Chapter 72 – Chapter 8

A few hours before the start of the Dead Moon.

Kaicent secretly entered the 0-dimensional warehouse and asked AT for help with an explanation of the Dead Moon.

Lillian’s warning meant that he couldn’t use power, and he was worried about Clint, so he decided that he needed at least one powerful power.

Even if Lillian was attacked with all his might, an AT would be of great help in any situation if it had the power to tear apart a human with his bare hands and an indefatigable power.

“I know about Deadmoon. But why should I help you?”

Naturally, AT had no reason to help Kaicent.

“And if you need my power, can’t you just give me an order?”

AT, who had a conversation with Skynet in the 0-dimensional warehouse, which flowed from the outside world at 2.4 times the speed, learned various facts.

That included the ability to analyze and hack other types of systems thanks to Skynet.

“If you attack us, the conversation won’t work, so I couldn’t help that part.”
“So. Now that we can talk, will you persuade me?”
“Huh.”

For the first time, AT learned what the word ‘ridiculous’ felt like.

“I ask you seriously. Are you sane? After sabotaging my mission and raping me, you’re asking for help?”
“…Sorry…”

At her questioning, Kai Sent bowed her head and apologized.

The way he wiggled his fingers, didn’t make eye contact, and apologized wasn’t the reaction AT was expecting.

‘What? Your emotional circuitry is weird. It’s as if this side is guilty.’

Unlike normal Machinaroids, she also possesses normal human sensibilities in order to blend into human society and live.

I kept my human sensibilities closed for the mission, but when I was hacked, my human sensibilities were opened.

“Yeah, but! If you help me, I’ll give you a prize!”
“Award?”
“Huh!”

AT wanted to know what that award was, but couldn’t understand Kaicent, who smiled innocently as if he could convince himself with just that.

‘Yes…’

However, when he sees Kaicent’s smile looking up at him, the temperature of the power source starts to rise.

‘Strange. You’re the one who interfered with my mission… I feel sentimental rather than hostile.’

It’s so cute, can I just listen to it?
Crazy. Is the logic circuit broken? We have to start with the idea of ​​killing Clint, the target of assassination!
Why is my artificial uterus throbbing?

The only absolute orders Kaicent gave to her system were not to kill people and not to destroy the inside of the 0-dimensional warehouse.

In other words, except for that, it means that you can move and think as you like.
Even so, AT’s hostility disappeared when Kaicent looked up at him.

“Isn’t it… Is it…?”

As the AT shuts her mouth and stays still, Kai Sent’s teary face and her eyes moisten.

Feeling a sense of guilt that he had never felt before, AT skipped the process of checking the information and reviewing it with a logic circuit, and answered without realizing it.

“Okay… I’ll help you.”
“Thank you! Thank you very much!!”
“…!”

Hearing AT’s answer, Kaicent hugged her around the waist and held her in her arms.
Then, in addition to her warm body temperature, AT felt a strange feeling he had never felt before.

‘To be able to be possessed by machine intellect. Did the master’s mental method amplify the brute’s power? I can understand why the master described it as a future adversary.’

AT said that he would run out if Kaicent opened the 0-dimensional warehouse and asked for help, then checked his own circuits and systems to see if there were any hidden commands or bugs.

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Kwajik! Wood deok!

The AT, a killing machine from the future, crushed anything it could get its hands on, whether it was a head or a shoulder, with its grip.

The undead, full of morale, attacked, but all they did was damage the artificial skin that acted as a buffer even without defense.

If she were a normal human, this wound alone would render her incapacitated, but it was of no use to her, her mechanical human.

“Go, be strong!”
“To see a golem move like that…!”

As the earthlings came, there was research on a nimble and smooth golem, but it was quickly canceled because to use a golem for combat, you had to have a certain size and physique for combat power.

But now, the Wolf Mercenary Corps witnessed a golem with agile and smooth movements and even strong power.

‘How strong was this?’

Even after being attacked by Lillian, he was fine and had excellent durability, and it was known that he had strong power from tearing off his rhizome.

