Alligator's Ark of Tomorrow

The knight's heavy blow completely rendered Seraya unable to fight.

Having lost the source of energy in his chest, the light in the knight's eyes began to dim, and his forward steps slowly came to a stop.

Serea lay in the corner, a smile on her face.

She won!

The surrounding machines are approaching, their orders to kill any invading enemies.

Now, Serea has no ability to resist at all.

However, all the mechanical guards suddenly stopped in their tracks as they prepared to approach Seria.

They heard a sound.

"How dare you—"

With a deafening roar that shook the heavens, an enormous gaping hole suddenly appeared in the outer wall of the core area, as a blood-soaked crocodile smashed through countless layers of alloy walls.

He rushed to the center of the core area and saw a mechanical centaur whose core had been destroyed, and Seria covered in blood. He saw Seria's lips curl into a slight smile when she saw him.

"Aren't you smug?"

"I won!"

"To be injured like this is considered a win?"

Gard really wanted to spank Serea hard and teach her a lesson about the consequences of being stubborn.

But seeing how badly Serea was injured, he couldn't bring himself to do it in the end.

Therefore, he can only vent his anger elsewhere now.

"That old lynx said that if I delayed for thirty minutes, she would blow up the terminal of the processing plant. How much time has passed now?"

Not only Seraya, but that old lynx also deserves a beating.

Gard gritted his teeth, the taste of blood lingering at the corners of his mouth.

"None of them are easy to deal with!"

......

Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Kiss of the Crocodile

The first thing they did upon entering was to eliminate the surrounding mechanical guards. While Seria was fighting the centaur knights, the surrounding mechanical guards were just cannon fodder, but after the battle ended, they began their final reaping.

If Serea hadn't been pulled into the nightmare's dream and someone hadn't reminded him, he might not have been able to rush in and save her in time.

“Mr. Gard, you now owe me two favors.”

Horhya's lazy voice echoed in Gard's mind. Gard hadn't expected that Horhya would still be paying attention to what was happening on their side after the events of Nightmare Path.

"Okay, I don't have time to chat with you right now. How about the other person? Is she trapped in a dream?"

“I don’t know about that, because I marked Ms. Celia beforehand, which is why I was able to see her. The other lady is not included.”

After becoming more proficient in using the power of ascension, Gard entered the nightmares' dreams twice in a row, prompting him to try to use the power of ascension to analyze the nightmares' dreams.

The conversation between Gard and Horhyah is one such example. Although Gard did not enter the nightmares' dreams, he was able to communicate with Horhyah, who was far away in Colombia, through the nightmares' dreams, from an unknown distance.

Holhaya claims to be a historian, so she must know something about the things in this land.

Ultimately, although Gard was willing to believe Kal'tsit, Kal'tsit had a bad habit of keeping things to herself, and talking to her was often like listening to a lecture.

In contrast, Gard and Horhyah have enough conflicting interests, and Horhyah would certainly prefer Gard to leave this land safely rather than die here.

After all, he still owed Horhaya a favor... oh, now it's two.

The fact that Kal'tsit failed to blow up the terminal AI in the factory as she said meant that she encountered something unexpected; otherwise, it would have been impossible for the robot guards around her to still be able to act in an orderly manner.

Seeing that more mechanical guards were gathering around, Gard picked up Seria and walked towards the elevator door that had been cut open by Mon3tr.

Serea's injuries were severe; when I picked her up, I could even hear the cracking sound of her broken bones. The pain made Serea groan involuntarily.

"Does it hurt?"

"I can endure it!"

"I'll be gentle."

It's best not to move a broken bone casually, as it could be dangerous if a broken bone punctures a blood vessel.

However, Gald dared not leave Seria behind. There were still many enemies, so many that even with Gald covered in wounds, he could not kill them all even after his ascending power was almost exhausted.

She jumped into the elevator shaft. Since the elevator had already taken Kal'tsit up, the area above and below the shaft was empty.

With one arm around Seria, Gard slammed his other hand into the alloy wall to keep himself from falling.

Then, using both hands and feet, they climbed up little by little.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

In the elevator shaft of the core area of ​​the processing plant, a series of crashing sounds came from, as the crocodile-man kept climbing upwards, as if he were climbing a vertical deep well.

Serea nestled against Gard's chest, feeling the warmth emanating from it.

Because of the injury and blood loss, Seria's brain was confused, but at this time, she still couldn't help but wonder, was this the temperature she felt in Xiu Erxi at that time?

Hmph, she got off easy!

Seria didn't see the expression on Gard's face, which was as gloomy as an unyielding dark cloud on the horizon.

Gard wanted to become stronger because he knew he was still too weak, too weak to protect Laurentina from Haze.

At that time, Gard vowed to become stronger than any being on Terra, so that no will, organization, nation, or even god, could take away anyone from his side.

Despite this, he still failed to protect Serea.

He admitted that he didn't care enough about Serea, and that he didn't actually like her that much, unlike how he liked Gavial or Laurentina.

But I don't really like it that much, which is to say, I do like it.

So when he sees Serea injured, he feels sad, heartbroken, and hates his own weakness and powerlessness.

