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Nogond was infuriated by the queen how dare she insult him? Saying that he was egotistical and arrogant. While he could agree to the arrogance the part of being egotistical really angered him, but he decided that this was not the time to begin with insults. Nogond bowed to her and said, " Oh great queen it is truly and honor to finally meet you. I had heard about your cybernetic augmentations, but I had never thought them to be so impressive. Perhaps we are more alike than we know. But enough of praises for now. As for your choices, ultimatums or what you would prefer to call them I have only one answer to give which may or may not surprise you. I say no to all of them. None of these choices appeal to me and I will be so kind to explain why. Your first choice an alliance. While it is rather close to why I came to your nation it just isn't why I came here. I have no interest in an alliance. Instead I would propose a non-agression pact along with a few trade agreements which would benefit both our nations. Second choice. Joining your nation. I am sorry to say, but we would gain nothing from joining you, we would only loose from such an agreement. Your third choice war. I didn't come here to wage war. If i did I would have brought my entire army and already begun to burn down the city.
Also I see that you have something against slavery. Maybe it is for some ethic thing, but I really don't care. I need the slaves to do labor that us Cybermages can't do. I don't know where you have gotten it from, but my nation isn't a cruel one where we kill slaves for fun. Our slaves have rights and are after a few years of trusted service allowed to become Cybermages. In fact I have been trying to abolish that system as it is not efficient anymore."
Nogond took a deep breath and began another part of his speech which was beginning to annoy him greatly. He would have preferred to killed them there for their insolence, but he had promised that he would stop his warmongering and killing.
"Now that we have discussed the choices you have given me I would like to point out a few things you said. You insinuated that my technology was not advanced as I claim, but I have to disagree. You have recently started building railroad tracks which is quite cute, but we have started a construction of the first airfield in the world along with a zeppelin for long distance journeys and even made some prototypes of airplanes, but our real advancement is in cybernetics. I i hope you would guess from our name Cybermages everyone that is a legal citizen in my nation has received cybernetic upgrades which allows for quite some surprises in combat, when people see soldiers throwing balls of fire or shooting streams of plasma from their hands."
Nogond then turned back and pointed at the vehicles that he had arrived with.
" We have also begun building vehicles to aid in our exploration and expansion into the wastes. We have also found old blueprints that showed us how to built tanks and other armored vehicles."
After he was done with his rather long speech Nogond pointed at the queen and said. " Now that i have talked to much about pretty much everything I would like to say a few last things. We are both quite alike, we both care greatly for our countries and would do everything for them, except my methods are more extreme. However I don't try to justify anything I do. So before you try to judge me Great Queen. Look at yourself and ask. How many people have you killed? How many families have you torn apart, How many budding countries have your expansionistic policies destroyed? When I arrived here I had hoped to enter discussions with you about the future about our countries to prevent another great war, but I see no reason to trust you. You are also hypocritical and judge everyone, but don't let anyone judge you. I started this conflict with your guards to see how you would react and now that I have seen what kind of person you are I am not very pleased. I had expected that the legendary Queen of Keldos who was famous for her kindness would try to defuse the conflict. Instead you showoff your cybernetics and begin to insult me. Which is quite rude no matter who you are dealing with."
Nogond smiled under his mask. He hadn't created the conflict to test the queen, but it would be a good excuse. " Now after all of this I don't feel like making a deal with you and will take my leave from you, but know that you have created a potential enemy this day and if I ever find you encroaching on my territory I will see that as an act of war."
Nogond signalled his retinue that it was time to leave and began walking towards the vehicles. "Oh and as a last thing queen your cybernetics wouldn't have proected you against my lightning the heat from it would make the rubber melt or even burn and depending on what synthetic materials you use the effects could be even more disastrous."
As he approached the vehicle he hoped that the queen or her advisor would stop him so that he could finish his errand.