The Truths of Existence, (Roleplay/IC/Sign-Ins Only)

[Generailia]

Dennis

Dennis only frowned when Tessy seemed to be confused by his joke. Yet the Lich's grin returned after Elizabeth showed that she at least knew something about what he was talking about. Immediately after the witch made her own joke before immediately departing the thief's grin returned to it's usual size as he thought to himself. Come on, tell me that wasn't somewhat clever. The mage then proceeded to follow the woman once the thought had ended.

But the creature missed the girl's brief glance at both himself and her companion being how he quickly noticed the ever so strange cat demon just kind of watching a small group of fairly familiar beings. Sadly, the confusion ended once he noticed that the three woman where the goddesses who ditched him while the other one was the business..person with gender issues. This of course caused the undead's face to get fairly nervous. Yet that all changed one he noticed that they weren't even able to properly recruit a womanizing mage. So the Lich leaned up against a nearby wall and calmly enjoyed the show with a smile across his face that made it pretty obvious that he enjoyed watching four figures of "power" struggle over a simple witch who was a bit out of the ordinary but nothing spectacular.

Which of course quickly turned the mage's nervousness and even slight bit of fear that he had of the goddesses into just a ever so slight uneasiness that he could hide with ease. Then the thief stopped listening to their conversation all together as he decided that now would be a good time to examine his surroundings while attempting to determine whether or not the trigger-happy stormtrooper was going to shot anyone. Suddenly shit seemed to get very real at such a speed that he was honestly having trouble keeping track of whatever the hell is going on.

This all started with when Arwin seemed to have decided to throw a strangely silent temper tantrum before another fucking glowing asshole appeared out of nowhere before some godly cosplayer walked out of it. Which would have surprised the creature if everyone and their damn mother wasn't making such things left and right. So he lifted his hand and up in a way that could allow the thing to be considered a excessively lazy wave before grabbing a portal that suddenly appeared out of nowhere yet again and seemingly merging both it and his current world together by tugging the thing into the house with minimal effort. Then some larper appeared along with a few other beings he didn't have a chance to analyze because of the simple fact that the man spoke first. So Dennis quickly responded after taking a second to regain his composure with his usual grin across his face and a simple shrug. "Meh, I've seen weirder." Then the undead took his hands out of his pockets just encase that ever so familiar look in his eyes meant that the knight felt like turning him into his new training dummy.

Aeris

Aeris was starting to wonder if the argument she was witnessing would ever go anywhere when two very familiar woman and the idiotic mage suddenly appeared. Then after the demonic feline saw bony give her a oddly childish wink she breathed a sigh of relief for a second before the thought that he was willingly approaching four excessively powerful beings crossed her mind. Yet the cat quickly let such a thing go after they started fighting over the fairly powerful mage in the center who didn't seem to be taking any of their bullshit whatsoever. So the demoness watched with far less intensity than she had before hand while trying to ignore the occasional glances that both herself and her summoner received when things became rather chaotic yet again.

This of course started when the strange elf-like young woman in the center started screaming while no words seemed to be coming out which was quite odd to her. Yet the girl really didn't have any chance to think on this when a sudden burst of power brought her attention to a ridiculously overpowered being in the center of the room who opened yet another portal other than the one he had arrived in which radiated far more power than his last before somehow combining two different worlds..or at least that was what she had concluded from what her extremely confused power and own enhanced eyesight was telling her. Then he left for some reason before a swordsman who seemed to be quite familiar with battle spoke before she had the chance to regain her composure. Sadly, once she had done so and even opened her mouth to say something the undead thief beat her to it so once she finished the adolescent demon came out of her hiding spot and said with her usual fairly sinister yet mostly mischievous grin while she carefully examined their new guests just encase they decided to attack. "That is a bit of a understatement swordsman. But it is a pleasure to meet all of you nonetheless." Then she stopped a fair distance away from them that way just encase they do attack she would at least have a bit of time to react before a sword came swinging at her throat.

Adwith

Adwith had been listening to what little parts of the conversation he could hear from the chair where Tess had left him. Yet the Shienaran wasn't able to hear much of it. But the borderlander heard more than enough to determine that his presence wasn't needed..at least for a few more seconds of course. Suddenly, the whispers he occasionally heard over Leonel's bored whistling had stopped. Which of course caused the mercenary to slowly make his way towards them immediately after seizing saidin of course. Yet all the man saw was some strange armored figure pull what seemed to be another world into their own before disappearing, and leaving off a few very strange looking strangers. But the man with the sword was the one who caught his eye first..since the way he held himself made it clear he knew how to use the thing while both his eyes and how he spoke hinted that he was familiar with battle. So the guardsman quickly decided to speak as well after the thief and the girl had finishing speaking in a tone that at least showed a bit of amusement. "Sadly, that was not the oddest flaming thing to happen to me today." Then he forced a obviously fake smile across his face while he moved his feet into a defensive stance just encase the blade master and his companions decided to attack. While also considering the fact that he should have said something a bit more polite as well.

[Kaidou]

Kyuubi

After the spirit thing left, Kyuubi approached the other man. "I wouldn't listen to him. He's a darkweaver. a person who spits half-truths so that he may manipulate and pull his opponent's strings. Even with Maju dead, that sword is still out there, and with trouble to come, there needs to be someone who can hold back the chaos that is impending. The sword is powerful, but it can be used for good too, just because its surrounded by myth and legend is no reason to ignore it. All myths have some basis in fact." she said, in a concerned tone. She expected the man for any wounds. While she was no professional healer, she knew how to manipulate bodily energy so that wounds may heal faster...

Leung sat down in one of the last chairs that had not been destroyed by the battle between himself, Kizaru, and Jahvi, before pouring out whatever remained of the genmai tea into a cup.

"Indeed", he said, sipping the now cold tea and scratching his chin. "He is not a trustworthy man by a long shot. However, we have the question of who wields the sword, or rather, who would be worthy to wield the sword."

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Dimension 29
Pral Shri
Hnovarg City

The fight between Haikarakainen and Master Ding Hao had ended with the latter being hurled off the side of the mountain and crashing through a large number of roofs, levelling several houses and ending up in a pile of rubble near the outskirts of Hnovarg City. Before he could get up, Haikarakainen was upon him, with his pole of solidified air pressed against Ding's throat.

"Perhaps you should think twice before trying to stop me on your own", sneered the IGSE's CEO with his tongue dangling out of his mouth.

"Who said he was alone?"

Behind Haikarakainen stood the figure of Nobuhiro Higashi, clad in his karate outfit, which had somehow become clean and mud-free once again.

"Please take that pole off of his neck", said Higashi to Haikarakainen, pulling on the ends of his nine-barred black belt and straightening it out. "He is my… friend."

"Why should I listen to you, Nihonjin?" asked Haikarakainen rhetorically, "when I can defeat you as easily as I defeated Ding Hao?"

"You'll be fighting three people at once", said a familiar voice from behind where Haikarakainen stood. The IGSE boss whirled around to face Wilhelmus Escheveltus standing on the other side of a portal clad in a yukata and holding his Eternal Trident. With him was a Maju General (telling from the green bars on his white mask), chained from head to toe and balanced precariously inside a wheelbarrow on his knees.

"This is General Bvlgulshu", said Wilhelmus, pushing the wheelbarrow through the portal and closing it off. "I defeated and captured him in Tarvascheimun, when the Maju Army was retreating from the Nihonjin Mercenary Fleet's forces. Shall I let you fight him?"

"Maju Generals are weaklings", snorted Haikarakainen.

"What did you say???" screamed the masked man. Without warning, he leapt off the wheelbarrow, landing face-first in the pavement, as his feet had also been chained together.

"Remove", said Wilhelmus, waving his hands. With that, all of Bvlgulshu's chains disappeared, allowing him to leap up to his feet and charge at Haikarakainen, screaming wildly and making claws with his hands. The Chief of the IGSE sneered, before contorting his fingers skilfully like a puppeteer and pulling out thin poles from Bvlgulshu's leather clad body, trapping him in place between two houses on adjacent sides of the street. Without hesitation, he yanked out five flexible strings from the air and proceeded to flog Bvlgulshu repeatedly, in front of everybody.

In ten seconds, the Maju General was dead.

"Who wants to be next?"

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Narvig

"We've done it!" screamed Nigel, leaping into the air and waving his arms about, impervious to the fact that one of the remaining Maju soldiers was aiming a crossbow at him, and the fact that he hadn't really done anything.

Before long, an arrow was buried in his thigh, causing the man to collapse onto the floor in agony.

[Naval Monte]

Arid World

With the arid world Elizabeth was about to tell both the sisters and Alzis to get lost before Cyrssa shot at them and told them to do the same. It would appear that Cryssa did a good thing at making sure they wouldn't latch out with their magic for Alzis was about to do the same thing, both Alzis and the Moon Sisters tried to tell her to drop the shields but didn't realize that no one else can hear them when they saw that they couldn't hear what the other was talking about.

"Cyrssa can those three women hear us?" Tessy asked, with Elizabeth asking Tessy why she wants to know something like that. "Because I want to join them in this question." Tessy expected the shock look that Elizabeth was giving her. "Have you gone mental Tes! Why you want to join in a suicidal quest like that?!" Tessy sighed. "Because while I have no interest on getting involved in a war the thought of not finding a way to end the war quickly is even worse, besides these people may need more people with medical knowledge." Tessy said, in truth she knew she wouldn't be that useful in this whole war. True she was one of the best healers in this world but she doesn't have any combat training and while she may be deadly with any weapon she can grab she knows that her chances on a real fight were very slim.

However she knew that Elizabeth was far more likely to be a good candidate for this war and Tessy knew that only way for her to even join this war and quest without question was for Tessy to get herself involved as well. This feels so wrong, I feel like I'm manipulating Elizabeth. But I don't have much of a choice, I know she can do great good out there if only she just puts the willpower to do it." Elizabeth was clearly conflicted on what she wanted to say, she wanted to say something to convince Tessy out of this deal, to find a way of not getting involved. Eventually the two began to argue, the sisters and Alzis laugh since the two women were arguing like an old married couple, but in the end Tessy was adamant on her stance on helping the sisters, with a heavy heart Elizabeth sighed and turn to the sisters.

