Heart of the Machine: A Humorous Isekai LitRPG (Terminate the Other World! Book 4) by Icalos

Author:Icalos [Icalos]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Podium Publishing
Published: 2024-12-10T00:00:00+00:00

In the forests near Castra Turannia, two shadows shot through the trees. The light of the sun glinted off of wicked blades as they passed one another. A light clang rang through the forest as they each landed on the ground, their backs turned to one another. A single leaf fell through the air between them, cut perfectly in half.

On the one side was the former Exploratore Hostus, still in his state-issued cloak, though with his Exploratores pin removed. Sweat dripped down his neck as he tried to steady his breathing. His hands trembled as he gripped his sword and turned to face his opponent, hoping to see her corpse.

He scowled. His opponent stood entirely unharmed. She stared at him with a predatory gaze and a smirk, swaying back and forth as she watched him with mirth.

Hostus gritted his teeth. First, that jerk Tiberius had tried to shortchange and humiliate him, after all he had done to help that ungrateful idiot! Then, all his so-called friends had abandoned him when he’d tried to get justice for himself. Then the stupid Empire had tried to arrest him as a traitor!

He’d already said it: it wasn’t his fault Caelinus had tricked everyone into joining a rebellion! And so, he’d run off into the wilderness. If society would reject him, then he would reject society! He’d become a bandit king, conquer this stupid province, kill that idiot Tiberius, and show the Empire he meant business!

But then he’d run into this adversary. And try as he might, he couldn’t kill her. He had barely avoided death on that last pass. If this kept up, he might not next time.

Just then, his opponent turned away. She began to clean her weapons—with her tongue. Hostus’s face twisted through several horrid expressions. She was looking down on him! This stupid … cat was looking down on him! He’d kill her!

The cat finished cleaning her paws before finally turning her head as he rushed toward her. She meowed softly as she dug her paws into the dirt and launched herself toward him. She seemed to vanish as she swooped past.

There was another clang as man and cat appeared on opposite sides of each other. They stood in silence for a moment, and then blood spurted from Hostus’s neck.

The cat didn’t bother turning around as the man fell to the ground. She licked her paws before shaking her head. She’d really thought a human soldier would be better than that, but honestly, she knew rats that were faster!

But she smirked to herself. It couldn’t be helped, after all. She was nature’s perfect killing machine. She had grown overconfident, complacent in her might, and that was why she had been humiliated.

But now?

Now she had thrown herself back into training and battle, no longer content to prey upon the weak but to demonstrate why she was the epitome of violence. She had battled the monsters of the wild, and reigned supreme. Now, not even the humans, not even the so-called apex predators could stand against her.

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