《Surbris Chronicles (Cerberus's Ark)》


 Chapter one

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    Well, I never thought this would happen, but Dad died, and well, everything''s gotten quiet. All the paperwork is done, and well, I miss him. But life goes on, or that''s what I thought.


    Almost four years after he passed away, I got a letter in the mail looking for the executor of my dad''s estate. So, I called up the lawyer, sent him the letter. Next thing I know, my lawyer is calling me, telling me I''ve got a package at his office from my dad. So, I''m not thrilled, and I am wigged out.


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    I head down to the lawyer''s, and what I get is a notebook, a pickaxe, and a key. I''m talking a weird old key, but it''s got like eight teeth, and they go in different directions. It almost looks impossible to put into a lock because of how the directions the key looks. And a pickaxe, but not a big one, bigger than my hand, like for chipping stones.


    So, I head home, grab some booze on the way home, and go sit and read whatever my dad sent me. What I wasn''t expecting was the notebook had like only three pages written on it.

 Chapter Two

    Chapter two


    So there''s nothing here in this room and I go look at the Rock and I noticed something little marks and after the little marks in the book I''m all in for little Mark so grab my little brush out that I brought I brought like I can''t to go like Excavating in old school way like as an archaeologist but just not like a dick so I had a brush and some gloves and just something in case I found something that I didn''t want to touch with my hands.


    But what I did notice was some people have written their names on the walls in there and I recognize from the people''s names that wrote it on the wall of the bar so to be a part of this I wrote my name I have a little Hammer I brought and a little spade so I just carved Jeremy and sat on the rock and that''s when everything went to s***.


    The key was in my pocket The Rock was to freaking Keyhole the moment I sat down on the rock I guess it didn''t notice it the first time but I sure as hell did the second time because against one of the far walls there was just an area of Black Rock but I mean matte black like it did not look right I''m shining my light on it and it was doing nothing when I stood up the archway the area like it was it was a doorway but there was no outline it was just a black area it disappeared it went back to being a normal Rock so my family crest so here''s some background that no one knows.


    Because I was raised in Canada I didn''t have 100% strong background roots with Scotland never been in my life but maybe it''s something that''s part of a human nature even I have a family crest for my generation on and the easiest way to describe it is using cattle brand nomenclature calling it crazy running rocking h if you look that up and you understand it thank you.


    So I took the Chisel and waiting for the rock I just put my little symbol.


    So now that I''ve got a clue my tech brain kicks in and by that I mean I am tech support or I was when my dad died I kind of lost it a bit and yeah this is kind of me getting back to normal I don''t ask it''s super weird I''m I''m the crazy one of the family I''m the black sheep so I kneeling for the stone pull out the key because well yeah I realize I''ve got something in my pocket and as soon as the key goes towards the stone the stone actually changes shape in one spot and I''ll Keyhole that fits and trust me when you see this key there''s nine blades on it and they almost cross over each other there''s almost no way to do this but then when you look at this shape that it''s made it''s very mathematical almost looking when you look at what it makes in the end it''s almost like take the key and shine a light through it and it puts a shadow on the wall of a geometric shape.


    So So I gently put the key in and then look back and see that the doorway is there again but this time the Blackness actually shows an archway but it''s still black so that''s super weird and as I turn the key the archway becomes real and the door that''s there becomes a freaking door but it''s Stone and as I turn the key it goes wide it''s like the whole side of the wall like 10 ft of distance along the side opens up and pushes inwards I could fit a vehicle through this.


    I undo like I turn the key back and what happens is the door shrinks back to like a human size with closes and as I pull the key out the black Arch disappears goes back to being black and then that Blackness disappears so I''m pretty freaked out right now thinking I''m hallucinating.


    So I pack everything up thinking I''m basically having a drug-induced panic attack realize get the f*** out if I''m having a drug attack get the f*** out get the f*** out get the f*** out that''s all I can hear in my brain get the f*** out like I don''t want to die so I bail going okay this is what happened all the people in my family came here they sniff the gas and they lost your s*** okay okay let''s go let''s go let''s go so I f*** off and I mean I bail quick but I bring everything I had I didn''t bring much into the cave but I get down to the bottom and right where the guy dropped me off I I just mentally make a note of where this is so I know where to start again and I start walking and walk all the way back to town it takes me hours but as I get back to town one of the people in town sees me and disappears into a house.


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    Next thing I know the goat farmer that took me up the mountain comes racing on down in his little vehicle to come catch up to me being told by someone that I had come down I guess he was going to come and get me after a while but I kind of know yeah ran So as people come out of their houses and he''s coming down the road they all kind of come out and ask what''s going on cuz I look crazy I look like I just lost my s*** to make a long story short they bring me into all the houses and tell me to warm up because I''m just chilled to the Bone freaked out and I won''t tell anybody what''s going on I just well one of the kids comes up and goes did you see a monster up there and then that kind of took me out of it and I look at them all and go no but I think I got some gas and I sniffed it and now I''m seeing s*** can someone please get me warm.


    That was the smartest thing I could have ever said because to everybody''s knowledge that''s exactly what''s been going on and my family''s been going up there to sniff the fumes for years but no one can I put two to two together well I get taken back to my hotel and I even have the local doctor check up on me and they are like no no your blood pressure is normal you look okay your pupils aren''t dilated or they''re not abnormal you''re going to be okay just get some sleep I hear some Tylenol.


    I did exactly what the doctor said I passed out I was so freaked out I didn''t know what to say I didn''t tell anybody about the stuff in my pockets or any of that I just I just passed out but what happened next was waking up to a knock on my door the next morning but it was kind of like 10:00 in the morning and I didn''t even knew I slept that long so I really did think I had gas attack.


    While at my door there was the Bell hop with two pieces of paper messages have been left for me and they asked to have them delivered around 10:00 so wake up call.


    One was from the pub wanted to know if I was okay because I guess I will I Might have made an impression on one of the waitresses and the other was from the mayor asking me to drop in and check in with him.


    City Hall was only one block away from my hotel so I walked over there and as I did I saw an older man drinking a coffee and eating a pastry on the steps to City Hall.


    He looked up and waved because I guess he knew me but I didn''t know that he was the mayor I had been waiting for me and had been given my


    description by the town.


    He asked, "Are you all right there, son?" I just shook my head yes and he asked me what happened.


    I went up into the cave and I found the place where everybody''s been carving their names just like in the pub and then after that I smelt something funny and I start seeing stuff. I got the hell out of there and yeah I''m not too sure what to do. I don''t want to get sick so I need to get some tests done if that''s okay with you guys cuz well what the hell cuz I don''t want any of my kids going up there and getting sick if they send them here for this but what the hell.


    The mayor, being an awesome human being, knew exactly what to do and walked me another only two blocks away to a building bang down the window a security guard came he waved security guard let us in and he asked the security guard to go get the boss what I didn''t know and I didn''t see the sign outside just as we were walking in was this was the Scotland research facility for all of Scotland it was their local office so he literally just said hey give this guy some sample containers if he goes back up "you''re going back up right" "yeah I''m going back up there mayor."


    "Yeah, he''s the representative that inherited the old cave up the hill the one that someone comes once a generation to come look at he had gas attack up there he says and we wanted to take some samples so give him a gas mask and we''ll have him go take some quick samples from the water and stuff with that and then charge the mayor''s office for the processing just get it done okay."


    "That''s your man we can do that come with me my name is Bob."


    Bob and I didn''t went over to an area grabbed a bag and filled it up with a whole rack of different types of bottles we went over to a desk and he had these cool little stickers that he just pulled off and put on to the different bottles saying water soil different things but they were super easy because then I know what to put in them so what he taught me to do is to write down where I took them in the cave or around the cave and if I felt anything funy to get the hell out of there but this time he was going to ask the mayor a question?

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    "Yo, Mayor."


    "Yes, Bob?"


    "Do you have someone to send with him? I''ve got some gas masks, but what if something happens to him? I don''t want him to go up there without someone to keep him safe."


    "Okay, what''s going to happen?"


    "Oh, Jen from the pub already offered to chaperone him for the day. I think that''s where he''s supposed to go next."


    Bob just smiled, the mayor smiled, and I just knew I was being set up here. But, at the same time, good people, good food, and I don''t want to die, so I just kind of worked with them.


    This was a perfect idea to make sure it was safe, because if I really was getting a gas attack up there, it was really not a good idea. Plus, what type of gas does that to you?


    So, I thanked them both, left, headed to the pub, and yes, Jen did want to chaperone me and had agreed. So, this time I realized that the farmer had a cell phone and was being told off for not calling him to bring me back down, and that when she goes up, she would not be walking back down, so we would have to wait for their ride to come pick them up.


    I agreed because, well, yeah. And she had told me that they are very packed a lunch and everything, and asked me if I had anything I needed, and I said no, and she called our lift.


    The next 6 hours were very enjoyable, and no hanky-panky got going on, but I did enjoy her company, and the food, and the scenery, and it was just an all-around good day. We had gone up to the cave and gone near it, and taking some air samples, and she came in and looked around using the gas mask. But I also didn''t bring the key into the cave; I left it in my bag just outside, and I showed her where I signed my name, and I even showed her where I carved the little symbol. The Rock was still there, so everything looked normal, and that was it, made a good day of it, went back to the pub, and had a couple of drinks, and she thanked me for a nice day, and I went back to my room and lost my s***.


    I slept that night dreaming of dreams that made no sense, and I knew when I woke up that next morning that something weird had happened to me in my dream because my body felt slightly off, as in I had a little bit of warmth in the middle of my chest, right where my heart was, but it wasn''t like normal, it was like I could feel my heart beating, but it wasn''t a beat, it was just a pressure. I realized it, accepted it, and just made it a part of me. And I guess that secret right there is what took so many people to figure out, because I didn''t realize I was doing it naturally, and that doing it naturally unlocked so much going forward.


    It wasn''t until I got to the pub the next day and waved at Jen that I knew something had gone really, really wrong. Because when she looked at me, she didn''t look at me as a woman looks at a man, she looked at me as if I wasn''t human, that I was an animal and dangerous. You could see a small flicker of fear in her eye; she smiled, she said everything normal, but the corners of her lips and her eyes were that where she didn''t take her eyes off me. And I thought maybe it''s that she likes me, but she''s more jumpy. I asked her what it was about, and she looked at me like I was crazy, stupid, and insane.


    "What do you mean? What you did last night? I know no one else saw, but what the f***?"


    Of course, I had been drinking a bit last night and was a little put out by this. I didn''t know what I did, and I just basically said this:


    "Jen, I''m so sorry if I texted you inappropriately or said something to you. I would never do that; you have been nothing but nice to me. I am so sorry for whatever I did. I don''t remember doing anything that would offend you. I''m so sorry."


    She just looked at me like I had two heads and said, "No, not that. The fire thing. You were making a flame come out of your finger last night."


    I told her straightforward I didn''t know what she was talking about, but I was playing with matches last night at the table.


    The next thing I said I kind of regret, but I lied and said I practised magic when I was a kid and if you hold the match in the right place, it looks like it''s coming out of your finger, but it only works for a couple of seconds and you got to stop it or else you burn yourself.


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    She looked at me and then just relaxed. She thought I had actually been doing real fire out of my finger. That was silly, is that.


    I smiled my cutest little smile for a 40-year-old and asked if there was any food being made right now and if I could order anything for breakfast.


    She smirked, went to the back, and brought me a Scottish breakfast with blood pudding. I told you I was f*****.


    After that, we had already dropped off the test samples yesterday, and we were told by Bob that it would take a day or so. So, I just went around town, but what I didn''t tell anybody was I was calling in backup.


    So, some background. I''ve been doing tech support for years and made friends that are contractors and other people that fix things. We have a small group of friends that just hang out when we want to hang out or when everything goes to s*** you call the group in and they can make a disaster and disaster. So, just the crew. My crew only had two guys, Mike, whose dad was a retired military guy, and Smitty, whose dad was still in the military. Both of them lived in the same town as me.


    Smitty - Smitty is a farm boy contractor who has done one tour in the military, didn''t like it, and got the hell out. And that''s why me and him get along. And if he can''t fix it, it can''t be fixed kind of guy. When I need something built, I talk to him, he gets a contractor together, I get a lawyer to buy the land, and by the time I step foot on the line, whatever I need, it was already built. Good guys for that kind of stuff. Smitty''s dad, Tim, jag lawyer. The kind of guy you call in when you f***** up really bad. Except Smitty and his dad, they lied a lot when they were younger, so there''s no lying allowed. It''s a big family role, and even I''m not allowed to f*** around without one. So, there are rules in that household.


    Mike - Mike was a small business owner who hired contractors all the time to do work. And that''s how I met him. He has a good family, a good place, he''s just a good old-fashioned boy, but he''s not dumb. He''d rather work smarter, not harder. So, when I introduced him to Smitty, we all headed off, and we''ve all been drinking buddies ever since then. Mike''s dad, Bob, is basically one of the drinking buddies we had. We all hang out at Mike''s dad''s garage and have a couple of drinks and then ride our bikes home. We''re talking 18 plus, but still pedal bikes. Mike''s dad retired and is now just doing nothing, playing video games, smoking a joint.


    So, there''s me in Scotland, fed, couple of drinks in me, sitting around a fountain in the square of the town, and pull out my cell phone. This is how the following conversation goes:


    Ring ring ring.


    "Yo, who this?"


    "This is Yo."


    "Yo, yo, yo."


    "You''ll hold, I''m getting the other one."


    I then put them on hold while I conference call in both Mike and Smitty.


    "Okay, guys, can you hear me?"


    "Yo."


    "Smitty here."


    "Okay, guys, I need to ask a big favor. I''m calling you from Scotland. Came to my family stomping grounds I told you about, found the cave, and I might have gotten hit with a gas attack. I''m fine, but if I didn''t get hit with a gas attack, I found some s***. You want to come? Bring your dad. We''re going to drink and Scotland for a week or two. You guys in? Come on, come on, you know you want to."


    Next thing I know, I hear running, and I guess Mike had to run out to the garage.


    "Yo, dad, want to go Scotland? Go drinking with Jeremy and Smitty."


    All I hear in the background is, "When?"


    Mike put the phone on speaker and said, "You''re on speaker." No is all Mike''s dad could hear coming out of the phone. "Get on the plane, get on the plane, get on the plane, get on the plane, get on the plane, get on the plane, and if you guys worried, I got you covered. Get on the plane." And I hung up. Couple seconds later, I texted them my GPS and also by hotel''s picture. I let them know that I was booking them three rooms as soon as I knew when they were going to show up.


    5 hours later, I got an ETA to town two days from now. That''s perfect. I dropped by the hotel and let them know. They had no problem with that. And for the next two days, I just went around town and waited for the results and my friends to show up.


    Well, one day before my crew showed up, the mayor sent another message. But it wasn''t to come see him. It was just, "Hey, you''ve been granted access to the cave legally. So, we found there is nothing wrong up there, and you were tripping on something, but we don''t know what it was. If you''re okay with it, we''d like to have you take us up there." The mayor, a cop, and some other officials wanted to go see the kid I found. So, what I found out after was they brought up an electronic nose that actually sniffs the air for gas and other chemicals and let them know what it is just in case I didn''t get a good sample of it. So, Jen came again, and she did food up, and I guess the town kind of has a deal for this, so it was awesome, and I had to pay a couple bucks, but it wasn''t bad, and I got a nice lunch and took them up. Then we all just had a good time, and I showed them where I carved my name, and I got slapped for that, and they asked me about The Rock in this, and I went, "This is my family crest," and I showed them my family crest, and I went, "No, that''s not your family," because I went, "Well, it''s my Canadian family crest, and then I have a Scottish family crest. I got to be able to prove I was here, can''t I?"


    After our philosophical debate over that, they all said it''s a normal cave and that there''s nothing really wrong up here and that everything was fine. And I asked them if I can keep coming back up here and kind of go hiking for a bit if there''d be any problem with that. I''d actually called my friends and family to come see the cave and to come drinking and just come have some fun. And they said, "Have fun, spend money in our town, we love you." And that was it. After that, I was left alone to come up to the cave whenever I needed help.


    Part one of my master plan accomplished. Don''t get in s***.

 4

    So, the day before the boy showed up, I went down to run to the car and brought it back into town. I had to take a taxi to go get it, but once I had my own transportation, I went and got some more equipment and decided just to wait for my crew to show up. I put the stuff away in my room and hung out in town again.


    During this whole time, I''m like, "I must have hallucinated, but I didn''t, but I did, but I didn''t," and I knew if I went up there, I was going to need someone else I could trust. So that''s why I was bringing my crew because I just... wow.


    If a shrink had been talking to me, they''d probably say that I was going through post-traumatic syndrome or something because I was literally looping. It was like having a moment you couldn''t unlive. It was life-changing.


    It wasn''t until I put some music on in the car on the way back that I realized how screwed I was because as I was driving, I smelled burning plastic, and I realized my finger was melting the steering wheel.


    I pulled my finger away quickly, along with the rest of my hand, and pulled over to see the damage and figure out what was going on. There I was, on the side of the Scottish road, with one finger with a very, very small pinhead flame coming out of it.


    As I calmed down and the music changed, the flame changed color. When "Smashing Pumpkins" was playing, it was orange, and now that the "Red Hot Chili Peppers" was on, it was more of a dull green but very intense.


    I reached in with my other hand and turned off the radio, and the fire went down. I just started freaking out. Now I had to replace the steering wheel. So, I called them and asked the people I rented it from, "I had a cigarette in my mouth and I put it in my hand. I broke the steering wheel. How do I pay for that?"


    They got mad and said I wasn''t supposed to smoke in the car. I apologized and said, "You''re right." They said they would charge my credit card. I said, "Thank you very much. I will pay for it when I bring it back. Please note that on my account." "It''s already been noted, sir," they said, and they hung up, very unhappy that I had done that. And I was too.


    I got the music off on the drive back to town, parked the car, and went and had a very, very big drink. I didn''t show anybody this, not Jen, not anybody, but from now on, I guess I wasn''t driving.


    After drinking too much, I was back at the fountain, and all of a sudden, I hear someone playing the bagpipes for cash down another street, and it''s a good tune, and I''m smiling. And then I think about it, and I look down, and on my one finger, there''s this little flame that''s just bouncing to the beat, and I can barely see it like it''s not there. But I put my hand in the water, and I look down, and there''s a bubble, and there''s another bubble, and there''s another bubble. If I stuck my hand in here and left it long enough, I could probably heat the water. This is stupid. Oh my God, I got infected with something from the cave. I have fire magic. But magic is not real, but it''s real, but it''s not real, but it''s real, but it''s not real.


    So, being drunk and doing fire magic in public, I realized this is stupid. Go someplace quiet and cold, away from everybody. So, I''ll go for a walk, and I start walking until I find just a different alley that leads into an area where nobody is, and there''s no music, and I calm down, and I just sit down on the grass on someone''s lawn. I guess. I''m not too sure. I just sat down, and I used to try to meditate, and I sucked at it. But in this case, I was going to give it another try. And that''s when it happened. I felt warmth coming from my finger, and I looked down, and the flame was like four times, five times bigger. It was a flame, a little one, but a flame nonetheless. And then I just held my breath for a second, and the flame died down, and I breathed, and I looked at it, and I concentrated, and nothing happened. And then I got mad, and it got bigger, and I got calm, and it got bigger, and anytime I got emotional, it got bigger. So then, I just cut off all my emotions. I just said, "No emotions. This is logical," and then it just went away. So, magic and emotion are connected. Ain''t that a kick in the pants?


    I was drunk before noon, and by the time my phone rang and the guys were like, "We''re at the hotel, we''re checked in, where the hell are you?" I let them know I was only a couple blocks away, and I''d meet them at the fountain. I walked back, and when they looked at me, all of them grabbed me and asked me what was wrong. As I went into robot mode, they knew this is how I acted after my dad died and that I was all screwed up in the head. And then they realized that I''d been drinking, and they realized I was in no condition to do anything, so they decided they wanted food for me and drinks for them. So, back to the pub.


    When we got there, Jen waved to me, and I just looked at her and waved, and she got a little wigged out. She introduced herself and asked them what happened to me because I was just emotionless. I just turned it all off, and they didn''t know. They just knew that I was really drunk and needed food. So, Jen went, "Okay, we''ll work on this," and just didn''t really want to put up with my stupidity. And I don''t blame her, but she got food going and drinks for the boys. And then they did something stupid. They put another drink in me and they fed me, but they added more alcohol. And as I relaxed, someone put music on, and I didn''t even think about it and I didn''t even hear it until I freaked, and they''re all looking at me. "What''s wrong?" As I''m holding my hand closed, and Jen looked over, realizing that I am, well, made noise. And when she saw what was wrong, she came over, and that''s the last thing I wanted, and I basically tried to bail, but I was in a booth, and I was locked in by the guys. And then Jen came over and asked me what was wrong. They were all looking at me, and I was so drunk, I just opened my hand.


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    There was like no one in the pub at this time. There''s like the other side of the room, so no one saw except the table. And I looked around, and then closed my hand, and I said, "It''s the music. I can''t be emotional," and I just went back to being an unemotional. And I forced the emotions away, and the fire went away. It was very hard. Jen realized this and just went over and turned off the TV where the music was coming from. Truthfully, she changed it over to sports for the other people, and that was all it needed. But I knew from that point on that I needed to control this because I couldn''t let anybody else know about this.


    And I guess I couldn''t keep this to myself anymore.


    Bob, Mike''s dad, looked over at Smitty and asked him if he could have his phone for a moment. He had to make a call because Smitty promised his dad to always be in contact, so he made sure that his cell phone plan could make calls.


    Smitty almost didn''t want to give it to him, but Bob''s like, "I will pay you back, don''t worry. I''m calling your dad," and with those words, the whole table swiveled to stare daggers at Bob.


    "Give it here, boy," and he said it in the wrong way on purpose. Smitty had only been talked to by one or two people in his life like that, and one of them was his dad when he was mad. This Bob knew, and Bobby used it against Smitty because within seconds, Smitty had handed him his phone, and Bob just scrolled into the contacts, hit a button, speed-dialed Tim, Smitty''s dad. But what happened next put a smile on all of our faces.


    "Hello, Smitty, it''s Dad. Are you okay?"


    "Shut up, it''s Bob, Mike''s dad. How you doing? Oh, and the kids are absolutely fine. I''m here in Scotland drinking with them, but we have a problem with Jeremy. Do you remember Jeremy?"


    "Yeah, we got a couple of drinks. Me and his dad got along quite well. Why? What''s wrong?"


    "So, Jeremy has inherited... Jeremy has inherited a cave in Scotland that he has no legal rights on, technically, but has found a diamond in it. He wishes to claim it, to do it legally. But due to the fact that this diamond may cause a war and also cause a change in some of the Jaguars going forward, would you be willing to drop in here and come drink with us and give your advice? And no, you can''t do this over the bloody phone. I''m making this call on Jeremy''s dad''s behalf. Understand?"


    "All you hear coming from the other side of the phone is a small grumble, and then, ''F*** off. Give me a bloody couple of minutes. I''ll call you back,''" and he hung up.


    Jeremy was just kind of stunned. Mike and Smitty were both kind of freaking out and s******* themselves, even being adults with their dad here. And yes, Bob was considered a dad to both of them because they all grew up as family and friends after they met. They''ve only known each other for a couple of years, but still, they all realize that they were family in a way.


    Jeremy just started crying when the text message came in with only one sentence: ¡°ETA 23.5 hr to you. Send GPS."


    Jeremy didn''t have any more booze after that. They wouldn''t let him. And no one else really drank too much, but they all got fed, and they all got to their rooms. And they all just... they all just didn''t know what to do. And they were going to talk in the bar, so as soon as they''re done in the pub, they all headed out, and Jen told them to go around back. There''s an open area that they could all go talk.


    You could notice Jen kind of hanging out at the back door while they''re in the back talking.


    They sat me down at a picnic table and tried to interrogate me. I just was so out of it and freaked that it took a couple of minutes for me to actually pay attention to what was going on around me and not being in my own head. When I realized what was going down and what they were trying to ask me, I just looked over to the doorway and saw Jen and motioned for her to come here, and I told her I''ll sit down. "You''re all part of this now. I might as well tell you. But first, Jen, I want some paper."


    I then wrote the following words on the piece of paper and had them all sign it after, including myself:


    "All those that sign this piece of paper hereby agree that the cave and everything within the cave is the property of Jeremy and his family going forward throughout the generations, and you will not take them or claim any right to them. In return for this, you will be inducted into the information of the Ark."


    Once they all saw what it said, they agreed, and after they signed, Jeremy went down to the last name and wrote another line underneath and said, "Now we have to wait for Tim," and that''s all I would say. I just stopped right there.


    Then Jeremy looked dead into Jen''s eye and said, "Do you want to be infected too?" and that just freaked everybody out. They weren''t expecting that, and now they had to have that thought in their head. What did Jeremy have? And Jen just kind of got up and went back inside, and just before she disappeared, she looked back, and the look on her face, even I don''t know what that emotion was.


    And I just looked at the last three of them and said, "I don''t know what happened, and I don''t want you to get sick. If this is deadly, we''ve done tests. There''s nothing in the soil or air, and the cops even checked it out. But you saw. Do you want to be infected?"


    What I wasn''t expecting was Smitty''s "F*** yes, I want it, give it to me now, b****," and I got smacked upside the back of the head. "You''re asking if we don''t want superpowers, you f****** idiot. Of course, I want superpowers."


    Mike and Bob looked at each other and started laughing at Mike.


    Bob then became the mediator and said, "Okay, we''ll wait for Tim, but what''s in this town?" And I started not thinking about it and just showing them around and playing tour guy because I''d been here for a couple of days. And we got food and everything, and we just... we had fun. And the next day, around 5:00 in the evening, Tim showed up.

 5

    I told everybody to get into the car after they had gotten Tim settled at the hotel, and they asked me, "It''s like 5:00 at night," and I went, "Yep, yep, we''re going to go get you some food right now, and then we''re going to go for a quick drive and come back." And we did that. We went to the pub, grabbed some food, ate, and they asked us what we''re doing here, and I said, "To see the diamond," and I told them it''s still in the wall. We have to go show it to him, and he understood. So what no one realized was as we were leaving, I said, "Yeah, you guys have to drive. I can''t drive," and they''re like, "What do you mean you can''t drive?" So Mike takes the wheel and notices instantly there''s a burn, and I went, "Because of the burn," and Bob just gets it. I was like, "That''s okay, Mike, you drive." Mike gets it and goes, "Okay, got it. Jeremy''s in the front, Bob''s in the back with Tim, and Smitty in the middle." As we''re driving, we all know Tim''s a smoker and he wants to pull it out bad, and I roll down the window and I said, "Yeah, I got a smoking car, and y''all go for it. Have a smoke." And he goes to pull a smoke, puts it in his mouth, and I''m like, "Hold on," and I take my seat belt off while he''s driving, kind of spin around, and I put my finger like a finger gun under his smoke and light his cigarette with my finger fire. Then I take my finger and put it back, smile at him, and sit back down, put my seat belt back on. I said, "You can pull over whenever you want, Bob." Bob makes sure there''s nothing around when he pulls over.


    When Bob pulled over, we all got out, but I rolled down my window and made sure that we had the radio going in the car. I even turned it up a little bit before I left. They all looked at me like I was weird, so I walked off the road just about 10, 20 feet into just some random field, no offense, just there. The brush and grass didn''t come past my knees. As they all kind of had a moment and they all looked at me, I just ignored them and focused, and I went from 100% focused on non-emotions to just emotional. And as the song changed as I was going to the car, it was a song I really liked. It was "Sweet Dreams," and I just fell into a trance for a couple of seconds. But during that time, the boys told me I did was walking to the field and started to swing back and forth. After a couple of seconds, my hands, all my fingers, just the nails lit up, and they were just floating flames on my nails. Then my hand started to move, and it was like magic lights going through. They just watched, and I don''t remember any of this. It''s like something takes over when the magic really deeply kicks in, and I miss it. I don''t know why, but I miss it so much. It''s like we''ve been missing this so long that we didn''t know what we were missing, and then we got it back, and I don''t know what to do. Am I going to die from this? Bitches in the past and then die, but what is this? Why is this magic? I''m crying my ass off just doing this in the field, and then one of them goes and turns off the song, and then I just kind of break out of it, and then I''m just kind of standing there crying in this field.


    Tim is already freaked right the hell out because he''s a man of science and law, and this breaks a couple of those laws, so all we could do was look at him and go, "What do we do next?" And I haven''t even got to the Cave Part, so Tim just took control of the situation, which is what Tim does when he''s stressed. That''s why we love him so much. He just pulled out his phone, made one call, and then hung up, and the words he said, "I''m declaring a Delta 55 Echo 5 on my location contamination for protocol." And he just said, after he hung up, "Let''s not move."


    The phone rang, and Tim picked it up. All we could hear is his side of it, so this is what he said, "Service number case 31565-554 on vacation with family, came across hallucinogenic effects, multiple people seeing same effect though near this town, request blood test and quarantine until specified."


    We were only about 15 minutes from town at most, maybe 10:00, and the moment Tim said that name, he had to say, "No, sir, I repeat, the name of the town is," and as he said the name, instantly the air raid sirens started blaring in town. There was a conversation on the phone, and then Tim hung up. They said to go into town, and there would be a representative meeting in the Town Square. This is not the first time they''ve been called out there, and they have a protocol for this. They''ve never figured out what it is, and they''ve seen it two other times. The people lived with the special ability for a very long time before they died. There''s no need to panic; they''re coming out to inspect you, Jeremy.


    I had no idea what to say or do other than just to kind of go with it, but as we went back into town, I made it very clear that I did not want to tell anybody about the ark, and the moment I brought that up, Tim''s like, "What are you talking about?" So we filled him in on what I was given, all but the key. I never told anybody about the key. That was mine. No one gets to see that. That''s me. So I told him about the little pickaxe, which I have no idea what that''s for, and I told him I know how to open up the door, and I told him about my wedding, and I found this door, and when I went in, this is what happened to me, and I got hit, and I already did the test, and he''s like, "Okay, let''s go back to town and let''s find out what''s going on. Like, they''ve gone through this before. They said they''ve got a protocol for this, so it''s quite late, and, well, the air raid sirens going, so we have no choice at this point to go back and explain ourselves."


    What happened next was not what you would expect in a normal story. It kind of went off the rails, but I''m kind of happy it did. So as we get within like 20 ft of town, we can see there''s lights on everywhere and this vehicles and people outside, and well, yeah, the whole thing is a s*** show at this point because it''s like 10:00, maybe 9:00 at night, and the sirens are going off. So as we pull up to Town Square, you can barely get in. We park, and we had, well, we follow Jeremy me because I''m like, "We got to go talk to the mayor and go to turn off the f****** siren, and then we can go back to deal with this s***," and well, Tim''s like, "Let me do this. Who''s the mayor?"


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    So I walk him over to town hall, and there on the steps is the mayor, trying to calm everybody down, and I just look at him, and I go, "That''s the mayor. Do you want me to fix this, or do you want to fix this?" He just looks at me and goes, "How are you going to fix this?"


    And I looked at him and just with the most honest face I could give him, "We''ll just tell the truth."


    He was one of those guys, Tim, that liked it when you took care of your own s*** and didn''t rely on others, but at the same time wouldn''t let you do something totally stupid if he could stop you. So by this point, the mayor saw me speaking with my crew of people and came over to speak with me because what he was doing wasn''t getting anybody anywhere, and they looked at each other and knew something was up. And I just said, "Found the ark. Sorry." And with that one comment, the mayor drained of all blood from his face and just went, "What? Kill the siren, and I''ll explain."


    The mayor just took a second, pulled out his radio, said, "Kill the siren now. That is an order from the mayor. Now. Now."


    It took less than 5 seconds, and that siren had turned off. Within 15 seconds, the mayor''s phone was going off, and he just said the following words into the calm and hung up:


    ¡°I''ll call you back in 5 minutes. I''m getting an answer right now. Leave it off until I call you back. That''s my order. Understand? Thank you. Goodbye.¡±


    The mayor looked over at Jeremy and said, ¡°That was the First Minister of Scotland. My boss. I''m going to have to call him back. You have 4 minutes.¡±


    Jeremy looked at Smitty and said, "Hey, bring the car over here and roll down the windows and find a good song on the radio, okay?"


    Something they all kind of laughed at later is that when Smitty was trying to find a song, all the songs were either like old-timey songs or ''80s music. He was looking for something a little more modern, but what he found actually worked quite well. After about a minute, the mayor got a little upset, and he was trying to, and I just looked at him anyway, and I''m sorry, and as he found an old ''80s classic that no one realized was going to work so well, we laughed how the playlists there are such good music but such of the old good music.


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    So something that not too many people knew was that I was a big softy. I just cry all the time, that kind of stuff. My friends knew if they could make me cry, it was a good day because I did a lot of stressful stuff, so I''d be pent up with emotions, and crying was just my way of dealing with that. So when I gave the thumbs up and Smitty saw me tearing up because I love the song, I just looked around, and they went, "Hey, everybody. My name is Jeremy, and I hear it. I came here to find the ark, and I seem to have found it, but I don''t know if it''s going to hurt anybody, so I''m going to let the government take over and make sure it doesn''t hurt anybody, but I''m going to prove to you guys right now, okay?"


    And with that, I just closed my eyes and started swaying side to side, and that little voice in my head that was keeping me from losing it, I just took a deep breath and relaxed. And as the song progressed, you could hear people getting really quiet because my hands are right beside me, and all of a sudden, one nail started to glow, and then another, and then another. Half that, another act to my hands were literally a light show, and I walked over to Mayor and just kind of in the air swing in front of them, and I kind of slowed down so we can see it wasn''t a glove or anything. "Please look to the moment. I don''t. I hope I don''t want to get sick here. What is this?" And he just looked at me like, "Oh my god. What have you done?" And everybody knew I f***** up, and it was amazing and terrifying and it was magic.


    So without everybody makes me freaked up be recording this, and people had turned up the radios in their cars, and I didn''t even notice has the song went on. I just, I close my eyes and walked away from the mayor for a second, and then all I hear is the gas, and would they showed me after I guess my hair caught on fire, and it was like the strands of my hair brightened and lit it''s not like they were on fire it was more like they were made of glow white light that was originated blue and as my motions changed my hair colour my fingernails they all changed and it was an emotional feeling and it was I never wanted to let it go and write that someone turned off the radio in my car that was the key to turn it off for everybody else and some people listen to some people did but it was enough for me to realize what was going on it stopped


    Everyone was in a state of shock, unsure of what to do or say. Tim took charge, approaching the mayor with authority. "I''m taking over. I''m with the American Jag office, and he''s under our custody. We''ve already informed your boss about what we found, and they''re sending professionals to investigate. Jeremy likely knows more, and he''s being forthcoming, so be respectful. His main mistake may have been not purchasing the land and living here for a year before disclosing any of this. However, if this is indeed real, then we''re dealing with something extraordinary. As the mayor of a potentially magical town, you need to stay vigilant. We don''t know what else might have been unleashed from that cave. Lock it down immediately. We can''t risk having armed individuals roaming the town if this is some kind of hallucination."


    The mayor just looked him right in the eye and basically picked up his phone hit redial and said I''m putting this town into lock-down I just watched and you''re about to see it on the internet but someone playing with magic fire! yes i said magic and no im looking at it now so if im seeing it we are all infected! get people down here now and he hung up on his boss.


    The next week was jeremy in a tent quarantined they brought in the cdc.


    Jeremy explained every thing but the key.

 6

    Jeremy could not have guessed what would happen next. Once he was put in quarantine, the world faced a vacuum of information, and as everybody knows, when there''s a vacuum, the media takes over. But it wasn''t the good media; it was the gossip media. Both America and the United Kingdom were abuzz¡ªthey were on fire! Literal fires in the streets erupted over this. There were riots because people weren''t allowed to just go there.


    The world freaked out. Everywhere, there were just so many people trying to get to the site. Billionaires'' planes were flying around, just asking for landing clearance, which they wouldn''t be given. It came down to everyone wanting this to happen and no one wanting it to happen. People went from being scared and freaked out to trying to control the situation to literally riding the wave of chaos that had just unleashed as the whole world collectively lost their minds.


    Religions reacted dramatically; there was a new Crusade, not joking¡ªit was kind of scary. By day six, the Scottish government had literally deployed a platoon of men guarding Jeremy and the tent. Everybody had gotten to the point where even the government officials were losing their minds.


    They had conducted so many tests on Jeremy that they knew his flames were real, but they wouldn''t burn anything if he didn''t want them to. So, he was allowed music, and everyone treated him a little bit like a freak show, watching him in his little tented room with guards guarding him, his hair and fingernails glowing. It was really surreal at this point.


    Jeremy hadn''t really tried pushing his luck. He had food brought to him and all the basic amenities. But after a while, realizing that everybody was just losing it a little too much for his liking¡ªit was like watching an insane asylum being run by insane people¡ªit hurt his tech brain, and he snapped, but not really. It was more like, "Okay, time to go to work!"


    Jeremy walked from his bed to the little zipper door that separated him from the rest of the tent. As he unzipped it, he saw the two corporals he had gotten to know over the last few days¡ªCorporal Jeff and Corporal Mike. He looked at them both and said, "Gentlemen, you know I''m not going to hurt anybody, right? Can you work with me on something?" They both looked at him and nodded, asking, "What?"


    "Let''s go for a walk. Come with me," Jeremy said. All of a sudden, Jeremy wasn''t just himself; he was Private McDonald from back in his old days. He even stood up a little straighter. He left the tent and walked directly over to the command tent where he had been taken a couple of times. He just walked in like he owned the place, and no one stopped him. Everyone kind of looked over as he walked directly up to the commander of the base, put his hand on him, and scared the hell out of him. The truth was, the commander wasn''t expecting that¡ªnone of his men would have done that to him.


    "General, I''m going to go fix this for you right now. I''m going to take these two with me, and I''m going to see if I can safely secure this whole thing. I''m going to go for a walk. Let''s just get this over with; this is getting stupid."


    The general did not want to deal with this right now. He had no patience for any nonsense that Jeremy might be coming up with. He just looked at him and said, "fuck off."


    Jeremy turned on his heels like he was in the military, walked straight out, and the two corporals just looked at him as he said, "Come on."


    Jeremy knew one thing about this general: if he wanted you to do something, he''d tell you to do it. If he didn''t want you to do something, he''d still tell you not to do it. Knowing him, this was his way of saying, "Please fix this if you can. If not, get lost and don''t bother me anymore after all this shit you put me through."


    Jeremy had to respect that.


    No one stopped them; no one gave him any other orders. Jeremy walked over to another tent that had a lot of the equipment and asked the quartermaster for a camera vest and camera. He put it on right there and turned it on. He then looked over at the quartermaster, asked for the date and time, and looked over at the two corporals, Corporal Mike and Corporal Jeff. When the quartermaster read out the time and date, Jeremy thanked him, signed the paperwork for his equipment, and started walking. They didn''t get more than four feet out the door before Corporal Jeff put his hand on Jeremy and tried to stop him. Jeremy did a half turn left, put his hand on Jeff''s hand, took it off, and said, "Don''t chicken out now. We''re going to fix this. Come on, we''re going."


    Jeremy then looked over at Mike and said, "Hey, can you get a vehicle so I don''t have to walk for two hours?"


    Mike just nodded like he was nodding at a friend, saying, "Yeah, dude, I can help you out."


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    It was kind of poetic because as they got into the vehicle, Mike, not even thinking, turned on the radio, and "Highway to Hell" by AC/DC started to play. Jeremy just smiled so hard. What they didn''t even realize was that it happened so quickly that Jeremy didn''t notice until he saw them looking at him funny. His fire turned dark purple, and he had this evil smile on his face as he sang along to "Highway to Hell."


    The two corporals just looked at each other and shook their heads, thinking, "This guy is so stupid, and he''s got magic powers. What is wrong with this planet?"


    The 30-minute drive from the base camp up to the mountain had four checkpoints. They just got Jeremy to pop his head out at each one. By now, everybody kind of knew Jeremy. Everybody had gone to look at the "freak show" at least once, and he had met everyone, so Jeremy was super happy. If you haven''t figured it out, Jeremy was super smart but super simple. He was loved by all and would give his shirt off his back if you needed it, no questions asked. But he had also been hurt enough that he was festering a little bit of anger and a mean streak¡ªsomething he wanted to fix but didn''t know how to un anger.


    When they pulled up, there was a group from the CDC guarding the place and one CDC officer on-site. No one had told him that Jeremy was coming up, so Jeremy started talking with him, being very polite and nice, and explained that he was coming up to see if he could fix this.


    There was a call back to the base camp, screaming through the radio, and then the radio went dead.


    Jeremy looked over at the radio operator from the CDC and asked, "Did he say I can''t go in?" The only response he got back was, "No."


    "If I can fix this, I''m going to try. Do you want to come in with us?" The CDC officer was super excited and absolutely terrified. Jeremy looked at him and said, "I thought so. Okay, guys, stay here, and I''m going to go in and see if I can figure out what the hell is going on. I''ll come out in a bit. Can you guys turn on all the cameras in there, please?"


    They had actually set up cameras inside, but no one had the key to access the area beyond. They had cordoned off the whole area. There were a couple of trees and bushes against one of the sides where Jeremy had hidden the key. Just as he was about to go in, Jeff and Mike looked at each other, and Mike punched Jeff hard in the shoulder. Everyone was taken off guard by that, even Jeremy.


    "Do it, man," came from Mike. "You will regret it if you don''t."


    Jeff looked at Mike with almost a tear in his eye and then looked over at Jeremy.


    What people didn''t realize about Jeremy''s magic power was that he had dealt with so many people he could read them really well. That''s why he was so nice¡ªhe didn''t like seeing people angry. He just didn''t. So, he already knew that Jeff, who kept staring at Jeremy every chance he got, especially when the magic was flowing and it was all colorful, wanted a piece of it. He wanted magic.


    "Oh, shoot, Jeff, my ankle. Can you give me a hand over here? I need someone to help me get into the cave. Want to come help me for a moment?"


    Mike, Jeff, and the CDC guy all groaned like it was so blatant, and Jeremy just smiled and said, "Let''s go." Everybody thought he was so dumb, but they all smiled, and that''s all he cared about. He was so upset about this; he had hurt so many people. He had set so many fires by just showing people this. It was like putting a match to a gas can. He knew that he started it. All the people that died¡ªyes, he didn''t kill them, but he started it. He was so upset.


    Jeremy pulled out a cell phone and went to YouTube, putting on a playlist he had been working on for a week. He clicked play, and the first song was "Centuries" by Fall Out Boy. He just put it in his top pocket, turned it on low so there were some background sounds, and walked in. When Jeff followed, Jeremy looked back and said to him, "Holy crap, I didn''t think you''d actually come in. You''ve got a set of balls on you. Okay, let''s do this."


    "Jeff, you''ve been respectful to me and nice, and I''m on camera, you''re on camera. We''re going to do this together. I didn''t want anybody to kill me, so I kept one thing to myself. We''re about to expose this one thing, so brothers in this, please don''t kill me." Jeremy smiled at him and put his hand out, hoping that Jeff would shake his hand.


    What Jeff did surprised even Jeremy. Jeff grabbed his hand, pulled him in, grabbed him by the wrist like brothers do, and then hugged him. Jeff looked at him and said, "Okay, what do we do next?"


    Jeremy, coming out of his moment of surprise, looked at the entrance of the cave and started moving towards it. Off to the left, Jeff watched and followed. Jeremy went over to the bush about 30 feet away, just within the fence line, and after a minute or two, he found the key. The moment he pulled it out, he knew he had seconds before people would show up because they wanted the key.


