Mid Evening - Mid Winter : Six Hundred Kiloters East of the Cabinet
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*rrrruuuuMMMBBLLEEE-WOOSH* Watching Father zip past at close to Mach 4, this ti without his scales glowing red-hot or tumbling through the air, I nodded with a satisfied look.
Mach 4 was most definitely his limit, but because he was limited by how thick the air was, as we rose in altitude, his speed limit would inevitably rise as well. *Vwoom* -He might have trouble managing his oxygen when we're at altitude though...- Checking the space around his head with my aura as he disappeared over the horizon, I motioned him back, and used so of my mana to grow the rapidly-lting iceberg I was floating on.
After all, I wasn't sure a square kiloter of ice would survive.
*Crackle-z-z-z-Z-Z-Z-ZIP-BAAAAANG* Slamming into the iceberg at full speed, cracks ripped through it like lightning before the whole thing was plunged beneath the water. *WOOOSH-SPLASSHH*
-Oh, it survived this ti...- Using the water that rushed across the surface to repair the huge cracks that appeared, I buried our claws in ice.
But a bit of ice was far from enough to hold Father in place. "HAHA!" *CRACK* Jumping out of the ice, he happily hopped around like an overjoyed child for a mont before turning to . "Did you see that?! WOOOO, that felt good!" His happy roar quickly echoed off the massive waves surrounding us before I quelled them as well.
"I told you going fast is euphoric." Smiling as I broke the ice around my claws and stepped out, I spread my wings and dried myself off. *Vwoom-Woosh* "How are your legs feeling though?"
"Much better!" Holding up his paw, he gently moved it around before firmly stomping a few tis. "The work you did on it last ti was flawless."
"Phew..." Letting out a silent breath of relief, I spoke more softly. "Thank goodness." The last ti we ca out to fly, a few days prior, he did the sa thing he just did, but went much faster and slamd straight into the water, consequently crushing the joints in his wrists and breaking a few bones in his legs.
When I went to fix it, I did a bit of a procedure on him to not just repair everything, but strengthen it as well, and it seed to work out. "You said it was just mana strengthening, but I'm not sure I believe you."
"Well, that's cause you're comparing my mana strengthening to normal people." With my recent ti in the void, I found a much more ti-consuming, but stronger thod of mana strengthening using lattices interwoven with space mana. The downside was that it made whatever I strengthened a dark matte black, whether it was supposed to be a shiny tal or white bone, and greatly stunted organic activity. -But before that really becos a problem, it'll get replaced with his own mana.-
"I guess that's true." Looking in the eye as he started walking over, he spoke with excitent written all over his face. "In any case, do you think I'm finally ready for our excursion?"
Sowhat hesitantly nodding, I tried to quell his excitent a bit. "I do, but we can't leave just yet."
"Hm?"
"We have soone else coming with us," Without realizing, a smile spread across my face. "Soone I still need to reintroduce you to."
As we flew back to the Cabinet, I tried to ease him into things, especially since I wasn't sure how much Mother had explained to him already.
"So, how much has Mother explained the governntal changes in Bahamut?"
Shrugging as we flew, he spoke with a bit of uncertainty. "I thought a lot, at least about it's function and origin. She didn't ntion much about what caused it."
-Okay, then...- "Has Mother told you who the Monarch is?"
He quickly shook his head. "I heard it was Myles Kalfas since he survived his dragon sleep. Is it not?"
Shaking my head, I wanted to laugh. "Not quite. He's the head of the military branch." -Looks like so of his mories are still jumbled...-
Father, giving an uncomfortable look, quickly squinted with skepticism. "Then.. who..?" Falling into thought, his gaze quickly wandered. "Is it you? Are you pulling my leg?"
"Haha, nope." Continuing to let him guess while we flew, we eventually found a place to land in the central courtyard and sat down.
"Huh? Why are we sitting." Obediently sitting down as discomfort and concern rushed across his face, he spoke with haste. "We aren't waiting for the Monarch to co to us, are we?!"
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Quickly waving my wing to calm him down, I used a bit of aura to check on Hera and make sure she wasn't too busy.
But she was already headed our way.
*Click-FWOOSH* Throwing open the door ahead of us, Hera walked through while holding her head high with a prideful smile.
It was a sight that made Father clam up and instinctually throw himself into a bow. "What are you doing, Vasilias?!" Looking up at , his gaze was washed with panic. "Why aren't you bowing?"
