Reincarnator - Chapter 348 : Inhabitants (3)
‘...Damn.’
—rumble—
N-Maria felt the faint vibrations through the walls of the corridor inside the armored vehicle.
This vehicle was heading towards a certain direction.
Towards the Main Research Center—the origin of all these traitorous robots.
They had made this decision after listening to the man’s words.
‘I’m still not sure if this is a good idea.’
N-Maria had just settled the intruders into their rooms and was just on the way back to her own room.
She frowned as she thought back to the scene when the foot soldiers had tracked them down.
The man who called himself Kang Hansoo walked out, looking at the screen that was showing scenes from the outside.
With just a hammer in his head.
She had scoffed at him for walking out with an ancient weapon—one that even they wouldn’t be able to find in their museums—to fight against thousands of Melchizedek’s forces.
But her smile soon froze.
She’d witnessed the battle between him and Melchizedek’s army.
‘...’
N-Maria shook her head and pinched the air.
To replay that earlier scene.
—tiriririk—
A translucent panel appeared in the air and started to replay the video of the fight below.
—boom! boom! boom! boom!—
—rumble!—
—clank—
With every swipe of his hand, he threw hundreds of robots away.
With every swing of his hammer, he destroyed Melchizedek’s powerful elite soldiers.
N-Maria continued to stare at the man who wielded lightning and flames to single-handedly destroy the entire army.
This was the fourth time.
She had replayed it four times on the way back, but it was still hard to believe.
“Ugh…”
‘Is that even something a single being can achieve?’
That strength would be hard to find, even back on their original planet.
Even more so if it was achieved without the backing of technology or civilization.
The M-waves emitted by their soldiers was used to control weapons, not to actually destroy things like this.
‘No, there might be something in the military that can rival him.’
She thought of the battleships from Angkara, but soon shook her head.
Of course, she had to admit what she had to.
The man was disgustingly powerful.
In their current armyless situation, this man’s strength would be of extreme help.
So the offer the man had made to them was truly enticing.
To have control over the Main Research Center.
An alluring offer.
The giant train-shaped Main Research Center wasn’t simply a research center.
All the robots that had attacked and chased them down had all been created from the Plant attached to the research center.
Most of the topics researched on Angkara were robots used for battle and these had to be tested for their efficiency and strength.
Of course it wasn’t as good as the Armory attached to the newest research centers but it was still something.
‘If we can acquire that… It’ll be of great help.’
This man had probably asked them for this very reason as well.
Since the man wouldn’t have the abilities to control the research center.
N-Maria consoled herself.
‘Yeah, it was a good decision.’
One needed a certain amount of power in a chaotic situation as this.
Just like what had just happened with them against Melchizedek’s forces.
If they could obtain the research center then it would be of tremendous help to them.
‘I must go back.’
She could not die on top of a filthy beast such as this.
N-Maria continued to mumble to herself as she looked towards the giant planet that was her home, Angkara.
At that moment sounds of footsteps could be heard from the end of the corridor.
‘Who?’
N-Maria tensed up and reached for her waist.
This corridor was the path leading to her personal room.
There shouldn’t be anybody else taking this path during normal times.
But N-Maria soon sighed in relief and dropped her hand.
“N-Martin? What’s the issue? I don’t plan on reprimanding you for what had just happened so you can return. Nobody can beat a monster like that.”
The only soldier within the Armored Vehicle.
Almost everybody liked this man because of his kind attitude and laid back personality.
That was why his main duty was to just protect them.
Though he had indeed failed his job earlier, she had no thoughts of pursuing it further.
Even if there was a small army protecting them, that monster of a man would’ve made his way through to her.
‘Is this because of those newcomers?’
That was possible.
It was her job to listen to the issues and finding a solution to problems others had.
But as N-Maria was about to speak up with a smile.
N-Martin started to curse out from the end of the corridor.
“You crazy b*tch. You put the repulsion coating on the aliens? That’s treason.”
“Huh…?”
He didn’t have a smile.
N-Maria stared at the cold expression of N-Martin as her own face turned gruesome as well.
Though they were both N levels, there was a difference of status.
“I can’t just ignore that, also watch your words. You and I have a difference in status.”
“Status? Haha…”
N-Martin glared at N-Maria and clenched her teeth.
“You b*tch, you still haven’t realized it?”
N-Maria started to feel uneasy.
Their planet, Angkara, was a planet of warriors.
Usually the hierarchy was maintained well and the status of everybody were divided accordingly but there was a situation when that would change.
Something that she, coming from the Tetnorat branch[a] of the family, could not flip.
“Wait…”
“Yeah. This place is now under the direct control of of the Kalkuroun Fleet. I will be the commanding officer from this point on.”
