Distorted World: Rise Of The Black One - Volume 3 Chapter 109 19
“we’re almost there keep running”
various students run frantically in the direction of the arena
(the preinstalled barrier will keep us safe, at least for a few minutes)
these thoughts ran through the student’s head
but as the crowd of students gather in the arena to make their last stand a voice rang out to relieve them of their precious hope
“welcome brave and foolhardy students of the Von Crestias”
an old crow’s voice resonated within the bowels of their soul, his cackling glee poisoning their very core as he exerts a pressure over the students causing them to collapse like a mountain was placed on their shoulders as they freeze like a mouse before a snake
Looking up what they saw was…
The image of death itself, a mummified body wrapped in all the world’s images of vanity like how the ancient pharaohs on earth were buried
On his right was a man in full plated armor that shined brightly in the sunlight
And on his left was a girl with a focused and serene beauty seemingly unaffected by the mummified man’s pressure, she exuded a type of melancholic vibe making it hard to read her
“Re: Arias!”
Regis muttered with his fist clenched, gritting his teeth being one of the few people being able to withstand the pressure that the pale undead-looking man’s aura was applying on the arena
“Au: gah!”
August coughed up some blood as the effects of the man toxic’s aura are starting to seep into him
“Hm…about one-third of the students here can withstand my aura, very impressive youths you have cultivated here Cornelia-Chan”
The man cracked an insidious smile with his lipless mouth
“I’ll be happy to take them”
“Master our forces have surrounded both the arena and the main campus, it is as you’ve conceived we have driven Avalon into a corner, although we’ve lost most of the first children the seconds will more than make up for it”
The armored man said respectfully
“Good such a grand undertaking should be performed by the true proud children of the tricobrial not some low level trash, those things are only useful as souls to be harvested by my simultates fabricam (forge of grudges)”
The man said expressing a sadistic pleasure
“Your will be done milord”
The armored man kneeled
As the reality of the situation settled in the look of despair appeared
“We can’t beat him and even if we could their armies will overwhelm us”
(As: a logical assessment)
Asher said listening in from afar
“E: wow, this is incredible, what did you call this? A hyperspectral surveillance drone?”
Elise said looking into a laptop or a pseudo laptop created by Asher
“As: yes, I’m surprised you actually remembered that name”
Asher said assessing the situation
“E: sound, visible spectra, infrared spectra, electromagnetic spectra even the chemical composition can be annalyzed, how do you come up with this stuff?”
(As: technically I didn’t, hyperspectral imaging scanning drones controlled by AIs were pretty common in the 20th century of earth where I came from, it was a huge problem back when it was first invented since it pretty much nullified all military guerilla tactics known to man, people were panicking worldwide trying to counter this “God’s eye”. From emps and anti drone lasers to a shotgun bullet that’s specifically made to take down drones (the aptly named skynet shotgun shell). Some idiot in America even trained eagles to take down drones (which I gotta say is a very American way of solving problems) but in the end I put a stop to everyone’s drone problems by the most simple and obvious way, I built something that cause a global WiFi connection problem and basically made their drones fall out of the sky while simultaneously collapsing the internet and destroying all AIs on the planet at the time, I even named it the A.I weapon to add that extra sense of irony (it stands for Anti-Information weapon by the way), definitely one of my proudest moments)
Asher nearly smiled from nostalgia when he picked up that particular memory
“As: let’s just say, I have a lot of free time”
Asher answered vaguely
“E: uh huh…”
Elise clearly didn’t buy it but decided to play along anyway
“As: you can achieve pretty much the same effect by casting magic so that your eyes can see in all those multi spectra visions but this way is more efficient and it also doesn’t require nearly as much magical power, not to mention it’s more precise since an average human can’t hope to process that complex of a data cube made from a variety of multi spectral information”
(As: I contemplated adding a AI control system but decided against it and implemented a manual control one instead, since I don’t think Ziost is ready for the concept of AIs)
“As: so is everything in place?”
Asher asked
“E: yep a radius of 2.43 miles around the arena and a half radius of 1 mile in front of the campus gates should do it”
“E: oh, they are gonna be so pissed when they find out”
Elise was getting trigger happy
“As: yeah okay, activate the dome in 3”
Asher said making the final preparations
“As: 2”
“As: 1”
“As: 0”
………….
Suddenly the ground beneath the arena shook
“Hmm, what’s this?”
The mummified man named Utopia said confused
“Arias, what is this?”
The armored man ask furious at Arias
“Ar: I’m not sure, I wasn’t told there was something else here? Was there another defense mechanism I missed?”
Arias fumbled and panicked, trying to figure out what’s going on
“Re: hmm! They fell for i…”
And just like that *poof* they were gone
The people present at the arena, the campus gate everything disappeared like nothing happened
Although everything was empty one copse-like man was levitating above the empty arena, silent and shocked at what just happened
“Oh no…”
The man muttered having realized something
“We’ve been duped”
“As: absolute success”
Asher confirmed
“E: good…”
Elise nearly collapsed onto the floor, her face was pale and she’s sweating a lot
“As: you good?”
Asher went to catch her and gently put her up against the wall
“E: yeah *huff*…I’ll be…fine *huff*…”
(As: of course she’s tired, manipulating magicyte even if it was just less than 1 milligram of the lowest purity type we were using will put an extreme physical strain on her body even with her special skill and I cannot overstate the even more heavy strain on her mental state, It’s a miracle she’s still conscious after activating all 4 of them without rest)
Asher puts his frock coat on her
“As: you should rest now, I’ll take care of the rest”
“E: yeah sure…I wouldn’t be much help now anyway…so, see you later?”
“As yeah see ya”
Asher tightens his fingerless gloves and jumps off the building leaving the about to be unconscious Elise behind
“E: I sure hope I made up to him”
Elise said while her eyelids began to get heavy
(As: good job)
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