ther damage. The third guard having finally pushed off the body of his dead comrade, followed the rapid movement of the subject as quickly as he could with one

ility would drop even lower than it already was. Therefore it decided to make the decision to choose the lesser of the two evils. With the agility of a jungle cat,

ed the latter's helmet with the first blow. The second and the third shattered the helmet and by the fifth, the man had stopped moving. Suddenly the room was filled with flashing red lights and an ear piercing alarm resounded throughout the entire facility. The b

s at the guard and fired thrice directly at the man's head. Thanks to that guard's final act, the window of opportunity for escape had dwindled considerably. But the System had no intentions of ceasing the attempt now. The boy reached into the pockets of the dead man beneath him and pulled out an access card that would definitel

face as he went about his actions before fleeing the room through the opposite exit door. The System did not care for the moral depravity of its actions. As an entity that represented the highest level of artificial intelligence, it operated solely based on logic and fa

-like facility. But even then, there was denying the fact that he was still trapped within enemy territory, which meant they had still had the upper hand, something that became very clear when he reached the final hallway that led to outside the facility. The

y of that option was merely temporary at best. After all the only reason why the Host had even made it so far was because he had only encountered guards that sought to stop him. The System was aware that there were others like th

paid them no mind as it engaged the last ditch effort that all others like the Host possessed in the case of a do-or-die situation. The pressure around him grew heavier as his superhuman mental constitution suppressed

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