I hope everyone reading is enjoying this.
Gameplay
Team Hakaishin stood around Saya as the last minute of the timer hit.
Jin stood in front, Nomad stood beside him at the ready. Ragna had his weapon ready next to Shino. Shiro and Sitri stood behind Saya, Ryota was beside Saya.
Saya put her hand in a triangle around her eye.
20s were read on the timer.
" I am (in/that which is/beholden to) the Role of the (Absolute) Overseer, rule of the All Sight (Severing all blockade/ distraction/ obstacles), bear witness in Omniscience, Eye of the Azure Sky."
10s were counting down
A blue shift expanded from her blue eye.
9s.
She could see the flow of this intersection world's magic element. These gates using the firmament of dark emotions become astralized through time and space contained in its own catbox. Clustered to slowly release aggressive egos as time goes on.
Like the current quantum space that was this tokyo
7s.
Saya had no idea on what the heck she just witnessed or why she thought that. She stuffed down her confusion and focused on the closest formation of those weird negative cluster entities she saw.
5s
She then began her event intervention, her blue eyes pulsed and lit up like a lighthouse.
"Area state observed," she intoned.
A six point blue magic circle formed under them.
"Quantum influence managed," a swirling dome of blue surrounded them.
The timer hit 0s.
" Event Interference Battlefield: Quantum Embryo Labyrinthine Engaged! Rebels! Set! Action!" Was announced from the phones.
Saya saw from the darkness several domes over many chalices form. Dark egos coalaced in its cup and swarmed out.
People began fighting as these creatures shaped like warriors swarmed the wards of Tokyo.
"Declares I, the sphere of Omega, the transference state of space," Saya chanted.
A orb of blue tinted black arranged itself in front of Saya. her hand stretched towards her black ball of blue, her palm cupping from below.
Ryota felt his hair stand on end, Saya from the start was otherworldly. Now from her voice, the way light moved around her, the light shining from her eyes, she was clearly not human.
Not a normal one at least.
He glanced towards Shiro….
The class reps eyes were shining like a kid in a candy store. Ryota wondered when he became the straight man in all this.
Nomad realized that this reaper business might actually be bigger than he thought. This magic stuff was creeping him ou.
Moritaka glanced at his doppelganger and saw the smile on the man's face. Shino was no stranger to sorcerous types, this was very similar to his beloved's rule. He felt no fear, simply nostalgia.
Sitri thought the show of power was awesome.. Saya was a lot stronger than he thought.
His brothers just treated this as if it were nothing.
Saya saw the closest nexus; a girl with three swords, a large dark skinned man with horns swinging an ax in a wild fever, a blond with sunglasses slashing with knives, a raccoon-man with many smaller ones herding injured comrades into safer areas. In the darkness the shadows was a handsome spectator of the scene weakly keeping himself awake.
The nexus spewed squadrons of these armored warriors. They charged and struck indiscriminately.
A buxom long haired blond dual horned woman defended a monstrous man with her fiery monstrous left claw.
"Spatio Temporis Elegantia!" Saya exclaimed.
Darkness encompassed the outside of the dome, the world outside of it swirled as suddenly they arrived in a place where there were hundreds of glowing signs of stores and hotels being wrecked from all the fighting.
The red sign of the district was on the ground as a lightly armored wolf man therian with wings flew with gritted teeth in the air.
Saya saw multiple scenes of conflict, but kept her eyes on the current scene.
The truth was Tokyo was being overrun, there just weren't enough players to compensate for the amount of enemies pouring out of each ward.
Nomad whistled at the chaos he was seeing. The guys from Kabukicho were probably miffed at the damage they were seeing.
"Such is the way of the battlefield," muttered Shino as he saw those trying to escape be cut down by the helmed warriors. Magic burst from the flying cloaked ones as the blond with sunglasses was smashed through a window.
"We need to find the raid boss, otherwise this will never end," Shiro announced.
It was in the rules, this is an enclosed space, a special battlefield. Within it time doesn't affect the outside, rather it is a pseudo world in itself. Those inside are to defeat the raid boss, that is the only way to end the 'event.' If not, the fighting wouldn't end, it didn't even matter if all the players were defeated. They would loopback to the start with zero points and have no choice but to try again.
It was an insidious part that Shiro warned everyone about.
There was no opting out, once started you have to finish.
There was even a bunch of legalese about staying on the app after being told you can opt out and made the app user liable.
So no lawsuit would be allowed. Not like anybody knew who to sue.
"Saya," Jin began catching his sister's attention,'" the nexus is at the end of this district correct?"
It was, Saya could see it from the space that she generated.
She nodded towards her white armored brother.
"Then orientate us so I may clear a path," Jin stated, he drew his sword.
"Gotcha," Saya said, her blue eye flashed and suddenly they were on the ground.
