COI C202
Shinji and Nanami see their lover, burning ceaselessly by the demonic burns. He was being treated considerably from his guild. The siege returned and forced Haw to take room in the hospital. Both of them couldn’t stand to see the horrifying look of his body. They walked out from the room. Nanami’s face was froze in the horror while Shinji finds the restroom and began vomiting. They meet again as they want to see him. Talking to their own little time together, the only thing they remember is coming back to him desperately waiting for him to wake up.
That time, they started to feel a bit committed. Without even a single knowledge that their mana controls exceeded. Their will is merging together with their mana, separating their body out and rely their true body condition as their physical foundation. They didn’t realize they are using mana control in the highest. The elite level of this world’s mastery. Ascended because of their lover lie on the bed in most horrific condition they have ever seen. Forced it in secretly as they thought they could heal him with it. Haw was able to reach out to them before the demonic burns nourished itself with their mana.
Now back at the present, Shinji is naked, after satisfying her needs with him. Regret what they both did to him.
“I can’t believe we have to do it now while you are bed ridden, Haw”
Shinji says that as the two are busy going on together. Nanami keeps a little spice with her magic to keep their embrace a bit sweeter and harder. Shinji waits for his answer as Nanami is hogging his lips. Shinji saw it and quickly breaks the two.
“Nanami you slut. Ok, Haw. This kind of power we are wielding, is this really the will power of mana?”
Haw takes a deep breath. After few more minutes, he said to her “You did, but you still require the exaggeration you did in the hospital. I was afraid that you are going to kill me without realizing the rules of the next level of mana control”
Shinji giggles to see his worried face, then she twitches her lips as she remembers the incident. That moment she can use the will power for a bit and gives him some mana. Haw feels the mana inside of him and spits out with a fiery breath.
“Shinji, don’t do that. My body cough*”
Shinji embraces him after infusing him with her mana. “Infusing mana other than us will always make everyone being overdosed, right Haw?”
“Yeah, but I don’t have any prior knowledge of magic. It feels like a bubble inside of me wanted to burst out”
Her mind remembers the talk with the receptionist. Do they are going to leave him when the Foundation is finally working? Haw who is always taken care of them and fulfilling all the sexual fantasy with pure raw strength without magic. He even taken them both with his best ‘skills’.
Nanami clings him at his back as Shinji at his front still embracing. Nanami rubs her bare body to the side of his arms. Haw together again nakedly sandwich with his lovers.
“Sigh* I don’t know how long I will be keeping the building in its state after this”
Shinji says a different topic “The Foundation, when it got it to work? You know we can’t take you with us”
“I’d enjoy my time, and all three of us are having fun. And this is the time and the first time we done it without the ‘incident’”
The two froze and forgot about it. The crazy moment they have done. Why did they did it with him without protection and bed ridden? No one knows, but all three wants to continue.
The next morning, the two receptionists and the boyfriend thought they could hear them going wild during the day. The boyfriend did the same with his girlfriend. They used sound blocks and not letting a single noise to get through the other room. The receptionist still hears them because of her securities are runes. Surprisingly to her experience, those three were able to keep themselves quiet. This worries her and said to them
“Do you think what Haw said to us is true?”
The girlfriend starts to believe it “We promised him to keep it as a secret. You know city guild is researching about the third level of mana control”
They remember it exactly. Those high ranks are really taking it seriously and did it in the city sphere for good measure. So much trial and errors and couldn’t go through with it. The will power though, those two bisexual girls able to get it. The receptionist thought what Haw had told them
“Purpose, both magic and reality of this world matched. Near closely to actual law of neutral mana”
The girlfriend shifts her head to her boyfriend’s shoulder lying there trying to treat him as her shoulder pillow
“Well, those two will almost reach the last stage of mana control. The path of ascendants”
The door is opened and the two girls come out in their bathing robes. Without Haw in sight, and they ask them “Where is he? Still in bed?”
“Yawn* No, Nanami was trying so hard to wrap her entire body on to him and still able to get away”
The receptionist holds her face that is a good reason to say when Haw was actually being beaten. By the way they are acting, he is fine. As they are preparing for breakfast, she steps from her own apartment for a moment.
There she stumbles Haw, able to leave the apartment without even seeing him exiting their room. Already setting his things for tonight’s job, she catches him.
“Hey?”
“Ahem*”
Haw can’t say a word as his throat is a little dry. She offers him some water from her inventory.
“Here”
He gulps it down and gives his gratitude “Thank you. So, do you still can’t believe . . .”
She panics “I believe! I believe”
“Something surprised you?”
