Miitopian Civil War

Chapter 24: End of The Neksdor Empire

Date: July 10th, 2023

The 3 of us nod at Dominic's request and prepare ourselves for things to get nasty. Dominic gives a rare smile before beginning to meditate right there as we got around him to protect him. I pull out my shield and start blocking as many attacks as I can with it. Herbsalvin does the same with their shield. Barla uses cover fire as well as her tank stuff against our foes. We are able to give Dominic the time he needs to do what he must do. After a minute of enduring so many attacks at a rate of a well coordinated onslaught, Dominic opens his eyes but they're different. They have code inside their irises. Dominic shouts: "Neural Hack!" And then, code leaves his body and enters all of our foes and when it does, they all stop attacking. Instead, they all just shut down completely, putting an end to them. We immediately carded all of our enemies before they could potentially wake up. Dominic was completely wiped by what he did. He sighs: "What a nap causation. I overdid it a little bit. Oh well. I succeeded at what I needed to do so I have no regrets." He collapses. I'm the first to reach him and say to Barla and Herbsalvin: "Go on ahead. I'll bring Dominic to safety so he can rest in a safe environment. He pushed himself but saved us a lot of trouble in the process. We can't afford to stay by him as he remains unconscious in this conflict. We have to keep fight. I will catch up with both of you very soon. Please hurry. I'll be right behind you so soon as I can." They nod and I do in fact join them after dropping Dominic off at the emergency makeshift hospital that has already been set up in Neksdor castle. Due to this, I easily catch up with my lover and my explosives loving close friend of mine. I just use Quantum Leap to teleport straight to their location.

As a result, I'm able to be with them when something unexpected happens. Many of our comrades ended up being drawn to the same place. And for some reason, our other nearby enemies were fighting each other. That's when Pmurt Nedib comes in the middle of the battle to take command of our enemies in Neksdor through one of his portals. He looks furious: "You freaks! You have ruined my plans once again! I can't stand you and I can't wait for Divine Punishment to get all of you! I have authorized the troops of the Neo Neksdor Empire to punish you for me despite how useless they've been so far! I finally give them an upgrade and yet, most of them didn't even bother to go through with the upgrade! Such a sin would be punished immediately but as long as all of you resist my holiness, I need them around to serve me! Wokeism will die with all of you someday! I'm going to get you all and destroy everything you care about! You're destroying society so it's only fair I destroy you! Almost every single person I sent here from my world has been killed in this war! And it's all your fault! If you had just surrendered when you could have so long ago, none of this would have happened! And now that I'm here, I'm taking direct command of my loyal troops who have refused to stand with that traitor against me! You're all going to finally be eliminated! Forget someday! You're all dying today! You will all be eradicated for your sins! After all, I love everyone! And because I do, I have no tolerance for those who refuse to follow my divine will!" My comrades and I then receive a emergency message. Trouble is brewing in the Pyramid. I don't think I've been there since the beginning of the calamity in time crisis. That was nearly 3 years ago. Hard to believe.

As Pmurt continues to rant, I say outloud: "I'm going to the Pyramid to see what's going on. The ancient secrets of that structure should not be tampered with. They be left to be studied but I fear a battle there now will lead to the destruction of the lost history contained within it. Furthermore, the recent history of the Pyramid implies that something really bad and monstrous is happening there. As a knight, I can't allow whatever is going on to deal any damage if I can help it." Without another word, I teleport to the Pyramid's entrance. I walk inside to see that close range fighters, particularly those used to stealth mostly make up our forces who have decided to fight within the ancient tomb. I was about to join them but Kidd of the Midgardian Assassin's Guild spots me and says while attacking ice androids with his poisoned daggers: "You. We got things covered here. Go on ahead." I nod: "Alright then, Kidd. I will go on ahead. I trust your judgement from witnessing your interactions with my Lord Knight counterpart." I run ahead, past a whole bunch of fights until I see no fighting up ahead. I feel 2 power levels that are dangerous. "What the hell is going on here? Those aren't ordinary pawns of Pmurt's. They're far worse. I hope the others have found them already." I keep walking further into the tomb. It's creepy. There aren't even any of those living hieroglyphic stone monsters around anywhere. And I keep walking again with only silence to be heard. And then, I encounter more fights within the Pyramid. And then, I sense the power levels get stronger. "Damn it! There's so many non monster enemies and yet those power levels just keep getting stronger. The further I go in, the closer they feel." Gelina encounters me while fighting: "Swiftdrawer, the true dangers of this Pyramid are reviving! Go on ahead! Please at least hold one of them off until we catch up."

