Chapter 1105: Star Union of Galactica Saga
[WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!]
[Sudden Xenoid Raid in Progress! Sudden Xenoid Raid in Progress!]
[All Pilots please ride your Machine Warriors and prepare for battle.]
[Estimated Time Until Imminent Battle: 73 Seconds]
"This is…?!"
I looked into outer space through the huge spaceship.
There was something approaching, a huge cluster of…
Red flesh and tentacles.
So this is how this Trial is going to be, huh?
Interesting.
Xenoids, these beings must be some sort of alien species that has adapted to live in outer space.
Hence, they're incredibly tough and powerful, and seeing how there are hundreds of them approaching, they're aiming for the lifeforms of this spaceship.
They are most likely some of the usual type, parasitic flesh-like beings that absorb and assimilate any lifeform they met.
They're known as World Enders and Swarms across the universe, and I had faced many of them across my previous life.
Their strength varies but, usually, they can be killed with powerful enough magic. However, certain races can become stronger as they assimilate lifeforms, stacking abilities and magic powers.
Those are the ones that become the deadliest, I have yet to confirm this with these Xenoids though.
and right now, everyone was running around, quickly climbing over small spaceships that seemed equipped with laser beams for rapid fire, or in the humanoid machines.
There was one of such machines right behind me as well. The machine had the shape of a human, slightly, although covered on heavy mechanized armor.
It had several layers of silver metal, painted blue here and there, yet it seemed slightly roughed up, there were several wounds on the metal.
Aside from that, the entire machine warrior was roughly ten meters tall, rather big for a mecha that this advanced civilization of… just humans, apparently, wield.
Humans are common all across the universe, I have yet to find out why is that even the case, but they're an adaptive race of proliferating beings.
Maybe that's why I wasn't surprised when I saw them in Spiritias too, and when I turned into one myself as well.
Anyways, that's not important.
I noticed that the large machine warrior, as they call them, had a head, it resembled the head of a human, but made of metal, with two neon blue eyes, and a serious expression.
This race, this tribe of people must worship the human physique, that is the only way they would have made such an inefficient model.
Like, why legs and arms like these? The human body is rather inefficient in zero gravity spaces, something resembling an octopus would be better.
Though, well, it does have its charm, it looks like the younglings would say… cool.
"No introduction?" I wondered, looking around.
And as I asked and there were less than thirty seconds until the aliens arrived, a voice echoed, accompanied by an holographic message, most likely crafted by the Tower itself.
[The {First Rank Up Trial: Star Union of Galactica Saga} has begun!]
[You have found yourself immersed in the body of a young and bullied F Ranked Machine Warrior Pilot in the middle of a transportation mission that spans an entire galaxy.]
[Your mission is simple, make sure the entire Seed Ship carrying over a billion humans in cryogenic state doesn't end up being destroyed or invaded by the deadly Xenoids, a race that has invaded Earth, your original planet, and laid waste upon it.]
[With the last remaining humans in your ship, you must do everything you can to ensue their safety, as the genetically engineered pilot of the Machine Warriors part of the Star Union Galactica Team, your mission is to destroy as many Xenoids, protect the ship, and lead others into working together.]
[The Fate of Humanity is within your hands. Failure is simply not an option.]
[The more Xenoids you slay, and the more Pilots survive at the end of the Trial when you finally and safely land on the Terraformed Planet that is your destination, the stronger your Rank Up will be.]
[Time Limit: 7 Days until arriving in the designed Terraformed Planet.]
"Hah, this is more like it."
I was already climbing the Machine Warrior, my body moved on its own, as if it had already memorized this entire routine from the beginning.
So that's what it means to be genetically engineered to pilot these things, huh?
One thing that I've noticed though is…
"Grimoire! Spirits!"
I tried calling my Grimoire, or my Spirits, but there was no response.
They just wouldn't answer at all.
I also tried using Spells but nothing, my internal energies were there, but I couldn't use them, it was as if this body was somehow not used to it.
I was still physically strong though, but there was this strange "lock" that required a certain something to be opened.
Skills couldn't be used either, but I could feel like they were there as well…
"Hmm, perhaps the key to all things is you, my friend."
I patted the huge robot's head with my hand, before its chest opened, revealing a comfortable seat surrounded by several mechanical and technological gadgets, cables, screens, and buttons everywhere.
With less than twenty seconds left, I jumped inside, closed it, and then sealed it. My spacesuit quickly adapted to the conditions as I grabbed the hoodie-like part and equipped it, completely sealing my body.
If the robot were to be destroyed, without a spacesuit I would die instantly after all. Oxygen was there in a large tank behind my back, and the suit was also equipped with several things, even prepared for waste excretion and filtering into nutrients for the body, disgusting yet fascinating.
"So I click this, that, and this…"
I moved automatically, clicking every button in front of me, the screens lit up one after another, scanning me completely as I quickly grabbed two large controls clicked them, and the entire thing began moving.
[Initializing Full Assimilation…]
Something, a long, black colored cable, pierced my neck in that moment, connecting to my very spine, and my senses and brain.
My eyes lit up, it felt as if my very mind had been transferred into the Machine Warrior's body, its head, eyes, mouth, I could finally understand why it had all of that.
And why it had a human form too.
[Full Assimilation Complete. Sense Sharing has been started.]
[Welcome aboard, Pilot Blake.]
"Hah, this is fascinating!"
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
And as I was about to fly off, explosions reverberated, several pilots were already dying.
"Looks like there's no other option than helping these pitiful people… Let's go."
FLASH!
With a mere thought, propulsors activated behind my back, bringing me into the endless expanse of outer space, darkness and the faint lights of stars far away being the only thing everywhere.
Aside from the thousands of pilots fighting and dying against near a hundred clouds of red flesh covered on countless eyes, shells, and tentacles.
"Aaaaggh! Heeelp!"
I heard the scream of someone close to me, the robot's head tilted towards the direction, quickly helping me analyze a person screaming, their robot was being pulverized by giant tentacles and the alien was seeking the person's body, probably to eat it and absorb it.
"Let's see what this old machine can do."
FLASH!
By using a quick propulsion, I reached the alien within a second, I grabbed the robot's left leg armor, which quickly transformed at command into a huge and long electrified spear.
Yeah, a spear is enough.
My techniques aren't spells or skills, they're part of my fighting arts.
"Die."
{Divine Spear God Arts}: [One Hundred Lightning Blows]!
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
BOOOM!