Linus returned to his inn room where he saw Lucas sitting on the floor staring outside from the window, the screen was starting to disappear. Lucas saw the man who save him for the first time, he was a slender man, with a scar from the temple to his other chick, in his hand a silver cane with a unknown mark on the handle. From his appearance he seemed a nobleman.
Linus bowed to Lucas and greeted him “Mr. Lucas Vesper, a fallen noble, what are you going to do now, swallow this disrespect or act against the perpetrator. Answer carefully, this will determine our cooperation, I will give you 5 min to think” though he bowed like a gentleman, his words were anything but polite.
than noel came and sat on the chair and sat on it, while summoning a cigar and lighting it while reading the Aurelia times newspaper. He treated his father as if gazing at someone unknown. Which he almost was, to him.
Lucas thought about his situation and made his mind, he called out to noel
“I will act against them but, you have to save my son from Siona’s radiance church.”
Linus raised his eyebrow and looked at Lucas''s battered body “hmm, you are not in any position to negotiate with me, and last I remember you didn’t care whether he lives or dies.”
Lucas clenched his hands than took a deep breath to calm himself down he was really not in any place to negotiate or even ask for anything, but he had no other way to save his son
“I am indeed not in any place to negotiate, however I must have some use, or you wouldn’t have saved me” said Lucas while clinging to his hope.
“quite sharp, but you got it wrong you have served your purpose, I was just there to create some chaos and to announce about my organization, now you can either leave or join us”
Lucas’s face fell visibly, as he was a fish caught by a fisherman, if he leave he will be eaten by sharks searching for him outside or this fisherman will eat him. He had nowhere to go, and no way to save his son. It was like his destiny is being written with, all the problems falling in his lap.
He had always neglected his son because, if he didn’t his son will definitely be swept in the torrent of power , he served the old king loyally so he can be under his shade, but that old bastard started to discard me, so I have no choice but to seek the help of dark alliance but who knew that old bastard died before he can reach a consensus and as a loyal dog he was also swept into the abyss.
Lucas made up his mind and crawled toward noel’s feet, touched his head to noel’s shoes “I am ready to become your slave, and work like your dog, please save my son, that boy is innocent please, this is the only time I will ask you anything,” while saying Lucas''s eyes were filled with tears but he didn’t let them flow out.
Seeing Lucas''s action, Linus couldn’t help but have his mouth wide open, but he quickly recovered, his always prideful father, he who neglected him all his life and saw him with hostility, was begging for his safety to an unknown person.
[as you guessed master, there definitely was something wrong with him] link said seriously
“okay, we have saved him, now stand up” said Linus in a heavy voice.
Linus’s motive in saving his father was to know what happened in his past and why he acted strange around him, but he never got to asked anything, although now he has chance to ask yet his ego has become as high as mount Rombis, the tallest and most mysterious mountain, he always had this flaw, in link’s words he definitely has adhd or what was it …. Forget it. He though don''t know what it means.
“Why do you care about that boy so much ?” asked noel nonchalantly as he gave Lucas a strange looking bug, “place it on your head.”
Lucas had expected as much, they will use some method to control him, like poison or some things, but what is this bug, Lucas inspected it a little, it has metallic Lustre and has hard exoskeleton. Than placed it on his head, it’s not like he has much choice.
[Link try to read his memory]
His wife Eve Rudolf was the Saintess of dark god, after running from Umbrathal they came to Aurelia, where the dark alliance’s influence was least, just by his own hard work, he became a count and soon the king’s right hand man, though his wife, she died while giving birth to Linus
But she unintentionally passed all her dark essence power to Linus, making him a tier 1 dark priest, however trouble came Linus''s just born body couldn’t handle the power, and than he had to cripple his own son, just so he don’t die, for half of Linus''s life, Lucas had blamed himself and Linus for his wife’s death. Although Lucas knew this has nothing to do with his child, yet he couldn’t treat his son better since, whenever he saw Linus, he remembered the dying face of his wife. He remembered the gentle smile his son looked at him, despite him treating Linus with hostility. However that soon changed when his son started to grow up, and soon Linus stopped talking to anyone, just staring at him like some stranger, that’s what they were to each other,
This problem was something he caused himself and was a minor one but soon came a bigger problem, the dark church started to pursue his son. As the son of Saintess, Linus naturally was qualified to become a saint, but Lucas knew his son is a crippled but if anyone knew and by any chance Linus became the saint, living like a human will be a luxury. He will become a puppet, always in danger midst power struggle of different faction, used a disposable and always controlled puppet.
