LIGHTNOVELWORLD Chapter 1129 Fighting Xenoids Again
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[WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!]
[Xenoid Raid has been detected! All Pilots, please go to your positions right this moment to defend the mothership and the last colony of humanity.]
[I REPEAT: All Pilots, please…]
Pilots came running to the spaceport as the Machine Warriors were quickly piloted one after another. I ran inside mine after telling Patrick, Emilia, and Hermes to keep calm and that I'll awaken their abilities as they fought, and of course, to remain by my side.
Aside from them, however, there were a dozen more pilots that had become my loyal army. At least thirty of them were definitely loyal, the rest only joined to survive, but had no intention to obey much of what I said, though they would go along with the flow of the larger party.
The spaceport opened, as the giant Machine Warriors set off into the cosmos before the Xenoids were to touch the mothership or reach it.
FLASH!
I quickly connected all my senses to my Machine Warrior, this feeling became slightly addicting, the feeling of having a larger, mechanical body.
It was indeed a good feeling.
Aside from the pilots I commanded thanks to my ever-growing popularity, there were at least another twenty Demonic Machine Sentinels that had survived the previous battle.
The rest, who ended being destroyed, had their materials retrieved, so I had plenty of Demonic Batteries to empower my demonic techniques, or even use Demonic Magic directly.
"SHIEEEHHH!"
The sound of Xenoids approaching reverberated across our communication devices, their ability to speak directly into these devices proved how they possessed some sort of psychic ability.
"Blake! A swarm of Xenoids is approaching from your left, above!"
Eleanora could freely fly outside my Machine Warrior without being affected by outer space, making it so she floated around me, giving me an even greater insight of my surroundings.
"How many?"
I quickly looked at them.
"At least fifty? There's also several weird ones! Aside from the Brutes from before!"
"Several weird ones, huh?"
I augmented my vision, quickly realizing how they looked like…
My eyes widened slightly, as I smiled.
"These bastards… I see how they're doing things now."
The new Xenoids were enormous, humanoid in shape, and primarily composed of metal, with large, electrified spears, armor, shields, and glowing eyes.
Yes, it was the abandoned Machine Warriors of dead pilots that I couldn't secure in the battles. Most of them were torn apart and destroyed though.
But the Xenoids are smart and adapted, realizing the strength of our tools, they took them, merged flesh and metal together, and created abominations to surpass us.
The broken Neutonium Cores I couldn't take, now empowered their fusion, covered by countless tendrils of red flesh.
The other pilots quickly received the pictures that Eleanora took from them at my request.
"Huh? Those Xenoids!"
"Are they really Xenoids?"
"Machine… Warriors? No, how?"
Patrick, Emilia, and Hermes reacted as I thought, the rest, even worse.
"W-What is that thing?!"
"Why… What's going on now?!"
"No… This can't be!"
"The Xenoids are piloting our damn robots?! WHAT THE FUCK?!"
"No, no, no! Don't make this even more difficult already!"
It was just the third day of the trial, and we were already facing Xenoids piloting our own robots.
However, I was thankful.
Last night, I battled a lot of robots in that VR Game.
So I do have a few clues about how to fight them and where to aim.
Though, with Xenoids fused into them, it might be harder.
"They aren't too many, roughly fifteen," I said. "The rest are… twenty-five Brutes, ten sniper-type regular ones."
"Not too many?! Fighting ten machines… who could even do such a thing?!"
"Are you sure this is possible?"
"We should retreat, we can't handle this!"
"If you desert the battlefield you're going to get jailed, dude! Or worse, executed!"
"We've been made to die in the battlefield… We're pilots for a reason! We'll die, we're all going to die!"
They were all panicking, as I thought.
Indeed.
Pilots are genetically engineered humans; I don't know if clones of existing citizens or not.
Who are made to pilot these advanced Machine Warriors.
And therefore, we are also… disposable.
We are sent to die.
And if we dare to escape the battlefield and not battle, we might face jail and then execution, to be replaced by a meter pilot.
Hahaha, isn't it great?
This trial's amazing!
So much despair, hardships, and battles.
It is ideal for me to thrive on.
"Calm down."
I called them all to calm down, they immediately fell silent.
"I will charge with my sentinels! Snipers, remain behind and shot from a distance. Those with heavy armor, stay close, behind me. Patrick, Emilia, Hermes, you fight right by my side."
I wasn't mean enough to tell them to go die for me. I was realistic. They'll happily help as long as it means they won't be on too much trouble or danger.
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Therefore, I told nobody to go directly against the Xenoids, and to instead offer support.
Because, honestly, that's all I need.
The Demonic Machine Sentinels all were at the front, even the snipers.
I quickly decided to awaken all abilities now.
Yeah, I've decided what to pick for myself first.
"SHIEEEEHHH!"
The Xenoids roared, as they approached us.
I rushed towards them with my spear on hand, hyper charging it with electromagnetic energy and demonic energy.
Three of the Machine Warrior-types greeted me instantly, then, two Brutes rushed from above, and the snipers immediately targeted me.
They knew me already, somehow, even though we kill them all always.
They know about me and how dangerous I am!
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
The attacks from the Machine Warrior-types came first, powerful blows with electrified spears, swords, and their shields.
I didn't evade, testing the reinforced, demonic-enhanced armor I got.
BAAM! BAAM! BAAM!
It worked just fine.
"Begone."
{Divine Spear God Arts}: [One Hundred Lightning Blows]!
My Machine Warrior moved at lightning speed, blue and red electricity coursing through its body.
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
Dozens of blows pierced and penetrated through the Xenoids defenses, revealing fleshy tendrils inside the broken armor.
They were all filled with Placentoid, their real body was holed up inside.
Worse of all, the machine parts resisted the electric attacks really well and every tiny piece was attached to a fleshy tendril, helping them easily reattach themselves.
Like fucked up snails.
"Blake! From above, the Brutes!"
Two enormous brutes rushed down towards me like meteors.
"I know."
FLUOSH!
And then, black portals emerged from my Machine Warrior's crimson and black aura, as giant guns, rifles, missile launchers, machineguns, and more emerged.
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
Hundreds of magical and demonic bullets pierced through the Brutes' shells, shattering them into tiny pieces and then blowing up their interior.
Everyone glanced in disbelief at the scene, the three Xenoid Pilots were also surprised their Brutes died within seconds.
"Scared? Don't be. I'll be nice with you."
Then, a cannon opened from my machine's chest.
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"Let's test these new little things I got too!"
They were different though, shining bright red, infused with demonic energies, and darkness.
TRUUUM!
Two beams emerged; I had two.
The beams pierced through the Xenoids bodies, spreading plasma and light everywhere in their bodies.
And then, as they were much frailer than the normal Machine Warriors.
BOOOM! BOOOM!
They too, exploded into pieces.
But that wasn't all.
There's more.
"{Arise}"
The splattered corpses of the four Xenoids I killed…
They began to be reborn.
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