me - so what should I call you, tower. I did not think you would gain your free will so soon.
tower - not even I expected that to be the case, human. your bodies regenerative capability has managed to help me a lot, human.
me - it looks like my luck is really shitty these couple of days. you seem to be a smart guy or girl or whatever gender you have. let's make a contract shall we. I promise you that it will be well worth your time.
(after god knows how long, back in the throne room. I can't disclose my deal with the tower until I complete it, the tower does not want its goals to be known to anyone. )
it is going to be problematic, since I can't even use my original body. the tower is not ready to leave my original body alone.
so I have to make do with the ant queen. I am not a fool to trust in the tower to use a puppet of it, especially since it wants to use me as a battery.
right now my job is to figure out, what the hell is happening right now. by the way, I think I should get moving.
I was sitting motionless in the throne room, not because I want too, but because a couple of snakes were patrolling this area. the ant queen is pretty weak, but It still in the third class. by the way I have decided to call it the puppet king. I can't keep calling it ant queen all the time.
the puppet kings body structure is pretty similar to that of a human. that is partly due to me. the queen of a thousand realms gave it the ability of shapeshifting, a courtesy of the book of thousand arms. naturally, I would make it a human.
now snakes had placed a temporal shield over this place. nobody could teleport in or out. no magic would enter or leave. only a hole is left in the shield, because a supply of air is needed isn't it. it will most likely be somewhere in the sky or underground. the
fact that they want to use a temporal shield means that they want to use this land as a springboard to further their invasion. the temporal shield is a necessity to set up a stable portal.
at least, as stable as they can get. most portals tend to be very unstable. even with the temporal shield, there is a significant chance that the portal will collapse into itself causing massive damage to either side of the portal.
the only exception is the abyss gates, those tend to cause no damage, but they can only be used between two worlds, the portal can't be used to connect two points in the same world.
while I was rambling here, I managed to sneak down into the city. the tower was barely guarded.
that made sense, because I could hear fighting. somebody was fighting in this city.
if that was the case then my job became a hundred times harder. the place I wanted to go was the gate, where all the fighting will be going on.
well I need to go there anyway. well the first thing I need is weapons. those are the easiest to handle. after all the treasury is pretty close by and human weapons don't interest other species.
( after a few minutes )
I reached the treasury, it helps that I can ask the tower itself for the best path there. it also helps that other than a few weaklings there was nobody else in this place.
to be honest I have no idea what the fuck is going on. right, all I want to do is escape and run for my life. but the mission comes first.
the treasury is relatively untouched, except a few walls collapsed in itself.
I quickly got a couple of quivers of arrows and a bladed bow. the bladed bow is one of my favorite weapons. it is basically a magic bow capable of energy projection. in layman terms, the bow can project energy to the shape of a blade.
( after a while )
I quickly found out where the gate is, it is on the ground so that meant I did not need to worry about digging a tunnel.
I reached there pretty quickly. nobody blocked my path to the gate. I found out the reason why pretty soon.
the snakes we're fighting a very bitter fight with the undead. the surrounding region of the gate was completely filled with snakes and undead.
I got down to it. fighting on a battlefield is a very chaotic affair. most of the snakes were busy in their own fighting, with very few paying attention. most that did found an arrow in their mouth, some found my bow deep in their body.
no matter what, they couldn't stop me. no matter what, it is nice to find myself in a strong body. my original body was very damaged, almost completely destroyed. it is recovering, but I still could not reach my old peak.
anyway, I reached the gates, which was kind of boring since none of the third ranks or fourth ranks were present. I can't cross the gate. my heart will be ripped out if I did that.
