Sarah "Seriously....that's it?! No descriptions? No info on the battle. Come on!"

She groans in disappointment. The sense of excitement she once had, immediately exits her face.

AN "Apparently, he couldn't bother listing down the contents of the conflict nor the description of his kins. However, he did note a few interesting details."

Sarah "Oh...what is it?"

AN "So during the fight, Suntarus who is the eldest son of Lord Kin, wrestled head-on against the all-consuming turtle. A period during which he accidentally bit onto the surface of my planet. The impact apparently barely missed the first monarch of Caverrin who witnessed the gargantuan beast eye to eye in all its glory. An experience that dug a bottomless well of fear within him for decades to come. A fear so intense, he forced people to undergo an everlasting and unresting process of technological progress in hope that one day his people could defend themselves against a similar disaster. Suntarus's action also left a gigantic valley that long ago was known as "Suntarus's Bite". Now the people of Caverrin call it, "Sun's Bite Valley", where her Empress's palace "Incaris" resides."

Dave "Woah! That's some insane history, bro. Also, this first monarch guy seems like a pretty smart dude."

Kanji "Yeah, it was pretty logical of him to take that course of action. Though the word "forced" does bring up some concerns."

Claire "Wait. Was he cruel or... what? You know what, I just gonna let you answer that."

Amelia "Same. You may continue AN, dear."

AN "No the first monarch didn't force them physically, he just mind controlled them. However, there are certain things he did that might be hard to take in. Back then some people were religious and worship the ten kins as gods or divine beings. The emperor found this an act of madness, and so he had them tortured and killed. He ordered their butchered corpses to be placed on spikes lining every road and path in the kingdom. Men, women, and children anyone who had a fraction of belief in their minds will be culled without a second thought."

Claire and Amelia hide and their arms wrap around Sarah, she blushes red.

Sarah "G-Guys... please... get off me."

Claire/Amelia "No!"

In retaliation, they squeeze harder. Their insistence outweighs her resolve, so she lets her resistance go.

Sarah "I see... so this what cause you to guys to be... you know like what you are now."

AN "Yes."

Kanji "I'm guessing this is not the end of it. There must be something else, right?"

AN "Ah, I guess my tone of voice gave it away, huh. And yes indeed there are. You see the aftermath of the skirmish caused the black hole entity to collapse on itself and release massive bursts of Hawking radiation. These bursts were powerful enough to impose a significant amount of damage on Lord Kin's children, leaving behind special triggers in our universe and other universes. There are certain actions that everyone MUST NOT DO AT ALL CAUSE. When the actions are done, they will come and destroy the initiators of said actions. Written here is a list of conditions that Lord Kin himself considered as triggers."

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-Suntarus's soul was fractured into trillions of neon orange shards, scattered across the universe. Breaking them would incur his wrath as destroying them all would mean his demise. Any attempts in uniting the soul fragments would lead to small and aggressive versions of Suntarus emerging from their crystal cocoons.

-Earthas's, Jupiteroth's, Neptunez's, and Marsagoz's minds were bound to four planets. Any wielders attempting to exit the atmosphere of the planets will enrage these four. Earthas is bound to Earth, Jupiteroth is bound to Granolith Prime, Neptunez is to Wal Tera, and Marsagoz to Caverrin.

-Venusith enters our world if one of the four intelligent species goes completely extinct. Pieces of her very being were fractured and shared among them.

-Saturnagator breaches in if anyone talks enough shit of Lord Kin.

-Uranusava will come and fight anyone daring enough to wield a pair of ancient gauntlets. This weapon currently resides on a large motionlessly meteor in the center of the Universe.

-Plutoren will show its appearance to greet the one who discovers the Ultimate truth. This truth isn't mentioned.

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Dave "Yo, that's fucking dank man! We should just hope we ain't fighting them anytime soon."

Sarah "Dave, didn't you listen? At one point we have to confront at least 4 of them."

Dave "Shit."