"Fine you weird wrenches, you blood win. I will join your sodding quest to kill the bloody sea monster and take the jewel. But if things began to take a rough turn I want you three to make a portal and send Tessy back home." Elizabeth demanded, Tessy wasn't surprised by her demand and found the fact that Elizabeth was still putting her safety as a top propriety a comforting sign to show that she wasn't too angry about the argument. "But we need to wait for my powers cause I got stung by a wasp and before I can get them back the wasp needs to wake up because it's currently passed out by the gutters." Elizabeth said, confusing the Moon Sisters and causing them to wonder what the hell Elizabeth was talking about.

"That was... an interesting... way of explaining what happened." Tessy replied. She too is very confused on why Elizabeth retold the story the way she did. Before Elizabeth can say why she altered the story in such a strange way both her and Tessy saw a portal open follow by an Ahmarhan walking in. Elizabeth hissed at the man and took out her knife, she knew that her chances at beating him in a fight were ridiculously low but she refuse to simply let him kill her without a struggle. Yet instead of him going after them he created another portal and seem to grab on to it, which was impossible in of itself, both Tessy and Elizabeth haven't realized yet that he grabbed on to the other dimension itself.

When Beetle removed his armor Elizabeth was actually checking out the man now that his armor was gone, Tessy's expression obviously wasn't pleased that her girlfriend was checking out the enemy. "What? Ally or enemy if they are hot they are hot, I'm not a shame on admitting that they are attractive." the exasperated woman sighed when she heard her lover's explanation. Yet soon they quickly turn back to Beetle once they realize that he actually grabbed an entire dimension and was pulling one into the Arid World, fusing both worlds.

Soon the two worlds were one and he vanished, leaving behind a strange group of people but among them one person stood out too Elizabeth. "What the hell, Alice?" the surprised mage said when she saw her cousin down with the strangers. Alice looked up and gasped in surprise when she saw Elizabeth, but quickly she was exacted. "Elizabeth! I have no idea how you got here but I'm glad to see you. It's been so long since we've last seen each other." Tandem at first didn't know why Alice was excited on seeing this woman but he then remembered that this woman was her cousin, actually the way Alice loves her calling this Elizabeth an older sister would be more fitting.

Both Alice and Elizabeth heard what Jason said along with everyone's reactions, Alice was surprised to hear that both Adwith and Dennis claim to have seen stranger. "Mate, seeing strange shit is normal to me." Elizabeth said, Tessy too joining on the seen stranger bandwagon. Tessy looked down at Alice and found that the young woman almost looked like Elizabeth in some parts. "Elizabeth I didn't know you had a sister?" both Elizabeth and Alice turn to Tessy, laughing. "Everyone always says that when they see us together. We may love each other like sisters but she is my cousin." After Elizabeth explained both hers and Alice relations Tessy introduced herself to Alice with the other woman doing the same, both Elizabeth and Tessy didn't share on their relationship with Alice yet.


Tandem look at the other group and was surprised to see Cryssa standing there. "I can't believe it! A living Alvaranian!" Tandem was sure that this time the long eared woman that was in the room now was not an elf or any other species that possess traits similar to his kind, she was a true Alvaranian.

"Excuse me miss, what is your name and are those suppression fields you're doing cause if they are than they are very well made. In fact I can say the same thing about your armor and weapon, what materials did you use to make them and what powers them?" Tandem found himself saying, wanting to make small talk with the first Alvaranian he has ever met in a very, very long time.

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Narvig

Once Nigel fell the soldier that shot him received a blaster bolt to his head, killing him instantly. Commander Freyja was looking down at the man as he withered in agony, her rather poor opinion of the man sinking even further down to unimaginable depths. It was only due to poor planning and action from the enemy mixed with good luck and resourcefulness on their part that they were able to successful use Nigel's incompetence as the perfect cover to take the camp and achieve their first victory in Nargiv. Freyja can easily see that if Nigel stayed with them then obviously he would only drag The Fate's down, this boy was and probably will never be ready to deal with Multiverse level politics, let alone normal politics.

She ordered a medic to heal Nigel and soon a combat medic arrived, applying a gel that numbs pains and accelerates healing on to Nigel's wound after painfully removing the arrow. Once Nigel was in a stable enough condition to stand up she forced him back on to his feet and pushed him into a gunship, the gunship took off and inside was the same holographic image of Alzis. "I received reports on how you did in this world." it was clear that Alzis was not pleased. "If I wanted a clown I would have bought one to amuse me and then disposed of it after it fails to amuse me, actually I would kill it because it is a clown. I hate those creepy bastards." he spoke in a calm yet threatening tone.

"Your antics and incompetence out there could have caused us the entire battle, but luckily for you Maju's troops are even less competent." Alzis sighed. For a long while he didn't say anything, the two of them can hear the gunship finally entering and landing down in one of the side hangers of the star destroyer. Once the gunship doors open Nigel can see a space ship next to the ship. "I'm willing to give you one more chance to prove your worth to me. Take this ship and go to Sheol. If you can come back as the hero of Sheol than I will think about sparing your miserable life."

[Novia Soviet Socialist Republic]

Cheiften

Looking around her and then back at the Golem, Cheiften smirked and then giggled "Aren't you just the cutest" She took a deep breath before licking her lips "You have someone that belongs to me. I demand you hand him over" She said in a stern voice with her fists clenched, paying no heed to her troops who were submerged in the ground. The troops seemed perfectly contempt with being in the ground with no sign of struggle or being uncomfortable. That's when the sound of helicopter blades broke the silence. Cheiften looked up with a scowl to see her adversary.

Fanatic

Three helicopters hovered above them before Fanatic and 18 heavily armed Order fighters rappled down and landed in front of them, the golem sandwiched between Cheiften and Fanatic "I think you'll find that he belongs to me, Barbarian. As do you" Fanatic announced in a calm manner as he looked at the insurgents trapped in the ground "Your troops are incapacitated Sasha. Just give up and join with me. We can do a great good in the multiverse together" Fanatic looked towards the village and smirked "You're just delaying the inevitable Svaboda! I'll always be right behind you no matter where you run, no matter who you have protecting you!" He yelled towards the village as a taunt.

[Kaidou]

Narvig

As the hologram fizzled away, Nigel stormed out of the room, hot tears streaming down his face. "Why do they treat me like this?" he hissed to himself, "All I want to do is to serve Alzis…" He wiped the tears and mucus off his face.

Perhaps I should have gone to work for another Rokuō instead? There must be at least one of them who's more understanding and accepting of me.

…

Nah, what the hell am I even thinking? I don't even know who the other Rokuō are…

What have I gotten myself into?…

"Let's go", he said to the other men, trying to hide the fact that he had been throwing a passive-aggressive tantrum just moments earlier, "we've got to go save the people of Sheol!"

---

Dimension 4
Kik'nu

The massive intergalactic Empire of Kik'nu had been brought onto its knees through a simple political manoeuvre by Haikarakainen. An empire that had a history of over 100,000 years crumbled in less than a month, simply through the Rokuō's scheming.

As the servants, guards, and consorts of the Emperor were rounded out of the snowy castle into the even snowier palace grounds, all with their hands tightly bound behind their backs, the dark figure of Iuzun, clad not just in his black fur coat but also black winter clothes and armour (replacing his trademark yukata and flower-patterned office shirt), stepped off one of the gigantic IGSE Kiriumbau-class frigates, escorted by two gigantic Sorenau (armless, telekinetic humanoids), both of whom were almost triple the height of the stunted Alvaranian.

In the middle of the courtyard was the Emperor, Ghin Denass XVIII. Unlike his servants, the IGSE mercenaries in charge of the palace operations had decided to humiliate him even further; he had been stripped completely naked, and his hands bound in front of him at his private region, so as to provide a barely-sufficient cover for his male-ness. As he was escorted out of the palace by two big lizard humanoids, Ghin attempted desperately to hide his private parts, obviously having none of his kingly dignity; it was a sight too pitiful to behold.

"Ghin Denass the Eighteenth", said Iuzun, standing over Ghin, who had been forced to his knees in an embarrassingly subservient position, out in the snow. He was never fond of humiliating his enemies like this, but he had told the mercenaries under him that they were permitted to do to the Emperor as they wished; they had followed his orders, so there was no blaming them. "You remain unvanquished no longer."

Ghin whimpered unintelligibly and hung his head in shame.

"100,000 years of imperial grandeur, and you happen to be the one who allows it to crumble", said Iuzun, looking up at the sky, the sky clouded every day by snow. "However, Harakiri Haikarakainen offers you a proposition.

"He will return 95% of your Empire to you, on condition that you submit yourself to him. However, there are other terms to this agreement too; you are to render unto him a monthly imperial tax of an amount to be fixed later. In addition, you are also to pledge your 6 billion remaining troops to the service of the IGSE."

"And what if I refuse?" snivelled Ghin pathetically. It was clear that he was attempting to salvage what was left of his dignity, but this humiliation, combined by the fact that it was -17C, made it almost impossible.

"You may not refuse. If you do, the news of your homosexual affair with Prince Lvgal X of the Vin-Snoke Kingdom will be leaked into the public domain. In addition, we will also actively publicise your secret affiliation with the Maju Army."

"How do you know all that???"

Iuzun slapped the Emperor, sending him sprawling supine onto the snow.

"This is what is known as Real Power!" he declared, planting his boot onto the naked man's abdomen. "You may think you are a big shot, but you have not encountered the Rokuō in all their full glory. If you had, you would view that term in a different light."

The Emperor clearly couldn't take it anymore, for he began to sob and wail like a child.

"You have three days to make your decision", said Iuzun, as he removed his foot from the man's body and walked back to his starship (which would take him back to the Dimension Jump capable frigate). "On the 72nd hour, if no news comes from you, all of what I have warned you of will come to pass.

"And believe me, Sol Kira of St. Luminia does not like people who renege on agreements signed in blood; less still, people who renege on agreements, only to join forces with the likes of Maju the Sorcerer."

…

[Naval Monte]

Narvig

As the hologram fizzled away, Nigel stormed out of the room, hot tears streaming down his face. "Why do they treat me like this?" he hissed to himself, "All I want to do is to serve Alzis…" He wiped the tears and mucus off his face.

