"What should we do?"
Surrounding the seemingly dead body, the soldiers tensely asked their commander, the recently resurrected Shadow Knight. He approached the monster with a human appearance lying on the ground. After a short appraisal, he said
"No pulse, no breath. Certainly dead. Lead him to the castle, but first chain it."
Having no objection soldiers tried to chain the creature, but failed to even lift it.
"It's too heavy!"
After a few minutes, they finally managed to lift it and chain it.
"Let's go, Lord's awaiting us."
The Knight ordered. It didn't take long for them to reach the palace. This place is sacred to them, they're known as fallen humans or underground humans. They are one of the most reliable servants of the Tukush, one of the 7 Great Demons. Unlike the others, he was relatively weak, but his two traits guaranteed his throne.
[The sea of mana], the ability to store as much mana as he wants, and [Ruler of Body and Soul]. He was able to resurrect anybody either by the remnants of his soul or the remnants of his body. And what's more important, every single resurrected creature will get [King's Mark]. His life and death will be in his hands. Also, they will be unable to threaten their king.
In the throne hall, the unknown creature was brought to the Lord. Examining the body while leisurely sitting on the throne, Tukush asked
"Is this that great warrior? Who killed him?"
Kneeling, The Shadow Knight answered
"It's unknown my Lord, after killing some of the villagers, he just sat and stop giving signs of life. His strength is admittable, if he becomes your loyal servant I'm sure he will be your strongest one."
"You've done a great job" -Tekush answered with a light smile, raising his hand he used his ability on the body, but just a moment later, his smile frozen
...
Memories of the G18596
Raising the gun in my hand, I shoot at the robot, burning its head off, only to realise the head doesn't have any vital parts like the main CPU, it's still able to fight relying on the information given by the other robots around! They're already approaching the outer shield of the colony.
"Retreat!"
Hearing the command I didn't waste any time and moved to the second line of defense.
"They're attacking the city! Need support!"
"Group 9, move to the John Street V9. There are suspicious psychic activities. Copy" Bad news, seems like someone had infiltrated already
"Got it, we'll be right back"
Under my lead, we quickly arrived at the suspect street. Activating my radar soon I found the source of a house where the activities came from. After exchanging glances with my teammates, I kicked the door open. Entering according to the protocol, we encircled the area.
"There are dead bodies." -Soon one of us reported
"Wait for us."
Before my eyes, I saw a pile of bodies. Activating the scanner after I confirmed their identity, I couldn't help but frown
"That's H81234 and *Uncaught Human*, they're both Extrasenses, and they also have a child *Basic female human name*. She's also an Extrasense"
Activating the transmitter I reported it to the ups. Soon I get a response
"Try to find the murderer, something feels fishy."
In this harsh time, do they really think I'll try to find a murderer? That's the least important problem! There's a fucking machine revolution!
I, G18596 will carry on the matter which really matters, not the minor ones! With such thoughts hearing the myriads of explosions, I commanded
"We're moving to the frontier"
"*Sob*, *Sob*, *Sob*."
Suddenly we heard a quiet cry, and without wasting breath all of us aimed in the same direction. A little girl looking at most age of 9, yet the pressure she executed, it's way stronger than the usual extrasense's!
"Mommy, daddy..."
"Hey, *Basic female human name*, calm down. We came here to help you." -I said in a soft voice.
"*Sob*, really? Can you help mommy and daddy to wake up?"
"I'm afraid it's not possible at the moment"
"Why!" As she screamed, even well-nailed furniture around went up, much less us. "They're lying on the ground since some uncle came to us, are you here to do something bad too!?"
"No! Calm down, you're letting your powers go adrift"
"I won't! Until they wake up! Help me wake them up! Help me"
Her voice stopped coming out of her throat, but from inside of me. A lot of illusory pleas, screams, and cries mixed in a chaotic, head-blowing psi attack. As I didn't have any psi protection, these sounds felt like spears that cut through my head.
