Accel World V24

Chapter 1
July 22 2047 in the afternoon
The book begins with Haru reminiscing the night where Kuroyukihime revealed the truth about being a Machine Children while taking a bath,thinking that even though KYH wasn't born like most other humans,that doesn't mean she's not one and he wants to come to an understanding with her by growing stronger as person and as a Burst Linker.

Chapter 2
Haru then goes into a little recap of what happened in V22-23 including the fact that because Lucid Blade is now upgraded with heat resistance,he has to be a main attacker of the Inti Raid and he doesn't think he's experienced enough to do it,after he thinks on it KYH emails him to inform that no abnormalities in Megumi's brain was detected after her mind was disconnected from being grafted into Wolfram Disaster's Duel Avatar for so long and that she will be discharged tomorrow,she then thanks him,Milady and Maiden at the end of the e-mail.

After Megumi awakened in the hospital at the end of V23,KYH,Utai and Tsubomi stayed behind in the hospital while Haru went on home only to find out his mother won't go home from America until tomorrow morning,he considered relaxing in his free time but decides to do his homework and drinking tea,while doing his homework KYH,Chiyu and Tsubomi ringed the doorbell of his apartment to visit him.

After having lunch,Haru explained to Chiyu(who didn't know that Tsubomi was Rose Milady who was defeated by her,Crow and Heir in V22 using a suicide attack tactic by taking advantage of Citron Call's time reversal to reverse Crow's wounds after he was split in half together with Milady by Heir and 1 school year ahead of her),Chiyu then apologizes for using the suicide tactic against Milady to which she replied that the battle was irregular and her abillity was recognized by the system so she shouldn't apologize,what was foul play was Ivory Tower/Black Vise coming up with the plan to use Oracle's Paradigm Breakdown to bring Nega Nebulous to the UNF to put them in EK which was warping the rules of the system and Tsubomi acknowledges her part in it because she didn't object to it,Haru then reminisces about Tsubomi's words when they first met:"The life of Oracle is more important than the righteousness of the Legion" and Platinum Cavalier's words in V23 that even if every single one of the 5 Colored Legions goes to war against them,not a single one of Oscillatory Universe's members will withdraw even at the cost of losing their BB2039 and their memories of it.

Tsubomi(who still thinks Cosmos is still in the right despite all that happened,she's just not okay with Megumi's life being endangered) tells Haru that he has the right to know the truth about Cosmos and the White Legion but now is not the time because she and Oracle hasn't officially left Oscillatory yet so she could be silenced if Snow Fairy decides on her own to shut her mouth before she could tell it,Cosmos won't actually administer Judgment Blow if Milady wants to leave and none of the lower ranking members knows who she is in RL because the task of managing them belongs to the 6th and 7th seat of the Seven Dwarves,Cypress Reaper(Burst Linker who looks like a Grim Reaper,didn't take part in the V22 plot because he was defending a different area) and Glacier Behemoth so we know who are the ones who teached Noumi the Incarnate system after he joined the ARS.

After a short banter comparing Fuuko's spartan training(Chiyu wants to learn under her while Haru suggest asking Utai instead to spare her from being traumatized) to Behemoth and Reaper's fairly normal training,Milady comments that Nega Nebulous is strong because of the bond between its members which makes them support each other to make up for their shortcomings,KYH admits that she put up barriers between her and the Elements(which is true considering that she only opened up to Haru about the truth of her birth and not the Elements) which is why the 1st iteration of NN collapsed,Milady comments that most of the higher ranking members in Legions rarely meet up in RL with exception of BB Parent and Child but even then there were cases of them killing each other.Haru,still shocked by the fact that most relationships between Legion members isn't as bright as he imagined asked Tsubomi about how many OU members enrolled in Eterna,Tsubomi tells him that including her,there's only six(so only 3 unconfirmed members aside from Cosmos,Milady and (implied) Argon Array) and that the relationship between the 6 is like a demon king(Cosmos) and her adjutants,Haru and Chiyu were surprised by this and asks if Cosmos is really a demon king but Tsubomi tells them despite what she told them Cosmos isn't actually a demon king in terms of her personality,she's actually like a saint because of how pure she is compared to everyone else though they think Cosmos won't turn herself into a martyr.

After talking about Cosmos,Tsubomi decides to take advantage of the summer vacation to evade the OU members who would silence her until hitting the 1-month deadline where she can be convicted of betrayal by her Legion in which after she would leave OU with Megumi to another mid-ranked Legion,Haru asks why she and Megumi join NN to which Tsubomi tells him that while she appreciates his invitation,the fact is that NN is at war with OU and the fact that KYH can't guarantee Megumi's safety means that they can't join,Haru laments that even after everything that happened Megumi can't go to NN to be together with KYH and feels powerless in both Brain Burst and RL to help her until he realized that even though he doesn't have the power to help her maybe Amaterasu can and brings her up,Tsubomi tells him that she and Amaterasu aren't as close as him and Metatron,their relationship is purely a contractual relation where Amaterasu tells her information about the system and Tsubomi acts as her eyes in the player environment but at the same time she admits that she doesn't understand her as a person because she only knows her as an AI and not a person so Haru suggests Amaterasu would help her if she goes to her dungeon and requests for her help.

