COI C54
The City Guild have never faced this kind of absurd people like the Enders, for once they believe the warnings of many people in the entire Kinteinnou region. Told through by thousands now before the swarms, they were confused as they were saved through the west coast. Mysterious men come forth to rescue so many lives during that day, not knowing the reason why they are there, and they didn't guess they were there longer than they have heard. Countless of reports of new discoveries within their sphere, many returning adventures witnessed the reality when they lose their power.
They already knew and that’s why they stop, leaving only the higher ranks remain with their absolute survival from them. Heist and Rogue were trying to use their stealth abilities but negated by the huntsmen. New variety of Enders entered after hearing they have rest enough and willing to face them. Those new opponents they were easily taken down, and later the adventurers get annihilated after that. Its either side had most of the advantages. Altair had entered the sphere once and decided to learn more healing abilities from them. None of them have the roles of a healer but their consumables are there to see someone as a medic.
More and more adventurers start to act differently and experiencing the things they have to learn. Ruby comes out from the sphere feeling the refresh expression as if she was enlightened. Only to herself as she said
“They showed me every counter trick what those gangsters are doing. I knew copying those criminal routines will help us how is done. Those fuckers, we barely complete that tactics”
Smiling devilishly, she goes back to the police force and try to retrain those police to handle those runaways.
Silfa and Gemina are with Gordon, after being in a difficult situation with his own guild, Sun’s Skies, that persistent of fighting within the sphere. He found out the flawed of his own team.
“They are just trash talking to us, and we lost because of it”
“Being an egomaniac does make you look easy”
“Gemina, I’m not going to admit as it helps me this successful in my adventuring”
“And still the man who can’t fight a 2v1 even with your own images being manipulate”
“Hey! I never met anyone from those Enders who uses magic. You see those people within the city, they never have mana and only using potions and magic items”
“Let’s hope you won’t make it another of your grand events”
“. . .”
Silfa have collected the data so far; the adventurers are reenacting the things they did in their adventure. The tactics were meant against fighting monsters, those adventurers managed to tame them with ease. Then later the huntsmen came and take down those monsters. Easily treated as animals by their own specialty, comparing the other Enders who are interested talking to the adventurers. These huntsmen will not comply and continue attacking them.
Picking up the reports made by the Enders from Stranding Island, the man who knows them is other than U’ecin. It’s a strike of luck of how Ruby keeps in touch with that man, he is under supervision after few more attempts of counter killing the suspects ‘accidentally’. The man who is with him told them that he is one is against Isekai citizens to stay here. Giving to the idea that this is one of them, but she guessed wrong. She opens again the report made by him the information about the huntsmen. The details of them being ‘necromorphic’, the term that doesn’t exist in the description had made her worried to those who stay in Enders Bridge.
“Men of the hunt, collection of sociopaths, for some reason their guildmaster and the higher ranks are sociopaths. I was that member back then until the switch happened many years ago. They preferred the most insane people to be part of their guild, and they were meant to hunt inside Rune Isles. You will never be going to see them in this region and thanks to your gods or ours that they understood who they are trying to torment . . .”
Silfa closes the report again as before, already witnessing the depressing part of the apocalypse. It’s within Rune Isles.
Skipping the rest of the report to where the warnings have written by U’ecin
“. . .Don’t commit any mistake that will justify the Enders’ actions. Certain people within the masses had already watching your people within my city. They are not easily let you learn the things you needed to do, or else others will not be . . . cooperating”
Remembering the letter incident, they didn’t manage to give them the letter. Team platinum did their best to find someone, but they were convinced. Now, Silfa realizes the only one who still allow to this day to fully request to Enders Bridge was Haw. She and the others won’t be asking for more anytime soon.
In school after the day where they have control of the security, the principal comes to the simulation room to see the progress happened. She entered the room and saw two strangers in an unfamiliar attire, more importantly, wearing illicit equipment as she senses dangerous substance and weaponries.
