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

[Kaidou]

Inalbo

"I suppose we could", said Felix to the maiden. "As long as we don't wander too far out from this clearing here, I think we should be fine." With that, he put his hands into his pockets and quietly created a number of golden coins, with which he could use to buy the wares of the traders. He walked down a street, and, finding himself thirsty, decided to try some of the drinks that were on sale, rather than create some for himself; he had no idea how such a gesture would be taken, anyway.

At one of the booths, a fat, aged woman in a light blue polka-dotted blouse was selling a brownish red, sweet smelling beverage. As Felix slowly walked towards the booth, the woman stood up.

"Ozaurl mishikk uguu mey vlazuka?" she asked.

Felix tilted his head, not knowing how to answer the woman.

"This drink", she said again in perfect English, "is called ozaurl. Do you want to try some?"

"Um... sure..."

The angel took out a few coins from his pocket and passed them to her. As he stood there, the woman seized a large mug from behind her, dunking it in the keg and pulling it back out, allowing its sides to drip back into the keg. In this desert world, after all, water was a rarity. As were beverages such as these. Upon receiving the mug, Felix took a sip, before gulping the rest down; for its vibrant colour, the drink had a surprisingly light and refreshing taste, somewhere in between rose syrup and lo han kuo. Due to the dying ice cubes that floated pathetically on the surface of the keg, the drink was surprisingly cooling to the throat.

"This is really good!" remarked Felix. "Could I buy... three more cups?"

"You've got friends somewhere else?"

"Well... yes... How did you know?"

"Most people don't buy three cups at once; one's more than enough. So if you buy three, either you've got buddies, or you're not a human."

"Ah..."

With that, Felix handed her the rest of the coins in his pocket. The old woman took out three plastic cups, filled them with ozaurl, and gave them all to Felix.

"Have fun", she said.

Felix hastily thanked the old woman, before turning around and going back to the clearing where Sarah and that nameless woman waited.

...

I've found Vugashu Street, Hiccup; it's not as far away as I expected it to be. We can go back to find the rest now.

[Kaidou]

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Indestructible; Kizaru VS Haikarakainen
攻撃不能： 黄猿 VS ハイカラカーイネン

Part I

The moment Haikarakainen tore the fabric of Dimension 888,814 open and stepped through to Dimension 888,815, that former home of the once glorious (but now no longer unvanquished) Ice Corps, his body was shredded apart by fiery rays of light that cascaded upon him from the sky. As he slowly dissolved into mist and reappeared, the figure of Kizaru materialised from bursts of light that criss-crossed the night sky, stepping forth from the shadows and whirling the Ama No Murakumo.

"You've come to supervise your armiesssss… haven't yooouuuu…?"

As Haikarakainen's body formed back up in front of Kizaru, his disembodied laugh began to flutter around the snowy plains, all around the yellow-suited Tenshi and the trees. Before Kizaru could react, however, his head was cleanly cut off by a string that sliced across the air. Haikarakainen attempted to gloat, but was promptly thrown aside by Kizaru's headless body, which leapt into the air and dissolved into light, before forming a gigantic orb of pure light in the sky that temporarily illuminated the whole of Dimension 888,815 as if it were day.

Despite the relentlessness of the second sun that was suspended in the air and firing ruthless bolts of light all over, the boss of the IGSE was unfazed; as the fiery arrows mutilated the snowy ground beneath, Haikarakainen vaporised his legs and waist, leaping into the air by creating large amounts of vapour and drawing two icy swords, before charging straight for the ball of light, which he proceeded to slash in half, causing Kizaru to fall to the ground in two pieces, laying there motionless.

"You fool", sneered the IGSE's boss, as he disappeared and re-formed above the two halves of the Tenshi. "Did you really think you could take me on on your own? You must be insane!"

That instant, however, Haikarakainen screamed as a blinding yellow sword slashed through his legs, severing them at the Achilles tendons and causing him to fall onto the ground, blood splattered all over the place. The lower half of Kizaru's body leapt to its feet, allowing the upper half to disappear and regenerate almost instantly on top of the lower half's pelvis.

Raising his sword over Haikarakainen's footless body, Kizaru attempted to bifurcate the Rokuō; however, the latter rolled out of the way and dissolved into mist, before a disembodied hand seized Kizaru's arm from the back and twisted it backwards.

"Oooooooo…"

Without waiting for another response from Haikarakainen, the Tenshi disappeared into light once more, reappearing above the Warlord and firing off a ferocious volley of light beams upon him, causing a massive explosion that sent chunks of bedrock flying into the air and crashing into the forests nearby. Fires raged across the trees, illuminating the entire plains, as a cloud of smoke rose from above the crater, inside which both Kizaru and Haikarakainen stood, facing each other.

Kizaru carried the Ama No Murakumo in one hand and the Eternal Javelin in the other.

Haikarakainen had one razor-ike string on each of his fingertips.

"It's obvious that this contest won't be ending so soon, Tenshi", said the latter, licking his lips and grinning salaciously.

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Dimension 29
Shen Tang

In the gigantic Hall of the Emperor, a long, red carpet led all the way to a pedestal at the other end of the hall. On this pedestal was a throne, on which the Emperor, a middle aged man of an impressive 247cm, sat down in a meditative position. On his two sides were his bodyguards; the one on the left, a gigantic 2 metre tall man whose shoulders spanned almost a metre, was General Yuan Kai, who had been offered one of the seats of the Grandmasters and turned it down. The one on the right was equally muscular, but unlike the bare handed Yuan Kai, carried a massive, two handed broadsword, which he held with only his right hand (since he didn't have a left hand); that was General Huang Jing Bi, the second most powerful General under the Emperor.

As imposing and powerful as they looked, however, the Jiang Dynasty and its empire were mere figureheads for the ten masters who supported it and (at least publicly) took orders from it from time to time.

"Master Leung", said the Emperor, sipping from a cup. "I take it you are aware of the recent turn of events, aren't you?"

Leung nodded back.

"Indeed", he said. "There's been a lot of hullabaloo as of late, especially following the death of Maju."

"You're right", said the Emperor. "Maju's death seems to have started an entire Multiverse war."

"It's the principle of the dragon and his gold", said the Grandmaster. "With the tyrant sitting on top of the treasure, everything is micromanaged and oppressed; kill the dragon, however, and the gold's up for grabs; everybody, small and big, weak and powerful, righteous and wicked... all will eventually fall to its allure and leap forward to seize a part of it for himself.

"Let's also bear in mind that the sudden appearances of these strange demons have become much more plentiful as of late; many colonies, both those belonging to Rokuō or to independent beings, have fallen to the onslaught of these unknown armies."

"That is, indeed, unfortunate."

"Your Highness, I propose that we begin building an army to counter the threats of the demon invaders and to prevent unnecessary bloodshed of..."

"I'm sorry, Leung, but our priorities must be in order."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean that we should focus on defending those who are under our jurisdiction, and not go out trying to overstretch ourselves. In other words, I will need you to pull your grandmasters out of all their current campaigns and call them back to Shen Tang; we need all the defence we can get."

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[Naval Monte]

Elizabeth

"I generally don't give that much concern to that old tosh about good and evil, I follow my own somewhat code and that is good enough for me." Elizabeth said, trying to sound civil though her voice now seething back with rage, she was now leaning against the same wall that Tessy pinned her minutes ago. "I don't care if they are good or evil or if you are good or evil or even magic, hell I don't even care too much how you even see me. The only thing I care about is the fact that they have absolute power to do whatever the hell they want with nothing keeping them in check from shitting on the little guy."

Elizabeth took out cigarette and lit, ignoring Tandem as he asked Cyrssa if she has a machine to deal with cigarette smoke as the device he had for such a thing broke during a previous adventure of his. "I don't need anyone telling me to know my place and I only respect people who fucking earn it." she gave the bard a smirk. "So far sweet cheeks earn one point of respect from me by knocking you out in the most amusing manner." Elizabeth chuckled after saying that, she may be angry at the bard but even if she wasn't seeing him get rejected that quickly and getting knocked out by the flying pan was hilarious to her.

Elizabeth turn to Tandem. "Tandem, do me a favor and take Alice outside. I don't want here on what I want to say to this prick." Elizabeth didn't mean to direct her anger at Tandem but sadly it sounded like she did, Alveranian can tell that she wasn't trying to make him the target of her rage but can tell that she doesn't want her cousin around right now, he knew from Alice that Elizabeth was the type who likes to keep secrets. Tandem went to Alice and grabbed her shoulders and began to lead her outside, ignoring her complaints. Once the two of them were gone the occultist return her attention back to Crowe.

"Let me give a little peak into the mindset of a mage back home who actually knows what the hell is going on. Imagine being able to see and sense things that no one can see or interact with? Of course for us that would be magic, I was born a mage and was taught about it from an early age and you are a walking meatsack of magic. But mages don't know that and instead often times think they are seeing thing or going insane. But once they go past that phase they begin to see more things and know more about this secret half of the world, until they finally figure out the bloody truth."

Elizabeth took a long drag on her cigarette and continued. "The whole bloody world is nothing more but an illusion and to make it worse it's also a prison to boot. A prison made by entities that are gods who have their own sodding reasons on why they wanted to keep all of humanity away from the truth, using the fact that most of them are nothing more but ignorant sleepers to control them."

Elizabeth chuckled to herself. "What's the point of me telling you this. You don't know how it feels to be trapped into a made up world that is a universal prison, to know that your own magic brings in a small bit of truth into a world of lies to alter and change it just so you can see more proof on how fake the world is. To know that even with all of your knowledge and power you are still a prisoner, the only difference is that you know that you and a select few are even aware of what's really going one. To have everyone, including most of your friends and family, know the truth. I mean what do you tell them without sounding like a bloody mental patient?"

Elizabeth stayed silent as she continued to smoke her cigarette. "Before you state the obvious, yes, I'm aware that I'm no where near my world. But you can probably tell that what you're seeing isn't my true form, you saw it outside thanks to the ritual. I felt unimaginable pain during that ritual, I wanted to do everything I can to make the pain go away but every time I tried to move I would get hit by a new wave of pure agony. But once the pain went away I was awash with a feeling I can't even find the right words to describe, but it was wonderful." Elizabeth smiled as she remember how it felt being in her true form once the pain went away.

But soon her smile turn into a sneer. "Yet it took one member from the Ahmarhan to take that away from me without so much as a struggle. But you know what you're right. I have plenty of freedom despite what I told you. I should know my place even if said place is one really I don't want to be in. And the most important thing,I should obey their fucking rules because they are the guardians of existence. Even though I bet they can kill the very thing they are fighting against but are only keeping him around because without it they can't look like heroes anymore."

She finally left the wall and turn her back to the bard. "I don't need anyone to give me a purpose and just like how I told your girlfriend me existing is enough of a purpose as there is... I guess messing up the plans of the various masters in my world could count as a purpose but I consider that as a hobby. Kinda like how you are trying to achieve every man and lesbian wildest dream of shagging every woman in existence." she fold her as well.

Tessy saw the two of them and wish to end their argument but she couldn't defend the Ahmarhan for the pain they caused her family yet she can feel that what Crowe was saying was true, she was torn. Saya on the other hand was prepare to stop the two of them if they continue with on fighting.

[Contamenesia]

Crowe

Crowe smirked. "A goddess who hates the idea of a god or goddess. a bit contradictory, dont you think? Besides. Jonjittu can't be killed. Neither can the King. They are beings that predate both the Beginning and the End. They are above such influences. But, if you want to keep whining about like a baby, Ellie, go ahead. Neanwhile, I'm going to go see what those outside are up to." And with that, he winked at her and went outside to see what all the fuss was about.

???

It wasnt long before the last symbol was woven. a huge spike of energy surged from her and the spell blasted forth, hitting every living thing near her, horribly mangling and contorting their bodies into excruciatingly painful forms, but killed them not. The scene was definitely one of much horror. Her eyes wer blazing with molten lava, she didnt even notice the shots Fanatic had fired at her, the holes filled themselves up any how.

Kyuubi

Kyuubi had never really shopped for anything before. She had no need to eat, drink, or sleep. nor did she need clothing or trinkets, she could manifest them with her power alone with minimal effort. She never need cleaning supplies, as she couldnt get dirty anyhow, and she anything else she might have needed she could easily find in the Ahmarhan City. So instead she just browsed, pretending to be interested in a few items, but ultimately bought nothing. "Not much good things to buy here it seems." she commented with a hint of boredom. "Did they find it yet? if so, let's get going."

[Novia Soviet Socialist Republic]

Svaboda

Seeing the Golem was about to cast a spell, Svaboda quickly rolled and then teleported within the shield hoping it would protect him from it's effects. He wasn't no magician but he could tell there was something particularly sketchy and nasty about the spell she casted. A bright light temporarily engulfed his vision but quickly disappeared leaving only horror behind.

Fanatic

A demonic screech was let out by Fanatic as his entire body cramped up causing him to drop his gun and fall to his knees. Large, deep cut wounds started opening across his entire body before quickly closing again leaving horrific scarring along his now grey skin and whilst he felt his power flood back to him, the damage would still continue. Fanatic pulled his balaclava from over his mouth and began throwing up a very dark red colored thick liquid, like blood but at the same time it was not.

And finally, he lost his connection to his army. Every second many of his troops regained control of themselves, stopping what they were doing and facing the consequences of their mind controlled selves. Even as this happened, the troops sent after Alzis had stopped in their tracks, looking around them in confusion wondering how they got there. Though whilst Fanatic had lost connection to the mortal world, he felt his mind connect to something different. Something...darker. Inhuman. Standing back up, Fanatic covered his face up once again, his eyes, now black pits. He stared the Golem in the eye, breathing heavily with a noticeable rasp "You...have made a terrible mistake" Fanatic said to the Golem in a raspy, horrible and distorted Russian accent. And with that, a portal opened behind him, sucking him in where he disappeared.

Sarah

Looking around the market, Sarah agreed with Kyuubi "I agree. Nothing much that interests me" She said in a bored way "She deceives you" Hastur said in his echoing godly voice once again "What?" Sarah thought, feeling disappointed that Hastur was being so cryptic "She is not who she says she is. Keep an eye on her" Hastur said once again. Hastur could see that Kyuubi was definitely hiding something though there was no other information aside from that. For all he knew it was a god disguised as a human. A wolf in sheep's clothing so to speak. Or maybe a human disguised as a god disguised as a human. He doesn't know.

[Kaidou]

Dimension 888,815

The light of the gigantic sun that was suspended in the sky of the snowy dimension for a few seconds was more than enough to attract the attention of Father Christmas and his party. The moment it died down, all five of them had exited the outpost, looking in the sky as a gigantic white mushroom cloud rose into the sky once again, sending gigantic chunks of rock flying all over the sky and crashing into the forests.

"It's Kizaru", said Father Christmas darkly, his head lowered, his eyes rolled upwards. "He is here."

Drawing both his sabres, the Tenshi screamed bestially, before charging towards the location of the mushroom cloud with a reckless abandon in his step. A thin trail of blood began to form in his footsteps, as the other four party members, all in dismay at Father Christmas' sudden transformation, followed him…

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Inalbo

That moment, both Mera and Toothless landed, the old Viking chief dismounting off the former.

"We've found Vugashu street", said Mera. "Follow us."

