Real-time Data: March 1st, 2035
On a medieval city beautified by yellow lamps on the street and white crystal lights that illuminated mansions from the windows. Inside a chapel, on a paper, English words marked itself on a paper that was held by a nun that wore Christian Nun clothing.
"A Demon Army is fortold to bring chaos upon Cenaria", it was what written upon the paper.
The nun's arms shook, frightened, she ran away from the scroll, dropping it into the puddle of water. Onto the next paragraph, "A Demon Army is nigh, an impending disaster is approaching. Muster a strength of a thousandth men, thus shall defend, Cenaria, from a strength of a Demon Army reaching 500th"
"March to the other side of the Crimson Valley, thus you will find a Band of Heroes"
"Follow them to the light, as they are the arbiters of thy Creators"
"Expect chaos before spring"
The nun ran to the priest that kneeled unto a statue of Terra, as the nun mutters her words, she reached a copy of the scroll to the priest's hands. The priest stares at the statue of Terra, and mutters
"May the gods have mercy on us"
On a dark room, dimly lit by a white crystal, the battle room of the Castle of Cenaria. The king and his subordinates discussed to each other, there a round table with twelve seats with only four unknown men in different noble class clothing discussed to each other.
There, the four men suggested to the king,"How many men should we bring to the Crimson Valley, Your Majesty? I suggest a size of an army"
"Don't be stupid! What we should send is High Ranked Adventurers! A small squad is enough, bringing unnecessary baggage will just slow the army down" said furiously by the man in purple noble clothing
"We need to rely on Mythril and above Adventurers, and of course we should bring the Royal Knights together with someone from the Royal Family" said by the man
"We agree" replied by the man in dark clothing, "We also need to let the public know about the situation"
"If we do that, the Elvian Emperor will invade our country and subdue the demons themselves!" said by the man with a pointy beard and a thin head. "We can't be allies with the Emperor, those greedy bastards!" He followed again with a calm tone, "If the public knows, it'll cause chaos and panic. Thus, losing support from them."
The group tensions between letting the Elvian army cross their borders or betting on finding hope into the other side of the hell ridden Crimson Valley. A door slams open, lighting the room, there a woman in white dress walks towards the table, she said while walking, "You know Crimson Valley is filled with Demonoids, or all sorts of demons, we can't risk gambling our forces there, knowing that, the success rate will be below 40%"
"Zenesia, you can't just go barging in like that" said by the old man king that wore a golden crown embedded with green and blue alternating gems on it.
"I heard everything"
"I'll go, I am well known by the Adventurers, and I personally know some Adamantite ranked ones" said by the Princess
An old man in noble clothing replies for her safety saying, "But we can't risk a Princess to the Crimson Valley! No one goes in and comes back alive to that hellhound lands! We-"
The princess slammed her hands on the table, interrupting the old man
"I don't care, I know the Adventurers better than anyone on this room, am I correct?" said by the Princess
"They're expendable and reliable"
"They're the only ones we can rely now on, or perhaps..... you'd want to send our last resort of Relic Users?"
The battle room fell into silence when the Princess spit her words
"I am also experienced in Demon Hunting, and have considerable party experience with Adventurers"
"I can use that experience to stay alive at that demon nested Crimson Valley", she looks to the King with a stern voice, "Father, let me go, as a Princess of Cenaria"
"You know that you're the next into the Throne of Cenaria, Zenesia" said by the king. The king was old, his cheek supported by his hand knuckles that his right arm supported onto the throne of the battle room.
"Your Majesty…" mutters by the old man that denied the princess
"Father, let her do it" said by the small heightened boy, the Prince that appeared at the doorway
"Brother?" Said by Zenesia
"She is well known with the Adventurer guild, and while she's gone, I'll gather help from the neighboring towns"
The King sighed, "Very well then, Zenesia, gather up your former colleagues and Adventurers you speak of. And come back alive with the band of heroes mentioned in the scripture"
The Princess slowly moved her hands from the table to the edge of it, while saying "Thankk you, Father!", The princess slowly walks back to the lighten door, yet she stutters when the king muttered "If only archived Twelve Knights are still here."
"And the current generation of our Relic Users, wielding weapons of the past, still untrained, blistering with youth."
"You do know, that Crimson Valley is a Demon Territory, Zenesia?"
"Using the untalented is…."
"A death wish", fiercely said by The Princess, "I'd rather die as a martyr, instead of fighting a pointless war."
The princess continues her exit, and was greeted by three men in leather armor. She mutters words to the men, instructing instructions
"Send a request to the adventurer guild, you know what it is."
