“Why aren’t you talking? I explicitly told you to.” I heard the nano-chatte drop to the floor. It probably shut itself off… but why? “Oh, pesky cats. They always find a way around my power.” I felt the urge to speak, to tell him everything, to reveal all my plans, secrets, and any piece of information that would aid him. The urge was almost impossible to resist. The key word there was ‘almost’.

“Why should I be talking? You murdered the president.” The giant man laughed, and let go of me as he glanced back at his sword. The sword looked like it was straight out of a novel. It was big, it was royal, and it didn’t have a single dent in it.

“Quite the marvel wouldn’t you say? It sliced through those wastes of space like they weren’t there. You must be a pretty special man to have that rock following you.” He just avoided the question didn’t he? It was as if my submission was already guaranteed, and he only had to buy time. The feeling that I should submit to him lessened each second as he looked at me expectantly.

“Whatever you’re doing, it ain’t gonna work.” He chuckled.

“You’ve held up better than most, but everyone falls eventually. The feeling is getting stronger, and you know it.” If it was meant to be getting stronger, then it wasn’t working on me. His smile cracked after an awkward thirty seconds. “What is this? Are you broken? Anyone beneath me is meant to fall in half the time you resisted.”

“Maybe I’m not beneath you then.” It was the only logical explanation from what he told me, but the lingering feeling of submission made me feel sick for even considering the idea.

“Preposterous. You are not one of the ten chosen or the General. You’re a nobody, and nobodies don’t get to resist me. I get it, you probably have fancy class from the goddess, and think you’re stronger than the chosen. Well, you’re lucky I’m here to correct you before someone else kills you for your insolence.” Oh, he was gonna attack me. I just had to–

I woke up beside the nano-chatte, who stared at me with its one new mechanical eye. I felt dead, most of my body was crushed, and my arm entirely black now. I could barely hear the nano-chatte, my ears feeling like they were filled with cotton. How fast was he? He defeated me before I could even think.

“Hey! Can you hear me now?” The nano-chatte connected itself to my arm, and projected its voice into my head-space.

“Yes.” I said. The nano-chatte sighed, and sent a shock through my arm. “What the hell? What was that for?”

“You shouldn’t have interacted with any member of the chosen. Are you stupid? You got your cat kidnapped.” Wait, Ruby!

“What?! Don’t tell me…” I looked around, and forced my eyes to focus. The blurriness that once impeded my vision disappeared under my sheer will to see where Ruby was.

“Stop looking primitive. You did something dumb, and you paid the price.” Oh, that bastard was gonna get it.

“Alright, what’s a chosen and how do we beat it?” The nano-chatte smashed itself into the wall before turning red.

“You don’t just simply ‘beat’ a chosen. They’re the ten people chosen to fight against the General if he made any moves. They have the ten original cheat skills. I don’t know how you just ignored his power. You should’ve become a drone the moment he saw you.” That was too bad. You don’t just simply ‘kidnap’ my cat.

“That wasn’t what I asked. I’m gonna kill him, and I’d appreciate it if you told me how to.” The red light brightened, as it began to hurt my eyes. The nano-chatte stopped and surrounded my body. It felt like I was in a skin tight suit, the nano-machines shaping themselves around my body.

“Here.” The outside world finally became visible as the nano-machines gave way to a visor. “This armour, while technically being worse than an armoured vehicle in every way, will increase your performance ten fold.” I looked down, and nearly stumbled after seeing my new height. I was colossal.

“How do I control this thing?” I could move perfectly fine, that wasn’t the problem. The problem was me being unable to reshape my armour. I was scraping against the roof of the hallway, and presumed the suit would have its own weapons.

“I’m hooked up to your brain. Just think of what you want it to become, and I’ll change the suit accordingly.” The armour shrank and two cannons popped out of my shoulders. I thought them away, and summoned a laser pad in my hand. I tested out the laser, and watched as it melted through the multiple layers of metal like they didn’t exist. “Don’t think this will help you defeat him. You still need to level up. You’d need to be level fifteen before even thinking about hurting him.”

“Can you see what’s happening outside?” I walked out of the facility while passing by the grey, empty halls. The visor showed me several articles, as it seemed that the internet still worked even after all this. I was knocked out for a couple days, and an empire was already taking over everything. I wasn’t even surprised when I saw it was a monarchy, with the man that defeated me being the king.