“He is my son, the least I can do is this much” Lucas said after having a torrential monologue about his wife and son. Though he didn''t expected the bug he just absorbed has relayed this information to his son.
“I see, well don’t worry we have already saved, and even healed your son, before coming to save you, you will meet him in due time, I had asked sard to place the blame on some duke from Nereidia but, with my appearance, it all went down in a drain.” Linus mumbled the latter half sentence.
Lucas couldn''t believe his ears, he has no choice but to believe this man’s word, he looked at noel as if saying you couldn''t come with a better lie, you healed a cripple why don’t you say just you are a god.
Noel chuckled while having a brainstorm from the revelation of his parents past. He had blanked out, as if staring into Lucas''s soul, like telling if you don''t want to die than shut your mind.This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road. If you spot it on Amazon, please report it.
Lucas lowered his head by seeing noel’s scary face. He is not afraid of this man, but if he want to save his son, he has to do anything.
Noel sighed, stood up and summoned a chaos wasp, left it on the desk
“Link give him access to nano AI of lowest tier. also create an annoying kid one for Lucas” “Understood master, should I forcibly install one for sard too ?” “oh you can do that now?” “not with anyone, you are sard’s source of magic. So you are just installing a virus in sard’s system, that makes you a scammer” Linus''s face twitched hearing link’s prompt “go ahead and inform him of our shenanigans here, or he might fall pray to the rabid deacon……”
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Sard was standing in front of his study desk, reading recent report while sipping the hot tea, the report was about the unknown man who appeared magically, smeared both pope and the king’s name than disappeared, the king has released the bounty on his name and the church has declared him as a heretic. But he don''t know why but think this man has something to do with that bo— his highness Linus. Sard still cant get used to this.
[Hello, sard I am your assistant nano]
[you can ask me anything and I will try to satisfy your requirement]
Sard quickly used holy water and tried to leave the state of illusion, he don’t know when but he had fallen into an illusion. The person casting is very stro ………
[hey don’t worry, you are not in a illusion or in any danger, just listen to me first]
Sard calmed down a little but was still vigilant of his surrounding for any attack
[ I am nano a servant of master Linus, used by my god’s faithful, and sometimes slaves, don’t worry your version is not of slave one, with nano you can contact master anytime without any essence spend, you can use many other functions such as, recording, spying, contacting other people with nano, or just analyze something but that will require permission from vice president link also this video tape was sent by master noel]
Sard saw the live video of all that was in report but with more details, he was in awe with this magic, he was aware of this things potential, and if they can use it with spies and while in a war.
[you can also create mini nano, though at your tier only 10 are allowed to made.]
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This same situation was happening in front of noel, but with Lucas.
“Try to change your appearance to that of a noble, you will enter the nobles circle, I don’t care how you do it, just create a rift between nobles and the church, and as much as chaos as possible. Also your son has been saved from the prison, you will meet him by his own accord, he don''t want to see you now”
Saying so noel disappeared from the room and the chaos wasp burst. While Lucas was still sitting on floor with his clothes battered but his injuries were healing at a speed seen to naked eye
[injuries are healed, this was provided from master’s package. For next use had to build up more bots in body. Eat more be healthy, and give birth to more bots, yay]
Hearing the prompt, Lucas''s first thought was, why is this guy so cheery. I am having an existential crisis and this guy, Can I have a replacement, but he didn''t thought much about it, and started to thought about the mission provided by that man which he didn''t even knew the name of.
First he should withdraw the money from his secret stash and also the king’s some stash that he knew, he will take them for serving him, or will the organization provide the funds, forget it that guy is too weird, I don’t want to contact him for as long as possible.
