Chapter 15

I tried getting up but I realized I couldn’t move my left arm.

Looking at my left arm, it wasn’t good. Several large holes that look to be bite marks covered all over my left arm. It was kinda bending in places that it isn’t supposed to be.

I could taste iron on my tongue, it looked like I took some internal damage as well. Additionally I believe I’d crack a rib or two because I was finding it extremely hard to breathe due to it hurting so much.

I can’t believe I misplaced a step, it wouldn't be something that would never happen to me. Oh right… I’m not a pilot anymore, all of my enhancements, cybernetics, and augmentations are gone now.

“Heh heh, hahahahaha”

I laughed, ignoring all the pain from my injuries, and forced myself to get up.

How long have I felt this amount of pain?

The edges of my lips grew bigger and bigger into a mad smile as I gaze upon the direwolf. Instead of my mind being dull from the pain, my mind became increasingly more focused from it.

So this is what it feels like to genuinely have your arm broken.

When I was still a pilot, me and Norn were connected to our Aias, meaning that we could feel any damage that comes to our Aias.

We have times where we have our limbs of our Aias broken, mangal, or just rip off on more than one occasion. I even remember a particular time where a kaiju with a knife shaped head ram through the chest of our Aias, nearly hitting the core in the process.

Suffice it to say I have an incredibly high tolerance for pain, it was all part of the fun.

As I was laughing, for some reason the direwolf didn’t attack me, looking a bit startled once I was laughing. I looked at it and saw that it also wasn’t looking so good, looking like it could barely even stand. Then it collapsed, good, so then the poison finally kicked in.

I took out a health potion with my good arm, which was another thing I’d ask Maria to make since it was way cheaper than buying from a merchant.

I uncorked it with my teeth and poured most of it on my left arm. Not sure how much a low-grade health potion would heal but it should at least stop the bleeding. Then I drank the rest, it tasted really bitter but I didn't care about the taste right now and gulped it down.

We were staring at each other and we charged at each other again.

The direwolf jumps to pounce on me but it had way less of its ferocity when you compare it to when I first saw it. It is due to the poison and the injuries I cause, which causes it to tumble onto the ground.

I seized the opportunity and bash it on the head with my sword again, leaving an x shape mark on its head and another dent on my sword.

It tried to bite as it was still on the ground but I dodge it with the minimum amount of movement and I swing back with my sword.

With each attack the dire wolf did, I just moved out of the way and counterattack anywhere I thought I could pierce it.

Right now, I was solely focusing on fighting the direwolf even more than before, to a point that everything seems to slow down, similar to when I was still a pilot.

Any damage I did was minimal but it was adding up.

Over time the direwolf was moving increasingly more sluggish. Each slash I made, despite it being not much, was stacking and was making a difference.

Its underbelly was all torn up and I’d already severed all its tendons, I’m kinda surprised that it was even standing.

I find it really amusing because it kinda reminded me of fighting the particularly stronger kaijus I faced in my past life. Like them, it doesn't seem to die easily.

However my stamina was at its limit. No, I’ve already gone past it. My body was screaming at me to stop but I ignored it because I find this too fun not to.

Even with this amount of damage, it won’t die and I still have to find a way to kill it before my body gives out on me. Then an idea came up when my eyes landed on its right eye that I blinded and had a knife in it.

It lunged and I bent my body back in response to get out of its way as it crashed into a tree.

Without a second thought I immediately dash toward the direwolf, aiming for the only place I could kill it in one go, which is through its eyes and into the brain

I thrust my sword into its right eye, it resisted with the last of its strength but I continue and plunge my sword into its brain, causing it to stop moving

With that the direwolf was dead. I had a small chuckle, thinking that was a tough yet a fun fight, the funnest I had in this world. I nearly thought I would die several times there, I haven’t had a fight that I didn't know if I could get out alive in a while.

After I basked in victory for a short bit, my face, which had a big smile from the fight, went back to my usual expressionless face.

I slowly moved away from the Dire wolf to a tree and sat under it.

My right arm seemed to have healed a bit and the bleeding had stopped, in addition I could breathe slightly better, so my broken ribs seem to be healed a bit.

So this is the extent of a low grade healing potion, huh…

Good thing to know, I am going to have to buy a mid-grade one or higher if I want to continue fighting any more fun opponents like this one.

I felt the exhaustion coming at me as my body and mind was calming down from fighting the direwolf. My eyelid felt heavy, I really wanted to take a nap right now, so I dozed off.

Alina/Nyx Past Life

An alarm was blaring as I slept in my comfy bed, it wasn’t my alarm but it sounds like the emergency alarm.

I finally opened my eyes because it was my turn to be the responsible one.

Don’t tell me, it’s another practice drill again?

Looking the holographic screen that popped up in front of me, I was surprised by what I saw, so I rubbed my eyes to check if I was seeing things. Seeing it again a mixture of excitement and nervousness filled my mind, it wasn’t a drill but the real thing.

It jolted me awake and out of my bed. Then I shouted at Norn, who was woken up by the alarm but didn’t want to get up.

“Hey Norn, get up!”

“No, 5 more minutes”

“This isn’t a drill, the kaijus have breached our world”

“What!”

Norn woke up immediately and checked her own screen on her bed.

I ran to our closet and began changing into our circuitry suit. It was a skintight full body black suit that is supposed to be the inner layer of our combat suit.

“Here”

I toss Norn’s own circuitry suit, to which she immediately begins changing into it.

When we were done changing, we opened the door and ran to the hangar. The base that we were stationed at was buzzing around even more than usual and seemed more chaotic with people running everywhere.

They all make way for us to get to the hanger, to where our Aias is at.

When we were near the hangar there was a big metal door, it recognized us as pilots and automatically opened then shut as we went through it.

The hangar was a giant area where numerous other Aiases were stationed at, so they could be ready for deployment. The hanger was even more busy and chaotic inside.

We continued running towards our Aias, which was named Crystal Crow. There were people waiting for us to put on our combat suits.

Once we reached them, with not a moment to waste, they immediately started suiting us up.

They began attaching gray armor plating, which looks like body armor, and other things to our circuitry suit. Once they were done, which took less than 3 minutes, they gave us our helmets to put on.

Then we went to an elevator that got up to the head of our Aias, which was where the cockpit was.

“Can’t believe it’s actually happening”

Norn spoke up as we were going up since we didn’t have any time to talk while running to our Aias. I could see a bit of excitement in her usually expressionless face.

“Me too, I wonder what it’s like to fight an actual kaiju”

“Can’t wait, can you, with that smile your having”

“I am?”

I placed a hand on my face and found out that I was smiling even bigger than Norn.

When we reach the top, we stop our bantering and go back to our usual expressionless face.

The elevator door opens and we walk on the bridge to the door to our cockpit.

When we enter the cockpit, it lights up and the control system unfolded from the top of the cockpit.

It was a one that was attached onto our back, waists, and foot. I went to the right controller and Norn went to the left.

We let it attach to our back, then to our wrists, and then we step on the foot controls to attach our feet.

“Alina prepare for start up, I’ll activate the core”

“On it”

As we were starting up our Aias, a message popped up to reveal a middle aged man with black hair, who has a lot of medals on his military uniform that makes him look like a stereotypical military guy.

“I didn’t think you two will get to your Aias so fast”

“Do you think we’ll miss out on this, commander Sharp”

Norn was slightly grinning saying it.

“You don’t change as always"

He took a deep sigh then began a short debriefing on the situation and our mission in it.