I Got A Cheat Ability In A Different World, And Become Extraordinary Even In The Real World (LN) Book 17: Chapter 3: Part 4

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Part 4

There was a massive door in the vast underground space.

The alarm sounded, and the door began to open slowly.

And as we walked through the door, a huge elevator appeared.

As we entered the elevator, it began to move, making a dull sound.

The sudden change in air pressure as we rose to the surface made feel a little dizzy, but glancing around, the other Awakened Ones didn’t seem to feel much dizziness. Perhaps they were all used to it.

After riding in the elevator for a while, it finally seed to reach the surface, and the doors opened…

“S-seriously?”

When I finally erged on the surface, I was speechless at the sight before .

It was a desolate, desert-like place, with buildings and statues buried in the sand.

This is… This is a scene I’ve only seen in movies and manga…

While the unexpected sight left speechless, Kazuya spoke.

“I know it’s surprising… but this is what the earth looks like now.”

“H-how could this happen…”

“It’s all the result of the nuclear war between AI and humans that happened hundreds of years ago.”

Despite my surprise, Akane san spoke like it was nothing.

“As you may have heard, when humans and AIs were at war and clashing with each other, the AIs hacked into the nuclear weapons of each country and used them against the humans. Nuclear weapons were sothing that humans had left as a last resort, but they never thought that their enemies, the AI, would take them and use them. They knew that if they did, it would be a huge problem for Earth. But for the AI, which is a machine, it didn’t matter. As a result of the AI using a large number of nuclear weapons, we were no longer able to live on the surface of the Earth… The reason why humans now live deep underground is partly to prevent the radio waves emitted by the Machine God Mother, but the original reason is because the surface of the Earth was contaminated.”

“But… is it really okay for us to go to the surface like this?”

When I asked, Kazuya nodded.

“Yes. At least it’s okay now. And the battle suit you’re wearing, Yuuya-san, also has the function of removing harmful substances.”

“That’s amazing!”

The more I hear, the more I think this suit is incredible!

“Especially since we’ve already developed a device to remove pollutants, all that’s left is to deal with the mother and the chanical knights.”

“I see.”

So, even though humanity was always ready to return to the surface, the only problem was the battle with the mother and the chanical knights.

After checking the current situation once more, Kazuya operated the wristband-like device and began to look at sothing that looked like a map.

…This wristband-type device is similar to the one rl used.

“Our exploration area is this way, right?”

“Huh, this is a place I’ve never been before.”

Obviously, the area we’re heading to is new to Kazuya and the others as well.

“So far, we’ve been sending teams of second-class awakened people to check things out. I think they want to expand the exploration area by sending us in this ti.”

“Well, it’s a big operation next ti, so I guess they want to find a place with a low encounter rate with the chanical knights and lots of resources first.”

“From the information we have so far, it looks like there aren’t many buildings in that area, so it will be difficult to find any survivors…”

“Anyway, let’s check it out.”

And so our exploration began.

The other teams also went to their designated locations.

As I walked through the ruined world, I still couldn’t accept that the future world had ended up like this.

Was this really the Earth I know?

While I walked for a while with a sowhat sad feeling, Kazuya operated the wristband device again.

“As I thought, there are no signs of people around here.”

“In fact, there’s not even anything that looks like a resource.”

As they said, the desert stretched in every direction, and we couldn’t even find a building, let alone a person.

I also checked the area with my Presence Detection skill, but there was still no sign of any living creatures.

“There’s no choice… let’s go back to the base, even if it’s a bit early.”

In the end, we decided to end the exploration early, as we hadn’t found anything.

As we were about to leave, I suddenly felt a strange sensation.

“What is it…?”

“Yuuya-san?”

“What’s wrong?”

The two of them looked at with puzzled expressions as I stopped in my tracks.

But ignoring their reactions, I was on alert.

It’s a strange feeling.

Even though I had used my skills to confirm that there was nothing around , sothing was nagging at .

