Endless Journey: Infinite Realms

Chapter 135 Modern Problems Require Modern Solutions

"Just start talking now. Don’t waste our time." Alex said as his body subconsciously tensed.

Even if this mad scientist only wanted to talk with them, Alex will never let down his guard.

After all, the emotions that he can sense from the mad scientists were quite disorienting.

To his concern and distress, Alex could not sense any stable emotions coming out from the mad scientist.

Instead, what Alex could feel were a mixture of different emotions, most of them on the negative side.

Fear, anger, hate, envy, paranoia, distrust, and many more emotions were stewing inside the mad scientist.

This emotion mixture was so intense that Alex found it hard to believe that the mad scientist was still stable to this day.

No, the mad scientist was not stable at all. Alex realized that she was barely hanging on to her sanity and lucidity, and it will only take a slight push to bring her to the brink.

This made Alex somewhat pity her, as he could only imagine the pain that the mad scientist was feeling.

"Oh, did you two bring protection anyway?" The mad scientist suddenly said as she cackled loudly. "If not, then you can thank me for interrupting your hanky-panky time!"

Screw that. Whatever pity Alex had for the mad scientist were all gone now.

"If you were just here to taunt us, then maybe you should just leave." Alex coldly said as he used his FED Manipulation to make the mad scientist feel harrowed.

The mad scientist’s body buckled a little, but she was able to stabilize herself quickly.

"..." Alex narrowed his eyes upon seeing this, realizing that this woman actually had some kind of stabilizing agent inside her.

"So, you can do that kind of things too huh." The mad scientist muttered as she gave Alex a heated gaze. "F**k this, I hate people like you who can make me feel this miserable. You all deserve to rot!"

"So what, you want to fight me now?" Alex said as he gave the mad scientist a mocking smile. "I thought you were just here to talk..."

"Guys, stop quarreling like this." Alina exasperatedly said as she pinched Alex’s waist.

"Ow!"

"As for you, I recommend that you start talking now, or we will leave you hanging here." Alina said to the mad scientist. "And when I said ’hanging’, I meant that literally."

"Oh, spooky." The mad scientist said although she seemed more amused by what she heard. "I will take note of that."

"...." The mad scientist continued smirking by herself for another minute before she started talking ’sincerely’.

"I am here because of my alliance offer to Eldritch." The mad scientist said in a matter-of-fact tone, as if it was already obvious enough. "I am sure that by this point, he was already tempted to ally with me."

"Hoh, and what makes you think that I am tempted to ally with your right now, huh?" Alex said as he looked at the mad scientist’s confident features. "Did you find out something fishy?"

"The Pantheon, obviously." The mad scientist said in a plain tone. "The research made by my assistants yesterday made me sure that the Legacy of Tartaros was related to them. That is why I wanted to ally with you. If we try to look for the Legacy by our own ways, we will surely be annihilated by them. But if we work together, we can obtain the Legacy easily."

"And then you want us to fight each other in the end." Alex drily said as he completed the mad scientist’s pitch for him.

"Modern problem requires modern solutions." The mad scientist said as she shrugged her shoulders. "If you want to survive, you either join us or we all die."

"I still think that there is something suspicious with the way that you are acting." Alex said before Alina could say something. "The way you coordinated your actions yesterday were so orderly, as if you have been planning the operation yesterday for a long time. There is no way that you can just break out a Glacia, ally with Mafioso, pick a fight with many Heroes, and offer a recruitment pitch on us that quickly! Heck, the Main Mission was announced just hours before you did everything! It was as if what you all did were already predestined to happen!"

"Well, it won’t hurt to have someone who can see future in my team." The mad scientist said as she shrugged her shoulders. "She made things easier for us."

"...One of your Companions has future sight." Alex said as he began to look at the mad scientist with a warier look.

"Well, compared to Foresight, the future sight of my Companion is quite limited." The mad scientist as she let out a shrug.

