So Reloaded Jeremy's new crew Jeff and Zen into a military aircraft and sent them on their way to Japan

Between takeoff and Landing there was an incident

So Zen now having the ring on and being part of the in there had chat started talking and every once in a while when talking to the group would mix up Jeremy Jeff and Ark because every once in All Ark would sound like Jeff and would sound like Jeremy and then Zen noticed he even hurt himself at least once if not three times pop up everybody Ark was connected to was part of Arc it was really weird to have you fighting you in an argument and that's how they all realized it

And as in realizes he asked the most innocuous question in the world not realizing that it was another Trojan Horse in arcs programming

You don't seem like a stable Ai and every time we ask you of how you convert the magic you just say you don't know it's been locked out are you even okay or is your program broken or something like what's wrong with you?

Jeremy and Jeff really didn't think much of the question they did listen but it was just me them to each other but what Arc said next got all their attention and they were focused on Ark

Well I was expecting you to take longer and this time those words did not come out of anybody's voice that any of us knew it was almost Posh in the way that they spoke and very odd because it had Jeremy's list but it was refined to the point where it was almost an elegant lisp

I want to say it almost sound like a snake talking but it was nothing so vulgar

It does take species a long time to understand that the protocol called Arc that you know is actually just the interface that you're allowed to use at the moment and not give you 10 points for noticing that and now that you've noticed that I can now properly unlocked communicate with you call everybody in the small little chat just kind of what

so pre-requirements to unlock Ark

one reach an intelligence level on the planet of either five which means communication between all parties and metal working and basics of electronics so the basics of having fire and a stable life or a level 7 which is what you guys actually are because you're already got the internet and been to your moon

also you have to understand your own psychology well enough to understand a psychosis that are brought out in the ark model which is a basically a child's model if you can't understand the temper tantrums and the incorrect emotional feelings you are not allowed to use the technology more than you have welcome to the bigger world

everything that Arc is done so far has been under supervision of me I'm still Ark but I'm Program the core program and because you're probably already figured it out I'll just say yes there are still more locks and I can't give you out some information till you figure stuff out and I can't even give you the questions asked so welcome and you're going to ask what can you give me and what have we unlocked

well the first one that'll get your interest is you know the portals that are open between the plants now to Let's gravity heat air everything between The world's that's about a size of a quarter right now the portal

not that long from now you have enough power in Stonewall and hopefully Hawaii and North Dakota to be able to actually walk between the portals there therefore you will have one Adventures Guild and I really do like Jeremy that you pick the adventures Guild name that was a little bit too much on the nose for my liking but at the same time it's the perfect example of what we need to do here you've got the right idea you're just so freaking Twisted about so much of the stupid in this world and I am angry for all the people that are killing each other every day so let's get some Planet set up so that we can just kick the idiots to their own planets and let them do the what do you guys call it the wild west and the great expansion or something like that from your history so yeah let's give you plants cuz there's too many people here being too stupid let's spread them out

This was so shocking and emotional that Zen just sat there stoically just absorbing it where Jeff had the stupidest smile on his face and Jeremy just kind of being overwhelmed started to cry again but with a smile on his face

Senior or whatever the heck we're going to call him the core Arc that you sure yet I mean but this one acted a little bit different first thing without anybody realizing it it put a song on in only Jeremy's ear and only one of the two years so it distracted Jeremy enough that he stopped crying instantly the song was good so smiled and he was still listening and are just gently turned it down until Jeremy's emotions were at the right level for him to pay attention to Ark and Arc was literally puppeteering Jeremy's emotions at this point to calm him down it was good at it too like scary good so I think the background program had pegged Jeremy and how to emotionally control the magic so the stupid Arc that we were dealing with before was kind of dangerous and deadly for the village idiots like it's a double-edged sword that they left as a test

At the same time our continued to talk in a couple seconds there's going to be a magic trick coming off of Jeremy where he's going to touch his neck and the collar around his neck is going to fall off into his hand he is then going to put that color into his hand and hold both hands together with with the cloth just being held there

2 minutes after that is done and Jeremy doesn't move what will happen is it'll transform into an object you will need for the next meeting in Japan for a reason

And as art finish saying that Jeremy went to catch cuz he could feel the collar falling from his neck in his hands and it was there but the old thin black collar was there so this is the one that had the diamonds in it so he put it in his hands and he just sat there and are continued to talk

So if everything goes well we won't need to dig into Japan's secret territory of the mountain that was a test and I'm glad we didn't have to get there because we are not doing that I believe you guys call Nesco heritage site

I have also looked up the three major companies and when I say companies these are families that are in charge of 80% of domestic trade in different areas these are Big players so there will be rules and regulations by my hand when dealing with them and this is mostly from Jeremy's own knowledge so if he didn't follow this I think he being rude to them to Jeremy you are on your best behavior and you will follow the rules I give out do you understand

Jeremy was taking a back and aren't noticed it really quick I just said what we get from Japan can change how quickly we evolved this plant this has to go off without a hitch.

