Does the mechanical girl dream of the Messiah?

Regardless of whether it was some spell from the school of necromancy, or a gift from the dark gods, some spell that did not belong to the known system, this kind of magic would not be too low in level in terms of power, and the preparation would not be simple, which was enough to show that the caster had certain skills.

However, now is not the time to worry about such things.

"Captain, are you okay?" "No problem?" "No problem, Captain?"

She shook her head at these knights. Even though some of them had a reputation in the training grounds, they were all warriors who lacked practical experience. The fact that they could still be so energetic after killing the enemy was already a blessing in disguise.

"I have no problem, but Willy...ah, and that kid..."

She turned around, intending to collect the bodies of her dead compatriots, and at the same time comfort the little girl who had inadvertently witnessed the bloody scene, and then take her back to her parents.

Then, she was stunned.

In front of Lunicia, there was only the sight of a headless corpse holding a rotten sword, piercing the girl's chest from behind.

The girl was struggling to stretch out her hand to her, her fingers were trembling uncontrollably, her lips were opening and closing with difficulty, she wanted to say something, but the overflowing blood made her unable to make a sound.

puff……

The sword was pulled out from her back, and her body seemed to be pushed forward by something. She staggered and stumbled into Lunicia's arms, and the splattering blood stained that gentle face. Blood overflowed from her wounds and mouth, and flowed all over the silver breastplate. However, Lunicia no longer had the mind to pay attention to such things. She just hugged the girl's body nervously, and recited the ancient Sakaar language spell with all her strength, allowing more light balls to form and gather on the wound.

"Hold on... hold on!... You'll be fine! I'll treat you right away!"

No effect.

Those light balls seemed to have lost the power to heal any wound and could only stay shallowly on the surface. In the deep wound where one could see the beating heart, the blood no longer flowed. It gradually became as sticky and dark red as the blood in a corpse. The flesh around the wound was visibly rotting and decaying, and the heart slowly calmed down and stopped beating.

"Cheer up... Cheer up!"

It's useless.

The girl's head tilted to one side, her arms drooped naturally and weakly, her eyes widened with tears, her eyes became empty, her bloodstained mouth seemed to want to say something, but could only fall into an eternal pause. She wanted to say something, but in the end she didn't say it, she stretched out her hand to grab something, and in the end she only grabbed Lunicia's palm.

"how come……"

There was a rustling sound between the trees and bushes. Something was slowly walking out from there, from between the dry and bright red grass and stone ruins, and they were moving with staggering steps... like...

...No, they were the dead. Some were headless, some were disemboweled. The knight who was once called Willy also slowly climbed up from the ground. Even though only a fragment of his head was left hanging on his neck, he still held up his rusty sword and joined the parade of the dead.

"Why would such a thing happen..."

These were undoubtedly scenes beyond Lunicia's imagination.

Exploding heads and reanimated corpses.

There are also ordinary and weak children who have not been protected.

The world is also in chaos today, with wild birds without eyeballs screaming on the branches and devouring the flesh and blood of their own kind.

Chapter 6: Shadow of the Curse

"The knights are well-equipped and well-trained, but it seems their brains are not working well..."

A strange sound came from the deep forest.

The voice spoke the common Danu language, a popular language among human countries. It was not mysterious and naturally there was nothing worth paying attention to. However, the voice made people feel uncomfortable all over. It was impossible to tell whether it was a man or a woman. It was like there was mucus hanging in the throat. Just listening to it would make people feel an indescribable feeling of suffocation.

"who!"

Lunicia's body was shaking, her voice was trembling too, but her arm was steady as she raised the giant sword again and pointed the blade in the direction where the sound came from.

As if it was a signal, the remaining six knights, led by Lunicia, formed a circle to ensure that they would not be attacked from the front and back, and pointed their weapons in front of them.

It wasn't just Willy Perry's moving body that emerged from the bushes, trees, and grass. Blurred human figures emerged from the woods one after another. Some of them looked like adults, while others were just children. Their bodies were incomplete and fragmented, some were headless, and some had incomplete limbs, but they all had similarities.

