Edit: 28/03/2020
Boyzilla: Yes, Hakuno is really cute, BUT corrupt CEOs and politicians are the only humans immunized to her cuteness!
Exactly, the Master of the Holy Grail War connected to the Moon Cell using the worlds network... because the Moon Cell invaded the human cyberworld to invite the Spiritron Hackers to participate in its trial.
Indeed, humanity has succeeded in making great progress in the field of photonic crystals. And you can see it in this chapter.
It is certain that Hakuno is more than capable of forcing ordinary computer security... nevertheless, Kimata has no ordinary computer security. In addition, now that Hakuno has a body, she is vulnerable to feedback and may end up with her brain fried by anti-intrusion defenses. The little squirrel has lost the advantage she had in the Seraph.
Akasha Bloodriver: Yes, everybody loves Tamamo, she is funny, eccentric, and enthusiastic and she is a pretty fox woman. With Hakuno, they make an adorable duo. However, we must never forget that Tamamo's alignment is "Neutral Evil"... she is very selfish... fortunately, Hakuno is there! And yes... without Hakuno, our favorite fox would have cursed Kimata for a hundred generations...
Author Note: Until now, this fan-fic didn't really have to be classified "crossover". Until now... because the great Cthulhu will wake up "Iä, Iä, Cthulhu fhtagn"... and you will see it. Don't be shy... come with me.
Digital Cult
Aided by Seer's Crystal Ball, Hakuno managed to navigate into the huge maze of the Cyberworld. Always accompanied by Tamamo no Mae, she had just reached a Reality Marble housing virtual buildings. There were companies, such as a virtual tour operator proposing the exploration of simulation of distant planets or branches of digital banks.
All around Kishinami Hakuno and Tamamo no Mae, a large crowd came and went. Upon entering, the Master had initially feared that her Servant would attract attention... except that the avatars of the virtual world travelers had left him speechless for a moment... a feat given what she had experienced in the Seraph.
Each connected had customized his avatar to make it as original as possible: an elf with pointed ears, a caveman in animal skin, various robots, fantastic creatures, even a knight in armor... not to mention what the survivor of the Moon Cell was unable to identify for they lack knowledge of popular culture.
Of course, in this crowd where everything and anything was mixed up, a teenager in school uniform and a kitsune went completely unnoticed.
Avoiding the crowds, Hakuno used her Portal Terminal to connect to the information network.
While Tamamo stood in protection beside her, she focused. The virtual world was huge and as in the real world, the communication system was parasitized by incessant waves of aggressive and intrusive advertising. She had to avoid several forced connections on paid sites... one of them being... let's say that Hakuno blushed violently when she saw the homepage... the protection of minors left much to be desired in the virtual world.
Finally, after various setbacks, Kishinami discovered access to the Virtual Pleasure Company. She disconnected and turned to the Kitsune:
- Tamamo?
- Yes, Goshujin-sama? Is everything okay?
The fox woman was waving her ears; obviously her difficulties had not escaped her, her discomfort in particular.
Hakuno blushes again:
- Connection error... but I found what we were looking for. The Virtual Pleasure Company is hosted by a supercomputer on the west coast of America... in California.
At the mention of a "connection error" Tamamo laid his ears, sign of anger or depression, but her eyes were throwing flames as she turned one side or the other to look at the illuminated advertisements for the various virtual establishments established in this Reality Marble. A good quarter offered prohibited services for those under 18 years.
She suddenly took Hakuno in her arms, hugging her tightly:
- Hiiii! Goshujin-sama, they will have to pass on my body to harm your innocence! Out of question of letting someone deprive me of...
Caster suddenly stopped and released her Master before coughing elegantly:
- Ufu-ufu, I just wanted to say that my Master can count on me to defend her.
Blinking, Hakuno bowed his head adorably to the side, without really understanding...
Although the cyberworld presents the appearance of "cities" with its buildings and streets planted with trees, using a door could take an avatar through thousands of kilometers. However, most users of these services did not realize...
- Code Cast: View_status!
Except Hakuno wasn't just anybody.
Access to the Virtual Pleasure Company looked like an ordinary door. However, the Spiritron Hacker discovered that it was, in fact, a symbolic passage connected to another continent. Tamamo and Hakuno were already aboard a communication satellite in geostationary orbit.
- Caster, do you think we should enter their site as simple users or hackers their system?