“More like a disbelief that your girls are getting the will power”
“You know were just sex friends”
The slow talks made the receptionist getting hasty, and wants to know what happened between them. “Anyway, you guys just fuck in my apartment”
Haw nods, but gives a suspicious look. That’s the look when Shinji and Nanami is teasing any of the girls who want to be Haw’s harem. Receptionist is ironically kind of glad he hated it. Most men love to get women to bed with them.
“I’m talking about there is no noise coming from their room. The runes couldn’t detect any noise from there, while other room I can hear them from my room”
“The runes you are using are still strong to get through your entire apartment. Those two had found out how to resist it. In archscience terms, they can form a barrier that neither the runes nor the neutral mana touched each other. Mostly citizens are always release their mana freely. Easily for the runes to contact it and traces to the source in order to initiate breaking down the neutral mana they hold. Shinji and Nanami hold their mana without letting it contact with the runes. Like the mana as smoke and the runes as the smoke alarm”
“Wow! What about us three? Do you think we can able to use that kind of level of control?”
“You can, through will power. And I think I know how those two obtained it so quickly”
Haw looks around, leans close to her ears, and whisper what he had found out. After telling her, he quickly left as the elevator reaches their floor. Descending down, where Haw didn’t give time to say goodbye. The receptionist stood still, in deep thoughts through her head. A moment of her own time breaks the silent, turning the knob of her door, she says to herself
“Those two, they are really going to kill them just for him. Fuck buddies. What the fuck!?”
Haw reaches to the ground floor and found people still trapped inside the crystals. Many people are helping them, but their efforts were too obsolete. Maser is here along with the other Agatheans and some dwarves. Not able to show the same horror, and only gives slight worries after observing the victims. Maser reaches out to him
“They are getting better by the cycles. Haw, you can see the dangers what these people can do”
One of the residences come to them. She bows to him sincerely and begs him. “Sir, please let my brother out. He deserved enough. I don’t want him to see him like this . . .”
Confusions spread all around them, and Haw being taken in to be the center of attention. Soon the truth revealed and they are starting to leave the building. Not because of him, but a strain of trusts between citizens and the locals. The dwarves carefully looking at them while the residences are acting as if they deserved it. Haw ignores all that and helped the young girl to free them. Maser watches him, carefully and specifically, takes it down. The crystals fall into dusts. The young girl is so happy as she reaches out her brother then smacks him as hard as she could.
“What’s wrong with you?! You’ve been acting a jerk after you know about him being able to clean the building from the dusts. Forcing someone to fix the rest, the building is still covered with dusts along with the rests of the districts”
She keeps nagging while the others are taken them out from the lobby. Haw was about to leave, but more of the residences are showing their gratitude and apologies. He didn’t show any signs to forgive them. Their eyes look at him as he expects he will be betrayed again.
Maser follows Haw out from the building, after what he did to the crystallized dust, he wanted to know about it instead of the incident that all started. “Wait! What did you do to the crystals?”
“Rune Isles is best to train you with exposing dusts. People who are trapped inside the crystals are always safe until it starts to absorb them. Compared here to there, this place still had mana to take. Also, this will help us to properly removed that stuck to our skins”
On his hand, it is the same tool he used to clear the dusts inside the building. Yet, comparing it with those two using mana in full will power. It’s fast, and effective but the quantity it consumes are a lot and Haw was able to recollect it as it falls to the floor.
Outside, the dusty winds turned the empty road into a desert sand while has little mana in the city power grid in crystal layers. The electricity keeps its integrity very well, where the locals rode into one the rune vehicles made by the Isekai City. They left them behind as they didn’t reach out to them for a ride. Maser says to them
“Don’t want to take a ride?”
“I have something on my mind. Morning was a little bit getting wild, in the most nightly matter”
“Nightly matter . . .? You mean to tell me you continue what . . . Ok, why are you telling me this?”
Haw thought he shouldn’t talk about this, but his worries grew into suspicion that the raise their strength in order to gain their next mana control level, will power. This could be mean anything when other citizens can ascend according to legends. They continue walking as they stop where no citizens near them. There are bunches of spirits coming through and their focuses are in the dusts treating it like snow. Both exposed and their bodies keeping themselves resisting from the harmful exposures. Maser shifted his mana deeper within and Haw keeps himself with his fresh water bottle, a big one.
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Maser hears his concerns. Haw said it without any fear or doubts, never hear the sounds of anger or disbelief, and he said it like a soldier would say. What Maser fears is really that close to arise.
“The third level of mana control has already formed”
Maser looks around and there are no citizens. It is a relief for them not let the citizens know that. The secret of the mana control is coming to the citizen’s third level.
