Alchemists do not need self-cultivation

Chapter 651: Small AS & Leonard

After the robot slammed Isaac into the ground, it tried to grab him and continue beating him, but Isaac grabbed its hand as soon as it reached out.

"That's interesting. I don't know why you, as a robot, have such strong mobility, but that won't stop me from turning you into scrap metal."

With one hand gripping the robot's wrist tightly, the other hand tidied up the robot's disheveled clothes.

When it attacked, Isaac was momentarily unable to catch its movements, something that had never happened before.

It's necessary to disassemble it and study it.

"Rentaro, it's not an ordinary robot."

"Ok?"

Isaac shifted his gaze from the robot in front of him to Ayana, who had been standing still since earlier.

“It is actually an autonomous AS, and the power system and control system have been miniaturized,” Ayana said. “In order to ensure its autonomy, all its attack methods are pre-designed.”

"is it?"

Click!

Isaac ripped off the arm of the robot, or rather, the miniature AS, in front of him.

Ayana continued, "In order to ensure maneuverability during combat, a vectoring nozzle was added to the rear of the machine, and hundreds of tiny jet nozzles were added around the machine. The gas released through the combination of these jet nozzles allows it to move at high speed and adjust its movements under inertia. The maximum speed can reach subsonic speed."

"I see. By the way, how did you know?"

As Isaac spoke, he deftly dodged the AS's attacks.

"Yeah... how did I know that?" Ayana clutched her head in confusion. "For some reason, a lot of knowledge suddenly flooded my mind... but I clearly haven't learned any of this..."

"...I have a general understanding of the situation."

It seems that Ayana Fujisawa's ability as a 'listener' has partially awakened.

The information obtained from the KGB seems to be correct; she is indeed a 'listener,' and the small AS in front of her indicates that other organizations are also closely monitoring what's happening at Shirasaki Middle School.

The so-called Class 2-3 is nothing more than a battleground for the two major world organizations. Those self-righteous students don't even know that their lives are no longer in their own hands.

The AS accelerated once more, turning into a blur as it charged toward him, and you could see flames shooting out from behind its feet.

"Subsonic? What a pity."

Isaac accelerated the opening of his left eye's thought process.

In an instant, the dust kicked up on the ground, the gasps of those around, everything seemed to freeze. The small AS in front of them was also fixed in mid-air.

The world he saw became an extremely slow-moving world.

Isaac walked slowly to the side of AS, which was moving forward at a snail's pace, and said calmly, "It's a pity that my maximum speed during acceleration is ten times the speed of sound."

Isaac forcefully tore the AS in front of him into several pieces, forcibly dismantling its power system, and then stopped accelerating.

The flow of time has returned to normal.

boom!!

For a moment, no one knew what had happened.

They only saw the robot fly forward and then suddenly explode, while Isaac stood there unharmed.

"Is...is it resolved?"

"seems like it."

Besides the delinquents and Ren Tokiwa who were already on the playground, the teachers and students in the school building also came over curiously after hearing the explosion.

"What a loud explosion!"

"It seems to be in the direction of the playground."

"What happened?"

Seeing that those people seemed to be heading towards the playground, Isaac took out his phone and dialed the number of the employee he had infiltrated at the school.

"Come to the playground and cordon off the area."

"learn."

Ren Tokiwa looked at the small AS that had been reduced to scrap metal, scoffed to herself, and turned to leave.

"and many more."

Isaac grabbed him.

"Is there anything else?"

"event."

After saying that, she punched him in the stomach, and Tokiwa Ren felt his vision go black and he fainted to the ground.

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On a tall building in the distance, a silver-haired boy was gazing in the direction of Shirasaki Middle School. He was Mr. Ag, who had previously handed over the small AS to Tokiwa Ren.

He looked at the school playground in the distance, holding his phone and making a call to someone.

"Hello? Is this Mr. Hg? I've almost got the data."