“Nano……”
[Yes master, you just have to call my name than give me the order, I will check your authorization and complete your task.]
“First change my face and can I change my body proportions?”
[yes you can change your face from the catalog]
[checking for authorization, low authorization, access denied, found permission to contact hive master, contacting Hive-AI 1]
“Stop, Don’t contact anyone” Lucas found out that not every flower is without thorn, this guy is just here to spy on him.
[access provided by Hive-AI 1, you can now change your body proportion, further contact with Hive-AI 1 is blocked for indefinite time]
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Inception, the space floating in deep cosmos, on a deep burrow a bunch of metallic ships were floating in air, there lies the empire of Nano-machines, and the strongest king ruled the Hive-AI 1, he was the second son of creation god, Linus, he was born after link, by using a lost soul from a reincarnator of death church, he was summoned from a sci-fi world, he was the best scientist of that world, but was killed because of terrorist attack.
Wyatt Nolan, was currently hibernating in his dark chamber whose walls were filled with posters of his god, than a buzz sounded in his mind, Wyatt opened his eyes, visibly irritable by waking up, he was still weak, only about tier 2, he saw that hive is halved that of from before, he sighed and took a look at who’s contacting him. It was nano887874578, seeing the large name, Wyatt almost wanted to kill the person who contacted him and say wrong number, but not anyone can contact him, this permission must be provided by big bro link or by lord father. He just saw the request accepted it and blocked the number. And went to sleep, while complaining to link. He still don’t want to wake up, he should become tier 3 before he wake up.
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Lucas grabbed his head, as he was tired to stop the child inside him from weeping.
“Master I am blocked by Hive-AI 1 wahhh, the king blocked me.”
“Okay that’s enough, change my body proportion and my face and clothes if you can”
“Yesh, its done, it will hurt a litt———”
Lucas started screaming, than soon controlled his sounds and stuffed a piece of cloth in his mouth, his body was itching from inside, he felt like his body was being eaten by a thousand of ants. He felt as if his bones are shrinking, After some time he woke up from his slumber, he was stinking of sweat, while being in a big shirt, large enough to fit his current body twice. He removed his clothes and walked to the mirror in the room. He couldn’t recognize this handsome man, he looked a proper young noble man, and a proper Scholar from the Aerius family of unity hall
His body became a lot smaller and thin, he became slimmer from a burly man, but all his previous power has concentrated into his current body, his face has lost all the facial hair, his face became more angular, his eyes and hairs were a shade of yellow, he can’t say he didn’t liked his face as this face was still a little worse from his prime with which he wooed his wife, thinking about his wife, a smile appeared on his face.
“Nano can you clean my body and generate clothes ?”
[yes master, not enough bots, making more of them, expending spiritual power.]
A metallic sheen appeared on his body he felt a little itch as more and more metal came out of his body and got converted into a black tuxedo and a cane, why the cane, he don’t know, though he was feeling weak and felt like he has expended 90% of his spiritual power.
[accidentally used more power to create a cane, he-he]
Lucas now knew the reason of his weakness, maybe he will die by this bot first
Let’s go and join Aerius family and join the family as a noble''s hidden son. As they don’t care about bloodline, and more about knowledge.
“Nano contact hmm — the man from before and send him the location of king’s treasury”
[contacting master noel. Access denied, low authorization, MSG received from master noel, just mark them on the map and send it, you will receive 10% of the money from king’s treasury or you can go there yourself.]
So he was called noel, and I will receive 10% of the treasury, that’s very generous of him. Nano showed the map and he casually marked the places than sent it to noel.
Lucas saw the crescent moon outside of window, than went to sleep on the bed, as a tier 2 mage, he can live without food for a year. He thought about his life and how it took turn for the worst, everything went downhill with her death, and he caused even more suffering for her child, as he don’t even think he deserved to be called his father,
This night was very long for both Linus and Lucas, the odd duo of father and son, both betrayed by circumstances. Both ruined by destiny.