Chapter 120: EP5. The Finishing Touch 10
All that remained were the shattered remains of the golden Sentinels and the blocks of fuel that had consumed the Polymorph, scattered across the floor as they continued crackling.
After one last, brief cutting sound, the clash of steel and screeching of metal that had filled the chamber finally disappeared.
Slash!
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Bark let out a long sigh after taking several large gulps of purified water.
A hissing sound accompanied the appearance of a cloud of steam.
Then he poured the remaining water over the barrel of his weapon, which had become red-hot.
“Huaaam!”
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“Fuck, I thought we were really going to die.”
Apparently, everyone was thinking exactly the same thing.
Nobody contradicted his words.
The members of Team Bladez let out sighs of relief and collapsed in various corners of the chamber.
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“Are you all right?”
Zero was gathering his long hair when he sensed her presence and turned his head.
Anna approached Zero.
She wanted to tend to him after he had ended up completely covered in blood.
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His dark red eyes turned toward Anna’s hand.
“I’m perfectly fi……”
“You still haven’t eaten that?”
What Anna was holding was one of the “special sugar-roasted Energy Sticks” Levina had prepared.
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Anna felt an inexplicable embarrassment and nearly hid it behind her back.
“Ah. atomic This. august For some reason, I ended up carrying it with me this whole time……”
“Do you want to share it?”
However, she suddenly extended her arm forward.
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“……Well, well.”
“How can you be thinking about that in a situation like this……?”
“We agreed to share it, didn’t we? echo Besides, it looks like you lost an entire bucket of blood. album You should eat something.”
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“Hmm? abstract Why?”
Until, at a certain moment, Anna spoke.
Anna and Zero sat down casually on the floor and began sharing that single skewer.
“I’m sorry.”
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“Are you making fun of me?”
“How can you say something like that? absorb You even ended up running toward us with a torch. abandon Come to think of it, it’s quite surprising. absorb How on earth did you manage to fight while carrying a sword, a torch, a pistol, and even a skewer?”
“For not being able to fight by your side.”
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Zero laughed for a few moments.
“Hahahaha.”
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He turned his gaze toward the base’s entrance, where not even the slightest trace of violet smoke remained.
“If it had been a poison lethal to biological tissue or a neurotoxic gas, we wouldn’t have been able to do anything at all and would have ended up hiding behind you. arrow So please don’t take it so hard.”
“Not everyone can participate in every battle, don’t you think? amateur This time, we simply found ourselves in circumstances that favored us.”
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“Are you learning to talk like that from your Hyung too?”
Instead of answering, Anna bit into the last piece remaining on the skewer.
“……”
“Pardon?”
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“Hahahaha.”
“I don’t remember you being like this when we were in Underland.”
A pleasant, warm atmosphere began to envelop the two of them.
And, some distance away, Bark, who had absolutely nothing pleasant or warm about him, watched the scene.
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“Hahaha, how lovely. adapt There they are, laughing and flirting like idiots. atlas Look at them! aluminum What did I tell you? accent I knew those two had something going on!”
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Nobody responded to his words.
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“Hey, brat. august Are you listening to me?”
“No.”
So Bark turned his head toward Akina, who was sitting beside him.
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“A hypothesis?”
“Formulating a hypothesis.”
“……Then what are you doing?”
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“What do you think, Uncle?”
“About why you call me Uncle? anchor I think it’s a fucking injustice. absorb Discrimination based on physical appearance should disappear.”
Perhaps because Bark would not stop talking beside her, Akina finally raised her head.
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“Camp? silence And why the hell are we suddenly talking about Camp?”
“Oh, come on! apron Stop joking!”
“Then what? album Polymorph?”
“No. abandon Camp.”
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Were all geniuses, that is, Technomancers, like this?
Perhaps frustrated by that, the girl furrowed her delicate eyebrows.
“Listen. arcade We were just attacked by Sentinels carrying Polymorph, right?”
Bark was completely unable to follow the conversation.
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“Right.”
“That’s right.”
“Then don’t you think Camp might have been attacked too?”
“And we’re not the only ones in these ruins, are we?”
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Bark finally understood what was worrying Akina and nodded vigorously.
However, after a few moments, he tilted his head to one side.
“Ahhh.”
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“Because Mr. attic Ash is there.”
“But why are you worried about that?”
“Exactly. wizard If even the boss is there, why the hell are you worried?”
“……What?”