“When did you found out about it? Was it the crystal chambers? We all know but why kept quiet about it?”
“It is the same as yours. There so much to do what I discovered so far and I’ll be going to check them. Maser, takes this information to the island. It is safer that way”
Both left and going to their separate ways. Maser has to walk in a far distance, no magic on his side in this dusty wind. Hesitated. he turns around for a slight glimpse. Haw takes the other route. Curious to see where he is going, but this news really mingled his worries with anticipation. Maser made it to the ferry and saw from what he didn’t expected. Younglings under the exposed dust, citizens as that, and idling in this place away from the evacuation area.
Memories word got out from Rusic in his head. It wasn’t that long as Rusic himself spotted Maser.
“Lad! Give me a hand with these early little night birds here. They are acting like my kins, but not in this moon cycle”
The ferry is protected by magic rituals from the goblins. Disturbing to the least as many more annoying images of them going through the dusts as dusts come alive in dead and lifeless crystals. The exposure loses its effectiveness as the spirits glowing aurora light passing through, bringing the dusts down to the sea.
The thought of the new guild member supposed to be one, but this young boy is not alone. He forms his own group from his own community. All young with little to no experience, they are going into the dusty wasteland with that kind of equipment except for the scrolls attached to their body. Sealed and perfectly untouched to whomever that had a bright idea not to get them exposed, there are exceptions though, the Enders themselves rumored to be here too.
The shield student, Joanne, Berserker, Healer, and Arsenal are back into the training once again. Dared to go out there with only the scroll they have, and Rusic seems like he won’t be involved.
Maser says to him “You don’t want to join their training”
“Nah, even Ironno won’t be coming as well because they look capable. We both know they are not, especially the situation there are scavengers for the spoils or the ruins of this city”
“What situation?”
“The situation is that they are acting like bottom feeders”
While those two are talking, the students are grouping together as they are risking again after being cured. One more time to the wilderness of the dusty wasteland. The city won’t let them leave the exposed districts to the people. The life in the protective care of the public is well in good hands, until they soon sick of it with too many people around. All seems losing their interest, and their hype to go through the dangers of the wilderness are one of the reasons for them to stay away from the evacuation areas.
Berserker is getting thrilled and ready his dual weapons again. “Beginner or not, if I ever find that guy with the sword slicing my head. I won’t be holding back when he come across his sword on me again”
Arsenal whispers to Healer “Are we sure we’re going to meet them again? I know we are trained in the simulation room, but are we getting ahead of ourselves?”
Healer feels her head lying down on his shoulder instead leaning closer to his ears. “We’ll be able to defend ourselves. No failsafe nor of us will going to die there. Holly . . . I am sure other adventurers are out there to help us”
“. . . Ootadakimasu”
Joanne is taking Puma with her. As she is talking with Miyusuki with his familiar, Fae-chan. “Those two really acting weird. Are you sure that doll of yours is not a goblin spirit?”
“It was gift from Oue, I don’t know how or what it is came from and I’m sure that Puma is not acting its usual self”
“Believe me, Puma is always acting like that when it going out on its own”
She moves closer to Fae-chan “While this doll of yours can talk and never leave you behind. Fae-chan, you always sticking closer to him whenever dangers come, right?”
The two dolls are circling each other trying to lift each other like sumo wrestlers. Fae-chan speaks as they wrestle “It is because I am child protector. My creator from many generations created me to be the guardian for the future daughters. This boy needs more help than their daughters could ever could. Once done, I’ll be returning to the previous daughter. I will not stay long with a baby boy”
After saying that, Puma reigned supreme from the match as it pushes the familiar to the edge of the ring by only a small step.
“Puma” It effortlessly said it.
Miyusuki heard the familiar with an embarrassing remark. He is been asking what its objective with him when Oue gives her doll to him before leaving the train. It was his fault to give her the idea being his aunt. That feeling though was refreshing instead of having friends. Ironically, this aunt and nephew relationship is not farfetched to really care to one another. He can feel Joanne’s staring at him thinking it was cute. She can’t say anything in mind that the familiar leaves him because he is not a girl.
Meanwhile, Maser heard enough with Rusic “. . . So it is the matter for those kids to get through the dusts. Only them, they don’t have any experience yet”
“There where are many experiences they have gone through. They are almost as equal to all of us now. Except with the scrolls, they could experience the challenges of being under the Jigeram’s light. The outsiders have no intention to kill but to loot”
“Sigh* Alright, then how about Haw?”
“Him, where is he now?”
