Chapter 339

Reincarnator – Chapter 339 : Main Research Center (1)

“Can you read anything?”

Hansoo asked Kiriel, who continued to stay focused with her hand on the ground .

“Please, wait a moment!”

She hadn’t been able to read anything with her area skill .

Which meant that nothing had happened recently, at least .

—sssssss—

As the range decreased and the effectiveness multiplied, she was able to delve deeper and read even more memories .

Kiriel started off from the most recent event near the elevator and started to read through them .

Soon—

‘…What is this?’

Kiriel started to frown .

Countless strange attacks were flying around the elevator and turning the whole place into a mess .

—crunch!—

—crack!—

‘Huh . . . What?’

Because the attackers hadn’t reached the land she was reading, she couldn’t figure out their identities .

She could only see the countless adventurers being killed off like flies from those strange attacks .

But soon she realized that she didn’t really need to read the memories of other areas .

—boom! boom!—

She could feel the vibrations of the ground getting stronger .

Which meant that something was coming .

Something was coming to crush those adventurers that were running away .

But as Kiriel continued to read the memory .

—whoooosh!—

Someone was pulling strongly on the back of her clothes .

“Ahh!”

Because of the external stimulus, her Psychometry was shattered and she was forced back out into reality .

‘Damn… I almost saw it! So close!’

But as she turned around—

—booooooom!—

The ground exploded right where she’d been standing .

‘Huh?!’

Kiriel frowned at the beam attack that was exactly the same as the one she’d seen in the memories .

Indeed, her guard had been down because she’d been using her Psychometry .

She wouldn’t die from it, but it was clear that an attack of this level would hurt her to some degree .

But as Kiriel quickly activated her skills to defend against the fragments and the flames that came from the explosion, somebody was already standing before her .

—titititing!—

Hansoo had pulled Kiriel behind him and deflected most of the damage with the hammer .

—rumble—

‘This is the Spirit, huh? How useful . ’

Kiriel looked at Hansoo absorbing the residual flames into his body, but then turned to the thing that had attacked her in the first place .

‘A robot?’

Eeeeeeing .

—kacha—

She’d thought it would be an abyssal beast or an underling of Clementine .

But the thing that was actually coming towards her was a robot .

—rumble—

It looked like a construction machine all clad in some metal alloy .

The laser beam weapon that had attacked her was attached on top of it, alongside a cannon .

Overall, it looked very similar to a tank .

—rummblee—

Though the 10-meter-tall giant machine approaching her looked quite threatening, her expression remained indifferent .

‘How boring’ .

Kiriel cracked her knuckles and surrounded herself in flames as she mumbled .

The 5th Zone .

A giant metal city, and the giant barrier that surrounded it .

The extremely advanced technology .

She expected everything within this place to fit the look of its surroundings .

But what the hell was this?

‘It just looks very generic . Even the Akadus of the 2nd zone looked more advanced than this . ’

Kiriel sighed as she thought of the silver androids controlled by Gwanje, the lord of the 2nd Zone .

—kiiiiiiing—

Energy started to gather at the giant cannon on top of the machine .

—boooom!—

It fired towards the humans that still hadn’t run away even after seeing it .

The energy was so violent that the attack had melted down the surrounding land, destroying the debris .

‘Wow, that’s a bit strong . ’

Though it looked lame, its might was dimensions apart from the Akadus .

But Kiriel only shrugged her shoulders as she took something out from her pocket .

—whoooosh!—

Kiriel used the object to quickly draw lines in the air .

And as the beam smashed against the space Kiriel had just been drawing on .

—claaangg!—

The laser split into two halves and flew past her, exploding in the space behind her .

—booom!—

Kiriel used the force of the explosion to accelerate her charge forwards and drew a vertical line .

And as the object in Kiriel’s hand cut through the air—

—clank!—

—the huge metal robot split in half, its two parts falling down .

—kirurururuk!—

The tank struggled and made strange noises as it attempted to turn its cannon to attack again, but it was futile .

Deep within its metal walls, the tank’s core had been split apart as well .

And with a final groan, the tank soon stopped moving .

Kiriel checked the insides to see if anybody was riding it, but it was empty .

‘A robot is indeed a robot . But damn, this is a really good one . ’

Kiriel looked at the object in her hand in shock .

[Ark-Roa’s Fang] .

It was only the Ark-Roa’s fang in name, but its might was actually countless times stronger than the fangs of an Ark-Roa itself .

It was capable of splitting the air apart and deflected light .

Unlike its noble appearance, which resembled an ivory tusk, the might hidden within it was no joke .

‘That fairy was one hell of a nuisance in the tutorial, but at least they’re properly giving out rewards, huh?’

Kiriel rubbed the fang’s soft curves as she looked towards Hansoo .

‘He fought even harder than me, so he should have received a better reward than mine, but he only got part of an artifact . ’

Kiriel tried to imagine what it would look like once it was completed, and then spoke to Hansoo .

“Looks like this is all there is to it . I think these are the ones that roam around this area . ’

These things were more than strong enough to threaten normal adventurers, but they were a bit lacking when it came to transcendents like herself .

