POV Narrator:
The journey of the eight girls was very complicated and full of challenges, each one had a different ordeal that was about what they did in relation to their magic, also to become better people, willing to revolutionize magic, in the middle of this the journey was already coming to its closure, the nine are about to meet in the sanctuary of the nine witches, which all took practically 7/8 days to finish their journeys.
Constanze was one of those blessed by the nine witches, being accompanied by Hera Meridies, showing already that for technology the mute witch has a lot of talent
POV Constanze;
I hope I can get as fast as possible to the end of this whole path, I really want to be able to become a better witch to help in the defeat of Holbrook, to be able to mess with my magic devices that have technology. Until then everything normal by the front, I do not see any risk, I am using even my robots to go opening the
way cutting the thick grass by the front and so it is helping leaving the grass lower, I just see the spirit of Hera looking all the time for my machines.
"Look this is really an interesting invention, you use your robots to cut the grass and let it down, that's as good as a scythe, gee I used to love to mow the lawn, get the scythe and cut the grass down and then let it dry to use as firewood, those were good times, you're pretty genius, you made everything automatic, even cut the grass" said the one that looks like Professor Croix and I'll just grunt agreeing with my head.
I keep walking, as I'm not much of a talker until then the forest has been safe, there is nothing but trees and my machines that are being of great help, I'm watching carefully, Hera is talking to me, but I'm not a talker, in fact I don't talk, that's the truth.
Soon I stop when I use a sensor on my robot and it detects that there are some goblins ahead and they seem to be hostile since they are holding spears.
"Wow girl I wanted to talk to you, but it seems you don't even listen, you have so much interesting technology and everything, I wanted to know more" said Hera.
- I'm mute, I only speak once in a while using my stanbot and even that doesn't make me open my mouth, but anyway I'm focusing, I could detect that there are some hostile goblins ahead, I think I'll have to be more tactical here" I say while looking at the field.
I could see that the cursed ones also hid themselves in the trees, they are waiting for me to pass by and attack with everything, but that will not happen, I am smart enough, so I hide myself in the top of one of the trees, I get in a good position to shoot and signal to a stanbot to go walking towards the goblins trap.
Armed with a compact wand gun I wait for the stanbot to get closer and the goblins are using spears towards my robot and then a group is walking towards my robot, but I start shooting, I give a headshot to the one that was stopped, then I start shooting the others that were getting close and getting confused, so much that they were coming down from the trees.
"Not bad Constanze, this modern type of bow and arrow of yours is quite peculiar, it shoots very fast" I quickly signal her to be quiet, it may reveal our location.
I see that some got close, they were really many, I throw a flash grenade, I take the chance to get down and use some special glasses, the several Goblins are stunned and I take the chance to run, it's better this way, I get some distance from their group and hide in the middle of other trees, I use the stanbots to detect any movement around, I see that they go in the direction where I was, I just went following straight.
Walking from branch to branch without making much noise and without being detected, I now have recovered the stanbot and can detect the movement from both sides, good now it is safe for good
"A flash bomb is a good thing, I've never seen something like that before, you witches from the Modern era really have a lot of new and good stuff" I still signal her to be quiet, I can already see there's some kind of rope around, that's really weird.
I touch the rope with a stanbot and a trap comes down and narrowly misses my robot it closes and ends up crashing, this here could do damage to anyone, I guess I have to be careful not to die in the traps, good that I could already save on my robot that there are ropes that make traps.
Constanze kept going through the trees and stealthily was using her stanbots to detect the trapsaround, which are working very well and the Goblins do not even question of finding the witch, untilthe sunset, where the challenge was to find a place to sleep, Constanze improvised a little houseamong the trees, Constanze improvised a small house among the trees, very compact with just the
space to sleep and covering it with several branches to camouflage in the leaves, waking up the nextday and eating some fruit, and already preparing to start the adventure, feeling a little thirsty, butsoon she finds a creek nearby, the problem is that many goblins lived on the banks in a kind ofvillage...
I go slowly in the middle of the trees, I see that there is one that I can get close, then I prepare a straw, using my stanbots, they make a tube, I was dying of thirst, I drink that water with great pleasure, but I feel a lack of balance and a sensation that the branch was breaking.
