COI C2
Daygen and the others finished their talk and lead to a conclusion between them.
"Alright, we are only allowed a few of your members of your guild to stay in the city. Gordon, is there any objections?"
Gordon never cooperated with Daygen's offer and continue to pester
"They should have been supervised, remember the last few cases where their people start plotting and did worse than we thought?"
One of the members honestly responds
"True, as long as your people did the same to us"
"Like what?"
"Explosions and fires coming from the forest in the east coast"
Gordon stops and remembers his companions did something near the towns back then. The fire had caused a lot of problems where the smoke reached to the mountain tops and the city in Mountaiwall being fog by dense smoke. It was a miracle for them that the dwarves and the goblins forgave them for it.
"Please, be civilized here, and Gordon, don't try to be rude where we finally have a guild to actually have interest in our city"
The guild member speaks to Daygen
"Daygen, we already have the proposition by them. I think it will be enough for us to leave before our Lord changes his mind first"
One of Gordon's companions heard him
"Wait? I thought you enter this city on your own"
Daygen answered discreetly
"Lord Lori'es Quoatel will meet us eventually, since we made arrangements when coming here"
Gordon was shock along with his companions. "So, then our conversation before was useless from the start"
Daygen would say otherwise but
"Even you don't believe us, but he had proven what he did within our city. Let just say we have some differences"
Gordon's companions were not convinced what he claimed, and sure enough as they are the only guild came here from Enders Bridge.
"We have enough, if they said it then there is nothing to do business but their Lord. There is no longer having this discussion. Goodbye"
Gordon seemed to be not too happy from the exchange between him and Daygen. It was rush, and this special arrangement was brought by them in the first place. Gordon’s companions tell to Daygen as they about to leave
“If anything happened, please don’t hesitate to request the city guild for quests as usual”
After that meeting, they move on.
Closely to midnight, as one of the members raised her hand to use some kind of magic to the air. On that bright night where people even didn't see the guild’s flare, by some magics where the guild member can only see it from afar. This sad motivation of him to go there by foot. Where this guild member is having interest of the change happened to the city or the distance he must travel to get through there normally.
A guild member of Raker Mawn witnessed the flare who was now in deep within the border. Far and wide such a sight of a city a blazing with countless of people passing through many sorts of machines to nearly no end of passing pedestrians. Passing only a few districts he had seen, the most popularize one was one from the side of the residences that he can't read. It's like a public market but has more exotic he could ever know from any of the city states. The most unique form of materials to them are so called electronics and entertainment . . . things. A curious remark, luckily more of them to be around in this district.
He had witness rather peculiar, he had found a strange building before reaching to the border. Once night grew darker, the building grew louder. Seeing a strange phenomenon whereas the sounds itself glows light in the passing hour. Only his hearing of those guards commenting about power, but this power does not match in his head. It only gives light, and above all else brightens the city. Even brighter than the moonlight homes in Eldesune lands, all that is matter for him are the suspicions and words they have spoken to them prove controversial to him, and seeing the city being different that once told as a dark city maze for the explorers of Horsin.
Announcement upheld within the city.
"A few weeks in total darkness with only our personal devices gives light with limited batteries, thanks to the effort in our city with the help by our neighbors. We are proud to announce that the public is in the final hour of our dark days into back on our old lives . . . with a big improvement"
The public cheers where something happened. Locals know nothing even for him, where the city itself echoes throughout many reliefs in their community. They have restored what the city had lost while the locals only admired it by seeing the civilization of these people.
The Raker Mawn member starts to open some of his potions from his inventory, pulling out some other kind of concoctions seen by the passerby. He attracted some of them and the other locals.
"Hey, what are you doing?"
He turns his head where other locals he didn't recognize
"I'll be on my way"
"Why not using the bus or teleport there? What’s with that strange glass"
The guildmember paused a bit and the meantime preparing his potions.
"I'll just going to do my way"
"What?"
The guildmember starts running to his guild, while the people stared at him strangely, where some troublemakers followed him along the way.
He ran as the others followed, he ignored them then passed through tight pathways in every alleyway. Until he was blocked by some gangs. The guildmember saw only some young adults with different styles of clothing that he didn't want to understand
"Hey mister, why are you running?"
He just stared at them with his face exposed by the light they cast out.
"Oh, a shy guy huh. We only want to know of what you were doing with those bottles"
The guildmember was willing to comply but his curiosity was acting up negatively
"Ok? what do you want?"