They then discuss about progressing inside Ama no Iwato,Amaterasu's dungeon under the Tokyo Station to contact her,Chiyu thinks that 4 people including Milady should be enough to go through it with Amaterasu preventing the mobs inside from attacking but KYH tells her the main problem is that Ama no Iwato's terrain is the highest ranked of the Fire stage,<Red Lotus>(hierachy is Sand Desert>Scorched Earth>Lava>Volcano>Red Lotus from lowest to highest) so they need members that are resistant to fire to enter it,Tsubomi also brings up about dealing with Amaterasu's first form which has the power to rival Metatron's first form which scares Haru because he got reminded of fighting Metatron back in V14 but KYH reminds him of the agreement he made in V22 with Amaterasu telling him to visit her in her dungeon instead of the Highest Level and to bring her cakes as a tribute because she wants to try out the cakes Metatron has been eating though there's still the possibility of Amaterasu not immediately intervening to shut down her first form's auto attack status so they'll probably hold out for a while on the small chance of her being in the Highest Level instead of being Ama-no-Iwato most of the time since she's a Hikkikomori like the goddess she is based on but Haru decides they should try because even though humans and AI are different,that doesn't mean they can't understand each other and they should strive to understand each other so that Amaterasu can walk together with them instead of staying in her dungeon.

The state of the other Legions after they found out that their Kings are trapped in EK are revealed:several Linkers wants the Coloured Legions to unite to save their kings,some wants to prioritize their King's safety,some wants to save their kings on their own,it's basically chaos.According to an email KYH received from Fuuko,there are members(mainly senior members who had experience fighting Inti) who thinks they should attack OU instead of Inti because they don't know how to actually harm it so they should force OU to move Inti from the kings by putting pressure on them but Haru doesn't think Vise will allow Inti to be moved even if OU is assaulted,there's going to be a meeting tonight between the colored Legions where 2 high-ranking members will attend,the Kings won't attend because it turned out one of the EK'd kings(except Rain who didn't get caught up in the EK'd and escaped with the others in V22,i screwed up with the summary) discovered logging out from BB normally after being forcefully disconnected under Paradigm Breakdown will be transported into the same area where it was used so they'll be EK'd by Inti if they try to log in again(tldr if you try log in to a normal Duel Field normally after the BB session where you subjected to Paradigm Breakdown and forcefully disconnected, you'll be fine but log in normally after that session and you'll get transported to the area where Paradigm Breakdown happened)

They then consider revealing that Oracle is freed from being Cerberus III so the barrier isolating the area from the rest of the UNF is gone even though the Kings are still affected because they didn't log out normally,but Milady doesn't want Oracle's rescue to be revealed yet and while Cosmos will eventually find out about it,Tsubomi wants to take measures to protect Megumi first and KYH decides to make it her 1st priority to contact Amaterasu after she is freed from EK and wants Haru to attend the meeting in Shinjuku,Blue Knight's territory tonight with Fuuko,Haru is nervous because there's a lot of people there like Aster Vine and the Dualis who he is scared of but Chiyu tells him that the meeting will be nothing compared to when the raid starts and Tsubomi tells him to not be afraid because they used to be as inexperienced as him back when they got to Level 4.

KYH,Chiyu and Tsubomi then leaves to go to their respective homes,with only 70 minutes before the meeting and Fuuko will pick him up to go the meeting in 40 minutes,Haru considers going back doing his homework until Centaurea Sentry's voice resounded in his voice telling him that his performance in the Omega-style swordmanship,the most eccentric and strongest sword style in the accelerated world leaves much to be desired but Haru retorts to the voice that he doesn't remember ever being the inheritor of the sword style to begin with,he decides to go to the UNF with a 20 minute time limit(2 weeks in UNF time) until he auto-disconnects from his home's wired connection to the net.

Chapter 3
Crow then goes to try replicating the movements of the Omega sword style from his memory to attempt to make contact with Centaurea Sentry(who most of the time only contacts him during the climax of the battle when the fatal blow is dealt,he considered going to the Highest Level but Metatron is still resting and the only Burst Linker who can purposely go there on their own without external help is Snow Fairy so that's out of the option,during his attempts he realizes that essence of the Omega-style swordmanship is to reduce the point of one's consciousness to one point instead widening to an entire body,the moment he successfully performs the sword style,Haru was transported to Highest Level because of the amount of Incarnation he used to focus his consciousness into one point was enough for him to enter it,there he meets Centaurea Sentry's Fluctlight backup who was called from the Main Visualizer by Haru's attempts for 10 hours who questions him why he's attempting to contact her and tells him that while the act of using Incarnation to focus his consciousness to one point is commendable,doing the regimen of the repeating sword practice non-stop for 10 hours isn't and tells him to never do it again because he'll get dragged to the Highest Level by accident again.

Sentry then tells Crow that among the candidates that can use the Omega-style swordmanship,he's the only one that qualifies as the successor to the style,and goes to a brief discussion about quantum circuits where it's revealed that the Main Visualizer doesn't use the electron circuit but a light circuit to duplicate and store souls,and that doing long-term calculations like he did a while ago will damage his soul,if the load of the calculations is normal the damage can be repaired but there's a risk of the repair failing because of the dark side of the mind(i.e Negative Incarnation) but she avoids going further because she doesn't want Crow to be prejudiced,it's also revealed that the Burst Linkers in the accelerated world are actually their Fluctlight copies synchronized with their RL selves instead of the RL people but because of the synchonization the copy and original souls are indistinguishable from each other so they're more or less the same person,Sentry then tells Crow that she can't teach him in the Highest Level and can only tell him the essence of the style step-by-step and that life-threatening training and soul-consuming combat is needed to show the true abillity of the style,Crow pointed out that he can only meet her in the Highest Level and that he can't go to it as he pleases,after some thinking Sentry tells Crow to meet a person in RL and instructs him on what to do when he meets them,while telling him to call her Seri-sensei instead of Sentry.

