COI C144
Dark Green Dot gangs were secretly entered the center high rise building of Fuku City. Kyra and Umf were the messengers to go there with a special magic gem. Feeling awkward, how they entered the building like they are VIPs. Umf keeps mentioning to themselves for only to relief in their heads
“. . . As long as our apartment survives in the next future siege, we have to do this before those monsters come back again”
“Umf! Stop it, just go home and rest. I can do this myself”
“But this place is the center hub for future tech companies. I must go with you and see what is like”
As the door opened, the two girls entered the office of the cult leader. The looks of his eyes strict, giving the two a bad expression. He needs help to deal with the rumors that Digidreamhak16 told him about. A virus that is more than just ruining someone’s computer but the whole internet network. What else of his connections lie holding by these two girls from the rebellion.
“I have no time for you two, please bring me the item”
It would be easy for them to delivered the item instead bringing here personally, but the rebellion is too suspicious to put their trust who is outside of their supposed gang, and so the errand girls existed. Everything is done by them, mysteriously, they are the best of delivering sensitive information. He hardly believed it.
Kyra brings out the gem, and gives it to him hand to hand. She accidentally drops it but reappears to her hand. The cult leader sees why, the strict magic hidden by the rebellion as if it binds together. He touches the gem, and his mind went inside of it where the covered man appeared in his vision. No words to speak but the vision of activities had done. An object revealed, a jade like stone, specialize as if it was a special seed. It shows a tremendous secret how it is being used, a seal that can trapped the demon and more.
Kyra backs away as the gem shines and blinds herself away. “Sorry, Sir, the gem wasn’t supposed to do that”
“There is no need . . .”
“Huh?”
Umf comforted her “It’s alright, Kyra, look like they already done their meeting”
Kyra leans to Umf’s ears “I just don’t get it why it always happened that way. Those guys should explain to us what’s going on”
“We already agreed that we shouldn’t know as far as we know. I don’t want to be involved with people in our city, they are more annoying when they found out about the real us”
The cult leader calls them out “Is there a reason for you two to stay here longer? You can go now. I have what I needed”
The two girls left, leaving him alone as his staff waited from the corner of the room by the door. “Sir, are we ready to proceed to the next plan?”
“Fill up the rest of the plan as I need to work with my friends’ gift”
The staff bow and they left the room. Where he held his hand with the item given to him from touching the gem. He can’t wait to try this secret item made by the Circoston region. The expectation will be hard for him to plan against the demon, this is the first time he had to face it inside the internet. Hearing that the Dexter Guild is involved, he didn’t want to make more enemies than the threats that his people already had.
Now it happens. He stands and watch for the first seal to trap the demon. The ritual scepter had done its work to weaken it, the scourge in dust is already mudding the pixel into solid dirt. As the scepter fell on the ground it reverts back to digital state then being pulled into the small memory chip. Its unmotivated eyes look at him, where it is able to learn to speak their language. Two other gang leaders come forth to hear what it said to him.
“How lucky for you and the rest of your summoned civilization survived by my enemies’ trap, beware your people’s dying future. You will all see”
The cult leader sees it being merged with the memory chip, then he places it on the jade stone. Phases it through it into the center of the jade, the Circoston’s presence of the seal. The demon realize how it was being sealed as a loud scream of realization. The yell was too soft as it sounds like whispering wails
“Traitors!”
Over and over again, the gang leaders react
“What’s that demon said really mean?”
“I don’t know, but I sure do know what I am worried next”
The virus finally ends and brought the first victory. The two troopers are showing their body armor melted and dented by the touch of the virus. Still able to move, and already picking up the things they used and also the scraps from the magic prism tank. Teleporting it out from the realm. The robot can’t describe what it is seeing after that. It supposed to use it, but it seems that they have the alternatives to beat it. Considering much of how they able to handle it without any losses.
Still rolling its head as its eye staring at the two, knowing too well what is going to happen. Meanwhile the cult leader needs a word with them. “I don’t know how do you two entered here, but I thank you for helping us to resolve this . . . crisis”
“Certainly . . .”
The gang leaders thought otherwise “That’s it, those guys able to almost beat until the virus spread. What’s happening out there?”
X2L first listens to the transmissions from his guild. Their time is short and gives him a memory, a message. McS4 also receives the transmission as he need to get to move one quickly before it happens.
