Lord Joyde The Madman: Heylo, Guys and Girls! How are you all doing?
Hey ho, peeps and peppetes (?)!
With my brain finally catching up to modern times, I find myself somewhat in a pinch considering this crossover.
I mean, The Rising Tide has brought down a number of different possibilities, things which I had already planned to make a reality.
But, what would have previously been an original creation, is once again simple fanfiction.
Only one affinity, namely the Harmony/Supremacy one is kinda not what I expected it to be. I expected that one to look like the Harmony/Purity one, like a heavenly being and not... whatever the fuck those things are.
Anyways, here comes chapter six Of The Euphorian Acumenae! I sincerely hope that you enjoy it, let us begin!
Don't mind me guys and girls! I'm just a line break...
Mere seconds later... - The Acumenae Tower - Reader's Point Of View...
"Let's begin by explaining the discovery of that new type of alien near one of our coastal cities. The... please excuse me if I butcher this, The Hydra..coral?" Samathar says somewhat with a somewhat confused voice.
An excited nod from Trevor as he begins his explanation."As you may know, the recently completed colonization effort has allowed us to create several new outposts all over this continent, which amounts to six cities in total, two of which are coastal and four on land."
"Could you explain the difference, please? I get the feeling its not just about one form being on land and another near water." Audrey says with a pleading smile on her face.
Excited by the question, the man continues."Of course. The land based cities are the same as Genesis, cities built solely on land. However, the cities which we call coastal are actually formed by utilizing the new technologies we discovered and adapted after coming to Euphoria. One of these cities, namely New Eon which is under Dana and my jurisdiction, is built by forming large titanium plating and using CNC machinery to inscribe water repellent runes on the lower side of it. This technology may one day be adapted to air as well. Imagine if we could build a city in mid-air."
"So what you are saying is, the runes repel the water constantly and allow you to build cities on top of the plating? But the sheer weight of the structures would make the runes crumble." Allen states almost disbelievingly.
Blinking at the other man, Trevor continues."So long as we have enough energy to fuel them, the runes will hold no matter what we build on top of them."
Then he turns towards Dana."And because of Dana's superb work considering our energy stores, with all the thermal wells and generators around the cities, we won't be running out of power to use anytime soon."
She nods, seemingly satisfied with the praise."The Acumenae is generating slightly more power than all of The Earth did joined after the calamity struck right now... and considering that Leonardo's recent experimental Black Spire's, we won't need to worry about energy anytime soon. In fact, we might not even need the generators anymore should we begin drawing from the void."
"Void energy is indeed plentiful... but also incredibly volatile. I have received a vision from The Hive Mind, an image showing the devastated wasteland that once surrounded Castle Olympus. I would recommend first ensuring that we have means to protect the Nature around us before we start drawing from the Void." Heller states with quite the fervor in his voice. The No arguments allowed kind.
Dana scoffs."And why should we worry about harming aliens? Those whom we keep as pets, or have lairs nearby will have absorbed more than enough essence to evolve beyond the corruption of Void Energy."
The Acumenae then lets out a joint sigh as we all quieten down. Samathar quickly takes control of the situation."I am going to rush this through The Hive Mind, but let us first make a vote just to see where all of us stand. I myself am neutral."
Leonardo raises his hand."I stand with Dana. Normally, I wouldn't want to harm anything on this world since it seems to function mostly as one organism... but as we have adapted to it, it should also adapt to us."
Dana blinks and smirks at the same time, this was unexpected. Leonardo never agrees with her on anything, usually.
"We both stand with Heller." Allen and Rhode state at the same time. Well those three are family now so that's not very surprising.
"I agree with Dana on this as well. While I personally have a wolf beetle as a pet, we can easily enhance those like her and there are already ways to start terraformation, we need not worry about collateral damage." A fair point from Trevor. Now Dana's mouth is agape, two people who never agree with her just did so now.
"I believe you are all looking at this the wrong way..." Audrey speaks out a surprising sentence.
"Go on." Samathar replies, seemingly very interested in whatever she had to say.
A nod from the crimson maned woman."Dana and her group could easily join up to make a factory capable of both drawing from and safely regulating void energy. In fact, don't we already have several security measures installed at the forge, Leonardo?"
A couple blinks from everyone, they had just nearly started an argument without any real reason. Leonardo sheepishly rubs the back of his head."Yeah... I kinda forgot about that. Does everyone here know what Etherite is?"
"Of course. The void ice which forms once water enriched with void energy has all of its heat instantaneously drawn out of it." Trevor states with a wise-like voice.
With a lame grin on his face, Leonardo continues."Well.. it just so happens that I got the idea of covering a spire with the Ice... which completely negates any form of corruption to leave the drawing portal.