"Steal!"
A skill was cast out by one of the gangs. He felt his belt was gone.
"Well, well, well, what do we have here? Potions? Mister you have some nice collection here"
The guildmember remained calm as he reached the remaining potions he had, a web like silk somewhere wrap around his waist as the gangs search along his belt.
"These potions are sh*t, and none of them are both healing or mana. Are you people on this world really that weak"
The gang starts throwing each of the potions to the ground, while the rest are having fun of the show. The guildmember kept his face straight where the potions he has were not known to them, making him more careful than he used to. His main focus was to return to the guild while these gangs being to be high and mighty with their numbers and more.
Where every last potion contained by his belt have all thrown and broken open as the spilled liquid from it started to vaporized, it starts to release a strange reaction to the people around them. Then the gangs started to extort him
"Ok man, seems like you don't have anything useful. How about hand over anything you have and we might spare you. ok?"
The gangs surrounded him while the others outside are hiding. The guildmember stood there as something about himself, while the gangs scanned for any kind of powers he had and also the stats and abilities. They started laughing and shout out his skills.
"This guy is only level 20 and has only bugs extermination and other survival skills".
Hearing from them, the guildmember started to learn a little a bit about them. They didn't notice any ghost signs or any other what they can find. The gangs’ ego grew more than what he expected, and nothing for them or him to achieve from each other. The guildmember started to run away, while he runs back, he did a deceivable act. His previous potions he drank while he runs, his body is morphing close to a dark smoking creature. The gangs noticed his changes and began to seal him with stasis
"Something not right, get him"
The guildmember exposed by their light where his face started shrouded by dark smoke or shadow, and their initiation made it swiftly.
A sudden cast below him as he paused where the others raised their own weapons or magic pointed at him.
"Damn, he surprised me. But he is still weaker like the rest of those people"
"Yeah, and I thought . . ."
A sudden turn coming as the body of the guildmember didn't move, somewhere outside the ring that anonymous figure coming from the dark. Felt both cold and dimming as it touches.
"Magic? You said he didn't have mana"
The others confronted it with lights to spot it, but one after the other from the outside the gangs hid behind them lose sight of them.
"What's going on?"
The gangs can't figure out and tried to confront the stasis guildmember.
They hit him vigorously as they think it was him, but the hidden figure kept luring and their gangs, one after the other, have didn't realize what happened. Lights and search magic spread in with no identification of what it is.
"We need to figure it out before AAAH!"
The gang who casted the magic on the guildmember, where his feet sank and drag back and down to the ground. Witnessing him trying to scream but the dark shroud covered his mouth as soon as he tried to break out from this phenomenon. The female gang members saw him slowly sinking in below, where the others realized as the magic field started to waver. The guildmember breaks out and took back his belt.
The guildmember managed to take it from him and began to flee, and the shrouds followed him with the gangs' voices shouting from the ground "HELP! SAVE US! CALL FOR HELP!". The remaining gangs couldn't understand what they saw. The guildmember run to the top of the tall building where he collects himself as the shadows followed him. In his grasp with the shadow, he proceeds to go to his guild as soon as he can. But he stops for a bit under his influence from the people who attacked him. Slowly denying to be civil under his observation, he starts to think.
A long pause out of a blue where the night turned dark by his own shadow, luckily none of them noticed in such a high place. His curiosity about the city’s order isn’t prepared of their criminals’ powers, and he contemplates further from the east coast incident. He finally decided. Jumping down to the ground of the road in public view, he landed where the others were shock from a person who silently drops down causing fear by his shadow form.
"Stop right there"
The police heard a large distressed coming from their area and saw him in some kind of monster.
The guildmember didn't listen but only stared at them and started running away. His motivations are now mix of all the theories he had thought, the city’s security. He thought of his misbehavior and better off continue on. No time for neutral schemes, the guildmember runs to any direction that deem his skills. Reaching a few pedestrians from the locals, they thought it was just a cat runner, in this world that is acceptable, like from their own city states. A little do they know that the authorities who are chasing him for some reason. The locals would help them, but they must follow their law and trust them.
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The police followed the pursuit as the locals saw what happened. The pedestrians were concerned
"What was that?"
while the locals themselves questioned differently
"Did that man used a spectre potion?"
"Spectre potion? was that?"
"I don't know what kind did that guy used, but it used to tract and fight other ghost type creatures. Is there any ghost in your city?"
