MC started running to a long corridor outside the portal room. The sirens have started all over the floor and flooding the ears of him. He also knows that that have started breaching the information barrier as he can clearly see that the barrier is being damaged severely. He did the calculation and found out that the with all those damage, he basically have 7 minutes left and if some mishaps happens, he have a total of 5 minutes.
The corridor was pretty empty as it was a little far from the actual level as form of anti intruding protocol. He looks at the front and sees a big, bulky reinforced gate and the gate have 00-02 written on it.
As was going to open the gate with hacking, he got a message from the white guy and the message was pretty depressing.
" You only have 5 more minutes left. Good luck, you might need it."
Some mishaps definitely occurred. The situation he predicted were the worst case scenario. But the possibility of it was very slim. The time cut itself was not a problem but the thing which caused it cut it was. After all, the barrier cannot be nullified only by sheer number but extremely strong esper. At least at the level of quassi-[S] grade.
Quassi is a state where supers are with enough energy of the next stage but hasn't done with the evolution to get the full potential of the next stage.
As usual, Quassis are weaker than their full fledged next stage part but in the case of Quassi-[S] rank, it's a bit different.
A quassi can generate more power than the normal counterpart but in a highly unstable state. Though even if they don't unleash their full potential, the heightened sense of theirs are clearly a big threat.
He looks at the gate and his body started to flicker, his speed increases and his human body turned to a creature mate of energy which shape cannot be described because of the speed he was traveling.
And within a few milliseconds, he hit the gate which was still 70 meters away from him. The force of hit was extremely strong and the gate instantly turned to pieces.
After the hit, he has turned to a human form again. What he sees was a defense line made of 40 people waiting for him.
「Unlock the 3rd Lock」
But the Authorization-|
"Just do as I say"
I understand|
The mechanical voice start a strange wave in his body and just as it did, a strange type of energy started rising from his body. It was not any type of common energy or even some kind of emotion like blood lust. The difference was just the vibe he gives, the Trench coat type armor and mask thickens, and if someone sees his eyes, it lost all signs of a living person.
Then voice heard from the crowd, " Format 1, initialize "
With the voice, 12 people in the front almost instantly fired a 3 meter wide combined beam witch was presumably prepared beforehand. The beam itself was not that flashy in the premise of that the beam itself was made by 12 combined forces of [A]-Rank but the energy density was absurd.
The beam directly hit MC at the air, and he disappeared.
After the energy beam ends, they find that the unidentified person is nowhere to found and the person directly got hit by the beam at the air.
The first presume that the person might have got vaporized but to not take any chances, the contact the Level Master.
"Boss, the the unidentified intruder has been hit by the SE-09. Possible Vaporization. What is your next order?"
On the other side, the man ponders for a bit and then said in a simple way.
"Return and guard the Logistics and data servers as per procedure."
"Noted"
The he cut the comm. The person who was talking to the boss was the team leader of this vanguard mission. He was looking really slim but extremely fit. His hair was bluish black and his iris were green. His face was rather young like someone at their late 20's but he was definitely 40+ years old.
" Ok team, return orders have been given. Let's go to the next procedure."
As he said, everyone else got a little lax but start retreating at a orderly manner. The Squad leader suddenly felt somebody is observing at his soul but the feeling was for a millisecond. He looked the way where they came from. There was nothing.
The girl beside him saw him looking all confused so she asked him, "Team Leader, is there any problem? "
The voice take him back to reality. He looked at her and said with a low and slightly shaking voice albeit the shaking was quite low to be called shocked but rather surprised. "I'm alright. I think... I thought more about the intruder than I think."
"It's alright I guess. We can't actually predict what was coming at that moment. The barricade will break in 5 minutes anyway. " she said.
"That's right. This might be me being paranoid" after saying that, he start retreating as well.
On the other side, MC was standing right behind him but nobody can see him. The soul piercings stare which the person felt was actually MC searching his mind. As he saw them retreat, his body flashed once again and this time, way faster than before and Disappear in front of them.
