《The man who wasnt human to begin with....》Chapter 12, back on track!!
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New story coming out some time today, I swear, its my last day of school...
No time for editing, gotta go take a final...
See you... eventually....
I will read the comments!!
A crack...
So small that it is almost insignificant among the massive dam which stopped the powerful torrent behind it.
A crack... so small, yet so important...
A tiny tiny crack, just a chip away in the barrier,
but already that crack had done more to harm the wall then everything behind it being held back.
It had started the process,
and now ever so slightly...
... a slight drip started...
A single drop from a massive ocean,
insignificant to the one side of the dam, but lifechanging to the dry desert on the other side, so void of anything that this drip,
to the desert, the drip was a miracle.
This one drip allowed for so much more to happen.
It quenched a tiny portion of the parched soil, leaving only a tiny imprint, and yet...
A drip...
and then another...
and then another...
Continually widening that tiny patch of watered ground,
expanding it,
nurturing it...
growing it...
A crack, so small in origin, yet so important
so important... because it had started the process.....
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??? : "Sir Ben! This surely is a surprise, I have not seen you visit here in years! What could possibly have been strong enough to injure you?"
A voice, from a golden haired knight, awoke him from his rest. He glanced around, unsure of where he was, but then he remembered the events that had happened only earlier that day...
The man who asked him was named Sir Richard, and he was one of the members of the royal guard. Ben and Richard were old friends and had saved eachothers lives on the battlefield countless times. Richard knew of Bens skill and bodily stability, so he could not even guess at what had been able to put Ben in the infirmary.
He didnt do anyinvestigating into the subject, as when he had heard that his good friend was injured, he looked for the closest oportunity to swap with someone and come check on Ben.
Ben : "Good after noon Sir Richard, well... I put myself in here, after doing something stupid..."
Richard showed a bright smile, but inside he was still wondering what Ben had done. Ben's body was ridiculously strong due to his strength skew, and his level. And even more impressive was Ben's skill with the sword.
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Richard : "The cautious Ben? Doing something stupid? Say it isnt so! Hahaha But seriously though, what could you have done to injure yourself to this extent??"
Sir Richard questioned, as his face turned serious, from his original sarcastic and teasing atmosphere at the begining of the sentence...
Ben : "Yes, laugh all you want, but I loaded all of my mana into one of my arms and tried to swing my sword... This is the result..."
Richard instantly went from a serious atmosphere to a questioning one. He knew that Ben wasn't a novice. That Ben wouldnt, SHOULDNT be stupid enough to do something like that, as he had done it before, and knew it had grave consequences.
Richard : "What prompted that option, surely it wasnt just training which did this..."
Ben : "Well... you see that bed over there?"
Ben pointed with his right arm, as his left arm was completely useless right now. He pointed to the bed just a few rows down. The bed was empty.
Richard : "Yes?" He didnt quite understand the topic of the conversation, or what an empty bed had to do with the conversation.
Ben : "When I came here, under my own power, my opponent was carried here, while unconscious, to that very bed."
Richard : "What?" He didnt quite understand what Ben was saying...
Ben : "Richard... I held back so as not to hurt the hero, but I still knocked him against a wall which was a large distance back. AND I forced him to lose consciousness... And yet, ten minutes after we arrived here this girl walks in, fawns over him in tears, and he gets up and slaps her! Like nothing was wrong! He then, under his own power, without a limp or broken bones or anything like that... He just walks out! Its just unbelievable..."
Richards face turned serious, in a partially threatening tone he asked Ben
Richard : "Ben... you went all out against someone who didnt know the sword? What were you thinking?!?!? How could you put a hero's life in danger just because he agrevated you or something!?!?"
Ben : "Richard... You know me... I wouldn't do something like that without a good cause... This hero... He was unlike anything I have ever seen before. He didnt have skill with the sword when we first started, but as we progressed, his form... it- it evolved, it morphed, it incorporated my syle and form into his own, targeting weakpoints and inconsistencies, he was unstoppable. He forced me to swap hands from right to left in the first minute of combat, after the second he forced me to end it. Had we continued it surely would have been my death or a state even worse then I am in now. I wanted to break off the combat, but if I had paused for even a moment it might have meant my life. I wanted to push him a bit, hence why I infused mana into my sword, and look where he is! He isnt even here! He got up and walked out!
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I have discovered a new master swordsman!" Bens eyes glazed over with joy after a moment. Richard's originaly angered appearence shifted to a different one..
Richard : "You... are delusional..."
Ben : "No! I'm not! If you dont believe me, go test him yourself... Or ask the wizard, he was there for the bouts... I am telling you Richard, that boy has the potential to defeat even the captain of the royal guard if he lives through the first minute... And thats just on his first day!"
Richard sighed, still not believing Ben, but in the end he relented and said
Richard : "Alright fine, I will test him, but it will happen tommorrow, too much has happened today for him. It is still only his second day here and already someone almost KILLED HIM." Richard emphasised the last two words, causing Ben to look away in embaresment...
Ben (seriously) : "Richard.. I am not kidding you... This child, this Cornelius, is unlike anything this world has ever seen... His potential for the sword is limitless... Just wait until you fight him, you will understand what I mean..."
Richard sighed, firmly clasped Ben's hand, a gesture of their longstanding friendship and said
Richard : "Alright old friend, Do come out of here quickly, you still have more of those heroes to test. Hopefully they will all be like your "wonder student". Hahaha"
After that Richard turned to leave, but Ben's last words could still be heard from the halls
Ben : "Im serious Richard... Dont underestimate him or you will be joining me..."
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Late chapters are common I guess, well more releases at a later date (last day of school for me today, so hang tight...)
Yay! back on track now that our little detour (back to our galaxy) is over! The spoiler this time is, as requested, on... THE SWARM!!! or at least the non spoilery parts of it...
Spoiler :
The swarm is a Stratvovian weapon designed for a single task... To Search the universe and Destroy all traces of the Maximar collective...
They(yes they, as in multiple of them) are a collective being of their own, a bio robotic hive mind. The organic part was nessesary because without it the Maximars would simply assimilate the swarm (as it had the first time...)
If the Maximars had gotten control of the second swarm they would have the potential to be unstoppable. The reason for this is that the swarm, although mostly robotic is also partialy organic, (interesting how this happens, but that is for later...) and this leads to the Maximar Collective being unable to load their program into the swarm.
The swarm itself is made up of trillions of self producing microbots. They eat technology, Ie all metalic beings maximars and cities included (yes, this is why the swarm must be controlled, its because it can't yet differentiat between a maximar battleship and a Stratovian city, as both are forms of self aware robotic beings.
This swarm was released after the Maximars took control of the first one through their strange energy (magic :D) and then proceeded to asimilate the swarm, turning it aganist the Stratovians. (well to be honest, the stratovians didnt expect the Maximars to be able to "survive" combat with the swarm long enough to be able to crack its EXTENSIVE security grid. And they couldnt, instead they did something else, which allowed them to take control... Shh though, spoilers :3)
The Maximars thought they had won after they took control of the first swarm, but on the planet of Megaloth, At the height of the War, the Stratovians unveiled the "swarm 2.0". The two swarms clashed, but in the end, the Stratovian "swarm 2.0" won and procceeded on to the maximar fleet. (a few bots per battleship as the ships were fleeing the battlefield. Those few bots proceeded to make more, and those made more and those made more etc...)
After the war was over, the Stratvoains, destroyed most of the swarm, and put the rest in cryosleep, ready to unleash them upon the Maximar's return.
Well long spoiler this time...
LURKERS BEWARE!!! FOR I DESIRE COMMENTS!!!
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