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Chapter 1131 An Unexpected Menace
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Patrick was given a shouting Skill.
Emilia was granted the power to burn any foe.
And Hermes?
Due to his quick movements and his ability to hit many foes at once while keeping himself safe, I gave him a power to abuse that.
By merely slightly piercing a foe, small vines would grow over their bodies, the more he attacked, the larger they grew.
The vines would quickly absorb he lifeforce of their hosts, weakening them tremendously in the process.
Yes, this Skill…
[Demonic Abyssal Energy-sucking Greed Vines]!
"Those vines…!"
Hermes was confused at first, but quickly came to learn how to manipulate them, with his greater intelligence, he was able to easily manipulate the vines, forcing them to move, wrap, and destroy things he wanted.
The Xenoids suffered, the vines consuming them from the inside out all while they tried to fight, only to be easily taken down by Hermes or the rest.
And when they died, the vines would gather into vine monstrosities, obeying Hermes mental commands. A small army for him.
"You are desperate it seems."
Five Machine Warrior Xenoids surrounded me out of the blue as I commanded everyone. Space was omnidirectional, foes could appear from every single angle.
Therefore, even when there were tight formations, if you were too distracted, they would appear out of nowhere.
But that was fine with me anyways.
"SHIEEEH!"
"EX… TER… MINATE!"
"SHAAAGGGH! KILL!"
"GRYYEEEGGH!"
The Xenoids were also beginning to… talk.
Through the machines, they moved them to say words, mechanical words the machines came equipped with.
It was honestly incredible how they developed and evolved, all to just say they want me to die.
Honestly, I admire their dedication.
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
I swung my spear and used my armor to both parry their lightning-fast blows and also to defend. This armor, the [Reinforced And Adaptable Orichalconium Triple-Layered Armor Plate] was incredible.
It was both lightweight yet also incredibly durable. With this, I swung my spear, parrying their blows, and then piercing through their bodies several times in a row.
Crack, crack…
Until.
CRAAASH!
They simply couldn't take my attacks anymore, the flurry of electrified spear attacks began to grind through their machine exterior, burning their interior and then…
{One Hundred Lightning Blows
Echo}: [Chain-Lightning Serpentine Spear]!
The lightning emanated from my spear changed as I attacked, dividing and spreading into chain lightning that electrocuted and burned through their bodies all at once, constantly moving from one to the other.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The explosions of electricity weren't enough though, the hard metal armor was really good at dampening electric blows due to how Machine Warriors are constructed.
"GYAAAAGH!"
As they charged against me, I aimed at their "wounds", as dozens of giant crimson and black guns materialized from my aura.
A whole Demonic Battery worth of energy was spent to summon them all, but it was worth it.
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
Hundreds of bullets pierced their bodies, as they exploded and fell apart into pieces, I smothered them enough for them to die so easily.
"Good… Now become my little friends. {Arise}"
FLUOSH!
The Xenoids then, became Abyssal Vampiric Undead, and accompanied me as they joined our ever-growing army of foes turned allies.
The other pilot that had yet to join me had an ill fate.
Half of them died within the first battles, their mechs were lingering around, some Xenoids wanted to take over them and evolve into the new forms.
However, my Sentinels and the Pilots I commanded retrieved the machines for me and I was able to take their Neutonium Cores and absorb them, while turning the machines into Sentinels.
Meanwhile, the experienced pilots that hated me were all gathered together, fighting a swarm of thirty or so Xenoids, some of these pilots having already died.
"Blake! We're almost done here!"
Patrick called me, as he swung his blade and cut down into pieces one Xenoid, their true body was destroyed, and they exploded into tiny particles of Placentoid.
"Good! Finish off the remaining Brutes! I'll go assist the other pilots! After that, all of you charge with me!" I said. "We're almost done!"
I flew across the cosmos, Eleanora constantly assisting me with all kinds of things, controlling my spear, or controlling other Sentinels for a more specific work, she was also using her Skills through them, her spear arts in specific, and even some of her Ninjutsu.
"Blake! They're going to kill them all if we go at this speed!" she said.
"Is that so?" I wondered. "It would certainly be funny if they died so easily but… I need these veterans. Let's go save a few."
FLASH!
I reached them, as I found myself in the middle of a chaotic spatial battlefield. Screams echoed everywhere, as the Xenoids held the high ground without a doubt.
Machines being wrapped around tentacles, several of them with missing arms, others had their weapons broken.
Despite being veterans they sucked at fighting as a group.
Why? Because they only think about their own survival, not about the survival of everyone.
Therefore, these fools can't do things together.
Find your next adventure on empire
"Eleanora, take the left area with the Sentinels!" I said. "Undead, follow me to the right area!"
Like that, we divided into two smaller groups, aiming to save the pilots.
"Please… someone…! Someone save meeeee!"
One of them screamed, as a Xenoid's tentacles were trying to get to him through the holes it opened on the machine warrior.
"I don't want to dieeeeee!"
As he continued to scream, and the tentacles creepily drew closer.
SLAAASH!
I swung down my spear at lightning speed, the Xenoid tentacles were instantly sliced and then exploded into pieces of flesh.
I followed by swinging and then piercing the Xenoid, a basic one, in the spherical body, reaching its true body and blasting it from the inside out.
BOOOM!
"It's as simple as that," I said. "Why can't you do the same? And you call yourself a pilot?"
"T-Thank you for saving me!" the man cried. "But this is hopeless! I've been trying to survive for so long! I-I just can't… I can't with this anymore!"
He started to convulse and groan in agony, as I noticed one tentacle got to him.
Suddenly, his entire spacesuit exploded, tentacles surging from every limb, which wrapped into the interior of the machine warrior, mixing flesh and metal together.
So that's how they're born, huh?
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