Magical girl? She got tricked into this!

Soon, a contract door spiraled out like a whirlpool. Ando Meiko took one last look at the entire battlefield and then walked into the door.

The next moment the whirlpool disappeared, and she had returned to the dwarf country. Beth and the others stood there obediently, waiting for her return.

"Welcome back."

Seeing that all of them except Ronia were covered in wounds, Ando Meiko walked up to them one by one, reaching out her hand and gently stroking their heads.

"You all worked hard."

Volume 7: Strange Journey to Another World: Chapter 230: Introduction

Meiko Anten slowly woke up. She opened her eyes, which were no longer sleepy, and looked at the ceiling above her head, which was not very familiar. She soon realized that she was lying in a room in the Dwarf Kingdom's palace.

Melinda was curled up in his arms like a kitten and sleeping soundly, and the weight coming from the other side of his body made Anten Meiko subconsciously raise her hand and lift a corner of the quilt.

What caught her eye was a bright magenta color, and even without confirming who the other person was, Anten Meiko already knew it.

Meiko Anten looked at the girls sleeping on both sides of her lovingly. It felt very comfortable to hug them on both sides, but she couldn't move after being pressed down.

However, after solving the problem of the Dwarf Kingdom, there was nothing else to do. Even though she was not sleepy, she closed her eyes again. After all, since she came to this world, she was either on the road or on the way to the road. Now there was still more than a month and a half before she went to the Demon Tribe. This was a rare period of peace.

Even though she was not sleepy and forced herself to sleep a little longer, she still rested well for a few hours by closing her eyes. She did not open her eyes until the afternoon when Melinda got up.

"Ahhh!!" The scream scared Anten Meiko so much that she quickly stood up. She looked left and right, only to find that Melinda was pointing at Ruby who was lying in her arms. She was a little at a loss for a moment.

"She, she, who is she?! Damn it, she actually dared to sleep in my Meiko's arms."

Ruby slowly woke up, seemingly having heard the angel's voice. She glanced at Melinda, yawned, and said casually, "Watch your words, angel. Based on my relationship with the Master, I'm more than just your senior."

"You...what do you mean? Meizi, who is she?"

An Teng Meizi smiled and said, "I'll introduce everyone to you all when everyone else arrives, so that we don't have to bother introducing them one by one."

While sleeping, both of their bodies fell into a deep sleep, but their consciousness intentionally exchanged information between them through the connection of the contract.

Ruby knew everything that happened to Meiko Anten in this world, and she also understood why Ruby appeared here.

In order to protect Meiko Anten from the space storm, Ruby stepped forward and pushed her, allowing her to quickly escape from the range of the space storm, but she was caught in the lightning strike.

Although he managed to escape later, his body was completely disintegrated, leaving only the broken body barely supporting his consciousness.

She followed the breath of Anten Meiko and came to this world, but unlike Anten Meiko, she was not captured by the hero summoning circle, but fell from the air.

The place where she landed was the rift zone that Anten Meizi had passed through, and coincidentally, she hit the head of a rock-crust scorpion.

The last remnants of Ruby's consciousness activated her self-preservation ability, thus giving the Rock Scorpion some special abilities that did not belong to it, forcing its body to become gigantic and violent.

Guilty 0 Liu Si⒍ $VII捌栮⑻麇I don’t know whether it should be said that the flood washed away the Dragon King Temple or that they were both very lucky. No one expected that they would meet in this way, and that An Teng Meizi would take the item and put it into the storage space.

During the time she followed Meiko Anten, she was constantly absorbing the familiar magic power that overflowed from Meiko Anten to repair herself.

It was not until the time when Anten Meiko was conquering the Void Slime that she woke up from her dormant state after she burst into extremely intense emotions before being on the verge of despair. She reshaped her body based on the Flame Emperor's magic wand.

Ruby apologized many times for bursting Anten Meiko's storage space due to an emergency, but Anten Meiko didn't care at all.

The most valuable items in the storage space were the seven stone balls that she had painstakingly collected, and she had recovered them all after the battle.

It’s just that there is no storage space and I have to carry some things in my arms all the time, which is a bit inconvenient. It’s best to make a new one during this period of time.

After Beth and the others arrived in the room, Meiko Anten introduced Ruby to the others. Among them, the one Ruby was most interested in was the dragon girl named Ishtar.

Because unlike Vita and herself, the contract signed between this dragon girl and Anten Meiko is a familiar contract.

