Side: Grangron
"Ouch...my head. What happened?" - Grangron
"In prison, Gran." - Shen
"You have been asleep for more than a day, Gran." - Sei
"Boy, do I sleep... PRISON!?" - Grangron
"Thank you for your predicable delayed response." - Shen
"No probs. But how did we end up here? Really, HOW did we end up here?" - Grangron
"When the unidentified-whatever-it-was destroyed the ground we were standing on, we landed in an underground river that flushed us through the gorge. Before long, we were saved by a pair of Flugel girls." - Shen
"Wow. What good girls!" - Grangron
"Then they locked us in here. Even took all our equipnt." - Sei
"Wow. What bad girls." - Grangron
"Exactly. The crazy spider is in a slump in the other cell from having her weapons confiscated." - Shen
"*Sad spider-noises*." - Lunatic
"So that’s what it was. Why didn’t we fight back?! The enemy was only two girls!" - Grangron
"Because we were all drenched in water, the girls had an army with them, and you were in a half-drowned state because you never bothered to learn how to swim." - Shen
"Oh, right. My bad." - Grangron
"Apology accepted. I don’t think you would have made any difference." - Shen
"Why so?" - Grangron
"The angels..., they were commanding the ’not-robots’." - Sei
"The what now?" - Grangron
"The creatures that the dragons presu are robotic in origin. They are not wrong..., but not completely right either." - Shen
"Huh?" - Grangron
"It is complicated." - Sei
"Oh, I got it! And who is that guy over there?" - Grangron
"*Angrish mumbling noises*." - ???
"The...source of the complications." - Shen
"I HEARD THAT!" - ???
"Hmm, and we can’t bust ourselves out?" - Grangron
"No. We have to wait patiently for Noire to co with a rescue team." - Shen
"Then we’re in good hands! I can see her storming to our rescue even as we speak!" - Grangron
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5 days before the release of the Invidia Overlord.
Noire’s PoV:
"*Yawn*, ...where am I?" - (Self-proclaid) anonymous busty beauty dragon
"In confinent." - Noire
"Oh, that explains the ropes..., WHY?!" - (Self-proclaid) anonymous busty beauty dragon
"Because I do not want to die because of so fool!" - Noire
"That sounds reasonable." - (Self-proclaid) anonymous busty beauty dragon
"...YOU are the fool in question." - Noire
"HEY! ...But, that’s reasonable as well. Damn..." - (Self-proclaid) anonymous busty beauty dragon
The idiot of a dragon girl hang her head in depression as she sat bound to the rock pillar in the cave we found yesterday to set up camp in. Thank god I kept a set of anti-dragon ropes on , just in case sothing would happen in this dragon kingdom, but this girl is causing too many headaches...
"But, Violet? Why am I-?" - (Self-proclaid) anonymous busty beauty dragon
"Do. Not. Call. . By. That. Na." - Noire
"O-okay..., sheesh. And to think Mr. Arc called you his ’young genius daughter’..." - (Self-proclaid) anonymous busty beauty dragon
"And don’t ntion that man!! ...Wait. Did you say ’genius’?" - Noire
"Yes, I did. Why?" - (Self-proclaid) anonymous busty beauty dragon
"...No, nothing. It must be a different person then. No, it has to be." - Noire
"...? Are you not Violet Arc Ciel, the youngest of Regning Arc Ciel’s seven children?" - (Self-proclaid) anonymous busty beauty dragon
And there goes my hope out the window.
"FINE! I hate to admit it, but I am that bastard’s daughter! Now, do you have any other requests before you take that secret to the grave?" - Noire
"Wait-wait-wait-STOOOP!! Why the sudden bloodlust?!" - (Self-proclaid) anonymous busty beauty dragon
"Why wouldn’t I be ashad to be called the daughter of the idiot that was responsible for the Disaster of Chaos being released on the world? I barely escaped with my life from that...disaster!" - Noire
Back when I lived on the Patientia continent, that idiot of a father was completely obsessed with the idea of "transformation heroes". Then, one of his idiotic "villain" friends got the idiotic idea of creating a "combination creature" to beat my father in the race of a "combination robot" or whatever. Just retelling this story feels so idiotic that I feel like an idiot.
