Arc 93 - Godslayers (Part 4)

Nazar was standing before a school and a few reporters asked him a question.

“Can you answer some questions for us?”

Nazar gulped.

“I will do it,” Solace said.

The reporters gave her a confused look.

“And who are you?”

“Solace.”

“Solace?”

“His AI.”

“AI?”

“Artificial Intelligence.”

Some of the reporters laughed.

“Nice joke.”

“Yeah, she is joking. So, what did you want to ask?” Nazar said.

The reporters then looked at him.

“Okay, first question. You have been missing for a month and then suddenly appear out of nowhere. Where did you go?”

Nazar thought about it for a minute.

(Should I say another universe? Or trapped in another dimension?)

“I was on another planet.”

“Who was that woman the other day? She called herself a ‘Goddess’?” Another one asked.

“She said she was a Goddess, but if I say I am a God, would you believe me? No.”

“Who was that girl the other day? The one who nearly died by the hands of that woman? She said she was your sister?” Another one asked.

Nazar sighed.

“You are just answering your own question.”

This one made them surprised for some reasons.

“So, who are these people?”

“They are Federal agents. But they were brainwashed.”

Nazar’s casual reply made them frown a little.

“What about the technology?”

“I don’t know who made it.”

“Is it true that your girlfriend is an alien?” The reporter asked as he showed a picture of him and Lian when they were in Venice.

(What a weird question to ask.)

Nazar gave him a confused look. They were asking about the situation but then this one person asks completely different questions.

“No, she is not. Why would I date an alien?”

“Because she is beautiful?”

“I have seen far more beautiful people. Ever seen an elf before? I have and she was beautiful.”

Once Nazar mentioned elf, everyone’s eyes widened.

“Elves are real?”

“There is a planet near the Andromeda Galaxy. Most of them are elves.”

“Okay, back on topic, how did you know who their parents were?” Another reporter said.

“Telepathy.”

“What powers do you really have?”

“...”

Nazar thought about it for a minute.

“Flight, strength, speed, full psychic powers, matter manipulation, energy manipulation, etc.”

“You said that you have died many times before. Was it true?”

“Why would I lie about something like that?”

“And why were you coughing blood earlier?”

“...”

Nazar heard a gunshot, not far from him.

And the bullet was coming towards him.

He easily managed to take care of it, but then another bullet came through. It went through his skin and it blew up inside him. And he knew who it was. It was from Reaper.

Nazar frowned when he saw him, using his microscopic vision.

He flew towards him and so did Solace. Reaper was standing… or floating above the Big Ben.

“What the hell are you doing?”

“I contacted you a few times and you did not answer. I sent a telepathic message and it was still useless.”

“Oh. Well… I lost my communication device.”

“I see.”

They both flew a little higher and just floated there.

“So, why are you here?”

“You were going around the universe for hours. I wanted to know what it was.”

“Ah. Well, do you remember when a ‘low-class angel’ warped reality?”

“Yes. And then you said there was a crack in the universe or something.”

“Well, between the dimensions, there is a place called Void. When powerful beings die, they end up there. So, some of them have escaped.”

“So, you were looking for them?”

“Yes. Buuut did not find anything.”

“I might have something.”

Nazar gave him a surprised look.

“I heard rumours. There used to a hero who died a few hundred years ago but the rumours suggest that he is back.”

“A hero?”

“His name was Soar. He was known for exploring and discovery and adventure. While he was doing that, he saved world after world and the universe a few times. You should be able to find some information on him in the Hall of Heroes.”

“Hall of Heroes?”

“It is a place on planet Hura, at the edge of Milky Way Galaxy and near the Andromeda Galaxy. You should go there if you want to know something.”

“Interesting.” Nazar paused before continuing. “So, you just came here to tell me that?”

“No. I originally came here to ask what you were looking for. You are new to the whole space stuff.”

“I see. Well, thanks.”