Haru then returned to RL after 14 hours of accelerated time(less than a RL minute),he reflects on Sentry's theory about the load accumulated during his 10 hours of training being processed by the quantum light circuit instead of his brain so the fatigue shouldn't carry over to his body even though his BB memories got synced with his brain,he then thinks Sentry's instructions is difficult but he decides to go through it for the Inti raid.

Chapter 4
Fast forward to the meeting and the discussions goes chaotic,Great Wall(repped by Pound and Schaefer) is advocating defeating Inti with NN(repped by Crow and Raker) and Prominence(repped by Leopard and Moose) supporting GW while Leoniz(repped by the Dualis) is advocating attacking OU,CCC(repped by Pierette) wants do with a combination of both,and Aurora Oval(repped by Aster Vine and Mauve Wire) are against assaulting OU because they don't know what Cosmos is capable of since she never participated in a Territory War or a Duel in recent years and the 7 Dwarves defending OU will make an attack very difficult,Cobalt and Mangan reveals they are advocating assaulting OU because they found out that the only member of OU that hasn't went dark and disconnected from Global Net is Cosmos herself so they're advocating that all the Legions band together to defeat Cosmos until she loses all of her BP,Cobalt wanted to inform Knight about this but Mangan is against reporting this to him because Knight(who hasn't logged in after being forcefully disconnected) will attempt to challenge her and the report will potentially reach the other Kings so they're at risk of losing all of them if they go forward with defeating Cosmos,they then proceeds on discussing on the attack plan on the Inti raid with Schaefer suggesting bombarding Inti with long-range attacks since melee is useless unless their Enhanced Armaments have heat resistance while Raker suggests a strategy of an attacker supported by multiple Linkers,stating that NN already has a volunteer(Crow) that can do this,the other Linkers initially assumed the volunteer was Maiden until they realized Crow was the volunteer because he has heat resistance due to having Silver as his color.

After the meeting was over,Haru was baffled that Fuuko revealed it so early but she pointed out it was better to announce it now instead of at the raid,Fuuko stated that she wants to teach her <Infiltration Play> to Haru that one-shotted Shadow Cloaker in V22 before she found out that he chose Lucid Blade as a level up bonus which screwed up her initial training plans which made her a bit upset but Haru tells her he's not intending shirk hand to hand combat to be a swordsman but he thinks that her Infiltration Play is hard to understand so he's not sure he can master it in time though Fuuko tells him he can master it with enough training in the UNF but she reminds him the raid starts at 05:00 AM tonight so she's taking him home so Haru can rest early,before he goes home Haru asks Fuuko to take him to Kansen-en Park to fulfill Sentry's instructions,Fuuko(who hasn't been told about Sentry yet) figured out that there's something related to the acceleration world there so she takes him there.

They then went to Kansen-en park where Haru drops off to go to the actual destination,a 10-year old seven-story apartment and goes to room 505 to wait for the person Sentry instructed him to meet,after 30 minutes the person in question,Suzuka Seri arrives with her 2 classmates.After identifying her Haru goes to greet her to inform her that someone(her Fluctlight copy) instructed him to meet her to perform a cable connection with her,her friends are understandably suspicious while Seri(who doesn't think Haru is a bad person) isn't entirely convinced until Haru reveals she is missing memories from her elementary school days which convinces her to go along with Haru after sending off her classmates,they then go to a bench to do a direct connection with their Neuro Linkers after which Haru initiates Burst Link to enters accelerated space,he then remembers Sentry's instruction to connect to the Highest Level from the Lowest Level and after some thinking successfully does so by concentrating his consciousness to one point(the essence of the Omega style) and punching the reproduction of a wooden pillar which caused a crack to form which bursted out a large amount of information to flow to Seri's Neurolinker which caused Haru to immediately Burst Out back to RL to find Seri saying that her memories are almost completely synchronized and that she regained her memories of BB,She then gives Haru a well done for succeeding in restoring her memories stating that the method only had a success percentage of 10% and she would have called the cops on him if it failed,Haru asks about the personality of the Senri that was deprived of her memories and she said that the "Seri" who experienced the 3 and a half years of junior high to high school didn't disappear,she still retains the memories of everything after the 3rd semester of her sixth year in grade school and recovered her memories of BB+the memory of her backup in the Main Visualizer who occasionally wakes up from stasis and that the restoration of memories isn't the death of amnesiac self but waking up from a gentle but flawed dream,Haru is shocked that Seri successfully regained her memories and thinks that the accelerated world will be shaken to its core if the public knew about this restoration method but decides not to disclose it yet because the success rate is too low to be reliable and the full mechanics of the method isn't fully understood by him yet but he hopes that one day,Red Rider and others who lost their BB can "wake" up from their dream and reunite with their loved ones in the truest sense(aside from the "dead in RL" ones like Monarch and Masker,but the Machine Children method is kind of a solution to bring them back by artificial reincarnation but they'll only get their BB memories back but not their RL memories of their previous life).

