Death and Phoenix

"I should stopped for now. But our sons would believe us maybe but we don't really have the time to waste bullets anymore. A scale of this farce is hard to control."

"Yes. Mr. President."

"Well, it seems like my stupid son never knew this part. For the better, good thing he let your son summon another, what do you call that, hero... an SSR hero grade that he was never able to obtained using his card.

"No worries Mr. President. I'm grateful that your son, Hajoon will be able to use whatever hero powers his card obtained thru my son's game account"

"All for our goal. I just hope my other son thru you. Our dearest Jinho will be able to kill their heroes. if not, I will be the one to kill them. Or should I say my soldiers. They will be imperfect players if we let Jinho's sentiment and love for his gacha heroes prevail"

"I understand, Mr. President."

***

"They seemed to misunderstand the President's words" Hajoonhyung muttered.

"Of course, they are not contracted to the pseudo codex." Adelheid. "It seems like the pseudocodex has two owners, you Hajoon and the president. This will be tough. Or maybe there is another codex we don't know."

"Even that knowledge is oblivious to you huh" Hajoonhyung asked Adelheid surprised.

"I'm not omniscient duh" Adelheid answered. "Will you let the president kill us, Jinho?"

"As far as I remember you said both of us share my system." I said. "And maybe I'm sharing my system too with Hajoonhyung?"

"Yes and no." Prince Silangan said. "Hajoonhyung has his own system however the gacha unit was from your records Master Jinho. The one sharing his system is me and him"

"What?" Hajoonyung said with a shocked face.

"Even if you gave up the card, the card system is yours Hajoon. You are connected to me. And you will become a player with my abilities if I get killed by those rain of bullets. Try to meditate and asked your own system"

"Information entanglement huh. Seems like I can really use your abilities Prince Silangan even your stats is shared with me."

"That's the secret why the President was able to kill the gacha characters as fragile as a paper. There is only one codex and he forced swapped the stats. And the human owners got revived. And the gacha characters stats were reduced to nil. It was just a farce to have rained bullets."

"But those bullets were not affecting the humans" I asked.

"Because the soldiers were firing nothing. The president was using the visual residues of the non-harming excess energy of portals. It was beneficial to quickly heal the revived bodies."

"How did you know all of this Prince Silangan" I asked again.

"While I was attempting to connect the portal, I was forced connected to the president and he told me to avoid the open streets of capital. But then his true intentions were clear to me as the information gateway was connected to him thru the pseudo codex"

I wonder what will happen next. If the President knows we are here.

"Master Jinho, prepare yourself."

"You as well Master Hajoon"

"What" Hajoon said.

"Viole??????"

====

The outlier of this farce was Viole. My most strongest character. Did she escape the codex hullabaloos.

"Master Jinho, I'm not here to fight"

"I-i... I don't understand."

"The Geas System should have trapped me now. But I am yours and I am entangled as your card. If you will it."

"I thought Hajoon and I are incomplete players. But me owning two cards confused the system?"

"It's not like that Master Jinho." Those things are for the other players with abandoned accounts that were wreaking havoc to their owners demise as a show by the President. I am your strongest from an abandoned account. But you were also an active account player of korean server like your hyung. Inactive players killed by their owner merged now. Active players within the radius of influence have the clear card. But only you as the true owner of the pseudocodex will be able to use those clear cards from the active owners. I am yours. Even if you kill me. Nothing will happen."

"Won't Jinho obtained your powers instead? or would he be overpowered with our abilities if I get killed after you?" Adelheid interrupted.

"The president made it this way. The codex and the pseudo entanglement. For Jinho to fight something. Since soon enough, Jinho, this is your powerbuilding up arc with Hajoon. And it's your choice whether to stripped the other players of their powers. The president can't do anything now. Even if those players rebel. Only you can stop them"

Suddenly I got headaches.

"I just hope monsters from the Strings of Annals won't come out of the portal"

"Don't jinxed it, Jinho"

"Sorry, Hajoonhyung" I quickly apologized.

And goosebumps were felt by all of us.

As if the malice in the air was thickening.

===

A violet portal appeared in-front of us. And thru the television that we were watching, few portals appeared. The television at least showed 6 violet portals from different places where the hullabaloo of the capital happened earlier.

"A seven in total huh." Adelheid said.

===

NEWS FLASH NEWS FLASH

The television in-front of us suddenly changed its scenery to that of the presidential presscon.

Daddy Gin was there. Hajoon's president-dad.

"Today by executive order 158, I declare the Philippine Player Association to be led by me as the President-in-Partner and George, my aide as the President-in charge of the Association. We will be the authority for players if they are allowed to enter the portals. Do not attempt to enter with unauthorized permission."

End of press conference.

===

"Jinho, we don't have a shared inventory, can you take out that phone I use"

"Wait hyungnim" I quickly think of hyungnim's phone and it appeared on my hand. "Here hyungnim"

"Thanks Jinho."

"You can form party with him, well if you trust him" Adelheid said with sarcasm.

