Shadow of the Beautiful World

In the magnificent mechanical palace of Archangel Haven.

The low-ranking angel who had been toyed with by the queen did not respond to the queen's appreciation.

Indeed, she made a bad mistake because she was nervous.

The beings living in this world of angels will be instilled with the concept of equivalent exchange for as long as they can remember.

It's not a racial culture anymore.

It became a dogma akin to a way of life.

And in the strict caste society of the Kingdom of Angels, she just missed an opportunity to change her destiny.

This opportunity may never come again.

This made the low-ranking angel a little disappointed. She saluted the queen, turned around and flapped her gray wings to leave the palace.

But at the moment of taking off, the girl folded her wings suddenly, and she remembered something she had neglected. She looked back at the queen on the throne, and a sly smile flashed across her face.

Under the amazed gaze of the archangel, the low-ranking angel walked up to the queen again, half kneeling there, and she said loudly:

Sorry, Your Majesty, I forgot to say one important thing just now... It's still about our 'guest'.

Nervous, she licked her lips.

She wants to use a new deal to get back the lost opportunity!

she says:

If you will give me that gem, I will tell you something that will surely interest you, and will definitely be worth the price.

boom

The blood-colored gem flew out from the fingertips of the archangel Haiwen, and precisely hit the girl's forehead, making a bloody wound, and with scattered blood, it landed in the trembling angel's palm.

The queen said coldly:

This is to punish you for concealing it, but... for the sake of my good mood, let's talk.

But you have to be careful, child, if your information is not worth enough, you will be thrown into prison for deceiving the upper class, lose your wings, and become a more humble wingless person...

You will be pleased with my news.

The low-level hunter with a headache didn't dare to wipe the wound. She put away the priceless gems and said seriously:

Among our two guests, one is Angela... the most powerful warrior in the Kingdom of Angels, who disappeared in the Lost Woods last month, and is the leader of the hunters we believe to be dead.

She has returned, Your Majesty, your mightiest warrior, has returned...

Um?

Haiwen's beautiful eyes narrowed immediately.

Angela, that was the trouble left after her unsuccessful blackmail failed.

After she was exiled from the kingdom of angels, she once wanted to kill the baby, but in the end, the head of the hunter who was in charge of the execution at that time felt undue compassion, and the powerful seraphim secretly adopted Angela.

And without the Queen's knowledge, Angela was trained to be the deadliest assassin.

After the incident, the seraphim was deprived of all his property and identity, thrown into the cruelest war, and finally died, but Angela was kept.

Haven sees her as a deadly weapon, one reserved for Odin, Lord of Nothingness.

Angela did not live up to her adoptive mother's expectations. She continued to make great contributions to the wars of the Kingdom of Angels in this world, and with the help of successful transactions time after time, she pushed herself to the honorable position of the head of hunters. superior.

That is equivalent to the post of general under the Queen's command.

However, a few months ago, Angela's adventure in the Lost Forest caused her to disappear completely. The queen thought she was dead, and she was still a little sad at that time.

But I didn't expect that the little wolf cub of Odin's family would come back alive.

You, then I'll go and see her in person.

Archangel Haven stood up, and the maid beside her immediately presented her with a gorgeous golden armor.

In the process of changing clothes, Haven was thinking about another thing.

There is no doubt that Angela has no ability to travel through the void, that is to say, the stranger who came back with her has the ability to break the barrier between reality and void.

Then, the hope of leaving this world probably rests on him.

Well, it seems that you have to think carefully and try to make a deal that is beneficial to you.

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Angels built many cities in this world.

Even if Merlin looked at the buildings standing in the city with the most critical attitude, he still couldn't feel the inherent cold and dead feeling of steel creations.

On the contrary, the shapes of those buildings are full of elegant and artistic sense.

This is probably the racial talent of these angels.

Those metal buildings are not angular, but streamlined, like ceramic treasures made by the most skilled masons.

In those gorgeous buildings, there are windows with ancient beauty, just like the skylights opened by the medieval kings in the palace.

Ancient and modern are perfectly combined.

And the tops of the metal palaces towering over the city, and large suspended rings revolving around them.

It's like some kind of energy harvesting device with a sense of futuristic technology.

It has a certain strong aesthetic and visual impact, especially those well-arranged energy channels in the steel city, emitting blue light, like gems embedded in the city one by one.

There are also those slender, sky-piercing metal modules, located around the city, every block has such a module like a spire, forming some kind of covering energy defense and offensive equipment in Merlin's eyes.

There are lush forests and flowers in this metal city, beautiful large fountains, and carefully dug ditches, like blood vessels on the city skeleton, sending clear water to every part of the city.

At first glance, it looks like a landscape planned in advance during urban construction.

The flying speed of Merlin and Angela was not too fast, which gave him enough time to admire these mechanical and steel cities from the sky.

It has to be said that although the shape of this city is far from the angelic kingdom that Merlin imagined, if only from the outside, this city is indeed beautiful, elegant and magnificent.

The magnificence is like a mechanical kingdom of God.

My Icarus and her followers should really come here and see.

Merlin looked back at the city on the plain behind him, and said softly:

The progress of their wasteland construction is satisfactory, but the artistry is a little bit worse. These cities are the future I imagined... Although for robots, such complex designs are just a waste of resources, but how to say .”

Lord Raven shrugged, and he said to Angela beside him:

No one wants their country to be a steel box with no aesthetics at all. Occasionally looking at such gorgeous buildings can make people feel happy.

