COI C171
On the news “Fuku City is once again exploded with conspiracies, and another realm broke out and caused more destruction bursting from hiding. The district had called a state of emergency while the deadline of the returning siege is coming to the next cycle. To all people who wished to visit Fuku City, please evacuate or enclosed yourselves from your homes as the situation had raise into new levels of danger”
The main servers, the users have analyzed what is happening in this district. Chelly and It3ch were glad that the old community have escaped, including the others who were thought secluded and imprisoned in their own homes.
Ironno had done his job so well to get them all out, and with Haw’s own gadget was able to get through the securities. Horsin is more than a post-apocalyptic world, they were advanced beyond their own. There are still other old communities left inside Fuku City, higher position with their expertise that their enemies can’t abused. These people are handling the cult leader envision. It is finally time, the bad folks in the city are showing themselves, and now that the defectors are see them as a threat. This time they have to eliminate them rather took advantage like the conglomerate did.
Chelly checks on Wheatley on the Wheatley app, visualizing and analyzing the entirety of the third moon cycle. It is worse than she had found out. The development of their city is advance, too advance than they have initially prepared. The sudden numbers of supernatural events are ever so coming within Fuku City. The south to the west has the most areas locked where no citizens even care about them. The low lives or the people abandoned to care for them were generalized together. Forced together between the abusers and the abused, the only sight of their peaceful lives are inside the realms.
Mihayara district, the most reported about it. Aided with the help of an Enders named, Myrrkei the rat, and the discovery of those secret magic portal into a strange alternative world. That discovery led to more realms owned and controlled within the different district. Wheatley had done its research and provided them the necessity about the secret realms reopening into this city. There past records about those realms, clearly belongs to a known pre-existing magic. In this region, Wheatley had said a little backstory as this city was part of the extension of east mountain.
“Wow, I mean like I can never think the realms open up so many. It says here that most common structures or foundations had always form a channel network. The realms for example are like small pits to housed individual packs. I just don’t know what I just said, but it most common used in this world. Compared to most stretch of lands, the Agatheus City is cramped, not going to lie and you see on the map that the area they have covered are only less than 50 km squared. While Mountaiwall stretches beyond the 80,000 km like a city border between Purrisarwell and Agatheus City. And we shouldn’t forget . . .”
The cult leader entered her office as she shuts off Wheatley. From the last moment as it shuts down, its final words were “Why every time I have to say the most detailed information, I always do the . . . (Sounds of shutting down*)”
Disappeared into the black screen, the words of Wheatley disappeared into the digital abyss. Chelly turns around and see her mother is with him. “Ah Sir! Is there a need to visit me in person?”
Her mother said to her with a proud face “Indeed, your main servers had able to broadcast only special important members in our society. Even the fact that Fuku City still protect the VIPs, and you, protecting our privacy in the telecommunication”
“Ahem*, What she said is true, but I have some other matters to talk to your daughter. Please let her be the professional and wait for her what business we had done so far”
Chelly’s mother raises her head high to see her daughter is getting what she had deserved, being under control of her mother’s invested projects. She left the office with her eyes still gleaming with joy, while the cult leader left his eyes on her mother. Her face changes and look at her daughter strictly. Chelly expected much of her mother, she too doesn’t want to be business with a former yakuza member, but it needs to be done as the Fuku City’s order had turned for the worse.
Chelly offers him a chair, but he summoned his own chair with a snap of his finger. Awkwardly staring at him, as she pulls the chair away and begin their business. He said first
“You did well, for the past days that you are testing the servers quite impressively”
Chelly starts to sweat, she had not yet tested the servers but the realm server project. Does he know about it? Observing in her own circumstances, she resists to say something about it. The silent persists as he confidently told her what he had in mind.
“I’m talking about the secret message. I pardon myself if I can’t describe these terms of this utility”
“Oh?! not at all, I can decipher what you’re saying if you can explain it to me briefly”
The cult leader sees her expression is shaken. His eyes keep it straight as he given her the details of his plan. The files show up from her desk with the use of magic. A classified document dated that supposed to be done during the 4th moon cycle. Her mind didn’t click what’s going on and the look of his face show no refusal to this folder. Murmuring to her own lips, what work did he offered to her? The cult leader shows his hand to let her read it. Chelly touches the folder and the classified stamped fades like a drop of water as it splashes in watery effects.
