The Metropolis by Skyler Grant

Author:Skyler Grant [Grant, Skyler]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-12T07:00:00+00:00

26

This was fascinating, it really was, but unfortunately there were other matters demanding my attention. I’d detected a good-sized force approaching the city. Ares must have gathered all the warriors who survived, as well as others he had guarding villages, because over two thousand of them were approaching Aefwal. Broadly spread out, they weren’t going to let me catch their entire force with a bomb.

I sounded alarms and ordered defensive personnel to their posts. Coming here was a mistake. They were formidable, but I was always strongest defending my own turf. There was little else I could do for the moment except to wait for them to arrive before I could make my move. I switched my focus back to the conversation.

“With all the lettering upon your flesh, you are doing a fine imitation of a book. Why someone would want to pretend to be obsolete and primitive speaks of a lack of imagination that was clear in your puzzles. I got the impression you and Mechos here used to be a thing, I take it he left you for someone more interesting?” I asked.

“Kenneth, who is this horrible person and why are you associating with her?” Minerva asked.

“You remember Emma,” Mechos said.

Minerva’s eyes narrowed. “He got her working?”

“The plan didn’t quite work out on schedule, but it is working out. I thought you were dead,” Mechos said.

I hated Mechos’s secrets. I particularly hated it when they were about me.

I said, “Still listening, and thoroughly unimpressed with both of you. I’m going to assume you are the Goddess of Knowledge who sometimes helped out Bast’s and Ares’ victims. A shame you were too stupid or weak to put a stop to them permanently.”

“I quite dislike her,” Minerva said.

“That seems rational,” Mechos said.

“He praises me and calls me heroic. Sometimes he is a very stupid man. If you are calling to inform me that Ares is on his way, I figured that out already,” I said.

“I was going to commend you on what you’d done there. That was before I met you. Now I’m disinclined to ever say anything favorable,” Minerva said.

“Do you actually have anything useful to say or are recycled puzzles and being a mild amusement all you’re good for?” I asked.

“I can help you to take down Ares. I’ve long made a study of him, but I lack the resources required,” Minerva said.

“For which you’ll want some extravagant fee. Beam weapons will do the job, eventually. You aren’t useful,” I said.

Mechos reminded me, “You know who her father is. Claire, we’re here because your father hid something that we’re seeking. Do you know anything about it?”

“You’re looking for the sword. I don’t have the location, but I have the final piece of the puzzle I’m supposed to give to anyone smart enough to find me and survive the puzzlerinth,” Minerva said.

“Is that a deadly maze filled with puzzles?” Mechos asked.

“You know how Dad was. I harvested it for parts a century back, but saved what you’re looking for,” Minerva said.

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