It was sloppy work, but the clay was collected and put into large jars that then went into my [Inventory] for later. If we were going to be fighting more Automata in the future then having a weapon that could take them out quickly was going to be really useful. Getting the turtle apart was proving to be much more difficult though, even with the help of Mara and Kull. Both of them were skilled enough hunters in their previous village life, but neither had any experience with something this huge. I really wished I could call Najii, the Guild Dismantler, up on the phone and ask for tips or for her to swing by. Still, they knew the basics of dismantling which was better than me so I listened to any advice they had to offer. In the end, I had to build a huge sword with the fire crystal of
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Below us, it seemed like every Knight Watch guard and Adventurer were out running around looking for us. Not one of them thought to look on top of their Guild Hall building. It would be much safer for us to move from roof to roof once the sun went down so we had some time to kill.First, I finished the repair work for Elita. Thankfully, I had my mobile workshop stored in my [Inventory]. A lot of supplies as well as all the projects I’d left in Jada’s shop were in my inventory too, but I had no idea how or why they had gotten there. Since I was doing work on her anyway, it would be a good opportunity to install an upgrade that I’d been wanting to give her for a long time.
Automata Prime 2.5: A daring escape
The ninja was engulfed in flame and hit the ground rolling to put the fire out. The second didn’t seem concerned for their comrade and kept pushing forward.I drew my two wakizashi and slashed at the oncoming ninja, but she dropped to her knees, leaning back and avoiding my strike. Elita was ready with the follow up and cut down with her own blade. The ninja caught Elita’s strike with a kunai and drew her own short sword. Before the ninja could strike, Elita sent a couple thousand volts of electricity through her sword, into the kunai, and into the ninja.The ninja crumpled into a convulsing heap as her sword clattered to the rooftop. Ravage, in bot mode, calmly picked up the fallen sword and stood on the chest of the heavily breathing ninja with the sword at her neck.
Automata Prime 2.6: What's the protocol for leveling a whole village?
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Automata Prime 2.7: Shiro gets a new jam
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Automata Prime 2.8: Doin' time
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Automata Prime 2.9: Easy peasy
The Knight Watch Automata were all in the process of going through the [freedom.exe] installation. As Alfred watched them go through the process, he noticed that all of their eyes changed from red to blue. With such an obvious tell, I might have to come up with some way of faking an Automata’s eye color. On the other hand, most organics didn’t seem to notice. All of my proxies had green eyes and so far, no one had said anything; not even Jada. Ravage had purple eyes, so Primus only knew what that meant.There wasn’t time to allow the guard squad to go through the Memory Unlock features, so that would have to wait until they were all free and had some down time. For now, just being free from the Control Curse would be enough.
Automata Prime 2.10: Do we really need that?
Sticking to deep shadows and slinking through back alley ways, Ravage led the squad of numbered Automata and the shop bots through the upper residential area that housed the Knight Watch barracks and to the south. Once they reached the wall, they followed its edge until they reached the manufacturing district. Several times, Ravage would stop and appear to sniff the air or listen for something that none of the others could hear before abruptly changing directions.Somehow the group always managed to stay away from any Watch patrols or avoid any sort of contact at all. When they reached the carriage maker building adjacent to the Haz Brothers’ shop, Ravage had them stop and wait.From around the corner, they could see a light getting closer and a rhythmic tapping sound. The numbers began to get antsy and
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