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Chapter 401: Found You
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Because the walls itself looked sturdy and solid to even his vision, the only vulnerable part in sight is that door the hand-wires were hugging.
BANG!!
The hand-wires weren’t able to endure a single strike from Siva’s axe but the metallic door itself is as hard as the materials used for the Mjolnir.
Only a reverberating sound and the trembling of the halls echoed but the door remained shut with only a smidgen of a scratch seen in it.
The hand-wires lost their source when Siva sealed the entire chamber and so they fell one by one like dead leaves to the floor.
“Just a scratch huh…”
[Scanning complete. Marking weakness points. My suggestion, sir, is to change equipment into a blunt weapon for maximum damage output.]
It was logical to know what type of weapon would deal maximum amount of damage into an enemy.
Those with thick hides and scales can be dealt with by blunt weapons. They tend to be slow moving or in fact are immobile targets; while those with sleek, leathery skins and glossy, shiny scales or hides are prone to receive more damage from sharp edges.
Following the advice, Siva ‘disbanded’ the War God Axe and just equipped the Mjolnir.
Positioning himself like an executioner, he swung the Godhammer with full force and smashed it to a part of the door in the middle.
A resounding explosive force rang that rattled the entire chamber and the supposed throne room.
“Whew. This is effective.”
{Blasphemy! Impudence!}
A small dent could be seen from the door but it wasn’t enough to be called actual damage.
“We need more force.”
[We need more momentum.]
Physics. Force generate momentum as momentum multiply force. The greater the momentum is, the greater the force generated.
In this sealed space 400m large, it was a blessing to realize that the entrance to the throne room was directly facing the same entrance hall Siva used to get here earlier.
Without any falters, he sprang into action, traveling to the very edge of the hallway and then began to hover-sprint like a meteor, darting toward the target like a bullet train. He didn’t use [Focus] but his max speed had reached a staggering 400kph.
Until the last 100m, he began to spin like a top with the Godhammer outbalancing the fulcrum before…
BANG!!
—a wall-shaking explosive noise rung at the point of impact, the Godhammer released Hammer Blast at the very last moment of their collision.
Even the blue smoke domain parted at the blast wave created by the hit, only to regroup back again to cover the entire area that the unique motions of the entire blue smoke domain rendered the heat of the entire chamber neutralized.
“Wow. That’s a really durable door right there.”
Siva was amazed by the sturdiness of the door in front of him. There was a large dent on the door but that was it.
[Sir, the material used in this door does not register to my database. But initial scans says that it’s got the same atomic composition as the one used for Lancet Imperious.]
‘Even to the database created by the use of the tenth crystal? Then that only means that this is a new material developed by the Armada upon the use of the crystal.’
—meaning it wasn’t just the Terrans that were on a constant move to evolve, the Demon Armada was also improving their technologies.
‘We have to get these samples.’
[After we finish the job, sir.]
‘Right. after we finish the job.’
Siva didn’t waste time dawdling at the sight of the sturdy material and went on to repeat the attack.
BANG!!!
And another…
BANG!!!
And he repeated that again and again, and again…
BANG!
………BANG!!
………………BANG!!!
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{Kill that heathen!! Protect His Majesty!}
The roar of the female-AI kept on ringing in the hall of the ship and droves upon droves of Pawns went to heed the call and assemble their forces.
Even the last of the Commanders that supposedly defended their own respective areas were called in but aside from the Supremes, none of them had an actual tinge of confidence to win against that devil if it could be termed against them.
A few minutes of repeated attacks, multiple doors on the walls of the central chamber opened again and Siva looked back to see the last ditching effort of the ship-AI to stop him from entering the throne room.
It only took them a moment before they were all in a formation around him and Siva calmly looked at them as he assessed the situation.
[Five thousand, sir.]
‘How many Commanders?’
[Around sixty.]
‘Then wait for them to release their limiters before igniting them.’
Of course, the ship-AI wasn’t stupid enough to be a victim of the same tactic.
{Open fire, all of you! Exhaust that smoky domain!}
BOOM!
…BOOM!!
………BOOM!!!
……………BOOM~!!!
