COI C051
Tabitha begins her morning exercise, more like body building, as she is with her friends. Juela and Kiege doing some warm ups, and Kiege herself couldn’t believe her that she needs to do this. Other women see her for the first time as they never thought of a researcher like her being in the library everyday for so long wants to exercise. Tabitha sees their fit bodies as none of them wants to have muscles.
“I’ve never believed I have to do this for my body to adapt”
“And I thought you are different kind of human to exist without even doing any effort”
“Oh come on, Kiege, I didn’t know”
The starts of her new beginnings; Elrond is secretly helping her to become a successful woman after leaving this world, Daygen and the other guild masters allowing her to do anything she wants if she is taking it seriously like what happened with McS4’s actions, and Guildmember quickly giving her the handouts through memory. It only left for her to do is to take it to practice. Her first lift with the weights as her body began to get tired easily, removing the mana she has that passively prevents her body to adapt. Kiege is her trainer now and the starts of her physical boring life like back home.
In Isekai City, the school is nearly done customize or modified the sphere external features. All second hands appliance as their prototype, it took them awhile as Haw couldn’t understand the depths of technology being used. It’s been days as the final day for the beginning of his adventure to the sphere, tomorrow. Thean and the others had given him the equipment they need to make, and only made and manufactured by Isekai City. The shop keeper, Haw’s business friend, managed to have connection to make them. They were so nice enough to give him for free.
As for the students he made for them, it all compacted inside the school lab. Andui had a great time having some time with him to test and use those magic items. She borrowed one of them just to interact with the new spirit pets merging with shamanistic rituals. It was a long week, but the city improved faster as they adapting only to themselves. More news about the night incident, as the gangs are still freely moving across the city. He ignored to remember what happened to the city guild’s sphere, he don’t want to be involved. Haw knows the consequences for any Horsin to face ‘them’.
The teachers who volunteered to help are beyond to put up everything they thought would work. The interfaces they added are still underdevelopment, showing signs the things Haw and the others have to set it up inside to access it. The first thing they have to do is to end the interaction of the sphere’s aggressive entrance. Only be stabilized like Alche did into the elven realm, the teachers put a patch once those access to be under their control. O2 had made a file for the introduction of the sphere. Long pages about it, as it also included coding that made to function between the computer and the sphere.
“Somehow we managed to encrypted or decrypted the coding in order for the two to interact accordingly”
“That Haw’s stone thing can actually be compatible with the sphere to our computers”
“It’s a slab”
“Sorry Haw”
“This long progress of programming actually takes a long good while to make it”
“I’m still worried about our health, we use our magic to kept us awake”
“Don’t worry we never feel much better once we know how to heal ourselves”
“I doubt that”
The teachers were split regarding about health, as they are living this world they are starting acting less about their health they have before.
They still follow their healthy schedule except for working. The sphere made them work too hard to the point without even realizing their depreciating health. All the settings they have are not yet installed, it requires to take control inside the sphere. Haw told them there are only four controls they have to do. In reality, it has five but according to the papers. Four of them is enough as for the fifth one is too unique and was responsibly made by the elves’ makers. The book from Euphin is enough to be the detail about the Fall Era as the recent one will be updated themselves.
They stop working as the rest of the updates are lock, where the plans they need to do with the sphere externally is enough it allows it. The new entrance was replaced to a more generic type of portal. They open it up again to see it, beside a classical looking entrance like the portrait. The entrance shows a rectangular frame and swirl coming from it. Showing the environment instead of the art, it’s a bit modern to their design. The screen shows blank screen as it is block to get access inside. Nothing much left for them to test more but to gain control of it.
Then that weird interaction happened. Faces coming from the screen kept appearing as it stares at them, its more frightening than the portrait of someone is looking at them before. The old creator might have done this, and it’s meaning why it exists is a mystery for them. The papers give only where the coordinates are, and the entire Pangea were placed there. Except Abls, the north pole of Horsin, it must be the fifth location of the controls. Only two more weeks before the school starts again. They are getting excited how much they can do with it.
They send the update to their group page, the teachers read the news of the strange interaction and changes happened. They were impressed except the weird interaction of the portraits turned into some horror screen keep appearing during the activation of the sphere. It still stabilized its influence but not so to fully operational. The stone slab from Haw kept it low as it regulated it under its automated reaction. It won’t last long as it kept absorb by the sphere. Those few minutes of testing will be their benefit to see how their technology can interact it with.
