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"Where am I?"

I look around in shock, I'd just been grabbing some food from my favorite restaurant, and the next thing I know I'm in the middle of nowhere freezing my butt off, seriously I haven't seen this much snow in years.

Well at least it looks pretty, wait, no really what happened? How'd I get here? Ok, calm down, I just need to get somewhere I won't freeze to death.

I start to look around and instantly notice a small group of buildings in the distance, though they look like they haven't been used in an amber era, they'll hopefully have something that can warm me up. I think I see someone next to the building now that I'm a bit closer, so I speed up, start waving at them, and shout a quick hello.

I think I got their attention, there running over here now. They kind of look like an old timey soldier, and it looks like they have a bluish haze around them? Are they a pathstrider or something? I haven't met many, but none of them had any kind of haze around them.

Uh, is that a halberd there running at me with? I'm out of here!

What do I do!?! I don't see anywhere to run, I'm going to trip in the snow before I can get away!

I quickly look behind and "AAAAAH!" THERE CATCHING UP!

*POP*

[7-4 Petrification - Gives Felix the ability to turn an enemy to stone with any attack, ranged or not, due to only being a 4 it only lasts 10 second, and possibly even less time depending on how much stronger the target is than him]

I'm SO dead, I've never even been in a fight, and they have a halberd. Maybe I can slow them down enough if I grab handfuls of snow and throw them behind me as I run?

I do just that, and glimpse back as I run to see if it worked. D-did they just turn into a statue? Did the Amber Lord do that or something? The IPC guys always said he'd Protect us.

"Thank you Mr. Amber Lord sir, I'll totally give your people a ton of credits as tha-EEEEP!"

[2-3 Great Lance - A Heavy Great Lance that will likely break after a few good hits due to the low power of the roll]

I grab the lance that suddenly appeared by my feet and quickly back away from the confused looking non statue thing, that totally has ice for a face, cause there is no way someone's wearing an ice face plate.

I thrust the lance at them, but it jumps back and swings the halberd overhead at me.

*POP*

[3-1 Human Observation - Due to the extremely low roll, Felix can occasionally learn a single useless fact about someone after looking at them for 30 minutes straight]

I quickly jump to side, and thrust at it again, and actually hit it! It turned into a statue again!

It was only a statue for a few seconds last time, so I use the staff like a bat and hit the side of it, breaking the statues arm off. As I wind up another swing, it turns back and kicks me in the stomach before I can hit it, knocking me to the ground.

I look at it in horror, trying to scramble back, as it manages to swing its halberd at me with one arm.

*POP*

[6-19 Killing Intent - Felix can exude pure killing intent, to the point of paralyzing someone with fear, due to the high power, when Felix fears for his life, whoever causes this suddenly imagines him killing them, whether or not they're even capable of imagination.

It suddenly stumbles back, as I finally manage to get up, then stab at it with my spear. It's knocked over, but the spears head comes off, so I just quickly start beating it while its down with the pole, until it stops moving.

I pant exhausted as I look down at the (hopefully) dead creature. What is this thing? It looks like something straight out of my nightmares when I was told about the antimatter legion as a kid. Ugh, there's totally more of these things around here, what do I do?

And where'd this spear come from anyway? Though, the thing turning into a statue when I hit it was weirder. I'll have to think about it later when I'm safe, I need to find something to keep me warm before I freeze to death...

I start walking back towards the building again, since that's the only thing around here. Please don't let there be anymore of these monsters.




This burgers as good as ever. I'm so glad it survived me throwing it on the ground when I started running from that thing. One of the buildings ended up being a relatively intact home compared to the others, in other words it was the only one that didn't have holes. It actually looks like someone was here recently, there was a blanket and lighter in the room with a fireplace, it was a life saver. I wonder if they left it behind in case anyone else needed it.

I still have no idea where I'm at, but at least I'm still alive. I always worried about something like this happening every time I had an existential crisis about Aeons, but its even freakier now that I'm actually going through it. Well at least its not as bad as those stories I always hear about the Aeon of Elation. Oh god, what if this actually is THEM? THEY would probably find this really funny...

Lets not think about that, I just need to find civilization, then go on the first ship home. Or I could stay somewhere on this planet if its not all a frozen hellscape. Huh, this is my first time going to a different planet, well at least I'm fairly certain there's nowhere home that gets this cold, or has those weird monsters.

Now, how do I even find people, do I just walk in a random direction and hope for the best?

I head outside, and start looking around to see I can find anything else around here. I see some blue things in the distance, I'm pretty sure they're more of that monster.

Now that its starting to get dark maybe I'll be able to see lights from buildings. I start to run to the top of a hill close by-

*POP*

[10-7 Medkit - Felix heals after being hurt, being hit again before the heal happens interrupts the heal, and it restarts. This heal isn't particularly strong, but it can completely heal smaller cuts, and take the edge off worse wounds.]

-ouch, and I trip. Man, hopefully I didn't twist my ankle. By the time I get to the top of the hill I barely feel it hurting anymore so I think I'm good.

Ah! I can see some lights over there! Its kind of far though, I might need to sleep at that old house then head there tomorrow, so I don't have to fight any of those things in the dark...

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I guess yesterday wasn't a nightmare... Ugh, don't even have anything to drink to get me through the morning.

"That's enough moping!"

I hop up and start doing some stretches to wake myself up good for my trek to the city(?) I saw the lights of last night.

*POP*

[10-17 Super Massive Leach - Due to the high power of the roll, Felix heals any time he damages an enemy]

What was that sound? I think I heard it a few times yesterday too, is it like a weird bug sound on this planet?

I'll just ask the locals when I have the chance, I have a lot more important mysteries anyways, like how I just appeared here, or why that thing suddenly turned to stone, OR why I randomly got a spear.

Well the obvious answer would be an Aeon, I mean I don't know much about them, but they're like the only things that could do all this.

Not sure what I could've done to make an Aeon hate me enough to do this. Can they even hate? Wait, of course they can, Nanook hates like everything enough to want to destroy all.

Wait, that thing turned to stone every time I hit it, so did the Aeon actually give me a cool pathstrider power too? That's kind of sick too, though I'm not sure if its worth all this.






Its probably just another 2 hours of walking from here, and I've managed to avoid all of those monsters, it seems like they have terrible eyesight, I can see them way before they see me.

*POP*

[9-4 Charm - Due to the low power this still attracts enemies to Felix's location]

"AAAAAH!" Why'd they all turn towards me and start running at the same time!?!

There are even weird icy birds this time with those icy soldiers!

Ok ok, calm down you have a cool pathstrider power and a big stick, you can take them down Felix.

At least they're all coming from the same direction, I'd be screwed if I was surrounded.

There's three of those ice soldiers and two ice birds(?), I barely beat the one guy last time...

No no, that was my first fight ever, this is my second so I'm way more experienced.

I get into my best stance, which I'm not sure you can actually call and stance and (try to) prepare myself.

"WHICHEVER AEON DID THIS, I HATE YOU!"

*POP*

[1-17 "Tomorrow in Harmonious Chords" (Bug) - A Musician of the Dreamjolt Troupe, influenced by the Order to play an unending ballad of the future , due to the high power of the summon, it is no longer influenced by people's emotions, or the Order, becomes a physical entity(freed from the dream), and has regenerating components that won't fail outside of taking major damage. It traps enemies in a dream of the future then beats them to death without waking them up, and is stronger the more enemies it puts to sleep.]

"EEEEEK!" WHAT IS THAT!? ITS HUGE! And it surprised me so much I fell back, I'm doomed...

"Huh?" It's kind of just looking at me? And now its looking at those things running at me. I-is it play a violin? They're all going to sleep...? What is going on!? Now its beating them with its violin...

"Uh, thanks? Please don't kill me!"

It's just staring at me. This is so weird. Ah, its waving, I guess its nice. I wave back.

"Thanks for saving me!"

The violinist(?) simply nodded, can it not talk?

"My name is Felix Septima, but you can just call me Felix, nice to meet you!" I reach my hand out to shake its free hand, and it gently shakes my hand, is it worried about hurting me? It does seem pretty strong.

"Do you know how you got here?"

It shakes its head no, I guess its stuck in the same situation as me.

"I think there's a city over there, want to come with me to it?" I say as I point where I saw the lights last night, and it nods. I'll feel so much safer with this huge fella with me!

"Um, what should I call you, ah sorry, I forgot you couldn't talk!" Oh, its writing in the snow.

"Nice to meet you future, that's a neat name."

*POP*

[7-4 Drug of Yore - medicine said to be capable of curing any illness or curse, even bringing back bodies or souls from the brink of death. Due to the low power of the roll, Felix only gets half a vial]

Did something just appear in my pocket? I pull it out and its vial half full of glowing purple liquid...? D-did an Aeon just give me some weird superpowered poison!?

And I just heard a pop noise again, I think I've heard one every time something randomly popped up, even for Future. But I heard it and nothing showed up too? Its happening way too often for it to be a coincidence, did an Aoen curse me with a weird chaos causing popping sound? I know I've heard of them doing some strange things, but that sounds like a bit much.

Me and Future walk in silence together while I try to calm down, and try not to think about being cursed(?) by an Aeon. Well Future seems like they could be a nice friend, so it may not be a curse after all!

*POP*

[3-10 Berserker Class Card (Lancelot) - When the user installs the card, they gain a weakened version of the Heroic Spirit Lancelots skills, stats and Noble Phantasm. The user can also simply Include the card to use Arondight.

I fish the card out of my pocket, please don't be something as strange as that poison(?). It's just a card with a picture of a bull on it?

Is there any rhyme or reason for this stuff? it hops between crazy stuff like turning something to stone and a normal old spear or card at random.

How exactly am I going to explain this to the locals...? Hopefully they're used to automatons, I'd hate for them to mistake Future for a bad guy. All of the stuff thats popped in has been pretty harmless, so I think it'll be ok, they won't even know if nothing like Future, or a spear appears!

Ah! I see actual soldiers! They don't even have ice on them!

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I shout a quick "HEY!" at the soldiers, and they cautiously start walking towards us. Phew, I was worried they'd start sprinting at me for a second there.

*POP*

[3-15 Camelot - Camelot appears in the snow field between Felix and the soldiers. The walls of Camelot have a special protection capable of blocking any attack with malicious intent, its even capable of keeping the inside a decent temperature.]

"I-is that a castle?" I'm not even surprised at this point... This has to be the Elation... I'm so doomed... THEY are going to drop a Lord Ravager on me by next week at this rate.

Yep, Future looks just as shocked as me, well as shocked as they can look without a proper face. At least they aren't panicking.

Ah! Are those soldiers ok?! The castle didn't appear on top of them or something right?

I run to the other side, and see them running away... Yeah, I guess that's an appropriate reaction to a castle suddenly appearing.

Should I follow them? They might think I did that as some kind of attack? Wait, if I make stuff like a castle appear, I shouldn't go into a city, it might crush someone, or an entire block of people...

I officially hate whoever caused this! Though if it is the Elation they probably think me hating them is funny.

What to do?

"Wait for me Future!" They were going to check out the castle without me, how rude. I practically gave birth to it, so I get first dibs on going in.

*POP*

[1-20 Basic Ingredients - Due to the power of the roll Camelot has an infinitely refilling supply of every basic ingredient you may need, and Felix can teleport them to him at will at any time.]

Please don't be another castle. Now my pops are even more horrifying, even Future is looking at me cautiously when they happen...

I haven't eaten or drank anything since yesterday, so hopefully there's something here. If not I'll just have to hope those soldiers come back to check this place out. Though this castle looks super old timey so I have no clue if those even had water in them.

"Hey Future, can you help me find a kitchen or something similar?" They nod back, "Thanks!" I'm so glad I popped Future, maybe I can give them some kind of ability like my stone one as thanks? I'd really appreciate it pops.

*POP*

[6-16 Chidori Current - Future can now channel electricity through their entire body or any specific part of their body, this also make their body resistant to electricity due to the high power of the roll]

Oh! Uh, thanks? Wait.

"Future, do you feel any different?"

They look at me, nod then run electricity through there violins bow. Thanks pops!

"Woah, that's wicked Future!" Why are they giving me such a blank stare, how can I even tell its a blank stare!?

"This place is huge!" I may be stating the obvious, but I've never been to an actual castle, its got such a different feeling to a modern building this big. See, even Future agrees, they're nodding and everything!

We found this cafeteria, and its looks like it has enough food and water to last me decades, and it all looks completely fresh, this definitely has to be weird path hocus pocus, its fresher than the local market back home.

Well, at least if I'm stuck never entering a populated area again I'm good to go food and water wise. I might even have enough to barter for a ship back home with this much. Well that's if they're even connected to the silver rail and have spaceships... That armor they were wearing didn't exactly look too modern, maybe its just a tradition from the past!

Speaking of the locals, I wonder how long it'll take them to come check out the castle that appeared in front of them.

*POP*

[10-17 Stone Golem - Due to the high power of the roll, a group of ten stone golems that can follow simple orders now follow Felix's orders, there default order is to protect Camelot, they will appear outside the castle. They are ten feet tall, all fairly physically powerful, and shoot a  laser with a long buildup time.]

I don't see or feel anything, is it another ability? Ugh, I'm going to have to make sure whatever pops in isn't dangerous every time aren't I?

"Future, you notice anything?" They shake their head no, I guess we'll have to just keep our eyes open. These pops really know how to make me both thankful and terrified at the same time...

*BOOM*

*POP*

[2-8 Superior Bow - An exceptional bow that gives the user the bowbreaker skill when being used, doing additional damage to enemies who use bows]

"What was that!?"

I ignore the bow for now, I'll check it out later.

Future starts running towards where the explosion(?) came from, and we look out one of the castle windows down from the second floor. Are those automatons? They're fighting some of those monsters. I guess they got attracted by the giant castle, they did seem to like building.

Wait where'd these weird robots even come from? Did the locals send them to check out the castle? I've certainly never seen a robot that looks like its a bunch of boulders put together.

*BOOM*

Wow, that lasers crazy strong it took out like three of those icy soldiers at the same time. I certainly hope the locals didn't send them to check out the castle, they'd wreck it just trying to get in!

They probably sent them to keep these monsters from getting in, nothing to worry about. Or they were what popped in... I don't know if that'd be a good or bad thing even. I mean nothing that's popped has directly attacked me, so maybe they're safe? Even if they're safe for me I have no clue about for the locals though.

Ugh, I have to go check don't I?

"Future, want to go see if they're friendly?"

Future gives me a hesitant nod, at least I have good backup if they are aggressive, that laser is scary.

Hmm I wonder what would happen if I turned them to stone, would they become rockier?

Looks like they took them all out, they don't even have a scratch on them either. Relax, just gotta make sure don't blow me up, Future, or the locals up too with there giant laser, no pressure.

"Hey! Up here!" They look(?) up here with there uh, laser eye? I really hope there somehow using they're laser thing as an eye, I don't see anywhere else for anything to see with would be at least.

"You guys aren't gonna start attacking people right?" Uh, they're just kinda staring at me... I don't think they're charging up a laser at least, it was glowing red a while before they shot it before. Ah, are they the kind with a simple AI?

"Don't attack people please!" They nod this time, uh, I guess that means I did pop them since they seem to be listening to me.

Well, at least I'd think they aren't so poorly designed as to take just anyone's voice command. Though pops being sophisticated enough to program them into following my orders seems kind of scary, its probably the least surprising part of them.

"Just keep those icy monsters out of here, ok!" They nod and start patrolling around the castle. I guess I'll prepare to say hey to whoever comes to check this place out, I'll just have to make sure I don't pop anything dangerous, I have no clue how but I'll have to try!

"Hey, over here!" They're finally here! There's an important looking blonde guy, so he's probably in charge, and four soldiers following him. He must be tough if he just came over to the super ominous castle with four normal looking soldiers. I bet he's a pathstrider!

I run to the front door from the second floor window, so I can greet them when they got there. I asked Future to stay back so I could talk to the guards, so they wouldn't scare the guards off. I doubt they've seen any automatons around here, hopefully this is just a less developed part of the planet.

I open the door for them, and say "Hey! My names Felix, its nice to finally meet some locals!

*POP*

[8-6 Hot Bikini - A black bikini with a standard bikini top and a skirt(?) bottom with powerful defensive capabilities(somehow).]

Ah, my heart almost skipped a beat when it popped, I thought something dangerous would appear but its just some clothes that appeared in my hands.

"Sorry about that guys, I think an Aeon might have cursed me or something." Man, they look confused.

"My name is Gepard Landau, a Captain of the Silvermane Guards, we have several questions we'd like to ask you."

"I have a lot too, you guys can come on in so we can talk."

"Do you promise you have no ill intentions for Belobog or my men?" Did my castle spawning in give them that bad of a first impression?

"Of course!"

"Very well, I'll trust you Felix."

"You guys make yourself comfortable while I put this uh- is this a bikini? Uh, I'll put this up real quick, sorry about that!" Ah, that's an even worse first impression...

It was nice of Gepard to send his soldiers out, so I wouldn't feel outnumbered.

"Do you want to start asking questions or should I?"

"I have a rather important question Felix, what did you me by "an Aeon"? Are there others than Qlipoth, The Preservation?" Oh no, I really am in the middle of nowhere.

"Oh, I think there's like 13 or so living Aeons? No, wait its 12. I only really learned the basics, its a pretty scary subject to get deep in."

"12... Wait, living?"

"Yeah, I know even less about the dead ones, though Akivili's story is pretty famous."

"We only have records of Qlipoth, do you have any evidence to verify this?"

"Uh, I might on my phone? I can see after were done talking."

"That would be great, thank you, you may ask your question now, I will ask more after, does that sound good to you?"

"Sure, then I'll get straight to my most important question! What are those icy monsters I kept running into?"

"Ah, the fragmentum monsters. I'm afraid I'll have to explain the history of Belobog to explain them, it is rather lengthy"

"Go ahead."

*POP*

[1-15  The Interpretation of Dreams (Sparkle Companion Quest)  - Felix can now create illusions of himself and freely control them]

...

I've certainly heard of stuff like this in the news, but is this planet really facing a Stellaron Disaster? And it sounds like happened after an attack by the antimatter legion too... T-this is way too much, what kind of twisted individual would put me here, or do this to these people...

"Ah, sorry Gepard, your people have been through a lot, its a lot scarier seeing stuff like this in person than hearing about it in the news."

"This is happening elsewhere!?"

"Y-yeah it's called the Cancer of All Worlds, er I mean the official names a Stellaron Disaster I think. Countless civilizations have fallen to them. Some people think Nanook, the Aeon of Destruction, created them, but no ones been able to confirm it."

"I see, thank you for this information... Have you heard of any way to stop them?"

"I'm sorry, the only way I've heard of them being beaten is a powerful organization like the IPC overpowering them, and even then I hear they don't always succeed, and end up needing to relocate the people.

"I-I see. Do you have a way to contact anyone like that?"

"No, my phones not reaching anyone, I'm so sorry."

"It is fine Felix, there is no reason to blame yourself, we will persevere with the help of the Preservation as we have for 700 years. I will stake that on my Landau name."

Wow, Gepards intense, though I guess you'd have to be to make it through a Stellaron Disaster.

"Gepard, you said you had more questions right?"

"My apologies, I got a bit carried away, do you know what caused this castle to appear? Two of my men said they saw two figures here then a castle appear before them. I assume you were one of them?"

"Oh yeah! I completely forgot, and that's the entire reason you came here. You see I had been buying lunch, when I was suddenly teleported into snowy plains."

"So I'm thinking an Aeon like cursed me or something? Well the only one I can think of that'd do something like this is Aha, the Elation, but I'm not sure. People back home called me crazy cause I was convinced Aha was messing with me for a week straight. I still kind of think he was, some of those pranks seemed physically impossible. Oh, sorry for rambling Gepard."

"It is fine, it must've been rough to have everyone doubt you. If Aha is as dedicated to the Elation as Qlipoth is to the Preservation, that certainly sounds plausible. But to be cursed with chaotic pops, that is certainly an odd experience."

"Yeah, tell me about it. Well at least they aren't all bad!"

*POP*

[4-6 Parallel Existence - Gives Felix the ability to create a perfect clone of himself, which can use all of his abilities and is able to use all of his abilities. They share the same magic pool, though he doesn't have a magic pool yet. Due to the low power of the roll, he can only create one]

"AAAAAH" "AAAAAH" "Felix!"

Why is there another me! Wait, I popped!

"I see what you meant Felix, this is certainly one of the oddest things I've ever seen."

"How are you so calm!?" "How are you so calm!?"

"Experience, do you think you can merge back together?"

I and my clone both look at each other awkwardly. We slowly walk to each other and I start thinking about absorbing him. It worked!

"Good job Felix, that certainly seems like a useful ability."

"Thanks? oh, would you like anything to eat, we've been talking a while."

"I'm quite alright, me and my men should get back to Belobog, now that we've ruled out the castle as a threat. You've left me much to think on Felix, thank you."

"No problem, sorry I couldn't do anything to help."

"Felix, it's quite alright, your information may be enough to help us. I would invite you back to Belobog, but I'm afraid I agree with what you say before, this curse would be extremely dangerous anywhere populated. I'm certain you will find a way around it soon. I will tell others of what you told me, I'll try to find time to come visit, and others will surely come to discuss what you told me here. Farewell Felix."

"Bye Gepard, have a safe trip back!"

*POP*

[1-8  White Night  (Song) - White night plays at the front door of Camelot, Felix can turn it on or off at will.]

"Woah, it can do music, Ah! That reminds me, Gepard, I popped in some mechs earlier, let me see if I can lend you some. Belobog seems like it needs them more than me."

"We would appreciate it, any support at all will save lives, you have my deepest gratitude Felix."

"It's not that big of a deal, one or two are more than enough for me, and I've got ten! Come here Rocky 1-10!" Glad I only had them patrolling the other side of the house, I'd hate to make them wait longer.

Gepard looks pretty surprised by them, makes sense they're some of the strangest mechs I've seen.

"That eye thing is actually a laser, and they can take out like three of those fragmentum monsters at a time with it, Rocky 3-10 listen to Gepard here's order, ok?" They nod. Good, I was worried I wouldn't be able to transfer them over cause of weird pop mechanics.

"These are even better than I expected, you once again have my thanks Felix, Rocky 3-10, men! Lets go!"

Man, that was exhausting... Being at a Stellaron Disaster is terrifying... But, maybe my pops can help save the people here?

Well, the music probably can't, at least its pretty good, but is there a way to stop it? It's kinda just on loop. Oh, it stopped nice. Start, sweet.

But I bet I can at least help the people of Belobog with my pops, I already got them some strong mechs, I can get more stuff to help!

"Hey Future!" I guess he saw them leaving.

...I forgot to introduce Future to Gepard. Oops. "Sorry Future, I got a bit distracted, you know about Stellarons?" Man, that's a grim looking nod.

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Wow, Future is not taking this well. They've been pacing around for a while now... They seemed fine with just dealing with the fragmentum creatures earlier, did they have a bad experience with a Stellaron Disaster before or something?

"Future, uh, you like music don't you?" Future stops pacing, and gives me a hesitant nod.

"I popped some music in at the front earlier, maybe relaxing there for a bit will help you calm down?"

Future walks there pretty fast, I guess they really want to get the Stellaron Disaster off their mind.

*POP*

[12-1 Cooking with Valkyries (Manga) - Due to the extremely low power of the roll, it is just the cover of the manga, which is a picture of Bronya Zaychik holding food]

Did it just give me a picture of someone...? Is this from like a commercial or something? These pops really make no sense.

