The Eclipse - 0

Song Ai and the two generals left Nodus alone and disappeared off into the city while the young man remained alone in the laboratory to finish something before lunchtimes.

Before opening the second store in the village, Nodus had to make sure that the surrounding would be safe from any threat so he rushed the drones and discarded the idea of building a forcefield and instead, he would just only make a sturdy wall out of metals.

As for the drones, he added some refinery in its stomach that could modulate any hard minerals into bullets and went further by adding more different kind of weapons.

'Thermal sigh, optic rays and lastly, white phosphorus rounds.'

With the help of his technology and AI, Nodus managed to finish the first and official drone for the new shop and made a few simple carriages like the big first one before leaving the laboratory.

The only difference was the height of the rear side with only 2 beds now instead of 8 and notify Bu One to send some of the squad members to buy some magical beast to pull it.

After a short chat with the android, Nodus found out that although they were given some free times, the entire squad were training every day in the 2nd basement level for the past week.

"That's good, make them all an exosuits and send them out as we planned."

His primary goal for the squad was to protect and advertise his company so he had always planned to let them do their usual adventure quest whenever they finished their training and with Bu One and the upcoming drones, they wouldn't have to protect the store anymore.

Nodus suspected that the couple already left to the kingdom, so he decided to spend some times with the young girl before going after them like they had discussed that day.

'I should expand in the kingdom too...'

Nodus never planned on helping the family solving their problem as he knew that Nair should be able to handle it seeing how confident he was and ultimately decided to print out more drones just in case since the cities and kingdoms in this continent are fundamentally different on a whole new aspect because they had a royal families and kings while the city government could be just anyone.

"Hmm... I should discuss this later and plan accordingly."

The young man made his way into the house and met with Lulu who was already dressed up in her white robe on the first floor.

"Are you free now big brother?"

"Yes, let's go."

As Lulu approached him, Nodus thought of something and held out his arm toward her, allowing the young girl to hold onto him.

"Ah...?"

The young girl blushed and slowly clung around his arm before making their way toward the vehicle in the backyard.

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"Do you see that?"

Mimi pointed at the sky as she poked Ali who was searching through the merchandise on a side stall right beside her.

"I don't see anything?"

Ali looked up the sky and was confused as to what she should have been seeing.

"You don't see that black ball?"

Mimi was confused after her friend replied by shaking her head before resuming her shopping spree for decorations.

"Uncle Ald, may I please have those flowers?"

While Ali was busy buying everything she found pretty, Mimi was lost in a trance as she stared at the black moon that looked like it was right beside the sun in the far sky.

"Are you the one calling...?"

The young girl whispered and suddenly, the entire world turned dark as the moon moved in front of the sun, blocking most of the sunlight and caused Mimi to panic.

She twisted her neck around and looked at everyone who was still happily shopping, and some were still haggling over the price as if nothing happened.

"Mimi...?"

"Mimiiiiiiii!"

"Mimi I said!"

Suddenly, the black moon magically vanished, the night reverted back today.

After calling out her name multiples times and shaking her entire body by the shoulders, Ali finally managed to wake up Mimi from her trance and asked her why she was so quiet.

"Ali?... I am sorry, I am thinking..."

Mimi felt like she spent an eternity in the darkness and wanted nothing more but to hide away from the clear sky as she held onto her friend's hand tightly.

"Could we go somewhere, please?"

Ali was confused, but she didn't ask any further after seeing her shaking from head to toes.