The two look at him with their provocative helmet, the way its shielded visor lens in sharp stares, and the mouth breather lowers to their chin exhaling dust from the fight. Different designs to compare an energy power armor and the heavy plated armor, and both armors share the same logo. The rumored skull with wings were not found, but there is a guild seal as it can interact. A sharp drawn design at the edges with straight lines with no curves from its entirety, and only resemblance in Horsin character language.
The moment of silent, keeps the cult leader tolerated due to their eyes focusing on him. The gang leaders raise their voices, but he stops them. Gripping on the sealed object containing the demon itself, he expected they wanted it back. It wasn’t the case, X2L gives him something.
“Here, this memory chip will help you decide. Our leader had sent you a message, a day before dealing with the threat”
The gang leaders reacted “What do you mean? It all happened just one day. How?”
“I don’t think we should ask anymore. Look!”
The realm is now fully reverting back inside the internet. The Fuku adventurers and the rest of the debris of automatons are experiencing harsh conditions as they feel a strange mana pressure and the body couldn’t resist the small electric shock surging through their heads. The cult leader sees his elven wind magic is being siphon out to the portal, already addressing the returning state of the internet. He didn’t say a word as he looks down where the AI still rolling around. Then he looks up as he clearly sees that they already gone, leaving a buffering icon before him.
Secretly, he uses his telepathy on them. They give him the small slight information how to use their memory chip. Already in in one hand holding two objects, the memory chip inside the jade stone and the other memory chip leaving a message. The cult leader can finally understand what’s going on and the action he takes will probably good enough to stop their first opposing threat. Stepping out to the portal as many going out from the sheer pain with their physical bodies were being harmed in the internet.
One of the hackers shout out his team “I thought we can enter the internet without this problem”
“You idiot, you should know that the neutral zone is not ours. We didn’t add the software to protect us from the hazard from the digital space”
“How is it differed from the one we got through our first test?”
“When we entered the corrupted file where we found the virus. You dumb fuck, why can’t any of you not trying to figure things out”
Digidreamhak16 is the one answering the idiot’s question, as he witnessed the survival of their own people, he starts to doubt on the people who were involved in this.
Out from the portal as he looks at the building’s interiors. The breeze of the strong magical man-made wind as he sees the city barrier through the wide opened gap of the destroyed structure, different number of floors wide open with a massive hole to see the building’s magic barrier. The eyes of the Fuku adventurers both shock and relief. When those large automatons fire a ray of beam and the devastating magic circuit, somehow, made it through the portal and show the demonstration of how destructive it will be when let out.
The staff were gone, except for the entrusted groups coming from the different companies around Fuku City. One brave fool made it here to see the damages. Both afraid at the same time frustrated from what happened. This man is an investor and one of the executives represented for this building. Now seeing all into a devastated example like the ruins in the northern part of Mihayara district. He can’t even speak his complaints as the sight of the building still lingers the old presence of the virus.
In his thoughts “All of this damage, for a web development. I just can’t, what in the world I live in? Still”
He looks at the Fuku adventurers showing the same expression as he is. The destruction was really bad as they need to find a way to go down. The building has special rune materials to kept it standing, as they don’t know that this building was transitioning since the time where the trade routes by train made it here. The magic they pull through to make this into a safe haven and sanctuary for both Fuku City high prestige communities and the defectors as guards.
He waited for him, as they pass by and see already his clothes showing the importance that they shouldn’t messed with. Flashes and Miss’s groups made it out, as they see the man. Miss used her magic to tap everyone to be cautious. Along with people they know, they use magic to leave his place fast, but it didn’t work. Traces of the virus are ruining their powers. They reluctantly walk pass him, as the guy’s nervous face waiting for the cult leader to arrive from the portal. Held their tolerance to any signs of him bad mouthing them like they expected.
The executive acting professional, yet hesitating to confront the defectors with news about them able to take down the demon. He tries to reach out to them to give thanks.
“I ah . . . thank you”
His thanks were too soft for them to hear, as they ignore him and move on as the others are injured as their clothes and armors already giving away in torn, scratches, and even flat out destroyed. Others also washed in smelly sea water and oils. The feeling of they walked out from a sewer, yet, they grin. They carry in their inventory are the loots from the automatons.
