COI C200

During that moment, the shield student able to reach the Simulated Sanquin. Explaining as fast as he could about their situation. He was surprised how she understood it all and distracted herself during the moment they’re almost kick them out from the sphere. It was intense, the cure is already is in them and slowly going through their bodies to naturally heal the cuts they bear. He stays humble but surely acting as he is afraid. Sanquin feels it, and she go through into his head then slowly not going to reveal her other capabilities as a heavenly demon. A sly devilish eyes glow in her eyes inside their mind together. He must not fear it or he will be consumed.

The shield student remained down with bullet wounds, while she remained still. “Just as we thought, and also strange with these people around who is not conscience of the idea being inside the sphere. But here I am, being able to know about it. I’m probably the one is involved. Or maybe Quill has made me personally, don’t you think so?”

“I don’t know, but I know Quill is the one who is taken care of this sphere. No! This is not the time, could you please leave us? I know I am Enders, but why insists on attacking me?”

Sanquin laughs charmingly to the young boy. The sweet laughter soothes his ears, but his childish instinct knows her strength. She answers

“Quill is giving you the chance to learn to fight but not to understand. The sphere is not complete, there is no logic of this ruined world easily beaten you without knowledge what you are. I’m guessing this what your training is. I have free will on this, but Quill herself. You’re my disciple after all, and you still got yourself beaten by mostly all experienced enemies. Word for advice, never go alone. You still need Enders with you to survive . . .”

The shield student wakes up, and feels the slap on his cheeks. Fae-chan is at the far edge of his sight, readying its footings as it runs as fast as it could. A momentum of a football player and jumps then slides down with its foot kicking his face. The weight of it should hurt him. Yet, being its owner. It is just a small push. Fae-chan later wabble to the ground like a child is being defeated by their own funny games.

“Fae-chan, what are you doing?”

“You are still in a sphere. We need to continue the cure. You have now this guy”

The shield student notices the dark version of himself in silhouette and two wide pure white eyes. The lights ray on to him and the shadow connects them both together. He sees the light coming from the sun. The weak ray covered by the dusts, he almost forgot that the sphere changes the environment into the 4th moon cycle. He checks his UI and sees the allowable settings available to use. He sees his team is safe and that’s all he had to see. The place where he is in, a cave where roots are sheltering him from the dust. Where there he could see hibernating monsters, still strong to endure it and ceased them from starving in this cycle.

He wonders “Where are we?”

“Under the tree, I don’t know why your shadow brought us here. I’m sure that this place you didn’t know it either. Did someone there as your enemy guide you here?”

Thankfully, the monsters are not awake or he will be out from the sphere with accursed slash on his hand. This is not the time for him to hide here, and the rest of his team is probably trying to get away from them as they heal themselves from the cut. Like what Ironno explains into his head multiple times from his own imagination. Ironno says it once, and he had to get it right or they will be in trouble.

Ignoring the admiration of this biome under the tree, and how surreal it is to see monsters hiding from the dust. Facing against the Enders had already made them learn the possibilities of their effort to survive. He rushes out and one glimpse of the dust blowing in the air, the thick dusty crystals smothered him. The crystal small shards are passing by hurting his view. Fae-chan climbs to his face and covered him. The shield student feels the familiar’s magic connecting its eyes on him. Where he can see the back of himself, then it turns around and sees the shards raining down on him.

His armor and defense are still in good condition, there is a notification in the sphere as it only maximizes the effects for only 25% in their health. Their strength though, it reaches 100%. There is no telling what powers they have depleted and be attacked what lies in this dusty forest. Shards of crystals hailing on to him, and Fae-chan moves around appraising itself to the shards on to it.

“Won’t you please stop moving, I can’t seem to . . .”

Fae-chan casts its spell and solidifies the barrier into crystal. The channel persists as it clears the impurities on the crystal and able to walk in clear view.

