Author’s Corner: Hey everyone! I added a donations button for World Seed, but people are by no ans obligated to use it! I won’t be doing sponsored chapters or anything like that, because I feel like I’d just burn myself out again if I tried to write more than I am doing now. It’s only there for those people that want to use it.I looked at the demonic jack in the box in the distance, using my Cybernetic eye to enhance my vision in the darkness. Unfortunately, that let see so other things too. Along the ground were several toppled figures. However, these were not the bodies of other psychic races that stumbled into the Toy Chest, they were green, almost plastic bodies.As the jack in the box let out a loud laugh, its chanical arm cranking on the box below it, the green figures began slowly standing up. So of them looked humanoid, while others looked monstrous. There were dogs, lions, even birds among the figurines. The birds flapped their wings and took to the skies, while the humanoids all grabbed so form of weapon. There were swords, guns, even axes. Once they were in position, a faint music seed to enter our ears.New Quest Received!Cleaning up the ToysRank ★★ Repeatable ExterminationThe Toy Chest is a place only accessible with the help of those with the Toybox power. However, it is still a space of its own, and monsters are bound to spawn there over ti. Clean up the lost toys, so that this place can be used for its true purpose.Ti Limit: Not really.Reward: Random magic itemFailure: Getting teased by MalthanI looked at the others, and it seed that they got the quest as well. “It’s only ranked at two stars, so it shouldn’t be that difficult.” Sharon smiled slightly, and called out an army of over a hundred horned rabbits. Raising her hand, she increased the intensity of her light sphere, raising it up until we could see the toys just over a hundred ters away.Celeste called out her two large cat-like robots, which stood at her side and waited for the enemies to approach. She then held up her spear and launched into the sky, flying straight towards the large bird-type toys. With one swing of her plasma spear, she instantly cut the first bird in half. “They’re not that much!” However, her words didn’t last long, as the bird fell to the ground. Its pieces then began stretching out, each one forming into another large bird of the sa size as its forr self. “Okay.. they may be a bit of trouble.” She admitted finally, as over a dozen other birds approached her.Yin didn’t speak, but simply rose up into the air. With Celeste dealing with the birds, she didn’t seem to want to fire lightning bolts at that area. Unfortunately, Yin’s attacks were not suited for single target damage, so instead she swept over the field with her magic. Targeting the biggest clusters of toy beasts she could find, she blasted them with lightning. Shattered pieces flew in every direction, but again the slowly grew and reford into their original shapes, in greater numbers than before.Sharon, anwhile, sent out her rabbits to engage the soldiers. They raised their weapons to attack, but the rabbits were far too quick to be hit. Thankfully, their guns seed only for decoration, because they were used as clubs rather than actual ranged weapons. “Go for the big guy, he seems to be controlling everything.”I nodded, activating my Aspect of the Bird and flying into the air. Aspect of the Armored Beast followed shortly after to cover my skin in hard scales.Two of the large birds broke away from Celeste to charge after . These two each had a wingspan of two ters, with their bodies being a ter long. Aside from that, and apparently being made of green plastic, they looked similar to eagles.Raising my hands, I surrounded the two of them in magnetic spheres, which I then filled with plasma. I wanted to see if they would be able to recover from incineration. If not, that would be a thod to deal with them, albeit a long and boring one.Sure enough, there were brief cries within the glowing red spheres, followed by silence. Tiny green flakes fell out of the plasma orbs, scattering on the ground as I considered my work done. However, those few dozen flakes then seed to absorb the ground, growing until each one was the sa as the two birds that had attacked originally. “Great… so even just a tiny scrap and they regenerate fully.”I couldn’t be bothered to deal with them now, and thankfully Yin swooped in to distract them with lightning bolts. My target was the giant jack in the box, who kept staring at with that creepy white face. “Let’s see just how tough you are.”I quickly brought my plasma rifle out of my grove, and fired it at that giant face. Logic says that the face is always the weak point, right? Right?! Well, the plasma shot from my rifle blew a hole completely through the jack’s head. Score on for the-oh wait, it’s healing. Within seconds, the hole had been entirely recovered, so I moved on to plan B!Plan B was, of course, to cut off its head entirely by the neck. To do this, I brought the two plasma orbs I had already made, and shrunk them down into long, thin donuts of red death. I call it, destructo rings! The two rings arced through the sky, easily cutting into the jack’s neck, and even severed it on the first swing. However, that faint music never faded.Soon, the neck began growing a new head, just like the plastic monsters. And the severed head began growing a new neck… New hands… all the way until it was a giant, creepy snake with a demonic clown face and hands slithering along the ground. There was only one part that it did not recover, which I had to assu ant that was its weakness.With that line of thought, I brought back the destructo rings, and prepared my assault on the wind-up box at the base of the jack. So far, this creature had not shown any offensive abilities, leading to believe that it was not capable of attacking. However, this idea was proven wrong once the rings began closing in on the box.The snake-jack lunged at the two rings, hands spread open and mouth emitting a cackling laugh. Although the rings could easily cut through its body, it still cost so energy to do so. By the ti the rings had finished carving through the hands, and then each cut across its neck, their glow had diminished to less than half of what it was before.After that, the main jack did the sa thing, using its own body to block the rings. Again its hands were cut through, but this ti it used up too much energy to do so, and the rings completely faded away. Although the magnetic fields were still there, there was no more plasma to fill it with. And my problems were only just beginning, as their sacrificial defense ant that I had turned two jacks… into ten.You could be reading stolen content. Head to for the genuine story.Each severed body part began absorbing the ground where it fell, expanding rapidly to beco a full length snake-jack in under ten seconds. They seed to have weak bodies, no real offensive power, but at this rate they would quickly overwhelm in sheer numbers. Thankfully, nobody said I had to play fair.Removing my limiter program, I allowed my perception to speed up to its limit. My magic was still incapable of properly following my thoughts in this state, but it was far more effective than normal. The downside was that it also spent my mana faster than doing things slowly, as I was no longer recovering mana at the sa perceived rate.I moved the magnetic rings that I had previously used to attack so that they wrapped around they jack’s box, and then slowly began filling them with mana again. The ten jacks all very slowly began to turn around, preparing to lunge to protect their precious box, but they were no longer fast enough to make a difference. The red rings brightened, and began constricting around the wind-up box from all around it, and I could see as it slowly carved into the fra, leaving black scorch trails. When the rings hit the chanical arm, it snapped right off, though what remained continued its ceaseless spinning.I had to feed the rings plasma an additional two tis to make sure that they cut all the way through, and even spent my entire mana pool to speed things up. However, it was more than worth it to see the box explode in slow motion. I was tempted to just sit there and watch the last of the explosion before reactivating my limiter, but decided it’d be better to see what was happening first.
