Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 808: Unrivaled Power?

"Steam God Alexander's ATK and DEF are the number of cards banished or face-down to satisfy the Ritual Summoning multiplied by one thousand. I banished a total of twenty-two cards from the top of the deck face-down, so His ATK and DEF are—"

[Steam Engine God Alexander - Mechanical Master/God/12 Stars/Effect]

[Attack 22000/Defense 22000]

"How can it be?"

Gloria couldn't help but take a step back, squeezing out a murmur that was almost like a moan, but it was not because of fear, but because of a sense of shock as if she had witnessed a miracle. Although she knew the other party's purpose when Tiantis summoned Mida and Dayan, the incomparable sense of holiness and the heart-stirring sense of oppression when she saw the legendary machine god Alexander descend with her own eyes were still difficult to imagine or describe. Only those who face Him in person can experience the suffocation and throbbing of the heartbeat that is throbbing faster even though the breathing is stagnant.

But if it is described only in numerical terms, it becomes more intuitive: a monster with an attack power of 22,000 points - or a god, so powerful that it is hard to imagine how to defeat it.

Even the Holy Creation Knight Dayang and the Mechanical Saint Midi, who were originally on the field, seemed to succumb to the pressure of the Mechanical God Alexander. The former gritted his teeth to resist, but still slowly knelt on one knee on the ground, with his shield across his body and the other hand holding the hilt of the sword, with a look of unwillingness flashing in his eyes; the latter was slightly better and still had the strength to stand, but had to hold the scepter tightly with both hands, and dense beads of sweat gradually seeped out of his forehead, as if he was using up all his willpower to fight against some force that could interfere with his thoughts and spirits.

[This card cannot leave the field and is not affected by the effects of other cards. The ATK and DEF of this card increase by one thousand times the number of cards that were banished or face-down to satisfy the Ritual Summon. When this card is successfully summoned, all monsters on your field change to Defense Position, and these monsters cannot change their positions until the Duel ends, cannot be attacked, cannot activate effects, and cannot be affected by the effects of other cards. As long as this card exists on the field, you cannot Summon or Special Summon monsters other than "Steam God Alexander", cannot cover cards, and cannot activate the effects of other monsters or Magic and Trap Cards other than "Enigma Secret Book". 】

The effect of Alexander's self-restraint can even be described as overbearing, as if he is declaring to the person who summoned him: The mechanical god who dominates steam and time and space does not need to rely on the power of other cards. His mere existence here has already determined the outcome of victory.

“Ahhhh I don’t want to be excluded!!!” The genius player saw that things were not going well and wailed, “Gloria, please think of a solution!!!”

Tiantis admitted all this, and admitted that if someone must be held responsible for this, that person can only be herself, because it was she who presided over and passed the proposal to establish the Steam Cult at the Sixth Witch Conference. Although others also supported this decision, she was the leader after all, so she had to bear more responsibility than them. However, she never regretted making such a decision, because she knew that it was impossible to go smoothly on a road that no one had ever walked before, and if you made a mistake but did not repent or was timid, then your ideal would be far away from you.

The vortex that rotated counterclockwise released an irresistible gravitational force, pulling all matter into the twisted void, getting lost in the endless turbulence of time and space. Gloria watched in amazement as cards flew out of her deck and flew uncontrollably into the vortex. Her cards also struggled frantically under the pull of the vortex, trying to escape from her palm. Gloria tried her best to grab them, but she couldn't hold them tightly. She could only watch them fly away from her eyes, like messy and helpless butterflies in a storm.

It shouldn't have existed, but it did. This is what is called a mistake. The original intention of the Witch Society to establish the Steam Cult was to promote the steam industry system and the magic system. The reason why they chose the religious form was that it was easier to be accepted by the public. The name of the Steam God Alexander was just fabricated to spread the faith. However, Martha, the first pope and philosopher of the society, found that in this process, the believers' fanatical dependence on the industrial age and their beautiful vision of the future world jointly contributed to the materialization of the power of faith, resulting in the birth of the machine god Alexander from a wrong concept. At that time, the Platinum City where the gods descended was almost razed to the ground, and the Iron Eden Reglagios, the headquarters of the society, was almost exposed to the eyes of the world.

"I will activate the effect of Enigma's Secret Codex," the black-haired girl said coldly, "I have a total of 22 cards banished face-down to activate the Ritual Spell Card [Ex Machina], so I will randomly banish 11 cards from my opponent's hand, field, and deck. The effects of these banned cards and cards with the same name will be negated until the end of this duel - Enigma Time and Space Vortex."

