COI C115
The B rank adventurer watches after the incident, it slowly making the low ranks more careful this time. More boss monsters hidden inside the facility, and she starts to worry more as the report of the low ranks giving proper identification in each monster. Meanwhile the wraiths are the spreading flames to make it difficult for them to secure the area properly, it is such a sight to behold in Taiyou Industries that carefully staged and made by the Dexter Guild’s design. She thinks about those glasses, and thought having one of them for its cosmetic looks.
She shakes her head back to the main topic. It was almost a disaster when those adventurers going to blew it. Then again, the Dexter Guild mentions only the damage reached to where the fire is at. It recovered, because of Alga’s light or what’s mix with it. It only gets worse to the facility itself, that’s where she acted strange among them. It’s fine because it only affects where they are at, but those monsters, even though is weak, able to recover when that cloud appeared again. What a fuck up way to relief they said.
The loots were lied inside the warehouse, where X2L had hoarded it all too well after the first hour of their own mistakes. They suspect much more not by greed but testing something it. One of them starts to think badly about this quest
“They are up to something”
“If only we brought our biotech scanners and surveyors, it would be a lot easier to find the “host””
“The “host” thing keeps a conspiracy for us not to use it in the first place. I don’t know why the head archscientist agreed to it in a contract”
“I theorized the case regarding the first incident from the west coast. That guest invaded their caravan to our city and . . .”
Someone appeared from behind them, it was Lilith herself. She said to them, “Please act out what the contract said. You don’t have this opportunity to find out this city’s modernization without a certain permission”
“. . .”
“I thought so, say one more about those conspiracies again without providing evidence or solution. I will bring my complaint to your pfft* manager”
She almost said it in a mature strict behavior, and she seems to be less likely acting seriously about it. Soon, she leaves them with a warning to those guild members into their own business.
X2L appears from the other side with McS4 looking at her until they couldn’t see her anymore. Adding a minute to make it sure, then McS4 said to X2L
“Rh-0 knows, he is more than just an alchemist. He was called a hero from only the four survivors”
X2L scuffs it off “Heh, which side of him? Sigh* I don’t know who he is anymore. The first version, patch blah blah point number signs, and copy then paste replace method . . .”
“Ok, ok, I get it. Don’t be harsh, he is only human”
“Human . . .?”
The codices heard them saying the codename they knew. The mechanics take their breath as they have their own thoughts on that person, subject or apprentice, that topic get so riled up to hear from the head arcscientist. Different departments focus on the other team, same people are not here. Only their high officer to supervise them, the archscientist. Through the rumored words from their mouths, the sound whispers obviously through the room.
“The Archscience department, the studists, are really that incompatible?”
Archivist and Tabitha returned with the low rank adventurers where they have some damage goods in their hands, mostly loots they rush to get and quickly want to fix it from an actual expert. Tabitha sees them with the equipment looks fine after the fighting, it is kind of amazing how those gears able to cause so much mayhem and everyone burn themselves out from their amateur experiences. The hazmat suit saves them form such inexperience, leaving others to hit among themselves. It wasn’t funny for them without those protective suits.
There’s a special room, a workshop, easily pointed out with a sign made by the workers with a bill board filled with instructions and rules. They put away first everything that the Dexter Guild provide them, it was kind of obvious how they mishandled it quite a lot. It is something didn’t even mind of doing it, but the workers used their original version impressively in their defense of this train station. To them, they are just newbies. Thankfully, they took it out without hesitation. The fire marks and soothe covered all over the hazmat suits, still impressive that it is also fire proof. Or was the name used only people to understand its protective property.
Another soldier, other than X2L, R-cord, or even McS4 themselves. This man is doing maintenance work. For those people mentioned before are in the department in tech, codex, and this man is the only one being brought here. This mechanic didn’t always wear his power armor, but if he did, he will be wearing the same models from the tech design. Now unequip and busy trying to fix every item he was assigned to. The resources are limitless and his preferred tools and other crafting machineries are in his all sides.
Alongside with him are the workers, fresh and young as they were given special training with him. They bring their automated tools and personal toolsets. The workers are put their hardest to try to become skilled as the man who is doing his work manually. There is one woman besides him who kept her eyes open and focuses on his work. This man however, he is more relatable than they have thought. Then he said
“If you want to see how I work, why not joined the boys with their camera recording it all”
She looks at them, they smile at her acting like creeps “No, I just want it to see it in person”
The boys look at him sneakily hid a cart beneath his feet, carefully replacing the floorings with magic. The phases of light materializing in such a thin layer that no one could see it while the man is welding together the parts together. The woman sees him slowly moving away, and the sad giveaway where one of them laugh sooner than they have initially thought. The woman pouted at them as the man rides away from her. The man stops and suddenly returns to her. Just to take something that left behind and going his way slightly faster than ever before.
