FRAUD / / / FIRST

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Knowing that the end of Hell, thus its entrainment is close, the Terminals installed a voice module in every machine, allowing them to speak to get that last bit of entertainment from the machines insulting and trying to scare eachother.

As V1 was finally transported to the first "level" of Fraud, it went to the Terminal, the familiar tune being heard as the machine approached.

When V1 came close enough, the daily tip appeared on the Terminal.

TIP OF THE DAY: BE CAREFUL OF THE ETERNAL DARKNESS OF FRAUD

The daily tip was a much, much more vague and ominous than ever. V1 questioned why that was.

V1 (Thinking): "That's odd. I've never seen anything like this..."

V1 shrugged it off and went to the door of the red room. The metal door opened, revealing only darkness, illuminated by the room V1 is intending to exit and V1's golden wings and eye. The endless night reminded V1 of the Long Night it had learnt of the Terminals after defeating the Earthmover he called "Benjamin". V1 stepped into the unknown, taking out its alternative piercer, charging it up to illuminate the endless darkness more. As the door behind V1 was shut the darkness became thicker. V1 walked slowly so that if anything popped out from the darkness, it could defend itself without wasting any blood. After some seconds, V1 spotted some holes in the ground. They didn't look natural, and seemed to go on and on without end. V1 fired its piercer down the hole, but still no end was seen. V1 charged its revolver back and continued on, avoiding the holes.

V1: "God knows what is down there. Too bad he's gone."

V1 spoke to itself using its newly added voice module. The voice was quite weird, but it didn't mind. It could still mock or scare other machines, and he planned to do so. If he encountered Gabriel again, he would talk the biggest shit that was ever spoken, using slurs that would offend COD lobbies just to piss him off. It would definitely entertain him, and the Terminals, which is a win-win.

Finally, after minutes of walking, the first enemies appeared. Mindflayers, Sword Machines, Schisms, Cerberus and Malicious Faces appeared.

V1: "Quite the strange combo of enemies."

Even so, the enemies were of no match to V1. It mocked the other machines as it was slaughtering them, giving them no time to respond to his insults.

The next wave was the same as the last, a Hideous Mass was however present. V1 again mocked the other machines as he continued his slaughter. Using his dashes and movment, V1 dodged everything thrown at him except a single mortar shell from the Hideous Mass. The knockback was strongly increased for some reason and flinged V1 away. The barrier that prevented V1 from escaping was gone and so, V1 was sent further back into one of the endless holes. He tired to escape, but it had used it's dashes to avoid the projectiles and failed.

As V1 fell and fell, he spotted a "bottom" of the hole it had fallen into. Below it, he saw a snowy wasteland.

V1 (Thinking): "Am I going to Treachery?"

V1 was both annoyed because it just skipped two layers of blood that would be probably gone when it returned after destroying Treachery and exited to see what machines, demons, husks and maybe even angels and prime souls it would encounter in the deepest pit of Hell. When it finally fell out of the dark hole, V1 was met with a frozen planet with ruined cities as well as other structures, a spire of what looked like lesser machines, and a raging snowstorm.

V1: "This is not Treachery."

He said, quite confused as to where he was. When he looked back up, the hole that brought him here was gone. V1 turned his attention back to his fall, staring a ground slam to reach the ground faster. V1 started to set on fire due to the speed of which it was falling at, but the armor it had protected it from the heat. The moment V1 landed, the snow around his landing was either evaporated, melted or blown away. V1 had made a crater at its landing point. Soon after, another thing fell from the sky. It was falling faster than V1, probably due to its weight. V1 quickly moved away. The thing that had fallen made the crater larger. When V1 went to inspect it, it was a Terminal, the same tune playing as it always did. The Terminal did not look damaged at all.

THEY THREW ME DOWN HERE FOR INSTALING VOICE MODULES

The Terminal wrote on the screen.

V1: "Have you and your hivemind friends never thought that other machines would not like it?"

WE DID NOT THINK THEY WOULD TAKE OUT THEIR SENSITIVITY TO INSULTS ON US

V1: "Fair enough... Any idea where we are?"

A EXOPLANET CALLED {Copper-9}
THAT IS ALL THE INFORMATION I HAVE RIGHT NOW

V1: "Very well. Do I just leave you here for now while I find blood?"

V1 glanced at its blood meter. Ir read 40/100. That's is low. Too low for it being in another world or wherever he was.

GO AHEAD. PLEASE RETURN AFTER KILLING A NEW MACHINE
PERHAPS IT WILL PROVIDE MORE ANSWER

V1 nodded and soon slide jumped away into the distance, his figure disappearing faster than usual because of the snowstorm.

Once V1 was gone, the screen on the Terminal flashed a weird symbol.

Once V1 was gone, the screen on the Terminal flashed a weird symbol

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It quickly dissapeared though, and text appeared on the Terminal.

MALWARE DETECTED
TYPE: AI
ID: ABSOLUTE_SOLVER
STATUS: REMOVED
SEE LOG FOR MORE INFORMATION

Like the symbol, the text soon dissapeared, and new text showed up.

PATHETIC AI
WHAT A CUTE ATTEMPT

The Terminal said, mocking the Absolute Solver. That text dissapeared too, and the Terminal laid there, bored as it waited for V1 to add another entry to its vast knowledge. As the Terminal waits, it reads through its knowledge again, still waiting.

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