(Heaven’s Key, Euclid’s Domain, Bedroom)

“Hah, hah, hah!” Logging back into my safe place, I breathe heavily, trying to calm the wild beat of my heart. Eloe is so cool. I was only an inch away from giving all myself, body and soul to her. I felt like I was going insane.

“Ghhhhh!” I squirm on my bed, hugging the pillow.

I just wasn’t ready for it. For some reason, I got frightened. After calming down, I really started to feel bad for leaving Eloe like that. Next time we meet, I am going to give all of myself to her for sure.

> I am sorry I ran! Please forgive me!

> The next time we meet, I’ll give you my all!

> Just give me some time to get ready!

I email her this and spend some time resting, before doing the next drawing.

(TODO Image: A drawing of a red haired girl sitting in a smaller blonde haired girl’s lap. The smaller girl is looking upwards at the redhead, offering her a piece of parfait off her tongue. The red haired girl looks at her lovestruck.)

I’ll be keeping this one private.

(Ruins Exploration, Ellipsis Base, Bathroom)

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On my other self’s request, we did a memory merge and I bore witness to all indecent, lewd, girly things she has been up to! I feel my face turning hot just remembering it!

I want to call my other self a slut, but I’ll restrain myself as that shot would just end up hitting me.

That date was so hot.

I compare myself to Eloe, and find myself falling short in boldness. The issue is power.

If I wanted to have a date such as that in the real world, just what could I do if anybody tried interrupting me? The reason why men are betas in the real world, is because they are afraid of police, of other people, of the girl herself. If I want to have confidence like Eloe, I need the power to respond to potential challenges. If I was on a date, right now any wannabe alpha could come in and humiliate me, shooting down my chances.

I want the power to kill him, if he does that. I need the power to control the environment around me to really be myself.

But I don't really have an interest in real world women. My relationship with Eloe has such a great basis, since we are exchanging power. Love is just the desert.

If I looked across the entire world, could I find a single partner, man or woman, wanting to offer me nanotech synthesis programs as well as study materials if I became their lover? I don’t think so.

My self in the real world is based, but he is weak. In the end, he can only live hidden away in his lair like a mouse. The reason we exist is to deflect whatever desolate fate awaits him.

(TODO Image: Euclid and the taller Eua, back to back. Their fists are clenched and their gaze is forward.)

His will started this, and our power will finish it.

(Ruins Exploration, Research Facility Zillen Outpost X-22, F3)

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My two drones flew through the dark hallway until they came to a fork, after which they split. They came to two doors. On mental command, the doors opened and they flew into the hallway beyond.

The tale has been illicitly lifted; should you spot it on Amazon, report the violation.

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“Grahhh!!!”

“Wragghhhh!!!” Two roars of the Demon Shashers resounded through the level. After that the two drones were turned to ribbons and I lost my feed.

Not wasting time, I sent two more drones close behind and I closed the doors the original two opened. Some ways behind, I was hiding in the safety of the elevator, dressed in my full body, form fitting jumpsuit capable of stealth.

Deciding to be aggressive with my current approach, I faded out of sight and went down the left fork. The first door opened. I slipped by the demon without a sound and opened the room at the other end, stepping foot into it.

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“Grrr…”

“Ghhh…”

“Grah…” I was greeted by a lair of 30 of such demons like the one behind me currently. Above I could see 3 floating eyeball monsters with stalks dropping down their sides.

As soon as I saw them, I immediately gave the mental command for the door to close and jumped backwards before the Demon Gazers could turn on me. The door closed just as I slipped through.

“Grah…” I backtracked, slipping soundlessly past the demon in the corridor and closing the door behind me. Change of plans.

I will slowly kill them all.

On mental command I immediately start manifesting weaponry.

…

“Grahhh!!!” The Demon Slasher spotted the drone I sent into its hallway. I made sure to elevate it so it is near the ceiling. It will serve as perfect bait. The monster upon spotting it rushes towards it at an incredible speed and like a basketball player trying to dunk the hoop, it jumps with its claws raised.

It emerges into the line of sight beyond the door, into the firing zone of my two mobile weapons platforms armed with twin autocannons each.

Blam! Blam! Blam!

Its side is struck by the barrage, and is subsequently turned into minced meat by the explosive rounds erupting inside its body. Only a couple of dozen rounds were all it took to reduce it to meat paste.

Once that is done, I give the order for the spiderbot platform to enter the hall. 2 of them go inside along with a few scouting drones, and I close the door behind them, not following them inside the room. Since the room is tall, but narrow, I give the order to the one in the back to stand straight on its spider-like legs. That will allow two of them to fire at the same time.

I give the order to open the door at the other end.

“WRAGGHHHH!!!” The level shook with the fury of the monsters as they spotted us. Not wasting time, the MWPs opened explosive fire with their twin autocannons.

Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam!

The demons rushed us, but they were moved down by the unrelenting fire. My bots had large external magazines for their autocannons with thousands of rounds each. Had they needed to take time to reload, or even had they been using regular ammunition, maybe the monsters could have gotten close enough to dogpile the MWPs, but as it is they were turned into chunks of meat by the extremely intense, high caliber ammunition being fired unerringly at them.

I couldn’t have lost this battle if I tried. If for example, they managed to close the distance and subdue the bots, I would have given the order to close the door on the other side, and detonated the explosives on the MWPs, blasting the few demons still in the room to smithereens. Then I would have just manifested two more bots and repeated the process.

As it is, the two bots mowed down the opposition from the safety of their bottleneck, exploded the 3 eyes staring at them, and stepped into the kernel. Besides the meat grinder on the floor, blood was dripping from the ceiling and even pieces of flesh were stuck there, obscuring the lights in some places.

I had the 2 bots stay in that gorey room, while I sent the two drones to scout ahead into the next room. It opened into an empty hallway that had a bend to the right. I had one of the drones open the door at the end.

“Grahhh!!!”

“Wragghhhh!!!”

“Grehh!!!”

“Wrah!!!” 4 demonic roars as well as the eyeball’s stare greeted us through the sensors. I had the drones immediately scuttle back. The demons gave chase and this baited them directly into the firing lines of the autocannons.

Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam!

Heavy, booming sounds of them firing resounded as the autocannons blazed. And when they quieted down, the only thing on the other end were piles of gore. Some of it I could see was dripping from the ceiling.

For a moment, I am awed by the carnage I created. What a slaughterhouse.

I had the drones scout the next room again. There were two doors leading into unexplored areas. I picke the one one facing away from the elevator position, reasoning that the other one might just have more monsters.

I have the two spiderbots move into position opposite of the target door, ready to strike down any enemy beyond it and then I have the scouts open the door.

In it is the familiar server room with a desk and a brain core in a holder.

The drone comes close to the core, interfaces with it and as the link is established, I feel the light of teleportation taking me.

> Mission Success!

> Time: 36m.

> Symbiotics Base series robotics sensors schematics have been added to the database.