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Indestructible; Kizaru VS Haikarakainen
攻撃不能： 黄猿 VS ハイカラカーイネン

Part II

"Indeed, this contest seems to be very eveeeeeeennnn..." said Kizaru, as he whirled his Ama No Murakumo, the legendary sword made entirely of light. "We're both intangible, and neither of us can hurt the otheeeeer... Unlesssss-"

Before Haikarakainen could react, a dark green sword flew out of Kizaru's coat, slashing past the face of the Chief of the IGSE; a scream rang out through the clearing, and droplets of blood fell onto the stony floor. As Kizaru looked on, his opponent clutched his cheek, blood dribbling from between his fingers.

"That was a Sea-Stone blade, wasn't it... you bastard..." His expression of rage transformed into one of poetic delirium, however, as he slowly lowered his bloodied left hand and reached into his pocket. "Fortunately, Kizaru, I have a trick up my sleeve too." As Kizaru attempted to charge at Haikarakainen, the latter withdrew a chain that emanated a dark purple aura, before swinging it furiously and striking Kizaru across the face, causing him to fly out of the crater sideways and roll through the snow.

"This chain is a Magic Jammer", sneered the IGSE's boss. "It can negate your light magic."

Kizaru stood up and laughed, despite the trickle of blood that slowly flowed down the side of his forehead. "My teacher always said that I relied too much on my elemental magiiiiiic...", he said airily, before pointing at Haikarakainen and releasing a vicious, rapid-fire volley of light bolts. The IGSE boss poised himself, deflecting some of the bolts with his chain, but eventually being felled once again. While he lay on the ground, the Tenshi leapt into the air and attempted to bring the Sea-Stone blade down on him; at the last moment, Haikarakainen rolled out of the way, grabbing Kizaru's waist with the chain, and kicking him in the chin, causing him to fly backwards once again.

"You're a tough nut to craaaaack..."

As he flew up into the sky, Kizaru coiled his arms around each other in a Yin-Yang position, creating a tiny orb of light with an immense brightness.

"Yata No Kagami."

Haikarakainen leapt into the sky and swung his chain at Kizaru, but was too late; the orb exploded, and the Tenshi had disappeared. While Haikarakainen levitated in the air, his opponent reappeared on the floor and fired a bolt of light towards the IGSE boss, impaling him; being out of range of the Sea-Stone sword, however, the IGSE boss was able to regenerate.

It was at that moment that Kizaru leapt back into the sky, swinging his sword and shattering both the Magic Jammer chain and his own sword in the process. The resulting shockwave sent both of them flying backwards, each one crashing into the snow, skidding some distance, and lying opposite each other equidistance from the crater. At the same time, a gas pipe under the thick layers of rock and snow burst, and a ring of fire exploded violently, sending rubble flying into the sky. By this time, there was so much fire that the entire area was lit up almost as if it was day.

And both belligerents lay in the snow, each one maintaining his pretence and waiting for the other to be hasty.

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IGSE
Supreme Military Headquarters
Dimension 888,815

There wasn't even any need for radar; the sight of Kizaru and Haikarakainen's battle was easily observable from the towers of the Supreme HQ, despite the fact that it was taking place more than 20km away. The light was easily visible, and the illuminated column of smoke rose to the high heavens.

With Nu's death and Iuzun's absence, however, nothing could be done; Hakusu and his two subordinate strategists were natural followers, and the next highest had no idea what was going on...

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And all this while, Father Christmas, corrupted by an unknown, malignant influence, gradually got closer and closer to the base of the Ice Corps...

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[Naval Monte]

Alzis

The one being fired by the Fanatic only felt a bullet scarp against her cheek while another mage was hit on the shoulder, both parties continue to run as they can feel the spell was about to be cast. As this Alzis and the people with her retreat the mages felt the spell being casted and the Fanatic leaving this world, Alzis took this as her chance to tell her other self what has happened and to send in more people.

Back in the office the robed and masked figure that was another body used by the strange being called Alzis saw the papers that the new recruit delivered. The recruit was right to admit that there were many libraries that shared naming conventions like The Library of Secrets, of some that were found Alzis was disappointed to find that they did not live up to their name. Alzis now is aware that sooner or later the war would no longer mean anything after hearing what Wasp told him, as such he sent out the order to give up the whole hero act as most of those worlds will no longer exist.

Yet the ones that still matter to him are those that contain Aeon relics or contain forbidden, lost knowledge like this library. Of course before Alzis can find this library he would need the Golem and from the looks of it he would need more people as he got the telepathic message from the one body in that world. "I want a fleet sent to the world the Golem resides in. I need to pick up one of my bodies in there and along with the golem I need to find a certain man who I believe is our thief." Alzis said, getting up. "You are accompanying since you were lucky to find these papers." the man and recruit left the office, going to the main hanger in the facility to prepare the fleet to head towards the new world.

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Numenera

The Nepharite swung it's saw cleaver great sword and more St. Luminia knights and Numenerean soldiers were slice in half, it's second swing destroyed a Numenerean spider tank with the same ease as it was cutting down an infantry man. The knights on the guard were now scared, none of their attacks were able to harm the creature made of leather and razor blade and it had already slain a hundred of their fellow comrades with no clear signs of stopping.

The Nepharite can sense an attack from above and soon parried the attack that Behemoth was about to inflict on the creature. Soon it pushes the knight away from it and sees his next opponent. "I was wondering when I will encounter a knight who was smart enough to try a sneak attack on me." The nepharite said, it's voice carrying a metallic and inhumane echo along with it's voice.

Before anyone can react two more knights were impaled by the Nepharite and their dying bodies were left being dangle on the Nepharite's body. The Nepharite soon quickly rush to Behemoth and swung his blade to cut the general in half, the bodies sliding off and flying towards him. Up with the archers a bolt of shadow appeared behind them and long before some of them could react a series of tentacles reach out and killed most of the archers, leaving five archers and General Khara alive. What came out of the shadowy bolt was a being that seems be covered in a black cloak that keeps altering its shape, even going as far as changing from a solid shape, to a liquid and into a gas before changing back into solid, repeating the process over.

The being was faceless with the only features being three eyes and a slight protrusion of it's nose. It wears a mask with the spikes on the bottom resembling teeth, it's size was growing and more tendrils began to emerge. The dark aura around it suggest that this creature is too a Nepharite. From within the city the demons have reach the upper district and now surround the castle where Alzis and the nobles are hiding in, they are waiting for the wards to fade so they can swarm the castle.

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IGSE Totenkopfsbau-Class Starship

The interior of the Totenkopfsbau resembled what a demented artist would draw if they were asked to create a scene of hell being inside a spaceship. Bodies and blood litter the halls of the ships and those who were not immediately killed by the demons were now being tortured in ways that would make Iuzun either envious or horrified. Jahvi pay no heed to the bloody spectacle that was around him, soldiers trying and failing to land a blow on him as the same demonic hounds with drills in their beaks charged and tackled them to the ground, piercing them with their drills.

Jahvi soon stood in front of a door and use his powers to tear the door open without touching it, inside he can see the brain encase in a special contain with fluids that allow for breathable oxygen so the brain won't die. The Nepharite didn't enter the room, it suspects a trap was awaiting for it. "Iuzun, if you truly think I would follow for an obvious trap than you have vastly underestimated me." Jahvi throw a body into the room and use his powers to lift the brain off it's place and make it hover in the air, watching to see if he was right about there being a trap.

The Nepharite quickly moved the brain to his side once he thought the room would explode, yet he than later moved it away from him in the halls one he figure the brain itself was the trap. Still the Nepharite waited to see if he was right about there being a trap.

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Moon Sisters

"Really? if that marker of yours can't even keep them out what's the point of even keeping everyone else trap in this world?" Artemis said. "If there are worlds going to be erased then it's more important for us to go out there and get as many beings off of them so they won't get erase." Selene said, her new objective being to evacuate as many people from their doomed worlds.

Alzis heard everything that Wasp said and sent the message to her other selves, each one has now gotten the message and now The Fates have given up on acting as heroes and are now taking whatever they want from worlds of interest and leaving everything else to the other kings. Hecate closed her eyes and soon establish contact with Ludwig.

"Ludwig we are trapped in our world by a rogue Ahmarhan and he refuses to let anyone leave or enter this world even though he knows that his method will not work on his former comrades. More importantly he doesn't care about the war because Jonjittu is going to be awake soon and escape from it's prison, erasing everything around it which includes most of Maju's empire. We need to evacuate as many beings from those worlds as possible, there is no point to this war." Hecate soon asked what else was going on with the war while they were away.

With Alice and Tandem the two of them saw what was going on with the Moon Sisters and Wasp, so when they saw Crowe the Alveranian was the first one to speak to the bard. "Is what you said about the Ahmarhan true? Because the only thing I know about them is the fact that most of my people are dead because of them. So what reasons do you think they have for them to kill me people?" Tandem refuse to ask that question to Wasp, hell he refuses to be anywhere near the man.

"I want to know about them as well because I want to know why Ellie hates them so much." Alice said, she also ask if Crowe can tell her what it was that Elizabeth didn't want her to know.

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Lobby 0

"Fine we'll check out the ones in my territory before we move on to the ones in my world." Sol said with a heavy sigh. Soon everyone in the room heard a laugh fill the room until a black serpent appeared in the lobby. "KALAMEET! How on did you get into the lobby!" Sol snored, he met the dragon before and hated the dragon for a few attacks he has done on his world in the past.

"Oh I'm just here to deliver all of you some wonderful news. One is that my many cults are now joining the fight and many of them are in your territories along with Maju's, hell I even have a few in worlds that none of you idiots are even aware of. Second is that some companies are convinced that they can take control over the Multiverse by killing all of you. That one was my handy work and while I know they will fail I just want the chaos to continue for as long as possible before it is all erased."

Kalameet turned to Sol. "As for you. You have a triple delivery of my cultists, The Fates and angels attacking your home world." Sol didn't believe what the dragon said but a messenger soon arrive into the hall telling Sol that Kalameet was right. "Damn you Kalameet!" Sol got up from his thrown and didn't say anything to the others as he rush out of the hall, creating a portal and entering back to his world to save it from the three way assault.

Kalameet turned to the grandmaster present in the meeting. "Oh Alzis will be attacking your world soon. He found out how pointless the war really is so he/she has stopped caring about looking like the hero to everyone, hell they stopped caring about whatever non written rules you guys have about this war since all of this will be gone soon."

[Kaidou]

Lobby 0

Ignoring the Existential Dragon, Ludwig silently stood up from his throne, before walking down the pedestal and onto the red carpet, where he stood silently, his head bowed and his hands clasped behind his back. The few people who had seen him adopt such a position knew that it indicated a deep delving into thought.

Noted; I will do what I can to get you out. However, I am dealing with the Dragon of Chaos on my side, so that may be delayed. Furthermore, I am perturbed by Father Christmas' lack of response to my messages. I shall have to look into the matter further.

Suddenly, however, he turned around.

"So it would appear that this war is much larger than anybody could have expected it to be", he said to the dragon. "I thought so too; there must have been something which drew these demons out from their hiding place and into the open."

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Dimension 29
Jinlongshan

The three remaining Grandmasters sitting on the humble chairs inside the hall of the Grandmasters stood up the moment Leung entered the hall, pushing the doors open and allowing them to close on their own.

"What was the outcome of the talk with the Emperor?"

Leung shook his head.

"For once", he said to the other three, "we might have to disobey the orders of the Jiang Emperor."

It was at that moment that he received a message from Kalameet, the dragon of chaos. Somehow, the dragon was able to speak to him through the power of the Throne in the Forbidden Lobby.

So Alzis is already on the move. If that is the path he has chosen, then tell him that I am more than prepared to accommodate him. And if he attempts to strike, I will bring the war to him.

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Numenera

As Behemoth locked swords with the Nepharite in midair, General Khara threw two other blades at the two, still sheathed. The Knight knew exactly what was expected; drawing both the swords with telekinesis, he brought them together from the flanks, slashing into the abdomen of the Nepharite and sending a gush of foul smelling blood cascading from the wounds. Sweeping his first sword aside, the Mythic Knight sent forth a shockwave from the area of impact, a shockwave that caused both himself and the Nepharite to fly backwards.

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[Kaidou]

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Enmity of Comrades
St Nicholas VS Wilhelmus
仲間の戦い
聖人のニコラス VS ウィルヘールマス

Before Father Christmas could go any further, the figure of Wilhelmus suddenly appeared in front of him midair, the Eternal Trident poised for a strike. Without waiting for any response, the Tenshi thrust the weapon forward, shattering Pestilence and knocking Famine out of Father Christmas' hand, causing him to collapse onto the ground in a rage.

"How dare you!" he screamed savagely. "How fucking dare you!"

Wilhelmus landed back on the ground, whirling the Trident around and holding it in a defensive stance.

"I really don't know what's gotten into you, Father Christmas", said the wielder of the Trident, with much regret in his voice, "but fighting you… is the last thing I would have ever wanted. So please… don't force me…" His face became somewhat contorted with anguish.

Father Christmas, however, was not moved. Seizing Famine and the hilt of Pestilence, which still had a shard of metal attached, he swung the two weapons, slashing Wilhelmus in the shoulder, who made little attempt to defend himself. The other Tenshi cried out in pain, reeling backwards a bit, as a few maroon droplets of blood dripped onto the floor. For a moment, he stood there, clutching his shoulder and breathing heavily, before regaining his composure and whirling his Trident around, looking at his companion with a glare that could only mean a single thing.

"I'm sorry it has to come to this."

Turning to face the other three members of the party, Wilhelmus said, "I suggest all of you get out of here now."

"We're not going to abandon you", said Higashi.

"Then go on; let me handle him."

With that, Higashi, Dr Poh, and Master Law went forward, leaving Wilhelmus behind with Father Christmas.

"Better be careful, little boy!" screamed the latter, as he charged at Wilhelmus and swung his sabre, locking it with the Eternal Trident with a shower of sparks that illuminated the path for a brief moment. Wilhelmus grunted, straining to hold back the powerful muscular force of his former comrade, before leaping into the air.

"Rankyaku!"

As Father Christmas raised the shard of his sabre and attempted to block, Wilhelmus aimed a powerful kick and fired, sending a fiery burst of compressed air that struck Father Christmas like a fist, sending him skidding backwards, still on his two feet, but somewhat dazed and extremely infuriated. Before he could react, Wilhelmus disappeared (a drop of blood falling and soaking into the snow), before reappearing behind Father Christmas and kicking him violently in the back of the head. The old Tenshi screamed in immense rage as he plummeted forward and landed in the snow prone; that same moment, Wilhelmus planted his foot on his neck and held the Trident in a semi-offensive position.

My power shall be yours.

Suddenly, Father Christmas reached up, seizing Wilhelmus' leg and swinging him around, causing him to fly away towards a tree, the trunk of which he crashed into. As the younger, smaller built Tenshi groggily climbed out and picked up his Sceptre, Father Christmas hurled the shard of Pestilence, which struck Wilhelmus in the same shoulder that he had been slashed in.

Wilhelmus grunted in pain, wincing as he clutched his shoulder, without pulling the blade out (for that would have allowed the blood to gush out more liberally), before leaping at Father Christmas again, kicking him in the face (disarming him and knocking him down in the process) and levitating in the air, aiming the Trident at him once again, preparing to drive it home in his chest.

At the last moment, however, he stopped. He couldn't bring himself to do it. Not to a comrade.

"You bastard!"

That moment, Father Christmas executed a backflip, before lunging forward and kicking Wilhelmus aside and throwing him into the ground, causing him to drop the Trident on the floor. Slowly, he reached forward for the Instrument, attempting to take it. It was at that moment, however, that a mushroom cloud rose from the general direction of the military HQ of the IGSE, or what used to be the former base of the Ice Corps. A muted shockwave flowed through the area viciously, knocking Father Christmas over.

