Mystical Journey

As the afternoon passed, the sky dimmed and the sun glowed upon the grassland, dyeing everything in golden red.

At night, the lights on three Mechs shook like they were high-speed floating cars.

In the morning, a flock of mutated birds flew across the sky.

Anda feebly turned around and took a glance; that dragon-headed humanoid Mech was still there.

"…This guy… won't get tired?"

"Fun! Hahahaha...!" Ice Dragon's refreshed laughter came from the back. "It's been a long time since I last had such a marathon exercise, Hahahaha!!! One two one! One two one! One two one…"

This guy even started yelling cadence calls.

"My God!" Anda slapped his forehead. "This guy is a psycho! I was running a one-night marathon with a psychopath all along?"

Suddenly, Ice Dragon seemed to have received some sort of message while sitting in his cockpit. His face that had been all smiles a moment ago suddenly frowned.

"What is this! What a bummer! Even though I was able to meet with such a fun guy," he curled his lips and touched his chin.

"I say, Fourth, you're someone who's going to break through the Seventh Non-falling Level. Is it okay to play house with a mere Level Five?"

A white-haired man at the corner of the screen said helplessly.

"How about just killing them off?" Ice Dragon touched his chin, his eyes suddenly flashed with an intent to kill.

"Forget it, you still have to go back and change to another Mech before you can do it, as for Fila's problem, let him handle it. If he can't even handle this kind of problem, he doesn't have the qualification to be the Fifth. However, it's not that Second brother likes to lecture you, but you are so emotional and you always do things based on your mood, it makes people very uncomfortable! We can't even find you when we need you."

"Second, this is your mistake. I, Ice Dragon, have always obeyed the arrangements of my superior. I've always listened to what they said," Ice Dragon laughed.

"I said don't call me Second[1]!" the white-haired man's face twitched.

"Second, you have always been second, if I don't call you Second, do I call you second younger brother?" Ice Dragon feigned a frightened expression. "Second younger brother, what happened to you!? Second younger brother!"

"I say…Fourth…," the white-haired man closed his eyes as the veins on his forehead bulged. "I am your second elder brother! Not your second younger brother!"

"Is two bigger than four?" Ice Dragon was surprised. "My number is bigger than yours, why can't I call you second younger brother?" suddenly his expression changed, "Un… unless you want me to call you… second elder sister?!"

Boom!

The sound of the screen bursting came from the other side.

"Don't stop me, I'm going to kill him!! Kill him!!!" the sound of Second raging came on and off.

The screen was completely dark now.

Ice Dragon stroked his chin.

"Second, you really have a mental problem… from narcissism to transsexuality… huu…" he shuddered. "Now that I've realized the fact that I had lived with a pervert under the same roof; that was dangerous!"

Suddenly, his expression changed.

"Unless the reason that the First made him the Second is… because…he doesn't have 'Second'!!?? [2]"

His expression changed rapidly.

"It's over, it's over, it's over!! Living together for so many years, has my chastity been long gone??"

This guy was totally a psycho, talking to himself. He completely did not notice that although the screen had turned dark, sounds could still be transmitted.

"F***!! Ice Dragon, if you dare to come back, I'm going to f****** kill you!!!" Second, on the other side, had totally blown his top. The surrounding people were trying to calm him.

"Be honest, Second! Have you ever done anything to my chastity! Be honest!" Ice Dragon's expression had turned gloomy.

Boom!

The screen had totally turned black and no sound came out again.

"Sure enough… silence means that you admit it!" Ice Dragon shivered. "I didn't think that I'd recognize your true nature now! Second, you truly are a pervert!" he shouted to the sky.

"I was only five years old at that time! Five years old!!! Yet you had the heart to do this!!"

Two lines of tears flowed out from his eyes.

"Er… sir, you seemed to have been seven years old when you joined the organization…" the voice of his subordinate inside the headset could not help but remind him.

"Er… seven years old? Did I remember it wrong?" Ice Dragon wiped away his tears. With doubt in his eyes, he seemed to have finally recalled something and rubbed his temples. "A lot of people said that my brain has problems, does my brain really have problems?"

"How could it be!? Sir, your brain is number one in the world, how could there be a problem, anyone can remember things wrongly! You have nothing to worry about!" the subordinate quickly comforted him.

"Really?" Ice Dragon stroked his chin. Looking at the two people running in front, he suddenly felt down-hearted.

"Forget it forget it, all of you go back, I have to properly check the problem concerning my chastity. These two should be solved by Fila, that brat, himself."

"Yes, sir."

Ice Dragon did not say another word. He turned around and ran, looking as though he was a murderer that was escaping.

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Hu…hu…hu…

Anda and Garen were breathing heavily.

Let alone Anda who was tired like hell, even Garen, who possessed extraordinary physique, was tired. They had endured a long-distance marathon that, while consuming Willpower to support the Mech to escape, had lasted nearly two days one night. Even if his recovery was astounding, his mind was exhausted.

It was evening again and two Mechs was lying down on the grass, disregarding any image they had. The two people in the cockpit completely relaxed their bodies to recover themselves rapidly.

