I was raised in the simulator, and I’m really not a bad woman in Ark!

"What would you do if I said no, little Sakta girl."

Upon hearing this, Ikaros looked at him expressionlessly, and then the next moment he shattered into a point of light in front of Karin like an illusory image and disappeared.

Then, the feeling of the hard and cold muzzle of a gun against the back of his head appeared in Karl's senses.

The smell of the etched ammunition, a mixture of Originium particles and powerful explosives, surrounded Karl's nostrils.

Ikaros had already told Karin the answer and had his finger on the trigger.

"Is this your answer? ... What a terrifying speed, or is this some kind of Originium technique? But never mind, I am indeed from the Tower of Babel, and I came here for a reporter named Luciana. I wonder if this answer satisfies you, Ms. Ikaros?"

Karl raised his hands sincerely, without any thought of resistance. Rather, ever since Ekalos' figure suddenly disappeared like a phantom, the experienced Karl had already recognized the difference between himself and the silver-haired Sakota.

So he blurted out his identity and purpose without hesitation, to avoid any accidental incident. It would be too not worth it for him to die here.

"Good answer." The clear and pleasant voice remained calm, but with the crisp sound of the gun's safety pin being pulled back, Karin knew that he was safe, and then he turned his back to Ekaros and asked:

"So, are you Miss Luciana?"

"No, I am Ikaros. As for Mother Luciana, she is my adoptive mother. She will be here soon. This time, I and her biological daughter are accompanying her to Kazdel."

The surrounding space suddenly shattered, and the cold touch that was originally against the back of Carl's head was transferred to the front of his chest. After the surrounding "dream" was actively cleared by Ekaros, the girl still stood in front of Carl and took back her gun.

Carl's pupils constricted when watching this scene. After all, the Originium technique that could be implemented without any trace of magic fluctuations seemed a bit scary to him.

It can be said that it would have been easy for Ekalos to get rid of him, or even everyone in their team.

In the absence of intelligence, Karl felt that most of Kazdel's mercenaries had no way to avoid Ekaros's first kill.

The best result is that after Ikaros shows his killing intention, he tries to dodge the bullets from Ikaros' gun by relying on the instinctive reaction of his body muscles, and then takes advantage of the gap when Ikaros' body is exposed to counterattack the opponent.

But this is basically unlikely.

Because Karl didn't really determine Ekaros's location until the end, and he did feel Ekaros's murderous intent from behind, but in the end Ekaros's true body was in front of him.

This shows how terrifying Ikaros’s power is now.

Logically speaking, knowing how powerful the girl was, Karl should have been more vigilant after confirming that she was a person related to the mission target. After all, this person, the Sakta, who came from an alien race and had a feud with the Sarkaz, had such a powerful force.

No matter what you say, you should be more cautious and try more.

This is true even if the other party shows good intentions.

After all, what if the other party eventually wants to harm some core members of the Tower of Babel or even that prince?

They had to guard against such a terrifying ability.

But that's just theoretically speaking.

Under the influence of Ikaros's natural temperament, which seemed to be innate, Karl's vigilance only lasted for a moment before disappearing.

Instead, I felt a little more admiration for the young girl's strength.

As for suspicion?

What a joke, people can kill you the first time they see you. In this chaotic land of Kazdel, Ikaros’s greatest kindness was not killing Karin.

What a bullshit suspicion. Isn't it normal for a girl to have a gun to protect herself when she goes out? Isn't it normal for her to have stronger Originium skills to protect herself? Isn't it normal for him to easily control a mercenary like me who has fought for years and crawled out of the pile of dead bodies?

Don't make a fuss. There were similar monsters in the Kazdel Civil War. Can't girls in a peaceful country have some battlefield instincts and strength?

That doesn't make sense.

So Karl's final answer was very clear, "Then I'll trouble you, Miss Ekaros. Can my teammates come over as well? After all, this is our team's mission. I hope you can understand."

"Well, it's okay. I have actually already seen your good intentions. I just made some necessary precautions." Ekaros nodded. After completely confirming the identity of the Sarkaz mercenary in front of him, he would not embarrass the other party and his team.

Or maybe she was just too lazy to care about the people in front of her.