Wilhelmus took the opportunity to take back the Eternal Trident, whirling it and standing in a defensive stance as his former comrade stood up, a gruesome mixture of blood and saliva dribbling from his mouth in liberal amounts.

"You will pay for this, Wilhelmus!"

"No."

Unbeknownst to either Wilhelmus or Father Christmas, all three of the party members had been standing by, waiting for the right moment to lend aid to Wilhelmus; now, it seemed, was a good time.

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Indestructible; Kizaru VS Haikarakainen
攻撃不能： 黄猿 VS ハイカラカーイネン

Part III

Kizaru was the first to strike.

As Haikarakainen lay in the ground motionless, Kizaru suddenly appeared above him, pointing his foot at the IGSE boss' body ad charging up a powerful shot. The IGSE boss sneered, raising one of his arms and pulling strings out of the air.

That same moment, Kizaru felt his leg being twisted to the side into a different position; against his will, his charged up shot fired a blast towards the West; the furious orb of light charged forward, before finding its mark in the building of the Supreme IGSE Military HQ. The moment the orb was out of sight of Haikarakainen and Kizaru, a mushroom cloud not unlike a nuclear explosion burst upwards from where the Supreme HQ once used to be, presumably killing everybody inside and destroying a large number of facilities. As Kizaru looked on, a Kiriumbau-class warship flew up in the air, before plummeting back onto the ground and exploding, causing another mushroom explosion, albeit one that was smaller than the first. It all happened in the span of four seconds.

In the next second, the shockwave of the explosion roared through the forest, felling a few trees and throwing Kizaru out of the sky. He landed on the ground and rolled a few metres, before leaping upwards again and coiling his hands together.

"Yata No Kagami!"

As Haikarakainen lunged at the Tenshi with a sword made of frozen air, Kizaru disappeared, flying into the sky as a bolt of light, before reappearing above Haikarakainen, holding a shard of the Sea-Stone sword, which he hurled downwards, hitting the IGSE boss in his bare chest and burying it there, eliciting a bestial scream. With another scream, Haikarakainen fell downwards, crashing into the snowy ground and lying there, clutching his chest.

"Yasakani No Magatama!"

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[Contamenesia]

Crowe

Crowe paused for a moment. "I dont think i should be the one to answer that. I was not there for that event, though i have been to Alverania hundreds of times." he pointed to Wasp. "I am sure he can answer your hate filled and bitter questions." he smirked, then walked up to Alzis. "And hello to you too." he said still smirking.

Wasp

Wasp rolled his eyes and shook his head. "That would be a fruitless task. their are far too many people, animals, cultures, and other things that it is impossible to save any more than a few hundred thousand. And it wont matter, for if we lose, then you will have no safe place to take them. All that exists, if we are defeated, will perish within half a day. As for why i'm keeping that marker up, its simple. I now have a steady position, it prevents unneccesary complications from occuring. And you have given me no real valid reason to take it down. Saving what is hopeless to save is not a valid reason."

He then heard what the Bard said, and Wasp turned to the Alveranian. "Despite what you and your kind beleive, we arent actually hunting you. we allowed for there to be survivors, we allowed you to escape. if we were hunting you, none of you would be here. you cant run or hide from us." he sighed, shifting his weight to his other foot. "The Ahmarhan has long been secretly allied with the Alveranian King and your government. We have many such alliances across all of existence. Our grip that we have upon existence is much more lax than it may seem. Yes, we monitor everything. but there is much we never intervene in. As long as the events do not affect the Time-€vent chains, we have little to no reason to intervene. The Time Event chains are of Alveranian Technology and are completely unbreakable, immune to all magic, and can withstand the might of all Four Dragons of Existence combined perfectly. We have a contract with your leader and government. We gave your people information from all corners of Existence and in exchange, they provide us with these said chains, along with a few other things. However, Your King became greedy, seeking to expand your people's empire. Ater all, who of the other civilizations would be able to stand against them? none. We saw the futures and realities in which this came true. the Alveranians would have built an Empire 40 billion times larger than Maju could ever dream of. All other Civlizations, realms, gods and demons alike would have all fallen. Not only would this severely damage the Time Event chains, but with an empire that expands across several billions of Multiverses, with no room for other cultures, Existence would not be what it should. So Our King took action. Your King and Council was warned, more than once, however they ignored them, they did not believe we would take action. So we took action. We stopped it before the Empire could begin. And Scattered its people. the threat destroyed, but not its people."

Kyuubi

Kyuubi smiled, "Great! let's get going!" she let the Tenshi and the other two show her the way, even though she kind of already knew....

Firefly

Firefly stood above the city, in this world, Gods had been tricked and sealed into mortal form and then decieved by a machination known as the great Illusion. Nova could see both sides of it at once, of course as she was a Member of the Ahmarhan. Her Orders were clear, one thing was certain, this world would never be the same again.

[Kaidou]

Inalbo

Nubala Mokiim was a thin man with, strangely enough, a beer belly, which looked as if it was sucking the flesh from the rest of his body and concentrating it all in one place. His eyes were baggy, and had a rather lecherous look to them (the reason why he had been fired, after all, was because he had accidentally deleted pictures of an infiltrator while cleaning up his porn folder on the computer). From the looks of it, he made little effort to shave or to groom his short yet unkempt hair.

As soon as the group got to his pottery booth, he leaned forward in his chair, looking intently at Sarah or, more specifically (telling from the angle of his head), her cleavage.

"That's a lovely pair of nice, soft pillows you've got there", he said, licking his lips.

"We're not here to talk about that", said Felix, a bit sternly, as he sipped at the ozaurl with a straw. "Neither have we come to buy pottery."

"Then what are you here for?" Mokiim discreetly took the magazine on the table and slipped it into a drawer on the push cart.

"We're asking about the man who infiltrated the vault of the Hazfa Bible and stole the bulletproof glass case. Do you have any information on him?"

Mokiim chuckled.

"That faggot", he snorted. "I lost my job because of him. In any case, I was somehow able to find out about him, though nobody actually believed me. I believe his name is… Gabriel, or something along those lines. Only I know, because only I have seen his face. So…"

[Naval Monte]

Lobby 0

Kalameet was peeved on being ignored but when Ludwig finally spoke to him, the dragon smiled as it changed into a black phoenix. "You know ignoring your guests is rude right? But for now I will let that slide. As for the demons to be honest they have been planning to get involved into other worlds for a long time, having Maju kick the bucket was just the perfect excuse for them to come out. As for them knowing that those worlds will disappear I can honestly say they don't have a clue but they aren't interested in claiming worlds, just the souls that live in there."

Kelemeet appeared in-front of Ludwig, his face uncomfortably close to the holy spirit's face. "You see they want new souls to torture and transform to fill in their ranks of legionnaires of the damned. But in their attempt on growing more powerful they upset the other powers back in their little corner in reality." Soon flashing screens showing angel's, servant creatures and spawns of the Forgotten Gods and Newborn Lords and the abominations of the abyss appeared. All of them either attacking worlds where the demons have appeared or worlds that the demons plan to but were intercepted by the other powers. Among them were other beings that were trying to become great powers like them or were simply joining in the carnage.

"The best part if that they all are doing this because they know that their precious playing ground is on bored times, no I take that back. It's on it's last fucking leg and at any second it will finally kills over and die." Kalameet changed into Jahvi's form. "As for little old me, I joined the side of the demons because their Ragnarok plan is something I want to see happen."

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Sol

Sol charged through the halls of his temple, cutting down the robed and armor figures that belonged to Kalameet's cultists. Throughout the temple of St. Luminia Kalameet's cultists, the biomechanical monstrosities that the dragon of chaos called angels and soldiers hired by The Fates were all inside, fighting against the knights in a four way battle. Sol saw that a few surviving demons were also in the fight which made him think that either The Fates summon them or they were present and that was what attracted the angels to his world.

Lobbing the head off a fate soldier Sol looked down the balcony within the temple to see down below, he can tell that unless reinforcements arrive the temple may be lost. In that case I can't let the archives and vaults fall into their hands." the leader of the knights thought. As pieces of the ceiling broke down Sol raised the sword high, letting it bath under the moonlight. Soon a violet glow surrounded the blade and eventually it was covered in a purple light. The broadsword was now a great sword made of cosmic arcane energy, with images of the cosmos itself on the center. Sol swung the mighty blade in front of an angel and shadowy lightwave, cutting the angel in half.

"To the archives and vaults! Should this temple fall we must make sure these monsters and heretics never reach them at all cause!" Sol ordered, he and a group of his own knights began to fight their way through the three wave army that was tearing the temple apart looking for the archive and vaults that are said to contain many secrets that the order keeps. Unaware to Sol and most knights a powerful presence was watching them, one that would make it's presence known once they arrive at their location.

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Numenera

The Nepharite only simply extended its wings and soon it's momentum shifted from flying backwards to up in the air. Everything that touched it's blood began to corrode and dissolves away as if acid was placed on them as steam came off the healing wound on it's abdomen. The nepharite was laughing at Behemoth. "It's has been countless eons since a mortal was able to gore me. Never in my years of slaughter has a mortal warrior made my blood boil as much. Tell me your name warrior."

The nobles were now fleeing the compromised castle, demons were now running through the halls after them. When they found the room where the portal should be located they found that it was already closing. By the time the demons reach to where the nobles where most have killed each other trying to get into the portal before it vanish with only a few managing to escape, with no survivors left for the demons to kill and torment.

Elsewhere on the world more demons from Inferno continue to appear, slaughtering and pillaging everything on sight. At this point both Numenerean soldiers and Luminia knights made an agreement to join forces to fight against the Infernal horde. From the sky the very same angels that are attacking Sol's world appeared, bring more chaos into the battle. Back at the Watchtower the structure was producing a strange sound that only a few can faintly hear.

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Inuu Residence

Tandem stayed silent as he heard Wasp tell him the truth that his people and the Ahmarhan were secretly allies and that these Time Link Chains were their invention, yet when he began to explain why his civilization fell Tandem didn't look surprise over the fact, if anything the Alveranian only let out a deep sigh as he shift his weight to his other foot. "I really want what you said to be surprising to me, I really do, but in hindsight it makes too much sense."

Alice looked at him as Tandem continued on. "Me and a few former colleagues that shared the same passion on exploring and learning about other civilizations often had to deal with members from the council who never liked the fact that we went outside our universe and brought back stuff from as they would claim "primitive and backwater tribes." They will never use the words civilization or society when referring to the ones I found on my travels. I often had to struggle from their machinations on trying to end my expeditions before they began because those old bastards didn't want "barbarian junk" to pollute Alveranian culture."

Tandem was clearly containing his anger at the old council members that made it a living hell for him and his team. "The day I left was the same day I discovered ruins of a long forgotten and maybe extinct race, a race who was able to mix technology and thaumaturgy in such ways that the two pretty much fused together perfectly well. Though the ruins themselves were a headache since not only does time and space warp in very strange ways but the architecture itself was in dimensions that I never saw before."

Once more the Alverianian let out a deep sigh. "Who or whatever made them were one of the most advanced races I encountered back then, I was surprised to see some of our own tech being found in those ruins... of course they worked differently but the principles shared some striking similarly. Of course my race was the one who had more advanced tech but once I showed this to the public those old bastard were now outraged that a bunch of primitives had pieces of tech similar to our people."

The older Alverianian muttered several curses. "I rather not get into too much about what happened but let's just say I pretty much left the council with both a resignation letter and a middle finger to them in the form of the name that I gave to the mystery race." he turn to Crowe and Alice, a devilish smile on his face. "I called them Proto-Alverianian just to spite them and made sure that the database will keep that name just so it can bother them." Alice chuckled a little at Tandem's way of flipping off his former bosses.

"But what does this story have to do with you not being surprised by your king's and council's plan?" Alice asked. "It's because they made it so obvious to me and my group that the idea of the Alverianians being the master race was one that full heartedly supported. Hell when my time first discovered the nazis it was a running joke between us on how long it will take until the council would want to follow their footsteps. But I never suspected the king to follow that same idiotic mindset."

Tandem covered his eyes and shook his head, feeling somewhat ashamed that the reason for his people's near genocide was because of bunch of supremacist fools. "I've been to enough worlds to know that any ideas of there being a master race is ridiculous and before you say anything Ahmarhan you and your group do not count." he said before Wasp can make any comment on there being a supposed master race around, as far as Tandem is concern there will never be one.

"You know telling this to Cyrssa would be a nightmare." the two of them turned to see Elizabeth walking up to them. "So you cooled down Ellie?" Elizabeth gave Alice the so-so gesture as her sight turn to Wasp. "You did that same trick to keep the tenebraes out again didn't you only now you are keeping everyone trapped inside. I heard enough why you did it but at this point I suspect that it would do jack shit if your former buddies come stomping in just to drag your sorry arse back into base."

The Moon Sisters wonder if Elizabeth was going to convince him to drop the marker. "You can talk about how everything we will do will mean nothing because our bane of existence will erase everything if your former group fails. But even if that happens would you really want to spend your final moments in this dump with us or would you rather go out there and find your wife?" The Moon Sisters, Tandem and Alice were surprised to hear that Wasp has a wife, Alzis who saw the events after the ritual was still surprised to know that Wasp was married.

"While half our group here, not going to give out names, worships you and the ground you step on, others want knock the Ahmarhan down a peg or two. Before you say anything I'm aware that our chances of succeeding are extremely slim at the very possible best but if you truly love your wife than instead of keeping us trapped here join us." she than smirked at him. "If you want we will let you rip Kyuubi's heart without getting in the way." Elizabeth said with a fake saccharine tone, she wanted to see if he even remembers what he did to Tak and if he even feels anything for what he did to the boy.

Alzis looked at Crowe. "Looks like the universe just wants to keep pestering me today." she smirked back at the bard. "But at least this time the surprise is much more pleasant compared to the string of others that I had the displeasure of experiencing." Elizabeth saw the two of them and put her hands around her mouth as she shout. "If you two are going to shag each other again at least do us all a bloody favor and do it on the back yard." Alzis looked at Elizabeth with an irritated glare as the street witch looked at the annoyed goddess with a goofy grin.

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Alzis

On the world that was once the own by the Ice Corp Alzis return back, this time in his male form. Inside the command deck a massive fleet was touching down to the ground and a massive army was being deploy. For this mission Alzis simply wants a major IGSE stronghold destroyed without conquering it, he was going to destroy it before it was erased. As the Fate's army engaged against the IGSE from another part of the base the demons of Inferno have arrived and soon the other creatures that were now appearing throughout the multiverse.

Alzis knew that these beings would show up soon, but the speed was still shocking to him. "No matter, they came as I expect them too. They will help out on weakening the enemy so I can crush the IGSE much more quickly."

On the world were the Golem lives more star destroyers can be seen appear on the sky, all of them landing away from where she lives but it was obvious that a huge army worth of personal will be approaching her soon.

[Kaidou]

Numenera

The moment the two blades were stained with the blood of the Nepharite, a hideous burning sound emanated through the air as the metal fizzled away in a brilliant burst of dark effervescence. The moment the blades were no more, they fell from the sky, Behemoth's telekinesis no longer affecting them. Instead, he swung his longsword, slashing through the chest of the Nepharite and sending yet another gush of blood spraying out; with a keen manipulative flick of his eyeballs, the Knight deflected the blood, causing it to fly upwards rather than towards him.

"My name is Galma", he said calmly.