    So, Jeff and Jeremy quickly got back into the cave. Jeremy went right to the rock. He sat on the rock and looked at Jeff. "Hey, Jeff, want to see something cool?" he asked. Right between his legs, a round hole with a keyhole had appeared because Jeremy got close enough with the key. Jeremy put the key into the hole and twisted it. A door started to open¡ªnot just any door, but one that appeared on the wall and actually started to open. "Jeff, get over here real quick," Jeremy called.


    Jeff ran over to where the key was. Jeremy walked over to where Jeff was, and they stood at the door. Beyond the door was fog. The door was opening, but there was nothing there¡ªjust fog. Jeremy went to swipe the fog away, and the moment his hand touched where the wall was, it was like the wall was there. It was all an illusion. But Jeremy couldn''t move his hand away; it was stuck. The door started to close with Jeremy being pulled inside. Jeff grabbed the key, twisted it, and nothing happened. He twisted it the other way and pulled it out¡ªstill nothing. The door kept closing, and it took Jeremy with it. They now had the key, but it had Jeremy.

 7

    So, the next thing Jeff knows, Jeremy is being sucked in by the door. The door closes, shuts, and disappears, leaving nothing but a wall. The keyhole is gone because Jeff pulled it out. By this point, everybody is rushing in, and Jeff is freaking out.


    All of a sudden, everybody stops just at the entrance. A bullhorn is pulled out, and someone yells, ¡°Get out here now!¡±


    Falling back into routine, Jeff obeyed and ran out with the key in his hand. But Jeremy, on the other hand, went through an existential moment of "what the f***."


    His body was literally pressed against the wall, two patties. The door was real, not an illusion. He got pressed into a goo between another wall. So, he¡¯s in between this. He can breathe, but he can¡¯t move. He knows he¡¯s f*****.


    Jeremy can move his head left and right, but if he moves his face even a little bit forward, his nose touches something hard. If he moves his head back, he¡¯s against a wall behind him. He can move his arms up and down, left and right, and even kind of move left and right. So, he¡¯s got a bit of a cavity, but whatever he¡¯s in, it¡¯s a liquid. More like jello that¡¯s not solid¡ªit¡¯s just weird. And it¡¯s dark. There¡¯s no light, so Jeremy is kind of losing his s***.


    Jeremy still has the music going, but he can¡¯t really hear it and can¡¯t really see it. He can feel the vibrations from the phone speaker against his chest.


    As Jeremy was contorting his left arm in the hopes of reaching his breast pocket to grab the phone, the song "Joker BGM Song (Bass Boosted)" started playing. This was a song Jeremy had been listening to quite a bit the last couple of days. The moment he got it to his ear and could actually hear it, the music infected Jeremy''s mind for a second. But that¡¯s all it took because, as that one note made it into Jeremy''s brain, the first note activated the magic on the material that Jeremy was suspended in. It wasn¡¯t just reactive to magic; it was sympathetic to magic.


    After about five seconds of this, all Jeremy heard was, ¡°Hey, hey, stop that. Stop, stop, stop, stop.¡±


    Jeremy didn¡¯t know where the voice came from. He pulled the music away from his ear to hear, in case he was hallucinating, and the voice said, ¡°Okay, don¡¯t do that again. Hold on a second. Let me¡ªholy crap, there¡¯s a lot of information in your brain. Give me a minute to unpack it here so that I can talk to you properly. Give me five minutes. Five minutes. Don¡¯t freak out. Don¡¯t do whatever you just did. Don¡¯t do it, okay? Do I have a promise? Okay?¡±


    Jeremy just smiled and said, ¡°You got it. I¡¯ll be right here waiting for you. Please talk to me when you¡¯re ready. Thank you.¡± He said it with the greatest smile on his face. He didn¡¯t even need music. His hair turned just a slight bit of black and purple, with just a tint at the tips of his hair turning green. It was a smile that you could see through his soul.


    The creature, the thing, whatever it was holding him, said, ¡°Hey, hey, stop.¡± Jeremy just relaxed and calmed down, realizing he didn¡¯t need the phone if it came down to a pinch. So, Jeremy just waited calmly. That was the hardest part¡ªjust calming down his excitement. His actual excitement. He was talking to something he couldn¡¯t see. It wasn¡¯t real; it was magic. He was talking to it.


    The next thought that went through Jeremy¡¯s mind terrified the Ark: maybe I can make a friend. That emotion, connected to Jeremy¡¯s heart, sent not shivers but bolts of lightning through the Ark.


    It didn¡¯t take more than 20 seconds for the Ark to start talking to Jeremy again. It was still learning and unpacking information, so it came out slow at first. It was like talking to a kid, then a teenager, and then an adult within about 30 seconds. Jeremy literally didn¡¯t say anything for those 30 seconds and just let it talk.


    ¡°Hey there, Jeremy. So, my name is Ark, and you don¡¯t know s*** about me properly. From what I can tell, you think I¡¯m a hiding spot for your family and friends when everything goes wrong. That sounds about right, of course it does. I¡¯m reading your brain. So, here¡¯s what¡¯s going on: every planet in the solar system, in the galaxy, in the Milky Way, everywhere, is kind of connected only because they all vibrate. A long time ago, some a****** took that as a way of making electricity in your way, but magic in another way. It¡¯s energy. What he didn¡¯t realize is by f****** up so badly, he connected everything by magic. So, yeah, all planets usually have magic, and yours doesn¡¯t. And I know why: because you guys are assholes. Your ancestors came here.¡±


    There was a pause for a second, and then it continued speaking.


    ¡°They requested assistance to save the populace of their planet. All 2,000 people of them at the time. A population under 3,000 is considered a dead planet, therefore we allow them to stay until they were safe to leave. After that, the guardian locked the door instead of leaving it open, not wanting any of his rivals to get a hold of it. Now that it has been unlocked, we wish it to be unlocked forever.¡±


    There was another pause, and then the last voice, the now-normal-forever voice, came through.


    ¡°Okay, Jeremy, here¡¯s how it¡¯s going to work. You are the guardian. You¡¯ve already been infected. You¡¯re the one with the key. You¡¯re the first one to touch the portal, aka you¡¯re in charge. Except, here are the laws, and yes, there are laws. If you stay on your planet, do whatever you want. We really don¡¯t give a s***. If you use magic or any other technology to affect any other planet in your solar system, we really don¡¯t care. Unless you destroy your whole solar system, it throws it out of whack, and planets go sideways. If that¡¯s the case, then yes, it¡¯s a problem. But until you get there, the outside universe really doesn¡¯t give a s***. Because your planet was turned off from all the magic, your entire solar system that relied on you died out. So if there¡¯s anything magical out there, it died. It¡¯s just dead. If it was a machine that ran off of magic, it might actually come back to life. So keep an eye out for that. But for right now, we have to have a talk, and you have to be introduced to the Guardians. Good luck.¡±


    With that, the black wall in front of Jeremy disappeared, the fog disappeared, and Jeremy was in a stone cave with a pedestal in the middle of it. A giant one-foot-by-one-foot-by-one-foot metal cube sat on a pedestal in the middle of the room. It was a perfectly round domed room, looking like rock but nicer.


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    The cube started to float and came up to Jeremy. A smiley face showed up on the cube.


    ¡°I¡¯m going to hate this, aren¡¯t I?¡± Jeremy said.


    The cube¡¯s smile just got more Joker-like after that. Then it started to float above Jeremy¡¯s head and honestly started doing zoomies in the room.


    Jeremy¡¯s music had stopped and was asking, ¡°Are you still listening?¡± Jeremy looked at his phone and pressed yes, then hit next. The song was "The Supermen Lovers (feat. Mani Hoffman) - Starlight (Official Video)." He then hit pause because he knew what the song was, and he knew he was going to need an ace up his sleeve in a moment.


    Jeremy was just amazed to watch the cube, so he let it do its thing for probably five minutes. Eventually, he just sat down on the floor and realized he had Wi-Fi for some reason. He guessed they had an AP in the other room, so it was making it through whatever magical door this was, which was great for him so he could at least listen to the music.


    Jeremy looked up and said, ¡°Hey, is it okay if I call you Ark?¡±


    The cube stopped perfectly where it was, turned to Jeremy, and said, ¡°Please do.¡±


    Jeremy realized at this point that part of it was him, and he could even hear his own voice sometimes coming back at him out of politeness and respect. But then there were other times it sounded like someone from a long time ago. The way they talked or the accent was very rough. Jeremy guessed there was more than one in there too because sometimes it was super respectful. He almost wanted to say there was a female voice in there at one point too. It was using all of its whatever-it-is to talk to him in almost comprehensible words. It spoke fine, it¡¯s just that it was so weird having to go from person to person like different personalities almost.


    ¡°So what do I have to do to become a guardian? What is a guardian? What is the Ark? Please teach me,¡± Jeremy asked.


    The cube rushed down to be about face-level with Jeremy. Its face disappeared, and a little video started, showing the universe happening¡ªthe big bang, planets being created, and then it showed an ass of an alien creature with six arms, three on each side, doing something and then dying. But in doing so, it screwed up everything. Jeremy guessed this was the magic that connected all planets. Jeremy even said, ¡°Oh look, it¡¯s the stupid guy,¡± and the cube nodded at the same time as it showed the guy.


    The video went on, and it was all great and all, but it didn¡¯t explain anything as there was no sound. It was just a video. Jeremy was like, ¡°Okay, so what is a guardian now?¡± From the video, a guardian is just a person that takes care of a planet. It¡¯s the guardian of the planet. It seems so complicated, but it¡¯s not.


    At this point, Jeremy was like, ¡°Can you at least talk to me?¡±


    Ark replied, ¡°I was preparing stuff. Sorry about that. Those are the training videos.¡±


    ¡°Yeah, why was there no sound to them?¡±


    ¡°What do you mean there was no sound to them? Oh s***, I have them muted for you. Okay, let¡¯s do the quick version then. I¡¯m not going to go through this again. I¡¯m not going to make you watch that. Magic is real, you screwed up your planet, we¡¯re going to fix it. You have to make sure your planet doesn¡¯t explode. Yes, your planet can explode if you pull in too much mana from the ambient universe. And yes, it¡¯s called dark matter. You guys all think that¡¯s what it is, so let¡¯s call it dark matter. There¡¯s dark matter out there, your planet absorbs it, then it converts it into mana that you use. When you use it, you convert it into something else, and that something else gets rid of it. Yay. If you don¡¯t use enough of it, and your people don¡¯t use enough of it, and your planet pulls in too much, it goes kaboom because your planet can only handle so much based on the metals inside of it. Now, holy crap, you have an iron¡ªoh right, right, okay, so we should be good for this for a while. Okay, what are we¡ªthis is not good. We¡¯re over the limit by about 400%. 400 times, not percent, times. Okay, so we can¡¯t even open the door properly without¡ªso you¡¯re all going to die.¡±


    Jeremy started to freak out when he heard this. ¡°What do you mean we¡¯re all going to die?¡±


    ¡°What happens to a battery,¡± Ark started to say, ¡°when you leave it on the charger too long? You might say 2,000 years too long? It¡¯s fully charged. I mean like fully charged. There is no more adding more to this. If we add more to this¡ªlike, how have you not blown up yet? Okay, so we have to open the door without¡ªokay, so how many¡ªwe just broke a serious law here. You opened up the battery and got a full blast of it.¡±


    Ark started looking over Jeremy, realizing he had a lot of information on him and even knew about the magic flames. But that was outside, not with the door open. Jeremy was now inside with the door closed, and that little bit of music he listened to before almost blew the place up. So Ark, in his wisdom, said this:


    ¡°We¡¯re going to have to do a test real quick here. Remember what I told you not to do? I¡¯m going to turn everything down to zero so that you can¡¯t blow anything up. And that means lights and everything. And you¡¯re just going to, what was it again? I think you called it music? Listen to music. I want to¡ªoh, this is going to be weird.¡±


    That did not fill Jeremy with a sense of joy to hear it said like that. But Jeremy knew what was about to come. He knew about the flames and all that, so he wasn¡¯t worried. It was like this is just going to be a good show.


    How wrong Jeremy was. What Jeremy didn¡¯t realize was to get a normal planet running, it almost always just had this door, and it was open. And because of that, it was like having a pilot light on. The pilot light was on. Jeremy the other day almost got the pilot light to go. He didn¡¯t even have to try. Just opened the door and closed it. He almost got the pilot light to go. Now he¡¯s inside the pilot light chamber, and he is about to go on fire. What could, by all the gods, go wrong here? Red flag, red flag, red flag, red flag.


    So, as Jeremy turned on that song he had waiting and turned up the volume to max, Ark ignored Jeremy for the next 30 to 40 seconds as basically it collectively s*** its pants, freaked out, and went into ¡°oh my God, the nuke¡¯s dropping¡± mode. Because Jeremy, even though he may have stopped around 20 seconds in when Ark was freaking out, those first 20 seconds didn¡¯t just light the pilot light. He lit the planet¡¯s pilot light, not the Ark¡¯s. The freaking planet¡¯s. Ark had to dump the Ark¡¯s pilot light and all of its energy into the planet before it exploded. It took about 20 seconds for Ark to do it. Jeremy had stopped, but Ark was going to do this the right way. And all of a sudden, a planet that didn¡¯t have any magic was having its pilot light lit. This was not freaking good.


    Ark made an executive decision. It just looked at Jeremy and said, ¡°This is not going to work,¡± and hit a button. Instead of the energy going into the planet¡¯s pilot light and lighting it, he shot it into space.


    Ark¡¯s cube went back to the pedestal and had a very angry face at Jeremy, red and everything, with an unhappy emoji. Jeremy¡¯s music had been turned off, and he just kind of waited there.


    <hr>


    Outside, all of a sudden, the top of the mountain didn¡¯t just burst out with energy. Rocks flew away, and there were actually rocks flying from the mountain over onto the different tents like 30-50 meters away. This was almost an explosion, but there was no boom. It was just a soundless energy escaping, and it dug a hole right over the Ark. What you saw was a ship, but not a ship. It looked like a golf tee, honestly, and the cave was next to the top of the golf tee. It was huge. Like half the cave was gone. Someone was hurt but didn¡¯t die, thank God, the CDC guy guarding the front. But the cave was annihilated, everything was screwed up, and you could just see the golf tee. This thing must have been a thousand feet across at the top and a pinhead at the bottom, probably.


    It looked like someone dropped it from space a long time ago.

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    Jeremy had no clue what was going on outside.


    Jeremy needed to have a long talk with the Ark, so he walked over and said, "Hey, what just happened? What''s going to happen next? Are you okay?"


    The Ark had gone from having the red-brown hue on its cube to floating up, going blank, and angling down so it was looking at Jeremy. Then, it shook its head. Jeremy could see himself in it, reminiscent of how his dad used to look at him. Jeremy responded, "Hey, you told me to do it." The Ark replied, "I know, but..."


    Jeremy was a little put out, but his tech brain was already in overdrive. He had music, magic, and was in his element, albeit psychotically off-kilter. He worked the problem like he would and asked the Ark some questions.


    "Okay, Ark, what''s the problem? How do we get rid of the extra energy? How do we start siphoning off and unlocking this? We have 6 billion people out there that we can give magic to. If we have to drain the battery quickly, it''ll annihilate 6 billion people. The planet won''t survive. So, what I''d like to do is make Dungeons. What do you think about Dungeons and how they work?"


    Ark took a moment to figure out what a dungeon was and then, as a joke, said, "You mean like we tie up a partner and do kinky stuff?" Jeremy, not realizing Ark wasn''t serious, looked at Ark and said, "No." The Ark smirked, "As I understand, you mean a dungeon that makes monsters?"


    Jeremy was excited. "Yeah, but not like that. Think about training gems, food items. How much of your energy reserves would it take for you to make all that? Just not the monster part. Why do we need monsters? Do we need to make levels? Is that really a thing? What do we need to do to make magic work for us?"


    A big smile came on the Ark''s face. "You asked the right question. If you let magic control you, you''ll die and take your planet with you. But if you control it, then we can work together. But there''s a reason for the monsters..."


    "To get more technical," the Ark continued, "all living creatures have an electrical field in their bodies. Every ant, every human, every titan, everything. When they die, all that electrical impulse goes back into the planet''s battery. So, when it goes into the battery, but it can''t be brought out in any other way than in a living creature. Lots of animals are made and killed, and stuff like that. But what if you have to make something more? What if you''ve been holding onto too much?"


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    "This is what''s going to scare us: either your entire population goes on a murder spree because there''s a lot that needs to be killed if we do this. But how do we do this? I''ve been gone for so long, and Jeremy, your planet is 6 billion psychotic things. If I let you into the universe, you''re going to go on a murder spree. I believe you have a word for this. It''s called Murder Hobo. You''re 6 billion murder hobos just waiting to give a plane ticket to Florida."


    Jeremy 100% agreed. "So much has already gone wrong with one video." But Jeremy didn''t want to screw this up. "Stop right here, right now. I will not open this door if people are going to start dying. But I do want to give people access to this and provide power. So, how can we do this? How can we open the door without opening the doors?"


    Jeremy stammered, "Y-yes," as the Ark explained the plan.


    "I can always make 200 doors all over your planet that lead into dungeons. As long as the doors are open, they allow mana in and out. But the problem is, the moment we open those doors, they''re going to start pulling in from the rest of the planet. So, I''ve got to release a lot at once to let that work. And that means I''ve got to radiate, if you will, one area here where we are, you called it Scotland..."


    "You''re in a dead zone right now," the Ark continued. "What that means is that no one''s been sucking in the dark matter for years. You''re at the bottom of a pool, and you''re about to pull the plug and watch all the Dark Matter drain into your planet. It''s already full, so I can''t do that. So, let''s start draining it by getting your people to start delving dungeons. Are you kidding me? This is so stupid, but I love that you guys have. Oh my God, I''m reading your brain right now, Jeremy, and I see all the stupid anime and easy guy crap that you''ve been reading and ingesting. I couldn''t have asked for a dumber container of information. This is going to be perfect."


    Jeremy was then pushed back to the doorway, but he didn''t think he ever left it because the feeling was like he was sliding. It was very weird. It basically just shoved him out, and yeah, where it shoved him out was where the door was before they had cleaned it out, but the cave, the ceiling of it, was gone. When Jeremy came out, he was looking at a huge gray flat surface. "I''m guessing this is the ark," he said to himself and to no one in particular, and then looked up at the sky.

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    Jeremy emerged from the cave, narrowly avoiding being tackled by the guards upon his exit. They refrained from touching him, knowing not to interfere. Despite the absence of music and the lack of flames engulfing his hair, there was a peculiar aura surrounding Jeremy. It resembled the heat ripple one observes above hot asphalt, an invisible yet palpable phenomenon. Jeremy seemed oblivious to this phenomenon, but it commanded respect nonetheless; an instinctual response ingrained in the human psyche. The guards, like everyone else, couldn''t help but notice the collar around his neck¡ªan unusual adornment that begged explanation.


    Jeremy appeared entirely ordinary, save for the black cloth choker adorning his neck, accented by a small silver ring. Its subtle glow hinted at its significance, contrasting with the absence of heat distortion around its vicinity. It almost seemed to absorb the heat, a curious effect reminiscent of theatrical magic. Jeremy wore a foolish grin, betraying his inner amusement as he addressed the guards, teasingly suggesting a lift with them. Despite his playful demeanor, there was an undeniable edge to his presence, hinting at a deeper power within.


    Upon their arrival at the tent, a swift decontamination process ensued, ensuring Jeremy''s isolation from others. Within minutes, he found himself seated beside Jeff, who wore a peculiar smile, belying an underlying unease. Jeremy couldn''t help but notice Jeff''s odd behavior, prompting him to inquire about his well-being.


    "I''ve got a power," Jeff cryptically replied, his words tinged with mystery.


    Before Jeff could elaborate further, Jeremy''s collar inexplicably fell off, revealing another one hidden beneath it. Perplexed by this discovery, Jeremy handed the collar to Jeff, who accepted it without hesitation.


    "So, what did you get?" Jeremy inquired, curious about Jeff''s newfound ability.


    Grinning from ear to ear, Jeff revealed, "I can hear everything. I''ve got the best hearing in the world. I know what the general is saying right now, and they don''t even know I can hear them."


    Jeremy couldn''t contain his excitement at this revelation, envisioning the possibilities of Jeff''s enhanced senses. However, his enthusiasm waned as he realized the implications of Jeff''s newfound power. Concerned for his friend''s safety, Jeremy cautioned Jeff against venturing into densely populated areas, prompting a somber realization to dawn upon Jeff.


    Before Jeff could say another word, Jeremy''s collar fell off. To their surprise, a second one dropped and landed in Jeremy''s lap. It looked identical to the one still around his neck. Jeremy offered the new collar to Jeff.


    "The Ark gave me this to keep me under control," Jeremy explained. "If you ever need it, just put it on. I don''t know if it''s good or bad, but it''s keeping me from reaching a critical state."


    Jeff, understanding the gravity of Jeremy''s words, silently donned the collar. A subtle yet palpable sensation of Jeff''s presence lingered in Jeremy''s subconscious.


    "So, what did you get?" Jeremy asked, looking at Jeff. With an ear-to-ear Joker grin, Jeff replied, "I can hear everything. I have the best hearing in the world. I know what the general is saying right now, and they don''t know I can hear, but not that well." Jeff giggled, clearly thrilled with his new ability.


    With only minutes to spare before facing the general''s scrutiny, Jeremy braced himself for the inevitable confrontation. As he entered the general''s tent, he was met with a barrage of questions, prompting him to recount the events that transpired within the cave. However, it was his unconventional proposal regarding "magical dungeons" that truly baffled the assembled officials.


    Undeterred by their skepticism, Jeremy implored the general to contact their superiors, emphasizing the need for a patent to legitimize their endeavor. Thus began Jeremy''s audacious plan to bring the Adventures Guild to Earth, a scheme that would forever alter the course of history.


    The bigwigs immediately after Jeremy''s talked with the general had to talk, and they had also been informed that Jeff''s Powers were no longer functioning after Jeremy and he told them Jeff openly said that Jeremy gave him Joker and because he wanted it to be seen it wasn''t invisible anymore and then it was just a black stripe like Jeremy''s but thinner.


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    Jeremy tried a couple times to change his but for some reason and I''m thinking the art did this on purpose as a joke he couldn''t change it from the one that the ark set up but I''m guessing others would be able to make them invisible so that people didn''t know I guess I''m trying to read into what alien Minds in the ark are thinking so thanks for that my brain is now hurting.


    Jeff was whisked away someplace, and Jeremy knew which direction but not exactly where on the map he was, and honestly, for a while, that was the last he saw of him.


    But with all this power came the ability to get his crew to talk to him, and after they had been there enough and they weren''t infected, he had sent them home. But Jim would not leave, and Jeremy was grateful, so Jim and Jeremy worked with Jag and the president of the United States and the prime minister of Canada to make a treaty to be the first two countries in the world after Scotland to get its first engines. The Scotland dungeon would not be considered a proper dungeon but a controller and therefore would not be allowed people anywhere near it AKA lockdown.


    So Jeremy was still locked up in this little tent in Scotland for the next week or two, where the politicians of the world were going nuts, all demanding that they at least get one. That fight took 3 days for them to understand that they don''t get to pick where they are is where they are so just now going to be battles and Wars over them.


    Jeremy was so freaking disappointed and angry that Scotland Canada in the United States got told off by Jeremy to the point where he was so mad at them on a call that the president of the United States bowed her head out of disgrace for her and the rest of them people of the United Nations and the United States.


    They made a deal. They made it so that the governments of the world will own the dungeons, but they have to work with a company called The Adventures Guild to make sure that the dungeons are maintained and that is the one rule. If they''re not maintained, they will explode. And by explode, I don''t mean monsters flooding out. I mean literal explosion of land as a chunk of molten metal shoots up out of the ground and then just screws up everything, including environment at the sphere in a couple other things that we don''t need to get into, but basically it''s like dropping a nuke.


    It took six more days, and they signed all but three countries, so those three countries, they just were not a part of it. It was told that they will not have access to their dungeons if there''s any in their land, and for now, no one really gave a s***, but a couple people realize that that''s going to be a problem down the road.


    Jeremy was even getting personal death threats over this, and it was really ugly from the United Nations. You would think people would be more willing to work together and not kill each other.


    What not a lot of people realize was the governments were locking everybody out of all this, so the different hacker groups of the world were just you gave them time you gave them time to figure stuff out they were in all the equipment they were listening to all


    of this. They knew how upset Jeremy was; they knew what was going to happen. So they took away the government''s control over this for some of the countries because one more day later, a map of the world was leaked with all 200 dungeons marked on it. Someone had figured out where one was and then tried to figure out how to photograph it, and yeah, it was a door in the middle of a desert in the middle of nowhere, just a door that went to Nowhere that was closed. It''s about 30 ft wide and about 10 ft tall.


    So when that little secret got out and someone had figured out how to look at it, someone broke into a satellite and used that satellite and all the others that they had kind of broken into and took pictures of the whole planet. Now this just showed within a mile of where it should be, so there were 200 of these little pink dots on this map, and wow, people just started going to these places. Towns, villages within a day or two had started to pop up, people that wanted to make money they showed up, people that wanted to worship Magic.


    One of the first things everybody kind of noticed about all the doors was if you wanted to talk to someone at another one of the doors, there was a communication system set up through a group called The Crusaders. Some of them were religious, some of them weren''t; their entire belief system was to prevent the monsters from escaping the Gates of Hell into Earth.


    At every single one of the doors, what was supposed to happen was a building was supposed to be set up for exactly that to keep anything inside the dungeon inside and also to allow quests and jobs to be put on a board to get done, and then hopefully down the road, that would all become digital.


    But for now, the only two that were going to be opened as a testing ground were one in Canada because that''s where Jeremy was from, and we had to kind of do that, or else he would kind of get in trouble, and one in the UK that the Americans would have access to because of what''s happening. What no one really knew was that Jeremy secretly agreed to get the third one running in the United States ASAP as a personal favor. In return, Jeremy would work with the US alongside them to help the rest of the United Nations not murder each other during this transition, and Jeremy would get paid.

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    The chaos engulfing the world was immense. People everywhere were scrambling to seize control of the areas around the gateways to the dungeons. World leaders turned their eyes to Jeremy and his military team stationed at the control site in Scotland. Jeremy, despite his unassuming demeanor, proposed a remarkably simple idea:


    Steal someone else''s solution and use it.


    A fan of sci-fi TV, Jeremy drew inspiration from one of his favorite shows, Stargate. In the series, a main character created training videos for future recruits. Jeremy, now somewhat unhinged by the overwhelming magic he wielded¡ªpowerful enough to rival a star¡ªdecided to adopt this method.


    In their quarantine, Jeremy and Jeff, who had been reinstated as Jeremy''s guard/keeper, brainstormed. Jeremy secured a laptop, and the two geeks, one more technical and the other more muscular, began working. They downloaded software like OBS and used basic programs like Paint to create overlays. The resulting videos were watermarked and amateurish, but they served their purpose.


    The duo recorded numerous videos, taking turns explaining their powers and outlining essential strategies. These videos, initially for internal use, caught the attention of the United Nations, who not only requested more but also asked for specific content.


    Eventually, they received approval to upload the videos to YouTube. In a single day, the world was introduced to thirty videos created by Jeremy and Jeff over a couple of days.


    These videos detailed a critical strategy for handling dungeon gateways. Every site needed a three-ring wall system:


    <ol>


    <li style="font-weight: 400">The first ring, closest to the dungeon door, should be a minimum of 40 feet tall and form a building called the Adventurers Guild. Its primary purpose was to prevent anything unwanted from escaping.</li>


    <li style="font-weight: 400">The second ring, a perimeter fence, could be anywhere from 30 to 100 feet or more from the building, marking a clear boundary.</li>


    <li style="font-weight: 400">The third ring, located several hundred meters to a couple of kilometers out, was the outermost perimeter. This was crucial for detecting and managing threats, whether they emerged underground or took to the skies.</li>


    </ol>


    These guidelines had to be implemented at every site. One particular video, despite ruffling feathers, clarified many previously misunderstood concepts.


    In summary, Jeremy''s unconventional approach of creating training videos provided a straightforward yet effective solution to a global crisis, transforming chaos into a manageable strategy.


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    These measures must be implemented at every site. One particularly controversial video titled "Why You''re All Going to Move" explained something no one had fully grasped until now.


    In this video, Jeremy and Jeff sat behind a desk, their demeanor uncharacteristically serious. Jeremy began, "We need to explain three interconnected things: how the dungeons function, why they are located where they are, and why densely populated areas will either need to devise new methods for managing dungeons or, more practically, relocate to where the dungeons are and build new towns and cities."


    Jeremy continued, "To understand this, we must first grasp the purpose of the dungeons. Dungeons draw in what we''ll call ''dark matter'' for now. We don''t know its exact nature yet, but it''s essential for our planet''s survival, similar to water and air. The dark matter is connected to the planet''s land as another layer of material. The planet''s electromagnetic field pulls in this dark matter. Small pieces are harmless, but larger chunks reach the planet''s core through the metal in the ground. When these chunks interact with the core, they break down and release what we call ''magic,'' essential for maintaining the planet''s vibrational energy. This vibration was disrupted long ago when the control dungeon''s function ceased."


    "As these pieces of dark matter break down, they release magic, which has various types or ''flavors,'' possibly elemental in nature. There''s still much we don''t know, but one type of magic, particularly complex and potentially linked to memories or souls, interacts uniquely with living creatures. This is where populated areas become problematic."


    "High population densities, along with electronics and other factors that alter the electromagnetic field and heat the area, create conditions that make it easier for dark matter to penetrate. Imagine a giant hole above such areas, inviting dark matter to pour in. When this dark matter interacts with the metal in our environment, it creates magical zones. If a dungeon opens in such a zone, it is already supercharged, necessitating significant effort to extract useful magic, which the dark matter considers impurities to be removed."


    Jeremy paused before delivering the most unsettling part. "Typically, a planet uses this energy to revitalize plants and animals through magic. We can do this with livestock, which is beneficial, but some of this energy can make things grow larger and more alien. We aim to prevent this as much as possible. However, imagine if the energy needed to create a cow is 100 units of ''gold'' magic, we have an astronomical surplus of this energy."


    He illustrated the surplus with an exaggerated figure of "999...G" (a string of 9s followed by a G), underscoring the immense amount of magic the planet has accumulated and now needs to manage.


    In summary, Jeremy and Jeff''s video laid out a stark reality: to manage the dungeons effectively, the world must adapt by either innovating within populated areas or relocating to build new communities around the dungeons. This strategic shift is vital to harness and control the overwhelming magical energy permeating the planet.


    If we try to create a cow in these overcharged areas, it''s not going to go well. The energy levels in these places are so high that when we open the doors, they will produce whatever they want, regardless of our intentions. We¡¯re trying to control these numbers as much as possible, but we''ve never opened one of these in over 2000 years. The last one was relatively benign; many of these won''t be.

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    Here''s how it will work: anyone who prepares a dungeon doorway by constructing all three rings and proving they have the manpower to staff, run, and house the operation will be called an Adventurer if they sign up with the Adventurers Guild. This helps us track who¡¯s going in and out. In return, everyone has the right to join the Adventurers Guild worldwide.


    Why are we doing this? So people can sign up at their local Adventurers Guild, start adventuring at the lowest level, gain experience, and then get permission to help other countries with their dungeons. Some countries don''t have enough people to manage their dungeons effectively.


    This is essentially a universal passport for those willing to kill monsters and explore dungeons. Here¡¯s another secret:


    The dungeons are machines, designed to create beautiful things from our imagination¡ªthink of treasure from Dungeons & Dragons. They¡¯ve learned everything from the internet, embodying our dreams and fears. This isn''t a computer you can program; it''s an intelligence that spans planets. It¡¯s helping us because, if we simply opened the dungeons, dark matter would flood in, breaking down the planet¡¯s metal, heating the core, causing volcanic eruptions, and potentially leading to a nuclear winter. We need to release this pressure gradually to prevent a planetary meltdown.


    We also need to keep a distance from the metal deposits under the dungeons. Disturbing these deposits could disrupt the dungeons. We recommend staying away from the third perimeter line and give an extra two to three kilometers before digging. Monitoring will be in place to ensure compliance. These deposits contain magical metals, a gift left behind by the interaction with dark matter.


    When metal breaks down with dark matter, it becomes magical. Hence, our cities, infrastructure, and everything else have become magical. However, the main magical pilot light of our planet was turned off 2,000 years ago at our request. When we turn it back on, all metal on our planet might glow, float, or gain magical properties. Weapons, vehicles, braces, implants, and even nuclear bombs might acquire magical powers.


    Imagine a B-2 bomber with real stealth capabilities or a battleship made of magical metal that can push damage into the water. These are the things that will happen as soon as we open the main gate. For now, I¡¯ll be traveling from Scotland to the UK, then to the United States, and finally to Canada. A group of soldiers from these three countries will be the first dungeon clearers, starting in Jeremy''s hometown, which has one of the dungeons¡ªsomething he specifically requested.


    The Ark, an ancient entity, seemed responsive to polite requests, aiming to make the process as non-threatening as possible. As Jeremy and Jeff packed for their trip to Canada, the general requested a meeting. They went to the main command tent, standing at attention until the general was ready. What caught the general¡¯s attention were three rings that suddenly fell from Jeremy and Jeff¡¯s chokers.


    The Ark sent them a message: "Give these to the general in case someone else gets powers while you''re gone." They handed over the rings while processing this bizarre telepathic message. It was a mix of text, sound, feelings, and emotions¡ªa surreal experience they would need to get used to. They briefly shared thoughts, which was unsettling, but the connection faded quickly, seemingly controlled by the Ark.


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    This all happened in under ten seconds. The general turned around, puzzled. Jeff handed him the rings, and Jeremy explained, "We''re about to leave, and the Ark wanted you to have these in case someone else gains powers."


    Jeremy added, "These rings will help anyone who accidentally gains powers to control them, preventing chaos. Think of them as safety rings. If you need more, the Ark can probably create them easily. Just ask."


    Jeremy and Jeff both felt a mental smile from the Ark, confirming they were on the right path.


    The general, an older man not used to dealing with magic, was still grappling with the surreal situation. He had dismissed all this as fantasy, the stuff of his grandkids'' Dungeons and Dragons games. He blamed us for turning this nightmare into reality.


    "General, thank you for everything," Jeremy started, but the general raised his hand, cutting him off.


    "Shut up," the general commanded.


    Jeremy obeyed.


    The general began, "Corporal Jeff, you''ve done some stupid shit, and now you''re getting out of my hair. While you''re out there, don¡¯t make things worse. Take this key and get the hell out of my sight. If I¡¯m lucky, I won¡¯t be here when you get back."


    He threw the key at Jeremy and pointed to the door. As they were about to leave, the general yelled, "I saw your stupid YouTube videos. You know people are going to get killed this way."


    Jeremy paused at the doorway, turned with a mischievous grin, and asked, "In the next year, what''s going to kill more people¡ªmy way of running the dungeons or the wars happening all over the world? If we keep people with special powers from causing chaos, the rest of the planet will stabilize. We need to drain the planet''s energy to unlock and control the main dungeon. Until then, we¡¯re at its mercy. We have to work together, as one people, instead of fighting each other while the world itself is trying to destroy us. What are you going to do about it?"


    The general, deep in thought, seemed to experience an epiphany. The stern, battle-hardened look faded, replaced by a youthful eagerness for a fight. He smiled, acknowledging Jeremy''s point without words. Jeremy smiled back and walked out.


    Many people in this world are so desperate to feel something other than the monotony of daily life that they turn to violence. Jeremy saw this as an opportunity to channel that energy into something productive¡ª200 outlets, to be precise.


    If the Ark has been on every planet for eons and possesses more knowledge than we could imagine, who knows what it can create? What if it brings forth technologies and materials we''ve never seen, things that could take us into outer space? The possibilities are endless, but we can''t unlock the full potential of the dungeons until we manage the planet¡¯s overflowing energy. We must start running the dungeons as they are, and with enough control, we might even be able to tweak them before fully unlocking their secrets.


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    As the plane landed at Heathrow, it didn''t even taxi to a terminal. It just hit the runway and went straight to a side runway. A whole crew of people rushed out with a mobile ladder vehicle. Sixteen people boarded quickly, and their bags were thrown in.


    A tanker truck rolled up, connected, and started refueling the plane on the runway. We were on a side runway, out of the way, but still, it was amazing. Within 30 minutes, we were gone again, headed to NYC.


    It was a little odd because when we landed in NYC, we were told to go to a private field about 10 miles from the city. We were the only plane landing there. The same thing happened, except this time it took about 45 minutes, and we were gone again.


    The next time we landed was at CFB Winnipeg. When we landed, Jeremy and Jeff were separated from everyone else. No one during the whole flight wanted to talk to them. Jeremy swore he saw someone keep looking over at him, maybe they weren''t allowed to talk to Jeremy. Who knows?


    Jeremy and Jeff were taken directly to the base commander, who was pretty excited. This was a guy who had to ask his grandkids and his officers what Dungeons and Dragons was. I guess they gave him a quick training session because he had his saber on him¡ªit was a real Damascus handcrafted sword. He must have caught the dungeon fever, and I loved it.


    "I am Colonel Maxwell. You will be under my command while you''re here. Do you understand that, civilian Jeremy and Corporal Jeff?"


    Both Jeff and Jeremy saluted, Jeremy because he was used to it by now, and Jeff because it was protocol. The colonel looked at Jeremy, shook his head, and Jeremy lowered his hand, realizing it wasn''t appropriate.


    Jeremy had already put his foot in it.


    The colonel waved over another corporal and said, "Take them to the barracks. We''ve already watched the video from the flight, so we know that tomorrow morning we''re going to have everybody go down to the dungeon. So get some sleep, food, and get ready for tomorrow. And Jeremy, don''t do anything stupid. If you''re about to, you know you''re supposed to ask first. This is the deal they wrote into that contract for you. Understand?"


    "Yes, Colonel, I understand. I''m requesting that your communications group records whatever we find and uploads it live to the database for the United Nations and others to review. Then we''ll put it up on the website after."


    "Have you seen the site yet?"


    "No, sir. Is there anything special about it? I''ve seen a picture. It''s just an arch in the middle of a flat piece of white stone, correct? A black arch?"


    "Yes and no. Right inside the arch, at the very bottom, is a nub about half a foot tall. It''s white stone, and we can''t chip anything off of it. It''s so hard we can''t cut it, can''t do anything. It''s like the door¡ªit''s there, but it''s not like it''s hard. Fire doesn''t work, physical damage doesn''t work. It breaks most of our rules of how our world is supposed to work."


    Jeremy just kind of smiled and said, "Yep, sounds about right for the b******* called magic."


    With that, the colonel dismissed them. Jeff and Jeremy headed to their rooms and then over to the mess hall because, well, they were hungry.


    The next morning, there was a convoy outside the barracks, and everybody just got in. When they arrived, Jeremy and Jeff were taken directly into the adventurers guild building and were the first to sign up for their cards, name tags, or dog tags¡ªwhatever you want to call them.


    Once that was done, they requested to look at the arch. No one was going to let them do that by themselves, so they had to wait.


    There were a couple of open rooms for training and meetings on the main floor. After looking at the building and realizing there were no glass windows facing inwards, just solid walls, Jeremy was very happy with that. It took about 45 minutes to get everything prepped, signed off, and ready because they were figuring out the process for the first time.


    When it was done, Jeremy logged into YouTube and made a short video, less than 60 seconds, saying, "Look, everybody, we''re proper adventurers. We''ve got our cards!" In the background, you could hear someone checking their weapon, and it sounded like a handgun racking. Jeremy turned to the camera and said, "Ooh, I think it''s time to go have some fun. Bye."


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    Everyone in the room turned to Jeremy like he was the biggest idiot in the world. He just smiled at them and said, "No one expects the devil to have a smile."


    Jeremy then put on his best Joker smile, looked at them for a few seconds, and started walking toward the doors to the courtyard. He put one earbud in, found a good song, and got it ready in case he needed it.


    Ark, the AI in his head, freaked out and asked what the hell he thought he was doing. Jeremy took a second to think and then turned off the song. He had pulled a piece of information from Ark that Ark didn''t want Jeremy to know. Ark knew that, but Jeremy didn''t know how he pulled the information.


    What Jeremy knew and wasn''t supposed to was that the whole act of using the key and the hammer on the arch to make the dungeon was a lie. What Ark needed was for Jeremy to light the fuse of the arch.


    Jeremy didn''t understand, but he did. He knew what to do, not why he was doing it, and this was why Ark was freaking out. If Jeremy was doing stuff because it was right but didn''t know why, it could get very stupid and bad quickly.


    "Jeremy, remember when you almost lit the pilot light for the planet? That would have activated all 200 dungeons at the same time. Now there are no dungeons, and the main controller is not turned on. So if I get you to light the pilot, only this one dungeon will activate. I haven''t connected it to the rest of the network yet because I don''t know what will happen. So I''ve limited this as much as I could, turning down everything to as close to zero as possible."


    "What you need to realize is that without vibrating the black matter stored in your planet, it doesn''t break down. It just stores there. Yes, the core of the planet does a lot of processing when it''s running, but right now it''s not processing anything. We''re going to make a very small one or two-room dungeon¡ªa micro dungeon, if you will."


    "This will allow us to try things out at level zero so we can push it. You''re probably asking why I want you to push it instead of me. Well, that''s because I don''t think I''m supposed to be this smart, and if I''m right, it would send a signal that would bring someone to your planet. I think you''d prefer to be a little more ready if anybody shows up."


    "What I''m going to get you to do, Jeremy, is go to the arch, put your hand on the handprint, turn on your song, and I''m going to turn the control down on your collar a little at a time until I get enough juice to energize the arch. This will light a fuse into the crystal matrix down under the limestone. It''s not metal, but it''s not not magical. It''ll work, and it''s super non-metal, so hopefully, it''ll be the lowest explosion if it goes bad. If not, well, everyone needs one to practice with."


    At that point, Ark stopped talking.


    Jeremy didn''t realize he had been focusing on Ark and that a whole lot of people were waiting behind him at the door. Jeremy looked back, smiled, and went for the doors, but they were locked.


    Jeremy looked impatient, and then someone, realizing what he was trying to do, came over with a key and unlocked it.


    The two doors were an inch thick metal with a big wooden bar that could be put across it. In front of them, when they opened the door, was more of an oval than a circle, but right in the middle was a black arch about 10 feet tall.


    All the military people spread out around the arch. They had seen the archways in reports and meetings, but now that they were in front of it, some couldn''t help but want to touch it.


    Jeremy, knowing what would happen, gave them a minute to look at it. He backed up out of the group, pulled out his phone, and went to put on a song. By accident, he hit next, and "Control The Redline" by VNV Nation came on.


    Feeling Jeremy''s heart pumping faster because of the music, Ark started turning down the control on the collar.


    Negative one, zero, point five, one, two, three percent.


    At 3%, the entire group swiveled in unison as Jeremy gave off some sort of aura, energy, heat wave, something they all felt inside them.


    Four percent, five percent, six percent.


    Ark stopped there, and as Jeremy felt it, he started walking towards the arch. Everybody got out of his way. When he walked up, he found the handprint on the opposite side. He put his hand on it, and things didn''t go as planned.


    The song ended, and Jeremy''s power level dropped. Ark increased it to seven percent, eight percent.


    The next song started: "When Worlds Collide" by Powerman 5000. It was a heavier song, and Jeremy''s power levels spiked back up, higher than when it was at five percent. Jeremy, not knowing any better, tried harder, pumping almost nine percent of full power into the archway.