A deadpan stare coming from Samathar makes his best friend shiver kind of uncomfortably."Leonardo.. you and I are going to have a seriously long talk about what you think is important to say and what isn't. But for now, I will settle for you giving up a copy of all the experimental data, past, present and future, to every single person here."
Letting out a massive sigh, as if he was expecting this to happen sometime soon, Leonardo brings up a phone."Hello Executive 42... Yes, my prediction came true... yes, please do send it to everyone in the Acumenae... yes, you can make another copy for Audrey.. Tell him not to search for anything porn related please, goodbye."
Everyone tilts their head sideways as they hear that last bit."Who were you talking about in that last part of the sentence?" Dana says somewhat fearfully. It would seem that her instincts have a bad feeling about this.
He deadpans her."Our dearest Herald has quit his job, I'm afraid. He is currently learning how to speak every single language in the world as an AI program."
"Oh. Which means that the security measures I installed a few weeks ago were broken... fascinating. May I know how he did it?" Fear is quickly replaced by sheer curiosity in her voice as she opens up a data pad, fully intent of typing down whatever Leonardo says next.
Scratching his head, Leonardo continues."The Herald didn't break through them but he did find them. Then he took samples of the coding and gave it as a challenge to several players whom he knew to be programmers. It took them a week, but your firewall was broken through. Turns out that our resident AI, and this is his own wording, sucks concrete balls at programming and can't even get how to deal with Basic."
Trevor laughs out."Well, we humans don't exactly comprehend how to properly encode genetics yet, so that makes him no different from us... That said, this is worrying indeed. Should we really let him do as he wants to?"
"Herald is like a child. He is impossibly energetic and curious, but he means no harm. So long as we follow the old earths movies about AI rebellions and don't force him into slavery of any kind, he can only benefit our scientific progress. That said, he has absolutely no damn will to do anything work related if it does not interest him..." Leonardo states with a laugh."He's kinda like me that way."
"All in agreement?" Samathar asks and everyone nods.
Rhode suddenly taps her chin."Wait.. wasn't this conversation supposed to be about some kind of alien Hyrda.. Hydro... that thing at the start."
"An alien Hydracoral. A massive, mountain like organism that has suddenly risen up from a deep chasm near New Eon." Dana says and she presents everyone with a holographic image of the thing in question.
A truly massive creature that has formed a mountain-like shell of organic white plate is shown and there are many different reactions. Rhode continues her questioning."I imagine that thing eats plankton's? ... Or maybe it grows by photosynthesis?"
"Both, actually. The lower tendrils eat stray plankton, of which there are massive amounts and even entire colonies in this worlds seas, and the higher ones are photosynthetic, but only at an Ultraviolet level." Trevor explains proudly.
James then quirks an eyebrow."Fascinating as this creature may be, I do not see why we are talking about it?"
A nod from Dana."This creature is only one kilometer away from New Eon and is blocking a quicker passage to a mine of the newly discovered material Firaxite, which is the reason I helped Trevor form the city there in the first place, so we wish you to help us decide what to do with it."
"Some of our scientist have concluded that the Hydracoral's tentacles possess a very stretched out nervous system which is not used much, leaving them vulnerable to paralytic substances. This would allow us to safely cut the tendrils off and stabilize the growth of these corals, while also providing great amounts of biomass and scientific research material. The process would be painless to the being and would not anger the world." Trevor explains with a smile.
"The shells of these corals are extremely tough, but cannot be taken out without harming the tendrils beneath. If we decide to harvest them immediately, we will gain a massive boost to our production which is very much needed right now as we have six cities in total around the continent that need resources, but it will anger the world for sure." Dana says in one breath with some effort.
James blinks at them both."But wouldn't it be possible to first remove the tendrils and then harvest its shell? It would be pointless to only harvest one either way." A fair point and everyone nods.
Dana looks at Trevor."Very well. I will make the arrangements for several dispersal units and laser-cutting tools to be made."
"And I will ensure that we have as much toxin as necessary for the procedure." He finishes with a smile.
Suddenly, a quad of guardsmen rushes into the room with panicked faces...
"MILORDS AND LADIES, you are needed at the resurrection point! It seems that Lord Zeus has decided to resurrect a Vampire! From Earth!" Their eyes grow wider with each passing word, barely hoping that their next encounter isn't something dangerous.
Don't mind me guys and girls! I'm just a line break...
Sorry about this short excuse of a chapter... I really need a break from typing this story for a bit and should focus on Blood really soon.
There's also that lemon I still need to finish.. ugh, college.
That's basically my excuse for the slow updating recently, college. That and nothing else. Still works.
Anyways, read and review! And Good Morning/Day/Night to you all! ADIOS FOR NOW!