One Demon Commander after another entered the ‘Released State’ and they controlled their dark spell and black materials to form vacuum fans that seem to suck the blue smoke domain outside the central chamber.
“Ahahaha… it’s useless.”
But Siva had long anticipated that the ship-AI would not let her forces be surrounded by this terrifying blue smoke domain.
‘How many bombs have you prepared this time?’
[All these time, sir, it’s sixty four friable bombs.]
Siva didn’t waste time and threw four of them to four different open doors.
The Demon Commanders didn’t dare to enter the blue smoke domain and only let the Pawns attack Siva physically.
Siva used the blades to render all attackers either diced when killed or were crushed by lager ’parts’ of the BMA.
{Kill him!}
Still, as suicidal as the commands were, the Pawns still followed it religiously, throwing themselves to be slaughtered like livestock to the meat grinder that is the 20m area nearest Siva.
The four friable bombs were sneakily brought to the interior of those four corridors by tiny ‘parts’ of the BMA around 50m before they were left to be melted by the extreme heat.
When they did, however, the exploded and 200 pieces worth of PSS-Grenade were released into them, surprising the Demon Commanders and then sending a horrifying message towards the ship-AI.
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“Hehehe…”
Siva then activated the Killing Zone and everyone’s brains were hypnotized and only saw and heard a single entity in this entire place, Siva, their food.
A simultaneous cry of delight and savage craziness exploded from the crowd and only because Siva’s “Spirit” was yet to actually enter ‘Immortal Level’ is he unable to affect the minds of the Commanders.
—but that doesn’t mean he was unable to lower their defenses by 70%.
“Ahahaha… what a harvest.”
And so all it took was a single Spark Grenade and one of the most terrifying explosions ever heard in the ship actually erupted once again.
Just a single crackle of lightning, body parts were exploded, burnt, and smashed by that cataclysmic sonic boom generated by the rending of the fabric of space when that lightning was generated.
Siva’s BMA absorbed all that went on his direction while the rest were obliterated, their bodies made into a morbid mess that no regular words can even be used to describe them.
Blood splattered the walls as the remnants of their bodies were scattered everywhere.
The smell of burnt flesh permeated the air as the earlier obstructed sight of the central chamber due to the blue smoke domain, was once again cleared up of it, with only Siva’s immediate vicinity having a refill of that blue smoke domain.
Siva, on the other hand, looked at the aftermath of his own doing with an indifferent gaze.
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Kathleen Brew, on the other hand, couldn’t help but puke and vomit at the sight of the slaughter.
She could see the body parts everywhere she look and while Siva looked cool from the earlier battle, it was now clear to her that this Siva is a twisted man with no qualms about murder.
“This… This.... uweeeeeerggghhh…”
It was just a game but the graphics were real and if she factor in everything that she’d learned about the life Siva spent in this world that lasted millions of years… she couldn’t imagine just what made this seemingly harmless young man into this kind of a fucking murderer.
Even if they were aliens and were their enemies, to slaughter them this were just… revolting even to the demons’ standards.
“Is he still… human?”
That was a question that could be asked to anyone but Siva. No human could do something like this.
And perhaps she was right.
She was actually forgetting something very vital to all the points she had learned so far…
Siva was once human.
And his spirit, Rex Kingsley, was once a God.
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He threw another ten or so friable bombs again and the domain expanded into the scenery once more, letting the blades deal with the surviving remnants of the demon forces.
‘Collect the resources.’
[Leave it to me boss.]
The Commanders were only stunned by the earlier lightning strike but it helped the blades finish them all off since they were defenseless.
Everything, from the moment they appeared until they were harvested, only lasted for just a minute.
{What have you done?! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!}
The raging roar of the ship-AI could be heard from within the central chamber but she can’t see what’s happening because Cortana had long cut all of her connection outside the central chamber, rendering her blind.
“I killed your forces. If my calculations are correct, you only have around one or perhaps two hundred thousand units left in the ship. And considering the number of invaders aside from me… heh… I’m all too sure that you wouldn’t send another batch of your forces against me, right?”
