Chapter 505: Contemplation (1/2)
With the addition of Hikari and Raiden's group, the number of Heroes and Transcendents resting and hiding inside the Green-marked zone went up to twenty-one.
Seven groups were trapped or chose to escape the encirclement of the Automatons that was too much for them.
At first most of them thought that since Daisuke described their enemies to be robots, it would be an easy exploration wherein they could get advanced technology devices that could aid them in their Pathways' progress. However, when they finally encountered a group of Automatons, they found out that robots they thought were scrap metals were almost invulnerable.
Unless they found out their weakness – which they failed to do so – they couldn't do anything against them and just waste their Source Energy that was being restricted by the place.
”Hikari, you're the one closest to Daisuke. And you're possibly the strongest among us here. Didn't he say anything about the Automatons' weakness?” One of the heroes from their class asked Hikari who was sitting on a chair deep in contemplation.
She did get some pointers from Daisuke but… it's not enough to truly guide all of these Heroes whose strengths only range from early Rank 1 Transcendent to late Rank 1 Transcendent.
Her copied Domain of Valor could only raise their UPL for a few tens and the more people were buffed by it, the more drain she would receive from her Source Energy. She also could use one of Daisuke's Skills through the Shared Growth, but what she got from him was the Energy Drain which could siphon Source Energy from her enemies. That way she could last longer upon using her copied buff skills of Daisuke.
However, against the Automatons, that Skill was useless!
Due to that, she fell into contemplation on how to get them out of this predicament.
Daisuke's goal was to get the World Zone Navigator while the other group's goal was to only explore the place and find something for themselves.
They could actually stay here and wait until the exploration time ended which, according to Daisuke, would last for three days at most. After three days, the Automatons would be disabled and everyone would be teleported out of Atlantis.
”Their weakness. Inside their bodies, there should be a transceiver that's receiving commands from the Processing Unit. If you rocked it well enough, they would be disabled for at most fifteen minutes.”
Hikari answered with the information he heard from Daisuke. He told her to move towards the Demonstration room but upon looking at the map and seeing where they were located, it's impossible to get there without passing through Orange and Red-marked Zones.
”Transceiver… Where are they located?”
”Usually on the head but there were special cases where the transceiver was hidden inside an Automaton's body.” Hikari gestured to her temple to show them where it was usually located.
After that, she went back to contemplating what to do. Raiden and the others in her group were waiting for her to come up with something.
Although all of them could be said to have brilliant minds to think of something, most of them lacked the information needed.