Chapter 440 - Relics of the Past 2

They all couldn't fit into the elevator so they would need to take turns.

Unit 01 looked back towards the other units in her squadron and walked into the elevator, following behind Gabriel, Kira, and Angelia.

"Commander, the others will quickly retrieve whatever materials that are salvageable in this area before heading up," Unit 01 said.

"Alright."

"Hey, do you have a name?" Angelia suddenly asked.

"..."

Unit 01 remained indifferent and didn't bother responding to Angelia's question.

Seeing that she was being given the cold shoulder, Angelia pouted and yelled, "Hey! Don't ignore me!"

Unit 01 didn't respond until Gabriel finally said something.

"She's my little sister and this one is from my team. If you can, please don't ignore them, 01."

"Understood, Commander."

"So your name is 01?" Angelia asked after hearing the 'name' from her brother.

"Yes," Unit 01 curtly replied.

"That's a number, not a name!"

"..."

"Brother, she's ignoring me again!"

"I think she's a little speechless that you said that her name wasn't a name," Gabriel replied.

"Hmmm, why don't we give her a name?"

"Hmm...Not a bad idea. It's a bit awkward to call you by a number, even though you are an automaton."

"Understood. What would commander like to name me?"

"Let's see...how about Valkyrie?"

"That is my model. Under that human female's classification, that is not considered a 'name'."

"Hey! I have a name, thank you very much! It's Angelia! My name's Angelia!"

"..."

Unit 01 didn't reply to Angelia's cry and just waited for Gabriel to give her a name.

"Uhh...how about... we call you Hana?"

In one of Earth's languages, Hana meant one which fit well with Unit 01's numbering. Unit 01 seemed to be deep in thought after Gabriel gave her the name. She remained silent and didn't comment on the name so Gabriel, Angelia, and Kira couldn't tell whether she accepted it or not.

When the elevator arrived on the ground floor, Unit 01 finally opened her mouth and said, "Hana...Commander, I'll graciously accept this name. Please give a name to the rest of the other units."

"S-sure..." Gabriel replied a little strained. Unit 01—or rather, Hana, walked out of the elevator first and began scanning the area of any hostiles.

Gabriel sighed and whispered to her sister, "Good going Angie, now I have to name all of them..."

"You should thank me, big bro! It's at least better than Unit 01 and whatever. Even though you say that they're automaton, they look more human to me!"

"As I said, it's a long story. Besides, they seem to be good people, but for some reason, just because I woke them up, I'm being treated as their commander."

"Mhm, I think I overheard Hana and you talking about some war. What's that all about?" Angelia questioned.

"Not sure, but it's probably something of the past. Hana told me that from her database, she and the other units have been sleeping in their 'coffins' for a few millennia."

"W-wow...they can't be human if that's true...Even if they did have their 'coffins' to keep them alive, I'm sure that a human being wouldn't be able to survive for that long without their organs experiencing some kind of decay..." Kira responded to Gabriel's words about Hana's absurd claim.

"Anyway, they're on our side for now. They seem to be powerful and with their help, we were able to find the layout of this factory complex as well as the location of the power station. We should hurry up and—"

"Brother, watch out!" Angelia interrupted. She pushed her brother away from his spot and in the next moment, an attack suddenly shot out from nowhere, blasting the spot where Gabriel was just standing on earlier.

"Threat detected, proceeding to eliminate," Hana robotically said.

From her armor, nostalgic whirring sounds were heard. It was like the startup of an engine, a jet engine, to be exact. Small openings began forming on the back of Hana's transformable armor and blue flames began spewing out from them. A small explosion suddenly occurred and she shot forward with incredible speed leaving behind an intense heat.

Before Hana collided with the wall, a small cannon suddenly formed on the chest part of her armor. She injected mana from her energy core into the armor's cannon and an energy blast shot out which blasted a hole through the warehouse. She then shot straight out of it with her blades at the ready.

"W-what was that?" Gabriel questioned. He had witnessed all of the cool transformations of Hana's armor just before she exited the warehouse.

In all honesty, Gabriel thought that it was awesome to have such a versatile piece of equipment. It was able to transform into a cannon or change its shape into a sharp blade. It looked pretty handy to use in all sorts of battle situations.

While Gabriel was in awe of Hana's armor, he forgot that he had nearly died earlier.

"I-I think waking those automatons up was a wrong decision..." Kira said with a stutter. He looked pale like he was frightened by something.

"What's wrong, Kira?" Gabriel immediately questioned.

"I can s-sense a lot of mana signatures surrounding the warehouse... but I don't think they're monsters..."

