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The Least Common Denominator CII.III Ordered Pair
There. That should at least come across as condescending and mocking. At the very least, they'll see it as me looking at them like they're kids wasting their time arguing over something ridiculous and stupid.'As if your general state is something they can easily ignore.'Well, I think I'm an insignificant speck in the grand scheme of things. They're the ones overestimating my actual worth in terms of intelligence and tactical acumen.'And once again, you're underselling yourself.'No, I'm not. You all just think I'm better than I actually am.The world stopped making sense as everybody of note just kept looking at me with a dumbfounded look on their faces. Lace and Anne at least looked like they already got what I was saying and just lowered their heads respectively. Ruby constantly stole g
The Least Common Denominator CIII.I Kilowatt
TESLA⬛⬛⬛In a world filled with sorrow and pain, Tesla once thought that she can live her life without hurting anybody. Her staunch pacifism was something she was once proud of. However, the past few months had greatly shattered her entire worldview. While she still abhorred violence with a burning passion, the former Prime now saw the necessity in fighting and using her abilities to their fullest. She might not be able to look at herself in the mirror properly anymore, but at least she can rest assured that she was fighting for a greater cause than simply trying in vain to stop all conflict from happening."A world of violence..."Looking out from the balcony outside of the throne room, Tesla pondered on how and why she somehow managed to find herself fighting for the opposite side of the Empire. She was a noble, dest
The Least Common Denominator CIII.II Kilowatt
TESLA⬛⬛⬛The world around her moved in slow motion. Tesla felt her heart pumping at speeds that she intrinsically knew were far from healthy as she let her Essence wreak havoc on her own body. Her nerves lit ablaze as she settled into a trance; thoughts pushing themselves further despite her already loaded mind having to juggle her defensive tactics around her."Hooooh....? YoOuu'Re aCtuAlly kILlinG yoUrSelF?"The lightning Num felt her mind churn for a single instance as a garbled mess of words reached her ears. His words came out to her slow and distorted, but it was easy enough to tell that the Prime was commenting on her current state. In the span of a single second, Tesla felt a trace of Essence travel the air within her immediate range. A foreign presence seeped into the ground below her once more, shards of meta
The Least Common Denominator CIII.III Kilowatt
TESLA⬛⬛⬛An explosion of lightning enveloped Tesla as a newfound emotion rushed through her recovering body. The ground beneath her crumbled to dust as her power permeated the surrounding area. She couldn't even see her opponent as the brief flash of light turned everything as bright as the sun before finally dissipating, revealing a rather disturbing sight that was the utter destruction of the street they were fighting in."I will... I am NOT a killer!"Essence surged through her veins as a veil of lightning enveloped her very being. The sheer rage she was feeling was nothing like she had ever felt before. Tesla had heard much about some people getting the better of some people. She had fashioned herself as above such violent urges, but now...*CRACKLE! CRACKLE!*
The Least Common Denominator CIII.IV Kilowatt
TESLA⬛⬛⬛For a single second, Tesla consulted her metal map for any and anything that she could use to her advantage. At the back of her head, she felt Olivia completely enter her effective range even as she was rapidly zooming away from the eastern gate with her opponent running just beneath her. It was only a miracle that the man was so easy to goad into attacking just from a few failed strikes from her lightning."YyyyYYooo'''rreeEE nnOOOTttt GGEeetttITinggg AawwaAYy...!!!"The world of slowed-down time distorted all around her as even the minute shards of metal flying right towards her felt as if they were frozen in time to her own perception. Her body surged with unbridled electricity with every slow beat of her heart, her seemingly endless reserves somehow still managing to provide for her needs even as she pract
The Least Common Denominator CIII.V Kilowatt
TESLA⬛⬛⬛PAIN PAIN PAIN PAIN PAIN!!!!!"AAEHGHEHGEAHHAGHHG!!!!!"Tesla honestly thought her throat would destroy itself from screaming as she clawed at her stomach in pain. Blood oozed from the jarring gash as each and every second of agonizing pain felt like an eternity had passed from her perspective. Her vision turned white from sheer pain, her mind blanking out as she did her best to power through the over-enhanced feelings of agony coursing through her body."AHHHA!!! HAH AHHAA!!!"Scream after scream, Tesla didn't even know if a second had already passed. Her Essence ran havoc all across her pain-riddled body, her nerves firing madly at the overload of stimuli that she was experiencing. Already, the thought of cutting off her trance ran through her mind li
