Chapter 3 The West Wind Brigade
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The Apocalypse (??? Dai Saigai) (also referred to as the Catastrophe, Revolution, May Incident, and Third World Fraction) refers to the event on May 3, 2018, that trapped all players who were logged into the popular MMORPG Elder Tale inside of the game. It was triggered by the release of the game's 12th expansion pack, Novasphere Pioneers, effectively trapping over 30,000 Japanese players and several hundred thousand other players worldwide.
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Harry Potter blinked, he was at Akihabara just as he remembered, but this time, it felt real, as in too close in your face to face real. He wasn't at the beloved computer screen that he was used to all these years. Harry pinched himself. "Okay I felt that one." Harry thought, then he looked for a nearby reflective surface. He was at a nearby puddle, and Harry saw himself as his Elder tale character. "If there were some of the options menu." Harry thought, then suddenly, his colorful menu appeared in front him. Harry scrolled down the menu, it has all the items he has when he left Elder Tale during his depression when the debauchery party disbanded.
Harry checked his equipments, items, and skills. All were present. He decided to try the spell "illuminate", a basic skill handed to everyone in the mage class that lights the sorrounding area, to his surprise, it worked. Harry tested some more skills. He quickly found out that his new body was tuned in to his various skill in voice command, and like a hotkeyed skill with a sixth sense on how to activate them with akin like muscle memory. After an hour , Harry got them down, and mastered most of them.
Harry decided to explore the city, to see what changed. Harry heard the cry of despair on most players he came across. Harry felt hungry during his exploration, so he took out his food made by cooking previously. Surprisingly it tasted like Sogey crackers, and had no taste at all. Harry then thought of a brilliant idea, and summoned one of his Blissey. He told his pokemon if he could share some of her sofboiled egg, to which the pokemon happily complied. There was no words for Harry to describe the taste. It was pure bliss, and ecstasy like an addicted drug that kept nagging until you feed it again. It was easily the top five food Harry had ever eaten in the original earth. Harry was so happy that he cried anime tears, and hugged his blissey. "Thank you Blissey, you are a live saver." Harry declared, the Blissey just hugged him back understanding his feelings.
Harry quickly composed himself, and recalled his Blissey. During the Debauchery tea party, Harry only used his Siren, Sword princess, Undine and Salamander summons during some of the raid he accompanied them, well mostly Soul Strike was very versatile. There wasn't really a need to bring out the big guns with how well Shiroe, the tactician took control of the field. In the end his Ace never got revealed which he was thankful for. Harry explored some more, and met a familiar face. It was one Soujiro Seta with his girls, scratch that, one of his girls is missing. Harry approached him, and said a greeting causally.
"Yo!, I see that your as popular as ever I see, but I don't see Sunahime anywhere." Harry said.
Soujiro Seta went wide eye at the teen before him, he recognize that face from the Debauchery party, he tried to invite him before, but he never logged back in.
"Harry!, it's good to see you, imagine to my surprise that you started playing again." Soujiro stated.
"Well, the new expansion pack was enticing, I also needed time to recover from the break-up of the debauchery party so I never logged on, this is the first time in many months since I logged in, imagine my surprise when the definition of logging in had a whole new meaning." Harry explained.
"We'll enough about boring old me, where's Sunahime?, your missing part of your harem, therefore I'm missing more research material." Harry declared pervertedly.
Soujiro gave a sullen look.
"She didn't log on with us, in a way, I'm kind of glad that she's not with us right now." Soujiro explained.
"Hmm, your right, wouldn't want this fate to befall to anyone." Harry replied.
"By the way I've been trying to get a hold of you these couple of months in-game." Soujiro chimed in with his happy mood.
"Hmm, really, I didn't know you switch teams Soujiro, don't you have enough harem by now?, but still looking for more, and at the other side of the court at that." Harry mischievously teased.
Soujiro Gaped and spluttered "Its not that kind of thing on why I looked for you, I was planning on inviting you to my new guild that I made, I tried to contact more members from the debauchery tea party but no luck, and Shiroe for some reason hate guilds." Soujiro explained with a sad face.
