COI C108
It’s been almost an hour as they hid inside of the building. A strange interaction when using magic inside the realm. After the introductions, observation, skipping any unnecessary background information of themselves, and all of that situation happening here. They got themselves in a situation where the victims are more vulnerable than what they have thought. Inside the deeper realms they can’t identify, treating instead a cult area with western fantasy like district, being gone and corrupted by evil. Others can’t work enough to the describe it.
The shield student asks them “So, uh, where are the backups you mentioning about? Magnet?”
“Scattered, from hearing from your entrance situation. We are sharing the same circumstances, but for C, he easily run rampant inside the realm. The rat men don’t know how to deal with a runaway”
C down kept quiet and watch the hostages “They are definitely part of a gang. Flashes, have you known someone when you got caught with them?”
“No, I was kind of unlucky that I was near the incident. We are taking too much time now, where are the backups?”
Magnet turns behind them and sighs.
When magnet was about to react to them, there’s a static frequency reaching out to him. Trying to get a good signal as the shield student stops him. “Sorry Miyusuki, but the signal is weak here”
“Yeah, my monocle detects weak frequency from your device. I am receiving instructions how to fix it . . . can I?”
Magnet immediately gives his device to him “From what Flashes said is true, I hope that gauntlet of yours and that mono lens doesn’t make you look stupid”
The shield student nods and proceed to fix his device, he begins using his gauntlet to strengthen the frequency.
As it is able to reach the signal, he quickly shuts off Magnet’s device. Magnet said “Is there a problem?”
The shield student read his monocle out of unknown warnings, he said “I found unidentified users . . . with other groups of people and their unique Horsin origin”
Magnet couldn’t understand what he meant, as Flashes comes to him by the sudden words regarding to Horsin. “Speak it out boy, what Horsin origin? Are you trying to be scared?”
The shield student returns the device and said to him “Through my monocle they are identified as from the rebellion, soldiers originated from Circoston region. That’s all I can say”
Magnet and Flashes pull each other away from the boy, Flashes said to C. “Help the kid, we have new problems to deal with. Miyusuki, ready yourself soon as this rescue mission of ours are getting dire”
C nods and as he dashes towards him, and pat him at the back. As the two busy trying to persuade each other in this situation, the two of them tried to figure out to make it work. Magnet asks Flashes
“How much did he know about you?”
“Little, you can’t talk with someone in the corpse pit nor the building turning into a monster neither. Yet, we can’t take his gears as he is witness among us”
Magnet took a glimpse at the boy, the idea kicks in their heads. Flashes pats his head, hard.
“Ow! What?!”
“Don’t try to kill a kid with equipment that is not from our city. If we are going to make it through and somehow, he will be able become useful with those only two items. I assume those weren’t easily stole away”
“Ok, ok! I get what you’re thinking. Those guys he was detecting are definitely from the Dark, Green, Dot, Gang . . .”
“Stop with the slow name with that tone of yours. All he just wanted to save the hostages, let’s just see what he can really do”
The shield student didn’t hold back from what Flashes said to prepare, while C down explains further “. . . This is not the whole plan, but the main idea is to save them. Either you get what yours or get what’s ours, and either one of us will going to save them. Listen carefully what Flashes tell you to you, he has some electronic devices would blow your mind”
The shield student read through the monocle as he scans directly at the crystals, it is a seal with no negative interactions. However, the place they are now is dangerous with demon’s magic. The damage will occur once their mana is gone, completely.
Flashes goes to the window said to everyone. “Once I take a picture from here, we all going to run as heck. Don’t leave by my side Miyusuki as everyone here is as agile with their lightning-fast speed, my gadgets will help you to move. Alright?”
“Ok”
“Then, everyone, let’s all save the hostages inside the crystals. We are going to use those bastards as bait as we leave this place”
Magnet carefully uses his magic to polarizes every spec on Flashes’ lens, secretly include as he writes inside this very building. Flashes takes a pic and everybody starts to move deeper to the realm.
The rat men hear a fainted sound coming where Flashes took his picture, it flashes on the wall forming a message. They run towards it as they see writings on the wall, confused as it thought to be magic writings. A surprised attacked happened and they were taken down as were the people just casually walk in. The man sees the problem being solve quickly as he is surrounded with his gang members. The man feeling a bit down.
“If she only comes with me, this date is so fine here”
Whereas the rebellion pointed out to him “There’s a message writing from your people”
The man walks to the wall as if it was branded instead of being sprayed. He can’t recognize who has that kind of ability, but the writings are definitely given the name of the writer.