Reya had read the page, and tomorrow will they see what they can do as they entered the sphere. Alongside of the other posts, where the coordinates, instructions, and the arts to where they have to go. The first thing to control how the sphere entered them. Durjn Kings, the tower made by the dwarves. A landmark for the protection against the Jigeram, collecting the presence of its light particles where the neutral mana had the most effects. According to the instruction its best those who are Horsin must do it themselves. If an Isekai citizens want to go, then face the consequences when they face overwhelming powers.
The reason why the elves didn’t attack or even not them allowed to leave that place, because one of them have the elven blessings. Made it easier for them not to remain cautious or even try to show aggression on them. The demons should be the first to face them when people are beyond the powers they obtain, not showing their true selves, and mirrored to what they are expecting. It can be one of the possibilities, and nothing else information provided. There is also a fact that Lady Hivites, the demoness, will not be there within the sphere. It’s because she entered this world in Heroes and Demons era.
Not born, but coming here. Reya felt a bit nervous that this world that anyone or anything can be transfer to this world, and more surprising the details happened those years before never have that chaotic event happened like the Fall Era. She’s with Andui, Iggy, Coral and the other people within her neighborhood having fun with the spirit elk. All of its green glow looking at the people who are trying to use their new spirit pets to interact with it. People with their summoned creatures has more personal interaction while those spirits naturally behave as animals.
They want to show the elk how it can react freely. No signs of itself being playful or anything an animal would do, as it is trained and more under controlled. Andui held the stone with awe by the neighbors who saw it. Giving the kids a ride on it and riding around the park. It’s starts trotting by the sounds of the excitement from the kids, the stone prevent it to move any faster as it floats itself up in the air and moves very fast. The kids were disappointed as they want to move faster. The parents were almost worried as they saw it moving dangerously.
The elk stops and landed on the ground and the kids were sad not to ride it faster than they wanted it to be. Iggy’s turn to ride it as she feels the presence of the spirit fused her powers with it. The elk’s remnant magic of the elves put her magic with impressive glow. Within her imagination, that appearance led her to believe it so. The elk transforms according to what the rider wants it to be. Transforming into a horse, disguising itself a live but its spiritual presence remained in their senses.
“Now, this is a horse. What else this spirit can do, Andui?”
“Well, um uh, Haw made it as a warhorse. I don’t think we should test it out here . . . Coral!? Why did you bring the other magic items Haw made?”
Coral pulls out the magic items, she was curious what the students want to do with it. Picking only that interests her, it’s the elk staff. The skull of the elk stuck on the staff. She gives it to Reya as she is a mage.
“Of course, let’s see how it can do”
Reya held it in her hands, she tries to use her mana but it prevents itself from being used. She felt nothing happened on it as Andui knows its actual use. Coral turns to Andui as she knows as she is spending time with Haw while he made them.
“Hey Andui, can you show it to us?”
Coral takes from Reya’s hand give it to her, she catches it and see the look at their faces as they focus on her. They are using the kids’ impression, innocently begging to see it, and Andui loses it by their own childish nature. Coral and the others secretly giving them the high five as it always works on Andui.
“Alright, but remember it won’t last long. I’ll explain why”
She raises the staff as it begins to channel, no signs of it being channeled, and she already having troubled to raised in one hand as her other hand held it together.
Everyone arounds her felt the nostalgic heat, the heat they felt that only the summer heat affects them during that time. They began to sweat and Iggy never felt like this because of the magic she had to cool off. The kids start to sweat and want to leave the place. No fire magic nor magic appearing before them, it’s the same summer heat they experience back to their original world. The heat was familiar to them and alone they can’t use their magic to lower the temperature around them. Andui drops the staff as it is too heavy to raise it that long. Coral sees how natural it was for her to drop it, as if she is carrying in the air with a 16 kg skull alone.
“Did you feel it? You can’t use your magic once that staff is channeling”
“But you didn’t even see you channel it”
“It’s because our concepts of magic is different from the elves. Why would their magic appear from thin air? More importantly, if they do appear, its channeling together with the neutral mana. There is so much interaction we didn’t know about elven magic. I don’t think Alche would know about it”
The summer heat is gone as they cool off with the use of their mana. The kids return as they too lost the exposure from the heat.
“Is she going to be ok, Ma’am?”
