After much persuasion and pressure from several divisions and communities, the Republic Council has finally given us the nod to release the details of the secret message that was sent over to them allegedly from the Grandmaster of OZ).

Our guess were right, the previous text that we published earlier were just an fragment of the message. The Republic had apparently divided messages into parts so as to prevent thieves, such as those who got hold of the first part, from understanding the full message intended for the recipients.

The Republic have, of course, generously supplied us the entire message so as to give a full and detailed report on it. The full message is rather written in a haste and therefore, it is not very logical of us to show them here. As we can see from the first part already, the author used a lot of acronyms. As such, after interpreting the message, we believe that:

1. The Abyssia Army had reached Elemental Realm
2. Apparently, not everyone there supported the presence of the Abyssia Army
3. Plan to stir some commotion to create a divided state with two camps:
   1. Those who supported the rule of the Abyss
   2. Those who oppose the rule of the Abyss
      
4. The ulterior motive is to sought for allies in there and ultimately buy time for us to build up defences.

There, we have summarised one-lengthy-page message into a few points!

Hopefully, which is the Republic's and our's objective, this has helped in understanding what lies ahead for us.

People, the threat of war is real, do not be complacent.

War efforts are under way for a few weeks now and many are starting to doubt the feasibility of war.

Then at this dark times, came a message from the Elemental Realm:

This is Grandmaster from OZ). Abyssia Army reached E.Gates, will try to buy time

The message is not very detailed and had caused some sort of commotion on its reliability. Nevertheless, this message was leaked out by the Voluntary Intelligence Branch which stole the message from its intended recipient.
Which means that we have actually no permission to publish this publicly but we were getting bored from the silent press, which were revealing nothing.
However, case in mind, there's another possibility, this could just be the first part of the message. Like I say, this is all guesswork but one thing's for sure, or so we hope, war is upon us.

The signs are clear, even without the latest retrieval of the secret message, tribes are gathering arms, sparking some sort of arms race. Whether it was out of fear of the Abyssia Army or the fear of being outgunned by other tribes, war will ignite sooner or later. The crisis now is about whether a war occur between the tribes or a united voice against the looming Abyssia Army.

Some say no news is good news.

However, news have finally arrived, after awaiting restlessly for several weeks. And the only one came back...

The authorities took their own sweet time before allowing us to publish this publicly. I personally believe that they were afraid that there would be a revolt or something. But anyway, without further ado, this is the report:

I have instructions from Lord Armageddon that Elemental Realm have fallen to the Abyss. The reasons were rather unclear but I believe that either the Elemental Realm had surrendered or the leaders of Elemental Realm had defected to the Abyss.

I am ordered to inform all of Mortal Realm that the party that have went to defend the Elemental Realm are now heading back home. No casualties were reported.

In a more personal tone, we had hardly fought anything apart from the ambushes that we encounter during the journey to the Elemental Realm through the portals.
The creatures we fought were unlike anything we ever encountered. Our spells and weapons were ineffective in even hurting it. It was only with the help of Lord Armageddon and Grandmaster of OZ) that we managed to slay two of them.

Upon reaching the Elemental Realm, the guards outright refused our help. The Grandmaster of OZ) went in to negotiate, being the rare few who had contacts with Elemental Realm.
As times passed and he did not return, Lord Armageddon entered and looked for him.
Several days later, Lord Armageddon came back and gave me the above mentioned instructions. The grandmaster of OZ) was not with him.

There were rumours that the Grandmaster is working for the Elemental Realm but until evidence strongly suggests so, I will not make such a laughable claim.

On the final note, Lord Armageddon have strongly recommended that the forces of Mortal Realm to prepare its defence against Abyss as he strongly believes that after the Abyss Army will head for Mortal Realm after combining forces with Elemental Realm.

This report had led many to have more questions than answers as to our current situation. Until more information arrives, we can only guess.

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How come no one's coming out to celebrate?

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The dawn of a new evil, and many deaths of those fighting against it, had led many thinking whether the younger generations are well-prepared for the forthcoming battles they might face.