Sarah "Yeah but I guess all this awesome shit is enough of a compromise for me to join guys. Count me in!"

Kanji "Glad, you decided to join us."

Claire "This is going to be awesome Sarah! We can get to you a little more personally."

Amelia "True, our interaction before was minimum at best."

Sarah "Umm...yes. Yes, it will be different... maybe I guess. I don't know."

Dave "Look what you did dudes. You stunlocked her lol."

Kanji "I'm glad. Now then... It's time for AN to activate her powers."

AN spins the relic, it stops upon a symbol of a quill embedded into a fractured surface, the symbol glows a gloomy grey.

Without hesitation, AN stuck down on the relic. The panel bottom of Kanji's panel lights up to show the view of Sarah.

A cloud of prismatic grey aether shrouds Sarah's body, her neck turns charred and scripted with strange symbols.

AN "Miss. Sarah, you are now # The aspect of Fiction #. I guess you already know why you are this aspect."

Sarah "Yeah it is... quite obvious."

she openly notions the many drawings on her walls to support her honesty.

Sarah "Anyway, what can I do?"

AN "As the wielder of fiction, you can conjure up either an object, a beast, or transform into a character or creature from any fiction that doesn't have an owner."

Dave "Ah so this power has like copyright rules. Dang. Guess you can't become Cthulhu, Sas bro."

Sarah "Dave... that nickname... please don't say it again. It's weird."

Dave "No. Sas Sas."

She holds back the urge to smack his face. Instead, her attention turns to more questions about her newfound strength.

Sarah "So how does scaling work? Am I like Kanji, Dave, and Amelia or am I unique like Claire?"

AN "You fall into the latter. Currently, you can only choose one thing from a certain work of fiction and you can use only one of its many abilities. Each crystal you break add two more stuff for you to choose from and you unlock another ability for all of your possession. Also, the abilities you get will be randomized and the fiction has to be famous enough to allow you access."

Sarah "Umm...I see, but what fiction doesn't have an owner?"

Kanji "It's religion and mythology, obviously. No one officially owns them. Either that or you could create your own fiction."

They see a change in Sarah's face, she hops away in a playful manner. The aspect of fiction gets on her computer and quickly types a message to her peons.

Sarah "It's time for project "Old One Order"."

|Dave's chat spams monkaOmega|

Dave sees a grimoire in her hand, it catches his curiosity.

Dave "No. No...You couldn't have. You actually made your own edgy teenage forbidden book and you're trying to spread that damn thing."

Sarah "Err... Yeah. I'm just trying to make my fiction more popular so I can access it. I swear it will be useful in the future. So for now, I guess I have no choice but to choose an item from a religion."

Amelia "You don't want to become a beast or person...oh wait...I can see why that would be quite unpleasant."

Sarah "Yep, I am not comfortable with transformation unless it's a... you know."

Kanji "What should matter is the effectiveness of what you choose."

Dave "Maybe like Zeus's thunderbolt. Shooting lighting and shit is fucking rad."

Amelia "The Bible could be interesting. Who knows it could do something unexpected and awesome."

Claire "I think you should just choose what you want. I have no suggestion lmao."

Sarah "Thanks for pitching in guys, but I think I'm gonna choose Chinese mythology."

Dave "Patriotism 100 alert! Ha jk. Are you going to get Sun Wukong's staff or whatever its name is?"

Sarah "Ruyi Jingu Bang.... and no I'm not gonna choose that."

She makes up her mind and a flash of light fills up the room, a furry orange bag manifests and drops into her open hands.

Kanji "Wait..is that....is that Nezha's bag? Wow. That was quite surprising, but clever of you. This way you could probably get all of his many artifacts."

Sarah "Exactly... Now let's see which item I'm getting first."

She reaches into the legendary object, her friends watch with anticipation. Sarah dramatically pulls out a shiny metallic disk... wait, it's more like a ring.

Dave "Wait is this the weapon that Nezha guy used to fight the monkey king? I don't know, I never watch journey to whatever it was."

