The two of us kissed, but that ended up being more than a quick thing. We had both been so distracted that the entire time we hadn't done it once.
"Are you guys done sucking face yet? You people are sitting around bored and they need a leader to give them something to do. I can make them work faster and be better at their jobs, I just need to crack a whip!" Grace said with a devilish smile, but Miala ruined it for her but coming up with a smile and grabbing her arm.
"You should have seen Miss Grace! She got everybody doing the jobs they were best at with just a couple quick questions! She is quite the impressive person!" Miala said, and Tali came over on the other side of Grace latching on and nodding her head.
"Well, looks like you fit in right away. I guess that means we should all get back, I will have to call upon, thou who shall not be named!" I said dramatically, and Gripton appeared frowning at me.
"I don't know if I like that one," Gripton said with a thoughtful expression.
"That's fine, you're never really sure about any of your names, so I just call you at random," I said laughing. "Come on, let's get going, more points to spend and shit to build."
Chapter 279: Big Robot Be Damned
[Day 13/1825 on The Godless Green Earth A.I World]
Ten days had passed since the girls passed, and things had changed dramatically. To say that it looked different around the coast was a gross understatement.
Our base of operation had spread out wide and now there were five sectors around the center structure in the middle. The building looked like a glass mountain, something that came after four days, fire.
It had activated once I had hit five thousand Gi and with it and sand I was able to make deadly defenses, beautiful structures, and a spaceship! Once I gained the fire and learned to make glass structures, I was awarded a glass skill that upgraded into crystal, and then Transparite.
That was just the name for it, but I could create two fencing swords, and they could not be broken or even marked. So, I had created a micro-mesh glass dome to act as a shield. To the naked eye, it would just look like normal glass, and that's all that mattered to our people.
The four of us were floating up above the dome, the way Gripton designed the game flowed well. Now, thanks mostly to Grace's hard work to find everyone a place to go, and now everyone was acting much different.
"Are you all ready to go down and see everyone? It's almost time, ten minutes until we hit max Gi and we step into the next level."
"Too bad all the humans ran and hid, but that just means we can cripple them all, wreck their bases and make them come to use if they want to play that way. Or we just leave them and concentrate on MTK; do you think you can even beat him, I mean with this next boost?" Grace asked me as we floated down.
"I don't think so, but that's counting your chickens before they hatch. No, there are less than ten minutes left, let's just leave the wild speculation alone for now. The humans are a different story; they haven't bothered us and we have started to have kids, so that's on the way."
"THEY have been allowed to have kids!" Mikota complained while rubbing her belly.
"Hey! What did I tell you? Do you want to stay here and raise that kid without me? I am hoping that we will be able to bring him or her with us if we keep them in incubation inside of your womb."
We were finally back down on the ground. The meter in my HUD read nine thousand nine hundred and eighty-eight, so we needed to pull the pin out and get going. I spent us along to the plaza that was up ahead and we had a long water fountain that parents and kids were sitting around.
One of the funniest things was to see everyone in different basic clothing. When I looked around at people, I had to remember what the face of each was or stare into their eyes. Almost all had their stripes covered, but now that they all were developing personalities, It was easier to tell people apart.
Before, everyone just had the same looks and expressions. Now they were happy and smiling, making it easier to tell them apart. Plus, the fact that they stuck to one style of clothes helped.
Each person had a specific look that they stuck with, but that's what made them individuals. I settled down in front of them, and the last bit of Gi finally filled up.
[Primal Evolution] Activated!
[Primal Evolution] Completed!
[Total Gi] 10002/100000max
That was anticlimactic, but I did feel stronger, but no other dramatic changes, but there was an explosion. Of course, there was, things had been going far too smoothly with the WorldBreakers lately, and I had even fallen into the fashion of calling them humans again.
"Arm the battle stations, everyone, we have prepared for this!" Grace called out to the panicking people, and they started to listen and head off in the direction needed.
I had spent a great number of points into the Earth Cannons, so I was looking forward to seeing them in action. I had decided that I would focus on more of a tower defense than the standard RTS strategy.
I had modified the landscape to create a maze of paths that had towers perched up high to rain down on the enemy troops. I had also created glass shards everywhere like swords to stop ground troops.
"Dave, I have bad news," Gripton said from out of nowhere.
No one jumped, or screamed, this was normal, but I didn't like the sound of bad news.
"What kind of bad news?"
"The bad kind, but it is partially what you wanted, just not WITHIN FIFTEEN DAYS OF COMING HERE! MTK is here and controlling the humans already. I wasn't able to detect him coming into earth's orbit or even leave Mars! I think that this MTK might be a lot more advanced than the one you fought," Gripton said with a worried look.