“Oh principal!? We have under control, just sit there and watch. We are almost ready to set it up”
One of the teachers guides her to her seat and see what the sphere can do. The principal had already known about the people who will be helping, and those people are dangerous from what she heard from the news.
“You know those two?”
“That’s Haw’s friends, I think, we have seen them before in the hospital”
“Hospital?”
“Anyway, they are not criminals and more of a vigilante”
“Pardon me, vigilante!? Those two were seen multiple times in raids. There was a warning in social media that they are dangerous people, they kill people”
Rusic and U’ecin heard her complaining, whereas Rusic acting proud of her worries.
“I’m glad that she knows our glory”
“Beating the weak?”
“Weak, ah yes, but for you is not Laugh*”
The team is made for the next landmark, it is where belonged to the goblin’s landmark.
“Hey lad, don’t try fighting the spirits if you don’t know how to fight”
“It doesn’t matter, the main goal is to get the controls”
Alche joins in to instruct them what they are facing. Rusic had experienced entering the sphere before, like all Enders entered the sphere as safe houses within Rune Isles. U’ecin and Rusic is heading out first to make the equipment, there some changes happening within Thean’s group. Thean himself won’t be part of the mission.
Thean explains the plan to the other teachers.
“Shamanism have curses and rituals, remember? It persists until everyone is eliminated. I got my problems facing them and I don’t think I could be . . . a team player. The vengeful spirits are one of the examples, the rest I don’t know. It will be a nuisance after they survived all that, but with Haw’s friends. I hope they can do it”
He later checks the computer and ask them
“Is this the right time converted to the sphere’s time zone?”
“I think so, it’s the same one hour per day from the sphere. Do you want to make it sooner?”
“No, let it be. How about your scouting probe?”
“We have one or two . . .”
“And more, see!”
The other teachers have made extras for each one of them. The total members within this mission are the total of six. Haw, U’ecin, Rusic, First, Second, and Coral.
“Yeah, look you boys are sticking with me”
“Hah, I hope you give me the measurement where we are making your equipment”
“Don’t worry I have it right here”
Coral gives Rusic a piece of paper as he reads it. He gives it to U’ecin and look at it to be more resourceful.
“It would be better I will make it”
“U’ecin? Are you sure about that?”
“Miss, I would, and I have experienced some ladies who are huntsmen in my old guild made enthusiastic ideas within their . . . arsenals”
“What’s with the long pause?”
“Don’t worry lass, you people are going to love it only in the sphere”
"Ok, that’s a bit unnerving”
Haw goes to her and tell her what it is. “You’ll see when you use it inside the sphere, and hope it will stay that way”
Rusic and U’ecin left first, letting the others to prepare themselves. Quail checks the screens as the time move fast in the inside. Tracing them by the scouting probes looking at them. Everyone is anticipated what happened inside, after a few minutes happened. The sphere had already passed more than an hour now. Quail and the other teachers check them as they already gathering the resources. Piles of metal brought to where the workshop they wanted to set up. Rusic and U’ecin are wandering around the area as they heard them talking.
“It’s starting to lose control”
“I have no idea what is going on, I’ve never seen a broken thing”
“It’s not broken Rusic, it’s the people are using the sphere. Too much lost historical records within our minds couldn’t recognize what we are now. This world is whole but ours are in ruins”
“I get it what you mean, I heard that it controls trying to hide itself. Protecting itself in this predicament”
“You’re right, this must be a personal sphere”
“Like an emblem of your ancestors, to dare change it without remembering was it made in the first place”
“Rusic, enough with the memorials. We have no knowledge what kinds of sphere it is”
Under those time, they fast forward as they already crafting the equipment. The two work together combining between magic items and rune words engravement. They did what they can do to improve what they can find, through the materials found through the natural habitat. U’ecin’s hidden skills using leather out from the tool sets he had, merging with the runes create a replica of the shamanistic ritual but there is no spirit but the sculpture of a making into a magic item. Through under the mana of runes and neutral mana together to enrich the imagination of the viewers.