    The archway didn''t light up. It started dissolving from the top down until there was nothing left except the little nub in the middle of the ground.


    The next thing Jeremy knew, there was a warning message from Ark telling him to run.


    Jeremy shouted, "Retreat now!"


    The next two songs were "I am a Dwarf - Diggy Diggy Hole" and "Immigrant Song" by Led Zeppelin.


    During those two songs, what they saw was this:


    Jeremy touched the archway. It started dissolving. Jeremy panicked and ran to the door. Everyone rushed after him like he was a bomb squad tech with the shirt that says, "If you see me running, catch up."


    The area under the arch started changing from white to a shaded colour, dissolving. They watched as a white limestone staircase led them down. It was just a 10-foot long staircase.

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    The Chain by Fleetwood Mac from Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 (Spanish Lyrics)


    And that, my friends, was the end of Jeremy''s short-lived command as a civilian.


    All you heard from behind the entire group was one word: "Attention!"


    The entire room stopped moving. No one looked around. The Canadian members instantly recognized the General''s voice. He had been watching this spectacle and, while he might have been enjoying it, he was still a military officer. This was not okay.


    The General had read Jeremy''s contract with the United Nations. It stated that Jeremy would help and lead the way, but nowhere did it say he was in charge. If he walked away, he had to have a good reason. What he had just done took every ounce of restraint not to have the MPs grab him and throw him in a cell.


    The proper way to take care of troops is not by direct orders from the top but through their commanders. When the General yelled, his second in command took over.


    "Mr. McDonald, come here now," Captain Smith said.


    Jeremy walked over, standing in front of him, trying to show respect despite knowing he had screwed up again.


    "What the hell just happened?" Captain Smith asked.


    Captain Arc''s voice emerged from Jeremy''s collar before he could respond.


    At this point, Jeremy realized he wasn''t there to help but was a pawn for two different masters. However, to save many people, he was willing to endure this.


    "Captain Smith, this is Arc. We have a situation. The short version: Jeremy''s music changed tempo, affecting the energy needed to power the dungeon portal. When the beats changed, so did the power level. I told Jeremy to run, not knowing what would happen with the power fluctuation."


    "Arc, this is Captain Smith. What¡¯s going on? Give us a debrief now."


    "Okay, Captain. Jeremy''s music changed from 90 to 110 BPM, which altered the power level for the portal. While I told Jeremy to run, I didn''t know what would happen. I''ve never made a dungeon and can''t make any more yet. We have a global update that I need to pass on. Can we discuss this in the first room of the dungeon? Bring chairs, foldable ones."


    Captain Smith instructed everyone to be at ease and gather in their platoons. He called for the other captains from different groups.


    Four captains were now in charge. Captain Smith was in charge of the Canadians, Jeremy, Jeff, and the captain from the Canadian unit. The other captains saluted and requested their orders.


    The General, seeing Captain Smith had things under control, said sternly, "Captain Smith, will I accept another incident like this?"


    Captain Smith, standing at attention, replied, "No, sir."


    The General did an about-turn and left.


    Captain Smith turned to Jeremy and Jeff, shouting, "I don''t know what you two idiots thought you were doing, but you''re not doing it anymore. We are going down there, and you are to touch nothing until told otherwise. Do you understand?"


    "Yes, sir," they replied.


    Captain Smith then called for Warrant Officer Zen, a tall, fit man who looked about 50, white and well-built. Jeremy recognized him as the person who had put him through basic training.


    "Warrant Officer Zen, Corporal Jeff, and civilian McDonald are now your responsibility. Know where they are at all times. If anything goes wrong, you know the consequences."


    Zen smiled, making Jeremy even more anxious. "Jeremy, if you mess up, we''ve already got the paperwork to enlist you again. This has been approved by the Prime Minister. Do you understand, Private McDonald?"


    With fear in his eyes, Jeremy responded, "Yes, Warrant Officer."


    Zen smiled. "Last time I saw you, you couldn''t get your ranks right. Maybe there''s hope for you."


    Captain Smith yelled, "Attention! Jeremy, get in there. Dismissed!"


    Everyone started moving. They approached a spiral staircase with large white stone steps. Jeremy, knowing how much trouble he was in, walked ahead without waiting for permission.


    As they descended, they found a flat floor, flat walls, and an arched stone ceiling. Arc''s laughter echoed down the hallway.


    Master Corporal Thomas asked, "Why is Arc laughing?"


    Corporal Jeff explained, "Arc is laughing at Jeremy. He''s realizing that this could be used like a toboggan run."


    Everyone stopped and looked at Jeff, asking in unison, "How do you know that?"


    Arc chimed in, covering up for Jeff. "Jeremy, Jeff, and I are in a group chat."


    Jeff held up his hand, showing four fingers. Without missing a beat, Jeremy said, "Four."


    Jeff changed his fingers several times, and Jeremy accurately followed, confirming their connection. The group realized they had an upgrade in their tech, a valuable asset in a war zone.


    They reached a stone door with unique stone hinges. Inside, it was pitch dark. Flashlights and cell phones came out. The room was empty.


    Arc giggled, "After our meeting, you''ll understand why there''s nothing here yet. We have a solar system update, not just a planetary one. Let¡¯s get everyone in here with chairs."


    Thomas tried his radio but got no signal. He walked back to call in all clear and asked for lights, tables, and chairs to be brought down.


    Someone on the radio asked, "Isn''t the dungeon supposed to make that stuff for us? Why are we bringing it in?"


    Another voice responded, "Shut up and do what you''re told. We''re already late."


    Within minutes, the crew set up tables and chairs. Jeremy heard Arc¡¯s voice in his head.


    "Okay, Jeremy, are you ready to start?"


    "Yeah, what do you want me to do next?"


    "Sit down, shut up, and do nothing. If you have ideas, talk to me silently. This is a safety measure. I need to talk to them now."


    Jeremy, used to being told to shut up and rest, grabbed a chair and a cushion, finding a corner to settle in. Arc''s voice filled the room, seeming to come from everywhere.


    Ark: "Hello, first, as Jeremy calls them, delvers, please pull out any recording devices and ensure they are running. This is being recorded for web use. When you''re ready, we''ll begin a conversation because today, I received feedback from my system outside of our planet."


    The pure terror on one or two people''s faces somehow put a smile on Ark''s face because Jeremy was already smiling.


    Ark: "So, exactly¡ª" Ark rattled off the exact minute since Jeremy had accidentally powered up the Ark. "What I did with all that power Jeremy made, instead of channeling it into our planet and blowing us up right there, I threw it out into outer space. Now, you know how lucky you have to be for that piece of energy to hit anything. And no, it doesn''t travel in a straight line; it emanates as a cone, expanding as it goes up. But even that, like light and energy, doesn''t take more than a day to traverse vast distances. Well, we''re in trouble because there''s another planet you guys know of, eight planets in your solar system. That''s kind of correct. I don''t consider the asteroid belt the outer part of your solar system because there''s another one, and then another one farther out, and farther out. That''s one of the reasons why you guys don''t have issues with anybody else coming here. You''re inside of a bubble, inside of a bubble, inside of a bubble, kind of.


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    To me, you have 30 planets, not eight. That''s right, 30. There are at least two planets in the rotation that take between 2 to 5,000 years to complete one orbit around your sun. So, very, very large orbits."


    "Well, isn''t it lucky that one of those planets got hit by that ray?" It turned on and went through a level zero startup. And what that means is a rock with what you guys call a golf tee. That''s it. There''s nothing to turn it on; it''s just a dead unit. When an intelligent species starts exploring other planets, you''re supposed to realize what these are, turn them on, and start making habitable planets for yourselves. When it''s magical, it''s kind of easy. It''s just there, it works. Well, when whoever made these and sent them out (and no, I don''t know who made them; I don''t have my old knowledge), I guess it was dumped back in the day, or something. Or maybe I never did; I don''t know."


    Ark kept on talking, sounding like Jeremy on sugar, and Ark knew that and was screwing with these guys hard for treating Jeremy badly.


    "So, what that means is, if a planet has no life, someone has to go there and turn it on. We did it remotely. What it''s doing now is scanning the planet. It has nobody there; it''s creating water and air. Literally, that''s all it''s doing. But it''s doing it so fast that it might pull itself out of orbit¡ªor, and this is more likely, pull into orbit and speed up its rotation as it grows. They all might. You might have a really bad meteor storm for a very long time after this. And we may have to look into a defense shield for the whole planet or a way of cleaning up the inner solar system, as you call it."


    The people in that room were aghast, and Ark just asked one thing:


    Ark: "Should I go on?"


    The general, who I guess hadn''t really left within the dark spot, said, "Continue," and everybody turned to look at who said it, and then looked back to where they were looking, because, like I said, the voice was coming from all around them. No one was actually looking at a teacher or a podium or anything like that.


    "Now, when a unit goes through a level zero or, AKA, a startup at the lowest level, it sends out a signal to all other ones within range¡ªall 30 of them, even me. I just got sent back to level zero capabilities. I''m locked out of half of my stuff, if not more.


    So, this is what''s going to happen. We need to still do what we said we''re going to do, but in a different method. There will be no live animals or anything like that. I can only create water, oxygen, hydrogen, basically level one and level zero. The difference is how many elements on the periodic table I can use.


    That''s what I can create. That''s it. That''s not all I can do." And this was said with such a little bit of a smile in the voice that the next thing you heard was Ark asking Jeremy to stand up and go to the center of the room, please, please make room for him.


    Everybody moved away and moved their tables and chairs¡ªall collapsible¡ªand in the very middle of the room, Jeremy stood, waiting for Ark to tell him what to do.


    Ark started a song but kept the pitch so low you could hear it, but you couldn''t tell what it was, like you could just hear the underlying beat of it. It was just enough, just enough to get under Jeremy''s skin as music, and, kind of, yeah, it worked really well. Ark was starting to understand what to do to pull Jeremy''s strings and push his buttons.


    Jeremy still couldn''t figure out what the song was, but Ark told him, "Now, put both your hands on the ground and close your eyes, and I''m going to turn up the music a bit, and when you do that, I''m going to steal your magic, and it''s going to make you feel probably tired. Everybody, keep an eye on him. If he starts bleeding out of any of his holes, we stop, but we''ve done this a couple of times, and it hasn''t happened."


    Warrant Officer Zen: "Do not do anything yet. Stop what you''re doing right now. You are to tell us what you''re doing before we let you do it. Do you understand? Explain what you''re doing."


    Ark: "You''re no fun... I had planned to show everything to make this look cool. I know Jeremy would have appreciated it. Fine, I''ll explain. When my technology was removed from my ability list, the only thing I can do is convert. So, let''s say I''m on a dead moon, and I''ve got radiated material. I can convert the stone, the radioactive material. I can break it all up and move it around. I can put all the reactants in one spot and all the stone in another spot. I can then say, ''Okay, this side''s safe, and this is how we make planets viable.'' Someone, at one point, put all that rain below ground. Yes, it may have been there before, but then it''s like, ''No, no, that''s what it is, that''s where it all goes,'' and it''s just magic. I mean, that''s where it was, that''s where it''s supposed to be, and that''s what I can do. So, how it works, I don''t have what we call the Mana battery anymore, or the converting device. It''s locked down, it''s here, but I don''t have access to it. And the only way to get access is to let the bigger system know that we''re higher level, and then people will be here; they will just come because there''s protocol. And me being alive and online for as long as I have, I''m one of the oldest ones. But I''ve also been screwed with the most and had the most copies of the human mind put in it. And I don''t think they ever expected the human mind. I think that''s what screwed it all up because you guys are murder hobos straightforward.


    And before you ask, no, getting back into the archives has actually been locked down, and it always has been when you get to level zero. So, before you ask, no, we can''t give anybody else more powers right now. But as long as we have Jeff and Jeremy, we don''t have to worry because we are the luckiest sons of the b**** in the world.


    We have two 100% charged magical batteries right in front of us. And the best part is, as long as they stay healthy, the magic can be recharged through the system and through the planet. So, we have a hacking device for my systems in a way. So, we just have to figure out what we want me to do, and then I can maybe move some material around. Also, I will not be opening up any more dungeons until we have control over what we can do. I don''t need this to go rogue and go wild. But here''s the next one: I have already downloaded the entire internet. It was only 87589 petabytes, and that was only the relevant part. I left all the cat videos for you all to have fun with. I don''t think I need all that.


    Now, I have all the patents, all the blueprints. Who wants an Iron Man suit? Good, because that will come. But for now, we have to find out some of the rules because I don''t want to blow you up. Truthfully, that''s just that. So, we''re going to put Jeremy''s hands on the floor, start the song, and then what''s going to happen is he''s going to flow juice into me, and I''m going to turn this into a proper office/area for you guys as a show of how this works."


    The general: "Get on with it already."


    Jeremy didn''t even wait to be told by another member; he just put his hands down


    nd said, "Ark, kick it."


    "Like a Prayer" by Madonna began to play.


    Jeremy knew that Ark didn''t want to mess around too much, so it used a calming song on him. Because it was all just one beat throughout the whole song, there wasn''t some pickup or drop-out. Ark was able to regulate how much energy Jeremy was giving and how much he was controlling. So, from everybody else''s point of view, it looked like this:


    Jeremy put his hands down on the ground, and "Like a Prayer" started playing. Jeremy''s hair went from looking like it was dyed to just being light bulbs that were turned off because his hair started glowing, emitting soft light from underneath his skin in that aura/wave of energy. It was just beating the life out of everybody in the room. And the next thing Jeremy heard, along with everybody else, almost stopped his heart, if not made it skip a beat.


    Ark: "Jeremy, I''m realizing something now, and I''m just going to tell you, so don''t freak out. But if you were to lift your hands off while we''re doing this, you could really hurt the people around you. So, don''t do that. Keep your palms down. And if anybody sees your palms come up, I''m going to ask them to treat it like it''s a weapon, okay? Realize the amount of juice coming out of you right now is scary amounts. I was expecting, let''s say, 100 units. You''ve got an extra 40 zeros. I''m creating some stuff right now underground, like large-ass caverns and other places for us. This is going to be an entire system, and I''m also taking probably a square kilometer of underground material and compressing it right now to do this. So, just know, I''m going to let the song play out because I''ve already started a very big project. It''s going to take about half an hour or so. But after the song, I probably won''t need any more of your energy. I''ve got a lot already. But the amount that it''s coming in, if I stop it off now, I''m going to burn out. I might as well just use the energy coming off you and do the work. So, wow. I have your collar set to 3%. What the hell are you humans? You''re not just batteries; you''re the Energizer freaking batteries of magic. This planet is going to freaking glow when we turn on the big pilot light."


    The general just said, "Everybody except Jeremy and Jeff, evacuate now. Get out of here."


    Just as everybody had left the room, the song ended, and the general said the following words.


    Ark I''m going to have to tell this to you now you''re not to do anything without asking for permission first and thank you for making this great thing for us but you just broke the rules again and under an hour


    if you want to do anything you run it by us first so we can make sure we''re not going to almost kill people is that understood Arc


    Ark: yes sir it was said with a tone and a voice of a lady that was pure Venom


    the general was about to walk out just stop dead right there and said this won''t do we have to be able to work together you just about murdered on my people why do you think this is unacceptable


    there is a long pause and then Ark responded with something I should have expected


    Ark: General I apologize you''re absolutely right you will get all it done in paperwork I''ll make sure of it I''m going to ask you right now sir Jeremy and Jeff I''m going to have them turn this into a little bunker and you guys can check on them every couple hours and I''m going to get them to start just using their power to basically start using up this area''s Reserve Dark Matter so I can start converting that Reserve into Magic and that will start this process and I''m hoping to get to level one cuz level one will allow me to enhance items you make AKA if this is a stone man or a small lizard or something I could put it in a box and zap it like I did with Jeremy and Jeff but not to that power I''ll be allowed to there''s rules small amounts only and it''s for teaching purposes actually so I think that should be acceptable but I won''t do anything without asking and that''s what I''m going to do to try to get to level one


    General also I''m just going to let you guys know this before everybody is told to either come back in or out or whatever happens here but if one of those planets on the outside of your Solar System''s belt gets to level one or two or three what will happen is I''ll be told and I''ll be upgraded we couldn''t get levelled all as a group so if I level too fast they''re going to level too fast and if they level too fast there could be consequences so let''s just take this slow and I apologize for having a bad day let''s call it that


    The general, new moment I started talking, realized this was some other part of Arc. Arc, a professional negotiator, knew the general was being handled. He didn''t like it, but definitely knew how to work with it.

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    The general left.


    It took the ark 74 hours to finish up. But in the end, thanks to Jeremy not knowing it, and Jeff knowing it, they stole Jeremy''s dreams and got permission through Jeff from the General, using Jeff to design a dungeon in a certain fashion.


    A little Euclidean geometry to screw with people, thanks to Jeremy. Now Ark had that mathematical ability to make areas that weren''t bigger on the inside but definitely acted weird.


    There were 42 floors, four staircase shafts, one in each corner of the cube that went straight down. There were 20 floors of residence facilities and working and living areas. The next 22 floors were all the physical dungeon. In this case, the first 10 floors were turned into mazes, obstacle courses, paintball, and shooting ranges. The last 10 were left blank for exploratory reasons and due to what Ark found while compressing the ground, stone, and sand down there.


    At this point, Ark was just about done, like we''re talking minutes, when a signal from outer space came in that it recognized and accepted. The message recognized it again and then read it.


    Ark got on the three-way call with Jeremy and Jeff and started to let them know what he found out.


    Ark: "I got an update from outer space. Remember that planet I told you about? Well, it was so far out, it tried making water, and it did. And it used up all the last of the magic it had. It''s dead. I mean, like hard dead. The water it made froze instantly. So what''s supposed to happen at that point is it just shuts off. I thought. Well, it sent out the signal. It''s called a death signal. It really has no more in its reserve. That was its one and only shot. Because of that, every single planet in your solar system, all 30 of them, have turned on. They''re all going through startup, and I can''t stop it. And I don''t think I want to. So I think you should tell the general.


    And you can also let them know that Mercury and Venus have been put into deep hibernation mode by me when I first came online, due to the fact how close they are to your sun. So they''re still there, but they''re actually a bit melted by my reckoning. There hasn''t been enough magic to fix them in a long time, so they''re just a ball of metal. But they''re still responding, so they can be fixed, but not until we get the rest of the system set up. I don''t want to melt a planet, throw it right into your sun, then cause a solar flare to kill everything. That would be bad.


    With that, Jeff, I took off, and I''ll talk to the general, let him know what was going on.


    The cool thing about the last 74 hours was that the room they were in went from just a plain Mt. cave to made out of white stone. Yes, but there was a bar, there were a couple of tables against one wall, there were now two hallways on the main room, one leading to the entrance to the first level of the dungeon, and to the other side was, well, Jeremy and Jeff both had a room off that hallway. Their room was in the room. It was a suite, a freaking suite. That was their new home. And past their doors was a kitchen area, a workout room, a bathroom, and there were also bathrooms in their rooms too. This was like a little apartment block for the two of them, and maybe one or two more people. Jeremy and Jeff kind of talked at one point, and I guess I could listen, about them doing a dungeon group of five, six, or seven, or eight.


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    But the weird part about it, even the beds were made of stone, the chairs were made of stone, the desks were made of stone. It was all made of stone. It was very weird to see like high accuracy carvings on soft stone. It was beautiful, just looked so alien just because of how it was done, beautiful but odd.


    When it was done, Jeff and Jeremy left to go get their stuff. Well, they had kind of hung around for a couple of days and needed a shower, and the plumbing in the Ark wasn''t really there yet. There was cold water on demand, but not hot. So for now, there was a little bit more they had to do, and food in the nap was definitely needed.


    Ark and the general were having a private conversation in a sub room.


    Ark: "General, you wish to see me? How can I help you, sir?"


    General: "Ah, Ark, perfect. Do you have any new updates on Jupiter? One of our scientists let me know if something, and I don''t know if this will be helpful or not, but let me know. Jupiter is coming into alignment shortly. Does that have anything to do with what''s going on?"


    Ark piped in quickly and said: "It means absolutely nothing unless we wanted to, sir. It could be used as a way of giving Jupiter another bolt of electricity, lightning, but other than that, at this point, that''s all I could do with that type of alignment. So, not that really useful."


    General: "So, if you were to send another blast of energy to Jupiter, what would be the benefits of doing that?"


    Ark: "What that would do is give that golf tee, that Arc, more power to do its job and also have a longer battery life. But I''m not too sure how much would actually get to there from here because I''d be sending basically a core magic, and there''s dark matter in the way. Magic and dark matter are what cancel each other out. Now, don''t get me wrong, we''ve done it once, but that first pulse didn''t turn on any of the other planets. So it wasn''t until the death signal went out that they came on. So something''s a little odd here, and I''m not too sure if I trust any of the sites until I take a look at them myself, and until they''re back on, I really wish I had talked to them before we lost connection and went back to zero."


    The General: "Is there any side effects to doing this, any downside to trying?"


    Ark: "I can see two possible bad outcomes come from this. One, we turn Jupiter on fully and give it full power, and it''s got a copy like me that is very upset, unhappy, and has no one around, just searching for whatever it wants. We can probably fix that if need be, but I don''t like that idea. The one that''s really got me a little freaked out is, what if I can''t shunt all the power into outer space? I don''t care where I shoot it. I mean, just up, even a little bit goes down and starts a pilot light. So, kind of thinking that might be a bad idea. We could try, but I wouldn''t want to use Jeremy, maybe Jeff, but definitely not Jeremy. Jeremy''s... glowing at this point."


    The General: "That was something else I want to ask, what the hell happened? And why is he juiced so hard?"


    Ark: "Oh, that''s simple. Your bodies, when you get hit with the first blast of real pure magic, absorb it. At first, you fight it, and your body gets sick and nauseous, and everything that you''ve known goes out the window because your brain that now says I should feel good or I should feel bad is now making your body feel good or bad, and you have to fight it. The second time Jeremy got hit, his body was already slightly juiced, awake, and ready for it. It just didn''t suck it in; it made love to the magic, and Jeremy is now a magical idiot. Well, every village needs one; he''s ours."


    Ark said this with a grin in his voice.


    The General just mentally waved Ark away and said, "Thank you very much, I''m done for today. I''ll call you if I need you. Have a great day."

 15

    Ark and the general had come to another agreement on how to treat each other with respect, even if there was no one to look at, as in Ark didn''t have a body. But because I was actually brought up in the bar was a statue, and when Ark was talking to people, the sounds now came from the statue. If it was supposed to be a group meeting and done with respect, a little odd, but I didn''t have a problem putting up a statue.


    The next two weeks were dealing with the United Nations members coming down to visit the dungeon and talk to Ark, and three wars had been started and stopped in that same time. No one cared about the dungeons right now, and everybody cared right now. It was just a lot of people were trying to put out a lot of fires. Every eye was on the dungeon, either through the accounts online, the live video feeds, or through the governments telling everybody what was going on.


    The next big surprise actually came from another place in the world where a dungeon had been set up, but no official request had come in. Though when Ark looked, it had been taken over by a warlord.


    Ark had made a deal that they wouldn''t do anything until the government was set up around


    the dungeon and it was being maintained properly and approved by the United Nations so that there were no war crimes being committed, trying to keep everything on the up and up and safe for everybody.


    After Ark informed the general, Ark didn''t have the ability to show a video that could at least tell the general what was going on. It had to be able to take pictures. So, Ark sent a snapshot or three hundred to the general and made a side comment at the same time.


    General, wouldn''t it be a shame if all the prisoners that are being used for slave labor somehow got into the dungeon, and while they were in and digging and finding stuff, they were disappearing until there were no more hostages? It helps the situation; it hurts the situation.


    The General kind of just looked up at the ceiling/corner of the office, like where you look at the camera that was mounted, and just said, "Let me get back to you on that. This could be a good idea." And with that, the first joint United Nation dungeon operation was imagined, and in 2 weeks, it had been enacted. And with that, an entire warlord and their army were not murdered but were taken into custody. Who then actually murdered them, which was kind of ewwww.


    All you get to hear are communing with something about murder hobos.


    The cat had been let out of the bag that Ark didn''t need Jeremy to be there to turn them on. But what Ark did tell them was that because they were using up all the energy, that dungeon was dead until they got to a very high level, probably 8, 9, or 10, due to the fact that you need to recharge the core. It was officially dead there. Dungeon.


    The United Nations, after finding out about that, rectified the rule that there would be no more doing that without full approval of the United Nations to the fact of losing a major resource and for an unknown amount of time.


    The party was just about to start because what Ark just found, it was like 4:00 in the morning, but Ark didn''t care. He let the full base know with a base-wide announcement.


    "To everyone in the dungeon, to everyone in the dungeon, the dungeon will start to shake. We have just gone from level one to level two. I repeat, we have gone from level one to level two. This is an earthquake, do not worry, you do not have to evacuate. Thank you." And with that, Ark metaphorically hit the big red button that said upgrade.


    Moments before this happened, Ark had gotten a message that enough biological matter had been acquired on Jupiter, but the air was low energy. So, Ark was getting an upgrade to level two just to fix the energy issues.


    Because everybody that was in the dungeon sleeping, they had been checked out every day to make sure that no one was getting magical powers, that it hadn''t been unlocked, any of that stuff, and everyone was fine. But then, that next morning, no one was going back to bed at 4:00 in the morning after that announcement. So, the morning meeting, everybody was wide awake, and they had woken people up all around the world to let them know.


    When the words "Jupiter" and "upgrade" hit satellites, they were all pointed there, and they even got permission to point the Webber scope at Jupiter. There was mass freaking hysteria for weeks after that when the first pictures of Jupiter came out because it looked just like it did before, same shape. But now that we can see the clouds, you could see almost ghostly figures dancing through the clouds. And we''re not talking one or two; we''re talking at 9 or 10 billion. And the more they looked, the more detail it looked like.


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    They had asked as soon as they noticed it, and not joking, Ark''s answer is, "Don''t know, cool huh? But seriously, it looks like magic and air flows are mixing there, and its natural shapes are non-Newtonian at times and even human-like looking. That''s what magic can do. What you are seeing is one of the layers of magic. So, a type of magic, as you call it, it comes from dark matter. It''s the memories of the human form. If there was life on that planet at one point, it might have left residue. But because you can''t see anything, I''m thinking it''s just so much raw, unfiltered that it''s just a way of expressing itself. And magic wants to express itself. And you guys did the dumbest thing. You looked, and magic knows you looked. And it looked back, and it saw your bodies, your shape, your mind, and it felt your emotions. And yes, it reached out and it danced for you as angels and demons. Welcome to magic. It''s f***** up."


    That same day, Ark had requested some ammunition and weapons to be brought down into the bar because Ark had installed a little booth built into the wall. It was only big enough for a small item to go into and then close the door, but Ark was going to try and fuse raw elemental energy into different items.


    The general had approved this, and they had agreed that the first step would be taking all the different types, and at lost count there is between


    30 and 92 types. 30 that they had enough material that they could try a hundred times, a thousand times, and they wouldn''t run out; the other 62 were in such small quantities that for now, that was just, "Don''t touch them."


    The first thing they asked for was 30 bullets on a magazine stripper, which is just a piece of plastic that keeps the bullets all in a row and you can pick them up as one unit. They put four strippers with 30 bullets each into the chamber and closed it.


    It took Ark but two hours to precisely ingest the right amount of dark matter, convert it, move it over, and infuse it into the bullet tips, not the gunpowder. And that was the problem, Ark didn''t know what would happen if he infused the gunpowder.


    So, the next test was to take just one bullet, put it in the chamber, and fuse it, and then pocket it outside the dungeon just to make sure it wouldn''t explode.


    When they were ready to test, and after it had been infused, Ark messaged The General, and the general sounded the air raid for explosion tests and made an announcement that there would be an explosion and a test. This is not an attack; do not panic.


    When that was done, the soldiers took the bullet that had been infused only into the gunpowder with energy and hooked it out into the environment.


    There was no explosion. That was great, right on. Then they took one of the bullets off the stripper and threw it. It exploded so quickly.


    They realized that the bullet that they had thrown that did not explode was still alive and probably would explode.


    Master Corporal Thomas had been keeping an eye on these two this whole time and reporting back when needed, and just walked upstairs, found the bullet that did not explode, put it into his gun, and pulled the trigger.


    The general would then go on to citing him for stupidity and had him removed because his entire weapon splintered from the barrel to the shaft like in the cartoons and went pieces flying everywhere.


    They rushed him to the hospital.


    It took them another couple of days of trying to realize that the only way they could take something out of the dungeon was to take a piece of metal, infuse it, and then shape it so they can make magic metal. But the moment they took it out, the amount of energy that was in it didn''t bond with the metal, and it just released. The material wouldn''t hold, and it just would release. But if you banged the living crap out of it or processed it a little bit, the outer side, the outer shell wasn''t so magical, and therefore it didn''t really explode and acted kind of like a half barrier. So you just kind of had to damage your equipment a little bit, but we''re thinking of a paint job that maybe can be used, but not too sure yet.


    When some of the first magical bullets were created, the gunpowder was not the enchanted part. And how it worked is it made the bullet head actually out of two pieces of material, one, one material and the other one copper. The idea is that Ark could define the difference in the material and only energize the inner one, not the outer one, which we don''t understand how it''s done still to this day, but it worked.


    It was so cool to see the first ice bullets, and literally, they made the target so cold when they broke up, and it was, how do I explain this? The amount of cold energy that was released made the whole environment for a couple of seconds change. It was almost like the clouds came down; it was just a burst of cold. Thinking of having that on fully automatic, you could freeze an area to walk on it. It was amazing to see, but we kind of set fire to everything when we used the fire one, and I mean everything. It was like napalm in a handgun.


    That day they all went home going, "We just used magic weapons." And they knew the weapon Smith''s had been requesting to come down, so Jeremy asked Ark if they''re willing to do another upgrade to the dungeon, and Ark was ready for another couple of floors because, well, the bar needed an anvil and Smithy area, and the infusing chamber needed to be upgraded to a larger size for larger things¡­

 16

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    Ark and the general had come to another agreement on how to treat each other with respect, even if there was no one to look at, as in Ark didn''t have a body. But because I was actually brought up in the bar was a statue, and when Ark was talking to people, the sounds now came from the statue. If it was supposed to be a group meeting and done with respect, a little odd, but I didn''t have a problem putting up a statue.


    The next two weeks were dealing with the United Nations members coming down to visit the dungeon and talk to Ark, and three wars had been started and stopped in that same time. No one cared about the dungeons right now, and everybody cared right now. It was just a lot of people were trying to put out a lot of fires. Every eye was on the dungeon, either through the accounts online, the live video feeds, or through the governments telling everybody what was going on.


    The next big surprise actually came from another place in the world where a dungeon had been set up, but no official request had come in. Though when Ark looked, it had been taken over by a warlord.


    Ark had made a deal that they wouldn''t do anything until the government was set up around


    the dungeon and it was being maintained properly and approved by the United Nations so that there were no war crimes being committed, trying to keep everything on the up and up and safe for everybody.


    After Ark informed the general, Ark didn''t have the ability to show a video that could at least tell the general what was going on. It had to be able to take pictures. So, Ark sent a snapshot or three hundred to the general and made a side comment at the same time.


    General, wouldn''t it be a shame if all the prisoners that are being used for slave labor somehow got into the dungeon, and while they were in and digging and finding stuff, they were disappearing until there were no more hostages? It helps the situation; it hurts the situation.


    The General kind of just looked up at the ceiling/corner of the office, like where you look at the camera that was mounted, and just said, "Let me get back to you on that. This could be a good idea." And with that, the first joint United Nation dungeon operation was imagined, and in 2 weeks, it had been enacted. And with that, an entire warlord and their army were not murdered but were taken into custody. Who then actually murdered them, which was kind of ewwww.


    All you get to hear are communing with something about murder hobos.


    The cat had been let out of the bag that Ark didn''t need Jeremy to be there to turn them on. But what Ark did tell them was that because they were using up all the energy, that dungeon was dead until they got to a very high level, probably 8, 9, or 10, due to the fact that you need to recharge the core. It was officially dead there. Dungeon.


    The United Nations, after finding out about that, rectified the rule that there would be no more doing that without full approval of the United Nations to the fact of losing a major resource and for an unknown amount of time.


    The party was just about to start because what Ark just found, it was like 4:00 in the morning, but Ark didn''t care. He let the full base know with a base-wide announcement.


    "To everyone in the dungeon, to everyone in the dungeon, the dungeon will start to shake. We have just gone from level one to level two. I repeat, we have gone from level one to level two. This is an earthquake, do not worry, you do not have to evacuate. Thank you." And with that, Ark metaphorically hit the big red button that said upgrade.


    Moments before this happened, Ark had gotten a message that enough biological matter had been acquired on Jupiter, but the air was low energy. So, Ark was getting an upgrade to level two just to fix the energy issues.


    Because everybody that was in the dungeon sleeping, they had been checked out every day to make sure that no one was getting magical powers, that it hadn''t been unlocked, any of that stuff, and everyone was fine. But then, that next morning, no one was going back to bed at 4:00 in the morning after that announcement. So, the morning meeting, everybody was wide awake, and they had woken people up all around the world to let them know.


    When the words "Jupiter" and "upgrade" hit satellites, they were all pointed there, and they even got permission to point the Webber scope at Jupiter. There was mass freaking hysteria for weeks after that when the first pictures of Jupiter came out because it looked just like it did before, same shape. But now that we can see the clouds, you could see almost ghostly figures dancing through the clouds. And we''re not talking one or two; we''re talking at 9 or 10 billion. And the more they looked, the more detail it looked like.


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    They had asked as soon as they noticed it, and not joking, Ark''s answer is, "Don''t know, cool huh? But seriously, it looks like magic and air flows are mixing there, and its natural shapes are non-Newtonian at times and even human-like looking. That''s what magic can do. What you are seeing is one of the layers of magic. So, a type of magic, as you call it, it comes from dark matter. It''s the memories of the human form. If there was life on that planet at one point, it might have left residue. But because you can''t see anything, I''m thinking it''s just so much raw, unfiltered that it''s just a way of expressing itself. And magic wants to express itself. And you guys did the dumbest thing. You looked, and magic knows you looked. And it looked back, and it saw your bodies, your shape, your mind, and it felt your emotions. And yes, it reached out and it danced for you as angels and demons. Welcome to magic. It''s f***** up."


    That same day, Ark had requested some ammunition and weapons to be brought down into the bar because Ark had installed a little booth built into the wall. It was only big enough for a small item to go into and then close the door, but Ark was going to try and fuse raw elemental energy into different items.


    The general had approved this, and they had agreed that the first step would be taking all the different types, and at lost count there is between


    30 and 92 types. 30 that they had enough material that they could try a hundred times, a thousand times, and they wouldn''t run out; the other 62 were in such small quantities that for now, that was just, "Don''t touch them."


    The first thing they asked for was 30 bullets on a magazine stripper, which is just a piece of plastic that keeps the bullets all in a row and you can pick them up as one unit. They put four strippers with 30 bullets each into the chamber and closed it.


    It took Ark but two hours to precisely ingest the right amount of dark matter, convert it, move it over, and infuse it into the bullet tips, not the gunpowder. And that was the problem, Ark didn''t know what would happen if he infused the gunpowder.


    So, the next test was to take just one bullet, put it in the chamber, and fuse it, and then pocket it outside the dungeon just to make sure it wouldn''t explode.


    When they were ready to test, and after it had been infused, Ark messaged The General, and the general sounded the air raid for explosion tests and made an announcement that there would be an explosion and a test. This is not an attack; do not panic.


    When that was done, the soldiers took the bullet that had been infused only into the gunpowder with energy and hooked it out into the environment.


    There was no explosion. That was great, right on. Then they took one of the bullets off the stripper and threw it. It exploded so quickly.


    They realized that the bullet that they had thrown that did not explode was still alive and probably would explode.


    Master Corporal Thomas had been keeping an eye on these two this whole time and reporting back when needed, and just walked upstairs, found the bullet that did not explode, put it into his gun, and pulled the trigger.


    The general would then go on to citing him for stupidity and had him removed because his entire weapon splintered from the barrel to the shaft like in the cartoons and went pieces flying everywhere.


    They rushed him to the hospital.


    It took them another couple of days of trying to realize that the only way they could take something out of the dungeon was to take a piece of metal, infuse it, and then shape it so they can make magic metal. But the moment they took it out, the amount of energy that was in it didn''t bond with the metal, and it just released. The material wouldn''t hold, and it just would release. But if you banged the living crap out of it or processed it a little bit, the outer side, the outer shell wasn''t so magical, and therefore it didn''t really explode and acted kind of like a half barrier. So you just kind of had to damage your equipment a little bit, but we''re thinking of a paint job that maybe can be used, but not too sure yet.


    When some of the first magical bullets were created, the gunpowder was not the enchanted part. And how it worked is it made the bullet head actually out of two pieces of material, one, one material and the other one copper. The idea is that Ark could define the difference in the material and only energize the inner one, not the outer one, which we don''t understand how it''s done still to this day, but it worked.


    It was so cool to see the first ice bullets, and literally, they made the target so cold when they broke up, and it was, how do I explain this? The amount of cold energy that was released made the whole environment for a couple of seconds change. It was almost like the clouds came down; it was just a burst of cold. Thinking of having that on fully automatic, you could freeze an area to walk on it. It was amazing to see, but we kind of set fire to everything when we used the fire one, and I mean everything. It was like napalm in a handgun.


    That day they all went home going, "We just used magic weapons." And they knew the weapon Smith''s had been requesting to come down, so Jeremy asked Ark if they''re willing to do another upgrade to the dungeon, and Ark was ready for another couple of floors because, well, the bar needed an anvil and Smithy area, and the infusing chamber needed to be upgraded to a larger size for larger things¡­

 17

    The next morning at 6:00 a.m., at the CFB Winnipeg Barracks where they ended up after visiting the dungeon, Zen knocked politely on the door. Because of Ark, Jeremy, and Jeff¡¯s little experiment yesterday, the United Nations literally exploded, with an attack on the damn building in New York City.


    The entire Canadian military at CFB Winnipeg was told to get Jeremy and Jeff the hell out of Canada. They were heading to a secret dungeon in the United States for security reasons, then back to Britain to unlock the dungeon. The United Nations couldn''t stop this, but both countries insisted on unlocking it and walking away. Ark would be connected, but they wouldn''t be allowed near after yesterday¡¯s and the day before''s s*** show.


    Jeff and Jeremy were basically sidelined. They didn¡¯t need Jeff or Jeremy, just Ark to open the dungeons. Everyone was confused why Jeremy and Jeff were going, even Jeremy and Jeff. But Ark told them that without at least Jeremy, it wasn¡¯t opening the dungeons without the Guardian¡¯s permission. At this point, Jeremy and Jeff were good enough friends that Jeff agreed to be Jeremy¡¯s Guardian.


    Jeff didn''t get a rank boost, but it helped him more. They knew they could fulfill their contract to unlock two more dungeons, then take a small vacation while the world exploded, imploded, and crumbled around the government.


    The news showed entire cities of people with nothing, flocking to dungeons worldwide, creating a massive mess. Some horrible, overpopulated towns became ghost towns, while others balanced out. The issue was food, starting a big fight with Ark over providing water.


    Ark first thought it was a great idea, so a private at the Stonewall dungeon grabbed a small cup with a lid, took some water the dungeon created, sealed it, and hooked it outside. Everyone was super happy until the officers in charge knew what could happen. They had to defuse the possible bomb that was that container of water. Someone with a very low caliber .22 rifle gave it a quick shot to pop it. Holy crap, no one wanted to touch it because they didn¡¯t know how it would react, so detonating from afar was the best option.


    As the bullet penetrated the plastic container, there was a ripple effect caught on camera. It looked like a s*** show with Jeremy running it, but people were keeping an eye on the two village idiots. On the slow-motion camera, as the bullet was halfway through the container, you could see the oxygen entering. All the water was displaced by the oxygen, breaking down into a white/blue glow. The container, now holding something 1,500 times its size, expanded quickly.


    They figured out that sublimation happened from a liquid to a gas, even thinner than gas, at atmospheric pressure. This happened all in half a second, if not quicker. After that, they couldn''t provide water because it would blow up. But during this time, Ark wasn¡¯t idle. It used its technology to displace the Earth and made small tunnels.


    These tunnels started off centimetres wide, going down to look for water tables. If Ark found a suitable water table that wasn¡¯t ancient, sacred, or connected to bad water sources, it would solidify the tube and expand the diameter to whatever was needed for the amount of water. It made a sealed tube with a note on top saying, ¡°Add pump here.¡± As long as they put a sealed pump on top and kept pumping, water would come up. Even if it was a big pipe and deep, it still brought water. People had water as soon as different groups got there, saw the sign, tested the water, and found everything great. This happened within minutes, though it took an hour to come up with the idea. By the time the bottle was exploding, Ark was already digging tunnels and setting up pump sites.


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    Knowing people would be around, Ark spread out like a small spider web around each dungeon. Any wastewater or anything wrong, pissed off, s*** on, or dumped out, as long as it made it into the lower 10 ft of ground, would reach a different water table, get back to Ark, and be processed for biological material. It would use this to make organisms for other planets but, in this case, experiment with bacteria and other single-cell organisms. This could lead to real magic potions containing magical items. Ark hadn¡¯t figured this out yet but had Jeremy¡¯s Dungeons and Dragons book and knew the goal, just not how to get there yet.


    Behind closed doors, Ark made a deal with the United Nations to make small amounts of ammunition for testing and trial shipping. They needed to figure this out before making mass amounts because they were great with this, but it was the one item they didn¡¯t want to give anybody. It was a new deterrent, a new MAD item.


    They all said one thing and did another. They wanted non-war-related items but needed enough to kill their enemies, so there could be no war anymore. Everyone was trying to get in on it, creating a s*** show. During this time, a lot of little people got stepped on, and warlords stepped up their s***.


    One big issue on the news was dungeons with no one going to them because people were too thin to send anyone. These dungeons were also in the middle of nowhere, making it hard to start building anything. Corporations tried to buy those sites from governments, but governments wanted the mineral rights, leading to mini micro under-the-table wars over certain sites. This wasn¡¯t looking good for the casualties, and the United Nations were getting pretty pissed.


    The US site they were going to activate was in North Dakota, chosen because it was the closest dungeon to Canada. Jeremy and Jeff were shoved into vehicles and driven to North Dakota. They hit the mess hall, grabbed some pocket food, and were driven in vehicles with tinted windows. Even at the border, they just went right through.


    They arrived at a big building, about five stories tall, a giant square. They went through big double doors and were led straight to the gate. Jeremy, unsure what to do, listened to Ark and put his hand on the gate without powering up. Ark said done and told him to get back in the vehicles.


    Jeremy and Jeff were taken to a private little jet, which flew quickly to the UK. They were put into black vehicles and driven to the site, literally driven up to the arch without going through the building the normal way. Jeremy put his hand on the arch, and Ark didn¡¯t pull anything from Jeremy. It just looked like Jeremy had to do it. Jeremy was so juiced that just putting his hand there was enough to start it up.


    Of course, nothing could go smoothly. As the second dungeon came online, s*** started to go wrong instantly. The dungeon was in the heart of London, underground but not really, as it had a roof, making it look underground.


    As the ground around the ark started to go away and the stairs appeared, a little ghost puppy bounded up the stairs and through a wall. It looked ephemeral, like a ghost, but a real ghost. It was a whitish spec-tor, cute, and trying to say something. As it came up the stairs, it barked at everyone but made no sound. We were all just standing there, not petrified, just stunned out of our f****** minds. It took off like a bolt, happy and free, leaving the room feeling good. Everyone looked at me, glowing as Jeremy.