“No clue”
“It would be the same problem because he didn’t have his potions . . . Yeah, I’m starting to think your concern. It’s your choice now. I am busy with the island there”
Ironno comes by with the other Enders from the island. A guild mistress joins as she feels a nostalgic presence coming from the students. A word from her was slip from their ears, they got themselves distracted with the two dolls fighting. Puma continues praising itself from its silly games. Fae-chan raises its body up with magic. The guild mistress sees her old doll and summons it. The familiar runs to her normally instead of magically appeared before her.
Miyusuki points out to her. “Ah? Faye?!”
The guild mistress picks up the familiar like it is her doll again.
“My beloved cousin, sure gives me to wonder why you have it. You are no girl after all”
His friends started laughing, she continues “I knew it, I heard from your guild member here, and I am sure that familiar of mine shouldn’t close to anyone except my beloved cousin. My little guardian, why are you here?”
The familiar speaks differently not letting them understand what it says. Faye understood “. . . Oh, it is personal. The shield student, please be careful in your training. I see it is not well made with your skills”
The familiar drops from her arms and returned to him. The shield student tried to hide it as it keeps embarrassing him in front of his friends. His friends though weren’t acting kindly about the doll supposed to be the girls’ guardian.
“A familiar being your guardian. I am both embarrassed and scared of you shield student” Berserker said that with his mouth about to burst in laughing.
“Now I understand why we are left to ourselves” He grins, and Arsenal is staring at his expression of how he looks so cute.
Faye watches them as they are fun to each other. She then hears her familiar eavesdropping for her. It was the shield student says he won’t be talking to her that casually.
“. . . We shouldn’t bother her, from what I heard from the guild, it would be unnecessary to talk to them unless it is important”
Berserker asks “What if are training is important? We are going into desolated place where rumors of criminals in this region are coming together”
Healer agrees with shield “I trust him, he is an Enders guild member”
Berserker complains “You too? All I want in this training is having a fight and win”
Faye sends her message to them through the familiar “Oh, you will. Youngling, you will regret for asking something without a purpose”
They get spoof as the familiar speaks like Faye. The shield student warns them again. Absolute silent, and they began to leave as soon as they can sense her intention. Maser watches them go while the Enders themselves move somewhere else. Rusic already left to the ferry boat, leaving him to decide what Haw told Maser. Yet, he hesitates what did the Enders guild mistress trying to do here. He postponed the idea to report about the will power mana control and begins to follow the students.
His suspicions as they are also developing the next level of mana control. Either it be them or that new Raker Mawn guild member. If his knowledge serves right, then the best clue to understand will the boy who is called shield student. Through the insatiable dusts looking for mana turned itself into crystals. The Jigeram’s light lays it again on to Maser. The thicken fog as he goes through, the students are following the pace of any ordinary people of Horsin. The impressive sight that they hid their mana well. Making a strong sense that they know how to hide for once without stealth magic.
On the move to the fog, the shield student and his friends are exposing themselves in the dusts. Carefully managing their mana before they are going engulfed from the crystallization. Each of them carries their own distilled water to keep them off the crystals. Berserker wasn’t taken long as he spotted some tracks were here and then soon turned back.
“This is too fresh”
Joanne takes a look, a track that she is sure she can recognize. “Yeah, I think we should follow it”
None of them are sure about it, but none of them disagrees. An easy training for them to search under the dusts, the rewards they could get are the loots. Strong or not, either prizes side by experience or loots. They set foot and follow the tracks. The path they lead to is dangerous as it is set outside of the highway. To the wilderness near the sea coast, where the forest cutting industry is there. A sight is amazing as their eyes sting from the crystal forest. The remnants of the city barrier collapse here is terrifying. They didn’t stop, they keep going.
Noise coming from the shattering crystals, louder than anyone could use that kind of strength. They thought it was one of the demons’ armies. Resisting to going through, the shield student and Joanne advanced further than the rest. They follow their examples and keep moving forward, climbing, passing through, or even using shield student’s gauntlet to get there quickly. The noise is getting louder as they approach, then later went quiet as soon as they see the debris is coming in their way as they dodge it.
Joanne warns her team “We’re here, watch out for anything come in our way”
They position themselves, not letting themselves cornered like in the simulation, but focusing what is at the front. A crystallized body thrown to the other side shattering it back into dusts. A loud cheer out of frustration coming the distance. Joanne recognized that yell. She puts her hands toward her team and lay down their weapons. An elemental coming around from the other side then comes to their direction and another one is coming to the opposite side.
Closing in, they trust Joanne’s command. Berserker and Joanne were accidentally got hit and push each other from side to side. Berserker gets a strong hit while Joanne’s defenses instantly activated. After the collision, Gemina appeared with her face shocked with her nervous grin slowly frowns.