It took them few days to finish without rest, as it the sphere moves faster. After four hours from the real world, they already edit the video to make it easier for them to see the procedure they made. It is too much for the teachers to edit all out, in each item wear made step by step. Coral remained inside the simulation room watching the rest, as it is already lunch time. The two came out as they feel a bit hungry.
“Hey there lass, done eating?”
“No, I’m just here to see what U’ecin made for me”
“You saw it? You were inside the sphere?”
“There’s a scouting probe with you. It recorded it all”
“For an entire of those days!”
“U’ecin, you’re getting surprised there. They might have some strange thingy that held it all”
“It’s called memory, but to have that something to store it at once”
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“Anyway, you two, I was wandering about that equipment you made. Is it never going to bring it out to this world?”
“It’s a simulation from what you said lass, all spheres are imaginable, but some are accurate as others. I have nothing else to say that this sphere is chaotic and leave no room to make it better”
“You can make it better”
“Yeah, me and U’ecin rely on the myth instead but more animals we don’t even know are better if I know it”
Coral goes to Quail as she sees the finished design of her equipment.
“Coral, if they see this armor and weapons in a hybrid between runes and magic”
“Yeah, and he added my personally made emblem”
“There’s a sigil and runes as well, now what’s left for us to be image are the weapons”
“Yeah, I’m so excited to try it out”
Coral had carefully listened to Haw before joining, the cooperation between the two had made those two into an ideal equipment for her. Originally, she is warrior and with her partner Iggy as a martial artist dps. The iconic weapon of Coral’s is the katana.
U’ecin and Rusic had thought of a coincidence of this woman know about the weapon. Not because of its texture or design but culturally.
“Rumors are getting me to think they are the same kind”
“Rusic, it’s been too many years”
“I know, but our man we know . . . had the same weapon. Shall we tell her we added something original to her weapon?”
“Through the materials we made in the sphere, the replacement of those metals is from scarcer one in this world”
“I still don’t get it why we have to use soulfate crystals”
“Those crystals in the sphere are active somehow, it’s like their origins are connected”
Once lunch is finished, the two are almost done eating. Rusic is disappointed and everyone in the school never thought of him that he keeps drinking. No water will be filled within Rusic’s belly
“I feel shame to my kin if they see me drinking this”
Quail remembers what that goblin said to her in the summer festival. A river that fully made out of alcohol, she wasn’t kidding about the exaggeration. Rusic continues about bragging about the river he drank in Stranding Island.
“I drank Lyanais water when I run out something to drink. It replicated fine to my nearly drought keg of mine”
Quail keeps quiet and keeps to herself of how much of a stereotype that dwarf just said.
The principal left a note to the teachers to send the video they made to her office. Her visits were checking the final progress as they have less than two weeks to finish after the long suspension. The principal will come back next week for the finishing touch of the facility. Coral received lunch from Andui as she was focusing on screen
“I never thought you will be joining them”
“It’s just a simulation, and they did warn me that I should wear the equipment to hide my presence of mana”
“If it does fail, I hope to see what the elves are trying to warn us about”
Iggy jokingly said out of her curiosity, a powerful people like them to be attacked.
U’ecin had an idea for that reason, there is so much to know what that sphere contain. In the middle of the control, it made him uncertain how advance was the world was. He believes even the things he made for her won’t be enough. During their preparations, Siren is back again to see what sphere she is now, later learn the plans they are about to do. They made a decision to have their own adventure inside the sphere to control one of the landmarks. They have three days to do it, leaving the rest of the days to finish it all.
“Wow, but Coral is going with them?”
“It’s her decision, she was interested how they improve the clothes they use yesterday”
“You mean them wearing casual clothes?”
“Yup, and this time is made by them”
Siren looks at the two people, knowing well from the social media as these are the two among the four people who continue doing their ‘police work’, it is surprising they continue to do it even they are compensated only through their basic needs. She kind of pity for them, where the lockdown stops their cheap goods bringing here.
