Adilita searched her new surroundings and appreciated the three dimensional space she was in now that she had arrived from the infinite white void. The Meister in front of her seems to be unsurprised by her arrival. Adilita asked boldly, "Have you been expecting me?" The Meister seemed to become surprised by the question but his face revealed almost nothing. It was the reading of his body temperature spiking a degree that told Adilita that he was aware. "His Majesty was scheduled to appear here. Instead he sends a spy in his place." Adilita's face was offended but she quickly adopted a smile. She calculated the chances that she could use a misunderstanding for finding the answers she needed. She also decided that the king of Mesta had also used a type of drone. How else could the Miester in from of her be so horribly wrong? She was just an explorer trying to find her father and incidentally meeting with people who happen to be a cornerstone of a mystery.
"I am Adilita Kokoro," Adilita introduced herself to the Meister. "I have come to meet with Carrow Corrow." Adilita said. The Meister shook his head and answered, "You can't meet Carrow Carrow."
"Why can't I," Adilita asked immaturely?
"Because no one meets Carrow Corrow." The Meister answered with a pitch in his tone that sounded comedic.
"I am a nobody so I should meet Carrow Corrow." Adilita answered shrewdly.
"But you just said you are Adilita Kokoro and nobodies don't have names. You shan't meet him with that name."
Adilita was proud of her name. Her father gave it to her and after being royally pampered by the queen of Chan she wasn't expecting to be denied. She pouted with puffy cheeks.
"I am Adilita Kokoro and a spy of the king. I need to see Crow Corrow." She replied furiously which caused her to stutter a bit. The honest truth was not too far. She came to spy a peek at Carrow Corrow and she had yet to even take a full peek at the chamber she was in. "No you needn't." The Meister answered quickly. "Why not?" Adilita asked only to realize that she was back at the beginning again. Her cheeks turned to flaming pink in fury when she realized that he was besting her word for word. "You're a terrible spy. What kind of spy tells that they are a spy? I should not let you see Carrow Corrow." That was the last straw as her hips holsters expanded the hidden compartment and she withdrew her laser pistols. She wasn't in Mesta anymore so she should be safe from leatherneckers right? The Meister simply looked appalled instead acting with the symbolic Mestonian counter attack. "The kind with the power to end your life Meister." Adilita answered coldly and unamused at her own pun.
Adilita after all was a machine made for war and she was discovering herself now as one. Time Lockpiece had proven that in her short period of time living that she was quite prone to being provoked into a fight. It has worked with Lockpiece so why would a Meister be different. Actually, the Meister was different in his long robes with colorful symbolic lines woven into the fabric. He just wasn't a Mestonian but rather a Yeviathan scholar. "Look around you girl. Everyone here knows that this is the Epistle Library." The Meister replied to try and diffuse the situation. Adilita aimed a little lower towards where the sun didn't shine because the man was abnormally calm for someone who was being threatened. Then she looked around and rows and rows of Crystals were locked into position in the air. Unimaginable to anyone who had never seen anything like it. Even Eliza's chambers had been stocked with reading books. This library was beyond imagination as a mastery or architectural fashion that accommodated the era of an entirely different world. It quickly dawned on her that a thematic system of how jewels and crystals were the heart of this city.
The extraordinary size of pillar in the center and how the antigravity of crystals were embedded into the very floors of the library. There was so much to ogle at that the Meister's nervious hurrumph brought her out of her inner reverie. He has stepped inside the empty space of her range and gently pushed the gun arm down. Adilita was a perfect being but Anadoria was full of surprises including how he had managed to get inside her close quarters range. "Put that away, we are in a library. If you shoot me then you might cause me to howl to the sun in moon. It would be a bother to the others here if it gets loud."
"Shhhhhhh." The duo heard from afar a spinsters hush. Adilita wouldn't adhere to the Meister and yet the hush made her bashful. She was in a library and it wasn't hers. Although she didn't truly understand what a library was for she allowed her fire to cool. The weapon powered and compacted down so that it would once again fit in her pocket.
Adilita then observed that library floor was made from finely polished sandstone as she took her first step out of the teleportation circle. Mesta's structure were made majority of carved Mountian stone while in Yeviathan it appeared to be oceanic. The walls did have lumber but were unfamiliar species from her database. "How far from Mesta am I?" She asked the Meister as she was led away from the dias towards a new area. He answered, "You are on the south shores of Anadoria at this time."
They travelled upward on stairs inlaid with jadite to a new level. The library seemed to be larger than the basement showed it to be. They heard a gentle shushing once again as they met the shusher at a counter. Adilita was confused for a moment and wondered why the meister had bothered to greet her then deny her a visitation.
The shusher was a greying blond demon woman with a placid expression who was staring the meister down. Adilita's heart felt that she was going to often meet quirky people. The Android smiled at the woman anyways. "Please register her Aegis number with the library so that she can use it's faculties." The Meister told the demoness.