“Thanks”

“No problem, but problem is close by”

The shield student heard a scream then went silent. Those are the male students shouting and fighting. It was too fast for him to respond after the silent kick in leaving only the shattering drops of the crystals afterwards. He slowly moves where the noise where, and a barrier appeared before him. It is an ultimate, he can’t get in. The barrier starts to ripple, static electricity and energy waves are rippling right in front of him. He needs to get away.

“Hey! Anybody there!”

A random student yells out from the barrier and the ripples reaching to him banging on it. The shield student saw him, one moment of the ripples touches him and a hand being materialized. Grabbing the student’s head inside the barrier.

“AAH! HELP!”

A scream coming from his. The shield student watches him being sucked inside. The power armored body suit comes out from the barrier as if the student is used as obstacles to help them come out from the barrier. The shield student is stunned to see how someone breaks free from the ultimate. An armored helm appeared, it was X2L, he turns quickly as he spotted him

“Target confirm”

The shield student starts running. Deep withing the crystallized forest, the dust leaving tracks for X2L to follow. He quickly notices it and using his shadow acting as a double to mislead him off from his tracks. Fae-chan shares its vision to him, showing his faults that X2L is still gaining on to him with helmet precisely finds Shield’s tracks again.

“That’s so unfair”

He tripped himself from the piles of crystals. He fell on it and slide himself to one of the holes. X2L continue to chase him but loses him as he passed by. Someone is there with the shield student. It is one of his friends who are hiding from X2L.

His friend whispers “Get down, I couldn’t believe that you come back out from your usual adventure to Enders Bridge”

“Hey, why is everyone is here?”

“How are we supposed to know? Those are not the same Enders from the Bridge. They are from what we saw in Taiyou Industries”

“Yup, many thought trying to beat them . . .”

The student felt so down after experiencing it. His friend explains to him further

“We got played, and you can’t even believe what they bring to get us down. In other words, the man with the energy weapons used our mana as energy. Just like you”

These surviving students were left after witnessing such a brutal escapade. They explain to him further that the Dexter Guild member is not alone. The way did their tactics are unbelievable to the point that this is what warfare movies bullshit. Now they are hiding as their curious went up peak, and one of them had surveillance on them and shared it with the other students. They show him the video of how did they done it to see those soldiers in action. They were shot down with their secret heavy weapons. X2L holding a gatling laser gun is really takes him a surprised.

Never going to cease until they disappeared, X2L and R-cord are merciless when it comes to fighting people like him. High in stats, the students are always in high conditions. Which leads to the simulation in desperate measures. The dusty biomes are truly a dangerous place for any living soul to venture. There is when the fight takes it seriously and the students with their powers struggled down to zero. One sided, and left themselves by the hands of their heavy machineries.

Fae-chan keeps clapping with a happy grin to its eyes. The lone cheers to where the students getting brutalized is one of the most insane things it makes fun.

“Yay”

It cheers so innocently. It gives the students big laughs as they watch together. The shield student picks it up and says his goodbyes

“I see that there is no trouble here. I’ll be going and face that Enders”

The students warned him “Be careful, that single Enders has company from the far distance. Also, they are only two of them. Expect to have more”

“Yeah, and there is one female Enders did absolutely nothing. Still, we have bad feeling about her”

The shield student proceeds to find his team. He continues to remember Simulated Sanquin while he was unconscious.

“. . . Real or not, I am still disappointed at your progress. I’ll give you a chance. I’ll control a bit of your excess breath and scattered them into the valley of the shards or forest. Those people of yours will be involved, the time is ticking and that cut of yours needed to be cured. Those two will keep hunting your excess down by my own tricks. It will not last long. I know you know it. I’ll be joining your demise. Take your challenge and survive the Enders’ true power”

His memory flashes him back to reality as he saw the gun shot aimed at him. Fae-chan comes to his way and blocked it with its small body. The familiar’s body endures the piercing bullet and knocks both it and him to the ground. Shattering shards follow their path, he resists the cuts and pierces of it. Lays lying on the ground, the crystals already covered his body and start crystallizing. Not in this simulation, he picks himself up and made the them more serious. Another gunshot ricochets to the shattering crystals. He raised his runic shield, covering from the blasts and shields the rest of the gun fires.

