《Paradoxical Encore》 Begin.Story1-Prolgue ¡¸COMMAND¡¹ _Restart Multiverse ¡¸ERROR¡¹ ¡¸CONSEQUENCES¡¹ -Time_Broken -Fiction_NonFiction -Concepts_LivingRepresentations=True -Memories_Restarted ¡¸CONTINUE?¡¹ ¡¸Y / N¡¹ _YThis narrative has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. If you see it on Amazon, please report it. ¡¸UNDERSTOOD¡¹ ¡¸BEGINNING_RESET¡¹ ? ? ¡ó ? "You damn Narrorator..." Marcen, a hooded and injured figure standing at the edge of the Multiverse infront of another figure only known as ''The Narrorator''. "It''s too late, Marcen." He continues typing at a console connected to the wall-like edge of the Multiverse. "Your story ended eons ago. I wasnt the one who wanted to continue this." "I wanted to stop this... this hell for everyone, so why must you continue it..." "He wants it to continue after you decided to not stop." He finishes typing, Marcen witnesses as everything turn to dust, very slowly "Its over Marcen. Live the story again." He sees The Narrartor disintegrate like everything else. He feels his body also turning to dust, strangly though its slower than everything else. He stares at the blue glow of the console that connects to the worlds and all it shows is one message. ¡¸ERROR¡¹ "Im... tired" He mutters after the consoles screen flickers off. (Wow... Short. Hold on! I promise [hopefully] that i will make longer chapters! 1 thousand word minimum! [I think im delulu] but i do hope you enjoy it, this is only the beginning) Begin.ErrorCorrection-Attempt1 "Ah!" Jolting up. What the hell? What kind of dream was that? "Marcy! Wake up and get ready for breakfast!" Hearing my mothers voice coming from downstairs, i realize im back in my old bedroom. "O-oh, yeah give me a second!" Slowly getting up from my bed, my body felt heavier than normal. Seeing a mirror, i walk up to see the reason why "So it really was a dream..." My body was young, safe to say i was a bit chubby back then. "Whats the ¡ºTIME¡»?" Walking back to my bedside table, i grab my phone that was charging. "7:50, Monday." Wait, monday? Isnt that a school day? Im going to be late... "Im going to be late!" Rushing to get my uniform on, i rush downstairs to see my family eating breakfast. "Finally, jeez, could you get ready any slower?" My little sister announces annoyedly "Come now, its time to eat." Dad says while signalling for me to sit down on the chair next to my sister. "We''re going to be late!" "What?" "We have ten minutes left before i''m late!" "What''re you saying bro? Its 7:20." She confused. "What?" Replying confused, i check my phone and check the time again. "Oh... 7:20... i swear it said 7:50 though." "Ma, i think Marcy really lost it." "Dont say that about your brother, come sit down and eat." Still dazed, i sit down and quietly begin eating. Yum, mother always made the best food. "Seriously bro, is your head screwed on properly?" "Alright! I get it! I messed up, i got the ¡ºTIME¡»wrong, i get it!" "Leave your brother alone, Emily." "Tch, boring." Yup, thats just like her... ¡õ?¡ó? Unauthorized usage: this narrative is on Amazon without the author''s consent. Report any sightings. After a while, we finally make it to school. "Dont get in trouble Em." "I wont, i wont!" After that... lackluster reassurance, i head inside and go through my day like normal. "Marc!" Hearing my name being called, i turn to the source to see my friend waving to me. "Andre!" It felt like seeing him for the first time in years... strange... "Dude come on! Were gonna be late!" Walking to him, we begin walking together to our first class. "Calm down dude, its so boring though..." "Scared of a little maths?" "Shut up." I punch his arm, although it never had any real strength in it. "Haha, calm down dude, gonna be pissed already?" I dont miss this. "Ha. Ha. Alright dude enough joking." Tired of him laughing, i contemplate wether to actually punch him. "Alright alright, phew, anyways dude, real talk. Have you noticed anything weird lately?" "Like what?" Confused by his sudden switch in tone, i respond confused. "Like... stuff not... being right? Yknow? Like ¡ºTIME¡»acting strange?" Now that he mentioned it, it was strange. Why was everything so familiar yet so different, like i''ve already lived through it... "Huh, are you doing weed again?" "...man shut up!" Although it was strange, i reply nonchalantly, it was strange but it was just speculation. "We''re here, see ya after class Andre." "Yeah, see ya, im not crazy dude." After bidding farewell, i headed inside my classroom, 2L, and found my seat. Thankfully, i wasnt late and i sat in the middle like always. ''Like... ¡ºTIME¡»acting strange?'' I guess it has been weird lately... and it started with that dream too. All i remember was a screen saying... "...error..." Without realizing, i mumbled out those words, strangely, i saw a middle aged man sitting in one of the desks, he seemed relatively well built but also familiar. The teacher began taking attendance. "Alex?" "Here." Everything was normal, except for him... no one noticed anything strange though. "Amira?" "Here." "Camille?" "Here." "Elijah?" "Here." ¡ð ¡ð ¡ð Then after a few more names, his name was called. "Nimara?" "Here." Nirama? That Nirama? The scrawny kid with glasses? Thats not possible. Strangely enough, no one else thought it was strange. "...error." Muttering the word again, i felt my spine grow cold... ''What if that dream... wasnt a dream? What if...'' "Urgh..." Suddenly, my head began hurting. BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE¡ª A continuous ringing echoes in my head, it hurt... it hurt so much. . . .? It stopped? Looking up, everyone was frozen. Looking up, i saw a man... with robotic hands? And a blindfold on, he had a crown symbol hovering ovwr his head. Outstretching his hand, it came close to my face but before he could touch me... ¡¸ERROR FOUND!¡¹ A window was inbetween me and his hand, inches away from me. ¡¸BEGIN CORRECTION¡¹ ¡¸ATTEMPT 1¡¹ My vision began to blur... then, as if a brick to my head, all my memories came back with the window issuing one word... again. ¡¸ERROR¡¹ It hurt... Not again... my body felt like it was being incinerated but also reparing itself. ¡õ¡õ¡ó? ''Man, my brother is so weird'' I think to myself as i walk to my class, i cant believe i am in highschool now. "EmEm!" Hearing my bestie, i run to her. "RiRi! How are you doing!" "Nothing much! How are you doing!" "Urgh, yknow my bro?" "Marcen?" "Yeah, him. He was acting strange this morning! He ran downstairs saying he was going to be late." "Pft, thats so weird! Cmon, lets head to class now." Walking side by side, we chat and walk, making it to class we sit beside eachother. "Oh. My. God. Not this teacher..." My friend whispers to me as the teacher walks in, i couldnt agree more. Taking attendance, his voice was so monotone, i could sleep! ¡ð ¡ð ¡ð After taking attendance, he began his lecture... finally "Finally..." I whisper to my frie¨C ¡¸SCANNING¡¹ ...what? Scanning? Who... what said that? "What?-" ¡¸ERROR FOUND¡¹ "What...?" "Yo EmEm, what''re you whispering?" My friend whispers to me after hearing my own muttering. ¡¸BEGINNING CORRECTION¡¹ ¡¸ATTEMPT 1¡¹ "I-im seeing a... screen? Hologram? I think my brother would call it a... window? Like those weird system webnovels he reads..." Trying to explain what i see, i whisper back to my friend, Mitari. "H-hey EmEm..." Noticing my friends shaking voice, i ask, wondering why she isnt whispering anymore. "What...? Do you want to get caught?" "N-no... its just that everyone is..." She points to the people around us. Everyone. Was. Frozen. "...what the." Not hiding my own voice of confusion "W-what is going o-" Glancing at my friend who suddenly stopped speaking, i saw that she also became frozen ¡¸ERROR¡¹ "...what th-" Begin.ErrorCorrection-Attempt2 "Ah!" Waking up with a jolt, i look around my room. "What the..." Getting up, my room felt familiar... but different. "Urgh... my head." Grabbing my head, i stand up and head to the bathroom. Noticing how my body felt weaker than normal, glancing at the mirror... oh. "What the... fuck?" My body looked... wrong, that was the best description i could use. "Argh!" My head began hurting more and the *thing* supposed to be my head was... pulsating? ¡¸ERROR FOUND¡¹ W-what the... why is that thing back! "S-stay away!" ¡¸BEGIN CORRECTION¡¹ L-leave me alone... it hurts! It hurts! Walking backwards, i bump into something. Turning around, i see it... that same figure... "M¡ñR¡ñE¡ñ." "...what?" Outstretching his hand... it tries to grab me. Ofcourse, i jump back and accidentally crash into the mirror. Each reflection that i saw from every shard was... different. "Leave me alone!" Grabbing the biggest shard, i aim it at the figure. "W¡ñI¡ñ." "What the hell are you saying!" "D¡ñM¡ñ C¡ñN¡ñO¡ñS¡ñI¡ñ." I throw the shard at it. "S¡ñO¡ñ." It stopped, the shard stopped mid-air. ¡¸ERROR¡¹ "L¡ñS¡ñE¡ñ T¡ñ M¡ñ." "Argh!" The pain in my head increases as my vision begins to blur again.This book was originally published on Royal Road. Check it out there for the real experience. ¡õ?¡ó? Slowly waking up, i open my eyes. "Whrmm?" Groaning, i sit up and stretch. "Urgh... what a weird dream..." Getting off my bed, i wash up and put on my uniform. "Yawn~" Walking downstairs, i sit down with my mom and dad. "Morning." "Good morning sweetie." "When is bro going to come down?" I ask while eating breakfast. "Oh, let him be. He seems to be very tired, haha." My mom says with her usual caring tone. "But he takes soo long." CRASH¨C "What was that?" "Hm?" "What was dear?" Why were they so calm? Looking up, i finally notice it... their face... they were, cracked? It looked like broken glass. "I-i''m going to check..." Trying to hide my shock, i stand from my chair and begin walking away to my brothers room... While walking, i notice the house is mote unfamiliar than i thought... Doors where they shouldnt, things that were mimicing furniture and a wierd picture on the wall... it looked medival, like a family portrait. Finally, i made it to his room. Hearing screams, i peak inside and i see... a creature talking to a man... with robot hands? And a blindfold? Is that a... is that a crown symbol over his head? It seemed to be speaking but it sounded like his words were cutting out. Once that thing stopped screaming, it looked like it fainted too. Once it stopped moving, the man simply touched him and... the thing looked like it was growing younger? Like it was reversing its age until... wait, that thing just turned into my brother? "W-what the..." Suddenly, it turned around. "!" Flinching, i step back and bump into something. Turning around slowly, i see my parents but... it wasnt, it was those things... Bursting through i door, i run inside to that man ¡¸INTERRUPTION DETECTED¡¹ W-what the? Without even noticing, the man grabbed me and put me near my brother. He turns around, letting me notice... wings? "W-who are you!" "T¡ñM¡ñE." What did it say? T, something, M, something?. It opens its hand and the floor shatters. "T-tell me! What is going on!" Before falling, i ask him a question. "E¡ñE¡ñY¡ñH¡ñN¡ñ I¡ñ B¡ñO¡ñE¡ñ." "w-wha-" Before i could continue, i also begin falling, ofcourse i grab onto my brother. "Ahh!" ¡õ¡õ¡ó? The man remains hovering above, he made sure the only people who should''ve fallen down inside of the ¡¾VORTEX¡¿was those two. Leaving him alone with the Glitches. >GRGAHGH< Those things that act like the people they destroy... disgusting. "You dont deserve to touch me." He says as those two start charging at him. With a tick of a clock, both Glitches die by being pierced by two clock hands. Once dealing with them, he turns to the window that is still glowing in the middle of the room. ¡¸PURPOSE OF INTERRUPTION¡¹ "There was no need." ¡¸FIXING ERROR¡¹ "Stop." ¡¸INTERRUPTION DETECTED¡¹ ¡¸QUERY, WHY ARE YOU STOPPING ERROR CORRECTION?¡¹ "This is a favor for an... old friend." ¡¸WHY¡¹ "I''m using my C.C, Be his system." ¡¸UNDERSTOOD¡¹ the window disapears, leaving the man alone. "You should have won..." He mutters alone, clearly pissed at the blood he noticed on him. "I can hear you." He says, speaking to the air. "Narrarator, why are you doing this. You know why they attacked the Console." He continues to spe-... I OnLy CoNtRoL ThE StORy When NeEdEd... "Your job is to focus on keeping the Multiverse in balance! This is not balanced! You forced the world to shatter and break!" hE wAnTeD ThIs. "That bastard did''nt! He wanted to stop this endless cycle of pain!" I wAs''nT TaLkinG aBout MaRcen- cen- cen... "Then who!" hIm. ¡¸MAIN PERSPECTIVE CHANGING... 3...¡¹ "What! Damn it." ¡¸2...¡¹ GoOd LuCk... RuLer... ¡¸1...¡¹ ¡õ¡õ¡õ? Continuously falling, i hold onto my brothers unconscious body. "Wake up dammit!" I''ve given up on screaming, i''ve already fallen for who knows how long. SLAP¨C SLAP¨C SLAP¨C "Wake. Up. Now!" Slapping his reddened cheek, he remains unconscious. "What the hell is even going on..." Stopping my assualt on his cheek, i just hold his hand to make sure we dont somehow seperate. "Why did all of this even happen..." Falling for who knows how long. I reminisce on the past. My life before all of this strange shit. "...urgh." All i could do was groan, the walls of this pit was... strangly calming, with nice cooling colours. "I mean, im fine with all this... but... why did it have to heppen when i started highschool..." Its all so... tiring... Why could''nt life be normal... "Nrgh..." Hearing my brother slowly wake up... i slowly looked at his half sleep, red cheek, face. "U-urgh... what happened?" Then, his face looked cold. ¡õ¡õ¡õ¡õ Waking up, i notice myself falling. That isnt what i was scared. No. ¡¸ACCEPT SYSTEM?