READ NOVEL ONLINE Chapter 7: Chapter 6: Emil's
I open my eyes and see an unfamiliar gray, cold heart metal ceiling. While the bed I am currently lying in might not be the best I ever feel, it is still comfortable enough to make me sleep like a baby. Some kind of Japanese bed called futon with blue color and white stripes. Despite it looking like hand-made, it's still surprisingly neat and tidy. As I try to move a muscle, I expect to groan in pain, but it didn't happen. I also realize currently I'm not in power armor and wearing a new fresh pickcloth with a little tightness to wear. When I murmuring myself in silence, wondering how long I put out of commission, the goddam kidnappers interrupt me with it's floating invicible screen game alike, blinding me with its light.
DING..!!*
[Sub Quest: Crazy Dave Plea]
Help Stetmann complete his research for the benefit of not just the colony but humanity as a whole. You might find some hidden artifacts if you look hard enough. Stop sleeping like log (^,°).
Progress
55.9%
The sample gallery (all types)
Tyrant
Carniflex (new)
Gaunt
Zerg Larva
Hydralisk
Primal Hydralisk
Zergling
Primal Zergling
Lurker (New)
Zerg Pack Leader (New)
Ground Giant Wasp Larva
Ground Giant Wasp Drone
Ground Giant Wasp Soldier
Ground Giant Wasp Queen (New)
Wasp Egg Carrier
Giant Ant Worker
Giant Ant Soldier
[NOTE]
(Updates will occur when the player encounters and collects the new sample.)
Reward:
A new unit, "Medic," will be added, including possible upgrades.
The colony medical field and facilities will be upgraded.
Research speed will increase if it is related to biology and chemicals.
An additional quest may be triggered if the player finds the "artifacts" while roaming the land.
DEADLINE: NONE
I'm quite shocked after seeing the results. Last time I saw before coming here, close to 30 percent. Also, another 3 was added. With my limited knowledge about 40k, Carniflex is another type of Tyranids unit that has a similar role with Ultralisk and Lurker. That nasty bastard is very tricky to deal with. Without any detection method that evolves, Hydralisk will continue attacking with its spike or thorn underground and can't be targeted aside from nuclear weapons, psychic storms, or Zerg chem agents. I don't know who and how NPC kill them, but I'm grateful for their usefulness. Lastly, the giant wasp queen.
Must be the North Expedition Battalion manage to subdue that giant bug nest, which is the only thing with a flying unit. While this is the only thing that's I'm very familiar with aside from their unusual size. Although it's weaker than both Tyranids and Zerg, their sheer number and having access to flying units can overpower even the strongest pack cover in fear. Plus, both wasps and ants are more organized and united compared to Tyranids and Zergs, who often live in tribes and have weird asexual reproduction, making their already limited number even more limited?. I don't know the details, but Stetman said Tyranids come from the same type of Larva, which gives me eye brows. But for now, let's remind me what happens before I pass out.
"Oh, you have awakened." Young boys voice mixed in with robotics suddenly speak behind me. The same thing that brings me down effortlessly. I immediately get off the bed and slowly walk backwards slowly. I make a messy boxing stand, closing both my armpits and guarding my head. The 'thing' looks like it's in panic with gibberish noise with its eye blinking. Before the situation becomes exaggerated, Shirogane, come ford and try to calm me down.
"Marshall, sir, calm down. This robot is not our enemy yet. Stay chill and drink this cup of water first and dry bread. You were out of commission for almost 6 hours." I hesitate to take the cup from her hand, but thirst can't be overcome.
I take and drink it in a single swallow and give it back. But I still didn't lower my guard. It takes time to purge whatever the thing is clouding my mind, but upon seeing him, his voice sounds like a young boy botherline to feminine. The broken part of the hand reveals something among the things I never forget. Moonhead with creepy smile called EMILS from both Nier Replicant and Nier Automata. While it's body comes from a British science fiction TV show called Doctor Who: Nemesis the Daleks. The funny thing is, despite its stupid design, it has an has an arm with the most terrifying weapon and a body or metal casing housing their tentacles mutated body that can shrunk off modern military weapons and other Myriad weapons with ease. Too many coinsidense here, and why so many references from many franchises I know so far on this tiny planet anyway? Beside up scale size bugs from earth like ground wasps and ants.
"Psstt... Oi Shirogane. What is going on? What the heck is that Dalek Emil's hybrid didn't kill us? Some kind of Segg experiment or something?" I asked with the lowest voice I could produce. While I have a hard time consuming the bread, living in this harsh environment sure pushes me not to cry, baby. At least in my eyes.
"Wha-wha. *Cough* No, it's not, and I assure Emil-san will not harm us. Wait, how do you know his name, Emil?" after recovering her blush from my words and asking me with a serious look at her.
"Don't worry about it. More importantly, how long have I lost my consciousness and where is my power armor? Also, please don't be too formal, especially in this situation." As I harden my poker face. Her sharp glance was drilling my imaginary iron face. I managed to shift the conversation, and she pointed her finger at the door she came from.