Reya is wondering about Coral; she puts a smile of her face as she kept staring at the screen. Keeping her heads up on the screen to see what she was so excited about. The team enters the sphere, where they are somewhere near a cave. Rusic touches the surface of the cave’s exterior, clean and rough, no dusts but mana froze. It is a good shelter protecting themselves from the Jigeram’s light. He turns around where the men are changing their clothes and equipping their gears.
Mostly worn in leather found through the hunt and harvesting the wilderness remained existing. All worn in leather and feeling the runewords empowering with it, with weapons on hand with relief and confident through only one person. Haw looks at First trying to hold himself being excited that is not a toy wand, but a menacing taxidermize piece of limb of some kind of birds’ feet holding an orb. Second wields a simpler magic item, a tamed spirit familiar, where the creature is a flying bird but no rituals nor neutral mana possessing it. It must be U’ecin’s creation, Haw still wonders how he made it.
Leaving Haw with no potions in hand, he has to use the basic weapon they made for him. A basic weapon to his fist, a bracer, and nothing else to be imbued with magic. The power it has, Haw has no idea what else it has and leaving himself listen to them that it can hit his target effectively. Haw can fist fight a bit, but not much of his footings without his potions. He tries it out to swing every attack he did on a tree. A normal bracer, and they meant it can hit them. Haw kept it to himself feeling a bit confused about his weapon.
Rusic and U’ecin had made their own personal weapons. Mostly the materials are mainly bones and wood, yet they saw back then they were collecting ores and other solid metal. Enough of them thinking about those resources as they look at their gears. Rusic looks like a barbarian wearing mostly bone armor and weapon of some long fangs to his weapon’s head. Swinging his weapon thoroughly where his attacks had an aura of a creature fights alongside with him. It’s hard to be impressed of just a few swings, the only thing they could believe it is the hit that made the enemy easily broken by it.
U’ecin wears only leather, but the polearm he made looks normal, but the blade looks blunt. Never for them to see a former huntsman bringing a special weapon to his equipment, while U’ecin looks rather interested what he made. Staring at his own weapon seriously made First and Second ask Haw about it.
“What’s the deal of that guy looking at his own weapon?”
“That’s no normal man to see his craftsmanship with ‘passion’”
“He made it out from the sphere’s resources. You two, these are the people I bring to help the project. What else other people who can made this for us without spending?”
“I . . . Uh? For once Haw made a point, and we are being selfish”
“Selfish? Really Woni’es”
“Hey why did you call me . . . oh yeah”
They look at the probe as it is watching.
“They even recorded what we are saying too. That’s probably the reason why those demons want it gone”
First got distracted by the conversation as he saw Coral appeared from the other area. Finally equipping all the gears, she was given, it took some time to wear it all but impressed the way she looks. None of them show in awe as they know it must have to hide her mana or else those interferences will pop up anytime soon.
Wearing in steel armor, flexible and fused by almost all the mana existed in this world. Neutral mana, shamanism, elven magic, and runes all together, the most difficult to be added is using archscience. Coral is satisfied and occasionally took some pictures of herself. Then later ask Haw to take it too, then Second and the rest followed along. She treated the mission as an activity for her to remember, the people watch her do it made them embarrassed and amazed at the same time. Made and forge by Rusic and U’ecin, there is so much to see how she wears.
Steel made and flexible, the weaving materials forge under the mysterious materials find in this sphere. Loose and soft when not armed, then tough and heavy once the user is ready for the fight. Hidden her face with the helmet with only her eyes are exposed, an armor looks identical to her preferred cosplay, properly made and believable piece of armor, and with her two-handed weapon alongside with her shows where her mana be to use through it. A sword as she called it Murasame, and a handgun engraved to all her magic projectiles. All together through the weapons she had sheathed and holstered.
Out of excitement after she takes back her device, she poses a bit to release her magic. The area changes according through seasons, they look at her wasting magic over it. Coral doesn’t care anymore and only thrilling to her ideal equipment made by Haw’s friends. Circling around where spring, summer, autumn, and winter circling around in sync where around them see the changes periodically. When she unsheathes her sword, night appears and magic channeling. Something appears around her as shadowy figure in smoke looks alike from her except its white glowing eyes.