Perhaps I should have gone to work for another Rokuō instead? There must be at least one of them who's more understanding and accepting of me.

…

Nah, what the hell am I even thinking? I don't even know who the other Rokuō are…

What have I gotten myself into?…

"Let's go", he said to the other men, trying to hide the fact that he had been throwing a passive-aggressive tantrum just moments earlier, "we've got to go save the people of Sheol!"

The soldiers said nothing to him, they simply went to other spaceships as they made it clear that the ship in front of him was Nigel's ship alone. Commander Freyja gave Nigel a tablet that has the full instruction and blueprints of the ship that he was going to be piloting, the ship is normally a multi crew ship but the other crew members would be A.I.s that would be in charge of most things in the ship.

After giving Nigel the tablet Freyja left the man and went to one of the ships that had multiple crew members that were not entirely made of A.I.s, only half of the crew. The ships took off and as they flew into the sky a dimensional rift appeared and the ships went in as they enter Sheol. Commander Freyja knew that Nigel was most likely going to die once he enters Sheol due to his incompetence, yet if that doesn't kill him than the A.I.s that were programmed to be against him would finish him off as he has failed his evaluation on becoming a useful assets to The Fates.

[Contamenesia]

Cyrssa

Cyrssa didn't know what to make of what just happened. As now she had a man who was clearly a fellow Alvaranian greeting her and asking about her name and her tech. After getting a hold of herself, she then blushed. "I'm Cyrssa. I've had this armor since i was little, but i've made a few upgrades to it in my time, as for my gun, it was my mothers....and as for the Suppression fields, it was easy really, i just use parts from a toaster, a broken T.V. and also some scrap parts i found in the junkyard. I also built them into specialized shells so that i can fire them from my gun, and i can shoot multiples at once." she said, part of her nervous, the other part a tad bit bragging.

Jason

Jason looked around now, examining his surroundings, and the other strangers that were around him. Through the Calm, he saw an undead hiding, pretending to be living and a demon as well. As far as Jason knew, a Demon and the Undead were not friendly beings. Faster than even a quick eye can percieve, Jason weaved two symbols with his sword, and struck the Undead one with one, and the Demon with the other. The illusionary magic around the Undead one, dissolved, not only that, but it would be a full day before another such spell coud be cast by that undead. "I see what you are, undead one, Illusions do not fool the likes of me." As for the Demon, she would find her demonic Magic suddenly vanished, nullified for the remaining day. "I do not know what you were planning, but no demon is a good demon." He looked at the others with suspicion, but he made no other move to attack or of such. "I don't claim to know what just happened, but don't think you can pull anything over me..." he said, warning them. He did not know if they were friend or foe, but he was ready just in case they weren't.

Altyrnia

Altyrnia smiled, Beetle had done exactly as he ordered. "Whoa...what just happened? i have never had this happen before...." she said, feigning ignorance. She definitely wasn't bored anymore, though she was intrigued to watch how others would react, even if she already knew the outcome.

Kyuubi

"Well, if it is to be used for good, you would need someone who wouldn't go power mad when wielding it." She found no more wounds upon the man, so she stood up and looked around at the others. "Someone pure of heart would be ideal, but i guess the decision falls upon whoever finds it first...."

???

She turned and looked up at the helicopter above. She had to deal with it as well. Using her magic, she made a giant hand of dirt shoot out of the ground and grabbed the Helicopter. She turned it completely upside down and gentle put it down, so that it was laying on the blades, which grinded the dirt for a moment before denting and bending and eventually coming to a complete stop. She then summoned the water from the lake and swept it over the other strangers, stealing their weapons as it flooded past them. When it was done, she dropped the weapons down the chasm. She herself, however had not moved from her spot in front of the one called Chieftain. Her eyes changed color, and resembled molten Lava, but nothing poured from her eyes.

[Kaidou]

Dimension 1,105

Kyuubi's words had obviously sunk in; most of the people in the room simply nodded their heads in agreement or, in Leung's case, lapped up the last bits of tea that still remained in their respective cups.

"Do you have a suggestion?" asked Felix. "While the sword seems like something we should go after, I'd think the Jewel of Ogklrygma is something that would also be nice to have. Should we split up and get both at the same time?"

"As has been mentioned", said Mera, "underestimating the Majestic Vermin is a terrible idea; if we want to get both the Sword and the Jewel, we get them one at a time. I won't accept splitting up, not in this case. Especially not with Haikarakainen and Alzis running about like mad trying to claim whatever is left of Maju's empire."

"I suppose that makes sense…"

"Ultimately, though", added Mera, jumping onto the bar and coiling herself up, making herself comfortable, "it's your decision."

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Dimension 29
Pral Shri

By the time Higashi and Wilhelmus had sparred with their nemesis for an hour, the entire Hnovarg City lay in ruins, all its people having evacuated already. The three stood on the roofs of the three remaining skyscrapers in the entire city, facing each other as smoke rose from the ruins of the city.

"It seems that we won't be getting anywhere like this", said Wilhelmus cooly, looking at the ruins of the city. "We should do it a different way." With that, he clapped his hands together and adopted the Crane stance, the Trident in his left hand.

"So you want a duel, Tenshi?"

"I was trained by Hsu Chong-Ip, formerly of the Grandmasters. I'd like to think that I can hold you off."

Haikarakainen sneered, himself adopting a stance.

"I was not trained by anybody", he said, pulling ten strings out of the air with his talon-like fingers and holding them in an "x" position, "I developed my own style of fighting." Without waiting for either the Tenshi or his karateka companion to react, the IGSE's boss leapt through the air, pulling the strings longer and longer as he flew towards Wilhelmus.

The Tenshi twitched his eyebrow, before whirling the Trident and blocking all ten of the strings, sending a shower of sparks spying all over the place. That instant, he disappeared and appeared above Haikarakainen, plunging the Trident deep into the man's skull. The head dissolved into vapour, as did the legs; the headless torso propelled itself away from Wilhelmus, landing on the helipad of Wilhelmus' skyscraper. In a swift move, the legs of the torso reappeared, before both arms pulled out a double handed broadsword. Wilhelmus fell off the edge, but disappeared, jumping back onto the skyscraper using the Soru technique of Rokushiki.

Higashi looked on as his companion, the Tenshi, stood on the skyscraper, facing the headless body of Haikarakainen.

"En garde", said Wilhelmus, beckoning to the headless body to come at him and whirling his Trident. "Let's settle this here and now."

…

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Sheol

The first village that Nigel came across was in ruins; the houses' galvanised roofs had corroded away, and the mud walls were crumbling and infested with unimaginables. Every last one of the 100 or so villagers languished in their rotting and diseased houses, their skin peeling, their eyes glazed, and their hair oily. They looked more like prisoners than anything else.

"Citizens of Sheol!" declared Nigel as loudly as he could, from his gunship, the moment it entered the atmosphere of Sheol's first planet. "I am a representative of The Fates, and I am here to liberate you!"

The moment the gunship landed, he jumped out of the door, somersaulting on the ground and standing up. The problem, however, was that his stunts appeared to be aggressive or hostile; it so happened that the villagers were wary of people who were hostile. One middle aged man who was thin to the bone and clad in nothing but a pair of filthy, faeces stained shorts came out of his crumbling house despite the ruined air.

"Fuck off!" he screamed back at Nigel, flashing a bras d'honneur. "We've had enough of you filthy colonising scum coming to suck our blood!"

The rest of the villagers slowly came out of their houses, all of them as malnourished and filthy as the first man. They all began to girl insults at Nigel, who simply stood there dumbfounded for a few moments, before finally regaining his composure (somewhat).

"Why do you oppose us! We, The Fates, are your friends! We want to save you from your dying dimension!"

A young woman came up to him and ripped off her own shirt, revealing herself to Nigel.

"We don't want you", she said. With that, she flashed a middle finger at him, before slapping him. "We've had enough of foreigners, and we won't stand for any more of this shit!"

"Freyja!" called Nigel in despair, "help me! They're turning violent!"

…

[Novia Soviet Socialist Republic]

Fanatic

Fanatic watched as the helicopter was dragged out of the sky and gently placed on the ground. With a sigh, he then watched as the pilot and co pilot climbed out of the cock pit and brushed themselves off. He was about to turn to the Golem and order his troops to shoot her but then a flurry of water hit them without warning, knocking him and his troops down and dragging his troops weapons out of their hands and into a chasm. Fanatic stood up and took a deep breath as the water evaporated off him "Ai blyat. Such an unexpected turn of events" The well dressed Russian said aloud as he turned to face the Golem "You have a lot of potential to help a lot of people" He began, looking at the Golem "Sadly you're too dangerous to keep alive. Proshchay" Fanatic ended before pulling a handgun out of his coat pocket and pointing it at the Golem, quickly firing two shots at her.

[Contamenesia]

Kyuubi

Kyuubi bit her lip as she thought for a moment, then her eyes lit up as she got an idea. "Well, if you need something stolen, you'll need a thief, and not just any thief, a master theif! I know of a man who could probably steal the jewel right off the sea creature without the creature ever noticing he was there nor that the jewel is even gone....you need...Gabriel Weston." She bit her lip, "He's a bit....eccentric, but from the brief encounter i have had with him, there is no better a theif than him, though i have no idea where he is....all he'll need is a little guiding in the right direction, and he should be able to help us....."

Gabriel

He slipped in through the gate undetected, the guard had glanced in the other direction for just a hairs width of a second, yet it was enough. Yet....he didn't plan it, not at all, he was simply wandering by. In fact he was listening to music on his iphone, with his earphones plugged in. He entered the front door, and grabbed a hat, putting it on. something told him he'd be needing it for a bit. He continued to walk down the hall when a woman saw him and confronted him. "What are you doing here?" she asked, getting suspicious. "Security, Ma'am, First Day." he said. something he had just made up right then and their, though he didn't plan it at all. They just felt like the right words to say. The woman's stance relaxed, "Oh, forgive me. Mr. Alzis didn't tell me i had a new underling. Then again, there is a lot he doesn't tell me...My name is Emily Bedrow, the Head of Security here. Come, i'll give you the tour." And with that Gabriel followed the woman as she gave him the general tour of the whole facility, meanwhile, he pickpocketed a card with numbers on it from her, though he didn't know why, but he felt that it would be important later. As the tour came towards the end, she showed him a door. "This is the library, its restricted, members of the Order only. Also, the elavator down the hall to the right, you may not go below this floor, its restricted access as well, only for the members of the Order..." Suddenly the woman's phone rang and she pulled it out of her pocket, "I assume you've got the lay out of everything, your assignment is by the armory, now if you'll excuse me, i have to take this call." and with that, the woman walked away, talking with whoever it was that called her.