I quickly make a communication rune and place it outside the gate.
me - rock, can you hear me.
rock - what happened, it is not like you to call me so suddenly. has something bad happened?
me- leave all of that, have you made the modification that I have asked of you in the seals I have made.
rock - yes, I can activate it any moment you want. should I activate it now?
me - now would be very good. any second would be fine.
as soon as I said that I could feel the needles in my head sensation. the tower was bringing me back to my original body.
after the pain subsided and I could hear again properly the tower began to speak.
me - so tower, I have fulfilled my part of the contract, I want you to fulfill yours.
tower - what is the hurry, I want to see what you are planning. by the way do you think about that necromancer outside. will he be a threat?
me - no, the fact that he is struggling against such a weak army shows just how strong he is.
tower - you call this a weak army. you could barely do anything to them and that is with me helping you.
me - my ability is not suited to combat, so naturally I can't face off against them. a necromancer ability is to literally raise an army, and as I was saying this is a very weak troop. if you remove all the class ones, their force is just two thousand strong.
if I had my entire army I could beat them. but I had an army of eighteen, which is nothing compared to the troops outside.
by the way, now that I think about it, what happens to my army. I haven't stayed with them for a long time, but I have grown quite attached to them.
tower - all of them are dead, the snakes killed them as soon as they entered the city
me - what a pity, they were fine soldiers. I am going to miss them.
tower - you living beings are so cruel, don't you think. one of your kind has died and you are not even reacting. the one you call phentim. you were considering making him your disciple weren't you. his death doesn't phase you. doesn't it make you feel angry at the enemy, don't you feel like ripping them to pieces?
me - tower, I have lived the life of a soldier almost from my teenage. I have seen the death of thousands of beings, I have caused the death of thousands of beings. I have seen many of my brethren pass away. over time I realised that we all are but puppets, used by the people we call our own.
leave it be tower, childish blackmail is not necessary. it makes you seem very petty.
tower - by the when is whatever you promised going to happen, I am getting bored here.
me - just wait a couple of minutes, you will not miss it, it is going to be explosive.
( after a couple of minutes )
my plan will start with a very loud, drawn scream. this would be the sound of a woman screaming just like the one that could be heard right now.
this was the sound of space getting ripped apart, signaling the formation of a space tunnel. space tunnels for distances less than a thousand kilometers are pretty stable, especially if a guy like me is working on them. as for where this space tunnel was linking, it was linking the abyss portal and the book of thousand mages.
tower - why have you linked the portal to the book.
me - that is very obvious, my dear friend. I want to restrict the damage caused by that book as much as possible after all the damage caused by the explosion of a thousand units of god mana is a very destructive force.
tower - you fool, the book is very unstable. spacial mana will make it explode.
me - I know, that is why I am using this to destroy the city. I have to be thankful for the snakes to have created a temporal shield over this place. it will also limit the damage caused by the explosion. also, you really should not expect me to give you my body just like that
saying that, I gathered every iota of magical energy in my body to power a spell of mine. the spells name was telekinesis. it is a simple spell but the tower has sealed my magic and placed a magic shield around me.
I used the telekinesis spell and moved the book almost into the portal. for this plan of mine I removed the book from the throne so that I could chuck it into a space tunnel and cause a massive boom.
me - as long as I remove my spell, the book will fall into the tunnel. once that happens I will fulfill my part of the deal.
tower - but that will destroy the entire place, including my body. you must strictly not damage my body.
me - mister tower, I think you have forgotten but your body is your god core. not these buildings and this god mana won't affect you. it will actually make it easier for you to grow stronger. but you must fulfill my part of the contract or your heart will be taken from you. that is enough to make even a god fall down.
the tower did not say anything, but I could tell it was thinking trying to find a loophole. after a few seconds I could feel the restriction on my mind loosen.
right now I had to directly transfer my soul into the puppet king. that was something only the tower could do. to be honest I have no idea how it does it, using magic I could transfer consciousness but not my soul. the tower somehow could do it. that's why it could forcefully bring my consciousness to my original body.
( from here on out I am in so much pain that I can't even form a clear thought, since it has been thousands of years since I have made the deal. I can speak of it.
we had initially thought that this was a raiding force, who would leave once they completed their attacks.
the tower expected the same thing, so it allowed the snakes to enter. it found out it made a mistake as soon as the snakes began to make the temporal shield, so it dragged my consciousness into my original body which was protected by the tower.
it wanted to take over my body, but since it did not have any way to deal with the snake without destroying its own body, it made a contract with me to destroy the snakes, without harming its body. it was a nice deal without any loopholes and I would be alive at the end of it.
the only mistake that it did was forget the fact that its body was its god core, not the city that it had claimed.
the release of god mana will not harm it, this actually gave it an opportunity to become stronger and become a big headache in the future. )