"Suicide mode, activate"
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Ark Pri didn't hesitate to switch to panic mode as soon as he found his comrade fell down to the sword of the enemy in one move.
Ark Pri has Gravity control, and Ark Secundus has spatial powers.
Together, they worked on stalling the enemy, not by facing head-on separately but by rging their energies to create bigger attacks.
As Ark Pri placed his hand on Ark Secundus, supplying him with inexhaustible amounts of energy at the behest of damaging his core, the latter managed to activate the strongest skill he inherited from Mark, the Singularity.
However, Ark Secundus' Singularity is different from Mark's. Unlike Mark, who activates it at the center of his palm, the robot activates the skill using its core.
The singularity radiated a wave of imnse energy, creating a whirlpool of pulling force that threatened Xie Tianyu's life.
Xie Tianyu tried resisting it, but this ti, his divine aura didn't help him much, and due to the distance being so small between them, the pull was so strong that he was sucked into the robot's core, finding himself in a space, where imnse force is crushing him to death. His vision started to get blurry.
anwhile, strange visions from the past started appearing in his head; they weren't linear but random fragnts from here and there. One ti, he was a kid; another ti, he was a teenager… But, every mory had one common factor.
"Bro, look at my grades. I got first in the grade"
"Say, lately, I'm forgetting what our parents looked like. Where did you put the album our grandpa gave it to you?"
"I had a crush on this girl, but I'm worried that she might reject going for prom with ." "Hey, don't sell yourself short. Those Max or Riche… they are just spoiled brats of wealthy families who always like to bully others and use their family's authority. If the girl falls for their charms, then she isn't the right one for you."
"Bro, do you think I should propose to her?" "Just do it, Al."
"Al, don't you dare run away by yourself and disappear on like that. Do you know how much I was worried? I'm this close to pulling a machine gun on Max when he tried threatening with your na."
"This is where our parents are buried, Al. Sorry for lying to you all this while. Sit down a bit. I'll tell you how they really died."
"Brother, don't go. In the news, they all said that the research facility will be the target of the enemies." "I had to go, Al. This research is important for . There are millions of lives at stake here. No matter what, we have to complete the bomb and stop this war. Until then, you stay with Aunt Sally. Be careful. And don't worry, we work in a secret facility, not the one those terrorists claid to fire at."
"No… my brother is not a betrayer. You must be mistaken." "Where did you hide him? I want to et him." "Throw him out."
Xie Tianyu abruptly opened his eyes, letting out a gasp. He didn't know how long it had passed and what mories he was experiencing earlier that he never had before, but first things first, he needed to get out of the place.
With his divine energy trying its best to negate the pressure from all sides, the amulet on his neck glowed as an enormous amount of energy flew into it, once again, giving him montary resistance against the world laws. Letting out a roar, he expelled his ether energy on all sides of his body.
At once, the core exploded, and the robot Ark Secundus blasted into pieces. Ark Pri pushed away and crashed to the ground.
"System Failure," "System failure," "System failure," "Proceed with Suicide mode?"
Errors rang in Ark Pri's ears as Xie Tianyu got out and reclaid his sword.
"Suicide mode, Activate."
Ark Pri instantly made its choice, activating the suicide mode, a function that's actually an inbuilt one.
Its rank was forcibly raised by 1 as its already 35% damaged core was consuming too much energy from the surroundings, reaching its half-life state almost in a second.
With only less than a minute before the process of disintegration started, Ark Pri charged forward, unleashing Gravity Do for a few hundred ters around it and increasing the gravitational force by 500 tis at once, within its limits.
Xie Tianyu was pressed to the ground for a mont before the divine energy gushed out to negate the effects.
However, before he gets to stand properly, Ark Pri manages to reach him while conjuring a Gravity blade in its hands. It stabbed him in the chest, piercing the blade into his body.
"Argh…" Xie Tianyu couldn't help but let out a painful scream but managed to control it and stabbed the sword at the robot's neck.
This ti, the blade couldn't penetrate through its body, leaving behind a scratch and sparks of heat. Ark Pri, anwhile, consud enormous amounts of graviton particles from the gravity do into its eyes, unleashing a concentrated beam of energy.
"Dammit… If it hits at this close, I might die…"
Xie Tianyu realized that he couldn't get the blade out of his body. Hence, he expelled as much ether energy as he could from his body, intending to blast away the robot.
However, Ark Pri resisted it with full effect. The energy layer over its body was pushed away; its body lted slowly, but the robot persisted in completing the skill.
Just as it was about to launch the beam, the energy dissipated on its own, and its glowing blue robotic eyes beca gray. The Gravity Blade also disappeared, freeing Xie Tianyu and taking him by surprise.
Ark Pri beca still.
"Huh?" Xie Tianyu looked at it closely, realizing that the robot stopped functioning.
He pushed it with his palm, and it fell to the ground.
"Phew… that was so close…" He couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief before sitting on the ground in a lotus position, replenishing his lost ether energy by swallowing a scarlet-colored potion and ditating.
Five minutes have gone by, and his body has reached its peak state, Xie Tianyu set his eyes on the factory.
anwhile, inside the factory;
Shang Jiao was trying her best to control the Orb of ti, slowing down ti by a hundred tis within the building section of the factory as Ark Tertius was in the middle of working, building the warhead.
He suddenly pauses for a second and comnts, "Ark Pri is also dead, Young miss."
Shang Jiao asks in worry, "How long do we have?"
The robot replies, "So far, only 60.7 hours have been passed here. Still need 923 hours by estimation."
"I'll go…" Jingwei volunteered to stall the ti.
To which Shang Jiao stopped her, "No, you can't. Three of them combined only managed to stall for 36 minutes. There's no way you can stop the enemy."
"Then, what should we do? Wait for him to destroy this place, dear to my papa?" Jing Wei rushed to the exit.
Shang Jiao tried to stop her, but the robot reminded her to focus.
"No, this can't go on. There is only one way to solve this. I need to slow down more…" She mumbled, clenching her fist.
Ark Tertius replied to that, "Theoretically, it is impossible, Young miss. You have to be in the demigod realm to go past your current limits."
"Alright then, I will just do that." The sixteen-year-old steeled her determination.
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