"Only recruit the untalented" muttered by the princess
The quest was laid out in the Guilds, stating only Mythril, Orichalcum, and Adamantite ranked adventurers can go. The quest was laid out by the guild staff on each bulleting boards. There, on a cafeteria like part of the guild house, one man that was instructed by the Princess reads out loud a text,
"On March 5, The Princess and the Royal Knights will embark on a journey to the other side of the Crimson Valley for an expedition. This is a royal order from the Royal Family themselves. Only non-relic users are allowed to participate. Each member will be given 20 golds as a preliminary reward, and another 30 gold when the operation is a success"
On a table with a group of four adventurers enjoying a booze, a mage, a thief, a swordsman, an archer. They chatted to each other:
Adventurer 1: 20 gold? They didn't say it was for individuals right?
Adventurer 2: Could be, they did say that the rewards are for individuals
Adventurer 3: 20 Gold is enough for one party though
Adventurer 4: When we were scouting the Crimson Valley, there were a figure of one guy fighting with the demons 10 on one. Though, the dust and distance disrupted my view from the distance
Adventurer 4: He was so far to us we didn't even count correct, but his skills were amazing! He was so fast he was like teleporting!
Adventurer 5: Ohh? 10 vs one? Even elves doesn't stand against a pincer attack of Demons, even us Adam's is out of the question
Princess Zenesia: Because he's a Hero.
Adventurer 5: Your Highness!
Adventurer 1: *chuckles* You here to convince us to partake in the operation?
Zenesia: You know me well, Hugh
Hugh: You heard the Princess! We're going to the Crimson Valley!
Newt: Suicide mission again, Captain?
Dirk: Ohh? Don't tell me you're backing out!
Newt: As if!
Fert: You only act manly when the Princess is around!
Newt: That's just a mere speculation!
Zenesia: Thank you, Hugh
Hugh: Expedition into a demon kin territory. What are you thinking, Zenesia-sama?
Zenesia: Finding hope in the midst of darkness.
On another tavern somewhere at an unknown city. There another group sat themselves in a table with their food in their plates in.
"Hey leader! Heard the news?" asked by the girl that held a mage's staff
"Yeah, they're going into Death Valley" said by the boy, that looked like the leader of the group with a red headband on his head that also wore a light, iron chest plate armor.
"You mean Crimson Valley?" asked by Lei. A small, silver haired girl that wore an iron breastplate that only covered her chest, yet her stomach open. She stared at the wooden edge of the table, and thought to herself 'Now I can disappear'
Major Operation: Crimson Crossing
Realtime Data: March 3rd, 2035
In-game Data: March 3rd, Year 55
Time: 9:12 AM
Location: Yuezenia, Border City
The Princess and the cavalry departs from a town, wagons pulled by horses filled with semi armored adventurers that was cheered by the citizens of the city. The Princess rode at an armored white horse, she wore a breastplate that covered her chest, on her hips is a golden colored sword.
"Men, we depart now!" Yelled by the Princess, she yanks her horse, making it neigh. The cavalry of horses and wagons follows after.
"Dad!" yelled by a kid as he bids farewell to his father in armor among the carts. The father waved goodbye, little did the kid know, of the outcome of the expedition.
"Your Highness, I have something that keeps troubling me since morning, why don't the Heroes cross the Valley? Well, they're heroes after all" said by the Royal Guard riding in an unarmored horse, a knight in full armor of silver iron.
"I don't know either, maybe we're sent to inform them about the the Demons " Said by the Princess
"I see" replied by the knight
On a horse with no armor, it was Lei's party. Each one had a horse with their own brown backpack on it's side.
"You guys shouldn't have come" Said by Lei with a joyless tone
"We just got our status plates updated Lei, there's no stopping us now!" The boy chuckles as he utters his reply. It wasn't the leader, but another swordsman on the group. He pulled a small a necklace made out of small silver chains with a dog tag attached to it, marked with his name.
"Don't worry, cheer up because this is a one time experience of going with the Princess, I mean how cool is that?" said by the Leader
"Not to mention, these things are small but it's also very durable!" uttered by the leader again while holding a dog tag. Dog tags with numbers on it, color and value defines the ranks of an adventurer.
Lei, a girl of 5'6 height that wore a semi armor, with a scabbard on her right hip with an overused sword. Her hair reached her elbows, and silver like.
Lei stood at silence while small tears fell into her eyes, then letting out a small laugh, saying "You're right" She looked to her right, where the boy in armor and another girl on mage outfit rode with her, she looks with a closed eye and said
"Hey, once we get back let's get loads of fun, okay?!"
"Of course we will! But first we need to secure our base of operations first" said by the girl with a frown on her face, she was a mage hood outfit with her staff on her back
"Don't get excited about getting our 'Permanent' base of operations, Lady Mage-san. Well, considering that this operation is a success.." replied sarcastically by the Leader
"Don't jinx us, you idiot" replied by the Female Mage.
'Three swordsman, one all around mage. Talk about unbalanced team set', Lei looks down and sighed, the white haired girl smirked, she said to herself 'You guys know how dangerous this expedition is, and still went on it. I guess you're after the gold'. She looks unto the faces of her adventurer party, remembering every last bit of their faces, and frowned, 'Am I going to a companion again?'