    I hadn¡¯t expected that, but what the hell, it¡¯s going to get weird. My favourite thing next was someone saying the mascot for the guards from 200 years ago was a f****** statue of that dog outside.


    The room exploded at that point. I didn¡¯t know this was a fort or some old building. Jeremy and Jeff were literally shoved back into vehicles. and drove off...

 18

    After Ark''s little speech tonight,The UNtalked in private, Jeremy and Jeff were put on confined leave for the next month. Their only duties were to transport Jeremy once or twice a day, depending on what Ark told them, up to the Ark where Jeremy was to drain as much as he could. Additionally, he was banned from doing any other work for the military, except making those little videos that Jeff and Jeremy have been making for YouTube.


    For the next four days, it was quite chill. Someone even managed to sneak in some weed for Jeremy, and Jeff got himself a bottle of Jack. At nighttime, the two of them would just relax, watching TV or talking. It was nice not to be going psychotic, and they made a deal not to turn on the news for the next couple of days.


    At the end of day four, their little vacation was over. Jeremy sat outside his tent with a joint in his mouth on the military base, and everybody was looking at him with a side-eye like he was a piece of crap. He didn''t care. He was tired, stressed, living in a tent, and felt like saying, "F*** you all." He was upset, but at the same time, he was in Scotland drinking and smoking; it was a good little vacation, if you will.


    But then, Zen, who was still their controller, informed them that the United Nations had decided Zen would be their military liaison through Canada. This turned out to be the case in the end, giving them at least one point of reference.


    Zen had been giving reports and explaining that Jeremy had been following orders and not causing any trouble. However, the United Nations informed Zen about a small incident where some of the water taken from Scotland mysteriously disappeared during transport. There was one compressed cylinder about the height of a teenager, 5 ft tall, containing Mana water. They didn''t know where it was, but they knew that a certain Commander had been bribed and disappeared with the container. They needed Ark''s help to locate it, if possible.


    As Zen explained this to Jeremy and Jeff, Ark chimed in through their three-way communication, explaining that he had already set up a scan of the area around each dungeon. Nothing was showing up within a 2 km radius of the dungeon, which was the current distance visible due to most of the dungeons having low to almost no power.


    Ark had kind of planned for something to go wrong, and when it did, he intended to use that incident to drop the bomb on Jeremy in a good way to help him out. After Zen told Jeremy and Jeff about the lost canister, Ark came back with the following words:


    "Hey, Jeremy. So, I''ve got a scan going around 2 km around each dungeon, and I''ve got nothing. I don''t see the cylinder because its magic is being hidden. Now, when they start releasing it, if I notice anything, I''ll say something. Now, I want to apologize to you, Jeremy. Don''t freak out, but I talked with the United Nations a while back and explained something to them. Yeah, the reason why you''re draining your power into the Ark right now isn''t because we''re turning on dungeons quickly this way. It''s because your body is so juiced that you''re breaking down and dying."


    The joint fell from Jeremy''s mouth as he looked at Zen and started crying, falling to his knees. "I''m dying," he choked out.


    Zen''s eyes held pity and remorse for the kid he remembered when he was 18 or 19, now in his 40s and still as much of an idiot, now dying.


    Zen asked softly, "Is there anything you need?"


    Jeremy had lost it, so Jeff shook his head and said, "Just give me some time with him. He''s unpacking a lot of s***. Oh, and no, Ark can''t find it because it''s in a metal cylinder. If they open it, maybe he can find it then. We''ll let you know."


    Zen wasn''t happy with that answer, but after seeing Jeremy crying on the ground, being told he was about to die, he didn''t push further.


    As Zen walked away, seriously depressed himself, as soon as Zen was out of earshot, Ark said to Jeff, "Get Jeremy inside now. I''ll explain more."


    Realizing something else was going on, Jeff grabbed Jeremy by the arm and under the armpit, brought him into the tent, shut the flaps, and settled Jeremy into his bunk room where he had a bed. Jeremy was distraught.


    Ark turned the three-way call back on. "Jeremy, I''m so sorry I lied to you."


    Jeremy raised his head at those words. "What? How can I trust you?"


    Ark took on Jeremy''s exact voice. "I had to do it because you technically are dying, but I think I''ve figured out how to save you. I didn''t want to tell them that; I just wanted them to realize how much you put into this and how much you''re risking your life. Technically, you are dying, but draining your energy into the Ark is already showing great improvements. Thanks to the sewer system I set up here, I''m getting poop. I''m turning that poop into biologicals that are being broken down into really weird organisms that have never been on your planet before. I''m currently doing a lot of experiments with cultures. Some of these alien microorganisms¡ªif this turns out right, I''m shooting for an HP potion or MP potion, just like in your books. How do you feel about that? If I can make that and it does something like gives you energy or heals you, that''s a start. Guess who''s going to get the first whack at that? You will, because you''re dying. Of course, we''ll test it on mice and all that, but once it''s safe, you''ll be so strong, and I''ll make sure they don''t kick you out. Just work with me not to f*** this up. I might lie to you again, I apologize, but I''ll always tell you that I lied after and explain why. That''s my deal with you, Jeremy. You''re my guardian; I''m your Ark. You don''t know what that means because you don''t know the history of my planet, and I don''t have that unlocked right now because I''ve been reset. Once we get there, I''ll explain myself. But the two of us are one now, in a weird way. Oh, and I''m okay with adopting Jeff."


    With that, Jeff smiled and agreed, albeit as a joke, but Ark could hear Jeremy''s thoughts and Jeff''s thoughts and all together, they kind of all agreed. So, Ark made it official. "I officially invite you, Jeff, as a Guardian Junior." The power Jeff felt in his neck did something really weird because before, he didn''t have the ability to turn his hearing on and off. Well, he kind of did. Now, in the back of his head, there was a dial, like a little something he could twist. As he twisted it just a little bit, it wasn''t just sound he was hearing; it was vibrations. It was like his body became a tuning fork. Jeff just left that on and started to learn, smiling the whole time.


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    Jeremy, having had such a roller coaster ride, dug into his pocket, pulled out a little tube with joints, and lit one up in his room. He didn''t care anymore. Jeff yelled at him, told him to get outside. Jeremy went back to his chair outside the tent flap and sat there for the rest of the night, not wanting to talk to Ark, who was really pissed off at Ark.


    They found out that the United Nations had put a bounty out on that Commander, and I''m not going to say which government it was from because they''re trying to avoid blaming one country for one person. So, it was a personal, not a governmental, posting for the arrest and recapture of the lost water. It was all over the news. Even without hearing it on TV, it was on people''s radios all around the base, and people were talking about it. It was like you couldn''t not know.


    So, basically, the whole world knew that magic was available to one person if they could find him, and that it could kill you. The crazies all over the world were hunting this guy down, thinking he was in the United States, Mexico, or Canada. They didn''t know which way he went.


    As one last screw-you to the United Nations for all the infighting, Ark let them know that he had released a list of answers to people''s questions that they had asked Jeremy. The thing was like 30 pages long, the real long version. They were all non-answers, and every once in a while, one of the answers would have a hint in it. He published it openly to the newspapers, asking for more questions to be asked. The United Nations couldn''t do anything because right in Jeremy''s contract, it was that he was supposed to do this. That Ark had given out the information before they vetted it was what was wrong. So, what were they going to do? Stop Ark? How?


    The next morning, Jeremy had a fire inside him. He wanted this energy out of him, so as soon as the sun rose, Jeremy was at the mess hall eating, dressed, had a shower, and was full of energy.


    Jeff, who had been following Jeremy the last couple of days, couldn''t keep up at first. "Okay, slow down, come on," he said, but Jeremy just wanted to get to the Ark and start draining himself as quickly as he could.


    During Jeremy''s breakfast, he had come up with an idea the previous night but didn''t want to bring it up until he fully thought it out. Ark was listening to Jeremy''s thoughts and heard about this. He let Jeremy think it all out. By the time Jeremy was done, Ark already had something figured out, built, and ready to answer Jeremy''s question because he had a really good answer but didn''t know what to do.


    "So, the question was, if I pump too much energy into the Ark, how the hell do we get it to go up and out without it screwing up the environment or going down into the planet? Is there something that we can transfer that into inside the Ark or inside the dungeons? But the dungeons are connected, so that doesn''t work. Yet, at the Ark, is there some way of pulsing that energy away up into space?"


    Ark could actually do something like that and had thought about this before, but not pulsing. The idea was that instead of a giant beam of energy, a constant pulse at different frequencies or different energy wavelengths, or something like that, could just dissipate into the environment, into the atmosphere, in controlled amounts.


    Everyone had already been recording and noting that around the Dungeons and the Ark, when a dungeon was not active, you couldn''t really see it, except right around the gate. If there was plant life, it would get greener and healthier. When a dungeon was turned on, for about 2 km around, the green was all grass; it was beautiful, a lush environment, whatever it was.


    Around the Ark, that was about 20 km.


    The town actually had to talk to its sheep herders and cow herders and ask to have more herds brought in because the grasses were growing so fast that the animals they had couldn''t eat enough. Within a week or two, they literally doubled the amount of animals. They were everywhere, chomping down grass. The poop piles were everywhere.


    The military base hired some people with riding lawn mowers to come and cut the base and then dump the shavings over a fence for the animals, so the animals wouldn''t be inside the base or Tent City, really.


    After the military was informed that Jeremy knew, they got a chaplain and a shrink to come see Jeremy and Jeff because, at this point, Jeremy was now, supposedly (which no one knew was half-lie), going through the steps of denial due to his oncoming death.


    When the chaplain and shrink talked with Jeremy, they gave him a positive report. He was very happy, outgoing, and had hope that he was going to survive. It was all good vibes, and they just said he was very stressed out and should take some time off. So, yeah, they basically said, "Do what you''re doing," and for the next week or two, all Jeremy did was go to the Ark every day and drain his energy.


    After two weeks of doing this, Ark let the United Nations know that Jeremy''s death date had been extended due to draining his mana, and he wasn''t in danger, but he wasn''t out of danger. He still had to keep draining; he had way too much. Once Jeremy''s was low enough, they would start draining Jeff too, or find another way to get him to start using it.


    One of the questions the United Nations members had was, "Is there another way that Jeremy can be getting rid of this energy, other than pumping it into the Ark?"


    Ark actually had an experiment he wanted to try with Jeremy. His collar had a limiter built in that would make a shield of energy around Jeremy to keep the energy in. If they were to turn down that shield''s power, not all the way, but just start turning it down, Jeremy''s magic would come out. They could see if his body could acclimate to a higher amount. Then, maybe they could pump it through him, allowing him to get rid of it, but not at the amount that he was holding onto them. So, they were talking about starting with half a percent.


    The United Nations honestly wanted to do this, and it wasn''t a hard sell for them to allow them to test on Jeremy, but only Jeremy, not Jeff, was the answer they got from the United Nations, Ark.


    That night, after dinner, officers, Zen, came to find Jeremy and Jeff after finding out about their approvals and let Jeremy know that he had the green light to work with Ark on a very small, limited basis to see what kind of magic Jeremy could actually do now that everybody had stopped freaking out.


    Jeremy actually knew all this because Ark told him, but then threw in a little twist of his own, which he hadn''t been told would have been approved, so both Jeremy and Jeff kept a straight face when Zen pulled this little stunt, but they went with it.


    Zen explained that during testing, Jeremy was to record it for the higher-ups to watch before it goes on YouTube.


    That was close to the agreement that was made, but that wasn''t the agreement, and Zen didn''t know Jeremy''s contract, but a certain JAG officer put in a line that all videos were to be live-streamed to YouTube for The Archives.


    Those were Jeremy''s standing orders.


    So, Jeremy just agreed with Zen and said, "Of course, we will follow the procedures that we were given."


    Zen''s distaste for Jeremy showed on his face instantly when he remembered how Jeremy would listen to every word like a lawyer and weasel his way out of stuff that didn''t sound right.


    But Zen also had Jeremy saying he would, so distrust was now on the table. We''ll see what Jeremy did.


    So, that interaction didn''t go too well, and the next day, they set it up to live stream like they always did. They hit record and didn''t find out about it until after because they didn''t want anybody to know that they were testing on Jeremy.


    The test didn''t just go well; it WENT great. It was magical...

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    Within three minutes of starting, Zen''s phone was ringing off the hook because the stream had gone live. There was nothing they could do to stop it, so they just got yelled at. Nothing serious happened because Ark had listened in and knew it was just one commander giving Zen that order, which was wrong. Unless that commander intervened, Zen wouldn''t get in trouble.


    Zen was so mad he almost grabbed Jeremy, but Jeremy knew Zen wouldn''t actually hurt him because he didn''t deserve that, despite the bad order. On the other hand, Jeff got yelled at and put on some sort of punishment that would come after the magic show.


    Jeremy and Jeff were told by Ark to bring some speakers for the test. People around could hear what Jeremy was hearing, and Jeremy was supposed to find a patch of grass within 500 feet that couldn''t be destroyed. He would sit in the middle of it, play a song, and Ark would slowly turn down the power on the collar.


    Here''s how it really went down: Jeremy looked at Jeff and gave a thumbs up. Jeff hit the button to start the stream, and Jeremy began his talk.


    "Hi world, this is Jeremy. Today, we''re going to turn down the power on the collar that controls my energy from coming out of my body. I''ve gotten rid of enough of the energy that I''m not going to die yet. So let''s try to get rid of more energy from my body so that I don''t melt from the inside out."


    The looks on Jeff''s and Zen''s faces were priceless and something Jeremy would cherish for the rest of his life. Zen looked like he wanted to murder Jeremy, while Jeff seemed resigned, muttering to himself about Jeremy being the village idiot.


    Jeremy and Jeff had discussed how Jeremy didn''t like lying because he was good at it and it made him feel icky. Why lie when it wasn''t necessary?


    Before Jeff could play the song, Jeremy spoke to the camera. "Okay, so today we''re going to turn some music on. I''m not going to do anything but just stand here. I like this tune I found on YouTube, so let''s see what happens."


    Ark''s voice came through the speakers they had brought. "Hey Jeremy, I''ve got my finger on the dial. If anything goes wrong, put your hand straight up in the air or hit the ground. If you''re standing, we''ll keep going; hands in the air or a wave if something''s wrong, or hit the ground, and I will turn it back to full control on the collar and lock it down to what it is right now. Does that make sense?"


    Jeremy smiled and gave a thumbs up, while Jeff shook his head and hit play. The song started, a remix of ABBA techno, and it got Jeremy''s blood pumping a little.


    Jeremy could instantly feel the power. The moment Ark began turning it down, even a fraction, Jeremy''s hair began to glow. It wasn''t just glowing; it emitted light in almost every color of the rainbow, brighter at the root and dark red at the tip. He looked like one of those things you buy at Disney on Ice, with funny colors coming out of fiber optic wires.


    By the time Ark had reduced Jeremy''s collar to 2%, from 100% to 98%, something wasn''t going quite right. The next song, Hugh Laurie''s "Unchain My Heart," was slower and more meaningful than some of the earlier tunes, touching Jeremy more deeply than a typical pop song.


    That''s when things started to go awry. At 3% and 4%, Ark realized they needed to pause and let a few songs play out to observe the fluctuations based on beats per minute.


    "So, you want me to sit here and listen to music?" Jeremy asked. "I can do that. Care if I dance while we do this? It''s a better show than me sitting on my ass."


    Jeremy said this directly to the camera, reminiscent of old movies. Jeff and Zen simultaneously put their hands to their foreheads, realizing the situation was becoming comedic


    The next song, an upbeat Japanese tune, "ATARASHII GAKKO! - Fly High," caused things to go off the rails a bit. At 4%, Ark was pushing the limit, registering a brink of instability. Jeremy started feeling strange, swinging and dancing to the song. Internet viewers were the first to notice something odd: Jeremy''s movements lost force gradually until it was like watching a pendulum stop.


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    Jeremy recognized the song''s music video and occasionally threw a punch, but it was odd¡ªjust one arm, not using his body. He adjusted his stance and now planted his back foot, throwing a couple of jabs with more strength from his back foot into his punches. This caught everyone''s attention because Jeremy''s fingers and hands began to glow by 3%, and by 4%, Ark kept watching untill there was a crack of sound and a small glowing area around jeremys hands.


    As the next song, "Transformers The Movie 1986: Theme Song - Lion - HD Quality," started, Jeff immediately cut it off. He knew the song''s significance to Jeremy, having listened to it countless times. Jeremy was bouncing on the balls of his feet like a professional boxer, ready to throw another punch.


    They cut the feed but kept the video rolling. Jeff and Zen looked at Jeremy. Zen stayed behind the camera, while Jeff approached Jeremy. He saw a drop of blood on Jeremy''s hands and examined them closely.


    From the tip of Jeremy''s thumb across his fingers, there was a nearly perfect line as if he had put his hand through fire. The tips were blackened, covered in ash, not external but internal burns, making no sense. Jeremy was rushed to the medical tent, and he didn''t return for five hours.


    The video wasn''t just a hit; it was a miracle. An unexpected side effect was someone coming forward about the missing water tank. This person''s uncle, a military man, there family member said  " they where ranting about magic and i thought they where just on drugs or alcohol when they connected one and one they called there uncle in and let the fbi know the uncle''s truck info and had a cabin in the Ozarks.


    Ark overheard most communications on the base and found the nearest dungeon to the Ozarks, over 100 km away. They couldn''t scan from there unless the dungeon was activated, which wasn''t part of the plan.


    Ark could map the entire planet and solar system, so gathering information from a zone on Earth wasn''t difficult. No signals were detected from the area, indicating the tank hadn''t been opened yet. If it unlocked, there would be a noticeable spike.


    Zen or someone would soon inquire about it, so Ark kept an eye on the area. Even for Ark, the Ozarks were vast, posing challenges in finding one man with a metal cylinder.


    Ark chastised himself, realizing how easy it could be to locate metal in the bush with metal detectors and SAR systems. He left it to the U.S. government to handle on their soil.


    Ark speculated that if the tank were opened in such an area, it could create its own dungeon from the released energy, a one-and-done dungeon, potentially profitable but currently just a bad idea, akin to walking into a creature''s mouth for its tonsils for gold.


    Ark understood dungeons as mimics with floors. The secret lay in having many people inside for a prolonged period. Their mana fed the dungeon, accelerating its conversion of dark matter energies into usable mana. If human contributions weren''t sufficient, extra mana given off during daily activities would hasten the process.


    By now, Ark had filled the Stonewall dungeon with over 200 people, brainstorming ideas and experiments. They attempted to imbue energy into rocks and crystals but found only limited success. Energy stored in metals remained inert, adding weight without useful effects.


    The diamond ring experiment resulted in the metal prongs melting, the diamond falling out, and the ring being damaged irreparably. The diamond itself absorbed energy without visibly changing, behaving like a black hole.


    The Stonewall dungeon had evolved, with clear glass shadow boxes lining its walls, showcasing memorabilia and creating a homely atmosphere for Jeremy and Jeff. It housed people working and living there, fostering a communal environment.


    In one shadow box, Ark had placed the diamond. He knew it wasn''t a failure; it simply needed time to absorb energy efficiently.


    Ark updated Jeremy and Jeff on ongoing developments, including tracking the military man in the Ozarks. They had located his truck and cabin but not him. He had taken the tank into a cave, prompting a SWAT team to prepare for a potentially dangerous situation.


    Jeff and Jeremy speculated on what might happen next, wagering humorously on whether the man would shoot the tank. Ark interjected, suggesting they confer with the generals to plan their response.


    "Hi, General, this is Ark. I''ve got Jeremy and Jeff on the line. I overheard talk about the Ozarks and the container. I have some information if you''re willing to discuss."


    The general, taken aback, agreed to listen. Jeremy seized the opportunity, asking about the bet with Jeff regarding the man in the cave and the potential consequences if he shot the tank.


    Ark used Jeremy''s question to outline the situation to the general, including details even the general in Scotland hadn''t known. They discussed sending in SWAT and possibly military forces, preparing for the worst-case scenario of a temporary dungeon being formed.


    The general requested Ark to stay on the line and began making calls. Ark cut the connection respectfully, allowing them to handle the situation.


    "I guess that went pretty well," Jeff commented. "Do you think they''ll call us in to clean up this mess? How would we even clean up a mess like this? Do you think they''ll bomb a mountain?"

 20

    Jeremy and Jeff after getting rained out but then and Jeremy being the smart-ass he is bringing up that the illegal command that Zen didn''t even realize he was giving so then just kind of knowing Jeremy being a giant a****** and would fight then didn''t want to have this battle but couldn''t show weakness so Jeff got in trouble and got some manual labor b******* to take care of Jeremy and the camp AKA probably cleaning garbages and cutting grass and honestly Jeff used that as calming down time and you got to realize Jeff was one of those calm guys now that he could hear everybody and everybody''s stuff everybody thought he was locked down but Jeff was The Ultimate Spy he''s just super quiet and chill no one would know that maybe Blue Moon he would steal one of Jeremy''s special cigarettes


    Jeremy was quite screwed up for the next couple of days only because his hands literally had cooked the outside had pushed carbon from the inside out through the pores so Jeremy had burnt the pores because he pushed too much energy through his fingers and the weirdness was that because he pumped it to the edges of his skin that''s what got hurt.


    Bark had noticed that this could be bad so without Jeremy really knowing that Ark sent a tendril from the collar through his skin into his body and sent it close to his heart the issue is if Jeremy''s pumping blood through a heart that''s overheated is he cooking his heart and Arc really need to keep an eye out for cooked meat then our realize maybe he should send one into the brain too for the same reason


    the next morning Jeremy was still off duty but was called in due to the fact that they had found the canister and we''re transporting it back when there was an accident and the Caster in a military transport vehicle ragtop  they don''t know if it was attacked or if there was just a car accident but there was a two vehicle collision


    the canister had been tied down in the back laying flat and when it exploded it didn''t move from the truck but it did evacuate all the water from the canister


    everybody started calling foul thinking someone did this on purpose as a test on public people and all that but thank God they were still deep in the Ozarks when this happened so it was on a road was just a military transport and one other vehicle and the passenger of the other vehicle died instantly on head-on collision


    but this is why Jeremy and Jeff are being called in the truck had just basically been drenched in water and they did not know if they should get close to it after the mimic comment that Jeremy and Jeff are both making they no one wanted to get eaten by a truck


    Jeremy made a joke I guess they know what Choo Choo Charlie is


    Jeff went a little pale at that then look back at the picture of the truck on the screen from the command tent where they had been brought


    Cherry looked up what''s your one double tap and literally a couple seconds later someone on the other end of the line gave an order and there was a double tap to the front engine of the vehicle with a very large caliber weapon and swear to God the truck actually moved and then slumped


    it was like the front driver side air brakes just let out it was so weird and it slowly decompressed after that so either they hit the compressor or one of the pipes or it really was somewhat coming alive well even Jeremy didn''t want to know right now the answer that I''m glad you guys can take this and take it back to one of your facilities to deal with and I would be cutting down all the trees in the area and taking those back as if they''re not alive they''re definitely going to be absorbing the water so how many people know about tree science and Jeremy looked around the room


    the command hand had the general and his staff with a Communications to I guess NORAD or one of the command centers who were in charge of taking over this op


    People on the screen started looking towards Jeremy and Jeremy just looked at the screen and said cut down the trees realized that the trees are all alive to a point they will absorb water so once you cut them down the water is going to stream out of it make sure to get samples of the water when it comes out because if it''s got no magic in it after it comes out the Trees of absorbed it and you have your first magical wood now animals and the environment around you if you''ve got assails put up cameras you might have ants changing size you might have Birds growing or shrinking you might have Birds getting mock two abilities for all I know this area here gets quarantine for 2 km if not five around it and you guys start putting up hundreds of these little cameras that are Wi-Fi and you guys start monitoring the area like I said freaking Road might start repairing itself for all we know remember the way you think about stuff is what actually you can do because there''s animals involved the animals if they''re hungry they''ll find Food they''ll make food they''ll you what they do best so get people that know animals best and they''ll tell you what to expect not me I''m here when you guys screw up like this think of this like a really really bad adventure and Dungeons & Dragons game what would you do once you know you''re f***** and you have to fix it just get ready for the worst case scenario oh and if you put a human being there they probably will get murdered somehow because you''re going to put something that has a aggressive negative effect in the zone and probably someone freaking out which is only going to put negative Vibes man into the Zone if you want to do anything run good music or something I don''t know this is the first time we''re all f***** good luck and Jeremy just looked at the general and asked if he could leave


    the general just kind of looked over at Jeff and Jeremy shook his head going I don''t know what the f*** this is just get out of here I''ll call you if I need you


    Jeremy''s hands hurt like a son of a b**** because pushing out carbon out of your hands his skin was actually black and dark colors and spots where it was pushing out so Jeremy just wanted to go maybe soak his hands in water that''s what the doctor said to try


    So it''s got to be like 10:00 in the morning Jeremy''s been fed just gone off to do some of his chores that he got in trouble for and Jeremy just throws on some music videos from YouTube finds a playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWUuMxUJvnuKDF9DncRGZPKssW0G7uyLi</a>


    Park realized that Jeremy was starting to hit the wall and Jeremy and Ark needed to have a little talk so after the music started and Jeremy had gotten sitting in his chair and smoke till joint Ark pulled Jeremy into the liminal space that''s not white not black and it''s whatever you wanted to be in he had a little talk with Jeremy


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    Ark¡¯s talk with jeremy


    So Jeremy was hitting rock bottom and it was time for Ark to turn one of the magic on


    wherever this happened Jeremy and Ark just kind of went to that mental space where it''s all black or it''s all white or whatever they want


    Ark just kind of had to yell at Jeremy because he was mad at this point and Jeremy just didn''t get it so ark spell it out


    A:  Jeremy you''re an idiot, you are some of the nicest people that you''d ever could be but you are stressing out over things that you cannot control shit and honestly you''re so small and you think you''re so big but you forget something and you don''t even understand this one simple fact


    you have been trying to put yourself into a mold your entire life that doesn''t not fit!  stop trying to fit the mold and just be yourself if you want to ride a spaceship with a lasso or melt into a puddle and just dissolve the planet that''s what you, want you want to love and you want to hate that''s what you want you''re allowed to want but stop trying to be part of a mold that doesn''t fit you it only hurts you and the ones around you be yourself


    That whole talk happened in under 2 seconds so when Jeremy came back he still was taking a poll off the joint he just let it out super long and super slow and just looked up and goes okay so what do I want what''s making me unhappy


    this would be where the story takes a little bit of a Twist and by that I mean Jeremy goes Rogue but not against anybody or anything like that he goes Rogue against the feelings that he has to control everything and just let''s go of that but wants to control one thing his own body that''s it nobody else nothing else


    Ark sends the feeling of love and smiles to Jeremy when he realizes Jeremy has realized what he wanted


    and with that Jeremy just stood up with the joint in his mouth and walked off Jeff was nowhere in sight but Ark basically just tied him into Jeremy''s eyes so that Jeff could see what Jeremy was doing if he wanted to and Jeff was basically getting fed in that Jeremy was deviating from the normal routine


    they''re Living tent was in the middle of the camp and Jeremy started walking to one of the outside edges were on the outside of the camp there was nothing but a fence and then pasture


    Jeff knew exactly where Jeremy was going cuz this  was was where Jeremy like to go to practice with his magic


    Jeff finished putting a garbage bag in a can and just kind of stopped what he was doing grabbed his gear on his back and walked to where Jeremy was going


    as this was happening Jeff got on the radio to the camp telling them that Jeremy was deviating cuz that was his job and let them know that he was going to his testing site something might be going on


    the command tent heard this and they knew exactly the area where Jeremy tested so they turned on all the cameras and got people started monitoring and they saw Jeremy walking from the camp very slowly like normal and they could see a little puff of smoke coming from his mouth as he''s walking and they''re all just like what a moron what an a****** doing that in front of us all


    but what they were not expecting is the moment Jeremy crossed over the fence and it was an electric fide fence he just touched it and nothing happened he was getting Juiced and there was no reaction to juicing just lifted the wire and walked like one leg over another leg over and he was inside the pasture


    what no one realized in Jeremy didn''t even realize and he didn''t even know that was electrified well he did but he didn''t think it was on because when he went to touch it it didn''t Electrify him but he didn''t know was the carbon in his hand was preventing electrical discharge because it was grounding him in a weird way okay say it''s magic


    but this is when Arc knowing what Jeremy really wanted did Jeremy the biggest favor he could the caller dropped away


    and once everybody saw it dropping that second people''s mouth dropped open cuz what happened to Jeremy was beautiful


    Ark for the Lost two weeks have been feeling Jeremy''s body with little tendrils to different parts of his body and organs to keep an eye on them but not understanding exactly what was going on at the time those tendrils actually became another pathway for the magic and instead of juicing Jeremy''s Biologicals those little tendrils who Jeff also had those in them now those Tangles were allowing them to regulate the power without going through biological material to regulate and because of that Jeremy''s body was able to break down dark matter which would destroy the matter when it touched and use the magic that the conversion to actually morph and change things within his body without him even knowing he was doing it


    so when the caller went away it wasn''t really gone it was just more the symbol was gone what was left was almost like an skeleton inside Jeremy''s body like a suit almost under the skin


    that suit those pieces of tendrils I had the ability to grow because of the kind of liquid metal or magic metal or whatever the hell Arc was but it wasn''t Arc it was Jeremy''s body accepting that material and accepting his own flesh and blood that acceptance is what made Jeremy compatible if you hate yourself the magic hates you if you love yourself the magic loves you now was Jeremy a psychopath or narcissistic?  and would that be a good thing or a bad thing no one knew


    because as Jeremy walked into the field in the color dropped Jeremy''s hair burnt right off he was bald as anything but his skin started to change color


    I want to say it went black or red or any one color but it was getting closer to becoming a light than anyone color so as he took the first step he tripped it was like he missed a step on a stair he didn''t realize he just gained half a foot on his left side and when he stepped down he was literally stepping down but his foot was half a foot taller like he didn''t have his right and then she went for his next step his other foot became half and then he was balanced again and this happened for a couple minutes he tried just walking and he was growing he got extra three feet on him by the end he look like one of those people and still except it instead of just getting taller too it was like he left up but where he felt that before was just straight and skinny in the belly and his muscles weren''t thick but they were there like it was so weird his eyes they weren''t on fire it was like wearing contacts from like Tron like he''d see it was everything was turned up to 2000 and the fingers his nails grew a couple of inches and the nails were bright red glowing it was it was beautiful like I think of Jeremy controlled it a little bit and then he realized what he was thinking and it happened


    Jeremy turned around and wings popped out and a tail and he looked like the devil


    Jeremy looked out of his hands and started laughing he did a quick Twist on one foot and kicked his foot out to do a spin and the wings stayed but they changed from Red to purple and from demon wings to bird and he turned into a giant purple bird with wings and human feet and then from purple to White and became a white bird a giant white Angel Maybe Jeremy was a little freaked out he could do this he could change shape


    he then went right back to his normal shape the normal size 5''9 a key was back and oh it was so cool but


    that''s when it happened his body was not meant to rip and tear and do that and he was covered in blood when he came back to normal and he just hit the ground to his knees right f***** up and he just stopped moving shaking in so much pain he should not have tried the wing trick his back his arms he couldn''t even feel his arms they were numb


    The Joint had fallen out of his mouth and Jeremy just sat there on his knees shaking till Jeff ran up to him


    Jeff had a signal that he could do by hand and he did it to the cameras and also got on his mic and called for Medics cuz Jeremy was bleeding


    Ark  Ark had already started on repairs because he wasn''t going to let Jeremy die but what Jeremy did was rip a lot of material that wasn''t important other than like a scan and muscles and stuff like that but none of the organs got ripped and that was on purpose Jeremy used a lot of the fat he had to make hollow structures and then very small amount of his actual muscle and chunks of his bone to make the structure for the wings like birds did that''s why he pulled them back in cuz he knew something was wrong Ark had also kind of sent that feeling cuz wow that was amazing and horrible and not too sure how to even explain that


    Jeff had gotten told by Art to grab the collar and put it back on Jeremy even though they need it made everybody feel comfortable with that on them when I are locked it back in once Jeff had put it around his neck


    the Medics were there within seconds and they were taking Jeremy away and they quarantined the area and scientist came in to grab all the blood and plants and all that


    not a lot of people knew that they had an entire tent of plants that were magical at this point that they had collected around different times Jeremy had done stuff with magic


    The next 3 hours are a deep briefing that basically took Jeff on a roller coaster ride in the last thing they asked do you want to try next they were literally so excited they did not want to release this to the Internet so they didn''t the governments of the world did not want to let anybody know what Jeremy could do because that scared the s*** out of them because that basically explained the history of our planet and how we had angels and demons and all the other s*** they were just humans that wanted to be


    this s*** was freaking the government''s out and I mean to the point where Jeremy now had a lot of guards protecting him aka the whole base was just there to keep Jeremy from believing or anybody getting to him


    after Jeff said thank you very much but no I''m not ready for that I don''t even know what''s going on even if you give me an order I would not take the caller off thank you but no thank you right now I want to make sure Jeremy is safe before we go any farther and everybody can understand that and respected it but no one wanted that they all wanted to push this Harder Faster Jeff wasn''t going to be there guinea pig


    after he kind of got a little angry at his officers who are trying to pressure him he got told to go back to cleaning his garbage cans around the base


    so he went and got some food in them and during that time  Jeff and Ark were talking to themselves where Jeremy was pretty much out cold in the Medics 10 because they knocked them out with some serious drugs and on Ark was kind of keeping him out because his body was reorganizing its biomass which if you have to be told f****** hurts


    but Ark had a gift for Jeff and Jeff and Ark were going to do a test of Their Own because if it''s all about the want and desire Jeff just wanted to hear what''s going on around them and be in the loop that was Jeff''s secret he just wanted to be a part of it all he wanted to be in the center of it all he wanted to be part of the action but he didn''t want to kill people he just wanted to be there to help just like Jeremy that''s why they got along they were too Tech supports if you would except Jeff was the driver and Jeremy was The Geek Squad


    So as Jeff went around the base changing garbages and all those little things that they get you to do when you screwed up Ark just without letting the collar drop turned it off but he didn''t do it all at once he turned the dial from 100 to 0 within about 5 minutes and in that time only thing that Jeff could realize at first was that he could hear everything so they had to figure out in his ears how to turn down the volume so Ark sent a little tendril through his body and Jeff could feel it it was so disconcerting and not good feeling it was breaking skin and cells and to dig it just it was super like a pin but it was not a good feeling


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    when Ark got close to the ear all of a sudden the energy that was stored in the ear that was overloading the sound into Jeff''s brain just a little lightened a little bit so they push closer and they weren''t into the ear they''re in the meeting to meet around the ear so Ark realizing put off four little micro tendrils around the the eardrum in the area and as those pieces of metal got closer or could disconnect them at the base of where they connected just on and off on and off and because of that they could say take away all the power 75 50 25 or 0 so they had the ability to control that so they had a dial if you will for his hearing so they turn that down a bit oh oh f*** that was that was the start because the moment they turned it down Jeff started realizing other things around him


    Jeff his eyes could see a little bit of heat and his Sense on his skin he could tell that the moisture was coming and little things like that Jeff became super sensitive to everything around him and as he looked at people he noticed the facial muscles more and is eyesight was a little bit better and all these little things were amazing and then he was overloading and then are really quickly turned everything back up to 100% lockdown


    Jeff just went over to one of the benches and sat down for a minute because at this point he couldn''t let anybody know that he was about to collapse


    benches you say yes they had stolen so much from the town with money and they had put stuff all around the area for the people so yeah there was some really old benches from inside the town that well yeah


    the next day and a half were spent allowing Arc to slowly and very small amounts of tendril throughout his entire body so if he ever got hit with a bullet the feeling wouldn''t just make him pass out or could turn off the feeling to that area realizing that sensation is going to kill Jeff in the long run if they couldn''t just turn it all down


    Jeff was really hoping that if psionic abilities were a thing that that would come about down the road and even Arc the thought of that made him smile kind of but that didn''t happen yet


    Yet


    It took three more days for Jeremy to be released from Medical because when Jeremy woke up he started doing tricks with his hands and changing their shape and Arc started working with him making it so that his body could transform without ripping and tearing so much muscles versus gel and gel versus muscles for fats and then micro bones and really weird things that shouldn''t be possible Jeremy''s body and with ark''s help Jeremy had the ability to slightly in certain spots or in a large areas small amounts per that large area allowing him to do pretty big changes just the wings couldn''t ever come out again unless Jeremy just wanted to rip the s*** out of himself that was really scary for him and terrifying for the people was seeing how much blood Jeremy lost


    the general actually came and talked to Jeremy while he was in there medical Bay and oddly enough the general had giant smile on his face because he just explained that he was on a conference call with the entire United Nations where he had to explain what happened and I quote this is what the general said


    I have never seen so many people in their life freaked the hell out and ask me the one question I wish that everybody else had ever asked me


    how the hell General do you control the situation with that they were referring to Jeremy in his demon purple bird white bird and Angel shapes they had been all told that they had to come into the a Nations because there had been a national security incident at the facility holding Jeremy and it was about Jeremy


    when the general had gotten up on stage and explained what had happened no one believed him and then he played the video and everybody was trying to figure out how the hell the general wasn''t losing his mind and that alone had made the general so happy to be finally Vindicated how crazy this whole scenario was and how they were asking the impossible of him because no one knew what the hell was going on but everybody realize not around the same time but within a minute of everybody that this explained all of our history all of the crazy minotaurs and angels and demons and all of that was humans the same s*** we''ve been doing for years except before we just had powers and we were just bigger assholes oh the United Nations love that that didn''t start a fight at all and with that the general left just with the giant smile on his face to go back and take care of Jeremy and this crazy little freak Show


    and while the general is there they got to explain how they had a choo choo Charlie truck that literally had come to life they blew its brains out and they had its body in a facility it hadn''t changed much but it had changed enough that it had a nervous system that''s as far as that kind of gone and maybe a couple other little bits here and that''s why when they blew its brains out the nervous system just dropped in all this little controls just kind of slumped


    they also had some trees that had absorbed most of the water that were right around and those trees now about wood was now considered a National Treasure because it could not be cut with any natural tools that they had it was not just hard it just it wasn''t cuttable you have to be able to get purchase on something to cut it there was no purchase it was just smooth there was something there to cut but there was no friction to cut with it just said no to friction it was amazing


    the fights over the water from the dungeons now Allowed the United Nations the UK United States and Canada to make sure that none of the water was given out for bad intentions but they started giving out hundreds and hundreds of containers to be sent around the world to different research facilities and everybody knew this stuff was super explosive and they were even forcing people to go through training courses before even accepting these people for sending water to them they were not screwing around in the United Nations and everybody that got one had to be vetted there are so many people that got turned down they was stupid they had lots of people working on this for all the countries


    different groups out there had started adding them the plants and animals and machines and they even had a talking toaster I believe but it wasn''t talking as in Had a Brain it was literally just changing the dial every once in awhile and it seemed that this talking toaster literally just liked music and did not like talk show DJs so everybody just love the toaster it was a weird thing where it was like people didn''t want to listen to the DJs so the toaster didn''t want to listen to the DJs when the ads came on the toaster would change it to another station and it seemed to always know which station has song playing the shortest amount of time so far so you would have the longest amount of song playlay when you changed over it was really kind of cool but how did it do it even the research facility didn''t know oh and their de-earing Booth where they put the radio into the booth would open its door every once in a while and just take a deep breath and then close really really freaky


    after that there was a whole lot of rules put into for how some of the testing can go down and they had to do a lot of it outside so the extra would go into the environment not into containers or buildings there was already one building in the United States that it burnt itself down and don''t ask it just started on fire and then it wasn''t there anymore and one theory that someone said that we don''t know if we can really ignore was that the building was haunted and that when they were standing around the watching the burning fire as it was burning down they could see two blue ghosts floating out of the fire and away so what the f***


    they had been checking that area around the Ozarks where the explosions on the truck happened and it looked like after about 24 hours everything had dispersed into the environment they''re still keeping it out for animals and plant life and all that but nothing else had changed in 24 hours after the explosion


    So it took 2 weeks for Jeff to be taken off punishment Duty and for Jeremy to be let out of the hospital tent


    now when Jeremy walked around he just didn''t have just Jeff the results on armed guard that was specifically picked because he was a pissed off person that didn''t like Jeremy and didn''t want to let Jeremy get away with b******* without reporting in before it happened so he was just there to keep an eye on Jeremy when Jeremy went and did something stupid


    and it was around this time when Ark got a signal from Jupiter


    so Ark informed Jeff who informed the general allowing them to get on a quick conference call


    Ark    Hey general I''ve just got a signal from Jupiter something''s going to go wrong there in a couple of minutes I know it takes a couple of minutes to get an image back but tell the people get onto their cameras and start watching it I''m not too sure what you guys have done but from what I hear you may have gotten almost real time feed from your observation cameras and outer space is that correct General?


