Chapter 108: Masquerade Party (22)

Chapter 108: Masquerade Party (22)

In a cube-shaped cavity carved out in a natural bedrock terrain stood a tower in the center, created out of countless different mechanical parts and pieces.

The tower was located at the top of an endless spiral of stairs, which Gyosu was only able to see from his position after tilting his head upward. Unlike its function of being the collection of the Old Times greatest technology, the tower had a sort of majestic aura like that of a temple.Fôllôw new stories at novelhall.com

A beauty difficult to witness now in a world where the objective of architecture only depends on its function.

In a world where people pulled the trigger for a single wedge of a potato or a shrapnel of metal, this massive art piece of a facility that would have been made without any proper construction equipment showed just exactly how important the Dome was as the central generator.

It wouldnt be an exaggeration to say that just this signal central generator held the lives of everyone in the city in its hands, so in a way, they could even consider it a god.

Feeling the knee that he had kneeled down on the ground get wet, Gyosu lightly grimaced.

Blood. Its flowing down the stairs.

[They must have killed a bunch up there. Both sides.]

Crunch!

Krgggggk!

Gyosu couldnt really see the fight from his current position at the bottom of the staircase, but he could still see the Exosuits silver arms and the weapon in their hands.

[A shield and hammer?]

From the grinding and engine sounds I can hear, there must be someone using a chainsaw too.

[Why are they using those as weapons instead? Is it some kind of ritual?]

Its not that theyre not using it; they cant. Not here at least. Both the Exosuits pulse rifle, its main weapon, and the large caliber bullets that can break through its shield would cause not only everyone here but everyone in the city to get caught in the explosion if the shot landed somewhere critical on the central generator.

Checking the weapon that Hyde identified just as the towers light passed by, Gyosus expression scrunched up. Booster Hammer. A weapon powerful enough to not just damage a combat vehicle but be strong enough to send it flying. Their shield was an Energy Shield. Not to mention, this place was the Domes most important facility. Not even the Executive Department would think of remodeling this place to install Shield Absorbers, so the Exosuits should have been able to overwhelm the Executive Department under the protection of their shields.

Krgggggk!

But why are they getting pushed back?

Looking at just the sparks caused by their weapons colliding and the small glimpses he saw of the fight when the towers light shone on them was enough to let him know that the Exosuits were at a disadvantage.

Thwoom!

Just then, something heavy flew down from above and fell next to Gyosu.

It was an arm. Of an Exosuits.

We intervene.

He didnt know anything, whether that was the identity of the enemy or their weaponry, but it was going to be nearly impossible to regain control over the central generator if the two Exosuit units became incapacitated anyway.

Spelch squelch splech!

Gyosu ran up the crimson staircase, drenched in blood.

He had a lot of thoughts, but the actual time he stood there blankly was about 8 or 9 seconds. The situation was too urgent to consider every single outcome.

Thanks to that, Gyosu needed to continue thinking even as he ran up towards the enemy.

I dont know exactly how theyre fighting the Exosuits, but its nothing too big or heavy.

He didnt see any other traces aside from the Exosuits on his way here.

It wasnt like they could drive tanks all the way in here either, so the enemys equipment would either be more Exosuits or weaponry that a person could carry.

From what he could hear, the only sounds he could hear were coming from the two Exosuits, so he naturally thought that the opponent would have been facing the Investigation Bureau with a special weapon.

I thought I would have a chance if I sniped them when there was an opening

Kraagggggk!

Boom!

It was technically a special weapon.

With red, bloodshot eyes, their body, where their right arm should have been, instead had a large chainsaw.

And holding a bluish shield in the other, they used their hand, which looked similar to a hydraulic press, to parry away the gun hammer the Exosuits swung at them. These people were displaying a similar power to the Exosuits in a human body.

There were about five of these half-human, half-machines.

[I dont think a gun is going to even tickle them.]

You wont know until you try! They still have a decent area of skin revealed compared to the Exosuits! And there are a few of their corpses on the ground!

Bang!

The enemy has yet to notice him. This was the best situation to snipe them. Lying down at the edge of the stairs, Gyosu aimed his bullet at a half-machine who was swinging a broadsword with laser blades on each side of the blade and stood out from the others

Clang!

Uh

[There are things you can know even without trying, sometimes, you idiot! All you did was reveal your location!]

The sword that had been swinging at an Exosuit suddenly changed directions and blocked the bullet that was headed straight for the back of its head. The blade looked more like an oar than a sword, and the man who was swinging the clearly heavy blade that Exosuits would handle like it was a small tree branch, in the moment the nozzle burst with gunpowder, identified Gyosus location and turned his sword to defend himself.

Even if there are laser blades instead of steel on each side of the blade, that things able to swing around something that looks easily over 10kg at that speed. And that precisely?