“You guys really going to face check my attack”
Joanne shouts at her “I know you are following us, and now you’re acting like you’re fighting out of nowhere”
Gemina looks at her UI as she is now reaching high level exposure. She took out her distilled water and poured it all to herself. Water down to her body as the dusts washed down cleanly. The muddy stained dusts instantly dry her up then drops off from her body with magic after a good wash.
“Ah, I can’t believe this is much better to do it instead underground. Those roots were killers if we get back . . . Oh, where are we again?”
Joanne was frustrated “I told you, that this is my training. I have even Puma come along with me to stop Mom from worrying”
Their first encounter was silly to one of the city guild members. They went back to the highway. Gemina talks to them as what is going on. “. . . They are weak, but crafty. I was with the other Heroes Saints, and they seem to get it right. The dusts really made it harder for us to get them”
While she is talking, Healer and Shield talk about it. “It happened to us, but we faced Enders other than those bandits”
“Yeah, and they attacked us when they found us”
“Maybe because they wanted something from us. Ahem* This makes it scarier if we stay in a little few minutes and we all be dead”
Gemina tries to convince them to join their group. It was the shield student persisting going the other way. “Come on, you know this girl is . . .”
Joanne looks at Gemina, she is getting pissed for not letting her doing it herself. Puma joins along and gives a puff face just to tease Gemina out from Joanne’s sight. Gemina tries not to laugh, and dashes out without a single word.
Joanne reacted “Augh! I shouldn’t be tracking her in the first place”
Arsenal comes to her aid and comforting her friend’s dilemma.
As their first encounter was finished, the shield student wants to go inside the ruins. He has something to revisit again. Healer and Berserker were also trying to see it too. Their last adventure through the ruins was getting caught by the Enders. The sight-seeing wasn’t a great idea. Finally, they go there directly without stopping. The shield student has some unfinished business to keep his mind wondering. The gem he had and the beads with him.
They made it there where he got into the realm. He raises his gauntlet and tries to open it from its sealed entrance. It was difficult and the dusts are coming closer to him. He is charging it up as slowly as he can. Then strong sparks coming out. A realm is forming before him and shouted to his team. The realm is showing what lies inside, his friends only see it as a stage.
He said to them “It opens, come one guys. Get in”
They heard him and proceed to go into the realm. They step in and the dusts follow. The realm’s entrance is getting molded with the crystals blocking their way of exiting. Maser’s chances to seek what he had suspected stops there. The realm was open and closed so fast as the dust destroys it. He expects much for an archscience tech to go through without problems. As guilty as he is with his new profound interest, Maser saw that the shield student has learn more than he could expect.
The team appeared inside the realm already consumed by the remaining dusts, but the stage wasn’t devoured. It is dirtied as it was when he entered here. The idol is still there. The shield student looks back where the magic circle is gone and blocked by view from the crystals.
Joanne said to them “Where are we?”
Healer explains to her “The same place where he got his gem”
“A gem? You have a gem?!”
Surprised to have something valuable. Gems are valuable for concentrating mana. Now he wields it with proper knowledge to get it to work.
The shield student understood that last time he shouldn’t coming here anymore. After using his gauntlet in the sphere. He founds some unique abilities that he cannot comprehend before. It is certain he needs to go back here. He raises the gem as the clear view where the cross lies inside. Glare at the idol, and the idol breaks apart. Releasing a phenomenon before them, it reaches all of them as the strength of its powers are immensely painful. They were caught by surprised, and surprised is all that they can witness.
Thanks to the dusts, it stops. The sculpture of itself molded together with the dusts. The danger he was facing is here and now foolishly died in the Jigeram’s light. Now it is clear why it was ignored. Haw’s teaching is indeed told him about dangerous secrets. This secret materialized into a monster already exposed and crystallized. He grips his gauntlet. Berserker stops him.
“Wait! Are you going to absorb it?”
“Why not? Either I absorb it and killed it or let slowly die out in the dust, it might survive”
Others trust him and Berserker was a little worried that’s all the presence of that monster before them is already taken space on the stage. The silent gives the shield student an answer to continue. As it is done, the monster drains into the gauntlet and never seen again. He checks the gauntlet and sees the amount of energy charged.
Disappointed “3%”
Then he checks again with his gem. As the secret monster disappears. The beads glow before him and purge the dusts around them. There they see a hole hiding among the dusts. An exit appeared where the dusts are coming in. Where multiple glowing lights leaving through that portal. They proceed to follow it.