Wasteland Echoer.

Chapter 549: The Fate of the Mechanical Body (Part )

When the heavy machinery completely covered Luo Nie's last piece of human skin, from that moment on, fate had arranged for him to lose his "personality" that he had barely obtained after going through so much pain, and he returned to being a mechanical body.

Fortunately, losing one's personality does not mean losing one's humanity. Even in the Hinet Empire, Luo Ni, as a machine, was not much different from other humans except for subtle differences in emotions and relatively excessive rationality.

The green and purple magical power belonging to the plant system swirled around Luo Nie, forming a nearly transparent vortex, and continuously emitting harmless fine lasers outward.

The "Light of the Mechanical Spirit" "ejected" from the rune on his chest that was engraved with a "stick-drawn nut" pattern, shining directly at the "Sorrow of Pramini", temporarily suppressing the ugly, dirty, disgusting, rusty body.

The plant-based magic power combined with the power unique to the "mechanical body", plus the hymns to the "Lord of Machinery" that Luo Nie was chanting, his body was also continuously and slowly expanding.

"In that backpack..." Luo Nie stretched out his mechanical arm, pointed backwards, and said in a mechanical, stiff, emotionless, almost ethereal voice, but with a soft and rhythmic feeling that belonged to humans:

"Inside... is your 'Mad Bear Pistol'. I know that was the first weapon you saw when you opened your eyes and woke up in this world... You have already infused it with your soul... It is its destiny to fight with you."

"'Mad Bear'... pistol?" Wright stretched out the only arm that had regained consciousness from the numbness, opened his military backpack, and took out the "Mad Bear" pistol that he was very familiar with.

Although this pistol was not the most advanced technology in the Rinie Empire, nor was it a symbol of high-level identity and status. The paint on its surface had already fallen off in many places, and the joints of the parts were slightly rusted. However, this was the first weapon Wright encountered when he came to this world, and it was also the only weapon he often used.

If the "Resurrected God" had not forcibly taken him away after the "Fire of Heavenly Punishment" descended on the Silent Highlands, perhaps he would have been able to take this weapon and go north to Cruzde to find his destiny, the answer to the wasteland world, and a way to save the world.

After struggling to put the "Mad Bear" pistol into the holster that had been empty for thirty years, Luo Nie continued to make a "mechanical voice" that did not belong to him, and even less to humans, and said:
"There is another key inside... It's called the 'Eternal Red Key'. It originally belonged to Valvaf, a lost man in the 'Wilderness Tourist Group' whose life was marked by tragedy. But it was obtained by a Cruz blue cat named Nahaka.

"The owner of the blue cat is Roca, the successor of Ice Blade, the leader of the Chaos Group. Unfortunately, due to the wrong ritual and arrogant purpose, the entire Chaos Group encountered disaster. An alien monster that was forcibly awakened by them and expected to become a controlled deadly weapon reversed and controlled the entire organization. Now, all members, including Roca, have become puppets shrouded in dark matter."

"Who is that... 'alien monster'?" Wright asked, feeling a deep sense of uneasiness about this "alien monster" in his heart.

"I don't know." Luo Nie shook his head, and his neck made a mechanical friction "sizzling" sound. "I only know that before Roca completely lost consciousness, he personally cut open his chest, took out the blue mechanical heart of the Lost One, and entrusted Nahaka to return it to its original owner. Later, after a series of 'coincidences arranged by the Creator', it came into my hands.

"I think the real owner of this 'Eternal Red Key' should be you. You are the 'only [Orderer]' in this era, and this key is not only the key to open the door to the deepest realm of this 'Red Fantasy Ruins', but also a tool for your promotion."

At this moment, under the influence of the power of the "mechanical body" and the plant-based magic power, Luo Nie's body has grown to a height of nearly 12 meters, which is almost three-quarters of the height of the standing "Pramini's Sorrow".

His body has completely become a mechanical body. Although his body retains the general outline of a human, his skin has completely turned into a silver-white mechanical shell, and his joints have all turned into bolts painted red and white.