"A lot has happened to us and the locals. It's been a month since we were Linked into this world by Deus, a representative of Medical Company. On the real world, me and my classmates was caught in the crossfire between rebels and soldiers, and was attacked by a special electromagnetic weapon, causing our self driven car to malfunction, and crashing into a tree. We were found by the soldiers, and deemed into a comatose state. We were badly injured, said by Deus, he said some of us received major head problems, some of us almost died, after that… he mysteriously stopped talking about it. We were too scared to ask what injuries we sustained, but I still remember that scene where he stared into me when he said someone almost died. Then I knew that, I forgot to lock my seatbelt when I returned to the car after inspecting a bush.
On this world, the locals accepted us so fast that they even threw a banquet when we and the second batch regrouped at the village, which is now a city.
The elders of the village, especially Chief Alfred-san, forced us to unite all settlements in the East that was cut of from the rest of the world, except seas, to unite and form a federation. We discussed it and argued, but it was our responsibility to do it, we were the only ones who 'can' do it.
"No, you must!" said by Chief Alfred while pointing his fingers upwards.
"There would be less conflict and imagine! Imagine the things you can do if you united the villages and became a Lord of this city? Imagine!".
Chief Alfred, that guy who always have his hair onto the sides of his head, and always have his eyes perpetually shut.
After visiting and doing a deal with the village chiefs, surprisingly they agree, I guess is that they really acknowledge us as Heroes.
"You Oracles, into which name I suggested, you'll be given different powers with specific classes. You'll know the rest of the answer when you reach the other side of the Crimson Valley. We found out, that
On the crimson red battlefields of Crimson Valley, was Sen, live training with the newly trained Special Forces Group, "Black Rangers". The squad formed a 13 sized soldiers, with Sen on the lead, the men wore black hood and black coat that covered their whole bodies, and their faces hidden by either a cloth mask or black gas mask with a connected glass opening on their eye path instead of eye holes, it's like a mix of wolfenstein and radioactive fantasy. Near the mouth, is a circle shaped canister, inside it is an active filter made up of magic powder that filters harmful Demon Dust, and Demon Mist, the magic dust is colored in blue and was extracted/created by the Oracle's magic, preferably Yuki as she's the ones who magically created
A demon is sensed by a rear guard, he turns and uttered, "Demon, 30 meters at 6" Said by River. Silenced semi automatic rifle bullets buzzed through the dry air, hitting and lodging itself to the Demon. The demons varied in appearance, they either look like werewolves, or human/terran. Though, it is not the only appearance of Demons, there are all sorts.
"Hit, package received" Said by Haizer
"Better be vigilant otherwise we'll end up with the other 5" Said by Keuf
"I feel bad for them though, if they could have been just quiet" Said by Haizer
"We'll take a rest on this point right here, rest up" said by a white hooded and masked man, it was Sen. He carried two swords inside his coat near his lips, the scabbards was also hidden by his uniform, an enchanted uniform, made by Deus.
Sen and the other twelve soldiers sat on the rough desert, although it was a desert- NOT A DESERT, but from it's name, Crimson Valley. Mountains and hills can be found everywhere but the atmosphere and 'dirt' is red, and sometimes purple, but on this area, it's like a radioactive fallout, littered with red.
'If this was seriously a radioactive zone, I would have probably died of cancer right now' said by Sen
"Oy! Your ass is open!" said by Haizer to the female soldier
"Wh-what are you talking about, you perve-!" The female soldier sat onto the red sand and dirt, and was flustered, she follows
"OUCH! CRAP! HOT! IT HURTS!" Ri jumps as she holds her back thighs. Small amount of Demon Dust made it's way in into Ri's thighs, burning it, exposing the inner part of the skin, a red flesh.
"Haizer-kun, stop staring you closet pervert"
Haizer sat with his legs and arms held together, he replies, "Said by a klutzy female!"
"You already know that those Dusts burns through the skin, you noob"
"Oh I'm sorry, 'SENPAI', if you've used a better choice of words, I might have probably avoided this"
"Hurry up and rub it with holy water, you airhead…. Or perhaps you want me your 'Senior' to rub it for you, kohai-chan?", said by Haizer as he peeks with a mischievous stare at Ri
Sen sat with his legs crossed, he thought to himself, 'Holy water, a mixture of magic dust and water'
Ri mutters to herself, "umm…. Haizer-'san', do you have a spare… bottle of holy.. water?"
Haizer, who was hiding his face by his legs, suddenly laughs with an evil tone, "mwahahaHAHAHA!"
"Is this a call of help from me, kohai-chan? Does this mean… you finally acknowledge me as your 'senior'?!"
"Just kidding! I still have another bottle, bleh!" Ri, a gas masked soldier opened a flask and poured it into her leg clothing, causing a stinging sound, "Wews, the pain really goes away that fast" muttered silently by Ri in her gas mask.
