Siva (Volume 6) Dead Man Island

Chapter 156: It's All For Naught

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Chapter 156: It's All For Naught
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[That is, if they see you, boss.]

'Even if they don't, I've been going in a straight line from the day I re-entered this world until now and it was a trip that is bound to collide with some people that will not tolerate a strong competition like me in their path. I'm only half way through it, and I still got a long road ahead... I knew it myself. I'll eventually clash with those people sooner or later. It may not be now, but I will...'

Here, he paused and clenched his fists, "Because I will keep gathering enough resources to establish Asgard as a haven for while Baron is recuperating, and that is aside to the mission that AG had given to me. Because I am aware that I will need unique resources and there will always be competition for them, my clash against those people is inevitable."

AG knew about the 'split personality' and he wasn't that much affected by it. To AG, this current Siva will subside, and the 'other guy' will come back.

So he just had to pretend by then. After all, he was aware of everything.

In concept, [he] had seen everything through the eyes of the world's Rex Kingsley.

[You're saying that because there is a possibility that those 'clashes' you speak of may include large names and renowned individuals, since they're the majority, once they brand you as evil, there is not a thing you can do to change it?]

Siva gave her a nod, 'That is a fact.' and Cortana showed an expression as if she had understood something.

It was something, so to speak.

Cortana had unparalleled data-gathering abilities as she can access the Net anytime she wants. But she was nodding right now with a face of a student.

What Cortana lacked that she can never be able to naturally have, is insight. She can calculate and she can predict all she can; she can theorize and she's unparalleled in the matter of profiling, but she can never share a hint of 'insight' for she lacked what a true person has, a soul —or what a soul is defined to people's perspectives.

Siva found it secretly amusing.

[I've learned something valuable, sir.]

'But just in case, I need you to be ready for it.'

[I will pull out my processing resources to build a plan for you sir, starting now.]

Siva glanced at her and smiled, 'It's a progressive plan, then, to allow us room for any adjustments.'

The talk went on for a good minute or so as Siva and she didn't 'talk' using their neural link.

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"And this should be the last one..."

The sheer size of the mothership's torso was really large but as time ticked by, more and more players and NPCs flew up and collected scraps along with a disguised Siva.

Minor fights broke out here and there. Siva chose to change how he looked since he 'scanned' that there were no eyes watching him within the 5km area closest to his location.

Siva concentrated his efforts to the central area to where the central region's special metals were all concentrated. He was really infatuated in that new alloy that it was so hard and durable, even his full forced attacks only dented it a little.

[Liberty Drones have been deployed and the scan results indicated that this should be the last chunk of that's left of the mothership's central region.]