BIOLOGICAL SUPERCOMPUTER SYSTEM C.1091: Levium (8)

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Surrounded by hundreds of enemy soldiers, Erik was starting to feel fatigued.

He kept fighting for no longer than 40 minutes, but the sheer number of enemies was too overwhelming.

Between the energy blasts and hurtling debris, he was sure he avoided tens of thousands of attacks, but not all of them.

The blackguards seemed to have called for the elite of the world to catch him. These guys had insane levels of mana, and their attacks were devastating.

Erik was fast, strong, and powerful, but he wasn't omnipotent. He couldn't move so fast as to avoid droplets of rain, and that was exactly how dense the attacks on him were.

Two, three, four attacks landed, then hundreds. If it wasn't for his Force Bastion, and his Self- healing brain crystal powers, he would have never lasted that long.

The system gave him mana when he leveled up, but at this point, it wasn't easy to get levels. In fact, the young man only got eight of them. Years ago, he would have said he gained a ton, but in such a situation, it wasn't enough.

Erik had to kill 1,000 people to get these eight levels. In truth, Erik had killed more than simply a thousand individuals, but even if he did, it was just a tiny drop into the ocean of soldiers that were trying to kill him.

Fleeing wasn't even possible because the blackguards had not only Veritas Lenses on their side but even other kinds of brain crystal powers that allowed them to pinpoint his location.

But in truth, Erik was too fast for them to get him. The real reason he didn't leave, and that was actually forcing him to do so, was that he didn't want to. It was his choice.

He had no intention of letting Uncle Benjamin leave. In fact, Erik mostly kept to the areas where the older man was and often tried to ambush him.

Erik never landed a single scratch on him because the bastard did everything in his power to make his defense absolute.

First, he kept people with the Veritas lenses in a kilometer radius around him. Surrounding uncle Benjamin were from one to two thousand soldiers, which he was keeping flying with his telekinesis. Uncle Benjamin created an unpenetrable dome made of people, and these all had utility and ranged brain crystal powers.

Detecting him was the first thing they did, and the second was to unleash hell on him. A wild swing of a sword arrived at Erik.

He was fighting against another group of enemy soldiers, and they weren't weak either. But no one really was on this battlefield.

Erik avoided the slash and struck back with devastating force, his fists, feet, and powers lashing out as if they were made by a titan.

Bones shattered and bodies crumpled beneath his onslaught, the blackguards falling before him like wheat before a scythe.

But he achieved nothing concrete.

[LEVEL UP.]

Erik knew he had to keep moving. He delivered one last powerful attack, knocking six soldiers into the air and ending them with some wind blades. Then he jumped up, changing his shape as he did so.

He turned into a tiny insect once again and flew away from the battle. He was looking for a safe spot where he could plan his next move. But he knew he couldn't stay there for long, because the blackguards would find him.

Erik flew into a narrow alley. He doubted they would find him there for the time being, provided he kept well hidden.

The surrounding buildings had many holes and burn marks from the fierce fighting. Erik had already been there. In fact, there were charred bodies and body parts scattered everywhere. <This is madness,> Erik thought to himself. <They really are hell bent on catching me, aren't they? Well, if that happens, I will simply kill myself. The biological supercomputer said it would find a new host and that I would turn into another biological supercomputer myself. There is no fucking way I'm going to leave the system to them.>

But that was easier said than done. Erik knew well that even if he killed himself, with the many people here, the system was bound to take a new host among the blackguards, but that wasn't all.

The system said he would be turned into a biological supercomputer, yes, but how much of his free will would remain?

Yes, the system acted like a person a lot of times since he told it to speak like one, but did the biological supercomputer follow directions and orders? Could it decide for itself what to do? Could it decide the host? Was there something else it could do but serve someone?

He thought about Uncle Benjamin. <Brute force isn't working. I need to be smarter and more strategic. What would the fucker do in this situation? No, scratch that. What would he least expect me to do?>

But the answer was simple. There were two choices for him. One was to attack; uncle Benjamin expected Erik to be overtaken by emotions, which he was, in truth, and that was shown by the fact he kept around the older man, just to try to kill him.

However, Erik was sure Uncle Benjamin wasn't just going to rely on that to kill Erik. He had to have something else prepared to get him.

The other thing Erik could do was to call for reinforcements. The problem was, did Levium think he was alone here? Of course not. If the Chimaeric Demons were not here yet, it meant Levium sent someone to stall them.

Uncle Benjamin didn't know the Chimaeric Demons were the result of his powers, and even if he did, he wouldn't know how fast the clones could be made.

The problem was that if he expected Erik to ask for reinforcements, it really meant he had something else in mind to deal with this.

Erik thought again at his approach. Until now, he fought in the first line while waiting for the Chimaeric Demons. But what if he didn't?

<I need to use their numbers against them. Create chaos and confusion. Maybe I can trick them into fighting each other?> He paused.

<Hey! This is actually a great idea. The only problem is...>

It was that if Erik used instability to turn as mad as possible at those around him, unless he kept the battle close to himself, which would give away his position, he wouldn't be able to level up, and that meant being unable to refill his mana.

Erik moved onto a wider street and scanned the area for enemies. He spotted another group of blackguards ahead with more soldiers from the various countries they asked for help from.

There were hundreds of enemy fighters around, searching everywhere-looking up at the sky and down at the streets-trying to find Erik.

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