"You better get your suit replaced back at base" said by Haizer
Sen stares into his team that sat randomly by the hill they upon rested. He thought to himself,
'Bolt action rifles. Chernobyl themed gas masks. Demon Dust. Dust Masks. What a perfect theme for a radioactive fallout movie'
'The MRS, standing for Magic Rifle System. It uses a blue powdered magic powder, which is either created by the Oracle-Kaede Akiyama "Chef". If she is ever ejected on this world, the Magic Rifle System….will be shelved.'
A crystal that was worn by the soldiers on their necks shined dimly, a voice came out of it like it was alive "A horde of werewolves are approaching at our nine.." the voice was calm even though it was a horde of werewolves. The soldiers looked to their left and saw a hooded masked female soldier, holding a crystal on her hands and neck. Her gas mask is hanged on her neck, and used a hood and dust mask instead. The group jumped with their feet vigorously and began jolting their rifle bolts with bullets, modeled after real world bullets.
'Demon hunter rifles. Specially created rifles for demon hunting, used by people with no affinities for magic'
'demon wolves are the easiest demons you can find here, but that only applies to me. These guys won't last long if met with a horde of werewolves. Imagine a mob of walking wolves. It'd be horrifying if you hear your comrade's voice scream their last voice in that crystal'
Black Rangers have an individual crystal inside their hood for communicating for each other.
"Ready up!" said by Nero
"Ready the harpoons" said by Nera as she attaches an arrow shaped metal harpoon to her rifle. She jolts a bullet outside the rifle, and opened it's bullet casing and filled the inside's of the rifle with blue magic dust from the bullet.
A demon werewolf jumps into the air, higher than a human can do, overshadowing the men in black uniform. Yet the men retaliated, the men stood their ground and aimed quickly aimed with their iron sights, multiple loud gunshots was fired simultaneously, impaling the werewolf's leg. Another bullet came in and struck the demon's head, making the demon roar in fury. It was still alive, midair it growled, that is the power of demons, it landed on the ground as bullets that lodged it's chest gets moved out of it's body, then a harpoon struck it's head, followed by a rope that connected to a rifle. It was Nera's.
'Harpoon-Bullet Rifles, one of Yuki, the Gravity Oracle's inventions. These rifles uses the pressure fired by igniting magic powder inside the dulled open bullets, then the pressure propels the harpoon straight forward, impaling a demon, making it unable to regenerate due to the foreign object lodging itself inside the body of the demon.'
Nera abruptly pulls her rifle to her back, slightly yanking the demon werewolf along the rope. The soldiers opened fire unto the demon's legs, impaling it with multiple bullet rounds, thus a small soldier ran along the rope, he said as his voice is muffled by the gas mask "Advancing!", and sliced cut the werewolf's neck using his rifle's knife, the bayonet.
Three werewolves jumps from below and aimed for Sen, but he still sat and stared into the demons. The moment it neared him, he pushed his fingers into the ground making him stand up, he slightly pushed the hand guard of his left katana using his left thumb, and twisted his body to the left and slithered his left foot backwards. He finishes his stance by a split second, the demon was almost near to Sen, 'Three meters, too close' he said to himself, he unsheathes and sliced the necks of the two werwolf. In a split second, he witnesses again inside his hood, in his pair of glasses, he witnesses the matter of the werewolf's sliced neck disintegrating and turning into dust. The two demon that was beheaded, thrown by their inertia, finished disintegrating on Sen's back. Another two werewolf closed on his right but was impaled by two separate harpoon. As the werewolves were impaled on the chest, Sen looks to the impaled demon and saw behind it's back two feminine figures holding a katana running alongside the rope that was held by Haizer and Keuf, then the female soldiers simultaneously beheaded the demons, turning them to black dust, thus the dust settles onto the ground. A silver coin appears and drops unto the dusty ground, disturbing the unsettled floating dust that was visible under a limited ray of light from above. Silvers sparkled across the group's area, it was the silver coin that appears when demons are defeated.
"Black Rangers, your fastest record changed" said by Sen
"How much sir? How much?!" asked by Haizer while giving out a happy tone.
"By 2 seconds…" said by Sen with a sarcastic tone
"Well at least we improved" said by Keuf, chuckling.
More howls echoed the red valley, Sen sighs and unsheathed his right katana, in a total of two. Nera said to the soldiers, "Harpoon users! Reload your harpoons now!"
"Remember, Harpoon guns aren't the same with those semi automatic rifles!"
"Can we use harpoon guns to shoot bullets?" asked by cloth masked female soldier. It was a trainee.
"You can only do it once. Because if you do, you're already dead" said by a soldier in a monotone voice, it was Volf.
"That's right! Harpoon rifles can shoot, but only once! Unlike the semi automatic versions, these things are meant to pin down and impale a demon!"
