Reincarnator Chapter 340:
Reincarnator - Chapter 340 : Main Research Center (2)
—kiiiiing!—
After seeing their comrades being destroyed, countless more unmanned robots rushed to this location and started to search .
—kirruk—
Their goal was to collect intel regarding their mysterious opponent .
They were coded to collect intel throughout the entire research center, but once attacked, they would gather in order to destroy or capture their foe .
Though the sensors above the modules were working at full power to find the two intruders, it was all futile .
After inspecting its destroyed comrade, the AR-1121 picked it up and started to move away—it assumed the intruder had fled to another location .
It would be able to gather a bit of intel after it looked through the debris .
And right next to them…
There were two pairs of eyes that were watching these robots returning to their original positions .
‘This is much better . ’
Hansoo nodded as he looked at the thin barrier surrounding him and Kiriel .
And Kiriel smiled proudly .
“It’s something the mages of the Kingdoms were using, but it seemed useful, so I learned it . I was able to hide from the Ark-Roa, and even from the one who created the various Transcendents . ”
Hansoo’s brows rose up .
He had always wondered how she’d roamed around without being detected by the others, but it looked like this was how she had done it .
‘It still shouldn’t have been that easy . ’
Her methods were indeed above the norm, and her talents were naturally not inferior to the Keldian in the past .
“Anyway, where do we go now?”
Kiriel asked Hansoo, looking around the vast, artificial land .
‘It’s too wide . ’
If she were to read everything with her Psychometry, she would burn out very quickly .
She didn’t know what she had to look for as well .
‘Right… Do I have to tell her?’
Hansoo thought to himself .
If they were going to continue traveling, there was a need for him to tell her that he had come from the future .
Otherwise, she would question him every time he did something strange .
It might even cause confusion during a decisive moment .
Since Kiriel wouldn’t understand why he was doing certain things .
But even before Hansoo could finish his thoughts, Kiriel asked him a question, with eyes full of expectation .
“Hurry and show me . I heard you have a weird superpower right?’
“ . . . ”
‘Did she see that too?’
He had heard that she’d researched him, but it looked like she’d also seen the lies he’d made in the past .
Hansoo chuckled at Kiriel’s puppy-like eyes and pointed towards a direction .
“Let’s go that way then . ”
And Kiriel smiled at Hansoo’s actions .
This world was a new, unknown world .
Nobody knew where they were, and they didn’t know what they would encounter or where they had to go .
But a trait that showed them the path in a situation like this?
Wasn’t that the best trait in a leader one could ask for?
And his goal was cool too .
Saving all of mankind .
‘I’m going to follow him until the end!’
Kiriel tightly grasped the fang in her hand as she quickly followed Hansoo from behind .
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“It seems everything was destroyed . ”
‘Who lived here in the past?’
Kiriel mumbled as she ran past countless metal buildings .
It was strange .
Robots wouldn’t live in such places .
And the half-destroyed barrier in the sky had also proved something .
There was something that needed that exact barrier .
But strangely, there wasn’t a single trace of a human being in this vast land .
Only the metal robots that roamed from place to place while making strange noises .
‘Ugh . ’
Kiriel looked around at the tank-like robots, who all seemed to be running around in a hectic state because of their intrusion .
—sssssk!—
‘What the hell?’
Kiriel frowned at the minute and invisible wave that made contact with her own barrier .
This was a detection skill .
Quite a high-leveled one too .
‘No, it’s not just a skill . What is this?’
One thing was clear at least; they had been found .
—swoosh—
A man appeared from where the wave had originated from in the distance .
Right where they were heading towards .
And the man was holding onto a strange rod-like object in his hands .
—chiiijijik—
‘That . He mixed his skill with that . ’
She wondered how he’d detected her through her barrier, but he’d apparently mixed his skill with a strange object .
The man wore a necklace, which suddenly created a strange, translucent bubble that surrounded his head .
Something that allowed him to maintain his fighting abilities in a land that had no oxygen to breathe .
Kiriel started to get curious as she watched the man . He seemed to be clad in various items that looked different from normal artifacts .
‘ . . . Were you always able to mix skills with technology?’
That thing looked extremely useful .
Though the skills looked magical, they were a lot of cases where they fell short .
Most of them were very inefficient if they couldn’t be used in direct combat or for survival .
And as if feeling Kiriel’s eyes on him, the man shouted out towards Kiriel and Hansoo .
“Wait! Please wait a moment!”
Kiriel stopped after hearing the man’s shout, and asked Hansoo:
“What shall we do?”
She was interested in the man already, but the man had come to find them instead .
And the man was in quite a perilous situation as well .