As soon as the words fell, before Gloria's stunned expression disappeared, the dark purple prismatic crystal floating in the arms of the Enigma Secret Book had shattered with a click, breaking into countless hexagonal fragments of the same size. Mysterious and deep phantom lights sank inward along these fragments and slowly rotated, as if the void and matter collapsed together, quickly forming a colorful and complex vortex, dark purple, sky blue, deep red... countless blocks of color were intertwined in the vortex, which should have been a very gorgeous picture, but for some reason it made people feel dim and distorted, as if there was no vitality left in the vortex, only endless death and annihilation.

Tiantis took a deep look at her opponents, including those she could see on the court and those she couldn't see off the court, such as the young man. She knew that the other party must have heard what she said at this moment. Maybe he would think, hesitate, and finally come up with an answer that was the same or opposite to hers. But no matter what, people always have to overcome their mistakes to grow.

On the field, Alice also felt an irresistible attraction pulling her away. How could a genius player who had finally completed the Ultimate Evolution give in? She used all her ten toes to grab the ground and inserted the holy sword into the ground in an attempt to slow down the speed of being pulled away. In the end, she simply hugged Saint Shallia's waist with her other hand, thinking that the weight of the two of them might be too heavy for the vortex on the opposite side to pull her away. But even so, her body was still moving backwards, and Saint Shallia was gradually approaching the colorful but dim and silent vortex.

In order to correct this mistake, the Witch Society paid a heavy price. Saint Mida was willing to use herself as a container to contain the huge power of faith in order to prevent the machine god Alexander from launching the divine art "Time and Space Judgment", but the price was that she was refined; Knight Dayan risked driving the Star Knight as an experimental machine to save his lover's soul, and died together with the machine god Alexander in the final battle, and died sadly in his lover's arms; in addition, the sacrifices of the society members and philosophers cannot be measured in numbers, and the huge setbacks in industry and technology are also heartbreaking. After witnessing the power of the machine god Alexander with their own eyes, those religions that had already surrendered began to stir again, and they still did not stop even after the implementation of the "Religious Decree"...

Of course, to Tiantis, He was just a mistake.

"People's dreams are fleeting. If they are delayed, they will regret it for the rest of their lives. Do you have the courage to face mistakes and overcome them? If not, it does not prove your determination."

Although the sound of ghosts howling was not very pleasant, it awakened Gloria who was still in a daze, and made her realize that now was not the time to be dazed. Maybe she had no way to stop the cards in the deck and hand from being eliminated, but she could stop her companions on the field!

"I activate the Trap Card [Blessing of the Ancient Tree]!" Gloria regained her sanity and activated it while the Trap Card she had covered in the previous turn was not banished: "According to the effect of this card, during this turn, when your Level 8 or higher Girl Sovereign monster leaves the field, it is returned directly to the deck, and a Level 4 Girl Sovereign monster that is not mentioned in the card name is added to your hand."

An ancient oak tree that covered the sky and the moon rose out of thin air, as if it had gone through a long period of ten thousand years in an instant. It quickly stretched out its branches and leaves, and sprinkled bursts of emerald green light. It was tranquil and quiet, and it had difficulty in opening up a space of protection in the endless storm of time and space. While Alice was still howling, Saint Shallia had already felt the breath of safety from the shade of the oak tree, so she grabbed the wrist of the genius player with her backhand and tried to pull her sister with her other hand, but Rolena shook her head and refused. Saint Shallia was thoughtful and did not force it. She dragged Alice towards the direction of the oak tree until she disappeared in the warm light and disappeared. After they disappeared, one card after another finally couldn't help but throw themselves into the dim vortex, swallowed by the colorful blocks of color, and completely disappeared. Gloria's field suddenly became empty, and only Rolena escaped the pull of the time and space vortex by chance and was preserved. In addition, only one card was left in her hand, and six cards were excluded from her deck. She quickly took a look at the excluded area of ​​the duel disk and found that all the excluded cards were Magic and Trap Cards. Only then did she breathe a sigh of relief when she found that there were no monster cards.

"Since [Saint Shalia, the Decider of Cause and Effect] and [Alice, the Invincible Genius Player] have returned to the deck, I will add one [Freedom of the Kings - Iyeta] and one [Eternal Kings - Leticia] to my hand."

After avoiding the monster from being banished by the trap card's recycling effect, Gloria also retrieved two other Girl King monsters from the deck, and it seemed that she had successfully survived this crisis. However, she did not show much relief on her face, but became more solemn, because she knew that the real test had just begun.

"Well done."

