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Chapter 87: Rampaging Hydra

Chapter 87 – Rampaging Hydra

"HYDRA!!"

Screams and panicking cries came from people behind the collapsed wall as a twin-headed hydra appeared.

Staring into the city and the chaotic scene, Amro hesitated if he should eat these people. They did not suit his appetite.

"So many foods, but they're too weak."

Krastel had another idea, "Food."

"Eat them if you want. I'll go after the strong one."

"Food!"

Krastel drooled as he watched the crowd of soldiers gathering in front of them.

Unable to resist his glutton drive, Krastel activated his psychic skills, and his eyes glowed in red light.

Temperature drastically reduced from the 30 degree Celsius to minus 200 Celsius within a second, which turned all moisture and liquid in the radius of 100 meters into condensed glacial and snowflakes.

A team of soldiers, who stood within the range of Krastel's skill, stopped moving as their blood had been frozen.

Once the soldiers turned into ice statues, Krastel extended his long tongue, coiling one of the men and dragging him into his mouth. He chewed the solidified human as if he was eating ice cream.

Amro clicked his tongue as he disliked cold environment. His eyes ignited on fire as he activated his power, which he used to destroy the wall. It took him ten seconds to gather his strength into his eye to fire another [Blast] shot into the city.

*BOOM*

Instead of hitting everything before him with an invisible flaming cannonball like Mia's [Blast] version, it was more like a short-range laser beam.

Everything in his line of sight disappeared and replaced with a sea of fire.

As the origin of Mia's "Blast" skill, Amro's firepower surpassed him by Miles!

"Now, I'm hungry."

Amro strolled into the city, passing the glacial area which was on fire. Tentacles on his back began doing the work, collecting every living being. Within a minute, he rounded a total of eight soldiers with each of his back-arms.

"Food," Krastel looked at the struggling people, wanting to eat them.

"They're mine. Catch your own food."

"…"

The hydra stopped proceeding into the city as they feasted on the captured humans.

.

The local military forces brought their mechs and their tanks to surround Amro.

20 Robots, armed to the teeth, and ten tanks positioned around Amro in a half-circle.

Another 15 mechs, which had exited the city through another gate, stationed behind Amro and kept the distance of 500 meters away.

They were getting ready to the assault on this intruder.

.

Meanwhile, Mia and Brim left the government house and were on their way to the recycling factory. Once they could get to the junkyard, aka the extraction point, Thorn and other Tautog mechs would escort them back to their base.

That was the plan.

 

<<Ding>>

<<A new quest has been initiated>>

 

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<<World Boss Quest: Rampaging Hydra>>

In this apocalypse world, everyone understands how deadly mutated monsters are. Among the top of the food chain among beasts, one of them is the hydra race.

Now, Amro, the two-headed hydra, has breached the wall of Mafdet City. If no one can stop this monster, this Mafdet City will become another ruined city among the wasteland.

Hydras are the common enemy of mankind and mutants. Work together with them and eliminate this threat, or Shelter 88 can be its next target after this city fall.

 

<<Quest Objective>>

- Kill Amro, the first-head hydra

- Kill Krastel, the second-head hydra

 

<<Quest Rewards>>

- 100 Diamonds for participating.

- 500 Diamonds for last shot award.

- 500 Diamonds for the MVP reward.

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Because of the quest notification, Mia's concentration slipped for a few seconds.

That few seconds proved fatal. Over twenty flying drones at the size of a car, armed with 20mm cannons, dove down from the dark sky and surrounded them.

Both Mia and Brim had to stop their feet as a shell from these cannons could easily kill them.

Mia was frustrated. He had detected and tried to avoid these drones, but they seemed to know about his location.

*Mowow?* (Eh, little miss, did you have something against these locals?)

The corner of Mia's mouth twitched, "Maybe. Those bananas hate my family and me."

The stalemate lasted for less than a minute as an APC came. The vehicle parked, and a familiar face female officer stepped out.

Joan took a loudspeaker and shouted, "Uriel Mia! You should have received the message from the higher-ups! Let's stop fighting and come with us! We wish to work with you!"

