Deus Ex Machina

Chapter 6

3 days have passed since Machina had received the Junk City as a gift from Grandma May and Grandpa Jack.

In these 3 days, Machina had also finished his plans, he was very familiar with Junk City, to the point that he had already memorized its every nook and cranny.

Well, he didn't really make a full plan but he had something on his arsenal that could help him in time of his need, "Ex, it's your cue to help me now" Machina called out his middle fing- *ahem, Golden Finger.

And, yes, he had renamed his Deus Ex Machina to Ex since it's shorter and easier to say.

[Answer: 200 meters to the east behind the losorisk trash mountain, you will find a crystal ball]

"A crystal ball? that's odd, how does that help me? well, whatever" Machina was confused at first but Ex has never failed him before, Machina faced the east and started moving, whatever that is, Machina will discover it soon enough.

Junk City has its own terrains, some were mountains full of trash, and some were mountains and hills made of trash, losorisk trash mountain was one of the mountains buried with trash.

Even though Machina had lived in the Junk mountain for a long time already, he still had to be careful as one misstep here can cause being buried into the trashes, and they are not very safe either.

Thankfully, its morning so Machina had no problem venturing this place, he had to circle around 2 hills of trashes and one mountain of it, finally arriving at Losorisk Trash Mountain.

Losorisk Mountain is supposed to be one of the tallest mountains on the continent, it was even taller than Mt. Everest in Machina's past life, but clearly, the inhabitants of this world didn't care and still dumped their things here.

Machina lifted up his head and looked at the towering mountain which extended up in the clouds, "Behind this mountain huh... guess I'll go around" Machina immediately decided and went around the Losorisk Mountain.

Though it will consume most of his time, Machina had brought his mecha suit with him, with a flick of his finger the suit came flying towards him and it was even faster than ironman.

"Time to run around then" Machina stretched his body then bent his knees.

*Boom!

Machina launched himself forward like a rocket towards the horizon, he was not able to control the power of his launch properly but Machina was able to stable his flight with the glide function of the mecha suit.

*Swooosh!

"Wohooo!" Machina cheered as he glided in the skies, no matter how many times he does this, he just can't get enough of it, it took a few minutes for Machina to reach the back of the Losorisk Mountain.

"Search for a Crystal Ball" Machina landed on the ground and commanded his mecha suit A.I. then from his eyes, a blue panel appeared, it started to scan the whole place first, from its terrains to all of the things that are here, then the next thing it will do is filter the things that aren't needed.

The A.I Machina had is not a super so it can only do these things, filtering out the materials that are not identical to the description Machina had given, it took about 2 hours for the A.I. to finally find the Crystal Ball Machina is looking for.

.It was thankfully not buried in the trashes but was stored in an old-looking black box that was sticking out from the pile of trashes not too far away from Machina, and without further ado.

Machina picked up the black box and to his surprise,  the black box was actually heavy, even with his Mech suit that could carry a ton without problem but he was having difficulty on this 1-meter tall box.

After a few minutes of lifting it up, Machina was finally able to pull it out to the surface, panting heavily, Machina sat on the black box and rested for a while.

"It's really heavy, Fuuu" Machina took a deep breath to calm himself down, after a while, he stood up once again and faced the black box.

"Time to open you up!"

Machina bent down and tried to open the black box.

*Bam!

A force exploded out from the box as Machina tried to open it up, blowing him away from the box, he crashed 100 meters away before finally stopping then being buried by a pile of trashes.

"I'm okay!" Machina's hand emerged out from the pile of trashes giving a thumbs up.

Machina stood up and flicked away the sticky things that were sticked unto his Mech Suit, "Woah, that was wild, it actually blew me away, now I'm excited what does that thing do" Machina returned to the black box and carefully inspected it.

It remained the same as it was, if not for Machina experiencing the blast from the box, he would think it was but an unsuspicious box, "this box is very sus" Machina commented as he eyed the black box.

"If the normal way doesn't work, then let's use force!" Machina raised his fist and punched the black box with all of his power.

*Boom!

Just as his fist was a few inches away from punching the black box, Machina's Mech Suit arm was sudden;y destroyed, turning into little scraps, and it was not done yet, Machina was blown away with a huge force towards the skies.

"Argh!" Machina yelled from pain as he was sent towards the skies, it was very painful, it felt like his bones in the arm has been crushed, "I'm going to fall!" Machina looked below as he saw he was going to fall from a high place.

"Glide!"

Foilers appeared behind his back and glided him but due to his injured arm, his flight was unstable swaying from left to right, like a plane that lost one of its engines, Machina crashed towards the ground.

Thankfully, he was safe, Machina took a deep breath as he took in the unbearable pain from his arm, after a while, he stood up and returned back towards the box.

"Ex, how do I open this?" Machina finally asked his skill.

[Answer: A drop of the host blood will have a reaction to the black box]

"A drop of blood?" Just as Machina heard the answer, blood from his arm fell towards the block box, the moment the blood touched the black box.