"Over there, Marshall I mean Razak. Don't worry about the AI core. I manage to save it from becoming scrap with the help of Mr. Emil." As she waving her hand toward Emil's, who waving back with it's pointy stick with a 3-digit finger. Watching two of us with it's glowing, faint yellow eyes in the dark corner of the room. Creepy indeed.
"Who are you and why are you attacking us?" I ask with a stern voice, looking at him directly.
"Oh, about that. aaarrgh.... Sorry. It just can't contain my emotions that this body keeps releasing this weird energy bolt. Oh, and I'm not familiar with this body I found, so can I ask your forgiveness? Razak-san. Opps wrong hand," he begins to move it's bulky body slowly get out from the darkness at the corner. He tries to handshake using a barrel-like stick and then switches it back with another stick and a finger. The gibberish voice became clear just like that without any explanation.
"Yeah... And you know it's rude not to introduce yourself first, right?"
"I thought you knew my name and seemed to know a bit about me and the body I use. I heard you said about me hybrids or something.Also, your body is emitting magic energy for some reason." moving in a circle around me, observing my body from toes to head.
"Shoot, this guy heard it all. Wait what?) Magic. You mean" puzzle what this guy is talking about. The longer I live on this rock, the more I'm confused by the development. Is it like the noob fanfic writer burns out to fast resorting using raw, unprocessed oil to continue to move? (O^O)
"Wait, this is not important. I bring you here to tell you that you and your people are in great danger." He said it with urgency in his voice. Extending it's mechanical stick arm and circling clockwise on his left.
A magic circle appears on thin air, each line linking and forming complex shapes until it gives a feeling or is 3D. A huge screen was created and showed us an image of Eastern Base Garrison. I station there to combat the Zerg and Tyranid groups and create a buffer zone and save an environment for workers to work within my territory. Burning and destruction, bath of blood of death people, both Marines, Dominion troopers, and many more, which can be classified as civilians. Siege tank, SCC, and APC were shredded into pieces with a couple more of fresh burning and ash. Yeah, basically, it's like the first time I saw Gaia. But at that time everything was already settled and the inhabitants ready to restore the place before ordering was given by me. I thought maybe one of those Tyranids or Zergs would wreck that base, but my goodness, I was wrong.
"Are those... robots we ran from hours ago?" She gasps for air. Her eyes open and big, she could while teardrops fell from her eyelids.
An image of dominion troopers brutally sliced into two by a giant mechanical flamesword hand robot while marines, which are more heavily and better protected, receive a more painful end. Flying drone with sphere head glued to the center of the drone body, raining down yellow projectiles, destroying the missile turbine with overwhelming firepower despite being slow and easy to intercept even by Marine rifle. Another humanoid robot with a skeleton head cut the troopers hand while the marine was shot by heavy fire from another robot suspiciously similar to Dreadnought from 40K, but the head was replaced with another of that ball head.Each one destroys 3 more to replace.
"(Don't tell me)" I look back at Emil's after processing the image I saw from the screen.
"The robot you encountered was called machine lifeform.What you saw earlier uses just a fraction of what they are capable of. Although the objective I can't guess, I know one thing about them. War and death, and the one controlling them is a hivemind machine or central data command center. She was known as Red Girl. I don't know why they were awakened now, but one thing we both know."
"The alien squid from another dimension," Shirogane said while doing the thinking pose. Her finger on her chin while drinking another cup of hot water.
"Bloody hell. What alien this time. Army of Terminator, Space Bug, and now alien lovecraftian from another dimension. Can somebody explain to me what the f@ck is going on?"
"I thought you knew everything, Marshall, since you are the head of the colony,top secret stuff and all. I even saw you leading the army along with Commander Raynor before you disappeared for some time. Don't ask me what they are or what actually those things call themselves. The alien just appeared out of nowhere from a portal in the sky, and the rest is history," she said while saying something clearly that I didn't remember participating in. I ignore it while my eyes gase at Dalek with Emil's head.
"You mean this?" Waving his metal arm stick clockwise yet again.
Emil, show me another image about Gaia colony this time. But the surrounding area was full of rubble and debris, and there was a 50-meter-tall tripod standing there. A mix of metal and organic indicates it might be a living thing that has been heavily modified. Huge cannon underneath it's maroon-colored carapace body capable of destroying the wall with one shot while spamming yet smaller gun on its rear body, still destructive on its own way.
Flying whale shark-like head and a eurypterid-like body with wings and craft engine on rear and two rearmost with visible blue flame seemly give the creature to fly and maneuver. Its four to five long legs with some kind of suction pads carried a metal box that unleashed enemies, similar to a giant tripod but the size of a large dog, and many armored humanoids being what you could classify as infantry. But it doesn't mean each of them shares the same appearance as one of them has the size of Marauder. The most eye-catching is that thing tall like a giraffe with energy bluish riot shield that stands on two feet casually kicking APC flying. Of course it was easily brought down by a squad of marine and platoon of dominion troopers and some armed civilian efforts to defend themselves.Some times they manage to kill majority of them on four out of five encounters due to superior firepower or destructive power of so called standard issue weapon AKA Gauss Rifle.Man that weapon sure are Over Powered on their own class.
