"Bret, increase your power two fold. I can see metal plating is starting to heat up!" Blake ordered as she threw out a few white fireballs that slammed into the cyber beast. It roared out in pain as the metal on its body began to melt under the extreme heat.
Bret and the others also slammed their attacks into the cyber beast, which caused the cyber beast to finally fall to the ground. It roared in pain as it tried to crawl back to its feet, but Blake flew over and slammed its head back into the ground. "Cease attacks!"
On Blake's order, everyone stopped attacking and flew over to where Blake was. Blake was still standing on the massive beast's head and, even though it was alive, did not seem to have any intent to kill it. Bret hovered next to Blake and asked: "What are you planning?"
"This monster is able to take quite a bit of damage, so I was thinking it would make a good pet. As you can see, the parts that have melted are already starting to heal, which makes them quite resilient. What's even more interesting is that this thing has a soul. Its body is basically synthetic, but it still has a soul. This means I can put a soul contract onto it. With the soul contract, it will be forced to follow my orders or anyone I deem allowed to order it around." Blake grinned as he patted the Metalo as he did, a large magic circle formed under it and flashed brightly before disappearing.
The Metalo slowly got up while gently taking Blake into its hand. Only when it was standing back up did it place Blake on its head once more. "What a good boy!" Blake smiled as he patted the Metalo's head. The Metalo seemed to be happy for the praise.
Bret landed next to Blake and shook his head. "So now what?"
"Well, we might be able to use this guy as proof that we can take care of their cyber beast problem and might give us a chance to negotiate for their mecha blueprints. I can make a huge army of cyber beasts infused with magic protection. This will increase our power by quite a lot."
"You never cease to amaze me with your ideas." Bret sighed. If Blake really began capturing these cyber beasts, he would be able to make a large army of them. The chances of them being able to fight back sooner were great. While they did not use much power to take it down, it still took all of them to knock this one cyber beast down. If they powered such a beast up, it could at least withstand the lower ranking devils.
"It just came to be when I landed on its head and scanned it. If I did not see the soul, I would have killed it. But this new plan makes more sense." Blake ordered the Metalo to begin walking back while his men all road on top of it.
Watching everything from below, the knights, along with Princess Danaphine, all stared at the group of men riding a cyber beast with their jaws on the ground. "Princess, I am not sure if I am seeing this correctly or not, but are they riding the Metalo?"
"I am not sure. This could just be a mass hallucination." Princess Danaphine was unsure of what she was seeing as well. The idea of someone controlling a cyber beast had never even crossed their minds, but they had to face the reality of it. The men on top of the Metalo, a cyber beast that would take them bringing out their Armored Knights, was now nothing more than a means of transportation.
"Yo!" Blake smiled as he tapped his foot off the Metalo's head. It raised its hand to the top of its hand with its palm facing up so that Blake and the others could get on it. It then lowered it again to the ground so that they could get off. While they all could fly off if they wanted, the idea of having such a huge beast help them do it was strangely exciting.
"This… But how!?" Princess Danaphine asked. She did not understand how a beast who only knew how to kill was now so obedient.
"These cyber beasts have souls. If it has a soul, I can bring it under contract. This means it is now under my control." Blake began to explain but was quickly cut off.
"So this means you can take control of any one of us!?" Princess Danaphine put her hand on the hilt of her sword. She was unsure if she could trust Blake and his people now.
"Well, speaking honestly, yes. But would I? Not my style. I am only willing to do it with the cyber beast because they are useful. For you and your people…. Well, I would rather make a trade than use people who are pretty much canon fodders. To be honest, while you have some technology that I am currently interested in, your people are far too weak otherwise." To show an example, Blake lifted his hand and pointed to the sky. "If I wanted to destroy this entire continent or this world, I could do so easily."
Princess Danaphine slowly lifted her head up towards the sky to see a blazing red molten rock filling the sky. While what was being shown was nothing but an illusion that only they could see, Blake was able to use such an attack if he truly needed to, but he did not wish to destroy his world.
Princess Danaphine fell to her knees, as did her knights. They all realized the man before them was not on the level they had ever seen before. He was like a god who could decide the fates of worlds. Princess Danaphine slowly pressed her head against the ground with tears forming in her eyes. "Please calm your anger….."
"Ah…. Sorry, I did not mean to scare you. I was just showing that if I wanted to, I could destroy the world, nothing more than that." Blake waved his hand, and the illusion disappeared. While it was only an illusion, he was a little sad to see that the cybernetics they had could not see past it.