Gabriel put down the hat, he had the feeling he wouldn't be needing it any more, and he found himself wandering into an elevator. He hit the "Sub-Basement" button and suddenly a hidden security pad revealed itself, expecting him to input a code. Gabriel had no clue what the code was, but he let his fingers press a few random buttons, and suddenly he heard it say "ACCESS GRANTED". And with that he was headed underground...

The door opened at the perfect moment, no one had noticed it opened, nor did they notice him walk out of it. he began to casually walk down the hallway, he grabbed a nametag and a pair of goggles from a locker as he passed it buy, putting them both on. A janitor passed him, pushing a cart of cleaning supplies. he waved and kept walking. The Janitor thought nothing of it. Gabriel soon found himself in front of a door that read: VAULT, with little else around it. Another woman approached him as he stood in front of it. "Excuse me sir, but what are you doing?" she asked. he turned to her, "I'm trying to get in there, but it seems i've been locked out." She frowned, "Sorry sir, but only VIPs are allowed in--" he interrupted her, "I know, but that's part of my problem, i'm still locked out." The woman blushed hard, "OH! Y-You're...? OH Mr. Vixtor, i didn't know it was you! I'll let you in right away!" she said as she spotted the name tag on Gabriel's shirt. She opened the door and he walked in, the door closing behind him, however that wasn't a problem. Gabriel looked at all the items within the vault, some of them were extensively valuable and most had a tag that said: "PROPERTY OF ALZIS" on them. he had no clue who that was, but he doubt it was anybody important to him. Gabriel stole a small knife, a screw from a random box, and finally came across a rather large, practically indestructible case that held a very powerful magical item inside. It was sealed with a code. Gabriel felt that it was time to bring out that card he had plucked from the woman he had met earlier. he entered the code and it the case opened. Gabriel pulled out the magical item of great power and then closed the case. he then threw the magical item away and proceeded to leave with the now empty case in his hand. he had a feeling he would need this sometime in future, though when he did not know.

Gabriel then left the facility as easily as he had entered it....

???

Two holes appeared in her body, however other than that, she remained unchanged. the holes filled in with dirt and then the dirt resumed it appearance of flesh. of course it was just that, an appearance. She was the Golem of Dirt. Not as hardy as stone nor as strong as iron, but nothing lasts longer than dirt. whether it is blown in the breeze or compacted into mud, dirt still existed. the breeze simply put the dirt else where and when the water left, Dirt was still there.

She casted a spell upon the man's gun. it would no longer fire. She casted another spell which bound his soldiers to the ground, preventing them from moving, but did not kill them. though she was pretty sure it hurt. though, she did not know what pain was, well physical pain at least.. it was something she could only observe in others, as she could not feel physical pain. but she knew emotional pain well enough, so she often wondered if they felt the same....

[Naval Monte]

Sheol

Freyja calmly walked out of the gunship and took out her blaster, making the other villager's weary of her actions. Yet to their surprise she pressed the barrel of the blaster on the back of Nigel's head and fired, killing the man instantly. "I apologize for the stupidity of that clown, he was and will never be a part of my organization." Freyja spoke, taking out a talisman. Before the woman who revealed herself to Nigel can react Freyja placed the talisman on her chest, the glyph releasing a green glow as wisps of energy left the talisman and surround the woman. Soon the woman's body began to change as both beauty and life return back to her.

The old man being surprised by the sudden change didn't react when the same talisman was on him and it's powers changed him to have a better body. Sensing that she know how all of the villagers attention with her magic she raised the talisman up in the air to show them the source of the miracle. "You people have a choice. If you choose to stay in this dying world then return back your houses and we will leave you all alone. However if you all wish to leave this world and have better lives than step forward and this talisman will cure your bodies." from the sky more ships can be seen appearing from rifts.

These ships flew away from the planet and used their dimensional fold drive to go off to find other distant worlds in Sheol that contain life. The gunships and carriers on the first planet began to not only hand out more of the healing talisman but fresh clothing, food and water for the people. All to show them that The Fates are different from the last foreigners who arrived.

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Arid World/Fairy World

"I'm glad I'm not the only Alvaranian to make stuff out of random junk, too bad I can't show you the things I made cause I tend to lose them." Tandem said, laughing a little as he scratch the back of his head. He can tell from the pause in Cyrssa's sentience that there was no way he would meet her mother, yet the sorrow of hearing about another dead Alvaranian never came since there was a living one standing front of him. "My name is Tandem, I'm just a humble explorer going to different worlds and learning about everything I find in them before going off to the next one."

Tandem raised his arm and soon the sleeves of his jacket along with the rest of his clothing changed, now looking like it was brand new. "Admittedly my clothing can only resist against bullets but where they lack in protection they make up for the fact that they can clean and fix themselves, adjust temperature, change style, cut and color." he said, his clothing changing into different styles. It went from one fitting for the arid world and soon changed into one fitting for the fairy world until it changed into regular modern clothing before returning back to it's usual style.

"If you're wondering how I was able to change my clothing without inputting commands it's quite simple. I have a special implant in my brain that allows direct brain to machine neural interface. Even my Nexus Manipulator can be used control with my own thoughts if I want to but I prefer to input the codes to my next destinations manually." he said as Tandem showed Cyrssa the wrist mounted omni transportation device. Like Cyrssa he too was nervous on meeting another Alvaranian and was only bragging about his tech because he doesn't know what else to talk about, he doesn't know if she was even interested in other worlds and cultures like he is.

Both Elizabeth and Alice looked at the two Alvaranians and rolled their eyes. "For Christ sake, you two are acting like awkward teens trying to ask each other out." Elizabeth said, with Alice agreeing and Tessy finding the nervousness between the Cryssa and Tandem funny in a charming way. Soon both Elizabeth, Tessy and the four suppressed goddesses saw Jason dispel the illusions around Dennis and Aeris and affect their powers. Elizabeth looked at the scene with disinterest.

"Oi squire, normally I would be on your side on not trusting a demon and a walking corpse who can't keep their bloody mouth shut." it was clear by her tone that she was still angry at Dennis for forcing Elizabeth to tell Tessy about her hellbound statue. "But skeletor and hello Lilith here are not the enemy here. No instead I would focus my attention towards this one down there." Elizabeth pointed at Alzis, who flipped her off. "But right now the elf in our group has her pacified." When Altyrnia spoke Alice was the first to respond. "I'm still new to this whole world hoping business so I can't even help you if I want to." Elizabeth responded. "If I have to guess the Incredible Beetle who is shockingly a hunk somehow fused two universes together. That shouldn't be possible but somehow he manage to do it."

Elizabeth look down at Altyrnia and smiled at her. "I can't decide if the look you are going for is greek goddess or an angel but regardless of which on it is you are pulling it very well luv." the mage complimented, causing Alice to roll her eyes and apologize to the woman for Elizabeth's behavior. Tessy would have to agree with Elizabeth about Altyrnia being beautiful and that her attire does make her look like an angel. Tessy excused herself as she went down and enter the kitchen to check on her sister, she has to make sure that Saya wasn't hurt during the world merger.

The Moon Sisters walked up to Elizabeth and found much to their relief that the field can allow Elizabeth to enter the shield, the three of them talked with Elizabeth but due to the field no one can hear what they are telling her. Once the sisters moved away from Elizabeth and the ritualist was away from the field she turn to Cyrssa. "The weird sisters want to tell their spirit friends what is going on but they can't because the field is preventing them from using their telepathy. So they want you to turn off the field on them, but they said you can keep the one on Alzis on and I agree with them." Elizabeth grin when Alzis flipped her off once again.

[Kaidou]

Dimension 1,105
"Isshou"

"Unfortunately", added Felix, "the legend states that Ayushiri fed the Jewel to the Vermin. I don't know the capabilities of Mr Weston, but I think it's safe to say that 700 years of over a thousand failed retrieval attempts means that this would be a mission that even he might have trouble with. Of course, though, we'd have to meet him first."

Pausing, Felix took a sip of water from his glass, before continuing.

"Could you see if he could come here?" he asked, still unaware of who Kyuubi actually was.

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Dimension 29
Pral Shri

As Ding Hao attempted to climb to his feet, brushing the dust off his tunic as Wilhelmus fought with Haikarakainen overhead, a portal leading to Jinlongshan opened up beside him, from which stepped the figure of Law Hon Chung, who was senior to Ding.

"丁師傅, 你沒事啊?"

Ding smiled back sarcastically.

"Haikarakainen is a tough nut to crack", he said derisively. "Who knew that someone with a self-taught style could be so deadly."

"Go back to the Palace", said Law, "I'll challenge him next…"

…

[Contamenesia]

Kyuubi

Kyuubi sighed, "I cant bring him anywhere if i dont know where he is. its not like i keep tabs on him or anything..." which was actually true, though she knew the whereabouts and secrets of countless souls, Gabriel Weston was not one of them. She was sure some other Ahmarhan knew, but she did not, nor was she going to use that resource to find out. "From what i can tell, look for the most oddest and improbable thefts that have occured, he's a dimensional traveller, so a pattern should be able to be noted across the dimensions. finding that pattern should lead us straight to him." she said deductively, as she thought about what to do.

Altyrnia

Altyrnia turned her gaze upon Elizabeth, her eyes the same as always, feeling as if nothing was hidden from them, that they saw everything about everyone. That there was no secret she didnt see. She smiled, "well, i guess its not the weirdest thing to have happened to me. And thank you for the complement." She peaked over Elizabeth's shoulder, seeing Alzis in the distance. She knew he recognized her, but he had no way of informing the others. That was when Fauan the Bard walked in, carrying a plate of food that Saya Inuu had prepared, upon seeing Altyrnia, the she dropped the plate and froze, her eyes wide. but Altyrnia stopped her from speaking with a simple blink of the eye. She knew her secret wouldnt last much longer, especially with Wasp not that far from here. When he awoken, he would definitely identify her for who she truly was.
"Are you okay Miss? You look like you've seen a ghost...are you sick? do you need aid?" she asked Fauna, Fauna averted her eyes but said nothing.