"You know that demons need to be beheaded for them to die, right? A single bullet isn't enough, it only slows down the demon!" said by Nera in a cheerful manner
"Remember the protocols so you don't wound up dead, newbieesss" said by Ri, hypocritically.
"Shut up, onee-san! We're on the same batch remember!" said by a female soldier. Presumably her sister. Ri replies, "Hoho, but my skills even surpass my 'senpai' sooooo"
"Narcissistic bitch" muttered by Haizer. Meanwhile, the Commander, Sen reached with his hands into his white boots and chanted
/"Wind boost"/
A green magic circle appears on his boots, boosting him down to the valley.
"Crap! The commander went of solo again! All soldiers, follow after him!" said by Nera
"Huh?! But there's like… a mob of werewolves and demon wolves down there!" said by the trainee. The trainee had no badge, but seniors have a badge similar to real world soldiers. Nera and Nero have both three sided arrow rank, which is equivalent to sergeant in the real world.
"If you want money, you run after the money! Let's go provide fire support, yahoo!" said by Nero while sliding down to the valley. The seniors yelled with their war cry and followed after Nero, leaving behind six trainees.
"The seniors are greedy." Said by the female trainee
"Yes" said Ri
"I also agree" said by the clothed female soldier
Below the valley, Sen cleared a tightly packed mob of werewolves and wolves. Leaving behind stragglers of demons. He observed his soldiers fight the demons.
He saw the trainee impale a werewolf's chest, and was dragged by the werewolf, the trainee then retaliated again, shooting the head and pulling her katana, beheading the demon, thus a silver coin appeared. Every trainee repeated the process, but one trio of soldiers caught the soldiers attention.
Nero, and Nera harpooned a bigger sized werewolf on it's chest and back, the rope connected to the rifle's barrel. The two ran into circles, strangling the demon. Then, Haizer shot the head, BANG, he jolted the used bullet out and inserted another bullet to the rifle's chamber, he reloaded his bolt action rifle and aimed his iron sights similar to that of a Kar98k to the demon, but another rifle was shot, It was Nera's harpoon gun. The demon then disintegrated to dust.
Nera made a smug noise on her gas mask, Haizer muttered to her, "That was my supposed to be my kill", causing her to laugh silently in her gas mask.
"Commander" A female voice echoes into his head, but was unable to recognize it. It then repeats again with a confused tone, "Commander?"
"COMMANDER!" yelled by Ri.
'Crap, with all these noise and action, I lost my attention to the present' said by Sen as his attention span snaps back.
I felt a strange sensation at my right arm, damn, my left arm feels hot again.
Ri clinged her big, nicely formed black uniform chest on Sen's right arm. She looks the Commander eye to eye with a friendly gaze, but then his attention was brought into his left when he heard another female voice saying, "You spaced out again" said by Xei, the female soldier that wore a cloth mask.
"Since that is the third one today, I am personally ordering you to take rest, Commander" said by Ri while clinging to Sen, rubbing her uniform chest to his arm.
"Sorry, big breasts mind control does not work into me" joked by Sen, causing Ri to pout, he said to the whole team, "Newbies, collect up the dropped coins. Seniors, after they're done collecting, we're going home." He used his mysteriously named 'Quantum Leap' Teleporting skill again, causing an appearance to the dropped coin of a kneeling person that was a blue grainy phantom that only lasted for a half a second, it then turns white, into a clear human like person, he kneeled into the harmful purple dirt and sand, his legs covered by trousers and grey knee protection that covered his left and right knees, he picked up the silver coin that mysteriously appeared when the demon was killed, he then slightly turns his white masked and hooded face, and said with a cold tone, "And don't even try keeping those for yourselves, if I caught you….."
"-I'll kick you out of the corps"
"Affirmative, Captain!" said by everyone with a firm tone as they salutes the commander. Demon Hunters are trained by the Oracles to act similar to their world's special forces, because that is the only military knowledge they have, with the exception for Sen.
'My father was Special Forces. During his time during the 2020 World Civil War, he served in The Maharlika as a Scout Ranger Operative. But after the War, he went into Japan, the old geezer then started work that we didn't know. Then, after that day…'
A flashback from episode one appears, his father in a black tuxedo suit, leaving the door of his home.
'He never returned. Yet he still sends money back, but never replies. I bet he's working on another Special Operation again and doesn't want me and my mom to be involved.'
The masked Sen stood up, he flips the coin into the air, the coin landed on his palms that was covered with white gloves, he stared at the coin and saw a head, a head of a King similar to the one in poker cards.
'Just incase we'd be involved, I taught myself martial arts, and I began more cautious in my surroundings'
He looked to his teammates, Haizer, Volf, Keuf, Nero and Nera, the Seniors of the team. Xei, Ri, and the other unnamed soldiers, the Newbies.
