《The Returner’s One Millionth Life》Chapter 2 - Suddenly, Monsters
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“Sure, come on in.”
The very next moment a very beautiful yet bored looking girl walks in and looks at me as I am sprawled across the floor, smiling to myself like an idiot.
“You’re looking very beautiful today,” I say without moving from my spot on the floor.
“Of course I am you made me, didn't you,” she says without changing her expression.
“Naturally,” I say as I hop to my feet, unfazed by her lackluster response. Glancing at the expressionless 20ish looking woman standing next to me I start to think about why I never gave her the ability to express emotions when I designed and programed her.
And for those of you who are still wondering; yes, she is indeed a robot, and not just any robot, for she has human like skin, soft silky hair, and most importantly a bottom up AI. For those not in the know a bottom up AI is an AI system In which the AI learns for itself, and this beauty right here is the only bottom AI so similiar to humans that you litteraly can't tell the difference. Yes, bow to my supreme intellect, bow I say.
Anyway, she usually just functions as my secretary of sorts and manages all of the things that I couldn't be bothered to deal with.
“So, what is wrong,” I ask, because she would not have bothered me if something wasn't wrong.
“They broke through the defences.”
“So soon? I might have underestimated the system again,” I said while rubbing my head.
A few weeks ago I started calling the thing that gave me the skills and ended the world, the system, mostly because it sounds sick, and partly because not having anything to call it was starting to become a pain.
“Indeed, I guess even we can't hold off the apocalypse forever.”
“Guess so,” I said while frowning.
Ever since getting the world has ended notification from the system my house has constantly been getting attacked by waves of monsters, and at first I wasn't to worried because my house's defenses could easily hold off an attack from most of the world's countries at the same time. However, about a week ago they started getting really close to the house and I estimated that it would tke them about 2 weeks to a month to break through.
“Then I guess there’s only one thing left for us to do.”
“Indeed.”
“Then how about we blow this joint,” I say with a smug look on my face.
“Yes, sir,” she responded without batting an eye and walking out of the room.
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"Come on, at least give me a chuckle," I say with a wry smile on my face before following her.
...
“Wait here for a minute there's something I need to grab,” I tell my robotic secretary before walking of into a narrow side hall.
“Yes, sir,” she replied while watching me walk off.
Walking into the hall I immediatly say the password to the golems guarding the only door at the end of the hall and walk in without even glancing them.
The room was completely empty besides two simple boxes the one in the middle of the room open and displaying a simple katana, forged and wielded by the man who taught me the way to wield and forge a sword.
After cleaning the sword featured in the box I grabbed the other box and opened it to reveal another katana, but unlike the othe one this katana had a pure white blade with no stains. This is the katana I forged myself using a material far sharper and durable than iron.
After I finish strapping the sheath to my waist I carefully sheath the katana before walking out of the room.
Now you might be wondering, why a katana, out of all weapons to choose why a katana. Well the first reason is simple, because katanas are totally sick, I mean what is cooler some randow mowing down people with a minigun, or a dude jumping into the center of a swarm of people a taking them all out with a katana just like out of an anime. The second reason is sort of a long story but simply the man who taught me to use a katana is one of the few people that I still respect.
Because after so many lives I have seen almost every side of a person, whether it be good or bad, yet the man who I got my skills from never changed no matter what happened to him, and he was also super strong. Like no joke even after so many lives I was never even able to beat him once despite him being like a hundred.
…
Leaving the house we walked for about an hour and ahalf before I stopped my technological assistant and turned around to watch right as the fireworks went off.
The so called "fireworks" was in reality my house that I blew up in hopes to kill most of the monsters that were swarming it.
After watching the house finish collapsing we turned around and headed into the woods that surrounded us and toward the direction of the nearest city.
During the walk I practiced and after a bit of effort I manage to max it out and after doing that a message pops up in front of me asking if I would like to attain the skill elemental magic for one skill point. I was not super suprised at this because it happened every time one of my skills got maxed out.
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I actualy got the evolution of my magic sense seemingly for free because the system gave me a point for getting my first skill to max level, which I thought was strange because I have lots of already maxed out skills.
Anyway, after that I looked to see if there where any other skills I could evolve and it turns out that I can evolve quite a few skills into unique skills but the system requires like a thousand points in order to evolve them so I'd rather not to.
A few hours later we arrived at the outskirts of the city, or what should be a city. A few weeks ago this used to be a city in the middle of it's boom because of all of the technilogical advancments that were being made, this is all thanks to me of course.
Yet despite that it now looks like a ruin that has been here for hundreds of years, belonging to a civilization long past, with monsters roaming the streets and humans huddled in corners worried they might be discovered.
Seeing the state the city was in I frowned and wlaked into the city as if the monsters didn't exist.
We walked for quite a while before we were finally discovered by the monsters, the first things that appeared before us was a green thing which looked like a goblin if not for the fact that it was almost 9 feet tall and was carrying a tree trunk like a bat.
“What is this,” I asked my automated companion that had a file of all the monsters that had attacked the house with her.
“We call them goblres because of their ogre-like strength and stature yet goblin-like appearance.”
“Neat, what is it capable of?”
“Ogres are physically strong but dumb and goblins are physically weak but clever and these are a mixture of them, they are weaker and smaller than an ogre and dumber than a goblin. Technically speaking I would consider goblins to be more of a threat than them because goblins stay in large groups and can use advanced weapons and tactics.”
“Seems like the perfect opponent to test my skills on,” I say as a smile begins to creep on my face after it left when hearing this thing was smaller than an ogre.
As the gogurt, or whatever, charged at me I created a fire spear and cassualy chucked it at the monste which immediatly caught on fire and let out a loud roar before falling to the ground.
As I watched it turn to ashes a screen appeared in front of me congradulating my victory over my first monster and rewarded me with 1 skill point bringing my total up to 2.
“That was way too easy,” I mumbled to myself while I turned away and walked toward my secretary.
“I agree sir, that would have normally taken about ten of our radiation bullets to kill.”
Thinking about the radiation bullets I created they are essentially just mini nukes that release massive amounts of radiation into whatever they hit.
“Does that mean that these things have a natural resistance to modern weapons, or have I once again underestimate the system,” I mumble to myself.
“Not a clue sir.”
“Of course not, only the system would kno-,” I cut off as I saw something walking towards us.
“Wait, wait,” the figure said while holding its hands up to show its not a threat.
Removing my hand from my sword I watched as the figure came into view, revealing itself to be a woman.
“What do you want,” I said, unintentionally sounding a little aggressive.
“Well, I was wondering how you defeated that thing,” replied the woman without even batting an eye at my aggressive tone.
“I just threw some magic at it,” I answered while mimicking throwing something.
“Does that mean you have high enough level magic in order to kill it already? Do you have a unique skill?”
“No,” I lied, “I just trained my magic, didn't you spend your points?”
“We did, but even then the best of us have only made it to level five.”
‘Five,’ I thought to myself, ‘that is ridiculously low, what have they been doing?’
“You said we, so does that mean there are more of you around here?”
“Yeah, we are taking up residence in the subways since most of the larger monsters are unable to go there.”
“Sounds great, can you take us there?”
“I couldn't stop you even if I wanted to could I,” she asked while smiling at me.
“I was just trying to be polite,” I answer while returning her smile.
Without removing her smile she walked off without checking to see we were following.
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