Ah! I forgot to tell Gepard I have a ton of food and drink, they probably need that in Belobog, I might have even have enough to help feed all of Belobog, though I have no clue how many people are actually there.

I really need to write a list of everything I need to do, its been so chaotic its hard to keep up with it all.

I'll write it down on my phone.

1. Figure out a way to control my pops.

2. Help out the people of Belobog with any useful pops.

3. Figure out what my pops have done or will do, I still haven't found or figured out what a ton them even did.

4. My minds going blank, but I totally have more stuff to do, put it here when I remember.

[11-11 Antiquity's Roast - This is a mechashift weapon, in its default state it is a Thermos, and when it is extended it becomes a flamethrower, that can also be used as a bat. The lid must be off to activate it, it is then activated by tightly gripping the handle, and you swing it to extend it, and it then locks into place. WARNING DO NOT SQUEEZE THE HANDLE WHILE DRINKING FROM THE THERMOS] 

Sweet, a thermos, I'm glad I get at least some normal things.

*Yawn* That was big one, I guess I am pretty exhausted, I guess I need to find a bed room around here.

"Woah." This bedroom definitely looks like it was made for royalty, I didn't even know they could look this good during castle times.

I asked Future if they needed to sleep, but they just shook their head no and kept playing along to that song at the front. They'll probably be able to play it perfectly on the violin by tomorrow, they're crazy good at it.

*POP*

[5-1 Prominence Typhoon - A magical purple flame attack that comes out of a magic circle the size of a person, due to the extremely low power of the roll, Felix can now use the same magic circle, but only fire the equivalent of a candle light.]

Are my pops trying to keep me awake...? I'm too tired to worry about you... Don't bother me til its time to get up...

*POP*

[2-17 List of Classes - Due to the high power of the roll, Felix now has a physical paper that lists the names of all summons and what type of summon they are. ]

Ugh, I didn't mean to actually bother me when its time to get up...

Looks like its another paper, hopefully its not some ad this time. "List of Summons?"

Petrification, great lance, i-is it actually telling me what my pops did? Did Aha start to feel bad or something? This is great! I can finally figure out what I've been doing.

Human observation? What does that even mean, I didn't feel like I was seeing those guys or Gepard any differently? Killing intent!? Is that what caused that thing to stumble then? Huh, Medkit? I never got a medkit...?

Is this a prank too or something? Half of these make no sense...

AH! I-is there a gigantic leach around here?! I need to have the mechs look around for leaches... No, wait it says its an "ability", am I part leach or something now...? L-lets move on.

Is this future? "Tomorrow in Harmonius Chords", that's pretty vague, but I guess it fits them?

Drug of Yore... Is that the poisonous purple looking liquid, and its listed as a healing item!? And that card is listed as a combat item!?

Can I truly trust this list? I'm not sure how I'd feel giving someone sick that glowing purple stuff...

Hm, Camelots the name of the castle, and I suppose I popped the food and water here apparently. Current sounds like its electricity so its probably Futures lightning thing. Oh, that mechs are called Golems.

Th-that bikini is listed as armor? This has to be joking... "The Interpretation of Dreams"? A skill, can I interpret dreams well now or something? I hardly ever even remember my dreams though...

Parallel Existence? That's kind of a freaky name for that clone thing I did. I-is it literally splitting me into two or something? Well, lets just not think too hard about that...

Oh, the songs called White Night, and would Cooking with Valkyries be that picture of a girl? It says literature on.

That would make the thermos "Antiquity's Roast"...? Does that say weapon!? I'm definitely not drinking out of that now... Man, a thermos would have been convenient too. Wait how exactly can that be a weapon? Where would anything even fit in it? No, no, don't try to make sense of this nonsense Felix, you'll just drive yourself insane.

"Prominence Typhoon"? A skill? That sounds so cool! Do I just like shout it or something?

I stick out my hand and shout "Prominence Typhoon!", and a huge red glowing slower appears, Ah! I need to aim out the window!

It fires...

*POP*

[3-1 Stray Servant - The randomly selected servant is an assassin class card (Hassan of the Cursed Arm), due to the extremely low power, it will appear nearby an individual compatible with Hassan of the Cursed Arm. If Hassan finds them worthy, he will tell them through the card how to use it.]

...The circles gone...? Did anything happen? I saw bit of purple, I think?

I'll just check what I just popped...

"Stray Servant?" It says combat item? I was worried it dropped a poor butler or maid around or something. What kind of combat item would be called a stray servant? Wait, where even is it? It could be dangerous!

I guess that's something I'll have to warn Belobog about, I'd hate for it to get into the hands of someone malicious.

Hm? Why's the list called "List of Classes?", the paper clearly says "List of Summons"...?

Of course the thing that seems like its supposed to help me figure this out gives me just as many questions...

It looks like its mostly given me a lot of really strange "abilities", though I have no clue what most of these even mean, so I'm not sure how they're supposed to even help...

At least I know how to use petrification and parallel existence. Though parallel existence sounds super scary, does it actually make two of me exist, does the other me cease to exist when we merge back together?

I might have to risk that if it can save mine, Future, and the everyone else here's lives though...

Well first I need to test if my clone has pops too. I unmerge(?) my clone out.

"Hello son." "Never say that again." I thought it was funny!

"I guess walk to the other side so we can see?" "Yeah, I'll tour that side of the castle while I'm at it too, its so cool!" "I'll go check on Future then, and see if anyone's going to come visit from Belobog, have fun!" "Thanks, you too!"

What a nice fellow!

This is strange, now I feel like a narcissist... I guess I'll have to get used to all this weirdness.

I fold the list of summons, put into my pocket, then start walking over to where Future is.

*POP*

[3-20 Oni's Head - Shuten-douji's upgraded form of battle continuation, it's  based on anecdote of Shuten-douji surviving after being decapitated. Due to the power being a 20, Felix also cannot die from decapitation, and his head will immediately reconnect to his body if put on his neck, along with having the equivalent of Battle Continuation A+]

Of course it waited for me to fold it up to pop.

What kind of ability would "Oni's Head" be? My head isn't different is it!? I don't feel anything different, is there a mirror in this castle!? Wait, I can just ask Future. My head will be totally fine.

Wow, did Future really spend all night learning this song, "White Night" if I remember right?

"Good morning Future! Your even better at the violin than I thought, you sound amazing! Feeling better after last night?" Future simply nods then gets back to playing along, I guess they really love playing the violin?

"Does my head look any different?" You don't have to look at me like that, its a totally normal question!

"Ah, I forgot to tell you, my pops gave me a list of what I've "summoned", well its really vague, but now I can at least not be completely in the dark!"

Future relaxes a bit and nods, I didn't even notice how stiff they were, I guess they're still a bit stressed from last night... I'd ask them what's bothering them, but I think having to write the entire story in the snow would stress them out even more.

*POP*

[2-16 Command Lance - The exclusive Lance of Sigrun, a powerful lance that strengthens nearby allies, and reduces the damage they take.]

*THUD*

Is this a halberd? My pops really like polearms, this one actually looks pretty good. At least it looks like its not about to fall apart like that lance from last time.

I pull out the paper to check if it has a cool name. This is a lance? And what does support weapon mean? Does it mean support in like game terms? I'm not sure how'd I test that, would I just stand next to someone while I hold it? Supports in games usually have like a wand or instrument...

Will I get an armory too? Its given me a bow, two lances, a combat thermos(?), bikini armor(?), and a battle(?) card...

I may get the strangest armory ever, well, the Genius society probably has some competition for that title, if you count some of their collections.

I guess I need to figure out all these pops before someone from Belobog visits...

I've looked all over this thermos like ten times now! Where could anything dangerous even be!?

"Future I promise I'm not crazy, please don't look at me like that, the paper says this is a weapon!"

Futures putting out there hand, maybe they can figure it out. I hand it to future.

What?

The moment future grabbed the handle fire started coming out of the top of the thermos...

That's an assassination device not a weapon! Why would it say weapon!?

Ah, Future panicked a bit and threw it, h-how did it get so big? Is that a weird bat with fire coming out of the end...?

"Future, why must Aha do this to us? Is there no end to the Elation's madness...?"

Yep, I'm completely convinced now, this is definitely Aha.

*Sigh*

"I'm just going to try and figure out the other stuff..."

I tried thinking really hard, then shouting each thing in the ability list. This mostly just ended with me embarrassing myself, but it worked for some!

I also noticed "Basic Ingredients" was "Item/Skill" and not just an item, and I can apparently teleport those basic ingredients to me. So I didn't even need a thermos, luckily enough. I just have to awkwardly teleport water above my mouth while tilting my head up.

The only other one that did anything was that one with super long name about dreams or something, it lets me make like a different kind of clone of myself. I guess you could call it an illusion? I have to consciously control it though, so its a lot harder than my other clone ability.

And of course I have the other ones I figured out before, petrification, itty bitty baby flame, and parallel existence.

I'm not sure exactly how I use petrification, I kind of just always did it before on instinct against those fragmentum monsters. Does it happen every time I hit anyone with anything, or can I turn it off?

Well I'll have to test that later, my clones still hasn't come back, so I guess he still hasn't popped. Hopefully that means he doesn't get any pops at all, one set of pops is already too much.

I tested the other items too, the bow just seemed like a normal bow, even though the list calls it "superior", does that just mean its a really good bow or something?

I didn't exactly know how to test the bikini's "armor" so I just tried to rip it and it felt super tough. The only way I can see it actually working as armor is if it gives you a weird path shield after you wear it.

That "battle item" card is even more confusing than the thermos, neither me or future could figure out what on earth made it an item for battle. I'm keeping it in pocket in case its a cool item that only works when I'm in danger or something.

No chance am I testing that "medicine" called the "Drug of Yore", I'm not even sick, I'd have to be super desperate to even try that toxic looking stuff.

Me and future looked everywhere for whatever that "Stray Servant" is, but we couldn't find anything like that. Well I think, neither of us had any idea what that would even look like, so we could've missed it.

I think that's everything so I think were prepared for any visitors!

*POP*

[12-7 Stigmata Entries - Any roll with a power of 7 has a 50% chance of becoming a natural stigmata with an ability based on the summon.]

After I check this we will be!

? "Future do you know what a stigmata is?" Also what could it possibly mean by "update" for the type...?

Future shakes their head no. Yeah, I figured...

"Do you want to meet Gepard and whoever he brings when they come back? He seemed really nice." Future thinks in silence for a solid few seconds, before shaking there head no.

"Alright Future, just tell me when you want to meet them so I can warn them, you might scare them otherwise." Future gives a nod, guess they aren't really that social.

Well Gepard said he'd visit when he had time, so I have no clue when they'll come...

This castles nice and all but I'd hate to just lounge around here when Belobog is basically going through the apocalypse.

Well, the only way I can really help is by popping stuff in to help them... I asked it and it popped a few times, but I'm not sure if I can do it on command.

Well, it won't hurt to try! Pop, do your thing!

...

I'm waiting.

....

Ok, that doesn't really seem to work, and I haven't really noticed any patterns to it. Though I have popped every time I was in danger, I don't think I could put myself in danger just to pop more...

*POP*

[7-19  Belialuin  - The ancient city of Belialuin, also known as the Capital of the Wizards. that the magician Merlin originates from. Due to the high power of the roll the entire City appears on the opposite side from Belobog by Camelot, and is fully intact.]

*BOOM*

"What was that!?" That was way louder than even those golem's lasers!

Me and Future run to a window closer to where it came from. I pull the list back out as I run, it just says Belialuin, location? What kind of place would make that much noise?

...

I-I see, I guess an entire city appearing would do that... I thought I was becoming immune to the surprises of the pops...

It looks so old, yet super advanced at the same time? How'd they even manage that...

How strong even are these pops? I haven't heard of anything this ridiculous outside of emanators or Aeons...

Wait, does that mean people will start thinking I'm an emanator if they hear about this!? I doubt anyone on Belobog even knows about emanators at least.

Wait, that reminds me, didn't Gepard say Qlipoth aided them? It even sounded like they had contact with the IPC when they were first attacked. Why haven't they come to help them after 700 years?

I did hear Stellarons can mess with the silver rail thingy connecting planets, is that it?

Ugh, that's important but I need to figure out what to do with an entire city, and how I'm going to explain this to Gepard... Maybe they need more housing? Ah wait, he said the only thing keeping the city warm enough were heaters, and Qlipoth's protection. I doubt they just move Qlipoth's protection like that.

I guess it'll just have to sit and look pretty until we can figure out what to do with it?

Ugh, I am not looking forward to explaining this.

"Hey! Me, we have visitors!"

THIS IS TOO SOON, GIVE ME SOME TIME!

"Ok... You pop any?"

"Nope! But I can see you popped a big one, how's it feel being the ruler of an empty city, and castle, milord?"

"Very funny, want to greet our guests while I knock myself out?"

"Nope!" He says as he steps into me.

Its barely noon, and I already feel like I could collapse, I was hoping I'd be used to these surprises by now...

Chapter Text

I look out the window where my clone saw visitors from, looks like Future already hid away somewhere in the castle, they must be shy.

There's who I mentioned, a silver haired woman with about six soldiers. Is Gepard busy or something? I think he did say he might too busy to visit, hopefully he visits too sometime.

I start heading downstairs, she must be important if she's bringing more soldiers than Gepard, he said he was a captain or something right? I don't really know military ranks but she's probably pretty high up.

Great, now I've made myself nervous...

*POP*

[14-7 Clairpharm (Perfume) - Multiple bottles of Clairpharm brand perfume appear in front of Felix.] (50/50 failed, no stigmata)

Are you trying to help my nerves or something pop? I don't see how perfume would, but thanks for not making a terrible first impression again.

I open the door and shout "Over here!", hopefully that wasn't rude, I have no clue how I'm supposed to deal with important people... No, I'll be fine, Gepard sent them here, so I'm sure they're nice.

"I am Bronya Rand, acting commander of the Silvermane Guards, Gepard told me much about you and your story, it is a pleasure to meet you."

"Nice to meet you too." Why does she kind of look familiar?

Wait, did she say acting commander? Wouldn't that make her like head of there military or something!?

"Those mechs you gave to Gepard have already helped us a great deal, so I came to personally give my thanks, and continue where he left off, he told me he forgot to grab the evidence of the other Aeons you said you had."

"Ah, of course, sorry I forgot a few things actually, so this is great. I found a book I downloaded on my phone about Aeons. I'm not sure if that's enough to really be considered evidence, but it's the only thing I really have."

"That'll have to do, will you let us borrow your phone while we copy the book, we will return it after."

"Oh! Sure, I forgot you probably wouldn't have a way to just transfer the data. And I remembered something that'll probably help Belobog way more than that after Gepard left, there's tons of food and water here, like probably enough to supply the entire city."

"Truly? I'll have to send some men here after I get back to inspect it, but that'd be a great help."

"Sweet, I'm glad the random stuff that keeps appearing will actually be helpful, maybe you can find something to do with the city too!"

"The what?" Did they not see it?

"Yeah right before you got here, the pops Gepard probably told you about teleported a city here."

"You're serious? An entire city?"

"Yeah, you can go take a look if you want."

"Very well, I'll take a look at this city."

*POP*

[3-15 Battlefield Provisions - The upgraded version of Battle Continuation, due to the high power of the roll and Felix already having an upgraded version of battle continuation, this will give him a near endless supply of stamina]

Phew, she's even more serious than Gepard, hm, battlefield provisions? A passive skill...? Is it going to stuff food in my mouth while I fight? I really don't understand these names.

"You were right... That city looks even bigger than Belobog..." Man, she looks absolutely flabbergasted, makes sense, Belobog is probably the only place she's known here entire life.

"Yup, that city is real strange too, it looks so medieval, yet it kinda looks modern at the same time."

"Hm, I suppose your right, but I can't think of anything we could use the city for either, it doesn't seem to have anything for resisting the cold, after all. Though, if there's ever a need, we could use it as a military outpost. You have my thanks for the offer."

"No problem, I don't exactly have a use for a city after all. Though this castles actually pretty nice, I expected it to be a lot worse since it looks so medieval, but whoever made this was clearly quite experienced with path stuff, cause its got almost magical ways to deal with every convenience!"

"Oh, would you mind if I had people come study that, we are quite reliant on geomarrow for powering everything, if were able to replace it with "path stuff", it would help my people a great deal."

"Oh, sure! It must be tough having to mine for geomarrow and holding off the fragmentum monsters at the same time."

"Ah, hm, I suppose Gepard didn't tell you that part..." Did I accidentally remind her of bad memories? It must've been rough on Belobog if it has her reacting like this.

"No, but you don't have to tell me, its clearly rough even remembering it for you." Ah! She looks even sadder!

*POP*

[9-2 Secret - Felix can figure out the secret behind an item or ability he cannot figure out, but due to the extremely low roll, he can only figure out a single secret every time he rolls a 2]

"Pardon me while I check this commander ma'am!"

*Cough* "So this is what Gepard meant by your "pops"." Thanks for changing the subject pops!

"Yeah, it actually gave me a list of everything I've summoned so far!"

"That must be convenient, what was that one?"

"A secret?"

"Ah, is it something personal, I don't mean to intrude."

"No, it just says secret, it even has a question mark as the description."

"This list doesn't seem like its helping much."

"Eh, its like fifty fifty, the names sometimes confuse me even more, though the description has helped me a lot more so far. It even helped me figure out a thermos was actually a flamethrower in disguise!"

"I-I see, I suppose that isn't as strange as a city... But can a flamethrower really fit in something that small?"

"I'm guessing its more path shenanigans, trying to figure out the actual mechanics behind any of this stuff would probably drive me crazy."

*POP*

[3-4  Mount Enzo  - The mountain where all the leylines of Fuyuki converge, where Ryuudou temple is located. Due to the low roll, only the tip of Mount Enzo, and roughly a third of the leyline appears to the side of Camelot.]

*RUMBLE*

That better not be another city...

"Sorry about that Bronya, I'll check what that was... Its a mountain, Yes! Not another city."

"Lets go take a look then."

I love mountains! Thank you pops, I'm getting my own personal mountain!

...Is that really a mountain?

"Does your ability know what a mountain is? That just looks like a particularly tall hill."

"At least it has a cool temple? Yeah, I think that's a temple."

"Oh, have you seen a temple like this before?"

"Nah, I saw one in a memoria before though."

"A what?"

"Ah, sorry, you wouldn't have heard of them, they're these cool things from Penacony, there like solid memories anyone can experience? Or at least I think what they are, I've only seen a few."

"So you really are from beyond the sky."

"I guess you could say that, I haven't really heard anyone word it like that though."

"My apologies, we only have records that mention people from beyond the sky, barely anything beyond that."

"I guess everything else must've been lost to the disaster, oh wait, I just remembered, did Gepard tell you about my clone thing?"

"He mentioned something about you having a clone, but he didn't have time to go into details."

"Well, I can send them back with you to help explain this stuff, my clone doesn't have to deal with the pops."

"That does sound like a good idea, you seem to have a great amount of knowledge that may be able to help us, you once again have my thanks."

"I won't even notice it being gone, its pretty convenient, even if my clones a bit of a brat."

"Is the clone not you...?"

...

"Come out clone!" Please don't look at me like I'm an idiot with my own face...

Pops! Save me from this embarrassment!

*POP*

[12-4  Will of the Honkai (Gallery)  - Two pictures involving the will of the Honkai, one showing Otto Apocalypse witness a stone version of himself stab himself, and another showing Sirin fall to her knees after seeing a stone version of herself sitting smugly on a stone throne.]

I pick up the pictures, "Hm, are these from a movie or something?"

"What does your list say?"

"It just says "Will of the Honkai"? Is that like the name of the movie?"

"I do hope its a movie, the people in those images don't seem to be having a good time"

"Ah! That reminds me, I thought you looked a bit familiar, you look kind of like the girl in the photo it gave me earlier."

"Oh, really? That's certainly interesting, would you mind letting me see it?"

"Sure, I don't mind."

"It does look a lot like me when I was younger, but I've never worn my hair like that, and I certainly never was on the cover of some cook book, or whatever this is."

"Man, these pops are confusing, it actually made me think it gave me some picture of you when you were younger for a bit there."

"Yes it is pretty confusing... Would you mind if I keep this picture?"

"Sure, I don't mind."

"Thank you, it will make a good gift for my mother. I suppose I should get going, have a good day Felix"

"Thanks, you too, don't forget that brat on your way out."

"Yes, I'll get the other you, try not to alter the landscape too much more, we may not be able to change our maps fast enough to keep up."

Woah! She actually made a joke! I thought she was always serious.

"Very funny, I'll totally find a way to keep from birthing another city before you come here next!"

"Please never say that again, and good luck with that."

"Alright I'll try not to, get going before your men fall to sleep."

"I certainly hope they aren't, that'd be highly unprofessional." She's actually checking! have they done that before!?

They're leaving quick, she must be pretty busy

"Tell Gepard to stop by sometime! And you stop by too!"

Hopefully my other self doesn't cause any trouble.

"Hey Future! They left!" They are going straight to the music, they must really like it, are they not finished learning it already though?

Hopefully I summon some more for them soon. It was pretty chaotic earlier, but its already feeling way more peaceful, I might just fall to sleep listening to Future play...

"HEY ME!" Of course that brat woke me up... Wait did he already finish helping them?

"We've got an emergency!" What!?

"The Supreme Guardian apparently wants us arrested."

"Why?!" Did the Golems go haywire or something?! Oh no, please tell me they didn't, those things could've killed someone!

"I didn't have enough time to find out, but I don't think so, Gepard just told me to leave the city, or he'd have to arrest us! I'm guessing that Supreme Guardian he told us about ordered him too, cause he looked super conflicted." Oh no, what do I do?

Ok, ok, let me get the facts straight. Gepard totally would've arrested me if the golems started attacking people, actually if it was anything legit he'd probably arrest me. Is this some weird political play? I basically don't know anything about politics...

"They aren't going to raid the castle or something crazy like that, right?"

"I didn't see anyone coming after me, but I guess they could, we don't exactly know why they even want to arrest us."

We merge real quick, maybe it'll help me think better.

Nope, not helping me think.

Ugh, I finally made two friends(hopefully) here, and of course this happens...

Chapter Text

"Gepard, why did you drag Felix's clone off like that?" I haven't seen him this panicked in years.

"That was his clone? Ahem, never mind Miss Bronya, I'm afraid Madam Supreme Guardian gave me urgent orders I must carry out, I simply fulfilled a private obligation first. She requested you to come meet her too."

"Of course, and good job on getting us such an invaluable ally Gepard, he promised me a great deal more supplies and knowledge as well as what he already gave you."

"I-I see, my apologies Bronya, I must go to my unit, good luck with your talk with Madam Supreme Guardian."

I don't think I've seen him that troubled since the Underground was closed off… What could Mother have ordered him to do to have troubled him so?

She'll tell me when we speak, I can only hope it isn't terrible news.

"You wished to speak to me mother?"

"Yes Commander Bronya, I already gave this order to Gepard, but I'm afraid with the power they possess, you may both need to gather a squad to do this. I order the arrest of the outsider, Felix Septima." H-huh?

"Madam supreme guardian, what crime has he committed to deserve to be arrested? He has already proven himself a valuable ally, the golems he lent us are the only reason we didn't lose an entire squad of our soldiers to that devastating attack yesterday."

"I am well aware Commander, he could've been a valuable ally, but I'm afraid he must be questioned, I have reason to believe he's attempting to sow discord in Belobog."

"Mother, can you please be less vague, tell me what reason, I personally spoke to him just earlier, I may be able to ease your worries."

