AutoTerra: Operating Systems
Chapter 1: Error! (Arc 1, Hunter : Start)
[Now : Arc 1]
[Title : Hunter]
[Status: Loading.].
Electric sparks sprung up in every corner of the corridor that was being passed. Armoured troops roamed along the corridors of this space ship with each rifle in hand, ready to aim for anything dangerous.
It is difficult to see the situation around because it is dark even though each of their advanced helmets activates night vision. Silent, quiet, no signs of life detected. Stepping in vigilance, with doubt, seemed to understand that they could die at any time in this desperate situation.
In silence at the end of the corridor, a white-clothed figure came out from one of the doors, standing in a position turned back to them. Silence, sculpting, without sound.
The leader of the team gave the cue to stop, increasing alertness to the appearance of creatures that look like humans.
“Man?”
“Cannot be. This spacecraft has been out of service for three years.”
“Be careful. We just got here.”
“If not human, will definitely appear data on AutoTe— Information Data Wait a minute, the data panel appears.”
Each one before them appeared a hologram panel containing the data of the mysterious figure.
[Nickname: Illusionist-E]
[Type : Monster]
[Nature : Passive]
[Status: Danger]
[Warning: Being able to injure the victim through the gaze of the eyes. Once exposed will make the victim suffered severe internal injuries]
Shortly after the data panel disappeared, the figure turned around, revealing long, messy hair, open mouth wide-eyed, twitching to and fro staring at some of its targets with blood coming out of the mouth.
“What's—Argh!”
Some of the soldiers who accidentally stared into the eyes of the creature's mouth were instantly affected, falling to the floor with their inner helmets filled with splashes of blood they spewed out.
It is certain that the soldiers who were influenced by the creature have been killed on the spot.
“What happened to them?!”
“They died on the spot due to the influence of the creature earlier.”
The chairman grieved, not expecting that in a shipwreck like this, they would be met with such troublesome creatures.
Illusionary expert beings, this is too troublesome.
“We can't back down. Our primary mission is still not underway. It's only one enemy, won't be time—.”
“GRRRRAAAWWW!!”
“AAAAAA!!!”
A large red tentacle suddenly appeared through the ceiling of the corridor, binding one of the soldiers and carrying him disappeared above.
“Warrior! Argh!!”
The creature suddenly attacked one soldier earlier by twisting his head loose, causing a burst of blood to emerge from the neck that had been severed.
As a result of the movement of the eyed creature in the mouth, the entire team began to be more vigilant.
“Shoot!”
The soldiers managed to shoot the creature until it was destroyed lifeless. Only, among them there were those caught by some tentacles from the ceiling back.
Suddenly some soldiers shot behind the ceiling, but the same fate happened to them, pulled and then brought tentacles to the ceiling. You can see a lot of fresh blood pouring down from the ceiling, wetting the floor to create a puddle.
“Ba-how is this...?!”
[Warning! Attack Attack!]
[Warning! Attack Attack!]
[Warning! Attack Attack!]
Notifications from their system panel continued to sound, signaling that there was a danger of numerous attacks coming.
“Art attack warning..?”
“There are still many monsters ‘kah, here?!”
“Damn it!”
Sure enough, in all the doors of the corridor sprung many creatures of various forms attacking them all, there was a tall thin body with a head in the form of a mouth only, poisonous large spiders, until the reptilian monster armed with iron poles.
The soldiers shot at them all. Some were killed even though they had to be shot as often as possible, while many escaped and attacked other soldiers. The mouth-headed creature slammed the soldier, swallowing him alive leaving his waist to his feet. Spider monsters pounced, biting them to shreds through the mouth in the stomach. Reptile monsters hit soldiers blindly.
“We can't stay here, Chairman! It's disaster!”
The team leader saw that there was a large gate at the end of the corridor that was still tightly closed.
“Ke that gate!”
The remaining team soldiers ran towards that gate while shooting at the monsters that started chasing them.
Upon arrival at the gate, the chairman tried to activate the key panel next to the gate, but could not be active because the key panel had long been damaged.
“Sial! Key panel is broken.”
“Cannot be opened manually?”
“Help me!”
The chief and some of the soldiers attempt to pull a large gate lever embedded in a futuristic motif in the center of the gate, while the other members attempt to protect it by shooting at the monsters.
It took a long time to pull the lever, then they still needed to turn it hard anyway.
“How long was it?” ask one of the soldiers while shooting the spider monster. “We can't hold it for longer.”
“The area is hard, it has rusted anyway!”
The chairman and some of his members kept trying to push the very hard lever of the gate.
“Our colleagues have fallen a lot! Why did you guys last so long, Ketu—.”
Upon turning his head, the soldier was shocked when he found the chairman and the other members who helped open the gate were swallowed by the high-bodied mouth monster. The monsters swallowed the top, plucking out the waist, and one of them smacked the waist towards the soldier until it bounced against the corridor wall.
“Argh!”
He fell sitting down, trying to get up but could not because of the hard impact earlier, plus his growing fatigue.
“Kalian—.”
One-by-one squad members are killed, eaten by mouth monsters, hit by reptile humanoids, attacked by spider monsters, and pulled by mysterious tentacles from every corner unwittingly. And now there was another figure that was now creeping over the only soldier left there.
The soldier looked up with a frightened look, finding a dark shadow figure that only appeared a light yellow eye color, behind which grew many strange black tentacles ready to grip him at any moment.
A moment the system panel pops up, but it only shows warning notifications and glitches.
