Chapter 323: Automatons (2/2)

Joe grinned as he pressed his advantage, controlling his spirit familiar to grab the Silvered Automaton—the shorter man-and barraged his face with full-strength punches with such violent force that the ground beneath was cracking!

Beside him, the lanky Mercurial Automaton could well see that the situation was dire. He immediately spread his palm to summon his illogical war hammer, which shot out from the building which dust had yet to settle.

But when the tall man really focused his eyes, he soon realized that it wasn’t just his hammer flying to him—the young human he had sent flying was coming too.

Even as Gou Dan held on to the war hammer as it streaked towards the tall man, he raised his AWM which was in wristbow mode and shot the tall man at point-blank range.

“Armor-piercing shot plus explosive enchantment! Now die!”

The bolt that was wrapped in Divine Grace easily pierced the tall man’s head, punching into his head with only half of its shaft sticking out.

Soon, the explosive enchantment kicked in and the bolt blew up violently in the man’s head, the shockwave even sending Gou Dan flyinghe was only able to stop after rolling a while on the ground.

At the same time, smoke billowed and swallowed the two automatons, preventing both Joe and Gou Dan from confirming what happened to them.

“No EXP! They aren’t dead yet!” Joe shouted at Gou Dan after checking his System notifications.

“Tch! They survived!?” Gou Dan exclaimed in disbelief. “I blew up his brains! It’s not like he’s undead!”

“Are automatons any different from undead?” “Uh…”

Gou Dan considered it at Joe’s question, and realized that the two really weren’t that different.

If one had to describe it, undead were bodies that moved driven by soulfire, whereas automatons used a different energy source.

Moreover, compared to undead which were merely fragile corpses and skeletons, the automatons were several times more durable…

“Looks like we either have to empty their HP bar or destroy their energy core if headshots wouldn’t work.” Gou Dan frowned while blowing a raspberry at how troublesome the situation was.***

As the dust settled, the two automatons were already gone, leaving silver fragments which had either been punched out or blasted apart. Each of the fragments were tossing and turning like worms or leeches too, twisting into an S-shape one second and a B the next…

Both Joe and Gou Dan were left bewildered, even though they had been wary of any danger at first.

“Damn it, they got away and without making a sound? Are they cats or something!?” Joe cursed, clenching his greatsword as he vented his frustration.

Gou Dan couldn’t help being weirded out too.

There weren’t any alleys nearby where the automatons could escape from, and while there were drains, it was too small unlike the sewage in Lancaster-no adults could move within.

And if they were really running under the cover of the smoke, they shouldn’t have gotten so far there was no glimpse of them in such a short time.

So how the hell did those two automatons escape right under their noses? “…I feel that this city is not as simple as we imagined.” Gou Dan muttered, scratching his head.