This was an absolute owner.
Nobody from the Neropa Union could go against this order.
N-Martin showed a line of red words on his panel and finished his words.
“For now I’ll maintain your authority here. Let’s just continue like this.”
‘If the person in command suddenly changed, they would suspect something.’
The read words read out: [Main fleet is on the way. Maintain current status and await our arrival].
‘Barbarians.’
N-Maria mumbled to himself as he thought of the two intruders.
The fleet of flames was on the way.
The powerful fleet that burned up planets and sliced apart moons.
Once it arrives then this aberration of a beast as well as every bug on top of it would be annihilated.
The strength of the union was not to be messed with.
But of course, he couldn’t just sit around until then.
It would go against the standards of the union’s army.
He, a soldier, could not just wait until the fleet arrived.
‘Things won’t work the way you want.’
N-Martin smiled as he thought of the two people who would be receiving the repulsion coating at this moment.
……………………………………..
—kiiiiing—
A research room within the giant armored vehicle.
Lights flashed within the giant vacuum flask as things were being assembled within it.
—chiiijijiik—
Then the fine powders that were being assembled were sucked into two tubes attached on the flask.
—chijijik—
‘Good.’
Hansoo nodded as he looked at the nanoparticles that were being applied on his body.
Nanoparticles so tiny that he could barely even feel being applied on his body.
But this thin coating was able to withstand any attack from the main planet Angkara.
Though it wasn’t able to block a concentrated attack or a high level weapon but there was no chance of him being attacked by such things yet so this was good enough for now.
—chijijik—
The B-level female who had been controlling the coating spoke to Hansoo.
“It will last for about 2 weeks. After that the durability of the nanoparticles will cause them to start disintergrating. We’ll reapply it then so don’t worry so much.”
‘Two weeks, huh?’
Hansoo chuckled inwardly.
He knew that they could make it so these nanoparticles could last forever as long they weren’t physically destroyed.
But he knew why they had made it so it only lasted 2 weeks and decided to not pursue it.
‘They’re probably holding onto it so we don’t betray them.’
If he could cover their differences with just this then it wasn’t that bad.
Though it would still be a bit annoying.
“I’m done. Wow… So this is what it’s like.”
Kiriel was extremely excited as she finished her coating.
‘Hansoo is still receiving it…’
Though she was still tall for a women, she had ended much earlier because she was still much smaller in comparison to Hansoo.
The most important parts had been covered already.
Heart, head and spine.
Kiriel was shocked as she looked at Hansoo’s body where the coating was now going over his back, stomach and his limbs.
‘Mmm…’
Though the injuries were healing at a rapid pace, he still had countless numbers of them.
She got curious.
As to how many hidden injuries Hansoo had beneath the regenerating flesh.
‘...If he didn’t have his regenerative capabilities then he might already be dead.’
Kiriel thought back to the scene before when Hansoo’s entire body had been burning up and frowned.
But she maintained her smile to not let Hansoo know of her worries.
“So this is just like a tour until we reach the research center right?”
Kiriel laughed as she looked around her.
Of course she and Hansoo would have to fight the moment they arrived.
Maybe even put their lives on the line.
But they will be able to rest until then.
‘Prolonged tension is bad as well.’
Actually they had seen a place where they could rest on the way here.
A place that seemed like it was meant for researchers to rest after going through prolonged periods of research.
Relaxing too much is not good, but a small rest in preparation for the next battle was always a good thing.
‘Good. Good.’
“Hey Hansoo, what food do you like the mos…”
Kiriel decided to treat this as a date and had spoke out but.
—beeeeeeep—
—beeeeep—
“Huh?”
The person in charge of the coating suddenly looked at the machine in confusion.
‘What’s going on?’
—kiiiing—
Red lights shone from the repulsion coating system as they stopped moving despite not having finished.
—chiiiii—
“Ah… We haven’t finished!”
“It won’t finish anyway, right?’
Hansoo smiled as he looked at the coating on his body that was peeling away.
‘This world… This is what I like about it.’
Everyone had made fun of him.
That he might become lazy after going back into the past.
Some said that he was definitely going to become lazy when he returned to the past to fight weakling after fighting against the races of the Abyss for so long.
Some even pleaded to not forget about them fighting with their lives on the line and hurry his way up.
To limit his sightseeing.
But it seemed like there was no need for him to worry.
This world didn’t give him a second to take a break.
‘I wonder who it would be.’
Of course, he had a person in mind.
The soldier who had stared at him in disgust.
But wouldn’t that be too obvious?
Hansoo smiled coldly as he looked between the giant train on the panel and the small area he was standing him.
[a]Seems to be a branch of family maybe.