The folder opens by itself and all that is fantasy moving in motion among the papers. A child fantasy, in its true majestic beauty plays along in a professional sense. The escapism entertainment had become the work ethics of report, dragging into this world’s reality. Nostalgia into the work force, she sighs out of frustration without him noticing. The plan is to finally breaking the secrecy of the people who against the cult leader. Her own community was part of it from the beginning, and now they are not part of the list. The new unknowns were the suspicions of so-called cult groups, a demon who is pretending their gods.
Another fight as before, Fuku City had drawn into senseless violence and this time it would be the same strategies he did as before. He will be doing on his own, the same thing he had done before he became the representative for Fuku City. According to the plan, she must break the terms of service to any users who are using the new servers. A list of specific people who are the residence of Fuku City and more outside this important district. They have studied their own search for them, the people who are wanting to return back to Fuku City.
There is a special event is coming along, the convention whispered made by the community. This is their grand search, dated at the beginning of the new moon cycle. The Jigeram entered the region, above it all, raining snow of frozen mana. Raining down like acid rain to harm every life in it, no cold breeze but the falling cloud of the volcano’s sulfuric ashes. She had to finished it within a week. Chelly looks at in front of his patience, already know that what she had finished. The contacts of the private server, masterfully able to connect every one of them even separated.
The Enders did very well, no, perfection to the 100s or more to where they can’t believe the possibility. After the first attempt, it did well. The second is more surprising as ever. They secretly hijack the realm, and to her own curiosity is connected with this classified report. Not given a single word from him, he had it all. The things she did and planned for Tabitha, he already know. Trembling to such a man who knows too much, and ironically even her own abused to his resources. A yakuza to no end without knowledge of his own country.
A flip to another page, her assigned duty is more familiar to most corrupted nation. More power to the government with surveillance and other security format that no citizens have the right to such privacy. She felt a reluctant, and yet the only person holding the rights and authority in the internet. She bows her head with gratitude, reluctant almost shown in her head sweating but clears off with her magic.
“I am grateful to do my service in this matter. Can I ask you? Have you notice our work without us showing you the detail?”
Her heart is pulsing to the highest rate, fearing that he knows everything then he knows about Tabitha and Enders connections.
Bokushi Hidari hears her plea. The man is relaxing on his chair sliding down his waist to find a comfortable stature, then quickly sitting up straight then places both of his hands together, locking together all of his fingers.
“I understand, it was all started a few days ago. One of my gang leaders noticed the corrupted changes happening to his sentinels within your server realms. A strange individual managed to hack through his system and forced a reset. They told me that there was a hacker, but that server always kept clean and remove any organic lifeform. So, that’s where I took notice of your works”
Haw’s scene, Chelly thought at first was a place holder. Wheatley mentioned to upgrade them further, she didn’t know the place holders have a functional data gathering. He continues
“. . . Because of that, we checked the scums of our city and see how they react. I was suspected it was them, and the classified files on you already given it away. There were, I never expected, those Enders entering the server realm because of the ruins spreading its seeds outside of the ruins. I say, I apologized without informing you about it. Then I didn’t, I was skeptical of the change of events. That hack on the central area made me cautious a bit”
His tone is getting suspicious as Chelly listens to him carefully and finds a good excuse after what they did to help her old community.
“. . .” Barely waiting to respond, she listens more of his guesses
“Lastly, the day after. My concerns were at lost, and I come here today because of the yesterday’s event. My enemies are coming back again, stronger in fewer numbers and you alone have the authority to hold off these threats for me in regards for I called your LAN network as infrastructures”
Chelly feels a relief for some reason, the topic now is focusing on his enemies. She then vigorously went looking inside the files, hoping those people she knew were part of the project. The list shows all the low lives, creeps, and many more enemies she didn’t recognize. Reaching to the last page of the file, it’s last order for her is to complete her own project before the city’s lockdown occurred again. Bokushi Hidari watches her nodding all the way as she is accepting her orders without hesitation. The man is smiling for what she had expected. The two shake hands. This meeting is a delay apology to her.
“Don’t worry Sir! I won’t let you down”
“I know you won’t. Goodbye”
As he almost steps out from her office, “One more thing before we have another problem in the future. Tell Tabitha that she is not needed to come back to save you . . .”
Chelly feels his aura coming out alive with a different mana around him. Elven magic flowing out from him as he turns around with the elven wind torrent the room. Pressurizing the area, while the windows and door opened. He knows, but didn’t write it on the classified document. Chelly can’t stand it and let her body fall on her chair.