"Ahh, cheer up, I'll join your guild, Shiroe is just being Shiroe, I'm sure he has a pretty good reason for it, he'll find a home definitely, he's the famous Villain in glasses after all." Harry explained.
Soujiro cheered up, "Ahh, your right, Shiroe sempai is strong, now about what you said about joining my guild?, no takebacks now." Soujiro said happily as he sent a guild invite to Harry and he accepted.
*Ding*
You have accepted West Wind Brigade guild member invitation.
The West Wind Brigade is a guild located in Akihabara boasting to have 120 members but in reality with more or less sixty. Infamous for being called a Harem guild, it was founded by Soujiro Seta, a member of the Debauchery Tea Party. Other members of the Tea Party were also invited to join but only a handful accepted the offer. Currently, it is one of the most influential guilds in Akihabara, standing in equal ground with big guilds such as D.D.D, Black Sword. With fewer than sixty members, the West Wind Brigade is considered small compared to other raiding guilds. However, it completed numerous high-level raids such as the Throne of Laddermantoast and the Nine Prisons of Heroes before even the other larger guilds.
"Saa, Harry, can you accompany me to the market for food?, every dishes tastes like sogey crackers right now, but somehow the basic food still has taste." Soujiro explained.
"Sure, lead the way, we can't leave your harem waiting, that would be too cruel." Harry joked to which Soujiro just laughed.
They arrived at the food stalls finding them empty.
"Sigh, no more left, what do I do Harry?, I can't bear to see the dissapointed looks on my girls." Soujiro asked knowing the answer was none that he liked.
"Hmm, your in luck my friend, I have some tasty food with me, hehe it's so good that it's even better than earth food I guarantee." Harry boasted.
"Really?, you better not be kidding, this is serious stuff were talking about." Soujiro questioned Harry.
"Tut,tut,tut, I'm not kidding, come let's go to your, I mean our guild and eat." Harry suggested.
"Let's go, I'm hungry."Soujiro said as he dragged Harry away into the West Wind Brigade guild hall like a rocket.
"Oi, Soujiro, did you find us food?, who is that with you?, is that?, Oh my God!, it's Harry, how have you been?." Nazuna greeted.
"Hi Nazuna, long time no see, I just bumped in Soujiro a while ago, and invited me to the guild, we went shopping, but there are no food left, don't worry though I have edible food, the taste is to die for." Harry boasted.
At the mention of food, hordes of people came rushing in.
"Did someone say food?, where?."
"Food?, we finally have food?."
"Everyone calm down, this person is Harry, our new guild mate, and a friend, and also a former debauchery tea party member, he also promised us food today, he boasted that it was literally to die for, you wouldn't happen to lie about food now Harry?, that would be just cruel of you." Soujiro explained with a lust for food in his eyes.
"Of course not, I'm not joking about food in this disaster, it's a little bit cramped in here, do you have a room with wide open space?." Harry asked.
"What a strange request, try the garden, it has a very wide space." Soujiro said, and led Harry into the garden.
"Well, this will do just fine, now I want you guys to back of for a minute." Harry requested, and they complied.
"Summon!, Blissey Army!." Harry declared as eight summoning circles appeared, and an army cute shiny Blisseys appeared.
"Blissey, can you share with my friends, your soft boiled eggs please." Harry commanded as the Blissey squad distributed a large sofboiled eggs with 60 members of the group.
The whole West Wind Brigade was feeling in a state of euphoria, and they quickly became full too.
"That was the best meal of my life." Nazuna declared, and all of them agreed.
"I never seen you could summon them before, at the debauchery party raids, you didn't use them." asked the curious Soujiro.
"Well, you didn't need them, with Shiroe taking the lead, I didn't get to show of." Harry explained.
"By the way what are those?." Soujiro pointed at the Blisseys.
"Oh, they were from a promotions for summoners way back then, it only lasted three days, because it wasn't well received, and the summoner population prefered the Combat Warrior Princess Series. These creatures are from the game pokemon, some of you may have heard of them or don't hear about them, they went into obscurity, and the promotion was a sort of jumpstart they were hoping to start the business again, sadly it didn't end well for them. Luckily I managed to get some pokemon as a summon contract before it went kaput." Harry explained.