Coral turns around and sees it with joy. Haw never seen her happy wearing a dangerous equipment made by Rusic and U’ecin, while the rest feel worried if she is going to waste all of her mana by showing off.
“Hey lass, the equipment you’re wearing is not a toy. We did our best to replicate your measurements”
“The way she acted now, I never seen someone happy of my own craftsmanship”
“U’ecin . . . I’ve never once met you properly since the switch, and I want to ask. Why they didn’t like your craftsmanship”
Second questions him by the confusion how he made is actually powerful. U’ecin didn’t look at him and continue seeing Coral being playful with her new gear.
“You’ll know once you use it”
The entire teachers who are in the simulation room were cheering her new armor and weapons. Iggy goes to Quail mention about this.
“Do you know about this?”
“Yeah . . .”
“Why didn’t they mention about this before?”
“Sorry, but I heard them said it and I am not sure how they made it so good”
“Groan* CORAL! You got some nerve trying to keep it to yourself”
All of them cheer to see such badass looking woman cosplays like a youkai samurai, and how detail it is for them wondering how they made it so good too. Reya rarely seen her cosplays that badass back in their world, now there it is and dangerous.
They entered the cave and heard Rusic lecturing about the resources they found. Coral had watched the entire video of them making it, to her surprised, the things they gathered are the legends and myths made through archscience’s manufacturing manual. The downside it had no trace of archscience ‘magic’ is made but harmonize those other four mana together. U’ecin had his expertise in taxidermy and woodworks while Rusic is metallurgy and smithing. Together, they have made something amazing as all the mana forge into an armor and a weapon.
Rusic guided her the area where she could not believe that they are in high elevation, because how the world is now being disform and across the distance where nothing to see as normal of a mix barren biome. Now as they are inside a landmark, but what she sees is a natural canyon. Slowly seeing the rest under the covered skies above with Jigeram’s light. The ceiling of the cave is manmade, and more of a goblinmade. The landmark is an entire canyon made by the goblins. It is a mountain ridge but built into a canyon.
“Hey lass? Remember you’re in goblin territories, we are facing the complete tribes within this ancient world”
“A complete goblin tribe? Haw, what did Rusic trying to say?”
“He meant old civilization of goblins, take your time to understand every little bit and pieces of them. I’m just glad no other spirits residing in nature”
Haw had gone to the goblins’ undercity, where many goblin spirits chattering in steel and industrialize made rituals. They would be able to fight, but what mechanism it has to deal with them. The team stops where Rusic raised his hand, Coral looks in front of him as she barely sees the spirit coming to them.
It’s big, bigger than the goblin, and it looks neither race nor living thing from what she saw. A giant size wooden doll, in numerous, appeared before them. All in erect with two feet and forearm set in a defensive stance. The appearance of a tribal equipment but the spirits within them shows such intimidating presence, and the weapons they have are in rituals forge with its own magic. The wooden mask starts to show the markings of a face begin moved as it starts to talk.
“It’s nice to see you mann, we all know this world is losing its realism. Da mastah is protecting us, or proof of worthy of using this made world”
The lore of this sphere had already gone, as the sphere is protecting as much as it can. Incredible to its finest defense in order to remain all the history had recorded by so many years. The last updated information coming from the sole author’s name, Elijah Eluoise Euphin, the author who was involved regarding to history. First responds to them
“We are here to access your data”
“Yeah, the lore maykahs, we warned you. Once you defeated us or let you go to it, many spirits of the tribe will protect it without reasons and honor”
“I understand”
“Let’s our ancestors from the true world witnessed our traditions”
Rusic and the others readied their weapons, Coral was asked by Second about their plan.
“You’ll be set to execution, find any opportunity to strike them down. There is no telling how you fight might hurt us from their spirits if they know your true power”
Coral nodded and prepared her stance with her sheathed weapon. The wooden creature in rituals and spirits under its will, they stop talking for their first step to attack. Coral’s senses grew higher as she sees them moved slower, where everyone starts to maneuver around. She focuses on the enemies.
