Brian POV
I, the true , am on HoBase, overseeing this entire operation.
And in case I didn’t already ntion it, but I feel like I did, HoBase is currently parked at the border crossing of Ruiso, Narra and the States. It is just a convenient place for it, in case we need to go sowhere without teleporting.
In truth, most of what I did was just teleporting people into the Quarry prison and blocking communications. I tried to take most of the people from the States alive, but admittedly so of them will die. Especially in the actual war zones. I can’t keep the Narra and Ruiso armies from killing their opponents just because I want to avoid casualties.
Besides, the System Gods don’t involve themselves in human wars, unless the wars threaten the lives of many more people than are involved in these invasions. And I am one, so… Luckily I’m still alive so the System can’t just delete for breaking the rules.
Thus far the operation has gone more or less as expected. I didn’t quite like Elias’ idea to ‘greet’ the invasion force, but it worked out well enough.
But on the other hand, having Miris and Nikki paralyze PS7 so that I could bring him in was a big help. While he may have given his unique skill to Haji, he still had the spacial awareness that kind of skill would have given him, and the Narra force might have gone around the fortress if he was leading it.
But now they were marching directly towards it, as I planned.
However, there was a problem. And a decently big one at that. The PSH is starting to get suspicious because I’ve been blocking the comms for the operation.
Blocking the Power Structure comms isn’t difficult. It relies on Soul Magic, so it can be blocked with Soul Magic. But sadly I can’t fake the ssages. I tried to make it work, and I even have the spell needed to send ssages on the Power Structure 'frequency’, but I don’t have all the voice samples I need to fake the ssages. Also, if you paid attention, you could definitely notice that my ssages were made with magic and not through the Power Structure title.
Because of his suspicions, PSH ordered PS2 to the Narra front. No, I didn’t block that communication as I wanted them to think I could only block the longer range communications. Besides, having communications within the city really wasn’t a big deal.
To counter PS2, who was almost level 300, I teleported Agunan and Ria to where she had teleported to. If she wants to pretend to be a dragon, I’ll just stick a real dragon, and a Draconic Dhampir on her.
I then had my soul copy who was with Alice recomnd that she pop open the seal on the Soul of Darkness. Since the Souls aren’t inherently evil like the Immortals are, releasing it shouldn’t be that bad. As long as we contain and ta the thing.
I did send Einar and Eline there to help Alice with it, but I might have to go over as well.
And it was a good thing she did, because it really made PSH calm down. His plan was going along.
Sadly the mana release brought with it two problems.
The first was the release of the Immortal Snail. Luckily I was ready for it, so I quickly teleported both Janina and Lua there. Janina can damage the snail and Lua can anti-heal it to death.
The other problem ca from a source I didn’t expect. The Goddess sent a mission.
Mission: Protect the DungeonInformation: A small squad from the United States of Power has broken into a System controlled Chaos God Dungeon. Goal: Protect the Chaos God Core from being claid by the United States of Power.Additional Goal: Don’t claim the core for yourself if possible. But if you must, take control of it before they can.Reward: … We will figure out sothing soon.Additional Reward: We will try to get you new sets or cards.
So… they knew about it, huh. And they are going for it amidst the chaos.
I quickly checked the area with All-Sight, and I saw that PS4 was leading the force. Luckily that ans that I can just have Unika defend the dungeon. She was on standby for PS4, and I located him, so that is where she’ll get deployed.
Now there was a bit of an issue with that. Mainly that you can’t actually teleport into a Chaos God Dungeon unless you are the Dungeon Founder or Master, or have permission to do so. You can teleport within the dungeon, especially within a dungeon floor, but entering a Chaos God Dungeon from the outside with regular teleportation magic is actually impossible. Even my God powers can’t change that fact.
But I have a not so regular way of teleporting called the Nuron Code. It doesn’t care about those restrictions, and I was able to teleport Unika to the dungeon. She would encounter PS4 quite soon, just because I didn’t want him anywhere near the core.
I also teleported my ‘pri’ self to the dungeon, the core room in fact, and put up multiple barriers around the core. They were Janina proof, so PS4 can’t get through them. I just have to keep an eye on PSH, because he might be able to get past if he is as strong as I am.
But I was always the one who had to fight him. Because once he is out of his little cavern, we can have our dance and I’ll take down his Power Structure.
Back to the operation. Because PSH had also ordered PS5 to deploy, and he had used a crystal to teleport to the Ruiso front.
Sadly we didn’t have a great counter for him, so I had no choice but to send Cailie there. She can support people and she should be able to purify curses with her skills.
… She has also lived through a lot of suffering, so the curses won’t be quite as bad for her. Not that I’m expecting her to have to suffer them. As I said, her skill should allow her to purify curses. We’ve tested it with so of my cards. We’ve just never tested on massively strengthened curses like what PS5 has.
But if she can’t do it, I’ll teleport her out and … nuke him from orbit or sothing. Not that I have an orbital cannon, but I can just teleport to orbit and throw a tungsten rod at PS5 at … mach really fricking fast.
Near the Ruiso Front
Power Structure 5 POV.
“What a joke. Deploy before we even know where he is. A waste of my talent.” I grumbled to myself. “But if he really is preventing our long range communication, there is no choice. But I swear if those lazy morons simply didn’t report…”
I kept complaining quietly as I ran in the direction the tracks led . If the abnormal is here, he will be that way.