"Pft-" It made want to laugh. "You think I'd invite her if we had that kind of relationship? Relax, Dad." Using my aura to force him to stand up straight, I tried to start the reintroduction. "Dad, this is Hera. I believe you two t not long before you were sent into your dragon sleep, but since your mories seed to still be a bit jumbled, I thought I'd reintroduce you."
Instantly tensing up, he went wide-eyed before Hera bowed with a warm smile. "It's a pleasure to et you again, sir."
"Ah-! Y-You don't need to bow to soone like !" Trying to force himself into a bow through my aura, he glared at and used a bit of wind magic to speak just to , not knowing Hera could very easily hear it. "Let bow, RIGHT NOW! Do you not know what it ans to not bow to the Monarch?!"
"Pfffft-hahaha!" Finally breaking character, Hera let out a hardy laugh, causing Father's expression to wash with a mix of uneasiness and confusion. "It'd be a bit awkward for him to bow to , you know."
Quickly nearing , this ti with a joyful curl in her tail, she pressed the top of her head into my cheek and leaned into .
"~Please let introduce myself this ti.~" Whispering to with her divinity, I gently nodded and backed off as she turned back to Father. "Sir, my na is Hera Monachalkos. It seems you don't rember but we spoke quite extensively about science in Valtivar throughout the month prior to the accident leading to your dragon sleep."
Completely shellshocked, Father just stood there with his gaze bouncing between and Hera before suddenly his eyes went wide. "A-Ah! I'm so sorry!" Finally forcing himself through my aura, he bowed and wiped the dumbfounded expression off his face. "It seems my dragon sleep jumbled my mories more than I thought... I sincerely apologize."
Hera quickly nodded with a warm smile. "Please don't be sorry, Vasilias had already told all about it. We will get the chance to know each other again on this trip, so don't worry."
Warming up to her as his mories slowly returned to him, he started speaking more comfortably. "R-Right, I apologize if this trip was sothing you wanted to be just between you and Vasilias."
"Haha, don't be. It'll be good for us all to spend so ti with each other. Plus, sotis I can get lost in Vasilias's explanations so it'll be nice to have a head to butt against.. especially considering what he'll be showing us..."
Looking up into the sky, Father was quick to nod in understanding. "No kidding..."
But I, unfortunately, had to get the ball moving. "In any case, shall we get going?" With only a month till the festival, we had to get moving. -Considering there are at least a few thousand satellites, I'm not sure what will be repairable and what won't...- But with there being at least a few thousand satellites, I was sure it was going to take us so ti.
However, when we finally got up into the air, and I pulled out the freshly updated OOM, jumped through a few tabs to search for a nearby satellite, and eventually found one, catching up to it in its orbit.. I felt a bead of sweat form on my forehead.
"Uh..." Hera and Father had the sa reaction as . "What are we looking at..?"
Hesitating as I looked at the large purple cube floating before us, I wasn't sure what to really think. -It looks like it runs mostly off mana...- But inside it was an incredible mix of technology and runes, intertwined so perfectly that it was a little hard to follow. -Besides cleaning up the runes and circuits a bit, this shouldn't need much repairs...-
However, I quickly found myself with another problem.
"What.. is this thing supposed to do?" Tilting her head, Hera stared at it with an unbelievably confused expression.
"That.. is a great question..." Pulling out the OOM again, I quickly connected to the satellite, did a few scans to make sure it was working properly, and then went into the 'in-depth diagnosis' tab, telling exactly what it checked, only to find that it was an outdated communications relay that was likely replaced by the tower in the middle of the Death's Gape.
-Maybe.. I need to change how I go about doing this...-
With a little more research, I quickly ca to realize just how few of the fifteen thousand satellites the OOM found needed to be repaired.
But.. that didn't an repairing them would be any easier...
With every satellite we found, I felt more and more lost. "W..What..." -How does this shit even work?!-
Honestly, I was intending for the trip to be sothing where I could help deepen Hera and Father’s knowledge of science, but.. before long, I found myself deepening my own.
It just went to show how much more advanced the Acardi were than I had always envisioned.. to a point that it was truly a bit horrifying, not just to , but Hera. “How.. did the Acardi not conquer Delphi…”
Looking over at her staring at a computation module that used runes, mana, and quantum electronics, simultaneously, completely dumbfounded, I couldn’t help but ask myself the sa question. “How.. did Delphi even survive…”
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