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The cult leader steps out from the portal with the two gang leaders, raising his hand holding the jade stone as it emits aura of the static electrical red light. The object went wild as it finally set out from the internet. The last presence it has soon faded leaving others who witness it give chills by the sheer influence still festering around the destruction of this place. The investor couldn’t believe that small thing is the threat, then he remembered this must be the seal that he mentioned about. He corrected his posture and the people who is with him giving him the signal to go.
“It’s time, sir”
“Great, I finally need to know everything what’s going on here”
The cult leader sees the man who lend this establishment before him. The floor is showing so much destruction as it still able to hold from the attack. He then smiles how the facility is already filling up the holes with platforms controlled by runes. The rest though, with magic, still corrupted by the virus. There are other runes able to resist it and a few shamanistic magic along forming platforms because of the powerful magic happened here.
The investor sees his face being proud as he reaches out his hand. “Fuku City’s representative, Bokushi Hidari, I must say you just made, fix, and end the problem in a single day”
“Executive, will you mind to say your name?”
“No need, I don’t want the demon to know my name even it is fake and made up. You clearly heard the stories of the people who brought back under your recommendation. Or do you forgotten the first person who was possessed by them since the beginning?”
“I can’t say much, for I able to defeat it and banish it inside this jade stone”
The jade stone kept it sealed as the sign of death for the demon. The investor still couldn’t believe he had done that, to see people outside of the portal showing no signs of death after that strange beam coming out from the portal. Destroying the exterior as the barrier barely hold on and consumed a third of the city barrier’s energy. Luckily, no one gets hurt inside nor outside of the building. It will be trouble if the other districts found out about this. He still looking at it and he hears a whisper.
“Traitor!”
They move into his office, to the upper floor, the cult leader has sensed his surroundings as they slowly moving upward in the elevator. Losing the presence of the virus and the after effects of the beam, he gives sigh in relief as he remembers Digidreamhak16’s action to bring the Dexter Guild sooner. The investor noticed
“Are you relieved because it is over?”
“I am, not for the people who joined me but this very facility is safe. This place should’ve fall, if it continues. Smirk*”
The investor shows his concern and disappointment “I guess they are not important to you, and I thought you were one of them”
It wasn’t the case at all. If the building fall, all the secret projects underdeveloped will collapse by the attack. All he had gathered will be gone for nothing. The defectors are experienced and know how to survive, even harder than he had read their minds before the virus kicks in. The elven wind gives boost, and the scepter they brought harness so much powerful demonic magic use caused the scourging spirit to appear. Maddening to see how it can’t see the living, but the presence of powers, it’ll find and guide it to it.
Holding on to the jade stone, along with the memory chip. It seems his UI returns as he finally put it into his inventory. He answers his question “Not at all, they are all well prepared since the beginning. The plan to use this building as the example. We shouldn’t make it worse, should we?”
The investor tilts, but didn’t say anything. His expression is already showing the vibe of hostility because of him giving the building to the cult leader for investment reasons. Destroying it as joke is too much for the investor.
As they made into his office, the investor sees the panels already setting up with the cult leader’s UI. The images show the threats he had face and the people who are involved showing signs of injury with no deaths. It wasn’t the usual injury, but dangerous actions take place when the demon is attacking with its minions. The investor reacts
“A demon with its robot army. What kind of enemies are you facing inside the portal?”
“You’re facing a demon, not a boss you expect in videogames”
“That’s it, this is clearly what you see in a random video game”
The investor’s eyes opened wide as there are two people, Enders, who joined and helped the fight. No words coming out from his mouth as the fight was too intense for him to see how it goes. He finally opens up as he looks at the last page of the images.
“All of that to control the internet”
The cult leader laughs “Do you want the demon control it?”
“No! How in the hell it comes to this? And you! Able to stop it with every possible moment while being saved by those two Enders at the right possible moments”
The two exchanges the discussions. The first priority is what to do with the Enders who are fighting to control the internet. The cult leader is trying to play neutral since they have proven themselves showing the example of the hackers stealing their files with the computer virus, lead to them able to come back with an iron fist, then finally ends it by destroying the virus altogether leaving him with the jade stone at hand. A recognition like this needs to be explained, and he still don’t know if they succeeded to take their revenge. However, the investor thought otherwise.
“It is better to discuss about it with the rest of us this weekend. I see what you did and everything that is happening so fast, this doesn’t mean our suspicion to go away because it all happened under a day. You can’t trick us nor will the people you have exprienced this situation under your leadership. Still, I thanked you for saving this building. We don’t want the public to know that we are the one who summoned the demon in the first place. I’ll see you in the couple of days”
The investor was about to leave and the cult leader tells him a joke “Have you forgotten that I am the cult leader?”
