Death… And Me

Chapter 3475: How?

As far as they could see, tall buildings and bright lights occupied the region. It was a complete contrast to the outside, where no light was available, and everything was falling apart. The city was bustling, with countless vehicles flying and moving on the ground, going everywhere.

It looked like a futuristic city. Holograms were being projected in the sky, countless advertisements passing on every single one of them. The buildings themselves had sharp shapes, adding to the cyberpunk kind of feeling.

The thing that caught their attention the most was the gigantic building far in the distance. It was like a triangular tower, and it shot some kind of dark energy to the skies. Could it be the reason for the Evernight World to never see the light of the day? They weren’t sure.

”That was not exactly what I expected to find in the Evernight World...” Hudiander couldn’t help but comment.

Rean, Roan, and Huhal agreed with him. The Evernight World was seen as a place where you go and never come back. Thanks to the Soul Flames that the experts could leave behind, everyone believed that no one survived for long in this place. After all, when the soul flames extinguished, that meant their owners died, and that always happened.

*Zrum, zrum, zrum, zrum...*

Suddenly, various drones came flying in their direction. They didn’t have any weapons on them and just circulated around the sect’s experts. Various red lights seemed to analyze the twins’ group for a few seconds.

Right after, they all shifted their attention, focusing on Qwerty instead. Lots of noise came from all the drones as if they had found something important, and they continued to hover around, not letting Qwerty out of their sight.

”Should we stay here?” Rean asked Hudiander. They entered this place alone, and the sect was still waiting for them outside with everyone else.

It was then that several vehicles appeared in the distance, approaching their group at high speeds. All of them had weird mechanical arms and unfit parts, looking more like hastily put-together mechanical chimeras.

*Zush, zush, zush...*

A few more experts of the sect passed through the barrier, arriving by the twins’ group side. Lotan was one of them, while Abi and Xawery stayed with the sect.

The vehicles stopped a few meters away from their group, and from inside, various robots came out. They all looked similar Qwerty, although they had different colors and a few different shapes in some parts of their bodies. One of them stepped forward, reaching out for Qwerty. Qwerty, however, quickly took distance from the robot, returning to Rean and Roan’s side.

The robot’s light eyes seemed surprised by the sudden action, but it quickly recovered, looking at the twins’ group. Obviously, everyone there was ready to fight at any moment. It’s just that the robot ignored them in the next moment, looking at Qwerty instead. Its light eyes changed to some kind of scanning ability, and red lights passed over Qwerty’s body. ”Unbelievable. It’s a model HAF100! They should have all been terminated over seventy million years ago...”

The other robots on the back showed shocked expressions through the lights of their spherical heads. They had received the drones’ reports and had to come to check. Seeing that the drones weren’t broken and the reports were accurate truly surprised them to no end. ”A HAF100! What do we do?!”

”Ahem...” Lotan intervened. ”Can someone explain to me what is happening here? What do you want with our Qwerty?”

The robot in front looked at Lotan for a second before it passed an order. ”Activate the arrays.”

*Rumble!*

*Arghh!*

Suddenly, everyone in the twins’ group felt their bodies being pressed to the ground. They weren’t the only ones. Outside, the entire sect was assaulted by the same kind of power, and it immediately fell. Fortunately, they were just a few hundred meters above the buildings, and the formations tried to compensate for the sudden change. That’s the only reason the sect didn’t come crashing down. Such a huge thing would definitely have been broken in countless parts if it did. Nonetheless, the power forcing it down was stronger than the sect’s floating capabilities.

Thousands of buildings were squashed by the enormous sect until it finally finished its landing. Nonetheless, everyone inside the sect was feeling the same thing as the twins’ group in the city. That power didn’t let them move at all.

The only exception there was Qwerty, who seemed completely immune to those changes. ”What are you doing?!”

The robot in front approached more. ”Don’t worry, friend. We will not let them cause you harm. Come with me. You have no need for a master. We will wipe out your memories and let you be reborn as one of us. A HAF100 will be a huge addition to our community.”

Then, Qwerty felt his programming take over his body again, and even though he didn’t want to, his body moved forward. Whatever his programming was, it didn’t look like he could fight against it.

Those weren’t the only developments, though.

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The Celestial Soul System also kept giving weird messages, where most of its contents seemed to be blocked or hidden in some way.

[What the hell is this shit?] Sister Orb was completely lost.

Outside, the robot controlling Qwerty gave another order. ”Terminate all forms of life here and outside.”

Those weird chimera vehicles immediately took flight again, flying through the barrier. They weren’t the only ones. Tens of thousands more appeared, coming from the city and flying outside. Soon, the sound of explosions could be heard, although the twins could not see what was happening as they couldn’t move their bodies.

The various other robots behind that leader raised their hands, and energy concentrated there before many spears appeared. No, it was better to say they looked more like big needles instead. Then, they all pounced at the twins and the experts of the sect.

”Shit!”

Lotan was fuming. He couldn’t control his Divine Energy, laws, time, or space. Whatever it was that was pressing him against the ground seemed to completely cut him off from the world.

Hudiander and the others weren’t any better. All the while, Qwerty approached the robot ahead that was talking, extending his hand forward to take the hand of the robot until suddenly...

*Swish!*

A scythe appeared out of nowhere, cutting the arm of that robot off. Roan acted!

*Zush!*

Rean also moved like lightning, grabbing Qwerty by his waist and jumping back. He was attacked by lightning before for doing it while Qwerty was being controlled, but he didn’t care if he had to defend against it again. He couldn’t let Qwerty go now. Yet, the lightning bolts this time didn’t appear.

Roan didn’t continue his assault after that. Instead, he also retreated, placing himself between Qwerty and the robots there. ”Who said you could take him?”

All the robots there looked at Rean and Roan with wide-open eyes, and they even stopped their assault at the others. They couldn’t understand what they were seeing. ”How can they move?!”