Mia frowned in disbelief.

'Is she drunk?'

The Joan Mia knew usually yelled at him in a forceful tone. However, her tone at this moment was different.

"We don't need that friend of yours. Your friend and go and leave the city, but we need you here!"

Now, Mia was surprised, "Wow, is that a new trick?"

Brim looked around in a panic, "M-Miss, do you know her?"

"Sort of, she was my trainer before I converted."

"Ah, she's quite kind, isn't she?"

"Will you say the same if I tell you that she's the one behind your abduction?"

"That bitch deserves a thousand butt slaps! That fat ass has to be shaken to the point they sagged like grand mamma's boobs!"

"…"

Sam used one of his tentacle mouths to bite Brim's butt.

"OUCH!"

*Meow!* (No vulgar words!)

Mia ignored Brim and Sam's bickering. Looking around and feeling everything with his sense, Mia believed that he could get away from the drones. However, he would be the only one surviving as Brim might not make it through the barrages of multiple cannons from all sides.

Judging from the changed attitude of Joan, Mia decided to take risks. If Brim could get away from the city, he could always fight and run away later.

Mia passed the earpod, his wristwatch and the bottle of potion, which had been unsealed, to Brim.

"Use the earpod and the wristwatch to ask for help. Also, take this medicine to Crystal."

"Are you going to surrender!?"

"No. I'll be having a talk with that woman. You go back first, and I'll find my way home later."

"Miss, you must not! They torture mutants like us like we're Frankenstein! You can't go with them!"

Mia took a deep breath, "Brim, I'll be frank. You're a dead-weight. I can always escape by myself, but you're dragging me down. Get your banana ass outta here when you have a chance!"

Without waiting for a response from the shocked Brim, Mia walked toward Joan with his hands above his head.

"Let him go, and I'll go with you. If you play a trick, I'll fOOking bitch slap you like a wet banana!"

Joan's face turned dark as Mia's words were too resemble Uriel Min. She was so furious that she wanted to kill him right now.

Unfortunately, Gabriel Lobmak forced her this duty.

With a cracked voice and a stiffed smile, Joan proceeded with her negotiation.

"Okay. He can leave. You definitely have to stay."

"Fine. Then what?"

Joan grinned as she fiddled with her transparent game panel, "Come closer. Don't worry, I won't bite."

"Open a path for him first, then we talk."

Thinking for a while, Joan waved her hands. The drones opened a path for Brim as they withdrew from the road.

Mia turned around to look at Brim, "Go."

"Err …"

"Go NOW!"

"O-Okay!"

*Mow* (We'll see you later, Miss. Take care.)

Brim ran away as he put Crystal's earpod on.

Looking at the running Brim, Mia was still concerned about Joan's scheme. He kept looking at Brim until he could not sense this clumsy pilot anymore.

"It's just us now. Get in the vehicle, and we'll talk."

"Disarm your drones, and we'll talk."

"Geez, you're a worrywart. Fine!"

All drones moved further away from their location as Joan signaled her soldiers in the APC.

Mia steeled his heart and followed Joan into the vehicle. Once they got inside the back seat of the APC, Joan displayed a picture of a mech with her game panel.

"Have you ever seen this?"

Mia's frown deepened. It was an ancient Prometheus-Series Armored Mech of the 30th-century, which was considered outdated in his world. However, its performance was still better than the local mechs in the game.

"This is our Prometheus Prototype. It's a mech from the 30th-century."

"And how does it have anything to do with me?"

"Here's the problem. We can't import everything from the original model because of the tech tree restriction. However, we created a pseudo robot by using a loophole in the game."

Joan glared at Mia with jealousy and envy as she continued talking.

"Because of that loophole, no human can pilot this machine … but all members from the Golden Generation can."


Chapter 88: Prometheus Cockpit Trap

Chapter 88 – Prometheus Cockpit Trap

The robot in Joan's game screen was a tall half-Rhinoceros-beetle, half-humanoid mecha.

