Chapter 3 : Killer "Ai"

Part 1

The clash of swords between Ive and the mysterious robot that suddenly attacked her reverberated throughout the area.

No matter how many times Ive used her sword to fight the robot with the orange energy sword in its right hand… she was at a greater disadvantage because the robot, despite its joints that made its movements look somewhat deformed, was incredibly agile… until she could no longer handle the edge of the sword.

"Tch! If that's the case…."

She jumped back, and a red magic circle appeared in her left hand.

"Fire Magic - Fire Ball!"

She released fire magic energy, a single fireball, shooting it towards the robot, but it easily swung its sword.

Suddenly, it jumped and used both legs to wrap around her neck.

"Ack! You bastard! Let me go!!"

Ive tried to struggle and balance herself, not to fall, because it was quite heavy. She tried to use her sword to stab it off.

The robot tried to hit her again with a gun, shooting her in the head. She heard the sound of charging power that she didn't know what it was, but it was bad. Her shoes were filled with yellow lightning.

"Thunder Magic - Blitz Sprint!!"

She bounced herself until it hit the wall hard. With the lightning that rushed quickly from Blitz Sprint, it was able to break off her neck.. She took this opportunity to step back a distance and cast another lightning spell to attack directly.

"Thunder Magic - Lightning Strike!!"

A yellow magic circle appeared from the left hand that was extended towards the robot, causing the robot to put its left arm up guard immediately.

But it was a trick, because she used Blitz Sprint again, dashing until she was close to the robot's right hand.

"Eat this!!"

She jumped and kicked the robot with both legs, causing the robot to bounce, smashing the glass of the building until it fell off the building...

The girl didn't hesitate, so she quickly used the Outra App on her phone to warp out of here, but...

"Wh.. What the heck is this? I can't warp out from here!?"

She was shocked immediately. No matter how much she pressed the warp button, the app would bounce out of the app by itself.

"Oh my... I have to find a way myself. If I go downstairs, I'll definitely meet that robot again..."

Ive decided to run up the stairs to find a way out and to prevent the robot from chasing her.

But when she ran up 4 floors, before going up another floor...

Bam!!

The sound of glass shattering, Ive was immediately shocked. The same blue armored robot and orange joints that she had kicked down came up and blocked her in front of her unbelievably.

"N..N..it can't be!! It followed me?"

This made her run back down the stairs to the previous floor to use the stairs on the other side instead.

But the robot jumped down the stairs, reached the floor she was running to the other side, and then raised its left hand that held the gun and charged energy to shoot.

Ive, who heard the energy charging from afar, knew that the robot would catch up, so she quickly turned back and used the sword in her right hand to quickly swung the gun and immediately threw the sword in. But the robot dodged and was about to raise its gun to shoot again.

"Ice Wall!!"

She cast an ice wall from the ground, blocking its bullets again.

But then, it did something unexpected.

It threw its sword straight at her, piercing the ice wall. Then, it shot the hilt of the sword again, hoping that the sword would keep piercing deeper with the help of the bullets, until the tip of the sword started to penetrate the wall, causing more cracks in the ice.

"Oh no!"

She quickly tightened her ice magic power, continuously covering the cracks… until the sword stopped at her face, which was only a few inches away…

The thickened ice wall made it impossible for her to see what the robot would do to her next…

At that moment, when the robot didn't have any use for this method, it stopped shooting and jumped in, making a move to kick the tip of the sword hilt so that the sword would pierce her body…

Bam!!!

The sword kick went through the ice wall and her body…

The robot landed on the ground, but when it got up and turned around, it found that

the target had disappeared…

"Shhhuh!"

"Ouch!!"

Ive realized that she was in a room with the door closed tightly and her body was in his arms, slapping a young man in the face, knocking her glasses off her face.

She quickly got up from the young man and stepped back to see his face clearly with the light on the ceiling, making her know and remember… that was the young man she was looking for..

He put his glasses back on, stood up, and sighed.

"Sigh… what a coincidence to meet you again, Ive Roux…" The glasses young man greeted her with a calm face.

"Huh!? N…n- it's you!!!" Ive was so shocked that her eyes widened when he said her name.

"How do you know my name!? Tell me your name first!!!"

"Shh!!!" The glasses young man shushed Ive again, starting to annoy her.

"Hey! Don't shushed me and-!"

The glasses young man raised his left index finger and placed it in front of her mouth, then he immediately interrupted her, even though his face was looking away.

"Let's just say this isn't the main point. The real thing is that robot It's hunting you instead."

