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Chapter 11 : The Einherjar of Balmoa
It was evening when I got to another place that was uncrowded and was not near my former hideout.
While my former hideout is an abandoned building, this one is an abandoned warehouse. With my radar, the nearest people residing here are a few hundred meters away. Also, this was pretty near at the Boat Graveyard so this is an ideal place to practice my powers.
This is an ideal hideout!
With this, I can test my seventh form without being worried by anything anymore!
[DOUBT]
Shut up! I am not jinxing myself!
Look, can't you see that the nearest people are a few hundreds of meters in distance to us?
They won't just suddenly decide to come here with me not noticing at all!
[EXPLANATION]
Ah! No! That doesn't count!
I won't just make floods or kick walls out of nowhere. Also, wasn't your first example a moot point already. It was your fault!
[NUANCE]
Huh!? Your just going by the letter!? It was my fault I didn't specify!?
[AGREEMENT]
Don't just agree like that!
And again, I can still see them with the radar, like I stated awhile ago.
[REASON]
Wait what do you... oh right, you are gone when I turn into another form.
And if I was trying to become Francette, I won't have access to Nano (Queenie), meaning I can't use my radar. Being unable to use the radar means not being able to notice someone approaching my location. Not noticing someone approaching my location means they will see me. Seeing me means knowing my other forms.
And that would be bad!
Guh... you raise a valid point there...
I was on all fours while feeling depressed that an alien leech in the form of Nanomachines just outsmarted me.
Well, I still need to learn what Francette can do so I need to change into her. Though if she have the same ability as Filo, it might become noisy.
I need to take some countermeasures for that!
[SUGGESTION]
And Nano (Queenie) just shows me how helpful she is!
That's right, I can just tell the Nanomachines to become an alarm for me. Even if I don't have the administration rights to order the Nanomachines when I am in another form and even if I am in another form, the Nanomachines already existing in this world will still exist and continue to propagate.
The last order inputted to them will still continue even if the one who ordered them is not here. Queenie told me that.
Though it seems like the Nanomachines reproducing in this world won't be controlled by Queenie if I am in another form. She can take back control when I am Miles. Also, she just told me that she can also control the Nanomachines when I am Reina but she can't talk to me because Reina have a lower administrative rights than Miles.
I can just order the Nanomachines to alarm me or one of my forms if someone was getting near me. The Nanomachines just need to register whoever they are going to alarm, which Queenie had already done with my six forms because even if she can't interact with me when I am not Miles, she can still register my forms in her own database.
My registered forms was then passed through the Nanomachines when I was Reina or Miles. Then they can register the forms Queenie passed through them and do the orders I told them to when I was in the form of someone with the administrative rights to order them.
That is what Queenie explained to me, with all the process along with it. Somehow I manage to understand all of it.
Nanomachines will act based on it's order. If you want someone to be protected, the Nanomachines must first register who is the person the one they are obeying who wanted to protect before doing their part and acting as the shield of that person.
In short, even if they are asked to do something to someone, if that someone isn't registered to their database, they won't do it even though that person is the same one they should be protecting.
What I am saying is, if I am in a different form that is not registered to the Nanomachines' database, they won't do something even if I told them to protect me when I was in another form. They must first register that form I am using and learn that it was also "Me" before they can act on my previous orders.
Queenie made this possible when she was in control of the Nanomachines. The Nanomachines won't obey me if I am in another form so I can't tell them to register that form as me because they won't listen at all.
That was what Queenie was basically telling me.
Yeah... it sounds very complicated but somehow I can understand it.
So anyway, I need to transform into Francette first and let Queenie register that form in her database. And then I should return to Miles' form so Queenie can take control of the Nanomachines and then passed the data she registered to the Nanomachines' database.
There, very simple!
Though I was curious...
"With my form as Miles, can I give administration rights to my other forms?"
[DENIAL]
Of course it won't be that easy right?~[*1]
Anyway, I should begin then.
I imagined becoming Francette.
After that, I look down at myself. In there I see I was wearing a breastplate. Also, it seems like I also have a red cape. My hair is blonde, as seen in my periphery. And I also have a sword sheathed on my waist.
