You said mechs were going to fight monsters, but instead you're destroying stars with your bare

Chapter 11 The Female Anchor Snitches

"boom--!"

The enormous rat was violently kicked.

His entire head, along with his upper body, instantly collapsed inward, twisted, and exploded!
Countless metal parts, flesh and blood, and yellow and white substances mixed together to form a colorful firework that exploded with a bang!

That devastating force, with no sign of waning, pinned the rat's remaining lower body firmly to the ground, creating a huge crater!

Instant kill!

Kill with one blow!
The whole process was clean, efficient, and full of violent aesthetics!
Kim Eun-ah stared blankly at the scene before her.

She forgot to breathe, forgot to cry.

She even forgot where she was, forgot the warmth between her legs...

The world became so quiet at this moment...

........................

The battle ended much faster than it began.

As the elite giant rat was kicked and exploded into countless parts and bits of flesh, Li Zhe landed steadily on the ground.

He didn't even bend his knees; his powerful physique allowed him to easily absorb all the impact of falling from a great height.

"Chirp—Awooo—!!"

Before its death, the elite giant rat's mangled body let out a final, shrill howl using a certain sound-producing component.

The howl instantly echoed throughout the entire commercial district.

Li Zhe's detection module immediately detected that countless red dots representing "Abyssal Familiars" were swarming towards the mall's atrium.

Although those monsters were generally not strong, with the highest being only 0.5, they posed no threat to him.

His timed challenge mission was reduced to just one last hunt of a small group of monsters.

These swarming monsters are perfect for completing the quest.

But before that, we need to say hello to the friendly soldier who was rescued.

Tell our allies to withdraw quickly, so they don't become a burden.

Li Zhe dusted off his trousers, turned around, and was about to say something polite to the silver mecha...

As a result, when I turned around and looked up—

Ok?
What about people?

The silver mech, which was over three meters tall and had been standing there just moments before, had vanished without a trace.

It only left a shallow indentation in the original spot.

These friendly forces...

Runde is being far too self-aware.

Li Zhe's face, hidden behind the Garfield mask, had a somewhat strange expression.

We're not even expecting any thanks from our allies, the key issue is that you don't want the equipment you just got?

Li Zhe shrugged and stopped worrying about it.

He turned his gaze to the spot where the mech had just been standing.

A massive warhammer lay silently on the ground...

..............................

"Huh...huh...huh..."

Kim Eun-ah tumbled out of the teleportation light and landed hard on the soft carpet.

She's back, back in her familiar bedroom.

She was breathing heavily.

His chest heaved violently, and he looked as if he had just been pulled out of the water.

It's safe now...

came back……

When the thought clearly surfaced in my mind, my extremely tense nerves finally relaxed.

"Wow--!"

The immense relief of surviving the ordeal was intertwined with the extreme fear that had preceded it.

A torrent of tears instantly broke down her emotional dam.

She hugged her knees and burst into tears.

She cried for a full five minutes.

Kim Eun-ah only stopped when her voice became a little hoarse.

She sobbed, wiping away her tears and snot with the back of her hand.

My still-shaken heart has finally begun to calm down.

I escaped... I really escaped from that certain death situation.

but……

What exactly happened in the end?
That Garfield cat who kicked the elite rat spirit to pieces... human? Or monster?

Kim Eun-ah slowly stood up.

While blankly taking off her clothes and changing her wet underwear, she tried hard to recall the scene that had overturned her understanding of the world.

My mind is still a bit muddled.

Is that some new species of monster?
Or is it, like the mechanical cat demon we encountered before, a mutant of some kind of humanoid monster?

its not right……

Kim Eun-ah suddenly realized a crucial issue.

I've been pressing the emergency escape button the whole time...

The reason it was able to teleport back immediately was because the system determined that there was no longer any threat in the vicinity.

This indicates that, according to the system's assessment, the Garfield monster is not considered a "hostile unit".

and so……

Isn't he a monster?

So what is he?
Other mech pilots?
The moment the idea popped into her head, she immediately rejected it.

What a joke!
Even the most skilled mecha pilot is just an ordinary person once he takes off his mecha.

How could someone jump from a height of over ten meters unharmed and even kick a powerful version of a rat that could treat an adult like an ant to death?
This is completely unscientific! It's beyond the scope of human understanding!
Could it be...

A guess that was widely circulated on the mecha pilot forum but had never been confirmed flashed through Kim Eun-ah's mind.

Could they be the original inhabitants of that world that wasn't completely corrupted by the abyss?

A kind of half-demon, somewhere between a monster and a human?
Some experienced forum members have speculated that the Abyss Realm is not entirely a dead zone.

On the ruins of those swallowed-up worlds, perhaps a very small number of native creatures still exist, struggling to survive.

In order to survive in the harsh environment, their bodies may have undergone some unknown mutation, thus gaining strength far beyond that of ordinary people.

In this way...

That Garfield monster could very well be such a being!
He saved himself, perhaps simply because that elite giant rat had trespassed into his territory.

Or perhaps he was simply hunting.

Regardless of the possibility, it proves one thing—

He is an extremely dangerous individual!

With a heavy heart, Kim Eun-ah silently opened her system panel to check the damage to her mecha.

I don’t know, I’m scared.

With only 1% of the armor's durability and 1% of its energy remaining, it's practically on the verge of becoming unusable.

What pained her even more was that the section on weapon modules had turned gray.

[Armor Module: Not Loaded]

Her gravity hammer...

The first piece of equipment she painstakingly crafted using gathered materials... exploded!

It was left behind in that godforsaken place!
"Woo..."

Kim Eun-ah's heart was bleeding, and the tears she had just stopped almost flowed again.

But she held back.

Well, you can fight again if you lose your equipment, but if you lose your life, you lose everything.

It's a miracle I survived this time.

She took a deep breath and forced herself to pull herself together.

This incident must be reported immediately!

The existence of that Garfield monster is a huge potential threat to all mech pilots who are trying to conquer the "Steel Empire"!

She immediately opened the internal forum set up by some pioneers.

I steadied my trembling fingers and began typing rapidly on the keyboard...

[Exploration Log - Crisis Era Year 1, June] Attention! Attention! Attention! A special monster/half-demon/native (?) has appeared in the Steel Empire, Floor 0, Outer Zone, Area C32, Department Store area. Please proceed with caution! Please proceed with caution!

This report immediately attracted the attention of the pioneers.

The mech pilots all chose to avoid this dangerous area.

For a long time afterward, the Garfield cat-headed native rat extermination incident would remain one of the top ten unsolved mysteries of Earth's mech pilots during the Abyss exploration phase...

One of them...
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