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Mana~


"Wha-what the hell are you doing?!" Mana shouted as Gannon took hold of her, carrying her down to land. "Hey, no! Damn it! I only go when I have control!" She protested at first, but found that she was more tired than she'd first realized. She stayed quiet for a minute but then spoke up. "You idiot, if you know I'm that tired you shoulda left me behind and gone on yourself. Now that we're wasting this time, who knows what is happening to the Reyvateil we're supposed to be guarding! Man, I suck at being a vanguard," she groaned. Just then, her ears picked up a faint tune being sung, from what she could tell it was in Hymmnos. "A Song?" Mana asked. "It sounds like a lot of people are singing it... If we follow it, that should be where the action is, right?" Damn, I'm gunna have to drink at least two more of those Droopy Sodas to survive this, she thought irritably.

Miko~


"All right." Miko didn't mean it to come out like that, but her tone had more than a hint of relief to it. "I'll be glad to get to Seraca and find out what is going on. Hopefully Mana and Gannon are all right," she added. She was quick to obey when Rhaplanca ushered them onto the next elevator.

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[Nevermind, I'm up to date again : D]

Noaah had been in a sort of daze the whole way through. Ever since he'd looked out over the edge of that path, his mind had fallen elsewhere, as he walked along with his group in a sort of half-sleepwalk. He was worried... Terribly worried. Vegna... He's much stronger then me in terms of Song Magic, and it doesn't help that we were both created the same way, with the same information downloaded into us. He probably knows where the Chronicle of Orgel is as well... What if I ever need to fight him? I barely know any Song Magic, if any... I need Dives, and I need them soon, but there's no one to dive into me willingly... Unless someone wants to help me, then my Cosmosphere won't allow them in deeper then the first level. Urgh...

What am I doing with these people anyways? I'm nothing but a burden on them... a filthy C.P.G. lackey as they called it, I think. I'm doing more harm then good travelling with them, just another useless thing to watch over, like a fragile object waiting to shatter. But I can't help it. I want to be friends with all these people, these people that helped me... Noaah's eyes seemed to light up though, when he noticed his body jolt up and down, his eyes looking wildly around him.

An elevator? When had they gotten in an elevator? He couldn't recall, but he recognized this place. It was the sort of central lift system of the tower, used primarily by important political members or tower technicians accompanied by a Reyvateil, or the Administrator and Goddess herself. To think he was in an elevator that the Goddess might have used... It made him smile a bit, but the lights suddenly began to flicker, worry flicking on and off inside of him in tune with the lights. "The Life Giver's power is failing... We need to hurry up, Rhaplanca..." he said, in a tone that wasn't harassing, but none too gentle either. The Life Giver was just as important as the Administrator; if the Life Giver was drained of her power, or stopped singing her song, the tower's energy supply would cease, and viruses would be able to course through the tower and materialize endlessly, causing the destruction of the innermost workings of the tower, and possibly recreating a Grathnode Inferia event, if they really dealt damage within.

As the elevator began to descend, he was asked a question. "Binary Field...? Isn't it a metaverse beyond the Cosmosphere that connects things to the Tower? Hmm... Wait, let me think a bit... Yes, I'm pretty sure you can access the Binary Field through a Reyvateil's Cosmosphere, by hacking into the 'Tower of Life'. The 'Tower of Life' is a component of the Cosmosphere that takes the form of an area within our soulspace. Think of it as a root, and the tower as a tree; the main tree extends branches and roots out into all Reyvateils, so in a way, all Reyvateils are connected to the tower, and through the tower, are connected to each other. This connection is made possible through the 'Binary Field', which would be like the space in which everything is connected to the tower. A lot of things are done in the Binary Field, like tower configuration, tower manipulation, execution of Song Magic as well as inter-Reyvateil communication." He nodded his head once, looking at Rhaplanca to see if she was following.

"If you're thinking of somehow contacting another Reyvateil, like the Life Giver, I wouldn't suggest it. First of all, you'd need to Dive into a fellow Reyvateil to gain access to the Binary Field, and second of all, the Reyvateil which you are trying to 'access', the one you're communicating with, must be somehow connected to the Binary Field as well, which means she either has to be in a Dive or sublimated and spiritually living within the Binary Field, or by some other unknown means. Trying to contact the Life Giver would only disrupt her singing further, since you'd basically be interrupting her through her Cosmosphere, her very spirit. Were you intending to use the Binary Field for another reason though...?" he asked, looking at the young girl before him.

Ishira


Ishira waited impatiently for the last elevator to stop. Amidst his foot tapping and the conversation between Rhaplanca and Noaah, he was chomping at the bit to get into the C.P.G. as the elevator stopped. Now that their goal was a matter of on the other side of a door he was raring to go. Until the door to the tower opened to the greenery of the outskirts of Seraca. A defeated sigh escaped him, "Looks like we got a little ways to go yet," he said as he took the lead and waved for Miko to walk along side him, "We're officially on Fa Ciel land, we don't have to worry about heights at the moment," he smiled to bring relief to Rhaplanca and Miko.

Naomi crossed her arms as she stood there with the President, watching the events unfolding before them. "Finally, a way to put an end to the oppression," she sighed, almost in relief. She looked over to the man next to her. "Sir?"

He sneered. "Yes, all according to plan. Everything should fall into place after this. Once we find the Goddess, we will be able to find the Chronicle of Orgel as well. From there we should be able to overtake the Tower once we find the Life Giver and the Goddess."

"But what of the Fau Pira?" Naomi asked curiously.

"After we gain control of Ar Tonelico, we will have no further need for that Tower. And so, as it poses a threat, I will likely have the Fau Pira destroyed."

That didn't set well with Naomi. She bit her lip but said nothing. Sure, she had done some awful things in her lifetime, but it was all for the greater good, or so she'd told herself. But somehow, she couldn't see what greater good could come from destroying the Fau Pira and extinguishing thousands and thousands of lives that fully depended on that Server to exist.

"You seem displeased, Naomi."

She shook her head. "Not at all, Sir."

???


The man entered the chamber where Hikari was singing. He glanced over to the President and Naomi with no expression on his face. He was not summoned and he didn't much care if he was going to be scolded. He took in an apathetic breath and averted his gaze to Hikari before speaking, "They're close. They seemed to have separated into two groups. Gannon and another, then Noaah with another Reyvateil and two vanguards," he informed. He stood there as if to await orders.