¡¹ ¡¸Y / N¡¹ "W-what the fuck...?" Begin.Recollection-Fall1 "Hmm..." Falling down, continuously. The only thing keeping me from going insane is the blue screen infront of me and my sister holding my hand as we both fall. ¡¸ACCEPT SYSTEM?¡¹ ¡¸Y / N¡¹ "So are you going to accept it?" "You cant even see it." "Well im so-rry!" "Whatever, are you sure that man helped you? And me?" Getting back on topic. "Ofcourse! Why would i lie?" "Maybe he mind controlled you." "He literally helped you!" "Okay! Okay!... i guess i''ll accept it the offer." Nervously pressing Y, i felt something weird on my finger. A bright blue glow was surrounding my finger. ... "Wow, you have a flashlight now." "Be quiet." After a few more seconds, the blue light began following my veins as it slowly got towards my heart. One thing, it burns... it burns so much. "Hrk!" "B-bro?! Whats happeneing?!" Soon, once it reached my heart, it began to glow too. "Arghh!" Excrutiating pain. My hand tightening its grasp on my sisters. "W-what''s going on!" Soon, it finally subsides. ¡¸HELLO [USER]¡¹ ¡¸PLEASE WAIT WHILE WE GATHER DATA¡¹ "Hoo..." Finally breathing a sigh of relief as the pain subsides. I glance at my sister. "So?" "Looks like i have to wait while it collects data?" "Collecting data? Sounds weird."You might be reading a stolen copy. Visit Royal Road for the authentic version. "Nice observation." ¡ð ¡ð ¡ð Wow... we have fallen for a long time now. "Urgh... when will we stop falling..." "Calm down..." "I wanna go home!" "Me too." While falling, the calming coloured walls would sometimes flash images. Past, present and future. "I really don''t understand what happend!" "Wait. Do you see that?" Pointing at the walls of this pit, the image is of me... and that man, as if we are friends? "H¡ñN¡ñG¡ñG!" Then, the man pushes itself outside the image and enters the pit aswell. "W-what the!" "Its you!" "F¡ñN¡ñL¡ñY." "W-who are you!" "Its the person that helped us! Be nice!" "We cant even understand him!" "L¡ñS¡ñE¡ñ, ¡ñO¡ñ ¡ñE¡ñD ¡ñO ¡ñA¡ñT ¡ñOr¡ñ T¡ñE S¡ñS¡ñE¡ñ T¡ñ ¡ñI¡ñI¡ñH L¡ñA¡ñI¡ñG." "See!" ¡¸DATA COLLECTION COMPLETE!¡¹ ¡¸HELLO, MARCEN¡¹ "Hang on, it just finished." ¡¸INITIATING PROTOCAL ¡ºSYSTEM¡»¡¹ ¡ã¡ã¡ã ¡ºMarcen Lostiru¡» LV - ERROR¡ºPLEASE WAIT¡» STR - ERROR¡ºPLEASE WAIT¡» SPD - ERROR¡ºPLEASE WAIT¡» INT - ERROR¡ºPLEASE WAIT¡» MP - ERRIR¡ºPLEASE WAIT¡» ¡ºSKILLS¡» Translation - ¡ï¡î¡î¡î¡î ¡ã¡ã¡ã Wow. "Wow." "Hm, judging by your reaction, the system has finished its update i presume." Wait... did i just understand him? "H-huh?" His tone was dignified and filled with confidence... wow. "Well, i think its time for us to stand on solid ground." "Bro! What is he saying?" "H-he said we should stand on solid ground first..." "How? We are still FALLING!" TAP¨C Suddenly, we are standing on a platform while in the pit. "There. Hello Marcen." "B-bro! There is a floor now!" "How do you know my name." "We used to be friends." "Used to?" The man held his head up high while nodding. "How? And... why not anymore?" "It was in the past... well, future for you." "W-what is going on! What is all this error talk? What happened to my family!" "I am sorry, truly, but i can''t answer your questions right now. Causality wont allow it." "Causali-what?" "The Law that dictates what can happen." "S-so it... it will just control us?" "You misunderstood. It''s Law, it isn''t fate." "O-oh, so what now..." "All i am allowed to say is... good luck." Hearing cracks, i look downwards to see the cause. The. Platform. Was. Breaking. "I truely hope you survive. Your universe is gone, your time is broken... goodbye, Error of the Cosmos." The platform shattered, my sister grabbinh my arm as we fall again but... that figure was... smiling? "Don''t get stronger than me again." We fell again as he stayed hovering. ¡õ?¡ó? Finally, we stopped falling. The landing wasnt even painful, it felt weird to feel gravity again. We stood up and looked around us. A forest. "O-owie..." "You good?" For some reason, my sister showed more reaction than me. "What do you mean! It hurts like hell!" "J-jeez, overreacting much?" She gets up slowly meanwhile i am already standing and stretching. "What are you? An ogre?" "I may be a bit chubby but that''s mean." "Chubby is an understatement..." Hearing her mumbling, i glare. "Am i wrong?" "Whatever. We just need to find a safe place, we dont know where we are." As i say that... i hear growling in the distance. Turning to the noise, a scream can be heard... maybe around three? I grab my sisters hand and begin running towards the source. "Woah! Slow down!" Hearing my sister. I turn my head to face her and i see her face stretched due to the speed. "Oh crap." Slowing down. I reach a pace that she can handle as we keep running. "Why did you suddenly run off! With me!" "I heard screaming." "Where? I can''t hear anything! Huff... huff..." Seeing her being out of breath, i slow down even more. "There it is! Huff..." She points to a direction, i see a clearing with... monsters? And a group of people. "The screams are very muffled! Huff... how could you even hear that? From far away too! Huff..." "...hide, i''ll be back." After saying my warning. I begin running to the source, two men and a woman fighting what seems to be an... orc? ¡ºMratri LV - 54¡» The screen displayed what it was as i stared at it. Then suddenly... ¡ºERROR!¡» ¡ºGlitch LV - ???¡» What the hell is a glitch? Noticing that the orc, or a ''Mratri'' as the system says, looks off... maybe a bit cartoony... or slightly off. Jumping towards it. I punch the hand about to attack one of the men, seemingly a tanker. As the punch connected... it felt off, like the texture wasnt the same as the appearance of whatever this was. "Ah! Thank you stranger!" The man thanked me as i noticed the Glitch''s arm was severed but... the blood wasnt gushing or... even moving? Jumping in for another punch, i punched it''s head off. Strangly, i felt extremily weak after the second punch... ¡ºMP DEPLETED¡» What? Should have... told me that... sooner... I see my sister running to me as i faint. Not again. Begin.Recollection-Fall2 ??¡ó? ''That dumb weirdo! Ofcourse he had to faint after fighting!'' After seeing my brother suddenly falling down. I run out of the bush. Reaching him, i first check if he is breathing. SNORE¨C ...im going to punch him. The three people he protected began walking towards us. "H-hey! Whats going on! W-who are you people!" Obviously nervous, i ask a simple question. "Ritai? Lema tora grana!" One of them, a man with two swords on each side of his waist, pointed at me while facing the woman, who had a big hat on and a staff like rod, "Potar!" The woman slapped him on the head, like she took offence to whatever he said. "Ritai! Potar! Mratri... ra Mratri wora..." As the man with the shield said those words... the two who where arguing suddenly stopped as their expressions changed. "Trao..." Both turn to face where the man was also staring... the woman said a word. Also looking out of curiosity, i saw that giant gorilla looking things body start to spasm. "...what the." The areas where it was injured suddenly starting changing. Its injuries started shifting and churning. It began to move again as it began to stand back up. "T-Trao!" "Potar! Ritai! Shigao!" Guessing that the man with the dual swords name being Potar began carrying my brother. Confused at what was going on, i also stand up from my crouching figure, the woman i figured the name was Ritai began chanting something. "Rao. Loa. Prita. Gron." Hm? Why does my feet feel like its touching nothing? Looking down i figure out why... "I-im floating!" I began to float towards her as she began to run away with the other two. ¡õ?¡ó? Enjoying the smooth ride, I look at the horizen after noticing something. "A town...?" "Rena Mratri?" The woman¨C...no wait, Ritai muttered to the tank¨Cwhome I don''t know the name of¨Cas they began to walk after noticing the gorilla thing was gone. "Rena Mratri wro hra, jeai Mratri wro rena... quri?" "Q-quri! Wro! Wro! Wro!" Ritai began to scream as her face showed shock or fear. "Ritai, quri hra leran." The man with the dual swords¨Cwho i think is named Potar¨Csaid in a joking tone. "Potar, wro hane Ritai." "Norila."This story originates from a different website. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there. Soon we finally make it to the town while they continue to banter... ofcourse the town name is a bunch of squiggles for me. I felt gravity slowly come back as i felt my feet touch the ground. As it occurs, Ritai turned to face me. "T-thank you." "Hm... orae lei giroan?" Potar said to Ritai... she suddenly looked very angry. "Potar. Wro. Katea!" "...Trao...?" "Potar, mra wro leiei." What did i expect? I cant understand them or speak to them in any way. ...until. "U-urgh..." That moron finally woke up. ¡õ¡õ¡ó? Where am i? Well i''m infront of a town. How? I do not know... "W-what the hell..." "Ah! Saviour! Thank you." The man with the shield spoke first as he noticed(?) Me being awake. "B-bro!" Before i could register what was going on, i get slapped in the back of the head. "That''s what you get for suddenly fainting!" "O-ow! Sorry! Jeez... where are we?" "I dunno." "What do you mean you dont know? Didnt you bring me here?" "Ah, saviour, we did that." Finally noticing other people here. I glance at them. "Oh, hello. So um, where am i?" "You''re in the town of Irinia." "Irinia... where is that?" "...? You dont know, saviour?" "I-i guess not, haha." "Oh, here!" The woman began chanting something as a map began to project infront of me. "Diera. Flo. Gudienca." "W-whoa!" "We are in the town of Irinia, which is in the Yurogna Empire." "Hey! We''re near my hometown!" The guy with double swords spoke out as he saw the map. "I didn''t ask, Potar." "Well im so-rry!" "...both of you, stop fighting infront of our saviour." "Trao! Ritai just never cares, does she!" "Stop." Both of them stopped fighting as he¨CTrao, im guessing¨Cspoke in a more stern voice. ¡ºTralio Erigo LV 48¡» Staring at the sudden notification infront of me... i was slightly shocked. "Hm? Ah, sorry for that saviour. I am Tralio, Trao is my nickname. Thank you for helping us." "A-ah... n-no problem Tralio..." I glance at the other two to see if i can see their levels and... ¡ºPotamor Marona LV 51¡» ¡ºRilatia Graisfeld LV 51¡» ...hang on, i glance at my sister. ¡ºEmily Lositru LV 13¡» Huh... i get it now. Well, i think so atleast. I stand up and dust myself off. "Well, i guess thanks for carrying me here after dealing with that big thing." "Ah, the Mratri? Well..." The guy named Potamor began to avoid my eyes as he trailed off. "It didn''t die." Bluntly, the woman named Rilatia spoke out. "You didn''t have to say that! W-well what that... thing said was true, the Mratri didn''t die... it was changing as its injuries began to... eurgh, i do not want to continue!" He shivered as he remembered what he was talking about. "Like a ''Fallen!''" As he spoke out while glancing at the woman who flinched. "N-no! Its not a Fallen! Y-you said they were myths!" Defensively, Rilatia began to stutter. "Both of you." Tralio grabbed both of them by the head. "Stop. Fighting." Even i wouldnt want to be on his bad side. The fear in both of them could be felt. Meanwhile, my sister was just drawing on the dirt with a stick. "Hey sis... lets sneak away from those three..." "Hm? Why?" "This concersation is going nowhere." "...atleast thank them!" "You do it. I''m too lazy." "They cant understand me!" "What? But i can understand them perfectly clear-...!" I open my System as i realized something. ¡ºMarcen Lostiru Lv Err ??Str - Err ??Spd - Err ?? Int - Err ?? MP - Err Skills ??E]¡Á=rr ¡ï¡ï¡ï -€~~¡ã !=+/ ?? Translation ¡ï¡î¡î¡î¡î -More info ?? Punch ¡ï -More info. ¡» ...I dont want to look weird so i hold on before i press the ''More info''. "Hey bro, you good?" Snapping out of my thoughts, my sister looked at me like im a weirdo... well that never changed. "Nothing, just realized something... anyways, lets get going..." I turn to face the two just giving death glares at eachother while the third looks tired. "Thank you all for the kindness you''ve shown but i think it''s time we go our separate ways." "Ah Saviour, wait, before you depart let us buy you a meal." "A meal? No than- Ow!" Being slapped in the back of the head, i turn to face my sister. "Accept it! Im starving!" "Ok! Ok! We accept the offer!" The two looked more upbeat as i agreed while Tralio looked more relieved than anything. ¡õ¡õ¡ó? ¡¾The Narrorator began to walk up a set of stairs.¡¿ The faint sounds of typing can be heard beyond a door. "¡ð¡õ??¡ó?, isn''t it time for you to rest?" ¡¾The words broken as he tries to speak a name, or a title, as he knocks on the door.¡¿ ...The Narrorator sighs as he begins to walk away from the door and down the stairs. ¡¾Marcen follows the three as Emily follows him, being closer as to not get lost.¡¿ "¡õ''¡õ ¡õ¡õ ¡õ¡õ¡õ¡õ¡õ¡ã¡ã¡ã" Each word spoken... comes out as a cencor or spoken in too many words to be understood. sO rEsT tHen... "¡õ ¡õ¡õ¡õ''¡õ¡ã" ¡¾The Narrorator forces poor old me to be his messenger to ¡ð¡õ??¡ó?.¡¿ The Narrorator forces poor old me to be his messenger to ¡ð¡õ??¡ó?. ¡¾Where is The Narrorator? Currently in the middle of space as the white door behind him closes.