Harry doesn't want to be a wizard, he wants to be a superhero

Chapter 258 V and Mechanized People

And so, Ciri boarded the supercar Harry had created and drove off with him toward Night City.

The desert scenery wasn't very interesting, and the temperature was still quite hot, but the temperature inside the vehicle was very comfortable, and Ciri didn't break a sweat.

Therefore, she suspected that there was some kind of magic array inside the car that controlled the temperature.

There were also sparse roads in the wilderness, half-buried by yellow sand. Harry drove the vehicle at a fast speed, powered by magic, and they approached Night City in less than half an hour.

They stopped at a checkpoint, and soon several drones scanned them. Several fully armed soldiers also came to their side and asked them various related questions.

"Where are you from? Where are you going? What is your purpose? Please show your citizen ID!"

Neither of them had citizen IDs in this world. Just as Harry was about to make a move, he suddenly noticed Ciri snap her fingers. The soldiers who came to check were momentarily stunned, then nodded and left.

Harry asked curiously, "Is this the power of your world? The ability to bewitch minds?"

Ciri nodded, raising her head with a hint of pride, and said:

"These are called signs, the signature power of witchers, which allows witchers who cannot cast spells normally to wield the power of magic!"

Harry nodded, his eyes quickly analyzing the runes, and then said:
"Hmm, a rather ingenious design, but it can still be improved."

Xili's expression froze. She was indeed proud of her demon hunter powers, but she forgot that the person in front of her was an incredibly strong individual.

Perhaps to him, this system of signs, perfected by warlocks and witchers over thousands of years, is just a rather novel and crude toy!

However, upon learning that the sign could be strengthened, Hilary's face lit up with joy, and she asked expectantly:

"To what extent can it be strengthened?"

Harry thought for a moment and replied, "About ten times the original power, but the energy consumption will also increase several times!"

Ciri: "!!!"

"Master, please teach me! I'll do anything you ask!"

……

Upon entering Night City, Ciri finally noticed something unusual about the city.

However, she clearly didn't think much of it, simply believing it to be a unique feature of this world, and exclaimed in admiration:

"What a unique world! Almost everyone's limbs are replaced by high-tech machines. Even the most ordinary mortal probably has combat power surpassing that of a Witcher Master!"

Harry looked up at the sky and walked into Night City. The huge mechanical sphere in the sky grew larger and larger, like a canopy covering Night City.

It constantly emits a strange aura, continuously corrupting people and transforming their flesh and blood into machinery.

Harry said meaningfully, "Ciri, is it possible that this isn't unique to this world, but rather a conspiracy by invaders from outside the world?"

Ciri: "???"

"Why do you say that?" Ciri asked, puzzled.

Harry ran his hand across her eyes, and in the next moment, she too gained spiritual vision. When she looked up at the sky, she was completely stunned:

"My God! What is that?"

The moment Ciri saw the enormous mechanical sphere in the sky, she felt a twitch in her skin, and even a silvery metallic sheen appeared on her skin.
Her skin is turning into metal!

Harry touched her forehead to help her resist the malevolent phantom above, and explained:

"A phantom of a dimensional demon god, who seems to wield the power of machinery and can transform everything into mechanical objects. Don't look at it too much, or you might be transformed."

"That was terrifying!" Ciri patted her heaving chest, took several deep breaths to calm herself down, and then asked:

"Maybe we should leave. This city is too eerie and too dangerous!"

Harry shook his head and refused, saying, "No need. This demon projection isn't that powerful. I can handle it."

Holy crap, you managed to handle that?!

Even though she tried to overestimate Harry's abilities, Ciri realized that she had underestimated him.

and many more……

Ciri suddenly realized something: Could it be that Harry wasn't human, but also a dimensional demon, capable of fighting against demons?
Ciri dared not continue thinking about it, because she felt that the deeper she pondered, the stranger Harry looked at her, as if he could see into her mind and read her thoughts.