"Aye, you don't have to tell me twice. I'll go immediately. Are they around the center of this Pyramid." "Yes. Now hurry! If they aren't held back, we will be in a lot of trouble." "I'm going then!" Even in the dim light, I could see my cape swish as I ran ahead as did my tabard(that's the cloth thing hanging from my waist, I finally know what it is). Honestly, I might get a little adjustment to my helmet to add a little extra knightliness to my look. But that's not that important. I have a bad feeling. One of the enemies just has to be the Pharaoh boss who is able to curse opponents into saying: "I am Pharaoh." for several turns in classic Miitopia style battles. That's really bad and troublesome. You'd have to put someone who got cursed in the Safe Spot in order to free them of it early. Too bad we can't really use the Safe Spot in this war. There's times we can but they're rare and fleeting. And we can't make enough Miitopian sprinkles to use them for anything other than critical emergencies. I ran and I ran at top speed. I could run much faster if it weren't for my armor. But even so, wearing it has saved me many times. Despite its immense weight, I'm able to handle it. At some point, the brown leather on the inside was altered to include cooling vest style technology, keeping me cool without the need of wearing a cooling vest anymore. So the vest got fazed out just like the chainmail I used to wear. It is the leather that makes it possible for me to handle sleeping in and wearing my armor all the time. Our access to sci fi level technology made that possible as did access to so many forms of magic. That being said, I still have to take moments even in battle to drink water every so often. I drink water fast in battle so I don't really mention drinking it at all. After some time, I made it to the center chamber of the Pyramid where the Pharaoh boss in fact is present at the moment.

The return of Pharaoh Trudge but without that genie's face. Instead, he has the upgrades the Darker Lord gave to him so long ago. I stared at him as I drew my main sword: "Pharaoh Trudge, you may be back but I'm going to send you straight back to sender. I am a knight and as a knight, I can't allow you to bring harm to anyone else if I can help it." He laughs at me: "You, a single knight think you can defeat-" "Great Infernal Tornado Slash!" He screams as his body is destroyed. Instead of cheering or whatever, I just stand there, waiting for the dust to clear up. I won't be fooled. I've seen too many moments like this. Just as I thought, he's unharmed: "Hahahaha! You think you can defeat me, foolish knight?! I've never had to deal with pesky knights like you before but that doesn't matter! After all, I'm far stronger than ever. Curse!" He uses that curse I mentioned on me. It hits me and I do my best to resist it. I have to resist it and stop this boss on my own. The others are locked into their own fights. I saw even creepers struggle to deal damage. Not even the poison potions of witches or the biting of many silverfish is not nearly enough to kill any of our icy foes in here either. I saw that as I ran through fight after fight. I yell: "Y-you will not control me! I know how your curse works! It's magic transforms your target's appearance and takes over their mind! I won't allow you to use me as a punching dummy who is zoned out and mumbling about being pharaoh! I am no ruler. I will stay true to myself even if I lose my way at times just like many times before in the past. You hear me?! I simply refuse to be controlled by anyone! Haaaaaaa!" I struggle against the hold of the curse even more as my foe begins attacking me with great force. I cough a little blood but don't stop resisting. I feel the influence of the curse fade and start blocking every body bash coming my way. The boss is a living pharaonic mask. But in between that body bashing, I was on the offense. "Foolish knight! How dare you oppose me all alone!" "I face you alone because I'm strong enough to handle you by myself! I will protect my comrades from you!"

