Chapter 340

Reincarnator – Chapter 340 : Main Research Center (2)

—kiiiiing!—

After seeing their comrades being destroyed, countless more unmanned robots rushed to this location and started to search .

—kirruk—

Their goal was to collect intel regarding their mysterious opponent .

They were coded to collect intel throughout the entire research center, but once attacked, they would gather in order to destroy or capture their foe .

Though the sensors above the modules were working at full power to find the two intruders, it was all futile .

After inspecting its destroyed comrade, the AR-1121 picked it up and started to move away—it assumed the intruder had fled to another location .

It would be able to gather a bit of intel after it looked through the debris .

And right next to them…

There were two pairs of eyes that were watching these robots returning to their original positions .

‘This is much better . ’

Hansoo nodded as he looked at the thin barrier surrounding him and Kiriel .

And Kiriel smiled proudly .

“It’s something the mages of the Kingdoms were using, but it seemed useful, so I learned it . I was able to hide from the Ark-Roa, and even from the one who created the various Transcendents . ”

Hansoo’s brows rose up .

He had always wondered how she’d roamed around without being detected by the others, but it looked like this was how she had done it .

‘It still shouldn’t have been that easy . ’

Her methods were indeed above the norm, and her talents were naturally not inferior to the Keldian in the past .

“Anyway, where do we go now?”

Kiriel asked Hansoo, looking around the vast, artificial land .

‘It’s too wide . ’

If she were to read everything with her Psychometry, she would burn out very quickly .

She didn’t know what she had to look for as well .

‘Right… Do I have to tell her?’

Hansoo thought to himself .

If they were going to continue traveling, there was a need for him to tell her that he had come from the future .

Otherwise, she would question him every time he did something strange .

It might even cause confusion during a decisive moment .

Since Kiriel wouldn’t understand why he was doing certain things .

But even before Hansoo could finish his thoughts, Kiriel asked him a question, with eyes full of expectation .

“Hurry and show me . I heard you have a weird superpower right?’

“ . . . ”

‘Did she see that too?’

He had heard that she’d researched him, but it looked like she’d also seen the lies he’d made in the past .

Hansoo chuckled at Kiriel’s puppy-like eyes and pointed towards a direction .

“Let’s go that way then . ”

And Kiriel smiled at Hansoo’s actions .

This world was a new, unknown world .

Nobody knew where they were, and they didn’t know what they would encounter or where they had to go .

But a trait that showed them the path in a situation like this?

Wasn’t that the best trait in a leader one could ask for?

And his goal was cool too .

Saving all of mankind .

‘I’m going to follow him until the end!’

Kiriel tightly grasped the fang in her hand as she quickly followed Hansoo from behind .

……………………………………………………

“It seems everything was destroyed . ”

‘Who lived here in the past?’

Kiriel mumbled as she ran past countless metal buildings .

It was strange .

Robots wouldn’t live in such places .

And the half-destroyed barrier in the sky had also proved something .

There was something that needed that exact barrier .

But strangely, there wasn’t a single trace of a human being in this vast land .

Only the metal robots that roamed from place to place while making strange noises .

‘Ugh . ’

Kiriel looked around at the tank-like robots, who all seemed to be running around in a hectic state because of their intrusion .

—sssssk!—

‘What the hell?’

Kiriel frowned at the minute and invisible wave that made contact with her own barrier .

This was a detection skill .

Quite a high-leveled one too .

‘No, it’s not just a skill . What is this?’

One thing was clear at least; they had been found .

—swoosh—

A man appeared from where the wave had originated from in the distance .

Right where they were heading towards .

And the man was holding onto a strange rod-like object in his hands .

—chiiijijik—

‘That . He mixed his skill with that . ’

She wondered how he’d detected her through her barrier, but he’d apparently mixed his skill with a strange object .

The man wore a necklace, which suddenly created a strange, translucent bubble that surrounded his head .

Something that allowed him to maintain his fighting abilities in a land that had no oxygen to breathe .

Kiriel started to get curious as she watched the man . He seemed to be clad in various items that looked different from normal artifacts .

‘ . . . Were you always able to mix skills with technology?’

That thing looked extremely useful .

Though the skills looked magical, they were a lot of cases where they fell short .

Most of them were very inefficient if they couldn’t be used in direct combat or for survival .

And as if feeling Kiriel’s eyes on him, the man shouted out towards Kiriel and Hansoo .

“Wait! Please wait a moment!”

Kiriel stopped after hearing the man’s shout, and asked Hansoo:

“What shall we do?”

She was interested in the man already, but the man had come to find them instead .

And the man was in quite a perilous situation as well .

—Kirrrrk!—

“Damnit!”

