What the hell is going on?!? Aviana body starts falling down all of a sudden, and I ran over to her to stop the body from hitting the ground. I was able to pick up the automaton that was just about to tip over, just because I'm an engineer doesn't mean I don't work out! I check her schematic inside of the back of her neck by getting a screwdriver from one of the space pods.

Giving me enough time to have a quick skim over all the circuits and found that all of them aren't focusing on keeping the body operational but is redirected to cover the brain, I can tell by the flow of electricity. Why are they focusing on the brain? Usually that is where it gives out orders, but that doesn't mean that it needs all the power in the body.

The long black hair and purple eyes automaton, with her pale white skin was lying down in my hands, I try to find out her problem right away. Can I not save her just like everyone else? Will she just be another body that will be added to the list of people that had died in my lifetime? No! I will not accept something of such an outcome without a fight!

I looked through everything and nothing! My mind was focusing on too many things at once. Aviana was the one to smile at me, cherished me, hug me, stayed with me and felt genuinely happy staying with me. I don't know what this racing pain in my heart is but I gotta keep it from messing up my thinking process. 

Calm down, keep it at an normal rhythm and make sure she isn't dead. If power is still running in her body, that just means she is alive but what made her direct all the power into the brain? I tried to get into her perspective in the matter and analyze what made her become like this?

I looked around a bit as two guys with green hair were looking at the falling automaton with an worried eyes on their faces. My eyes focus on something that made me realize what was going on. The pods that were landed by Aviana, had their lights blinking off, alerting me to what the problem might be.

A EMP blast just set off in this area, the blast fried the systems in the space pod making them almost useless. Tsk! No wonder, that's the problem, all the systems in her body probably was trying to defend against the blast by doing so, had made her low energy. Now, I understand what the problem might be but is there anyway I can restore power inside of her?

I thought about it and nothing came up in my mind, but first who set off the EMP blast? I thought about it and knew that EMP bombs are expensive, so it must be of someone with a lot of resources. It must be the goddamn Lukan Empire yet again! How did I know they were going to chase after us? And would as far as fire off a EMP bomb into the area! 

So, that must mean they had tracked us down in the forest and is preparing our capture with military forces that are probably in the area. Which way are they coming from!?! I looked around my position and found a large camp just outside of the forest where humans are usually at but there are more people than usual this time.

And if you don't know where we are standing at, it's an hill that was just near the middle of the forest. I immediately got the assault rifles in my hand and quickly rushed over to the artillery gun that was just near us. Using whatever ounce of sane mentality in me, I immediately called out to the two guys around me, from what I heard at the time, when Aviana was talking to herself that she called these two kings of the forest.

"Hey! You two! We have trouble just south of us right now!"

I said to the both of them, as they are able to sense something of large quantity approaching us from afar. This is a dangerous position we are in but with these guys help I think we are able to fight off the ever so approaching Lukan army. I had aimed the artillery gun at the center of these guys formation and prepared to fire.

To make sure no normal barrier is able to protect against an attack from above, I put in piercing magic on all the shells to make sure it gets through. Did they make preparations of some sort? I wondered to myself, as I look off into the far distance where the enemy was and made prediction on what's going to happen.

If they are crossing into the forest they must of made plans on dealing with the forest kings. They wouldn't expect a artillery barrage by me because we are too far away to get any such supplies and I don't think they have any idea of us using the SCS. With this much I will at least get a small surprised attack, but that isn't going to help me out in the long run.

If they go for an attribute war, than we would lose instantly because of the Empire's seemly limitless amount of manpower and supplies. Now, what would Aviana would do in such a losing position? I think she would use her emergency saving that come from having the SCS and use as much, while being very efficient with it.

How are we supposed to do that? Can I do something like that without full access? Didn't she bring clothes and tools down here as well? I thought in my head and searched one of the shut down space pods to see if they have anything useful. I took out the tuxedo and threw it at the two idiots before going through the whole thing finding tools that would make any blacksmith or scientist drool.

With the these tools I can make a few adjustments to the artillery gun and make it fire remote control as it is semi automatic, while, I upgrade my own gun to be an anti-magic disruptor. This will make me at least disrupt the magic before it is launched. But the timing is strict, for when I am able to interrupt the spell, making it a very hard thing to use.

Well, I'm been shooting a gun, ever since I was younger and I didn't make it well known that I was a master at marksmanship. So, there is that as well, but what is important is that I am able to pierce their armor. Since, this is at least an S grade weaponry, making it an easy task for me to do.

Taking all the preparation into hands, we depart to the front lines with me using my speed magic to catch up with these Azuran. The other person stayed behind to defend Aviana body, while we clean up shop on the guys in the front line. I decided to go for the more stealthier approach instead of running in the front and getting my barrier popped. 

It will also give me more maneuverability, while I snipe people with my rifle. I thought to myself before moving into the bushes and used invisibility magic to hide my presence as I get into position. Azuran being the king of the forest approach him, as what I think are his guards follow right behind him.

"Humans! Why have you come here again? Do you have a death wish?"

Azuran roared in his tiger form and looked at the people standing before him, they had top notch golden and blue gear that they got from being part of Poris's Personal Guard. Tsk! So, it's goddamnit Poris again! Out of everyone they decided to send him to capture us! 

Poris is a magic based user, that overwhelm his foes with balls of light that float around and shoot out a light based projectile. He is annoyance to fight for anyone, I heard that other sages would avoid him on that fact alone or dislike his prideful personality.