I perform thrust after thrust with a focus on precision and acceleration to maximize the amount of force. I also move around the room we're fighting in so that I can dodge some of the boss's attacks. But even these basic level thrusts I'm doing aren't doing any damage. He laughs: "You really think such little attacks are going to hurt me?! Curse!" As I struggle against the curse again, I get attacked over and over again, making it hard to stay in control of myself. "I won't let you! I won't be controlled! I told you!" I have to stop talking just so I can focus on fighting off the curse again. However, I fail and fall under its control for a little bit. In that time, my foe summons little monsters to deal a little more damage to me. I also just mumble while in a trance. When the curse stops affecting me, I feel tired and a little hurt. I look down at my armor and see a big dent has been made in it. Gritting my teeth, I get back into the basic swordsman stance and easily cut through the monsters the boss summoned before charging in. This however gave him the chance to bash me before trying the curse on me again. I ran out of the way of the spell. "You will not win! You can break my armor, my sword, and my body. But you can't truly break my spirit! As long as I live, I will make sure I'm your only opponent. My comrades must never be forced to face you along with all our other enemies that are proving to be incredibly hard to beat." Pharaoh Trudge laughs at me again: "Then you will perish and become history just like I once was! Prepare for your doom! On behalf of my lord, Pmurt Nedib who chose to bring me back with much greater power, I will kill you!" "So now you're working with him. I will crush your ambitions or die trying for that is what anyone who is trying to be some kind of savior for other people must do." "Then you've embraced your death at my hands?! Hahaha!" "Not quite! We'll see who's alive when this is over!" Our fight intensifies. And in the midst of it, he tries to curse me several times. It works 2 times and when all those attempts are made, I start getting concerned.

My armor is taking a serious beating and I've done almost no damage so far. "Damn it. It looks like I'll really have to take you seriously. Drawing Devastation!" All I hear is the sound of my sword lightly hitting my foe, a small dent is made but that's it. "Foolish knight! Your attacks are so pathet-" "Continuous Great Infernal Tornado Slash: 30! Haaaaaaa!" "What?!" The room shakes violently as my attack hits my foe head on, creating a dent the size of my head in the boss with a nice depth to it. I eat an hp banana. "You! Cur-" "Continuous Great Infernal Tornado Slash: 30!" I wipe blood off my face as my attack hits hard again. The boss is staggered, allowing me to notice just how damage I've allowed my armor to become by not giving my all. I eat another hp banana before doing the same thing, stunning Pharaoh Trudge. "I cast Repair! Now your damage to my armor has been completely undone! Sorry but I will put myself on the brink of death as many times as I need to to stop you!" I'm relentless as I keep doing the same combination of actions over and over again, not giving my foe anytime to counterattack. But after about 10 more times, I run out of hp bananas. I've done a huge amount of damage but it's not nearly enough to stop the bastard. It's a good thing I drank a sleep replacement potion before the assassination mission. I'm prepared to fight and dodge all night if I have to. "Why you! Persistent knight! Now that you can't rely on those hp bananas anymore, you're dead!" "I'm Artistic Knight Swiftdrawer and no matter how much pain I experience, I know it will eventually end someday! Go ahead! Hurt me but don't be surprised when you see me strike back even if my arms are about ready to break apart! You see, now that I'm doing something this important, I'm not willing to stop until I can't do it anymore or I'm satisfied with my actions! I'm always thirsty to push my limits! Haaaaaa!"

"This time, I'll kill you for sure! Mega Curse! You can't resist this!" "That may be true but no matter how long it lasts, I doubt you will be able to kill me in the time you buy for yourself with it! It's harder to get into doing something than it is to do it and may sometimes be even harder than keeping it up! But as long as I never feel truly satisfied about something, I can keep doing it! I may be a lazybones in my other life but I'm not useless! I may be trash but I'm the trash you aren't supposed to throw away or call trash! Go ahead! Curse me!" The curse does affect me, covering my appearance with more pharaonic clothing than ever before. In fact, the curse causes me to stand in a position that leaves me wide open for attack as I just mumble in a trance. Pharaoh Trudge uses that opportunity to deliver even attacks he hasn't shown before like dark energy blasts. This deals heavy damage to my armor and while my nervous system may be dulled by my trance, that wasn't enough for the agony to be nullified completely. Instead, my right eye turned red as black surrounded it. The curse loosens up, allowing me to regain full consciousness. However, there was now a battle of 3 wills within me including my own. The curse and my inner darkness in a battle royale with me. That's really bad. The forces trying to control my body were starting to destroy it in their struggle with each other and me. I pushed back but it was still so hard to attempt to regain control over myself. To make matters worse, Pharaoh Trudge was still attacking me and damaging me and my armor. In the middle of all of this, the curse afflicting me forced me to drop my red and black longsword.

