Chapter 131: Her Story (2) (1/2)

”I believed you, you know? You didn't really need to explain it to me.”

”But you're silent.”

”Is this not enough to show it?”

I lifted our hands that were clasped together. Seeing it closely, a red tint immediately appeared on Nysia's face which complimented her hair and her eyes. For a Transcendent to be this pure despite her advanced age, she's adorable.

”My waiting paid off then. Uhm. I'll continue my story.”

To escape from turning completely red from her embarrassment, she opted to continue her story which I let her. I still wanted to know how that little orphan girl turned into someone this amazing. Someone not even the three biggest factions could touch. This might be a Mortal World but in terms of achievements, she probably has more than the others like her at the same level.

Our hands that were clasped together were lifted up again and she raised it in front of her. After taking a quick glance at me, her lips touched the back of my hand before she giggled like a young girl.

This woman was clearly acting like a maiden in love and I… am surely enjoying it. This stay in the 4th world has just been given some color by her.

After a while, she composed herself and restarted her storytelling back to the point where I interrupted it earlier.

When she became a Gold-rank and a Rank B. She applied to become a Pilot to the country she settled in after quitting and casting off her persona as Aegis.

For a girl at her age to have that kind of achievement add to that, her outstanding appearance, she was immediately hired.

For the first time in her life, she got to Pilot a proper Metagen that's not cheaply made and a Powergen that was made especially for her. Through the use of that Metagen and Powergen, she started racking up achievements and victories for the country for around 4 years.

However, the clear sky above her was proven short-lived as storm clouds brewed after 4 years in the form of another war which decimated more countries.

A second and third regenium mine was discovered.

If the first mine became something like a public resource, the two new mines became the spark to determine the true hegemons who would eventually control each of the regenium mines.

The country she was employed to went head to head against the New Haven Empire and the other countries surrounding it. Due to their small number of Pilots and Operators, the country and others like it joined hands into an alliance to fight the Empire.

However, three of those countries turned coat in the heat of the main battle. They already submitted themselves to the Empire and will be absorbed after taking control of the mine.

Because of that, the alliance crumbled from the inside. The New Haven Empire then swiftly cleaned them up and took control of the 1st mine as the sole owner of it.

During that time, Nysia was already a Gold-rank Tier 1 and Rank A in terms of Brain Capacity. When things went south, she found herself trapped and besieged by the turncoats that her Advanced Armor Manipulation and the Orb of Reinforcement failed to protect her.

In a bid to survive it, she ejected herself from the Metagen which she always used for four years. It already grew in her heart, seeing it destroyed like that, she vowed never to go under the Empire nor any other country that would eventually emerge victorious in that War for the Mines. Since she was ejected from a high altitude she then used the Powergen she was wearing at the time to dampen the damage that she would've received in exchange for her Powergen to also become beyond repair.

Just like that, she turned back to someone who has nothing save for the Orb of Reinforcement.

5 years later, she became something like a bandit among any other losers from the war years ago who often ambushed regenium convoys to steal it and sell it in the Black Market. The earnings she got there were used to buy her Powersuit and mass-produced smuggled cheap Metagens

Despite controlling the mines, that didn't stop those unaffiliated to the three factions to continue living to survive. Nysia reached the Diamond-rank during that 5 years which evolved her Advanced Armor Manipulation to Defense Control. It's a higher version of her original ability. It encompasses not just the armors anymore but actual defenses.

At age 25, the Primeval Aegis Union was founded by her when she revealed her identity as the Aegis who disappeared years ago. The League started as a Mercenary Group slash Bandits who played along with the three factions. One faction would sometimes employ them to attack the other two, by doing so, they had the chance to earn regenium on all three sides.

The other war losers and survivors started joining the League. From a few ragtag groups of Pilots and Operators, they started having other professions which leveled up the League to become an independent armed group.

At that time, the three factions started to see them as eyesore so, from the Mercenary Group, they became Rebel Forces in their eyes. But all of that was accounted for.

Fast forward another 5 years, the Primeval Aegis League grew more into something like a huge organization but everything was still centered around her, a Legend-rank Pilot who can lead a group of cheap and poorly manufactured Metagens to defeat throngs of Specialized Metagen squads of the three factions.

During two 5 year intervals, her growth from a small Gold-rank Pilot, she became a Legend-rank and someone with a Rank SSS Brain Capacity.

In that kind of fashion did their organization get to replenish their supplies of regenium.

And once again, as if her hardships weren't enough yet, the Alien Civilization arrived which lay another waste to the world they are residing in.

The Primeval Aegis League she built up almost crumbled once again. If not for her taking up the front lines, everyone would've lost hope. Compared to the three factions who have already made use of their monopoly of a regenium mine, her organization had to fight tooth and nail to defend their small territory and the powerless members who joined them for shelter.

Only when she knocked into the door of Transcendence or for the denizens of this world, the realm of Mythic-rank Pilot did the things turn for the better. That was another 5 years added to her age.

At age 40, Nysia Athonae became the only Mythic-rank Pilot apart from the so-called Guardians of the three factions. She told me how her body stopped aging once she reached it and every year, she started to look younger which explained her current appearance which is her in her prime years. Age doesn't really matter anyway but still she even provided an explanation for it.