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"...Speaking of which, Shang Yang, you haven't told me yet. Someone asked you to snatch those two Moon Princess sisters away. What's going on?"

"...Uh, Jue, do you still care about this?"

Hearing the unhappy tone of the lavender-haired girl, Shang Yang rubbed his gray hair helplessly and snapped his fingers at the group of Moon Rabbit troops that were attacking him from the Moon Capital.

Ryougi "The Magic of Distance".

The law of space 5 is distorted and changed.

The objective reality that "the further you advance, the closer you are to the target" no longer exists in the spatial distance between Shang Yang, Jue, Shana and the attacking Yuetu troops.

The space here is governed by the law of reality that "the further you go, the farther you are from your goal," which no longer conforms to common sense.

Therefore, when the Moon Rabbit troops entered the space here, they immediately retreated to their original position according to this distorted law of reality.

Then, it moves forward and then back again. Moreover, the moon rabbits cannot discover this fact. After all, it is the law of distance itself that has been distorted.

Shang Yang's little trick is somewhat similar to Onozuka Komachi's distance manipulation, but the implementation method is different.

After casually dealing with the Moon Rabbit garrison deployed in the Moon Capital City to fight against the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, Shang Yang replied to Gu Mingji Jue.

"It's a bit scary if I were to explain this. Since Shana is here, please tell Jue the reason."

"... This is clearly something the sage of Yue Yi, Liu Yi San, and Jiu... asked you to do."

After complaining a little, Shana sighed softly and turned sideways to face Gu Ming Di Jue, recalling the memory of Shang Yang's conversation with Yagi Eirin when she was in Shang Yang's soul.

"Well...I see."

The large eyeballs floating on the chest of Komeiji Jue—Jue's pupils—slowly turned, casting an indifferent gaze towards the petite black-haired girl.

After Shana's memory was read by Gu Mingdi Jue, Jue seemed to be thinking about something and nodded slightly.

Then, the girl with short lavender hair stepped into the magnificent city of the Moon and walked towards the Tsukiyomi Shrine in the center of the Moon.

Seeing the girl's behavior, Shang Yang felt a little confused and asked.

"...Jue, what are you going to do?"

Hearing the young man's doubtful question, the girl with short lavender hair answered without turning her head.

"I'm going to kill Yue Yejian."

"……Well."

The young man with gray hair was shocked by Miss Jue's remarks and shook his head helplessly.

It seems that as a model sister, Miss Komeiji Kaku would never agree with Tsukiyomi who exploits her own daughter so harshly and cruelly.

Volume 3: Above the Moon Sea: Chapter 124: Dissidents of the Moon People

Seeing Miss Gu Mingdijue, Shang Yang walked directly towards the magnificent center of the Moon City. He rubbed his hair and turned around to look at the outskirts of the Moon City.

"The vanguard of the monsters has already approached the Moon City. So, notify the Hundred Demons Night Parade to detach some monsters to guard against the Moon City troops chasing and besieging the rear. The rest of the Hundred Demons Night Parade will directly attack the Moon City. After all, there are still some Moon City garrison troops inside the Moon City that the Hundred Demons Night Parade needs to eliminate."

Shang Yang casually let go of the Moon Rabbit garrison troops not far away who were being held back by his distance magic. He soon saw that the Moon Rabbit troops who launched the charge did not underestimate the lavender-haired girl who was strolling towards the Moon City as if in a garden. Instead, they raised many strange-looking standard spears.

The tip of the spear was pointed at the girl with short lavender hair. As the Moon Rabbit, who looked like the captain of the garrison, waved his claws, the attack of the Moon Rabbit garrison officially began.

With the crackling sound of electric sparks, the tips of the strange-looking standard-issue spears held by the Moon Rabbit troops glowed with a silvery-white brilliance, and then...

Alright...

Cracks appeared in space at the tips of all the spearheads. The originally empty space was instantly covered with cracks. The countless spatial cracks caused by the huge number of spearheads continued to extend like a spider web, spreading towards the petite girl with short lavender hair in front.

The Moon Rabbit Army used the Moon City's real high-end weapons - space weapons. Countless dense space cracks, like the terrifying scars of space itself, wanted to destroy this seemingly harmless, but definitely a powerful monster, lavender-haired girl, along with the space structure she was in.

Slightly narrowing his eyes, Shang Yang calmly looked at the densely packed space cracks that stretched like countless spider webs.

