Endless Silver Machine

Now, just as Liuyin thought, the camp that was supposed to be the last line of defense for the kingdom's army had turned into a frontline battlefield full of smoke.

The country's magician troops and soldiers fought here, and everything you could see was the brilliance of magic unfolding and the sound of bullets being fired.

The camp, which originally looked deserted, is now closer to the concept of a "frontline battlefield." Collapsed and disintegrated outposts, dead trees burning with blazing flames, locomotives emitting thick smoke that could leak oil and explode at any time, and the disgusting smell of blood that filled the air.

The smoke rising into the sky made the already gloomy sky even more gloomy.

Liuyin did not intervene rashly in their melee. She had no idea what was going on. The army defected? If this is really the case, there is no need for Liuyin to take the risk to help. That is their own internal problem.

However, the war broke out for less than a minute, and the damage actually reached this level... Apart from high-level magic, Liuyin could not think of any other possibility that could achieve this.

This kind of high-level magic that can change the terrain environment may be able to be carried out reluctantly if it is the Blue Knight of the Vatican or the Templar Knight of the Imperial Knights. Liuyin didn't think that high-level magic on that scale could be easily accomplished by any magician from the kingdom.

"Mimicry Magic Equipment..."

She could only think of the term she had heard the most recently.

She had never seen that kind of thing with her own eyes, but it became a clue connecting various recent events. Including the reason for Oleifer's rebellion... So Liuyin can only think of this now.

She cheered up, and the ice-condensing spear was constructed with the flying ice crystal particles.

Liuyin flexed his muscles and then targeted the nearest location where the magic light erupted.

She kicked off her back foot to avoid the torrential rain of magic and bullets, and nimbly used the terrain to approach her destination.

There was a female kingdom magician who was building a magic circle. At first glance, Liuyin didn't notice the appearance of a mimicry magic suit.

The magician noticed Liuyin's approach, and three half-moon-shaped magical blades that were as high as the barracks cut through the ground and rushed towards Liuyin.

Liuyin looked at the ground and kicked her feet towards the blade. The flying ice crystal particles quietly rotated around her, and in an instant they reached a density similar to the magic power of the blade.

The storm rolled up by the ice crystals was not cut open by the blade. Instead, it used high-density magic power to disperse the seemingly unstoppable half-moon-shaped magic blade. The remaining magic power completely destroyed the empty barracks behind Liuyin.

Just the aftermath has such power.

But in Liuyin's eyes, this level of magic was already common among his colleagues.

The magician of the kingdom must not have thought that Liuyin would be unable to be stopped in this way. Before she could react, Liuyin had already flashed in front of her.

She bent her knees slightly, and the handle of the ice-condensing spear sank mercilessly into the kingdom's magician's belly.

No matter how powerful magic is cast, as long as there is no assistance from physical strengthening magic, the human body is fragile and vulnerable.

The magic circle that released the half-moon-shaped magic blade dissipated in an instant, and the kingdom magician fell limply in front of Liuyin with his waist hunched over.

"Is this the only level of mimicry magic equipment..."

Although the mimicry magic costume that Liuyin originally imagined was not as good as Aika and Ling's orthodox magic costume, it would at least make him feel a little pressure. But in fact, there is no such feeling. Although the magic formula does belong to high-level magic, the density of magic particles is far from being as powerful as Liuyin imagined.

She knelt down in front of the female kingdom magician who fainted and checked her condition.

The kingdom magician had strange patterns all over her body, as if some kind of power had formed a new magic circuit in her body.

"Could it be that...that's what happened..."

Liuyin had no impression of this kind of magic circuit, but he could more or less deduce it based on the current situation.

She recalled that during the hand-to-hand encounter that lasted less than a few seconds, her figure was not reflected in the opponent's eyes, but instead there was an emptiness that had lost focus, as if the soul was being swallowed by a mimicry magic suit.

Now the royal capital is in the midst of a riot where mimicry magic costumes are eroding the entire city. The routine of anti-city magic requires the cooperation of multiple kingdom magicians. Even if the mimetic magic equipment exerts an almost "miraculous" effect, the required supply of magic power cannot be as endless as a real magic equipment.

So where does the magic to supply it come from? The answer seems to be in front of you. This can also explain why the riot in the royal capital and the defection of the army occurred at the same time.

Liuyin probably knew what was going on, and after finding the answer, she had no reason to stay here to entangle the kingdom's magician troops. After dragging his limp body to a safe bunker, Liuyin immediately turned around and ran back to the hut in the camp.

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When Liuyin, who hurried back in a hurry, suddenly pushed open the ajar wooden door, he stood stiffly as soon as he stepped in with one foot.

Inside the room was Aika, who seemed to have woken up during her absence and had already sat up from the bed.

Originally, when Liuyin left, Aika, naked and wrapped in bandages, was still lying under the quilt. Now he sat up, naturally not wrapped in a quilt, and his naked body was naturally looked at by Liu Yin who broke in without knocking on the door.

——Isn’t this body very strong? You can't even tell when you're wearing clothes...

