User blog:Seieireppa/God Eater:Universitas, chapter 6: Hannibal

“Idenn, Kota…” Sakaki spoke, the three of them gathered in Anagura’s briefing room. “Give me your report.”

“Well,” Kota began, still a bit shaken, “Idenn here took out the Hannibal mentioned in the mission briefing, but then, as we went to return home, another Hannibal appeared, only this one wasn’t anything like any Hannibal subspecies we’d ever seen.”

Sakaki was intrigued. “Go on…”

This time, Idenn spoke up. “It was larger than normal, for one, and it shone with bright green flames all over its body, with two giant wings of green fire instead of the usual six small flames.”

“We didn’t get a chance to study it, though,” continued Kota, “because as soon as it showed up, Idenn just lunged at it, stabbed its core with her God Arc, and, well…”

“It’s called Lifespring,” interjected Idenn. “I don’t quite know how it works, or perhaps I merely do not remember, but it lets me draw massive amounts of Oracle energy into myself, then let it loose as a concentrated point of ultra-dense gravity to suck in everything around me. I only just remembered how to use it as that Hannibal appeared, but I was successfully able to repel the threat. That is the end of our briefing.”

“Interesting,” came Sakaki’s reply. “We will have to do further study on this Lifespring of yours over further missions. In the meantime, I will tentatively designate this new species of Hannibal the Boundary Hannibal. If you encounter any more, be sure to capture a shot of it for our records. You are dismissed.”

As Kota and Idenn left the briefing room, the latter looked down at her hand, deep in thought.

What exactly was this Lifespring power of hers? How had that Boundary Hannibal gotten there?

There were too many questions… questions that lacked answers.

But Idenn would get to the bottom of this… no matter what.

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