All she cared about were Arturo, Ena, Luciana, Federico, and half of Marcello.

As for other people, Ikaros was not interested in what they thought, cared about, their opinions, attitudes, and feelings towards him.

Ikaros will not care, nor will he give any response or emotional feedback other than normal communication.

Call it arrogance or call it indifference.

But in short, Ikaros is such a Sakota.

Especially after the first simulation, Ikaros, who received a lot of short-term memory fragments and power from the Grand Duke, was naturally also influenced by the awkward and arrogant Grand Duke from Victoria.

One of them is the arrogance that comes from the heart, which shows that he has no interest in any outsiders and will not pay too much attention to or understand them.

Although this arrogance is a part of Ikaros.

It's just that the first simulation ended up exacerbating this effect a little bit, but Ikaros didn't hate it.

Anyway, she is still as gentle, lovely and virtuous as ever to the people she cares about, and that is enough.

As for outsiders, she never had to care about them from the beginning to the end, right?

Chapter 8: Orange Party among Angels~ (k)

After confirming the identities of both parties and having a brief communication.

Ikaros and his group began to accept the escort from the Sarkaz mercenaries.

And we have to mention here that no matter how dissatisfied the Sarkaz mercenaries were originally, after meeting Ekaros, the Sarkaz members who were originally dissatisfied with Sakota and very unhappy with the behavior of Ekaros and his group all developed an inexplicable liking for Ekaros like Karin.

As a result, their attitude towards Ikaros became exceptionally friendly.

This is totally different from the Sarkaz's usual attitude towards Sakota.

Luciana thought that these mercenaries had taken a fancy to her daughter and daughter-in-law, so she was on guard for a long time.

Although Ikaros doesn't care about the attitude of people other than those he cherishes towards him, Karin's situation can be said to be an unexpected coincidence. However, as the number of people increases, Ikaros also realizes the Sarkaz's somewhat weird affection for her.

Especially after Ikaros secretly used the Originium technique to test the Sarkaz mercenaries, and realized that he was like a white moonlight type of character with a built-in filter in the eyes of the Sarkaz.

Ikaros was still somewhat confused and bewildered for a short time.

Fortunately, at this time, Ena pointed out the reward of 'Sarkaz Affinity' calculated at the end of the first simulation to Ekalos on the system interface.

This prevented Ikaros from thinking about other things.

Then, after she knew that the talent awarded by this reward could only increase the Sarkaz's initial favorability toward her, but would not have a strong enough level of distorted thoughts or charm, Ekalos simply didn't bother to care about it anymore.

After all, this is obviously a good thing, as it is beneficial for her as a Sakota to take Arturo and Luciana to interact with the Sarkaz in Kazdel during the civil war.

Therefore, Ikaros was too lazy to care about this matter. After silently withdrawing his Originium skill, he leaned on Arturo's shoulder and closed his eyes to rest.

Although the Originium technique of constructing the 'Dreamland' is very powerful.

But everything comes with an equal price. Although Ikaros now benefits from the broken power of the Demon King, the fragments of the gluttonous beast, the gift of "reproduction", and three special talents rewarded after the simulation, the use of Originium skills no longer increases the infection degree.

But it does come with a doubled consumption of physical and mental strength.

All we can say is that there are gains and losses, but Ikaros definitely did not lose out.

As for Arturo, he did not show any dissatisfaction when his own Ekaros was so welcomed by the Sarkaz.

After all, didn’t you see that Icarus kept sticking to Arturo after getting in the car?

Now she was lying directly on Arturo's shoulder with her eyes closed. Arturo, who could feel the fragrance of the girl's hair and the warmth and softness of their skin, didn't take those Sarkaz who had an inexplicable liking for Ekaros seriously at all.

How do you say that?

When you think you have won, then you ignore everyone around you who cannot pose a threat to you.

This... maybe it can be considered as the margin of a so-called 'first wife'.

Icarus, who closed his eyes and lay on Arturo's shoulder, slowly recovering his strength and energy, was now facing a choice.

That is whether she will start her own fourth simulation.

Generally speaking, as long as you are a normal person, you should choose to use this kind of plug-in as much as possible, as it can quickly improve your strength and get a lot of rewards for free.

Not to mention simulating once a week, I'm afraid he would be willing to simulate six or seven times a week.

