[gensouR-1]

Spoiler for AWV26 Part 5:

Chapter 11

After returning from the Highest Level,KYH wonders where the portal inside Tezcatlipoca leads to and Haru thinks that according to the conventions of Brain Burst,defeating Tezca means that they can use the portal in his body and he wonders what place the Portal leads to that matches the risk of fighting Tezca,KYH speculates that the portal possibly leads to the inside of the Imperial Palace so using the Portal,they can just skip the 4 Gods using it but she acknowledges that this is just empty speculation because there's no means of defeating Tezcatlipoca,Haru brings up Exercitus and wonders what the recon team is planning regarding Tezca,KYH thinks that it's not impossible for them to come with a plan since more than half of the members are Burst Linkers on Level 4 and above,she thinks the existence of Exercitus is good since the accelerated world has been dominated by the Coloured Legions for a long time and the small and medium Legions banding up means the status quo is about to change(unknown to KYH however,while the status quo will change,it won't be a positive change but the worst possible change),Haru gets worried about Exercitus assaulting NN next week(lol) because he can't help them defend Suginami from them and the fact he probably won't get lucky next week when it comes to recovering the 3rd ward so he wishes that Exercitus invades both Minato and Suginami next week so he doesn't have to fight NN.

Haru then comments about Cosmos's RL name being rare for someone to be named Enju and KYH brings up the Kamura family having the weird custom of naming their daughters after woody plants and branch families of Kamura names their daughters after herbs,KYH was named after the Early Snow flower in the Hemerocallis genus of herbs but Enju for some reason,was named after the Styphnolobium japonicum tree even though both of them are treated as members of the Kuroha branch family.

At this point KYH becomes slightly overcautious thanks to the mutual confession last chapter that caused her to consider that Haru is now her boyfriend and gets a tad paranoid about the girls around Haru,her getting wary of Rin,Shihoko,Fuuko and Metatron is reasonable but being paranoid about Chiyu,Utai,Niko and Heir(who is a guy and has no signs of being a homosexual) having a crush on him is uhhhhhhh,she really should take her sister's earlier advice and calm down because they're still students.Anyway she tells him to face the feelings of the people she listed starting with Rin before she leaves because Haru has to talk with Fairy regarding the composition of the raid groups later on.

Chapter 11

Zelkova Verger,a level 6 Burst Linker affiliated with the small army <Gallant Hawks>,folded his hands on his chest in order to suppress his excitement.A super high-rise building in the Higashi Ikebukuro area in the UNG,the roof of Echomuse is crowded with more than 100 Burst Linkers on standby.The same goes for Sunshine City 60,about 300 meters to the northeast,and the rooftops of nearby high-rise buildings.The gathering of so many people in just an hour showed how much Burst Linkers had in mind for the newly formed Legion coalition,Exercitus.The name Exercitus means "army" in Latin and when he first heard the name,Zelkova had the thought of the whole thing being a pretense,but here,that resistance has disappeared because the core members of Exercitus have suddenly launched a ridiculous large-scale operation and it is succeeding.

From the 189-meter-high Echomusee,you can see the streets of Higashi Ikebukuro,which is covered with blue water.There are only high-rise buildings with a height of more than 100 meters like "Sunshine City 60" and the condominiums nearby because at 7:00 PM on July 27th,the attribute of the UNF is the [Ocean] stage.Obviously,these 300 Burst Linkers did not gather to watch the rare [Ocean] stage and looking down,everyone swallowed a mouthful of saliva.The water surface with a radius of 200 meters was frozen into a white sheet and a terrifyingly large humanoid public enemy was bound in the center of the water surface.

