Does the mechanical girl dream of the Messiah?

"Wow, you all know me~?" Rose was surprised, "So, you are my fans! But now is not the time for a fan meeting~"

"I have a question for you."

"Eh, this is so troublesome—" Rose's face was full of distress, unable to hide her emotions. "Can we just start and end the game earlier? I'll tear everyone into parts quickly. If you want to ask questions, please wait until after that, okay?"

It seemed like she was really impatient and wanted to kill Lunicia and her group as soon as possible.

"Rose, why...why are you helping the four major families?"

"Why?"

"You and Colette are good friends... lovers, right?! If so, why--"

Why do you still do this?

The reason why Lunisia chose to be the vanguard and clear the way for the soldiers of the city guard was not only because she wanted to reduce their casualties, but also to face Rose herself. Only they can defeat Rose? Maybe so, or maybe not. Even if Lunisia and her group went together with full preparation, there was no guarantee of victory, but she still had to do this and ask Rose's opinion in person - otherwise, whether she could defeat her or not, Lunisia would not be able to feel relieved.

"..."

Rose's expression darkened almost immediately.

She was a person who could not hide her thoughts. Her thoughts would easily show through her expression. Similarly, she was also a sensitive person, just like a child, and could understand things that people around her hid from her in an incredible way. Perhaps she had also spent a lot of effort to temporarily forget those emotions and accumulate them in the deepest part of her heart. However, the hidden fragility was like a soap bubble, which burst at the touch of Lunicia's words, releasing the loneliness, decline and sadness wrapped in it, which could never be covered up with a heartless smile.

"Rose, you..."

"What do you understand——!"

The smile and sadness were replaced by burning rage, which made her look more like a wounded beast than a human. The sense of oppression became more obvious as her emotions fluctuated. If a powerless human was in this situation, he would probably faint immediately.

"I don't understand, but it is precisely because I don't understand that I should calm down and talk about it..."

"This kind of thing can't be understood just by talking about it!"

Rose's body pressed down with a low roar. That weird posture did not match any profession that Lunicia knew. If she had to give a similar example, it would probably be a druid using the wilderness form. This made Lunicia tense up and leave the confrontation that could not be judged by experience to instinct.

"I'll just kill you all and tear your nonsense mouth to pieces! I will never allow you to do that. People like you will never be able to set foot here again--!!!"

——Here they come! …

Before the consciousness can react, even before the image is transmitted from the eyes to the brain and the sound is poured into the ears, the body has been blown away.

what happened?

If she was attacked without any explanation like last time, Lunicia would probably not be able to figure out what happened until she fainted. However, the situation now was different from last time. She had prepared in advance and raised the giant sword. This could not prevent her body from being knocked away, but it allowed her to immediately react to the current situation.

The first attack was not with a rapier, but with a fist. Even though Rose was not its true master and could not use its power, as long as she was hit a certain number of times, she would be forced to be sacrificed. Rose did not seem to really want Colette to be a sacrifice. In other words, for her, if she had the opportunity to make these enemies who came to her door into sacrifices, she would be very happy. That was why Lunicia had been on guard against the silver sword.

"—!"

As a result, he didn't even have the chance to cry out in pain.

The body was embedded in the wall. First, he felt the restraints coming from all directions, and then he felt the severe pain spreading in front of him. His hands and elbows were completely numb because of the strong impact force - no, it should be that his arms were completely broken in the previous blow. Looking down, the front half of his forearm became shapeless, as if the bones inside had been shattered and broken, and the ulna and radius pierced from the back of the elbow joint. If he was not a holy warrior with healing ability, or did not have the ability of self-repair with the prayer, I am afraid that this blow would be enough to make him disabled. After judging his own injuries, Lunicia struggled to get out of the rock wall while using holy healing and prayer flow to repair his arms.

What kind of terrifying power is that?

The most powerful enemy Lunicia had ever encountered was undoubtedly the "Gug Giant" created by the ghoul priest Anders during the Waterwheel Canal. It was a monster with four arms and was so powerful that it could dislocate her wrist with one blow. If the strength of the Gug Giant was counted as one, then in Lunicia's opinion, Rose's strength was probably at least fifty, or even a hundred.

Before the wailing sound of the air being torn apart reached her ears, the first thing she felt was the touch of being knocked away - she had just casually thrown a punch and had already torn apart the barrier of the sound barrier. The roar and shockwaves raged under the cathedral, and then were eliminated by this sacred and ancient hall. However, this was meaningless to Ella and Asheselin, as they would eventually face the storm raised by the dragon girl.

"Mrs. Luna!"

"You are the next one?"

The blood-red vertical pupils looked here, towards the direction of Ella Hepper.