The nature of the attack was the same as the space crack caused by using the power of yin and yang to cut off the integrity of space when he and Yakumo Yukari first clashed 72 years ago.

The difference is that Shang Yang cut off the integrity of the space, causing the space itself to spontaneously fragment; while the offensive space cracks created by the Moon City space weapon were created by absorbing a large amount of spiritual power, running the attack formula of the space weapon, interfering with the stability of the space itself, and then filling the formula structure into the space structure itself, relying on the formula structure to tear the space structure apart abruptly.

It is difficult to compare the advantages and disadvantages of the two space attack principles. Although it seems that the space weapons of the Moon City consume more spiritual power and need to contend with the overall laws of space itself, there is no doubt about it.

Spatial attacks, this kind of attack that is based on the laws of space itself, is genuine and can be classified as a "law-level attack" that originates from the laws of all things - the "principles of this world".

Seeing that the Moon Rabbit Army used the space weapons they were equipped to create countless spider-web-like space cracks, trying to kill him with them, Gu Mingji Jue remained calm.

Jue had seen such space weapons when he summoned the One Hundred Demons Night Parade to defeat the Moon Rabbit Army led by Watazuki Yorihime. The space weapons of the Moon Rabbit Army created space cracks and killed many monsters.

However, the space cracks that are fatal to monsters are not dangerous to Gu Mingji Jue.

Back then, facing Shang Yang's space crack attack, the monster sage Yakumo Yukari just stretched out his hand and lightly drew it, and the mysterious power of the realm wiped out these dangerous space cracks.

Jue didn't want to exert too much effort, he just raised his fair and soft hand, which turned light purple, and the rich magic power of the great monster level was directly poured into the countless spider-web-like space cracks, blasting away the space attack technique that tore the space structure itself and was hidden deep in the space cracks.

The technical structure supporting the spatial cracks was destroyed. Under the influence of the laws of the integrity of space, countless spider-web-like spatial cracks were "bridged" by the space itself.

Then, before the Moon Rabbit troops could react and their attack was easily broken, Jue casually threw out Shang Yang's "Magic Cannon".

boom! ! !

Suddenly, accompanied by the violent explosion of the "Magic Cannon", the Moon Rabbits were blown away, knocked unconscious, and were completely defeated, losing their combat capability.

At this moment, the vanguard of the Yokai Night Parade of One Hundred Demons also broke into the Moon City and attacked the main traffic arteries of the magnificent city, and began to fight with the Moon Rabbit troops stationed in the Moon City and relying on the Moon City buildings to block the attack. A large number of autonomous combat aircraft manufactured in the Moon City were also launched again, and the armored forces of the Moon City also appeared on the main traffic arteries. The familiar sounds of explosions and roars rang out again in the Moon City.

In fact, after seeing the magnificent lunar city of Moon Capital, Shang Yang's first reaction was to lead the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons to attack Gintama's Edo Castle.

The main urban buildings of the Moon City are very similar to Edo Castle in Gintama, which is controlled by the Celestial Beings (aliens) and nominally ruled by the Tokugawa Shogunate.

Ancient and modern styles coexist. For example, a magnificent building that is over 100 meters high uses an ancient dome as the roof.

All in all, this style is quite interesting, and the freshness and sense of incongruity brought by the confusion of time is also very interesting.

After noticing that Jue had easily dealt with the intercepted Moon Rabbit troops, Shang Yang also followed Jue with Shana. The young man and the two girls quickly advanced along the deserted modern city streets towards the Tsukiyomi Shrine in the center of the Moon City.

There was no other way but to advance quickly. There was really no defensive fortification in the Moon City that could stop Shang Yang and Jue. If they were intercepted by the Moon City garrison troops deployed in the city, the Moon City garrison troops would either be blown away by a random magic cannon shot by Jue or by a magic cannon shot by Shang Yang, which would not affect the speed of the three people's attack on the Yue Yejian Palace at all.

Moon City, Moon City Council.

This is a building located in the northern district of the magnificent Moon City. It is over a hundred meters high and somewhat resembles a Mayan pyramid. It is one of the urban cores of the Moon City, the Moon City Council.

