Joe made his way back into the village which was starting to return back to some sense of normalcy, his return attracting the attention of some who remembered the fist breaking incident from earlier, but they did not link him to the incident that had just occurred. However, not bothering him much as they still mostly had to get themselves back together from what happened over in the distance.
Returning to vendors' street whose residents had no idea why outworlders were so frightened, as inside the dome of protection he set up earlier they couldn't feel the force of the shockwave only hear that explosions occurred. As Joe made his way down the street he was spotted by Zandra who immediately went up to him,
"Did you have something to do with all that?" Zandra shouted in exasperation as she obviously remembered telling him to deal with a pack of wolfs in that direction.
"Yes I did," Joe said in a mundane voice that was not modulated as there weren't any cardashians around," And you better be thankful too, as that could have been a catastrophe, and don't worry, I won't be using that spell at full power again unless necessary," Joe stated while showing her the result of the mass inspect entity.
"67 dire-wolfs of almost all level 15 or above, I doubt that even with the help of the outworlders we would be able to overcome them that easily," Zandra responded in a shocked tone," and you got rid of them all?"
"Yeah, believe it or not, each bolt of my spell did just enough damage to kill them outright so I only had to use it a limited amount of times" Joe replied nonchalantly.
"So what level are you at now then?" she asked curiously as he must have levelled up quite a bit from that.
" I'm level 9," Joe began to respond before getting cut off.
"Only level 9!" Zandra exclaimed, "You should at least be level 20 from killing all those wolfs!"
"Well, I am using a different system than everybody else, so the power scaling isn't going to be the same, but that is just in terms of numbers, I am still probably as strong as one though" Joe responded.
"well, I guess that's fair then," she replied before asking," I suppose you did go way above what I expected, is there anything you want from my treasure pile or from the village?"
Joe thought for a moment before saying," Just cooperation between the people of the village and myself, and the sharing of information and occupational advice, as I'm going to need a combination of all that for some plans that I need to complete."
"That seems like quite little for what you did for us," Zandra replied.
"Well you might not put much importance on it, but for me who is out of place in the universe, who now has the governments and guilds of most of the planet that the outworlders come from paying very close attention to me, any information that I can get that can help me is quite valuable," Joe stated back.
"Well then, I'll see what I can do," she said before walking away.
Following that, Joe went into a restaurant like building that had lots of tables and chairs and looking behind the counter, he saw the person that brought the chief to him earlier, Emily.
Seeing him come in, she asked," Oh hello lostworlder, what brings you in here?"
"If you wouldn't mind, could I use one of your tables in the corner as I want to tinker with some of my things?"
"Sure, go ahead. Would you like anything?"
"Some water would be good if you wouldn't mind," Joe replied, thankful for the offer.
"Ok then, I will get some for you," she said as she went off into the back.
As she was doing that Joe sat down at a table in the corner, and focused his intent on the reality interface window, that quickly opened as a response. He then started to find the section in the code that he would need to start working on his next project, right as he got to that section Emily came out with his glass of water and saw these weird floating boxes in front of him that he seemed to be interacting with.
"Hey what's that?" she asked as she put the cup on the table.
Joe drank some water before answering," It's how I make new things in my version of the system I'm making."
"So how does it work then?" she asked curiously while sitting in the opposite chair.
"Well this is more or less an extension of myself that I can use to do very complicated stuff for me, so I don't have to do it myself" Joe explained simply.
"So what are you doing now then," she asked with more interest than before.
"Well I'm about to make a GUI that I can use as a groundwork for future things that I will work on," he responded in an intellectual manner.
"Ok then, I'll leave you to it. Call me if you need me," she replied before heading off back to the counter, still not knowing what a GUI is, but not wanting to disturb him from his work any longer, she left him be for the moment.
