In the Floating Continent, Cronus entered the meeting room where his eleven allies waited for him. As he sat down at the end of the table to represent as the leader of the group, he began the meeting with a praise. "Our fortune today is wonderful, as our lord was greatly impressed by out feats. But today, we shall discuss about the summoning of the second batch of those pitiful earthlings. Just as we discussed last meeting, we shall be using them to further push the power of our loyal homunculi."
A girl raised their hand as she held some sort of curiosity on where to hold the experimentation. Cronus called out her name which was Mnemosyne. "Ah yes, since the floating continent has been completed, we have finished transferring the empty containers for us to create around millions more of homunculi. Will you be the person to assist Iapetus for this endeavor?" Mnemosyne nodded her head in response to Cronus's question. She was a young lady with extravagantly elegant clothing. Her aura was filled to the brim with wisdom and memory. "Of course, I wish to use my ability to store memories into the homunculi. To test if they would be able to use the abilities that are stored in my memories. That way, they will not only have a limitless amount of power, but they will also contain the memories of people who have died against the eight souls." Cronus closed his eyes for a second to process everything before turning his head to a pair of twins with similar clothing as they wore clothing like oracles. "Coeus, Phoebe, what do you think?" Coeus and Phoebe pondered for a while as they processed all the information and possibilities that could happen. After a while, Phoebe opened her mouth first to provide the possibilities. "Thirst for revenge could be both helpful and problematic to our cause. If we explain properly that we can lead them to have revenge of Draxus who holds all of the eight souls, then they would gladly do so. But they could also defy us and go on their own." Coeus continued Phoebe's words to supplement the possibilities with good insight. "However, if we let them charge in alone, we could simply send out some homunculi to support them, making our moves unpredictable." After the two gave out their insight, Cronus simply smiled and accepted the answer. "Good, now we may have failed our initial mission to quickly eliminate the eight souls upon their arrival here. But this time, we have full control on where the summon shall happen. Thus, we shall land the summons on this country." Cronus created a world map that was much larger than the ones available in the surface. It showed a globe that has a large continent surrounding the island where the surface resided. He then pointed to a country at the very center of the central continent. "Where time is distorted, and life is uncontrollable, with mutations all over the place, and [People of Earth] now reside. Thankfully, the capital of such country is on the southern half of it. Even if it governs the northern half, it is very difficult to navigate there without a hero or an earthling." The other members smiled as all of the council members stood up in unison. Cronus led them as he began walking towards the door. "Let us make haste, you shall finally witness me at my fullest of strengths." Cronus left the room first with extreme feelings of confidence and excitement.
After they entered a different room with a space that's wide enough to occupy twelve magic circles. A large magic circle was stationed right in the center for Cronus while the eleven smaller magic circles were designated for each remaining council member to occupy. "When unleashing my full power, I will recommend you to occupy your designated magic circle. That will protect you using your own magic." Cronus then stood at the center as he brought out his Zweihander and Dirk while the others begin to occupy each magic circle. "[Universal Clock]" Cronus held both of his weapons in a two-handed longsword style as the dirk points downwards while the Zweihander points up. "[The time is neigh to fully release my potential, for the power that endlessly controlled the laws of time and the universe], [I shall connect two worlds and summon more pieces for dominion to control]!" The chant continued on for a good few minutes as Cronus channeled an enormous amount of mana to connect this world and earth all alone. The essence of space and stardust flowed throughout the room, attempting to disturb the view of the eleven other council members as they kept their gazes towards Cronus.
On earth, another cosplay event was held after some speculations that the incident might occur again for the second time. They had prepared some magic sensors already in the event does the incident happen once more. A girl wandered around with her friends as they enjoyed the events in the convention.
"Hey Wendy, don't you think that the event feels a lot emptier than usual?" Wendy, who was cosplaying as a certain character from a famous game, pondered for a bit as she tried to recall certain important parts when it comes to events. "I don't really think so, but it feels weird to not see the very famous people here. I thought they had returned to their homes already since they managed to find a way back to earth they said." Another girl who wore somewhat gothic, yet presentable clothes replied to Wendy's thoughts. "You're right, it feels kinda suspicious since they don't use their SNS either. I wonder what actually happened to them to change that much?" The three girls wandered around as they continued trying to delve deeper into the topic regarding the "Returnees".
After they returned to the center of the event, they continued watching as the cosplayers continued to perform without reservations. However, just as the climax was about to hit, the alarm for magic detection went off. The entire hall began to panic as they start attempting to leave the room. However, as if to signify that there was no other way but to accept their fate, an invisible barrier blocked all the escape routes. Thus, another batch of five-hundred people in the hall disappeared only to be sent to the other world without allowing any escapees.
After long their eyes opened as they stood up and notice the distorted environment. With unidentified creatures moving around the area while they were protected by some barrier surrounding the ruins that they resided on. But without any solid leadership, there was only chaos as each person claims to be someone with authority. Various people stood clear from the chaos and formed their own circle groups to avoid being forced into something. Wendy and her group remained together as they tried to distance themselves.
Their lives had taken a turn for the worse.