It breaks and I end up falling in the water which also causes a big noise, I have no doubt that now all the goblins around ended up noticing my presence, shit, I wanted to be silent and I couldn't, by the nine witches, I hope this doesn't get me into worse trouble.
"Oh the branch has broken, I don't think there's any way to be sneaky anymore, what are you going to do now Constanze?" Said Hera and I think it's time not to take it too lightly,
That's what I do, I take my wand gun, I'm putting some more appendixes, making it look like an AK47, now things are serious, I'm getting some dirt and making stripes on my face, now it's time to show my real magic. I'm starting to shoot the whole group of goblin spearmen that came to me and I'm not hesitating, I'm lining up one by one, I just want to see if they get close, they even try to throw the spears, but they can't get close to my firepower.
"Woah, that's an impressive weapon, if I had one of those I would do a huge damage, although with magic I did something similar, but it was a different bow and arrow, that kept shooting several arrows at once like this thing, but it's weird that the arrows are so small" Ah yes arrows, she has no idea how firearms exist, it's funny, it's only missing that she invented a crossbow before she invented the crossbow.
I'm walking and knocking down one by one of the goblins, I'm doing everything in the biggest Rambo style, the several Goblins don't have the slightest chance, I still play grenades with magic and I'm not even hit by any of them, I'm practically unloading the magic bullets, the good thing about training is that I can use several of them without fear, before I had a limit of 300 of them, now I have a real arsenal until I get tired. The Goblins are getting even more afraid, as I was walking more forward, so much that I decide to go by the creek, where it was being pointed the way to go ahead, I arrive on the other side just getting my legs a little wet, until then well safe, the Goblins try to follow me, but I'm using grenades and I'm still shooting, they even appeal some to use arrows, but I use my magic to protect me and create a protective shield.
"You are a real machine Constanze, I always said that a witch alone would be able to conquer Rome if she was well motivated and prepared, it seems that today my thoughts are confirmed with this compact arrow shooter" I never doubted that, one can be stronger than a war tank nowadays.
I look back and the Goblins are still trying, you know what, I'm letting go of my bag and using my stanbots to mount a little something, they're already knocking down a tree while I'm shooting at the several Goblins that are still trying to come, it seems that behind me they're still trying to come and keep coming.
Soon they assemble the structure of the broom and I can thus mount on top of it, but the buoyancy is denied, how strange, I try to use magic but nothing.
"Constanze, I have to tell you something here you can't fly with magic, you'll have to stay on the ground" Ah that's it then, no problem, I even give a smile and grunt.
The stanbots then start to go assembling something else, I decide to make that Ak become a MG42, now the thing became serious for good, I even put it in a tripod, good that I brought everything compacted, with the keychain spell, always prepared for every occasion, they even stop coming, it seems that they got tired after I shot him, I just listen to them play trumpets and make a laughing face.
Good that the stanbots finished with my little beauty, in fact it was only to assemble a motorbike with the remains that I left disassembled in keyring form, I can't transform 100 kg in keyring, but I can do that, it already has gasoline in the perfect motorbike, now it is only to put the hand in the mass
"Woah, that's a very different kind of horse, I've already imagined something like that, quite compact using an engine with magic, are you sure it won't be too much magic expenditure?" I give a grunt with a smile.
"This doesn't use magic here" I say for Stanbot as the bike rumbles away.
I accelerate her and start to go full speed, I love that noise of the engine, I change gears, good that there is no need to use magic to burn fuel, I pass through some trees which results in a steppe, this will now get interesting, the horns can be heard, but I am not afraid, I go up the speed, keeping myself concentrated.
"What is that thing? How can it have the acceleration of a broom? Not even a horse can reach such a speed" Ah, if I tell you the wonders of the present.
I see a troop of several goblins from far away, they were mounted on creatures that looked like an imitation of a horse but biped and they wanted to come from behind and also from the front, I increase one more gear and decide to push my accelerator more, now I'm going 70 km/h, it's not a speed like that, but it's enough to leave the horses that are coming from behind well behind, meanwhile in the front I let my stanbot prepared, it will throw some explosive grenades.
"I'm really shocked, how did humans get to this point, this is a dangerous speed" This is even normal speed here, little does she know the monstrosities that humans do on top of this thing.
