Chapter 365: the power of a mech

Bzzz! Zap!

Electricity flashed around the overturned hall in a disorderly manner, intertwining through the few scattered wires like snakes burrowing through a narrow tunnel.

Consecutive rumbling sounds followed this development, which was evidence of things collapsing without any support to weather their fall.

Recurring vibrations of different frequencies also added their input to the destruction, making it seem like the first sign of a large earthquake.

The whole hall was now dark, and parts of the ceiling directly collapsed to submerge a significant part of the room. The few parts that survived the impact were the more reinforced parts of the underground base.

Amid this destruction, a metallic arm suddenly emerged out of the debris, pushing a few walls apart with simple movements of its enormous arms.

Thudding sounds reverberated as if a giant just stumped the ground. The debris around stirred like they were being influenced by something, then with a loud sound, a hole was drilled open through the destruction.

2 red glowing eyes first appeared before it was followed by the entire body of the huge mech. Its metallic body was entirely intact like it just took a stroll through the backyard, it was like everything that happened didn’t concern it.

It took 2 steps to shake the remaining debris of its body, then its head slowly inclined downwards as its 2 glowing eyes examined the enormous sword that was surrounded by a flaming forcefield.

The heat emanating from the sword affected the surroundings as a few things started melting nearby. An order was hastily given, then the sword slowly retracted before the mech kept it back to its rightful place.

With the sound of air depressurizing, all the glowing lights surrounding the mech started switching off and in just a few seconds it completely shut down.

Creak!

The metallic covering protecting the cockpit from the top was slowly pushed open from the inside, then Clark climbed up from there to finally behold the destruction that he just caused.

This was when he remembered that all the lights were already off.

This didn’t put him in a tight spot though as he easily hacked into the underground base’s virtual system through his implant. Making some adjustments, he directed the remaining power to the lighting systems.

5 seconds later, the lights slowly switched on one by one before illuminating the whole hall in their radiance. Before Clark was a picture of damaged beyond repair.

Practically no parts of the underground base were spared. He didn’t even know how it happened after he gave the order, but the mech’s sword somehow destroyed every part of the hall.

In the middle of the hall, just beside the mech was a huge hole cut by a sword. Its contours were red hot, flowing molten magma like an ancient volcano was on the verge of erupting.

Then from the cut of the sword, the shockwaves spread out and were the main catalyst that did the most damage to the surroundings.

The materials and metals used to construct the underground base were clearly not shock-resistant enough for the pure might of the mech, it looked like something that was bored through by an apocalyptic rat.

Clark was dazed for a moment, but after he recovered his face took on a peculiar expression. Instead of feeling bad, he felt super excited.

“What a powerful blow!”

“Powerful blow my ass!” Another voice suddenly bellowed from another direction of the hall.

Clark turned his head to see a livid Albert. He could practically see flames of anger rising from his student’s head, though his armor protected him, it was clearly not a nice feeling being submerged by such destruction.

“Master, you almost killed me”.

As he went closer, the anger in his eyes slowly extinguished and was quickly replaced by a helpless and pitiful one as he expressed his grievance.

From the mech’s sensors, Clark knew that his student was fine that was why he didn’t fret about it after coming out of the mech.

And besides, as a 2nd rank high-grade soldier, if Albert could not protect himself from such basic destruction, then he was not worthy of the rank at all. Albert knew that, he just felt sulky.

“But you cheered me on”. Clark turned to face his student with the same excited expression still on his face. “Didn’t you like it?”

Albert sniffed. “Well, that was really powerful”.

He rubbed his nose mischievously before suddenly pumping his hands in the air. “Master, you’re a beast!”

Clark frowned and clasped his ears to reduce the impact of his student’s unruly shouting. He directed a glare at the mischievous fellow, but Albert only shrugged like this was his payback.

A few minutes later, after calming down his excited heart, Clark sat down on the debris and carefully analyzed the impacts of what he just did.

The power that he exerted by the mech, though he was not sure, his mind told him that it was already bordering on the 4th rank level. And this was just a mech that Sonia bought for her leisure.

He was pretty sure that if he saved money and later burned them for a significantly more advanced mech with advanced exotic metals, he would stably have the power of a 4th rank high-grade soldier while piloting it.

What did this mean? His eyes widened when he thought about the effects that this discovery would bring to his life.

“I must not tell anyone else about this”.

Humanity has been researching how to break the human limitations to allow soldiers pilot mechs, and due to just one fortuitous encounter, he now could pilot it.

Though he was not proficient yet, he believed that with practice, he would surely become a master.

Now, this brought the need for secrecy. If scientists knew or even heard that he suddenly developed the ability to pilot a mech, he was pretty sure that high-grade kidnappers would be visiting his door the next hour.

After that, he would probably become a test subject whose only fate is to have his brain dissected for research in the laboratory.

He shuddered when he thought of this. “I must keep this secret”. He resolved in his heart firmly.

The problem now was that if he had to keep it secret, then how would he be able to practice with it and get proficient with it?

“Ahh! I hate keeping secrets”.

After thinking long and hard but getting no immediate solutions, he could only resign to his fate and decide to think of it later.

Then the last problem, he turned to his student. “The underground base?”

Albert shrugged. “You destroyed it”.

“Yes, I know. But f*ck, why did you tell it so purely to my face?”

He felt like crying, in just one swing of his mech’s sword, millions of credits were lost. He could only console himself with the new power that he got access to through the mech.

In the future, he would only bring out the mech when he entered a tight situation that was impossible for him to escape with his own strength.

Now, he had 2 ultimate trump cards. The device given to him by his master through which he could come immediately to rescue him was the first, now his ability to pilot mechs was the second.

He could not help but mumble. “Perhaps, I’m really a lucky bastard”.

After coming to terms with their situation, he and his student finally stood up to retrieve their valuables. As he searched for his bag, Albert used his excellent memory to locate the exotic car. It was unscathed despite the destruction.

Entering inside the car, a flashing light was reflected before Albert. He looked closer at the communication device to see who was calling.

“Master, you have a call”.

Clark pushed his long hair behind him and raised his head. “Who?”

“The 2nd deep”.