“It’s fine, it was . . . dangerous for her to do”
The kids laugh and they wave their goodbyes, as they return to their parents as they wonder what magic it was to make them feel the nostalgic heat from summer. The elk staff shows amazing power, to think the students will be using it. Reya starts to worry
“Will the students can handle it?”
“You mean how they can handle it”
“Pardon?”
“You see me channeling it and I got tired raising an elk skull in the air”
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“You mean?”
“It wasn’t obvious that elven magic removes my mana as well, it pushes away my mana for the elven magic to use. I can feel its magic exposing me to my real self”
Coral and Iggy were bumped out, to have a nice staff but can’t be helpful as it is against their type of mana. They guess that the students want it because of its rank, and not knowing the consequences. Andui continues
“Haw already told them before, but they have other plans to use it”
“What did they say to him, Andui?”
“It’s a secret”
“Hah! Kids” Coral bursts out reacting to Andui’s answer, leaving Reya thinking about it.
The four had done messing around the items they borrowed. Put it all back to their inventory and proceed to go somewhere else.
Many changes are happening inside the districts, many news about health and education appearing from the news after the discovery and new solutions about the new threats of their mana usage. They already experience it before, including Quail’s, as news about it that will someday appearing inside this very city. The new solution is regarding about physique, as they stop where they see their old guild members greeting somewhere across the distance. In the commercial zone, where the residences buy what they need.
Shouting in a familiar fan club’s cheer, Anime Xpo members, as the three glad to see them well and enjoying their time there. Within the group there’s Siren, the woman who was involved in the summer festival challenge, Andui opens her eyes wide and Siren notice that dyed blonde hair. Her colored contact lens is easy to recognize as she never once uses magic to change in appearance.
“Still cosplaying, you never changed Andui”
“Mistress . . .”
“Uh shucks, I’m not your senpai anymore. By the way, how’s your job?”
Andui rushes over as she run to her. The Xpo members walk to their old members as they never seen each other for a while. After that incident, it was never ending spiral of realizing what the world is and how it become like that. That day of separation was hard for them to continue on adventuring and continue on their small community to do other services instead. As they are now, they are getting better income improving the city’s innovation. Siren had so much to talk about with Andui what was happening her time during the summer.
They get inside the store as they are celebrating something important. Andui and the others were invited as they have something to say too about their school. Coincidence between Siren and Andui about Thean, it’s kind of surreal for him to indirectly meet in person.
“No way, you met him inside of the hotel”
“You don’t believe me, even I’m the one who meme that spirit bird taken out one of the saint heroes’ members”
“I don’t believe it, because you always take opportunity that you are involve in it and take credit for yourself”
“That’s. . . (grinning) I admit, I was supposed to focus on the bird. It’s so big and I couldn’t resist myself to picture it beating a powerful group”
The two laughs as the other group, anime xpo, had showed her friends new projects they are making. They are making new software for improvising between mana and tech together. Using their imagination alone then traced it into animation, making it easier for non-artist to show what they really want the character to be like.
“You see, we can do than just adventuring”
“Yeah well, the prototype only shows bits and pieces about the character’s appearance”
“It’s because we have different functions within our brain. If you research it, it explains why there are less creative people than you actually thought”
The samples prove of its limits with their imagination. Others had colors and most are black and white, the human mind had difficulty imagine it and have to use other people’s creation as substitute with their lack of imagination or perspective, realistically speaking, to make their creation as good as they possibly can. Iggy said
“How’s it going from the previous projects?”
“They used their magics to enter their games they are having fun with, just for fun, but they want to play without those limits within the game. Today, they talk about virtual reality that they interact with it”
“Sounds like people are interested with virtual reality”
Coral gets excited to see them again, and Reya sees the progress they are having. They have their first profit last month, its still in working progress but its enough to be enjoyable for everyone to use. It’s a free for all game like much of royale rumble as their attacks keep pushing them away outside of the ring. People can enter that place to compete, and they messed around and bouncing away as it venue within the Mihayara district.
“You guys dared to use the university to show your product”
“One of us is a student there, we just sneak in and earn a bit, laugh*”
The meeting is starting, having Andui and her friends to be their special guest. The announcement was too unbelievable to hear. An adventurer from city guild comes in and explain the details.
“I know we have past differences between your achievements and deciding to leave the guild. But there’s good news, a special simulation that neither requires powers nor to survive . . .”
Siren interrupts the adventurer as she stands up. Everyone sees her standing acting serious. Andui was surprised as well.
“Siren? Is there a problem?”
