Stepping off the ship the forest once again comes into view. Turning his head around to look at the ship “Tear it down B8, make as many shadow iron bots as you can, we are heading for the city.”
Stepping through the brush the thoughts of every animal in 100ft enter his head food, hiding, killing, shelter Simple thoughts, but using them he avoids going in the direction of anything wanting to kill him.
As he moves deeper into the forest he furrows his brows under the mask, he is constantly drowning in a stream of thoughts “receiving the thoughts of everything in 100ft is more troublesome than I thought" clutching his head he kneels over in pain, continuously being bombarded by everything advanced enough to think was to overwhelming. Clenching his fist rage build in his eyes, finally, he erupts.
ENOUGH!!
Yelling at everything in 100ft, the trees ruffle, the ground shakes, and the dust flies. All the birds, squirrels, rabbits, and creatures in a 100ft radius of Leviathan flee. Even though the insects were not sending messages, all insects within 100ft die without question, as their brains were to simple to receive such complex thoughts.
Taking a breath Leviathan enjoys the moment of calm, feeling some thoughts beginning to return he tries to push the creatures thoughts away. With the help of his talent psi mind, and a few minutes of trial and error, Leviathan is able to push the thoughts to the back of his mind like a conversation in the background. Even though you can hear it, you wont pay attention unless something peaks your interest.
“B8, I feel that if instead of experiencing this with simple thoughts, and instead were more complex conversations, I would have died.”
Inside the helmet a small voice whispers into his ear “Master, I receive many inputs at the same time from my bots, but every bot I create increases my processing power by a small amount. Maybe as your processing power increases you will be able to do more.”
Thinking about it for a moment Leviathan continues to move forward. Everytime he picks up violent thoughts in the background noise he moves to dodge. After walking for over twenty minutes he feels that his Psi is once again full, hesitating weather or not to drain his psi to increase his intelligence he picks up a strong thought heading towards him, with the intent to kill.
“B8 get ready!” Holding his hands down by his side, with his palms facing forward, he assumes a stance, waiting for the creature to emerge.
The ground rumbles, and from the brush a creature with the head of a triceratops and the body of a lion charged towards Leviathan. The creatures body was black, on its head were three spiraling red horns rotation like drills. As it charged, its claws ripped into the earth. 60ft away he noticed that all along its shield like head were smoking black holes, its eyes were actually on its shoulders.
Seeing the creatures charge, Leviathan focused all his attention on it, completely blocking all the background noise.
Charge!
Kill!
Destroy!
40ft away Leviathan begins to lower his body, ready to act.
As the creature enters the 20ft range Leviathan finally acts. Activating the ring to max capacity increases the weight of creature by ten times. With the sudden increase in weight the creatures legs buckle, dropping it to the ground.
Seeing this Leviathan charges at the creature “Die for me!” drawing close Leviathan swipes down both steel claws simultaneously.
Seeing the coming threat the creatures reacts “ROAAAAAAAAH!” DESTROOOOOY! The smoke on its face increase in intensity as it roars, the horns spin faster as Leviathan’s rake down towards its eye.
Inches from clawing out the creatures eye, its head explodes. Flames engulf Leviathan’s body, and in the next second his body is flung out of a cloud of black smoke. Colliding with the ground his body begins to roll like a rag doll.
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Coughing up blood inside the helmet he feels as though his body has been hit by a sledge hammer. Giant holes were blown into his white robes and black shirt, revealing the silver skin underneath. The bots were moving around like a swarm of ants, agitated from the explosion.
“Master, the heat was blocked by the bots, but the full impact was still transmitted to you.”
Returning to his sense from the sound of B8’s voice he releases how close to death he was. looking up he sees the creature recovering.
The creature has returned to its feet, as Leviathan’s concentration was broken when he was blown away, gravity returned to normal. Black smoke plumed from the holes in its skin, while a type of liquid covered its body. No visible burn wounds were visible on the creature, even though it was ground zero.
Stomping its feet it rush at Leviathan.
Pierce!
“If the hard approach wont work lets try the soft" pushing himself up, and at the same time activating his ring, he reduces gravity on the creature by ten times.
Not expecting it, the normal running motion of the creature causes it to float off the ground momentarily.
Seeing this Leviathan reduces his own gravity by the same amount as he jumps towards the creature. Because he was prepared he was able to easily get above the creature. As the creature began to return to the ground, due to the fact gravity was only reduced, not zero, Leviathan acted.
“B8 support my wrist as much as possible!” yelling to B8, and at the same time Leviathan makes a knife fist. Pointing his knife hand at the creature he increases his weight by ten times.
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Plummeting towards the ground like an arrow his fingers pierce into the creatures soft back like butter, severing the spine.
As he felt the spine snap he instantly reduced his gravity to max to prevent fall damage, landing softly on the creature.
Pulling his hand from the motionless creatures back, he rolls off. Rising to his feet he notices that he's covered in the same sticky fluid as the creature. Looking at the creature he noticed that it's not yet dead, only paralyzed. Moving in to finish off the creature he hesitates for a moment releasing his psionic pulses.
Hide! Hide!
Stalk!
Prey!
While he was getting nothing dangerous in 100ft, 300ft had several predators. Shaking his head he turns and leaves, and as he walks away he picks up there final thoughts before reducing his psi field.
Go go
Food!
Kill!
