COI C77
The officials were held an emergency meeting and a special guest to come to this important assembly. The former Mayor’s advisor sits among them as they heard the news. Before it started, they mention about the divide of their own city. Rumors among the police and the reports of the last volunteers sent to them. The locals left the city for their safety from the Jigeram. No preparation against it as they required of getting the resources from Rune Isles. The prototypes are already made better than they have hoped for but the productions are limited to the supplies.
“This is going to be a pain longer that the moon is here”
“We are too late to prepare against it. We can do now to endure like we all did since the beginning”
“The problems that other districts are not too kindly after the new leaderships after the change”
Advisor stops them “They were trying to leave, but they don’t have the details on their UI about it”
“That’s how the idea of staying began. The instruction of the Foundation is as basic as you can get, but it didn’t tell you that anyone could use it here”
“At the same time won’t allow a small margin of people to leave”
The officials are trying to make it work. Slowly more and more people are wanted to stay as this is quite rare for them to experience prosperity and opportunity they have queue up for back in their original world. Other people continue to isolate themselves, but sometimes go outside to help the society. They start to realize their haven requires the utilities they need to keep their daily lives active. The statistics found out from one those NEET no longer need to stay at home where other social groups are making their own version of entertainment.
The advisor can only say this “The only thing we will do now, after the New Year starts. We will have to finalize their decision to leave. Once after the city is finally fortify and the new residences are the locals. This would be enough for us to enjoy a new life as our ideal city state”
Everyone keeps his word as face value and the thing is that the people who helped them told about the Foundation. It means if the leavers left. They can’t use it for the second time. The only solution is to raise the city defenses and hope the robotics project would be finish.
The meeting began and raises the screen to show the special guests. Two unidentifiable people on screen as the officials also hide theirs. The introduction among the two shows their concern of the secret deal.
“I am the representative for Taiyou District, I am pleased to be part of this meeting”
“I am the representative for Fuku City District, I hope this discussion worth of our time here”
The officials await, as the advisor say anything. He held a document something valuable for these two will cooperate. The moon starts to show sign in their city, if it doesn’t stop now then the later days will be the start again of the dark time.
It’s been a few days later after the incident. Heist brought his friends and other adventurers that Haw might know, including others like Rogue. Haw’s girlfriends were not invited to the party as they already know and said,
“Uh yeah, we won’t be joining because we might take Haw away eventually”
“That is sound selfish of us but we are not that kind of social around parties, sorry”
There are other adventurers he didn’t know were invited. He got the words from Rogue as the Agatheans are come along to the party, a farewell party.
Silfa and Altair are thinking to join in, but her sister wants to join because of her teacher won’t be attending their rewards from the other day. She was hesitant at the time until Silfa gets invited who are close to her teacher. It was lucky for her and soon they are preparing for the party tonight. It is close to the weekends and the quest they have is inside the city nowadays. Thanks to Sanquin open up new quests for them and the new trade resources for the first time between Enders Bridge and the city will be planning. It was their luck that they have hidden secrets under their city.
Altair said to Heist. “I don’t know when you get close to that Enders woman, but fell for her?!”
“Hey, I got invited and I heard it will be a cuisine, an entire Horsin cuisine”
“I already enjoy what our city has to offer”
Illtended joins in “Tough luck, but if they are leaving. We could ask them for help. I heard Thean is going to leave as much as his coworker is already packing up”
“Those two, I heard they are really good magic casters”
“That would be different now since the moon is coming by”
“I hope that fort is protecting us from it”
Heist shouts in excitement “Ah Yeah, I can’t wait for tonight”
Siren hears them going to the island. A message from her friend is also invited her to go there. From what she can think of, it’s probably her employees. There is nothing much she could do during this week because of the terror happening because of the moon. She decided to come along as well. The Rogue, who was busy focusing on the sphere, is having training with the Enders. Defeat after defeat as she being easily handled because of her psyche. She wants Thean to teach her more about fighting, but she heard stories from Heist that Enders woman can do martial arts and using magic made her want to go. Two birds in one stone as she thought.
Its close the end of the day, and Silfa is waiting for her younger sister to leave school. Alongside with her is the doll who tame the serpent, it sometimes waits patiently as it stops being like an animal. It becomes like this where there are no other spirits are close to it. It behaves and shows good manner to follow her when it is alone with no other spirits near it. She gained new ritual items from the doll that boost her lower rank weapons. Deceivingly powerful but unpredictable when touched from the rituals, it is her special weapon when go against anyone with the same mana as her.