The ground covered in shards, crippling his balance as he feels the thorns through his protective shoes. Powerful rounds impacting his shield brings a slow grind porcupine his feet. Then the shots went silent, the shield student was relief to that there is no noise. Then he quick to react as his realized a different target is closed to R-cord. He pulls his feet off the shards. The needle like pain into his feet, the sore smoothly touches with his legs move slowly. Covered in dusts without him knowing, he has to force through it. A bright color sparks from where he was shot, the recognizable special effects.

The shield student sees the light splashing from a far distance. There with limited range to see the sight of struggle.

“Berserker!”

A scream reaches to Berserker hears. He ignores and focus on R-cord. The shield student barely sees what’s going on, he took measure on his own hand and brings out his runic. Winding back to his shoulders and ready to throw it at their direction. The shield swings and able hit R-cord’s gun.

R-cord disarmed, and Berserker takes this opportunity to strike. The student sees a handgun coming out from R-cord’s other hand, sticking close to his gut. Point blank shot where Berserker’s weapon can’t reach R-cord’s trigger hand. Near close to danger as the trigger about to pull. The shield student’s shield bounces around and disarmed R-cord’s gun again. He sways to the side from his gun away from Berserker’s gut. Berserker feels the gun point is moving away. Quickly to dodge the point-blank shot, and runs away giving up his chances.

The narrative has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.

The handgun fired and misses. Berserker manages to back away, then he got pulled back again with R-cord’s broken rifle quickly re-customize into a chain gun and caught him off guard.

“How many stuff did you have in that suit of yours?!”

A lance is thrown at them, and breaking the two in melee distance. R-cord throws a smoke bomb on the ground and displaces them out from the fight. Joanne comes to the rescue as X2L is on her back. The persistent chase brought her here as the others are being regrouped.

The shield student’s runic shield left lying on the ground. Joanne sees it and picks up and used it as her own. The runes force her to use her own strength to raise it up. She tries her best to pick it up, and suddenly yanked it up so suddenly. The runic shield felt too light. The grip on the shield changes to fit her grasp. Placing up to the light blades, and resisted the energy phasing through the runic shield. She blocks it and bashes forward with every opportunity she could muster. X2L timed her counters then disarms her with both of his armored gauntlets and release an electrical current.

Joanne reactively letting it go as the shocks reaches to her hands. Surging through inside her body, and uses her magic item to stop the surge going through her body. She let out the energy out from her body using her hands as a guide to pushes it all out. X2L grabs the release of his energy from her, filled with the surge to circulate the flow of energy back to him. Joanne sees his fast reflex readying for the next move. X2L punches her down, and one sweep of his blade cuts through her armor and re-enter the surge back inside of her again. She fell down from the electrocution.

Berserker comes to her aid and pushes X2L down and land few blows with his dual axes. Each attack on hit. The axes are stuck to X2L’s armor, made it harder for Berserker to pull it out. The power armor magnetized his weapons, then starts to surge through his weapon to his exposed hands. Berserker re-equips it before the surge goes through him. He backs away and carry Joanne out from the fight. X2L gets up. He watches the shield student passing by and picking up his runic shield. The shield student takes a scoop of dusts with his shield splatter to the air to block his view.

X2L pulls out his helmet, revealing his chubby face. The murderous stare, the shield student saw it before the dusts sent flying. He keeps staring and observing his movement. No fear if the shield student fights back, he is confident. That they can’t take them down, they must be running away. The shield student doesn’t want to find out as the silent of the soldier from what he remembered from R-cord’s advice.