Tamamo hardly took the time to reflect:
- We will not learn anything by connecting normally. Inspector Minamoto said that their most special services were reserved for their richest and most loyal customers.
The fox woman smiles widely:
- In any case, I do not believe that the computer defenses of this shady company can withstand even a moment of my cuuuuuute Master with starry eyes.
Accustomed to the exaggerated compliments of her Servant, Hakuno simply nodded before taking on a determined air:
- Code Cast: Hack (16)
The door was surrounded by yellowish lightning and suddenly the reality around them changed. The buildings, the virtual hostesses, the trees were gone. Everything had been replaced by a more sober decor consisting of energy lines and multi-colored icons defining a kind of room.
Once again, the Hakuno Code Cast "View_status" could get an idea of the complex data network surrounding it. As Minamoto Sezuku explained to them, the Virtual Pleasure Company was only a legal screen for illegal practices... Hidden under the first network was a second one giving access to the Dark Cyberworld. The titles of the icons... The teenager swallowed and then blushed, trying not to think about their meaning. There was a new firewall, much more powerful than the previous one.
Hakuno exchanged two of her Formal Wears, replacing Seer's Crystal Ball which she no longer needed for Shokwave_32. Kishinami wielded the sword:
- Code Cast: relase_mgi (a)
A white fireball appeared from the blade; hitting the wall of icons it simultaneously neutralized all defenses.
Arriving at the heart of the data of the Virtual Pleasure Company, Hakuno visited a place practically devoid of scenery. However, the data flow was thicker than anywhere else. Where can she find something interesting?
The teenage girl headed for the memory zone corresponding to the countless surveillance cameras protecting the premises of this subsidiary of the Kimata consortium in the real world. In California, it was dark. Apart from two guards, the place was empty. One of them was connected directly to the system by his datajack. His avatar had to walk nearby. It would be better to avoid him so as not to have to fight him... and above all to avoid triggering the alarm.
Kishinami retreated and returned to the illegal games. Without worrying about the content, the Master used "View_status" again to get an idea of the architecture of the system. She discovers connections for holographic cameras and complex analysis and "translation" systems between the real world and the virtual world. The teen Master frowned:
- Caster, there is something strange. Virtual games take place in their own Reality Marble. And the software used to create the virtual model of users allows shaping of their avatars to their actual bodies. The body created is thus made of spiritrons, like yours or that of the Masters in the Seraph. The technology is far too advanced compared to the rest of Cyberworld.
Tamamo had approached, also surprised:
- The Moon Cell?
Busy following the track, Hakuno went up the data stream and then shook her head:
- No, the source is on Earth, also in California. It's another subsidiary of Kimata. Photonic Crystal Technology Inc.
Hakuno is thinking for a moment. Sixty years ago, Leo told her that by mobilizing all the means of the Harwey Conglomerate his family had barely managed to create a Photonic Crystal the size of the thumbnail. Obviously, humanity had made great strides. Not that it pleases her... this knowledge was so badly used. Her intuition, sharpened by weeks of fighting where the slightest error was fatal, sounded like an alarm bell in her mind.
Why would we use such advanced technologies just for games? Even though they were illegal games... Hakuno shook her head. She presented that this was not the goal in itself. There must have been something more important behind it.
A buzzer startled the girl. It came from her Portable Terminal. Opening the Matrix tab, marked with the "new" icon, Kishinami blinked. The list of Servants defeated in the Moon Cell had disappeared. In addition to the line describing her Servant, there was only one line left: "? ? ? " As she opened this tab, Hakuno discovered a photo entitled "Master: Kimata Ryuchi". The fearsome CEO was represented next to a grey figure: "Servant:? ? ?".
The indication "Matrix 0" had just passed to "1". Her reflections and the brief dialogue with Tamamo were inscribed below. The parallel with the Seraph Holy Grail War twisted her stomach with anxiety even though she wanted to vomit. What did it mean? Only the Moon Cell could update the Portable Terminal!
- Goshujin-sama?!
As Tamamo no Mae held her "husband" in her arms, her face tense with anxiety, Hakuno had a pale smile:
- I'm fine, Caster.
Concentrating, she began to trace the flow of data back to the headquarters of P.C.T. Inc
Again, Hakuno's panoply of Codes Cast allowed her to cross the Firewalls and defenses of another Kimata subsidiary. The Portable Terminal was displaying the data she had hacked.
