DISCLAIMER: I don't own DBZ or Nier
This is for those who miss it last chapter.
SS: x50 Base
SS2: x2 SS = x100 Base
SS3: x4 SS2 = x400 Base
SS4: x10 SS3 = x4000 Base (Not available yet)
SSG: ~ x10.000 Base (The wiki is not specific)
SSGSS: x50 SSG (10% SSGSS Veggita =SSG Goku and Goku was about 5 times Vegita at that time.)
And about the Base power, a lv.99 can solo Parallel Quest 122 (with your pant burning, and your eyes full of rage of course) so you can guess. if you don't know just go youtube and search for PQ. 122.
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Chapter 03: Arrival & negotiation
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### Orariens Kingdom, Summoning Tower ###
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In the morning 2 day after the Archmage did the test run of the summoning formation, we could see the mages and apprentices moving busily around the tower to prepare the completed formation on the rooftop.
The tower has a simple design, square and tall, with a height of 100m and a width of 40m, made of gray hard rock, has a big 4m gate. The rooftop is a platform with high safety fences at the edges. This tower was built specific for summoning the hero and will be used to make a magical research center later.
This morning the hero will be summoned, the participants are King Albert Orarion the 13th, the princess (of course she will be there, she is the bait after all), the prime minister, the NEW Pope, two priests, Archmage Walter, ten mages and a bunch of solders. There are no nobles here is because the king told them not to come, the nobles making the hero angry is the last thing he wants.
When all the preparations are done, the Archmage check the formation for the last time, and wait for the king and his entourage to come.
When the sun rises about a quarter of the day, the king and his entourage arrive.
He sits on his freshly made wooden throne on a higher platform at the edge of the rooftop, the formation is at the middle of the rooftop.
To the king left is his daughter, princess Alicia Orarion, a young girl in her 18 with beautiful waist long blonde hair, she has her mother small beautiful face, her father fierce blue eyes and hair color. She know today she has the job to entice the hero for the country and she has come to terms with it, but it doesn't mean she has to like it.
To the king right is the prime minister, standing straight and stern with his face like always. He is around 40 years old, best friend with the king at the academy. Now he has more gray hair than the king. He is the model of seriousness and no nonsense man. In the recent years, his health has going down together with the king.
The church now only come in name, the Pope is from his side after all. You can say that the church is now cripple, he made the priestess to be the Pope just for the heck of it after all.
But poor girl though, getting glares from the priest all day. She's getting more and more timid by the day.
When the Archmage see the everyone is ready he say.
"Your Highness, the preparations are completed, please give the order."
"Good, Archmage Walter! Proceed with the summoning."-The king.
The Archmage bows and signals his assistants to install the mana crystals in the hole around the circle formation. After the last piece is put down he activates the formation.
The circle lights up, rainbow color light particles begin falling down the circle. Everyone see a dark black vortex forming high above the circle formation. The people unknowingly holding their breath the whole time, the Archmage feel resistant at the other side decides to push everything he got in the circle and pull.
Finally, something drops out of the vortex making a hard landing sound, trembling the floor.
The soldiers become tense and grab their weapons hard. Everyone is staring at the center of the crater, the former magic formation.
Standing there with a caution eyes is a girl in strange clothes and light purple hair, and tail? She is holding another girl, the other girl ONLY HAS A TORSO WITH A HEAD, NO LIMBS, and seem to be made of metal.
A demi-human and a golem? The Archmage thought to himself, everyone else is speechless and don't know how to react.
The purple hair girl is the first to say something but no one understand her at all.
Crap! I forgot to add translating magic to the formation! the Archmage slaps his head in revelation. He comes forward, getting the attention of both girl. The golem looks pretty real!
"We can't understand what you say, please let me cast translating magic."
He motions to his mouth, shake his head and then waving his staff, point at them, nod his head.
The girl both look suspicious at him but eventually nod their head.
What a strange golem, let cast translating magic on her too just in case. And he waves his staff at the girls, shining some light on them.
### Hikari ###
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We were flying in silent in space after running out of thing to talk about. A2 has asked about me and my home, I used Hikari's memory to answer of course, things like being a time patroller that work for the gods, and the humans in dragon ball. She paid a lot of attention at the humans part but let's move on!
Then suddenly a vortex formed below us and A2 in, yeah it only pulled her in. I held her back of course. We discussed what to do and decided to go in, we might meet other people, if thing go sour I could always get us out.
And so we jumped in.
Now we are (I am) standing in a crater and in the open air, I sense life! Around me are a lot of people, they seem to be human. The one sitting on the higher ground (heh! Anikin) must be the leader, he look like a king, is he a king? He looks haggard, short blonde hair a bit gray, blue shape eyes, well-trim beard.
"Who are you people? Why are you trying to take my friend?" A2 is still held firmly on my hands of course. The people around us are still staring but didn't answer, they look... lost?
Then a wizard-like old man steps up and say some gibberish. Ah, the language! He is wearing a long dark blue rope with black and silver line decoration at the edges. He has long white beard and a bald head. In his hand is a long smooth wooden staff with a fist-size crystal at the head.