"Countdown to entering firmament space, resolving; 5!" She robotically intoned.
Shiro opened his book but he was still smiling. Ryota wondered what else he could do to help.
Jin held his blade at the ready, Ragna and Shino followed suit. Moritaka mimicked this readiness.
Sitri gulped but had his wing ready to sprout whenever he needed to move.
Nomad got ready as he stated under his breath ," Tiger tiger, burning bright…"
"I am the white void. I am the cold steel..." Jin intoned, white power pulsed out of him.
Nomad glanced at Jin, the reluctant tigerman felt a gaze back at him.
"4!" Saya continued.
"...in the forests of the night! Tiger, tiger…" Nomad said louder.
"... I am Jin. With blade in hand, I shall reap the sins of this world..." Jin chanted forcefully as power continued to flow from him.
Ragna felt his eyebrow twitch unconsciously, this wasn't a competition!
"3!" The orb in Saya's palm flashed blue.
"…..with tearing speed… " Nomad stated louder.
"...and cleanse it in the fires of destruction!" Jin exclaimed over Nomad.
Everyone else in the group felt it was very unnecessary.
"2!" The orb began to fizzle and Saya wondered why Jin didn't like Nomad.
On the outside anyone paying attention would've noticed the falling blue gleam in the air. Saya's green eye also glowed as she stated.
"1!"
The gleam hit the ground and a massive pillar of blue light appeared distracting everyone
"For I am the sword! The end has come!"/ " ...through the brink of time, impede!" Shouted Jin and Nomad respectively.
"Seriously?" Ragna muttered towards the antagonism.
White overlayed everything in his sight, everything was frozen to him. Jin moved his body cutting through time, each target not of the world's order didn't escape his gaze. A flurry of power ripped through the various einherjar. These fallen warriors holding twin swords didn't even feel the strength of Jin's slashes.
"You!"
Jin saw Nomad in a speedo, his clothes burnt away from the flames around him. Behind him were several falling einherjar and tumbling valkyries
"... a pale imitation at best, a mockery at worst."
Was all Jin said with a shake of his head. The bushin he rode, his armor, was whatever the maker of that unfortunate man was aiming for. Attempting to travel to time would have no effect on Jin. Even outside the bushin those that would aim to use time against him were destined to fall.
He had long since left the realm of 'reason' and was no longer of logic.
Whatever that meant.
Jin turned away muttering," piteous."
He kicked off buildings and billboards as he struck down the airborne valkyries.
Nomad wanted answers, the technology to go through time was of Utopia. That guy was carrying something dangerous and he might know something.
Even if Jin had zero to do with the guy who turned his body like that. The people from Utopia might come after the punk. Nomad would be watching and waiting.
"Che," Nomad continued attacking the minions. He roared with a blaze trailing behind him as he struck minion after minion down to work out in frustration.
With speed and strength both flew into a violent rage until most of the minions had been crushed, clawed, or slashed.
Both stopped glared at one another then time resumed for Nomad. Everyone he'd attacked fell to a burning fatal strike and dissipated in gold motes of light. Nomad hmph'ed with crossed his arms.
The white shift ended when Jin sheathed his blades. All those he struck with were ripped to shreds by multiple slashes instead one.
Nomad stared wide eyed, Jin chuckled.
"As I said, an imitation," Jin commented.
"Oh, would you two just stop," Ragna snarled.
He rushed past them and punched the valkyrie flying towards them. Then stabbed a stray Einherjar through and ripped through its shoulder.
"Ragh!" Shino decapitated another backing up Ragna, " do not pause in the midst of a bloodbath."
Ruckus laughter left his mouth and he cut another down.
The fighters in Kabukicho were stunned by the sudden appearance of team Hakaishin. The blond with now broken sunglasses stepped out of the store window with a sneer on his face.
The girl with dark hair and a ponytail watched on with a hand on the hilt of one of her three katana.
The tall dark skinned stout horned man with the ax smiled, the team looked strong.
The winged wolf therian in the air with the child on his back watched,
Immediately, Saya turned towards the rest of her team and gave them orders.
"Ryota, Sitri, Shiro," she commanded like a general to their troupes. The three turned towards her as she gave them their orders.
"You three aim for the Nexus, avoid any unnecessary fights," Saya summoned bolverk as she turned from them," use the map to circle around the area as quickly as you can, I'm trusting you three to handle this with this."
"Understood," Shiro complied as he motioned the other two.
Ryota hesitated but said," take care."
Saya glanced back at them with a smile, " you as well, my friends."
She dashed off towards the stronger fighters of her team.
Sitri had mixed feelings about her; she loved cute things and got teary eyed quickly. Still she was strong, willing to take charge, and cared about people close to her.
Her brothers were classically cool, but Saya was cool in her own way.