The woman was annoyed and yelled at the boys “You guys, stop giving him ideas”
They laugh and the other one who laughs first keeps laughing even harder “Then why not helping us fix these pieces of junk”
She gets frustrated “Then tell him that we need to learn how to fuse runes like a computer!”
They went silent at the moment, she is right though, then they try talk to the man. Embarrassed how he was named, and even now they heard from him to be discreet and serious like they are the boss of him.
Out of low confidence, they said his name “Repair boy . . . Oh fuck, why would they name him that?”
“This is getting out of nowhere, why are we trying to be rude here?”
The woman shouts to him “REPAIR BOY! SAY SOMETHING?”
The man looks at them, and it was a woman who shouts in a right bossy tone. He returns back to his work, ignoring the woman’s best calls. The woman shouts to herself
“Of all the people, I never thought that this man is being sexist”
Trying to act frustrated as her realization of that incident made him acted that way. She only thinks about it. Inside the train, at the cab driver incident. She just wants to drive it as how they are going inside the city and breaking the siege. Now the rumors about her who survived but being naked during the fight. Her stats were able to endure the damage. The repair boy looks at her never ceased to stop the rumors crawling on to his head. McS4 didn’t even spread it, but her embarrassment was stopping him to be suspicious. The smart people in Dexter Guild are so . . .
“REPAIR BOY! ORDERS IN DEMAND!” An Enders goes inside the workshop with a line of adventurers bringing pieces artifacts for restoration. The man wore a mask where his face is in a blank screen, calling out the repair boy as he brings out all the mechanized machines with him. The commanding voice from him causes other offline machines bring itself in full operation. The boys were trying so hard to command those robots as it moves on its wheels.
Archivist brings out his items, “This . . . I need it in its full restoration. Please add a little information as this is going to be used by me and with a citizen”
The repair boy brings out the forge cauldron. Archivist puts down the coin and the sash inside of it and takes his leave to the sideline. The workers saw the first time to see the mechs being used for once. They thought it were robotic tools to fill the labor work, but it has its own uses. The repair boy checks in on the others as they bring out more than the workers have ever to fix it by hand or with their automated equipment.
Before, they have to do it manually. But now, that commanding shout made the mechs he had brough to display come to life. The woman reaches out to him and said
“Why didn’t it work on me?”
The repair boy explains to her briefly “Because these are military made machineries back in the day. Scrapped and found in Rune Isles itself, it works for other people who has no hesitation to take orders. I found out that neither all of you able to call it out but my own people able to . . .”
He stops and pointed on to Archivist, the woman walks to him out of wanting to know more. She said “Excuse me, can I ask you something?”
“You mean the machines won’t listen to you?”
“Yes! My co-workers weren’t able to turn it on, it wasn’t the language barrier, but us here can’t able to . . .”
Archivist stops her and answered “I get it, it is an old machine. I have studied it before. It won’t work because it needs to be on use. I called out to him as the machine already found broken items I have, or dirtied for example. It is probably because you don’t hold something for it do, intentionally”
The woman returns back and takes something from the boys, and breaks it. “HEY!”
“YOU BE QUIET! You can it fix anyway . . .”
She turns to the machine and ordered it “FIX IT!”
With a loud command, a different robot comes from behind them instead the one they are looking at. It picked it up by surprised, and repaired it with high-quality materials. It returns to her. The co-worker looks up the item she broke Slight disappointed on his face and said,
“You should’ve trust him instead wasting valuable metal on this thing. Ah yeah, it does work”
The repair boy’s machines are really that simple, but he is teaching them how to fix it manually. The reason why he didn’t teach them about it, because it is definitely automation. They talk behind the crowd and said,
“He won’t be staying here long. We could just use those machines to fix our . . .”
“We need to learn how to improve our craftsmanship, you already see your item was fix and improved”
“We saw that, and we already have their books. We can handle it on our own when continuing the process of manufacturing with all the tools we need to make them”
Archivist heard them as he goes back to the counter to retrieve his things. He gives his words to the Repair Boy “They look nothing to be your apprentice”
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“They don’t have the natural strength, so they need at least one robotic for making runes. After that, they will go back to automation. They are craftsmen, not battle engineers”
“Heh, battle engineers. I hope you can teach them about those artifacts”
“I can’t say much, but I have better things to do . . . Alright who’s next?”