“It’s Magnet, the almost got rape boy, it’s been a while since that horrifying incident”
One of the women laughs “I just can’t stop laughing from that fool, a fat man was almost able to rape him laughs*”
The other member reaches out to her “Be wary, they have overwhelming power and . . .”
“. . . It’s fine . . . I’m a woman laugh*”
The man tilts a bit as he starts to grin, he then laughs with her then slowly feeling guilty about it. “Geez, I shouldn’t be laughing like that”
The small group is rushing through the building to building, hearing the scuttering steps of the monsters. No hiding and no hesitation, they run carefully closer to the hostages. It is time to rescue them; outnumbered, ill prepared, and the nonsense they will talk about their success . . . with Miyusuki. C down ordered him
“We’re heading out from the building, Miyusuki, be our ranged support and help us pushed out their flanks”
“But I have only a shield”
Magnet dashes him at his back and tap his shoulders with both hands. “We need to act fast and you have no mobility, you need Flashes for this”
Flashes waves his hand to the shield student as he walks to his side. Magnet and C made a pose as he takes his picture. The shield student was a bit confused what they are about to do. C jumps in the air unleashing his controlled mana through his gadget, releasing a fighting move and whereas Magnet surround himself with polarization with magnetic orbs. Once they about to unleashed it, Flashes takes the picture and digitized them inside his camera. The shield student asks
“What just happened?”
“Making an opening, step aside Miyusuki. Enjoy the show, heheh”
They run to the balcony and saw the monsters scouring the place to find them. Flashes find the right place and bring them out in the middle of the rat men. Digitized and pixilated to the moment’s second, the rat men being pulled to the magnetic orbs. Pulled in a certain way as the spark of electricity is coming from the highest volts of C’s fist. His face shows his devilish grin as his gadget on his back starts to tune in some music, as the motion starts to follow up to reality, the show begins.
The monsters annihilated by their entrance as the music plays, C attacks them in lightning speed while Magnet wasn’t done posing as he got disrupted by the sudden anime music. He went off from being serious to having a laugh. The rat men try to retaliate but their spells were absorbed by the magnetic orbs and also the projectiles have been polarized by its presence. Magnet uses his spell to redirect the orbs all around them, countering every spell from this realm trying to appear. He pulled out his mana battery to charge up the orbs and extract what monsters’ mana it has. Once it’s done, he repositions forward.
C attacks them in lightning speed using martial arts with his ability sets, attribute with electricity and cooldowns synchronized all of his techniques. The monsters can’t resist or even fight back under minutes in action. Obliterated by their entrance as other monsters inside of the building walks out and face them. C and Magnet continues to push to the hostage out in the opening, giving themselves away in order for Flashes and the shield student to secretly pushing inside of the building.
Building by building, the two push through and support them in range. The shield student is bashing his shield against the rat men’s dangerous individuals. For once he faces monsters that hid powerful spells through their horrendous and desperate screeches, he uses his gauntlet to take each of them out from the existence of their mana. He grabs his daggers and infused with energy and throws at them. The rat men impaled by his daggers as it turned into crystals, the energy boosted his dagger to unbelievable effect as it nullifies them.
They continue push through the open roofs as the building starts to act, the shield student uses his monocle to find the building’s transformation. He found one as it hid through the walls, he grabs it with his gauntlet and drain it and transfer the energy to Flashes. Flashes receives the energy. He is getting overcharged and said to others outside
“Recharge here!”
They throw their mana battery on the ground to where Flashes sees. He takes a picture and gives it to the shield student. Under a second notice, it is fully charge as it starts to short fused.
“Damnit kid, can you control right?”
“I have no idea what archscience can do”
“Oh great”
Flashes takes the pick on the mana batteries and transfer it back to their inventory. The buildings start to form, the inside released foul magic, he takes his pic with the shield student and escape. The ground breaks open where more monsters are coming, the rat men’s secret armies joined the battle. The buildings are transformed into monsters as vehicles coming out from the inside, weapons made by magic and dangerous spells, releasing such power clouds the area with no resistance.
Inside of the area where the hostages are, trapped sealed while others who were captured without proper sealing are moving freely in their crystallized cage. The adventures and the personnel saw their people. The threats they saw are the rat men’s secret weapon among their hording group. Silfa holds her younger sister with assurance as they are trapped
“Don’t worry, Joanne, I’m here. My indicator shows that puma is here”
“I know, but what about the others who got captured. Look . . .”
This tale has been unlawfully obtained from Royal Road. If you discover it on Amazon, kindly report it.
“Don’t look, just believe that they are fine”
The Agathean adventurers look at the citizens who were taken before them. Tainted by demon magic and their inner self is resisting against the influence. The realm they are now is still weak as they are the one who resist the very essence of its magic.
