Chapter 142: Chapter 142
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After Juri succeeded in separating her [Bent Mind], changes occurred, impossible not to occur.
At first she was a bit stuck, as her two minds were getting used to thinking and her body was adapting, absorbing the knowledge and reasoning of 2 Juri.
But this was beneficial, as within a few days, Juri started to receive some Levels in her skills, such as [Advanced Mana Control], [Advanced Magical Knowledge] and [Magic Runes Creation, Spells]!
These 3 Skills were the focus of one of the Juri, officially named as Juri Magical Girl!
With her body reading and memorizing several books, which were copied, a small library was created in Juri's mind, where the 2 Juri can access without problems.
And the 2nd Juri, the Fighting Girl Juri, was left practicing meditation and [Chi Control].
Her [Chi Control] was stopped for a long time, but with her mind working, along with her body that also started to train more in Martial Arts, the result was impressive!
In less than 7 days, Juri officially reached Level 300 at both Levels, accumulating 1,285 Attribute Points!
Juri was very happy as time went on, since due to the [Towers], the damage caused by the Hackers was greatly diminished.
The Internet was buzzing, wanting to understand why while in Asia, Europe, etc., it was chaos with horrible monsters appearing more and more.
On the American Continent, everything was under control, the biggest problems were in small cities and vegetation, as well as some modern villages.
Of course, in the less developed countries, chaos reigned supreme, but it couldn't be helped.
But still many were confused and wanted an answer, why is the American Continent so safe?
(Note 1: The Continents [South America] and [North America] were assimilated here, so it's just [American Continent]).
(Note 2: I am using the name of the Continents from our normal world, for a sense of ethnicity and culture, but the countries of each Continent itself have different names, when I use China and Japan as a basis, it is a comparison of culture so readers won't get lost.)
And the Presidents of each country in the American Continent, which has no idiots, began to proclaim themselves, talking even more about the Aurea Order.
They talked about how their leaders used large amounts of accumulated resources to develop unique structures that keeps gathering the Negative Energy of the cursed Negative Dimension, focusing the emergence of the creatures in unique locations.
And at these locations, the Military and Law Enforcement are sent to periodically annihilate them.
The instant such information came out of the mouths of presidents, many other countries on other continents rushed to request such a method.
So Robert had to come forward formally!
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In front of hundreds of cameras and reporters, as well as influential figures from the Other Side from other Continents, Robert took the stage with a calm expression.
"Good evening!" - Robert spoke in a grave tone, waving his hand, implying silence and he had it!
"This Press Conference is only intended to report on the status of the structures the Order calls [Towers], how they came to be, and about taking them to other countries!" - Robert said calmly.
"Since thousands of years ago, the Paranormal has been coming into our world in various ways, causing endless chaos and slaughter, it was only in the last millennium, that a great Emperor sacrificed his fame and name for the good of our Continent, annihilating 1/3 of our population, so that his descendants, that is, us, would prosper!
The other Continents then did the same soon after, but put the blame for the massacres caused in their lands, on our people, creating much enmity and prejudice since ancient times!" - Robert said rather coolly, which resulted in the representatives from the other Continents frowning, the reporters practically going crazy.
Millions of people were watching this, having all kinds of reactions.
"Due to such a situation, each Continent isolated our American Continent, which slowed our development in many ways, naturally as the years went by, this diminished and the sword and bow wars of the past began to become firearms wars, but unaffected by the Paranormal...
well, that is until one occurred on the European Continent 150 years ago, The Gastrakir Massacre!
The Gastrakir Massacre, as many know, is what almost resulted in the outbreak of World War II, but did not occur due to the intervention of the Other Side forces from various countries, preventing Gastrakir from exposing the Paranormal to the world, or as a weapon for war!
As a result hundreds of thousands died, an unfortunate incident, but Gastrakir's Country was too entrenched with the Paranormal and unfortunately there was no other method, I personally experienced such a fateful event and got my hands dirty!" - Robert said which surprised everyone.
"My age is not relevant!" - Answered Robert hearing some questions about his age.
"The focus of me talking about this historical fact, is that it was the 1st time in many centuries that all Continents came together to deal with a common incident, leaving their prejudices aside, it was during this time that I personally witnessed the feat of power of the Asians and Europeans, as well as the Africans!
Compared to these 3, we of the American Continent, were lagging behind, while primarily using Rituals, the 3 Continents developed auxiliary power methods, which allowed them a greater advantage when dealing with the Other Side!