“And if you find them, don’t fight them alone. You might be powerful, but you could risk a lot of destruction.”

“I will keep in mind.”

And then Reaper vanished into thin air.

“He is weird.”

“Hm?”

“I thought he was a villain but he seems nice.”

“Master, everyone thought you were a villain too.”

“But I am not a hero, either.”

“So, an anti-hero, then?”

“Nope.”

Nazar then looked down upon the city.

“Is this happening anywhere else?”

“I am monitoring situations but I cannot see it anywhere else.”

“I see.”

Nazar then looked at Solace closely.

“Master?”

“You are the definition of perfection.”

“I don’t understand, Master.”

“Big breasts, perfect face, big butt, perfect curves, big thighs, skin-tight suit, red hair, etc. You are the definition of perfection.”

“I have the same measurements are Laura. She also has perfect curves and big thighs. The only thing she is missing is red hair and skin-tight suit.”

“...?”

Nazar gave her a confused look.

“And you based part of my design on her, right?”

“...!”

“So, you should buy her a skin-tight suit and give her a wig.”

“What does that supposed to mean?”

“What I am saying is, you should not look at me in such as lewd way when you have a girlfriend.”

Nazar’s shoulders jerked.

Solace smiled.

“The new upgrades seem to be working.”

“Well, if you understand emotions can help me more. I can’t just rely on someone else all the time.”

“But are you not risking something else?”

“Hm?”

“What if I… let’s just say become evil or something?”

“Then I will have to fix you.”

“Can you really do that?”

“First, I will defeat you, then I will fix you.”

“I see.”

“But you won’t become evil, will you?”

“I am not planning at the moment.”

Nazar laughed.

“Anyway, if you look at me in lewd ways, I will tell Laura. Or should I call her ‘mother’?”

“Ah?!”

“Since you are basically my ‘father’.”

“Ahhhhh?!?!”

Nazar placed his hands on his ears.

“Can’t hear you. You should get rid of that kind of thought, you evil woman.”

Solace laughed.

“So, what are you going to do about her?”

“What do you mean?”

“She might not show it, but I am sure she is in a lot of mental and emotional pain. You should help her out.”

Nazar seemed concerned but…

“You are asking me to give emotional support to someone else? I can’t even give emotional support to myself.”

“But you should be with her more often. She seems… lonely.”

“I think giving the ability to understand emotions was a bad idea,” Nazar said with a deadpan expression.

He thought about it for a minute.

“Okay. I will see what I can do.”

Nazar took a deep breath.

He looked around the city once to see if there were any more of those power suits, but instead, he noticed someone else. Ishaya Bradley.

Once he noticed him, Nazar just sighed.

“Why is he here?”

“Who?”

“Ishaya Bradley.”

“Well, his company has a headquarters here. So--”

“I know that but why is he here?”

“Want me to check their mainframe?”

“Yes. And delete it if you can. Mess up with their accounts. That will be fun.”

“People could lose their jobs.”

Nazar sighed.

“Fine. Just look at it.”

“And you should go to your girlfriend’s house. She might be missing you.”

“Shut up!”

“Come on, ‘father’, don’t do this to ‘mother’.”

Solace laughed and Nazar punched her in the face.

However, it did not do much damage because Nazar held back and because Solace can ‘heal’ herself fairly quickly.

“Don’t call me that.”

“Then how about ‘Onii-Chan’?”

“I already have a younger sister, so I don’t need another one.”

Nazar sighed.

“You know what? It was a bad idea. I should have not given you the ability to understand emotions and make jokes.”

“But it was funny, right?”

“...Kind of.”

Nazar took another deep breath.

“What’s wrong?”

“Nothing.”

“Then why are you taking so many deep breaths?”

Nazar gave her a blank look.

“I can’t even breathe now?”

Nazar floated beside Solace on top of the city in silence for a few minutes.

“Hall of Heroes, huh?”

“Hm?”

