Lilia pulled a hand-sized humanoid steel golem out of her pocket and lifted it before Arad, "Let introduce you, this is the current..."
"I'll speak," the golem jumped from her hand and expanded in a crackle of lighting into the size of a human. As he landed, the ground beneath his feet cracked as he stared at Arad, his eyes sparking with power.
"Have you heard of the true neutral plane? The world of law and order, the paradise of the machines, chanus. I'm the version 1000.01.3 of their chanical god, Millenniumous." His voice crackled like arching lightning, whatever was standing before Arad didn't have a soul.
"Nope, never heard of you." Arad replied and imdiately swung a fist at Millenniumous's face.
Millenniumous remained still and didn't move a spring, and Arad's fist stopped right before his face. "Why don't you dodge or block?"
"By my calculation, you weren't trying to hit . The blast would destroy the university and that halfling would be pissed." He pointed back at Betty, "And, you've already noticed, right? The one standing before you isn't , but a re soulless puppet controlled from far away." He giggled, "I didn't move my anus from chAnus..."
Lilia imdiately jolted him with a bolt of lightning, "Shut up! That isn't funny, even to . It doesn't help that your lower torso is chanus itself."
She then looked at Arad, "He was once called Primous, he's the machine god of chanus. You might've known him with one of his countless nas, with each version it changes 1.1 is Primous, 2.1 is Secondous, and so on."
"Still, I've never heard of him." Arad waved his hand and ripped the ropes tying Betty and Luminous. "What brought you here?"
"I was the cosmic police before void dragons ca to be. My endless army of steel golems would march across the world to find and eliminate cosmic threats." Millenniumous said, lifting his hand and trying to mimic humans, "Now, I've taken a back seat and I'm only doing detective work, spying across the outer world with my disposable golems to monitor abomination activities."
"What does that have to do with ? I've gone to the outer world once, but I'm not going there again." Arad replied with a passive face. He wants to lay low and enjoy his ti with his wives, going outside might an him getting cursed again.
"Jordan is still alive. Vorvadoss's cultists teleported him to the outer world." Millenniumous said with a flat tone, "You've beaten Vorvadoss so much that he gave up on life and fell into an abyssal depression. The cultists have already transferred Vorvadoss's power into Jordan's dying body."
"What do you an by that? I killed Jordan with my hands." Arad gasped.
"He was getting power from Vorvadoss which made him a perfect vessel. While Vorvadoss is dead for now and Jordan has taken upon his powers, when Nyar, that man clad in yellow cos back, he'll resurrect Vorvadoss." Millenniumous pointed at Arad, "Before that, I'm certain Jordan would seek you with vengeance, I've already lost a thousand bots trying to eliminate him." He pointed to himself, "Like this one I'm speaking to you through."
"By the way..." Lilia pointed at Millenniumous, "Don't let his size fool you, this bastard stores massive war golems inside a storage spell and pulls them out to fight. This one bot is almost half as strong as Tiamat."
"I have billions of bots, but I can't activate them all at the sa ti as I lack the energy to support that. But I can send around a thousand of them at the sa ti." Millenniumous looked at Arad, "I've co here to warn you. It's my job as the cosmic intelligence to report to all of the cosmic police. Your kind, the void dragons are the ones to hunt monsters on the edges of the world, and I'm the one to investigate outside it."
"This matter concerns more than anyone else so..." Arad looked at him.
"Yeah, I'm only informing you, unless you want otherwise." Millenniumous started floating, "And...by the way... I might've dropped an inevitable after you...don't die. Think of it as a training." He shrunk down and flew into Lilia's pocket.
"That's it for . Don't die..." She disappeared in a flash. Betty and Luminous finally could speak, "Run!" Luminous growled.
"It's here!" Betty yelled at him.
The office's door slowly opened, and a maid stared from the crack at Arad, her steel eyes flashing with lightning.
Luminous clapped her hands together and teleported away with Arad and Betty. "Grandma, that thing, what is it?" Betty growled, "I never sensed such magic in my life." "Inevitable are forces sent to hunt stray gods and demigods, this thing is what would've eventually co for Korah and Jordan." Luminous looked around. "Forget shaking them off, the only option is to destroy them."