As a result, after a conclusive secret meeting among personnel living on Tutorial Island, they have decided to include a new module of learning. Even after graduating from that island.

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♮Neo Basics♮
as of 10^th April 2009[ETF]

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Energy Boost

Unlocking one's energy limits for a brief period of time, the caster can perform extraordinary manoeuvre to suit his or her needs.

More info:

• Learnt when player reaches LvL 100.
• Mana Cost: 10*(speed of caster)
  

Effects:

1. Damage: 0~0
2. Speed Boost
   • Caster gains 150% of his or her speed for the next action made.
   • +5% chance to evade for next incoming attack. [Cannot stack]
     (last 5 turns or until caster is attacked, whichever first)
3. Maximum Distance allowed for manoeuvre: (speed of caster)KM.
   

Notes:

1. Skill cannot be used for attacking purposes
2. Skill can be cast during defending phase in battle.
3. Skill can be used to perform stunts(i.e. high jump, running on wall, etc)
4. Skill can not be used for sliding or drifting of body.
5. Caster can dictate when to stop the skill.
   

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Energy Strife

Unlocking one's energy limits for a brief period of time, the caster can slide or drift to evade line attacks or to quickly move through a narrow gap without delay.

More info:

• Learnt when player reaches LvL 100.
• Mana Cost: 5*(speed of caster)
  

Effects:

1. Damage: 0~25
2. Speed Boost
   • Caster gains 125% of his or her speed for the next action made.
3. Lesser Skull Bash
   • In the event that during the skill is in effect and the caster collides with any object(be it living or non-living), the caster have a chance to initiate Lesser Skull Bash
     for 0 Mana. However, every object hit would reduce caster's temporary speed by 50, if caster's speed return back to base speed, the skill will cease effect.
     
   • Chance to initiate: (caster's INT)%, cannot exceed 100%.
   • Damage: Base Damage of Skill + 325
   • Chance to stun: 5.00%, independent of other factors.
     

Notes:

1. Skill can be cast during defending phase in battle.
2. Skill cannot be used to perform stunts(i.e. high jump, running on wall, etc)
3. Caster can dictate when to stop the skill.

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Weakness Sense

With a glance of the caster's magically imbued scrying glass which reveals in detail, the elemental weakness of the target.

More info:

• Learnt when player reaches LvL N1.
• Mana Cost: 500 per target, maximum of 5 targets per turn per cast.
  

Effects:

1. Damage: 0~1
2. Caster gains knowledge of the target's elemental weakness.
   

Notes:

1. Spell does not work on divine creatures nor its counterparts(i.e. Class "L" creatures)
   
2. Spell have 50% to fail if caster's INT is lower than target's INT.
3. Spell does not work on creatures protected by mind barriers.
   

"Realm Saviours" band have faced a terrible defeat.

In fact, such a defeat that perhaps it is gone as quickly as it was formed.

And from the reports from the scarce survivors of the former band, many horrors we have never witnessed are yet to reach us.

The talking by the survivors were so incoherent that we are starting to doubt that if there's any truth in their words.

But one thing is certain: The Abyss Army is coming, and nothing is stopping them.

On a side note, the Chaos Faction has begun to disappear, maybe fleeing from the soon-to-be incoming army of The Abyss after conquering Elemental Realm.

However, the defeat of the Band had prompted the Order Faction to act.

A Extract from Armageddon

The threat is real, we must act to prevent us from ending up having the same fact of those who had fallen in battle, those brave souls who sacrificed their lives to protect the Mortal Realm and letting us know of the dangers of which we do not know.
My comrades have found a portal to the Gartur Barrens near Elemental Realm, from there shall we make a stand, to stop Abyss spreading influence and indirectly preventing them from invading our homeland.

Despite this, some believes that making a strong front at the Elemental Realm will prompt to the Abyss Army to invade Mortal Realm instead.


Meanwhile the Abyss Army marches on...unhindered.