But Angela did not respond to the Maharaja's thoughts. On the contrary, there was a light of thought on her face.

After leaving the forest, Angela kept thinking like this.

What are you thinking?

Lord Raven asked:

Say it out and listen, maybe I can give you an answer?

Angela pursed her lips, and after a while, she said:

About the God you said, the one who created all the angels, if what you say is true, if the angels here are really from heaven, then why haven't I heard it in this world as long as I can remember? Did you tell anything about him?

Because their beliefs have been shattered before you remember, there is obviously a problem with the flow of time in this place, which is much slower than the outside world.

Merlin raised his head and looked at the mechanical castle on the distant mountains. He said calmly:

And when you pray to something you believe in deeply, when you try your best to save yourself from your beliefs, and persist for a long time, but get nothing, you will naturally consider some more realistic issues.

Sincere beliefs are naturally shattered.

Not to mention these beings born in heaven, faith is everything to them and the reason for their birth, but they are exiled to the void and can no longer perceive the existence of God. This kind of pain will make them no stronger than ordinary people.

The salvation they were looking forward to did not come for a long time. In desperation, they struggled to survive in a strange world. Faith could not provide them with food and clothing, and would seriously affect their minds. Naturally, it became the most worthless thing.

That was the first to be jettisoned.

Raven shook his head, and said:

What was then abandoned was all kinds of things that had no 'meaning'. After all the gorgeous clothes were thrown away, the angels formed a harsh and strict caste society in a strange world.

As you said, the kingdom of angels believes in fair trade and regards equivalent trade as the first creed of life.

Merlin looked into the distance and continued:

They bury their beliefs, they go to the other extreme, they become so realistic, they make it a deal...but that's actually a good thing.

If they were that realistic, it would make my job a lot easier.

Something is coming!

Angela looked up into the distance. In this world where there are no clouds to obscure the view, there is no such thing as tactical concealment.

Under Angela's gaze, two black predatory spaceships with 6 mechanical limbs and a futuristic sci-fi atmosphere flew towards her and Merlin, one left and one right.

I found out a long time ago.

Lord Raven waved his hand, signaling Angela not to be nervous.

He looked at the two spaceships, which were real technology-side war weapons, with a body length of about 20 meters. There was a cockpit for the driver on the beetle-like limbs, and the four limbs of the lower body were extremely flexible.

The two attack arms extending from the back are under the silver-gray armor layer, decorated with densely packed ray generators.

There are six wings on the back of the spaceship that flare out, much like the cylindrical propellers used by Ganata, and there are several jet ports behind the spaceship.

Generally speaking, this thing is really not much different from bugs, but its firepower and various performances are also quite strong, at least much stronger than those heavy weapons made by Mechanicus.

On the outer armor of the worm-shaped spaceship, there is also a red energy ring shining, just like the compound eyes of a worm.

Although it looks ferocious and full of aggression, at first glance, it is indeed very majestic. It has the feeling of a cool bug-shaped mech that children like to play.

That's 'The Fearless'.

Angela clasped her ten fingers with bare hands, and she said to Merlin:

The production technology of the Angel Fleet's individual combat weapons was exchanged from the aborigines of this world. Because manipulating it requires too much professional knowledge, only a few high-level hunters can control it.

Merlin glanced at Angela.

With his hands behind his back, he floated a few steps forward. He looked at the two spaceships. After a few seconds, the cockpit of the spaceship opened, and an angel in golden armor stood up holding a sword. She shouted to Merlin arrive:

Honorable guests, and the head of the hunter, Her Majesty the Queen is in your manor right now, and she invites you two to meet!

We have no malicious intentions, please follow us!

That's what it said, but the two fighters just hovered in front of them, neither attacking nor leading the way, and the two sides just looked at each other.

After a few seconds, Merlin looked back at Angela in surprise, and asked:

Didn't they come to pick us up? Why didn't they leave?

Angela rolled her eyes, and she said to Merlin:

They are waiting for...payment.

?

Merlin's eyes became strange, and many question marks flashed in his mind.

Angela explained:

The queen asked them to come pick us up, and they came. But the queen definitely didn't pay us, so we have to pay this reward, a fair deal, remember? Your Excellency Raven, this is the rule of this world.

You angels, really are...

Merlin didn't know how to complain.

He didn't want to bully people either. Although these angels could be lost in seconds with just a look from him, he still raised his hand and threw a few magic gems to the expressionless waiting angels in front of him.

After getting paid, a bug-shaped spaceship flew over and stopped in front of Merlin and Angela.

The cockpit opened, and Merlin landed on the seat, fastening his seat belt.

Angela beside her shrugged, and when the spaceship started, she said to Merlin:

You can see it with your own eyes now. This world is so realistic...

Merlin didn't answer.

He looked at the internal structure of the spaceship, and after a few seconds, he said:

Now I'm really looking forward to the story after such a group of live treasures are sent back to heaven. In the heaven that always puts faith first, there will be a group of mercenary guys who talk about fair trade in everything. Hehe, that will be very interesting...

Gabriel must have had a weird expression when he saw them...

Hearing Merlin's words, Angela couldn't help frowning.

She glanced at the high-ranking angel who was driving the Dauntless spaceship, and she whispered:

Are you so sure that they will go with you?

They believe in fair trade, don't they?

Lord Merlin reached out and brushed the Raven Book at his waist, a gentle smile appeared on his face, and he said:

So this kind of thing...

Isn't it enough to make a deal that is beneficial to both parties?