“The lesser things are not strong enough to take them. Still, the demon is just as powerful”
“They are no primarchs nor archaic, that’s for sure. Yet, it brought a lot of its magic here. Especially the dead ones”
Silfa reaches out to them “What do you mean dead ones?”
“Other races’ magic items. Without proper maintenance with those tools, it will never have the same effectiveness of how it was used beside being corrupted. Even they put us into a crystal, we are able to resist it except for its corrupted counter parts over there”
The Agathean adventurers stop there as they won’t tell the complete truth about the reality they are going to face. In this realm, this is where the source of the next stage of corruption. They don’t want people to worry to a lesser thing.
Joanne feels something off “I heard something, there’s a fight”
The city guild adventurers cheered “Really?! I thought this realm will be difficult to find”
“He is not wrong. It is probably from one our groups after that incident”
They check their devices to see anything that they can go through the crystal imprisonment. It can’t reach them, and meanwhile the personnel check his rune items. Silfa noticed him
“Is that one of the Enders’ devices?”
“You knew, but it requires energy . . . Strange, only one Ender who closing in to us”
The city guild adventurers start cheering more than they have hope for
“An Ender!? You mean those guys at the factory complex?”
The personnel nods, and they quickly cheered out of excitement. “Do you think we get to see those badass power armor and their gruesome battle tactics?”
“I’ve seen them fight, but man their firearms able to stagger a lot of those monsters when it comes to extermination”
Joanne looks at the personnel to see him to look confused, she gets closer to him and hear his whispers. “Dexters never bring their men alone, who’s that person coming to save us?”
Joanne stops and couldn’t believe it who, she gives a shocking expression “Miyusuki?”
The shield student had provided them a great and terrifying results with his gauntlet, able to convert demon magic into energy then backing up the mana battery they have. The realm’s intoxicating environment consuming so much of their controlled mana, relying heavily on the mana battery to continue their existence of staying here. C is getting more confident, Magnet able to follow along C’s crazy hack and slash aggression, and the shield student himself put up in the front against the new rat men they are facing. But there is one person is still having difficult experience among the three.
“Unlimited power source, but limited memory. I should’ve used those TB if I didn’t get caught. Gigabytes aren’t enough to capture every scene I take . . .”
The shield student calls out to him “More enemies incoming!”
“. . . Ah shit!”
He readies to take a pic on the ground as the they see a rolling machine comes to C’s way. C dodges it like a bull as it keeps turning around firing with magic projectiles. The monster building is at his back being cornered as he went too deep. The rolling machine passes by Magnet as he can’t catch it.
It rolls in to C whereas the sweep of the building monster forces him to jump up. The rolling machine charges forward wrecking the monster’s sweeping arms to get him. A ramp appeared before it and suddenly he digitized away. No stopping for the machine as it leaps up to the air and crashes at the building. The powerful vehicle able to breakthrough it, as it turns again, the driver got kick by C as he reappeared close to it. The vehicle got hijacked as he crazily trying to drive it. The vehicle retaliate as its magic writings are resisting his grip on the handles.
Using C’s gadget to enhance all of his ability damage to break free from the writings. He jumps off the moving vehicle, directly moving towards Magnet. Magnet used his mana battery pulled the vehicle up to the air, he aims at the remaining moving monster building and shout out his ultimate
“Magnetized Meteor!”
Taking everything around it towards the monsters while the monsters being suck into it with tremendous amount of force forcing every bit of itself stretch to pieces. C goes in and pushes any escapees inside and captured them through the meteor attack.
Slowly and closely to hit Magnet’s target, Flashes leave large numbers of rat men caught through his lens. Numerous pics after the other as if he caught them all, both of them look at two inside one of the buildings where the shield student pushes something out from it. Large rat men falling down from the building as C catches them by kicking them in mid-air to the meteor’s direction. Many pulled into it as it sucked everything around it then explodes. No debris left behind except for the emptiness they have brought, clean as it fits no evidence that they have fought here. Only shows them nothing but suspicious empty zone.
The fight was over, they look around that there should be more endless horde coming to them. Flashes and the shield student thought the same as they move up to the roof, where they are now is in front of the area where the captives were. The shield student pointed across the road
“There they are, the unidentified . . . what the . . .?”
His monocle looks closer to see what happened. Rebellion coming in army like fashion, forming into formation and coordinating their way to where they needed to go. Flashes waves his hand to the other two as they dash to the roof.
Magnet and C were mix to see what is happening. “I’m guessing they are not here to rescue them”
“Miyusuki, can you see with that lens of yours? Flashes?”