Cyrssa

"Tandem..oh, i remember you. back when i was three i saw them talking about you on the news. You're that guy was discharged from the council and ran away, about a year before it was destroyed..." When she heard what Elizabeth had to say, she shook her head, "Nope, im not letting anyone out of the suppression fields. i want them all out of my house, and that includes you newcomers too!" she said, folding her arms. She was tired of all these strangers invading her home. Nevermind the wierdness of everything that was happening.

Kyne

Kyne managed to get a hold of herself, though it took a lot of effort. She peeked downstairs to see a whole lot more weirdness, and decided she would stay out of it, and went back upstairs. She had enough crazy for one day....

[Novia Soviet Socialist Republic]

Sarah

Sarah chimed in on the conversation with Kyuubi "Look can we just drop the idea of the sword? A myth isn't going to help you do whatever it is you're trying to do. Naegling. More like...non exist-ing" She folded her arms and nodded with a confident smile on her face "Nailed it" She said afterwards feeling she said something witty enough to be taken seriously. In reality she was trying to keep them away from the sword for safety reasons.

Fanatic

Fanatic watched in shock as the golem who he thought just some eccentric mage, regenerated. This was no mere human. Pulling the trigger a third time, the hammer simply struck the primer of the round but did nothing. With a sigh, Fanatic placed the handgun back in his coat pocket and then noticed his troops were grunting "What's going on back there?" He called behind him, keeping his vision fixed on the Golem "Our feet are stuck, we can't move!" One of them called back, clearly sounding slightly distressed though not panicking.

Fanatic rolled his eyes before looking over at Chieften who was giggling "And what is so funny Sasha?" He asked in an infuriated way as she began to speak "Boy oh boy did you fuck up" She said with a laugh causing Fanatic to laugh obnoxiously "Jokes on you shit head, your cave men are stuck in the ground" He folded his arms and thought. In all the commotion he forgot he had the ability to read minds and fry peoples brains.

[Naval Monte]

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"Yeah... can we talk about something else..." Tandem murmured, obviously uncomfortable about the event that Cyrssa brought up. Alice can sense that whatever happened must have been terrible but she choose not ask Tandem about it. "So what have you been doing for all these years?" Tandem quickly said as he hope that having Cyrssa talking about her life would force the topic of that chapter of his past away from the conversation.

The Moon Sisters let out exasperated sighs at Cyrssa's responses, the sisters saw Alzis walk to Elizabeth and hand over her smart phone before walking away from her. Once Elizabeth turn it on she found that there were several missed calls and new messages. "Would you look at this it would appear that The Fates have 24 new universes under their claim. Some bloke named Nigel is dead, I have no idea what that is about. And some other random crap that I can't find a fuck to give about." Elizabeth said as she threw the phone back to Alzis, catching the phone it was clear that Alzis didn't like the fact that Elizabeth simply skipped over most of her messages.

When Cyrssa said she wanted the newcomers both Elizabeth and Alice spoke at the same time. "But she is related to me, sure you can allow her/me to stay over... Please?" the two of them even said please at the same moment, surprising the two women with their brief telepathic moment. "Twin telepathy without being twins, thought I would never see that." Tandem said, finding amusement in the cousins strange bonding moment. Tessy came out of the kitchen with her own plate spoke to Cyrssa. "Cyrssa I think these people can stay for a while longer, at least let them eat dinner before they leave. " Alice looked at the Tessy with a confused look. "Dinner? It was morning when me and Tom woke up." Elizabeth and Tessy both were now looking at Alice with confusion.

Tandem explained that when he and Alice first met he used his biomods to change his physical appearance too look like a human and made up a fake identity during the time the two of them have been staying together. "You two have been staying together? For months now?" Tandem noticed that there was an odd tone with Elizabeth voice, he didn't see Alice giving the man a worried look. "Now I'm sure that during the time you haven't done anything to my cousin right?" she said in a saccharine tone that was clearly fake, making the threatening edge in her voice clear. This wasn't Tandem's first time meeting women who can be best described as mother bears when it comes to their family and he knew from experience that if he say the wrong words it can end badly for him.

"Elizabeth I can assure you that me and Alice are friends, nothing more and I would never hurt her." Alice defended him by telling her that he helped defend her from a strange creature that attacked them. "My god you two have the worst bloody luck possible. Entering the lair of a Dementia Larvae and not knowing it." The two of them looked at her with surprise, Alice knew that Elizabeth probably knew what that creature was and she was glad to know she was right. Before they can ask Elizabeth about the Larvae they both heard Saya and Fauna coming in.

They all saw Fauna drop the plates and look as though she saw a ghost. Tandem, Alice and Elizabeth looked at where Fauna was looking and found that it was Altyrnia, causing the threesome to have a bad feeling, with Elizabeth already drawing some clear suspicions on who this woman can be working with. All three decided to keep their suspicions a secret from the rest and from Altyrnia, Alice made a loud aww when she saw Fauna. "She's adorable" she said, going over and hugging the cute bard who looks like a fairy princess to Alice.

Tandem and Tessy were looking at the odd spectacle and turn to Elizabeth for answers. "Alice's had a weakness for cute things, or at least things she find cute cause sometimes I question what is cute to her." Saya cleaned the mess while laughing at the odd scene of the bard getting a hug from her a relative of her sister's lover. "It may take me a while but I can make enough for everyone." Saya turn to Cyrssa. "Cyrssa sweetly, please let these women go. They will leave after dinner is done." she said in a nice but stern tone. Saya heard Elizabeth telling her to keep some woman called Alzis in the field. "I don't care about whatever issue you and this Alzis have, you keep your problems outside of my house and treat each other as guests if you both want to stay inside." she warned to both Elizabeth while looking for which woman is Alzis, she got from the Moon Sisters who pointed out which of the four women was Alzis.

Elizabeth saw movement from upstairs for a moment before it left, she guessed that it was Kyne and decided to leave her be. "I'm pretty sure she doesn't want to see me after seeing me turn into some sort of lovecraftian creature in front of her, hell I'm surprised that Tessy is still willing to be be near me after that." Elizabeth went to the kitchen to see what Saya made for dinner.

[Contamenesia]

Kyuubi

Kyuubi rolled her eyes. "We've already established that all myth has some basis in fact. your argument is rather invalid. You seem very defensive about this, any particular reason why?" she siad, analyzing sarah's reactions.

Altyrnia

Altyrnia knew they were beginning to be suspiscious of her. However, it mattered not. "No need to feed me, im not hungry. i'll eat some other time." She smirked. She'd let it play just a little longer, but soon she will have important matters to deal with.

Fauna

Fauna didnt even acknowledge the girl who hugged her. She pulled away then nervously clampered to the door. "I'm going to check on Crowe...yeah, just to see if..." suddenly Altyrnia asked, "are you sure? We've only just met, atleast introduce yourself, its the least you could do..." her voice was so innocent. Fauna froze, but forced herself to relax, she was NOT about to anger the King of the Ahmarhan. "Oh yes, how rude of me, my name is Fauna the Bard, a pleasure to meet you all." she curtsied.

Cyrssa

Cyrssa rolled her eyes. but she dropped the supression fields. She still was tempted to blow their heads off. "If you try anything, i will shoot you. dont forget that." she warned them.

Gabriel

Gabriel entered an empty lockerroom. He had slipped into another realm, though he had no idea where he was. he grabbed a uniform from an open locker and put it on. if fit almost perfectly, he had the feeling he would need it for a while. He wandered down the hall, passing several guards who didnt even give him a second glance. they ignored him. he plucked a pair of keys off of one of them as he passed by, though he had no idea why he would need them. he saw a sign that read IGSE in the Hallway. he never heard of it. he came across a locked door several hallways later, and by instinct unlocked the door with one of the keys he took. There was a box on the desk and within the box wasseveral bundles of specialized ammo, what they did or why he needed them, he did not know, but he grabbed them and put them in his pockets. He then opened a drawer and pulled out a random file. he wasnt sure why he needed it, but he figured time would tell. he walked out the door and back into the hallways. He found himself wandering again until he opened the doors into a rather large meeting room with a wartable in the middle. several men stood around it, with one of them being the obvious leader of the group. "Here's the information you wanted, sir." he said habding over the giles.he then did the proper salute, and walked towards one of the corners in the room. he didnt plan any of it, he just said and did what just felt right for the moment, they were all random things to him, but they worked perfectly. While he was walking towards the corner he picked a key out of the man who was in charge's pocket, though he did so in a manner that was perfectly timed so that it was completely unnoticed, though he hadnt planned it at all. once in the corner he pulled out the screw he had stolen from Alzis' facility and through it down an airvent descreetly. he didnt know why he needed to do that, but he felt it was what was needed to be done. After about three minutes had passed, an explosion went off in the distance, the result of the screw clogging the wrong hole in the AC. the lights flickered and as the others were destracted, he walked calmly out of the room, unnoticed, seemingly appearing to be one of the guards that went to investigate. He wandered for a bit more before coming acxross another office door, however this one was locked with extremely advanced security. the door read : "HaikaraKainen" along with some other words, but he didnt bother reading them. he pulled out a small bug like device as well as the key. he pressed a button on the bug, not knowing what it did, and suddenly it cam to life and attached itself to the security mechanisms on the door. a second later, the door unlocked. The bug flew back to his hand and deactivated. he had a feeling he would need this again later, no clue when.

once inside. he found a desk, and underneath it were several hidden buttons. he had no clue what any of them did, but found that his finger pressed the right one and a secret door opened. he followed the secret path until he found what he could guess was a personal transport vehicle. using the key he had taken ealier, he unlocked the door and went inside. he pressed a few buttons, not knowing what they did, and subsequencly turned of its security measures as well as its tracking device, though he had no knowledge that he had done so. he started the vehicle and with it, escaped from the secret facility, hopping on to the next dimension, wherever that may be....

[Kaidou]

Dimension ???

"Sir!"

"What?"

"The CEO's 7th office has been raided!"

"Raided?"