Once the limiter was back on, I saw the box quickly shattering to pieces in an eruption of red light. The music had faded away, only echoing from the distance at this point. Looking over, I saw that the girls were no longer fighting monsters. Instead… they all seed to be covered in dirt. Where’d they go? I thought curiously, looking around for any signs of the toy soldiers. However, I only found clumps of soil falling to the ground. Even the giant snake-jacks were no longer present, having turned into large piles of dural.
“So… there was really only one monster…?” If that was the case, then it would make a bit of sense. Calmly, I looked back and analyzed the situation. The jack in the box’s box was the only monster that actually spawned in the Toy Chest, but it had the ability to manipulate dural to form constructs. These constructs would serve as its fighters and protectors. When Yin attacked the jack with lightning, it triggered its defense response.From there, any ti one of the constructs were destroyed, it would use more dural to regrow the severed pieces and only increase its army. In a way, we actually started this fight…? Maybe it wouldn’t have even attacked if we didn’t do so first? Oh well, it’s over now either way!“I’m filthy…” Sharon spoke up from the ground, shaking her arm to try and clean it off a bit. Since they were all covered, it seems like they had already been overrun by the dural soldiers by the ti I finished the fight. “I don’t care if this is only a clone body, I am so taking a bath when we get back.”“ too…” Yin flew down next to Sharon, first using a burst of wind to blow a large amount of the strange substance off of herself, then doing the sa thing for Sharon.Quest Completed!Cleaning up the ToysRank ★★ Repeatable Extermination
You have defeated the evil, sinister jack in the box, who was really only lonely and wanted friends. Congratulations!
Each of us had a small light form in our hands as we were awarded our quest item. For Yin and Sharon, it was a ring. Though, Yin’s ring just sat on the ground in front of her, since she was not in her human form. For Celeste, it was a small cloth bag that seed to be filled with marbles. And for … Do I really have to say it?Okay… fine… it was a toy wand, with a little plastic heart at the end. It even gave little sparkles when it moved. Why, god, why?!Because everyone needs a magical girl in their life.I looked over to the girls, who quickly looked away and pretended that they didn’t see anything. “Please tell one of you are willing to trade…”“Are you kidding? That thing would look terrible with .” Sharon violently shook her head, while Yin simply pretended not to hear . Celeste, however, had a wide grin on her face. Oh god, don’t tell …“I’ll take it!” She said, and instantly tossed the bag of marbles, snatching the toy wand from my hands faster than I could react. She then looked in front of her, blinked, and her grin grew even wider. “Magical Girl Celeste, go~!” She waved the wand in a wide circle, and her body was enveloped in a bright pink light.Her armor seed to shatter under that light, instead replaced by large ribbons around her waist and shoulders. A leotard ford under the light, a deep purple color, before a short red jacket covered her chest. Even her tal wings turned into wings of pure light during this transformation sequence. Dear god…. I dare not imagine what would have happened if I had used the wand myself.“So cool!” Celeste said, looking over herself as the light surrounding her faded, leaving her in her new outfit. She then floated around happily for a few monts, while I began wondering what the bag of marbles in my hand were for.Well, it was either that, or a dildo bat. I doubted that Celeste would take that as seriously, so I went with this. As for what they do... well, you'll have to throw them at soone to find out, won't you?Thank you for taking this seriously… even if only a little bit. I then turned to look at Sharon and Yin. “So… what did you two get?”Sharon looked down at her ring, which looked like a plastic ring with a murky blue stone. “The information window called it a mood ring. It said that I could use it to affect the moods of those around …? That’s not how they work, right?”“Decoder ring…” Yin said simply. “Translates text?”...And what I ended up with was a magical girl wand. You did this on purpose, Malthan!Why yes, yes I did.
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