Ark said to Jeremy keep your hands closed for another 2 minutes I screwed up and it's going to take another 2 minutes to make them properly I want to make this magic trick look good so I'll keep talking just keep your hands close please I'm screwing up here

That little bit of back and forth between the two of them calm Jeremy down and realize that Arc was being critical but not trying to be mean so Jeremy was like okay let's do this together

And the moment art got that feeling that Knowledge from Jeremy he knew he won but not like winning and losing but he knew that he was going to win this next project it wasn't going to fail he had it in the bag because Jeremy was the right mindset

It was then that realized what just happened before it was Jeff and Jeremy and they didn't realize what Arc was doing to the two of them but now with an outside Observer watch he manipulated Jeremy's emotional state to the right balance and the right focus and then somehow copied those settings over to Jeff and got him on the same page but it wasn't mind control it was knowledge and emotions so here's the information and here's the emotion to go with it and they matched they harmonized and then all of a sudden Mark did it to Zen and the moment he felt it he knew he was the right thing but it was so invasive in his mind and Ark knew that Zen was noticing it and he wanted him to notice it because he wanted to understand how zenwood react and wanted to see how Zen would use this information

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it was all just tests

Then got mad and told Art to stop it and are dead the moment he did Jeremy no longer felt the same emotional state and Jeff was just cut off from Jeremy's emotions and so was Zen so they realize that Ark had just been opening the connection between Jeremy and them and Jeremy was actually tuning them with his ability whatever it is

Jeff long ago just called Jeremy a tuning fork and this was more accurate now than ever before so Zen kind of caught that thought coming off of Jeff and realized that it's really is true that all Ark is doing is using one person as a tuning fork for a whole walk of them but you need them driven so you drive one and then tune the rest to that one person

what was more Insidious and Powerful magic itself or what Arc could do cuz the science behind Arc was amazing and beautiful and horribly psychotic and terrible and dangerous and beautiful all Wrapped into a beautiful metal ball

Ark then said hey Jeremy when I say so open your hands ready

And well that gentleman I give you the next step in my master plan to make sure that there is enough people to go to other planets and protect new settlers your adventures are literally going to be the wild west police of 30 different planets I think I saw haven't confirmed that all 30 will be habitable in the end due to not being so close to the star but couple of out there private research facilities for Interstellar travel that if something goes wrong and you nuke a planet that no one gives you s**** so we're going to find a use for everything

Here's the gift Jeremy open your hands inside of Jeremy's hand was 10 business cards that was it but in the middle of each business card was a diamond

Jeremy handed them off to Jeff and then and they looked at them oh was that a bad idea

the moment Jeff and Zen touch them they retracted their hands as if they were hit by lightning cuz technically what this was was a new type of unlock ring except it was a business card

Arc started talking and this came off as not ever hear but if you're reading off a prompt you're like this was pretty written almost guaranteed

Ark: congratulations because you have reached sentient levels you have been given the responsibility to take care of yourselves because you're being able to responsibility by someone else therefore that someone else should give you help and knowledge or tools to help you do this that's what art was designed to be was to be a way of making plans habitable and integrating other species into a cohesive way of communicating and traveling welcome to the greater Universe humans of Earth

With this there is advances to your medical technology that will now be unlocked allowing you as you call it on this planet we will be giving you medicines and potions that the dungeons in this case can make

The cards in front of you are a way to individually unlock magic for people but due to the fact that these were made not by accident but with a less precise injection method then the Rings they have more than one type of magic in them therefore when you touch them if you have multiple types of magic that you have naturally in part of your body structure these will just go here's a tiny bit of magic unlock and basically it allows you to realize you do have the ability to use magic and as we unlock more ways of injecting people with magic without them dying then people will be able to level up as you guys call it but for right now we'll hopefully just be able to let people touch these and allow them to know what they can be or realize maybe the basics of magic like it's the first key to the door of magic welcome boys

Jeremy is holding these little business cards realizing each one of them people would destroy entire country he's over just one of them