In the huge circular venue, all 2,997 Moon Citizens of the Moon City, with the exception of the Moon Citizen noble who was in charge of the Shrine's garrison, the Military Inspection Envoy, 2,877 Moon Citizens and 119 Moon Citizen nobles, a total of 2,996 people, were seated in the venue. They watched the battle scenes in and around the Moon City through the image transmission technique scattered in the Moon City's autonomous combat aircraft. All of them were silent.

Seeing the deadpan atmosphere in the meeting, the Councillor of the Moon City Council, a Moon Citizen noble who was equivalent to the Chairman of the Moon City Council, stood up and coughed. When all the Moon Citizens looked at him, the Councillor, who was also one of the two chief officers of the Shinto Army, the Shinto ritual research department of the Moon City - the "Left Shinto Army Guard Lieutenant", spoke in a deep voice, the most common tone among the Moon Citizens, without any emotion.

"Everyone, the demons that invaded the Moon City from the filthy mortal realm possessed power beyond our wildest dreams. More than half an hour after the Moon City's great barrier shattered, the outer protective barriers guarding the core area of ​​our Moon City also shattered."

"The ground demon tribe's vanguard has invaded the Moon City from the southern outskirts. They have also left some demons behind to block the Moon Rabbit troops outside the Moon City from entering the Moon City and to support the Moon Rabbit garrison troops deployed inside the Moon City. Please see."

Following the Councillor's words, the video automatically adjusted to a scene shot by an autonomous combat aircraft located at the outer edge of the Moon City. In the picture, in the distance, a large group of monsters of various appearances were flying swiftly in the air, constantly changing positions, and repelling the outer Moon Rabbit troops that came to support the Moon City.

"From the footage provided by our autonomous combat aircraft, we can see that these monsters were carefully selected from the invading monster force—the massive army the monsters call the 'One Hundred Demons Night Parade'. They are powerful monsters with highly maneuverable flight capabilities and wide-area attack capabilities. Our outer Moon Rabbit forces are unable to support the Moon City's inner garrison for a short period of time."

Speaking of this, the minister with short silver hair, who despite his youthful appearance had an extremely steady demeanor, revealed a hint of helplessness in his emotionless voice.

"In addition, the monsters have left behind a large number of extremely powerful monsters, forming numerous attack teams to contain the Moon City's Moon Rabbit troops deployed on the Plenty Sea Plain. Moreover, reports of monster attacks continue to arrive from the four underground fortress armories outside the Moon City. In other words, almost all of the Moon City's garrison troops have been tied down."

After hearing the speech of the Councillor, there was no movement in the meeting hall, and no noisy sound was made. Whether they were the Moon People or the Moon Nobles, most of them still maintained the arrogance and indifference unique to the Moon People on their faces. Only a few people showed a little panic.

It's not that the Moon People are so resilient, but because when Yue Yejian used his divine power to expel the "filth on the earth" from the Moon People, the desires and emotions of almost all the Moon People were greatly affected. Not only did emotions like fear disappear for the most part, but even the hopeful optimism disappeared without a trace. What filled their hearts was mostly only the pure faith in Yue Yejian and their inherent pride.

It’s not that they can keep their composure, but facing the first foreign invasion since the establishment of the Moon City in a long time, the people of the Moon have no idea what they can do, no, they have no idea what they can say.

The small number of people who showed panic were the ones least affected by the "clear and pure state" among the Moon People.

Seeing that the Moon People still looked indifferent, the highest-ranking councilor among them was helpless.

The Moon City Council was originally an organization with far more symbolic significance than practical significance. The command of the entire Moon City garrison was in the hands of the Moon Princess Watatsuki Yorihime, while all major administrative decisions were made by Watatsuki Toyohime, who managed the Moon Messengers, and were directly conveyed to the Moon Rabbits for execution through the Moon Rabbit Messengers beside her. Over the long years, the only decisions the Moon City Council could make were to issue some laws, such as restricting the reproduction of Moon Rabbits.

However, the only power that the Moon City Council has is that the Mianyue sisters, who are Moon Princesses, also have the "right to refute" the decrees issued by the Moon City Council, which is the so-called "veto power".

Although the people of the Moon each hold an official position, most of them are city gate guards, outer gate inspectors, inner road envoys, outer rice inspectors, etc. These are meaningless positions and are not of much use.

"What's the damage done to the Moon Rabbit unit and the enemy?"

Suddenly, a voice from the Moon Citizen, as cold as that of the Grand Councillor, rang out in the circular venue.

