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"I got a question, Add," said Lorna. "If that room was significant to the Nasod King…how come we could enter it without being stopped?"
Add sighed. They were both walking down the corridor side by side.
"He wasn't active, didn't you see? It's been known for a while that the Nasod King has been inactive since his creation of his Nasod Army," explained Add. "After creating his Nasod Army, he started a war to wage against Humans and Demons. Inputting a code strategy for all of them to follow, he used up his own El Energy and fell deep into a slumber. This, of course, happened around one hundred years ago during the War of Demise."
"Whoa, did you read that from a book, or something?" asked Lorna. Add stopped in his tracks, looking at Lorna.
"No," he said, staring downwards. "Actually, I haven't told you yet, haven't I?"
Giving Lorna a look, "I don't actually come from this time period."
"You mean, you time travelled?!"
"Keh, let me explain, goddamnit!"
"Ah, sorry…"
"Strictly, I didn't time travel on purpose, but…I was sent from one hundred years ago. From that time in the war."
"So, how did you travel a century later?"
"I…" He stayed silent. Those days in the Slave Trader Camp leading up to his escape, he didn't want to remember it again. Spending days and days in a library whose time was distorted itself, the haunting memory of losing a family and everything close to him was always by his side. After all, the past was a lonely thing and was only capable of chasing the present in hope of company. In a way, the past governed the future and was the base of decisions for the future. Add used to think of it all back in the library. If the past was the base of decisions for the future, wouldn't that make the past a God? His despair will become his past, and that will be his God.
"You don't need to say if you don't want to." Lorna noticed how silent Add has gotten. "We all have things we don't want others to know and that's alright. That's just how it is."
"Hmph, of course."
He didn't get Lorna. If she could be so cold-hearted about killing, how could it now that she could be this kind and understanding? He looked at her and instead of seeing a cold-blooded killer, he saw a girl around the same age as him with as much kindness as instability he had.
"I don't get you." He continued walking alone just in time to see rubbles bumping pass the doorway. "What's going on?"
Sounds of fighting and clashing could be heard. They both hurried forth and peered out of the doorway. The Nasod King was awake and active, using his gigantic hands to fight…four people. Add recognised that right away as the group he saw in the Ruben forest. They weren't a group of interest back then so he ignored them and found Lorna instead.
"They woke up the Nasod King…" said Add, amazed. "Hoho…I wonder if I could attain data from this."
"Isn't it a bit too dangerous, though? Rubble was flying right then…"
"Don't you have a shield?"
"Ah, you mean, my Pulse Shield? Alrightey, then~Rae, Pulse Shield!" Lorna put up a shield just in time for rubble to be sent flying against them.
"Well, four Humans against a Nasod King. This should be interesting…"
"Aisha, Rena! Can you go after the cannisters?!" commanded Elsword, blocking the blade arm of a Nasod. "They must be related to why this big guy can storm up a mix of attributes!"
"You got it!" responded Rena.
"Meanwhile, you take care of these pesky Nasods, Elbaka!" called out Aisha.
"M-my name isn't Elbaka, Aisha! I even call you by your nam…" Elsword was interrupted by the circling blades of a Nasod Healer. "Can't even finish a sentence in here, geez!"
"We should stay concentrated," pointed out Raven. "Like you said, we don't have time to be talking!"
"Going after the cannisters, huh, so this group isn't as stupid as I thought they were," remarked Add, sitting back on his Dynamos. Lorna sat on the floor with her legs crossed and watched the battle in interest.
"They were stupid?" she asked.
"I believed they were back when they were fighting a big ass beast. It almost seemed comical back then."
"Oh, but he's the leader, right?"
"Apparently."
"Where do these guys even pop up from?! Spiral Blast!" Elsword wildly spun his blade, inflicted a sparking force upwards at a wave of Nasods. They all smashed against each other before disappearing. "They even disappear…"
"Well, they're not that different from living beings, just that they're in a metal case. Each and every one of them…" started Raven. He slashed a couple times at a Blader before crushing it down into the ground. "Have El energy within them and therefore have somewhat living qualities."
"You know quite a lot about them, don'tcha, Raven?"
"I did used to be on their side."
"Ah…well, I didn't mean it like that."
"I know that quite well, Elsword." Raven rushed forth at the Nasods and blinked through them, "Finishing Slash!"
Numerous slashes followed the movement of his blade.
Just when Elsword stood in the center, it started to rise all of a sudden and lifted him up.
"Wha…!"
