Alligator's Ark of Tomorrow

Boom!Boom!

Hurry up, hurry up!

Finally, just before another circular saw was about to cut him in half from the other side, it struck him.

Gard finally destroyed the ground beneath his feet.

boom!

The earth shattered, and Gard fell to the next level. A circular saw swept over his head, and Gard crashed heavily to the ground.

"Cough cough."

The muscles in his arms trembled slightly. Even with the crocodile-man's physique, the muscles were still somewhat strained after bearing the weight of that circular saw.

But Gard had no time to rest.

He had just taken a step when a circular saw came crashing down on his head.

"*Tiakkau swears*!"

Gard cursed. There were also many guard machines for the factories underground, but they were nothing compared to those on the surface.

With a single move, Gard destroyed several machine guards blocking his way, smashed through the underground entrance with a "bang," and rushed into the processing area of ​​the factory.

Then, he poured the power of ascension into the great axe in his hand, and then swung it hard above his head.

The sharp axe easily sliced ​​through the alloy ground above Gard's head and flew toward a huge mechanical arm holding a circular saw in the processing area.

Sizzle—!

The mechanical arm, several meters thick, was nearly sliced ​​in two by Gard's axe, and its internal circuitry was almost completely destroyed.

Feeling his ascending power rapidly depleting, Gard took a deep breath and charged out again.

I agreed to draw fire for Seria and Kal'tsit.

Crocodile-men don't run away at the last minute!

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Chapter Ninety-Six: Seria's Resolve (6500 words)

boom!

Saria knocked down a mechanical guard with a single punch and looked at Kal'tsit.

"How much further?"

"almost!"

Kal'tsit's expression turned grave as she listened to the continuous explosions overhead.

She regretted it somewhat; she shouldn't have refused Theresa's help when she came, she should have at least brought some of Babel's elite troops.

As a result, she now has to rely on an eighteen-year-old to bear pressure that he shouldn't have to bear at his age!

The extent of the ancient civilization's revival far exceeded Kal'tsit's imagination; it was not merely a revival of basic terminal intelligence, otherwise the response would not have been so rapid.

But the die was cast, and they had to seize the opportunity that Gard had given them, no matter what.

"Mon3tr!"

A huge, monstrous shadow appeared on Kal'tsit's body, blocking a spider guard climbing the wall. Sharp claws easily pierced the spider guard's body, leaving a ferocious wound on the wall of the underground pipe.

"Let's go up!"

Commanding Mon3tr to destroy the ground above, Kal'tsit and Saria arrived at the outer wall of the factory's core area. From afar, they could hear the vibrations coming from the gate of the processing area.

Several huge gantry cranes hurled hooks weighing tens of tons toward Gard; manufacturing machinery was the lowest level of manufacturing business in the processing plant.

In Colombia, building a high-speed warship requires the support of hundreds of related professionals and thousands of supporting manufacturers; a single processing plant simply cannot assemble so many manufacturing facilities.

However, the factories of ancient civilizations were like basic supporting workshops. Given time, they could build all the supporting equipment and facilities one by one using blueprints.

That's why Kal'tsit chose to attack the ancient civilization's factories first. Once they attacked the ruins of the ancient civilization, the factories there would receive the news and might produce some terrifying weapons with astonishing destructive power in advance.

The area surrounding the factory was old, but the facilities in the core area looked brand new because the factory was originally built on an abandoned ancient site.

It's hard to imagine that this processing plant was just a pile of ruins a few years, or even a few months ago.

If it had been any later, and the factory had already built up all its external defenses, then it would have been virtually impossible to break into the factory.

However, Kal'tsit and Seria encountered trouble when they entered the core area of ​​the factory.

The factory's sturdy high walls blocked their way. Unlike the abandoned underground passages in the outer perimeter and processing area, once inside the core area, even the underground passages were guarded by mechanical guards patrolling 24 hours a day.

They can only enter from the front!

“Ms. Serea, I will have Mon3tr help you. Do not resist.”

After Kal'tsit finished speaking, Mon3tr covered Saria like a humanoid powered armor, while Kal'tsit's arm touched the wall of the core area.

"Didi has detected an employee already registered, with low access level and medium action level. You are allowed to enter."

To Seria's astonishment, the small door to the factory's core area opened. Although it appeared to be a passage that could only allow one person to enter at a time, Seria clearly heard the voice say that Kal'tsit was some kind of staff member.

"Ms. Kal'tsit, how old are you exactly?"

Seria couldn't help but ask. She knew from Gard that Kal'tsit was very old, but now it seemed ridiculously old.

“I’m just a little older than you.”

Kal'tsit didn't explain much. She quickly walked into the passage, with Seria following closely behind. She glanced back at the direction where Gard was in the distance, her eyes turning stern again.

Kal'tsit is shrouded in many secrets, so many that any researcher would want to investigate her thoroughly from beginning to end.

But Serea knew that now was not the time to satisfy her thirst for knowledge.

She has always been able to distinguish between the interests of the group and the individual.

Not to mention, this also involves Gard's safety!

Ten minutes have passed since we parted ways. Walking two kilometers in ten minutes is not too slow.

