Syanic Earth 2: Cubic Arc

Chapter 2: Cubic Intrigue

"Ritom," Phoenicia inspected her new gauntlets. "I fail to see how exposing my arms makes me a better fighting companion."

"Chillax, droid gal!" Ritom organized his toolbox. "It's supposed to give you more agility! And come on, I think Phoenicia revealing more of her body is pretty cute! Am I right, Elysia?"

"Yeah," Elysia crossed her arms. "I like it. You look good, Phoenicia."

"Thank you!" Phoenicia swung her arms to test Ritom's upgrade.

While they walked across the city streets, Shien talked about birds while Naivern jammed a soothing melody on her guitar. Elysia's Vulpi ears twitched in rhythm as Enshiron played his violin along with Naivern.

"Almost there!" Shien pointed to the large dome-shaped building.

The Saberdome Arena had shining blue hexagon windows that blinked in sync with the booming music within Tetrachrome.

"Alright! Let's see what Dorian's cooking," Naivern cheered.

An explosion shook the atmosphere.

"What was that?" Shien jumped.

Phoenicia's two antenna hairs stood on its ends. "Danger detected!"

From the smoky hotel came out a male player wielding a sword. The man faced his sword at the front doors. With low HP, a being made of white cubes jumped from the doors and stabbed the player with its blade.

"Cubic Regime!" Enshiron held his violin like a bow and arrow.

The dying player disintegrated into black hexagons as a dark tab emerged.

Player Terminated

Account Destroyed

"Odd. Termination effects aren't programmed like that," Phoenicia blinked.

"Wait, what?" Ritom drew his pyrotechnic blade. "If we die, we just regenerate like always, right?"

Shien shuddered at the opposite possibility. "I-I hope so."

The cubed being looked at the friends with its pale featureless face, raising its sword to signal its other lackeys to attack the group.

Cubic Warrior

Level 45

HP: [45,000/45,000]

"Guys! They're coming!" Elysia cracked her brass knuckles, charging at the Cubic warriors.

"Wait!" Shien grabbed her back. "Let Naivern start things off. Do your thing, Loud Girl!"

Naivern nodded, swiping a tab to activate her red DJ monarch wings. She soared above the group and played her guitar, boosting her friends' stats and lowering the Cubic enemies'.

"Oh, yeah!" Ritom slashed his giant flaming sword to cut the Cubic warriors into charred pieces. "Let's beat them up!"

While Shien smashed his clarinet staff against the warriors' swords, Phoenicia and Elysia helped punch the Cubic men. The warriors' hybrid swords morphed into rifles to fire back, but Enshiron used his violin bow to snipe them with wind arrows.

"Take that!" Naivern played tunes to launch heated plasma waves at the warriors.

"Feel the burn!" Ritom's blade morphed into a flamethrower to finish the Cubic patrol off. "How was that?"

"Awesome!" Shien high-fived him.

Elysia huffed. "Wow, you all have some cool powers."

Ritom elbowed Elysia. "You like that, huh? My flames rock!"