The man pulls the adventurers’ artifacts to the pile, all labelled and continue doing his job.
Tabitha watches what happened leaving her mind to questions a lot of things inside the workshop. She receives the coin and the sash on her hands as she read through her UI and she said to him
“Copies? Can you copy artifacts?”
“There is something you can understand, and some you can’t. In Dexter Guild, they have perfected their industrial practices. The man that called himself the “Repair Boy” is one of those manufacturing groups, he had factory with him”
Tabitha looks carefully, trying to use her UI to identify the machines. Blocked through the screen in caps ‘CLASSIFIED’ He is not kidding where he mentioned military. Every time she hears it, the information tab always shows classified. What a noisy place they are in, once they left, there are a stream of people spreading the word that the workshop had robots that fix and improved faster than the other repair stations. Archivist didn’t respond to any of the sort of his action, he has his ways.
They left the station early, got their pay, a bonus for doing extraordinary activities, and an exemption from their first quest. It is still not enough to get their full sets, their preferred equipment, and keep working until they have it all then proceed to her next plan. They have their free time for the rest of the day. This opportunity puts her to focus on other things. Tabitha said to Archivist
“Let’s go meet Haw”
“Haw? Why all of a sudden?”
“Honestly, I already have his number. Myrrkei was able to memorize it and give it to me. He was a Dexter guild member, right?”
All for a while before lunch came, Haw and Maser talks about his guild member. Wearing cleaning clothes, covered faces, hair net, and protective gloves for the manufacturing of said potions or medicines. Along with other people who help to produce as much as medicine needed from the new formed of sickness appearing. Maser tells him what it is
“I’m starting to reading the finish products, all of them looks a less cures than preventing the problem”
“They said it was supposed to stop receiving the symptoms, it is not clear for them to be the perfect medicine”
The Agatheans thought otherwise, the logic of making medicine to prevent diseases is much more illogical than they have assumed. Magic is where its nutrient for those specific illness, but regards to mana parasites and other ailments are due to the fact can be solved through natural immune system. Only if, those people are adapting. There is one person though, Haw knows him and was able to adapt the harshness of mana, like demon, and survive the secrets of its plague. They only assumed that it must be their involvement to have such resistance.
After the processing, they made a large amount of medicine before the pharmaceutical groups. Checking for any flaws or contamination, they were satisfied and bring it out from the facility. The man shows their thanks as he bows then proceed to carry it out. Haw sees more and more people coming in, as fresh batch of people are finished their training and finally replaces the volunteers for good. This is the agreement they have given them to help the city to sustain the demands for the hospital. One happy looking man goes to Haw and Maser with great news.
“I thank you for helping us from the work shortage, we have receiving supplies through the train and more and more people are getting productive because of the damage happened in our city . . .”
Maser gives him a weird look for being positive after all that happened here. It was too suspicious to be that positive who keep begging for help and provide incentives to stay here in the city.
“. . . Anyway, on this day onward, we will relief you two from your work and continue your service to help the city elsewhere”
Maser gives a nice sigh of relief “Finally”
The man was a bit disappointed from how he reacted like as if it was boring, then he turns to Haw “As for you, to have such vast knowledge of chemical production and safe formulating with those dangerous substance. It feels like you’re a pharmaceutical scientist”
Haw tilted to hear the name scientist, archscientist for sure, a higher rank name according through the Dexter Guild’s department. He managed to hide it to what his head try to cramp in the reaction he had to express on that name sakes.
The city is making progress as many workers from Taiyou Industries spread around the city. Adapting the demands of people in need of labor and other utility jobs as the resources are coming to finally replacing some parts of the city. Street lights, roads, electrical wires, and much more as everything is being fix after months of keeping the city function. It was hidden through magic, and now the people see the rust and the deterioration that is need of maintenance. They are glad that the new equipment made had uses for the majority of this city.
However, stocks and production are still low. Only things they have now are their local foods available. The livestock they have are in need of breeding to match the line of production, the meat they were eating before were hunted by the adventurers as substitutes. The basic meals for them are already show signs of less meat. Fish on the other hand is delivered from Agathean’s inner realms. It would be their best bet is to make their city being efficient for once. They will soon have a stable economy in no time.
Haw receives a call from Tabitha, the person who rumored to be Myrrkei’s recruit. Not knowing how she got there and even dared to join, it is lucky for her to join a guild that is newly drafted to tolerate this city. He picks it up the call and she said,
“Hey! Um, Are you free today? I heard only much about the report of your side works”
“Everything is fine, that was a favor I was helping with. Myrrkei is more than just your recruiter. We can talk about it if you like”
“Ok, how about in Chojima District? I like to eat near the school you’ve work. Would it be fine that is?”