Officially, P.C.T. Inc. manufactured supercomputers in Photonics Crystals. They were used by scientists, weather services, volcanologists and the armies of the various countries of the world who needed supercomputers to carry out the billions of calculations necessary for their work.
Evolving in the midst of the learning programs intended for these "little brothers" of the Moon Cell, Hakuno was fascinated by the sceneries that appeared before her: walls of equations, reconstitution of historical events. She finally arrived in an even more protected area.
This attracted Kishinami because she found this area was managed by a specific memory zone. Hakuno was surprised by the knowledge taught by educational programs. Even if she was only a pseudo-magus, given her poor understanding of magecraft only to her recognition as a Master by the Moon Cell, she had frequented Tamamo no Mae long enough to recognize a grimoire of witchcraft.
But it was in a language that seemed to her to be Arabic. Its tight, leaning handwriting gave an impression of incoherence and madness... even in the eyes of someone who could not read it.
The Victor of the Moon turned to her Servant and with one whispered spell. Immediately, a translated version of the text was superimposed on the original.
The Old-Ones were, are and will be.
From the dark stars, they came where man was born, invisible and impure. They descended on the primitive Earth.
Below the oceans, they hatched over the ages, until the seas retreated. Then they swarmed, and in this multitude began to reign over the earth.
On the icy poles, they built powerful cities and on the heights, the temples of those whom nature does not recognize and whom the gods have cursed.
After an illustration showing an abominable, humanoid monster, with a sort of tentacle beard and bat wings, perched on a monolith, the text resumed:
And their offspring invaded the earth, and their children suffered through the ages. They built the huts of Leng with their hands, and the terrifying entities that remained in the vaults of Zin recognize them as their gods. They spawned the Ha-hag and the Dark Entities that reign over the Night. The Great Cthulhu is their brother, the Shaggot-haired their slaves. The Dhols pay tribute to them in the Pnoth Valley and the atrocious Gugs sing their praises under the peaks of ancient Throk. They walked among the stars and traveled the earth. The city of Irem in the great wilderness knew them; Leng saw them pass through the icy desert, and the ageless citadel stood on the heights crowned with clouds of Kadath. The unknown bears their mark. The Old-Ones have avidly walked the paths of darkness and their blasphemies have flooded the earth; the whole creation has bowed before their power and recognized their perversity. And the older gods opened their eyes and saw the abominations of those who ravaged the earth. In their wrath, they stood up against the Old-Ones, who remained in their injustice, and cast them out of the Earth into the emptiness and spaces where chaos reigns and which shelter no form. And the older gods put their emblem on the Great Gate, and the Old Ones could do nothing against its power.
Then the dreadful Cthulhu sprang up from the depths and became furious at the Guardians of the Earth. And they bound his poisonous claws with powerful imprecations and locked him in the city of R'lyeh and buried under the waves, he would sleep and dream of death until the end of time.
And behind this Gate now lives the Old-Ones; not in spaces known to men, but in the spaces that separate them. Out of the earthly spheres, they wander and still wait for the moment of return. For the Earth has known them, and knows them forever. These Old-Ones consider their masters as Azathoth, the formless fool, and dwell with him in the black cave which is at the center of the infinite. It is there that it devours voraciously, in total chaos, in the midst of insane beats of hidden drums, the discordant sound of horrible flutes and the incessant howls of blind and stupid gods who drag and gesticulate without purpose for eternity. The soul of Azathoth is in Yog-Sothoth and will signal to the Old-Ones when the stars indicate that the time of return has come. For Yog-Sothoth is the Gate through which worlds converge. Yog-Sothoth knows the mazes of time because time is One to him. He knows where the Old Ones came out, back in time, and where they'll come out when the cycle starts again.
After the day comes night. Men's time will pass and they will return to where they came from. Then you will know that they were unspeakable impurities, and cursed, they will have defiled the earth.
- Al-Azif!