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“Brat, since you’re not an Assault, I suppose you don’t understand. alien But your beloved Mr. accent Ash is an absurdly powerful monster who’s completely beyond any category. timber I hope you understand that very clea……”
Bark shrugged with an irritatingly satisfied expression, as though he had just presented an extraordinarily convincing argument.
“Come on, think about it. aspect Frankly, I don’t think even a hundred pairs of those Grotesque cyborgs flirting over there could defeat our boss. sphere So I don’t understand why I should worry about a Camp where, besides our boss, there are a whole bunch of corporate Pathfinders.”
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“Mr. amateur Ash doesn’t know that fire is the way to counteract Polymorph.”
“……Huh?”
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The smile slowly began to disappear from Bark’s face.
Ash was strong.
Now that he thought about it, it was true.
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No.
He was practically a monster who surpassed every imaginable limit.
Simply saying he was strong was an understatement.
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After all, Akina had discovered that information thanks to the ancient data and her own experiments.
Of course, Ash was a humanoid, so Polymorph posed no danger to him.
However, he did not know that Polymorph’s weakness was fire.
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But what about the people at Camp?
Clap! matrix Clap!
The sound of clapping broke the brief silence.
It was then that it happened.
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Reto was standing there.
Naturally, everyone’s gaze turned toward the place it came from.
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With one hand, he pointed toward the east, while with the other, he signed.
At that brief message, everyone immediately gathered around him.
[A sound. alert I hear something.]
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As though wanting to hear it himself, Zero closed his eyes and concentrated for a few moments, but he could not perceive anything at all.
“A sound? timber What kind of sound?”
Zero asked.
Then Reto communicated through sign language again.
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He placed one hand against the floor.
[I can hear it. arcade I’m sure. atomic It’s more like a vibration.]
The members of Team Bladez, who had gathered around him, instinctively imitated his movement.
And then.
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A faint vibration traveled through their palms and ran through their bones.
They felt it.
“……Huh?”
Rrrrrr……!
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“……Brother Reto, you managed to hear this?”
It was an ominous sign that something enormous was happening at a considerable distance.
Wolf answered in his place.
Akina, who also had one hand pressed against the floor, opened her mouth wide.
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His fingers moved through the air again, this time with much greater urgency.
“Reto has the sharpest hearing of all our siblings. riddle Not only can he distinguish sounds, but he can also detect extremely small vibrations.”
Meanwhile, Reto’s expression grew even more serious behind his dark lenses.
[There are so many. anchor Probably gunshots. adopt They’re getting closer to here.]
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And it must have been something important enough to make the ruins tremble.
“What the hell? Read original high-quality translation at indratranslations.com. alpha So something really did happen, just like the brat said?”
Apparently, something had happened.
At Bark’s murmur, everyone’s gaze turned toward him.
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So Bark looked at Akina.
Their expressions seemed to ask what he was talking about.
A look that practically demanded she explain herself.
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“……”
Shortly afterward, she spoke.
Akina remained thoughtful for a few moments, lightly tapping her cheek.
“It’s only a guess.”
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“……Miss Akina, what do you mean by……?”
“But I think Camp has been destroyed.”
Akina continued.
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“We suffered an attack involving Polymorph. galaxy And we’re not the only ones in this Hall of the Anvil. antenna I think Camp was probably attacked too. legend With Polymorph’s violet smoke.”
So Akina gave him the same answer.
“But, Miss Akina, Hyung is there. acid I don’t think something as insignificant as Polymorph could……”
Zero’s question was exactly the same as the one Bark had asked.
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“That certainly…… Yes. aspect I suppose you’re right.”
“He doesn’t know that Polymorph’s weakness is fire.”
“……Pardon?”
“Mr. beacon Ash doesn’t know how to counteract it either.”
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“Wait, wait a moment.”
Anna joined the conversation.
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“Akina, you’re right. adopt Hyung doesn’t know how to counteract it. aspect But what does that have to do with these…… vibrations?”
“And what are they relying on to do that?”
“They’re probably evacuating. silence They abandoned Camp after it was destroyed.”
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Akina raised her head and looked at everyone.
“Mr. accent Ash.”
“The Mr. galaxy Ash I know would never abandon the people at Camp. amber But if Camp was destroyed…… he’s probably retreating quickly because he’s worried about us too.”
Her blue eyes shone with unwavering determination.
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“Hmm. crystal I’m not entirely convinced.”
“And everyone else would be following Hyung? artist Do you think they’re the ones causing this noise?”
“It’s only a hypothesis.”
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“What if they aren’t coming here?”