Sarah "It's Prince Nezha's Universe ring, Dave."

Dave turns to avoid her glare, keeping his distance against a nearby wall.

Sarah "Humph!...... anyway what you should we do now?"

Kanji "We must prepare of course. I feel like soon we won't be as relaxed as we are now."

Claire "What do you mean Kaney?"

Kanji "You guys remember that guy that struck Amelia."

Dave clenches his fist. He looks at the wall and punches it in anger.

Dave "Of course, I wouldn't forget that midget cape-wearing pussy son of a bitch! What's worse is that we don't even know the bastard's name so I can't fucking roast him more than this."

Amelia "Maybe AN would know. I am keen on paying back this injury ten fucking fold!"

Dave "Only shit Amby! You starting to use curse words, bro. Amber would defo be proud."

Claire "Oh nooo, Amy lost her innocence. Well, it's bound to happen with all of us fucking eventually."

Sarah "Wow... I didn't expect that."

Amelia "eh? what? No, wait guys! That was just an accident! I don't know why that happened!" "Looks like anger is key, nice job Amelia."

She retreats under a pile of nearby pillows. Embarrassed, she dug her face deep into the fluffy objects.

Kanji "Guys, let's get back to business."

They seat down and wait for his words.

Kanji "I believe that AN would like to tell us that guy's name."

AN "Sorry to tell everyone this.... but I have no idea. I heard that a newly elected general has been assigned, but we barely have any intel on him. To be broader, we don't know any of the generals' names accept their titles despite being apart from our society's hierarchical system."

Kanji "Hmmm... that's too bad. I guess we just have to get it out of him ourselves. When we catch him next time that is."

Dave and Amelia are intrigued by Kanji's claim.

Kanji " You know for the past days, at one point of the day we were always attacked. But I believe today we won't be."

Dave "Wait, how would you know that bro?"

Kanji "We can assume that the guy is the newly elected general due to AN's input. Strangely, the leader himself decided to recklessly enter the battlefield. When we tried to attack him, he retreated immediately like a coward meaning he doesn't have the capability to deal with our front-on assault."

Dave "That means he must a fucking dumbass, bro."

Kanji "Yes. Either that or he is scheming something. I believe that yesterday's attack may convince that asshole to try it again. He thinks that not attacking us right now will cause us to let out guard down for when he does attack."

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TIN TIN "Master, why aren't we attacking those humans?"

KARNAT "OH TIN TIN MY BOY! YOU COULDN'T POSSIBLY COMPREHEND MY SUPREME WAY OF THINKING EITHER DO THOSE MONKEYS."

TIN TIN "I see your knowledge has no bounds. You are a god!"

KARNAT "YES INDEED! THEY WILL REST THEIR TINY HEAD IN THE COMFORT OF SAFETY AND SOON I WILL ONCE MORE TAKE A SWIG OF MY SWEET NECTAR OF SUCCESS!"

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Amelia "How despicable! We can't just tolerate that and must take action."

Kanji "We will Amelia, and you are the key to our payback."

Amelia "Wha?"

Kanji "I see the guy as a person who takes even the slightest weakness into account in order to win. He probably believes that a blind person would be easier to kill. We can use this to our advantage because we are the only ones who know that she isn't blind."

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TIN TIN "So master. What will your greatness do?"

KARNAT "I'LL DEPLOY THE SAME TACTIC I MASTERFULLY ORCHESTRATED AND PLUCK THE FANCY DRESS FLENCHING FROM HER NEST."

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Dave "Dude what the fuck?! You are going to use Amby as bait! Not fucking cool!"

Dave grabs Kanji by the collar.

Claire "Hey! Dave! Sto-

Kanji "Claire, it's ok."

He looks at Dave dead in the eye

Kanji "I of course wouldn't want my friend to get hurt. None of us would. But we must take risks to ensure further safety for everyone and so setting a trap for our prey would be the best solution."

Dave "Oh..."