"Apparently, someone was able to infiltrate the old building and get through the security droids."

"Clearly, the old building's security is not up to standard. It's a good thing we destroyed all of the old documents there."

"Actually, sir…"

"What?"

"I was informed by General Hakusu that the hard drives had not been wiped. They mentioned that there was important information info pertaining to the Maju Army and other related factions, and…"

"That's not important anymore. Maju's dead, and his army is gradually receding."

"But sir… There may be other important content that was missed."

"Rubbish. We've destroyed everything. Either that, or we've moved it to the current headquarters. I always tell my subordinates that there's merit in changing headquarters every now and then; it's so that we throw enemies off our tracks."

"Sir… shouldn't we upgrade our security a bit?"

"… you're right. We need to invest more in security. The CEO must be informed."

"Yes sir."

"And scour the CCTV records; I want the perpetrator to be identified, captured, and tortured till he drowns in his own vomit. This will show him that we mean business. Also, I don't want Iuzun to slaughter me if he finds out."

"Yes sir, I'll send the order down to the men."

"Good."

…

Dimension 29
Pral Shri

By the half-hour mark, the headless body of Haikarakainen had succeeded in driving Wilhelmus to his limit.

Though the IGSE's boss' martial art skills were not on the same level as Wilhelmus', he had the advantage of being a Devil Fruit eater. With little hesitation, he was able to pull out weapons of all sorts from various parts of the city, using them all to fight dirty with Wilhelmus, eventually overcoming him and driving him into a supine position. Higashi attempted to interfere, but a simple uppercut from the headless body sent him flying back to his skyscraper.

"Hey hey."

With that, the elevator on Haikarakainen's skyscraper rang, before the doors opened to reveal the figure of Law Hon Chung, the master of Eight Trigram Palm.

"Master Law", sneered Haikarakainen's disembodied voice, as vapour slowly coalesced on his neck and formed his head with his trademark nerdish glasses and golden blonde mane of hair. "I've had such a good fight this afternoon; first against the Prazaku, then against your junior, Ding Hao, and then against a Tenshi and a Karateka. Shall I add a fifth victory to my scoreboard today?"

"Your arrogance blinds you, Haikarakainen", said Law calmly as he pointed both his open palms at the CEO of the IGSE, sweeping his left foot across the floor in a calculated, methodical semicircle. "Maju has already been killed; do you not understand the frailty of life as we know it?"

"That's bullshit", spat Haikarakainen derisively, chuckling throatily. "All this chingchonglinglong nonsense about values is only for losers who don't understand what real power is!"

Law chuckled back quietly, smiling serenely and cocking his head, partly to get his silky grey hair out of his wrinkled yet bright eyes, and partly to tell his opponent that he was ready for anything.

"So you could defeat Ding Hao's Kuchi and his Mizu Mizu no Mi; that's okay. He's young, and he's still got a long way to go, especially in developing such an aggressive and impulsive style. Perhaps my 八卦掌 might be more suited to fighting you."

Haikarakainen roared in laughter, before throwing aside all his solidified air weapons and leaping at Law with both fists hardened with Haki. Law whirled around in a Yin-Yang circle, before facing Haikarakainen the moment he threw his fists forward; the timing was perfect. Both of the IGSE CEO's fists were blocked by Law's open palms, which were also coated with Busoshoku-Koka Haki. A crack rang out through the city's ruins as a flash of blue lightning shot forth from the space between the two.

"Their Haoshoku Haki is clashing…" said Higashi in awe.

"Let's see who's the greater among the two of us, Law", sneered the boss of the IGSE.

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Dimension 1,105

"If you don't feel comfortable with us going after the sword", said Leung, "then we could always think of alternatives, like getting to the Jewel. But I have to agree with Kyuubi here; what exactly are you trying to hide?"

…

[Naval Monte]

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Alzis ignored Cryssa's warning as she was about to check the messages that Elizabeth skipped through, until she finally got a telepathic response from one of her bodies. "What! How can someone break into our facility and steal from us with no effort?!" To everyone outside of Alzis's head they can see the woman fuming in rage, the shadows around her moving in a way that gave the clear warning that at any moment she would attack something. "Some fool manage to security into think that he was Mr. Vixtor. Who was in charge at the time? Emily Bedrow? I will think of something for those two, for now I want this theft found and I want him alive, but of course it's optional for him to be found intact." now Alzis's expression changed from rage to a sadistic glee.

Sensing that she was now making herself look like a threat to the elf she explained herself. "One way I manage to get into connect with my people is a telepathic link that world regardless the distances between me and the speaker, even if we are in different universes. It would appear that someone stole a few items from me and made my security look like a joke in the progress, but this thief will suffer soon enough." Alzis suspects that the IGSE is involved in some way but she doesn't have proof to be a hundred percent certain on that idea.

The Moon sisters once they were free from the suppression field walk to a good spot and sat down cross legged, clearing their mind as they attempt to establish contact with the other tenshis, in a few minutes they did.

"Finally we have contact. We're sorry for holding you all up, we were caught in a suppression field cause one of the owners of the house really doesn't like trespassers which we fall into. We have good news to share, Elizabeth Ashwood changed her mind and is willing to join our quest for the jewel though she is joining because another woman by the name of Tessy Inuu wishes to join us. From what we gather this Tessy seems to be a healer of great skill and is Elizabeth's lover." the tenshis can hear the sister's mental giggles over the last piece of information. "However we also ran into an Ahmarhan who for some unknown reason fused the dimension we were in with another one, from the magic we would have to guess that this would world is one inhabited by faeries." As the Moon Sisters communicated with the tenshis they were unaware of what was going on with Fauna.

Alice and Tandem noted how Fauna was acting around Altyrnia, the two of them may not know what each one was but they can tell that Fauna was afraid of the woman. "I think I will go with Fauna to find this Crow, someone has to make sure she comes back safely." in truth Alice wants to talk with Fauna privately on who the woman is. "Good idea, I want to share something with Cyrssa." the two of them departed, Alice following Fauna to the door while Tandem went to Cyrssa.

When he knelt down he showed his Nexus Manipulator so that way it would appear that he was talking about it to Cyrssa. "Listen I want you to set your suppression field at a higher setting than before, something tells me that girl wouldn't be afraid of that woman unless there was a good reason." he said in a whisper, he than began to share with Cyrssa some of the secrets of how his Nexus Manipulator works so his cover can still work.

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Dimension 44,669
Shtriga

The white and red clad soldiers of The Fate's 318 battalion explored a seemly menacing and dead world. The sky of the world was a dark blood red color and the sand was black, ruins of mighty metropolis littered the planet along with dead foliage. The soldiers found evidences of Maju's army in this world but they haven't found any living soldiers, in fact most soldiers found were already dead.

Most of the bodies were simply lying on the ground, without their masks Fate troopers can see looks of horror on the dead soldiers faces. As they explore the world they found that if the dead bodies were not frozen than others were badly mutilated to the point that distinguishing what the bodies originally belonged too was nearly impossible. During their trek the troopers stopped and made base in an old apartment building.

Once they made themselves at home in the old building most were refused to take off their masks and helmets, in fear of what the air of the world can contain. Another reason was because the world stank of an omnipresent smell of a slaughter house covered in sulfur. The soldier in charge of the battalion, commander Thorn, set up a holographic communication platform and soon was establish contact with Alzis.

"Commander Thorn what is the statue of your mission." the soldier saluted and spoke. "Sir, all life on the planet is dead including the enemy. Some of the bodies were in sever states of decay or were mutilated in ways that identifying the bodies were nearly impossible. The bodies that were not in any of those states seem to have died from fear, we suspect some chemical or biological agent may have been used and spread throughout the world, this winds in this world are powerful." Alzis was curious about this report and asked if there was more.

"Yes, some of the men and women believe that something was watching us and to be honest sir, I didn't believe them but I could have sworn to have seen something hiding in the alleyways. Yet we checked for any signs of life but found none, we still haven't found evidence of spectral entities yet. Also everyone, me including, are having a hard time dealing with this smell that seems to be everyone on the planet." Alzis was puzzled, why would smell bother them. "What do you smell commander?" The commander didn't waste time replying back. "Some had different description but we all agree that it smells like a slaughter house covered in sulfur." do the mask this holographic avatar wore Thorn was not able to see Alzis's shock on his face.

"Commander, get your troops and leave this planet immediately. No, leave this dimension immediately because we are going to quarantine it." Before the commander can ask what is the problem he felt the room getting both colder and warmer at the same time, something that should be impossible. The feeling of being watch was now back and it was stronger than ever, he now felt that whatever was watching him and his soldiers are now inside with them. Thorn soon heard screaming follow by weapons going off. He called out to his troops, ignoring Alzis's orders to leave the building now.

Throughout the building the sounds of blasters and guns mixed with screams filled the old derelict halls of the building. For hours this state of affairs continued until finally the screams and weapon fire stopped, leaving the building eerily quiet. Only the holographic image of Alzis remain, knowing what was in the building and what killed the battalion. Just as he saw the silhouette of the beings who were prowling the dead world one of them throw the body of Thorn at the platform, destroying it. Throughout the city inhuman roars, slaughters and moan echo throughout the streets, acting as the warning sign for all that this dead world was still inhabited by something, something that was also on the lookout for more prey.

[Kaidou]

Dimension 1,105

As the Moon Sisters' telepathic message came through, Mera's Eternal Ring began to glow faintly. The dragon perked up, before entering an almost trancelike state, as she listened intently to the contents of the Sisters' message.

Ah, so we have another companion now. That makes… me, Felix, Hiccup, Toothless, Master Leung, Master Lam, Ashwood, Inuu, Mr. Kaidō… nine people. Hardly an army, but considering one of them is a Rokuō, I think we have a pretty strong team now. Oh yeah, and there's one Henry Saladass, who's an expert on Void travel. So that makes ten.

Though neither Ludwig nor any of the other Tenshi replied, Mera knew that they had received the message and, also, that they knew very what they were up to.

Now, I just hope Nicholas and his elf boyfriend are able to defend X well. And that Illushu's successor is a chill sort of guy.

…

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Dimension 29
Pral Shri

For a second or two, both Haikarakainen and Law were locked together, their Haki clashing and sending blue lightning snaking outwards. Neither was willing to relent; their individual willpowers were immense. Soon, the buildup of energy overflowed, sending a shockwave that caused both pugilists reeling backwards and toppling.

