They fought for a few more minutes, the robot suffered a lot of damage now. Erend remained still for a moment as he watched the mechanical guardian. The strange machine had raised more questions than it had answered.
The factory itself already seemed suspicious enough, but now there were modern-looking machines that were also ancient, capable of using techniques that resembled human martial arts, along with some kind of unfamiliar energy coming from deeper inside the facility.
Erend was genuinely curious. "What happened to this world?" he wondered.
Everything he had learned from Norma only described the world from the perspective of its current inhabitants. To them, the Apocalypse had happened three thousand years ago and Valthoria had simply become the wasteland they knew today.
