Synthetic Survivor: Machine Age

"Look out!" The garrison on the wall panicked as the titan rammed its feet through, obliterating that segment of the wall. "Go! Go!" The archers pulled their bows and shot, the arrows having been enhanced by magic did little to even scratch the skin of the titan as it walked right into the city.

"You shall not enter!" The councilwoman announced. Floating in the air, her voice echoed throughout the city and was heard by everyone who was outside standing on the streets or over the walls. Panic among the populace near the eastern wall erupted. Horrified men, women and children filled the streets as the ran the opposite direction from the titan.

The chaos caused by the titan's sudden entrance into the city was downright the pinnacle of human survival instinct, many abandoned their families, their loved ones, their friends and even their pets. A lone lady of old age laid on the floor in a pool of blood. Nobody gave her a hand nor did they care, instead they gave her a foot every time someone would run over her.

The stampede was horrendous, knights and local guardsmen tried their best to quell the chaos but to no avail, they too would be caught in the wave of people who only wanted to escape the monster that knocked down their front door.

"Fire!" A volley of arrows was released by a group of archers, the archers were standing directly in its path. The arrows did nothing. despite being enhanced with explosion magic, the expected explosive victory they hoped for sadly did not happen. The explosion of the arrows merely scratched its feet.

"Run!" The archers broke formation and ran away before the titan stomped its feet directly over them. The night was full of screams and wails, many carried with them torches as the streets lacked any light source. Fires broke out within wooden houses, causes of the fire varied but most were caused by misused torches. Some hoped that the fires would ward off the titan make them safe as they naively thought that a metal giant would be afraid of getting burned.

Seriously, metal can't be burned, only melted. But a mere torch or house fire won't melt a gargantuan metal giant.

The garrisons from the other walls were called. Conveniently lowering their defensive capabilities in an event of an all-out assault by the encamped metal army. Ranks of knights were formed and desperately charged at the titan aided by mages who lobbed spell after spell at it.

Scratches and dents were the fruit of their desperate labour. The council was nowhere to be found in this time of need, have they abandoned them? Were they now all alone? Where was the goddess? Doubt, though small before, has begun to take a major root within the minds of the people.

The titan sounded a loud horn that was heard from tens of kilometres away. After travelling through the eastern district relatively unopposed, it now faced the councilwoman.

The councilwoman floated in the air with grace, she was performing an archaic and powerful spell that only a few could even do. The spell not only needed high amounts of magical knowledge and mana but special skill in magical manipulation.

After letting the titan wreck havoc for how long as it did, the time was up. The casting was finished. She opened her eyes and in front of her manifested a white circle and inside that circle did symbols of old manifest in a dance of magnificence, a waltz of magic.

The spell was a summoning spell. A summoning spell used to summon high-grade magical entities that are direct magical manifestations of the user's magical aptitude. The councilwoman excelled in wind magic and so did her summon be. The white circle and its symbols shined brightly like the sun and lo did she shine as well. The people on the ground covered their eyes, some sang praises while others cowered in fear.

Suddenly, A strong wind blew from the east followed by a wind from the south. Then came the winds from the west and the north. The four winds collided at where the councilwoman marked her spell, the white circle she cast was suspended in the air and the winds began to swirl around it.

The councilwoman flew back a safe distance and watched with joy as her summon came to be. The winds eventually became visible under a whitish strand-like hue. It was a tornado with the shape of a knight, it was as tall as the titan and its shape even rivalled it.

One watched from the distance the entire scene unfold. He became unsure if the titan could take out something that did not have a physical state! The thing was merely a tornado and had no physical body, but wait! He thought. The wind could also be stopped if something were to block its way and It had nowhere else to go.

He could only hope that his titan would the job right. He had to trust in his own creation and hope for the best. At this time, the outcome was unclear. As both giants walked towards each other, the battle between two titans was to begin.

And the battle started with the Titan of the Machine Empire firing its two giant cannons at the wind elemental. The wind elemental dashed head-on towards the giant, its powerful wind deflecting the shots. For some reason, the wind elemental had weight and each step it took as it ran would cause the ground around it to shake.

The titan's cannons were ineffective. The wind elemental managed to close the distance between it and the titan and immediately threw a punch with its right hand. It punched the titan's head, causing it to wobble back. The force of the punch was immense, it dented the left side of the titan's face but it kept its footing nonetheless. The titan, however, countered by abandoning its cannons and purpose slamming its head right at its enemy's torso.

The wind elemental's physical form then began to stutter as the titan's head went through its c.h.e.s.t. At this point, One finally understood the science behind the wind elemental's physique. It relied heavily on moving wind, though he could not fully comprehend how the hell would wind form such an intricate body shape like the wind elemental, he was still confident of his conclusion.

"The titan knows its weakness," John said.

"Jolly ho! It learned faster than we thought," Micheal joyfully added.

"What the hell are you two on about," One said, confused.

The titan continued with its attack and slammed its two arms against the elemental's sides. The wind elemental, seeing an opening, immediately went and kicked one of the titan's legs causing it to stumble.