Even if I could at least regain enough control to use my sword arm, it would still be a struggle to strike back with my sword because it's on the floor now. And then, my pain became so great that my inner darkness destroyed the curse afflicting me, leaving me with just it to fight internally. But doing so is easier said than done. I have been through many struggles and have insecurities that I rarely address. That's plenty of fuel for my inner darkness. I'm able to keep myself from getting mad most days but still. A lot of things weigh down on me. But then, Pharaoh Trudge starts attacking me a lot harder than before and I lose control to my inner darkness. I don't know what happened next because before I knew it, I woke up in a puddle of my blood with pieces of my armor scattered around me. I tremble as I get up: "Damn it.. I'm so close to death now.." My foe laughs: "That's right! You went on a rampage, making it easy for me to hurt you and break your armor!" I saw my sword on the ground with the blade broken off. "No.. NOOOO! I won't stop! I may be in despair now but I won't give in! You hear me! My mind screams, my soul cries, my heart hurts! My sword and armor may be broken but I can still fight.. I cast Cure!" I manage to heal myself well enough to stop my bleeding. I feel weak and miserable but I still have a lot in me even though I'm in such bad shape. But then, I'm hit with a big energy blast that slams me into a wall of the room/chamber we're in. I feel my spine fracture. The pain is unbearable. I try to get back up but I fail. And then, my inner darkness threatens to take control of me again. I say weakly: "I have no choice, I have to summon it.. That sword.. Before I lose control again.." "Mega Curse!" "That won't work anymore! My pain!"

I summon the sword. It wasn't just any sword. It requires me to use all that I got with Artist's Eye. With my left eye shut now and me slipping out of control over my own body, I see it right before me. The giant Blood Demon Sword. I stay conscious as my inner darkness takes me over again. I watch everything that happens next. "Hahahahaha! I'm free again! Do you have any idea how much pain I have within me?! The sheer foolishness of my family is one! Anger, sadness, fear! I have it all! It's just been bottling up! So many insecurities too! My weaker half can't show true darkness like I can! Observe!" I get back up despite all my pain and get stronger from the agony. I pick up the Blood Demon Sword: "This won't last long but this will still do nicely!" "What is that?! What kind of knight are you?!" "Just call me your worst nightmare! This sword takes both hands to hold and with it, I'll destroy you! This sword has so much power that I won't need my own to do it! Piercing Darkness! Again! Piercing Darkness! Once more! Piercing Darkness! One more time! Piercing Darkness!" Piercing Darkness features dark energy that appears as a very dark combination of colors which pierce through Pharaoh Trudge. I had no clue what happened in the aftermath. It was a blank until I woke up to see Sakura healing me and Dominic manipulating matter to fix my armor and sword. I turn to see Barla finishing off Pharaoh Trudge while Mel cuts through the portrait boss which has been revived as well. Sakura smiles: "Good, you're awake. Your friend Madison used her magic to restore your blood and I've been healing you since." I weakly speak: "What happened to me?!" Dominic answers: "It's a nap causation but you collapsed after whatever you did. Your darkness is very active at the moment so please be careful not to lose control again. That big demonic sword that was lying by you is gone now. You're okay now."