A Goblin is coming towards me, I'm accelerating more, 100 km/h in this rough terrain, I'm close to the trees, I pass right next to him, and then I give a brake in the Akira style and I see that the Goblin only ended up taking a nice tumble, then I follow the path to the side until I get to steepen the bike a little.
"The route usually takes the goblin mounts, but I couldn't imagine something coming this fast" Welcome to the 21st century.
I notice that the Goblins in front of me have separated a little and all went in a huge group towards me, so I start pumping the gas and accelerate changing each gear, 40 km/h, 60 km/h, 80 km/h, I see them coming even closer, 100 km/h, the ground is very complicated since it is a rough terrain, but even so I am not intimidated, I keep going towards them, if I accelerate I can pass them all, 120 km/h, the wind is constant, the bike ramps up in the middle of a steppe, I gain a lot of momentum.
Enough to go over everyone and jump high, I even get my heart beating slowly, I use magic around the bike that dampens the fall and passes everyone until the other side that is well forest inside, there I even reduce the speed.
"Woah, that was awesome, you really have amazing technology, witches like that impress me, if it wasn't for that speed I'd say it could take you a good few days to cross these steppes, but this machine just keeps treating it like it's any other road" Hera said.
The stanbots dismantle the bike and I keep it inside my backpack, now that I've passed it's time to move on, I'll find a comfortable place to stay later, but I'll walk as much as I can, I see that it's quite safe, well anyway it's good to be prepared, I'll be very attentive.
In fact it was quite safe, Constanze could walk for a good few hours in the forest, until she saw a treeat dusk and decided to settle there, by far the most prepared of all nine witches for situations likethat, she could even recharge the stanbots' battery since she had a generator that took magic andturned it into electricity, which impressed Hera a lot, on the third day Constanze was going throughthe forest, but ended up coming across another barrier, this time a huge lake, in the middle of theafternoon?
Well, no Goblin until then, only this lake, but I will not let myself be intimidated by this huge body of water, I will use the stanbot to assemble the bike, only prepared to go in the water this time, putting a body that looks like a jetski, already leaning against the lake water.
"Isn't it possible that you're going to get through everything with this? I didn't expect that even for this you had a way of getting through" She expected me to make a sailboat, on the water of the lake.
"Was it supposed to be a challenge?" I say with the stanbot while riding the jetski.
"Well the challenge will be further ahead, there is no canoe or boat that will get you to the other side, and without the buoyancy of the broom, your challenge will be much more complicated" I would say interesting actually.
I start my water bike and it's starting to go faster, which I already felt the tremor of the water, but even so I kept going, I see where things are going to come out and huge tentacles come out of it, I obviously dodge them, I see them forming rainbows in the sky, which I keep going, fish are also jumping out, I keep dodging them, keeping my concentration up front.
"Woah, I didn't expect that thing to be water agile too" Hera said and she's funny, not having a grasp of modern technologies.
I am at 70 km/h in this water, I don't know how long it will take, but I am dodging the best way, I see that there are many obstacles in the water trying to stop me and I dodge them all, sometimes there are some rocks on the ground that I use to ram from them and pass by some squids that stay in front and I crash into them and then go ahead.
I keep my concentration, there must still be a long way ahead to have so much lake still, I see some nice stone structures too, I go passing through them, without any problem, keeping the speed, the squid tentacles are the least of the problems.
"Look who would have thought I would come across technology like this, I guess it took us so long to come that the challenge isn't there, you just show it off like it's not that much of a challenge, it surprises me, really" Hera said.
I kept on dodging bugs, dodging other obstacles, keeping my concentration, after all it's vital that I get to the other side, at least without being hit, this thing really speeds up, but it never seems to get to the other side.
An hour later...
Whew, I made it, I made it in one piece, I'm already dismounting the Jet Ski, I breathe relieved, maybe also quite wet, but I could make it to the other side in one piece, the stanbots are doing their job and I see Hera's little face slack-jawed, it seems that the current generation of witches is really impressive.
"I am speechless, a journey like that with the best boats would take about six hours, I thought you would be afraid and would stop on an island to rest, but no, you arrived on the other side" Good is the way.
"Now I will stop to rest" I say for the stanbot.
I'm already using the stanbot to make the home, at least this way I'll be safer, it's already getting late, watching the sunset is very beautiful, I even sit down leaning on a tree, and I see Hera also wanting to talk a little.
