I took damaged sets and Exomachines, live Exomachines even and intact sets. But that wasn't all.
I still got little toys for them to handle for me, the greatest surprise and mystery, the amazing bombs that I already deactivated.
However… These bombs could take my world here and blow it entirely. So it wasn't just normal toys, not the ones that could be used on Christmas like the other two.
So I took the five leaders alone, flew away while they followed in silence and curiosity.
"Lord, may I ask why you aren't using your chariot?" Old Gan couldn't help his puzzlement anymore, asking me about my damaged chariot.
For a moment there, the old pain of losing my baby overwhelmed my heart, even leading to me slowing down for a brief second, before accelerating in my flying again.
"It got damaged," I bitterly sighed, "things are… Quite hectic out there."
"To this extent?!" they were living in the bottom of the well, not feeling or knowing anything about the outer world.
"It's a big war right now…" I started to brief them about what happened, what we were facing, and things on the stake here. And after I said everything to them, their silence was enough response for me.
"Anyway, that's why I'm here right now."
"To help you repair the chariot?" Old Gan mistook my intentions again, "but… We never managed to fully understand the chariots you sent us. They were amazing, but they needed skills and talents only available at certain places."
"But we did use such knowledge from studying them to build the flying ships and chariots," the others said and laughed. And I got to admit, being with them made me feel quite lighthearted and carefree.
"No, no, I already have a way to solve this problem," I waved my hand, "but I want you to study something else."
"Other than the chariot? More important than that?!" The five exchanged looks and remained silent, waiting for me to spill out the beans.
Everywhere around was filled with evidence of advanced civilization. I kept flying for long minutes, and yet couldn't find a suitable place that could be used in such a dangerous task.
"Is there a place here, somehow suitable for something dangerous to work on?" and after long minutes of going around and not finding what I wanted, I had to ask.
"Of course!" they laughed, "this way, lord!" Old Gan led the way. From the early moments I formally established this department, and old Gan acted as their leader. And he deserved to be so.
He wasn't just the oldest, but the most experienced dude here. I was quite confident in my human talent abilities, but I was also sure they got tons of knowledge and help from this old dude.
I followed them in one direction, and there I found a version of portals, one that looked like it came out from a sci-fi movie or something.
It was an arc built of ores, flashing with different lights coming from various energies used to energise it.
"This is our version of portals," old Gan explained, "we studied the portals available at the market and managed to break down most of their technology. Then we implement parts of what we knew before with these, ending up forming these portals."
"They… Look nice," I didn't want to disappoint them by saying they looked a bit primitive. But my response seemed to make them all laugh for a reason I didn't know.
"The design was made by these humans of yours," old Gan pointed towards the ones from MIT, "they insisted we have to use this design. But don't let this look fool you, lord. These portals are quite capable and more effective than the high grade ones in the market."
"How so?" I got my interest piqued and wanted to know how this old era looking portal was much better than the ones I bought from the market.
"Just watch," and instead of explaining, the old Gan used one of my favourite and old tricks, showing instead of talking.
He took something, a red small ball that looked small enough to be the size of a knuckle. Then he pressed it, and then the entire portal in front of my eyes lit up.
I thought it was already working, but I was wrong. The moment he activated it using that orb, the portal gushed out a huge dome shaped energy wave, one that enveloped an area of tens of miles around.
Then as this dome appeared, it vanished fast, and then I found myself arriving at barren looking land.
The contrast between the advanced looking city and this empty and ruined place was indeed quite shocking. I took a few seconds to absorb the difference and sudden change in the terrain around.
"This portal works not like others," old Gan explained in excitement, "it doesn't need forces to pass through it. It releases an energy field, one that can extend to cover up one hundred miles radius. All the forces standing in the area would be teleported towards the destination specified before using this orb."
"This simple?!!" I looked in doubt, before holding the ball and examined it.
"It's not only that," he laughed, seemingly satisfied with my reaction, "it can take people to places never visited before."
"That…"
"It doesn't need to establish two parts between two points," he explained further, "it just needs a map, and we can specify any location there, and it works by using the world force and teleporting the forces there."
"For real?!!!" I got instantly hyped by this, even jumped and grabbed him by the shoulders.
"Hahahaha! I always wanted to impress lord, and it seems this time I really did it! Hahahahaha! Drinks me tonight boys, hahahaha!"
"I want these, I want as many as you can make!" I wouldn't let such a chance slip by. A portal that only needed a map to work? Didn't we need to go around and establish things at the destination? Damn! Did fate feel empathy for me or what? Giving me such a crucial and deadly trick at such decisive moments!
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