He's still not strong enough!

Boom!

His head hit a piece of steel at the bottom of the elevator, and Gard knew he had reached the highest point of the core area, his destination.

Using the soles of his feet to support himself against the wall, Gard licked his somewhat worn claws and gently tore apart the elevator base bit by bit with his fingers.

when!

A piece of steel fell from above Gard's head, and several seconds passed before the sound was heard.

Gard climbed into the elevator and kicked open the elevator door.

"Kal'tsit should be inside."

“I know, you should say less, my dear Ms. Celia. I don’t want to hold a funeral for you before I’ve even married you.”

"Anyway, you already have two wives, so you won't miss out on one more."

“But the two of them can’t withstand my whipping. They need a beautiful girl named Waifan to help them share the burden.”

"You're so shameless! We're not even husband and wife yet!"

"Should I regret not agreeing to become your husband earlier?"

"Regretted it?"

"Yeah, I regret it."

If she could go back to a day earlier, Gard would definitely slap her hesitant self.

Why bother with girlfriends? Why not just get married?

It is only when you are about to lose something that you learn to cherish it. When Gard saw Seria covered in wounds, he suddenly realized that he couldn't bear to see this girl who loved him suffer even the slightest bit of harm.

Gard gently touched Seria's forehead with his kiss. Because the crocodile's snout was so long, Gard only needed to tilt his head slightly to kiss the girl.

So, in terms of kissing, his kisses can somewhat compensate for the height difference between him and the girl.

The only regret is that we definitely can't do a French kiss.

Feeling the warmth of the crocodile man's kiss, Serea suddenly realized her heart was beating a little fast. Was it a side effect of blood loss? Her body was so hot. If she weren't injured, she would love to bury her face in the crocodile man's chest.

This is... a feeling of joy!?

Upon entering the highest level of the core area, Gard discovered that there wasn't even a single mechanical guard in sight, nor were there many signs of battle.

But upon entering the innermost area, through a thick door, Gard heard faint sounds of fighting.

Kal'tsit is in trouble after all!

As Gard thought this, he took the axe off his back and swung it forcefully at the alloy door, which was of unknown thickness.

boom!

The gate opened.

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Chapter Ninety-Eight: My Khan, he is right here!

Kelsey miscalculated.

Or rather, this was actually within Kal'tsit's expectations.

After all, there are only a few possible endings, aren't there?

Success or failure.

This time, however, the demon 'expansion' stood on her side.

The factory's terminal intelligence still has a rider in the control center, a modified mechanical nightmare rider.

Kal'tsit guessed that even the entire factory didn't produce too many of these knights, but in the most important places, one or two powerful guards should always be left.

Therefore, even though Kal'tsit hacked into the factory's terminal AI using a neural link device, blocking the entrances and exits outside the control center and creating an excellent environment for her to fight Nightmare Knight one-on-one,

Kal'tsit was still at a complete disadvantage.

Mon3tr was no match for the Nightmare Knight before her. The towering Nightmare Knight reminded Kal'tsit of an old friend. This humanoid Nightmare was not an opponent she could defeat in a one-on-one fight.

Yes, the Nightmare standing before Kal'tsit was not the centaur-like mechanical creature they had encountered before, but a Nightmare Knight with a complete human form.

The two-meter-tall Nightmare swung its greatsword, and each attack caused Mon3tr to let out a painful howl.

"Mon3tr, hold on!"

Kal'tsit looked at the terminal computer in the distance, gripping the Originium bomb in her hand tightly. The power of this liquid Originium bomb was no less than that of the city defense shells fired from the high wall, and might even be far greater.

However, at a distance of approximately fifty meters, Kal'tsit could not guarantee that detonating the device there would completely destroy the terminal.

Initially, Kal'tsit planned to use a timed detonation method, but now she no longer had that option.

As long as she can detonate the terminal, she'd be willing to sacrifice herself here...

Kal'tsit took another step forward, and while Mon3tr was holding back the Nightmare Knight, she launched her umpteenth charge toward the terminal.

And this time, the result was the same.

The broken metal fragments were knocked away by the greatsword and shot towards Kal'tsit like bullets.

The moment Kal'tsit stopped, a piece of metal flew past her, creating irregular craters in the ground in front of her.

If she takes just one more step forward, these pits will appear on her.

The Nightmare Knight still had energy left; even while attacking Mon3tr, he was also watching Kal'tsit.

As long as Kal'tsit doesn't take a step, the Nightmare Knight's target will only be Mon3tr, but as soon as Kal'tsit dares to make a move, the Nightmare Knight will launch an attack on Kal'tsit.

Kal'tsit, Felin's body was so frail that she didn't even dare to withstand the iron blocks sent flying by the Nightmare Knight's Shattered Hand.

If it were Adaklis or Vayvan instead, those high-speed flying metal fragments might injure them, but they would definitely not be fatal.

calm down!

Absolutely calm!

Even though the bombardment from the outer city's defensive artillery had stopped, even though Seria was facing a Nightmare Knight alone, her fate now unknown, and even though she had wasted too much time and failed to do what she should have done.