Does the mechanical girl dream of the Messiah?

"This may be the ruins of a town called 'Shuichequ'. What we see now is a combination of undead and illusions. I don't know where these things came from - of course these cultists are real!"

"But...what about that waterwheel canal?"

"Who knows! Maybe it was built by the residents who escaped from here, and they gave it the same name as a commemoration. Or maybe it was a part of the residents who escaped from this waterwheel canal. After all, this town is very big!"

After saying this, he gasped and kicked away a cultist who tried to grab him from below.

"Anyway, the details are unclear! The point is that we are about to be forced out of the town. Is the captain still in the town? I heard the sound of a fierce battle, but I can't tell whether it is the undead defenders or the captain himself!"

"Don't worry about it, just ensure your own safety first!"

……

The divine art of "Thunder Slash" can attach lightning to weapons to kill enemies, create a huge thunderous sound to intimidate enemies or use it as a reminder, or it can generate a huge impact force to blow enemies away.

Of course, the effectiveness of the last usage also depends on the object of use. For those creatures with great power, they can easily use their own strength to resist the impact of the impact force. For those creatures with weak power, it is quite difficult to do so.

Obviously, the ghoul sacrifice in front of him belongs to the former.

But it doesn't matter.

Because after using "Thunder Slash", Lunicia not only used the blade to block the claws of the ghoul priest, but also used the hilt to hit herself!

She deliberately gave up resisting the recoil. On the contrary, she not only chose to actively cater to the power of the thunder recoil, but also used the impact force of the ghoul priest to make the recoil even stronger. Although this impact force caused her internal organs to vibrate violently and her body to tremble constantly in the influence of thunder and lightning, making it almost difficult for her to hold the sword in her hand, she successfully knocked her body away from the corrupted earth, so that she was able to escape the influence of the corrupted earth!

This change made the Ghoul Priest both shocked and angry. It didn't even care about the fact that its body was numb from the lightning strike. It just pounced forward, howling in rage, as if it wanted to tear Lunicia's body in half before she hit the ground.

It was still a step slow after all.

Lunicia has stood still. She used her willpower to suppress the trembling of her body and the pain in her heart. Her hands have already grasped the hilt of the sword again!

Stand still, step forward, hold the sword with both hands, and swing forward!

This attack had been brewing in Lunicia's mind several times. Her long-term training quickly integrated those fragmented ideas and merged them into a complete idea in the battle. It was also because of this that this attack was far superior to every sword she had swung at the Ghoul Priest before in terms of distance, timing, speed and power.

puff--

It didn't hit, or rather, it didn't hit completely.

The feeling from Lunicia's hand told her that the sword didn't cut very deep. Even though she had seen the blood splattering, she still didn't think that the sword could cause serious damage.

Something was blocking between her sword and the Ghoul Priest, preventing her blade from going any deeper.

She turned around and saw, as expected, the ghoul priest was covering his face with his claws - the sword just now could have split his head in half, but now it only split his mouth, half of his face and his left eye socket, and did not reach the point of splitting his brain, which was fatal enough.

A layer of light that seemed to be a mixture of countless turbid colors covered its head like a thin film, and cracked inch by inch from the place where it was chopped by Lunisia, like dirty glass, with silver-white arcs scattered on it, crackling.

pat, pat.

Dark red blood mixed with turbid crystals kept flowing out of the wound that almost cut half of the face. The face of the ghoul priest was a mixture of human and dog features, so it was difficult to discern the meaning of the changes in the face. Even so, Lunisia was still able to be sure that the expression on the face represented anger, an uncontrollable anger.

She stared at the zombies around her with vigilance, those zombies were still as motionless as sculptures. She had already started to calculate in her mind, thinking about how to avoid their sharp edge, and fight her way out of their encirclement in the most possible way, in exchange for a chance of survival. After all, in her opinion, the most threatening thing at the moment was nothing more than those zombies. If they rushed over, she would definitely not be able to please them.

“Gah…Ahhhh…”

The ghoul priest was like a real wild beast, squeezing out hateful roars from his throat bit by bit.

To Lunisia's surprise, it didn't seem like it was going to just make the zombies move.

"Aa ...

The angry roar was so loud that it almost blew away the rubble and gravel around him.

Along with the roar, Lunicia could feel that something was approaching.

From a distance, no, not far away.

What kind of thing was that? Just the lifting and falling of its footsteps was enough to make the houses nearby tremble. Dust and rubble kept falling from the houses. Torches and street lights fell down in the trembling and became flickering. The neat streets, gifts and bouquets also became unclear as the light changed, like faded film.

It's like the end of a dream.

The boundary between reality and illusion is no longer blurred. It seems that the arrival of that figure is announcing something, indicating something, making the world understand its situation and what is truly left.

Terror, and despair.

Looking at that figure, Lunicia couldn't help but widen her eyes.

What on earth was that thing - it looked almost eight meters tall, and ordinary people could barely touch its knees; it had huge arms covered with soft black hair, which were split into two at the front, each with a claw, and wrapped in deformed muscles like iron blocks; where the head of a normal creature should have been, there was no head, only a huge mouth that seemed to be torn vertically in the middle, running through from top to bottom, and a pair of eyes shining with a strange pink light were embedded on both sides of the mouth, shining with greed, hunger and excitement.

