The Undying Mecha Emperor

Our main goal was actually very simple.

Get to America to fully place all suspicions and blame on them, thus allowing the Chinese Federation to lurk in the shadows while hiding their full strength for a while longer as they wait for the perfect opportunity for a grand reveal.

And of course, to get there in one piece. We need to avoid the many traps and capture attempts set by the Europeans who were hot on our heels and coming for us from every single direction.

It was an elaborate story being told to the Europeans by our furtive actions and seemingly desperate attempt to get back "home".

To do that, Chronos was leading us at extremely high speeds underwater using his time dilation skill while Void Walker shielded us with her void shield.

We were outrunning our pursuers and we were doing it completely incognito. The only thing that was sticking out like a sore thumb in our situation was the massive golden mecha filled to the brim with mecha virus that was constantly revealing our position to the Europeans.

But all was well. For the moment.

"This feels like we're taking a ferocious doggy on a walk." I said with a chuckle as we changed directions once more for the upteenth time.

Our constant direction changes was to simply make sure that the Europeans do not set a trap for us to walk into, and to keep them behind us.

"A ferocious mad dog. One with rabies and all sorts of deadly diseases." My sister in law added with a chuckle of her own.

"I suggest we stop worrying about the Europeans now." My big bro suddenly said gravely. "We're about to enter the central area of the Western Pacific Region. And if our estimates are not wrong, then we should already be in an Oceanic Tribe's territory."

"Oh. Like the Horse Gavarele and Ocean Eagles." I said with a start. "Damn. Don't tell me that we're about to fight with another million monsters? I am so bloody sick and tired of being outnumbered!"

"Quality over quantity, Justin. We may be outnumbered, but with your power and our unique skills, we'll be fine." My big bro said mildly to remind me.

But I wasn't having it.

"Screw quality over quantity! Screw power and skills! Just once! Just one bloody time in my life, please God! Please let me outnumber my enemies! Let me feel the joy of being in a numerical advantage! Give ME a million soldiers to trample over the enemy's one hundred! Hell, I'll even take a hundred thousand! Just let me freaking outnumber them!!" I raged against my constantly woeful numerical situation for a moment, much to my big bro and sister in law's amusement.

It was true though. Throughout my whole life up to that point, I was constantly outnumbered. It sucked big time.

And so I started to look for steps I could take to slowly make sure that I stop being in such pathetic situations in the future.

The most crucial thing I needed was more resources, of course. And I actually had one in hand already. The only thing was, it was contaminated to the point where I was unable to use it.

I glanced at the golden mecha and wondered how I could break past the virus and get to the juicy parts.

But even as I thought of that, I realized also that my red mecha core was also starting to revert back into full hibernation mode.

I could distinctly sense that it wanted to finish devouring Control as quickly as possible.

I still had another experimental mecha core to devour, and a golden mecha core from Princess Louisa as well.

"What I have on hand is already far too much for me to quickly devour, wanting to devour more is simply greed." I thought to myself. "What I need now is a way to speed up the devouring of everything I already have. If I can do that, then creating an army of a million drones to fight for me would not be a far fetched idea anymore."

But I also knew that creating a million drones was one thing. Controlling them was an entirely different thing altogether. Controlling them WELL was an even more difficult thing to do.

I could feel a headache coming.

What I wanted to do was still blocked by a couple of massive obstacles, and I had no way to clear them just yet.

"I guess I can only wait for Devour to finish." I thought mournfully.

But of course, there was no such thing as "wait" in the dictionary of whichever god was in charge of my life in that period of time.

I was either shooting all the way up into great heights of power, or tumbling all the way down into hellish crisises.

"Wait in peace? Ha! That's for boring old grandfathers!" That god was probably thinking as he sent yet another curveball my way.

Bang! That curveball hit me squarely on my face.

Like, literally.

BAM!!

My head snapped backwards as a strange item impacted it at high speed!

"WHAT THE HELL?" I shouted in anger.

However, those three words were the only words I would be uttering in the presence of my big bro and sister in law for a very long time.

Crackle crackle!!

I was barely able to right my head when a strange power rippled around me and got hold of me.

Whoosh!

In a blink of an eye, along with the mecha where I had stored Princess Louisa, I winked out of existence from the Pacific Ocean, and found myself in a strange, green sky grassland.

My jaw dropped and my mind was completely stunned senseless at the development.

Poof!

Devour suddenly went into emergency hibernation mode and withdrew all of its power completely.

I could sense that its urgency to finish devouring Control had spiked, and without any form of urging from me, it was throwing every single thing it had to quickly finish devouring it.

BA DUMP!

BA DUMP!!

BA DUMP!!!

Its devouring speed rose a couple more notches, and I knew that for certain, it would finish devouring Control in exactly ten days.

After ten days, I would be a supreme powerhouse that could wield the power of two experimental cores and probably a full golden mecha's worth.

But for ten full days, I would be as powerless as a duck.

Well, and iron duck, because my body was probably impenetrable by then. And maybe a genius duck as well because of my enhanced brain power.

But after all said and done, still a duck, nonetheless.

And at that moment, that genius iron duck was falling down from fifty meters high to the ground.

"AIYEEEEEEEE!!!!" I screamed in shock.

BAM!!!

I landed on the green grass heavily.

Boom.

Next to me around twenty or so meters away, Princess Louisa landed cleanly on her feet.

Without hesitation, she exploded into motion and sprinted towards me!

Wham!!!

She reached my position in probably record breaking time and unleashed a quick jab to my neck which would have definitely killed me if I was a normal dude.

"What a vicious girl!" I thought even as I caught sight of her mind blowingly beautiful face for the first time.

Crack!

Her attack was so swift and so viciously powerful that she instantly broke her knuckle bones upon impact to my neck.

"Ehmphhhh!!" Princess Louisa grimaced in pain.

To her credit, she did not cry or wail in pain like a spoilt girl.

She took the pain in stride and even held back her cry.

It was the sign of a well trained soldier.

But breaking her bones did make her stop attacking me, and it was exactly what I intended to achieve when I allowed her jab to hit home.

I stood up and studied her pitiful form as she stood in defensive posture and bravely raised her fists to protect herself, even the one with broken bones.

"I should just kill her and be done with this problem." I muttered aloud and narrowed both my eyes at her.

Her lips twitched lightly at my words, but she held her ground and a deep aura of ferocity suddenly brewed around her.

"She is activating some sort of physical boost!" I instantly realized.

But before I could make a move, space around a hundred meters north to our position suddenly shimmered and a portal appeared.

Whoosh.

The portal solidified and opened up.

And to my horror, countless alien beasts started to pour out of that portal like a tidal wave of freakish monsters!

They were furry, four legged creatures like wolves, three headed like cerberus, and each head was horned like unicorns. Muscles bulged out of their bodies as though they went to the gym daily, and they were all releasing horrifying howls of anger as they charged towards us.

And to make it worse, there must be hundreds of them that leapt out of that portal even in that first instant!