She checks her device again, a recorded audio that a special farewell event. Horsin’s way of entertainment or another day of staying here. The special audio made from that Enders woman that will help her slide in her equipment. Silfa skips a few minutes of the conversation, and then click play
“. . . Either you would like to try to spar directly with the Enders or try to face the Agatheans or even someone inside the fort. You can experience the meaning of experts”
Silfa heard it again and it was a special message that most locals love to do, fighting.
Listen to the Enders inside the sphere made her wonder why they fight. It was that reason, so many varieties of powers and ranks of tactics used. Enders had great usage of magic items and can interact heavily. Shamanism can’t kill but can capture, and because there are no merciless spirits wanting the lives of others than their race. It still makes her feel afraid if she was a goblin. Then there are the dwarves, rune heavy bunch with armor that they can’t fight against. She heard from the other adventurers it would be better not fight them. Only way to learn how to fight them is request someone who is willing.
Silfa sits there keeping her mind busy until her younger sister saw her.
“Big sis!”
“Joanne . . . huh, who is this?”
“My friends, they want to join the party too”
“Are you now?”
“I know what you are thinking but . . .”
“It looks like an entire class wanting to go”
Silfa can’t help to see her sister’s friends wanted to see their teacher. It was short but it was impactful for them to utilize as a group. Silfa can’t help to see her sister’s eyes gazing on her trying to convince her older sister to bring them along.
Quickly using teleported to the fort, the Horsin had witnessed a group of students piled up like no other. It was like an invasion and everyone look at them as they are excited for something. The others thought it was that demon, and they thought so as Silfa presents them the audio message. They jokingly said
“I thought we are going to have children fighting children”
“Yeah, it is kind of weird of youths wanting to fight us after we prove to them how we hunt those gangs”
“We are the pointers and the screamers, are fame is immense”
The kids laugh as they remember about that in social media. Then they slowly stop laughing. The Horsin moves back as far as the students did. Silfa asks her younger sister.
“Say, why are your friends backing away?”
“There was someone is hiding amongst them back then, severely punishing them who are cocky”
“Joanne . . . manners”
“Sorry, I should ask them what happened to him”
Joanne approached to them as they too confused why her friends are moving away from them.
“Hey, what happened to the trickster?”
The goblin froze a bit and the Agatheans look at him.
They pointed out where should he be, and someone raises a weapon at their back saying
“Right behind you”
They scream and accidentally uses their magic. The goblin and the Agatheans thought they could make a joke, but the surprised encounter as they are still new. They forgot they are other worlders, and it made it complicated. The burning man laughs at their powerful magic. The dwarves appeared behind them seeing much of them being as wild as ever.
“Laugh* You see that lass. They are still violent as ever”
The students almost get into trouble but they saw two familiar elves behind the dwarves.
“Hunters of the north and still need your teacher to control your power”
“It’s the elves we met outside of the city. Why are you here?”
The dwarves laugh and the elves are nervous as they still covered by their magic.
“This place is our embassy, so we are supposed to be here. We’re sorry that we can’t go inside your city”
“No, no, no, . . . It’s fine the lockdown was a great toll for all of us”
A reunion or a special gathering, Silfa is surrounded by dangerous students who want to see Haw again.
Others back her up to her side talking about them.
“It’s been months and still they are not improved. But you have ritual items and I see you have a spirit guardian on your side”
Silfa turns around and there are bunch of people gathered around because of the yell.
“We don’t mind these little bombardments but remember this fort actually shields you from the light”
Silfa checks her exposure and they were right. She has no exposure and the surrounding area has no dusts scattered around the fort.
The students who are exposed had already wiped off the dusts leaving them in a healthy mana. She asked them
“How did you guys protect yourself from the moon?”
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They pointed at the elves “The only possible reason we couldn’t even understand. The elven gods had sheltered us”
“Eleven Gods?”
“That’s what we can say to you as of now. Or you would like to talk those misses”
The elves already getting surrounded by the students, they didn’t wear their armor but more formal gown to their attire. There are a few students didn’t huddle up around them as they are talking among the locals.
“. . . You seem to be less lively, are you a young lad looking for someone?”
“Yeah, I am looking for someone. His name is Haw”
“Well now, I don’t know anybody like that. But I sure know you will be going to find him easily”
“How?”
“I never know how you people know about the gathering and it is a special event . . . Mostly work, but that is the many reasons to be here”
The student watches the dwarf goes his own way and leaving him with the other students are having fun with the elves. Joanne never would have thought to be more people around coming to this fort.
