“Alright, time is running. We need to be the first at the research base. Keep your eyes open to new recruits. If any guard or normal Null shows up, put down, search and harvest their materials. You two go stay with me, the rest of you go the house and get all the ammo and grenades you can, do it fast, GO!”, as the leader Null gives instructions, him and the other two nulls take turns searching the guards for equipment.
Roberion, still tense, focus on the Null searching the dead Claudius to see what he had. The Null takes out Claudius’ clothes carelessly, desecrating the body. The Hakama the leader Null was the one to equip, he also took a big drawstring pouch found inside his body. Some bottles with colorful liquids were taken out and distributed between the Nulls. The only thing they took out from the fallen woman was a tablet with a broken screen. After searching them, was that things got bloody, as the rest of the Nulls returned to the group and started searching the other guards, the leader Null sat and closed his eyes, after a long pause the colorful lines showed up and circled him and the body of Claudius.
The leader had his body contract strongly, his muscles seemed to expand and diminish like a heartbeat, the colored lines touching and circling him, all the while the body of Claudius was consumed by the colored lines, the same that happened to the spider before was happening to him, but this time, it was more gruesome. They will harvest all of them before I can take my turn. I could show up and join their team, but that guy, he is the brains. These poor guys are just following his orders. Two fools even blew themselves up. I go there, this guy will try to fool me in some bullshit propaganda, if I don’t accept, they will just harvest me up.
After finishing the process, the rest of guards take turns harvesting the falling guards, and finishing by harvesting the Nulls, even their fallen teammates are consumed. Weirdly, the Nulls corpse didn’t change much after the process, only a getting a little smaller and wizened, it was not long after that the Nulls do a weapon and equipment check that they leave to the north of the fallen husbandry place.
After they left, Roberion waits a long while before finally getting up and helping the bull up as well, “Now buddy, I will need you to do a favor for me”, he grabs the rope of the cow and tries to push it near the compound, the cow frightened, doesn’t move and starts to free itself. “Damn you cow, after all I did for you, that is how you thank me?! Look I’m sorry about the punch—”, the cow without warning runs and tries to impale him, he jumps to the ground, dropping his gun to the ground, he was safe, but his gun was trampled by the pink cow, already free the cow runs into the forest.
“I CURSE YOU BRUTUS, I FED YOU, EVEN PROTECTED YOU, dammit. Should have tried to kill the cow and harvested it”, ‘Now I will have to check alone this carnage, and after that try my luck in not activating any traps in the house. Bet those guards set up some traps’’. Without choice, Roberion just looks at the corpses, most of them already harvested, Lets take a look at the turrets.
System, check if I can use these guns for my stats, the system answer wasn’t what he wished for, “Peak-mortal lead bullets detected, not compatible with Null biology. Other materials detected of lower quality or are not compatible”. That’s just great. A robot spider is acceptable, but a turret isn’t. Now what?! Try to brave the flames of that husbandry for a well-done bull meat? I’m in need of a tan, anyway. Take some burned fur and use as a wig too. Roberion lowers himself and take a look at the dead guards near the turret, both harvested.
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“Their bodies must be most made up of peak mortal materials, not even one tenth of their body left, it looks more like a humanoid shell, if it wasn’t for the clothes—what we have here?”, in the middle of the guard and the turret, and a little inside the mud, a bright thing is seen by Roberion. “What is that?”, the object in Roberion's hands is a dodecahedron-shaped object, having a metallic white exterior. It exuded an aura, although the materials looked lackluster. The faces of die however didn’t have anything on it, and were warm to the touch.
Better keep it, maybe it’s useful. Roberion hears a sound. Not having a weapon, he takes a broken, heavy piece of the turret to use an improvised bat. After not hearing anything for a few minutes, he enters the house. The house seems empty, and taking a glancing look, the weapons, ammo, equipment and anything useful seems to be taken. Going deeper into the location, he finds three rooms. Looking like average offices, he enters the first one, and tries to search for something useful in the desk.
As he searches, he hears footsteps from outside and a gun-barrel peeks out. Not having time to think, he goes down, using the desk as a shield, as gunshots rain down. Panicking, he tries to throw things at the door, until he takes the dodecahedron out and tries to do the same. That’s where things go crazy. Before the die could leave his hand, it shines, in an instant he feels weak, a firework in a format of circle shoots out, the strange rodent shows up and the die vanishes. “Oh hello—”, “GO!”, Roberion screams before the creature speaks more, although feeling weak, he lowers himself and pushes the creature with him, the creatures resist a little before running forward.
A rain of bullets falls on them, the creature acts like a meat shield, Roberion using the armored capybara approximate height of 1.20 and width of 1 meter used to the extreme, the creature doesn’t show any degree of pain, only pure conviction, but that’s not enough, his body is pierced by the bullets, armor and body being destroyed and fading into white sparks, the round small shield almost useless, acting more like a platter than as a shield. Roberion, even using the creature for cover, also take glancing shots. Seeing the creature starting to fade out, he pushes faster, getting near the shooter.
The shooter takes the gamble and keeps shooting all the way, wagering in falling down his enemies before they could get in enough range for an attack, but the bullets stops and the weapon clicks, the guard tries to reload fast, muscle memory taking hold, but before he could finish, “NO WAY”!”, Roberion jumps out improvised weapon on hand, the half-dead creature follows him, jumping out plunging its rapier on the leg of the attacker, before fading out and for last its rapier becomes white sparks.
Roberion doesn’t waste the selfless sacrifice of the creature orchestrated by him. He tries to finish the attack, lifting the weapon and swinging like a hammer. The helmet of the guard protects, but not all damage. The guard gets slightly dizzy from the impact. Roberion, not waiting for him to recover, keeps hammering his head, only stopping when the guard lies dead on the floor. Cranium caved in. His perk is a step closer.
Feeling exhausted but with his strength restored, he notices a warm object in his hand. Opening it, he finds the dodecahedron, takes a look at it, and sees a noticeable difference. The rodent, if he remembers right, his name Percival, illustrates one of the twelve faces. The image is all black, his rapier high, shield positioned, gaze forward, fully armored, exuding conviction. Finally, he notices the alert of the system in his eye that was displayed most of the battle.