The surrounding robots had heard the man’s shouts and were gathering towards this area .

Apparently, he had come outside even after knowing that it would be dangerous .

Hansoo pondered for a moment at Kiriel’s words, but then nodded .

“Let’s hear him out at least . ”

The scene from the memory Kiriel had told him about kept on bugging him .

And he also wondered why the giant barrier in the sky had broken apart .

Intel was better the more one had, and somebody who’d been here longer would definitely know more than they did .

Kiriel chuckled as she nodded .

“It looks like we’ll need to rescue him first . ”

The man was screaming while he fought the robots in the distance .

“Ahhh!”

—booom!—

She and Hansoo couldn’t be seen by the robots since they were behind her barrier that hid them .

So all their attention and attacks had been focused on the man .

Hansoo nodded at Kiriel’s words as he watched the man who was barely dodging the various attacks that flew towards him .

“I’ll do it . ”

Then—

—ssssss—

—a mass of red clouds started to appear around Hansoo’s body .

……………………………………… .

“Haa… haaa . Thank you . ”

The man gasped for breath after reaching the barrier Kiriel had set up .

Kiriel mumbled to herself as she looked at the man’s appearance .

‘Woah . What a hottie!’

His looks were comparable to some famous superstar .

But Kiriel moved her eyes away from his face .

The various machinery the man had on his body was more interesting to her than his face .

‘What are all these things?’

She wasn’t an engineer to begin with, so she couldn’t figure out with a single glance how he used his machinery nor how they were created .

But there was no need for her to know all those details .

She just needed to know how to use them, and what effect they had .

And her trait was perfect for such a thing .

‘Let’s see . ’

—kiiiiing—

As Kiriel activated her Psychometry to read the memories—

—Hansoo spoke to the man, who was still gasping for breath .

“Why did you call out to us?”

The man looked into Hansoo’s eyes and said:

“What else? I was asking for help . ”

Kiriel clenched her teeth as she used a touch of her Psychometry .

She had expected this to some degree .

Since she and Hansoo had shown off their prowess already, anyone who came to find them would be coming for that exact reason .

But what gall . [a][b]

‘Is he not scared?’

Those looks might be able to subdue the rage of some females, but it wouldn’t be that useful against another man .

But Hansoo looked at the man in amusement .

He could see the man had something backing his arrogance .

And the man saw Hansoo’s gaze and nodded .

“Good . We should all be helping each other out . I’m sure you won’t lose out on this deal . ”

“Do you even know who we are?”

The man shrugged his shoulders .

“Well, I don’t know who you are, but you are human . Since that crazy bastard Melchizedek betrayed the humans, we should be helping each other out . ”

“Betray?’

Kiriel was shocked .

Betrayal?

Had they been allies in the past?

The man looked at Kiriel in shock .

‘What a pretty girl . ’

The man, Jack Hounder, smiled and replied kindly .

“Yes, betray . That bastard suggested we ally and then betrayed us the moment we agreed . ”

Jack looked in the direction of the research center in the distance .

………………………………… . .

Outer areas of the giant machine city .

—rumble—

A train-like object was quickly scouting through the perimeter of the city .

But it didn’t seem like a train for transferring people or cargo .

The giant train racing through the metal ground was simply humongous .

—rumble—

The giant train charging over the ground was easily the size of a small island .

And there were hundreds of buildings that had been built on top of that train .

And in the middle of this train…

Within a giant building…

—rummble—

A two-meter-tall humanoid form was standing in the middle of a structure, which resembled a factory or research center .

The man, who had been standing amidst the countless noisy machines, ignored the faint vibrations in the ground as he looked around .

Though the various machines looked quite disorganized—

—the view from the man’s position was quite a sight .

To the left, there were thousands of test tubes which held countless humans .

To the right of the man, there were factories that were quickly constructing things .

—bubble bubble—

The humans who looked to be sleeping peacefully were mostly in parts .

Just the bottom half, the top half or just the arms and legs .

The other parts had already melted down into the liquid .

And these liquified bodies were being sucked into a larger tube that was attached on top of the test tubes .

—sssss—

The man, who had been staring at the factory, turned towards the liquids .

Towards the direction where those liquids were heading to .

The man looked at the giant aquarium located in front of him .

The lifeform that was being created in the middle .

The lifeform that was receiving the liquefied humans from the left, and nanomachines from the plant on the right .

The man caressed the aquarium as he mumbled .

‘A step towards… unification . ’

But this was not enough .

He needed more .

As fast as possible .

As much as possible .

The man then turned towards the elevator and smiled .

[a]? like seagulls or gall, like he has such balls

[b]he has le balls