I even advised my father that he should stop playing gas and make peace with the idiotic "villain", but my father was too drunk on the idea of being a "hero", so the other idiot initiated those mad plans of his and unleashed Tres Clades, the Disaster of Chaos, onto our ho world!
During the confusion, and a little because my older siblings always got the spotlight, I am forced to admit, I snuck onboard a floatship heading off the continent and arrived on Invidia.
Thankfully, I t Filyn just when the "allowance" I had taken with from our mansion had run out, so I did my best flattering her so she would not fire . Who knows what dangers there are trying to obtain a place to work in a literal country of demons?
"That would indeed leave so ntal scars," said the dragon girl after I had vented myself empty those many years’ worth of pent-up frustration for my foolish family.
"I never said that! Now-" - Noire
It is ti to say your prayers, was what I was about to tell the dragon girl, but her next words made freeze up.
"No wonder Mr. Ciel has placed a bounty to bring his favorite daughter ho, safe and sound." - (Self-proclaid) anonymous busty beauty dragon
"It is ti to...wat?" - Noire
"What?" - (Self-proclaid) anonymous busty beauty dragon
"Did you say ’favorite’ just now?" - Noire
"Yeah, I did." - (Self-proclaid) anonymous busty beauty dragon
"...The sa guy that skipped out of 10 of my theater performances, and was responsible for that an additional 3 of them were canceled, when I was a child, actually said I was his ’favorite’?" - Noire
"I’m sure of it. It was the day when Mr. Ciel kicked those old clan lords’ butts after they kept on pestering my dad to lower their taxes and rather take from the subordinate clans. Ah, good days." - (Self-proclaid) anonymous busty beauty dragon
...She does realize that she just busted herself there, right?
"So, Ms. Loitan, what did my father, *brr*, really say?" - Noire
"Exactly what I ant. Mr. Ciel, as opposed to his boys, never seed to be all for the ’fun and colorful’ stuff, but he’s always there to keep my dad’s back..., and what did you call !?" - "Ms. Loitan"
"You know what I said, Ms. Flamte Cadmus Loitan. Princess of the Loitan dragon kingdom. ...And the girl who got clobbered by Flint’s failed experint." - Noire
I an, if aristocrats like the old clan lords are asking her father for a favor, then that person can only be the king himself. And I already studied most of the majesties in this country to prevent any royal incidents.
"Why did you have to bring up exactly that?! I lost a tooth that day!" - Flamte Cadmus Loitan
"Tough luck. And you’re still sneaking out from your ho to go on adventurers." - Noire
"I could say the sa about you!" - Flamte Cadmus Loitan
Ugh! My heart... It hurts like a thousand worlds of pain and fashion disasters...
"Also, call Blaze. All my friends do that." - Blaze
"Do all your friends tie you up to be left behind in a cave filled with killer robots?" - Noire
"The robots are new, but yeah." - Blaze
...This girl needs so better friends.
