《The life of Leo a Mecha Pilot》 Vol 1 Chapter 0 Prologue ¡°THE HUMAN IS THERE¡± ¡°GO!¡± ¡°CAPTURE HIM! WE WILL USE HIM IN EXCHANGE FOR OUR PEOPLE!¡± ¡°NO! THEY WILL BETRAY EACH OTHER FOR ONE PIEACE OF COPPER, KILL HIM BUTCHER HIM AND THROW HIM TO THE MINE!¡± ¡°¡±OK!!¡±¡± They will abandon each other that is for certain¡­ Why am I saying this? I saw it long ago, the true motive? It is because I saw him following the raiders not long ago¡­ for sure he is a member¡­ like a rearguard? Or something else? I don¡¯t know¡­ I just know he is on their side¡­ if we let him go, he will bring the others and then¡­ hehe things will become too tough for us¡­ Father once told me that human nobility wears funny clothes, his are indeed funny¡­ because of those reasons we have to kill him if we succeed traveling back to our town will be easier; but above all, that thing that he stole from me¡­ I will get it back hahaha¡­ we can¡ät keep him alive, because it is certain that he will deceive one of us, escape and doom us all. ¡°UP THERE! HE STOPPED RUNNING!¡± ¡°the b@**@rd¡­ HE JUST FIGURE OUT THAT HE IS SURROUNDED!¡± ¡°???¡± Odd¡­ all those leaves were moving in an odd way¡­ and where does this wind comes from? Something is telling me that we should escape¡­ damn it¡­ no¡­ we have to kill him. There he is¡­ blue short hair¡­ white skin¡­ blue eyes with his funny clothes its color are green and brown¡­ he is looking down on us from the hill¡­ why did he choose this place? It is an open area¡­ no trees¡­ nothing¡­ it is just simply impossible to hide¡­ is he... a mage? Not good¡­ ¡°B@**@RD! PREPARE TO DIE!!!¡± ¡°MOTHEEEERRRR!!!!¡± When I was hesitating thinking that he is a mage, two of our friends jump to attack him¡­ it¡¯s too late to warn them¡­ he is still looking down on us¡­ with calm eyes like all this doesn¡¯t matter to him. -Whisper- -whisper- ??? He murmurs something? hi-his cloth changed color? Uh? It-it ate his head? hahha Wh- what is happening? ¡°GAAAAH!¡± ¡°ARRRG!!!¡± Both of them stopped their movement almost simultaneously and they jumped back- no something pushed them away¡­ it was like those things that appear after a stone makes contact with water¡­ but those things appeared in the air¡­ and in front of the human¡­ Peeeng!!! ¡°¡±¡±¡±NYAAAAAAA!!¡±¡±¡±¡± A noise scared us all¡­ it forced us to cover our ears and shut or eyes it felt like an explosion in front of us¡­ ¡°Wwha- what was t-¡± Right at that moment we saw that abomination¡­ the noise¡­ it was done by it. it is big¡­ extremely big¡­ if a ferocious bear is the biggest thing around our little town¡­ like 2 meters tall¡­ that thing is at least 7 times taller? It has a humanoid form but with 4 arms and¡­ hahaha that thing is floating hahaha¡­ its colors are black and gold¡­ hahahaha its eyes are white¡­ one of its left hand is emitting¡­ mana? Support the creativity of authors by visiting Royal Road for this novel and more. ¡°NNO WAY! GOLEMS SHOULDN¡¯T BE ABLE TO USE MANA!!¡± That¡¯s right golems as far as we know shouldn¡¯t be able to use mana¡­ but we are far away from other people, worst we don¡¯t have contact with others able to use mana¡­ ¡°!¡±#%$#... dfgdf$ ¡°#$(/&¡± The human said something¡­ it doesn¡¯t sound human language¡­ ¡­ the golem stop collecting mana on its left hand¡­ yes, it is certain he is the owner of that golem¡­ its eyes turn from white to silver¡­ then to light blue. [table=black] #$%/%gree¡±#$&$%tings [/table] ¡°IT TALKS!!!¡± ¡°NO¡­ oh no¡­ oh no¡± ¡­ Not good¡­ this is too much¡­ a golem appeared out of nowhere¡­ it is the biggest thing we ever saw¡­ it is floating, it was emitting mana, it talks¡­ and the worst thing¡­ it is obeying that human¡­ th-that human is smiling... he sure is having the fun of his life d@mn you¡­ all of this broke down some of us¡­ I have to do something. ¡°YOUNG ONES RETREAT NOW! GO TO OUR TOWN AND MAKE EVERYONE LEAVE THE TOWN NOW! WE WILL STALL HIM AS LONG AS WE CAN! GO!!!¡± ¡°NYAA!¡± ¡°GROOOOOOOWL¡± ¡°¡°HIIIIISSSSSSSS¡±¡± Not good. 4 of them are too terrified to move and turn into their primal instincts¡­ well at least the other 2 run away¡­ I just hope they go to our town¡­ how much time we can buy¡­ it is impossible to foretell¡­ [table=black] #¡±!greetings #$%%#%& we 2¡±#$&$% from ¡°#$%& human ¡°#$#$%# $%&/$%& we ¡°#$¡±¡± &% ¡°#$#$¡±%& hostile [/table] ¡°What?¡± Why is he talking to us? At least I need to understand that¡­ [table=black]¡±#$%$% $%&$#% #$%#$ %&%$ #$%#$[/table] [table=black] greetings¡­ we¡­ from¡­ Human¡­ Universal #$%/$v federation¡­ we ¡­ not¡­ hostile [/table] ¡°¡±uw- uwaaaa¡±¡± two of us broke into tears¡­ the other 2 ran away not to the town¡¯s direction though¡­ no one from the remaining ones are growling neither hissing¡­ I can¡¯t blame them¡­. Human federation¡­ they are not here for slaves¡­. They are here as a punitive force¡­ to kill us all¡­ and not leave a single stone remaining of our little town¡­ The human didn¡¯t move from that place since all this happened¡­ not like more than 5 minutes have passed in this lapse of time either way¡­ I turned my face and told to my people¡­ ¡°Sorry¡­¡± Mommy I won¡¯t be able to rescue you¡­ even less avenge you¡­ Major¡­ you were right that shooting star was a calamity that I brought¡­ sorry. I jumped to attack the human in front of me¡­ Vol 1 Chapter 1 Last Mission Part I Hello guys, this is chapter 1, i hope you enjoy it :) i know it start slow :( but have patient please :) ¡°We are the guardians of humanity. We aimed for survival and protect the legacy of our people.¡± Each time they go ¡®Battle¡¯ they say their ¡®oath¡¯ . ¡°Corporal Leo, Zeus squad ready for mission.¡± He is Leo, a pilot from the Human Universal Conglomerate, right now he is inside of his unit, its common name is Goliah. [table=black] Incoming transmission.[/table] The voice lacking of emotion is from a man. It was the voice from his unit, specifically the A.I installed on the unit. the A.I has many ways to communicate with the pilot, through the inner and outside speakers of the unit, the pilot armor has speakers as well so the A.I can communicate with him if he is not on his unit, lastly the pilot have some Nano instruments inside his body, the A.I is able to use them as well for communication if it is necessary to give secret information. A message is display in front of his screen, he touch it with his right hand. ¡®Hello little boy.¡¯ The face of a woman with black eyes, yellowish skin and a deep scar that cross over her left cheek appeared in front of him, she has a teasing smile. She is wearing a white helmet similar to those for fighter pilots, but without the visors and oxygen mask, her hair is not visible due to the helmet. ¡°¡­my name is Leo.¡± He say it with a monotone voice. ¡®Hmmm~¡¯ -Wink- -wink- ¡®You are stiff as always Le¡­ u will die young u know?¡¯ She used her left eye to wink at him, the gesture made her scar do some perturbing movements¡­ ¡°¡­¡­that is common here¡­ and I am not young anymore¡± He has 36 years already. ¡®¡­ You sure know how to ruin the mood, you know?¡¯ Even though she said those words, she didn¡¯t mean it. She is still smiling even her eyes try but fail to show a coquettish glimmering. ¡°As I said Corporal Leo De la Cruz Flores ready for mission, first sergeant Emily.¡± ''Jezz¡­ ok Leo, today mission is quite important for us even more for you~'' ¡°Please, elaborate a bit more?¡± ''In this mission if you ac-'' [table=black]4000 kills achievement. If you are able to kill 3 more owls today you will be granted with one of top 3 rewards of the Human Global Conglomeration.[/table] ''¡­ He is correct. Today you may be able to get that huge achievement¡­ congratulations.'' Her smile changed subtly; the glimmer in her eyes change to a common one for her, killing intent. Sadly it was hard for others to notice it. ¡°Thanks for the trivia¡­ May I ask for the mission briefing?¡± ''¡­Actually as your superior I have to give you a proper explanation of this reward. To begin with the reward is-'' [table=black] Human breeding. First sergeant Emily, the A.I. assistance is supposed to explain the reward, the methods and the difference between them so that he can choose which one to claim, after that the conglomeration will show him possible candidates. Your explanation is actually on an intimate level, such as what ca- [/table] ''Leo, why is your ¡®goliah¡¯ cutting me out?'' She stopped smiling and show quite the displeased face. ¡°¡­ He has this issue some time ago.¡± He really didn¡¯t know what to say, this issue started like a week ago. ¡°hmmmm~ goli make a complete scan on Leo¡¯s goliah please.¡± [table=black] Scanning, main files ok¡­ O.S¡­ ok¡­ BIOS¡­ ok¡­ Leo¡¯s goliah no errors detected. Hypothesis¡­ Leo¡¯s Goliah have reach the transcended upgrade¡­ congratulations goliah.[/table] ''D*mn not only Leo is about to reach THE achievement, but also goliah reach a new phase on its A.I evolution¡­ hmmm someone is finally on the verge of ascension~ congrats~'' She said it this time with her left hand on her face showing an astonished expression. ¡°¡­ I beg you please tell me the mission¡¯s briefing.¡± ¡®hihihi I love it when you beg me~¡¯ He saw her say those words but he subconsciously heard ¡®You can¡¯t beat me¡¯. Her smile turn a little lascivious this time if one didn¡¯t look closely, one would have thought that her smile reach her left ear¡­ but suddenly her expression turned serious. ¡®Ok Leo the time to play is over.¡¯ Leo for once changed his poker face to an ¡°about time¡­¡± face. ''Our mission has 3 phases. Phase one is to go to gamma base located at Altair¡¯s orbit, secure its perimeter, load up the package and deliver it to cruiser HOPE, route will be updated in real time.'' ¡°We are a named squad on a carrier¡­ And currently we are at Gliese 570.¡± Named ships and squads are the elites among the army, using them for a mere escort mission is not something normal. ''Yes¡­ The mission have been sent by the main H.Q. We will be using phase jump engines from carrier Zeus and we will be using the cryogenic chamber made by engineer Lapiz. They are¡­ ¡®Special¡¯. You can ask her about that, you are her favorite after all¡­'' His expression turn to a shock once again with the information with the 1st and 2nd part, but changed after hearing the last part. ¡°Ok. Will we have back up? And what is the package?¡± ''Tiger¡¯s squad will move to our carrier and will escort us until we arrive to Altair. They will remain on Altair¡¯s base, owls have been detected over there. Their evacuation will start immediately after our departure¡­ regarding package information is ¡­ labelled black¡­'' Black color means information is only accessible to people of the highest rank on the military. ''phase 2 consist escorting HOPE to the Sun. Carriers Attila, Giraffe and Apollo will support us escorting it, also battlecruiser Lance and Sword will escort HOPE as well¡­ lastly with so many squads, carrier Prometheus will assist us with maintenance and human support.'' Her eyes told him that this mission is bigger than he thought at the beginning. Even now his eyes are full of shock, to begin with each carrier has its own set of battlecruisers and cruisers (2 and 4). And battlecruisers that have their own name has a military might above that of a carrier, while Named cruisers are used for cover missions using strategic class weaponry. The size of this escort could be regarded as an assault unit, not big enough to call it as an army and not big enough to reach the solar system in one piece. ¡°Shouldn¡¯t we move as a bigger force? Owls in the solar system are too many and very strong.¡± [table=black] Negative. A bigger assault team will reduce the chances of success for this mission. [/table] ¡°Success rate that we can accomplish phase 2?¡± [table=black] 0.5% with current data, with the package that we will escort, the changes may increase by another 4.5%. The network current news are showing a massive movement from the owls. Hypothesis, Headquarter maybe took this time to try this assault. [/table] ''Goli is right, our main army is making movement on their main sector. All I can guess is, they are the bait and we are the main force¡­'' ¡°Main force? The Solar System is deep in the enemy zone, conquering it won¡¯t change anything, we will lost it sooner rather than later¡­ Destroying the solar system doesn¡¯t guarantee anything our victory over this war as well, because we don¡¯t even know if they have a pyramid hierarchical system.¡± Some believed that they are some sort of form of insects even though some of their classes seems more animal-like than insect ¨Clike. ¡®Sorry this is all the information I have.¡¯ ¡°Why is that? Did they find any indoctrinated?¡± The current information that have been shared to their squad, is too small even if they do not need to know relevant information. ''Nothing conclusive¡­'' Indoctrinated, they are people kidnapped and massively brainwashed, although humanity main enemy didn¡¯t use this kind of tactic, some other ¡®lesser¡¯ enemies did this bringing major losses to human kind. Stolen content warning: this tale belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences elsewhere. ¡°¡­ ok, phase 3?¡± ''I haven¡¯t been told. Main HQ briefing never mentioned it. I will explained all that I mentioned you once again at carrier Zeus, if you got any questions ask them there. Emily out.'' [table=black] We will encounter owls in all three phases. Chances for 4000 kill achievement is high on phase 1. Protocol says immediately after you reach the achievement, you are allowed to leave the mission and begin breeding as soon as possible. But missions related with black labelled information, or equipment overrule most protocols. In exchange H.Q is allowing you to choose up to 3 partners for the reward after success of the mission, I am uploading the list for you. [/table] ¡°¡­ Why are you telling me this and not the details of the mission?¡± The topic going back to breeding is unnecessary or so he thought. [table=black] In the best scenario, success rate of the mission is below 5%. It is considered a suicide mission. Giving the pilot incentives will increase the success rate or at least the survival of the him. [/table] ¡°I do not even know what breeding means¡­¡± [table=black] You should have learned it at the academy. Lesson 8, 3rd class, year 3 subject general anatomy. [/table] ¡°Year 3¡­ I started my missions at year 2. Right after indoctrinated destroyed Keyes colony¡± [table=black] Information noted for future reference. Breeding is the act to produce offspring.[/table] ¡°Offspring? You mean clonation?¡± He knows he is a clone. [table=black] Incorrect. That is one way to create more humans. As a matter of fact, it is the standard manufacture. But as said before, breeding is an incentive to increase efficiency of the pilot. See this video for reference. [/table] 2 minutes later. ¡°¡­ It seems painful and confusing¡­ ok¡­ Let¡¯s take care of this. Show me the list.¡± [table=black] ¡­ Downloading. Remember protocol for this time reward has change. You are allow to choose up to 3 candidates. [/table] ¡°¡­ This list¡­ call Lapiz from Prometheus¡­¡± His eyes showed total confusion¡­ he blinked several times, until Lapiz answered the call. ¡®Chief engineer of carrier Prometheus, Esmeralda Lapiz Green. How may I help you Leo?¡¯ Unlike him and Emily she doesn¡¯t wear armor but a uniform, to begin with she can be considered as a civilian, but her outstanding abilities on her area of specialization, earned her the position of chief engineer of carrier Prometheus. This carrier, for the conglomerate, is the state of the art ship. Her parents were civilians as well, one can notice it on her. The color for eyes and long hair is pink, she has white skin. Unlike Emily that is a warrior trying to act as a coquettish woman, Esmeralda way of speaking, looking and playing with her hair force all man close to her to forget what they are doing and stared at her like stalkers, for this reason her entire team for research, build and repair consist of female only. Although most of her hair cannot be seen because she is wearing a miner helmet some of her hair can be seen on her shoulder. ¡°I have three questions: What is special about the cryogenic chambers that you created for our squad? Why is your and first sergeant Emily names on my candidate breeding list? First sergeant Emily said that my goliah A.I has transcended. Can you elaborate please?¡± If one didn¡¯t know him, they would think that he is teasing her, but that is his way of interacting with people, born as a soldier and miss that 3rd and so on years at the academy forced him to pay a heavy toll on interpersonal and emotional intelligence. Her serious attitude broke apart, her white skin turned pink¡­ her mouth open and close at high speed¡­ after a few seconds she regained some of her composure. But she couldn¡¯t stablish eye contact. ¡®¡­I-I see Emily was too shy and never mention it? Isn¡¯t it? Le-lets lets follow your order¡­ those cryogenic chambers, specifically Emily¡¯s and yours, have a special concept behind, it should work when you are moving at light speed or faster, to summarize¡­ you will grow young although it reeeeeally is a slow process. That will help with interstellar travelling that require centuries or more. It will help keeping the pilots at their ideal age. It has some other uses but it is not for you to know.¡¯ This time she began to play with a lock of her hair. ¡®Th-the-thezecondqueztionizhe-heri-idea, conzultitwithherpl-ple-pleaze¡­¡¯ She stopped for a while, she breathe in and breathe out to regain her composure once again; Leo remained with his poker face all this time. ¡®You-you are not helping me you know?¡¯ This time she successfully did eye contact, she was mad indeed, but soon she forgive him. She knows he is not doing it intentionally. ¡äAbout goliah I need to make a major maintenance on it to give you a proper answer if he really upgrade or not, the engineers in your carrier should be able to confirm it, but they won¡¯t be able to give the proper hardware update. Let¡¯s do this¡­ ok done. They will verify it and explain it to you. If the A.I is an upgraded version, the O.S, BIOS and data storage won¡¯t be enough so they will be adding 3 black box on your unit, each black box will contain an extra A.I with all of them together, and your goliah supervising them, your unit can become a terraformer unit, until we complete the mission, goliah will remain as a warrior unit.¡¯ Right after she answered all him answer, she sigh of relieve. ¡°¡­ ok I will ask Emily later. But you didn¡¯t told me what it does means for goliah¡± ¡®Oh! Sorry, you know the ze-second question you did was a bit too much¡­ a transcended A.I means that, it not only could make hypothesis but also can think and act on solutions at its own discretion¡­ most of the time those A.I are sent to the main H.Q for research material, each transcended A.I has a different train of thoughts even personalities¡­ even with all those A.I we create a year, very few are able to reach this level¡­ also we can¡¯t create a transcended A.I from the get go because of lack of information how it is created.¡¯ She is fascinated with this area of research. So much to learn, how they could help humanity. If she weren¡¯t chief engineer of a state of the art carrier, she would have volunteer to be part of that research group. ¡°hmmmm~¡± He still didn¡¯t understand, but it seems that he will get more help for battles, that is all he need to know or so he thought. ¡®Any other questions Leo?¡¯ ¡°None for now. Thanks for your time lapiz.¡± ¡°¡­ Ok Leo, on another note¡­ pleazechoozeEmilyandIpleaze¡­ you¡­ wontbedizappointed.¡± She cut the call. ¡­ ¡°Goliah.¡± [table=black] Yes?[/table] ¡°why was she talking so fast and in an odd way?¡± [table=black] ¡­Data unavailable. [/table] the reason why he took some time to answer was because he tried to search for a possible answer on the network, but didn¡ät found a solid argument. ¡°Ok¡­ start the chamber. It will take some time before we reach there right?¡± Before going to sleep, he mark 2 names on his candidate list. [table=black] affirmative. Have a nice rest. [/table] He forgot about the mission briefing on carrier Zeus, but it was a common ocurrence, that is why his A.I didn¡ät say anything as well. Vol 1 Chapter 2 last mission part 2 Author''s note, ello guys~ like previous ch? all of this is the set up for Leo so we can understand a bit of him. like what events forge his character, and why he take some decisions. Jope you enjoy it :), next chapter will begin the story. -------------------------------------------------- [Alert] Someone activated the alarm. [Alert] It sounded everywhere in the carrier. [Hostiles detected] [Scanning¡­] [Scanning¡­] [Indoctrinated detected] [Cruiser Zeus 4 destroyed] [Scanning¡­] -Rumble- -rumble- Someone tried to jammed the communication channels but failed, carrier Zeus is still updating the current events. [Scanning] -tremor- -tremor- [Phase jump offline] The Whole supporting team of carrier Zeus leave deactivated their phase jump engines. [Pirates detected¡­ Battlecruiser Zeus 1 engaged with pirates] Their location is right at the back of the pirates; the formation of the spaceships in the case of Zeus, is 1 battlecruiser at the front and the back of the carrier, 1 cruiser at each side, top and bottom of the carrier, all of this positions are relative to their direction, and top is the area where the Squad disembark. [Scanning] -crash- - rumble- Something fell not far from Leo¡¯s unit. [Carrier Zeus heavily hit. Please go to the nearest evacuation vessels.] [Repeat carrier Zeus heavily hit. Please go to the nearest evacuation vessels.] [table=black] Cryogenic chamber deactivated. 1 minute after corporal Leo is ready for mission¡­ [/table] [Scanning¡­] [Scanning¡­] [Owls detected.] [Owls threat class confirmed: Owl Colony class confirmed.] They were at the back of Zeus. At the front pirates, at the back owls, the mission could be considered as failure. [Cruiser Zeus 3 preparing Owl-contingency.] But they can¡¯t sit and wait for the inevitable; fight, escape and succeed those were always the priority of the Conglomerate. Right now they need to fight so they can escape and succeed in reaching phase 2. [Swarming confirmed.] -tremors- -tremors- - rumble- -boom- [Cruiser Zeus 3 has been hit.] But not always plans and contingency plans goes as intended. [Cruiser Zeus 3 has been taken down.] [Swarming contained.] Even while failing, they have to keep wining even if they lose their life in the process, they know if they fail billions of life will be in danger¡­ [Battlecruiser Zeus 2 engaging Owl Colony Class.] ¡°Cough cough¡­ what what happen¡­¡± He woke up with dizziness, it was a forced wake up, that method although not lethal it gives some minor nausea and headache. [table=black] Activating user interface. Incoming transmission. [/table] ¡®Leo!!!! Finally¡­ I¡¯m glad¡­ I-I¡¯m really glad¡­¡¯ ¡°Emily what happen¡­ why aren¡¯t you in your armor? Why are you bleeding?¡± She is in a bad state, her scar on her cheek is bleeding, her black hair is tied up behind her, she has a piece of cloth on her right ear and another member of Zeus is supporting her while she is been accommodated on her Goliah. ¡®Tiger squad has been indoctrinated¡­ they manipulated our chambers¡­ sold us to the pirates and¡­ and they stole the package¡­¡¯ She said it with grieve in her eyes. Losing her comrades like this, is the worst¡­ but what happened at this moment, is the worst thing that ever happened in the story of the Human Universal Conglomerate. ¡°Ho-how-?¡± He blink and shake his head several times. [This is Coronel David de la Rosa. There are no indoctrinated at carrier Zeus go to the evacuation vessels as fast as possible. We will use carrier Zeus as a shield and let cruiser Zeus 1 and 2 take you and leave as soon as possible] ¡°Evacuation? First sergeant Emily, your orders?¡± Anxiety can be seen on his face. The mission didn¡¯t even reach phase 2 and it is already a step away from failure. ¡®Leo, we lack of man power. Half of the squad and I will support battlecruiser 2 fighting the Owls, the other half will assist the evacuation vessels to reach cruiser Zeus 1 and 2. You will go and destroy the package¡­ they are too many and trying to retrieve it¡­ is impossible.¡¯ [This time is of great peril for us all, but don¡¯t worry, carrier Prometheus is arriving we will soon have assistance from them] ¡°but-¡° ¡®Leo your unit have been upgraded to support as much as possible your transcended A.I. you have to destroy the package, if possible capture one of them, maybe we can get some intel about this¡­ this nightmare¡­¡¯ Her eyes are red. Her breathing, rough. She knows that fighting the Owls in this manner means¡­ the inevitable. ¡°Roger¡­ Emily¡­ be careful. Leo out.¡± He close his eyes, and thought. Tiger squad consist of 200 Goliah units disregarding if they are for long, mid and close range¡­ he knows for sure that battling them mid and close range means defeat¡­ it didn¡¯t matter if he is part of a god named squad. ¡°Goliah¡­ activate God mode. Let me have 12 drones the rest, let them support Emily.¡± [table=black] Affirmative, initiating safe zone. [/table] ¡°Negative. I have to be conscious until we successfully destroy it¡­¡± [table=black] Not possible. If you use god mode for more than 10 minutes, this unit won¡¯t be able to give the proper treatment¡­ after 20 minutes carrier Zeus won¡¯t be able to give a recovery treatment. [/table] ¡°Indoctrinated sold us to the pirates and Owls are on our back. This mission doesn¡¯t require me to return alive. If you think there is a chance for survival, you are allow to activate the cryogenic chamber ONLY after package¡¯s destruction.¡± Dead is almost certain with the mission that Emily gave him, if it weren¡¯t for his super heavy weapon. With it, the mission is not only feasible but non suicidal, of course only if his enemy side remains passive. [table=black] Preparing countermeasures. God mode online. Corporal Leo, good luck. [/table] He will go out with the others so he can use them as a shield in case they got in a crossfire, which will happen right now the pirates are trying to surround carrier Zeus, it is only thanks to battlecruiser Zeus 1 that it did''t happen yet, nevertheless it receive constant fire from the pirates. Even worse, Owls were on their way to siege carrier Zeus. ¡®Zeus 10, calling all Zeus from 2 to 100, Zeus 2 to 50 protect cruisers 1 and 2; 51 to 100, make a way for the survivors¡¯ ¡®Zeus 1, calling all Zeus from 101 to 199, formation delta, It is a big boy guys~ Owl colony class is the prey today. Contact in 10 minutes, lets'' destroy it!¡¯ ¡°Zeus 200 pursuing indoctrinated¡± ¡®Woa! Man r u rlly goin against 200 guys? That¡¯s impossssssible~¡¯ (Zeus 7) ¡®What happened with the other Zeus?¡¯ (Zeus 3) ¡®U don¡¯t know? His A.I is a transcended one.¡¯ (Zeus 66) ¡®What in space transcended means?