Wasteland Echoer.

Chapter 548: The Fate of the Mechanical Body (Part )

This time, all the places covered by the fire of the "Pramini's Sorrow" shell turned extremely dark. The originally uneven brick and stone ground was only a piece of "Vantaa black" in Wright's perspective, and the original outline could not be seen at all.

After rolling on the ground several times, Wright finally stabilized his body.

As the distance between him and "Pramini's Sorrow" increased, the influence of the "ancient power" weakened slightly, and Wright finally regained some control over his body. The depressed emotions lingering in his mind were also slightly relieved.

It was at this moment that Wright felt a tearing pain on his back like being bitten by a wild beast. Turning his head, he saw that the "Dark Touch" that had just been blown by the fire was shrinking rapidly.

As the skin withered faster than the internal flesh and blood withered, many marks like cracks in the wall appeared on the surface of the "Dark Touch", but no human blood seeped out.

"This is the 'rapid aging' brought about by the 'Ancient Power'. Any object touched by any high concentration of the 'Ancient Power', whether it is a living thing or a dead thing, will immediately age, wither, and weather until it turns into a pile of fragile powder and disappears from this world with the wind." The young man in brown clothes stood up from the ground, brushed off the dust on his knees, and saw Wright staring at the injured 'Dark Touch', and said:

"Light Sugra, you should take the initiative to cut off the injured tentacle now, otherwise, the 'Ancient Power' will spread rapidly and cause other parts of your body to wither."

"Who are you?" Wright took a half step back, stared at the handsome young man in front of him, and asked cautiously:

"How do you know my full name? And what about the 'Ancient Power'? You don't look like a Crusader, but more like... a Hinetian I met a long time ago."

"I'm Luo Nie. We must have met before, in the alien plane in the center of Silent Highlands. In fact, thirty years ago, the Sugra Committee had a lot of discussions about you. As long as you get to know a few people working there, it would be easy to get your information." Luo Nie suppressed his inner excitement. The inherent rationality of the mechanical body briefly controlled the emotional personality in his body. He stared at Wright's black pupils and explained:
"Please rest assured, Wright, I have no ill intentions. I am a human who arrived here with the help of the 'Wilderness Tourist Group' that is hostile to the Cruz Federal Council. I came here not only for the 'fate' that Ms. Natasha predicted for me, but also to return an item to you."

"Natasha..." The woman's name touched Wright's heart, causing his spirit to twitch as if he had been electrocuted.

However, before Wright had the chance to continue asking Luo Nie about his other purposes, the body of "Pramini's Sorrow" behind them once again made a strong mechanical sound.

"careful!"

Countless heavy and solid mechanical tentacles emerged from the body of "Pramini's Sorrow", cutting through the air, making a terrifying whistling sound.

Half a second later, these tentacles, branded with the royal emblem of the old Crusad Empire, pierced through Wright's chest and abdomen, and let out a manic laughter that sounded like something played from a tape recorder, neither male nor female.

"Puff!" Dark, creepy blood spurted out of Wright's mouth, flowing in small streams continuously like a broken faucet.

The skin, muscles and exposed bones where the tentacles penetrated began to turn blue and black, as if they had been smeared with some kind of quick-acting poison.

Soon, the tentacles that were pulled out of Wright's body began to age and rust rapidly. In less than half a minute, even the huge body became rusty, just like a piece of scrap metal that had been completely forgotten and stored in a dark, damp, and gloomy warehouse for hundreds of years.

"His strength is running out, Light." Luo Nie walked over and briefly checked Light's injuries. When he saw that the semi-mechanical heart was still emitting a soft, faint blue light, he breathed a sigh of relief and said:

"This is still the power of the 'Ancient'. It didn't cause any fatal damage to you. It seems that the red magic power in your body that also belongs to the 'Ancient God' helped you suppress the spread of the power of this big monster. As long as you don't move, you won't suffer any more damage."

"No longer moving? Then how do we get out?" Wright raised a key question. "'Pramini's Sorrow' will go through three stages. The first stage is the 'biological stage', where most of its outbursts are brute force and some relatively weak extraordinary forces. But in the second stage, the 'mechanical stage', it will reveal the most advanced weapon technology of the Cruzde Empire, but the 'Ancient Power' will not allow this mechanical state to exist for too long.

"As long as it is stained with human blood, it will enter the final stage, which is also the most dangerous 'rust stage'." Luo Nie activated the "Mechanical Su" skill that combined with machinery while emitting green grass-type magic power in his body. He poured the magic power mixed with mechanical light energy into Wright's wound, helping it to heal rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Luo Nie knew that the situation was critical and the urgent battle situation did not allow him to use relatively mild and slow healing skills. He could only use this emergency skill that would greatly consume the target's magic power and physical nutrition.

