Zaxary kept staring at them with wariness inside his heart. "My help?" He continued to act like a fool. He already knew what they wanted.
They wanted to obtain him and used him for his skill. After capturing him, they probably forced him to do things that he did not want to do.
"Before you refuse," Aldred said. "I have an offer that you cannot miss."
"And what is that offer?" Zaxary asked while getting ready to throw his temporal disc.
"Complete freedom and absolute protection."
His hand stopped moving when he heard that."
"What do you mean?"
"If you help us fight against Victor, I, as the Emperor of the Ceraisian Empire, will assure you of your freedom and protection."
"Ceraisian Empire… That's the distant land that I have been hearing for quite a while." He looked at Aldred. "And you said you are the Emperor?"
Who was he fooling? Just because he was 15 years old, this man think he could easily be fooled?
"I know you are a smart person, Zaxary," Aldred said. "So you might not believe the word I just said. But I am actually the Emperor of the Ceraisian Empire."
Aldred looked at Zaxary and noticed that he wasn't convinced. "Stella, can you bring Naley here?"
Stella nodded and waved her hand. Suddenly, Naley appeared with a look of confusion in her face.
"Naley, did you record my battle against Victor?"
"Y—yeah," Naley said after organizing her thoughts. She was just watching this scene from the secret base until suddenly she was teleported here.
"You… I know you. You are that rebel kid. What did they call you… Right, The Ghost of Duria!"
"Don't call me a kid. You are a kid as well."
"I have to be older than you, so I can call you a kid," Zaxary said. "And knowing your ability, you must have checked on my data, so you know that I am older than you. Tell me your age."
"… fourteen."
"Hah, so you really are a kid."
"You're just one year older than me!"
"That doesn't change anything. You are a kid to me."
"Hey!" Aldred said. "Stop quarreling. Both of you are kids to me, alright."
Stella smiled. She knew that Aldred was just 12 years old.
But Aldred wasn't wrong though. When he died, he was around the age of 20, so really, he was an adult.
"Why are you working for them?" Zaxary asked Naley.
"I don't work for them. They help me for their own benefit," Naley replied before throwing a small black object at Zaxary.
He caught it and pressed a button. A projection appeared, showing the recording of robots against golems. And then show of power by Barne's giant robot until the space ship appeared.
That was when Aldred came and cut the space ship in half with a single slash.
Zaxary widened his eyes when he saw this scene. Clearly, he had been left out of a lot of information on the outside world.
This groundbreaking news should have spread everywhere. First of all, he knew who owned that giant robot. It was Barne. One of Duria's most wanted engineer, but it was easily defeated by Victor's spaceship.
And then this man appeared and cut it in half!
Zaxary was also an inventor and an engineer. He knew that the armor of that space ship was as tough as it could be, and yet with a single slash, the space ship was cut in half like a stick.
After that scene, Aldred was trapped in a cube barrier and transported somewhere else. Somehow, the recordings followed him into the white room.
"How did you record this?" Zaxary asked.
"These two can do magic," Naley said.
Stella waved her hand and a mirror appeared in the air, revealing the view of a surface city.
"These are the people that Victor is trying to hide from us."
"I thought they are only myths and legends," Zaxary said.
"They are real. These people have god-like powers. Something that we couldn't ever imagine possibly of doing."
"And they need my help?"
"Yes, apparently, even they struggled to defeat Victor."
Zaxary was quite relieved that these people were not truly impossible to beat, and that technology could even match against god-like being such as them.
"And why should I help you?"
"Defeating Victor means releasing the least put on the neck of every citizen in Duria. Now, not just you, but everyone can have their own freedom of thoughts, and larger access to information."
Zaxary looked at her in silent and then he turned to look at Aldred. "And what do you get out of this?"
"The ordinary people in my empire are unappreciated. I want the knowledge of science to spread in my nation to give them better roles in society."
"And what about you?" Zaxary asked Stella.
"I am his wife, so I will just follow whatever he wants to do."
Naley was kind of surprised to hear that. She did not expect they were husband and wife. Though she sometimes saw them doing couple things.
"Would you like to continue the video?" Naley asked.
"Yeah, sure. I want to see how powerful Victor is."
The video played again and this time it showed Aldred's fight against Victor. Just like before Zaxary became more impressed by Aldred's power. His ability to clone himself, to manipulate elements, and so much more fantastic abilities.
But what was more impressive was Victor's ability to take on all of that attacks. He noticed that a lot of his human organs were replaced with mechanical parts as well, and even the neurons in his brain were modified.
When Aldred defeated Victor, he suddenly grabbed a small pod with blue liquid and smashed it, reverting back time to hours ago in less than a minute.
Zaxary was shocked. "That pod…"
"Did you know what he used?" Naley asked.
"That pod is one of mine."
"Did you make one for him?"
"No. He stole it from me, but the effect is much greater. I believe he added a very expensive material into it to increase its potency. My power could revert back time to a few second at most."
"Can you make something to prevent him from reverting back in time?" Aldred asked.
"There is a way."