A blinding light came from the black box forcing Machina to close his eyes.

{After five-thousand years, someone has finally awakened me, nice to meet you, Master}

{After five-thousand years, someone has finally awakened me, nice to meet you, Master}

As the light faded away, Machina heard the voice but because of the blinding light, he could not see who it was, after a few minutes he finally regained his eyesight.

"Who is the one speaking?" Machina rubbed his eyes as he looked around...

There was no one, the sight of waste littered around didn't change, it was still the same unchanged ever since he was blinded by the light earlier.

"Hmm, is there a ghost here?" Machina commented ghosts do exist in this world, they were from the undead race which lived in the South Continent and they do appear in this place sometimes.

To defeat it, they have to call a mage to exterminate it, but Grandma May took care of those ghosts so it didn't really bother them.

{Don't put me in the same level as those lowly undead creatures}

The voice resounded once again, Machina turned his head left to right, up to down, then he still saw nothing, the only thing in front of him was a purple crystal ball with some kind of engravings on it.

Machina narrowed his eyes and stared at the crystal ball, "Are you the one talking?"

{Ye-}

"That's impossible, what am I thinking about haha" Machina cut off the voice as he laughed loudly, "Ex, who is the one speaking tell me?"

[The Crystal ball]

"Mother f-" Machina immediately jumped away with his exaggerated surprise, which ended with him rolling a few times.

{You are a strange guy Master}

"Okay, time to calm down, a talking crystal ball, that's rare, are you an artifact that the mages proclaimed to be?" Machina stood up and asked.

{No, I am not an artifact}

"You are not an artifact? I can't sell you then, what a shame" Machina sighed.

{So you were planning to sell me!?}

"Now, now let's forget about small things, tell me what you are" Machina waved his hand as if nothing he had said happened.

The purple crystal ball was silent for a few minutes, it was really confused by how chaotic the personality of the new master was, it can't understand what is going with his brain.

{...I am a being created by an unnamed God, his best creation, I am what you call A World Core, I am known as the first one}

"Oooh, that name sounds badass, maybe you can really fetch for a high price" Machina gave a nodding look.

{You are going to sell me!?}

"Naa, I'm just kidding, I have too many uses for you, anyway, my name is Deus Machina, can you tell me what you can do?" Machina didn't want to mess around anymore and picked up the purple crystal ball and spoke seriously.

{So this is the real you}

The Crystal Ball could not help but take a second look at Machina, it could feel a different aura coming from him, it was as if, it was looking at its past master, a being who is meant to dominate everything.

{I will explain it to you then}

The crystal ball then started speaking, there were originally 7 of them, each has a world-shaking power, they were differentiated by their color. the purple color has the power to link with a different dimensions, as for the others, it didn't know but one thing it was sure of,  once all of the Seven World Cores were gathered.

An ancient powerful dragon will pop out and grant him any wish he wante- *ahem, its the wrong script, once the 7 world cores were gathered, well, that is if someone was able to gather all 7 wold cores because no one was able to gather all of the 7, even its past master only got two.

But the guy already became the overlord of this world. so one cannot just imagine how powerful that is if someone collected all of the 7 world cores.

"Well, that is great, let's go back for now and talk about my plans later" Machina bent his knees and looked at the black box for the last time, "I will come back for this" then jumped away gliding in the air around the Losorisk Mountain.

"It's weird to call you the first, so I will call you Link since you can link with different dimensions" Machina, said as they flew in the skies.

{Link... I like it}

"..."

-The Next Day-

After talking with Link the whole day yesterday and understanding what it could do, Machina stood outside looking at the mothership, "You can use Mothership as your main body?" Machina looked at Link in his hand.

{Yes, I just need a body then we could start operating}

"Okay, what do I do?" Machina asked.

{Take me to the main core of the ship}

"Okay" Machina nodded and entered inside the ship, every spaceship has its core, it's not the engine or anything, but a special material called Star Core, which is made of a dead star core.

Machina was the top student of Red Academy so he was able to get one for free and didn't need to spend a lot of money though the one given to him was of low quality it was enough since a Star Core could cost up to 100 million with only the lowest quality.

{This is a good ship}

Link could not help but praise as it looked around the ship, it was very clean and there were no wires that could be seen, everything is neat and tidy.

Machina walked inside his spaceship and made some turns and finally arrived in a room called Core room where the core of the sip was located, entering inside, what greeted Link was a pure black room which is void of light.

Only the core of the ship which is glowing in the middle could be seen.

"Scan" Machina spoke and immediately a green light flashed towards his body and scanned him from head to toe.

[Scan finished, welcome Lord]

A system voice resounded in the room and the floor of the room started lighting up, a line like a snake could be seen, Machina nodded and stepped on top of the snake-like lights and finally reached the core in a few seconds.

"Well, I'm gonna put you now," Machina said as he removed the star core, and put Link.