[...]
On the Master room, the Level master's eyes we're glowing with a yellow hue. He was trying to break the barrier with his esper power. He was the one with Quassi-[S] Rank destruction power.
He suddenly feel some disturbance in his esper field and by shock, he almost stop the breaking process. Not because it was a presence that should be too strong but the person who can make that kind of disturbance was supposed to be washed away in the river of time.
' Wait... Isn't he died that day?!?! '
He takes a few breath to calm down. His mind wass a mess but that doesn't make him forgot his duty. He actually felt kind of betrayed because the person might be someone he knew.
Forget it, if it's him I don't think I pushing him Will be a good choice.
That's when he thought of something, " Wait, Isn't it today that that the main is being shifted?"
A sudden sense of horror suddenly start rising from his body, beads of sweat started appearing. Even though he was the master of 25th level, he only knew about the base tracks about the lower floors to minimize the information leak so he doesn't know much about under the floor thing.
The dots started connecting in his mind, he felt that he found out almost everything. The reason of collecting Mains', the grand genocide 3 years ago which made the notorious name of Oracle's and the truth about the death of "Reizel Family" And the God's Presence phenomenon.
It was a bit funny that he found out rather pitiful that the 9 year old kid also died in that place but he might be severely wrong.
But that might not be the problem, the problem was the plan of Oracle. The thing they are trying to do is too dangerous for them to try it. Breaking the seal might lead to the destruction of the whole Civilization.
He suddenly left the concentration position and directly press the Command button to say, "Everyone! The intruder hasn't been perished! Do whatever you can to find him destroy him or there might not be a chance for us to survive. "
Then he pauses for bit, the Stolen Mains' are not a classified thing but the delivery of the Mains' are. So if he is wrong, then the backlash of disclosure of classified information without permission might cause him a hell lot of backlash.
If what he was thinking is correct then the problem might be way bigger than just the disclosure of classified information.
So he added, "Go to the Archives, He is going for the Main'. "
Then he lift his hand and the big hilt which was put in the showcase broke thought it and got into his hand.
Just by touching the hand, a ton lot Microbots start crawling on his body and build Mechanical suit on his body in a second.
His eyes turned yellow and glowing veins started appearing on his face and certain part of suit also glowed up. A extreme level of pressure erupted from his body. And finally big hilt turned into a long great sword made of plasma like material, with reaching a gigantic temperature number on a concentrated area.
" Reavus, if it's you then get ready for to die second time. "
Then he vanished from the point, probably to point where he sensed the power code which make him lose his mind.
[...]
MC was bolting at a lightning speed to the south-east side of the Level, where the Archives are. Basically, the only place the where the lower 5 Levels and the 25th Level overlaps directly.
The difference between them is not that long, just approximately 500 meters. But all of the Lower level have been Reinforced by the Compound Named SCT-503020 what is one of the most damage proof material and it even bend trackers. Only dedicated types of frequency can go through it which can be inserted in the material before building.
The default with the mix of Space Main' make things way more difficult. But the archives are the things that need to be back up as a whole because of some technical barriers and cost efficiency. So if someone have gots and power to have come to the place with the intention of stealing of the main, it would be Archives.
As he was following the paths to the archives, he sensed something from the entrance of the level. It was a terrifying amount of energy.
As MC was has unlocked his so called ' 3rd Lock', his sensed were Heightened to level where he can sense extremely concentrated energy and the energy he was sensing was like torch in the darkness but he doesn't have that much time to deal with that person.
He sped up at a terrifying pace, turning into a ball of lightning in that process. The pace was enough to make the people on the place who were all [A] Ranks or Top ranked Scientists or to say, Both who were back on their way to hide or archives got all slammed on the walls and some even got squished to the wall by the sherr pressure of the air.
