[IC] A Hero Tale {Complete}

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"He's above the civilian district, descending into Tech-mo fortress where all the city's head scientists will be, in order to get a grant out of him." The woman stated. "Oh, I'm sheira, by the by. Nice to meet you, Jenso."

Lark and Mikey's Ki sources were strong enough to appear beyond the thousands of weaker civilians, but Jenso could feel something else, much stronger than either of them. Perhaps it was because they were weakened? Or was it something else? No, wait, there were two energy signatures even stronger than theirs! And they both seemed oddly familiar.

[SuperFlash]

"Oh yes the king, ah darn, I was really hoping to get this magical alloy completed before his arrival." Jeff said turning to the metallic gauntlets sitting on the soot filled table. To his surprise now the thing was glowing but it seemed to be fading. "If only there was a way to keep the arcane energy inside this thing stabilized."

Jeff began pacing around the room a bit thinking about what options could he had to be used in this situation with something Jenso mentioned came to mind. "Hey Jenso, didn't you mention being able to use Arcane energy in some sort of way right?"

[Jensoman]

Jenso clenched his fists. 'Two other huge energy signatures...This can't be good..' Jenso thought, turning to Jeff. "I don't have time, man. You know why, I need-" Jenso muttered, and paused for a moment. Getting close to the king wouldn't be easy, and simply using brute force to reach him was risky and dangerous. Perhaps by participating in Jeff's experiment, he would have a shot at taking him down. "Well, I can fuse my Arcane with my Ki..." Jenso muttered. "I can only create flames with my arcane energy, though."

[SuperFlash]

"Well those flames might just be what we need here. I've been thinking that perhaps a stronger magical flame could perhaps keep the arcane energy infused into the ore." Jeff then proceeds to pick up the glowing bar and walk into the next room which seemed to made like a bunker for designed to contain explosions. Perhaps for the may experiments he had in the past which didn't go so well. "Could you perhaps see about blasting a shot at it with those arcane flames? You know something strong, but not strong enough to destroy the entire lab."

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Sheira jumped into Jeff's path and put her hands on her pronounced hips. "What part of grants did you not understand? If we don't leave now, we'll be late! I don't want those assholes over in YAle house to swoop in and take our money from under us!"

[Jensoman]

"Right! Here we go!!" Jenso cried out, ignoring Sheira's statement to leave. He created a white flame in the palm of his hands. The flame bursted violently out of his palm, showing that he had far less control over it then he had with the regular flame that he had displayed to Jeff the other day. He took a step away from Jeff and Sheira to avoid injuring them, and launched the white flame ball at the gauntlets.

[SuperFlash]

"Don't worry it should only take a moment.." Jeff started to respond as the white flames appeared and flew off at the metal, striking the gauntlets and causing the room to erupt into a burst of white flames.The blast caused Jeff to take a few steps back. "Well geeze, you really do need a little work controlling that.. given I understand the feeling.."
He then added in his wind powers and used them the best he could to help compact the flames in towards the gauntlets to keep he fire from spreading elsewhere. Once the fire faded the gauntlets remained there now with the glowing faded, but the presence of magic could still be felt within it.
"By gods did it actually work?"

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Sheira flinched at first, but as the process was completed, she looked on the creation with a bottomless curiosity.

"What in the world have you done?" She asked, completely taken aback. She blinked a few times and pushed Jeff out of the way to examine the gauntlets closer. "Jeff! Fetch the arcane scouter!"

[SuperFlash]

"right!" Jeff said dashing out of the room for a moment and coming back a minute later nearly tripping on himself in the rush. "here you go" he responded tossing her the scanner.

[Jensoman]

Jenso stared at the experiment and blinked. He had no clue what the two scientists were about to do, but the whole thing did interest him somewhat. He moved closer curiously, albeit remaining on a safe distance. He certainly didn't want to be blown up.

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Sheira snatched the Scouter out of midair and held it up to her right eye to examine the gauntlets. "No way..! These things are... Their readings are off the charts! We're looking at Arcane density that.. It's literally breaking the laws of arcane physics!" Sheira announced in a terrified, dropping the scouter. "Jenso, fusing Ki and arcane energy.. We've never even been able to detect Ki with our machines, but it's almost like this new state of energy is... We can see it!"

