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  Early M - Early Summer : Arlington, Virginia | Uates

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  - Alrek Occoro ~

  "Good m, wonderful citizens of Earth. More information about the destroyer suspect that appeared in Arlingtoerday has been revealed by the ISO, and more videos have surfaced of the perpetrator, named Evreir." Looking over at the s as I id at the end of my bed trying to rest after a sleepless night, I watched the m news run through everything that had happened before repying Evren's annous, and showing repys of her stopping Hakon in his tracks.

  Thankfully, people didn't seem to be too panicked, even the news anchors seemed to be approag the situation fairly calmly.

  At least with the exception of one of the younger members they had speaking on the panel. ""This woman is certainly dangerous, and until the situation is firmed, we must treat it like worst-case sario. This is how disasters happen is it not? Why isn't the whole city being evacuated?""

  ""Because if it's true that she was the oo kill the mohat appeared in the Appa west of Rid, it could easily be assumed that she is here with good iions. After watg the tless videos of her sent in, I find it hard to believe someone like that could be a destroyer.""

  ""But it's not like destroyers 't act. If she turns out to be a destroyer, how is the US going to stop her?""

  "Ugh..." -I know they're just bbbering but geez...- Letting out a groan, I looked back up at the ceiling with heavy eyelids, idly listening to the news while trying my best to get some shut-eye.

  However, I couldn't keep them shut.

  ""Ah, it seemed we actually have some breaking news! The Queen of the Elves has just been spotted crossing intinia, and appears to be headed straight fton.""

  "WHAT?!" Springing up from my bed, I looked toward the s with a look of fear.

  ""So the great Queen is going to be the oo deal with the destroyer? She must have been given a quest!""

  ""Yes, yes, yes! It seems we have nothing to worry about, after all!""

  "NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT?!" Bolting up from my bed, I threw on clothes as fast as I could before swiping my ID off the desk o me and calling someone in a secured el.

  Ring It was a call to someohe ISO had stationed in Leyfa Askr, the elven kingdom to the North, enpassing all of ada, Aska, and Siberia, directly sharing a border with the tial Uates.

  Ring Because the ISO was uo get permission to build or spread influehere, we had a few elven spies sent there in order to try and coerce the queen.

  One of them was even a maid in the Queen's pace. Beep "Alrek?"

  Finally answering, the voice of an older woma my ears. "Ava, why did the queen leave?! Why haven't you reported anything?!"

  "W-What?" Sounding fbbergasted, she tinued somewhat hesitantly. "I-I don't know what you mean by leave. There has been nothing out of the norm. If she eve her room people would lose their minds around here."

  Hastily tying my shoes, my panic started to ease. "Then why did the news just annouhat she otted in Virginia?!"

  There was an immediate, long silehat overtook the call.

  "Shit..." Quickly putting myself together, I ed up my appearance before making my way out of my suite and into the elevator. "If anything happens, report directly to me, got it?"

  "G-Got it!" Beep

  Hanging up, my expression washed with stress. "Hooh..." Letting out a long breath to try and ease my nerves, I looked up to watch the floor number hastily decrease until it slowed and stopped at 1.

  Ding Woosh Quickly walking out into a hallway, I made my way into the incredibly desote lobby of the tower, before pushing open the front door and being greeted by the fshes of more cameras than I could t.

  -Geez.. isn't this distriandatory evacuation? How are there so maers...- Blog the light with my hand as I tried to look around, I noticed several reporters speaking to people on a call in a panic before they all looked into the air, so I did the same.

  But instead of seeing something specific, all I saw was a white blur drop from the sky straight in front of me. tap-WOOOOOSHHH

  Nearly blowing me off my feet, an indescribably massive burst of air ripped past me before I opened my eyes to see the figure of a stunningly beautiful elf with white hair and skin of por standing before me.

  With bright green eyes, long pointed ears characteristic of a high-elf, and a of leaves ahers, her appearance was nothing short of enting.

  But.. while she was also known as the 'Ice Queen' because of her otion.. the woman standing in front of me, staring up the spire wore a look that beloo a child on Christmas. "You," Her voice, overwhelmed with a mix of ay and joy, was like that of an angel. "Do you know where the woman g to be Evren is?" L her gaze to me, her eyes glimmered like the opy of a forest.

  I didn't even know how to respond. "U-Uh, yes!" -Fuck, what am I doing?!- In a plete panic, I spoke as fast as I could. "She is in the suite at the top of the spire, p-please allow me t you-"

  "No need. I found her." WOOOOOSH Instantaneously disappearing, a colossal gust of wind nearly threw me into the air before I found my gaze aimed up toward the sky.

  In the blink of an eye, she had leapt all the way to the top of the spire. -H..How...- She did it so casually that it was holy scary.

  But as her ast slowed, and she pulled a golden orb out of her iory, aiming it into one of the windows, the ground was lit by a golden glow, and it felt like time stopped.

  The artifact she had was called The Eye of Odin, an artifact from a Rank 0 world that reads the details of the user it's aimed at, regardless of system security, exposing everything from birth o iory, stats, personality traits, and even habits.

  It was one of the most powerful artifacts oh, rumored to evehe system details of gods, angels, and demons.

