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

Dumbass

"How did you know?" Artemis asked her.

Silvanna smiled and started walking around the room.

She was still wearing the same clothes she had when they found her but in contrast back then, her clothes were clean and her skin was as fair as snow. 

"Weren't you defiled, beaten, and left to rot back in that dungeon?" Artemis asked. His eyes following her every movement. 

"Well, I was beaten but not defiled. Although it's common knowledge among mages that defiling a mage would result in a magical reaction between the defiler and the victim but of course I don't expect the common folk to know of it," Silvanna said. 

"So you never needed help in the first place?" Artemis said.

"Well, not really. I was badly wounded, you saw that yourself, if any other healing mage were to heal me, I would still be in bed right now, and as for the semens in the floor, there were real but they didn't defile me though but I use my magic to steal it from their insides without doing it physically, it smells but its no different than those slimes I faced, their are quite disgusting creatures I ever faced in my life" Silvanna said shuttered remembering in her younger days in the Magic Academy.

Artemis did not make any sudden moves. Since Silvanna seemed to not have any further intentions of harming him, Artemis had decided to keep his cool and observe the situation he was in before making any moves.

Since his identity has been exposed by this girl, he was at risk of being frowned upon and being labeled as a public enemy.

Despite his efforts in uplifting the Fortress city and the residents therein, he was unsure if the humans would still accept and follow him if he were to be revealed to be a metal demon.

Artemis then decided to cut to the chase. 

"What are your goals?" Artemis asked. 

Silvanna looked at one of the curtains and began caressing the silk.

"Hm, my goals? Well, to ensure that the elf over there doesn't undo her seal," Silvanna said.

Artemis was surprised. Although he had detected a strange concentration of magic that was residing within Pandora, he was unsure if it was natural or not.

But if she had a seal, then that would mean that there is something inside her that whoever Silvanna is working for, did not want to run loose in the world. 

"So you're friendly attitude with her was all a lie? An act, but that doesn't explain why you let yourself be captured," Artemis asked. Still unsure of the validity of Silvanna's story.

"That bit was uncalled for. I didn't expect to get beat up by the goons of that paladin bitch you just made a piece of art with," Silvanna said. 

"I don't buy it. With the amount of magic I see within in and the dagger you showed me earlier, if I was any other soldier in this world, I would be lying next to you on the floor, dead," Artemis said.

"But you chose not to fight back," Artemis said. He then walked forward and as he got closer to where Silvanna was. He tore down the curtain, letting the rest of the moonlight in .

Both of them stared at each other. 

"You are an imperial mage," Artemis said.

Silvanna smiled again.

"How did you know?" Silvanna asked.

"And not just any ordinary mage, you're one of the Archmages" Artemis said.

Silvanna's confidence then turned into fear. Artemis had seen through her without even her needing to speak a single word about it.

"H-how do you know?" Silvanna summoned another dagger from her magic and pointed it inches away from Artemis' neck.

Artemis, however, did not flinch. He knew that the dagger would just shatter once Silvanna's tried to even cut his neck like the other dagger she had used. 

"That Crest, unfamiliar it is to me. But if you are indeed a mage who was tasked in keeping a seal within Pandora intact and preventing whatever was inside her from rampaging into the world, then would only mean that you're one of the most powerful Demigods in the world, probably besides the Pope and that guy Lincoln," Artemis said.

Artemis then continued.

"The Empire is not a stupid country and I know the leadership of this empire are among the wisest and their scholars the best. Would I be so much of a fool to even assume that they'd entrust an elf with a seal to an amature or at least a third rate mage?" 

"Tsk, fine, you got me," Silvanna said. Removing the dagger from Artemis' neck.

"The reason I let myself be taken was because I was undercover. Nobody except the higher echelons of the Imperial Corp of Mages knows of my existence. Before I was captured, I was watching Pandora get chased through the forest from a distance. And then that dwarf came, I felt a bit relieved but I thought his skills were lacking with the axe and then you suddenly appear out of nowhere," Silvanna said.

So thats why he felt someone was watching him from hundreds of kilometres.

"So, still does not explain why you didn't just escape, used special magic or something to hide your whatever," Artemis said.

Silvanna then started sweating.

Artemis looked at her closely and then began recounting what Silvanna has done so far and then what to make up with her actions. 

"You're a dumbass," Artemis said without any remorse or any show of restraint.

Silvanna's face became red with shame in a matter of seconds, refusing to look Artemis directly in the eye.

Artemis sighed.

"So you're a new archmage under the Imperial Corp of Mages entrusted by them to keep the elf in check, but your problem is.."

And just like daggers that pierced her heart, Artemis enumerated everything she was.

"You're too lazy, too laid back, powerful yet don't know how to use that power, an idiot, lack critical thinking. I know Demigods can live more than 100 years but I don't know why or how have you transcend into one and very powerful of all while your intelligence is low as a little girl" Artemis said.

Artemis then turned her back in defiance.

Artemis sighed again and smacked her head causing her to cry out in pain.

If its a normal human, their head will instantly squashed by the impact.

"But that still does not answer why you know I am a metal demon, although I hate that name you humans have given us," Artemis said.

Silvanna then turned again to face Artemis. Artemis kepts bullying her, but now she wasn't the one being roasted anymore.

"Simple! Your eyes glow red! Q_Q" Silvanna said.