Techno PoV

Finally a fight. Close range really is the best.

On the way we use the mortars to clear up a few ships that gained tor much distance or Nova sent them a goodbye gift.

When we returned to the cave the area around it was packed.

Techno: "Brock, you are currently the toughest of us so drop down and do some crowd control so we can get close."

Brock: 'Wha! You want me to jump off the ship! I'll die!'

Techno: "I've seen your stats mr. Pet, I even saw your skill. You think I wouldn't look after such a huge change to a rare race"

Brock: 'Gah!'

After that he sighs in defeat before going downstairs and opens the hatch on the lowest deck and jumps down.

He controls his body using his magnetism skill and lands with a resounding crash.

With the use of his enhanced earth magic he sent a small shockwave through the earth which sent several pirates that were nearby flying.

Instantly he lifted both arms and slammed down with his fists closed. It activates the earth spell earth needle but in a much scarier scale. He made it into an AoE attack. I would even call it a different spell, something like earth Needle forest.

An around of about 5 meters around him had these spikes form. Yep I would definitely call Brock a low level boss monster right now.

The two fire elementals took the shape of birds and flew down and began firing torrents of fire around the area and forcing the pirates into the cave.

Techno: "That's good, seal the cave so they can't escape."

With that I lead the guys down to the lowest deck that had the open hatch. Yasha was staying to provide support and to make sure the ship isn't taken while I take Asura and clean the place up and train the two new additions.

I prepare my miniguns in the middle arms and the swords on the front arms. Bulk pulls out the newly spiked warhammer. By spiked it means Victor added three dense earth steel spikes to one of the faces so our tank in the making can cause more destruction. Victor did the same to his hammer.

His armor having undergone some upgrades now let him hold that iron mass on a stick with one hand if he wanted.

The two girls haven't had any armor made for them so Greer climbed onto Proto so she can get down safely and Annabeth was already flying down.

When everyone had everything we jumped down. I had long since added suspensions like Proto so when I start free falling my legs open up and the suspensions appear and the springs load up. The reason the legs open is to give space for the spring to distort without breaking the plating.

When we landed, the suspension compressed completely before pushing up and returning to its point of rest for the next time. Our leg plates closed up again after the suspension pushed back into place.

Bulk and the others were getting up as well. The fall itself was 10 meters high but with our metal bodies it had a lot of weight behind it.

Behind us came the six upgraded clockwork robots I had. Their class would fall under scout since i added a shotgun in the right arm and a semi auto rifle in the left arm. There was also handguns and so on.

I look at Brock and nod. He returns it and uses magic to open the sealed cave. Everyone was already prepared so as soon as the place was open and we were met with heavy gun fire we ran in. Bulk and I took the front and the others went around. They were all fear struck pirates and we struck them down.

Brock stayed near the back with Annabeth as the two case spells to do massive damage.

The pirates were in despair and some simply gave up. Now we aren't killing them all. Our scanners can tell pirate from innocent. Obviously there were few innocents but enslaved people showed in a blue color as opposed to the red for pirates.

While I was destroying the pirates I was looking around when I saw that annoying knight.

Seems he wasn't on the ship but that was fine. I need to teach him a lesson.

His back was turned as he tried to move away but i carved my way to him and when I was close i pulled out a grenade launcher and shot in front of him.

It blew up right in front of him and took several others with them.

He fell down and as he tried getting up I unequipped my swords and lifted him but then grabbed his face before he could react.

Fake: 'Ah~! Let me go!'

He squirmed and grabbed my left arm that was holding him to keep his head from separating. His squirming pisses me off and I lift him up by his head and he holds with both hands.

Fake: 'Gah!! LET ME GO!'

He pulls his leg back and kicks my chest. The kick had strength but it only reduced my health by 10. This caused him to shake and make his gears rattle.

I connect to him.

Techno: "Let this be a lesson to not mess with someone better then you."

Fake: 'I'M SORRY PLEASE SPARE ME~!'

Techno: So pathetic. To think "this" is my fake. Well they are all spineless anyway.

I stretch my left arm out completely and then take control of all three right arms. I bend all three and push steam into my fists.

Techno: "Any last words."

Fake: 'Gah! Fuck you all!'

Techno: 'Then die.'

I sent all three punches at him. The first hit the chest below the neck, the second in the middle and the last above the waist.

[Triple Pressure Fist]

On contact the three fists released the pressure and punched out with full pressure acting like a second punch after the first. His body was hit so hard that it disconnected from the head and flew through the crowd as it broke apart, once it hit the stone wall it broke apart like an old toy.

I looked at the head and opened it up. I then took the motherboard that was totally intact.