The Least Common Denominator CIII.VI Kilowatt
TESLA⬛⬛⬛It was now or never. Tesla could estimate that she will only last for a few more big attacks until she was completely drained of her Essence. Her liberal use of her power earlier drained her of far too much for a battle of this caliber, which meant that she was constrained to the use of her trance and brute force for the remainder of the fight. It wouldn't have been too bad, but with her opponent being clearly better than her in melee combat, she had her work cut out for her.No matter. It only meant that she had to think harder and use her wits to win the fight."CCccocoommme!!"At his unintelligible signal, Tesla let her body do the work as she assessed the current battlefield for answers. The spires of metal around them seemed to breathe as power permeated the entire area. Her o
The Least Common Denominator CIV.I Transistor
OLIVIA ⬛⬛⬛ *KRAKATHOOM!* "W-What the!?" Olivia almost jumped from where she stood from the sheer loudness of the perceived attack; a feeling of dread washing over her as she quickened her pace to go to where she and Tesla were supposed to meet. From within the palace grounds, the sudden burst of lightning from the eastern district almost seemed to echo to almost the entirety of the city. An invisible shockwave rolled over everything in its path, a testament to just how powerful the singular lightning strike was that even seemed to part the dark clouds that materialized over almost half the city. The warrior Den briefly shook the dread out of her thoughts, looking at the clear hole in the dark sky as she hurried her in her steps.
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CV.V Cotangent
I don't even know what's happening anymore..."Huh... That looks far too complex even for you, Crimson," Phillipe snarked at my work. Technically Anne's as well, to be honest. "A square rune with that many parts? I don't think that'll work out in the long run.""You and me both," I rolled my eyes with the sarcasm of an overflowing dam. "Seriously, why are you here?""You're being annoying."I raised an eyebrow at the blunt delivery of his oh-so-important announcement. Giving him the best sarcastic inquisitive eyes I could muster, I let out a scoff as I began whatever this talk was going to end up as.'Right behind you there.'You always are, Ica. "And?"Phillipe smirked at me as if he knew exactly what I was thinking, "You're wasting
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CV.IV Cotangent
"Let's go crazy..."With a borderline manic whisper, I let my imagination cut loose as my hand moved on its own. Traps within traps, earthen sigils meant to sprout at a moment's notice, the world was my oyster as the goodies slowly accumulated with each stroke of my charcoal.'Don't get too carried away, Master.'I know. I'm not dumb enough to overload the thing before it even came to fruition.And that was the biggest risk to such a massive array as well. With so many moving parts, any wrong line or overlapping rune will pretty much make the whole thing explode. I couldn't stress it enough, even to myself. Do not make this thing more complicated than it already is.'And yet here you are having fun with it.'Don't test me, Ica. Or maybe I'll just assert me being
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CV.III Cotangent
Fiiiineee... You win, my precious Ica.The stuttering that ensued at the back of my head was like a soothing tune as I looked over my work. The communication arrays were gonna stay, as would the Essence storage runes at strategic parts of the palace grounds. Hmmm.... Wouldn't the communication arrays be two-way anyway? So why even bother with surveillance runes like last time?My hand moved to remove the minor additions I added on the dirt parts of the grounds, leaving me with more space to work with in terms of... well... anything, really. What kind of runes would even work on shaky ground? Dirt couldn't hold anything beyond the basic types of runic arrays. Anything more complex than a three-layered circuit would blow up instantly from the strain. I could maybe run- wait... why not just do that?The charcoal streaked across the outskirts of the pa
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CV.II Cotangent
*ruummbbllee...*The sound of a sputtering engine echoed from behind me as I drew up yet another set of circles on the board. While I kind of put the general purpose of the massive multi-circuit array at the back of my head, I really should try and solidify that stuff properly before making the main control array, shouldn't I...'Good thing you remembered that, Master.'I grumbled through the dull pain I was feeling at my knees as I focused myself back on the doodle that was supposed to be a defense system for the palace grounds. It was far too small of a circle, now that I thought about it. The size of the drawing did little to help me ascertain the types of circuits that I drew on it in the first place. Squinting even further, it felt as if I was reading my own handwriting from how jumbled and nonsensical it all looked with hindsight.
