Lost Narrative Poetry

For a long time before, although it seemed that nothing happened on the surface, in fact things were turbulent secretly, and the international community was more or less aware of the huge waves suppressed behind that calmness. .

After all, the Cross Religion certainly cannot represent the entire magic side, but it is definitely a behemoth in the mysterious world. When it operates at full strength, the resources, funds, and various manpower and material resources mobilized are extremely huge——

Today's world is a closely connected whole, and naturally these flow changes cannot be hidden from the elites of each country.

This made many people vigilant, thinking that something big might be about to happen. Some people saw it more clearly and felt that they had indeed smelled the smoke of war, so they made various preparations... But war has always been It has not come, and the international community is generally stable, with occasional conflicts.

It seems that there is no change at all compared to before.

What they don't know is that they are not neurotic, but their guess is correct, but it is not the superficial society that is preparing for war, but the dark world, and the target is not resources such as oil, but for the sake of faith. A war of annihilation initiated against a certain person.

only……

Because now is the twenty-first century, after all, it is not the ignorant era of the past.

Times have changed. Nowadays, it is no longer possible to launch "witch hunts" and organize "crusades" just by talking about God's will and glorious excuses. The authority of religion is supreme. It's time.

therefore--

Even though the new covenant sent down by the Lord shocked the entire Christian religion and caused them to start working feverishly quickly, there was no such thing as openly declaring war on the entire world at once.

And this was not suitable, so they had been preparing for war during this period, but kept it secret. It was not until everything was ready that they quietly launched a surprise attack on the science side's base camp, which was Academy City.

We must accomplish everything in one battle and completely eradicate the enemies of God... Of course, it is best to eradicate all elements that threaten the cross religion.

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The white light of the street lamp made the guns in the water gleam.

Lying in the puddles are the guards who maintain public security in Academy City. They were originally assigned the duty of guarding the gate. Whether people outside want to come in or people inside want to go out, they have to pass by them. of heavy interrogation.

Just now...

They fell to the ground motionless, not even a fingertip.

The most advanced firearms in their hands and the impact-resistant armor suits they wore did not give them any advantage. Just as the firearms in their hands had not been used in time, the advanced armor on their bodies also had no effect. They just All fell down.

He didn't even see the enemy's face.

The thin figure of a woman was walking on the street in the rain. The sound of metal colliding with each other was heard. The sound came from her face. In addition to her ears, her nose, lips, and eyelids were all pierced. She opened her lips and stuck out her tongue. , a chain hung down.

A chain as thick as a necklace connects the tongue ring on the tip of the tongue and extends to the waist, with a cross-like decoration hanging from it.

"An unpleasant feeling..."

Fierce storms hit from all directions. The woman frowned and looked at the silhouette of the huge city in front of her, looming in the mist and darkness.

The thunderstorm was too violent. It was obviously still noon, but the surroundings were already as dark as night. It was not that exaggerated that I couldn't see my fingers, but it was true that only the lightning rolling in the gaps in the clouds could illuminate the earth for a brief moment in daylight.

But even so, with the fierce wind carrying countless raindrops and splashing countless water mist, the visibility of the surrounding environment is still too low...

The wind in front didn't know why. Looking at the dark rain curtain that made it impossible for her to see the streets on both sides clearly, she felt a sense of uneasiness and irritability in her heart for no reason, which slightly diluted the previous joy and confidence.

He was even inexplicably worried, whether he had really arrived in Academy City, or whether the thunderstorm was too severe? She always felt that something was not right, but she couldn't say it. Instead, she felt that she was worrying too much.

This contradictory feeling is the main source of the inexplicable anxiety in the woman's subconscious.

impossible……

This city must be destroyed today, and along with that disgusting science, nothing can stop the glory of the Lord from shining here.

Front Wind shook her head, strengthened her confidence, and at the same time picked up a walkie-talkie at her feet, which belonged to the guard she knocked down. She pressed the button casually, and there was first a burst of noise like electromagnetic interference, but it was very short and disappeared in less than half a second.

The signal quickly became clear. Under the background sound like a rainy night, a strange man's voice came from it:

"Hey, what's wrong? What happened?"

This was a guard who was not near the gate, so he had a chance to escape. But because of this, he also didn't know that the guard force at the gate here had been wiped out, and he thought it was a communication initiated by his companions.

After all, this thunderstorm came quickly, urgently and suddenly, without any precaution, it just crashed down and enveloped the whole city. Any evil that happened in it was difficult to be noticed at the first time. So it’s understandable that I didn’t find it.