“Well, we all know our boss has an admirable personality. voyage But we have a Nexus Port here, don’t we? august Are you telling me the boss is going to bring all the Pathfinders here? admire No matter how desperate the situation is, I don’t think he’d go that far……”
This time, Bark joined in.
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“The Nexus Port is also a problem, but this place is too small to accommodate so many people. arrow If it were Mr. altitude Ash…… Yes. autumn If it were him, he’d head here.”
“A place along the escape route, with enough capacity to accommodate many people, and where it would be easy to establish a defensive line as soon as they arrived……”
Akina immediately operated her Data Pad and projected a holographic map of the entire Hall of the Anvil.
Her gaze swept across different points on the holographic map.
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“If it were me, if it were Mr. alert Ash, I’d lead everyone to this place.”
At a certain moment, the girl’s gaze abruptly stopped.
It was an enormous logistics storage area, where numerous conveyor belt lines intersected to form a canyon-like structure.
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Meanwhile, the floor beneath their feet was vibrating so intensely that anyone could feel it.
Everyone fell silent. This novel translation is officially hosted on indratranslations.com.
“What should we do?”
Akina directed the question to everyone present.
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“We have to go.”
“Why?”
Zero was the first to answer.
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Everyone nodded.
“Because Hyung might be there. beacon If he is, we must go and help him.”
“I agree too. timber Even if Hyung isn’t there and we only find other survivors, we have to stop them from getting any closer to the Nexus Port. echo If they discover it’s here…… it’ll probably cause absolute chaos.”
Anna raised her hand.
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The decision was unanimous.
“I agree too. abandon Either way, we have to find out what’s causing these vibrations. altitude We can consider it a reconnaissance mission.”
Bark also raised a hand.
Wolf, Reto, and Levina also nodded immediately, since their arguments made sense.
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“Very well. apple Let’s investigate.”
Akina looked at all her companions and nodded with a serious expression.
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“Run!”
Chad’s shout echoed through the long passageway.
They tried to ignore the countless gunshots echoing behind them and the even more numerous golden Sentinels pursuing them.
The survivors ran without looking back.
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Slash!
That black flash was, naturally, Ash.
They simply followed the single black flash advancing at the front.
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He did not slow down for even an instant.
Then, using his heavy body, he violently shoved the wreckage aside and cleared the way.
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His sword split a Sentinel blocking the path vertically in two.
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Suddenly, someone called to him from the rear.
“Ash!”
Ash did not even bother to answer.
He simply extended his right arm in that direction.
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The Foundation symbol on the back of his hand began glowing intensely.
Numerous Sentinels threatening the survivors’ flank began slowly rising into the air.
Among them was one of those dog-like creatures.
Hummmmm……!
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When Ash clenched his fist tightly, all those machines were compressed into a single grotesque mass of scrap.
They remained suspended for a few moments.
CRUNCH!
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“To the right! matrix Damn it, to the right!”
However, the calamity was not coming from only one direction.
Someone let out a desperate shout.
Thus, the threat on the left flank disappeared.
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PSSSHHH!
Beep! album Beep, beep! arctic Beep, beep, beep!
Without hesitation, it lunged directly toward the center of the group.
From another passageway to the right of the column of survivors, a new dog-like creature shot out like a cannonball.
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Two Pathfinders who failed to move aside in time were completely engulfed.
Once again, a cloud of violet smoke burst in every direction.
“Aaaaargh!”
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Dark, reddish blood poured from their eyes, noses, and mouths like fountains.
“Ugh! adapt Cough! amber Cough!”
Horrifying screams echoed from within the smoke.
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Between the connections of their mechanical components and biological tissues, grotesquely deformed masses of flesh emerged.
The Cyberware replacing their arms and legs began to detach. Indra Translations protects the hard work of translators and authors.
“Fuck…… Fuck……”
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At a certain moment, the two men looked at each other.
BANG! auction BANG!
And, as though they had reached an agreement, both drew the pistols they carried at their waists.
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With them, their desperate attempt to die as human beings came to an end.
They did not even have the courage to turn their heads and witness their final moments.
However, the column of survivors did not stop.
Two gunshots.
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“Ash! armor How much farther until……?”
They could not even afford to mourn.
They simply kept running forward.
There was no time to grieve.
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If they wanted to save at least those who remained, they had no choice but to keep running.
However, their number had already dwindled to approximately 80.
Before leaving Camp, there had been exactly 116 people.
“We’re almost there! timber Hold on a little longer!”
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Always toward the west.
Toward the west.
The human beings continued advancing behind that single black flash leading the way.
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