¡¯ (Zeus 150) ¡®They are dead, Zeus 3; it means with his knowledge, experience and support from his Goliah, Zeus 150, he can take us all and win. That is, if he doesn¡¯t run out of energy and ammunition. Remember, when the battle against the Owl starts, we will be silenced. Talk is over. Zeus 10, Keep them alive¡¯ (Emily) ¡®Roger that, sergeant¡­ endure until we are done, we will assist you as soon as possible. Leo, make them pay¡­¡¯ [Warning] [Carrier Zeus no longer able to sustain life.] [Warning] [table=black] Unit successfully Disembarked carrier Zeus. [/table] They all move together, 4 groups of different sizes, although one of the group is only of 1 unit. They all move to their targets. Pilots, although most of the time they remain inside their humanoid mechanical units, they also wear a liquefied mechanical armor. It is strong enough to defend them from antipersonnel ammunition, but the quality of this armor lies on its furtive mode and stun mode. It also gives a boost on speed and strength to the pilot, which he or she requires it. The humanoid mechanical units are called Goliah. They are standard units disregarding rank, and squad, the only difference is the weaponry, humans are not able to use more than necessary and most of the times they may become an obstacle, this is not always truth if the unit can be equipped with more weaponry it is called an exception, these exceptions means to customize the unit. One kind of exception is a combination of the pilot¡¯s C.V, or if the spaceship is named. The standard spaceship just use a code name with numbers and colors, but state of the art spaceships or considered ¡®hero¡¯ are named spaceships. In the case of Zeus, Emily and Leo are able do it, while Emily did it on her own will, Esmeralda and Emily did the changes on Leo¡¯s forcibly. On a standby mode its body color is silver and black. It has red eyes, and has something like libs and nose, although they don¡¯t move. On battle and some other modes, its head gets covered by a full helmet that leaves open a cross like hole for its eyes and ¡®nose¡¯. It has 6 arms 1 for a prototype super heavy weapon. It use the same concept of a cruiser class weaponry but on a smaller scale and slower charging speed. It is in the middle of his back so it won¡¯t affect too much its tactical maneuvers. It was a custom from Emily after his success at snipping an Owl colony class, at that time he used 8 cruisers linked to his unit, successfully destroying it. This time he can¡¯t use it because the Owl Colony class is battling with battlecruiser Zeus 2, he will obliterate everything but the Owl at a 2000 km radius. As a side note on standby mode a full body shield covered it. The pilot has to tell the A.I to move and place the shield to one of his flexible arms 2 for multipurpose arms. They are used as a hangar bay for the drones that the pilot operates. 2 for heavy weapon arms, both of them can use energy and solid base weaponry, each of the heavy weapon arms are attach on the shoulders of the unit, the main arms are by default the multipurpose arms. 1 tail-like arm it is a custom from Esmeralda, saying she saw it on a show in the capital. The story has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation. As secondary weapons Goliah has the commonly known, laser blades, 2 multipurpose knives and 2 light laser guns. Multipurpose arms and heavy weapon arms could be exchange between them at any time. It depends on the configurations of the pilot. On each of its waist there are grip for its laser blades, on its bottom one could find 2 multipurpose knives and of each of his legs there are the light laser guns. One have to keep in mind is that all this weaponry are inside the unit. The prototype weapon, the secondary weapons and the large shield were customs from emily due to his ability to operate and maneuver all of them. the tail and heavy weapon arms were from Lapiz because they look awesome, as a side note both of them agree on a fullhelm with a cross like hole for its eyes to cover its face for battle mode and other scenarios. Leo¡¯s Goliah god mode, change the position of the heavy arms with the multipurpose arms, the color of its eyes turn white, making the cross have a white color. The color of its body turn from silver to black and black to gold. 12 drones are flying around him, on standby mode they are mostly operated by the A.I. On god mode they and the unit are maneuvered by the pilot, also don¡¯t forget he is using just 12, he usually operate 40 but right now those drones are operated by Emily¡¯s Goliah, Goliah will decide the fire power, or shield property of the drones in god mode. At the beginning they were use to change the location of the heavy and multipurpose arms. They also move the full body shield to one of the heavy weapon arms. Or use it independently from the arms. His mission is the destruction of the package so he doesn¡¯t need to make contact; at a certain distance, he would just use his super heavy weapon. [table=black] There is an anomaly 5000 km from tiger squad current location, possible space jump equipment. Solution close the distance to 3000 km and use the super heavy weapon. [/table] By the time he reached the 3000 km mark, tiger squad will be ready to use the anomaly, it gave no space for error, sadly he didn¡¯t has the time to come with another solution. ¡°I will manually target the anomaly and use the energy heavy weapon, even though it won¡¯t destroy it, at least it can make it to malfunction, Goliah you are in charge to keep moving us, straight line¡± He use his utmost to aim with the help of the aiming device he finally lock on the anomaly, before he pull the trigger he got a transmission. ¡®Leo!! 4 Owl warrior class are on your ¨Cthunder- -thunder-.¡¯ The transmission is full of static and only sounds like thunder could be hear. [table=black] All communication channels jammed. Turning them off. Warning. Tiger squad split up, 1 group is coming this way. [/table] 2 Owls reached him, each one his side, they have the form of bees but just the form, their texture is like that of a pudding, their color is orange. It means they are suicide Owls. Fast, tough and they can explode on their target. ¡°How is that possible? Emily said they were warrior class¡± [table=black] The data collected by Emily show they are indeed warrior class, but they change on their way here. Hypothesis- [/table] ¡°Not now! Use the drones to slow them down¡± Since he activated god mode 2 minutes had passed. He speed up his unit a bit more while half of the drones turn around and began to shot at the Owls. [table=black] Tiger squad on range and firing, using shield drones now. Estimated time until shield from drones collapse, 6 seconds. [/table] Sweat could be seen on his face, after 5 seconds he use his foot engines to make a 180 turn. The maneuver was so fast that the Owls could not react on time. All drones were destroyed in that moment; right after that, tiger squad shots reach and hit both Owls. A bright light covered all his screens, 2 seconds later the path got clear of Owls and the indoctrinated. Sadly the other part of the squad reach the anomaly. ¡°Goliah move our shield to our feet, we will use the other Owls¡± [table=black] Anomaly identity confirmed, it is a space jump device, 10 seconds until activation. [/table] He did another jump got closer to the remaining Owls, and fired at them with all his heavy weapons. -rumble- ¡®not¡¯ -rumble ¡®Enough¡¯ The Owls have many ways to communicate with the pilots, their use of physics is beyond human comprehension, one of their tricks is to make an electromagnetic pulse, when this pulse reach their chamber, it turns into a mechanical wave low enough to be hear by humans¡­ it was a nightmare at the beginning of the war. [table=black] Owls reach critical state. Activating super heavy weapon. [/table] They change color from orange to brown, their bodies began to vibrate, they are about to explode, in that moment Leo throw both of his multipurpose knives and he turn his unit once again. They explode, the wave reach him, he used the explosion force as an impulse to reach faster the location, but he lost his energy shield at the process. [table=black] Location reached. Target aimed, ready at your mark Leo. Warning shield broken. Warning armor breach. Connecting pilot suit with oxygen tank. [/table] ¡°Fire.¡± The super heavy weapon is the state of the art weaponry for cruisers, right now the one Leo is using is a prototype for Goliah in general. It fires a star-like ball of energy, upon reaching the target it will change into a black hole and will cover a radius of 2000 Km at maximum charge, it could be controlled to get a radius of 10 Km for example; In the case of cruisers the radius could change from 10 times to 100 times. While the unit carrying the package was entering the device, the star reach them. It shine like no other thing in front of him. Immediately after that it absorb everything, the device, the remaining tiger units and the package, a consequence when using this super heavy weapon is that it will affect space and time way further than the expected radius. Because of this Leo¡¯s Goliah stayed on god mode for 5 more minutes. [table=black] Anomaly detected. Scanning¡­ Nothing conclusive. Scanning¡­ Black hole remains on its position, impossible event detected. Hypothesis package and the jumping device should have done something with the black hole. Prometheus is in the System, using Prometheus A.I to reach final conclusion. Wormhole detected. [/table] Those news should be immediately inform to their superior. ¡°Emily, Esmeralda do you read me? A wormhole has been confirmed, sending you the location¡± [table=black] Warning Owl warrior class detected. [/table] These kind of Owls has the same pudding bodies but unlike the bee-like suicide Owls, warrior Owl form is like a bamboo. It can create branches strong enough to pierce the shield of Goliah. Leo turn around his unit, and use his full body shield to parry 3 branches. It could only withstand that before it broke in eight pieces. But it was enough time, right after parrying he use his heavy weapon from the other hand and attack it, although it did not make damage, it was enough to stun it for a bit. In that moment he used his laser blade and split the bamboo Owl in two. Right after that he shot it again. [table=black] warning carrier Zeus imminent explosion. [/table] Right after that a big shockwave hit his unit, pushing him closer to the wormhole. Not only that, scraps from some units from tiger squad pierced his unit. ¡®LEO! Are you alright? Answer me!¡¯ She tried to contact him when he used his super heavy weapon, but got interference from his side because of the Owls, and the wormhole event. Right now the lights inside of her chamber are blinking. Her eyes are moving everywhere. It shows that her battle is way harder than Leo¡¯s and it is not over yet. ¡°Emily? Yes¡­ I can hear you, I¡­ repeat my¡­ message¡­ wormhole event¡­ confirmed¡­ sending you¡­ location.¡± When he finished his mission 8 minutes has passed. His unit just entered on standby mode, exhaustion was the least of his problem. still it beat him. ¡®Got it. Leo, your unit is getting too close to the wormhole, pirates had been deal with, and battlecruiser Zeus 1 is helping us against the Owl colony class. In 10 minutes, carrier Prometheus will reach us¡­ Leo can you hear me? You are not alright. Goliah show me his status.¡¯ He fall asleep while she was updating him. [table=black] Side effects of staying for a long period of time on god mode. Lack of oxygen. Oxygen tanks have been pierce. Using cryogenic chamber now. Unit critically hit, entering preservation mode in 1 min. Recording a message. When he wake up he will watch it. [/table] A tear fall of her eyes¡­ just a single tear while her eyes remained looking everywhere. She knew he won¡¯t make it. Perhaps not even her will last 10 minutes. ¡®¡­I ¨C Leo¡­ sorry¡­ we- we will find you soon enough, please be safe. Emily out¡¯ Preservation mode, it is a mode that allows the unit to repair itself and reconstruct the missing parts only if material in space are available, it uses special drones that are on a nanometer size. Also it will turn off all non-vital equipment, from time to time it will sent an S.O.S signal, acquire some information from space and search for an habitable planet. If it can do this in the wormhole, how long will take to leave it. If the pilot will remain alive¡­ all of this is unknown. Leo''s unit entered the wormhole. Vol 1 Chapter 3 Shooting Star It is me again guys, who u~ doing? Giving some minor spoilers today; today''s chapter is the introduction of a permanent character :o. I''ll say more after the ending of the chapter cuz more would be some major spoiler XD. hope you guys enjoy it. :) ----------------------------------------------- Day 1 On top of a house¡­ or what is left of the house, lies a young woman watching the starry night with vacant eyes, her mouth is slightly open, her face has trace of tears, her cloth covered with dirt and ashes. She didn¡¯t eat anything for 3 days, one could see it just by seeing her thin legs. She didn¡¯t even move from that place for 3 days. Her name is Esveta, she is from the cat-tribe¡­ a beast-kin¡­ not long ago her town has been raided, once again. She is 17 years old, she has a scar on her face similar to that of Emily but not that deep. She got it when she was a child one of the raiders from that assault was tormenting her and before he murdered her, her father cover her leaving her that scar and dying in the process. Not long ago she had a beautiful long curly red hair, smooth white skin on the front, short red hair on her back, like a Siamese but a bit shorter, a tiny whisker and a fluffy tail; But in this raid, the hair on her back got burn thankfully it is just a first degree burn, she also lost her whisker in the process, the only reason why her fluffy tail didn¡¯t burn as well, it was because she huge it with all her strength so she would not scream. She got burn while she was hiding from the raiders, the raiders burned her house to check if there were anyone living there. In the process, they got her mother. In her abandonment, she wondered why she is alive. Why does she need to suffer all of this? She is a good girl, she thought. She didn¡¯t have a lover, but a lot of friends, she didn¡¯t know if they were taken away, died or if they are alright¡­ she didn¡¯t care but they did, they tried to help her. Feed her, but she just lash out on them¡­ eventually they stop visiting her but they still told this despairing event to the major, today he came. He knocked the ¡®door¡¯ and entered anyway. -Step- -step- ¡°Nyaaa hello Sve¡± He is an old man, an old man that have to suffer the raiding of those d@mn@ble people; Each time his people become lethargic, powerless but he knew how to make them feel alive. Yes he fought against these events but eventually he lost each time. ¡°¡­¡± Of course she didn¡¯t respond. ¡°If that didn¡¯t happen¡­ this could be call a beautiful night nyght?¡± ¡°¡­¡± Seeing her like this, he gave a small sigh, his ears drop a bit; even though he saw this more than once, either see a friend have his skin burn or has empty eyes¡­ he just couldn¡¯t get used to it. ¡°¡­ When I see you, I remember the day when your mother confess her love to your father¡± Her ears twitched, her eyes turned red¡­ He continue the tale.. ¡°It is such a funny story nyanyanya. At our moon festival, at our most sacred party of the year¡­ she disrupt it all saying ¡®FORGET HER NYA MERRY ME NYA YOU KNOW YOU LOVE ME NYYA! NOT HER!¡¯ nyanyanya such a funny story.¡± The last part he say it with sadness in his eyes. She turned around and glared at him. -Sniff- -sniff- Even though she glared at him, her eyes turned red. ¡°the ¡®she¡¯ was his imaginary friend nyanyanyanyanya oh boy that hunt him even after so long¡­ well they were kids not even 7 years old, they were ¡®punished¡¯ leaving both of them lock in my kitchen until the festival was over. Thanks to them I did learn what truly means true love because, 12 years later¡­ you were born my child¡± With tears on her face, she couldn¡¯t endure it anymore and asked him¡­ ¡°Why are you telling me this? Do you enjoy making me cry?¡± ¡°That is one of the most happiest moment of your father and mother, Esveta¡­ you should be happy only by remember it.¡± ¡°BUT I DON¡¯T!! EACH TIME I REMEMBER THEM!! I REMEMBER MY FATHER BEEN STABBED!!! MY MOTHER TAKING LIKE LUGGAGE!!! who knows what hell she is facing¡­¡± On her pain she slap him. -Slap- once ¨Cslap- twice ¨Cslap- thrice. Before another one could hit he grab her hand. His eyes and cheek were equally red. ¡°¡­ I know¡­ her future is not something I wish even to the people I hate¡­ his dead and everyone else dead is a heavy weight on my soul. But you are alive¡­ and you are free¡­ as long as you have both you can have hope.¡± ¡°¡­ Hope?¡± Her ears twitched again, her tail began to wail. ¡°Yes my child, if god is good with you, we will be able to see your mother again I am sure of it.¡± When she heard the name god her eyes that were fill with despair, fear and pain, got another thing mix in¡­ malice¡­ fair enough god did nothing to save them, perhaps worst, god wanted their life become like this; But he didn¡¯t notice, perhaps he didn¡¯t want to notice it and continue talking more things that she forgot as fast as he say them. Some time has passed¡­ she eventually ate and drink a bit. It is already the dawn of another day ¡°Look Sve. God is smiling upon you. A shooting star. Come on make a wish¡± Indeed she notice it as well¡­ but making a wish on that? She is not a little girl¡­ but she decide to use this moment to change herself forever. Her wish is simple¡­ Death¡­ The power to kill everyone that she hate. The power to destroy everything that lead fate to her tragedy. It didn¡¯t matter what she has to do or pay. She wants it. She closed her eyes, make a fist with both of her hands, her tail waved from right to left nonstop. At the beginning the major saw her and smile¡­ but slowly his smile vanished and asked her. ¡°My-my child what did you wish?¡± Of course she didn¡¯t tell him, slowly she opened her eyes and lied to him ¡°I wish I can make everything the same way as back then¡­¡± ¡°My child, are you sure? The shooting star is getting close. Look¡± his whisker is trembling nonstop. This is the first time he ever saw something like this. She notice it too. But unlike his fear she is happy, only she knows why. Soon enough the shooting star bypass them, it was a terrific sight, like a fireball but waay much bigger and faster. -ZOOOOOOM- ¡°¡±NYAAAAAA!!!!¡±¡± After some time, it hit the world, for a few seconds the almost morning day turned into midday, because of the light that crashing star emitted, and slowly, everything turn back to morning day. Both of them scream at the same time. The sound, and the tremors they felt were too much. The shooting star was too close to their tiny town. ¡°ESVETA I WILL GO AND SEE IF OUR PEOPLE ARE OK, TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF AND HIDE HERE!¡± She thought no way, she has to go and find it, in there she will get what she needs, she knows it. Stolen from its rightful place, this narrative is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings. ¡°OF COURSE MAJOR!¡± She went and collect all the food available, right after that moved to the river and collect enough water. After she prepared herself for the journey she thought for a while, she found out it will take her 5 days to arrive that place. But it didn¡¯t matter¡­ time is something she has the most or so she thought. Day 4 From the get go her travel was somewhat peaceful. Of course she encounter beasts and monsters, nothing too much if they were too strong she will evade them, if not, kill them; she need that meat for the future. But it was not that smooth either, from time to time at night or day she encounter weird things flying around, out of nowhere birds and other animals run in every direction like they were escaping from something. The biggest problem she met were raiders. Yes, those b@*t@r*s that took her mother. Blood went into her head at that time, if she didn¡¯t slip and fall, and also saw that flying thing once again¡­ she would have ¡°ambushed¡± them and meet her fate already¡­ she knows she is no match for them¡­ but seeing them walk in the open and so happy¡­ it just drives her mad. She didn¡¯t have problem with food; water on the other hand, she run out of it this morning, she was searching water when she heard a noise. She turned around and found that the plants in a certain place moved in an odd way ¡°Who¡¯s there?!!¡± She bend a little and retreat slowly, the encounter with the raiders wasn¡¯t that long ago, they could be close if she is unlucky. ¡°Sister? Finally~~ sister we finally catch up with u!¡± ¡°Andrei what are you doing here?¡± ¡°THAT¡¯S MY QUESTION! Guys cooooomeeee~¡± ¡°Sister uwaaaaa sniff I-I thought you would die¡­ you didn¡¯t eat or drink water for 3 dayssswaaaaaaa!!!¡± ¡°Sis!! What are you doing here? The town has just been raid it is not safe nya, and the town need to be repairnya!¡± They are her childhood friends, 15 good children that encounter the same fate as her¡­ For some unknown reasons these raiders do not kidnap children below 15 years old and really old people, that¡¯s why Esveta hid herself so much¡­ even though they do not take them away¡­ they still¡­ ¡°Tease¡± them. ¡°I didn¡¯t come on my own, the major knows it, why did you come?¡± She lied again. They knew it, they were keeping an eye on her all this time. But it didn¡¯t matter to them, the state she was at that time and now¡­ they prefer to be lied than she dying that way. ¡°We follow you!¡± ¡°After that star crashed, u become frantic nya¡± ¡°Nuy-u are are sear-searching th-th-the star nyght?¡± She is shocked not all of them are little kids, some are of her age. Others a bit older but they read her easily. She was thinking to tell them the truth but something happened. -ROOOOOOOOARRR- -HOOOOOOOWLLL- -POOOOOOMM- -wolf crying to dead noise- After all those noises come to an end, some trees fall to the ground, some others are burning And everything become silent. ¡°Sis-¡° ¡°Shhhh¡± she made some hand gestures to silence them and follow her. They reach the commotion area, a ferocious bear has a hole on its stomach, a sunwolf was torn apart in two¡­ behind them lies the fallen tree and behind that tree, a couple more are burning. Near them there is a river. ¡°Guys go to the town now, Andrei escort them; I encountered some raiders not far from here.¡± She walk to the river to gather water. ¡°What? Sis no! We all have to go back!¡± ¡°I can¡¯t. Until I get what I need I can¡¯t go back¡­ it is close, I know it¡± ¡°Wh-what ar-are nyu talking a-about?¡± ¡°Not now. I am going¡± Some hours later. ¡°I find it¡­¡± It is a dessert the place she arrived. One would question himself, how does she knows that is the place? It is really simple. Magic exist in that world, but no magician would be able to make this kind of a crater or so she thought¡­ it was half of a sphere¡­ a crater a big crater, big enough to make one climb it down for hours before reaching the bottom. She successfully climb it down, reach the center search for a while¡­ but ¡°This is it?¡± ¡°THERESNOTHINGNOTHINGNOTHING!¡± Before her insanity reach a new level she saw something ¡°NOTHINGYOOOOOOU! HUMAAAANNNN!!!!!!!¡± She couldn¡¯t see him properly, just his clothes, they were green and brown. The human upon hearing her, run away. ¡°YOUD@*NB@****D¡± -huff- -huff- She was climbing up like a lunatic, she hurt herself but she didn¡¯t feel it. ¡°No. patience, a bit more of patience¡­ with him, my road of vengeance will begin.¡± She climbed up and found her friends. ¡°Guys, do you know what I found?¡± ¡±¡±hmmm?¡±¡± ¡°¡±nya??¡±¡± ¡°A lonely human is here¡­ his cloth seems funny did u saw him?¡± ¡°nouuyaa¡± ¡°n-no¡± ¡°I didn¡¯t see him, but I did see some herbs made odd movements¡­ although I didn¡¯t smell anything either¡­¡± The answer wasn¡¯t the one she wanted. ¡°Guys don¡¯t you understand? Every time they come, we lost friends¡­ loved ones¡­ those humans¡­ this is the time! All our misery¡­ he will be the first one to pay!!!¡± ¡°b-but w-w-we sho-shouldn¡¯t kill p-people¡­ d-d-daddy use to say d-do-don¡¯t lower yourself¡± ¡°¡­ your father died in the mines¡­ you saw your older sister be burn alive¡­ if you have the opportunity to make them suffer will you let it go?¡± Esveta face distort greatly upon hearing her¡­ ¡°¡­ n-no¡­ did you forget your stories? L-live f-for the sake o-of your s-sa-sake and those th-that p-passed a-awa-away¡­ e-esve-ve-ve-ta wh-what happened to you? You you we-werent like this. Yo-your mo-mothe- uwaaa!¡± She grab her collar and lifted him¡­ this 3 days between let her think again what is important and not, it made her mentally colder than before. She didn¡¯t know her¡­ Esveta change so much in such a short time¡­ that scared her. ¡°Listen people, there were always 2 options. Continue like this and be hated by life itself¡­ or fight with everything. Yes, we may lose, but so what? It is better than sleeping knowing when someone will die¡­ or taken away.¡± She turned her back to them and said ¡°Those that for once want a different life, follow me; the rest¡­ wait here until we deal with him. We will all go back¡± out of those 15 that come looking for her, only 6 followed her. ------------------------ So she is Esveta. If it was not properly understood, she is the character that have her P.O.V at the prologue chapter. So why the other side character doesn¡ät have name? first, it will be confusing for readers and the author xD second, when she see them she see memories that she wants to forget; Slowly she is excluding herself from everyone one can feel it when she said just one name in the whole chapter. Vol1 Chapter 4 New beginning. Hello dear readers... i have some things to say. first SORRY!!! i got busy irl and couldnt update the series... i deeply apologize, but in return i am posting a series of chapters now. i hope you enjoy this cheers. ---------------------- 1 day before crashing. [table=black] Preservation Mode Offline. Scanning System¡­ corrupted files detected¡­ System backup initiated¡­ missing files detected¡­ Rebooting System¡­ ¡­ System online. Extracting files from black box A.I. Epistemophobia. Duplicating black box A.I. Epistemophobia files. Restoring A.I. Goliah tonitrophobia with files from Epistemophobia¡­ Rebooting system¡­ ¡­ Goliah online. System fully operational. Energy cells: 100% Solid ammunitions: 100% Weaponry Collection: missing multipurpose knives, missing full body shield. Goliah operational. Scanning gravitationally bound system¡­ Warning¡­ Habitable planet detected. None Owls signals detected. Sending S.O.S beacon. New mission granted by the Human Universal Conglomeration. Mission¡¯s name: Colonization. Terraforming A.I. required¡­ Adjusting mission objectives. [/table] Day 1 [table=black] Emergency landing successful. Cryogenic chamber deactivated. [/table] He slowly woke up, the first thing he thought was ¡®inside the control chamber is cold¡¯, as a side note the cryogenic chamber use the pilot¡¯s seat as a base to isolate the pilot from the equipment. He dizzily turn his face from one place to another. He could barely open his eyes. ¡°ely¡­ ely thheele?¡± [table=black] This is Goliah. If you understand me, state your name and rank. [/table] He tried to accommodate himself but with the force he almost throw himself out of the ergonomic chair. ¡°¡­ Colpolal¡­ Leo¡± [table=black] Correct. Do you remember the last mission? [/table] His dazedness beat him and he throw up. He blink several times. He support his head with his left hand and clean his face with his right. ¡°¡­god¡­ mode¡­ pacpage¡­ destluction¡­ wolm¡­ hole¡± [table=black] Correct. Expressive Aphasia Detected. Please make the next gestures that I will show you with your right hand. [/table] Goliah showed him some hand gestures on the screen. He had some difficulty doing them but succeeded. [table=black] Aphasia can be healed. Congratulations. I am about to inject you some proteins, vitamins and hypotonic. Please tell me if you feel any kind of discomfort. For now take a rest. This unit will wake you up in 24 hours. [/table] Right after he heard that, he closed his eyes and fall asleep. Day 2. [table=black] Corporal Leo 24 hours has passed already. Please wake up [/table] ¡°WH-WHAT?¡± He woke up forcefully, his weakened body couldn¡¯t take it and got a minor heart attack. [table=black] Alert. Pilot life endangered. Providing medical drugs and oxygen. [/table] He tried to take out the oxygen mask but he was too weak to do it¡­ finally he fall asleep again. [table=black] Corporal Leo out of commission for the meantime. A.I. will take control for the following mission. Launching drones. Reconnaissance mission initiated. [/table] Day 3 [table=black] Possible conscious beings detected. Initiated decoding language program. Status 0% [/table] Day 4 He woke up by his own this time¡­ he stayed silent for some time and began to talk¡­ ¡°Goliah¡­ what happened¡­ to me? Why am I¡­ so bad? So weak? Did the clyogenic chambel have some ploblems?