Controlling Echoes [Hermitcraft AU | Book 2]

Chapter One: Hidden

<TW> kidnapping, mention of possession, mental torture(?), capture, animal cruelty(?), death

<CW> angst, fear

This is made in collaboration with Roxy-Rox0!!

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"Oh, sorry Ren," Xisuma tells the dog hybrid, pulling out his aggressively buzzing communicator, messages from various Hermits alerting him. "There's an error with the server Nether portals, I've gotta check it out."

"You're good, dude. Admin responsibilities are callin'!" Ren reassures him with a grin, messing with the sleeve of the spacesuit in his hands.

X smiles at the dog hybrid and presses a button on his armour, elytra unfolding from the compartment on his back with the activation, and he takes off. Ren waves at the admin as he flys over head and towards his base, making X chuckle.

Once 'Suma enters his base he unclasps and removes his helmet—an extra luxury X can enjoy in the safety and stability of his home. He carries the grey helmet into the base until he finds a suitable spot where he can work out whatever is wrong with the server's Nether portals.

Another angry and confused buzz from his communicator startles 'Suma, and he quickly removes a small chip from his communicator. "Geez, I'm working on it.. Calm down guys!" He mutters to no one in particular as the chip grows into an admin panel for X to use.

He brings the little lines of code on the panel and turns it into a large hologram stretching around him. X scrolls to find the right code section, stopping once he sees the place for white code. And some glitching lines and numbers returning to normal before he could get a good look at the problem.

Xisuma hastily scrolls over the lines of code that allow his world to function, trying to track down the glitches that were traveling across the white code. The white code only affects nether portals and access into the world, and with the postal service X especially needs to fix the glitches for the mail system to work.

    'Suma freezes his scrolling and stares at the corrupted white code in shock and confusion. Green? Why is it green? Xisuma grows the visual of the code on his admin panel to study the familiar colour change in the code farther—luckily; or unlucky; for him the code hasn't gone back to white, so he can properly observe the glitch.

    He touches the holographical mimicked image of the corrupted world white code, staring at the glitch, trying to distinguish what could've caused it. Xisuma freezes as he realises why the green change looks so familiar. Why it gives him that unnerving chill of anxiety with each flicker across the code. "Uh oh.."

That thing is trying to break in again.

Or is it already in?!

Xisuma panics and quickly pulls over blank white code to override the corrupted code, copying down its original script and function so he can replace it and cover the holes. He works to remove the glitches and set it aside, closing the gap in the barriers in what he considers record time.

X sighs in relief when the harsh white of the code stayed and gains no other corrupted alterations. But he still feels uneasy; what if the Entity had gotten in? He should call a server meeting, for just in case.