The war rages on in the north where Elemental Realms lies...

But the Mortal Realm do not intend to do nothing.

The Chaos Faction had been calling for a strike on the Armies of The Abyss at its rear so as to halt its invasion on Elemental Ream.

Several parties have joined its cause. But the Republic had not make a move, to much disappointment.

It seems that the Chaos Faction is faster in responding in emergency situations, such as this.

The parties who joined the Chaos Faction's Cause are thus known as the "Realm Saviours" band.
And they marched on.

Destination: Gartur Barrens

May the light be with them....

With Hell fallen, the Armies of the Abyss have occupied the entire of Gartur Barrens and established a staging area base to prepare a conquest in Elemental Realm.

While many in Mortal Realm celebrate Chinese New Year recently, the Armies of Abyss marched into the Elemental Realm, in full force.

When news arrive in Mortal Realm, several tribes offered aid to the Elemental Realm but was strongly refused by the ruling party installed there.
The people of Mortal Realm could only look towards the direction of the Elemental Realm, wondering what is happening there.

Even we could not report on the situation for the point of access, which is through Gartur Barrens, is sealed since the Armies of Abyss had conquered Gartur Barrens.

But the invasion is not a false alarm, the threat is real. Will the armies of the Abyss strike at us after sacking Elemental Realm?

Thus, shalt the Abyss-Elemental War bring forth....

BETRAYAL's NOT DEAD..and the story goes on....

And the Realization begins....

Death from Above Lv.1[FIRE][TYPE-A]
Hurls up a huge fireball that splits into 15 fire bolts and spread out in a fan-like manner, hitting targets in a vertical line.
Each Fire bolt does 100 fire damage, fire bolt will deal additional 400 fire damage if the target has the status of "ROCKED"
Target can be hit by the fire bolts more than once.

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Death from Above Lv.1[WIND][TYPE-B]
Using the power of the wind, the caster summons a strong gust and haul it towards a targeted area in a cone-like manner.
The devastating force of the wind deals 300 wind damage to units buffered in the targeted area.
Units that can be affected includes both foes and non-foes. Use this spell with caution.
Units cannot be hit more than once by the spell that was cast by the same person in one turn.

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Death from Above Lv.2[EARTH]
Using the power of the Earth, the caster lifts up a gigantic boulder from the ground and throw it towards the target with deadly accuracy.
The giant boulder deals 300 Earth damage on impact and has 5% Chance to cause the target to flinch next turn.
Target gets the status of "ROCKED" for 1 turn upon hit by spell.
[Slows speed by 10% for 1 turn]
Spell only affect a target.
Spell cannot miss.
Spell cannot be blocked without the aid of Magic Circles^[?].

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Death from Above Lv.3[WATER][ELECTRICITY]
Requirements before able to cast spell:

1. Caster must know the spell "Rain Spell" or "Rain Dance"
2. Caster must know the spell "OutSpark"

Having mastered the spells of water and lightning, the caster calls upon a sudden downpour that ended as quickly as it ended and spark electricity on the falling water droplets at inhuman speed, creating a electric cage that hurts all but the caster.

Water Droplets deals 0~0 water damage.
OutSpark deals 600 electric damage due to its widespread effect that surrounds the battlefield.

Shell Shock
[Targets have 15% chance of getting stunned and loses his or her next turn.]
Power Overload
[Machines will have 100% Chance of getting stunned and loses its next turn.]

Spell Removes previous weather conditions in the battlefield.
Spell creates a neutral weather condition as a after-effect of the spell.
Spell hits the entire battlefield.
Spell cannot miss. Spell cannot be blocked.
Spell cannot be cast by caster at his or her next turn.

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Death from Above Lv.4[PSYCHIC][EARTH]
Requirements before able to cast spell:

1. Caster must know the spell "PSYCHIC"

Using the intense power of the mind, the caster lifts up the target and swing it towards a targeted area(or secondary target), hard. The caster then grips the target with his or her willpower, preventing the target from breathing, causing massive damage hereafter.

