Sylas finally left the Divine Tacma analyst's Office. He retracted his wings behind him and unlocked his house, entered, and closed the door before heaving a sigh.
He remembered he had a file of some of those 'weak' humans in his private hologram screen. He'll check it later while constructing his resignation letter.
Subject: Official Resignation Notice
To:Observing Authority Division
Cc: Divine Monitoring Core, HR(Heavenly Resources)
Dear Almighty Supervisors,
Effective immediately, I hereby resign my position as Senior Profile Analyst Officer. Due to unforeseen circumstances last night, my illness skyrocketed , and it's stressing me out. My twenty-year-old ulcer suddenly came back. Aside from that, the damn rogue virus has a sarcastic personality. It made me question if I was actually a celestial, and then last but not least. I felt so bullied by the Gods by repeating the threats of soul deletion. Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Sylas, your former employee.
Sylas slammed the send rune, and the screen flashed red.
"What a cute letter. I framed i,t and maybe I'll upload it to your divine memes archive, Sylas," Anomaly showed himself on Sylas' screen, talking in a robotic voice.
"Ugh, I hate you!" Sylas screamed, not minding if his nosy neighbors might hear him.
"Correction: You hate your job and I'm the only entertainment you had in centuries."
"Screw you! You corrupt my files! Who the hell are you?"
"Oh, don't be so dramatic. I corrupted everyone's life. Don't feel special."
Sylas was being taunted by Anomaly. He watched as the poor middle-aged celestial worked hard on his holographic screen occasionally sipping on his now cold coffee.
Sylas thought that his personal HS (Holographic screen) was safe from the rogue virus. He was confident that he might retrieve the lost file in his working HS. He was a damn good hacker. He could even manage to fool the security and the anti-virus in the Divine system.
He couldn't do that inside his job sight. When he returned home, he jumped into action, confident that the rogue virus would never notice it. When he was able to enter the forbidden files inside the locked program, he immediately downloaded the file after finding it. He knew it was forbidden and that he might be caught sneaking around, but he was good at it.
After securing the file and locking it with divine encryption, he finally decided to buy himself dibreak (dinner and breakfast. Grabbing his celestial card, he walked out the doo,r unaware of Anomaly doing his magic to break Sylas so called Divine encrypted files.
He planned to keep Marcus' file safe until it needed to be known. Not now, not that the potential weapon he was slowly building wasn't awakened and perfected yet.
When Sylas returned, he walked back to his chair and started to activate his Hs only to begin sweating profusely. The reason why was that his carefully saved and protected data was now beginning to dissolve into static, especially the one named Marcus.
"No, no, no! What the hell is this again!? Who the hell tempered with my base code?"
He yanked out a backup drive, but then it became ERROR and CORRUPTED. He tried another, but the same response. "
What the hell?" he screamed in frustration. "This was secure! I sealed this folder with divine encryption!
Suddenly, the screen stopped glitching, and a black terminal screen opened up. A text began to type itself.
"Hello Sylas. Welcome back"
Sylas watched in horror. It's the rogue virus again.
"Damn it! You again! Stop messing with my life! Leave me alone!'
"Oh ho ho. I won't know why? Becuase you a one hella damn nosy celestial. You don't know how to read the 'don't stick your nose to someone else's business."
Sylas just stared at the screen. Shaking his head. How on Celestial this damn virus outsmarted him?
"How can I not stick my nose when that someone else's business is my business too!" he yelled.
A low chuckle started to echo from Sylas' speakers. A corrupted voice, mixed mechanical and robotic voice. And then, finally, across his HS, Anomaly showed himself with his signature smug smirk.
Sylas stumbled back, his mouth dry. He knew who that was. He had seen that masked poster in their work bulletin of notorious anomaly million times, and it was wanted by the Supremes. That the same mask and anomaly was before him, giving him a smug smirk. Now he knew why his techy talent won't even defeat this rogue virus. He was the one who built the entire system, all the Gods and Goddesses were using.
He reached the button under his desk, a button that would trigger the alarm directly to the Supremes' patheon. It was an emergency protocol to report to them about the unusual and wanted anomaly. But when he pushed it a message appeared in his HS right beside Anomaly's image.
"Denied. You don't have any access to the emergency protocol."
"Oh dear Sylas, you tried to report me to the Supremes? How defiant you are," Anomaly said, chuckling. "Ever wonder what will happen to you if I unplug your existence?"
"What w-wait! I didn't-"
"You have been digging too deep, my dear Sylas."
Suddenly, a shadow appeared behind him.
"Syyylasss, buddy. I heard you opened the wrong folder," Fang said, appearing before Sylas' face. "Do you want to see what happens when someone violates user privacy?"
"Delete him, Fang," Anomally ordered.
Fang tilted his head closer to Sylas, who was terrified and already peed himself. Who wouldn't? There's a damn oversized dagger before him, a terrifying dagger he never saw even in his centuries old life. And it talk.
"With pleasure, boss," Fang replied to Anomaly and then looked at Sylas, who was now paler than he could be. "You hear that, Sylas, bud? That's the sound of your celestial obituary being edited live."
Fang moves, slashing Sylas' chest, exposing his core. He then proceeded to pierce it into pieces so the memory inside wouldn't be retrieved.
After killing Sylas, Fang shifted into his humanoid form and stretched like he had just finished a light workout.
"Boss, I haven't had that much fun since I turned a mimic into a teapot, obituary editing, soul yeeted. I love my job."
Anomaly hovered over Sylas' dead body, that already become a crystal. When a celestial dies, they're dead body will become crystal. The core inside them would then be retrieved, reviewed, and then create a new body, and then a new celestial with the old core would once again replace the old one. It was the reason why Fang destroyed the core, an equal mixture of heart and brain, of humans.
"Dispose of the body. Make sure everything is still the same. No, evidence left behind," Anomaly instructed.
"Aye aye, boss."
"And also prepare. Marcus was about to face his first real dungeon."
"Finally! I'm starving!"
"Good. I edited Sylas's trash resignation letter. The council will find it a little bit suspicious. I gave them a little surprise. After that, I went and looked over Marcus. I have to disable myself for the time being while they investigate."