V1 arrived at the worker complex. Seeing the abomination charge at Thad, V1 countered with a parry from his fist. As the creature lay winded, V1 gestured at N to relocate the workers with Uzi first. Then...
+QUICKDRAW
+QUICKDRAW
+QUICKDRAW
+QUICKDRAW
Swapping between the two shotguns to maximize damage and nullify reloading speed, V1 destroyed its armor. To his delight, blood gushed out. The potent essence of life envigorated him. He continued to blast his guns away at the thing, only retreating when it lashed out with its tentacles, some being an unparriable attack.
"YOU HAVE INDEED BEEN TROUBLESOME. IT IS TIME FOR YOU TO BE DISPOSED OF. NOW."
A female voice devoid of any emotion spoke. Then it tried to crush V1 by forming a riot shield by combining its scrapped armor. A blue flash telegraphed an unparriable attack for V1. Realizing that this attack was fundamentally the same with the Gutterman's shield bash, he readied his knuckleblaster arm.
+GUARD BREAK
+ENRAGED
As the shield broke, the solver of the absolute felt dread and fury. In this state, this manifestation would die off in combat. It needed to gather more material. It ran away, lumbering with its tentacles while the nimble V1 relentlessly gave chase.
"I NEED TO RECALIBRATE THIS PLAN." It thought as it jumped into the vents, altering its form. V1 quickly followed and entered the dark corridors of the vents.
Activating his flashlight, V1 drew out the nailgun. Sliding, he easily maneuvered through the cramped spaces of the vents and came face to face with the creature again. It had morphed into a mass of tendrils that sparked and lunged. Five of the tendrils shot out, trying to impale V1.
+MULTIKILLx5
The shockwave of the knuckleblaster was enough to rend them all apart. Ready to finish this thing off, V1 launched a nail magnet onto the thing. Peppering the creature with nails, V1 noticed that some of the wires in the vents were sparking electricity. Flicking up a coin, he shot it with his revolver. With precise timing, the beam split into two, hitting the sparking wire and the nail magnet. The exploding nails came into contact with the wire, sending an unpleasant shock to the creature.
+CONDUCTOR
+nailbombed
+nailbombed
As the creature lay stunned, V1 parried the bullets from its shotgun into the fleshy mass, causing an explosion.
+PROJECTILE BOOST
Running away, the creature writhed in pain as it tried to recover the damage. V1 didn't give up, still chasing and blasting his shotgun, punching the pellets to maximize damage. Soon, the abomination came to a dead end. As it tried to charge V1, he ejected the cores in his shotgun. Keeping his distance, he fired at it with the sharpshooter revolver. The charged shot hit the airborne core, creating a red explosion and destroying the vents entirely. The two fell, into a classroom filled with workers.
Quickly crushing and dragging the workers, the creature grew in size. V1 noticed this and quickly stopped the thing from gaining more material. After chaining a few coins, he fired a charged shot from his revolver. The coins chained the piercing beam into the beast, burning the flesh and making blood fly everywhere. More fuel for the machine.
As the remaining workers stared in awe, V1 spoke. "Leave this area immediately if you want to live." Forced out of their stupor, the workers ran away. Now in the empty classroom, two creatures of steel remained.
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A machine's guide to Divinity
FanfictionViolence, Fraud. All gone. And with Treachery soon to follow. The machines are decimating everything in its path and Hell itself is on the verge of being wiped out. Or so it seems. Hell was aware of its layers being destroyed, but it didn't care fo...