The giant whose chest was frozen in ice was the super public enemy who had plunged the Accelerated World into overwhelming terror for three days,the God of the End,Tezcatlipoca.Although Exercitus was formed with the goal of <Defeating Tezcatlipoca without relying on the Seven Coloured Legions> from the very beginning,it seems that the core members also put a lot of effort into creating this situation.Even the reconnaissance mission that would be killed on the spot with the slightest mistake has been going on for more than a year with the accumulation of internal time and at the same time,the members are constantly researching the strategy method.They sent an expedition to Nagoya,a city 100 kilometers away from Tezcatlipoca's response range,to accumulate the BP needed for combat.Zelkova had doubts about the core legions such as <Cold Brew>,<Orvest>,<Goon>, and <Night Owls> who called for the establishment of Exercitus and wondered if they just wanted to replace the existing seven major legions by themselves but since they have worked so hard,Zelkova has to recognize them.

They spent almost all the points accumulated in Nagoya from hunting Enemies to buy a large number of items called <Rain Prayer Dolls> in the Shop and used them to increase the probability of Water attribute Stages(while this confirms that items capable of increasing the probabillity of a Stage of a corresponding attribute exists in Brain Burst,at least the item corresponding to Dark element stages doesn't exist since Grandee and Pound had to camp out to wait for a Hell Stage to show up back in V9 since they could have otherwise done what Excercitus did to make the Hell Stage show up to weaken Metatron) and in the next Transition,the Sea stage appeared and after setting up several traps in Higashi Ikebukuro,Exercitus attacked a small Beast-level Enemy to attract Tezcatlipoca.At the moment when it flew over with his jet ability and sank into the 80-meter-deep seawater,the members of Exercitus detonated numerous pre-buried ice bombs,plus more than 20 Burst Linkers with freezing abilities to froze a large amount of water and finally succeeded in restraining the giant.

Tezcatlipoca was locked in a thick ice cell,his boulder-like head bobbing from time to time,but there was no sign of it being able to escape.At this time,the ice envoys stationed on the sides and rear of the giant were also constantly using pale light,freezing bullets and blizzards to strengthen the ice,a smal Burst Linker watching the battle wonder if it can go smoothly and Zelkova states that victory is already sealed.The skinny F-type Avatar who nodded slightly is called Taupe Cape,she is the Parent who gave Zelkova the Brain Burst program but in the real world,she was a first-year junior at the same high school as Zelkova.

Zelkova usually speaks in an honorific tone in front of other Burst Linkers but when he's talking to Taupe Cape,he changes back to his original tone.The ex-captain of <Gallant Hawks>,the Parent of Taupe Cape was unfortunately EK'd by an Enemy and exited Brain Burst from losing all of their points last year.Taupe has been sullen since then and Zelkova's efforts to encourage her have not worked.This morning,Zelkova attempted to invite the reluctant Taupe to an expedition to the Suginami area by force to show her how to defeat the traitor Silver Crow who caused the Tezcatlipoca incident but Taupe refused and didn't join him.

Zelkova thinks that Crow is one of the "lucky ones" of the accelerated world to draw a rare color and ability(in reality Crow only had Headbutt as his only Special Attack at the start and he only got Aviation and Optical Conduction because of several incidents triggering their acquisition,also it's apparent that Zelkova doesn't know that Duel Avatars are created based on the desires and trauma of a person by the Incarnate System,there's no luck factor in this),successfully entered the large army(2nd gen NN only had him,Pile and Lotus at the start and they only got to near 50 members because Prominence merged with NN),and climbed up without much effort("looks at the numerous life and death hardships and deathmatches Crow had to go through",uhhhhhhh).Large Legions can easily train new recruits by buying Enhanced Armaments in Shops because of their surplus points(2nd Gen NN couldn't even afford to do that for Crow and Bell because they were almost broke at the start thanks to KYH's PFB+Taku's PB addiction and Crow was banned from shopping by the senior members),and their intelligence capabilities are also strong.The weakness of [Conic Smiter] that Zelkova had just mastered—the inability to move during activation and the ability to eat the javelin when jumping straight up—was used by Silver Crow,who must have bought Zelkova’s information in advance(i'm pretty sure Lotus banned Crow and the other junior members buying information so they won't waste their BP though,and Crow didn't even know about Conic Smiter before their duel),or ask his expert companions for his own strategy(the Seven Dwarves never contacted Crow after he joined Oscillatory until after their Duel and Crow came up with his strategy using the memorized information about Zelkova on his own).

