Limbo was in Full on Debugger mode. Gaja was speechless after seeing Limbo like this. He was wondering what surprises Limbo will show more.
Limbo was looking for prey.
But, something approached towards him, slowly, gently, and without him noticing,
Bang... Hit his head. "Who dares to sneak attack?" He turned with an angry look.
But he was standing in front of a raging volcano that was ready to erupt, hey Rin... Hehehe. Limbo laughed, but this was a laugh like a cat in front of a tiger.
Rin was angry. We are in a dangerous forest while fighting beasts, and you want to show off, where do you put your brain, sometimes?
"I was gone with the flow, but don't you think I cleared most of the beast?" Limbo said while pouting. "So what? Do you want me to praise you? Treat you as a saviour?" Rin said.
"No."
But, that's not a bad idea?
Hahaha, Gaja started to laugh, while looking their quarrel.
They looked at him and then laugh while looking at eachother.
Hey let's hurry we can't stay here.
We have to find the clues, let's get moving before any problem show up.
The air was getting heavy as they marched forward into the forest.
System Notify,
[ Environmental interference detected ]
[ Unknown energy field ]
[ Proceed with caution ]
Rin suddenly feels something.
"Something's off, trees around here giving me a strange vibe."
Gaja rubbed his right arm, the faint line marks from the last night began to glow again. "Uh..Limbo, the Mark has started to glow again."
Limbo turned, "Stay as you are".
Hey system opened the console. "Can you do something about this?"
The letters scrambled. "Perfect, the something is messing with us..."
They began to move deeper in the direction of the Giant trees, and suddenly they opened into a clearing, wide and bright. It was almost feels unreal. This much open space in the middle of the forest.
In that area, there was a tree different from other. It's trunk was silver white, it's roots were half-buried in ground, and it's branches were touching the clouds, it was glowing and emitting sound like a it has a real heartbeat.
The system flickered again, this time in confirmation.
[ Target identify: silver resonance core ]
[ Stability Level: critical ]
"So this is the target, huh?"
Rin asked, "Have we finally found it?"
"I think whatever cursed him," Limbo answered.
The light from the tree intensified. Gaja moved forward, clutching his arm as glowing lines began to spread on his arm.
Wait!, don't... don't do anything, Limbo reached him, but it was already late.
The moment Limbo's hand touched Gaja's shoulder, the world shifted.
Everything around Gaja and Limbo turned white. Limbo saw flashes. He saw chains of light, a core surrounded by darkness, a silver aura trapped around within.
It was also looking at Limbo, for an instant, Limbo felt like it knew him and his name. But Limbo didn't.
Then,...boom.
Crack! Like glass shatters.
The connection snapped, and both of them
Tremble back. Rin rushed towards them. She was worried.
Her eyes were widened.
She asked them...
"What just happened?"
Limbo was gasping. "I think someone was trying to contact us... Or maybe warn us." Whatever that is, I don't know.
Rin was trying to say something,but suddenly ground started to tremble, root started to emerge from soil, they soon take a form, of a tall matalic creature, with half-wood and half-light.
System Notify this in it was red.
[ Defensive Entity activated ]
[ Type: Guardian, awaken to erase intruder ]
"Uhh, now the tree has antivirus," Limbo said to himself. This was a sudden surprise.
Guardian extended his arms, and in a moment, the root hand turned into blades of light and started to attack. Gaja reacted quickly and barely blocked the attack with his swords. Their clash generated sparks.
Meanwhile Rin raised her hands controlling vines, and shot from the ground, the vine wrapped around guardians legs, to slow it.
"Limbo do something, don't just stand there like scarecrow." Rin shouted.
"I am analyzing it, hold it for moments," he said,
Limbo got an idea, hey, system open the code window.
System open console,
If (spear.mode!=anti_resonance){
Spear.addFunction(anti_resonance)
Spear.energyShift(inverse)
}
As he finished, the Spear started to shine, its colour turned slightly silver-white with black stripes.
He grabs his spear and stretches it back, and throws it at the beast with his strength.
Guardian beast moved his head aside to dodge, spear missed his target. Gaja shouted, "Damm... it missed."
But Limbo was calmed, "It's not over yet!" Limbo controls its trajectory and aims at the beast from behind. This time it aims for the core in the chest. Which was huge in size.
Boom....
Spear pierced its chest while scattering its core. After the core destroy beast screams, in a strange metallic voice.
And scattered into small pieces.
But at the same time, Gaja collapsed. The marking on his hand flared like wildfire.
Gaja! Rin holds him while Limbo thrusts his Spear into the ground.
The shockwave burst from his body, scattered like lightning. Limbo spear acts as a Lightning Aristor and transfers into the ground. For a moment, they saw rings of data and symbols hovering around the tree. Everyone was shaken by the shockwave.
Guardian's body cracked and crumbled into dust. The silver-white tree slowly loses its glowing light.
System pop-up,
[Curse Fragment Acquired:1/3]
[Core Synchronisation: 12% ]
[ Data integrity: partial Restore]
Limbo take a breath of relief, "Two more, huh?"
"What do you say?" Rin asked in surprise.
"Yeah, we have to beat two more."
Rin sits near Gaja, and she gives first aid by gently wrapping bandages with medicine.
Rin examines Gaja, "he's fine, just exhausted." Limbo felt relief. He leaned against a tree, his eyes reflecting silver light of the tree. He was lost in deep thought.
The system flickered.
But Limbo couldn't understand anything.
Half of the text was no longer readable, written in an unknown language.
His Debugger brain starts to run, "I think, I know this script, but it can be that, right..?"
"Hey system, is this... The Sanskrit?" He whispered.
But, Rin heard...
Sansk...what?
"Nothing," he nodded. "Let's move after he wakes up." Limbo said.
While he was thinking, the wind was flowing while carrying a slow voice, that voice echoes.
"... Fragment... restored...?