As a ‘former 1st warrior’, Cloud naturally knows something about the summoned beast magic crystal.
In ancient times, those extremely powerful fantasy creatures turned into the flow of life after death, and the flow of life left the mark of the most powerful period of their lives in the river of life. By chance, the flow of life condensed into the river of life through nature.
In solid form, this red magic crystal carries the 'shadow' of a certain fantasy creature.
If you are a strong warrior, you can resonate with the summoned beast magic stone when fighting a strong enemy, and use the power of the magic stone to summon the thoughts of the summoned beast.
Even if they cannot exist in the world for a long time, those powerful summoned beasts usually have the terrifying power to reverse the situation and even capture the army. Some powerful summoned beasts are even named "gods".
‘God of Fire’ Ifrit can freely manipulate and create flames. The terrifying fire storm and breath of fire are a nightmare for the enemy.
'Ice God' Shiva can freeze water vapor in the air, and can also create huge ice spears out of thin air when necessary. He is like a mermaid swimming in the ocean of ice, unpredictable.
‘Thunder God’ Ram summons thunder to crush the enemy.
The ‘Earth God’ Titan creates super-strong earthquakes.
‘Water God’ Leviathan sets off a huge tsunami to swallow up all enemies.
There is also the so-called strongest summoned beast, the 'Dragon God' Bahamut. Legend has it that when Bahamut appears in the world, everything will come to an end under the illumination of billions of dragon flames.
Generally speaking, the same kind of summoned beast magic crystal can exist in this world in plural forms. When Shinra and Wutai were at war, there was even a spectacular scene of Ifrit on both sides fighting each other. But with the war,
Fighting, lost, and finally returned to nothingness. Many magic crystals were destroyed or lost somewhere in the world, including summoning stones.
I wonder if the more powerful the summoned beast is, the harder it is to condense it into a summoning stone. There are very few Bahamut summoning stones recorded in ancient times. Even the Shinra Company, which was at its peak during the Wutai War, only retained three Bahamut summoning stones.
Two of the Mutt Summoning Stones were lost after the war, and the remaining one is currently being kept in the Scientific Research Department at the Shinra Corporation Headquarters.
The Ifrit Summoning Stone in Jesse's hand was a treasure she accidentally obtained when she traveled around the world with a theater troupe in her early years as an actress. She kept it well. Even her mother didn't know that her daughter had such a summoning stone.
stone.
Claude looked at the red summoning stone in his hand, and there seemed to be faint flames flickering inside. This was the summoning stone of [Vulcan] Ifrit. Claude hesitated for a while but did not refuse Jesse's invitation, and
The summoning stone was carefully placed in his arms, ready to find an opportunity to embed it into his metal giant sword [Destroyer Sword].
Seeing that Claude decisively accepted the 'love token', Jesse felt extremely happy. She took the opportunity to get in front of Claude and agreed on a time and place to meet.
Pushing Jesse away, and because Jesse was a beauty of a very high standard, he was secretly happy in his heart.
Soon, the time came to the next night.
Claude and Jesse met at the station, only to find that the train did not arrive on time. Not only that, there was no one around the station, and they didn't know what had happened.
Just when the two were in trouble, Biggs and Weggie struggled to push two motorcycles over.
"Huh? Biggs? Wiggy? Why..." Jesse was very surprised. He clearly didn't tell his two best friends about his plan tonight.
Little Fatty Weggie gave a thumbs up: "Biggs saw that you were distracted and guessed that you planned to go back to Qifan Street to see your family before your next move, right?"
"There are no trains today. Shinra has moved up the time of the last train. I borrowed a motorcycle and rode it to the upper city."
Biggs smiled and nodded.
Jesse covered his chest and smiled: "Really, I was completely seen through."
Biggs patted the motorcycle: "Although it's a bit cheeky, I hope you can let us two parents without parents experience the feeling of being filial to our parents."
Jesse's heart warmed, and she knew that her two best friends were afraid that something might happen to her when she went to the uptown area, so she insisted on following her to help. She turned to look at Claude: "Where are Claude's parents?"
"...No more." Claude's expression dimmed.
Jesse looked at Claude's somewhat sad expression, and her heart seemed to be hurt. She patted Claude on the shoulder and deliberately cheered the atmosphere: "Okay! Then let's go together and share the unfilial piety."
Children’s guilt!”
"Oh oh oh!"
Biggs and Wiggy immediately raised their arms in response.
Then the allocation of motorcycles was very simple. Claude and Biggs drove one respectively, Jesse took the back seat of Claude's motorcycle, and Weggie took Biggs' side.
Hugging Claude around his waist, Jesse chuckled twice with a slightly red face, and said softly in Claude's ear: "My safety is entrusted to you, Lord Knight."