  But as she used it, and a series of runes lit up around it, flooding the city with golden light, everything suddenly went dark, and the artifact exploded. -H..Huh?- It was a sight that made my brain short-circuit. -W..What just happened...-

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  - Evreir ~

  VWOOM-FLASH -Hm?- As a presence from the base of the spire suddenly uself up o my room, and the lobby was filled with golden light, I gnced over my shoulder to find a young-looking white-haired elf floating just outside my window. -I guess it was too quiet for too long...- Vwoop

  Thinking it was trouble, I put Bel into my iory and wove my aura into the window before shattering it pletely, letting the forceful winds climbing the side of the spire into the room, aing our voices reach each other.

  But, as I turo face her, tears welled in her eyes. "E..Evren?"

  -What?- They weren't tears from fear or panic.

  They were tears of joy and relief. "Auntie Evren is that really you?!" WOOSH Bolting up to me, she threw her arms around my waist before pressing her long ear into my stomach.

  -Wait a sed...- It was a motion that brought baemories. "EVE?!" Looking down at her, her unique mana-lit forest green eyes locked on me, and I felt my own eyes go wide.

  She was the daughter of a queen I was exceptionally good friends with, a kind and benevolent woman named Bree Altera, the ed Queen of The Oak, the pce believed to be the birthpd paradise of all elves.

  But regardless of her position, her daughter was as reckless and rambunctious as could be, and while I was in that world to plete a few missions given by the system, I had developed a sort of.. guardian-esque retionship with her.

  In other words, I had bee her aunt. "Mom said we would never see each ain! It's been almost three hundred years, how are you still alive?!"

  "Hah," Feeling a wave of relief and nostalgia blow over me, I smiled. "You think time kill me?"

  "What about the system? I know you aren't the kind to linger in worlds after you finish the mission..." A bit of worry seeped into her voice as she tinued. "If I'm right, shouldn't you have been a merary for a bit over five hundred years now?"

  Gently nodding, I smiled somewhat warmly. "I kept going until the system had no more missions to give me..." Pat Setting my hand on her head out of habit, I opened my system. "When the system had no harder missions to give me, it let me return to wherever I wanted, so I chose Earth.. my old home..."

  Seeing my expression darken, worry crept onto Eve's face. "Wait, it only let you return after you pleted everything it could throw at you? I thought.. it was supposed to let you return after you asd..."

  -Hm?- "What do you mean? Like achieve that metamorphosis where you stop needing to eat, and stop aging?"

  "Yes," Loosening her grip on my waist, she slowly pulled herself away. "It happens when your body starts to live off mana, as time passes your body will slowly improve itself until you essentially bee a demigod, a god with mortal flesh... When that happens, you're supposed to get a message from the system saying something like 'Requirements Met', and have it open a pahat lets you travel back to live in a few specific worlds."

  -Iing...- "Yeah, that never happened for me. When I asded, the only thing that ged was my system profile... If anything, the missions got harder after that."

  "And you.. just kept going?" Horror instantly crept into her expression. "For hundreds of years?"

  Nodding, I gently pushed her back. "184,214 missions, and 554 years. To top it all off, when I did finally return here, my System wiped itself. I lost all my items, my robotics, skills, and upgrades."

  "Huh?" Her expression instantly washed with anger as she floated up to her feet. "After all that they wiped your system?!"

  "Yeah, and as if it wasn't bad enough, after less than a day of being back here, an administrator appeared and dragged me bato the System, trying to kill me..." -I'm really lucky there wasn't a harder mission avaible...- But the fae would eventually appear was iable. "It'll probably happen again, so before then, I o learn about mana and magic. The mission they sent me on this time was the hardest the system had to ain, and.. it tested my limits a bit."

  "W-Wait, so what's your level now? Did it not get reset to 1?"

  Quickly shaking my head, I motioned her to not worry. "My stats are all the same, but because all my upgrades are gone, I lost a lot of strength... The mission I just got back from was siarget assassination and.. I struggled a bit. The saving grace is that me losing all my upgrades gave me access to the mana the system kept reserved for them, so I have more mana than I know what to do with, hence why I asked one of Earth's administrators to find a teacher for me."

  "Ah!" Her expression instantly lit up with determination. "What about me, then?" Her eyes gleamed just like they did when she was young. "I'm the stro mage in this world!" Puffing up her chest like a child, I wao ugh.

  Her joy made me feel a warmth I thought I had fotten. "Haha, alright." -Student bees the teacher, huh...- Taking a step bad leaning up against the bar at the edge of the kit, I spoke smoothly. "Do you have a guild or something?"

  "Haha!" Letting out a hardy ugh, she held her head up with fidence. "I am the daughter of the Monarch of the Oak! You think I would settle fuild?" Smiling wide, she spoke incredibly pridefully. "We have a ways to run before we cross the border, but my kingdom is the rgest in this world!"

  -So that little princess really did follow in her Mother's footsteps...- Smiling warmly, I felt proud seeing how she turned out. -She really does remind me Bree.. even if she is a bit.. etric...- Looking her in the eyes as I got ready to let Bel out of my System to introduce them, I smiled. -I wonder if Bree acted like this when she was young too...-

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