¡¿ ¡õ¡õ¡õ? "So where is this place?" I asked as we kept on walking... and walking. "It shouldn''t be far, saviour!" Pomator spoke joyfully. "Can you be quieter Potar!" On cue, Rilatia yelled at him. The one closest to me and my sister was the bulkier man with the shield. Tralio. "Do not mind them. It might seem that they hate eachother but... they really do care." "I wouldn''t have known..." He bellows out a laugh as i retort. "Ha Ha Ha, Saviour, you truly are something else." "Bro... what is he laughing about?" "Hm? Oh... it''s abiut something i said." "Saviour... who is that lady behind you?" "Her? She is my sister. She cant understand you." Tilting his head, he began to ask more questions. "Why? Are you two foreigners?" "I suppose so..." "Then how can you speak to her in the same language as us... if she can not understand it?" Good question, simple... i dont know... but i can''t just say that i have a skill! "W-well... i-i... um... keuhmm... keuhmm... are we there yet?" "Hm? Oh right! Ha ha ha! Pomator! Rilatia! Have we made it to a tavern yet!" "No." "Stop moving your map!" As they continued fighting, i began to wonder. ''What did i get myself up to now...'' Begin.Recollection-Trope1 Finally... they even insisted to pay for our lodging! At some randome inn! Honestly, this place was horrible... well compared to before, with a warm bed and nice insulation... im talking about my home. But they did say it was expensive after looking at the prices... i even told them not to... Currently sitting on the bed cross legged... i was staring at my System thing, finally giving me time to check what these things are... "Bro! This place sucks!... i wanna go back home!" "Cool, anyways, im gonna test the ''System'' now, okay?" "What! You don''t even care about your own sister?" I can hear the overly sad voice as i turn around annoyed. "We cant, so why even care?" "...y-you''re lying..." What the? She looks sadder...? "We are in god-knows-where at a random inn, in a whole different universe. Do you really think we can go back?" "...i-i... hmpf..." With that, she just turned her body to face the wall as she lied down in bed. "Don''t sulk." "Shut up..." Damn it... now i look like the monster here. "Listen Em... what''s wrong?" "What do you mean ''what''s wrong?'' We''re lost in, what you said, ''a whole different universe''! How can i not be sad? I had friends! What about mom and dad! I-i... i want to go back..." ...i dont even know what to say... "Hm... well... im still here..." "..." She finally turned back around to face me. "I guess... so dont leave me too..." With her quiet voice... i gently smiled to reassure her, it isn''t bad to be a kind brother sometimes. "I wont." I turn back to face the System window still infront of me. ¡ºMarcen Lostiru LV Err ??Str - Err ??Spd - Err ??Int - Err ??MP - Err Skills ?? E]¡Á=rr ¡ï¡ï¡ï -€~~¡ã !=+/ ?? Translation ¡ï¡î¡î¡î¡î -More Info ?? Punch ¡ï -More info ¡» Hmm... the elephant in the room. "What the hell is an Err?" "Huaam... i dunno, Error?" I turn to see her just staring at me. "Aren''t you going to go sleep? We have a long day ahead." "Okay, fine. Dont ask for my help when i''m ASLEEP!" With that, she turned around again... i have no idea what to do with her. Sighing, i turn to the System again. ''Hmm... lets check the first skill...'' Pressing ''€~~¡ã !=+/'', the information for it was... weird to say the least. ¡ºE]¡Á=rr¡ï¡ï¡ï [Return] (Unupgradeable)The genuine version of this novel can be found on another site. Support the author by reading it there. -¡ð¡ð¡ð¡ð¡ñ¡ð¡ð¡ð¡ñ¡ð¡ð¡ð¡ð¡ð¡ñ¡ð¡ð¡ñ¡ð¡ð¡ð¡ñ¡ð¡ð¡ð¡ð¡ð¡ð¡ñ¡ð¡ð¡ð¡ð¡ð¡ð¡ð¡ã ¡» Okay... what was i thinking... Pressing return, i check the information to the skill below it. ''Hmm... Translation? It must be passive...'' ¡ºTranslation ¡ï¡î¡î¡î¡î [Return] (Upgradable) - Translates languages. (Omitted) ¡» Okay, this is what i can get behind. But it doesn''t say if it is passive or not so... that''s new info i guess. And finally... the most simplest skill name... Punch. Pressing more info on it... ¡ºPunch ¡ï [Return] (Unupgradeable) -Surrounding your fist with MP and release upon contact. -Exponential to your mp stat. -Can change output of MP used. ¡» ...so that''s why i fainted from my sudden loss of MP... and how i was strong enough to punch that orc-... Mratri?... Glitch?... hang on, what do i call it?... ''Hmm... it said Mratri first... it was around Lv 50? Can''t remember, but when i blinked... it was a glitch... they even said it wasn''t dead.'' Soon a realisation came. ''It isn''t dead?... how? I blew off its head with Punch...'' Feeling fatigued from thinking... i lie on the bed, thankfully there was two beds here, and i begin to sleep... ??¡ó? "Wake up!" BANG¨C My morning? You would think it''d be peaceful but nope... "Get off me!" The she-devil decided to jump on my stomach as she woke me up. "? Ah, finally!" As she heard my voice, she got off. "What the hell was that for!" "You wouldn''t get up." ...why is she so smug? "So why did you jump on me!" "Because you wouldn''t wake up, plus this isn''t the first time i did this so what''s the problem?" ...I''m going to Punch her in the stomach soon. "Well, back then, you weren''t FAT!" "...what did you just say?" ¡ð ¡ð ¡ð What are two things you should never say to a girl? One, their age! Only if they are old. Two, their weight! I learned that the hard way... "Hmpf..." My cheeks are redder than a tomato as i rub my puffed face. "Owmph..." I began to speak, even if it was muffled. "Owkphey. Mwhe nwheeth tho thinth a mway owth oth thith pulaeth." "H-hm? C-could you r-repeat that? P-pft..." "...nwo." Hearing her stifled laughs... i could only hold myself back. I began to walk out of our room as it was only for one night. "Wait for me!" I heard her footsteps from behind me as she sprinted towards me. We kept walking and soon we passed the front desk. "Please come again!" "Thank you." Walking out... our situation hit me in the face. "Hang on... how are we going to find a way out?" "I thought you knew." My sister bluntly decided to point out. "Well i guess we first need to summon that guy... i guess." We began walking towards... anywhere i guess. "Who?" "Y''know... that guy. Blindfold? Robot arms? Wings? Crown symbol?" Passing by alot of people giving us weird stares... probably due to our clothes. "Oh! I just call him J." "...why?" "Because of that sick robot show and its MC! J-0N!" We keep walking through until we reach a place the people we met before recommended, ''The International Association of Adventuring Licensing ''... "Uh bro... is this really an adventurers guild?" "It is... as those three said, it is an ''Adventurers guild...''" "Adventurers guild? This sounds more governmental with its name." "Ofcourse you would complain about a name..." We opened the front door to reveal a roster of weird looking people... ofcourse we were the weirdest with how we were dressed. "Sis, c''mon." She decided to shuffle closer to me as i called her to follow me. Feeling the stares, we could see almost everyone staring at us. Finally, we make it to the front desk. The receptionist looked very professional. "Welcome to the International Association of Adventuring Licensing... what can i do for you?" Her voice was very monotone but held an air of composure and power. "Hello, we came to get an adventuring license." "Age? You two look a little young." "Ah... what is the legal age?" She raised an eyebrow at my question. "The legal age to obtain an adventuring licence is eighteen." "Ah, well i just turned eighteen and didn''t know what the age limit was." She took out a document and pen. "Just sign here and i can issue a badge for you... will she be considered an apprentice to you then?" Apprentice? Badge? This is all so different to what i imagined... but i just have to play along. "...yes, thats correct." "Alright then, the age for an apprenticeship to an adventurer is twelve and over, how old are you?" "Hm?" She was definitely not focused as she turned to face her as she noticed she was staing at her. "She asked what your age is..." I word it so that it just seemed like she wasn''t listening. "Ah, thirteen!" "?" The receptionist tilted her head. "Oh, she said thirteen. We came from a different country." "Ah, understood, well all she has to do is to sign her name underneath yours." I hand her the pen and tap the spot under my name, i think i gave her enough hints. "...?" Clearly not. "Your name..." Whispering to her, i continue to tap at the spot quietly. ". . .oh!" She signed her name at the spot where i tapped. "Alright sir, here is your full Adventurers Badge, you will start of at G rank and climb up the ranks by completing quests at the quests. Be advised that if you do not complete any quests in a three month time period, you will have your licence revoked and will have to pay a fine." She sounded so boring... but the information was necessary, i guess if we haven''t found a way out of this place in three months that is. She handed me a badge with the letter G on it. "And here is your apprentice badge. There is no inactivity period for your badge as you will be under Mr Lostiru as if his license if revoked then yours will too." She handed the less designed and smaller badge with a pluss sign on it to Emily. Ofcourse she took it, while being confused. "Thank you and come again." "Goodbye." After slightly bowing my head, i began to leave with Emily as she followed me from behind. "Translator, what did she say?" "She said that your badge has no time period of inactivity." "...english?" "You don''t have to do any quests for yours to be revoked." She looked shocked. "S-so yours can?" "Yeah, if i dont do a quest for three months, then i will get my badge revoked, that includes yours since you are my ''apprentice.''" "Apprentice? Who agreed on that!" "Oh, forgot to say, eighteen us is full adventurers while twelve to seventeen have to be apprentices, like an L driver!" "...urgh." "Dont be like that. All we have to do now is find a way out of here, first lets find information..." "How? Like a library?" "I guess thats a start." ??¡ó? ''J'' was sitting alone on a throne, the surrounding was split in half as beside him was another throne. "Oh my Sol... where are you..." ''J'' spoke as he rested his chin on his hand. Suddenly, he could hear something. ¡¸DETECTED¡¹ "Is it more of those who wish to be real?" ¡¸CORRECT¡¹ "Sigh... how many more must i fight... until my Sol can come back." Begin.Recollection鈥怲ro鈥擡RROR Nononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononono¨C Existing... wishwishwishwish ¡¸ERROR DETECTED¡¹ CREAK¡ª A white door opens in the middle of space. "Damn it... another one." Looking up, he sees stars flickering in and out of existence. "Open console." ¡¸HELLO NARRORATOR¡¹ "Status of curroption... Location, U 53." ¡¸UNIVERSE 53 - Clich¨¨s detected : 482 - Potention Leads : 5 - Corruption rate : 32% - Potential Genres : Romance, Shonen, Sci-fi. - Potential for Disturbance : 8%¡¹ "Hm..." Putting his hand on his chin, he looks up at the corruption. "What to do, what to do..." While thinking of a solution, he notices a glint in the area he''s looking at. "What the hell is that." Gliding to the left, a giant spike-like object flies onto where he once was. The area where the tip was started to change, turning impossible. "Found you." As he grabbed onto it, the spike retreated back up. Holding on tight, he was dragged along with it as the door closed... vanishing. ¡ð ¡ð ¡ð Finally, after some time, he reached the edge of what could be considered the edge of a universe. A regular border is perfectly clear and strong, this one has multiple holes in it, seemingly due to the constant assault. He lets go of the spike as it leaves the border. "Alright then, let''s see which concept is causing it now." He looks through one of the holes.The story has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation. ¡¸Geocentrisism.¡¹ - Belief that the earth is the center of the universe. Ofcourse. Its body ever-changing, a characteristic of a concept that was never meant to exist. It stands in the Inbetween of inbetweens, the outside of the universes. "Well, i guess i have to do this myself." ?¡ª?¡ª?¡ª?¡ª?¡ª?¡ª?¡ª?¡ó? Walking through the town aimlessly like always, my brother had that same dumb expression. "Its been three days!" "So." "When are we going to get out like you said!" "Uh... i dunno." That head looks mighty slapable. Continuing our walk, we reach a building. "Where is this?" "A Guild." Looking at him with an ''what the hell is that?'' Expression. "You thought i was doing nothing this entire time?" "Yes." "...well, a guild is like a corporation." He began explaining it to me as we walking inside. "You need an adventuring license to register in one." "Uhuh..." "Then you can do quests on the board, like a fantasy. Once you finish a quest, the guild logs it to the IAAL for you." "IAAL?" "The International Association of Adventuring Licensing." "Oh." When we entered, it felt like a bustling subway. "Hold on." Grabbing my hand, we began winding through the crowds and made it to the reception. "Sialap, ye awq rad meg uita bor?" ¡õ?¡ó? "Hello, what can i do for you?" Making it to the reception, the receptionist began to talk as we stood there. "Yes, we would like to join." "Understood, you wish to join the Peerless Heights Guild?" "Yes, i am a G rank and she is my apprentice." "Understood, have you ever been in other guilds?" "No." "Have you been arrested before?" "No." "Have you any other information that we would need?" "I think that''s all of it." "Understood, just sign here." After the questions, she took out a paper and handed it over to me. "Does she need to sign too?" Pointing to my sister, she shook her head. "Your apprentice does not need to sign if she has consented." "Ah, ok." After signing, we headed to the board. "Did''nt you say we wouldn''t be doing quests because we would be leaving before the three months?" "That was before i realized we have no money." "How could you realize that now?" "Whoopsies." "Urgh, hurry up and choose one." Impatient as always, she urged my to pick on faster. "Why dont you help me out?" The face she made, it made me question my own intelligence. "Scratch that, lets just get a simple G difficulty quest." Taking one of the papers that had a G difficulty question. