Final Trial of Mankind

A little farther away from the battlefield stood a young girl.

She is not armed at all, and all she carries is a small laptop computer. She has no posture that a trained person would pose, nor does she feel her magic power. She is neither a combatant nor a demon. It's just an ordinary human who just came to see the situation of the passage and then encountered a battle like this-it's such an atmosphere.

Seeing the figure of the girl full of fear, Austach turned serious in surprise.

Because the uniform she was wearing was so similar to the costume worn by the sword shaman of the Lion King agency.

It is unlikely that it will be her companion, but just in case, it is better to disable her——

Thinking of this, Ostach shook his head.

There was no need for that, and even if the sword shaman chased him back now, it would no longer be any obstacle for Austach and the others.

And there is no point in taking that girl's life here.

Let it go no matter what, she will die sooner or later, not only her, but all the residents living on this island will have the same fate.

That's right, this place of breaking the promise created by sinners - Itogami Island will soon sink to the bottom of the sea.

043 Muchen: Patients with the Second Second Disease just can't listen to what people say

That place was built in the depths of the sea where not even light can penetrate, and it reminds people of an eternal prison.

The bottom layer of the central stone gate is in the seabed, about 220 meters below the sea surface.

The conical outer walls, built to withstand the high water pressure, are somewhat similar in atmosphere to the mythical Tower of Babel.

The role of this layer is somewhat similar to the winding part of the head of a stringed instrument such as a violin. It can control the vibration of the entire island by tuning the wires extending out of the four artificial base islands. , making it harmless.

All the connecting steel wires that reach through the door wall are tied to this lowest pillar. The diameter of the connecting wire formed by winding about 650 steel wires is about [-] mm. Motors rivaling power plant power control them.

The overwhelming mass of steel and the sense of coercion of the explosively powerful driving mechanism, combined with the intense water pressure surrounding the entire building, these environmental factors transformed the drifting atmosphere of this layer into a viscous and dense gas.

And the airtight compartment that isolated the lowest layer was being pried open with a whining noise.

The one that tore apart the [-]cm-thick armor wall like tinfoil was a humanoid beast shining with iridescent light.

In the center of the beast's chest, you can see the figure of the host locked in it. It is a girl with long blue hair and light blue eyes, the artificial life form Astarut.

Appearing from behind her was a strong man wrapped in vestments.

Rudolf Ostach, the teacher of Rotaringia, was slowly looking at the lowest level of the stone gate that he had reached with emotion.

"Command complete, to visually confirm the target."

Astarut told him as if he was still in the body of his beast, that the voice that lacked circumflex had completely lost emotion now.

The beast is originally a summoned beast from another world. In order to materialize it, the host must shorten his own lifespan.

Although it also depends on the type of beast, if it is an ordinary human being, it is said that it will lose all lifespan after a single summoning. The life of the host is nothing more than a simple sacrifice to the beast.

Even if the host is an artificial life form, there will be no exception.

Astarut, adjusted to coexist with the beasts, has been endowed with a longer lifespan than ordinary humans, but even these are not much left. In order to attack the central stone gate, it is necessary to use the power of the beasts. It's too much.

"..."

But Austach didn't even glance at such Astarut, and just kept walking towards the center of the lowest floor.

It is extended from the four bases of the artificial island. The ends of the four steel wires are the anchor blocks that fix all the headstocks. It is a small inverted pyramid-shaped metal base.

And a pillar, like a stake, runs through the anchor block to fix it there.

Its diameter is less than one meter, but it bears hundreds of tons of loads to this day in order to connect to Ito Kamijima.

It was a translucent stone pillar with a texture a bit like obsidian - the central stone.

"Oh... oh oh..." From Austach's mouth, a voice of lamentation and joy mixed at the same time.

Trembling violently all over his body, he knelt on the spot, from his seriousness looking up at the stone pillar, tears flowed continuously, and finally his sadness and joy turned into frantic laughter.

"The immortal body usurped from the sanctuary of Rotalingia... I have been waiting for it to return to the hands of our believers for a long time! Astarut! There is nothing standing in our way anymore, give Let me pull out that hateful wedge and bring the punishment to this decadent island!"

Austach let out a high-pitched laugh, and issued an order to the artificial life form of the Servant.

But Astarut didn't move, but was still wrapped in the armor of the materialized beast, and said in an emotionless voice.

"Command recognition (Received). However, there is an error in the precondition, so request to reselect the command."

"what?"

Gripping the huge battle ax tightly, Ostach stood up, because he also sensed the reason for Astarut's refusal to order.

In front of that hateful wedge, there was a person standing silently, this person he knew, it was the magic attacker who appeared in his hunting ground a few nights ago—Mu Chen Azi Dahaka.

"I'm sorry, your footsteps are about to stop here." Standing by the side of the stone pillar with bare hands, Mu Chen lightly knocked on the stone pillar.

"The body of the saint who once served the 'God' of the Western European Church, does the 'God' really exist? There are also saints..." Mu Chen looked at the "arm" of someone who was enshrined on the altar. road.

It was a withered, tiny arm like a mummy.

There are horrible scars on the wrists that look like they have been tortured. This is the remains of a martyr who suffered for his belief and lost his life.

At the same time, it is also the basis for the manifestation of the holiness of God in the present world, so it will become the object of people's belief. The remains with strong holiness are said to be absolutely incorruptible and can cause various miracles.

And part of the body of such a saint is sealed in this stone pillar.

The bottommost secret of Itokami Island is the existence of this holy relic. As a huge artificial city, Itokami Island is supported by the "miracle" caused by the holy relic.

The city of Itokamijima was designed about 40 years ago.

Spiritual veins—called dragon veins in the East, that is, the existence of huge spiritual power channels flowing on the surface of the earth. On the sea where they intersect, an artificial floating island is built to build a new city. An epoch-making program.