He twitches his hand as he leaves. They called him cult leader because his first took power with the people who were secretly organized to side with the demons. He quelled them so fast as he able to show them his prowess and broke the connections with other demons hidden inside the city. They already know most demonic activities are happening inside this very part of the city. Those demons though are lesser. As the real ones hid somewhere else not to be seen under Lady Hivites’ watch.
The staff comes in and announces someone is here. “Sir, one of the web developers is here to see you. He had a strange robot eye hanging on his arm. Is it necessary to see him carrying it like that?”
The cult leader is expecting to bring it along as they are about to see the truth. Because, from what he heard from the hacker. It should be easy to have a serious conversation for a change. If the hacker lies, then he will personally entertain him for giving him the false anticipation.
Digidreamhak16 carries the robot. The robot is acting casually, looking at someone like a dog as it stares death. Remained quiet, it moves around freely where he is hanging it, then it turns to see the cult leader. Still showing an angry expression, then quickly turns to realization. The robot returned back to its angry expression at the hacker. The cult leader watches the two awkwardly menacing eye to eye from the robot and the worried look from the hacker.
The hacker speaks out first “I follow you have told me back inside the realm. This robot you mention is actually from Dexter Guild. Sigh* I can feel something happening behind my head”
The robot nods with a pleasing expression. The cult leader uses his telepathy on him as the hacker’s back of his head showing signs of deterioration.
“I can fill it, and this is no magic. Something inside me is trying to force my body to slow down. What will happen to me?”
The hacker places the robot on the table as it looks at the man who defeated the demon.
The robot is showing its admittance “Now I can see how you beat the demon. Nice place you have here. Oh, there are panels of you guys fighting the demon. (Nervously) laughing* Ok, what do you have in mind for me?”
The cult leader pulls out the Dexter Guild’s memory chip and places near it. “I want to see what they are truly after. If you mind to go straight to the point, because I want to honor someone before it is over”
The robot turns around as it looks at him, feeling down. Trying to act remorse, but respects due to the victor in front of it.
It admitted again “Fine, but I want a favor in return”
“How so?”
Both of them giving such intense impressions as neither of them going to waste their time. The hacker stands there as something coming from the panels. The logo from the Dexter Guild appeared. In colors shown in black in bold and green outlines, while there is just full green colored bold text. The cult leader sees the chip is in used, like it is connected through signal waves. The robot without to do anything sending the transmission for the memory chip then directly sending it to his UI unnoticed. Something inside of its systems able to go through his personal UIs.
Losing its moody persona, it answered him directly “Everything that had happened in that realm. No one will know about it, I mean, about the time how we save you guys. Treated it like what you are about to see seriously”
It looks at it trying to roll around to see. The cult leader picks it up and the furniture appeared with the hacker coincidentally sits down when it appears on his feet. The cult leader said to the hacker.
“I know I won’t let you see this, and I know your situation. Why not see it for yourself before it happens to you?”
“Ye-s-s”
The hacker didn’t say much as he expected that he will not going to live long. The inevitable fate he is in.
The screen opens up and continue to load as it is still not ready to play. The room starts changing as it hid secretly in private. Closing all leaks and gaps from what is happening inside the office, where the cult leader sat and pulled the robot to the other chair. The robot turns around not saying a word. The annoying expression leaves it to its devices on screen. The Dexter Guild, and the screen shows the face of their leader. Announcing from the video as it plays.
“Presenting Lady Coheld, the Archscientist of Dexter Guild . . .”
