# Interlude I: The victory party

Three centuries prior to next chapter...

There was a realm filled with stale, halogenic light.

There, on that excessively white place,

and eight-pointed table was surrounded by seven black silhouettes.

D1: *Tink tink* I would like to celebrate our great success.

D7: Gentlemen!

D6: Grrr...

D7: And token lady! We have won!

There was some applause.

D4: I find this place to be very great, but I still have some concerns.

D2: Some man wants to ruin the mood, it seems.

D4: This is serious. Third, could you explain?

D3: Our plan reached fruition, but there were some opposers.

D6: There always were. What do I care?

D3: This time they were of the more "physical" kind.

D2: Could you get to the point, please?

D3: Of course. There were rumours of a violent trio

from the Wildlands attacking key actors and places.

D6: What an absurd notion!

We scanned the Wildlands and never saw anything past savages with campfires.

You're telling me they threatened us with their mean faces?

D3: On the contrary. According to reports,

these members were highly trained

and heavily armed with 3rd generation equipment.

D2: That's absurd. D6: Hahaha, ridiculous! D7: Impossible!

D1: *Tink tink* Ladies, gentlemen, please calm down.

D5: I get that some will always get preserved,

but you can't even find images of it these days.

Either there is some industrial power that has been hiding from us,

or an inordinate amount of harmful equipment somehow survived.

D4>5: You know that you can change your body, right?

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You could stop sounding like a hundred-year old if you wanted.

D3: The reports aren't very reliable,

but that would certainly have been an explanation for some recent attacks.

Moreover, we received reports of a surveillance humanoid on a

main facility being dismantled 15 minutes before it turned on.

Several squads were sent, but the results were unknown.

D7: Unknown? what do you mean by unknown?

D3: We received no squad information about any threats.

That can either mean they were killed in action or lost their cards.

D2: Everyone relax. Even if a heavily armed hit squad entered the place,

they would have been unable to enter the server room

except for some very rare high clearance card,

or truly implausible amounts of explosives.

Moreover, the fact that this place even

exists is proof that they couldn't do anything.

D4: Maybe you're right. I should just go back to enjoying the new lands.

D3: I think that even if there's a small possibility of the rumors being true,

we should follow through.

D7: Well, looking for such fools in this world shouldn't be that difficult,

in case that they didn't just get recivilized

or go back to their barren lands.

D6: Come on, we're deities! What could three hobos do against us?

Somewhere, the three alluded felt really underestimated.

D3: They seemed pretty capable of infiltrating the place.

What if they just escaped our world? Maybe they could attack our servers.

D2: It seems like you didn't read the specifications very well.

The servers don't exist anymore.

Even if they survived the Mindwipe rays by using some imaginary 6th,

or anti4th+ gen technology, they would be striking at air.

D3: Huh?

D7: You really only provided the money, huh.

D5: This place isn't so much an app on a

computer but rather an alternate dimension.

The reactors on the network should last next to an eternity.

D7: Even if we ran out of energy,

we could always go back for more.

D3: Oh, so we're pretty safe then.

D2: Of course.

They had no idea of what was coming.