However, wounds treated with the "Mechanical Su" skill will heal quickly, and it is difficult to leave behind viruses, bacteria, unclean forces, and filthy things that cause the wound to be repeatedly infected or leave any strange sequelae.

However, after being treated with "Mechanical Su", Wright would become like a thriving "involuta" within half an hour. Except for his head, other parts of his body would involuntarily curl up together and become unable to move.

Feeling the power of healing, Wright did not resist, nor did he have any doubts about Luo Nie's purpose. During the previous conversation, he had recalled the brief time he fought with Luo Nie.

Even if Luo Nie really had some ulterior motives towards him, in the current situation, he could only let him control him.

"Luo Nie, you just mentioned the three stages of 'Pramini's Sorrow'. From what I can see now, it should evolve to a higher stage every time it is knocked down. If it is in the third stage now, are you sure you can defeat it?" Wright asked, with some uneasiness and anxiety in his tone:

"The 'Future' of the 'Order Society' who came to me before and wanted to take me away from here has died, and my red magic power and physical strength are almost exhausted. You know, the predecessor of 'Pramini's Sorrow' is the Lord of Eternal Red, a god of the order..."

"I know." Luo Nie interrupted Wright. He walked behind Wright and skillfully tore off Wright's "Dark Touch" that had been affected by the "Ancient Power" and had completely withered. He said in a low voice:
"I didn't plan to get out alive. The 'Red Fantasy Ruins', to use the words of Emperor Cruz, is a 'red psychedelic place that symbolizes death'. In the deep winter of December in the year 556 of the New Era, after the dome was opened, I walked to the dark shop selling kerosene lamps in the heavy snow.

"My master...he knew that I was a mechanical body, so he used half a piece of supernatural ore to ask the [Goddess of Love] Natasha to perform a divination for me."

As Luo Nie spoke, he took two steps forward and stretched out his arms to block in front of Wright. Like a true [warrior], he began to mobilize the purple part of the plant-based magic power in his body, as well as the pure "mechanical spirit" light belonging to the Lord of Machinery.

"Natasha told me that, in fact, I am a toy created at will by the Lord of Machinery. The Lord of Machinery has long forgotten my existence, so I can arrange my own destiny without any constraints." Luo Nie stared at the "Pramini's Sorrow" struggling in the dark lines of the dark and rich "Ancient Power" in front of him, constantly emitting a creepy giggle, and said:

"But in fact, my fate has already been arranged by the Creator. I am destined to sacrifice my life for a 'partner' with whom I have never really been together, in order to save the world that is about to collapse and the remaining civilization of mankind.

"If we can't shut down the 'master' Heavenly Punishment Fire hidden in the 'Red Fantasy Ruins', the successive explosions will stir up the molten lava in the center of the earth and destroy the entire Cruzde, leading to the collapse of the world. Without the land on which they depend for survival, human civilization will quickly die out. Of course, perhaps ten thousand years, or perhaps a hundred thousand years later, a new batch of apes will obtain the 'wisdom' sequence core and enter a new cycle of civilization.

"However, the Creator can't wait for that day, and neither can the gods of order. Since entering the Steam Age, the gods have been in a time and space with exhausted magic power for too long. If civilization cannot recover, magic power can no longer be generated from nature, and the gods will fall into a deep sleep from which they can never recover. Until the Creator falls asleep completely, this world, this planet, and even the entire universe will quickly die."

As Luo Nie spoke, he took off the khaki military backpack he was carrying and threw it back in front of Wright.

"You are the [Orderer], you are the future god arranged by the Creator to revive the entire world and make all living things return to [Order]. In fact, our previous cognition was wrong. We used to think that the [Orderer] was a rare and scarce existence, but yesterday, the incarnation of the Creator in my dream told me that the [Orderer] is the only one in an era." Luo Nie continued:
"Do you know? Aidari Sage once predicted: the loyal fire will abandon the weak gods, and the future of [Order] will awaken among the ice; the old mechas will create a new world, and the surviving beasts will pursue the groans of the dragons. The first two sentences of this prophecy, which the Federal Committee called 'H-204', have been confirmed. Now, I will witness its sequel for you... Light Sugra... the only [Orderer]."

As Luo Nie finished his words, his body surface was wrapped by a thick, increasingly thick and huge layer of mecha. When the mecha was about to cover his face, he revealed the last satisfied smile that belonged to a human being.

(End of this chapter)