I climbed inside of Carnivac and tried moving around a bit.  Everything had been properly repaired, though the shoulder joint felt a bit loose.  If he had been an action figure, a couple of drops of floor polish would have done the trick, but I doubted it would help much on an action figure that was seven feet tall with a magisteel exoskeleton covering a mana fiber musculature. Shiro and I left my shop and headed over to the village Inn.  Shea was staying there along with the two Adventurers from the guild, Shiro’s organic helpers from the nearby town of Thompson’s Fork, and Princess Relena.  Being an Automata now, the princess didn’t really need a room since she didn’t need to eat or sleep, but it was still nice to have a space to call your own to have some down time. A small communal eati

“Lord Jhiax is amazing!” Traluna shouted, sitting up straight in her chair for the first time.  “He’s the kind of genius that the world has never seen before!  The things he invents and comes up with are like from a whole other world.” “Traluna,” Gree warned. “Lord Jhiax is on a whole other level than us!” she said, getting more excited. “Traluna!” Gree snapped.  Traluna shrank back down again at the rebuke. “He’s an artificer, eh?” Carnivac probed. “He’s so much more than some artificer.  Lord Jhiax is a god among us!” she shouted, perk

The tiger thing recovered quickly and took a swipe at Carnivac’s head, which ducked back down and out of the way. When it poked its head over the edge to check on Carnivac, he grabbed a fistfull of fur on the side of its head, then another on the other side.The creature jerked its head back in surprise but wasn’t fast enough. With his full body, Carnivac planted his feet near the top ledge and shoved, pulling the creature over the lip and flipping over Carnivac’s head. At that point, gravity kicked in and Carnivac sailed right off the cliff face after the tiger.Keeping a tight hold on the shocked tiger’s face, Carnivac allowed the momentum to pull him on top. The tiger smashed into the ground on its back with Carnivac landing knees first into its chest and stomach. All of the air escaped out of the tiger with a crunching sound.Carnivac climbed off of the creature as Dad wandered over to have a look.“That was quite the move,” Dad complimented Carnivac. “You’re pretty comforta

The princess told me that in her previous talks with her brother that they’d heard rumors that the countries to the east and beyond the Northridge mountains were forming an alliance. The eastern coastal countries were the Principality of Kokoli, Yliasi, Jalagrorun, and the Maxorian Theocrasy. The Northridge mountain range created a natural border between the Fangwell Empire and countries to the north, acting almost like massive fortress walls.  Kokoli was positioned at the southern edge of the range and was the first of the eastern countries with access to Fangwell without having to worry about those walls. I believed the former Auto-Knight Number 19, Kalua, was originally from a mountainous tree village in Kokoli while Number 18, Alika, was a soldier for their southern neighbor Yliasi.  Princess Relena explained that