The two large metal doors slid into the wall as Iyah candidly walked into a room.This room was not too big and not too small, large enough to allow a lot of free movement.The space was dimly lit with the only area with a light source being the center of the room.Surprisingly, the source of the light was a male humanoid figure who sat cross-legged while hovering a few inches from the ground.The white light originating from his body was soft to the eyes, going off once in a while.“Father, you called for me,” Iyah said slowly. Her eyes were set on the ground and her shoulders were down as a subconscious act of submission.This levitating man was A'lravee. He opened his eyes to reveal his two beautiful mirror-like eyes.Those eyes stared down emotionlessly at Iyah, she could instinctively feel his gaze on her frail body. “It's okay to cry.” A'lravee's voice was deep and commanding at the same time giving the tone of an extremely lonely and affectionate person.“At some point, all to
“How is it?” Ozia asked, referring to the reality warper he sold to Al'ravee.Al'ravee shrugged his shoulders, “So far so good, she's been quite impressive.”“Impressive?” Ozia scoffed, this was the first time Al'ravee heard Ozia scoff.“She sees you as though you are her father now.” He said.“Is there anything you don't know?” Al'ravee asked with a light chuckle.In response to this, Ozia's red eyes glowed brightly for a few seconds, a sign of his connection to the machines around him.“Well, until now, I didn't know about your unique choice of genes for Iyah,” Ozia said.“Just that?” Al'ravee asked again while he made himself comfortable by sitting on the empty edge of the table with the cyborg.“You seem to be wasting resources, don't you think?” Ozia replied with a question of his own.“Oh,” Al'ravee narrowed his eyes, “Let's just say I have plans for her.” In order not to sound stupid, he kept his words short.“I see,” Ozia said, as he resumed focus on his work. “How has your pr
‘Even civilizations that covered half of a galaxy and gods as powerful as him could still fall. What about me?’ A'lravee asked himself.“How long do we still have to get there?” Al'ravee asked.“Planet Tavron? A month approximately.” Ozia replied in his monotonous voice.“Speaking of which, close to ten years should have passed on that planet.”Al'ravee nodded, “Yeah, I know. Hopefully, my investment hasn't died off.” He replied.###########*Ten Years Later. (Real Time)*The morning was filled with moist air and the sun had not yet risen.The entire garden gave off a unique vibe, it was akin to a mother encouraging her child to sleep. It was peaceful.A tall man donned in makeshift gym trousers stood topless with his well-defined muscled upper body exposed to the world.He clapped his hands violently while letting out a low grunt, this caused a cloud of white powder to disperse from his hands.Laying at his feet was a silver pole as thick as a baby's fist. At the two ends of the pole
On the open balcony that faced the main building’s main exit, Priya stood solemnly with her eyes closed and an aura of desolation around her.Standing by her left was Clancy, the brown-haired woman. Her palm rested on one of Priya’s shoulders while giving off dots of bioluminescent glow.By Priyas’s right, with his eyes narrowed and his feet a few inches off the ground, Galgamuth's very presence was filled with a heroic stillness.Even his act of not really doing anything would make others idly find something to appreciate him for.The setting sun shone its orange light on the faces of all three. Although Priya's eyes were closed, she seemed to be looking at the exact same spot the two beside her were also looking at.Near the entrance of the fortress, beyond the higher wall which hadn't been present when Darius arrived, a convoy of vehicles made its way towards their structure at a stable pace.The convoy consisted of two brown trucks, which had a design somewhat similar to that of p
“It can't be…” Galgamuth muttered, his breaths suddenly coming out ragged. “What is it Galgamuth?” Priya, who was attentive enough to hear the irregularity in his voice, asked. Galgamuth looked up at the crowd, then at Priya and Clancy who were standing behind him. “Let's meet inside, someone should inform Darius that I need to see him as soon as possible.” After dropping those sentences, he flew away quickly and headed into the main building. “Hmm,” Priya sighed while Clancy remained silent amidst all the murmuring. The fact that not everyone could fly like him seemed to have skipped Galgamuth's mind. The rest could only walk back to the fortress, which they had just come out from not long ago. ####### In a wide bedroom that had nothing but a simple bed, a wardrobe, and some basic appliances lying around. Currently, the smell of sex and sweat permeated the space. On the bed were two naked figures, intertwined romantically with sweat sticking to their glistening skin. Hera’s t
“You called for me sir,” Darius said as soon as he walked into the meeting room and saw Galgamuth's back. Within the meeting room, a round table found its place in the center on top of a brown fur rug. Surrounding the table were the figureheads of this still godless faction. Including the twenty-odd people of different ages, there was Priya and Clancy, who stood together on the west side of the room. Galgamuth's back faced Darius and opposite him was Stan, the four-armed cyborg. Galgamuth was the only level 40 above in the whole commune, while Priya, Clancy, and eighteen other people in the room had levels ranging from level 30 to 38 in the whole faction. Darius and Stan were the only level 20s in the room and there were reasons for that. Darius wasn't too clear on how an individual’s level was calculated, but from what he gathered over time, Stan was a level 21 with the Technomancy talent According to Stan himself, the resources and technological knowledge required for