"No"
The pedestrian wondered about it, both locals and citizens of this city. Guildmember ran as his sprint finally kicks in the potion he drank, his body started to move lighter and somehow merging with the shadows in his environment. The police prepared to blind him with light magic as they teleported and flashed him as they did.
The light flashed him but disappears when it used
"What happen?"
"He disappeared, repeat, the suspect disappeared"
The guild member appeared back as the light knock him back to the light's direction and reappeared there. The police found him again and contacted the others. The guildmember continue to run again in many ways to evade their pursuit. He started to run near the walls as he wall-run, jump from wall to wall as the trail of smoke like shadows followed him. The police did the same trick again with the lights as he suddenly disappeared and reappeared where the light touches him away.
"The suspect has some mysterious skills as he disappeared and reappeared where the light contacted him. We request for any support from the guild"
The guildmember running further deep inside the city as his footings loosen close to a gust of dark wind. His potions' effects dosed his body to almost ghost like spirit, and maintaining his whole as one as it moves in a supernatural way. Reaching in some strange runes around the part of the city, the guildmember noticed it and stops on his track then hide somewhere in the darker corner of his position. A weird blast of light coming from the runes and everything arounds him started to distorted by the light.
Somewhere in this moment where the other guilds come in his area.
"Ma'am, we have found the runner, but it has no signs of mana or anything to become like that"
"How this guy managed to escape and the same time cause a havoc to one of our innocent civilians?"
The guildmember stood still like a predator to observe them. Seeing how they don't know anything about what he used and questioning them of how they never face it before. His determination is fierce and the effects of the supernatural are causing some noise.
"HELP! SAVE US! WE'RE TRAPPED!"
They heard it, while the guildmember found another mystery of this city . . . his detector found something.
In his chaotic decisions as he leave the magic field, and as the screams are becoming more distorted where the screams become monstrous.
"AAH!"
The wails started less human and more of a destructive fear, and the guild used their magic items to block the noise. After they did it, they found their target and began to attack. The guildmember turned back in defense where his enemies move closer. A strong charge and lightning speed dash where the other guild strike him. Closely observe by the guildmember where his loosely body started to split in different directions as the two coordinated to suppress him.
A swift stroke of a powerful wind along with them, the guildmember breaks apart.
"That was easy, and they said that this guy can't be caught or dead"
The other police pulls out something and began to talk with it
"Ma'am, we have neutralized the targAAAH!"
While this happened, they notice the guildmember's remains recollected by the dark air began to pull them down below the ground that happened before with the gangs.
"What the hell?"
"AAAH!"
The sudden terror pulls them so suddenly as the guildmember pulls his body back in one piece where the two sank down to the ground with only their heads on the surface.
"You!? What are you?"
The guildmember heard them, but didn't need to respond and struck more of his discovery and began to wonder about them. The guildmember seeing himself survived and escaped since the beginning where the gangs caused it first, except the disturbance he did into the public. He realized something is not right. Later, a familiar magic cast on him and his body restored. He turns around, and there's a gobin and said to him
"Hey! Are you using spectre potions? If you did then . . ."
The gobin casts again with another familiar spell. The guildmember lies down as the gobin recovered him.
"He did used it. Why I'm not surprised?"
The police came and apprehend him and talk to the goblin
"How did you managed to take him down? Even our B rank can't even take him"
The goblin confronted the B rank members and replied
"All of you didn't have any bruises on you except being humiliated"
"What do you mean? He caused this"
"That's make it more funny if you found out about it. Oh, the sguish on mi bely"
The goblin started laughing
"Hey what are you laughing at?"
The goblin moves towards the guildmember and search the anything related
"Huh, it’s better to bring him to his guild besides jail"
The people around him didn't understand what he meant, because of his ignorant attitude
"You should just listen, we have a troublemaker and you think"
"It's enough, I know this badge"
The goblin turns and see more adventurers coming to the troublemaker
"That man should be returning to his guild, and we should have a word with them"
The two B rank members and the police are surprised that high ranking heroes are here of all places
"Divine one! Why are you here?"
"Familiar tricks from the other outside guilds, and this unconscious man should be one of them. You are already tired and we know who will be responsible for his crime"
The rest followed her order where the guildmember regained conscious and the goblin poke onto him with his magic
"So, you gobin, how far did you know?"
Both of them whispered while the others are busy.
