Synthetic Survivor: Machine Age - Chapter 132

“Ugh, no. I’m fairly certain that many other mages have blue eyes that glow,” One said.

“But yours is different,” Stacy said.

“I don’t know if I should take you seriously like I did before I determined you were an idiot or just go along with your childish antics,” One said.

“Take me seriously!” Stacy complained. One wasn’t remotely pleased with their interaction.

One was on edge just a moment before, thinking that Stacy would pose a threat. But although she was a powerful mage, she was an idiot, like a child entrusted with too much magical power by her overly forgiving parents.

“Look, okay, I mayyyy be an idiot but that doesn’t mean I’m incompetent,” Stacy said.

“I think being an idiot automatically makes you incompetent,” One clapped back.

Stacy then sighed as if she was the professional dealing with manchild although it was the other way around.

“Fine, I only know that you’re a metal man because back at the Imperial Capital, we were visited by one of the Goddesses, who told us she would take care of the ‘metal men’ leader by kidnapping him,” Stacy said.

With the mention of the Goddess, One began to take Stacy’s words seriously again.

Stacy, noticing this, continued. She may had been an idiot of some magnitude but she knew that if she did not behave herself while talking about the goddess that tried to kill the metal man in front of him, she would risk her own life.

Hell, she realized.

Why did I mention the goddess!

It was at this moment that she knew, she should have just shut her mouth.

She felt the overbearing aura of the metal man close in on her.

But something came up in One’s mind that made him rethink his understanding of the events that had transpired between when he awoke from his battle with the Goddess.

“Lord Toris, just who exactly is he?” One asked.

“Eh?” Stacy was surprised.

“I thought you’d already know him because you’re comfortable with Wog who you declared King. Under Imperial law, declaring a mere commoner a ki-”

Stacy stopped talking. She sensed immense killing intent from One. The first of its kind.

“Hey relax, okay, uhm, you wanna know who Lord Toris is? Well, Lord Toris is the King of the Kingdom of Westerwon. A vassal to the greater Imperial authority,” Stacy said.

Stacy then began scratching the back of her head.

“And he wasss the king of this here Fortress city until you decided to crown that dwarf, anyways, that’s not the problem. The problem is that Lord Toris has lost two important things, this city and that elf,” Stacy said.

“So he lost this city and his sėx slave?” One said.

“Huh?” Stacy was confused.

“Wait no, you see, that elf was entrusted to Lord Toris while I acted as her chaperone of sorts and then suddenly he gets the great idea of undoing the seal and controlling the monster within her so that he could overthrow   Imperial rule,” Stacy said.

One was finally getting the bigger picture.

“So you tried to escape? Why didn’t you just ask for ȧssistance from the Imperial Corp of Mages considering how you’re an archmage yourself, surely Archmages such a yourself have a say, right?” One asked.

“It ain’t easy like that.. but..” Stacy walked away and sat on one of the couches.

“My legs hurtttttt, don’t your legs get hurt or something? Come on you’ve been standing for like days straight,” Stacy said.

“I can stare at you until you die of old age,” One said.

“Now, please continue your explanation of what I should know or else I will see to it that you’ll meet the same fate as the goddess that tried to kill me,” One said.

Stacy’s face then turned pale.

“Y-you killed the goddess?!” Stacy said.

“I think? Her body is over there in the forest but I doubt the wildlife would go easy on a free corpse,” One said.

“I-impossible,” Stacy trembled.

One then sat on the couch opposite of Stacy.

“Now, talk,” One said.

“F-fine, but before I reveal anymore of my secrets, we need to make a deal,” Stacy said.

“A bargain huh?” One said.

“Look, we’re both equally strong. Sure I may be an idiot but I have enough firepower to raze this entire city but you also have that power, that makes us even. Although you claim to have killed the Goddess, I don’t really think that’s the case but oh well, okay but..”

Stacy kept on talking but she always deviated from the subject she wanted to discuss. If this kept up, One would be forced to sit through Stacy talking about her life story before he could gain anything more.

“Sta… cy,” One raised his hand, pointing the palm directly at her.

“W-wait, okay, the deal is that we keep each other’s identities secret and our goals, whatever yours are, far away from each other. Okay? Look, I don’t want to turn the main continent into a hellscape like what you did with the southern peninsula,” Stacy said.

“Deal,” One said.

“Huh? Just like that?.. eh!? Wait! Wait.. that’s too good for you, I mean, huh!?” Stacy was utterly confused with One’s total acceptance of her terms without him even bothering to negotiate.

Was she being belittled? She thought. Clearly they were on par in terms of strength and she knew the power of the metal men thanks to the Imperial investigation team that was sent before the fall of the Freetan Theocracy’s capital. But still.

“I like those terms, I see no reason for me to negotiate,” One said.

“Really? Great, well then, uhm, can I go now?”

One was completely being dumbfounded with the mage in front of her. She was the one who broke into his room in the first place and now she was asking permission to leave?

And for the record, One did not plan to honor their agreement for long. He knew his drones were drawing ever nearer to his position and it was only a matter of time before another war was to start.

There were still some things that he did not understand with Stacy’s explanation of things but at least one thing was clear.

She can be used.