Infinite Dendrogram: Volume 9 by Sakon Kaidou

Author:Sakon Kaidou [KAIDOU, SAKON]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2019-03-18T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight: The Primeval Sword

The Lynx, Tom Cat

“Huff... huff... It’s not quite like the original, but Flagman actually weaponized Red King’s power! Just how absurd is that guy...?”

Standing in the mountains a short distance away from ground zero, I panted heavily and cursed Acra-Vesta’s creator. I’d lost count of how many times his weapons had given us serious trouble.

And most of the time, I’m the one who has to take care of them. The others should run into them more often, I thought peevishly.

“This one’s way more complete than the one we broke six hundred years agooo,” I pondered aloud. “Self-developing weapons really are too dangerous to ignooore. If it became a UBM, Jabberwock could set some vectors on its powers, but we can’t count on that happening...”

Acra-Vesta couldn’t become a UBM. Though that had happened to Edelvalsa, another one of Flagman’s weapons, the circumstances here were different.

Edelvalsa had been a standalone bioweapon designed to operate by itself, while Acra-Vesta was a legged tank paired with an airship. They were weapons that could be piloted, but which were operating on auto right now — as intended.

There may have been some sort of code to override it and make it obey people again, but Flagman was probably the only one who’d ever known it.

Prism People couldn’t work unless owned by humans, and Acra-Vesta was the same in that regard. It was still being used by someone and thus couldn’t become a UBM... or even a normal monster, for that matter.

Others’ possessions couldn’t be made to evolve — this was a safety that Jabberwock’s Master had set on him, and there was no way to go around it.

“What do we do nowww...?” I wondered.

My base position on the situation was the same as it had been back in the ruins: we’d wait until compatible Superiors came around and destroyed it.

Just two Superiors — one to counter Space Fixation and another one for Space Dilution — would be enough... Actually, Xunyu could probably solo them both. Distance didn’t matter to her, after all.

However, Acra-Vesta was on a whole different course than before. If it went southwards, bombing everything in its path, Altar’s map would change drastically.

“Well, I guess I should be glad it didn’t copy Red King’s offensive abilities, tooo,” I muttered. “Seriously, good thing it’s just the defense...”

If it’d been the full package, the damage would’ve been a lot worse than just a changed map.

“Northern Altar would be destroyed before any Superiors came,” I muttered. “And we have... only one way to prevent it...”

I knew the original behind those space manipulation powers, so I knew the counters, as well, and it just so happened that a couple of them were right here in Quartierlatin.

A couple of people in town would stand a chance against Acra-Vesta, despite not being Superiors.

The chances of them actually pulling it off were astronomically low, but they would be capable of breaking through both Acra’s absolute defense and Vesta’s vast vacuum, ultimately destroying them.

“Pulling it off is about as likely as tightrope walking on a cotton thread, but it’s something,” I pondered.

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