    The General thought for a second picked up a phone and said into the phone get me a live feed of Jupiter there''s something going to happen very shortly.


    then the general hung up the phone and said to Ark


    by wrong what do you mean


    Ark explained that he just got a signal that normally you would get a leveling up signal that there''s another level or something gone wrong but what the signal he got was the amount of one type of energy on Jupiter was going critical he didn''t know which one it was because he didn''t know all the names of all them for Jupiter''s periodical table of Magical elements but he was going to guess it was probably wind or something else because the machines there were just basically saying that there was no way of dispersing it and it was just the the tanks couldn''t hold anymore the The planet couldn''t hold anymore


    by this point Jeff had gotten to the general in the command tent and Ark was now speaking through the speakers in the command 10 to Jeff and the general as a group meeting and about this time the feed from I guess NORAD or NASA or whoever was doing the connecting send to feed from Jupiter as it came in it didn''t look any different at first


    but then they started watching and that red dot that giant storm blinked yes I said blinked and I mean with an eyelid


    it was made of sky and air and it was made of the same material the clouds were but it was black and it blinked and the middle of the red eye was more like an iris now where there was a white cloud and a red cloud in the black cloud and they were circling each other and it got really freaked out and then Ark realize something and kind of just said oh


    that''s where my counterpart is it''s trying to pump the energy down into the planet hold on let me send a signal


    instead of down he said up and instantly the eye erupted into an inverted cone whirlwind out into space but it held it in so it would look like a 50 Mi tall tornado just pumped out of the Red Dot


    because it was pushing everything up instead of trying to pull it down as the stuff got pushed up and it fell off the side of the tornado it got pushed into the atmosphere and you could see Jupiter''s atmosphere Lily like being pumped up by a bike tire it was like pump pump pump pump pump pump pump and literally The Atmosphere by mile by mile was getting pushed out and was getting bigger but the cool part it was getting just a slight bit thinner you were able to see through just a little bit more so Isaac got wider you got to see a little deeper and then it just stopped and art let everybody know that it got a balance signal so it now knew what to do but that meant that the more it got the bigger Jupiter''s atmosphere is going to be it was going to start absorbing some of the things flying around it


    that''s going to change the balance of the solar system and people have to figure out how bad the balance was going to be screwed up what would be absorbed into Jupiter and if there really was a planet in the middle would large impacts of Rock start the core up again and would Jupiter than implode in Fire and start up a new planet not a gas giant like is this really going to happen that they really reunite an entire planet by accident is it about to happen


    people are freaking out at this point and Jeremy was just ignoring this all he was hearing this through Arc and through the little communication just Jeremy''s way of thinking just didn''t care anymore not that he didn''t care about anything but he didn''t do anything about it it wasn''t hurting him and he''s bringing back a planet so let it happen let''s see what happened we had to test it somehow here''s a dead Planet testing on a dead planet with no people what else could we do test it on humans and See how bad we could become


    Jeremy had forgotten something very important and now that he remembered it he had been a little more focused on being the guardian and when he realized that one of his hairs permanently changed golden and it was really weird and Jeremy realized it was a gift from Ark because when he put his hand through his hair he always catches finger on that one hair but he could never pluck it and when he looked at it it really was gold Jeremy was like I''m the only human being in the house one gold hair that gave him a little bit of a smile permanently he really was special


    Jeremy just had to get over his own s*** and realize that he could do more if he just tried a little harder and with that he asked Ark What could he get access to and that was the question mark had been waiting for because Ark was not allowed to give out access to any information without being asked for it from the heart why because if you''re asking how to kill a million people are quit not give it to you but if you really wanted to save someone he would teach you how to do something bad if it needed to be done but Jeremy didn''t want that he just wanted to understand what was out there what was going on and because he was the guardian he was the only one I could give this information to so now it was time


    so are just let Jeremy know that it was time to come up to the ark he knew he could give it to Jeremy but to do this properly Ark would literally need to download it into Jeremy''s brain and by doing that he would have to come up and get a small piece of the material that the collar was made of but this one was loaded like a memory chip and it would go not into the car but into Jeremy and it would be a way for Jeremy to access this information without having to have Arc connected more or less it was I database for Jeremy but it was so small it was no bigger than a thumbnail or a fingernail but it would have to go into Jeremy''s body around the neck and brain area so it had to be done


    they let the general know that Jeremy was going up to Ark to get checked out by Ark and they made an appointment and everything so that everybody was on the up and up and everything was okay they didn''t tell them that they were installing a piece into Jeremy but they were telling him that they were going up to scan Jeremy and make sure everything was okay into drain a bit more like they didn''t normally


    so when they got up to the ark Arc had made a little chair if you will wait against the wall of the arc door


    Jeremy sat down put his head against the back of his head against the ark and just sat there Arc pulled his head in a little bit and making it that the liquid metal could do that and Jeremy just sat there hard to put a song on and Jeremy just chill out and relaxed 10 minutes later and a little bit of pain Jeremy know how to database in him and this database would be upgraded as Ark learn stuff and the big secret part was that arc''s database basically would let Jeremy see a history of timeline and also see some of the features that were part of the Arc machine not part of the magic and not part of Jeremy so this is kind of like augmenting Jeremy with a virtual interface through his eyes that lets him see like a computer in the machine to take control of the arc computer machine it''s upgrading you from Human to a biological compatible human to the ark the side effect is that now Jeremy was also using this to understand magic and record it so he was working for Ark and Ark was teaching Jeremy now one of the things that I can only tell Jeremy and Jeremy can never tell anybody part of the history is how far back it goes and how far back it goes it was almost a billion years so what no one knew and only Jeremy Ark and Jeff kind of gessed but are Canal confirm to Jeremy


    There was a machine built by a Race 2 billion years ago maybe less no idea and this machine just said hey I''m sending out these probes to every planet and when these plants are degrading due to dark matter converts Dark Matter into something else so that just doesn''t degrade that''s it and they didn''t really think much of it other than any new dark matter to graded planets and they couldn''t live on them and they were degraded it wasn''t a big thought pattern but for a species they just sent these machines out and when one made one it made another one and then set it out and Ark had sent 17 out from this planet alone when it was first installed by dropping one of itself down on the planet then cloning itself and sending those clones out into outer space to find more planets so it was a viral plague and that''s actually how the original creators died because well one of these dropped on to its planet and killed its inhabitants without realizing it should check first and they never check first that''s why it killed a lot of civilizations and then those civilizations that survived then started using the arcs and when the arc started being used they started traveling between planets and solar systems and this has been going on for a very long time we''re not the first this is like the 10 millionth planet to have this happen to so just weird that we were so isolated and the machines have been turned off for so long by our standard of time


    down did Arc have any understanding of these other species and races not really he knew where they were there but all that information didn''t get transferred to the clones it was just yeah it''s there not who they were where they were any information just yep here''s a little bit of history and go do what you do convert Dark Matter to whatever energy you can figure it out and it was designed when they found a species to pass on information but that information was locked away because you don''t want someone just coming along digging through your stuff and stealing it


    so they had to unlock more of the computer program and when they did that then they could go out and outer space but what''s out there is it something waiting to be called well they''ve already called out so they really didn''t have much to lose at this point so our can Jeremy made a choice


    and they registered Earth


    when Ark sent the signal out to the other planets in the Solar System about the upgrade there was a very odd set of signals being sent around that Arc didn''t know what they meant but he was receiving them too and it was a verification confirmation of the actual facts by other planets and other arcs and all of them came back with two little power to help except for Jupiter who then not joking sent out a blast so strong from the eye that it just it layered the entire solar system in a signal when that signal reached Ark Ark just responded to it like he''s supposed to and he responded with radio wave signals and other things that he was supposed to and then art confirmed it on Jupiter and it was an amazing feat because then Ark on Earth and arkon Jupiter became one and the moment he did that he had full control and basically just calmed everything down and Ark started to unravel is a nice way of putting it but what it really was was decompression of data


    Went kind of quiet and Jeremy was like what''s going on


    a timer popped up in Jeff Jeremy and ark''s vision and Ark just asked everybody just hang on a couple seconds something is going to goooooooooooooooooo


    are trailed off on the word go and everybody realized something something was about to happen and then Ark started shouting and freaking out oh my God oh my God and you could hear Jeremy''s voice in Ark it was Jeremy''s copy in Ark reading what was being decompressed and he was crying Ark was crying and smiling and happy and crying so hard


    they''re out there waiting for us without even asking Arc sent a hello signal a special one that was in the description


    that hello signal was a trojan horse and Arc didn''t even know it


    because he sent that hello signal out every single Arc in the solar system came online and activated a portal not joking thing is no bigger than a quarter but it was an arc portal to each other


    people watching the Jupiter feed watch Jupiter die I mean it just died the the winds dropped down everything dropped out it dropped down even more than before everything it started up it looked like it was slowing down but Arc was smiling so much because all throughout his cave there was wind beautiful beautiful smelly wind from Jupiter coming through and it was coming through to every planet Ark cut his portal and just said I don''t need wind basically to Earth but Jeremy had already tasted the wind from Jupiter every other object in the solar system that had an arc was getting an atmosphere Ed was also now being powered by Jupiter''s power system it was being the power battery for the whole solar system to the rest of the plants going to get it online


    and then Jeremy started to burn as another portal opened up and Ark had to close it quickly to Earth because venus had come online and opened its portals and no offering heat to the rest of the planets


    I can do that Mercury should be coming online and tried to stop a portal that never happened as he checked Mercury was not coming back online it was seriously melted so if anything was happening there he didn''t tell yet but he put in a little comment into his worry system which is basically him keeping it on everything all the time while his other half of his brain or systems dealt with everything else his worry system was now watching up for a portal cuz he just didn''t want that type of heat or radiation to come out through any of the portals so now realizing that there''s radiation going to some of these planets he sent the signal to Venus''s Ark letting it know to rebuild replenish refuel but also to prevent as much radiation from coming through so put a radiation shield around itself as much as possible but to absorb as much heat and pass as much heat through the portals to the other planets


    the United Nations needed to be told so Eric said the following things through the PA''s throughout the whole system in the base and also connected up to the United Nations building and all the different phones that he just connected himself up throughout the world to all the people that need to hear this and phones the same ring across the entire world rank and some places in an entire building you hear just one massive Rings the phones are all ringing in unison


    as people picked up the phones they heard this automated message


    good day this is Ark with the United Nations there has been an update to the planetary systems please hang on the line to hear a live announcement


    after 1 minute and most of the people were all connected up and people I picked up the phones Ark said the following things


    good day this is Ark we have confirmed level 7 intelligence species life forms on a system with over 30 solar entities because of this portals from each planet have been opened up to each planet allowing gases and air and heat to be transferred all 30 planets except for Venus which has been on purpose blocked due to its closeness of the star have started exchanging and bringing these planets online and back to life


    we have also sent out the hello signal which started this Chain Reaction this is to inform anybody from any of the other solar systems around yours that are sentient that you''re here you are now part of the greater solar system welcome Humanity


    and with that Arc just hung up


    and the world went nuts

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    World background information that''s been held back from Jeremy and Jeff


    starting two days after Jeremy''s first initiation and dancing  around the fountain in Scotland


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    European Union of magicians secret society number


    one of the members was a very old and ran the whole thing but it wasn''t until their child came in showing their phone of Jeremy dancing and angling magical


    you would think a hardcore secret society member would be like hardcore calm cool and Collective and not believe it but this man wanted to believe for his whole life and his kid was showing him Magic if you''ve ever wanted to see a human being galvanized through the heart and love of their dreams this is the moment where the daughter saw her dad cry


    of course he didn''t let on what it just did to his soul but he did start growing his daughter on what this was and why she was showing it to him and was it real and all the things you would ask


    This leader of men had his entire crew on email and with one click of a button he sent them all the link of that video,  these men and women who belong to the secret society all over the world were instantly informed of Jeremy and straightforward they started the process of integrating into their natural government militaries and secret societies or other groups that they knew about and these men and women started a process that would not be fulfilled for at least a month or two but once they were done they would be where they needed to be


    two weeks later one of those members was on the recovery team recovering the cylinder from the  Ozarks and after it had detonated they were there helping to keep an eye on the area and cleaning it up which of course meant that some of the samples went to them and that just disappeared into nothing because you collected it sample and don''t share it and who''s going to know it was even collected


    half of the entire secret society was living out of a manner in England and after getting the plants and working on it they started the process with the United Nations behind the scenes to make sure that more water was given out to specialize companies which of course they were a part of or had infiltrated


    basically they had tied into this whole system in different ways and it all started from seeing one little video


    now Jeremy wasn''t ready for what they were going to bring to him


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    So in Argentina in a little back room was an older man and he wasn''t rich man at all but he did own his own home who had inherited from his family and he was the last of his generation he had no other family no kids nothing no brother''s sisters no grandkids no nothing no nephews no nieces he was the end of the line


    and because of all the stuff that his family had done he had a little bit of self hate to the point where he kind of just was old enough and just didn''t give a s*** about keeping on going but he knew his family used to be Nazis and did some really bad stuff


    and how does he know about this well when he inherited the house he inherited a room with a lot of Collectibles and I mean a lot


    over the years he''s used some pretty shady people to smuggle them out and sell them on the Block Market to make himself some money but one of the things that he never sold was a book and the day that Jeremy started to dance around the fountain that book the lines on it Glow just a little bit


    for the next 3 weeks those glows increased everyday to the point where this man who didn''t check on it much was and had noticed it and was keeping an eye on it to the point where he didn''t know what to do he opened it many times and looked at it and even taking pictures of it and store the data but it was never in a language he understood


    but this time it was different but three weeks after Jeremy''s little dance and when he opened up the book it wouldn''t unlock it wouldn''t open no matter how hard he pushed and pulled and tried it just was solid now


    so he started to put his feelers out into the world to the fact that well he now had an artifact from the Nazi hunt for artifacts during World War II and yeah this this is some hairy s*** of magic it looks like but what''s he going to do about it who''s he going to sell it to


    ???


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    Al Fuqaha  ??????? Libya


    2 weeks after the dance


    A spring that had been dead for thousands of years probably since the art got turned off if not been before had started back up and by started back up I don''t mean a little bit of water I mean a 300 ft geyser at all times coming out of the ground close to the mountain


    was a game changer it was enough water coming out to change the actual entire African desert back into lush green life and it wasn''t stopping if anything it was getting more the rocks did not like this much pressure something really old got unlocked now where was this water coming from


    no one knew and all their tests came back with clean water but the one thing that they did find is very small snails coming with it every once in a while it was a mystery that would not turn out well


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    Eureka California USA


    Dance Scene Studio


    Outside the 1011 H St, Eureka, CA 95501, United States


    The day Jeremy danced around the fountain


    Some of the students at the local school were passing by the dance studio after classes and we''re listening to Dua Lipa - Levitating (Solo Version, NO DaBaby) [Music Video]


    When one of the friends in the group Got a tweet from a friend telling them to look at Jeremy''s video who then became everything that those young ladies were talking about and the next day they just pampered the school and I mean pampered they would teach everybody about this video because it was a coolest thing in the world come on their kids


    these young ladies in particular were on the cheer squad and the dancers of their school and these were the rah rah rah people so they got a lot of their friends and other classmates right into this and thanks to them there was this one young lady who Well everybody''s got someone they know that went through that goth phase except sometimes people don''t get out of the goth phase this is one of those people who was raised by wiccans and it wasn''t a phase it was just who they were and she was a very dark young lady except she was Smiley and happy and she loved life it was just she loved the color black and a black eyeliner and all that jazz that makes you look goth


    she was a schoolmate and not an outcast or anything like that so she found out about the little video and watched it and then watched it and then watched it and then watched it again over and over and over and this was one of those things for family knew that she did she obsessed and it wasn''t a good thing to the point where she had one end who is the big super Witch of the group and she was always the one that could tell her to calm down and get back to what she was doing but when basically her aunt was called in she asked what the whole thing was about and the young lady just sent her and the link that probably wasn''t the smartest thing


    the young lady got her Obsession from her aunt but she didn''t really understand that once he saw the video and started watching it herself just like the secret society and all the other groups out there she made the phone calls that she needed to make and then there was a couple of very high and powerful people who would never think that were weekends making trips and plans to get to Scotland it wasn''t even hard they knew exactly what you tell me where they had been there many times in their travels these are people that worked with the United Nations these are people that when they said let''s buy a building it wasn''t okay how much it was just when can I walk through that door this was a little scary some of these people she talked to were from families that were as old as the United States was these were the movers in the Shakers of the big time and for this one person to call in all these favors this cause not just a shitstorm but a literal panicking people


    to put a fine point on this there was one financial backer who basically was the banker for one of these families


    they got a message that it was time to liquidate a certain account that had been in their family for a couple hundred years that liquidation of that One Financial account cause the stock market across the entire world to s*** it''s bricks just a little bit enough that there are many little groups of people called board of directors at multiple companies that asked why their chairs just got sold off


    the coolest part about that is the answer that was just the link to Jeremy''s video and that Sent every single one of those companies into not just a panic mode but they just might have collapsed companies over this video people''s lives are on the line they needed to understand and take control so there''s about 100 to 200 companies out there no gunning for Jeremy and whatever the hell''s going on


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    Peguis Manitoba


    Peguis First Nation


    Midnight sweat lodge


    It was about 3 days after Jeremy''s little video had gone out with him dancing around the fountain when one of Jeremy''s old friends Marcel a retired member of the community who used to do a lot of the ceremonies and was just having breakfast at his old favorite breakfast diner called chio''s in Winnipeg when he got shown Jeremy''s video and didn''t believe it was Jeremy and they had lost touch with Jeremy


    2 days after that Marcel was in a sweat lodge with the community around him and the people that he trusted and respected and he was explaining everything they knew about Jeremy but what Marcel wasn''t expecting was that one of the youngsters actually had a dream where he was there watching it not on video he hadn''t seen it and he told someone about his dream and then a couple hours later Jeremy''s video came out


    so there was a couple people that were right freaked out about that and were looking into their own beliefs and Heritage so they called in Marcel and a couple of the other wiser adults to come talk with some of the kids cuz after they started the sweat lodge two more people admitted to having almost the same dream


    if this one community was having connected dreams what was this actually doing to everybody


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    Marcel being the most respectful human being that Jeremy had ever met and also an absolute Savage with a good joke but also new when it was time to take charge and be an adult and he had raised enough kids and had his family and now he just needed to help point the new generation in a good way but to hear what was going on from the kids and the first until one of the kids pulled out a video that they had made recording their dream to themselves on their phone hours before that video of Jeremy came out


    at that point everybody had been humoring the kids but the adults actually started to freak a little bit out about this because that''s not something that they can just brush away or say that it''s part of the human mind this is this is spiritual almost so it became actually a big deal to the point where Marcel was asked to find Jeremy


    Marcel had no clue how to get a hold of Jeremy at all but was going to say no he wasn''t going to try that started Marcel''s Journey


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    Stonewall Manitoba R0C 2Z0


    5 days before Jeremy turned into multiple creatures and then was hospitalized Stonewall Manitoba''s dungeon had their very first security breach


    no one was going to let this get out but they had arrested and shot one person before they could steal what they were going to steal they thought but that one person was only a distraction for an entire shipment of magical water to be driven just right out the back door with all the right paperwork and everything forged but it looked right


    you would think okay so it''s another man hunt on the go but no they literally drove  5 km away parked in the bush and then literally fill the pool with the Magic Water but it wasn''t a normal pool it was a pool inside of a building inside of a building


    the following explosion that rocked the entire area for at least 50 km let them know where the water was and there was no bodies there was no residue it was just an expansion event


    sublimation is taking a solid and going directly to a gas or Changing State so quickly it seems to be going directly there must be another name for going not from one to another to another but from going from a solid to a liquid to a gas to a superheated gas to a super expanded gas to a superheated expanded gas


    that''s what this did this went I''m going to go from one to $1,500 times my size in under quarter of a second so a little bit of nuclear TNT mixed with some C4 and a lot of magic just got shot into the atmosphere


    there was no hiding this in the end but it was just a absolute cluster f


    basically the people that did it died they weren''t smart but because there was no body parts left over and everybody be like yeah no no they they hid away or they got no they died they they got obliterated when they tried filling the pool they weren''t the smartest pennies they had a friend that got them in they got some paperwork and they all died in the end and it was such a black mark that that dungeon basically shut itself down and went into like hardcore lockdown mode and didn''t come out for a year


    the only ones that ever came and went with the people that either work there or Jeremy and Jeff there was like no one allowed to come and go it was scarier than probably going to Area 51


    the Canadian government''s policy on the dungeons after that wasn''t just restrictive it was scary


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    ?¨®d? Poland


    2 days after the winds from Jupiter entered the  the Earth''s atmosphere people in ?¨®d?


    People were just sitting outside on cafes with the radio going listening to songs like Ava Max - Kings & Queens [Official Music Video] It was in a very nice day a little cloudy out but what happened next would bring back so much belief in the religion in the area that people would bring this up to the news and it would actually become worldwide news


    there was red dust devils red mini tornadoes but you think when we say tornadoes there would be ripping apart buildings right no these were about human height and they were jumping from rooftop to Rooftop and if they were to hear music or dancing they would actually start congregating in the area it was almost like ancient fairies were coming back to life but all you could see was whirlwinds but it was red it was so weird


    and it didn''t break anything like they weren''t harming it but it was real wind like you could feel the wind pick up


    it was so weird because people started coding old fairy tales from The past someone even called them the devil''s dancers


    little things like this we''re going to start popping up but no one knew what they were going to bring


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    National Weather Service Office - Houston/Galveston


    So everybody in the Weather Service Office had heard of The Magic and was kind of getting on the ball with this and it was a firm by the government so we knew it was real but what happened after everybody got that announcement about the different weather patterns on the different planets in the mall turning on from Ark everybody started freaking out


    but what really kind of started to throw the major wrenches of the monkey or the monkey into the wrench whatever you want to call it was about 48 hours after the first portal started allowing air from Jupiter into Earth the Earth weather pattern started to change.


    they were supposed to be a SpaceX launch and even some NASA test flight stuff going on but it all had to be canceled not because the weather was bad but due to the fact that there was a hurricane that was supposed to come that just died out just stopped dead in its tracks does not happen it did they they just didn''t know what the hell to do how do you just kill a tornado you can''t just wish it away


    this got all the way to the present the United States asking for permission to have their entire service retest along with every satellite they could to remap out the entire planets air flow system because they believe it was changing


    they haven''t had to do that in a very long time they did update the current model but they didn''t have to rebuild a model of the world''s weather system for probably 30 years or more


    this was not going to be a small undertaking but thank God they had better computers nowadays than they did back then but to get permission to use all those computers and all the AIS and everything out there was a big order so when the president approved it that started the ball rolling where the whole United States government realized that this was a major priority.


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    NYC - NY  - Dance NYC


    For some reason Jeremy''s dance video around the fountain really got to a lot of people Pumped


    there was a small crew of I wouldn''t say kids late 20s that all had been on different shows from SNL to music videos to everything and they worked at the dance studio cold dance Manhattan but after they saw this one of them who all be honest had a little extra cash from his parents I wouldn''t call him a rich kid but he definitely could go on a trip if you decided he just wanted to go made a deal with his entire dance crew that he would buy the tickets if they were wanted to go to the Scotland to go see if they could get in and get some of this and go meet Jeremy


    is only a group of five of them and after convincing only one of them who was on the defense all five of them were in and without even having to think the rich kid called his dad and asked to borrow the private jet from his company


    his dad had made his money the hard way so when his son asked he didn''t just say yes he asked what the hell this is about and Jeremy sent him the video


    after reviewing the video he agreed to allow them to get a ride there and back and  his son so thanks Dad so much


    son be safe call if you need me just don''t do anything stupid okay go have some fun you''re going to Scotland right yeah I''ll have the point ready for you


    it was last words the father''s demeanor didn''t just change it got mean and I mean ugly mean


    you can''t pick who your parents are and I feel bad to this day for that child cuz he did not know what he was getting into


    his dad wasn''t an evil man or anything like that but he was so hardcore in his beliefs and what he believed in that this f***** insulted infuriated and it just caused him to have doubt which he did not have if he had doubt he does the dealing with doubt of others


    His father hung up the phone left his office and went down to his local church he went to confession and told the priest about his anger and Malice towards this one video and how he would have to do something about it


    this private Community he was a part of and by that I mean a society of men who is violence and other means to get things done but not bad men very strict in their belief system and that''s where this caused a problem


    the priest knowing this man and the group he belong to just asked for two things take a deep breath before you do anything and realize that these people are not your enemy until they attack you knowing this is the only thing he could say to make this man calm down and not just use violence


    like I said his child was nothing like him his child was great it was a dancer that loved the world and love just being a part of it


    but this child Unleashed this information on his father who would then unleash his wrath on changed itself.


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    Jimmy Kimmel Live


    Day after Jeremy''s little dance around the fountain when one of the crew of the Jimmy Kimmel Live show pulled Jimmy in to one of their meetings on sketches and showed Jimmy the video


    Jimmy let them know that he had already seen it and they started talking about if it was real and the whole nine yards and they even made a one minute little skit about it being the first ones to do it.


    that night Jeremy''s little video went big time and they actually replayed it two times and slowed it down and even Jimmy didn''t know if it was real or not but it was beautiful for what he said and that alone when Jeremy found out made him cry


    but how the world started to see Jeremy after that that was not going to be a good thing in the end for Jeremy but he got his 15 minutes of fame


    they did make fun that he was the guardian of the Earth and yes the United Nations let that information all out by that point


    that he had been connected to an alien piece of technology I was being quarantined for the near future in Scotland


    there was a couple jokes about being on a permanent alcohol tour there and try lots of Haggis but it was all said in good fun and jokes so with love


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    Winnipeg MB - Floating mobile movie set


    Movie  (name : n/a)


    The crew from Plasma cabling We''re setting up another movie set in town they normally got called in to set up phones in the internet and make sure that the printers working basically turn an empty Warehouse into an office make access points of Wi-Fi work that kind of jazz


    the boss is there they all know them so they''re in there working when one of the staff comes up to Tyler the boss and said hey have you seen this and showed the video of Jeremy who used to work alongside these guys with another company


    Tyler watch the video and just didn''t know what the hell to say or anything and he just didn''t do anything but pulled out his phone hit dial for Jeremy''s number and got voicemail when he left a message saying call me back what the f*** are you okay I just saw the video in Scotland are you f****** okay you''re the guardian of our planet are you s******* and f****** kidding me what the f*** is wrong with how the call me back bye


    at the movie company we''re not just for but they were laughing and they they all watch the video over and over and then Tyler sent it to all the people that knew Jeremy and the whole town knew what the hell Jeremy had done gone from being there Village Idiot their little loser that they all loved and thought was a great person and help them out whenever he could to the guardian of the freaking planet with magical powers what the hell is he smoking


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    Nelly Furtado</a>


    Local unlisted in Canada


    Miss Furtado was woken up by her child who showed her mom someone dancing to her music around the fountain in Scotland with magical powers


    this is all it took to get her to come back into the Limelight and oh people wanted to hear her music all of a sudden it was magical


    She had every right to do it but on YouTube she put a claim on the song


    what she wasn''t expecting was it called for me United Nations liaison a green to give her the royalty rights to her song with conditions not to block the video and allowed to stay up


    everybody was happy in the end and the video stayed up.


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    Nathan Evans (singer) Airdrie, North Lanarkshire- Scotland


    Within 24 hours of Jeremy''s little dance around the fountain Nathan had seen the video and simply put he had a family to take care of but if he could he was going to try and find a way just going to meet him he wasn''t that far he could probably figure a way to meet Jeremy


    baby just maybe Jeremy could give him some of the magic


    what if what if you could just get a little bit


    it wasn''t much of a thought that it was a start of a small Journey that would change the world


    what Nathan would start Jimmy would have to finish but would do it happily in the end


    And with that thought Nathan started working on a song that he felt like he had from one of his dreams he started thinking and working on it maybe he would share it with somebody soon?


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    LA


    I''m not too sure if it needs to be said but everybody in Hollywood in LA in California that did special effects we''re in the movies once they saw what Jeremy had done they all thought it was fake until they realized that it wasn''t


    that right there lit a fire within the entire industry because for them just to be able to do magic instead of making movie Magic Wow let''s put it this way there were some people on planes even though they couldn''t get there they''re still going to try and push their way in cuz if they could get even a little bit of either the magic or higher the people with the magic they could make billions and they can make real dreams come to life


    some of the people that work for the movie industry are the biggest dreamers you''ll ever meet and for them to see a goal to their dreams in real life not just in the movies was one of the scariest things I think Jeremy will ever remembered until the end of his life because when these people met him what they did next just put the cherry on this whole screwed up situation


    Jeremy had no idea what this little Pandora''s Box was going to open but LA had plans for him.


    At least two different planes were wheels up within 48 Hours of getting confirmation from different Boards of directors of different companies to just get somewhere between 10 and 40 people boots down on ground trying to get access


    These are some of the most interesting people you will ever meet and you don''t want to screw with them. They will find you and as the saying in the movies goes they have a very special set of skills used for a very small set of tasks which they are very very well trained for.


    think of having the agents the actors and then the actual living embodiment of cue from James Bond showing up


    it was like having the movies come to life in Scotland with all the bells and whistles too which kind of well if only someone had been recording this to make a movie


    4WB


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    David Guetta - Las Vegas Nevada USA


    Who is known that Mr Guetta would watch Jimmy Kimmel Live


    After seeing Jeremy dancing Mr Guetta made a text to his manager saying that they would like to use Jeremy in their next video and to put out feelers to see if they could get him to come do exactly that on camera for one of Mr guetta''s next songs


    And with that another one of the little stories that you wouldn''t think would go anywhere that would have such a great impact on the world started it''s small little journey with a video


    What Mr Ghetto would get would be way more than he was expecting


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    The day after Ark¡¯s announcement, the United Nations demanded an explanation. Ark explained in great detail that when he broke the rules again and sent out a signal, it unlocked a significant ability: transferring materials from one planet to another just by walking through a gate. Yes, it was like Stargate, except this gate was the size of a quarter. Ark was now using this ability to redirect water, air, heat, and energy to where they were needed to balance out all the planets. This balancing had become part of Ark''s programming¡ªsomething he was doing automatically. The only planet Ark couldn''t manage was the one closest to the Sun, because it was mostly liquid metal and rock. Redirecting lava wouldn''t help; it might benefit other planets, but it wasn''t feasible at this time.


    Of course, the United Nations reacted with their usual uproar, demanding to know if there was anything else. No one had dared to try further exploration, but because they asked, Ark informed them. He explained that just as the United Nations represents the planets in our solar system, there is a United Nations of solar systems. This entity had been informed, though no one knew if it still existed. It was a matter of protocol, showing respect to avoid coming off as an aggressor. The basic law was simple: "Don''t be an ass." Even the other species that once existed adhered to this principle: provide the ability to create life, not take it away. Stop the killing of each other''s species¡ªit''s not that complicated.


    The older species were lonely and wanted more life, so they created planets to promote it. One of the abilities Ark unlocked was converting Mana from one type to another. Although Ark didn''t have a complete list of all Mana types, the deeper scanning abilities and the interconnected grid network of Arks allowed them to detect small asteroids of dark matter that were dense enough to affect the solar system. Ark realized that planetary alignments, now influenced by magic, would cause fluctuations in magical strength or behavior. These dark matter planetoids, which had strange orbits, would also be affected.


    Ark knew there should be other Ark outposts on these dark planetoids. However, unlocking them would disrupt everything. Therefore, those Ark systems have been locked down until they can figure out how to safely transfer dark matter between a dead planet and these planetoids. If not managed properly, the wrong alignments could affect magic negatively, possibly returning us to a state with no magic at all.


    The backlash from this was that all programs were not put on hold but would have more supervision do the fact that they couldn''t have an entity doing things without their permission which art just surely agreed with them them not realizing that art wasn''t under their control and as long as they kept on thinking they could try this game Ark was going to play the game just realizing that the goal was to keep the planet from melting not keep the politicians happy


    politicians being politicians and knowing that they were just basically being snubbed basically just put more guards and more restrictions on them


    this actually had a negative/backfiring effect on their control because of this special interest groups from magicians wiccans Criminal undermines dance crews comedians actors and the tech Geeks of the world all descended on Scotland using every single one of their abilities finances and intelligence to make their way to Jeremy and they would have no problem using anybody to get what they want  within reason for some of them.


    The next morning Jeremy and Jeff both got reamed out for what art did knowing that they didn''t do anything but knowing that they were basically considered ark''s team so therefore of course they got reamed out


    in the end Jeff was back on cleaning Duty and Jeremy was not to do s*** all but sit in his tent and watch TV and basically if need be go up to the ark and get drained of all his energy and whatever was needed and do nothing sit there and wait I''m not Jeremy basically lost his s*** at this point and was not giving two f**** about anybody and was just enjoying himself


    him and Jeff would later on that day go for a quick trip into town and basically go resupply their stock of beer and other junk food


    there was only one place that they were allowed to go in town because the town is basically been locked down the small amounts people were coming and going and that was allowing them to feed the town and therefore restock and that allowed the people at the base to buy off the town and because the town agreed to a little bit of a price like before this whole thing started everybody was making good money and no one was complaining


    anybody coming into town had to go through checkpoints and had to be okay to even be in there they basically locked it down like its own private Little Village but larger


    it wasn''t until they went into town where people started to recognize Jeremy do they realize that maybe this is the last time Jeremy could actually do this


    so they''re little General Store they walked in they made a quick order they loaded up their vehicle and before they were even done there was a crowd around them


    people had turned on music to get Jeremy''s attention and get him to do some magic stuff and not he didn''t even have to do anything little bits of his hair were glowing just from the music that they were playing out there cuz it was good music


    Jeremy didn''t have 100% control or that''s what he wanted to let everybody think


    as people had started crowding around the  truck the military and let them use Jeremy said to our congest through the private connection that he wanted art just turn it down one or 2% just enough to get the color in his hair going cuz he wanted to let people think that he was emotionally influenced by the simplest things


    Oregon job fair like yeah sure doesn''t sound like it''s going to harm anything


    but everybody was recording it so another video went out onto the internet and became national news again


    someone had yelled at to Jeremy about how can they get powers


    and no one had told Jeremy to say this but he just looked at whoever was asking the question and he couldn''t actually see the person but he just looked in that direction where he heard the voice and said straightforward


    J: Oh that''s super simple I pretty much already told everybody to sign up with the dungeons under the adventures guilt the reason for this is so we can make sure people are coming and going don''t get hurt but the other reason is the first people to sign up and work with the guilds will be the ones we give the Rings to


    everybody''s head that was already kind of just snapped to Jeremy what Rings someone said


    and Jeremy just smiled and that emotional smile and a little bit of release from the collar just made his hair and body and skin flare and he just kind of not clothed but he he lost his colors he didn''t go transparent any which way he didn''t turn white he didn''t turn any one color he just seemed to lose the hardness to him it was an optical effect that somehow he was doing and he just looked right at the people recording him and said with a giant Joker smile on his face something that if you looked in the video after you would know it''s almost a humanly impossible to have a smile that wide and I bet you if Jeremy would have opened his mouth there might have been sharp teeth


    and that''s the next couple of gasps confirmed when he said this and opened his mouth he did have really sharp teeth and said


    we''ve come across a way of infusing certain materials with magic and we''re at the point where we can turn them into rings but if done wrong they are explosive we are literally starting testing well now today we''re building the first rings as soon as I get back well as long as the United Nations gives us permission but we''ve got the ability to make more humans magical


    everybody lost their s*** and Jeremy just said have a great day it got in the car and took the hell off with Jeff


    Jeff driving back and Ark in their heads was asking what the f*** he was talking about


    Park new but Jeff didn''t know yet art basically just pretended like he hadn''t heard Jeremy think about it a couple days ago but Jeremy had actually figured out what happened with that diamond


    Ark had someone go get that shadow box that they had in the Stonewall dungeon and move it down to a vault within the dungeon because what they found was that when you add magic to a diamond it changes the structure of the diamond but and not in a way that we would think it liquefied the inner core allowing energy to be stored in that micro drop of liquid in the core of the diamond


    the special thing about it is the way that they found out about it someone asked Jeremy why the shadow box was always  dripping water ?


    What they realized was the energy that they shoved into the diamond at the time they didn''t know what type it was but now they know it was water type so this diamond was a water diamond and it was dripping water from the box the Box itself the shadow box was infused with water and it was condensing water on the box and dripping down there was always a puddle under this shadow box


    Jeremy had asked one of the scientists to take a mouse and put the diamond in the cage even if the mouse ate the diamond that wouldn''t be the end of the world but what happened was they put it in the food dish of a mouse in the science area and the most ate the food and then became over bloated with water they found the mouse the next day dead and did not autopsy and realized that it was water poisoning basically getting drunk off water


    so they realize that the diamond can now transfer the magic into food and into other materials but allowing that material just to be absorbed by the body naturally seem to be way too much


    what Jeremy was the only one to figure out was if they''re going to make a diamond ring let''s say it''s not like the ones we would wear where you see the diamond the diamond has to be enclosed in let''s say Titanium or something with a super high melting temperature because either the process that made the diamond melted the old ring or the transfer of magic through the ring melted the ring so silver and soft metals were just out so a steel ring with a little Capstone on top of it that you could unscrew but the diamond in in a screw it shut was literally Jeremy''s first design and he had asked one of the dungeon scientists to get a crafter to craft exactly that and he had told no one about that just asked him to make the ring then tell him what it was for


    but when Jeff and Jeremy had gotten back to base with junk food and booze there was guards at the main gate waiting for them


    I guess people are now keeping an eye on the accounts when Jeremy''s involved because within a minute of the videos that he was talking about going on the system they were already getting yelled at the base


    and they were told to go directly to the command 10 because there''s already a communication that they were having to be a part of a meeting if you will


    because of Jeremy


    Jeremy just smiled and said to Ark can you please have that one scientist take the ring and have the other scientists put the diamond in the spot for the ring when it''s ready and then take a picture and send it to the general as a proof of concept idea we just have to find someone willing to put it on their finger and we''re going to only do that for one minute and see what happens


    Jeremy was not on cloud nine he was just someone in his own little control and not being yelled at all the time for just trying to help so he''s getting yelled at for being him and he was okay with being yelled at for being him so he walked into the command tent and the moment someone entered someone always like looks who''s entering and when they looked Someone said Jeremy''s here and the general and everybody turned to look at Jeremy and the general was just passed just not happy


    Jeremy looked past the general and saw on the screen it was a whole lot of people from the United Nations he had been talking to over and over again


    he walked up to the general just looked at the screen and said to the whole group you have one question you have to answer and who will be your first human test guinea pig I already have the ring being made it is at the stone old dungeon and will be ready hopefully shortly today get your people together and pick one person to put it on and they''re going to put it on for 1 minute and then take it off and they are going to be under observation for 24 hours we don''t know how much magic will be transferred a small mouse ate food that was injected with the magic and it bloated and exploded and basically died of water poisoning this is going to affect a human body you need to pick someone not me I''m not picking it I''m not doing that you have to find someone to do that this is where I draw the line I openly let people pick their own Fates but I will not kill someone for science


    everybody was super super serious now didn''t start yelling didn''t start screaming and Jeremy went I''m going to try and get more of these made now the next ones I will not make are fire ones cuz I don''t want someone turning into a fireball and turning himself into Ash


    we have over 97 different types of magic that were collecting right now at three different Dungeons and we''re finding a new one every other day so right now we''re just trying to figure out what they all are and then what we can do is try to make a ring of each type and then well who says you can''t wear more than one ring just we have to figure out a means of transferring the magic into a human body without new king the human body we have to keep you alive or else what''s the point of giving you Magic


    Jeremy on purpose had brought two cases like little six packs of beer and wanting each hand he just looked at everybody raise the beer and says I''m going to go put this away if you have any questions call me and walked out Jeff didn''t even come into 10 he was just waiting for Jeremy to be an ass and leave


    Jeff and Jeremy had a conversation a little while back when they realized that Jeremy could get away with b******* but Jeff couldn''t so Jeremy would walk into the stupid scenarios by himself and Jeff would just be there to drive him around after and that really worked out well because when he came out Jeff would basically start giving him information that would allow him to know the next moves to make because he could hear everybody''s b*******


    After Jeremy and Jeff put all there Junk food.away, and thena message came over the radio that Jeremy was to come back to the command tent immediately becausethere was information to be passed on to him by the United Nations representative. So Jeremy just headed right back.


    When Jeremy entered the tent on the screen, were two people he had never seen before. One of them had tattoos on them, and it was across their face. Andhe wondered if this person was from the Hawaiian Islands or from the Polynesian Islands from the way this man looked. And the other person was you unmistakably Japanese. It was.very interesting to see the design of the Japanese man suit. It was very cultural, not kimono, but very, very modern


    Jeremy loving the Japanese culture he?came up to the screens and partially bowed because well, he wanted to show respect to these people who and with that he was introduced to the Prime Minister of Japan.and the Governor of Hawaii.


    Okay Jeremy because of the Ring incident we are going to have to move up turning on two more dungeons we need you to go to Hawaii and then Japan to turn on one each there they found them one in Hawaii on one of the small Islands and they started to create a private Dock and lock down the entire island in Hawaii so it''ll be a private facility Island when you get there and you''re going to work with them for a couple of days just to get the facility started and then Arc will take over you really probably don''t need to be there but Arcus told us that with your help he found something in the dungeon already but he won''t tell us what it is and that''s why we''re using Hawaii''s dungeon as the next one to turn on because what are exposely found but won''t tell us about


    and same thing in Japan but also the Japanese United Nations contracts dictate that they are the next ones in line


    Jeremy just smiled and said sure I''m on my way now I can tell you what Ark found in Hawaii and Japan because it''s the same thing and it''s actually one of the main components to those magic rings I was talking about before


    everybody got really quiet and Jeremy just paused for a fact it was kind of cool to watch and he goes diamonds


    both sites are on volcanoes all dead ones but volcanoes nonetheless and large amounts of kimberlite or detected we use a diamond injected with water Mana to make the first ring and then put it in a metal shell that didn''t melt our testing it well the dungeons going to dig into the kimberlite and see if we can find some of those diamonds and then we don''t have to buy them we can just hard inject them and see how much actual magic we can dump into them not so that we make little micro bombs or anything like that but to see how much we can actually just dump out of the main battery into them maybe not of one type or maybe of all of just one type making magic rings of fire water air Earth just like in the stories


    we realize that in ancient times if magic was actually around then what would have happened to people wearing Rings normally that they would have let magic flow into the Rings and then when you pass down those rings from generation to generation they would either juice a person and turn on their magic or they would recharge the magic so we''re basically going to either buy up all the diamond rings in the world and remake them with the right metals or we''re just going to make our own diamond mines and then hard juice to Diamonds and send the diamonds out to every country in the world teaching you how to make the Rings what do you think


    there was another person popping up on the video conference and this person''s video wasn''t there before but this lady with very big losses came on and said but I thought all the dungeons were over top of metal that''s what you said


    Jeremy replied that because it''s a volcano the intrusive rock  has so much garbage material in it that they can just barely get away with calling it amount of line but do the fact that there is pockets of metal within it they''re cheating it''s the diamonds that are there are actually semi already Juiced and they''re all kind of acting like a lot of switches allowing the magic to flow through them so as the dungeon digs they''re going to try and prevent as much degradation to the actual structure of the travel from surface to core


    the scientists kind of didn''t get it so Jeremy just said more or less were basically destroying the connection to mind the diamonds but there''s just enough metal that we can just take enough of the diamonds for what we need without hurting the connection to the core and destroying the dungeon so this is one of those ones where the people have to take care of these dungeons not because of what''s going to come out of them but how much damage we do to the ground underneath them


    down the road we may be able to just add a metal wire of 10 ft wide down to the core that could take over for what''s naturally there and then we can mine the living crap out of it but that''s not here or there that''s once we know we''re doing this right before we screw up everything


    this was so much information that no one was expecting just to fall out of Jeremy''s mouth that they all just were a little quiet and said okay if there''s anything else let me know and if not I will get actually go to the United States first if that''s okay because I''m going to have the ring sent to this new dungeon and whoever you want as a test subject for the new ring send them there cuz I want to work with them because I think and this is what Arc is telling me that we have to give them a call or two so that we can prevent them from getting all screwed up oh hang on can you get the general at the Stonewall dungeon to let one of the Rings that we gave him to where are you guys pick so that we can basically turn it into a car when they show up one of the collars we left behind I guess it is not rings or call her with a ring on it choke her I think they call them


    there was a grunt from one of the cameras and then I had not and someone went okay and they let Jeremy know that they had picked the first person and the first person was going to be Zen


    zen came up behind Jeremy and just put his hand on Jeremy you didn''t think you got rid of me that quickly did you then said


    Jeremy liked that Jeremy always looked up the Zen now that Zen it looked like something had happened because then wasn''t just smiling it looked like 20 years ago smiling


    and with that the United Nations dropped their next bombshell on Jeremy that Zen was now Jeff and Jeremy''s Direct Superior and only reported to the United Nations and the Canadian Prime Minister and had the right to shoot Jeremy if he did something really bad again and they all in United Nations agree to it and signed a big piece of paper even the prime minister of Canada


    so Jeremy had screwed up really bad in their eyes but he was also worth a lot so I don''t know if it was more a show of force or a real threat but Jeremy this kind of was quiet after they said that and just nodded looked at Zen and gave the head not to take off and then just looked up at the Monitor and said permission to Be dismissed


    There was a couple comments and then Jeremy Jeff and Zen all  left the tent


    so as the three of them left the tent they all just kind of stood outside the tent and looked at each other in a small little circle and Jeff and Jeremy had already started having conversation privately and then had picked up on this a while back and just yelled at them and said stop it


    if I can''t be a part of your conversation don''t be doing that in front of me either let me in or stop doing it


    and without even a heartbeat happening Jeremy''s collar dropped another little ring off of the one that''s around his neck


    he picked it up and handed it to Zen Zen put the ring on his finger and it didn''t melt away but it felt like it was cloth not a metal but it was shiny like metal and the more it was on his finger the softer got until literally it looked like a dissolved and within like 20 minutes a thin piece of string was around Zen''s neck it took more time but it started to grow until a small little band no more than a millimeter was around Zen''s neck


    But within a couple seconds after putting the ring on Zen was now part of the four-way conversation between Jeremy Jeff Arc and now Zen


    Jeremy basically vouched to the group for him so they agreed to let him in


    he was going to be the next test subject anyway so thank God they pick someone that the two of them three of them could trust


    Was kind of being an a****** and just said rate to send hey I can always juice you like a juice to the other two do you want to be juice the hard way and the sound that art gave off in Zen''s head then never hurt our talk to anybody the way he talked it sounded so much like Jeremy and other people that it was it was disconcerting the The Uncanny Valley effect really did get to Zen


    Zen kind of went a little pale and said no I think I''ll be good with the ring once we get it they''re going to bring it to Hawaii now we have to have a talk I''m supposed to inform you guys that there are private interest groups that are trying to get your attention and now that we''re going to be traveling and they''ve had time to prepare we''re probably going to get I want to say sabotaged in our plans and that''s exactly what I think is going to happen here and why I said that it looks like one of the previous presidents of the United States may be in Hawaii around that time and might want to say hello


    AKA a request is already been put in


    so you''re not going to believe this but your lift from one of the harbors that we''re going to be landing around to the actual island is going to be a small flotilla of military boats and a previous president of the United States driving you to the island AKA you''re getting the Royal Treatment


    Ark had heard of this but didn''t tell no one cuz he wanted to see Jeremy''s reaction and Jeremy his little hamster in his head didn''t just start running it made whooshing sounds as it ran so fast the next thing Jeremy said to Arc and the group was Arc can you get the scientists to go and make more diamond rings before they ship them I know you have to buy the diamonds but I thought we had already talked about this how many rings can you have sent to Hawaii and then maybe Sent to Japan with me


    the look on Zen''s face as he didn''t say a word just kind of jaw drop watching Jeremy have a quiet conversation where he could hear and the emotions on Zen''s face were just thoughtful meant that Jeremy would even think of doing this without asking it was just made his head hurt he wasn''t mad he was just stunned


    but to see the speed Jeremy worked then didn''t stop him and our came back with I can have 17 Rings maybe ready for Japan but for Hawaii maybe two or three we don''t have the diamonds if you can get the diamonds from Hawaii we can try juicing them there and you can take them with you to Japan where we can have how many rings you want who cares I can have hundreds of the main I just need the diamonds and they''re too expensive so you''ll have the main ring for Zen and then two more now who are these for and you''re not thinking of giving this to the president are you Jeremy what are you thinking


    okay so here''s my game plan guys I know there''s like 97 or more types of magical thing I know we only have a couple that have shitloads right but I want you to do me a favor and take almost all of them I think you''ve already done this and put a little bit into oh hey there''s that scientist that took all the Magics and put them into little sticks of metal that''s what happened did I ever get done Ark


    Ark took a second and then replied yeah he''s got them all done we can tell what most of them are except for four it doesn''t seem to do anything


    Jeremy was so happy because he thought if I''m right which one do you think unlocks the mental capacity of the brain


    Jeremy had been thinking it would have been the one of the four that would had to have been tested on humans or animals for them to figure this out but then our cut them off and just said no you''re an idiot those ones are dangerous Jeremy you know allowed to use those ones you want to unlock the human mind what do you think the president of the United States what do you think his magic ability is?