“I wonder what kind of place it is. And I wonder what kind of person Soar is. Maybe I should go to space now and--”

“No. We are still not done with these coordinated attacks. Maybe there are more of them soon?”

“Yeah. Keep an eye on the situation.”

“Okay, Master.”

“Call me Nazar when you are in public, okay?”

“Okay, Nazar.”

Nazar smiled.

“Hmm… That sound so much better. You can call me that from now on… unless you are in your maid uniform.”

“Fucking weeb.”

Nazar laughed.

“You know what? Giving you humour is the best thing I have ever done.”

“So, are you not going?”

“No. I am going to stay around. It should be easier this way if anything happens.”

“Well, I should not be able to do anything else for a while, so you better keep me safe, or else I will turn into Ultron.”

“Okay, okay. Got it, evil android.”

Nazar just stayed with Solace while she tried to hack into Bradley Conglomerates mainframe.

Just a few miles away at Bradley Conglomerates HQ:

Ishaya was sitting together in a meeting room with many members of his science team.

They all had holographic screens in front of them. And it was showing the same data.

“This is the data on Nazar that no one else has access to. I want you all to analyse it and talk to me about it. Now.”

The data was scattered among different people. The whole folder contained over dozens of gigabytes of data, so he split the data and gave it to the most qualified people.

“This is… Wow. If we had access to this a long time ago, we could have done so much with it,” one of them said.

They sat there in silence and read through some of them.

“As we can see, they have no data on the origin of his powers. They used to think that he powered himself up by controlling the energies that surround us.” One of them said.

“As we analysed some of the data from the power suits, it seems his power comes from within him. All that energy comes from within him.”

“Ooh. Look this one,” another said as he stood up. He swiped his screen and the data appeared on all other screens.

“My… god.”

“Is… Is this for real?”

“According to my late father, yes,” Ishaya said.

“You are telling me, they took out his brain. So, where is that brain of his? We could probably get a lot of data from it.”

“No one knows. I will send a team to each location and see if they can find any clues regarding his brains,” Ishaya said.

“And they showed him his beating heart.”

“That is nothing compared to his brain. Once they took out his brain, he died. And then returned. He was alive WITHOUT his brain for a little while before they replaced his brain with an artificial one.”

“His healing factors are off the charts. We have a superhuman contracted with us whose healing factor is nothing compared to this guy. They cut off his limbs and they were regenerated mere minutes later. And that was when he was just two.”

“I think I understand why he is insane.”

“But look at this one. They have special chemicals that keep him from regenerating. We don’t know how effective it is since he destroyed the facility and most of the data with it, but we should be able to replicate it.”

Dozens of top people from his science department in London were talking about this gold mine they had just found. While he just sat there and listening to them.

“We need to recreate that chemical ‘bath’ as they called it here. We should test it out.”

“That is a good idea.”

“But… there is even more. Some things related to his powers.”

“Hm? What does it say?”

“It is a list of his powers and possible energies for it. For example, when he uses telepathy, he gives off yellow… no, blue energy… no, wait. This… he changes the colours of the energies as he sees fit?!”

“What?”

“It says here that his eyes used to turn purple when using telepathy then changed to blue then yellow and then blue again. The same with his healing energy. It says that it is possible he changes the energy colours as he sees fit.”

“That means that we won’t be able to find out what energy he is really using. Is he doing this to confused people?”

“Perhaps.”

“Okay, but look at this. He has technopathy too. We could have a data breach as we speak. Who knows?”

“That is one thing we must take care of immediately,” Ishaya said, sounding very serious.

Ishaya thought about it for a minute.

“But how are we to stop him from using his...uh… ‘technopathy’ on us?”

“...”

The room went silent.

“We need to come up with an answer for that first.”

“Yes. But at the moment, all files relating to him are not on the main server. So, even if hacks to our mainframe or server, he should not be able to find that we have any information on him,” Ishaya explained.

The people in the room started to relax a little.

But it was only for a moment.

They started talking about the data in front of them again.