The Way of the Future: Age of Machines(Completed)

Count Dead

"The rain is nice, isn't it?" Artemis looked down on the Count. 

He was the only person left on the platform that was about to be executed. The other nobles had their heads chopped off already.

The rain wasn't going to be friendly with him either. Artemis had a rod of metal built specifically on top of where the Count knelt.

"You see this metal rod?" Artemis asked him.

"Y-yes," Tyrian said.

"Then you know it's made of metal right? I'm sure a Count like you is at least educated in the ways of smiths?" Artemis said.

"Of.. course!" Tyrian said. 

"Then be wowed," Artemis stepped away from the Count and ordered everyone to leave the platform except for the Count.

The Count, sensing that his death was coming, began to struggle against his chains and begged for mercy.

"Wait! wait! Please! Please don't do this to me!" Tyrian begged.

Artemis stared at him and the angry mob cheered his wails on. 

"Die bastard!" They all shouted. 

Even the little children among the peasantry cheered for his death. Artemis took a liking with their bloodlust. 

The death of the Count would bring Wart his needed legitimacy among the people. Since nobody was going to mess with the King whose subordinate single handedly instigated a rebellion, defeated a paladin, and did not fear to execute the nobility within the city itself.

The crowd was excited as to what Artemis was going to do now. Reinhard and Jord looked anxious as they waited.

Toby, on the other hand, sensed a disturbance with the magic forming on the platform and the sky. It seemed as if the magical molecules were forming a sort of pillar from the sky to the Count.

"Could this be his magic?" Toby looked at the man in black.

Wart and Pandora sensed it too. The accumulation of magic in a pillar like formation over the Count.

"How is he able to manipulate magic like this?" Pandora whispered. She looked at Wart, Wart had his mouth open throughout the entire ordeal. 

"Erik.." Pandora leaned forward over the balcony. 

A bright flash of light appeared and temporarily blinded everyone looking at the Count. The soldiers let go of their weapons and covered their eyes in pain and so did the peasantry and everyone else who was watching.

Artemis, however, had his eyes wide open when the light flashed. It wasn't just some ordinary light, it was a light that came from the heavens that brought forth the same energy that powered humanity back on Earth since the industrial revolution.

Lightning. 

The metal rod acted as a sort of beacon wherein the lightning would strike. However, he did not expect that the magic in this world would also be the cause for lightning.

And then he asked himself.

Does this world have positively and negatively charged particles?