After some more talking, I manage to get back up and Dominic hands me back my armor, sword, cape(I forgot to mention it was destroyed too), and my other stuff item by item. I don my armor and cape again as well before putting everything else I had on back on as well such as the tabard. Normally, the tabard isn't just the cloth hanging from the waist. It's kind of like a unique shirt but here in Miitopia, the cloth hanging from the waist is the only part. Sakura takes her leave and Dominic smiles at me: "That's more like it. There we go, my friend. This is the opposite of a nap causation. You stand again as the knight you decided to be. We'll talk more about what happened to you when there's time to. It's a real headache and nap causation but we need you to help us now. You did well to hold back Pharaoh Trudge. We finished him off for you as you saw. I'm surprised you didn't use your original sword in your fight. It's undamaged after all. Nap causation." "The thing is that it takes a lot for me to dual wield. The fact that I've been able to do it so well is amazing but it's risky. I'm trying not to think or talk about what just happened to be. It was rare in my world for knights to use 2 swords at the same time. It may not have looked like it but it was taxing to wield both swords at once in the past. I didn't make that obvious at all nor did I write about that fact but it's true." "What a nap causation. Let's get this battle over with. When Beerus decided to lend us his aid, he was able to free us up long enough to help you. It makes me really tired to think about but even with his help, there's still so many enemies to fight. I really would like a real nice nap right now but there's no time for it." "Beerus must have been held up somewhere else. I have to make up for losing myself like that once again so you don't have to tell me twice. Every person on our side is important to our efforts no matter how weak they might be in some cases."

With that settled, Dominic, myself, Barla, and anyone else within the chamber run out of it to go after the enemies that are still left to be dealt with. I draw my newly repaired sword and get ready for a tough fight. I even do something I should have done so long ago. I pull out my shield, equip it to my left hand, and position it over the area that houses my heart. I'm pulling a page out of my sword training in my other body. I won't be able to keep my shield there at all times but it means that it won't get in the way of my swings when I don't need to use it at the moment. According to our intel, we are outnumbered 10 to 1 in the Pyramid despite how many of us have come to fight the foes inside of it. Part of the reason there are so many enemies is because the Pyramid functions as a military base for Neksdor since monsters no longer roam it. It wasn't obvious at first but I spotted small amounts of military equipment here and there. I stayed cautious and used stealth and my Akatsuki cloak which I decided to don as well in order to sneak up on some of our foes. Might as well since all of the ice androids and frozen soldiers have combined into foes with 2 minds and much greater intellect as a result apparently. It's like the minds compliment each other, making up for their individual flaws with ease. That's a huge problem but we are beginning to understand how to handle it without Dominic's Neural Hack. I'm just glad he recovered well before I myself needed help. That was fortunate. Anyway, I set my sights on one of our foes and strike with the power of stealth and a Kamehameha that I started charging after putting my newly repaired again sword in its scabbard. With that done, I managed to destroy the enemy, alerting others to my presence. However, I did not necessarily come alone. "P-Chan! Let's do this!" "Aurora Execution!" "Go, Battledrone General!" "Superheavy Samurai Big Benkei, let's do this together!"

"Ugger! Root Reach!" "You got it, Edyn!" "Thunderclaw!" "Don't you dare leave me behind, Llenn! Let's have some fun!" "Hell yeah! This is going to be fun! Here we go! Wild Shot! Be careful, comrades!" It should be obvious who said what except in one case. Thunderclaw was shouted by Shiana, a masked woman with light skin, lime green hair, and colorful armor with a neutral colored shirt to provide contrast. She's one of Athena's woman knights. I smile: "I don't think our foes will be able to predict all of our attacks now! Pitohui's unpredictability is perfect here! Guns, swords, fists, we got a whole selection of things being used to attack. Don't forget the duel monsters! Alright! I may be still recovering from what happened to me and my inner darkness may be awake but I won't let that stop me! Haaaaaa! Get ready! I can't use my best technique but I can still deal a lot of damage and take a lot of hits. Here we go! Continuous Drawing Devastation: 100!" My combination of attacks are too fast for our foes to track with everything else that was going on. With all of us representing different fighting styles and moving differently, more than a few were taken down by me. As if that weren't enough, Ugger's Root Reach was devastating for our foes. We now know 2 weaknesses of our newly combined enemies. Plants and diverse opponents. Perfect. We can do this. No matter how much damage our foes did, I made sure I ended up taking the near full blunt of them in order to protect my comrades from harm. It was risky but it was worth it. With my shield and my sword, I danced a dance of both offense and defense, showing the usual range knights battle with. Our foes were completely overwhelmed by our teamwork. Because of the design of the Pyramid, it was easier said than done for enemies of ours to gather here to stop us from other parts of the Pyramid. We aren't exactly fighting in open space right now after all.