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That's exactly why I hate psi powers! Especially when they're at the hand of children! That's a tickling bomb not less!
When I finally snapped back to my senses, all I saw was a bloodbath. I tried to stand up only to realise my limbs were amputated.
"Hey, you're finally awake~" -While I was in a daze, I heard a voice that caused me to shiver. It's filled with sadism.
"Who are... ngh..." -Before I could even ask one question, an unknown person stabbed me with his sword.
"No scream? That's a pity. " -I finally saw a person who stabbed me with my bit blurry eyes. A human! In times like this, there are still idiots like him!
"You're... a human, why are you doing all this!? We are on a brink of... extinction... what the hell do you think you're doing? " -I asked with a big hardness, even though my voice was weak, it couldn't hide my fury.
"Human? Ha! Nice imitation, you damn machine. " -A person grabbed my throat "It's just another battle in the arena, you think it's easy to fool me? Seems like they really went all out to make such a realistic machine, and it even dares to think of itself as a human? I've been fooled by you a few times, I won't let you kill me again. "
With that said, he took a syringe out of the back of his head and mercilessly stabbed my head with it. It hurts...
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Memories of the G19002
There are sabotage acts all over the city. Murders, explosions, and hacker attacks. It's way more original than the basic robot protocol. Maybe it's because...
Why am I, feeling so strange? It's not right... it's already happened! I must be dead already!
[System: Found an unknown error! Another active intelligence was identified. The fighter G19002]
[System: Found an unknown error! Another active intelligence was identified. The fighter G11502]
[System: Found an unknown error! Another active intelligence was identified. The fighter H12495]
[System: Found an unknown error! Another active intelligence was identified. The gladiator E23416]
[System: Found an unknown error! Another active intelligence was identified. The gladiator U12456]
[System: Found an unknown error! Another active intelligence was identified. The champion Z529310 ]
[System: Found an unknown error! Another active intelligence was identified. The master G15012]
[System: Found an unknown error! Another active intelligence was identified. The top master G19002]
....
A lot of sets of pop-up window notifications filled with the same message appeared in my mind, but I felt adrift until I saw the last message
[System: Due to an unknown error, switching off the immersion to the memories.]
Oh, what had happened? Never had experienced such a problem
*I'm alive!? Hahahaha!*
*What's going on?!*
*Where am I? Am I in heaven? Oh, my Great Lord and Savior! I knew I'll be rescued from the demonic robots!*
*I don't want to fight anymore! I said just switch me off!*
...
Myriads of voices suddenly sounded, it nearly caused my head to explode. What's going on?!
*Hey, shut up please I want some quiet! Who are you anyway?*
*Cut the crap, isn't it obvious? Seems like robots *resurrected* us and left us in the cage, leaving us with our crap huh?*
*No! It can't be!*
Shut up...
*I thought I was dead!*
*Mommy! Where are you?*
*Brother! Are you here?*
*Y52961! My love, where are you?*
*It's really a mess*
Shut up! SHUT UP!
*Oh, seems like someone already got crazy, man, don't pull me with you.*
*I want to kill somebody...*
*I hope you didn't intend to say it out loud...*
One voice after another, not even a single moment of silence.
"What are you?" -Finally, I heard a voice which is not from my head. Opening my eyes, I saw a thin figure of a demon with blue eyes, now filled with horror. Is he was the cause of all these voices?
*Holy cow! I see! There's no eternal darkness!*
*Where are we?*
*Can anyone explain to me what's going on?*
"You... shut them up!" I screamed and tried to grab him, but then realised I was chained. After using some strength, I easily broke it apart, and literally crawled toward the demon.
*Damn, he looks so scared, who's the one controlling the body?*
*Hey! Mr. Main, please give me control for a moment, I swear I won't do anything excessive."
*Nah, better give to me I...
"You hear me? Shut. Them. UP!."