Luo Nie's head doesn't seem to have grown much, but his limbs are abnormally strong, reflecting the beauty of power that is a perfect combination of machinery and human body. Although the appearance of this robot still retains a trace of weirdness under the "uncanny valley" effect, the pair of sapphire eyes emitting light blue light make everything become a little gentler.

In fact, perhaps Luo Nie did not notice that his body at this moment was no different from his image of a "mechanical spirit" in the "Gray Dream".

"There is... one more... item." Luo Nie felt the rapid loss of part of his human cognition after his personality completely disappeared. He forcibly maintained the last part of his human consciousness and finally said:
"It's a wooden box. I... I forgot where I got it. I only remember... that organization that has long been banned once named it... but failed to obtain it... Its serial number is 'MB-2024', and people call it... 'Hades's Box'..."

"'The Box of Hades'?" Wright endured the tearing pain that gradually spread throughout his body, and reached out to take out the wooden box called "The Box of Hades".

In his eyes, this was just an extremely common wooden box made of oak that could be found everywhere in the Cruzde area. It was no different in weight from an ordinary wooden box.

Wright shook the wooden box slightly with his blood-stained right hand, and there seemed to be nothing special inside.

"This... 'Box of Hades' was left behind by a Lost One at the camp of the 'Wilderness Tourist Group'...after his death. His name...may have been erased by the 'remaining power of the Creator', but this ordinal monster..." Luo Nie paused for a few seconds, enduring the severe pain from the silver cannon barrel drilling out of his back, and explained in a mechanical voice:

"There was a lady in the Chaos Group named Lei Ye. Because she had the means to resist Atuo's mental control, she was knocked unconscious by her companions and imprisoned at the bottom of the Old Mine. Fortunately, with the blessing of the real owner and the machine, the Wilderness Tourist Group rescued her.

"It was she, Lei Ye, who told me all the information about the wooden box, and also told me that Aidari Sage once said, 'When the footsteps of Order echo in the frozen world, Hades will guide the chosen one out of confusion and predicament.'"

"Wright..." As he spoke, Luo Nie felt as if a red-hot iron sheet was stuffed into his throat, constantly "cutting" and "burning" his vocal cords.

Within a few seconds, his voice quickly changed from mechanical and ethereal to hoarse. Finally, as his vocal cords and brain completely returned to their original "mechanical" state along with his body, he could no longer utter even a single word or note.

The sound of the whistle, symbolizing the soul's return home, came from Wright's chest. Wright, who had recovered some of his mobility, stood up from his half-crawling state on the ground and looked up.

He discovered that Luo Nie's body had expanded to about 30 meters, and when standing upright, it was just slightly taller than the "Pramini's Sorrow" in the "rust stage".

Luo Nie, who was highly consistent with the image of a "mechanical spirit", raised his arms high. The ripples brought by the diffusion of countless light energies converged on his brain and neck, forming circles of pure white energy, which were transmitted to his arms, forming two lightsabers that seemed to have never existed in this world and were extremely futuristic and sci-fi.

"Is this... 'Light of the Mechanical Spirit'?" Although Light had never actually heard of the term "Light of the Mechanical Spirit", now, the professional ability of the [Orderer], the red magic source power, and the "fate" obtained by the [Goddess of Love] Natasha's divination, made part of Luo Nie's memory be captured by the part of the magic source power belonging to Deepser in Light's body, and merged with his own cognition.

"'Lover'... Why... is there a word like 'lover' in Luo Nie's memory?" Wright muttered to himself as he read the memory of Luo Nie in his mind:
"Number 6 in the tarot card, 'Lovers', this... turned out to be the second conclusion Natasha got when she divined for Luo Nie. Could it be that if Ivante had performed his duties as the crown prince of the Rinie Empire and the future emperor of the empire from a normal perspective, instead of being deceived by a group of scientists and the Lost Ones... 'The Fire of Punishment' would not have been activated, and the Creator would have arranged for Luo Nie and I to go north together, to Cruzde to adventure and find the truth of the wasteland world.