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Lobby 0

"How interesting", said the Phoenix sarcastically, as he gazed into the eyes of the Dragon without so much as a flinch. "However, I should, perhaps, not that the Ragnarok plan is something that has been predicted ages ago by astronomers and clergy from millennia past; no doubt, there will be resistance. And where there's resistance to a plan of Chaos'… you'll know who will show up. Furthermore… "

Ludwig stopped talking and clutched his chest as a sudden, anguished expression overcame his face.

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Enmity of Comrades
St Nicholas VS Wilhelmus
仲間の戦い
聖人のニコラス VS ウィルヘールマス
Part II

"So", snarled Father Christmas, "you've come back to help him. You're with them! You have betrayed me!"

"You have brought this upon yourself", said Higashi.

"You liar!"

Before Father Christmas could react, however, the karateka leapt up in the air, landing a powerful kick to the Tenshi's chest and sending him reeling backwards. Father Christmas recovered quickly and swung his sword around, only to have his arm grabbed by Higashi, who kneed the elbow and forced the sabre onto the ground.

"Faapado Houublek!"

The karateka looked up at the face of the Tenshi in shock; it was too late. Father Christmas' rock solid thigh went straight into Higashi's oblique, sending him rolling onto the ground and into a supine position. He attempted to jump onto his feet, but the Tenshi lunged forward, seized his left leg, and pulled him forward, pulling the limb in a horrible, contorted manner, dislocating it entirely. Higashi screamed in pain, before falling back onto the floor and trembling from the pain.

With almost no gap in between, a sudden burst of energy struck Father Christmas in the back, causing him to fall face first into the ground. Using his arms to push himself up, the Tenshi leapt to his feet, only to come face to face with Master Law, who seized his face with his open palm and twisted the old Tenshi's body around by the head. As Father Christmas fell onto his knees, Law jumped up agilely, wrapping his legs around the Tenshi's neck and striking the back of his head with a single blow that was both beautiful and terrifying.

Slowly, Father Christmas' body fell limp, before collapsing into the snow in an unconscious, bloodied heap. The moment the body touched the floor, Law dislodged himself from the Tenshi's chest and landed on his feet.

"Seems like that's it…"

That moment, a powerful hand seized Law's ankle, pulling him and causing him to fall sideways. The Grandmaster grunted and attempted to escape from Father Christmas' iron grip, but was powerless to do anything, as the Tenshi seized his arm, dislocating it with a powerful twist, and throwing him aside, causing him to crash into a tree.

"You fools! You cannot defeat me!"

At that same moment, Wilhelmus stood up, his mouth and head bloodied and one of his eyes puffy and bruised; still, despite his injuries (including the sword shard in his shoulder), he refused to give in.

"This ends now", he huffed weakly, steadying himself and adopting a new stance, one that looked almost completely relaxed and meditative. "If only you had not tried this… Now I have to use the technique that all are afraid to use…

"Nagi."

"Hah!" roared Father Christmas, his eyes rolled backwards into his head, as he seized Famine from the ground and whirled it around. "Nagi is a myth. It doesn't work!" With that, he charged forward towards Wilhelmus, his sword poised to cut his fellow Tenshi down.

"Ko."

That moment, Wilhelmus pointed one hand at Father Christmas, aiming it exactly parallel to the latter's body. The moment Father Christmas got close, his knees buckled underneath him, and he collapsed, allowing Wilhelmus to seize his neck and strike him to the ground.

"En."

As Father Christmas lay on the ground, pulsating gruesomely and attempting to fight back against the bizarre, esoteric style Wilhelmus was using, the latter stretched out both palms, before waving one over Father Christmas' face in a split second. That same moment, a violent spasm overcame Father Christmas' body, causing him to fly upwards a centimetre and crash down into the snow, his body writhing in agony.

Suddenly, however, Wilhelmus tipped over, landing in the ground in supine position, breathing heavily and with a laboured timbre. That same moment, the other Tenshi slowly stood up, walking over to where the Eternal Trident lay, before going back to where Wilhelmus had collapsed.

"And now… it's time to die. So much for your valiant intentions and your arcane martial art', Wilhelmus. Turns out, your energy was drained completely, was it not?"

Without hesitation, he whirled the two-printed Trident about in the air, before bringing it down, driving it through Wilhelmus' chest.

The Tenshi choked, grunting in pain and seizing the two remaining prongs of the Trident, attempting to pull the weapon out of his body with what little strength he had left, but in vain; Father Christmas had always been the strongest in terms of physical strength, and none of the others had been able to match him in that aspect, save for Illushu.

"You were in the way of my reclamation of the Ice Corps. I am sorry, friend, but you are an obstacle."

All of a sudden, however, the two remaining prongs snapped off the Trident's head, causing a massive burst of white light that sent Father Christmas flying backwards with a horrified scream, crashing through the snow and into a tree, which collapsed on top of him.

There, Wilhelmus lay, blood slowly seeping through the wounds in his chest and into his white shirt and onto the snow; as the agonising seconds dragged past, his breathing became more and more laboured, more and more uneven, until finally, it stopped, and the Tenshi closed his eyes one last time, the ghost of a smile forming on the edges of his mouth.

I'm sorry I couldn't stop… it.

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Indestructible; Kizaru VS Haikarakainen
攻撃不能： 黄猿 VS ハイカラカーイネン

Part IV

Haikarakainen had been able to tear the shard of Sea-Stone out of his chest just before Kizaru's relentless beams of light rained down on him. Though his body was torn apart by said beams of light, he was able to effortlessly vaporise, reappearing beside Kizaru and spearing him with a pole made of solidified air. The yellow suited Tenshi laughed childishly, before seizing the pole and crushing it with his bare hand, before kicking Haikarakainen in the chin with a kick that arrived at light speed.

The sheer speed of the kick shattered every bone in Haikarakainen's head and neck as his mutilated body flew upwards, towards the cosmos, before vaporising once more and reappearing on the ground.

That same moment, however, Kizaru was cast from the heavens by a sudden burst of black energy that flew out of the sky, which was beginning to get brighter from the imminent sunrise. He skidded through the snow, before executing a front flip and landing on his feet, two fingers pointing at both Haikarakainen and the place where he was before.

"What was thaaaaaat…?" he asked rhetorically.

That same moment, just as the first rays of the sun penetrated the trees, revealing the entire invasion fleet of The Fates, a black orb appeared above both Kizaru and Haikarakainen, allowing a slow, calculative laughter to waft through the entire dimension.

"So two more Tenshi have fallen, it would seem. One to death, and one to the corrupting influence of dark powers."

Kizaru looked up at the orb.

"Singularityyyyy… Are you saying thaaaat…"

"Oh, you'll find out what I mean sooner or later, Kizaru. In the meantime, however, I've got a few things to do at the moment." The orb descended to the ground, before forming a blue, grand piano sized dragon statue with black, glowing eyes.

"Firstly, I'd like to congratulate Haikarakainen for being such a good partner", said the dragon. Haikarakainen sneered, flashing a middle finger at Kizaru. "However, I should also like to add that I no longer have any use for you."

That moment, Haikarakainen looked at the statue with a horrified, blank expression on his face.

"Surely you can't mean…"

"Shut up! You are no longer an ally!"

That same moment, a black streak of nothingness shot forth from the statue, violently striking the IGSE boss in the abdomen and causing him to fly backwards, crashing into a boulder, where he lay unconscious.

"And secondly…"

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Lobby 0

"Wilhelmus…"

The Phoenix gazed blankly for a moment, before creating a gigantic portal that led to Dimension 888,815. Immediately, he felt another strange presence.

"Speak of the devil, Kalameet", he said to the dragon of Chaos hastily. "I'm sure you recognise that presence…" With that, he leapt through and transformed into his full phoenix form, flying off to find the wielder of the Trident…

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???

"Greetings, Iuzun here. I won't be giving you any updates on the nothenium research, because at this very moment, I've received an order directly from Haikarakainen's secretary that I am to head to Dimension 888,815 with 4,000 Sterbenbau, Kiriumbau, Totenkopfsbau, and Kriegsbau class warships. It would appear that Alzis is assaulting the HQ now that Nu is dead, among other things; things will have to be cleaned up."

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[Contamenesia]

Crowe

Crowe chuckled and when Elizabeth made her little remark to Alzis, he turned to her. "Oh i wouldn't be so rash." he smirked and pulled from his pocket some photos and a tape recorder. "As a Bard, i can traverse time too, ya know. And i have to say, the way you moaned when you were with Tessy....i'm sure my lady here would love to hear what's on this tape recorder, as well as see these embarrassing photos of you and your girlfriend being....lewd." he chuckled, he wasn't bluffing either. Crowe often when bored would step outside of time and peak at moments he wasn't suppose to. Sure, it was kind of perverted, but he didn't do it for sexual pleasure, but rather as blackmail, blackmail which lead to sexual pleasure....yeah he had to admit, he wasn't that nice of a guy, but honestly he had never mistreated a woman. He didn't use blackmail that often either, in fact he rarely Ever used it, but he always kept blackmail just in case he needed a card to play, such as now. Plus he was sure this would bring much amusement to Alzis.

Wasp

Wasp replied to the Alveranian first. "If your king followed the footsteps of his father, it would have all been avoided. As for the ruined civilization that you found, that would be the Gurotians. Fusing magic and tecnology, while kind of impressive, is no where near the achievements of your kind. your people created and possessed technology beyond magic and imagination. A single squadron of men could do more than an army of octillions could even hope to achieve. Alveranians never needed a large army. why would they when one soldier was enough to deal with an entire enemy fleet? Plus, aside from your late King and former government, your society was not dystopic, in fact it was far the opposite. The blame of the fall of your people falls solely on your King's and the corrupt government that had formed under him. Gurotians on the other hand, destroyed themselves, and while technologically and magically impressive, they warred far too much between themselves. It's funny, Gurotians look similar to elves as your race does, but they had bigger ears and fangs." he smirked and shook his head, then he turned to Elizabeth.

"First, i'm still in the Ahmarhan. it doesn't matter what my ideals or plans are, one does not leave the Ahmarhan. Second, i have no grudge against Kyuubi, he was only following orders, and i doubt he has a grudge against me or any of you either. It's the King that i am angry at. However i will help, but only until my wife is safe, and after that i will likely be reconditioned." he paused for a moment, then tapped the marker, releasing it. "Kyuubi is also not what he seems. Sure, he is an arrogant type, but it is not undeserved. Kyuubi comes from a History that is many histories after this one, yet to occur from your view. He was a simple being of power back then, no different than you or the others. But then he discovered an ability he that the Fates wanted no one to find. He found that because of what he was, he had a strong connection to energy, and not just one type of energy, but all of it. He then learned how to manipulate energy, to pull it, shape it, mold it, and even displace it. At first he decided to use this ability to increase his own standing, he took to business and to politics, increasing his status until finally he went mad with power and became The Destroyer. he brought the world to its knees, no foe could best him and he could destroy anything he desired, yet Kyuubi realized that none of it mattered." Wasp paused for a moment to stretch for a moment, then continued, "Kyuubi had all this power but no purpose there was no evil deed that satisfied him, and when he reached the point that he could take it no more, he changed. Kyuubi forsook all his evil ways. and started over. Kyuubi was always one of sly tongue and great observation skills, so he used his ability to help other for awhile, to rebuild and to repent. he then fought away evils that had emerged to threaten his world, but he grew tired of that as well, and thus he became a King. he was a good King. he cured sickness and disease, ended all war, solved universal hunger for all people across the universe, he achieved great deed after great deed, there was no person as gracious and as good as he, yet that old feeling never left him. Kyuubi felt empty, no matter how great of an achievement he did, no matter how few problems there were to fix, there where none like him. There was no challenge for him, and this deeply unsettled him. Depression hit for awhile, until the day he was confronted by an Ahmarhan and was soundly defeated. he was offered membership, and he joined without hesitation. Rumor has it that it was the King herself who recruited him, just like it was her who recruited me." Wasp had ignored her reference to him terroring out Kyuubi's heart, as he had done to the boy from before. That pain was long gone, long since numbed by the loss and pain Wasp had endured with his family. "The point of the Story is, never assume anything. Things are as simple as you may believe. but the important thing to note, is that i have decided to help until i am reunited with my wife or captured and subjected to reconditioning, which ever comes first."

???

Seeing more stranger show up, she decided to return to the village within the force field. She had seen that the Stranger had been shot, so she decided to help him. Once she found him, she offered him a flower before casting another spell, this spell healed the wound and expelled the bullet. not only that, but its regenerative effects would last for a whole month after, so he would now heal instantly from any future wounds for at least a month. There were no side-effects of this spell, it was a simple and pure but powerful regeneration spell. She looked at him like a mother would a child, her expression gentle and loving, and though she still felt distraught about what had just occurred, she put the concerns of others before her own.

Gabriel

Gabriel burst from the surface of the ocean, taking off his rebreather, in his hand was a tooth, and below him was a massive sea monster now fleeing in fear. He didn't know why he would need the tooth or when, but he could tell it was definitely poisonous, he carefully put it away, and swam for the shore, once on dry land, he chuckled then grabbed his dimensional transporter and activated it, he had no further need of being here, so he was off to his next adventure!

[Novia Soviet Socialist Republic]

Sarah

Seeing the man lean in and glare at her breasts, Sarah scowled "Uh huh. And how about I break your hands?" Sarah slammed her fists down in front of him with a fair amount of force "Do not waste your energy Sarah" Hastur spoke into Sarah's mind, causing her to take a deep breath and back up allowing for Felix to talk to him. After that they seemed to move on. Sarah followed on, close behind Kyuubi where she kept a firm eye on her knowing she wasn't who she seemed to be.

Svaboda

Svaboda looked up at the Golem, grunting from the pain of having a large caliber round tear it's way into his gut. There was no blood, but it still caused damage. She handed Svaboda a flower, a gift in his eyes. Something he had not been given in time long forgotten. She performed a spell causing the bullet to be expunged from the body and made his body heal up. Svaboda looked the Golem in the eyes, a tender loving expression on her face. The being of pure Sapiency sat up and looked at her "How does someone like you not have a name?" He asked in a soft and quiet way before noticing a space fleet in the sky nearby to them.

Pulling himself to his feet, Svaboda looked at several of his Monolith fighters, standing there coldly with not a hint of fear seen in them. They too had noticed the ships and a Monolith preacher had stepped fourth to talk "Maybe we should consider leaving my lord" The Preacher said in a cold and monotone way. Svaboda looked at the ground with a frown then back at the Golem, remembering she was upset earlier "Are you okay?" He asked, knowing she would not answer verbally though felt like it was necessary to ask.

Fanatic

Fanatic walked through a snowy wasteland, his face and body entirely covered as he walked through the blizzard. A voice spoke into his head "Come into the Darkness, Misha" A deep, growling yet calm voice said into his head. He felt cold for the first time in a long time and whatever that Golem did to him, he only had enough power to make a short trip into a nearby dimension. His batteries had run dry, he wasn't a Noosphere being anymore but neither was he human. The cold was unbearable, he was already suffering from the second stage of hypothermia "W-w-who are you?" Fanatic asked aloud, his voice stuttering he was that cold "Your salvationnnn" The voice growled into his head again. Immediately Fanatic knew something was wrong. This random voice was already giving off nasty vibes but now it was offering salvation? Definitely sounded sketchy.

