The weapon dealer's son

Chapter 25: the stick-man.

The yellow robot had to separate the blades and the tentacles from its body, this mechanism was included In the original robot as well, something simple like that can’t be used to trap a war machine.

The boom bird’s copy started using fast punches to attack without getting stuck again, it forgot about stabbing the little Golem.

The silver robot didn’t react to the punches, it didn’t budge, it didn’t even turn around to face its opponent. The yellow robot seeing this, it retreated, and put a distance between them, then both of its hand transformed into one big rail gun.

The spectators were excited. This gun is the trademark of the boom bird robot, its also one of its strongest weapons. unfortunately, this will consume too much energy for a normal toy core, and also the cluster fabric used for ammo will stabilize for a while, and won’t be able to transform into any thing, that is if the bullet was retrieved at all.

Not much people who have the blueprint of the boom bird robot would use this gun because of its draw backs. So it became a rare occurrence.

Adam ordered the little silver robot to start attacking, knowing that if his robot got hit by that gun, he would definitely lose.

with the blades still stuck to its chest, tentacles attached to its shoulders and head, the little silver robot bolted towards the yellow robot like a missile.

Reaching its target in a blink of an eye, the silver robot didn’t punch, it didn’t kick, and it didn’t slow down either, it just rammed it with its entire body.

The yellow robot was sent flying, Unable to react, partially due to the shock from the explosive speed of the silver robot, and because of the rail gun which impairs its movement when created, after being rammed by the little silver robot, it smashed into the arena wall.

Parts of its outer shell shattered, the entire internal structure was damaged, it started Regenerating itself, pulling the small parts that flew away, but it didn’t have enough chance for repair.

The little silver colored robot didn’t slow down at all, it reached the devastated robot trying to repair itself leaning on the wall, and smashed it a second time, this time it broke into pieces between the wall and the heavy little silver Golem.

The spectators started cheering for the little Golem, some of them complaining about the unfair fight, some others making a fuss about the legality of the blueprint used. But all cheers and complaints stopped for a moment as the name of the winner appeared on the screen above the arena, (Stickman) every one was startled by the naming, it didn’t only look simple and lazily designed, the name was also simple and lazily picked.

The cheers continued when they noticed the Stickman leaving the arena without collecting the cluster fabric.

In the hard mode of the robot fights, the losing core gets destroyed, which means that the fabric returns to its super state, its pure form, and it loses the imprint. so the winner gets to keep the loser’s cluster fabric.

Not many people joining the hard mode would choose to leave the free cluster fabric on the floor for the loser to get it back. Some people even joins the hard mode to collect more fabric, as the fabric is usually more expensive than the core itself.

Leaving without collecting the loser’s fabric is considered either a respect to the fighter, or an insult telling them they are not worth the effort, based on the situation.

And based on the way that the stickman toyed with its opponent, it was considered the latter.

“You won! That was amazing!” Mela said after recovering from the shock, she thought that Adam is going to lose because his robot malfunctioned and stopped responding.

“Of course I did!” Adam bragged. “Did you think I’ll lose?!” he pretended to be angry looking at Mela, while finishing up the pasta he was eating.

“I thought you were too lazy to make a decent design, so it broke!” Mela reasoned. “And who is too lazy to even choose a proper name?! I mean stickman! I could have chosen a better name for you if you asked me!” she teased Adam for the name.

“I’m not lazy! I just don’t care!” he casually said. “would you like to get some fabric? I can loot the next guy for you!” he asked her seriously.

“I don’t have a core! And I don’t think mom will get me one!” she answered with a saddened look on her face.

“I’ll get you one then! A good one too! A gift.” Adam promised her with a serious look on his face, he didn’t know If his plan would work or not, if it didn’t work he might need to escape the city and go search for his father.

He would never let him self be captured by any one again, he is no longer weak and there would be no other choice but to escape if they refused to leave him alone.

Mela was excited, she couldn’t help smiling. “You don’t have to do that!” she said, her expression and smile not matching her words.

The next few matches passed uneventful, and the real contest was about to begin. When a man appeared in front of Mela and Adam. “Hi! My name is Demetri, from the tower! Can I ask you some questions about the man who approached you earlier?!” said a black hair white skinned man, wearing a dark gold jacket, to Mela who was startled from his sudden appearance, she hid herself behind Adam.

“Are you insane sir?!” Adam casually addressed the tower official, making his eyes twitch. “This little girl just experienced a traumatic event, and you appear suddenly in front of her to further traumatize her like that?! Are you new in your job?! I’ll be reporting this, I have it recorded.” Adam spoke like an old, experienced lawyer, threatening an inexperienced officer.

He has the entire law inside his head now transmitted by the symbiote. raw information was easier to tolerate , than whole experiences that requires comprehension and time. so the symbiote filtered the information and transmitted it to his head when he ordered the Assassination of that criminal, he would eventually take this step to use the loophole that would allow him to escape from the residence management department.

“How old are you kid?!” Demetri gave Adam a disdainful look, he is being lectured by a kid, and what’s worst, is that the kid is right.

“Old enough to stand against you in the court with a few lawyers backing me up.” Adam returned the glance, staring right into his eyes. “Now take a few steps back, and address the situation properly.” He ordered the older man.

Mela seeing the older man following Adam’s instructions, her fear of the man lessened.

“Based on my cli… companion’s statement, the man attempted luring her to follow him for some gain, when the stranger man saw my friend Jerry over there coming, he ran away.” Adam pointed at Jerry, thanking him again internally, he planned to make him the hero from the beginning, hence his gratitude earlier.

“Any further questions will be irrelevant, for the park is heavily monitored, and you can easily extract the confrontation from sector D25’s observation room.” Adam said crossing his hands and giving the tower official a stare down.

Demetri cursed himself for taking this case, he is a fan of Perla Brinlin’s work, and he wished to meet her in person. His plan was ruined by this evil child. A notification on the screen attached to his wrist knocked him out of his shock, and saved him from any further embarrassment, and made leave hastily.

“Lets go home Mela, we can play in the system core room.” Adam calmly said, holding Mela’s hand and preparing to leave.

“what about the contest?! You could join the professional games if you win!” Mela said, tugging on Adam’s hand, she was excited to watch his battle and she wanted to watch more.

“who cares about the stupid contest, we can go fight robots ourselves in the core area, wouldn’t that be better!” The real reason Adam wanted to go home, is because he knew that this place will be swarmed by peace keepers in a few minutes.

The tower officials just discovered a criminal organization hiding under their nose, and as if this isn’t enough, the press was notified about this information, that left them no choice but to declare a state of emergency, and start acting against the criminals.

“This organization was involved in illegal trading, kidnapping, murder, human trafficking, prostitution, they didn’t leave any crime out sir!” said the young tower observer scratching his chin. “This is either an inside job! Or a rival organization, in both cases, we have someone out there with the power and tech to infiltrate our system!”

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