ty

"The only things that look like they might work are that strange 'Drug of Yore', that healthy villagers card I think Gil might have grabbed, and this shrine of the woods called a healing place. None of them seem likely at all though..."

"Felix!"

"Huh, Rin?"

"I've been trying to get your attention for a bit, I told everyone, Welt said they probably aren't honkai zombies, but he'll take a look first, and no one else had any ideas. Also I don't think any of those will work either, it may be different with this kind of undead, but things like this usually operate on the level of the soul, and are beyond simple healing... I'll research them though, they might still work after all."

Felix sighs, "Sorry Rin... Is waiting on a summon really all I can do...?"

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[10-19 Languages - Felix can now speak, understand, and read every mortal language he comes across, and due to the high power of the summon, all summons from now on can now be optionally translated by anyone who is not an enemy of Felix, into a language they can read.]

"Probably, you'll have to either wait on my research, the Astral to see if they have anything related in there database, or your summons, sigh I'm sorry Felix, don't let the guilt eat you up, we'll save them."

"Alright...", he quickly checks the summons list to see if that might be able to help, and sighs, "Looks like Lynx will appreciate this one at least if its not just for me."

"You should go talk to Arlan, ah our Arlan, Welt told him to stay with Misaka while he went to check the zombies out, since he's the only other one with any experience with honkai."

"You're probably right, I won't be able to help by wallowing in self pity."

Rin's eye twitches, "Don't be negative around Misaka either."

"Alright, thanks again Rin."

Felix spots Arlan outside a door, "Did Welt just ask you to stand outside her door...?"

Arlan lets out a small laugh, "No, she just needed some rest, I need to stay nearby since she's having some trouble controlling her herrscher abilities."

"Are they difficult to control? You never seemed to have trouble."

"I can just turn it off when I'm outside fights, it'll probably take a bit for her to figure out how to control honkai well enough to be too close to others, luckily the castle walls actually seem a resistant to honkai."

"Really? I knew they were special, but I didn't expect that."

"Yup."

"How's Misaka doing now?"

"Ah, she seemed to be doing a bit better after her talk with Welt, she doesn't really seem to have much common sense though..."

"Welt did say she grew up in a lab, so I guess that makes sense."

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[15-20 Kei Jinguji - The oracle of Lastation and the CPU Noire, due to the extremely high power of the roll Kei gains great physical abilities, becomes a pathstrider of Erudition, and gains an updating book with the planets major history starting from the Eternal Freeze, and a list of all CPUs on Jarilo-VI with a name and a picture at the end of the book, the book is indestructible and bound to them. She will appear in Belobog due to a position fitting her credentials being open there.]

Felix checks the list quick, "Its another person..."

"Ah, it is? What's their name?"

"Kei Jinguji, hopefully I said that right, I should go find them."

"Felix, you should relax for a bit, no ones been summoned somewhere dangerous before, even Gil was summoned nearby Belobog remember?"

"It could be different this time though..."

Arlan sighs, "Lets check when Welt comes back, alright?"

"Alright."

They wait a bit, when Welt comes back with two individuals following him, "There's someone who wanted to meet you Felix."

"Huh?"

A young girl with blood red eyes stepped forward and bowed, "My name is Keno Fasris Invern, Sir Felix, its a pleasure to meet you. Sir Gil said you would be able to cure my peoples' condition Sir Felix, I and my people would be forever in your debt if you would."

"Ah, please don't do that, that city? I already plan to cure their zombiness, so don't worry about it, hopefully it won't take long, but I'm confident I'll get something to help them."

Gil rolls his eyes, "I already told you, you can stop with the noble talk here, everyone around here's from a different era than yours or mine."

"You can use any unused room here, there's plenty, and if you don't want to stay here while I figure it out, I can find you a place in Belobog or Belialuin to stay."

"Thank you, the people of Inveria will truly be in your debt when you cure them.", she slumps a bit after walking away, both happy to finally have some hope, and shaken by the tragedy.

Felix looks where she went sadly, "She's even younger than Misaka..."

Welt sighs, "Such events are sadly common in this vast universe, don't forget to rely on those next to you when it gets to you Felix.", Felix gives him a slight nod

Gil hums, "Bye, you've certainly had some interesting summons recently, but I need to leave before that annoying other me comes back."

"Ah, bye Gil." "Bye Gil."

Welt nods in his direction, "Farewell Gil, it was nice to meet you."