Haru then decides to avoid asking further about the restoration method for the time being and asks what school club she came back from,Seri(who reminds him ta call her Seri-sensei) tells him that she is in the female soccer club ever since junior high after accepting the invitation from her 2 friends,it is then revealed that losing the memories of BB isn't a form of relief to a Burst Linker,sooner or later they will inevitably notice the gaps in their memories and will feel a sense of emptiness that can never be filled by them or other people like Seri's friends in their "peaceful",amnesiac lives,Haru thinks that the deprivation might as well be a curse that torments the amnesiac Linkers until their memories are restored,Seri asks if Haru ever uninstalled someone's Brain Burst and he brings up Dusk Taker, even though it was Noumi's fault that he initiated a Sudden Death Duel he regretted the way everything ended up especially after what happened to his Fluctlight copy in V15 and he now realizes the amnesiac Noumi's attempts at studying and kendo after losing BB was actually his way of filling the emptiness inside him,Haru asks Seri if she knows of a way to fill the gap until the memories are restored and Seri tells him she doesn't know because she never saw any amnesiac Burst Linkers especially the ones she deprived BB from,back in her day she was known as <Sword Demon> and <Asura>,even though she bears the name of a guard,she never protected anyone.Haru pointed out the times she helped him in V21 and 23 but she tells him it was just on a whim and she didn't expect to succeed in contacting him.

There's one problem before Haru's training can begin:while Seri's memories of BB are completely recovered,she didn't get her BB2039 back which is the meaning of Seri's statement of "almost completely synchronized",Haru offers to copy his BB2039 program but before could begin the process the BB2039 program returned to Seri's Neurolinker in the same position before she lost it,whoever the sender of the program is unknown but Seri thinks the BB central server gave her the program though she doesn't go into why it would give her BB again.

(This explains how Megumi recovered her BB in V20-21,the brief period of becoming Orchid Oracle again in V10 using the book synchronized her soul with the duplicate in the Highest Level which started the recovery process,but considering that Oracle didn't completely materialize the synchronization process was less than ideal which is why it took so long for her to recover her memories of BB and her program again until the NN vs OU Territory War)

Now that Seri is an active Burst Linker again,she tells him that his training will begin 0800 PM tomorrow after her club activities but Haru tells her that he needs to be able to use the Omega style by 0500 AM morning tomorrow for the Inti raid to Seri's confusion,

Chapter 5
Haru gives her a rundown of what Oscillatory did on the way to his apartment and Seri asks him if he thinks he can understand the meaning of the Omega style in just 1-2 months of BB time,Haru admits he's not that confident but he has to try.Seri tells him even though his first contact with her was in the battle against Behemoth in V20,she knew about his existence during the battle against the 5th CD Cherry Rook,Haru is shocked she has connection to Cherry and Seri tells him that she'll explain later because it's too long to explain it on the road.Haru asks her if there are any other Fluctlight copies that are active in the Highest Level other than hers and Seri tells him she doesn't know if others are awake too,she only wakes up in short periods to awaken in pitch black darkness(so the situation is like Rider's copy when he was stored inside the ISS kit core) and that a Fluctlight copy stored in the Main Visualizer can't be awake for longer than 10 years or they'll collapse.

Haru and Seri arrives in the former's apartment to find out the other NN members are holding a party to give him encouragement before the raid,Chiyu suggested it to KYH before they went to Haru's apartment room and they kept it a secret from Haru and Fuuko who wouldn't have let Haru go to Kansen-en Park if she had known about it,Haru introduces Seri also known as Centaurea Sentry to NN while the younger members including Niko who wasn't a Linker when Sentry was active aren't familliar with her,the senior members became vigilant with KYH,Fuuko and Pard calling her <Sword Demon>,<Asura> and <Omega Weapon> respectively,Seri comments that even though this is the first time she met their RL selves she identifies Lotus,Raker,Current and Maiden from their voices but noticed that Graphite Edge is nowhere to be seen to her disappointment because she wanted to have a rematch with him after 4 years,Niko tells her not to come uninvited and Seri asks her if she's a peacemaker to which she replied that she is Rider's successor as the Red King,Seri tells Niko she can fight her but asks to wait until she gets her fight with Lotus and the Elements to her annoyance because she wants to join in too,KYH questions what she is doing with Haru and Seri tells her that she is Haru's master.

After things cool down a bit(including a brief fight over desserts where it's revealed that Sentry won several times against Raker in the past and the latter couldn't catch up before Sentry lost her BB),Haru tells everyone that the reason he brought Sentry here is to learn the Omega Sword style from her,KYH tells him that while there's nothing wrong with wanting to learn,the Omega style is extremely dangerous to use so he must not delay his training,Sentry's title of <Omega Weapon> is related to this because it means <meet or die>.

KYH and the older members are under the impression that Sentry's death was faked by Blue Knight in their climatic duel by breaking The Disaster's hold on her by shattering the armor after which they think she went into hiding when in reality Knight really did uninstall her BB and she was just restored with Haru's help just now but Haru and Seri chose to avoid revealing the truth for now because it's too early to reveal that a method to restore a Burst Linker was discovered by them until they can demonstrate it reliably considering the low success rate,it turns out Haru actually wanted to give Lucid Blade to Taku so he can be one of the main attackers in the raid and use his kendo skills to the fullest because Cyan Blade can't be used since the Incarnate System isn't allowed to be used in public duels but Taku tells him that even if he accepts his sword he can't quickly master it and that Decurion and the Dualis are superior to him in sword skills,he also says that his Duel Avatar isn't suited for sword combat and while he used to be insecure about it,he is thinking about exploring other areas his Avatar excels in.Rui agrees saying that being insecure about one's Duel Avatar will make one susceptible to negative Incarnation and that she once tried to balance things using the ISS Kit for the sake of the low ranked players but she realized that she's went too far in doing it because by getting rid of any individuality by making everyone use the same moves,it eventually negatively impact everyone's Duel Avatar one day,Rin tells her that Ash never held a grudge against her because she was doing it for Avoider and the other Linkers who couldn't catch up and that the ARS are responsible for spreading it in the first place,Seri states she also has a grudge against Cosmos but doesn't really go into it.