Flashes takes a look through his camera. He gazes upon them as they are too fast and kept moving forward. “I can’t see them properly, they moving so fast like they are kung fu fighting”
“Heh, nice analysis. How about you Miyusuki?”
The shield student keeps tapping at the lens as if it was not working, through advance analyzing, he finds out why they are here “They forging the monster’s body into weapons. They are taking their mana and transforms it on their own accord”
The monocle captures every detail they are performing. The rebellions manipulate the mana of this realm, shifting in and out as their own. Bending exterior of the magic from the monsters, taking it, reform it, and using it against them. One of them perform a skill that matches Sanquin’s abilities, the touch forms that she did on him to pierce through his mana, except this one extract from them, and forcing the mana out then quickly transform into their arsenal. The results show more than he had to understand them all. He said to them
“They are able to resist against those monsters. They even used their mana as resources to fight”
Meanwhile Flashes found someone who is not doing anything but walking through the battlefield. “I see someone, what is he doing?”
He gives the camera to the two of them. C takes a look
“Where? Augh! They are moving so fast. They are actually kung fu fighting”
He gives it to Magnet, where he is about to see and hears Flashes voice. “Do you see him? . . .”
Carefully finding that person “. . . I don’t know about you, but he catches my eye”
“Yeah, we need to hurry. I don’t think they are here to rescue us too”
The two gets going, but C and the shield student continue to watch them move. The shield student asks “C, why are the two afraid of a man walking on the battlefield?”
“I don’t know Miyusuki, but I can’t see how we could win against them if they are not”
The rebellions unleashed their magic destroying the area, the building where it kept the captives starting to crumble. C pushes the shield student
“We need to go now, there is no way we could take the chances after what we saw”
After the use of the spell, the rebellions change their traits into negative as they brought back the used-up mana into their control once more. Once fiery and earthly magic reverts to black flames and dusts along with it. The group look at the disaster as if there is no end to use of their abilities. From the survivor who were at the east coast, that sight again brings them the nonsense they have to put up with when they use their own magic. In return, the rebellion used it against them. Magnet takes his deep breath to stop remembering the past and focus on their objective.
The rat men are getting distracted from the threat as they relocate the crystals back into its bag. One unique rat man speaks its demonic tongue, once it finished it proceed to leave the building going through the open street. The rat man gets hit by stray debris as the fight reached its location, its body fell but transfer its spirit to another rat man, it picks up the crystals and continue to escape. It brings along with body guards with specialized weapon on its hand.
Magic weapons formed into a staff with the size of a two-handed battering ram. A flash of light captured them and picks out only to the rat man carrying the crystals, it split them off as the chaos continues. The rat man appeared before them as C tries to suppress it. The rat man’s body imploded as its spirit escape from their grasp, the crystals mend with its ghostly body carried it away. Magnet says to Flashes
“I know this won’t be that easy”
The shield student tries to grab it with his gauntlet, the rat man retaliates as it materialized then swings its tail off from his feet.
C chases him as more horde is coming, the rituals around where they step begin to release magic seals, opening the portal from the ground, releasing more of their vile beasts. Their magic opening the monstrosity hidden from their secret portals, seeing them made them back away and find another way. C is separated among his group as they need to circle around where the rat man won’t escape. The rat men stalled against the other threats were easily taken out. The man walks to the valley and see the ground the seals of the rat men.
He calls out to everyone “I know they are weak for you people, but they are not allowed to hide themselves in our respective city. Take them out or these pests will be the worries of our allies”
They sound the horn as they continue to cleanse their way to the enemies. C hears them coming this way as he is nearing trying to escape and take down the runaway rat man. It threw crystals as he dodges left and right, the shattered crystal pulled back to it as he quickly evades as much of its trickery.
Someone jump into the air and landed closely where they are, fighters are disposing the portals from any monsters coming into this realm. C tries to grab the rat man and its bag, but it implodes itself yet again leaving another escape. The rebellion moves pass by him as he is being surrounded. He readies himself, confused to whom they are allies or not. One fighter confronts him bringing out his spear, a spear head wrapped with a tassel. C says to him
“Who are you people?”
The man responds “. . . I don’t know what are you saying, but I know you can understand me”
The man took the first strike. C evade it in lightning speed. He now knows they are no friendlies as he escapes from the fight. The fighter thrust to where he stood before, tracing his footsteps. When he is about to track him down, the man calls out to him in their Horsin language
“Don’t follow them if they misunderstood. I don’t think their leader would contact about us”
“Pardon, but he didn’t recognize us”
“It doesn’t matter, if he is from Fuku City, follow your orders. We are not yet revealed from the masses yet”
The man later calls out to one of the strong fighters “Ma’am, I know you have your laughs. Would you like to see that rape victim?”
