Esmond quickly sorted the families out and the lands they would be given.
The House of Stark was renamed Starc, and given the Island Buyan, near the Artic, bordering Greenland, Russia, and the United States.
Because of their natural affinity with the cold and weather in the region, Esmond believed it to be the best option for them.
Eldan and his people were more than ecstatic, and with Archies arrival, they all left with him so he could start work on including certain requirements of the family in the islands design.
Wolfmer Azlan went to the House of Arryn, renamed Arrin, and House Tully, renamed Tullie.
The changes were done in anticipation of the success of the show based of the books name and it's affected on the world once people came to know of their kingdom.
House Greyjoy renamed Grayjoi were given the Southern Ocean Island, Nysal.
House Targaryen, renamed Argarien, House Tyrell, renamed Tirall, and House Baratheon, renamed Ratheon were split evenly across Argeia in the Indian Ocean.
House Martell, renamed Mhartel were sent to Aeoricia near the edge of the Bermuda Triangle, leaving House Lannister, renamed Annester, were left with Diorado.
Having sorted them out, Esmond had them all leave and start their re-education program immediately.
Eddie was watching from the side the entire time wondering how this would help his problem.
Thankfully he spoke up and asked, otherwise he would have been left in the dark for another week or so.
"Based on what we know about the education pods, they would be ready in roughly a week, if not less.
From then on, they can be utilised as you need.
I no doubt feel all if the Great Houses will send you enough workers that you can than work with."
Eddie was elated knowing that he had a great number of selection choices which would continue to grow every day.
With that done, Esmond left Eddie and the palace behind before moving back to the cabin where he found Rosie working outside, taking in the scenery as she painted it onto a canvas.
Esmond watched from afar for a little while before Carter appeared beside him.
"… Think we should hop on over to the Universal Spring…
Those Eggs seems to be ready…."
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Carter had closely observed the two eggs within the spring since either entered the waters and were left their until time was ready.
The Kraken egg seemed to be ready to hatch, much like the new unknown egg that Esmond was rewarded from the Game of Throne World.
Unfortunately, the second egg still hadn't been identified, which left Carter to think it might only happen once it hatched.
He also figured out through the system that there was a reward waiting for Esmond once the Kraken hatched, but what the reward would be, Carter had no clue.
As the two arrived by the spring, Esmond took a closer look at the new egg and noticed it wasn't too far away from hatching with a few cracks here and there.
The Kraken egg on the other hand had just hatched when he laid eyes on it.
*Ding*
[Unknown Beast Egg has been affected by the Universal Sentient Lifeform Essence Spring!]
[Beast has transformed and improved during incubating period!]
[Unknown Beast identification failed!]
[Unknown Beast has continued to adapt and develop themselves within Universal Sentient Lifeform Essence Spring!]
[Original grade of Unknown Beast has improved due to the Universal Essence!]
[Common → Uncommon → Mortal → Elite]
[Unknown Beast has begun absorbing the Universal Sentient Lifeform Essence Spring during incubation!]
[Level Up!]
[Level Up!]
[Level Up!]
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[Unknown Beast]
[Level – 12]
[Exp: 33,000/130,000]
[Grade: Elite]
[Affinity: Ice]
[Natural Skills:
- (???) Ice Cold Breath
- (???) Roar
- (???) Bite
- (???) Ice Shard Wing Beat
- (???) Fury
[Abilities:
- Water Manipulation
- Disaster Manipulation
- Size Manipulation
- Ice Manipulation
- Life Creation
o Can create ice lifeforms with unique characteristics
- Spatial connection with Spatial Ark Star World
- Revitalising and Cleansing Ability
o Can revitalise polluted sea and clean the areas to allow for new marine life to create
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[Kraken]
[Level – 23]
[Exp: 10,000/240,000]
[Grade: Elite]
[Abilities:
- Water Manipulation
- Tidal Wave Generation
- Island Physiology
- Size Manipulation
- Ice Manipulation
- Life Creation
o Marine Lifeform, organisms, and ecosystems
o Can create other Krakens that will remain within its control
- Spatial connection with Spatial Ark Star World
- Revitalising and Cleansing Ability
o Can revitalise polluted sea and clean the areas to allow for new marine life to create]
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[!!!Attention!!!]
[Mythological Beast has been brought into Spatial Ark Star World!]
[Body form Manipulation has been awarded to any Mythological Beasts presently and in the future]
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Esmond looked over the notifications he'd ignored up until now, quickly running his eyes over everything before noticing the small humanly figure walk free from the spring in his direction.