It was like a death sentence.

boom--

She took light steps, and the soles of her boots crushed the bricks and stones at the same time, and the cracks spread from under her feet like a dense spider web, and her figure disappeared in an instant - the next moment, before the roar and shock wave arrived, her figure had already appeared beside Ella, and she stabbed the sword in her hand towards her body.

boom--! ! !

The sword blade pierced through three pillars. Those huge stone pillars were no stronger than flesh and blood in the face of such a simple and rough collision. The sword blade then nailed into the wall. The terrifying force hit the wall and shattered the neatly carved stone wall into shapeless pieces, revealing the cracked rock behind it.

It didn't hit anyone - not even a drop of blood was left, let alone any flesh.

"Where are you looking at again?"

The sharp wind blew against her cheek. Almost without hesitation, Rose grabbed a flying brick and swung it towards the side where the sound came from. Neither side's attacks succeeded. The brick was crushed into gravel, and deep and shallow pits were rubbed out on the stone pillar. A shallow red mark appeared on the Dragonborn's face, and a few drops of blood overflowed from it. This mark was not even a wound, but a small decoration at most.

call out!call out!call out!

The impact force hit Rose's slightly paused figure, or rather, accurately hit her forehead, causing her to step back a few steps. Rose seemed to have almost no reaction to being hit by an air-shot arrow that could penetrate a human body. She just raised her head and stepped back slightly because of the impact force. This terrifying defensive ability did not make Ashlee frown. After roughly confirming the effectiveness of the existing means, she raised her arm again.

This time, what she held in her hand was not a ** as delicate as a work of art.

At first glance, it looked like a huge piece of black iron. Only when you looked carefully could you see the many fine and ingenious lines on the black iron block. As Ashatherine operated, the structure of the "iron block" unfolded with those lines as the center, revealing the delicate structure that was usually stored inside, the indicator lights that shone with azure, and the gun barrel that was also surrounded by circles of blue.

This huge cannon has its own name, "Marduk the Conqueror".

Buzz——————!!!

The dazzling white light was like a torrent, completely engulfing the dragon girl's body, which was far too tiny in comparison.

“…Is it resolved?”

The temperature detector can only see a piece of the same color. What it can detect is only the hot track left by "Conqueror Marduk". The flow of prayer letters is also cut off. In a sense, Ashetherin, who cannot feel things like "existence" and "momentum", can really see nothing now.

"not yet!"

Before Ella's cry came, the pulling feeling from her shoulder was one step faster. A huge impact force directly tore off the metal hardware that Ashlee used to fix herself to the ground and dissipate the recoil, blowing her body backwards and smashing her shoulder into a flying black iron filings. The scene in front of her made Ashlee, who was always calm, slightly widen her eyes, as if she found it incredible: the sharp dragon claws tore through the pure white high-energy particle flow, and then suddenly threw the silver-white rapier in his hand, piercing Ashlee's shoulder and knocking her away.

This is really crazy.

Compared to thinking about whether this behavior is crazy or not, Ella and Ashlee clearly have more important things to consider - Rose hit Ashlee with "Rest", and Rose now has the ability to move freely.

The dragon girl now had only one thing to do, and that was to rush forward, draw her sword, and then stab Ashetherin repeatedly.

In fact, she did so. She stepped forward with both feet, shattering the bricks and stones, letting the impact force clear away the debris and dust around her. The figure that broke through the realm of sound rushed straight towards the black mechanical girl. It was as if the two were not in the same time stream. One was still falling to the ground, trying to use the thrusters to reverse the direction, while the other was already rushing towards her at a speed that no one could catch up with.

"--Well!"

The dragonborn girl was unable to do what she wanted to do.

Her steps could not help but pause, only because her shoulder was pierced by the purple and black double blades. She was able to grasp the hilt of the "Repose" sword and pull it out, but she could not stab it down again, because the powerful shadow force burst out from the tip of the double-edged sword, tearing her shoulder, and she almost couldn't hold the sword in her hand for a moment.

Purple phantom butterflies fluttered here, curses and blood filled the air, weakening the dragon girl and making her one step behind again, as if mocking her, "You can't do anything you want to do", and similarly, "You can't save anyone you want to save", with a smile in the girl's eyes on the guard of the long sword, and the dragon girl's blood splashed on her, drawing a shallow arc like a smile.

She wanted to fight back, but the figure once again turned into a phantom butterfly, disappeared, and reappeared in her sight. She couldn't help but cover her shoulders and vent her anger at the girl with long pink hair, blue eyes, and an unreal beauty like a dream. No one knew what Rose thought Ella was, who she was, or which figure she overlapped with, but one thing was clear.

"Please pay back the price for hurting Lady Luna."

She is clearly a wizard, yet she holds two swords; she is clearly a traveling companion, yet she defines herself as a servant. She is such a contradictory existence. Rather than saying that she is "Ella Heper", a half-elf spellswordsman, it is better to say that she is a shadow of Lunicia. Ashetherin symbolizes the similarity between the shadow and herself, and she shows the other side of the shadow.