Everyone thinks that the spiritual power flowing from the dragon veins will become the vitality of the citizens and lead the city to prosperity, but it is a difficult problem to build it, because the power of the exposed dragon veins floating on the ocean far exceeds people's control. imagine.

This is also the reason why String Kamijima was built quite far from the mainland.

The land built on the dragon's veins will be full of spiritual power, and just by doing so, you can perform more powerful spiritual arts than usual, or experiment with magic. This is ideal for the demon special zone where demon research is conducted. condition.

Building cities on dragon veins is necessary for the artificial island plan.

The designer of the city, Xianshen Qianluo, did a good job. He selected the artificial islands divided into four parts from east to west, north and south, as the four gods in Fengshui, and then organically combined them to control the dragon veins. However, there is another problem that cannot be solved even in that way, and that is the strength of the central stone.

According to Xianshen Qianluo's design, a yellow dragon as the leader of the four gods in the center of the island is needed—that is, the key central stone as the connection part, but with the technology at that time, it was impossible to make a stone that could withstand such a heavy building materials.

Therefore, the designers of String Kamijima relied on spells in order to solve the dead end in engineering.

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In order to enhance the strength of the building, the evil method of sacrificing living human beings was thought of.

However, dragon veins refer to the flow of qi in the natural world. The turbulent force of qi will place an excessive burden on the joints of the artificial island. If the central stone can bear its load, ordinary spells cannot do it. There must be power to rival the miracles of God.

Therefore, he chose as a sacrifice to support the city the remains of the saints usurped from the sanctuary.

This is also one of the reasons why Rudolf Ostach came here to take revenge.

"Of course it exists, and the existence of that arm is the best proof."

"Unfortunately, I don't plan to argue with you. If you want to talk about your justice or other things, go to those immature fellows of the Fourth Primogenitor!" Mu Chen pulled out the treasure from the treasure chest. Durandal, "The purpose of my standing here is to stop you. If you want to get what is behind me, just crush me and just step on my corpse. I will not cheat, and I also don't like cheating." , use your strength to speak!"

"Muchen Az Dahaka, I will use my strength to take back our holy relic. This is our holy war against this city, and even you must not interfere—"

"It has nothing to do with me. Whether your jihad or other things are not worth mentioning in my eyes, it is similar to a junior high school student who is still in the second disease. Don't put that kind of superficial morality or justice in front of me. , because I have no interest at all."

Muchen's expression didn't change at all, without any emotion, pure indifference, which let Rudolph know that to achieve his goal, there is no other way but to resort to force.

"It seems useless to say more. We will take back the holy relic here now. If we want to interfere, we will eliminate you with our strength—Astarut!"

"The order is promised, carry it out, 'Rose's Fingertip'—"

It was Mu Chen who struck first, the slash that even diamonds can cut without any effort, without any mystery, the pure and sharp slash flew out from the knife, directly slashing towards Rudolph at a speed invisible to the naked eye.

The girl of the artificial life body wrapped by the beast manipulated the giant body of the human form to meet it. It was a fierce punch that shook the entire building.

Although Astaruth's beasts are humanoid, they are not creatures. Their entities are dense collections of magic power.

Its fists are almost as powerful as the most powerful spell cannons, its kicks surpass even the explosions caused by ritual magic, and its arms can tear even the thick compartments of special alloys.

The overwhelming power that crushed the magicians of the Special Zone Guard in one blow—

However, with this kind of strength, when encountering Mu Chen's slash, he could barely keep his figure from retreating.

044 Muchen: Look at my coquettish micromanagement

Being suppressed, you can see the battle situation at a glance.

However, Mu Chen only made a slash after all, and did not follow up with the follow-up attack, so this slash was finally deflected by "Qiangwei's fingertips", and a deep stroke was made on the alloy wall behind them. mark.

"The first strike is a gift. I don't intend to play with you. The interruption of the last battle has already made me lose my interest in playing. So, let me unilaterally kill you!"

"Don't be too arrogant, mere mage attacker, Astarut!!"

"The order is promised, 'Rose's Fingertip'." Astarotti said in a flat tone.

Immediately afterwards, the fist of the Beast, shining with gray and white rays of light, rushed towards Mu Chen ferociously.

However, before he got close to Mu Chen, he blocked it with Durandal. Although Mu Chen's sword looked like a fire stick, the so-called leverage principle could not be useful in this situation, but Mu Chen undoubtedly With his own strength, he took over the power of this beast without retreating.

"It's me who should say don't be arrogant, a fanatic who sits in a well."

The sword flashed, instantly occupying Rudolph's vision.

He didn't care whether Astarut was innocent or not, he was just being used by others, Mu Chen's slash ruthlessly smashed the arms of the beast.

Mu Chen's slash without the sheath ambush is still sharp, Mu Chen doesn't want to rely on the convenience of equipment, because getting used to the convenience of equipment may hinder the progress of his own strength.

Of course, Mu Chen is not a mere powerist.

The equipment is all foreign objects?

What a joke, that is the idea of ​​brainwashed people. Equipment is also a part of strength in battle. No one can deny the importance of equipment. It is very likely that it is the last straw that broke the camel's camel in battle.

However, Mu Chen is not a weaponist either.

It is good that equipment can increase strength, but there is no need to rely on it. It is just a prop. It is fine to use, but it is not good to rely on it. The enhancement of one's own strength is the right way. How much power the equipment can exert depends on the user.

Some weapons are so powerful that the user will be drained of energy even with one use, which is purely self-defeating.

Therefore, for Mu Chen, weapons are only used at appropriate times, and what he usually pays attention to is the exercise of his own strength, but now, this result has appeared.