The speed up make his invisibility go off and he was look like a electric ball surrounded by fire. He was passing few hundred meters every second, he was felling something. Something he wants to press inside but rising slowly, strangling his consciousness.
In just mere 15 seconds, he can see the Archives gate but there were at least 25 people guarding that place. All of them were of [A] Rank or higher. They all have their main weapon ready and the Mages are all ready with their strongest spells.
Seeing the unknown lightning ball coming to their direction, they didn't even spare a second and relesed the attack which was casted by mages, compressed by psychics, Attributed by espers and powered by pugilists. The voice of their boss have scared the shit out of them and all of them hadn't even arrived. Till the last blast, only one minute have passed.
The beam was sized almost same sized like last time but this time the energy in the beam or to say a pillar is extremely concentrated and chaotic to its surroundings.
As the pillar is coming closer to MC, he slowed a little. Enough for him to materialize to human form. As he turned to a human, his hands were holding to same staff style weapon. But this time, something was different. The weapon was turned blue with extreme concentration of energy as sparks were roaring around it.
He bends his body to the sideways as his weapon directly hit the upper side of the pillar. But the pillar didn't Burst as it should've be. Instead it bends with the weapon as MC start gaining torque and in a instant the pillar of the energy start getting sucked into like a vortex.
The Complete energy pillar got sucked into the tip of the Weapon as he falls in the middle of the crowd.
The sheer horror of theirs strongest attack getting completely devoured and then used against them made them lose their will to fight and thus many couldn't save themselves.
MC almost fell in the middle of the crowd and at the weapon touches the ground, the ground evaporate almost instantly and so does the few unlucky people.
A extremely compressed energy ball appears the place where the weapon hits. Few evaporate almost instantly and other have their body parts turned to bits. Inside the crate, was MC.
He jumped out of the crater. As he looks in the front, the archives door was in front of him but there were seal in front of it made out of some weird mixture of technology and magic.
He looks at it, touched it and said a single word. The word itself was made for some higher level being and too abstract for human understanding, it was meant 'ዕቿነፕዪዐሃ'.
Small crack appear in the place where his hands touched but soon it manifests the whole door and with a slight push of his hands, the whole door with the seal fall like glass.
He enters the room full of servers from the top of the door shards. He looks way more cold as the time goes.
As walked through the middle, he felt a chill behind his back. Almost instantly the weapon in hands turned to the long mode and hit something behind.
The thing it hit was Bastard sword made of plazma. The energy torch he felt that time has arrived. Who the person was rather shocked him.
Long brown hairs to the neck, Yellow eyes, and rather handsome despite being in the mid 30's. He found the person rather old as last time he had seen the person close to a decade ago. After all he was someone like a family friend. 'I guess uncle Zyphrus got a demotion'
[...]
The person he can see front of his eyes looks rather ominous but what he sensed was also from this person. His instincts were telling that this person is a bad news but his mind was in turmoil.
With a little shaky voice, he asked him "Are you Aizen? "
The person in front of him flinched a little by hearing the name. Then he touched his mask as it retracted.
As the mask shrank back, The pressure coming from the person intensify upto 10 times, but now he can see the face of the person and it face was not humanly.
The whole hair was Snow White, the eyes we're like diamonds, the face was riddled with cracks. Inside the cracks was Liquified energy as it was turning it gas and creating a slight smoke. There were also two clear lines of energy vein coming from neck to check to crossing eyes and disappearing into his hairlines. All in all, the vibe he was giving was extremely sinister but the person's face was all in all, the person's face can be described.
Albeit changed and distorted a lot, Zyphrus can still tell that who that person was, and he was definitely sure that this person shouldn't be alive of all people.
"IMPOSSIBLE!!! YOU of all people should definitely be dead. You were inside the eye of that! "
The person he was only sure that will stay in grave was the kid and he was not the only one, everyone thought that. Yet, he was there, in front of him now. It was more taxing than the last person for his mind.