Both Carter and Esmond looked at each other, confused by what they were seeing.
With the help of the system analysis, Esmond learnt it was the Kraken, but unlike a typical Kraken made up of an enormous octopus, this person seemed like a normal human with long hair.
His skin sparkled like fine gold under the sunlight, but in fact when Esmond got a better look of his body, he noticed the light tanned skin, much like a sailor, without the heavy sunburns.
The long dark hair reminded Esmond of his own black hair before the transformation which meant he need now needed the help of the Rian to change the colour from platinum white to jet black.
His eyes were dark oceanic blue, that felt like the oppressive nature of the deep depths of the sea.
Everything about the human Kraken reminded him of an old friend he'd long lost out during their battles out in the sea.
Even Carter felt the same and thought the Krakens human form reminded him of Aedyn, a knight that travelled around with Esmond during his days on a primitive planet of fantasy which ended up killing Aedyn out at sea.
Esmond felt a little emotional at the sight of his old friend's appearance, but when he heard the Kraken speak, the voices didn't match and broke the illusion he'd put himself in.
"Master…" the Kraken said as it bowed before Esmond.
Carter's mind was blown to bits just by hearing the Kraken speak, but he realised that wasn't the weirdest thing about this whole situation.
"Your name will be Jones…" Esmond already had a name chosen for the Kraken, never once thinking about using his friend's name.
Once Jones accepted the name, he rose up and stood opposite from Esmond and Carter, as they looked at him, wondering what to do next.
The other egg wasn't ready to be hatched so the three left and went back to the cabin.
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When they entered the cabin, Esmond had Carter work on creating another room for Jones, in the meanwhile, Esmond had a couple questions of his own.
What they found by talking with Jones was his affinity with Water and Ice grew beyond its original capacity, giving him unimaginable control.
If he wanted to change all of the seawater into fresh drinking water, Jones could do so without any problems.
The Universal Essence Spring went so far to strength all points of his strengths from body, mind, and soul, allowing Jones ultimate control of the seas.
For now, Esmond asked him to manage the islands in their control and continue to monitor them for any weather that might harm the islands as well as developing the marine life around them.
For a second Esmond thought Jones might need a home in the sea, but to his surprise, Jones was going to create several kraken that he could control and manage, leaving them to conduct the work.
Carter came back and sent Jones away so he could begin immediately.
Jones was told of the filth and pollution within the seas, enraging him at the lack of care taken by the people, but Esmond warned him not to take any action since his job was to manage for now.
In time he would let Jones unleash his wrath, but right now Esmond wanted him to start cleaning up the oceans, like the Indian oceans which wasn't known for having an island made from rubbish that floated in the sea.
Jones could send that rubbish all to the space with his connection, so the Krakens wouldn't have to fill up their guts with rubbish as it would be sent straight to the waste yard in the Spatial Ark Star World.
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Eventually Esmond was left alone in the cabin, wondering about his parents and what they were up to while leaning back in the couch.
Angered at himself for not noticing something was wrong in the morning, Esmond began to feel disgusted, but just as he wallowed in self-pity, Vaazakra arrived by his side.
"Brother, they are doing fine…
I promise, everything will be alright…"
Vaazakra said to Esmond who could only smile in response, far too difficult to reply in any other way.
"Brother, Carter said to help you with Halo while he worked on making Jones room."
Seeing her beautiful smile reminding him of his mother, Esmond agreed with her and turned on the T.V before loading up the Halo game.
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*Ding*
[Scanning surroundings… Analysed!]
[Quest activated in conjunction with Spectral Consciousness Ability]
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[Please select difficulty…]
[Easy] [Normal] [Hard] [Hardcore] [Nightmare] [Hell]
[Hardcore] [Accepted!]
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[Media: Video Games]
[Name: Halo]
[Year of release: 2001]
[Halos Spark…]
[Based during the 26th century, the United Nations Space Command have secretly developed augmented super soldiers known as Spartans.
They are critical in the fight against the Covenant, who have started a religious war against humanity.
The Spartans are effective in their fight, however due to the low number of super soldiers, the fight never turns in the favour of humanity]
[The Starship Pillar of Autumn jumped away from Reach in an effort to keep the Covenant away from Earth.
