(Heartfelt thanks to 'Xuan Yuan Wu Qing ol', 'Hua Na Nai Luo', and 'Long Lian Qingxue' for their rewards!)
—Silence.
—Deathly silence.
Throughout the vast passageway, the mechanical soldiers were either frozen stiff, their minds completely blank, or sprawled on the ground, unconscious. Only Howaki Takuto's screams continued to echo, making every mechanical soldier tremble.
His Excellency was trembling as well.
"How is this possible..." His Excellency murmured in a trembling voice.
"The mechanical soldiers Professor Grunewald modified, more than a dozen mechanical soldiers, were actually all..."
All defeated in a single move!
The close-combat mechanical soldiers had been wiped out!
The long-range mechanical soldiers' attacks had all been neutralized!
Even Howaki Takuto's prosthetic limb had been effortlessly shattered by Noah, turning into unbearable pain that assaulted Howaki Takuto's mind and made him scream repeatedly.
"How is this possible..." His Excellency was utterly shocked.
"How is this possible..."
If mechanical soldiers could be defeated so easily, then what had been the point of the Five Wings Society spending such an enormous sum to have Grunewald create so many of them?
"Uwaaaaaaaah—!"
Unaware of His Excellency's shock, Howaki Takuto clutched his severed arm and let out an incomparably miserable scream.
That scream was simply too shrill, as though he were suffering some immense agony. Howaki Takuto nearly shed tears.
Of course, Howaki Takuto's body was almost entirely mechanized. Aside from his head, every other part merely looked human—it was not truly human.
Therefore, Howaki Takuto did not need to eat. He only needed sleep to let his brain rest, and naturally, he had not been given such humanized modifications as tear glands.
Because of that, Howaki Takuto could not even cry.
Yet his mechanized body was still capable of transmitting pain.
"Even the pain nerves were connected to the mechanical body.