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(BUS)Chapter 106: Coasting along
🕑 Added 2025-07-11 14:27:44 +0000 UTC"And good fucking riddance!" I cursed as I kick Kobb's corpse angrily.
"You good man?" Mordy asked concerned at the outburst.
"Yeah I'm good just angry at this little shit for taking all the fun out of a fight. I mean come on, the fucker was clearly more than willing to blow up this whole fucking area if it meant winning. That's not fun at all, it's cheap and fucking annoying. There's no skill in that but more sheer dumb luck than anything!" I complained.
"To be fair I don't think he was trying to have fun so much as survive, just saying." Roland pointed out and I sighed.
"I get it, really I do. But that doesn't mean I have to agree with it." I said with a throbbing headache from all the explosions.
As should not be surprising to fucking anyone explosions cause serious pressure issues and with my heightened senses I suffered for it more than anyone else. It was like a really bad case of tinnitus where my ears were ringing something fierce. Thankfully my recovery ability was also unreasonably strong as well so I was already almost recovered.-
[Name: The Roaster
Level: Rare
Type: Rocket launcher
Damage type: Firex4
Manufacturer: MALIWAN
Affix: Gonna cook somebody today
Triple rocket release, Improved fire rate, High elemental effect chance]
This rare quality launcher was the one that Kobb was using before he lost his head and had me making an odd expression. The weapon itself was not strange or anything but even an idiot could figure out that this weapon alongside the meat grinder his brother had were probably heirlooms. This was strange because in most inheritance cases involving bandits the loot goes to only one person on account of them having killed the other in greed.-
The fact both brothers had a piece meant that their relationship might have actually not been bad at some point but they had a falling out that lead to us eventually killing Janis for Taylor. Not that I really cared or anything, just thought it odd.-
"Hey on a totally unrelated but kinda related note did anyone see any midgets when we killed the other bandits here?" I asked something that DID confuse me.
"Now that you mention it I didn't actually." Lil said with a frown as she tried to remember seeing even one midget here.
"Think something might have happened to them?" Mordy asked and I shrugged.
"No clue, it's probably nothing though." I said choosing to ignore it for now.
With Kobb dead our minimap updated with the location of his Claptrap which to no fucking surprise was right by where he had met us previously. The spider ant lings were back so we had to clear those out before approaching the clearly heavily decorated Claptrap sitting next to the locked gate that lead to the the Trash Coast. Something to clarify is that while Pandora is for the most part a barren wasteland it DOES have water on it, whole oceans in fact.-
The planet even has icecaps on the north pole with the northern region of the main continent being cold and frozen. Still a barren wasteland though, just frigid instead of blistering. The Trash coast was named as such due to the fact it's covered in trash and because it's coastal land. Anyways the Claptrap was dark red in color with various sharp metal pieces and even sawblades welded to it's body for a distinctly bandity vibe. The thing was clearly programmed off of a bandit too for it's personality because of what it said when we walked up.-
"Without a master I have two options. I can listen to you move your disgusting meat flaps.. OR ..I could stick an electrode up my back panel and call it paradise. I will comply with what you need, then you get out of my scan range." the bot said roughly as it went to go open the way.
"Sassy, I like that. How'd you like to work for me from now on?" I asked with a grin.
"I'd rather try to integrate with a garbage disposal." the bot said disdainfully.
I nodded as though in agreement before casually taking out my gun and blowing a hole in the bot destroying it irreversibly.
"Much as I dislike those bots that was kinda far for it simply not wanting to join your collection." Roland said sternly.
"That's part of the reason I did this but not the main one. The main reason I did this was because that bot is the last thing that knows the code to lock the path to the trash coast back up without swapping the keypad entirely. With it gone the way is open and will stay that way." I explained casually as I kicked the dead bot to the side.
"Huh? Didn't think of that, good catch." Roland said with a nod of approval.
"Prepare yourself. The next challenge awaits. It might seem insurmountable but you can do this, you will prevail." the "Angel" said as we went to enter the path to the trash coast.
