Sora Yatagami was a young boy who lost everything. His parents were framed by a mistake they never commit.
After that none of his friends and other family wants to take him in. And thanks to that Sora lose trust in people and the idea of being in a...
On the far bank of the ravine, five hundred denizens of the dark lands prepared to take on the four Integrity Knights. But they suddenly came to a stop and looked away from the battlefield in disbelief.
It was a stream of many red lines, falling from the sky and emitting strange vibrations. When the streams reached the ground, they expanded, eventually taking human shape.
They were warriors, armed with longswords, battle-axes, and spears and clad in reddish-black armor. Color aside, the armor was very similar in form to the kind the dark knights wore.
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All of those raised swords, axes, and spears caught the red light of dawn, glinting cruelly—and then swung downward with bloodthirsty roars, right at the men and women that were supposedly on their side.
Bercouli: Wha...? Who are they?!
Philia had no answer to his question. It was clear that the thirty thousand soldiers who had suddenly descended—no, dived—to the east had been called here by Emperor Vecta.
But where had he summoned a force of this size from, exactly?
Did he generate NPC warriors like monsters and throw them into battle? But the Underworld control panel in the Ocean Turtle's main control room was locked down and couldn't be operated without admin access. They wouldn't be able to do anything but designate coordinates and dive in themselves, like Philia did, and on Vecta's side, they had only two Soul Translators available to them.
The momentary confusion was thawed when the red warriors drew within a few hundred yards, and she could actually hear them speak.
Red Knight 1: Charge ahead!!
Red Knight 2: Give 'em hell!!
It was English. They were people from the real world, and based on the accent, Americans. But how was that possible? This was supposed to be a closed-off VR world, unconnected to any other system. Except.
Philia(mind): No...
Through the STL, the Underworld was a true alternate world, more real than reality, thanks to its Mnemonic Visualizer. But the development of that system was done on top of The Seed, the universal VRMMO development package. In other words, if you had an AmuSphere, you could dive into that world...and the Ocean Turtle had a massive satellite connection pipeline.
So with a simple hacked-together client program distributed on the Net in the real world...you could bring tens, if not hundreds of thousands, of people to the Underworld.
It was what the red warriors did that gave credence to Philia's stunned suspicion. Their first move was to set upon the knights and pugilists of the Dark Army, who were ostensibly on their own side, swinging their swords and axes without hesitation or mercy.
Dark Knight 1: Wh-what are you...?!
Dark Knight 2: I thought you were on our side...!
Shocked, the knights attempted to deflect these attacks, but the numbers were against them. And the red soldiers' weapons and armor were apparently superior to those of the Dark Army, as the swords and shields raised in defense quickly broke and shattered. Screams and blood began to issue from where the armies met.