However, with Gard using his life to buy time, they were still too slow.

"Mon3tr!"

Kal'tsit's voice rang out from ahead. The Mon3tr that had been covering Seria separated from her and then reassembled at the entrance of the passage ahead.

With a loud "thud," Mon3tr smashed through one of the passage walls with its claws, and instantly, a piercing alarm rang in Seraya's ears.

"From now on, we must speed up!"

Kal'tsit rushed out of the destroyed passage in Mon3tr, and a machine guard patrolling outside immediately pointed his weapon at her.

However, its brain's recognition system seemed to malfunction after seeing Kal'tsit, and it did not shoot at Kal'tsit immediately.

The next second, Mon3tr's claw pierced through its brain.

"Mon3tr, cut off its weapon and give it to me!"

Mon3tr let out a sharp screech and tossed the gun with its mechanical circuitry to Kal'tsit. Kal'tsit took a simple connector from her pocket and, in less than five seconds, transformed the mechanical guard's weapon into her own.

"Seria, protect me!"

"it is good."

Serea, the head of the defense department at Rhine Labs and a heavily armored warrior skilled in defense, quickly got into work mode.

No, even if she gets hurt, Kal'tsit can't get hurt!

"Let's take the elevator up, Serea, hold off the enemies outside!"

Proceed forward until you find an elevator leading to the upper levels of the core area. Have Mon3tr destroy the elevator doors, open the manual control panel, and Kal'tsit pulls the wires onto herself, connecting them to her neural interface to hack into the elevator's control system.

Seeing this, Seria couldn't help but say, "Kal'tsit, are you crazy? Even the most advanced neural link technology cannot fight against a mechanical network without auxiliary equipment."

"We're out of time!"

Kal'tsit's words made Seria realize that now was not the time to worry about Kal'tsit.

Serea suddenly realized that she might have trusted Gard too much.

So much so that while she was worried about Gard drawing enemies away from them, she didn't feel a sense of urgency.

She had seen Gard injured before, seen him covered in wounds while protecting them, and knew that Gard was not omnipotent.

If she only relies on Gard, then what right does she have to stand by Gard's side, and what right does she have to try to take away his position?

"Seria, it's time to wake up. This is not a dream."

"No one here is obligated to protect you!"

"Come here—"

Facing a mechanical guard charging towards her, Seria lowered her shield, and calcium condensed on her fists, covering her body from head to toe.

"—I'm not doing this to hold everyone back!"

boom!

When a fist collides with metal, what bends and collapses is a solid alloy.

The high-speed swing of her arm collided with the mechanical guard, even producing a sonic boom that broke through the sound barrier. Her golden pupils flashed, and Seraya tensed her thighs. Her legs, strong and upright from years of training, were rooted to the spot like wooden stakes.

Boom!

After blocking the impact of a mechanical guard, Seria raised her leg, grabbed the mechanical guard, and slammed her knee into the mechanical guard's body.

Then, a beautiful leg whip slammed the mechanical guard's body against the wall, causing it to collide with the wall.

Boom!

Gard's body was very tough, and Seria's body was equally sturdy.

Furthermore, Seria's excellent adaptability to Originium Arts allows her to directly confront these newly manufactured mechanical guards, as long as she doesn't encounter the one Gard faced before...

The thought had barely crossed Serea's mind when she heard a loud bang, and a dark shadow flew past her and slammed heavily against the side of the elevator door.

"Mon3tr?"

There were enemies on both sides of the elevator door, so Serea and Mon3tr each defended one side.

But Mon3tr was actually defeated!?

From the previous battle, it was clear just how strong Mon3tr was, and Serea quickly looked to the other side.

A centaur rider, over three meters tall, was dragging a long battle axe toward them. Mon3tr had just been knocked away by the rider's initial charge.

"Serena, let's go!"

Wiping the blood from her nose, Kal'tsit shouted at Seria, "We don't have time to get entangled with an enemy we can't defeat in a short time."

"It's too late!"

The knights charged again. Having studied the mechanical knight that Gard had killed, Seria knew just how tough the centaur's body was.

If we let him crash into us, the elevator might collapse.

"Kal'tsit, you go first, I'll hold him off here!"

Serea's expression was resolute; even though she knew she was likely to lose against this centaur rider, not a single thought of backing down crossed her mind.

We don't need to win, we just need to stall.

"Calcification!"

The backpack on her back came in handy. While she couldn't extract calcium in the metal environment, she refined it before entering the core area and carried it with her.

Now, the riders launched a charge, and in the narrow passage, there was almost no room for a second person to walk side by side.

The calcium behind him, like white gravel, blocked Serea's path. The calcium swirled, cutting and clinging to the wall, trying to hold back the knight's charge.

But it was too fast!

The distance was less than fifty meters, and it took the rider less than a second to walk across it.

The elevator behind her hadn't even risen yet; she had to escort Kal'tsit away so she could help Gard.

Therefore, she had to stop the rider's charge!

boom!

The mechanical rider, over three meters tall, crashed into Serea's shield. In an instant, Serea was thrown more than ten meters, leaving a long, charred gash in the alloy ground.

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