However,the conditions of today's accelerated world have changed.The Sun God Inti was almost harmless(actually a ticking time bomb that makes Tezca stronger the more it kills Enemies and Burst Linkers) as long as they didn't get close but the Seven Great Legions intervened and released the Tezcatlipoca inside(the whole thing was Oscillatory's fault so they can tame Tezca and kill the other 6 Kings so Cosmos can reach Level 10 that got foiled by Crow).Zelkova then fantasizes that if Exercitus defeats Tezcatlipoca(lol),the authority of the pure-colored kings that they have always believed to be true will plummet.Not only can they demand huge reparations,but they can even be asked to give up their entire territory.Of course,members of the Seven Legions will continue to withdraw(except OU because they're fundamentally different from other Burst Linkers),and if they can absorb these people,it is not a dream for Gallant Hawks to grow into a huge legion that can dominate from Mitaka to Suginami and the surrounding areas of Nakano and Taupe Cape,who takes over as the Legion Master succeeding her parent,will surely be as energetic as before.

Zelkova then patted Taupe,who wore a gray-purple cape that shared her name,on the shoulder and tells her that the second stage of the operation is the second stage is about to start.They are a long-range attack group,so the danger is relatively small but the corresponding output damage is still more beneficial than the close range group so they'll try to reduce Tesca's health bar and earn some points.Taupe agrees but warns Zel to not get too complacent and get too close to her.When Zelkova smiled wryly to agree with what Taupe said,the amplified command voice echoed loudly among the high-rise buildings.

"The second stage starts in 60 seconds! Groups 2, 3, and 4 are ready for the countdown!"

After nodding to Taupe Cape,Zelkova pounced on one of the countless steel cables set up to descend from the roof.He adjusted his grip and slid to the frozen water a hundred meters below.Looking slightly to the east,the back of the head of the imprisoned Tezcatlipoca was covered in hoarfrost.According to the news heard during the waiting time,it seems that the White King's Legion - Oscillatory Universe,which the betrayer Silver Crow belongs to,is the one who provided the core members with this freezing operation advice.This afternoon,while Exercitus doesn't know what happened(Crow's strength test that was actually a trap set by Cavalier and Tower to get rid of him) Oscillatory Universe launched an attack on an Enemy in the Minato area(actually just Crow,the other 6 didn't attack Crococitus) and was immediately chased by the flying Tezcatlipoca(Tezca's aggro was drawn to Behemoth and Reaper who were luring it away from Crow with Milady,Oracle and Fairy).On the way to escape, the group led Tesca to a canal in the Shibaura area and used a special move to freeze the sea water to stop it and Exercitus' reconnaissance team witnessed this firsthand.

If the water only reaches the ankles to slow down the movement,and if the head is submerged and completely frozen,the attack ability will be basically sealed——Anyone can think of such an idea,but it is not easy to realize such a thing.Among the core members, the most central role should be the Night Owls in Ikebukuro and their strength should be on a par with the seven major legions.It is worth noting that the main army <Helix>(Prominence's casual rivals from the BD2 side story who has weekly challenges for Prominence's territory) based in the Itabashi area neither participated in this operation nor joined Exercitus.The number of members should not be much different from Night Owls and Orvest,and Zelkova heard that the leader Beryllium Coil is quite strong,so he thought he would join in for granted but he remembers they're on friendly relations with Prominence despite constantly losing in Territory Wars for Nerima so they'll probably just be a burden in this battle and decides to leave them to their fate of declining with the Coloured Legions.

Immediately afterwards,both of Zelkova's feet touched hard ice and after a while,Taupe Cape slid off the rope next to it.The members of the other legions were placed in Sunshine City 60 because of their abilities and they should have landed at the same time.Zelkova asks Taupe if he should go with Jim and the others and Taupe tells him not to since they're close by anyway before splitting up to their spots.In the previous battle meeting,some people said that the closer the foothold of the ice surface is,the thinner it is.If one runs around,it may shatter,but the touch conveyed by the foot is far stronger than expected so maybe a group of ice users desperately strengthened their footing.

