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Ian Black’s basement, Harmon’s home base.

Except for the core area, each area had at least one security machine or robot deployed, and they had such powerful power that it was difficult for Undine alone to break through them.

So, even though it was really against his will, Harmon had no choice but to order the area to be closed, and Undine lowered the bulkhead blocking the passage, blocked the area in front of the bulkhead with various debris, and poured a liquid that had the property of hardening into it to block the passage.

The directions in which the passage extends are east, west, south, and north from the core area.

And the first closed area that Harmon decided to head towards was the west, which was also the direction that Undine had first headed towards.

“Let’s temporarily call this area Zone 2. Zone 1 is the core zone.”

“Okay.”

“Yes, Master! I’ll draw you a map~.”

Using the HAR that Harmon gave me, I started to manipulate the hologram and create a map as if I was drawing a picture.

He starts drawing Harmon’s face in a light SD style and writes “Master♡” on the side, draws Undine in SD style and writes “Senior,” and even starts drawing a chart of Harmon’s organizational relationships.

Plus, Lucky is drawn as a rough-looking puppy, not as an SD picture.

“You’re good at handling holograms.”

“Ehehe. Thank you for the compliment! I can do this kind of work, even if it’s simple, to help you with your home interior!”

“You’re so versatile.”

After the map preparations were completed, Harmon stood in front of the closed bulkhead, with Undine and Lucky, who was wearing a bio-suit, ahead of him.

Lucky’s bio-suit was very different from its original appearance.

The mutant’s deformed, long-armed appearance that he wore when he invaded Guldari Village in the past was an item that Lucky had created in an optimal form to recreate the fighting techniques he had learned while wandering the wilderness for 340 years.

Normally, it reproduces the superior energy efficiency unique to humans, which is advantageous for long-distance movement in a bipedal form. However, in times of emergency, it uses its long arms to enable quadrupedal movement, allowing it to utilize beast-like high speed and propulsion.

It is possible to make sharp turns, stop, and move freely on all kinds of terrain using both arms and legs… In any case, it was a form that Lucky had become attached to, having accumulated a lot of experience.

but.

“It’s too ugly to show to the master!”

Candy made a negative sound to the form.

“We have to show only good things to our master! Life and the surrounding environment are already tough! We have to show our master a lot of good things for his emotional development and stability!”

Undine also joined Candy’s opinion and pressured her, which resulted in Hanguti changing the design of his original bio-suit.

The basic form is to put a slightly larger Lucky (170cm/larger chest and hips) on top of the original Lucky (155cm/slim body).

And by changing the limbs into a beast-like form, it is possible to reproduce the movements that were possible with the original bio-suit.

“Then, I will melt it.”

As Undine sprayed water from her hand to melt the things blocking the bulkhead, Harmon manipulated the device to open the closed bulkhead.

Then, in front of them, a basement hallway that had been terribly damaged by the past battle between Undine and the mechanical weapons came into view.

“Let’s start reconnaissance.”

Saying that, Undine created water and sent Undine 05 first to begin reconnaissance.

Undine 05 Divide into six and spread them out, then vibrate the surrounding moisture and feel the vibration waves.

Undine, who felt the vibrational waves, created a detailed map made of water in her hand and implemented the shape of the passage felt by the vibrational waves. Undine then quickly transformed it into a holographic map by overlaying HAR on top of it.

When Undine relays that information, Candy adds it to the hologram she was drawing and sends it back to Harmon.

“Check out the working machine weapons. I have combat experience in the past.”

“You mean that giant spider?”

The machine Undine fought against was a giant, spider-like, four-legged chariot that completely blocked one side of the passageway.

“Spider Tank… Is that a bit too direct?”

Until now, Harmon had treated tools as tools and given them random names, but starting with Undine, he began to realize the importance of naming.

A good name sounds good and can make a better impression on others.

Starting with the targets it can be used on, aside from its powerful firepower, the Prosciutto is more highly regarded than the Laser Sword, which is a more efficient and superior weapon.

“Let’s call it a square tank because the body is square and the legs have four angles.”

“Okay. I have identified the location of the square tank. I will mark its location. Master, what will you do about the square tank?”

“Destruction.”

I would have liked to hack it and get it. I couldn’t waste the opportunity to get my hands on a powerful machine weapon that could deal with Undine.

However, the Square Tank was too strong. If you attack it recklessly, perhaps with the intention of hacking it, you might lose the Undine or Luck that you had so desperately wanted.

“Understood. From now on, we will carry out the operation with the goal of completely destroying the Square Tank and recapturing Basement Area 2.”

With those words, Undine, Luck, and Candy entered Area 2.