Although this was the first time she saw a boy's naked body with her own eyes, Liuyin was not so young that she would scream in panic when she saw a boy's naked body.

It's just that the redness spread from her cheeks to her ears. It was not a natural reaction that Liuyin could restrain by trying hard to restrain it.

Beside Aika's bed, stood a girl whom Ryuune had never seen before. Her long, fluffy pink hair was tied into equally fluffy twintails. She was wearing a pink kimono that was completely incompatible with the atmosphere of the frontline battlefield. .

Her face didn't express her inner girlish feelings at all like Liuyin did. Even though she was so close to the naked Aika, she just looked at Aika calmly and talked to him.

Liuyin suddenly broke in at this time, because she never thought that Aika would wake up at this time, let alone that there would be people here who were not here before.

The two people who seemed to be talking looked towards Liuyin together.

"That...is she someone you know?"

Liuyin asked dubiously.

"Yeah. I've heard from her that you're here too, thank you."

Aika just said this calmly. He seemed to have noticed the posture in which he was facing Liuyin. He put on the clothes and folded them beside the bed.

When Liuyin came to the frontline battlefield, he had already heard from Hitomi that the royal capital was in riots. When he opened his eyes and woke up, Hitomi was already standing quietly at the head of his bed.

Aika was awakened by the roar of artillery fire that erupted around the camp. Originally, his injuries had recovered to the point where he would not be in a deep sleep. With the help of Hitomi's body strengthening magic and the blood of Tiruya-senpai's vampire, his body gained extremely strong recovery ability.

"Liuyin..."

Aika glanced at the ice coffin standing in the corner of the room. He must have known very well who was sleeping in that ice coffin.

He turned his gaze back and walked to Liuyin with heavy steps.

As Aika approached, Liuyin also raised her head slightly. She didn't know why Aika had to reluctantly get out of bed and walk towards her at this time.

Then, Aika bowed her head deeply in front of Liuyin.

"I'm sorry..." Liuyin has never heard Aika's hoarse voice before, "I couldn't keep my promise, I didn't save Wei Xi..."

I don’t remember when I made this promise. When Liuyin agreed to entrust Aika to take care of Wei Xi, the only condition was that he must protect Wei Xi.

Even though the time when the promise was made is no longer clear, neither party has forgotten this promise.

At this time, if Liuyin could slap him with anger, it would make Aika feel a little bit redeemed.

However, even with such a cheap redemption, Liuyin has not given it to him for a long time.

Hitomi stood behind Aika, quietly listening to the conversation that only Aika and Liuyin could understand. She didn't seem to feel as deeply about Wei Xi's misfortune as the two people in front of her.

Liuyin finally made a move and took a step forward.

But instead of punishing Aika to vent his endless sadness, he gently hugged his deeply buried head.

"Wei Xi should be happy that she is not left lying there alone..."

Liuyin refers to the insignificant act of Aika personally covering Wei Xi's body with his windbreaker.

It seemed that the person who was hurt the most at this moment was not himself, but Aika. Liuyin just stroked his hair and said this like a comforting child in pain.

After comforting Aika, Liuyin raised his head and looked at the kimono girl standing behind him.

"Is this the girl in the report who hasn't been found yet?"

Aika then raised her head from Liuyin's arms and walked aside to leave a place for Hitomi.

"She is my partner, Hitomi. The Kingdom's army didn't find her, probably because she didn't stay there when I lost consciousness."

To be precise, Hitomi returned to the spiritual world before the Kingdom's army arrived.

Hitomi didn't seem to have any intention of getting close to Liuyin, but just bowed slightly to greet her.

"Tong... Pupil of Fiery Flame..." Liuyin whispered these two names repeatedly, and immediately discovered the connection between them, "Could it be that she is your magic costume?!"

"That's right."

"Does that mean he's the same as Xiao Xi..."

The true identity of Liuyin's best friend is the magic suit that lives in this world as a human being. Liuyin has hidden secrets from her for hundreds of years. So when she realized Hitomi's true identity, she accepted Hitomi's existence faster than anyone else.

After Aika woke up, the first person she saw was Hitomi. Although he was more seriously injured this time than during the Rosenberg prison robbery, he did not enter the spiritual world during his coma.

When you close your eyes and open them again, you have returned from the end point where you could reach out your hand to hug Luoluo back to the starting point of nothing.

Then, when Aika asked Hitomi, who knew everything about the outside world through him, about the current situation, Liuyin rushed in rashly.

"Have the troops of the Bisi Empire arrived nearby?"

The movement outside was so obvious that even the weak shed was crumbling. Anyone could guess the chaotic scene outside.

"It's more serious than that," Liuyin shook his head regretfully, "The magicians here who are equipped with mimicry magic equipment may all be controlled by the mimicry magic equipment. I don't know if the mimicry magic equipment has a triggering spirit attached to it. Because of magic, those people should have become the medium to provide magic power to the royal capital. In short, now they have no means to forcefully release the control of the mimicry magic equipment, they can only suppress it with force."

"Mimicry Magic Equipment..."