The horrified exclamation of Tamamo worried Hakuno who looked at her with her big brown and interrogative eyes. The magical fox-girl was nervously pounding her tail with her ears down. She hesitated for a moment before specifying:
- Al-Azif is a book written in Duriak, a language of northern Iraq. Its name is more or less translated as "The murmur of demons". Al-Azif is, in fact, a wind that sometimes groans in the deserts of Arabia near the lost city of Irem. This breath carries whispers of demons. As for the author, he is a mad sorcerer named Abdul Alhazred. We know more about this book by its title in Greek, "Necronomicon", that is, "The Book of Dead Names". Goshujin-sama, your humble wife asks you in the name of all the love she has for you not to seek to know more. The author of this accursed book was devoured in full days by hideous creatures! Reading this book brings nothing but madness, horror... death! The text is a blasphemous compilation of the darkest and most inhuman arcane of Witchcraft.
Once again, the Portable Terminal rang.
New: Matrix update.
Matrix rank 1 to rank 2
Matrix 2 Rank: Myth of Cthulhu.
The Last Master was, of course, concerned about the computer receiving such knowledge and especially about the reason why a photonic computer was programmed with the knowledge of black magic books. Through the cameras of the complex, Hakuno discovered an isolated room, not even appearing on the official plans of the complex.
There, under glass bells were six large photonic crystals cubes, the size of a human head.
Five of them were still in a stammering state, the computer equivalent of early childhood... The sixth was the photonic brain educated in the knowledge of dark magic. The most frightening thing was to see that the room had been stretched out of dark draperies embroidered with mystical seals and that the bases of the photonic computers were located at the points of a vast star inscribed in a double magic circle.
- Goshujin-sama, this magic circle has strange similarities with the Holy Grail of Fuyuki. You can't read the inscriptions, because it's arcane language. But I can. Each photonic crystal base is surrounded in its own magic circle. See the inscription here?
Tamamo stretched a claw to a point of the six-pointed star:
- It is written "Archer". And here?
She designated a second point:
- "Lancer". And the following: "Rider", then "Berserker", "Caster", "Assassin". All that is needed is "Saber" for us to have the seven classical classes.
Hakuno was watching her Servant. The fox woman had her arms crossed, rubbing her chin, the very image of a person thinking intensely. Her ears and tail were shaking nervously.
- I think Kimata is trying to create his own Grail War. A simplified version... of all the "containers" of heroic spirit, Saber is the most expensive to create, so he dispensed with it. With the use of photonic crystals, a classic magic circle, the system looks like a hybrid of Fuyuki and Seraph.
Hakuno tilted her head to the side:
- Why?
Accustomed to her "husband", Tamamo perfectly understood her question:
- For a wish, Master, what else?
It was Hakuno's turn to think seriously. She had arrived here following a connection with the Virtual Pleasure Company. This company used Moon Cell technology... or at least a good copy. The result? A Reality Marble used for games, certainly illegal, but games.
Kishinami was nothing like the CEO of a large company like Kimata, but it was clear that technological and financial investment had to be gigantic, compared to the ridiculousness of the objective.
Handheld Portable Terminal, Hakuno verified that this was the first clue in the Matrix tab.
However, P.C.T. Inc. was not content with Reality Marbles and the technology of avatars made of spiritrons; they were also working to build their own Grail. Since the two projects were linked, she discovered the second by following the clues in the first, the deduction was obvious. The Reality Marble would serve as an arena like the Seraph's Seven Chimeric Lunars Seas during the Grail War of the Moon Cell.
Using "View_status" Hakuno spotted the photonic crystal that was learning elements of Cthulhu's cult. It was the Caster of this strange Grail War. Logic, who could be interested in Witchcraft besides the Service Spell Thrower?
Since the creation of her Servant was more advanced, Kimata Ryuchi seemed willing to get ahead of the other Masters.
Hakuno frowned and said:
- Caster, how does the Moon Cell embody a heroic spirit in a Servant?
The fox also looked at the photonic crystals identified as Servants of the Grail War and must have understood where her Master was going.
- In one of the Fuyuki Grail Wars, to summon a specific servant from the Throne of Heroes, a catalyst was needed. But in the Moon Cell, we don't use a link object. To embody a Saint Graph in a spiritron body, the Moon Cell constitutes it from the available information. They are the equivalent of the catalyst for calling a heroic spirit from the Throne. The advantage of this system is that the Moon Cell has transformed the Seraph into a "pseudo-Throne". All the Servants whom he has succeeded in summoning (1) can be recalled at will, even if they have been destroyed and they even keep the memory of what they have experienced since their first invocation in the Seraph. So this "Blue Caster" before you, Goshujin-sama, is unique. I am not a simple copy of the hero present in the throne because, unlike her, I met my beautiful husband.