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡²G rank difficulty¡³ Help! I need to get someone to help me with selling at my stand :( Location - Uniea Street, Apple stand. Reward - 10cc ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª "What is it?" "Just being an employee..." Deciding to choose this one, we headed back to the reception. I place the quest down on the desk. "Will this be the one you choose?" "Yes." "Alright." She stamped it with a big ''I''. "Once you are done, return with proof and iwill stamp it again." "Alright." "Bro, hurry up!" Hearing my sister call me, i turn around as i grab the paper off the desk. "Coming!" We both head out the door. "Alright then, where are we going?" "Somewhere called Uniea street." "Where is that?" "I don''t know." She starts to look more pissed. "Let''s go looking then." We began asking around¡ªas in, me only¡ªand soon we found it. Alot of stalls were set up so we had to find one that sold apples. "Hang on... there are five apple stalls." She pointed out as i noticed afterwards. "Well i''ll go ask around." She followed me around as i began asking each stall. "Oh yeah, that girl, she is right over there." Thankfully, everyone knew who put up the quest. "Alright sis, lets begin working." We headed to where i guy pointed. ¡õ¡õ¡ó? Bodies strewn around, ''J'' sat on his thrown. Infront of him, a few meters away, was a woman... Her head was a miniature star with an eye in the middle of her head, her body gaseous as it carries astroids, a blackhole in the middle of her stomach and a ring encapsulating her head. She holds the body of... Geocentrisism. "Sol, it is nice to see you..." "Tuero..." Her eye narrows. "Are you finally ready to return...?" "You already know the answer." "For you are my other side, so why?" She lets go. "Do not say that. You, who fired and attacked me, have no right to say that." "It was a mistake. Please come back." "No, i need to help someone." She turns and leaves. "I guess I''ve become no different than you... Tuero." With those final words, she left ''J''¡ªknown as Tuero?¡ªalone as he slopes down. ¡õ¡õ¡õ? While helping my brother with carrying more apples to the stand, i see... ¡¸HELLO [USER]¡¹ "..." "Whats wrong?" "???????" My brother noticing my face, asks me a question while i couldnt even understand what was going on. ¡¸COLLECTING DATA¡¹ "I-its that thing... the e-error detected thing! B-but it''s saying that its collecting data...?" "..." My brother also made the same shocked face as me. Begin鈥擡rror鈥擱esetImminent "So you... have a system?" "Yeah!" "Can you see mine too?" I summon my System "Hmm, nope." "Okay so it only shows to the user, finally go that theory out of the way." We walked out of the guild after cashing out our reward. We found a peaceful spot to sit down. She sat on the right side while i sat on the left. "So you could understand the receptionist?" "Oh, definitely!" She said, finally being able to understand with the ''Translation'' skill. "This world sure is different to our world." "Where did that come from? Are you okay bro?" "No, like, im being serious." We began to have a chat, no insults or banter. A proper conversation. "Your level is 13?" "Yeah." "Mine is still stuck at ''Err'' so i have no idea." "...do you miss home?" "Miss? No, not really." "Why?" "Why should i? It seemed to already be destroyed." "Y-you dont know that!" "You said that our parents were ''not our parents but were our parents.'' Does sound like a proper sentence?" "No, it was the best description i had for it!" "Fine then... it reminds me of what that ''thing'' looked like." "What thing?" "That orc, yknow?" "Oh! Yeah, yeah. Now that i realize it... my description of our parents sounds just like what that orc thing looked like!" "What if it could be an infection?" "Then wouldn''t we also be infected?" "We could." ¡ºStatus - Normal¡» "Huh, well i guess we arent." "How do you know?" "My system just showed me my status." "Status? Like your stats and stuff?" "No, what i currently am afflicted with." "I think i understand." We stop at a random bench after getting tired. She sat on the left as i sat on the right. "...why do you not care about our world probably being destroyed?"The tale has been illicitly lifted; should you spot it on Amazon, report the violation. "If it happened, then it happened." She remains silent as if taking in my words, her face looked conflicted. "Are you feeling okay?" "Never better, infact." She slowly began to look at the setting sun and the rising moon. "You... you changed." "What? What is that supposed to mean?" "You seem more distant than usual, like you''ve lived a life before..." "I dont know what you mean. How can i change so quickly?" "Man... i don''t know!" Soon, i also look up at the... the bright sky...? "Hey sis?" "Let me guess... isnt it supposed to be... night?" "Y-yeah... why is the sun coming up." "Real question... why is it getting bigger!" With her shouting, i grab her hand and begin sprinting out of there. "It looks like the entire town is in its range!" "Just keep running!" I shut my mouth as i keep running, feeling the heat intensify with each step. We are so close, a couple more meters and we will make it. CR¡ª hE TrIpS??? ACK¡ª "Oof!" Following behind me, my sister falls ontop of me. "Damn it." "What are you doing! Lets get up! We can still make it!" She screams as she stands up and tries to tug me up. "We cant and you know it." Strangly, i felt calm... Calmer than ever before... "I-i dont want to die!" BOOOOOM¡ª It burns... It burns so much... Yet why am i calm? "Emily... wake up." After a few seconds, she doesnt answer. "Fine then." Grabbing her hand, i slowly walk through the flames and throw her unconscious body out of this flaming ball. Soon, i also make it out of the flames. ¡ºYou have died¡» "What?" ¡ºE...e-e-e-e-ERROR!!!!!!¡» ¡¸ERROR DETECTED¡¹ "...not you..." ¡¸BEGIN ERROR CORRECTION¡¹ "stop..." I felt our time stop as everything around me and my sister are frozen. Vrrrm!- Vrrrm!- Hearing motorcycle revs in the distance, the thing sent one more chilling message. ¡¸ERROR¡¹ ??¡ó? Waking up in the forest again... i first look around and see my brother still unconscious... "...what the?" I check if i still have my system with me. ¡ºEmily Lostiru LV 13 ?? Str - 8 ?? Spd - 10 ?? Int - 12 ?? MP - 7 Skills ?? Translation ¡ï¡î¡î¡î¡î - More Info¡» ...i still have it? "Haaa.." Letting out a sigh, i notice how tired i am. I wasnt tired when i first came here... "...whats going on..." I was so tired... so so tired. Why was i dragged along in this whole thing... I am so fucking tired of it all. "I miss everyone..." Looking at my unconscious brother, i tried to look for the positives... but it''s getting harder... ¡õ?¡ó? "...urgh..." Waking up, the first thing i see is my sister curled up against a tree. She realizes im awake after lifting her head up. "Finally!" She looks fine. "Are you okay?" "I''m fine, okay?." "If you say so, Em." Getting up, i brush myself off and hearing the screams again, i decide not to go there again. "Still, its so loud." "What is?" "Those screams." "You mean those three that helped us?" "Yeah." She looked shocked. "What! We have to go help them!" "No, we cant go to that town if it gets destroyed." "Still! We can save them and bring them with us! They left the town too!" "Hmm... alright then." After thinking it out, i agree with her. Taking her hand, i begin sprinting to the screams again. She seemed to have an easier time running with me, even though i had to slow down still. Finally reaching our destination, we see them fighting normally. Were early. "So... we went back in time... like with what happened to our world?" "Seems like it." "Then... would this world also get destroyed?" "I dont know. Probably." "But that thing says Mratri still. You said it was saying Glitch?" "We''re early, thats why." While waiting, i noticed the Mratri acting weird, it seems the three also noiced as they backed off. The Mratri didn''t attack the retreating three as it roared in agony. Its body began to look wrong as, now I''ve seen what its supposed to look like, fangs looked longer and its fur began to be more ''drawn on'' as it changes. Soon, after a while of this continuous cycle... my system sent a notification. ¡ºGlitch LV??¡» Its begun again. ¡õ¡õ¡ó? A man walks through the corridor of a castle. The outside is a marvel of colours and random pieces of anything. He walks with meticulous precision while. He straightened his suit as he reaches the throne room. Two thrones sit side by side, one empty and the other occupied. "Why have you come now." The Ruler speaks. "Kruno Truelo." "Speak." "Help me stop the Leader of them." The Ruler laughs, he stands up. "You dare come to me? Gaurdian of the Wall and Door" "If you don''t, then he will come after you." "Narrorator, you abandoned the saftey of The Multiverse when you decided to Reboot the Console once more." "I know i did. And in doing so, i brought you back." His confidence unbridled as he walks closer to The Ruler. "Yes, you brought me back... and you also started this mess." "You know well that i need you to stop him." "Me? Fix your own mistakes, Narrorator. You abandoned your title of Order and became a Narrorator for that good for nothing shut in-" "DO NOT SPEAK ABOUT HIM THAT WAY!" Snapping back, the Narrorator takes a deep breath before continuing. The Ruler didn''t care about his outburst however. "Kruno Truelo, The Concept of Time, you must help me in stopping Para. Stop him from causing a meeting between ¡õ¡õ¡õ¡õ¡õ¡õ and Marcen." "Fix your own mistakes Narrorator." "It was a mistake coming here then." Turning around, he leaves as The Ruler sits back down on his throne. Begin.Plan-Formulate1 "Go now!" She whispers to me as its done changing "Yeah, hang on." The glitch began attacking, first slow then it began to speed up. When it was about to hit one of them... Tralio, i decided it was time now. Charging forward, I attacked the glitch. "!" Similar to the past(?), killing it was easy. Strangly i didnt faint this time. "Thank you, saviour!" "No worries, is everyone okay?" "Ah, yes, thanks to you." Everyone seemed okay. Hearing my sister run up from behind me, where the foliage was, she slapped my head. "Ow." It didn''t hurt. "Oh? Who is this girl?" Rilatia asked. "Could she be a Mutated Kooroki?" Slapping his head... its basically what my sister told me what happened while i was unconscious. While this was happening, i wasnt listening, i turned my head to the dead body. "Let''s begin butchering the Mratri now." Before Tralio could go forward, i put my arm out front. "What are you doing, saviour?" He glances at me with confusion. The dead bidy began convulsing. I could see it get back up as its body changed. The best description is... wrong. It was wrong... I checked its name again but... ¡ºNot Enough Authority¡» Authority...? Then, it looked at me. Its eyes were too long, its fur was off, its mouth was small and its proportions were wrong. That wasn''t the worst part... my mind. ''Realrralrealrelwlrllwrl...'' It trailed off, the word becoming more ruined... It seems no one else can hear it, its in my mind. I punched it again and it went flying away... i went too far. I was fainting again. But i couldn''t...Find this and other great novels on the author''s preferred platform. Support original creators! Holding onto my counscious with everything, i fight the urge to close my eyes. "W-whoa! Ritai! Did you see that!" "I-i did..." Both of them were in awe... "Bro, why the hell did you do that?" I didn''t know why, i punched it because my body moved on its own. Remaining silent, i turn to face my sister. She looked... conflicted, why? ??¡ó? We were walking somewhere. Where? Well, not that town. How did my brother do that... How did he punch that thing away... Is he my brother...? "So, you are his sister?" Ritai said to me... i could understand them. "O-oh, yeah!" I could finally speak to them. "You must be proud that he is your brother." "...i-i guess." "No need to be shy." Was i proud? When i look at him, i dont really see my brother... We continued to walk, my brother was being carried with that floaty magic, he fainted. We decided to camp in what they called ''An Open Rest.'' "What is an open rest?" "Ah, you must be from an area with little foliage?" Ritai asked me while setting a barrier. "I guess." "Well, An Open Rest is an area where there are no monsters. You can tell when you see a symbol of The Monster Research and Safety Association." "O-oh, Okay." More bureaucracy i guess. "The only real problem are people." Potar said from behind me, setting up the campfire. "Thats why we have her setting up barriers when we rest." "I do that everytime we rest! Its good safety!" They began bickering again. ¡ð ¡ð ¡ð They''re all asleep now... except me. I lay on my bedding that im sharing with Ritai. ''Am i proud...?'' I began thinking. ''He doesn''t feel like my brother...'' I slap my cheek. ''Stop thinking like that!'' Looking at my brother, i check his stats. ¡ºMarcen Lostiru LV Err¡» ''See? Phew...'' Even i know that didn''t do anything. I still felt doubtful... because of those three letters... ''Err...'' I look up... the stars really are beautiful but they aren''t the stars i know... Closing my eyes, i begin to sleep. ¡õ?