Chapter 965: Emergency Scenario Quest
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FLAAASH!
A gray flash of pure Essence of Time erupted from Mercedes body, it didn't only sent Cecilia away, but it even pierced the walls separating them from Planta and the rest. The wave of time essence hit the two Divine Beasts who were fighting them.
"ROOAAR!"
"AWOOO!"
Both beasts seemed to be agonizing, their bodies began to quite literally glitch, showing corrupted data breaking apart and then reassembling itself. Time Essence disrupted with them and then seemed to slow them down!
"W-What's happening now?!" Rita screamed, as she kicked the wolf away and then overwhelmed it with a myriad of dark void beams from the many Shadow Dragon Heads coming from her Dark Aura.
The wolf was barely hurt though, but it seemed to still be affected by whatever had just happened, disrupting the beast' movements and making it act increasingly strange. However, this wasn't where the strange happenings ended.
The entire Dungeon's structure began to shake. Time and Space merged together, swirling around and forming a huge hole within the fabric of this scenario "reality".
"The entire Dungeon… No, is this Scenario is being disrupted? What in the world is happening in the other side?!" Mark roared, as he swung his sword against the lion's claws.
CLAAASH!
"RAAARR!"
The Lion didn't seem as affected as the wolf in terms of movements, but it had become considerably slower as well. Utilizing this opportunity, Angelina's party quickly assisted Mark, ganging on the giant Divine Beast with all sorts of attacks.
Meanwhile, Elayne, who was expanding her Terrain and Domain and accumulating Spirits to unleash her powers while at the same time heal her friends, saw countless error messages! This wasn't supposed to be happening.
[ERROR!]
[ERROR!]
[ERROR!]
[ERROR!]
[Scenario disruption due to data breach within the internal synapsis!]
[Time Fragment Core corrupted by internal data breach.]
[Internal Data Concept and Temporary Dimensional Reconstruction has been greatly damaged.]
[Issue Detected: Time Memory Fragment has been greatly alarmed and has taken self-consciousness of the situation.]
[Solution Method: Calm down the Time Memory Fragment before it continues to greatly corrupt the Scenario and the Dungeon.]
[A New {Emergency Scenario Quest} has been generated: {Repair Request}
[The Internal System Artificial Intelligence has detected a great damage within the Internal Synapsis of the Special Divine Dungeon: {Cloudia's Fragment: 1/4}, please solve the situation before the Scenario is greatly corrupted.]
[Quest Conditions]: [Stop the Time Memory Fragment from further corrupting the pillars of the Scenario.]
[Completion Rewards]: [Large Quantity of Score Points.] [System Administrator Privileges] [Automatic Scenario Rearrangement]
[Time Limit]: [10 Minutes before Scenario Corruption reaches Critical Levels.]
[Failure]: [The forced destruction of the current Scenario to keep the Time Fragment from being corrupted, possibly killing everyone inside.]
"WHAT?!"
Elayne had little words to describe how she felt about the current situation. From being betrayed, to being attacked by two overpowered Divine Beasts, to suddenly hearing something happening in the other room, to a sudden corruption in the System itself and the Scenario!
Too many things were happening at the same time one after another, but it wasn't as if she had the actual time to deal with them anyways! Both Divine Beast Bosses were somewhat stopped thanks to the Time Essence waves disrupting with their very powers, slowing them down greatly.
However, what shocked Elayne the most wasn't all of this, but the Quest that popped up, and who wrote it down.
"The System's Artificial Intelligence?"
She knew from the System Spirits, assistant of Players, that there might be something similar to them controlling the wide System, but she never thought that there was an actual artificial intelligence behind it all, and that it was now asking for her help.
The rewards were strange, to say the least. She didn't even know what [System Administrator Privileges] could truly mean, and it made her nervous just to think about its true consequences. However, it didn't even end there, as there was also [Automatic Scenario Rearrangement]!
Perhaps with that, the Scenario could be fixed? She had to give it a try. It was already her priority to save Brisingra and Mercedes no matter what. Although this was a dungeon and Players couldn't die either, NPC could die for real.
And she didn't want Brisingra's life to be at risk, even less when her father trusted Elayne on taking care of the half-dwarf and half-ancient elf girl!
"Familiars! Gang on the wolf! Elena's team, help Angelina's team! My team, half of you stay to deal with the wolf! The other half, help me break this wall!" She worked very quickly.
Her commands were orders, as Elena led her party and joined Angelina's party on dealing with the lion. Meanwhile, all of her Families started attacking the confused and still slightly lethargic wolf, while half her team joined them.
Thanks to the Domain of Silver and Goldie, the Domain of the wolf and the lion was greatly weakened, while giving everyone a boost to their regeneration of all energies, including Ki!
At the same time, Elayne, Mark, Rita, and Lily rushed forwards, smashing the walls in front of them with all their strength! With the help of the Great Spirit and her ever-growing stats with all the buffs, skills, and domains activated, Elayne disrupted the thousands of runic inscriptions and destroyed the walls forcefully, with the help of Mark and Lily's physical prowess backing her up.
Crack, crack…!
CRASH!
The walls broke apart, revealing the scene that was occurring in the other side, Mercedes was on her knees, her eyes completely silver, showing countless numbers and data constantly changing endlessly. From within her body, waves of Time Essence disrupted the Dungeon's entire structure.
At the same time, the trio of traitors were attacking Brisingra's barrier, which was constantly shattering against their flurry of attacks, yet the girl kept conjuring more and more barriers, her Mana was already about to end!
"Just stop resisting already, you damned brat!" Hermes roared furiously, conjuring a giant spear of compressed time. "{Chrono Spear}!"
BOOOM!
The barrier shattered one last time, as the trio jumped towards Mercedes and Brisingra, their eyes filled with madness! However, in that very moment, Elayne's giant Lion Club smashed the head of Hermes into the ground. Mark's sword cut Elbedo's wings cleanly. And Lily's giant rocky arms broke Celica's arms, kicking her down!
"L-Lady Planta!" Brisingra cried of happiness to see them.
"Nobody touches Brisingra while I am here!" Planta roared furiously, her body quickly transforming into a draconic form.
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