As soon as time goes by, many adventurers saw many citizens coming to this place. Not just adventurers but people in uniforms. Altair reached out to them
“Hey, why is there so many citizens coming here?”
“An adventurer, we were invited to come here before the locals left the city. There is a job opportunity here and some good work within this fort. I can’t explain anything after this, because they look like they are being compact with many activities into one. Then you must be for the festival”
It is the same goes as a party but Altair has no idea why it becomes of this. They explained to him the most practical approached to form a meeting will always have other activities as well. The fort is not even finished but the basic construction is already done and floors are building up. Altair sees across the outside of the fort is the stockade walls already erect outside and behind the view from the city’s watch.
“You could see right there that most of the elves are going after those plot of lands”
“I see, so they are using it as their base”
“It probably is but it looks like they are making a magic portal out of nature”
The adventures see the trees and sentinel creatures rooted inside the stockade. Their own properties and territories, and the others made into a town. It is getting dark. The party lights up at the other side of the fort. Up towards the hill where many authoritarians gathered around along with Sanquin besides them. The adventurers found the Enders as they busy preparing their shares on the table. Haw gets surprised from the students are coming to greet him. The two elves join them as they rejoice of their reunion.
“Teacher Haw, it is really you”
“Yeah, those rewards. Did you guys get it?”
“Yes, and we have no idea how to use it”
They jokingly laugh as Haw had already left the instruction for them. All of the students getting riled up to experience a party being held here. Ironno can’t imagine why these students come or better for his approached, is it that impactful for Haw to give them the rewards? The two elves greet them where Rusic comes in with his keg. He sees the student as he about to slam the keg down.
“Whoa! So many younglings!”
The students got shock from the quake as everyone is coming to greet them.
Andui and her friends saw the students as they reach up to the hill. Coral shouts at the kids
“HEY! Why are you all doing here?”
The students froze as Haw speaks “They wanted to see me or they got invited indirectly”
Joanne and Silfa come up and see something happened. Joanne gets nervous as her sister pushes her to them. Coral feels being pushed from behind and sees Joanne.
“Was it you?”
“Uh”
Coral looks Joanne behind her, an adventurer looks rather mischievous. She quickly realized
“Is that your sister?”
“YES!”
Coral sighs and the elves come and greet them.
“Hello, what is with all the commotion?”
“You four know about these young people”
Reya answered “Yes, and we didn’t know why they are invited. It is a party I guessed”
“Of course, foods and drinks . . .”
“. . . What kind of drinks?”
The elves turn to the dwarves that they already distributing the drinks among them. Coral intervenes
“Stop, they are underage”
The dwarves react “Underage? You mean these people. They look like they can able to drink or too”
Everything starts to get hectic. The students are trying to stop themselves receiving the drinks as the others are having fun. It gets chaotic for a time.
Haw gathers the students while Ironno helps. The students were provided seats in a higher floor to watch down for the upcoming event. Nice view and little company with the other people. The two elves left as they have something important. The students huddle up around to Haw as they are asking about their equipment. One by one of each equipment being place with labels as it called. Rusic bursts out laughing to see each item was translated with longer names. Other people start to notice about the item and supposedly strong items handed to them. They start to grin to think they could hone those things.
The student starts talking “There are items that we cannot even use yet. You can see here the elk staff, the spirit elk, and potion power core . . .”
The locals whisper as they are moving closer to them. Haw let them join as they discuss about it, but first, one of the locals need to re-literate themselves to the student
“We know about those items but they seem to give them a name”
“I am curious how far an Enders give them mysterious items”
“Laugh* Imagine my child to be this old to learn about it . . .”
The locals are looking at the people they suspect, expecting the obvious “. . . Oh don’t be like that. They are still powerful you know”
Haw brings the two items first, the staff and the soul stone, and it already been used and borrowed by Andui. He looks at her as she just stays quiet and instructing him with her sign language. She just raises her thumbs up and waving forward at him while Reya on her side keeps her posture and stared at him confidently. He has no idea what it meant. He continues to show them. Ironno sees the crafting tool left behind as he sees it with Rusic. Both of them and the locals are staring at it with a great price. Rusic said
“I don’t know why Haw made it for them, but I hope no one inside this fort have ill intention with it”
The locals left leaving with only physicians and other potions maker. They know about the item and they are wary of its property.
“To have such powerful tool within the children’s hand . . .”
“We can make any ingredients in a perfect mixture, but they need it”
“Aye, I mean there are no goblins here right now but I’m guessing the kids would make it a worthwhile if they know how to make potions”
“That would make it a problem if they don’t have those people inside”
Rusic tells to Ironno “You hear that lad, even my kins join in . . . lad?”
