Ch.7777. Engagement

After injecting the mechanism that transforms into various weapons, I slowly completed the suit.

After injecting combat support mechanisms like flight capabilities and self-transformation functions into the suit, I finished maintaining the parts where the main body would be positioned.

Finally, after separating the suit with its various injected mechanisms into parts and fitting them onto the frame, the vessel that would house my main body (for possession) was complete.

‘Good… Now, shall we go?’

So I extended the pipe connected to my main body toward the completed vessel and slowly pushed my main body in—

[…Phew.]

And with that, I completely possessed the finished vessel.

Even though it hadn’t been long since I lost my physical body after becoming a Hive God and turning into a psychic entity, for some reason I felt a slight sense of discomfort when moving my body.

[I’m a bit… dizzy…]

Being able to detect a full 360° around me added to the dizziness.

But this sensation didn’t last long.

[…Ah, got it.]

Easily adapting thanks to the exceptional mental strength from my superintelligence, I went through the final synchronization test by extending the vessel’s arms—

[No problems. Then… Tetra.]

[Yes.]

[Open the hatch. I’m launching.]

[Understood. …Please, come back alive.]

After ordering Tetra to open the ceiling hatch, I activated the suit’s flight function and quickly soared into the sky.

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While the mechanical angel’s flight was an extremely technical method using small boosters embedded between wing feathers and telekinesis, my suit’s flight mechanism utilized gravity-based psychic power.

By attaching anti-gravity generators throughout the suit to make myself nearly weightless, then activating boosters attached mainly to my legs and back.

This allowed me to fly several times faster and safer than conventional flight—so before long, I arrived at the location where the anti-psychic pterosaurs were fighting the mechanical angel.

And the first sight I witnessed there was—

[…Wow.]

The mechanical angel (Pyongyang Hive Mind) lifting an entire mountain peak with telekinesis, then throwing it at the battered Level 3 monster, the boss of the pterosaurs, burying it alive as a finishing move.

The Level 3 pterosaur had its left wing-cum-foreleg torn off and lay collapsed on the ground, with one eye burst, its horn cut off, and serious injuries all over its body. It was bleeding profusely from every orifice, suggesting severe internal injuries.

Beneath the pterosaur lay a mountain of dismembered mid-level pterosaurs, presumably shattered by the mechanical angel. This was truly an achievement worthy of personal praise, considering these were opponents immune to psychic powers.

Anyway. The mechanical angel, tattered all over from what must have been an intense battle with the pterosaurs, dropped the mountain peak it had been lifting with what appeared to be telekinetic psychic power onto the pterosaur. The impact broke the creature’s neck before it could even breathe—

[—Now!]

At that very moment, when the psychic energy controlling the mountain peak touched the pterosaur and temporarily released its control.

Whoooosh!!!

I charged at the mechanical angel wielding a psychic sword in the form of a Western long sword, infused the blade with psychic energy to the extreme, and struck down with all my might.

The inner core, cross guard, and handle were made of adamantium, the blade of orichalcon, and the edge and outer layer of orichalcon were made of mythril to allow psychic energy to flow well.

It was a fairly powerful strike, instantly transforming and launching a component from my waist area, but—

—Clang!

‘…It blocked?!’

Surprisingly, the mechanical angel immediately responded by wrapping its right hand in psychic energy and swinging it to block my long sword.

Perhaps due to the ridiculously concentrated psychic energy in its arm, I realized it didn’t even flinch despite me swinging with both arms. I quickly changed tactics and activated the long sword’s function.

Whoooooooom…!!

Then, psychic energy flowed through the circuits engraved in the orichalcon blade, activating the psychic power imprinted in the circuits—suddenly concentrating the sword’s internal psychic energy at its tip.

I quickly withdrew the blade, immediately created some distance, then thrust the sword with all my might—shouting loudly as I released the psychic energy concentrated at the tip of the sword.

[Beam from a sword—!!!!!]

“…?!!!!”

Despite my playful words, the power of the psychic energy beam erupting from the sword was strong enough to surprise the mechanical angel (Pyongyang Hive Mind).

The beam, aimed at the mechanical angel’s chest, accelerated instantly and deflected the arm it extended for defense—

Whooom—Kaboom!

Perhaps because of this, the mechanical angel emitted a powerful wave of psychic energy around itself to disperse the beam, then faced me directly—lifting numerous boulders scattered around with telekinesis and gesturing to hurl them in my direction.

If they were just ordinary rocks, I would have ignored them since they couldn’t even scratch my vessel… but unfortunately, these boulders were soaked in blood that faintly emitted anti-psychic energy, probably from crushing the pterosaurs earlier. Moreover, the rocks themselves were reinforced with a barrier field, enhancing their durability.

To make matters worse, even the lightest of these rocks clearly weighed at least 0.5 tons, and there were over 800 of them flying at me from all directions.

[You’re really… getting on my nerves!]

Kaboooom—!!!!

Of course, they weren’t particularly difficult to intercept.

The weapon I used to intercept those boulders was none other than a multi-barrel high-output guided laser interception system mounted on—or more precisely, formed by instantly restructuring—my suit.

Shoulders, thighs, back, and sides of the arms. The laser interception devices that revealed themselves as components that had been attached like additional armor opened up. Though they were only about the size of pencils—the lasers they fired demonstrated power reminiscent of the pencil that Mr. J uses to kill people.

Though thinner than homemade laser guns from the slums, their firepower was enough to erase each boulder by refracting thousands of times in an instant.

So after just 11 seconds, when enough rocks blocking my view were removed and the mechanical angel’s position was confirmed—

[—There you are!]

While flying, I pulled out numerous missiles I had stored by freezing time with spatial psychic power, equipped weapons like bracers on both arms, and charged toward the mechanical angel.

Whoosh—Kaboom!

I dealt with rocks blocking my path by controlling missiles with telekinesis, while leaving rocks flying from the sides and rear to the automatic laser interception.

Thanks to flying rapidly in a gravity-free state, I was able to close what must have been at least several kilometers of distance in an instant, reaching right in front of the mechanical angel—though “right in front” still meant several hundred meters.

And once I got this close, the mechanical angel began launching psychic constructs created with its own psychic power instead of throwing rocks at me.

These constructs, instantly produced and launched from behind its back, generally took the form of simple spikes, but their sheer number made defense difficult.

The 4-meter-long explosive spikes flying at 14-19 per second moved as smoothly and precisely as if mimicking my missiles, but that was fine.

Ratatatatatatatatatatata—!!!!

With the power of the weapons mounted on my arms, I could easily shoot them down.

These weapons, shaped somewhat like mackerel or saury and covering my entire forearms, were essentially shotgun converters for the beams emitted from the psychic crystals in my palms for close combat.

The moment I thrust my palm forward, the beam fired from my palm is reflected and dispersed/amplified inside, then shot forward in all directions.

Combined with my 60-70 punches per second, I was essentially dual-wielding shotgun machine guns right in front of me.

Kakakakakakakakakakakakakakang—!!!!

The lasers extending from my arms poured down like summer monsoon rain, completely obscuring my vision as they instantly destroyed the psychic constructs.

While destroying these constructs, I activated the boosters mounted on both legs at full power and moved forward—

[—Take thiiiiiis!!!!]

Crack!

After approaching right up to its face and firing dozens of shotgun laser blasts to destroy the psychic barrier protecting the mechanical angel, I thrust my weapon with all my might right in its face while spewing shotgun blasts.