Tezcatlipoca is chained between two avenues,which in the real world are a school playground.Of course,the roads and buildings were submerged in the water of the Sea stage,and now there is only a pure white battle field with a diameter of 200 meters.There was a deafening shout from the right side,Zelkova glanced at it, and saw that more than a hundred people who had descended from "Sunshine City 60" were rushing in in droves. Zelkova and the others cried out in disapproval and on the way forward,the ice envoys who had drained the special attack gauge waved to Zelkova and the others in support.It was less than thirty meters away from Tezcatlipoca and its shoulders and head raised from the ice looked as big as hills.

"Countdown to twenty...nineteen...eighteen..."

The command voice sounded again.Zelkova and Taupe stepped on the ice and stopped,setting up in the best position 20 meters directly behind Tezcatlipoca,waiting for the signal to start the attack.Although the giant's attack power is amazing,the attacks are very simple.In addition to the physical attack of kicking,there are only three attack methods:the gravity attack released by the right hand, the fireball attack released by the left hand,and the shockwave released by the mouth.Because the left and right hands were completely blocked by ice,only the shock should be noticed now,but this also clarified the scope of effect with the efforts of the reconnaissance team.The front of the face has a range of 100 meters,and the left and right and rear are only 30 meters and 20 meters respectively.That is,as long as Tezcatlipoca doesn't change the orientation of its face,Zelkova and Taupe are in a safe zone and Burst Linkers lined up left and right barely entered the range of the blast wave,and the formation drew a smooth quadratic curve.

"Twelve...Eleven...Ten..."

Listening to the countdown,Zelkova crouched down on the spot,resting his right hand on the ice.His special attack gauge is of course,pre-charged.The first ten rounds of [Cornic Smiter] were all ready,showing a sense of presence to the leaders who were watching the battle at Echomuse.

"Nine...Eight...Seven..."

"...Zel-kun."

Suddenly, Taupe Cape whispered 6 seconds before the attack starts,Zelkova looked to his side and then followed Taupe's line of sight down to the ice cubes under his feet.

Dim,red - light.Deep in the thick layer of ice,a deep red like blood shone and from behind,a "puchi" suddenly sounded.Either on the right or on the left,the same sound is produced continuously.Zelkova Verger looked up and saw snow-white steam gushing out of huge holes in the ice.The countdown continued,but there were confused voices all around.The foothold on the ice wobbled,and the countless criss-crossing cracks did not break open.The crimson light rapidly approached,it was not an ordinary light,but a super-high temperature flame.Zelkova cancels Cornic Smiter before it's activated to grab Taupe's left hand so they can escape.

But immediately afterwards, the field of vision was filled with bright red light.

Chapter 13

Chapter starts with Chiyu asking Haru for help after he finished chatting with Niko,Fukaya,Utai and Reina regarding Hou's situation,he thought that he would get a reply from Nanako after the chat was over but Chiyu suddenly came in and asked him for help because she needs to go to the UNF and a 30 second disconnection insurance using Haru's internet server was set.Both of them dived into the UNF in the <Wilderness> Stage,Crow asked Bell why she's in a hurry and the latter tells him about her friend in Orvest,Cotton Marten who sent her an e-mail at 6:30 PM telling her that there will be a secret operation in Ikebukuro in the UNF and even that she has to go even though she doesn't want to and that she requests Bell to find her there if she doesn't contact Bell by 0800 PM,Bell stated that she immediately tried to get a reply from Marten but didn't get anything,she hesitated to go alone when it was almost 0800 PM and decided to ask Crow for help to get to Ikebukuro,Crow tells Bell that the operation likely has something to do with Exercitus which puzzles her because she never heard of it,Crow tells Bell that they need to accumulate the special attack gauge as much as they can to which she agrees and they started smashing rocks to build up their gauges,As he built up his own gauge,he thought about how Cosmos mentioned Orvest as part of Exercitus and how they sent a recon team to follow Tezca,combining these facts with the phrase "secret operations" in Cotton Marten's email,only one answer emerges:Perhaps,on the night that the raid group's strategy was established,they had already challenged Tezcatlipoca.If the attack is successful,Cotton Marten should contact Bell but if there is no contact -

Suppose it was 19:00 PM when the battle started and it was 20:00 PM now,1 hour in the real world will be magnified to 1000 hours in the UNF which is 41 days and 16 hours.

