Another chapter will come after 5m-
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‘I have absolute numerical advantage. Faced with this disparity, even with my Lord’s Leadership, what can he do?’
‘Yes, just like in the beginning, I can drown them in a black sea of Tainted corpses, then snatch the My Lord back from them. I can win; I want to prove to my lord that I, Suthia, am no longer just a “healer”!’
Under the nun’s will, the horde of Tainted corpses once again revolted, surging like a tide from all directions…
But Renji expecting that, had already moved with the three people he was with at some point. They were now in a single-directional passage, and all the Tainted corpses were forced to attack them from one direction.
“Zero, start ‘sweep mode’.”
Renji, at the rear, despite the grim situation, seemed to be in a state of excitement. He quickly issued a command to the robotic maid, positioned second in line.
Naturally, Renji mistook the robotic maid as a bionic replica projected by Zero, similar to how Suthia used Maria as a “vessel” for her arrival.
But what he didn’t expect was…
-[Zero]-
-[ Master called me Zero?]-
-[Does Master mistake me for Zero!?]-
In the eyes of the 86th robotic body, countless codes swirled, as if just being called by Renji as “Zero” was enough to overload its computational capacity.
But now, the Master actually called her “Zero.”
The chip in 86th began to overheat severely, and several warning error pop-ups appeared in her vision. Normally, at this point, a “copy” would be targeted by the ‘Main Brain Network’ and forcibly marked as a “bug” to be eliminated.
After all, the title “Zero” was supreme for all bio-replicas, the mother-brain who bestowed everything upon them.
Unfortunately, No. 86 couldn’t connect to the “main-brain network,” which meant that the “main-brain network” couldn’t detect No. 86 as an individual; she was… independent.
As a result.
No. 86 actively cleared all the error warnings in front of her, and in this moment, perhaps because the situation was urgent and there was no time to explain, or perhaps to keep her Master from being distracted, or perhaps for some other deeper reason.
But in any case.
At least for this moment, No. 86 decided to treat herself as Zero in this battle.
In that moment, the 19% “unknown data” that had previously been captured by No. 86 was finally fully read and integrated into her core chip.
The source of that 19% “unknown data” was the sparkling, translucent azure light particles that had floated in the air inside the Sea Sand Bar at that time.
It was the remnants of Zero’s “body” left after her “self-destruction.”
It was the damaged data that belonged to Zero! .𝒎
[Command. Received, sweep mode. Activeate]
All of No. 86’s thoughts and internal data assimilation happened in the blink of an eye in reality. Because she had received Zero’s data, No. 86 could now smoothly execute Renji’s command.
After all, for bio-mechanical entities like her, data was equivalent to inheritance, equivalent to power. With the corresponding data, any ability could be learned and unleashed in an instant.
Just like No. 86 now.
Her original wings of light on her back were retracted, replaced by over twenty machine gun barrels that swarmed out. As a substitute for the winged function, a higher-level anti-gravity levitator was mounted on the maid’s feet.
No. 86 easily leaped into the air, and the dozens of machine guns on her back were aimed at the massive Tainted horde approaching. In the next second, her terrifying sweep firepower completely blanketed the horde.
However, in sweep mode, Zero did indeed have a larger attack range and AoE (Area of Effect) crowd control abilities. But as a trade-off, the damage for each shot was greatly reduced. It was clear that the sweep firepower could somewhat delay the Tainted Corpse’s advance and cripple their limbs, but it fell slightly short of killing them or inflicting fatal damage.
But that slight sweeping was exactly what Renji wanted!
Otherwise, he would have instructed Zero to directly activate a higher-level [overload mode]
“Eileen.”
The impatient girl finally received the command, and her crimson greatsword was already eager for bloodshed.
In the activated [Annihilation] state, Eileen, like a war deity, stood at the very front of the formation, acting like a meat grinder with her crimson greatsword, reaping one after another of the tainted corpses, all crippled by the strafing from Number 86 in the air.
With each kill, one could see behind the young girl, in the “high wine glass”-shaped [Brand] tattoo, a trace of red liquid appearing within the glass. This blood-red liquid then transformed into energy, feeding back into Eileen, making the greatsword in her hands glow increasingly with bloodlight, even changing its form as two shadowy wings of Tainted Miasma faintly emerged behind her.
“Thia should probably use that now, right?”
Renji, observing the battle from behind, muttered to himself while pulling up Eileen’s panel and focusing on the accumulated attack power layers from the [Raise Your Glass!] [Brand].
When he decided the girl no longer needed the aerial mechanical support’s strafing to supplement her damage and could complete the harvesting “charging” on her own, he immediately issued a new command to Zero for preparation.
Meanwhile, on the opposite side, Suthia was intently watching the girl who was dancing like a bloody butterfly among the group of tainted corpses. She was aware of the [Brand]’s effect, an equipment piece once considered a mere trifle by the great Ashen.
‘But How… how was that person able to continuously charge the [Brand]? Could her ability be…’
Suthia realized that continuing this way, her army of tainted corpses would not only fail to overwhelm the girl by sheer numbers but would instead become a source of energy accumulation for Eileen.
The nun recalled how her master had commanded her in combat, and against an enemy in such a “special state” the most suitable skill she should use would be…
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