"You too Mr. Hero! Ah, you should check out that tree spirits forest sometime, I'm sure it'd be interesting to you trailblazers, just ask Felix where it is."

"Thank you for the recommendation."

They watch Gil leave, Welt looks to Felix curiously, "How long has there been two of him?"

"Ah, since yesterday, you met the second one earlier, that Gil got here like half a week ago or something, so much has happened its been kind of hard to keep up."

"I see, thank you."

Arlan speaks up, "Misaka's getting some rest now."

"Thank you Arlan, sorry to spring that on you so suddenly, I'll check with her to see how her honkai control is."

"Alright, ah, lets go see where that person is Felix."

"Yeah."

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[4-7 Mage Stigmata 50/50 Succeeded! This becomes a stigmata which greatly enhances all the users magical abilities, and also increases there magic reserves, along with the standard strength and honkai resistance gained from stigmatas. Due to Felix's guilt, Keno will receive this.]

"One moment.", "It's another mutation one, we still haven't even found the last one, ah, its called mage though, not sure why that would be a mutation..."

"I'd guess magic comes from a genetic mutation where that's from...?"

"I guess, lets go."

They flew around for a few hours, and were unable to find anyone.

She had been listless since arriving here, she'd been hopeful at first when Rin said she could talk to the others back home, but the moment she remembered she was a clone, she'd been unsure if she should even let everyone home know she existed. Its not that she thinks her team or herself wouldn't like her, but it'd just be unnecessary stress for everyone, including her other self.

She'd managed to distract herself a little with her strange new ice and 'imaginary' abilities, but she'd just been depressed lately. The others shes staying with are alright, Rin even reminds her of Weiss a little, and Felix and Arlan have only been kind, but shes been thinking she needs to get out and do something, staying here only makes hopeful she'll get back home.

'Those two new girls have it so much worse, yet all I can think about is how bad its been for me…'

Blake sighs, thinking about the 'summon list' she read earlier, she'd already known that her strange new powers had something to do with Cocolia cause of that strange tattoo she saw on her back, but one thing caught her eye. She'd gotten so caught up with everything new she hadn't thought much about the fact no one knew anything about Aura…

Blake steels her resolve, she'll teach everyone about Aura in the morning, then head to Belobog and try to figure out what to do with her life there, after saying goodbye of course, being a huntress doesn't seem like a thing around here, but maybe she can do something similar?

Either way shes not going to run away from her problems this time, she'll find something that will help her get over home for sure. Shes already spent way too much time just drifting along and hoping she'll end up home without even thinking about all the issues that'd cause…

Keno almost collapses the moment she enters her new room, she could feel how powerful almost every single one of them were, and fully expected one of them to kill her the moment they realized she was an undead.

'Things really are different around here…'

Back home it was common knowledge that the undead wanted to kill living beings, though she's certain thats a myth now since she doesn't have any murderous impulses.

Gil and Mr. Welt had explained the summoning stuff and this being a different world, but she'd barely been here and everything's just so different… That could also be because she's a vampire now though…

Keno tries not to think about her families final moments of trying in vain to protect her as they could barely move from the pain before becoming undead again, while putting her hope in the kind powerful people to save them, when she feels something odd on her upper arm, before going to check in the mirror of the room, and sees a strange tattoo(?) on her arm.

She looks at it a bit confused, before sighing, drying her eyes, and trying to sleep, 'Please let everything go back to normal when I wake up…'

Bronya exhaustedly thanks Asta and Himeko as they finish up there meeting, and bids them farewell, considering how to deal with the future negotiations with the IPC, and every other faction Felixs chaos will likely attract and dropping her face onto her desk and groaning.

She lifts her head, "I'll need to get Seele to come help me, hopefully she isn't too busy in the underground…'

She remembers the weird feeling she got in the middle of the meeting, she put off, and tries to feel it out, the moment she does, a portal similar to one of Arlans opens up in front of her desk, making her stand up from it in surprise.

After a moment, Seele walks through it, "Oh, hey Bronya, I didn't expect to end up here.

Bronys reboots after a second of utter confusion, before sighing, "Hey Seele, did you make that…?"

Seele sighs in return, "Nope, I was in this weird beach dimension…? Earlier I kinda just opened a portal somehow and ended up at a beach, me and my alternate have been checking it out a bit, it's kinda cozy."

"I think I opened one too then… Felix's summons are certainly unique, has anyone else showed up there?"

"Only seen the ones from us so far."

"I see… We'll have to fix this later, we have a lot to prepare for."