Taking it out, I saw that it was a beautiful sword with a goddess motif in it's handle. I somehow have an instinctive feeling that this blade was very important to me.
[Wielding Exgram] +5,000 EXP
[First Time Seeing A Potion] +200 EXP
[Possessing One Potion] +10 EXP
Exgram. I unconsciously thinks about that as I look at this beautiful sword.
... But I need to get back to Miles' form first so I can tell the Nanomachines to give me an alarm if someone is nearby.
Yeah, I should test this after having the Nanomachines to alarm me of other's presence when I was in my other form.
With that in my mind, I changed back into Miles.
"Okay Nano, alert me and my other forms if someone is getting near us"
[AGREEMENT]
After having done that, I was satisfied and then came back to my form as Francette.
Now then, I can finally test what Francette can do.
First, I let the feeling of naturalness moves me so I can see what I can do in this body.
With a sense of familiarity, my hand came to the sword that was on it's sheath in my waste and draws it out in a single swipe. Then I made a stance with the sword in front of my vision. It was like a spearman's stance but I was pointing the sword in my front with both my hands place just a bit above my head and my body in a slight lunging position.
Then I made swift strikes on the air. The sharp sound was a beautiful sound in my ears as I make slashes on my surroundings like I was fighting someone. Somehow, I ended up thinking of some gangbangers, nazis, and druggies' silhouettes who are attacking me.
[Shadow Training] +10 EXP
And so I got engaged in my imaginary opponents. It seems like as Francette, I was pretty good at shadow training.
[Fearless] +20 EXP
Or in fact, I might be dangerous because I am cutting these imaginary enemies into half or beheading them like it was natural.
Also, I was very fast. It might be that I was just hallucinating but I am pretty sure I was moving at inhuman speeds. The reason is because I can see the smoke trail I am leaving moves in a slightly slow motion. Though it's not really slow enough to call it in slow motion, it is still slow enough that I can tell it should have gone before I was finished in my series of slashes on one side of my imaginary enemies.
... Great, so I have inhuman strength and speed if I'm Francette huh...
I stopped my barrage of slashes and movements in my surroundings and I stopped imagining my enemies.
Hmm... even with that strenuous action, I am still not tired. In fact, I didn't even sweat.
So this is Francette's ability huh. I am somehow not that amazed because I have a much more amazing forms like Sicily and Miles.
Now then, because I know what Francette can do. I should test how sharp is this sword.
The prompt told me that it was a potion or something though I can't understand it. I'll just think about this next time.
Anyway, I pointed it at a crate just lying nearby and I made an overhead slash. The crate was slashed easily along with the part of the ground that my blade reaches. I overreach a little so it also got into the ground.
Then I took a careful look at the sword and saw that it wasn't even chipped at all!
Hey! What's with this dangerous blade!? It can cut through asphalt without even leaving a chip or a scratch in it!?
I can't use this! I don't want to kill someone!
Right, I should find a replacement sword for this. Though, I am somehow loathed to do just that. It seems like I don't even want to replace this sword.
... Well, okay. I'll just look for a second non-lethal melee weapon that can be used as a substitute for this sword. This sword is too dangerous to use for heroing. I will be surely labeled as a villain if I accidentally cut a person with this. Worst case scenario, I killed someone without me meaning it too!
Right, this sword will be used if necessary. And what I mean from necessary is that I will used it on Endbringers. Maybe I will also used it if some S-Class Threat visited this city?
Can this sword cut through Endbringers? I think I read on the PHO that the Endbringers are freaking durable!
Not once they are even wounded, like any at all.
Anyway, I decided to make a new weapon that is not lethal to use for regular humans!
Even if I am just planning to protect the DWU, I don't lan to just kill off any people trying to harm the people at the DWU. Hurt them, yes! Kill them, no!
Now that I was done thinking about that, I turned myself into Miles again.
Why did I turn into Miles?
Because first, her powers are convenient. Second is because she is powerful. And the third is because I can talk to Queenie!
Yeah... it was very lonely not having anyone to talk to. Even with this alien leech being my only conversation partner, it was alright for me. At least it puts me at ease that I was not that lonely.
[SUGGESTION]
What? I should look for friends?