He motions to his mouth, shake his head and then waving his staff, point at us, nod his head.
What? Is he really a wizard? Babidi style?
We look at him suspiciously and determine hidden intention but find nothing. Both of us reluctantly nod our head.
He waves his staff at us, there is light shining from the crystal.
I feel a wave of energy enter my body around the head but nothing bad happens.
"Hello milady, can you understand me now?" The old wizard says.
I quickly told A2."Let me handle the talking here ok." I turn to the old wizard.
"Yes, we hear you."
The old wizard turn around and bow to the king(?). Wait! This look like the moment he will announce something like "the demon king is here, help us!", I mustn't let him take the pace here!
"Who are you people? Why are you trying to take my friend from me?" I quickly say before the king can stand up.
The king shakes a bit and began to speak.
"W-Welcome heroes, we await your arrival. I am the king of Orariens , Albert Orarion the 13th, on my left is my daughter princess Alicia and on my right is the Prime Minister Henry Frideric."
Agh! Did he just decide to continue with his speech. Damn, he's a tough one.
"We are in a time of great peril. The demon army appeared 2 year ago has slaughtered and destroyed many kingdoms around the portal. Our magic can't seem to get through their skin and they are many times stronger than us human and demi-human. We are cornered! We are only await extinction if this goes on. O heroes, please save us." And he finishes with a dramatic hands gesture.
I will help them but I don't know the situation at all and I don't want to be taken advantages of in some conspiracy.
"Your speech is touching but look here, I am not the one you summoned. You summoned my friend here, she just finished her task in saving the world. What would you do with her alone if I didn't jump in with her? Her body is broken after the fight, you will not be able to fix her."
A2 looks up at me with a raised eyebrow, I quickly put one of my hand on her head to pat her and HIDE the raised eysbrow. That was closed!
"I know what i'm doing, just leave it to me." I whisper to her.
"T-Then, can't you help us, you are with her right?" The king begins to sweat, everyone else is pale too. Why?
"No, I'm not a combat type" A2 stirs a little "I'm a mechanic, I fix machines and android like her. And why are you all paling and then relax again, like right now?"
I narrow my eyes at them, the girl on his left is looking at us intensely.
This time the old wizard speaks up.
"We just realize that even with the restoration magic in the magic circle, your friend didn't recover at all, and it is the highest level restoration magic we use too. So we are done for if our hero can't fight at all, And the goddess only supports one individual hero so we can't re-summon another person."
"Yes, just like the Archmage said, but you said you can fix her up right? Please help us." I feel like the king is desperate enough, but the guy on his right looks like he want to catch me really bad and toss me in cage.
"Hmp, I can fix her up with the right materials and tools, the tools I can make them myself... but..." I make a serious face.
"But?" The king asks nervously, he hide it well but I can tell.
"I want to be the Pope in your religion." A2 stirs again when I said that.
They look at me with strange eyes so I add.
"No Pope, no helping, you can take care of yourself." I talk with a straight face, trying to look serious.
Even if they refuse I will still help them of course, I will leave here and deal with their demon problem in secret then find a place to build my lab and live there with A2. A pretty good plan if you ask me.
"I will discuss this with the church but can I ask why you want to become a Pope?" The king somehow is not tense at all, He asks me very calmly.
Everyone else too, except the church (one of them look almost happy), is also calm, the mood in here becomes lighter too.
"I don't like problems spawning at my back, and the most troublesome of them is of course always related to religion, when you bring in belief, logic become meaningless in the face of the zealot. And have a bit of authority is good too."
I'm not really care much but if I go for it then I will aim for the highest. Is my saiyan blood affect me.
"What do you think your Holiness. This is related to you so I will let you decide." The king speaks to the girl in the church group. What? Their Pope is a girl?
"I thank you for your consideration your Highness. And about this matter, I will gladly handover the position, I will stay as a support to her in matter of management in the church."
She said almost smiling. Who would be so happy to lose their position? What had happened in their church?
"Good. We will arrange the change of position in a few day. Now, it has taken a while but can you please introduce yourselves to us?"
Wow, that was quick. I can't believe they accept that. And the king looks like he is getting back his authority aura.
I nudge A2 "Let's introduce ourselves.".
"My name is Hikari Mabayui, I'm a mechanic and personal supporter of my friend A2 here."
"I am YoRHa's combat unit Type A No.2. You can call me A2."
Everyone is surprised at seeing A2 speak for the first time since we was summoned.
"I, king Albert Orarion the 13th welcome you to my kingdom, Orariens." The king speaks with authority again "I will have my maids lead you to a place to stay in a moment. Do you have anything you want in your new place?"
While the king is speaking, I am sensing the surrounding area. We are in a forest at quite a distance to the castle, about 10km. And this tower is so tall, well, it not the tallest I have seen. The space in this tower is empty mostly. Only a few crates, tables and chair.
"Uhm, your majesty? Your Highness? Can I and my friend stay at this tower? It will be convenient to build the tools here, the place is wide and empty anyway." I said after take a feel at all the place in the tower.
"H-How do you know about this tower?" He is stutter again.
