With both sides facing each other, the old man and the others faced Roderick with grave expressions before the former stepped forward without fear in his eye.
"My sir, I guess you don't understand the real problem. We are nothing but tools, did you really think humanity would leave earth if there is so many of us having a good life in that island. We have proof of what we really are..." Just before he could finish, a foot care smashing right on his face. His body was thrown away dozens of meters away.
"I don't need to hear words from a bunch of madmen who treat innocent people as test subjects." Roderick spoke bluntly. Those people had been seated here watching thousands die, and they thought they could reason with him? In this state of mine, only an elemental king has any chances of hurting me, any other attack will just cause a single scratch.
He didn't know what the old man wanted to say, and he could care less. With so many enemies against himself, he could not underestimate them. It's best to eliminate them early and look for answers later.
"Ugh! So instead of following the path of heaven, You want to choose hell... At least you look like a good specimen for our tests." The rich looking man burst with golden flames that arose the temperature in the room to another level before he dashed to the walls and pressed down a hidden lever. Metal bars rose from the floor, forming a cage around Roderick together with the four fire elemental turrets that appeared from the holes in the wall.
Inside the cage, the smile on Roderick's face vanished at that moment and a cold expression replaced it. Lightning took over his right eye, as the left eye be kept shut, opened as well revealing the vast emptiness. The light in his eye began to let out a buzzing sound as he looked pleased with something.
"What are you doing, stop it!" The old man noticed something wrong when thin sparks were seen flowing from all over the ship toward Rick.
"Charge complete." Cold light shone in his eyes. In terms of numbers, it would be really hard to win against the entire crew in the their own terrain. He would charge himself with the ship's energy and use their own weapon against them.
Liberatio! Lightning and Thunder gathered at the center of his palm forming a claw-shaped lightning. With a flick of his hand, the lightning and thunder burst out in a flash. In a split second, thin little wounds opened in their bodies as if countless thin little blades ripped them apart. The old voice also gave his help in order to control the lightning to not damage the ship and only target living beings. Bodies fell unconscious on the ground while Roderick leaned on one of the metal bars.
Sucking in and unleashing so much energy in a short span of time made him really dizzy. Roderick walked forward and searched the bodies of everyone in the room while taking the command codes for the ship's AI. Synchronizing with his obelisk device, the entire map of the appeared on a 3d hologram above his wrist.
"This!" Rick yelled. This wasn't any common ship, but a mothership made by humanity more than two thousand years ago.
UESS-Ruby Star; United Earth Starship Category five.
Class: Heavy Weight Transport Ship
Manufacturing Date: 06/31/2039
[System diagnosis. Weapon system unavailable. Low Energy, shields working at 30%. Recommended Charging the battery. Speed limited to bellow Lightspeed, the engines working at 50%.]
This is a twenty-one century starship. A starship of this level was a true treasure, he knew even the guardians or the other forces in Eden had no ship like this, at least on paper. Its state was not that good, but just to be able to lift off was a miracle. For the flame union to have something like this made him pleasantly surprised.
Because it was something this old, it meant no elemental masters were needed to lift this beauty of a spaceship.
"Heavy weight transport ships were made for large-scale transportation from earth to its colonies." Inspecting the map, he saw it had four floors and a docking station where smaller starships were transported from earth to the colonies. The fourth floor where the crystal cells were located, it had a small laboratory and the storage room.
First, he headed to the bridge on the first floor after passing by a few unconscious guards. The two pilots and most of the crew in charge. Pulling the pilots out of his chair, Roderick scanned the ship's piloting code in order to receive the rights to drive it.
[We were lucky. The innate divine strength of yours could only last ten minutes with a body as weak as yours. It was good that the death hazard lightning didn't have any real intellect and just acted based upon its instincts, leaving the vessel vulnerable for us.]
"I know, but the pain, not that small too. I'm probably not using that ever again." Using his obelisk to translate some of these ancient words, Roderick had the ship land on a lone island. With the ship on land, he carried the bodies of the most important people in their cells together with the rest of the crew.
Before he left the fourth floor, Rick saw the door leading to the follow the stairs. In the docking station, Roderick was surprised to find there was not a single aircraft on there, but a huge device. A computer-looking thing with a huge black screen.
"What is this, an ancient computer?" He tried to start it and, to his surprise, he boot directly to the desktop. There he saw a few folders written in a language he didn't understand. Yet when he had his obelisk translate the folders' names, one of them stood out of the rest. The name was translated into the two words, Project Eden.