"Aika, think clearly, now is not the time to stay here and slowly sort things out. Something happened in the royal capital, and there is no way they can send anyone over to take us back. If we don't take advantage of it now, If we accidentally get the airship in the camp, if it is accidentally destroyed by the internal strife of the Kingdom’s army, we really won’t be able to go back!”

"The Royal Capital..." The first thing that flashed through Aika's mind was the figures of Ling and Lan Ming, "What's going on in the Royal Capital now?"

In the short time after waking up, Hitomi just told him that Liuyin came here alone, allowing Wei Xi to temporarily live in the ice coffin. Not long ago, the kingdom's troops had inexplicably fought with each other on their own territory.

Hitomi only inferred the current situation from a few words from the outside world, so Aika could only understand this extent.

"That kind of thing..."

Liuyin is a bit hard to talk about. Perhaps this is the so-called family scandal that should not be publicized.

At this time, Hitomi intervened in a "timely" manner and said the unspeakable words to her.

"Is it because one of you betrayed me?"

Naturally, Hitomi would not know the reason for Orefhel's betrayal. She guessed it from Liu Yin's expression.

Although on the surface, Hitomi didn't seem to care that much about the things around her, her calm eyes reflected details that were easily overlooked by people who were worried about all kinds of things.

Now that Hitomi has revealed it, Liuyin can no longer hide it from Aika.

"The Blue Knight and Oleifer who came here with me... Now she is using the mimicry magic costume in the capital. She may have established a relationship with the Nemesis Society at some time..."

When he heard the name that Aika hated so much, he clenched his fists without Liu Yin noticing.

"Get ready to go back now." Aika immediately turned around and took off the windbreaker hanging on the wall. "There should be usable airships here."

"Okay...but your current body..."

"no problem."

Aika took off the windbreaker and looked at it for a while. This windbreaker, which had been torn in many places, was originally covered by Wei Xi's body with his own hands, but now it returned to his hands as it was, and Wei Xi lay in the ice coffin where no one could touch her.

Does this count as returning to the starting point? That's not the case. If that were the case, Wei Xi should have come back.

"Wei Xi..."

He tightened his grip on the windbreaker and put it on resolutely.

The dark windbreaker looks like mourning clothes. Darkness can swallow up light, just as death can rob people of life.

At this time, Aika's back in Tongyan's eyes revealed the same atmosphere as when she saw Luo Luo in the Protoss Palace.

"Hitomi, please go back first. After we get the airship, we will listen to what you have not finished just now."

Hitomi's expression didn't change because she didn't like the atmosphere. She just nodded obediently, and the pink figure quietly disappeared from the place.

Then, Aika summoned the silver-white twin spears from the heraldic magic circle of the "Chise" family.

The beautiful gun body, dotted with light lines like petals, was now held in Aika's hand, but it was dyed with a color that made Liu Yin feel a chill.

"Are the Kingdom's armies the only ones we have to deal with now?"

"It looks like this..." Liuyin also held the Bing Ning Spear with both hands, "But they are just under control now, there is no need to strike too hard..."

Before Liuyin finished speaking, Aika pressed down her ice spear with her hand. Liuyin didn't know the meaning of Aika's actions, and raised her head slightly to look at his face in confusion.

"Leave it to me to open the way. Just focus on protecting Wei Xi and follow me."

"Stop messing around!" Liuyin, who finally understood what Aika wanted to do, refused without thinking too much, "You just stood up with a bandage on your body, how can you rush to the front now!"

"If I can't protect you, who else can protect Wei Xi!"

Aika didn't give in at all, and he calmed her down with a volume no less than Liuyin.

"This statement..." Liuyin flinched, more out of dissatisfaction with Aika's sophistry, "It's like you admit that you can't protect Xiao Xi..."

"..."

Aika didn't answer, silently checking the status of the silver guns. This attitude already showed that Liuyin would not be allowed to go ahead of him this time.

Knowing that no matter what, it was impossible to convince Aika, Liuyin could only choose to give in.

The ice she constructed with magic was equivalent to a part of her, and the ice coffin carrying Wei Xi left the ground regardless of gravity.

"I know... I will follow you to escort Xiao Xi, but you must not mess with me..." Liuyin pursed her lips unwillingly, and unshed tears appeared in the corners of her eyes, "I... ...And Xiao Xi will be watching you from behind..."

If Wei Xi were here right now, no matter what she said, she would have stopped Aika from stepping out of the room.

After all, it's just a beautiful assumption. If Wei Xi was really here right now, everything here would be different.

At this moment, it was only because Wei Xi could not open her hands to block Aika, and could not plead with him with tears in her eyes not to show off, that Aika was able to be so willful.

"I know..." Aika picked up the silver-white guns that felt a little heavy for the first time in his hands, "Hitomi, give me the Predator."

Following Aika's request, the silvery-white magic particles quietly constructed six floating turrets, floating silently around him.

He didn't look back at the two people behind him, and pushed open the door of the shed without hesitation.

"Let's go, Liuyin... Weixi."

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