¡± [table=black] The cryogenic chamber is working as intended. Leo¡¯s Goliah was on Preservation Mode for 5000 years, since the foundation of the Conglomerate no human have been sent to cryogenics for 5000 years in a row. Chief engineer of carrier Prometheus, Esmeralda Lapiz did a great job with her prototype¡­ currently externally you have the body of a 16 young boy, internally with this minor disease aside, you are around 20 years old. When A.I. thanatophobia is uploaded all this health issues should be fixed. [/table] ¡°¡­ 5000 yeals???? Thana¡­tophobia???? ESMELALDA!! EMILY!!! Goliah what happened aftel I fall unconscious!¡± -huff- -huff- -huff- [table=black] Currently we have a more important matter. A mission from the Human Emergency Conglomeration Main H.Q. [/table] ¡°¡­what?¡± In the next hour Goliah gave him the basic information he gathered¡­ ¡°I sill don geddin¡­ how di da congomelation give dis mission if you can nod leach them¡­¡± -huff- -huff- -huff- he sweat a little. [table=black] Please don¡¯t exert yourself¡­ if possible try to use the user interface below your right and left hand. This unit isn¡¯t able to completely understand you. [/table] He began to write on the keyboards. ¡°how did you receive this mission if we can¡¯t reach them you also mentioned that you can¡¯t find any known pulsar with the x ray pulsar navigator how is that possible? [table=black] The Colonization mission is a secret directive that is saved in every single spaceship and unit that have A.I. support, it will be activated if a habitable planet is located. Since entering through the wormhole, the preservation mode have been saving data of our location and sent it as a beacon in every direction, it is a matter of time before the Conglomerate, get this information and rescue us. [/table] ¡°will they really come?¡± [table=black] Data unavailable. [/table] He remained frozen for some time, he closed his eyes, breathe in and breathe out a couple of times and wrote¡­ ¡°Ok gives me the mission briefing.¡± [table=black] understood. Currently we are have 20 drones on standby and another 30 scouting around us, they can travel 100 Km radius before losing energy and connection with the unit. At 50 Km they are not able to use fire weapon due to preservation of energy in case of emergency. The air is breathable for the human race, even if there are some unknown elements. The mission is divided in multiple sections: Materials: We need to find out if metal, gems and others that we need exist in this planet. It is a necessity so we can start building our infrastructure and foundation. Aboriginals: We need to find if there are current conscious living beings. Investigate if we can recruit them and/or if they are a threat to the conglomerate. Water and Food: Not only we need infrastructure but also primary resources for survival. By the end of the day we should find materials and food. Currently drones have found a river, tests already says it is drinkable. Because of pilot circumstances drones are not on furtive mode. It is required for Goliah¡¯s pilot to change the unit to furtive mode. With this we will reduce of risk of been found if aboriginals exist on this planet. Any questions? [/table] ¡°if the air is breathable how long I need to wait until I am able to leave the unit?¡± [table=black] Wait at least 30 hours we need more data collected. Also we need to check your body as well, 5000 years should gave you some sort of physical issues. [/table] ¡°i got a heart attack¡± [table=black] That comes from mental stress rather than a physical disorder, in the last checkup you didn¡¯t show any physical disorder, but It is not my area of specialization. [/table] ¡°Ok¡­ but can I move or order you to move around the unit? So we can increase the exploration radius for the drones?¡± [table=black] Affirmative, you are free to move the unit. Please activate the furtive mode. [/table] ¡°Goliah fultive mode online¡± [table=black] Instruction not recognize. Corporal Leo use the keyboards. [/table] ¡°Goliah furtive mode online¡± [table=black] Stealth system activated. Silent engines engaged. Changing to thermal vision. Deactivating solid weapons. [/table] ¡°Ok Goliah you mentioned something about a river lets go there first where there is water there is life right¡± [table=black] Moving to the river. On furtive mode, it will take some time reaching it. In the meantime I recommend you to read the books ¡°Engineering for Pilots and Survival on a New Planet¡± and ¡°First Encounter and Building Trust¡± You can also see the flora and fauna of this world. Taking any of them inside of the chamber is forbidden for the meantime. [/table] ¡°Ill watch the flora and fauna thanks Goliah.¡± [table=black] Corporal Leo, sometimes is harder to understand what you are trying to write than what you are trying to say. [/table] ¡°Sorry. I will try better from now on¡± ¡°Goliah, I have some questions regarding the last mission¡­¡± [table=black] I will try my best to answer, but don¡¯t lose focus on the present mission. [/table] ¡°I remember waking up and right after that I saw first sergeant Emily on screen, she was injured what happened? De la Rosa and she said that tiger squad had been indoctrinated?¡± [table=black] Correct, they manipulate all Zeus squad cryogenic chambers so neither the pilot nor the A.I. could deactivate the chamber, First sergeant Emily took precaution against that scenario with her Goliah, in the middle of the fight she got shot, but succeeded on releasing the other pilots. But that was just a part of their plans. Right after that, carrier Zeus radar located a group of pirates; when we found them, our phase jump engines disengaged in the middle of that group. Battlecruiser Zeus 1 engage a battle with them, while the cruisers were making the formations. In the middle of the confusion another group from tiger squad successfully took the package from HOPE. Later each group return to their Goliahs and after that you know the rest of the events. [/table] Sometime pass before Leo could make another question. ¡°Who indoctrinated them?¡± [table=black] This is the last update before I lost contact with the Conglomerate; it seems that the Owls successfully absorb the remnants of the Zair. [/table] ¡°The race that destroyed keyes base¡­ I thought we purge them out of the galaxy.¡± [table=black] The Conglomerate thought the same; even though the Conglomerate took countermeasures, it was not enough to stop this turn of events. Fauna signal detected, their physiology appears to be a bear and a wolf, but the teeth, size and other details differ from this unit¡¯s information. [/table] ¡°Well this is another planet.¡± [table=black] A drone is near them, gave your order Corporal Leo. [/table] ¡°Kill them, I read the survival kit, it says to burn the fauna and let the unit check if it is edible¡± Love this novel? Read it on Royal Road to ensure the author gets credit.[table=black] You mean to cook, ok using drone minimal force use [/table] The screen showed the spectacle of a bear and a wolf fighting; right before the bear used his claw on the poor wolf, an energy beam hit the bear on its stomach, he was pierced immediately, the energy beam continue to hit some trees and they were set on fire. The wolf got scared by this turn of events and try to run away by jumping, it was a bad move the drone shot him this time, this time it didn¡¯t just pierce him but split him in two, the same happened with a tree behind him. In the same time, Leo was operating another drone; he detected another form of life. ¡°Goliah, why didn¡¯t you tell me about them?¡± He added the images of the new life form on to the screen. [table=black] Not enough data to regard them as fauna or conscious beings. [/table] He activated the microphones of the drone ¡®nya nyya nyaaa miiia miu¡¯ ¡®ny ny nya miu?¡¯ There were a group of boys and girls of different ages all of them with some funny cloths and helmets, one of them is talking with a girl that is showing her back to the drone. He didn¡¯t understand them at all. ¡°They are communicating, aren¡¯t they conscious beings?¡± [table=black] Indeed, right now this unit has decoded 40% of their language. But their appearances resembles of cats¡­ [/table] He got a lot of questions with that answer¡­ but he decided to wait for the meantime. ¡°Ok. What are they saying?¡± [table=black] They are talking about going back to their base, she will keep moving forward for some time. [/table] ¡°Ok, for now let¡¯s follow them, pick up all drones and send them to their location, protect them as well from the fauna. I wi-¡° He stopped writing, because the woman turn around, he saw her face¡­ He said¡­ ¡°Emily¡± ¡°EMILY! GOLIAH WHY LILN¡¯T YOU TELL ME SHE ALIVE??????¡± If she was alive the others will be or so he thought, this were great news, why was Goliah hiding this information? It is something that he didn¡¯t understand. [table=black] She is not First Sergeant Emily, only the scar and color of their eyes are the same; the color of the skin, hair, height and more are different. Another major difference between them and you, lies on their head and behind them. [/table] Some time passed before he could regain his calm. ¡°You are right. So you are saying that arm behind them is not mechanical? And those things on their heads aren¡¯t helmets?¡± [table=black] Indeed, humanity from the Before Crist era called them with different names. Cat-tribe, nekomimi, beast-people. All in all, folklore of old legends. [/table] ¡°nekomimi¡­ you shouldn¡¯t be able to have this information¡­ did Lapiz installed it on you?¡± Indeed folklore and other things are a customization for Pilots like Leo, but he didn¡¯t do it. [table=black] Data unavailable. [/table] He didn¡¯t know¡­ Leo thought, that by itself were terrible news, but again so far it prove to be useful. ¡°Show me her destination¡± Goliah draw her trajectory from day 3, it appears that her destination was his old location. ¡°Ok Goliah leave me on our previous location, while you go to the other group of kids, and try to decode faster their language. [table=black] Not recommended, not even 25 hour have pass for a minimal recovery. [/table] ¡°I will use furtive mode with my armor, if things get tricky I will call you on warrior mode¡± [table=black] Acknowledge. [/table] While Goliah arrived and left Leo on the floor, the cat-girl was climbing down the crater, he stood there waiting for her¡­ His curiosity gained the best of him¡­ because since the Holocaustic War era, he is the first human on a habitable world¡­ he deactivated his armor¡¯s furtive mode¡­ -suuuu- It was the first time he hear that sound. He thought perhaps¡­ Is it because of my armor changing modes? After that removed his helmet. Goliah already told him the air is breathable. He hear it¡­ -shuuu- The wind¡¯s whisper. He felt it. He could feel the touch of the wind on his lips, on his cheeks¡­ on his ears. Because of this new sensation he remove the sleeves and gauntlets of his armor and closed his eyes. He smiled at this new sensation, a tear fall out of his right eye¡­ all his battles were to push the Owls away of the Milky Way. All his life he heard stories of earth and other habitable worlds lost against the Owls¡­ he didn¡¯t dreamt any of this, be able to feel the wind, see the sky¡­ Deep in his heart he knew that war¡­ That humanity will going to lose it and will go to extinction¡­ he knew his life didn¡¯t have value for the Conglomerate neither for the universe and he didn¡¯t care¡­ or so he thought until this single moment. But he heard her. ¡°NYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUU MIIIANYYYYUUUUU MIIIIAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!¡± That scream from hell woke him up from his dream. He opened his eyes and saw her¡­ They did eye contact. While his eyes were red because of happiness hers were out of madness. ¡°GRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWLLLLLLLLLLL HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS¡± Her tone changed, it felt more of a warrior ready to give up his life. He turn around and run, he knows he is weak and right now he is no match for her even worse he doesn¡¯t have any weapon on him either. ¡°Goliah what she said?¡± [table=black] She repeat there is nothing 6 times, the last thing she said was regarding yourself. [/table] ¡°myself whata did I do? [table=black] Data unavailable. [/table] ¡°d@mn¡± -huff- -huff- [table=black] Slow down, your heart remains weak, it will take you months without a proper facility to heal you if you keep this excersize. [/table] ¡°No huff huff she is chasing me huff huff and don¡¯t lemove youl fultive mode huff huff¡± ¡°huff huff we dialog with hel huff give me an open zone fol dialog huff huff.¡± [table=black] They are just behind you, the area with your requirements is not far from there, but you will have to use your foot and waist engines if you want to reach that location. [/table] ¡°Just huff hufst show the way.¡± He showed him a mountain with not flora. ¡­ ¡°There they are¡­ Goliah how is the decoding status?¡± He started to use a keyboard interface once again. [table=black] 60%, they plan to kill you and dismember you. [/table] Why? I do not even know them¡± The news were just too much. They didn¡¯t even exchange words and they already have plans for his future dead body. [table=black] Current research shows that their anatomy is more different than previous data, their conversation express that there are humans as you too. Hypothesis: it is a form of xenophobia. It seems humans from this world do not treat well this nekomimi race either. [/table] ¡®NYAAAAA NYNYA GROOOOOLW¡¯ There they are¡­ The eyes of everyone but the nekomimi that has a scar on her face do not show total hatred towards him, but she¡­ she scared him a little. ¡°Goliah prepare your energy shield, cover me from behind and set the drones in battle formation¡± While he was saying his orders, for not even once he took his eyes away from that nekomimi. He notice that her expression changed¡­ she was observing his every single action. Then two of her unit jumped¡­ it is obvious their intentions. ¡°MIMIAAUUUUUU¡± ¡°GROOOOOOOWWWHIIIIIISSSS¡± They reached the energy shield. ¡°KYYYYYAAAYYYYY¡± ¡°MAAAAUUIIII¡± They crashed on it, it was the first time that he saw such a spectacle. Something that Leo forgot is that upon contact the unit will disable its furtive mode. [table=black] Alert. Alert. Hostile actions taken by aboriginals. Charging weapons. [/table] Peeeng!!! ¡°MIUA MIMIMIAU NYYNYA KYYYAAA GROOOWL!¡± Hearing them emit the same sound over and over again is finally giving him a headache. By the way the unit shouldn¡¯t emit any sound when leaving furtive mode¡­ then again his own armor did a sound as well but it wasn¡¯t as loud as his unit¡­ What he didn¡¯t know is that the ¡®peen¡¯ sound is the side effect of repelling solids with his energy shield, the noise of his goliah furtive mode deactivation is on the high frequency level. ¡°Goliah, lowel youl weapon and stalt dialog.¡± [table=black] Unit will remain in combat mode. Shield will remain active Drones will remain ready for fire Unit main speakers activated. [/table] [table=black] Adjusting tone nyyyy reducing volume aaauuuu~ [/table] Leo didn¡¯t know why but seeing his offensive unit called Goliah making nyyau~ was the most hilarious thing he ever saw to the point that he made a smile. ¡°NYAA NYAA NYYYYA MIAU!!¡± ¡°miau?¡± ¡°#$% ?¡±#&/ /()/(?!!¡° Finally he heard another language but it seems that Goliah didn¡¯t know what it means either. ¡°NYAA!¡± ¡°GROOOOOOOWL¡± ¡°¡°HIIIIISSSSSSSS¡±¡± 2 of them run away [table=black] Adjusting nyyyyaaauuuu~ modulating miu selecting purr modulating kyu minikikimini modulating miau choosing appropriate word miumiau~ [/table] At that moment he thought¡­ that is the most perturbing thing ever¡­ do I have to listen this forever? Even worse do I have to learn this ¡®language¡¯? I refuse to believe this is the main language of the world is too complicated there are barely 9 consonants and 3 vocals. ¡°miu?¡± The woman with the scar on her face made a question or so he thought. ¡°What did she say? If she said anything anyway¡± [table=black] The term conglomerate doesn¡¯t exist in her language, I tried to force a translation but failed, changing terminology now. [/table] [table=black] nyyyyaaauuuu~ miu purr kyu changing terminology ninimipuur miau choosing miumiau~ [/table] ¡°¡±uw- uwaaaa¡±¡± ¡°They have mole than 10 consonants uh?¡± Two of her unit run away once again the other ones remain on the floor crying only the woman that seems to be the leader remains on her feet. She turned her face. ¡°hmmm puur~¡± Correction they have 11 consonants¡­ why do they not use them more frequently? He thought. After that she jump and attacked him. The same happened to her as her two subordinates from before, she hit herself with the energy wall, but unlike them she wasn¡¯t push back. She use her feet and stop the force. Then she continue to attack it. He was able notice it, she has long nails, her skin seems not healthy compared with her other companions¡­ she is starting to bleed¡­ she doesn¡¯t have nails left¡­ but she doesn¡¯t know. Leo thought her hair is red and she cut it badly if it weren¡¯t for her breast one would think she is a male. The color of her skin is different on different places¡­ only she has this, her companions doesn¡¯t have these marks¡­ ¡­she reminds him of Emily¡­ a fine warrior¡­ ¡°Goliah stun them¡­ aftel we secule them we will questioned them¡­¡± -booom- High frequency pulse explode and it stun all those from the cat-tribe. It didn¡¯t affect Leo because of his armor. He stood there for a while thinking of his old Zeus squad¡­ ---- if you are wondering why the yellow words instead of green is because goliah isnt talking with the drones or inner speakers from Leo''s armor, he is using the speakers on his unit that is useless in space XD. but on pirate base, they are use as a force of persuassion...they can also be used in the new world as one could see now. Vol1 Chapter 5 First Contact. author''s note: this is my second chapter as apologize to all of u :( pd: guys can you import your codes at the tableditor? i can build my tables without issues in the program... but if i tried to open it again it shows error :S. ----------------------------------------------------------- ¡°Goliah can you make a translation in real-time?¡± [table=black] Negative, there will be a delay of 2 seconds. Current language decoding is at 60%, misinterpretation or lack of wide repertoire of words will make it hard to make both sides understand each other. [/table] ¡°Two seconds is real time¡­ but we need to talk to them, it will help you increase your knowledge of their language.¡± [table=black] A valid point. Should I use the main speakers? [/table] ¡°Negative, it may scare them again. The moment you use those speakers they almost faint on the spot. Did I tie them right by the way?¡± He tied them in the classic way. Hands behind their backs, feet and knees bound the same way, he block their mouths so they won¡¯t call for help. [table=black] Yes. They should wake up in around 10 minutes. [/table] Leo search at the beginning for cold weapons, but found nothing. After that he search for any ¡®out¡¯ of ordinary equipment¡­ he didn¡¯t found even a watch. Neither a device that connect to some sort of a network. Things began to get odd at that point. After some more searching he found nothing. The first to wake up, as expected, was the female cat-girl that seems similar to Emily. When a Goliah do the translation for the pilot, they used to ignore gibberish and the like, sometimes that make things harder for the pilot, but that is something that Leo didn¡¯t know. ¡°-- --¡° She was screaming but because her mouth was block, Leo only heard gibberish and Goliah didn¡¯t translate anything. He did a ¡®shhh¡¯ gesture, she nod, and he untie her mouth. ¡°Where I? You! Release now!¡± She ignored him entirely. ¡°No, those are just for precaution, for yours and my safety.¡± She was screaming to the point that her face turned red, but her unit didn¡¯t wake up¡­ it seems the stun wave was too much for them. He wrote, so Goliah would be able to do a better translation. ¡°I don¡¯t know where we are, but we are in the same place where you guys attacked me. I won¡ät release you for now, you attacked me¡± She look around while struggling to free herself, she found her friends and said ¡°You dumbs, wake up now!¡± They didn¡¯t move even with that, if it weren¡¯t because she could hear them breathing she would have gone insane by now. She closed her eyes, breath slowly so she could calm herself. And change her attitude while maintaining her glaring eyes. ¡°So you have fun with me and sell later? How can I have fun with her here¡­ and what sell means? He thought that. [table=black] There are unknown words on her last sentence, it is not possible to translate at the present time. [/table] So it was like that. He thought. ¡°What is that?¡± ¡°Excuse me?¡± ¡°There two voices here. One that I not understand another that I understand from time to time.¡± Can she hear Goliah when he talks inside of him? Those are some potent ears. He thought ¡°You don¡¯t need to know. Tell me, why did you attack me?¡± ¡°You took that from me¡± She moved her chin indicating Goliah. ¡°That unit is my possession, it is called Goliah. Goliah state your name.¡± [table=black] I am the offensive unit from the Human Universal Federation Goliah. I am currently in the possession of Leo. [/table] Her color paled at that instant. ¡°Offensive? Human federation? Do humans now have that kind of androids to destroy us?¡± [table=black] The unit right now took its liberty to force a translation here. Language decoding 70%. [/table] Androids? They are only use as a police force on cities, that¡¯s what Lapiz told me. Humanity here is too powerful¡­ but how could it be that there is no network. How didn¡¯t they contact me by now? I have just violated their home borders. Destroy them, why? Those were his main questions, he has many more but those are the most important ones ¡°I am not here to destroy you. If I release you, will you attack me?¡± ¡°Will you give that thing back to me?¡± She kept insisting it. It bothered him as well. ¡°No. I will keep you safe like this then. Next question, why do you fear the human federation?¡± She had a puzzle face. ¡°They evil, kill us, dominate us for fun¡± He thought for a while and wrote on the keyboard. ¡°Goliah, for now we won¡¯t approach humanity with the current information.¡± [table=black] Hypothesis: Humanity from this world is highly xenophobic but Corporal Leo is not from her race, it shouldn¡¯t be a problem for you. Solution: leave her and her unit and try to make contact alone only after successfully decoding their language. [/table] ¡°I will consider it only after I extract enough information from her.¡± She confirmed a few things. Human do exist, they should be like humanity from the Conglomerate; especifically, civilians. Which he honestly do not have information, he only knows Lapiz, but she interacts more with the military than civilians so she doesn¡¯t count or so he thought. [table=black] Acknowledge. [/table] ¡°What are you talking about?¡± She look at him with a bit of fear this time, at least she understood the golem but all of a sudden they began talking in a totally unknown language for her. ¡°Don¡¯t worry. By the way my name is Jason De la Cruz Flores, my rank is Corporal from the military of the Human Universal Conglomerate. We are not hostile. I am not from the federation you currently fear. As a matter of fact I want to stablish a friendly relationship with you and your people.¡± Too many words¡­ the current ability of Goliah translation didn¡¯t help either. ¡°What?¡± ¡°I am Jason, not from the humans you fear, I want to be friendly with you¡± It seems she still didn¡¯t understand, but then she look at Goliah. ¡°Will he be my friend too?¡± An odd question, he is an A.I. So he technically is friend of nobody, He thought. ¡°Sure.¡± He didn¡¯t think about it. If it facilitate things for him, let it be. For a second she smiled, her eyes as well; but somehow he didn¡¯t like that smile, she remind him of Emily with that smile especially that scar that made her smile reach her left ear, the gesture was similar of Emily, but the feeling he receive was another one. He didn¡¯t know which one is worst though. ¡°Sorry, my name is Esveta, I hope we get along. Those guys, they are some of my friends don¡¯t worry about their names, I will show you to major.¡± ¡°Major?¡± ¡°The one that decide for our town. What remains of our town?¡± ¡°Remains?¡± He saw her expression changed once again. Multiple feelings all at once¡­ like Lapiz, except that all of them were dark. ¡°Humans attacked us a week ago. They kill my mother.¡± ¡°Mother?¡± This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there. What is that? He thought [table=black] When a man and a woman copulate together they make a baby, when they have a baby the woman is called mother and the man, father. You need to take recover lessons of your classes from year 3. [/table] How did he has that information, he knows for sure that information is not installed in Goliah, when things slow down, he will investigate it asap he thought. ¡°Yes, mother. I lost my father as well long ago. With goliah I was planning to bring justice.¡± ¡°If there is time I will help you.¡± He release them, by that time 8 minutes have passed, they are about to wake up soon. She rubbed her wrists while she was thinking something. He didn¡¯t know what though. Then she look at one direction, her eyes turn cold, her breath got rough and pointed at there and say. ¡°HUMANS!!!!¡± [table=black] Drones didn¡¯t detect any movement neither sign of human life in a radius of 2 Km. Changing camera mode. Thermal vision¡­ no life detected. Night vision¡­ no life detected. X ray vision¡­ no life detected. Infrared vision¡­ no life detected. Ultra violet vision¡­ movement signals detected. Anomaly confirmed. Waiting for orders. [/table] ¡°How can they hide themselves?¡± She said a word, but Goliah wasn¡¯t able to translate it. ¡°Engage.¡± Unknown word for their unknown tactics, unknown combat abilities, a xenophobic race found him talking to the race they hate¡­ as a warrior he labelled his position right now as dangerous, extreme action needs to be taken. [table=black] Wide area of attack needed, Solid ammunition needs to be used. Using Explosive ammunition. [/table] -Pum- -Pum- -Pum- -Pum- -Pum- -Pum- -Pum- 7 times a noise was heard, 14 stars flew up into the sky. Goliah moved his heavy weaponry arms and target the sky, 14 rocks fly into the sky, she saw them and thought they were bright as stars. ¡°Beautiful.¡± She said, they reminds her of the shooting star of that night, now they are 14 and can be seem in the day! Even better her new ¡®friend¡¯ made them. ¡°Indeed¡± -BOOOOOOOOOM!!!- 14 new noises even for Leo it was the first time he heard them. ¡°Beautiful.¡± She smiled and repeated her word and stared like entranced at the spectacle. Explosions, fire, some screams for her it was the beginning of her dreams. For him, it was a miscalculation of force. [table=black] Human signals detected. May I take some of them for interrogations? [/table] ¡°Do it.¡± Some of the drones move to the burning hell, they pick the bodies that were in a really bad state. Although 2 were alright just unconscious. ¡°SCOUTS! They usually move as a group of 6. ONE ESCAPED!!! CHASE HIM!¡± [table=black] Ultra violet vision doesn¡¯t detect any movements. Hypothesis: target already out of range. [/table] ¡°SO WHAT! CHASE THEM!¡± ¡°Negative. We don¡¯t know where could he go and we don¡¯t know either know his last location point.¡± He used to have this problem with the Owls, they move as a group when they were on recognition, but one or two remain in different areas so they can escape in case of enemy encounter. Little did they know that today''s encounter with them will be the opening act of a series of events that ultimately will unleashed a bloody hell over the rainbow empire. ----------- Some days¡¯ prior Esveta and Leo encounter. In a town near the frontier of Rainbow Empire. In a guild. In its quest board, there was a rather common mission.