Siren already knows about it, but it is not yet the right time for them to bring them back in. The sphere they have is a training ground, or so she thought, and team platinum gives news about the dangers they will be facing in there. The hardships they have done to continue the fandom they wanted to create is starting. They are all bunch of people like to enjoy their hobbies, and mistakenly did treat this world like that. It’s now a reality they are facing since that day.
“This guild is just a fandom community, what’s made them think they have to go back?”
“That’s when you’re wrong, we have research about that sphere and found out the secret within that golden world”
The adventurer uses his spell to project a video about the sphere and new discovery about it. Everyone starts looking at it as unbelievable and couldn’t prove how they got there. Through thorough investigation, the sphere they are at now is Koiich, the stationary moon from Rune Isles. It’s hard to believe but it is true. The events happening during that monster’s first appearance. The scientist who are researching about those moons found out that Koiich changes color.
Once pure white light, turned grey, and continue as what is happening inside the sphere. Collecting enough data to each part of the time durations, when the darkness stops inside the sphere, the moon returns back to normal. Which probably they are at the moon. The guild still won’t believe it, as the adventurer tries harder to show them what is inside. The landmarks and robots coming around the area, where all Horsin being annihilated so quickly than the adventurers. The reasons are proven in their side it was meant for them, its hard to explain to them as they only accept that it is an equal playing field there.
Everyone is not interested to train there, but there are some who do. Hardcore fans want to have an equal playing field, these gamers play a lot of PVP and lost interest because how everyone is different that has more power than the others.
“I think I would like to check it out, probably doing it on my free time”
“But it will help you understand the powers you have, furthermore, you’ll be facing people that uses Archscience”
“Archscience? Those people are from Enders, right?”
“Of course!”
“I heard from a friend of mine. They are real soldiers beside us normal everyday people”
Siren looks around to everyone around her, they already experience outside of the city and because they are staying. They made a protest about it before, remained isolated and never leave the city if they stay. It kept going on where people who are doing their part to bring in the resources for the city. The adventurer tried to persuade those same people again. It was in vain to those who want to leave, and they are willing to defend this place but not outside of it. The city guild’s sphere is the only way to survive outside or more from the invading source.
The adventurer left as it turns into an argument, and there is someone said
“We can check it for now, but show us the improvement of our community that will help to end those crime in Mihayara district”
The adventurer shows an expression of gratitude to someone who said that. He waves his goodbyes as he is enthusiastic as he went in. After that, they continue on about the other good news. The reason they are gathered here; Melody Guild, Anime Xpo, and other small groups made for this event. The spokesperson shows the convention to be open.
They have an event coming on for the next few months, to gather many people who are interested in their fandoms. Anime, figurines, manga, and many more as an added bonus that the other city states are willing to check it out, if there are no lockdowns. Many laughs and enjoyed the last moment of the event. After the meeting, many have quickly left and excited to finish their projects before the convention begins. Reya didn’t expect new original contents from them under those short periods of time. She is glad they continue their dreams as they wish they did back in their home world.
“I can’t believe the city guild dare tried to bring us back”
“I guess something urgent happened in there. A sphere that transports you to the moon? If they want to show us for free, I guess I could see it for myself”
“It’s your life, remember never cooperate those people who want us to go out there”
“I don’t know, the lockdown was a blessing or not, I just want to go home”
Continue on since the day they change, trying to go through the Foundation but don’t know how to use it. People are secretly trying to figure out how to use it, but lead them to no conclusion. Like it has purpose . . . to protect itself from something.
Siren was brought along with the girls. Talking about everything that happened as they continue to live their life.
“You hired the man who saved you?”
“It’s kind of weird but yes, and more so they want someone in our city to join them”
“I’ve seen a lot of what they did and it impress me quite a lot, I’m guessing they can’t recruit them because of the lifestyle, right?”
“They keep mentioning of them being weak though”
“They didn’t understand how we live. I have heard stories from my friends who travel from city to city, it’s horrid to live there. The main need we have now is our electronic devices”
They get Siren’s idea. The main source of entertainment is under one device. If there is nothing to maintain it within the other cities, its boredom under a minute or so. There are few exceptions but not what they call have to live in an apocalyptic world. The problems keep piling up as Siren try to open it all at once. Living in the city, no experience on surviving, too different culture, educated impairment, etc.
“I get it Siren, it’s like going to the other countries”
“I know, and worse of all . . . You can’t go back”
“What do you mean?”