Haikarakainen fell over, landing on his back, but twisted his abdomen and leapt up onto his feet sideways, balancing himself with his legs apart. Law, being more agile, whirled around in a circle, before bringing himself onto the floor with both his legs coiled up underneath his body, his palms still outstretched and pointed towards his opponent.

"Hmph", snorted Haikarakainen. His patience was clearly running dry. "Come at me!" he screamed, allowing his tongue to dangle out of his mouth, which he contorted into a smile of intolerable fury. Without warning, the IGSE's boss dissolved into vapour, disappearing completely. Higashi and Wilhelmus both got up groggily, readying themselves in case the Rokuō was going to show up and hack at them.

Law, however, remained on the floor in a meditative position.

…

You are all around, Haikarakainen. I can sense you. In this form, you are intangible and invincible, but powerless. Sooner or later, you will have to break out and reform your body once again.

The question, then, is when you will do it.

[Naval Monte]

Dimension 1,105

As the Moon Sisters' telepathic message came through, Mera's Eternal Ring began to glow faintly. The dragon perked up, before entering an almost trancelike state, as she listened intently to the contents of the Sisters' message.

Ah, so we have another companion now. That makes… me, Felix, Hiccup, Toothless, Master Leung, Master Lam, Ashwood, Inuu, Mr. Kaidō… nine people. Hardly an army, but considering one of them is a Rokuō, I think we have a pretty strong team now. Oh yeah, and there's one Henry Saladass, who's an expert on Void travel. So that makes ten.

Though neither Ludwig nor any of the other Tenshi replied, Mera knew that they had received the message and, also, that they knew very what they were up to.

Now, I just hope Nicholas and his elf boyfriend are able to defend X well. And that Illushu's successor is a chill sort of guy.

The sisters were still in their the right mood to send out telepathic messages which they did since they forgot something major. Ignoring the chatter that was around them the sister's concentrate as they sent out their next message.

"We made a mistake in our last message. You see due to some strange events Elizabeth has lost her powers. At first we couldn't sense it and before we can the suppression field was on us. Apparently from Ashwood some strange being temporarily stole her powers, so now we are waiting for them to come back. In the meantime we have some new people that are in our current location and Ashwood is in a group of her own and we were thinking of possibly getting some members of these groups to join us? "

[Kaidou]

The sisters were still in their the right mood to send out telepathic messages which they did since they forgot something major. Ignoring the chatter that was around them the sister's concentrate as they sent out their next message.

"We made a mistake in our last message. You see due to some strange events Elizabeth has lost her powers. At first we couldn't sense it and before we can the suppression field was on us. Apparently from Ashwood some strange being temporarily stole her powers, so now we are waiting for them to come back. In the meantime we have some new people that are in our current location and Ashwood is in a group of her own and we were thinking of possibly getting some members of these groups to join us? "

Of course. If anyone can help and is willing to put his all into doing so, let him come over; we shall assemble a gathering to take down Ogklrygma.

Mera hopped off the bar and slinked about the restaurant gracefully. "We seem to be on a roll in terms of recruitment; we've got lots of people who are willing to come over and help us."

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Dimension 808,999
Pfž!mez-kha!nnut!kak

"Do you submit yourself to the rule of Haikarakainen?"

"No! Our allegiance is to Maju, and we shall carry on his legacy without fail."

"Fine, then."

The phone hung up on the Dimension's king, R!meza!k.

At that moment, a dimensional rift opened, revealing a gigantic, sickly green planet on the other side. Two Dyson spheres were connected to it, the much larger devices clearly visible behind the planet. The most horrifying thing about the planet, however, was that a deep trench had been carved out of its midsection; inside the trench was a massive cannon.

The planet was Flama, and it was equipped with the Rift Gun, the commander of which was Lieutenant General Rushikk Antinoos.

"Fire!" screamed Antinoos in pure glee.

In a split second, a red laser left the cannon, before striking every single planet in Dimension 808,999 and burning everything up.

…

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"Greetings. I'm afraid that I am unable to give this presentation to you in person, due to my standby mission with Ghin Denass; at this very moment, I am on board a Kiriumbau. As such, a hologram will have to do. Furthermore, the contents of this presentation are largely technical, and will mainly interest those with scientific and mathematical background.

"Genesis Bombs aside, I have conducted more experiments on nothenium. My research has showed that it has a very large number of oxidation states. However, the majority of the compounds I produced were unstable; only nothenium (III) bromide, which I produced through a trial and error set of titrations. I found that it is stable to heating up to a very high temperature, and that for some reason, the bromide ions in the compound are inseparable. I could not displace them, even with fluorine gas. The reason for this is yet unknown; however, I shall continue my research.

"In addition, I have also discovered a number of nothenium isotopes, all of which are radioactive to some extent. I also discovered that it reacts with aqua regia to form a highly acidic compound; I call it "nothenic acid". This acid is extremely hard to neutralise; it dissolved the beaker I used, and 10cm^3 of 0.100 mol/dm^3 nothenic acid required 50kg of calcium carbonate powder to neutralise completely. The result of neutralisation was a soluble salt which, upon evaporation of the solution, formed a pale green salt. The exact chemical formula of said salt has not been ascertained yet, but my calculations lead me to believe that it is Nt2(NO3)3.

"For reasons I am unaware of as of yet, gaseous cycloalkenes decompose instantly upon exposure to the powdered form of nothenium nitrate. There is certainly more to this metal than meets the eye.

"I will keep all of you updated when I have new results."

[Novia Soviet Socialist Republic]

Sarah

Sarah swallowed and thought for a second "I just think chasing after something we're not even sure exists isn't going to get anywhere" She folded her arms and raised her head slightly. Sarah used to be excellent at hiding and getting secrets, being able to interrogate or trick the mightiest god. However time has withered away on her espionage abilities, she had not interrogated someone in 200 years "And even if it does exist, there's obviously a reason you haven't heard of it's location. For all you know there could be some insane, long forgotten deity in there just waiting to ravage the multiverse" She sighed knowing that to be a half truth. The vast majority of Elder Gods and Goddesses had lost their shit a long time ago.

[Contamenesia]

Kyuubi

Kyuubi could tell the woman had some skill in interrogation, however Kyuubi was the best Diplomat existence had to offer, so she knew how to handle such a situation. She just had to be careful. "Chasing? No one said anything about chasing it, but whether real or not, it is worth investigating, and from what i have gathered, there IS some truth to the tale. We can worry about who guards it when we cross that bridge. First we'll get this amulet, then we'll investigate Naegling. I might be able to dig up information on it along the way. Like i said, we can always just ask a Bard." Her argument was both reasonable and agreeable. She had made it so that if Sarah continued with her objections, it would make Sarah look suspicious. Kyuubi after all, could negotiate even with the nonnegotiable. she could pry info and secrets even from the most stubborn, secretive, and cleverest of foes. And usually she didn't even have to use force, in fact she rarely ever did....

Cyrssa

"If we bump up the suppression field, the quantum flex will destablize, not only will that make the whole thing useless, it could backlash and obliterate everything in a ten-mile radius, and i for one do not want to blast not only my house but half of my hometown to smithereens." she whispered back. "If i am who you think i am, then that won't work at all." a voice suddenly said from behind her. Cyrssa jumped in surprise. The woman from before was right behind them, she had such a sweet voice and an innocent tone and face. "What? Whoa! Don't do that! and what do you mean 'If you are who we think you are'?" she asked, confused. "Oh nothing i guess, i just thought someone would realize sooner, but Alzis darling here can tell you who am i. Say it nicely, you know what the consequences will be if you don't."

Cyrssa wasn't sure how she did it, but this woman managed to make a sweet and innocent tone sound terrifying, yet a little adorable at the same time. Cyrssa didn't know what she meant, but She drew her gun just in case. "That won't help a smidge, my dear." the woman said with a sweet smile.

Fauna

Fauna went outside and walked over to Crowe. Wasp was still passed out, unconscious. "Look, i think we might need to leave..." she said, her voice shaking. Crowe looked at her and Alice in confusion. "Wait why? Aren't you going to introduce me to the stunning beauty standing next to you first?" He gave alice a bow, his charm showing as always, "I am Crowe, Crowe the Bard, milady. And you are?" he asked with a gentle smile. Fauna got angry. "There is no time for that! SHE'S here. The King! I don't know what she wants, but we should leave as soon as we--" Crowe interrupted her, "Oh? she is? why didn't you tell me? Excuse me ladies, but there is a certian mistress that awaits me!" he said, dashing off into the house with a smirk. Fauna sighed with exasperation, shaking her head. Why did she even bother with him?

Altyrnia

"Hello my angel of desi--" Crowe began to say as he barged in. "No." She responded in a sweet tone and a frying pan then suddenly flew from the kitchen and smacked Crowe across the head, knocking him out cold. She wasn't in any mood to be flirted by a lower being such as him. She turned to others, "I don't think there is any objection to that, am i right?" She smiled.

Jason

Jason wasn't sure what to make of the man who barged in only to be knocked out cold by a sudden flying frying pan. What he did know was that Alyssa was acting weird. And what was weirder, he could no longer sense her with the Calm. "Alyssa, what is going on?" he asked, drawing his blade. he didn't know much about this strange woman, but he would fight if he needed to.

[Kaidou]

Dimension 1,105

"I concur with Kyuubi", said Leung, his voice trailing off. "There is some truth in the legend of Naegling; the studies of the cosmos have showed occasional rifts that cannot be explained in any other..." He dropped the cup back on the table, looking up sharply.

I feel something...

...

Dimension 29
Pral Shri

I know you're here, Haikarakainen. You are in the air; you are impatient. You are anxious to make the first move.

As was predicted, the IGSE's boss suddenly appeared as two legs, landing a kick on Law, who blocked the leg with one arm. In a deft move, he seized the leg and hardened his hand with Haki, to prevent the IGSE boss from using his Devil Fruit power against him. As the rest of Haikarakainen's body appeared, Law locked his left leg around Haikarakainen's right leg, before twisting his body and seizing his adversary's two arms, locking his elbows around his opponent's. Both were in a deadlock, neither willing to let go.

