Chapter. 19

Everyone arrived in the unlimited field which resembled a desert with each building made of stone. Before Vincent stood Teal assassin and Opal Commander along with three more avatars.

The first was Turquoise Titan, Lyle's dual avatar. A two story tall bright green avatar wearing dark blue bangles around his arms with a large dark green shield with gold engravings and a grey stone in the center resting on his left arm.

Vincent stepped back from the avatar towering over him. Not wanting to be crushed in the first minute.

The next burst linker was Corina's avatar hiding behind Titan's leg, Lilac Laser. A four foot tall purple avatar with pink eye lenses. Over her armor she wore a pink sleeveless over coat and small panels in her chest and on her palms and elbows. On the sides of her head were a pair of foot long pigtails. Corina looked over Vincent's armor, before she could walk up to him she was stopped by the Lyle.

Vincent thought the avatar looked cute but kept a safe distance just in case. Along with not upsetting the giant avatar guarding her.

Chartreuse enchantress, Levi's dual avatar. A bright yellow-green body with dark red eye lenses, connected to the armor was a witches hat and a clock that reached her ankles. Levi held a brown staff with a gold spike on both ends. Levi glanced to Vincent but made no effect to approach him.

Vincent felt uneasy from the avatar, something about the way it looked felt off to him. Giving him the same feeling from Opal Commander.

"These are your allies." Jade waves her hand over the avatars. "You'll be helping them as much as they'll be helping you to destroy the other legions."

"What is the opal legion going to do next?"

"We'll talk about that when we turn to the real world. For now we focus on the task at hand. The incarnate system."

"So what is the incarnate system?" Vincent felt annoyed for being brushed off.

Opal commander started to speak. "Normally, a burst linker's duel avatar is controlled by the neurolinker reading the person's brainwaves. Essentially, it reads activity in the brain's motor cortex while piping information to the brain's sensory cortex. This style of control is called 'control via physical order'.' You understand?"

"Yes." Vincent nods.

"There's a second, more difficult method to manipulating one's duel avatar called 'control via power to image'. Similar to willpower, it uses the burst linker's ability to strongly picture something happening to bring about a change in the environment. This is closer to using one's imagination, the neurolinker is able to read this information. This is the incarnate system."

Vincent crosses his arms. "Sounds interesting."

"The main use of the incarnate system is in battle."

"Obviously."

"By strongly picturing different ways to fight in your head, you can make that real. However, in pretty much all cases, these attacks are nothing that couldn't be done more easily by using tools your duel avatar already has."

"So why use it?"

"Incarnate-powered attacks cannot be defended by normal means; they can only be defended by incarnate-powered defenses, or countered by incarnate-powered attacks. This is their main use."

"And this is the power that I used on Sapphire Brawler?" Vincent raised his left hand to his chin to think. "So where did you learn this power, it wasn't in any of the tutorials."

Catherine snicked. "It not in them because its not a normal function. It's a secret system very few know about."

"Of course you'd find a way to cheat." Vincent glared at Catherine.

"No idea what you're talking about."

"Regardless." Jade spoke up. "You will need to learn it-"

"What for? Because to me it sounds like you all can't win on your own so you need to cheat."

"You're one to talk."

Vincent spun to Levi. "You got something to say?"

"Tell me, how did you beat sapphire again?" Vincent tightened his fists. "I thought so."

"Fucking bitch."

"Regardless!" Jade shouted. "The opal legion is now a large legion because of you Vincent. We don't know if the other legions have members who also know of the incarnate system. You will learn it but using it will be up to you. Think of it as an equalizer if you face someone with it."

Catherine nods. "See? Would you call it cheating if you both are doing it?" Vincent remained quiet. "I knew you'd come around."

"Time to start. In short the incarnate system is powered by your imagination. What's the first thing to come to your mind?"

Vincent returned to his thinking posture and closed his eyes. The first thing he saw was Rebecca standing beside him with a big smile, the next one was the two of them eating burgers, then the two of them in Rebecca's home. It was dark out and they sat in front of a fireplace. Vincent held Rebecca close as they watched the fire, Rebecca pushed herself off of Vincent and their eyes met, slowly closing as she drew closer.

"Vincent!" Catherine's voice snapped the tyrant back to reality. "What were you thinking? I called you four times."

"Nothing."

"Tch." Levi groaned. "So you spaced out. Do we really need someone this empty headed in our group?"

"You trying to start something bitch?" Stomped up to Levi. "You've been on my case since we met."

"You're nothing special, just a brute brought up by Catherine."

"Catherine gave me this game and that's it. Everything I've done was by my own strength." Vincent drew his sword. "Or would you like a demonstration?"

Levi turned to Vincent, looking him over. "I know everything about you just by your name, Eminence Tyrant. Eminence, as in recognized to be superior, especially within a particular profession. Tyrant, a cruel and oppressive ruler. Putting all that together it's clear you're just some thug."

"You don't know anything about me."

"I know enough, you're Catherine's current pet." Vincent raised his blaster and fired at Levi. His weapon overheated but Levi remained unflinching as only a small portion of her health. "Did I hurt your feeling or are you mad that I upset your master?"

Vincent lunged at Levi as he swung his sword. Catherine jumped in between them and caught Vincent's blade with her daggers. "As much as I love the idea of you defending me, we need Levi right now."

"Shut the fuck up!" Vincent pulled back his sword and swung for Catherine's waist. Catherine lowered her daggers to caught the blade again.

"That anger, you know it so, so well. That's the fuel for the incarnate system." Catherine shoved Vincent back to separate then pointed to a boulder. "That power comes from rage. Think of what makes you mad, what do you hate?" Asked Catherine.

"What do I hate?" Vincent's fists tightened. "Tell me what I don't hate!" Vincent held up his blaster and fired at the boulder. "I hate Catherine! I hate Jade! I hate the whole damn opal legion!" Vincent fired into the boulder, each shot burning its surface. "I hate my fencing team! I hate my school! I hate the people on the street!" The laser from the baster started to cut into the boulder. "Humanity is just a big fucking shit pile of parasites!" The blaster's barrel shined with power.

A massive beam launched from the blaster, larger then the one before. The beam connected with the boulder and liquidized it. "I, hate, EVERYTHING!" As soon as he said these words a smiling Rebecca pop up in his head. Vincent lost his focus and the beam pattered out.

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