Ironno walks to the four as they discuss about the magic equipment. Reya shows her worries
“I still want to ask them to take it privately”
Andui shows no trouble of their decision “I have taken my time with Haw’s discussion about it. The only threatening for them to worry if they bring it outside of the city”
“I couldn’t agree more, Ma’am”
“Ironno, it’s been a long time”
“Best regards to your principal for her best decision for both of us”
Iggy cuts him “Oh forget it. We already know how bad Horsin will help the students”
Reya accepts it “Yeah. Those new teachers from other schools have trouble with the students too”
Coral disagrees “You could say that, but my friends had taught them and made them better. The locals even jokingly said; “With academics and these children’s imaginations causing me trouble, I’ll just discipline them with a spirit bird”
She shows them the picture of a lot of troublemakers being held down by spirit birds. A meme still continues to show the comparison with the adventurers and the students. The left post says “I want to be adventurer just like you” The right posts replies “That’s my boy” They start laughing a bit as they start to get used to about the meme but Iggy and Coral still have a good laugh.
“Oh, sister look”
“I see him. Hunter, you brought our kind’s items. Both of it seem to look rough”
Two elves come back as they brought people will be serving the food. The students bring the magic item to them.
“Then do you know how to use it?”
The elves look at Haw as they saw what they bring and ask
“Druid items, which one of you are the druid?”
None of them raised their hands, they just want to know how to use it. They pick it up both of them, she lifts the staff in one hand. The students had tried to pick it up ans it was too heavy, thanks to the elven presence of the staff. It made them impossible to raise it up.
Haw said to the elves “They want you two to use it. I made it to utilize for everyone, but it has more effect on elven magic”
“You made it? This staff does have nothing I can control. Alright, let’s show them sister”
“We should make this quick. The party is almost starting”
The students circle around them, the locals see them having their little social circle as they prepared the dishes. All set in almost entirely Horsin cuisines and unique dishes that the ingredients are from Isekai City. The adventurers are too gathered up as Silfa’s friends are watching.
The elf raises the staff, the large staff that needed two hands to wield it, her magic surges inside of it and begins to transform to her depicted reference. Its wooden frames tear itself apart that fit only one hand and the skull faded its excess weight into dust. She held it again with the better-looking staff where the bits and pieces floating around her. It dusts and pieces cast to Haw, a spell being cast and pulled Haw to her. His body turns to a silhouette of light in its yellow glow and flashes forward to her side. The wooden pieces place on the ground starts to grow as he should be sitting.
The other elf uses the soulstone, through elven magic, the elk spirit materializes as it is revived from its dead slumber. Its presence roared as everyone heard from the distance. Everyone feels the pride of the alpha elk spirit. One of the authorities quickly shuts it. By the voice of this elf, no hesitation and no mistake, she shouts at the spirit as it was not yet fully summoned
“HEED!”
A large wave come across all around her then burst forward as everyone in this fort can see. The students felt the sudden pause as their bodies can’t move.
The adventurers stop including every local around the authorities. Sanquin walks to them as she sees they brought powerful items to the party.
“You all are having fun. Please elves. Your leader is going to be the host, not your Mylnoie”
“My pardon to her, but they wish to dare to have such weapons”
“Weapons?”
She looks at Haw who is beside the elf with the staff. Powerful indeed to only the elf used, but she senses other magic attributes. Fully made by an Enders’ Guide, the authorities release them from their authority.
Everyone broke free and was relief, they never seen their rewards have potential. Soon they turn to frown when Haw said to them that the elves have the major impact because of the beast. However, he told them that the other items would be great for them. Joanne honestly said to him
“Yeah, well, we want you comeback as our teacher again and we use few of the items as our excuse”
Sanquin laughs, and the students see her beautifully in an elven light brown dress.
“You can, but he is very busy. He is still looking for recruits”
One of the students heard her, he slowly raising his voice . . . but the announcement was heard at the back.
“Alright, alright, all of you dine now as my special game should be ready. Bring up the foods and drinks, but not those who will carry the games” Everyone cheers as well as the adventurers. Sanquin moves to Heist and pulled him to her side, she whispers to his ears with her sweet voice
“Now let’s dig in, I hope these distractions won’t be trouble at our talk”
“No! . . . no . . .”
He grabs her waist trying to woe her as she in turn gives a teasing look with her cosmetic glasses on.
“. . . They don’t mind”
Both of them go to the buffet table while the adventurers were annoyed of their intrusion.