I kept up so many attacks and made sure I wasn't getting too injured or exhausted from them. I can't afford that right now with all my hp bananas already used up. After some time, we defeat all of our foes and work with everyone else in the Pyramid to take care of the rest before running outside. When we ran outside, we would be witness to something completely shocking to us. Sophie as well as the tribe of Forest Spirits were just allowing the enemy to give hurting them their best shot while meditating. And after some time, they open their eyes at once and shout: "Forestation!" Magic comes out of them like waterfalls, seeping into the hot sands of Neksdor. Seconds later, a small forest began growing from the sand and as it did, the enemies were caught in the trees and as those trees continued to grow, the roots literally broke them apart. The leader of the Forest Spirits tribe speaks: "May their souls find eternal rest for all that they had to go through in this life. We mustn't leave this forest around. We must respect all biomes, no matter how unsuitable they may be for us to spend time in. Even the frozen tundras deserve respect. Please remember this for it is vital that we protect the very land that allows us access to everything we could ever need. From the tiniest of cells to the largest of mountains, we must respect the ways of nature. Instead of destroying it, we must restore and strengthen it. Forest Withdrawal!" The newly grown forest turns back to magic. And of course, I mean natural energies derived from nature when I say magic in these circumstances. Those of us who just got out of the Pyramid wave to them. They wave back. The leader speaks: "Welcome back to the outside, comrades. Now, let us work together to end the shackles of oppression that have plagued this desert, it's plants, its monsters, and it's people. It would be wise to split up here." None of us have any objections. We do just that. I teleport to Neksdor Town to see how things are there.

The town is consumed in conflict. Buildings have been destroyed. Many innocents are safely in a makeshift hospital created by endermen and medical ninja. Iron golems and other Minecraftian creatures are defending the hospital from enemy attacks. The iron golems as well as the snow golems are in the front. Snow golems can't be frozen into ice that easily and it's kinda hard to freeze pure iron. The Minecraftian creatures have organized themselves strategically. The zombies and spiders are the innermost ring of protection around the hospital. I teleport to the inside of the makeshift structure where lots of medical professionals, patients, and even just innocents are present. Genie Trudge is among them and flashes a smile at me. I give him a nod as I say: "Hey, is everything okay in here?" A healer from Mount Warp Alpinist Village brought to life by my constructing of the village as it once was speaks: "All is well here. But please, young knight. Please defend this building. Our defenders are at a stalemate with the enemy. You won't be enough to break the stalemate but you will bring it one step closer to being ended." I nod: "Aye, I understand now. Okay, I will do so. We need to make sure no one dies if at all possible. We can bring them back but that's a process. We don't have time for it right now." I join up with the iron golems and snow golems, aiding them with my sword: "All of you, I will fight alongside you to hold them off and eventually defeat them once more help arrives. Your formation is the best formation you can muster. That I understand very well." Roddy, who is among them replies: "I'm so glad we can count on you as well to help!" "Roddy, it's good to see you again. With your unique life story, I've heard you've been a huge help in this entire conflict. A snow golem with great swordsmanship? Now that's something. Anyway, I should be able to help make our foes rethink their strategy now."