People can get rid of many things, but they cannot get rid of their own shadow.

Chapter 63 Day 3: Dragon

--Ding!

For the first time, at least the first time in this battle, Rose Fa Alarel used the rapier in her hand as a weapon. The effect was very good. With just a slight swing, the sharp tip of the sword cut through the fault of the wind and collided with the purple long sword in Ella's hand. It couldn't even be called a touch, just a slight collision, and the purple long sword was knocked away, and then turned into scattered purple butterflies in the air, and then reappeared in Ella's hand.

From the previous attack, it can be felt that the "Magic Energy Slash" did have some effect on Rose after all - the destructive magic power exploded directly on her shoulder, making it difficult for her to fully exert the strength of her right arm for a while, otherwise the previous attack might not only knock the sword in Ella's hand away, but also use that force to tear off her arm.

Even so, the situation still does not look optimistic.

"Is that all...?! I'll make you pay me back a thousand fold...!"

What attracted Ella's attention more than the low growl coming from Rose's throat was undoubtedly the wound where she had just made, the dragon girl's right shoulder. The flesh and blood there was wriggling and entangled like an independent living thing, healing at a speed visible to the naked eye. It would probably not take long for it to recover.

—Super-speed regeneration…?

Ella had never thought that she could see such an incredible regeneration speed in an intelligent race other than Ashetherin and Ella. Why could a dragonborn have so many incredible things? Was she blessed by a certain god, or did she inherit some kind of legacy from the distant past? No matter which one it was, when the opponent was stronger and regenerated faster, and her own resources were limited, Ella didn't think a protracted war would be a good idea.

——As for Lady Luna……

Even though she knew it was not a good habit to be distracted on the battlefield, she couldn't help but take advantage of this rare opportunity to let her eyes turn to where Lunicia was before. How was her condition? Was her arm intact? Was she able to move and swing her sword again? In Ella's worried eyes, all she could see was the sunken and cracked stone wall, and no trace of the white paladin.

Accompanied by the whistling of the wind, a huge pure white sword slashed down from above.

There was no sound of collision as expected, whether it was metal against metal, or metal against stone. The only sound that reached everyone's ears was the piercing scream produced by the friction between metals. The Dragonborn's palm firmly grasped the sword blade that was chopped down from above, making it impossible for it to move downwards even a little bit.

"Ms. Luna?!"

"Ashe, Ella, do it--!"

Surprise did not stop Ella's actions. For Asheselin, who had been paying attention to Lunicia's movements, surprise was completely non-existent. They almost simultaneously chose to act at the moment Lunicia spoke. "Conqueror Marduk" completed its second charge, and the white particle stream hit the back of the Dragonborn heavily, burning the armor on her back, causing her body to stagger forward two steps. At the same time, the pages of the magic book rustled, and the magic power that allowed the body to break through the speed limit enveloped her limbs. Ella raised the long sword in both hands and stabbed at the head of the Dragonborn.

They had to act immediately, otherwise Rose would be able to easily seize the flaw in Lunicia's attack and seriously injure her.

Did you succeed?

Just as this doubt emerged in her mind, Ella's vision spun wildly - the huge impact force caused her body to tumble and fly out, and then she and Lunicia crashed into the wall on the other side, smashing down the columns along the way.

After Rose grabbed the blade of the "Avenger" and endured the blow of Asheselin's accumulated strength, she directly lifted up the "Avenger" together with Lunicia, who was holding it, and then smashed it like a cannonball at Asheselin, who was stabbing with the sword, knocking them both away. The stone pillars collapsed and the walls cracked. Lunicia was not injured, but her hands were torn at the base and her arms were slightly weak. Ella felt that she had broken several bones in her body.

What kind of monster is that?

Both "Avenger" and "Crime and Punishment" have the ability to cut through her physical defenses. Ashetherin's bombardment cannot be said to be completely ineffective. In addition, although Rose's physical strength is high enough to easily tear through the sound barrier and kill or cripple her if she is hit head-on, her skills are quite low in comparison, so Ella can easily deal with her with "Cruel Spell", and her skills in dealing with weapon attacks are also simple and crude...

These seemed to be the advantages of Lunicia and her group, but what they didn't expect was that Rose could easily resolve her disadvantages with just her brute physical strength. What was that just now? She held the oncoming giant sword with one hand, not to mention being injured, she didn't even move her feet back a bit? She was directly hit by "Conqueror Marduk" and even her armor was pierced, but she only shook her body twice? Before the long sword under the effect of "acceleration" stabbed her, she was able to swing Lunicia and the giant sword together like a stick and hit Ella as a weapon?

With almost no time for Ella and Lunicia to react, the scarlet figure came hurtling towards them at supersonic speed. Even in this wide hall, it took her less than a moment from starting to contacting the target - until she was hit by the dazzling particle stream again and deviated from her predetermined trajectory in mid-air.