I'm the only, and the best Oracle suited for this kind of job. Just by the taught of leading my own squad gives me excitement…. And fear
Unknowingly, Sen and the white haired girl, Lei utters the exact opposite words at the same time. Fate? Destiny? Or perhaps, a predetermined course?
Lei, on her horseback, she mutters to herself, with a slow… sad tone "This world is cruel, the moment you were born, your fate's already been decided, a failure, or…"
"A successful one."
Meanwhile Sen, who picked up another silver-like coin. He thought to himself, "This world is beautiful"
"Imagine, a realistic world created by an AI. This will be revolutionary!"
"Spaceflight, Immortality, Robots, all of it!"
Yet Lei, who looked down on her horse, and said to herself again
"What were the gods doing? Why… did they have to create such… pitiful and unfair world?"
"I hate this!"
She remembers a past, the past, a voice echoes into her head.
'Failure!' said by a man
'You both are a disgrace!'
Yet on the same time, the two said on the same time, like the two sides of a rope that contradicts each other, they said to them selves
"I don't want to go back home!"
"Our quota is done, return to base"
On home town, Arcaea, which is a united group where all scattered villages are combined into one major city. Yet only having a population of approximate 500, it's considered the holy capital city Arcaea. It was a prosperous city, filled with people that soared the markets, people wearing smiles on their faces, and well trained soldiers. Well, the fact is that they're not well trained, but are using equipment made by the Oracles of Creation, Kenji and Yuki themselves.
"I'm back" said by Sen as he opened the dark wooden door.
When Sen entered a room inside a big mansion, apparently the Oracle's base, he was greeted that all of the Oracles were there at the living room. There were three long wooden sofas that surrounded a square table. The table had a table mat, so as the floor had also a floor mat. It was so western, it was made to be this way so the citizens of Arcaea won't get alienated by the Oracles.
"Welcome back lead" said by Tamotsu
"What did I miss?" asked by Sen as he closes the door with his back.
"We were talking about the Year Calendar" said by Masao, he lied down in the floor covered with tatami mats near the door, with his foot reaching the door side. Not all parts of the floor is covered by the mat, only some did.
"Oh right, about that, why is the year is 50? Is it because only fifty years passed into this world?"
"The divine calendar started fifty years ago, when the Demons attacked and the appearance of the Faceless Beings"
"The local library here said that the divine calendars was distributed to all families, that…. Well…is the only thing mentioned by the books."
''First of all, English textbooks, and now this? I'm sure I read every book there but I never saw anything like that' said by Sen to himself.
"No shifting in moon phases, everything the same except months and days" said by Hiroki as he looks closely to the calendar while holding his chin out. The calendar looks like a modern calendar back on the real world, he followed, "As far as I can say, 50 years has passed on this world, If including the ancients, maybe 200… or maybe more."
"What caused the Crimson Valley?" asked by Sen
"Seems I didn't tell you yet….that is the graveyard of the Demons that was killed in the Great Demon War 50 years ago"
"Still, there are still remnants demons in that Valley. Not to mention again, we Terrans aren't powerful enough to even cross it…"
"It'll be like a coin toss when attempting to cross that path. Demons appearing out of nowhere from that Death Fog". Sen walks and sat onto the hand rest of the wooden chair, "Fifty years? Give me the book."
"Suspicious right? Fifty"
'It's too short' said by Sen. A girl with her hair black, with a pointed witch like hat combined with a youthful appearance of 17 years old that sat on a single seat wooden sofa spoke up, "Hi-Hi! Sen-chan!", she opens a yellow magic circle on her right palm and an old thin shabby covered book with multiple colored bookmarks on each sides quickly rose up from the circle.
"This is the book. I know you've spent quite awhile on the library, but I know you never encountered this one, Sen-sama". She held the book on her right hand, reaching it into Sen, she followed, "Before you and your friends got here, it was considered as a taboo to visit Crimson Valley. So we hid this book to prevent any sparks of interest to even think about going to that Valley." She threw the book into Sen's chest, with his two arms, he pushed it into his chest but the book tipped backward, making it almost fall but he held it again more cautiously. Coleen followed with a sarcastic tone, she said "But the Demon Hunter Force, maintaining a 'daily dose of demon hunting' ALSOO formed up by Arcaea's citizens, you guys are now…" her voice swaps into a deep tone, "savage rule breakers."
She followed a 'Te-hee' with a peace sign, and smiled with her teeth open.
Her fingers pointed into her cheek, she looks up and followed again, "If I remember correctly… If I'm going to describe the contents of that book…"
"Just kidding!", she clapped her hands together and giggled.
Masao asked him
"Your squad told us that you spaced out while fighting, you alright?"
"Yeah. Don't worry about it…"
"Spacing out… is my thing back on home world" Said by the unmasked Sen as he moved his eye across the room
"You can still differentiate home world from this world huh" said by Hiroki as he sat onto the back rest of the edge of the wooden couch.