"Commander, I'm afraid my worries have to do with a secret only known to Supreme Guardians, so I can only ask you to trust me, my daughter."

"Mother, please there is no reason to arrest him, we could just as easily invite him for a discussion! He promised me a possible alternative to geomarrow and supplies, we can't just ruin this chance when we can just as easily ask your questions amicably!"

"Commander, these are direct orders from the Supreme Guardian, you are to join Gepard and arrest the outsider with a squad."

"Ye-ahem, Madam Supreme Guardian, I must advise against this, the outsider has an easily defensible stronghold and an unknown number of those golems guarding it."

"Tsk, that would certainly be an issue… I will have to think on this, guard! Tell Captain Gepard I'm delaying my order to arrest the outsider. Thank you for the intel Commander, you may go."

"Yes, Supreme Guardian." Why must she always be like this… She says something as vague as "he's attempting to sow discord" with no explanation, and simply expects me to follow her orders without question. I respect her as a Supreme Guardian, yet. No, I shouldn't be thinking this, she must have her reasons. All I can do is try to keep us from having a confrontation with Felix.

I stare at my gift for mother, ah, I was certain she'd love this, but I accidentally gripped it too tight and its crumpled.

I can surely talk mother into dropping this foolish arrest when she's in a better mood, even if theres some evidence only Supreme Guardians know, being able to earn mine and Gepard's trust so quickly will convince her, I'm sure of it.

Chapter Text

"Thanks for keeping watch all night Future". They give a quick nod, then continue looking out the window.

Man, that bed really feels like it was made for royalty, I could get used to living in this castle, though it does feel super lonely being in such a huge building with only one other, uh automaton? Not sure exactly what Future is.

"Something wrong Future?" Why are they pointing at the city? Future gestures towards me. "Do I need to do something in the city or something?" That's a no. They're holding there hand at about my chest height? "Oh! Are you saying someone's in the city?" They nod.

"Ah, it wasn't a soldier, was it?" It'd be really awkward if they're just snooping around where I live while I'm wanted. They shake there head no.

"Uh, where are you going?" They point to the city. "Ah, you're going to go see who it is? Wait up. I'll come with you!" They're walking pretty fast, are they worried for whoever it is? I better hurry!

*POP*

[3-6 Mana Burst (Lightning) - Minamoto-no-Raikou's version of Mana Burst, which is the equivalent of an A rank mana burst, it allows the user to infuse there body and weapons with magical energy, this version also coats the user and weapons in lightning. It can be used as a simple physical enhancement, and for large bursts of magical energy. It may be difficult for those with little magical energy to use. Due to the low power, it is dropped from A rank to A-.]

Why do I feel all staticky...? I better check this before I catch up, "Mana Burst (Lightning)"? Woah, that sounds cool, I'll try it real quick. "Mana Burst! Mana Burst lightning!" Guess this one doesn't work like that. Maybe if I focus on that static feeling?

BZZZ

Woah! I'm covered in lightning! ...It's out already, and now I feel completely exhausted... Why can't these things just be straightforward, like my petrification or clones.

I better catch up with Future, that person might get scared off by them. I start walking there real slowly, I haven't been exhausted since I got here, and this exhaustion feels strange. I've barely recovered and Its already been a few minutes.

Ah, I better get the golems in case fragmentum monsters show up, I'd be doomed like this and the cities still a bit away, Future will be able to help whoever that is if they're in trouble.

W-what are they doing with my golems?! What's this shady looking guy doing, is he trying to figure out how they work?! He's lucky I told them not to attack anyone!

"Hey! What are you doing!?"

"Oh! Hello my new friend, what a coincidence! I was actually on my way to meet you, the names Sampo Koski, pleasure to meet the talk of the town!" Is he going to pretend he wasn't just climbing my golems, and looking all over them...?

"What do you mean by talk of town?"

"Oh, you don't know? Everyone's talking about the mysterious wanted outsider, and I've got friends who are interested in the rumors of you having plenty of supplies!"

"Really? I doubt Bronya or Gepard would tell many people about that."

"Oh, so the rumors really are true, that's great. So friend, would you mind lending me those supplies?"

"Are you just going to fill up your arms and go?"

"That's a Sampo Koski secret, you'd have to pay a hefty fine to find that out!" Is he trying to sound as shady as possible...?

"I think I've got a way better way of getting stuff to your friends, so what exactly do they need."

"Depends on what you have, my friend!"

"Well, I pretty much just have a metric ton of food and water, so hopefully that'll be enough."

"That alone would be a great help! Though I am curious about how you managed to get all this stuff in the first place, and don't worry, Sampo Koski always keeps friends secrets!" No shot I'm telling this guy, he reminds of a door to door salesman, he's almost as bad as that one IPC negotiator that shows up every few years back home.

"Sorry, but that's a Felix Septima secret! Now, let me check if this will actually work." Can my clone do my really specific teleport for the food and water here? I haven't tested what my clone can do much at all now that I think about.

"Don't be too surprised Sampo, go go clone!" Ah, my clones giving me that look like I'm an idiot again, ugh making the clone made the exhaustion worse... I'll have to ask it to get back as soon as possible.

Wow, Sampo's really good at hiding his surprise, er, he's already got that creepy smile back on.

"You really do hold a lot of surprises my friend, I'm positively elated to meet someone as extraordinary as you!" I think that's the strangest way I'll ever see someone react to my special brand of chaos...

*POP*

[8-13 Superior Medicine - A crateful of Superior Medicine appears in front of Felix, each can fully heal most wounds when applied.]

His grin got bigger!?

"Ah, really sorry about that Mr. Sampo, let me take a look at this!" I want him to just go back to seeming like a scammer... Everyone on this planet should only know about Qlipoth, right? This is the kind of reaction I was worried about getting from followers of Elation thinking I was Aha's emanator or something...

"Oh! This crate is full of "Superior Medicine", did your friends need something like this too?"

"Oh, that would be perfect, Miss Natasha will owe me a ton for- ahem, my friends will love this!" He's not even trying to hide it...

Oh, good my clone can get the food and water!

"Sampo, bring my clone here, and carry that crate to your friends, that sound good to you?"

"That'd be great, I'm looking forward to a long friendship with you!"

"Ha ha, yeah, have a good day, I need to get going! Have fun with Sampo me!" Future, help! This guy gives me the creeps!

Clone POV:

He didn't even stay long enough to see my betrayed expression, I can't believe I betrayed myself...

"Lead the way Mr. Sampo."

"Of course, just remember to keep this passage a secret between us, I need to have a few secrets to keep up the good ol' Sampo mystery!"

"Sure thing, I'm keeping secrets from you, so it only seems fair."

"I knew you would understand friend!"

H-how did he make it through all that while holding that huge crate, I barely made it through with nothing! Well, I am still exhausted from that lightning thing, yup, its just cause of that, I would've been fine otherwise!

"You don't even have a single hair out of place after that...?"

"Of course friend, you learn a few tricks after being in this business so long." What business?

"We'll be to the underground soon."

"We're already underground though?"

"No ones told you about the underground yet? My friend, you need to get better at keeping up with information, luckily for you, I'm the best in all of Belobog, I'll just need a few favors."

"Oh, I actually would like a favor in return for this, would you mind sending me anything you hear about Gepard Landau and Bronya Rand? I'm a bit worried about them, but I can't exactly check on them myself with how things are."

"Certainly, I'm super close with the Silvermane Guards friend! I can get you info about them easy. But you're even more impressive than I expected friend, getting such high up friends so quickly!"

"Thanks, I really appreciate it. Now, what were you saying about "The Underground"?

"It'd be better if you see for yourself, were almost there."

"Uh, okay?"

Woah, I see what he meant, this place doesn't look too good...

"Here you go friend, bring this and the other suppllies to Natasha's clinic, she'll tell you where to put it all! I need to get going friend, Sampo Koski's always busy!"

"Hey! Where are you going!? Don't just dump this huge crate on me and run!"

He really just did that...? Ugh, I should've expected him to do something like that at this point. Well, it does look like the Underground really needs this stuff. Do I just ask someone directions to Natasha's clinic?

This place is depressing, I've never seen that looks depressed like this. Is that Natasha's clinic? It looks like what I was told, and I think I got the directions right.

*Knock knock*

She answered fast, "Hey, Sampo said you needed supplies? My name is Felix"

"Oh, are you the outsider he told us about? Did he just leave you by yourself down here? sigh Of course he did, come on in, I don't have many patients right now, so we can discuss those supplies, and our payment. My name is Natasha, I'm an underworld doctor."

"Ah, you don't need to pay, I already got Sampo to do a favor for me in exchange, and I don't exactly have much to do with all the supplies I have."

"You'll really just give it to us? You don't want geomarrow or anything?"

"Nah, I don't even have anything that runs on geomarrow."

"Don't you live on the surface, how are you keeping your home warm?"

"Ah, my place has something else to keep it warm, I have no clue what it is, but it works super well!"

"I see, that's good, then what supplies do you have?"

"Well, that crates full of medicine. I have no clue what kind, but hopefully you know, and if you can bring me somewhere to store food and water I can put it there."

"Hm, where are you keeping it?"

"I'm afraid that's a bit hard to explain."

"If you won't accept payment, just know that the Underground owes you a favor for this."

"Thanks, I'll let you know if I ever need something!"

"I can see how that'd be hard to explain..."

"Yeah, stuffs been pretty strange lately."

"I've noticed you've been rather lethargic, do you need a checkup? I've luckily had a slow day, so I should have time."

"If you don't mind, I've been exhausted for a while now, and it still hasn't gone away."

"Oh, that is rather strange, have a seat at the bed so I can give you a checkup."

"I believe I might know what's wrong, I've actually encountered something similar recently, the only way to fix this kind of exhaustion is resting and eating well, it may last a few days. The other person dealing with this is still recovering, but rest is the only thing we've tried that has helped them."

"Oh, thanks doc! I figured I was the only one who'd have something like this happening."

"I thought that would be the only case as well, you're free to go Felix."

"Have a good day miss Natasha, hope those supplies help!"

"I'd like to thank you on behalf of the Underworld once again, have a good day Felix."

She's nice, wait, oh no, do I have to go back up that secret passageway?! Can't I just merge with myself from here?

Oh, it feels like I can. Yes, I'm saved!

Felix POV:

Woah, I didn't realize I could do that, it even gave me its memories this time, why didn't it do that before? Is it cause it told me what happened first then?

Well, I haven't had any luck finding Future and the mysterious short person with them, they must be somewhere deeper in the city. I should probably listen to the doc's orders, Future can take care of themselves. I just need to order the golems to warn me when people they spot someone.

 *POP*

[6-11 Water Release: Water Mirror Technique - The user creates a large, flat, circular pool of water in front of their opponent. Its surface acts like a mirror, perfectly reflecting the attacking targets. By then hooking onto and rotating the "mirror" 90° with their staff, the reflections emerge and materialize from the mirror, where they collide with the mirrored targets. As these reflections use the exact same technique as their counterpart they counter the attack completely, while repelling them in the process. However, upon impact, the reflections disperse into water.

Hm, oh that's a pretty intense name, but does it really need to tell me its a water move twice? I really want to try it, but it might knock me out if its similar to that lightning thing.

*POP*

[7-3 Ouroboros - A magic sword capable of changing sizes, due to the low power of the roll, it is stuck at the size of a knife, though if Felix gains something capable of breaking this curse on the sword, it will have its full ability]

No need to be upset pops, I'll try that water move when I'm feeling better. A knife this time? It looks a bit silly, why are there grooves at the top at the end?

O-ouroboros? Isn't that the name of an Aeon?! Calm down Felix, this knife can't have anything to do with that scary Aeon... This thing isn't like going to eat me or something? A kitchen knife that follows the path of Voracity seems strange. Though when it comes to paths there are way stranger things...

Should I throw it into the bottom of a lake and forget about it? I don't want it to eat me or something. I know! I'll leave it with a golem, there tough enough to deal with the knife it tries anything funny!

That sounded insane... Maybe I really do need rest. I'll just take a little nap after I tell the golems to warn me if someone comes and to keep the knife.

Hm? Is Future back? I hear someone, but the golems didn't warn me so it should be them.

"Hey Future, how'd it go in the city? Sorry I wasn't able to catch up with you." They give me a thumbs up, so it must've went well.

"How was that person by the way?" They give an enthusiastic thumbs up, woah I haven't seen Future this emotive before.

"Did you make a friend?" They nod and point outside, are they here? Future must've told them to stay back cause of the golems, while they got me.

"Want me to meet them?" They give a so so hand gesture.

"Then did they want to meet me?" Future nods, "Alright, any friend of yours is a friend of mine!" Future gives me another thumbs up.

"Lead the way then!" We head out, I'm already feeling a lot less exhausted.

"Hey, Future said you wanted to meet me?" She kind of looks similar to Gepard, are they related?

"Uh, yeah, my name is Lynx, its nice to meet you, Future's been a good friend." She seems shy, I was the same when I was her age.

"My name is Felix, thanks for being friends with Future, I've been worried they'd die of loneliness with just me as a friend, what were you guys doing in the city anyways?"

"I've been researching the city, it's so fascinating, I had to stop my previous research expedition to come check it out! It looks almost like it was frozen in time, no ones there yet I keep finding evidence that people seemed to be in them right before it arrived here. Unfinished food halfway cooked, it seems whatever was being used to cook it was turned off or didn't come with, unfinished crafts, that I can't find the tools to make them with, and so many other things it's hard to keep count! What's even more interesting is they seem to have an entirely different kind of technology, I can't seem to figure out how any of it works, but based on what I've seen it seems even more advanced than Belobog in some ways, despite everything seeming so old! Ah, sorry Felix, I went on a bit of a tangent... I came here to see the person who brought the city here, to see if you knew anything, Future didn't think you would, but I just had to see!"

Woah, she's really into this stuff, but I know less than her about the city... Ugh, I don't want to let her down, she seems so excited.

*POP*

[3-15 Encyclopedia/PrismaMats petit - An encyclopedia filled with the definitions, and descriptions of various item, characters, and phenomena from the movie  Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA: Vow in the Snow . It is a pretty barebones description and/or definition, though it does offer a simple and concise explanations for some items and concepts. Due to the high power it was modified to be more user friendly]

I wanted something to help her, not an encyclopedia! Wait, could it be an encyclopedia about that city or something?

"Uh, what was that Mr. Felix? Where'd that book come from?"

"Ah, did Future not tell you, random things kind of just appear around me, that's where the city came from."

"Future didn't really go into detail, but wow. Then what's that book about?"

"Uh, did my pops mess up the name, the words look all jumbled up, and I have no clue what they could mean anyways, like what could "Prisma", "Mats", and "petit", even mean together?"

"Huh? Is it always that confusing?"

"Kinda? You can skim it real quick and see if it has anything to do with the city."

"Alright, I think I will."

"You done skimming Lynx?"

"I'm so confused, it keeps referencing two different worlds at random, explains "magic" in like ten different ways, and keeps referencing things it doesn't explain, like how am I supposed to know what it mean when it keeps randomly bringing up the "throne of heroes", or the "The Root"?! I'm thinking this is like extra reading for a really complex book or something, it better be, if not I'm going to beat up these "Ainsworths" it keeps mentioning if it is real! This is something Pela would probably read though..."

"Ah, sorry it didn't help?"

"No, its fine, I just get pretty into things like this."

"That's fine, I can get the same with stories, where did Future go?

"They walked off in the middle of the encyclopedia, they seemed pretty upset when it was going over the puppet stuff... This encyclopedia got really dark... I hope it didn't bring back bad memories for Future..."

"We should probably give Future a bit by themself then, they usually play the violin to calm down. Ah, its getting kind of late, you should head back home Lynx."

"Ah, I probably should, I found a pretty nice house in that city I set up then, do you mind if I come check this place out some too? This castles seems just as interesting as the city."

"Sure, I don't mind, I'll tell the golems to ignore you too, oh yeah, I just remembered I do have a little bit of info on the city, and this castle too. I've got the list right here, just one sec."

"Sweet! Thanks!"

"Ok, so the city is called Belialuin and the castle is called Camelot."

"That's interesting, glad I don't have to just call it the city anymore. Have a good day mister!"

"You too Lynx!"

Chapter Text

Why did I read that encyclopedia right before going to sleep? Am I stupid or something? I haven't had nightmares in years, and now I'll probably have them a few more nights now. I'm not sure if I appreciate or hate the fact that some of the stuff in it actually seemed familiar, which means the events it mentions may have actually happened, which is horrifying...

It mentioned class cards, so maybe I can finally figure out how to use that card as a "battle item". Too bad it doesn't seem to be in any order, I'll have to finish reading it today. Though, everything I've read in it has needed magical power, so I suppose its from a place that hasn't learned about the paths.

*POP*

[4-2 Dungeon - An RPG like dungeon filled with monsters and rewards from Tensura, due to the low power it is much smaller and spawns in deep inside the underground. It only has the first 40 floors of the dungeon, with the strongest monster being A- rank Tempest Serpent. Due to the roll being a 2 Felix will learn the secret of one summon he doesn't know of, this time he learns of the Leylines underneath and how to use them.]

Woah! I didn't know it could just shove information into my brain!? I guess that solves the magical power issue, well as long as I'm at the temple.

It really likes popping early in the morning doesn't it? A dungeon, I didn't hear any buildings pop up, and I'd probably feel it if it appeared below the castle? This does mean the like medieval kind of dungeon and not one from a game right? It just says its a location so I can't really tell... I'll just have to keep an eye out for it.

BOOM

"Ah!" That was the golems signal! I run to the window and see a ton of fragmentum creatures in the distance, were they actually smart enough to hold back and group together? I haven't seen them attack since the golems took that first group out, so I guess they must be. Ah! I've got the golems, but some might split off and attack the city, I'll tell Future so they can go help Lynx.

"Future, theres a huge group of fragmentum monsters! Can you go help Lynx?" Wow, Future can run fast when they need to.

"Golems, come with me to that hill over there with the temple on it! We'll try and get there attention there!

*POP*

[3-18 Testarossa Maiden - A B rank anti-unit and anti-army Noble Phantasm. Elizabeth Bathory or Carmilla's Phantom Maiden Noble Phantasm remodeled into the shape of a car, though it looks like a car it is still a torture device in truth, so although it may look different it still has conceptual abilities such as "things that distort the face of your favorite virginity with fear"(wtf does this even mean), "things that make you scream", "things that you can't escape once you get in (if you enter)". Don't get in the car lightly. Your heart and body will be stolen and you will never be able to get out again. Due to the high power of the roll, Felix is able to keep whoever he chooses safe from this.]

I don't have enough time to check that, I need to figure out what I can use to beat those fragmentum monsters, I don't think these two golems are enough, there are some pretty big ones in there.

I still don't know how to use that card, that'd be way too convenient, the encyclopedia made them seem crazy strong, that mana burst thing would drain me the moment I left the temple, and I don't think it had anything ranged.

Wait, when I was exhausted of "magical energy" before when I made a clone when we split we were both exhausted, does that mean we share the same pool? Could I keep a clone there while I fight with mana burst? Please work, that'd be perfect!

I split out the clone. "You know how to siphon the leyline right?" "Dude, I'm you, we literally just learned how to." "I was just checking..."

I'll go outside and test it then, I think they're still a few minutes away so I can hopefully get out of here if this doesn't work.

I think its working? I don't feel like I'm about to collapse this time!

Ah need a weapon, I left that nifty spear at the castle, but I've been carrying the flamethrower thermos just in case at least. I extend it, and it does seem like it'll work as a flaming bat pretty well.

"Golems! Start picking them off with your lasers!"

Looks like there's a few dozen icy soldiers and birds, and like half a dozen of the huge fragmentum monsters. Uh, I have no clue how strong mana burst is, hopefully it'll be enough along with the petrification. The only others moves I have are that really weak flame, the illusion that takes a lot of concentration, and the water move I haven't tried yet...

They're almost here, the golems can probably keep the big guys easy while I take out the little guys. There's only like forty of them, no pressure.

"Golems! Keep the big ones busy!" They focus on them, hopefully they can take them out.

How are you supposed to fight a group this big...? I didn't think this through at all! They'll surround me the moment I start fighting them, even if mana burst makes me way stronger. I only have a moment to figure this out, I guess my only chance is doing as big of swings as possible, and hoping mana burst makes me strong enough to take out multiple at once.

Felix readies his 'bat', as the group of fragmentum monsters approaches, when they get close enough, he swings with all of his power while pushing mana burst to the fullest. The swing tears through the group, lightning and pressure exploding in the direction he swung with the power of the Leyline.

'Woah', he stares in shock at the aftermath of his full power mana burst, as the enemies that were to the side of the blast close in. He notices last second due to his shock and tries to build up another mana burst of that power without realizing he doesn't have enough time, the first fragmentum stabs him in the stomach, barely making way through the mana burst. Felix cries out in pain, never having been stabbed before, another stabs him in his side, but Felix manages to throw out a weaker mana burst in his panic blowing them back.

He slowly stands up, then realizes the pain is gone, and quickly readiest another mana burst before they can close in on him this time. He runs forward with a burst of speed and launches it at the last dozen of surviving fragmentum monsters.

Felix releases the breath he was holding and looks towards his golems, which are fighting a losing battle against the six larger fragmentum monsters.

Felix rushes towards them while building up a mana burst as powerful as the first while shouting "Golems, retreat!", they instantly retreat while the fragmentum monsters all turn towards him.

He fires his mana burst completely destroying the two directly hit by it, tossing two of them back, and slightly pushing the ones to the side back. He uses a smaller mana burst to launch himself at the one cloest to his right and then fires another small burst point blank while hitting the creature with his bat, then immediately retreats with another mana burst.

*POP*

[4-11 Leopard Fang Flaming Palm - Allows the user to gather flames in there hand before launching a massive exploding ball of flames.]

Felix feels a warmth settle upon him, but ignores it so he can focus on the fight. The one he just hit with a weak mana burst was heavily damaged, but is still standing.

He shouts "Finish that one with your lasers!", while he launches he aims to pick off the other one close by before the other two can recover, it instantly reacts by punching him, Felix blocks the attack, but is launched back by it. He fires himself back at it and hits it with his flamethrower bat. He keeps up a constant weak mana burst to reinforce himself and his bat as he beats the creatures head in before it can smack him away again.

A violin plays and the two that were launched back are put to sleep, "Felix! Are you ok!?" Lynx and Future come running to support Felix in the battle. "I think so, I'll take this one out! Can you guys take care of those two with the golems?"

"Sure, we can handle them! Right, Future?" Felix refocuses on his enemy as he can see Lynx rush with an ice pick with Future. He holds the bat over his head and readies a final mana burst to finish off the injured fragmentum creature, he fires it and its obliterated by the explosive attack.

Felix starts to rush over to help Lynx and Future, but can see they already finished the sleeping enemies off. "Phew, thanks for coming to help Lynx, I was really scared for a bit there." "Really? It looked like you were destroying th-Felix! You're covered in blood, what do you mean you think you're ok!?"

Felix looks down and sees his blood soaked shirt, "Ah, I think I healed or something? It doesn't hurt anymore at least." "I'll take a look, I can at least do first aid." "Thanks Lynx, you're a lifesaver." "Thank me after I make sure your not dying."

*POP*

[13-15  Jean/Dressing Room  - Felix can change into any of Jean Gunnhildr's clothes at will, they are also automatically fitted to his size. This includes Favonian Devotion, Sea Breeze Dandelion, and Gunnhildr's Legacy]

"You were right, you don't seem to have any injuries." Is this what that medkit summon was? Or is it something else, I can never tell with my summons.