Chapter 6
After the party is over,everyone went home with the exception of KYH,Seri and Rin,KYH and Seri don't really mix well together and Haru is racking his head on how is he going to tell her about Sentry's recovery when the time comes,KYH asks how long Haru's training will last and Seri responded with 3 Real World hours or 4 months in BB time,she will at the very least impart the initial skills of the Omega style if it's impossible to teach Haru the essence of the Omega style before the raid,KYH comments that Seri's sword style isn't that well liked among Linkers but she doesn't hate it,the Omega style is a style that maximizes attack power infinitely by concentrating the attack into a single point,according to Seri it has some similarities with 3rd stage Incarnation but it's different and that she'll explain the difference during training,she then asks KYH if she was the one who told Haru about 3rd stage IS to which she replied that it was Graph who is now the 1st seat of Great Wall to Seri's surprise.

KYH asks Seri about why did she return after all these years and asked why she accepted The Disaster,she tells KYH that she'll tell the truth about her return after Cosmos is defeated and reveals that she willingly became the 3rd CD because she feels responsible for the birth of Chrome Disaster even though she could have gotten rid of the armor fragments on her to avoid becoming CD,Blue Knight avoided becoming The 4th CD because he got rid of all the armor fragments after killing Sentry but the Burst Linker who was nicknamed Devourer became the 4th CD because of The Disaster was attracted to the darkness in their hearts and thus automatically transferred to their item storage after failing to take over Knight,Haru confirms that Sentry was not part of the 30 Linkers who betrayed Falcon and Blossom in his vision in V7 but Sentry states it was because she couldn't get there in time to save them,Haru thinks that even if Sentry arrived in time,there was no way she is strong enough at that time to defeat Jormungandr and she would have lost her BB to the maddened Chrome Falcon anyway,he wonders what Sentry has to do with Falcon and Blossom.

(note:the Centaurea in Centaurea Sentry is referring to the Centraurea cornflower,and we know all of Blossom's BB kids are named after flowers including Milady and Oracle,so in other words Sentry is..)

Before Haru and Seri goes to the UNF,Rin takes this chance to tell Haru that she wants to know about his thoughts about her feelings for him and that she wants to hear it from him after the whole Inti deal is over,Haru promises to gives an answer after it's all over(unfortunately,things didn't turn out well because of how everything escalated for the worse at the end of the volume and what happened in V25 did not help things so it's going to be a long while before Rin gets her answer)

Chapter 7
Seri and Haru dived into the UNF in 01:30 AM(3 hours and 30 minutes before the raid),KYH can't go help with his training because she'll get EK'd by Inti since she logged out normally in her previous session and Ash wouldn't much of a help in the training so he's not coming,they dived in the rarely occuring <Salt Lake> Stage which is basically a soggier version of Gyr Abania from FFXIV with more salt water and mountains,Sentry has no problems falling from great heights because her passive Skill <Feather Fall> slows her descent and negates fall damage and she can walk on the corrosive salt lakes because of her <Surface Walk> skill without drowning,Sentry tells him he must not use his Aviation abillity in high altitudes for now because OU likely has eyes monitoring the area within the vicinity of Inti so they have to go to the training ground by foot without getting detected,along the way Sentry tries to get him to be able to run ten steps without sinking in the salt lakes they run into,if he succeeds than he'll get <Surface Walk> as an passive skill but Crow was only able to do 1-2 steps before sinking.

Along the way they see the area where Inti is standing by to see that it's covered by the salt from the water it evaporated,they think that the <Ocean> stage can extinguish it's flames because of the amount of water it has but they don't know what will happen after to Inti if that happens,also Tower and Cerberus's markers are still there with the kings's markers(except Rain) surprisingly enough so they haven't logged in to the UNF to get away from the area yet,Sentry tells him that he needs bypass Inti's flame armor around its body to find the point the Omega style can be used on,the both of them then goes to a rock mountain near the location Seri's apartment is located to find a japanese mansion which is actually Sentry's old Player Home,Parrot Pavillion.

Chapter 8
Sentry tells Crow to pay attention to the southeast of her mansion,a cherry blossom tree will spawn there depending on the Stage(the tree doesn't spawn in the <Salt Lake> stage) and he can use its spawn and despawning to keep track how many weeks he'll spend on his training because Stage Transitions happens at the end of every BB week,Haru equips Lucid Blade and Sentry equips Claiomh Solais,a western longsword named after the legendary Celtic sword,Crow is surprised at Sentry's weapon because he thought she used a japanese sword and Sentry tells him this is just one of the 12 swords she possesses including long and short swords,before they begin Crow asks how many BPs Sentry has after ressurrection and Sentry tells him she has 90 left after using 10 to enter the UNF,when Brain Burst was reinstalled she got the initial 100 BP just like every new Linkers,Haru offers to donate some of his points in case she's in danger of losing BB again but Sentry tells him she can hunt Enemies to get more BPs during Crow's break time and that she used up something irreplaceable in the process of her resurrection so there's more conditions to restore of a Burst Linker using her method.