All too familiar rituals unleashed to attack them, she glances at them as they approach in mystic. Curses already sent out as everyone starts weakening from its rituals, she seen the slow effects affecting U’ecin and Rusic at the front. Already being deformed yet continues to push on. Haw, through her sight never seen him using his fist. Now capable to punching his way at them, now turning to the backline she saw the two Agatheans.
“Shock* What’s happen to you two?”
They got distracted as collections of wind spirits already ganging them up, without her knowing that the spirits already flooding in for an attack.
First casts down his magic already being corrupt, and Second is leaving his familiar to protect him from the curse inflicting his mana. Coral returned back to her senses where the fight returned back its own original pace. Haw’s bracer kept his fighting in an impressive rate, only through brawling he can proceed beating them down. The wooden dolls gradually breaking down and its rituals are easily grab by him, directing them to the front for the finishing blow. Tearing its bulk of wood apart by the sheer struck down with U’ecin’s polearm, no little trace of the rituals as his weapon quickly spread to break the ritual items within.
Torn to shred or be absorb by the polearm’s head blade, feeding the spirits mana into its own use. The accursed polearm imbued with runes both cleansing and purging, with Rusic’s own heavy weapon wrapped with the outer layer of bones secretly hiding its fatal edge or blunt from it. The wooden dolls throw their attacks from all made wooden rituals weapons. Axes, spears, clubs, and ritual magic, all torn to shred by the weapons made by them. The spirits released so many rituals in order to fight them equally, it already releases its ancient secrets but quickly taken out without a chance.
Their armors negate the curses as it transferred to their weapons, and the healing rituals are shared together whereas the spirits notice of their theft. It was too familiar to them who actually made those countered rituals. Only thing it can do is to call out the other spirit tribes. Once the last spirit remains lying on the ground, a half remain mask glowing around itself with the leftover rituals. They are not surprised, rather, they are the same as the previous ones. Satisfied of their defeat, there is nothing to hold back where the first release of their powers will convince them.
“Well now, that’s how we can get them all at once. Coral! Release your attacks”
“What? It’s already over, and I was waiting for the signal to attack”
“I SAID NOW!”
Coral unleashed her fury out of nowhere, hearing the dwarf to call it out. Without aiming anything she freely loses her stance and using her sword, but her shadow aimed somewhere else. Coral witnessed a ritual portal already channeling to appear, the same thing happened during the Summer Festival Challenge. She had forgotten, that when something like this happened. All powerful set loose, this portal will open and did something terrible.
The secret portal was easily destroyed as Rusic trying to lecture her about it.
“Lass, you have watched the match during the last day of the challenge. You thought it won’t come out?”
“Sorry, I was overthinking since I did absolutely nothing”
U’ecin pushes Haw to her, calming her down, Haw won’t do it but he insists as U’ecin uses his weight to push to her a bit closer. Haw stumble to her, and the shadow is the one who catches him then Coral herself pulled him back up.
“Hey! Don’t be like that”
“It’s fine Coral, but you need to pull yourself together. They intentionally did it so that because we need to go faster now”
“Why is that?”
Haw pointed out from somewhere across the distance as the curse cleanse and show the hidden spirits already setting up themselves for another attack. Giving the way for her to understand
“We need more help from them as we are now, don’t get distracted and have fun”
“Fun? I was . . .”
“That fun of yours are different from ours”
“Listen to the old man, our fun is a fight”
U’ecin and Rusic and said their words to her. Coral sees the spirits know they are going after them, she remembers what they explain to her before. Once she had her equipment ready, she makes sure to use it to the fullest and efficiently. She can do solo alone but watching from the challenge. Coral would have more time messing around with them, through with her gun and aimed at the spirts. Once single clip fired had made the spirits scattered by her tremendous mana. Everyone sees the overuse mana as they hope she won’t run out of it.