Han Wu and Kerry were about to enter the Steel Forest through the wall gate when guards blocked them. A total of twenty guns and the four cannons on the gate were pointed at them. One wrong move and they would shoot Han Wu and the others to dust.
After talking to them, Han Wu and Kerry learned that there was an entrance fee for the Steel Forest. Dealing with automatons in restricted zones benefited the Lawless Civilization. Han Wu thought it excessive that they had to pay a fee.
Unfortunately, they didn’t have enough Enercoins on them, so they had to sell off whatever they had on hand. Han Wu, Bart, and Akanzor even sold the chanical pieces they had equipped just to pay the fee.
Nevertheless, they managed to scrounge up enough to enter the Steel Forest. The lack of chanical parts ant little to the trio, and they weren’t afraid at all. Once inside, Akanzor and Bart retrieved their weapons from within Kerry’s automatons.
Kerry gripped her two revolvers, keeping a watchful eye on their surroundings while her four automatons also equipped their weapons. Each had a unique weapon: a rifle, a Gatling, a grenade launcher, and a rocket launcher, respectively.
Only Han Wu remained unard. As a World life form, his physical flesh could naturally withstand bullets, so he wasn’t really worried.
Kerry noticed that he hadn’t equipped anything. Assuming that he had failed to sufficiently prepare before coming, she carefully shielded him behind her to prevent him from getting dragged into battles. If Han Wu knew her thoughts, he would’ve told her it was unnecessary and even torn apart an automaton with his bare hands to prove his point.
Han Wu spread his senses around to look for enemies as they carefully moved forward. The Steel Forest was trickier than he expected. There was sothing special here that limited his senses to only a hundred-ter radius.
It seed restricted zones weren’t that simple after all.
Looking around, he noticed that even the trees had been chanized. Their trunks were solid tal, with branches of hollow tal pipes and leaves of steel sheets. The na Steel Forest was apt.
There were also automatons living within the trees.
They beca agitated the mont they detected Han Wu’s team. Han Wu sensed a squirrel-shaped automaton charging toward them long before Kerry even detected it.
The automaton squirrel had been boring holes into a tree with its gnashing chanical teeth, effortlessly tearing 20mm steel plates into pieces. tal scraps lay in piles around the tree.
“Careful, up north,” Han Wu warned.
Kerry quickly swiveled around to see an automaton squirrel leaping from a tree. She swiftly shot off half of the squirrel’s head, revealing crackling wires within. Surprisingly, even with half its head missing, the squirrel still got up to attack again.
“Ti to show you sothing powerful then,” Kerry mumbled, body flashing as she infused a purple energy into her revolver. “Death Blow!”
Raising her revolver, she shot the squirrel’s head once again, this ti blowing it off completely. The force of the Skill shook the squirrel’s body until it shattered into tallic pieces.
Several shining parts from the disassembled body of the squirrel floated into the air. Kerry then waved her hand and swept those parts into her pockets.
“What are those shiny things?” Han Wu asked curiously.
“These are a special product of the Lawless Civilization called Energy Parts,” Kerry explained. “They’re chanical parts ford from solidified energy. They’re extrely durable and can be used as regular chanical parts. Their special effect of exhausting extra energy to improve their performance also cos in handy during critical monts.”
How strong would an automaton constructed purely from Energy Parts be? Han Wu quietly wondered.
Sensing the direction of his thoughts, Kerry added, “Automatons made entirely from Energy Parts are extrely valuable. Not only do they have better weapons, but they also have effects that regular automatons do not.”
Han Wu’s interest was piqued. “What kinds of effects?”
“They can equip multiple chips! Automatons can equip chips, just like us. However, regular automatons can only equip one, while an automaton made entirely from Energy Parts can equip multiple.”
Even from that brief explanation, Han Wu could tell how powerful an automaton with multiple chips could be. Having another chip ant an additional function. That alone made them better than their peers of the sa rating.
“What are we waiting for? Let’s collect as many Energy Parts as we can to construct one!” Han Wu exclaid eagerly.
Kerry nodded, using her four automatons to destroy anything they could find. Fear stemd from insufficient firepower, and ard as they were, they could take down enemy automatons with ease. None could endure the bombardnt for more than three minutes.
As they killed more automatons, Han Wu suddenly realized that the atmosphere around them was different. Sothing had changed.
The others, including the Heavenrender-ranked Kerry, didn’t detect anything amiss. In fact, they were confused as to why Han Wu had stopped moving forward.
“Ms. Kerry, sothing’s wrong.”
Kerry glanced around and found nothing that roused her suspicions. “What’s wrong? Everything seems normal to .”
The mont she said that, horrifying screeches echoed from the steel trees around them. The steel trees were moving!
Wiry tal roots tore themselves out of the ground, wrapping around the trunks to form legs. The steel leaves of the trees spun like the blades of chainsaws, shredding everything they ca into contact with.
The massive steel trees lumbered closer on their heavy feet, attacking Han Wu’s group with their chainsaw leaves!
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