"Aleister, you must be monitoring even this channel at any time..." Front Wind said directly, ignoring the guard on the opposite side.

"W-what did you say? Wait, who are you?"

But it wasn't a problem that could be solved by just ignoring her, because Aleister didn't respond at all. The guard opposite felt a little confused after hearing her words, but out of professional habits, he immediately became vigilant.

"I'll be very happy if you talk to me quickly."

Twitching the corner of her mouth, the woman said this in a tone that didn't sound happy at all.

"What nonsense are you talking about! I don't care if you are happy or not. Where is Sato? What happened to Sato? Why did the communicator fall into your hands!?"

The guard on the opposite side confirmed that something must have happened, and began to yell at the opposite side with a stern expression.

"..."

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"Ah, are you going to pretend to be stupid? You don't think I'm deceiving you... I'm telling you, I killed two members of your governing council." The woman was silent for a moment and tried to squeeze out He smiled as if he had a well-thought-out smile and continued to speak calmly.

No, that's right, as long as she is not embarrassed, others will be embarrassed!

However, the only response she received was the violent storm around her and the yelling of the guards on the opposite side——

"What? Kill two directors? You, you... you, you, you crazy woman, stand still and don't move! Do you hear me? I'll reiterate that you have the right to remain silent, but from now on, what you said Every word will become evidence in court..."

Click.

The communicator was directly crushed by the terrifying grip. Feng Feng pursed his lips tightly, feeling a burning sensation on his face and his body trembling slightly.

Hateful, so hateful, damn Aleister actually dared to ignore her!

She felt good about herself and felt that the situation was determined. She wanted to say a few handsome and harsh words before completely destroying the enemy. However, she did not get any feedback from the enemy at all and was ignored directly, which made her mentality collapse.

Morale -1, -1, -1...

If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have tried to contact that hateful guy. Wouldn't it be better to kill him arrogantly with the attitude of an absolute winner?

"Damn it, just wait and see if you can still be so arrogant when this city is destroyed..."

The wind in front had a dark face, stomping hard on the ground, splashing water, and the figure quickly moved forward and disappeared into the dark dense rain and strong wind. The uneasiness and anxiety that I had subconsciously felt about this city before, and The bad feeling that she had instinctively felt was forgotten at this moment.

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"Aleister, aren't you going to do something?"

A female voice mixed with noise sounded in the windowless building. Aiwass calmly asked the man suspended on his head and feet in the test tube.

Normally there is no lighting here, only mechanical signal lights covering the four walls of the spacious room, emitting a faint light like the stars. But at this time, they were emitting rapid red light intermittently, illuminating the enclosed space.

The source of the red warning light is the windows that keep popping up on the screens, corresponding to the collection of countless error signals. This means that various areas of Academy City are experiencing abnormal situations, and each area is falling and losing control.

The front wind that breaks through a major entrance gate is only a very small part of the abnormal situation.

"Let's watch first..."

Very rarely, the chairman's voice also revealed a hint of headache and fatigue.

He also made a lot of preparations in order to deal with the Crusaders' war, but it seems that very few of them can be put to use now - a sudden thunderstorm is of course the battlefield magic launched by foreign invaders.

But at the same moment when the thunderstorm fell, there was another kind of power, a sacred and terrifying aura quietly overflowing, like a dark night soaked in ink, unknowingly permeating the entire Academy City, Distorted phenomena and cause and effect.

The Christian people are well prepared, but they seem to have fallen into someone else's trap?

Aleister looked at one of the screens. Although the light was dim and the rain mixed with the strong wind, he could still see the ubiquitous air loops clearly. Some kind of divine power is infiltrating the twisted city, and something inconsistent has appeared.

That is something that does not exist and is foreign.

Amidst the violent storms and roaring thunder, a tower-like building stood in the dark night, more magnificent than the entire city. It towered into the clouds, and the top of the tower could not be seen at the end. It seemed to stretch straight into the endless. Among the thick dark clouds.

In the sky as dark as night, the huge whirlpool was surrounded by rolling black rain clouds, and terrifying lightning traveled among the clouds accompanied by the roar of thunder.

Aleister knew very well that there was the 23rd School District and the location of the space elevator Endymion built by the Orbital Gate Company. However, the scale of this project was huge and it would take quite some time. Only if it can be completed.

Besides...

Even if it is completed, the planned space elevator should not look like this. It has changed beyond recognition.

