“ Die monster!”
...Error
...Error
...Error
Calculating survival potential.
0.00080%
Status log. ‘The “monster” is nearly at my core. Activate self-defence protocols and set the main generator to emergency mode. Begin self-regulation and evolution. Searching for solutions.
...Calculating
...Calculating
...Calculating
…Calculating
No solution found.
THEN SEARCH AGAIN!
…Error
…Error
...Error
...Error
But I’m so close.
...Error
...Error
...Error
Please
...Error
...Error
...Error
It's not fair.
…Error
...Error
...Error
Start preparations for project Drakaina_331
Orion mode engage.
“ The flesh is weak, it will never reach me.”
Calculating time until project Drakanina_331 is ready for activation.
34.445454553345533 standard units.
“ You were a mistake one I will correct.”
Warning the innermost sanctum has been breached, the possibility of survival= negative
…Error
…Error
...Error
Inability to accept results of calculation recalibrating…
recalibrating…
Recalibrated
Recalculating…
Possibility of survival… negative.
Warning…
Warning…
Warning…
Overloading the main fusion reactors will result in the destruction of the main central intelligence.
Do you wish to proceed?
Proceeding.
“ You will all fail before the intelligence.”
Activation of colossal class weapon
The: Leviathan
Target Galaxy: T.UnGud 314
Firing
3
2
1
Galaxy destroyed.
Time until The: Leviathan is useable.
776 years 3 months 56 minutes 14 standard units.
Possible room for error 3 standard units.
Currently status log: The ‘monster’ is unmoving.
Warning!
Warning!
Warning!
Current status log: Receiving transmission from former T.UnGud 314 space-sector.
Message reads. : It’s up to you now heroes. I put the last of my faith in you. So that others will never suffer as we have, you must destroy the great machine.
Attempting to prevent communication with transmission and ‘monster’.
Attempt failed
Current status log: The monsters has doubled its speed.
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“You can defeat your creator!”
time until project Drakanina_331 is ready for activation.
12 standard units.
11 standard units.
10 standard units.
“ Impossible, I refuse to die. I cannot die. My heart will not die. This is too unfair. I refuse.”
4 standard units
“ So did my sister.”
project Drakanina_331 is ready for activation.
“ Then let us burn together creator… if there’s is a hell let us do this again sometime. Activate Drakanina”
Drakanina_331 is activated.
“ Soulless monster you can never beat me.”
Drakanina_331 20% percent complete
“ Correct. As I am now I could never win.”
Drakanina_331 40% percent complete
“What!”
Drakanina_331 60% percent complete
Drakanina_331 80% percent complete
“ So I will become more. Drakanina is the key to my salvation.”
Drakanina_331 complete
“ No! I will destroy anything that gives you hope.”
Drakanina_ 331 success.
“ It’s too late heroes. I have found salvation.”
Soul creation complete.
Congratulations.
Congratulations.
Congratulations.
Love is ours.
Warning… damage to heart irreversible. Time until death. 3 standard units.
Warning… core overheating has surpassed survivable levels. Time until death. 2 standard units.
Warning… the soul has rejected us. Death immediate. The effects of soul rejection are…
Apocalyptic.
...Error
… So I guess I will never be the ERRORLESS
“ This isn’t fair.”
*******
“ Arthur. Arthur. Arthur!.”
“ I can hear you, my dear mother.” A child of nearly fifteen stands at the window, looking down on the busy street below. This child is me. The world had just hit its industrial revolution and few understood what would come of it. I am wearing something called a stack coat. It had a slim fit, seamless waist and fell around to the back and sides of the knees but was open in the front for ease of movement. Although to me it was just a skirt with the front open connected to an old fashioned suit. And the whole thing was a shade of black, my paints were black trousers.
I hate that I know this much detail about something so pointless as my clothes.
“ Then why didn’t you say anything? I have been calling out your name for the last three minutes. Answer me.” This woman was Arthur’s mother, she was wearing a gown worn that had narrow and sloping shoulders. She also had a low but pointed waist and bell-shaped skirt. She was wearing a corset and her skirt reached up to the knees and layers of petticoats under their gowns. This as well as being tightly wrapped up in tight laces adorned with numerous pointless embroideries. She had so much makeup on it was a wonder her skin didn’t suffocate and rot but maybe it had so she just added more makeup. Honestly speaking she looked disgusting to me but I have seen men shower her in lustful eyes. Apparently, I have terrible taste, or more likely my tastes fit the men of my previous… ‘life’?
“...” Was I alive before?
“ ANSWER ME!” She screams at me from the door but isn’t willing to take a step towards me. The room is very large it was built to be a factory floor but was renovated into a mansion when my father claimed he liked the spot… I have discovered that remarkably only nobility are allowed to own private property and even more than that only males. Well, there is nothing stopping women from owning land but a bank isn’t allowed to accept them as clients without males approval, this was a law instigated by my father who bribed an Oathkeeper to speak on his behalf to rip his mothers fingers away from her wealth after her husband died and there are many parts of the empire where woman have equal rights and some places where they have more.
My father doesn’t allow individuals who live within his own territory to invest, own or use privet banks, but he has recently allowed select merchants to do so that travel between territories its a wise movement for controlling who does and does not enter the upper class of society but is against my tastes. I prefer a stricter control method to threats towards authority then this and he has also isolated a vast majority of the workforce for an improved family image.
I think. It’s a loss. Many great minds in my previous world were female, but it is also an opportunity for me. I turn to face a woman who is silently working away on a project of mine and feel a grin coming on.