“. . . Whenever you start to compare here and there. Enders are force to limit their archscience weaponries . . . You don’t know what it means? Then better not face it unless you master your gauntlet”

The shield student sees X2L is casting out his ability. A light phase of himself going through obstacles and close in front of him. He teleported and materialized unleashing an aura disperses a detrimental disruption. The shield student slaps it out of the aura with his gauntlet. A strange energy bubble bounces off from the slap of his hand. The power it used, the static causing his hand to shake, and the shakes went down to his feet. He trembles down then quickly gets back up and run as fast as he could. X2L transitions his energy blades into a gun. Fires a pulse orb at the shield student. The shield student raises his shield but stops and roll over instead.

The pulse orb misses. It pops itself like a bubble. All of them managed to get away. Leaving the fight as they successfully survive the first attempt. X2L put back his helmet on his head as he learned enough what he saw. He calls out to R-cord

“Any details to one of the targets”

“Provide claims, Sir X2L”

“Target with hybrid dwarven shield knows about the pulse trajectory”

“Please state the ability of the pulse weapon”

“Same for use of melee”

“Confirm, the target is in low influenced with neutral mana. Target still has abnormality through the environment”

“The target also has blessings of Lady Sanquin”

“Detail ignored. Lady Sanquin had already authorized it”

Sanquin sees the two soldiers are recuperate their loses. R-cord was hit by one of the students, and X2L has the most advantage in chasing but decide to stop half way. Either way, the boys have learned a lot against the simulated Enders here. Especially, her interruption with Healer and Arsenal. She is next to chase them down. The two have failed, yet they can track them later, but it gets boring to have them repeat the same strategy again. The students before were caught by the cross fire. They were not lucky to witness their doom, a swift kill was enough for them to left the sphere.

Those two, X2L and R-cord, soon stop existing in the simulation. Quill is receiving reports to stop the Enders who are running rampage across the forest. Not giving a single opportunity to fight back made it harder for them to learn. In actuality, it is impossible to learn to fight against the military corps when the plan is set to stone and cracks down to the depths. The youths are not ready to face them, and neither they will when become enemies. She spokes out to herself

“Dexter Guild is a secretive guild who are compelled in collecting archscience and also the tech that what the world was. They are the top dangerous guild. Always prepared and studying their enemies before their enemies even fight back”

She watches all screens around her. The simulation room where there are so many students don’t know what just happened and other who saw them in the far distance but couldn’t witness the incident. They were all in difficult experience and don’t know what to do as they are in the big disadvantage against the 4th moon cycle. This is truly the evidence that the Dexter Guild could have finished the siege if they wanted to. Sadly, they chose to help them improve than quickly stop it. The Dexter Guild is still had their intention, they don’t care about the lives except for gaining from it.

Quill then changes the screen to where Sanquin is. Same as always, but wide and abusively using her abilities on the students. She keeps forgetting the otherworlders freshness to this world’s magic.

“I thought I adjust enough for them to know the students in their age are always be rookies”

Tempting to not change it for what she had seen before that the students; The shield student’s team is performing rather well. Partially and incompletely to what she identifies the simulated Enders. She hears Sanquin’s contact

“You knew, yet you let me continue with this much strength to lean on them”

Quill is not letting go to the students who must face the harshness of this world. They are facing too much enemies that are all experienced to use of their mana control. If only they could use the mana in a correct amount and control. Then they might have a chance to prolong after Enders few starting attempts. In this cycle, this is when they should come out and take everything they needed before the third moon cycle even coming. The silent persists, telling the simulated Sanquin to keep going as it is. Sanquin is already marked them without them knowing.

The shield student manages to regroup with his friends. Only Berserker and Joanne are there as they wave their hands. The Berserker told him

“We finally found you. That trick of yours managed to spread us all over the forest. Why not use your familiar to save us like last time?”

