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Chapter 23 - The World of Machines

Once upon a time in Hikaru, there was a demon that is darkness who terrorized and plagued the coastal regions. It would bully and torment anybody who had even a remote connection to holiness. There was very few people willing to stand up to it and able to. Eventually only a little village girl remained, a girl with humor and one who didn't mind jesting or acting crazy to get her way. None of the soldiers or samurai would confront the demon. So she built her own soldiers. Soldiers that were unrelenting and efficient. They were made of steel and wood. Imparted with magical energy which kept them going. With her robots, she drove out the demon off, but not before the demon warning he will plague her descendants and will eventually come for her. With that he jumps in the ocean. Not to be seen again until the end of the world. Years later the descendants of the village girl would build a kingdom of prosperity. It is now troubled by an usurper.Now is the season of evil. When the forces of good wane and evil emerges like that of cancer. This is the day when a heroine will rally the forces of good to drive out a very ancient evil.

Meanwhile in Hikaru in a dark humid lab deep beneath the earth in the jungle. A woman in purple qipao, is resurrecting a pair of bodies on a makeshift surgeons table. The smell of blood and Clorox is strong. The humidity is getting to the doctor With a pneumatic clockwork hiss of steam and gears,two bodies were alive. One had a body of wiry metal, the only thing that remains of a human is a brain and a pair of eyes inside a liquid vat. The hands are like syringes. And the legs are like stilts. The other body is much more intact, it's a human skeleton incased in armor. Black armor that absorbs the light in the dank laboratory. Wires are attached to his exposed brain. The woman in purple is stitching the top of the skull with stitching. She then finishes with a helmet that obscures the face and skull. The laboratory is filled with experiments gone wrong,all of them are in various states of stasis all with visors and earphones attached.Scribbled notes and body parts in jars labeled nonchalantly on shelves are dotted throughout this giant makeshift lab. Nearby sitting still in a corner in a wheelie chair, is a girl. Her eyes are a deep purple, and has wires coming out of USB ports all over her body. Orders are being downloaded into her brain. The faint sound of piano being played can be heard.

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