This is not only Meiko Ando's second familiar after Nanako, but also shows that the latter is different from ordinary marine magical girls. She does have the ability to sign contracts with multiple familiars.

Unlike Ruby who only cares about Ishtar, all the girls in this other world, except Ishtar, care about Ruby very much, not because of her as a person, but because of her relationship with Anten Meiko.

It was only because she had said something when An Teng Meizi introduced her: "My relationship with the Master is such that I can be considered your senior, so as long as you can please me, I don't mind telling you a few things about the Master."

After a brief introduction, Meiko Anten handed Ruby to them so that they could get to know each other, and she left the room and went to the palace hall to look for Ornn.

Dwarves are all skilled craftsmen, and dwarven buildings do not use much construction techniques, so the parts destroyed by the void beasts were quickly repaired.

"You're really amazing. You can sleep for several days at a time. I've been so busy these days that I'm exhausted."

"What's wrong? The ditch issue has been resolved. Could it be that the human race is trying to make things difficult for you again?"

Aoun shook his head and said, "Quite the contrary. They sent us a large order for equipment and weapons. Not only did they provide all the materials, they also gave us a large sum of production fees."

"I see, then you agree?"

"Originally, we hadn't planned to postpone it for a few months due to some issues, but I didn't expect them to agree."

"This is good news for you, isn't it? After the Battle of the Trench, I can clearly sense that the way humans view you has changed significantly."

"That's right. I don't know if that's a good thing." Ornn didn't seem to want to dwell on the issue. He waved his hand and smiled faintly. "Since you're awake, I guess you're ready to learn from me this time."

Orn still remembered what Como had said to him. The purpose of Anten Yazi coming here was not only for the ancient stone ball in his hand, but also because he wanted to refer to and learn forging techniques.

Volume 7: A Strange Journey to Another World: Chapter 231: Learning the Art of Forging

Under Ornn's arrangement, he put aside all his work under the pretext of satisfying the conditions of his benefactor from the Dwarf Kingdom, and brought Ando Meiko to the basement of the palace.

The basement of the Dwarf Palace is not a special place. Simply put, it is a larger cellar with clear divisions.

Orn introduced all of this to her one by one as they walked in the aisle. There were many rooms in the basement, but they were divided into three areas: a metal warehouse for storing metals, a wine rack area for brewing wine, and a sundry warehouse for storing miscellaneous items.

Ornn took several sacks of things from the two warehouses and carried them on his shoulders. When he returned to the palace, the two of them went together to a stone house in the back garden of the palace.

The inside of the house was as simple as the outside. There were only some forging tools inside, and there wasn't even an extra chair.

"Now, I, the king who inherited the dwarven race's most powerful forging technology, will teach you the forging techniques that our race is so proud of."

There are still more than a month and ten days before returning to the dragon clan. During these forty days, Ando Meiko followed Ornn to learn forging skills in the morning, practiced diligently in the afternoon, and engraved magic circles by herself in the evening.

She lived every day like a tireless machine, making perfect use of the characteristics of her body of destiny to sleep only two hours a day and spend all the rest of her time studying.

Seeing her trying so hard, Beth and the other girls wanted to come over to dissuade her but were stopped by Ruby. In order to calm them down and convince them, she also revealed some information about Ando Meiko's physical condition.

It can be said that magical girls are all born office workers. Even if they don’t sleep for three or four days and feel listless, they can become energetic again after a few hours of sleep.

Ando Meiko's body of destiny is even more powerful. If she is not fighting, she only needs one hour of deep sleep a day to relieve the fatigue of the whole day. The reason why she sleeps twice as long is just because she can't resist the obstruction of several women.

The dwarven forging technique is more detailed than that of humans and is divided into more than a dozen sections, but to put it simply, it consists of three major steps: hammering, shaping, and engraving.

Although hammering is only the first step, it is the most important step of all, because it is related to the quality of the finished product of the entire artifact.

The hammering not only refines the shape, but also removes the impurities inside the metal during the hammering process. The metal with fewer impurities will have better quality of magic conduction when it is made into a magical weapon.

This is why the magic conduction efficiency of each level of magic weapons has a corresponding range, which also means that even magic weapons of the same level have their advantages and disadvantages.

However, the hammering time cannot be too long, otherwise the metal will lose some of its original properties due to being in a high temperature state for a long time, resulting in a decrease in the quality of the final product.

The smithing skills of dwarves are generally better than those of humans. One of the important factors is that dwarves have greater strength and endurance than humans, which allows them to take the lead from the first step.