After a bit of time walking through the rocky tunnel we exited out onto the Trash coast proper. it smelled horrendous. Like a rancid mix of garbage, salt, fish and.... grass?
"Hold the fuck up is that ACTUAL grass!?" I exclaimed in shock at the smell and sight before me once out of the tunnel.
Like the rest of the planet that I have seen so far it was mostly sand, rock and trash in unreasonable amounts and places. Unlike that shit show however there was honest to fucking gods grass growing in patches of verdant green, I even saw some fucking normal looking flowers! If it wasn't for the trash piles towering even in the water and gods awful stench I'd think I wasn't on Pandora anymore.-
"Minus the trash I think this might actually be the nicest part of Pandora we've been to. There is even grass and fucking flowers." I said and everyone nodded in agreement.
Checking the map I saw that the objective was to the west of us in a suspiciously wide open area.
'Boss fight?' I thought with a little excitement.
I knew that there were only three kinds of things that lived in wide open areas. The first was large animals that needed the space to move about freely. The second was fast animals that used the space to see predators coming. The final was herd animals that took up a lot of space due to sheer numbers and used the space to graze.-
Whatever it turned out to be I knew it likely meant a large payday of lifeforce which was just perfect for me. I didn't bother telling the others as there was no real point, either way we were killing whatever it was. We briefly stopped by the ammo and med vendor machines right at the entrance to the Trash coast before following the surprisingly smooth path towards our goal. The plantlife grew more abundant but so too did the animal life as we came across several spider ants that were idling about the path.-
A nifty 7,829 lifeforce later and we approached the objective marked on our maps. At first we couldn't see anything strange with the area until the ground rumbled a bit and a hulking beast rose from a hole in the ground and shook off the sand on it while Rakk flew out of confusingly small holes on it's back, a Rakk Hive. It looked kinda like a wooly mammoth with mange and a head that looked like a mix between the snout of a pig and a vagina, with four glowing eyes on the sides.
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Alexander Drake
Lifeforce:502,997
Integrated Traits: [Gun mastery-Rare grade]X3, [Clever mind-Rare grade],[Enhanced senses-Epic grade]X2, [Demi-supreme body-Legendary grade], [Supreme armored hide-Epic grade]X2, [Energy projection-Legendary grade], [Superior vitality-Epic grade]X2,[Lesser dragon breath-Epic grade],[Regeneration-Epic grade]X2, [Disease resistance-Epic grade],[Amphibious lungs-Uncommon grade], [Thermal sensing-Uncommon grade], [Water resistance-Common grade],[Active camouflage-Epic grade], [Eridian engineering expertise-Mythical grade], [Efficient lungs-Rare grade]x2, [Fire resistance-Epic grade]X3, [Elemental body(fire)-Legendary grade], [Shock resistance-Epic grade]X4, [Energetic sustenance(shock)-Epic grade]X2, [Radiation resistance-Epic grade]X3, [Energetic sustenance(radiation)-Epic grade]X2, [Biometallic bones-Epic grade],[Elemental body(shock)-Rare grade]X3,[Quick thinking-Rare grade], [Minor spatial awareness-Epic grade], [Buzzaxe expertise-Uncommon grade], [Siren(Phaselock)(Altered)-Mythical grade], [Pugilist expertise-Uncommon grade], [Adrenal rush-Rare grade], [Mechanical engineering expertise-Rare grade]X3, [Gunsmithing expertise(degrading)-Common grade]X3, [Elemental body(Corrosive)-Rare grade], [Corrosion resistance-Rare grade], [Mechanical Savant-Epic grade],
Stored traits: [Flame breath-Uncommon Grade], [Tinkering instinct-Rare grade], [Minor regeneration-Rare grade]
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Loskro
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Christian Jeffress
Thanks for another fun and entertaining chapter. Out of curiosity, do you like Hunter X Hunter?
Loskro
So to clarify you want Alex to find a way to save Angel?
Cmols897
I hope Alex doesn't find a way so Angel doesnt need to die, while Tannis being a Siren is cool I want more of Angel
