I don't have time to reply to you guys today...Sorry. I'll make it up to you. Summer is almost over and I'm busy as hell.

EDIT: just got back from my things. Time to reply.

Ryosuke: I got everyone real good sir and I'm damn proud of it. You should've realized that Ara wasn't there a lot as Eun made much more appearances. I guess Eun is like that Nine-Tail Fox inside of Naruto. She had to compromise with her. Also, you've known the result as I've seen your newest review.

shortfangirl: Asura can wreck the PVE with her Parade Of A Thousand Souls. In my opinion, SD's secret arts are the most boring ones. I like the Dragon one, but the Tiger (cost less MP, more usable) is boring. Nasod Inspector killed me countless of times with its pounding the ground and firing explosions. TT's HA is really bad. The missiles kept disappearing mid-air. Why?

Guest: You're not slow as f*ck sir! There are many people that got tricked. It's my purpose anyway so no shame there man.

NaruSaku1995: I think if they make Ran playable, he would be nerfed quite quick like Dio from Grand Chase. Although I want more guy characters (because the number of female is larger than male), another one using the sword would be disappointing. To my opinion, Glaive and Luto would join the side that look more interesting to them.

GirlyTurtle: Even in game she loves her brother. Imagine he was trying to use her and then kill her. The Ran in game become like that because of demonic power, but in this fic, Ran has always been this way. In short, he doesn't have a reason for doing this to Ara, that's why she is broken by this. Also, yes, whenever Eve shows emotion, I'm going fanboying.

ClariasYuu: Congrats, you're one of the few that didn't get tricked. Seriously though, I've read way too much Bloody Monday so that the term "Traitos are everywhere" is in my head now.

Artemicon: You just got tricked! I prefer the term "fanboy" and he'll continue to wreck stuffs in this chapter.

wulfralph: Don't blame me that your list just got two more people, but I agree, I really want Wally death.


After carefully inspecting the Nasod to make sure that he wouldn't function again, the team pushed forward. It was a sewer and the smell started to make them felt a bit uncomfortable, especially Add, who didn't like to get his clothes dirty.

"I'm going to puke." Aisha grimaced. "The smell is horrible."

"You haven't heard me complaining yet." Add sighed.

Back with Raven, Chung and Eve…

The army was weakened by the others beforehand, so they didn't have much of a trouble finishing it off. It wasn't easy, but it wasn't that difficult either. The only real threat was Ran. He was ridiculously skilled with his sword as well as dark magic. The rumors were truth after all. He was a genius. The soldiers of both sides were taken down. A few of them escaped. Chung, Eve and Raven took a safe distance away from him. Ran eyed them. None of them moved. They were conscious of him as he just stayed quiet. Suddenly, Chung suffered a slash from behind. As they turned around, there was another Ran there. Chung quickly got away from him using his cannon to give himself a boost.

"Are you okay?" Eve asked worriedly.

"Yeah…I wasn't expecting that."

They were distracted by the clone Ran as the real one charged towards Chung since he had already suffered damage. Eve immediately reacted and pointed at the Tactical Trooper.

"Oberon Guard."

The Nasod butler rushed towards and defended Chung from the attack, left him room to retaliate. He quickly stomped the ground with his Destroyer to reload all of his cannonballs then smashed into Ran.

"Cannon Strike."

The Grand Duke was taken by surprise, left him stunned for less than a second, but it was more than enough for Chung as he quickly fired his cannon continuously. Raven took this chance and jumped up, slashed his sword and created a shockwave sent Ran up in the air. Chung continued to aim at him and fired. Eve pointed towards him.

"Surface Cutting."

Oberon charged forward and attacked Ran with quick slashes, left a bleeding wound on him. He landed on the ground, but he wasn't down yet. Suddenly, a shadow arm aimed at Eve, but Chung quickly covered her. The arm pulled him closer to Ran as he got up and attacked him with his sword twice before launching him up in the air. The Grand Duke jumped up. He didn't let Chung fell down as the shadow arm attacked him again. Eve quickly fired an electron ball aimed at Ran, canceled his combo. Raven caught Chung as they distanced themselves away from Ran again. He grinned.

"Enough games." Ran swung his sword. "I'll finish you myself."

