The Way of the Future: Age of Machines(Completed)

The Night Goes On

The leader watched as his patrol group was decimated without even the enemy lifting a single finger against them, they were all defeated not by physical or metaphysical ways but through the very fear that lied within them.

He stood there frozen in place, he could see new fires bloom in the distance as newer hues of red and yellow made themselves known across all directions.

He then let go of his sword and wept. The sword fell to the ground but made no sound other than the crunching of burned sticks and leaves under it. He fell onto his knees while he faced the ground below him.

"I give up," He whispered, his voice cracked and shivered.

"I don't think a surrender is an option for a knight under a Theocracy," Artemis walked forward and looked down on the knight.

"Please, I have a family, please have mercy,"

The knight pleaded.

But Artemis could not care less if the enemy had someone or something of value back home that they wished to come back to, no, why should he? Will he show this knight mercy? Well, he was still human but was unsure.

"I may look like a human to you," Artemis walked from the darkness made himself known under the faint red light of the cracks across his skin.

"Ha," The knight stared in awe, Artemis did not notice but he looked like a divine and magnificent being in the eyes of the knight. He glowed like an angel sent from above, excreting an aura of power both calming and deadly.

"But I am not human, nor am I one of your deities," Artemis quickly shot down his hopes.

"I bring upon you only death and destruction because you stand in my way, you stand in my mission and my goal, I don't expect the millions of others like you to just surrender just for convenience? No, I know you will fight to the bitter end, in the streets of your cities, in the halls of your palaces and the fields of your villages. That's why I will crush you where you think you can hold, I will strike you in the very heart of your society. Some of you will remain but most would be either lying on their doorsteps dead or have gone to take refuge towards faraway lands,"

The vision of the knight began to fade, as much so that he could only see the eyes of the man in front of him surrounded by eternal darkness.

"You see,"

"I am, human but I neither possess nor have the weaknesses of a human, I possess merely the shell of someone who was still human. I care not if you all die, I care not if you grovel and cry upon my feet for every living thing would eventually die and that's the curse of life. We will all eventually die and sadly, your death came far too soon,"

"Now, to continue from where we left off, you are an interesting man, not only did you resist collapsing into insanity, you kneel before me pleading for mercy although others I have encountered before pleaded not, they either fought me and died or ran and still died,"

The man was silently crying, tears were dripping from his cheeks and into the ground the tears went. The explosions became louder as the second offensive raged on. With every minute that passed, the Theocracy lost more ground, air, and more men.

And here, Artemis and the knight were wasting their time.

"Please,"