Chapter 1, Part 4 - Deadly Intelligence

After running across the bridge and once again scaring away Timmy's pigeons, Lighter decided to explore Petrel Peak first. Passing the Lake of Starfalls, casting a quick glance at the statue of the archon, she turned off the path to the left. Having checked the entire area, at the same time taking part in some skirmishes, she disabled some hillychurls, which the scout noticed.

It was already 16:23 on the clock, Amber stood on the edge of the peak, and looking towards the west, admired the beauty of the sea.

Amber - Okay, it's clean here! Now onto the cliff. I wonder why Jean's voice was so nervous?.. ok, never mind! I think no one here will notice my crazy prank, hehe~

By prank she meant the tied up anemo slime, standing nearby. Approaching him, she climbed onto the prisoner, hit him hard with her heel, which caused him to burst and, with his powerful stream of air, lifted the girl into the air, who laughed while climbing to a height

Amber: WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

Having risen to the maximum height, she opened the snow-white glider and turned her head in the direction of Mondstatt,

enjoyed the beauty of the city with a smile on her face. But realizing that there was no time to idle, she returned to the inspection, taking advantage of her height

Amber: Tu-tru-tu-tu...What is this?...

She noticed dark red spots in the distance, and bodies lying motionless on the clotted blood. Having landed, Amber approached the bodies with timid steps and a lump in her mouth. Seeing the headless corpse of a dancing hillichurl, with its shoulders rolled into porridge, under which there was cracked and slightly dented earth. Next to him lay two hillichurls, running towards their brother. They were pierced through, leaving bloody ground only in the head and groin area. The worst thing was to look at the mitachurl. Hole in my head a swollen right hand, knees bent in the opposite direction, and a torn chest, which the girl is not destined to see, since such a fragile body is not destined to lift a pile of muscles. What was also frightening was that there was practically no blood underneath. All the corpses were already starting to smell.

Amber: W... Who could have done this? Because of this, Jin decided She wanted to send me to find out what happened?...

Her breathing was rapid, her heart was pounding like crazy with excitement, her knees were trembling and aching after she saw their condition on the dead mitachurl. Turning my head to the left, I saw how the chips from the shield lay in a wide line towards the stone wall, near which there were more of them.

And when she approached the solid structure, Amber discovered the footprints of V1, left after the enhanced jump he had performed.

Amber: This w-was... A mechanism?... W-who created it? I have never seen such marks on people I saw before...

Having looked around and not finding them nearby in the neighborhood, she assumed that the owner of the tracks had climbed to the top of the cliff. Having calmed down, which took about ten minutes, she climbed to the top, where to her right she noticed a box lying with the seal of a delivery company, and in front of her in the distance she saw another body with something sticking out of its chest, the outline of the body resembling some kind of friend

Amber: no... No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

Suggesting this to herself, the girl walked and hoped that she was mistaken. But to her regret, her expectations were justified. Stopping six meters from the target, Amber saw a disfigured Kirara, whose protruding leg was already bent.

Shock, panic, trembling, fear, and the urge to vomit instantly took over her body. And falling to his knees with a nervous tic in his eyes, Amber stared at the broken pelvis, bone fragments mixed with muscle, blood, intestines and feces. On a face covered with scratches and with a frozen grimace of fear. A leg protruding from the chest, forcibly thrust into the chest of a friend. And looking at all this, the girl remembered how when she ran past the curiosity shop, she heard a complaint about a delay in delivery from the owner of the stall. This put even more pressure on Amber's psyche.

Amber - I-I-I-I-I have to tell... I can't stand up..

Attempts to resist the paralysis were useless - it was tightly bound. And after sitting in this position for a couple of minutes, Amber heard the sound of a rocket, which was unfamiliar to her.

Having difficulty turning my head in the direction where the sound came from, I noticed an angular creature with yellow "wings" on its back. This is V1, returning back from Dadaup Gorge to clear Petrel Peak, which he had not previously visited.

V1 ended up there because he assumed that people lived in that direction, because Kirara was running towards this direction. But on the way there no human settlement was found. But they were met with a bunch of hillichurls, shamachurls and mitachurls, killed with extreme cruelty that this death machine could betray: a rupture of the head due to the stuck exploding magnet, the breaking of most of the bones, tearing out of flesh, twisted limbs, pulled out organs, turned into minced meat. The only problems encountered were the cryo mages of the abyss, especially their shields. But having heated the green nail gun to a glow, he put the barrel to the elemental barrier, a small area of which immediately melted. And the inhabitant of the abyss, who did not have time to teleport, awaited the fate of being the receptacle of a dozen red-hot nails.

The entire population of the gorge was killed. On the way to him, the Tsarevich was met, now lying after contact with his spine half extended, with his head at the end. The apparently huge skirmishers of Fatui, who walked on the territory of Cape Vera, were crushed into the ground by their own hammers without any problems, touching which V1 was saturated with the electro element, which is why the absorber turned the corresponding purple color.

