As for the people here
Well Randidly felt it very powerfully at that moment the lives of all of the people who would possibly be affected by his decision here But without these tools he could provide people couldnÆt stand up against the wave of Raid Bosses that were rapidly popping up They needed these weapons And for the short term anyway every drone would need to be handmade by Randidly No one else had the Mana Engraving to equal him
And so it was that Baloo Erickson invented the Pterodactyl drone with two swiveling railguns and enough mobility to escape most flying monsters below Level 40 He provided Henrik with the blueprints and the prototype The man was too busy drooling to respond but Randidly figured he would get paid for his trouble eventually
Leaving Randidly shook his head How quickly this recalcitrant man had shifted his opinion was somewhat amusing
Once he was away from the drone manufacturing zone Randidly gathered Tykes and Dinesh and headed South It was time to do a little pest control in Lake Apollo
Chapter 558
As the group headed South Randidly checked in with Tatiana To his surprise the woman he had felt so close to recently spoke distantly and only when prodded She did inform him that the doctor was with Kenneth and as of yet there was no sign of the Unity Church coming back to make trouble It had only been a few hours but the lack of anything was a little disconcerting
Meanwhile Nathan assured Randidly that he would soon be able to get in and see Kenneth before anything happened He was just less mobile than Randidly and would need to walk back from the shantytown
The actual process of cleaning out the lake worked surprisingly well Randidly used his Incendiary Eruptions and a huge amount of monsters charged to the surface enraged by this disturbance to their normal activities Although they were all mid 30s they came out confused and most were destroyed by Tykes and Dinesh before anything could happen
The two of them worked in perfect sync which Randidly made a note of It seemed the two of them had been practicing in the borderlands without him
The real trouble was keeping their actions out of the scanning radiuses of the military bases that had been set up around the lake This was made more complicated by the fact that the recent attack had really pushed the tension present on the bases to a new high There were patrols almost every hour
Randidly was very tired of throwing dead Raid Boss bodies back into the lake in order to avoid later detection It would be hard to avoid them noticing something but that wasnÆt really an issue Once they were gone there was no way that they could figure out who had killed them all even if they had figured out that much
In fact things were so boring that Randidly very quickly lost interest in the actual killing and turned his attention inward More and more he spent time contemplating the way the weight and mass would be concentrated at the tip of his spear Specifically he focused on that destructive power and what it would feel like
Through his previous thoughts he had slowly refined the image of the collapse of the weight But what Randidly was missing now was actually a sense for what that weight meant Randidly was almost bitter why was this so simple the previous time
He supposed that a lot of what he had accomplished previously was due to stealing the image from his opponent in the fight That had added the necessary density to what he was trying to accomplish Now he had to build it all on his own It was a different sort of labor
As he was looking at the lake however Randidly wondered if they would soon connect to something like the ocean Although it was probably dangerous heading to deep waters might give him some insight into the pressure that that sort of density would possess At the bottom of the sea Randidly believed you would truly feel like the world was on you
RandidlyÆs eyes sharpened The flicked his wrist and several Spearing Roots shot upwards to block the plasma bolts that were aimed for Dinesh and Tykes Both of them reacted and leaped backward out of the water but Randidly handled it much more efficiently
Most of the Raid Bosses had been mopped up but there was a lone figure standing in the shallows It had blended in with the press of bodies and acted now to strike for something that would likely pass for a deadly blow against lesser men
With another flick more plants surged into motion As he did so Randidly scanned the horizon no drones Since he was using the Plant Dominance safest to kill whoever this was Besides
As Randidly turned to regard the figure his eyes hardened The body was metallic and steaming as it stood there This was not a member of the military It was either an independent or someone who actively wanted to protect the Raid Bosses that were breeding here An agent of the Raid Bosses themselves It wasnÆt likely based upon just seeing the metallic exterior
That was man made
The figure reacted more quickly than Randidly expected As soon as its attack failed it turned and fled diving into the water
Fuck no you arenÆt getting away now Randidly growled and he reached out towards the figure Grasp of Lava
The molten rock spurted upward and engulfed the body of the figure The figure spasmed several times and then was still Cursing quietly to himself Randidly approached the mound of rock that was sitting in the shallows of the lake With pure strength he began to rip away the layers of cooling rock around the body
Although he believed that the crushing attack of the spell likely killed whatever this was he didnÆt lower his guard
Dinesh whatÆs the time looking like Randidly asked as he continued to free up the body
Dinesh checked his watch We have three more minutes of safety Four if you really want to cut it close
Randidly grunted and gave up on doing it delicately He smashed his fist down into the rock cracking it Then he dug his fingers into the crack and pried the thing apart The body of the assailant fell into the water and there was a moment of panic as Randidly expected it to escape
But it just bobbed up and down in the hip deep water Randidly lifted the body and was surprised by how light it was There was a pang of regret in his chest as he examined the body more closely it was wearing an exosuit It was a human
It never felt good to kill another even though Randidly had grown used to taking the lives of Raid Bosses and other intelligent monsters It was a tough world they were living in And now it seemed that forces within humanity were threatening the race as a whole in such ways that Randidly might need to kill less discriminately
Randidly shook his head pushing those thoughts away He pulled the mask back and revealed the assailants face It was a woman brown hair late 30s Randidly frowned down at her his initial regret giving way to puzzlement
This woman Randidly recognized her But from where
Neveah hummed to herself as she walked from her room towards the rooms where Tia was staying As she had agreed with Randidly Neveah had told Tia that she was not truly the man Randidly Ghosthound but another who was a very close friend of Randidly She left out the part that she was female and also her true form but told her fiance most of the rest
Tia had taken it very well listening seriously to NeveahÆs entire explanation Then she had asked Neveah if it was alright if she took some time to think about it Neveah had agreed
At the last minute Neveah stopped herself turned on her heel and walked away shaking her head It had only been a few hours She couldnÆt just just walk over there now and ask what she was thinking
Neveah walked back to the door to her own room which she barely used But now that she was waiting for Tia to come to talk to her she had to spend time here correct Otherwise she might miss the other woman
Well she might as well take a bit of a walk to see the night Maybe over towards TiaÆs portion of the mansion