"Oh, I don't like fighting and I am a mechanic so my sensor and production skill is better than most you know, I am a support of her, the hero after all." I technically didn't lie there.
"Is that so. You are a great support I see. This summoning tower is built to summon the hero, the Archmage said that this place is the closest place to the capital that has a dense mana spot. I plan to later use this place to do magical research but if you want it then I will have a few soldiers here to guard the place. Can't leave the hero injured out here without defend right?" The king look at me probing. "What about your job as a Pope? From here to the capital is quite far."
"Ah, don't worry about that, I'm pretty fast, I was train not to die after all." I float up about 20m and fly fast 2 rounds around the tower then drop down the same spot again.
Everyone's eyes budged out looking at me. Even though they have magic but they are shocked about flying? Oh, come on!
After that A2 and I talk a bit about ourselves then everyone go back to the castle in the capital.
The mages and the soldiers stay back with us.
We just get our room and rest for the day.
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In the room of our mains, Summoning Tower
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A2 feel quite restless because there are a lot of humans around, she was created with the purpose to fight machines and serve human so no wonder.
"Calm down A2, I will lift that shackle soon."
"... this is the first time I have seen a human... they don't look different from us androids at all..." She speak with a sad look "You know, in my world the human had already extincted for decades and the android didn't know at all, they keep doing what they are created for, sometime I wonder the different between an android and a machine life-form, their creator also die off too, haha..."
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"Hey, stop brooding! I promised you a new start already so rest easy ok? How about I tell you about the android in my universe?"
We talk about thing to distract her away from her past. Fictional character or not, she is real for me now, I will make sure she is happy.
I tell her about the story of 18 and how her life with Krillin now. And Cell too, can't talk about 18 without Cell! All the excitement lie in the fight after all.
We sleep together of course, I feel affection for her but I don't feel lustful toward her at all, is this due to my female body? I will not like male though.
She is still uncomfortable being held but she will get used to it.
We soon drift off to sleep.
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### Princess Alicia POV ###
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I had already resigned my fate when father decided to summon the hero. I was sure to be married of to the hero to anchor him down to this kingdom, I just can hope that he will be a good man with a good heart.
But today, the day I harden my resolve, I instead got my mind confused, lost.
We summon not one but two people! And they are both girl.
At first I thought the imposing and strong looking girl was the hero. She was beautiful and radiating power.(I think it is just the circle cleasing radiation from our mains)
But to everyone surprise, she was not the hero but the golem looking girl in her hand was.
After a series of events, father decided that the purple hair girl, now name Hikari, will be the Pope in a few days.
How could something like that happen? The Prime Minister also didn't say anything. Was the rumor that he was secretly wishing the church to ruin themselves be true?
And the golem girl talked! She introduced herself as A2, she looked so broken, so war-worn.
A2 was surprise enough but then the Hikari girl wanted the tower and she can fly!
Even the Archmage was only able to float in the sky and moving slowly but she can fly freely and fly very fast too.
They are really the heroes after all.
At the moment, I am in the carriage back to the castle, together with me are father and the Archmage.
They are discussing about the two heroes.
"Walter, what is your opinion about them?" Father asks.
"They are strange, your Highness. Hikari looks like a monkey demi-human but her essence is completely different. I sensed power, potent even, but I couldn't grasp the extent of it at all. And add the ability to fly that masterful I must say she is indeed a hero material." The Archmage answer after thinking for a while.
"Then what about the golem girl A2" Father asks again.
"I can't say for sure. She is quite broken after the battle as Hikari said so we can only wait for her to be fixed. But I am sure of one thing, A2 is not a golem at all. Maybe she is belong to a race that only exist in her world because by my observation, she is a completely sentient being, and the summoning formation of the goddess chose her." I must agree with him, she looked at me when I inspected her after all.
"But what if Hikari lie about her not being the summoning target?"
"I'm sure, your Highness. I remembered the signature of the being I summoned 2 days ago, and it is the same as A2."
"... *Sigh*... if that is so then we are lucky that Hikari is together with A2 at that time huh. I don't like to rely on luck." Father looks exhausted.
I think now is a good time to ask father.
"Father, what should be my course of action now?"
He looks at me guiltily.
"Alicia my daughter, please forgive your father for using you."
"Please stop father. I fully understand the situation and do this on my own free will."
"Alicia..."
"And father, the two heroes are female so I don't have to do that anymore."
"You are right, Hikari will be the Pope so this problem is already solved itself... Hey Walter, isn't our problems surprisingly few?" Father asks the Archmage in surprised.
"Yes, your Highness. We only need to transport the materials in the list to the tower and prepare the change of the Pope in the church. Hikari will take care of the tower and A2. We already have personals there to help her." The Archmage answers calmly.
They are already back to discuss things in the castle.
So now I am free to do what I want again. I have been skeptical about the hero for a long time, but those two make me curious, I want to know more about them. We are all girl so it will be easier to approach for me.
"I have decided. Tomorrow, I will go to the tower to see the heroes again."
They both stop discussing and look at me. I look back at them.
"I want to learn more about them."
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END OF CHAPTER 3
Next chapter will have some actions.
Thank for reading.