And the longer I waited, the stronger that strange feeling beca until it finally turned into a conviction.

“Haa!”

“Eh, what?!”

“What…?”

I imdiately took out the Absolute Spear from my Item Box and threw it with all my might in the direction where I felt a bad feeling.

The Absolute Spear flew at a trendous speed and pierced through the empty space.

“──Ga, bi, gagagaga.”

Then, the empty space distorted, and a humanoid machine appeared!

“What?!”

“A chanical knight!?”

It seems that this humanoid machine was a chanical knight, but the Absolute Spear I threw pierced its chest, and it collapsed helplessly.

Kazuya and Akane san, who had seen this, imdiately went into battle stance.

And then──.

“──An abnormal situation. The stealth function has been disabled.”

To my surprise, the space around began to distort one by one, and the chanical knights began to appear one by one!

“S-seriously…?”

“Could it be that the chanical knights have a new stealth function?”

“What does that an?”

I was curious about Akane san’s words, so I asked her, and Kazuya replied.

“I’ve known for a while that chanical knights have a stealth function. But if we use the devices we’re wearing, we can detect and find them by detecting the weak radio waves they emit. But this ti, we couldn’t detect those radio waves…”

“…I see, so they have new stealth functions.”

It seems that the chanical knights have evolved even faster than I expected.

“But how did you notice?”

“That’s right! And that spear has returned to your hand in no ti at all…”

It seed that the two of them had many questions for , such as how I was able to see through the chanical knights’ cloak and about the Absolute Spear.

But…

“Let’s talk about that later. First, we must defeat the chanical knights before us.”

“Oh… T-That’s right!”

“Fine, I’ll burn them all!”

The next mont, Akane-san released flas from her whole body, creating huge fireballs in her palms.

“Disappear!”

Then she released the fireballs at the chanical knights, and they were instantly engulfed in flas.

However, the chanical knights were not defeated easily.

“Ergency cooling has started.

“Fire suppression has begun.”

The chanical knights, engulfed by Akane-san’s flas, tried to extinguish the fire by emitting a special gas from their bodies.

However, Akane-san laughed fearlessly in the face of these chanical knights.

“Sorry, but the only one who can extinguish my flas is .”

As Akane-san said, the chanical knights struggled to extinguish the flas, but the fire raged on unabated, burning the machines to nothing.

“A-amazing…”

“Akane is a special class awakened being with an extraordinary ability called Hellfire Player. We were surprised by the stealth function, but once we figured that out, it was only a matter of a mont or two.”

As Kazuya said, Akane-san created fla after fla and attacked the chanical knights.

Of course, the chanical knights started to defend themselves.

“Begin annihilation.”

“Simultaneous fire.”

Then, the chanical knights who had escaped Akane-san’s flas turned their weapon-like things towards us.

The next mont, lasers were fired simultaneously from the gun-like things of the chanical knights.

“Whoa, I’ll block them!”

In response to the attack, Kazuya took the long sword wrapped in bandages from his back and swung it horizontally in one fell swoop.

Imdiately after that, countless shining swords appeared behind Kazuya and flew away in one go.

The shining swords then shot down all the lasers that were coming towards them.

“How about that? This is my superpower… the Sword of the Sword Saint!”

“Wow, that’s amazing…!”

When I hear the word ‘Sword Saint,’ I couldn’t help but think of Iris-san, but the flashing swords flying through the air actually looked like the slashing attacks of a Sword Saint.

In this way, the chanical knights were destroyed through the cooperation of Akane-san and Kazuya, but there were still many left.

“I can’t just sit here and watch!”

Once again, I picked up the Absolute Spear and threw it at the place where the chanical knights were gathered.

At the sa ti, I ran toward the army of chanical knights.

The Absolute Spear I threw pierced the bodies of several targets as I aid, and it ca back to .

While retrieving it, I took out the Heavenly Whip from my Item Box and swung it with all my might.

“Uooooooooooo!”

The more I swung the Heavenly Whip, the more the tip of the whip branched out, binding the bodies of the chanical knights one by one.

