Isekai: The Eight Soul Fragments

Remuel enters the room with Arlesk and found Serkyrio and Draxus who was showing dead fish eyes as he turned his gaze to the two. "Dahell happened Drax?" When Drax saw the two, he immediately broke the ice and infected Remuel and Arlesk with his current state. "The papers we signed... Are the [IOU Papers]..." Remuel instantly hung down his head while Arlesk looked up to the sky on the window. Both of them had similar eyes to Draxus which contained no life at all. "Jeez guys, don't forget that I also signed a hundred of those papers you know?" Serkyrio laughed lightly at the three who are pretty much non-responsive due to the favor papers possibly being circulated. "Anyways, do you know why I have gathered you all here?" Serkyrio beckoned the three to stand in front of him in the office. "I'll be having a meeting about three things. One of it involves a certain problem over some religious country. I've been getting rumors that their Deaconess has a certain unique magic concept called [Song Incitement]. It was pretty much spread out by the country so I'm thinking of sending a person there." After hearing the word [Deaconess], Draxus twitched in reaction but immediately closed his eyes with minor frustration. In his mind, he felt a little bit of withdrawal as religion isn't exactly his thing. "I'm interested in the concept magic though..." His expression of deep thought and imagination caused Arlesk and Remuel to smile and look at each other. Both of them then nodded as Remuel raised his hand. "I nominate Draxus to investigate." Draxus snapped back to reality and made a quick retort. "Oi!! Religion isn't my-!" Serkyrio interrupted him while smiling as he accepted the immediate idea given by Remuel. "Alright, it's decided." The three of them ignored Draxus while exchanging gazes with a teasing smile, causing Draxus to take a step backwards. Serkyrio converted his teasing gaze into a serious one once more and asked Draxus a certain question. "Draxus, do you have an active scout?" Draxus pondered for a bit from Serkyrio's question before nodding. " [Sentinel of Trickery], and [Sentinel of Foresight]. Apparently, the [Sentinel of Shadows] is still recovering." Serkyrio then nodded as he gave orders to Draxus. "Good, summon them here. I'll give you the details of the scouting mission for them later after this." Draxus took out his phone and began contacting the two mentioned members. Serkyrio continued as he told the three of the other things. "First of all, I would like to mention the progress of the completion of the capital. Arlesk has done a great job on managing the people around here so that we can pretty much get the entire capital completed. Surely you guys already know that this castle is divided into multiple districts, but I'll give them official names anyway. So it's [Residential], [Sightseeing], [Shopping], and [Prominence]. For the first three, it's somewhat self explanatory, the fourth district revolves in school systems or so. We haven't made a decision as to who to appoint in these schools but it's gonna be a lot of things to prepare for. Things like events, tournaments, or so will be held there as well. Any questions?" Serkyrio opened the drawer on his table and brought out his laptop. The three pondered deeply before Draxus raised his hand. "What is it Drax?" After Serkyrio beckoned Draxus to answer, a map of the current capital city of Preeliance was projected. "You see, the idea of changing the signal connection between devices from radio waves to magic power was splendid as it allowed us to contact each other without much difference. However, some members of my order are somewhat facing a crisis....." Serkyrio turned his gaze from the laptop to Draxus due to interest. "Well..." Draxus was somewhat shy as he avoided to connect his gaze with the others. "We can't play [Genshin]! Dunno why we were able to play some time ago but now! We can't even connect online!" Serkyrio's eyebrow twitched in response due to the shocking sudden request by Draxus. After thinking for a bit while pushing the bridge of his nose lightly. He spoke in a very calm tone. "It's likely that when we first got summoned, even intangible things like waves were brought in. So there was a connection of radio waves or maybe electromagnetic waves in Mt. Valtav and Earth. Not sure about it though, it's just a theory. By the way, why do you want to play [Genshin] so much?" Draxus's entire body twitched as he turned his gaze away. "Hmm, maybe you missed a banner?" Draxus began sweating as Serkyrio teased him for missing something. "Not like I'll pry on it. Arlesk, ask Jaquinn regarding that later." Arlesk nodded and responded positively, but he showed a serious face which allowed Serkyrio to notice that he has a question. "What is it, Arlesk?" Arlesk took out his phone and showed a picture of a bulletin board. "In this bulletin board, there seems to be weapons of the myths that can be found here. I inquired some information to the adventurer's guild and Undine readily gave information about it. There are mythical places which are rumored to inhabit deadly weaponry. There was no confirmation on the information but the rumors led to the point where the creators of the weapons are a group of [Enchanter Smiths] that reside deep in the underground. It's somewhat hard to believe but I would like to investigate a dungeon that's located near this city. In fact, it's actually around the farming areas that are guarded by a squadron from the knight order. So I want it to be reinforced by two [Sentinels] from Draxus's group." Draxus turned his gaze to Arlesk who made a request. "It's so that monsters that are going on rampages by escaping the dungeon are kept in bay huh? Sure." Arlesk smiled as Draxus accepted the request readily. "Great, now I'll set off alone for the early floors. The dungeon was said to have a hundred floors so I will definitely take a while to go all the way down to the deepest floor. I'll begin gathering members once required through." Serkyrio nodded and immediately gave the approval to Arlesk. He then turned his gaze to Remuel and projected an image. "Remuel, the progress of the dimensional gate is actually doing pretty great. But it seems that you're getting close to hitting another wall?" Remuel looked down a little and sighed as if the cat is out of the bag. "Yeah... For now though, we intend to actually try and create it as a time machine. There is one concept that Harold is taking care of right now but it will take time. So in the meantime, we intend to turn it into a time machine so that we can go back to ten thousand years ago and investigate the issue there. There's a lot of sus things that are going around that past and I somehow don't like it. Since that last war we had dealt with, magical activities that involve [Perception Interference] are moving around the world. After a few minutes or hours, they disappear immediately. I don't know what kind of anomaly there is in the areas but I definitely don't like the signs of a wide area interference magic. I'll report it to you guys immediately through the phone the next time I see one." Serkyrio nodded on Remuel's proposition and spoke calmly. "It seems that the times for us to catch is still pretty slim. I want you three to clear your schedules later and tomorrow. I would like to test your abilities in one by one duels later starting 1500, and a three on one battle starting from the time after lunch tomorrow. Understood?" The three nodded in response as Serkyrio dismissed them. Draxus and Serkyrio remained in the room and waited for two sentinels that are being summoned.

