Chapter 506: New Plan (1/2)

It was a miscalculation on my part. Knowing that the Heroes were already Transcendents and some of them were even listed in my Support List, I thought they would be able to breeze through against Bronze Automatons and team up against the Silver ones. As it turned out, they were being overwhelmed by them.

They could knock them down but not disable them completely.

With more of them getting attracted to the battle, they ended up getting surrounded and wounded.

I already received a notification from the World's Will that one group was already captured while two groups were on the brink of death and were teleported to the Medical Bay which was made to be inaccessible for the others. They would stay there until it's time to leave the place.

They could recuperate and just absorb Source Energy there or they could entertain themselves with other devices installed there.

I'd already given Hikari some pointers and she came up with a plan to just gather them all up in one big group to challenge the Automatons.

That's great too since it wouldn't be one on one when the Invasive Worlds approached Earth. They're just sending Space Vessels at the moment but once they reach the World Zone and the vicinity of the Star System, they would be able to enter Earth without the need of Space Vessels.

The World's Will wouldn't be able to block all of them or rather, he wouldn't block them for the sole reason of it would make his recuperation stagnant by continuously using his Authority.

Of course, it was another story if it was me who was using some of his Authority, I was using my own Source Energy and it could only affect a small area or a small group of people like my Companions.

That's why getting these Heroes trained to the point that they would be able to stand their ground against the Invasive Worlds was one of the reasons I brought them here.

I was not that magnanimous to carry all of them like I was doing with my Companions, they had to get stronger by themselves.

There's my father and the group of old fossils. They could take on the strongest experts of the Invasive Worlds but they wouldn't be able to protect everyone.

Besides, apart from the Invasive Worlds, there were also the Space Vessels that left the Dark World which I gleaned from the memory of that descendant which Ele showed me before. Their destination was the World of the Creator. Whether they found out the details about why they were abandoned or not, I had no idea. Among the denizens of that World, there's only Worldy and Illiana who should be privy to that information.

There's no point suspecting that someone survived the Catastrophe that I brought to every Transcendent and above back then. I made sure to use every Source Energy resource I could get after all.

Then whoever's guiding them was possibly someone who personally knows my previous self.

I had a lot of acquaintances since we're always moving. Narrowing down a suspect from all of those was another useless thing to do for now. I'd better get the answer from Zaraya and company's mouth.

”Thief. Kill.” A Gold Automaton's mechanical voice rang out from behind me.

One of the disabled Gold Automaton had already recovered and was about to attack me again.

At the moment, Reinys and Elise were coordinating with each other to take care of the ten Gold Automatons attacking them. And surprisingly, they already disabled half of them.

Being both Flame experts, they could combine their Elemental Spells into one which gave it the strength of a Rank 3 Transcendent. Moreover, they also found out most of the Automatons' weaknesses.

Unfortunately, they couldn't just employ Physical Attacks. For one, Reinys was ill-suited for it while Elise's weapon wasn't strong enough to stab through the Automaton's metal.

All they could do now was to focus on the Automatons' transceiver.

”Yes, I'm a thief. Do you have more ores like the one you're transporting here?” I asked the Gold Automaton who swung his arm blade at me.

I used the Willful Sword to block it before hitting its head again before kicking it away to join the other Gold Automatons that were temporarily disabled.

Well, I was aware that it didn't have any consciousness but… I was asking the Processing Unit that was making them move. No matter what, there should be an AI operating it. And that AI was surely watching everything that's happening inside Atlantis.

CHIRP!