Chapter 10 - Childhood Sweetheart (2) (1/2)

Chapter 10: Childhood Sweetheart (2)

Translator: Ma Shaoyi and Pan Junqian

Proofread by Peter Gong

Meanwhile, Rowen notices that the iron armored beast has not slowed down, but it becomes even faster. However, the difference is that it is now moving backwards rather than forward.

“The iron armored beast just told me yesterday that pulling back on the lever would slow it down.” Did this iron armored beast lie to me? Rowen is a bit glum.

“Damn!” Rowen suddenly sees from the screen that the iron armored beast is about to retreat into the pool, and he pushes the lever forward again.

Finally, the iron armored beast stops retreating, but continues to run forward faster and faster. Although the valley is vast, Rowen is sure that the iron armored beast will crash against the mountain in a few seconds at most.

“Iron armored beast! How on earth can we slow down?” Rowen is forced to ask.

Unfortunately, there is no response from the iron armored beast this time, and Rowen still has to grope his way around.

A few seconds later, as they draw nearer to the foot of the mountain, Rowen has to pull the lever back again.

“Oh?” Rowen is surprised at once. He has expected it to go backwards again, but now it isn’t going backwards, and still moving forward with a slower pace, and within a second it just stops.

“Weird, how can we slow down this time?” Rowen, a little puzzled, pushes the lever forward again, and the iron armored beast speeds up again. He then pulls the lever back, and this time the iron armored beast is no longer moving forward but moving backwards, but it seems to slow down a little. However, after a few seconds the iron armored beast is still moving backwards, so Rowen has to push the lever forward again to prevent the iron armored beast from plunging back into the pool.

After he continually tries, Rowen finally finds a pattern. If he pulls the lever back a little, the iron armored beast will slow down, but if he pulls it too much, it will accelerate and go backwards. And if he pulls the lever to a certain position, the iron armored beast will come to a complete stop.

With his efforts finally paid off, Rowen heaves a sigh of relief. His strained body relaxes, but a wave of extraordinary fatigue comes over him. His arms, shoulders, and other parts of his body ache terribly, and sweat has soaked his clothes.

“I should just take a break.” Rowen murmurs and falls asleep leaning on his metal chair.

Rowen does not know how long he has been asleep, but when he wakes up he still feels sore all over his body. After looking around, he finds himself still inside the iron armored beast.

The iron armored beast’s power system seems to have shut down on its own, and the metal belt around Rowen has disappeared. Rowen tries to get up, but he feels a pain from all over his legs at the same time, which makes his legs go limp and he can’t help falling down. He quickly grabs to the chair for help, but immediately finds that his hands are numb and have no power, finally he falls back into the chair again.

“Damn, what the hell is this?” Rowen mutters a curse.

“Your constitution is too poor to operate in the Mecha for long time.” A voice comes out of nowhere, and to Rowen’s surprise, the iron armored beast starts talking.

“Then what should I do?” It is rare for an iron armored beast to speak up, and Rowen naturally takes the opportunity to ask. He has previously dismissed questions about his constitution since it is a common phenomenon for almost every summoner. But now he has to take his physical problems seriously.

“You should improve health training, you must have better health to become a true Mecha Knight.” The iron armored beast replies. “With better health, you can choose the man-machine combat mode, which makes it easier to become a Mecha Knight.”

“What is the Mecha Knight?” Rowen asks. He knows that this iron armored beast is also called Mecha, and that the word “knight” is familiar to him, but he just can’t figure out what a Mecha Knight is.

“The Mecha Knight is the highest level among Mecha Fighters. You can be called a Mecha Fighter now. The Mecha Fighter has ten levels and only the one who becomes the level-Ⅹ Mecha Fighter can be promoted to the Mecha Knight.” The iron armored beast seems quite patient this time.

“That is to say that the Mecha Knight is a kind of a level class like the summoning enchanter?” Rowen comes to realize a little.

“Yes, it’s quite like the summoning enchanter.” The iron armored beast says.

“And what kind of Mecha Fighter I am?” Rowen thinks a while and asks.

“I should say that you are a level-I Mecha Fighter.” The iron armored beast answers this question with consideration.

“Just level-Ⅰ?” Rowen feels a little overwhelmed. “Then how long will I become a Mecha Knight?”