Anyway the training begins with Sentry attacking first by cutting off Crow's left shoulder armor before he even noticed,Sentry tells him that this is not an Abillity,Skill or Incarnate attack,she just found the right time and cut his armor normally.before Sentry demostrates it again,Haru asked if Beast(the manifestation of Falcon's hatred and rage) used the theory of "enlarging subtle things infinitely" instead of the Omega style and Sentry confirms it so even though it inherited her sword skills,it couldn't use the Omega style the 3rd CD and evert CD afterwards was actually weaker than they were supposed to be.In the second round Haru attacks first by attempting to slash her left shoulder but Sentry dissolved herself by somehow blending with the world itself so Haru ended up falling into the water,he continues his attack 10 times but in the end he couldn't even make scratch on her.

Sentry then tells him that they will be taking a snack break before resuming,Crow asks Sentry how she dissolved herself and she asks how does he see in Brain Burst he replied with his eyes but Sentry questions if the principles of seeing in RL are the same in BB,HAru realizes what he is seeing are processed using the quantum light circuit and not his brain and Sentry comments that in that sense,the eyes on Duel Avatars are just ornaments.Sentry tells him that the battles in BB are processed by the Main Visualizer by making predictions on what will happen and returns its influence on the players by basing it on their consciousness but not even it can keep up when the battles accelerates to high speeds so there's going to be delays when that happens,she tells him that if he understands the mechanism of future prediction,he can consciously deviate it.Crow asks if that involves using Incarnation and Sentry confirms it,while the Omega style is a theoretical style that uses the Incarnate system,it's method of use is the opposite of IS,in other words while the Incarnate System is used to bring about an image in the quantum circuit,the Omega style removes the image.

Sentry then asks him what would happen if the image of her was removed in the quantum circuit and Crow states that the system would not be able to predict what will happen,Sentry then states that the system is only capable of predicting a mistake in an instant but that's enough to get a head start over it and tells him that when he failed to cut her,it's because the image of her shown by the system was made thin,Crow then asks if the image can be removed completely and points out that she can't move if she does that,Sentry reminds him that when she dissolved herself she wasn't moving and Crow realizes the loophole,Sentry says that dissolving herself has the effect of "moving" but not physical movement but by removing the image oneself from the quantum circuit to reduce one's consciousness to nothing and becoming one with the world this is one of the meanings of the Omega style,<Synthesis>,Haru thinks the idea of erasing one's consciousness is a hard idea to grasp and thinks it's too hard for him to do whether he's fighting for fun or enemies but Sentry tells him he'll eventually learn <Synthesis> to reach <Extreme> to able to perform the sword style properly,Crow asks if there are other sword styles in the accelerated world and Sentry lists out 3 of the famous ones,Knight's Infinity style of which he teached to Cobalt and Mangan,Graphite"s Twilight style of which Lotus is user of and Platinum Cavalier's Flying style.

90 days passed in the UNF,and Crow still couldn't get a scratch on Sentry who invites him to take a drink with her during the <Heian> stage,Crow laments his slow progress but Sentry tells him his progression is fine and that despite her talk of finding disciples,this is actually her first time actually teaching someone,she asks him if he seriously thought if he could catch up to her level in just in 3 months and he tells her he doesn't and he couldn't perform a slash of even 1 cm using the Omega style,Sentry tells him that his win condition for the training is to perform a 1 cm slash using the Omega style against her which is enough to cut off her arm,if he thinks that he can't keep up with Sentry's training then she won't force him to continue but Crow decides to continue.

Chapter 9
Fast forward to 5 RL minutes before the raid,and the Dualis are beginning to dive into the UNF,they talk about how they're not sure which one is a trap:Cosmos being the only one in the matching list or Inti,they considered Pierette's words of doing both the raid and assaulting OU and that it doesn't really matter which one they do first which is why they went along with GW's proposal to defeat Inti first,usually they log in 1 minute before meetings but this time they'll dive 10 seconds before the raid as agreed in the meeting,Koto/Cobalt wonders if Crow will come and Yuki/Mangan trusts him to participate,in the name of the Infinity Style founded by Blue Knight,they vow to succeed and proceeds to dive into the UNF.

They dived during the Moonlight stage which while isn't a Water stage,doesn't have any hazards so it's fine,they then went to the Ministry of Defense where members of other coloured Legions have gathered,one of the younger Leonidz(the Legion polar opposite of NN where most of its members are guys) members,Cerulean Runner doesn't want to rest until the raid starts but Mangan tells him to rest so he can fight to the fullest later on,Runner obliges and goes to fanboying with Frost Horn about their favorite Heliosphere members with permission from Mangan to get their autographs.Mangan goes to greet Raker and asked if Crow has arrived yet,she tells her no but they trust that he'll come in time,suddenly a Beast level crustacean Enemy,<Flame Blower> appears chasing after 2 members of GW and 1 Leonidz member,Rain saves the Legion members while the lieutenants prepares to fight the Beast-level Enemy before Crow arrives cuts open part of the Enemy's shell with the Omega style which Cobalt recognizes from when she and Mangan first met Sentry when they first entered the UNF,the Enemy then gets bombarded with artillery damage with quickly kills it after its skin is exposed,Crow apologizes for taking so long to arrive because Sentry made him do follow-up lessons and Raker tells him to decline next time so he won't be late,Current thinks Crow's swordmanship has reached the level of a Legion lieutenant but Crow tells her that he's not at that level yet despite what he did,Cobalt asks him to take a rest until the raid starts and Mangan tells him that she is looking forward to his performance in the raid.

