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Chapter 310: Triple Side Battle
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One was the fist and the other was the arm; these two equipments became possible because of the things that Siva had experienced.
Without one another, these two equipment items are as good as useless just on their own.
At first he was alone and that being alone has its own perks and disadvantages; with the biggest one being that he doesn’t have specialists to help him for some tasks that he needed to be done.
The first time he came across the idea of using a puppet to deal with multiple opponents dates back to the very first time he had used the Killing Zone.
He knew that the Killing Zone was evolving in full strength as he ranks up. From a 100m range into the now 500m range around him, the Killing Zone is a terrifying ability but it has its downside as well.
What if one day he was surrounded by so many S-Ranked monsters, or even higher ranked beasts that he can’t defeat…
What then?
As such, he had been planning this for a very long time now… he knew that someday, he would be able to get his hands on Black Ironwood Alloy, an exclusive Terran-Human Alliance product that was only accessible to city lords or to people that had the same level of importance and status as them.
All this time, he’d been planning, waiting, bidding his time until he get the chance to get his hands on that equipment material.
In fact, it wasn’t even meant to be used to be an equipment material because for any normal User, a Black Ironwood Alloy-equipment automatically maxes out their Weight Limits.
His trip here to The North, his chance acquisition of the PNF, had re-ignited this goal of his. So he knew that once he gets a Black Ironwood Alloy, the next thing to do is to turn it into an equipment item from a random weapon shop.
Any equipment made from Black Ironwood Alloy is automatically S-Ranked. In fact, isn’t the Ice-Metal Blade that he plundered in Warjillis made up of the same alloy? That was a weapon that does not have any sort of specialness aside from having a very heavy mass and extending grip.
He knew that Billion was a key on getting his hands on this material and so he grabbed that tiny chance and exploited the PNF.
In the end, he got one of his goals.
“Although this is not its final form, this is still one very important milestone to me.”
While murmuring, he was thinking of his plans and his important mission. He needed strength and he never stopped thinking on how he could become stronger and be prepared to face any form of odds that will come his way in the future.
He knew that his biggest enemy in this world is Mefisto… and that as long as Mefisto exists, not only him, but ultimately, Baron is not safe as well.
“…..and that was also… the Genesis Chamber!”
CLAK! CLAK! CLAK!
CLAK!CLAK!CLAK!CLAK!CLAK!CLAK~~!!!
Although it was happening in a slow motion, all of these were happening within a span of a second.
“Strength! Power! I can’t use magic for now but I have the PNF and the power of intimidation. I can use the things in my arsenal to intimidate all of the world’s organizations and exploit them off of their resources… my plans for The Company…… is to be the biggest object above their heads. Only if I have an abundant source of equipment material can I discover more ways on how to be stronger through the use of technology! And if I have the ability to use Magic as well… I…….”
With the series of clacking sounds, a dark blue-themed double-bitted large axe 1.5m large formed around the Mjolnir as the ‘core’.
Its handle is ‘fixed’ by the Black Master Armament to 2m that, in fact, in closer look, would reveal the handle of a jet black sword as if it was in a ‘slot’.
This sword is the Black Dragon Blade of Triune!
Its head is made up of the Mjolnir and the Black Master Armament; then from the handle tip of the Godhammer was the sword tip of the Dragon Blade, ‘slotted’ on a sleeve made up of the Black Master Armament, serving like a very sturdy shell for the two equipment items.
One glance is enough to say that this is a weapon designed to be carried and used by large people the size of Cramer and Hagrid.
The Dragon Blade was ‘sleeved’ in a casing made of Black Master Armament along with the handle and body of the Godhammer; like a large ‘frame’ with the sword and Mjolnir as the bones.
To see it used by someone on Siva’s size is……
Well—
—this is a ridiculously large-ass weapon that could even dwarf the already large-sized Godhammer!
“You are a fucking cheater.” While still pressured by the Master Puppets, FlowerLord still found a small moment to curse at the sight of this.
The handle was 2m long and the large axe itself was 1.5m wide. In its entirety, this is a 2.5m large weapon from tip to tip, with its core component being the Mjolnir… and the user was around 1.8m high, an average high school student’s height.
But where is the ‘core’ of the Black Master? When they thought of this, their eyes were attracted to Siva’s left hand where it was embedded at the back of it, with his body now covered in a heavy-looking, yet still slim-styled, dark blue armor.
In contrast to the impending ‘dwarf’ impression to Siva’s final form, the slim-styled streamlined armor he wore made him look like a much toned warrior.