¡ó? Opening my eyes, i wake up in a forest maybe a camp with everyone packing up the camp. "Hm? Ah! Saviour!" Tralio was the first to notice me awake. "Bro?" With his voice, came another, my sister looked at me. She was helping them pack up. I stand up and also help pack up. "Ah, please rest, you are our saviour." Me? Im no saviour. "I''ll help." I ignore his protest as i begin helping aswell. With my help, it went quicker and we began walking. "We''re close to my home town!" Pomator spoke as we passed a river. "Well we aren''t going there, are we?" Rilatia said as he looked at her map. "How do you do magic?" My sister asked her question. "Magic is using the essence of the world, to shift and change it to what you need." "You say some dumb words and it just works." Bam! Rilatia swings her rod at Pomator. He grabs his stomach in pain. "Both of you. Stop." The same stern voice spoken by Tralio. "She hit me though!" "Potar, go to the back with me." Tralio ordered Potamor. It''s going to be a long walk. ¡õ¡õ¡ó? Walking to the end of the corridor, The Ruler opens the door to reveal a giant round table with many other Concepts sitting around. "Ruler." One of then spoke up. "Shepard." He replies as he sits down. "Why is The Lost still not found." "You speak as if i would ever do that type of work." One of them stands up as he slams his hand on the desk. "Ruler! You are the one closest to what The Lost is!" "Worried, i truly do not care. My work is my own, why should i listen to you." The Worried curls his hand into a fist as he hears his reply. "Do you understand! We all agreed! Except for you and The Wiley One! We all agreed to help the Narrorator!" The ruler sneered. "You all must''ve been under the impression that i would help someone who betrayed me." "Get over it!" The Ruler shot a glance at The Question. "You all grew too soft." With that final remark, he stands up and leaves the room. The Worried sits back down as he lets out a sigh. "What do we do... The Lost has started their plan." "This was a mistake coming here, we couldn''t convince The Ruler to help. I''ll take my leave." The Breaking stood up and left the room. "I''ll also go. Goodbye Worried." The International followed The Breaking. Soon, everyone left, leaving the room empty once more. ¡õ¡õ¡õ? The Hero fights a horde of demons. "Trozia!" A mage manufests a shield behind him as it blocks a claw from a flying demon. "Thank you greatly Elipsia!" An arrow flies by her head as it hits a demon. "Ah!- dont do that if you can''t even use a bow properly Yarren!" "Im trying to branch out! Using a dagger is annoying!" The man with a bow dives into the shadows as he apears from behind another demon and stabbed its heart. "These poor creatures... i shall give you rest." A girl in the middle of the three began praying as light began to shine brightly from her. Everyones injuries healed as their stamia refilled. She staggered abit but was held up by Elipsia. "Jeez Iris, you need to calm down on your fanaticism, haha." They both chuckled as the other two delt with the rest with new vigor. The Heros party continued their jounrey. Begin.Plan-Formulate2 Walking through the forest, the group continue walking. "Ritai!" "Oh my god... what!" I fear the day those two stop bickering. "How much time is left!" "Why not just shove it!" I should not have let my sister talk me into saving them. "Yo bro." "What." "Doesn''t that remind you of us!" What? No. No way, we do not look like that when we fight. "No." "Well, you think what you like." She seemed slightly mad? Oh well. We continued walking for a few more hours until i could see a town in the horizen. "We''re here!" Rilatia said joyfully as she stopped casting that magic map. "This is... that rats home town, we will only be visiting that place for now because we have more important things to do afterwards." Hearing an insult directed towards him, Pomator looked like he was about to speak up but stopped as soon as he saw Tralios face. "Well... the town is called Worae! It has beautiful views and amazing food!" "Its a countryside village. Nothing special." I could feel the anger inside Pomator exude out as we walked. Finally, we made it to the village. "Worae! I have returned!" Pomator excitedly spoke as he raised his hands into the air. When the surrounding villagers saw him, they all reflexively looked petrified and annoyed at the same time. "They all love me!" Pomator said to us as he turned his head to us. "That nightmare is back!" Hearing a random persons call out, i saw his face slowly grow cold... ouch. We decided to split up, me and my sister while the three do some business before we head out again. "We will come back here around the same time tommorow to continue, okay?" "Alright big sis!" "See you later Em!" Those two seemed to have gotten closer. Soon they said their goodbyes and as we began walking. "Could''ve atleast said goodbye to them..." I inwardly sighed as i heard her words. "It wouldn''t have mattered anyways, it seems that we are stuck in a loop of sorts." "Well atleast we saved them." Reaching a nice bench to sit, she sits on the left as i sit on the right. "It was still unnecassary." Speaking bluntly, i looked at the sky as it sets into a chilly night. "And why? Huh?!" Hearing her sudden outburst, my mind freezes. Finally, i snap out of it as i reply. "Because if what i theorize is correct, then it wouldn''t matter if we save them or not, we would just come back." "Then what is this so called theory? Huh?!" "We come back after dying." She looked like she was about to scream at me again but stopped as she began to think. "Hold on... no, that wouldnt make sense... would it? No..." Hearing her mumbles, i put my hands behind my head as i waited for her to reply. "Yeah... yeah! It''s impossible! What about the times before we came to this place!"The story has been illicitly taken; should you find it on Amazon, report the infringement. Finally hearing her answer, I shrugged. "Well, i did say it was just a theory." "Fine then, hmpf..." There she goes, pouting like a kid. "Enough of that." "No!" "I need to tell you the plan." "The plan? Oh right! The plan to escape!" "Exactly." "Well tell me then!" She seemed more impatient. "Simple, we help the demon lord with destroying the world." ". . .what?" The disbelief on her face added onto her confused voice. "Yeah, we will join the demon lord and with his help, we will destroy the world and hop through the gap caused by it." She was rubbing her head with her hand as she tried to understand why i said this. "Im sorry... did you say that correctly?" What was so hard to understand? "You heard it correctly." "What is that dumb plan!" "This is not our world, our people or our families." "But they are still real!" "So was our world and yet it was destroyed. It does not matter." Standing up, i begin to walk away. ??¡ó? ... ''What did he say? He would just destroy the world for us to get out?'' I take a deep breath. ''Everyone i met... i-i dont know if he is my brother anymore...'' As i slowly exhale, i stand up and begin to follow him. Finding the three again, my brother told them that we should split apart here or something, i wasn''t listening. Looking somewhere as my mind wonders, i see a beautiful looking mountain©\...the mountain just disappeared? H-hey bro? I turn to face him but that''s when i realized that there was nothing around me... What the hell? I couldn''t speak... Thats when i saw it, a man that looks almost identical to my brother, slowly walking towards me. Each step was agonisingly slow. S-system! ¡ºNot Enough Authority¡» ...what? Soon, it stood infront of me. "H...e...a...r...t..." Its voice was so slow, its body was of my brother, he outstretched his hand and put his finger on my forehead. ?? ¡¸ERROR DETECTED¡¹ ¡¸ERROR DETECTED¡¹ ¡¸ERROR DETECTED¡¹ ¡¸ERROR DETECTED¡¹ ¡¸ERROR DETECTED¡¹ ¡¸ERROR DETECTED¡¹ ¡¸ERROR DETECTED¡¹ ¡¸ERROR DETECTED¡¹ ¡¸ERROR DETECTED¡¹ ¡¸ERROR DETECTED¡¹ ¡¸ERROR DETECTED¡¹ ¡¸ERROR DETECTED¡¹ ¡¸ERROR DETECTED¡¹ ¡¸ERROR DETECTED¡¹ ¡¸ERROR DETECTED¡¹ ¡¸ERROR DETECTED¡¹ A wall of pure white. _| Then, words began to appear. Begin.Error-Attempt1| ... ? I wanted to vomit after being forced to see whatever that was... then, the system began to act weirdly ¡ºNot Enough Authority¡» ¡ºNot Enough Authority¡» ¡ºNot Enough Authortiy¡» It felt like my mind was being crushed as it continued to repeat itself. My nose began to bleed as i could feel blood coming up my throat. ¡ºAuthority Detected¡» Soon, it stopped as the man sent a single spark towards me, it wasn''t painful. I wanted to ask its name but all it did was put its finger over its mouth, it somehow knew what i wanted to say. "P...a...r...a..." Soon, everything appeared again as he disappeared. My brother holding my hand as we walk out of the city. "What the?" "Oh, you''re back." "W-why are we going now?!" "What? What the hell do you mean." "You told them we would split up and then just leave?!" "That was a day ago." ...a day ago? "We left after we rested, you looked really out of it." How? What? When? "Let go!" Yanking my hand free, i realized he wasn''t putting any grip into my hand, like guiding me instead of forcing me. He turned around... and his resemblance to that man was so unnatural, it left me doubtful again. "Alright fine. Dont lost track." He began walking as i followed suit. ¡õ?¡ó? "Im so tired!" Trozia said as he drooped down. Elipsia just laughed as she kept floating while Yarren was groaning. Iris stayed quiet. Now that they stopped fighting, you could clearly see what they looked like. Trozia had armour fitting a warrior, although not very heroic as his messy black also drooped, fitting his mood, his brown eyes has a glow to it. Elipsia had a regular clothing but she had a reason to do so, her robe had many enchantments she herself added making the robe very sought-after with her hat large enough to block her brown flowing hair the sun from her red eyes. Yarren was had slightly more muscles than Trozia as he had no armour and focused more or streamline and slick clothing covering his tanned body, he had two daggers on each waist as he finally got rid of that bow, his hood covering his black hair and eyes. Iris had light yellow eyes with platinum hair, her body covered in a modest manner, she constantly looks relaxed unless you were a demon. While they were walking, they see a Mratri. "Finally! Some action!" Trozia, without waiting, sprinted ahead as he unsheathed his sword. "Wait! The Mratri looks off!" Before he could register that word, the ''Mratri'' grabbed him from the air. "He- help!" As he said that, Elipsia sighed as she shot an arrow made of ice. "Although it looks off, it should just be a regular Mratri." She was wrong, it let the arrow hit it as Trozia started screaming. "Foul beast, i shall teach you the truth." Iris began to channel Divine energy into the surrounding air as the beast grows weaker. Yarren shoots out of a shadow behind it as he slashed its legs to offset its balance. It did not care as it kept doing whatever to the screaming man. "Damn it!" He moved back into the shadows as he retreated. After he left, a barrage of light began to assault it while moving around Trozia. More injuries piled up but it did not stop. Elipsia began to chant a massive spell but before she could finish she gets pushed away by Yarren as the two roll on the ground. "What the hell are you doing!" "Saving your ass!" When she heatd that, she looked at where she ince was to see... a slash mark? Iris ran towards them as she uttered some news Elipsia didn''t want to believe in. "Trozia seemed to have attacked us!" Quickly turning her head to face Trozia... she saw the dead Mratri with him standing ontop with a sword. He looked wrong... uncanny. "I am Trozia!" "...what?" "I am Trozia!" Elipsia and Yarren got up as all three of them heard Trozia(?) "I am Trozia!" "Troz? Are you okay?" Iris asked nervously. "I am Trozia!" "I am Trozia!" "I am Trozia!" "I am Trozia!" "I am Trozia!" "I am Trozia!" "I am Trozia!" "I am Trozia!" "I am Trozia!" "I am Trozia!" "I am Trozia!" Its outburst as its own voice overlapped with itself. It raises its sword upwards as it readys an attack. "Everyone... move!" Yarrens yell snapped both of the other two out as he grabbed Elipsia and Iris out of the way. With a downard slash, the area where they were was cut with a deep gash towards the ground. "Lets go!" Yarren grabbed both of their hands as he jumped into a shadow. "Yarren! We need to get Troz!" "That thing stopped being Troz! Your smart Ellie so think!" The three escape as Trazio is left there, smiling... The dead body of the Mratri begins to rot exceedingly fast causing the surrounding area to change and shift... to become corrupted and glitch. Trazio(?) Begins walking to walk into the dense forest as he mumbles. "I am Trozia..." ¡ö¡ö¡ö¡ö¡ö¡ö¡ö¡ö¡ö¡ö¡ö¡ö¡ö Every ten chapters im going to do a little sneakpeak or a skill explanation! Spades - ?????? (Upgradable) The power of your mind is equal to the power of your army... what else can you do? Ofcourse there is more than meets the eye but this is a sneakpeak to something more! Begin.Formulate-Step1 We began to move towards completing the first step. "I still don''t want to do this." "Is there a better way?" With my words, she returned to being silent while following close behind me. "Listen Emily, we need to escape this place. This world, universe, worldview or whatever you call it. Trust me." As i tried to reassure her, she looked away as she sighed. "Fine fine..." "Alright then." We continued to walk. She mainly walked on the left side while i mainly walked on the right side. Our plan was simple. Find a way to join the demon lords army and help with destroying the world. "What if we cant escape..." "We will." "How can you be so sure? Huh?" ...how could i be so sure? Although i feel extremily calm, i am extremely confident that we won''t die from the destruction of the world. "Just believe me." "...w..l.i....g.t..n..h..d..t..." "What?" "Nothing." I