It had coated red frames all over its body. The extended shoulder guards covered its collars down to its elbows while two gigantic foldable wings hid the psionic radiators and the boosters behind the mech's back.

The trademark of Prometheus mecha series was their long beetle horn which extended from its head. They seemed useless, but they were the telepathic receptor for the secondary cockpit within its head.

Unlike the mechs from the 23rd-century, this robot could be controlled by two pilots from two different cockpits. One was inside the robot's head while the other one located within its torso.

Prometheus's cockpit armor chest was in a pyramid shape as it was designed to deflect all physical attacks from the critical area, protecting the primary pilot's space.

However, the operating room within the mecha's head did not have protection like the chest. Instead, it was equipped with a detachable device that could transition from a robot head into a flying drone.

Aside from the large upper body part, each leg of Prometheus was almost as big as its torso. It was as if that each leg wore a mantle to cover their bulking muscle.

Under the skirt-like shin-guard frames, two psionic engines hid there.

Its feet were armed with psionic-powered wheel tracks. Not only that Prometheus could walk and jumped, but it could also transform its soles into roller wheels, so it could skate through the battlefields.

As these tracks and chassis were designed to support with over 150,000 horsepower from each of the psionic turbine engines, this 50 tons mech could accelerate from zero to the speed of 150mph on the ground with ease.

Those were the Prometheus Series specs in their early days that Mia knew.

 

'That doesn't make sense! Psionic Engine technologies are only available in the late 29th-century! The game shouldn't allow anyone to develop these engines yet, and psionic robots shouldn't be available in the game!'

 

Psionic technology breakthrough happened after mankind discovered a particular mineral from space by chance.

It happened at the time when private companies were allowed to journey into the asteroid belts of the solar system to explore and mined resources. One of the space miner companies found a new mineral, the Titan Arum Ore.

This mineral was named after a corpse flower as not only they smelled like a rotting corpse, but they could grow and multiply on a dead mammal body! It was also harmful to mankind as it emitted poisonous gas.

However, it resonated with human's psychic powers. This alone brought up the ore's value.

As it reacted to esper's abilities, scientists conducted researches on these Titan Arums in an enclosed spaceship.

A decade later, they created a medium device, which could enhance psychic abilities of humans. Many companies and government came up with more tools and gadgets, using these minerals as the foundation. However, the most significant byproduct of these Titan Arum ores were the new sources of energy, the psionic core.

Psionic Technologies breakthrough followed after the psionic core creation, and psionic engines were born.

One standard two-meter turbine engine could generate electricity at the same rate to what a 200MW nuclear reactor power plant produced, and one of them could last 7200 hours at 100% capacity usage.

Thus, this engine became a standard engine for all mechs and heavy factories in the 30th-century, which should not be able to import into the game with the restriction of tech trees.

Although it looked inefficient for using multiple nuclear reactors for supplying a mech, Mia knew why they did that.

It was Prometheus was the first esper mech of mankind, which would change the warfare and the technologies outlook beyond the 30th-century.

 

Mia stared at Joan with a baffled look, "How did you create a psionic engine here? Did you bring it from the real world?"

Joan smirked, "No. As I said before, they were the pseudo robot, so they aren't using one of those psionic turbines."

"Then, how do you feed the energies to the robot? That thing is an esper mech!"

"You'll understand it once you get in there. I don't need to explain."

"…"

While the APC was on the road, the sounds of a grand battle came from a distance away. Consecutive explosions caused an earthquake and a heat shockwave, which affected all civilians in the town.

Joan and Mia got back to the hangar during the ruckus.

Inside the hangar, most of the robots and military personals had left for combat, but one red mech was still there.

The 50 tons, 25-meter-tall mech stood still behind the bridge. The body size and the beetle wings made it look like a fat giant robot compared to the other mechs in this age.

"Hop in that mech."

Mia peered at Joan with a wry smile, "I've never piloted a mech. Who do you think I am, Amuro Ray!? I can't master the mech with just a manual!"