“Because I believe, someday, we will leave this place. We have too many people are slowly wanting to leave. Those gangs are abusing their magic”
Skipping the part from them about their own sphere as Siren treated it as escapism to anyone don’t want to face the real world. To their defense, if they want to mention it to her, there is no chance to face the actual threat that happened to them in their expedition. Then later on that day, they talk about Siren herself. She still had that fighting spirit in her, but never left the city. Involving most of testing fights with the adventurers who want to learn about her role as a music magic caster. They never thought of her being busy going around with people to make them reinspired again to make contents of their fandoms.
Like what Andui did was inspired by Siren, helping others to bring back up the culture they have in their world by preserving the lives who can endure as they finally decided to leave. Both of them shared the same ideals but different actions to take, Iggy wondered why Melody guild was deemed as a strong guild.
“Ah Siren?”
“. . . Yes?”
“I was wondering for your guild that strong with only a group of music lovers, what made them that strong?”
Andui looks at Siren smiling and it was just their passion who brought it to power. Siren smiling at them looking at how impressive she is, in reality, it’s
“Everything we did was all about music, those themes and lyrics have meaning . . . It made it into a weapon”
Andui understands her, that effort of their love for music into magic. Nothing so great that should correlate their powers with it, including destruction. All those feelings to form into music and unintentionally turned to magic, it wasn’t meant for power. It’s just music they play and listen to.
“Just like most RPGs, it was meant to be played not for you to treat it real. Its stories, backgrounds, and even the characters. Then we are those characters, I don’t want to be part of those stories to be real. I just want to relax and enjoy it with my own time”
Iggy and Coral pulled them together as they all hug each other, leaving Reya out of it as she knows what they are up to. Siren felt their hug a bit forceful as Andui resisted leaving both of their arms down but for them all around their shoulders. Reya leans her head forward to say something to Siren.
“Then let’s continue having fun, let’s see first what those guys can do when the convention starts. Let’s first invite you something of a more for entertainment”
“It’s about those realms, I don’t think I could watch those parody versions”
“Will see, tomorrow will be the day you could see something historical”
Coral mentioned it to her leaving her confuse as she thinks it would be their history, as she didn’t know further as the sphere had managed to bypass a new feature coming through the teachers’ efforts. The mad laughing coming from them to their final hours to work on it and wait for the next phase of the project. They sent a probe, a scouting probe, to sneakily entered the sphere. The emptiness remained, but soon Alche gets inside again, the world recreates under his elven magic. Limited only the reach of him and the probe, it is enough to see what is happening inside. Three third party software are connecting to the sphere.
The probe, the screen, and the computer are all working together to enjoy watching those four or more to go to an adventure. Further testing, in Haw’s entering the sphere alone. The third and final phase of the testament from the classical guild, all failed and nothing else to brag to his skills, kept going where the members are playing with him or trying to test something about him. The teachers watch the screen and perfecting everything on screen to make it easier to hear. The instructor was impressed for Haw’s failed remarks, as he discovered Haw’s miraculous persistence.
“I’m impressed that you came back after failing the first two trials and testimonies”
“It’s called testimonies, I’ve not been tested that you are wanting to expect”
“That’s why we want to get rid of you, goblin child”
The teachers watch closely from what they heard, more or less, that Haw made a story of himself within that sphere. It’s getting interesting to one of the teachers with his maid. The longer they watch, the better they could not ignore. The moment Haw starts the last testimony as they never thought they could see what happened.
It started, both of them paused. One motion per turn at the time, understanding what Andui and the others explains within the video they watch. The same tricks are happening as they watch it. The teachers had made a success out of it, and the fight is still one sided. The probe kept freezing a bit because of the area it is in. One turn of the probe, they heard people talking from the back. They thought they would talk bad about the performance from how Haw did, but one of those people said otherwise.
“He endures a lot of the punishment with the armor he is wearing. Is it made from Kinnou?”
After that, Haw failed completely. The teachers thought it was never his win to begin with, but the Classical guild instructor was more impressed and look at the back. Goblins were watching Haw doing his best. Haw actually did his best but for a different reason. Bor was there who trespassed like the rest of his kind, the instructor congratulates him.
“I have to admit, doing a different test to attract something else. The spirits might have a liking to you”
Haw intentionally been doing it in the beginning, doing the entire testimony that will lead to his failures. Secrets within his knowledge that will help him and the others for tomorrow. The sphere’s spirits are chattering its junking souls.