His sword was suddenly lit with black flame. He slashed forward and a trail of fire headed towards them at rapid speed. Chung quickly pulled the two closer to him and slammed his Destroyer onto the ground. The flame hit them, but it didn't hurt as much as they thought. Ran arched his eyebrow at the faint light glowed around them.

"The shield can't suffer too many attacks." Chung whispered. "When it breaks, be careful."

They nodded. Raven quickly charged towards Ran, who didn't have time to react as Raven jumped up and spun himself along with his sword rapidly.

"Flying Impact!"

He wasn't allowed to fall as Eve shot an electron ball at him, opened him up for attacks. Chung threw a grenade at him. It bounced on the ground and exploded as soon as it came in contact with Ran. Raven felt a faint chill on his spine as he glared at him. Ran quickly recovered from their attacks. He unleashed several slashes on Raven as black fire burst rapidly exploded after each one. Raven couldn't react at that sheer speed of his. After the final slash, an eruption of dark energy sent Raven flying backwards. Oberon quickly caught him before he hit the wall.

"Damn…he's fast." Raven coughed out blood.

His body was filled with wounds that were bleeding constantly. He might not be able to survive if this kept up. Ophelia kneeled next to him and stopped the bleedings.

"Be careful." Eve reminded him.

"Pathetic!" He laughed. "You're all pathetic!"

Ran was a lot more twisted than any of them could have imagined. They thought that he just sided with Wally for Sander's sake, but they had never thought that he was this messed up. As Chung was about to charge at him, a small circle appeared underneath his feet, sent him floating onto the air. He couldn't move. Ran jumped up and slashed him, sent him to the ground before rapidly attacked him with black fire. Eve ran towards them and attacked Ran with her Nasod spear before Oberon carried her behind him. She launched two electron ball and Ophelia threw grenades towards him. That successfully saved Chung. He received heavy injury from that as the Wonder Wall on him broke. Suddenly, Eve was attacked from behind by Ran's clone. Oberon created a shield to defend her. The Tactical Trooper grabbed Eve and fell back towards Raven, created a safe distance between themselves and Ran once again.

"We need a strategy." Chung mumbled, the wounds started to hurt more. "He is too powerful for us."

"I'll be the bait." Eve whispered.

"What?! No!" Chung almost shouted, but he calmed himself down. "You can't."

"I'm a Nasod, I can't perceive pain. I'll distract him while you two use your best attack."

Chung grimaced. He didn't like that idea one bit, but he knew she was right. Out of the three of them, she could handle pain the best so she wouldn't collapse on the floor. Raven reminded him this by putting his hand on his shoulder.

"This is our only way to have a chance of taking him out."

Chung nodded. There was an uncanny chill ran down his spine. He somehow felt like he was going to regret this greatly in the future, but he had to focus on the task at hand. If they died here, there would be no future. After receiving confirming nods from the both of them, Eve quickly charged forward at Ran. As he was about to attack, Oberon attacked him quickly as Eve summoned her best Nasod creation.

"Ferdinand, attack."

If she was taken down, he would be the one to replace her. Suddenly, a familiar circle appeared under her feet and sent her floating onto the air. Ran quickly jumped up and a shadow arm appeared, drew her closer to him as he slashed her multiple times with black fire exploded. As he was busy dealing with Eve, Raven got behind his back with Shadow Step.

"Extreme Blade!"

Raven attacked Ran as quickly as he could, gave Eve a chance to fall back. Ran didn't know how to retaliate as Raven was too quick for him to even see. The Grand Duke coughed out blood as multiple wound on his body was oozing blood.

"Where?! Where is h-"

"Up here."

Raven said simply as he jumped down with his sword and dealt the final blow. It wasn't enough to take him out completely as Ferdinand continued to attack him, launched him up for Chung to attack. The Tactical Trooper raised his cannon up and fired all of his cannonballs up into the air.

"Satellite Rain!"

Cannonballs rained down Ran, damaged him continuously. As he landed on the ground, a huge missile was dropped close to him. After a final explosion, Ran was finally taken down for good. Raven panted tiredly as he went to check Ran to see whether or not he was really dead. Chung quickly rushed over Eve, who was lying on the ground. The wounds on her body were large, he could see the wires within her body.