Haw thought she read his report back in Enders Bridge, and the sound of her voice seem to be a bit nervous. This is not about him, but she has something to do with that place or better to assume to be her home. He keeps speculating as he responds quickly
“Alright, there is a student I know whose parents owned a restaurant. Don’t ask for discounts, she deserves what she was going through doing her activities”
“Really? I mean, ok. But I want an important conversation as well. It regards for our equipment you see”
“It’s fine, I only know you through Sanquin, and Myrrkei didn’t help with the info about you”
“Great, bye”
Tabitha gets excited and with materials she had brought from Rune Isles, the only person who can prepared such equipment and allowed through the city’s regulation. This would be help her prepare for her next plan. Archivist watches her getting motivated, and the slight of shakes he sees from her that she is planning to face she had fear. Everything went to bust after their first day yesterday, their information is not well confirmed and even they have Emerald who really want to help. Tabitha acted differently, something she is hiding kept quiet. He leans to her and said,
“Trust him, he is one of the heroes who saved your people”
“Yeah, thanks”
Haw is actually nervous for the first time, he met someone who has a partner as a fighter. Circoston origin with the skills of martial arts. His past experience was accidental when he faced inside the black and white zone, realm, or whatever they called it. Faster than him, and more elusive and evasive to escape from his potions. And worse of all, they turn up just in time as he was thinking about them. The man with her was a bit complicated, then he finally sighs in relief knowing well from what he had thought about the fighter. Archivist wore a mask, and it is properly covered up.
Tabitha saw his face and said “Why do you look so nervous just recently?”
“I was expecting something else, right Viste?”
“Viste? Who is . . . Archivist? Your name is Viste?”
“Actually, that’s my last name . . .”
Haw hears her says his name, he was confused
“Archivist?”
Tabitha twirls her head around as the introduction went going in circles. It was something that she never would have thought having so much confusion in their first meeting. She just laughs it out.
The confusion was settled and the meals were set on their table. It is was a simple answer that she never thought about. She summarized
“Like Myrrkei, having multiple names out of curiosity and more importantly back then to hide his true name for research . . . (She starts thinking the obvious) . . . Why am I work up the obvious?”
Haw continues her summary “Just like that, Archivist’s true name is Archi Viste. Don’t think the demons will be able to get him. He is born in this world”
Archivist shows his mask a face and question mark to the side.
Tabitha never thought today was never ending surprises, but here she is, having her time getting surprised by them instead the big changes happening in this city. It wasn’t long for them to get straight to the point. Archivist is the one setting up conversation as he pulls out two items found and fix from the Taiyou Industries. Haw looks at it without any idea what they are. Archivist said
“These are old items, let’s just assume it give you, abilities. Compared it to runes however, these are the lesser effects version”
Haw gets the idea, these are preserved memento, a different kind of rune items.
Haw knows what he is about to say and said “You want me to upgrade it, that fits the standard of qualification in this city”
“You have the knowledge, and we heard from Sanquin that you offered the students with your craftsmanship. Were it allowed to stay inside in this city?”
“The main ingredient is the elk, not those monsters that has dangerous substance”
“Substance you say, we brought the materials. We wished for help to even limits the standard to your caliber”
Tabitha continues on eating the food as she watched them talk. The bind shared for the both of them to make this conversation understandable for her.
Haw keeps hearing about them not having a proper gear for them to wear, and Tabitha herself don’t want to use the generic gear they commonly wore as cosplays. Archivist explains it thoroughly, as he gives him the list of materials. Haw sees the list leaving him in awe, he spokes the name he had properly said again
“Oue’jhnr, only she knows about my report”
“Honestly, it was Kiege herself who took your reports first. Yet about Yui, she did great for trying to mix culture and quality for what we need”
“Uh huh, then how long will you two be staying?”
“3 months, or the entire moon cycle”
Haw takes his time reviewing the list, the guides, and the notes. Oue never ceased her expectation about those two. It is more like she predicted too well or Tabitha is something she had to do before going back. He admits that this city is getting harder to feel safe. Haw hopes for those four at their school will be able to solve this problem with their finished sphere.
“Ok, it will be done for only a week”
“A week?”
Archivist acts like something is wrong, Haw never acted this way. He had his former guild near Taiyou Industries and would be done a lot faster.
“Will you be making it with Dexter Guild by the way?”