The second step of shaping is to knock the hammered metal block into the shape you want. Generally speaking, whether it is a sword or armor, it cannot be made from a single piece of metal and needs to be assembled in sections.

Just like the simplest sword, it requires the blade, hilt, and handle to be hammered and shaped separately to finally form the finished product of each component, including the final assembly part, which is all included in the shaping.

The last step is engraving, which is the most complicated process. The maker needs to design the magic that needs to be engraved on the magic weapon and the spirit requirements for making the set.

This step is not something that can be done any way you want. Depending on the materials used, the resources for engraving are very limited. Usually, a special-grade magic device can engrave level 5 magic. Of course, you can also choose to give up the set effect and engrave more advanced magic.

If there is more space allocated to engraving magic, there will be relatively fewer spaces for words of spirit that can be used to create set effects. Reasonable allocation of engraving resources is also something that a qualified forger must learn.

However, despite Ando Meiko's hard work and study day and night, she did not know that the outside world had undergone earth-shaking changes in just forty days. This change was also related to the country of Sta that Ando Meiko destroyed before going to the Dragon Clan.

The dragon clan had long known that there was an ancient magic circle in Feilong City that could teleport people inside, so they deliberately slowed down the time when launching the trial and waited until the Emperor of Sta teleported everyone out before destroying everything in Feilong City.

The whereabouts of the dragon clan were already eye-catching, not to mention more than 20 dragons acting together. Even the Pope, who was still furious because of Ando Meiko, seemed to be poured with a bucket of cold water. He suddenly calmed down and focused his attention on the country of Sta.

The trial was launched with great fanfare. When the theocracy, which was closest to the country of Star, learned that Flying Dragon City was destroyed, the king was beheaded, and the entire country was in chaos with no leader, they, who had been preparing for years, immediately bypassed the Sunset Forest and went straight into the interior of the country of Star.

The demons also reacted quickly. After the dragons left, the impatient demon generals immediately launched a fierce attack on the country of Sta.

After noticing the movements of the demons, the other two superpowers of the human race wanted to discuss countermeasures regarding Star with the Church. Unexpectedly, the demons took the initiative to attack the other three superpowers.

In the country of Sta, a fierce confrontation is taking place between the remnants of Sta, the Church and the three major countries of the Demon Race. At the same time, the Church, Potter, Lance and various small countries in the surrounding areas have launched a double offensive of defense and counterattack against the Demon Race.

No one knows what is going on with the Demon Clan's high-ranking officials, but since the fight has already begun, the human race will not show mercy. The difference in military strength between the two sides is huge, and in a siege, the Demon Clan who rush to the front as cannon fodder cannot use magic and can only use their lives to fill the gaps needed for the siege.

City defense battles, contact battles, surprise attacks, siege battles, over the past month, the countries close to the demon clan have fought more than a hundred battles of all sizes.

The human race had not suffered such a fierce attack from the demons for a long time. For a time, they were beaten back step by step, abandoned the city and fled, and their defense line continued to shrink.

The demon clan, which had been stable for decades, began to show its might once again. Under the attack of the demon generals, the demon clan's territory began to spread outward at a very fast speed with unstoppable momentum.

Volume 7: A Strange Journey to Another World: Chapter 232: Continental Situation

However, when the expansion of the demons reached a certain extent, the surrounding human countries and the three superpowers, under the threat of the demons, launched an offensive and united together to fight against the demons.

The individual strength of humans is indeed much weaker than that of demons, but humans have wisdom that demons do not have, as well as unity and cooperation based on mutual trust.

After several decades, the demons once again launched a war against the entire continent, and the human race finally carried out a long-awaited racial union.

After this alliance, although the human race cannot be said to have won every battle against the demons, at least it has the power to resist, and will no longer have to retreat as soon as the demons attack.

However, things were not that simple. Soon, the demon generals began to grow stronger inexplicably. The fastest opponent of the human race to be defeated was not other countries, but the Church, one of the superpowers.

Because the legendary archangels Melinda and Meiko Anten ran away, the combat effectiveness of the Theocracy can be said to have been reduced by half. It can be said that they were asking for trouble.

After all, if this group of people didn't have any ideas about Anten Meiko, how could they send Melinda to stab her, and how could they let Anten Meiko bounce back the beauty magic?

After the demons captured one city after another, the Pope's hatred for Anten Meiko skyrocketed, but it was also accompanied by an emotion called regret.