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CV.I Cotangent
Plans upon plans upon plans. I feel like I'm repeating myself whenever I say that I'm obsessed about things going right, and if not, to have plans to be able to properly react to the failure. Fool-proofing something small was easy. Doing it again for something on the scale of a war, however, was a completely different beast. The number of variables at play, hundreds to even thousands of moving parts to look over and take into account. The time, the weather, morale, even individuals that might have other ideas and could stray from the plans put into place... It was so much to think about that hours or even days of pouring over the relevant information wouldn't be enough to take everything into account into one's plans. And even if you think you somehow managed to achieve this impossibility, there will always be something so monumentally out of left field that could just absolutely destroy any and all plans along with its sub plans and
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Interlude XXXIX: Grigori
GRIGORI⬛⬛⬛*RRRRRUUUMMBBLLEEEE!!!! RRRRUUMMBBLEEEE!!!*"What's wrong, Lord Stone?! Finally getting tired in your old age?!"Grigori grumbled in annoyance as he found himself standing his ground in his self-made fortress. Truth be told, the former Prime expected his fight to be over over ten minutes ago. However, he severely underestimated his enemies' hidden tenacity and downright stubbornness."I'm just getting started, kid!" he boisterously replied. "I'm far from being done!"Still, even as he said those words, Grigori was beginning to feel more tired than he initially expected. His reserves were starting to run dry from the constant back and forth that the combined forces of Lords Breeze and Inferno were throwing at him. And that's not to mention the current
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CIV.IV Transistor
OLIVIA⬛⬛⬛"So Lord Iron truly took care of the problem?"Olivia held her breath as she found herself taking in the state that the young Num was just found in. Broken, battered, and bleeding all over, Tesla had clearly taken a beating of a lifetime as her head lolled in her unconscious state, her face marred with cuts and bruises as her white hair was stained brown with dried blood."Damn... I guess the ranking in the Prime Thirteen's not a joke, huh...""Lord Iron's the Sixth, after all. Lady Static's the Thirteenth...""Fuck..." Olivia swore under her breath, her teeth gnashing as she watched the Imperials gawk at her fallen friend. "How the hell do I get her out of there safely..."The warrior Den tuned everything out as she focused on the unenviabl
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CIV.III Transistor
OLIVIA⬛⬛⬛*c..crackle....*The faint sound of electricity seemed to crackle from the distance as Olivia stood in the middle of her self-made carnage. The lack of common sense that she was witnessing honestly made her feel more irritated than amused as she slowly walked towards the panicking commander. Olivia had places to be, and possibly someone to save depending on whether or not Tesla could somehow relay to her that she was okay."No matter," she sighed. "You idiots wouldn't understand, I guess.""No!-"*SLASH!*With a quick step, the commander didn't even stand a chance. His sword fell with an unceremonious clang onto the ground as his head rolled off his neck like a piece of meat. Olivia didn't flinch as the idiot's terrified fa
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CIV.II Transistor
OLIVIA⬛⬛⬛*CRACKLE! CRACKLE! KRAKATHOOM!*Olivia ran through the streets of Mathema like a woman possessed. Wreaking havoc across every Imperial contingent she came across, lightning followed her path as she relied on Tesla's ever-encompassing presence to deal massive damage on the enemy while despite being outnumbered by at least a hundred to one. She knew that Her Sister would no doubt disapprove of her current tactics, but if it worked, then why bother changing it?"If it ain't broke, don't fix it, right?"*KRAKATHOOM!*"AAHHH!!!!""IT BURNS!"With a smile on her face and blood on her blade, Olivia uttered her Sister's own words out loud as a reminder. Lightning crackled behind her, screams of her fallen enemies saturat