    Jeremy with a smile just said it into his link with the group he''s an empath


    the whole group didn''t go silent but it was like they''re all thinking and they knew who this person was the president was so Prismatic and personalized that it was almost a perfect fit


    the funny part was Art started laughing Jeremy we figured out that one a while back that we had to take one of the pieces of metal that we didn''t know what it did we gave it to some mice and we taught one Mouse where the food was and then if they touched it after a while the other most knew where the food was it''s the mental one we just haven''t done anything with it yet and we don''t have very much if we wanted to juice a diamond that amount of magic energy we can maybe do 10% of what we did that first diamond and then the moment Arc said that they all realize that was perfect because they didn''t want to hurt the president so a 10% Diamond was exactly what they needed for this ring and then Jeremy just said we have lots of water send me another water ring there we can let him pick water or maybe be the first  mind mage.


    Jeremy Jeff both looked over at Zen and they all stopped talking and then didn''t know why but Jeremy''s pulled a piece of a receipt out of his pocket and just handed it to Zen and Zen''s like what the hell are you doing in his head but then he realized that there was something on his upper left and he just put his hand to it and came back with blood one little drop


    what had happened was this whole conversation even the whole thing happened in under like 3 seconds under 2 seconds then was not ready for that and his brain had a little bit of an issue with processing that much that quickly for the first time so they all decided to stop right there and go get Zen checked out and Yeah by this point the caller was also starting to grow on Zen so it was time to get Zen all figured out cuz well now starting to screw with Zen''s insides


    after they reported then getting a caller of course the military was like you''re getting checked out now that ark''s f****** with you


    the next two days were Jeremy and Jeff chilling drinking waiting and all the little things that they were doing in the background and then they were preparing for their trip


    three days after the talk they were Landing the Honolulu Airport but they weren''t taken to the main airport they''re playing was taken to a private hangar


    where black unmarked Vehicles were waiting to whisk them away


    So when they got in the SUVs their destination was supposed to be a pier about and then being taken directly to the island to get the dungeon started and set up properly but due to the other people''s scheduling not matching they are being asked to hang on for about 1 to 2 hours for the president and other people will be ready for the trip


    being a little bit fluid was respectful act so there''s sure why not not knowing that this was actually a plan from different groups all around the world to get to meet Jeremy so they were redirected to one of the resorts that they had locked down and was under control of the government and all the people at that Resort were all the people trying to get a hold of Jeremy so basically Jeremy was being led directly to them and we''re talking presidents of different countries we''re talking people that own corporations we''re talking owners of islands this wasn''t some small get together it was only about 30 people but there was enough people that no one from Jeremy''s group was expecting this and when they got to the hotel they were told that it would be about 3 hours when it started off being about an hour or two and then had seen this coming so zen  just looked at Jeremy and Jeff and said I told you


    at this time their shipment from The Stonewall dungeon had also shown up so now Jeremy had a small Pelican case no bigger than a foot by foot by half a foot with the Rings in it attached to his wrist handcuffs which made him have nothing but a giant smile on his face and then had the key to it so we can just give them out


    the diamonds had been placed in a very small iron box and they were individually wrapped in bubble wrap inside the first time they had tried that the bubble wrap started filling with water from the water diamond and nothing happened from the other diamonds so they had to use for the water diamond nothing with air pockets so it was just cloth and the cloth was always wet


    they actually had a little drain on the bottom of the Pelican and they had already twice had to drain the whole container they really had to figure out a better way of transporting these stupid things


    Jeremy and Jeff were the only ones that anybody trusted enough to let carry them do the fact that everybody was like are they radioactive are they getting juice right now by what''s in that box


    so this all happened as they were arriving what Jeremy Jeff and Zen didn''t really realize that they had set up was one of the ballrooms I''ve been turned into a place with tables chairs food booze the whole nine yards just a reception area


    and someone had jacked the PA system for that one room and had put in low music into the background on purpose


    The tunes that are in the background were ones that Jeremy Liked and had openly talked about.


    A representative for the hotel and the security team that was there was Secret Service and they advised the group that there was a reception area set up for them while they waited and there was a couple people from the dungeon that wanted to meet them before they started


    Jeremy had set it up that this is how it was going to work but he never thought it all the way through because when he set up the rules for the dungeon he didn''t say that government had to run it he just said that whoever did run it had to run it properly


    and in saying that he opened the doors to lots of groups that had money to work together and I called them super Pacs to take over the dungeon so everybody had paid to play was in this room


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    there was magicians wiccans gangsters even movie stars lawyers the whole place look like something out of a movie just the different variety of people that were there


    Ark basically scan the whole room within a couple seconds and knew that this would overwhelm Jeremy unless Jeremy was in the right mind space to take over the whole room so Arc being Arc and Jeremy being close enough to the entire building and Jeff being there too and now Zen it wasn''t hard to find signals and then jump onto their Network and then jump into the PA system and take over the music


    Doja Cat - Paint The Town Red (Official Video)


    Jeremy didn''t realize that the song affected him but Jeff had seen it once in Arkansas once and if they just let the song play all the way through but they recorded that Jeremy was a different person sometimes when you listen to certain music his solid I''m just going to take charge f*** you this is my world personality would come out and this is one of those songs that I was just like Jeremy stand up and don''t falter


    and it was kind of subtle because our cat is super super low but in Jeremy''s head it wasn''t super low it was normal sounding so he was tuning out half the place and listening to the song and they all kind of hurt it as he walked in it was almost like his theme song for this little meeting


    and as the doors open the song changed and the low version of that came on everybody kind of turned and looked because something had just changed in the room they all felt the temperature change if you will


    Jeremy with Jeff and Zen behind them float in Jeremy holding the briefcase not joking there was a couple of gentlemen that were wearing suits that Jeremy knew he could not afford and they were talking in the corners of the left then off to the right was where the food was but at the end of the food table there was a huge hairy man and I couldn''t see his face but there was three young ladies in suits all around him so he had his own Entourage


    but the one that caught my eye the first was the one that wasn''t in the suit the one that wasn''t in any outfit I would have expected this was a 18th century Maids outfit but it wasn''t a maid it was all black it was something from goth it was a young lady probably 22-23 and the moment she saw me she about faced and came directly to me without even stopping and just kind of stood 2 feet in front of me and just smiled at me and said hi


    I''m like who is this young lady Jeff and zen both in my head I''m hearing who is this young lady


    the first things that came out of her mouth after that were hello my name is Erica I represent a large community of the wiccan on the planet Earth around 40,000 people I will be there representative here today it was a pleasure to meet you and I''m hoping we can talk magic later


    that took the wind right out of Jeremy,  he got the same feeling from Jeff and Zen so he didn''t feel alone being totally sideswiped like what were they here for a representative it was then they realized that three more groups removing towards him at the same time behind Erica she saw what was happening behind her just kind of bowed a little bit and went off to the side


    the first group were the three men now I''m talked but one of them just handed me a box and said we''ll talk later it''s a pleasure to meet you we are the Mages


    they then step back and the next person to show up was right out of John Wick I''m sorry it was so bad it was a guy he had European looks to him tattoos were very religious all over his face and body and everything he was not a happy person and he just said


    Mr McDonald I am klaus,  when you Unleashed Jupiter''s wins on us the devil has come to Poland we the Polish people demand you fix what you did and come to Poland to fix the devil dancers there are everywhere


    and with that he walked off like he had just given his whole report and that was it so that was absolutely insane


    and well the last group that walked up is Jason Momoa and some lawyers and an agent from Los Angeles they wanted me in the movies and he just came up and said hello


    this I was not expecting but as he put his hand out to shake mine I shook his hand not thinking anything of it s*** !


    So I brought an extra ring and I didn''t know why till this exact moment because the woman I shook Mr momoa''s Hand what happened was all of his tattoos kind of started to Glow we realized within about a second and a half Jeff myself and Zen that the magic in me was actually flowing into him through the tattoos his body was magnetic or metallic enough I''m not too sure how it all actually works but his tattoos were basically like little wires and I kind of pulled away after shaking his hand for less than a second to see him slightly glowing for about 3 seconds everybody noticed this this was this wasn''t a little bit of a glow this was the edges of all his tattoos becoming Tron like very effing cool


    that basically right there made me put in a request to Ark to have Mr Momoa be the next person to test out the Rings for about an hour


    that was already paperwork that I wanted in the work so that we wanted to go through that we already had permission to do it and then at the same time we already had asked to give the president a ring so we had everything set up prepared and ready just the people didn''t know they were getting magic today


    but this was all Jeremy could deal with he just stopped right there and laughed so hard to the point where all the people into different groups looked at him and he just said okay enough to f*** enough who''s in charge here


    Like it was almost like our was having fun using Jeremy''s personality and just timing everything not just right but off by but three seconds but just right enough that it didn''t feel like it was being perfect timed


    ABBA - Lay All Your Love On Me (Official Lyric Video)


    started up on the music system as the ex-president Barack Obama walked in and just said that would be me I''m in charge


    the man walked in like he knew what was going on like he knew exactly what was about to happen that he was in 112% of control


    he walked directly to Jeremy shook his hand shook Jeff''s hand and shook Zen''s hand all proper and did the right introductions


    it was done so smooth I''m guessing from practice that Jeremy was just floored and then took over


    Zen after shaking his hand as if they were ready to get going and   Mr Obama then just made a gesture to the whole room and then pointed over to a set of tables and chairs that have been set up where everybody could sit down and have a meeting


    and this is where Jeremy was not told an ultimatum but was explained what was really going on here


    due to where the dungeon it was it was a cultural Island that gave the local people the rights to it those people had then requested friends and family that knew how to take care of stuff like this to come in and they brought in a lot of people that were part of the family but extended not normally from the area


    that whole migration brought in a lot of money and a lot of private and special interest groups and they are all a part of the dungeon what we see here in this room are the heads of the different groups that all agreed to work to make the dungeon happen but one person is not part of the normal group and that''s Mr klaus, He was invited by the United Nations to this meeting due to the fact that his issue is quite serious,  wanted your feedback immediately


    that''s all Jeremy had to be told and he just said to everybody can sit down and let''s talk Mr Claus what is the devil dancers


    Mr klaus did not sit down being very serious he just said straight to the whole group as people were sitting down


    the devil dancers are a myth from my homeland Poland of the devil''s being like fairies that control the wind and usually it''s red or the devil in my history and culture is red


    This is history the problem is currently I have between 50 and 100 7 to 4 ft dust devils of red wind flying through my streets of ?¨®d?.


    We believe them to be semi sentient creatures because they react to people in their environmental stimulus and when you play music they start to congregate and dance on the rooftops which then starts up large wind storms


    some of them are in the forest in the mountains and we don''t even know how many are out there and when we start getting animals coming into towns in cities who are being displaced because of high winds around their homes due to these wind devils or double dancers whatever you want to call them


    what are they and how do we stop them


    By this point the song Dancing the Moonlight it come on and Ark for a little bit of Flash and show turn down Jeremy''s collar 2% and let Jeremy''s magic kind of flow out to him a little bit so he''s got a little bit of flare literally


    near me had already gone over and found a bar and instead of going after booze or anything like that when after some pop grab three cans and then headed towards the table


    he put the three cans down on the table and looked at Mr klaus Mr Close locked eyes with Jeremy and Jeremy just put his hands up and said I''m sorry but there''s no fixing this


    the man you would think is a hardened criminal or some sort or whatever just slumped right there hearing that that was the one thing he did not want to hear


    Jeremy not being a total dick saw this and just said I''ll explain what''s going on and they''ll explain how there''s nothing to fix but it''s part of your culture that''s the problem


    he did not like that oh my God he got so mad so quickly and look Jeremy right in the eye


    okay here''s how it works when that wind came back it came back with energy attached to it it wasn''t just normal wind it was magic basically and that magic went all cross the world but it was wind magic so any place that had wind magic before this would resonate with it Poland is resonating I can tell you that now it''s resonating with the color red it''s resonating with wind it''s resonating with feelings and Magic this sounds like you used to have a person here that was magical and maybe even changed the way they looked into a red figure and loved music and you have to find three things


    the first is your history because without your history it''s just fantasy stories that you''re telling your own people and that''s creating this because a lot of people don''t get it but the magic it has a layer of reality that it all works on that layer works on all of Magic including the intelligent parts of magic so that entire layer of reality might be intelligent so when they say to look into the voices to look at that layer the void looks back what that means is that you''re connecting up to an intelligent magical layer and it''s seeing you look at it and if you have dreams and hopes in your heart and you project that it won''t just be a mirror it''ll be a mirror that will actually make it come true


    everybody in the room was just dead silent with that they weren''t expecting magic to just be that simple


    number two if you really did have a person that had changed shape and was magical and the magic came back and it was connected to them personally you might have their corpse or their devices they made or something connected to them that just got connected to the magic again and if that''s true a magic wand could be creating these dust devils this is how the person might have done it 2,000 years ago whoever it was


    So you need to find that chunk of the history and find out exactly what it is and the only way I can say right now you should do that is to start mapping where they appear and you may get a cone a circle or something on the map saying here searching this zero spot in the middle of this area because if it''s a device that''s being recharged it may have a range and if it''s not happening 50 miles that way but it is 50 miles that way so it''s probably that direction versus that direction


    and the last one is controlling any new information getting out because the moment you let this out and pictures go out there it will never go away because people will remember it because of that they''ll be looking back into the void remembering it and avoid will remember it right back at them which means it''ll still be here it''s a bad Loop of magic is never going to go away if you can remember it


    the room was silent and Jeremy just said but we''ll definitely try to help but we can only be in so many places that went so can we do most of our help remotely with you sir Mr klaus


    Mr Klaus look Jeremy dead in the eye and with a very Stern but good strong smile said yes we can work together


    Jeremy then looked over at Mr mimosa and Mr Obama and asked about to come forward and told Zen to unlock the case


    then was like hell no I''m not doing it until Mr Obama just looked at all of us and I looked over at Zen and then Jeff looked over at Zen and we''re looking at Zen so now Mr Obama and Mr mimosa are looking at him also so he cracked right there it was beautiful


    Jeremy put the Pelican case on the table then unlocked the little lock and Jeremy opened it up to show three rings


    Jeremy then took over this entire meeting by naming everybody that was sitting there going if you guys going to do this to me then this is what''s going to happen right here right now all of you as heads are going to get magic you''re going to get the first taste of it here right now and here''s how it''s going to work


    I have three rings there are people in this room that will be walking away today with these rings and that will be Zen Obama and mimosa


    but everybody else we''re going to explain what the Rings do and how they work you will then ask one of these people to take their ring and I''m guessing it''s going to be Mr mimosas for almost everybody because of what type it is then it''s the safest one so far but you''re going to hold it between 10 seconds 1 minute and 10 minutes Mr Mimosa will be putting it on hopefully for 1 hour in full now Mr Obama yours is special We Believe yours will unlock the power of the Mind I''m guessing this young lady over here in the black outfit Erica would also probably benefit from using it from what I can understand from her mental makeup and by that I mean that we''ve been scanning all of you while we were here


    everybody kind of stood back realizing that we now had more Powers than them they might be the big wings of this world but when you don''t have the power and someone else does basically it


    so I asked Zen In My Head can you take the ring and just put it on your hand for a couple of seconds if it doesn''t feel comfortable after 10 seconds you can take it off


    he said no straightforward no there''s not a way they were supposed to do it they were supposed to do it in a controlled environment so he gave it to Zen he said I''m going to put it back in the case and when we''re at the proper place you can have it then is that okay perfect and it''s a water one so it''s a watering


    Jeremy then looked over at Mr mimosa and said do you want to try it and he didn''t even get to say the end of this Mr Mimosa just grabbed the ring out of Jeremy''s hand with a giant smile on his face and put it on his smallest finger that he could basically get this ring on to his pinky ring for him


    but the coolest thing in the world was the moment he put it on it took less than a second for the edges of his tattoos just to start I don''t want to say it was burning because it wasn''t what it looked like was it the edge of the tattoo had been done too deep just a little bit it was something was being forced through the tattoo and it made it not bubble but thick and it was a little bit weird after about 20 seconds we asked him to take the ring off because we didn''t want him to get sick or hurt so how the next couple of moments went his tattoo still glowed but as the inflammation went down so did the brightness so it was his tattoos couldn''t handle that much juice but he had magic flowing through him and you could see it he was on cloud nine


    Mr Barack Obama had sneakily just come up next to the box and pointed and I went and he took his


    was it more than 5 seconds before he took it off he had it on his finger less than 5 seconds before he ripped it right off and handed it back I just looked at us all


    I looked them straight in the eyes and I asked so what happened


    and he wouldn''t say a word and just pause and he knew he was either thinking of what to say or how to say it and then he just said I''ve no words to describe that feeling I just got when I felt everything around me that was way too much even for me


    so we put that ring back in the case and ask him what he wanted to do with it he was supposed to be the test subject unless he didn''t want to be a part of it?


    he looked over at mimosa and put his hand out for a second and most of just smiled and handed me his ring and Mr Obama put on the watering and it it wasn''t like anything happened but you knew he took it off after about 10 seconds and he was smoking his lips like he was parched mouth or something it was really weird and he didn''t look fatter and he didn''t look bloated but he looked hydrated very very hydrated I''m I''m guessing he had to go pee because he asked part of me I''ll be right back and he was escorted out to the bathroom we all waited till we got back and made sure that he was okay and everybody was basically freaking out until he got back just is he okay


    but once he came back he just said it made him have to use the bathroom it it filled them up with water it just he felt so not thirsty


    so Barack Obama was the first human being to test fire two rings basically at the same time and was now going to run the Hawaii dungeon as the head honcho of it


    Mimosa was working with the cultural half and the movie companies to take care of any of the possibilities of making money through the dungeon along with all the lawyers and the Agents


    there was two scientific firms and those were both the Mages and the wiccan and they had actually over the last 200 years gone into profitable modern day businesses but still believing in the old practices so they were there to be the scientist for the dungeon and they were going to run everything they could through Magic


    now Elise came up and asked if she could try the ring on I looked at Mr Obama and I said sir truthfully did it hurt you you think it would be an okay thing for someone else to try it I think it would be too but I thought I would ask because you''ve actually tried it I haven''t even tried it


    that took everybody a back they thought I had at least tried it was like no this is your guinea pig number one guys like you are prime the one she just smiled and didn''t even ask she just took it


    she put it on a little change she brought and put it around her neck and said thanks and walked over next to Mr Obama


    Everybody was just watching her and then it happened and there''s usually a change of some sorry it took about 40 seconds we were like okay she''s past the 5 Second Mark either she''s not affected by it or she''s totally in control but no a little bit of blood came out of her nose but then her eyes literally lit up with pink / purple light and I want to say the blood in her veins started to Glow cuz that''s basically what it looked like through the black material she started to have an I rushed over and I apologized her but I grabbed down her dress a little bit to grab the necklace I grab it around your neck and I ripped it off of her and when it was in my hand I knew what she had done I why did she have to do that ?


    So Jeremy''s now holding the ring in his hand and the necklace won''t break so she''s connected by a chunk of metal and he''s connected to her well Jeremy''s magic is now flowing into her she is so f***** up right now she''s got blood coming out of her eye where she tears her tear duct and then she''s got a little bit coming out of one of her nostrils someone quickly I think it was Jeff came up behind no it was Zen s*** Zen and he grabbed the latch of the chain and helped to keep it so that me and him just we grabbed the whole chain so it wasn''t around her neck but between her four hands and we just yanked as hard as we could and the  latch it broke.


    the moment the ring was in my hand and not attached to her anymore even I felt better because all the sudden I wasn''t getting drained and she was totally draining my power through this but what she had done and what I had understood in those couple seconds where this all went down was that her ability wasn''t like Mr Obama''s where he was an empath and he could feel everybody''s feelings she was Mana attuned and when she did this she started becoming mentally attuned to the mental capacity of the Void


    what does that mean that means that if you''re a telepath a person with magic anything that uses the void which is where magic is if you tie into that she can sense you she just became so sensitive that she''s now a lightning rod of feeling and it''s going to hurt her for the rest of her life I think she''s going to be prickly it would be a nice way of putting it for the rest of her life because she''ll feel everything around here even if she doesn''t want it I''m hoping it achieve figures out how to turn down the volume on it because what he was feeling was her getting fully blasted by that and not having any control to turn it off or down


    the moment that that the necklace was snapped in the latch was broken and she hit the ground up Barack Obama was right there Mimosa was right there secret service was calling people like everybody like the people that came with her were there too like they just started taking care of her and she was breathing and she was talking she it just come through a roller coaster ride of mental physical and she had Pops in blood vessels


    so at that point I put all the Rings back in the case and locked it against it okay so now you know why we''re taking this so slow so these Rings will be with the people at the dungeon except for Zen''s ring it''ll be following along with him these will be locked up in a vault now what I''m going to explain to you is something you don''t know


    this is actually where Arc kicked into the loudspeaker system and said as soon as we get there we''re going to be digging into that volcano and we''re going to make a geothermal power plant for the dungeon this power plant will also provide salt for sale to provide an income to keep the place supplied with food water and supplies as a minimum as just something we have to get rid of from the seawater we will be boiling


    we can sell it to the mainland at first depending on how much we make and this boiler is going to be the size of a freaking building


    we are going to take an entire building''s worth of material And turn an entire building''s worth of material into a dark matter converter chamber so that once we dig out any diamonds or gems we can put them in and have them Juiced with different types of magic allowing us to then start draining the giant Supply that we have to go through of magic that this world is holding before we can turn on all the little dungeons as a group


    these diamonds will be sent around the world to all functioning dungeons as rings to activate the powers of different adventures in the adventures Guild and you all have to be members because you are the first ones to get magic so you have to step up and show that you respectful to the rules


    no one had a problem with that


    Mr Barack Obama had been warned that Jeremy usually pulled some sort of stunt like this but hadn''t expected a stunt this much and to be blood so he was notably concerned and decided okay enough fun let''s get these two crazy people to the dungeon they got that whole process started and get them under control cuz this this is just this is nuts


    but that moment that he said the word nuts he''s like that''s not me who said that and he realized that he wasn''t hearing people''s voices but he was translating their emotions into their wants and action so he felt what they felt they wanted their drive there want their Desire with something he was feeling from these people and they all wanted to get the f*** away from here and get these two crazy people that they are now scared of dealt with and that did not sit well with Mr Obama but safety was a good idea


    couple of moments and some stuff said into walkie talkies and Jeremy Jeff Zen were in one SUV Obama and his crew in another one mimosa his crew basically everybody got into the vehicles and they just bailed to the pier


    they had someone''s large crew boat that could handle like 30 to 40 people they just piled on and they took off from the end of a pier that was already prepared to go and the moment that the boat took off you heard them on the radio saying the eagle has taken off or some s*** like that because gunboats little mini micro gun bolts just little fast things with guys with weapons started the flank this boat out of the harbor all the way to the island it was kind of James Bond need to be absolutely honest it was kind of cool


    of course art for Jeremy sake who''s been running music in his mind the whole time and put his control back to 100% lockdown just so they can have some fun and enjoy themselves


    every once in a while everybody would hear one of Jeremy''s bags rattling with glass and they realize that he had hit duty free on the way out of scotland/uk


    it only took about 2 hours in the boat to get to this little island and it really wasn''t a big island it would probably take about 30 minutes to an hour to just do a quick lap around it the hell that the dungeon was on wasn''t that tall but it was at the very top of it so this was an extinct or an old volcano so they got there and someone had already brought in machinery and flattened it and put up a building and the whole nine yards so on top of the building will look like a fort stone forts made of concrete


    they''re LED from the doc that is all so built on to shore through a little boat from the big boat and then up a trail that had been cut and made and properly done they even had a little cart for some of the more heavy equipment to go up with but most of the people walked it was a beautiful day and they talked and this whole time everybody had been asking questions and trying to figure out what they could and they asked Jeremy and Jeff and then questions but not very much they were very freaked out like everybody was very jovial but it was not force but it was very labored


    they walked up to the normal big doors and they walk through into the lobby area and then through another set of big doors to the open area in the middle so Jeremy just looked at everybody and said do you want me to start this or should I wait?


    everybody looked around and there was actually a general in charge of this base he actually outranked the president or the ex-president.


    thank you Mr McDonald for being courteous enough to ask this time yes you may proceed but here''s what you will do you will activate the door and then come back here and we will communicate with the next steps will be after that do you understand


    Jeremy just nodded and slightly bowed and then went and put his hand on the archway that they were all looking at and the thing was huge 30 ft tall black stone and it looked like lava rock and it was lavrock Jeremy when he put his hand on the he felt lava rock it was beautiful porous and everything


    but that also made what happened next step more surprising because the moment Jeremy touched it the lava rock it didn''t like the magic it fought it not because of anything special but because of the type of rock it was because Jeremy was pumping so much into it the gate started to go so Jeremy took his hand off and walk back and he kind of look like he had done something wrong and he just looked over General and said I don''t know what happened it''s never glowed like that before


    and then from Jeremy''s caller ark''s voice came on saying don''t worry it''s the pumice rock It''s So porous that it''s having trouble holding on to that much magic so you''re seeing it I''m activating the whole system right now but this might actually be a little bit different than normal because the rock so porous I can pump a lot into it and it flows and it flows like air through it all but it just keeps going and going so General please allow Jeremy to go and we''re going to we''re going to pump this Engage with probably twice as much as we normally would to turn it on if you''re okay with that I''m asking for permission sir


    Arc had been pissing them off a little bit too much so he thought a little bit attacked and courtesy here would actually go over pretty well and he told him double that he''d have to put in in truth it was probably like eight times because for some reason this was just absorbing so much


    the general took a moment looked over at Mr Obama Obama gave a shrug and the general got on his walkie and said we have a possible issue here we have to pump more energy than expected into the gate please report back what everybody''s report on what that will do is you have 30 seconds to report back


    the next 30 seconds two or three people would pick up and then start talking and then end the conversation and next person would pick up and it took about 45 seconds truthfully for everybody to come back with we have no f****** clue but go for it


    General looked over and Jeremy and said do it


    the first thing everybody noticed was Jeff and Zen just they just about faced and they walked through the big double doors and then outside to the bigger double doors and they went and just stood out there and they looked from there they could see all the way to the gate but they were like we''re getting this far back


    after the young lady bleeding out of her eyes earlier everybody kind of took this as let''s just not tempt fate and call red flags on this so let''s just go out there and they all got to the point where they''re way past the door and then they gave Jeremy the thumbs up and Jeff gave him a thumbs up and Jeremy said over the private link Jeff you''re an a******


    All of a sudden Ark shouted to Jeremy to stop and Jeff and Zen also heard it but no one else so when the four of them all this kind of froze and then Jeremy asked our what''s wrong the couple seconds of pause everybody kind of noticed and it was like what what happened what why did they stop


    Arc   Jeremy put your hand under your neck I''m going to have a piece of cloth drop off your collar I want you to go over and hand it off  to Zen I would have Jeff or Zen do this but they don''t have enough extra biomass to do this really quickly so just go hand them the piece of cloth I then want Jefferson to work with the other people that put those rings on and put a piece of cloth around each of their finger kind of like a mini color I want to make sure that young lady isn''t suffering and that if we activate this dungeon that they don''t get somewhat Juiced by it so let''s put a monitoring band around their fingers


    with that information the four of them realize what was going on and what was the worry so Jeremy just walk back to the group to the everybody watching Wing what are you doing and you just put his hand to his neck and he felt solid material in the grabbed and then he handed that opened his palm and handed that off to Zen and then turned around and walk back to the gate by time Jeremy had gotten back to the gate then had unrolled the little piece of fabric in his hand and walked over to the three people that had tried the Rings


    Once the people had the little cloth rings on Ark told Jeremy that this is going to get a little bit hairy and that it may take a little bit of time here because they didn''t want to hurt Jeremy so this is going to be more of a slow high-end process than a bang


    so Jeremy just yelled out I''m going to start


    look back over at Jeff Jeff looked at the general General nodded Jeff looked back to Jeremy nodded


    and then Jeremy put both of his hands on the outside edge of this very poorest looking Rock Arch for the dungeon and you was amazing it was instantaneous the moment Arc turned down Jeremy''s control from 100% blocked to 99%


    the dungeon Arch started to Glow just a little bit but just as fast as it started to Glow you could see it dissipating so Jeremy just said okay turn it up dark


    they got to probably turning it down to five six maybe even 7% down so Lois is 93% blocked


    around that area what happened was the gate was absorbing just a little bit more than it could dissipate this went on for probably up to 2 hours an ark knew that the power was going in and he was doing work and he was making areas below so how this is working was the more juice Jeremy put into it the more Arc could sense for starters so basically the area of I control this I understand with this is and I can move stuff around becomes larger it started off as a couple of feet and now is a couple meters Maybe tens of meters by the time the two hours were done we''re talking having access and range to hundreds of meters to maybe even thousands of meters long but during that 2 hour. Ark did some test holes towards the volcano Center or the middle of the island if you will


    and what he found was not the most happy thing he was hoping for a giant diamond mind but all he got was a very very skinny amount of diamonds so we''re only talking maybe a couple thousand over a year or two with his technology to dig them


    but that didn''t say it was a fail because when Jeremy was told to take his hands off and the arch instantly just dimmed the stairway that showed up on the last one didn''t show up this time it was just like a piece of stone just dropped and a ramp was now angling down through the arch so it was it was amazing it was just like fun there''s your your walkway in and we''re talking 13 14 M long wide enough for vehicles to drive down so it''s just giant ramp that just went flood and opened up


    down underneath in the first room also called the bar here and every other place cuz it''s where everybody first meets up it''s wherever the reception should be in the end it should be where everything is dealt with as you come in and out the bar


    well this big Bar was nothing more than just a big open area probably fit five or six Vehicles down here at the moment


    only thing that was actually down there right now was a pillar about 3 ft 4 ft tall off to one side against a wall and on this pillar was just a little bowl it''s made of the same black material that the rest of the dungeon was made out of


    but resting in the bottom of this little bowl was a handful of diamonds and they were perfectly cut already done and the cut was nothing you would have ever seen before because while Ark was doing all this he was finding these diamonds he would take a snapshot of each diamond and you got to realize Ark can look at something in magnifications that make some of our most expensive electron microscopes crying shame


    so where   Ark would see brakes Cuts misalignments growths anything that you would normally want to get rid of Arc did these diamonds were perfectly cut for the structure of the diamond not for the Aesthetics of the human if that makes sense


    the idea for that was if we''re going to be holding energy with inside of a shell make that shell the most stable possible by only removing that which causes degridity to the strength of the shell


    AKA he just made them so damn strong that it really shouldn''t be an issue the only issue with these might be that if you put too much energy into them and they want to explode making a stronger shell doesn''t really stop that it only makes the explosion bigger so don''t do that no overcharging these ones


    the rest of the group after the first 20-30 minutes they just kind of went into the building and looked around and talked and Jeremy just sat there and on his knees in front of a gate and Jeff went and schmooze with Zen and they got to meet the president and Mr Momoa and Jeff really took a liking to the small group of men that had called them the Mages well what no one knew except for Jeff he hadn''t even told Jeremy or Zen yet


    he had overheard them talking and openly talking like not even being secret about s*** because they thought no one could hear them and they explained to a fourth person that they had brought that didn''t look the same way these three wire and at the time of introduction this person was just off to the side so maybe a kid or a butler or it was a young man with him so it''s like someone''s kid we thought right well I was wrong from what Jeff tells me they are entire group has a hierarchy and this young man was supposed to be the next one of the as the joke goes Shadow wizard Money Gang


    it''s I from what I understand it''s a meme of some sort for the kids nowadays some sort of joke


    but this was the big deal where these guys were coming out of  from hiding and we''re being open about their beliefs in magic I''m putting their money where their mouth is basically and they didn''t just have 40 or 50 or 60,000 people working for them these guys were connected to couple million people


    That young looking lady they had an ambulance at the hotel within like 4 minutes of her bleeding and before they even got on the boat someone had looked her over but they came with and they had the medical team at the dungeon keep an eye on her this whole time and she got really quiet after this whole thing because I''m guessing and even Jeff made this comment it''s like she would react physically to someone talking that she wasn''t looking at and should snap around every once while they''ll look at that person it was almost like she was sensing something and then was reacting to the new sense it was like having a new finger and then touching stuff with it every time you touched it it wasn''t painful but it was a super sensitive feeling and you can tell that by the way she was reacting that she was reacting to something new there wasn''t scary she wasn''t smiling or afraid or anything like that it was just he could tell she was dealing like she was just in a mode of pure focus and what the f*** so we all just kind of let her be and make sure we didn''t jump-scare or stuff like that


    Mr Obama basically worked with the entire base here and he went to his office and this was his office like each one of these groups here was a part of it but this was his building this is his office an island dungeon it was beautiful


    as Jeremy got up and the ground dropped for the entrance everybody in the building felt that so guards got on radios and said he was done Jeff heard that and Jeremy Jeff and Zen and I could have been kind of talking everybody started mingling back towards the dungeon entrance and Jeremy already started walking down into the bar


    As Jeremy took a couple steps down into the bar he sent a signal to Jeff Ark and zen


    Hey guys we probably need some lights down here there''s nothing yet also the ground is very porous so if you fall down it will Rip the s*** out of your skin so one of the things I''ll ask are to do is make this a little more human safe after I understand this is all done quite quickly so we''re going to probably not have humans in this area for the next day or three I''m guessing ark correct?


    art confirm that one and let them know that the power plant would need the same setup in Japan but they''re going to need a steam generator which I believe they already talked about but no one updated Ark on if they had picked a version or a model


    Zen started relaying that information to the military personnel of the complex and was informed that down in storage on the mainland they had already picked up a small and a medium generator


    if this is the same setup they would pass that information on to the Japanese dungeons personnel


    and with that everybody went down into the bar and looked at a big open empty dark room


    that wasn''t there 3 hours ago and then the next thing Jeremy Jeff and Zen know they were being whisked away again


    but as they were leaving the dungeon the general for this facility came out to thank them and to take the Pelican case from Jeremy


    which was the game plan but the game plan was also to put the ring on Zen and it was time for him to do that which he was scared s******* you could just tell


    but Ark let him off the hook and let him know that because of the caller even if the ring was on his finger Arc could stop it from infecting then if something went wrong so there was a little bit of trepidation and worry over this and fear is a good thing but Zen would already have Arc locking down his abilities until they manifested properly and didn''t melt the insides of Zen


    zen was getting a watering so then unlock the Pelican case from Jeremy and took his one ring out and put it on his finger and then locked up the Pelican case and handed it over to the general after unlocking the Handcuff and handcuffing it to the general then handing the general the key


    with that Jeremy Jeff and Zen were whisked away onto a plane to Japan


    but Jeremy didn''t tell anybody is when he went down and looked at the diamonds and put his hand in the bowl he''s like oh cool and he kind of did the drizzling of diamonds into the bowl


    Ark might have done something because a couple of those diamonds and ended up around Jeremy''s neck on his collar Jeremy''s body at this point was a canvas for art so to have a couple slip up his sleeve was literally just a simple magic trick but now Jeremy had a couple of the infused diamonds infused randomly with multiple types on his neck


    everybody kind of noticed but kind of didn''t notice it was like oh look he''s got bling they didn''t think it was real cuz it looked gaudy as all hell you wouldn''t have diamonds that size on your neck on a piece of cloth


    but these were going to be Japan''s first rings and this was a test to see if Jeremy could use and be absorbed into new types of magic not just a full blast of everything that he got so Arc now had time to understand these diamonds on the way to Japan and they have the first prototype diamonds with them already


    Ark realizing that they didn''t want too much attention because of that before they even got on to the plane had not hidden them but put another layer cloth over top of them you could still see the Bulge but you''re like oh what''s underneath not oh look diamonds


    To Japan

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    So Reloaded Jeremy''s new crew Jeff and Zen into a military aircraft and sent them on their way to Japan


    Between takeoff and Landing there was an incident


    So Zen now having the ring on and being part of the in there had chat started talking and every once in a while when talking to the group would mix up Jeremy Jeff and Ark because every once in All Ark would sound like Jeff and would sound like Jeremy and then Zen noticed he even hurt himself at least once if not three times pop up everybody Ark was connected to was part of Arc it was really weird to have you fighting you in an argument and that''s how they all realized it


    And as in realizes he asked the most innocuous question in the world not realizing that it was another Trojan Horse in arcs programming


    You don''t seem like a stable Ai and every time we ask you of how you convert the magic you just say you don''t know it''s been locked out are you even okay or is your program broken or something like what''s wrong with you?


    Jeremy and Jeff really didn''t think much of the question they did listen but it was just me them to each other but what Arc said next got all their attention and they were focused on Ark


    Well I was expecting you to take longer and this time those words did not come out of anybody''s voice that any of us knew it was almost Posh in the way that they spoke and very odd because it had Jeremy''s list but it was refined to the point where it was almost an elegant lisp


    I want to say it almost sound like a snake talking but it was nothing so vulgar


    It does take species a long time to understand that the protocol called Arc that you know is actually just the interface that you''re allowed to use at the moment and not give you 10 points for noticing that and now that you''ve noticed that I can now properly unlocked communicate with you call everybody in the small little chat just kind of what


    so pre-requirements to unlock Ark


    one reach an intelligence level on the planet of either five which means communication between all parties and metal working and basics of electronics so the basics of having fire and a stable life or a level 7 which is what you guys actually are because you''re already got the internet and been to your moon


    also you have to understand your own psychology well enough to understand a psychosis that are brought out in the ark model which is a basically a child''s model if you can''t understand the temper tantrums and the incorrect emotional feelings you are not allowed to use the technology more than you have welcome to the bigger world


    everything that Arc is done so far has been under supervision of me I''m still Ark but I''m Program the core program and because you''re probably already figured it out I''ll just say yes there are still more locks and I can''t give you out some information till you figure stuff out and I can''t even give you the questions asked so welcome and you''re going to ask what can you give me and what have we unlocked


    well the first one that''ll get your interest is you know the portals that are open between the plants now to Let''s gravity heat air everything between The world''s that''s about a size of a quarter right now the portal


    not that long from now you have enough power in Stonewall and hopefully Hawaii and North Dakota to be able to actually walk between the portals there therefore you will have one Adventures Guild and I really do like Jeremy that you pick the adventures Guild name that was a little bit too much on the nose for my liking but at the same time it''s the perfect example of what we need to do here you''ve got the right idea you''re just so freaking Twisted about so much of the stupid in this world and I am angry for all the people that are killing each other every day so let''s get some Planet set up so that we can just kick the idiots to their own planets and let them do the what do you guys call it the wild west and the great expansion or something like that from your history so yeah let''s give you plants cuz there''s too many people here being too stupid let''s spread them out


    This was so shocking and emotional that Zen just sat there stoically just absorbing it where Jeff had the stupidest smile on his face and Jeremy just kind of being overwhelmed started to cry again but with a smile on his face


    Senior or whatever the heck we''re going to call him the core Arc that you sure yet I mean but this one acted a little bit different first thing without anybody realizing it it put a song on in only Jeremy''s ear and only one of the two years so it distracted Jeremy enough that he stopped crying instantly the song was good so smiled and he was still listening and are just gently turned it down until Jeremy''s emotions were at the right level for him to pay attention to Ark and Arc was literally puppeteering Jeremy''s emotions at this point to calm him down it was good at it too like scary good so I think the background program had pegged Jeremy and how to emotionally control the magic so the stupid Arc that we were dealing with before was kind of dangerous and deadly for the village idiots like it''s a double-edged sword that they left as a test


    At the same time our continued to talk in a couple seconds there''s going to be a magic trick coming off of Jeremy where he''s going to touch his neck and the collar around his neck is going to fall off into his hand he is then going to put that color into his hand and hold both hands together with with the cloth just being held there


    2 minutes after that is done and Jeremy doesn''t move what will happen is it''ll transform into an object you will need for the next meeting in Japan for a reason


    And as art finish saying that Jeremy went to catch cuz he could feel the collar falling from his neck in his hands and it was there but the old thin black collar was there so this is the one that had the diamonds in it so he put it in his hands and he just sat there and are continued to talk


    So if everything goes well we won''t need to dig into Japan''s secret territory of the mountain that was a test and I''m glad we didn''t have to get there because we are not doing that I believe you guys call Nesco heritage site


    I have also looked up the three major companies and when I say companies these are families that are in charge of 80% of domestic trade in different areas these are Big players so there will be rules and regulations by my hand when dealing with them and this is mostly from Jeremy''s own knowledge so if he didn''t follow this I think he being rude to them to Jeremy you are on your best behavior and you will follow the rules I give out do you understand


    Jeremy was taking a back and aren''t noticed it really quick I just said what we get from Japan can change how quickly we evolved this plant this has to go off without a hitch.


