Warrior Terminator

Towards Mayall Village — II

Their journey has taken a few days. That night they rested in the city of Andromeda, not in the middle of the city, but near a collection of houses a little far from the main residential area.

They did not set up a tent. Just lying under a tree with a makeshift pedestal as well as a small campfire was enough for them. Like young children, Alpha-Ursa cannot immediately rest their bodies, enthusiasm for their first trip keeps them awake until midnight.

Ursa used it to train her body. While Alpha, he is still busy with his desire to master the mimicry technique. His sleeping horse he made as an object of research. He observed the details of the animal's body with great precision.

He was able to imitate the shape of the horse, but only that. Aspects possessed by the body of the horse is still not mastered, such as movement, speed, or endurance of the horse's body. If only imitating it will not be that difficult, but the mimicry technique is not only limited to that, if it succeeds in doing so then it is a great achievement.

The way light works is by studying the shape of an object and imitating it. Sounds easy, but not as easy as expected. It takes a lot of concentration to do it. Because if not then the power of the light emitted would not be as effective and efficient as the original weapon.

For example, imitating the shape of a sword. First of all, you must learn the properties of the sword material by enveloping the original sword using the power of light. The power of light that covered the entire surface of the sword would propagate on each of its molecules, study and understand them, then only be able to imitate them. It can be said to be successful if the power of light has not only the same shape but also the most accurate resemblance to the original object used as a model.

In other words, not only identical appearance but also density, sharpness, strength, endurance, and so forth are exactly the same as the original model. This also applies to moving things. The ease of that makes someone with the power of light always have a weapon.

While the use of light power applied to the original weapon will strengthen the original weapon, not only its strength or durability, but the function of the prowess of the weapon. Like the Diphda technique called Fire Claw, he only carried one sword, but the power of light was able to make the sword blade increase thus increasing its prowess.

Not only did it get there, when someone with the power of light was already great enough then they could combine several properties of different objects into one of their techniques. An example is Joa, he combines the properties of walls and sticky liquids and then makes it a unique technique called Sticky Wall.

Such imitation techniques are basically already great. But unfortunately these methods can only be used against inanimate objects. To imitate living things, it takes abilities far above that, because the elements that make up living things are not as simple as inanimate objects. That is why making the mimicry technique that Alpha is learning today a great difficult technique.

‘Fire Dragon Technique belongs to Ms. Diphda is pretty cool. It was not a mimicry technique, just an ordinary imitation technique combined with his imagination, but just like that was already great. If I could master this mimicry technique on that horse then I would have an amazing new technique. Even without a horse I can make a horse whenever I want. That would be very useful.’

Alpha is excited. He could not wait to master the new technique he planned. Alpha patted his horse gently, then with a gentle whisper he offered praise for the horse.

“Oi.” Okul called out to him coldly. “Sleep. Tomorrow we must continue our journey. Let me change guard.”

“O-oh, yes... alright,” he replied in shock. Alpha's closing in on the campfire. He had a glance to look for Ursa, it turns out that the young man had slept first near Algol. Alpha lying face up. The cloudless sky scattered the stars and the crescent moon hung brightly. “Beautiful..” muttered Alpha then slowly started falling asleep.

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The air was so cold that morning. The dew stuck to the grass made Alpha squirm uncomfortable. For the sake of adding warmth to his body he willingly rubbed his hands into his bent knees. The effort did not produce many benefits, even making it more awake, coupled with the noise that was nearby.

‘Noisy sound?!’

Alpha jerks awake. He stood up straight. His eyes were circling where they were. How shocked he was to see a bunch of ramplites pointing at them.

Just as he mounted his horses when a circular swing flashed over his head, the swing left a thin circle trail that a second later exploded. The explosion killed the ramplites who were two meters tall at a time.

“Blowout..” Alpha looked behind him nimbly. Okul stood up while lowering his right hand that was pointing upwards. “Vice Captain Okul...” murmured. Alpha then rushed over with sparkling eyes. “So it's a great technique! I just saw him this time. You never showed it when you fought against us.”

“Because it is not a suitable technique for one-on-one combat.”

“Ah, so, I get it. I want that technique. Please teach me.”

“Wow. Ramplite bodies everywhere. I woke up shocked by the sound of the explosion. I guess it must have been Vice Captain Okul,” said Ursa who was still sitting in her bed again. “Ah, good morning, Vice Captain, Alpha.”

“Alpha. Ursas. Wake up Diphda and Kraz. Then help them clean up this mess. I want to go to the river for a while,” he said.

“Ready!”

They immediately carry out Okul's orders. After Diphda and Kraz woke up they spread the refreshment powder onto the ramplite corpses. Freshener powder is a kind of fertilizer made from natural minerals as well as plants that have light strength content that is absorbed from nature. Minerals and plants are processed using the power of light, processed in such a way as to form a powder like fertilizer.

The bodies of the ramplites are the main pollution on Earthland. The bodies of the imperfect creatures would have decayed less than a day since his death. The reason why the decay is so fast is because the origin of the ramplite itself is the bodies of humans, animals, and plants that have died.

If the decomposing bodies of ramplite are not immediately handled it will damage the surrounding nature. The lands become barren, the animals and plants will die, and even more strange is that the corpses will turn into dead trees. That is a tree that grows without leaves and fruit, only in the form of stems and black branches that smell bad.

That is why powder is made. The powder was created with the aim of preventing natural damage from the corpses of the ramplites.

The use is very easy. Only by sprinkling the powder evenly into the corpses of ramplite, so the soil will remain fertile and will not lose life in it. Even decomposed ramplite bodies will turn into fertilizer for the soil. The price of powder is quite expensive. It is also a mandatory logistics for military members if they fight in the Padgontry area.

Alpha was observing the corpse of a ramplite lying on the ground. The Ramplite that Okul had just defeated was a low-level third-ranked ramplite. The ones where the ramplite lacked intelligence, fought only on instinct, not so strong or fast, but clustered in large herds.

‘They are not powerful creatures. It is just right, Mr. Okul can beat it easily, but still the technique that was very cool. If only I could learn that technique—ah, no, no, no! Right now I need to focus on my mimic technique first. Don't think about anything else, Alpha! Focus on one goal!’

Ursa who was secretly observing her close friend could only snort amusedly. Alpha has a funny face as he is busy arguing with himself. Ursa bet that the young man with the unique eye color was not aware that he showed a very clear expression read.

“Isn't he that stupid? If his face was like that then the enemy could easily guess what he was thinking.”

“You're right, Ms. Diphda.”

Finished with their work to clean up the bodies of the ramplite squads had breakfast in the form of fresh fish that Okul caught in the river. He also brought water for his colleagues to drink and to clean themselves. Algol was the last to wake up. Waking up late was his bad habit, but no one reprimanded him because he was the captain.

Then after the sun is high enough they continue the journey. The journey was very smooth. There was only a small accident from Alpha who did not give up trying to master the mimicry technique on his horse. Quite peaceful. Even the disturbance this morning was not considered a major event by anyone except Alpha who secretly turned out to want a fight against the ramplite.

After a few days of driving they finally got out of Andromeda City and into the neighboring city, Large Magellanic Cloud City. Just like before, they also did not use the city's main road in order to speed up the journey to the Small Magellanic Cloud.

That day, when they had taken half as much time, Alpha still fell from his horse so many times that Algol forbade him from learning the technique so as not to slow down the journey. They had also entered the territory of Small Magellanic Cloud Village, suddenly, Algol stopped his team when he noticed something hiding behind the shadow of the tree in front of them watching very carefully.

“Captain, what is it?” ask Ursa from behind Algol.

“Beware.”

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