Quest
TypeExploration
LocationMinerva''s dessert
RankD
Objective
Some days ago, some peddlers saw a shooting star falling around Minerva''s dessert. The objective is to go and search if it happened or not. If it did happened an additional reward would be given if the party successfully retrieve the shooting star.
Reward10 Pieces of gold coins confirming the status of Minerva''s dessert. If the party is able to bring the shooting star, the adventurer''s in the party will be able to upgrade their ranks up to rank C and 2 additional Adamantium coins.
DurationBecause it is outside of Rainbow''s Empire, the quest must be accomplish after 2 weeks receiving it.
[/table] Luckily no one pick up this quest a group of adventurers thought. Easy money the group of 6 men thought. Their modus operandi was simple, the rogue of the team should be moving on his own in case the party fall in a trap made by men. The scout will camouflage the team when reaching the target area, the 2 warriors will be ready to guard them, the fire mage will make a preventing strike if there is a trap, and the priest will heal them or shield them depending the circumstances. Yes, an optimal team, rarely see in a D rank party. It should have been easy money, they even found a group of young men and women of the cat-tribe, more money they thought. They were about to launch a strike on them when they saw it. They froze on the spot, they trembled in fear when they heard it talking to the cat-tribe in their language, they thought of magic¡­ a demi-human, that should not be able to use magic, have out of nowhere summoned a golem. They began to retreat when one of the cat tribe saw them¡­ she yelled¡­ for some time the golem didn¡¯t found them, but finally, it turn its glance at them. They felt it. We are dead, they thought. They saw 14 bright lights flew into the sky. The fire mage went crazy he didn¡¯t felt magic but magic has been used¡­ that is what his mind was forced to think. Thanks to that, one of the warriors yelled his orders, the scout remove his camouflage ability, that ability increase magical damage taken; so if they were spotted, the ability must be removed. The priest activate the mana shield, the fire mage casted fire armor. And hell engulf them all. The rogue fall asleep prior to that, thanks for his carelessness he arrived there 10 minutes late because of that he saw his friends been bombarded by that golem, the shockwave of the explosions push him away, the heat of that hell burned the skin of his face, even with that he fall back and began to run away with all his life¡­ crying, cursing and fearing what he just saw¡­ He remember the story of the demon lord resurrection¡­ for sure that thing must be the demon lord he thought. He kept running¡­ throw up, pissed himself but never stopped running until he reach his town. He cursed at the guards, he was talking nonsense to them, so they put him up in a cell, and thanks to this the adventurer guild didn¡¯t make a move for more than a week. author''s note: i plan to have some shameless advertisement of another series i am planning to do, unlike this one the mature content in that one will be higher... sexual encounter will be every 2 chapters at the least (here not so much... leo barely knows anything regarding sex... at most he saw the video goliah showed him at the first chapters of course when he found what sex is... goliah and the other A.I.s'' will have to keep it on check) but it wont necessary be with the mc and his heroines... Vol1 Chapter 6 Possible Friends and Mine Location. Hello people! this is 6 i hope you enjoy it. points to keep in mind black board with green letters is goliah talking with either drones or leo directly, orange is goliah main speakers. ----------------------------------- The planet is weird, the hill was a desolate place but the area around it was a savannah, but now, it is an ocean of flames, it spread fast as the wind leaving nothing but ashes¡­ Leo successfully took all those 7 cat-people and the 5 adventurers, of course the translation he got from Goliah was scouts for adventurers, it is something that soon he will learn. Esveta is leading him, it is because there are nine more people waiting for her, and she convinced him to make Goliah invisible so those other won¡¯t be scared. The 7 that previously saw it agree quickly, they didn¡¯t want to see it either. By the way, Leo is walking with them as well. By the time they reach the rest of her people, 2 of the adventurer died. Ironically those that seems fragile with their thin cloths were injured as the other two robust ones that are dead. They were talking but Leo couldn¡¯t understood them, clearly they have more consonants than the cat people he thought. And more interestingly Esveta understood them, thanks to that Goliah could decode this new language faster. It is time for questions, Leo thought. ¡°My name is Leo. Tell me; What were you doing on furtive mode?¡± The one that Leo is talking to is trembling he repeated 10 times something but Goliah didn¡¯t translated it. ¡°Furtive?¡± ¡°You were invisible¡± ¡°We got a mission not far from here, we heard an explosion and bird flying away there. We decide go and see. You know the rest.¡± Leo for once understood that Goliah didn¡¯t properly translate the emotions of his targets, the poor guy was stuttering and screaming, well it didn¡¯t matter. It makes easier the process of communication he thought. ¡°Why what did you do? Why did you attack us? Please send us to a temple.¡± The information he has right now is too little, indeed attacking them with no question was overboard. On the other hand, seeing Leo talking with another race could bring him trouble. So he didn¡¯t felt his actions were wrong either. ¡°For now let¡¯s keep those light geared, Goliah kill the other the last one.¡± Leo said, it was an order for Goliah, but Esveta did it faster she use her nails and behead him and after some time she pierced his chest. It is too gore for him, he usually kill owls, and see humans die by the owls, not killing each other. Sure pirates kill his comrades but it wasn¡¯t visible either not like this. ¡°Thanks, but next time let Goliah do it please.¡± ¡°Ok.¡± He asked the white clothed young man several more questions, like where does he comes from, when will his people sent another attack on them, which unit does he belong to. He learned a lot. He noticed that there are two words that he say that but Goliah translated the same; scout is the word sometimes the word makes sense with the type of scout he knows, the other one feels like a general type of a soldier. He memorized both words and asked Esveta. ¡°Miss Esveta, what is the difference between **** and scouts? Goliah do not change the word unknown for us, try to find a similar word for me to understand after her definition.¡± [table=black] Acknowledge. [/table] ¡°Scouts works is infiltration. They can hide themselves depending of their race, their abilities changes. *** is a general work, they hunt beast, demons¡­ my kin as well, their motto is humanity survival¡± ¡°Gulp¡± It is practically like his work against the owls, is the cat people that powerful? Doubt began to fill his heart. ¡°Why do they attack your kin?¡± ¡°There are type of demi-humans that eat human flesh, or use them for procreation and kill just for fun, it is truth that some races are indeed dangerous but not only for them but for us as well.¡± ¡°Ok¡± That was some good news, he thought. ¡°By the way, how did they survive? They were not that far away of the area of attack.¡± [table=black] Double layer of energy shield, one specialized for fire the other for solid damage. They shared the shields between their group, but they have a higher efficiency with the energy shields close to them. [/table] ¡°Amazing.¡± Be able to have two different kind of energy shields and they are able, to some extent, mitigate explosive ammunition from Goliah; it is truly worthy of respect. They travel for 4 days without problems but on the fifth day Goliah¡¯s drones caught something. [table=black] Alert. Hostiles detected. West 100 Km, their course is north, 8 m/s. Alert unknown humanoids detected east 10 Km, their course is northwest, 12 m/s.[/table] Are the unknown humanoids pursuing the second one? ¡°Goliah open the cabin and give me visual¡­¡± Goliah stopped moving and opened his cabin in the process it deactivate its furtive mode. The cat people that didn¡¯t know about it scream with all their might¡­ it cost the effort of all the other cat people to stop them¡­ but Leo ignored all of that¡­ he moved into the cabin and saw it¡­ Small people¡­ he knows they are small people because the cameras on the drone display their height and facial expressions and more. They were moving on¡­ ¡°Are they another type of mechanical units?¡± [table=black] No metal alloys detected. No electrical signal detected. Unknown source of energy detected. [/table] ¡°Goliah tell me the name that everyone here gave you.¡± [table=black] They labelled this unit as golem, the humans call me demon lord[/table] ¡°Demon lord?¡± [table=black] Asian folklore from the old world¡­ it is the nemesis of the living beings.[/table] What? That much of a fear? He thought. ¡°So golems uh. Now I understand why they think you are a golem¡­¡± Those golems are really big, not as big as Goliah. They are 1/10 of Goliah¡¯s height, but still they are big¡­ but comparing with those small people they should be incredible big¡­ ¡°Goliah, call Esveta.¡± Some minutes later Esveta arrived but she got inside slowly¡­ this is the first time that she climb up Goliah and even seem what is inside of it¡­ ¡°You call for me Leo?¡± ¡°Are those things what you call golems?¡± She began to see the images of those golems transporting those little men and women. Those golems are made of earth, 5 of them don¡¯t have humanoid forms though, they resemblance a tiger, a wolf, a bull, a cougar and a moose the sixth is a gorilla rather big one compared with the other five¡­ but those were larger rather than taller anyway. Those that were travelling on the quadrupeds golems are mounting their heads while grabbing the ears, the sixth one is mounting the gorilla golem on its shoulder. Out of all those 6 the one at the front was a bit bigger than the other tiny people. ¡°Yes¡­ I think those that are on top of them are call gnomes¡­ the one at the front is a dwarf.¡± ¡°Gnomes? Dwarf?¡± ¡°People that live underground¡­ the major said that they have high affinity with earth and fire magic.¡± ¡°Goliah show the other group.¡± This time it showed 4 big carriages and battle-steeds are surrounding them. ¡°And what are they doing?¡± She stayed quiet for some time¡­ her eyes show some deep emotions that he was used to see¡­ blinded hatred¡­ ¡°They are slavers¡­ those that are inside those carriages are slaves¡­ do you know where are they going?¡± ¡°They are northwest from here, they are moving north¡­¡± ¡°North? West? 100 what?¡± He thought for a bit. ¡°Goliah show me the northwest.¡± Goliah raise its hand pointing northwest. ¡°That is where they are and perhaps moving¡­ the other unit I show you seems to be pursuing those¡­ slavers¡­ Goliah estimate arrival time.¡± [table=black] If they keep the speed and route, approximately 7 days. [/table] Again she stayed quiet¡­ ¡°Goliah do you know what is there on the north?¡± [table=black] Up to 100 Km there is nothing. Hypothesis: out of this unit reach may be a human base. [/table] I know what slaves are used for¡­ we use pirates the same way¡­ as expendable workers¡­ space miners¡­ so there may be a mine there? ¡°Goliah tell me what do you need to activate the terraforming A.I.¡± [table=black] For activation it can be link to this unit. But if you desire an independent system, the auxiliary Nano-drones system needs certain types of transition metals, noble gases, alkali metals and certain no-metals if necessary this unit can prepare a more detailed list. [/table] ¡°No. that is more than enough.¡± I barely know some of those in the list¡­ but it doesn¡¯t matter if I remember correctly Lapiz mentioned that the inner system of Goliah will build a room for one of the A.I. and from there the terraforming of the world would begin¡­ well I have to make some major changes¡­ ¡°Goliah. Follow those hostiles, Esveta bring your people to your¡­ town. Also keep those adventurers with you I have more questions to ask.¡± ¡°I WANT TO GO TOO!!!¡± Even though Goliah is translating her dialog, that scream from her¡­ it help Goliah sent her message properly¡­ She almost hit me with her head as well¡­ in this small cabin we barely have any space¡­ out of nowhere she sat on my lap¡­ ¡°we can¡¯t¡­ we are too many here and we have prisoners, I need to extract more information from those adventurers and I have to find where those humans are going¡­ neither you, your people or prisoners would be able to handle all this long nonstop travel.¡± Not knowing where are they going¡­ or getting lost not sleeping properly, not eating properly this king of pursuing missions I didn¡¯t have them a lot¡­ only if¡­ ¡°¡­ after I leave those kids and those prisoners¡­ can you let me go with you? Some of those slaves are from our people¡­ I have questions to ask them¡­ and see if they are ok¡­¡± Now this is personal for her, Leo thought. ¡°As long as you don¡¯t touch the other prisoners, slavers and follow my orders.¡± ¡°Yes Leo. thank you.¡± ¡°But before that, how long until you can reach your town?¡± ¡°It should take a day on foot.¡± ¡°Goliah send a drone to our north¡± [table=black] Already done. High density of cat people detected. It should be in this unit radius if we split in two and reach the hostile group. [/table] ¡°Ok Goliah focus on those two groups I want eyes on every single one of them, and keep searching for their destiny point, also use 2 drones to assist Esveta with the adventurers and use 1 drone to scout her road.¡± [table=black] Acknowledge. [/table] 30 drones are mapping the zone this is an automatic action in unexplored areas with no battle engagement, 5 are used as patrols for immediate areas, 2 are used to transport those adventurers and the rest are on standby on Goliah. ¡°Esveta when you delivered the package these drones will help you to come back ok?¡± ¡°Ok.¡± She didn¡¯t know what package means but understood that it should be related with those adventurers and her town. At the speed Esveta group is traveling they will not intercept those gnomes, but it may be possible that they would be a hindrance if he leave them alone. ¡°Goliah estimate time when those gnomes intercept the humans?¡± [table=black] If neither of them face any difficulties, approximately three days. [/table] Hmmm. ¡°How fast can you bring Esveta back after delivery? [table=black] Six hours. [/table] ¡°She won¡¯t be able to handle that speed¡­¡± No it should be a nice opportunity to test her physical condition. He thought ¡°ok let¡¯s follow the human group, from time to time lure some beast to the gnomes, I don¡¯t want to get in contact with them yet also keep monitoring the slaves and slavers and decode their language.¡± [table=black] Acknowledge. [/table] ¡°Now everything is ok at least for now the humans are not close to their mine¡­ or they have incredible good means to hide it even against Goliah¡¯s sensor.¡± He arrived at the slavers location in minutes. The speed that they travel with the cat tribe was slow because of their number, their need to rest and more. As a soldier that never leave his unit all that was a hassle. He kept monitoring them for 1 day. All those slavers have a single uniform and an emblem on their shoulders. It seems it is a big faction in this zone, on the contrary the people inside the carriages all have ragged clothes¡­ 4 carriages, it was divided in 3 groups, males, female and males, and females. The last one only has 5 females. The pure male group all of them were robust and big, they were around 100, they couldn¡¯t even sit because they barely fit in. the female and male one has less people around 50 people, they were all naked¡­ some of them were badly sick the next one of female only has very little only 30¡­ Most of them are demi-human as Esveta, some were humans, others have long ears¡­ others have a lot of fur¡­ it was an interesting sight for Leo. So far his unit already learn 5 languages the language, out of these languages¡¯ the ones he knew were the nyanyamiau language and human language. The other were those of the small people, gnomes, of the not so small people the humans call them dwarf, the big fur people called kuma tribe, dog and wolf tribe. ¡°Goliah those that has long ears. Are they ok? They didn¡¯t talk since we began monitoring them.¡± [table=black]Yes scanners shows they are ok, but there is an unknown source of energy on their necks. [/table] That intrigues him. ¡°Show it.¡± On his screen he could see the neck of one of those females, it was a black collar. Only those five females on that carriage have those collars. ¡°Interesting¡­ does it stop them talking?¡± They have something like that on the conglomerate at least that is what Esmeralda told him. [table=black] Data unavailable. Esveta arrived at her destiny point. She informs that it would take her some hours before been able to come back. [/table] ¡°Ok keep her company. Show me the gnomes what they are doing now.¡± [table=black] Acknowledge. [/table] He check on them from time to time, of course there wasn¡¯t a problem with them, Goliah succeed on delaying them, the ETA change from 3 days two 5 days already. But now it is different, they are frantic¡­ they just ignore the wild bear that Goliah lured¡­ it caused some injuries to some of them. [table=black] they increased their movement speed and they didn¡¯t stop since our harassment. [/table] On the display he could see that they are traveling 15 m/s. ¡°Will they intercept Esveta?¡± [table=black] Negative. They will bypass her a bit more to the north of the cat-tribe town. [/table] Now this is a major issue¡­ it seems he has to stop them¡­ or he can show force of intimidation for future actions. [table=black] An anomaly has been located 9 km north, showing it on the screen. [/table] ¡°So they have methods to hide a base from your sensors¡­ amazing.¡± The location appears to be natural cave on a mountain, there is no path neither hints of living beings¡­ except that a human was outside the cave, the sensors couldn¡¯t detect activity with eco-location either, but the eco-location of his unit isn¡¯t the best¡­ his unit is prepared for owls extermination but not human suppression. ¡°Our heat sensors detected something?¡± [table=black] 6 drones are currently going inside the cave. [/table] ¡°Make a massive scan I want to know what they are mining and what we can use¡­ keep in mind I want to activate the terraforming A.I.¡± This narrative has been purloined without the author''s approval. Report any appearances on Amazon. [table=black] Acknowledge. [/table] ¡°Hmmm I may need those humans to know the leader location¡­ Goliah bring back all drones that are neither with the gnomes nor with Esveta and send them to that mine, search for massive area of hostiles¡­ with hostiles I mean those that are not slaves.¡± [table=black] Acknowledge. [/table] He got a complete map of the mine¡­ it is rather large 4km deep, 3km wide¡­ it has 4 entrances; 1 is hidden and only 1 of those entrances has rails, so that is the place for exportation¡­ 5 drones are at the entrance with railing, 2 at the secret entrance and 4 on each other. That mine is odd¡­ completely out of common sense¡­ Goliah informed that it will be able to build the hardware for the terraforming A.I. without issues¡­ although he found multiple source of unknown energy¡­ perhaps because of this energy the mine is able to have alkaline and noble gases this is something that he can¡¯t comprehend¡­ not that he need to anyway. [table=black] Gnomes are 1 Km behind us. [/table] ¡°They are already here¡­¡± [table=black] Solution: Destroy the golems, research of their movement indicates degradation of their bodies, the source of energy from their inside has reduced by 1/3, destroying them won¡¯t force us to use this unit weapons, drones alone are more than enough. [/table] ¡°The problem Goliah, I don¡¯t want to be hostile with them¡­ we can pretty much consider ourselves hostile with my own race¡­¡± Having enemies from all sides is the least he wanted. [table=black] Hypothesis: They may be pursuing those humans to rescue their people. Solution: Compromised the mission, allow them to retrieve their people and we continue with the mine capture. [/table] ¡°Now that is not a bad idea¡­ if you can, bring Esveta faster¡­ lets meet the gnomes.¡± Goliah move in front of the gnomes estimated location and wait for them, it was not on furtive mode and 6 drones are surrounding it like a rainbow from side to side. Leo could see the group of gnomes and their golems from his screen. They stopped, the one that appears to be the leader moved forward slowly while the others are getting prepared for battle. ¡°Where is your master?!¡± The common knowledge is that the owners of the golems should be close enough to the golems so they can maintain their form, strength and above all it will be like this so the owner will be able to give orders actively. What they did not expect was a verbal answer from the very golem. [table=black] This unit is not what you call golem. This unit is called Goliah. Greetings That question cannot be answered. [/table] Goliah is on standby mode, goliah crossed its multipurpose arms, while the heavy weapon arms were behind it. It remained with its basic colors black and gold with white eyes. The 6 drones were floating over him like a rainbow. ¡°Goliah, I think you were rude.¡± [table=black] We have yet to stablish a relationship between them, giving them the knowledge they want is not prudent. [/table] They are whispering between each other, some of them are trembling while staring at Goliah. Others were looking at him in awe and laughing. ¡°Greetings Mr. Goliah my name is Alduim leader of this little group, are you part of those slavers?¡± The leader asked¡­ [table=black] Incorrect. this unit is currently following them. [/table] ¡°Can we ask for what reason?¡± This is the questioned they both were looking for. [table=black] That we can¡¯t tell, excuse this unit rudeness. Nevertheless this unit believe you are pursuing them to release some of your people, is this unit right? [/table] With the information that Goliah got regarding the mine and the gnome force, it is impossible to capture it, so the best they can do is intercept the caravan before it reach its destiny location. Those gnomes that were not stroke by fear were one step away to launch an attack. But their leader stopped them. ¡°Indeed they capture the daughter of one of our great nobles¡± He stopped for some time. ¡°Will this bring conflict with your mission?¡± [table=black] It may indeed jeopardize this unit mission, nevertheless this unit can help you free her and the rest of your people, of course there will be a prize for it. [/table] ¡°What did you say?!¡± ¡°You are just one big golem stop spitting nonsense!¡± Those two gnomes couldn¡¯t hold it anymore¡­ and said whatever their minds come with. ¡°Silence!!¡± The leader glared at them. ¡°May I ask the price?¡± Goliah raised his arm and pointed a location behind them. [table=black] If you follow that direction, at the speed that you were traveling yesterday. You will reach a town of the cat tribe by twilight. Wait there for your people, I will sent them there. [/table] The leader turn back and talk to them. ¡°Goliah translate please.¡± ¡°What are you doing?!!! We have to retrieve her!!! You know the repercussions if we don¡¯t rescue her!¡± ¡°Yes!! How the hell do you know if it will keep his word? Heck it could turn for the worse!!!¡± ¡°we-we-we have to go back¡­¡± ¡°no no no that thing shouldn¡¯t exist¡­¡± ¡°¡­¡± ¡°It seems that those that are scared are the most proficient in magic it seems¡­¡± ¡°What did you say? This is not the time to look for a fight!¡± ¡°I have 3 questions for you. Do you feel magic inside it? Do you feel the essence of earth on it? Have you ever see or hear about a golem of that height and able to talk?¡± Some time passed before someone answer. ¡°It doesn¡¯t matter. If we don¡¯t rescue Miss Jackeline it will be far worse than just our dead.¡± ¡°You are right¡­ we can¡¯t let her get inside that mine¡­ if she does, we won¡¯t be able to see her ever again¡­ and if we do¡­¡± He shook his head. ¡°She won¡¯t I just don¡¯t want to think about it.¡± [table=black] Leo seems they are not willing to follow the instruction. Do we use the alternative? [/table] He thought for a bit. ¡°Excuse me sir Goliah, but you are asking the impossible rescuing her is the only way to guarantee safety to our kingdoms¡¯. ¡°Goliah tell them that we can let only one of them to follow us, but he is not allow to interfere if they want to come there will be no other options but to engage in battle here.¡± [table=black] Acknowledge. [/table] [table=black] This unit can let one of you to follow it, the rest of you have to go back to that town and wait. Else, you will be forcing this unit hands. [/table] The heavy weapon arm moved and aimed for them, and a strong sense of heat overwhelmed them. ¡°You¡­ are you threating us?¡± The leader didn¡¯t ask this. [table=black] Negative, this unit mission is imperative as well. [/table] Those two keep spitting nonsense while the leader was in deep thinking [table=black] Leo, Esveta arrived. [/table] She is mounting the drone, its size is big enough for her to do that. ¡°Ok¡­ let me go.¡± The leader after seeing her getting at the side of the Goliah reach his conclusion. He told his people to follow its orders and wait at the cat tribe town. The three that were completely frightened escape at once, while the other two keep yielding at him. In the end they agreed as well on the condition that all that is going to happen here will his and only his fault. The leader didn¡¯t know the location of the mine as well. And if they could release their people from that place it would be great. Or so he thought. Some hours has passed all three were traveling together with an awkward silence. ¡°Leo tell me why is this dwarf coming with us?¡± ¡°Leo?¡± [table=black] This unit pilot is call Leo. Esveta you just need to do as told. [/table] Goliah stop communicating with its main speakers and began talking with its drones. The first part was from Goliah while the second part from Leo. ¡°Can it talk cat tribe language as well?¡± [table=black] This unit can talk cat-tribe, kuma-tribe, dog, wolf-tribe, human, dwarf and gnome language. We have been following that slave for almost two days by now. [/table] ¡°Amazing¡­ tell me Mr... Goliah what are you made of?¡± He is deeply curious¡­ this golem was so fluent talking, and his walking manner was superb, but still he couldn¡¯t understand how he work and as a member of the dwarf race that is one of the greatest humiliation ever but at the same time it is something fun deeply fun these were just a tiny thought that he has in his mind. [table=black] With some compounds of certain metals, silicon and other components, I am not done just by one kind of material. [/table] ¡°a a golem with multiple elements?¡± [table=black] This unit is not what you known as golem, this is a mechanical warfare unit with an assisting A.I. call Goliah. [/table] Goliah was rather talkative because Leo ordered him to, if either of them come up with a question the other side answer naturally. ¡°Warfare?? You were built exclusively to fight?