"That madman is finally gone!" Anda was very weak now. With severe thirst and hunger, on top of exhaustion of his Willpower and body, he had two dark circles under his eyes now. He had lost weight and looked like a skeleton now.

Garen was still the same except that his body and Willpower were exhausted.

"That guy is probably an expert of Full-Moon Level, we were lucky to be able to escape," he took deep breaths and quickly exhaled in a rhythmic way.

"What do we do now?" Anda had decided to follow Garen all the way.

"What to do? We fly straight to Flying Batoid City," Garen calmly got up from the ground. "Let me give you a suggestion. That dragon-headed Mech was actually playing around with you. The next time you see him, escape right away."

Anda gave a wry smile and also struggled to stand up.

The two of them stood up and looked far away at the sky where two white spots appeared. Astounding killing intent came out from the white spots.

One of them was Windling's Mech that was hunting Anda. With her arms crossed and her Mech straight, she was rushing towards this side.

The other one was a Mech as white as a jade that did not conceal the fluctuation on its body, which exceeded Level Five. Although it exceeded Level Five, it had yet to reach Inherited Level but was somewhere in between.

Looking closely, they could see that this Shining Mech had been specially modified. Although it was not an Exclusive Mech, it was not a simple Shining Mech either.

"Windling, you dare to collude with the White Light's terrorist organization!" Anda saw them and roared while trying to suppress the tremble in his heart.

"Collusion?" Windling sneered. "After killing you guys, no one will know about this relationship right?"

"It's for real this time," Garen whispered. He had abandoned one-fourth of the Mastery Energy Ores. It would not greatly affect the Mech's performance now which was about 80% of its total strength. It was just that there was no way to use the Black Wind now. Originally, he was supposed to wait for one hour for his body to recover, but due to his continuous usage previously, both his arms were now injured. He estimated that before he recovered, there was no way for him to use Black Wind.

This kind of injuries on his body had been recovered by Garen using the Potential points once. It had been effective and the wound had closed up, but the strange thing was that he still could not use Black Wind. He did not know what other place had been injured that even Potential points could not completely repair.

Black Wind was not available, thus he could only use the ordinary Ten Thousand True Technique to go against opponents. If they had some strong special skills, then it was going to be tough for them.

Although the Ten Thousand True Technique was very useful for Mechs, when it encountered some strange special skills or those resonance skills, the outcome would be hard to predict. There were a lot of special skills and resonance skills in this world that were totally unreasonable and strong to an unbelievable extent.

For combat techniques like Crouched Eagle Talon, it was sufficient when facing common Mech pilots, but to deal with opponents such as those in front of them, they would just die faster.

Perhaps Professor Van Doe had some matching battle skills but for whatever reasons, he did not give them out. Garen could only use his own set first.

"Anda, if you don't want to die then throw away part of the Mastery Energy Ore," Garen directly send a message over.

"I've long thrown them away…," Anda gave a wry smile. "Or else I would've been caught by that Madman."

"…How much did you throw away?"

"Half of them…"

Both of them had treasures on them. If they just went all out and clashed with them, they were both reluctant so they had to think of a way to escape.

"Do you have any idea?" Garen saw that the other parties were approaching and asked. His heart had also grown tense. His intuition told him that the two in front of them were not like the ones playing around. The two in front of them were here to kill them!

"What Level can you handle? That Windling is a New Moon Level Five."

"I don't know, but I should barely get by," Garen had seen the power of resonance skills, having tested in the inner courtyard. When he had the nameless Level Five Willpower, he had been able to cope and delay for a while. Now that he was Level Five in Crouched Eagle Talon, he reckoned that he could barely get a draw at most.

"The other one is also New Moon Level Five. It's getting troublesome now," Anda gave a bitter smile. "If we really cannot do it, then let's just throw away the Mastery Energy Ore and escape."

The problem now was that the other side was more powerful than them, and they themselves were weighed down by the Mastery Energy Ores causing their combat capabilities to diminish. If they really fought, there was no way to keep the Mastery Energy Ores safe. There was no use in having money if they lost their lives trying to secure it.

Of course, using the ore as bait to lure and delay the other party in order to escape was no problem. However, this meant that the dangers they went through these days were all in vain and they gained nothing.

The problem now was that they would have to throw away the ores to keep their lives, and keeping the ores meant throwing away their lives.

Garen did not have the confidence to fight such strong opponents under the condition that his Mech could not perform fully. However, he had decided that once the fight broke out, he would immediately drop all the ores and lure them to pick them up while he escaped.

Compared to his life, materialistic gains were something that he could get again. However, throwing away so many Mastery Energy Ores, the progress to building his own Exclusive Mech would return to zero. He would have to search for sufficient resources again and after reaching Energy Machinist Level One, and he also needed a large number of resources to build his Biochemical Pool and test lab. The Energy Machinist was an occupation that burnt a lot of money. He did not know how long it would take to build a suitable Biochemical Station even if he saved up his millions of Units income every month.