The Mech Lord

"Crackle!"

Yellow threads of current accompanied with sparks covered Leo's hand, and the next instant he grabbed Harry's hand and shocked the hell out of him.

"Aaahhh!!!" Harry screamed in agony. But didn't set up any defenses and just gritted his teeth heeding Leo's advice.

[Put it all out! He won't die! So do it harder-nya!!] Aiden screamed in concern.

Leo no longer dared to hold back after that. And, with another sizzling noise emerging from all around his body, he went all out.

But, he definitely didn't see the next thing coming.

Harry's hand suddenly moved, and with a terrifying might he flung Leo around like a toy with just a single hand. And, send him crashing towards the cabinet.

"Crash!"

Leo groaned in pain as he broke through the door of the cabinet and fell to the ground. And, it didn't stop there, all the equipment came crashing down on him with the door broken.

"I can't control it!" Harry screamed as he tried to hold his hand, but he seemed to be losing the fight. His hand swung all around pulling his body along with him.

Harry began to smash the jars all around, and this immediately made Leo frown. One of those things was already causing so much trouble for them just how much the rest of things do.

"Don't mess with me!!!" Harry screamed in anger as he snapped, and the next instant whistling noises sounded all around, his whole body froze in a single place. But, there were still some visible signs of struggle going on.

Leo still couldn't understand what this strange ability Harry had, but maybe it could be somehow used to get out of the situation if used properly. 'Arthur scan him..'

[Scanning...]

[Showing results...]

Name: Harry Ruse

Level: 12 Elite

Red Rank Skill: Steel Strings

Comprehensive Strength Assessment: [E-]

'Strings?' Leo frowned and tried to concentrate. And, sure enough. He could see the tiny little strings in the air all around.

"Harry!" Leo screamed as he got up, and stretched his only hand out reaching to the steel strings.

Harry looked at Leo and nodded.

"Crackle!"

"Uh~" Harry groaned as he tried to hold his scream this time. His hand began to struggle even more vigorously when the shock began to run across through his body.

"It's not enough! Increase it!" Harry screamed at Leo. He could feel that it was working, but it was nowhere enough to get rid of this thing.

Leo couldn't help, but frown. He was already doing his best. He wasn't holding back at all.

[Use the external source-nya!]

'External source?' Leo asked in confusion.

[The Switch board-nya!]

'Bro! That's the live current! You're trying to kill us!'

[No you won't, just control it! [Charge] is a skill which allows you to do it with ease! Just don't go and overload yourself!]

"Hurry up!" Harry's painful voice made Leo's face even grimmer. He turned around and saw that Harry's hand had begun to bleed due all the struggle with the strings.

There was no time to think.

Leo turned his head to the switch board, and with a deep breath just kicked straight into it.

"Bang!"

"Sizzle!"

Sparks shot all around, and the lights in the room immediately exploded into smithereens.

The entire Academy's power system felt that disturbance. Lights and projection screens began to flicker all around and a few devices even just started to smoke. It left people wondering what was going on.

On the other side, Leo laid down on the ground with some burns on his body. He didn't have perfect control over it after all. That was certainly a dangerous maneuver.

"Am I alive?" He muttered, opening his eyes.

[You are indeed alive.] Arthur confirmed.

[Just get up and check on that guy-nya!]

Leo woke up on Aidne's voice and immediately turned around before getting up onto his knees. He then turned his head around to see that the whole place was in utter ruins, and Harry lying on the ground with his hairs pointing upwards. His face had even turned a bit black at places due to the shock.

"Harry!" Leo uttered with difficulty as he crawled up to him. He checked his breathing, and luckily it was stable. There were minor cuts on his bodies from all the glass jars he had shattered. Aside from that there was a severe looking wound on his palm.

As for that strange looking eye, Leo couldn't see it around.

Suddenly, he felt a chill rising up his spine. He slowly turned his head around. The sight next made his eyes widen in horror.

The eye drenched in blood was floating right in the air. The next moment, it was as if it had passed some kind of signal, all the other heinous looking parts of that thing lying on the floor alongside the shattered jars, began to move. And, a second later, they flew towards the floating eye at an extremely fast speed.

The horror only began now, the thing suddenly turned into a dark blob of matter which continued to throb in a disgusting manner.

Looking at that thing, Leo felt very strange. The urge to eradicate this thing seemed to be emerging somewhere in the depth of his soul. It was as if there was some kind of intense hatred inside of him towards the thing in front.

Suddenly, an arm emerged from the weird blob of black matter and an eye opened in it too. It didn't resemble anything that Leo had ever seen. It seemed to be trying to materialize its body, but was failing repeatedly due to missing body parts or something.

"Rarrr!!!!!" The thing released an inhuman roar in anger after continuously failing.

It then suddenly turned its eyes towards Leo and Harry, who was still unconscious. As if it had found the solution to it's problem, the thing began to move towards them.

Leo immediately broke out in cold sweat. He could barely move himself much less run away, and save Harry at the same time as well.

He immediately took out the storage device, and let Aiden out.

"Pull the guy away to safety!" He said as tried to get up.

[Idiot! Let me help you first-nya!] Aiden grumbled in anger.

"Just do it! Hurry up!" Leo screamed as he finally got up, and looked at him with a complicated face. He just couldn't run away after bringing that guy into this.

A blurry scene seemed to flash before Aiden's eyes as he looked at Leo. He felt something like this had happened before. And, at that moment, he didn't know why, but he felt hat Leo wasn't going to change his mind.

In the end, he grabbed Harry's collars by his teeth and hoped that his body was strong enough to do the job. And, to be honest it was. After all, the cat was not some random street side product, but an artwork of Vincent Gregory, a world renowned craftsman.

As Aiden dragged the unconscious guy out, Leo stood there feeling the sweat dripping down his forehead.

'Arthur, what do we do?'

[Shouldn't you have asked me before prioritizing someone else's life above yours?] The A.I.. didn't seem happy at all.