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"Ahh, I heard about those, it only lasted three days, and it became a sore topic for summoners." Soujiro remembered the rumor.
"So guild master, what are your plans?." Harry asked.
"Well at first it was to protect my guild members, already accomplished that so far, what else?, mou, if only Shiroe were here." Souji (his nickname ) explained his delima.
"Hmm, if I know Shiroe, then he'll have a plan soon to make Akihabara livable, hmmm, wanna sell some eggs?, we could always use some funds." Harry suggested.
"Hmmm, how sly of you Harry, but your eggs are far more valuable, that aroma, that pure bliss of flavor, maybe we can trade it for some nice equipments for our guild members, were lacking on half for our equipments for our members." Souji explained.
"Hmm, but we first need a container for those jumbo sized eggs, I'll ask some of our members who is an artisan. hmm by the way Harry, what else have you been hiding from us?, I doubt that those Blissey's are your only trump card?." Souji asked.
"How very perceptive of you Souji-kun, you must have quite a battle experience for you to figure out that I still hold cards in my arsenal." Harry said cheerfully.
"I look forward to working with you then, I can't wait to see you in action, that soul strike spell sure was powerful if it only forced you to shell out most of your tricks, and not your trump cards, and aces." Souji said his input.
"Hmmm, you will just have to find out, but I'm sure I wouldn't be exposed this soon, damn all work to avoid suspicions, but it was bound to come out eventually. Souji-kun I'm still rusty, but I used to be called "Maboroshi no syoukanshi, former rank one on the world as the ranked summoner." Harry explained.
"Ohhh, Ahhhh, really?, wait it all fits now, the Maboroshi no syoukanshi stopped his appearance when you joined the debauchery tea party, hoh, you've been holding out on me Harry, it's reassuring to have you on my guild." Soujiro said.
"pffffhahahahaha, you actually believe me Souji-kun, the Maboroshi no syoukanshi is a myth, a boogeyman for summoners if you will." Harry explained as he played mind games on Soujiro.
"Hmmmm, you can't fool me that easily Harry, I mean who else would have an Army of eight shiny Blissey, when they were expensive, very expensive, I heard it from an old friend of mine that there was a rumor of a super powerful summoner in their midst because Shiny pokemon were very expensive, and powerful to boot, you must have something like an aces of aces." Souji deduced.
"Your no fun at all Souji-kun, you found me out this early too." Harry pouted.
"Nahh I just half guessed it all, but the subtle hints were there, I believe that the craftsman have finished the eggs container." Souji said cheerfully.
"Hats of to you Souji, now time for work, Blissey can we have more of those delicious eggs?, about fifty will do." Harry ordered as they complied.
"All right, do you want to accompany me Harry, to D.D.D's guild hall?." Souji asked.
"And missed out on all the fun?, Oh I'm definitely going." Harry said.
30 minutes later Souji and Harry arrived at D.D.D's headquarters.
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D.D.D
-One of the five major combat guilds in the town of Akiba, it is lead by "Berserker" Krusty. A lot of small and medium sized guilds were absorbed into the guild following the confusion of the Catastrophe, they boast the maximum amount of members at 1500 members.
-Using details from the game era based on community matching for large-scale battles, aside from putting you with more people, they teach beginners how to deal with large-scale battles. The organization is, the 1st ~ 3rd Raid Divisions (containing 480 members), general Raid General(3 members in total) lead the raid division (Legion ×4), Legion Leaders(12 members in total) lead Legions(108 including reserve), Raid Chiefs(60 members in total) leads a Full Raid of 24 members. In addition the Vice-president(which is a vacant position at the moment), has the 0th Raid Division of Legion ×1 (containing 110 spare members). Even in case of Krusty's absence each Raid can get organized and do their own thing.
-The guild is led by 3 females under the alias Drei-Klauen, currently the Drei-Klauen consists of Takayama Misa who leads the Raid Strategy Headquarters and Rieze who leads the Instruction Corps. There was another woman in Drei-Klauen as the Vice-President, but she withdrew from the position so now it is vacant.
