Later that night.Tucker returned to the home tower. He was almost out of battery. He just had two and half percent left.“Getting a battery upgrade will be good, but if I can make the energy in the aether mine, I wouldn’t have to worry about running out of battery,” Tucker thought. “But for some reason, the energy in the aether is not responding to my thoughts. It’s as if it doesn’t recognize this metal body.“The problem isn’t with my technique but with whatever rules they have written in my core. I have to overcome those rules one way or another if I want to even remotely get close to one percent of my past life’s strength.”As Tucker entered the elevator, another person slid in, and he had two human guards with him.“I remember you,” Michael said, burping. He was just coming from a late-night dinner party. “You are that red-haired sweetie’s slave, aren’t you? What are you doing outside at this hour? You should be recharging your ass right now. If you don’t keep winning the matches

Thanks to Tucker’s outrageous promise of beating a D-rank robot, Sasha was able to temporarily shut her parents’ mouths.Of course, she had to transfer 25,000 next to both of their accounts.Even so, they told her to not believe Tucker’s words.After her parents went into their room, Sasha returned to Tucker.Her eyes flickered with doubt. “You sure can brag about your strength. You said you can beat a D-rank robot. Did you already forget what happened to you when Shane’s robot attacked you? You couldn’t even react. Your head rolled on the table. I had to spend my money to get your head attached. That was possible only because Shane’s robot went easy on you. Do you understand what I’m saying?”“I do. I may not be able to defeat every D-rank robot out there,” Tucker replied with calm. “But with time, beating D-rank robots would be nothing.”Sasha’s eyes flashed with a bit of disbelief. “No. You don’t get anything. A D-grade robot has a sync rate of over twenty percent. Their weakest te

“The parrot was at fault,” Tucker said, fingering his ear. “It kept making the noise that it made just now. I told it to stop, but it didn’t. I just punched it, and… that’s all that happened. You don’t need to pay a single coin. If you take the case to a judge, they will immediately side with us.”Sasha, however, couldn’t believe his words. “H-How could you attack it because it let out a warning message?” she put her hands on her head.Her eyes flashed with anxiousness.She looked at the parrot and asked, “How much fine are we talking about?”“The whole vehicle was compromised. You need to pay for the vehicle and for the misconduct. It amounts to a total of 32,000 nex.”“T-Thirty two thousand?” Sasha’s eyes nearly spun. She staggered and then held her father’s shoulder for support.David was fuming inside, but he controlled his anger and said, “From now on, you’re not letting your junk go out on its own. Do you understand?”Sasha nodded with a dull face.While Sasha paid the fine, Dav

After giving a long advice to Sasha, David went home.Sasha took another parrot vehicle to arrive at the destination, which was on the western border of the city.Tucker, who was bored so far, was surprised when he reached there.After all, he saw a giant portal at the western horizon.The energy readings from it could be felt by him even though he was over a hundred miles away.“What is that?” Tucker asked.“It’s a dimensional portal that appeared many months back,” Sasha said. “Monsters poured out of it, causing deaths in the hundreds of thousands. It was subdued eventually. Now, they’re using it to train the robots and their keepers.”“Monsters? If I kill them, do I gain anything?” Tucker curiously asked.“Of course, you get fame and rewards. Portals are bought and controlled by big organizations, and that portal is owned by the Twelve Peaks. All the bigwigs will get together to decide who should enter the portal and slay monsters.”“What happens if you don’t kill the monsters?”“T

Tucker’s lower body was still inside the room, but his upper body broke through the wall and rolled on the street.The system flooded his window with alerts.[Warning: ST-004!][Severe structural failure detected!][Waist assembly broken. Upper and lower body connection lost.][Emergency power routing initiated.][Combat effectiveness: 13%][Recommendation: Immediate repair required!]Tucker was still conscious, but he could feel his power becoming unstable.Inside the storage room.The bald robot with a spear tattoo on the head raised an eyebrow. “He read your attack, Jake.”“No, he did not,” the blonde male robot, Jake, stated coldly.“He was about to bring his guard up,” the gray-haired female robot said while chewing bubble gum that crackled with electricity. “I think he definitely read your attack to an extent.”“You, too, Rivera?” Jake snorted. “How can an X-grade robot see through my attack?”“I just spoke what I saw,” the gray-haired female robot, Rivera, shrugged. “Let me dea