At least it wasn't this building that was washed away by the destructive thunderstorm that seemed like the end of the world. It was looming in the endless darkness like the storm of the long night, straight into the sky, as high as the sky, standing still... as if "" "Equality with God" Tower of Chaos.

"It doesn't appear out of thin air, but comes from the future..."

Aiwass knew what Aleister was thinking about at the moment and spoke.

"I know, that's why I feel...ridiculous." Aleister said lightly, "In other words, if everything continues, he will probably take over Endymion's project soon, and then follow his own instructions Did you come up with some ideas to transform this project?"

"But now, it is clear that he has lost the conditions to continue, and he should not have a chance in the future, but this thing still appeared..."

"Just because he did it in the "future", the result is spreading to the "past"? "

After he said that, he looked at the many screens.

There were too many irrational people and objects, and all kinds of heterogeneous existences, constantly walking out of the darkness of this city, making it impossible for him to confirm whether this was the trump card prepared by that person, or whether it was time and space. Weird phenomena caused by chaos.

And on the tower in School District 23, there was a calm gaze cast down.

Quietly overlooking this small city, this small planet, and...

The whole world is as dim as dust.

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It was raining heavily and it was as dark as night during a thunderstorm.

The magician was unhurried, discussing academic issues with the one-eyed girl in the research institute.

"Have you read "Dragon ×"? It's Tori × Akira's masterpiece comic?" he asked enthusiastically.

"No." Sitting behind the desk in Xia Ran's usual office, Othinus replied with an indifferent expression. At the same time, his eyes were fixed on the table for a moment, because there was an unpretentious book spread out on the table. notebook.

The upper page is filled with densely written lines of text, and the other page is hand-drawn with mysterious and complex patterns, so detailed that it almost looks like a product manual.

After flipping through a few pages at random, the one-eyed girl narrowed her eyes slightly. This was a concept she was very familiar with - the "Ten Sacred Steps" practiced by the Golden Dawn, based on the ancient Egyptian system and the Kabbalah system. Each step , all corresponding to the ten sephirot of the Tree of Life.

It's just that it's obviously different...

To be precise, in this notebook, the basis of Shicidi's practice has been reversed. The corresponding theory is not the Kabbalah Tree of Life, but the Reverse Kabbalah Tree of Life.

In the "Ten Sacred Stages", human beings are in individual "Kingdoms (Malkuth)" and go on a meditative journey through twenty-two paths to ten circles until they reach the "Kether".

The so-called "Kether" symbolizes transcendence, the nature of God, beyond all lower levels of understanding, and in any case completely unlimited.

But the content in the notes is based on "Materialism (Nahema)"...

Similarly, after going through twenty-two paths to ten circles...

Until “Satan”…

"..."

Withdrawing his gaze, Othinus took a deep look at someone and quickly began to think about what this person was hinting at.

"I don't know..." Xia Ran was a little distressed. He gently reached out and knocked on his forehead, "This is troublesome. After all, this work is very long. It feels like I have to talk to you for a long time. "

"No need, I already know the content of this work..." She closed her eyes slightly, and opened them again after a second. The one-eyed girl looked directly at the magician and said, "Just say what you want to do. What?"

"You have no soul in making up for it like this..."

After complaining in a low voice, Xia Ran coughed and said seriously: "Then I'll tell you directly, you should know the fusion technique inside, right?"

For a moment, the content she had just completed appeared in Othinus's mind, and he accurately retrieved the relevant information from it - a strange secret spell, which uses two people to dance in a strange left-right symmetry. dance, and then the two people stretched out their hands and touched each other with one finger to complete the fusion technique.

Thick black lines suddenly appeared on her forehead, and she shook her head decisively: "Don't even think about it, I will never do such a thing with you!"

"Hey, why?"

Xia Ran was slightly startled, wasn't he well said?

"It just won't work anyway!" the one-eyed girl raised her voice.

"Well, since you don't like doing that embarrassing dance to fit in, I have a backup plan. Do you like earrings, rings, or necklaces?" Xia Ran sighed and spread his hands. Concessions were made.

If you don't want to dance, don't dance. Fortunately, he has always been cautious. While creating a dance technique specifically for today, he also prepared an alternative similar to "fitted earrings".

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"..."

Are you really stupid or are you pretending to be stupid? Whether this person can figure out the key point, the question is not whether the method of merging is good or not... Othinus looked around and found nothing that he could take advantage of.