Aisha and Rena triumphantly stood by the destroyed cannisters, almost laughing at how clueless Elsword looked. A huge canister appeared in the middle, holding what appeared to be…
"Ah! That's the El that friggin' Wally stole! What the hell…so he fed it to this big guy?!" exclaimed Elsword, jumping down. "Guys, we better destroy it quick!"
"You didn't need to tell us twice!"
"Hmm, interesting, so that's the Nasod King's Core, huh? Kuhuhu…too bad it'll be destroyed," commented Add.
"Well, that's just the energy source, right? We can understand well enough that it is activated by El energy, basing on what Raven said," confirmed Lorna. "Still, it suprises me…that's the guy that attacked us before. Yet…there's none of that murderous aura that he radiated back then."
"Keh, aura? How unscientific."
Lorna giggled.
"What's so funny?"
"Nothing, I just thought that that was so like of you to say that. True, it seems unscientific and usually I don't like saying things like aura, too, but…"
"But what?"
"I was just thinking that even if we ignore words like aura, there should be better words for it, right? In my opinion, things like aura are sort of interesting and I think…it's a scientist's job to find out the unknown."
"Keh, I don't understand the babble you're talking about. I'm just interested in how these four fight."
Before Add had sat down, he set up diagnostics with his Dynamo. He understand that each and every one of them contained different methods of fighting. Aisha used her mana to fight with magic while Rena utilised her Nature energy to form arrows. Elsword had a high attribute for fire, which was comically characteristic of him. Raven fought with the help of his Nasod Arm, which Add found interesting. It reminded him of his own artificial, left eye, but Raven's arm was a whole limb implant. I'll have to take notes, he thought.
"Ah, it seems like the fight is over."
The central canister was utterly destroyed with the glass shattered and tubes cut. The Nasod King made a decreasing, whirring noise before it hunched over like an old person. It was old alright. More than a century old and finally looking like what it should have.
"Shouldn't we get going before they come this way?"
"Well, kehe, let's just see what happens next for a bit."
Lorna frowned and faced forward, eyes widening. The destroyed canister gradually returned into the ground, keeping the gap in the floor apparent.
"Huh, the hell does this lead?" Elsword stared down at the hole. "There's a stairway leading downwards."
"Let's find what's down there, Elbaka!" said Aisha excitedly. "It's got to be the Nasod King's secret place and plus…we haven't exactly got back the El yet, right?"
"Ah…that's right…and my name's not Elbaka!"
"You guys, let's not fight and just get down there," sighed Rena. "Ladies first!"
They all hopped inside one by one, disappearing from the surface completely.
"Should we follow them?" questioned Lorna.
"It'd be a bit to risky if we're found out by them, but that place is probably where…Eve is," reasoned Add.
"If that's so, the more reasonable it'd be if we follow them!"
"I just want to observe Eve for now. Can you send a drone down there? If I sound my Dynamo down there, they'd notice it right away…"
"But where will we hide? If we hide in that corridor, they'll most likely investigate that right away!"
"Who said we're going to be in that corridor. Now, are you going to send a drone, or what?"
"Well, that's no problem. But the rest will be under your judgement."
After ordering her Nico drone to go down the hole, they quickly retreated to the moving platform and went straight into one of the splitting corridors. The Altera Core consisted of more than just the spiral pathways leading downwards with several other corridors leading into inner rooms, and eventually made a maze.
"Oh, this is a smart idea," pointed out Lorna.
"Mocking me?"
"No, not at all! Ha ha ha…"
Buzzing from its starting point, the moving platform began making its way back into the light. The two stayed quiet and observed the light, waiting for it to return. Eventually it did return with five people in tow. One of them held in both hands a green El, emanating a high density of energy.
"What a shame. If I could just have that…" sighed Add, not saying any further.
Behind the four was a white-haired individual, Eve in all her glory. She looked exactly the same as she did in the picture, but slightly nervous. Aisha and Rena were talking to her, chatting her up on what had happened to the world while she was away. Shipped off to a century later, huh, thought Add. His one and only current objective was to observe the Queen of Nasods, Eve. It is because he believed that she held the information he desired. Time travelling…if only I could have that. Smiling widely to himself, he already had one component of his objective standing beside him. Complete with dimensional travelling is my one way back.
"Lorna, we're going to follow this group and observe them, alright?" said Add.
"Mhmm, whatever you say," she responded, nodding her head. And it's convenient that she'll come along with me…possibly wherever I'll go. With that way of thinking in mind, he felt like it wasn't right to think like that. To him, she was the first companion he had. Shaking his head, he beckoned Lorna to follow. She's my test subject, what else?
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