"Eve…Stay with me…"

"I'm afraid that this is impossble." Her voice wasn't clear anymore, it was a static mess. "He cut through my main system…Recovery is impossible."

Chung lifted her head up for her to lie on his arm as he looked at her. She was smiling, but she looked so sad. His vision was blurred as tear was slowly forming.

"No! No! You're my most important person in this world! You can't die!"

"I'm not going to die." Eve breathed out her words. "Oberon and Ohelia will copy my codes and create a new Eve…I will continue to be the queen of Nasod. The problem is…I won't remember anything beside that duty of mine."

Chung shook his head. He refused to believe any of this. It was only a bad dream. After he woke up, everything was peaceful. Please. Please wake up. Eve touched his face gently, reminded him that this was no dream. She drew his face closer to her, placed a kiss on his lips.

"No matter what…please, love me as…Eve." It was her final words before she deactivated.

Chung hugged her body. His teardrops fell down her peaceful face. Even though she was covered in wounds, she still looked graceful. Chung hugged her body closer to his, nodded continuously.

"I will. I definitely will."

Oberon and Ophelia approached him. They bowed before taking Eve's body and walked away. Raven cautiously placed a hand on Chung's shoulder as he wiped his tears away. The Tactical Trooper suddenly stood up with his cannon in his hand.

"Wally! You're going to pay!"

Back with the rest…

They made it to what seemed like an underground lab. They all took their stances since the chance that Wally would be here was high.

"So this is where he conducts all of those experiments." Add ticked his tongue.

"Correct." They were right as Wally came into view. "I didn't think that you would make it this far."

"Cut the crap, Wally." Elsword hissed.

"Such a dirty mouth. I'll show you my greatest creation. Come forth, Nasod Inspector."

There was a huge grumbling noise echoed from far within the lab. It made all of them felt way too unsure of themselves. The sound of gears moving came closer and closer until a hand grabbed the side of the wall that they were near. It was huge. The Nasod looked like it was made with various scraps metal, but it gave off such heavy atmosphere.

"You try to create a Nasod implanted army, but your greatest creation is just a Nasod?" Elesis narrowed her eyes, something didn't seem right.

"You're sharper than I thought missy. This…" He pointed at the center of the Nasod. "…is the ultimate creation of implantation. We only need the brain right? No use for other limbs."

They were horrified to realize that there was a human inside of it. She was visible from what looked like the eye of the Nasod. Her limbs were attached to wires, tube of all kinds. She didn't look like she was awake, but as Wally said, this thing was moving from her mind. As he saw their disgusted expression, Wally laughed.

"This is the next step towards tomorrow and you shall have the first taste of it. Attack!"

"Scatter!" Add shouted.

The Nasod launched itself at them. Thankfully, no one was crushed as they scattered as Add said. The MasterMind activated one of his drones and shot a purple ray towards it.

"Attack it now! The defense is weakened!" He input the codes onto the hologram screens again. "Apocalypse!"

The cube reappeared and fired laser as well as rays towards the Nasod, damaged it constantly. Elesis jumped up onto its arm and stabbed her sword at the gap between its shoulder and its head. The Nasod Inspector swung his arm. Elesis tried to hang on, but she didn't have the strength to and was thrown across the room. She collided into the wall as she could feel blood wanted to spew out of her mouth.

"Elesis/Sis!" Add and Elsword shouted. "Bastard!"

It was the first time that they agreed on something. Her sword was stuck on it, left her vulnerable to its attack. The Nasod moved heavily towards her. It was smart enough to know that it should take out the weakened one. Ara quickly jumped up the Nasod and retrieved Elesis's sword.

"Elesis! Catch!"

She threw the sword towards the Blazing Heart as the Nasod rammed its arm down towards Elesis. Luckily, she caught it in time and stopped its arm. A heavy whirl sound could be heard. Aisha quickly teleported towards her and grabbed the girl before teleporting away again. Luckily she did, the Nasod fired giant explosions towards the ground. Elesis wouldn't be alive if she suffered from something like that. As Aisha saved the Blazing Heart, she pointed her staff towards the Nasod.

"Water Cannon!"

The bubbles went flying towards the place where Elesis stabbed it. The water got into its system, causing malfunction. It went crazy as it fired its cannon up until the air, left multiple flares rained down from the ceiling. They fell slowly, thanked to that, they got away in time. Wally, however, didn't.