Crow suppressed his unease and kicked the tenth rock to pieces at the same time,filling up his special attack gauge.After he and Bell finished filling their gauge,Bell quickly turned around and jumped towards Crow who caught Chiyuri with a horizontal hug,and then spread the wings on his back while simultaneously equipping Metatron Wings that he only uses in emergency situations to amplify his flight speed,from his apartment to Ikebukuro,it should be about 6 kilometers northeast and it was the same route that Crow used to fly to Ikebukuro during the Fifth Chrome Disaster incident half a year ago.At that time,Lotus was on the right arm,Rain was on the left arm,and Pile was hanging on both legs which took more than ten minutes but by using both Metatron Wings at 50% of its full speed and his wings,he was able to fly fast enough to enter the Toshima district in a few dozen seconds.On the stage of <Wilderness>,the Yamanote Road appears as a huge canyon and the railway also becomes a slender rocky mountain.If you go over from here,you can see two terrifying rocky mountains ahead which is the Sunshine City 60 on the left and the Ecomuse on the right.In the middle of the two,there appeared a huge shadow that slowly moved—

An angry voice resembling an earthquake that had been heard before,rumbled and boomed.Although it was still more than a kilometer away,the shock wave from the atmosphere shook Crow's body and he landed with Bell on the Ecomusee's rooftop,they headed towards the edge of the roof and even if it turned into a rocky mountain,there was still a broken wall standing on the edge of the roof.The two first hid their bodies inside, then carefully stuck out their heads and looked down at the ground,even from the top of the eco-museum nearly 200 meters high,"it" is unparallelably huge——flat and blood-colored body,extraordinarily slender arms,head without details——

God of the End,Tezcatlipoca.

While Crow and the others were staring silently ahead,the giant raised its right foot high and stomped hard on the crimson earth.The shock wave like an earthquake spread,causing the Echomusee to shake and Crow saw——under the giant's feet,colorful lights flickered and disappeared.

"……That is……!?"

Immediately,a faint sound came from the ears of the two of them.No,it was a sound full of despair—screaming.

The lights are just the death display effects of the Duel Avatar.A horrified Bell realizes what the Death Markers means and at the same time Crow noticed the countless rays of light flickering faintly at the feet of Tezcatlipoca who was in the shadow of the high-rise buildings.

This number may actually be more than 100.

Crow gets horrified at the sight of over 100 Death Markers but he remembered that the White King said that more than 500 people are involved with Exercitus and if this is the case,it is impossible that only a hundred people will be called to the battle against Tezcatlipoca.He then remembers that there should be around over 300 people in Exercitus that are level 4 or higher and realizes that they kept resurrecting and dying during the 1000 hours of this infinite EK of an overwhelming scale never seen in the accelerated world.Thinking about it this way,in a situation like this,it is possible for 100-200 people to experience the Total Elimination Phenomenon.

Crow's fists were clenched to the limit,and an agonized voice came from his throat asking why they're even doing this,if they had been scouting,they would have known that Tezcatlipoca was an opponent they couldn't handle and yet they did it anyway.The giant that was temporarily still in front of him began to move again and stretched out its left hand towards the densely populated area of ​​death markers.On the huge palm,concentric circles with white light appeared.At the moment when the seventh,eighth,and ninth layers overlapped,the concentric circles glowed crimson.

