Chapter No.34 Mechs and Magic

(Covid, H.I.V. and the Flue walks into a bar, Bartender says, "What is this, some kind of sick joke?")

"Ready whenever"

A metallic clank was heard and a whir could be heard from the palm of the glove

"I can tell before you even say it"

A large box of gears was revealed out of the palm

*Clak *Clak *Clak

As the four segments clanked in place, with gears at each joint

*Clack *Clack *Clack

Another set was heard coming out of the bottom

And with a whir a string tightened in between the two tips

This definitely seemed impractical, but, it was a mechanical bow

And as soon as Second placed her metal fingers on the string, an arrow was placed already aligned and straight

All Second needed to do was aim, and shoot

One eye closed, she aimed to pierce First's gut

And she released as a hole appeared on First's lower torso

First wouldn't even have been able to see the arrow if it wasn't for <Thought Acceleration>

What the bow did, was the reason why the arrow didn't wasn't tipped or have a fethered fin, and was just a metal rod, and also the reason for the constant mechanical whir, and also the reason for it's bulk, there were four spinning wheels in the gearbox, spinning as fast as they possibly could, as fast as the two blacksmiths could make them, the two blacksmiths broke their brains trying to make this, and the three dwarf brothers broke their brains trying to help them, the only way they could think of making it work was an auto alignment tool, it automatically placed the arrow at a perfectly straight angle exactly 90° from a straight bowstring, Kaijin actually had to ask Bester for help with this nightmare, else he might not have finished it before Feru left

Now setting our minds to current times First was standing there, as the hole healed pretty quickly, as he looked at the rod, he grimaced

"Getting pierced by something made from my own claws sure makes one feel unsafe"

"If you've already recovered, then we can continue"

*thup *thup *thup

Left eye, right lung, left knee

"Kinda- ...Ruthless"

*chough

"Hard talking with punctured lung-"

*thup

Down the throat

*thup *thup

On the forehead, and through the windpipe

*thup *thup *thup *thupthupthupthupthupthupthupthupthupthup

*click *click

"Aww, I ran out"

Second looked at the extention of the glove that was pumping out the bolts with disappointment

As if she was a kid that was told that it couldn't smack the piñata anymore

Meanwhile the first stood there missing an arm and leg, with half of his face messed up and his whole body riddled in holes

but it didn't matter as his wounds began healing at a ridiculous pace, he truly seemed like an immortal monster

"Could you not? this still fucking hurts"

the first voiced his complaints

"This regeneration speed is ridiculous, we don't even have any healing skills"

the second ignored the complaints, instead focusing on the results of [Brimstone Heart]

"Oh right! I completely forgot about this"

some Pestilence crawled out towards one of the bolts that bounced of of the demonshade arm, and it disappeared as Second started loading the bow back up

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Cal found herself in an empty battlefield

She found herself with a white sword in hand

A clanking was heard from the base of the handle

She turned to the side with one eye open, she thrust the sword in the same direction

piercing a heart

"F-feru?"

her eyes widened as she began tearing up

"Yes Cal?"

he pressed forward as he felt the hilt on his chest

"I... I love you"

she muttered

"You know I won't hear you if you mutter like that"

a soft smile appeared on his face, as she lost the strength to hold the sword

"I love you!"

tears rolled down her face, as he wiped it off her cheek

She couldn't bare to look at his face anymore

"I know... I know... so you wouldn't mind becoming one with me?"