Though what was eye-catching on his armor set was the helmet as it was just like those standard western ‘helms’ from knight-themed movies; having the eye and mouth openings shaped like a letter-Y. (A/N: Magneto, but more edgy)
—this transformation only took one second!
“Black Knight Set complete.” Cortana mildly said.
“Good work.” Siva murmured. “Now, let’s try one of the features I added here that will compensate for me not having any flight armor.”
“Based on my analysis, we can travel 100m above ground without any issues, sir, although we can sacrifice 30% of the [Generator] output to maintain flight capability if we go higher than that. It’s not a steep price to pay since we exchange that for a longer, faster, and more versatile 3D battle proficiency.”
“Right.” Looking at himself, Siva affirmed, “I first thought of using a ‘form’ to assimilate in my initial final preparations of BlackTech to enable flight capability. But I really felt that it was such a waste of one [form]. So since we got a gift from Janus… I was able to unlock the NanoFocus feature of the PNF by combining two of them. In exchange for more NanoCubes during the creation and uses of the features of the equipment, we achieved a breakthrough in the game…”
“I also helped you in designing the armor set.”
“I know. It’s also thanks to you. Anyways, what’s the update about the recording?”
“No problems in this area.”
“Mn."
Siva was now like a heavy-knight but with an axe and not a sword. He was now literally a destroyer!
His raised left hand then clenched it, and the four [puppets] converged around him, vanishing within 20m of distance away while bathing on everyone’s sights.
“What just happened to his minions?”
“Just…”
“—the hell?! Where’d they go?!!”
“Guys, since we’re having an exercise, I will also train myself on my newest weapon set so I need you all to exert yourself to the fullest. The more you put in all you got, the better the equipment I will give you after this period.”
—this is one of the reasons of Siva recording the data of this “exercise” and the reason why these guys participated in this “practice”.
Siva told them that he will be recording their peak performances and based on that data, he will create an equipment item that can suit their tastes.
After all, the core members of The Company is a force that Siva planned to play the role of ‘worthy to be reckoned with’ by their potential enemies.
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Once they officially launch The Company, there will be flocks of enemies that will come so he needed them to be stronger.
When he finished speaking, he turned his head at Cramer.
“Please, give me all you got.” Siva spoke while his heavily-armored legs, without wearing any kind of flight gear, lifted from the arena’s marbled floor as he took a step.
The sight of him floating there like a deity with a ridiculously large contrasting weapon in one hand is both pleasantly attracting as it is dreadfully very imposing.
The wind wall roared as this single step took him in front of Cramer, 50m away.
“Fast!” from the sidelines, the knocked-out bunch gasped as they saw the sight of this single step.
Everyone else was surprised by this aside from his target who smirked even wider, meeting the descending axe head-on with a rising meteor.
“Let’s go for round two!” Cramer yelled.
BOOM!!!
His lightning-wrapped Mjolnir clashed with Siva’s Black Master Axe-Mjolnir weapon. Sparks and air were blasted apart, creating a small crater around them, the rubbles and dust flailing turbidly, trying their best to escape the vicinity of the two beasts.
Clusters of brown smoke scattered about as the shockwave of the collision of their weapons made their ears tingle for a moment.
They saw two shadows inside that cluster of dust clouds, their weapon-arms apart, their bodies in a staggering angle, and their obvious high-powered destructive blows shocking one another.
That small moment lasted like a minute as the force of their attacks sent them flying off a good 15m apart.
“Again!”
“Again!”
Both of them yelled at the same time.
They took another set of steps and made a large horizontal sweep to reach one another. Like Yin and Yang, they were meeting for another clash.
BANG!!
Another ear-shattering sound rung and their two shadows created two departing silhouettes in the cover of the dust clouds.
“Motion Control successfully adjusted.” Cortana’s voice rung on Siva’s ears like rock music in a piano concert. (A/N: honestly, idk what it meant but it sounded adjectively cool… hahaha)
There was nothing more comforting to hear than the sound of a report of good news.
Of course, with an equipment as heavy as Black Master Armament that weighed 1200we, even if he had the help of +2000 Weight Units given by [Inventory Plus Ultra], it would still hinder his movements to some degree so he had to make sure that the armor is well coordinated to his style.
“Analyze patterns. I need openings.” Floatingly-skidding then smoothly assuming upright position in the air, Siva swung the axe to regain balance faster than Cramer then took a step forward to close the gap.