A woman showing nothing in uniform like the rest of the Dexter Guild, she wears a more modern Horsin formal dress like what high class individual representative as. Long red hair, even her eyes are red as crimson. The hacker was stunned by her beauty and also being a young leader to the most formidable group that the city had witnessed. The video plays out the history of the demon. While she voices out the details, “Code Red, a notorious demon influenced by the sheer idea to enter the world of cyberspace as its realm. Before the Fall era, data filled with preserve knowledge of adaptive technology that my guild had long for”
The panel shows the tech used from all the surviving files it holds. Different version for every race, but there are no images about the elves. The video skips through as it reaches the demon’s demise. “Contained inside our own servers, our departments were not able to further their research thanks to the harsh delay in internet speed. The impossibility of the computer virus is at large. They decided to make it as a weapon, a defense, and more dangerously, a counter measure who dares to enter their server”
“My predecessors took years as our leaderships last only project at the time, when it is done, the successor will take their place when the new project begins. One predecessor to the other to complete the procedures to fight against their threats in their limited cyberspace functionality. It is clearly succeeded well. Now where I see that you people were involved and predictably going through the phases for the virus sooner than it fully matures. You have already seen the signs of the virus to be a demon. Thankfully, it was planned since the start”
“The first priority as leader, is to conclude the situation as I followed the old rules of principles of my guild. You already know your people take the virus from us, restoring all the systems and proceed what my predecessor had followed. One among of my predecessors have thought the civilization will return and probably dumb enough to retrieve it. The same predecessor accomplishes the next plan even after his/her death. You already know what’s happening to your ‘adventurers’”
The hacker gulps down his throat as his condition is already sticking inside his head. It was the inevitable when the robot screams when it tries to attack the demon. Both reactions were followed, sudden jolt of their bodies start to tilt, and he feels a strong mental break while the demon fully froze up as it stays to the ground. The cult leader had seen it, and clearly something is wrong to those hackers who entered the servers of the Enders Bridge. A symptom that is triggered in the brain. It made himself questioned how they did it.
“I can speculate what you have in mind. How we able to mentally rig their heads to implode when interacted with the virus. I’d say the cure is where the demon knows. That should be your only clue if they wish to be saved. Then be enslaved later to the virus as they are still trapped from the mind rig. Same goes to ours, when my guild members able to go through your cyberspace’s public communication networks. I never imagined how delusional they are. I thought it would difficult to fool a fool. I guess I forgot the fools’ first time inside the cyberworld”
“The cyberworld was just a diversion. Because of the contract, your people were not experiencing any data surge or any hostile attacks in your cyberspace. If it did, to where they both fight will lose all of its existence and its structure. Destroying the server is the obvious solution for us to retrieve it through its grasp to escape. Be glad that contract helps you not experiencing our version of cyberattacks, and would probably be worse to the invaders too if we used the demon’s power inside their heads”
“There is one last thing, from how my guild members and their expertise able to go through to your city is just the superiority in my side. About those invaders, I expect someone in my guild is with you. To make sure we shouldn’t meet again in secret, that single entity will be watching over. Yet, try to ask about it after this video or even this discussion matter. They have time to live until the unnoticeable demise. I am sure you can replace them as they are gone from their own bodies”
The cult leader can’t believe that his plan was not hers. It was the previous leader’s plan. It still worked in the end. Showing much careful thinking and predicting what comes next, they were able to infiltrate with ease and the deception of their server to be slowed, but the actuality is that the virus is the one they kept it sealed to slow down purposely and used it as a security measure. A demon sealed inside Enders Bridge. How many demons are there being sealed off? He thinks again, What about the hackers’ fate? It would be troublesome to see them dead suddenly out of the open.
The robot complains “Grumble* Archscientists, they always making it so complicated to answer”
The cult leader agrees “I get it what you mean, what did they truly planning in the first place?”
“To make it simpler; She just didn’t do anything. It was the predecessor, and what do you expect a good player without a recorder. She just let the music plays and all that is happening played by the its own self recording. The virus was used as a trap, just to expect any recovering civilization to get it. Next, tracked them down and take their data base, then removed the virus when it is done. So far, it all makes sense for me to tell you to ‘No one will know about it’. You were played by the very old countermeasures”
The next scene is the predicted video “I’ll be sure, to have business with your people in the near future. You have our special AI, and it told you something regretful. But it is business with criminal to criminal after all. Still, you have your demon, I expect that your friends know how to abuse it too . . . Criminal”
Short claims coming from the archscientist. The hacker stood by hearing and seeing everything what is happening on the video. He was shocked that he didn’t know how advanced they were and used the virus to someday to find someone else to get their hands on the data.
The cult leader brings out his device and tells the hacker. Honoring what is going to happen to him. “You have done so much to save the business and the people who are involved. I will provide what time left for you to the day when your body gives in. And one last thing”
He placed his device with a recorder and said “Say your last words when the day I’ll be able bring our people home”
Digidreamhak16, the man who forced himself to realize this situation. Nothing else for him to live for as he is willing to die and save the others, he truly dears. In reality, he is afraid
“Then, can you help me in the afterlife?”