At this moment, there were many board-room meetings between the higher-ups of many different organisations discussing the contents of a certain recording. The recording was about the confrontation that had just happened between Id 0 and the guild and government officials. There was a universal chuckle when they saw the Crimzonia shifter compliance division agent got covered waist-deep in mud, as one of those pricks had fallen off their high-horse for once. However, the next part really made them have to think as this was a hidden organisation that none of them had any information on in the slightest, well except one but no one knows that, they don't know what sort of manpower or technology they have, but a thing that they all paid major attention to was that they were able to use whatever it was they had in the alternate realm as well, this simply could not be done, but there was the proof. That technology, that method would be a huge advantage to them if they could get their hands on it as they could then transport things between their world and the alternate realm. So in every boardroom where the matter was being discussed, they all started devising how they could get their hands on whatever it was that this 'Creator Consortium' was using, and good enough for them they had already been given the rules of engagement for this organisation. What bugged them however was that they could not just sign contracts to say that they were allies and they actually had to show it. So they either were thinking of ways to do that or thinking of how to find this secret organisation to find how what they used worked and use it themselves, but the hard part in that was that they had no idea who that guy was in the first place and they had no leads. So all they could do for now was wait and see what happened.
Over in the Crimzonia shifter compliance division, there was a different discussion being had, the same stuff that is above is still being taken into consideration while the directors and Generals were berating a person for leaving a bad impression on an organisation that they know nothing about, and that has the abilities to do things that they've only seen the surface of. So after getting sent off for a psychiatric assessment, they got people to start an investigation into him and to see if he was connected to anyone that would do that sort of thing, as that would be a PR nightmare if a high-level shifter compliance officer acted out in such a manner. After that, they began on the topic of what they should do about this new hidden organisation.
Closer to home, cough cough to Joe's current location, a completely different conversation was taking place. Cleveland and 30 other Ministry of shifter compliance higher-ups were called into a meeting.
After everyone present took their seats they watched the videos available then the ministry director spoke up "I'm sure that you have all also seen the rest of the videos and posts pertaining to someone under the username "Id 0" that has been posted on the forums within the last hour after the tutorial stage had been reset, and the fact that the organisation that he belongs to has been able to create something that even the alternate realm system had to recognise is huge and could have major security risks to the public, we suspect that Id 0 has awakened an ss grade talent that makes him resistant to most damage and has gained more abilities from whatever he fought that ended up sounding like a war zone, and we suspect that he has chosen the magician class due to his use of spells. So the thing is now how are we going to go about handling him and the Creator Consortium, bearing in mind that we have no information on who he is, what he has, and there being no record or information on the Creator Consortium at all."
The head of the investigatory division replied," Well we look further into it, there would at least be some traces of both of them somewhere, we would just need to dig a little to find them. But in the meantime, I don't think that we should go after them until we have more information."
One of the board directors chimed in," We defiantly need to go after him in some capacity, either by bringing Id 0 to our organisation or getting information from him about this consortium, Maybe even find out some of their secrets."
To this, the head of business relations put out," Hey, Hey. Wait a minute. We aren't just going to go into kidnapping a teenager, let alone for the purposes of blackmail. He even left a channel open to everyone to form an alliance with this consortium, and when do we ever get a chance to cooperate with an organisation without political ties? And you want to burn that bridge to get some short term benefits!"
The head of the rouge shifter management replied," Well it's better to battle demons you know rather than demons you don't, we need information on them as they are operating entirely under the radar, we need to be able to find them at least."
The tension started building as they were divided on how to handle this new and powerful unknown organisation arguments getting louder and louder until one voice raised above the rest.
"ENOUGH everybody, we are not going to threaten the man in the mask, and he has no intentions of hurting anybody." Cleveland raised his voice to get people's attention before speaking normally again," Quite the opposite, he even helped heal one of our wounded in the selections this morning."
Everyone was stunned at this, first the fact that one of them actually spoke up above the rest, second, as he had a different name for this person that seems that wasn't just thought of, third that he was saying that he knew this person's intentions and implying that he has talked to him and lastly that he has actually interacted with this person before the reset today and that said person could already use spells before going in the first time.
The ministry director asked firmly but with curiosity," Can you please explain."
"Of course," Cleveland replied, " We all know that the ministry held a pre-selection trial for the training program today."
The others nodded to show that they knew while Cleveland took up a more prominent position at the meeting table.
