"What is that thing?!!!"
Sitting inside the working room of Griffin Palace, President Dukakis was completely shocked when he saw the Geo Hypotasis.
"If I can't eat something, I spoil it!" the Geo Hypotasis said with a deep and booming voice.
"Huh...order the military to attack!"
BOOM BOOM
The tanks from the military shot, but the fire only hit the shell of Geo Hypotasis.
"Haha...fools!"
Saying that, the Geo Hypotasis flew into the air and formed a rhombus with it's shell pieces before absorbing them all and using them to fire a continuous stream of stone pellets at the tanks.
PEW PEW
The tanks were easily destroyed. Some soldiers managed to escape the vehicles, but not all.
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"What have you done?!!!!!!"
Sebastian grabbed the black-hooded man, who gave no reply, except:
"SELF-DESTRUCT in 3, 2, 1..."
Hearing the word "self-destruct", Sebastian immediately dashed to the other side of the sewer's water.
BOOM
"So you were a machine..."
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"Colonel, what do we do now?" a soldier asked Sanders when he saw the actions of the amber cube.
"Tsk, give our fellow soldiers aid now!" Colonel Sanders, along with his soldiers, left the trio.
"Phew, I was nearly exposed!" Alexy said.
"Hahaha, I never imagined that one day, I would one day be apprehended by the authority." said Kaeya.
"Quit talking, aren't we suppose to return and beat that thing to save the people!" said Paimon.
"Yes, you're right, Paimon...Y-A-W-N!"
Alexy turned around to walk back to the main road. However, he misstepped.
"Oh no!"
Fortunately, Kaeya was able to support him in time, preventing him from kissing the ground.
"Thanks, Kaeya!"
"No problem, Alexy. I get your back."
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Colonel Sanders was dodging stone pellets when he saw the trio came back, standing a little far behind him.
(What are they doing here?)
Sensing the gaze from the Colonel, Kaeya said jokingly, "Don't worry, the professionals are here!"
Sanders went on to ignore them because he had a bigger concern right now.
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After shooting the stone pellets, the Geo Hypotasis summoned 4 pillars and sat on the pillar in the middle.
"Look like it stops attacking! FIRE!" Colonel Sanders commanded.
BOOM BOOM PEW PEW
However, mere fire and bullets can't harm a Hypotasis. The Geo Hypotasis floated into the air and briefly channeled energy into it's pillar before emitting a single shockwave.
"Argh!"
"Ekk!"
"Aieee!"
Many soldiers were hit by the shockwave and fell down, including Colonel Sanders, who spat blood out of his mouth. While the weird trio were unharmed because the shockwave did not reach them.
After seeing the soldiers had fallen down, the Geo Hypotasis began attacking the Griffin Palace with stone pellets.
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"That thing has attacked the Griffin Palace, we need to leave, Mr. President!"
President Dukakis nodded and left with his secretary.
"Evacuate the citizens!" the president said calmly.
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5 minutes later,
At Alexy's home,
"Ivan, wake up!"
"It's time for school already?"
"No, there's a disaster, and we have to evacuate! Bring only what is necessary."
Then Mrs. Tsarivich went to Alexy's room to wake him up and do the same as Ivan.
"Alexy,..."
But to her horror, when she opened the door, her son-Alexy was not in the room.
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"What is it, honey? You know I'm busy right now because of that thing!" said General Tsarivich.
"Honey, Alexy is GONE!"
"What!!!"
"He is GONE! I can't find him anywhere in the house." Ms. Tsarivich began to cry.
"Calm down, honey! You go evacuate with Ivan and others. I will find Alexy."
After the call had ended, Gen. Tsarivich called for another trustworthy assistant of his, Lieutenant Barnaby.
"Lieutenant Barnaby..." he gave him a picture of Alexy, "Please help me find my son, he was probably curious of what is going on and he had come near the site."
"I'll do my best!" Barnaby saluted the General and left the room.
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The Geo Hypotasis stopped for some time after destroying a large part of Griffin Palace. At the same time, aircrafts could be seen on the sky. They shot at the Geo Hypotasis, but to no avail. And then, rocks began to fall from the sky, near the pillars.
"What the..."
BOOM BOOM
Many aircrafts were hit and fell to the ground.