{How dare you! HOW DARE YOU!!!}
Siva heaved a long disappointed sigh, speaking in a voice devoid of his earlier playfulness.
“I think you’ve forgotten who I am. I am Siva. I am here to kill every single one of you!”
The female AI of the ship seemed to have realized something and didn’t reply.
Siva spread his blue smoke domain again, then he repeated the same attack towards the sliding door of the throne room.
{I will kill you.}
“I know.”
{None of you shall leave here alive.}
Siva had expected it. In the 137 scenarios Cortana had created a fight plan for there was a scenario that pertained to the AI going haywire enough to actually trigger a meltdown.
For some reason, the AI’s words made him think of that scenario.
“Good luck.” Siva only spoke and then started to dart his way towards the door again.
Bang…
Then he repeated it again.
………..BANG!
And again—
………………BANG!!!
After the third run, the dent on the door was finally deep enough to actually show the interior of the door and there, Siva saw, an unconscious Baal, his body made of lava, the same ‘Baal’ he remembered the last time he saw him.
Seeing this enemy made his blood boil in fury.
‘Cortana, continue to create friable bombs and also never let the blue smoke domain lose its cool.’
[Yes, boss.]
Siva wasn’t stupid enough to charge there even if his blood was boiling furiously on his veins and his brain kept on ordering his body to move and kill the Devil God in his current defenseless state.
He had to make sure he had sufficient preparations and he also had to make sure that Baal will die.
This was a rare chance and he wouldn’t waste it in a fit of mistake because of overconfidence.
He pulled out thousands of NanoCubes and then repaired all his equipments.
Then, after a few minutes, he had at least 200 of those friable bombs in inventory and filled this entire central chamber with his PSS-Grenade that numbered into 10,000.
None of them escaped to the ventilation shafts or the halls because he dispatched the smaller ‘pats’ to keep an eye on them.
When he was done…
[Dáinsleif ready.]
A broad, evil smile beamed on Siva’s lips.
‘That’s our trump card. Now, create the bullets.’
[Each bullet needs a minute to be made, sir.]
‘Use all production resources. Do it.’
While the production was focused on the bullets, Siva pulled out one of the completed [Rewloola Retrofit Parts] in his inventory.
With a ripple of space, a large-barrel cannon 20m in sheer size appeared in front of him.
“AHAHAHAHA!!!”
Siva’s maniacal laughter awakened Kathleen’s wits on the other side of her video.
This weapon had three barrel holes, seeming like a revolving barrel-type that should be attached to a warship but retrofitted by Siva for personal use and as well as warship use.
—that’s the reason why they were renamed and were reinvented as [Rewloola Retrofit Parts].
In other words, Siva disabled the Rewloola Warship and used its parts to better suit his needs.
The largest battleship ever built worth billions upon billions of Zentra… were disassembled and then remade into a weapon for Siva’s personal use… if Kladis were to hear this, he might choose to just commit suicide there and then.
It was his masterpiece but he lost it to Siva due to a gamble whose contract wasn’t even effective to its every letter.
“Helloooooo… baby!” Siva was excited to use it.
There was a large box-part that supported it behind like an extension and this is where the ammunitions for the Bloody Mary cannons were assembled.
Yes, these here are three Bloody Mary cannons, retrofitted into a barrel-type weapon, attached to a reloading dock —the box-part.
Siva was beside the reloading dock, his gaze to the door that separated him and his target.
His eyes cold with malevolent intent, he remade his War God Axe and reinforced the blade support and the handle shaft for more force when swinging.
It had a shorter handle shaft but it was reinforced so it could be swung for more damage.
“Lock.” He suddenly spoke.
With a clank and the single rotation of the revolving barrel shaft, the sound of an artillery shell loading into the firing chamber could be heard. Along with it were clamping hooks that fell from behind and the sides of the reloading dock, drilling themselves into the metallic floor.
This action took more than forty seconds because of the hardness of the material of the floor.
“Load.”
After a few seconds more, the sound of something being charged up could be heard echoing inside of the reloading dock.
The [Bloody Mary Cannon] was finally charging up.
“Confirm target.” Siva ordered.