“Scanning.” Cortana spoke insipidly—
—by then, Siva was already just two meters away from Cramer and it was only then that the latter had raised his head.
“Hehe!”
“Stay down.” Siva spoke in a cool and calm style as he brought down the axe.
BANG!!
While everyone’s gawking eyes were clouded by that momentary impact and head-splitting sound, they saw how Cramer was now embedded on the marbled floor like a nail, right hand on Mjolnir’s haft and his left hand on the Godhammer’s head to block Siva’s hammer-axe.
“Nice!” Cramer was ecstatic even though he was feeling that the bones of his body were trembling from the impact.
Cramer lifted the hammer and pushed Siva for a moment then swung it on Siva’s left side as if the Godhammer in his hands only weighed a kilo.
Siva’s reaction was a tiny bit slow and he couldn’t gain an advantage so he could only parry. Cramer seized the opportunity as both of their arm were wide open from the impact.
“Hah!” After the left side attack was a rising fist and Siva was hit in the chest.
The Black Knight Armor absorbed some of the impact but since Cramer was wearing his armor and is more familiar and used to it than he on his, he still felt shaken by the attack.
He was [stunned]!
Cramer caught the opening once again and held him on his armor. Siva was stuck in midair and it wasn’t because of his floating ability.
“Shit.”
With a full swing, the large Godhammer came at him from his right side and Siva could only widen his eyes and wish that Hammer Blast wasn’t finished cooling down yet.
“Too bad.” As if reading his mind, Cramer laughed joyously. “It just did.”
Siva hurriedly raised his right arm to brace himself just as he felt that his [stunned] state subsided.
BOOOMMM!!!
A loud explosion rung and Siva was sent flying.
Cramer followed with a dash and a falling smash of his own Godhammer.
Siva felt a bit dizzy receiving a full-bodied swing but just as he raised his head, he saw that Cramer was already looming over him with his Mjolnir.
“I won’t let you!” from start to finish, only three seconds had passed but Siva was already being pressured.
Cramer was just too damn strong!
The same way Cramer blocked his falling axe just a bit earlier, Siva was embedded on the marbled floor of the arena like a nail when blocking that one smashing Godhammer.
Another explosive sound.
Just a beat later, Cortana spoke with a confident tone. “Scanning complete.”
Siva beamed a smile.
There was no death-dealing damage in the place ruled as a neutral zone but the impact was still real and the tremors of an attack enough to shock you to the core.
Siva’s feet were planted on the ground. He used Cramer’s attacking angle to deal a left knee on his chest.
Cramer’s left hand blocked the knee.
“Now that’s a good knee!”
“Tsk.”
Siva made a step with the same knee and used Cramer’s right leg as a step and summersaulted with a surprise right kick to his chin.
“Guh!”
He was hit and it rocked him. But Cramer’s battle sense was on max output and he countered with a summersault of his own that hit Siva on his back.
“Gwaaah!” Cramer’s kick viciously sent Siva up!
Everything happened in one seconds from the [Scanning Compete] phrase she uttered and it was also right at this moment that Cortana’s voice spoke yet again.
“Countermeasures ready.”
Then, in the stage with a piano, the rock music started to play.
“Deploy.”
Siva’s command rung and the lines of his armor lit up from his left hand to every corner of his body.
Even his hammer-axe weapon; from the two-hand sized customized handle of the sword, to the thick dark blue metal sleeve it was inserted to, until the Godhammer’s metal-covered haft, to the hammer ‘sleeve’, to the axe-frame, until the blade itself… a shiny electrical light pulsed faster than pulling an item from the Quick Item Pocket function in the Inventory… and it took control of Siva’s body.
An abnormal reactionary prompt sprung from the equipment item underneath Siva’s Black Knight Armor set, taking control of his body to launch a counter on Cramer’s counter attack.
His mind… started to [Focus].
Countermeasures against Cramer were deployed.
In midair, Siva’s body twisted abnormally, using the hammer-axe like a fulcrum, he forced to make a balanced position and then he let go of the axe and kicked it as a base ground to attack.
BANG!
Siva dived down towards Cramer.
Siva’s fist connected on his stomach even before Cramer knew that he had been attacked. Call it a cheating ability but this [ability] of the Black Master Armament consumed 20% of its Generator Output that in a fast paced fight against higher existences like the Devil Generals and Immortals like Gabriel who can move faster than ‘normal’ speeds, this was a very critical [ability] that Siva had to have.
He just can’t let the bitter defeat he suffered from Sefirah to happen again.