If they had known this would happen, they might have let Meiko Anten leave instead of stopping her.

The territory of the Theocracy continued to shrink, which put enormous pressure on the other two superpowers. They had no choice but to send troops to provide assistance in order to barely maintain the balance.

This balance is not stable. If any unexpected event occurs, it will be broken in an instant, and the Church and the other two superpowers that have divided their forces will also be hit hard by the demons.

But there is no other way. Even though the kings of various countries know that this is a poison to quench thirst, they still have to do it, because if the demons break through one superpower first, then the remaining two will be immediately attacked from both sides.

Moreover, this broken road will lead directly into the human territory.

To put it in a more vivid way, the demon army can be compared to a pack of wolves, and the human territory can be imagined as a huge pasture, in which the four superpowers and super armies act as fences and sheepdogs.

Once one of the sheepdogs is killed and the fence is broken, the wolves will rush into the pasture through the broken area. Even if the sheep living there have horns and are quite aggressive, they will never be a match for the wolves.

Therefore, now that the country of Star has suffered a devastating blow, the three superpowers must help each other to maintain the front line of the human territory so that it will not be breached.

Soon this barely maintained balance was destroyed. Many demon generals discovered the weakness of the Theocracy and concentrated their attacks on one point, launching a night raid on the Theocracy and capturing two or three cities with a swift offensive.

When the demon army was approaching the Holy City, the imperial capital of the religious nation, the restriction on the dragon clan's attack was finally lifted ahead of schedule. Because they were still in preparation, they did not use real dragons, but instead sent the Dragon King Jin Yao to call on the continent's sub-dragons to unite with humans to launch a war against the demon clan.

Because of the intervention of the dragon clan, most of the sub-dragons in this world responded to the call of the Dragon King, and it was because of this that the human race had a chance to breathe.

In just over a month, the three major tribes, the human race, the demon race, and the dragon race, were all attacking and defending in their own ways. The battle lines were constantly advancing back and forth, with new battles breaking out every day.

Because every day was so fulfilling, for Anten Meiko, time passed very quickly. It seemed like in the blink of an eye, they had already spent nearly two months in the Dwarf Kingdom.

She held the engraving pen tightly in her hand, concentrating on connecting the last arc with the first arc to form a closed engraving structure. All the work was finally completed.

Her eyes were red as she held up the completely finished magical equipment in her hands and laughed excitedly: "It's done, haha, I finally finished it."

This is Meiko Anten's homework, and it is also something that Meiko Anten herself had the idea to make when she first started learning. What she is holding in her hand is an armband.

However, this armband is impeccable both in terms of structure and pattern. The most important thing is that this armband has various engravings with different functions both inside and outside.

The armband itself is not designed with front and back sides, but a structure twisted like a Möbius strip so that both sides can be connected to each other.

This method connects the front and back sides, simply and clearly expanding the area that can be engraved. Although this is just a simple idea, it made Orn's eyes light up and he praised Anten Meizi's wild imagination without hesitation.

And engraved on the armband is a compound magic circle composed of twelve-seal magic circle, seventeen-seal magic circle, and thirteen-seal magic circle.

Although the relevant knowledge was provided by Vita's memory, the trial and error process had to be slowly carried out and improved by Meiko Anten.

The stage of tempering and shaping alone took Anten Meiko a full twenty days. Moreover, because there were quite a lot of magical engravings that needed to be engraved, there was almost no remaining space between each line. Every stroke had to be done to the point where there could be no mistakes.

Fortunately, Meiko Anten possesses the domain copy magic of Seconds, which can make the time of non-living things go back up to three seconds. Even if something goes wrong, this magic can be used to force it to go back to the state before the failure, thereby improving the fault tolerance rate.

"Master, look, I'm done!"

Anten Meiko passed her armband to Orn's injured side. Orn couldn't help but exclaim in admiration at the mere sight of it. "Based solely on the material and the vibrations, it's top-grade, but the complex magic array engraved within elevates this magical weapon to a level comparable to epic."

"Both the pattern design and the twisted ring structure are very creative. I have to admire that your ideas are indeed more avant-garde than ours."

After observing for a long time, Ornn asked curiously, "Ruby, what is the function of your armband? Does it have a name?"

"Let's call it the Treasure Ring. I used three compound magic arrays: the subspace barrier, the fixed space growth, and the fixed item status, to create a storage space. It has a massive storage space of one hundred cubic meters!"

Meiko Ando proudly began to introduce this work, which she considered to be the most perfect.