Fanatic spoke once again "What d-do you want?" He asked, swallowing. He never felt so vulnerable in his life "To be free" The voice said once again. Now usually disembodied voices asking to be free was a bad thing but this wasn't a horror movie nor was he in any position to be denying help. Fanatic felt weak, and he fell to his knees, breathing heavily "Use my power or DIE!" The voice screamed at Fanatic, clearly irritated now and losing patience. Fanatic felt like he had no choice. He nodded to himself before his mind went blank. Whatever this thing was, it had taken him.

This thing...was The Overseer. A Shadow Demon that once worked for a long dead yet not forgotten organisation. Work that ended in him being incarcerated in Hell's deepest dungeon. Needless to say, the Overseer is pissed. The once honorable demon reduced to a beast, blinded by hateful anger and revenge. Once wanting to be free, now wanting only destruction. Several black tentacles burst from Fanatic's back before he ripped his mask and sun glasses off revealing a horrific demonic face with a permanent wild and toothy grin going from cheek to cheek, his eyes now glowing red orbs in his eye sockets. He stood up and looked through the memories of Fanatic. A once powerful cult leader reduced to a pathetic mess. The Overseer fed off of sin like any other demon and vengeance was a pretty nasty sin. The ones who drove him into his eventual collapse? The Noosphere beings. The one who caused his demise? The Golem. The Overseer pulled his grin even wider as he teleported away.

[Naval Monte]

Numenera

The Nepharite groan in pain as the sword cut into its chest, but as before the slash mark began to heal and the blood on the sword began to eat at the metal of the long sword. "Galma.... I have been called by many names, but the name dubbed to me by those who work under The Fates is Nosferatu Zod." Zod said, using his own telekinesis to make the various swords on the ground fly up into the air. Soon the swords form a spiraling tornado of blades. A behemoth sized rift into purgatory manifests into the battle field and from it a continuous stream of swords emerged from the rift, merging with the tornado of swords.

Zod saw an angel flying toward Galma and quickly appeared before it, warping his claws around the angel's neck and breaking it. "No being. Mortal or Immortal, is allowed to interfere with our battle." He saw a demon trying to sneak attack Galma as he sight was at the swords coming towards him. Zod threw his sword and the wicked blade impaled the demonic assassin before it can strike at the general, Zod than let go of the limp angel and let it's carcass fall down to the ground.

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Inuu Residence

Alzis interest was spike immensely with what Crowe claimed to have. "It's not polite to keep a lady waiting now. Let's see what material you have on Ashwood." She walked closer to the bard and saw the pictures that he has, chuckling once she saw them. "Really Ashwood, in the bathroom? Well I'm sure the clean up afterwards went by quickly but you could have picked a more romantic setting than that. Then again putting you and romantic together can't happen unless I put the word not in between." Alzis said in between mirthful laughter.

As Wasp was talking to Tandem on the Gurotians Elizabeth angrily turn to both Alzis and Crowe, she started with Crowe. "Bastard! I will deal with you later but mark my bloody words, you are going to pay for those photos!" she shouted. Elizabeth has been in blackmail situations before in the past and while scandalous sex photos of herself don't bother her that much, however the violation of privacy is what's getting under her skin. More over the fact that he can also blackmail Tessy was adding additional fuel to her rage.

Elizabeth turn her attention to Alzis. "Oh keep laughing princess but don't forget that I can't travel through time as well and I've been to the same realm both you and that pervert shagged." Alzis stopped laughing and gave Elizabeth a glare so intense that one would think that she was trying to set the British woman on fire with the power of her mind. Both Tandem and Alice looked at the scene after Wasp explained the Gurotian with obvious questioning looks, trying to decide if they should interfere or not.

"While I thank you for the compliment on my people it still isn't enough for me to forgive you and your organization." Tandem said as he turn to Wasp. "You could have simply killed the members of the current government and the king and show my people what would have happened if they continue to live, your organization didn't need to macare that many innocents and destroy a civilization in order to stop a would be empire." The Moon Sisters can feel power of the marker fade away.

They walked away from the group and establish contact with Ludwig. "We are free to leave this realm once more. Tell the others that we are now going to send our willing recruits back to the restaurant unless other events have happened while we were away?" But soon they got their answer on other events happening as they felt Wilhelmus's death. The three goddesses stayed silent after feeling yet another death of their comrades, trying their best not to break down in front of the others outside with them.

When Wasp began to speak to Elizabeth the mage turn to the Ahmarhan to hear what he had to tell her, which was a lot. "Oh so that's what he is. So that is one of the many secrets of The Fates." Elizabeth turn to Alzis. "Mind sharing that secret with the rest of us." Alzis purposefully ignored Elizabeth as she kept on looking on the lewd pictures. Annoyed she turn back to Wasp. "Well other than us knowing who that bastard is we thank you, some what, on joining our little merry band of misfits." When Wasp mention on reconditioning Elizabeth responded with. "If you knew that was the price of leaving why did you even join to begin with? Unless they didn't tell you after you agreed to work with them, which that I can believe."

The mage said. Suddenly she heard both her and Tessy's voices coming out from the tape recorder, Alzis used her telekinetic power to turn on the recorder. Elizabeth was both embarrassed and furious while everyone else were also blushing at what they were hearing. "While your choices in romantic settings is terrible it would appear that when it comes to satisfying your partners you seem to do well in that." Alzis said with a smirk, both Alice and Tandem holding Elizabeth back as she was now planning on killing Alzis.

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Logan

Research into the Sycamore has been a process that can be best described as taking on leap forward and two leaps back. More men continue to go insane and commit suicide, with some even killing each other due to the alien knowledge gain by the ship. We are now getting cases of mysterious disappearances from researchers, soldiers to even janitors, all attempts at finding the missing personnel have amount to nothing so far and talks are on the way of making these disappearances into cold cases.

More so we have begun to take research projects that relate to technologies that were not found inside the Sycamore itself but who's blueprints were found inside the computer itself. One such technology is what we have dubbed "Tillinghast Resonator", name after the now late Doctor Crawford Tillinghast. The resonator emits a resonance wave, which stimulates an affected person’s pineal gland, thereby allowing them to perceive planes of existence outside the scope of accepted reality. Besides awakening dormant senses this resonance wave can even expand our current senses.

Our tests with the resonator has allowed us to see a translucent, alien environment that overlaps our own recognized reality. The alien creatures that I have witness in that other word are impossible to describe in this report. Most of these creatures were able to phase through solid matter as though nothing was in their way, some scientist suggest that these beings may by in another dimension and that they can interact with anything from our world. That may be a good point and a valid one but the resonator also makes it that these being can perceive us and most interacts between us and them has resulted in more losses for us.

I have a theory that can also explain why these beings can go through solid matter. A large portion of solid matter is made of empty space. The nucleus of each atom is composed of neutrons and protons, surrounded by an electron “cloud”. The majority of the atom is composed of the “cloud” (essentially empty space) with the nucleus accounting for a small portion of the total atom. Is it possible that these inter-dimensional entities are taking advantage of these atomic “empty spaces” to pass through what appears to be solid matter to us.

While my personal research is still on discovering the many gray zones between thaumaturgy and science we have found a new device within the ship, a device that has given us some disturbing clarity as to what sort of powers the makers of the sycamore had in their disposal. We found a map of sort that we have begun to call the "Configuration Space Map". It has took has many months to find out how it works but once more the AI within the computer has helped us on understanding the secrets of this map.

Configuration Space, as we can understand it, is it's own universe as it being a place you can travel to with its own attributes. It is a higher existence, a different realm within our own universe. Configuration Space appears to be the fundamental structure of the universe, it is the real picture of what is really going on. Due to most being incapable of perceiving this higher dimensional realm, the maker who created the method of interfacing and traveling to Config. Space created metaphors that most would easily understand and recognize.

Take a snapshot of the universe. You have a static shape, a cloud of particles each frozen in flight at some point in space. Do it again. There. There. There. Each moment, each
juggling of the particles, gives you a new configuration. Imagine all those snapshots, all the possible configurations the particles of the universe can take. In any one configuration you could list the particles' positions. The set of numbers you derive would correspond to a single point on a mighty multidimensional graph. The totality of that graph would be
a map of all the possible states our universe could take up. Do you see? And that map is configuration space.

Some would say that it is like a phase space map and it's like phase space, yes. But of the whole universe. Now imagine putting a grain of dust on each point of the map. Each grain would correspond to a single point in time, a snapshot. This is reality dust, a dust of the Nows. Reality dust contains all the arrangements of matter there could ever be....

Configuration space was not this world, not this universe. It was a map, yes, a sort of timeless map of this own world and all its possibilities, a higher realm. And yet, according to Sycamore, it was a universe in itself, a place you could go, in a sense. And it was filled with reality dust. Every grain of sand there represented an instant in this universe, a way for the particles of this universe, atoms and people and stars, to line themselves up.

But this was a static picture. What about time? What about causality? If you lined up reality dust grains in a row you would get a history, of a sort, As the AI explained to me. But it
might not make sense as a history; nothing like causality might emerge, just a jumble of disconnected snapshots one after another. But the sand grains attracted each other. If they came from neighboring points in the greater configuration space, the graph of all possible instants, the moments they mapped must resemble each other. And so the grains lined up in chains, each line of grains representing a series of instants which, if you watched them one after another, would give you the illusion of movement, the illusion of time passing—perhaps, if the grains were similar enough, even the illusion of causality. Something like that.

From what the AI told me there are some universes where Configuration space does not exist, which I'm not surprised about as I was suspecting something like that, what I wasn't suspecting to know was that this map can update itself to match with a new universe. To this date I still can't figure out how other than another tech attached to the map that helps it update whenever it enters a new reality.

The new cockpit is almost ready and soon we will begin flight trials of the Sycamore. I will be the one to be the first one to board it, but after we improve on the resonator. If our readings are right not only can the resonator allow us to see into other dimensions it can also allow us to break free from both time and space by entering other dimensions should a high enough energy output be released, there is a good chance that we may be able to get the Sycamore to enter another universe.

I must confess, ever since I began my own personal research I have been feeling as though another intelligence has been guiding me, helping me to understand the esoteric knowledge and information within the Sycamore. I don't know if it's the Sycamore, my own subconscious that is making a telepathic link with the ship's, another non-corporeal being or maybe a combination of the two or three. All I can say is that me and a few others shouldn't be learning this much this quickly unless some unseen hand was assisting us. I often ask myself why is this unseen presence helping us? What does it gain from us knowing these secrets?

For now these presence is our ally and I for one am grateful to this presence. It has shown me a whole grandeur picture of reality, a picture that I would have never known unless I made that lucky find on that lone ice ball world to find one lone derelict ship. Our research with the Sycamore will continue on despite the psychological toll on our workers, the rewards and applications from this ship and it's technologies far outweigh the lives and sanity of a few people. My hatred towards the IGSE has now changing into indifference as I have come to realize how small and insignificant they are, but I will still destroy them all due to the danger present should they find another ship similar to the Sycamore.

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Alzis

The masked, robed figure that Alzis was using in this world was now leaving his own personal shuttle as it touch down on the world before the fleet did. He and a few guards walked up to where he can find the golem, he had an easy time locating the place thanks to the memories of his other body. Some of his guards left to find the surviving party still trapped in this world while the other guards stayed with Alzis.

Alzis, the two bodies being used by Alzis, both return back to the site that the Golem called home and saw her heal Svaboda. "So you're the golem that I heard about. I must admit, the craftsmanship done to create you is wonderful. I almost couldn't tell that you were made of stone." he said, in a strange way of complementing the golem.

The guards that were after Gabriel and just as they were going to shot him with a stunner blaster he left at the right time. Knowing that they failed that soldiers stayed to investigate the site before they went back to the Alzis that they came with to tell her the new that they failed to capture the thief.

[Kaidou]

Dimension 888,815

The message from the Moon Sisters reached Ludwig the moment he entered Dimension 888,815.

It would appear that some of them have set off to find someone else. According to the signs in the stars, they should not take too long; however, there are still some left behind at the restaurant. You could go there to meet up with them.

As soon as he came through, he saw the carnage that Father Christmas had left behind; Dr Poh, desperately trying to treat both Higashi and Law at the same time, and a coat covering what he presumed was the body of Wilhelmus. The old spirit silently wiped a crystalline tear from his eye, before shutting the portal off.

"Lord Ludwig", said Dr Poh, attempting to get up and greet the spirit. The latter, however, raised his hand in objection.

"Carry on with whatever you're doing", he said. "I have something else that needs to be done." Walking over to where Wilhelmus lay, asleep, the Rokuō kneeled down, slowly caressing his Tenshi's head under the coat and whispering a quiet prayer in an ancient dialect known to none but him. With that, he stood back up, and leapt into the air, trails of fire shooting from his magnificent, numinous wings, as he roared majestically, soaring in the glowing dawn and charging towards Father Christmas, whom he saw on the path.

"Lord Ludwig!" screamed Father Christmas, as he sheathed his sword and charged towards the clearing, away from his former boss. "Do not be angry! I shall take back my Ice Corps from that bastard Haikarakainen! I shall build it to be the most formidable attack force in the Multiverse! You shall be the greatest Rokuō of the six!"

Ludwig, in his true phoenix form, boomed in a majestic voice that permeated every last corner of the dimension.

"You have betrayed the power you were entrusted with upon accepting the title of Tenshi, Father Christmas. Ergo, I hereby REVOKE YOUR POSITION AS A DIVINE GUARDIAN OF THE HOTEL."

As the echoes of the final statement died down, the entire dimension was plunged into silence. Father Christmas glowered furiously at the phoenix in the sky, before his expression transformed into one of madness.

"I do not need you anymore! I shall do whatever it takes to retake my Corps!" Here, for the first time, a dark aura began to form around Father Christmas, as he roared in insane laughter, drawing the sabre Pestilence, which glowed with a wicked light. "So, if Ludwig the Phoenix refuses to aid me, then I shall enlist another power; the power of one Rokuō that was able to subdue the other five for fifty years!"

"Surely it cannot be…"

"That's right", snarled Father Christmas, as saliva and mucus dribbled down his face. "The spirit of Maju lives on in Nixa, and in me!"

Ludwig scoffed dismissively, before diving down furiously and charging straight at Father Christmas, fire trailing from his majestic wings, which were glowing white by now, as the sun penetrated the canopy of the endless taiga.

…

The tree which Haikarakainen had been buried underneath was melted in an instant, as the IGSE boss groggily climbed to his feet, rubbing his head.

"No…", he whimpered, quite a shocking change of character. "How could you leave me like this, Singularity??? I was supposed to perpetuate your power throughout the Multiverse using the IGSE as the medium…"

The statue chuckled mysteriously.

"I would have wanted it to be that way", he said. "Unfortunately, I have a new agreement, one that doesn't involve your puny power and your even punier corporate empire."

"Another agreement?" asked Haikarakainen in shock. "Another agreement with who? A Light Rokuō?"

"Naaah", said Singularity, his tone betraying his scathing mockery. "Someone much higher."

Here, the colour drained from Haikarakainen's face.

"You don't mean… the Ahmarhan???"

The howling winds of 888,815 suddenly fell silent as the dark influence of Singularity slowly spread throughout the snowy dimension, the Dragon of Existence's malevolent laughter becoming louder and louder.. As both Kizaru and a horrified Haikarakainen looked on, the statue shattered, revealing a gigantic black orb that was suspended in the air, not doing anything but existing.

"You must realise", said the Dragon to Haikarakainen, "that I am an Existential Dragon. I am beyond the petty power of the six Rokuō, strong as they may be. And that's not all; I have orders from the Ahmarhan."

