Editing City Series:Volume8b Chapter11 (section)

===Telyb’s Sight Mode: In North DT===

'''<Telyb’s Over Reload>

Telyb stood in front of the shielded castle.

His Yard force was spread out along the dirt road when a sudden tremor knocked their feet out from under them.

The encirclement created from an artillery team cried out and crouched low.

The ground quaked, the houses shook, and the air tremored.

“Calm down! This will be over soon!”

Telyb’s voice brought them back to their senses, so they planted their feet firmly on the ground.

Then the tremor vanished.

A window had opened in front of all the Yard members who were not NPC Bodies within a half mile radius of the castle.

'''<Warning: Restart of Questron is complete. All unauthorized personnel must leave the premises immediately.>

Then Telyb saw a change come over the castle.

The defense shield surrounding it vanished.

It disappeared as quickly as it had appeared.

The curtain of light vanished from top to bottom, like a fruit being peeled.

The contents were revealed.

“The castle.”

The massive gray building now existed in the same space as the Yard.

Everyone sighed and began chatting.

But immediately around Telyb, none of the people forming the encirclement and none of the people preparing to charge the castle moved.

Their motionlessness was caused by a sound.

It came from behind them. It came from the tower rising toward heaven in the south.

A loud sound came from there.

Standing within the artillery team, Telyb asked Fooblicky a question.

“Should we turn around? I don’t want to take my eyes off the castle.”

“You’ll see something a lot more Minus-y than a castle captured by some outsiders.”

Fooblicky was already looking back, so Telyb turned to the south as well.



'''<Telyb’s Over Zoom: Full Sight Open>

Babel.

The word tower standing more than 2 miles tall was wrapped in light and producing noise.

A loud noise. The entire tower cried with a roar similar to the buzzing of insect wings.

At the same time, light resembling leaf veins shined across the ultra-tall tower.

Telyb and Fooblicky weren’t the only ones looking back now. Everyone gathered in front of the castle was.

Windows opened in front of those who were not NPC Bodies.

'''<Babel is activating. It will produce noise and light for a time, but this is an unavoidable part of the activation process. It will settle down in a few minutes, so do not worry.>

Babel’s noise grew louder and its light grew brighter while they read the identical windows.

Without warning, a color appeared in the southern sky: a white light.

The white light raced up from Babel’s peak and into the heavens.

'''<Babel activation complete: Control privileges have been granted to Administrator Excel Sys.>

'''<Babel Activation Phase 1 is stable: accelerating word particle extraction from ley lines. Conversion to virtual heat energy is possible.>

A light sound like a breaking lightbulb scattered through the air, but Babel still erupted with light.

In an instant, that light refused to be emitted into the sky and branched apart at the base.

“Their enchanter!? Are they sending power to the castle!?” shouted Telyb as the light bent before his eyes.

The light was directed toward the castle.

In an instant, the bright lightning in the sky covered the distance from Babel to the castle.

The light formed several thick beams and scorched the air with a sound like splashing water.

The light and noise shook everyone’s eyes and ears.

During the sizzling sound resembling splashing water, everyone’s eyes followed the light, showing them a glowing net set up in the sky.

A giant white object could be seen in front of the false sky covered by the power-propagating net of light.

It was the blimp.

The large white blimp normally floated above the amusement park, but it was arriving overhead now.

'''<Telyb’s Over Zoom>

Telyb gasped and moved his gaze from Babel to the blimp.

It had stopped at a position about 500 yards overhead.

Something like a white thread extended from its nose to the castle.

Telyb put his arm around Fooblicky’s shoulders.

He felt a single tremor run through her, but she said nothing and let him pull her close. He spoke after confirming that.

“Sorry. Being slow to act has always been a bad habit of mine. …Prepare to send the withdrawal signal.”

“Are two Minus Elites just not enough to challenge Suedomsa, the ultimate Minus Elite?”

Fooblicky sounded exasperated as she opened the window with the notice to send out to all the Yard members.

After waiting for her to open the window, he turned his eyes to the thread in the sky. It stretched from the blimp’s nose to the castle rooftop where the flowing net fell.

'''<Telyb’s Over Zoom>

The light illuminated a pair standing on the edge of the gray castle roof, with the tall communications tower behind them.

One was a black man dressed as a butler. The other was a woman in a white dress with some sort of long white staff in her hands.

The woman raised her white staff.

Light was already running through it. The crimson light formed an emblem symbol resembling a stone slab.

Red light formed a lotus flower emblem in the hands of the man standing by her side.

The effects of their emblems had already shown themselves.

The blimp.

Its white elliptical shape had changed.

Gun turrets had appeared on its round bottom side.

Large turrets like that couldn’t normally be installed on a gasbag. They were 125mm guns.

One of the Yard members muttered “it can’t be” when he saw the muzzles aimed their way.

The turrets in the sky produced light as if to prove that statement wrong.

In the center of the Yard group, Telyb added strength to the arm around Fooblicky’s shoulders.

'''<Telyb’s Sight Mode continues.>