"Huh? Did Felix accidentally summon another monster or something?"

"No, we'll be having a lot of …negotiations and politics to deal with, with other planets. I got some rather worrying information."

Seele gives her a funny look, "Why'd you want my help then? You know I'm no good at that stuff."

"I just need someone I trust to help keep me stable through all of this, you won't have to do any of the negotiating, just think of it as being my bodyguard."

Seele nods in understanding, "Ah, I'll make sure you don't overwork yourself. Wildfires doing a lot better now, and my alternate can go help if it gets bad there anyways."

Bronya smiles at her, "Thank you Seele, this means a lot to me."

"It's nothing, just remember you have Pela and everyone to help you with this stuff too."

"I plan to involve Ms. Natasha in the talks too, the underground needs fair say in things, and I don't believe I'm qualified for that yet…"

Seele rolls her eyes at her, "You worry too much, its good to involve Nat, but the underground has faith in your leadership skills.

A guard knocks on the door and enters after Bronya tells them to come in, "Madam Supreme Guardian, there's someone named Kei Jinguji asking for an audience, I was going to turn them away since they didn't have an appointment, but they claimed to be a 'new summon of Felix'."

"Thank you, you may bring them here."

Seele looks at Bronya oddly, "Anyone can come in if they say they were summoned now?"

"Until we get a proper place set up for summoned people to go to, I thought it'd be best this way."

The door opens and a short boyish looking girl walks in, holding a book containing all major history of Jarilo-VI, which includes major changes to the world from Felix's summons, and luckily(and sadly) for them the information that all summoned people have been unable to return home.

Kei's eyes lock onto the CPU candidate, and Bronya greets the stranger, before Kei introduces herself, "It's nice to meet you CPU candidate Bronya Rand, I am Kei Jinguji, Oracle of Lastation. Or former Oracle of Lastation… It seems like you might need one yourself though."

""Huh?""

Late at night, after Arlan and Felix looked in vain for the new person that was summoned, Arlan offers Felix another spar to try and get his mind off everything that day, they agree for Arlan to not teleport Felix directly, and for Felix to not phase through all of Arlan's attacks as lightning, and Felix tosses Arlan a traced blunted great sword.

Felix looks at Arlan trying to think of a plan, 'Arlan can still just teleport all of my ranged attacks, and himself, and I still don't really have an answer for that, he's really good at mixing up where he appears. I'll just have to use a stronger mana burst so I can move even faster, and try to keep up...'

They both say they're ready, and Felix coats himself in mana burst and rushes forward while projecting and launching various swords at Arlan, while Arlan counters each with void spears like usual, Felix projects Arlans great sword as he approaches, and bursts towards him when he's hit from behind by a void spear, he lets out a hiss of pain as the impact, and lets out a small mana burst powered in Arlan's direction before he can make use of the opening, and Arlan gets knocked a bit as he guards himself with his great sword.

"I didn't know you could make a spear that far away from you."

"I can make them anywhere I can make a portal."

"That's so unfair, I can only make mine a bit away from me."

"Fights aren't always fair.", as Arlan says this he launches forward at Felix, and as Felix prepares to block the hit, Arlan hops into a portal, Felix lets out another shockwave of mana burst in panic since he has no idea what direction Arlan will come from, before quickly looking up and seeing Arlan floating a decent bit above him.

'Its super predictable, but its the only answer I really have to not being able to tell where Arlan will appear.' Felix sighs, 'It'll feel awful if Arlan has to give me another handicap...'

Felix focuses when he sees Arlan open another portal in front of himself and dash into it, creating a wall of swords around himself this time, before turning around quickly towards where he hears a clanging sound, by the time he looks there, he sees Arlan winding up a devastating looking swing with his great sword covered in lightning, Felix launches the sword wall at Arlan, but Arlan simply opens a large portal in front of them, Felix readies a powerful mana burst in the unnamed sword and prepares to meet Arlan the moment the portal closes, Felix lets loose his mana burst at a closing portal behind the first portal before he realizes Arlan isn't there.

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[2-15 Longbow - A reliable bow made for long range use, due to the high roll, and Felix's aptitude for swords, it has been altered and reinforced specifically to make best use of swords altered into arrows, it even aids in altering swords into arrows.]

Felix launches himself forward to avoid Arlan's probably attack from behind when a bow appears directly in front of him, the strange bows information flooding his head making him barely stumble and get hit by Arlan's heavy hit, being blasted across the field they are fighting on, managing to stop his momentum by digging his sword in the ground after skipping off the ground a few times, "Ugh..."