"I t-trust hyungnim" I embarrassingly answered. Well I'm still scared with Hajoonhyung. It was ingrained. But I never hated him "Would you like to form a party with me Hajoonhyung?"

"Sure" he headbutt me after he answered.

"Ouch"

[A party has been formed. Please give the party a name]

"Crybaby Jinho and his awesome Hajoonhyung"

[Party Crybaby Jinho and his awesome Hajoonhyung has been created]

"Hajoonhyung..." I complained with a soft voice. I am still confused. Viola is now my ally and we don't know what awaits with these portals.

===

There were no classes the next day. It meant that Hajoonhyung and I plus our gacha units are the only beings occupying the palace. Earlier...

===

"Wake up sleepyhead" I woke up with a heavy feeling from my chest.

"I can't breathe Hajoonhyung" I can feel something lighly slapping my cheeks.

"You surely miss the slap of my both hands puhaha" I saw his smug face as I opened my eyes.

Hajoonhyung quickly stood up and bowed to me.

"Please cook for both of us" Hajoonhyung asked.

===

"The palace is still empty. The violet portal turned indigo in my room" I was voicing out my thoughts"

"Nothing beats a bacon slab for breakfast" Hajoonhyung was merrily eating.

Hyung what will be your future if you can't cook bacon slab and well, traditionally cook rice. I had to using a portable stove and a clay pot outside the palace.

===

"Please kill me, master Jinho" Prince Silangan said.

Hajoonhyung was gravely injured. What happened. Did I microsleep. We were just eating earlier.

"Decide quickly Master Jinho, can't you feel it too? Hajoon is on near death state."

What the fork is happening.

Adelheid. Viola where are you.

===

Is that a premonition. I was back eating infront of Hajoonhyung.

"We need to meet daddy Gin and papa George. Hajoonhyung"

"Wh-why?" Please don't speak with your mouth full Hyungnim but I can't tell him that.

"I just saw a vision of you being gravely injured. It happened too vividly. Maybe I was microsleeping"

"Well, if I die... Would that mean, Prince Silangan will be free from entanglement of me. My dad surely would be happy to get rid of his worthless son."

"Please don't kid like that Hyungnim. You are important to him. That's why I was chosen. And I accepted it for you because I don't want you to suffer from the consequences of the hellish Geas System"

"But now we are involved. And those jerks know that our mothers are our weaknesses. They must have hidden them somewhere"

"Let's just stay put hyungnim. We should not enter the portal. I should sleep with you in your room"

"You surely miss sleeping with your hyung huh."

"So I can protect you and we should be together."

"I'll protect you instead. I think that's destined"

"Hyungnim---"

He headbutted me again. "You worry too much. Let's take an afternoon nap and maybe we need to share dreams with each other so I can see your ominous visions lol"

===

[A red portal within a dream within a dream is near]

"Hyungnim, we took a nap right in your room right"

"Yes, Jinho. With our foreheads sticking with each other"

"Is this a dreamworld plane?"

A wall of fire suddenly surrounded and encircled us.

[Please defeat the 100 monsters or the eight portal will appear in the center of the capital]

"This is the endless 100 monster challenge in Chains of Annals. But we didn't enter the portal right? Hyungnim"

"Jinho, complaining is useless. lean your back to me and let's cover each other. Seems like the wall of fire is 6m from the center. 6m raidus. 12m diameter. I'm such a mathematician. Awesome hyung right Jinho?"

"Yes, hyungnim. Viola, Adelheid, Silangan, heed my call"

[Summoning the gacha units to the dreamworld plane]

[Only one gacha unit is allowed]

[Prince Silangan will be summoned]

[Adelheid's and Viola's powers and stats will be accessible to Incomplete player Jinho]

"Hyungnim, I'm sorry. I think I shouldn't have included your unit. If I only attempted summoning my units, silangan would have shared his stats and abilities to you."

"Don't worry for me Jinho, Prince Silangan and you will be attacking them, I will be your third set of eyes here in the center."

===

I have lost to destiny.

Silangan and I were able to kill almost all 90 monsters. but the radius kept getting smaller and Soon fire was burning us.

My HP was more than double the normal so this plane's wall of burned half of my HP.already

The S class monster that remained had 1 HP remaining and has 7 seconds immortality.

Silangan was immune to the fire damage of the fire wall. But even protecting Hajoonhyung was both impossible for us. We were both hugging him.

"Kill me Master Jinho"

"Both of you are my friends"

"I can't share my stats to him. Even my abilities. This dream plane is that realm of rules of Chains of Annals. So many prohibitions and modifications. Your will of killing me will be accepted by the codex as transferring your units stats to Hajoon permanently "

"I'm sorry Silangan and thank you"

"Codex, I beg you. Hear me and switch Silangan's stats and Hajoonhyung"

3...2...1... I snapped Silangan's neck as the S class monster finally burned by the fire.

I woke up with Hajoonhyung illuminating.

His burn injuries were healing.