AutoTerra: Operating Systems

Chapter 21: Call

“Huh?”

“Hah?”

The dust of tree crumbs covered a part of the swamp forest area. From that direction as well, the huge tree that Alpha Mutant Frog had thrown into two after being hit hard from one's head.

Faintly saw the figure of the man behind the thinning dust. Several times he shook his head, feeling a little dizzy after hitting the tree.

“Aduh…. A little dizzy, here. Where my glasses are destroyed again.”

When all the dust has gone away. It was clear the figure had just put on a new pair of glasses that he removed from the system storage.

“Luckily I brought a lot of backup. Things like this happen to me often. I don't know why the target is always my head. Eh?”

The man turned his head, puzzled when he realized that there were many mutant toads silently watching him, and two hunters he did not know were also looking at him with frenzied eyes.

“Oh! There's a hunter, anyway?” He tilted his head. “I'm interrupting, huh?”

Astan and Arni were still in shock on the spot. Can't believe if a tree as big as that could be cut off just hit that guy's head. And that person also ended up doing fine as if nothing had happened to him.

“A-anu…. You okay, Mas?” arni asked started to worry about the man. “What's a bit of concussion?”

Realizing she was being asked by a beautiful girl, a red tinge of blushing appeared on her white cheeks. Makes him a bit misbehaved.

“O-oh…. It's okay, Neng.” He scratched his own neck. “Udah regular got kayak gini.”

“Udah ordinary...?” arni said in disbelief.

Astan was quite curious about the guy, so he tried to peek at his data through the AutoTerra System.

[Name : Grimaelo Adrael Novan]

[Gender Type: Male]

[Age: 20 years]

[Profession : Hunter]

[Lift: Iron]

[Level: 15]

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[Main Weapon: Shotgun Type-A37 (Grade-C)]

[Additional Weapon: -]

[Supporting Weapon: Type-B01 (Grade-B)] Crescent

[General Capability: Martial/Shield Type-1, Martial Type-2]

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[-Strength: 63]

[Agility: 31]

[-Vitality: 40]

[Intelligence: 13]

[-Dexterity: 29]

[-Luck: 10]

“What kind of statistics is this..?” instant murmured confused while looking at that person's data. “But how come he's got Martial and Shield, huh? Not that one person can only have one General Ability?”

Suddenly a Mutant Frog darted towards the man, a howl was about to attack the new prey.

“Awas, Mas!” shout Arni.

The man was still standing there, glimpsing a flash of light from his glasses lens.

When the mutant toad was a little closer to him, the man's storage system took out the Shotgun with a simple design, twisting the weapon for a bit, cocked, and was immediately shot when the mutant toad was already very close in front of him.

In just one shot had made the monster's body shatter formless, flesh and blood splashes spread everywhere, even dirtying some of his clothes and glasses.

“Hey you, Grimaelo,” call Astan from afar with a deep enough voice and a sharp gaze.

“Emm...” The man put his glasses back on. “Call me Grim.”

“Grim, huh..?”

When Grim carried out the attack earlier, Astan had been watching using the system scanner capabilities that exist in AutoTerra.

[Grimaelo User's General Ability is unstable]

[Program Code failed to be detected.].

System monitor obliterated Astan. Apparently true, something was amiss with the arrangement of the General Ability belonging to the red-jacketed man. In the personal data, it reads that Grim has two abilities.

When shooting the enemy earlier, Grim's Martial Ability was already active without any warning from the system. But, since when? Astan also believes that the activation of Martial is not from the Nerve Reflex Reader feature.

“Glodok! Bleeeerrr…. Grubek!” (translation: O frog squad, let's go!)

The three of them turned their heads, seeing the Alpha starting to give special cues to the herd. Automatically all Mutant Frogs who were there again attacked in disorder.

“Bwuah! They attack again?” arni asked frantically while filling up the ammunition of the gun in a hurry.

“Arni, find a safe place to shoot!” instant Command.

Arni disappeared again using Invisible. After all, Astan does not want novice hunters like Arni why-not.

Can be hit using a set of installment machines from Suda later.

Astan started shooting some approaching Mutant Frogs. When he saw another Mutant Frog party approaching Grim, Astan immediately chased one of them, jumping up on the Mutant Frog's back while shooting other frogs chasing behind.

When the Mutant Frog that Astan rode was about to ambush Grim, Astan first jumped at him.

“Here you are, Onta Desert!”

Astan lands right beside Grim, grips his hood, then throws Grim's body away from him. At that moment, the mutant frog fell on Astan.

“Bu-Bung Hunter!” call Grim worried.

Thankfully, Astan was able to withstand the weight of the huge mutant frog with one hand, shoot it to death, then throw it away.

“Shoot, Arni!”

According to the instructions, Arni shot the dying mutant frog somewhere, then shot the other frogs again to protect Astan and Grim even though the damage effect was not much.

“Di-dia..”.

Grim was astonished by the power that Astan possessed. Earlier he had peeked at Astan's personal data through the system, and found that Astan was still in the Iron Rank level 3. But, how could the Iron Rank be able to withstand the weight of such a large Mutant Frog, throwing it with just one hand, even had time to throw himself far enough anyway.

As Grim knew, no Iron Rank hunter had such physical strength, unless he had already entered the Silver or Gold Rank.

Is Astan the same as him?

As Arni tries to protect her from a distance, Astan approaches Grim, clutching back the man's red jacket.

“Listen, Blonde! I don't know what kind of creature you are. And I hate to say that you—.”

“Abang Instant! I can't hold it any longer la— Kyaaa!”

Behind the tree, Arni tries to shoot every Mutant Frog that approaches Astan and Grim, but his position is now ambushed by a frog. Luckily Arni's Nerve Reflex Reader was active, so her body disappeared again and started looking for a safe place while continuing to shoot at Mutant Frog. Sometimes he also threw some grenades that Astan had given to the herd of mutant frogs.

Well, at least the girl is not a burden right now.

Astan again spoke firmly to Grim, “I hate to say this, but you must join my Squad! Now!”

“Eh?”

Grim was astonished by this statement. All his life, no one would want to invite him into the Squad. Only he was the one who always asked the other Squad to let him join.

But, this….

For some reason, whether Grim must be confused or even feel overwhelmed.

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