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[ Greetings people of the tower, have the King of Evil who cursed the tower this month appear on the terminals, for the first time in over six months. He looks fairly neutral, with a very light smile. ]

So long as it been since I last posted here, and yet I see nothing changed. The same cycle has been repeating over and over again, both here and where we come from. Higher powers play with those they see as inferior... Cruel and pointless games meant to satisfy their own amusement. From the tortured crowds sometimes a voice arise, then many--

But at the first bone tossed their way, the mindless masses go back in rank behind the higher powers they chose to venerate as deities. At the first occasion to forget, they chose blissful ignorance. Yes... In the end, complacency reigns. People always return to their meaningless preoccupations and lose of sight what should matter most.

[ He pauses and shakes his head in disapproval before continuing. ]

Have voice even been heard in this tower? Many entertained -and without a doubt still do- the idea that following certain golden haired women would bring them what they longed for. Yet, nothing happened. All they did was replace a deplorable situation with another, build a false hope they could comfort themselves with. All they did was turn a blind eye on reality.

Not a voice arise to stand against the status quo. [A very short and deep chuckle.] How pathetic. Tell me, Tower of Animus, do you not believe time has come for you to awaken and bring about an end to this?

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Floor 100. It will be the shore of a wooded isle. You will find me walking along the water.

Very well.

[ After the audio feed cut, Ganondorf would appear at the hundredth floor after five minutes or so. The shore of the wooded isle was probably much different from what he was used to see at this floor, but he would waste no time and look for her near the water. ]

[It was the place Saber missed most of all: the shores of Avalon. It was an illusion, but one that helped her find her calm. So there she would be, black skirts 'dampened' by the illusory water as it lapped at her ankles.

Upon seeing Ganon, Saber stops and waits for him to join her.]

[ Ganondorf would look around briefly as he walked to her, still making no comments. When he reached Saber, he stopped and nodded in acknowledgement. ]

Beautiful scenery. [He turns to the horizon and after a few seconds--] But I assume you contacted me because, you want to know how to bring her back?

Avalon always was. And you are correct.

I also want to know how you obtained your information. [She would not suffer being lied to on this matter.]

...

[ He nods slowly. ]

You have to understand whilst I know how to bring her back, the mean to do so is the complicated part. I have many sources. Some are as common as reading the network before key informations are deleted or spying our administrators. However for my most reliable informations, I have made use of less... common methods.

[ He pauses, crossing his arms before continuing. ]

Before I continue you must give me your word that, none of what I shall be telling you will befall the ears of Princess Zelda-- Or of those who would see her will accomplished.

Beyond two, I do not know for certain the identity of those that follow the princess. A knight does not lie nor does a knight make a vow that cannot be fulfilled. But I can give you my word that I will not repeat what you speak of to Princess Zelda nor those I know follow her. Should the list of the latter grows, so will the breadth of my word.

[ Ganondorf nods in acknowledgement. Sounds fair enough. If anything he'll have a list of name communicated to her. He stares at the horizon and crosses his arms. ]

Alright then. Let's start with the banalities you may already know. The one who has disappeared-- Is of course not dead in spite of what the graves would lead us to believe. For unexplained reasons, she left the tower. I assume it to be a mistake from the administrators, it happens quite frequently.

However the mistake is generally fixed after a few weeks at best. If not, then by administrative standards she is lost and they can no longer reach her. Or rather, they are not even trying. The more time passes, the less likely it is they will bring her back. The administrators prefer to devote their resources to play games with us than focus on such lost people, with the consequences you can see.

This I do know. I was temporarily gone from the Tower as well.

Continue.

The process to bring us to this tower is handled by Zo-- The child administrator. He may or not be helped by machines, that much I do not know. Zo is very helpful but our friends Ruana and Jason have means to keep him under control.

It implies if you want her back, you need to gain access either to Zo or to the machines handling the process. Zo to ask him to focus on her, the machines to handle the process yourself. A difficult but far from impossible task, after all I met Zo in the administrative floors less than a year ago. The true difficulty comes from the other administrators,

I gathered he was the one responsible for us when the Administrators had that open meeting. I did not stay long, having only one question I needed answered by them, but there was much in that answer from Jason.

[Saber falls silent for a moment.]

Children can be persuaded in many ways to do things. If he truly is a child. How did you access the administrative floors?

[If she had to go there to get to Zo, she would.]

[ Ganon nodded at her words and paused, judging whether continuing or not was advantageous to him. Well she seemed intent on going and any infiltration attempt generally brought him more insight to make his plans successful.

He smiled at the comment on Zo being "truly" a child and then continued. ]

There are two things you need in order to access the administrative floors. A distraction, something massive enough that the administrators can do naught but keep their eyes on it. You may have noticed how many people disappeared early on in this month, how they were trapped in ten floors I had cursed.

As evidenced by the answers my speech received, everyone believes I either are mindlessly evil, or that I did it as an attempt to take over the tower. The truth is, this was a diversion to infiltrate the lower floors a second time and it worked.

Most importantly you need someone with informatic skills to hack the elevator. This is close to impossible, but I know people in the tower who can and did accomplish such a feat. Once these two conditions gathered, the elevator will take you where you want, all while the administrators will be too busy to realize it.

[Saber had not cared about the cursed floors, having noted it and continued on with her business, but the reasoning behind it was good to know. She knew so many people believed that was just Ganon being evil and sadistic, cursing the floors for his own amusement to watch. And they probably weren't wrong, but one thing the King of Knights had discerned was that there was a lot more behind Ganon's motivations than just the cruel amusement of being evil as most saw it.

The taint of Angra Mainyu upon her lent her some more insight into 'evil' than she ever used to have as the silver knight.]

If I were to initiate an infiltration to those floors, would you be willing to reveal those people? I do not ask for their identities now.

That wouldn't be a problem.

[ He nodded. And it wouldn't be hard to convince these people as well, they generally were more than happy to do anything with the potential to bother the administrators. ]

However, there is one favor I'd like to ask.

Speak and I will decide if I am willing to do this favor for you. I am grateful for the information and wishing to aid you, but I am still a knight, Ganon.

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I know. I would not ask you to accomplish or take part in something going against your duties.

No, the favor is in relation to the discussion we've just had. If you do initiate an infiltration, you will need to take a few people with you. It is close to impossible otherwise to do anything in the lower floors. And I would like to be amongst these people.

[There is no hesitation in her response.]

I will take you with me under the conditions that the primary goal is to secure the return of Irisviel and once that is done, your personal reasons for being there can be seen to if they would disrupt her reacquisition. If they do not interfere, I have no issue with you seeing to them as long as they do not go against my code.

[Which means no harming those in the infiltration party. Not she she would take certain people with her because she's not an idiot, but some things still needed to be said.]

I expected no less. I have no personal reasons that would need to be to be seen to-- All I want is to observe and learn from this infiltration. Successful or not, all infiltration have been a source of precious knowledge. And if you are successful in having Zo accomplish your will, this is something I want to see with my own eyes, nothing more.

[ Ganondorf sounded honest in his reply, which he was to an extent. He knows there is nothing that can be done to take over the tower at the moment, and information gathering has been his purpose since a while. ]

At the least, we will know more about him. [She really isn't sure he is a child.]

I am accepting of this. You have my thanks.

Very well. You have my thanks as well.

I will contact you when I have a plan set up. Thank you.

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