"Orders for what?" asked Haikarakainen, his face no longer confident; the one thing that had allowed him to maintain his cocky air, namely, his alliance with the Dragon of Existence, was now shattered. He had nothing left.

"I have orders to eliminate you. But not yet; when the time is right."

That moment, two black ropes shot forward from the black orb, seizing Haikarakainen by the arms.

"No! No!" he screamed. "I don't want to die! Let me go!!!"

It was at that moment, however, that the black orb of Singularity dissolved, eliciting a scream of shock from the dragon; in the orb's place came a blinding flash of light, one that made even Kizaru cover his eyes. From the light stepped a metallic, almost robotic suit of armour, its head fashioned in the likeness of a hyena.

"No!" screamed Haikarakainen, now on his back and attempting to crawl backwards, away from the armour. "I don't want to die!!! Lady Hyena! Spare me!"

"I'm not here to kill you", said Hyena. "That will upset the plans we have."

"What plans???"

That same moment, a rift opened in the sky, allowing a massive fleet of IGSE spaceships and war vessels to enter the dimension. From one of them, a dark figure leapt out, coming closer and closer to the snowy ground, before it landed on its feet in the snow, sending a cloud of whiteness flying into the air. As the dust and powder settled, the figure of Iuzun in his usual garb was revealed.

"You make yourself out to be strong", said the mercenary, "but you are actually weak. I feel ashamed of having to work for you."

That moment, however, Haikarakainen forced himself to smile his trademark delirious smile, his tongue dangling from his lips.

"Is that so?" he sneered. "That's high treason, Iuzun. Are you sure you want to follow through on this?"

"Get away, Kizaru", said Hyena. "Your time is not up yet, though the end of the Rokuō Rule is drawing near."

Kizaru nodded deferentially and complied, dissolving into light.

With that, Hyena turned to face both Iuzun and Haikarakainen, who faced each other, preparing to fight.

"Haikarakainen, you will die by your former subordinate's hand", said Hyena. "I have seen it."

"We'll see about that, Ahmarhan", sneered the boss of the IGSE. It was clear that, at that point in time, Haikarakainen had completely lost his mind. Iuzun, on the other hand, maintained his steely demeanour.

The Alveranian bounty hunter silently unbuttoned his flowery office shirt, throwing it on the ground along with his black fur coat, before removing his yukata and putting it back on with the right side over the left.

(There is significance in wearing a yukata right over left; in Japan, that is how dead bodies are dressed for a funeral.)

"One of us will die today", said Iuzun coldly.

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Inalbo

"The thing is", said Mokiim to the rest, "even though those mofoes at the Hazfa Bible Vault kicked me out, they were no match for my computer skills; I've hacked into their networks, and I'm now able to track Gabriel to wherever he's going. So, if you're willing to pay a price that I name, then I'll give you access to the tracking info and his present location."

"What's your price?" asked Hiccup.

Mokiim smiled lecherously, before pointing at Sarah. "Lend me to her for a night", he said, licking his lips.

"Hell no!" exclaimed Felix indignantly. "We're not going to sell our friends to you like that!"

"Then I'm sorry", said Mokiim, still grinning salaciously, "if you can't pay the fees, you can't get the services that you…"

At that moment, however, Felix waved his hand, and Mokiim's smile disappeared.

"Okay", he said, somewhat jittery. "I'll bring you to the computer."

…

Wilhelmus…

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Numenera

"Zod. I shall remember your name."

As his third sword dissolved into a rusty sludge, the Knight used telekinesis to hold the Nepharite's head in place, while he proceeded to use the shard that remained to make an attempt at hacking its head off. More Sorenau troops attempted to fly over to where Behemoth fought with the Nepharite using their psychokinesis, but the Knight sent a silent telepathic message, telling them not to interfere. As the swarm of swords approached him, Behemoth froze them all in midair, before grabbing four and holding them with telekinesis, preparing to fight Zod using those four swords.

Interference is dishonourable. Even in combat with a Nepharite.

…

[Kaidou]

Dimension 29
Shen Tang Planetary System

The Maju Army, under the command of Nixa, had launched a daring, massive-scale assault on the heart of the Ten Grandmasters. As the gigantic fleet of Maju Army starships burst through the portals they had created, dark tendrils of evil spirit energy coiled off the horrid, rotting vessels, leaving behind foul auras in their wake.

There were sixteen Grandmaster armies stationed in the planetary system, along with 200 battleships and almost a thousand destroyers; still, it was nothing compared to the massive fleet of Nixa, which numbered almost 10,000.

Leung Nam-kuan had made his way back to the planet specifically to direct the defence against the invasion; by the time he got back, entire fleets of Maju Army battleships had entered the upper atmosphere of Shen Tang, raining down relentless strings of shells and bombs that blew up the cities and settlements below. In retaliation, fighter jets took off and fought back against the Maju Army warships, even downing one and causing them to burn up upon entering the lower atmosphere.

"Master Leung, the Inter-Dimensional Japanese Fleet has contacted us; they will be sending their three most powerful super-warships to assist us in this battle."

"Good. In the meantime, fight back, and try to locate Nixa's ship."

They didn't even have to fight for very long before three portals opened up beside the relentless waves of Maju Army battleships, allowing three colossal starships to come through; each of the three were almost the same size as the Jinglongshan moon itself. As soon as the portals shut off, the gigantic energy shields of the three warships burst on in a gigantic flash of blue light, blowing up a few of the Maju Army battleships in the process. A few minutes passed, and a few of the larger Maju Army warships.

(Think of the size difference as that between a destroyer and an aircraft carrier)

…

Qavakul
Nixa's flagship

As the top Generals and Admirals on board the Qavakul scurried about in shock and fear at the sudden appearance of the three Japanese warships, the dark essence of General Nixa floated about on the various decks, before materialising gruesomely in the command centre of the flagship, towering above the sweaty and jittery commanders who sat at the computers.

"What's going on?"

"General Nixa", said the most confident officer, an obese, slightly smelly strategist named Rear-Admiral Arvian Jones, "it appears that three massive battleships have suddenly appeared from portals and are now aiding the troops of the Jiang Dynasty in battling our troops. From the looks of the markings, they belong to the Inter-Dimensional Japanese Fleet (IDJF), though our intel is still…"

"New intel!" called out one of the men sitting at the computers.

"Ring it through", said Arvian, using his thick, stubby fingers to attempt to loosen his collars.

"The three starships are considered the greatest assets to the IDJF, which means that they must have had an agreement with the Japanese prior to this sudden attack to our troops; otherwise, there would have been no reason for them to suddenly show up with their three greatest battleships. The battleships are, according to frontline intel, as follows;

"IDJF Nobunaga, Fleet Admiral Akira Fukuzawa

"IDJF Hideyoshi, Fleet Admiral Mayumi Takada

"IDJF Ieyasu, Fleet Admiral Ichiro Moritaka."

Nixa looked on at the computer screens as 3D models of the ships flashed on. The three commanders' faces also appeared.

"In addition", said the man at the computer, a young yet weedy fellow named Shekeldass, "it seems that a large squadron of fighters owned by the Grandmasters have arrived from one of the other planets in this solar system, the flagship of which is the frigate Huang Zhong, commanded by General Tuo Yuan and Grandmaster Ping Teck Siong."

"Never mind about the Grandmaster fleet for now; concentrate all your fire on the Hideyoshi and make sure it's destroyed."

"But sir", objected Arvian, "the fleet under Grandmaster Ping numbers almost 400; shouldn't we at least attempt to attack it?"

"That will be easily settled", said Nixa. "For now, I want the Hideyoshi to be destroyed."

"Why that one in particular?" asked Arvian, scratching his balding scalp. "Why not the Nobunaga or the Ieyasu?"

"Because I hate women", said Nixa.

(Mayumi Takada was a woman. The other two Fleet Admirals were men.)

Arvian looked at Nixa blankly as the fearsome, former Maju General disappeared into the darkness. Left with no choice, Arvian could only divert as many starships as the number of battleships that were under Master Ping and General Tuo. Fortunately, the massive Maju Fleet had more than enough forces to spare.

"Concentrate all your fire on the Hideyoshi!" commanded Arvian.

That moment, sixteen warships diverted from the path and headed straight for the Hideyoshi, as commanded by Nixa.

…

IDJF Hideyoshi

Fleet Admiral Mayumi Takada, a sprightly, middle aged woman with an eyepatch and a boyish face and hairstyle, was informed of the sudden diversion of Maju battleships heading towards her warship.

"So… Nixa wants to play the sexist game, eh? Since he wants to do it that way, let's give them hell!"

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Jinglongshan

The landing of the Maju Army had begun. The moment the starship carriers landed (or in some cases, crash-landed), the doors flew open, before the ubiquitous black leather clad men with the white masks charged out, all wielding either guns, swords, or other unidentifiable weapons, all of which were powered by magic to some extent, but enhanced by technology. The waves of Maju soldiers were promptly met with battalion after battalion of troops trained by the Grandmasters.

On the top of a rock stood four men; Leung, Grandmasters Lee Shuang and Ouyang Zhenye, and General Yuan Kai. As the troops clashed below, the four of them stood in a line, watching as the troops clashed below.

"It appears that the battle is becoming very heated", remarked Master Ouyang, stroking his long, white beard. "One of us should enter the battle to test the mettle of the Maju troops."

General Yuan Kai smirked, before leaping off the rock with a powerful thrust of his legs, flying over the armies of the Jiang Dynasty, and landing inside a battalion of the Maju Army, causing a shockwave that caused those in his immediate vicinity to fall over. In an instant, the General drew a sword and cut off the heads of the fallen soldiers effortlessly, before running backwards, clearing a path through the battalion and moving right in front of his troops. From their perch, the three Grandmasters were able to see a thin clearing in one of the Maju battalions, before it slowly closed up once again.

"Now", said Leung, "we shall observe…"

---

…

[Naval Monte]

Dimension 888,815

"So Haikarakainen was nothing more but a worthless puppet to higher puppets. I'm glad I never made a deal with that pathetic excuse of a king." Alzis said on board the deck of a star destroyer, which the events unfold through the eyes of familiars watching the duel. Throughout the battle the sudden arrival of more IGSE didn't seem to change the tide, if anything it seem to have give the forces that were still in the base some leg room as the forces of both The Fate and the various creatures from different gods fought against each other.

Alzis can see more portal manifest and see hordes of St. Luminia knights pouring, slaughtering all that stand in their way. "I wonder who is leading the attack? Sol is preoccupied with his home world and Ziz is forced to stay back in the ruins as my forces are now attacking the ruins. So either Behemoth has finish his battle with the demons on Numenera or..." Alzis never got to finish is sentience as a green glyph appeared that turn into a rift, jumping out of the rift was Leviathan with her spear aimed at Alzis. As the spear struck Alzis the female general smirked behind her helmet, only to cough out blood and feel an intense stabbing pain in her abdomen.

"Do you truly think I would leave myself defenseless woman?" the man peered at the injured general, there were no visible marks on Alzis's body. Leviathan moved away from Alzis and slash his face, only for her to scream in pain as she was the one to receive the deep cuts. "Most people like to think that curses from black magic can only be used for offense, but very crafty mages know that they can also make for very effective shields." Alzis explain as she covered her metal mask, but still kept her fingers away from her eye holes to keep a watch on Alzis and everyone on board.

Leviathan walked back as troops surround her, their rifles aimed at her. With a simple hand gesture from Alzis the soldiers began to fire on the general. Leviathan used her spear to deflect the bullets while conjuring an arcane shield to block shots that came from laser, plasma and other energy weapons. One bullet that was deflected bounce off her spear and hit Alzis in the eye, the bullet came out and like before he received no damage to his eye, instead the damage went to Leviathan.

"Do try to keep her alive ladies and gentlemen, we do need her for both as a hostage and as a test subject." Alzis with a smirk as he lit his cigar. The shots kept on going, Leviathan knew that if she doesn't do something fast then she will fall. Activating the bottom portion to jam her crystal on to the ground, casting a massive blue glyph on the ground. Alzis performed the true wanderer ritual before he enter this dimension so when the massive spikes of ice appeared and covered the command deck he vanished, everyone else was killed. Leviathan used this as an opportunity to run out of the command deck and into the hall, the alarms blaring as to signal the presence of an enemy on board.

One of the ships to have enter the Ice Corps dimension was a ship infested with both two nepharites and many demons, this ship was heading towards Father Christmas's location. At the sky the sun of the dimension had a black spot that was slowly growing, the invading creatures knew of the significance of the blackening sun. The angels increasing their pace on their demon slaying and the demons having a new burst of motivation to press on with the attack.

---

Dimension 29
Jinlongshan

The world of Jinlongshan at first had nothing happen for many days, so much so that the news of the attack from Kalameet was starting to appear more like a lie from the dragon. Yet suddenly massive bolts of plasma mixed with tungsten rounds rain down the world, the fleet from the Fates staying on orbit as they shot at the grandmaster's home world in a safe distance.

One the ground some of the supernatural beings that they are infamous on summoning appeared and began to terrorize the town folks even more. Along with the creatures drop ships came down deploying killer robots as the ships from space kept on firing, drones came down to the planet to attack on the air. The star fleet however changed with the arrival of Maju's army with half of them now attacking the fleet as the other half continued the orbital bombardments.

---

Sol

"By gone heretics!" Sol shouted, his moonlight sword gathering energy as he raised it into the air. As the kalameet cultist closed in on him the energy on the blade exploded into a massive blast that covered the area around Sol, yet there was still more energy on the blade. Sol swung the sword down and a massive energy wave was launched, slaying and destroying everything in it's wake, not even the creatures summoned by the Fates or the angels survive the energy wave.

Once the energy wave was done any survivors that dodged it on time fell to the knights that were with Sol. As he took a few steps to the door guarding the archives and vaults he jumped back as he dodged several throwing knives sent from almost nowhere. Eventually the source of the knives were revealed to have been assassins from The Fates wearing modified uniforms that most of the soldiers were, twin hidden blades can be seen coming out from under their wrists.

The knights charged in to take care of them and Sol can see that these assassins were gifted with superhuman bodies as they were fighting and killing the knights with no problem. Sol struggle with himself on whether or not he should help his men, but soon he came to his conclusion and ran past the battle and began to input the runic password to open the door. The men knew that the contents of the archives and vaults were too important to let anyone have them, their importance outweighed honor.

Once Sol got the password he quickly went in to close the door, yet one fate trooper manage to get in. His colors told Sol that he was from the 501st legion and he was armed with an electric tonfa baton. Making a few impressive swings with the weapon both he and Sol charged and clash their weapons, electrical and arcane sparks coming out of the two weapons. The two kept clashing with their respective weapons and even tried to counter attack each other but each one was quick enough to block the attack, with all attempts at a pairry being futile.

However soon the trooper began to take a more berserk tactic and the sudden shift in tactics made Sol back away, defend the many blows that were coming from all directions. Suddenly the troop made a sudden strike to the abdomen and he was lucky to hit Sol there and make him fly, Sol landed on his back. As the trooper moved in close he was about to deliver a crushing blow to Sol's head but just as the tonfa was coming down Sol used his powers to keep the weapon still, the trooper trying in vain to release his weapon.

Sol sent the trooper flying and got back up. The trooper landed on his feet and slide on the ground, Sol unleashed three lightwaves at the trooper but the tonfa was made of strong materials that was powerful enough to shield against the arcane attacks. Sol combined his telekinesis with his jump to make him not only go high into the air but travel in a vast distance. The trooper saw this and was prepared to strike him down at the spot that he believed Sol will land on, yet before he could Sol used his telekinesis to send the man flying again right before he land back on the ground. Sol unleashed three more waves as he moved forward, as before the trooper was able to use his weapons to deal with the lightwaves. Sol moved closer and release more lightwaves that the troop defend against, yet he knew that Sol was only using them as a distraction as he moved forward.