Chapter 10
1 hour left before the raid starts,the other NN members(Pile,Bell and the Elements) wants Crow to sleep for a while especially since he just finished his training but Crow doesn't want to oversleep and miss the moment the raid group goes to fight Inti Raker tells him that his mental state can't be mantained for a hour if he goes on like this and that taking a rest won't get rid of it,after some prodding he concedes and sleeps in Maiden's lap for 50 minutes to wake up to the entire 96-man raid gathering including Magenta,the Paquet trio and Heir,Sentry decided to go back to RL instead of participating because making her return public would cause too much uproar.Crow apologized to Heir because he wanted him to be the attacker by applying heat resistance to The Infinity but did it for his Lucid Blade instead.Heir tells him it's okay because he didn't do it out of malice and he already learned about what happened from Mr Smith and Pile can see that Crow was training hard to be the main attacker and none of the Burst Linkers gathered has no objections about Crow being the main attacker so it's fine.

July 23 0500 AM
The 96-Man Raid Group from all of the coloured Legions have gathered in 4 rows with each having 24 Burst Linkers to begin the Inti raid,Leopard and Salticid(from the Traces of Prominence side story) has scouted ahead to inform that there is no Large Enemies in the road ahead,they didn't detect any OU members surveying the area but even if there was any members that found out about the raid group and logged out to get reinforcements,they still need at least 10 RL seconds to do so which is 2:46:48 in BB and since the Inti raid strategy is intended to be a short term battle,they'll have more than enough time to bail out the kings and escape if they succeed.As the Raid Group marches forth in the <Moonlight> stage,Current gets reminded of the fateful day 2 years ago where NN marched to raid the Imperial Palace in the <Aurora> Stage only to get wiped in 2 minutes but Crow,Raker and Maiden comforts her that this time,it will be different.

The Raid Group arrives in area where Inti is on,Crow remembers when the twins told his part in the raid plan before they marched,it involves using Lime Bell's time reversal abillity to create a temporary invincible period for Crow to breakthrough Inti's flame coating to destroy its core,according to them Lime Bell's time reversal only lasts for 73 seconds with 7 Burst Linkers supplying her with their Special Attack Gauge after testing and that if Crow can't destroy Inti's core in 60 seconds,he has to retreat and they have to revise the attack plan in the case he falls into EK.

The group is split into the main attacker,coordination group and the anti-Enemy Group,the attacker is responsible for destroying Inti's core,coordination group is responsible for supporting the attacker and drawing Inti's Hate to them,and the Anti-Enemy Group is responsible for killing any Enemies that gets drawn into the area because the use of the Incarnate System is needed for the raid and they are attracted to it.there are also the liaisions for the Kings whose purpose is to inform them to log in after Inti's death is confirmed,Ash is responsible for Lotus so he's not raiding.

The raid starts with the buffers from each row including Maiden buffing each of the rows and the group rushes to the park(no battle cry surprisingly enough),Inti responds by the turning the ground into lava once they enter its aggro range but the coordination group responds by using their IS to protect the group at this point Crow flies to Inti with Bell supporting him but because Inti's heat is melting Crow a little faster than Citron Call Mode 1 can reverse his time,the invincibillity period will only last for 40 seconds.

Crow spots The Luminary crown of thorns that is restraining Inti,he considers destroying it instead but he realizes that Cosmos could have enhanced The Luminary with Physical Attack Immunity along with Fire Damage Immunity so he abandons that line of thought because the Omega sword style is not an Incarnate attack so it's still bound by the system rules and thus useless,Crow manages to get through the fire armor surrounding Inti to see it's true body:a 15 diameter glowing sphere.Lucid Blade is slowly melting from the heat so Crow goes to stab Inti to find out to his surprise that Inti only has 1 health bar,even the Einhejar OU tamed has more bars than it with 4 health bars.While using Lucid Blade to pinpoint where he should use the Omega style one,he identifies that Inti's core is more durable than the tungsten ball he used to practice the Omega Style with(which means Inti is even harder than even Cerberus's physical defenses as a Metal Color),the durabillity of which made penetrating the flame armor look easy in comparison,he fails to pinpoint the first time and only has 2 more chances and his health bar reduced to 70%,Crow then remembers KYH who is depending on him to escape Inti's EK and Sentry whose words of encouragement drives him to focus his consciousness to 1 point on the upper curved point of Inti's core(Omega style's attack amplification only works on curved points so it's useless on flat points) and successfully cuts the core in half with The Luminary thorn crown shattering in response but the energy Inti generated didn't dissipate and instead spiralled upward to dye the sky red,Inti's core shattered when its health dropped to zero to signal its destruction just like all Enemies,Haru got a lot of BP and items from killing Inti but he can't check his storage at this point and the points and the items will be divided among the Legion members who participated in the raid.While thinking about how to divide the spoils,Crow realized Lucid Blade got too damaged to be used until his next login so he has to survive until then without it.