Main target receives 500~600 Earth Damage and is immobile for the next turn unless the caster makes a move which will remove the spell effect on the target and enable target to be able to cast spells and use physical attacks again.
Secondary target(if any) receives 300~500 Earth Damage.

Imposed Death
[If caster does nothing to disrupt his willpower imposed on the main target for his or her next turn, causing the target not able to breathe and suffers 10000 Soul Damage.]
Intense Pressure
[If caster does nothing to disrupt his willpower imposed on the main target for his or her next turn and the target is a machine, the intense pressure totally crushes its body, dealing 100% of the target's maximum health.]

The drain of using mental power was too great, the caster cannot cast Psychic Spells for his or her next 3 turns.[This includes this spell.]
Spell affect only one main target and one secondary target due to the limits of one's mental powers.
Spell cannot miss. Spell can only be blocked if the target has a greater Magic Level^[?] than the caster.

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The Poll for the Golden Sword Strength Requirements has finally ended.

Here are the results:

Moments just after an advance group were stationed near the empire, the Xydonia Empire declares that it will surrender its excess nuclear arms to be destroyed without further notice.

As promised, MCP will remove all sanctions from the Xydonia Empire, as long as the excess are entirely removed from the empire.

The Xydonia Empire could not be contacted for further comments.
MCP had considered it as a milestone to further peace and says it proves MCP's success.

Have peace finally been achieved in this sector of the world? Who knows....

☥Return of Questmaster☥

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☛Journey Towards Ruins☚
Prequel to the ☗Legend of Abyss☗

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A great day at GunBound City, if it was not so doomed by the fires of the Chaos on the that very day. Ah, I remember the gardens that I have just started to grow with advice from a new resident from the nearby village. He's a farmer and have talent in teaching people how to farm. Pity, he was slain in battle on that day. Perhaps he made an unwise move, coming to this city.

The attack was totally unexpected. By Durnik's Hammer, they stroke without a sound, the guards fell without so much more than a whimper.
Nevertheless, the heroes in the city felt a evil presence, as do I. Such presence do not often appear in this city but those venture out of this city and battled for the creatures beyond know what does this presence signify - Monsters abound.

Oh, we put up a great fight alright. The townsmen ran, not knowing anything about combat, having living in this city for their entire lifetime. They ran and I'm glad they ran, we were too busy fending off the monsters to have time to coax to run.
Some of the unfortunate civilians were killed as the monsters sole purpose is to kill, and kill it did. Many lives were lost that day.

Seeing that the city is lost, I called for all the defenders to flee, I wager we can always take back this city.
It was then, a black ruby dragon appeared. Not good, a extreme rare monster presence never do good. It had a rider. I couldn't see clearly though. No matter, we're running, a black ruby dragon would difficult to defeat alone, not to mention the rider. Not to mention the rampaging monsters everywhere.
The city was in blaze, the city gates can't hold much longer either, the sheer weight of the dragon is crushing it.
Then the rider saw me, I don't how I knew but I could feel its gaze.
The next moment I knew, the dragon was coming for me. I cast haste on myself and jumped to a crumbling tower roof.
The dragon below slammed its head on the concrete floor. Hah!
But it would take much more than to take it down. I jumped once more, onto the outskirts of the Gunbound City.
That's when the rider cast Star Blight. Darn! Not many people know such a spell.
I was blinded slightly by the outburst of light out of nowhere and all of sudden, there was no light as if light itself have been sucked from its very existence.
Knowing that , standing still would do me no good other than getting caught, I moved quickly, hoping that the darkness would soon disappear...

Then I heard a chilling voice, "Pitiful, once a great hero who helped slain the dark king in Shadow Realm, and now a blind fool. Have you not come to your senses, Questmaster, serving the Order will bring nowhere, serving the Boundless on the other hand...." He left it hanging but what he said was enough to freeze me on my tracks.

The Boundless, impossible, just a tale. No one seen him, not to mention even knows such a name.

