The Collection of The End

—AD.2162.9.8—

Silver heart.

Normandy II is as dexterously as a silver barracuda avoiding sharp teeth among sharks, weaving between countless Reaper warships that are chasing and intercepting it.

Tracking lasers, targetless missiles, exploded wreckage and strange space mines have formed a net of death on its course, and Normandy II is in this frighteningly dense fire net. Wiping Death's sickle and dancing.

"[The logarithmic shield is overloaded by 67%, the ablative armor has been penetrated, the hull damage is 32%, and the structure is damaged by 7%.]" In the cockpit, the voice of Yiti Machinery rang without fluctuations: "[Confirm the hull I can no longer withstand any attack, Ms. Misaka Mikoto, please ignore any subsequent statement by Mr. Cicero that Normandy "can resist".]"

"Hey! Itti, you have to believe me!" Cicero's hand moved on the spaceship control panel like a wind: "We can switch to rigid shields! Armor and hull are also being repaired! And those irrelevant structures The damage is still too early to affect the balance of the hull!"

But Yitty's report is not him.

"[The corpse and mecha that invaded the cargo deck have been destroyed by Ms. Elena and Mr. Fisher. The mechanical octopus that cut the hull into the crew deck has been thrown back into space by Miss Oxton, and the frame of the connection matrix has not been affected. The impact is in good condition.]" Itty continued to report to Misaka Mikoto.

"alright, I understand."

At this time, Misaka Mikoto was wearing a set of Star Alliance captain uniform with dark blue as the main color, with golden ornaments and epaulettes, but did not put on his shirt properly, just casually draped it over his shoulders, embracing his arms, as if It is a generous cloak.

Obviously, she was using this method to express that although Conna wanted to launch an attack from a virtual level and gave her the post of captain of the Normandy to her temporarily, she did not want everyone to really regard her as a captain. .

Huh—a slender figure suddenly appeared in the cockpit. She was wearing orange goggles, wearing a tan sports tights, and a "headlight" glowing with blue light hung on her chest.

"Report sister...Sir Captain, the octopuses that invaded have been kicked out by me, please instruct!" she yelled in a very recognizable voice.

"Stop for a while." Misaka Mikoto replied with an expressionless expression.

"[Miss Oxton, your'Ark Reactor' only has 23% of the energy left. Please don't overuse the'Time and Space Shuttle' in irrelevant places. If it can't provide you with positioning in time, you may fall into space at any time.] "Itty said.

"Anyway, wait ten minutes and it will be full again~" Lina walked to Misaka Mikoto with a smile, "It just happens to be able to accompany my sister, Master Captain for a while."

"Haha, be silly, this is her purpose. You have to learn more about humanity and sophistication." Cicero mocked Itty.

"[I don't think it is necessary to learn.]" Yitty retorted.

"That's actually—" Cicero suddenly shut up in the middle of speaking, and directly marked a huge wreckage on the external projection: "Hey, acting captain, I can let Normandy rub the side of this thing, but Itty Just said—"

Bilibili—!

Following Cicero's voice, an electric spark lit up on Misaka Mikoto's forehead, and almost at the same time, the huge wreckage was destroyed by a heavy electric current that fell from the sky.

"Continue." Misaka Mikoto glanced at Cicero with her eyes that had not faded away.

"Oh~" Cicero subconsciously focused on driving the boat for ten seconds, and then habitually began to complain: "What kind of ‘crazy-level thunder and lightning ability’ is this? This is clearly the ‘Thunder God’."

——

Normandy II, crew deck.

Three college urban graduates wearing ordinary crew uniforms are exploring around.

Boom! Boom! Ding!

"Tsk tsk, who made this anti-gun interface, why are there scores and kill streak rewards?" Ketori turned her head, looked at the ship fire control interface that looked like a VR video game and looked at the appearance almost simultaneously. Realistic scenes of wrecked wreckage and missiles.

"Because it was originally for the crew to play, but now it can't make mistakes, so it's all taken over by Itti," Kaos glanced at the room indifferently: "There is no sign of mechanical octopus invasion here. Let's go to the next place. Look."

"It's unbelievable that the three of us'old days' and'external gods' are working as ordinary crew members," Niya muttered, "Can't we just fly out and squash those iron knots?"