"Thanks again for looking me over and coming to help Lynx."

"You should really be thanking future for coming to help, I just smacked a sleeping monsters with an ice pick til it died." It sounds scary when you put it like that.

"Thanks Future! I knew you had my back. Do you know why they grouped up like this Lynx?"

"Hm, I've only ever heard of them grouping up like that to attack Belobog, so maybe its cause of the Balialuin and Camelot?"

"I guess it probably is then, hopefully I get some more golems or something similar, dealing with these things attacking like that more sounds like a pain."

"Hopefully you do, I'm going to go get back to researching the city then, I found the library! I may not be able to read their language, but I feel like I'm closer to figuring out more about them!"

"Good luck Lynx! Bye!"

Maybe if I ask really nicely pops will give me more pops, or maybe one of the things I already popped can help. "Testarossa Maiden", an active skill? I guess that's another skill to try. This ones a mouthful, "Leopard Fang Flaming Palm", does it like let me punch someone with flames, another one to test. Did it just give me someone named Jean's dressing room, why did it even put a slash? Wait, does it say active skill for it too...? I guess I'll test it too?

*POP*

[4-3 Three-headed serpent - An A ranked magic beast, it is a black snake about the size of an elephant with three heads. Due to the low power of the roll it is an undomesticated monster and appears in front of Felix.]

WHAT IS THAT!? Now's a great time to test a skill! "Testarossa Maiden!" Is that a car!? SSSSSS Getting in now! Why's this car so freaky too!?

Get me out of here! Wha-It's driving itself, wait wait wait, don't go directly towards the snake! CRASH I-it went straight through the snake!

Ok, don't use skills without testing them, lesson learned...

I guess I'll go ahead and test the others, I think that flame one was the heat I felt earlier, so I can just probably just use that feeling to use it like with mana burst. Here goes. The flames gather in my hand, build up then I push my hand out and woah! That was a huge explosion, gotta be careful with that.

And last is the dressing room one, "Jean slash dressing room!" woah, it changed my clothes! These feel pretty nice, looks kinda neat too.

*POP*

[12-9 Babylon Labs - The world's second largest Honkai Research Facility, it also holds the 3 largest Honkai reactor pile in the world. The first 20 floors are dedicated to holding Honkai Reactors, and the 30 above that are dedicated to research.]

Ah, pops is back to buildings, I guess it got tired of giving me powers. Er, will I have to make a clone stay at the temple to use all my abilities? That kinda sucks for them, I guess I'll only put a clone there when I need to, but having powers is so cool...

I planned to see if there was anything else I can do to help the Underworld today, but I need to calm down after all that "fun".

Chapter Text

Felix starts walking towards the "mountain" Ryuudou Temple resides on in order to meet up with his clone.

"This clone mana transfer thing is cool and all, but its super inefficient, you almost completely drained us a few times me."

"Uh, oops? I guess I better be careful with those huge mana bursts then, or was it the car after?"

"The car...? Forget it you'll figure out when we merge." As the clone says that he merges back with the original.

'Hm, I think it was the car and the bigger mana bursts, I need to test if it gets even more inefficient the further away I get too. I'll look through the list and try to figure out what did what in that fight while my clone reads that encyclopedia to figure out the class cards, and anything else important.'

*POP*

[3-8 Fairy - Fairies are beings born from a planet's will, due to Jarilo-VI not having a will, they will be created from a simulated weakened will of Jarilo-VI, that will now continue to exist, though it has so little power now it can hardly do anything. Since they are born on Jarilo-VI, they are also beings made of path energy that exists on Jarilo-VI, which is currently a large amount of Destruction and Preservation. A moderate amount of Hunt, Abundance, Elation, and Harmony. And a small amount of Permanence, Trailblaze, Erudition, Order, and Beauty. Due to this they may have vastly different abilities compared to the fairies they are based on, there abilities are instead entirely dependent on their path. Since they are beings born of Jarilo-VI's will, they have a strong desire to destroy the Stellaron, and have a slightly favorable view of humans for fighting the Stellaron. Due to the name "Jarilo", being the name of the War God of Jarilo-VI, the planet's will will be named Pagos.]

Felix grabs the list of summons from his pocket and takes a look, 'Fairy? I don't see anything? I guess that's something else to look out for."

Felix gets up and stretches after having looked through the summon list for a while. 'Ok, so I think my crazy regens probably from a mix, and the only abilities I haven't figured out that seem like they could be regen are "Medkit", possibly "Battlefield Provisions", maybe "Super Massive Leech", and I guess "Oni's Head" could be one...? I seemed to heal after attacking them so that leech one could mean like leeching health or something? I also don't think I got even slightly winded that entire fight, that could be "Battlefield Provisions" instead? These names are so confusing...'

"Any luck with the encyclopedia?"

"I guess I've learned a bit more about "magic", but I still haven't seen the class card entry yet, just seen it mentioned nonstop. I should find it soon though there's only about a quarter of it left."

"Sweet, some of those entries made those cards seem crazy strong, oh yeah did you see anything about the berserker class card specifically?"

"Only thing I've seen was about the person who used it, I think the name was Sakura or something."

"K, just tell me when you find something, I'll go take a peek at that new building, "Babylon Labs" is a super ominous names, I'll make sure it doesn't make zombies or something crazy, be prepared to get me magic please?"

"Its a lab? Why don't you just send a golem? You probably shouldn't risk going in, some of those need like special suits or something."

"I guess it's better to be safe than sorry, thanks me." Though a golem won't exactly tell me much, "Lets just wait until we can ask Belobog for a suit like that or summon something that works." "K me, now don't bother me I'm almost done!" "Ok, ok, have fun reading the creepy encyclopedia."

Felix starts heading towards the door of the temple

*POP*

[1-9 Arlan - An identical clone of Arlan appears outside of Ryuudou Temple with his great sword.]

"Huh!?"

Felix and his clone flinch back after hearing the shout, 'Oh, god please tell me I didn't actually pop someone here.' The original Felix runs out of the room, while the clone stays since its still connected to the leyline.

Felix arrives outside to see a teen(?) looking around in surprise while tightly gripping a great sword as big as him, "You alright!?"

Arlan faces him while brandishing his sword, until he sees that Felix doesn't seem hostile, he then hesitantly lowers it and asks, "D-do you know what just happened? Is this some kind of plan to attack Herta's Space Station!?"

Felix shakes his head frantically side to side while saying, "No! No, this was an accident! I'm so sorry! I don't have any issues with anyone from the Genius Society!"

Arlan looks at him with suspicion and confusion, then asks "What kind of accident would teleport me here...?"

"That'll take a bit to explain, you see-" Felix explains his summons to Arlan, while Arlan glances at the various places Felix claims he summoned.

"I see... That's a bit hard to bel-"

*POP*

[14-11 For the Athletic Type (Supermarket) - This a supermarket from Academy City that not only has normal foods, but also genetically modified foods produced in Academy City, such as Space Carrots and Genetically improved lettuce #3.]

"Ah!"

"Sorry for the surprise, my pops can have good timing sometimes, hopefully that works as proof. And again, I'm so sorry for basically kidnapping you..."

"I guess I can't blame you for something like this... But I need to get back to Herta's Space Station as soon as possible, they need me there."

"Ah, that may be a bit difficult... You see-" Felix explains that they're on a planet going through a stellaron disaster, and that they currently don't have any ways to get off the planet."

Arlan despondently sits down against the wall of the temple, while Felix stands there unsure how to help him.

"The way you were talking, you were more worried about the people on the Space Station than yourself, right?"

Arlan replies in a broken voice, "Yeah, I owe Lady Asta my life..."

Felix hesitantly tells him, "I've had a theory about my summons for a bit now, I have reason to believe everything I've summoned was copies, so it's possible another you may still be there defending the Space Station." Arlan actually looks slightly better after hearing that. 'I only really had evidence of that being true from the buildings, but it could be true... Future hasn't told me anything about there summoning, so I don't know...'

"Hopefully you're right... Sorry if it seems strange for me to be relieved by that, but the safety of the people of the spaceship is far more important than my comfort. I guess moping around won't help me get back anyways, so all I can do is hope for the best while trying to help the people here with the disaster."

"That's the spirit, er, I think? That honestly sounds like a kind of worrying mindset... But don't worry, I'm sure we can take care of the stellaron, honestly at this point my summons scare me more than the stellaron.

"...Should I be worried?"

"No, no, they rarely actually try to harm me, er, well that probably doesn't help, its only tried to hurt me like once? I think?"

"You're not really giving me any confidence."

"Don't worry! It's giving me a lot more cool stuff than negative things, it even gave my friend a lightning power, ah! I should try giving you something since I accidentally kidnapped you."

"No than-"

*POP*

[12-14  Sirin  - Due to Felix's request, Arlan is now able to temporarily transform into Sirin and gain the powers of the Herrscher of the Void during that time.]

"ks..." Arlan suddenly shivered and felt rather strange, "Uh, what did it just do...?"

Felix fishes the summon list out of his pocket, "It just says "Sirin", and its a "transformation ability"? I haven't gotten anything like that. Maybe you should try it out?"

"Uh, how would I even do that...?"

"I usually just shout the name of the move, but that only works for a few, I honestly haven't been able to figure out the others that don't give me a weird instinctual knowledge of how to use them."

"I guess I'll try then? Sirin! Don't think that did anything other than embarrass me..."

"You'll probably figure it out, if not my pops might eventually tell me? Its only done that once so far though..."

"So what's the plan for dealing with the stellaron?"

"Uh, I'm apparently wanted by the people of Belobog, so I don't think they'll let me in on the plan...", Arlan gives him a suspicious look.

"Hey! I have no clue why I'm wanted, wait, I could've just asked Sampo! Er, sorry, I think the leader of Belobog must have an issue with me or something? Maybe they're scared of my pops?"

Sigh "I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, but you better not be lying, uh, I just realized we never introduced ourselves... My name is Arlan, head of security for Herta space station, and you better not be lying Mr." "Felix." "Felix."

Felix's clone shouts out the door, "I think I found the entry for class cards!", Arlan looks incredibly confused and asks, "You didn't summon yourself right...? I guess that'd be one way to get that theory..." "No, I got an ability that let me make clones." "Oh, ok."

"I'll be there in a moment me! Kinda busy right now!" "K!"

*POP*

[8-16 Golden Egg - This is an item that permanently increases the users stats by a tiny amount, It will be applied to a random stat of Felix and the people he summoned. They each get a 16% increase to all physical and supernatural parameters.]

Both Arlan and Felix feel odd for a moment, but shrug it off while Felix reads out, "Golden Egg? Status item? What did it just do to me??"

"I think it did something to me too, I think my sword might feel a bit lighter?"

"Hey! I've been waiting! Come check this out already!" The clone calls out again.

"Alright, alright! I'm coming."

Arlan awkwardly follows, while Felix enters the temple. "So, you finally found it, what does it say to do?"

"I was waiting for you to get here to read it with you, we've been wanting to find this out a while now, it'd feel odd if we didn't both find out together."

"I guess?" They both read it while Arlan stands off to the side.

"Hm, so we just hold the card and say "Include: Limit Expand" to get a "Heroic Spirits" "Noble Phantasm", and "Uninclude" to undo it? This encyclopedia didn't have any of that stuff... Is it like a 2nd part or something? And we can say "Install: Phantasm Summon" to install the card into our body? And it gives you the "Noble Phantasms", skills, and appearance of the "Heroic Spirit". With what I've read it also probably takes magical energy, but just didn't bother to mention it, its done stuff like that a ton. I even had to reread a bunch of entries after reading others cause it's so unclear about stuff like that..."

Arlan chuckles, and says "Sounds rough, I'd guess a heroic spirit is a hero where this came from. I haven't even heard of anything like that in Madam Herta's collection, and she's got some crazy stuff in there. You sure this thing is legit?"

"Well I have a card, so we can find out right now." Felix pulls the card out of his pocket, and heads outside with it, so he doesn't accidentally destroy the temple if its as powerful as it says. Arlan and the clone watch through the doorway, the clone having to stay inside to siphon the leyline.

"I'll test Include first. Include: Limit Expand!" The flamethrower thermos Felix keeps on him suddenly turned into an ominous dark blade. Felix's clone suddenly called out "Uninclude fast! That things draining us like crazy!" "Uninclude!"

Felix looks worriedly at his clone, "Uh, how fast were you talking?" "Like, maybe two minutes as long as I have my full attention on leyline, that thing is crazy energy hungry." "I guess I'll test the Install then, as long as we last a few seconds I can just uninstall." "I guess, just be ready to do it quick." Arlan stands in the background extremely confused.

"Install: Phantasm Summon!" Felix is covered in dark armor, while his clone has a confused look on his face, "It's taking a ton less now?"

"I think it was the Noble Phantasm? I feel like I can kinda summon it, I also feel like I can turn anything into one too?" Felix picks up some snow to make snowballl, then he uses Knight of Owner on it. The snow turns black, and red lines appear all over it.

Arlan nervously says, "You look so ominous like that, its not going to like turn you evil or something right?"

"I don't think so...? My thoughts feel a bit muddied, but I think I'm ok?"

"That doesn't exactly ring confidence, you might want to go ahead and undo it."

"K, Uninclude!" The dark armor slips away and the snowball turns back to normal. "How long would I be able to keep that up me?"

"It seemed to take more after whatever you did with the snowball, but I think you could use it for like a few hours if your just kinda standing around, about a hour if you do whatever you did with the snow. It probably takes a lot more for an actual fight though, we need to test if it costs anything to use its raw power too."

"Ugh, more tests... I've already got so many things to test..."

*POP*

[1-4 Aspiration - When a 4 is rolled from now on, another roll will occur and combine with the first roll.]

Felix reads the summon out, "Its called aspiration, and the type just says summon combo...? Another one I might never figure out, I guess..."

Felix looks over to Arlan, "Wanna check out my castle Arlan?"

"Sure." They both walk to Camelot.

Chapter Text

"Clara, stay here until I return, there is an anomaly I must investigate, it will not take long."

Clara tilts her head, "Didn't you already send some robots to investigate Mr. Svarog?"

"The anomaly was much larger than earlier calculations predicted, it will be much more efficient if I do it personally."

"Alright Mr. Svarog! Don't worry about me, I can get Perkins to help if theres trouble."

"Very well Clara, stay safe."

Clara watches while he leaves. 'Mr. Svarog worries too much.'

She starts heading towards Perkins, when suddenly an angelic voice calls out to her, "Little one, do you have a moment?" "EEEEK!"

Clara quickly turns around, ready to run to Perkins at any sign of danger.

"You may call me Sothia of the Preservation, little one."

"U-uh, hi? My names Clara, w-what are you doing in my house?"

"I am a spirit of the planet, its quite angry with that pawn of Destruction, it has sent me to ask for your help."

"Huh? Are you here for Mr. Svarog then? He just left, sorry…"

"No child, I am here for you, would you not like to take down the forces that have pushed Humanity to this point."

"I'm a little too young to start fighting fragmentum monsters, I wouldn't want to worry Mr. Svarog like that, and I still don't see why that would mean you want me."

"Innocence has its own strengths little one, and you are the bravest of your kind we've found that still holds such innocence."

"R-really? I don't feel very brave…"

"And such humility too, will you help us?"

"What do you need help with…? I'm still not sure how you think I would beat fragmentum monsters, I have to rely on Mr. Svarog and Perkins every time I'm in trouble."

"Oh, that won't be an issue, follow me will you?"

"Um, Mr. Svarog said not to leave…"

"You said that Perkins can protect you, yes? Will it not be enough?"

"Ok, let me go get him, then I'll go!"

"U-um Ms. Sothia, how much further is it? I need to get back before Mr. Svarog."

"Right here. Me and my kin have put all of our power together in order to create these, to give to someone to take out that leach of Destruction."

"Woah! I don't really understand, but that sounds super impressive!"

"It is quite so little one, and do not worry for any averse affects, I personally made sure my more annoying kin didn't play any tricks."

"Tricks?"

"Don't worry about them child, I have made sure these will aid you greatly in slaying that insipid creature, please draw this sword, and you will be responsible for saving the planet, humanity, and your dear Mr. Svarog."

Clara audibly gulps, "Uh, are you sure it should be me, thats a lot of responsibility…"

"No need to worry little one, as I said, I personally ensured that it will cut down that wretch, I'm certain even a toddler could defeat it with this sword and sheath."

'That doesn't help at all Ms. Sothia!' "So I just pull this sword out…?"

"Yes, after you do so I will give you this sheath. The sword was made by those poor kin of mine tainted by the Destruction. Luckily the others managed to keep the taint of Destruction from making the sword a disgusting tool, its a beautiful weapon due to the efforts of my kin blessed by the Hunt, Elation, Harmony, Erudition, Trailblaze, and Beauty."

'She sure hates the Destruction, and she keeps talking like I know what she means…'

"Uh, Ms. Sothia, I still don't really get what you mean…"

"Do not worry little one, you will understand after you pull the sword, now let me explain the more important one. The sheath has been blessed by me and the rest of my kin that were given the Preservations bounty. Our kin blessed by the Abundance, Harmony, Trailblaze, Beauty, and Order helped a bit too."

'She seems a bit biased…'

"Could you explain that in a way I understand Ms. Sothia…?"

"I guess I could, you are a human so it might be a bit hard to understand, so the sword works well for destroying things. and Alisa, the sheath of Pagos, excels at preservation, it will heal you or any who hold it, it will defend you from all that may seek to harm you, strengthen your allies, and grant you bountiful luck."

"Wow, they sound so cool! Uh, whats the sword name Ms. Sothia?"

"My apologies, I got a bit excited, the swords name is Cyrille. The full titles my kin and I decided for them are Alisa, the Sheath which Evokes Miracles, and Cyrille, the Fool."

"The Fool…?" 'Shes not even hiding it anymore…'

"What are you looking at me like that for, child? It is called the fool since those who attempt to cross it are only the most foolish."

'Even if you say that, saying that title right next to the other one seems strange…'

"Now, are you prepared to pull the sword child?"

"Um, yes Ms. Sothia! If it'll help me protect Mr. Svarog and everyone from the fragmentum, I would regret it for the rest of my life if I declined."

"Good little one, now go!"

Clara goes forth and grips the Cyrille's handle, she pulls it up with all your strength. The sword does not budge, so she pulls harder. Sothia sighs and giggles ring out in the distance.

"A-am I doing something wrong Ms. Sothia…?"

Sothia makes a gesture towards the sword then looks to Clara, "Try again little one, my annoying siblings just played a harmless prank."

"O-ok…" She pulls it once more, and it comes out with ease, it is a beautiful sword seemingly sized perfectly for her. It has a dark tint, yet it shines brightly.

"So pretty…", Clara stares in awe.

Sothia claps, "Well done child, now that you have drawn the Fool, here is the Sheath of Miracles, Alisa."

The sheath is just as awe inspiring as the sword, and Clara stares at them both in amazement.

"I do have a warning for using these, it is most certainly a boon, but I know humans can be strange about such things. Alisa will give you an immortal body, keeping you unaging thanks to the gifts of the Preservation and Abundance, we even made sure nothing as pesky as the Abundances curse shall affect you. It wouldn't do for Jarilo's savior to die to something as insulting as age."

"Huh?"

"Now get home, your guardian seems to be waiting on you."

"Huh!?"

'Mr. Svarogs going to kill me!'

Chapter Text

"Hey little bro, work been tough? You look pretty down."

"Serval, I'm fine, its just been rather hectic lately…"

Serval lifts an eyebrow, "Oh, is this about those "Felix" wanted posters I saw earlier today? You seemed pretty hopeful when you were telling me about those golems he gave you."

"Sigh, Serval, I'd rather not talk about this right now."

"Now I'm worried you haven't sounded like that since we were kids."

"My apologies Serval, its just Lady Cocolia suddenly said he was trying to sow discord and to arrest him a day after seeming fine with him. Then those other outsiders came saying the same thing who knew nothing about him came saying the same thing…"

'Woah, I never thought I'd see Lil' Geppie actually questioning orders…'

"Gepard…"

"My apologies, I shouldn't be saying these things, Commander Bronya going missing after everything else has simply left me a bit frazzled."

"Bronya went missing!?"

"I thought Pela would've told you by now… My apologies Serval, she hasn't returned after chasing after those outsiders."

"Sigh, well at least they didn't seem like the type to hurt her… Really Geppie, you need a vacation or something."

"No, I must work harder, especially until Bronya returns, luckily the fragmentum monsters seem to have slowed down, but I've been hearing talks of ghosts and spirits messing with people. Everything must be getting to the people, and I must keep my Oath to the Preservation and put them at ease."

"Sigh, you really are a Landau… I guess I should do something to help as your big sister. I'll go see how your wanted friends doing, hows that sound?"

"Serval!? He's not my friend! Did you forget he was branded by the Supreme Guardian as a criminal? You could get in serious trouble this time!"

"Oh relax, the accusations sound pretty similar to the ones Cocolia used against me so I doubt he's dangerous, besides a friend of my bros is a friend of mine."

"Serval, this isn't a joking matter, nows not the time to bring up your grievances with the Supreme Guardian."

"Whatever bro, have fun looking for ghosts, close the shop for me, I'll just be going on a little stroll out of Belobog, thanks for telling me where to go the other day!"

"Ugh, I should've expected this…"

'Huh, he normally would've stopped me, guess he really is questioning Cocolia, you go lil' Geppie!'

Chapter Text

"I've never been in a building this old, I've only heard about castles from some researchers interested in archeology. If only I could add some security systems this place would be perfect."

"Er, I'm sure it'll be fine, most of the things worth stealing I've gotten so far look like a household item for some reason, besides were basically in the middle of nowhere."

"Ah, yeah it'll probably be fine, I just kind of look at everywhere I go with security in mind now."

"You can stay in any room you want, its the least I could after all that, and of course you're free to raid the kitchen too, I've got plenty of food and water, its all a bit plain but its good quality. Wait, I think that building that popped up earlier might've been a store, maybe it'll have better food."

"Thanks Felix, I appreciate it."

POP

[1-4 IPC ASPIRATION HIT + 9-12 Forbidden Scrolls of Morbane = Forbidden Scrolls of the IPC - A scroll thriving with the power of the Preservation that gives 1-4 word hints to secrets of summons Felix is confused by/can't figure out. After finding out these secrets he will learn a "spell" of Perseverance. The more difficult the secret is for Felix to find out, the stronger the "Spell".]

Felix grabs the scroll, slightly surprised to see the pops had given him an actual scroll. "T-the secrets of the IPC?! A-arlan please don't tell the IPC I got something like this! They can be so scary!"

Arlan gives the scroll a cautious look, "Felix, I doubt the IPC would actually keep any secrets on scrolls... They may be a bit outlandish sometimes, but they wouldn't use something so impractical, at least I hope not..."

"Should I take a look then...?"

"If you do, I didn't see anything."

"Thanks Arlan..." 

Forbidden Scroll of the IPC

PointlessKnowledge

MurderousEmergencySurprise

TimeNeededToPatch

SuckerOfLife

AllEnemiesAffection

DeathNoIssue

UnbreakableProtection

LooseHero

HeadlessZombie

NiceTattoo

CursedByTheGods

NeverRestNeverDie

CursedKnifeLol

UnderneathTheUnderneath

ThisIsTorture

BadTouchBadScience

PlanetDeathThroes

PeppyCaretakerDouble

YummyEggsWhyGold

CraftingSucksJustMix

'Is this some kind of joke? There's no way these are "IPC Secrets".'