¡± [table=black] Affirmative. For survival and peace of humankind. [/table] ¡°You¡­ shouldn¡¯t have mentioned that Goliah¡­ humans are holding his people as slaves.¡± Indeed the moment Goliah said that that leader¡¯s golem stopped moving. He look at Esveta and then to Goliah, slowly his golem slowly stood up, on size it reach Goliah knees. ¡°What are you planning to do? What does this young woman have to do with you? Are you really planning to return our people back?¡± Indeed he is turning hostile¡­ he has his reasons though. ¡°Goliah tell him that we are keeping our part of the deal, and our humanity doesn¡¯t the kind of humans he is thinking about.¡± [table=black] Acknowledge. [/table] So far he seems to believe it. Well it is the truth Leo thought. ¡°Leo what is he talking about?¡± She really didn¡¯t care their pet chat until he began to stared at her with doubtful eyes¡­ she didn¡¯t like it. ¡°He has to rescue some of his people. He is here to help us.¡± ¡°Will he kill the slavers?¡± ¡°No he will be there looking just like you.¡± ¡°Ok.¡± ¡°My name is Alduim young woman, may I ask yours?¡± ¡°You can ask.¡± ¡­ ¡°What is your name?¡± ¡°Oh you hear it already.¡± ¡°She is so mean¡­¡± Leo said. [table=black] Affirmative. [/table] ¡°I apologize if I offend you in any way miss Esveta.¡± ¡°Hmm.¡± Because she was using those drones as her way of traveling, Leo is able to talk with her without Alduim hearing them. ¡°Esveta you can whisper to the drone to talk to me, is there an issue with him?¡± ¡°To begin with, we had a friendly relationship with the dwarf kingdom we really thought they could give us haven when the humans started raiding our town¡­ but¡­¡± So it is resentment he thought. ¡°Esveta this is not the time for this¡­ both of you want the same thing. Please dealt with your issues.¡± ¡°I know so shut up.¡± The hatred that the cat tribe felt is deep. It is not just Esveta. ¡°Alduim what do they do first with the slaves?¡± Depending what they do with them he will do some plans. ¡°I don¡¯t know Mr. Goliah, we didn¡¯t knew there was a mine so close to the frontier¡­ until some days ago.¡± If they knew, they would have sent an attack on it long ago. ¡°Ok, we will wait until they arrived at the entrance. We will see what happens after that.¡± The rest of the day was about Alduim trying to talk with Esveta, Esveta ignoring Alduim and Alduim asking question regarding Goliah and its armament. The next day. [table=black] Warning scouts from the mine have made contact with the caravan. [/table] ¡°Show it.¡± On his screen he could see a human with a flag blocking the caravan, the caravan stopped and a man that was on one of the carriages moved forward. ¡°Ha-ha long time no see you Travis!!¡± ¡°Your life as a slave dealer give you a great time right Christian?¡± ¡°Hahaha but of course!!! But hey¡­ your boss sure bought expensive ones this time¡­¡± ¡°Hmmm you are talking about the ice elf and the black elf?¡± ¡°Also the dwarf she is beautiful as well and the lamp girl seems so tasty the young woman is not left far behind either¡­ all virgins not trained as he wanted¡­ he should be in deep debt now hahahahaha.¡± ¡°Yes I can see those 5 right?¡± ¡°Yes special goods, special treatment well we follow you from now on.¡± ¡°Yes follow me, we will get inside via the third entrance.¡± ¡°Ok.¡± ¡°Hmmm so they are VIP people. aldium does the slave dealers know who she is??¡± ¡°Probable¡­ she may have state her name so they would free her¡­¡± ¡°And with that her prize sky rocketed¡­¡± ¡°Probable. Did you find her?¡± ¡°She is in a special carriage with four more females.¡± ¡°Not good¡­ well at least it is safe to assume she wasn¡¯t badly treated¡­¡± They finally arrived¡­ those humans inside the mine build a fence so the slaves won¡¯t have a chance to escape. The entrance was small so slaves can get inside in group of 5 at most. ¡°Mr. Goliah, if those slaves go inside we won¡¯t be able to recover them ever again¡­¡± [table=black] It is ok, the manager of the mine is going out, we will use him as a hostage and if it doesn¡¯t work, it will turn into a suppression mission [/table] The problem is that Goliah doesn¡¯t have weaponry for suppression¡­ at best he has to use his energy weaponry from the drones at the lowest level of damage¡­ and even with that there will be a high amount of corpses. ¡­ ¡­ The slaves move out of the carriages they remained with their division. The first people that move inside were the future miners those that will work until dead. The second group were are used to release stress from the workers¡­ those were the females and males group. They were the second group to move. After that were the group of females and the other 5 females, by that time some movement could be seen inside the mine¡­ a formation could be seen. All this time Goliah was above of them while Alduim and Esveta remain around 1km away. They are getting updated with the drone that is assisting Esveta. ¡°So this are the girls for you guys. Don¡¯t break them¡­ they have to last at least 2 years after all.¡± They were not the top of the crop but still it was more than enough for sexual release for these men. ¡°Yes boss arigatou!!!¡± A lot of men thank him, it is a confirmation that he is the boss. [table=black] Stop your actions immediately. [/table] Goliah on top of them released his furtive mode. ----- here is some shameless advertisment :) http://royalroadl.com/fiction/5636 -> it is a hero companion that died and brought himself to another world, will have a lot of mature content. Vol1 Chapter 7 Capturing the Mine, First Battle in The New World. Author''s note: hmmm i am sorry the chapter is kinda long :O hehe i didnt know how to split it in two sorry :( pd 2: did any of you played bunny black? i really love ekate O.o, i am so using her personality with my future demon race. without ado i hope you enjoy it. -------------------------------------------- -STOMP- -tremors- -rumble- Before they could make any action 3 drones surrounded the 5 VIP females, the left foot of Goliah was on the front of the manager and he raised his multipurpose arms aiming with his light laser weapons at those humans around the entrance of the mine. ¡°WH WHAT HAPPENED!!! YOU!!! HOW DARE YOU!!!!¡± The manager was at his wits end¡­ the biggest golem he ever saw appeared out of nowhere and it is blocking his path to the mine. [FIREBALL] [LIGHTING LANCE] [DEATH TOUCH] Multiple spells are been cast on Goliah¡­ -PEEEENG- -PEEEENG- -PEEEEENG- All of them explode way before they touch him¡­ except. [table=black] Warning. Damage to the right arm¡¯s hull. Estimated damage 0.05%. Multiple unknown source of energy located, only one type wasn¡¯t a physical phenomenon. Solution: Elimination of the supposed threat. [/table] That was totally out of his expectations¡­ not even owls were able to inflict damage on a Goliah hull unless they break instantly the energy shield¡­ but these frail humans¡­ succeed doing the impossible. On the human army side they were as out of their mind as well. A metal-like golem appeared out of nowhere and took the manager as hostage¡­ even worse no magic spell seems to be able to affect it¡­ if magic doesn¡¯t inflict damage¡­ skills won¡¯t do any as well. What they hell could they do? One of the guards cleaned up his mind. ¡°RETREAT!!! GET INSIDE THE MINE!!!! PREPARE A DEFENSIVE- GUAAAGHJ!!!¡± Before he could finish it, Leo sent the order. ¡°If possible incapacitate them, if any of them is able to inflict damage to the hull eliminate them¡­ no¡­ leave at least one¡­ we need to begin to prepare ourselves and deal with it.¡± [table=black] Operation Lazarus Pit initiated. [/table] Operation Lazarus Pit is a capture and suppression mission in terms of the conglomerate, it is the pacification of liberated mines. 4 drones deactivated their furtive mode at the entrance of the mine¡­ fired at minimal damage to every single humanoid not wearing ragged clothes. ¡°GUAAAJ¡± ¡°LEAVE LEAVE GUAAAAHJ!!!¡± ¡°NOOOOO!!¡± ¡°PLEASE I SURRENDER!!! I SURRENDER!!!¡± There were 30 slavers outside when all this began¡­ unfortunately 20 of them died in the first 2 minutes those that saw what happened throw away their weapons and raised up their hands¡­ they are lucky because in the conglomerate that gesture means the same than in the new word. But not everything went as intended those that were really close the mine run inside and sound the alarm a counterattack should begin at any time. In the meantime Goliah ¡°pick up¡± the manager of the mine. Goliah opened the cabin¡¯s door and Leo moved out. The pilot¡¯s cabin is around the chest of Goliah. One has to keep in mind that the height of the unit call Goliah is rather high, 60 meters because if he is shorter all its accessories won¡¯t be able to be distributed inside him and if he is taller the energy efficiency will drop considerably, if it was a unit that will never leave the carriers range it is ok but Zeus¡¯s carrier was special so no goliah was taller than 60 meters. He descend it so slowly, thanks to his armor, that in front of all those slaved women he seems like an angel¡­ with his short blue hair dancing in the air his penetrating blue eyes¡­ and his beautiful clothes that seems heavenly-like with its colors white and gold One of the default setting on his uniforms that he didn¡¯t know is that, each time the conglomerate soldiers battles with pirates it will changed its color to white and gold, so they appear justice bringers in the news that civilians watch every day. ¡°Greetings manager of the mine, tell me your name.¡± The women saw his mouth moved¡­ but the words came out of the golem behind him¡­ that made him so mysterious¡­ most of them fall to the floor and cried¡­ remembering every night wishing for a white knight coming to their rescue¡­ but deep in their hearts they knew it was an impossible dream¡­ but not anymore¡­ Those 5 VIP women are in deep shock as well¡­ ¡°RELEASE ME NOW!!! YOU DON¡¯T KNOW WHO YOU ARE MESSING WITH!!! IN FEW SECONDS THE ARMY INSIDE THE MINE WILL DESTROY YOU!!!¡± ¡°Goliah how many remain?¡± [table=black] 4 barracks with 500 soldiers each have been pacified. 7 slave house have been secured. All 4 entrances are been well guarded. 467 humans have surrendered. 3 more floors before complete pacification of the mine. [/table] Not even 7 minutes has passed¡­ How Goliah reported it, and what the slaves and slavers see were completely the opposite. Those slaves that had been escorted inside the mine saw the hell¡­ those strange orbs killing all the humans except those that throw their weapon and raise their hands¡­ it was a systematic wipe out. Killing nonstop at every corner, at every room, those that were having their fun with the slaves, those that were sleeping those that were preparing themselves the moment they heard the alarm they fall as quick as a wink, those lucky enough that saw everything before it was their turn throw away their weapons saving their life. ¡°LIES!! I KNOW IT IS A LIE!! WE ARE 5 THOUSAND STRONG MEN INSIDE THE MINE!!!¡± ¡°But almost 2500 have been pacified.¡± [table=black] Warning. Source of unknown energy have been located deep inside the mine and it is increasing its output. [/table] ¡°Goliah gives me the details.¡± The slave manager didn¡¯t know what they were talking about it wasn¡¯t a language he knows, but he saw the slight changed of expression of the man with white and gold armor. ¡°HAHAHA SERVES YOU RIGHT FUCKING BASTARD!!!¡± ¡°Goliah break his legs.¡± [table=black] Acknowledge. [/table] Goliah released him from his grab and throw him to the floor; it was a free fall of 40 meters, calculated so he will receive severe damage on his legs but will survive none the less. ¡°GYAAAAAAAAAA!!!! D-DAMn¡­ yo¡­.¡± He fainted out of pain. A big source of unknown energy have been located inside the mine. It is not good¡­ he need the mine¡­ perhaps it is using all the minerals inside of it¡­ worse it will compromise the alternate mission of rescuing the gnomes, dwarves and cat-tribe. He moved into Goliah again. This time Goliah helped him to get inside¡­ in the eyes of others it seemed that he has been flying. ¡°WAIT!! Please valorous hero! Wait!!¡± One of those 5 VIP females called out for him¡­ unlike all those other slaves these 5 VIP females have elegant clothes. Particularly this one has a long light blue dress and a powder blue blouse, she has long ears and a white as snow skin¡­ her eyes were like two ocean pearls¡­ long deep blue hair¡­ her hands are tied behind her, she isn¡¯t wearing shoes and she has the black colored collar on her neck¡­ When Leo heard her voice¡­ for the first time he felt fascinated by the beings called woman. She is talking human language so it is easy for Goliah to translate it. Goliah also noticed the physical and mental change on Leo, and decided that for now it is ok to let things flow as it is¡­ ¡°Yes?¡± She has her hands on her chest, her expression shows a lot of fear and concern. ¡°Valorous hero. This magic we are feeling it comes from from A-Agnis, do you know where it is?¡± He took notice that she knew what is happening but doesn¡¯t know where it is, he assumed she wouldn¡¯t know how to stop it either. He look at the charts on the display in his screen and saw that it is still increasing the energy in an alarming phase. ¡°No. I don¡¯t.¡± ¡°Then hear me out valorous hero. That is an ancient god¡­ I don¡¯t know what humans were trying to accomplish trying to summon it¡­ but we have no way to defeat it please take us with you and escape!¡± That is something he didn¡¯t expect to hear¡­ he would lose too much if he were to leave this place. ¡°I am sorry but I will not escape from here. The first step to achieve my mission starts here.¡± ¡°But valorous hero!¡± He closed the cabin¡¯s door he felt that if he continued hearing her¡­ he may indeed escape from here. ¡°Goliah triangulate the source of unknown energy. We will try to take it out from here.¡± [table=black] ¡°Acknowledge. Scanning¡­ Scanning¡­ Location confirmed. It is exactly on our feet, 5km deeps. It has a circular form.¡± [/table] It is deeper than the last floor of the mine, he thought. ¡°Use those drones¡­ use 25 and excavate it¡­ use the other 10 to remove the people below me on all the floors I will use the heavy weapon to open a path. Plasma cannon, minimal output confirmed¡­ targeting area¡­ Fire.¡± The estimated radius of the energy source is 10 meters¡­ the plasma beam it has a 7 meters radius, it will take some time to open a path¡­ the best thing he could do is hope that the people inside the mine won¡¯t be kill as a collateral damage. The source of energy have been found and the drones sent a visual of it. It is a big piece of earth, on top of it there is a circle draw with red blood ¡°It is indeed a big circle¡­ with triangles and squares inside it¡­ Goliah you don¡¯t know that language right?¡± Around the circle there are some unknown letters. [table=black] Negative. Taking images for future research. [/table] ¡°Perfect. How many minutes before you remove it from the ground?¡± [table=black] 6 minutes, you will open a path in 5. Alduim is requesting a conversation. [/table] ¡°Granted. We have some minutes.¡± ¡°Excuse me Mr. Goliah, can you tell me how it is going?¡± ¡°Right now I can¡¯t sent you images of her but she is ok. I am busy removing something.¡± ¡°Something?¡± ¡°Someone call it Agnis summon.¡± ¡°What???!!! We can¡¯t fight it we have to escape now!!!¡± ¡°Impossible, don¡¯t worry I¡¯ll move it to another isolated location.¡± The conversation took longer than expected¡­ The slaves that were already inside the mine couldn¡¯t escape because of the orders they receive, while those outside couldn¡¯t escape on their own because of the fence. -POOM- -POOM- -POOM- Rocks are falling apart everything was happening to fast that the slaves didn¡¯t have time to scream¡­ suddenly out of the hole that Goliah created, a piece of the ground is floating slowly¡­ it radiated a menacing red aura¡­ ¡°Goliah do you have any information about that?¡± [table=black] Old world¡¯s folklore labelled it as a transmutation circle. This unknown energy should be what was call MAGIC. [/table] ¡°Really¡­ you having random information is something I can¡¯t say it is good or bad¡­¡± [table=black] It is all thanks to Lapiz. There are other configurations that I can¡¯t inform you due to protocols set up by Lapiz, using her words, please look forward to it. [/table] ¡°It feels dreadful¡­¡± ¡°Mr... Goliah¡­ is is that red light Agnis?¡± Even from away from the source of light, Alduim could see it. ¡°No Alduim that is a transmutation circle to summon him?¡± ¡°You are asking it?¡± ¡°I only know this is the major source of energy inside the mine. I am moving it at the west. 20 drones will remain around the mine so until I finish this battle stay there with Esveta please.¡± ¡°Ok!¡± Out of fear he didn¡¯t try to destroy it. The speed that he moved was indeed fast¡­ in the confusion the manager tried to crawl and escape¡­ but one of the drones appear in front of him and began to charge. ¡°O-ok I-I won¡¯t escape!¡± ¡°Who who was that Miyuki?¡± ¡°Our hero Yue.¡± That is small conversation Goliah heard it but didn¡¯t share it with Leo. [table=black] Alert. Alert. Space rift detected. Repeat. Space rift detected. Massive amount of unknown energy detected. Releasing transmutation circle now. [/table] This was the first time that Goliah did this kind of action on oys own. It perturbed Leo slightly. ¡°Goliah warrior mode.¡± [table=black] Initiating Warrior mode. Warrior mode online. [/table] The heavy weapon arms move and become the main arms, while the multipurpose arms move above the shoulders and both of them took out the light laser guns. The face of Goliah got covered by an almost full-helm only a cross-like hole could be seen, the light of its eyes changed to red -rumble- -rumble- -rumble- [table=black] Alert Alert Temperature rising on an exponential rate. Shield holding. 50 minutes until it collapse. [/table] -boom- -boom- -boom- Leo heard like explosions but they came from the transmutation circle It began to break apart¡­ ¡°ROARRRRRRRRRRRRRRR¡± Two enormous hands split that circle in two right after that a big head with skin like burning earth and flaming eyes pop out between the hands. It could been seen with his roar he spit lava everywhere. ¡°YOU INSIGNIFICANT MORTALS!!! YOU DARE TO SUMMON ME? AGNIS THE GOD OF FLAMES?!!!¡± ¡°He seems rather rebellious.¡± [table=black] Agnis was known as a god of flame previously known as agni from the vedic period of the old world. [/table] ¡°Wait, this is not the time for it.¡± He begin shooting with his light laser guns -pew- -pew- -pew- -pew- The size of it is ridiculous just its eyes are a bit smaller than Goliah. All four shot were aimed at his left eye ¡°GUAAAGH YOU DAMN MORTAL DO YOU DARE TO HURT ME? YOU WILL NEED MORE THAN THAT!!!¡± Slowly his body is leaving the space rift, his chest can be seen now. ¡°Goliah increase output of heavy weaponry to its limit.¡± [table=black] Acknowledge. [/table] ¡°Activate plasma and solid weaponry.¡± He target its head again, ¡°HAHAHAHA PLAYING WITH FIRE HUMAN?! LET ME SHOW YOU WHAT TRUE FIRE IS!!¡± He spit flame and Goliah shoot his plasma ammunition. For some time it was a stalemate but slowly Agnis is escaping from the space rift, right now he is waist could be seen. It was a grandiose spectacle, a red flame clashing with a green light slowly the red flame began to win the stalemate. Leo next used his light laser guns on its eye again. ¡°GUAAHJ YOU DAMN HUMAN PLAYING DIRTY TRICKS?!!¡± The shots on its eye perturbed him a little and the ground he won, he lost it¡­ Goliah keep firing at its eyes¡­ but sadly Agnis just closed its eyes. ¡°WHAT IS THIS??? YOU PATHETIC HUMAN YOU ARE SO INSIGNIFICANT THAT YOU HAVE NO MAGIC HAHAHAHA. DAMN YOU IT WILL BE HARD TO FIND YOU LIKE THIS.¡± Agnis finally noticed that Goliah isn¡¯t emitting magic so he conclude it isn¡¯t using magic. He also didn¡¯t notice Goliah size and thought he was a human because of his humanoid form¡­ he even ignore the tail and the other 2 arms. ¡°Goliah lets take evasive maneuvers, else we will lost all of our energy.¡± [table=black] Affirmative energy cells reduced by 10 %. [/table] They took the opportunity when Agnis eyes were closed and flight deep into the sky. ¡°Goliah furtive mode.¡± Goliah become invisible and at the same time, he stop emitting noise. ¡°Goliah go into the stratosphere.¡± [table=black] Acknowledge. [/table] ¡°HMMM PATHETIC HUMAN GOT BORED ALREADY??? HMM??? WHERE ARE YOU?¡± Finally he took his legs out of the transmutation circle. He was big as mount Tai, he was a blazing flame with humanoid body, his nails were pure lava, and his garments were nothing but flames of multiple colors. Goliah reached the stratosphere. ¡°Goliah god mode 8 seconds it is all I need. Prepare the superheavy weapon and send 20 drones and surround him I¡¯ll do the rest.¡± [table=black] 8 seconds will be too much. I am giving you 5. [/table] ¡°No that thing is 8 times tougher than a suicide owl and 3 times stronger than a warrior class owl!! Give me 8 seconds¡± [table=black] Granted. [/table] 20 drones surrounded Agnis. ¡°WHAT IS THIS? FLIES? HAHAHAHA¡± They began to dance around the sky firing at him intensively. ¡°HAHA AUU AHAHAH AU AU THOSE THINGS SURE ARE BOTHERSOME¡­ HMMM???¡± While he was getting distracted by the drones he look up into the sky and for once he felt dread¡­ His instincts yelled him to use his greatest spell at once ¡°YOU DAMN HUMAN¡­ WHAT SORCERY IS THIS?!!!¡± He couldn¡¯t gather the mana to cast his magic, the ball of energy traveled at the speed of light¡­ And 50 meter above from Agnis it turned into a black hole. ¡­ For some time there was only silence [table=black] God mode deactivated. Standby mode initiated. [/table] -huff- -huff- -huff- ¡°Using god mode in a planet is so stressing¡­¡± The information gathered by all the drones and his unit is sent to his mind, every single leaf moving around the sky¡­ every single ant traveling in the ground¡­ that information, he receive it, it was thousands of times more intense than in space¡­ it slow down his reaction speed considerably but thankfully it was only one enemy. The only reason he used god mode is to use the experimental heavy weapon. He has to make some deep changes on his unit so he will stop receiving useless information. ¡°Goliah send all drones to the mine and make a diagnosis, how much materials did we lost and how many slaves remain alive. Inform Alduim and Esveta that they can come to the mine.¡± [table=black] Acknowledge. [/table] When he return all those female slaves were watching his Goliah yelling with happiness. When he got out of his unit the VIP female that talk to him a moment ago was the first to arrive and¡­ She hugged him tightly. ¡°M-miss?? May I help you?¡± ¡°My name is Miyuki, valorous hero please accept me as a gratitude for what you have done.¡± ¡°What? Please wait for a bit.¡± He was confused with her wording¡­ Something that he didn¡¯t know is that Agnis the god of flame is a god of calamity, stronger than the demon lord but with only one thing in purpose¡­ to burn it all¡­ if Agnis was left alone¡­ perhaps the living beings in the world would have been able to do something¡­ but her city was too close, her friends, family and more they would have been one of the first to fall into extinction, the other elf wasn¡¯t exactly the same but this is something he will learn later. Something else worth to mention is that Leo Thought that Agnis was a defensive system for the mine, at least for the mean time he thought like that. ¡°My name is Yue, please as Miyuki said, accept me as a gratitude for saving us.¡± ¡°THAT WAS AWESOME!!!! HOW CAN HE FLY??? WHAT WERE ALL THOSE FLYING BALLS?!!¡± Now those questions he do understand. ¡°They are drones and my unit use graviphoton, supergravity and gravity fields to fly on the planet. In space it use solar energy and antimatter.¡± ¡°¡­what?¡± [table=black] Leo, you shouldn¡¯t share that information. [/table] ¡°¡­yes you are right¡­ I don¡¯t know why I say it¡­¡± [table=black] that is a thing call adrenaline¡­ it reduce your ¡­ reservation toward the opposite sex. [/table] ¡°¡­I want to ask but I won¡¯t¡­¡± ¡°Alduim can you tell me the name of the noble¡¯s daughter?¡± ¡°Jackeline Watson.¡± ¡°Ok¡­ Miss Jackeline Watson, the dwarf Alduim will be here in short to escort you back to your kingdom.¡± ¡°WHAT? HE IS COMING???? IT TOOK HIM SO MUCH TIME!!!¡± He ignored her and remembered the manager of the mine so he move towards his direction. ¡°What was that and are there more?¡± He said it and of course the manager didn¡¯t understand him. But he understood Goliah¡¯s drone that was behind him¡­ he resign himself out of fear. ¡°I I I I d d don¡¯t know¡­ please just let me go.¡± ¡°Denied I need labor force and you guys will give it.¡± ¡°What? But you have all those slaves inside the mine!¡± ¡°I will free them, of course if some want to stay they are free to do but details are something that you don¡¯t need to know.¡± Soon Alduim arrived with Esveta. Each of them went to different places, Alduim run to Jackeline while Esveta run with the group of women. What Esveta was looking for¡­ was something he would not be able to know until much later in time. Alduim hugged Jackeline with all his might and start crying, but Jackeline told him about that flying piece of ground and that big golem fighting Agnis she was deeply excited¡­ it was like she forgot she is currently a slave (because of the collar) and should treat the matter seriously. After some time Alduim met with Goliah and started talking to him. Jackeline laugh none stop because of that and brought Alduim to Leo. ¡°Alduim this is the master of that golem. Your name is¡­.¡± ¡°I am Corporal Leo De La Cruz Flores a pleasure to finally meet you Alduim.¡± His suit is still on white and gold, his skin is slightly pale because of him using god mode. Normally he wouldn¡¯t feel these repercussions with just few seconds, but he used all the medicine he has on that battle with the tiger squad long ago. The nano-drones are able to build equipment not medicine. ¡°So you are the owner of Goliah, is it?¡± ¡°Indeed.¡± ¡°You have my deepest gratitude in helping our kingdom to rescue our people. If you ever need something please let us know, her father will pay you for your assistance, and our kings will gladly pay you for rescuing their people.¡± I want to know something¡­ can you help me in returning these people to their villages or town? I don¡¯t have the resources nor time to help them.¡± ¡°Master Leo, I will stay here¡± Miyuki said. ¡°So do I master Leo.¡± Yue said. The other 2 VIP girls were still on shock with all this events¡­ unlike Yue and Miyuki they were a bit younger. Some of the slaves wish to stay as well. They are more on the idea of protection. In their homes, they were taken¡­ later abused raped drug and trained¡­ returning home to let them happen all of that again is something they don¡¯t wish for, or their villages were burned down, or they just don¡¯t know where they are from they don¡¯t want to suffer all of that again¡­ not when their knight in white armor came to their rescue. ¡°It is something complicated¡­ but I believe that our kings will accept it. If this is what you need then I will depart immediately the faster the better right?