Darius had a mission, he hadn't forgotten it, he couldn't forget it.According to the information given to him by Al'ravee before coming here, he was supposed to carve out a faction before he himself came here, a combat-ready one at that. He was not to make it too much though, more like a faction within a faction.But all that seemed very difficult when people like Priya, Clancy, and the other figureheads were present. Galgamuth usually won't interfere in the happenings of their lives so they never needed to worry about him.All their life, most of these people had grown up hearing bad stories about the gods and their oppression.So Darius now has two objectives, first was to reduce or even eliminate every form of resistance that Al'ravee may encounter. The second was to build a small army for this community.To go about the first objective, he needed Talliu. The people living in the fortress were too negative concerning matters of the gods.They viewed the gods the same way a commun
The faces of the rank 3 leaders when they saw Darius riding into the mansion base with a vehicle they had never seen before, was nice to see once in a while.Even though they had vehicles themselves, they were usually old and ghosts of their former selves. If not for people like Stan being around to maintain them, they would have been scrap metal by now.If not for the geomancy talents that were among them, they wouldn't have been able to have such a large and sturdy base, talk less of maintaining it.This truck was new, unlike anything they had. Surely, it sparked the reckless greed within their hearts, just as Darius had hoped.On his second time proposing, Darius once again made it clear to them that he was experienced in doing things like this.Besides, it looked easy and profitable, almost like a get-rich-quick scheme.The guns, the resources, the technology, the better vehicles. They were bought, Galgamuth agreed too. Priya didn't say anything, however, neither agreeing nor disa
“Priya! What was that?” Clancy came over with worry for Priya.She had previously left Priya alone because Galgamuth was present, but when she heard that loud noise, she became very worried.Luckily, from what she was seeing, no harm was done.“Galgamuth is down there,” Priya said while frowning. She faced the direction from whence the being came from.Clancy looked over. Because of the wall, she couldn't see who was there but she could see traces of a red glow she recognized too well, and a foreign green glow.“Priya, let's go.” Clancy said as she saw the intensity of this glow fluctuating.They both knew Galgamuth had encountered someone who was keeping him occupied for now.Anyone who could keep Galgamuth busy for so long was definitely not an ordinary person.And if this was to break into a fight…“Priya, we have to go now!” Clancy repeated, this time raising her voice to allow Priya to register the alarm in her tone.If this was indeed going to break into a fight, they had better
Meanwhile,Priya sat on the balcony as usual, this time accompanied by Galgamuth only.Galgamuth had his hands on the railings as he anxiously clenched down on them.“No need to be worked up, I have a feeling that things will go well,” Priya said while putting on a gentle smile.Hearing this, Galgamuth breathed heavily, “Did you get a vision?” He asked, his eyes filled with a longing for hope.Priya shook her head, “Unfortunately, no.”Galgamuth sighed helplessly.“But you shouldn't be worrying, even if something was going to happen, I'm sure a miracle will put everything in order,” Priya stated.Galgamuth turned to look at Priya with a strange look, “Miracle?” He scoffed, “I never took you as one who believes in taking chances.”Priya smiled at this, “Indeed, I don't believe in taking chances, that doesn't mean miracles can't happen.”“Miracle or not, that doesn't change things much. You're starting to sound just like Talliu.” Galgamuth said this with an awful expression.“Although h
The sudden transformation into a large two-tailed fire fox startled the enemy combatants.Rijinna, in her fox form, lunged at the nearest person to her, which was a non-human.She jumped over ten meters to sink her teeth into the neck of the non-human.“Aaaaaargh!”The green-skinned man shouted frantically as those needlepoint teeth pierced into his soft neck.For a brief moment, the rain of bullets on Rijinna stopped as the shooters hesitated to shoot their comrade, but that hesitation would cost them.Not stopping to check if her victim was dead, the fire fox went after the next person closest to her, bringing all her intent to massacre along with her.At this point, Darius and the others arrived at the edge of the bowl-shaped crater.Everyone quickly ran out of their land rovers with their firearms. Among them, a few of the combatants had gone to the trunks to take their surprisingly large guns. Darius was one of these few.His rifle was almost two meters long, sharing height with