My na … my new na is Ketsuki. The Great Leader told it ant victory over one’s self, specifically over their blood.1Not exactly true, but close enough. It cos from kyuketsuki, which is vampire in Japanese. Ketsuki directly ans “blood”, but depending on the Kanji used it can an “victorious self”, so PSH explained the na as aning victory over one’s blood. And that explanation just fits a dhampir who surpassed their blood curse.
Blood. A disgusting thing, but I was born to drink it. I never understood how others could. For , it tasted awful. But I drank it to survive.
And my resilience paid off. I gained an immunity to the curse my race carries. But not only to it. All curses. And I could force others to suffer my curses, while I was immune to them.
The Great Leader saw the use in my ability, and he made a part of his Power Structure, along with giving my new na.
I dedicated myself to him to make his dream a reality for a simple reason. Both he and I know that the Goddess is a joke. If she was the all-powerful God the stories say she is, why did she allow our race to be cursed?
According to the Great Leader, the answer is simple. The Goddess is not all-powerful. In fact, she is likely nothing more than a story. Story told by the three Kingdoms to give their existence more substance. To make them seem stronger.
‘You can’t ss with them, they have the Goddess on their side.’
Whatever you might think, we know it isn’t true. Since the one ti she ‘appeared’, which even that is questionable and could have just been an illusion, she has done nothing.
But soon enough the world will know the truth. Once Haji is in the past, he will be able to help the Demon Lord. And then … Admittedly we aren’t sure.
The Great Leader gave a few ideas on what might happen. He said that nothing might happen. That we will simply continue existing, while the world where Haji reached the past starts a new tiline. It might sound terrible, but knowing there is a world where dhampirs don’t have to suffer with their curse does make happy.
The second idea was that the world will change around us to what Haji made it be. And those of us who knew the truth would rember how it was. This is the outco I most wish for.
Third is like second, but we won’t rember the change. No one will. It will be as if what we lived through never existed. While it isn’t optimal, at least I wouldn’t suffer in that tiline.
“Sorry, but I’m going to have to ask you to stop running.” I heard a female voice whisper into my ears. It sounded off putting, as if soone was right next to , so I instinctively spread every curse I had to my surroundings. Anyone near should have gotten cursed.
I stopped my sprint and looked around, while also using my curses to try and search for anyone. My curses had latched onto a few weak monsters, which had already died, but not a single person had been affected.
I then felt it. A wall of so kind that my curses couldn’t penetrate. It was still so ways away, but it ans there is soone or sothing there. Maybe they have curse resistance or immunity as well. If it is just resistance, I can overpower it with my multitude of curses and anyone immune I can just kill.
I walked towards the wall I felt, while focusing my curses onto it. But no matter how much of the curse I tried to force into it, the wall wouldn’t pudge.
“Your curses carry with the miasma.” The voice whispered into my ears again. “And sadly for you, my winds purify the miasma, as well as your curses.”
Purify … my curses? That’s impossible! It has to be.
Even the best magic experts under 1 couldn’t do that. 9 and the priests under him couldn’t do that, and they are highly skilled in Holy Magic. So how can this random r-folk so casually prevent them from spreading?
“Winds, you say?” I spoke. If this person can talk to from where they are, they may be able to hear as well.
“Yes. Sprite-Purifying Winds. Compared to removing miasma from a corrupted spirit, blocking your curses is nothing.” She said gleefully, like she was proving it was as easy as she said.
“And how are you talking to ?” I asked. I needed information if I was going to take this person down.
“Whispers in the Winds. I can hear everything and speak directly to anyone. As long as they are sowhere where there is wind.” She answered.
I kept slowly approaching, and eventually I saw her. A r-folk. No where near the water. Not that she needed water, as she appeared to be flying through the air.
I recognized her from our intelligence reports. She is one of the six who married the abnormal. He sent one of his wives to deal with instead of facing himself. What a coward.
“Brian is no coward.” She responded, as if she had read my thoughts. “And I can’t read your thoughts, but he can.”
“... he? The abnormal is here?” I spread my curses out again, and maximum strength. But like earlier, a light breeze scattered them and I lost the ability to focus on them.
“He is and isn’t. He is everywhere, quietly preventing your plans.” The r-folk said. “And I am here to purify your curses.”
As she said that, the winds around us began to whirl at massive speeds. They quickly turned into a tornado, and I was stuck in the center. Worse than that, the winds were pulling my curses out of my body.
The curses Haji and his subordinates had spent the past years strengthening were drained as if they were nothing. I tried to fight it, but I couldn’t do anything. The winds were too strong for to get out. My curses wouldn’t spread past them and even my Magic was useless.
Eventually the winds died down, but they had left drained.
I felt inside myself and I had been left with just a single curse, the one I was born with. The one no force could cure.
“There are plenty of ways of curing the blood curse.” The r-folk whispered as she swam towards . “Of course I can only use one of them.” In her hand, she held a card. One of the ones the abnormal makes. “Vampire’s Cure.” She said and the card shone for a mont.
The shine penetrated my body, removing the only curse I had left. With no curses in , I felt so empty. But also so light. I didn’t know what to do, and my legs gave out from under .
Just a few seconds later, the abnormal appeared next to the r-folk. After sharing a quick kiss, he picked up and teleported both of us into so sort of open air prison complex, and he trapped in.
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