The consequences start out small. First, you feel fatigued. Then, you start to feel certain status effects like poison, and then it turns into cuts and bruises and weakened bones. The more you use it, the worse your injuries will get. [ He pauses. ] You'll eventually die if you use it too much.
[ So, it'll do more than just hurt in the end. He thinks on Ganymede's second question for a bit before finally settling on: ]
You'll know when the time comes to use it elsewhere.
Yes. Taking a break from using it will reverse the effects.
[ Perhaps that might provide enough of a relief to Ganymede, especially when he sees that there are certainly others in the same situation as him—they'll be able to team up. ]
...I can't predict what else might happen.
[ After all, they've run into things that Zelkova never expected them to, like those armor sets for one. ]
But I think that you'll know, one way or another. [ ... ] And if you don't, I'll be here for you to ask.
That's good to know. I can basically whack someone over the head and tell them to stop being stupid if it happens.
[ It is a relief, enough to make him let out a breath. Otherwise he'd be gaining white hairs early even in a reality game. People might be giving him those IRL somehow prematurely based upon their recklessness, though. ]
...I suppose that's true. Well, whatever, I can't think up any other scenario and propose it to you so in the meanwhile I'll cross my fingers that it doesn't get worse. [ He's too cynical to believe something else bad won't come along, though. ] But, while we're on the subject of dealing with enemies, what else do you know about them, exactly? Like...do you know if those shielded monsters only come from that one dungeon?
[ The one Dehya and Fanny Danny went to, he means. ]
That monster I saw in a dungeon has been defeated. What Vogel and Winter saw was something else. I think that dragon will stay right where it is... hopefully. So don't worry about that one coming back to find them.
Ganymede harrumphs a little, crossing his arms. Yes, Zelkova was right on the money that he was concerned about that, but he supposes he is getting to know him better now. ]
...Well, that's good.
[ He clears his throat. ]
Do you happen to know how that dragon got turned to stone, by the way?
...Are there legends about stuff being made from dragons?
[ He doesn't quite get the significance of paths being made by bones of dragons, or maybe it's just something added for flavor.
Since Ganymede is still thinking about how to deal with the monsters, he thinks he'll refocus most of his inquiries on that, though. ]
Also, did you ever happen to notice something off about the Root Towns? On the day those creatures starting to swarm. If they can enter, there has to be something like changed there too, right? And not just a matter of a place suddenly switching from PvP to not.
Good luck, Ganymede. [ For both looking for some sort of source and on the get-together. ] If anyone can get everyone together on the same page, it's you.
[ Because Ganymede is incredibly, incredibly tenacious. ]
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All I know is that I gave you the power to deal with the shielded monsters. That Core I gave you will let you perform Data Drain.
[ He has a feeling Ganymede will ask how, so Zelkova holds out his wrist as a green bracelet forms around it. ]
Hold out your hand and will the Core to work. There are no monsters for you to target here, but you'll see the bracelet on your wrist.
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Ganymede holds out his hand to see if it'll appear by 'willing' the thing to appear, and I assume it will. ]
...Data Drain.
That's the ability you used before when Fandaniel and Dehya went on that dangerous dungeon?
[ He will marvel at its appearance if the same kind of bracelet makes its showing regardless. ]
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[ It sure does appear! Blue, green, and pink tendrils of data spurt forth from the bracelet, but with nothing to latch onto, they simply wave about. ]
But you need to be careful when you use it. Using it on someone without a Core like yours will kill them.
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No thanks! ]
...Are there any other drawbacks I should know about?
[ You know, just in case... ]
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[ And hopefully Ganymede doesn't find out what those are. ]
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[ Ganymede will be sure to warn people about it
and has been now as of the meeting, but he has to wonder about this too. ]...And this power, it's basically just made for like, getting rid of those shields, right?
[ Just asking this quick question in case for informative purposes. ]
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The consequences start out small. First, you feel fatigued. Then, you start to feel certain status effects like poison, and then it turns into cuts and bruises and weakened bones. The more you use it, the worse your injuries will get. [ He pauses. ] You'll eventually die if you use it too much.
