===CH 1===

Alphadimension

'Thoughts'

"Speech"

"Skill"

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250 years after the Prologue

Long cracks spread across the sky of the burning continent known as Gamindustri.

An army marches into the burning enemy territory, lead by a boy, no older than 18 in appearance, wearing a torn black T-Shirt and slightly burnt blue pants.

The city was littered with broken buildings and impact craters from previous fights.

"We are about to reach their Hideout. What's our status so far?" asked the boy in the lead

A soldier stepped forward and continued to walk alongside the boy. "We've lost more than half of our men to demon attacks on our way to their territory alone."

"Damn. What about the Dragons 4 hours ago? and more importantly, How many do we have left?"

"The Dragons were fought off easily in comparison to the demons, however not without taking their share of our men. The dragons took another portion out of our army, leaving us with only one 4rth of our initial force, barely 500 man during the last count and another 100 of them unable to fight due to their injuries."

The boy stopped in his tracks and raised a hand to stop the advancing army.

The boy then held out both his hands to face the ground before him, causing a purple magic circle to appear "Art of transportation: Space Jump." then another brown circle formed beneath his feet. "Earth pillar" the ground within the circle formed a pillar and lifted the boy a few meters into the air.

"The final battle lays ahead of us. A battle that will hopefully end this war. Due to the enchantment of this land we cannot use magic to teleport our forces into their base. A fact that everyone of you should be aware of by now. I casted a teleportation circle next to this pillar, leading to the Planeptune tower. The Teleport is a one way ticket back. As much as it pains me to do, I have to ask everyone that is unable to fight to leave. We need everyone at their best and cannot risk being held back. I hope you understand my reason for this." the boy looked at the army in front of him. "any Questions?"

A singe hand raised within the mass of people.

"The one in the 9th row, please speak up"

another pillar of rock raised from the ground beneath the person in question, lifting her just above the heads of the others.

the female soldier in question wore a black and grey uniform with the Planeptune symbol on the right sleeve.

"My apologies, CPU Alex, but I believe that no one will leave now that we've all made it this far. Wouldn't it have been better to cast healing magic on our wounded?"

"A fair point." Alex stated and sat down on his pillar. "I understand your reasoning 'why send our man away instead of healing them to increase our numbers?'. casting healing magic to heal a couple men of minor injuries like shallow cuts and weak poisons is rather easy and not very consuming in terms of energy. That however changes drastically if we're talking about more than a hundred people injured to the point of becoming unable to fight. I'm talking about broken bones and missing limbs."

Alex then stood back up

"The amount of energy required from me to heal everyone of you would make easy prey out of me for the enemies leaders. The battle is already uneven for me. I'm facing 3 of the four dark CPU's at once and still have to fight against their master right after that."

The woman then silently lowered her pillar, blending back into the mass of soldiers.

Alex also started to lower his pillar slowly. "We will rest here for 1 hour, the teleportation circle will be on ready for the next 30 minutes"

Most of the injured soldiers left while the rest used the break to recover their strength.

40 minutes passed quietly, no attacks, no explosions, no monster sightings.

"It's too quiet." Alex stated to himself, scanning the area around the camp once again. "We're at the heart of the enemy territory, and there's not a single enemy in sight"

A loud explosion suddenly erupted in the far off end of the camp

"Speak of the devil..." Alex said to himself, drawing his sword and launching himself across the camp with an acceleration circle

"It's an ambush!" screamed a soldier beneath Alex.

"The explosion was a decoy!" yelled another soldier, followed by multiple dragon roars behind Alex.

"What!?" Alex shouted and used a black magic circle to nullify his momentum and turned around.

10 large black dragons tore through the weakened army, slaughtering them all in seconds.

Thousands of demons suddenly came into view in the distance in all different sizes reaching from human sized to some as tall as a 10 story building.

"No!" Yelled Alex in shock of the numbers the enemy used for their attack.

"Oh Yes, and it still gets better." came the voice of a woman from behind Alex.

Alex quickly spun around, sword already prepared to cut the newcomer in half.

The newcomer easily dodged the sword and kicked Alex a few meters away.

The new comers consisted of a woman with long dark purple hair and a black and purple CPU suit, another with green hair wearing a black and green CPU suit, another with white hair wearing a pure black CPU suit

"Dark Purple, Dark green and dark black..." growled Alex, gathering white energy around himself. "acc-!"

