Mecha Devourer System-Chapter 203: First War

"Im... Impossible!"

A guard whispered out loud as the rifle he held in his hands slipped from his fingers and fell to the ground.

Commander Sauron's eyes widened to their maximum limits, filled with disbelief as his own brain failed to comprehend what was happening.

An artifact.

A gravity-inducing mech gadget tool!?

Hundreds of reasons came into his mind, trying to make sense of the situation he was in, yet the sight of what stood before him failed all of his reasons.

The boy had his right arm in his pocket and his left hand on his shoulder.

He held nothing.

No special gloves, nothing at all but his own hands, and yet it was like the weight of the world had been placed on his shoulders, sending him falling onto one knee.

He had tried to resist with every might that lay within him, yet he had failed.

His knees had given up.

'How?'

'How could he have fallen before a boy!?'

"It's pitiful, isn't it?"

The calm voice echoed out as Commander Sauron watched the hand slowly slip off his shoulder.

It returned to Everlearn, who raised it to his face, looking it quietly as if it didn't belong to him.

"Even I find it unjust..." Everlearn said, turning to Commander Sauron and the other soldiers.

"Each of you here has gone through the depths of hell to reach this level."

"I look beneath your clothing, and all I see are deep scars that even time itself has failed to erase."

"How many stabs must you have endured?"

"How many times have you looked death in the eyes and kept your life with pure will?"

"Decades of pain walking on this treacherous path of power to reach this level."

He said, slowly and calmly, as their hearts, for reasons unknown, shook within their chests.

"All of that just to die in the hands of a boy who has barely walked a year on that same path."

"Even I find it sickening that fate can be so cruel to such pain and hard work,"

He mused, his hands falling quietly.

Turning to look at Commander Sauron,

"Do not question the blood and sweat you have given up until this moment."

"I am simply an anomaly that was never meant to exist, and now growing beyond even my own imagination."

"So abnormal, even I myself think it unfair."

Everlearn said, walking past them and arriving at the end of the building, the wall was just close by.

With one foot over the wall, he turned slightly.

"You all deserve a better death. A death I am unworthy of giving."

Those were his last words before a powerful breeze of air blew through the rooftop as they watched him flash forward with speed, and over the walls.

They were so shaken by his words that they reacted a second too late.

When they finally did, their hands quickly raised their weapons, preparing to shoot at him as he disappeared into the horizon.

However,

"Stop!"

The word cut through the atmosphere before any of them could pull the trigger.

They turned back to Commander Sauron, who walked through them, pausing at the end of the rooftop, looking silently at the back of the running Everlearn.

"Are we really going to allow him to leave just like that!?"

A guard asked, not in anger, but out of a sense of duty.

It was their duty to prevent intrusion, yet here they were, watching as the intruder disappeared further down the desert lands.

"How did he get in?" Commander Sauron's voice echoed, and one of the guards replied.

"The cameras revealed he jumped over the walls, knocked out two soldiers, then imitated a head guard named Orion to gain access to the main building."

"Staff Celestine was the one who notified the building, and she engaged him, only to be defeated."

"Her injuries are dire, with a cracked skull and internal stomach bleeding, but...she will survive."

A soldier narrated, taking his eyes off the device that relayed the message, and Commander Sauron hummed quietly.

"If he had wanted, he would have been able to come in through the front gate," he said, and their breath paused in their chests.

"Not the tanks, or the helijets, or the rifles would have stopped him. Any one of you who stood in his way would have met with certain death."

"Yet he went through all that trouble to sneak in?"

"Believe me when I say this, when you have this much power under your control, reining yourself down to sneak through people you can turn to paste with a punch becomes a hundred times harder than it sounds."

Commander Sauron said quietly, looking at the fading shadow before turning his back.

"You all return to your posts."

"Call up the engineers to fix the damage, and keep what happened on this rooftop to yourselves."

"I'll report to the bosses myself and take full responsibility for this."

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"So... you got it!"

Everlearn said to himself, walking amidst the heavy whooshing of the desert breeze.

"Yes, I have," Sara's voice echoed out.

"I'm trying to lock onto the TCF Base location and set things up to hide where I'm coming in from."

"If I go into the server directly from here, the Sec AI may notice the location anomaly and many more things, and I could get blocked before I see anything."

"I'm trying to prevent that, but in max 10 hours, I'll be done."

She said to him, and he nodded quietly, tapping the button and severing the connection.

The second she was gone, Everlearn paused in his steps, standing quietly for a while before quietly falling on his back.

The heavy whooshing continued, burying him quickly enough in the sand.

║Even though you spoke so grandly, your heart wouldn't stop pounding ferociously. Almost called off your bluff.║

The system panel flashed as he exhaled quietly.

Back then, it had been a dangerous situation.

Any wrong move, the slightest wrong action, and he would have ended up being gravely injured, along with dozens of those guards dead.

As much as he was trying to save the people in Tale City, what sense would it make if he killed people who were simply doing their jobs to do that?

Though he also knew that if all hell broke loose, it would be hard to keep his hands down.

Obviously, his own life came first before anything, and he would have been forced to commit a mass bloody murder.

For every second of being there, Everlearn had fought his first war:

An exhausting war of identity.