If people have Mana as the source of power, then the Black Master Armament has the [Generator] mechanical function’s “Power Output”!
A mere 20% of the Power Output the [Generator] Mechanical Function could create was a small price to pay just so he could keep up with them in terms of speed even for just a moment.
Before Cramer’s arching body could even start to fall from the ground, Siva followed it up with a rising knee to his spine.
It was wolfing move!
“What…. the —argh!!”
Only then did Cramer’s ‘surprised’ cry rung on the ears of the spectators and while it was happening, Siva twisted again and the rising knee became a kick then another foot pushed Cramer up just before Siva delivered the third kick to push him up even further.
Three kicks were delivered and Cramer’s body arched into a “C” shape 5m from the ground until Siva delivered a punch, then a kick, then a punch again before the refrain of him grabbing Cramer’s legs to throw him to the ground followed by his hammer-axe as a finisher.
BANG!!
It wasn’t that loud but it sounded painful. There is already the first crater around them but this one move made the crater even deeper and slightly a bit wider.
Siva’s body was in midair, frozen, and he saw his sparring partner cross-armed to protect his face who received majority of the brunt of that vicious attack.
“Cooldown in effect for thirty seconds.”
“Ah, everything just had to have a cooldown.” Siva cursed in his heart and so of course, Cortana had sensed this so she gave him an explanation.
“You should be happy that it’s only thirty seconds unlike last time you experienced this that it lasted for two hours. According to your thoughts, it’s only 10% of its maximum potential output. Well, my Nano-hardware being an additional sturdy shell on top of your natural cerebral cortex had helped you ease 80% of the painful backlash of exerting your neural activity when activating [Focus]. This is but the best I can do for now. But don’t worry boss, I have scanned many medical files and articles in the Net and they all agree that repeated practice is like a tempering that makes a human body strong. So the more you use [Focus] and the more you experience its recoil, the more you’d get used to it and the further you improve in mastery. There is a large gain in every great pain.”
Siva felt dejected hearing this for some reason. If this head-splitting pain wasn’t seriously painful, he would have just laughed it off.
This was a different kind of pain from the ones he had experienced in the game before.
“I’m really convinced that you’re learning many bad things on TV.”
He gritted his teeth as he felt his body coming back to his usual ‘normal speed’ with the addition of a head-splitting painful sting on his head.
Because this speed-hacking ability, [Focus], that he had only mastered 10% of demanded so much brain power that the backlash was transmitted to his brain directly.
Siva was frozen in midair with a headache.
Cramer was frozen, mind reeling on the crater.
WHOOSH!!
FlowerLord’s figure was approaching with a mad dash towards their direction.
Although Siva can’t move ‘normally’ within the next thirty seconds, he was still aware of the immediate surroundings —counting in that the Black Master Armament had a 200m-wide Absolute Domain, and that Cortana was also watching out for him.
«Absolute Domain»
In the nearest 100m from the main core of the Black Master Armament, a default Nano-Field is always present that enables it to cancel its heavy weight, manipulate Nano-Forms, and detect and support any equipment made of material as the equipment that operates on the same frequency as the main core.
When he unlocked NanoFocus after combining two Portable NanoFurnaces (PNF), he also made all the succeeding Inventions from this point on to have very high NanoCube requirements in exchange for better functionality and wider and even rarer upgrade slots; equipments and items can even be made a lot more differently than just the normal way of handling their materials.
Their production costs may be absurdly high, but they sport superior performance and quality than their peers.
It was the reason why he was able to produce an “SS”-Rank equipment item.
With just the Black Master Armament alone, Siva had spent close to half a million NanoCubes just so he could complete it so of course, its functions and abilities are a lot better than the rest.
“I will not let you.” Siva murmured to himself as he hovered there 5m above the marbled floor and used his left arm with the Orbiter Bracelet to give command, a habitual hand gesture to the aimlessly floating hammer-axe towards FlowerLord.
With a whistling sound of sliced air, the hammer-axe made a boomerang arch that went straight to meet the hurrying FlowerLord.
From when Siva and Cramer clashed, only a few seconds had passed and yet it seemed that many things had transpired until then.
She was surprised that a heavy-looking hammer-axe made an arch towards her but she only had to frown for a moment, and then treated the assault like a BlackTech attack that can be launched from the caster and had a range of twenty effective meters.
Beyond that range, the BlackTech can't be saved and is already a lost attack.
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Weight + Speed = Power!
The Master Armament shows its strength!!!
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