With the anchors in place, final adjustments on the barrel’s target path were made before firmly fixing itself in place with nary a single atom of movement.
[Fire when ready, sir.]
Siva didn’t hesitate one bit. “Enable anti-noise and anti-force settings. Enable feedback cancellation functionality of the NanoField as well.”
With a slight fixing on the BMA, and a few parts that moved here and there on his armor, Cortana faithfully accomplished what was ordered of her.
[Functionalities enabled.]
“Drive away the blue smoke domain from the door.”
[Done.]
“Well then, fire.”
BOOM!!!
Siva’s feet were magnetically implanted to the floor as he only felt a slight jolt from the impact of having a large artillery cannon 20m large fire at this close of a proximity from him.
Of course, these ‘cancellation settings’ were done to the NanoField with the anti-noise functionality applied to the BMA.
The rattling explosion rocked the central chamber and the ship-AI rattled once again with curses and a few swears of fury.
A magnificent explosion shook the place.
With the blue smoke domain backed out from the vicinity of the explosion, only the fires of hell from the Bloody Mary Cannon exploded into the room.
[Damage done to the door is only 24% greater than your own maximum attack damage sir.]
Cortana’s scans result appeared in front of Siva. It wasn’t something to smile about.
So it turns out that Siva’s momentum + force attack was only 24% lower in damage when compared to a point-blank range cannon fire from a Bloody Mary Cannon?
“Only that much?” Siva didn’t even choose to hide his disappointment.
It was something disheartening for him.
To players, it was enough to scare them to hell and decide to NEVER cross Siva’s path but to Siva, it’s an attack damage that was smearing his reputation.
If anyone would hear his thoughts, they would’ve committed suicide by slashing themselves using a paper in the neck.
“Reload.” Siva indifferently spoke.
The barrel rolled and even if there was still smoke on the first barrel, it rolled and shifted to the next.
Another sound of something being charged rung as Siva waited for another minute before it was in firing readiness.
“Readjust target to hinge point.”
[Sir, that’s a sliding door.]
“…”
Siva did not allow himself to be embarrassed at this point and chose to harden his face. Cortana then chose to give him this moment of coolness.
[Readjusting target.]
The barrel made a minute change and pointed the barrel above the former target to widen the gap.
“Fire.”
BOOOOOOMMM!!!
“Reload.”
The barrel rolled again and this time, it adjusted the target to the lower opening of the sliding door.
“Fire.”
BOOOOM!!
The third shot rattled the door and an opening was made that was large enough to be forced to become an entrance.
“Reload all barrels for saturation bombardment.”
[It will take two minutes, sir.]
“Do it.”
[Reloading.]
This was the advantage of having a portable mobile cannon… one can use it anytime and anywhere.
Siva chose to not fire after a minute and chose to stay at the ready for the attack.
In fact, he actually pulled two more of these triple barrel-type revolving Bloody Mary Cannons as he actually had five of them already at the ready.
These things had high firepower but the fact was still there… they take too long to charge and so are impractical to a frontal combat.
“Enable instantaneous target-change system.”
[It will strain the ballistic guiding systems too much, sir, and it might cause damages to the reloading dock that might take more time and more resources to repair.]
“It’s better than being caught off guard and unable to deal surprise damage to Baal.”
[Alright sir. I-FCS Changing System enabled.]
Siva then, again, repeated his momentum + force charge attack with the only difference being his rotating move was a vertical spin.
With the War God Axe in hand, his first strike hit it right at the gap and made the opening larger by a hand size. It was a huge progress.
Baal, on the other hand, was starting to awaken.
‘Cortana, ready the gifts.’
[Aye sir!]
Then the second charge came with another loud explosion and the gap opened up by the length of his own arm.
“Another one and it’s good to go!” Siva was actually feeling excited.
He built momentum again and did a horizontal spin, when his charging force hit the door, the gap then exploded as the locks collapsed, and the sliding doors a quarter of a meter thick made of unknown hard alien material collapsed on both sides of him.
Siva made a sigh as he saw Baal and he exhaled with delights and unbridled savagery.
“Aaahhhh, I found you.”
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The clash begins…!!
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Next chapter: The real Baal…