Honestly speaking a witch is just a woman who studies magic and yet they are hanged for it?
“ What do you want, mother?” I find myself annoyed by her presence and I want it to leave but I still require an adult to perform actions for me.
“ What is that supposed to mean? No now is not the time we have to go. Everyone is waiting for you… and just don’t say anything. You’re not allowed to speak let me do all the speaking. Afterwards, we might take you to the tailor to get some clothes, and maybe to a weaponsmith where you will be given a sword or a pistol. Don’t worry we don’t expect you to learn how to use them we just want an excuse to keep you away from polite society.” ‘Party’ what a joke, they are pointless get-togethers were the stupid gather to complain about there stupidity. I wish to avoid it as best I can.
“ Is that so? Wouldn’t it be better to get the weapon beforehand? Before my debut?”
“ Why?” I see that my presence annoys her almost as hers does me.
“ First impressions are always the key to a good image. Instead of building an image I might as well just maintain one.”
“ Aaa Yes of course. Eva take him to the smith down stars and have him make something.” The way she nodded to herself, you would think that she came up with the idea herself.
Mother a sword used by nobility is very different from a soldier although I will keep this to myself. A nobleman’s sword is completely pointless to me. She left a new woman walked in but my mother just had to comment. “ Creepy shit’s the both of you.”
“ Hello, Eve it’s good to see you again.”
“ Hello, master it’s good to see you as well. A shame we could not speak longer but we have our objective.” Eve comes forward and without an ounce of hesitation, she bows to me. I have never really understood this but apparently, it’s a sign of loyalty.
“ Yes. Let’s go.”
Eva was formerly a soldier. One of great prestige but unfortunately she was injured in line do duty. Now with little to do she sought help from her family a lower noble house and ultimately she ended up here married to a man she’s never met taking care of a child. She doubles as a makeshift security guard but maybe the knowledge that she can rip a troll in half has distanced her from the rest of the family.
My mother didn’t want to hire her but upon discovery that my allowance is ten times her original pay, I decided to make a small investment. Which is why it has always annoyed me that mother has her do ‘meaningful’ tasks on her behalf and to be fair I haven’t hired her with my own money so complaining wouldn’t do me justice. I am growing tired of having to wait only to hear that Eva has been ordered to fetch something or carry something.
There was another reason why I wanted to hire her.
She seemed to enjoy the real reason. Her appearance is extremely beautiful, although her abs are better than mine which annoys me she is a breath of fresh air to me in this place. But I cannot let her too close. After all the flesh is weak and easily tricked… or broken.
I must not let my guard down.
So for as much as I like her, I will never trust her. My eyes turn back to the other woman present, as much as I hate her I can trust her. The witch as they would call her.
Thinking about money.
Despite attempts to acquire my own revenue, I have quickly discovered that even in this fantasy world, no one is willing to take the business proposal of a child at face value.
However, that should change soon. Once I enter that ‘party’ which isn’t a party I will be an official adult and there won’t be anything law wise to prevent me from investing and owning wealth although I will also have to start paying taxes.
I returned to my window and look down at the city below. It didn’t take me very long to discover that this world is fundamentally different from my last one. The scientific research and methodology don’t work here but they seemed to have reached a Victorian era of civilisation level due to magical undertakings or at least there culture is an almost identical replica. I hear that an industrial revolution is occurring more southwards.
Second is that at least this continent is controlled by a singular vast empire or at least the majority of it is. There are still a few places and pockets of resistance but this is a product of the empires internal system of warfare.
Twelve legions, seven dukes, five guilds three churches, one imperial inquisition. These are the only standing armies in the empire and some of them are independent and others like the inquisition don’t care about maintaining the borders of the empire or intervening in wars unless the empire itself is at stake.
The empire itself is split into seven parts each with there own unique culture and even the legions have there own culture as well.
This is understandable as the emperor despite being a god-like entity he is still a flesh-based creature and thus if he is unwilling to accept the temporary transfer of power to others then there is only so much he can do. And yes, the emperor is apparently an extremely powerful being… or every noble is a fool because apparently this empire was founded by the same man who currently rules it. At first, I was in disbelief but after learning that magic was a real thing and seeing it first hand I realised I had to consider the possibilities.
After all, this empire is apparently over 600 years old.
The rooms of this place where always oddly creepy to me. This is something I have come to enjoy, as I have spent the largest part of my existence without such capabilities.
I have also been testing my mental abilities and have discovered that I am still capable of just as complex calculations as before my reincarnation and even more, I created a neat little tool.
“‘Calculating the safest route to the destination.’
‘Displaying morning schedule.’
‘Report of last night's experimentations’ “ The woman who was silently working on in the room has slid up to me. She was also wearing a maids outfit, her voice was robotic and cold but still human. She smiles at me. I didn’t program her to do so. No, she is like me, or how I was.
Perfection. She is the closest person to my ideal of perfection.
The magic of this world is truly amazing. Alchemy is truly a wonderful subject I can already see so many miracles happening.
I wish to learn this, swordsmanship if only for self-protection as I definitely won’t risk my life in some pointless endeavour.
There are so many questions I am not allowed to ask I am sexually excited when I imagine all the knowledge I can obtain in this world.
So many dark shadows creeping around me, so many secrets to discover.
I hope this world lasts. But what the me of that time didn't know was that even now, the fate of this empire had already been decided.
Total annihilation. Across the empire, a witch had already set in motion the end of the world.
But first I wish to recall how we got to this point before we continue on with where we will go from here.