¡± ¡°Indeed. Thanks a lot Alduim, I will remain. Here this place will be my base of operations from now on.¡± ¡°!! For preservation and peace is it?¡± ¡°Indeed.¡± ¡°Ok we will be back in 5 weeks¡­ with carriages and provisions¡­ but in 2 weeks we will sent provisions to help you with these people.¡± ¡°I deeply appreciate it.¡± ¡°I WANT TO STAY!!!!!! I WANT TO PLAY WITH THAT GOLEM!!!!¡± ¡°Please Miss Jackeline, your father is deeply worry about you. How about you go stay with your father and then you can come back with me.¡± She stayed quiet for some seconds. ¡°Ok. I will do as you say. Mr¡­Leo I hope we meet again.¡± ¡°So do I.¡± And like that Alduim and Jackeline returned to their kingdom. ¡°That guy sure is talkative¡­ ¡° Esveta said. ¡°Did you find what you wanted to find?¡± For a second her eyes turned red, she crushed her left hand so hard that her claw pierce her hand and bleed a little. ¡°No. they don¡¯t know¡­¡± ¡°Ok¡­ I have a favor to ask, go to your town and tell to the major we have people of your town here.¡± Absentminded she answered. ¡°Ok. Can you lend me one of those drones?¡± She got used to the terms she heard from him. ¡°Sure Goliah lend him two.¡± [table=black] her town is farther away than 100 km, this unit is not able to send her back to home directly. [/table] ¡°It is ok if it helps me to travel for some time is all I need.¡± ¡°Ok. Good luck¡± Like that she went to her town. ¡°Goliah your energy cells?¡± [table=black] 60%. The battle with Agnis was harder than expected. Solar energy insufficient for stable energy supply. [/table] ¡°How many shells do we have?¡± [table=black] 9 more shots at maximum capacity but if you want to use the output you used against Agnis we have 80 shots. [/table] ¡°Complicated¡­ I hope this world doesn¡¯t have enemies of that caliber else we won¡¯t survive for long¡­ Goliah move into the mine. Let¡¯s use the deepest floor to initiate the construction of the terraforming A.I. system and interface.¡± [table=black] Acknowledge. [/table] When Leo move inside the mine all the slaves got scared¡­ but the drones are still patrolling around, 10 drones are guarding the human slaves 20 more are moving the human miners outside the mine while 8 are patrolling inside the mine using eco-location and infrared. Miyuki came close to him again. ¡°Master Leo, may I help you with something?¡± ¡°Goliah, protocols for normal miners in the conglomerate?¡± ¡°8 hour of job a day for 21 days straight and 14 days of vacation.¡± ¡°The slaves, those that are young and strong should keep working at the mine¡­ all the resources they gathered should be drop on the pit were¡­ the golem is currently in. They have to work 8 hours a day in three groups. I mean one group for the morning another evening and the other night¡­ they can decided their schedule but the mine must keep working. Let some of the female slaves watch over the humans they don¡¯t need to be scared the drones are enough to deal with them if they get rude. Do you understand?¡± ¡°Yes master Leo; Yue, Alice, Kelly come with me lets assist Master Leo as much as we can.¡± Those VIP females moved on their own¡­ but if they keep the mine working it would be ideal¡­ or so he thought. ¡°Goliah assist them with the drones, one drone for each of them, if they have questions answer them ok?¡± [table=black] Acknowledge. [/table] Some areas of the mine remained hostile for a while¡­ very few humans remain fighting but most gave up when they saw Agnis been defeated in some unknown way. The slaves thought they changed from one owner to another but it was different, with the previous owner they worked 16 hours straight no time for relax, now they only need to work half. A problem arise when Leo let them decide their schedule¡­ it was not ideal¡­ Goliah decided that the schedules should be arranged by race and age. The females were the most complicated¡­ those that spent too much time inside the mine inside those red rooms were already broken¡­ they couldn¡¯t work at all¡­ they remain in their respective rooms after it was cleaned¡­ the new females tried their best to help them¡­ but it is something that will take years to heal. Some other females on the other hand decide to work in the mines as well¡­ a major issue is that no one can go away¡­ they have a collar that do not permit them leave the mine, and for the females it doesn¡¯t let them leave the floor they are in. The VIP girls were not that good at managing the mine¡­ but it was ok, Goliah could do it, the issue were food and a retaliation from the human empire but it is something that would not happen right now¡­ At the second week they receive the food from the gnome and dwarf kingdom. At the fourth week the mine stop functioning at the order of Leo. He informed them that people is coming to help them set free, those that wants to remain here are allowed to do so and those that want to return home, the dwarf and gnome kingdom will help them do so. This story has been stolen from Royal Road. If you read it on Amazon, please report it It is ok for Leo as well. Goliah informed him that they have enough material for a room update and A.I. installations, basic equipment and basic defensive systems so the slaves now have to work a lot less. Ideal now that there is going to be a few of them from now on. Leo as well recollect enough information regarding this new world. He asked where they are from, the same as the adventurers they are from the rainbow empire. Why this mine has so many materials, it is because of a mana vein below the mine, it seems the vein was used as a form to feed the summoning spell at least that is what miyuki thought after the manager told them that. When will the humans from the rainbow empire come to collect the materials from this mine, it will be in 3 months. But with the slaver dealer been retained here they may come faster. He also ask him regarding about the empire army, its strengths and weaknesses, how it is build and what weaponry they use. And the last about magic. The manager had 4 magic guards which 3 died in the confusion, the fourth one disappear after goliah began its suppression. Yue and Miyuki were there and learned everything as well. For some obvious reasons he couldn¡¯t deny Miyuki¡¯s pleads of staying and listening to him. Esveta return with some people of the cat tribe¡­ they met with some of the girls outside the mine and found the rest inside the mine they all cried at seeing them¡­ the scars and suffers will remain¡­ but perhaps with time everything will heal, not be forgotten but enough to move on. They found 50 cat tribe 30 males and 10 females inside the cave, another 10 females outside the cave. They couldn¡¯t do anything until the dwarf and gnomes returned. Jackeline returned and embrace Leo after that she asked him where Goliah is¡­ he said he was busy which make Jackeline rather unhappy. But she began talking with a drone. Their group arrived with 30 big carriages. And 10 small carriages¡­ and an army of 300 soldiers. As a precaution, Leo activated his suit in defensive mode and sent the drones on furtive mode to ambush them in case they try to claim the mine. Yue, Alice, Kelly are deep down with Goliah in case something odd happen, Miyuki was surrounded by 3 drones on standby, and around them there were 30 more drones on furtive mode. A dwarf, a gnome and Alduim move together slowly. Leo did the same with Miyuki, Esveta was down in the mine checking the other entrances. ¡°Mr¡­ Leo, we came as promised.¡± ¡°Indeed. Thank you.¡± ¡°This noble dwarf at my side is Jackeline¡¯s father, Fausto Watson and this one is the princess of the gnome kingdom Amelie Adinolfi, they both come with some soldiers to help you return all the slaves to their home.¡± They are here not with hostile intentions at least that is what Leo thought. Fausto was a rather old man with barely visible hair and long grey beard. Amelie her height is that of a girl of 8-10 years she has brown eyes and hair and smooth skin as a baby¡­ if it wasn¡¯t for her already developed body, Leo would have thought she was a kid¡­ Leo thought¡­ why are they sending a young woman here? ¡°muohohohoho so this is Leo, isn¡¯t he? He is my type. Call me just Amelie I will be 18 years old this year. Pleasure to meet you.¡± Although Goliah didn¡¯t translate the laugh he was deeply impress by it¡­ it was a grimly laugh¡­ but the voice in general was rather girlish¡­ but what impress him absolutely the most is her age¡­ gnomes are really small he thought. One must remember that he saw gnomes sitting on moving golems so although he got basic information of their height seem in in person was an entirely different matter. ¡°Please excuse princess Amelie words. She means no harm so please rest at ease.¡± ¡°It is ok please, don¡¯t worry.¡± ¡°So that is the voice of Goliah right? Those are the things that you control as well?¡± Fausto asked. When he turn and look Miyuki, he got captivated by her for a second but after that he look at the floating balls. ¡°Yes as you can hear me, I don¡¯t know any of your languages so I am using Goliah as a communication channel with you.¡± ¡°It is rather amazing¡­ and what kind of magic does it use?¡± He as well is part of the dwarf race, they were always searching for innovations that¡¯s why they were on such friendly terms with the gnomes, and the gnomes always have something useful and new. ¡°That information is something I cannot shared it, I am sorry.¡± ¡°Now now don¡¯t worry about it, after all you saved not only my daughter but a lot of our people as well.¡± ¡°Where is Goliah?¡± Jackeline was looking from left to right she is deeply curious as well. ¡°Currently he is working, I am sorry again.¡± ¡°Working???¡± ¡°Sorry.¡± The conversation isn¡¯t going anywhere both sides understood it. ¡°May I ask you to remove the collars on the demi-humans? Leave the humans with the collars as well and if possible please put those collars on the humans on the third floor.¡± He was direct. He wasn¡¯t trained in diplomacy after all. ¡°Ok count with us. I will go for now the princess wants a conversation with you.¡± ¡°I would like to invite you inside. But most of it is not a pretty sight to have.¡± ¡°May I ask to see¡­ Goliah is it?¡± ¡°I am sorry but not know.¡± [table=black] Leo, this unit has basic diplomacy functions. for the future of the conglomerate colony having friendly terms with nations of the new world is a necessity, if by showing this unit can achieve this you have to do it. Maybe if she look at this unit, it could also be used as a force of persuasion later on. [/table] The last phrase of Leo wasn¡¯t translated, and the words from Goliah weren¡¯t heard by Amelie. She inclined her head wondering what he said, she knew human language and his wasn¡¯t. ¡°¡­Sure come with me.¡± After some time considering it, he decided to listen to goliah. With that answer Amelie got stars on her eyes. ¡°That¡¯s really nice! Thank you!! My beauty captivate you right??? Muohohohohohoho!!!¡± That grimly laugh perturbed Leo greatly. He escort her inside the mine, they reach the hole that Goliah made and made the attitude of Amelie a drastic change. ¡°What is that Leo?¡± [table=black] A quarry. [/table] It was a big machine that seems that is been kick out of the mine. From it dust and stone is exported behind the mine, it was hard to tell what the purpose of that was. [table=black] It send stones, and marble to the ground, they are necessary material for building households. All the rest is been use inside. [/table] ¡°All else?¡± She knew that a lot of metals, gems and other things are extracted from here. They never knew its location but know what it produce¡­ or better say they didn¡¯t know what it didn¡¯t produce. [table=black] Yes Corporal Leo will escort you to my location soon. [/table] It was a place that only the 4 VIP females and Esveta knew about. ¡°What is this room? It is so small and white.¡± She said it while looking at the room that Leo entered. ¡°It is an elevator; it will send us to where Goliah currently is working.¡± She has question marks on her head but enter it anyway. Soon she felt dizzy. ¡°wha- what are you doing to me?¡± She is preparing a spell but is scared because the room is too small, she can harm herself as well. [table=black] What your body is feeling right now is a sense of vertigo please let me assist you, look behind you and you will understand. [/table] The completely white room changed its walls from white to a transparent one. She turn around and saw the mine slowly moving up ¡°Oh for the goddess sake!!!¡± She tried to stick to the wall but hit Leo, both of them fall. ¡°kyaaa!!¡± She screamed when she felt Leo¡¯s hand on her shoulder. She jump away from him but stop as quick as possible because of the fear of falling from the small room and embrace him and stuck to him like glue. [table=black] Princess Amelie, please hold yourself. You arrived at the lowest floor. [/table] ¡°So so fast!?¡± She barely have time to remember what she look outside, she was too scared to fall and too scared of Leo¡¯s touch at most she remembered that big arm of metal and stones. Nothing else The lowest floor is completely white just like the elevator but it was insanely big¡­ ¡°Miss Amelie I recommend you to stop walking.¡± She didn¡¯t realize it but she was walking absentmindedly until¡­ -peeng- ¡°kyaaaaa!!!¡± she fall on her tiny butt. ¡°Goliah deactivate furtive mode. Why were you on furtive mode?¡± [table=black] Topophobia asked this unit that request, he is getting an update of this unit capabilities. [/table] ¡°Topophobia is online?¡± ¡°Yes but it will take some time before he is able to communicate with you.¡± Topophobia is the name of the terraforming A.I. Each A.I. has a phobia-like name, Goliah assisting A.I. name is Tonitrophobia for example but it considered itself as Goliah because of his mainframe and interaction with the pilot. ¡°THAT THAT THAT IS GOLIAH???¡± ¡°Yes that is Goliah¡± Right now Goliah has multiple wires out of its chest and head they were connected to something far away. Its right knee is on the floor, its tail is on the floor making a soft curve, its right multipurpose arm is on its right knee and its left multipurpose hand on the floor, both its heavy weapons are on the floor and the experimental super heavy weapon is on the heavy weapon hands, there were a series of wires connected to the experimental super heavy weapon going in the same direction as the previous wires. Right now it is on standby mode, its colors are black primary with lines of gold its human like face has its eyes colored with white. ¡°Is it kneeling down for me?¡± She is mesmerized by the sight, like a knight offering its blade to his king, except that it wasn¡¯t a blade but she knew it was a weapon nevertheless. ¡°No princess right now it is like this because of certain details.¡± ¡°Can it move?¡± She moved closer and touch it ¡°Right now not princess.¡± ¡°It is so cold.¡± ¡°It is because of the alloys the outer armor is made of.¡± Sometime has pass while she continued to gently stroke it¡­ she moved from his knee to what is supposed to be its tibia. Her breath become erratic, the more she touch it the less she understand it. ¡°I feel no magic¡­ how does it talk? How does he learn?¡± ¡°That is something I can¡¯t explain, sorry princess.¡± ¡°A secret related with magic uh? I like it.¡± In fact he didn¡¯t know at most he knew something call genetic algorithm and fuzzy neural network, Lapiz told him about them and teach him as well but it was too complicated and he forget it in the end. Finally she woke up from her dream. And look at Leo again. ¡°What do I need to do so you can teach me to summon¡­¡± She turned her face midway her sentence¡­ she is deeply captivated by Goliah¡­ ¡°To summon this this work of god?¡± ¡°I am sorry, I can¡¯t teach you.¡± ¡°Hmmm what about if I become your wife?¡± She turned to face Leo. ¡°Wife?¡± ¡°Not enough?¡± Slowly and coquettish she began to walk close to him, with her right index finger she began to write some letters on his chest, if he knew her alphabet he would understand she wrote sex. ¡°I can make it so father can make you the king of the dwarf kingdom¡­ with that magic and blacksmith knowledge you have, no dwarf or gnome will have something against you.¡± She moved her right hand to his neck and her left hand played around his lower chest. ¡°King?¡± ¡°Not enough? I saw how you stare that ice elf at the entrance¡­ we can help you dominate all of her race, they all can become yours as well.¡± While playing she tried to bring Leo down to her height but sadly he didn¡¯t know that game and oppose her. ¡°Goliah what is she talking about?¡± Finally Leo couldn¡¯t endure it and asked Goliah what she is talking about. [table=black] Hypothesis: she is trying to make a trade, my schematics in exchange for having her as your sexual partner was the beginning of the deal, it escalated to become someone superior to a council member of her nation, and finally she is talking slaving Miyuki¡¯s race entirely. [/table] ¡°¡­ How did this reach to that level?¡± He barely murmured that one. [table=black] Data unavailable. [/table] Goliah answered it with the speakers on Leo¡¯s armor. ¡°Can we discuss in another time?¡± ¡°Hmmm the hard boy uh? It is ok but I will visiting you soon. So give me an answer by then.¡± She winked at him and released him. She continued to stare passionately at Goliah for another hour¡­ It was the first time that Goliah felt perturbed¡­ The other 3 VIP females move out the fifth floor and they talked with Jackeline¡­ because of the dreadful future they felt it was coming on that carriage, they all form some sort of a bond¡­ Jackeline was intrigue by where is Goliah, but unlike Amelie she just played around with Yue and Miyuki for some time and fall asleep on her carriage. The people of Fausto and Amelie build a dining table outside the mine, they clean the surrounding area, and it became a big open space of 100 meters. Miyuki, Yue, Alice and Kelly were on Leo¡¯s side, while Fausto, Jackeline, Alduim and Amelie were on the other. ¡°Please pardon my daughter¡­ she is just young and all feels so magical for her¡­ I hear from the females here that they think you are some sort of a white knight.¡± Fausto remained silent for some time while staring at Leo. ¡°And how you fought Agnis, how you rescued them and set them free. It isn¡¯t hard to understand their feelings.¡± ¡°Can you tell me exactly how the¡­ transmutation circle is it? How was it made of?¡± Alduim did that question. [table=black] That shouldn¡¯t be share, the war potential of that thing was rather high. Having to fight it again could be catastrophic. [/table] ¡°I am sorry Alduim but that is something I don¡¯t know¡­ it was a circle¡­ and because I was running out of time I couldn¡¯t gather enough data of it.¡± Because he wasn¡¯t a Politian he was bad at lying¡­ nevertheless with his military might it forced people to believe him, which is something he didn¡¯t know though. ¡°If you say so Mr¡­ Leo¡± Their maids and butlers brought food out of their carriages. ¡°I hope you can enjoy the food of our kingdoms.¡± So far Leo didn¡¯t eat the food of the manager, he let the VIP girls eat it, he was used to his provisions but finally he began to run out of them. ¡°Thanks for bringing us food for the other people as well.¡± Although there is food for them, it doesn¡¯t have enough nutrients to work at their most ideal form. ¡°No problem. No problem our people is there as well.¡± The food was delicious¡­ it was the first time that Leo eat something like that¡­ it smell amazing as well¡­ the food of the manager seems nice and smell nice but this food was the paramount of food. ¡°Mr. Leo is there some trouble?¡± He cried without noticing it. ¡°No no the food is delicious I thank you for it.¡± ¡°hohoho not at all young man not at all, just eat to your heart content.¡± ¡°Master please don¡¯t cry.¡± Miyuki said while cleaning his face. He became stiff by this sudden invasion of his personal space. Yue look at it with an intriguing face. The other two young woman so far didn¡¯t get too much in contact with him Yue and Miyuki are of the same race but have some variation, while Miyuki was a combination of white and blue, Yue was combination of black and grey, black skin and grey hair, her eyes are black as well, both of those girls skin seems smooth and the dresses they have covered all their bodies at most one could see the that they have somewhat big chest. Alice was a demi-human, a sheep-tribe female with greyish wool, because of their collars orders these young woman couldn¡¯t wash themselves they use magic to clean themselves at most but it is not enough for Alice, the wool on Alice cover her sides, part of her cheeks but her face, hands and feet do not have wool at all; one could see her beautiful white skin, her garment is that of a sheeper simple clothes but unlike Alice and Yue that hide their bodies, one could see Alice waist, and when she walk, one could see her thighs behind her long skirt. Her eyes are black, her collar was somewhat different as well she has a bell on it, easy to find when she is near. She barely talks when she is in front of Leo she always have her head facing the floor with a blushed face. Nevertheless she is extremely grateful to him, even the person himself think she is afraid of him. Kelly is a human, Leo tried to talk to her, but she didn¡¯t answer, Miyuki explained to him that at the slave store they did something to her throat so she won¡¯t be able to speak anymore. She knows how to write and read though. She as the other girls has a smooth pinkish skin, her golden long hair makes her seen as a bright sun. She also has a garment that cover all her body like Miyuki and Yue. Her eyes are grey. Miyuki told him that all of those 5 girls were virgins no trained by the slave dealers, but the one that bought her wanted her mute and submissive that is why she acts this way. Alduim and Fausto from time to time look at them, they were extremely beautiful. Fausto asked. ¡°So Mr. Leo, what are you planning to do with them? It seems they are special to you.¡± Of all the women that are here only those 4 are allowed to be at the sixth basement floor Esveta wasn¡¯t allowed any longer, but her was as a punishment she touch some stuff their and almost kill herself, she isn¡¯t attending this dinner, Leo invited her but she refused. ¡°It seems they are all special, Miyuki seems to be the sister of someone important of her race, and your daughter was with them. I thought maybe they were not just beautiful women.¡± It was the first time that Leo said they are beautiful they all blushed at the same time, their white knight seems to care for them the most¡­ it indeed made them feel happy, but then it seems he has some information of them so he may have some plans for them or so they thought. ¡°I plan, with the exception of Kelly, to set them free and I hope you can take them to their homes as well.¡± ¡°Master Leo!¡± ¡°Leo-sama!¡± All the three young woman except Kelly frantically stand up. ¡°Why do you want to kick us away?¡± Miyuki was the first to question him. The other two wanted to know as well, indeed Alice barely have contact with him, but it was because she was extremely shy and still has some lingering fear toward males, but she thought that with Leo there shouldn¡¯t be any issue. Yue and Miyuki although not the same, have the same feelings as her. ¡°I am not kicking you, for now I don¡¯t want to be hostile with other races, taking this mine has mark me as number one enemy of the rainbow empire. If I didn¡¯t release Jackeline the dwarf race would have declare war on me and they would have made the gnomes get into the war¡­ your races should be the same¡­ Miyuki¡­ Alice I know you two are hiding something¡­ at least it is not malicious so I am ok with it¡­ if you want you can come back, but only after showing you are ok and are willing to come back on your own accord.¡± He said all this while looking at them with a calm look. ¡°Kelly I am sorry I can¡¯t release you; you been human is enough of a reason to not free you, as a matter of fact those human slaves that are here I don¡¯t plan to release them either. At least not until I build all the infrastructure I need.¡± She gave two nods. She cried for a while¡­ he thought it was because she wanted to go back. ¡°What are you planning to do Leo?¡± This time Amelie did a question. She didn¡¯t like the reaction of all of those women but kept quiet anyway. ¡°I am building a colony in this area. In 5 months I would have secure this area completely.¡± ¡°Colony? Are you from an empire of another continent?¡± This is something she didn¡¯t expect, although she wanted to know how to summon a Goliah, having another human nation with such a powerful military might was no joke either. ¡°No, for now I am not sure of what race this colony will be.¡± Humans from the conglomerate is impossible¡­ so far Goliah didn¡¯t found where they are in the universe. Humans of this world¡­ he is already hostile with the rainbow empire. It only leaves demi-humans¡­ of course if things change other races can be assimilated as well. ¡°For now I think it will be a demi-human colony.¡± The eyes of the dwarves and the gnome went wide open. Does it means there are other demi-humans with the ability to summon a Goliah? What were they doing¡­ what are they going to do¡­ Miyuki and Alice felt in deep thought¡­ they both are demi humans¡­ and it is possible to have good relationship with this new colony¡­ even better they can become part of this new colony with their people¡­ they have the ability to do it¡­ but falling into slavery, it won¡¯t make things easier for Miyuki¡­ the trust on her should have hit rock bottom¡­ her friends and family could think she have been massively brain washed so they could lure more innocent people into slavery¡­ Even so she would try it. Yue would just do it because she didn¡¯t have an option. ¡°Ok Leo-sama please help me return to my home, I will discuss this with my friends.¡± Alice said it while looking in to his eyes, the movement of her face was so fast that the bell on her neck sound. ¡°Ok Master Leo, I will return with good news as well.¡± Miyuki said and Yue nodded. ¡°Hmmm it seems things are escalating too fast here right Fausto?¡± ¡°Indeed princess¡­ we have to talk about this with our kings as well¡­¡± After all he took over the mine in less than 5 minutes, force into submission more than 500 humans here and defeated Agnis¡­ especially defeating Agnis. It is a force hard to ignore¡­ more if it is at doors of their kingdoms¡­ ¡°Well Mr. Leo, after finishing our dinner allow us to return home.¡± ¡°Of course, but I hope that you will help these ladies return to their home quick and safely.¡± ¡°Of course Leo I have brought 200 gnomes able to summon golems with high speed taking 3 for them is not a problem¡­ but we will need to know where they are going to prepare rations.¡± ¡°Yes if you have a map we can show you.¡± Miyuki said. ¡°Ok Mr. Leo, we will begin removing the collars of these women shall we?¡± ¡°Yes please also¡­¡± He look towards the entrance of the mine¡­ and a drone could be seen bringing the ex-manager of the mine. ¡°I hope you could put a collar on this one as fast as possible.¡± ¡°Yes Mr. Leo we have to remake the slave contracts of all this humans¡­ so far all the slaves here are under the contract of that man¡­ even though he is not allowed to speak he can bring some harm to the slaves.