Subject: Convene
Sender: Wiseman
Message:
Ready for operation. As soon as you receive this email, let’s meet at the Ω Omega Town.
Wiseman had finally sent me an email announcing the start of the operation.
When I got to the town, I noticed that the number of PCs gathered was much smaller than last time.
“Lios is preparing to lock in those who are available,” Wiseman explained upon reading my suspicious expression.
Speaking of which, there was no sign of Lios and the Pig squadron members.
“As a result of analyzing the behavior patterns, it was found that the appearance of the waves had been biased. Therefore, they are arranged beforehand in areas where they frequently appear. Start the siege at the same time as the appearance of the wave and use a vaccine to limit the wave’s range,” Wiseman said when everyone was there.
“Currently, Lios is leading a separate team to prepare a formation for the enclosure. Kite, please wait at the bottom Ω Omega Server Severe Revenge Scars. Like a killer whale that drives its prey to the surface of the sea.”
I nodded.
“Well, kite. What is the name of this operation?” Helba asked.
I didn’t stumble over my words anymore.
“Operation Orca, commence!”
Here I go, Yasuhiko.
It was finally the crucial moment. This was the last push.
I was pursuing your enemies in a strategy that beared your name.
BlackRose, Balmung and I dove into the designated area.
I got a message from Wiseman.
“Soon the waves will be here. Be careful!”
“Roger that!”
However, when I arrived at the deepest part, there was no odd-shaped monster like the eight phases I’d seen so far.
“Wait. Something’s here!” Balmung shouted.
The duo of Mia and Elk came into view.
Mia was kneeling, with Elk kneeling next to her.
Oh, I thought, Elk must have been working on joining Lios‘s team to form an enclosure. Why was he here?
As I thought this, Mia spoke.
“Elk. Who am I?”
It was a voice that seemed to be fading.
“You’re Mia. You’re you.”
“I have no memories. The World… just this place. I have no memories other than when I am here.”
“Mia?”
Suddenly, Mia stood up with her head in her hands.
“I don’t like it, stop it. Stop… I want to stay here.”
I tried to approach them at the sad cry.
“Don’t come closer!” Mia shouted without looking at us.
“Elk, don’t look at me…”
Light radiated from Mia’s body and spread out to the deepest part of the dungeon where we were.
I looked into the light.
Mia’s body collapsed, transformed, and became a huge monster.
“Data’s increasing! Come on, get ready for battle!”
Wiseman’s messaged arrived.
“What the…” BlackRose murmured.
There was no doubt about it anymore.
Mia was one of the eight phases.
Mia was now an enemy. But suddenly, a thought came to my mind.
When I first met Mia, only she could see my bracelet.
When the town went crazy due to data anomalies, Mia also became sick along with it.
When I had been investigating the area, I couldn’t find the cause of the infection and I met Mia.
Now, when Mia swelled to the size of one of the eight phases that we had fought so far, she turned into a flesh-colored sphere. I was seized by the image of an explosion for some reason, and I inadvertently stepped back. But nothing happened. Instead, the sphere slowly began to open like a flower. The loud noise shook the ground.
A human upper body was attached to the center of the sphere, which opened like a flower. The monster, like a fairy sitting in a flower, opened its mouth wide and roared.
Immediately after that, a shock wave was emitted, and we immediately lowered our posture.
Nearby, Elk was hit by a shock wave as he tried to approach the flower monster and he was blown back.
“Elk!”
I tried to run up to him, but Balmung stopped me.
“Don’t get distracted! Get ready!”
Before he finished speaking, the monster that was once Mia jumped toward us.
The battle was fierce.
I couldn’t afford to say that I didn’t want to beat the monster if at all possible. I would have been stunned at that moment if I had damaged it a little bit.
But at the end of the long battle, the bracelet appeared on my right hand and fired an arrow of light via Data Drain.
The monster that was Mia was hit directly by the light which began to absorb the data. The character string could be read as “Macha”.
Was that the name of Mia’s Phase?
Macha roared again, but it was just a scream of the agony.
Macha collapsed and when it seemed that its body was wrapped in light, it returned to the appearance of the cat PC Mia.
“Mia!”
Elk ran to Mia before the rest of us did.
He was supposed to have fainted for a while after getting hit by Macha’s shockwave.
Elk swung his staff and cast the healing spell Repth beside Mia, who lay limp and weak.
However, the effect of the spell was not effective, and countless small cracks began to run across Mia’s body.
As I approached them, Elk looked up and stared at me.
“Mia… what did you do to Mia?!”
Mia whispered.
“Elk, thank you.”
After she finished speaking, Mia’s body shattered into pieces. The debris was splintered without leaving any large chunks. Just like the eight phases we defeated in the past.
Elk just sat there.
But when I called out, Elk stood up as if he’d snapped. He was holding his staff.
“Elk. Mia is…”
“Leave me alone!” Elk yelled. He then transferred and disappeared.
“Kite,” BlackRose said.
“Don’t worry. We did what we had to do,” Balmung said.
I knew that. I knew it, but what was this uneasy feeling?
I was fighting to save my friend Orca.
But as a result, Elk lost his friend Mia.
What should I do?
Just then a message came in. It was from Lios.
“Kite, is Elk there?”
“He was here until just a while ago.”
I heard a clicking tongue.
“Damn! I left the place with the virus. The siege was incomplete. This way, the final stage…”
“Lios? I can’t hear you.”
Communication from Lios had been cut off.
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