No, it's more than that.

What shone in Lunicia's gentle brown eyes was not the light of fear and despair.

It is sadness, shock, and anger from the bottom of my heart.

Three faces were embedded in the center of the giant's chest, one belonged to an adult man, one belonged to a young boy, and one belonged to a young girl. They seemed to have their boundaries dissolved and then solidified there. Their faces were covered with scars left by torture. They closed their eyes because of pain. The eternal nightmare entangled them. They were not dead, but they were not alive either.

Lunicia knew them, or at least, had seen their faces.

It was in the mayor's office.

In the portrait hanging above the desk.

The man who is the mayor of the town, and the children who are his children.

"Kill her, my friend...Gug!!!"

The angry roar turned into a wild laugh, and the ghoul priest swung down his sharp claws like a cannon of attack!

Chapter 26 Struggling Life

"—!"

No cries of pain were uttered.

In other words, before she had the energy to do so, she had completely lost the ability to speak.

The body flew into the air like a kite with a broken string. Although it was a human body covered in heavy armor, it looked as light as a piece of paper.

what happened?

Lunisia still hasn't figured out this question.

She simply relied on instinct to raise the shield in front of her as quickly as she could. Then, an unprecedented huge force came from the front of her, knocking her body into the air.

The force was so great, far greater than anything Lunicia had ever endured before. Even the thick arm of the ghoul covered with pale muscles seemed insignificant in front of the force of this blow. Even with a shield between them, even if she used all her strength to recoil, the force still made her feel pain in her internal organs. She had no doubt that her abdomen was extremely congested. The pain made her mind go blank, and she could not see anything in front of her eyes, only a blurry black and white picture.

“Gua ...

Blood spurted out of her mouth like vomit. The strong smell of blood stimulated Lunicia's nerves, forcing her to barely regain her vision.

It was only then that she realized what had happened.

It's quite simple.

The monster called the Gug Giant raised its right arm, crossed its two forked hands, and threw a punch from bottom to top. Just this one action left Lunicia with almost no room for resistance.

And it’s not over yet.

It raised its left arm, clenched its two forked fists together, and then swung it towards Lunicia like a battering ram!

Pain still filled her whole body, but she couldn't let herself continue to indulge in the agony. She bit her tongue hard, letting the stinging pain from the tip of her tongue cool her nerves. This allowed her to barely regain control of her body from the pain. She adjusted her posture in mid-air, once again holding the silver shield in front of her, using the strength of her two arms to support it, to meet the two fists falling from above!

Pong——!

The contact happened in an instant.

Consciousness also dissipated again in an instant.

The unabated brute force hit the shield head-on, and her body was also knocked out. This time, her destination was not mid-air, but falling directly to the ground. She knew very well in her remaining consciousness that falling to the ground without any preparation was undoubtedly a bad thing, but she had no choice but to let her body fall like a meteor.

It fell and fell, hitting the ground with a loud noise, cracking the brick and stone floor, making the inside deeply dented and the edges raised high.

"Gu..."

Another stream of blood flowed out of his mouth.

Whether in front or behind, she was greeted by complete numbness. Her arms had completely lost feeling, and she could only rely on the movement to barely determine that there were no fractures. Her torso was also numb, and the cramping feeling in her internal organs did not come again, which made Lunicia feel bad. Her legs could still move, proving that her spine was not broken, but she could not guarantee that there was no problem with her internal organs, such as rupture and dislocation.

The earth was shaking, and the huge body of the Gog giant was approaching little by little.

Nothing should be visible on that "face" with only a mouth and eyes, but Lunicia could easily tell that it was in joy and was moved by the pleasure of sadism, just like those zombies.

She barely moved her numb limbs, and used her shattered consciousness to pull her body up again. Before the huge figure approached, she had to step back while using her sight and sense to judge her injuries.

Her left arm was dislocated, but that was not a big problem as she had reattached it. Her spine was not injured and her legs were fine. Although she had been vomiting blood, there were no terrible internal organ fragments mixed in the blood, and there was no more intense pain coming from the abdominal cavity, so it should not be a big problem. The front and back of the breastplate were almost broken, and she touched the place where the lining was exposed. It was abnormally concave. At least three ribs were broken, but they did not pierce the lungs, so it was not fatal.

After a round of introspection, Lunicia found that her injuries were much lighter than she had expected.

After spitting out the blood in her mouth, she stood still in silence, holding a shield in one hand and a sword in the other. Her figure stood tall and straight, as if she had never suffered any injuries. Her eyes were firm and calm, as if the enemy was not to be feared.

"Gah...what...are you completely desperate? So you are really giving up on yourself this time?"

The figure of the ghoul priest was squatting on a hill of rubble. Its wound had stopped bleeding, but it could not heal at all. There was only a heart-pounding deep hole left in one of its eye sockets. However, this did not seem to affect its happiness. It was laughing wildly, constantly mocking Lunicia's pale efforts.

That kind of mockery seemed to have a different meaning.

Lunicia didn't intend to answer.