I laughed at the unseen speaker, "You're from the Chaos Faction, isn't it? Why do you lie it so? Who're you, anyhow?"
A smug from the other side, "We're and we're not. You know not even a speck of the reality of this wretched world. Shall I bring you to the Boundless? And feel how true he is?" came the reply, along with a mad laughter.
I did not reply, I had an idea. A bold idea to make me escape. I begin to cast...
"Such feeble attempts will bring you no good. You can't harm as long as you can't see, MORTAL..." - he spoke with contempt.
"ha, you mistaken me. I'm off!" I replied.
Here's comes the bold part.

Truth was I teleporting blindly. Oh well, let's see where fate would put me into...

Light....My eyes was blinded by the sudden intense light after seeing total darkness for so long.
It took me some time for my eyes to adapt to the normal lighting here.

And I see a guild, or should I see a destroyed guild.

Durnik's Hammer! This is where the once glorious Keepers of Time once resided!
What had happened to it. It's all in ruins.

I went in and explored. Looks abandoned, no sight of a living thing in there.

It was then, I notice a single book laying on the shelves in a room.

It writes ⚠Abyss⚠" - by Alex, DragonSlayer.

Wonder what's inside and how come it is the only book left?
Curious, I read on....

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The Story continues in the ☗Legend of Abyss☗...

Weeks after the resolution of the MCJ was publicly announced, the Xydonia Empire have not made any move to remove its excess nuclear arms.
This came from the G.R.S.U.N.'s report and the sanctions have made to prevent trade with the Xydonia Empire.
Having no visible effect on the Empire, several nations have urged MCP to use force to act against such empire to show an example to others.
In a conference in MCP last Sunday[ETF], the senates have decided to send an ultimatum to Xydonia Empire.

Hereas writes:

The Accused had undermined the MCP and therefore showed no respect for the MCP.
The MCP have decided to show the Empire the might of the Multiverse who had joined in one voice to rid all violence in this Multiverse.
Let the Accused cower in the wake of danger ahead of her.

And another message was sent to the rest of the nations:

The Accused have showed disrespect to the Multiverse community, including you all.
Our national pride does not allow that.
As such, the MCP encourages nations to sends their troops to bend the Accused to removing excess Nuclear Arms for the peace for Multiverse.
The price of peace is high but we're willing to pay for this very purpose we stand.

Gods War II have just ended and it seems that the Xydonia Empire is brewing another war..on herself.
What will happen now? Stay tuned...

Greetings all,

A new Combineset logo has been made since the prior one is dated on the Beta Version which we're no longer in.
Efforts have made to make it resemble the previous logo.
If you have noticed, we will not go ahead in replacing the Arabic numbers with the Roman numbers yet.

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New Logo:

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Looking forward to seeing you guys there!
Grandmaster of OZ)
Leroy Lim

The two sky tears that have recently fallen to Mortal Realm has been confirmed as the two Forgotten gods, Arun and Distrust.

After reaching the Mortal Realm, the two gods are seen moving towards each other. They had landed three mountain ranges apart.

As we speak now, the great battle have commenced. Why are they fighting and whose sides do they serve?

We hope that when the battle ended, we can give you a more detailed report.

Now if you excuse me, I'm going to witness the fight of the lifetime....

The Battle for GunBound City has finally ended after 1 week siege on the dark fortress that was built on the debris of the former great city.

The Order Faction won the battle ultimately even though both sides suffered great casualties.

Order Faction original intent was to lay siege and wait for the Chaos Faction to starve and allow the Order faction to achieve victory.

However, things did not happen as planned. The sky tears that have landed on the mortal realm have a great impact on Order Faction for such a great event was not prophesied by the oracles, and the Book of Prophecies stated that the Gunbound City was never destroyed, only taken from Neutral Control.

Surely this is a sign of utter chaos in this realm for this is the first time that the prophecy failed to describe as great events as this. Was it left out on purpose?

With no guidance, and with the Chaos Faction provoking the Order Faction at the doorstep of the fortification, the Order Faction launched an attack that laid waste to the Chaos Faction.