An interesting fact about clockwork is that if the motherboard is removed after death of the body and is put in a new robot it will change that into its main body.

This asshole will have something real interesting to find after he returns. With a 24 real life cool down after dieing there was plenty of time to make the little toy for hims new body.

I took a quick look through Yasha who was far enough to see inside the cave really deep. I would have paled if I could. In the far back I could see someone using magic. Since I know only elves know magic there wasn’t a chance it was them since they have a peaceful relationship and only dark elves would do evil.

I looked closer and saw a demon race. Black skin, dense lean muscles and horns. Around him were black magic circles.

This was bad. I never saw a demon race before so I don't know how strong they are but I know I can’t let that spell finish.

I quickly looked through Asura and found that he was to far off. I was only a third into the cave as was the others though nova was jumping around she had heavy fire centered on her.

It left me with only one thing to do. I took the ship lower and a bit further from the cave so I could have room and then I went to middle deck and retrieved something I made following the model I used for Yasha. Where I saw him he used long spears in each hand. I don’t have the skill for it so I took two and brought them up. I drop one and hold another in one arm and target the demon bastard. I was standing on the other side of the deck but I could still see him. The targeting system told me just how strong the throw should be as well as the trajectory and how I should throw it.

It looked similar to those olympic athletes. I looked at the bastard one more time before I started the short run before I put my own body behind the throw and sent the spear over the side of the ship flying fast toward the guy.

I turn to Asuras pov and looked. I could see the spear fly fast real fast over everyone and finally strike right into the bastards left leg.

At once the guy screamed in pain and the magic spell was interrupted. I grinned seeing that and began cutting the guys up but I wasn’t about to stop. I controlled asura but focused on yasha and made it grab the second spear and I aimed again. I did everything and then quickly threw the speak but slightly to the right since that was where the bastard currently was lying and like that the spear impaled him in the chest and a lot of blood started to gush out.

You have killed to Pirate leader. Because of this the pirate crew has been disbanded. Kill all the remaining pirates and return to South Gate City with the leader's body for your reward.

After seeing that it was over. Their moral completely vanished and the clean up went quick with all the AoE spells from Brock and Beth, the grenades I launched, Nova’s constant jumping and sniping and Bulk and Victors constant charging through the crowd crushing all of them either with their hammers or being run over and stomped on.

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It was a one sided slaughter which could be compared to a warzone with no one knowing how to deal with this crew of grim reapers.

Finally as the sun set we finished exterminating all the rats and docked the ship in here for the night. Searching a pirates base will most likely give us a lot of stuff not to mention all the clockwork robots that were left here. There must be some source of metal here so we will stay here for a while before we go back. But first this bastard Demon should be preserved somehow.

I have Annabeth do some of the little ice magic she can and freeze the body and load it on the ship. After that we began to remove all the clothes and gear off the pirates and just toss them over the cliff outside so the stick of rotting and blood would stay.

Fake PoV

Fuck what’s going on. After I reached the ship it told everyone to get ready and then jumped off so that I could grab some important items we had but when I came back the ship was already leaving and soon after the robot flew back to the enemy ship and came out again before dropping a fucking bomb on our main ship. It continued doing that to all escaping ships while those on board shot at us to keep us inside and slowly circled around sniping at the other ships leaving until not a single one was left.

The boss came out after a bit and when he saw no ship he had a fit.

But it got worse when the enemy landed. They moved close and dropped an earth magic user that sealed the cave and let them disembark and then they began the massacre.

Using weapons and robots like protectors and grenade launchers. They plowed through us. One was an animal knight and even had fucking miniguns on his back.

I was about a third of the way in near where the ship would have been and as Iturned to run a bomb fell about 3 meters in front of me killing those too close and causing me to fall back. When I was getting up someone grabbed me and finally my head. I grabbed the arm and tried to get it off but then I was lifted into the air. Seriously who can do that to a 2.5 meter tall robot.

When I finally moved my head enough for an eye to look through the fingers I almost cried. It was the guy I talked to.

I screamed once to let me go but it didn’t help and when I screamed louder my body moved by itself and I kicked to bastard but it took only 10 fucking HP from him. What kind of fucking metal is he made from.

He sighed before looking at me again.

Techno: "Any last words."

The message came after a forced connection was made with this guy. I knew I was going to die so Ididn’t care anymore

Fake: 'Gah! Fuck you all!'

Techno: 'Then die.'

His tone was low and had a deadly murderous feel to it. It was then that he punched me with a knights Pressure Fist. With THREE FUCKING FISTS at the same time.

On contact my visor shut off and the message saying I died and I couldn’t log in again for 24 hours showed up before Iwas ejected from my capsule.

