Endless Silver Machine

After Ling triggered the destructive storm of elemental fusion, everything in its path was wiped out.

It was reduced to ashes, not even a wreckage was left.

The damaging storm damaged the entire building's siding. The strong wind passed through the broken walls, and the scenery outside the steel building could already be seen from here.

You can tell without looking outside that the main body of this steel building is a suspended tower. The flowing wind told Aika so.

Aika, on the other hand, used a temporary mechanical shield to isolate the destructive storm of the Light Flame Sword, and did not release the defense until the explosion subsided.

He did not approach Ling rashly, standing in the center of the storm. Maybe the magic controlling her was still not released.

But when he saw Lingju slipping to the ground holding the handle of the knife, he quickly stepped forward and hugged her body.

"Isn't it too chaotic?"

"Otherwise there is no other way..." This level of destructive storm only used the magic power of the Light Flame Sword, and Ling was only temporarily exhausted physically and mentally. "I just felt it, there is a magic weapon nearby..."

"Surely, is that the power of the magic suit?"

Now that we know the true form of the unknown force, we can definitely find a way to fight it.

"I'm sorry, I just attacked you..."

"It's not your fault, it's not you who should apologize to me."

"It's so spectacular! All the facilities on this floor have been abandoned. Even the facilities on the upper and lower floors were burned down by three-quarters of them due to the magic burst. This kind of destructive power has far exceeded the average level of magic equipment. Bar?"

The sudden female voice made Aika and Ling raise their heads and look at the ceiling, which had been mostly hollowed out, revealing the ruins of the walls and the thick cables buried in them.

Standing on the suspended magic circle is a mature woman with long wavy hair. Under the white coat she wears casually, she wears a Bis Empire researcher uniform decorated with gold threads. She appears in such a dress that her identity can be known at a glance. In front of Aika and Ling.

And beside the woman stood a girl similar in age to Luoluo. Her appearance is very childish, with a hint of childishness, and her eyes, as clear and transparent as glass, reveal a mysterious color.

The clothing she wore was a girlish style that was incompatible with the women around her, or rather this industrial-looking steel building. The fluttery dress is embellished with a large number of ruffles. The buns on both sides are tied with ribbons of the same design, and she wears a soft dome hat on her head.

The magic power erupted by Ling and the Light Flame Sword has swallowed up everything around them. These two people did not exist here before.

"Were you the ones who did it just now?" Ling raised his sword of light and pointed it at the two people watching on the wall, "This uniform... It seems that Lan Ming's intuition is right. This smuggling group is indeed related to the Bisi Empire. ."

"Don't be anxious, I don't deny that I let this child test you." The woman with her hands in the pockets of her white coat smiled slightly, looking harmless, "I am Miche, I was once a member of the Bisi Empire. You are an unobtrusive researcher, but even if you investigate my name, you will probably leave little information behind."

Then she gently patted the girl next to her who was clinging to her.

"This child's name is Komachi, which is the name I gave her. Our relationship with her can be regarded as mother and daughter, even though I'm not married yet."

The girl Komachi who was pushed out by Mi Xie seemed to be a little embarrassed, her glass-like clear and transparent eyes said so.

After introducing the two people on his side, Mixie immediately asked Aika and Ling a series of questions without even asking their names.

"You were just talking to your magic costumes, right? Do your magic costumes have the same consciousness as humans? Also, if possible, let me communicate with them too!"

"ha……"

Ling frowned in confusion. She had no idea what Mi Xie wanted to express.

"Young man, and the girl over there, your magic costumes all have their own 'hearts', right?"

"Although I don't know what you are asking, we did have communication."

"Really? It's true. It's obviously just a medium to activate magic, but it has its own 'heart'. Don't you think it's weird?"

Mi Xie lowered the height of the suspended magic circle and wanted to get closer to the two of them, but Ling raised the Light Flame Sword to stop her.

"Don't get me wrong, I'm not planning to hurt you. I'm only interested in magic equipment. Who are you and why are you here? I don't care about any of this. By the way, have you never felt strange? The so-called autonomous consciousness, in fact, Does it mean "heart"? Everyone has the ability to think independently and not be dominated by others. This is the privilege given to higher creatures. But after the emergence of magic equipment, this privilege is no longer our exclusive privilege. I As far as we know, at least half of the magic equipment can communicate with the holder in consciousness. So what exactly is the so-called 'heart'? Can it be called a 'heart' just because it can think and have desires? Or is it? You say that the soul and spirit in the field of magic research is the so-called 'heart'? If you say so, as long as you simulate a soul and spirit that can think and have desires, and then transplant it into the magic circuit of the magic machine, you can artificially create it, right? Are you out of your mind?"

