Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 1112 Is it beyond human power’s control?

The Creation Machine, the Star Apostle, the Alien Philosopher - the Dyson Sphere.

The name uttered from the mouth of the Dark Witch carried a light weight that instantly silenced the entire battlefield. People didn't know whether they were shocked by such a sudden turn of events or shocked by this magnificent man-made giant. They lost the ability to think for a moment. They instinctively felt fear, but they were definitely not submissive to its power. As I have repeatedly emphasized, human beings' fear of all behemoths beyond their cognition actually comes from their ancestors, tracing back to the memories of ancient times.

But is there anything that can transcend civilization, transcend life, transcend a long period of time, and is older than human memory?

Carabosse had the answer.

The huge artificial celestial body slowly rotated, stirring up circles of visible cosmic air currents, breathing rhythmically like the surging tides. The stars in the distance were shaken, and the brilliance of 100 billion stars was succumbing to the might of steel and machinery. The witch stood on the top of the tower, her skirt fluttering like a black flower, blooming stunningly in the disorderly and uncertain tidal activities. Compared with the entire Dyson sphere, her existence is naturally no more eye-catching than a speck of dust, but it does not give people a sense of insignificance at all. Instead, they can't help but equate the two: the Dyson sphere is equal to the dark witch, the great is equal to the small, the macro is equal to the micro, and the formula is wonderfully established.

The two wounds on the witch's body, cut by the blade of the Armed Goddess, extending from the chest to the abdomen, were still shocking, but no blood was gushing out. Time seemed to have frozen on them. Coupled with her calm expression, people even felt that these wounds were within her calculations. She deliberately showed weakness and intercepted in front of everyone alone, just to make them focus all their attention on herself and ignore the Dyson Sphere that was close at hand; she did not let up, and had gone all out in the battle with the Armed Goddess, but before going all out, she used more of her magic power to awaken the performance of the Dyson Sphere. This process was covered up by the fierce battle and confrontation between the two sides, but it also required the operator to be very cautious and meticulous, and have a scheming mansion as unpredictable as the abyss.

Carabosse meets all of the above conditions.

Then naturally, it was time for her to reap the fruits of her victory.

"Disguise is also part of the strategy." She said softly, her voice was actually very weak, as if she was just talking to herself. But it didn't matter, she believed that some kind of strange induction ability would convey her words to the ears of the genius player. She said that she firmly believed that love, justice and courage would never lose, but victory required more than just those things: "If you really want to win, you should consider all possibilities carefully."

For example, before the war, she had already considered how to deal with the most difficult person in the Order Kingship. Undoubtedly, she was an inspiring banner, and she would win as long as she went on the field, but that did not mean that she had no weaknesses. The alien philosopher-Dyson Sphere was disguised for her, but the target was not her, but the people on the Cloud Whale Sky Island. If victory can only be achieved through fighting, then Carabosse would not mind defeating her by threatening, oppressing, or even eliminating her reasons for fighting.

but.

The victory kingship did not appear.

Her opponent was Alice. Although the Armed Goddess had shown amazing power, it was not a guarantee of victory. Apart from the brave and upright young knight, no one in the world dared to say that they were synonymous with victory. So, if Alice really wanted victory as much as she said, then the Victory Kingship should also participate in this battle. If she had to face the threats of the Victory Kingship and the Armed Goddess at the same time, then even if she had set up traps in advance and successfully awakened all the functions of the Dyson Sphere, Carabosse would not dare to say that she had taken the initiative.

Or.

Is Alice afraid of sacrifice?
Yes, the curse of the Victory Kingship destined her to pay a heavy price in every battle. Alice didn't want to see that happen, so she took the initiative to choose to fight. This is the only reasonable explanation - but didn't she realize that even without the curse, victory is always accompanied by sacrifice. Wanting to win but not willing to sacrifice, such a thing only exists in fairy tales.

The talented player has not yet walked out of the fairy tale he has woven.

It doesn't matter.

This world does not exist for a certain person, just as the giant sphere under her feet cannot be controlled by her alone. As the plot deepens, everyone will find back what they have lost for a long time, including emotions and memories.

In the boundless and turbulent dark tide, Caraboss slowly raised her left hand and pointed a finger at the sky. This action connected the tiny girl with the huge steel creation, and the two seemed to become one. Alice combined her own will with the will of the Armed Goddess and awakened the dormant power of this Genesis Mech; and for Caraboss, the Dyson Sphere was not only her mech, but also the hard work of 4,632 operators in the 312 control rooms inside the mech.

From the moment it was born, it was given the mission of shooting down the stars.

"Cation Star Destroyer," she gently uttered a brief but firm command, "prepare to fire."

……

"Distance to target: 11024.15 kilometers; spatial coordinates: X=25193, Y=25342, Z=78107. There is no change."

"The current concentration of magic power in the area is 466380.52 O'S/㎡, the peak period is 493267.51 O'S/㎡, the low peak period is 423939.91 O'S/㎡, and the floating rate is 7.1%-9.5%, which is within the normal fluctuation range."

"The planetary engine is ready and has started to divert magic power. The hydraulic cooling device, magic discharge valve, magic dissociation device and the whole ship's locking device have all been activated and are in normal condition."

"The curvature is normal, the light rate is normal, the gravity rate is normal, the magic rate is normal, and the interference factors have been eliminated."

"The estimated artillery preparation time is 0.5 seconds; the estimated artillery arrival time is 1.2‰ seconds." Everything was going on in an orderly manner.