"Heh, of course" said by Sen with a lot of pride
Sen headed to his room and was greeted by Deus, the white faceless being that wore an English man business suite, was standing on yhe right side of the room, a wall, defying the laws of gravity,
"Chao" he said.
Sen slams the dark door close, then he heard Deus's voice inside, saying
"Be alert on your playgrounds Sen"
"Is that a warning?"
"You can say that", replied by Deus
"Coleen-san said 50 years has passed onto this world, explain"
"Time moves faster here, as long as no external entity like us is connected to this world, we can manipulate time acceleration"
"was that you that killed the demons?"
"That was the developers using keyboards. Hah! We call them keyboard warriors! Yeah, but I did only a little on the battlefield though"
"Are you also interacting with other students?"
"No, only you"
"Why?", asked by Sen while nudging his forehead into the dark door.
Deus replies firmly and boldly, "Because I like you, Sen-chan"
Sen replied hastily, with a cringed face, he said to him, "-Don't you come ever near to me, again!"
"Well, since you've heard your warning, that's it for today, I'm logging out now"
Meanwhile, on Yuezenia, a border town that watches over the demon ridden valley, Crimson Valley.
"Everyone, we ride at dawn!" shouted by the Royal knight
"Four Royal knight members, 15 adventurers. 5 Carriage Riders. Total 25" counted by the Princess
"I thought we have 20 Mythrils?"
Asked by Criz, a Royal Knight.
"They ran away, obviously" said by Helfort as he crosses his arms to each other
"Cowards" said by Molt boldly
"If this operation fails, the world's at danger" said by Daz as he touches his beard
"No it won't! The scriptures lead us here, even if we'd die, we'll be even still bring the message to the heroes… atleast" said by the Princess anxiously
"Why don't the Beings do it?" Asked by Criz
"My father said, they turned to dust, and never return back" said by Daz
"Oh" said by Criz
March 4, Year 55, Terran Calendar
4 AM
The Cavalry departed from the border city, behind them is a supply wagon and armed men with swords and light armors. The horses galloped towards the purple sanded valley, where brown dirt and purple sand was separated to each other. An hour has passed, they've finally reached a new area. The horses nighs at pain, causing them to walk slower, yet no blood gushed away from the open skin of the horse.
The Valley was red in atmosphere but the soil were darker. Plants were dead, no sign of life elsewhere but skeletons of the dead.
It was a dusky morning, Yuki overstayed overnight at her newly built laboratory. It was set in a forest. They were on an open field inside the forest, where dirt tracks can be found. The ground was dirt, not muddy.
"Yay it worked yehey" said by Yuki in a dead voice
"is she always like that?" asked by the workers in white blazer uniform.
Yuki was developing a green military like truck, and a green four wheeler vehicle.
With these developments, they have revolutionized the means of transportation. A milestone for the EXO project which Sen and Yuki created.
Tamotsu stuttered, he said "Is that…?"
Yuki yawns as she stretches her hand into the air, she proudly said with a morning voice "MUV or Multiple Utility Vehicle!"
The MUV was a four wheeler on it's gunner seat, which is on the top, is a black crossbow, with a feed. With five seats on it, resembling a real life outdated Humvee.
"YUKIIII!" yelled by Ryuu as he runs from the tree line.
"Where's my baby?", he said with a romantic voice
"Ryuu?! Don't tell me.. you love Yuki? You lolicon!" said by Tamotsu, his words frustrated Yuki, who was literally small, in 5'3 of height and wore a lab coat that had it's button closed. Her lab coat was her signature gear, and Gravity as her primary magic of combat.
"No, not her" said by Ryuu
"Her!" He pointed into white wooden table in the middle of the testing grounds, where a rifle a black crossbow was laid on it's top, like a weapon waiting for it's righteous owner.
"OI OI OI? First of all, a bolt action rifle, and now that thing?!" Tamotsu Suzuki points his two hands while facing towards Yuki, and said
"A repeating crossbow?!"
"It's easy as long as you have the blueprints on your phone, Creation Magic is really useful you know?"
"I created every material and I instructed my workers to assemble it after briefing them of the blueprint"
The repeating crossbow, was a black colored and had a strap on it. It's diameter was the size of Ryuu's chest. It was similar to the real life variant, Cobra Adder R-Series Tactical Crossbow.
"Ryuu, see that training dummy? Care to shoot?" said by Yuki
Ryuu toted the crossbow with his face, he hears Yuki, and responds, "Hehe…H-How do I reload this…crossbow-chan work, Yuki-san?"
"Use your experiences in the field and materialize an arrow of your choice. But first of all, if you're going to use that prototype… which I was thinking of sending into the Hunter Corps… think about your primary bow which Deus gave to you."
"That bow brings more firepower and the ability to use magic. But that thing won't."