The moment they set foot in Area 2, the Square Tank that was scouting the area also detected the intruders and entered combat mode.

* * *

The main defensive facility in Area 2 is the square tank.

And two turrets in each passage.

However, most of the turrets are no longer functional due to poor maintenance over time, and many other defensive facilities have also ceased to function.

Therefore, it was safe to say that the only defensive facility that Undine’s party had to worry about the most was the square tank.

“This is it.”

Both the Square Tank and the Undine party detected each other and moved to find each other, so they were able to meet quickly.

The place where they met was a room where the center was blocked off with thick special plastic.

Square Tank and Undine, facing each other with the plastic blocking each other in between, looked at each other and immediately started fighting.

Puhwaaak!

A sudden burst of water mist from Undine 05 melted the plastic and covered the Square Tank. Immediately afterwards, the Square Tank activated the wave device attached to its body, vibrating the energy around it.

Kiiing!!

It shocked the surrounding area with a fiercely vibrating energy source, and in particular, it directly hit the structure of the water mist, shaking up its molecular structure and turning the water mist that was melting everything into ordinary water mist.

“It’s a countermeasure against energy weapons.”

“Was that a water mist energy weapon?”

“Yes, they were similar.”

With those words, Undine pours water on the surrounding debris and then uses the water to lift the debris.

Then Lucky leapt forward and kicked the turret of the square tank that was aiming at them.

Boom!

“Ugh!”

But the turret did not move at all and just released the energy stored inside the tank.

Wow!!

The ejected energy swept through Undine and her party, creating a shock that seemed to push back space itself.

“Gyaaak!”

“Gyaaah!”

While Lucky, who was caught up closest to it, screamed and Candy flew away in surprise, Undine, who had protected herself by covering her entire body with thick water, blew away all the debris and hit the square tank.

Kwakwakwakwang!!

Immediately after the debris hits the square tank, the water that lifted the debris hardens, attaching the debris to the square tank and hindering its movement.

“Eww!”

At the same time, Lucky swung his fist, which had been made up of a huge amount of metal cells, and hit the square tank.

Kuuung!

The floor the square tank was standing on was crumpled by the impact, but there was no direct damage to the square tank.

Instead, the square tank used its auxiliary turret to attack the lucky one.

Ta-da-da-da!

Lucky, who was hit by a bullet fired by the turret, quickly escaped the place, and even then, to avoid the turret’s aim chasing him, he took off his bio-suit like a shell and went behind Undine.

While Lucky was buying her some time, Undine, who had collected all of Undine 05, was manipulating a bead-sized water droplet on her palm.

Increase the pressure. Keep increasing the pressure, keep increasing the pressure.

At that moment, when the pressure in the water exceeded a certain level, a blue light began to appear in the center of the water droplet.

The moment Undine freed it.

Kuuung!!

An unseen, massive impact swept through the square tank, crushing everything behind it.

“Entering the cooling process.”

Undine quickly opened up parts all over her body and poured the coolant she had created into them to cool down her overheated body.

However, the square tank was still intact.

Although it is broken and damaged in some places, it can still fight.

The Square Tank, which had switched its energy wave generator from defense to offense, aimed its turret at Undine and unleashed a wave of compressed energy in one breath.

“Eww! Defense! Defense!”

At that moment, Candy, who had followed Undine in case she was momentarily incapacitated, hurriedly planted her shield in the ground and endured the energy wave.

Kuuuung!

“Gyaaah!”

It was a difficult order for Candy, who was only 300 standard, but she was able to block it somehow by sacrificing the shield that Harmon had specially made.

“Thank you for your hard work.”

In that brief moment, Undine managed to cool down to some extent and stood up again.

“Eww!”

Lucky, who was wearing a bio-suit again, clung to the square tank.

Focus on attacking the damaged areas from Undine’s attack.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

After hitting it several times to open up the damaged area, he puts his hand in there and starts spewing out metal cells.

The tentacles of the metal cells created by Lucky are destroying the interior of the square tank, causing some of its functions to stop.

The fuselage of the square tank tilted with one leg stopped working, and Lucky was thrown away from the square tank along with it.

“Kkaaaah! Aaaah! ”

When he was attacked, Lucky screamed with blood pouring out of his abdomen.

The Square Tank, which had shed all of its outer armor and was covered in rubble, split into three smaller tanks and aimed at Undine and Candy in the rubble. Undine watched the Square Tank with smoke billowing from its body, then gathered Undine 05 and created steel wings.

After that, after a one-hour battle, Undine and her party barely managed to subdue the Square Tank and gave the closed 2nd sector to Harmon.

It was two days before Candy returned to the Guldari Guild.