Oh, this was great, if he was here controlling the human then that meant that he would have improved them dramatically. This wasn't good; it was like starting at round thirty with level ten defenses.
"Will I get Gi from killing them?" I asked Gripton.
"Yes, you should get quite a bit, but you probably won't survive the first round. No, you will have to defeat all the waves that he sends. Only then with you be able to challenge him, if you survive," Gripton said, still looking worried and doubtful.
"Fine I will have to help with the first wave, but will there be a breather between waves?" I asked.
"Yes, you will only have one battle a day, but I have no idea how many troops will be sent with each wave. Be careful out there, the Galaxsor Techknowledge is the race we built to dominate remember, so don't be surprised if they are grossly overpowered."
"This is all your fault, you know that right? You should be the one down here fighting them, not me! Bah, just make sure and help keep everyone safe while I go tune in MTK."
I turned to Mikota and Tequila, smiling at both of them, and then walking off to get a kiss from each.
"Please go wait at central, that is the safest place for you, and I don't want to have to worry about you two while I'm trying to fight okay?" I asked them before leaving.
"Oh, don't worry, Tequila has said enough about the Major to know that this isn't playtime, but please be careful like the old pervert says and don't get killed," Mikota said with a smile.
"Just come back to us," Tequila said, coming in for another kiss.
"Don't worry, I don't make a habit of losing. MTK might be stronger, but this will be primal versus technological, so we will see."
I floated away from the girls, giving off a front of calmness, but the look Gripton was giving me said that I was going to be anything. I had no idea what I was going up against, but if they were already running the course to get here, the towers should have taken down at least one of them.
Yet, my points had barely changed; just the standard amount that I would normally get. Maybe they were stuck somewhere and couldn't get through? That's funny, more like they were just walking all over my defense, and the weapons that were there were having no effect.
I had to hurry, I didn't want them getting too close, so I shot forward and out of the dome, fly
ing fast into the maze. It only took about five minutes of flying before I could hear the crashing of glass and the sounds of the Earth Cannons firing off massive rocks, but there were so few.
What was going on? Then another one stopped firing and I raced forward. When I turned the corner, I froze in mid-air.
Ahead of me was a thirty-meter talk yet black humanoid robot holding one of my Earth Cannons in its hand. I would have been furious, but I was extra-cautious and made sure that all the cannons could be controlled from the inside of the dome. I was glad that I had been extra paranoid, or people would have been dead now.
The massive robot looked down at me and then started to laugh. I mean like haha laugh like a crazy person, I didn't appreciate the way he was laughing at me, so I clapped my hands together.
Big robot be damned, I slammed two ten-meter wide sections of the fifty-meter tall walls together. They smashed the big black monstrosity of a robot into little pieces, but those little pieces WERE MORE ROBOTS!
I was starting to get flashbacks of the golem fight again and I sighed. How many more days of this did I have to go?
Chapter 280: Devil In The Details
[Day 13/1825 on The Godless Green Earth A.I World]
This was a huge oversight on my part, I had built the base great, but all the glass that I used in route was just glass. I didn't think that I would need to worry about FUCKING ROBOTS!
I remembered how the Major had kept changing, but that wasn't normal. I hadn't really thought about it until now, but he had done something to his program and this was not the race that we had built.
Just how long had he been conscious on Mars? Could he still even be considered a human, or was MTK an alien race now?
I started turning long patches of the path into boiling magma but that would only get some. The rest would hop the walls and then I would rip them into the lava, but there were a lot of them.
On top of it all, I was starting to feel the strain from using the power so much, but at least the cannons were starting to pick up on some of the work. I floated back and watched as they came into an area that was more heavily defended and I pulled back even further.
The last fifty or so were taken down by four Earth Cannon, and it was finally over. The first attack and they made it three-quarters of the way and destroyed at least five of my defenses, ugh.
[Total Gi] 28532/100000max
I turned and sped back to the base, this was no time to feel bad about this. No one got hurt and we did win. Plus I had an ass load of points to upgrade shit, but I only had today to do it. MTK will be back tomorrow. Thank god this is a game and he has to follow some kind of rules, or we would just be getting run over by robots right now.
"I still never expected him to show up so quickly, but it is only him and some of his tech, but it looks like he has been here the same amount of time as you," Gripton said from beside me where he had appeared.
"Something is different about him, I don't know if you watched my eighth game, but MTK was in it and he had a leveling system that allowed him to level up when he was defeated," I explained.