Haikarakainen spat onto the floor and circled the edge of the building, attempting to shake Law off; it was a futile attempt, for the Eight Trigram Palm master was too strong to let go. In a rare, genuine fit of rage, Haikarakainen brought his mouth down to Law's shoulder, sinking his teeth into the Grandmaster's body, cutting through the dark blue tunic and into the skin. Law grunted in pain, but regained his composure; with a sudden shift of his body weight, he brought Haikarakainen down onto one knee, before jumping off the knee and seizing his opponent's face, planting a set of Haki-imbued knuckles in Haikarakainen's eye.

The man screamed in pain, before dissolving into mist and sending two fists towards Law, who blocked them with his palms.

Without warning, however, the building began to dissolve into liquid. Both Higashi and Wilhelmus looked on in horror as the figure of Haikarakainen leapt into the air, hovering above the collapsing building.

"I know your style, Law!" he screamed triumphantly. "I know how to counter Bagua!"

Law leapt into the air, propelling himself off the building, charging towards Haikarakainen; however, before he could do anything, five strings pierced through his abdomen from behind, causing him to cough out blood and fall towards the ground...

"Oi."

Before he could hit the ground, a portal opened up, allowing Law to land on a soft, grassy patch, thus preventing any further injury. As Haikarakainen descended to the ground in a rage, another portal appeared beside him, allowing the smell of Japanese food to waft over.

...

Dimension 1,105

"What is it, Master Leung?" asked Felix.

"It's Master Law Hon Chung", said Leung. "He and Master Ding Hao have both been defeated by Haikarakainen on Pral Shri, as have Wilhelmus and his Nihonjin companion."

"Haikarakainen?" said Hiccup in shock, the colour draining from his face. "What's he doing out here?"

"They're all on the move", said Leung, "claiming the spoils from the flotsam and jetsam of Maju's Empire." Without waiting for any of them to reply, Leung opened up a gigantic portal to Pral Shri, revealing the ruined city and Haikarakainen's figure descending to the ground in search of Law.

"Master Leung Nam-kuan!" screamed Haikarakainen derisively and deliriously, "So the strongest of the Ten is here to challenge me too?"

Leung smirked.

"You've defeated two of my Grandmasters now", he replied, "it's only fair that I come after you now, is it not?" In a swift, fiery move, the Grandmaster leapt across the portal, disappearing momentarily, before appearing right in front of the IGSE boss a split second later, bringing the back of his leg down on the man's shoulder and sending him crashing into the ground in a cloud of dust.

"If the Moon Sisters and the new recruits arrive before I'm done", said Leung to the others in the restaurant, "then don't wait for me; go off."

Master Lam raised two fingers to his head and flashed a gesture of understanding to his superior.

"Now, Haikarakainen", said Leung, making the portal slightly smaller, "let's get this over and done with."

...

[Naval Monte]

Sol Kira

Sol Kira watch from the balcony to see the capital city that was a couple of miles away from the temple of Order of St. Luminia. The picturesque landscape around the capital city was one that Sol has seen many times but never grown tire of seeing. The city perched on top a vast mountain with a steep cliff that leads down to lush forests with a river cutting through it that was feed by a mighty waterfall that comes from yet another river in the middle of the capital that falls down from the cliff.

The blue sky was only obscured by a few white clouds and from the distances Sol can see six winged multicolor birds flying in the air. "Being able to see a lovely view like this is one of the reasons I enjoy my position in the order." the Sorenau thought, knowing that this landscape still exists due to his and his order's handwork on protecting the world and it's people gives the old warrior unimaginable pride.

Yet Sol's tranquil watch was soon interrupted when a woman wearing a set of arm resembling a winged mythical beast flew on to the balcony, the arms of the armor being metallic wings with metal feathers. The woman bowed and spoke. "Your Excellency, I come to you bearing grave news." the woman, named Ziz, stated. Once she got the order from Sol to share the news she did. "We finally received word that the necromancer and warlord Maju was slain by the hands of the Ahmarhan. As we speak the other Rokuō are already taking action and have began to absorb the spoils of Maju's empire into their own."

Sol was surprised to hear the news, he despised Maju greatly and would have went after the sorcerer himself if he wasn't under a damning contract by Haikarakainen to leave Maju alone save for the case of self defense in exchanged for resources to improve farming in his territories. Yet Sol knew that with Maju killing him would require both good planing and finding an equal or superior replacement to prevent a power vacuum that would erupt into the war that exists now. "What the hell where the Ahmarhan thinking. Killing that demon without replacing them, those devils are no guardians!" if Sol had hands he would be clinching them into fists right about now. "Why is it that we have this news now Ziz?" the woman didn't say anything for a while, almost embarrassed to give the reason.

"It would appear that whenever a messenger tried to come to our temple to deliver the news to us most either vanish without a trace or are found dead with their message gone, the one that came to us is barely clinging to life your excellency." Sol's eyes narrowed, he already suspects on who is responsible for those deaths. "Ziz, get your knights ready and tell the other Mythic Beasts the news, our new crusade as begun." the general complied and flew off, Sol took one last glance at the landscape and went back to his chambers to prepare for his new crusade.

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Dimension 1026
Kirima

On the icy and mountainous world of Kirima both the forces of The Fates and the IGSE fought against each other, with the Fates dominating the battles on the ice caps thanks to their walkers and the IGSE winning the sea battles on the world's oceans. The planet of Kirmia contained plentiful of resources that can aid the war effort of any of the Rokuō who claim the world as their own.

As fighters from both factions dog fight over who would gain supremacy over the air it was the pilots who notice large cracks appear on the ice, they were able to get a warning out to their respective factions but as evocation was beginning to take place the unexpected happen. As ships came down to take away the retreating armies massive crystal spires jeted out from the ice and impaled the ships, destroying them. The men who were not impaled by the smaller spikes soon found crystal golems rising from the ice caps and attacking them, it was only than that they saw the army of armless knight approaching.

From the sea battle a massive blizzard appeared to block the view of the ships, but sonar technology allowed them to keep a track on the ship... it was also used to show that more ships were coming towards them. Before either ships from the two factions can react massive blasts and bolts of magic hit them from long range and kept on firing, as most personnel focused on the ships on the surface they never noticed a few aquatic knights used water magic to glide underwater and jump out, landing on the decks of the ships and began their assault. From the sky new fighters and bombers joined in and in the confusion over the new arrivals the exhausted armies of both the Fates and the IGSE were soon defeated.

Standing on top of the ruins of a destroyed Fate walker a woman wearing a green and silver armor resembling a sea serpent planted a flag on top of the wrecked war machine, the flag bored the sign of the Knightly Order of St. Luminia.

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Dimension 2287
Kile II

Kile II is a planet with many canyons and huge pits, due to its intense seismic activity. Maju's army created several bases in the world and even had state of the art defense systems, some of which was either bought or stolen from the IGSE, to make the base impenetrable. Yet Fate stealth aircrafts and hackers were able to go around the defenses and soon after a grueling battle claimed the planet for themselves. Yet it would appear that the IGSE was well aware that Maju stole some of their technology for in the fourth day after the battle the IGSE finally appeared on the world.

The battle waged by the two forces was intense with currently now clear victor in sight. The general in the main base continue to shout orders to the fighters outside until the unthinkable happened, the power for the base was cut out. No one got word of the enemy cutting the power and The Fate's computer defenses were strong enough to prevent hackers from the IGSE from entering inside, so the problem came from the generator itself.

The repair team that was sent down into the room at first noted that there was an odd and terrible smell in the room, it smelled like a slaughter house covered in sulfur. The crew went to the generator and found many long slash marks on it. Before they can contact the general on what they found the radios began to blare out in static, making the crewmen jump and drop the radios. Soon the sound of power drills and saws can be heard going off, with their flash light they caught the sight of a large humanoid running pass the hall, loudly roar as it's saw goes off follow by the sound of men screaming and flesh being torn apart.

The crewmen run out of the generator room and as they run down the hall they can hear more unearthly noises surround them along with people scream in horror and pain, they knew that they most leave this base. As they ran they can hear things following them, they sounded almost like dogs but more mechanical. One of the men tripped but the others didn't reach down to help him, they all heard him scream as power drills turn on and began to dig into his flesh. The men soon found the gates that would lead to their freedom but found that it was closed, just as they were about to go find the control room for the gates they all felt something wet land on their shoulders. As they nervously turn their flashlights up only one of them began to run into the control room as they others screamed in horror.

This one repair man was lucky to have run as he soon heard things falling down from the roof and tearing his colleges into pieces. He found the control room and slammed the door closed and locked it, stopping something from entering the room as it bumped against it. The man hide underneath the controls, shivering in fear but trying to stay quiet as whatever was behind the door kept attacking it. For minutes he heard something slamming itself against the door until finally the door was finally forced open, the man covered his mouth and tried to stay still.

From his hiding spot he saw a set of black biomechanical legs walking around the room, plastic tubes around them as blood flow through them. He saw another being wearing a body covering black cloak enter the room and the beings began to speak in a strange language that the man was unfamiliar with. Soon the strange creatures seem to leave the room and after the repairman made sure they were gone he let out a sigh of relief, closing his eyes for a moment. Yet once he opened them he found a black helmet with a sinister face etched on to it staring back at him, the man couldn't scream as most of the air was forced into his lungs. He made a desperate lunge at the beginning but delicate looking hands grabbed him and with surprising strength left the man up and hit his head violently on the underside of his hiding spot.

The man was dazed but when the creature let him go only to grab his arms and drag him off his hiding spot he began to struggle, he refused to scream so he wouldn't attract any more creatures but this gesture failed as he saw more of them appear, it was until he saw one of them carrying the severed head of his brother that he finally screamed. Outside of the base the battle was a IGSE victory, most of the Fates for whatever reason retreated from the planet.

"What a bunch of cowards, the moment the battle starts to go against them they flee like a bunch of scared rats. Alzis's placement as a Rokuō is a complete joke. How can a supposed god who can some demons and abomination from the pit be this pathetic." the general gloated, smoking his cigar and enjoying his victory over The Fate's. His men set up explosives to destroy the gate, they would simply replace it with a new one. Once the gate was destroyed he and his men venture inside the base, becoming the next victims of the beings that lurked inside.