Chapter 7
At Incandescent Inc ‘s reception desk, Mr YoSo was walking along side Julie, “Boss will be angry” said Julie casually as a way to mock Mr YoSo since he was the senior out of the pair. “Julie if you had checked for other doors at the bookstore, we would not be in this mess right now” Mr YoSo snapped back. They gave in their ID cards and were escorted to the lifts by the security guards, Mr YoSo walked pride fully, he was a valuable asset to Incandescent; he had worked here for five years as a field agent before finally getting promoted to Head of external Affairs. Incandescent was a large organization, and definitely a rich one. Incandescent had a number of bases around the world; the Head Quarters were located in the middle of New York City. The organization mainly worked in shipping industry and controlled a great deal of the market. However, this was only half of the story, Incandescent also worked in areas frowned upon by government, this was well covered up of course. The organization was currently working on Project Odyssey, which was top secret; this project had been inspired by the recent success of another project which resulted in the creation of the first ever half human cybernetic organism, Saek. The lifts opened, Mr YoSo and Julie looked up, despite the recent successes, failure was not accepted by the boss, and they both new that anyone who failed to recognize this would be dealt with, effectively.
Mr YoSo and Julie exited the lift, and made their way to Sarge’s office; they stopped at the door, and lowered their heads to get to the retina scanner, once done, the doors opened. Mr YoSo entered first, the room was dark, and empty apart from a few pictures; Mr YoSo knew this room was from empty, this room was rigged with secret passages and traps, the Boss was always in total control. There was a large, table in front of them, and there sat The Grand Master, Sarge. In the darkness, it was impossible for them to see Sarge completely; the only source of light was hitting them straight, blinding them as if they were in an interrogation room. Sarge spoke first, “you have the book I believe, yes?” despite this being a question, Mr YoSo knew perfectly well that Sarge knew they didn’t have the book, he was ridiculing him. Mr YoSo thought of his words carefully, Sarge was a dangerous man, “No, sir a young man ran with the book, nonetheless, we have important Intel on him, we should have the book soon.” There was a long silent, Sarge moved his head into the light slightly so they could see him, he was a well built man, short brown hair, he had an eye patch over his right eye, this combined with his terrifying scar across his face made Sarge a man to fear. “I send in two able agents, who were out smarted by an old man and a child, how shameful; to make it worse, the police were notified.
Your recklessness has cost us Saek, fortunately he isn’t beyond repair” said Sarge, “ I am sorry sir” replied Mr YoSo, but before he could finish, he was interrupted, “you’re sorry?!” shouted an enraged Sarge, he slammed his fist into the table leaving a large fracture on the table. Sarge continued, “I should kill both of you where you stand however, your services to Incandescent have been good, and all is not lost yet, Project Odyssey is still intact, through that book, Incandescent will be emitting light just like that of a Lighthouse and we will guide this world and all of humanity to a new world order.”
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Cubone woke up to blaring noise to his neighbor’s alarm as usual, however, he did not rush out of bed like normal, for starters, he didn’t have job, and also, a lot of things had happened which rendered having a normal life impossible. Yesterday’s events had changed him in ways he could not possible imagine. On his chest was the book, it looked like any regular book, Cubone was having trouble understanding how it could have been responsible for the dangers he had faced, surely there must be a fine line between anime and reality; just then, Cubone thought back to Vapen’s words, “It’ll make your dreams a reality...” Despite him having had the book for a day, he hadn’t got a chance to actually read it. Cubone turned his head and glanced around his room, there was no sign of Meta and Sunshine. He opened the book and the first page read:
To call forth a character, hold the book and picture the character, the character will appear in a flash of light.
There are different character classes
Defence
Attack
Magic
Character Levels
Level 1(the weakest characters)
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
Level 5(the strongest characters)
At times of distress, a default Level 2 Defence character will appear, to defend the user automatically
Increased usage of the book will allow a user to access higher level characters; Also, higher usage of the book may allow the user of the book to access powerful abilities which a character may have, increasing the level which they are currently at.
Side Effects
Using the book does have side effects though, the stronger a character is, the stronger the side effects.
Time Limit
A level 1 character can stay around for a maximum of 30 minutes
A level 2 character can stay around for a maximum of 25 minutes
A level 3 character can stay around for a maximum of 20 minutes
A level 4 character can stay around for a maximum of 15 minutes
A level 5 character can stay around for a maximum of 10 minutes
Characters may override this rule if they were to fall in battle, this does not mean they’ll be unusable for another time, but they’ll return to the book. Certain characters, will not be able to use certain special abilities consistently.
Cubone shut the book; for now this was all he needed to know, his first priority was to leave this place, since he was a sitting duck. Vapen flashed across Cubone’s mind; Cubone thought carefully while packing his clothes, Vapen’s abductors would probably be monitoring Vapen incase Cubone decides to look for him. Cubone took his savings, momentarily looked at the apartment, and left, never to return.
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