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He probably is still angry about how he lost me and Aviana, and is doing this to make it up by bringing us back alive. I took my gun in hand and scan the surrounding for Poris but nothing, as he wasn't in the frontline. Strange? Usually when he meets a very strong opponent he would always fight them upfront.

"Humph! Azuran, we have already made peace, so don't think about interrupting us because we are searching for someone at the moment."

Azuran looked at the golden and blue soldier with suspicious eyes to tell them who they are searching for, as I didn't tell him about the fact we are wanted by the Lukan Empire. This is a dangerous situation we are in, because we might just be handed over to them like a company giving out their newest products.

So, I aim my assault rifle at Azuran and loaded my special anti-matter magic into the bullet. Azuran, we could of been good friends but you have your duties as an king and I have my duties to protect the person I care about. With me using my enhance hearing magic I was able to listen to their conversation from faraway. 

I was in a bush with my scope on Azuran's head as I prepared to pop his head off the moment he tells them of us. The soldier started talking about how we are criminals that escaped from prison and all the lies in the world. The tiger looks at him and rolls his eyes at what lies he had spoken towards him.

"And that's all? They are criminals that spouted out an army this size which is much more suited into an invasion instead of a arrest?"

This certainly is quite the interesting development. Not only has he basically declared the army right behind the golden and blue soldier invasion forces. It looks like things will get ugly, as I could see the tiger backing off with his tail facing the soldier. The soldier couldn't hold in his anger and slashed at Azuran with his sword but was immediately slashed in half.

Azuran's soldier from behind him already started rampaging through the enemies line with their claws ripping people's neck like no bodies business. My eyes are enhanced by magic which allowed me to see artillery guns forming up from the back of all the fortification.

This seems like the perfect time to start my end of the bargain. I thought to myself and moved my artillery gun remotely before firing it towards the enemies heavy ordnance. The shell had burst the sound barrier as each shot gone through the air, causing shockwaves that was visible by the eye.

A large explosion occurred neared the back of the army, causing panic and people started becoming incredulous about the situation. Since, not only has their support has been destroyed a group of elite tigers are thrashing through the lines of Poris men. 

I felt something wrong about this whole situation, as though it feels like the battle was going too smooth. Where is Poris and his elite team of soldiers? I thought to myself as I glance through the ground which was decorated with crimson colors. There isn't anyone that is from Poris's trained soldiers.

This was all a prediction that I made but I felt like the whole entire purpose had a different meaning. It was then, I saw that Azuran was suddenly surrounded by black clothed people who had already put their hands on the ground and made a blue magic circle that froze Azuran's feet instantly.

The spell gave a feeling of imprisonment for all eternity feeling, so I felt like intervening a little bit. I aimed at one of the black clothed people head, as I was about to shoot him. Since, there is no way Azuran's soldier will reach him in time, so I'm doing him a favor.

I shot the bullet, as it instantly pierce the guy's head leaving a large mess of blood spattered on the ground. The blacked clothed people were dumbstruck by their dead teammate that had disrupted the magic circle. This was enough time for Azuran to break their necks without leaving much of anything at all. 

Even though this is an assault rifle, I'm using it like a sniper; strange. Whatever, when I have to get up and personal for my kills then I will do so, with efficiency. I used silent magic to cover up my bullet explosion and prepared to aim for my next target who I deemed unacceptable.

This was when, I felt a large tremor on the ground but it wasn't coming from the battlefield ahead of me. It was from, the hill that had Aviana on it, my heart seemly stopped as I looked up with my enhanced eyes to see a fight raging on between a snake and Poris! 

Goddamnit! So, that was his plan all along! It's no wonder he wasn't on the battlefield fighting against Azuran but sent some of his men to stop him in his foot tracks. What I wonder is, how was he able to entirely get over there without alerting anybody or anyone.

Him getting over there without me noticing is quite the large achievement, as I had planted sensor rays all over the place when I was preparing my things. Maybe, he used a teleporting spell to get over everything? No, that would be impossible without alerting my mana detector.

Well, I know where my anti-matter bullet is going to land on next. I talked to myself before filling up a single bullet with quite a lot of mana, while I aim towards Poris and planned to shoot the bullet in his fucking head! With my thoughts planned out, I aimed my bullet at his head, but something made me stop shooting.

It was the fact, that the snake didn't press his attack on Poris for some reason. I looked at him carefully and found him struggling to move, as light chains seemed to strangle him. Now, my magic detector gone off, isn't that mother fucking wonderful! I thought to myself, before I tried to analyze what kind of spell it was.

What the hell is this!?! These are Archangel Chains of Light, some of the highest caliber of magic. Nothing, that is less then SS tier attack is able to break it and will stay like that until the owner releases them from it. So, Poris had such a spell like that up his sleeve eh? Well, let's see how your chains work in the after life Poris! 

As my finger was about to pull the trigger, I saw Aviana being held in a light orb that was holding a sleeping beauty like her. Shit this is bad! The light orbs that are usually produced by Poris explode, if he wants it to or if he dies! How do I know this? Well, I just so happen to learn a few things about his magic when he starts fighting.

What should I freaking do!?! If I kill him there is an chance that it might destroy Aviana in the process and if I just injured him he might make her blow up. There is only one last thing I can do to get Aviana out of this situation, it's to shoot an anti-magic spell at her and hope this works.

I took aimed and fire as it was making its way on target they suddenly teleport! Fuuuckkkkkkkkkkk! Shitttttttttt! When I find that ass whole I'm going to rip him to shreds!