The Blood Spider's only remaining hollow metal shell completed its resurrection right under the Brain Exploder's nose.
Buzz--
A faint electric arc leaped between the severed wires, like the sting of nerve endings. Charred energy residue flaked away, revealing newly grown alloy tissue beneath.
They spread along the cracks like liquid silver, sealing them. The armor fragments trembled, drawn by an invisible force, and reassembled.
Click, click--
The gears began to turn. The sluggish bearings regained their smoothness through nanoscale repairs. Hydraulic pipes swelled, coolant began flowing again, broken bones were reshaped, and metal fibers twisted tight like muscles, reinforcing themselves.
The Blood Spider raised its head. Its shattered visual sensors flickered several times before refocusing—the flames in its eye sockets ignited, shifting from dark red to blazing white before finally becoming burning red!
It rose to its feet. Its armor plates closed again, and its energy core thundered like a heartbeat.
And in the Blood Spider's hand was the other's spine-shaped special weapon.
Why does an NPC have a resurrection mechanic too?
No, more accurately, how does this guy's resurrection have no side effects at all?
The Brain Exploder was utterly baffled.
He had fought plenty of bosses. Basically, every time one of them defeated a major boss, the cyber hackers had to handle the cleanup—in precise terms, hack into its damaged systems, find the backup method it had prepared, and then destroy it.
But in the current situation, the other side did not seem to be some kind of backup. It seemed more like—reinstalling the system?
The Brain Exploder keenly noticed that the other side had not recovered 100 percent. At least some extremely dangerous Constructs, such as the Godslayer Set and external plugins, had not returned.
What had recovered were only the modules related to its "biological