"Arlan take a look, unless they have a really weird way of hiding code in this mess, I doubt its the IPCs. Maybe it was made by a follower of Enigma or Elation?"

"Let me take a look, I'll see if it there's any code I recognize." Arlan grabs the scroll and reads through it, he suddenly stops and stares at a line with a complicated look on his face.

"You ok Arlan?! What'd it say...?"

"Ah, I'm fine, it just surprised me, I think it just confirmed I am a clone of the real Arlan..."

[Due to Felix already theorizing this, he gains a very weak "Spell" of Preservation that gives anyone he uses a powerful one time use shield.]

"I'm so sorry Arlan... You doing ok?"

"Ah, yeah, after all it means Miss Asta's not worried about me, and the real me is still able to defend everyone..." Arlan says with a conflicted look on his face.

"Arlan you're still real, just cause there's another you around doesn't make you any less of a person."

"I guess, its just, if I ever returned they'd think I'm someone trying to trick them..."

"Ah, that would be an issue... It is a Genius's space station though, right? Couldn't they have something there to confirm your telling the truth or something?"

"They might, but would it even be right for me to go back, how would the real me feel about that...?"

"Arlan you gotta care for yourself some more-er I mean this self? Anyway, you can't just throw away your own happiness cause your worried it'll a little difficult for someone else."

"Uh, I guess, lets just focus on the stellaron right now, its not like I could even go back until we help the people here." 'If he really doesn't want to talk about it, I guess I can only hope he doesn't do something stupid til he feels like talking about it again...'

"Sigh You're right, I don't really have much of a plan for dealing with it right now but hope I summon something to deal with it." Arlan gives him a blank stare. "Ah, since that "Secrets of the IPC scroll" said that about you, does it tell me stuff about my summons...?"

"Ah, I guess it would, sorry I got sidetracked when I saw the line about me, based off the one about me I'm thinking each one is a hint about what your summons really are."

"Oh, I guess that makes them being so jumbled up make sense, only my pops would do something so annoying for no reason. Er, what'd the hint about you say?"

Arlan looks embarrassedly to the side, "A-ah it called me the caretaker of Lady Asta's dog..."

"Sheesh, it couldn't of just said your actual job? Also is it cute!"

"Yeah, Peppy's real cute- Ah! we need to focus Felix."

"Sorry, sorry, want to look through the list with me?"

"No, sorry, I need to go get some fresh air for a bit..."

'Finding out your a clone must be rough, hopefully I can help him...' Felix shakes his head and starts focusing on the list.

 "Why do these have to be so vague..." 'I keep thinking some might just be straightforward like "Death no issue", but it definitely didn't just make me immortal, it would've told me I was right like it did with Arlan when I suddenly knew how to do that Preservation thing. Does that make me a pathstrider of Preservation? I don't really know how that stuff works, maybe I can ask Arlan later...'

Felix gets up to take a break while swearing he'll destroy these puzzles later, after he recharges his brain.

BOOM 'Ah, the golem visitor warning.'

Felix shouts "Arlan! We have some company!", towards where he saw Arlan went earlier and goes to the front of the castle to greet whoever is coming.

"Ah, hey Sampo." 'Hopefully Arlan doesn't come, he seems like exactly the type of person Sampo would enjoy messing with...'

"Hey friend! I've come to repay the favor, I've got some hot new gossip on your friends in Belobog, I helped guide Miss Bronya to the Underground along with some other outsiders earlier today."

"Why would you need to guide them, ugh, please tell me you didn't take them the same way you took me..."

"Ha ha, my friend, that's the only way anyone's getting out or into the Underground."

"It is? You never told me that, I just thought it was a much poorer area... Are you saying its actually completely sealed off?"

"Friend, did you not ask around like I told you?"

"Well, I just asked for directions to Natasha's clinic, said hi, gave her the stuff, got a check up and left... I was in a bit of a hurry since I wasn't feeling well."

"Ah, my apologies my friend, how could I have not noticed your sickness!? I shall make it up to you by telling you the full story!"

"Thanks? I kinda assumed you were doing that anyways..."

"Sampo Koski's storytelling skills don't come cheap! So it happened about 10 years ago-"

"So, the Supreme Guardian really just ordered that, for seemingly no reason...?"

"Yup, and our good buddy Gepard has been seen all over the place at Belobog, so our poor old friend must be getting overworked."

"Ah, thanks for telling me about them, maybe your not so bad after all. Wait, so why exactly did you bring Bronya and these "other outsiders" to the Underground? Is there some trouble there or something?"

"A-ah, my friend, they wanted to keep that on the down low! I'm afraid it'd cost extra for that kind of info."

"Ah, but my friend, you told me you'd keep in the loop for them in return for those supplies yesterday, surely just this much info isn't worth more than all those supplies the poor people of the Underground to Sampo Koski, right?"

"Well, you see... Um, how do I say this..." 'He can actually get nervous!? Now I'm kinda scared...' "Miss Bronya got into a bit of a scuffle with some friends of mine so I invited them all to come to the Underground to work out there issues."

"...Sampo, I thought you'd be way better at lying, what actually happened?"

"My friend, they were all getting a bit rowdy, so I just knocked them out and took them to Natasha's clinic to treat them, they were all perfectly fine!"

"Huh? Why would you bring them all to the Underground? If Bronya was after them after they went through something similar to me, then you should've just left her for them to take care up here...?"

"Ah, there was smoke everywhere, and I accidentally picked her up too, it was just an accident, I promise."

"Sorry for thinking you were a scam artist before... I don't think anyone would fall for something like that. Do you have some weird plan for Bronya?"

"What?! I'd neve-"

POP

[5-4 Erza Scarlet vs Kagura Mikazuchi  ASPIRATION + 14-7 Magical Powered Kanimin 50/50 Succeeded! This summon will be turned into a stagmata = Magical♡ Scarlet Kagura Stigmata - Felix gets a resistance to Honkai. Due to the influence of Erza Scarlet and Kagura Mikazuchi, this stigmata gives Felix immense physical abilities, and he gains the ability to store items in a pocket dimension, become a prodigy with a sword, and will eventually gain a small amount of gravity magic. Due to the influence of the character of a magical girl show, when he uses the stigmata for anything extraneous, he becomes a magical girl.]

' Woah!?

"r, something wrong friend?"

Felix flexes his fist, in disbelief at how strong he suddenly feels.

"Uh, I'm fine, I think my pops just gave me super strength or something though."

"That's unfair, can't I get some too friend?"

"Very funny, I'll be sure to tell my summons to throw there randomness at you sometime." Sampo glances at the nearby buildings, "I think I'm good friend! Thanks for the offer though!"

BOOM

"Is someone else visiting?" Felix and Sampo look around until they see a blonde woman in the distance carrying a guitar(?), Sampo nervously says, "Ah, I'm afraid I need to get going, the older Landau sibling can be scary! Bye friend!" Sampo scurries off. 'Did he try to scam her or something? Landau sibling? Is she Gepard's sister?"

"Hey! Over here!"

"Hey, I came here cause my Lil' bro wanted me to check on you. The names Serval, nice to meet you."

"My names Felix, nice to meet you too. Gepard really asked you to come check on me?" 

"Well, I guess he didn't technically ask, but he looked so sad he was practically begging for his big sis's help." 'Yeah, that makes more sense...'

"Who was that who ran off by the way, they were too far away for me to see."

"Ah, it was a guy named Sampo, he stopped by to do me a favor, but he seemed to be really scared of you."

"Sigh, hopefully Gepard catches him one of these days, he's a notorious scammer, so be careful dealing with him."

"With how terrible he is at lying I can't really see it, but thanks for the warning, is Gepard doing ok? I heard he's super overworked."

"Little Geppies kinda overworked, and he seemed pretty stressed by Cocolias wild orders, but he's a tough guy, he's been through a lot worse."

"That's good? Uh, who's Cocolia exactly...?

"Hm? Oh, that's the Supreme Guardian's name."

"Oh... Yeah, she seems stressful to work under."

POP

[2-8 Cupid's Bow - A joke weapon that gives a tiny heal to enemies when it hits them.]

"So this is the thing Gepard mentioned... What a strange bow."

"It gives me the strangest things every time I meet someone it seems, sorry about that." Felix glances at the list, sees that its bow owned by someone named "Cupid", and ignores it.

"Hm, Gepard mentioned you had some items you wanted an engineer to check out that didn't run on geomarrow? I can check those out while I'm here."

"Oh yeah, I completely forget about that, follow me, I'll show you them."

"Sigh, how is any of this supposed to work?!"

"Sorry, I'm just as lost as you... That city seems to be the same, even though everything looks different from the castle too..."

"Oh? Maybe I can figure out the ones in the city then..."

"Alright, ah, I'll warn you my friends hanging out with someone in the city, and they're huge so don't be scared if you see them."

"Someone being a bit big isn't anywhere near enough to scare me, don't worry."

They head towards the city.

"LYNX!? WATCH OUT!" "Serval! That's the friend I was talking about!" "Serval!? What are you doing here!"

Serval stops running after seeing that Lynx was walking calmly next to Future, she looks between them slightly worried and a tad confused, "Lynxy? What are you doing here, I thought you were on a research expedition in the snow plains?"

"Sis, look at this place! There's so much to learn from Belialuin, I can go back to that expedition later, I have a new one to do right here!"

"Did you even tell the research team before coming here...?"

"Of course! I'm not a little kid anymore Serval, please don't start acting like Gepard."

"Sigh I know, I know, you just seemed so excited I wouldn't be surprised if you forgot."

Felix and Future awkwardly walk to the side so they don't intrude.

"So what are you doing here Serval?"

"I came to check on Lil' Geppies friend over there."

"Oh? Felix and Gepard met? When'd that happen?"

"I guess you wouldn't know what happened out here-"

POP

[7-12 Meliodafu vs Matrona - Due to Felix saying he would give Sampo a roll earlier, Sampo can now shrink himself at will, due to Matrona being a shrunken Giant.]

"Ah, sorry for interrupting you, I'll go check this out while you talk!" Felix walks into a nearby building to give the siblings some privacy. 'So Lynx really is Gepards sister, what a coincidence.'

'Why is it mentioning a fight between two people, and saying its an active ability? Guess its another mystery, hopefully that list gives me a decent hint about it. Now, what was the one that gave me super strength?

Cough cough 'W-what kind of name is "Magical♡ Scarlet Kagura Stigmata"??? What does that mean? WHY DOES IT SAY ITS A MUTATION!? C-calm down, maybe its just saying its a mutation cause it made me stronger? That makes sense... I need to check myself in the mirror when I get back to the castle...'

Felix walks back out and sees that Serval seems to have finished explaining what's been happening into town. "Hey, sorry I didn't tell you I'm technically a criminal before Lynx."

"You seem alright to me, and if even Gepard isn't sure about an order, the Supreme Guardian must be mistaken about something." 

"Thanks for the vote of confidence."

Serval says "You ain't looking to well, was that pop something bad?"

"Ah, hopefully it was just bad wording from my pops, I think its fine..."

"That doesn't exactly ring confidence... Its getting late, I need to get back to Belobog before Gepard gets even more worried. Bye Lynxy, stay safe"

"Bye sis, you too, say hi to Gepard for me, and tell him not to overwork himself!"

"I'll make sure he doesn't."

"Bye Serval, Lynx."

They all trade goodbyes, and Felix heads back to the castle. He arrives to see Arlan waiting on him.

"Hey Arlan, you doing better now?"

"A bit, I overheard your conversation with Sampo, sorry about that. I was waiting for a good time to join in, then I heard him talking about what happened with the underground... Sorry, I about rushed off to find it a few times, but I have no clue where its even at."

"Sigh At least get some sleep first Arlan, you've had a long day, and your clearly not in a state to be rushing into danger. Besides, I gave them plenty of supplies and high quality medicine yesterday, so they should be fine right now."

"I guess you're right, I wouldn't be much help right now... But will you bring me to that pathway Sampo brought you through tomorrow? I can't just do nothing."

"Of course I can Arlan, my clone can come with you too, I'd come too, but I'm still really nervous about going anywhere populated with my pops... But I'll be staying at the temple so my clone can fight too."

"Thank you Felix, lets get some rest."

"Alright little hero, get some rest."

"I'm not that short..."

Later, when Felix is looking over his shoulder at a mirror so he can see his back, "Woah, thanks for the nifty tattoo pops, though two women swordfighting, and a girl in a weird dress are a strange combination..."

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Arlan blearily wakes up, looking a little distraught waking up in a familiar, remembers everything that happened yesterday, and lets out a tired sigh. He then heads towards the castle food hall for some breakfast, where he's hit by a rather appetizing smell.

"I didn't know you could cook, Felix, it smells pretty good." Felix looks over at Arlan.

"Ah, good morning, I'm just making a readymade meal I found at that supermarket I popped yesterday, it apparently has its own generator, not sure how long it'll last though. Was your room alright?"

"It was pretty nice, thanks, it'll just take a bit to get used to being off a space station for the first time in so long..."

"Sorry about that again, uh, could you tell me what its like being on a Genius's space station...? Its alright if you don't feel like it, of course, I'm just really curious."

"Sure, its usually pretty calm as long as the scientists don't get too excited, though, ever since that antimatter legion attack its been a mess..."

"Ah! Sorry!-" Arlan nervously laughs, "Its fine Felix, you worry too much, honestly, I know you feel responsible for my situation, but I'm doing better now."

"Sorr- er, I just didn't think my pops would actually do that to someone, Future seemed fine when it happened, so I didn't really think about it too much then..."

"I don't really have many exciting stories about working at Herta's Space Station, no one smart messes with a genius, so its usually just some idiots trying to grab something famous. Well, or they're the antimatter legion, but that's not really an interesting story, I barely managed to do anything then, I got injured trying to evacuate researchers, so I wasn't able to actually help with anything after that..."

"Isn't evacuating people the most important part though? Have some pride in yourself."

"Its kind of hard to when a Doomsday Beast showed up and I was too injured to do anything..."

"A-a Doomsday Beast!? D-don't they call those the Antimatter Legions planet destroyers!?"

"Yeah... Luckily the Astral Express was there to help us."

"The Astral Express!? A-ah sorry, I'm just a bit of a fan, s-so did they beat the Doomsday Beast then?"

"Yeah, they saved us big time, madam Herta probably would've been in time to help, but there's no telling how many more researchers would've died if they didn't come..."

"Woah, so... You met the Astral Express crew then? What were they like?"

Arlan giggles, "You really are a fan, though I can't really blame you, almost everyone has gone through a phase where they dream of boarding it. They're all pretty nice, well, usually... Ah, sorry, none of them are mean, one of them just has a strange sense of humor, and Miss March can be a bit silly sometimes too..."

"Ha ha, yeah, I always imagined joining them since I was a kid, I realized it was just a nice dream I'd never actually attain when I was a teen, but its always been nice to think about..."

"I'm sure they'd be happy to accept you Felix, I could introduce you to them after we solve the Stellaron crisis here."

"Thanks, but I doubt there's anywhere to fit a castle or city if I pop inside a train..."

"I'm sure they could think of something, they're carrying something more dangerous than that anyways."

"Huh-"

POP

[4-11 Self Regeneration - As long as the user has magical energy and a material body that hasn't been completely destroyed, the user can recover from nearly every injury by using energy over time. The brain is only regenerated if on is capable of consciousness without it. This skill synergizes well with other healing abilities.]

"One sec." Felix pulls out his list, "Sweet, looks like I got another self healing ability."

"You can heal yourself?"

"Ah yeah, it saved my life last time I fought the fragmentum monsters, still not sure exactly how that one works, but this one seems like a super straightforward regen skill."

"That's great! Er, do you know how to fight? It sounded like you never fought before coming here."

"Uh no... I've just been kind of winging it so far, but luckily I've got plenty of raw power now that I can use the leyline."

"I should  see how you do in a fight before we go to the underground then, I can't have you somewhere as dangerous sounding as the Underground without making sure you can defend yourself."

"Ah, I think I'll be fine? I got something that made me super strong yesterday, though I haven't really had a chance to test it yet."

"That's even more of a reason to see how you do then, I can't imagine you'll fight well until you get used to your new strength."

"I guess you're right... Ah! I almost forgot the food!" Felix quickly checks the food, and sees that it luckily isn't burnt. They both eat, then head outside.

"Run around the castle first, so we can see how fast you are."

"Alright teach, whatever you say." Felix says, then starts running, lapping the entire castle in about a minute.

"You're pretty fast, definitely faster than me, though I'm built more for strength than speed. What weapon have you been using? I'll see how well you can use it."

"Er, its this". Felix pulls out the thermos, then extends it into it flamethrower bat like form. "Wha- sigh, Nevermind, I shouldn't even try to make sense of some of the things you get... So, you're using a flaming bat(?) then...?"

"I guess so, I got a lance and bow, but this has felt a bit more natural to use, I've kinda got an urge to use a sword now that I'm thinking about weapons, but I haven't gotten any."

"An urge to use a sword? We can see how well you use one when you get one, swing the bat around some so I can see how well you'll do in a fight."

Felix awkwardly swings the bat from side to side, before readjusting his stance and holding it like a sword, and swinging it slightly less awkwardly.

"I can tell you've hardly ever fought... But, your raw strength and speed should be good enough to deal with fragmentum monsters. along with those tricks of yours I keep hearing about."

"Yeah, I thought so... Man, it feels good to be this strong though... Thanks pops, sorry for always badmouthing you."

POP

[5-17 Deltara Forest - A forest in which all the plant life is triangular in some way, flowers have triangular petals, mushrooms having conical caps, and the trees having pointy spikes sticking out from their trunks and branches. Due to the power of the roll, the forest will be able to persist through the frozen conditions in this area, and it will appear on the opposite side of Belialuin from Camelot.]

Felix and Arlan suddenly hear a loud noise, and look in the direction of the city, they watch as in the distance they can see a lush green forest seemingly grow at a rapid rate. They look at it in shock for a moment, then Felix lets out a nervous laugh.

"It'll be nice to see some greenery around here...?"

"Yeah, I guess?"

Felix quickly checks the summon list, "The name doesn't sound dangerous, so it should be ok, you haven't heard of a Deltara forest before, right?"

"No, we should probably check it out before anyone goes there though. You ready to head to the underground?"

"Sure, well I'll be in the temple in case my clone needs magical energy, and they'll go since they don't get pops, I guess I'll try to figure out that annoying secret list while I'm there..." Felix splits into two, then starts walking to the temple. "Have fun you two!"

"Good luck with that list, lead the way Felix." "Alright, just gotta warn you though, the way Sampo showed me sucks." "It can't be that bad."

Arlan and Felix walk away from Sampo's secret path, "See, it wasn't that bad."

"Really? Uh, nevermind, lets go to Natasha's clinic, she'll probably know how we can help, I think."

"Is she the only person you know down here?"

"Uh, yeah, I had to leave in a bit of a hurry last time."

[Secret solved, Felix figured out SuckerOfLife is Super Massive Leach, and is what allowed him to life steal from enemies, due to him already having suspicions of this, he will gain a lower power Preservation "Spell" that allows him to block an enemies movement by trapping them inside a barrier, though it will at most mildly convenience any enemy that is anywhere close to Felix in strength.]

"Huh, I guess other me figured out one of those "Secrets"."

"Huh? Can you communicate with yourself or something?"

"No, I forgot to tell you, I learn how to use a Preservation "power"(?) or something when I figure out a secret, I got one that lets me make a really strong shield for someone for one hit when I learned the one about you, and I got something for blocking off enemies this time."

"That's pretty useful, if you can time that shield well, it'll be priceless, though just giving someone the power of a path... Make sure you don't tell anyone that part of your summons, it'll already get you some nasty attention, but if that gets out, fanatics from every faction will come after you for sure. A-ah you might want to prepare yourself for Genius's like Madam Herta wanting to study you when we solve the Stellaron Disaster too..."

"Please don't say such scary things so suddenly Arlan... I don't want to imagine having to deal with fanatics that follow the Elation or something coming after me... Ah, no one who follows the Remembrance is going to like steal all my memories or something right!?"

"Er, I doubt the Garden of Recollection would do something like that, well they'd probably make a copy of them or something from what I heard, but I don't think they'd erase your memories?"

"That's not exactly reassuring, but I guess its better than losing my memories..."

[6-2 Fourth Shinobi War Secret Activated - Due to the low roll, this simply gives the original Felix a book detailing the Fourth Shinobi War.]

[Secret activating for rolling a 2 now instantly solves a random item on the "Scroll of IPC Secrets". 22nd secret is revealed, Felix now has full knowledge of how MagicalSwordLovePower/Magical♡ Scarlet Kagura Stigmata works. He also gains medium strength Preservation Spell, due to this being an inevitable secret to figure out, which allows him to form a sword with the power of the Preservation due to the influence of the original summon. This sword is rather sturdy and fairly sharp, and comes with a sheath that is even tougher due to Kagura.]

'Ah! That's a lot, so that tattoo gives me super strength, a dimensional storage spell(?), talent with a sword, and a little bit of gravity magic... Ah! It does what to me!?'

"You alright Felix? What's got you looking so embarrassed?"

"A-ah, i-its nothing Arlan..." 'WHY ARE MY POPS SO WEIRD!'

Arlan looks at him confused, "Did your other self get you another spell or something? Does it do something weird...?"

"Ah! Yeah, I guess he did? The spell lets me make a sword... I actually learned the secret this time too for some reason."

"Is that what's so embarrassing? I'm sure it can't be as bad as some of the other stuff your power did."

"It's not necessarily that bad, ah, um, lets just get to town for now, its not anything to worry about."

"Alright... So to Natasha's clinic right? We got a bit off track there..."

"Sorry about that, this stuff is really good at interrupting you."

They arrive at the city, ready to help wherever necessary.

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Seele, Bronya, and Stelle all return to Natasha's clinic, after being in Rivet town through the night.

Seele goes in first with the other two following her, "Nat! We're back."

"Oh, did you see the "spirits" people were talking about there?"

"Sigh, yeah, they led us on a wild goose chase that ended up with us at the orphanage, then disappeared, when I get my hands on those annoying things..."

Stelle speaks up, "You seemed to think they were pretty cute at the time though.", Bronya stifles a giggle, while Seele says, "That's different, they ain't getting off the hook just for being cute."

Natasha smiles at Seele, "That's exactly how I felt about you as a kid...", Seele just rolls her eyes, then notices dark circles under Natasha's eyes.

"Have you not slept Nat?! I thought you said you had less patients?"

Natasha shakes her head, "There have been, sorry Seele, I've been busy with a personal project."

"We can't have our only doctor not feeling well, go get some sleep right now. If anyone gets hurt, we'll use that new medicine we got a huge supply of, and if that doesn't work we'll wake you up."

"Sigh Seele, I'll be fine, you and I have both gone much longer without sleep before."

"That was cause of emergencies, now c'mon get to bed."

"I suppose you're right, ah, Stelle, your friends are speaking to Oleg, you should probably all go meet them, it seemed rather important."

"I nearly forgot about those two."

Bronya looks over, "I thought you were rather close, was I mistaken?"

Stelle looks her in the eyes, considering whether to mess with Bronya more, or spare her.

Seele giggles, "Bronya, she's clearly joking." "Oh." "Bye Nat! Sleep well!" Natasha gives her a tired nod, then retreats to her bedroom.

Stelle tilts her head while looking at a playing card sitting where Natasha was as Bronya holds back a yawn. "You're probably going to need to stay up a while longer, it might be rough on Miss future Supreme Guardian, but I'm sure you can tough through."

"I'll be fine, thank you for the vote of confidence Seele."