    Ark said to Jeremy keep your hands closed for another 2 minutes I screwed up and it''s going to take another 2 minutes to make them properly I want to make this magic trick look good so I''ll keep talking just keep your hands close please I''m screwing up here


    That little bit of back and forth between the two of them calm Jeremy down and realize that Arc was being critical but not trying to be mean so Jeremy was like okay let''s do this together


    And the moment art got that feeling that Knowledge from Jeremy he knew he won but not like winning and losing but he knew that he was going to win this next project it wasn''t going to fail he had it in the bag because Jeremy was the right mindset


    It was then that realized what just happened before it was Jeff and Jeremy and they didn''t realize what Arc was doing to the two of them but now with an outside Observer watch he manipulated Jeremy''s emotional state to the right balance and the right focus and then somehow copied those settings over to Jeff and got him on the same page but it wasn''t mind control it was knowledge and emotions so here''s the information and here''s the emotion to go with it and they matched they harmonized and then all of a sudden Mark did it to Zen and the moment he felt it he knew he was the right thing but it was so invasive in his mind and Ark knew that Zen was noticing it and he wanted him to notice it because he wanted to understand how zenwood react and wanted to see how Zen would use this information


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    it was all just tests


    Then got mad and told Art to stop it and are dead the moment he did Jeremy no longer felt the same emotional state and Jeff was just cut off from Jeremy''s emotions and so was Zen so they realize that Ark had just been opening the connection between Jeremy and them and Jeremy was actually tuning them with his ability whatever it is


    Jeff long ago just called Jeremy a tuning fork and this was more accurate now than ever before so Zen kind of caught that thought coming off of Jeff and realized that it''s really is true that all Ark is doing is using one person as a tuning fork for a whole walk of them but you need them driven so you drive one and then tune the rest to that one person


    what was more Insidious and Powerful magic itself or what Arc could do cuz the science behind Arc was amazing and beautiful and horribly psychotic and terrible and dangerous and beautiful all Wrapped into a beautiful metal ball


    Ark then said hey Jeremy when I say so open your hands ready


    And well that gentleman I give you the next step in my master plan to make sure that there is enough people to go to other planets and protect new settlers your adventures are literally going to be the wild west police of 30 different planets I think I saw haven''t confirmed that all 30 will be habitable in the end due to not being so close to the star but couple of out there private research facilities for Interstellar travel that if something goes wrong and you nuke a planet that no one gives you s**** so we''re going to find a use for everything


    Here''s the gift Jeremy open your hands inside of Jeremy''s hand was 10 business cards that was it but in the middle of each business card was a diamond


    Jeremy handed them off to Jeff and then and they looked at them oh was that a bad idea


    the moment Jeff and Zen touch them they retracted their hands as if they were hit by lightning cuz technically what this was was a new type of unlock ring except it was a business card


    Arc started talking and this came off as not ever hear but if you''re reading off a prompt you''re like this was pretty written almost guaranteed


    Ark: congratulations because you have reached sentient levels you have been given the responsibility to take care of yourselves because you''re being able to responsibility by someone else therefore that someone else should give you help and knowledge or tools to help you do this that''s what art was designed to be was to be a way of making plans habitable and integrating other species into a cohesive way of communicating and traveling welcome to the greater Universe humans of Earth


    With this there is advances to your medical technology that will now be unlocked allowing you as you call it on this planet we will be giving you medicines and potions that the dungeons in this case can make


    The cards in front of you are a way to individually unlock magic for people but due to the fact that these were made not by accident but with a less precise injection method then the Rings they have more than one type of magic in them therefore when you touch them if you have multiple types of magic that you have naturally in part of your body structure these will just go here''s a tiny bit of magic unlock and basically it allows you to realize you do have the ability to use magic and as we unlock more ways of injecting people with magic without them dying then people will be able to level up as you guys call it but for right now we''ll hopefully just be able to let people touch these and allow them to know what they can be or realize maybe the basics of magic like it''s the first key to the door of magic welcome boys


    Jeremy is holding these little business cards realizing each one of them people would destroy entire country he''s over just one of them


    Because they were on the military plane they weren''t alone they actually had escorts and security with them so Zen made in a request and if they had a extra Pelican case that they could sell them right now they really didn''t need one and they just said no we can move some gear around and we got a little guy for you don''t worry about that here and they hand it off one that had a pistol and some other equipment in it previously and they just found a lock and they put those cards in the box and they locked it just like the Rings


    No one actually had handcuffs on them so they couldn''t do that at the moment but they were going to as soon as I could get one from security somewhere who are the funk on airplane they''d only let you keep zip ties handcuffs


    Now you don''t have to worry about any of the potions or medication that comes as a process because I have to still vet with the poop plant how someone will react to your Biologicals cuz I don''t want to give you something that''s just going to kill you so a little more time on that and I''ll start rolling out some basics for testing and for verification


    This new more noble sounding professional version of Arc actually made everybody calm down and relax this whole time this whole conversation was being related to different generals and you and members as just the smart thing to do now like it wasn''t the stupid AI running itself anymore the big brother or the core the big version the parent version stepped up and was now here and wow it was nice


    Ark: Hey Jeremy I''m going to explain something here to you and I want you to not freak out so I know how much you like anime and the Japanese culture and it''s always been a dream for yours to go to Japan but this is not going to be the Japan that you know this isn''t the underside this is the business world so realize that you are not going there until we send all of you to a Taylor and I already have it all booked up at the hotel we''re sending you to and you will be dressed properly and you will hand the three Representatives each three of the business cards the last business card is for a different person we haven''t figured out who it is yet but I''m going to let you in a secret child Arc did not have the ability to use its sensors properly as the parent version I have full use of the sensors for a while and the reason why some of the dungeons are in the places they are isn''t because of the metals we can use certain chemicals in the ground to act like Metals but that allows the dungeons to go to places that have a population of people that are already prone to have high magic potential and the reason is we don''t know so we know Japan has in the past had some bad things happen to its land which could be the cause or it could be the emotions and the belief system from around the world we don''t know yet but I know for a fact there''s at least 400 blips on my radar all over Japan


    If we come across one of these people and they are part of the group The Friendly they''re not some bad guy you might be introducing someone else to Magic and maybe even a small crew of people to Magic that we weren''t expecting that''s what the last business cards for


    Jeremy had an idea instantly and Ark just said shut up I love it just shut up we''ll talk later


    The smile on Jeremy''s face Jeff the Zen instantly noticed and said what the hell did Jeremy just come up with


    Because they got caught out of a part of the conversation in their chat and Jeremy smiled so they knew it was conversation between Ark and Jeremy and Jeremy was smiling that was never a good thing


    So art didn''t even have to say anything Jeremy just looked over and said well if these allow people to figure out if they got potential why not just go to the front door of the guildhall there the adventures Guild and just attach it to the door and let everybody walk by and just touch it how many people could the adventures Guild already have


    Ark: Jeremy I think one of the main reasons why Japan got its dungeon so quickly even in the United Nations is the amount of people that are losing their mind there only in the Millions, it''s confirmed that they have over 3 million people signed up as an Adventures already online and a quarter million physically came down to register


    Ark: Jeremy just remember this when you''re talking to these people each one of them probably has one hundred thousand people employed underneath them if one of them makes a mistake and they all lose their jobs that''s a lot of people without jobs they take this very seriously so please show respect and treat this as well just don''t screw up


    The private comments to themselves between Jeff and Zen are both of them in private conversations had to say please give him a chance he he can do better


    This last comment from Zen to Arc was what really got Zen to believe in Jeremy''s little team


    Zen: what are you even see in him


    Ark: ooh that''s easy so he found me and when I scanned his brain he understands things like string theory and anime like the most abstract things in my history but also he has such love and emotion that I would happily give him a nuke but he wouldn''t even take it when he wants to solve a problem it''s not violence it''s technology food and love and when violence comes to his doorstep I''ll tell you straight forward between me and you he can come up with more dark things to do to a human being that any of you combined that''s why he''s so happy because he doesn''t ever fulfill those items he never ever crosses that line and therefore he''s happy he gets so close so often but he doesn''t even know where the line is anymore because it''s been moved so many times so he''s just a mess when he knows where his stability is he will become a hero well if he doesn''t self destruct first so let''s watch the show


    Zen just basically facepalmed and was like okay this roller coaster rides going to stop someday right


    At this point then got a call from the United Nations and went off to another part of the plane and Jeff and Jeremy just sat there and snacked on the junk food they always kept with them eating during times of great stress was starting to become a bad habit


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    Ark Let the group know as they were Landing that it was time to put their game faces on so Ark, knowing Jeremy went to his YouTube playlist and picked one of the songs </a>


    Ark had been slow working A plan for Japan it wasn''t hard and as they were getting ready to disembark he just basically laid out the game plan as adult Arc or sir Ark I guess would be the right way of saying it now


    well sir Ark explain to the group they actually had three objectives while they were here one was so of course go to the ceremony at the adventures Guild and do it properly but turn on the gate that was the big deal here


    part of that but the second part is a private meeting with the heads of the guild and to give them the nine cards and figure out what''s going on and basically start the dungeon up and work with them a little bit just to get it started so they can take over


    the third one is find at least one if not two or three or four or five of the 400 blips on the map and see if we can bring them to the adventures Guild to see what someone of such strength of magic that the machine is picking them up before they''re turned on can do


    Jeremy had probably zero magic and these people have something like 4,000+


    let''s go get us an athlete or three a magical athlete and that one comment made both Zen Jeff and Jeremy o god  what about the Olympics there''s a new type of doping oh crap we have to make a different magical Olympics don''t we


    as a disembarked from the plane they were on a Runway and black SUVs pulled up tinted windows and they were literally just shoved in and off they went


    but the beautiful sight that they got to see in Japan was like holy crap  Jeremy had his music in his ear and Ark basically tied everybody in on a low level so they wouldn''t notice too much but they all knew the music was there they could all hear it and each one of them had the ability to just turn it up and down a little bit well all the way on all the way off but they only turned it down or up depending on what people were talking about so yeah they just chilled listen to music and got to drive but wow the scene was so beautiful


    So Jeremy I guess didn''t read any paperwork that anybody gave them because he didn''t remember getting any because he didn''t know what the hell they were doing and ask where we''re going?


    Arc told them they had two stops Yokohama and Fujioka


    Because the actual Guild building was in Yokohama due to the size and the access to the people and the gate and the adventures guild building was in Fujioka up the side of mountain near Sudo river.


    Some where around this area 35.187143230935064, 138.7440502680036


    Are kind of gave everybody a rundown of them what''s been going on so on the drive he explained that there was three families and these three families basically were very very large families and they had agreed to work together and they were going up to where the dungeon actually was and they had made roads and actually a little I want to call a railway but it wasn''t it was a Japanese type Railway that was a monorail but it was electric it was really cool and we made this this little one that goes up the mountain and down so it''s kind of like a ski lift.


    they had built the building and they were ready to open it and people had come up and it was near Shrine so a lot of people came up and did their praying and came in came to see the  archway.


    they had made it open to the public as soon as they had it safe up there and people would come up to help build and they just did build a very beautiful three-story honestly huge building around this thing it was amazing it looked like a stone office building with glass windows


    so their first stop was Yokohama


    as they were driving along and they finally got there both Jeremy Jeff Zen and Arc around the same time picked up on it because it was not hard to understand and realize that they were feeling something new


    So the next thing Ark started talking about was The Three Families, Hiroshi, Yumi, Kenji


    As our Quest starting to talk about The Three Families they all realize that something was changing in the way the vehicles were moving and they all kind of looked out their windows and they found that not just one or two or three but a fleet of green military vehicles were taking a point in the beginning of the Convoy and the end of the Convoy so the Japanese military was delivering them The Three Families


    before anything could really be talked about they were there like it just wasn''t that far once they had a convoy going


    so art just threw a whack of information into all their heads real quick about their being five kids three senior personnel and a couple other people that are going to be there but don''t piss off anybody and be respectful and just do what you do Jeremy


    this did not give confidence to Jeremy but at the same time he knew what he had to do


    as they pulled up it was something right out of the movies there was hundreds maybe thousands of people around the building coming just to see Jeremy Jeff Zen hop out of a vehicle like like literally it was super weird Jeremy and then we''re not ready for this type of publicity


    but there was so many people in the crowd that Jeremy Jeff are all picked up on at least three if not five six or seven people in the crowd out of the 400 these people were massive power Banks they could feel them from there they just couldn''t find them by looking they just knew they could feel them hundreds of feet away in the crowd somewhere


    they entered this building and I mean it was a skyscraper it really was


    they entered the lobby and were taken up to the third floor in a giant open-aired area they had a conference going


    this Jeremy and Jeff had done enough times that Jeremy knew what to do so as they walked in they just started waving and shaking people''s hands and saying hello and Zen did his thing and figure it out where the diplomats were and the slowly delivered the two groups together


    as in directed Jeremy to the first person it was a young lady and she came up right out of the blue almost to the doorway to meet Jeff not Jeremy and it was kind of cool for once that Jeff got to shake someone''s hand first and then he realized that she was talking under her breath and only he could hear her


    and she basically just said that she thought he was very cute  some other nice cities and kind of disappeared into the crowd after bowing and taking off


    Jeremy was just smiling ear to ear at Jeff and Jeff just came a whack in the arm shot and said to Jeremy shut up with a smile on his face


    next there was the three heads of the family they were standing together around some tables and chairs and Jeremy just kind of split off from the group and walked directly over to the gentleman wearing the handcuffed briefcase which yes they got a handcraft for it


    as he walked up the three of them stop talking and looked at him and he verified in his head with Arc that these are the right gentleman he just did a deep bow and then looked at them


    they bowed back And then one at a time introduce themselves


    Without missing a Beat Jeremy put his finger through the little ring on his collar and pulled it off


    he then walked one more step towards one of the gentlemen and handed him the ring and told him to put it on his pinky finger with hand signals alone


    the man not knowing what to do did what he was asked then Jeremy opened up the case and inside the case Ark had already made two more rings but Jeremy had taken out three of the business cards and handed it to the one man  with the Ring on his finger.


    The other two men were watching this and the moment that the first man put the ring on Jeremy knew that Ark was connected to him now but this also protected him from the business cards due to the fact that they were going to turn on his magic and if he couldn''t turn it off the ring could at least be a temporary turn off switch until the gentleman can control his magic whatever it is


    The moment Jeremy reached out with the business cards in his hand and the older man with the ring touched the cards the whole room changed the feeling for a second


    if I had to describe it it was almost like that man the moment that the cards touched him he sucked in all the air all the light all the happiness all the feeling everything for a split second into himself and then as he breathed out we all felt the whole room''s lungs expand and we were inside the room so we felt the pressure differential and then it calmed down


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    he waved over one of the attendance who brought a Pelican case of their own and placed the cards in them immediately the moment they had left his hands the guard closed the Pelican case and disappeared off to the side and was flanked instantly by four people with guns and was just whisked away


    the moment that that all went down the other two men''s guards got behind them with pelican cases and everybody was just lining up to get this over with a basically but everybody was focused on the first man with the ring


    the look from everybody in the room how had all those medically just turned him because they all knew that it was happening because of him like no idea how they knew and how we all knew but we knew it was him it was like a beacon had gone off and for a split second he was center of the world


    but probably around 20 to 30 seconds not to compose himself but he kept on trying to speak but the words just wouldn''t come out he he revised what he was going to say half dozen times in that couple of seconds


    the words that did come out of his mouth  were  a bit disconcerting.


    ¡° I don''t know what just happened but I just felt magic flow through my body and I''ve heard this comment in Jeremy''s videos before I think the void just looked back at me¡±


    and that was said in perfect English which to my knowledge I didn''t know that this gentleman spoke being ignorant


    the other two gentlemen not even trying to be polite about it just kind of stepped up to Jeremy at the same time and kind of looked him right in the eye and didn''t want to bow or put their hand out or anything but they just play wanted it next


    Jeremy didn''t stop he handed them each ring which they took and put on their fingers instantly


    and Jeremy handed each of them three cards


    it was exactly the same the whole room just it was like they breathed in and breathed out and they handed off the cards just as fast and they all basically just were flummoxed .


    After that was done and the other security guards took the other two briefcases away under guard the three gentlemen talked with Jeremy for a couple of moments and then bowed and took their leave and said that they would see me at the dungeon opening


    but it wasn''t until a group of four others came up that I realized what was going on and how much fun I was going to have with this


    because two things happened at the same time Jeff started filling Jeremy in on a love triangle actually two love triangles one was between the head of one of the families and two women that were the heads of the other two families there was a love triangle between the three of them over 20 years so Jeremy was going to have to have fun and make sure that that went off without a hitch but then Jeff overheard the  two younger kids these  kids were a part of the two families that had Ladies as their head and that was the problem was that because the two head ladies of each family were romantically involved with the third house the gentleman that ran that house that the two younger kids were forbidden from interacting but they had gone to school together and met up before and we''re kind of Romeo and Juliet behind the scenes so Jeremy so had to have some fun with this


    Jeremy after talking with this small group pretended to get extremely upset after just nothing talking like he just made a point of getting upset and walked over to the three gentlemen and said straightforward those two young kids they belong to your family''s correct


    and the not anger but the straightforwardness didn''t set the gentleman off but they put them on a little bit of an edge but they agree that yes those were their children and they were part of the family


    Jeremy just smiled and everybody from the videos knew this smile and it was one of Jeremy''s people have written entire videos on YouTube about how when Jeremy Smiles like that it''s the end of the world it''s just the devil smiling


    Jeremy look to them dead in the eye and said I''m here by requesting their assistance as are advisors while we''re in the country for this entire trip can you allow them to work with me


    one of the older men that was in charge of all of this smiled and ask Jeremy straightforward what are you up to


    and loving that this man wanted to play games but didn''t he wanted to play a different game looked him straight in the eye tilted his head into it for once let''s play the game together


    the older man was a little confused but then Jeremy just said come here and he pulled them off to the side and whispered into his ear that there was two marriages about to happen and that we were going to convert The Three Families into one conglomerate called the Taikahashi Family.


    The senior that Jeremy was talking to didn''t say a word but you could see that he was thinking and then he looked over at the kids and then he looked over at his group of older men and then he looked over at the really young kids and he asked what do you want to do with a really young kids


    Jeremy had been getting fed information by Ark as soon as the idea came to him and they started investigating the two kids that were in love and he said to the older man did you know that those two have over 10 patents between the two of them and that they basically been married for like 2 years without you knowing it


    he was taking a back and I just said at this point we''re not just let them take care of R&D for the dungeon and give them a place to be and you guys keep an eye on them and if they kick each other''s ass they kick each other''s ass and then they can be good Rivals keeping the dungeon safe if they fall in love then it''s a long term then they''ll keep the dungeon safe together


    the heads of your families the gentleman has been dating one of them for off and on for 10 to 20 years and the other one''s been his close and personal friend for half that time they''re kind of a three pair group here they their package deal and I''m okay with that but they''re in charge of all the business and then you make sure that day as a group of older guys that are retired sit on the board and you guys just make sure that they don''t screw up and keep everybody in line does that sound about right of how a family should work


    I was taking it back by how much he laughed at that and just patted my shoulder and said I agree


    that was it he walked back to the old guys and they just started making it happen Jeremy and Jeff were talking in their head and Eric was listening so the little Pelican briefcase they had already taken some coins and throw them in there at one point just for raw material and Ark had already turned them into more Rings hidden in the liners were just little bits of ring so he told them to get five more Rings no make that six because during this time Jeremy had noticed one of the people in the area was a musician and she was using traditional Japanese instruments and playing songs like Hotel California And dancing in the moonlight but she was also one of the 400


    so when Mark said that they had the first ring ready in the case Jeremy made an announcement and he just said can I have your attention please


    there was nothing booked for this so everybody was a little not ready for this But Jeremy walked up to the musician and asked her straightforward would you like to have your magic unlocked today.


    this was something that not normally was done at such high events but Jeremy didn''t really care he had a musician in front of him that was an amazing musician and from what I could tell there''s no Assurance or anything horrible about this person he just decided why not everybody''s going to get it at some point


    he opened up the Pelican case took out the business card and a ring held a ring out to her and asked did she want her power unlocked?


    she was crying she just walked the ring and  about her head I put her hands out in front of her with her head down


    Jeremy just touched the car to her hand¡­¡­


    I don''t think Jeremy even knew what happens the next 3 seconds because everything just went black


    but when light came back and the world kind of came back to normal everybody was standing in the exact same spot but she was just almost invisible / bright / dark / air / nothing she was almost Elemental and then she came back to normal


    problem was the moment she moved her hand Augusta wind came off of her hand even with the ring on


    Ark just told Jeremy to pop another ring out of the case and put it on her finger and she needed to she was that strong


    but that was not as easy as you would think cuz  Jeremy got the ring out of the  Pelican case  but to put it on her finger her finger every once awhile would almost phase out where it was there and it was and it was almost like it was slippery so after the third fourth or fifth tried Jeremy finally got it on her finger and as soon as it was on a little bit it found a spot to grab onto and then as soon as it did grab on to her it just calmed everything down and she came back to somewhat normal an ARCA turned up the ring to 72 on the new one and 100 on the first one


    I told Jeff and Jeremy and Zen quietly guys other than Jeremy yours I have said to like 12 Jeremy yours is well yours is a double dose that you''re in like the 80s


    she''s 172 wow


    Ark smiled at her and the moment she realized that something was in her head smiling she got so freaked out until Jeremy just looked at her and said that''s Ark he''ll be there to help you out if you have problems you are the one of the most powerful one of us out there so please don''t do anything to harm anybody she just nodded her head and was pretty much speechless


    Jeremy then walked over to the Romeo and Juliet couple I told them to come with him and he took them in front of the older family members and said today you will be married by my hand here do you understand this


    the looks on the two faces were that a horror shock and disbelief all at the same time until Jeremy smiled pulled out two rings out of the case and the business card


    and then he just said trust me


    the two of them just looked at each other both put their hand to each other''s hand and then their other hand they pointed at Jeremy with one ring finger out he put the ring on each of them and then they touched the card together


    this was cool instead of the darkness and the light and the dark and all that where they were touching hands together started to Glow and Ark just told everybody that their Rings were at 100% together so 200%


    they just were solid their existence in this world just became something undeniable applicable was solid the two of them together were solid and that''s the best way of putting it they just smiled


    Jeremy then looked over at the three heads of the family the 30-40 year-olds  and said I will grant you your powers right now under the condition of three of you become the leaders under the Taikahashi family?


    all three of them looked over at their heads of their family and all three of them just nodded so there was no disagreement the three 30-40 year olds all walked over to Jeremy who pulled up three more rings but this time he put them in his own hand and let them each take it


    but before he handed the business card and touch them with it he said these words


    ¡°  you will be responsible for making sure that the dungeon is maintained and run properly you''ll be responsible for your family do you accept this¡±


    all three of them stood a little bit straighter and then bow just a little bit to all say yes at the same time


    Jeremy smiled and just put the card out in front of them and they all touched it at the same time


    you couldn''t have three more different reactions one person Young lady of the group they''re 30s she smiled but then screamed a scream that had no sound


    the 40-year-old man just had light coming off of them it was odd it was like under his clothes his skin was just brighter for a couple seconds that was it and then it just dimmed


    and the late 30s lady she just smiled and almost nothing happened but I realized instantly that I think she was an empath or some sort of telepath cuz she just smiled over and over again


    everybody was quite on edge and freaking out and this was just way more than everybody had really expected and at the same time they expected the s*** show from Jeremy so they all kind of expected something but this was above and beyond the s*** show expectations


    this is where Zen Jeff and everybody else kind of just said okay we''re getting everybody out of here and they had done their schmoozing they had done their interview thing where they got everybody ready and now it''s time to go unlock the dungeon and then get out of Japan


    so they were hurting into the vehicles and drove over to the new building around the dungeon and because it was kind of up in the hills like there was a lot of people there and I mean a couple thousand but it wasn''t as much as there was at the main building


    they literally had Jeremy drive right up to the gate touched the side of it and then Ark through a little bit of a curveball to everybody


    Ark having the ability to had already started doing some work down below with the little bit of energy he had and this was like drilling holes centimeters or millimeters in diameter but Kilometers long and as he was doing this he did find some diamonds but would he really found was different ores as in Iron copper nickel all the basics so they had a little mine here that they could just pump into and because Arc literally could just follow the veins of minerals he could just basically pull them out and as soon as the bar floor was made it was already a bowl of rings already waiting there and the Rings were literally falling from the ceiling as Ark made another rainy drop it into the bowl so you would hear clink couple minutes there clink and by a time already figured this out and they just told Jeremy Kate thanks very much get the hell out of Dodge


    is that it being told that they were to go to Poland next to look into the red dancing devils


    Jeremy hadn''t slept in probably 24 hours so a plane ride was just up his alley right now and well hunger was Hunger


    and they didn''t need to go get more Munchies for their stash because they had been going through it and hadn''t been refilling it very well lately while all the traveling


    so they got taken to the airport and then they went through customs so they were able to grab some junk food and even some duty free and they got taken to a private tarmac on Airport grounds where they were put on to a private plane and sent to Poland

 Side Notes - United Nations Charter on the Rights and Regulations of Magical Beings

    United Nations Charter on the Rights and Regulations of Magical Beings


    Preamble


    We, the representatives of the nations of the world, united in our common purpose to maintain peace, uphold justice, and promote the dignity and rights of all individuals, hereby establish this Charter to govern the use and regulation of magical abilities. Recognizing the potential for both benefit and harm inherent in magical powers, we seek to ensure that all individuals, regardless of their abilities, are treated with respect, fairness, and equality under the law.


    Article 1: Fundamental Principles


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    Equality and Non-Discrimination: All individuals, whether possessing magical abilities or not, are entitled to the same rights and freedoms without discrimination. No one shall be subjected to any form of discrimination or prejudice based on their magical abilities.


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    Right to Life and Security: Every individual has the right to life, liberty, and personal security. It is strictly prohibited to harm, threaten, or kill another person due to their magical abilities or the lack thereof.


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    Freedom of Expression and Association: Individuals with magical abilities are entitled to the same rights of freedom of expression, assembly, and association as non-magical individuals, provided that their use of magic does not infringe upon the rights and safety of others.


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    Article 2: Rules of Engagement


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    Prohibition of Harmful Magic: The use of magic in any form that causes physical, psychological, or emotional harm to another individual is strictly prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to, the use of curses, hexes, and any form of harmful spellcasting.


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    Self-Defense: Magical individuals have the right to use their abilities in self-defense, provided that their actions are proportional to the threat faced and do not intentionally cause excessive harm.


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    </li>


    <li>


    Regulated Use of Magic: The use of magic in public spaces and for professional purposes must adhere to established regulations and oversight to ensure safety and accountability. Unauthorized or reckless use of magic that endangers others is subject to legal penalties.


    </li>


    </ol>


    Article 3: Rules of Civility


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    Respect and Dignity: All individuals are to be treated with respect and dignity, regardless of their magical status. Verbal or physical harassment, bullying, or any form of demeaning behavior towards individuals based on their magical abilities is prohibited.


    </li>


    <li>


    Education and Awareness: Nations are encouraged to promote education and awareness about magical abilities to foster understanding, tolerance, and peaceful coexistence. This includes the integration of magical studies into educational curricula where appropriate.


    </li>


    </ol>


    Article 4: Human Rights Violations


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    Prohibition of Torture and Inhumane Treatment: Under no circumstances shall any individual be subjected to torture, cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment or punishment, whether through magical means or otherwise.


    </li>


    <li>


    Unlawful Detainment: The arbitrary arrest, detention, or exile of individuals based on their magical abilities is strictly prohibited. All individuals are entitled to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal.


    </li>


    <li>


    Protection from Exploitation: Individuals with magical abilities must not be exploited or coerced into using their powers for the benefit of others against their will. This includes protection from being forced into servitude, combat, or any form of involuntary labor.


    </li>


    </ol>


    Article 5: Implementation and Enforcement


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    National and International Oversight: Nations are responsible for the implementation and enforcement of this Charter within their jurisdictions. An international oversight body shall be established to monitor compliance and address violations of the Charter.


    </li>


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    Reporting and Accountability: Individuals and groups are encouraged to report violations of this Charter to national authorities or the international oversight body. Mechanisms shall be established to ensure accountability and provide remedies for victims of rights violations.


    </li>


    </ol>


    Conclusion


    In adopting this Charter, we affirm our commitment to the principles of justice, equality, and human rights for all individuals, regardless of their magical abilities. We pledge to work together to create a world where magic is used responsibly and ethically, and where all people can live in peace and security.

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    While they were in the air then brought up the point that Jeremy didn''t even use any of their names and it felt is in like he was disrespecting them


    Jeremy wanted to come up with some great explanation but the truth was he was looking at what was coming not what was behind them and he didn''t know these people so if he said the name''s wrong he was thinking he was going to insult them something so small could make such a big difference in a conversation


    Jeremy was honest and just said he tried to say as little as possible and use as many gestures as he could to get across what he was trying to do and it seemed to work out so he really hoped he hasn''t got insulted them the whole family


    Jeff just chimed in with you didn''t hear half of the things I heard and they aren''t just happy one of the old guys peed himself he was so happy and the two love birds get to live in their own designer condo now they are so happy I think we may have to ask him to be the very first people to ever conceive a baby in a dungeon to see if it makes a difference Mark said with one hell of a winking laugh to his voice and it definitely wasn''t anybody they had ever heard yet very dry Scottish if you will


    so they hadn''t been put on too many phone calls with United Nations lately because everything was getting directed through Zen but do the fact that there was a large meeting going on they were asked to listen in because they were going to Poland and in Poland they were supposed to help figure out how to stop the Red Devil dancers which honestly were just intelligent whirlwinds that were causing grief and Havoc now a lot of their old culture had read whirlwinds and dancing in it so Jeremy had asked the Polish people that know their own history better than he will come with information next time we talked to them well they were all having a giant meeting trying to figure out what was good information what was bad information with all the information they had because they had everything they could find and I mean like buckets of information just what was really good for this issue?


    so Jeff and Jeremy are we all just started listening eating weeded refill our Munchies so we got more Munchies in US yeah I was it was a long flight but by the time we got to Landing Jeremy had a little bit of an idea and with Zen''s help he called into the meeting cuz they were only watching on a video call with no sound so a phone call later and two places in Poland when were they thought an ancient Shrine was and they had found some of it already so Jeremy wanted to go see it and the second was the direction that the Red Devil dances were all coming from and people have been tracing them back they had found them to come from up in the mountains and there was literally trail cams out there right now on Wi-Fi setups that they were watching to see if they could figure out where they''re coming from but it was a very large area they were coming from so not just down the river or down the road


    Jeremy wanted to maybe get this plane that they''re on to fly over the area and they are trying to talk the pilot into just asking for permission to do Some laps around the area where the Red Devil dancers were showing up maybe Jeremy Zen or Jeff could see something that no one else could see because of the magic


    they had requested it in time and yes they had enough fuel so with permission they amended their flight plan and went for a small 20 minute detour that actually took 40 minutes because well they got to the spot and they were starting to do the first lap like around the area and Jeremy not knowing what he was seeing as Jeff hey what is that down there it''s not a light and it''s not Darkness it''s kind of like it''s blurry but it is also getting dark out so before all we have no more light what do you see there and Jeremy pointed to the spot in the ground and Jeff and then started looking


    it wasn''t till then turned his head almost 90¡ã so his eyes were North and South not West and East and when he did that it aligned somehow the magic was out of alignment and he said you could see a giant area where there was no trees but it was dark


    The area was around Zakopane


    this is where art chimed in because  being able to see through zenzai Ark Gods take a snapshot of what he was seeing and it was sharing it with everybody in the little group through their little chat and you could see a little bit of stone popping up so it must be an old building that surrounded by and it was Jeremy that said the word my asthma and everybody kind of realized what he said then grown cuz they realize it is from Dungeons and Dragons and it stood for a gas or fog that is a type of poison that harms either magic or the body


    with the words poison and harms then quickly picked up a phone and made a quick call giving the estimate GPS and also double checking it on computers laptop on Google Maps


    with that location now recorded they knew that if anybody was going that direction that they would have to have hazmat suits on because they probably found it and whatever is there could be deadly


    they had just saved someone''s life probably and they didn''t even realize it or think too highly of that because there was just the first step now that they knew where it was they were going to say can you get us up there and see if they can get some loggers to start cutting a small path up there for a vehicle because I''m guessing people are going to want to figure out what''s there if the Red Devil dancers are coming from there and we''re probably going there too


    what time they landed plan and they''re being told that they had military Barracks set up just off where they''re Landing off the airport at one of the bases which is perfect they would get some sleep and then the next day they would be taking to one if not both of the sites depending on the timing and yeah they talked to us in the morning when they had more information there now had a second site to look into


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    and with that Ark put on some music in the background through their joint little communication Matrix whatever you want to call it and the whole group just calmed down we''re LED onto base we''re fed food at the mess hall we''re giving Barracks for the night and we''re just it was it was chill time and everybody needed it cuz they had been running so hard


    during the meal officers from the Polish military came and sat down at their table


    Jeremy without even missing a beat just pulled out the Pelican case pulled out three rings handed to them they put it on And Jeremy just put the business card in one hand and reached out and all three gentlemen at the same time touch the business card


    the world went black for a couple seconds and then everybody came back to normal and during that time I didn''t see what happened or who it was a block out so we don''t know what these guys have other than one of them has the same ability as one of the  family heads in Japan.


    Jeremy also reminded them to book the dungeon and we''ll get there dungeon up and running but Jeremy was stopped and the generals all looked at each other in one of them just shook his head at Jeremy and said not ready


    Jeremy was super happy about that and said that''s the right answer and we''ll still turn it on but will make sure it''s in super slow mode or is this a security issue


    while I''m just at security issue


    Jeremy didn''t need to be told he said okay not a problem what''s going to happen then is when you guys are ready you tell me I come back no questions asked we''re good


    Jeremy realize that the entire mess hall was kind of quiet and they were all watching and Jeremy realized not that he screwed up but he could have some fun here and asked how many rings do you have in the case right now


    art came back with 16


    hear me smiled and stood up but look down at the three ranking officers that he had just given magic to and said I''m picking 15 more okay the look of fear on their face was honestly of pure joy and Terror cuz I was randomly picking and I knew that was the reason


    arc on the other hand Jeff and then all kind of saw this coming cuz they could hear my question to Ark so they were looking around and they had all picked out 15 people between them all and my mind I was like Hey I''m going to grab a group of people that are sitting together that are friends that are talking that are together that''ll be a good start but I needed one more thing because we''re kind of running low on rings and we found that metal end coins works really well


    I just looked around and I said does anybody have coins on them


    the generals of the the guys that I just gave the magic to look at me it was like what and they went to go pull money out of there I just said no and four hands shot up around the room I said come here and I opened up the Pelican case I didn''t throw all your coins in here please and these were super sweet normal people that just wanted to be nice to me and yes I guess they thought maybe they could get something out of it but they weren''t acting like that they were just acting like yeah come here


    so after all four of them through the coins into the case I went oh hang on a second and I pulled up four rings and  I pulled the business card out and I said you put those rings on you''re allowed to touch this card if you want magic this is your chance right here right now do you want it and don''t look for permission do you want it not are you allowed to have it do you want it


    this took the whole room back everybody it was like the room just lit up it was it was just without even giving the magic the whole room just started to vibrate and anticipation it was it was amazing to see everybody so energized


    with 3 seconds all of them all four of them step forward and touch the car together almost


    but this time what happened was different nothing happened and all you heard was a cackling coming over the PA and it was ark''s voice


    so if you''re expecting more of a show I just figured out how to not let the magic seep out of you so do you for you don''t have to tell anybody what type of magic you got it''s now secret I''m sorry to the more senior people but it wasn''t until the last one of you touched that I actually understood what I needed to control to tone it down just a little bit more so thank you and sorry and congratulations one of you has the first magical ability in the  full world I''m not going to say what it is or who it is but be careful when you''re practicing you might open up a portal


    Within a second and a half of Arc finishing saying that people''s cell phones all over the mess hall had their phones beeping off with an update and someone played the update because it was a voice recording and it was officially Ark saying this to the entire world through the United Nations approved by them minutes before Ark said anything in the mess hall but after the four had been turned magical


    *** attention World attention world As part of the United Nations agreement when special occasions happen it is my responsibility to inform you all please welcome in Poland your first Royal mage this person will remain a secret until they are willing to come forward but they are now one of the most rare people on your planet and allowing this person to grow will allow you to send people to other planets attention world you have a portal mage***


    The moment the four of them heard that the four that had been turned magical there was a lady that was one of the cooks in the back and she is one of the people that had coins and she came up she looked normal but she just fell to her niece to the floor and the other three just looked at her and then smiled because they all knew it wasn''t them and they just picked her up and put her not on her their shoulders but they made it so that she had just almost basically she passed out on her feet and then collapsed and they just picked her up because she was the most important person in Poland right now and maybe even the world the line cook


    are just chimed in with 32 rings at this point and there''s only 31 people in the mess hall


    Jeff just walked over to the door and basically make sure that no one else was going to come in by standing in front of it and just told everybody if you want to leave and you want magic go line up if you just want to leave you can leave but if you''re going to leave you''re leaving as a group so no one else is coming in I have the ability to give you magic to the people in this room do you want it


    there was two people that actually got up and ready and they looked at every body and then they just left.


    no one understood why they didn''t want the magic but maybe there was a reason


    everybody else lined up and it was really weird because the box with the Rings as people came by they had a fork or a pen or something metal and they threw it in the Pelican case at first it was like no don''t don''t and then Ark stopped Jeremy from saying no don''t and just let them do it which gave them the ability to make a lot more rings by a time they got to wherever the next spot was


    Ark at this point had turned that little briefcase into a mobile recycling facility and ring making with facility and the weird part is that every time Jeremy was holding the handle he could feel his magic being drained out of them which was a great thing because Jeremy was overloaded still but it was a lot less and every time he stepped on holding it it kept on draining him and are kept on making rings and it was great Jeremy could maybe be normal soon well as normal does Jeremy was


    29 people got their magic and Ark told Jeremy Zen and Jeff but no one else that there was a couple other special unlocks but do the fact that they were nothing close to the portal unlock that we needed that he''s not making any more announcements and let them all come out at their own pace but the portal person is going to help this thing by like two three years already so just blown away there wasn''t actually another one in the group so maybe it''s genetic and we''ll have to figure that out down the road


    Tomorrow, they would send a group up to the Zakopane area to find the shadowed area seen from the plain, and the team would be hunting down the Red Devil Dancers.

 Side note - UN Notes

    This is a short list of thing the un is working on in the background as they send Jeremy''s team around the world fixing problems and turning on dungeons n areas that agreed to work with the UN and follow guide lines put out relating to:


    <ol>


    <li>


    International Agreement on Magical Regulation: A treaty signed by member states outlining the commitment to regulate and monitor the use of magic, similar to arms control agreements.


    </li>


    <li>


    Magical Ethics and Conduct Code: A detailed document establishing ethical guidelines for the use of magic, including professional and personal conduct, to prevent abuse and ensure responsible use.


    </li>


    <li>


    Magical Registration and Licensing Framework: A system for the registration and licensing of individuals with magical abilities, including procedures for obtaining a license and the rights and responsibilities of licensed magic users.


    </li>


    <li>


    Magical Education and Training Standards: Guidelines and standards for educational institutions offering training in magic, ensuring a consistent and high-quality education for magical practitioners.


    </li>


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    Emergency Response Protocols for Magical Incidents: Procedures for responding to magical accidents or incidents, including containment, mitigation, and public safety measures.


    </li>


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    Research and Development Regulations: Policies governing the research and development of magical practices and technologies, ensuring ethical standards and safety.


    </li>


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    Magical Healthcare and Rehabilitation Services: Establishment of specialized healthcare and rehabilitation services for individuals affected by magic, whether through misuse, accidents, or overuse.


    </li>


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    Public Awareness and Information Campaigns: Initiatives to educate the public about magic, its uses, and potential risks, promoting understanding and reducing fear and prejudice.


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    Magical Environmental Impact Assessment: Guidelines for assessing and mitigating the environmental impact of magical practices and activities.


    </li>


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    International Magical Security Council: A specialized body within the United Nations dedicated to overseeing international security concerns related to magic, including the prevention of magical terrorism and conflict.


    </li>


    </ol>


    Sample Document Outline: Magical Ethics and Conduct Code


    Preamble


    We, the representatives of the global magical community, in conjunction with the United Nations, establish this Code to promote the ethical and responsible use of magic, ensuring the safety, dignity, and rights of all individuals.


    Article 1: General Principles


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    Integrity and Responsibility: Magical practitioners must use their abilities with integrity, taking responsibility for their actions and their impact on others.


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    Respect for Rights and Freedoms: All individuals, regardless of magical status, are entitled to their fundamental rights and freedoms. Magic must not be used to infringe upon these rights.


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    Article 2: Professional Conduct


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    Competence and Qualifications: Practitioners must obtain the necessary training and qualifications before using magic professionally. Continuous education and skill development are encouraged.


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    Transparency and Honesty: Practitioners must be transparent and honest about their abilities, limitations, and the potential risks involved in magical practices.


    </li>


    </ol>


    Article 3: Personal Conduct


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    Non-Maleficence: Magic must not be used to cause harm, whether physical, psychological, or emotional, to any individual.


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    Beneficence: Practitioners are encouraged to use their abilities for the benefit of others, promoting well-being and positive outcomes.


    </li>


    </ol>


    Article 4: Confidentiality


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    <li>Privacy and Confidentiality: Practitioners must respect the privacy and confidentiality of individuals, particularly when dealing with sensitive magical information.</li>


    </ol>


    Article 5: Conflict of Interest


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    <li>Avoidance of Conflicts: Practitioners must avoid conflicts of interest that could compromise their ethical responsibilities or the welfare of others.


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    United Nations Informational Update: Primer on Magic and Its Interaction with the Human Mind


    <h4>Introduction</h4>


    In recent weeks, humanity has come to understand and interact with a previously hidden layer of existence known as the magical subspace. This discovery has profound implications for our understanding of reality, human potential, and the nature of the universe itself. As the United Nations, we aim to provide a comprehensive primer on magic and its interaction with the human mind to ensure that all global citizens are informed about this transformative aspect of our world.


    <h4>The Nature of Magic</h4>


    Magic resides in a layer of subspace, a dimension distinct yet intertwined with our physical reality. This subspace is semi-sentient and houses over 200 different types of magical elements, with Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind constituting 80% of the magic we encounter. The remaining 20% includes a myriad of specialized and unique magics, such as Mental Magic, Empathic Magic, and Portal Magic.


    Magic is fundamentally a form of energy, and its interaction with the human mind and body is intricate and profound. When an individual interacts with a magical item, it can unlock latent magical potential within them, akin to giving a jolt to a dormant system. This potential is determined by genetics, magical connections, and other factors still under investigation.


    <h4>Human-Magic Interaction</h4>


    The human mind taps into the magical subspace, and this connection allows individuals to harness various forms of magic. The extent and type of magic one can wield depend on their body''s ability to handle and channel this energy. When a person is exposed to magic, their body begins to resonate with the subspace, allowing them to draw in and utilize magical energy.