Immediately afterwards,more than 20 overclockers were resurrected at the same time and in that instant,a huge fireball,Miccailtontli was launched from Tezcatlipoca's hands.The fireball that hit the ground swirled and expanded rapidly,causing the absolute biggest explosion Crow had ever seen in an accelerated world and the flames reached the halfway up the mountainside of the Ecological Museum,and the rocky mountain shook violently with the roar.The Burst Linkers who had finally been resurrected died on the spot one by one in the flames but 2 of them did not show signs of death,but disintegrated into countless data ribbons and floated into the sky,that is exactly the Total Elimination Phenomenon of losing all Burst Points and exiting from the accelerated world.

Bell cries out in despair over the mass EK she's seeing and Crow opened his fisted left hand and grabbed Bell's right hand tightly,he wants to help the hundreds of Burst Linkers who didn't lose their Brain Burst yet,but no matter how he thought about it,there was no suitable way.Whether it was Crow or Bell,once they descended from the rocky mountain and approached Tezcatlipoca,they would be caught up in its attack and die on the spot,falling into the same situation of infinite EK and although he considered temporarily logging out and gathering as many people as possible,even if he is ready,at least 160 hours will pass here during which the remaining Exercitus members will have their Brain Burst uninstalled and the rescue team is likely to repeat their mistakes.Even if there are hundreds of Burst Linkers gathered,no matter how hard they rack their brains and muster their courage,there is no way to intervene,for Tezcatlipoca is the veritable God of the End and Crow was the one who unleashed it on Brain Burst.

Tears flowed from Silver Crow's eyepiece and he begs forgiveness towards the Burst Linkers who were eliminated because of him,the giant moved again.A face with only a mouth like a cave,slowly twisted towards the sky and towards there,there was a long and deep sound like an earthquake.

Oooooooohhhhhhhh----……

That voice didn't have the desire to kill as before, rather, it sounded like a high-pitched singing after being satisfied.

Suddenly.

Numerous cracks appeared in Tezcatlipoca.

The giant's body stopped and lost its red and black color. The parts that turned into dull black rock collapsed one by one and fell to the ground with Bell and Crow being baffled at the phenomenon they're witnessing and Crow could only shake his head at this:Is it really satisfying? Just let one hundred to two hundred overclocked linkers lose their Brain Burst and the mission is over,and then disappear when here are still 700-800 more Burst Linkers to eliminate?

Although Crow didn't think such a good thing would actually happen,Tezcatlipoca's collapse didn't stop:Its head had completely disappeared, and when the disintegration spread to its shoulders,its two arms fell apart.The severely damaged left and right hands slammed violently on the ground and were easily shattered.The collapse of the body extended from the neck to the chest and at the foot of the giant,several Burst Linkers who had been resurrected during this period paid no attention to the falling rocks,and just looked up blankly.It didn't take long for the collapse to progress from the chest to the abdomen,and at that moment—

From the depths of the countless cracks that spread across the destruction surface, a bright red light burst out,as the rocks continued to fall,the true face of the light gradually emerged. It was neither a Duel Avatar nor an item.The red light slowly wraps around, forming an elliptical figure with no solid body.

"...A...door?"

Bell muttered this softly and Crow's eyes were also looking there,but the logout doors set up everywhere in the UNF were all blue without exception.

The collapse of Tezcatlipoca stopped in the center of its belly—the lower end of the door.

Immediately afterwards, an even more exaggerated unknown phenomenon occurred.

On the Wilderness stage,the pale yellow sky was filled with huge hexagons of the same color as the mysterious door,and seven large characters [WARNING] were written on it in unadorned fonts and it only took five or six seconds for the sky from north to south to be filled with crimson hexagons.

But this is not the end,on the contrary this should be the climax of this miracle.

Convinced of this thought,Crow turned his eyes from the reddish sky to the half-opened glowing door on Tezcatlipoca and from that swirling light,something seemed to appear.

The feet - and the hands, and then the body.

Someone about the size of Crow and the others stepped across the door into this world and in an instant,Crow finally realized the answer to the question of where the Portal Bari detected in Tezcatlipoca leads to:it was not the entrance that led to the Imperial Castle or other places but on the contrary,it was an exit from an unknown world to the accelerated world,in order to teleport someone.