[ So, it'll do more than just hurt in the end. He thinks on Ganymede's second question for a bit before finally settling on: ]
You'll know when the time comes to use it elsewhere.
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Is there a chance to reverse the conditions if someone puts out using it for awhile?
[ But Ganymede shakes his head at the other answer. It might sound reasonable to him if they could leave though with that not an option... ]
...What do you mean I'll know? With our lives at stake, I can't just guess at when that'd be.
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[ Perhaps that might provide enough of a relief to Ganymede, especially when he sees that there are certainly others in the same situation as him—they'll be able to team up. ]
...I can't predict what else might happen.
[ After all, they've run into things that Zelkova never expected them to, like those armor sets for one. ]
But I think that you'll know, one way or another. [ ... ] And if you don't, I'll be here for you to ask.
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[ It is a relief, enough to make him let out a breath. Otherwise he'd be gaining white hairs early even in a reality game. People might be giving him those IRL somehow prematurely based upon their recklessness, though. ]
...I suppose that's true. Well, whatever, I can't think up any other scenario and propose it to you so in the meanwhile I'll cross my fingers that it doesn't get worse. [ He's too cynical to believe something else bad won't come along, though. ] But, while we're on the subject of dealing with enemies, what else do you know about them, exactly? Like...do you know if those shielded monsters only come from that one dungeon?
[ The one Dehya and Fanny Danny went to, he means. ]
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I don't know where they come from. But... I know that they're preprogrammed.
[ He can at least give Ganymede that much. ]
I had no idea when or where their code would activate, though... or when they'd be unleashed.
[ Hence his preparation for this worst case scenario that they're all facing now. ]
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[ They were something like a sleeper enemy army of some sort, huh? Only to be released when the time was 'right'. Not that sounds very comforting. ]
...Also, do you know if there is a way to track their source? I figure if there is, it wouldn't be easy, but...
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[ To both of those questions. Though he thinks simply shaking his head will do. ]
I don't know anything else about them, just that they were preprogrammed.
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It really was a sleeper shield-monster army. ]
...Is that stone dragon which showed up at one of those dungeons also preprogrammed and going to come alive to try to eat people?
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[ He says that with confidence, at least. ]
It's possible it could follow the other monsters, but I'd like to think that it wouldn't.
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The one Vogel and Michel saw?
[ He had no idea Zelkova went back there to defeat it?? ]
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[ He frowns, thinking back over the areas. ]
That monster I saw in a dungeon has been defeated. What Vogel and Winter saw was something else. I think that dragon will stay right where it is... hopefully. So don't worry about that one coming back to find them.
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Ganymede harrumphs a little, crossing his arms. Yes, Zelkova was right on the money that he was concerned about that, but he supposes he is getting to know him better now. ]
...Well, that's good.
[ He clears his throat. ]
Do you happen to know how that dragon got turned to stone, by the way?
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I have no idea. But I do know that the path is carved out of the bones of a dragon.
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[ He doesn't quite get the significance of paths being made by bones of dragons, or maybe it's just something added for flavor.
Since Ganymede is still thinking about how to deal with the monsters, he thinks he'll refocus most of his inquiries on that, though. ]
Also, did you ever happen to notice something off about the Root Towns? On the day those creatures starting to swarm. If they can enter, there has to be something like changed there too, right? And not just a matter of a place suddenly switching from PvP to not.
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[ Which are fair questions, honestly. ]
...I can try looking again, just to see what I can find.
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[ Even if they're preprogrammed that'd mean they had to be teleported over somehow, he thinks. Like a Chaos Gate for monsters.
Or it's one of those game-controlled things by CC Corp, but he doesn't think he can really fathom the particulars. He's not an expert. ]
I think it won't hurt looking. If you have no other answers, I think that'll be all that I have for now.
I plan on getting everyone together, so that they can be on the same page. I believe with everything that's happening, it'll work out well enough.
[ For once he doesn't feel cynical about it. But perhaps, given what happens in the future, he should've. ]
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[ Because Ganymede is incredibly, incredibly tenacious. ]