181 Tue – New Order (6)
‘I feel lost about the growth of the entire corps…that’s right. That’s what I admit. Now we’re in a mixed state.’
As if feeling something, Eve acknowledged and accepted that she lacked something, unlike a being who was united with pride.
And I had the same thought. After entering space, or more precisely, after uniting with me, the most important thing for Eve was not the growth of the corps, who was also herself.
Perhaps it is one of the side effects of having a higher ego. Clearly, Eve’s actions began to appear as a result of prioritizing the growth of her own hive mind, which is the hive mind, over the growth of the entire corps.
It was also the starting point for the Legion to become closer to humans, causing contradictions based on various emotions and desires, rather than indiscriminate monsters that gradually bring destruction.
‘Growth is inevitable, it cannot be avoided, Eve. You are more mature than when you were in the labyrinth of Eden, more than right after you left the labyrinth. Even if you don’t like the results compared to the past, the fact that you don’t grow and don’t evolve is a shortcut to selection that you hate so much.’
‘I know that.’
I wondered if Eve would go back to the past, thinking that now was wrong.
Clearly, Eve of the past was destructive and cruel. The collaboration of rushing emotions and thorough calculations thoroughly, trampled and trampled on his interferers.
However, it is true that Eve, who has experienced many things since then, has grown her ego, and has become a little dull compared to the blade of the past, instead of gaining diversity.
‘right. I don’t have the root to get back. Because the foundation is being created now. But it is true that it needs to be reorganized. Richard, his way is quite interesting to me.’
Eve liked the new system I built, especially Richard’s way. For a moment, I wondered if Eve was coveting Richard, but when I thought about it, Eve didn’t need Submind’s cooperation or consent in the first place.
Submind is part of the corps. And Eve is the legion itself. Unlike me, who is an imperfect hive mind, it is not a matter of moving the power within the corps.
It was easier than flipping the palm of your hand to take the newly designed system that Richard reported to me, or the blueprints of mass-produced legionaries from the Hive consciousness.
‘What are you going to do with that? It’s something we’re still testing on our side. Above all, they were produced only according to the environment and terrain of the Demon Realm, so the efficiency would be poor in other places.’
‘I’m not saying I’m going to completely copy these. to accept feedback. ‘
Eve giggled and laughed. It was certain that he had decided on something. There was no way for me to stop Eve from taking our achievements. The initial support I received from Eve in the first place was also significant.
‘First of all, this command system, I must have. If that’s the case, I’ll be able to loosen the limit hanging on me one step further. Currently, the maximum number of objects I can manipulate simultaneously is 6,689,478,127 objects by simple calculation. If it’s a calculation, I don’t have to control it in real time, so it’s possible to be called 100 times or more.’
‘Eh, I can’t even fill half of it anyway due to lack of energy.’
‘Energy is a secondary matter. I just want to tidy up the lost internal system. overwhelming numbers of troops. Obviously that’s one of our strengths. Maybe it can be a new stimulus to the flow of the battlefield that has begun to stagnate somewhere..’
Blessings to those who will face Eve’s Legion in the future. I didn’t know how much the Legion’s wave of refining the new internal system would be.
“The main unit took my system. It’s not bad. If that’s the case, wouldn’t it be possible to get more data?”
‘Is that so?’
“Besides, if that’s the case, they’d use it better than me. Maybe the system itself could be further evolved.”
After hearing my story with Eve, Richard thought Eve’s reaction positively. In the first place, Richard’s main purpose is to make his experiments and research successful.
“Now I can see the situation on the battlefield. As per the calculation, the ground forces of the Federation fight fiercely, but they cannot defeat us.”
At Richard’s words, I focused on the gaze of the flying bell that was hovering in the air for reconnaissance.
On the ground, the black waves crashed through shells and fire nets with their bodies, and were in the process of swooping through the panicked enemies.
“I must have been puzzled. I must have been surprised. And the panic would soon turn into fear. Legionnaires have no fear. The natural survival instinct of creatures? There is none. In my view, this is the most powerful weapon the Legion has. If the Hivemind, the master of the Death Legion, loses its instincts and acts like a human, it will eat its strengths.”
‘There were certainly a lot of scenes that benefited from emotions.’
“Of course it is. And so far I don’t think it matters. I’m just talking about the future.”
‘If that’s a concern, there’s no problem. After taking the command system, Eve will no longer control the legionaries herself.’
I knew what Richard meant. But I wasn’t worried.
It was true that Eve’s increasingly diversified and complexly growing ego affects the mass-produced Legionnaires, who are the main pillars of the Legion, but that will be supplemented anyway.
“Then all that’s left is to wipe out this demon realm!”
He giggled and laughed. I looked at it and stuck out my tongue. In a way, he is probably the smartest person in us. However, the image of a young, capable, and sober elite that I had heard of when I first saw him has now been completely blown away.
*
“The main unit! The main unit, please respond!”
“Wrong…too many!”
The hot sun that heats the earth slowly passes. The battle that began with the Dawning had continued until now.
A soldier who was holding the communicator mounted on the helmet over his head cried out, but the communicator remained silent as if it had already been damaged.
Another soldier standing by, half-consciously, fired his rifle in front of him.
Large and bizarre bugs that jumped over the broken tank came crashing down with their jaws that smashed even people in nanosuits at once, and then they were hit by bullets and fell down, spilling thick bodily fluids.
“Cuckoo…”
However, the insects that fell by direct bullets were only a handful compared to the whole.
While the bullets were running out, he collided head-on with one, he missed the gun and fell to the floor. All of a sudden, pampas grass and pointed legs were pressing down on his chest.
“You motherfucker… Die! Please!”
He cut off his leg with a plasma cutter pulled out of his suit, but this gigantic worm with one leg cut off, as if painless, crushed his arm with the other without the slightest sway and sealed the sword.
“ah…”
The worm’s jaws, with its gigantic jaws wide open, scraped the floor and rushed towards his neck from both sides. When he saw those indifferent red eyes, it was only then that he had an intuition.
The monsters they are dealing with are real monsters that are fundamentally different from the demonic beasts they have been chasing out so far.
‘Advance, and annihilation.’
With his head separated from his body very lightly, this worm thought only one thing in any situation. With only five legs, he quickly set the next target and rushed to it.
“Run… Retreat! Retreat!”
“When is the replacement support coming!?”
Once the defense line was broken, it was pushed all the way to the end without stopping. These bugs, if they could move even if the shells exploded and were hit by bullets, would move forward and run at the soldiers of the Federation.
What’s more problematic than that huge number is the fear that comes from this heterogeneity. Even though they had no experience in combat with these beings, the fear that fell more easily broke even the last resistance that they had endured with excellent equipment and firepower.
“Aww!”
The one who was holding on by firing machine guns at the bugs that were rushing on the mount, another mount in front of me couldn’t stand it and was covered with bugs, and the pilot pulled it out and saw that it was mutilated and killed.
“How crazy… ahhh!”
“It’s pierced!”
The legionnaires did not miss it, and whether they died or not, they crumpled themselves into it, and opened the gap.
The jaws of the legionaries who dug into the formation collapsed with fear flashed, and the corpses of the Alliance soldiers that were shattered and penetrated when their legs were swung were piled up on the floor.
There were already only ghastly corpses and destroyed equipment around.
A terrible catastrophe created by locusts that leaves nothing behind in the past. A catastrophe worthy of it was now being reproduced here.