3 Weeks later.
Nytri is at home in the gym practicing martial arts, she moves around like a master using various moves. Kitt is sleeping by the side of the sparing ground. Suddenly Kitt rises to his feet gazing North, he growls and lowers himself as if to pounce.
Nytri notices Kitt's behavior, "Hmm? What's up?" She walks over to Kitt and pets his back.
Kitt meows then speaks to Nytri in her mind, "Master, there's something coming from there. It's picking up a lot of dust like a carriage but it's too fast for a carriage."
Nytri looks in the direction Kitt meant, her eyes change along with her vision. Her vision moves closer and closer to the source of the dust clouds. It zooms in further and her jaw drops, she rises to her feet in surprise. Her thoughts, "I knew the caravan was coming but why did they bring a panzer?! There's nothing to hunt over here." Nytri sighs then she rises to her feet.
"Let's get ready to welcome them." Nytri speaks, Kitt looks up at Nytri surprised. "Do you know what that is?" Kitt asks.
Nytri waves her hand then starts walking to the door, "Of course, my dangerously intelligent daughter is driving that."
Kitt tilts his head, "Why is she dange- You have a daughter?!" he's shocked, "But you're so young!" He looks at Nytri with a questioning gaze.
Nytri smiles walking to the door, "It's simple actually. I played around with runes when I was younger and created eggs of various species. I injected my blood into each egg making them my family, things spiraled out of control but we became a race." Nytri reaches the door, "You've already met some of them." Then she walks out.
Kitt stares at her back in confusion, ".....How….When...What kind of creature are you?" Kitt turns and walks out of the room. He walks outside to the fountain and waits for Nytri, he chases a butterfly or 2.
Nytri arrives in a jacket with designs of strange dragons standing on 2 legs breathing fire into the sky. Kitt is curious but he assumes it's just Nytri's strange tastes, he waits for Nytri to reach him and he jumps into her arms. Together they leave the house and walk towards the city.
Nytri arrives before the city gates, she heads into the city to the orphanage and informs them about the carriage. She Teleports to Sarah's home and helps her move her grand parents to the city gates. By now soldiers have arrived thinking a powerful magical beast is coming, they aren't wrong though. The panzers Nytri and her kin used in the realm of monsters had weapons to one-shot a god just so it could stand up to those monsters. Something like a Quad Railgun was on the panzers, it can drill through a mountain and scratch Ryu.
Nytri is at the gates with the orphans and Sarah's family, the shadow spies eavesdropped on Nytri's conversation and realized she had a connection with the 'thing' coming. The shadow spies calmed the soldiers and told them to wait, even adventurers gathered for a fight.
They waited until the ground started to shake beneath their feet, the panzer is over a kilometer away yet it had this effect. It was mainly to scare monsters away and it was madly effective.
An adventurer draws his axe trembling, "Something big is coming!" the other adventurers get ready to fight, Nytri is yawning.
The soldiers get their battlements ready, despite the shadow spies words they're still afraid. "Battle formations!" ordered the captain of the soldiers, at this point the shadow spies are clueless on what to do. Even the people in the city are trembling from the ground and fear.
Suddenly, from the distance, a strange looking metal beast comes into view. It seems to be made of gold with 4 hollow claws on the sides, 2 below its eyes and 2 on top of its head. The beast walks without raising its legs and has a smooth skin from its face to its back.
The soldiers captain raises his hand, "Mages! Get ready to fire your spells." They wait for the beast to come closer, now even nobles are here to fight but some fled. The captain drops his hand, "Fire!" the mage soldiers fire their spells and a big runic square barrier spreads before the city gates from one edge of the city to another.
Nytri floats for them to see, "Calm down, ya dramatic bunch. It's just a scare tactic to prevent monsters from attacking it." Nytri turns to look at the panzer as it's now in full view.
The vehicle is a big really fast panzer made from luxury metals, it has heavy tracks and tires. It's about 13 meters in length, 7 meters in width and 6 meters in height. Though being made from luxury metals it has a gold and black paint with purple tinted glass. The hood of the panzer has 2 rotatable turrets on it before the raised driver's cabin at the center then comes 2 huge cannon slots on top of it. It's compacted so it looks like hollow shafts, then 4 flags hoisted above the panzer. The flag is a mosaic of a face like Nytri's at the center but looks more mature surrounded by stars. Outside the stars are 2 people looking at the face, one wears armor and the other in Azuria official clothes. On top of everything is a crown over the face and 2 people colored in gold and the flag has a red background with the face and people colored black.
The panzer has 2 doors on each side with another door with a ladder for the driver, and moving to the back of the vehicle is a shutter door. There are 2 huge exhausts behind the panzer, the tracks and tires have spiked armor capable of easily breaking trees and rocks. The whole panzer has thick armor yet surprising fast. The interior of the panzer looks cozy and has space runes which make it look bigger on the inside, almost like an apartment with the driver by the window.
The people are distraught from the intimidating figure approaching, Nytri stares at the design of the panzer. "I guess I'm maybe a nutjob for having such questionable tastes…..but that spoiler and heavy tracks are worth it, you can skid on the ground and listen to it hum." She smiles broadly with sparkly eyes, "Though I wish the other nutjob hadn't used my blueprints for the next version of the cargo wheeler. I wonder what nutjob found my blueprints?"