Without even looking, the councilor knew who was speaking. Looking up, he saw a young Moon Citizen noble with short white hair standing up. Although his face had the usual indifference of the Moon Citizens, he was less arrogant than the other Moon Citizens.

The other of the two chief officers of the Shinto Army, the Shinto research unit of the Moon City - the "Right Shinto Army Guard Lieutenant".

PS1: These are two chapters for today, set to be released at 3 a.m. the next day, and there will be updates during the day.

Volume 3: Above the Moon Sea: Chapter 125: The Brave One of the Shrine

Shintoism is an ancient system of techniques that originated from the earthly world and the land of ancient Japan.

Unlike the "Shintoism" on Earth, which was squeezed out of almost no living space by Shang Yang's "Buddhism Eastward 2.0 Enhanced Version" and had to absorb a large amount of Tang Dynasty Buddhist ideas and is purely a religion, the Shinto technology of the Moon City was used by the Moon People who migrated to the Moon Sea in ancient times to build the civilization of the Moon City. It exists as a system of mysticism.

For thousands of years, Shintoism has been the main power held by the people of the Moon. Shintoism plays an omnipresent role in the weapons used by the Moon Rabbit Army in battles with monsters.

This shows the importance of Shintoism in the Moon City civilization.

There is only one department in the Moon City that specializes in studying Shinto magic and developing new Shinto techniques. It is the Shinto Army, a Shinto research institution composed of 12 Moon nobles with a talent for developing Shinto magic and hundreds of Moon people, with the "Right Guard Lieutenant" and "Left Guard Lieutenant" as the highest officers.

This is also the only important institution in the Moon City composed entirely of Moon People. In order to reflect the importance of Shinto research to the Moon City, the 12 Moon People who first participated in Shinto research were given noble surnames by Yue Yejian and became Moon People nobles.

Although they are the two highest commanders of the Shinto Army, the Councillor who also serves as the "Councilor" of the Moon City Council has a higher political level than the Right Guard Lieutenant who only serves as the "Right Shinto Army Guard Lieutenant".

However, for the people of the Moon, they also have a custom that originated from the ancient Japanese and learned from the Tang Dynasty, which is to respect the right.

Therefore, in terms of the political level, the Councillor-in-Chief and the Left Shinto Army Lieutenant are half a level higher, and within the Shinto Army, the Shinto research unit "Shinto Army", the Right Shinto Army Lieutenant is half a level higher than the Left Shinto Army Lieutenant. The Right Guard Lieutenant is the true first officer of the Shinto Army.

As the first commander of the Shinto Army in the true sense, the Right Guard Lieutenant has been responsible for researching Shinto techniques and developing new Shinto techniques since hundreds of years after the founding of the Moon City. He is very clear about the power and performance of the Shinto weapons held by the Moon Rabbit Army. Faced with the fact that the monsters broke through the Moon City's great barrier so quickly, quickly got rid of the blockade of the Moon City's outer troops, and once again broke through the Moon City's outer protective barrier, the Right Guard Lieutenant was extremely shocked. He now very much wants to know the battle losses of both sides.

Therefore, he abandoned the speaking etiquette that was tacitly followed by all the Moon Citizens at the Moon City Council, and simply stood up and questioned the councilor who presided over the meeting in the Moon Citizens' usual cold tone. He also ignored the dissatisfied looks of many other Moon Citizens nobles and Moon Citizens at his violation of the tacit speaking etiquette.

Rubbing his temples, the Prime Minister was not overly surprised by the sudden remarks of the Right Guard Lieutenant. As one of the two chief officers of the Shinto Army and a colleague of the Right Guard Lieutenant, the Prime Minister knew the Right Guard Lieutenant's personality very well.

When he first arrived at the Moon Sea, the Moon Citizen noble, who was a lieutenant of the Right Guard, had always been a maverick. Even now, he was one of the small number of people who were less affected by the "clear and pure realm". Therefore, most of the Moon Citizen nobles and Moon Citizens who were accustomed to "eternity" and "no change" did not feel good about him because he had behaviors that were "not in line with eternity".

However, this point was nothing to the Councillor who was familiar with the Lieutenant of the Right Guard. As a Councillor, he was also one of the small group of people who were less affected by the "clear and pure realm" like the Lieutenant of the Right Guard. In the eyes of most of the nobles and people of the Moon, he was an outsider whose behavior was "not in line with eternity".