"Humanesquean hustler from the Isles, It sa mor sguisha dan ders (It's more weak than theirs)"
The goblin carried him with his magic where is now ordered to bring him to them as the heroes give him a letter
"In case that man is there, give this letter to him if he didn't received it"
"Yeah sure, I'm on it boss . . . Raker Mawn? You know those guys?"
"Didn't you listen our conversation?"
"No what's of it? But from the Rune Isles is a dangerous place and knowing a single guild from them is beyond fortunate"
"And what is that? you goblin" The goblin picks something from the empty potion bottle and grin.
"Like the spectre potion he was using"
"Yeah?"
"He was more of a great something? I can only say he had experiences on surviving Rune Isles"
"Then why are you telling me this? that this man has some value"
"No, what I'm trying to say that he contributed for some reason . . ."
The heroine didn't flinch and the goblin was just stalling like it always do. The heroine noticed her companions came forth
"Did you managed to get the suspect?"
She nods at them and the goblin show it to them. They continue to repeat the same scenario until they proceed to find the guildmember's guild.
It was passed midnight, by the time of the city stated so says 3AM.
"Morning is closing, says the all-nighters of this city"
The Raker Mawn guild stayed some kind of inn but it was described as a hotel. Others are awake while the rest sleeps, Haw kept his mind about the message and pulls out an unfamiliar handkerchief from his pockets. A uniquely designed with an artistic display as he can’t comprehend, and it was proof that his coordination with the survivors back then. He put it back to his pockets, and he thought a different expectation if they are truly dead and loot their bodies.
"Better not research more about them as the other lords and ladies have suspicions about this city"
Ironno came to him with no interest about his past jobs
"Haw, Daygen's orders already decided for you. You will be the one to stay or trained them in the city"
Haw holds some potions that look neither of use nor old. Like other guildmembers in Raker Mawn, this type of alchemist made their own potions and none of them have the same formulae.
"Then chances of our new trainee can't learn anything but alchemy then"
"They are more capable of using their own abilities than our own"
"Like what? Ironno, you only used a pickaxe and start piercing anything that can break. You're barely in the frontline and stay defensive"
Ironno didn't wear any kind of armor while the rest are mostly wearing thick leather.
"I can make proper hidden bases and traps. Likely I did it better for myself"
Haw and Ironno both have imperfect skills, yet both of them survived the harshness in Rune Isles and the dangers between the rebellion and the wilderness somewhere far north. Ironno left him as he intended by Daygen's order where the other guildmember comes in after
"Haw, seems our leader have some tight manpower. Here, I found some common relations between ours and theirs"
She gives him a chemistry book.
"This book contains the same familiar ingredients but now called as elements, and with the other worlder with you, both of you might improve beside pure might and magics"
He took it and spoke to her something else "Juela, do you have an interest in this city?"
"For now, Haw, for now. I can help you with the finances since cities like these to be costly"
Haw seeing her with her long sashes of scrolls out in the open. Knowing too well of her that Haw didn't bother what she wore as these sashes are her magic scrolls, yet she still wears it.
"Then may I ask your agendas with all those scrolls?"
Juela lies back on the wall with her arm crossed where she won’t answer. Rather, she changes the topic.
"Our scout got curious, and he still not here"
Haw turns away and he sigh
"Cats went dark, huh?"
Juela raises some light coming from her sashes and glimpse from her own note, nothing to say where Haw believed that there was trouble. She turned to him with an obvious expression but a lying response.
"No"
where the two conversations ceased. Soon after the guildmember accompanied with a gobin and the other city folks. Juela had given her what she saw with her companions in that condition. For the rest have already check the result was one of their own members. Daygen heard what he did and how long did they catch him made him concern more about them instead in his own guild.
Few days later, after the incident where the guild didn't leave yet, and Haw didn't meet with his rescuees during their stay. Daygen and the others were joined into some kind of event in between the locals and the citizens. Lord Lori'es ask them to stay a bit more to experience this city's public culture, including to settle the incident. The event today was called out a tournament in Isekai City. Lord Lori'es told them it’s just a normal competition between cities. He said about performances like most festivals in Agatheus City for the past few days. Yet they always meet people from the city guild during their stay though.
The guild had to participate, and soon they enter the destined area. It's an arena, the veteran in the group spouted his suspicions
"Is it supposed to be some entertainment?"
The hat guildmember read their minds and calm his guild down.
"We have nothing to complain here after one of us did"
He paused a bit
"I too don't believe them either"
The guild had already accepted their consequences, but not in a public manner. It was too soon to show them the reality of this world, where as Kinteinou was already tamed by the city states. It should've been the gobs and the rusics to show their faults.
