"Reincarnated" As An Overmind

CH5://Live Fire Testing

I focus on the three Hunters and sit my main body down next to the spawning pool.

I run the three of them towards a nearby wood, in search of a monster to fight. Monsters only spawn when no one is watching an area, so I try to look specifically for spots that would easily be overlooked. I do find a few normal animals, but I ignore them. Instead, I run deeper into the forest and a few minutes later I can smell a faint trace of smoke. I head towards it, thinking I'd found some kind of fire-generating monster.

Instead, I find tents. Built of leather and cloth. Haphazardly put together around a bonfire. I focus on the inhabitants.

[Bandit / Level 4]

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[Bandit / Level 6]

[Warlock / Level 4]

It's bandits, low-level ones at that. Bandits and a Warlock. I surround them with all three Hunter bodies at my disposal. I wait to see how well they work with each other. I can't help but smile. This group is barely holding itself together.

This is going to be fun.

With all three bodies, I lunge forward, instantly killing 3 of the bandits, and before they can react I've already severely injured two more. Arrows whiz towards all three Hunters, but I either dodge them or let them bounce off chitin plating. I keep attacking, I keep running forward. I ignore the pings from System every time I kill another bandit. Every strike from them is predicted, I've yet to take any damage. Dozens of bandits die. I've even started using the swords they were using to kill them. There is a reason I've given the Hunters scythe-arms and normal arms and hands after all.

It's been a minute. The bandits are starting to understand they can't win 1v1 against the Hunters, instead, they gather as groups to try and take them down. Unfortunately for them, I am more than capable of fighting multiple enemies at once thrice over.  

I hear someone chanting something under all the screaming, barely audible. Then one of my bodies feels intense heat, and I spot the warlock, shooting a stream of fire at one of the Hunters.

There are only three enemies left in the camp.

The Warlock, and the two highest-leveled bandits. I advance and begin circling them. I watch their faces, they show both fear and defiance.

The warlock casts one last spell as soon as I start lunging toward them.

A ball of white flame flies towards one of the Hunters and blows its left scythe-arm right off.

It doesn't matter, but the pain does make me flinch.

Soon enough everyone but me in this camp is dead.

21 Bandits, and 1 Warlock. Killed in under five minutes by just three drones. This design is a complete success.

Now comes the part I remember that I need to carry the corpses to the processing pool to be able to use them...

I make two more Hunters to go and help with dragging them back. 250 Biomass left.

It takes me a whole day, I manage to get all 22 humanoid corpses back home, as well as all the camp's stuff.

in the meantime, the trio's left, oh well. I'm sure I'll see them again.

I help the Hunters toss the Bandits' now naked bodies into the processing pool, each one granting me 175 points. Apparently, the bandits that I'd gotten from the townspeople back 'home' were damaged enough to be worth less than freshly killed, minimally damaged bodies. I'm still sane enough to know better than to torture lawbreakers.