couldn''t hear what she said but she seemed really down. "Dont worry, if we are safe then it will be oka-" Getting interrupted, the shadow of a tree next to where i am suddenly popped out three people as they crashed into me, as if they were diving. CRASH¡ª "Damn it Yarren! We have to go back!" "Go back?! Did you not see it! Troz is gone!" "Both of you, please calm down." "Iris! You have to convince him!" "Ellie... you know it too, he is gone." Who the hell were these three? While being burried beneath the arguing trio¨CThe new arguing trio¨Cmy sister was standing there in shock. "I-... please Yarren... he isn''t gone... please..." "Ellie, he wouldn''t want you to be like this. Lets g- huh?" Finally, i raisee my hand while being burried. "Excuse me." With my voice, all three of them finally noticed my presence and slowly got off me as they huddle together. "...?" "..." "...!" "...?" They began to mumble to eachother which i couldnt even hear, i did notice their clothes. One looked like a rouge while the other had the average religious clothing with the last looking like a mage. "Can any of you explain what happened?" My sister finally spoke up as she stood beside me.The narrative has been illicitly obtained; should you discover it on Amazon, report the violation. "Ah! Sorry for the intrusion, we were trying to escape something." The one who spoke up first was the religious looking girl. "And what was that thing." "...we don''t know, it was our friend but not him... he was-... that Mratri did something to him." Hearing those descriptions coming from the mage and the word Mratri added... I decided to prod deeper. "What did the Mratri look like?" "It was off, like a kids drawing of a Mratri that became more realistice." Yeah, we can all agree that i am not saying what i did. Highly likely that thing was the Glitch i punted. Glancing at my sister, i also noticed her slow realization as she looked at me... we both knew what to do and stayed quiet. "Who are you all though." Deciding to break the ice. My sister began to question them... hang on, why does she look like she trusts them more than me?! "Right, we forgot to tell you. I am Iris." Getting elbowed from the side, the rogue looking guy got the message. "Yeah yeah, Im Yarren and she©\" Pointing to the girl beside him. "-is Elipsia." Elipsia looked slightly worse. She looked mentally worse to be specific. "And the friend who didn''t look like the friend?" "Oh... h-his name was Trozia..." Better safe than sorry, we need all the information. "Well the town is that way, good bye." After pointing to the direction we were walking from, i decided to walk away. "Ehem... right, thank you..." With the Mages goodbye, the three begin to leave. I could hear my sister running to catch up with me. "Wait up!" My head slightly hurt but it didn''t matter. ??¡ó? "I am Trozia!" "I am Trozia!" "I am Trozia!" "I am Trozia!" "I am Trozia!" "I am Trozia!" "I am Trozia!" "I am Trozia!" The shambling Trozia(?)slashed erratically as the marks on the ground caused by the slash became more Corrupted. In the distance, it sees the empire it was appointed the hero, well... the body, it slowly walked closer and closer to the Holy Empire of Conolea. ¡ð ¡ð ¡ð The Demon Lord sat in a meeting with her four generals. "My Lord! We must attack now!" "No! That is too reckless, even for you Emorol! My Lord, we must fortify our borders first!" "Fortifying won''t do anything if the hero comes at us, swords swinging!" "Zzz..." The Demon Lord seemed very annoyed as the three generals argued... the fourth was asleep like always. "Emorol. Harol. Ozy and wake up Melan." "Huh? Oh, huaam!" The fourth, Melan, gently woke up as she stretched. The three were annoyed but became quiet as they waited for the Demon Lord to speak. "Oh yeah, there are sightings of monsters. The people call them ''The Fallen.''" Before the demon lord could speak, Melan spoke first. "...atleast someone had something relatively important to say. We will focus on gather intel and focus on espionage, any news of the hero, Harol?" Harol straightened his position as he heard his name being called. "Yes. Apparently, the hero has also become a ''Fallen'' as Melan has stated, likely a disease. He attacked his own comrades aswell." Hearing that important information, the Demon Lord looked slightly mad. "And you didn''t reveal it until now and instead began to argue like kids?" Hearing the Demon Lords dissapointed voice, the three generals slightly shrank. "Tell me information. Important information." "T-the humans have made alliance''s with the dwarves, elves and dragonfolk... we are at a disadvantage..." Ozy spoke as the Demon Lord looked more unpleased. "Why can things never go my way." "My lord." Melan called out as she leaned back in her chair. "Speak." "I just got new information from one of my spies." Melan said as a sparkle was in her ear. "They say that the damned Holy Empire is... being attacked?" With the new news, the Demon Lord grabbed her head. "Please... stop this headache." "It seems the world is changing, my lord." ¡õ?¡ó? The Ruler was sitting on his throne as a robotic figure was standing infront of him. "J-0N O." "Entity-TheRuler." The robotic figure did a smallbowbefofe continuing to speak. "You must gained some nerves to come face me." "Negative. I came here for Entity-TheRuler to Request-Assistance." "You want ny help." The Ruler had an incredulous expression. "The tool made to control me now seeks my aide? Fine. I shall humour you." "Irony in my Request-Assistance detected. Gratitude for listening." "Just speak." "Concept-Time, Request-Assistance for Entity-TheLost." "Why should i help." "Entity-TheRuler, you know what could happen." "So?" "Multiversal Collapse - 79%. If Entity-TheLost Assists then Multiversal Collapse - 93%." "You want me to help stop the rotting of this corpse?" "The Multiversal Collapse will result in the death of Entity-TheWileyOne." After J-0N O spoke the specific title, The Ruler slammed his fist against the armrest. "Do not speak of her that way. We agreed to our ends." "Agression Level risen. I have crossed the line." "Seems only a robot can understand that." Having calmed down enough, The Ruler continued on. "You, The Had, decided to come to me? You want my aide in redtoring the rotting corpse?" "Self preservation is key, Entity-TheRuler." "You know me answer." J-0N O¨CThe Had¨Cbowed his head before he turned to leave. "Before i exit. May i request the aide of Entity-TheLast?" "Him? Sure, he should be in U23." "Warning: Entity-TheLast has similar code to¡ª" "Silence, i do not care for the details. Leave, J-0N O." "...understood, Request-Assistance denied." J-0N O turned and left without anymore words. When he finally left with a resonating slam of the doors, The Ruler was left alone once more. The Wiley One showing up once would be a miracle, although she showed up once when he was attacked. She was a love The Ruler could not forget. Begin.Formulate-Step2 Continuing to walk, nothing really special happened. Meeting a few lost adventurers, soldiers and even beggers didn''t change much of our walk. Although, I did talk to them as we passed by them. My brother however... he just told me to hurry up. "When is the next town!" I am about to go insane. We have seen nothing but trees. "I don''t know." "Couldn''t we have asked for directions or a map before leaving!" "We could but that would take too long." While walking, we see a trail of people as we pass a cliff. "What is going on there?" "Hm... refugees." "How can you tell?" "I can hear it." "What?" What is that moron saying? "How?" "All i know is that I am a higher level than you." "Fine then." I was tired of asking him questions he won''t even answer properly. He began walking away. "Shouldn''t we be asking them where we are?" "That''s a good idea. Stay here." With that, he jumped down and began to talk. ... Im alone now... I began to hear footsteps from behind. I turned around to face the sounds. A person? He had horns on and red hair. "Ah, hello." He seemed weirdly kind... too kind. "Who are you?" "Me?" He bowed his head. "I am the 5th general." "General?" He tilts his head in confusion as he hears my answer. "Why aren''t you scared?" What does being a general have to do with anything? He looked like a demon too.Find this and other great novels on the author''s preferred platform. Support original creators! "Can you explain?" He chuckles as he hears me question. "It would be my pleasure. I am a general, on of the seven generals in the demon lords army. I am Lucy, the General of Pride." Demon lords army? Isn''t that what we needed to go to? "Wait a minute. My brother is coming back." I quickly glance at my brother returning from down below. "Sis, they said we are near- who are you?" Seeing my brother notice him, he turns more colder than normal. "Please calm down, I come in peace!" The man let out a small chuckle as he bowed. "Who are you." The mans grin slowly faded as my brother repeated his question. "Tough crowd. Well fine, I am Lucy. The General Pride." My brother slowly calmed down as he heard the introduction. "Why are you here then." "Simple. The cryptic bastard told me that you two would help us, the demon army." Shrugging as he becomes cheery again. "Who is this ''Cryptic Bastard'' that told you about us." He became cold again... is he a metronome? "The General Sloth." "Sloth? Isn''t that a sin of laziness?" Hearing my own question, he slightly chuckled as he turned to face me. "Well, half correct! They can see fragments of the future! Well, ''Futures'' so to speak." I tilted my head in confusion. This made no sense. "How though?" "That isn''t the main goal here, Em. They need our help." "So to speak." He added on while chuckling. "Lead the way then." With that, Lucy began to walk away, leading us somewhere as i followed him and my brother. ??¡ó? The Ruler was now watching the view as he waits for someone to enter his office. "This rotting corpse remains disgusting." As he insulted the world, the door opens to see The Candidate of Diamonds. "Kruno!" The Ruler lets out a groan of anoyance as he hears the mans entrance. "Do not call me by my name." "I don''t care about your name problem or whatever! Check this out!" Ignoring The Rulers groaned reply, the Candidate of the Diamonds took out a piece of paper. "I found a piece of the True Name!" Hearing the news, The Ruler turned around and jolted straight towards him. He went so fast that it looked like teleportation. "What Letter." "Woah! Calm down! Its just -N-" "Just N?" "Yeah!" Time still didn''t care as he held his hand out. "Give it to me." "What? No! Give me something of value then!" Sighing. The Ruler removed his blindfold and gave it to him. His eyes were clocks, each tick of the clocks were resounding. "What? This doesn''t even have the same val-..." He stopped speaking as he saw a message appear. ¡ºThe Blinded Lover.¡» ¡ºValue - Higher!¡» "Well then... here you go." Handing the letter of the True Name. He left not a moment later. "One step closer. This corpse won''t be a corpse anymore soon enough." He puts the letter in a chest with four other letters ''¡õ¡õis¡õ¡õnce¡õ'' Just five left as closes the chest. "Someday... the end will come." Stepping away from the chest, he begins to walk back to his desk and sits down. He looks at a small frame on the desk... five people are together and smiling joyfully... he cant help but slightly frown. "This hell will end..." Facing the picture frame downwards, he looks into a small mirror inside of his desk. Putting his hand on his eyes, he cant help but frown. "..." He cant help but feel a slight pain, he ignores a letter with a single symbol on his desk. Exhaling a tired breath, he stands and begins to head out of his office. Leaving his office, he enters his throne room again. Sitting down... he waits. The letters symbol? ''??'' ¡õ¡õ¡ó? The Meeting of the Candidates... The Candidate of Diamonds entered the roon while wearing the blindfold as a bandana. "¡ô, you finally arrived." A man sitting at a round table calls out towards the Candidate of the Diamonds. "Whats up! Like what you see?" Flaunting his new equipment, he sits down... two chairs temain empty with two symbols on each chair. The ¡ô and ?? symboled chairs are taken but the other two... remain empty. "Yo ??... are you sure she has what it takes to become a Candidate?" "She is the closest." The man that looked like Marcen slowly shifted and changed infront of the Candidate of Diamonds... turning back into her original form. A tall lady with black hair as dark as the night, she has eye bags under her dead eyes, her clothes put on crookedly. "I don''t think this is the best way to have the ?? seat taken..." "Trust me ¡ô." Her voice almost cold but most definitely calculative. "She is almost there." Tapping on the roundtable, it glew a bright blue before having an image of a person walking behind to other people. "She is so close... her distrust will grow until one day she will betray her own blood, losing everyone. She... will become the Candidate of Hearts." Begin.Seed-Doubt1 "Are we there yet?" Hearing her question, i ask my own. "Hey, Pride. How much longer." The man at the front turns slightly before looking straight ahead again. "Almost there, my cold company." "How long." Sighing, he held out to fingers. "Two more hours, please be patient." Hearing my sister sigh, I slowly move back to quietly whisper to her. "Are you okay." "Hm? Oh... yeah, thanks for asking." Not believing her answer, i remained quiet. Prying would seem to only hurt her. "Alright then." Nodding, I remained near her. "Hey... bro..." "Yeah." Hearing her call out to me, i glance at her. "How about you...?" "Me?" What is