On board is John-117, a Spartan Super soldier and one of the finest warriors of the UNSC]
[The Starship has been attacked by Covenant forces, leaving the UNSC forces to escape as soon as possible]
[Host needs to:
- Connect with Pillar of Autumn system operations and download pertinent information on the UNSC
- 0/15 Save UNSC soldiers as they try to reach the escape pods
- Connect with Keyes neural implant
[Reward:
- 834,000,000 Credits
- 787,000,000 Exp
- Halo Installation 04 Design & Schematics
- UNSC Spartan Program & Information
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[Any other Rewards are based off evaluation]
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[Time to complete: 20 minutes]
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"Vaazi, are you ready?"
Esmond asked Vaazakra, calling her affectionately by the nickname he'd made for her.
Satisfied with her new name, 'I love it!' Vaazakra screamed as her voice transmitted to Esmond mind, nearly sending him sprawling for cover from the pain ringing in his ears.
"Ok, calm down and tell me where I need to go?"
Vaazakra started directing Esmond perfectly, like when to stop and hide so he wouldn't be spotted to times when it was all clear.
Esmond found it peculiar Vaazi could give him better directions and feedback than Carter but what he didn't expect to hear was the truth on the matter.
"Big brother Carter finds it annoying to help you.
He said that your old enough to not need him more than you already do.
That's why I came to help today!"
'That fucking prick!' Esmond screamed in his mind while listening to Vaazi humming to the sound of the alarms going off in the Pillar of Autumn.
Eventually he came across an open corridor with what seemed like a trap filled with Covenant.
Seeing the ugly bastards, Esmonds unleashed the might of his MAR-01 and blasted the aliens with pinpoint accuracy.
Within seconds, the ambush group of Covenant were wiped out.
Unknowingly, Esmond had taken out the group of Covenant that were loitering around the escape pods.
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Soon, Esmond reached the bridge of ship that was beginning to look heavily damaged.
When he entered, he saw Jacob Keyes being taken away by some Covenant.
Realising they'd yet to see him, Esmond aimed his hip weapon, the MAR – 01 at the half a dozen aliens, quickly making short work of them.
"Vaazi hurry up and clean up the bodies, as well as connecting with Keyes and the bridge.
Sorry, it's a lot of work, but be quick!"
'Got it bro!'
A small swarth of drones came out of the gate Esmond summoned, immediately getting to work removing the alien bodies, hacking into the ship and Keyes neural implant.
Esmond waited to the side with his weapon ready, waiting for the door to open, thankfully Vaazakra had locked the doors for now, leaving herself enough time to download everything.
Just as she finished up and withdrew all of the drone back into the space, Esmond went to the side of Keyes and tried to wake him up, by slapping him a little, but just then…
"Step away, unless you wish to be shot…"
The throaty and heroic voice of the legend, Master Chief John-117, had his gun aimed directly at Esmonds head.
He only stopped from attacking because Esmond didn't appear like the Covenant and rather appeared to look like a possible Naval Special Force Operative, however he wasn't sure.
"Spartan, I have no squabbles with you.
Take Keyes and get out of here now…
I'll crash Pillar onto the ringworld."
Esmond didn't wait for John's answer and got up, using what few drones were left to operate the controls for the ship.
He was planning to open a gate to the space to help gather some resource so Vaazi could repair the ship long enough, but he had to wait for John to leave.
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Seeing that Esmond was comfortable to order him around and move around without fear of his rifle at his head, John respected the black armoured Esmond and left with Keyes without saying anything else.
'Brother, that mans gone.
Do you want to leave now?'
"Not until we are sure the ship will crash land into the ringworld."
'Don't worry, I've already made sure with some corrections.
We can leave whenever you're ready.'
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*Ding*
[Halos Spark…] [Hardcore]
[Host needs to:
- Connect with Pillar of Autumn system operations and download pertinent information on the UNSC
- 40/15 Save UNSC soldiers as they try to reach the escape pods
- Connect with Keyes neural implant
[Reward:
- 834,000,000 Credits
- 787,000,000 Exp
- Halo Installation 04 Design & Schematics - Common Grade
o Materials and Caretaker
- UNSC Spartan Program & Information
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[Evaluation: S
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[Rewards off Evaluation:
- 810,000,000 Credits
- 721,000,000 Exp
- Mjolnir Powered Assault Armour Design & Schematics
- Experimental ODIN Armour Program
o (Powered Assault Armour Design & Schematics)
- Experimental Dropship 77 – Troop Carrier
- (Improved Reward) Halo Installation 04 - Common Grade
o Caretaker, knowledge databank, and systems]
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