The game has ended with everyone having smiles on their faces, many people chat about the games. Ragnar finally realized the games have ended after an hour of waiting so he's now in the streets. "Truly spectacular!" Ragnar exclaims wearing a lot of fan products ranging from Isadora key chains, Dialdelios hats, Nytri shirts and many many others. He looks no different from Azurians.
"I know right!" the boy is excited giggling, "I wish I grow to be as strong as big brother Lucian." He lifts his biceps, "He's unmovable!" the boy jumps around excited.
Ragnar laughs out loud, "Indeed! He lifted that metal weight thing and ran with it to the finish." Ragnar nods, "I've never seen a more mightier warrior." Ragnar notices the city getting lively and many vehicles moving up and about, it's late in the night and the lights dazzle him.
The boy looks at Ragnar, "You don't look like you're from around here." The boy rubs his chin.
Ragnar smiles at the boy, "Yeah, I actually came here hoping to meet your king."
The boy tilts his head, "Paxius?" Ragnar is surprised by how he mentioned the kings name so casually and the boy continues, "You probably won't meet him today, maybe tomorrow afternoon." Ragnar raises a brow about to ask why but the boy continues, "There's going to be a feast tomorrow morning so he has to supervise them. The Xeno siblings like too much flavor in foods." He sticks his tongue out in disgust, "Blergh, even adding sugar to everything they eat."
Ragnar chuckles, "Alright little man, thanks for being with me. What's your name?"
The boy smiles at Ragnar, "I'm Sou Alcore. You can call me Sou." He gives a thumbs up, "Do you have a place to stay, Ragnar?"
Ragnar shakes his head, "No, I going to find an inn after here."
The boy shrugs, "An inn?! Hmph, you're Sou's friend so you'll stay with Sou." Ragnar smiles at the boy, "Then I accept your invitation!" the two high five. Sou walks backwards, "I just got the latest console and we're going to game till we drop!" Ragnar raises his hand to cheer. They went to Sou's home which is an cozy apartment and Azurites as parents since all Azurites are older than Azurians. Ragnar learned to play video games and really enjoyed himself...He met Paxius after 5 days.
NOTICE: PERSPECTIVE SWITCH TO NYTRI
The next week arrives to Nytri on her bed snoring, the rays touch her as she slowly opens her eyes. She looks around her room and rubs her eyes, Kitt is lying by her side asleep. Nytri smiles and pets his fur before getting out of bed, she enters the washroom and freshens up. She walks to the closet and a digital display appears before her containing a list of fashion trends. Nytri spreads her arms and her ARMORED SHELL changes mimicking the clothes on display, she tries various clothes then settles for a long white shirt with shorts. She reaches for a bizarre looking comb and starts straightening her hair, it gets puffy after combing for a minute due to her hair reacting.
Nytri walks out of her room into the hall and turns to her right, she walks past maid automata who greet her and she responds to them. She heads to the basement garage of the castle to an array of vehicles. She picks a 2 tired vehicle with a sleek style with lines of light along it. She sits on it and touches a flat surface which starts the bike.
"Hold up!" Nytri hears a voice, she turns to look and sees Paxius coming. Paxius walks to her, "Are you going to the entertainment district?"
"No," Nytri speaks, "I'm heading to the research district to make sure Isa doesn't build a bomb by accident. That look she had yesterday made me worry. You need something? I'll pass there when I'm going to the Elemental zones to hang out with the Misties."
Paxius shakes his head, "It's nothing serious, we got a guest, a Cath Sith and I wanted you to meet him." Paxius shrugs his hand in exasperation, "He's been spending his time in the entertainment district and I wanted you to spend some time with him."
Nytri scowls, "This isn't one of those marriage thingies, is it?"
"Yeah, no." Paxius raises a brow, "From what happened during the war, I'm only getting letters for alliance and some even vassalage." Paxius notices Nytri has no idea what he's talking about, "Some kingdoms want to serve Azuria and receive protection in return."
Nytri tilts her head, "But we don't need them for anything."
"Yeah," Paxius speaks, "I accepted without knowing the meaning of the word….." He rubs his head, "Any case, it's good to form connection with many nations. It'll let us blend smoothly with them and gather information to structure our history."
Nytri is marveled, "You already picked out our history?!"
Paxius grins with pride, "You bet. Azuria is a nation that has been residing in the unexplored zone for 1000s of years with her own wars and crises. Like the famine from 700 years ago." Nytri is confused and Paxius grins, "Exactly, no one was there so no one will know. Kael used INFORMATION > NATURE READING and everyone pitched in, even changing the past to suit our story. You should check it out in the museum. I placed antiques there that fits right at home."
Nytri smiles, "Alright, I guess I'll check it out." Paxius waves at her and Nytri drives out of the garage into the driveway and out of the castle gates. The city before her is a unique blend of medieval and sci-fi elements creating a truly fabulous site. Flying vehicles are over the city acting as transportation and everyone's distinct fashion makes the place look futuristic like a modern world.
There are shops with signs that have various kinds of dragons posted on it, some eating and some trying clothes. There's even a sign of a long neck dragon that's waving its tail to make spaghetti, and some releasing breaths making ice creams, a honey shop with the sign of a lazy moth drinking honey. The dominant design on fashion has dragons in them and various creatures but it blends perfectly.
She drives quickly to the highway towards the Research and Development District. On the highway, many vehicles are driving with various functions as delivery and transport. Nytri sees the R&D district ahead, "I hope she hasn't-" She sees a small explosion on a mountain in the distance, white smoke rises from it. Nytri sighs, she gets off the highway driving towards a district built along a mountain.
The R&D district is located inside a mountain range, there're buildings along the mountain with houses around for workers to stay. The entrance to the district is through a tunnel that leads to a parking lot at the other side of the mountain and its above ground. There's a guard post which was recently erected to stop tourists from going further. Past the guard post is a magnificent entrance of a glass building with many people hanging around it. Entering the building is the receptionist area or waiting area with cafeteria by the side and arcade on the other. There's an elevator which moves up to the top of the mountain to helipads, this is one of the helipads that is use to move research to the field to test. Each mountain peak has a pad with each mountain focusing on a specific type of research but the first mountain is the largest.
Inside each building, the elevator goes down into the ground to the part where research is actually done. Testing of devices, food, appliance, clothes, anything at all. Each mountain facility has a defense mechanism so don't even think about sneaking close to it. Overall, the place has a natural feel to it like a jungle but tamed.
Nytri drives through the tunnel and arrives before the first mountain, she drives to the parking lot. She reaches a lot and parks her bike. She gets down to the guard post, "Hey John." She greets the guard.
"Hey little Ny." The guard replies watching a screen/TV. He notices Nytri enter the room and pick a club(Metal Bat), he squints his mouth looking at Nytri as she leaves with the club on her shoulder.
[AU: INFO
- Azuria is in the modern era and has the feel too. The R&D district is very large but most of its facilities are built underground to conserve surface land and not make it conspicuous.
- There an entire open field away from Azuria where testing is done. The helipad is where they carry the test products from to the fields. Each mountain has a helipad and some is use to send successful products to the Industry District for mass production. Azuria is a green nation since some Pure Azurians cleanse the environment with their very presence with most of them being Calamities.
- Both Pure and Impure Azurians live as equal like a family, everyone knows everyone. The Nexusphere is the main communication channel but they're researching on making one that does not depend on people as servers.
- Nexusphere is Nytri's Information World that evolved from Data Lake. It's like an information bank and a virtual community so people also interact there. That is where quests/missions regarding outside the country is posted. Some quests are completed by possessing constructs and moving them outside the country.
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