she on abou¨C "Are you okay...?" Oh, simply nodding wouldn''t help her due to her knowing how i lie... hm, im still going to lie but it makes me feel bad... wait, feel...? "Im fine." "...alright then." With the new akward air, i began to move forward, back to the middle to protect her from any sneak attacks this ''Lucy'' might do. Although, he just kept walking without even glancing back. Does he think we arent enemies? Well... back to silently walking again. ¡ð ¡ð ¡ð "Here it is!" Hearing Lucy''s sudden burst, I looked ahead of him to see a giant bustling town with a huge castle in the distance. Am i a megalophobic person? No. Do i feel overwhelmed? No. Is it still cool? Fuck. Yeah. "Welcome, to the demon captial! The area that is equal- no, stronger than the Alliance of Good''s capital! Welcome to Pandenimo!" Sounds like a rip-off some another word. "Lets not get distracted." Reminding everyone, I took the lead this time and headed for the castle. "..t.. c.... a.. ri.g...!" "Le..v... m... al..ne..." "Y.... ..o si...la..!" Obviously, i can hear them mumbling but don''t know what they are talking about.Support the creativity of authors by visiting Royal Road for this novel and more. "C''mon." Turning my head, i stop and slightly raise my voice to get their attention. My sister quickly glances to me before quickly getting to me location. "Lets not seperate. It should be safer." "Alright then, do you worry about if your gonna trip too? Worry wort." Did she have to insult me like that, atleast she hasn''t changed. "Our destination? The castle! Lets go inside so we can make the civilians less frightened..." Me and my sister simultaneously look around us and see the demons¨Cwell, more like civilians¨Cshivering in fear as some even hold their children close by. "Why are they like this?" "Matter of percpective!" My sister and Lucy began to speak to eachother as we walked to the castle. "Shouldn''t me and my brother be scared instead of them?" "Well, what do the demons look like to you?" Hearing that question, my sister slowly glanced around. I also looked around out of curiosity. "They look like... monsters, some with horns and some without, some with wings and some without..." "We may look like monsters but we are still sentient... we are sapient." "Then why did this war even start?" I faintly heard Lucy sighing as he looked around solemnly. "Religion... those fanatics of the ''Holy Empire'' decided us to be the followers of their great evil, they named us ''Devils'' and ''Demons..." We passed some kids who were once playing with a ball, they held it tightly as they waited for us to walk by. "Stripping us of our real species name... to everyone, we are demons, followers and servants of the great evil..." Passing by shops and demons, we make it to the castle. "Follow me, you will meet our lord a later date, first you must meet the one who begged and bribed me to take you here!" He returns cheerful, although not as kuch as before as he urged us to follow him. "Em, stay close." "Im not a kid!" With her sudden defiance, she walked ahead and stood beside Lucy. Sighing, i walked ahead to catch up to her. Passing through winding corridors, we kept on following Lucy as he guided us through the castle. "Here we are! Sloths room!" He barges in as we followed suit. "Yo, Behime!" "What is it... oh, you found them..." Sloth was a girl? She looked disheveled as if she didn''t care about apearances and her eye bags were large... she looked to have a card on her pocket chest? A clubs, i think. "Go away now Pride..." Her manner of speech was so lazily slow, as if she thought it to be a sore to speak properly. "So harsh! Anyways, goodluck you two!" Leaving us behind, he walks out of the room as his footsteps become more faint. Me and my sister look at her, Behime the General Sloth. ??¡ó? The white door opens in a dessert. The Narrorator steps out as he looks around. "So this is where a new hotspot is?" While he continued to look around for any signs of a Corrupted, he noticed a strange energy down below near his feet. "...no way." He remembers what else could give off this type of energy as he picks it up and inspects it. "So thats why..." A letter of the True Name, ''E''. "Even im tempted to eat this and grow stronger." He took a step to the right. BOOM! Where he stood was a giant spike of glass coming from the ground. He looked to where he could feel a connection between the spike and something. ¡¸CONCEPT FOUND¡¹ "..." He could not speak when he saw what type of concept was infront of him... the most pitiful type. ¡¸¡õ¡õi¡õair¡¹ A shattered concept... an unstable concept and... a Corrupted concept... "Damn it..." He readies himself as the crumbling concept continued to attack... it was shedding tears as it attacked. "¡õ¡õ¡õ¡õ¡õ???????" It yelled out a pained scream as it kept attacking and crumbling. The Narrorator kept dodging each spike of glass, shards of glass or even high fast grains of sand. With a kick to the side after getting close enough, The Narrorator felt his foot sink in, too easily perhaps, as It crumbled to dust... "It seemed It was on Its last leg..." Turning around, he walked back to the white door... the inside looked like a whirl of messed up colours. Stepping in, the white door shut itself as it disappeared with the wind. ¡õ?¡ó? The duke, a man of great stature, sat down. His green hair cascading down as he was working on his documents. "Your grace!" His Aide barged in as he looked panicked and stressed, sweating as he reached the front of the dukes desk. "William, what is it for you to have entered my office without permission." The duke spoke as be continued to write, ignoring the panicked aide. "T-the Hole Empire!" The aide began to stutter out a response. "What of it?" "I-it, i-its fallen!" The duke, who was once working, stopped as he put his pen down. He looked at his aide with a serious expression. "Elaborate." "T-the hero!... t-they attacked the Hole Empire!" Words that even the duke found hilarious. "The hero? Do you hear yourself, William. Do not jest, leave." "Y-you do not understand, Your grace! Witness testimony of the refugees state that the hero looked like the hero but acted strange!" "...is there more information.'' The duke, who was annoyed, realized the truth to these words as he became serious again. "They said that anything the hero attacked became just like him, they looked like the people they knew but... they werent, some witnesses say that the hero was rambling." "Do you know what the hero spoke of? It may be that curse." "I-i thought so to but the witness testimony spoke that the hero was yelling three words..." "And those are." "I-i am Trozia..." Begin.Seed-Doubt2 "Who are you." My bro began his questioning of the General Sloth. "I am Behime... yeah." "How are you going to explain this ''Prophecy'' thing Lucy told us." Already hitting hard with the questions? Aye bro? "Simple, i saw it. You would help us destroy the world." "Saw how?" Its my turn to ask the questions! "A vision..." "Can you elaborate please!" This girl is not properly answering! Tapping my foot in annoyance, i continue asking questions with my brother. "What are these visions." "They show me stuff." "How do you get these visions!" "Through the dark..." "How does that work." "A special power i have." "Whats the name of the special power?" "Its called-... I''m sorry but... that is beyond my authority." Authority?... a-authority.... hang on... "This authority? What is i-" "Sis, thats enough." Huh... huh? Huh?! What do you mean! She knows what this authority could be! "...fine!" I get so annoyed that i pout. ??¡ó? My sis pouted. Sigh. "Alright then, why did you call us here." "To help with our mission." "You called us here to help you destroy the world." "Correct." Strange, that is almost the complete opposite of what Lucy, General Pride, spoke of. "We will ask for more information when speaking to the Demon Lord." Her eyes narrowed ever so slightly when i spoke.Unauthorized tale usage: if you spot this story on Amazon, report the violation. "You do not need to... i already spoke about this to The Lord." She seems slightly defensive. "Then we can check with her for more information." She glared at me with annoyance before standing up, the pressure she emitted made standing hard. "What are you doing..." "Will you listen to me? It seems your sister wont last any longer." When she mentioned my sister, i looked to her to see her on the ground trying to breathe. "...fine." "Good. This conversation is private." When i agreed, the pressure disappeared as she put her finger over her lips as she sat back down on her bed. "When the Lord says if you know their goal, just say yes. You want to escape this world, right?" Once i helped my sister up, i nodded. "Then listen." As she finished talking, Lucy opened the door. "Alright guys! The meeting is prepared! Follow me so you can meet our Lord!" Hearing the cheerful voice, i felt almost glad to get out of there. "Stop barging in." "Oh shush Behime!" We followed Lucy out of Behime''s room as she closed the door behind us. ¡õ?¡ó? "...¡ô, stop hiding." Hearing the footsteps fade, the Candidate of Spades began to speak while laying on the bed lazily. "Pft, what was all that about ???" The Candidate of Diamonds, still wearing the blindfold as a bandana, came out of a mirror. "¡ô, what do you think of the girl, is she fit for becoming ??? I believe so." "Hm? Oh yeah, if we consider the benefits only, she would almost become ??." The Candidate of Spades raised an eyebrow when the Candidate of Diamonds began only speaking of benefits. "And the negatives?" "O-oh... the negatives?" The Candidate of Diamonds looked away slightly. "What of the Losses." "Well... if we continue our plan, she would become very dependent on us... she also has a clean heart, making it harder for us to continue our grander plan. I suppose she isn''t fit for this." While the Candidate of Diamonds spoke, the Candidate of Spades began thinking before speaking. "We will continue." "What?! Did you not hear me!" "¡ô, she is the closest we ever have to getting ??, we cant lose this chance." "I-i know, but still ??, this is not very beneficial for us! W-what about ??! Lets get ?? first!" The Candidate of Diamonds began to sweat as he spoke. "We do not even know the requirments of getting ??. You should know this is not beneficial for us to gain ?? before ??." "B-but..." "No buts. We will continue our plan with ?? then gain ?? later." The Candidate of Diamonds let out a sigh. "Fine." ¡õ¡õ¡ó? The three were at a camp inbetween the dwarves and elves countries. "Yarren, it''s your turn to be on night watch." The mage spoke while poking the sleeping rogue with her staff. "Mmmrg... fine..." Agreeing while half asleep, he sits up while rubbing his eyes. Seeing him still half asleep, she comes close to his ear and whispered. "I am Trozia..." He flinches as he stood up on guard... he soon realized what happened as he fully awakens. "Oh, haha. Not funny." Grumbling, he begins to walk away while hearing the mage''s small giggles before she lies down to rest. "Damn, fucking... ugh." While cursing under his breath, he checks on all the refugees from the, now destroyed, Holy Empire. Sighing, he continues his patrol. Halfway through his patrol, he sees someone... with a bandana? "Who''s there!" He takes out his daggers. "Ah, hello! Please don''t be afraid!" "Who are you!" Remaining alert, he continues trying figire out who this person was. A bandana? Slightly tall with blue eyes? Red hair? A black suit with a diamond card on his left pocket? "State your name!" "Sigh, why do people never listen!" Slash¡ª Coughing blood, Yarren looks down to see a card? 1 of Diamonds on the ground as a slash mark from his right shoulder down to the card near his left foot began to eject blood rapidly. "How sad. Well, this will help." Slash¡ª Slash¡ª Slash¡ª Three more cards sliced him before he could even register the attacks... he could feel his body get heavier and colder. "W-who are you..." He fell on his knees as he felt his life fade... he looks up to see the man. "I... am the richest being in the multiverse, so, just die now." He saw the man put his hand into something as he felt his body drain of blood and become coins before disappearing... Soon, the man took out something, a mask, before putting it on. His face shifted into his own... "...monster." "How rude!" Slash¡ª He saw the world flip upside down as he sees a card flutter in the air with him... the 5 of Diamonds cut his head off before his whole body became coins. "Tch, worthless. Only 50 coins." Was the final words he heard before finally dying, seeing the man copy his body shape. Begin.Seed-Doubt3 "Yarren! Where have you been! Its almost morning!" Elipsia called out while waving her wand in the air. "Sorry! Got distracted." She looked confused for a second but soon waved it off. "Just get over here!" As Elipsia spoke, ''Yarren'' began to hurry over with an annoyed frown. "Geez, im here, im here." He waved her off before walking back with his hands behind his head. He didn''t see her eyes narrowing, focusing on the back of his head. "Anyways, whats the grub?" "Its... beetroot stew..." "Beetroot stew? Urgh, can''t we get something proper to find and eat?" Hearing his answer, Elipsia sighed and shook her head. "No, thats all we could find." She was worrying for no reason, she thought to herself. "Just go sit with everyone else, we are planning to continue moving now." With that, ''Yarren'' left to sit with everyone as Iris walked up to Elipsia. "Iris? Whats up." "Ellie, does Yarren seem off?" "Off? Nah, he hates beetroot so nothing should be off, i thonk he is just stressed." "Sigh... alright then Ellie, i believe you, come on, lets go eat now." They both walked side by sideas the morning light illuminated them. When they walked back, everyone was already eating with ''Yarren'' eating ''reluctantly'' in the middle of the camp. "Yeah, he seems stressed..." Iris repeated as the two sat next to ''Yarren'' while grabbing their own bowls and eating with him. ??