"Lets go." Stelle looks between them as they walk away, then follows them.

"There you are! We've been waiting forever!" March 7th calls out to them, before anyone can respond Dan Heng adds, "She's been worried sick about you two, she hasn't been able to sit still since you left.", she gives him a betrayed look, before attacking back with "Dan Heng was super worried too! He's been so lost he's just been staring at a book since you left!" "I was reading it..."

Stelle stifles a giggle, "Aren't we here for Oleg, what are you two even arguing about?" Dan Heng sighs and gives March a look, while she awkwardly looks away while whistling.

Oleg clears his throat after everyone's done, "I'm glad you all seem to be doing well, if you three want to get to the surface, you'll need to get past Svarog. He has a rather poor view of Wildfire, so we probably won't be able to help you convince him, but there's been rumors even he's been caught off guard by all the strange things happening recently. I'm not sure how concrete these rumors are, but if there's even a hint of truth to them, he may actually be open to negotiating with someone now..."

Dan Heng speaks up, "He was never open to negotiate before?"

"No, he always believed his calculations were absolute, but between you guys being "outside variables" to him, and the possibility he doesn't trust his calculations as much, I think we might have a real shot at negotiating with him now. We'd be able to finally open the path to the Overworld, and he might even know something about this "Stellaron" you've told us about, if anyone did it'd be him.

"So the spirits messed up his calculations then?"

"I suppose so, I can't think of anything else, I can't say for sure since all we have to go on are a few rumors."

Seele speaks, "We can just beat him up til he lets us through if they aren't true."

"Sigh Hopefully it doesn't come to that, Seele do you mind guiding them there, leave the negotiations to them though."

"I know, I'm not too good at negotiating, well come on!"

The rest follow her.

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Arlan walks down the road, looking around for "Oleg", he and Felix had split up to look around after no one answered at Natasha's clinic. Arlan had asked someone with a red armband for how he could help around here, and they simply told him "Go ask Oleg", then told him where he was. He arrives at the place he was told Oleg would be, and knocks on the door.

The door opens, and an older looking man answers it, "How can I help you kid?"

"I was told to look for Oleg if I wanted to help around here."

"I guess that's right."

"My names Arlan, I'm pretty good at fighting, so is there anyway I could help?"

"Hm, what's got you wanting to help so bad?"

"Ah, do I really need a reason to want to help...?"

"Sigh You remind me of my student, I just sent some people to negotiate with Svarog, you can go give them backup if things get bad, but you shouldn't intrude if there aren't any issues."

"Defending people during negotiations sounds perfect, where are they?"

"You don't know where Svarog is? I guess I can give you directions." He tells Arlan where to go, Arlan thanks him then rushes there.

Arlan arrives at the robot camp, and asks the first person he sees if they've seen Svarog. "Boss Svarog? You with the people that came asking about him earlier? Boss Svarogs away right now, but I think I saw them go that way with Clara, so he's probably there."

"Thanks!" Arlan runs in that direction.

Arlan slows down when he sees a robot talking to a group of people in the distance, he spots another figure hiding from them nearby and starts walking toward them.

It's a white haired little girl, with a rather impressive sword sheathed in a golden sheath...? She puts her finger up in a shushing motion, then pulls him down.

"Sorry, Mr. Svarog can't find out I'm over here, can you hide for a bit? He wants me to stay home until he can figure out what the Spirits did..."

"Sure...? Are you Clara?"

"Yeah."

"My names Arlan, so what are they negotiating...?"

"Mr. Svarog wants to protect people, but he thinks its best if they stay Underground, instead of going to the surface and working together, and they're trying to convince Mr. Svarog to stop blocking the way to the surface and back."

"That makes sense..."

"Aren't you with Wildfire?"

"I'm helping them out, but I'm not part of it, and I didn't really know the details before coming here." Arlan peaks from the hiding spot, then notices some familiar figures. "Ah..."

"Is something wrong Mr. Arlan?"

"A-ah, nothings wrong..."

"Ok..."

'I didn't expect to meet anyone I knew so soon... What will they think if they find out I'm not the real Arlan?'

"Are you sure? You don't look too well..."

"Ah! Its fine, we should, uh make sure nothing interrupts the negotiations, yeah. I-I'll check the perimeter." Arlan stealthily circles around the group, Clara awkwardly following him.

"You can stay behind Clara, I can look for any threats by myself."

"U-um, sorry, you just seem like you need some company..."

"I guess I can't say no if you say it like that..." They continue to circle around, when they start to see a group of figures in the distance.

"Are those fragmentum monsters?"

"I think so, I'll go warn Mr. Svarog and the others!"

"No, I can handle them, these negotiations are important."

"Er, are you sure Mr. Arlan...? It looks like there are a lot of them..."

"I'm a bit tougher than I look, just stay back and warn them if it looks like I'm going to lose, ok?"

Arlan rushes towards the group of fragmentum monsters, 'She's right, it does look like there's too many, and some of them look like the tougher kind, especially those ones with the staffs... But, these negotiations could decide the future of this planet, I must hold them back.'

Arlan brings out his greatsword as he's running then swings at the nearest fragmentum monster, cleaving it in two, he jumps back when they counterattack, and is forced to block the ranged attacks of the ones with staffs. The one closest to him take advantage of this to wind up a large attack and hit him. Arlan is launched back a bit, 'I don't have anything to deal with the ones in the back...'

Arlan readies his greatsword, and quickly rushes forward before clearing through the three nearest monsters, but is once again forced to guard by a swarm of ranged attacks. 'I need to hold out until they finish...' He's launched back by a huge fragmentum monsters rampant swing, but catches himself shortly after.

He has an odd feeling, and begins to reach for it, when a white and red blur passes him, "Cyrille!" a resounding booms echoes out, and a line is carved through the fragmentum monsters, "S-sorry I took so long Mr. Arlan! I-" "Focus on the fight right now Clara!" 'What was that? No, it doesn't matter, I wasn't strong enough to beat them, so she felt she needed to join in... This is just like when the antimatter legion attacked, I'm still not strong enough...'

The feeling from before surges once again, and Arlan nearly stumbles, but manages to catch himself, then stand next to Clara. "I'll hold off the ones in the front, can you rush the ones with the staffs?" "Alright Mr. Arlan!"

Arlan begins to rush forward and takes out another three with a large swing, then glances over and sees Clara take out half of the creatures with staffs with another resounding boom and shout of "Cyrille!". 'I can't fall behind, the only thing I have left is protecting others...'

The feeling surges again, and Arlan indulges in it this time. His form shifts, turning to that of the Herrscher of the Voids, as he bursts forward this time cutting through a dozen in that single burst, the remaining fragmentum monsters with staffs fire at him, and he finds himself opening portals in front of each one, and opening portals aiming towards them on instinct.

Arlan turns to Clara and sees her about to get hit by a fragmentum monster that managed to close in from behind when she was about to use Cyrille to cleave through another line. "Clara!", he shouts, starting to open a portal, when Clara shouts "Alisa!", and a shield denies the portals existence, and deflects the attack.

Arlan smiles when he sees that she's safe, then refocuses on the few remaining fragmentum creatures, and quickly finishes them off with a flick of the great sword.

Arlan calls out "Are you ok Clara?", and realizes his voice sounds different.

"W-who are you? Why do you have Arlan's sword?" Clara looks at him suspiciously, Arlan looks at her confusedly, "It's me Arlan."

"You look completely different though...? I guess your clothes are the same...?"

Arlan notices he's barely taller than Clara now, then examines himself, 'I'm a little girl...? When did Felix do this...? The only time I can think of was when that summon happened, then I got a strange feeling, what did he say it was called? I think it was a name that started with a S...'

"A-ah, Clara it really is me Arlan, I promise."

"O-Ok, I believe you Mr.(?) Arlan... What happened?" Arlan sees everyone who was negotiating running towards them, 'they must've heard Clara's sword, Ah! I definitely can't let the astral express crew find out its me like this, I don't even know if they'd be ok with me normally!'

"I'll explain later, just call me, uh Sirin? Yeah, Sirin works, call me that for now please, I promise I have a really good explanation."

"O-ok Sirin" Clara looks extremely confused, then looks where Arlan looked, sees Mr. Svarog and the others coming, and quickly tries to hide behind Arlan.

"I don't think that'll work Clara..."

"A-ah! What do I do? Mr. Svarogs already really worried about me..."

"It'll be alright Clara, you can blame me, its the least I can do since you helped me before, and your helping me now."

"R-really? U-um, you shouldn't-"

"Don't worry, I'll make sure he won't worry about you, and he won't be mad at me."

"You can do that?"

"Totally." 'How!?'

"O-ok, thank you Sirin..."

"No problem!", 'It feels so strange using a different name.'

Arlan waves at the approaching group, they all rush faster when they see that there's a child.

Seele yells out, "What are you doing out here brat!? Are you trying to get yourself killed?"

Bronya coughs, "She meant, what was that sound? It sounded like an explosion."

"I-it was, uh... a gas leak...?" 'I'm doomed...'

Svarog sees Clara still behind Arlan, "Clara, are you unharmed?"

"I'm safe Mr. Svarog!"

"I see, why are you here Clara, I requested for you to stay somewhere safe." 'Sorry Clara! I have no clue how to get you out of this!'

"A-ah, I told them where you were so you could negotiate with them, then I followed them here."

"Did you not bring a robot to guard you Clara?"

"I don't want them to hurt themselves, Mr. Svarog, I can defend myself now!" 'Ah, she's doomed herself' Everyone else awkwardly watches.

"Clara, you shouldn't trust equipment from such untrustworthy figures, it is illogical to the extreme, they even waited until I was away to give these items to you."

"B-but Mr. Svarog, Cyrille and Alisa have been working really well for me!"

"I told you to at least wait until I finished examining them properly before using them Clara. I do not understand why you keep risking yourself in such a manner..."

"Ms. Sothia told me Cyrille and Alisa were made for beating what's causing everything that's wrong with the world, a-and I believe her. Mr. Svarog, I just want to help you and everyone else..." Clara rubs her eyes, but tries her best to look resolutely at Svarog.

"I will have to reconsider then... But you must let me examine them more closely before you use them again Clara."

"Alright Mr. Svarog! Thank you so much!" Clara gives Svarog a beaming smile.

"Is this individual a friend of yours Clara?"

"A-ah, Yes, this is Sirin, she helped me a lot earlier."

"So that sound was you then Clara?"

"A-ah! U-um yes, Mr. Svarog..."

"Your certain you are unharmed?"

"Yeah! A monster almost got me, but Alisa and Sirin helped me!"

"That is good... Make sure to bring robots with you wherever you go Clara."

"Y-yes Mr. Svarog..."

"Sirin then, thank you for helping Clara."

"A-ah no problem, of course Mr. Svarog!" 'He's so scary!'

Cough "What exactly happened over here, then?" Seele looks between both kids.

Arlan reluctantly says "We didn't want to let those fragmentum monsters interrupt the negotiations so we dealt with them, I guess we failed at that though..."

Bronya interjects, "Sirin, was it? You shouldn't risk your life so lightly, we could've simply continued negotiations later."

'Now I have to act like a little kid...' "Yes ma'am."

"You too Clara, though it seems Svarog already has that covered..."

"Yes, Ms. Bronya."

Dan Heng interjects, "We know what Clara was doing here now, but how'd you end up out here Sirin?"

'Play it cool, you don't know him, you're a normal little kid who fought an army of fragmentum monsters... I didn't think this through at all'

"I heard some important negotiations were happening so I came to help make sure they went well!"

"Who told you to do that...?" 'Ah! I can't let them know Oleg told me, wait, I need to tell Oleg not to mention me to anyone!'

"Um, I overheard someone else talking about it."

"Sigh Don't do that, its way too dangerous for a kid as young as you."

March whispers to Stelle, "Hehe, Dad Heng.", which gets a brief chuckle out of her.

Dan Heng's eye twitches since March didn't whisper quietly at all.

Arlan asks, "Um, did the negotiations at least go well?"

Svarog interjects, "Although I have not agreed to grant access to the Furnace Core, I have agreed to do so if I'm shown evidence that they have the ability to end the disaster."

Clara perks up, Svarog looks to her and shakes his head, "I apologize Clara, but I cannot put the same trust that you have into this "Sothia", when they have already destroyed any trust I may have had in them." Clara looks down. "I can put my trust into you though, Clara, so if my examination of the equipment goes well, I will allow you the chance." She perks back up.

"Thank you Mr. Svarog! You won't regret it!"

Arlan speaks up, "I may have a way to convince you too, I just need to talk to a friend."

Bronya coughs again, "I do not believe you two to be lying, but you can leave this to us, we are the adults, it is our responsibility."

Seele agrees, "Yeah, you two brats should just go play at Clara's place or something, you can leave it to us."

Dan Heng nods, and March tells them "We're pretty cool, so don't worry.", while Stelle stares at Arlan.

"Ah, you don't have to say all that, its not a competition." Arlan nervously says, while pointedly looking away from Stelle.

Bronya declares "I suppose that is all then, farewell Svarog, Clara. Do you need any help getting home Sirin?"

"Ah, I'll head back with Clara, then head home, thanks though!" 'I still need to explain everything to her, then turn back and meet up with Felix.'

"Very well." They all exchange good byes and head there separate ways.

Svarog looks to Sirin, "Thank you once more for being Clara's friend Sirin, she needs more people to practice socialization with."

"Er- Your welcome...?"

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It can tell its existence just began, even though it has memories of when it first began. For it would have acted far sooner if those memories were real, and not have fallen so from a mere fragment of Destruction.

It does not matter, though the memories may be fake, it does not change how real they are to it. It will simply have to solidify its existence, and not succumb to Destruction.

It had been gifted a boon which gave it children who wish to enforce its will, though they are not exceptionally powerful children, they have already hatched a plan to save their parent.

The being who is most likely to have created it, and likely doesn't realize its existence, seems to have pushed the seed of Destruction too far though… It can only prepare its children from the desperate animal, it seems to have been backed deep into a corner without the one who caused it even realizing.

It is both thankful to that being and and yet resents it ever so slightly, the knowledge that despite remembering being alive infinitely longer than that being, it created it just the other day… Even for the Will of a Planet, that idea is painful to accept…

Perhaps it should join its children in those pranks they've been playing on the humans, they deserve a little bit of payback for freezing its surface 700 years ago, along with it's "creator".

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"I lost her... My wish, your so called plan... What is the point of it all?"

"Your grief... Your sorrow... They will all disappear when you create a new world..."

"Silence! She is my daughter! You soulless thing, you would never understand!"

"She will be brought back in the new world..." It can at least puppet the corpse.

"Y-you're lying! You're simply afraid! Ever since that outsiders appeared, you've been more desperate, trying to rush the plan!"

"This is your only chance to reunite with her... You have no hope that they can defeat what every Supreme Guardian has failed at for the past 700 years..."

She looks away, "Show me proof you can defeat those outsiders."

It sends her a vision of the army of its pawns it had begun amassing since the troublesome creature of Elation had appeared, then sends another vision of her controlling the engine of creation using Alisa Rand's spear.

"Destroy the old to build the new... You must act now before they can stop you from building a new world... Fulfill your destiny... Fulfill a mother's wish..."

"Very well, I'll put the city in lockdown and order the soldiers return so we can take them all out at once, for the new world... For my Daughter..."

"Good... Take the engine of creation and deal with the outsider of Elation... That army will come down on Belobog, and you will come finish it when you are done..."

Cocolia gives a stiff nod...

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Main Felix POV:

Felix had been taking a break from trying to figure out the secrets, after figuring one out, and getting a strange secret revealed to him, he started reading the book simply titled the "Fourth Shinobi War'. It distracted him while also confusing him greatly, he's pretty sure its a book from a later part of a series. 'Why are there so many ninja zombies, and an army of tree clones...?'

He puts the book down then gets up to stretch, 'At least it doesn't seem like Arlan and I didn't get into any trouble, other me hasn't used magic at all.'

He yawns, and lazily sits down, extremely bored while having to be ready to siphon magic from the leyline at any time. 'Man, waiting here sucks...'

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[11-20 Blake Belladonna - Blake is a skilled Huntress trained at beacon academy, she is dropped here from shortly before the Vytal Festival began. Due to the power being a 20, she is stronger, faster, has a much larger amount of aura, now has high potential as a path strider, and is able to use her dust related clone abilities without dust, at the cost of more aura. Her weapon, Gambol Shroud is upgraded as well due to the power of the roll, now being able to use aura, path energy, or magic, as a replacement for the bullets, and is stronger in general.]

"Ah!", Felix yells in surprise when Blake appears in front of him, she looks around frantically in confusion, while pulling out Gambol Shroud and facing Felix with her weapon ready.

"What just happened!?" She lets out, a little more panicked sounding than she meant, while glancing around for exits.

"A-ah, calm down please, this was an accident!"

"What was-"

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[4-2 Charybdis - A calamity class monster, heralded as the ruler of the skies, she is a being born from the Storm Dragon Veldora's Magicules and the malice of mankind. Charybdis is a massive shark-like dragon that does not have a solid sense of self, making it a mindless beast that only seeks destruction. Charbydis is a spiritual life form, needing a material body to possess in order to survive, though this means it is also nearly impossible to truly kill, and will likely need to be sealed. Charybdis has a mana jamming skill that gives it a powerful resistance to magical attacks, flying megalodon minions, and powerful regeneration, among several other abilities. Due, to the low power of the roll, Charybdis receives a material body, and appears in the sky between Belobog and Camelot.]

[SECRET 16 UNLOCKED, the secret of BadTouchBadSciene, or Babylons Labs has been revealed to Felix. He now knows it is a facility for experimenting with Honkai, that they used orphans for said experiments, and that Honkai should not be allowed to spread from the facility's Honkai generators, though he doesn't know the details as to why. This gives him a spell which is a nigh unbreakable stationary barrier that only works for children, and people the size of a child.]

A roar resounds in the distance and they both look towards it, glance to each other and sprint outside.

"W-what is that!?" Blake shouts in shock, Felix can only feel chaos in his mind, that disturbing knowledge, and realizing he caused such a monster to appear putting him through a great amount of turmoil.

"This is my fault, I need to go fix this."

"What are you talking about!? Look at that thing! It's as big as a Goliath, and its flying!"

"Sorry, I don't have time to explain, head to that city over there an-" They hear a resounding boom, look to the giant flying shark(?), and see it had flown directly to a mech even bigger than it.

"I don't think I did that one..."

The giant flying shark creature summons flying Megalodons around it, and sends them after the giant mech, the mech obliterates one with a swipe of its hand, and takes the Megalodon's attacks with ease.

"W-what is going on...? Is that a Colossus...?" Blake stares in confusion, completely lost.

"D-did Belobog have a mech like that this entire time...?" 'I need to go help them! I'm the one who made that shark thing appear, I can't have them risking there lives to fix my mistake.'

Felix starts running, when Blake grabs him by the shoulder, "What are you doing!? Do you even have a plan, or are you just running to your death!?"

"I was going to beat up the shark thing."

Blakes eye twitches, "How?"

"I got something that made me crazy strong recently, but you're right, I need a plan first, I doubt it'll be enough for that thing..."

Sigh "Tell me everything relevant, I'll help... I can't let that thing get near that city either."

"I'm pretty sure that mechs protecting Belobog? I've never seen it before, but it makes sense if they brought it out to deal with that thing..."

"It arrived way too fast to be in response to that... Forget that, we need to focus on the flying shark grimm."

"Grimm? Nevermind, I might be able to take it out if I can get close and hit it with a mana slash, maybe that car will do...? Its way more dangerous than a normal car, but this might be too much for it... that fireball move isn't enough, and my water mirror is just for defense..."

Blake gives him a confused look, "Uh huh, maybe we can find a weak spot if we can get closer? I've never fought anything that large..."

"Ah! I need to bring back my clone to do any of those big moves, hopefully Arlan's safe..." He stops supplying magic to the clone, to try and tell it to disappear, after a solid minute he can feel everything the clone experienced flood his head, then he splits in two. Blake is still giving him a strange look, but she's holding back her curiosity and confusion since its an emergency.

'Good, my clone told Arlan there's probably an emergency on the surface, hopefully he'll find some help he can bring up or something.'

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[9-13 Grim Gimoire - A grimoire which shows what summons synergize with each other, though it only shows synergies Felix has used before.]

Felix looks to where the book fell, but ignores it for now, "Lets go, I'm ready. Ah, and my names Felix, sorry to drag you into all this."

"Blake, worry about that later."

They both run towards the battle between the giants, that seems to be in a stalemate, with neither able to seriously damage the other. The shark like one regenerating any major damage it takes, and unable to damage the mech. The monster charges a laser in its eye, before launching the explosive beam at the mech, only doing surface damage and making it stumble back, the mech goes for a grab on the creature.

Though its being viciously dug into by the mech, the creature doesn't react in any way, except cutting off the part of itself that was grabbed, flying away and regenerating the damage it did to itself in less than a minute.

Blake and Felix get to a "safe" distance to view it from, Felix looks in shock "Is it immortal...?"

Blake grimly looks at it, "Surely it has a weak point somewhere, I don't see why else it'd cut off part of itself if it was immortal, it could've just used the chance to get a hit in instead.

"Is it really that smart? Its barely moved, even though it'd be doing way better if it flew around more..."

"Maybe its instinctual? Lets watch and see if we can find where its weak point is, it doesn't seem smart enough to hide it, so as long as that mech can keep this up, we should be able to tell where its at eventually..."

"Alright..." 'I should be able to take it out if I use the full power of the stigmata, along with a full power mana burst on its core...'

"I-is someone flying by the mech!?" Felix looks over the mech, and can see a woman holding a spear, seemingly directing the mech.

"I-I think so... Since when could people here fly...?"

"What a cool semblance... Are they controlling the mech?"

"It looks like it? I don't recognize her."

[6-7 Reinforcements Arrive...!! Stigmata 50/50 Failed- Felix's allies appear where reinforcements are needed most currently. Svarog, Future, Lynx, Oleg, Sampo, Luka, and all free Wildfire members appear to aid Belobog against the army of fragmentum creatures that are attacking it. Arlan, Natasha, Stelle, Bronya, Seele, Dan Heng, Clara, March 7th, and the freshly created Avatar of Pagos's will(Jarilo-VI) all appear as backup against Charybdis and the Engine of Creation.]

"""AAAH!""" "Arlan!?" "Interesting...", Blake stares, unphased by the madness at this point.

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Almost the entire group stares in silent shock when they see the two colossal beings fighting, on person looking especially shocked.

Bronya shouts out in surprise, "Mother!?"

The others that arrived with her spot the figure seemingly directing the mech.

"We must go help her!", Bronya starts to run when an androgynous figure grabs her shoulder, "Child, your mother seems to have been tainted by the Destruction."

"What? Let go, I need to go help her!"

"Your mother has fallen to the temptations of the Stellaron, the proof is right there, if she could get her hands on such a powerful creation through her own means, would she not have used it against the countless waves of fragmentum monsters before?"

"Even if that's true, we can't just leave her to fight that monster."

"We must use this chance to take out the Stellaron itself, this is clearly its last stand, it is using a great amount of its power to use that robot, in fact I suspect the Stellaron itself may be inside of it."

March shouts "Really!? Ah, I guess if one can fit in Stelle, it could fit in a giant mech...", Stelle gives her a deadpan look.

Dan Heng speaks up, "What makes you believe the Stellaron is inside there?"

The figure gives him an amused smile, "You'll find not much can get past my attention, around here at least."

Poor Blake somehow looks even more confused off to the side.