So Ciri quickly changed the subject and asked in confusion:
"How should we deal with Him? Should we attack directly?"

Harry shook his head and smiled mysteriously, "Of course not. We need to find a native of this world first. After all, every world is a huge treasure, and we need a native to help us guard it!"

Ciri: "???"

"You're planning to rule the world?"

Harry shook his head: "Of course not. I will help this world get rid of the current rigid class system. All I need is some technology from this world and a detailed account of the reform process!"

Ciri didn't know what Harry wanted these things for, but she didn't ask and obediently followed him.

Now that she's clinging to powerful figures, knowing too much is actually a bad thing.

……

Soon, through the combined use of Observation Haki and the Observation Rune Matrix, Harry discovered a special person.

Unlike other people who have completely transformed into mechanical bodies, this person still has most of his body made of flesh and blood, with only the outer layer of skin and spine being mechanical.

Furthermore, her mechanical body is different from those other mixed-up, inferior mechanical bodies. It resembles Iron Man's suit, but is more sophisticated and possesses vitality.

Upon discovering this special individual named "V," Harry immediately deduced that she was probably one of the main characters in this world!

……

Watson District, Chinatown.

Room 0716, 8th floor, H10, a super skyscraper.

Harry knocked on the door, but there was no response.

Most people in this situation might assume the homeowner isn't home, but Harry clearly sensed life in the room; the homeowner was obviously home, just acting strangely. She seemed somewhat dejected?
So Harry spent a few seconds engraving a magic circle on the door, making it vibrate and make a sound to automatically knock on the door.

After Harry and Ciri finished eating a watermelon and drinking two cups of milk tea in the corridor, heavy footsteps finally came from inside the room. Then the door was rudely opened, and a disheveled young woman appeared in front of Harry and Ciri.

She was a young woman in her twenties with intact skin all over her body, seemingly without any mutation. However, Harry knew that it was mechanically simulated skin. In reality, even if she hadn't completely mutated, at least 60% of her flesh and blood had been converted into machinery.

Now she seems to have been drained of her last bit of life. Her once bright and shiny hair is now greasy and sticks to both sides of her cheeks, with a few strands still messily tangled around the corners of her mouth.

Her makeup was already a mess, with her eyeshadow smudged and forming two dark patches under her eyes.

Mascara left dark streaks on her cheeks along with her tears. Her once sharp and bright eyes were now bloodshot, staring blankly ahead, as if she had no more expectations for the world.

But now, those empty eyes held a new emotion—anger.

V was furious. The world was about to end, and she had decided to lie down and enjoy the last moments of her life.

But damn it—why are there some damn guys bothering her at this time?
V decides that if the people at the door can't give a reasonable explanation, she'll send them to meet Satan! (Harry: Is that even possible?)
After opening the door, V saw a young man and a young woman behind it. Just as she was about to get angry, she suddenly froze, because she realized that the skin on the two young people in front of her was normal human skin, not like hers which was made of mechanical disguise.

What surprised her even more was that these two people had not been contaminated or mutated into mechanical beings. Their bodies had not even been modified in any way; they were two completely natural people!
V exclaimed in disbelief, "F**k! Who are you people? How can your bodies show absolutely no signs of mechanical damage at a time like this?"

Harry raised an eyebrow. He deduced from V's words that V indeed knew about the mechanical spheres in the sky, so he smiled gently:
"Yes, you can call us outsiders, from outside this world. The reason we've come to you is to discuss the issue of saving the world!"

v: "???"

"Fu*k! You guys actually joked about me?"

V never expected that the two people in front of her would not only disturb her rest, but also deceive her, and with such a reason that no one would believe.

If it were just about saving the world, she might believe it to some extent, after all, she understands the current state of the world, and it can be said that there are only a few months left before the end of the world.

But how is it possible that these two people claim to be from outside the world?

Do you think she's a child?