He lets go and sits back down.

Dave ".... sorry man. Fuck. I'm fucking losing my cool."

|His chat filled with D:|

Amelia "Don't worry, Dave. I can take care of myself. It won't happen again and you can bet on it."

Claire "Yeah! We will be by her side. Right, Sarah."

Sarah "Yeah... you can count on me."

Kanji "Now that things are clear. Next time..."

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KARNAT "NEXT TIME..."

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Kanji/KARNAT "... we will win!" / "... I WILL WIN AGAIN!"

Dave "Great now we need a place for training and prepare shit like that chamber from DBZ. This is what are you trying to say, right bro?"

Kanji " Yes and I actually got such a place. But be warned, everyone should stand back. Preferably against the walls."

They position themselves away from Kanji. He pulls out his device tablet and hits a button, Storage. A large spherical portal opens up and Kanji calls everyone to come in.

Inside lies blank white space that seems to be infinite from their point of view. There are also mounts of countless objects.

Dave "Woah dude! Is this all your stuff?!"

Kanji "Yes, but we shouldn't plunder our time scouring my belongings..."

He snaps his fingers, and a pillar-shaped robot appears.

Kanji "Tally, hide all of my inventory and bring me a Biome Ball."

The robot disappears without a trance and all the objects follow after. A green glass orb appears on his left hand and his friends stare at the mysterious object.

Kanji "You guys seem to be quite curious. It will be very long to explain, but I will go with your decisions."

Dave "Nah man, I feel like my brain would fucking explode. So I'm out."

Claire/Amelia: "Same!"

Sarah "I'm..... a bit curious about what it can do."

Kanji "Ok. Basically, this space can hold items or objects and has a spatial distance of about 10 miles in diameter. With the ceiling reaching the same height as Earth's stratosphere. I can bring objects in and out using two other key buttons, Input and Output. I can also exchange an inputted item to duplicate an item inside this space with "Convert". And finally, I have "Compress" which squishes an object into this sphere I'm holding. Unfortunately, this process takes about two weeks to be done."

Sarah "I see.... can we use this place to escape?"

Kanji "No because the enemy can just enter after us. Secondly, it takes 20 minutes to recharge the portal and it only lasts like 2 hours in the real world. However, within this space, it lasts 8 hours. "

Dave "But earlier wasn't it like instant, dude. Also can we like crush anyone with this place?"

Kanji "For some reason, the functions won't work on living beings. Well, except for cases. It is complicated. Also, I think you mistook activation time for charging time. You see the portal can last 2 hours, after that it can't be accessed and it pushes out any life forms within it until 20 minutes are up. But enough of that, let's get started! When I count to three, everyone jump as high as you can."

Kanji "1.... 2....... 3!!!!"

They leap into the air and he chucks the sphere onto the floor. Large amounts of dirt emerge from the broken vessel. The mass spread all over the entire floor and layers of grass start growing on top, a grassy plain is born. They land on the infant soil.

Dave "Dude I'm touching grass poggers."

|His chat replies with the same emote|

Kanji "Everyone listens up! Today we train!"

Sarah raises her hand.

Sarah "I was wondering before we start... aren't guys overwhelmed?"

Dave "What da the fook are you talking about, bro?"

Sarah "I mean... everyone except Claire and I has this weird skill system... and with endless possibilities. It seems... impossible to know what skill to create."

Kanji "So far we just kept skill points and adapted them to situations we ran into."

Sarah "That's smart... but what about when things are too hectic to think during the moment!"

Kanji "Sarah... you're right. I guess we need countermeasures for certain outcomes."

Dave "You mean like a super move or some shit. You should go for it man, there is more stuff you can do with your aspect."

Kanji "Fine, I'll try doing your suggestion. You and Amelia should go for new ways to attack or plan a way to get back at that bastard."

Dave/Amelia "Got it!"

Claire "I'm just gonna stay near the entrance, I already spent my slots on these. Speaking of which..."