The familiar pops out ritually dancing and keeps saying

“No”

Then disappeared like scared rabbit going down to its hole, the shield student’s inventory. Its random antics keep going around it. Joanne sees his familiar acting like Puma, and Puma has its own group to make it more times the trouble.

The shield student asks them “Where’s healer and Holly?”

“You mean those two, they are hiding over there . . .?!”

The two turns around and follow what Berserker is being expressing. Healer and Arsenal were both caught by Sanquin as the black mist comes out by the heavenly demon. Sanquin grips them so easily holding their necks like cats to immobilized their actions. She unleashes her aura forcing the zone into stagnant, setting their movement speed slow. Joanne’s abilities set off by creating a barrier against any slow effects.

Sanquin throws the two away to the ground, with a strong drop. Healer reacts quickly as she lets them go. Casting on to Arsenal before she faces burst on the ground. Healer places a healing mind and quickly face crushed where the ground spike up to his head. The heal manages to save her almost getting impaled. Arsenal moves slightly before the pike almost hits her face. She gets the healing mind and slowly bringing herself off the ground. To her knees as she goes to him, healer is being amazing with Holly, only her. Arsenal tries to wake him up. His insufferable reaction pulled from the ground as he can’t do much.

“Are you ok?” Arsenal is worried.

“I just want the cure to be done, and accept our death in this sphere. Fighting against a demon or two heavily power armored with heavy weapons that blows us up with the strength of the tank. I wish we have to fight low levels than fighting against simulated demon army”

Healer leans himself to the ground, where his head is almost touching the ground. She pulls his head to her lap, the opportunity she could’ve done to have him leans to her. Obviously, she has finally recovered from the cut, while his deep wounds. He is close in his full recovery.

Sanquin appears in the middle of the three. They stood before her without even an opportunity for them to react. They started to force the offensive, they don’t have the knowledge to fight against a martial artist, a demonic martial artist at best. Sanquin shifts her illusion, the blur appears all to her sides, and sets her target to all three. The flails of her attacks hitting them all as they raise their guards. The blurs are spreading from the top then lands behind them.

Then it disappears without even landing a hit. The dark mist flashes out before the blurs ever come in contact them. The shield student uses his other shield to flash the dark light off them as he never meant to that. Trembling on his knees, Sanquin is abusing his blessing into a curse. Controlling his body without any effort. Sanquin slowly sliding the ground with her feet, then moves suddenly as the ground quakes. Berserker stomps his feet on the ground, shattering it before the earthquake took off their balance. The smile of the heavenly demon grew more charming as they are starting to learn to counter her initiation.

Joanne is the last one is waiting for her to be strike. She waits for any abilities that she is confident to fend off any of Sanquin’s attack. Sanquin suddenly react, and Joanne barely reacts on time. The blurs returned mischievously hitting her. Joanne activates her magic items to negate the attacks. Sanquin froze during the moment Joanne unleashed her magic. Joanne sees the opportunity and strikes Sanquin in place, glass barrier shatters at her target. Another barrier shields Sanquin, and Joanne continues the attack. Layers after layers, Sanquin is looking at her, and Joanne is getting personal with every thrust with her lance.

Joanne finally breaks it through, it reaches closer to Sanquin’s gut, but she was stops in mid strike showing the bending of her enemies on her mana. She calls out to Arsenal

“Were getting pinned here, care to take a shot”

“Oh, I’m on it”

Arsenal picks out her weapons from her inventory and notices her gun she used against the Enders from ruins is fully fixed. Her absolute primary weapon is picked and setting up to take aim at her enemy.

“I got heavy weapon back online”

“Really, great! We should AH!”

They can’t hold against her, Sanquin is getting stronger as she sees Arsenal’s gun aiming at her. By the threads of her fingers shifting their mana as hers, she uses their mana to make weapons to appear alongside, walls raised around them tight and enclosed, and their mana drained so suddenly then thrown back against the wall. Arsenal took the shot but the blurs appeared and deflected it. Shocked, she can’t do anything about it.

