengeance at the possessed Horde chief. He grabs the spirits by his newly formed plated gauntlet. Holds it as a weapon and forces it into a club, smacking the goblins as it mid transformed.

Oozing with blood, the spirits were forced under the elder spirit’s control. Ogit starts to understand the strength of the elder spirits. The goblins spirits were thought to be the highest form of powerful rituals. These ancient spirits are stronger than that. Mostly because his boyz only possessed strong nature willed shamanistic rituals. The threat he is facing. Glorious by the forgotten legend, he is forced to waste his boyz. Ogit sends his spirits to aid his remaining warriors. The metul spirits triumphant as its chanting with annoying loud screeches of steel.

The goblin boyz uses his roar, a chaotic roar creating an immense strength to destroy right in front him. The possessed Horde chief summons the steel to trapped the roaring goblin into a chamber. The isolated room, it started to crush itself. The chamber is destroyed including the goblin inside. The last one jumps towards the possessed Horde chief with ice pick on hand and hits him on the head. The same place where Stilpok got struck by the human spirit.

As the dead body rolls over, Ogit brings out his human spirit. The human spirit sees the remembrance of such powerful rituals from another world. The metul spirits have done another deed against Ogit’s boyz. They all died leaving no one to see his human spirit. The look of his face when he sees possessed Stilpok lies down where all the metal pieces melted on to his armor. Ogit must be careful to fight such a restless elder. One random spark of molten metal splashes on to him as he feels the immense pain.

“AAH! Never once I got hurt in front of my human spirit”

The human spirit answers “It’s because this is the power and glory of an elder spirit”

There they stood each other and sees Stilpok with his head moves at Ogit’s ice pick. Ogit sees enough and lost his warriors in the process. Their sacrifices were enough. Their spirits alone helped him forces Stilpok down. The vengeful comes for its last aid. A coward approaches to lose such strong goblins. The possessed Stilpok said to him

“These great imbalances are how we kept coming back”

Ogit grabs the ice peak “Time’s changed. This world belongs to the heroes”

Then he pierced into Stilpok’s skull. A massive bright light siphon into the ice pick. The prophecy is finish. Stilpok’s body disappeared. The moment he disappears, Ogit feels something tugging his weapon as it tries to steal it. He pulls it out, then the human spirit warned him

“He escapes, Stilpok escapes”

“It doesn’t matter, we have killed the elder spirit. It is no longer my problem”

The vessel starts to sink down. Leaving the sight of dead goblins around him. He said to his human spirit

“Will you . . .?”

“Certainly”

A fire sets ablaze on his dead boyz. He left giving the goblins a warriors’ funeral. In goblin culture, there is none. Ogit have insulted shamanism once again.