Greetings, Automata Maid

o leave behind.

She needed the resolve to ignore that emotion.
Olivia’s mind was in turmoil, unable to decide what she should do as a good daughter, and in the end could only fight back the tears.

In the middle of the night, I got deep into the Valhen Woods, near a swamp.
I run around looking around through the darkness, and then I see it.

Somehow my senses feel much sharper after the fight with the golem.
Ophelia had mentioned she rearranged some stuff inside, so maybe that’s why.
Thanks to that I had no issues coming this far, and while I did run into a pack of Night Wolfs, I easily took care of them with my new night vision.

I also had no issues spotting the monster I was looking for.
I’m currently observing it while covered by the green knee-height swamp water.
Its squirming body turns and the monster stares at me.

It was a five meter long bear.
Though it was no regular bear either, as multiple wriggling tentacles grew out from its back.
There are many monsters agonizing nearby too, all killed by that bear.

The reference book put it in the same rank as the Tyrannoghavial I had fought before.
I know this won’t be an easy fight.

I stand up and pull the trigger, a magic bullet piercing into its stomach, but the bear shrugs it off and continues walking unbothered.

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I shoot him many times, but it seems my gun isn’t powerful enough to make it care.
But I’m here to gather parts from it, so I can’t just go wild with incendiary rounds.
Little point to keep using it then.

I holster Black Hawk to keep my right hand empty.

Black Hawk, my trusty partner that accompanied me through many fights.
Not being able to use it weighs heavily on me.
But that doesn’t matter.

I form a magic blade on my left hand and charge forward.
The bear stands on two legs to counterattack.
I sidestep the paw he swings at me, and then jump back to avoid the second paw coming after me.

The bear followed that up by swinging its paws up, like nets catching fish, but somehow I managed to evade all of it.
I take a low stance, and jump up with increased momentum to swing my blade upwards.

A blue streak follows my arm, and the bear’s arm gets torn open all the way to the shoulder.

The momentum carried me into the air, where the bear’s tentacles closed into my back.
I had been hit by a similar attack earlier during training.
But I would not fall for that twice.

I twist my body and cut off the tentacles with my blade.
I shoot off my right hand and hold onto the bear with it, then quickly wind up my nerve threads.
At the same time I point my blade at it, letting my momentum impart a more powerful strike.

My blade cuts cleanly along the bear’s large body.
But it just staggered the bear for a moment, and it recovered soon after.

I turn my body around in mid-air and cut off many of the tentacles growing on its back.
But no matter how many I snipped off, more would sprout one after another.
The bear shuffles its front legs, turning around to face me.
I instantly jumped back.

The wound on its shoulder was getting filled with tentacles, similar to the ones on its back, and they stretched like spears towards me.
I managed to stop them with my magic blade, but I couldn’t hold off all of their momentum and I was flung back.

“Dammit!”

I quickly get on my feet again and look at the bear.
The bear is wheezing painfully now.
So far it seemed like it could feel no pain no matter how much I hurt it, but something had changed.

I stand further back to watch what’s going to happen, and see a large orange tentacle sprout from the shoulder wound.

“You’ve finally decided to come out, Tentacle Beast.”

The book described it as a fungal parasite monster.
The orange tentacle is its main body, and the part I need for the medicine.

It seemed to hail its kin as it wriggled out of the bear, as the dead monsters around me also grew similar tentacles and began moving like the bodies controlled by a Shaman Ape.

“They were all infected already then.”

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The number of enemies has increased drastically, but I can’t afford to get scared.
Ophelia, my Mistress’ life depends on this.
That’s why-

“Just die and lemme use your parts!”