The cult leader didn’t let her, the elven wind magic keeps her in place as if she was frozen. Her fear turns true and can’t say anything because of his magic. The neutral mana and the runes of her office can’t protect her against an elven mana. The elven magic wasn’t harmful but it holds her in place and her mind felt she won’t be resisting it either, combination between restraint and strict, it is something rare for the citizens to use magic that way. The cult leader explains to her
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“. . . Because, me and my men should be the one to eliminate our enemies according our nation’s law”
The wind turned silent as she gently falls to her chair. No signs of harm but the feeling being hold against her will. The door closes in front of her and only say to him from his back.
“Who are you trying to protect? All of us should be equal under one law. Ah!”
She screams to herself in frustration and turned on the Wheatley app. Wheatley quickly says to her “I told you so, I mustn’t meet her. Or any people who are Enders or Horsin native. Not now at least”
“Then will you ever come out to help your people?”
“Nervously laughing* You think it would be that easy, of course I made it too easy”
The robotic eye is right, Chelly’s plan and support was Wheatley’s after plan. The file didn’t mention about it nor did the cult leader even mention the success they did to bring them out.
“Hey Wheatley, do you still have access one of the top executives meeting with him?”
“I still have it, but I give it away to someone”
“Give it away? You told me that it was only me and It3ch”
“Oh, did I say ‘someone’. I mention an old tech of ours. I react to it in a brink of a moment while working. Don’t worry though, no one has a compatible system with that stone tablet”
Taiyou Industries, the computer field facility had brought a lot of wounded guild members. Lilith sees their wounds, even Tabitha herself. An otherworlder tastes the powers of the demon’s wrath without any severe repercussions. Spokesman pretends to use the computer as mechanical medical equipment. Making fun as if it is pretending to be the same technological design in Isekai City. Simultaneously scanning, data gathering, and procedures to fix them up are all visual display. The results are in, and to his surprised, other than Tabitha, they have survived the demonic attack.
Lilith is taken note as their enemies are less likely involved from the past eras. A rare find as many of the higher beings left this world and returned to their original home worlds. This one is playing around the lives of these people. Only her guesses of this daemos trying to figure out who. Lady Hivites had many secret friends, including the infamous warrior both allied and betrayed in most circumstances during the Heroes and Demons Era. The demon faction, based on Circoston region, were all kept maintain the rough biomes in their territory. Circoston has no vast fertile areas and mostly the paradise of the hunt.
The cycle was broken because Kinteinnou region is the life birth because Alga’s light is where get exposed more and granted vegetation that absorb more lights than there. The herd migration was supposed to escape to the west, but now in ruins in Rune Isles. They are all hiding beneath the hidden roots of the forest. Nowhere to go, trapping themselves as the newly formed creatures from the sea. The moon cycles had brought so much wonders to the world as the region of the coming moons.
Tabitha recovered sooner than them and forces out from the field computer. She wasn’t given any chance to see Haw and Ironno, but seeing Archivist in a terrible condition made her not to see what C did to them. Walking out fresh for the first time in her life in this world, saving her own community and now residing in Stranding Island. Only thing left she could do is visiting them. Also, it is the day where Miyusuki should be training with Haw. It is now her own responsibility to meet with him. They are going to meet near the ferry as many people from Horsin gathered to prepare a special welcoming party.
Miyusuki is here, waiting on the ferry with another Enders. Rusic stands by his side telling stories what happened inside of the island.
“. . . More of them are there. And they never left after that day of the accident. Are you sure about that Rusic?”
“Hah, no one is going to believe what I am saying to you, lad. Yet, it is strange that your people did come to this place in a big machine a few days before. I’m just glad you two citizens going to meet them before they left”
“That’s what I am scared of, any day now the siege will return. The bomb was epic and scary, and now they are coming back”
“Aye, lad. Those few guilds here are helping your people this time”
The ferry reaches to the port, a different ship approaches made to look old and at the same time forged together by scraps. The sounds of its horn are clear and mystical, it’s like the sounds of the spirits are wailing on itself without the fog behind it to blend as a strange sea monster. The smoke or mist coming from the sea, the essence of the spirits is clear as day with both of Miyusuki’s fear and curiosity jumbled together that which of his expression could show to Rusic’s face. It is hard to distinguish as it arrives on the port. The harbor shifted into the shamanistic rituals, all formed into the eyes of the spirits come and go as the beasts in full form.
The beast were no normal creatures, a monster so hard to define. Merged together in both nature and ghost beastly bodies, the voodoo dolls are the only thing he sees to be recognizable. The rest of the animal spirits are profound and ferocious with no signs of hideousness. Actual monsters with strong stature going around them. Rusic turns around and saw Tabitha is hesitating from the arrival of the spirits.