The most shocking thing is some kind of flying tiny alien squid flying around infiltrate less armored soldiers and civilians, transforming them into Brain Flayer worthy to be put 18+ rating. Hair and teeth fall one by one while blood exits from its mouth, eye, and ears until theie head shape changes like those of the squid. The tentacles force themselves out of the teethless mouth, and red blood fluid drastically changes into a bluish-purple liquid covering the newly reform mouth, resembling a chuthulu thing. Remind me of that one YouTube game cool trailer I watched years ago. Again, all of them, I know it's origin, and yes, as you people guess it. Half Life 2 combine or Universal Union.Yeah, except Chuthulu thing, but I have suspicions where it could come from. Aarrghh, curse my virgin mind.About biped like animal is still a big mystery to me.
"So you know all of this and are seemingly make you looks like omnicient. Just give me a straight answer, no tricks, if you want my trust. How about telling us how you can speak English clearly?" I ask again with a stern voice.
"Magic, of course."
"Ok, next question, tell us who you are actually and how you got here," Shirogane turned to ask.
"Very well. I don't remember much about myself, but I know my name is Emil's, and I was a weapon. I don't know who created me and how I got here. Once I open my eyes, I find this body and wander around here on this ruin while avoiding another machine life form. I only knew about Red Girl as I hacked one of the machine body databases to learn more about myself."
"So robot is considered a living thing?" She said with a question mark appear around her head. I, on the other hand, could guess that this Emil's comes from Nier Automata ending D, but the machine space arcs some how stranded here?. Well, magic bull is at play, so anything could happen.
"Oh shoot I almost forgot.We don't have much time. We need to move before they find us. Many of them have begun to awaken from stasis. I explain while I guide your way out. Oh, before I forget, take this as an apology for damaging your armor." Olive green color power armor along with a ballistics shield on the left shoulder that was wrecked hours ago emerges from the black hole portal. Not only does the armor look brand new, but there are two of them. Beside them there is one giant sword that resembles a bastard sword from Final Fantasy 7. The other is a good old-fashioned C-14 pistol, but the underneath retractable bayonet is replaced with an underbarrel pump action, either a shotgun round or grenade launcher.
"So you didn't even look impressed? By the way, I ask Emil-san for another set of power armor, and he just clones it just like that." Shirogane explained to me while heading towards power armor.
"No, and I expect more absurd sheets coming at me at this point. Away, let's suit up." I mean, this is Emil's man. Technically the most powerful being in the Nier universe. Remember the joke ending is how he and his clone did to thing big as planet Earth? And that's it, our 'Suit Up' sequence ends. Shirogane picks up the gun and still keeps the sidearm I give her. Damn, was it me, or we look like Space Marine minus super soldier strength, space tech cult cyborg blessing of oil on machines spirit AKA primitive yet more advanced than Google AI, and hundred years of battle experience.
DING...!!?*
[FINAL FANTASY 7 VICTORY OST]
[Sub-Quest: Space Tomb Raider]
While investigating the ruin, you have found allies named "Emil's." He might teach you new tricks and hone your "borrowed" gift to combat the enemy to be more effective.You might learn more information about this world and find a way to escape it's planetary gravity and reach the colony's true destination.
REWARDS
-Large sword Type-40 Blade
-Depend on Emil's teaching, you might expand your skill arsenal.
[NOTE: THE SUB QUEST IS NOT OVER YET.READY FOR PART 2 NOOB]
"(So we enter training arc right now?)So what the deal with the weapon? Any upgrades" My mood has become less favorable. The kidnapper even teased me while foreshadowing a boss fight coming my way. Again, remind me, unlike the young lady over there, I'm just a normal human civilian who knows nothing about this level of hardship and needs constant help from a system buff to make me stay sane and collective.
"Nothing feels different so far, but I don't know about the pump action thing underneath the barrel. And don't worry about Ammo. It's more than enough to last 2 waves of the space alien and normal giant bug. But what is Bolter round?" After finishing checking the weapon conditions and cocking a few times for final preparation.
I didn't explain what Bolter is accurately, but I only say it is more nasty than typical 8mm spike round use on the Gauss Rifle series. Oddly, why not give me a gun? I want to ask, but Emil's, but I somehow didn't. Something is not right, and how easy we accept things, he said. Not a related thing, but I didn't forget to put the AI chips back inside my armor by inserting on the left arm port. After that, I swing the sword a few times and realize I might have talent for this. The best part is the sword can retract, making it easy to carry even without the help of power armor. Yep, totally, I got this. After we were done with the stuff, Emil's guide ascended from this bunker and headed south just behind the structure. The wall quickly dissembles with a magical circle from Emil's stick hand and reveals the path way.Despite Emil's clanky body, he somehow moved faster than I thought. Probably levitating using either magic or a Dalek anti-gravity disk device at the bottom. I want to know more, but returning to surface is top priority. Ready my sword on my right hand and ballistic shield on the left. I activated the light switch on the armor chest and took the first step into the door as Emil leading the way.
Time Remaining for Escape
[11 months, 16 days, 2 hours]