Immediately after the man came out of the door, a new figure appeared——The third person, the fourth person, keeps appearing.These people are obviously not Duel Avatars,they have neither the characteristic translucent armor,nor masks,nor glasses.

The first person to appear is almost a living person.Although he looks like a man,he has long flowing hair and does not look so tall,but his body is very strong and is wrapped in a red uniform that fits very well.

The second person is huge.Moreover,he is wrapped in robotic metal armor,and there are three lenses on his face that glow with a pale light.

The third is female.Her black dress encased a surprisingly slender body,a witch-like three-cornered hat on her head,and a long,curved staff in her right hand.

Whether it is the fourth person or the fifth person,there is absolutely no sense of unity in appearance.It's like coming from a completely different world and all the features are messed up.

No,not right.These people lined up left and right,although there is absolutely nothing in common in design,it is obvious that they are based on the same concept.The concept is-

Hero.

The so-called "Superheroes".

The eighth,the ninth,then the tenth,and then finally no one came out of that door and above the belly of the collapsing God of the End,under the sky torn by hexagons,the heroes lined up and on the right side of the team,there was a small man with a blue mask covering his entire face,looking at the overclockers on the ground who were looking up silently,and said in a loud voice:

"As expected of eight years of perseverance,the facial structure of the person inside is also...Although I don't want to say this,I can't see the face at all."

The witch wearing the triangular hat glanced at the blue masked man and complained that he doesn't have the qualification to point that out when his face is also hidden.Looking closely, her feet were slightly floating in the air.The blue masked man tells her that it can't be helped because the king of heroes is the Kamen Rider and tells the remaining Burst Linkers to listen to him.The blue mask protruded from the edge of the upper body,and did not seem to be afraid of the height of nearly 50 meters, and loudly declared to the survivors of the strategy group:

"Prototype No. 2 has been discontinued! Those who want to disappear should disappear,and those who want to stay will be guided to the official version of this game,which is called——<Dread Drive 2047>!"

Spoiler for Afterword:

-Reki jokes about this Volume starting the White Legion arc despite it actually being the Seventh Artifact Arc since Haru is on their side now.
-He states that it's a pity that Haru never met Cosmos in RL,but he hints that the next time he comes to Eterna,they'll have their first RL meeting.
-Eterna Student Council Members are:
President:???,will appear in V27,so probably the 5th Dwarf?
Vice-President:Airi/Cypress Reaper
Secretary:Nanako/Snow Fairy
Accountant:Tsubomi/Rose Milady
The members listed are the Student Council of the middle course of Eterna,Enju is taking the advanced course so she's not part of it but she's the president of the advanced course
-Significant timeline stuff from Reki:
1.September 2031 Neurolinker gets released
2.December 2031 Kuroba Enju was born
3.September 2032 Kuroba Kayuki was born
4.April 2033 Haruyuki Arita was born
5.April 2038 AA2038 program was released,targeting 100 first-year primary school students(born between April 2031 and March 2032) who enrolled in the same month
6.April 2039 BB2039 program was released,targeting 100 first-year primary school students(born between April 2032 and March 2033) who enrolled in the same month
7.April 2040 CC2040 program was released,targeting 100 first-year primary school students(born between April 2033 and March 2034) who enrolled in the same month
8.2047 Unknown Month DD2047 program released,target age range unknown
-Reki gets worried about the legal age being decreased from 20 to 18 and brings up the stuff from V6 about 2040 Japan's government decreasing the legal age to 16 to attempt fixing the nation's population decline and gets scared because he never meant to predict the future with V6.
-Originally the Infinite Burst OVA should have happened in V26 but because Tezca couldn't be settled in that time,so Reki decided to postpone the Nyx raid by a week in the LN's timeframe,which basically confirms that OU's Territory War to reclaim the 3rd Minato district is getting foiled again by Nyx so lol at them trying to reclaim it but gets foiled by Tomochika and Nyx.
-He states that the OVA,Infinite Leap,and Return to Eternity has deviated too much from the LN so they're non canon now.
-Risa and Nyx will show up in the arc's climax,basically confirming that Nyx is the last Being in the boss rush.
-The reason KYH used SSS Order to change her name tag from Kuroha Sayuki to Kuroyukihime was because of the main Kamura family,but the details are unknown.