"You are not alone, after all how I survived was a miracle. Or tragedy to say. But hey, life is always like that, right uncle? Like my survival or Your demotion? "
"Ha ha ha... Ha"
It was a dry laugh, as his joke was not much of joke but a superiority of his knowledge of inside or to be precise, more of a taunt.
Then what he said was really disturbing, and for good reasons.
"Well, it would end soon. Thought I don't know if the outside would be good or being caged was better choice. "
The sentence basically cleared all his doubt, Zephrus don't know if it was intent from Oracle or it was His own way to warn Union for the plan, as a backup.
Zephrus asked again " Are your parents... Still alive? Just like... You? "
Just for a moment, a hint of sorrow appears in face but it vanished before anything can notice.
"Yeah... Albeit barely. Anything to say to them? "
" Just tell them that I miss them."
"Noted"
Just as the word ends, a creepy grin appears in his face, with a spear too iconic for anyone to not know.
[...]
MC when he saw who the person was, made him a little nostalgic. He met people he knew before in the past but the person front of him is one of his closest person.
As they start talking, his mind also started buzzing, he was losing control in himself as time goes on, then the name 'Aizen' came out from Zephrus's mouth. An Ancient name, lost in his memories surfaced. His head started getting blurrier.
To prevent him from losing control, he stopped his controller or to say, Mask to focus. Just by opening the mask, all those remnants of past crept inside his mind, replacing them with ancient screams, probably made out of rage and hopelessness.
Although that gives him way more headache than before, it made his senses clear. He can perceive everything again. The things he said to Zephrus, he didn't remember, the thing he said after, also gibberish to him.
The only thing he know was that, he was almost out of time. Even if he deactivated the controller, he have counted the time he have. It was Only three minutes. Just by recognizing that, he activatee the spell.
The spell was a ring that he was wearing inside the gloves ( on the ring finger of course). The ring was silver black with a golden partition from the center of it. There was something written in Waskov ( Energy Language used in Arvoc, South Derveor) as stated, " Lost Sephim, Specter of space twisted to perceive in our truth" in the nail side of the partition.
The hands side of partition was for signature. "Arsine Laiv Re Spartial ". She was known as one of the strongest mage class. Thought she died a horrible death trying to pass the barrier.
Those things aside, she created 40 of these spells ( She was rich AF) and use 7 of them to create a hole in the barrier, leaving 33 behind. On them, 11 of them magically disappeared from public and it was one of those.
Just by sending some energy to the ring make it expand as it made a spear in hand. The spear was 6 feets Long. The colour of it was completely black. On the upper ⅓ where handle meets the tip, there was glowing energy ball made out of pure space energy surrounded by 8 chain like rings. The spear tip itself was looking like a nail but spartial energy sparks were dancing around it like crazy.
The spell was imprinted in the spear and the spear was the host to handle the spell, making a rigid bond to harness a extremely powerful spell. This was the pioneer in the ways of creating super strong spells, that is why it is still studied in history book this making it a iconic object.
MC rotate it full 180° to show it's tip, touched it to ground and by using the spear as a pole, he straight jumped at the celling upsides down. As his leg touched the celling, he pushed his body downward and activated the spell at the same time.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"
Zephrus takes a second more to understand what happened because of his emotional turmoil. He dashed in front of MC to cut him down but alas, the spear has already been activated.
With the ignition of the spell, a Aurora like barrier created that throw Zyphrus away. Inside of it, MC turned into a bundle of light, his view for the world changed. He can sense the Main' clearly, thought it was because it was bright as sun. He marked the location in his mind and pull trigger (not literally).
Suddenly it was like time stopped for a second, then a burst of Aurora like light and energy appeared and penetreted the ground, leaving behind a giant crack on void. The whole level and the level und those started rumbling by the sheer power. In a second, the energy reaches the 28th Level. The spell after complition look like a giant thunder sphere and it was breathtaking view to say the least.