She throws a bar of mechanical soap at Sarah, the mass accelerates toward her face. Sarah dodges and dashes away, Claire pursues her target.

Claire "HEY! Sarah! This is like training! It is so much fun lol!"

She throws the rest of the cleaning agents in a cone. Sarah conjures up her universe ring and quickly throws it at Claire's projectiles.

They flicker off and land on the grassy terrain.

Sa: "You're right... this is kinda fun."

Claire quickly picks up all the soap.

Cl: "Prepare for round two."

Sarah gets into a stance with her right leg forward.

Sarah "Bring it on."

Kanji watched this display of passive-aggressiveness in amusement. Eventually, he moves on to consult his current skills.

Kanji "To be blunt, all of my skills can become ultimate skills if infused with enough power. However, some might be less practical than others and could potentially hurt my friends. I'm gonna need a skill that can perfectly save us in a pitch and be utilized normally."

Time passes, but he ultimately finds gold.

Kanji "Got it!"

Kanji summons several dummies surrounding him. Kanji takes in a couple of deep breaths.

Kanji "Ok, just enough to not knock me out completely."

His body glows with energy and a wave of electricity ripples outward shocking all nearby objects. It's a bit anti-climatic as the straw dummies weren't affected by his attack.

Kanji "Humph! That doesn't matter. Cause the real test comes now!"

Kanji charges his chain and disperses his body into the static ground. Like a flash of lighting, he bolts from dummy to dummy cutting their fragile structure in seconds.

Kanji now knows

|5. Energy wave|

Kanji repeats the action, again and again, increasing the number of dummies each time until he reaches his limit.

Kanji "Yes! Test complete! Let's see how's everyone else going."

He turns back toward the two girls. It seems Claire started shooting her crossbow and Sarah is mostly dodging and sometimes deflecting them using her ring like a melee weapon. He continues to look around.

Kanji "Where's Dave and Amelia?"

They seem to have gone to the border of the space, sitting and having a peaceful picnic.

Dave "Man, these sandwiches are so good. You're the best fucking chef in the world, Amby!"

Amelia "Dave! Save some for the others. And shouldn't we start discussing our course of action."

Dave "Don't worry! I figured it out. EZPZ."

Dave walks a short distance and lightly tabs the ground.

Dave "Throw something to this spot right here."

She picks up his drone and throws it. It contacts and the ground erupts into a long and sharp spike.

Dave now knows

|5. Trigger|

Fortunately, his drone managed to dodge the impalement.

|The amount of MonkaDeath in his chat is staggering|

Amelia "I see that you created a kind of triggering ability."

She said trying to divert the conversation.

Dave "Amby, what the fuck?!.... Throw it harder so the spike could stab it."

Amelia "Eh???"

|His chat: D: and Weirdchamp|

Dave "Aw man, now I won't have an excuse to buy the latest recording drone!"

Amelia "Why don't you just do it anyway?"

Dave "Because I have an oath to never get anything new unless the things I have, are broken by someone else. Why? I don't know! I just fucking weird like that! We should probably get our asses back to Kanji."

Amelia "How about my new ability?"

Dave "Ummm....maybe like you switch people's field of view to confuse the fuck out of them."

Amelia "Dave I think you are very smart when it comes to fighting."

Dave "Well, I did spend like years fighting thugs or douches. Those guys were unpredictable as fuck."

Amelia "I see that is pretty cool."

Dave "Wow you're starting to sound a lot like Amber. Just kidding, you got a long way to go."

Amelia "Yeah, you're right."

They stand up and rejoin the group. Dave relays his plan to Kanji.

Kanji "I can't believe I have to say this but dude you're a genius."

Dave "Dammmmmn. Did you really just say that, dude? Who is this man and where is Kanji?"

Kanji "Stop with sarcasm. Anyway, our time is almost up."

They enter back through the portal and step over back into Sarah's apartment.

Sarah "What should we d-"

Something hits the side of her head and she floats into a bubble.