“Yes, it will only take a day to finish. Not even an extra day”
“But why a week”
Haw points out to the two
“Rushing to things is not the Dexter Guild way, neither for Raker Mawn to follow the flow without a few obstacles blocking our way. If you were part of the group when entering this city for the first time, you would’ve seen many of our guild members having their own ways. The rat is already an example”
Archivist hears her thoughts with the ‘Ooh’ dialogue through their telepathy. Tabitha is having fun both the meal and their conversation. Archivist takes his food and chunk it to his mouth, the mask phases through it as the expression looks like a happy face chomping on his meal. Haw keeps his eyes staring at the mask, either he regrets of seeing something nuisance or better be happy his face is not revealed. Haw continues
“Why not enjoy a break for once? You two said you’ll be here long and might as well know about the city first”
Haw is right, Tabitha is pretending on her head to delay the inevitable. Her past continued to loom her head as she has something secret not telling them. Archivist hears that thought again and have to reveal to him
“What about, this meant for her to become stronger”
Tabitha froze and for him to saying that, she barely knows him and her friends always be careful around him. Sanquin was the loudest to criticize while Juela gives her reasons for it. Haw stops him and said,
“That’s enough, she is a citizen and not an Enders. Short terms confrontation won’t make them stronger quick. They are here for more than six months now. They already trying their hardest with shamanism. The last possible mana”
Tabitha loses her judgment on him. Haw gives Archivist a realistic reason. Yui keeps on bragging about herself as she clearly and conditionally strong. Without neutral mana of course, she has the obligations to have runes, shamanism, and archscience. Then later laughs at Tabitha for hoping to learn elven magic. The most practical response she remembers for Yui to say to her
“Are you religious?”
“Can spiritual be religious?”
“Like pleasing both masters beside yourself, you’re worth less even you try to use gods’ powers than you’re already been given”
It wasn’t very memorable that she acts like a mean aunt during that time. That cute face of hers is still overcome Tabitha’s point of view as she never was that serious. Yui is right, elven magic will be very strict because of its origin of power. Tabitha gets spoof as Haw slams his notes on her side of the table.
“At this time, let’s have yours being useful for you. You have weakness that I don’t know about. Oue is given me a lot of description rather than orders for you. Let’s meet again outside of the ferry at night if you have decided yet”
Tabitha reads his notes and see Yui’s recommendation with added few slots. She converted his notes to her UI and properly visualize the possibilities she would have. It will take her some time to choose what she wants to do with it, along with Archivist’s set however, she sees such potential that she needs to pick quick. Looking through her screen, Archivist checks and see what she was looking at. Meanwhile, Haw takes another order as this lunch is going to take longer than he had anticipated.
The student’s parents were still in gratitude to him and said “Would you mind to bring our daughter another adventure?”
“Today’s moon cycle is dangerous and it won’t be easy for her”
“No, no, no that’s not were talking about. I heard they are having a school trip by the end of the week. To the sea shore, near the end of the river. I heard they will be training with the other schools to gather fish and other aquatic creatures. This is going to be their first all schools questing”
Haw is too busy, and he has the free time to help Ironno’s personal journey in the city ruins. The situation gets dire as the place is now crawling with actual criminals raiding the remains of Mihayara district. All crystallized, steaming with the remains of the demonic magic. The mist blocks so much vital information as the lookout from the police is limited by their city barrier. He looks at Archivist, then he responds to the parent
“I’ll think about it, the city is getting dangerous from what I heard”
“You’re right, but the trip is down south west. I just wish those rumors from Fuku City didn’t crawl on me”
The parent left, still remain happy to hide their worries. Archivist made a decision and responds to him
“Alright, we accept your offer. Hey, what’s with that look?”
Haw gives him a paper, a quest paper. An old one that is not filed up just yet.
“I want to offer you a quest. This won’t hinder your daily life, and this pay is actually from my effort in this city”
“Hmm, let’s see . . . I supposed, wait, another recruit will be joining. He has an Enders item with him”
“He is also our guild member, this business I can recommend to you two”
Tabitha heard about him. Sanquin’s recruit, and he has different stats from what she said through Kiege’s partial bind. The pay though is not bad, closely reminiscence most common standard pays for first time workers. Haw learns a lot about this city, while it improves greatly in regards someone is holding an archscience tech on hand. Tabitha focuses on the idea what will Archivist would do with it while fighting. She is hoping to be fun as it is only a school trip. While Archivist sees the gauntlet, made similar from the city and customize differently by the Dexter Guild. Both of them knew they wanted to be sure of, that this item is gathering data behind their backs. The conspiracy still remains.