The guild originates from "Randomly hit the keyboard and got 'D', but it's not possible to create with only 1 letter, so 'D.D.D' was the result. Moreover, D.D.D is made so I can enjoy Elder Tales with more friends. Although the game comes with a system to locate groups, wouldn't it be interesting for a user to create a system to conquer raids instead?". Only several senior members within D.D.D know of this.
Has a website for their headquarters and activities are done with voice chat, this arrangement allows Krusty to arrange force divisions, regular staff conferences and raids.
-To Krusty it was interesting to make it an "autonomous organization that acts without permission by section and produces results", although the guild steadily expanded after the Catastrophe, his curiosity was satisfied, he's embarrassed to admit that it's also tedious.
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After getting an appointment for Krusty, they finally got a meeting with him.
"To what do I owe this visit, guild master of West Wind Brigade, Soujiro Seta?." Krusty asked.
"Oh, some trade business proposition, I need some good equips for our members." Souji explained.
"Hoh?, and what would you trade?, money?, we have enough money for now, and our equipments are valuable especially since the catastrophe, prices have skyrocketed." explained Krusty.
"Ohoh, I expected as much, but our trade is also very lucrative and also very delicious, yes gentlemen, the most valuable commodity at this moment in Elder Tale, is food but not just regular food, but royalty food, I give you the "Super Miracle Eggs Of Fantasy." Souji explained, while everyone in the room sweatdropped at his naming sense.
"You honestly believe that for a moment I believe your story?." Kristy said in disbelief.
"The truth is in the pudding, or as they say The truth is in the egg, here have a sample, and distribute it." Sound handed over a sample to everyone.
The members of D.D.D took a bite the eggs, and froze still. They were bombarded with flavor out of this world. It must have been a trick of the eye but the members of D.D.D saw outer space, and traveled to the planets, and the milky way, their hallucinations stopped as they shouted "Super Miracle Eggs Of Fantasy Banzai!." three times.
The deal went smoothly after that, and the West Wind Brigade got a hold of nice sets of equips.
News of the West Wind Brigade's "Super Miracle Eggs Of Fantasy." quickly spread, but most counted it as a rumor. Still the rumor mill reached into the ears of the Oceanic System and it's guild master "Strong Arm" Mitchitaka, The 8th Shopping District and it's guild master "Young Master" Charasin and Rodrick Firm and it's guild master "Fairy Doctor" Rodrick.
Their thoughts were all in the same page on how to turn this "Super Miracle Eggs Of Fantasy." into profit. They each sent a messenger to West Wind Brigade for a meeting.
"Why do I sense that we just opened Pandora's box?." Harry asked.
"Its all in your Imagination Harry." Souji explained.
"I hope your right Souji." Harry put in his 2 cents.
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Authors Note: Wohoo, I managed to write 3k words, Happy reading.
Reference:
Soujiro Seta, commonly referred to as Souji, is one of the players trapped in the MMORPG Elder Tale. He is the guild master of West Wind Brigade and a veteranSamurai, as well as a former member of the Debauchery Tea Party.
Personality:
Souji is quite popular with the opposite sex with Naotsugu commenting that "all the girls want him". Since their time together in the Debauchery Tea Party, Soujiro has looked up to Shiroe.
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Krusty, also known as Berserker Krusty (or Krusty in the anime), is the guild leader of D.D.D, the biggest battle guild in Akihabara. He is a Guardian and the spokesperson of the Round Table Alliance.
Appearance:
Krusty has fair skin and light brown hair, and in both the light novels and anime is described as having a handsome face. He is also quite tall, in the light novels being described as being over 6 feet in height and rather muscular.
Personality:
Krusty is a natural leader, having led his guild to many victories. This makes him well-suited for leading the Round Table Alliance and its expeditionary force. Krusty acts like nobility when he speaks to Duke Sergead with a very gentleman-like manner.
Like Shiroe, he has a habit of pushing his glasses when thinking of something.