“Lass! Come over here! You are going to miss the ship”
“Rusic! Miyusuki! What’s going on here?!”
“A celebration of the goblins. I think their leader is inside the island with your people”
Rusic steps inside of the ship, while Miyusuki steps forward cautiously. The spirits materialized from the heap of junk as they formed out of blue pointing out trashes on him. Tabitha pulls to him out of concern, one of the spirits come at her using a rubble stick and hit her menacingly without harm. It doesn’t hurt them, and Rusic laughs out of their obnoxious behavior.
“You non-drinking dead mouths, where’s the real ferry”
They pointed out where the ferry is, it still at the harbor, off shore in need of repair. The ferry is covered in ceremonial plant keeping it from staying afloat.
Miyusuki sees it and ask “What happened to it? That plant shouldn’t be reaching here from the ruins”
“You might don’t believe this lad, but the spirits found more realms than we have ever find inside the ruins itself. You’ve visit there before and the rest of the days that you stuck yourself in school. Oh yeah, what’s going on with your school’s sphere?”
“About that, we were going to plan to train ourselves inside and needed a proper help like inside the city guild’s sphere. We are going to prove ourselves until we are evacuated again when the siege returns”
“Good, here. I think you need this better than I needed”
Miyusuki receives a sigil. The shield student didn’t have a functional UI, and the words he can’t read give Tabitha notice. She reads it for him with worries “I am Rusic’s buddy, bring me the kegs of great barrels . . .?”
Rusic clapping his hand on the rails of the ship “Laugh, I know it’s funny but you will get something out of it”
The shield student takes it and place to his pocket. The gift may look like a joke, but this is a dwarf with powerful crafting runes. There were no jokes coming from him with empty air of promise, and who lays down the great stoned runes since Miyusuki’s training.
The citizens are migrating well in this island. They are able to fill every necessary that a residence needed. The residences are in a few thousands. A remarkable amount of number that brought many interests to see what they can do. The men recovered and do what they can to make this place functional. While the women trying to make their homes livelier, as the houses they live in is beyond than they usually have. Living to the dangerous shore of the east, the tight straight shore where they can’t farm in this kind of terrain. However, the facilities are in this embassy is heavily aware of the needs.
They see across the distance, where the spirits are uprising to the skies and fall down to the ground where refraction of lights polarizing to the air as the ritual have formed an auroral band. Exposed to the dusts, the sky is resisting with such a marvelous colorful light. They have given such a massive and thin land to work with, all rocky with solid foundation, rebuilding the traditional housing with materials given by the islanders. The one place they can’t remodel to their own culture is the reminder statue. A statue for them to learn that the law here is different from Isekai City.
The statue is a formed of a blank demonic entity, everyone sees it differently. It is better not to tell everyone what they had seen. There are islanders viewing there, the demon elf stands by with it along with the other Agatheans disguised as humans. Whispering one another about what they describe this statue.
“Lady Hivites’ old rivals are roaming into her lands”
“Then her warrior will become her enemy, this people deserved it”
The demon elf sighs how pity her kinds are. Horsin dreaded itself with the powers to turn the world to ashes, these refugees escaped their own homes without fighting. Meaning, their world is prosperous. Why would they thrive in this playground world?
The demons know why, they were forced into this world. These people have marked and milked to spill their mana off from their bodies, giving delicacies so little as crumbs made them realize the citizens are using demonic methods poorly. The citizens are like stuffed creatures given to them by the entity, not natural adapted nor born to this world. It is a terrible condition to people are engulfed in their own world under a small domain. Then they feel a warmth that has flavor from their backs. Acting normally as if they are annoyed, one young boy is being nurtured and at the same time tamed within him. The young boy is owned by someone, someone with old grudges to remain here.
Tabitha pointed at the statue and said to Miyusuki “What do you think of that statue, Miyusuki?”
“Uhm, I can’t say”
“Well, I see Lilith on the statue”
“Lilith?! No, mine is . . . well I can say that the statue is moving for some reason”
Rusic comes along laughing at the two “Don’t fool around the boy, that statue is a mind check. To see if any demonic influence got inside your head more than the others”
The Rusic said was right, the statue is meant to check which people have the most influenced of. The reaction of the boy is certain it was Sanquin, a strong warrior with a tendency to build up with hardship.
The demons observed him. The boy is given a strong spice within him, tenderizing by the hands and technique of his trainer. They watch them moved on see them being paraded again. Tabitha had brought her people the peace they never had, but in reality, in their demonic vision within her people. The demons alone are secretly acting like mosquitos and calmy sucking her people’s very mana veins with impurities. The addiction they had before are cursed, they cannot leave this island until they have finally decided to leave this world and cleansed all their sufferings. It is too sweet among the daemos kind to let these morsels going back to their city.