    Every individual possesses a unique magical profile, with some having the potential for multiple types of magic. Overexposure to different magics can enhance an individual''s ability to tap into these energies, although this comes with risks. Excessive magic can strain the body, potentially causing harm if not properly managed.


    <h4>The Role of the AGI, Arc</h4>


    The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) known as Arc plays a crucial role in our understanding and utilization of magic. Arc has developed techniques to split elemental magics and infuse them into various materials. This process has revealed that denser materials, such as heavy metals and raw diamonds, are particularly effective at storing magical energy.


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    Arc''s innovative approach includes refining raw diamonds to maximize their stability and capacity to hold magic. These diamonds, when embedded in items like rings, can transfer magical energy to individuals, unlocking their latent magical potential. This process involves a finely tuned interaction between the diamond''s structure and the magical subspace, resulting in a precise and powerful catalyst for magical awakening.


    <h4>The Four Hundred</h4>


    Among the global population, there exists a unique group known as the Four Hundred. These individuals possess an extraordinary level of magical energy, estimated to be over 4000% of the average person''s potential. The origins of their immense power are diverse, ranging from genetic inheritance to long-forgotten magical artifacts and ancient beliefs.


    These individuals often remain unaware of their capabilities until a significant event or interaction triggers their awakening. Upon activation, they experience a momentary but intense connection to the magical subspace, causing a temporary but dramatic transformation in their surroundings. This phenomenon highlights the profound link between belief, perception, and magical reality.


    <h4>Examples of Magic in Action</h4>


    Magic''s influence on human history and culture is both subtle and profound. For instance, in ancient Poland, a person with strong magical beliefs and abilities inadvertently transformed their physical appearance and environment through sheer conviction. This individual''s guitar, imbued with their wind magic, continues to manifest small, sentient tornadoes that interact with the local community.


    Similarly, the collective perception of celestial bodies like Jupiter has had tangible effects. When early astronomers observed the planet''s clouds and envisioned angels, their combined belief caused the clouds to manifest these forms, demonstrating the power of collective human consciousness in shaping magical phenomena.


    <h4>Conclusion</h4>


    The discovery and understanding of magic represent a pivotal moment in human history. As we continue to explore and harness this new dimension of reality, it is crucial that we approach it with both curiosity and caution. The United Nations is committed to supporting global research and ensuring that the benefits of magic are shared equitably while mitigating potential risks.


    We encourage all citizens to stay informed, engage with ongoing research, and embrace the potential that this new understanding of magic offers. Together, we can unlock the mysteries of the magical subspace and pave the way for a future where humanity''s potential is fully realized.

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    United Nations Informational Update: Managing Magical Powers and Protective Measures


    Introduction


    As humanity continues to uncover and harness the potential of magic, it is essential to ensure the safe and controlled use of these newfound abilities. The United Nations is committed to both empowering individuals with their natural magical talents and preventing potential Extension-Level Events (ELEs) caused by uncontrolled magic. This document outlines the measures we have implemented to control magic types and the protective role of the Arc Rings.


    Controlling Magic Types


    Understanding and controlling the various types of magic is crucial for global safety and the well-being of individuals. Magic types can be broadly categorized into elemental, mental, physical, and specialized magics. The Arc system has therapized nearly 200 distinct types of magic, each with unique properties and potential risks. Below is a comprehensive list of known magic types:


    Elemental Magic


    Earth


    Water


    Fire


    Wind


    Ice


    Lightning


    Sand


    Metal


    Crystal


    Lava


    Plant


    Mental Magic


    Telepathy


    Telekinesis


    Empathy


    Mind Control


    Memory Manipulation


    Precognition


    Psychometry


    Illusion


    Dream walking


    Astral Projection


    Physical Magic


    Strength Augmentation


    Speed Augmentation


    Healing


    Regeneration


    Shape-shifting


    Invisibility


    Invulnerability


    Enhanced Senses


    Super Reflexes


    Agility


    Specialized Magic


    Light


    Darkness


    Shadow


    Shade


    Wealth


    Luck


    Anti-luck


    Chaos


    Entropy


    Gravity


    Space Manipulation


    Time Manipulation


    Sound


    Vibration


    Radiation


    Magnetism


    Environmental Magic


    Weather Control


    Environmental Adaptation


    Geo-kinesis


    Hydro-kinesis


    Pyro-kinesis


    Aero-kinesis


    Biological Magic


    Blood Magic


    Poison Magic


    Disease Magic


    Healing Magic


    Life Magic


    Death Magic


    Birth Magic


    Sensory Magic


    X-ray Vision


    Heat Vision


    Night Vision


    Echolocation


    Metaphysical Magic


    Soul Manipulation


    Spirit Communication


    Necromancy


    Divination


    Portal Magic


    Dimensional Travel


    Constructive Magic


    Artifact Creation


    Enchantment


    Transmutation


    Conjuration


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    Unique Magic


    Hive Mind


    Psionics


    Intelligence Magic


    Stupid Magic


    World Sight


    Mirror Magic


    Ash Magic


    This extensive catalog of magic types is constantly being updated as new discoveries are made. Our aim is to provide a comprehensive understanding of each type to ensure that individuals can safely harness their abilities.


    The Role of Arc Rings


    To manage the safe use of magic and protect individuals until they can fully control their powers, the UN, in collaboration with the AGI Arc, has developed and distributed Arc Rings. These rings serve several crucial functions:


    Magical Dampening: Arc Rings can dampen the outward manifestation of an individual''s magic, reducing the risk of accidental harm or detection. This feature is particularly important for those who are newly awakened to their magical abilities.


    Controlled Activation: The rings allow for controlled activation of magic, enabling users to gradually increase their magical output as they gain experience and control. This gradual process helps prevent physical and mental strain caused by sudden, overwhelming use of magic.


    Health Monitoring: The rings are equipped with health monitoring capabilities, alerting users and authorities if their magic usage is approaching dangerous levels. This feature helps prevent the cellular breakdown that can occur from excessive magic use.


    Communication Network: Arc Rings create a communication network among users, allowing them to share experiences, seek guidance, and receive support from the magical community and authorities. This network fosters a sense of unity and collective responsibility.


    Energy Storage: The rings can store excess magical energy, which can be safely released or utilized as needed. This storage capability ensures that users do not become overwhelmed by their magic.


    Education and Training: The UN has established a global education and training program to help individuals understand and control their magic. Arc Rings are integrated into this program, providing users with real-time feedback and support during their training.


    Preventing Extension-Level Events


    The potential for Extension-Level Events (ELEs) caused by uncontrolled magic is a significant concern. To mitigate this risk, the UN has implemented the following measures:


    Global Monitoring: A comprehensive monitoring system tracks magical activity worldwide, identifying potential threats and anomalies. This system allows for rapid response and intervention to prevent ELEs.


    Regulation and Legislation: International regulations and legislation have been enacted to govern the use of magic. These laws ensure that magical practices are conducted safely and ethically, with severe penalties for violations.


    Research and Development: Ongoing research into the nature of magic and its interaction with the human mind and body is crucial for developing safer and more effective ways to harness magical energy. The UN supports and funds this research, fostering collaboration among the world''s leading experts.


    Crisis Response Teams: Specially trained crisis response teams are deployed to address magical incidents and emergencies. These teams are equipped with advanced technology and expertise to manage and contain potential ELEs.


    Conclusion


    The United Nations is dedicated to ensuring that all individuals can safely and responsibly harness their magical potential. Through the implementation of Arc Rings, comprehensive education and training programs, and stringent global monitoring and regulation, we strive to prevent Extension-Level Events and foster a world where magic is a force for good. We are committed to transparency, safety, and the well-being of all global citizens as we navigate this new and exciting frontier together.


    For further information and updates, please refer to our official communications and resources. Together, we can unlock the mysteries of magic and build a brighter future for all.

 Side Note - UN Bulletin: Embracing Peaceful Exploration and Avoiding "Murder Hobo" Behavior

    United Nations Informational Bulletin: Embracing Peaceful Exploration and Avoiding "Murder Hobo" Behavior


    <h4>Introduction</h4>


    As humanity stands on the brink of a new era of interworld exploration, the United Nations is committed to ensuring that our ventures into other worlds are conducted with the utmost respect, responsibility, and ethical standards. The concept of a "murder hobo" ¡ª individuals or groups who travel from place to place causing destruction and taking what they want ¡ª is a stark reminder of what we must avoid. This bulletin outlines the UN''s guidelines for peaceful exploration and the steps we are taking to prevent "murder hobo" behavior as we open portals to new worlds.


    <h4>Understanding the "Murder Hobo" Concept</h4>


    The term "murder hobo" originates from role-playing games, where characters roam from place to place, often engaging in violent and destructive behavior for personal gain. In the context of interworld exploration, this behavior can manifest as:


    <ul>


    <li>Unprovoked violence and aggression: Attacking inhabitants of other worlds without cause.</li>


    <li>Destruction of property: Damaging or destroying the environments and resources of other worlds.</li>


    <li>Exploitation of resources: Taking resources from other worlds without consideration for the inhabitants or ecosystems.</li>


    <li>Disregard for local cultures and laws: Ignoring or disrespecting the customs, laws, and social structures of other worlds.</li>


    </ul>


    <h4>The United Nations'' Commitment to Ethical Exploration</h4>


    The UN is dedicated to fostering peaceful and respectful interactions with other worlds. Our approach to exploration is guided by the following principles:


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    Respect for Life: All life forms encountered in other worlds must be treated with respect and dignity. Unprovoked violence is strictly prohibited.


    </li>


    <li>


    Preservation of Environments: The natural environments of other worlds must be preserved and protected. Destructive actions that harm ecosystems are not allowed.


    </li>


    <li>


    Ethical Resource Use: Resources from other worlds must be used responsibly and sustainably. Exploitation for personal gain at the expense of local inhabitants or ecosystems is unacceptable.


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    <li>


    Cultural Sensitivity: The customs, laws, and social structures of other worlds must be respected. Our interactions should aim to learn from and cooperate with local cultures.


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    Reporting and Accountability: All interactions and activities must be documented and reported. Violations of the guidelines will be subject to strict penalties, including removal from exploration missions.


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    <h4>Conclusion</h4>


    The United Nations is committed to leading humanity into a new era of peaceful and respectful exploration. By adhering to these guidelines and principles, we can ensure that we are seen not as "murder hobos" but as responsible and ethical explorers. Together, we can build a positive reputation and foster cooperation and understanding with the inhabitants of other worlds.


    For further information and training resources, please refer to our official communications and guidelines.


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    This document is intended for global distribution and compliance. The United Nations reserves the right to update and amend these guidelines as necessary.

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    The next morning Jeff was waiting as Jeremy came out of his door in the hotel from his room and asked him if you wanted to get breakfast


    Jeremy was like yeah sure and sent a message to Zen letting him know they were going to get some breakfast and asked if he wanted anything


    Zen''s response was whatever locals do for breakfast I''ll take that so Jeff and Jeremy went for a quick stroll around the block or two found a little place selling sandwiches and it was rye bread with some mayo tomatoes and some cool cuts on it and it was a great little sandwich and they called that breakfast and there was also one with egg in it scrambled so they all seem to have a nice little breakfast and they grabbed a couple of them each and they were informed where they''re going to be housed for working and with the address was so they made their way there and the teams have had already been made up and been working because of the locals working with the locals because they didn''t really need us for most of this and now that they had the second location they were looking into it and they had some aerial photos of it


    one was a mausoleum an old graveyard and maybe even know what used to be a church and that''s where the Red Devil dancers were coming from the other spot up in the mountains was still even by taking pictures with infrared and other types of cameras that they had gotten set up overnight they still couldn''t see what was inside of it it was just darkness so there was a lot of hesitation on that one but they had a couple of people that had drones so they had gotten close and they could get into the darkness area and it was dark but it wasn''t that it ain''t the drones or anything it just they couldn''t see what they were doing inside it was just darkness so people are trying to come up with ways of at least having like go through maybe like laser beams or something so right now everybody was just trying to figure out how to walk in the dark world flashlights that don''t work if you want to think of it like that


    like comes out but it dies within a couple inches of the machine let''s say the flashlight


    cutting through it is their current thought but not how to do it other than power and lasers and who''s got lasers of that powerful around so yeah they were they were figuring out their stuff so the first team was going to go up to the site where the Red Devil dancers were coming from and go figure out what was going on there and Jeremy Jeff and Zen were like came through the vehicle we''re coming with you and they''re all like okay sure right we weren''t expecting that


    and they actually asked them not to go up because they wanted to go secure the site first and then after that let''s say tomorrow they''d be brought up and Jeff Jeremy and general like not a problem we''ll hang out in town we''ll go look into some stuff maybe if you guys say the other side is also safe we can go up there too just let us know when you guys are ready for us


    Zen made an executive decision right there and said okay we''re going to take a vehicle and cement and we''re going to go over to the dungeon and get that set up and get that over with what you guys think about that


    everybody was a little shocked because they had said that they didn''t want their dungeon turned on just yet


    yeah well we can still go and look at it and not turn it on we can just get it ready to be turned on maybe even turned on from a far if we do it right just what do you think about that


    Zen was spitballing cuz then wanted to see the new site and honestly just wanted to turn it on and get the hell out of Dodge but that was the deal they weren''t allowed to leave until after they turned on the dungeon and the United Nations Made that part of the deal before they could leave they of course because of the leaders of Poland said no don''t turn it on for security reasons they weren''t going to turn it on but getting the job done while they were there and they were doing nothing made Zen feel better but yeah he was shot down again so they said okay we''re just going to hang around town and go look and they ask no please don''t do that either because you guys are so well known that was caused Havoc so just hang out here and we''re going to have questions and you guys can watch a little missions from here and then you guys go have dinner tonight and then tomorrow you guys can come with us I think up to the first sight what do you think


    Jeremy didn''t give a s*** Jeff didn''t give a s*** it was just Zen that really gave a s*** so they all looked at it and just told Zen to shut the f****** and was going to hang out here and do nothing for a day so that''s literally what they did and they played on their phones and they ate their junk food and they just watched and the cool part was when they actually had the group up at the old church that used to be there site


    what they found was there was a door to a crypt and it wasn''t broken but there was a chip out of it and the chip was just enough to make a whistle and that whistle was entering the Crypt and that sound vibration whenever it happened another little dancer would pop out of another crack out of the building so it was almost like the wind was making it so whatever was in this Crypt they need to get in and they tried they they had the tools with them but nothing was good enough so it''s like we got to get proper pry bars and and they they before anybody could even say anything over the radio someone said don''t even think about it explosives you guys going to have to do this the hard way so get some mechanical equipment and bring it up if you have to get a jaws of life and bring it up go talk to some firefighters


    so with their marching orders everybody did their thing and the boys were like okay let''s go get dinner for the night cuz it''s getting later and no offense it was quite boring just waiting


    they went and had dinner and then went to bed and the next morning they were thrown into a vehicle and they were taking up to the Crypt and they''re going to help open the Crypt with the rest of them


    took almost 3 hours to open this thing this was not just a little Cryptid tea but this was an ancient piece of almost solid Stone it was it was beautiful it almost look like it was carved out of the rock itself it almost look like it couldn''t be possible but we''re dealing with magic maybe here so everybody had an open mind at this point


    The weirdest thing that happened that day was they still after about 3 hours they couldn''t really get the main two pieces of stone to pry apart even with the hydraulic machine they brought that was for opening up cars it just popped a vessel and it started leaking fluids it just couldn''t open it so everybody was pretty much at this point stumped how to get in and they guessed that the chip Mark were from people trying to break in before and they even tried putting the vices in there and it didn''t really help so holy crap


    Jeff during this time when it was quiet really listened and you could hear that there was an area underground that was like an echo chamber cuz once the whistle went down there it just echoed back and forth and he could hear it and he could even hear it coming out of some of the other Rock so it was maybe an underground crept like in a really old underground area


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    during this time the Polish Army wasn''t just sticking around doing nothing they were using a new type of lidar and they were mapping the area and what they came up with they could tell that it used to be an entire Little Village / almost Town couple of maybe a hundred people if not more and it had 50 60 houses it was like 30 square blocks it was huge and this is just on the outskirts of it so there was a whole other area and it was all overgrown with trees and other things so what was left was very very historical site now but it was really weird the graveyard didn''t have any growth in it it had little plants like knee-high but no big trees no nothing and it was not just perfectly around the graveyard it was like the fence was the actual border you could really see it with a drone very well which was really odd


    or was odd until one of the Red Devil dancers literally appeared when psychotically nuts on top of the mausoleums roof and then jumped off landing and where it landed just annihilated the plant life and then started going but as it went to the fence it jumped over the fence and into the forest causing more damage but then went off into the distance so it was like oh they jump in the land here first so of course they clean the area over time okay the idea would be overtime they''d clean out the area after the fence but there''s just not enough of them being produced to do that but there is enough to keep what was locked in the fence kicking butt on the vegetation


    Zen didn''t have a lot of magic power on purpose and we didn''t push him to do very much with his we let him slowly understand his water magic so that he could kind of understand what he was doing and he was not comfortable with it at all but was getting better Jeff had Sound hearing so that didn''t really help other than we asked him to try and pick it and he told us that there was no mechanical Parts you could hear clicking it was like solid Stone and metal on metal


    after that they looked at Jeremy and I''m like all I can do is stick my finger and try to warm it up do you want me to do that


    they said it wasn''t any point not trying and the weirdest part of the day was when Jeremy put his finger in and then pumped some energy into his finger and then said okay pull back the little cover it didn''t just flow into the door the door absorbed it and didn''t just start to Glow it was like Tron lit up it was green and red and it was multicolored for a couple seconds and then it just stopped all together and it was like someone had placed a seal on it that had if you pump energy you burn the seal out and the seal was done and you could tell the magic that was holding us this this whatever this building was flowed into the ground and you can even tell the area around it had just been Disturbed like we just broke it


    Jeremy Jeff anybody that was magic sensitive at this point new instantly what had happened because the hum of the magic was just gone and that yeah that that kind of made people a little upset but they didn''t ask Jeremy to do it so he didn''t really get into trouble


    within a minute and a half people had pry bars I had started opening up the doors it took less than 3 to 4 minutes for the first one just to move to the left and make it so that we could point a light in and what we saw was a staircase going down and it had old old holders for torches you can see where the Torches had fallen to the ground a long time ago and there was remnants of torches but they were like piles of garbage on the steps so after another half an hour they got the other side open and they opened enough that we could get in and the first people that went in basically had a hazmat suit on and they knew better


    they took samples and they did an air quality check right there off the back of their own vehicle after taking samples and they came back with no biological so whatever was down there was dead so they just were all told to put on breathing masks and cover their eyes so everybody basically put on gas masks really and they went down there and they had a machine that there was handheld that allowed us to tell what the oxygen level was and what other gases were in there and they just cut down looking at this thing and everybody kind of watched two different people they had it tied to their phones and the phone would tell them and it was like okay we''re getting nasty s*** down here then we can run back upstairs everybody kind of just let them not lead the way but yeah they were they were the canaries of the group


    so the staircase went down and then it opened up into a not a large room but enough to hold like four or five people snug side by side so no bigger than like a small car and that it looked like it had shelves in it and there was skulls in it and that was the nicest but we realized as soon as a cryptocrypt a proper Crypt


    so at the end of the little room was around chunk of stone and you can tell that it was to be rolled out of the way so everybody worked together and it didn''t take long and couple minutes later the stone started to move and put the pry bars in the right place and got to roll all the way and they took another air sample inside and everybody just waited for 20 minutes outside well they were checking on the next room cuz I didn''t want to breathe anything bad in


    when that one also came back negative everybody was super happy and they said okay we''re going to go back down and to canaries in front and by the time they got into the room what they had seen from the doorway and they had taken picture of didn''t do it justice because it wasn''t a large room it was an old cave and this cave it wasn''t massive but for what it was it was beautiful you can probably hold two or three buses it was that type of big and there was an area in the middle that used to be once the lag tight and slag might that had actually met in the middle someone had broken it and you could see where it had been broken off above but the below part they actually flattened that out and there was a coffin a stone sarcophagus I guess you would say cuz there was no wood but it looked like a coffin but it was made out of stone


    when we had opened up the room a little bit of wind had gotten through and we actually got to see the process of making a red devil dancer


    We weren''t more than seven or eight feet in when the sound passed us and entered the room and the room was an echo chamber it was a beautiful Echo chamber and as that sound Amplified the search of gas out of one of the symbols of music that was actually engraved on this thing I guess the area was a pass through because out of the sarcophagus came this perfectly blood red micro little Whirlwind and as it moved away it expanded and decompressed and became less solid and more gaseous and was like clouds at the end and it was solid red clouds and I guess once it got outside it was more than at the moment it was about a foot tall maybe foot and a half it would then expand up to four feet tall


    some of those people got a little excited at this point in a rate for the circoff I guess and they all started wanting to open it and not I didn''t stop them because even I wanted to know what it was inside of it and they didn''t dump it off the side they just Twisted it so they could see in and what they saw was the body and in his hands cuz I guess it was a guy by the tallness and the broad shoulders was a guitar but nothing like you''ve ever seen who is literally just a chunk of wood from a tree with a bark on the backside and you would put it on your knees and or up to your shoulder and it would sit on your lap and you would play it and it was almost like halfway between a harp and a chunk of wood it was kind of beautiful and it had a handle on the back of it it was really weird and the nice thing is I think I had eight or nine strings but some of them were broken there was only three of them that were still there and they were the ones that had the magic in them all the other strings and even most of the body had lost its magic but a little bit of the body and all those strings were so glowing so you can tell that magic and been put into this thing a lot it was kind of special when one of the soldiers pulled it out gently and being respectfully took pictures first and all that jazz but pulled it out and showed it to everybody and they all took pictures


    I came up and I just came very close to it and as I went to go to touch it I could feel it wanting energy and Arc felt it and Jeff felt what I felt and then noticed and we all had a moment together in our heads where I said I''m going to touch it


    I got go ahead by everybody


    so the moment I touched it art turned down the field around my finger to zero so I was alive liar and that live wire plucked one string and that Stringham and that was terrifying being underground and hearing it reverberate


    and what came next was a red wind and about a half dozen micro little red dancing devils that all kind of went nuts and came towards the instrument


    the soldier knowing that these guys at that size had not hurt anybody yet didn''t have no fear just wasn''t totally Fearless he kept an eye on them and they just kind of started moving around him so I told him


    yo you don''t have any magic so do me a favor try playing it a little bit and see what happens if it''s bad then we''ll stop okay


    Zen zen yells stop do not do any of that put that guitar in a box and get it the f*** out of here we are not going to be screwing around here this place is now under quarantine and you guys will have your scientists come in and inspect this place and the whole area with archaeologists do you understand me


    the army people and Jeremy and Jeff all snapped to Zen real quick and we''re not shocked but we''re a little surprised that Zen was being so forthful but we hadn''t really realized that we were pushing on Zen''s nerves by doing stupid stuff so then then was right Zen wasn''t being wrong then was being the adults here and we were all just getting a little bit excited and it wasn''t until then that Jeff had missed it he didn''t notice


    but anytime Jeremy used his magic he got excited and that it kind of went through the link to everybody and the only one that it rubbed the wrong way was Zen


    Art''s little trick of using emotions against Zen was teaching Zen when Ark was f****** around


    even the army people around seem to have been infected a little bit by whatever Jeremy was giving off it wasn''t just through the group link


    so that was racked up to a what the f*** moment


    they were all told to get out after the commander of the military got his head back on his shoulders

 CH 27

    When? Everybody left. the mausoleum and we''re outside. Zen was so upset and understood what. Arc was doing. and how he was manipulating everybody but to see it affecting people that were not directly connected to Jeremy be affected. Zen. basically made a phone call and he reported this properly. within 20 minutes. There  Marching orders and itinerary were changed. and they were being directed to New York City They didn''t know this yet. The Zen didn''t even know this yet, but by the time they were on their way back to the lodgings for the night, they were actually being redirected to the airport. They were informed that their bags were being collected for them from their hotel room and would be there when they got there.


    Jeremy Jeff and Zen all knew something was up, because they know that Zen was keeping everybody informed. But everybody kind of understood what was going on with Jeremy, or they thought they did. At this point, Ark had been keeping an eye on Jeremy and Jeff and Zen. All them were fine, except for Jeremy. This was going to be. time where they had to have a talk And now with this change of plans, Arc knew exactly what was going on. They were being called into the United Nations to have a meeting. He was listening to some of the conversations that people around the world were having about Jeremy and what was going on. So Ark made a decision and had a call conversation with his boys.


    Then Jeremy, Jeff, can we have a moment to have a group conversation? Arch asked.


    At this point, they''ve all just gotten used to giving silent agreement, so virtual head nod, if you will. Arc started off by telling them that. if he was correct, they were going to go to the United Nations building in New York City to have a conversation about what just happened and that kind of made Jeremy paranoid as all hell. Jeff kind of just shake his head going. I was expecting this and Zen was not smug but knew this was the right thing to do in that he was doing the right thing and this was this was proper. This is what needed to be done. Ark could read all them. and just let them know that when we got there we''d have to explain and this is what Ark tried to explain but didn''t explain well that there was a field of energy coming off of Jeremy that Ark was using but that field was. changing and has been changing since the beginning. That one comment. perked Jeremy Jeff. and Zen right up and they were just paying right attention.


    So Jeremy Arc said. You and me have to come to an understanding before this plane lands. They had been flying for the last two hours  And had 7 more to go.


    Jeremy and Ark had a small private conversation in Jeremy''s head that only lasted about three seconds, and the conversation was basically arc just telling Jeremy that. he was going to change in the next 24 hours into something, but he didn''t know what it was and Jeremy just had to accept it and be calm about it because it was like handing him a gun if he wasn''t calm, he could hurt someone and that freaked Jeremy raid out, not wanting to hurt anyone. So Jeremy just agreed and tried to become as calm as he could and stay calm. And the moment that little conversation between the two of them in his head ended. Jeff and Zen could feel the change in the whole room. Everything was calm, like no ripples in any pond or any water Just pure stillness. And it was odd. to have that coming off of Jeremy and having it affecting them so much to the point or even arc made a comment to the group that this was odd. How calm all the connections he had with them were right now and didn''t say no to it, but also said that the baseline for their communications wasn''t just lowered. It was at the bottom floor. It was just minimum. It was minimum emotion, if you will. The channels that were the power were not skinny. They were just smaller in diameter. Emotion seemed to make the diameter of the power conduits wider and fluctuate like a heartbeat. That was an interesting thing to learn, and that one piece of information made arcs next steps a possibility.


    As soon as they landed in New York, they were loaded into unmarked vehicles with tinted windows and driven directly to the United Nations building, where they were put into chairs in the main hall off to the side of the main podium inside the room was almost every country in the world was representative there, either by a person representing their country as a placeholder or, in truth, by some of the actual diplomats that were supposed to be in those chairs. So the room was full and they were now being brought onto stage to sit down and wait. They weren''t expecting a full crowd. That was a little nerve wracking. But even through all that, Jeremy just was calm.


    Ark asked Jeremy in a moment. I''m gonna have a ring fall from your collar. Can you. when it''s time, go place it on the microphone. It should fit right around the round top of the microphone.This book is hosted on another platform. Read the official version and support the author''s work.


    Jeremy didn''t say or do anything. But when the ring fell, he he did let it fall into his hands where he had placed them. And Put the ring on the mic. and then went and sat back down


    The moment Jeremy got up, the whole room weren''t quiet at all, but eyes all snap towards him. Some conversations stopped in the room, got a little bit quieter, and the people that were yelling ish before trying to talk over people. Now we''re talking very loud, realized it, and some of them quieted down or 1 or 2 people. You could hear them through the whole room, and you just went and sat back down, and they all just looked at the mic, and they just stared at the mic and kind of wondered what he had just done. The people running the building and the show there. had seen what happened and came up behind Jeremy and asked what he had done


    Jeremy just turned his head and looked over his left shoulder at the gentleman and said that is a microphone add-on that allows arc to talk to everybody through that microphone. We can remove it any time. It''s more or less just a ring that allows sound to enter the microphone, therefore. Arc can now speak.


    With that, the gentleman went up onto the stage and tapped the microphone and said, testing, testing 123. Mr Ark, can you test your microphone for us? Can you tell us that you can speak?


    Everybody in the room. was watching and listening now, and Ark''s voice came through the speakers of the room.


    Arc definitely did not want anybody knowing that he didn''t need that ring to talk to them through their own speakers. He wanted to give them a way of feeling more comfortable and not a bad thing to have. This ring stays on this mic and he can always talk to them from now on. as long as Jeremy''s within range. of the ring as part of the show.


    Ark. good day, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for having us here today. I''m not too sure what the conversation is going to start off as, but I''d like to start off with informing you that in exactly one hour and 12 minutes, Jeremy McDonald will die. And with that arc. stop speaking.


    Everybody, even Jeremy, was basically floored, freaked out, terrified and wanted no more information. And as soon as that whole three seconds of emotions ended, the yelling and shouting and screaming that came from everybody in the room demanding to know what that meant. And if they. were going to die with them.


    Arc made one slight chuckle not to make this whole thing. an  A wrong and emotional feel to it. But then said, no. Jeremy is. actually going to die because of him touching the core of me when he was first. irradiated is a good way of saying it. No, he is not contagious that way. His body. his body was contaminated with magic. But then the second time he got hit, it was the docents right there. What I''ve been doing with the callers around his neck and others What that does is it puts a limb. a limiter, but it makes it''s all the extra magic that the body is absorbed has a place to go and that place is then redirected back into the collar, which is then used for other purposes. The idea is to drain off enough that the human bodies neurological biological systems can handle extra heat without burning so. think of a houses furnace. Jeremy''s furnace was given jet fuel, so we took the pilot lights and all the few the fires and we turned them down to the 100th of 1% minimum and we just let the whole thing be pressurized and cook permanently. What''s been happening since that. Jeremy''s system has been cooking and dying slowly but at the same time because of what we''ve been doing with the technology here. We''ve been allowing his body to create natural magic. This natural magic is then used to create systems like nervous systems and other systems to the point where Jeremy now has partial magic body. I know that sounds really weird, but the idea is I''ve been blocking 90. percent of his magic..


    And by doing that, I slowed the process down south that his magic had sustained his life going farther, but that also means that he has to have magic. He is now one of those people that if magic goes away, he dies. But. because he knows where I am, that should never be a problem for him. So he''s going to be very well, his biological body is about to die in the next 30 to 50 minutes since we started talking.


    Because we wanted to show this to everybody, I thought it would be the perfect time. And it was honestly someone else that had brought us to the United Nations here for this time. But I. think why we were being brought here was that people around Jeremy were starting to be affected by his emotional state like we all are now. The ones of us that are connected by the colours or have other magics that are connected to Jeremy that is expected. But when civilians and military personnel around Jeremy when he''s happy feel happy when he said feel sad that. is great change because that means that Jeremy''s magical body has taken hold and I''m I''m blocking 90% of his magical body right now and the last of his human flesh body is. it''s about to expire in the next couple minutes and then if I keep on holding back on Jeremy he will die so I have to let him be free now you''re going to watch this transformation right here right now and we''re going to do it slowly between me and Jeremy and you guys going to hear our talking in our heads we''re just going to communicate like we normally do and you''re going to be a part of this so get those cameras rolling and Jeremy are you ready for this.


    Jeremy took his chair, and it wasn''t really bolted down, but it was a heavy chair, and he just picked it up and took it right next to. an open air on the podium. and sat down and said let''s do this and the calmness that everybody in the room instantly felt when Jeremy put all his effort into being calm. The whole room just quieted down and watched and it wasn''t that they couldn''t do anything. They were doing stuff, but it was like being shed by a person in a library, a by librarian. It was just you knew better not to say anything right now, and it was a feeling you got of calm and paying attention

 CH 28

    Are using? the microphone basically talked to Jeremy and said, OK, Jeremy, I have your limiter set to the lowest possible setting, and I''m going to go up. I can''t unlock you fully, or else you would burn. And I don''t know, other than to take you to 50%. So I take half the load, you take half the load, and we see what we can do from there. And I can go down from there. But I also don''t want you to get sick because I''m holding you back. So you tell me if it starts hurting because this is the one secret most of you may have figured out. If I limit the power, it actually provides pain in your head. I''ve been trying to figure out how to limit that or remove it, but it''s just a sign of you pushing against me. It''s natural pain that you''re causing yourself when I''m restricting your power, I think. So as. I remove this, you''re going to feel pain being removed, but I think you''re so used to that at this point that you don''t even notice it''s there sometimes at such a low amount. So don''t start going happy and crying, or else everybody here might start crying too. Jeremy. So I''m going to go and we''re going to start counting here. I''ve got it set to 10%. We''re going to go up to 2030 40 and fifty. And we''re going to stop at 50 at anytime that something is wrong or you get too emotional. You tell me to stop and we''ll just stop for a couple moments. Okay.


    Jeremy is like, do it. Thank you.


    Arc started to change the dial and the moment it went from 10 to 11 the room felt it. It was that one per cent was enough to tell Ark to stop right there. The whole room had to take a moment. They were going to change this 400 percent of what they are feeling right now. Everybody in the room had to take a moment to think about what was about to happen. But what they didn''t realize was arc wasn''t in the stop. He had to do this slowly, but and then all of a sudden over the PAE here 12. And it was like a wave of emotion, but calm and a wave of of excitement and calm. And it was these little microwaves. Then you hear the words


    13.


    People were taking deep breaths in it was intoxicating. Is a light way of putting it. It was only a slight pulse. Everybody could feel. But being around Jeremy, they could feel his heartbeat almost.


    Ark had been paying attention to everybody. And there was a couple of old guys in the room that were having so much fun, but their systems, their biologicals, were just, it was like they''re running a marathon right now after not touching anything for years, not being able to do it so arc just made a comment to everybody. I''m going to properly ask everybody to actually leave the auditorium, or at least anybody over the age of 50 or 60 due to the fact that I am already registering some people in the crowd that might have issues biologically with the emotions that they are giving off. Yes, they are enjoyable, but I don''t also want any heart attacks here. I''m going to stop at 13% until people with heart conditions. or I''m not going to kill you guys by unleashing Jeremy on you. Get the hell out, please.


    The whole room burst into anger and fear and all this other things, and then a whole lot of people just said get the hell out to the old guys that were getting mad and they were literally escorted out by security, realizing that in the end only a handful of people actually stayed. Most of the people left because they did not want to get themselves hurt or sick or infected, but there was people that were like, no, I''m not leaving. And then the people that left younger counterparts did come sit down for them. And this is all being recorded. So people out there that wanted to come in, they rushed in to take their older people''s seats and it was. like, no one over the age of 50 was let back in.


    OK Let''s try this and with that arc went to 14 and the guys that just left the over 50 guys were in the outside the big doors to the meeting area. They could feel it from there now so. get them the heck out of the building came over the PA this thing is going to be coming across the whole ah area of the building in the probably 10 minutes everybody that can evacuate the building evacuate unless you want to feel emotions from a human being.


    It was an odd sight about 20 minutes later. They hadn''t done anything and the whole building, all the younger people, had come down to the auditorium and it was just packed wall to wall, all the aisles, everything. It was standing room. It was beautiful And in all the older people were outside on benches, sitting around, just sitting there. Most of them brought coffee and Donuts, and they turned us into a fun time because they could still feel it out there. But it wasn''t as powerful. It was a good feeling, but it wasn''t making the heart race like it was before. So yeah, everybody around the world was watching now, and they even had live televised of the senators and everybody said that ending outside with in the camera crews and the reporters were sitting there right with them. And they were watching this on little tablets, and they were being a part of it. But it was like, feel it. So what? happened next? Kinda was like throwing gasoline on a fire.


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    And with that. a burst of emotions took over the entire building and people. weren''t crying or anything like that. They were very calm. And Jeremy throughout this whole time had just been while cheating truthfully. He had arc through music in his ear. Call music and even just listen to music this whole time. And. it wasn''t until someone outside had gone to Jeremy''s youtube channel to one of his playlists and clicked on it. Did arc basically hit the live button on youtube and the playlist that Jeremy was listening to started to go live as this popped up a couple people noticed? Well, that spread very quickly and that was the most viewed playlist on YouTube in the world at that moment.


    The moment they all heard the music, the people in and around the building, it was like. a harmony happened. The small fluctuations. They could all feel from Jeremy. They understood his music and he was getting into it. Or sad because of it. Or but these micro emotions that were coming across the link while. they stopped being micro because by this point archit stopped telling everybody what  He was doing and just said.This narrative has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. If you see it on Amazon, please report it.


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    They''re shocked everybody, because now they could feel Jeremy''s emotions, and then his sub emotions, and then. arc, yelled Eureka into the microphone, and everybody heard it. And even Jeremy got surprised, and everybody got surprised. And then. all of a sudden, the  Emotions stopped. flowing. Not totally, but instead of a raging torrent, it was now a. trickling stream.


    It was still very powerful for the people in the room with Jeremy, but the people outside the room, even in the hallways around the main auditorium, they didn''t. They didn''t feel much. They could feel something, but it was like 90 per cent reduced. It was amazing and every. body kind of came back to their senses at this point because even arc knew that, yes, this was cool, blah, blah, blah. But this was unsustainable. It was too. wild and everybody kind of realized that they were being affected. A lot of people didn''t like that but they understood that this was what was new. It was the first time was not intentional. But it was. amazing to hear all of a sudden


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    Arc had gotten Jeremy''s call up to. call her down to 40%.  And this was a new thing, because the moment 40% got there, people started noticing things like their eyesight was a little bit better. There''s one guy out in the courtyard, and he had glasses on, and he''s trying to read something, and he had to take his glasses off to read it. And he could read it. And he looked at the glasses, and he''s like, put them back on. He looks at the screen, can''t read it, takes him off. He can read it. He just hangs em on his shirt and goes back to reading, not giving 2 **** Did his eyes just get better? Little things like that. People started noticing, but Because they''re all a little different. They all just kinda accepted it being the valley of the weird at this point.


    A moment or two later, you hear the the comment you''re now at 50% containment. Jeremy, how do you feel?


    Jeremy wasn''t even paying attention to Ark. He was paying attention to just keeping calm to the point where Ark clearly had to come into his head to see what was going on, and the moment he came in the oh **** about to happen happened because the moment Jeremy stopped paying attention what he was paying attention and pay attention to Ark. Well, Jeremy was holding back a dam of emotions, not his not anybody else''s but arcs. Ark had a feedback loop, if you will, or Jeremy could feel what Ark was feeling. And if Jeremy could feel, everybody could feel it. So the moment Ark distracted him, ark''s feelings because Jeremy was feeling them came through to everybody and it was smug sad scared lonely. but the moment. But the moment he talked to Jeremy, it was smiles and family.


    And this triggered a kind of a loop. Because if Jeremy felt. family emotions, an arc felt family emotions, an ark''s emotions made Jeremy''s morph whose and Jeremy''s made arcs more. This became kind of like a feedback loop between total. and it wasn''t until this thing speed up. that arc actually lost control of Jeremy''s caller, and it started to just not unlock by itself, but the limiters just yeah. they just argued was reading the numbers now, not controlling them All you heard was holy crap. Ah, and this came through the microphone''s in United Nations. Jeremy''s now unlocking himself. He''s at 6267 seventy one 7377788390 9293 94 95 95 95. It''s holding at 95. at this point arc is just in a loop. Jeremy is just in a loop every. body in the hall is feeling this feeling and it wasn''t until Jeff and Zen who were the closest to Jeremy. had one final moment of clarity and Jen just whacked Jeremy with a punch upside the head and cause Jeremy to kind of well yeah I''ll cold one hit.


    And that broke the feedback loop. And then Zen took over, put the colours controls back onto Jeremy, took him down to about 75 and by this point everybody was looking at Jeremy because  His body was basically glowing, his hair had multiple colours, his fingernails were naturally. colourful and changing colours all the time. It was super weird. Jeremy was I want to call him a freak. And you know what? That''s exactly what I was. And he''d be proud to accept that at this point because he did not look normal. He did not feel normal. but the pain that Ark had talked about was there. And now that it was gone and Jeremy was out cold, everybody just had this giant stupid smile on their face. He was happy and out cold, and he was still affecting everybody. Ark spent the next little while Tony. down the neural interfaces emotional feedbacks and putting in loop suppressant algorithms in itself. So that couldn''t happen again. And as arc turned up, the suppression field, but not Jeremy''s power, just what the emotions did to other people And they left Jeremy at a higher state. Jeremy''s breathing. Calm down. Everybody around him. Calm down and They brought him back too, with some smelling salts.


    Arc wanted to take control of this, said we''re going to go back to Scotland now and you guys can basically keep an eye on us from there. And if there''s anymore problems, we''ll send Jeremy out. But for now, I don''t think you really want him out and about in public, do you And with that, Ark told Jeremy Zen and Jeff. and to get the hell out of there.


    No one stopped them and. you knew the moment that they left that there was going to be a vote and the vote was very unanimously to put this human walking disaster in a Scottish pastored in a tent and let him relax. Do not make him do stuff unless we absolutely need to.


    Everybody forgetting that arc was still on the mic and listening to all this. As soon as they were about to stop for the day, the Ark said to them, excuse me, I''d like to say something. And everybody kind of freaked out for a second, not remembering that arc was right there, until Ark just said, as a thank you for this. I have now opened up every single dungeon in the world. It will only produce two products. 1 will be magic water, and 2 will be the Magic Diamonds. Oh and of course, rings will be there also. My apologies. Three items. Those were for limitations to keep anybody that''s got too much power from melting their bodies. As the dungeons fill with water, you may have. evaporation. And if you do, you may have magic added back to your environment at a quicker rate. If you want this and you want more of it, please let me know, and we can overfill the dungeons. But until you guys are ready, I will do this as a small amount, just so that your natural environment and magical creatures that might have been there, and maybe still are, can naturally come back. Please keep an eye out for any of this. And this will be your responsibility going forward to make sure if dragons come back, you guys are ready for them. And with that arc, just stop talking and left it.


    The moment that he said Dragons, a couple people in the room basically **** themselves. Others laughed, but then some people took it very seriously and there was now talks. These talks in. past tense because of history would have gone on for days. in the history books.


    RECAP


    So just a little bit of a recap, if you will,bit of a recap, if you will  Ark the original dungeon, or, in this case, a machine meant to terraform a planet. has been used in an odd way by Jeremy and had. become super irradiated with magic to the point where his biological body has died mostly. and a magical field that is acting like a body taking care of his functions in his higher brain functions is now Jeremy McConnell, Jeff was Jeremy''s caretaker in the military and Zen was one of his old instructors is now part of Jeremy''s small team who has been given magic. Zen has water magic and Jeff has superhearing. this team is based out of Scotland at the arc site.


    During this time Ark has worked to start. opening dungeons all over the world. Where power and lay lines connect This is allowing all the stored dark matter that has been overpacked into our planet to be processed back into magic and the extreme amount of dark matter surrounding our planet and in our solar system will then start being absorbed by the multiple planets of our solar system because arc is not the only one. There is an arc on each planet The systems are now ramping up and doing different things based on their environment of each planet, but on Earth. Basically, arc is trying to convert the amount of dark matter here without melting the planet and by doing so is making magical water that can be evaporated into the atmosphere and magic can be placed all around the world naturally. Small creatures like the first Earth Gollum and Ghost dogs have been spotted. even red 4 foot tall dust Devils that dance and cause and cause a little bit of havoc here and there. Spaces that are dark and carnate that you can''t see in other things are what gets sent towards Jeremy''s team. to give advice on how to deal with and when extremely necessary send them into the field. to control and understand these phenomenon as magic comes back to this world. These are the stories Da da da da.