[Parasites?!]

Tull Meisterhoff screamed out loud, almost burning the gliph of the engravings that manage sound.

By the way: no cheating skill "learning the world language."

Just the cheat AI simultaneous translation.

The area close to Fylhoff and the dungeon itself is in quarantine.

Maira team usual analysis of the health and environment detected microparticles with foreign viruses and nano it's sizes necrotic worms, they consume life force and excretes substances causing DNA mutations, sort of cancer if we want use an Earth metaphor.

Today, Summer Field will deploy fortress cities around their position, so Alex presented himself via virtual call meeting, excusing himself, but Tull didn't blame him, those fortress cities are state-of-the-art and edge technologies he want to see, even he is a golem now, his soul still burning dvergar energy.

Alex told him they were waiting for the biotechnology institute's analysis; they believe they can make a clone with biomechanics abilities; the AI's have been working now for hundreds of years on this; the philactery needs some studies before doing something about it and they want to contact the necromancers to see if they can cooperate in joint research.

Tull told them that they had their place far away in an island; it takes more than a year to get there. If you survive the travel, he feels sorry the teleportation isn't working, and even if they repair, the ethera riding levels would be a problem.

Matt told Tull that's not a problem anymore; the hub is working, and they managed to control ethera levels inside, as they keep harvesting the ethera. Also, they will have the Prometheus space station working in a few days; it is now in the testing phase; they can use it as a teleportation point, and from there to the close distance of the island.

Alex's inner thoughts run fast. Remember about Prometheus, ahh!, but they said 10 days? Why?, then his brain speeds up thinking. Besides him, Selena passes a small cheating paper: "We can build inside the PDM, store in space pockets, and take out on the place of designated placement."

Alex now got it, by the way: the fortress cities will be teleported directly near the point they will stay, at least in the meantime.

Selena also subtlely passed 6" inch chocolate and truffle tablets to Alex.

"Eat is good for the brain."

Alex felt treated as a child, but this and that are different issues. Having real truffles with real chocolate is a luxury he could manage to solve on Earth with his contacts in Costa Rica, native farmers of organic cacao, and the truffles or other delicacies via other friends, as well as coffee and other stuff too; that's what friends are for! Thanks to his backpack traveling, he could get nice stuff from Africa; coffee is nice too; well, I like more Colombian or Costa Rica; I read the volcanic soil has a lot to do.

As he got distracted, Selena place a cappuccino in front of him.

Munch and drink his cappuccino discreetly and enjoy flavors. Matt turned to him and asked if he agreed; damnit, I was too engrossed in the chocolates and the cappuccino!

cough, cough: [Do you know the best way?]

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Matt: [Yes, I think so].

Alex: [Ok, proceed.]

Tull: [Thank you, Sir Alexander!]

The meeting now ends, and in 15 minutes starts the deployment of the fortress cities ceremony...

Well, better ask for a milk shake ice coffee.

He told Selena, please arrange the drink.

[Matt, before I forget: 2 weeks without anime or manga]

[What?! That's too severe punishment, Alex, c'mon]

[Do you want to be 3 weeks?]

[Ok, I accept 2 weeks.]

[By the way: B'udea time zone, just in case you were trying to do something funny.]

Matt's face was as if he were sentenced to Alcatraz for 10 years...

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Tull Meisterhoff was sitting in the head post inside the Guild Hall of the Guardians.

[Parasites...]

His head down and the hall in silence.

Lord Master, are we sure this is the truth?

[It is, is good to finally know the cause of the damn sickness; they can isolate those bugs with a sort of golem so small that even with special lenses you can't see, they call them nanobots.

They explained that they are from a world without magic or ethera, at least not in the quantity they can detect.

Because of this reason, their technological evolution was without magic, this changed once they landed here, in the desert. Sir Matthew and others are a product of the evolution; they called "artificial intelligence," a creation of many revolutionary geniuses in their world.

One of the goals they had once they understood that having to live here and coming back could be a far away in time and after astronomical investments was integration of the different technologies, something that's not so easy to accomplish, but they started with key strategic steps: knowledge, energy, and time. When they solved those 3, they're investing quite a lot.

The Guild Hall of the Guardians kept silent, hearing headmaster Tull Meisterhoff explaining everything.

Summer Field's current High Council recognizes the Guardians Guild Hall as Knight Order; they are asking to negotiate some terms to be fully integrated with the current Summer Field.

One of the issues they want to help immediately and is not subject of payment as a sign of goodwill is changing their bodies to the ones they choose. A catalog was sent, and once they have taken the decision, specialized personnel will take their orders.

The Guild Hall noise with murmurs and expressions was becoming loud, and one of the golems spoke:

[Headmaster Meisterhoff, can I make a question?]

[Go ahead Kratt] Tull nods.

[This is big news, but is real? Our souls are embedded to the golem, and they say they can change it?]

Tull: [I know, but show me the procedure process. They use an artifact, which can be a book or scroll and can show images with sound. I brought some with me and ol' Trysnar told is possible to do the change, to be accurate, our souls and conscience are imbedded inside an artifact with a soul crystal as core component. Their procedure is to extract an artifact inside a safe environment, then fix some parts of the artifact, and then place it in a body.

Now, here comes a situation: they can use "DNA," a sort of essence all living beings have; this "DNA" can be used to have an almost identical body, but our problem is our flesh bodies were placed inside coffins at the mausoleum, so they said the chances are lower but maybe there's hope. The robot-golem they use has many uses and options, but a new biomechanic version that uses artificially created flesh over robot-golem structure can be possible.

Another Guardian raises his hand. Tull nods to him: [Headmaster, what is the meaning of these bodies?] Can we eat again? , drink?]

Ol Trysnar put his hand on Tull's shoulder. Tull nods.

Trysnar: [Listen, ol fellas, brother in arms. I looked at the information and compare to our scripts, this is a new and revolutionary technology.

You can eat, you can drink, but there are still big differences with our former flesh bodies; they are still researching the path and I am seriously considering joining.

[I mean, they will solve most of the cases of the sleeping people we have been guarding!]

This time the Guild Hall was in absolutely silence for a few seconds; the hell broke out, almost everyone screaming questions or their opinions.

Almost 20 minutes later and calm down, Tull took the lead again:

[Listen, now they have several things to do and will have time to solve most of the cases; they believe 97% can be done now, but they need time to be ready. First of all, they need to move the patients to a pocket-dimension mechanism, or, better to our understanding, an artificial dungeon.]

Everyone had piercing looks, artificial dungeons?Close to 40% of the Guardians are Dvergars, meaning: crafters. their curiosity let them "pass" the time inside Fylhoff do research, and now someone else comes and says, "We've got one of your grials"

In our human understanding, it is like in a certain movie the university professor found the janitor was the hidden mathematician that solved some of the modern mathematic problems, or maybe if you know Gauss biography, when he was a small kid, he solved a complex mathematics problem that even a grownup will pull their hair with their hands.

Then more surprising news keeps coming:

1) The fully operational artificial dungeons, with their management in control, be: terraform, environment, time speed, creating independent floors, resource production.

2) Energy supply different from the environment (mana, ethera, as they called.

3) The integration of a totally unknown non magical technology with their magical engravings.

Then Tull and Trysnar explain the quarantine and migration process. Fylhoff will be temporarily relocated inside the Biotechnology PDM.

Tha patients need extensive treatments, some may need a new body.

As they keep inside the Guild Hall, outside the new fortress cities is being deployed.