"What!?" From annoyance towards him, it turned into doubt in Ive's mind instead.

"Actually, I intended to lure that robot that was sent by Mech-Slayer here so that I could deal with it and prevent anyone else from getting hit by it."

Then the glasses boy turned back to Ive with a displeased expression and raised his voice.

"But you! Why did you come after me!?"

Ive was speechless. She who intended to come to find this man encountered other things mixed in. Her thoughts and his were almost in different worlds. She even used her left hand to start scratching her head lightly.

"Wh...what? Mech-Slayer?? Coming after me instead?? What the hell is this!? I don't understand!? What the hell are you talking about!!?"

Then the glasses boy crossed his arms.

"To put it simply, that robot intended to hunt me because I'm the Slayer. So I'm going to lure it to this Outra World to assassinate the robot..."

He shook his head in dissatisfaction before continuing.

"But because you came, I ruined my plan."

Then the glasses guy turned towards the door and was walking towards it.

"Hey, wait a minute. Where are you going!?" Ive asked and was about to follow her. Just then the glasses guy extended his right hand to stop her from following.

"Don't follow me. You wait here. I'll go and hit that robot head-on."

"Wait! Before you go, you haven't answered my question yet!! Who are you exactly!? And your name is-!" Ive didn't have time to ask back when the guy turned around.

"Shh!!! I don't have time to answer questions because the skill I use to hide like Hidden Link is running out of time."

"Skill?.. Is this you.. a supernatural user too?"

"Yes! I'm a Slayer too."

"Then what is a Slayer?"

The glasses guy who heard her ask, held his temples and slapped his forehead once.

"Sigh! You, huh... Let's talk about it after this is over. Just stay still in the room for now."

And the glasses guy opened the door and walked out of the room.

"And… I'm sorry…"

The glasses young man's voice ended, along with the sound of the door closing, leaving Ive who was filled with doubts about him… including the last sentence she heard…

He apologized to her… What was it about?

The glasses young man walked out of the room, getting further and further away.

"Hidden Link is disabled."

"This time, the invisibility from the sensor will disappear."

He said the name of the skill, causing the skill to stop working…

"Alright, Jayz, this is the first time you'll be fighting a Slayer lackey who isn't me."

"Come on… Let's see how good you are?"

After Jayz thought to himself and felt the excitement that was about to come, he stood and waited, preparing himself…

After only 5 seconds, he turned around and saw the same robot again. Jayz walked closer, cracking his fingers, making a fist,

"SLAYER DETECTED! Target found!!" The robot spoke up, preparing to attack.

"Wow… It can talk… Come on!!"

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Part 2

After Jayz beckoned it to come in

The robot sprang forward and slashed at its torso with an orange sword. Jayz conjured a pink energy sword in his left hand [Cost 4%] and raised it just in time to block it.

The robot then used the other hand that held the gun to fire an energy bullet and shot it at close range.

However, with the Detection Link skill, it was able to detect the incoming bullet.

Jayz conjured a blue barrier [Cost: 5%] and blocked it just in time by blinking his right eye. However, because of the force of the bullet, it pushed him away a little.

"Not bad, attacking without delay?"

Then Jayz used a warp skill to go behind the robot and was going to slash from behind, but the robot dodged and kicked his chin with his right heel, causing his head to hit the ceiling..

The robot turned back to look at Jayz whose head was buried in the ceiling, hoping to shoot him again with the gun.

But Jayz warped to the front of the robot without any wounds on his face. Followed by him conjuring another pink sword [Cost: 4%] and slashing without stopping.

The robot guarded with the sword and was gradually retreated until it found a gap where it could dodge the robot's counterattack. Both swords disappeared, along with both of his hands, placed on the joints of the robot's belly.

"Excode Burst!!" [Cost: 3%]

Green flames hit its belly, sending it flying, but it regained its balance in mid-air, using both feet to bounce itself off the wall on the other side of the path, and charged at high speed... while continuously shooting bullets.

Jayz extended his left hand to create a barrier to block the bullets [Cost: 5%]. However, when it approached the barrier, the robot rolled over and used its right foot to kick his head hard, causing him to continuously fall down the building.

Without hesitation, it used its left foot to launch itself in mid-air, in order to chase after him...

Jayz, who was falling down the floors without stopping, his body was enveloped by rainbow lightning, transforming itself into energy. Before stopping its own charge with both feet and bouncing back up

"Excelcode-!!"