‘Reading this thing’s memories should help out at least . ’

Maybe she’d find a clue as to why that barrier had broken apart .

—kiiiing—

“Ugh . ”

Kiriel’s expression turned unsightly as she read the memory .

And Hansoo chuckled while watching her .

“If it’s a common weapon then it’ll only be useful once it’s mass-produced . ”

“Ah…”

—rumble!—

—clank! clank!—

Even before Kiriel could freak out at the hundreds of machines she had seen in the memories, those exact machines had already gathered around them .

—kiiiiiing!—

Zzzzmmmm!

The Melchizedek’s machines had gathered after receiving the distress signal of the machine that Kiriel had just destroyed .

And the first thing they did was gather energy to attack the two of them .

‘Let’s see . ’

—booooooom!—

As Hansoo smashed the Mjolnir into the ground, a giant bolt of lightning smashed down from the sky, creating a pillar of lightning .

—rummblee!—

Hansoo started to think about his next step as he swept apart the attacks of the countless machines with the lightning pillar .

No matter what happened here, he just needed to accomplish his job .

‘I need to sweep away Melchizedek . ’

He always had to remember his job .

His goal was to win .

And the first requirement to achieve his goal was… annihilation of all obstacles that could deter his path towards that victory .

The strength in his hands was all for this goal .

The machine king, driven by his greed for material objects and information, wouldn’t be an exception to this as well .

He wanted to avoid it if possible, but he had been attacked the second he encountered his underlings .

And this would not end until he smashed apart Melchizedek’s main body located somewhere within the 5th zone .

‘Where… where could he be?’

Hansoo looked around in various directions and mumbled .

‘It doesn’t seem like it would be on the 1st floor . ’

The chances of Melchizedek being on the 1st floor were very low .

But these soldiers were reacting way too violently .

There were way more of them than usual as well .

Of course, it wouldn’t be weird for it to be in the first floor .

Despite being a machine, Melchizedek was a curious being that pretended to be a human as it roamed around the entire zone .

And if it was on the 1st floor, there was only one place it would go to .

‘The Main Research Center . ’

…ssssss…

Hansoo mumbled, and with a sweep of his Pandemic Blade, he melted over twenty of the robots .

He realized something after looking around .

In this giant metal city that was divided into various sectors with different facilities and functions, this place was where the Main Research Center was located .

Of course, this was something the humans had named it, but the name was very fitting .

‘If he’s here, then… jackpot . ’

It would be even better if Melchizedek didn’t bring his elite soldiers with it, but just being near his current location was good enough .

Since it would be much better than if it hid behind its .

‘If I can find him while I’m cleaning up these pieces of garbage, then… that really is a jackpot . ’

As he focused, Hansoo thought of Melchizedek, who reminded him of an innocent child .

Then—

—chiiijijijiikk!—

A dark aura started to gather around the tip of Mjolnir .

The Nine Dragons Spear .

Of course, the name was because the creator of this skill was somebody who wielded a spear .

The important thing wasn’t the name, but how the skill itself worked .

A skill which squeezed every drop of strength in its user’s body, including the user’s instinctive struggle for survival during its use, and then turned that strength into a destructive form of energy that smashed apart the user’s foe .

Every time another dragon was added, the pain one felt throughout their body was multiplied .

A skill which stacked the energy that was extracted out from the body through this process and used it to destroy one’s foes .

This was the Nine Dragons Spear .

Which meant that as long as one understood the method behind the extraction of strength, and how the energy was gathered, it didn’t matter what weapon was used .

—kwaaaddddk!—

—swooosh!—

Four dragons rushed out from Hansoo’s heart and started to intermingle with the lightning within the Mjolnir .

It wasn’t that four was his limit .

But rather that four was more than enough .

Hansoo lifted the hammer surrounded by black lightning and smashed it into the ground .

And the moment the hammer collided with the metallic land—

—booooom!—

—the black lightning rode through the ground and started to spread out .

Like countless dragons charging towards their enemies .

—zzzzzzttt—

—boom!—

The streaks of black lightning swam through the land and smashed into the robots, blowing them up and melting them down .

It was like watching countless dragons chewing apart their prey .

—rumble!—

—boom!—

‘Woah…’

Kiriel split apart the robots one by one, dazedly looked at this scene where hundreds of robots were destroyed in an instant .

But there were another set of eyes that were watching this scene as well .

……………………………………………………………… . .

“What the hell is that?”

—rumble—

17 kilometers away from the elevator .

A man, who was lying between the buildings and watching the elevator, freaked out at the scene where hundreds of AR-1121s were being destroyed .

Though they were mass produced, those things weren’t so weak that they could be destroyed that easily .

Another man, who had been standing next to him, asked with a stern expression:

“Do you think he came down from above? Or came up from below?”

“How would I know?”

After hearing the annoyed voice of the man who was on the ground, the man with the stern expression frowned .

“You mean we’ll have to meet them to find out . Are you going to make contact?’

“Hmm…”

That man was too strong for them to just ignore and continue on with what they’d been doing .

The man on the ground, who seemed to be the leader, frowned at the words of his underling .