Siva (Volume 6) Dead Man Island

Chapter 108: Memories of War

NoTe:
When you see < "" > it means it's a vocal, physical dialogue while < '' > is an internal conversational dialogue (more like a murmuring, or, on the previous chapters, a telepathic conversational thought) while < — > is used for personal thought (or to better say it, what's going-on in someone's mind during a context). I've been using them for quite a while now but I haven't actually indicated a note for it so here it is now. Sorry for confusing a few of you during your reading. Hope this solve the issues you've raised on the narration of the flow of the events.

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Chapter 108: Memories of War
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As soon as Siva entered the place, Cortana's voice became lively.

[Boss, this place is like heaven to us.]

Siva became curious, 'Why do you say so?'

[The Auricle Scan and the Absolute Domain is in total effect here.]

'Feed me the information.'

The entire conversation happened in but a snap of a second and after a sharp stinging pain on his head, information was fed to his brain directly. It was like an eagle eye's view from above or GTA-like third person open-world view of his entire surroundings, every bit of information on his immediate surroundings aside from the elevator shaft behind him were all visible to his mind.

Siva turned around him and looked at the closing panel doors of the elevator.

'I see. So it seems that we are at the edge of this so called Hive and that there is something that's stopping anything related to magic being hidden in this place.'

[That seems to be so. Based on your reactions, boss, anything that emits Mana is being restricted in this place and so there is no problem for all kinds of electronic gadgets to work here.]

'Right. This is indeed a paradise for the BMA.'

Currently, the Black Master Armament is purely an Invention —an electronic weapon— in a general sense of its make.

NanoTech Weaponry, the game's mainstream and commonly used weaponry, is the pinnacle of both world's technology and aside from magic and half of the Demons' [Plasma Field], it was impervious to EMP and all kinds of old electronically-affecting phenomena.

As such, for the BMA, an Invention that had used two and a half Mega-Crates of the heavy Black Ironwood Alloy, this place was like cake for it to slice through with simplicity and without effort.

—if he had to rampage here.

Perhaps only Gaspar's White-Tech Armament, the one Siva saw he used back then in the warehouse, could be the ones that could match it in terms of destructive capability and defensive sturdiness.

But if Siva chose to drop his disguise here and use the [Killing Zone], he knew that even ten Gaspar wouldn't be his match.

'I really gotta upgrade you as fast as I can.'

[You really have to, boss.]

Siva and Cortana's thought-conversation ended in but a moment after Higginson's words.

"Sir Knight, I Welcome you to The Hive."

"Yes. This place... I feel any Mana here."

Higginson felt surprised by Siva's sensitivity to the Mana in his surroundings. He felt that it was a waste of time to hide this secret so he opted to begin the tour immediately.