"...Is this person a lunatic?" Ling frowned, "She seems to be a scientist. Being able to create a mimicry magic outfit at least proves that she is indeed capable. Aika, will you become like her in the future? Is it like this?"

"If it's going to be like this, I'd rather drop out of school now. Besides, we're also studying magic mechanics, and Professor Cocona is much more normal in comparison."

Although Professor Cocona is also different from ordinary people, for example, she wears a white shirt casually in the research room without wearing underwear. When she wants to sleep, she can easily fall asleep anywhere, including under the table in the research room.

"Let us clarify the important issues first. You are the person in charge here, right?"

"Huh? That's right."

"Where is Luoluo?"

"Luoluo? Remember, is she the new girl who came recently? Is she here now?"

It seems that Mi Xie did not assist Luo Luo, but she escaped here on her own initiative.

Aika originally wanted to get more information about Luo Luo from Miche, but judging from her reaction, it seemed that she had not had much dealings with Luo Luo.

"Since you are the person in charge of this factory, that means you also made the mimicry magic suit, right?"

"That's right, I didn't expect you to know about the mimicry magic costume. After all, there are too few real magic costumes, and the sample size is seriously insufficient. If you want to find out the truth, you can only rely on your own hands."

"You should be very clear about the side effects that kind of thing will have on people who use it, right?"

"Side effects? Does it have anything to do with me?" She tilted her head, as if she really couldn't understand what Ling was asking, "The Mimicry Magic Equipment is just a tool I use to collect data. As long as I can collect data, there will be no problem. Bar?"

That's it, there's no need to continue the conversation. Miche is indeed a madman, the epitome of a mad scientist.

The girl beside her, Komachi, didn't seem to object to the madman's absurd words. She just listened quietly.

"It seems that as long as I defeat you, the source of the problem can be solved." Ling's eyes turned to Aika beside him, "Aika, Luoluo's matter can only be postponed temporarily. If we let this opportunity go now, there may be no next time. "

"……I know."

Aika also regrouped and was mentally prepared to fight the magic equipment holder.

"Do you want to be my enemy? To be honest, I hope we can communicate well. The reason why people have a 'heart' is to keep thinking, rather than just using force to solve problems. I am here to communicate with you personally. , just to create a spark of thinking collision between 'heart' and 'heart'."

"Unfortunately, before the spark of collision of ideas has occurred, the values ​​between us have already collided with sparks. First of all, it should be impossible for us to want you to stop making mimicry magic equipment. After all, you just can't listen. A perfect example of a mad scientist and a negative example."

"By the way, it's because you are a member of the Nemesis Society. My relationship with the Nemesis Society is very bad now, and I will never let anyone be a member of them, because they took advantage of my sister."

"Oh oh oh, that's it... I don't agree with what the young man mentioned later. I only have a cooperative relationship with the Nemesis Society. Whatever they do has nothing to do with me, although this is just a verbal agreement. You My sister has nothing to do with me."

Aika and Ling's emotions were already high, but Mishe, who knew that the battle was imminent, raised the corners of his mouth without any fear.

"If we fight here, my 'workshop' will definitely be scrapped."

She snapped her fingers, and the entire steel building suddenly vibrated with rumbles.

The amplitude of the vibration turned out to be greater, as if something huge was approaching here.

"What……"

Both Ling and Aika felt that the creepy threat was approaching, and each took avoidance.

"Komachi, let's go play with them. But be careful not to destroy their magic costumes, and recover them intact."

"Yes, Mother."

The next moment, the behemoth burst out of the ground from the bottom of the steel building.

It was like a snake covered in scales, or like a dragon without claws. There is no obvious head, and what appears to be a head is a spiral, round mouth with rapidly rotating saw teeth as if to crush everything.

It jumped into the sky, then turned sharply and swallowed the unmoving Mishe with its saw-toothed maw, while Komachi jumped onto the body of the steel dragon.

The behemoth's body seemed to be the product of the fusion of artificial creatures and magical machinery, full of nausea and coercion.

"The Puppetmaker's Cross——"

Aika could see very clearly that invisible magic threads extended from Komachi's fingers and connected to the body of the steel dragon. The pink magic light instantly traveled throughout the giant body.

She danced her fingers flexibly, and the giant steel dragon suddenly knocked Aika and Ling out of the tower together.

There was a floating feeling under my feet. The top of the tower seemed to have passed through the clouds, and a fall from this height would be fatal.

However, Aika's silver-white armor gave him the ability to fight in the air, while Ling stabbed the light flame sword into the steel dragon's body without any mercy, without being thrown out.

This is the product of the fusion of magic machinery and artificial creatures, a living incarnation of the name "Disaster".

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