Lackey's Seducing Survival Odyssey

Chapter 1800: Meeting the Past: Part-4

Chucckk!

Pulling his Twin Eclipses free from the corpse of the monstrous Sandworm, Young Aether swung the twin blades once, sending streaks of violet particles scattering into the scorching air before they slowly dissolved.

He looked around, taking in the endless desert. The sea of golden sand was littered with the cleanly severed remains of more than ten colossal Sandworms, each massive body rapidly drying and hardening under the relentless heat, as though centuries had passed within mere seconds.

He lowered his gaze to the Twin Eclipses. Thin streams of glowing purple particles drifted from the razor-sharp edges, dancing around the ivory blades.

A satisfied smile formed on his lips.

“Not bad.”

Although he had encountered a few awkward moments while wielding the weapons and had nearly sliced himself twice during the battle, he had adapted surprisingly quickly. His movements were no longer stiff or hesitant. They flowed with growing confidence, though they still lacked the instinctive precision of a true master.

He certainly couldn’t call it mastery yet, but he had already progressed well beyond the beginner stage and was steadily approaching the intermediate level.

^Prediction Module Updated. Current combat analysis indicates rapid adaptation. Estimated time required to achieve weapon mastery: 3 days, 12 hours, 17 minutes under continuous combat conditions.^

RIN AI cheerfully reported as her adorable holographic bunny avatar bounced around inside the visor, its ears twitching excitedly while tiny digital stars sparkled around its head.

“That’s faster than I expected,” Young Aether admitted with a faint nod before looking across the endless horizon.

“But first… we need to figure out where exactly this place is.”

He secured the Twin Eclipses onto the magnetic weapon locks mounted across his back. Soft electromagnetic pulses rippled through the locking mechanism before both weapons clicked firmly into place.

The violet particles surrounding the blades gradually faded, and the Twin Eclipses reverted to their smooth ivory appearance as their combat configuration compressed back into their standard resting form.

^Vector Thrusters Activated.^

A deep mechanical hum resonated throughout the mech-suit.

The propulsion arrays embedded beneath his boots and along the back of the suit ignited with compressed streams of red waves. Aether shot upward like a guided missile, leaving behind expanding rings of displaced sand as supersonic air currents rippled across the desert below.

Once he reached several hundred meters above the ground, translucent holographic altitude markers, atmospheric readings, wind vectors, and thermal signatures unfolded across his visor. He slowly turned in every direction, scanning the seemingly infinite desert.

Only an endless ocean of shimmering sand stretching beyond the horizon.

“Tsk… Just where the hell did that bastard drag me?” he muttered, annoyance creeping into his voice. “RIN, any way to pinpoint our location?”

^Deploying Autonomous Recon Drone.^

A concealed panel along the mech-suit’s upper back silently separated into multiple segments. From within, a compact spherical drone emerged before unfolding into a sleek reconnaissance unit with four anti-gravity stabilizers and a rotating sensor array. Blue scanning rings pulsed outward as it accelerated skyward, climbing far beyond Aether’s altitude.

Countless streams of environmental data flooded into the drone’s quantum sensor package before being transmitted back through an encrypted neural link.

Normally, every stream of raw information would flood directly into the pilot’s interface. However, with RIN managing the mech-suit’s operational systems, she filtered millions of unnecessary calculations, displaying only the most relevant tactical information to avoid overwhelming him.

^Portal Detected.^

Young Aether’s visor instantly transformed into a three-dimensional holographic terrain map. The desert unfolded beneath him from a satellite-like perspective, complete with elevation contours, heat signatures, and atmospheric distortions.

A bright crimson beacon pulsed to the southeast.

The portal.

“There you are.” Aether nodded. “Let’s regroup with the others befor—”

He stopped mid-sentence.

^Unknown Structure Detected.^

The holographic map rapidly expanded, zooming farther north. Multiple scan lines swept across the terrain before highlighting an unusual geological formation.