"What are you doing?!" He shouted. "I'm your creator! Do not harm m-"

He didn't get a chance to finish his words as the Nasod slammed its arm into him, sent him flying towards the flares. The explosions killed him as he was nothing left but a burnt corpse.

"Serves him right." Add mumbled. "Now, it's just this thing that we need to deal with."

Elsword ran towards it and slashed it. He lit his sword on fire to deal more damage. He held his hand up and created a rune before hitting it and exploded in the Nasod. He gave them a chance to attack as he had created an opening. Ara got behind it and slammed her spear down before stabbing it. She hit it with her palms, sent it sumbling backwards a bit. The Sakra Devanam swung her spear, charged it for the most powerful attack. The Nasod was about to attack her because she had an opening, but Aisha made sure that she had time. The magician jumped up and created three fireballs surrounding her as they spun around, damaged the Nasod constantly. When Ara was done charging, she gave it a heavy swing before jumping up and crashing down, created sharp rocks that stopped his track. Add used one of his more power drones. He pointed at the Nasod.

"Ultimate Fury."

Three lazer beams were fired towards it, dealt heavy damage ad Add continued to throw drone grenades, kept it off its track. Elesis stabbed its back and lit her sword on fire. She signaled Elsword as he nodded. The Nasod turned towards Elesis. She raised her hand in front of it and shot out flame. Ara gave Elsword a boost and he jumped on his head.

"Sword Fire!" Both siblings shouted at the same time.

Elsword plunged his sword onto its head as Elesis slashed it with fire from behind. The Blazing Heart had decreased its fire resistance before hand. The Nasod was exploded with fire from the siblings' combo attack. To give it the final nail on the head, Aisha called forth meteor that rained down the Nasod. They quickly move back. Although it took heavy damage, it shrugged it off like it was nothing. Elesis and Elsword panted. That made them extremely tired. The Apocalypse cube continued to attack the Nasod as they drew back. They thought they were safe as they kept distance from it, but it fired a ray of lazer towards them at high speed. They couldn't move away that quickly as the lazer had large horizontal range. Aisha cast her Mana Shield, but it might not be enough as the shield itself was frail. As the Rune Slayer heard her whisper, Elsword gritted his teeth and activated Iron Body as he ran in front it them.

"Get behind me!"

They quickly hid behind him as the Rune Slayer held his sword up and took all of the lazer. When the bright light was finally gone, Elsword collapsed on the floor.

"Elsword!" Aisha and Elesis checked on him, they couldn't touch him as his body was extremely hot from the lazer.

"He's alive." Add reassured them. "I can hear his breathing."

Aisha nodded and used her Weaken Aura while Add fired another purple ray at it. They both lowered its defense for another wave of attack. In the mean time, they had to protect Elsword as he took heavy damage for them.

"Gatling!"

Add put down a drone that fired bullets constantly at the Nasod. Ara ran forwards.

"Heaven's Wrath!"

She spun her spear and slashed the Nasod fast as flower petals as sharp as razor blade went flying towards it. As it was knocked off balance, she jumped up and attacked it with her Flying Kite. A heavy whirl sounded could be heard again. In the midst of her combo, she couldn't get away as it plummeted her to the ground and fired explosions down the girl.

"Ara! Hang on!" Aisha shouted.

The magician quickly teleported near her.

"Mana Shield!"

A faint blue shield covered the both of them. Thanked to that, Ara survived the assault. She was still heavy wounded. She might not be able to attack again as it would put her life at risk. Aisha quickly got away from it. Elsword wheezed as he stood up again, but he had to support himself with his sword. He refused to be a burden to his girlfriend and his sister. The Nasod suddenly extended its arms and pulled itself closer to them. Elesis quickly grabbed Elsword while Aisha took Ara. They hung onto Add as he levitated from the ground with his dynamos. The Nasod fell down. It could have crushed them if they didn't act fast. Add glided on his dynamos, carried them to safety. He quickly turned around and threw a bomb that attached itself onto the Nasod. After three seconds, it exploded, left Elesis room to attack as she charged forward with her sword on fire. She stabbed the Nasod before swinging her sword and plunged it into the ground.

"Ancient Fire!"

