Synthetic Survivor: Machine Age - Chapter 135

The sky rumbled as dark clouds circled around the figure that floated in the sky. The city, jolted awake, sprang into action with soldiers and mages taking up positions around on the walls and some evacuating the citizens to the castle.

A single watchtower then sounded the alarm. There were bright yellow lights to the west, hundreds of them. There was no doubting what was about to happen, the enemy had already arrived.

One was completely taken aback. He took the words of the messenger to heart, thinking that they still had 2 more weeks before the fight.

One had no choice but to try and fight this battle with his strength and on-the-go plans.

William lead the western section of the wall, Jorn took it upon himself to head the evacuation of the outer district into the inner district and Toby amassed whoever mage he could find.

The drums of war sounded from afar. They were being taunted. The enemy army sang a song with lyrics that taunted the defenders.

“Imperial might!” They sang.

“Our enemies shall fall with our swords in fright!” They continued.

Their voices echoing in the dark night.

“Enough of this,” One charged up his two palms once again and aimed them at the figure floating above.

With his night vision on, he saw the figure was a man. A man dressed in a white tunic with a red cape fluttering behind him.

He then saw the man’s face, he was smiling. Belittling One’s abilities to fight back since he was grounded.

One activated his thrusters and lifted himself into the air. This came as a surprise to the man but he was still smug.

“So you can fly as well, quite an achievement for a man without magic, are you under those dark gods?” The man was straightforward.

But One had no time to chat.

With his eyes glowing against the darkness of the night, his palms glowed as white as snow and after a short wheezing sound, a pillar of energy escaped from his palms.

The man was confident in his magical barrier that he’d negate the effect and power of whatever magic the man in black was casting. Unlike their first attacks against one another, he didn’t answer One’s attack with another beam.

But he was wrong, dead wrong. What One fired upon him was not any kind of magic manipulated to form a pillar of energy shot from his palms, instead, it was a combination of charged particles infused into a sort of cylinder that he shot using a combination of kinetic and chemical energy.

His barrier, designed to negate even the most powerful of magic attacks, was swiftly shattered. Much to his shock, the pillar of energy hit his abdomen and he was sent flying across the sky before crashing down to the east.

The entire fight was witnessed by the people on the ground, they were awestruck that the man in black seemingly defeated the man in just one single attack.

Morale skyrocketed.

“Do you hear the drums?

Do you hear the hums?

Of the people who will fight!

Against the tyrants with their might!

Do you hear the storm that looms?

Walk against the man in black and you shall meet your doom!”

The song rumbled along the taunts of the enemy who seemed to be fading.

“The Imperial army has stopped!” A watchman shouted.

Indeed, the imperial army stopped marching. They were remaining stationary in the distance, 700 meters away from the western wall.

But before he could focus on them, the man he had just seemingly defeated with one strike was back in the air, albeit more serious.

“You are an interesting fellow,” The man said, his voice was raspy. Probably because of his injuries. One then used his xray vision, the man had two broken ribs, a dislocated left arm and several fractured limbs.

But his magic was trying to heal his injuries as fast as it could.

“You talk too much,” One said before firing another pillar of energy at the man.

The man, being wiser than before, dodged One’s attack but bȧrėly since One knew he’d dodge.

Because what kind of idiot would not dodge the same attack knowing full well of the consequences it would bring?

And so, One made sure to speed up the energy beam.

The man was obviously having trouble.

The man in black he was facing seemed as if he was such an invincible foe but if he took the time to test out his skills, he’d be surprised on just how vulnerable the man in black actually was.

Maintianging equilibrium whilst in the air already took such a toll on One’s focus and so he needed to end the fight one way or another.

He began charging up his palms again but the man was doing the same by casting his own powerful magic spell.

Judging by the magic circles, it was the same magical attack from before.

One powered up his beams further and prepared to dive down to the ground or, it luck would have it, he’d fly straight towards the man just as the explosion between their attacks cleared so that he could bring him down to the ground with him.

The two beings unleashed their destructive potential against one another and their beams met in the sky like two shooting stars colliding in the celestial sea.

A massive explosion erupted, sending another wave of force that shattered more windows and ruptured a few eardrums.

And just as a black cloud of smoke obscured the man’s vision for a few seconds, he failed to sense One flying towards him.

Just as the smoke cleared, One emerged from the cloud and tackled the man. The man lost his balanced and One redirected power to his feet thrusters.

Together, they plunged onto the fields just outside the western wall.