"Suicide mode, activate"
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Ark Prime didn't hesitate to switch to panic mode as soon as he found his comrade fell down to the sword of the enemy in one move.
Ark Prime has Gravity control, and Ark Secundus has spatial powers.
Together, they worked on stalling the enemy, not by facing head-on separately but by merging their energies to create bigger attacks.
As Ark Prime placed his hand on Ark Secundus, supplying him with inexhaustible amounts of energy at the behest of damaging his core, the latter managed to activate the strongest skill he inherited from Mark, the Singularity.
However, Ark Secundus' Singularity is different from Mark's. Unlike Mark, who activates it at the center of his palm, the robot activates the skill using its core.
The singularity radiated a wave of immense energy, creating a whirlpool of pulling force that threatened Xie Tianyu's life.
Xie Tianyu tried resisting it, but this time, his divine aura didn't help him much, and due to the distance being so small between them, the pull was so strong that he was sucked into the robot's core, finding himself in a space, where immense force is crushing him to death. His vision started to get blurry.
Meanwhile, strange visions from the past started appearing in his head; they weren't linear but random fragments from here and there. One time, he was a kid; another time, he was a teenager... But, every memory had one common factor.
"Bro, look at my grades. I got first in the grade"
"Say, lately, I'm forgetting what our parents looked like. Where did you put the album our grandpa gave it to you?"
"I had a crush on this girl, but I'm worried that she might reject going for prom with me." "Hey, don't sell yourself short. Those Max or Riche... they are just spoiled brats of wealthy families who always like to bully others and use their family's authority. If the girl falls for their charms, then she isn't the right one for you."
"Bro, do you think I should propose to her?" "Just do it, Al."
"Al, don't you dare run away by yourself and disappear on me like that. Do you know how much I was worried? I'm this close to pulling a machine gun on Max when he tried threatening me with your name."
"This is where our parents are buried, Al. Sorry for lying to you all this while. Sit down a bit. I'll tell you how they really died."
"Brother, don't go. In the news, they all said that the research facility will be the target of the enemies." "I had to go, Al. This research is important for me. There are millions of lives at stake here. No matter what, we have to complete the bomb and stop this war. Until then, you stay with Aunt Sally. Be careful. And don't worry, we work in a secret facility, not the one those terrorists claimed to fire at."
Ark Prime became still.
"Huh?" Xie Tianyu looked at it closely, realizing that the robot stopped functioning.
He pushed it with his palm, and it fell to the ground.
"Phew... that was so close..." He couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief before sitting on the ground in a lotus position, replenishing his lost ether energy by swallowing a scarlet-colored potion and meditating.
Five minutes have gone by, and his body has reached its peak state, Xie Tianyu set his eyes on the factory.
Meanwhile, inside the factory;
Shang Jiao was trying her best to control the Orb of time, slowing down time by a hundred times within the building section of the factory as Ark Tertius was in the middle of working, building the warhead.
He suddenly pauses for a second and comments, "Ark Prime is also dead, Young miss."
Shang Jiao asks in worry, "How long do we have?"
The robot replies, "So far, only 60.7 hours have been passed here. Still need 923 hours by estimation."
"I'll go..." Jingwei volunteered to stall the time.
To which Shang Jiao stopped her, "No, you can't. Three of them combined only managed to stall for 36 minutes. There's no way you can stop the enemy."
"Then, what should we do? Wait for him to destroy this place, dear to my papa?" Jing Wei rushed to the exit.
Shang Jiao tried to stop her, but the robot reminded her to focus.
"No, this can't go on. There is only one way to solve this. I need to slow down more..." She mumbled, clenching her fist.
Ark Tertius replied to that, "Theoretically, it is impossible, Young miss. You have to be in the demigod realm to go past your current limits."
"Alright then, I will just do that." The sixteen-year-old steeled her determination.