The experienced guildmember didn't want to be part of their silly event regarding having such duels, Daygen included. Once they step forth into the area, they turned to the other remaining members who are going to do it. The veteran and the hat guildmember give them each an item.
"If you're chosen to fight, don't hesitate to use it"
The hat guildmember turns to him in a suspicious look.
"This is a duel not to the death"
The veteran nods and told them anyway
"Remember that your skills won't hurt them until they react . . ."
Daygen let him lecture them, and seeing them tolerate this kind of manner. It was ironic that Lord Lori'es played along with it.
"Everyone, welcome to the tournament and our new allies. We hope for a huge excitement in the Kinteinou continent"
Cheers coming from both sides and the state leaders joined along for the mayor.
"But first, we have a special intermission event"
The crowd were excited and rumors about this event involved with one of their favorite heroes and shouted
"GO SAINT HEROES!"
They shouted as the guild members step out to the audience. Two members from Saint Heroes and two members from Raker Mawn step into the arena. Lord Lori'es, a human representative, recalls what he remembers
"The guild who made a ruckus during the night of our meetings"
The city states leaders saw the guild from Enders, many look at them a bit concern while the elf queen is in utter shock.
As she lay her eyes on that guild and their familiar sight
"No, it can't be . . . Quoatel!?"
The other lords and ladies were outstanding to see them, but the elf queen figured in the sight of her fellow lady of Agatheus in her fake expression and said
"Ehan'Ra, I know we should stop them, Lord Quoatel helped us on this"
Lord turns to the mayor, and knows for the worse.
"Oh, great leaders, what do you want with our mayor"
The man who is with the mayor is his advisor, a known adventurer who was the first to travel out from the city.
"Mayor's advisor, we agreed being part of an event but not like this"
"Lord Quoatel!?, didn't you know that this guild had cause trouble within the city, and many of our city guild members don't want others to leave without justice"
"But why in public? why in the tournament of all places?"
The advisor grin as he guided the mayor to his seats, without even seeing both of them eye to eye only heard the Advisor's respond
"To show how we can reconcile both our good and bad manners"
The ladies who with the lord tried to reached the mayor, but later stop by the guards. The two ladies realized the situation and both whisper to each other.
"Ehan'Ra, we have . . ."
"Silence your fake gestures Hivites, we already guessed it right. We should follow along"
They have witnessed before with the mayor's guards. But now the difference had seen as these new guards with no familiarity with them.
Both of them return with the other city states leaders where the dwarf leader and the goblin leader mix conversation in between.
"Please stop calling me a dwarf, but you are right Eldesune. Everything changed"
"How about the Hordechief? Did he react to our incidents?"
"No, he kind of enjoyed this one-sided fight"
The gobin watched the match where the contestants were familiar to him.
"Kinteinou is far different from Rune Isles, you sogs. Ms. motivation, it's better to show our relations when they decided to changed their mind"
Lady Hivites Douhula understood their reasons, because since Mountaiwall, his shared cities with the Rusic, is forced to respond this other worlders' behaviors.
Now at the arena, people spectating the match as four contestants are going up to the ring.
"Our contestants from the Enders Bridge as you know the runner who tried to escape as he still didn't even tell him his name. Then we call this man the Rat, and with his partner Juela"
The audience boo at the guildmember where Juela gives him space with mockery and being thrown at him
"Juela, seems I got myself into it"
"Myr . . ."
"Shush* don't mention my real name, just call me the rat like they said"
"You! . . . Fine but my opportunity to face these kinds of people did bring me here with YOU"
"Now, now, I bonk*"
the guildmember kept barraged by the foods and trashes of the audience as he tried to talk to her.
"And our special guests who are facing are the . . . "
People joined in announcing the name
"SAINT HEROES"
where the two of the guild members are women wearing unimaginable equipment.
"These two are magic swordswomen, versus these unknown people. Let's hope we could see what they can do before these two heroes give them the chance to respond"
Everyone cheers around their heroes while the Raker Mawn stood there preparing whereas the two heroes wave to their audience. The guildmembers all around close to the ring and watching as the rest of Raker Mawn guild members observing the match and Daygen stared at where the city states leader seated. Lord Lori'es Quoatel raised his hand at him and shows the signal to end it, and with a few more gesture from the Lord's hand. Daygen will conclude the Lord's judgement with a clap.