“Impossible, I can’t break through”

The shield student says to them “There is no way we could win against her, hold on and finished the cure. This is my mentor playing with us”

Berserker takes the hit, the same force using their magic against them. Comparing it with the soldiers back then, it feels like the strength of the demon is torturous while the archscience is brutal. However, Sanquin bends in their bodies to flow inside as she is tearing in the stats they have for defense. The shield student felt the waves in him as his black mist is vibrating and can’t able to cast it out from his mouth. The worst of it all as his mind is being blocked by Sanquin’s contact to him.

“. . . Can’t focus where my voice going through your concentration. This is how you need to exceed yourself with your master. Without it, I can abuse you to hear me without thinking for yourself. Tempting you to lose focus”

The shield student collecting too much disadvantages of himself. The rough life he got here and the powerful shadow mist in his body being controlled by her making him useless from the start. Only his shield to keep himself from getting hit. The deafening to his mind, he forces himself to return to the fight only to protect Joanne for the last moment.

“Miyusuki!”

Joanne watches Sanquin’s breaks his shield without giving him a chance to protect her. Then she later focuses on the Berserker, breaking through all his defenses and his own runes fell down to the ground by using on her hands shifting and bending his body out from his mana. The two falls as they flown up to the upper walls with the use of her wind magic. The wind widens and only Joanne and Sanquin herself is standing. She then sees the familiar trying to help the two of them back down from the air.

Sanquin sees it, and Joanne reacts. She casts her wings and flew herself to them. The familiar is able to grab them then disappears into the smoke. Joanne almost reaches them as they disappeared, she then checks her UI to see what happened but the exposure couldn’t give her the readings about them. They left, from what she can see. Her wings are fainting. Her mana is bent to out of her mana control, she resists with the best she could in her mana flow. She broke herself out mishandled her powers.

Her second wind activates, it wasn’t supposed to activate like that. She was pulled closer to Sanquin’s face, face to face, and said to her

“How’s it feels to be nurtured by the Enders doctor?”

“What?”

“Able to use your mana with such medicine to keep you fighting from the dust. You are powerful than the others, but still. You don’t how to fight against the Jigeram’s light”

Joanne remembers the actual Sanquin, powerful as the simulted. Now after the wind collecting their mana as her own. It is the evidence that she has many ways to beat them and many more terrifying abilities they could not fight against. That time in the island, Sanquin can do more than Joanne would ever imagine.

The two breaks away and Sanquin grabs Arsenal’s bullet blocked by the first attempt. Everything around them stops and slowly changing with twist of her gestures. Twisting their mana as if it her own. This is her mana control, twisting the fabric of reality to her control. They tried to break free, except for Healer. It is obvious, they couldn’t beat a demon Enders. Sanquin transcends them into lowly puppets and left their body motionless without the string for them to move. She playfully keeps moving them around.

Then later they put them aside against the wall, the shield student and Berserker appeared from their disappearances, the rest of their team from a far given up without resistance. They are defeated and Healer never takes his chances from her.

Quill appears “Healer, by what your friends called you. You did well . . .”

They can’t move or even speak. They are motionless as puppets only to hear and see what their field of view can see thus far.

“. . .Even you shield student. Your disadvantage was lightened because of your friends. You understand why you need to work together. This world can be done alone, but what you are experiencing now compared in the forest. You witnessed their weakest strengths . . .”

“. . . It would be easy for you just ask me to speed up the curing process, but I like how you committed to the idea of keeping yourself alive. In reality, you should be dead if the all Enders knew about you. Not everyone is friendly there, and they are allowing them to finish you. Anyway, the best advice for me to you all is to face the world. That’s you’ll need to finally grow”

They disappeared and left the sphere. The shield student and the others learned so much thus far, and this time, they truly need someone to go with them in the dusty wasteland. They honestly admit, they need help, Raker Mawn Guild.