Their abdomens were hollowed out, and all their internal organs had disappeared. Their wounds were severely corrupted, soaked with pus and dirty blood, but the areas outside the wounds were strangely dry and shriveled. In addition, they had a large number of wounds all over their bodies, as if they had been bitten, with the flesh torn off and leaving marks of teeth.

Lunicia had no idea what such corpses meant. She only felt that the murderer was brutal and inhumane and should be cut into pieces. However, the knowledgeable Andy Maxima was able to directly determine the reason why these zombies were in such a state.

If he was right, the bodies were probably the victims of some kind of cannibalistic ritual.

But he was a little unsure.

If it was a cannibalism ritual, most of the tooth marks were fine, as they could be barely seen as bite marks left by human upper and lower jaws. However, the occasional bite marks that were too strange and larger than those left by humans made him feel puzzled. If these bite marks were left by wild beasts, they also did not match what he remembered.

However, he soon stopped thinking about this matter. After all, the most important thing at the moment was how to deal with the enemy in front of him.

Glancing at the captain who was so angry that he could hardly speak, April shouted in her place, "Sneaky... Do you think you can stop us with these zombies?"

"How can it be."

The strange voice, like a sneer at something, sounded closer and closer.

"This is a trap, a trap specially prepared for young boys... If it's only this extent, it seems to be meaningless, what do you think?"

The moving corpses seemed to be welcoming something. Regardless of whether their bodies were intact or not, they all knelt on the ground and worshiped in the direction of the sound. The sound of armor touching each other sounded particularly harsh in this situation. Willy's body, which had become a zombie, also joined in the sound, which looked particularly ironic.

This made Lunicia furious, but she suppressed her emotions and planned to wait and see what the other party would do.

A figure slowly walked out from between the tree trunks.

He looked no different from the other cultists. He was also wearing a cloak made of coarse cloth and holding a rusty sword that was dripping with dirt. However, his body seemed to be a lot bigger than the cultists he had seen before, and his back was hunched, which made his head appear very low, as if he was worshiping the ground at any time.

"I haven't seen a brat like this for a long time... The last time I tore a brat like this apart and transformed him must have been a long, long time ago... How long ago was it...?"

There was a hint of resentment and confusion in his voice.

Lunicia originally thought that the zombies were worshipping this tall cultist, but a closer look revealed that this was not the case.

The direction they were worshipping was further back, not towards the tall cultist.

“Haha…did you find it?” The figure sneered and continued, “Then please come out, sir, and bring disaster to these villains who dared to enter this sacred land.”

--grown ups……?

Lunicia couldn't help but feel uneasy about the figure's choice of words.

She felt something was wrong - something was wrong - a feeling that was growing in her subconscious, causing her to stare at the darkness behind the figure, formed by the trees. Under the light of the solar eclipse, the darkness became deeper, more mysterious, and more trembling.

Something huge came out from there.

The moving corpses all bowed down in worship. They could not speak, but could only use actions to express the awe and fear that emerged from their mindless minds.

Even the knights holding swords opened their eyes wide, with expressions of disbelief on their faces.

They have seen enough miracles. Every bolt of lightning wielded by the knight named Lunicia is proof of the miracles of God. Those miracles can warm wounds and punish sins. They make them feel extremely at ease.

But what is this in front of me?

An evil miracle? Or something else?

That thing looked like a human being magnified several times. It was on all fours, with two hands like human hands with huge claws, and two feet that were split in the middle of the soles and twisted into hoof-like things. Its head was oval, and its face was like the ugliest parts of a dog and a human combined. Its huge mouth opened and closed, revealing sharp teeth while dripping saliva like rotten soil. Its body was hairless and had a rubbery texture, covered with blood and moss, like something that had just crawled out of a grave.

It opened its mouth wide towards Lunisia and squeezed out a rapid, crying-like sound from its deformed throat.

