Lilim Heritage Online 165 New Pilots for Prometheus? - Part 3

Mia got to the office as usual, and he met with Brim and Sebastian.

Sebastian and Brim spent diamonds on buying the Psionic Link skill from the VIP shop. However, Sebastian was smarter since he had bought VIP10 first, then he purchased the skill book at half the price.

Although he spent a total of 30,000 diamonds, borrowed and loaned from others, he had opportunities to regain them by offering himself to be a middle man for others. After all, there were still many mutants who wished to buy daily packages, but they could not.

When Brim realized that he could have used someone with VIP10 status to buy the item with only 10,000 diamonds, he cried.

"I should have talked with you first … Boohoo."

Sebastian snickered and patted Brim, consoling him.

"Look at it on the bright side. Now, many girls will be gunning for you to be their husband."

"That's not it. I lost 10,000 diamonds for ignoring this face. Waa!"

Sam, Brim's eggcat partner, transformed one of his tentacles into a pan shape and smacked him on his head.

*Meowmow!* (Have some dignity! You got what you want, so you should be proud of it!)

"Ow, but that's the truth!"

*Meow Mow!* (Never regret if you invest into a permanent skill or knowledge! Education never fails!)

Looking at Brim and Sebastian, Mia was relieved. At least, there would be two Prometheus robots guarding this shelter. As for the other three, it would become a competition of who could gather enough diamonds first.

'Should I just give diamonds to Sebastian, and let him buy three more skill books?'

Mia did not have to wait long. Seth, the captain of this base's only air-force, came to Sebastian with 15,000 diamonds.

"Senior, can you buy me the skill book? I'll give you 5,000 diamonds as a commission fee."

Sebastian laughed and bought it for Seth, "Are you buying it, so you can enhance your squad?"

"Indeed. My squad's firepower is lacking. If we can amplify our psychic powers using one of those mechs, my units will be safer in WW III."

"Good, we're counting on you."

Now, they got the third pilot, which was an elite demi-human captain.

Every free mech was taken, which disappointed all ambitious pilots. Still, many female pilots eyed at Brim and Seth with a desire, planning to seduce them later.

Also, on the same day, Mia received his long-awaited news.

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[Dear Mr. Mia Uriel,

Thank you for the contribution of your blood samples. We have adjusted your character's privilege to VIP10 and transferred our payment to Fleet Admiral Min Uriel to fulfill our contract.

We hope that Uriel Family can continue to cooperate with our Milky Way's agents and protect our galaxy.

Sincerely, Fleet Admiral Biden Raphael]

Mia flinched when he read the name of the sender. It was the son of Fleet Admiral Raphael, who had attempted to help Mia when he was still being a test subject for Fluke and Gabriel.

There was also a postscript.

[PS: Don't worry about what happened in the Putinof Colony years ago. I know the truth.]

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At Mafdet City, there were changes.

All of the student players in Mafdet City, except Felia, gave up playing the game since betting their life in a war was not a good idea.

Felia, though, wanted to raise her power by consuming hydras and monsters. She remained in the game, playing along with MWG and Prayut.

Maple, Aria, and the other pilot regrouped in the city. Then logged out to report their failure to their bosses in a different dimension.

Before Maple had logged out, she noticed Felia's presence, which gave her a clue that the other conscience of hers was here as well. However, she did not contact the other fairy overlord as it might blow her cover.

Joan threw her tantrum as usual, threatening Prayut that they would excommunicate them and stop supplying their new robots.

As Prayut planned to drain MWG's supplies, he pretended to be her subordinate, bowing to her whimsical will without showing his temper.

However, his torturing days would soon be over soon. As Prayut pretended to serve Joan, he sent his psionic link message to one of his sons.

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Shelter 87, the underground hideout of demi-hydras.

The mole that Prayut had planted here was his second son, Anutin N. Cha. Unlike the local demi-hydras, the major population of this base, he was a special dragonewt, just like Misha, Sebastian, and Shurka.

He was a gale dragonewt, which specialized in quick movements, wind manipulation, and air compression. Not only he had the toughness of a dragonewt, but Anutin's agility was on par with regular demi-hydras.

His prowess alone won the trust of the castellan of Shelter 87. Anutin had the authority to use the base's missile silo or mobilize the base's air force at will.

Shelter 87 was different than Sebastian's colony since it stored two ICBMs, which could potentially wipe a couple of cities from the world map. Because of their nuclear warhead existence, Crystal became obstinate to not turning their anti-nuke iron cannon satellite offline.

In the missile silo of Shelter 87, Anutin burnt the paper, which held secret messages from Llamador.