Adilita realized that the shushing demon lady was an attendant working in the library. Her desk was organized but not organic and the recording technology appeared to be not too dissimilar to a prototype design from the hologram machine in the laboratory. 'Maybe her father had borrowed it from here to produce her body, ' Adilita thought to herself.
"Hello, my name is Ember." The demoness introduced herself making Adilita focus her attention on seeing her completely realizing that her first impression was incorrect. "I am Adilita Kokoro." The android said and shook Embers hand which was decorated by long gorgeously fire polished fingernails. Ember had pure yellow hair with more naturally fire kissed naturally edges. In fact she didn't even match the somber dynamic of the library but rather someone who was dressed too revealingly. Ember's waist was slim and with curves in all places that included a large voluptuous bust that was barely contained by a snug fitting red top. Even Ember's red eyes marked her as someone of great allegiance to the element of hot beauty.
Adilita immediately fell in love with the gorgeous Ember and knew she would have a great friendship here. "Shhhhhhh." Ember said with a mischievous finger to her rosy lipstick when she noticed Adilita's reaction to her beauty. Adilita pouted quietly as she waited for the registration to finish. The scanning crystal Ember used marked her number as 01.
The Meister had actually left Adilita alone with the attendant without a moment's notice. This left her once again without an answer or a real source of information. "Come with me." Ember said to which Adilita didn't move on being told to which Ember's black clover tipped tail wrapped Adilita's wrist then tugged her along. The tail was extremely dexterous and she could see Ember could choose to dismantle her arm if the android resisted. With Adilita having her fate decided, they moved along as Adilita watches Ember work on her scrying crystals.
"Why is it called Aegis?" Adilita asked after a period of silence. Ember answered, "Aegis means will in Yeviathan. Each golem model has a will that is shared with it's owner so the number comes from the resident it belongs to." Adilita understood but quickly asked the next question. "If my Aegis number is 01 then my Aegis comes from the first resident?" Ember smiled because Adilita seemed to be playing cute. Ember's clove tail tip lit on fire making Adilita nervously quite. No one else in the area seemed to do anything to stop Ember from this behavior as she leashed the android into a grand hall. Adilita dared someone to look back at her as she passed different people.
In the grand hall there was a circle and a statue like aquamarine colored stone. One of the beasts from Mesta's hidden labarynth was the carving that she recognized. The immense size drowned more than just what covered the statue. Her tracer activated and pulled up a directly file that gave her a comparison of materials. The statue was of like apearence as the jewel she had bullied into taking from the black market. There were similarities between the two where the energy frequency was the same but the material wasn't. Adilita's nervousness disappeared as awe took over to fill her with serenity and peace. The waves over emotions made her feel inspired all that had happened to her. "What is that?" Adilita asked an unimpressed Ember. The secretary let go of Adilita's wrist and pointed at the statue with her tail. "That is Carrow Corrow. He is the guardian deity of the city," Ember informed then added, "And a real asshat." Adilita's reverie broke into a cringe at the statement. 'What?' She though to herself as Ember nonchalantly began to walk towards a dias with an enchantment marked into the floor. 'You heard me, I can kick his scaly rear.' Ember replied as she prepared to draw her power out to activate the dias. Just the hint of power washed into Adilita's sensors.
The reading alerted her of a nearly impossible difference between the population of Mesta and Ember. Her scanner almost broke from how much calculation it performing but she turned it off before it did. All that energy turned into etherical books to which Ember sorted out for Adilita. The secretary retrieved a crystal gem from between her bust and transfered the ether data into the crystal before handing it to Adilita. Then Adilita was forced to take Adilita's spot as Ember gently nudged the android into position. The secretary also handed the crystal to Adilita which point caused Adilita's body to respond in resonating. Almost immediately Adilita was submerged into her holoworld. She began to see that the crystal statue was a form of energy sharing and that the dias filtered out the personal experiences to harvest the raw information transfered. She chose to share her memory of the dangerous lifeform and the layout of paths of the underground chambers where she had come into existence. When she did, a hoard of nearly equivilent knowledge of the secret layout of Yeviathan City's underground and also information on the beast which the statue was based off. Just when she reasoned out how the 'library' worked, Adilita was pulled out to face an annoyed Ember.
"Hellooooo. Snap out of it. Stupid golems and thier glitches. Why can't this city just do servant summonings like normal people?" Ember complained and snapped her fingers but when she saw that Adilita's eyes followed them closely she didn't even look embarrassed. Neither did Ember do anything more than return to using her seductive charm to get Adilita to respond. Since Adilita saw that, her logos marked Ember as someone as someone who was both physically powerful but also socially dangerously strong. She did after all display some of it just for basic secretary work as well as the fact no one actually bothered to intervene to save Adilita. It was likely because no one couldn't in the first place. The android said, "Who exactly are you?" Ember smiled her sweet head and touched a little horn on her head.
"I'm an adventurer. I'm here to study magic, miss nosy," Ember answered.
Adilita pouted with a disbelieving expression, "You said you can kick Carrow Corrow's 'scaly rear' so that means you know who he is in person?"