Arlan appears next to Felix, "Are you alright...?"

Felix blinks the stars out of his eyes, "Yeah... I think I healed whatever you broke before I got up..."

Arlan gives him an apologetic look, "Sorry about that, you're improving a ton Felix, you'd destroy me if your pops didn't give me 'this'."

Felix smiles, "Thanks, its easy to forget how crazy strong you are like that until we fought."

"Ah, being able to just portal everything in a fight makes things kind of easy..."

Felix snickers, "I see your egos getting bigger by the day Arlan, maybe I should bring out the big guns and bring you down before it gets as big as Gils."

"Uh, who's the big guns?"

"Obviously Mr. Welt, he said he fought the girl you turn into right? He must have an answer for all of that."

"Ah, true, I'm sure you'll get something to keep up with my portals eventually Felix, don't worry."

"Now you just sound like you're gloating."

Arlan gives him a deadpan look, before looking at the moon, "We should get back before the others start to worry, hop in.", Arlan opens a portal back.

"Aw, we could keep sparring a bit longer though..."

Arlan moves the portal toward Felix while giving him a deadpan look.

"Alright alright."

Rin sighs as she gives up on the 'Drug of Yore' for now, "Ugh... Sapphire, why does everything have to be so different..."

"It is rather perplexing, perhaps you should take a break for now Miss Tohsaka."

Rin groans, "I guess so... Ah, I was trying to figure out how to turn Charybdis' core into a mana battery, but now I have you Sapphire."

"Hm, what is this Charbydis? Is it the same one from Greek mythology?"

"I didn't see it while it was fully formed, but it was some kind of spiritual being, it was possessing something akin puppet body, and had become a 'giant shark monster' as the others called it. Do you have any ideas of what to do with it?"

"Miss Tohsaka, do you have any clues how its magic functions, everything I've experienced not from our own world seems to operate on completely different principles after all."

"I don't believe I've seen anything else from the same 'world' Charybdis has come from, so its a puzzle we'll have to figure out."

"It would probably be best to leave it alone until we know more Miss Tohsaka."

"Its so interesting though, an entirely different magic system, I'll have to ask the others how it fought...", Rin yawns, "I'll be careful, Sapphire don't worry..."

"You should get some sleep Miss Tohsaka, you've had a rather long day.", as Sapphire says that, she looks over to see Rin laying her head on the desk, already asleep, "I meant on your bed.", Sapphire considers whether she should wake her up or let her sleep at the desk.

Rin mutters "...Sakura...", in her sleep, and Sapphire suddenly feels Rin's mana start rapidly draining, and instantly flies into her hand and starts providing her mana. "Miss Tohsaka! Wake up!", Rin stirs while Sapphire tries to figure out what's draining her, before realizing its the core Rin slept next to, Sapphire manages to push it away without leaving Rin's hand, but it doesn't stop the drain, "Miss Tohsaka!", Rin doesn't even stir this time, the sudden loss of mana exhausting her pulling her deeper into her sleep.

The drain of mana abruptly stops, and Sapphire relaxes after a moment of nothing happening, before trying her best to see what happened with the core from Rin's hand, and being completely stumped when it looks the same.

She sighs, stuck making sure Rin continuously gets mana to recover from before, and in case it suddenly starts draining her again, and wishing the room was closer to anyone else.

'Does this have to do with the entirely different principles of our worlds, or was it some kind of attack...? It doesn't seem like it needs Miss Tohsaka's mana, it has much larger reserves, and it stopped not long after taking mine, its rather lackluster if that was supposed to be an attack.'

The core does feel like its changing now though, its slowly gaining more mana now, although it still has less than what it took from Sapphire somehow.

'This is a mess...'

Keno jolts awake when she feels seemingly infinite magical energy coming from below, more than a bit freaked out, 'What should I do!?', she tries to hide under her blanket, before slowly putting it down after realizing that wouldn't do anything.

She feels two of the powerful strangers appear at the front of the castle, gathers her courage, and rushes to them.

It takes her a bit to get through the maze of a castle before she finds them, Arlan and Felix look at her a bit worried, "Are you alright?" "What's wrong?"

"A-ah, I suddenly felt a massive amount of magical energy from over there, and its been growing since..."

"I think that's where Rin's at...", Arlan quickly opens a portal to the room, "Thanks Keno!", she nods as they go through, she runs in too without thinking.