In Ashlee's eyes, although Rose's movements were fast, there was no secret at all. That overly monotonous movement path not only allowed Ella and Lunicia to predict her attack trajectory in advance, but also allowed Ashlee to make a prediction on the trajectory - and then, like this, use artillery fire with enough impact to disrupt her movements when she loses her fulcrum.

"Ella, Luna, chance!"

The right arm, right shoulder, almost a quarter of the body - at the same time as being knocked away, Rose once again threw the silver blade in her hand, and the blade turned into a supersonic cannonball and directly wiped out the cannon in Ashleelin's hand and part of her body, but she felt neither pain nor hesitation, she just spoke out to remind her.

Purple phantom butterflies tore through the thick fog. The "Sword Curse" from the blade and the "Fragility Curse" from the sorcerer enveloped the Dragonborn's torso at the same time, making her red scales lose their luster and her fangs and claws no longer sharp. The two swords split the dust and gravel, dragging out two trajectories, one black and one purple, and slashed towards the body of the Dragonborn girl together. She did not intend to sit and wait for death. Her narrow vertical pupils were full of danger. The low growl seemed to have completely replaced words, making her more like a beast than a human. She followed the guidance of her instinct, raised her palm, and let the black long blade pierce it.

"The game is over!"

Then, he incredibly stopped in mid-air and punched Ella with his backhand.

boom--! ! !

The red dragon scales wrapped around the palm, smashing through the dust, the air, the barrier of sound, and the constraints of bricks and the earth. The ground with a radius of dozens of meters seemed to have collapsed downwards. The rock and soil below, which were originally hard and regular, were compressed even more densely. Spider-web-like cracks could be seen everywhere, and people even doubted whether this blow would cause the cathedral to collapse - as a means of showing off power, it was quite surprising, but there was only one thing missing.

The "feel of hitting the target" is missing.

"Why……"

For a moment, the dragon girl even forgot her anger, and a look of deep confusion appeared on her face.

“Do you feel like you’ve made it?”

Ella's mouth, nose, eyes, and ears were all bleeding due to the impact, as if she had put on a crimson makeup. A smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, as if she was mocking the dragon girl's useless efforts - the punch that was supposed to hit her head somehow deviated greatly from the original target and only hit the ground nearby.

If we have to say what happened, what caused all this, what changes led to this result - it would probably be the clothes she was wearing.

Originally, it was an inconspicuous leather armor with charcoal black and dark brown as the base color, full of traces of adventure and journey, light enough, but the protection performance was visibly unreliable, ordinary and lacking in characteristics - now it was something completely different. It was like an evening dress interwoven with translucent magic butterflies, a silk collar, a bra, and a long skirt, with a bouquet of dark purple and black marigolds blooming around the waist. No matter how you looked at it, this outfit made of purple and black tulle did not look like something that should appear on the battlefield.

The wizard's feather robe is made of the forbidden knowledge in the magic book. It varies from wizard to wizard, and each piece is unique.

He calculated the smallest way to avoid getting hurt, and used the illusion that he would have to take the blow to confuse his opponent. He then relied on the change in defense brought about by the caster's feather robe to deviate the trajectory of the attack that was originally intended to hit his head - and in the end, this was the situation.

"So what!——"

In Rose's opinion, this kind of thing was meaningless. She just needed to raise her hands again, and then -

"Lady Luna, it's now!"

"?!"

Pure white power enveloped the pure white sword blade, with a touch of bright orange mixed in between, even dyeing the glow wrapped around the blade orange, like a bright orange-red torch.

That is light. Light is shining, light is beating, light is expanding, and light is turning into the rhythm of life.

That was rage—rage was swaying, rage was stirring, rage was condensing into a demon-slaying blade.

The pure white and orange-red light engulfed the field of vision, swallowing up everything visible to the naked eye.

"Ella! Are you injured? Are you okay?"

"Ahem, ahem... It's okay, Lady Luna, I'm fine."

To Lunicia, these words were just perfunctory words for her own injuries. She did not stop using holy healing on Ella, which at least could alleviate the injuries she had just suffered from the shock wave. Holding the "Righteur" in one hand and holding Ella's shoulders with the other, Lunicia took a step forward and moved away from the place she had just stood at the fastest speed.

She did feel something hit her hand, but she still felt an uneasy feeling in her heart. Moreover, the pressure on her body did not disappear, which made her even more afraid to stay where she was. She could not look at the situation in the scattered dust, which meant that she could not figure out what happened. Perhaps the other party did not die because of her unreserved "Holy Slash", but just lost the ability to move temporarily. In this case, it would be better to bypass her and go to the depths of the altar to disrupt the ceremony.

"Ashe, can you still move?"

"Yeah, no problem."