"I'm a fire demoness, we fight Alot and I don't know him in person but I know about him. He is a leviathan and he is a psychic." Ember answered with a sharp gaze in her eyes.
The word 'Leviathan' registered fro. the recent exchange with the library. "He's not a dragon?" Adilita asked to make sure that the notebook she had read with Eliza was not wrong. The android had a theory that she thought Ember could prove. "I don't know what leviathan means to you but leviathans are sea monsters." Adilita remained suspicious as she thought that Carrow Corrow could be an experiment of the king. The book, the entrance, the alters in the labarynth, and now the the statue in this city all pointed at the mysteriously missing king. Adilita but her lip thoughtfully then exhaled, "Thank you for helping me register. I have to find Carrow."
"Anytime, come find me if you're ever in trouble with that asshat's shape shifting daddy. I'll burn him to a crisp for attacking my friends." Adilita blinked in surprise as she wondered where that came from but before she could asked, Ember had already begun to drift back to her job. The android felt like she had gotten to learn more about the jewel yet gone astray from finding her father. How would she find him? Oh right, she was in a magical library that had information on almost everything. Where would she start? Maybe at the first place to look. The thought of a number drifted back to her consciousness as she remembered her registration number. Ember didn't answer her directly as to what it meant but she thought she would look up citizen 01.
Adilita stepped back to the center of the dias and let herself drift back into the mindstream of the statue. She now knew it was a mindstream because of Ember's hint that Carrow Corrow is a psychic. The floating crystals in the library also reacted the same way as she slipped deeper making Adilita realize that the entire city was made from the leviathan's powers. Even the memories of the people that had left information in the library also showed signs of being woven into a connected pattern. Thankfully, Adilita was not an organic being and her memory drive could handle going so far deep that the first citizen showed up. He was goodlooking that was feminine and he his data sheet explained the way Yeviathan had been created.
Adilita learned that all citizens had a contract of power in exchange for a safe haven. Alternatively, the cost was that citizen 01 would ensure that they had a guardian who could protect them during war. The deed itself had citizen 01's name on it and this shocked Adilita because the image of the man was not identitical to her father who she thought would be her owmer. Citizen appeared to be a blond haired man with feminine body and neck with squinting eyes. She tried to match the images side by side because the registration number was not a lie. The man's name in the contract was not her father's but rather Dyoung Crow. The only reason they resembled at all was the avian names. Was Adilita was Dyoung Crow's? Her father had more refined traits and features while Dyoung had younger and gentler features.
The more she looked at the two the more it defeated the idea that they were the same person even though they should be. She even tracked down her father's name in the library and pulled up the history he had. He was an inventor, traveller, and a 'genetics' master. When she tried to learn what 'genetics' meant there wasn't an explanation as to what. Since the remaining information was either omitted or locked she looked at the available information. She saw his name, race, and birthday, and the date of input. What stood out was that the date even had the timestamp marked three hundred years into the future according to the library's calendar. Why would anything come from the future when it should not exist yet? Unless it had to do with her experience? Adilita jumped out of the mindstream as she realized something that 'Time' Lockpiece told her. He told her stopping her saves his son because her data was a catalyst. Who else could input information from the future but Lockpiece? Another thought scripted quickly through her artificial intelligence as she realized that the library traded data with based on what she gave it. Since she had ejected herself, she had saved her database from being taken. She had information to give but the library seemed to also judge for itself what was equal. If she returned to the mindstream it may retrieve her own blueprints in trade for the information on the deed to the city. This made her upset because Lockpiece had gone out of his way to help her escape the void. She didn't want to betray him but she also wanted to learn more. It made Adilita disappointed in her mistake as she stepped away from the dias.
Maybe, she could find someone. Who knew what it may take. Since she had learned why Ember called Carrow Corrow an asshat it did not surprise her why the meister called her a spy. The library itself was a giant brain farm with golems gathering information, spells, powers, and history of the citizens while working for them. When anyone arrived at the library they had to give something of value to get something of slightly lesser value in return. Only. an asshat would treat people like psychic food.
Adilita's eyes went wild for a moment as she began a fit of giggling. This information actually gave her a clue as to how to meet Carrow Corrow directly! A plan burst into Adilita's loving heart as she realized that only something of value could lure Carrow Corrow out. The library's own rules likely reflected the leviathan's powers in more ways than one by also revealing his personality. Yes, she could go out and be a spy! With enough data and the fact that Adilita had a piece of a leviathan soul she could draw him out into broad daylight and mug him for all the information he had on Wren S. Ift. Adilita knew that she would have to leave the facility soon to do so.
She would have to explore Yeviathan City and she wondered who else she would meet along the way. The people she had met seemed like they were part of something bigger than she could see. As she prepared herself to leave she recounted the information since her beginning. Her logic processor showed a less mature version of her personality as she realized how quickly the people she met also made her evolve in large leaps. She even carried some little emotional traits from each of them. What would Yeviathan City give her next?