"In this dark situation, you can go by yourself if you want to go out." Kaos glanced out the porthole.

In his eyes, in addition to the light and shadow exploded by the anti-cannon fire, the countless ship wrecks that can be seen from the camera and surveillance, as well as the Reaper battleship surrounding the Normandy regiment, do not exist at all, and some are just dark that cannot be overcome.

There is only one possibility for this situation. A certain person who is far beyond him has appeared, and his passive "shielding observation" has made his eyes dark.

However, this existence is not [the one], because this "darkness" does not have the fear of encountering natural enemies. If you insist on saying it, it even faintly means "completely non-existent".

Of course, it must exist, otherwise, I was suddenly short-sighted or blind.

"It doesn't matter, there is a high bearer when the sky falls," Ketori turned and left the cabin carelessly: "Anyway, we are not...well...the ‘protagonist’."

"That's what I said, but there must be something that only we can do." Kaos said, and then silently completed the second half sentence in his heart: And there must be something that can be done without being suppressed by the person, I didn't see it. Did Emile, Sophie and Matthew stay in Zion and not board the ship?

"For example, to clean up the mechanical octopus that Lena missed?" Niya took out a crowbar from nowhere.

嚓嚓嚓—

In front of her, a mechanical octopus with big heads and many mechanical tentacles on both ends sprang out of the corner in shock, and ran away quickly.

"Hahaha! Stop! Watch me take your heads off~" Niya waved a crowbar and chased him.

"..." Kaos looked at the back of the two "girls" who ran away together, sighed, and turned to the cabin: "No matter what you plan to do, I hope you have already considered the consequences."

"This king knows what he is doing." As the light and shadow dappled, Yuriko Lingke appeared on the position of a certain point gun game machine: "And I also know what the consequences are."

"All right." Kaos glanced at the crack in the space half opened by her, shook his head and turned and walked out of the cabin.

——

Outer Milky Way, God Fort.

"Cronus" is a very large "mothership", from visual inspection alone, it even reaches two-thirds of the strongest dreadnought ship "Destiny" of Asari.

The reason for "visual inspection" is that "Cronus" is walking side by side with "Destiny Extraordinary" at this time.

Surrounding them is the "God Fort United Fleet" composed of ships provided by all civilizations with space fleets in the entire "outer galaxy".

Among them are even the mechanical warships of Jies and the warships of the Qualy Immigration Fleet.

Under the leadership of "Phantom Man" Jack Harper... well, under the influence of the high mobility of "Dr. Fantastic Art", the high force of "Captain Marvel", and the high affinity of Ao Yuyu, this unprecedented galaxy The joint fleet was formed after the threat of the Reapers was initially relieved. Of course, there were also factors for Shepard who was not on the scene-no matter who-to pave the way in advance.

Sarren Atreus and Galas Vakarian led the first and third battle regiments of the Turian, respectively, while the mother and daughter of Benazia and Liara served as the captain and commander of the Destiny Extraordinary. , Chief Lex Udno and Deputy Chief Grande Udno brought the Klogan tribe fleet, which has been disarmed with superior combat effectiveness of gene phages, and the Quali immigrant fleet warship was led by Admiral Tally Zola Led, they are still a little bit repulsive to the Jies fleet, but because the leader of that fleet is Javik and the Legion, there is no contradiction for the time being. The Serraru with the weakest combat effectiveness only sent a scientific ship. Leaded by a top scientist named Moding.

As for the human side, since all the five major fleets sent ships to participate, they all wanted to compete for the position of the captain of this squadron. Hitam, with Ashley Williams and Kayden Aranko serving as first mate and navigator respectively. After all, Academy City, as the most important project of the Star Alliance, has been paid attention to the extent that it no longer needs a "planet governor." "Sitting in town, of course, those chores that still need a "Governor" to deal with have already been thrown to his adjutant Zhou.

Such a huge fleet naturally caused a devastating blow to the Reaper fleet wherever it passed. After many squadrons were wiped out, the Reapers shrank one after another, and no longer gave the combined fleet a chance to break through.

This is exactly what the combined fleet hopes to achieve.

After driving away all the Reapers on the route, the combined fleet brought a huge ancient weapon made by Jies's hand—"Optimus Prime"—to the airspace of the Castle of God from the Curtain of Perseus.