The robot that was diving down, in its eyes, saw the figure of Jayz bouncing up at a speed that even it couldn't keep up its guard

"-Sprint!!!" [Cost: 9%]

The left hand hit its abdominal joint again, rushing to the original floor

When it returned to the original floor, Jayz swept his left leg to kick it to the ground

In the split second after kicking the robot away, and he was still in mid-air, his left hand was creating a spear made of water molecules

"Cleancode Hydronir!" [Cost: 7%]

Threw it at the robot, causing it to bounce back again. With the force of the water explosion.. causing the floor near the walkway that the robot had bounced to to be soaked with water

"This? Strong… It's so awesome!!"

As for Ive, she watched the two fight through the glass of the room.. She couldn't believe her eyes that He could almost fight the robot evenly.

The water-soaked robot is standing up.. The glasses young man is preparing to deal with it..

Suddenly.. Ive decided to walk out of the hiding room, extending her right hand towards the robot and releasing a yellow lightning spell.

"Lightning Stirke!"

She released a lightning bolt, flowing along the water that spread from the water spear bomb, flowing to the robot to shock it immediately, causing it to stand still and unable to move.

Jayz was shocked that she had interrupted, so he had to turn around and ask.

"Hey, you! Why are you interfering?"

"I just…umm," Ive began to hesitate to answer, until his eyes looked away.

"If you want to answer, answer!" Jayz raised his voice to ask.

"I just wanted to help you, that's all!! What's wrong with that!?" Ive turned his gaze back and shouted back in annoyance.

So Jayz replied in a calmer and sarcastic tone.

"Is… it wrong?"

"Is it wrong? Is it wrong to help people!? I see that you're good!... But… I don't want to see you fail!"

"...." Jayz silently responded to her annoying words before turning back to the robot, which was starting to move its joints a little bit, as if it was recovering from the shock.

Ive saw that the glasses young man was not interested in her, so she opened her mouth to ask again, with a more annoyed tone than before.

"And another thing! I asked what your name is, but you still didn't answer!!"

"Then is it necessary to know the name of someone to help?"

"Uh… um…" Ive was stunned, unable to answer when she was hit hard.

Jayz then retorted to her.

"Just helping someone is enough? Let's talk about other things later. Just look at it first."

When she turned back to the robot, it tried to move its body, clenched its fists, and assumed a pose to release its power. The aura of its body's color, orange and blue, made the electricity that shocked it Being shaken off

Jayz turned to look at Ive again, as if he had thought of something.

"This is you."

"What?"

"I'll let you help me..."

"Huh!?" Ive was shocked at what he said, not sure if it was believable.

"Shocked about what? I'm telling you."

"Um, okay... I'll help you, okay." Ive nodded, still hesitating.

"Okay." Jayz nodded as well. Ive then asked about his plan.

"Then, how can I help you?"

"Do you know about the time difference?"

"The time difference...?"

"Yes, it is-!"

Then, the robot that released aura, fully charged, was ready to fight again, so it immediately kicked its feet and charged at the two.

"You'll see, it's coming!!"

The robot charged at Jayz again with a sword in its right hand.

Jayz created another barrier with his left hand that was spread out in front of him, but this time, it was dark blue so that the robot couldn't see the other side of the two. It was wide and long, reaching the wall and ceiling, completely blocking both sides.

"Firewallcode: Aegis!" [Cost: 15%]

No matter how many times the robot attacked the barrier, the dark blue barrier would not break.

10 seconds later,

The barrier disappeared.. Ive appeared, who was about to swing her sword in her right hand at the robot, aiming at its chest horizontally.

At the same moment, Jayz appeared behind it, and was about to raise his left fist to punch..

In a split second, the robot was about to turn its left arm, which held the gun, to face the glasses young man who appeared behind it in time!

But then Jayz warped away again. When he appeared again, his left fist hit the robot's stomach joint directly, while it was bent down to punch, preventing her from slashing him.. And because of the punch, the robot was not hit.

But he warped back again, kicked the robot's back, to bounce towards Ive again.

From the sword's posture that she intended to swing horizontally, in fact, it was an intentional mistake, and she set up a sword thrust! Which created enough momentum to make a thrust in the opposite direction of the sword's swing..

Along with using the Blitz Sprint spell on both feet to bounce herself so she wouldn't lose her balance, causing her to use the sword to stab in and out fully, knocking the robot back.

Jayz, who saw her attack successfully, warped back to her left side within a split second, preventing her from being hit by the robot's bounce..

The robot hit the wall on the other side immediately, so it quickly broke away from the wall and stood up, pretending to recharge its energy again...

Ive raised her left arm, conjured a blue ice magic circle.

"Ice Magic: Hail Arrow!"