Without noting the compliment, Hakuno continued:
- And Kimata reproduced this system?
Although somewhat sullen, Tamamo no Mae returned to the contemplation of the screen:
- Yes, Goshujin-sama, each photonic crystal brain must be responsible for recreating the personality, appearance, and powers of a Servant in the virtual world. Six servants, therefore, we are far from the 128 that the Moon Cell had assembled in the first round of its own war.
Hakuno stood still thinking for a moment, and didn't pay much attention to the notification ringing of his Portable Terminal. She knew without having to open it that the Matrix had just passed to rank 3. Because she knew who the Servant was that Kimata wanted to invoke, it was obvious...
- What if I disrupt brain learning?
The question left Tamamo a bit perplexed. But she thinks seriously about it:
- Well, you will get an alteration of the Saint Graph. Generally, this leads a Servant to be summoned in a different class... except that, in this war, classes are determined before invocation. It is likely that any alteration of the teaching program would modify the Saint Graph enough for the system to be forced to fall back on a substitute. Is that what you want to do?
Hakuno agreed to that.
- But why?
- Because Kimata wants to invoke Abdul Alhazred. You said that the Necronomicon was a horrible book, the one who wrote it must be just as much.
The Portable Terminal rang again. The Matrix had just passed to E.
- Code Cast: Hack(16)
The Code Cast surrounded the program in yellow lightning, blocking its operation. During the brief moment when it stopped functioning, Hakuno slipped inside the crystal cube. Her instinctive knowledge of Moon Cell technology helped her enormously... especially since she was faced with a copy of inferior quality. She crossed the barriers and defused the traps. The girl was now in a whirlwind of programs created to emulate Abdul Alhazred's Saint Graph. The Last Master was unleashed, destroying knowledge, changing dates, changing places.
Obviously, this aggressive intrusion could not go unnoticed.
A whirlwind of purple particle data formed in front of them forming an enemy_program. However, none of those the duo had faced in the Seraph. It looked like a cubist version of a bulldog. In fact, the data envelope she read allowed her to understand that these programs were called Watchdog defense programs.
[Break]
The mental order was immediately followed by effect. Leaping forward, Tamamo shattered the energy shield erected by the Watchdog by striking it with her two fists:
- To!
[Attack]
- Yiahhh!
Tamamo's mirror mowed down the monster that wanted to leap.
[Guard]
- Nano!
Raised like a shield, the mirror blocked the sawtooth jaws of the digital monster. Having passed a perfect sequence, Tamamo ub\nlocked an additional attack. Jumping over the enemy_program, she struck it on the skull with her two hands like a hammer:
- To!
As the enemy_program took exactly the same Guard/ Break/ Attack scheme with stubbornness worthy of a simple program, Caster chained it a second time. Finally, the Watchdog collapsed to the ground... before returning to the state of digital particles.
Hakuno looked at all the locked icons around her, and the red light that now bathed the virtual universe:
- We must leave, the alarm has been set.
Setting an example, Hakuno was already running, her hair braided so much on her shoulders. Tamamo caught up with her, much faster.
(1) Except for Acueid Brunedestrud.
(2) FGO uses a similar invocation system.
Note from the author: of course, as you have understood, the invocation of Kimata Ryuchi will result in... Bluebearb. I think the CEO is gonna be mad at Hakuno... no, you want to summon the greatest sorcerer of the Cthulhu Myth and instead... yes... THAT! Never piss off a hacker if you have an important thing to do with a computer. There will be five other summons of servants: "Archer"; "Lancer"; "Rider"; "Berserker"; "Assassin". And I have not yet decided on my choice. If you feel like it... provide me with evil, dark canon "heroes" or simply in their place in an atmosphere of Lovecraft's horror.
The most attentive ones may have noticed a contradiction between the first episodes and this one... (I don't say what, look). Well, it's not the author's fault... the contradiction is only apparent. Let's just say that Hakuno did not notice an absurdity about the invocation ritual... yet Tamamo is there to demonstrate that it is not so absurd. Reflect about it, if you think you found this contradiction, tell me.
Beta Note
Sawtooth44: Sorry about the late edits, got distracted by XCOM although funny thing about Abdul Alhazred, someone made a fan servant of him and Chaldea specifically tells you to BURN HIM rather then keep him around, a broken link is provided
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