—Kirrrrk!—
“Damnit!”
The surrounding robots had heard the man’s shouts and were gathering towards this area .
Apparently, he had come outside even after knowing that it would be dangerous .
Hansoo pondered for a moment at Kiriel’s words, but then nodded .
“Let’s hear him out at least . ”
The scene from the memory Kiriel had told him about kept on bugging him .
And he also wondered why the giant barrier in the sky had broken apart .
Intel was better the more one had, and somebody who’d been here longer would definitely know more than they did .
Kiriel chuckled as she nodded .
“It looks like we’ll need to rescue him first . ”
The man was screaming while he fought the robots in the distance .
“Ahhh!”
—booom!—
She and Hansoo couldn’t be seen by the robots since they were behind her barrier that hid them .
So all their attention and attacks had been focused on the man .
Hansoo nodded at Kiriel’s words as he watched the man who was barely dodging the various attacks that flew towards him .
“I’ll do it . ”
Then—
—ssssss—
—a mass of red clouds started to appear around Hansoo’s body .
……………………………………… .
“Haa… haaa . Thank you . ”
The man gasped for breath after reaching the barrier Kiriel had set up .
Kiriel mumbled to herself as she looked at the man’s appearance .
‘Woah . What a hottie!’
His looks were comparable to some famous superstar .
But Kiriel moved her eyes away from his face .
The various machinery the man had on his body was more interesting to her than his face .
‘What are all these things?’
She wasn’t an engineer to begin with, so she couldn’t figure out with a single glance how he used his machinery nor how they were created .
But there was no need for her to know all those details .
She just needed to know how to use them, and what effect they had .
And her trait was perfect for such a thing .
‘Let’s see . ’
—kiiiiing—
As Kiriel activated her Psychometry to read the memories—
—Hansoo spoke to the man, who was still gasping for breath .
“Why did you call out to us?”
The man looked into Hansoo’s eyes and said:
“What else? I was asking for help . ”
Kiriel clenched her teeth as she used a touch of her Psychometry .
She had expected this to some degree .
Since she and Hansoo had shown off their prowess already, anyone who came to find them would be coming for that exact reason .
But what gall . [a][b]
‘Is he not scared?’
Those looks might be able to subdue the rage of some females, but it wouldn’t be that useful against another man .
But Hansoo looked at the man in amusement .
He could see the man had something backing his arrogance .
And the man saw Hansoo’s gaze and nodded .
“Good . We should all be helping each other out . I’m sure you won’t lose out on this deal . ”
“Do you even know who we are?”
The man shrugged his shoulders .
“Well, I don’t know who you are, but you are human . Since that crazy **** Melchizedek betrayed the humans, we should be helping each other out . ”
“Betray?’
Kiriel was shocked .
Betrayal?
Had they been allies in the past?
The man looked at Kiriel in shock .
‘What a pretty girl . ’
The man, Jack Hounder, smiled and replied kindly .
“Yes, betray . That **** suggested we ally and then betrayed us the moment we agreed . ”
Jack looked in the direction of the research center in the distance .
………………………………… . .
Outer areas of the giant machine city .
—rumble—
A train-like object was quickly scouting through the perimeter of the city .
But it didn’t seem like a train for transferring people or cargo .
The giant train racing through the metal ground was simply humongous .
—rumble—
The giant train charging over the ground was easily the size of a small island .
And there were hundreds of buildings that had been built on top of that train .
And in the middle of this train…
Within a giant building…
—rummble—
A two-meter-tall humanoid form was standing in the middle of a structure, which resembled a factory or research center .
The man, who had been standing amidst the countless noisy machines, ignored the faint vibrations in the ground as he looked around .
Though the various machines looked quite disorganized—
—the view from the man’s position was quite a sight .
To the left, there were thousands of test tubes which held countless humans .
To the right of the man, there were factories that were quickly constructing things .
—bubble bubble—
The humans who looked to be sleeping peacefully were mostly in parts .
Just the bottom half, the top half or just the arms and legs .
The other parts had already melted down into the liquid .
And these liquified bodies were being sucked into a larger tube that was attached on top of the test tubes .
—sssss—
The man, who had been staring at the factory, turned towards the liquids .
Towards the direction where those liquids were heading to .
The man looked at the giant aquarium located in front of him .
The lifeform that was being created in the middle .
The lifeform that was receiving the liquefied humans from the left, and nanomachines from the plant on the right .
The man caressed the aquarium as he mumbled .
‘A step towards… unification . ’
But this was not enough .
He needed more .
As fast as possible .
As much as possible .
The man then turned towards the elevator and smiled .
[a]? like seagulls or gall, like he has such balls
[b]he has le balls