Kings (The War Machine Book 1) by David Beers & Michael Anderle

Author:David Beers & Michael Anderle [Beers, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2022-06-05T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN

The warriors on Aeacus focused on the machines and the other fighters. They didn’t think about the mechanisms behind this wondrously dangerous planet, how they had been created, or who had done so.

As with any great endeavor, great minds were behind it.

All the killers on this planet, from machines to humans, had been touched by these minds. Indeed, none of them would be here without those people operating behind the scenes.

These minds were some of the greatest that humanity ever spawned, but they were also cruel. They had commandeered an uninhabited world and created many types of terrain from oceans to rain forests to mountains to caves deep within the ground. This involved an application of willpower last seen in Prometheus during his Great Insurrection.

The planet would not have been enough to kill the participants. The game-makers had also populated it with sentient life forms, the most powerful machines ever seen, with a single-minded focus on protecting their homeworld. Truthfully, neither Alistair nor any others who had been briefed on the machines understood them. These were state-of-the-art creations in terms of their war power, utilizing weapons from before humanity had expanded across the universe as well as ones so new that they had not yet been seen. Most if not all the empires had worked on the neural network defense systems, yet even with complex artificial intelligence, the intricacies hadn't been mastered.

Until these minds and these resources were put in one place.

Humanity hadn't yet understood the magnitude of this achievement, though those arriving soon would.

Humanity had always created great minds, but the people over Aeacus were separated by cruelty, ruthlessness, and a lack of humanity.

They wanted to kill everyone who arrived on this planet. That was the entire reason for the endeavor. This world hadn’t been created to separate the best from the good.

Aeacus would try to kill them all.

The creators considered it necessary, and their work was the most significant contribution any person or group had ever made to the species.

If anyone survived this planet, they would be humanity's only chance to challenge the gods.

Directing the massive bureaucratic structure that made this place was a triumvirate consisting of two men and a woman from different empires, selected for their intelligence and sociopathic profiles. In short, they were the most brilliant, least empathetic humans in the universe. For regular people to call them human would have been a stretch. In emotions and empathy, they were closer to lizards, and in thought, they were more like gods.

The lone woman was Lesium de Belthast.

She watched the warriors' arrival, her face showing nothing. Her office wasn’t visible from the ground since it hung in the clouds and was shielded with panels that reflected the sky around it. She stood in front of a floor-to-ceiling screen, watching the contestants fall through the air.

Her male colleagues sat at a table behind her, neither deeming it necessary to get up. Alan de Yeets and Treal de Vonmarker thought much more alike than Lesium, though not by design.

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