¡ó? Making it to a set of giant doors, the guards at the entrance openedthek as soon as Lucy gave the signal "I wish to inform you that this meeting will be just between you and the Demon Lord." "We get it." I brushed him off as me and my sister walked passed the doors, reaching a certain threshold, the doors swung shut with a resounding boom. "Ah!-" Hearing my sister jump, i turn to face her but she looked away. "Ah, you must be the two people helping us, stated by Behime." The lady sitting at the meeting table spoke, her voice refined and mannered with a hint of authority, she wore a feathered cape with a tint of green. She gestered for us to sit on the chairs opposite to her. "I am the Demon Lord, Oroceli Petagree." The lady¨CDemon Lord Petagree¨Cspoke as she pounded her chest with pride.Stolen from its rightful place, this narrative is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings. With her exclamation, i sat down on the chair opposite to her as my sister sat next to me, she sat on the left of me. "Yes, we came to help with your race problem." "Thank you, you will be great help. This is my first time meeting humans, or any other race to be frank, that aren''t overzealous." My sister had a weird expression after hearing me lie through my teeth with a blank face. "Well, from what i can sense, you are almost as strong as a general. Once we can get you measured, we can know for good." She spoke as she looked at me but when she glanced at my sister, she looked confused. "Although this human adolesent is significantly weaker, we can train her to be stronger." "That would be for the best, yes." She clapped her hands together as she smiled calmly. "Then, since we are missing one position, i welcome you, the new General Greed, the young one-" "My sister." I corrected her because this conversation was already long. "Ehem, your sister will be put under careful training, just know that other races have been... very hostile, to say the least, so my fellow demons might be guarded." Ofcourse that is reasonable, i nodded as i began to think. ''Hm, there must be a reason we could join so easily, how would that be possible? Unless the General Sloth had something to do with this. She must trust Sloth alot to be able to take her words this seriously. That Prophecy thing must hold some accountablility then, but why greed? Hm... i need more information.'' Then, the Demon Lord stood up and began to walk towards us. "I hope we work together with trust." She bowed her head and left the room, which snapped me out of my thoughts, leaving me and my sister alone in this room. "Why did you lie to her?" "What do you mean." "Why did you have to lie." Hearing her question, i leaned back and stretched. "Simple, I feel it. Behime is watching." She looked around the room but could not see anything, just some torches and shadows. Nowhere to hide. "H-how?" "Do you not feel it?" "I don''t?" I glanced at a shadow, an overflowing energy could be felt from it. "We need to be careful." Coming close to her ear, i whisper to her. "Always be on guard." Nodding, she stood and began to follow the Demon Lord who was halfway through the hallway. "...what do you want." I turn to the opposite side of the table once more. Behime, General Sloth, sat where the Demon Lord used to sit. "Me? Well, i want to know what you want..." "Me?" I was confused, what does she want, to make sure we would help her destroy the world? That was already our goal¨Cwell, my sister asked me if it would be possible to only make a hole in the universe instead of destroying it¨Cbut she only laughed. "Listen, Greed... if you aren''t careful, you''re next to fall... oh, The Last Contradiction..." I felt a tap on my shoulder, turning around, i saw no one but when i turned to face her again, she vanished. With a single card infront of me... ... Jack of Clubs. ¡õ¡õ¡ó? Stomping through the corridors of the castle of possibilities. A skeleton wearing a leather jacket with flames coming out of his eyes and a scythe on his back swung the grand doors of the castle and went into the throne room. "KRUUNOOO!" The skeleton, somehow yelling, took out his scythe and pointed at The Ruler calmly sitting on his throne. "WHERE ARE THEY!" "And what do i owe the pleasure of you coming to my palace, Grim?" "THE TWO SOULS!" "Care to explain?" "THE TWO THAT WERE MEANT TO BE MINE! THE TWO THAT ESCAPED MY GRASP NOT ONCE BUT TWICE!" The Shepard was extremely furious, the entire skull looked like it was about to burst open with flames. "Ah, those two? Well, they are under out protection." "IF YOU DO NOT TELL ME WHERE THEY ARE, I WILL BURN THIS WHOLE PLACE TO THE GROUND! IF ONE HELLFIRE BALL WAS NOT ENOUGH, THEN I WILL RAIN DOWN HELL!" "I suggest you don''t."? "YOU THINK YOU HAVE THE CHANCE FACE ME? WHO ELSE HAVE YOU CONVINCED! THE WOEFUL? THE WORRIED? THE INTERNATIONAL?" "No." "THATS IT!" The Ruler confidentally replied as he seemed calm, too calm, causing The Shepard to lose all semblance of restraint. The Shepard was engulfed in flames from head to toe as he charged towards The Ruler. "I''LL END YOU!" Strangely, no matter how many steps he took, he never went ''forward'', we was moving, yes but he wasn''t making any progress. "I am sorry for my husband''s bad attitude but you wont be going any further." Hearing an extra voice, The Shepard turned around to see a cloud of space dust slowly materalizing a sun for a head, astroids for limbs, a blackhole for a stomach and finally, a ring around her head with a singular eye on the star. "Sol... so you were the one that was convinced." The Shepard, seeing The Wiley One, calm down as the flames that were once raging to subside and soon extinguish. "I see now, hehe... ah, if it is the Sol i know then, ah yes." He began to mumble as he slowly began to chuckle to himself. "Fine then, how about this instead." He outstretches his hand towards The Ruler, even though there was still a huge amount of distance, as a contract appeard infront of The ruler. "If, for any reason, one of the two dies, i get to obtain one letter of their name." Hearing this, The Ruler was perplexed. "You do know that the name of a being holds little to no value as a mortal than to us, concepts." "Thats the fun part! So then, Kruno. Care for some deadly fun?" Hearing The Shepard chuckle to himself, The Ruler laughed as he signed it with a clock hand shaped pen, when doing so, The Wiley One''s name also appeared nect to The Ruler''s. "Well then. I bid you farewell, Dear Benefactors of The Last and The Variable." He turned and left, leaving the castle as he got on his motorcycle. Vroom!¡ª Vroom!¡ª Soon, he drove off. Begin.PastTense-Clubs The Jack of Clubs... A knight, a power of good. A lie... ... "Hey, bastard!" A man slaps a small girl, no less than six, as she was pulled along. "Come on! You useless bastard!" "...w-wait." She stumbled along. Both looked no richer than a begger, they continued to wind through the slums as fire rages. "...w-whats going on... d-dad..." "Those damn nobles. They did this, ofcourse they couldn''t handle us... fuck fuck fuck!" Continueing to run, finally stabilising, she noticed the amount of beggers and the poorest running around exceeded that of thousands. "D-dad, where are we going..." "Shut up! Damn it!" They kept running before she was pushed by the man as they reached the end of the city then, as she crashed down... Slash¡ª She looks up as blood sprays her body. "W-what..." The mans upper body falls on her as she looks infront of her with trembling eyes. "Everyone. Charge!" The knights, a symbol of hope began attacking the poor. "Oh god...!" "Ahh!" "P-please!" "Ahh!" "M-my baby!- ahh!" Death filled every corner, the young, old, women and men... She was frozen solid. Fear overides everything. Screams tormented her, she wished for everything to die down, to stop, to be quite. The knights kept attacking, she wished for them to protect the weak, to help save them from the fire... to be the hero. "N-no!- ahh!" More people died around her as the bodies piled around her. Infront of her was the leader of the knights, The hero of the ''People'', The ''Peoples'' Sword and Shield... Lance Argen. "Sir, that is all of them." Hearing one of his subordinate''s report, he turns his gaze to her... her heart stopped. But why? Why did he look so glum, so sad, so guilt-ridden? She was the one who lost everything, she was poor, yes, but she was happy. She had friends who would help her, she had a father who, although was rough and a bastard, was hard working who would do everything to help her.Stolen story; please report. Now covered in blood, all she could do was curse him, curse everyone. She truly had nothing, truly... Lance turned away and ignored her, seemingly trying to keep her safe. Her tears began to stream, why would he do this... why... WhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhyWhy- ¡ºHello, User¡» "...?" Now alone, the fire dies down as she saw a message float infront of her. She was confused, she was so, so confused. ¡ºCollecting data¡» As she stayed there, the blood drying as the bodies start to rot, footsteps could be heard as she remained gazing at the front where Lance once stood. A sweet and soft fragance filled the air as plants and flowers slowly invaded the now ashen slums. A man, or woman?, was walking towards her, their body was split in the half. "Oh dear... what a horrible existence..." She stopped infront of her as she remained frozen. "I am the Concept of (Plants)" Only one side of their face spoke but they were more trustful than the knights... They outstretched their hands and... she finally moved as her hands trembled. She felt weird, the bodies covering her, the darkness they brought became more welcoming, then they disappeared as she remains there, her hand outstretched and alone once more... under the dead she once knew. ¡ºCollecting complete!¡» ¡ºHello Bezzal.¡» Soon, the screen finally changed before it showed her name. ¡ºBezzel LV 3 ??Str - 2 ??Spd - 3 ??Int - 3 ??MP - 4 Skills ??Translation ¡ï¡î¡î¡î¡î - More info ??Adapt - ¡ï¡ï¡ï - More Info¡» It was weird, a screen of many numbers and words. But she felt nothing, everyone she had... no, she still had something. She rummaged through her torn and withered pockets of her tattered clothing to find... a broken scribe... a gift given to her by an old friend she lost contact with. "...oh." She truly has nothing, no one who cared for her, no one who missed her... she had nothing. ¡ºUnlock reached : New skill unlocked!¡» What the? She unlocked something? What does that mean? She instinctively knew to open a ''System'' to check what that was. ¡ºBezzel LV 3 ??Str - 2 ??Spd - 3 ??Int - 3 ?? MP - 4 Skills ??Translation - ¡ï¡î¡î¡î¡î - More Info ??Adapt - ¡ï¡ï¡ï - More Info Clubs - ?????? - More Info¡» Clubs... A word she did not know... She didn''t care, she would get revenge... even if she had to destroy a world, she would take on anything. Even if she had to change her name. She would remain vengeful, she would be what the world wanted to get rid of. Be it ''Bezzel'' or ''Ire'' or even ''Behime''... she will forever have one thing similar, she would be... A Monster. ??¡ó? Jolting up, General Sloth breaths heavily as she wipes the sweat away. She hears the fighting, or rather training, between the main target and Lucy as the training grounds are near her side of the castle walls. "...not again." She sighes, getting off of her bed, she makes it to a cabinet and opens a specific drawer. "I still get them... i thought they would stop once i killed you..." A simple and small box covered in countless defensive and protective spells resided in the drawer, a name written horribley stand out. ''Lance'' "It seems you still haunt me... you bastard." The spells seem to be... otherworldy.She flicks her hand as a system opens. ¡ºThe Candidate of Clubs LV 329 ( Up^) ??Str - 291 (Up^) ??Spd - 287 (Up^) ??Int - 311 (Up^) ??MP - 400 (Up^) Skills ??Tranlation - ¡ï¡ï¡ï¡ï¡î - More Info ?? Adapt - ¡ï¡ï¡ï - More info ?? Clubs - ?????????? - More Info (Omitted)¡» She finally reached level 329, she was close to reaching the final LV cap needed to reach the authority of ''Clubs''. "Once i get it... you will suffer hell. Forever." Slamming the drawer, she went back to her bed as a card flew out of a shadow she had over her bedside table. "After all... I still have you..." The Jack of Clubs flew out of the shadow and into her hands, a knight on the card came alive. "...gghhhrr..." A groan came out as he began to talk. "Bezzel-gah!" "Not my name. Not anymore." She crumpled the card as the knight screamed out in pain. "Argh! Okay! Okay! What is your name in this world!" "...Behime." She stopped crumpling the card as she whispered her name. "Behime... just end me... why must your torture me..." "The one who spared me... the one who caused me the worst pain... the one who forces my heart to beat..." Hearing her words, The jack of clubs looked frightened... even regretful. "I shouldn''t have spared you that day-grk!" She crumpled the card even harder as she smiled sadistically. "Those words remind me of why i do this, just you wait. Thinking of your suffering will bring me great joy, my heart is already beating hard thinking about it!" She began to ramble on about the lain she would cause, the card... Lance... just listened as he looked defeated, he could do nothing, he was only half.