Without hesitation, V prepared to pull out the pistol from her thigh and give each of those two damned guys a shot, but to her surprise, just as she was about to fire, she was shocked to find that her body was completely unable to move.

And that damn scarred man naturally went into her room and fiddled with the TV remote, changing channels.

Damn it, who are they?

What kind of ability is this?
Could they be hackers?
Or perhaps—they really are so-called outsiders from other worlds?
After V calmed down, Harry dispelled the spell on her and, while watching the television program in front of him, said calmly:

"Can we talk normally now?"

At this point, V became even angrier. She roared, "Is this what you call a normal conversation? Suddenly breaking into my home and kidnapping me?"

"Ahem..." Harry was a little embarrassed. "Uh, sorry, but you were just about to pull out a gun and shoot us. That's not the point right now. The point is, do you want to save the world?"

When the topic of saving the world came up, V forcibly suppressed his anger and asked, "Are you really from another world?"

Harry snapped his fingers, and flames ignited at his fingertips. Faced with the facts, V had no choice but to believe it.

With the addition of mysterious figures from the other two worlds, V's hope was rekindled.

Perhaps, it really can bring this world back on track!

After seeing that V believed him, Harry then asked:

So what happened in this world?

Hope rekindled in her heart, and V began to cooperate. She grabbed her hair and recalled:
“A month ago, Jack and I were commissioned by the middleman DeShawn to steal a chip from the 100th floor of the Azure Building.”

There, I witnessed Saburo Arasaka murdering his son, Yoriyuki Arasaka, and saw him use his son's corpse as a sacrificial offering to draw a magic circle dyed with blood, successfully summoning a mysterious mechanical demon!

After that, Jack and I were hunted down. Jack was killed, and I was later ambushed by DeShawn and almost killed.

However, perhaps because I was closest to the sacrificial ritual, I immediately acquired this mechanical body, killed DeShawn, and escaped, hiding until now.

Then, something unbelievable happened: a mechanical sphere emerged from Arasaka Tower, hovered in the air, and grew larger and larger over time.

But apart from me, no one else could see the mechanical sphere.

As time went by, the residents of Night City all transformed from cyborgs and flesh into fully mechanical beings, but their mechanical beings were different from mine.

As they transformed into mechanical beings, they gradually lost their emotions and became completely robotic. After a month of complete mechanization, some even began to disappear.

Today, Night City's population is only seven-tenths of what it was originally!

“I see.” Harry nodded, now fully confirming that the mechanical sphere above was indeed a dimensional demon, summoned to this world to grant the summoner at the ritual site mechanical immortality while retaining reason and emotion.

However, the price of the ritual was not only the corpse of Arasaka Yorinobu, but also the corpses of everyone else in this world.

In a sense, Saburo Arasaka sacrificed this world in exchange for his own and V's eternity.

After learning the truth, Harry stood up and said to V:
"Let's go, let's solve this problem completely and save the world!"

Seeing that Harry was about to act immediately, V was taken aback and asked:
"What should we do? You know that's an evil god! Let alone an evil god, the mechanical army under Saburo Arasaka alone is enough to easily kill us!"

Ciri, who hadn't spoken since the start of their conversation, turned her attention from the television to V and offered words of comfort:

"Don't worry, Harry is very strong. Even if he's no match for that evil god, he can still get us out of here!"

In fact, even Ciri didn't think Harry could defeat that evil god, but given Harry's mastery of time and space, he should be able to lead them away from the evil god's clutches... right?

Harry did not respond to V's doubts, saying that facts would prove his abilities.

……

The three left the building and headed straight for Arasaka Tower.

Along the way, it seemed that Harry and Ciri's flesh and blood bodies attracted the attention of passersby, so the mechanical passersby stared intently at the three of them.

Just as Harry and his friends were about to reach the Arasaka Tower, a piercing police siren suddenly sounded.

V looked in the direction from which the siren was coming and exclaimed in astonishment, "Holy crap, the Terrorist Mobile Unit!"

(End of this chapter)