Chapter 34 (It's time for war! Part 2.)
My thoughts were interrupted by the sudden appearance of Mimika behind me. She jabbed her finger at me before I turned to look at her. She pointed to this card that Karu gave me and said:
"Akishito, this is all a hoax. This is not a new map type, but an illusion created with a moon type map. Apparently... It was created by one of Ari's acquaintances, so... I found the source of this illusion, this is the "Illusion of Optical" card. Its ability to introduce a false fragment into memory. Look carefully now, it's not a card in your hands, but it's just a piece of paper!
I visited her and indeed, it turned out that in my hands I was just a piece of paper that had no need. Then I just threw it away. But at the same moment that I threw this card, there was a cry from the battlefield. And in a second I saw… Ella was flying in the sky… But not quite her anymore… Rather, parts of her… Shouts were emitted by Neela, who saw all this and at the same moment she rushed to run away from there.
"Time to go, Akishito!" You need to quickly defeat Ahri. And yes... I found something similar to another type of card. But, even if I wanted to, I can't figure out what he's doing, so look at the information in the book.
Therefore, I took out the book and looked. Indeed, this is a new type of map, but it did not have names and designations as such, it was just a map with a checkered pattern and small stars could be seen on the side. Apparently this map should adapt to me. At least at that moment I had such thoughts.
Nila ran up to me and with tears in her eyes said to me: Save us! Save... My card abruptly stopped working when I first approached Ahri. He seems to have blocked us from accessing our cards, but I think since you now have a new type of card, the restrictions will not apply to him.
Her reasoning seemed logical to me, because indeed, if no one had previously used this type, therefore, the card should not be blocked under the action of that one. But I still don't understand what this card does. Well, I still think I need to go into battle, even if my chances with this card are small.
I moved quickly, using the map I always had at hand. Of course, this is also "Speed. Protection. Star." . But at one point my speed dropped sharply and I started to run at normal speed. But... Having picked up a new type of card, the restrictions seemed to be lifted and I calmly passed through the created anti-card barrier and all those who were behind this barrier moved with me. We ran through the weapons that the enemies were creating. The weapon was of the scarlet type, so we tried not to get hit by them. The weapons were different, even swords, even bows, even spears, but in the end no one was hurt by such stupid actions, we got only a few scratches, but even then, they healed almost instantly.
Ari himself was at a height of several meters, in an abandoned building that seemed to hang, rather large in size. Holes had already been made in it, and Ari threw Ella into one of them, after which she died. The alternative version of Ella helped me with the penetration into the building, because even though it was "abandoned", it had some kind of protection system in it. An alternate version of Ella sat and turned off this system 'til I stood and chatted with him.
- Hey, tell me at least about yourself, you know about me, but I don't have any information about you at all. It would be nice to get to know your ally better.
- It would be better to ask Ella, who has already died, about this ... But okay, I'll tell you a little about myself.
I was born into a fairly wealthy family in Japan. I was brought up very strictly, so I wanted to help Ari earlier so that he would destroy everything in this world. But after seeing how you get along with Ella, I decided to change my mind. Yes, it's so easy to lure me away ... Eh ... But because of Ella's death, do not think that I will betray you. Still, I am her alternative version and I can, with the help of myself, save her ... Yes, my life is simply meaningless.
- How can you say that! Every life is worth something! Surely Ella did not die in vain and saved us some support inside.
"No… My life really doesn't matter to me, once we're done with everything, save Ella with my help!" To do this, it is enough to unite with the help of a star-type card.
"Do as you like… First you need to win. Well, how is it? Are you finishing already?
— Yes, yes, already. he said with sweat on his face. Apparently he was already tired of dealing with the protection system, or he was simply afraid that he would do something wrong, and with my conversations I only interfered with him.
Finally, he finished his job, and finally it was time for me to do mine. The door just opened and we were attacked by Ahri's guards, who were dressed in some kind of scarlet armor, and after learning the statistics, I realized that we just need to run through them. Therefore, I did so. And all because their statistics were as follows:
[Protection - 99+
Repulsion - 99+]
Well, and similar statistics that clearly exceeded ours, because we were just in clothes, only the alternative Ella had scarlet gloves that strengthened and accelerated the blows, but even then their statistics were not so high.
In general, literally walking a little more, we finally saw the silhouette of Ari. She was in the form of a girl. As soon as we entered the room where she was, we saw the following scene.
She was counting down the barrier builder because we snuck in here. It was terrifying to even watch. His face already simply simply resembled a bloody mess, and he himself had a smile ... Horror ...
While Ari did not see, I decided to attack from behind, but unfortunately my plan failed. She noticed us anyway and said:
- To stand! If one of you moves, I will instantly turn this world into ashes ... Our bombs are already located all over the world, all I have to do is press this red button and bang! And there is no peace.
"What are you doing this for?" As if there is no normal, quiet life in the world that you deserve?
- And I didn't intend to kill myself, I'll leave myself a small territory with subordinates and we will live for ourselves.
I still couldn't stand it and even my card suddenly changed its appearance and turned into a blue color card with golden edges. But this was not even her final transformation.
But, unfortunately, things went awry.