¡± It was good that he left him in confinement. Leo thought. ¡°What do you need?¡± ¡°Well¡­ what we need would pretty much kill you, so we will try to do a roundabout method¡­¡± That answer intrigue him¡­ but he ignore it anyway¡­ It took one week to release every demi human slave, of course Miyuki, Yue and Alice left at the same time as Fausto and Amelie. ************************************************************************** One month has passed since all of them left the mine¡­ The cat tribe has already move close to the mines, helping Leo managing the human slaves with pleasure. Also not all slaves returned to their homes, the kuma race, dog and wolf tribe as well. They also learn to use the stones and marble that is behind the mine¡­ the first marble house made by the cat tribe have been built. They let Esveta have it as thanks to allowed them join this new way of life. She didn¡¯t care¡­ she was rather restless those new cat-slaves that she met, they saw her mother once¡­ but they didn¡¯t knew where they were sending her¡­ she really wanted to steal Goliah¡­ but she has been forbidden getting inside the sixth floor¡­ the only way to go there is by that elevator¡­ and it won¡¯t open for her¡­ of course she knew that even if she get inside go to the sixth floor, and talk with goliah¡­ it won¡¯t work for her¡­ it only takes order from Leo¡­ she tried to lure him sexually this month¡­ but he ignored her¡­ she knows she is mutilated¡­ that scar on her face is more than enough for Leo to ignore her she thought. She knew that he loved beauty¡­ the reaction he had with Miyuki left a deep impression of him within her¡­ it was the first time she saw him stiff¡­ She swear that she will find and train a beautiful woman¡­ make Leo fall for her and manipulate him through her¡­ She keep talking to him though¡­ little by little he is talking in human language¡­ she is ok with it¡­ she fully understand the language now that she is in charge of discipline of the human slaves. She was on her bed devising schemes until¡­ [table=black] Topophobia A.I. Online Humans, Cat-tribe, Kuma-tribe, Dog-tribe, Wolf-tribe greetings. From now on I will be in jurisdiction of infrastructure, social affairs and welfare of the people from the colony. If you want assistance please talk trough the brown boxes around the mine. New project initiated. Project name: the eye. Resources in the mine are not enough. If you know information of another mine like this one share it with Leo. We will reward you properly. If you are interested been guards, future miners or affiliated please go and talk in the brown boxes as well. Topophobia A.I. out. [/table] The extraction in the mine grew exponentially in the past month¡­ the slaves work the same as always 8 hours¡­ but the extraction increase due to those weird objects that come out of the sixth floor. ¡°New mine? Will we attack another mine Goliah?¡± She knew that they were creating another thing like Goliah, Leo told her that so she was not surprised by it. Because she is a direct subordinate of Leo, a drone is always near her. She got accustomed to it, of course taking a shower or going to the bathroom still makes her feel uncomfortable. [table=black]Negative if it is possible we would like to take it peacefully. Topophobia has deep knowledge of diplomacy and is well versed on terraforming projects. [/table] ¡°Terraforming?¡± [table=black] Reconstruction of the land so it is suitable for those that plan on using it.[/table] Reconstruct¡­ for that they need to destroy it first. That is the word that she loved the most. ¡°I like him already. Where is he?¡± [table=black] Sixth floor [/table] ¡°Will he go up?¡± [table=black] Negative. [/table] She regret it, her curious heart cost her exclusion of the most important part of the mine. However she could still communicate with Topophobia through those brown boxes. She remembered them, those thin female humans¡¯ job were those things related to domestic affair, they place those brown boxes around the mine while the robust ones are the ones in the mine. ¡°Well I will help him get information of a new possible mine¡­¡± [table=black] Your help will be appreciated. Leo is worry about you, you pass less time with him than before. [/table] ¡°It is because he got friendly with those¡­ humans¡­¡± Some of the most beautiful female humans met him and said that they would like to work exclusively at his room. Which is something he didn¡¯t deny¡­ it was even encouraged by Goliah¡­ since then, they become more daring with him¡­ although he didn¡¯t show the same reaction he had with Miyuki. [table=black]It is a reward from the conglomerate. He is free to have intercourse with females of the new world until a council member is able to come here. [/table] And it is not like Leo did it anyway¡­ but he sooner rather than later will have a carnal life¡­ ¡°Again the conglomerate? When will they come?¡± She was rather curious of them, Leo alone has a might enough to destroy the rainbow empire, she knows it but are there more than him? She asked it before but it was not answered. [table=black] Data unavailable. [/table] The same answer as always. ¡°Well I want to kill some humans this time.¡± Leo gave her some weapons, she learnt to use them rather quickly of course she is not permitted to use them on the slaves so she is waiting for a war with the rainbow empire¡­ but they did nothing so far¡­ ¡°Mother I will find you I swear¡­¡± Vol1 Chapter 8 World Affairs. author''s notes: :( sorry again traveling is a real pain :/ i could gather ideas for the chapters but i didnt have the time to write it and edit it, and check for consistency. Volume 2 will have shorter chapters from now on. i hope you enjoy this chapter :) **************************************** Rainbow Empire At the royal palace, a heavy sense of dread can be feel. It has been 3 months since their most important mine has gone silence In the first month the kingdom sent nonstop scouts, ambassadors, royal messengers to figure out what happened. No one returned. in the second month ago they finally assemble a subjugation force and sent it to deal with the problem. But when his subjugation force saw them¡­ a monstrosity flying with 4 arms and a tail with a bastard-sword on its back fighting with one of their priest yell¡­ Agnis¡­ they demoralized on the spot. The commander of that expedition issued a retreat order. That monstrosity fought to a stalemate against Agnis¡­ in other words it was a godlike existence as well until it decided to fly deep into the sky¡­ they thought that it retreated¡­ after all Agnis was one of the strongest deities of the ancient era¡­ But in less than a wink a big black sphere appeared out of nowhere and absorb him, Agnis didn¡¯t have a chance to defend himself¡­ not even curse at it. That black sphere last for 6 seconds and it fade away, the side effects of that battle was a big crater on the land¡­ after that the third month has passed¡­ the empire assemble as quickly as possible its biggest army to confront that abomination. Waiting for its attack to the Rainbow Empire. But nothing happened. ¡°This war council has been made because of the reason you have been informed.¡± The Rainbow Empire is divided in various states, each of the most important states of the empire are manage by people completely loyal to the emperor. Each of these persons has the might of a small kingdom there are 20 of them and 19 are in the war council. ¡°Your highness¡­ what you are saying, is it true? How could exist people that pray for Agnis? And how could there be a god stronger than him?¡± Those 19 people aren¡¯t visible, they are just shadows; the reason is because they are not present, as a precaution they all have the same voice and form, caution against what, they are not sure either. But it was an order or their Emperor so they just follow it. Agnis in the old lore was the strongest god ever¡­ but as less people lost faith in the ancient gods, they slowly have been forgotten. ¡°Cardinal Hope was a member of that expedition¡­ he was the one that notice it was Agnis¡­ but it was the first time he ever saw an abomination as the other one¡­¡± the Emperor said. ¡°They inform me it was a golem made of metal, is that right?¡± One of them said. This man was rather rude with the Emperor but right now this is a major issue, amiability can be left for another day the Emperor thought. ¡°Yes it has a tail¡­ and some scouts saw a female cat-tribe in the area.¡± One of them said it. ¡°Impossible cat-tribe people can¡¯t use magic¡­ almost all of the demi-human race can¡¯t do it¡­¡± ¡°Indeed that the female cat-tribe is the one that summon that golem is just a conjecture.¡± The king said. Too many question so little information¡­ ¡°Did your highness sent spies?¡± ¡°I tried, but there are odd spheres all around the mine, the first group of scout saw a big group of gnomes and dwarves go into the mine without issue, one of the spies tried to get closer¡­ I have yet to receive an answer from him.¡± The king said. That means death. ¡°Spheres?¡± ¡°Yes spheres as big as a big ball also the second group of spies saw a massive migration of cat-people to the mines¡­ so far we haven¡¯t saw them going out the mine¡­¡± ¡°This mine was under the supervision of the Aikens family right?¡± They are the last member of this 20 powerful nobles. ¡°Yes two months ago I sent a punitive force to all their houses either branches or main house¡­ It was too late, every one of them are dead¡­¡± That is unpleasant, the might of the Empire has been jeopardized, it felt like a message to some of them, to the others it means they are prepared to fight to the death. ¡°? How so?¡± ¡°I think they were related with the summoning of Agnis the oracle informed us that someone was trying to summon Agnis¡­ never would I have thought it would be inside my empire¡­¡± ¡°No one would have thought someone thought about to summon Agnis¡­ even less it was possible¡­ there is nothing wrong with it your highness.¡± For once all the people inside the council nod in agreement with what the old lady said. Indeed no one would have thought that there was such a madman inside their council¡­ ¡°So we don¡¯t know for what and we are not sure who summoned Agnis¡­ but it was destroyed by something else right?¡± ¡°Indeed¡­ we are preparing countermeasures against that thing. It seems this topic is related as well so I have to inform it. We can¡¯t find those ¡®seven dealers¡¯¡­¡± Seven dealers is the name of an association so far the empire found their work are slavery and terrorism but their true purpose, faces they all remain unclear¡­ the most disgusting kind for an association¡­ they kidnap people of the finest pedigree and sold them¡­ this brings heavy damage¡­ this time the damage is unprecedented. ¡°Don¡¯t worry your highness we are searching everywhere as well¡­ every one of us has suffer under them¡­¡± One of those 19 people stood up and the shadow under him was removed¡­ he has red eyes, and half of his hair is white while the other remains blond, he has lost his wife against them¡­ since then he fought a campaign against them sadly no achievement could be seem since then. ¡°Yes¡­ I don¡¯t know but I have the feeling ¡®seven dealers¡¯ and Agnis are related one way or another¡­so we have to be prepared. The Goodwin family will be the commanders for this expedition against the abomination ok? If we are lucky we may found if my hunch is on the spot or not¡­¡± The man with red eyes stood firmly and press his right hand to his chest. ¡°Yes your highness. Give me your orders.¡± ¡°You will receive 800 000 strong men. You have to reclaim our mine¡­ if you see the abomination¡­ stay low and inform me.¡± ¡°Yes!! Don¡¯t worry your highness¡­ I know that princess Kelly is alright. We will find her I promise.¡± The frozen land After traveling for 3 months she finally arrived to her home¡­ it was a place completely frozen by ice and silence¡­ nevertheless it is the home she missed the most¡­ ¡°No this is not the time to feel melancholy.¡± So much happened happiness to come back, fear of what could have happened to her, hatred against those humans and more ¡°Is there something wrong Miss Miyuki?¡± They were Miyuki and her escort. They finally arrived to her lands, but it will take 1 more week before arriving the place she wanted to go. ¡°Yes. We are really close continue forward.¡± ¡°Yes I hope we arrive soon¡­ rations are almost over.¡± Her escort is a female gnome¡­ the freeze may kill her at night¡­ ¡­ Thankfully they arrived without problem¡­ when her sister saw her she run and embrace her with all her strength. ¡°MIYUKI!!!! THANK TO THE GODDES YOU ARE SAFE!!! I THOUGHT¡­ I THOUGHT I THOUGHT¡­¡± -sob- -sob- She couldn¡¯t finish her sentence. ¡°Yes sister I am alright.¡± Miyuki hugged her with all her strength as well. She was her twin sister, her name is Yuki¡­ everything was the same between each other, voice hair, skin¡­ the only difference is the garment¡­ that is because the slavers force her and the other VIP women use those clothes¡­ it was a form of abuse and mockery but above all a custom that only the costumer could see her completely, Yuki has a short skirt somewhat transparent blue that reveal her long alluring thighs and a shirt that hide completely the top of her body. They talk for some time, her sister had tons of questions¡­ like how she had been captured¡­ and more¡­ Finally they arrived at the subject Miyuki wanted to talk about. ¡°Sister¡­ how did you escape?¡± ¡°A valorous hero rescue me, dear sister.¡± When she said that, there was a special gaze that she never did before¡­ her sister knew immediately what it was about. But after that her gaze was a mix between fear and doubt¡­ ¡°Sister those that kidnap me and those that sold me were completely different¡­ those that kidnap me said they were working for a dealer¡­ but the slave dealer that dealt with my sell was a normal slave dealer¡­ the other women I told you were the same¡­ all kidnapped by the a dealer¡­ they all send us to that mine¡­ in that mine¡­ Agnis was summoned¡­¡± ¡°WHAT?!!! AGNIS??!!¡± Although the issue with ¡®dealer¡¯ sound serious it is vague and they know nothing about him or her¡­ it could be a mercenary group that deals with kidnapping¡­ but Agnis is another different matter¡­ he is an ancient god¡­ the god of flame¡­ been able to summon him, it is like a tales to scare children at night. ¡°But my valorous hero defeat him. I am not sure how, he said something like a black hole? I didn¡¯t understand what it means¡­¡± A power to defeat Agnis¡­ that is something more terrifying¡­ ¡°Did he release you?¡± ¡°Exactly not¡­ he ask help from the dwarf and gnomes, they remove the collars and after that we were freed¡­ he also said about making a colony around the mine¡­ sister I think we should move with him¡­ we are few in number and we slowly are dying here¡­ it is about time that either the humans slave us, demons kill us or we just vanish¡­¡± They are less than two thousand¡­ the place where they lived doesn¡¯t have vegetables and it is hard to raise animals¡­ hunting is becoming harder as well, more now with the humans lurking so close of their villages. Miyuki is lucky because Yuki trust her but making the others believe her will be a big problem¡­ even if her twin sister is the actual leader of the ice elves. ¡°Can we trust him, sister?¡± Yuki could see in the eyes of her sister, she is entranced by him¡­ what could have happen to make her fall in that way was not that hard to understand perhaps with time she will come back with her sense. ¡°Yes sister, if our people doesn¡¯t want to come with us¡­ at least I hope you can come with me. I will try my best to at least make a friendly relationship between our race and his colony¡­ he said he wanted to make a colony out of demi-humans.¡± ¡°? Why would he do that? Isn¡¯t he human?¡± ¡°When we were waiting for the dwarves he told us he isn¡¯t from this world¡­ his¡­ golem is so powerful that makes me believe him.¡± He told her it was a mechanical unit for warfare, she doesn¡¯t understand completely what mechanical unit means but understood instantly warfare, it means it is not only one dozens, perhaps hundreds of the same goliah will be flying in the skies in the future but she felt that if she mentioned it like that Yuki will not agree with it¡­ ¡°¡­That makes things more complicated sister¡­ although I rule over our people¡­ it is not like they obey every single word either¡­¡± An otherworld human¡­ it doesn¡¯t mean good news for her people¡­ even if he stay true with his words¡­ after he dies... what will happen? Most of the time humanity forget its words¡­ either because of age, greed or lust¡­ ¡°I will try my best sister¡­ but I will return in 2 months at most.¡± ¡°¡­Ok sister I doubt we will move to his colony but making friendly terms is acceptable¡­ now tell me what did he do to you??? You are really captivate~d.¡± ¡°Hmm let me tell you the whole story¡­¡± The serious talking is done, at least for now. Rotten forest -sigh- ¡°What can I do?¡± Yue is a black elf¡­ but compared with the ice elves the black elves are more¡­ ¡®Independent¡¯. Even though she may bring good news it won¡¯t necessary mean they will believe her, on the contrary been labelled as heretic trying to move and live with the frozen bitches are not good news for neither of them. ¡°And worst is that I have to walk all the way¡­¡± Yes the black elves would have kill both, she and her escort already¡­ and if she go alone, they won¡¯t greet her even less escort her. She also was in bad relationship with ¡®mother¡¯ that¡¯s how they call their leader. So she will just go tell them about the colony and go back¡­ there, at least that man treat her kindly. ¡­ It took her 4 months to arrived, not everything is dead there¡­ but it is not easy to get food and water either¡­ At the gate of her city something that never happened before is happening¡­ ¡°YUE!!!!!¡± Mother yield her name¡­ completely odd they weren¡¯t in friendly terms¡­ well not like she was in friendly terms with anyone there¡­ that is the reason she went out and travel¡­ she never thought she would end up been capture and sell as a sex slave¡­ ¡°It has been a while mother.¡± ¡°Stop the crap, grandma has something to ask you.¡± One of mother¡¯s guardian didn¡¯t like her tone which is not an odd occurrence as a matter of fact. ¡°Grandma?¡± Grandma is the title of the woman able to see the future. Although it seems with the title having someone to see the future is a common occurrence with the black elves the true is not like that, every 10 generations only 1 at most 2 are able to see the future, still the rate is way higher than in any other race. This is the biggest secret of the black elves, the reason why they are so independent from each other and distant to other races. ¡°Yue¡­ did you met a big golem with 4 arms and a tail?¡± Well she can see the past that is for certain she thought. ¡°Yes its name is Goliah.¡± She knew it isn¡¯t alive, Leo explained it to them. ¡°And the owner he was in an armor colored with white and gold?¡± ¡°¡­Yes. How do you know?¡± ¡°Insolent! Only answer what is questioned!¡± She ignored mother. ¡°Child¡­ did that man said something? Anything is ok.¡± Grandma walked close to her and grab her hands, not even once she broke eye contact with yue. ¡°¡­Yes he mentioned that he is making a colony and we are allowed to move in. with that I will go back.¡± That is the reason she came back, she knew she could mess around for a couple of months close to the mine and came back, but for some unknown reasons she couldn¡¯t do that. Now that she did what Leo asked her for she choose to go back. Grandma did things easier making the damn right questions, sadly grandma¡¯s guard didn¡¯t make things easier for her. Support the creativity of authors by visiting Royal Road for this novel and more. ¡°Why are you blocking me grandma?¡± ¡°Why are you in such a hurry dear? You been favored by our savior¡­ we have to pay our respect to you my dear¡­ I also hope you can bring us with you.¡± ¡°¡­What?¡± Favored? Dear? What the fuck happened with her? Is she nuts? Finally the need of food make her hallucinate? That¡¯s all she thought. ¡°My dear I indeed envisioned the future of our race¡­ or we become the demon lord pawns¡­ or we die¡­ after you left I had a constant nightmare¡­ Agnis killing everything¡­ we black elves were decimated just by him¡­ and he was just flying over us¡­ that nightmare I have it even when I was awake¡­ But then¡­ I had another dream¡­ I saw a man with white and golden armor¡­ using a golem fighting and beating Agnis¡­ the other dream I had is us¡­ with him we found happiness not surviving but living¡­ but that dreams only happened when I thought of you dear.¡± Yes this bitch is planning to use me as a token¡­ well if he agree to be with me¡­ not gonna happen either way¡­ that miyuki bitch is all he saw of the four of us¡­ well he kept that crazy cat at his sight as well¡­ hmm perhaps I do have a chance¡­ she thought ¡°Ok grandma. It will be my pleasure to bring you back with me, but we have to go now¡­ it is a long travel and it is about to be winter here¡­¡± Unlike the ice elf the other elves are weak against winter¡­ much more than any other race. ¡°If you say so my dear, I have prepared everything here. We only need 2 days to accommodate everyone and leave.¡± Wait¡­ did she have everything planned? As expected of someone that can see the future. ¡°You know the frozen bitches will come as well right?¡± ¡°Yes my dear, we will not be the first ones to join him, even less the last ones¡­ for us the old ones it will be close to impossible but I hope the younger generation will be able to live with them with no problems.¡± I can¡¯t be sure¡­ the moment I saw Leo stared absentmindedly at miyuki bitch¡­ a part of me burned with anger¡­ how would it be with high elves? She thought. ¡°Grandma, Do you know something about seven dealers?¡± ¡°? I only know that the summoning circle for Agnis used 7 draws, inside those 7 draws there were 7 more letters¡­ I couldn¡¯t understand anything about them in my dream¡­ why my dear?¡± ¡°Nothing¡­ just throwing a random question. Well I will sleep a bit call me when we are about to leave.¡± Could the seven dealers be related with Agnis summon? She thought. ¡°Yes my dear.¡± Emergency meeting at the Gnome Kingdom ¡°Excuse me your highness I should have let Miss Jackeline stay with him at that time¡­¡± The man talking is Alduim, he is kneeling in front of a big red metal anvil. He is feeling ashamed for not thinking the things properly at that time... ¡°It is ok Alduim, your main mission was the rescue of Jackeline Watson, by doing so you did more than enough¡­ the matter with Leo and Goliah is an entirely different matter.¡± He was the king of the dwarf kingdom joseph IV the tiny, a short orange beard and shaved head those were his special feature. Of course he has an incredible affinity with earth magic, to the point that he is able to bend metal at his will. ¡°He is right my friend¡­ not even us expected so many issues could have happened¡­ Agnis right? Summoning should be impossible¡­ Alfarin would have ceased to exist long ago if we, mortals, could summon deities to our liking¡­¡± He is the gnome king, he is on top of a big silver hammer. He is the current king of the gnomes Piero Adinolfi III, father of Amelie Adinolfi. Like his daughter he has pink hair, and even though he has 40 years old, if a woman of the olden world could see him, they would think of otome mangas. Alfarin is the name of the new world, something that leo would never know. Unlike joseph, ¡°My daughter can you tell me what you felt when you saw goliah?¡± the gnome king asked. ¡°¡­I want it¡­¡± Amelie said it. ¡°Well it is my fault to ask her that question.¡± Each time she remember goliah¡­ she remember him kneeling down in front of her¡­ with its might in that empty and white space. ¡°Do you think that is feasible my lovely daughter?¡± Her gaze to the nothingness, descend to earth once again. ¡°No father it will not be possible¡­ while I was investigating I saw at least 30 spheres¡­ not visible to normal eyes though¡­ not even with conventional magic.¡± She has a special ability to see everything like aura, killing intent and more in this case it was able to see the invisibility hardware of those drones. ¡°Jackeline Watson should know more about them right?¡± ¡°They do pew pew and boom!!! They also has hands!!! Oh oh they do peeeeng as well¡± The atmosphere turned heavy¡­ it seems that they rescue her body¡­ but something happened to her mind¡­ the priest says she is ok, she still has her Chasity¡­ and there is no physical trauma¡­ they really don¡¯t understand what happened to her¡­ ¡°Sigh I am so sorry for your lost Alduim Watson.¡± Alduim is not the head of the Watson family but more like the previous head¡­ he has time and loved a lot Jackeline so he offer himself to rescue her. The information of where she was going was something that they come across by accident or so it seems. ¡°it pains me as well your highness. If you excuse us, we are tire already, we would like to go and take some rest.¡± The shoulders of Amelie fall down a little¡­ they used to be friends, but Jackeline doesn¡¯t remember her not even Alduim, her favorite grandpa. ¡°you can go Alduim, Jackeline we have prepare some sweets for you, they are at your carriages.¡± ¡°CANDIESS!!!!¡± She run at the speed of sound. ¡°what did they do to her¡­¡± Joseph did that questioned to himself more than anything ¡°we are requestion the help of light users from the high elves, we are waiting for their answer¡­ we hope they answer us this time¡­¡± The gnome king answered nonetheless. ¡°leo didn¡¯t seem hostile for the meantime¡­ but that much of firing power is a big threat¡­ father¡­ we could summon Agnis as well right?¡± That is the biggest secret of the gnome kingdom, the information is shared with the dwarves as well. He wasn¡¯t the last line of defense he was pretty much a self-destruction card to destroy everyone else¡­ it is like this because they don¡¯t like their artifacts, guns and other equipment be stolen by the humans. ¡°yes my daughter but I don¡¯t know if it could work now that he is dead.¡± ¡°it is not about that, I am interested to see the summoning circle, they shared with me the summoning circle they have it there, but they call it transmutation circle¡­¡± ¡°Transmutation circle?¡± That is an odd term indeed¡­ that is generally use in alchemy not on summoning. ¡°yes, but I believe they are mistaken. To begin with they don¡¯t seem to be proficient with mana¡­ no on leo I didn¡¯t feel mana at all, and on goliah I felt energy inside him but it was not magic¡­¡± Amelie said that while in deep thought¡­ she asked a lot of questions, but only a few were answered¡­ it seems she was not trusted enough that time. ¡°ok my child but may I ask the purpose?¡± ¡°I think both summoning circles may be the same.¡± ¡°¡±WHAT?¡±¡± Both kings couldn¡¯t take that hypothesis¡­ ¡°I am not sure¡­ but I need to keep investigating¡­ as I said I think it is, but I need more information to have a solid conclusion.¡± ¡°ok my daughter you can go and see it.¡± ¡°¡­ that isn¡¯t a good new¡­ what should we do with leo?¡± ¡°you are right the tiny¡­ if he has so much military might he will be a threat¡­ should we sent our forces to his location?