Chapter 195 I figured you would want this one.
First, she asked Alex to ring the bell which was followed by the large hologram projections on all the major city buildings, showing the image, name, age and the best action scenes of the fallen mecha warrior through different battles in the years of his service.
"Twenty six," Scarlet read and sighed, "Still so young." He was practically an infant in a world where humans died at three hundred. Esong was right, these kids had no business being on a battlefield and fighting mutated beasts. Mecha warriors should be aged between fifty to one hundred fifty.
Severus was also there, waiting?for her to decide when they would leave.?He watched her agonize and he sympathized but this was an inevitable end for all humans, in the coming years, she would become less emotional as she dealt with death.
"We should go now." She was about to close her eyes and go reap the soul when another alert came, with the picture of another mecha warrior, also fallen on the red planet planet, and a third alert came before she could read the information of the second.
"What is going on on the Red planet?" she asked herself. "Alex, automatically deal with the alerts and the bell until I say otherwise." She left everything to the storage bracelet AI and went off to the Red planet grim reaper style, by blinking.
Since she had not been to the Red planet before, Severus guided their journey by sensing where the souls were and that's where they ended up. The Red star planet, where they landed was a place with rough and rocky terrains. It was surrounded by high mountains, excavated caves and machines of many kinds were buried in the ground. But all this was currently covered by snow, and all she had were the memories from pictures she had seen. The soil itself in the pictures was red like fresh spilled blood, perhaps this was why it had been named the Red star. It was also hard with a few cracks in the parts she could see with her own eyes that were not covered completely by the snow. She could count ten high watch towers alone on a space of five aces of land. It seemed, that the mineral planet was tightly protected at all times.
Her golden eyes, moved around the empty land as she searched for the fresh souls of the fallen mecha warriors. She recorded all the mutated beasts that she saw, intending to share the information about them later when she returned.
Severus blinked, and they moved at least sixty feet at once, finding the souls and landing in the midst of the fight. There were at least fifteen mutated beasts that she could count colliding against sixty or more mecha warriors in a heated battle. This number of odds should have given the mecha warriors an advantage but the beasts were big and their bodies were covered in long sharp spikes which cut through metal like a knife did soft butter. It was no wonder the warriors were dying.
First, she had to help save the others, so she looked for information on the lizard like creature, with wings and spikes.
"A wind spiked Draco, hostile and deadly." the forum identified. "Now, how do we kill them?" she asked herself.
"The souls first Scarlet, that's our priority." Severus reminded her.
She opened the soul gourd, powering it to suck in any soul that was in the area as she looked for more information. "Tell me if you smell as much as soul eater, I am dying to test my flame out again."
Severus started sniffing the air, and he left her side briefly to search the area while Scarlet continued to read aloud. "The strength of the wind spiked Draco is their spikes which is also their weakness as well. Melt away the thick spikes and the flesh can be sliced apart with hot weapons."
Scarlet punched her fist against her palm as she asked herself, "How do I melt spikes?" They had to be made of bone, she thought after all, these creatures were not robots. "Acid!!" she gasped, and her eyes lit up.
She had to share the information with Esong and he could get it to the leader of these mecha warriors quickly. She blinked and returned to the Blue star, in her bedroom and contacted Esong, hoping he would pick up.?When he didn't she sent the information to both him and captain Vangar. As a third option, she also sent it to the officer named Clark in the mecha warriors association that captain Vangar had recommended she share information with as he would be the one processing her payments.
Officer Clark was available and she was relieved, he uploaded the information immediately while Scarlet blinked and returned to the Red star.
"Hello," she met Ramslin immediately. He was standing next to the spot she had previously disappeared from. He waved at her and greeted her with a smile.
"Hi, what are you doing here?" even though she greeted in response, she kept her eyes on the reapers and the fight. They were doing their best to keep the Draco's here so that they would not move into human occupied areas. She also wondered what was taking them long to change their fighting strategy.?Punching the creatures was not working.
"You are married to a mecha warrior and today four of them have died so far, all from here. I figured you would want this one and I came just in case it was too much for you. Ouuh I spoke too soon, make that five." He winced and Scarlet saw a mecha fall down, it had been torn to shreds in the mid section and a warrior inside was bleeding out. The long spikes of the Draco had gone through his chest. "Damn, it's hard to watch them go." He shook his head and reaped that soul when the warrior took his last breath.
"Why do you sound so cynical?" she asked him.
"I have been here for ten years doing this on my own, you have been here for a few years. Give it a little time and you will start to sound like me. I have seen grim reapers laugh on the forum while they reaped souls. I have heard them discuss their evening plans or plan to go on dates. Once you become numb to death, it all begins to feel familiar, boring even, it's inevitable, humans must die and we must collect their souls. Nothing more, nothing less." He blinked and disappeared.
Severus who had just returned snorted in the direction where Ramslin had been standing.?"Whatever he said, ignore it, he is a warrior reaper, they are the coldest of all reaper you know."
"Why are they assholes?" she asked.
"Because they think they are cool." he replied. "But they are not."
The battle, Scarlet noticed had changed tides with the delivery of acid canisters by drones which were dumped on the?Dracos?and as they squealed in pain while the spikes melted, the mecha warriors sliced through them vengefully with red energy swords. For some reason, in the back of her mind, Scarlet thought they would use metallic swords which had been dipped in hot coals or lava.?"What was I thinking?" she asked herself.?She felt slightly stupid frankly. This was an interstellar high tech world, of course they had weapons that could automatically heat up.
She watched them load whatever was left of the dead lizards into storage pods and carry away the bodies of the dead mecha warriors. Some of their friends, she noticed were crying. She felt like crying along with them all for these young brave soldiers.
"Let's go," Severus told her. "You can't weep for them all, this is only the beginning."
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