Lime Bell restores Crow and the support team's health after Inti was defeated,because of the use of IS skills by the coordination group,large amounts of Small and Large Enemies are converging to their area,no Beast-level Enemies was drawn in but the Anti-Enemy Group now has to work to thinning the numbers until the kings are saved or things will get troublesome,the liaisions has seen Inti's death and has now logged out to inform them that they can log in safely,the fastest the Kings can log in to the UNF is 2 RW seconds so the Raid Group has thin out the Enemy numbers in 30 BB minutes before the first king logs in and gets rescued.

Chapter 11
If the elites of all 6 Coloured Legions were here in the fight against the 20+ Enemies converging on them right now it would take almost 20 minutes that can be cut into less than 5 minutes if they used Incarnate attacks but that would lure in more Enemies so the Raid Group has to kill the enemies one by one using normal attacks and skills without IS and the number of Enemies gets slowly thinned with some Large enemies retreating.

Crow neglected to review his hand-to-hand training during his training with Sentry so he gets exhausted after helping the Raid Group drive off the Enemies,Heir is amazed at Crow's performance with the Omega style and asks him if could do the same thing he did one day,in his exhaustion Crow accidentally tells Heir to continuously swing his sword for hours like he did earlier in the volume instead of telling him the <Synthesis> and <Extreme> essences of the Omega style which causes Heir to enthusiastically plan the same thing later to Crow's dismay,Raker tells him to pick up Lotus and they go to the wreckage of the stadium where Inti's lava is slowly cooling down and they realize that Vise and Cerberus's markers are gone which means they have escaped between the beginning of Crow's training and the raid.

With less than 10 minutes in BB time before the kings log in to the UNF,Crow looks up to the night sky and sees Inti's residual energy lingering after its death,even though the energy is halved the amount of energy is still large and somehow lingered more than 20 minutes after Inti's death,Maiden asks Raker if she knows about any case of an Enemy's energy lasting this long this long after its death and Raker says she doesn't know but thinks the phenomenon is because Inti is somehow special.Crow thinks there was a similar phenomenon not too long ago and remembers the time when Metatron's first form died and how her 2nd form materialized,he then realized the possibility that the Inti he killed was just its first form and that the energy converging in the sky will soon materialize its 2nd form but he doesn't understand why it needed more than 20 minutes to form while Metatron only needed a few seconds,he attempts to tell the Raid Group to run away but it's too late,the center of the energy vortex burst with red light rushing to the pit where the Kings's markers are to create 2 pillars which joined together after growing into 50 meters and 2 slightly thinner pillars formed the air to join the other pillar after it had grown into 100 meters and the light converges into a pyramidal prostution until it disappears.

No one knows what exactly the 100-meter giant that materialized from Inti's energy is until the giant roared and made slight movements that shook the ground and air,it is at this moment everyone realized that the giant is an Enemy,what Crow killed is actually just a shell that sealed away the true body of Inti.It's too late to run away because they'll draw its aggro to them and not even the commanders of the Raid Group,Cobalt and Mangan knows what to do.At the moment when all hope is lost,just like a meteor a silver streak hit the giant and formed a crown of thorns,Heir realizes that the light is The Luminary attempting to control the giant who tried to resist by tearing off the crown but more of the silver streaks hit the giant from the moon,forming crowns on its arms and three more hit the giant again in the body,chest,and waist until which cause it to fall silent.Against the background of the night sky,something falls:a Pegasus-type enemy with 2 Duel Avatars on it:a knight in silver armor,1st seat of the Seven Dwarves <Bashful> Platinum Cavalier and an F-type Duel Avatar with golden hair wearing a luxurious dress brighter than the moon with both the crown and scepter pieces of The Luminary:<Transient Eternity> White Cosmos who Sky Raker identifies the identity of.

Crow couldn't understand what Cosmos is doing,is she trying to tame the giant for OU or to save the Burst Linkers who would have been annihilated by it?,in a voice as sweet as a girl and noble as a saint,Cosmos thanks Crow for breaking the egg she failed many times to crack,she was a little surprised but also happy,because the giant became stronger.Crow was shocked about Cosmos's statement of him breaking an egg to which Cosmos replied that the Enemy named Inti was nothing more than an egg that contains all the distortions of the world,the moment it hatches will signal the end of the world and she will introduce it to everyone:Super-class Enemy <Tezcatlipoca,God of the End>,Aster Vine is baffled by this because Inti who originated from Incan myth and Tezcatlipoca from Aztec myth has no connection with each other to which Cosmos said that the names in this world has no meaning,nearly all of the nouns in this world are just randomly spliced up by the system including their names.

Crow realizes that Cosmos isn't taming Tezcatlipoca to save them,and as if to confirm his realization Cosmos states she will give a thank-you gift to the Raid Group by demonstrating Tezcatlipoca's power,by waving her scepter Tezcatlipoca spreads out its hand to the Raid Group as Cobalt ordered their retreat but it is too late:black circles formed in the palm of its hand which increased the gravity around the Raid Group that sank them to the ground except Raker but even then her wheelchair is slowly breaking down from the pressure.

As the group is resisting the increase in gravity,Tezcatlipoca faces away from them to go to the pit,Crow realizes what is going to happen and screams to KYH to not come to the UNF,one by one the EK'd Kings logged in beginning with Radio,then Grandee,then Thorn,then Knight and finally Lotus,as Tezcatlipoca's left hand radiates a red light towards them,Cosmos ends the book saying:

"It's a pity to see you again after a long time,but to say goodbye right away.Farewell,my friend(Grandee?),Farewell,my child(Lotus),you all worked hard until the very end"