"No, I was with Hyde at that time in his head helping, but then one of the Game Masters, Talon, took notice of me. Still, there is no system like that in the game, you would have cut it out. Something like that would give a person unstoppable power, even Hyde's power can be stopped, but something like that…" Gripton trailed off, getting another one of his worried expressions.
"Exactly, so, I don't know what his game is. If he can send a thirty-meter tall robot that breaks into one hundred and fifty more little ones on round one, we need to step it up. I have a lot of points so what do you think?"
"I think it's time you dusted off the military tab in your skill and start by getting some new weapons. This is an RTS so you have good stuff in there, but you are using things that are meant to deal with lower-level threats. Once we are back we will get some better weapons, but you will need to rest, tomorrow is going to be more or the same, but different. So, let the girls take care of you. We are still going to be here for a while, and you need to claim your other guardians, but you still haven't slept with the ones you have!" Gripton scowled me as we came up to the dome.
"Hey! I don't want to be having kids here if we are just going to leave right away!"
"That doesn't matter! They are all going to be going with you to Scorpio! These are the world interactions, the NPC with brains we have been working on! I have them in the other worlds already, but this is the last batch, but I wanted to try something different and see what you thought of it. Remember, this was supposed to take this long, you were supposed to get here the first time and things would have been fun! But that idiot messed it all up, and now we are stuck with this mess!"
"I bet you didn't see Hyde in person a lot did you?" I asked, glaring at Gripton.
"Wha? Why?HEY!" Gripton called out as he fell to the ground below and then disappeared.
Hyde would have punched him into the wall, the devil is in the details. Gripton was always one more story short of the truth, it was like he couldn't stand not having something else to hold over you. He was like the fine print on a document that was only meant to be read out after it was signed.
I floated back into the massive Transparite dome, I couldn't see the other side, it was just so far away. The city that I had helped to layout felt like a misuse of the time, but there were thinking A.I. having children and slowly increasing the population. No, I just had to focus on protecting them until I could get to MTK.
But, if today was any indicator, I was nowhere even close to being ready to fight him. I would have to get a hold of the other elements, and dramatically increase the defenses.
I opened up my menu for my skills and was surprised to find that Gripton had already gone through and leveled things up for me. I scanned through the different things he had upgraded; not all had a bunch of points, some had the single point, just to get to the next thing further in the skill branch.
The first thing I noticed was the Fireball Mortar, a long-range cannon that basically cast Fireball on a targeted location every ten seconds. The reload time was long, but it was a Fireball spell essentially, so that made sense, the damage would be crazy.
Next was a laser that refracted off the first enemy and kept going until it hit all the enemies. The only problem was that the damage dropped off greatly after the first five in the chain. It was still useful, but the last thing looked like it was going to do some work.
Transparite Gatling Guns had a medium-range, but they spit-out glass shard three per second. These should help grind through the next wave, and hopefully, I wouldn't have to do so much grunt work.
I was almost back home, to the central spire, so I looked to see about placing the new towers, but Gripton had beat me to the punch again. I wasn't upset, I was just frustrated with him.
I wish he would have played a more active role from the start; the point was to beat the game and get out of here and deal with the rest. From his view, we stand outside of normal time.
I could understand a bit, time isn't moving out there, so we have all the time in the world, but I have been playing this game for too long. It has always been to someone else's tune and I just want to play the games that I want.
I want to choose for how long I want and then change if I want to. Not run around and battle an advanced race of military robots that always seemed to have the upper hand…
Okay, so the game idea wasn't bad, but I wanted to do it when I could just play the game as a game and not fight for survival for real. I didn't know what would happen to me if I died outside of Reborn, and I didn't really want to think about the idea.
All I could do is hope that Gripton stops dicking around, and yes I know you can hear me. Thank you for getting everything ready, but it would be a great help if you could keep doing this so I can focus on the fight and other stuff.
"I will help, I am sorry, and I know that it has been a long time, but this has to be do
ne, so buck up chap! You got this! Now, go do what I told you to do the first day you got on this planet!" Gripton said, while appearing only briefly, and then disappearing once he was done.
Yes, that's right. Well, it was time to make it official I guess, but I was sure mew had been married numerous times and it wasn't like it was more than words, but they were to a woman I loved. Plus, there was the part after she said yes, and the fact that I planned to ask her in bed.
I floated into my crystal palace with a big stupid grin on my face. Devil in the details.
Chapter 281: A Little Birdy [XXX]
[Day 13/1825 on The Godless Green Earth A.I World]
I floated into the palace, I had gotten a little carried away when we built this place. I enter a large room with a large fountain in the center of the room. There was a pair of large curved staircases that led up to a single landing and I floated up to it and then down another long hall with a few doors on either side.
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