The titan knelt its right leg but not before firing a concentrated energy beam from its two eyes.

"So he was outfitted with the experimental energy beams?" One thought but the words escaped his mouth.

The beams did nothing to the elemental as they harmlessly went through its body. The beams, however, landed on the city causing even more destruction. The collateral damage caused by the two were outstanding, casualties were by the tens of thousands.

On the ground, people cheered and people ran. The remaining garrison of the city that was called from the other walls cheered on the elemental from a distance as they watched the two beings fight. And the two giants continued. Nowhere was safe within the city, the two dragged themselves across the densely populated areas where civilians took refuge after thinking that the battle would only be limited in the eastern district.

The titan was getting badly damaged with only mild indifference to the body structure and integrity of its enemy. Its legs have begun to weaken but continued it did. Jab after jab, punch after punch. Their battle shook the earth.

Until finally, the wind elemental dealt a crippling blow.

It summoned a small but highly electric storm cloud. The lightning from the storm cloud erupted into a ballet of electric energy enough to completely stop a human's heartbeat. The wind elemental then grabbed the storm cloud and harnessed the electric power from the outburst of lightning.

"RAHHH" The elemental shouted as bolts of lightning began to flash all-around its body. The lightning had merged with its wind. The eyes of the now lightning behemoth met with the titan's blue eyes. It oddly looked like the wind elemental was somehow empathetic of its metal counterpart.

It then fired a pillar of electricity directly at the titan. The light of the electric pillar lit up the night sky with its light even reaching the other kingdoms and blinding those who stared at it.

The pillar struck the titan's c.h.e.s.t, blowing through it in a cascade of explosions. The pillar pierced through, knocking the titan back and disabling most of its weapon and cooling systems. It staggered back before finally falling to the ground. The titan's body hit the ground hard, sending a powerful shockwave.

One saw this and was mortified. But he knew what was the outcome of the entire ordeal, the titan did good but it had many design flaws, mainly with its weight, weapons and key systems. The army around the city needed to evacuate.

John and Micheal nodded and relayed the message to the drones on standby around the city. It only took 2 seconds for the message to be transmitted and the drones readied themselves.

The titan was now incapacitated, it lied on the ground as a downed metal hulk with swarms of knights and mages taking advantage of its state and wreaking havoc in and around its body. Its eyes moved around, it saw the wind elemental just standing still.

The wind elemental look at it like a champion in an arena. The councilwoman, who had been watching from afar, floated near her summon.

"You did good," The councilwoman applauded the wind elemental.

The wind elemental then replied.

"I humbly accept your applause, councilwoman Anna but there is something not right here,"

"What is it that thou speaks of?" Councilwoman Anna asked.

"This.. giant, he be not one of us elementals nor the giants from the north," The wind elemental turned towards Anna.

"Nay, for they are merely a breed of demons from another world," Anna replied with pride. After taking down such a foe after experiencing a major defeat just a day ago, she was confident that the people's faith in the crusade and mainly the church will be rejuvenated.

"Anna!" The wind elemental said in a loud voice. It readied itself as the titan began to glow.

"What is this?" Anna looked shocked. Her eyes were wide open, the titan glowed and stared at them both.

Suddenly, its body began to come apart. Compartments, holes, and pods began to reveal themselves. The titan was disassembling itself.

"What is it doing?!" The wind elemental was now anxious, it was confused about what the demon was doing.

The titan then gave out one more loud horn, this time the horn was fainter and more menacing. The people around the titan panicked, some even got crushed under the unfolding metallic body.

"Everyone, brace," One whispered. The drones did not need any further instructions but to evacuate, they were safe as long as they did.

The small holes, compartments and pods housed thousands of small missiles.

And they all launched at once.

The missiles came spiralling out of the drone by the thousands. The missiles came and went on to rain death and destruction in the city. The wind elemental came forward, thinking that it could deflect most of the missiles before they would do any harm.

The titan was not having any of it, it launched one small rocket at it. The small rocket, had a small cube device as its payload. The rocket flew towards the wind elemental who ignored it as a mere nuisance, thinking that the titan has run out of these small children of satan.

The missile exploded at the elemental's c.h.e.s.t. The device activated, creating a gravitational anomaly for about five seconds before dissipating. The wind elemental collapsed under the sudden abnormal gravitational change in its centre. It screamed as its body collapsed and the powerful winds that served as its current and foundation went and gone.

Anna looked in horror as her very own wind elemental was defeated in front of her. She looked down to the city and saw nothing but chaos and despair as thousands of missiles bombarded the city and its surroundings. Explosions and craters riddled the surface.

Anna's torso suddenly bursted and out came her blood.

"Target down," John exclaimed. He lowered his blaster and faced One.

"It's moments like these that make the enemy confused and shocked, such as that mage over there," One looked on as the mage fell from the sky and crashed into the city.

In the distance, it was a dance of red colours.

In the city, there was only death and destruction.