Joan smirked, "I'll remind you again. This mech is customized for golden generation freaks like you. You'll be able to operate it like how you fapped using your avatar in the barrack back then. Also, take off those exoskeletons. You won't be able to operate the mech with all frames around yourself."

Mia's face reddened. He indeed touched Misha's whole body when he took a bath in the game for the first time, but he did not go as far as masturbating. Joan's words were exaggerating.

Embarrassed and frustrated, Mia gritted his teeth and got on the bridge, climbing into the chest cockpit of the Prototype Prometheus.

He thought to himself, 'Once this raid quest is done, I'll GTA this!'

Joan assisted him by operating the bridges in the hangar, opening the way for Mia.

The cockpit hatch slowly closed by itself once Mia sat, and the light in the room switched on.

The controllers in the cockpit were two arm bracers, two hand grips, leg guards, three pedals, and a keyboard. On the cockpit ceiling, over a hundred switches dazzled Mia.

'That wet banana! How dafuq can I move this thing without prior training!? She said I will be able to once I get in, and now what!?'

The OS of the mech booted up, and several odd symbols appeared on the screen. It froze as if the OS was waiting for instruction.

Mia frowned as he tried to decipher these odd moon runes. He had seen these somewhere before, but he could not recall it.

'It's familiar. I think I can understand this, but I don't. What?'

He had a vague déjà vu feeling about this runes. As if in a trance, Mia placed his hands on the keyboard and started typing.

 

[BANANA]

*BZZ*

Error.

 

'Of course, it will give me an error. What am I thinking?'

Though he thought that, his fingers did not stop.

[WET BANANA]

*BZZ*

Error

Mia leaned back to his seat as he sniggered. As soon as his neck touched the neck rest, he felt something had pricked the back of his neck.

"OUCH!"

He tried to lean forward in reflex, but a collar extended from behind the seat and locked him back to the position. The needle penetrated into his cervical spine, and it injected something inside.

Tama immediately sent her tentacles and her blood cells into Mia's spinal cord, protecting him from the unknown substances.

*Mew* (Misha, let's destroy this and get out of here!)

"Ah, I know."

*Beep*

<<Pilot Identity confirmed>>

<<Welcome, Officer Uriel>>

"Huh?"

<<Memory Implant Operation, initiating>>

"SHIT!"

This was what he feared the most in his life, getting forcefully implanted by an unknown memory.

Mia closed his eyes and shook his head around as he tried to resist.

However, he felt nothing coming from the cockpit, not even a movement or another restraint.

<<Synchronization completed>>

'Huh?'

Mia slowly opened his eyes as he peeked the cockpit monitor. Nothing had happened to him.

'What da hack did it do?'

The screen was still flooded with moon runes. The safety lock collar was still binding his neck to his seat, but Mia could not sense any change.

"Tama, did you see or feel anything?"

Tama had been quiet after the warning about memory implant. Mia looked at his chest to see what Tama was doing.

Her only eye on his chest stared straight at the monitor without blinking. Tama was somehow in a trance.

*Meh*

"Tama?"

*Meh-Heh*

"Meh-Heh?"

*Meh-Heh-Heh MEW!*

"???"

*MEW MEW!* (I UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING!)

*Meh* (Eh, they sure have a bad taste though.)

*Mew?* (Why did they want me to serve the MWG when I'm stuck with banana Misha?)

Mia's face cramped from listening to Tama's mumbling. He had a theory in his mind.

*Mew?* (Hey, Mish! What's Golden Generation?)

*Mew?* (What's Milky Way Government?)

*Mew?* (Why do they want me to serve them?)

 

Mia's face turned into a (・_・) meme once more.

 

'Did the OS just implant a memory into Tama instead of me?'


CREATORS' THOUGHTS
DamnPlotArmor DamnPlotArmor

I can't draw, so I can't give you the pic of Prometheus.

Just use the pic of Char's Sazabi as a reference. *Sweating*

BTW, there's a review saying that I hired readers to give me good reviews. When I reread all the reviews again, it is indeed suspicious.

Please refrain from giving more than one review on this novel. If you wish to correct the review, please delete the old one before you give a new review.

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