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[8-7 World Enemy Stigmata 50/50 Succeeded! - This stigmata gives the user a stigmata that gives the user enough strength be a threat to a world, its similar to a Herrscher Stigmata, even though it doesn't turn the user into a Herrscher, the user will have extremely powerful honkai resistance, absurd raw power, and gain a special ability based on who gains it. Due to the immense power of this stigmata, and its connection to the world, the World's Will will be forced to hold a tournament between those it doesn't trust, and the winner will gain this stigmata, the kind of tournament will be decided by the World's Will, though it would have to be stupid to do one based on strength.]

Sapphire perks up when she hears the pop, and sees the portal open, "Thank goodness you all came, the core of Charybdis suddenly leached Miss Tohsaka's mana while she was sleeping."

They both look over in surprise, "Arlan, can you put it in one of those pocket dimension things? Well, not the one with the Stellaron in it."

"I think I can put it in a different one.", Arlan does just that, Keno sighing in relief the moment she feels the mana disappear.

"You don't have any idea what it did Sapphire?"

"No, Miss Tohsaka said you haven't gained anything else from the world 'Charybdis' came from, correct?"

"Ah... I don't think so? I can't really tell most of the time..."

"I see... Mister Arlan, will we be able to check on what changes it undergoes?"

Arlan nods, "Yeah, ah, Keno why'd you come with us, it could've been dangerous."

She looks a bit nervous now that they all look at her, "A-ah, I'm sorry, I rushed in without thinking..."

"My portals can be dangerous for most people, please don't go into them again outside of emergencies, alright?"

"Alright..."

Felix sighs, "Lets get Rin to her bed, is she going to be alright Sapphire?"

"She should be fine after some rest."

"That's good..."

They get Rin to bed, before all going to there own beds and getting some sleep, 'I'll check what I summoned in the morning...'

Clara watches as Ms. Sothia tries to convince Mr. Svarog to let Clara go on a 'heroic adventure' with her, she'd been doing this ever since they met and Mr. Svarog had set rules for involving Clara in her shenanigans. Any outings would require Mr. Svarog's attendance, and at least one robot acompying them, preferably Mr. Svarog himself, and that Ms. Sothia would be banned from meeting with Clara again if she ignored that rule.

Ms Sothia had accepted rather easily, but had been doing ...this repeatedly since.

"How will she grow as a hero if you keep stifling her, don't you want her to live up to her potential?"

"Clara is still young, inexperienced, and according to my calculations, you are unfit to guide youth in general."

"I was chosen by the planet itself for this! Your 'calculations' are clearly faulty!"

"Although my calculations have been unreliable for your people, you have still done nothing that would make me trust your judgement in regards to Clara's development. I agree that Clara has a great amount of potential, and I will aid her in achieving it if she agrees."

"Ugh, you just don't understand heroism! Clara, you get what I mean right?"

"A-ah, I don't really get what you mean... Don't heroes usually train before starting adventuring?"

"But how does the hero form unbreakable bonds with there allies, and learn how to overcome hardship without great hardship before training?"

"Ms. Sothia... Did you get your idea of heroes from fantasy books...?"

Sothia flinches at Clara calling her out, "Of course not child, I simply used the wisdom my parent has given me, gained from watching humanity from the beginning."

"Really?"

"Of course."

Mr Svarog interjects, "I have a compromise, I too would like Clara to bond with her friends, we may take them on a peaceful outing, a kind of 'field trip', I believe it would be called. Would you like to do that Clara?"

Clara looks at Mr. Svarog in surprise before smiling, "Yeah, that sounds really fun Mr. Svarog!"

"Very well, are you content with that, Ms. Sothia?"

Sothia sighs, "I suppose that's the best I'll get out of you for now, it will be good, where do you think you and your friends would like to have a 'field trip' Clara?"

She looks thoughtful, "Everyone's been curious about Mr. Felix's place, I heard there's an entire city there..."

Mr. Svarog pauses for a moment, "I will confirm if its safe to go to from, gather your friends, and see if there are any other places you'd like to go while I do so Clara."

"Alright Mr. Svarog!"

Sothia follows Mr. Svarog as he leaves, he pauses and looks at her, she gives him a sharp look, "I need to make sure you actually see if its safe, and not just finding the safest place possible."

"Very well."

Clara sighs as they walk away, "Why can't they just get along...?", before going to find the moles, and maybe Gilgamesh, they call her an honorary member, so they are friends right...?