As the Lightning sphere touched the marked place, it disintegrates and create a space crack. A hand grabbed the crack and pulls itself out of it. Even After MC got out it, his buzzing of his head increases time by time and the aura around him keep getting more and more terrifying and even his body is changing, as his skins crack on his side of his face is little into his eyes.
He then looked at the giant metal door from of him, it was the door that was locking the Main'. He take out the final piece of machinery he needs for the mission.
There were two types of weapons. 1st one was a [S] grade Stun grenade made by the influence of Life Main' and Death Main'. what it does is that it plays with the emotional state of the target and amplified to go overload, causing a shot circuit in brain. Even [S] ranks will take a few seconds to get out of that state and the best part of it that it can choose target.
The second piece was also a [S] grade item. The item itself was not that practical for combat but in this case, it's the best possible thing. It's Called T-D Binder. It's pretty much a temporary coffin. what it does is take the target to a state of dimension and time freeze as it is created by the corresponding Mains'. Thought it needs to be applied directly and any kind of interruption in energy can destroy it and there were four piece of it so the chances of mistakes were slim to none.
He was ready so he punches the door with all his might and activates the grenade an he turned to energy. After that all those things happened (From Chapter 1) as he got the Main'. After he Stored the Main in the box which temporarily Suppress the Specific Space Main'. He space No time and Push the Teleport button right away to get out of that Place.
By Activation, a crack in space appears as he jumped right into it. As he was getting out, He throw a Space Disruptor grenade (Of Course an S rank one) to destroy any type of lead to pursue his. His Body disappear in the crack as the disruptor destroy the space he leave behind for quite a while.
[...]
To the Slums of Khdmael, 9 km away from the City...
MC drags his body away from the Space rift. His face was looking a little more cracked than before.
「Initiate all Locks」
I understand |
With a slight buzz, that terrifying aura seeped into MC's body again as his body rapidly turned to normal, thought during the the unlocked look is vastly different from how he was looking now.
He then then Called Grey.
"The target has been captured. Where are we going to meet? "
A slight rushed voice was heard from behind,
「The Plan had been delayed for Two months, Don't meet me in that time. Remember, if the Main' got lost, every single sacrifice will be waste. And Rud--s wa- a Trai-」
" Wait what? Hey grey what were you saying? Grey? grey? "
The Call got cut Abruptly, it was like he was chased or something. He felt like that there was a traitor on the fray as things might have leaked.
He was confused, Keeping the Main' with him will be a big chalenge and he was thinking about changing his identity also but he throw that thought away pretty quickly as that will be pretty tough without grey and as it was about a Main', government will spare no loopholes in it.
' Forget it. Let's think about that tomorrow. let's get to my base first. '
He thought that as look around the place.
It was a normal house. An Old bed, a closet with mirror, a Led TV, and a single door fridge. As he was looking around, he started taking his clothes off. After getting almost naked, he take out a hoodie, a jeans, a trenchcoat and a backpack and wear the clothes.
After wearing them, he started to pack his Essential.
Fist he packed his Staffs, then the Main Cube, then the other things. After packing all of them, he open a small space crack and throw the bloodied cloth in it.
He looks Just Like the person in morning as he smiles. Then he opens another rift and walked into it.
[...]
This time, he exited only 500 meters away from the Manison Hotel and from a alley almost right next to the Square. The Night life was really lively even though it was almost 1:45 at night.
He then walked right into the crowd as he start walking towards home. The people around him doesn't care who was around them so it didn't make a difference. He Can see the towering Manison Hotel from there as it was one of the taller side of the skyscraper.
"Today is cold "
As he turned around to see the Hotel one last time...
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
with a Loud sound, the top left side of the tower burst as a debris start flying all around, and inside it was a silhouette of a 2 meter tall person jump right from it. The people around him started running around as he started at that scene, horrified thinking what could have happened if that happened few minutes ago.
[Hunt Of the Final Main/ End]