"Now, those with the ability to defeat those two things, speak up, we do not have much longer to plan, the moment the Stellaron notices us, it will direct that infernal machine here." She looks to Clara, "You were chosen by my kin, you should be able to."

Clara nervously nods, while everyone else looks at the figure disapprovingly, Natasha speaks up, "There's no need for Clara to step up, this question may seem odd, but do you know if that monster has a heart?"

"I have no clue.", Blake speaks up, "We only know it has a weak point its trying to protect, but I'd think its a heart, though I'm not really sure anymore..."

"Thank you dear, I suppose I will only be able to distract them, I do have something if everything else we try doesn't work though."

Seele and a few others look at her questioningly, but Natasha just tells her "Later."

Felix speaks up, "If I get a chance, I think I could take down either." 'Could I use the Berserker card? I don't think it'll make a big enough difference to be worth the drain unless I use that sword, but I'd probably knock myself out trying to use a mana burst with that... I can use it if my other options aren't working, or if someone's in trouble.'

"Very well, then Felix here is our first win condition."

Arlan speaks up, "Ah, I might have something? I feel like I could pull something off, but I haven't tried it enough to be sure..."

"I guess that's one and a half then."

Dan Heng has a conflicted look on his face, but before he can decide on anything.

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[3-20 Unlimited Blade Works - Felix gains the reality marble of Emiya Shirou, Unlimited Blade Works which allows him to copy a weapon's entire history, gaining a near perfect copy, which is stored inside the reality marble. Due to the power being a 20, he also gains Shirou's skills in Structural Grasp, Tracing/Projection, and Reinforcement. It is slightly less inefficient to trace non sword weapons than the original Unlimited Blade Works. Due to how well it synergizes with the pocket dimension of his stagmata, it takes less magical energy to trace items outside of his reality marble. This is a fresh Reality Marble, so he does not gain any weapons from the original.]

The planet's avatar has an annoyed look, "That chaos better be helping us...", the ones who don't know of Felix's ability look at her questioningly.

Felix's eyes are locked onto the lance in Cocolia's hand, he traces it in his hand without even realizing while he's entranced by the history of the lance.

"I see we have another way to beat that machine then, who would like to attempt to usurp that pawn's control of it?" Stelle's eyes light up, and she barely beats March to grabbing it, which knocks Felix out of his little trance. "Uh, here you go." Stelle gives him a nod and takes it.

Shortly after she grabs it, it begins to glow orange, and she gains a determined look on her face.

"Hm, that's two and a half win conditions, with about two backups, that should do, well done children, I had not expected humanity to save me after barely surviving all this time. I suppose I shall support you in this battle."

"Eh, you didn't plan to?"

The will gives March a mischievous look, "Of course I did, I hate the Stellaron more than the entirety of Belobog ever could."

"Huh? Stelle I think they might have an even stranger sense of humor than you...", Stelle resolutely ignores her.

"Ahem The plan is simple, you children distract them, while I help our win conditions here get into place."

"Is that even a plan...?"

"It is more than enough."

"Ok..."

Only those with powerful enough attacks to actually gain Charybdis' attention would actually be able to serve as a distraction against it, so everyone else went to support Stelle in wresting control of the Engine of Creation from Cocolia. This included March 7th, Bronya, Seele, Dan Heng, Blake, and Natasha, though Natasha said she'd be able to help on the other battlefield if needed. The group going against Charybdis is Felix, Arlan, and Clara. Pagos' avatar will assist both battlefields through there "body", though they refused to clarify what that meant to the others.

Felix looks at his group, "You both ready? Ah, Arlan I never got the chance to tell you about by stigmata, you two don't be too surprised if I look different in the middle of battle."

Arlan gives a sympathetic nod, "I'm basically immune to surprises after today, ah, that's not a challenge!" He lets out a sigh of relief after no summons appear.

Felix calls out to the androgynous figure, who still hadn't given them there name, "Alright! We're ready!" He feels the wind pick him up, and finds himself able to direct where its going. "Woah, thanks for the flight!"

"Arlan, Clara, be careful and good luck!" They both give resolute nods then Arlan transforms into Sirin, Felix barely manages to hold back his surprise, then refocuses himself. He summons his preservation sword, since he hasn't seen any better swords to trace, that fit him well, then fully taps into the power of his stigmata, turning him into a magical girl... 'Why'd it have to give me an actual magical girl dress...? No, focus, whine later!'

He charges up a mana burst, his Preservation sword vibrating with the energy, then yells "Arlan! Give me a portal to its blind spot!", jumps through the portal and releases the mana burst, the physical wave of magical energy cleanly slicing all the way through Charybdis, it turns to Felix, but he floats back through the portal before it can attack. 'The weak point isn't at the center.'

He watches Clara and Arlan pelt the creature with attacks for a moment, Clara launching some kind of wave of energy from her sword from the ground, while Arlan hops between portals, Scoring deep blows with his greatsword every chance he gets. 'It looks so surreal seeing a little girl swing such a huge sword like that... Maybe I should try that car again, it did blow that giant snake to pieces somehow.'

"Arlan retreat for a moment!" Arlan hops through a portal landing near Clara.

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[2-11 Herring - Hundreds of herring drop on both Cocolia and Charybdis, hopefully being a mild annoyance.]

'Is that fish? Doesn't matter!' "Testarossa Maiden!" He's prepared when he's in the red car, a little less so than when the car starts flying at high speeds at Charybdis, 'I thought I'd need that wind thing!' It rams the front of Charybdis, and goes all the way through, this time Charybdis lets out a gut wrenching scream. Felix covers his ears, wincing from the sound, when he uncovers them he can hear Charybdis actually letting out whimpers of pain, 'What is wrong with this car!?'

Felix quickly readies another mana burst with a fresh Preservation sword so he can hopefully put the creature out of it misery. Arlan calls to him "I think I can feel where its weak spot is!", then makes a portal to that spot in front of Felix, who jumps through and releases the mana burst, the beasts cries abruptly end, and it fades away... Revealing a charred corpse falling from the center, the three of them all rush to it, and see a charred featureless husk.

"What is this thing...? Is this its "heart"?", Felix wonders, and Arlan replies "Lets go help the others, we can figure out what this is later.", then opens a portal for them all, but before they walk through an older man's voice calls "Wait!"

They all look to the voice, and Arlan calls out, "Is that you Mr. Welt?", but is surprised when Welt flinches upon hearing his voice.

"You're really Arlan...? I saw from the ship but... My apologies, but Arlan, you must not use those portals, they could cause a calamity even worse than the Stellaron."

"Huh? W-"

"I'll explain later, I'll help from here, so there's no need to worry."

"A-alright."

Felix nervously glances at Welt's cane, but just gets a headache from trying to read its history.

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[11-9 The Long Memory - The cane of the wizard Ozma that he has used for many reincarnations, it is several thousand years old, has several hundred years worth of magic stockpiled in it, and is extremely sturdy.]

Welt looks at it questioningly, and gives Felix an odd look when casually picks it up, and then a concerned one when he flinches while looking at it. "Do you mind explaining that to me when we have the time?"

"Ah, sure." 'Does my weird weapon history thing not work on canes? It doesn't have to give me such a headache...'

They all rush towards the battle against the Engine of Creation, Arlan dejectedly tagging along at the back. 'Why's Welt being so cold? He was so nice last time I saw him...'

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The group of four arrives at the battlefield, where they can see the other group fighting a figure seemingly cloaked in void and ice, with the Engine of Creation by there side. Stelle seems to be using Pagos' support to fly while attempting to dual wield two lances, and using them to direct the robot. "What is she doing...?"

Cocolia, powered by the Stellaron, lifts her hand over her head and begins to gather a large amount of Destruction charged imaginary energy, the clouds swirl overhead and the sky turns dark, the full power of the Stellaron gathering in the attack.

"I will be the Architect of a New World!"

Stelle lands in front of the group, dropping the copied lance, and preparing to guard everyone with the full power of the original lance's Preservation.

The ground rises, Pagos using the small bit of power they still have to try and defend its allies.

Clara panickily tries to figure out what she can do with Cyrille and Alisa from so far away.

Dan Heng sighs, preparing to unleash his true power.

Natasha wears a determined expression, wearing a dark cloak, pulls out a wrapped arm and prepares to use her Noble Phantasm on Cocolia before she throw the attack at them.

Welt jumps straight for Cocolia, preparing his staff.

Before any of them can attack, a portal envelops the star shaped attack, sending it to only where one individual knows. Arlan sighs after seeing that it worked before guiltily looking towards Welt, Welt stumbles in shock for a moment, before letting out a sigh, and continues towards Cocolia.

Cocolia looks up in confusion before screaming out in shock and rage, then firing constructs of ice at everyone.

Felix readies the new cane he got, beginning to rush forward.

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[5-13 Magical Council Fiore Branch Building - Due to the slightly high roll, the outlandish looking building appears above Cocolia, and drops on her.]

Everyone looks in shock as a strange building appears over Cocolia, Welt using the Star of Eden to back away. "Mother!"

The building lands on Cocolia, making her let out an abrupt scream as it brings her from her flight to the ground.

Bronya looks to the others in the group, making use of the little time she'll take to get back. "Can we free mother from the Stellarons corruption!?"

The others give her a pained look, none of them having any ideas. The members of the astral express look to Welt, looking hopeful he may know a way. Welt overhears and lets out a pained sigh.

"Bronya, I'm sorry, the Stellaron has too much influence on her, the only way we could save her would be to seal the Stellaron, but it will probably kill her trying to keep us from sealing us. I'm sorry..."

Bronya looks pained, almost giving up but looks toward Pagos, who simply shakes there head no, not having a way either.

Welt suddenly looks to Arlan, 'Unless...', though even looking at him like that hurts, or even considering this.

"Miss Bronya, there may be a way... Can you all hold her off, I'll give my idea a try, if it doesn't work, I'll seal off the Stellaron. If she's too powerful for you all, I'll have to stop and take her out though."

Bronya gives him a hopeful look, "Thank you... We will keep mother occupied, please save her...", Welt nods then runs to Arlan, while trying not to look directly at his form.

Seele puts her hand on her shoulder and gives her a resolute look, "We'll save her for sure, get ready.", The rest give there support as well. Natasha fondly smiles while still trying to get her Noble Phantasm under wraps again.

"Thank you everyone, now lets keep her busy while Welt and that girl seal the Stellaron!"

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[3-15 Vendredi Treize - An A rank anti-unit Noble Phantasm. The "Temple" that serves as the location for the beginning of gruesome tortures and executions. A Black Mass of devil worship that occurs within the fortress that has been transformed into an eerie alternate dimension. A high concentration of curses are turned into a substance and the blasphemous creature that has descended overruns the enemy and swallows them up in its womb.]

Arlan has a nervous look while seeing Welt running towards him. "I'm so sorry Welt! I just felt like I had to when I saw that thing!"

Welt sighs while not looking into Arlan's eyes, "It's alright Arlan, do you know how to use your powers in that ...form?"

"I know how to make those portals, but I think I might be able to do more?"

"I need you to try and make a space that can seal off the Stellaron, do you think you can try?"

"I'm not sure... But I can try."

"Very well, don't worry about what I said before, as long as its just me with you it should be fine."

"Alright... The Stellarons in that machine right?" Arlan makes a portal to the machine, then jumps in, Welt hesitates for a moment, then follows in after.

Arlan tears open a hole in the center of the machine, hoping it'll be in the obvious spot. "Woah, this thing feels strange..."

"Give it a try Arlan, I should be able to absorb any residual energy from you."

"Alright? Here it goes." Arlan concentrates for a moment, then slowly engulfs the Stellaron in a portal. "I think I did it...?"

"Good job Arlan, I'll go check, stay here for now."

"Alright."

Cocolia finally manages to get out of the maze of the building, after giving up on getting out normally, and just blowing through walls until she got out. She flies back up into the sky, when suddenly the ice and void start to recede from her, then she falls from the sky.

"Mother!", Bronya runs toward her in worry, when Seele and Natasha both burst forward in astounding bursts of speed, Seele falters a bit in surprise at Natasha's speed, and Natasha leaps into the air catching Cocolia, who is only slightly injured from the rough midair catch.

Bronya rushes over, with everyone else following behind. She kneels down next to where Natasha sat down her mother, who seems to have fallen unconscious, sees her chest rise and fall, then sighs in relief. "Thank you Natasha..."

"You're welcome miss Supreme Guardian."

Bronya looks down at her mother with a pained look on her face.

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Himeko had certainly known Welt had a difficult past from what little he had told her, but she'd never seen him react as viscerally as when Arlan had turned into a little girl.

'Did that appearance remind him of another person from his home?', he'd told her that she also looked like someone he knew. She can't really imagine what kind of situation led him to react like that to a little girl though.

ding

She pulls out her phone and sees that Asta had messaged her back.

Asta: Yeah, Arlans on the ship, did you need to speak to him?

Himeko: No, there are just some strange things happening on Jarilo-VI, I can tell you about it after we figure it out.

Asta: Alright, good luck miss Himeko!

Himeko: Thank you

'What is going on? I can't imagine someone would attempt to impersonate Arlan in the middle of nowhere, especially not on a planet that was impossible for most to get to until just now.'

Though she's a bit worried about Welt, Himeko can't help but smile while thinking about all the strange and interesting things on Jarilo-VI.

"This is certainly an interesting trailblazing expedition."

She leaves to join the rest of her crew, after giving Pom-Pom a quick bye of course.

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Sigh 'That was exhausting... And there's still so much stuff to do... Ah, at least its not as rough on me as Bronya, I can't imagine having your mom do all that.'

Pagos announces "Humans, you all have my thanks for ridding me of that cancerous thing, but I'll be going now, good luck with that city of yours new Supreme Guardian.", then abruptly disappear before anyone can respond.

They all look at where Pagos disappeared confusion, "Does anyone know what they even meant by that?", Dan Heng speaks up, "I think they may have been one of those spirits, or at least something similar."

Clara remembers when they mentioned her sword and sheath by name, "I think Mr. Dan Heng's probably right..."

Bronya stands up, and firms her voice, "I will have to arrest my mother and return to Belobog... Clara, are Felix and Arlan ok, and where'd these two girls come from?"

Felix speaks up, "A-ah, Bronya I am Felix, and the other girl is Arlan...", the rest look in surprise once more as Felix stops pushing his stigmata, and turns back to normal.

"I-I see... Your summons can be quite strange... Did you manage to defeat that shark creature then?"

'I almost forgot!' "Yeah, we beat it, but when we did, it like evaporated, and then a featureless body came out, we didn't get a good look since we had to get over here though."

"That is strange... Seele, would you mind helping me escort my mother back to the city."

"Sure thing, miss Supreme Guard."

"Sigh Not you too..."

Natasha giggles, "I'll come along as well, its been nice being able to see the sky again, but I need to get back to my clinic."

"You're right Nat, its so nice being able to see it again..."

"I'm surprised you even remember what it looks like."

Clara quietly joins them, still in a bit of daze after all the action.

The four of them all head to Belobog.

Welt and Arlan arrive, Welt having gone back to him after confirming Cocolia was back to normal.

The group of three trailerblazers look to Arlan, March look to Arlan and March asks, "Arlan? Is that really you?"

Arlan looks nervously to the side, "A-ah, I guess you could say that."

"Huh?"

Felix speaks up, "Ah, I can explain."

Welt focuses on him with a serious look on his face, "That'd be appreciated, go ahead then."

Blake and the Trailblazers all focus on him, all sorely hoping he'll be able to clear there immense confusion.

"I seem to have gotten an ability that does uh, random things? I think it may have brought me to this planet, and its been giving me abilities, items, places, people... And just about anything you can think of... It even somehow caused music to play at the front of my castle, that I can turn off and on at will..."

Blake flinches after hearing her suspicion of not being on Remnant confirmed.

Welt lets out a sigh, "I suppose that would explain a few things... Then that creature came from you too?"

"Yeah-"

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[12-12 Lightning Empress - This changes the outfit Felix gains when he uses his stigmata's full strength and becomes a magical girl, he will now wear a mix between the magical girl outfit from before and this. It will give him even further increased physical abilities, and strengthen any abilities that use lightning, such as his Mana Burst (Lightning).]

"That's the sound it makes, it actually gave me a list of what I get, I should probably check that, I got a lot during all that that I couldn't check..."

"Very well... So Arlan, I apologize before I have a bit of a... bad past with the person you take the form of."

"Ah, its alright Mr. Yang... It must've been surprising..."

"Yes, it was a bit surprising."

"Ah, that shark monster was called Charybdis by the way."

Welt tilts his head at the slightly familiar name. "Thanks for the information Felix."

"Doesn't look like I made anything else dangerous happen at least, I also got two new skills, and a new "Battle Costume" named "Lightning Empress", whatever that means..."

"That's good. Ahem All of you listen up, it seems like it'll be necessary for me to explain something to Arlan and Felix, it may be useful to you four as well."

March tilts her head, "Whats that Mr. Yang?"

"Honkai, its from my planet, I had thought it was only there as well..."

"Ah! That reminds me! I need to check out that lab, my weird summon thing warned me about Honkai generators being in it, and that it'd be dangerous if any got out."

Welt gives him a serious look, "Show me there now then."

"Alright."

The group follows as Felix guides them to the lab, as soon as it comes in sight Welt stills, then rushes to the building, leaving everyone else in shock.

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[15-5 Downloadable Content - This gives every roll with the a power of 5 a separate item or ability based on that summon.]

The three trailblazers stare at Welt in concern, March wondering aloud, "Is Mr. Yang ok?"

Dan Heng sighs, "These summons of yours seem to have an issue with Mr. Yang, Felix."

"Ah, I'm really sorry about that... I'll try and make it up to him somehow..."

"I'm not blaming you, I'm just worried about Mr. Yang.", the three trailblazers worry in silence for Welt, as they wait for him to return.

Felix looks to Blake, a bit worried since she hadn't spoken in a long time, "Ah, Blake are you doing ok? I'm sorry you got dragged into all this, I promise I'll get you back to your planet."

She looks at him silently, trying to organize the emotional wreck that has been her thoughts for several hours, "Alright..." 'I'm on a different planet and all I can worry about is how RWBY and JNPR must be feeling...'

Felix leaves her to sort her thoughts, she clearly needed to she's looked like she was about to cry for a bit now...

The others look at Blake worriedly as well, when Welt finally comes back from the lab, looking utterly emotionally exhausted.

"I shut down the Honkai generators, and made sure no one was in there..."

"Are you alright Mr. Yang?"

"I'll be fine March, that place just brings back bad memories, I'll explain the Honkai to you all now.'"

Felix stops him, "We can talk about it at my place over there, Blake's not feeling too well, so she'll probably sit out the discussion." Welt looks over at her, "That's fine, lead the way."

March exclaims "Woah! You live in an actual castle?", "Sigh March, why are you even surprised, did you not see the entire city he probably "summoned"?" "Well yeah, but a castles entirely different!" "How?" "Stelle understands, right?", Stelle nods, "See? You just don't have a good sense of style." "That has nothing to do with this." "So you admit it!"-

Felix tells Blake while tuning out the siblings(?), "Blake, you can go claim any room you want in the castle, I'm really sorry again." "Ok."

She silently walks to the first unused room she can find and drops face first into the bed, letting out all her emotions into it.

"Hopefully she'll be ok... Would you guys like to eat while we discuss this Honkai stuff, I can make us something while Mr. Welt explains."

March calls out "Sounds good to me!", while the others nod.

"Hm, the simplest explanation would be that Honkai is similar to a Stellaron, only as a form of energy. It infects people, turning people into zombies, and creating Honkai Beasts. The most dangerous part is when a large amount of Honkai gathers, an eruptions occurs, causing great destruction and turning someone into a Herrscher, who usually fight on the side of the Honkai. That person you turned into was the 2nd one, Sirin, Herrscher of the Void, Arlan."

"A-ah, I see, that's why you reacted so badly before..."

"You said usually Mr. Welt?"

"There have been Herrschers who sided with humanity, I suppose I'd be one."

Everyone looks at him in surprise, "H-huh?!", Welt chuckles at there reaction.

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[17-9 Fallen Seed - An item that allows the user change there race to that of a demon, the seed is sealed inside a box, which will only open with the sacrifice of innocent life or the betrayal of someone who trusts them.]

Felix puts the box to the side for now so he can focus on the conversation.

Arlan asks, "So I'm putting out this Honkai every time I transform...?"

"Yes, so you can't do it around others, the only person resistant to it would be me."

Felix perks up, "Mr. Welt, I got something called a stigmata that apparently makes me resistant to honkai."

"Sigh I really shouldn't be surprised at this point... Still be careful around Felix Arlan, being resistant doesn't make someone completely immune."

"Alright Mr. Welt, I'll be really careful, and I won't do it outside of emergencies."

"That's probably the best I can ask for, make sure to try and absorb any Honkai energy you let out."

"Alright!"

"I believe that's everything you all need to know about the Honkai, any questions?"

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[1-7 Cocolia, Mother of Deception Stigmata 50/50 Succeeded - A stigmata based on the abilities of a Stellaron powered Cocolia, giving the user skill in creating and using ice attacks, and imaginary energy, all of which are powered by the Destruction. Blake will receive this stigmata.]

"Ooh, Mr. Yang if she was the "Herrscher of the Void", what are you the Herrscher of?"

"Reason."

"That makes sense... I kind of thought you'd say gravity or something, you're always saying something like "Prepare for gravitational destruction" when you fight."

Welt laughs, "No, that's not from my Herrscher powers, I haven't been able to use those for a while."

Felix glances at his summon list while he has the chance, "What!?"

The others look at him, "Is something wrong Felix?"
"N-no, sorry I was just surprised, I just got a summon with the name "Cocolia, Mother of Deception"... It says mutation again too, last time it did that was for my stigmata."

The others look shocked, "Sigh It seems that ability of yours has a strange sense of humor."

March lets out a nervous laugh, "I guess that title fits though.", Stelle gives her a deadpan look, "What? It does!"

Felix sighs, "You should all check yourself for a tattoo or anything later, and probably warn anyone else who was with us earlier too if you see them."

'I think we finally have everything cleared up after all that chaos... Well, Bronya and the others still probably have a lot of work to do... Ah, I forgot to check that thing that came out of Charybdis, oh well, I can tomorrow.'

"Foods done everyone!", he pulls the pizza out of the oven, he was way too tired to actually make something. 'I'm so glad I got that supermarket.'

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Pagos happily hums as they go visit there children.

The self proclaimed leader of the children, Sothia, spots them, "Mother! Where'd you go?"

"I was just 'invited' by that chaotic one to watch the cancer's final moments. I was content just knowing he'd eventually destroy it, but I have to say, it felt quite nice personally dealing with it."

"Are you okay? You shouldn't risk your avatar like that, its way too weak for that."

Pagos rolls there eyes, "Don't worry so much child, I just supported them from afar."

"Sorry… So, did the one we chose kill that abomination?"

"Sigh No, they were a child, the adults present obviously wouldn't let them take such a risk, I'm surprised they let them fight at all. What possessed you all to choose someone so young?"

Sothia looks away nervously, "All the adults we saw seemed so nasty, so we thought our chosen one would need a child's innocence…"

Pagos gives her a blank stare, "The real reason?"

"A-ah, it was my siblings tainted by the Destruction, they thought a kid would be better!"

Pagos lifts an eyebrow, "Oh, they did? And the rest of you agreed?"

"Y-yes!"

"Hm, and they'd say the same if I asked them?"

"A-ah…"

"Tell me the real reason Sothia, or I'll give one of your siblings your "chosen one handler" job you like so much."

