What do you think of Cross? rlin asked when they were far away from the mansion. rlin wanted to walk with Miles for a while on the pretext of catching up, but Miles felt there was more to it.
I think nothing of it. I am not related to traitor Cross nor am I related to hero Cross. When I was born, those things already happened and I didnt make any contribution to any of them. So I do not feel sha in the surna Cross nor am I proud of carrying it. Miles answered plainly.
When there were still three ruling parties on Earth before monsters invaded, Cross Empire was the strongest of them. At the ti, the Empire wanted to keep their royal bloodline above all and denied other lower humans from entering space, thus making a list of possible passengers. Empire family, King families, Duke families, and so on and so forth and at the lowest their servants. Not a free civilian. But the other two parties denied it. Since world resources were limited and could only help so many people to venture into endless space, three parties kept each other in check and prevented the Cross Empire from taking off.
Then, when monsters invaded Earth, three ruling parties put their differences aside and created a science center at the border of the three countries. It was where the capital of Unity later builded. Scientists of three parties worked hard to improve the firepower of humanity to prevail in the monster invasion. When humans started to win, in the chaos, the Cross Empire decided to leave the Earth and escape to the black skies. But they didnt want to leave silently. Before their departure, Cross Empire decided to nuke two capitals of the other two parties and the science center at the center.
They succeeded in bombing two capitals but failed to do so when it ca to the Science Center for one reasonEvelyn Cross. At the ti, young and sharp Evelyn was working hard to find hope for humanity. Her newly awakened superpower was a great help to her. She was rereading every piece of information humanity gathered at the Science Center. With her powers, it was easy to read lots of text in small amounts of ti and assimilate them into her brain. While doing so, she found a glitch, placed in the system. She curiously traced it and found it to be a backdoor placed by Cross Empire.
As the newlywed to Cross Empire, she didnt know what to do, but her morals dictated her to do the right thing, but she still talked to her beloved husband first. Because she knew Malcolm and knew that he would never agree to sothing like this. And he didnt. Malcolm brought the subject to rcer and together, they alerted two parties so the nukes could be stopped. Unfortunately, only one was stopped. The capitals of the two parties were destroyed, but at least the hope of humanity, the center of Unity kept intact. After failing, Cross Empire didnt linger around and left the Earth with its last resources. rcer and his family stood behind.
Cross Empire was lauded as traitors, and many wanted to hang their last living mbers. But how could they kill their saviors? If the science center nuked as well, could humanity survive? Two remaining ruling parties decided to declare them heroes, betrayed their own families to save the world, and dissolved their organization to create Unity. Leaders of three parties beco Generals. rcer, Tian Ying, and Rutha Strankov.
Mother AI descended a little before these events and was kept in the dark because she wasnt fully trusted at the ti. After the betrayal of the Cross Empire, the Science Center worked in tandem with the Intelligence Globe and helped humanity in its darkest hours. After that, the Cross family beca traitors and heroes of Unity. So still thought they were villainous as their Emperor, so thought they were just and did great deeds to humanity.
But neither of them had anything to do with Miles. He was born after those events happened, and didnt care what people called his family. Unlike rcer and Malcolm who worked harder and harder to prove their rits and acquit the na of Cross.
They also raised rlin and Marcela as such, which in return ventured into danger and helped others to purge the na of Cross, until the day no one could associate the na Cross with the word traitor. But Miles was different. He wasnt a hero, nor was he a traitor. He was himself. He didnt do anything wrong nor right, he didnt deserve to be called a traitor or hero. A fathers sin couldnt be passed to his child, nor his rits. Every person had their individual life and rits.
So when rlin asked this question, the answer was simple. Why should I care what people think about ? I am neither.
Still the sa old. rlin sighed. Miles would answer the sa way when they were small. At the ti, rlin was brainwashed by rcer to be a hero so he could wash away their sha, and hearing Miless answers would irritate him. It was the reason for his bullying. But later, he grew up and Malcolm taught him a lesson he still carried in his heart that made him stop bullying his little brother. Today, he wanted to do the sa for Miles.
They arrived at their destination after so ti. There, in a broken alley, was a small door. rlin approached the door and lted the holder. He simply pushed open the door. The entrance was dark and there was no one guarding there. The duo walked in and walked downstairs.
Arthur, lights, rlin called.
Right away. His wristwatch answered. A light shone from rlin's wrist he held in front of him and illuminated the path. The spiral stairs were going down. Miles couldnt see the end of it, so he activated the dark vision. After looking down again, he noticed it to be deeper than he thought. It was at least ten stories down.
Miles deactivated the night vision and switched to heat vision. Not far away from the end of the stairs, there was a human silhouette, from there, a few more stood at irregular intervals. Far from there, in a small room, there were hundreds of human signs that looked like small childrens.
What is this place? Miles asked when he saw those shadows.
You will see in a few minutes, rlin said as they arrived at the end of the stairs. He deactivated the lights and approached the door there. rlin lted the lock once again and pushed the door silently. There stood a guard with a gun. He pointed it to the duo hastily, but a flaming sword passed through the guard's head before he could fire his weapon. Sword was blazing with fire and didnt make any sound. rlin ran over and held the guard before he could hit the floor. He drew the sword from the mans head and looked at the other at the bend.
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