Sword Rankers
Weird Gate's

"Adududuha... It was almost like dying, crazy! I never thought Rodri would make it that way." In his room, Ran complained of pain after throwing his own body on the bed.

Ran had finished training together with Rodri all day, Rodri taught Ran the special martial arts that Rodri learned.

Through his training, Ran admits that Rodri is very strong even without using his Hyper powers. Plus, Ran got additional information that Rodri did not hesitate in teaching others.

Many times Ran was attacked in his vitals violently, Ran to vomit blood and almost fainted many times, but Rodri used Healing Potion to heal Ran's wounds.

Thanks to that, Ran suffered a very long time, many times he was injured and felt the pain until fainting, but Rodri would heal him, and beat him again until repeatedly.

"Ukhn... Rodri seemed to have no talent for teaching, how could he call beating someone repeatedly without giving clear instructions as practice."

Ran complained while lying limp.

Ran felt very tired physically and mentally, he felt unable to get up again. But, while smelling her own deeply foul body odor like wet socks from sweating after training, Ran decided, "At least I should take a shower."

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The next day, after lunch.

Ran goes to the basement along with Rodri to collect Madison's promise that will make her a tool to make her strong.

Along the way down to the bottom, Ran felt palpitating as he looked forward to what tools Madison made.

What is super sword? Advanced armor? Laser gun? Whatever it is must be amazing like Rodri's.

The two of them finally reached the basement, and what greeted the two of them was shocking.

There were many black spots of explosive marks scattered everywhere, glass broke with disgusting colored liquid splashed around, and many broken equipment scattered everywhere.

There, Rose was cleaning up the mess in the basement, she swept the floor to pick up the broken glass.

"Oh you guys, what a coincidence, please help me." Sapa Rose when she sees Ran and Rodri.

"Ready, I'll help immediately." Strangely, Rodri agreed to Rose's request without asking what happened.

Ran, who had no choice but to help, finally picked up the broken glass.

"Don't you feel weird or awkward seeing this?" Tanya Ran was curious.

Rodri and Rose looked at Ran with astonished expressions. They said, "What's so weird? This was Ran's usual thing, as Madison made auxiliary equipment for the other members, the result was even more severe than this. If this is still mending, Madison when Madison had her own floor on top, she had blown up half the floor, which made her place moved to the basement that had been reinforced with iron monster material."

"Hehe, that's right, since you're new, you might still be surprised by this, but once you get used to it, you won't feel weird again. I used to be like you, Ran, but it didn't take long to get used to."

Ran still didn't understand their explanation, which part of it seemed understandable? For Ran, this scene was terrifying, in his mind, the inventors were neat and perfectionists, so the scene where important equipment and such were destroyed, was a very awkward and unusual thing.

"Oh yeah, by the way, where's Mr Madison? I didn't see him from earlier?" Ran asked when realizing there was no Madison around.

Rose answered Ran's question without turning her head while pointing to the corner of the room, "He's there, it's a special workspace for Madison, I don't know what's inside, he strictly forbade me to enter."

Ran followed the direction pointed by Rose, in the direction pointed, there was a small room that looked to merge with the basement. There were no windows in the room, only a black steel wall that seemed to separate the room from the basement. There is only one steel door that can only be opened using a special ID Card.

What place is that really? Frighteningly.

Shortly thereafter.

Buuummmm

"Eh frog, uh frog." Rose was shocked to the point of being speechless due to the sound of an explosion.

The blast came from a restroom in the corner of the basement, the steel door that was the only entrance, detached and was thrown a few meters away from where it started.

Black smoke rose out of the room. And if Ran doesn't see it wrong, there's a black finger grabbing out from the inside.

Eh? Whatisit? Waitie? That's Madison, right? Aye right? This isn't a haunted place, is it?

"Euhhh.... Finally." A hoarse voice emerged from inside the room, it was hoarse and heavy like the voice of grandfathers, but Ran could still recognize it.

That's Madison's voice.

"Madison! You're all right!?"

Before Ran reacted, Rose had already run to Madison's place, her face panicked, but at the same time seemed to have gotten used to this situation. While Rodri just smiled and chuckled to see it.

Rose hurriedly grabbed Madison before falling.

"Basic stupid! Again you're like this, you can die knowing it's like this." Omel Rose saw Madison.

"Seeee..." Madison muttered something.

Rose couldn't hear it because it was too slow so she asked him to repeat, "Se? Whahuh? Se what? Save it?" Rose asked in confusion.

However, coming out of Madison's mouth, it was so shocking that it made Rose angry.

"Seeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!" Madison suddenly jumped up after finishing her sentence, making Rose fall down from being too shocked.