The moment he heard the word 'prototype', he lowered the crossbow into the wooden table, colliding it with a set three bolts originally meant for the crossbow. He stood up and looked to Yuki with a more matured look
"You mean my bow, Ryōshi?"
"I admit it, the bow is too accurate and too overpowered. I can literally create infinite arrows out of thin air as long as I have Mana. Not to mention, if paired with my own customized arrows, I'll end up as the most overpowered sniper in this world"
"Since I grew up living inside my room due to my albinism, I literally had ample time to train myself in VR of all sorts of ranged weapons, to bows and spears."
"The creators did a good job of assigning these roles to us. But it's unfair for the second batch for us to have all of the fun."
We had one month to explore this World, and we've spent those 28 days exploring and creating items we in favor of, and helping creating a city we are in control of. Yet in a video game, you can master it in just three days to one week. One month was good enough for the whole team to get sufficient fighting experience. But I feel like, one month isn't enough.
Ryuu quickly held his left arm to his side, and chanted, "Akashic Records!". A silver recurved white bow formed starting on Ryuu's palm, it was unique bow with a unique design on it. He held it on his front and initiated a bow stance. He pulls the bow, igniting a white spark on it's strings, a pure glow of white arrow formed, like Ryuu was powering up a bow, charging it. He stared at the target with a killer's intent, and moved his right fingers- Index and thumb, to hold the arrow, he then lets go of the string then pointed it blank range. He abruptly grabs the crossbow on the table and aimed it on the dummy, and pulled the trigger, cleanly hitting the dummy target on the head with a bolt. He then aimed with iss left arm that held the bow drawn, he aimed it at the cleanly shot dummy, then his fingers lets go of the arrow, releasing it into the air. The arrow flew while maintaining a slightly glowing white layout, it hits the dummy, and exploded into three pieces that pierces the dummy, the left piece went left, and the right went right, and the last went up, the three fragments flew to Ryuu's bow, forming another arrow.
He turns to Yuki, the Engineer Oracle, and said, "Yuki"
"Yes? Ryuu?"
"I love you" said by Ryuu boldy
Yuki blushed, and asked out of confusion, "Huh?". Ryuu used a skill, "Phantom Leap", making him flicker for a second and appearing close up to Yuki and hugged her close, putting her into the air
"Eek! I understand you! But you're too close!" said by Yuki as she gets into shoulder level of Ryuu's shoulder.
Tamotsu dropped like an old man, coughing and laughing, then the Engineer Oracle said to the Marksman Oracle, "I only like cat girls not humans-" Her arms wrapped around Ryuu's neck, Yuki chanted with an index finger pointed onto the below Ryuu's feet, "Gravity Circle". A yellow circle appears, causing Ryuu and a few dirt to get pulled into the circle. Then the circle turns yellow after activating the gravity spell.
Ryuu fell into his own weight, being pulled by the black magic cirlce, lying with his back into the dirt, he laughs "HEHEHEHE"
"Well that thing is straight out of a Sci-Fi movie, Yuki" A man walks outside the cave near them while yawning
"Good job hanging around after five rounds of it, Yuki-chan" said by Sen
"Five rounds huh?" muttered by the shield Oracle as he rubs his chin with a suspicious glare
Sen quickly replied "-NO IT'S NOT WHAT YOU THINK!"
"Well- uhm- it was based of my knowledge on Sci-Fi though so originally-"
Sen and Tamotsu laughed, but a soldier came in, the soldier said,
"Commander! Our Flight Crystal Drones spotted a group of outsiders, 25 in total!"
"Ho? We failed to cross it, but they're doing it? What a shame for us. Seems that they have the balls to do it." muttered by Tamotsu
"You forgot to tell me which point, soldier" said firmly by Sen
"Forgive me! Crimson Valley, Point X-Ray!"
"X-ray? That's too far" said by Tamotsu
"Put the Rangers on Yellow Alert, notify them about the presence of outsiders" said by Sen
"Copy!" exclaimed by the standing soldier, he then ran back to the forest dirt road.
"Gatekeeper, alert the Oracles using your Telepathy Skill, tell them we got visitors"
"Oks" replied by the cat like Masao. He held his left arm and looked into it on eye level, then a yellow panel containing small sized pictures of the Oracles appeared and he began touching on unto it.
Sen looks at a bush and said, "Nero, We're moving out, tell the the others!". A green figure shook the bushes, it was a small person, a person on a ghillie suit, Nero, alongside Haizer and Keuf.
"And Yuki, hide the tech and tell your staff to hide once they get here"
"Why?" asked by Yuki
"They could be spies, we need to gather information about them first!" said by Sen in a more serious tone. He then mutters to himself, "Who would be stupid enough to cross that biome?"
"I see" said by Yuki, she then wore her lab coat modeled signature uniform, encompassing her shoulders and began to button it up. He said to the workers as she buttons it from the top, saying "Hide the technology! All of it! You're dismissed for the day!"
---TO BE CONTINUED---