If the fact that "the Minister of State is the Minister of State" itself is not one of the "forever" familiar to the people of the Moon, I am afraid that the Minister of State himself would be ostracized by the people of the Moon and would no longer be able to continue to hold the position of Minister of State.

After all, among the laws of the Moon City, there is even a law that "changing forever is a crime."

"Right now, besides the two of us and the 'Military Observer' who's staying at the Shrine, she's the only one who's similar to us..."

Thinking of this, the Councillor could not help but cast his gaze towards the woman who was sitting quietly in the seat on the west side. She had long moon-white hair and although her expression was cold, she was not indifferent or arrogant, but rather had a gentleness to her.

One of the 120 Moon Citizen nobles, a Moon Citizen woman who serves as the "Inspector of Non-Violations".

"Mr. Councillor, please inform me of the losses suffered by all parties."

Seeing that the Minister of State did not answer his question for a long time, the Lieutenant of the Right Guard asked again indifferently.

The indifferent voice of the Right Shinto Army Lieutenant dispelled the Councillor's thoughts, and he spoke in the same indifferent voice.

"Unfortunately, the casualties are equally staggering. So far, the Moon City garrison has lost tens of thousands of combat humanoids, and the Moon Rabbit troops have suffered nearly 6,000 casualties, nearly one-fifth of all Moon Rabbit troops in the Moon City. As for the youkai, we're not even sure their casualties have reached 2,000."

These words did not cause a particularly big shock to the Moon People. To them who had already lost most of their despair and panic, these were just numbers. However, although most of the Moon People turned a deaf ear to these numbers, the faces of the few Moon People who had just shown panic had a trace of something that had not appeared on their faces for thousands of years - helplessness, and this was the maximum emotion they could express.

Regardless of the shock the Right Guard Lieutenant felt after hearing these words, the Councillor continued speaking.

"Even without taking into account the expendable combat T-dolls, the casualty ratio between our Moon City garrison and the enemy has reached a staggering three to one. This casualty ratio is expected to remain for a considerable period of time."

“It’s so high…”

After hearing the answer he wanted, the right guard lieutenant slowly sat down, his shocked expression still lingering.

"The main reasons for the high proportion of casualties are as follows."

"First: The demonic attack on the Moon City by the terrestrial beings was a surprise attack. The Moon City troops, who have enjoyed long periods of peace, have no experience in dealing with such a situation."

"Secondly, our Moon Rabbit Army's original concept was to fight as a whole, but the Yokai's Night Parade of One Hundred Demons completely sheds the characteristics of a terrestrial army. They divide their entire Night Parade of One Hundred Demons into countless small teams, utilizing their formidable individual strength and high mobility to continuously deplete our Moon Rabbit Army."

"Third, and this is the most important point, the enemy has several powerful monsters engaged in the battle who could turn the tide of the war. Aside from the Moon Sage, Lord Yagi, who has already gone to meet the enemy and has no news of him, the two princesses who led an elite Moon Rabbit garrison have also been completely lost. Perhaps they were captured by the monsters on the ground, or perhaps they..."

Having said this, the Prime Minister stopped and could no longer speak. For the people of the Moon who have Tsukiyomi-kami as their only belief, the status of the two Moon Princesses, Watatsuki Toyohime and Watatsuki Yorihime, daughters of gods, is equivalent to that of the living gods of the Yamato court in the mortal world.

"So, what about us?"

With a blank expression and disregarding the tacit speaking etiquette, the noble woman of the Moon Citizens who served as the "Inspector of Non-Violations" stood up. This woman, who had obtained the status of a Moon Citizen noble in the distant past because she persuaded one-fifth of the current total number of Moon Citizens to follow Yue Yejian to the Moon Sea, asked with a blank expression.

"Faced with this unprecedented situation, how should we proceed, Lord Councillor?"

All the Moon People turned their eyes to the female Moon People noble with long moon-white hair. Dissatisfaction and disapproval were the only attitudes of the vast majority of the Moon People. Over the long years, they had become accustomed to everything, they were accustomed to doing nothing forever, and similarly, over the long years, they had assimilated with the "clear and pure realm". All the edges of their minds had disappeared, and what was left was only the pure belief in the Moon Night that bestowed them with eternal life and worry-free forever, which filled their rigid minds.

"There's nothing we can do."