"Well during the pre-selection trial that I was in charge of, one of the candidates noticed something odd along with a bright star guild agent that saw a spell that doesn't exist being used, so they decided to follow the student as what I now know to be an 'observer' was following the said student." Cleveland continued, " I was only notified that there may be someone else in the reserve when one of our officers called in about some strange movements of a student and two guild agents following him and contacting them about it. After that, I ordered a non-engagement if this person was found as they could have just been a frightened civilian. However, a medical emergency happened after one of the candidates fell off a tall cliff with the nearest healer being too far away on the opposite side of the reserve. So lucky for us and the student that this mystery person that the student and agents were following stopped and helped, casting a non-system healing spell that was more effective than most, completely healing them in a matter of seconds all the while according to the agent remaining completely invisible while outputting such potent mana that according to him could rival the gods of the alternate realm. And after making sure the student was fine he continued off leaving his observer there to watch, the guild agent noticed that the observer was following everyone back to the meeting point. So after we dismissed everyone I called over the observer from where the agent said it was, and at that point that it became visible using voice commands revealing that it looked like an orb and we got to talking a bit. When I asked his name he said that he didn't want to give it but that I could refer to him as the man in the mask, and when I asked what he was doing there he said that he would like to know as well in a tone that implied that he was frustrated at being here, at other points referencing that he has only been around for a short time and his name would be meaningless here, as well as that the agent was correct in his statement that finding yourself somewhere you shouldn't be could make you go into hiding but that he shouldn't be here in the first place, not just here in particular."
"So you mean to say he shouldn't be in the country?" the head of the investigatory division asked.
"No, he sounded too calm for that, and besides he said that after he arrived here he did some research to be able to respect the laws of the land as this is now where he lives, you could do that without being in this country if that was the case," Cleveland answered," and besides from all of what he said I think he meant on a bigger scale."
"You mean from off-world? like he's an alien or something?" one of the other board members asked.
"No, I think that it is that he is to us like we are to the alternate realm, except for him and his frustration about it could be from that he can't get back to where he came from and it happened without warning, but that is just a theory I came up with to make sense of the things he said, it might not be true at all. However, at any rate, a theory that is more useful is that wherever he came from, he was a part of this creator consortium and was a designer for their research department as apparently all the things that I've seen him use were made by him or at the very least aren't part of our worlds system, also explaining why our worlds system had to give out to his if this creator consortium lives up to its name wherever it's from and he got to keep his stuff in the cross over. Also, stating that technically it put him out of our jurisdiction as all the laws relate to shifters, no one else, and shifters by definition shift their power from the alternate realm and alternate realm system to our world, nothing else. But thankfully enough he said that he would follow his code of conduct which is mostly similar to our rules anyway." Cleveland stated.
"And with being allies with him, I think I scored us some free points in saying that I hope we could be friends and him agreeing, also saying to him to feel free to contact us or drop by here and ask for me. So it could be easier to form an alliance with him in the future," Cleveland concluded.
After Cleveland concluded his impromptu speech, the room fell silent as the rest of the people at the meeting fell into deep thought for over a minute, digesting this wealth of new information provided.
"Are we sure that this man in the mask is Id 0?" one of the board members asked.
"Well if not him, who else has spawned in with a mask and could use non-system spells of such destruction other than the person that could also use non-system spells that claimed to make them himself?" Cleveland replied.
"Well if any of what you said is true then it is only a matter of time before he gets some resources and starts building other consortium tech, if he manages to do that even if he is alone we should do our best not to provoke him," the head of the investigatory division replied.
After hearing that the ministry director stated, "So we all agree to play by Id 0's rules and agree to form an alliance with the creator consortium, agreed?"
To that everyone else at the meeting said one word, "Agreed," as everyone else in the room knew that they were the only ones with this bit of info on Id 0 and the consortium and that he could be a big shot of a supremely powerful organisation from another realm. Now also knowing that he used another system type thing, that any offer using their worlds system would be meaningless and assessments about his strength meaningless. Being able to get a laugh at others who would still be trying to guess his talent. All having an innate understanding that the contents of this discussion would not leave this room.