The Nasod was engulfed in a pillar of fire. Elesis quickly pulled back. It wasn't down yet. They were beyond tired at that point. After that desperate attack, Elesis could hear her fast heartbeats echoed through her body. She collapsed on the floor, but she pulled herself together and stood up again. Elsword stood in front of her along with Add.

"It's our turn." He gave her an assuring smile. "I don't want to work with you, but this is for sis."

"Likewise."

To be sure, Aisha gave them a magical buff. Add fired his drone again, weakened the Nasod once more. He put down another Pulse Gatling, setting up for Elsword's attack. Elsword pointed his sword upwards and multiple rune swords appeared next to the Nasod. They stabbed it constantly before one last huge rune appeared. Each of them exploded, sent the Nasod onto the ground. He smiled wearily, thought that he finally taken it down. Their hope was crushed as the Nasod stood up again. Elsword slowly backed away from it. He didn't have anymore energy to do this. The magician took over as she swung her staff and a trail of ice appeared, stopped the Nasod on its track.

"Elemental Storm!"

She floated up into the air and ice shard came down, plunging into its system then thunders and it ended with a tornado of fire. The Nasod was slowed down, but it still moved its arm towards Aisha. As the glow became stronger, Add ticked his tongue and ran towards the magician. He grabbed her as they rolled on the ground, successfully avoided the attack. Things didn't look too good for them as this thing was so sturdy.

"W-Wally…" A faint sound came from the Nasod. "O-Our anniversary… WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE THIS!" The human voice turned into a deep, digital mess.

The Nasod suddenly charged at Elesis, Elsword and Ara at great speed, much faster than what it used to be. They were exhausted as they couldn't move away from it. It chose them instead of Add and Aisha because of that reason. Add let go of Aisha and ran towards Elesis, Elsword and Ara. He didn't know what to do when he got there. He couldn't protect them, but at the very least, he could die with Elesis.

"Add?" Elsword looked at him in surprise.

"What are you doing?" Elesis's voice was weak. "Get out of here."

"Shut up. Let me do what I want once in a while."

The MasterMind hugged her close to him, awaited the impact. It never came. As he opened his eyes, he saw Chung protected them with his Tactical Shield – Endurance while Raven stopped its attack with his sword.

"What is this abomination?" Chung gritted his teeth. "I-Is that a human inside of that thing?"

"Tch, Wally is really rotten to his core." Raven grimaced.

The Blade Master jumped up and spun his sword rapidly, successfully pushed the Nasod away. The Tactical Trooper got into his Siege stance as he fired his cannonballs rapidly since inside the shield, his cannonballs got reloaded. It didn't flinch as it once again pounced Raven down onto the floor and fired the explosions. Luckily, he was agile as he successfully got away before it killed him. Unfortunately, it dislocated his left arm.

"This isn't good." He mumbled.

Chung noticed his limp arm and quickly marked the Nasod. Missile fell on it constantly, gave Raven a chance to get away. It didn't give up easily as its arm still tried to reach Raven. Elsword and Elesis bolted towards it and stabbed both of its arms with their sword, held it in place. Aisha took this chance. She circled the ground underneath her feet with her staff and lit her entire body on fire. She jumped on its head, burned it constantly as its movements were restricted by the siblings. Add used Ultimate Fury on that thing, restrained its movement even more. They gave Raven and Chung a chance to use their desperate attack as they were the only ones left with enough stamina to use it.

"Extreme Blade!

Raven's slashed the Nasod as quickly as he could, but unfortunately, his power was drastically decreased because of his arm. As Raven was done, all of them moved away from the Nasod as Chung signaled them.

"Satellite Rain!"

He shot out all of the missiles within his cannon up into the air and they rained down the Nasod. A final largest missile landed and exploded. After the dust cleared out, their hope died out as the Nasod was still on its knees. As it about to fire explosions at them again, Ara couldn't sit in one place anymore. She charged forwards. Her spear danced, created sharp petals that went flying towards the Nasod.

It was finally down. The system didn't react anymore as no sound could be heard. Ara gave them a victory smile before collapsing. Luckily, it was only due to exhaustion. They had won. They had ensured the peace for Elrios for years to come.


EDIT: I'll let you guess who was inside of the Nasod Inspector.