Chapter 7
=place LAN Castle Secret Hall, sometime later =
In the room where Uranus was, a large group of Ultra-Neptune, Noire, Blank, Vert, Nepgear, Uni, Rom, Ram, Compy, IF, Uzume, Croire, Historie, and of course Uranus gathered.
"So will you tell us what's going on here?" - Noire asked.
"What happened to Nep-nep? Is she all right?" - Compa asked.
"I'll explain everything in turn. But you better sit down because it's gonna be a long story." - said Uranus.
„Where are we to sit? On the floor?" - Uni asked sarcastically.
"Just get to the point." - Blank said.
"Right." - Uranus said - "It all started some 1600 years ago when nations were just emerging. At the end of this process, 5 nations emerged: Planeptun, Lastation, Leanbox, Lowee, and Eden. Back then, there were no monsters in the world, no Diet of Sin, or anything that could threaten peace."
"At least that's what we thought then."
"When an invasion from another world came, we were completely unprepared and before we knew it, Eden was conquered and the attackers started attacking other countries. We didn't have a large army before, because there was no need to have one. There was no Guild because there were no monsters. Fortunately, we were able to mobilize people quickly and repel the invasion. Then the second blow fell. The invaders used magic and dark energy from the other world to create monsters and the Diet of Sin to control them. But luckily in misfortune, the Deity of Sin proved too strong for them to control. As a result of the fight between the invaders and the Diets of Sin, their forces weakened significantly and we were able to push them back to Eden. However, in the last battle, the invaders managed to get along with the Diets of Sin and launched a counterattack. But their forces were already too weak at this point, and the monsters too scattered to stop us. So in an attempt to inflict as many losses on us as possible, they tried to blow up the whole country with us inside. At the last minute, we managed to pull back, but Eden was completely wiped out along with her CPU. After the battle, we sealed the Diets of Sin where Eden used to be. 'Gamindustry Graveyard' "
"WHAAAT?!" - everyone shouted.
"Why don't I have records of this? Or why nobody mentioned it at all in any history book or anything. " Histoire said.
"I'll get to it. But for now, please be quiet and let me continue because I haven't even got halfway." - Uranos said, waiting for the CPU and the rest to calm down.
„After the fight, we had to do something about the monsters that remained. Due to the fact that the dark energy from the other world has penetrated in enormous amounts, it has integrated into our world through Diets of Sin and continued to mingle appearing everywhere where our followers were absent in random amounts and with varying levels of threat. Where yesterday you met one doogu in the forest, you could meet the Ancient Dragon the next day. That's when we got the idea to create Dungeons. While this did not solve the spawn issues, it did reduce spawn and greatly reduce the spawn randomness. Eventually, we slowly started to recover from the invasion."
"But then we got shocking information."
"You see a lot of people couldn't forgive the attackers for what they did to us, especially the old people of Eden. There were frequent tortures of prisoners we captured without our consent. In the course of one such arbitrariness, our people came up with the most terrifying thing that could be found. The prisoners revealed their origin and purpose to us. It turns out that one of the subordinates of a demon lord decided to invade our world without his consent. We barely managed to fight off the first wave, which was just lawless. We knew we had no chance against a full-fledged invasion, so we made a plan to prevent it from reappearing by separating our dimension from theirs with a barrier. But to do that, we had to send one CPU to their dimension and connect that to our part of the barrier. My older sister volunteered. During this time, she created Histoire to record the history of Planeptun while adding several other features to her, such as interdimensional conversations. When she was done, she went to another dimension and we activated the barrier. There was only one problem with her. Someone had to hold her up somehow. Then, with the help of the remaining CPUs, a part of my soul was connected to the hardware that creates the barrier and effectively supports it. This is also the reason why after losing a body, I am still here with you and not with other CPUs. But back to story, it was not the end of our problems."
"For the next fifteen years, we talked through Histoire and her little sister, if I can call her that. At that time, she became the leader of the alliance against the demon lord and his subordinates, she got married and had a daughter. During the fights, her husband and many newly met friends have died. During the last battle, she almost lost to the enemy leader, which ironically allowed her to seal him. Unfortunately, the servants of the demon lord managed to activate the last spell which effectively wiped out all information and memories of people about this war. Our barrier is nice to keep people from crossing, don't spell so for us it also worked. Since Histoire was meant to record stories, many of its features were undone, and she shut down herself. I helped create it, so through the spell, I thought that I created it. Only this time all alone, which led to a significant weakening of its specifications. Many elements that were to be implemented in it and were to improve it were scattered around various places. And so the shield has held up for the last +/- 1500 years, until the last few years. During this time, the barrier weakened significantly, due to the merger of our dimension and Ultradimension and Kurome Ankokuboshi, the original Uzume Tennouboshi. I regained my memory the moment I lost my body and my soul was completely united with the barrier."
"As for the attack that recently took place in Planeptun, you don't need to worry about a full-fledged invasion yet. The barrier, although weakened, still stands. To go through it, it takes an unimaginable amount of energy for at least one person, or the permission of both my and my older sister. So we won't be able to go on a rescue mission."
"Any questions?" - Uranus finished carelessly
HOW CAN YOU END IT SO CAREFULLY ?!" - everyone snapped up immediately except Uzume, whose brain was overheated from the excess of information, Nepgear who tried to wake her up, and IF, who was used to it after spending a long time with Neptune.
"How long would it take to collect energy?" - Vert asked
"Two years. Assuming that everyone gives all their share energy." - Uranus answered.
"How could she lead the covenant to victory? After all, it came out of nowhere, without the energy share would be too weak to fight." - Noire said
"There were 3 factors overlapping it." - said Ouranos
"The first is that she had a share crystal with her and it was quite big, so she could transform, and thanks to a different natural energy from that world called mana, she was able to keep replenishing it if it lacked energy."
"The second is that the alliance had an advantage over the demon lord's army. Their problem, which kept them failing, was internal divisions. While our nations were on friendly terms before the invasion, as yours are now, theirs were hostile to each other and often fought with each other. It did not help that in the initial phase of the invasion of their world, the invading army was attacking one country at a time, which neighboring countries used to their advantage. She was a third party to their disputes so she managed to smooth things over, at least for the duration of the invasion. And after learning how to fight with using mana, she become the strongest in the alliance, and only the demon lord could match her."
"The third was the creation by her and other leaders of that world of special magic books. Later its enemies also began to use them, but by then the initiative was already firmly on the side of the covenant."
"How did she complement such a crystal?" - Uzume asked
"Unfortunately, I do not know. I never asked her that." - Uranus replied
"Don't you think it's a bit of a stretch?" - Uzume said
"You are the light side of Uzume Tennouboshi, which was created when the original Uzume went evil, created two dimensions, Heart Dimension and Zero Dimension, tried to make our dimension and Zero Dimension collide with each other, which she almost did. Do you still think share crystal replenishment is a stretch?" - Uranus replied
"Here you have me." - Uzume replied
"You mentioned that you were in contact during the war. Could we contact Big-sis this way?" - Nepgear asked
"Yes, but Neptune has to find an Histoire little sister. It sealed long ago after the war, waiting for my older sister's daughter." - Uranus replied
"And what was the name of your older sister and her daughter?" - Compa asked
"My older sister was called Chrome. And her daughter is Neptune, the current CPU Planeptun." - Uranus replied
"WHAAAAAAAAT?!" - everyone shouted.