Sarah "Hey! Claire! That's unfair!"

Claire puts on a fake elderly beard which she got inside her backpack.

Claire "Final lesson my Pinyine, the art of surprise."

Sarah "That's not how you spell "student" in Chinese... french girl."

Dave "Woah man, don't go there. I don't want to be banned from Twitchnet for the 18th time."

Amelia "What did you do to deserve such sentences?"

Dave "I tried to watch porn on stream. 8 times out of 10, I got terminated lmao! Other reasons would be chat's links."

|His chat spams Trollface|

Kanji "Wait what about the tw... you know what never mind. AN, are you there?"

AN "I have been trying to communicate with you through this artificial portal you created. Alas, my efforts yielded no fruit. For a human invention, this device shows a complexity much greater than our own."

Kanji "Do you wish to know its functions and inner workings?"

AN "As delightful as it is to learn about, I won't ask for it. For better, you should explain it to one of my colleagues, he is one of the greatest inventors in all of Caverrin. The thing is that he hates humans for their low intellect and doesn't want to talk to them. But I'm sure you know what I'm suggesting."

Kanji "Yes, understood. Welp...."

He turns to Dave and Amelia.

Kanji "... I wasn't finished with your plan. It has a huge flaw, we don't know what weapon he used against Amelia, it could possibly just slice through the spikes altogether. Amelia anything you noticed when he attacked you?"

Amelia "I remembered that the guy was moving very fast, I barely managed to see him holding what seems to be a turquoise knife. What boggled me the most is that the air around the blade seemed to rupture."

AN "Oh my god! He was using Neo Zanite! This is very bad!"

Kanji "What do you mean?"

AN "When Suntarus struck, he left behind three of his teeth which have the property to cut through anything in the universe. The largest of which currently sits behind the empress's throne, we rebels have the small one, and the medium one is nowhere to be found. The only thing that can block that damn weapon is with null rotatenium."

Kanji "What's rotatenium? Is it a type of metal?"

AN "Yes, it is basically the pillar of all of our creations. Using this material allowed us to achieve an unlimited amount of energy because it defies the law of motion. In short, the metal can exist in three states: Null, normal, and charged. When it is normal, an object touching it would increase continuously by its initial velocity. Charged rotatenium increases an object's speed constantly by its current velocity. Lastly, null rotatenium completely negates any form of force or movement it attaches to or is struck by. To protect Miss Amelia, we need armor fashioned by laying null rotatenium on top of normal rotatenium. The problem is that this type of armor is only allowed to be made for the empress's generals."

Claire "So that's what that weird white cube was! You know the one inside the orbs of the soldier's weapons."

Kanji "Yeah, I'm guessing that the rotatenium is used as a generator for the plasma their weapons use. Man, there are a lot of things that don't make sense but I'll hold them off for now. So is there any way to obtain this equipment?"

AN "Oh... umm... we do have one armor, but it belongs to the guy I told you about. I'll try my best to get it and send it to you, but he won't be happy."

Kanji "That's understandable, please convince him."

AN sends a thumbs-up through the wielder's skill panel, Kanji stretches his arms and yawns.

Kanji "We can have time to relax."

Dave "Sweet dude! Finally!"

Claire "Oooh, we can go to a McDaniel. I'm starving!"

Sarah retreats like a cornered cat.

Sarah "I-I don't know."

Amelia "Sarah is there something wrong?"

Sarah "I-I...I work at a nearby McDaniel for a living."

Amelia "Gosh! that's awful! You poor lass."

Dave "Sas, we will treat you to the best fucking meal of your entire life."

Claire "Yeah! It will be awesome!"

Sarah looks at Kanji, he nods in agreement with their suggestion.

Sarah "Ha, fine... I guess I'm outnumbered."

They prepare to walk out and but one thing is still amiss.

Sarah notions AN, determined for an answer.

Sarah "Ummm.... the story you told us. What's was her name, The First Aspect of Reality?"

AN "Her name was Mira......... Karlac."