But, as the saying goes, it is easier said than done.

Although further gaining strength is indeed the best thing to do at the moment.

But this time, after weighing it over and over again, Ekaros decided not to start the fourth simulation yet.

And the reason is very simple.

Because Ekaros, who now needs to accept three inheritances of memory and power from different simulators, no longer has the ability to accept the fourth inheritance.

Today, Ikaros' nights are completely divided between the inherited memories of three different simulations.

Every morning when Ikaros wakes up, the chaotic memory fragments, inherited knowledge, and techniques of using power in his brain will cause Ikaros's brain to fall into confusion for a long time.

Although if he had to start the next simulation, with Ikaros's strengthened body and mental strength, it was not really impossible for him to take on another inheritance.

But this is like Ikaros, the host. Even if the graphics card of her brain can run several large works at the same time, her own consciousness and soul cannot perfectly control so many works at the same time.

Too much inheritance will only lead to Ikaros becoming more and more exhausted, or even the collapse of his self-awareness and cognition.

This is not good news.

Therefore, overall, accepting inheritance from three completely different memories every night is undoubtedly the limit of what Ikaros can bear now.

So consider your own physical and mental health and future.

Before completely digesting one of the inherited memories from the three simulations, Ikaros decided that it would be better not to start the fourth simulation unless it was a critical moment.

Ena also expressed her support for this.

Although the more simulations Ikaros performs, the more achievements she will gain as a system, that is ultimately only from the perspective of the system and the host.

As a friend of Ekaros, Ena respects Ekaros' choice, even if Ekaros doesn't want to simulate in the future.

Anyway, she has been developing the system's task module recently. If successful, it will not be difficult to help Ekaros to take advantage of the main system.

As for performance, it no longer matters. After all, once a system is deployed, it is like water spilled.

What's more, after nearly a month of getting along, Ena had already become Ekaros's captive.

So overall, it's not a big problem.

And on the first day that Ikaros and his party arrived in Kazdel, they were in a hurry on their journey.

Finally, when night fell, the convoy, guided by the Sarkaz mercenaries, arrived at a medium-sized neutral Sarkaz town.

And started looking for a place for them to stay.

Originally, Ikaros actually wanted to use his talent of Sarkaz affinity to help the Sarkaz mercenaries find homes or inns where they could stay for a night.

However, after traveling for a week and using Originium skills and the power of the Demon King many times, which consumed a lot of energy, Ikaros finally gave up the idea of ​​helping them after being persuaded by the Sarkaz mercenaries. He chose to stay with Arturo and Luciana to prevent them from encountering bad things because of Sakota's identity.

Although he was protecting Arturo and Luciana, Icarus gradually felt an irresistible fatigue while sitting in the car...

“Haha, they haven’t come back yet?”

Sitting in the car, Icarus' body was half leaning on Arturo's soft chest.

The girl yawned and half-closed her eyes. Her charming light golden eyes were now filled with sleepiness and a little blurry.

She looked outside the SUV at the deserted street because of nightfall, and felt increasingly sleepy, as if someone was urging her to fall asleep.

This made Ekaros, who had to cheer up, feel very uncomfortable.

"It may take some time." Arturo looked at Icarus who was so sleepy in front of her. Although she felt sorry for the girl, because she advised Icarus to take a nap first, she was refuted by him with puffed cheeks. At this moment, Arturo could only touch Icarus's head gently to comfort her.

As for Luciana, she put on an eye mask and fell asleep in the driver's seat early.

She said that with the protection of her two good daughters and the Sarkaz mercenaries, she didn't have to worry about safety at all.

Arturo was so angry that he wanted to wake his mother up from her dream several times so that Ekalos could have a rest.

But unfortunately, everything she wanted to do was stopped by Ekalos himself, so Arturo couldn't do anything more.

But seeing Ikaros yawning one after another, he seemed to be getting sleepy.

Arturo suggested again with a distressed look:

"How about you take a rest for a while, Ekaros? I'll take care of guarding the car for the time being."

“Well…it’s okay, Arturo. Just hold on for a little longer. I…haah~, I can still hold on…”

Icarus rested his head on Arturo's chest and chose to refuse as Arturo had expected.