It had nothing to do with the fact that she was bouncy either.
"Sitri," Ryota called.
Startled out of his thoughts, Sitri dashed after the other two.
(Love so Blue ~Blue Heartbeats~)
With a smile she ran towards the sudden wave enemies.
It was time to become the spectacle to distract all while her friends worked.
Her brothers were ripping through the forces with Shino and Moritaka. Nomad was a little distraction, she liked his build.
She stuffed down the feeling of feeling up his muscles, maybe later she reasoned.
"Jin, " Saya called out.
Jin knew what his sister wanted to do, the path of order told him her desire. Even as his memories were nil the path of order was always in his gaze.
He punted a einherjar through a valkyrie with grunt.
Saya sprang from the ground guns at the ready, Jin met her at the height of her leap.
Ragna sensing danger that only a brother with overly destructive younger siblings could shouted, " take cover!"
He ran away from the enemy making the fighter wonder what was coming
Jin latched on his sister's wrist, spun in the air.
"From What!?" Nomad exclaimed while punching a valkyrie into a wall.
Saya felt a grin enter her lips as she revolved in the air. Her legs were tucked in and her arms were out with Bolverk at the ready.
"From whatever crazy Saya and Jin are Pulling!" Ragna responded back.
Jin tossed her towards the enemy without recourse. He also moved away from the main group for safety reasons.
"What the-"
"Role of the Wanderer!" Saya loudly chanted.
Her eyes glowed fiercely as she locked from her 360 degree spin. For a normal person without any magical assistance this would be impossible, but Saya was a magic multiplier tiers above the norm.
She fired in without remorse, after all there was no way she could miss.
Her Eye of the Azure was still active.
"Rule of Rending!"
Bullets danced through the air, ricocheting off of the buildings, the inside of parlors, off the pachinko machines, off the signs of love motels that lined the streets. They bounced off of each other, metal of any kind, off of drawn swords and knives.
Everyone who wasn't a minion in her immediate vicinity was frozen by the glints of death flowing around them in a spider web of straight lines.
Ragna muttered something not heard under his breath as he stood around Saya and Jin's impromptu plan.
Nomad was frozen in a somewhat awkward position of a high kick. His eye twitched as he kept form with his bulge hanging from his thigh. He had to use his sitting muscles to make it rise, there was a line of bullets moving right under them!
Shino watched the speck with wild eyes as few caused him to maintain his mid swing. He had to keep his sword still as bullets jounced off it .
The girl with angry eyes gritted her teeth as her drawn blade was repeatedly bombarded with bullets.
The dark skinned horned man wondered why there were two lines moving through gaps in his arm. His ax was heaved over head and he couldn't relax his position without getting shot
Jin simply stood with his arms crossed, he pondered why Saya has restricted the movements of their rivals in such a manner.
Every fighter in Kabukicho was trapped by lines of bullets moving past them.
Moritaka was frozen in his stance with his blade ready. He heeded Ragna's warnings to withdraw. He could see and hear the gunshots being fired by the spinning form of Saya.
She kicked off the ground and pieroeted as shots hit the minions. Heads and hearts were struck with fatal force and accuracy.
Saya saw Ryota Shiro and Sitri reach the nexus. The combatants there were frozen by the bullets that conveniently left holes for her teammates to go through.
A large minion was headed her way through the hail of bullets without fear.
She saw it was over fifteen feet tall giant with a club. It was a giant clothed in dark armor that protected little of it's large muscular body.
It roared as it flew at her mid-air.
Like she wanted it to, she pointed her right gun towards the strike. A magic sigil appeared at the muzzle of Bolverk.
"Valkyrie Veil!"
Every minion in her sight was targeted.
"Hyahh!" Saya shouted as she spun to the ground while shooting.
The warriors, the valkyries, and the giant's head flew back; a glow at their foreheads.
Saya landed in a crouch, she stood, bolverk was held out. One pointed to the ground, the other pointed to the sky. Saya lifted her gun pointed towards the sky then brought it down to the other, like a judge's gavel.
Instantly the bullets paused in the air, then blasted at terminal velocity at the mark on the forehead of the minions.
Everyone who wasn't Jin or Ragna stared wide eyed at the massive explosions that destroyed every minion in the area.
Saya flipped back her hair with her guns, " I guess this really is child's play."
Nomad fell on his back with twitching eyes, that line sucked. With a glance he noticed the lack of any minion. He took out his phone from the back of his underwear and saw the points counter.
Shiro Ryota and Sitri dashed through the very convenient holes in the streaming bullet web.
"Saya is seriously doing this!?" Sitri exclaimed frantically.
They passed through a labyrinth of bullets making it impossible for the other teams to make a move; sure some magic users could blast at them. But Kabukicho's guild was more brawn and sword than mind and magic.