"Attack the pillars!"
After some time of observing, Colonel Sanders thought that the pillars were the monster's weaknesses.
Tanks and aircrafts began to shoot at the pillars, but those things were firm, so it took a long time for a pillar to be taken down. Meanwhile, attacks from the Geo Hypotasis made the military devastated, many tanks and aircrafts were destroyed.
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"Paimon, how to defeat that thing?" Alexy asked.
"Uh, explanation by words will be difficult and long, so let's watch this video."
Alexy: "..."
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"Wait, this maid..."
Alexy remembered that among the two characters that were being sold in the Paimon's Bargains, there was a maid like in the video, which said she was very good at fighting Geo Hypotasis.
Alexy immediately stopped the video and opened the shop.
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Without hesitating, Alexy pressed on Noelle's icon. Not so long after, a girl in maid outfit appeared beside Alexy.
"My name is Noelle, maid of the Knights of Favonius, and it's my pleasure to be joining you on your adventure today. Should you encounter any problems at any point throughout your journey, please do not hesitate to call me and I will be delighted to provide you with my full assistance. Yes, starting right now — what do you need?" Noelle greeted Alexy.
(Isn't that too long for just saying "hello"?) Alexy thought.
"We need help with that thing!" Alexy said and pointed at the Geo Hypotasis sitting on one of its towers.
"Leave it to me!" Noelle smiled warmly and said.
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Noelle ran to a rock pillar and began attacking it. This attracted the Geo Hypotasis's attention, it shot many rock pellets at Noelle, but she just hit behind a rock pillar and she was unharmed.
"You little...Rain of Rocks"
Rocks began to fall from the sky, but Noelle dashed far from the pillars and she was unharmed.
"Argh..."
The Geo Hypotasis roared again before it came down from the pillar and turned into a big rock hammer. It slammed into the ground.
Then all fragments of the monster's shell disappeared, leaving only the core.
"So tired..." the Geo Hypotasis said.
Seizing the precious chance, Noelle took out her 1* claymore, Waster Greatsword, and began to hit the core continuously.
"Argh..."
The Geo Hypotasis soon regained its shell and returned to the top of the nearest pillar.
"Stone Seal!" but soon, the boss used one of it attacks again.
A Geo seal appeared around Noelle. The best maid did not panic, but gracefully dodged the pillar appearing at her location 3 seconds later. The Geo Hypotasis was angry and turned into a hammer again, but it failed to slam Noelle flat. And again, it shell disappeared, leaving the core unprotected. Then Noelle hit it with her claymore continuously.
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"Paimon, why does the monster keep repeating its attacks?" Alexy asked.
"Bosses, like this one, are unintelligent creature, after all. That's why it keeps attacking following an order." said Paimon. "Although Paimon doesn't know why this one can talk.", Paimon added and scratched her head.
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After suffering many hits from Noelle, the core of the Geo Hypotasis disappeared. And the 4 pillars also disappeared. However, 3 new rock pillars appeared, and the core of the Hypotasis could be seen in the middle, but it was weakened and its amber light had dim.
"Huh, did we win?" Alexy asked.
"No. The Hypotases have unique power, they can..."
"Ah, no need. I should have watched the video to the end." Alexy said while watching the video to the point where the voice explained the "Terra Resurgence", which made Paimon frustrated.
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Noelle swung her claymore,
1 pillar down
2 pillars down
The 3rd pillar was being hit by Noelle, but the core was shaking, indicating its revival.
"Not so fast!" Klee said and threw her bombs at the pillar. Sensing the bombs, Noelle dodged out of the way.
BOOM
The final pillar was down.
"ARRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Everyone could here a terrifying scream the moment the last pillar was taken down. After the scream, everyone looked at where the scream had come from. Behold, they saw the body of a man...completely petrified.
"Bring that...body...mummy to the lab!" Colonel Sanders shouted.
Then he turned around to find the Masked Man and his co., but they disappeared.
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Alexy heard the system's notification when he was hiding in a dark alleyway.
"If you need anything, please call me!" Noelle said before she went inside the system's dimension with Klee and Kaeya.
(Now, which way to go home?)
When Alexy was pondering the direction of his house, suddenly, a hand patted his shoulder.
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Primogems count: 190
Moras count: 10,000