He said as he hugged her tight, and opened his mouth wide

She felt his teeth on her neck as his teeth elongated into her skin, and he tore away and gulped down

she struggled as her sad eyes turned to ones of fear

she attempted to escape

"Did... Didn't you... DIDN'T YOU SAY YOU LOVE ME"

His voice started distorting

She turned to see him yelling, and beginning to eat his own fingers, hand, arm

shock. fear. sadness. love. those emotions mixed

and then she looked to where he bit her

it wasn't regenerating

she then felt the fear of death

she never felt so mortal in her deathless body

she felt something pierce her head, as Feru ran to her, like a feral beast, she couldn't think anymore, she conceded

But, his next bite never came

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instead, she awoke from the nightmare

"I... no... it'll happen all the same"

"Same as everyone else"

she held her face in her palms, never knowing if she'll start crying

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While the two who became the leading figures were having their own problems, the ones they undertaken too had many a problems

shelter wasn't too bad as the robes of the cultists were actually quite high quality, and were also used as tents and bedding which also took care of sleep

everything basic was taken care of except two, the people were starving, and were still somewhat surviving, from the food they were given, it was clear that they were overtaken recently, the memory was still fresh of the cultists mindless and ruthless massacre

Similar thoughs were going through the mind of one young man named Adam as he was about to get his portion of preserved food

not many were thinking like him, he was one of few, if not the only, some were only focused on survival of their current situation, and even more were brain dead as they couldn't handle what happened

Adam himself was one who went through the more bad events

trying to protect his wife, seeing as some of the more demented cultists experimented in the field, on the other hand, he was captured along with his wife, without being able to do anything, and because of some of the more sick people,his wife was experimented on horribly in front of him, before he was forced to fight her in a death match

But he persevered through this thanks to his willpower, keeping his identity

but this man's life was aboutto change drastically, and he was about to change the lives of others himself

he was also one of the few that tried interacting with the monsters that saved them, after all he held no prejudice to them, what mattered to him was that they were against the cultists

the group that he found particularly weird, and also the one he interacted with the most was a group of ten, that apparently evolved

What he lerned from these folks was that they were created by their own leader, but he also learned of his appearance

a young boy in tattered clothes, a black left eye with a bright lime green iris, a normal red right eye, white hair and a crooked horn, starting off to the back, before quickly going forward

Adam was currently enjoying his food on his favourite eating place that he cushioned with multiple layers of random cultist robes

When suddenly a young boy maching the description he got appeared out of nowhere, he would have been shocked by him, but he was even more shocked about the black and white tree, with blood red flowers, and golden fruit

he was confident that it was the edgiest tree he had ever seen

the boy looked at the man who was looking at him with suprise before once again looking forward to nothing before he muttered

"Mass production"

and telleported now leaving the tree

Adam was trying to figure out what happened from shock, and before he noticed he was already drawn towards the tree, salivating looking at the fruit

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Name: Feru Akairashi Tempest

Race: Tempest Fenrir

Title: The last Fenrir, Street Magician, Bearer Of Pestilence, Drunkard

Disaster rank human form: S rank

Disaster rank true form: special S rank (Locked)

Class: None

Blessing: Tempest blessing

Subordinates:

Auric: Tesla Armour

Sor: Possessed doll(Lightning Elemental)

2530 Lightning Armour/s

Equipment:

Mechanical bow

Kimono

Throwing sword

Night's Edge

Sun and Moon Chain

Healing potions (Regeneration class)

Special Skills:

Unbreakable Concentration

Eyes Of Hate

Multilayered Barrier (Evolution gained skill)

Black Lightning (Evolution gained skill)

Impenetrable Skin

Unbreakable Bones

Air Walk

Gravitational Pressure

Instant Teleportation

War Rage

Complete presence Erasure

Horror

Status

Intention reading

Skills:

War Lord

Demon Summoning Magic

Transform (race intrinsic skill)

Bite (race intrinsic skill)

Slash (race intrinsic skill)

Long Ranged Slash (Lerned Skill)

Earth Magic (Lerned Skill)

Wind Magic (race intrinsic skill)

Lighting Magic (race intrinsic skill) (Evolution gained skill)

Unique Skills:

Brimstone Heart

Memory Carving

Magicule Area

Air Control

Parallel Existence

Resistances:

Exhaustion Resistance

Soul attack resistance

Bodily Effect Nullification

Ultimate Skills:

Horseman of the Apocalypse, Goliath the Pestilence

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(Isn't it strange that the adjective for metal is metallic? But that's not true for iron, which is ironic)