Ignihyde Dorm - Idia's Room
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Ooh, Malleus… I'm going to make him pay DEARLY for this… |
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That guy's always going around pulling off power moves, acting like he's so cool…
I'm not gonna be satisfied until he's ugly crying and begging for forgiveness!
Now, what shall I do with him…? Whee hee… Eehehehehehe! |
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Wow, that's one evil, scheming look you've got on your face…
I think Malleus might have just angered the one guy no one should ever anger. |
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Hee hee… I'll give you a taste of the ultimate introvert power I built up in the Underworld.
Just you wait, Malleus Draconia… |
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I'm gonna find your weakness and pile on the PAYBACK! |
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That concludes my report of everything that happened from the outbreak of Malleus Draconia's magical disaster… |
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…until Idia Shroud's awakening. |
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Whew. You guys were stayin' busy while we were fightin' inside Lilia's dream. |
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So basically, you two have support from outside Malleus' domain.
Do I have that right? |
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Yup, pretty much. Right now I'm feeding the security cameras a little dummy footage…
But that's about the best I can do. |
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That explains why Malleus hasn't noticed you waking up, and why the darkness hasn't attacked. |
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Right. And as we just went over…
Malleus is currently focusing his attention on putting Lilia Vanrouge to sleep.
I expect that's why he hasn't sent any pursuit after your group. |
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Hmm.
Your skills are deserving of praise, but using trickery against the great Malleus makes me somewhat conflicted about giving any… |
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Well, the dude's a certified OP god modder, so we're nowhere near finishing this quest. |
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I wasn't expecting Malleus's domain to be expanding beyond the island, though… |
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And worse, you're saying that forcibly destroying it runs the risk of also damaging the minds of the people inside? |
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This is gettin' way outta hand! |
| What can we possibly do about this?
| (Hornton's getting dangerously close to alienating the whole world…)
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This is why we need your help! |
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How so? |
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Everyone at Styx is currently devoting all their efforts toward one thing…
Assigning IDs to the dreams of all the people trapped inside Malleus's domain.
That was when they detected magic readings from your group moving between dreams unassisted. |
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Are you referring to Meet in a Dream?
It's my signature spell. It lets me cross from one dream to another. |
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That sounds right, yeah! |
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As soon as we picked up traces that someone or something had moved between dreams…
The engineers at Styx freaked out.
So that was your signature spell? Magic really is a wondrous power! |
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But my magic can't reliably target a specific person's dream like your people can…
And it doesn't let me pull other people into my own dream. |
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I'm not sure how to put it. It's hard to explain… It's a very intuition-based spell…
So I was genuinely amazed when you showed up in the dreamway and led us here. |
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Are you kidding? |
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Between Styx's supercomputers and its experts in technomatic engineering and magic analysis…
They've just barely devised a means of moving from dream to dream after working round-the-clock to analyze Malleus's spell.
And the method I used isn't exactly 100 percent reproducible. They said it was still in beta. |
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And you do all of that intuitively? That's absolutely incredible. |
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Huh. So when you said you needed out help, you were referring to Silver's signature spell? |
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That's part of it, sure…
But we very much still require the cooperation of Grim, MC, and you, Sebek Zigvolt. |
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Pfft! You're just gonna dump us with some job nobody would wanna take. |
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Wow! You're quick on the uptake, Grim! |
| We're pretty used to this sorta thing because of the headmage…
| It's hard to think of any other reason you'd bring us here…
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Hmph. I mislike beating around the bush.
Get to the point! |
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So, uh… While you guys were chatting it up in Lilia's dream…
I was doing some brainstorming of my own.
I've come up with a plan to escape this dream world—or rather, to do something about Malleus. |
| Operation Make Malleus Ugly Cry and Beg for Forgiveness?
| Operation Find Weakness and Pile on Payback?
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Y-yeah, there you go… Hee. Heehee. |
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Anyway, I threw together a video to go over the plan. Would you mind watching it? |
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Wheee!
So many good things are happening!
Every day is fun!
It's like a dream! |
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Greetings, all you blissfully ignorant people trapped in hollow dreams. |
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Today, I'll be giving a strat overview for dealing with the ultra sinister final boss-tier mage using god modding magic to construct dream worlds: Malleus. |
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Malleus has established an arcane realm that operates like a server running a ginormous MMORPG. |
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And the people sleeping inside it have dreams being run in individualized instances. |
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Malleus is overseeing the server directly while also using copies of himself. |
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Malleus is like the server admin. |
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And his copies are like game masters who handle players committing TOS violations. |
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Malleus has full server management and admin privileges. |
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He's the evil overlord controlling the world. |
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We stand no chance whatsoever of beating him when he's the authority... |
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Thanks to an attack from the giga-nerd herd Styx and Ortho... |
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We've analyzed the server's source code and cracked it wide open! |
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I'm gonna use that code to program and implement cheat tools inside my dream. |
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Once I develop those cheats, I'll become the admin of my dream. |
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Then I'll lure Malleus into my dream and deactivate that pesky invincibility of his! |
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Thing is, while this plan may seem flawless... |
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Operation Cheat to Win does have one liability. |
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If the server admin Malleus catches on before I'm done... |
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He might be employing clones running on autonomous magic... |
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But there are roughly 20,000 people on Sage's Island. |
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Not even Malleus can easily monitor and manage that many dreams. |
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If issues popped up all over the server, it's likely he'd struggle to handle it all! |
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While I'm developing the cheats... |
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I need YOU guys to draw Malleus's attention. |
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And also recruit a party to slay the overlord. |
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Whenever you wake someone up, I'll issue them invite codes they can use to access my dream. |
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Once all our prep is done, we lure Malleus into my dream... |
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Malleus's invincibility gets deactivated as planned. |
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I use the invite codes I issued to summon everyone into my dream! |
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Then we all gang up and beat the tar out of him. |
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That should be enough to disrupt Malleus' magic and free us all! |
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This has been my video... |
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"Introverted Technomatic Engineering Guy Explains Overlord Strat in ~3 Minutes." |
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If you enjoyed it, make sure to hit that like button! |
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Idia Shroud, signing off. |
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Yeah, so, um… Thank you all for watching.
And on that note… |
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I'd like you guys to venture out and recruit a high-end party roster for the overlord raid! |
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