Hail arrows from the magic circle, shot at the robot. It decided to bounce and rush through those hail arrows. Ready to use the sword and swing when he reached him

The robot reached her and was about to swing his arm to slash, but it didn't hit or hit. It was as if she had disappeared from sight.

And the robot was kicked by Ive from above its head, hitting its head on the ground immediately..

After being kicked in the head without any time to prepare, the glasses guy grabbed the robot's left leg, swung it to hit the wall once hard, and grabbed its foot again, swinging it far along the path immediately.

Jayz sighed.

"Sigh... This is the first time I've fought so fast. I can still do it.."

Jayz smiled faintly, feeling excited and excited about the fight. But when he turned to look at Ive, he kept this face, not letting her know.

Ive understood the meaning that the glasses guy was trying to convey in dealing with the robot, so he tried asking.

"Is this? The time difference you mentioned?"

Jayz nodded in response.

"Yes... It's an attack that can change form in a split second.. If Ai can learn, then we just have to do things that Ai doesn't expect."

"Oh... so this is it!" Ive made a face like a child who had just learned something new.

The robot quickly got up and charged again, but before reaching Jayz, it was only 5 meters away.

He raised his left index finger and conjured an orange iron chain from the ground [Cost 5% x4] that pinned the robot's arms and legs, preventing them from moving.

Ive felt relieved that he had stopped the robot...

Jayz was walking behind the robot, his right eye glancing at the Link gauge on the lens of his glasses, which was recovering, but was stuck at 80% of the 4 chains that were still in use.

"Hey, where are you going?" Ive asked as the glasses boy was walking, but he said something else.

"Oh, right. I remember something. This isn't the Outra World you know."

"Wh-what!?" After she was shocked, Jayz walked behind the puppet.

"It's not strange to be shocked… This place can be called the Outra World between the living and the dead. It can be called Nirvana Space."

"Nirvana Space?

Jayz nodded and continued to explain.

"To put it simply… The Outra World that we know of has many worlds… If heaven and hell are also part of the Outra World… This place is also considered an Outra World that is related to…."

"The world of the living and the dead."

Ive trembled slightly immediately. She just realized that she really wasn't in a place she should have been.

"The world of the living and the dead? Or is it…!?"

"Yes!… It's just as I thought. And the demon that you defeated didn't eat the victims that were people from the original world… It's just using supernatural power, illusion power, to lure her into a trap."

"Huh?" Ive was shocked. If what he said was true, then that demon didn't really eat the girl's body. Although she was relieved, she felt irritated and asked him back.

"Huh!! Then why didn't you come to help me?"

"Because I saw you deal with it? Why would I help you?"

"Huh!? What the hell!..."

Ive started to feel annoyed with this bespectacled guy until she clenched her fists and blood rushed to her face like a kettle was boiling... Even though he was good, he had never thought of helping her in a crisis.

But when compared to the information he knew so much, she let out a breath, tried to calm down, and asked him back with an important question mixed in her mind.

"Sigh... But how did Outra World appear in this country?"

"I don't know."

"Oh!! But you're the one who lured this robot here! You should know!!"

"Umm…." Jayz crossed his arms and rested his chin on his hand, thinking to himself.

"That's right. I can't remember why I know the name of this world, Outra World."

"Then, this country, which is full of supernatural power, must have something strange."

Then Jayz put his arms down and changed the subject.

"Let's just say I know the exit here. It's on the rooftop."

"Oh, really?"

"Hmm, but first, we have to deal with this robot!"

Jayz extended his left hand towards the robot. Yellow energy balls appeared on the five fingers on his left hand.

"Decode Bullet! Finger-!!"

Before he could do anything, Jayz immediately jumped back.

Another AI robot, but red, with black joints and armor covering all joints, shot up from above on the same floor as Jayz and the others.

"Good thing Location Link is still active… This thing!? Warped from Outra Gate from the rooftop for sure."

Because of the Location Link skill, he knew that another robot was coming, and Jayz was able to retreat in time.

The red robot used the axe and energy knife in his hand to cut and destroy the chains that were holding the old robot, allowing it to break free.

The two robots made a gesture of releasing their power at the same time, causing the two humans to see the aura of the robot's color spreading throughout the robot's body. After releasing their power in a few seconds, they raised their hands that held their weapons, preparing to fight again.

"Watch out! This robot was also sent by Mech-Slayer," Jayz warned her, which made her almost feel shocked, as if she had found another problem.

"What? No way!"

"Huh! Looks like something fun has happened," Jayz said, excited even though he still showed no emotion, which Ive didn't agree with.