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Looking back at the triceratops exploding lion as he walks away he sees the light fading from its eyes, and picks out his thoughts from the background noise.
Rest, rest, die, rest, food, rest.
Turning his head Leviathan walks away.
After walking some distance away “B8, can you remove the blood from the helmet?” as his voice fades the bots begin to stir, replacing ones on the inside with those on the outside. Looking as his blood covered hand and burnt and sticky clots, Leviathan sighs.
Feeling towards his waist he makes sure the gold is still present; fixing his hood he continues towards the city.
After dodging a few close calls he finally comes to the edge of the forest. After spending days in the game, he finally leaves the forest, bringing a smile to his face. A short few miles away a giant city wall can be seen, and beyond those walls are towering metal structures penetrating the clouds.
Walking towards the city a paved road finally comes into view, stepping on the road the journey becomes easier than traveling on a dirt ground. As he moves forwards the city entrance comes into view, on the sides of the gate, half the size of the walls, are two towers. As he moves closer he sees that on top of the walls something that can only be described as missile launches can be seen. The towers are lined with machine guns and people can be seen moving about.
As he moves closer he can tell he has been spotted as the machine guns are trailing his position, and two sets of missile launches are now pointing in his direction.
While walking up to the gate two uniform men carrying rifles come to meet him. He waits for them to enter 300ft before he enlarges his psi field to encompass them, because it's easier than targeting one from further away.
Uhhhhh another check.
What's with this guy? He looks like he was in a fight.
I hope it's nice and easy, I just want to get off work and play games.
Hmm those burn marks, did he fight a trilion? That silver...is it some kind of armor?
Maybe I should just say I'm sick, so I can go home earlier.
Maybe his hunting party died? I don't see any weapons and by the look of it the trilion got close to them.
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Arriving within 100ft he reduces their thoughts to background noise, still hearing them, just not paying attention.
Raising his hand he waives “Hello!”
The guard standing on the left, the lazy one, raises his gun “What do you want, your suspicions so we had to come stop you" saying the last part in a grumble he aims the gun, watching for any strange movements.
Looking at the men Leviathan notices they are wearing the same uniform as the man from before, with clean fades and a hat, typical military men. Whispering softly “B8 where was that other city?”
“Master, it is around four days walk south from here"
“I said! What are you doing here!”
As the man yells, the second man raises his gun as well.
“Ah, sorry sorry. Me and a couple friends were traveling here from the south, but when we were almost here we got attacked by a trilion, I'm the only one who got away.”
Coward
So I was right
Suspicion fades from the guard on the right, turning briefly he gives an OK sign to the towers. As he does the machine guns no longer point at him, and once again scans the distance.
Shaking his gun, still pointing it at him Leviathan “Be sure to report the name of the dead to city hall" scoffing in the air he turns to leave.
Since you wasted my time I'll waist yours
“Sorry about my friend, and your loss" turning around he follows the other guard.
For his clothes to be burned that bad, but still be alive, that silver armor must be good.
Leviathan waits for the men to walk further away. deciding its enough, walks towards the gate.
Before he can pass through the gate B8 whispers in his ear “Master, I have finished my study of the laser pistol, and gained the skill [Basic Laser Technology] the lasers use a type of focusing crystals to store energy from the surroundings before firing. The crystals in the pistol was broken up and put into my abysnic bots, while each individual shot will be weaker but can be combined together for the same output from before. The charge time Is still the same due to the limitations if my understanding, but can be held indefinitely ready for use. With more things to study, I can improve.”
Not responding, but a smile forms on his face. Passing through the gate Leviathan gets a better view of the city, steel buildings as high as the eye can see, smaller storefronts line the streets, hover cars driving down the road, people moving about with their family, and soldiers patrolling. Walking further in he tries to see if he can hear something interesting as he passes by the guards and people. After passing a few people he realizes most of their thoughts were about how strange and suspicious he looked, defeating the whole purpose.
“Mommy why does that man look so funny?”
“Don't look baby" freak
How did that guy get in here?
Look at his clothes, how uncool.
Where should we eat toda- ah Is that blood? How unsettling, I’ve lost my appetite.
Why don't they arrest that man, he's covered in blood! Obviously a criminal.
Deciding to stop listening he walks up to a guard “Excuse me sir, is there an adventurer’s guild I can register in?”
Turning to look at the sound of the voice the soldiers eyes go wide, startled for a moment he just stares.
“Hello?”
Blinking, the soldier regains his calm if he's here he must have passed through a checkpoint, and I doubt he would come up to me if he just murdered someone “what did you say?”
“Is there an adventurer's guild?
“Adventurer’s guild? Is that a companies name or something?”
Guess they don't have them here? looking at the guard for a moment Leviathan decides on a different approach.
“Ah, sorry guessed they don't have a branch here. Is there a place I can buy combat gear?” Leviathan gestures towards himself “As you can see mine was met with an accident"
“Oh, ok. As you know, things are being strictly watched right now because the king has fallen ill. But if you just want protection equipment it shouldn't be a problem.” pointing at one of the colossus structure “that's the headquarters of the Mero company in this town, if you have money they have what you want.”
The guard looks around for a bit, looking back towards Leviathan he points at a street “If money is tight, if you head down this street and take the first left you will see a variety of stores selling different things.”
“Thanks" nodding to the soldier Leviathan begins to walk towards the Mero company.