Ching! Cling! Clang!Metal plumes fanned out from behind Aegis with a wingspan of over ten feet. Griffin crouched, and debris around him stirred and shifted. Then he shot up into the sky like a cannon. The suit made him soar like an aircraft. But, faster.[ Elevation 100ft ][ Elevation 500ft ]As Aegis zoomed upwards, Griffin looked down and saw the figure of Dagon getting smaller and smaller until he was a speck. [ Elevation 1000ft ][ Elevation 5000ft ]The HUD indicated that he had achieved MACH speed.His insides seemed to be on fire.[ Optimizing Oxygen Levels ][ Optimizing Vital Organs ][ Elevation 11000ft ]Griffin breached the surface of the clouds with a flub and came to a halt midair. The Aegis device hummed rhythmically. A sense of fulfillment came over her. Man and machine had become one. Griffin hovered in the air, taking a scan of the panorama.The natural spectacle was enthralling. The sky above the clouds was a cerulean blue. With the two suns Rusus and Afel, sett

"What do you think of her?"Noah turned in his seat to see Piper Lee join him with his food plate. The cafeteria was bustling with students, and he had found a rickety table in the back that nobody else ever used. Piper looked like a human, except that one of his eyes was bionic. The natural eye was fixed on him while the mechanical one was trained at the other end of the cafeteria, where the popular students hung out. "Who are you talking about?" Noah asked timidly, wishing that Piper would leave him alone. He had spoken to the boy a few times before, but those occasions were purely accidental. At the moment, he found no acceptable reason the cyborg would approach him out of the blue. It was intrusive and annoying. "Her! Eve Trinity! The transfer student!""I don't know. I haven't paid her any attention.""Oh really? I caught you ogling at her, man. As if she were a slab of chocolate.""So were you.""Well, yeah, now that we have established that, tell me what you think of her."N

“Eve! How did you do that?” Piper cried out in awe.What happened just then was like something out of an action movie. Martial arts and cyborg enhancements aside, catching a lance that clearly weighed over 15 pounds was downright crazy! “This is not the time for questions!” the girl pointed out.“But-”“Listen!” Eve raised her voice. “Find the last row of seats on the tube. There are control panels behind it. Open the bottom-most one. You’ll find a red lever. Are you with me?”“Yeah-yeah-”“Pull and pump it twice and then turn it 180 degrees clockwise. That will open the exit door. Help the others get to the next tube.”“Got it-”Piper and Noah made their way through the panic-stricken wave of survivors.“Let us through!” the cyborg shouted above the commotion. The passengers, who comprised cyborgs and hybrids, were certainly enhanced but were weak compared to the monsters wreaking havoc in the tube. They helplessly threw themselves over the reinforced tube door.Piper finally found

Piper Lee examined his surroundings for the fifth time. It was a dimly lit room with no furniture other than two affixed chairs and a table at the center. A laser-diode bulb poked from the ceiling, illuminating only the surface of the glass table. The young cyborg was familiar with the technology, five times more efficient than OLED. The laser-diode could be brightened up in levels one to five. It could be made to illuminate a circle or an entire hall with the flick of a switch. At the moment, without doubt, it was at level one. 'The dull lighting is intentional,' Piper concluded. He had allowed his mind to wander several times.'Am I under arrest?''Did I break a city law by mistake?''Is this room underground?''Is Noah okay?"The longer he sat by himself pondering over the tragic day, the more anxious he grew. "Hello? Anybody there?" Piper called out to the locked door to his right. There was no response.After Noah had passed out, Eve had placed a call to someone on her commun

"What is this God Formula?" Noah vaguely remembered GOD VACCINE that Trinity had recommended as a fix for his low stats."We will have to delve into history to know the origin of this technology. Several centuries back, a pioneer of science, Griffin Augustus, invented GOD FORMULA. It is a field of study that helps tap into the otherwise inaccessible energies of the universe." "However, the practical mechanics of this technology was inconceivable even for the greatest minds of the star system. Griffin himself could execute nothing without the aid of machines and Artificial Intelligence. Therefore, and perhaps by accident, he created a virtual system- AEGIS, named after his first child. Through the System's UI, the incredibly complex God Formula could be broken down to simple commands." Noah and Piper pricked their ears and listened earnestly. They were gamers, after all. Lore, legend, and myth mixed with some rad technology appealed to them naturally."Are you familiar with how magic