A black spear with a grey crystal attached to its tip suddenly pierced his chest and tore a large hole in it.

"Don't even think about accessing HDD" came another voice from behind followed by laughter.

The white energy swirling around Alex got absorbed into the grey crystal. completely neutralized.

Alex caught up blood and dropped his weapon, causing it to vanish back into his inventory. "Arfoire..."

The three dark CPU's moved in to strike Alex but got pushed back by a shockwave of red energy, causing their transformations to weaken slightly.

The spear impaling Alex suddenly snapped, dropping him to the ground.

A thin red mist spread across their battlefield.

"Don't even think I'm going down without a fight!" a pillar of Red light obscured Alex from view. "Access, Shadow Drive!"

This caused confident smirks to appear on his opponents.

The light died down and revealed Alex clad in black and red CPU armor, his hair changed from blonde to black and red at the tips. Six small razor sharp wings appeared behind him in the form of triangles, 3 on each side with the upper and lower ones being larger than the centre ones. His boots and gloves took the shape of mechanical claws. a black katana with a jagged red cutting edge and wide blade acted as his sword. His eyes changed from blue to red with upside down powers symbols in them.

Dark Black and Dark Purple summoned their swords and charged at Alex. Dark Green summoned her spear and started to stab at him.

Alex managed to dodge most of the spear attacks aimed at him and deflected each sword hit, sustaining only some minor cuts and shallow stab wounds.

Ant-Share energy suddenly gathered around Alex's sword causing the three dark CPU's to back away from him.

"Red inferno!"

A large wave of negative energy erupted from Alex's sword while he charged at dark purple

Dark purple raised her sword to block the negative energy while dark green and dark black jumped away.

The two clashed swords, sending sparks and metal fragments flying around them.

"I've come here to end this war..." started Alex as the energy around his sword intensified and dark purple's sword began to crack under the strain.

"No!" shouted dark purple upon seeing her weapon breaking in shock.

Arfoire then threw a small purple gem between the two clashing CPU's while a spear came flying from the other direction.

Dark Purple's weapon snapped just a moment before the purple gem got hit and shattered by the spear, releasing a flash of bright purple light.

the light died down and revealed Alex only moments before cutting dark purple in half, frozen in time.

Arfoire quickly turned towards dark black. "You have 30 seconds before he breaks the spell!"

dark black instantly started to cut the frozen Alex with her sword at light speed, leaving countless shallow cuts all over his body.

Time resumed for Alex and blood exploded everywhere from his body, causing his attack to backfire at himself and sending him crashing into the street below before reverting back into his human form. Dark purple got blasted into the opposite direction, crashing into a nearby building.

"You're... playing... dirty..." said Alex between his breaths while he slowly trying to get up again

Dark green landed in front of him, pressing her spear against Alex's throat and her foot against his chest, pinning him to the ground with enough force to create a small crater. "Surrender now and become a dark CPU."

Alex expression turned even more angry as he narrowed his eyes at dark green before speaking with a silent voice due to the lack of air."...Shadow dragon Roar!"

A black stream of fire shot out of Alex's mouth, sending Dark green flying through a nearby building.

Alex slowly got up again and a orange magic circle appeared in front of his hands and another 10 stacked above each other in the sky above the battlefield.

"Art of destruction: -"

A black and green spear suddenly pierced through his chest and obliterated the building behind Alex, the spear returned just as fast as it came, impaling him once again and remaining stuck inside his chest.

Dark green emerged from the building she crashed into earlier, still smoking and with black burns all over her body

Blood exploded out of the holes in Alex's chest followed by him falling face first to the ground.

"That went better than expected" stated dark black

"you only cut him up while he was frozen in time." stated dark green and tore her spear free.

"You're playing the bait next time" said dark purple with her entire front side severely burnt and barely staying in her transformed state.

Pitch black energy erupted from Alex's motionless body, slowly healing the holes in his chest while a deep warped growling could be heard from him.

"There won't be a next time." Stated Arfoire as she walked up to the dark CPU with another grey crystal in her hands.

"He's not using Share energy or Ant-Share energy right now, a Void Crystal won't affect him now." stated dark black

"Maybe not if it is used the regular way. If a Void Crystal is broken, it creates a small black hole for a fraction of a second. I've never heard of anyone ever returning after being consumed by a black hole." Arfoire threw the Void Crystal next to Alex, shortly after he healed his chest wound, canceling out the dark energy around Alex and sucking him into the black hole.