"I still don't understand, that Millenniumous hunk of steel sent it?" Arad looked at them.
"Yeah. Usually, they are like cockroaches, kill one, and ten show up. But since this is a training from Millenniumous and Lilia, I doubt that more would co out. You only need to defeat this one." Luminous smiled, "Void boy, you've finally started seeing true danger. What level are you?"
"Haven't checked in a while, but I'm sure I've already surpassed 100." Arad replied and Luminous stared at him, her light flickering, "Are you serious?"
"Yeah..." Arad nodded.
"Fine, run. I'll deal with that thing." The sky above them rumbled as large black cracks expanded, the maid fell down from the sky engulfed in fire and lighting. The earth around them rumbled as she stood up.
"Where are we? We're far away, right?" Arad gasped.
"A demi-plane like the one your brother blew up." Luminous giggled, "She even followed us here. It seems the rumors are true, they could move freely through dinsion."
At that mont, the air stopped moving and Arad stood still. Everyone, even the inevitable slayer could feel it, the dreadful aura growing around Arad. He slowly turned toward, her, a cube in his hand.
"You can get inside?" He said, his eyes burning with his magic.
"I can." She replied.
Arad imdiately pointed at the cube, "Get inside and pull her out. Now!"
"Make ." She replied with a passive face, lightning exploding from her back. Arad's body flashed in magic as he transford into his draconic form, towering over her. "Get her out, scrap bucket." He lifted his claw and swung it down, ripping the inevitable's left arm.
She didn't even flinch, her eyes slowly moved to look at her arm, "Damage detected...order rejected, initiating destruction mode. Target's health, 100%, mission completion 0%."
As lightning sparked from her shattered arm, the broken pieces flew up and lted together as her arm repaired itself in the blink of an eye.
"My wife is locked inside, I'll not play human gas with you. Either get inside and pull her out, or I'll rip you apart right here and now." Arad's body started lightning up with energy as he started crushing matter, charging for a massive blast.
"You don't have administrative authority, only Millenniumous." Her eyes spazzed around as she searched the collective library of the world of order for a suitable word. "Deus Ex
Machina."
Luminous grabbed Betty and ran away, "He's about to blow off!" she gasped as they zipped away, radiating and chasing them at the speed of light.
****
"Do you think he'll win?" Millenniumous said, standing on Lilia's desk at the top layer of the
mage's tower.
"You can watch the fight through the inevitable's eyes. Do that." Lilia stared at him with a bored face, "I too want to watch."
"That'll take precious computing power from her. I'd rather not interfere a single bit to get accurate data on him." Millenniumous waved his hand, "Precision is key to all machines. That's why our world is called the plane of law and order."
At that mont, the tower shook with an impact and Lilia gasped, "What's going on? The outer barrier shattered?" She waved her hand to conjure a panel of magic, but Millenniumous pointed at the window.
She slowly turned her head and saw Arad's massive eye glaring at them with burning rage. His head slowly moved, and he spat the destroyed inevitable through the window at them. "Millenniumous..." Arad growled, "You can freely teleport through dinsions?" Arad shifted back into his human form and jumped inside.
"Wait...you defeated her?" Millenniumous gasped, "I didn't get a notice of her destruction..." He looked at the sparking hunk of steel before him, stunned.
Arad didn't bother replying and pulled the cube where Zephyr was trapped, "Get inside and
get Zephyr out. Now."
"We machine can move, but we can't take anything living with us. Even if I can get in and out,
I can't pull her with ." Millenniumous replied and pointed at the destroyed inevitable, "She can't pull her out either."
"Then how do you get inside? I'll pull her out myself." Arad growled.
"First, answer . How did you beat her?" Millenniumous growled.
"I juggled her back and forth through the curse of existence. In a world where neither ti nor
space exist, she seed to fail at everything. She instantly stopped working and I crushed her
to bits." Arad replied it was Doma's domain.
"All of my machines use ti and space and coordinate and references to act, learn, and
predict attacks. If you ripped them out of those two they'll get confused and it'll take too long to correct the errors." Millenniumous giggled, "Found a new bug."
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