Fractal Plane: Awakener's Pact

Chapter 11 - Assimilator's Core

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Sayaka Uehara cannot believe what she had just heard. Dr. Kagami was not the first of his kind. In her three-year investigation of the Fragments, she had encountered a couple of people with a similar way of thinking, grasping at powers beyond their reach.

However, trying to do so is pure folly. Mu's power, as experience has told her, is not something to be harnessed and used on a whim.

As her thoughts floated to people she saw harnessing the power of Nullities, the ever-familiar silhouette of that familiar person resurfaced, just as it had when she first laid eyes on the classmate she saved from the jaws of death.

She promptly forgot about the fatigue wearing down on her. She had just gone through the horde of Nullities that Dr. Kagami was planning to send outside.

Dealing with some of them is easy, but with the sheer amount of low-level Nullities she had to go through, even she felt it taking toll on her.

Now, her pinpoint focus was on the mad doctor. Much of her peripheral vision blotted out due to her pinpoint focus, and she started hearing her own panting breaths.

How could someone who calls himself a doctor treat human life like tools? Only means to an end, even if such an end could be what some would ask for.

"You're not gonna take the first move?" mocked Dr. Kagami. "Fine."

He snapped his fingers, the spider began advancing in a flurry of steps. Unlike the scorpion, the black widow's steps were deft and nimble.

The sight of a venomous spider with legs twice as tall as a person would make anyone flinch, but Uehara held her ground.

Seeing the charge, she moved to the side in order to get a flank. As she gracefully moved, she caught a better glimpse of the visor on Dr. Kagami's face.

Her gaze caught the runic lights that blinked on and off repeatedly on the equipment.

That thing must be what he is using to control the Nullities. Is that an Armament? A non-combat type, too?

Sayaka Uehara had no time to confirm her answer to that. There are more pressing matters at hand.

She ran in a circular path down the slope towards the center of the amphitheater. Seeing the black widow a few meters to her side, she set her sights to the human opponent.

However, her feet screeched to a stop at the moment when she saw the gigantic shadow go after her. Spinning back, she delivered a horizontal slash to one of the legs of the spider that had begun rushing to the defense of its master.

The sound of her katana cleaving Nullity flesh registered in her ear, but she looked on with shock to see the slender right leg of the spider intact, having sustained nothing less than a typical flesh wound.

I can sense that it's still a Class B, but it's a lot tougher than I thought.

It did not look like it at first, but the spider's legs were surprisingly hardy. Uehara figured that it had to do with the plates, giving it defense on par with the much bulkier-looking scorpion.

She stared at it and saw a lean tank of plates. Her opponent had legs and a head that were completely protected by those plates.

I need more firepower for this.

She grabbed the hilt of her katana and focused. Her blood boiled at the opponent and the Nullity in front of her, and she intended to finish the fight in an instant.

She felt the sensation of her mana flowing into the weapon, and she prepared to activate her Armament's ability.

Crimson Lust.