Spoiler for comment:

-When Reki said that bringing Crow into OU isn't a good idea,i never expected for the consenquences to turn out like this.
-So i'm guessing that Omega Style is pinpoint attack to maximize damage,Ain Style is SAO Sword Skills,Infinity Style is probably big/wide sword slashing while Femto style is long-range sword slashes.
-So if the OU members doesn't know who the ARS members are in RL,then does that mean that no one in OU except Cosmos knows who Tower/Vise is in RL since they're (supposedly) the same person in RL?
-Except for Cavalier(whose characterization is still closer to the White Legion members of being somewhat decent people agreeing with Cosmos's cause instead of ARS members and who Haru/Crow still symphatises with despite what he did),the other 4 Dwarves has been portrayed positively in V26 which is pretty consistent with past volumes considering their attitudes as Burst Linkers was actually pretty upright especially when compared to ARS members.Even Tower's characterization is more positive than Vise's since he wanted to painlessly EK NN in V22 using the Brinicle+Last Glacial Period+Imaginary Time+Paradigm Breakdown combo instead of being merciless by using the Devil Class Enemies to EK them and he only did resorted to it because Metatron and Lotus screwed the combo up,and honestly,it's still not certain whether they really are the same person(he refers to Crow using his full avatar name instead of Crow-kun even though Crow knows that they're (supposedly) the same person so he should have called him Crow-kun) or if it's actually Magis using Tower's BB Program to access the accelerated world as Vise.
-Assuming the command really was <Remove Core Protection> from Alicization,then AA,BB,and CC potentially has some of the System Commands from Underworld carried over to them instead of just a restricted version of the Incarnate System.
-Cavalier's trauma being symbolized as his knight armor having no Avatar body is probably him having an emptiness so extreme that he devotes himself to someone else just to have a purpose and that results in him being able to imitate IS skills because he has no sense of self to deal with his trauma so he can imitate other people's sense of self to use their IS skills but not the advanced ones like Paradigm Breakdown,Light Speed,Icosahedral Insulation,Light Shell,etc.
-I wonder if we're getting rotation as to who Oscillatory teams up for the dungeon raids instead of just where it will be something like Aurora Oval for Amaterasu,Leonidz for Ushas,and Great Wall for Xi Wangmu corresponding to the Kings who beat the Seven Arcs of the dungeons and then CCC and NN+Prominence for Rudra and Bali,while Nyx is all 7 teaming up to defeat her,it's also good opportunity for the coloured Legions to interact with the OU members to gradually understand what Oscillatory Universe really is.
-Assuming that Dread Driver has the same progression status as BB in its earlier days,then it should have only level 5 Driver Linkers(?) for its strongest players at most with no Level 7 to 9s.
-I understand KYH being happy about the mutual confession+kiss in this volume but geez,you don't have to be that overly cautious of the other girls.
-The Afterwords timeline stuff confirms that Cosmos isn't a BB Originator because she's not in the target birthdates of Brain Burst's originators,but she does meet Accel Assault's and coincidentally Haru meets Cosmos Corrupt's as well so they could potentially be Originators of Accel Assault and Cosmos Corrupt but the stuff about how Haru used to play FPS with his friends is pointing at him being an ex-Assault Linker instead.
-Since Cosmos isn't an Originator(at least not a BB Originator),it brings up the question of who is her BB Parent since she had to get the BB program from someone since she didn't get it from the GM.
-The question about how AA or CC's Tezca didn't have a Portal inside of it is interesting because at least some survivors(which could still potentially exist) could migrate to Brain Burst instead of being exterminated if AA or CC Tezcas had a Portal,maybe the GM added the portal to BB Tezca so they could save some of the players by transferring them to DD2047?
-The DD2047 players seems to be aware of BB being Trial No.2 so they probably know more than the average Burst Linker's knowledge regarding the truth about the accelerated worlds.