The trooper this time dodged the one light wave and blocked another one that Sol sent to his new position. Sol began to chant a prayer, giving the trooper a change to charge in for the strike, a move that will cost him the battle. Above Sol an arcane explosion appeared, a white misty smoke surrounded him and bowling ball sized white orbs can be seen, the trooper couldn't help but to compare them to stars. The stars soon scattered and were homing on him, the trooper dodged the first five but soon the rest hit him. Some hit his chest, others his arms and legs and three hit his head. The trooper let out a loud scream as he fell down on the floor, making a desperate reach before he finally collapse on the floor dead.

"You fought valiantly, not to many can force me to use a rite from the Goetic Gospels." Sol said, honoring his fallen enemy, it wasn't everyday he deals with a common soldier who can fight as well as the one he fought against. Sol traveled deeper into the room, still unaware that he was being followed by an unseen presence.

---

Numenera

Zod can feel his head being held in place by Galem's telekinesis and saw the shard flying towards him, the nepharite grabbed it and crush the shard into fine powder. If the nepharite could smile it would have once he saw Behemoth grab four of the swords. From the still open rift a large double bladed battle ax flew out and came on to Zod's other hand. Using his own telekinesis he broke free from Behemoth's hold and all of the blades were released as well, many of them simply falling down to the ground.

Zod vanished before Behemoth's eyes and before the Sorenau can process what is going on the four extra swords broke from a single swing from Zod's axe, his saw cleaver sword coming down on the general to cleave him in two.

---

Logan

Logan stared at the Sycamore, he was alone and the only one awake at the current time. He can sense that things were changing in the base. More people were dying, disappearing or were going insane. More than once he had to deal with some insane coworkers trying to destroy their research notes. What didn't help was the claim of strange noises and smells, along with sightings of creatures that were best described as the lovechild of Clive Barker and H.R. Giger.

Logan can tell that he would soon have to leave this base and do so before calamity can strike. The cockpit and resonator were almost complete, once those two were done he will leave this base with both the research notes, of which he made copies of all of them, and with the Sycamore itself. Throughout the night until dawn Logan only stared at the ship that had changed his world so much.

[Kaidou]

Dimension 29

The moment the battleships of the Fates made themselves known on the battlefield, both the Maju Fleet and the Grandmasters diverted their attention to fighting them. Orbital cannons belonging to the Grandmasters fired upon both the Maju battleships and the Fates, while, on the ground, reserve battalions were mobilised by the numerous Generals.

The Ieyasu, too, changed its course, heading straight for the new Fates battleships that had entered the solar system of Tian Gong. One of the Fates ships in particular, an Executor-class Star Destroyer named Kutabare, changed its course to meet the Ieyasu in battle. Its commander, a Sorenau named Jyakku, had given the order himself; he was a very daring person.

…

"Moritaka-gensui!"

"What's the matter?"

"The Executor Kutabare is headed straight for us; her shields are up, and her cannons are preparing to fire at us."

"No problem; prepare our own cannons, and scramble the Akiramenai squadron; have them infiltrate the Executor Kutabare and take down its shields."

"Yes sir!"

The moment Fleet Admiral Moritaka gave the command, the IDJF Ieyasu's cannons were activated, and the Japanese warship opened fire on the Kutabare. Having superior technology, the Japanese starship was able to penetrate the shields of the Kutabare somewhat; however, there was only so much they could do, for the Fates were formidably advanced in terms of technology too.

At that same moment, the landing bay of the Ieyasu was opened, and 90 Y-Wing fighters charged out, heading straight for the Kutabare, which fired back at them relentlessly, blowing up three of the fighters as they headed forward.

The leader of the squadron, Captain Kuroshita Yamaguchi, decided to try out a daring move.

"Aka Division, split up and attack the control deck of the Kutabare directly. Murasaki Division, clear the surroundings. Kiiro Division, follow me and take out the cannons of the ship."

The pilots did as told.

As if in perfect retaliation to the assault by the Ieyasu's Y-Wing squadron, a Fates squadron of 100 F-92 Fighters charged out from the Kutabare, with General Jyakku at its helm, controlling the fighter with telekinesis.

"We're going to deal with the squadrons. In the meantime, move the Kutabare closer to the Ieyasu, and try to crash it into those bloody Japs. We probably won't destroy it considering how much bigger it is, but if we hit the right spot, it might just go crashing down into Shen Tang."

…

"So it would appear that Alzis is keen to join in", said Leung, scratching his chin. "Perhaps it's time I deal with him?"

"We will make sure the battle against Nixa goes exactly as planned", said Ouyang, as he watched the battle between the two armies rage on below, smoke rising from various points of the battlefield.

"That's good to know", said Leung, as he turned around and opened up a portal walking through…

…

Vermok
A Fates Star Destroyer

The commander of the Vermok, Colonel Vanzut Iujuni, was thrown aside by the sudden shockwave of a portal opening in his command centre. As he struggled to his feet, the figure of Master Leung Nam-kuan, clad in his ubiquitous Chinese clothes, stepped from said portal, before closing it off and lunging forward, placing his elbow on the man's chest.

"Please!" screamed Iujuni. "I don't want to die!"

Leung glared at him, before seizing a microphone from the other side of the deck. "Tell your men to put all their weapons into the armoury, and get them to crash land in the city of Duchang in the North of Shen Tang using the escape pods. Once that's done, you can take the remaining escape pods and do just that."

Iujuni complied readily.

Once that was done, Leung shoved the cowardly commander into an escape pod and sent him flying off to Duchang, where an army of men under General Kuek Yung Meng were preparing to arrest the Fates personnel upon arrival. The moment he was alone on the ship, Leung set it on a course towards the Kutabare, which was quite clearly trying to attack the Ieyasu, before placing the ship on autopilot and going back to Shen Tang through a portal.

…

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Numenera

Just as the cleaver was about to carve Behemoth in two, he kicked upwards with his armoured leg, shattering the axe head and sending the Nepharite flying backwards.

"Let's see how long this can last for, Zod…"

[Kaidou]

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The Purge Begins! Haikarakainen VS Iuzun
殲滅作戦始動! ハイカラカーイネン VS ユーズン

As the relentless blizzards of Dimension 888,815 whipped about, both Iuzun and his former boss stood facing each other, the former calm and motionless as a stone, the latter jittery and twitchy, almost to the point of suggestive insanity. Haikarakainen's fingers twitched hideously, the veins on his hand pulsating furiously as his fingers slowly pulled out evil strings from the snow. Iuzun simply looked on at Haikarakainen with a deadpan expression plastered on his scarred, one eyed face.

All this, while Hyena stood aside, silently watching as the two sized each other up.

Soon, however, Iuzun made the first move, raising his hands and clenching his fists in the Snake Fist stance, before slowly inching around Haikarakainen, who followed suit with his own, vulture-like stances.

"You are the King of the Underworld", said Iuzun impassively, cocking his head as if to taunt Haikarakainen, who towered more than 30cm above him. "You should know my power; after all, it is partly because of that that you hired me. Is it not?"

Haikarakainen sneered, before leaping forward, dragging the razor-sharp strings across the snowy ground and slashing at Iuzun, who dodged deftly and stepped forward, throwing a punch and hitting Haikarakainen in the abdomen, causing him to reel backwards and leave a trail of vapour behind. The IGSE boss steadied himself with impeccable footwork, before coiling the strings into a whip and striking at Iuzun, who leapt into the air and fired off a shockwave using his armour's capabilities.

The IGSE boss dissolved into vapour, before reappearing behind Iuzun, bending down and sweeping his powerful leg across the snowy ground, knocking Iuzun over in the process. The stunted Alveranian mercenary collapsed onto the floor, but recovered quickly, jumping onto his feet and punching at Haikarakainen, who seized the fist with his own hand, before drawing five strings out of the air. Using his right hand, however, Iuzun swung forward, wrapping his leg around Haikarakainen's neck and lunging forward with a move that, in a situation involving someone without a Devil Fruit of the Muri Muri no Mi's capability, would have fractured a neck easily. Haikarakainen, however, was able to dissolve his neck with relative ease, allowing the headless body to fight with Iuzun.

The Alveranian lunged forward and punched the headless body in the knee, before kicking upwards and thrusting it backwards by the chest, causing it to crash into the crater which Kizaru had created earlier. For a moment, Iuzun stood there, until, all of a sudden, a burst of lava shot out of the crater, and the figure of Haikarakainen emerged, dripping with lava as if he were a fire spirit. Screaming in rage, the IGSE boss lunged at Iuzun once again, only to be easily deflected by a single punch that sent a crackling noise ringing throughout the plains. The lava-coated Haikarakainen flew through the air, skidding through the snow again and hitting a tree.

Iuzun, not giving up the golden opportunity, leapt upwards and slammed his elbow into Haikarakainen's abdomen, causing his former boss to spit out blood, before disappearing in a cloud of mist. The Alveranian whirled around, only to be kneed in the chin by Haikarakainen, falling backwards.

As always, however, Iuzun leapt back up, albeit with blood dribbling out of his mouth this time round.

"So, you're turning out to be quite a tough one."

Before Iuzun could react, however, Haikarakainen reached out, seized the bounty hunter, and threw him into the air. As Iuzun hit maximum point and came plummeting back down to the ground, Haikarakainen raised his arm and pointed at Iuzun.

"Tamaito!"

The bounty hunter roared in pain as a bullet-like clump buried itself in his left arm. He gritted his teeth and whirled himself about in midair, slamming his metal clad right forearm onto Haikarakainen's head, causing him to double over onto his knees and fall face first into the snow. The body slowly disappeared, before the figure of the IGSE boss reappeared beside Hyena.

"Help me!" he screamed at the emotionless female Ahmarhan, who stood there motionlessly, not interfering. "Kill this traitor!"

Hyena didn't react.

That moment, Iuzun raised his right arm and fired off a black tendril towards Haikarakainen, hitting him in the throat and sending him flying backwards in shock.

"This black energy nullifies Devil Fruit powers", Iuzun said. "I created it from observing the powers that Master Klingsor obtained after eating the Jewel of Pyhädunkelheit."

The colour drained from Haikarakainen's face as he realised that the black rope coiled around his neck was, indeed, preventing him from using his Devil Fruit power. He grunted in immense rage, clenching both his fists and staring at Iuzun wildly.

"From my experience as a bounty hunter, those rookies who rely excessively on powerful Devil Fruits are those who die first. That includes you."

"Enough!"

Haikarakainen charged at Iuzun, but was tripped by the Alveranian; he landed on his feet, however, and proceeded to strike at Iuzun, only to be countered with a four second chain punch that, without the Muri Muri no Mi's power, caused Haikarakainen to fall onto his posterior. A powerful kick in the chest sent the IGSE boss skidding backwards, finally hitting a rock and breathing heavily, as the black rope coiled around his neck prevented him from using his powers.

Without waiting, Iuzun proceeded to rain down a relentless yet artful torrent of blows, strikes, and chops on the helpless Haikarakainen, almost as if he had become a personal punching bag for the Alveranian.

Remember, Iuzun, we fight not to destroy our opponent…

A furiously heavy kick to Haikarakainen's chest.

… we fight to defend that which we love. That which is worth defending.

A side-uppercut that caused a horrible cracking sound to ring throughout the whole snowy plain, accompanied by a moan of immense pain from the IGSE boss and a splatter of maroon blood on the floor.

Yes, Master Lam.

A two second chain punch directly to the face, sending blood flying all over the vicinity.

We don't hate the ones in front of us…

Iuzun seized Haikarakainen's left leg and kicked it, dislocating it entirely.

… we love what is behind us.

A violent, three-fingered jab to the face that blinded Haikarakainen's right eye.

So remember; do not inflict cruelty on your opponent, even if it is what he wishes to do to you…

A furious pound to Haikarakainen's temple.

… for that will cause you to fall from grace and hit the fiery rocks of the bottom.

An elbow to the other temple.

Yes, Master Lam.

And one final strike on the forehead that caused Haikarakainen to reel backwards and hit his head violently on the rock.

As Iuzun stood over his former boss, his entire yukata splattered with blood, the Ahmarhan Major slowly walked over to where the two stood, inspecting the damage done to Haikarakainen, who had bounced off the surface of the rock and now sat upright. He was unconscious (despite sitting up). One of his eye sockets was bleeding, his nose had been broken badly, and all his front teeth had been shattered. Blood dribbled from his face, splattering all over his office shirt, suit, and tie. The back of his head and his neck were swollen and bruised hideously. The black rope that nullified the Devil Fruit powers was still coiled tightly around Haikarakainen's neck as his bulging jugular veins throbbed weakly.

Without waiting for any direction from the Ahmarhan, Iuzun reached into his right-over-left yukata and withdrew a revolver, which he pressed against the forehead of Haikarakainen.

"Disgusting."

With that, Iuzun pulled the trigger.

Harakiri Haikarakainen was dead.

[Contamenesia]

Elynia

This was hell. the pain was unbearable. her legs were broken, and she was a prisoner in a realm without time. Stupid Ahmarhan....She screamed as another wave of agony washed over her. Tears kept pouring from her eyes. It was then that she heard footsteps, she looked up and saw a woman before, she eminated power beyond imagination and had stare that seemed to be able to see everything. Elynia was now scared. Terrified of this woman, regardless of whatever she wanted. The woman snapped her fingers, suddenly Elynia's legs were fixed, but still sore. "You are free to go. However its not without condition." the woman said with a coy smirk. Elynia was terrified, "c-conditions? please, i-i promise i wont ever--" but the woman silenced her by interrupting. "Yes, i know you wont. but you are going to do as i say....if you dont..i'll make your suffering so much worse...." Elynia trembled, "Please, no! i'll do anything, i swear!" she pleaded. the woman only smirked.

Altyrnia

After giving the girl her orders, Altyrnia set her free, teleporting her to her objective's location. Altyrnia then sighed, He would be awakening soon, and there was something else she needed to take care of...

The Drakesing Dimension:

Altyrnia appeared before the Sword of Supremacy. She was not wearing her armor, so one would not be able to identify her easily. She gave the sword a small glance, then turned around to face those that were behind her. "Bring the little one known as Azathoth here. i will have words with him." she said in a sweet and gentle tone. She knew none the people here recognized her, she could see their thoughts, minds and souls after all, as well as everything else.

Crowe

Crowe chuckled as Elizabeth was restrained, however, he did turn off the tape recorder. "As amusing as that is, i think we have some other things to worry about at the moment. Dont you agree, Ellie?"

Wasp

Wasp shook his head. "Again, i told you, no one leaves the Ahmarhan. i havent left them. i simply now have questions for my King and want my wife back." he then turned to Tandem, "You cannot judge that, little runaway. You could not face your problems, which means you have no position to offer solutions to them. Again, you assume much, if that would have worked, we would have done it, it wouldn't so we didnt. Anyways, i think we need to get going. its better to not waste our time, yes?" he said, crossing his arms.

???

As the Stranger asked her about her not having a name, she only shrugged. She was not aware that she needed one. When the other stranger outside the forcefield spoke, calling her a being of stone, she stood up and turned to him. She dissolved herself into dirt and then reformed, a silent protest to the notion that she was made of stone.