"So I see that you are a strange and different person, you are not really a person of many words, but then I can tell you more of my stories, me and my family were the best carpenters of all Rome, we built the best furniture, the best wood sculptures, but those were difficult times, the fear of the invasion of the barbarians, the fact that they didn't accept so well our modernity, they thought it was a waste, Romans only wanted to know about war power and we didn't use our magic for that, we only used it to help people" said Hera and I'm just listening, I think it's going to be my entertainment.
The next day they went for another walk, until then very calm, but they came across another steppeand when they reached a part of it there was a huge abyss and Hera was confident that it could stopConstanze...
Oh a chasm in front of me, I think I will have to innovate this time, funny that I never thought of trying to do something like that before, it is kind of dangerous, but without the buoyancy of the broom I think it is worth the risk, I think you can reach the other side with some tranquility.
"Now you don't stand a chance, Constanze, only with a machine capable of flying you can reach the other side, a clever witch will know how to use magic to give you enough propulsion to go ahead and save money, after all it's not a short way, the distance is enough to go from Rome to Lago di Bracciano, it won't be short at all" Well, I guess I'll have to dismount my motorbike again.
I shrug, I see there's a gallon of gas left, it's the last one, she has no idea that human beings have already invented something called aeroplane and I can even try to make an ultralight, it can be interesting, come on, I think I know how to make this thing.
I'm starting to draw on the paper how to design it, it's not that hard, it needs wings, a propulsion, a propeller, well there's a lot of wood here, it can be used for the structural reinforcement, I also have a lot of cloth, it can be used to hold the wings, I hope they really hold, I'll see with details.
"You're not going to tell me that you can even do that? Rhiannon was completely destroyed and taken to Arcturus, there's no way humans could copy it" I don't know what she's talking about but nowadays there's something called an aeroplane.
"If I tell you that at least 120 years ago the human being knew how to make a machine capable of flying, would you believe it?" I tell her with the stanbot that she is even more awestruck.
"What? Even that you know how to do? Well, Rhiannon was heavy and we worked really hard for her to have a place to sleep and spend time, and the tank of mixed oil we made ran out fast, it took us almost two days to cross the ocean to the other continent, I had no idea there was a world beyond Europe" said Hera and you have no idea the world is huge.
"Today this crossing can take only a few hours, you would be surprised to know that also human beings at least 50 years ago were able to make machines that are able to reach the moon, that's if you believe that the earth is a sphere in the middle of a huge space" I say for Stanbot.
"I thought this was a basic thing, the Romans knew this a long time ago, the Greeks knew it too, kind of later Lilith confirmed it, we live in a ball full of water in a dark space and the moon is another huge ball, which is far enough away to go almost 10 turns around the earth" Oh she knows, that's quite interesting, well the drawings are ready.
Now it's time to design, I go with the stanbots cutting some trees around, I'm already making a very strong structure, I hope it can withstand the real crossing, I manage to assemble everything, with the help of the stanbots, the cloths I believe can be strong enough and won't tear, I also make a helix and put some wheels, and some levers, that will help to pull the wings to the side or up or down, it is good to have control in this thing or I will get screwed, the wind is my best friend here, I managed to let even the wings very calm from the air to pass, I am genial, well just keep giving more details, I can't fail here.
"This reminds me a lot of Rhiannon, we tested many projects with her, trying to make them smaller and one of them was to use a machine to generate energy to turn some blades to give propulsion, with a machine that used the oil of the medium to get out of the place, it is very similar to this machine of yours" Ah yes the engine, smart this girl.
"Congratulations, you invented the combustion engine 1400 years before human beings did" I say as I give the final details.
"Woah, so this is kind of a very recent invention, I would have sworn you guys would be much more advanced, it seems our absence has really caused a dependency on you witches, but I would have sworn you would modernise and so would we" she said.
"I'm only here because magic is the same as when you were still alive, the witches still pull for it to be that way" It's a bummer really.
Magnifico the ultralight is ready, I think that way the wings can have support, I'm starting to start the engine of this thing, I'm pulling the throttle and cool is leaving the place, the helix is pulling the ultralight forward, I'm feeling it leaving the ground and wonder it is with support in the air, I can fly, it's the first time that I do something like that, I'm looking at the other side and seeing that is very distant but not so far until it gave to raise a good height.