"Done! It's finished! I can't believe I made it! Theory right! I'm right! Haha...." Madison soared in excitement with the silver suitcase in her left hand that was shaken as she leapt over.

Madison looks like a kid who just got a birthday present, she soars the fun without caring about the people around her.

And of course, that made Rose irritated.

"Khhhkk...! I worry about you, and you care more about your research!? You....!!!! Don't know yourself!" Rose rampaged, he immediately kicked Madison from behind until bounced down.

Madison's suitcase was thrown and she herself fell to kiss the basement floor.

"Hhhh... Hhh.... You're this... Why the hell!? What's wrong with you!?" Shouted Rose furiously.

Madison who fell back stood up, with a stagger while holding her back head, "Adudududuhhhh... Dizziness... Eh? Ow! There's my sweet Rose, I'm sorry well, I was too happy after it worked, so I didn't realize there was you." Madison said as she pulled out her tongue with a childlike expression apologizing for the little pranks she had committed.

"Stop fighting! Do you know how worried I am? I may be used to how messed up your research is, but I won't be able to get used to seeing you do such dangerous research! You said you wouldn't do any more dangerous research, so I tried to calm down because I was sure. But... You're... Even..."

Ran was so shocked that he was speechless, at this situation, Ran did not dare to comment anything for fear of messing up.

The hard and firm figure of Rose that Ran had seen for 4 days, was suddenly replaced with a fragile girl figure.

Rose cried, she literally cried out of sadness and anger at Madison's actions that carried out such a dangerous study. Realizing this fact, Ran feels guilty, because after all, it was he who asked Madison for help that caused this.

"Hikss.... Hicksnake..." Rose cried sobbing, but Rodri did not react anything, Rodri who is usually excited, with a very surprising, just silent without comment. Whereas usually, Rodri will definitely laugh and mock.

Ran suspects that Rodri is also confused by this situation, so prefers silence rather than messing up.

And the most surprising, Madison's reaction, although indirectly make Rose cry, Madison even smiled calmly.

Madison stepped forward, then she patted Rose's shoulder gently and said, "Hey... Relax Rose, as you can see, I'm fine. No need to worry, I was just tired, I did not experiment with radioactive materials anymore hehe. The point is, take it easy, I promised you."

Rose looked at Madison's eyes with doubt, but Madison's straight, firm eyes gave Rose no other choice.

"You are this, again this way." Rose muttered softly.

"What's? What did you say Rose?"

Bughhh.

Suddenly without any warning, Rose punches Madison in the stomach, making her bend.

"Akhich... Oh, my dear Rose, how did you suddenly hit again anyway?"

"Wmph! That's the payback for the fight, you know for yourself if I hate the bitches, right!?" Rose said tightly, although Ran still saw a smile on his face.

Finally, after various brief problems that occurred, Madison showed me the tool she created for Ran.

Ran slightly complained in his heart, he slightly thought of coming late just now to avoid the previous incident.

Should have come this afternoon just now, in order to avoid the strange drama earlier.

"Okay guys, sorry for the little interruption that happened earlier." Madison said while holding her suitcase.

Madison pressed some keys to open the suitcase, Clik's voice came from the suitcase and the suitcase was slightly open.

Ran tried to peek into it impatiently, at a glance he saw a flash of light from inside.

"Well, be prepared to be amazed by my invention!" Madison opened her suitcase dramatically.

A belt?

Inside the suitcase was a shiny iron belt, on the left side of the belt, a small bag the size of a cell phone. And on the right there is a rectangular box that leads up without a lid, underneath, there is a port that is usually on the computer.

Seeing the belt, Ran so remembered with the belt that is often worn by children's cartoon characters themed masked heroes commonly used to change.

"So... Whatisthis? The shape is similar to the masked hero belt that often appears in the series of heroes I watched as a child." Tanya Ran was curious.

With a spirited expression, Madison explained, "That's right! I was inspired by the series, hahahahaha...."

"uh? So this could make me turn into a masked hero with colorful armor?"

"No, that's not how it works. Its main function is in this." Madison opened the small bag that was in the belt, and pulled out the contents.

"What's that?"

Madison ejected objects similar to USB Memory in white with a red switch in the middle.

"This thing is the most important component of this equipment, because it functions like a powerbank to store mana energy. The stored energy can be used later with the help of this belt."

Ran was so shocked that he almost gawked, even Rose was also surprised, his whole life, Ran had never seen a tool that could store mana energy other than Ranker special weapons. That too, it needs high concentration to keep its energy from exploding.

"Y-so? This thing can store my energy?"

"Fright Ran! This thing can solve the problem of which reserve is yours, think of it like which powerbank."

"How does it work?"