What prompted the Order Faction to change their plan ultimately?
What does the missing prophecy imply?

Perhaps it does not matter, vengeance has been made but it has not ended.

Like Grandmaster of OZ) who promised the death of Chaos Faction, starting with the claiming back of GunBound City. Armies of the Order Faction are moving in full swing.

What will happen in the next few months?
Can the Chaos Faction prevail against all odds?
Or is it all odds?
Time will tell.....

NEWSFLASH
Xydonia attacks Planet Zeeroth.....MCP reports no Zeeroth survivor from conflict

On 7/11/2008, Xydonia Empire launched an skirmish squadron to invade the planet Zeeroth which destroyed the entire planet due to use of excessive super-destructive weapons.

Xydonia Empire attacked Zeeroth on the grounds that Zeeroth opened fire on Xydon's Galactic Belt using a fleet of 120 warships and 25 flagship which is an open indicator that Zeeroth declared war on the Xydonia Empire.

Xydonia Empire has claimed that Zeeroth have used an traditional war tactic: sending a decoy to distract the enemy.

It is reported that on 7/11/2008, Xydonia Empire also deactivated its defence shielding system before the attack although the reason has not been known.

Xydon's Galactic Belt, Xydonia Empire's Frontier survived the attack, handling the situation relatively well, expected of a survivor of its generation - Empire StrongArm was once its neighbour before it collapsed due to political instability.

The Xydonia Empire, not taking the attack kindly, went to great means to track down the attacker. Since the principles of the MCP states that it will not interfere with internal affairs, we will never know how the Xydonia Empire receives its intelligence....

How can a relatively young state such as Zeeroth stand against the advanced empire of Xydonia?
MCP hopes to find a survivor of the lost planet so as to find answers but Xydonia had made a clean sweep of the planet.

Xydonia Empire have not been able to make comment due to its isolation policy imposed after the GODS War II ensued. Currently, Xydonia Empire is a part of OZ), is this an act of war from the OZ) or the empire is acting on its own behalf?

However, MCP made a breakthrough in its finding when Golden Rising S.U.N.(G.R.S.U.N.) reported that one of its patrol ships witnessed the battle occurred at Zeeroth.

According to G.R.S.U.N., the five ships sent by the Xydonia Empire were no ordinary ships, there were weapons of mass destruction that is capable of destroying the entire planet with just of its weaponry. It is reported that each ships carries more than universal limit amount of nuclear warheads and demand Xydonia Empire to surrender all excess nuclear weaponry to MCP in name of universal peace.

However, what truly disturbed MCP is that the planet started to glow like a gigantic sun rising, and finally explodes, destroying the planet totally. G.R.S.U.N. did not comment much on this due to the fact that the appearance seems to describe the empire G.R.S.U.N. which is Golden Rising S.U.N..

As of posting this, MCP is holding a conference to decide on its course of action: whether to ensure that Xydonia Empire cannot use its mass destruction weapons to prevent a repeat of events or call upon other empires to attack the empire which may cause great destruction to all parties.

This is Mr Smith reporting, Chief Reporter for Hem eXa.

Attached Document:

Map of Xydonia System:

Click here or picture to enlarge.
The metal looking pentagon and the metal belt in the background is the Xydonia Galactic Belt, the Xydonia Empire's Frontier.

WELCOME!
TO THE CLIMAX
 OF THIS AGE

Two sky tear has landed to the Mortal Realm's Surface. It came down from the Heaven itself.

It has been revealed that two sky tear are actually two gods who come out from their homeground on godland.

Who are they? We will be posting in the following few days with their history and involvements in this Realm. So do watch out for them. ;)

But a duel without a fight? The sighting of the sky tear, in fact, took place two weeks ago. It was just revealed to the public 5 days ago.

Trust us, it took us some time to find out that the 5th Duel occurred.

Can't say much now, a insight report is coming out soon. What I can say is: A major battle has occurred. =]

Stay Tuned!.......