Editing City Series:Volume8a Chapter6 (section)

===Akalabeth’s Sight Mode: In DT Castle===

'''Akalabeth’s Over Reload>

Akalabeth noticed what Suedomsa was doing while she looked down from the throne’s dais.

He moved the submachinegun away from her and aimed toward the 6 knights instead.

And he pulled the trigger six times.

The Board Mode firing was handled efficiently by the subprogram.

The six shots rang loud and pierced through the gaps in the knights’ white mobile armor.

None of them screamed as their bodies shook and they were blown backwards.

Six armored bodies clattered down onto the hardened carpet and began to flash.

Suedomsa looked past the vanishing knights to view the center of the audience chamber. He asked a question of the black robed man among the four people kneeling there.

<Excel, how are things in the castle?>

“All of the NPC Bodies have been frozen. The knights are under my control, including the remaining four set to rebel. The foundation of their actions and ethics are all functioning properly.” Excel nodded once. “The Yard NPC Bodies in the castle station are on the move. They are granted independent command authority if the rest of the Yard is lost, so, while I can only provide estimates, I believe they will cause us some minor trouble.”

<Then run the four knights set to rebel. Then use all the remaining knights to eliminate them.>

As soon as Suedomsa’s window appeared, gunfire sounded elsewhere in the castle.

'''<Akalabeth’s Over Zoom>

Akalabeth’s eyes scanned across the stone walls.

She heard gunfire from beyond those walls and the locked metal doors. She heard return fire as well.

The question-and-answer exchange of gunfire continued for a few seconds.

Then the castle was once more ruled only by the sound of an alarm.

The alarm was as loud as ever, but everything else had gone quiet.

In that cacophonous silence, Akalabeth faced Suedomsa.

He had already turned back her way and he had a window open.

'''<The rebel force within the castle has been eliminated.>

He gave further instructions.

“Place security on alert for outside intruders. Alert level: max. Any intruders are to be eliminated.”

'''<Intruders detected within the castle>

'''<nowiki><DT</nowiki> Yard Castle Station NPC Bodies: Numbers 00-31: Possibility of hostile action against current castle administrator Archon Suedomsa Txt: 89%. Should they be eliminated?>

Y.

When Suedomsa closed that window, a new one opened.

'''<Intruder detected within the castle>

'''<Demigod Yuo Natas Wav: Possibility of hostile action against current castle administrator Archon Suedomsa Txt: 69%. Should she be eliminated?>

N.

Akalabeth saw him close that window too.

“Yuo isn’t your enemy?”

<Because I need her soon. I don’t want any of these dimwitted modern NPC Bodies killing her.>

And…

<Now, Akalabeth, let’s negotiate.>

He raised his right hand and walked to the bottom of the dais’s stairs.

“I would like your management programs for the Questron and Babel and the Portal program that allows alterations to DT’s settings.”

“Where is Yuo?”

<There is no rush. She will be found in the castle eventually.>

Then he spoke aloud.

“I would like to settle this as peacefully as possible, but if you refuse to hand over the programs, I will once more set a rampaging NPC Body loose in the city like I did yesterday. So how about it, Akalabeth?”

He waited a few seconds and swung down his hand.

“Wait!” shouted Akalabeth on reflex.

<Such a pathetic plea. Your past self who led us Minus Elites is weeping.>

Suedomsa’s cheeks twisted a bit and he loudly snapped the fingers of his lowered right hand.

“Excel, start up three of them.”

“Yes, sir.”

He was answered by a trio of explosions from outside. They came from much further away than before.

Akalabeth faced south, staring at the unseen city beyond the audience chamber’s entrance.

'''<Akalabeth’s Over Zoom>

The triple sounds of destruction were coming from the south.

She saw Suedomsa raising his right hand again.

“Enough stalling. I will only ask once more: will you or will you not give me your programs?”

'''<Akalabeth’s Sight Mode has updated>