Chapter 504: Troubled Heroes (1/2)
I pulled out the Willful Sword who was already raring to go and tapped the first Gold Automaton on the head.
Obviously, it was unaffected by that tap. It didn't have any power backing it.
However, with how I did it easily, it allowed me to find out the flaw or the weakness of these Automatons.
They're unresponsive or slow to respond with attacks that weren't amplified by Source Energy.
Avelin would have an easier time dealing with these Automatons. As for the girls who were not physical attack-oriented, they would be having a hard time. Just like these two women.
As I jumped from head to head of the Automatons and giving them a punch on their head where the transceiver should be located to disrupt the commands being sent by the processing unit, I watched the two women as they hold their ground against ten Gold Automatons and a lot more Bronze and Silver Automatons who were also chasing after them.
My four clones had already dissipated, leaving the two women in the middle of the sea of Automatons.
They're flying so they're not exactly in the middle but… they were fully concentrated to dodge even the Bronze Automatons' attacks.
Those particle cannons on their arms also had a disrupting effect just like my Dispelling Arrows. If they were hit by it, they would find their Source Energy frozen and it would make the Spell or Skill they were trying to activate canceled.
Whoever made these Automatons was truly a genius. Too bad though, they couldn't be used in a large-scale battle because of its clear weakness and the difficulty in bringing it there.
”Girls, do you need my help?” I called out to them after kicking one of the Gold Automatons away, disabling it temporarily.
I had thoroughly inspected the make of these Automatons and funnily enough, apart from the two weaknesses I mentioned earlier – the transceiver and susceptibility to Physical Attacks – there's another weakness for it. It's arms that act as weapons.
Hitting the joints that were connecting the arm module to the torso was enough to disable them. Furthermore, apart from the particle cannon and the blade, there were no other weapon modules attached to it.
I just didn't know if the Crystal Automatons would have the same weakness or they would be different.
Either way, apart from me or the girls who had recovered a part of their memories from their past life, the others would find it hard to adjust to this kind of enemy.
”No! Let us… deal with this.”
The two women shouted in concert. Although there were now frowns plastered on their faces, the determination shining through their eyes was still too bright that it was admirable.
I had long pocketed the ore inside the cart so… we could actually move on and leave these things behind but for these two girls to accumulate this combat experience, I would be looking out for them for a few minutes.
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At some other parts of Atlantis, the other groups of three were currently faced with an encounter against the Automatons.
With a new kind of enemy blocking their path, most of the teams were locked in a stalemate especially the Heroes and the Transcendents from the Mortal Worlds.
Naturally, some of the groups already met each other and they began teaming up against the horde of Bronze and Silver Automatons.
In this particular part, two groups made up of Heroes teamed up. The two groups were led by Raiden and Hikari respectively.
Hikari was using her copied Domain of Valor from Daisuke and another skill that she could borrow indefinitely. Due to that, she became an indispensable member of this group.
At the moment, they were being surrounded by both Bronze and Silver Automatons just outside a warehouse that housed scrapped junks or more specifically the Junkyard.
It's called Junkyard because everything stored in the warehouse was the defective items that couldn't be improved on. They were the true defects compared to what Daisuke's group saw at the Demonstration Room
Although they could notice how extraordinary the materials the scrapped junks were made from, none of them dared to pick one to try it on in battle. They left them as is to be safe. Daisuke warned them not to carelessly pick them up. Most of them in this group had already some dealings with Daisuke so they trusted his judgement
”Hikari, what do we do next?” Lulu, the Hero of the World of Fairies asked. Although she looked petite compared to everyone else, her appearance at the moment made her look like a Fairy Queen with a translucent pair of wings behind her.
It was a Fairy Transformation that was unique from the Spirit-type Pathway of the World of Fairies.