However, the AT, which was not hindered by anything, had dangerous attack power with each blow and infinite physical strength that did not get tired no matter how much it moved.

If Lillian went head-to-head and went to her long-term battle, her inevitable defeat would have been confirmed.

“All in the form of defense! Focus on blocking the enemy’s attack!”

Frederick was flustered because he didn’t know anything about AT, but he made the mercenaries concentrate on defense through quick situational judgment.

It took a lot of strength to cut off the undead’s hard body with rigid muscles, so when it was switched to defense, the consumption of stamina decreased.

Kwaji support!

The undead that the mercenaries were blocking were unilaterally crushed by the AT, and the flow of the mercenaries, which had been pushed back little by little, changed.

“Sunfire!”

Subsequently, as Kaicent’s magic attacked the rear of the undead, the mercenaries had time to catch their breath.

“Hehe! Lived!”
“Whoop! Hehe!”

The mercenaries were able to build stamina that allowed them to slash themselves a few times, but the number of undead that the mercenaries had to deal with was reduced by AT, which shattered anything they could get their hands on.

“It looks strange, but a golem is a golem after all.”
“So. I’m constantly smashing it without a break.”
“Geuuuuu—!!”
“What!”

At that time, Spirit Armor, a mid-level undead monster with an evil spirit attached to the armor that had lost its owner, suddenly jumped out and slashed a large sword at the AT’s waist.

Aaaaang!

However, the bayonet hit the waist, cutting off the artificial skin for the buffer, but not even scratching the nanoparticle-reinforced ceramic frame.

Simplicity and honesty! Kwaddeuk!

AT grabbed the body of the spirit armor that attacked him and crumpled it with force, turning it into a crumpled tissue paper.

Whoo! Wow!

Then he grabbed the greatsword that had attacked him and wielded it randomly, cutting down the undead.

“That golem…Isn’t it stronger than the captains?”
“Even so, you don’t have any skills. Do you think you have swordsmanship for nothing?”
“They are excellent in technology, but the other side has great strength, speed, and infinite stamina.

Kaisent’s father said it was a golem sent across the dimension, so the mercenaries were able to feel Kaisent’s growing influence.

Even now, he is playing a big role as an outstanding mage, but what if he also owns a golem that can fight equal to, or even better than, the generals?

The third place in the hierarchy, which has been tacitly acknowledged until now, will officially change.

Normally, you would have to be jealous or wary of a fellow mercenary suddenly going well, but

“Well, if it’s Kaicent.”
“If it’s that guy, you have to admit it.”

The mercenaries who had seen Kaisent grow stronger from the beginning until now had a strong heart to support them.

It was thanks to Tang Xue-yeong’s advice that he hid his talent, and thanks to being known as an outstanding magician.

Magic was a field that had nothing to do with them anyway, so there was no point in being jealous.

“Ha!”
“Huh!”

Lillian and Frederick took some time to deal with the undead monsters they were facing.

“It seems Kaicent somehow dealt with the culprit.”
“There must have been a reason the undead’s offensive was delayed.”

Frederick, who used his usual tone instead of honorifics because he was reasonably far from the mercenaries, took a breath and opened his mouth again.

“By the way, Lillian.”
“Huh?”
“You seem to know about that golem?”

She was surprised by the sudden appearance of an AT being herself, but she was surprised to find that an AT was fighting.

“…Huh.”
“Why didn’t you tell me?”
“It hasn’t been long since I found out about it either. Besides, when I first saw it, it wasn’t in a state where it could help us fight.
“…”

It sounds reasonable at first glance, but Frederick could sense a strange sense of distance.
It’s unpleasant that there is a secret that only Kaicent and Lillian share that he doesn’t know about.
However, since the dead moon was not over, she decided to investigate her later.

“Once the mercenary crisis has been overcome, the person who created this crisis is somewhere, so let’s not relax.”
“Huh.”

‘Frederick… I think I noticed.’

Lillian could hear the subtle shifts of emotion in Frederick’s voice.

