Lilim Heritage Online 170 Prayut Hunting - Part 2

"Are you sure Mia will be alright without a mech?"

Crystal was concerned about Mia not taking Prometheus with him.

Thorn snickered, "He'll be fine. Sebastian's mech will be there shortly. Don't forget that they can pilot that mech together."

"It's still a risky move, though. Why did he go there without waiting for others?"

"… They're his children, Crystal. Those are Mia's Son's and Daughter's. I think it's parents' love. He can't allow his children to fight and die alone."

"…"

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Thorn was not wrong about his guess, but he was not right, either.

Mia decided to come without his mech because of his inseminator's passive buff to Tiny and his children's status. With him around the blue ants, their survivability would improve.

The more ant soldiers surviving the fight, the more chances that they would evolve.

Also, Mia wanted to get all the diamonds and carcasses of his dead ant children. Their diamonds represented their soul that Mia was unwilling to let them get stolen by other people.

Furthermore, Mia could loot dead bodies with his inventory. All corpses, including human bodies, were collected into game items.  

Human corpses were useful to Mia. Although demi-humans and dragonewts refused to eat humans, his children, Tiny, and B sisters could consume them to increase their status attributes and levels.

Also, dragonewts and mutants could gain status attributes by eating his children.

Mia's morals slowly degraded as he continued living as a monster and being together with his monster wives.

'As I thought, collecting diamonds by myself is faster than collecting them when I'm inside a cockpit.'

By standing in the range of 100 meters of the dead bodies, Mia could collect everything into his VIP inventory. Items turned into small icons and numbers as they stacked into item slots. Body parts were dismembered, separated, and packed together as if they had been through a butcher shop.

*BOOM*

A blast shot landed behind Mia and killed two ants. Now, only 100 ants remained, but Prayut's Prometheus already missed a leg.

The overmind controlled his robot to fly, so ants could not catch them. Still, all ants had inherited Mia's skills, so they could shoot fireballs and chain lightning.

Getting barraged by hundreds of skills for a long time was tiring for Prayut. Even if he had a barrier skill, his mental fatigue and the mech's reactors would not be able to keep up forever.

*SCREECH*

Another ant evolved into a stinger ant. It flew and latched onto the invisible barrier, biting it.

The robot took out a lightsaber and slashed the flying ant.

*SCREECH*

*SCREECH*

*SCREECH*

More ants evolved from eating humans. Inside the city, over five hundred stinger ants flew and attacked skyscraper buildings.

Mia turned to the direction of the new stingers.

'Well, they grow fast, much faster than I thought.'

Tiny had told Mia that their children can evolve as long as they had enough food. Now, he witnessed his children's potential.

He grinned and cracked his knuckles, getting serious.

'All otherworlders are not here. Then, I'll just kill this guy and wipe this city from the map. The next time they return, they will be killed by my children.'

Mia activated his flight skill, propelling himself flying toward a free esper mech. He got into its cockpit, stealing the mech.

After Mia started the engine and linked his conscience with the reactors, the sleeping Prometheus in the hangar sent an engine roar.

As he grabbed the handle sticks at the side of his armrests, he saw several game joysticks lying on the floor.

They were the custom pilot sticks that Tama had once used.

After Aria destroyed Mia's mech on their first encounter, MWG agents restored this robot with their repair kits. They stored it in the hangar, so the mech could be reused by other pilots.

As fate pranked on Mia, he found his old robot. However, Tama was no longer with him.

Mia missed the obnoxious eggcat, but he was relieved that Tama was still with Misha.

'Take care, you two. I have a feeling that we won't see each other ever again.'

.

Prayut looked distressed as he observed the monster raid from above.

His dragonewts fought against the ant monsters well, but they were outnumbered, and they had limited ammunition. The moment they ran out of bullets, their mechs would be covered by blue ants.

Less than half of his dragonewt and robots remained, protecting the base from the monster raid.

Now, more monsters emerged, rather, they had evolved. The inferno ants grew wings and stingers, becoming something similar to wasp monsters in other regions.

'Fucking ants! They must be Sebastian's allies. Have you sold your soul to the monsters, Sebastian!?'

Prayut was angry. From his point of view, overminds should have been the dominant species of this new world. Monsters and other mutants were the failures of nature, and they should have been eliminated. As for humans, they were the obsolete race.

Losing to these inferior creatures over and over again was vexing to Prayut.