Flying back on the rocket, the machine saw Amber, and she, looking at V1 in response, realized that it was this creature that was the reason for such brutal murders. Realizing this, my body instantly became obedient, and the only thought that was in her head was "RUN"

The girl turned 180 and rushed, rushing towards Mondstatt. The rush of adrenaline into her blood, her good physical condition, the increase in streamlining due to her body position and her knowledge of the terrain gave her a speed incomprehensible even for an Olympic runner. But even this speed would not be enough to escape. The robot jumped off the rocket and began to slide and bounce, increasing its speed. And having loaded the viola blue revolver, he was going to break through Amber's head, but he was prevented by Rosaria, who had been accompanying the girl all this time. Jumping out of the bushes on the right and hitting V1 with his "E-skill", he missed, only slightly touching the hair that was flapping due to running and the red fabric ears of the lighter, which gave an even greater boost to the fleeing woman. And besides this, V1 was strongly pushed to the side, and due to the previously absorbed electro element, received the status of "Superconductor", which specifically cooled the body, lowered the strength of the armor, and temporarily took away the opportunity to make jerks, which the nun did not intend to miss.

Having thrown three knives into the machine after the ambush, one of them stuck into the chest plate of V1, and two into the head, causing non-critical failures in the transmission of the seen image distortion for the robot, thereby blocking the view by a third. Even before the thrown projectile hits, Rosaria made a dash and ran up to the machine, about to make a jumping finishing blow, aiming at the camera. But even before the nun jumped, V1 made a punch with his red hand, and when the woman was in the air, a shock wave followed, pushing her back a decent distance. This time was enough for the "Superconductor" effect to end, Therefore, getting to his feet, and taking out the knives from himself, he threw in the coins, and after shooting at them, the bullet went to the head of Rosaria who had landed. But she managed to make another spatial leap, dodging a hit to the head.

Rosaria: DIE!

Having thrown forward, V1 barely dodged the attack, having received a second wound in the form of a shallow scratch in the right side from a jabbing blow, which was immediately followed by a striking blow to the side, from which the robot dodged by jerking to the side. Upon completion of the attack, an elemental explosion was ready, and with Rosaria's next action she decided to use it. The nun was about to pin the machine with ice and complete another kill, but there was one BUT: with her undamaged camera section, V1 saw that the attack was parried. And as soon as Rosaria's left leg began its downward movement with acceleration, the half-blind robot repelled the lethal attack with an uppercut to the heel.

Rosaria - NNNNGGHHHH... GRHAAAAAAAAAAAAA!...

The parry, as in the case of the mitachurl hand, disintegrated the woman's entire left leg, canceling the ult cast, and struck a painful shock, which she, of course, endured much easier than the average person, but even so, the nun lay on the ground, making unsuccessful attempts to get up. Well, the consequences of parrying for V1 turned out to be more than positive - all the damage was healed, the camera returned to its original state, giving the robot a full view again, and he began to take a measure of lethal punishment.

Taking the green rocket launcher, he began to walk backwards, and did not take his visor off the lying victim. When the distance between them reached about six meters, V1 charged an alternative attack, releasing a stone core in the direction of the woman who was lying on her stomach, leaning on her right elbow, looking at him furiously. The projectile was not fired at the head, it flew slightly above the target, but the desire of the bloodthirsty machine was not so banal. After the shot, he quickly took out an alto revolver, and as soon as the cannonball was above Rosaria's lower back, he fired at it. Then there was a characteristic ringing sound, and from the power of the explosion, Rosaria was cut in half into upper and lower parts. The shock wave threw the lower limbs away from the upper half, and everything that was from the head to the chest ended up at the robot's feet. The temperature of the explosion instantly left third-degree burns all over her back and partially fried the muscles, and part of the remaining surviving intestines, liver, spleen and stomach fell out of the abdominal cavity during the flight, and went in a red trail to the upper half of the woman. But the barely alive killer was not going to give up so easily, and gathering her last strength, grabbed the enemy's left leg with her hands, and concentrated the cryo element in her hands with the help of the Eye of God, she was going to freeze V1 at the cost of her dying life, but she didn't have time, because he broke the skull with his free right leg, turning the brain into mush.

Rosaria is dead

At the time of her friend's death, Amber had already reached the city, and bypassing the guards, Jean burst into the office through the window, which scared her. And before the master had time to object and worry about the scout's cuts, the girl grabbed her by the shoulders, scattering saliva and shouted with fear in her voice:

Amber: EVACUATE CITIZENS, SAVE PEOPLE, WE MUST RUN!

After that, the scout was overtaken by the strongest shortness of breath in her life, Having let go of the master, she leaned on the table and began to greedily swallow air, like a dog driven by people. Next, Lisa burst into the room, pushing the door hard, and having decided to look into the future with the help of visions, at the end of the process she was horrified by the future. And just as quickly she ran to warn Jean, in which Amber was ahead of her

Lisa - CALL THE ARCHON, ONLY HE AND HIS DRAGON CAN GIVE US A CHANCE TO SURVIVE!