Meanwhile.The twenty-nine landrovers all sped up after seeing the explosion. The black land rover on the other hand slowed down until the last vehicle behind it overtook it.The twenty-nine dirt brown land rovers continued onward.The black vehicle eventually slowed down. The driver opened the door casually and stepped out.*CRANK!*It was like the land rover had been suffering from having to carry a heavy burden. The noise coming from it after the driver alighted would raise questions anywhere.The driver himself had an appearance that didn't lose out to Rijinna.Standing more than six feet tall with a bald head and a stony gaze, his entire body seemed to be a statue… literally.He looked like a work of art that was carved out of magnificent grey stone. His muscles seemed well moulded and his jawline was as sharp as a cliff.Every movement of his was accompanied by a grating sound, like a stone rubbing against another stone.“Zillis, do your thing.” From the radio in the car, Darius
One beautiful moon hung in the sky of planet Tavron. The light reflecting from the Daystar conveniently bounced off the moon, allowing the moonlight to shine on the still-recovering wasteland continent.The atmosphere seemed so peaceful and pretty, if only this silence could last till the end of time. Alas…A convoy of makeshift land rovers, thirty to be exact, rode fiercely on the dry wasteland like dirty mechanical beasts.All of them were armored, while ten of them had guns mounted on the top with someone manning them.A swarm of one hundred-odd bikes rode around this convoy, with two geared-up humans sitting on each bike.The combined roars of their engines scared away all low-level life forms while forcing the bold ones to remain rooted in place until they passed.Large centipedes and other nocturnal creatures could be seen scurrying into their burrows.Out of the thirty armored land rovers, the twenty-ninth on the line seemed a bit different from the rest. Not only was its mount
Ozia nodded his head, “Then what about your name? You need to add more to your name, your mother might have named you but that doesn't mean you can't add to it.”Al'ravee nodded back at the machine-based god, “Yes” He said, “I can feel the annoying vain calls of mortals, it needs to be extended. I never planned on leaving it just the way it is anyway.”As Al'ravee said this he looked down at his hand, the perfect grey color reminded him of someone.Al'ravee opened his mouth to name himself. “My name shall be, Al'ravee Divera Murreleous Randolez Takuti Weada Balcin…”Al'ravee listed a total of twenty-two words for his full name. Some names came from his reference to certain people or places.Space seemed to want to flow and break at the mention of that full name. From now on, unless someone knew and called Al’ravee’s full name, he would never notice.As though to prove a point, the calls that had been in his head for some time immediately disappeared. No longer was he annoyed by the na
“To think this mortal was able to derive an approximate time for our arrival, she has even seen your rough image, that's impressive,” Ozia said, his voice was laced with genuine praises.Currently, Al'ravee, Iyah, Norderline, and Ozia stood on the outer surface of the Golden Eye spaceship.“Who?” Al'ravee asked as he stared at the magnificent and humongous planet thousands of kilometers ahead.“There's a mortal who possesses the Oracle Talent in the same environment as your Darius descendant. She already knows we are here.” Ozia said, his glowing red eyes focused on one point in particular on one of the continents.Al'ravee looked at Ozia and then followed his eyes to the continent he was looking at. His two eyes immediately turned into two mirror balls as he manifested his concept of sight.He locked on to a wide stretch of wastelands, looking further, his eyes found a black fortress that seemed to have a lot of people gathering near its gate.On further inspection, he saw an old lad
Priya and Clancy walked side by side, with Clancy's hand resting on the former’s right shoulder.“Darius has successfully integrated himself into our society as an inexpensive asset.” Clancy began, her voice echoing across the long spacious hallway.“Yes, he has,” Priya replied, undisturbed by the sudden words.The walls in the hallway were a smooth light grey, as though they had been sculpted into existence, rather than being built brick by brick.“We watched him rise over the past ten years, right under our noses…” Clancy continued. “Yes, we did,” Priya said.“His accomplice, Talliu, is peacefully placing both hope and doubts in the hearts of the commune's members, hope that goes against what we stand for, doubt over the very purpose of what we stand for.”“I know.”“We could have stopped it, but you told us some years back after your injury that they would be beneficial to our cause.”“Yes, I did…” They reached the end of the hallway, taking a turn down the spiral staircase before
“Omega Vitamin?” One of the figureheads said with a grave expression. He had a short stature and had bushy black beards on his face.Darius placed his hands on the table, allowing his weight to rest on them. He breathed in and out slowly, his mind engaged in deep thoughts.“Yes, Omega Vitamin,” Galgamuth said. For some reason, everyone seemed to hover between the thin line of joy and sorrow, not knowing how they should feel.“From the letter, this Omega Vitamin is being sent here from their headquarters. How they managed to lay their hands on it is unknown, what is of concern to us is that they are sending it right into the arms of the Vaderian Cult base.”“Being concerned is one thing, doing something about it is another.” said another blonde-haired man at the table who wore black-rimmed glasses.“If this is the case what do you suggest we do?” Another woman asked.Subconsciously, they all turned to look at Priya who still had her eyes closed. “I already tried, I can't see any outco