The overmind glanced at the intercom channel, waiting for the confirmation from his second son.

Then, he had an idea.

'The queen ant should be around here, and these ants should follow after her command. I'll control her mind. Then, I'll be controlling these ants!'

Prayut increased his psych output and launched his mech toward the center of the city, where most ants gathered.

As Prayut had predicted, Tiny was commanding the raid in this area. She had gathered all surrendered humans into one place and guided them into their nest as captives.

'Aha! Found you, you little bitch!'

Prayut rejoiced. As long as he could control this monster, everything would become easier. He had an inspiration. If he could use her for breeding more underlings, maybe he might be able to dominate the world.

While Prayut was daydreaming, Mia, with his old Prometheus Prototype, appeared behind him.

A lightning sword was swung down and shattered Prayut's barrier.

Prayut was surprised, but he was calm.

'A surprise attack from behind? Well, you messed up! You should have killed me in one hit!'

The overmind used his psionic possession on his opponent's pilot.

Prayut entered Mia's soul space and found a desolate wasteland instead of an empty white room. Swamps, filled with blood, scattered throughout the mysterious field.

A lone white tree with the size worthy of being called the Yggdrasil was in the middle of the wasteland. Inside the center of the great white tree, Mia's soul core was protected by many layers of tree trunks.

Mia had been developing his soul space when he had free time. As he got the inspiration from Gabriel's soul room, he tried to modify his room to create a self-defense mechanism against overminds or fairy overlords.

Now, Prayut became its first test subject.

"Who is this pilot!? Why is his soul like this!?"

Prayut got panicked. He might have experienced many soul spaces from entering a monster's mind, but this was the first time he saw something strange like Mia's room.

Mia's soul was also summoned to the room. He appeared on a branch of the white Yggdrasil.

As soon as Mia's feet touched the tree, the entire room and the tree became red. Blood swamps on the ground became alive, and bloody humanoid creatures emerged from the red pools.

The room became something from a horror movie as these bloody creatures roared and screamed like zombies.

Yet, Prayut was not perturbed.

He snorted, "What a petty trick. As long as my soul is stronger than yours, all of this is nothing but an illusion!"

Prayut extended his hands, and two blood monsters exploded, disintegrated into nothingness.

The dirt on the ground and the sky reddened. The illusion sky rained blood, but the liquid transformed into sharp needles before they landed.

A hundred red needles pierced Prayut's soul at once.

"Hahaha! Too weak!"

Prayut exerted his mental force, and the needles shattered while his injuries disappeared. The needle rain also could not penetrate his new barrier.

While standing on the tree branch, Mia pointed his palm at Prayut.

The overmind leaped to the side.

*BOOM*

The place where Prayut had stood distorted and compressed into a small ball. Just now, Mia attacked Prayut with force similar to a mini black hole.

Prayut kicked the ground and charged at Mia.

"Die!"

He revealed his palm, aiming at Mia's head.

Red branches of Yggdrasil transformed into human's limbs. They covered Mia's body.

*BOOM*

A similar compression force distorted the air before Mia. The human limb branches got sucked and converted into a small mass before it disappeared.

The red tree regrew its limbs. Bloody hands and human arms grabbed Prayut's neck and four limbs.

Prayut's eyes flared. He fired an invisible force at Mia again.

Mia's eyes lit up with electric static. He activated his own soul attack.

*BOOM*

*BOOM*

Two forces canceled the attacks of their opponent.

Their power seemed even, however, Mia had the advantage of the home ground.

One of the red tree's human limbs wiggled. Spike tentacles extended from the arm, penetrated into Prayut's soul.

"Useless attack! Don't waste my time, trash!"

Prayut thought it was similar to the needle rain attack, so he used his power to repel the spike.

However

The spike began draining his life force.

The soul power Prayut tried to use was drained!

"!!!"

It was the first time that Prayut panicked within someone's soul space.

"NOOOO!!"

Prayut teleported his soul outside of the tree's grasp. Because of the forceful activation, his two legs shattered in the process.

Prayut propelled his torso and flew out of Mia's soul space, returning to his body.

When his soul returned, he felt nothing from his legs, where he had lost them in Mia's soul room.

With only two usable arms and hands, Prayut activated his psionic link while he prepared to hack one of the satellites.

"Anutin, fire the missiles, now!"

Chapter end