Before I knew it, the Heavenly Whip had tightened around all the chanical knights’ bodies, and I swung it around to pull them all in at once.

The next mont, the bodies of the chanical knights that had been pulled in were crushed and instantly destroyed.

“Eeehhh?!”

“Isn’t this a bit too extraordinary?!”

The two who had watched swing the Heavenly Whip and defeat all the chanical knights opened their eyes wide in disbelief.

Anyway, this was the first ti I had fought a chanical knight, but I was relieved to see that my power─or rather, Sage-san’s weapons─were effective.

While I was taking a breather, Kazuya and the others ca running over.

“Yuuya-san! What was that weapon you just used?”

“Well… It’s kind of hard to explain, but I just think of it as one of the powers I can use.”

If I were to explain it properly, I’d have to talk about the other world and Zenovis-san as well.

“Anyway, I’m glad I can be of so use.”

“It’s not just that you’re useful… At first, I was quite disappointed that you didn’t have any superpowers, but now it seems that your superpowers are so amazing that they don’t matter anymore…”

“I guess you could say that Yuuya-san really was the savior. By the way, do you have any other weapons?”

“Yes. They’re all as powerful as the ones I used before.”

“Not only magic and mysterious powers but also weapons… the more I learn about you, the more I realize how deep your abilities are.”

“When we get back to the base, please show Marin-san your weapons! They could be useful for our weapons developnt!”

“Well, but we still haven’t found out what kind of power you have, Yuuya-san, and it looks like we won’t know how the weapons work either.”

“…That’s true.”

“Hahaha…”

Smiling wryly at their exchange, I suddenly ask.

“Speaking of which, what are we going to do with these defeated chanical knights?”

“Oh, we’ll take them back to our base. The parts and fuel used in the chanical knights are valuable resources in the underground city.”

“But we can’t take them all back at once, so we’ll have to call for reinforcents.”

“No, we can take them all back, so it’ll be fine.”

“Eh?”

The two of them are surprised by my words.

Leaving the two of them behind, I approached the defeated chanical knights and put them into the Item Box one by one.

“What?!”

“Yu-Yuuya-san! What is this?!”

“Well, it’s called an Item Box, and it’s another power I can use… but I don’t know the detailed principles, so I can’t explain it to you. Sorry?”

“N-no, it’s okay if you can’t explain it, but… ah, you also used that power to instantly draw and deposit weapons in the battle just now, didn’t you?”

“…It really seems like we can collect all the chanical knights. Is there a limit to the capacity?”

“There shouldn’t be, right?”

“Is that a question?”

No, I hadn’t really thought about it before…

Anyway, we were able to collect all the chanical knights.

“Well then, let’s go back to the base!”

“Y-yeah!”

And so, after completing our exploration, we returned to the base.

At this point, we still underestimated the evolution of the chanical knights.

“──Sending target data. The analysis will begin imdiately.”

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“Tch… What’s the point of looking for a place like this that has nothing?”

While Yuuya and the others were fighting the chanical knights, Rikuto and his followers were also exploring.

But there was nothing to see around them, and it looked like they wouldn’t be able to gather any resources, let alone people.

Rikuto swore as he called out to his followers.

“Hey, how’s it going over there?”

“No, I can’t find anything.”

“Damn it… I’m already annoyed enough with that fraud…!”

Rikuto, who still couldn’t accept that he had lost to Yuuya, spat out these words.

“Enough, there’s no point in exploring further.”

“Yeah, I guess we should call it a day.”

In the end, Rikuto and the others decided that continuing their exploration was pointless, and they tried to leave the area.

However…

“When we get back to our base, we’ll expose that bastard’s secret…”

“──Attack begins.”

“Huh?”

At that mont, they thought they heard computerized voices.

“Ri-Rikuto… Gohh…”

“Eh…?”

One of Rikuto’s followers, who was standing next to him, spat out a large amount of blood from his mouth.

“H-hey! What’s going on?”