"'Lovers' should be the true destiny of me and this mechanical guy, but Ivant betrayed the Lord and the gods, and was punished with blood and fire. And Luo Nie... replaced the machine that belonged to Ivan XXII and was supposed to sleep in the 'Silent Highlands', and completed the battle 'between machines'...?"

Before Wright finished his words, Luo Nie walked up to the front of "Pramini's Sorrow" with heavy and huge steps. The lightsaber formed by the "Light of the Mechanical Spirit" pierced directly into the rusty body of the monster with a huge mechanical humming sound.

Click!

What Light's Luo Nie didn't expect was that the lightsaber actually broke inside the body of "Pramini's Sorrow". Under the influence of the extreme "ancient power", the "mechanical spirit light" between Luo Nie's arms quickly ran out of energy and dimmed.

At this moment, Wright suddenly remembered the "only way" to defeat "Pramini's Sorrow" that the "future" that had been erased from existence had told him. He endured the remaining numbness and pain in his body, half sat up with the support of the wooden box, and shouted in a half-sharp, half-hoarse voice:
"Luo Nie! Cut off its limbs!"

In fact, the power of "Pramini's Sorrow" comes from the ground of the entire "Red Fantasy Ruins", which explains why the Lord of Eternal Red disappeared quickly after being knocked away by Light. Because without the power of "Ancient", everything in the "Red Fantasy Ruins" that has been completely corroded will not be able to maintain its existence.

When the sun's rays truly shine on the dark, rotten, smelly underground creatures, they often immediately lose moisture, wither, and die, turning into a pool of worthless powder.

Humans, because they possess the "humanity", "spirituality" and "divinity" bestowed by the Creator when they first awakened, have the possibility to move freely between the realms of "darkness" and "light". Humans who lose their [personality] and "humanity" and transform into monsters will be lost in the long night and perish in the light.

After receiving a tip from Light, Luo Nie decisively gave up using the power of "Mechanical Spirit Light". His body was suppressed by the "ancient power" and could not use more magic power.

Simply, after letting out a mechanical roar in his chest, Luo Nie actually relied on brute force to overturn the hairy body of "Pramini's Sorrow". He held down the ugly body with one hand and used the other hand to forcefully pry open the four limbs that were exposed and could no longer be hidden.

Click! Click! Click! Click!
Luo Nie's brute force shocked Wright. Without the support of any extraordinary power, Luo Nie really relied on the pure strength of his mechanical body to break off the limbs that were previously made of different materials but were now uniformly covered by machinery.

"ah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

The vocal cords of "Pramini's Sorrow" emitted sharp cries and cries that did not belong to humans. It seemed that this monster wanted to use these chaotic, sharp, and uncoordinated notes to disturb the spirits of the people present and make a final struggle.

Unfortunately, Ronie is a "mechanical body" and Wright's spirit will not be disturbed by any force. The final struggle of "Pramini's Sorrow" is just a wishful thinking before destruction.

With four limbs broken, an opening instantly appeared in the body of "Pramini's Sorrow". The fragile heart, like a rubber ball, was easily taken out by Luo Nie and crushed. The splashing crimson liquid scattered all over the ground like milk, bringing a wonderful touch of survival and hope to the entire yellow earth land illuminated by light.

However, the blood-stained mechanical body of Luo Nie began to deteriorate rapidly, just like the body of "Pramini's Sorrow".

His mechanical shell began to become as brittle as rice crust, and the silver-white parts of his body turned into a decayed state of dark brown and black. His sapphire eyes finally turned the same black color as Wright's, and the nuts connecting the mechanical joints degenerated into loose and deformed mud.

Accompanied by an evil smell, the mechanical body Luo Ni collapsed with a loud bang, and like the long-withered "Pramini's Sorrow", it disintegrated with a loud bang and turned into a pile of broken scrap metal.

"The loyal fire of hell abandons the weak gods, and the future of [Order] awakens among the ice... The old mechas create a new world, and the surviving beasts pursue the groans of the dragons." Wright murmured:

"Luo Nie, at this moment when the sun shines in the long night, you have finally returned to the embrace of the Master of Machinery..."

(End of this chapter)