"Well done. I think this modification of Plan 1211 is very good. Perhaps it can be put into mass production." A processed electronic voice came from the phone.

This person's identity seems to be quite extraordinary.

"I hadn't finished speaking when it was destroyed."

"……What did you say?"

Although the voice on the phone was processed, you could still tell that the owner of the voice was very surprised.

“That’s right, he was taken down by a student named Rentaro Satomi, a very skilled individual,” Mr. Ag laughed. “Fortunately, we also have people planted in Shirasaki, so his every move is under our control.”

"...To be able to take down Plan1211, this person's strength must be unfathomable."

"That's right. Actually, my main purpose in using this test unit this time was not to collect combat data on the unit itself, but to understand the student's strength. The result was beyond my expectations."

What are you planning to do?

"When I lent the machine out, I placed a camera and analysis device in its eye to further improve plan 1211 by analyzing that student's combat," Mr. Ag said.

"Then I'll leave this matter to you. How are those two 'listeners' you mentioned earlier doing?"

"Chidori is still under control. As for Fujisawa Ayana, she's encountered a slight problem, but it's nothing serious, and I can handle it."

"Is that so? I trust you completely with your work. You can handle the situation here in Japan yourself."

"learn."

"I still have some things to do here, you can continue working."

"I understand."

The fairy tale ends here.

The man put his phone back in his pocket and continued looking at the school playground.

By this time, everyone there had been evacuated, and the teachers had brought the situation under control.

Isaac was there comforting Ayana, and everything seemed to be fine.

"Brother Feifan, you are indeed very strong."

If Isaac could see his face, he would realize that Mr. Ag is actually Leonard Testarossa, Isaac's long-lost friend and Tessa's brother.

Leonard took one last look in the direction of the school before walking towards the back of his house.

We'll see each other soon.

From beginning to end, he never told his superiors about Isaac's situation.

Chapter 652: Palladium Reactor

"Boss, the scene has been temporarily cordoned off. Fortunately, the explosion area was not large, and the AS did not cause any casualties."

On the playground, after all the students were driven back to their classrooms, several teachers stood beside Isaac and reported on the current situation.

"Sure, several students died yesterday. If something else goes wrong today, it would really be disrespectful to the Japanese government... although I never intended to give them any face anyway."

"Boss, what's this you're holding?"

"Oh, this is Tokiwa Ren, a student in my class. You'll have to take him to the enemy for interrogation later. He's the only known person who has had contact with 'Amalgam' personnel."

"learn."

"Oh, right, there's one more thing," Isaac said, pointing to the damaged miniature AS in the center of the playground. "I'll put this thing in the school's lab later, and I'm going to study it carefully."

"no problem."

Isaac simply skipped his afternoon classes and hid in the school's physics lab.

On the lab table lay a pile of parts—the small AS he had previously defeated. Now it was being disassembled into pieces.

He was wearing a white lab coat and holding a notebook, writing and drawing on it.

“Shrunk the AS from nearly ten meters to about two meters requires technology that is absolutely beyond the reach of current technology, and only ‘mercury alloy’ can do this.”

He picked up a small power furnace from a container made of radiation-resistant material, which was also a part taken from this small AS, from a table next to him.

This device has extremely high power; even such a small one has more power than a large gas turbine.

"The technological prowess of 'mercury alloys' should not be underestimated."

While Isaac was perfectly capable of reverse engineering some of the internal structures, he couldn't do much about things like chips.

However, it wasn't entirely fruitless; perhaps we could study the small power furnace and install it on our self-developed IW-95.

"Perhaps developing a powered exoskeleton is also a direction."

As Isaac continued his research, the school bell rang, signaling the end of the school day.

There was a knocking sound at the door.

"Who?"

"Rentaro, it's me."

Ayana Fujisawa's voice rang out from outside. As soon as school was over, she grabbed her schoolbag and rushed to the laboratory where Isaac was.