"Also, why am I being tied up to this rock again?" - Blaze
"Don’t you rember last night?" - Noire
"Hmm, it is coming to ..., was it when I asked what was for dinner?" - Blaze
"No." - Noire
"The ti when I asked if you had any shampoo on you?" - Blaze
"No. That one was a completely natural question." - Noire
"Hmm, this is a tough one..." - Blaze
"Oh, for crying out loud! It was the part of you suggesting we should storm the robots’ secret lair!" - Noire
"Now I get it! ...No, I don’t get it. Why am I getting the bondage treatnt because I want to dish out so justice sandwiches?" - Blaze
"More like being turned into pretty girls-sandwiches. Didn’t you see those giant robot spiders that almost killed us!?" - Noire
"You an those you busted, sister? Boom!" - Blaze
"Don’t you ’sister’ or ’boom’ . And that was thanks to sacrificing my Thaumaturgy Bow!" - Noire
"Can’t you make a new one?" - Blaze
"It is a System-given reward for defeating a Wild Hunt Lord. Of course, I can’t make a new one! Mostly because it is not an item that is possible to be created, since it is the product of logic-bending godly powers. Or else I could have done it." - Noire
"Is that for real? Wow, you are amazing!" - Blaze
"...Y-you at least have so sense in your head." - Noire
"I get that a lot." - Blaze
"...Girl, you seriously need better friends." - Noire
"I do? But Violet-" - Blaze
"It. Is. NOIRE. My father’s la idea of naming us after our colors in so other world’s language is sothing my fashion sense does NOT tolerate." - Noire
"Wow, I never picked Mr. Ciel to be lazy with nas. And hey! You’re not violet-colored!" - Blaze
"It’s known as ’purple’ in father’s ’trivia about other worlds’ book." - Noire
To demonstrate, I turned off the "disguise amulet", the sole item I took from ho and still have on , and showed my real face. There is not much of a difference though. Only that my hair returned from being silver to its natural purple color.
Thinking about it, I have been in this item’s debt for a long ti. Like the ti it allowed to escape Garami’s cruel and unusual punishnt. Those beach bitches didn’t notice that I had slipped it on one of them and had her take my place as a scapegoat. ...Now that I think about it, those girls must have sand in their heads for falling for that trick. Even the one I used as a scapegoat, even if I did drug her slightly...
"Sweet! I want one!" - Blaze
"You’re not getting one. This is the masterpiece of my ancestor. Besides, the numbers of these items are far from ’many’." - Noire
"Tch! It would be so easy sneaking out from the palace if I had one." - Blaze
...Oh no. I am at the sa level as this idiot.
"And can we stop digressing? I’ll say it again: I will not join you in what can only be seen as a complete suicide mission." - Noire
"What if we reduce the difficulty from ’completely’ to ’non-suicidal’?" - Blaze
"...? What is that supposed to an? I thought the city of Loitan did not have the resources to send in people into the Gorge." - Noire
While we were admitted at the entrance gate to the Gorge, I overheard so of the soldiers there speaking of this. That the safety of the civilians was the number one objective, so they cannot afford to send their troops down here until the forces outside the country returns.
"...I don’t get it. Why are you talking about the army now?" - Blaze
"Your plan is going on communicating with them sohow...right?" - Noire
"Nope. Sharing the glory is a pain." - Blaze
That’s...sothing I can relate to, even if it pains to admit it. But there is a limit to everything. We cannot hope to fight off those robots...robots?
"Back to my story, there’s a secret passageway that will give us not only...? Violet, can you hear ?" - Blaze
"IT. IS. NOIRE." - Noire
"Hiii!! Sorry, sorry, please excuse this frail little lizard!!" - Blaze
"If you feel any remorse, stop acting in a fashion that would make people take for so fear-inducing monster! Anyhow, do you have an idea of how many enemies there are on the robots’ side? As in, non-robotic and non-ghostly ones." - Noire
"Just four." - Blaze
"That was a fast reply." - Noire
"It’s because I found their hideout. Two of them are recently-hired goons though." - Blaze
aning there are only 2 people who could command those ghosts and robots...
"Why did you ask?" - Blaze
"Isn’t it obvious? Looking at the robots and ghosts we have fought, there is close to no doubt that they are all either tokens or so other kind of creation that is controlled by sothing akin to a Leadership skill." - Noire
"Where did that idea co from?" - Blaze
"I am an accessory crafter, so I am fuzzy about details. And the robots we have encountered up until now have been too alike to each other to be individuals with minds of their own. Most likely, they are mass-produced by so factory. The giant Atlach-Nacha robots from yesterday acted mostly on pre-prepared actions. If not, they would probably have tried to evade your mudslide." - Noire
"Good call! ...HUH?! You an those guys are mass-produced?!" - Blaze
"That is my theory at the mont. Their vocal lines also sounded too similar to each other, and along with that they felt too artificial to be ’living’ Automata-like beings." - Noire
"Wow. I didn’t notice at all." - Blaze
"Neither did I back then. As for the ghosts, I think they act the sa way. Even the undead will make sure they do not die, but the army of Orimarus tried to reach despite how many of them were shot off the cliffs." - Noire
It makes rember the undead hordes back in Tir na Nog. They kept on moving towards us despite our advantage. It was like they were soulless puppets. Then again, they are undead, so maybe that’s not the right taphor, but thinking back now, that Dungeon did not follow the sa rules as Damavand.