Tiantis praised, and then said mercilessly: "But it is far from enough. I will use the machine god Alexander to attack Miss Rolena - a million sacred ones!"

The crimson light on Alexander's head flickered for a while, and the deep and rich voice rumbled in everyone's ears: "Received, the order has been approved, and now begins... the annihilation operation..."

He slowly raised his heavy head and looked down at the battlefield with an indifferent and rational gaze. Lorena suddenly heard an unusual sound, like the huge machines in the human steel factory were running non-stop, spewing thick smoke and haze. Her heart was beating non-stop in her fragile chest, but it was covered by a more intense roar, which was the roar of the boiling steam engine, the heart of the industrial age, which was much stronger and more powerful than the heart she had.

The sky was torn apart, but the cold and precise lines and the tightly-fitting gaps seemed to be originally like this, except that the mechanical door had been closed before, and only at this moment did a great will activate its mechanism, driving it with endless energy to show its glorious appearance to the world. Thousands and tens of thousands of huge swords made of steel and gears were like sacred javelins, all pointing their swords at the ground. The flashes they refracted were like the reflection of metal, casting a kind of cold judgment in Rolena's eyes.

The ocean of swords was slowly falling from the open door. Its speed was not very fast, but it gave people an indescribable feeling of oppression, as if they could not escape its range no matter what. And this was indeed the case. When looking down from the sky, one could find that the area covered by these millions of holy swords had already included the entire city of Lunwitin. As for Rolena on the duel field, she seemed just a lonely leaf in the storm, so small.

The Mirror Elf Princess tried to fight back, but she didn't know how to fight back. The difference in absolute strength was too obvious. No one could possibly think of resisting in the face of such an attack. Moreover, this was a duel, and the difference in numerical values ​​could more directly reflect the difference between the two.

"Oops!"

Lingge, who could only watch the duel, clenched his teeth and felt a rare sense of nervousness: the attack power of the mecha god Alexander was as high as 22000 points, while the attack power of Lorena was only 2000. If this attack succeeded, not only would Lorena be destroyed, but Gloria would also suffer 20000 points of excessive damage and lose the duel directly.

Is there nothing that can be done?
"I activate..." Amid the overwhelming power of Alexander the Machine, a trembling voice rang out with difficulty, like a blade of grass squeezing through a crack in a rock, weak but firm: "Use the effect of [Lucky Fairy Shemy] in your hand. When the enemy declares an attack, return this card to your deck. This turn, monsters on your field cannot be destroyed by battle, and the battle damage you receive is reduced to 0."

The little fairy with long silver hair and blue eyes cheered, flew out of the small card, flew to the top of Lorena's head, opened her arms and opened a transparent protective shield for her. The next moment, millions of holy swords fell with the rumbling of machinery, like millions of sacred light pillars falling from the sky. The extremely dazzling and brilliant light suddenly burst out like a burning star, and submerged the entire city of Lunweiting. Gloria stood on the cross section of the Indorsis Bridge, and felt that the bridge under her feet was shaking constantly. The bridge frame and towers groaned under the heavy load. This was still good, after all, the duel venue was protected by the rules. The situation in other places was even worse.

She looked up helplessly and saw holy swords made of steel and gears destroying the city in front of her. All the grass, stones, rivers, streets and street lights were instantly vaporized in the light as if they had encountered a terrifying volcanic eruption; the buildings on both sides of the River Tywell were hit head-on by the holy sword, and they collapsed and disintegrated like tofu dregs as soon as they came into contact, and the smoke and dust splashed up during the collapse melted before they had time to dissipate; farther away, the National Grand Theater, the Big Clock Tower, the Parliament Palace and even the Crimea Palace had been destroyed by the sword. Looking around, all the buildings below the Indorsis Bridge disappeared, and the city became empty and devastated for a while, but this scene of ruins, set against the great sacred light, actually gave people an illusion of holiness and greatness.

The protective shield held up by the little elf Xie Mi seemed fragile, but it really protected Lorena's safety. No matter how the holy sword above her head pressed her, she remained unshakable until the heart-pounding breath dissipated. Only then did she breathe a sigh of relief, disperse the protective shield, and waved to Lorena to say goodbye.

Rorona, whose life was saved by her, also smiled and said, "Thank you, Xie Mi."

Xie Mi was so happy that he put his hands on his hips, and his figure gradually turned into silver light spots in the sky and disappeared.

"Annihilation... failed..."

Alexander, the machine god, supported his huge fortress-like body with both hands, and looked down at the tiny creatures at his feet with indifference and rationality: "Humans, why do you resist... this judgment from your heart..."

　Give me some meow
　　
　
(End of this chapter)