Harem Reborn

Chapter 280: Devil In The Details

[Day 13/1825 on The Godless Green Earth A.I World]

This was a huge oversight on my part, I had built the base great, but all the glass that I used in route was just glass. I didn't think that I would need to worry about FUCKING ROBOTS!

I remembered how the Major had kept changing, but that wasn't normal. I hadn't really thought about it until now, but he had done something to his program and this was not the race that we had built. 

Just how long had he been conscious on Mars? Could he still even be considered a human, or was MTK an alien race now?

I started turning long patches of the path into boiling magma but that would only get some. The rest would hop the walls and then I would rip them into the lava, but there were a lot of them. 

On top of it all, I was starting to feel the strain from using the power so much, but at least the cannons were starting to pick up on some of the work. I floated back and watched as they came into an area that was more heavily defended and I pulled back even further.

The last fifty or so were taken down by four Earth Cannon, and it was finally over. The first attack and they made it three-quarters of the way and destroyed at least five of my defenses, ugh.

[Total Gi] 28532/100000max

I turned and sped back to the base, this was no time to feel bad about this. No one got hurt and we did win. Plus I had an ass load of points to upgrade shit, but I only had today to do it. MTK will be back tomorrow. Thank god this is a game and he has to follow some kind of rules, or we would just be getting run over by robots right now.

"I still never expected him to show up so quickly, but it is only him and some of his tech, but it looks like he has been here the same amount of time as you," Gripton said from beside me where he had appeared.

"Something is different about him, I don't know if you watched my eighth game, but MTK was in it and he had a leveling system that allowed him to level up when he was defeated," I explained.

"No, I was with Hyde at that time in his head helping, but then one of the Game Masters, Talon, took notice of me. Still, there is no system like that in the game, you would have cut it out. Something like that would give a person unstoppable power, even Hyde's power can be stopped, but something like that" Gripton trailed off, getting another one of his worried expressions.

"Exactly, so, I don't know what his game is. If he can send a thirty-meter tall robot that breaks into one hundred and fifty more little ones on round one, we need to step it up. I have a lot of points so what do you think?"

"I think it's time you dusted off the military tab in your skill and start by getting some new weapons. This is an RTS so you have good stuff in there, but you are using things that are meant to deal with lower-level threats. Once we are back we will get some better weapons, but you will need to rest, tomorrow is going to be more or the same, but different. So, let the girls take care of you. We are still going to be here for a while, and you need to claim your other guardians, but you still haven't slept with the ones you have!" Gripton scowled me as we came up to the dome.

"Hey! I don't want to be having kids here if we are just going to leave right away!"

"That doesn't matter! They are all going to be going with you to Scorpio! These are the world interactions, the NPC with brains we have been working on! I have them in the other worlds already, but this is the last batch, but I wanted to try something different and see what you thought of it. Remember, this was supposed to take this long, you were supposed to get here the first time and things would have been fun! But that idiot messed it all up, and now we are stuck with this mess!"

"I bet you didn't see Hyde in person a lot did you?" I asked, glaring at Gripton.

"Wha? Why?HEY!" Gripton called out as he fell to the ground below and then disappeared. 

Hyde would have punched him into the wall, the devil is in the details. Gripton was always one more story short of the truth, it was like he couldn't stand not having something else to hold over you. He was like the fine print on a document that was only meant to be read out after it was signed.

I floated back into the massive Transparite dome, I couldn't see the other side, it was just so far away. The city that I had helped to layout felt like a misuse of the time, but there were thinking A.I. having children and slowly increasing the population. No, I just had to focus on protecting them until I could get to MTK.

But, if today was any indicator, I was nowhere even close to being ready to fight him. I would have to get a hold of the other elements, and dramatically increase the defenses. 

I opened up my menu for my skills and was surprised to find that Gripton had already gone through and leveled things up for me. I scanned through the different things he had upgraded; not all had a bunch of points, some had the single point, just to get to the next thing further in the skill branch.

The first thing I noticed was the Fireball Mortar, a long-range cannon that basically cast Fireball on a targeted location every ten seconds. The reload time was long, but it was a Fireball spell essentially, so that made sense, the damage would be crazy.

Next was a laser that refracted off the first enemy and kept going until it hit all the enemies. The only problem was that the damage dropped off greatly after the first five in the chain. It was still useful, but the last thing looked like it was going to do some work.

Transparite Gatling Guns had a medium-range, but they spit-out glass shard three per second. These should help grind through the next wave, and hopefully, I wouldn't have to do so much grunt work.

I was almost back home, to the central spire, so I looked to see about placing the new towers, but Gripton had beat me to the punch again. I wasn't upset, I was just frustrated with him. 

I wish he would have played a more active role from the start; the point was to beat the game and get out of here and deal with the rest. From his view, we stand outside of normal time.

I could understand a bit, time isn't moving out there, so we have all the time in the world, but I have been playing this game for too long. It has always been to someone else's tune and I just want to play the games that I want.

I want to choose for how long I want and then change if I want to. Not run around and battle an advanced race of military robots that always seemed to have the upper hand

Okay, so the game idea wasn't bad, but I wanted to do it when I could just play the game as a game and not fight for survival for real. I didn't know what would happen to me if I died outside of Reborn, and I didn't really want to think about the idea.

All I could do is hope that Gripton stops dicking around, and yes I know you can hear me. Thank you for getting everything ready, but it would be a great help if you could keep doing this so I can focus on the fight and other stuff.

"I will help, I am sorry, and I  know that it has been a long time, but this has to be done, so buck up chap! You got this! Now, go do what I told you to do the first day you got on this planet!" Gripton said, while appearing only briefly, and then disappearing once he was done.

Yes, that's right. Well, it was time to make it official I guess, but I was sure mew had been married numerous times and it wasn't like it was more than words, but they were to a woman I loved. Plus, there was the part after she said yes, and the fact that I planned to ask her in bed. 

I floated into my crystal palace with a big stupid grin on my face. Devil in the details.