[W-what is that? Whats it doing here?]

Like the hell I know! Its my first time seeing it too!

The man looked down at the smoke rising from where the bullet was lodged, then abandoned his position from the fight with the Exosuits and turned in the opposite direction.

In the place where his eye should have been, there was a red lens that looked straight at the location where Gyosu was hiding.

Is it reinforcements?

That was the only thing the man said after they spotted Gyosu. Just as he turned the barrel towards another man with a fist instead of the swordsman, the laser blade that suddenly appeared before him sliced off the butt of the rifle that Gyosu swung out in surprise. From how clean the cut of the burnt surface was, the output of that blade wasnt just any normal level of good.

[Y-you dodged it! Its not impossible to follow him by sight! Hes just stupid fast!]

It doesnt matter if I can see him! My body cant keep up!

[Youre good at talking! Try begging to him or something!]

7, 8

Bang

Click!

[T-the bullets!]

9!

The new magazine of bullets he reloaded before charging in. During an exchange where he didnt even have a moment to blink, it was impossible to reload, and only after a mere few seconds after he closed in on the man did the pistol in his left hand let out an empty cry.

His consciousness, currently accelerated to its limit, projected the half-machine mans sinister smile.

As if planning to prevent any future chance of a counterattack, the large laser blade slashed down at the left arm with the empty gun.

[Please come out! Please! Please! Please! Its my body!]

Snap out of it, Hyde! Its not over yet!

Looking at the broadsword fall towards his left arm, Gyosu returned the smile to the machine man.

I gotch-aaaa!

Pzzpt!

Just before the sword cut his left arm in half, a shields distinctive buzz sounded instead of the sharp, wet sound of a division.

Even a cheap personal shield can deflect one blow!

At the Investigation Bureaus armory, through all sorts of persuasions, he obtained a bolt rifle and a portable anti-personnel shield.

Deflecting the sword with the shield he had been holding in his hand, Gyosu aimed his right gun, with one last bullet left in it, at the mans head.

Blame yourself for attacking a gunpowder weapon with a melee weapon! Half terminator bastard!

Bang!

Psht!

The last shot he poured everything into landed exactly in the half-machines head.

The bullet flew straight through the mans eye. His head arched backward as blood and red shards exploded out of his eye.

It worked. His improvised plan fit together like gears, and everything went along with his plan all the way to the end.

However

Creak, c-reak-k!

Thenyou should haveknown thata terminatordoesnt die from a small bullet like that!

It was merely Gyosus defeat for not expecting that the enemy was tough enough to live even after taking a bullet to the head.

Click! Click!

Above the empty clicks of an empty gun, the sound of the laser blade searing the air swung down towards him.

Pow!

He needed to live. He promised he would live, so he had to survive somehow.

Through his accelerated consciousness, he instinctively saw the man raise his arm up and the glowing green ray of the laser blade fall like a guillotine.

I couldnt turn on the generator Vex, Ian

The half-machines red eye glinted. His lips curled up like those of a victors. Gyosu closed his eyes. A hot feeling enveloped his arm. As if it were on fire, a dense, burning pain throughout his entire

? Thats not right.

After getting his arms sliced and broken over a hundred times in GG, Gyosu knew what it felt like to get his arm cut off more than anyone else in the world. It was definitely a dense impact with searing pain, but not an overall burning pain like this.

Poww!

More than anything, it didnt feel like the blade was pushing through his body, but rather that his arm was blocking the sword and pushing him into the ground.

[It It worked! It actually worked!]

H-Hyde?

He had a crippling headache, and his arm still felt like it was on fire, but at least he still had a whole body. If the laser sword just sliced his body in half, then he wouldnt have been under this much pressure.

What exactly

Gyosu carefully opened his eyes.

The first thing that came into sight was the intimidating green glow of the laser blade right in front of his eyes. And then behind that, the horrified face of the cyborg.

And

From the tip of his hand to his shoulder, his left arm had a black layer of skin like a monsters arm. The laser blade was being held in that left hand.

After reading Hydes consciousness, Gyosu immediately understood exactly what he had done.

You what the hell did you do to my bodyyyy?!

[What do you mean what? Its my body! Ive created the real body that I wanted all this time!]

Crack!

Hyde let out a cheer, then crushed the laser blade held in his hand.

The bodys original owner lost consciousness.

But it was still able to live and use all of the bodys functions.

And now, with Gyosus consciousness completely gone from his left arm, Hydes memories were left behind in there!

[I told you! I know a hundred times better how to use this body than you do! I knew it would be possible as long as I knew the mechanism!]

How could something like this even happen?

It was a Type 3 mutant. The mutant virus recognized the left arm that was no longer under Gyosus control as a dead body and used Hydes memories left in the arm to mutate it into the most ideal image of him he wanted.