[SuperFlash]

"Well, if this doesn't get the kings attention.. I don't know what will..." Jeff said picking up the gauntlets and putting them in his backpack. "Okay grab the robot pieces and we should be good to headout. I've got the wind cannon so were good on that one."
The fact that this went perfectly for once got Jeff really excited. He ready ready to knock the king's socks off and to perhaps find out if what Jenso was saying about him was really true or not.

[Jensoman]

"Wow...that's awesome! I'm glad I could help with your research!" Jenso responded to Sheira with a wide grin on his face. He was quite proud of what he had done, even though he didn't understand the whole science behind the project. "Alright, let's go!" Jenso said in a cheerful and excited tone. "What stuff do you need? I'll carry it for you guys." He stated. He tried to locate any robot parts in the lab that Jeff mentioned.

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In their rush to get out of the lab and into the street, the three individuals didn't take notice of a creeping presence, lurking outside of the lab with its eyes fixated on something interesting. Regardless, Sheira led both Jeff and Jenso out into the courtyard, and into the hovercraft that they used to get around the city regularly. Looking up, Jenso might have noticed that it seemed to be the late evening, but it was indeed the next morning already. The sun couldn't pierce through the dense smog above them very proficiently. It was a mysterious atmosphere. And what of the king's presence? Where did Sera fit into all of this? Only time would tell..

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~ End Of Chapter 68 ~

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~ Chapter 69 ~

_{Grant Me A Joke}

Sheira piloted their hovercraft over the city with precision, hovering just over the civilian district, and heading for something on the horizon. Tech-Mo was a massive city, lined with towers and research centers. But the Tech-Mo fortress stood out among everything else as a shining becon.. Or rather, a dark castle.

It floated above the city slightly, hovering motionless with several crystals surrounding it, and seemingly keeping it afloat. The crystals were mounted in mechanisms that Jenso hadn't seen before, and the castle was even larger than Feralda's marble palace.

"Be on your best behavior," Sheira commanded, "Please! I don't want to miss this opportunity because one of you was being disrespectful! The king is a very temperamental fellow."

[Jensoman]

Jenso smiled at Sheira. "I'll do my best!" Jenso said to her. 'Right...I need to get to the king at all costs. Getting in there seems to be easy now, getting out will be a lot more difficult.' He thought. He scanned the castle and it's surroundings carefully with his eyes in case he had to make a quick escape. He tried to sense any high energy signatures within the castle as they got closer.

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There were several stronger aura in the castle, and one that was absolutely overbearing compared to the rest. Still, it didn't compare to that of Ross, Mikey, or Lark. It was strong, but no stronger than Gol-Ira, or Bobba. Perhaps that was the king? Was he really that weak? Perhaps the folks around here were not nearly comparable to Jenso, or the people he'd fought in the past.

"I'm bringing us in!" Sheir announced, dipping below the castle with a sudden swoop. In moments, she tipped the craft back up, and flew them into a circular hole at the bottom of the castle. When inside, the edges of the circle were visible, and looked like loading bays as if the fortress was a giant ship. There were a ton of identical hovercraft inside, each with only slightly varying paint jobs and attachments. When Sheira landed, she hopped out and guided Jeff and Jenso towards one of the three staircases that were evenly placed at the ends of the giant circular loading bay.

[SuperFlash]

"Do not worry my dear assistants, I shall be on my best behavior as I wow them with my scientific genius. hahahaha." Jeff said laughing out loud with confidence. Clearly there was no way at all whatsoever this could go wrong so he could not help himself.

[Jensoman]

Jenso looked around the castle as he walked. "Wow, this place is huge.." Jenso muttered, sticking close to Jeff and Sheira. He kept his guard up as they moved, not wanting to be caught off guard. There were many strange parts of high technology within the ship, and not knowing what all of it did could be dangerous.

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Sheira rolled her eyes and lead the two of them into the main hall. There was a massive carpet laid out for them, and a massive set of doors on the north side of the room. Voices were echoing from inside. It seemed that they had already started. "NO!" Sheira shrieked, rushing into the room. "GREGORY BETTER BE IN THERE!!"

Jenso and Jeff were meant to follow, but as Sheira disappeared into a tiny door near the bottom of the giant doorway, a shadow descended from above, landing in front of Jenso and Jeff.

"Greetings and salutations my friends! Fancy seeing me here, of all places?" Vale announced with his arms raised and a massive smile.