Rikuto, who had quickly regained his senses, quickly grabbed his follower and noticed that there was a large hole in his chest.

“Th-That’s…?”

“H-hey, Rikuto, this is bad!”

“What?!”

In the next mont, the chanical knights appeared one by one and surrounded Rikuto and his followers.

“chanical knights?!”

“That’s impossible! The chanical knights weren’t supposed to react!”

Rikuto and the others, who still didn’t know that the chanical knights had updated their stealth functions, couldn’t believe that they had appeared without being detected by the search function of the devices they were carrying.

However, even though one of them had been mortally wounded by the surprise attack, Rikuto was a first-class awakened person.

Even if they were facing an army of a dozen or more chanical knights, they should have been able to fight well enough.

However…

“N-no way…!”

Rikuto and the others were left speechless when they saw the last of the chanical knights appear and vanish.

Ordinary chanical knights are all dull silver in color.

In contrast, the last chanical knight that appeared was a golden-colored machine.

“Damn… How… How could an elite chanical knight…”

That’s right, the machine that appeared before Rikuto and the others was called an elite chanical knight.

Its specifications far exceeded those of a normal chanical knight, and it would have taken at least three first-class awakened ones to deal with it.

And in Rikuto’s team, there was no one other than Rikuto, who was a first-class awakened individual.

It was a situation that could truly be described as hopeless.

Despite this, Rikuto let out a roar of anger, brimming with fighting spirit.

“Screw you… you piece of junk!”

“Ri-Rikuto!”

Rikuto, with a red flash covering his entire body, closed the distance to the elite chanical knight in one fell swoop.

He raised his fist and struck with all his might.

“Blow away!”

A superhuman blow from Red Thunder’s Superhuman Strength.

The air exploded, and the sand around him was instantly blown away by the power of his fist alone.

If the chanical knight had received that blow directly, he would have been shattered in an instant.

However──.

“Wha──”

The elite chanical knight had caught Rikuto’s fist as if nothing had happened.

“N-no way? Rikuto’s serious attack──!”

Even though it was an elite chanical knight, the followers thought that it would have taken at least so damage.

However, in reality… the elite chanical knight was completely unhard.

“Screw you… don’t you dare ss with !”

Seeing the elite chanical knight effortlessly catch his own fist, Rikuto, who had seen Yuuya’s form in the mock battle, raised a battle cry and unleashed all kinds of blows.

“Uoooaaaaaaaa!”

Each blow was powerful, but it still couldn’t reach the elite chanical knight.

The elite chanical knight reacted perfectly to Rikuto’s movents and continued to parry all of his attacks with the perfect amount of force.

“Why… why doesn’t it land…!”

Rikuto, who had the feeling that everything was being seen through, beca impatient.

Then, the elite chanical knight emitted an inorganic electronic voice.

“──Analysis of the battle against Kyoudo Rikuto confird. Comparison with accumulated analysis data shows no error. Further analysis is unnecessary.”

“W-what the hell are you saying?!”

The next mont, Rikuto was startled by the eerie voice.

“Gah!?”

The elite chanical knight imdiately grabbed Rikuto’s neck.

“L-let go…!”

Rikuto struggled desperately, but the elite chanical knight didn’t budge.

Then, the elite chanical knight unleashed a powerful electric shock on Rikuto.

“Gyaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”

“Ri-Rikuto!”

“Comnce capture.”

The followers rushed to save Rikuto, who had fainted from the electric shock, but the attacks of the other chanical knights did not stop, and there was nothing they could do.

On the contrary, the followers’ limbs were blown off by the lasers fired by the chanical knights, and they all fell into a state where they could not move.

“M-my arm! My arm! Aaaaahhhhh!”

“It hurts… it hurts…”

In a situation that could truly be described as a scene of agony and wailing, the chanical knights raised their voices in a completely inorganic manner.

“Target neutralized.”

“We are returning.”

And so, the chanical knights collected the neutralized Rikuto and the others and left the scene.

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