While the n around Minos and the robot felt their hearts racing, sensing that a fight was about to break out, Emperor Stuart said.
"Yes, I am. I defeated you and ended your life, robot. Perhaps you don't rember." Gulp!
The robot's eyes narrowed as it ignored the sounds of humans swallowing their saliva. "I don't rember anything about my past."
"Oh? Maybe that's for the best, robot. But what are you going to do? What do you have in mind?" Minos provoked, while his aura made the creature's body immobile, unable to move even if it used everything it had.
Minos asked. "Will you challenge again? Or are you going to accept your current position? Let tell you, without , you will return to your state of death. If I stop doing what I'm doing, you will die if nothing else is done. So make up your mind quickly."
"I see... My life is in your hands. I wanted to attack you at first, human. I don't know why. Your sll and way of being make want to attack you." It said, moving its neck in a strange, not biological way. "But my survival instinct overrides all others. I must keep my life, even if it ans slavery." The tallic creature said in its virtual, emotionless tone of voice.
"That easy?" Minos laughed, seeing it would submit to him in order to survive. "Don't you want to challenge ? I can give you a chance, robot. The last ti we faced each other, you gave a hard ti. I'm in the mood to show you our current difference."
Minos stopped pressing the creature and jumped back a few steps, maintaining the chaotic energy flow in the robot but now giving it freedom of movent.
As soon as it gained freedom, the robot moved, standing up as it re-familiarized itself with its body.
But it didn't move aggressively as everyone around it thought it would.
"I don't want to challenge you. That would be foolish. I don't rember my past, but you said you were weaker before but still beat . What hope is there now that you're stronger? I don't have the honor to care about a humiliating defeat, but there's no point in a fight where the winner is decided before the fight even begins." It said dryly, feeling less and less like attacking Minos.
'Robots really are intelligent creatures...' Ruth thought as she watched the situation from a distance, rembering the attitude of this and the other alien protectors during the battle in the North Sea a few years ago.
Minos wasn't surprised by the robot's behavior, although he was disappointed.
The robot then stepped forward before drawing the sword at its waist and bending its knees closer to Minos.
"This one is willing to do whatever you say. Please, my owner, don't throw away." It said as it placed its sword at Minos' disposal, following a code of conduct deeply ingrained in its being.
Even if it couldn't rember the origin of its movent, it knew that this was the correct way to subordinate oneself to soone else by bowing one's head, showing oneself to be inferior, and leaving one's weapon at the disposal of the superior.
Everyone waiting for a fight sighed in relief or disappointnt, seeing that the experint had been very successful but rather unexpectedly.
Minos accepted this without any problems.
"Well, from now on, you will be my squire! Accept my symbol and leave your past behind!" As he said this, Minos moved and made a hand seal as the energy around him beca more intense than it already was, demonstrating his high-level powers.
A gigantic seal ford above the robot, becoming smaller and smaller as it approached, falling from the sky like a strange glowing teor.
There was no shock when it reached its target. The seal simply pierced the robot's body and went to the essence of the individual, that special energy core very similar to high-level dicine.
Minos placed his mark on that being, but he felt a certain discomfort as he realized that sothing of that nature was already present in that being.
However, this other mark was much stronger than his, sothing he could not erase even in his current situation.
As he mastered the robot, Minos felt the battle between himself and the being behind the other mark, as he found himself in a strange illusion.
He suddenly found himself in a dark blue room where a creature in armor stood with his back to such a human as if waiting for him.
The air around him vibrated, while his aura was not a bit weaker than the aura of the strongest God in the Spiritual World.
'Are you trying to take what is mine?' This one remained motionless while Minos looked at this creature with an astonished expression, correctly recognizing who he was.
"chanical Emperor, I suppose. As expected, there is a sign of you on the robots of your empire... But will that be enough to stop ?" Minos asked, summoning up the courage to challenge that creature.
The creature moved his head and looked sideways at Minos, seeing that this enemy was much more formidable than he thought. "Iktun has inford about you, Minos Stuart. I didn't expect you to be so good, but my n weren't wrong about you." He said aloud in the common language of the Spiritual World.
"But you're right. I can't completely stop you from doing what you're planning now. Keep this defective piece for now, and try to improve your strength a little more. I'll hunt you down personally once the universal wormhole is ready."
"Tsk! I'll be waiting for you, you bastard!" Minos clenched his fists before seeing the illusion shatter.
The chanical Emperor might be powerful, but the robot had already died once. Its death hadn't happened yesterday, but years ago!
Since so much ti had passed since its artificial soul was destroyed, that God's mark had weakened to the point where Minos was able to temporarily overco it.
After a few minutes of trying to control the robot, Minos succeeded. If the chanical Emperor didn't appear in the Spiritual World, he would have complete control over the robot in front of him!
However, in front of that God, everything would be completely different!
'Damn it!' Minos opened his eyes as he smiled bitterly, seeing that he had achieved sothing but had also attracted a very powerful opponent.
He didn't know how, but he felt that he hadn't talked to a mory or a soul fragnt but to the chanical Emperor himself!
If that was really the case, the problem he would have in a few years would be tough to solve!
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