After Earth Fell: I Became Humanity's Strongest Mecha Soldier

"You don’t."

The words hit him harder than being hit with a transport vehicle.

"What do you mean ’I don’t’?"

"Look around you... you think they haven’t tried?"

The forest grew louder with the groanings.

Had they detected him already?

"We’ve been here the longest. If we knew a way out, we would have gone eons ago."

"..."

"I have one request, will you grant me my wish?"

"I can’t promise anything I can’t do."

"It’s fine. It is something you can do."

"What do you want?"

"Do you have something you can use to perhaps clobber me?"

He stared at the Unascended, disbelief painting his expression.

"I’ve seen the others eat each other. The eaten ones join the fusion... I don’t want to be eaten or joined into a mindless fray. Can you kill me? You’re not from here so it must be something you can achieve, isn’t it?"

The Unascended fell to its knees. "Isn’t it?"

K sighed and held out his hand.

[Equipped Short Sword]

His short sword landed softly on his palm.

"You had a name right?"

He turned to face the creature.

"Yes."

"What was your name?"

"...I think it was... Gi... Gi... forgive me... I cannot recall."

"It’s fine."

The sword climbed high, gleaming under the little light the canopy of trees let in.

"I’ll give you a name... since your old name had a ’G’, you’ll be remembered as Gingko. I hope you’re not the last of your kind..."

The sword descended.

Cleanly cutting thought the placed they were fused at.

The other two bodies shrieked and scrambled for each other but before they could reach themselves, K raised his blade once more.

The shrieking died down and all the tree bodies collapsed to the ground.

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[SOUL FRAGMENTS DETECTED.]

[BEGINNING EXTRACTION...]

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[EXTRACTION COMPLETE]

[soul fragments obtained x3]

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[INVENTORY]

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[01] U’Kan Ring ×9

Description:

Rings belonging to the deceased Vashki, U’Kan Luituka.

Their original owner has been terminated.

Residual spiritual energy detected.

WARNING:

Foreign biological composition detected.

Potential applications:

[craft]

[absorb]

[analyze]

[02] Short Sword x1

Description:

A short sword born of the rings of a mighty Vashki warrior.

(Slash as you please with it...they probably wouldn’t mind.)

[attributes]

Damage: +27

Durability: 120

Weight: Moderate

[skill(s)]

[01] Ring Resonance

Releases a 14m radius burst of shockwave capable of temporarily stunning enemy entities.

Cooldown: 120s

Storage: 10/50

[03] Soul Fragments x21

Level up to unlock more space.

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The groanings from before drew closer.

Without waiting, K sent his sword back to inventory and darted across the clearing.

Immediately, the nearby Unascended swarmed him.

"Shit."

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[HOST STATUS]

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HOST:Khae’el

RACE: ???

LEVEL: 1

EXP: 500 / 100

HP: 100 / 100

STAMINA: 100 / 100

ENERGY: 50 / 50

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ATTRIBUTES

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STRENGTH 10

AGILITY 10

VITALITY 10

ENDURANCE 10

PERCEPTION 10

INTELLIGENCE 10

WILLPOWER 10

UNALLOCATED POINTS: 5

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SKILLS

[Weapon]

[01] Ring Resonance

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TITLES

[None]

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ACHIEVEMENTS

[01] First Blood Master

Kill an entity within the first 20 minutes upon receiving the system.

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Huh?

He had 500 experience points?

Why didn’t the system automatically level him up?

[Host must manually level up.]

He cursed.

"How the fuck am I supposed to know or do that?"

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[Level Up Requirement met!!]

Would you like to level up?

[Yes] / [No]

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Yes.

The interface dimmed and a huge

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[Congratulations! You’ve reached Level 2!]

[HOST STATUS]

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HOST:Khae’el

RACE: ???

LEVEL: 2

EXP: 400 / 150

HP: 100 / 100

STAMINA: 100 / 100

ENERGY: 50 / 50

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ATTRIBUTES

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STRENGTH 10

AGILITY 10

VITALITY 10

ENDURANCE 10

PERCEPTION 10

INTELLIGENCE 10

WILLPOWER 10

UNALLOCATED POINTS: 5

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He still had more experience points.

[Level up!!]

[Level up!!]

[Level up!!]

He half stared at the interface that showed his status. He still needed one more level up to access his shop function.

"Faster!!"

"Such lustrous hair!"

"A beast?"

"Oh my! Look at his legs!"

"Look at what is between them!"

Clothes.

That would be the first thing he get once he had that function.

But first things first.

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[multiple Unascendeds detected]

Step within a Unascended’s detection radius to engage one.

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He turned and stopped running waiting for the Unascended to finally spot him after chasing blinding into the clearing.

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[COMBAT ANALYSIS]

TARGET: UNASCENDED

MULTIPLE SOUL FRAGMENT SIGNATURES DETECTED.

[QUEST]

Eliminate the Unascended entity.

[REWARD]

+500 EXP

+5 ATTRIBUTE POINTS

Would you like to accept this quest?

[Yes] / [No]

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How many more did he need to kill to get to level 5?

His current level up stats was [50/250]

Which meant a significant 100% increase per level that slowly decays into a smaller value per level up.

Just one was enough.

For now.

Yes.

The Unascended crossed half the clearing in an instant, its elongated arms swinging toward his chest. K dropped beneath the strike, feeling the rush of displaced air pass over his head.

His bare feet dug into the hardened soil as he pivoted.

The short sword flashed.

K drove the blade into the creature’s exposed side.

CRACK!

The U’Kan ringblade punched through the porcelain and drove into the face of Vashki fused there.

Silver blood spilled across the ground.

The Unascended recoiled with a shriek, staggering sideways and quickly wrapping itself protectively.

K pulled the sword free and leaped back.

The creature swung again, following after him.

K ducked.

Its fist smashed into the air where his head had been a moment earlier, sending blood and the stale stench of rot flying.

K stepped onto one of its arms. He ran along the extended limb for two steps before jumping.

His body twisted through the air.

The short sword came down. The blade struck the back of the creature’s multiple necks.

Another crack echoed through the clearing.

The Unascended stumbled forward.

K landed behind it.

He didn’t wait.

He drove his sword forward again.

The blade pierced directly through the creature’s chest cutting through a gusion.

The Unascended froze.

Its limbs flailed and shook.

K tightened his grip and twisted the blade, dragging it lower.

A sharp pulse traveled through the weapon.

[Skill: Ring Resonance is active]

The Unascended’s body convulsed.

K ripped the sword free and stepped backward.

The creature remained standing for another second.

Then its knees gave out.

It crashed into the bare ground.

K watched silently as cracks spread across its porcelain body. Silver light leaked through the fractures before the entire creature collapsed into fragments.

The clearing became quiet again.

K lowered his sword.

He looked down at himself, then at the remains.

"Not bad." He patted himself on the back.

A translucent notification appeared before his eyes.

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[SOUL FRAGMENTS DETECTED.]

[BEGINNING EXTRACTION...]

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[REWARD GRANTED.]

+500 EXP

+5 ATTRIBUTE POINTS

[SOUL EXTRACTION UNLOCKED.]

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"Yes!"

He unequipped his sword and got to business.

[Level up!!!]

A interface pushed back the other ones.

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[Congratulations! You’ve reached Level 5!]

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Then the one interface he had been the most interested in popped up.

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[Congratulations! Shop function has been unlocked!]

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