Mecha Debut

John had Dragapult go down to loot the place of the ghoul spirit as he had the midnight masquerade withdraw the darkness.

He went to the room where the guild leader of the guild came out, once he entered the room, what was presented in front of John is a normal study.

"Really? People do love secret bases." John laughed as he started to randomly grab and move around the things inside the study to see what is the key to the mechanism.

Click!

And with a clicking sound, sounds of mechanism opening sounded when John turned a part of a dragon sculpture, and just like that the bookshelf on the wall withdraw and opened a path to the underground.

As John walked to the bottom of the stairs a foul smell smashed against his face just like a baseball bat to the face, John's face contorted into disgust as the foul smell hit his face, so he took out another must-have tool in adventuring.

Well, John actually developed this one, a mask that shields the scent in the surroundings, purifying the air that he will inhale.

"This? How could one even think of doing this to their fellow race?!" John let out a low growl as he finally looked through all the things inside this basement.

Inside the basement were rows of cells aligned in the four walls of the basement, and a faint wisp of black energy emerged from those cells that then flowed into a black coffin in the middle of the room.

"Ah... Help!"

"HELP!"

Loud cries resounded from the cells as humans were chained inside with different machinery grotesque in design that tortured them, then with their screams wisps of black energy flowed out of their bodies and landed in the black coffin.

"Heh! Heh! A kid actually got here, the ones outside are really trash that they can't even guard this place properly."

BANG!

John only has the time to quickly requip the mecha on himself and put the blade in front of him to block the blow in front of him.

He was then sent flying as he stabilized his form in mid-air and quickly landed and raised his gun to quickly shoot in front, forcing the enemy that hit him back.

"Huff, huff." John panted as he quickly composed himself from the nervousness and shock from nearly dying just now, he got a clear look at what attacked him just now.

It's a tall man with really compact skin looking like Zues from Record of Ragnarok in his Adamas form, he has a weird smile on his face as he cackled.

"Hehehehehehehe, what a cute invention you have there, it could actually resist my casual attack? Well, how about this then?"

He then vanished as he quickly appeared on the left of John with his leg in a sweeping motion to kick John at his waist.

Then with one quick move, John trapped the man's leg between his knee and elbow and then he trusted his blade at the enemy's chest.

The man then dodges the blade as he used the force of turning around to get his leg out of the trap and with one spin he kicked toward John's head with the heel of his left foot.

Which John dodged by ducking and swinging the blade behind him, which caused the enemy to jump up and dodge the sweeping blade.

"Chance!" John shouted as he quickly turned around and fired a rain of bullets at the enemy in mid-air, the collision of the two created a cloud of smoke, taking this chance John quickly retreated from the place while he kept firing bullets at the cloud of smoke.

"Hahahahaha, your invention is really great young one! It can actually cause damage to my body tempered by resentment!"

Along with a loud laugh, the cloud of smoke opened up and revealed the man standing with a few shallow holes in his crossed-out arms.

"Come! Let me see the limit of your invention young one! Undead Magic: Bloody Drive!" With his shout, a black magic circle went through his body and enhanced his attributes.

Claws then grew out of his hand as he instantly vanished from John's eyes and then he was slashed proven by the sparks produced by the collision with his mecha and the man's claws.

Then he was sent flying by a kick to the head by the man, then mid-flight in the air the man appeared beside John and sent him flying with another kick.

This Dragon Ball style beatdown continued for a while with John panicking inside his mecha as he need to quickly get out of this dangerous situation.

'Shit! This is bad, or else the mecha won't be able to handle this continuous beatdown. It seems that I can only resort to that!'

Along with one final kick to the ground, the man jumped back from beating John as he stretched his body while saying with a smile.

"It's good that your little thing can take quite a beating, I haven't stretched my body in a while since I laid down in that coffin."

"Well, are you ready for round 2? Undead Magic: Aura of Resentment!" Along with his shout, the screams that came from the cells became more miserable as thick black energy got extracted from each cell that then landed on the man.

"Now, That's the feeling!" He took a deep breath of the black energy as he dashed quickly in front of John and kicked to start another combo, but a long claw stretched out from the side and blocked his kick.

'Finally! We can counterattack!' These were John's last thoughts as he quickly fall asleep, then a white light connected to his head to the entire mech.

Overdrive mode!

The mecha's black body slowly started to have flaming patterns in them as the blue vein parts of the mecha turned into a blazing red color.

At this moment John is in a dream state, with the dream containing everything that is happening outside the mecha, but because he is commanding the mecha with his thoughts this time, it can react faster than before.

Without saying a word the mecha and the ghost ripper puppet disappeared at the same time as they appeared on both sides of the man and slashed at him.

The man stretched out his hands to block the attack but was then sent flying by the two kicks of the mecha and puppet.

This time it was the man's turn to receive the Dragon Ball style beat down as they appeared in different places in the open area of the basement bringing loud bangs every time they collided.

"Argh! I'm supposed to be the one that will be doing the beatdown!" The man yelled as it began to draw on more black energy from those people in the cell as more miserable howls came out from them.

He tried to resist but two fists cannot beat four, so even if he got a bit stronger he was still beaten to the ground and dragged around like a mop.

But, even though the man looked miserable, all the injuries that he is receiving are superficial injuries and has not damaged his core state.

As the fight go on, John saw that however badly the man got beaten, in their fights they have not gone closer to the black coffin in the middle of the basement.

Even when John deliberately tried to send the man to the middle, he would react more quickly than before to deviate from the flight course, so it seems that his guess was right.

Then while the man was sent flying, John quickly sent 10 bomb snake puppets to curl up on the coffin, the man saw this and his expression contorted into panic as he shouted.

"NOO Don-" Bang!

And before he could finish his sentence the snakes exploded and blasted the black coffin into smithereens as the man seemed to suddenly have a heart attack as he clutched his chest.

"You-" And that was his last word as his body slowly started to dry up, then turned into countless ashes as a wind blew on his body.

[A/N: Rahu Type 01 Debut, thanks @Anubismon for the suggestion about the name of the mecha. How's this chapter for you guys? Drop some power stones if you like it.]