Her palm brushed across the delicate relief on the inside of the shield, brushed across the jewel-inlaid emblem, and then threw it heavily to the ground. The sharp bottom of the shield sank into the broken bricks and stones. Then, the shield changed its appearance with a slight mechanical sound, and in a moment, it once again became the shape of a broad sword blade.

Lunicia held the sword with both hands and thrust the blade of the longsword heavily into the groove on the blade.

The sword and shield combined again, turning into an indestructible two-handed giant sword!

Generally speaking, the structure of this giant sword has a big flaw, that is, although it can be transformed from the giant sword mode to the longsword and giant shield mode, it can only be reinstalled after a rather troublesome adjustment, so that the longsword and giant shield can be combined into a giant sword again. This also makes this deformation almost useless in short-term continuous battles.

However, in addition to normal adjustments to complete the reverse transformation, this sword also has a mode specifically for emergency situations: by activating the temporary preparation structure on the inside of the shield, the longsword and the giant shield can be temporarily combined together, allowing it to return to the form of a giant sword again in a short time.

Such emergency measures naturally cannot last long, but Lunicia doesn't care.

It’s not that she is so confident that she can easily turn defeat into victory just by changing weapons. She just doesn’t want to give up any possibility and doesn’t want to let the anger in her heart burn in vain.

When the giant arm swung down, Lunicia had already grasped the hilt of the sword with both hands. She did not panic, nor did she have the slightest fear when facing a force that humans could not contend with. She simply held her breath and poured all her strength into the muscles of her arms, letting her deep breathing break through the shackles of her flesh, and swung the giant sword out like a whirlwind!

stab-

Her figure retreated backwards, while her enemy had lost a wrist, and his fist covered with black soft hair was circling in the air, splashing dark red blood!

The giant arm of the Gog Giant possesses several times more power than that of a ghoul, but its defense is much worse than that of a ghoul. Its strong arms can easily knock Lunisia's body away, but in front of the giant sword's blade, the wrist without the protection of a keratin shell is much more fragile than a claw.

Clack, clack, clack—

Lunicia thought she would hear a roar, but she didn't hear it in the end. The huge body didn't seem to make any roar. It just opened and closed its two jaws, which were cracked vertically, and made a strange sound of fangs colliding.

This matter was unimportant. Lunicia quickly steadied her body and, while she still had some strength left, she once again swung her sword hard at the giant.

——!

In her eyes, the huge body neither dodged nor defended, but stretched out its palm completely out of common sense, and grabbed the giant sword she swung. Of course, even if its power was strong enough, the palm that was not particularly tough could not stop Lunicia's extremely sharp sword. The green palm was split by the giant sword in an instant, from the base of the finger to the forearm, and the sword's force was slowed down.

——No, something is wrong.

The instinctive sense of crisis almost made Lunicia feel creepy. She wanted to give up the idea of ​​cutting the entire arm in half and instead wanted to pull the giant sword out of it. However, she was shocked to find that the blade of her giant sword seemed to have sunk into the mud and could not move for a while!

In her sight, the wound on the Gug giant that was cut by the giant sword was wriggling wildly. It didn't look like a part of flesh and blood, but rather like it had come alive and turned into some other creature. It was spilling blood while wriggling, and it was growing rapidly while wriggling. The newly grown flesh was entangled with the original torn flesh and blood, and it actually wrapped around Lunicia's giant sword like a vine.

It did not intend to give Lunicia the opportunity to slowly pull out the giant sword. Just when Lunicia just deflected the sword, the other two giant arms were already waving towards her!

The blade flipped, and the flesh that had been gradually tightening was once again torn apart, with blood and broken flesh splattering everywhere. She tried to hold the heavy sword in front of her and use the broad sword body as a shield for defense, but she was still a step too slow.

Before she could turn the sword to the best angle, the giant's arm was already in front of her.

lb!

Lunicia's body was pushed back heavily, her feet stepped on the cracks of the stone slabs, trying to shorten the distance she might be hit - it was useless, her sturdy steel soles even plowed two deep grooves on the stone pavement, and then she crashed into the house on the street.

boom!

Dust flew everywhere, rubble flew everywhere, the originally intact walls of the house were smashed to pieces in an instant, and flower petals scattered like raindrops.

Just as Lunicia stood still, a huge black shadow appeared in front of her.

Two of his wrists were in a half-broken state, but the other two were still intact and could still be used to crush the puny humans who overestimated their own capabilities!

lb!

She rolled to the side and dodged the two punches. The house she was in was not as lucky as her. The two-story building was almost completely shattered by the punch. Everything from the first floor ceiling to the top of the building was completely turned into collapsed rubble. The wind from the punch even directly shattered the windows of the houses in the back row.

——What kind of monster is this!

Lunicia felt miserable, but the reality did not give her time to complain. She gripped the hilt of the sword tightly, jumped high at the moment when the Gog giant did not retract his fist, raised his hand, and swung it down. The weight of the heavy sword brought her body down, along with half of her arm that was almost broken and was wriggling to regenerate.

“Guuuu…!”

Before he could feel happy, the impact had already hit the blade of the giant sword head-on.