Our foes were definitely caught off guard by my presence. But even still, despite all of our attacks including my own, there was still in fact a stalemate. No one was able to defeat anyone else. That's when Sophie single-handedly used Forestation to defeat all of our foes. They broke apart before us right before I heard Pirate Blaster yell: "Pirate's Plunder!" to take care of any stragglers. And then, Sophie used Forest Withdrawal to restore the sands within Neksdor Town. I would have breathed a sigh of relief. However, I knew something was up from the expressions on Sophie and Pirate Blaster. The pirate says: "Arr, we have a problem. It's Pmurt Nedib. He and the forces he's directly commanding are dominating on the other side of Neksdor. Our comrades there need all the help they can possibly get." Joe the iron golem speaks: "You can count on all of us." "Aye. I can confirm that. Thanks for the save you two. We were kind of in a stalemate. You took full advantage of the distraction we kind of were." "I'm just glad everyone's alright! Come on! This is our chance to defeat Pmurt and his forces here in Neksdor!" "Arr! If we're lucky, we might be able to defy destiny and kill him over there in battle today!" "We must not get our hopes up. He's as good as dead already so it doesn't matter when we kill him as long as we continue reducing the harm he has done so that he isn't able to do anymore of it. But to assume he won't be able to do anymore harm before we get him is illogical so our goal must still be to end this war as soon as possible." None of us say anything else. We all just teleport to the big battle where Pmurt is actually bothering to be directly involved. That's not very common here in Miitopia. He must be really pissed off. Sure enough, our foes were plowing through our comrades. The gods for reasons already explained aren't using their full powers. Otherwise, Pmurt would have died months ago. That's very obvious. They can't hold the hands of us mortals and expect things to turn out okay with the ultimate battle. That's just not how it works.

Pmurt is enjoying his victory: "You false gods! You refuse to help these inferior freaks in this battle! I can't wait to take your powers! You freaks, you're all going to be punished by me and my followers! That's right! The time for your resistance ends here! You can throw as many of you as you want at me but my pawns will still destroy all of you!" "*unison* Forestation!" "What kind of sinful trick is this?" A bunch of our enemies are broken apart by that attack just before Forest Withdrawal is performed. Myself and the others who just arrived join in on the fray, helping further turn the tide of battle away from the lunatic Nazi. Because that's what Pmurt Nedib is. A Nazi. He can claim all he wants to that he isn't one but he is literally a living definition of such a horrible group of scumbags. I yell: "Everyone's here now! You better pack your butt up because we're going to kick you straight outta this region! Just watch us go!" Barla adds: "Hell yeah! Your pawns won't be able to win now that we've all gathered!" "Indeed. Shira Tensei!" Pmurt Nedib gets more frustrated: "YOU FREAKS! HOW DARE YOU DEFY ME AT EVERY FIGHT! I WILL DESTROY ALL OF YOU AND YOUR PRECIOUS WOKEISM! ITS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME NOW!" And then, time is suddenly stopped. The aforementioned being of time whose name still escapes my memory appears: "I will interfere now because if I do not, Pmurt will channel his power into his pawns and destroy all of you." Abstractoa replies: "Yes, that is the most likely future at this point. Assist us with the Interdimensional Power Break. That's how this battle will be decided." "I have no surprise that you figured it out as well, Guardian of Creativity. Now. All of you, release your attacks and allow us to combine them with mere fragments of our full powers. Mortal problems are supposed to need mortal solutions. We only interfere when we absolutely must to pave the way for a ultimate battle where our side does not lose. My disciple, BlazeWarriorWolf. You understand this well. Show me. Show me how strong you have become since I made you a Clock Guardian."

I see Blaze nod eagerly. And after a couple minutes, time resumes with the biggest Interdimensional Power Break ever unleashed released on Pmurt Nedib and his forces. "SINNERS! MY LOYAL FOLLOWERS, DEFEND ME FROM THIS UNHOLY ACT OF DEFIANCE! I COMMAND YOU! DO IT, NOW!" They do in fact protect the tyrant by coming together to take the damage on all sides. As a result, they're all instantly destroyed and Pmurt lays on the ground, severely weakened and injured. He gets up, dusts himself off, and walks through a portal he summons: "I will be back and when I'm back, I'll tie all of you to ropes and lower you one by one into the lava of Karakaton! You sinners! You wokeists! You freaks! I'll kill all of you to destroy wokeism! Just you wait! I'll get all of you back for this! And you won't be able to stop me once my full power returns! You won this time but the sins of your false gods will be undoing! They should have finished me when they had the chance! But I knew they wouldn't because they're false gods! Their unwillingness to get rid of me shows this!" The portal then closes behind him. Many of us sigh for various reasons. The being of time abruptly leaves, leaving the rest of us just there in the midst of a scarred landscape which Abstractoa instantly restores to normal. Jack ends up heavily panting very close to me as he so happens to have been moving in my direction to get better hits on our foes. But he still yells: "As a resident of this desert, I can't thank you all enough for allowing me to fight alongside you! I have done so many wrongs because of my other personality but you decided to give me another chance. I will never forget that. And on behalf of the other people of Neksdor, I ask of your help to help heal Neksdor of its physical and non physical scars. A lot of work must be done in order to ensure Neksdor has a bright future." We all give some indication of agreement with helping out. I nodded and raised my sword. Together, we began the process of rebuilding and healing Neksdor. Dominic insisted on restoring Neksdor Town himself.