The demoness, the daemos know was there, even more refinement if the lady’s warrior returned from its death. It is another return of old allies, with these people around. They won’t be treated as friend with their mind is pridefully call for revenge. The elf demon said to the others
“Which one of you will take care of her people?”
One of them raised his hand, a mage who have interest in them. After many events, the party, the siege, and now here. He is willing to take care of them, as his image is charming for the women who look at him. He sees them with their spouses, such a different female creature.
Rusic guide them to the Enders embassy. The two feel the presence of them, people they can’t recognize but the calls on to them made them feel anxious. The building is complete, and its simple structure only have a few floors in four. Yet, the design is not look like having floors in each height. Taller than that as the only balcony can be found at the corner as it portrays as a tall tower built in as one. The door opened to them, and the banners on the hallway show who had entered this place. Same banners as before, five banners in pairs along the hallway. The entrance stretches back and the floor moves closer inside.
The spirit birds are eyeing on them, the small ball appeared in the new moon glow. The guild master is here since they left, still taken care the man cursed by the rituals. He is finally reform to his original flesh. The transmutation is already gone but stayed here to see the progress. Along with them is a table filled with their weaponries and tools, the guild master sees the Raker Mawn guild and changes the brightness of the new moon to their preferred lightings. They hesitated a bit, and eventually being pulled closer to him as the spirit birds are clawing them as it flies almost lifting off from the ground. Rusic did it rudely as he lifted his legs and let the birds carry him off.
The guild master smiles to look at him, and the two were embarrassed to him flying around even lying down while the birds are carefully holding him. The flash of the birds merged with Rusic in order for his rude posture to sit properly on the seat. All of them were seated safely, as he whistles inside the room more where Enders guild masters appeared surrounding them, all five is here including Lady Coheld. She is the last one to appear removing the invisible cloak in hexagonal pieces. The digital imagery blends in the lights as she materialized from her camouflage.
Tabitha asks Rusic “What’s going on? Why are we meeting with these people?”
The banners align with the respective masters and mistresses behind their backs, the banner of guilds represent their ownership or rights of ruling. Forming a council around those three. The first guild master, the new moon spell caster, the second guild mistress, long robes with a stylish dress, the third guild master, carrying the heads both monsters and machines, the fourth guild mistress, wore jewelry forged in rune writings, the fifth guild mistress, disguised as a city girl, and finally Lady Coheld, the mistress of this visit.
The first introduces themselves, “We are the Enders Guild masters, as you are Enders or members within the Enders branches of influence, then you should to be aware that this conversation is always permitted as your duty”
Tabitha sees that the fifth guild mistress as her eyes couldn’t believe the person who is with her is actually a guild mistress. Her clothes were improved and more charming and keep her barrette dangling near the edge of her hair and her beret still worn and leaning down to her shoulder. Faye faced hell with her to the moment they reach to their deaths inside the ruins. Looking at her eyes playfully seeing her again.
The Guild mistress, the Archscientist, the leader of the Dexter Guild, Lady Coheld introduces to them. “I am Baelakeon Coheld, the eldest of my generation of my family household, and these youthful masters are here to meet with you. I apologized to the young boy as he is new and not involved with your personal adventures, but soon to be Enders should learn the system of our services. Either you stay here or not, we are not expecting any less for you not helping us. Like you did for Lady Constantine”
Tabitha never thought this will happen to her, after rescuing so many of her old communities and reside here is the greatest gratitude she had never received for an entire Enders Bridge community. To let her people to be treated too good, yet she expected this to happen. Miyusuki didn’t know what’s going on, and can only listen to their conversation. Tabitha asks them
“Can I ask one thing about Lady Constantine?”
They nodded
“What happened to his subordinate, Azin? What purpose did he do to visit this city without your Lord’s permission?”
Lady Coheld claps her hand for finally someone asking that question. A stranger coming into the city, with a purpose to preach is unlikely to hold the loyalty to their Lord Lori’es. She didn’t mind the question as the other guild masters willing to answer her question.
“Since the beginning before your people changed your mind. We found the sources who forced your people to stay in our world . . .”
Both Tabitha and Miyusuki both shocked in the ordeal. Will they dare to listen more and find a way to leave this world sooner or Will Tabitha kept her promise to Elrond to keep going with the flow? Still, they are not ready. Because after what Tabitha experience to one enemy, she fears more of them will stop it.