"Simple, did you see this switch? Just press to the right to charge, then put it in this belt port, automatically, where you will be sucked into it. Press to the left to use the stored energy. To make it easier, I've given you the sign, U for USED and C for CHARGE."

"Then, how long does it take to fill it?"

"It all depends on your own amount of energy. The more it will be the longer."

"Isn't that dangerous? Storing mysterious energy like where in such a device is full of risk, weapons that can store energy were made by blaksmith or derived from his own abilities. However, storing it into other devices, will make it very difficult to control." Suddenly Rose cut the conversation.

Madison let out a calm expression to answer, "That's why I'm conducting an experiment in a closed room like that, I went through many failures to be able to create a system that can stabilize the Hyper energy on this one device. It wasn't easy, but I did it in the end."

"Is it really safe?" Ask Rose to clarify.

"Of course it's safe, it's hard to explain, but I've found a way to make it stable."

Rose was doubtful.

"Just calm down Rose, you know for yourself my equipment has never failed. If I guarantee it's safe, then it'll be safe."

With a heavy sigh, Rose had to accept it, "Huffttt... You didn't give me a choice, either."

Madison smiled with satisfaction after convincing Rose.

"So how's Ran? Do you want to try this tool? It can't make him strong instantly, but it can make you overcome your weakness."

"Of course, I'm not in a position to vote anyway." Answered Ran confidently.

Ran decides to accept the equipment made by Madison.

Ran immediately tried the belt, when placed on his waist automatically the belt tightened without the need for Ran to do anything. There was a slight pungent taste like static electricity when wearing it.

From the results of the experiment, it took Ran 30 minutes to put all his energy into this Powerbank, and the result, the powerbank was filled 20%. From there Ran realized how little energy capacity, because according to Madison, he made a powerbank capacista that was equal to the energy capacity of the average Hyper.

3 Days before the first Gate Break cleaning Ran.

Ran trained hard, he decided to fill 50% of his energy into powerbank, and the rest he used to train with Rodri. After 6 hours, his energy will recover and he will fill it again.

And so it was, 3 days passed.

Ran prepared to set off, he wore special clothes from heat-resistant monster skins and sharp object attacks. Special dress, vest and long coat.

Together with his Guild members, Ran set off towards the cleaning site.

When it arrives, there are 10 minutes left before the Gate Break. Gatenya already seemed willing to be destroyed when Ran arrived.

"Gruesome yah?" Ran said when he saw the Gate for the first time in this close distance.

"True, therefore don't let your guard down, or you'll die." Yamaguchi said to commemorate Ran.

"May be vigilant, but don't get too tense because then you'll panic easily." Rodri cheered on the nervous Ran.

"Hoummmm.... Whatever, I'm sleepy, I hope it's over soon." Said Robben while yawning.

All the Guild members had gathered except for Rose and Madison as well as 1 more person that Ran had yet to meet.

Ran had already prepared himself from a long time ago to this moment, time was running very slowly while waiting.

1 minute left, but for Ran this feels very long. His heart continued to pound unapologetically.

Am I nervous? Of course I'm nervous, of course I'm scared, but for now I can't be scared anymore. This is where I will prove my worth.

Time out, Gate Break occurs.

Yet...

Prangggg....

"Huh?"

"Eh?"

"What's this?"

Everyone there was surprised, something strange happened. Normally, when a Gate Break occurred, the Gate would explode with a rumbling sound and unleash monsters.

But this time it was different, not the sound of a rumbling explosion, this time it was an explosion like broken glass. Without any waves of explosions that would normally melt the surroundings.

No monsters came out, the Gate did not explode as usual.

This isn't normal. Ran thought in confusion.

This situation is more scary than the usual Gate Break, because Ran does not know what happened. All Guild members were equally puzzled.

Ran broke out in a cold sweat, the air around him felt unusual. For some reason, Ran seemed to be attracted by a great power.

The leaves around Ran flew, but this felt awkward because instead of flying randomly, these leaves flew like they were attracted by a great power.

Then, Ran realized something, when he saw the leaves flying, even though it was too late.

"Everything! Run on! Get away from the Gate!" Ran shouted warning everything.

However, before any one reacted, the strong air pulled everything around to hover in the loose air.

"Uwahhhhhh! What'sthis?"

"What a weird thing, I've never heard of this."

"Uakhhh! Damnit damnit! What else this time!?"

All of them were screaming in panic, they were all floating in the air and being sucked into one place.

Gate.

The gate pulls everyone around into it, like a black hole.

Fuckin' hell? Whatisthis? I've never heard of this.

Desperately, Ran tries to reach for whatever is there to stay afloat.

However, Ran was helpless in front of the pull of the Gate.

Without being able to fight again, Ran is drawn into the Gate, and feels an experience that he will never forget.