That may have been an effort but Dominic was still able to keep moving. It didn't drain him nearly as much as Neural Hack. What did I do? Well, I helped get food and other necessities to the people of Neksdor. I lifted 2 big wooden crates full of provisions and the like from the Miitopia BRAINS base and brought them straight to Neksdor Town through teleportation. The residents of the town were shocked at what I was doing. I smiled: "I'm not one for showing off that much. However, I did bring you much of what y'all need. And I'm so glad to see your reactions. Now then, I should do something else to help. Let me see.. Is there anything else that needs to be brought here? *checks phone* No. It's all in place. Food, water, medical supplies, bedding, guns, swords, knives, armor, spell books, you name it. In that case, I should probably pass on some of my skills in the sword. After all, even after this conflict is over, Neksdor will still face threats internally and externally in the future. Listen to me, people of Neksdor Town. If you wish to learn to defend yourselves by way of the sword, please come with me. Otherwise, please spread the word. The more of Neksdor's people learn, the better. We have done similar instruction when possible throughout all of Mii World. And now that Pmurt only controls one region of Miitopia, he will be more hellbent to take over all of Mii World now. We'll face stronger enemies that work for him very soon. I just know it." I get a lot of eager people in one spot about 30 minutes later. My left eye is still shut from earlier so that impeded my performance in battle a bit but I've trained some hours with it shut for that specific reason. I stand before the people gathered. We set up just outside of Neksdor Town.

I speak: "Thank you all so much for coming. Don't mind my eye. It'll be my pleasure to teach you the basics of swordsmanship. I suggest you train with a partner for you will yield faster results by training with someone else but I've spent a lot of time training alone so I can tell you all what that's like if you must do it alone. Let's begin with stance, skin care, sword care, muscle fatigue, and proper sword handling. You don't want to make yourself sore for tomorrow right away or accidentally cause your hand or hands to bleed. Before we get into that however, we need to make sure everyone here has a sword, hand lotion, and pair of gloves at minimum. Since this is Neksdor, someone should be over with refreshments even though we're underneath a newly built structure. Hydration is key to sword training. Using swords looks really cool but there's a lot that goes into that. If you don't know what you're doing, you're going to learn a lot of lessons the hard way." I proceed to spend 2 hours teaching all of them before dismissing them to try out what I instructed them further. In the meanwhile, I got some late dinner back at base before I was asked to go to the main BRAINS base: the space station for a urgent meeting. I tp'ed there as soon as I could. I walked to the meeting room there and sat down. I speak as no one is currently doing so: "So, we have a really big problem, right?"

Twilight Sparkle replies: "Yes but we're still waiting on a few others to arrive." "I see. I have a feeling what this is about. Even if I'm wrong, the fact that a meeting was called between us representatives of different portions of BRAINS means we have a seriously huge problem on our hands. It's been a long time since a meeting like this has happened. Almost a year." And then, the others finally show up. Tsunade speaks: "Everyone is here now. We can begin the meeting right away and we must get through it as soon as possible. The problem concerns every BRAINS member." Athena replies: "Is this meeting being broadcast then?" Whis answers: "Indeed it is. Under normal circumstances, we wouldn't have to meet like this but the problem is so urgent that assembling us instead of having many different meetings in the BRAINS bases was the logical call." To be continued in Veil Of Greed: Hunt For The Numbers Chapter 40.