Gabriel

He appeared on the side walk of the new dimension that he was in, he looked up to see a man fly through the air in a red and blue spandex outfit and had a large "S" symbol sewn right onto his chest. "Holy cow, that guy looks just like a character from that superhero comic i read! cool. i guess super heroes are real here, awesome!" he said with a big grin. it didnt take him long to find out what city he was in, there was a big sign on the side of a building that said "Metropolis". Gabriel grinned, he wandered what adventure he would have here....

[Naval Monte]

Dimension 888,815

Leviathan ran through the halls of the star destroyer, taking out any soldiers that manage to get on her way. Leviathan knew that she needed to leave now, each minute spent on board was a minute closer to death. Soon the almost exhausted general found the hanger and once more fought against soldiers and pilots as she board on a TIE Interceptor. She flipped the many switches and pressed the buttons inside and soon her star fighter began to take off and leave the hanger, with TIE fighters following her.

The ship that Jahvi and the other demons infested soon reach to where Father Christmas was and made the ship plummet down, eventually it crash and slide across the ground until finally stopping close by them. The familiar foul stench first greeted them as the demons, most in various sizes and shape, existed from the ship. Jahvi can bee seen floating from the sky. "So much for the title of holy spirit. We had no intentions of these events happening but they have been playing well for us." Jahvi turn to Father Christmas. "It feels good having that power inside isn't it spirit? The power inside you is one that we have helped shape into existence."

The dark being chuckled. "How ironic that the supposed guardians would end up assisting us when they killed Maju. Tell me, do you all know what Nixa is?" Just as Jahvi asked his question the female nepharite appeared behind Ludwig and stabbed him through with a spear made of bones and shells. With Iuzun Alzis appeared on the scene just as he killed his former boss.

"Well that alliance that was made now has even less reasons to exist, if most parties involved now even care about it's existence." Alzis tossed his used cigar on to the bloody snow. "So the great dragon sold itself to the Ahmarhan. I would have done the same thing but the fact that I can give them anything and they won't give anything to me makes any potential partnership only a pipe dream. Before you ask I tried, I have no idea how you got their lot to agree to anything you want." he said as he spin a cane around.

More of the sun was being consumed by the black sun. The number of demons on both the ground and on the sky were growing by the minute, there is a sense of a great calamity ready to befall the realm hanging in the air.

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Inuu Residence

After the tape recorder was turned off Elizabeth still gave the two of them a heated glare but she stopped struggling to break free from both Tandem's and Alice's grip on her. Once the two felt as though Elizabeth was not going to kill them they let the mage go. "Again, I will have my revenge bard and your girlfriend is also on that list." Alzis actually laughed at the claim that Elizabeth threw out.

Tandem didn't say anything to Wasp after the man reminded him that he ran away from his problem, he also didn't want to admit that he couldn't find a good solution to the problem that wouldn't cause his people to suffer in the long run. "I was never good with politics. Technology, adventure, history and anthropology were always my strong suits. " Tandem felt Alice's hand touch his shoulder, the young woman giving him a reassuring smile.

The Moon Sisters were distraught on losing two more of their comrades, one to death and other due to becoming corrupt. "It's like Klingsor all over again." Elizabeth took a note on the somber mood of the three goddesses. "If you three want to tell us what is wrong then do so after you take us to the place that we are suppose to meet the group for the jewel. We're now finally ready to leave." The sisters broke out of their funk and created a portal.

"Make sure you all have everything that we need and do tell the others inside that we are ready to go." The sisters explained. "No shit, after all my girlfriend is the reason I even join this treasure hunt." Elizabeth said, walking back to the house and smiling a little when she heard Alice saying a low yes when she heard that Elizabeth has a girlfriend. Tandem looked at Alice. "What? I guessed that Ellie was in a new relationship and I think the woman with the side half heart tattoo is her new girlfriend." Tandem curious on that new asked what happen with her previous lover.

Tandem immediately regretted asking when he saw Alice look somber. "I... I think you should ask Ellie that one.... Assuming she doesn't chew you out for asking her that." Tandem mentally cursed himself for bring up bad memories like that. He apologized to Alice and she said it was okay since he didn't know. Back in the house Elizabeth entered inside to find the others that reminded in. "Tessy you better say your goodbyes now because we're getting ready to leave." hearing the news Tessy said her good bye to Saya while also hugging her sister who return it.

Elizabeth turn to Adwith, Dennis and Aeris. "Alright three stooges get a moving our next show is going to be performed on a new location and if you get seasick easily than for fuck sakes don't try to threw up on other people. No one needs to deal with that shit along with a bloody sea monster." Tessy went up stairs to say her good bye to the twins as Elizabeth turn to both Kyne and Cryssa. "So are you two interested on having an Indiana Jones type of adventure while killing sea monsters or you both had enough strangeness for one lifetime?"

Back outside Alzis shook her head. "So I found out that Haikarakainen was nothing more but a worthless pawn to the Singular dragon who made a deal with the Ahmarhan. Once more Maju is apparently back from the dead and is possessing Santa Claus... god I'm surprised I can say that with a straight face." Alzis said laughing at how surreal everything that was going on truly was. "Still that isn't as absurd as the thought of us being a couple." she said to the bard.

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Alzis

Alzis can see that he was not only wrong on what the Golem was made off he seem to have offended it. Great a construct with feelings this is going to go swimmingly." his rolling at the thought. "I apologize for offending you ma'am, I did not mean to do so. It's just back in my world most golems are made of rock and stone so I assumed that you would be the same." he said, performing a graceful bow.

"My name is Alzis, I'm... a "representative" of The Eyes of Fate. So right now you lack a name I shall give you the temporary name of Feronia to make our conversation easier." Alzis said, probably being the first one to ever give the Golem a name.

[Kaidou]

Dimension 888,815

The moment the female Nepharite stabbed Ludwig, he dissolved into a pillar of heavenly fire, before transforming into his majestic phoenix form, shedding white tongues of fire. With a grunt, Ludwig kicked backwards, immolating the female Nepharite with holy white fire and sending her (if the thing could even be referred to with human pronouns) flying backwards, crashing into a rock further behind in a gigantic white ball of heavenly flames.

"There is more to Lord Nixa than you think", said Father Christmas mysteriously, his hair ragged and unkempt, the pupils of his eyes rolled completely back into his head, which was bowed. At the same moment, a dark mist slowly began to coil around his feet; it wasn't the mist of the Nepharites, nor was it of an artificial sort; it was the magic of Maju, unmistakable in its malevolent aura and form. The moment Father Christmas felt the aura, he fell to his knees and prostrated on the ground, his face buried in the snow.

"Lord Maju!" he cried out. "Grant me your dark power, such that I may rebuild that which I so love!"

"You are not Maju!" roared Ludwig, as he descended to the ground and transformed into his human form. "Identify yourself, spectral horror!"

Slowly, the black mist rose over Father Christmas' prostrate figure, coagulating and writhing horribly, forming the terrifying, masked face of General Nixa, the new commander of the Maju Army.

"I am Maju", declared Nixa, the wicked mask remaining completely still. "Or rather, I am what Maju should have been."

"Grant me your dark powers!" cried out Father Christmas deliriously, his mouth pulled into a terrifying, insane grin, saliva dribbling out uncontrollably. The image of Nixa chuckled nefariously, before a clawed, veined hand that emitted a foul smelling, black aura that sublimed slowly.

"I deem you worthy of inheriting the Dark Energy", said Nixa. "Now, by the power of the Yami Yami no Mi, the Greatest and Most Evil Devil Fruit, and of the Spirit of the Eternal Sorcerer Maju, I hereby bestow upon you… Ainazugar!"

From the hand, a fearsome burst of purple light shot forth, before concentrating into a thick beam that engulfed the entire figure of Father Christmas. The former Tenshi suddenly shot upwards and twisted his head towards the sky, roaring in horrifying agony as the purple light seared through his body, singing his hair and tearing into him. Slowly, the purple light became darker and darker, until it turned completely black. As the rest looked on, the blackness suddenly exploded, dissipating in concentric circles across the Dimension, until, at last, there was nothing left, the eerily smiling mask of Nixa remaining suspended in the air, looking down at Ludwig as he looked on sternly.

At where the prostrate figure of Father Christmas once kneeled, there was a dark heap of evil-smelling black cloth. Slowly, however, the thing wearing the cloth stood up, revealing long, fierce shocks of white hair and a pitch black breastplate emblazoned with the emblem of the Maju Army, a single eye turned on its side with two obelisks emerging from its sides. Two white gloved hands emerged from the long, shiny, black sleeves of the black tunic, with long fingernails tearing through the ends of the gloves' fingers. The thing's face was covered with a blank white mask that glinted in the light of the dying sun; the remnants of a singed long beard emerged from the bottom of the mask.

"I present to you the Dark Magus!" Nixa declared triumphantly. The dark figure that used to be Father Christmas threw its head backwards and burst out in horrendous laughter, still recognisable as the voice of the Tenshi, but distinctly corrupted.

Ludwig glared at the Dark Magus, both his fists clenched and burning with a holy fire.

"Ludwig!" declared the Dark Magus, his voice a macabre corruption of the voice of Father Christmas, "today, the forces of darkness and light shall clash head on! Nepharites, do not interfere; the destruction of the light must be proven to Existence without a shadow of a doubt!"

...

As Alzis came through, Iuzun silently re-robed his yukata, looking at the dead body of Haikarakainen which sat up propped against the rock, its face mutilated horribly and its scalp blown right open. He turned to face Alzis, putting the revolver back into his yukata.

"Now that both Nu and Haikarakainen are dead, the IGSE is mine", he declared to Alzis, before opening up a portal to another dimension, a gigantic, metropolitan city made entirely of stainless metal and glass. "Now, if you wish to form an alliance with a real leader, unlike that cowardly ass-kisser Haikarakainen, do come along, and we shall discuss the terms of a proper partnership between the Inter-Galactic Security Enterprise and the Fates."

...

Haikarakainen's glasses, shattered and bent, slowly but surely became wet with the blood that dribbled out of the man's head, inching forward slowly, before finally dislodging itself from the dead magnate's shattered nose and bruised ears, plummeting towards the snowy ground, where it embedded itself in the snow.

Blood splattered on the white snow.

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Dimension 1,105
The Restaurant

Kaidō, Master Lam, Hayashi, and Henry Saladass sat together in the restaurant.

"So, just a little while more", said Hayashi, "and I'll be alone in this restaurant once again."

"Yep", said Kaidō. "I can sense vaguely that they're about to come."

"That's a good thing", said Henry. "Even though I put my motorcycles... uh, I mean... my wife and kids into hibernation, I'm starting to get a bit bored now..."

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The Hotel
Lobby 552

As the hordes of masked Maju soldiers surrounded the pedestal, the white-clad figure of Steiner Sveinlaugsson readied himself, rolling up his pyjama sleeves and revealing the crucifixion scars on his scrawny wrists. Without waiting for them to attack, the boy raised one of his hands into the air and created a large, blue bubble.

"Room."

The bubble grew and engulfed the entire Maju Army battalion that had surrounded him.

"Zou."

The one who was in charge of the battalion roared a fearsome battle cry, before charging straight for the Tenshi. To his horror, however, he was suddenly frozen to the ground, as were the rest of his men; the floor within the Room had grown upwards and engulfed the soldiers all the way up to their torsos, rendering them immobile. Drawing his finger across the air, Steiner smirked.

"Shambles."

In an instant, all the heads were separated from the bodies, falling to the ground, still very much alive, but unable to control their bodies, which fell limp and entered a strange sort of hibernation. With that done, Steiner closed the room off and walked towards the commander's body.

"What are you up to?"

"I won't tell you."

Steiner created a small room and sliced the commander's head in half, eliciting a scream of, more than anything else, surprise.

"What are you up to?"

"We had orders to kill you; we were also told to go after the men of the Japanese Restaurant, and we were told to kill them and prevent them from carrying out their trip to Chphlryggnu."

"Is that so?"

Without hesitation, Steiner pulled the commander's body out of the ground before dicing it into little cubes using the Room ability. The commander grunted in irritation, having been rendered completely useless. The boy rolled his sleeves back down and picked up a light green insulating bag on the floor, which had been slung around the commander's shoulders.

"I'll take this", he said, much to the commander's objection. Without hesitation, Steiner walked over to the refrigerator underneath Lobby 552's bar (pausing a while because he had stepped on a small puddle wearing his white socks), before filling the insulated bag with box after box of luscious raspberries and making his way down the corridors, towards the restaurant.

...

Steiner, I can't give an in-depth explanation now, but what I need you to do is to go down to the Restaurant; I need you to go with the party to fight Ogklrygma. Don't worry about Hayashi; I'll send someone to accompany him while he recovers.

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[Novia Soviet Socialist Republic]

Sarah

Sarah looked at the scruffy looking man clearly offended "Mother fucker I'll..." She was then cut off by Felix denying to offer and then offering to bring back his computer "Do we really have time for this?" Sarah asked rhetorically as she would much rather go for a much more direct approach of gathering information like the threat of death if he doesn't cough up. That kind of stuff usually worked on the usual person, it's not like this guy was a spy or anything.

Azathoth
Naegling Holding Chamber

Two guards pointed guns as a scientist looked at Altyrnia shocked and backed up away from the sword "Who the fuck are you?" One of the guards asked, his pulse rifle firmly trained on the Ahmarhan. That's when the room filled with blinding light which the guards and scientist weren't going to deal with so simply ran out of the chamber. The light got brighter to the point that Altyrnia would have been blinded by it. Then the light settled revealing a huge ball of light and darkness in front of her "Who is the one who summons me to this place of ill memories?" A loud, growling and echoing voice spoke in the language of the Elder Gods, a language that would make most insane just hearing it "You hide behind deceit but it does not fool me, Altyrnia" The voice said again, clearly aware of who she was. After all this was Azathoth and in his multiverse, anything goes with him.

A hand of light reached out and brushed a hair out of Altyrnia's face before retracting back into the ball "And what would the King ask of me today?" Azathoth asked once again in an ominous fashion. The ball of light and dark writhed and flowed like it was some sort of liquid making it really weird on the eyes to look at. Though this was but one of the Elder God's many favored forms, most of which would drive mortals to insanity if they but caught a glimpse of him in these forms. They also happened to be the size of a small star on average and would be rather inefficient in a place like this.

The Overseer/Fanatic
Dimension 1,105
The Restaurant

The Overseer licked his lips as he thought of the campaign of carnage he was about to ensue upon. That's when a thought crossed his mind, something that always bugged him while he was being dragged down into Hell's deepest dungeon by Lucifer's special forces unit, the Black Hand. He was brought down by a select few individuals, some of whom had been lost to time and were difficult to find. That's when he remembered, that break in the Drakesing multiverse that allowed him to contact Fanatic? Sarah breaching one of the barriers that had hid the Multiverse for so long. And that was also one of the people who put him in Hell in the first place. Last known location? The Restaurant. And so the Overseer appeared in the Restaurant and looked around, clearly not hiding his demonic presence and look at all. He saw no need to. He was on a mission and anyone in his way would feel his wrath.

Svaboda

Svaboda looked at Alzis and the large group of soldiers. The Monolith fighters didn't really take to kindly to them and had their guns pointed at them despite being vastly out numbered and out gunned "Who are you?" Svaboda asked Alzis, keeping an eye on his Monolith fighters to make sure they didn't make the first move that would end in a gun fight. That was the last thing he wanted. Plus violence seemed to upset the Golem or Feronia as Alzis seemed to call her. It seemed like a fitting name even though it wasn't really that normal.