‘Should I rather tell it like this?’

Having become a woman from Kaicent and knowing her woman’s happiness, she can no longer feel love for Frederick.
All feelings at the level of close childhood friends.

Feeling guilty whenever Frederick refused to ask her to sleep with her, she took this opportunity to confide in her and wanted to make things easier.

The Wolf Mercenary Corps overcame the crisis thanks to Kaicent.
Kaan Kell, who watched her from a distance, couldn’t contain her astonishment.

‘They’re at this level?’

It lasted longer than expected, but it seems to have reached its limit, but an unexpected existence came out and changed the flow.

In addition, she seems to have destroyed the trap she planted, and the undead spread in various directions.

In this case, things are different.

Her own plan was to destroy the Wolf mercenary group and to take all the spoils they had by using her own magic to deal with the upper undead at once.

With the Master right in front of his eyes, he made this plan with the mindset that it would not matter if one mercenary group was massacred in order to obtain money to purchase the crystal.

‘I can’t. I’ll catch someone who leads the undead and make it public.’

Caran Kell, who had been saving her power until the Wolf mercenaries collapsed, decided to increase her loot by capturing the being who commanded her undead.

Shyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy! Pupper puck!

“Ouch!?”
“Oops!”
“Quuck!”
“Knock…!”

At that time, an arrow filled with black magic flew towards the four shield soldiers who were escorting Kaan Kell on top of the watchtower, and pierced their shields and penetrated their bodies.

The ominous black magic spread through the blood vessels of the shield soldiers and spread all over the body, and they spewed blood.

“?!”

Left alone, Kaan Kell quickly tried to cast a defensive spell as arrows aimed at her followed.

“It’s dangerous!”

But before that, Chelve jumped atop her watchtower and protected Kaan Kell by creating a shield of her divine power.

“Chelbe!”
“Are you okay? I’m here to help because I feel an ominous energy!”

Struggling with not being able to defend and attack her at the same time, he opened her mouth to Chelbe.

“Focus on defense! If you block it for a moment, the attackers will be killed… Kuck!?”

Just as he was about to turn to the offensive, Kaan Kell was suddenly ambushed and his face contorted in pain from the dagger lodged in his abdomen.

“It’s thanks to you. It was easy to pretend to be nice because you know how to annoy people around you.”
“You… You…!
“Even if it looks like this, I’m a person who knows grace. I’ll release you from the pain you’ll feel in the future by killing me as soon as possible.”

An ominous red glow from the dagger that stabbed her in the stomach, Kaan Kell’s mana became tainted with fraud and her veins began to turn black.

Kaan Kell, his veins blackened in an instant, collapsed helplessly, coughing up toxic blood.

“Che, Chelbe!? What is this!”

The lords of the guild, which were protected from the guards of the guild, were astonished at the sight of Chelbe attacking Kaan Kell.

“My god, my lord! Lord Nozgna! I will make a sacrifice for you!!”
“Nozgna!?”
“Lord, kill! Kill!”

Nozgna, the god of chaos, calamity, and destruction.
They are an anti-social religious group that can grow in power by creating disasters of any kind, destroying the order of life in the small and cities and villages in the large.

In general, it is common to subdue found tribes because they are no different from monsters, but since they know that fact, they hide their existence in this way and then work at the right timing, making them even more troublesome.

In addition, if you believe in and follow such evil spirits, you will not be persuaded because you are in a state of personal breakdown in the first place.

Haha! It’s already too late!”

Chelbe completed a ritual prepared in advance using the vitality and mana of Kaan Kell, a strong man with the master level in front of him.

A huge energy spread around the watchtower where Kaan Kell was located, and a dome of red energy was completed to trap the mercenaries, and an unpleasant aura spread even if you just breathed.

“Eh, I’ve become a demon!”
“God! Please save me!”

The Devil’s Eye, a signal flare that announces that from now on, he will kill all beings inside and offer them up as sacrifices for his god.

If you bring disaster and destruction to the riches within the demonic realm, the evil spirits will be satisfied and bless their servants.