"Woah, it's impressive here, so fast and they've already assembled a flying machine, I expected a longer delay, really human technology is impressive these days" Hera said as I nodded my head in agreement.
This is a more satisfactory sensation than fly with the broom, I am leaving the air with my own invention, it is something that I made myself, a totally my invention, a flying machine, I am flying by my own force, how wonderful, it seems that I am cutting the air with this, it is as if I was being one with the sky and I soon see the other side coming close.
I'm reducing the acceleration, this thing already makes a noise like that in my ear, it's the only defect, apart from that it is a wonderful machine, lucky that I got everything based in some drawings that I already had from some other projects, I'm landing my ultralight and calmly touch the steppe's ground, being relieved.
"Congratulations Constanze, but it's not the end yet, to move on you have to decipher the code that is in this door, well the secret is in the cliff, you have to take it part by part" she said and I honestly don't have gas and I don't want to spend magic with that.
I get out of the ultralight and drink water from the stream on the side, it is a waterfall that goes to the cliff, I imagine that I should swim, but I won't invent a submarine, there is nothing more dangerous than getting into an iron can inside the water, even more so because I don't have that much iron and I don't have the bag to dive, now I want to see how this is going to happen, well I still have some way to find the code.
"And so I guess you're going to have to swim, or are you going to say you have an invention for that?" We do, but I'd rather go into space than the bottom of the sea.
"Yes you do, but you know you can't play with water, it will crush you if you sink too deep, and I have a more intelligent way to solve this, since it might take a while I think I will take cover" I say for Stanbot.
I was already signalling the stanbots to arrange a temporary home for me while I arrived at the device and saw its carcass, I opened the front part and I was also connecting an emergency notebook that I always take, with that I put it in a prompt program, connected some wires and was able to open what I wanted, the programming of this thing.
"What are you doing? It's another one of your inventions, you're going to tell me you can break this combination, it's over 50 million different combinations of figures, you can't do it if you keep trying one by one, it's going to take longer than trying normally" She has no idea that I can literally do it with a brute force scheme.
"Just watch and learn, in no time this thing will find the right combination" I say while programming, that's not that hard to do, I've broken a lot of passwords like that.
"Good luck there are 100 figures and each one of them is in the right order, so not only do you have to find the right figures, you also have to get the order right" Uh huh and I don't care.
Ready I finished programming, I support the notebook in a small table and already I turn on the magic generator, I will leave the program rolling alone and it will try one for one of the several combinations, barely it has idea that this here makes at least to each second tries 100 combinations until giving the right one.
Constanze goes to rest, she even gets tranquil since the time is free, she takes the time to get settledand rest what she incredibly was extremely fast, in a few hours she had already revealed the secretof the entrance, since it could take up to 20 hours trying to combine it, but it didn't take long foreverything to be revealed on the morning of the fifth day...
Well I seem to see something clicking, I did it, I see that Hera is in shock, she must have never seen such a strong combination like that break so easily, it was just using a bit of programming and I did it, even a few bobbins fly out of the portal in the form of magic and I'm relieved, it seems I didn't take that long.
"I am surprised that so soon you have succeeded, look you current witches have already shown the technology will be the thing that will revolutionize magic, it is things like this that show the potential of it, imagine being used with magic, you really went beyond what any witch was able to do or achieve, my congratulations Constanze the path to the sanctuary of the nine witches is yours" Hera said and I go grunting giving her a smile too.
I'm taking everything apart, now it's time to go, at least now I can leave, I've tried all kinds of secrets and managed to figure out the bizarre secret of it all, who knew I'm pretty genius even, goodbye Hera, I had a great time with you being practically surprised with technology 1600 years after you founded Luna Nova, there's still a lot ahead, but I trust the witches' revolution will happen.
POV Narrator:
Constanze went beyond what Hera expected, her technology and genius mind were already a very intense part, how she could manage in several situations and showed that she was very intelligent, that she wasn't intimidated by anything and on top of that the 21st century technology was already beyond what Hera expected, which guaranteed the German's passage to the sanctuary and her genius being a big factor for the victory of the new nine witches, who are finishing their journeys as well.
See you, genius witches...