Luckily for team Hakaishin, they had more area of effect. Shiro glanced at the bullet maze, a massive area of effect.
Saya had guns, magic, and limited omniscience; Shiro could see how combining all that together allowed her to do this.
Just who was his beau- lovely... Shiro flushed a bit.
Who was his new friend?
" It seems so, we need to turn right," Shiro answered.
They turned right, through a gap between two tall buildings and entered through a torii gate. Minions on their path were picked off in front of them by stray bullets.
"Man, Saya must be in the zone," Sitri commented.
"Uh-haaahaa-huh," Ryota gasped out, he was really winded from the run.
"Uh, dude," Stri started at the gasping and pained sight of Ryota, " you really should up your cardio."
"Keep…running," Ryota responded with a growl. He was hungry and out of snacks and made to run while missing his meal-time!
Sitri just thought this panting tired looking guy was really lame.
They didn't need to go far until they found the chalice with a dark orb floating above it. Dark water spilled out from the obs, from those waters the infernal minions formed.
But bullets ripped into their heads.
"The Hanazono shrine of all places," Shiro muttered with a shake of his head.
"Now what could you young ones be up to?"
Shiro turned with his book ready towards the rustically dressed raccoon therian with several smaller raccoons glaring towards them.
Ryota groaned at the sight of an enemy team member.
"Sitri, Ryota," Shiro murmured to them," get the nexus, we need to end this quickly."
The elder raccoon sighed and replied, " rambunctious kids, sorry but that thing's Outlaws business I'm going to have to urge you to leave it be."
"Sorry , but we were trusted to take care of this by our team's leader," Shiro announced.
From his book little multi-colored creatures, monstrous and small with their lips bound weakly by thread and noseless appeared around him.
"So I can't back down," Shiro said with narrow eyes.
The old raccoon smiled at the young man's tenuous spirit to fight back.
"Then I guess I can't hold bac-" The raccoon didn't get to finish his retort.
Ryota was tired, didn't get to eat his order at that food cart right outside of Kabukicho before all this zaniness happened. He wasn't in the mood for anymore interruptions.
He didn't even have any emergency snacks left.
He seemingly teleported in front of Shiro and yelled, "Role of the Paladin, rule of Abundance, Spicy Hot Supper!"
From the grail around Ryota's neck super spicy hot curry; from that one restaurant he went to that he didn't want to talk about; flushed away the shocked raccoon therian and his compatriots.
Shiro, Sitri, and the little devils watched on in shock.
The raccoons were floating in a river of curry, their tongues knocked out from the spiciness. They glowed blue then disappeared in blue motes of lights
Ryota turned to his team and said in the most serious tone Shiro ever heard the boy utter," I'm. Hungry."
Sitri took back any thoughts of this guy being lame he ever had.
That was pretty cool.
"21,000, guess it's a star-" Nomad was interrupted by a distant rumble of another explosion that caused him to sit up.
Saya smiled at the sound, everyone's phone rang with a loud chime.
"Kabukicho Nexus! Destroyed! Winners! Team Hakaishin!"
A thousand more points were added to their points. Nomads eyebrows shot up when it was multiplied by nine equalling to 198,000 points.
If it multiplied that a few more times Nomad glanced towards Saya. She got them these points…
Nomad felt like he just hit the jackpot.
"Oi, you punks!"
Nomad felt his brow twitch in annoyance.
Team Hakaishin turned towards the angry residents of Kabukicho being led by the angry blond with sunglasses.
Nomad swore under his breath this many against their group. He got up and jumped back to his feet and dashed towards.
"Yes?" Saya questioned innocently while hiding her guns behind her back.
Ragna just smirked, this was going to be good. they weren't surrounded. The streets at their back had nobody, so they could just run whenever.
Moritaka gulped at the numbers their side was facing, but held fast near their leader.
The sick grin wouldn't leave Shino's face, the battlefield was an appropriate place for a butcher like him.
Jin stood impassive and glanced toward his phone. Why were the other three at a convenience shop? Wait, they could use that as a cover for their next teleport. He discreetly sent Shiro a message about the situation.
"Give us one good reason not to gut your team like a fish?" The blond asked while stalking towards them.
A knife already drawn was one that will stab no matter what, Saya reasoned.
"Gee mister, maybe cause..." Saya started innocently, then her face became a mask of imperial indifference. She spun and in a flash of light, bolverk became an abnormally large machine gun pointed at the crowd.
"...Suppressive fire!" Saya exclaimed.
Kabukicho's streets were violently lit up at the start of the app's first ever event.
That was a blast to write, originally there was going to be a much longer fight with Gyobu, but I figured he was going to lose anyway. Originally Sitri would deliver the last blow, but I have plans for Sitri.
So any comments on what was liked and wasn't, kinda dying for some feedback.