As the most magnificent, largest, and most unrivaled mechanical creation built by the Magic Research Department of the Witch Society since its establishment, the internal structure of the Alien Philosopher Dyson Sphere is as strict and precise as the external matrix. Here, the 312 control departments are each transformed into a tiny unit in this cold war machine, and the control units together constitute a huge computing matrix that is sufficient to make it operate in an orderly manner. People are not the smallest component of the matrix. It should be said that they are a kind of logic or principle of operation. Every operator knows how to do what they should do in their position, and at the same time, they unconsciously connect with another control unit that they have never contacted. They do not interfere with each other while giving feedback to each other, and they work closely together while performing their duties. Only in this way can they say that they are controlling this weapon, rather than being controlled by it.

Commands were transmitted from the mouths of the persons in charge of each control room to the ears of the operators. Lines of code were input into the main control device from different control rooms through the hands of the operators. Magic signals flowed from the magic optical cables and metal pipes that connected the entire internal base with the external matrix, and flowed to the red skylights at a speed that was unimaginable even for the mind. Their official name is the cationic energy well, which is mainly responsible for converting the magic energy decomposed and diverted from the planetary engine inside the Dyson sphere into a cationic energy state visible to the naked eye, and transmitting it to the most central launch shaft through a special matrix structure.

As assessed by the control room, this transmission process is the process of artillery preparation, which only takes 0.5 seconds.

One skylight lit up, followed by the second, the third... 23,128 square skylights arranged radially lit up at the same time, as if a sea had been ignited in the dark and silent universe. The terrifying and majestic red energy gushed out from the cavity structure deliberately built inside the skylight, and a light column thousands of meters high rose upward. The originally red steel skylight was melted into a translucent glass color in the surging high temperature and heat, as if there was a thick and almost substantial energy molten slurry slowly flowing inside. This energy was quickly received by the 12,914,128 magic-conducting optical cables and transmission pipelines that connected the entire matrix. Each optical cable and pipeline was dyed with a dangerous color by this violent energy. The scene looked like a huge print, with countless red lines spreading in countless directions at the same time, which was spectacular and shocking. However, no matter how they spread, they would eventually converge at the same point, which was the launch silo in the center of the matrix.

Thirteen circular orbital structures surrounding the central launch silo lit up one after another. Each huge star ring was surging with heat and energy comparable to the sun. Every time it was transferred upward, the temperature and energy level would expand by a leap. When it came to the star ring at the end of the launch silo, although it looked extremely small and its diameter was not much longer than a person's height, the energy contained was the most terrifying. The high temperature of the smelting even caused the space to distort. The shell of the tall and sharp launch silo began to change from silent steel gray to dangerous red. It was like a probe, accurately and firmly pointing to the area where the enemy was. Carabos stood at the launch terminal, still maintaining the posture of one hand pointing to the sky, and did not seem to care that he might become the first and most recent artillery target after the Dyson sphere exploded.

So far, no life has dared to take a shot from the Dyson Sphere's cationic star destroyer at this distance. In the long history of the Interstellar Cruise Force's conquest of the universe, there was once a most arrogant extraterrestrial disaster beast that rushed to within 3,000 kilometers of the Dyson Sphere as if it had gone mad. When the bombardment ended, its upper body had disappeared, but its lower body was still struggling.

The speed of energy transfer is far beyond the speed at which the enemy realizes that he has been destroyed.

Therefore, every member of the alien philosopher Dyson Sphere believes that as long as the distance is close enough, the cation star destroyer can smash planets, stars, white dwarfs and even neutron stars.

This is a force that cannot be countered by human power.

Lingge, who had escorted Olvera back to the hotel and was standing at the window watching the battle, also had a vague premonition of the dangerous energy that was brewing. He saw that the Armed Goddess controlled by Alice was still standing there in a daze, as if she had not escaped from the oppression and shock of the giant celestial body. Although he knew that she could not hear his voice due to the distance, the young man could not help but call out anxiously: "Alice!?"

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"Get out of the way!"

It's too late.

The Dark Witch indifferently chopped down her raised left hand, directing all her magic power to target the goddess machine covered in silver-white armor. Brilliant star threads were clinging to the burning steel wings, floating in beams of white-gold flames, slowly passing through the gloom and determination in the witch's eyes.

"emission."

She gave the order calmly.

……

A shining red light suddenly appeared in the universe.

That was the trajectory of the cation star destroyer, but because the bombardment arrived too quickly, the naked eye could not capture the energy extension process, so people mistakenly thought it appeared suddenly. In everyone's eyes, this red light went straight through half of the universe, starting from the launch silo in the center of the celestial matrix, passing over the windmill of Yunjing Sky Island, and pointing to every star that was still shining or had gone out 700 million light years away.

In the path of this red light, the space was torn into traces of crystallization. The high temperature comparable to that of a solar prominence explosion directly vaporized every tree on Yunjing Sky Island that was more than 20 meters tall, leaving only half of the carbonized tree trunks still standing stubbornly in the dry soil. All the dust, meteorites, shooting stars and even tiny planets that blocked the red light were submerged in the light in an instant.

The Armed Goddess is no exception.

The bombardment only took 1.2 thousandths of a second to arrive, a speed that a human's thinking and reaction could never catch up with, so Alice naturally couldn't react in time - even if she did react, the speed of the Armed Goddess might not be enough to escape the coverage of the Cationic Star Destroyer.

After all, it is a weapon created with extraterrestrial disaster beasts as imaginary enemies, and the Armed Goddess is not a machine that focuses on strength and size.

Everyone was stunned as they watched the silver-white mecha being submerged in the red tide.

The universe was silent, as if dead.

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