Claude held the handle of the motorcycle with one hand and held the metal giant sword on the side of his other hand. He nodded slightly: "Hold on tight."
Two motorcycles traveled through the huge brightly lit tunnel at very fast speeds.
Jesse is very good at high-tech technology. The water purifier is a practical device she developed. She also made many forged ID cards to deal with various occasions. This time she just brought enough new ID cards and distributed them.
Give it to everyone in order to cope with the ID scanning level that will appear in the tunnel next.
The lights in the tunnel quickly flew behind Jesse. Even at such a high speed and with only one hand holding the handlebar, Jesse still felt that the motorcycle was more stable than ever before. He was really a good man worth relying on.
"Can you hear me?" At this time, Claude's voice came from the front.
"Well, you can hear me, what's wrong?" Jesse hugged Claude's waist, rubbed his whole body forward and almost pressed against Claude's back, and said with his mouth close to Claude's ear.
Claude seemed to want to break away from Jesse's bear hug, but considering that he was driving at a high speed, he had to give up. He turned his head slightly to prevent the hot breath from Jesse's mouth from hitting his ears, and asked as calmly as possible: "
Who is that Heather?"
"Heather? When I came to Qifan Street, Heather and Tifa had been running a bar together for more than a year."
Jesse thought for a while and said calmly: "I have heard a lot of rumors about him. Some people say that he has at least dozens of lives under his command, and some people say that he is the underground king of the Qifan Street slums. But.
The Avalanche organization has always had a good relationship with him, probably because of the relationship with former leader Helmer?"
"He and Tifa are brothers and sisters?" Cloud finally asked the question he wanted to ask.
"Aha, I finally asked. I was still wondering how long you were going to wait before asking."
"...Where's the answer?"
"You're lucky, Tifa and I are good sisters, so of course I asked her this question. Yes, Heather and Tifa are indeed brothers and sisters. They both have the same master. Tifa just had it five years ago
When she came to Midgar, Heather shouldered the responsibility of her guardian and took care of her. Tifa was usually gentle and gentle and rarely got angry. But if someone dared to speak ill of Heather in front of her, she would
He will really lose his temper. You like Tifa, right?"
Jesse's sudden attack caught Claude off guard. He was silent for a moment and then said, "It's nothing."
"What does it matter whether you admit it or not? I'm not blind, and there is no shortage of people who like Tifa. Looking at the slums of Qifan Street, who doesn't like Tifa? It's just that no one has ever been able to get the 7th Heaven poster girl.
My heart, guess why?"
"...because of Heather?"
Cloud's tone was a little bitter. He had been secretly in love with Tifa since he was a child, and even resolutely joined the Shinra Company in order to become a hero in her mind. After a long separation, he thought he could become a 'former 1st warrior'
Tifa's identity made Tifa look at her with new eyes. Unexpectedly...
"Despite Heather's mediocre appearance, he is actually a very outstanding man. His skills are unmatched by anyone, he cares about the people around him, he is a good cook, he has money and he never spends it arbitrarily.
He doesn’t bully the weak either. The most important thing is that he and Tifa have been together day and night for five years. Isn’t it strange that Tifa likes him?”
Jesse patted Claude's waist: "If you are really Tifa's hometown friend, then you should know her character very well - once you like her, she won't change easily. Although she didn't make it clear clearly,
But she does like Heather. You don’t stand a chance, handsome."
"…………"
Claude stopped talking and just twisted the handle of the motorcycle to accelerate the motorcycle again.
At this time, several red grid-like lights were flashing in front of the tunnel. Jesse hugged Claude tightly and shouted: "It's an ID scan! Be careful!"
"What's going on? Didn't you confidently say that the ID card you made is foolproof?" Claude was a little panicked by Jesse's shouting, and the hand holding the sword was raised.
"There is no problem with the ID card. But appearing in the tunnel at this time is the biggest problem in itself! The Shinra Army stationed nearby will definitely send someone to check."
While the two were talking, the red grid had already passed over them and the two people behind them, Bigswig.
Soon, the sound of several motorcycles could be heard in the tunnel behind.
Claude looked at the left rearview mirror and saw that at least six more advanced motorcycles carrying fully armed Shinra soldiers were chasing them.
The leading Shinra soldier shouted through the on-board loudspeaker: "The motorcycle in front of you, pull over immediately and accept ID scanning and verification! Repeat, pull over immediately and accept ID scanning and verification!"
"Whoever stops the car is a fool!" Jesse stuck out his tongue at the Shinra soldiers behind him, and then said to Claude: "Send them away quickly before they report to their superiors."
Claude picked up the metal giant sword [Destroyer Sword], his left arm muscles bulged, his eyes were cold: