Visitors

--- Lobby, IronSpark Center

This place was where most of the commotion happens in IronSpark. This was where adventurers go when they want to eat, sleep, drink, store items, sell items, etc. The place looks like an ordinary living room and the only difference is that there are the stalls and the lockers around.

Right now, there were no adventurers here and the ones who were chilling at the place are Rodrick and some of his agents.

"Boss, Sir Hank and Sir Lawrence is currently on their way here." One of the agents said as he played some video games on his laptop. Beside him was his tablet that he uses as his work terminal, which allowed him to continue to do his job even though he was playing some video games.

"Good. Anything happened with the Vineyard?" Rodrick asked as he drank some beer. He was still feeling a bit nervous about what happened earlier. But of course, he kept all of this to himself and remained calm on the outside.

At the same he asked this, some sirens and alarms suddenly rang throughout IronSpark, which meant that there were someone who came uninvited.

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--- Rodrick's Home, IronSpark Center

As the intruder alarm continued to ring, Jay stopped getting lost in his thoughts and got up from the sofa.

"Damn. What now?" Wondering what was happening, Jay looked for something he can use to try and contact anyone in IronSpark and ask what was happening.

Just as he was looking for some kind of telephone or some kind of terminal, he saw Cidney suddenly bolting out of one of the bedrooms on the second floor and jumping down, landing beside him.

"Hey, what's happening?" Cidney asked Jay as she grabbed his hand.

"I don't know. That's why I am looking for something I can use to communicate with someone in IronSpark." Jay sighed afterwards. In fact, he did not even know that they were already high up in the skies since he did not feel anything when the IronSpark Center flew.

"Damn. Let's go to the lobby. I'm sure father is there." Cidney said as he pulled Jay and the two of them left the place.

...

--- Entrance, IronSpark Center

The moment LJ and his companion 'Jay' arrived near the entrance, the intruder alarms suddenly activated even though they did not enter the archway shaped entrance.

"Hey, something's off. There's an anomaly in here." LJ said as he felt some tingling sensation around him. It was also the same for 'Jay.'

Before 'Jay' could even say something, hundreds of robots and a couple of agents suddenly rushed out of the entrance and pointed their guns and rifles at them.

"Don't move or we will be forced to open fire!"

LJ and 'Jay' did not act rashly even though they can just easily suppress everyone by just releasing some of their aura.

"So, is there anyone in charge here? Mind if we speak to him or her?" 'Jay' asked and wondered how things will go down.

"You think that you can just show up at our doorstep and start asking questions?" An agent that was twice the size of his companions shouted.

"Fine. Then do you want to be the one asking the questions?" 'Jay' asked.

Before the agent could even speak, Rodrick and two other men wearing a white coat came out of the entrance and told everyone to stand down.

"Who are you? And how the hell did you manage to come here when we are 6,000 meters above the ground?" Sir Hank, one of the men wearing the white coat asked as he took out a notebook and pen.

'Jay' was the one who first introduced himself.

"The name's Jayson Lockwood."

LJ introduced himself next.

"Name's Leonardo James. LJ for short."

Rodrick had a weird expression on his face since he never heard of these two and wondered if they were just some random adventurers who managed to get to IronSpark on time before they activated the Flying Fortress.

"So, how did you manage to come here?" Sir Lawrence, the other man in the white coat asked as he played with his long and curved moustache.

"I am pretty sure that they won't believe us if we told them we flew our way up here. Just by looking at those robots and guns, I am guessing these people does not know a thing about magic." Jayson said to LJ telepathically.

"That's a secret. But if you want to really know how, why not treat us to dinner first?" LJ said as he looked at Rodrick since he already guessed that he was the one in charge here.

"Fine." Rodrick said as he gestured everyone to lower their guns and return.

"But sir-" Sir Hank was about to say something but Rodrick spoke up again.

"Come on, before I change my mind." Rodrick said as he gestured LJ and Jayson to follow him inside.

...

--- Lobby, IronSpark Center

While Rodrick was leading the two towards the lobby, Jay and Cidney arrived here.

"Jay! Cidney! What are the two of you doing here?" Jin, who was left behind again and was just chilling here, saw the two and almost spat out his drink.

"What's with the alarms?" Jay asked as he sat down on one of the couches available.

"There's an intruder. But that was a couple of minutes ago." Jin said as he looked at Cidney who looked really different for some reason. She was still wearing her pink dress, but she looked somewhat terrifying for some reason.

"Jin? What is it?" Cidney suddenly felt Jin who was looking at her weirdly.

"It's nothing. Forget about it." Jin said as he continued drinking his coffee.

"So, did your abilities return?" Jay immediately asked Cidney since he also felt something weird about her.

"Yup. Even my memories from the game returned..."

"So, did you remember seeing me in the game?" Jay asked.

"Huh? I never met you once. Are you sure your memory is fine mister?" Cidney said and had a questioning look on her face.

"Ah! She obviously does not recognize me since I was in the body of a 14 year old kid at Hellson's Dimension! Wait... was it 14 or 15 years old?" Jay thought to himself and sighed. He obviously looked worlds apart since right now, he was a 30 year old guy with long black hair and a stuffy beard.

"Nope. Forget I said anything. But can I ask you something else?" Jay said as he looked at Cidney in her eyes.

"Sure."

"I remember that the Golden Moon Academy is one of the safest places in the game. So how did you die?" Jay asked since this was still bugging him.

"I got dragged into an event where we had to kill some demons with tentacle-like hair that was roaming around. I died fighting one of these demons. In truth is, it is still pretty scary every time I remember how I was stripped naked and tortured..." Cidney stopped talking and she started crying.

"It's fine. You don't have to tell me the rest." Jay said immediately and hoped Rodrick won't punch him in the face if he sees this and some kind of misunderstanding happens.

But sadly though, what Jay was fearing would happen really happened.

"Chubby Punch!!!"

Rodrick suddenly appeared behind Jay and punched him on his head.

"Hey! What the hell was that for!" Jay said as he tried to massage the part where Rodrick punched him.

"I just felt like it. Everyone who makes Cidney cry must receive my fatherly punch." Rodrick said. After this, he snapped his fingers and the entire lobby changed into a large dining room, just like the one at the castles from old times.

A long table at the center, comfy dining chairs around it, a chandelier on the ceiling, and a red carpet on the floor. As for the walls, it was still black in color just like the outside of IronSpark Center.

"Someone should help you design this place. It's really... not that nice to look at." Jayson, who just entered the lobby said as he looked at the black walls.

"Hmph! Stop complaining and take a seat!" Rodrick said as he gestured Jay and everyone else in the room to take a seat.

"Huh? Dad, who are those two with you?" Cidney immediately asked as she sat down beside Jin.

"The intruders... I mean visitors!"

The moment everyone was seated, Rodrick snapped his fingers again, causing a lot of food items to appear on the table. May it be fruits, appetizers, meat dishes, and so on, it all filled the table. The only ones who weren't surprised by this was Rodrick, Cidney, and Jin.

"Hey, what kind of magic did you use?" LJ asked as he grabbed a bowl of spaghetti and started digging in.

"That's a secret." Rodrick said mockingly and also started eating as he grabbed some grilled cheese sandwich.

Just as Jayson was about to eat something, he suddenly glanced at Jay and spoke to him telepathically.

"Who are you? Why did you come to this dimension?"

Jay was shocked when he heard this. When he looked at Jayson, he did not even do anything strange and started eating some chicken wings.

"Relax. I don't want to cause a scene. Just answer my question." Jayson said as he glanced at Jay again.

"The name's Jay. But I think there is a misunderstanding here. I am originally from this dimension."

"Really? Then how could you explain the anomaly present in the void around you?" Jayson asked.

"Huh? What the hell are you talking about?" Jay was at a loss what Jayson was telling him. He knew this telepathic communication will take a long time so he also started eating.

"I guess you don'y know anything. I'll explain after dinner." Before Jayson could end the telepathic link between him and Jay...

"Wait! Who the hell are you and what's your business here in Earth?" Jay asked since it was pretty obvious that Jayson and LJ came from another dimension.

"Don't be impatient. Let me enjoy eating for now." Jayson said as he cut of the telepathic link and continued eating.

"So, did anything happen strange to you guys? Why did you launch this building into the skies?" LJ asked as he looked at Rodrick.

"A plant monster. I feared something would happen that would be out of our control and chose to flee from the area." Rodrick said honestly.

"The one with the purple bulb?" Jayson asked.

"Yup. Did you see it perhaps?" Rodrick said and wondered if something strange happened by now.

"Uh huh. I sensed something disturbing about it so I killed it." LJ said as he continued eating.

But the moment Rodrick heard this, he choked on his food and it took a few minutes for him to calm down.

"What the hell are you? Even the S Ranked adventurers couldn't put a scratch on that thing!" Rodrick said as he looked at LJ as if he was some kind of monster.

"It's too much of a bother to explain now. We'll just tell you after dinner is over." LJ said since it was kind of a very, very long story if he was going to start to tell everyone about stuff.