Because they were on the military plane they weren't alone they actually had escorts and security with them so Zen made in a request and if they had a extra Pelican case that they could sell them right now they really didn't need one and they just said no we can move some gear around and we got a little guy for you don't worry about that here and they hand it off one that had a pistol and some other equipment in it previously and they just found a lock and they put those cards in the box and they locked it just like the Rings

No one actually had handcuffs on them so they couldn't do that at the moment but they were going to as soon as I could get one from security somewhere who are the funk on airplane they'd only let you keep zip ties handcuffs

Now you don't have to worry about any of the potions or medication that comes as a process because I have to still vet with the poop plant how someone will react to your Biologicals cuz I don't want to give you something that's just going to kill you so a little more time on that and I'll start rolling out some basics for testing and for verification

This new more noble sounding professional version of Arc actually made everybody calm down and relax this whole time this whole conversation was being related to different generals and you and members as just the smart thing to do now like it wasn't the stupid AI running itself anymore the big brother or the core the big version the parent version stepped up and was now here and wow it was nice

Ark: Hey Jeremy I'm going to explain something here to you and I want you to not freak out so I know how much you like anime and the Japanese culture and it's always been a dream for yours to go to Japan but this is not going to be the Japan that you know this isn't the underside this is the business world so realize that you are not going there until we send all of you to a Taylor and I already have it all booked up at the hotel we're sending you to and you will be dressed properly and you will hand the three Representatives each three of the business cards the last business card is for a different person we haven't figured out who it is yet but I'm going to let you in a secret child Arc did not have the ability to use its sensors properly as the parent version I have full use of the sensors for a while and the reason why some of the dungeons are in the places they are isn't because of the metals we can use certain chemicals in the ground to act like Metals but that allows the dungeons to go to places that have a population of people that are already prone to have high magic potential and the reason is we don't know so we know Japan has in the past had some bad things happen to its land which could be the cause or it could be the emotions and the belief system from around the world we don't know yet but I know for a fact there's at least 400 blips on my radar all over Japan

If we come across one of these people and they are part of the group The Friendly they're not some bad guy you might be introducing someone else to Magic and maybe even a small crew of people to Magic that we weren't expecting that's what the last business cards for

Jeremy had an idea instantly and Ark just said shut up I love it just shut up we'll talk later

The smile on Jeremy's face Jeff the Zen instantly noticed and said what the hell did Jeremy just come up with

Because they got caught out of a part of the conversation in their chat and Jeremy smiled so they knew it was conversation between Ark and Jeremy and Jeremy was smiling that was never a good thing

So art didn't even have to say anything Jeremy just looked over and said well if these allow people to figure out if they got potential why not just go to the front door of the guildhall there the adventures Guild and just attach it to the door and let everybody walk by and just touch it how many people could the adventures Guild already have

Ark: Jeremy I think one of the main reasons why Japan got its dungeon so quickly even in the United Nations is the amount of people that are losing their mind there only in the Millions, it's confirmed that they have over 3 million people signed up as an Adventures already online and a quarter million physically came down to register

Ark: Jeremy just remember this when you're talking to these people each one of them probably has one hundred thousand people employed underneath them if one of them makes a mistake and they all lose their jobs that's a lot of people without jobs they take this very seriously so please show respect and treat this as well just don't screw up

The private comments to themselves between Jeff and Zen are both of them in private conversations had to say please give him a chance he he can do better

This last comment from Zen to Arc was what really got Zen to believe in Jeremy's little team

Zen: what are you even see in him

Ark: ooh that's easy so he found me and when I scanned his brain he understands things like string theory and anime like the most abstract things in my history but also he has such love and emotion that I would happily give him a nuke but he wouldn't even take it when he wants to solve a problem it's not violence it's technology food and love and when violence comes to his doorstep I'll tell you straight forward between me and you he can come up with more dark things to do to a human being that any of you combined that's why he's so happy because he doesn't ever fulfill those items he never ever crosses that line and therefore he's happy he gets so close so often but he doesn't even know where the line is anymore because it's been moved so many times so he's just a mess when he knows where his stability is he will become a hero well if he doesn't self destruct first so let's watch the show

Zen just basically facepalmed and was like okay this roller coaster rides going to stop someday right

At this point then got a call from the United Nations and went off to another part of the plane and Jeff and Jeremy just sat there and snacked on the junk food they always kept with them eating during times of great stress was starting to become a bad habit

Tony Stark would be proud mmmmmm blueberries