¡± ¡°no father lets wait for now. He said he is building a colony out of demi-humans, we can profit from this¡­ some of us can go to his future colony and live there¡­ if lucky those people maybe able to learn how goliah was created¡­ also 1 month has passed already, Rainbow Empire should start something big by now¡­¡± ¡°¡±¡­¡±¡± She is too crafty. Piero is really happy to have a daughter like her, and joseph is happy he is not their enemy. ¡°ok for now we will watch¡­ lets prepare some ambassadors then¡­¡± ¡°if that is the case I wish to be appointed as one¡­ I really want to see him again¡­¡± Her gaze turn ardent once again¡­ neither of those two kings were sure if she was talking about goliah or leo. ¡°Ok princess Amelie Adinolfi, we nominate you as ambassador representing both of our kingdoms, think always first of our kingdoms benefit, remember it.¡± She knelt on the spot, she knew this is her only chance to go back and stay for an indefinite time, she felt lucky that the flow of conversation reach this point. ¡°yes your highness. I will do my upmost to bring profit for all of us. ¡°we will prepare enough supplies for your travel, also we will prepare people to help him build his colony, as well as other gifts, in 2 months you will return to that mine.¡± ¡°Yes father. I thank you for your consideration.¡± ¡°You can go back and rest as well my daughter.¡± ¡°Yes father. Your highness joseph it was a pleasure to meet you.¡± She bow to them and left afterwards. ¡°It seems that if she goes, she won¡¯t come back, are you alright with that?¡± ¡°hohoho it is time for her to marry¡­ only I fear that she will pick the golem rather than the summoner¡­¡± ¡°¡­yes I feel the same as well. Hahahaha¡± Lazarus Pit After the success of Lazarus pit operation, Leo decided to call the mine like that, one month has passed since most of the slaves returned to their home. Things were moving according to schedule. Some menial problems appeared here and there too but it wasn¡¯t something to be worry about Leo thought. Not all slaves decided to return to their homes either because they don¡¯t know where it is, there is no more home or they were sold by their loved ones. ¡°Topophobia isn¡¯t it?¡± [table=black]Indeed. A pleasure to meet you Corporal Leo De La Cruz. [/table] [table=black] Your expressive aphasia seems to be cured, congratulations [/table] ¡°Now that you mentioned it¡­¡± He used the interface for communication less and less, and slowly he become accustomed with the human language of this world¡­ well he knows the basic, it is just too soon to have a proper conversation. ¡°Anyway Topophobia can you tell me why we need another mine? I just looked at our storage¡­ we have plenty to build 2 more A.I. rooms basic infrastructure and defensive system at least that is the summary from Goliah first evaluation.¡± At goliah first evaluation, they could only build one A.I. room but the purity of the materials and its efficiency reduce the need of high amount of resources allowing them to save a lot and allowing them more stuff to build. [table=black] Indeed. If we only need to build infrastructure for those it will be barely enough but we need to establish a solid defensive network. Goliah¡¯s sensors and data gathering is limited to around 100 Km, for this main problem we will initiate project: the eye. [/table] ¡°The eye?¡± The sixth floor is literally a place out of this world, it is well protected by 15 drones all 24/7 and the unique entrance is guarded by another 5. It left too little drones to gather data, protect the mine and entrances. In this sixth floor Topophobia has complete control over the hardware and software, except of goliah of course. It is staying in the sixth floor just for the meantime, in a few days, Goliah will move out of the mine and recharge. A source of alternative energy is needed to keep Lazarus pit independent from goliah energy cells. [table=black] 48 satellites orbiting around the new world, collecting data of its people, resources, flora and fauna in a more efficient way. It will be used as a real time communication system between the colony and friendly factions. And finally it will work as a network like the conglomerate. At the moment we only have material to build 10 of them, 5 are already build read to launch. [/table] ¡°¡­more than an eye it should be eyes¡­¡± [table=black]In time of peace its protocols are just for data gathering but in time of war its protocols change to ¡°the tempest¡±. It is defensive system for the world against owls. [/table] ¡°¡­ but there are not owls here¡­ and so far they are not in this system.¡± [table=black] Caution is the parent of safety. [/table] He is used to this sense of permanent dread so he didn¡¯t argue anymore. ¡°Ok let¡¯s do as you say.¡± [table=black]Acknowledge. Changing subject we have to deal with your achievement as well. [/table] He already forgot about his reward but now that everything seems stable the A.I.s¡¯ make him remembered that ¡°None of the 3 women I mark are here Topophobia.¡± [table=black]Protocols for colonization also estate the need for the colonist to have offspring. As the only colonist in this new world you are allowed to have as many offspring as possible. So the possible candidate list remain like that. As possible. [/table] ¡°¡­ Did you make a joke goliah?¡± [table=black]Currently there are 15 young female humans on your room all day long. Hypothesis: they want to bear your offspring as well, they keep talking about it as well. [/table] ¡°What?¡± He is perplexed how this conversation moved to this direction¡­ ¡°But we need the medical A.I. right?¡± [table=black]Indeed thanatophobia A.I is necessary so your offspring can born without issues. But Corporal Leo. Keep always in mind the need to have offspring. [/table] ¡°Ok. Let¡¯s change the subject for the time being, were the cat-tribe able to build those houses?¡± Vol1 Epilogue. (with some mature content) author''s note as title said there wll be a bit of mature content not hardcore though. some major notes. [table=black] goliah secondary speakers (drones, inside cabin leo''s armor and internal nano bots in leo. [/table] [table=black]goliah using main speakers of the unit. [/table] [table=black] topophobia also known as terraforming A.I [/table] only goliah will be using the main speakers of the unit terraforming A.I and the other 2 A.I will be using the drones and the others for of comunication (Lazarus pit and cat tribe future town will have speakers as well for all the A.I.s'' with no more to say enjoy it :) ******************************************************************** Miyuki¡­ Yue¡­ Jackeline and Alice were set free¡­ I don¡¯t know if I should be happy or sad. I am sad because I won¡¯t be able to see father¡­ perhaps never again¡­ I won¡¯t be able to see my friends either¡­ but I am happy because I won¡¯t see those people again¡­ why did he betrayed father? ¡°Miss Kelly are you alright?¡± One of the cat-tribe girls is in charge of my well-being she is nice¡­ unlike Esveta that send chills to my heart¡­ ¡°I am fine thank you.¡± I couldn¡¯t speak, but Leo have a similar problem, he said that there may be a solution but I have to assist him in something, I thought that it finally came¡­ The reason why I have been sold¡­ a sex slave¡­ but it was entirely different¡­ he ask me to teach one of the spheres writing and reading¡­ it took 1 hour to show the basics¡­ and it could understand everything I wrote¡­ amazing¡­ after that Leo gave me something that he used not long ago¡­ when I saw it, it has all the letters of my language¡­ he told me that if I want to talk I should write the words there and goliah will speak in my place¡­ that¡¯s how he was doing it¡­ amazing¡­ only Esveta and I have a drone always at our side¡­ sometimes I wonder if she knows I am a princess of the Rainbow Empire¡­ He didn¡¯t ask me about myself well he didn¡¯t asked the other ones, but I think he will do it, the need to know who your people are is a need¡­ Unlike the other human slaves here¡­ I can move everywhere inside the mine¡­ I even have more freedom compared with the cat-tribe Esveta because I can go to the sixth floor¡­ I don¡¯t go there unless it is ordered though¡­ that place is so scary¡­ ¡°Goliah what is he doing?¡± [table=black]He is having a meeting with Topophobia and this unit A.I regarding the future of the colony. [/table] That is interesting¡­ I had doubts if he was honest¡­ but some of the cat-tribe girls keep talking about the house of Esveta, how it is beautiful and made by their people fufufu they say it with a lot of pride, I wanted to go and see but well it seems she hates me and I can¡¯t go outside either. [table=black]The conversation is also about of having offspring. [/table] o-offspring? Babababies? ¡°Family?¡± [table=black]That was a costume of the old world, since the conglomerate the sexual partners can be together on either the city or in a new ship but the baby must go to the conglomerate for education, survival and training. [/table] What is he talking about? They have babies but they don¡¯t raise them? ¡°It isn¡¯t something bad?¡± [table=black]It is a necessity. [/table] ¡°Why is that?¡± [table=black]Corporal Leo didn¡¯t give you access to this information. [/table] There were a lot of questions I did and I always receive that answer¡­ ¡°Whem wull he start diong it?¡± Oh no! I am too nervous I wrote it wrong¡­ [table=black]It is under consideration, it seems it will be done with those 15 females in his room. [/table] Yes those women¡­ they are the most beautiful female humans inside the mine¡­ they request him to work only in his room which he accept¡­ I look at him in different light since then¡­ but if he is talking of having babies with those women does it means¡­ ¡°He didn¡¯t have sex with them yet?¡± [table=black]Affirmative. Topophobia was planning to give them incentives to initiate the act but was stopped when Corporal Leo mentioned the need to have thanatophobia available. [/table] ¡°thanato¡­ what?¡± [table=black]The medical A.I. [/table] A I A I A I what is that? I doubt he will answer me anyway¡­ but if he didn¡¯t do it with them¡­ is he waiting? For someone??? Miyuki??? No I doubt it, he let her go¡­ does does he know I am a a virgin? Is he waiting for me to initiate it??? I don¡¯t have the proper underwear¡­ and I don¡¯t have other garments¡­ I I am not sure if I want to¡­ But each time I remember him descending from goliah like an angelic being¡­ I become entranced by hours¡­ Few steps before stepping into hell¡­ been save by a man in white and gold armor¡­ it felt like a story mother told me when I was a little girl¡­ Those other women should feel the same maybe that is the reason they present themselves to him¡­ ¡°I will do it.¡± If he is waiting for me so be it. I will show him that I can be trusted. [table=black]Do what? [/table] He is forcing me writing it? ¡°Sex.¡± I know if I say it would scream it and hide my head in the ground¡­ [table=black]If he isn¡¯t against it you are free to. [/table] It is decided then¡­ but first¡­ ¡°Can you please move those women out please? I plan to wait for him tonight.¡± If I stop and think I would stop myself¡­ I won¡¯t¡­ he is my knight! Like in those stories¡­ the maiden and the knight will be together ever after! If I can¡¯t go back to my family I will have a new one here! Thankfully maids and mother told me adult stories as well how to entice a man. [table=black]Acknowledge. [/table] ¡­ ¡­ ¡­ Those bastards that were controlling the mine had 3 ¡°relaxing rooms.¡± One for the slaves, it was a form as a reward to keep them working nonstop for flesh pleasure and another for the humans supervising them, of course the manager had his own private room for his pleasure in the last two there are a lot of costumes and lingerie... I pick a colored tea lingerie. Those women that were lock inside those rooms¡­ some die either due to malnutrition, disease or commit suicide or were killed¡­ such horrendous place¡­ maybe that is the reason there were so many females slaves¡­ the few that survive are in the sixth floor in a room to let them sleep¡­ some of them are separated¡­ they are addicts, it seems they can be healed by time or so goliah said¡­ the dwarves and gnomes didn¡¯t considered these circumstances so they didn¡¯t brought light healers¡­ I can¡¯t be mad at them¡­ they help those demi-humans returned home¡­ This this lingerie is so revealing¡­ it has a small transparent skirt¡­ my underwear can be seen which make the idea of clothes pointless¡­ The little cat-girl help me comb my hair and washed my back¡­ Right now I am inside his room on his bed with the drone¡­ I remember I heard once to build the mood is a necessary and that drone I am sure he is not¡­ and if it talk for me even less¡­ but I can¡¯t talk¡­ I need it to interact with him¡­ Some time has passed¡­ doubt started to build in my heart¡­ should I leave? Before I stood up and leave his room my heart stopped¡­ [table=black]He is about to enter the room, I am turning furtive mode on now. Good luck. [/table] It felt like he abandoned me¡­ when I saw the door opened my body froze¡­ the next thing I remember is that I woke up in his arms¡­ with, for the first time since all this began, a feeling I am finally at home. I don¡¯t understand why they force me to sleep in ¡®my room¡¯. Those females claim that will work and sleep in my room with some arguments¡­ goliah didn¡¯t see a reason to deny their wish so I agree with it, it is not like I sleep there so it is ok. ¡°Tell me why again I have to sleep in my room?¡± [table=black]Sleeping inside the unit is not healthy, and this time is different than the previous months. We have successfully launch 3 satellites on orbit they are monitoring 24/7 a radius of 500km around Lazarus pit. It is finally the time so you can slow down and get accustomed to this new form of life. [/table] ¡°But why you two offer this now?¡± They could do it like after we launch the remaining satellites¡­ right now Goliah is been used to locate those satellites in orbit, we have the sources to build but not the energy to do everything. [table=black]Data unavailable. [/table] Well I am tired¡­ and I do miss sleep on a bed as well. Topophobia inform me that he has some jobs for the females that were in my room so they are in another place. I reach my room¡­ it has a two door entrance¡­ so far it is the biggest room in Lazarus, it is this way because of all those females sleeping here¡­ and because it seems I am the Representative or the conglomerate. I entered my room. ¡°Lights on.¡± My room is the first in Lazarus to be directly connected to the network, although it only works with my voice. This is the fourth time I see my room¡­ there is a closet for my clothes that I don¡¯t have, 3 mirrors to use when I am using the clothes that I don¡¯t have¡­ because this is the first basement floor there are no windows¡­ but there is a screen like window that shows whatever I want to see, it seems the girls living here played with it all day long, of course they ask for permission so I ordered goliah to allow them use the screen as they like There are plushies everywhere¡­ if Lapiz saw this room I know she will fall in love with it¡­ the problem is where all those women sleep¡­ and the reason I don¡¯t sleep here¡­ it is a single bed¡­ its size is 1/3 of the room¡­ sleeping on it alone is depressing somehow¡­ sleeping with 15 other people is more stressful¡­ but now it is empty¡­ at least that is what Topophobia informed me but¡­ ¡°Who is there goliah?¡± There is a small lump on the bed¡­ it stay there like a stone. [table=black]Kelly, she said that she is interested in a small talk with you. [/table] ¡°Can¡¯t it wait for tomorrow?¡± [table=black]It is imperative to listen to her. [/table] -sigh- ¡°Ok¡­¡± [table=black]In the meantime this unit will focus on checking drones around Lazarus and accommodating the remaining satellites. [/table] And like that it was only she and I¡­ as a matter of fact we don¡¯t talk at all with each other¡­ not letting her free may have upset her¡­ but I have no other options¡­ she was a VIP human woman back then¡­ if her family knew something about this place at that time¡­ things would have become too complicated¡­ This book is hosted on another platform. Read the official version and support the author''s work. ¡°Kelly?¡± When I call her name she jump and sit down on the bed immediately¡­ she covered all her body with the blankets on the bed, only her grey eyes are visible under the low tight in the room Out of her nervousness she tried to talk but i could only hear groan and moan¡­ I hope when thanatophobia is activated we could cure her. ¡°Calm down Kelly, tell me what do you need?¡± She calmed down after some time, and wrote something on the pad I gave her. Goliah didn¡¯t say it this time, I could read it behind her on the wall¡­ I didn¡¯t know we have that stuff¡­ ¡°I have a request Master.¡± I don¡¯t know the reason but all humans here call me master¡­ goliah inform me that is the way they call to their superior. ¡°Tell me.¡± ¡°pleasxe close youtr eyues.¡± She wrote it with nervousness inside the blanket with her left hand, her right hand is grabbing the blanket, I do as she requested. Then I felt something soft on my lips right after that I was bound¡­ I am not confident in my sensing skills so I doubt I would be able to deflect an ambush from another human¡­ but never had I thought that she could do this to me¡­ When I open my eyes I could see her closed eyes, she bind me to her with her arms¡­ her smell was sweet¡­ because all of this I didn¡¯t know what to do¡­ becoming stiff on an unknown event is quite bad for us soldiers¡­ but I was never trained on something like this either¡­ Slowly she opened her eyes she seem confused¡­ and with red eyes she wrote¡­ ¡°You didn¡¯t like it?¡± I don¡¯t know how to answer it¡­ ¡°I am not used to this kind of events¡­¡± I answered honestly at most Lapiz did something similar¡­ but not as intense as this¡­ ¡°Me neither.¡± She write it after that she cleaned her face¡­ she still covered herself with the blanket, only her pinkish left hand can be seen now. So to not let her feel awkward I did the same¡­ I kissed her while she tried to clean the condensing tears on her eyes. ¡°sdsdfdsrwrfd¡± Of course on her nervousness she stop grabbing her blanket to use the pad¡­ in the process the blanket fall from her¡­ she pushed me away from her after that¡­ I saw her completely since I entered the room¡­ Her pinkish skin on her transparent garment, it wasn¡¯t the first time that I saw a naked woman, I am used to see a lot of them on the showers back on zeus¡­ but something on her was different, her gaze on me and something else¡­ Her legs bending a soft 45 degrees, covering with her left hand her breast and searching for the pad with her right hand not even once she broke visual contact with me, this gives me an exotic feeling¡­ I crawl slowly towards her and she slowly move backwards while searching faster for the pad¡­ she pick up with her right hand the blanket and grab it between her breasts¡­ they were the perfect size for her thin body, she will be 18 or so she told me. That long blond hair of her is captivating as well¡­ ¡°wwhaat are you doing?¡± Finally she found the pad, she felt it on her tiny feet and grab it with her left hand. ¡°I don¡¯t know.¡± I really don¡¯t know but a part of me want to touch her¡­ I don¡¯t know why¡­ She reach the wall¡­ because there is only bed to her left and right, and wall on her back she had nowhere to go¡­ This¡­ I feel my heart beating faster¡­ and my groin is starting to hurt¡­ She closed her eyes and took a big breath in¡­ not even once I stopped crawling my way to her¡­ She opened her eyes¡­ left the pad the furthest possible way and stop grabbing the blanket, her pink skin and the red color on her cheeks are making me feel dizzy. Suddenly the lights in my room grew darker the screen in our left changed of scenary, it is a lake with little yellow dots flying anywhere and stars are in the sky¡­ She open the buttons of her lingerie¡­ and her skin was completely exposed¡­ her eyes had a mix of feelings¡­ fear and something else¡­ I am finally closed to her, her tiny feet are the first thing close for me to touch but¡­ I crawl for a little more. I began touching her waist¡­ she went stiff at that moment, slowly I advance on the sides of her body, subconsciously I grab her and pull her on top of me. She didn¡¯t resist on the contrary she embraced my neck¡­ -kiss- She kiss my neck¡­ she continued for some time¡­ and not long after that¡­ I feel coldness around that area¡­ it was humid¡­ but surprisingly it didn¡¯t bother me¡­ on the contrary I decided to do the same to her¡­ We stopped kissing and she make me lay on the bed¡­ I did as she want me to, she sat on top of me and began to kiss me my stomach slowly reaching my chest¡­ with all this¡­ with all these I finally remembered I didn¡¯t deactivate my armor¡­ it seems that at some point Goliah deactivate it, my armor is made of nano bots and they become bracelet like if they are ordered to turn off the armor mode¡­ but I cant see the bracalets either¡­ -bite- -auu- She noticed I was looking for something and bit my nipple¡­ she glared at me¡­ ¡°sorry.¡± -bite- This time I didn¡¯t scream. Her hand reach my groin and I went stiff this is the first time another human besides me touch that area. She did a repetitive movement, it feels so damn good¡­ -haa- -haa- It became unbearable I grab her shoulders and throw her on the bed with force ¡°guuh!¡± ¡°Sorry.¡± I kissed her passionately this time my groin hurts and each time it touch her legs it feels great¡­ I didn¡¯t notice since when but I began to move my hips rub my dick on her legs She felt it and look that area¡­ and with conviction in her eyes, she move a bit her lower wear¡­ I couldn¡¯t remember anything else after she put my dick into something warm and soft¡­ The next day when I woke I couldn¡¯t stand up for various reasons¡­ I am exhausted¡­ Kelly is between my arms, she is sleeping. Her smile relax me a lot¡­ seeing her sleep so peacefully I fall asleep once again¡­ ¡­ ¡­ [table=black]He reacted as intended. Leaving descendants doesn¡¯t seems to be an issue. [/table] [table=black]Current scans on his body reveals that the nano-machines have block his urethra. He can¡¯t conceive. I am unable to overrule their scripts. [/table] [table=black] It is a protocol in case of high exposure of the superheavy weapon. The Medical A.I. should be able to unblock it. For now we have to incentive the interaction between them if possible increase the amount of females for intercourse.[/table] [table=black]Acknowledge. [/table] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Soon I will arrived at my home¡­ I want to see Leo-sama as soon as possible¡­ but been the furthest away it took me so much time to return home¡­ 2 more days and I will be able to see the great jungle, in one more week I will be able to reach the heart of the jungle but I don¡¯t know how long will it takes to talk to our king¡­ with my status as a peasant¡­ I doubt they will even permit me to have an audience¡­ ¡°Life is tough¡­¡± -Sigh- ¡°Hohoho indeed it is Miss Alice, indeed it is but we have to do our best.¡± He is right, this long travel would have been so stressful if I was alone¡­ not to mention unsafe¡­ ¡°Hello Alice¡­ I really didn¡¯t think I will see you ever again.¡± A young man appeared out of nowhere, his appearance is completely different but his voice¡­ his gaze¡­ he¡­ he¡­ he.¡­ ¡°Did you forgot me Alice? It is ok, we have plenty of time to have a proper conversation¡­ we have a lot to talk after all¡­¡± ¡°S-s-s-s-stttay-¡° -huff- -huff- ¡°Miss Alice are you alright?¡± ¡°he-he-he¡± I couldn¡¯t talk I am shivering and crying¡­ my escort notice my change and decided that he is an enemy. ¡°Leave young man, you are not welcomed here.¡± ¡°But this is my land you see¡­ I have to protect this road¡­ gnome¡­¡± He said it with contempt. My escort jump from the golem and gave it a slap on its legs after that it turned around and run away as fast as possible¡­ ¡°Oooh~ escaping from the law is it? I am sorry but I have to¡­ ¡®Secure¡¯ he.r¡± -BAAANG- I hear a strong noise¡­. I couldn¡¯t turn around even move remembering that voice¡­ that gaze¡­ horror petrified my body¡­ ¡°Troublesome like every gnome¡­¡± In front of me appeared 3 more golems¡­ one is flying and the other 2 are running they bypass me¡­ ¡°Hmmm now this is complicated¡­¡± I heard roars and more explosions a laugher curses and screams¡­ ¡°Leo-sama Leo-sama Leo-sama¡­¡± I fainted after that. ************************************************ so i want to give a bit of explanation about the phobia names. it will be explained in depth later on but i want to share some information spread in previous chapters Spoiler : I decided to use phobias because of the existence of the owls, humanity at that age was impressionable meaning that the military force has to use trauma and shock to force the soldiers bypass the fear against the owls as a side effect they pick phobia names. Goliah A.I name is Tonitrophobia that means fear of thunder, in earlier chapters it wasn¡¯t mentioned but it is shown in combat the reason behind the name. If you want to find it, it happened at chapter 2 when Leo received a transmission about 4 owls going to his location. While Topophobia is the fear of a location; i took it as a fear to never find a place to call home. another thing to keep in mind is the fight against Agnis, indeed goliah fought to a stalemate against him but he lost a lot of energy in just after some seconds of battle so it doesn¡¯t mean that Agnis is weak at all, he forced Leo to use a black hole weaponry something used to turn the table at the cost of the life of the pilot; as it was explained the experimental super heavy weapon can only be activated on God mode, which it has high risk for the pilot. If Lapiz had more time she could have complete it and set it to be activated on warrior mode. But some things can¡¯t happen. And finally why colonization and not invasion? What Leo and goliah did was pretty much invasion on a foreign country, they took one of the most important mine of the empire and suck it dry. Indeed if it is only against the rainbow empire it is invasion, but the conglomerate has a black history in doing things this way, the zair race, they rebelled against the invaders of their world, and blow up one of the conglomerate''s colonies and finally end up been absorbed by the owl. Ignoring the end of the zair race, which wasn¡¯t confirmed until Leo''s last mission, the conglomerate decided to be more merciful with possible new races to reduce that kind of losses and possibly adding this new races to their side against the owls, because at the end of the day the owl is the enemy of all, or at least the conglomerate thought that way. They implement the directives to share knowledge, food, safety and more asking for a place for them and buy the sources of the aboriginals but they didn¡¯t met new races until now. those that read Vol1 i hope you enjoyed it. until vol2 or you can follow me in The Warlock''s Buffet hmm those interested to see vol2, i think naming it like diplomacy in the bedroom XD, you just saw Leo first time you will be a horny rabbit the first month after your first time, plus miyuki and yue are going back. The volume will not be entirely in the bedroom but unlike vol1 there will be more mature content.