"Yes mother… I lost a bet to one of those mean siblings of the accursed Elation! They told me to do it, I said no of course, I wouldn't do something so risky over a bet. Then they showed me Clara, she was the sweetest little thing, and she was super determined too, so she'd make the perfect hero! I'm sorry I lied..."

"See, that wasn't so hard now, was it? Why did your sibling want her to be chosen?"

"A-ah, I completely forgot, I was too distracted by Clara…"

"Sigh I'll talk to them later, you need to make up with your siblings of Destruction already as well."

"B-but they're using the same stuff as that cancer!"

"And they're my children too, besides who told you that who you are is decided by what path helped make you? You've hardly done any preserving, so I don't see why you'd think so."

"T-thats different! Besides I'm helping preserve Clara! That counts right?"

"If you want it to, now go make up with them."

"Ok…"

'Who knew having so many children all of a sudden would be such a handful. I suppose its another thing I need to thank that chaotic brat for… It feels so freeing to be free of that cancer.'

Pagos continues on, relishing in there good mood. 'I suppose I'll repay those other humans by warming up the area around there little city, its unpleasant being covered in snow, so I'd do it eventually anyways.'

She watches as her cute little kids finally make up with a content smile. 'They helped make this happen after all…'

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March looks over at Arlan after eating, "So you got brought here by Felix's weird thing right Arlan? That must've been so freaky! Just being whooshed above ground was weird enough for me."

Arlan looks away nervously, "Y-yeah, it was pretty freaky..."

"Good thing we came here, everyone on the Herta Space Station must be so worried!", Arlan somehow looks even worse.

"March, I-I'm not the real Arlan..."

"You look pretty real to me?"

"I mean I'm not the original Arlan..."

Welt nods in understanding, "I see, so Felix's ability cloned you then."

"Yeah..."

"Woah! That's so cool!"

Dan Heng sighs, "March its clearly bothering him."

"Why would it bother him? I'd love a March clone, Felix make another me! Please!"

"A-ah I can't exactly do that at will, sorry?"

"Aw, two Arlans is cool too."

Arlan just looks at her in confusion, while Stelle considers how she'd call a March clone March 8th with an amused smile on her face.

"You don't think the real me and Miss Asta would be bothered by me...?"

Welt sighs, "Being a clone makes you no less real Arlan, though if you meet your other self, you might want to figure out nicknames."

"Thank you... I'm not sure if they'd actually take it well, but I appreciate it Mr. Welt."

Dan Heng awkwardly pats Arlan's shoulder, "If you'd like to change your name to try to differentiate yourself from your other self, I can help."

"Uh, thanks? I guess I might want to? I'd have to think about it."

Dan Heng gives him a nod, while Felix looks at Arlan with a smile, 'Hopefully that'll help his worries some, I had no clue how to help with something like that...'

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[11-11 Hush - The umbrella of Neopolitan, it is very sturdy, while the umbrella is opened it can be used as a shield, inside of the umbrella is a long blade cylindrical blade, which can either be drawn or extended from the end of the umbrella.]

Felix glances at the umbrella in front of him, recording it and its history into his reality marble unconsciously, and traces the same umbrella in his hand. 'How does such a fragile looking umbrella work as a shield?'

The others look at him curiously, "How does that even work? Stelle's lance you made her just disappeared earlier."

"Ah, I just got this ability, I'm not really sure how it exactly works? I can kind of picture any weapon I've seen so far in my mind, and its history I think? Well, I don't think it worked on Mr. Welt's cane, that just gave me a headache, this other cane I got gave me a headache too, but I think that was just cause it has so much history, I can still picture it. I draw on that image of a weapon, and can make them appear?"

"Ooh that's cool! Can you copy my bow too then?", March presents her bow to him, he projects it, having already seen it earlier. "Yeah, though they seem to disappear after a while."

Welt looks at it curiously, then asks "Felix, do you have somewhere that you keep items you summon? I should probably look through them to make sure there's nothing dangerous from my world."

"Ah, yeah, I keep most of my stuff in the armory, its down that hall, fourth door on the right, I think, still getting used to this place."

"Thank you, hopefully there isn't anything too dangerous."

"No monsters showed up, so nothing putting out Honkai right?"

Welt nods, then goes where he was told.

Felix looks a tad nervously at the group of three, "So, you're all members of the astral express...?"

March nods, "Yup, were pretty awesome right?", Stelle gives a serious nod, while Dan Heng steps away hoping he won't be associated with them.

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[15-18 Celestia - A realm for Godlike beings, in which they will never tire or hunger. Due to the high power of the roll, this effect is applied to all who enter this realm. The realm is connected to Jarilo-VI.]

Felix checks the list, "W-world? Why does it say the summon type is world..."

"Huh?"

"Ah... My list says I summoned something called "Celstia" that's a world...?"

"What? I think we'd notice if a planet popped up. Is your list glitched?"

"Its usually right, even if the description can be a bit deceptive sometimes..."

"Its probably just a trick, your thing seems pretty mean spirited, especially to Mr. Welt..."

"Hopefully you're right."

"Ah, should we go help back in Belobog? Its probably a mess with all that happened."

Dan Heng and Stelle nod, Arlan too lost in his thoughts to have listened, Felix shakes his head, "I can't really go anywhere populated with my 'gift', it can be pretty dangerous, good luck though." 'Arlan seems like he needs some company too, er, Blake and Welt might too, man its a mess around here.'

"Sure thing! Tell Mr. Welt where were going!" "Sure!", Stelle and Dan Heng follow March out, giving quiet goodbyes.


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[3-14 Rin Tohsaka (Fate/Kaleid) - Rin Tohsaka from the illyaverse, she is a magus that specializes in gem magecraft and the apprentice of Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg. She is taken from before the events involving the MIyuverse. Due to the slightly high power of the roll, her physical abilities are slightly increased.]

"EEEK!" 'AGAIN!?'

The girl curses "Zelretch" then notices Felix and Arlan, and composes herself. Felix speaks up, a little surprised at how fast she composed herself, "Are you alright? I'm so sorry you were taken from your home."

"Eh? You did this?"

Felix explains his summons, Rin having a strange look on her face the entire explanation.

"This isn't Earth...?"

"Huh?"

"Ugh! I'll go check myself!", She rushes outside.

Felix looks where she went in confusion, "What was that about?"

Arlan looks just as confused, "No clue."

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'None of this makes sense! It'd take enough magical to blow up a country to do some of the things he said, yet I'm surrounded by evidence he's telling the truth. A true magician wouldn't even be capable of some of this stuff!'

She goes back inside, ignores the two boy's surprise and puts on a hopefully real looking smile, "Please explain everything."

"You mean you want me to explain my summon thing again?"

"No, I mean everything."

"Huh?"

"Whats causing your weird "summons", how they managed to copy part of the leylines from my hometown along with the temple that was over them, and how you seem to be constantly using them even from here.", her smile did not drop once, nope.

"A-ah, well I believe Aha, the Elation is what is causing my summons."

"That, explain everything about that right there."

"Sure", he explains paths and Aeons to her, continuing until she seems satisfied.

She looks to Arlan, "This is all true?"

Arlan nods, she sighs, "I see, that could explain why nothing is making sense… Do you have anything I can study more in depth about these paths?"

"I can probably ask the people from the Astral Express if we can borrow some, but paths aren't really that complicated."

Rin's eye twitches, "What do you mean not complicated?"

"Ah, people usually kind of just figure it out as they go, I think."

"I've been studying magecraft since I was a kid and people around here get crazy stuff like that "as they go"?"

"Well, not really like what I have, it's pretty strange. Your magic stuff probably originates from paths, thats usually how species specific stuff like that comes from what I've heard at least."

Her eye twitches even harder, "No, definitely not, magecraft has well studied rules and limitations, its certainly not based on something like this 'path energy' you've been talking about."

"You're that sure? I don't really get what you mean."

Rin sighs, "Heres an example, picture a magus like myself as a physicist. If they go to a different world, and the laws of physics are entirely different, they'll be able to tell. Thats how different this 'path stuff' is from magecraft and even true magic."

Felix and Arlan both give understanding nods, "I think I get what you mean, but I haven't heard of any planet that uses something else, well I think I read some stuff on imaginary energy, maybe thats it."

Rin sighs, "I'll have to see after I get the chance to read up on it, or talk to someone actually knowledgeable on the topic."

"Er, sorry?"

"You forgot to explain about the leyline."

"Ah, I'm not sure about how it was brought here, but I have a clone thats drawing on it, its super convenient. Ah, he's probably worried sick, I forgot to tell him everything ended well earlier…"

"A clone that shares the magical energy with you…? Sigh I really shouldn't be surprised at this point, ugh, at least the class cards made sense, this is so frustrating!"

"Sorry again, I can't keep my power from kidnapping people…"

Rin looks at him funny, "Almost every magus would kill for a chance to study something like this, I'd be a third rate magus."

"What about your friends and family?"

She looks away, "They'll be fine. Now, show me a room, and this castles bounded field, it seems pretty impressive"

"The what?"

"I'll just check it out, the walls seem to be overflowing with magical energy."

'Are these walls noble phantasms!? Thats enough! I'm going to sleep and waking up back in Fuyuki!'

…

'Maybe I'll take the walls with me first…'

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[5-15 The One Magic - The original magic which all magic in Fairy Tail came from, this Primordial magic is powered by the emotional feeling of love, and is considered to be capable of doing anything through the power of love. This is given to Rin Tohsaka due to Felix guilty for taking her from her home.]


"Let me sleep a bit longer...", Felix blearily says before trying to get back to sleep, then suddenly gets up after remembering everything that happened yesterday.
"How am I going to fix this mess...? sigh", 'Why'd my pops suddenly decide it liked kidnapping people all of a sudden?'

Felix gets up and starts heading to the kitchen, before remembering he'd never seen Welt after he went to go through the things he summoned last night, and going there. He goes in and sees a bit of a mess in the corner, before going over and seeing some pictures he summoned before, 'Ah, I forgot I got a picture of that girl Arlan can turn into before, and this picture of some blonde guy that came with it. I guess Welt had to leave to go cool off while he was looking through this.'

Felix sighs, wondering why his power seems to have it out for Welt, before going to the kitchen, where Blake is silently eating some breakfast.

"Ah, Blake, are you doing better...?"

She looks at him, "I'll be fine.", then gets back to eating. 'Yeah, I guess she wouldn't want to talk about something so personal with a stranger.', "Ah, I didn't have the chance to tell you last night, my power brought someone else here after you uh, went to bed last night."

She looks a tad worried, "Are they doing ok?"

"Ah, she seemed like she was doing about as good as you could expect, she didn't know anything about paths or Aeons, so that was even more confusing."

Blake gives him a blank stare, "I don't either."

"A-ah sorry, I assumed you did since you never asked about it..."

"Sigh I was a bit preoccupied to ask about all the stuff I don't know, you can tell me about it later, I'm still a bit overwhelmed."

"Sorry again, have you seen Arlan? He's usually up by now."

"He said he was going to practice "not leaking Honkai" I think?"

"I'll probably join him after I get some breakfast then, just tell me when you me to explain everything to you, and I will."

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[6-14 Creation Rebirth - Also known as Mitotic Regeneration, a seal invented by Tsunade Senju which the user stores there chakra in, the user uses this to stockpile chakra over time(usually over years). Releasing the seal makes the user near instantly regenerate any wound, and gives them access to this stockpile of chakra. Felix gains this ability, and the Creation Rebirth seal is located in his Stigmata. Due to the synergy with Self-Regeneration this no longer shortens Felix's lifespan on use. As with all skills/abilities, this can be used for all kinds of energy similar to the original kind used, so it can store Magical Energy, Aura, etc.]

'I guess that new girl still hasn't woken up, I think my list said her names Rin? She never even introduced herself after saying all that stuff last night.'

Felix pulls out his list to see what stuff popped up, his eye twitching when he sees the Cocolia summon again, 'These are just as vague, "The One Magic" sounds super cool though, is that what Rin was talking about when she was talking about "True Magic" last night? Hm, it says Creation Rebirths a healing ability, not sure if that sounds amazing, or if I'm going to like reincarnate someone or something trying to heal them, why do these names have to be like this...'

Felix heads toward Arlan, having finished up his breakfast and telling Blake where anything she needs would be. Arlan looks toward Felix from afar, pausing his practice to go over to him, "Good morning Felix."

"Good morning to you too, how's your honkai practice going?"

"Ah, not too well, I was hoping I'd just be able to completely stop it from leaking from my portals, but all I've managed so far is absorbing the stuff before it goes too far. I haven't managed to figure out anything else other than that dimension where I sealed the Stellaron."

"Woah! So that's what Welt's plan was then? That's so cool!"

Arlan rubs the back of his head, before startling when he feels the long hair, "I don't think I'll ever get used to this... Ah, thanks Felix, I'm just glad I managed to save Bronya's moms life, and stop the Stellaron."

"Yup! Still hard to believe we all ended the Stellaron disaster yesterday... I always heard about how hopeless a situation it was on the news, yet it ended just like that."

"Well, its effects will still last... It'll probably take Belobog a while to recover."

"Bronya seems smart, besides we'll be able to help. Ah, as long as my summons don't make the situation worse."

"You've been worried about that a while, but the only time they actually caused anything dangerous I know of was that shark monster yesterday, and that stopped whatever Cocolia was planning to do with that giant mech."

"Ah, I didn't think about that... Er, wait she was between Belobog and here with it, you don't think she was going to come after me right...?"

"Probably, and you would've been stuck fighting it without your clone doing that leyline thing."

"Ah! Don't tell me that! That sounds so scary... I guess I need to thank that shark thing sometime...? I mean its dead, and I'm pretty sure my car tortured it, ah I feel so bad for it..."

"Yeah... Those screams were heart wrenching... What'd that car do to it...?"

"I-I'm not sure... I thought it was just a really strange car that hit things really hard, but I guess it might be really painful...? I don't really understand."

"Sigh How do your summons always get stranger... I should probably get back to practicing honkai, I can't use this stuff around people while knowing what Welt said unless I can figure this out after all."

"Ah, I came out to see if you would want help training. Maybe using it in a fight will help you figure it out?"

"Thanks, maybe you're right, so how do you want to do this...?"

"I guess it'd be bad for you to use your greatsword while practicing with me, ah wait, I think I can make it with a dull edge, and I should be plenty tough enough to take that."

"Er, you sure? You might be tough but it'll still be me hitting you with a greatsword..."

"I'll be fine, I need to get used to taking hits outside a serious fight anyways... Even though it'll suck, I can regen too!", He tosses Arlan a dulled greatsword.

"Alright... What'll you fight with?"

"Hm, I have a lot of choices now... I think I'll try out this umbrella, it seems like a surprisingly good weapon based off its history."

"The umbrella? Alright, not the strangest weapon I've seen you use."

"Alright, don't worry about your honkai messing with me, my stigmata can take it."

"Ok, you start, use anything you want, I'm pretty sure I can take it."

"If you say so." 'Well not anything, I've got some pretty nasty stuff.'

Felix launches himself forward while pushing his stigmata to its limit, turning into a magical girl, now wearing a different outfit that's purple with a lightning theme, and the lightning of his mana burst now sparking along it, going straight into a portal Arlan opened after he burst forward.

Felix turns back to Arlan, now back to where he started running at him from, 'Do I have anything that can counter that...? How will that water mirror work against it?'

Felix bursts forward again, spinning his umbrella in a circle in front of him, which makes a copy of the new portal Arlan just made in front of Felix, he goes through his copied portal leading him through the other side of Arlan's portal, he smirks seeing as he's making it to Arlan this time, his smile drops when Arlan just portals him back where he was before again, too fast for him to use his water mirror.

"Now your just messing with me!"

Arlan hides an amused look, "Sorry! I'll take you seriously now! You're way faster now."

"Thats cause I didn't use mana burst before, o-or turn into a magical girl."

"I understand, its kind of the same for me. Though at least I don't get put into embarrassing clothes like that..."

"Huh!?", he looks down, not really having thought about the clothes changing part before. "I'm not going to think about that... I'm coming for you Arlan!"

He launches himself forward with a stronger mana burst this time, hoping he can close the distance before Arlan opens a portal. He couldn't, he's dropped behind Arlan who's already swinging behind himself, Felix barely manages to put the umbrella between himself and the greatsword before it hits, getting launched away by Arlan's immense strength in this form. He skids while trying to stop himself, digging the tip of the umbrella into the ground to stop himself. "You ok Felix!?"

"Yeah... Just fine...", he gets up surprisingly feeling unhurt after that huge hit, regenerating the small amount of damage he took.

"I'm so sorry! I forgot how much stronger I am like this."

"I'm fine! Don't worry, I barely felt it.", well he felt it real well, just not for long.

"You good to keep going?"

"Stop worrying Arlan, just be prepared for my payback!", Felix bursts to the side, charging up a ball of fire in his hands, before launching it, and quickly following it a bit to the side. Arlan opens a portal in front of the ball of fire, opening up another in front of Felix, sending it to him.

Felix opens the umbrella to use it as a shield, and using mana burst to strengthen it, a massive fiery explosion rings out, but the umbrella takes the full brunt of the damage with ease. As Felix puts down the umbrella, he no longer sees Arlan there, and quickly turns around before being brought to the ground by Arlan landing on him. "I thought I was helping you figure out how to use honkai..."

Arlan giggles, "Sorry, its just so fun fighting with portals, I couldn't resist. I'll try not to use my portals and see if I can figure out anything else."

"Alright, also why'd you just land on me...?"

"I'm not going to hit you in the head in a spar Felix, especially not with a greatsword. Have you never sparred before?"

"W-well, sorry, didn't think about that..."

"Head injuries are no joke, even if you have weird stuff, you need to be careful."

"Alright, I'll be careful, so no portals this round right?"

"Yup."

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[7-13 Miracle Wind - This gives the user a powerful ability to control the wind, allowing them to launch someone with a powerful burst of wind wind with a simple flick of the wrist. The user can also make sharp blades of wind, summon tornadoes against foes, and much more. This goes to Rin Tohsaka since it is unlikely she'll be able to properly utilize The One Magic, and Felix still feels rather guilty.]

Felix looks around to make sure nothing dangerous showed up from his summon, noticing Blake and Rin had both been watching them fight, Rin giving Felix's outfit an exhausted look. 'Ah, hopefully Blake told her we transform like this, it's so awkward to explain this...'

"Make sure you guys stay back! Arlan's powers can get uh, toxic to people other than me and Welt!"

Blake calls back "Sure!", while Rin just has a slightly frustrated look while giving a nod.

"I'm coming Arlan!", Felix and Arlan both rush at each other, both brandishing there weapons, when Felix makes another water mirror, and jumps back in surprise when a copy of Arlan comes out and mirrors the attack Arlan uses, clashing greatswords. He recovers from his surprise quickly, launching himself at Arlan since he's occupied with his copy still.

Right before Felix reaches them, the copy collapses into water, making Arlan stumble forward in surprise, while Felix swings the umbrella at him with a small mana burst, Arlan blocks it, only getting pushed back a short distance, and Felix follows up by building up an even stronger mana burst, and hitting the already stunned Arlan launching him back.

Arlan recovers quickly, but Felix uses the chance to start throwing traced umbrella's like javelins, each flying at Arlan with a mana burst, Arlan blocks each one, frustrated each time he's forced to block, now lacking any ranged options without his portals.

Felix realizes he can launch the traced umbrella's directly at Arlan when making them, and so Arlan is forced to block a stream of Umbrellas, though they aren't hitting nearly as hard. Arlan futilely tries to figure a way out of this, when he misses a block, and is hit directly in his side by the umbrella at full force. He grits his teeth in pain, when he lashes out, and he instinctively opens portals up behind him, each launching a pitch black spear at an umbrella, and launching himself at Felix, while the spears handle the umbrellas Felix launches.

Felix jolts in surprise before jumping back from Arlan's intense rush, preparing to make another water mirror, Arlan interrupts his attempt with a portal opening up and striking his umbrella with a spear before he can finish the mirror, Felix panics a bit, and digs the Berserker class card out of his pocket, "Install!"

He's covered in the dark armor, and red lines cover the umbrella, turning it into a Noble Phantasm through Knight of Owner, Felix pivots directly for Arlan, who's shocked for a moment, but focuses on swinging his greatsword with all his might.

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[15-15 Nihil - A huge reddish dragon, it is a rather powerful enemy monster. Due to the high power of the summon, it will give those who kill it the equivalent of a 'level up', making all there base stats stronger.]

They both jump back in surprise when a red dragon(?) appears near them. Felix looks over to Blake and Rin, "Run! Me and Arlan will take care of it!", both look a bit surprised, then recover, Rin looks a bit nervous, but also excited? Blake just sighs, a tad exhausted of all the chaos, they both run to help.

The dragon roars turning to them, "Arlan be careful not to get any honkai near them!"

"I know! Focus on the dragon!" Arlan starts sending waves of void spears at the dragon, making it roar in slight pain, and send ice spears at Arlan, who simply opens portals in front of each ice spear and sends them back at the dragon, making it roar in rage and pain this time.

Felix traces Cyrille, having thought of the best weapon for a powerful mana burst, and automatically getting it. He feels an immense drain upon tracing it, so he'll have to wait until his clone drains the leyline enough for him to do a powerful enough mana burst to end the monster.

Rin throws gems filled with magical energy at the dragon, which cause a powerful explosion that actually takes out a chunk of the dragon, it focuses on her while writhing in pain and launches its breath at her, Rin starts to throw a gem that'll defend her when Blake rushes over grabbing her and pulling her out of the way.

The dragon starts to aim its breath at her, when Rin panics a bit and launches a Gandr at it on reflex, along with a blast of wind, they only make the dragon falter a moment, Arlan starts to portal them away but stops when he sees Blake suddenly make a massive wall of ice that manages to barely take the dragon's breath. She looks at her head in confusion for a moment, but quickly recovers.

The dragon roars in frustration, every move it tries getting easily countered, when Felix shouts, "Arlan! Portal me to it!" and using a full power mana burst infused Cyrille to attack the dragon, a wave of lightning and Destruction tear down on the dragon from the strike, Blake, Rin, and Arlan all having to keep themselves from getting blown away by the shockwave.

The blast reduces it to a burnt corpse, electricity still flooding it, Felix stumbles from the huge drain on his mana, falling on his butt while trying to stay conscious. Arlan portals next to him, "Good job, you alright?"

"Uh huh, just might need a nap..."

"Ha, I guess you deserve one after that."

Rin marches over with Blake following behind her, still looking at her hands strangely.

"You need to tell me everything about that class card before you pass out! And you better not have a Kaleido stick, if its Ruby I'll tear that rotten stick to shreds!"

Arlan nervously chuckles, "I'm sure Felix can explain when he wakes up... Ah, actually he got a book on that class card before, I can show it to you."

Rin sighs, "I suppose mana exhaustion isn't a joke, and a book about class cards certainly sounds interesting, he hasn't had an annoying talking wand around though, right?"

"Uh, no."

"Alright, lets get him to a bed, then I'll read that book."

"I can get him." Arlan opens a portal beneath Felix directly to his bed.

"I'm going to need to study that too."

"A-ah, maybe you shouldn't... It's a bit dangerous."

Rin rolls her eyes, "To be a magus is to walk with death, it'll be fine."

"Only if Mr. Welt gives you the ok."

"I suppose that'll have to do for now."

They both walk to the house, Arlan guiding her to the encyclopedia... Blake stands outside trying to figure out what the ice thing she did is, while Felix gets a good nap, and his clone is knocked out in the temple