2 Escape

Gerald landed on the garden of the estate, it was a very big mansion with a big yard in the front and in the middle. And as expected, the guard had surrounded him.

"Wow, wow, easy there. Drop the sword and we can talk," Gerald said as multiple soldiers with Spear and sword were surrounding him. Some of them were holding a wooden staff on its hand.

"BY THE PRINCESS ORDER! WE ARE TOLD TO CAPTURE YOU!" The soldier with the flashiest uniform said to him.

"Hey, easy, I don't want to kill all of you," he switched his pistol to his .50 BMG assault rifle.

[COMBAT SUCCESS: 99,9999%]

Not long after that, someone tried to go through the soldiers. It was a blonde-haired woman with a military bun hair on the back of her head. She was wearing a blue armor and held a very large sword on her right hand.

"Let me through soldier," she said.

Now Gerald had a better idea of how she looked, beautiful small lips and very white skin like a snow-white. Although, he couldn't get the view before that out of his mind.

"It's a misunderstanding," Gerald tried to explain to her.

The woman seemed to be very angry. Her face pictured it clearly from her contour and the shape of her eyebrows. "Who are you? Another demon machine?"

"Woah, Woah, Con Paz. What is Demon? At second thought, I don't care, now will you let me through?" Gerald asked her.

"Well, we can let you out after we stripped you apart," She said.

"Look, usually I can't refuse a request from beauty, but I'm in a rush right now, so could you let me pass? I have a ship to fix," Gerald tried to convince her.

"Your word doesn't work on me you demon!" She shouted.

"Now, would you kindly let me through?" Gerald said.

"NO! Knight, Charge!" She commanded.

"Well, that's too bad," Gerald shot the grappling hook on his left hand and pulled himself to a nearby wall. After that, he ran on the wall and jumped to the roof of the estate.

All of the soldiers that were surrounding him got surprised by the tech that he had. He stood up there and shouted, "PRINCESS, IF WE CROSS PATH AGAIN, I WILL MAKE SURE YOUR MEN WILL BE DEAD. MARK MY WORD!"

Gerald jumped from that rooftop and ran in the grassland with the speed equivalent of a car. There was no pursuer from the mansion, so he took a break on a nearby tree in the grassland.

He opened the helmet and grabbed the SERE kit on the back of his body armor. In there, there was an MRE and an auxiliary power unit for his helmet. The MRE was a calory cube which tasted very sweet. He ate one of them and he was full just by that one cube. He put back the MRE on the SERE kit and put back his helmet. He felt sleepy after that as he enjoyed the wind breeze of the countryside.

"Alert me for enemy presence."

[Radar set on stand by mode. Activating stand by mode. An alarm will be ringing if an enemy in the radius of 20 meters]

He closed his eyes.

Little did he know, the princess actually tracked him down with her guards. The guards that guarded the princess actually the most elite of the most elite. They're called the royal guard. The princess herself was the one who commanded them, she was known as the "Snow White in The Blue Armor."

The estate that he attacked was the princess's personal estate which every single person there was an active special soldier.

The royal guard that she commanded had the same role as special forces. What they did was intelligence gathering and asymmetrical warfare to the demons, like sabotage and counter-proliferation. So tracking footsteps in a grassland shouldn't be a hard job for them.

"Commander, do you have any suggestions?" One of his underlings asked her.

"Unit 1 and unit 3 should search the nearby forest, while unit 2 should stay with me."

"The mechs too?"

"Yes, bring the mech too."

Their units were equipped with three mechs, the mechs were carrying various weaponry, staff, sword, and shield. They were the most advanced thing that humans could offer.

"Ma'am, have you decided what we should do once we find it?"

"Of course we should capture it and learn the tech that the demon has. Honestly, I want to learn everything from it," The princess said.

"Understand ma'am."

"Should I bring the dragon units too ma'am?"

"No thanks, we need the target to be intact and not scorched to oblivion."

"Yes ma'am," he finished his sentence before continuing to search for the demonic automata that they encountered in the mansion and escaped by wall-running.

Gerald who was sleeping on the trees didn't realize that there was a dragon landed near him. The only reason why the combat helmet hadn't warned him was that the perimeter was set into a 20-meter radius. The dragon looked angrily at him and he roared.

Gerald woke up and eventually saw the dragon that was angry at him. He must have done something horrible to him, but how? He even hadn't spent two hours on that planet.

"Ah, hey there Mr dragon," Gerald greeted him.

"Ma'am," the dragon replied.

"Then Mrs. Dragon, how may I help you?" Gerald asked.

"You mortal! You stole my sleeping place.  How dare you do that you mortal, now you have to pay the price!" The female dragon said.

"Whoah, I'm sorry ma'am. But could you just let me go?" Gerald said. But the dragon ignored it and started to flap his wings and floated on the sky.

He readied the assault rifle on his shoulder and switched on the armor-piercing mode. It accelerated the bullet using an electromagnetic wave on the barrel of the rifle. He also reloaded the under-barrel grenade launcher.

The dragon breathed fire on his suit, but he didn't even flinch. Hell, Gerald didn't move even an inch. "So... Ma'am done yet?"

His space combat suit could withstand extreme temperatures, from an absolute zero up to the temperature of three Planck. The dragon breath was around 6000 degrees Celsius. So that was a pity that someone as holy as a dragon.

"That's the best you can do? And you call yourself a dragon?" He gave the dragon two middle fingers as the dragon was surprised.

The dragon kept breathing fires at Gerald, but it was useless. "Impossible, my fire can't burn you. I can destroy a city and a kingdom, but not a mere mortal."

"Done your speech yet? Now it's my turn. Engaging combat procedure," Gerald said to the dragon before the helmet turned on its combat mode.

[Combat Mode Engaged]

Combat mode made Gerald more deadly, it's increasing his strength through various enchantment and integrated combat information. It also turned the blue HUD into red. It displayed the weak point of the dragon.

[Intializing Scan]

[Scan complete: Target weakness have been displayed on HUD]

The crosshair moves back and forth to multiple weak points, all he had to do was to choose the weak point and he was set to kill the dragon.

[Target set: Eyes]

He pulled the trigger on his assault rifle and a barrage of .50 cal smart bullet flew to the eyes of the dragon and wounding her. He put the rifle on his back and switched to his HF machete.

He fired the grappling hook to the flying dragon and rode it on top of her head. He cut the horns of the dragon with a machete and slashed through its mouth.

"Wait, mortal, you won. I surrender," the dragon said as she landed on the ground.

"Just that? Just an apology, you better pay me with something. Ammo isn't cheap you know," he lied to the dragon as he got off of her head.

In actuality, he could convert anything to another element. In fact, he could convert wood into a metal, the only downside was the amount of wood that it would take.

"I'm sorry, maybe I could offer you anything different?" She said.

"Sorry, I don't have any weird interest in a woman. Unless you can fly very fast, I don't have any use for you," Gerald said.

"Wait...," The dragon shapeshifted into a human. Although it was a human with a broken horn and bloody eyes. "Please spare me."

"Begone..." She shot the dragon in the head with his rifle.

The ground beneath him started to shake. He saw the princess and his goons, but they were more prepared than before. The princess was more prepared than before, she wore a helmet and held a very white sword. Not stopping there, she also brought mechs.

"Well, well, well, demon. Looks like we meet again," the princess said.

"Nice to meet you again. So what do you want?" Gerald asked.

"Charge!!!" The princess shouted

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