It is said to be a super weapon that was designed by countless top scientists in the cycle to destroy all Reapers in one strike, but it was not made until the "Proxian" was exterminated by the Reapers.

Its shape is a huge sphere with a diameter that is exactly the same as the circle area of ​​the **** fort. The internal structure can't even be explained by the engineers involved in the manufacture, only knowing that it can be embedded closely with the "giant tower of the **** fort". Put it together.

The task of the current joint fleet is to ensure that it will not be destroyed by the Reaper fleet before it is successfully installed on the Fortress of God.

Yes, the Reaper Fleet obviously also knows something about the "Sky Oven". When it was dragged out from the Veil of Perseus, the Reaper Fleet that had crashed around like headless flies suddenly restarted. Obtained order, continued to assemble, harass and disrupt this operation.

Although their intrusions were basically futile, they still gathered a fleet of Reapers almost equal to the combined fleet, ready to perform the final installation steps in one fell swoop.

At this time, those who still had criticisms about the actions of the Star Alliance must unite the entire galaxy force shut their mouths. After eliminating countless Reapers, the total number of their remaining fleets was still greater than the combined fleet. many? What is their original number? If you only refused to support other civilizations, could you really survive their offensive?

No matter what the various civilizations of the galaxy thought, as the Sky Furnace reached the fortress through the induced jump and began to approach the expected "installation location", the long-awaited Reaper fleet finally revealed their fangs.

——

As the artillery battle unfolded, the "Cronos" aerospace carrier remained near the castle to supervise the work.

As a mothership, it does not have a main gun that can face the Reaper. The fighter planes and drones it carries are not capable of out-of-sight combat. The most important point is that it can control the Cosmos Cube. "In other words, the "Tinder Source" is installed on it, and its only task is to ensure that the "Sky Furnace" is successfully installed and activated. When it is really necessary, the "Destiny Extraordinary" will cover it.

However, with "Captain Marvel" Sarah Kerrigan and "Extreme Mage" Harold Winston, "Captain America" ​​Sharon Rogers and "Iron Man" Jin Gu all on board, the Reaper It is almost impossible to pose too much threat to it.

"Speaking straight to the point," said Jack Harper, "Phantom Man", pointing to the image of the "Tinder Source" projected on the conference table in the conference room: "The message it gives us is to combine'Sky Stove' with ' Once the castle is connected, it will activate and destroy the Reaper, but we don’t know how it will achieve this and what preparations it will make."

Jack used declarative sentences, but he looked at Kerrigan questioningly.

"Although the Reaper originated from us, we don't have any relevant information. After all, we are worms," ​​Kerrigan raised his chin: "Perhaps the Reaper also has a "master" or A core like'Insect Saint', and this thing will directly destroy that core?"

"Uh...I don't know. After all, I have been out of touch with society for many years." Sharon looked awake, no, it should be said that as long as she is not fighting, she always looks like this.

"Perhaps, it will transcend dimensions and give the Reaper a fatal blow." Dr. Qiyi nodded, as if to say something, and seemed to say nothing. The Dimension Guardian was as mysterious as ever.

"Remember our'expeditionary team'?" As he was indoors, Jin Gu didn't wear his helmet, and a smile appeared on his handsome face: "I think they should be ready for us in the Reaper's hinterland. Once the'Transport Anchor' is installed, the entire fleet of ours can be teleported there as long as the'Sky Furnace' is installed to start a decisive battle with the Reapers.

"...Although you said this kind of development must be very popular with soldiers who want to destroy the Reaper, but Sky Furnace clearly stated that it will'destroy the Reaper'." Jack looked at Iron Man and did not completely refute him. if.

Chih-hum -!

At this moment, the God fort outside the window suddenly emitted an unusually bright blue light, and the Sky Furnace, which had been transported only halfway, suddenly separated from the frigate fleet, rushing straight towards the God fort as if attracted, and accurately aligned with it. The roots of the tower of the **** fort have been docked.

Before Jack was surprised, the "fire source" in the desktop projection also changed shape abruptly, turning from a cube into a circle of fire burning with blue fire, which suddenly expanded in the next instant, bringing the entire ship Lonos" swallowed it.

"Huh, ‘Light of Dawn’?" Jack finally heard Jin Gu say this.