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“Why hasn’t he moved on to the next world already? Oh, some nation-states are still managing to resist him. Curious.” Hell yea! The indomitable human spirit triumphed again. I imagined the suit with thrusters, and they appeared, allowing me to fly. All the nearby cities were burned to the ground, replaced with villages. The visor showed me the nearest safe space, right before a wave of wind pulled me down into one of the villages.

I created a crater as I landed, and tried moving, but three mages held me down with chains of electricity. I heard the nano-chatte’s thoughts, but only faintly. They weren’t worried, so I tried calming down. They had to run out of mana eventually.

“Is that the one he warned us about?” Said a magician, as a figure in a white cloak approached me. They were surrounded by five golden knights, probably acting as bodyguards. He inspected me, but couldn’t see past my visor. I was taller than the knights, even as the magicians held me down.

“Yes, most certainly. Go through with plan B. It doesn’t seem very cooperative.” I had deactivated the Coming Quiet’s aura, trying to not look suspicious, but the cloaked man saw right through me. The figure left, and the knights prepared their swords. The magicians didn’t look tired in the slightest.

“Primitive, give a water attribute to the suit.” I was confused for a moment, and then got it. I used the Revifier’s blessing on the suit, and felt the laser pad on my hand change into a hole. A missile poked at my hand, begging to be let through. “Now! Release it.” I opened my palm, and the missiles rushed at the magicians. They didn’t explode normally, but just spread water around. Everything was calm for a second, and then everyone got electrocuted.

I didn’t feel a thing. Nano-machines could probably form a superconductor, and that would protect me from electricity. Gold and skin weren’t superconductors, and the small amount of insulation provided by their clothes was negated by the fact they didn’t have face coverings. The knights were still standing after the lightning dissipated, but the mages weren’t.

A notification appeared, stating that I earned six hundred XP, and was now level 3. I used the aura to give me more time to choose between whatever options it was giving me this time. It was a choice between heavy weapon, or light weapon proficiency, and a free stat increase. I automatically took the heavy weapon proficiency, as I didn’t think small fire was gonna do anything to the king. I put an extra point in endurance, making it C-Class now.

The machinery that surrounded me readjusted, as the nano-chatte made full use of my stat increase. It seemed like we were one being now, and whatever I gained, it gained as well. My arms turned into guns, as the armour became slimmer to make full use of my dexterity against the five already heavily damaged knights. Both hands shifted into shotguns as the knights rushed at me, and I began zipping around them.

The soft gold bended as I shot it, but regenerated back in an instant. This was enchanted armour that I couldn’t brute force my way around. I infused one shotgun with lightning, and then changed the other into a sprinkler. Lightning and water were simply too good against metal armour, and these knights would have no counter for it. I ran away from them, and used the combo.

The knights were silent as they dropped, almost seeming mechanical. They also didn’t give me any XP. One knight sliced himself out of the armour and jumped away. What a smart man. He knew the lightning would follow his armour through the ground if he kept it. The knight laughed, and looked back to the cloaked figure, who was already summoning a portal.

“My lord, what are you doing? I’ll defeat the–” I shot the last knight in the face and grabbed the cloaked man right before he left through the portal. I should’ve earned a thousand XP from them.

“Why did you drain them of XP? I haven’t earned a single drop despite killing all five of them.” I doubted that all five nights were worth less than three magicians. That was still less noteworthy than the fact he knew to drain them in the first place. This probably meant he could see my level, and that I levelled up from killing those magicians.

“I did no such thing. You can’t earn XP from killing people.” I kept increasing the force in my squeeze as I used more and more lightning on him. Some nearby adventurers looked in shock, but backed off as soon as they saw all the dead people around me. “Fine! I have the observation skill, and I can mould people under my command to whatever I want them to be. I’m a worshipper of our highness.” So the king wasn’t satisfied with controlling the world? He wanted to be worshipped as well? Wasn’t he directly employed by the Revifier?

“Let me guess, you absorbed their XP?” I put my shotgun up to his face, and his panic vanished.

“Why should I answer you? You’ll kill me either way.” I guess I’d have to be more careful with what I’ll do next time. Shoving a gun in his face probably didn’t encourage him to be talkative.

“Fair enough.” I shot him anyway, and all his XP rushed into me, 1523 to be exact. This brought me to level 5, and I had 975 out of the 1600 XP points I needed to move to the next level. I got a pop up again, with a choice between a stat increase of my choice, or two completely random ones. Considering I was the luckiest man alive, I’d easily get the stats I wanted, so I chose the two random stat increases.

Strength and intelligence… great.