I think you just know that I don't want others to know any of my forms right?
[REASON]
So I should purchase a very cheap form and then use that form to find some friends to talk to huh?
You think the people won't get suspicious who I am? What about the government? I am sure they know every citizen they have and if they got suspicious of me, it's game over for that form!
[SUGGESTION]
What? Forgering my identity!? I can't do that! I am not so low as to resort to that kind of thing!
[CONFUSION]
Why are you confuse? I don't want to do any crime!
[EXAMPLE]
"Th-that's not counted! " I stuttered a reply in a panic to her accusation.
The flooding didn't happen. It doesn't happen. Nope, I don't recall it at all!
[Denial At It's Finest] +10 EXP
[DOUBT]
Waaaah! Your bullying me! And what's with this weird floating panel!? I am not denying anything!
Shut up!
[Making Big Waves] +5,000 EXP
[Call Me Mr. Black] +5,000 EXP
[And I Must Scream] (x100) +100,000 EXP
[Nostradamus Effect] +10,000 EXP
[Both Good & Bad] (x5) +500 EXP
... Uhmm, what!?
Just when I was just getting confused like that, I heard the sound of the sirens.
Dragon was panicking. She doesn't know what to do with this.
She just detected a large amount of microscopic machines the size of a jot. All of it are reproducing at an exponential rate.
And right now it already covers the whole North America. Some of it are spreading to the South America and the European Seas.
The end is near and she can't even do a thing about it!
"Oh no... who did this horrible thing!?" Dragon muttered to herself while feeling terrified.
"Right, I must alert the whole people of this continent!"
With that, she begins calling all of the important people of the PRT, the President of Canada and United States of America, and a lot of factions in the whole North America.
And then they sounded the sirens.
Saint was just looking at the monitor with his mouth already foaming. Only Mags and Dobrynja are the only one conscious and even with that, both of them are not doing anything at all. Both of them are just slumped in their chairs with a face of defeat in their face.
They found out that another AI that is not the one they are monitoring is going to take over the world. And they can't do anything about it.
"We failed" Mags muttered under her breath.
While a lot of people are panicking all over the North America, David was becoming elated.
Why? It is because he can feel his power becoming stronger again when the nanomachines surrounding the air were absorbed by him.
He was just planning to put these nanomachines in another dimension but when he did that, he simply manages to absorb it. These nanomachines can turn into his energy.
And then he will become stronger!
When Lisa woke up, she found herself in her sofa and the face of her leader, Brian, looking at her with a worried expression.
"Hey Lisa... what happened to you there?"
With that question, Lisa recalled about the horrible truth that she learned before she loses her consciousness.
"The end of the world..." She muttered while fear gripped her heart.
"What?"
Just when Brian uttered that in confusion, the sound of the sirens suddenly resounded.
"I told you, the end of the world is coming..." Lisa said before she loses consciousness again.
**End of Chapter 11**
Forms :
Miles (Currently Used)
Reina
Sicily von Claude
Ohoshi Ringo
Kanzaki Keine
Filo
Francette
EXP : 173,136
[Footnotes]
[*1] She said it like how Miles' says "Desu yo ne~" (Basically a signature speech of Miles' on her whole series)
A/N
So chaos ensues...
It would be impossible to not notice that large scale propagation. Of course it would set a mass panic all over the world.
Even if it was seen as a normal air, Tinkertech exists on Earth Bet. Also, Dragon is there. They can detect it even if it was very small and can act like a natural element.
As to how Eidolon become empowered by the Nanomachines, the hint for that is QUEEN ADMINISTRATOR. (The all caps is important)
Now then... I don't know what will happen next. I am just writing whatever came to mind.
I can't just make the people of this world become dumb and ignore what is happening around them when Tattletale's Shard manage to detect those Nanomachines. If her shard can detect it, then other shards can also detect it.
Then will Scion act upon this when he learned about this?
We will see next time!
... This chapter was pretty hard to write actually, it took me three rewrites before I am finally satisfied with this chapter...
I am just anxious what would you think about this... I hope I didn't disappoint you all...
Review if you like, helpful comments are welcome and thanks for reading this!~~