I cursed screamed and shouted for a long time before I looked at the capsules monitor. The game is supposed to have a system where you can follow the person who killed you for an hour after being killed if its a player.

I watched him but when I turned it on a split screen showed up and showed a six armed demon clockwork and a four armed. It was then that I knew how bad the fight was. The guy had two main bodies. Seriously what kind of programmer is he to get something like that.

I watched as he killed the boss and then the rest of the guys.

I was completely pale at the spectacle that I started to tremble.

These weren't clockwork they were more demon than the boss himself. There is no way something like this is possible for 14 people to do.

(he counted the 6 clockwork robots as players or crewmates)

I didn’t know what to do but what I did do was download the entire fight from the ship fight to the raid on our base and upload it onto Etheria’s forum and a warning to never cross these demons because you WILL die facing them.

After that I took a bath to try to calm down before going to sleep and forget that nightmare.

Brock PoV

This...place...is...awesome.

The entire base is made around a mineral jackpot. Iron, copper, tin, coal, aluminum and MANA CRYSTALS. So many mineral veins and I already told everyone to get ready cause I was making my whale body from this. I will never find so much again so there was no arguing about it.

The only problem was that those idiots made it to spread out. Still while I pulled along the mineral veins i closed off a lot of the random mining corridors. When I reached a form I would go to the end and come back pulling all the minerals I can while closing it down until the every last one was collapsed and a monsters mish mash of different veins was bundled up where the corridors once were.

Next we destroyed the pirate bosses room and then pulled the big furnace room. Along they way we found a storage room full of clockwork motherboards. After examining them we found the clockworks here were the owner so our crafting due began repairing and the robots.

We weren't inhuman to leave so many robots without proper bodies so after they got a few operational they started putting the motherboards on and removing the receivers which we were keeping since they are convenient.

With more being repaired the quicker the others were repaired and by the time I nearly linked the room with the huge furnace to the shrunken hanger there were at least 30 functioning clockworks all of them thanking the guys for rescuing them.

I called the guys and told them I was about to activate my skill to make my whale body.

They told me to go ahead so with the mass of minerals surrounding the corridor between the room and hanger I close my eye and touch the wall.

[Secondary Body]

My body glows and it gets pulled into the wall. I felt all the minerals starts swirling. The mana crystals were swirling and the whole mass of minerals began concentrating around the base remains.

I also felt a whole bunch of regular rock get mixed in and then I felt the body take shape and more rock was absorbed until an outer shell of rock was formed. For some reason I felt like my mouth was open so I closed it and instantly the head of the whale formed in front of the cave entrance sealing us in.

Wait did my body encase the pirates base. Though I wanted the guys to take apart the furnaces who thought it would end like this.

Victor: 'Oi did a rock fall or something.'

My body was still stuck so I began to squirm and the rocks around me broke. I crawled out somehow and instantly the passive effect of Magnetism took effect and my body lifted up a bit off the ground.

It was very little but I was moving so I finally out I focused on leaving inside the hollow body.

My golem body came out on the ceiling and fell down.

Brock: 'Finally.'

Bulk: 'Oi Brock! What the fuck happened?!'

Brock: 'Um well my whale body formed around the cave.'

It took a moment but they finally understood and stepped back. Techno came over and dropped my helmet on my head.

Techno: "Open the entrance."

I nodded then with a thought the mouth split horizontally down the middle and opened completely like an air craft carrier but looking like a cave tunnel.

Ena: 'So we are in your stomach or something?'

Brock: 'Like I would know. Maybe but I'm not eating or anything so I guess my body simple encases this place. My new core is built in the wall away from sight.'

Bulk: 'So in other way, if the cave stays the same then you are like a moving base now?'

I took a moment to realize what was said. I look around and realized it was like that.

Brock: 'Guess I am, heh. Maybe when I get big enough I will have my own dungeons. Anyway the body has its own stats so don't go breaking it so casually or mining me. I can you give some of these but not too many since they are now a mana holder for me.'

A large mana crystal broke out of the ground and made everyone eyes widen.

Mana crystals are rare and now that they are in a living elemental they might even grow in number and size the bigger I get. I wasn't going to show them until later so for now I would just give a few but I need to be careful.

After that I go back inside my whale body and move around the minerals and finally I concentrate them in three spots near my belly. They are concentrated cores of nickel and iron and through them I can focus my magnetism to greater degrees.

With it I can get up higher in the air and finally start swimming back towards South gate city so we can get our reward from Gaia.

This is so awesome. I'm definitely one of the top players in the game.

Watchout world I’m only starting and with the others we will be the greatest.