'Dumb spy. He's getting too active that it's too easy to notice. Sooner or later, these hungry hydras will turn you into livestock.'

As Anutin was complaining in his mind, he received a telepathic call from his father. Since Anutin utilized this method to report his job, his facial expression remained indifferent.

[Son, I need you to provoke your base against Shelter88 into an all-out-war.]

'Why, all of a sudden?'

[A change of plans. I think shelter 88 had a deal with a three-headed hydra and a queen ant monster. Sebastian worked with them and stole the otherworlder's robots from us. I need you to get rid of these threats before they can use the robots.]

'That's a tall order. We'll have to launch our nukes if we engage a three-headed hydra. We will also suffer major losses if we go toe to toe with an ant monster colony.'

[I'll disable their satellite from here. Can you do it?]

'They have 3 satellites, pops. One surveillance sat, and two iron cannons. Can you hack all of them at once?'

[At best, we'll disable one iron cannon. The other one might disable one of your missiles, but the other will connect if you shoot two at the same time.]

'Alright. Then, the hydra issue is settled. What about the robots? From what I heard, aren't those things esper robots? They can amplify pilots' power, right? It's possible that one of the robots can negate our ICBMs.'

[Don't worry about those mechs. I doubt Sebastian can use the psionic link. I'm only concerned about the otherworlder brat that he will obstruct us again. Last time, he killed my pet and devastated the city. I need him out of the picture.]

'Tell me everything about Shelter 88's manpower and their forces.'

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Chonburi Base.

This base used to be lively and populated with outlaws, criminals, and mutants. However, this place became a ghost town after one man stepped his feet into the city.

A serial killer wandered through a desolate street, looking for prey. He stopped walking when he reached a nightclub.

Red neon light blinked, illuminating a path to Dove, who could not see in the dark.

Dove kicked the door open, revealing the inside of the nightclub.

It was abandoned.

Dove treaded the deserted building as he scanned through the interior.

The tables and chairs were clean and arranged in order as if the bar had operated recently. The bar counter was also filled with various home-made liquors and remnants of the peaceful-day products.

While Dove was admiring the old civilization, a demi-hydra jumped at Dove from behind.

An ice spike extended from the ground, impaling the attacker's chest as he was still in mid-air.

The demi-hydra glared at Dove in resentment.

'Fucking … psycho!'

Dove turned around. His right hand manifested an ice blade.

He beheaded the victim, "No harsh feeling. I'm trying to survive here."

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Dove sighed, 'It's getting hard to find someone to kill. It took me a whole day to find one mutant.'

He turned off all game notification and looked at his VIP4 HUD map, checking the layout of this building.

Upon seeing the underground warehouse, Dove made his way to the hidden room.

As he got inside, a mountain of dried food and canned food were stored there, along with a trembling pair of two people.

One was a daoist in a black t-shirt and jeans while the other one was a young mutant girl with short hair.

They were Mr. PISS and Mana.

"P-Please spare us, sir. You can have everything here, including the girl. Please spare me!"

Mana did not say anything. She gulped and prepared for the worse.

At worst, she might be violated and killed. At best, she would die quickly.

Dove glanced between the two. He tapped his feet on the floor, and an ice spear extended from the ground, piercing through Igor's butt and exited through his head.

The eggcat inside Igor jumped off his body, but Dove impaled it with another ice spear.

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He turned toward the little girl.

"It's been a while since I last saw a girl at your age."

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Mana stared back at Dove, waiting for her turn.

*Nya* (I'm scared, Mana.)

"… I'm sorry, Manee. It's the end of the road."

*Nyaa!* (I don't want to die! This spy job sucks!)

"I know."

Mana shed her tears for the first time in a decade.

Meanwhile, Dove glanced at Mana and Manee's tentacle eye. Then, he turned toward food storage.

Dove muttered, "I need an assistant."

Mana widened her eyes.

"Work for me or die. Pick one."

Mana wiped her tears, "I'll work for you!"

Dove nodded. He tossed a healing potion and a loaf of bread to Mana.

"This is your pay. I'll give you ten of these plus daily food each month. Help me locate food storages or warehouses like this one."

"O-Okay!"

*Nya!* (Yes, sir!)

Mana stood up, trying to find a bag or a container to gather all the food in this storage room. However, Dove already opened his VIP5 inventory and collected everything.

She stared at the space inventory in astonishment.

"Wow."

*Nyow!* (Wow!)

Dove raised his eyebrows after he had noticed Mana's stare.

"This is space inventory. All food and necessary items are with me. Help me collect more, okay?"

Chapter end