Chapter 589: Return of Alina
The old witch with her disheveled hair went silent for a few seconds before laughing out loud like a maniac, "Hahahahaha, why didn't I think of it before?" She then looked back at the young man whom she feared earlier, "I have a way to kill him too. I need your cooperation in invoking the forbidden spell of witchcraft."
Shi En didn't say anything and just silently stared at the witch, who started muttering various words in a disoriented speech like a maniac. She went past him and collected various things from all over the room before finally taking out a needle that looked identical to the one that pierced earlier.
Upon reaching the place of what seemed like a perfect blindspot, she threw the needle precisely aiming for Shi En's neck. The needle was about to pierce him but Shi En tilted his head at the last moment and the needle evaded the target.
"Sh*t…" the witch couldn't help but curse inwardly as her plan failed. She quickly made her way toward the exit. However, she couldn't even go a couple of steps and a hand pierced her back, grabbed her heart, and forcefully brought it out.
*Thud*
She fell to the floor at once and turned into a corpse.
Shi En looked at the body coldly and crushed the heart into a bloody pulp, "Hmpf, do you take me for a fool or something? Just because I was willing to give you another chance, do you think you can try to kill me and present my body to your beloved client? No one in the world deserves a third chance. But, don't worry, I will send your client to the spirit realm to keep you company."
Meanwhile, after dropping Feng Wu at his palace, Mark refused his lunch invitation and hurriedly left for his private island.
Once he reached the factory, he carried an unconscious Alina to the experiment rooms, where the mechanical Cerberus Alina was seen busy monitoring the weapon production.
"Hey, Alina." "Big Bro! "*Gasp* "That's my body…" Alina charged toward him in excitement,
"Where did you find it?" "Is it in a good state?" "Looks that way" "I know that you promised me but still I never expected to find my body once again." "Master, let's begin my core integration immediately. I can't get back to my previous state"
Alina was jumping left and right like a doggy in her robotic three-headed hound's body. Whether it is her tone or her body language, she is clearly excited and quite impatient to return to her original state, showing how much she missed it.
Mark however stopped her, "Nope. We have to test it first to make sure everything is clean. Earlier, it was controlled by witchcraft."
"Ark, connect to Ark Prime and call him here." He passed the instructions to his A.I.
Within half a minute, Ark Prime, the rank-9 super robot came to his master and greeted him with a half kneel bow.
Leaving him with the objective of the analysis and core integration process, Mark left the experiment room to leave the island, flying to the island nearby where his Yong, the Great Anaconda King, was resting on a hill.
Yong uncurled its tail from around the tip of the mountain and made its way to the beach, where its master was waiting for him.
"Greetingssss, masssterrr"
As it greeted its master with a hiss and lowered its head to almost the ground, Mark responded by slightly flying high and giving a pat on its head, "Yong, this time, I came here to take you with me to your new home. Let's go."
"But, massssterrrr, I, thisss, place…" Yong seemed reluctant to leave because of its attachment to the island. Mark, who already anticipated it, went into action without wasting any time.
He flew into the sky higher and higher until he could see the entire 1 sq. Km of the island with a little mountain in the center.
Stretching his arms widely, he unleashed spatial energy into the surroundings, connecting with everything around him.
"Compression."
Compression: The User can compress the matter into condensed size without hurting the objects or people inside for a period of 60 minutes. After the time limit, everything will become original right on the spot. Note: weight doesn't change. Cost: 30% Ether energy. CD: 3 hours.
As he moved his stretched arms toward each other, Yong sensed that the entire island with it was being compressed on all sides. However, it didn't feel any discomfort even though it was reduced to less than an inch in a matter of a minute.
At once, the island vanished from the ocean. As the emptied region was replaced by the waters, Mark used his Density manipulation on the 2-foot-sized cube, reducing its density to 0.01 times before carrying it away with him back to his factory.
There, Ark Prime and Alina were busy rebuilding her body to give an upgrade with stronger materials from the recycled junk of various rank-8 and rank-9 robots.
Mark left them to their own devices and teleported back to his home, the Genesis City. The citizens came out of their homes to look at the sky where a large floating island appeared out of nowhere, followed by the rush of the clouds as if they were in a hurry to hide the mountain. The majestic peak of a 700-meter-tall mountain which was coiled around by an anaconda was witnessed by the prime citizens of the country. They couldn't help but look at it in awe as four guardian beasts flew over the city skies not long after and landed on the floating island.
The holy beasts took the position in each direction of the island and unleashed an invincible barrier over Genesis City, safeguarding it from any outside entrance that Mark didn't approve of. That means even if one secretly entered the country, they couldn't enter the city anymore and have to fend off themselves in the wild, where surviving beasts turned even more aggressive due to their periodic capture and extermination by the robots.
Two more days later, at Fujian island later;
"Assembly: initiated.
Framework: stabilized.
Inserting: primary core module.
Wiring: connected.
Power source: upgraded, integrating new cells.
Sensors: calibrated.
Motor functions: enhanced, installing servos.
Memory bank: expanded, synchronizing data.
Voice module: adjusted, testing output.
Visual processors: optimized, activating enhanced optics.
AI core: installed, running diagnostics.
Final assembly: complete.
System booting: initiating startup sequence."
Within a few moments, Alina slowly floated in the air and slowly landed on the ground.
Ark Prime and Ark Secundus, both intellectual superbots greeted her at the same time.
"Welcome Back, Android B143S."
Her eyes gave off a pitch-black glow around her blue pupils as she opened her mouth, "Alina… That's my name, fellas. Call me Alina Spencer."
She then flexed her fingers, observing them for a few seconds before releasing an orb of dark energy, "I feel different."
"Your powers have been combined with necromancy powers left behind in your system from your previous holders," replied Ark Prime, to which, Alina shot the dark energy orb to the ground.
The orb hit the floor and transformed into a lich. As it let out a ghostly scream, Alina curled up her lips and licked them, "I like this."
Ark Prime and Ark Secundus looked at each other meaningfully.