"This is not funny time as hell!!!"

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Part 3

"Oh my gosh, I haven't been able to contact you for days."

"The equipment department…"

In an office in the SOP Station… Supervisor Gran hung up the phone immediately. He felt suspicious and unsettled. The equipment department had been unable to be contacted since yesterday. Even though it was a holiday, it had nothing to do with it. At least they had to monitor it. Plus, that department didn't often contact anyone back because they usually had enough equipment in each department.

"Why don't other people notice?"

Chen got up from his desk and walked out of his office.

He walked along the corridor of the building, which seemed very complicated. If it weren't for regular employees, they would have gotten lost.

As he passed by the employees one by one, in groups, he heard them grumbling back and forth.

Why the hell? Did the people in the equipment department forget?

Did my equipment take too long to repair?

But I heard that an employee in that department was fired.

Is it a holiday?

Chen walked along and thought to himself.

"Yes, it's really strange. Why doesn't anyone ask to find out?"

"I can't say it's a holiday because I know very well that… Each department has a designated day off."

"Just making a new Tiny Camera application form is too long."

"Actually, it would only take an hour…"

"Why?"

Suddenly, because Chen was too tall and while walking, he accidentally bumped into a woman whose twin-tailed gray hair was visible, causing her to fall.

"Ouch!!"

"Ah, excuse me! What…?"

But when Chen looked down, he did not see the woman. No matter how hard he looked, he could not find her.

"I guess I am hallucinating, right?"

Chen was heading towards the corridor to the SOP equipment warehouse.

He noticed something strange…

The silence, not even the air conditioning was blowing…

No one was walking by here…

The closer he got, the more Chen felt a shiver down his spine…

But he still kept going forward, to find the truth…

If others would not investigate, he would investigate…

The supervisor walked to the entrance of the equipment warehouse. When he looked at the counter, there should be someone guarding it, but there was none, even though it was a holiday.

"The main door can't be opened? Then I have to use…"

Chen walked to a narrow path, and after walking for a while, he found a fire exit door that led to the equipment room…

He turned the knob, opened the door, and walked in…

He found that he was in the back of the equipment room, where there were only shelves of equipment arranged in rows, and the lights were off, meaning the entire warehouse was pitch black…

"I guess I'll have to use a flashlight."

So he used the Outra App to enter the equipment function, pressed a button, and conjured a white drone to float beside him, acting as a flashlight to track him..

Suddenly, a notification appeared on his phone, and he opened it to read the notification.

"What? An Outra Gate has occurred that will take you to a strange Outra World? The entire country?"

Chen was shocked by the notification, but suddenly

Bang!!

The fire exit door was mysteriously closed.

"The door!!" No matter how hard he knocked and banged on the door, it wouldn't open. So he entered the Outrap App to warp out and back in… but it turned out that…

"Can't get out?... Problem, can't get out because there's no reason? What the hell!?"

He immediately clutched his temples. There was only one way left.

"The only way out is to find the main switch to open the main door."

From this thought in his head, Chen decided to explore this dark warehouse instead...

He explored along the walls to find the main switch in the warehouse...

He himself was not a staff member of this department directly, and had never been here before, so it took him a long time to find it.

"Where is it?"

Even though there was a drone to help light the way, it didn't make it any easier to find...

The further he walked... He felt a cold sting all over his back. It was the first time.

"Shit!... This feeling... What is it?"

With a strange feeling, Chen used the app again...

This time, he conjured a pair of glasses with special powers to wear to search for hidden things from supernatural powers.

When he looked at the corridor, he saw strange footprints that came from the fragments of supernatural powers that had appeared.

"Hm? These footprints... are hidden by supernatural powers... Or maybe it was that form."

"I can't help but have a feeling."

Chen followed the footsteps.

Finally, the supervisor arrived at a desk belonging to an employee of this department…

A special pair of glasses was holding something on the desk that was round in shape but was made invisible by supernatural power.

Chen hesitated about the familiar shape, but he was also a little scared that he could guess. To be sure, he decided to bring his right hand to hold the hidden object.

When he touched it, he immediately knew. His thumb was touching something that looked like a nose!? While his palm and other fingers were touching something that looked like a cheek and mouth…

"Ah! Is this what it is!?"

BOOM!!

Suddenly, the drone that was emitting light was destroyed by something that he didn't know where it came from…

"Ah! My drone!..Tch!"

The supervisor prepared to defend himself in the dark warehouse…

But then…

Something suddenly attacked with a sharp knife from behind.

Smack!!!