Phantasia: The Princess Knight

Blake laughed and kissed Alicia on the forehead. "Then what do you plan to do? Are you going to really put Phantasia into your space?" 

"Mmm… I said so before, so I will do it. This way no matter where I go everyone will be with me. Come let's go into space. So I can do this now." Alicia said after taking Blake's hand. 

The two rose up into the sky, through the thick cloud bank, and broke through the atmosphere and entered space. She looked around and decided to bring the moons as well. This way the planet would not lose any of its beauty. She then looked at the distance between Phantasia and the sun, the other planets within the solar system, and nodded her head. "I will just take it all!" 

Blake looked at Alicia stunned for a moment but knew she was doing all this in order to keep everything about Phantasia the same. He watched as Alicia transformed into her bloodline form and rose high above the solar system. He could feel a wave of magicules, spiritual qi, and holy qi spread out from her body. The process was very slow, Alicia was spreading each of these energies out in a thin layer to make them go even further. 

Blake flew up behind her and pressed his hand on her back and began pouring his own energies into her body to help her speed up the process. Even still, Alicia's face was pale and she had sweat dripping from her forehead. This continued for almost three hours when finally the entire solar system was wrapped in her power. Taking in a deep breath she waved her hand and sent the entire solar system into her space. 

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Machine Empire...

"Oh? Not a bad castle." Loeri looked around at the intricate looking walls that had many lines and thin lights that lit up the room and was quite amazed. There were many things that Loeri had no idea what they were. She did not know if they were some kind of art or technology that actually did something. But they were all displayed out on pedestals. 

"I thank you for your compliment. This castle has millions of years of history for my machine race. Like this here was something invented a few millions of years ago that played music." Charles pointed to a box with a few dials on it. Loeri took a look at it and feigned interest. Starla and the others though did have a genuine interest in the items as they looked around. 

Charles also explained the defenses of the castle which was surrounded by a barrier. Loeri and the girls could hear the sounds of fighting outside. The coup d'etat was already underway. Charles led them to a large meeting room that had a map of the entire surroundings in a three dimensional rendering in front of them. It also showed the current enemy positions and ally positions on this map. It was a highly advanced real time rendering of what was going on. "As you can see, Logan has sent out quite a bit of numbers. Each one top grade. It seems he even added a few adjustments to them as well. My people will not be able to hold off for long before they will need to retreat past the barrier."

"Hmmm… this is no issue. We can do things like this. I will have our numbers transported to the surface, they will then mingle with the numbers of the enemies and take them out from within the ranks. The thing about our numbers is that the numbers you created can not hold a candle to them. By that I mean they were designed to fight against the creators." Loeri said as she waved to Rose and whispered into her ear. Rose nodded and disappeared. "We will start the counter attack immediately. If worse comes to worst, I will deploy the ships. But I would rather not get any innocents caught up in an attack from the orbit." 

"I can't thank you enough for caring about the people of this world. I know it would be easier for you to do an orbital strike and be done with it, but no matter how much I wish to take Logan down I can not do so if it means the citizens will be harmed in the process." Charles bowed his head slightly as he said this.

"Mmm… Alicia would have done the same. To be honest I am surprised your race hasn't figured out how to harness the power of magic with your technology. You have the tech to do so, so I do not understand why." Loeri found it funny that with all this technology they still had no replicated the use of magic or any of the energies for that matter.

"It is the laws of our race passed down since generations past. Logan is one who wishes to break this taboo, but the thing is that it would ruin our world. We are a warfaring race. Once you begin adding other powers to our technology it will turn them into deadly killing machines. It would only take a few years before the whole world was destroyed." Charles had a bitter smile on his face. His world was overpopulated with nothing but hot heads. Luckily he did not need to worry about the Numbers that Alicia made to be reproduced since they need to be created with magic. But he still inwardly had to admit they were a work of sheer genius. 

"I see… I can understand why it would be banned. Even Alicia has these numbers on a strict lock and key and everyone who has access to them is under a life or death contract. Except for me, who is already her contracted beast." Loeri explained.

"She is smart to do so. From here on out I will be counting on you all." Charles once again bowed his head in thanks.

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