[Next : Unknown]
[Type : Unknown]
[Nature: Unknown]
[Status: Unknown]
[Danger! Object: Unknown]
[Data Damaged!]
[System Can't Read!]
[Error!]
[Error!]
[Error!]
In those last seconds, the soldier only chuckled bitterly. Until at last a dark look struck and screams of pain echoed along the corridor.
...~*~*~*~...
Darzia Natural Satellite….
Shady forests during the day appear quiet, green, and soothing for some of the fauna that inhabit this habitat. Until when a giant lizard with green skin and silver specks ran through the shade of the forest.
The giant lizard seemed to avoid something that was chasing behind. The reptile's mouth was soiled by fresh blood from its prey, it kept running to the point of uprooting some of the trees and keeping the birds and other rodents away from the forest area.
Before long, there was a loud sound from the continuous firing of an assault rifle. Make the lizard run faster, know if the loud noise is the real threat.
“Don't run you!”
A man jumped from one tree to another with agility. His silver-yellow heterochrome eyes ferociously scoured around the forest, searching for targets that had already deeply troubled him during this forest.
“Me!”
When the target is found running away from it causing a small earthquake around, a hologram panel on the system he is using appears, providing data on the target.
[Name : Giant Gecko]
[Type : Monster]
[Nature : Passive]
[Status: Hard]
[Warning! This monster can launch its tail. If exposed, it can crush the victim's body]
A seulas grin appeared on his beautiful face. “One coincidence...”
The man took a sideways shortcut in order to block the monster.
The giant lizard looked back for a moment. When he looked back to the front, the lizard was surprised to see the arrival of the man already in front of him.
“This is you, Bantet Gecko!!!”
The man jumped while shooting the giant lizard. Due to the pain of being shot and panic as well, the lizard turned its back to the man. Before the man could land on top of his body, his giant tail was thrust towards the man.
“Ap—.”
[Enabling Nerve Reflex Reader System]
[Shield Type-1: Active]
The man's body was instantly enveloped in a blue hologram grain before the lizard's tail finally shot out towards his head. Because it hit his head, the tail was not to dart far, but fell close to the position of the lizard as well.
The man landed first, immediately caught the assault rifle that had escaped from his grasp.
“Thank God, my Reflex Reader is active. Otherwise, it has broken my head, mentally up to the sky there.”
His head bowed with one hand still holding the assault rifle. An ammunition container appears in the hand of a hologram grain created by the system. He immediately refilled his weapon.
[Reville]
Knowing the threat was still in sight, the giant lizard was about to run again. However, the legs of the lizard managed to be shot, so he could not move agile anymore.
The man looked at the monster with a sharp look. It was clearly a stern face with a cut of three branches right on the skin of the left eye sliced silver, making the impression his face looked somewhat sad.
“You!”
The man ran over to the giant lizard while shooting it blindly. Jumping up onto the body of the lizard, continue to run while shooting along its back, until finally the man arrived at the top of the lizard's head.
Not yet the lizard looked up, the muzzle of the assault rifle was pointed at him.
“Yo, you don't deserve to be here, man,” said the man casually, but his gaze remained piercingly sharp. “Your presence.... will only damage the habitat and ecosystem here!”.
“MATI YOU, PEST!!!”
Then followed by the sound of consecutive shots filled the tranquility of the forest, disturbing the peace of the animals there.
….
A piece of gum is removed from the wrapper, tossed into the air, and caught directly into the mouth. The man chewed his gum while standing alone next to the dead Giant Gecko's huge corpse with its head and neck smashed in blood and flesh decomposed.
For a moment his eyes saw the lizard's loose tail still lying nearby. Then his gaze was obstructed by the appearance of notifications from the system's hologram panel.
[Mission succeeded!]
[A]
[Score: 1,300]
[Gift: Giant Gecko Tail, 1 Green Crystal]
[For payment transactions can be made in Guilds]
“That's free, huh?”
He reached into the small crystal from his pants pocket, noticing the green glow that was seen as a result of being exposed to the central starlight of the solar system during the day.
“The price is also not how.”
The crystal disappears into the hologram granules, automatically stored into the system storage.
The man's prank opened up his status data on the hologram panel, reading it from start to finish.
[Name : Atan Pradipta Cornell]
[Gender Type: Male]
[Age: 23 years]
[Profession : Hunter]
[Lift: Iron]
[Level: 3]
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[Main Weapon: Assault Riffle Type-33 (Grade-C)]
[Additional Weapon: -]
[Supporting Weapon: Type-07 Dagger (Grade-C)]
[General Capability: Shield Type-1]
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[-Strength: 31]
[-Agility: 24]
[-Vitality: 39]
[Intelligence: 16]
[-Dexterity: 21]
[-Luck: 17]
“Still oja o’on,” his comment, “Moreover his luck. It is only possible to shake the tail of a bantet gecko.”
“But...”.
He looked back at the corpse of a giant lizard.
“At least it needs a Bronze Rank intermediate level in order to defeat a single Hard level monster. Why can I defeat him as if all the hunting I've done so far has been very ordinary?”
Astan crossed his arms while hugging his rifle.
“Padah, for six months joining the Guild I rarely hunt. If often, it must have reached bronze.”
From a distance there was a small rumbling sound. Glancing slightly, Astan saw the appearance of a reddish-black portal in the sky.
“Dungeon, yes..?”
With a relaxed face, Astan blew his gum until it bulged.
...~*~*~*~...
