The scene beca increasingly strange and bizarre with each passing second. The robots’ rituals involved elaborate dances with coordinated chanical movents, chants in tallic tones, and, occasionally, the tossing of screws into the air as an offering.
Alm and Bruno couldn’t even laugh anymore. The black tower was considered sacred because it was the place from which, supposedly, new robots were born inexplicably to them.
Until, after a while, Bruno noticed sothing. "Look! All the new robots seem to be confused." Because they were now robots themselves, they could detect such changes in the other robots, too. It had all to do with the soul gem within their own robotic body.
Alm turned his gaze, observing with curiosity. There were about twelve new robots with different shapes and sizes; most of them had humanoid forms. But two were different among them: the granted janitor robots. Only these two robots seed to be made for the purpose of cleaning and things like that. As for the rest, all of them wielded cutting and piercing weapons, ready for battle.
"Hmm... it seems like the three heroes maintaining the barrier expected the robots to gradually destroy the demon army. But they had no idea how long it would take," analyzed Alm. One must not forget that the heroes imprisoned the demons in the force field, and the robots were supposed to be killing them.
Bruno agreed and added, "There’s no one from the demon army inside the force field anymore. From the confusion of these new robots, the heroes don’t know that the robots had already gotten the job done a long ti ago."
Alm then had an idea, sinisterly excited. "Great, this is our opportunity. The heroes must not be aware of the world inside the force field. Since that gigantic tower belonged to the demon king, they must be trapped inside or sothing."
"Now we know where the thinnest part of this barrier is, thanks to the entry of these new robots. We just need more power to penetrate there... let’s absorb the soul gems of these robots."
Alm spoke casually, expecting Bruno’s imdiate denial. But to his surprise, Bruno didn’t respond imdiately, remaining silent and contemplating deeply. He watched those new robots closely and noticed sothing strange.
"They’re kind of still, aren’t they?" Bruno spoke, expressing doubt and seeking Alm’s opinion. Both analyzed the situation for a while.
Bruno recalled that within the robotic body, there were various automatic chanisms, but most needed consciousness to move them. It soon beca clear that sothing influenced the robots to act as they did. Obviously, coming from Earth, they had knowledge that had never before proven useful; they understood that the creators of these robots had placed programming and tasks for them.
Even by observing these twelve new robots, one could sense synergy among them. Five were dense and large, designed for close combat. Another five were light, focused on speed. And the other two were janitors... probably ant for cleaning up the Qi of the dead.
"As they arrive in this empty place, they don’t know why or how or what they should be doing," Bruno whispered, but sothing still seed off.
"These new robots don’t have consciousness yet," Alm confidently stated. "The creators must be using not fully developed gems to create them. Probably, after a few centuries, these newcors will develop consciousness. That’s why, as re programming, they don’t know what to do in this place and just stand there."
Bruno then turned to the distant sea of robots and noticed that none of them were approaching the newcors. "This seems to be normal for them. Since they don’t even try to approach, it might even be dangerous for a while."
"Well... that’s great. They’re not technically alive yet; let’s steal the Qi from their soul gems," Bruno concluded, finally starting to move.
They descended calmly to a significant distance on the opposite side of the city, with the newcors at the center. Then, the various tallic limbs moved on the ground smoothly like a giant robot spider. When they were very close, a subtle fluctuation from the motionless robots was felt, confirming the theory.
Their programming was to attack and kill anything nearby. Initially, even if a robot approached, it attacked first and checked later. That’s why the city robots kept their distance. Over ti, the soul gems would create a consciousness that would override the programming, and they could behave less violently.
Soon, all the Qi available in the soul gems of Alm and Bruno was pushed to the limit. The laws and Qi of this universe were very scarce and incomplete. So, they felt like they were in a fragile and simple place. They specialized in disguising and hiding, and in this place, it was an extrely easy task to rge with the elents around them. They felt that their stealth level had reached a divine level in this universe, being much more effective.
"It seems like the system sent us to a world where our natural abilities are very useful and effective," Bruno said, impressed. "Thinking about it, the other quest was in a world surrounded by the Qi of death. It was also sothing very familiar and simple for both of us to use."
Alm spat sharply. "A grotesque and stealthy robot chira, this sounds more and more ridiculous to . I’d rather be a wicked assassin skeleton."
"Yes! We were a Divine Skeleton!!!" Bruno didn’t forget his honorary title.
Alm cursed a bit, but they still moved easily like a shadow and reached a few ters from the robots, hiding behind a large rock.
After a few focused seconds, their robot slowly erged its legs from the ground. "Let’s test. In theory, it should work," Alm said.
Seconds passed since all the legs were completely imrsed in the soil. Suddenly, the air began to change subtly, becoming intensely cold. Although the nearby robots didn’t have many thermal sensors, they sensed the change in the Qi of the environnt.
Suddenly, a wave of heat ran through the robot’s tal shells, instantly activating all their combat programming.
The two streams then mixed and physically condensed. All the robots turned towards a giant rock, raising their weapons as they saw two dense and extrely mystical auras illuminate the entire environnt.
All the Yin and Yang laws of the universe seed to converge on that place, abruptly transforming the sky of the planet into a fusion of black and white colors. All the robots in their cult suddenly stopped, surprised and frightened by the unexpected change.
"What the hell... this gem is on a much higher level than we thought," Bruno comnted, alard.
After analyzing the soul gem and realizing that it had capabilities similar to the ’Yin and Yang Supre Qi Collector’ technique, it wasn’t hard to imagine that they could use it to collect Qi directly, faster and more efficiently.
They didn’t have the tattoos and couldn’t create them in this robotic body. But they received the technique directly into their souls from the system. They possessed a level of detail and knowledge about the technique that could easily be mistaken for that of the original creator.
So, they artificially rged their souls into the gem, attempting to replace the tattoo. In the end, it was much easier and more powerful than they expected. The gem rged perfectly with the Yin and Yang power of their souls; not only that, but the power level exceeded by hundreds of tis the capacity they expected.
First, the entire planet resonated with the call they created. Then, all the stars within the force field, and finally, the entire cosmos seed to tremble and be drawn. Frightening phenona illuminated the small enclosed world in vibrant colors, and a vortex funneled into a single point.
Inside the millions of atonic robots observing the phenona, they quickly realized that everything was focusing on that place very close to them and, at the sa ti, close to the black tower. Then, trembling robotic voices echoed.
"Oh... god... he’s coming! He’s finally descending to guide us!" Quickly, everyone trembled, and more and more hysterical voices reverberated.
"THE CELESTIAL ROBOT GOD HAS FINALLY ARRIVED!!!!!"
Chaos ensued among the robots, now in a frenzy of worship and excitent.
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