The rogue just shakes her head “I hope that chick will dump him after this”
Ruby couldn’t agree more “Ethical woman is wasting her time on him. Altair, you have her description, right?”
“Yeah, that woman is a respectable lady. She gives him a chance like anyone who tried to woe her”
The rogue asks “How do you know?”
“Because my trait that is compatible with divine attributes and that lady acting flirtatious has manners to be charming”
Altair watches her as he sees the stats about her, trusted only to the same attribute. Yet there are other blank slots that she won’t reveal.
Sanquin feels the same attribute is near and as her witness. It is beneficial for her as her hidden attributes are more dangerous than what they expect. Everyone takes their seats and get their meals. The adventurers brought their Aphrodite’s glass and drank it down. The Agatheans who knew about the drink lay their eyes on the women. Nothing is safe for the buffet as those women acting like dwarves because of it. While the authorities watch over them as if they are invited to the next event, the citizens saw them are doubting for them joining. The dwarf leader had enough of the discussion and proceeded to go to the citizens.
The students coordinate one another to get all the foods they could find, from monsters’ meat to elven domestic livestock, it is the first time they taste real strong meal beside sweets and other healthy foods back in the city. The boys get their meal with their magic and stats up to feast such delicacies while the girls transform it into edible form that fits their mouth without getting messy on their faces. Rusic sees the woman acting too concern of their food manners. The goblins who are at the side of the room are delivering the drinks. Rusic stops them as they heard about their rules.
The goblins look at the keg then stared at the dwarf. They nodded and proceed to leave. Rusic goes back to his table raising his own drinks on his own. Ironno and Haw raised theirs then they stare something behind him as he looks back. Goblins’ spirit appeared among the goblin ready to deliver the kegs to the students. Rusic bluffs himself with a smile. He readies to jump as they are ready to throw it at them. The spirit turned into a catapult and ready to aim as the goblin is steadying their aim. Rusic is drunk and forgot goblins are committed to do things not exactly what everyone expected.
The keg was thrown and Rusic tipsy jumping to the air. The jump trips him and the keg landed on the students’ table. One after the other every table has a keg. The students were surprised and the keg opens up by the spirits inside, they had their empty glass filled with drinks. The adventurers and other adults looking at the distance were reaching out to the drinks to see what is wrong with the goblins are doing. The students take a small sip out of curiosity sakes. Then the taste hits them but no alcohol within that drink.
Silfa takes her younger sister’s glass and drank it too, other adventurers had identified the drinks and didn’t react as the keg breaks and distributed to the students. She tastes it and drank it whole. Joanne looks rather bleak from her sister’s acting selfishly.
“Why did you drink it all?”
Silfa hands up the glass and the spirit added another one, she gives it to her, and said,
“It’s fine, this drink won’t make you drunk but feels like you’re drinking warm milk”
Joanne takes her glass off of her older sister’s hand, the disgusting lips touch her glass and use the table cloth to wipe it off.
Silfa smirks at her as Joanne smiles back with her eyes glaring. Two siblings look at each other as Joanne takes a sip, then she immediately drinks it like her older sister did.
“This taste so good, it is sweet and refreshing”
“I know right, and the glass you are holding and the other students’ will be the one going to fill with that beverage”
Joanne laughs at her sister “Then this drink can’t be yours, laugh*”
She laughs without thinking as both of them enjoying it.
Rusic acts all dramatic as he drunkenly thinks they are drinking alcohol and so are the Andui and the others, later they found out is not an alcohol beverage and it was another goblin foolery. Yet the drunkard persists and the goblins play with him, the students’ table are getting crazy while Haw and Ironno watch them fool around with no question ask as the elf sisters joining the students’ table. It is fun when everything is gone too funny with their fights.
That reminds Silfa, she turns to Sanquin who is busy have a chat with Heist. A shared table, a grievous look among her friends that they already tell them to have couple’s table instead, but Sanquin persuade him too easily. The Rogue from the different table couldn’t lay her eavesdropping ears keep leaning close to them. Silfa murmured to herself
“Where is that fight Sanquin mentioned about? Or am I expecting too much from the audio invitation . . .!”
The cheer of the dwarf leader raises high to his voice, the sounds of the music played from the top has gone serious. The tones of battle, the drums of marches, and the horns calling through the guests or intentional event to come.
“Raise your arms to your friends’ shoulders or fist to their sides . . . Uh, forget about honorable duels or brawls, we are just going to make this fight quick and easy. We are not allowed to bring guest to our brawls sadly. Everyone, gathered around and fight as we always feast for!”
The citizens heard the leader’s announcement and witness Horsin’s culture.