The panzer drives to a stop a couple meters drifting before the gates and the side door opens. Dust settles and a figure walk out the door with the head facing the sky and arms stretched wide. "Ah, that nutjob." Nytri thought, "She looks good for someone claiming to be a mad researcher." The person is a female of 1.8-meter height, curly blond hair and a tied-up bun. She's in a white lab coat made of metal and green under the coat, the lab coat has suspicious stains on them.
"Greetings!" Said the lady, "I am Dr. Isadora Goldstein Alcore," She puts her hand on her waist, "Head of Azuria R&D department," She folds her arms with a cheeky grin, "3rd seat on Azuriatech armament," She repositions her glasses, "Expert acquisition compartment and transport commission HR."
The shutters behind the panzer opens and 4 other Azurians step out of the panzer and greet everyone. The first lady gives a broad smile, "I'm Astrid, I handle all medical issues in Azuria." The next being a man, "Zephyr." Is the only word he said, his demeaner sends a warning to non Azurians. The next is a thin shy man, "Hi….I'm P….Pinche. N…Nice to meet you…I'm with defence." Next is a familiar face, Rhydderch, he nods. "I'm Rhydderch….general, now guard." The last being a lady rubs Pinche on his shoulders, "I'm Zitile Alcore, I'm with Foreign Trade. I'm here to establish and look over the store, the others wanted to tag along."
Inside the panzer is another Azurian but she's just sitting the watching a screen. This is Minerva Alcore, 2.0 meters in height with black hair. She's one of the few MIST AZURIANS like Nytri but she's an elemental-ist.
Nytri smiles at them warmly and speaks to them with her mind, "It's good to see you all. I thought only Zitile would be coming." They communicate through Nexusphere so with their minds.
"Yes but I'm bored," Isadora speaks, "Paxi made us cover so much there's nothing to do. I came to see if I can-"
"I'm not working on anything new," Nytri speaks with a bland face, "And don't you dare experiment on Kitt." Kitt who has been resting on Nytri's head this entire time is shocked to find himself in Isadora's hands. He freaks out but can't escape despite his godly strength, Isadora is a Calamity after all and amongst the top 20.
"Relax," Isadore speaks waving her hand, "I already know what it's made of." She raises Kitt and looks at him above her head, "Fascinating, despite having your energy he didn't become a Calamity. It appears it's a racial blockade."
"Oh right," Nytri speaks, "Isa, I need you to help me figure out why I lose a lot of EP when using simple skills and runes."
Astrid walks over and hugs Nytri and Nytri is off her feet, "I don't think it's nothing serious, it happens to all of us Calamities. I'm sure you'll figure it out."
Zitile uses her hand to chop Astrid's head, "Put her down, you can't hog mum's attention like that."
Nytri feels so old she basically speaks like an old woman, "Yeah, you should put me down. Also, I said you should call me Nytri. Being called mum so many times makes me feel like a grandma."
Zitile chuckles, "Sure thing." Astrid let's go of Nytri and Pinche walks slowly to Nytri with a smile. Nytri pats him on his head, "It's good you're coming outside your shell. You're very brave."
Pinche has a smug grin. "Brave?!" Rhydderch speaks from behind Pinche walking over, "This guy had to be dragged fo- hmm mfhhfh!" Pinche covers Rhydderch's mouth and whispers to him, "Sshhh. Now's not the time, mum's praising me." He turns to Nytri, "We'll wait in the panzer." And he drags Rhydderch off, Nytri is curious but not that curious.
[AU: INFO
- Dr. Isadora Goldstein Alcore: Appearance, 1.8-meter height, amongst the shortest Azurians, curly black hair but blond when not serious and a tied-up bun. Exceptional researcher with INFORMATION MAGIC second or on par with Nytri. Despite cheery appearance….very strong combat prowess, has a unique ability of moving through spaces uninterrupted. Even moves through Nytri's storage space and Nytri is just too tired of trying to stop her.
- Astrid Alcore: Appearance, 2.1 meters, long hair blueish tips. Best healer capable of healing anything as long as it's alive, possesses bizarre abilities capable of resurrection magic with 0 EP cost. Weak combat prowess.
- Pinche Alcore: Appearance, 2.4 meters, bald with body hair having a green tint under moonligt. Formerly a tortoise variant, great defense and immovable when he wants to be.
- Rhydderch Alcore: Master swordsman and Azurite but now all called Azurian. Sword skills are very fast and hard to follow with naked eye.
- Zitile Alcore: Appearance, 2.5 meters, short hair. Very good with businesses and a nose for profit but puts family first.
- Zephyr Alcore: Appearance, 2.4 meters, long hair. EXTREMELY DANGEROUS! WHATEVER YOU DO DON'T EVER FIGHT HIM! If Nytri is the definition of Fear and Horror, he's the personification of danger and despair. Seriously, he's bad news. Around his family, he's quite friendly and very obedient to Nytri bordering obsession but when none of his family (Azurian) is around him. *Gulps*
- Minerva Alcore: Appearance, 2.0 meters with black hair. Mist Azurian but elemental-ist, she can turn into water, air, fire, earth, metal, acid, basically any element even space but she uhh… became a blackhole humanoid. Often isolates herself to be with nature but easily found by her family. She never attacks first unless told to do so making her completely harmless.
- The people find the Azurians to be strange since they interact without a word.
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