Flashes pointed out to the rat man. “Miyusuki, used the energy to infuse your dagger you did before and aim at it”
“But it’s too far away from me to land a hit”
“Then start shooting, we’re losing its trails and we can’t stay for long in this trapped realm”
The shield student takes aim picks up his daggers fused with his gauntlet, it crystallized and formed into picks. He throws at his target as it dodges every projectile he takes,
“Come on”
The shield student desperately keeps running along the street trying to land a hit. The rat man dodges away as it sees that it is out from the magic seals.
It got hit as it tumbles to the ground, its body is being released where its spirit is out. A flash of light hits it as it mid froze, leaving the crystals open. Another flash of light where Magnet appeared before it, quickly picking its bag and flashes out from its hand. The rat man returned back in motion as it tries to summon its bag. It returns effective into its arms as it opens by itself. What left inside is a camera, as it automatically flashes, the shield student appeared and grabbed its head. The gauntlet absorbs the rat man as it speaks in demonic tongue. It screeches wildly as the magic tries to release but was absorbed.
The gauntlet reaches maximum capacity, the shield student looks at his monocle showing the guidelines how to deal with it. Reviewing it once more as he transfers the energy to full to his shield, he rammed the shield to the gauntlet removing the mana transformer. Leaking out the neutral mana from the rat man. Cycling through the mana out from the rat, to the last drop as the rat man fell to the ground lifeless as with remaining crystals on its grasp. He picks it up, and there it was, the adventurers who were captured.
Losing his gauntlet in the process, the monocle shows more detail what is happening around him. A warning notification appeared as someone is coming his way. All three of his companions being thrown to him, where there’s a warrior in front of them. Flashes told him
“They know, and they are using us to get the crystals”
The shield student looks at the female warrior, holding rune carved bronze staff. She looks at them bewildered as she saw a kid with them, carrying archscience tech. It is damaged but there is another one on his eye.
C reaches out his hand to the shield student, as he is being pulled up and standing in front of her. While the two sits there as Magnet was about to say something, but Flashes shuts his mouth leaving those two going to confront her. The female warrior sees the first time from what she heard about the man being almost rape by another man. He sees through his inner thoughts the mind of his condition. Through her eyes, she can tell how he is now. She squinted her eyes showing a dusk-colored glow as if she is trying look like one their own people showing their powerful presence.
The shield student already thought they are the enemies, whereas C immediately attack in lightning speed. The female warrior quickly blocks his attacks and easily overwhelmed him with only in few moves. She redirects the flow of his electricity to her two finger tips and punches him with her other hand. A strong pulse hit his gut and her finger touches to his chest, in a finger distance, she punches him with his electric abilities into a thunderous blow. He immediately taken out. Leaving her eyes on to the shield student.
The data has been gathered through his monocle as it is hopeless for him to understand what is going on. The female warrior spring in front of him nearly snatching the bag under him. He grabs her arm trying to drain away her mana, but she doesn’t have one, and more like she still uses mana outside instead storing inside of her. The shield student barely trying to hold her arm as she raises him up as he grips on to her. The monocle continues to identify what is going and he said to her as he misread it
“Yung?”
She nods and punches his shield.
He blocks it, but he feels the vibration coming to his shield. She bent control on his shield as she keeps hitting it to no end. Banging it like a bell as sounds of the shield is trying to deflect something. Then he sees something flowing inside of him while she keeps hitting him. She leans closer to his ear and said,
“Your soul is corrupted with mana”
She swings him up the air as he feels his body feeling light and his mind losing conscience. One fell swoop to put him down, a duck doll appeared out nowhere and shields him
“D-u-u-u-ck”
A portal appeared behind them whereas Silfa’s doll pulled them all to the portal. The female warrior tries to destroy their portal but the duck filled with curses flowing through her body. She took a deep breath and quickly removes the shamanistic ritual, once she looks at the portal, they are already left. The man walks towards her as she looks down for a bit.
“Is something wrong?”
“A familiar aura, I don’t know why I hesitated back there”
“I don’t know about your reason but I guess that kid had secrets that neither of us know”
“. . .”
The duck was left behind without a care in the world, trapped in the realm that belongs to the demon. It looks around as the rebellion had dealt the problems. The duck stays whereas the fighters recognized a strong presence. Face to face in the most awkward way, but both sides know their dangerous potentials. One of the fighters warned each other
“A goblin spirit, be careful, there is now way for that spirit to enter this realm beside a horde chief”
. . .
“Psai?”