The mad scientist then tilted her head as she said,

"My Companion, when shown an object, can see future visions related to that object. However, the visions that she can see will be all the possible futures of that object. For example, if my Companion uses her ability on coin that will be used in a Coin Toss, what my Companion will see are all the instances of heads and tails coming out. If she uses her ability in a dice that will be used in a Dice Roll, what she will see are all the different results of a dice roll."

"..."

The mad scientist ignored the stunned expression on Alex’s face as she continued talking.

"Oh, this power works with people too, so it makes the use of her power easier. So, all we had to do was to show her the right persons and objects to ensure our success. And that’s what we did yesterday, which allowed us to do all those stuff."

"She is not lying!" Alina hissed at Alex, with panic evident in her voice. "They really have a member with that ability!"

"Hey Khora, do you remember that swordswoman that you fought yesterday? She’s the one with that ability!" The mad scientist said as she gave Alina a cold smile. "My Companion’s ability might be difficult on normal circumstances, but it helps her out a lot during a fight! If she uses you as a target of her ability and if she just looks a few seconds into the future, she will only see one vision. That is why she was able to dodge your attacks easily yesterday!"

"Once again, she’s not lying." Alina said as she tightened her hold on her sword.

Once Alex heard all of this, he knew that enough is enough. Whatever the mad scientist was planning to do must be stopped now.

"...Why are you telling all of these information to us?" Alex said to as he approached the mad scientist. With his height towering over the mad scientist, he tried to cut an imposing image above her. "Are you making fun of us?"

The mad scientist seemed to be unfazed by Alex’s action. She even smiled provocatively as she started sniffing Alex’s scent.

"What the?" Alex recoiled back as the mad scientist started talking again.

"I just want to show you my goodwill." The mad scientist said as she continued sniffing. "I figured out that if I tell you this information, there is a high chance that you will ally with me. Oh, and you smell quite nice. No wonder Khora was so horny for you tonight."

"Shut up. Was it really you who figured that out, or was it your clairvoyant Companion?" Alex snarled as he tried to stop Alina from pouncing on the mad scientist.

"Who knows, I just did what I had to do, and I am just here to wait for the results." The mad scientist really had the audacity to look so smug while saying these words.

"This little..." Alex snarled as he tried to calm himself down. He knew that losing his cool against this infuriating woman will be of no help to him now.

By this point, Alex knew that taking care of that clairvoyant will be one of their main objectives here in this world. As for the mad scientist, her due time will come too.

But before Alex can take actions against them, Alex knew that he had to follow logic first.

"You want an alliance? Then let’s meet on a neutral place tomorrow. We shall have our Traveler Truce there." Alex said as he let out a sigh.

"Nice..." Before the mad scientist could say something more, Alex continued his tirade.

"But don’t think that I will let you off that easily now. Remember, we will only work together to locate the Legacy of Tartaros. Once we locate it, we will be back to fighting each other, pronto y pronto."

"That’s all I want to hear." The mad scientist said as she turned around, with her ready to leave. "Oh, and my name is Ciara by the way. Remember to chant that name when you get nightmares later! But maybe you two won’t have nightmares later, as you two seems to be ready to ’hump and pump’ tonight!"

The mad scientist then ran away quickly before Alina could slash her to pieces.

"...Let’s just go back to the apartment for now." Alex said as he let out a sigh. "We need to let Queen Mother know about what had happened here."

"...Yes, let’s go back." Alina said as she let out a disappointed sigh too.

With the talk that they had with the mad scientist, the romantic mood that Alina and Alex had earlier were already gone.

How could they have the mood to explore the forbidden garden when they have an enemy to interact with tomorrow?

So much for their first date.

"Well, even with that mad scientist appearing, I still can say that this date went well." Alina said as they trudged back to their apartment. "So don’t feel down. I am not feeling disappointed at all."

"But-" Alex’s reply was cut off when Alina’s lips sealed his.

"Don’t say anything else." Alina said as she pulled back, licking her lips in the process. "I don’t want your smart mouth ruining this all."

"Ok." That was all that Alex could say as they continued their walk.