"Justine Hearne, [Sentinel of Foresight]." Justine stood in attention along with the person beside him. "Gilbert Artemas, [Sentinel of Trickery]." Both of them had a slight feeling of tension as they were summoned suddenly by Serkyrio. Draxus then welcomed them and put the two at ease. "It's good that you two arrived, Serkyrio will explain the mission to you guys." Serkyio nodded after Draxus moved to the side allowing him to begin the explanation. "Now, for your first mission as Sentinels, I would like you to investigate the country that's south of Bazylopia. It's called the Holy Kingdom of Santuria, you'll have to go through a large river that's comparable to Volga River in terms of width. It's a large ride but you guys will be investigating that country's culture, and their stuff." Gilbert and Justin nodded in response as they listened to the details of their mission. Draxus continued as if putting in his personal interest. "By the way, do explore their capital region, specially on the magic of their Deaconess. I'm interested on what her power holds with the incitement magic. Our headquarters in the Hall of Sentinels will have what you need in the mission. Preparation time is three days, we'll meet on the hall at 0800 at the third day." Serkyrio grinned a little which got the serious expressions of Justin and Gilbert to loosen up. "What is it Serkyrio?" As Draxus asked him about it, his grin went deeper and began to tease Draxus. "Did Draxus find a potential harem memb-" Draxus, upon hearing Serkyrio's words, interrupted him in a hurry while denying it. "Wrong! I'm interested in the magic that uses songs! As a person who taught everyone concept magic, I can't let the chance slide!" Justin and Gilbert laughed a little after hearing Draxus's panicked voice. Serkyrio then shrugged his shoulders and simply teased Draxus further. "Now now~! We understand~ Draxus is pretty much interested with having a harem after all~ Besides, you did say it yourself right?" Draxus immediately remembered the words he spoke of in the past after a certain black history occurred.

In a certain flashback of the old world, after suffering through various pains and despair, Draxus went to Serkyrio and asked him to renew his resolve with the pretext: "Please, kill me." After the battle which got Draxus heavily injured with damaged bones, his resolve was washed away to be replaced with a new one. All of which was necessary to be thrown away to kill his old self and turn into a new one. But in those times, he earnestly trained after given a lot of praise on his improvements. However, after being asked about what his plans in the future, he gets a wish to be [Isekai'ed] with everyone and with exact lines in mind and a perfect pose while looking in the sky: "I, Draxus Heimdal, have a dream." In Japanese.

"It was at that point after saying the [Jojo Reference] where he said that he'll go for a harem once he gets [Isekai'ed]-" Draxus immediately used magic to cancel out the sound through magic resonance. Serkyrio simply laughed and asked Draxus to cancel the magic by hand gestures. After cancelling the barrier, Serkyrio then dismissed the meeting as if nothing bad had happened. He however, left some words for Draxus as he left the room. "Your heart still needs repairs Drax. I know that for sure, since you are one of my greatest aids since the group has been created." Draxus never said anything as he left the room.