"Y-yeah... If it wasn't because Nessie suddenly warned me, brother, you would have been severely injured...or maybe even killed..." Angelia added grimly as she stood up from the ground.

Gabriel got up and looked out of the hole and saw what Kira and his sister were referring to. Outside of the warehouse, there were some mechanical contraptions and robots which had suddenly appeared to surround the warehouse.

Earlier, these robots and machines weren't here, but after waking up the automatons and getting out of the underground storage facility, these machines suddenly appeared. The awakening of the automatons was without a doubt the trigger and this was true after Gabriel listened to the words that the machines kept on repeating.

[Danger, Rogue Automaton detected. Executing order, 909, elimination of all automaton!]

[Danger, Rogue Automaton detected. Executing order, 909, elimination of all automaton!]

[Danger, Rogue Automaton detected. Executing order, 909, elimination of all automaton!]

...

The same words began echoing throughout the warehouse and the machines began targeting Hana who had rushed out earlier and was already hacking and slashing away at the machines.

"Let's go, we should help her!"

"Right!"

"Okay."

Gabriel pulled out his weapons, a pair of short swords that were borderline daggers, rushed out from his spatial ring. He immediately began engaging the machines and robots who were adamantly firing their missiles, guns, and other weapons they had on their bodies at Hana.

Angelia assembled her spear but didn't rush out to fight. She instead called out Mao who was sleeping on her shoulders and her tri-headed golden snake. She had them rush out first before she followed behind them with her Oroboros already shooting out its lasers at the nearby machines.

Kira pulled out his gun and began shooting at them from afar. Thanks to his ability, he was suited to be a sniper so he supported Angelia, Kira, and Hana from behind.

The machines didn't pay any attention to the humans that were attacking them and adamantly continued to solely attack Hana, the automaton which was the main objective of their mission.

However, it was only a few minutes later that their targets changed to include Kira, Angelia, and Gabriel.

[Human Threat detected. Orders updated. Eliminate all threats in the area!]

"C-Crap! Kira, Angie, take cover!" Gabriel immediately warned after hearing the new orders that the robots and machines were announcing.

A tank-shaped machine turned its cannon towards Angelia and it fired at her. Angelia saw the tank aiming at her already so she quickly jumped onto Mao and the two dashed away. The cannon shell struck the area where they were previously at and a large explosion blasted away the ground.

Gabriel rushed towards the tank and wrapped mana around his swords. He then cut down on the tank's large cannon and was able to slice off the large caliber. He then stabbed his sword into the tank and began rending it apart as best he could.

None of the machines ran on electricity or fuel, so they didn't explode when they were cut apart or destroyed beyond recognition. Instead, if their energy cores were destroyed, they would immediately stop functioning.

Hana had immediately informed him of this right when he had first rushed out to help her.

"Hana, we can't fight them all! There's too many!" Gabriel cried out after he destroyed the tank-shaped machine's energy core.

"Wait, Commander. They should be finished by now."

As if on her cue, the elevator which was supposed to carry up the other automaton, immediately blew apart and out flew Unit 06, Unit 07, Unit 08, and Unit 10. Their armors were transformed similarly to Hana's armor but they also had wings on their backs which kept them suspended in the air.

The wings were also leaking out blue light so it was likely that the wings were functioning similar to jet engines which enabled them to fly in the sky like they were doing now.

"Wow! That's so cool!" Angelia exclaimed.

"Angie, don't get distracted! Keep your eyes on the enemy!" Gabriel warned.

"Right!"

The automatons didn't linger too long in the air. Units 08 and 10 were holding up a large platform that carried the other units on it and a few other things. They carefully set the platform down and landed.

Meanwhile, Units 06 and 07 already moved to help Gabriel and Hana. 06 pulled out a large sword from his back and he swooped down to attack the machines. His sharp greatsword easily cleaved apart the machines unimpeded.

07 remained in the air and two large cannons suddenly formed from her armor's back and two more formed on her armor's waist area and a final one formed on her armor's chest. Five rays of highly concentrated mana blasts struck the machines down below. The blasts were even able to disperse into the surroundings and struck the nearby machines that were near the blast zone.

"Great!"

"Awesome!

Angelia and Kira exclaimed. They began resuming their attacks as well, while Gabriel released a sigh of relief. With the addition of Units 06 and 07, the pressure on them was immediately alleviated.

There were still the rest of the automatons that still haven't joined in, but with them, in the picture, it wouldn't take long before they completely cleared the area of these hostile machinery.