Respectively, we the American Continent also have this advantage, they are the [Towers], something we developed to control the Paranormal on our Continent, we could never fully implement due to their exotic and colossal appearances, which we have no control over due to their nature!
Of course we have the method to build more of them, but unfortunately there is only 1 person in our entire Continent capable of generating such structures, which we are protecting with all our abilities!
The reason we are reporting on the existence of such an individual, is so that you understand that we cannot help the situation of other Countries, because this person is the most valuable individual on our Continent, his death will bring many problems and we do not wish to risk losing him!" - Said Robert words that shocked everyone.
Robert just looked at everyone, then calmly turned his head to the side, where a figure was approaching, a tall blond man, he is a Prince from one of the great Countries of Europe.
"Do you need anything?" - Robert asked quietly.
"My country is willing to send as many fleets or planes as necessary for transportation, as well as National Level Knights, as well as our Transcendent Level Mage, will be to protect such an individual during his stay in our country, as compensation, we are willing to pay the necessary price, as long as the victims of my people can be minimized as much as possible!" - Said the Prince in a determined tone, before kneeling down and bowing his head.
Such an act surprising everyone, but he was not the only one, other representatives were also willing.
"Unfortunately we cannot accede to your requests, just as you have National and Transcendent Levels, we have ours and...
we still do not allow this individual to go out and have an ordinary life, since we know about many Occult groups that would do anything to kill her knowing of her capabilities!" - Robert said coldly.
"I implore you! My country will pay the necessary price as long as the [Towers] can be built!" - Shouted a black woman with an upright posture, looking into Robert's eyes.
Robert looked at that and sighed, powerful individuals pleading together like that, this will cause a lot of repercussions on the internet.
"I apologize... this is something out of my control, since... the person in question has done Rituals with the Energy Entity..." - Robert let out a long sigh, words that surprised everyone.
"Mr. Robert, what does that mean?!" - A reporter asked.
"Among all Paranormal Entities, the one representing [Energy] is the most chaotic and crazy, its Element drives the vast majority mad who make a Sacrifice to it and received its power in return.
The individual we speak of, is someone who in his youth made pacts with the Entity of Energy and Knowledge, then uniquely developed such structures, many of our Agents tried to recreate, but were unable, even after 300 years!" - Robert said calmly.
"300 Years? But isn't it reported that the oldest of the Order lived to his 220 years?" - Another reporter asked.
"The life expectancy of those connected to the Other Side is variable, take the Asians for example, with their method of practice, they can live for several centuries, I heard that one of their Martial Artists experienced the Emperor's own massacre last millennium and they say he is still alive!
On the European Continent, they talk about the history of King Arthur and the Magician Merlin, from our historical data, Merlin existed and is at least 500 years old!
As for the record we gave, it's about the one from the last 1,000 years, who lived the longest, who was my predecessor as Leader of the Aurea Order, he could have lived much longer if he hadn't died on a mission!
The individual we speak of is extremely powerful, but at the same time fragile and chaotic, we keep him under emotional control, but should he explode... well... 1/3 of our capital city would be engulfed!" - Robert said which surprised many.
So Robert continued to tell lies, covering up for Juri as much as possible.
The reason for the lies? Robert wishes to achieve something, being Asian Martial Arts, African Shamanism and European Magic!
These 3 Continents have developed alternative methods of energies, so they ignored the Aurea Order who tried to contact and negotiate even for the crumbs.
But they were always arrogant and indifferent, while the specialists of these 3 Continents with the support of these forces, have a lower fatality rate, the Agents of the Aurea Order had to focus on quantity and do everything to get quality.
If we analyze according to the Levels of the System.
While the 3 Continents have beings above Level 800 in some abundance, the American Continent has only 2!
While the 3 Continents have about hundreds of Levels 400~799, the American Continent has less than 50 National Level Agents, with Robert being one of them.
Since they don't have the power of quality, they had to be on a numbers basis, so you could say that the Aurea Order across the continent, has about 800,000 Agents spread out, which is not much due to the high mortality rate.
As for the Paranormal experts on the other Continents, with Magic, Chi and Shamanism to support, they got great power and means to fight the Other Side easily, but refused to divide or support.
Even if it is selfish, they must blame themselves for that.
And even if these Princes and Ministers are kneeling and begging, Robert will not give in, even if he does not wish to see the death of innocents, he understands that Juri Han is a very important ally and since she does not wish to be exposed, so be it!
Now if she is to be exposed, it will only be after she has squeezed as much juice out of those bastards as she can!