Editing City Series:Volume8a Chapter7 (section)

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

'''<Akalabeth’s Over Reload>

The midmorning sun entered the audience chamber.

The light shined on a large hole in the floor and the red carpet.

When the two old-style NPC Bodies entered the audience chamber, Akalabeth ran to the right side of the red carpet. She placed her feet on the very edge of the black abyss and turned to face Suedomsa.

He turned his head her way with the three program trigons still in his right hand.

'''<Akalabeth’s Over Zoom>

She attempted a closer look, but Suedomsa was only angling his eyebrows a bit. His eyes were not wide and his jaw was not dropping. He simply turned his lowered head her way.

Her shoulders drooped in a sigh.

“You’re still in Board Mode, aren’t you?”

<Of course I am. You are an elite who would choose death to preserve your honor. You were willing to recommend Yuo as a sacrifice, after all.>

After Suedomsa’s window appeared, he frowned a bit and spoke out loud this time.

“However…this world’s concepts have been changing since the city recovered from the format.”

“Since you love quoting the bible so much, I have a verse for you,” said Akalabeth. “It’s the one starting with ‘whoever finds their life’. Surely you know that one.”

Suedomsa’s expression did not change. He simply shook his head and responded.

“It is no use. Even if you do find your life and defeat me, it will not stop the godtact experiment. Because even if you do stop me, Algo will take over and activate the Questron in Babel. Just like the Son of God was resurrected after his death. …My godtact experiment is meant to make amends for the past, but his is a trial run for a new age. So for the present day, his godtact is the more important one.”

<So how about it, Akalabeth? Do you think you alone can stop a godtact experiment spanning two eras: the past and the present?>

“He will take over? You’re being ridiculous. Besides, you do not have a vessel other than Yuo and you can’t transport the Questron to Babel!”

<nowiki><I</nowiki> assure you it is all very possible, Akalabeth. Think over it…during your eternal slumber.>

The instant those words reached her, Akalabeth saw something fly toward her from the large door forming the audience chamber’s entrance to her right.

It was a large icicle.

It had been launched by the old-style NPC Body standing at the entrance. That was Myst, the woman in a white dress. Her virtual pen shined on the other side of the flying icicle that gathered up some of the audience chamber’s darkness.

Akalabeth made a split-second decision. She lowered her hips and then leaped backwards.

She also Downloaded.

'''“Sorry, but none of this is over yet.”

A shattering glass sound came from her back and her center of gravity stabilized.

Her reddish-purple dress flew from the red floor and into the open abyss.

The tip of the flying ice spear got a shallow slice in on her stomach and a reddish-purple scrap flew into the empty darkness.

Past the scattering cloth, she had dropped below the floor and into the adjacent Page of the pit. That meant her voice would not reach Suedomsa while he was in Board Mode.

So with her face pale, she opened her mouth with her back to the abyss.

“I think I see your trick now. The Quartet will copy the Questron for you.”

She twisted her lips and eyes into a slight smile.

“I do appreciate the dedication of saying your successor’s plan is the more important one, Suedomsa! It means you are assuming you will lose! It almost makes you sound like the Son of God preparing for his own death and resurrection!”

That was the end of it. She said nothing more.

The fluttering reddish-purple was swallowed by the darkness and she fell into the adjacent Page.

'''<Akalabeth’s Sight Mode has ended>