Maybe it was not a "proper" Dungeon from the very beginning. That could explain why Iron and his friends be "born" there, or why Orimaru and Raoul were able to be Tad.
"If my assumption is correct, then the four people you have seen must not be commanding the robots or the ghosts through LP-related skills, but so sort of contraption instead. That would explain why they can have so many of them under their command." - Noire
"Ah, I hate those LP things. It makes it so difficult for us dragons to party up now!" - Blaze
"And that is a good thing. Back to the point, did you notice anything like that?" - Noire
"...Maybe? I didn’t exactly look for sothing like that the first ti, and they noticed almost instantly, so it’s not like I got a good look in the first place." - Blaze
"Then why are you saying it’s ’maybe’ possible then?" I asked her a little more grumpily than I wanted to.
"Because there are huge facilities at their hideout!" - Blaze
"Yup. We have our potential winners. Destroying or searching through them could lead to our victory. But then again, we do not have the strength to do that, not to ntion we are still outnumbered four-to-two..." - Noire
"No worries there. We just need to suit up with the Extra Skills!" - Blaze
"Where did that co from!?" - Noire
"Right, I didn’t tell you that yet..., but can you take off these ropes now? They’re scratchy, and I’ve yet to eat breakfast..." - Blaze
So said the dragon girl with tears in her eyes...TCH! She’s cuter than ..., NO, SHE IS NOT! I refuse to be below this macho girl!! ...Giving her breakfast shouldn’t be too impossible though...
"Could you? Please? It is not that much to ask such a beautiful, genius girl such as you." - Blaze
...
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"Here it is! The doorway to solve all our problems!" - Blaze
"Hmm..." - Noire
"What’s up? Gorgeous, heavenly lady Noire?" - Blaze
"Keep it coming..." - Noire
"Huh?" - Blaze
"I-I-I an, is this the ’Trial Ground’ you talked about before? It looks just like a pair of huge doors carved out from the rock wall." - Noire
I am not kidding. It feels like soone just carved the door into the wall. A huge door, with many details, and extraordinary artwork..., but still, it is just a stone carving.
"That is what these are for~," replied Blaze as she showed a pair of coin-like items.
"Ta-da~. These are a pair of Extra dals that I’ve been finding here lately~." - Blaze
"Did you find these on your own?" - Noire
"Sure! Though I did give so to the various clan heads that have been helping , I still got a small stash for myself. But don’t tell my dad. They wanted to give them as presents to him." -Blaze
If the latest System Update is the culprit for these dals to have appeared, then this girl must have quite the talent for discovering treasures if she found more than the bag she is showing in such a short ti.
"I convinced a Frost Hunter to tell what they knew about these Trial Grounds, and they said that you can enter multiple people at the sa ti if they all use the sa type of dal at the sa ti." - Blaze
"Got any dupes then?" - Noire
"Hmm..., not this, neither this..., here we go! But it looks sort of strange...?" - Blaze
I took a look at it, but I cannot make heads or tails of it either. Despite it being a coin. The back sides of the pair of dals have the words "Enuma Elish" written..., but what does that an?
"Are you sure this is safe?" - Noire
"Sure as birds can fly!" - Blaze
Has she never seen a chicken before? She did ntion during the breakfast that she’s already been through three Trials, and seeing as she’s still alive here and now...
"Okay. Let’s do this." - Noire
"As expected of the fabulous miss Noire!!" - Blaze
Hmhm~~... Strange. It feels great that there is finally soone who knows how to appreciate , but for so reason, it feels like I am being scamd, yet not... Must be my imagination. For now, it is ti to obtain the powers that is worthy of !
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