Chapter 409 Nanobots

409  Nanobots

"So, this king of theirs stopped them from escaping and smashed my drone," Michael said before closing the button before the collar button on his shirt.

"Yeah, and he must have done something to them by now," Layla said as she walked up and down the room.

"Yeah, you've told me that like five times already," Michael said before picking up the long comb on the table which he was using to comb his head now.

"How can you be so calm about this?" The Lieutenant asked with a puzzled look on her face.

"Because there's no reason to panic my dear, Layla." He said.

"I've told you to stop calling me that." She said with a grim look on her face. "And why do you say that there's no reason to panic?"

Michael stared at her for a while before picking up his tablet from the table.

"How much do you know about nanotechnology?" He asked.

"Umm…not much, what about it?" She asked.

"Well, I inserted some of my nanobots which I have been working on for a while into the drone." He said.

"And what does that mean?" She asked.

"That we haven't been totally cut off from receiving information from the other side." He replied.

"I still don't understand." The Lieutenant said.

"Where's your tablet and the controller?" He asked.

"Here's the controller." She brought out the controller from her pocket and handed it to him before making her way to his bed where she had dropped her tablet.

She picked up the tablet and quickly made her way to him.

"Here." She said before giving the tablet to him.

"Okay, I just need to transfer the program to your tablet." He said before dropping the controller on the table.

"Okay." The Lieutenant said.

Transferring the program from his tablet to her tablet didn't take that long, and after going through with it, he dropped both of the tablets on the table and picked up the controller.

Layla watched carefully as he took apart the controller to reveal that there was a smaller metallic controller inside the controller.

"That was in there?" She said with a shocked expression on her face.

"Yeah, but it's too early to be surprised." He said before picking up her tablet from the table. "This is your tablet, now watch."

He entered the drone monitoring interface where everything was still blurry but the image of the area slowly began to come into view and before the Lieutenant knew it, she could see the floor on the other side from her tablet again.

"How is this even possible?" She said with a stunned look on her face.

"Like I said earlier, nanotechnology." He remarked. "I used my nanobots on the drone, they're the main source of the stealth feature on the drone but now that the drone has been taken down, they'll have to do the work themselves. A couple of them were destroyed when the drone was destroyed and I'm glad it didn't rain or else these ones would be gone too."

He had more to say but before he could continue, the Lieutenant grabbed him by his collar and pressed him against the wall.

"Hey, what's going on?"

"Why didn't you tell me this from the start?" She asked with a grim expression on her face.

"I told you to calm down, didn't I?" He said.

"You told me that just a few minutes ago."

"Hey, Michael."

The door was pushed open as Nicole walked into the room with her tablet in her hands and immediately paused as soon as she saw Layla and Michael like that.

"What's going on?" She asked with a confused expression.

"Who's she?" Layla asked.

"Oh, hey, Nick," Michael said with an awkward expression on his face.

"Nick? You mean like Nicole?" The Lieutenant said before he let go of him and turned her gaze to Nicole. "You're Nicole, right?"

"And who are you?" Nicole asked, ignoring the military uniform that she was wearing.

"Um….Layla this is Nicole my  girlfriend, Nicole, this is Lieutenant Layla, my friend."

"That explains the uniform, but what is she doing in your room and why was she holding you like that?" Nicole asked.

After asking that question, the two slowly turned their gaze to each other.

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At the stadium, the competitions had already kicked off but Luis wasn't paying any attention to whatever that was going on down there.

'What the heck is going on at Asaka, I knew the king was a corrupt and bad and bad man but I never knew he was evil to the extent of murdering one of his people in front of everyone like that and now this happens.' He said subconsciously.

'Something isn't right with everything that has happened so far.' Lena said.

'Of course, something isn't right, that damned king murdered someone in front of everybody for questioning him and who knows, maybe he has already done the same thing to Tania's parents.' He replied before turning his gaze to Tania who still had his gaze down. 'I've never seen her like this before.'

"Hey, Tania, are you sure you don't want to have the potato chips? I know they're your favorite."

"No, I don't feel like eating any snacks," Tania mumbled before shaking his head.

Chloe kept her gaze on her for a while before she let out a sigh and turned her gaze to Luis.

"I've never seen her like this before and I don't like seeing her like this." She said.

'Her too, huh.'

"Are you sure you didn't do anything to her, Luis?" Just as she asked that question, the look on her face suddenly turned grim.

"What are you talking about?" The Angel replied with a confused expression on her face.

"Don't act clueless now, she always smiles brightly whenever she's around you but today she didn't even bother to look at you even after hearing your voice, it's clear that you're the problem, now that I've taken a closer look at you, you look like one of those boys who go around breaking girls' hearts."

"Stop it, Chloe, this has nothing to do with Luis," Tania said before raising her head.

Tears were running down her cheeks so she quickly used her hands to clean them.

And besides, I'm okay now." She said before putting on a fake smile, that smile could fool anyone but not Luis or Chloe.

'Things are getting out of hand fast, what can you do Luis?'

'You know they have Michael helping them out, right?' Lena said.

'Yeah, he built the drone, he will surely be able to do something but I'm afraid he won't be able to do much.'

With her enhanced vision, Ella could clearly see her brother from where she was sitting, and looking at him was making her blood boil.

'He's been avoiding me since I asked him that question yesterday.' She thought.

Mike left to take care of something as soon as she brought up the topic of lightning mages and even after taking her to meet their parents, he quickly left and told her that he would come and see her in the night but he never showed up, he didn't bother to come see her in the morning and now that they were in the stadium, he kept away from her in the part of the stands meant for guests.

'He clearly knows something.' Jasmine said.

'Yeah, I know.' Ella replied.

She turned her gaze to the seat beside theirs where Emma happened to be sitting with her friend and at that time she happened to turn her gaze toward Ella so the two made eye contact but she quickly turned away causing Ella to slowly put her head down.

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"So, let me get this straight, there are more people from Luis' world here and right now their kingdom is in danger because of their king who somehow has supernatural abilities now, and when you guys tried to bring these people through, he smashed your drone and those people could be dead by now." Nicole expressed.

"According to what I saw him do, there's a high chance that they could be dead by now," Michael said.

"Hey, don't say that," Layla said before hitting him on the shoulder.

"That doesn't mean, I'm not going to check." He said before he dropped his tablet on his lap and began to control the nanobots. "I have seven nanobots online and I am going to be using them to get all viewing angles as each of them has a camera attached to them."

'What did he mean by according to what he saw him do?' Layla thought as she watched him begin to move ahead with the bots from her tablet. 'How does he even know where to go? Unless…'

Nicole had to sit beside her boyfriend to get a view of what was going on.

The sun wasn't fully up yet so the whole place was still pretty much dark.

"He really did come from a medieval time." She said as Michael passed the buildings in the area to get to the castle.

After getting to the castle, he quickly moved the boots down the dark hallway to the prison.

"So you've known about everything all this while," Layla said but there was no response from him.

Just as the bots entered the prison area, something dropped from above and completely covered the camera of the leading bot, so Michael had to quickly shift another camera to the leading role.

"What was that?" Layla asked.

"Yeah, what was that?"

The whole place was dark so they couldn't clearly see anything but they could make out little details at this.

"Matilda no!" Maya cried before covering her mouth with her hand.

"Don't worry Mrs. Blackstone, I'm still alive," Matilda said with a fading voice mixed with her muffled panting.

"She sounds half dead," Nicole said.

"Matilda." Layla gasped.

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