“Ah, I think I heard some ruckus at the back,” Kraft said nonchalantly as he walked up the stairs. He shot down another guard who tried to be a hero but failed so miserably.
“The System said Jin and Hou Fei are currently defending the space shuttle.” Qiu Yue reported to the rest of the group.
“Why? That piece of aircraft is just junk metal. It’s incomplete anyways and only used to keep us intact in case we teleported wrongly into outer space which we did thanks to dumb dumb Peppers.” Kraft replied as the group reached another blockade. With Kraft’s assumed technological expertise, the door should have opened quite easily but most of them forgot that this was an entirely new universe with different security protocols and encryption methods.
“Ah, this is quite an interesting lock.” Kraft quickly got into a pickle upon attempting to hack the system. “Now I understand why the System wants me to go so desperately. It’s not to kill stuff, but to learn their technology and bring it back for the System to utilise. It’s got to cost you something!” Kraft said loudly but it was pretty apparent that he was aiming his discontent at the System.
“The System shall reward Original Bellator Kraft sufficient System Points as well as a substantial upgrade to his current abode.” The System reported and somehow that perked him up.
“Is it really the best time to learn their technology through breaking their lock during a freaking lockdown? If we cannot move forward fast enough, they will either bring an army of guards behind us or they will transfer the prisoners away to an even more secure place…perhaps send the prisoners that we wish to rescue into a separate space shuttle and disappear into the depths of outer space.” Kong Rong showed his displeasure in waiting for the lock to be removed.
“Not gonna lie, he does have a point.” Qiu Yue said as she stared at the enormous metal doors filled with a dozen locking mechanisms attached to it like some safe with high specifications. “If you fail any of the unlocking sequences, we would never go through this.
“And from the looks of it, it seems to be fortified in such a way that even Mechas would have some difficulty going through it with brute force.” Zeru touched the metal to have a feel of the material, with hopes that his sword could cut through it.
“Guys, we have company.” Ke Loong who was on the lookout saw that the room they were in had doors starting to open behind them. And not in just one direction but five. Up, Down, Back, Right and Left.
Miniature Mechas that were the size of Jin’s Fortress Golems and the very same Armoured Mechas were seen coming from all five doors along with a multiple platoons of heavily geared troops pouring to get to them.
“Ah, that means we are going in the right direction.” Kraft smiled as he immediately raised a bubble barrier around himself as he focused himself on the console panel. “Guess this might prove useful in breaking down the initial part of the lock.” He said to himself as he had earlier searched a few bodies for any sort of physical item that could be used to unlock stuff. In fact, he even had cut hands off the guards and gorged a few eyeballs just in case they were needed. (The rest were not exactly approving of his behaviour but they knew that he was doing what was needed.)
And true enough, the hand which he saw off had proven to be useful as the keyboardless console panel immediately revealed a holographic keyboard with the presence of a familiar thumbprint at the scanner. But to make things even more complicated, it seemed like only the hand he was holding was able to use the holographic keyboard.
Further entries from his own set of hands were recognised as invalid and there was a security pop up alert, indicating that only the user who had scanned the console could use it. Kraft eventually got fed up and reanimated the dead user’s hands with chi and started to mirror his finger typing with the dead set of hands. It was creepy from another person’s perspective but the solution worked.
“Can your shield withstand all attacks?” Qiu Yue asked and Kraft snorted.
“Depends whether I am too deep in concentrating on the algorithms. But if it’s a stray bullet or something of that nature, I should be able to handle it without thinking.” Kraft replied and that was enough information that for the first time ever, Kraft might need some protection. Even if he was able to do solo fending for himself, it would no doubt slow down the calculation time needed to break open the locks. Therefore Qiu Yue decided to take charge of the situation by telling everyone to kill the enemies as soon as possible.
“Don’t just do that. Create diversion as well.” Zeru said as he unsheathed his sword slowly to reveal a blade that was coated in blackness. However, the moment he poured some chi into it, his katana returned into a normal metal blade. Qiu Yue knew what her newest sensei was doing and allowed him to do whatever he liked. In the meantime, with the empire building Sub System on her side, she poured a bit of cash and a wall of cement emerged right behind Kraft followed by another set of metal walls and surprisingly a wall of slime too.
The slime was no ordinary slime as they were bought off the black market known to be parts of a high ranked defender slime from the Dungeon World. They were known to block high level spells of magic and Qiu Yue hoped that it worked the same against high energy laser beams and even high speed ballistics to ensure that Kraft’s barrier receive the least amount of damage.
Separately, Kong Rong and Ke Loong tagged team and proceeded to kill any incoming Miniature Mechas and ground troops since they understood each other’s way of attacking but they left the larger Mecahs alone. They knew their attack power might be insufficient against them, therefore, left Zeru to take care of it.
It was only then Qiu Yue realised Milk went missing. She tried to call her via the System Channel and yet there was no answer. Since it was rare for a Bellator to die or get kidnapped, Qiu Yue assumed that Milk went off to kill stuff her way and decided not to bother with her.
Besides, she saw the monk priest fought before and knew that in terms of fighting capabilities, she could be either stronger or on the same level as Zeru.