"You will all feel honored to be the food of the Holy Family..."

"Ready to fight!"

Lunicia raised the huge sword in front of her, with the blade pointed at the huge humanoid monster.

After hearing the captain's order, the knights all got rid of their fear and shock. For them, no matter what they faced, what they had to do remained the same: wield the holy sword bestowed by God and defeat all existences that endangered the world!

"I'll go deal with that big guy, you guys cover me and be responsible for repelling those zombies - don't die!"

"understand!"

The knights' fighting spirit was re-boosted, but to the strange man in the cloak, all this seemed insignificant. From his throat once again came a rapid, sticky sound that was indistinguishable between male and female, and sounded like crying.

"Then let us begin! Present tribute to the members of the Holy Family!"

Chapter 7: The Bloody Sword

This sound was like the signal for war.

Although the knights lacked experience, they showed extraordinary coordination at this critical moment of life and death, and they all started to move at the same time.

April raised his rapier and faced the corpse of Willy who was walking slowly in front of him; Andy held up his spear. The current environment was not suitable for him to perform well, and he planned to provide support from the rear; Morgan, Kyle and Daniel each raised their swords. Their swordsmanship was not outstanding, but if they cooperated properly, it would be enough to support a safe zone; Jesse Devam raised the huge shield that matched his title, and held the hilt of the sword with his other hand. His mission was to stop the zombies from going any further.

But Lunicia is different from all of them.

She neither retreated nor defended, but raised her sword with dignity, and as the cannon signaled the start of the battle, she stomped her feet on the ground and jumped high with her heavy armor!

Her target was the nearly four-meter-tall monster, creating a breathing space for her teammates by taking the initiative!

"Little tricks..."

The monster's eyes had no pupils, and cold flames flickered in its dead grey eyeballs. It opened its jaws and let out a protesting howl, followed by the waving of its sharp claws. It also did not retreat or defend, but chose to use its hard and terrifying giant claws to fight the opponent's giant sword head-on!

The gray-white horny claws crossed with the blade of the giant sword in an instant. With a sound like metal clashing, they once again staggered due to the different forces and gradually slid to two sides in different directions.

This is the beginning of the first round and also the highlight of the first round. All initial success or failure depends on this instant.

For Lunicia, the situation seemed to be completely unfavorable. Her giant sword failed to hit the opponent directly, and seemed to be blocked after a simple collision. The blade gradually chopped towards the empty space along the predetermined trajectory, instead of getting stuck in a stalemate or cutting into the flesh as expected. In contrast, the monster's situation seemed to be much more favorable.

There is only one giant sword, and the monster has a pair of claws!

Just as its sneer had predicted, it swung its other giant claw, which had been waiting, without any hindrance, directly towards the body of Lunicia in mid-air - there was not much sanity left in it, and its memories as a human had long been blurred, but the remaining fragments still told it that the female knight's choice to start with a jump and a slash was absolutely a wrong decision, and this mistake would cost her life!

The next moment, the giant claw will directly hit Lunicia's body. The seemingly heavy armor is useless in front of this giant claw. She will be ripped open in the next moment——

It saw the look in Lunisia's eyes.

It wasn't a look of panic, nor was it a look of helplessness because of the impending horrific ending.

On the contrary.

That's a look of courage and determination that keeps moving forward!

The giant claw swung in the air, and there was no feeling of flesh and blood being torn apart, only a blank space where nothing was. However, Lunicia's body was falling, taking the huge sword with it.

When she jumped up, she had already considered this situation. The enemy would take advantage of her inconvenience in moving in the air to launch an attack, and it was very likely that they would use the free giant claw. After the blade of the giant sword was deflected by the claw, she did not let the blade fall instantly. Instead, she twisted her shoulders and waist, and moved her arms, like an axle, to make the giant sword rotate again in the air, making the giant sword draw another trajectory!

There was also no sense of hitting the target. This attack hit the ground, but missed and was dodged by the monster!

The ground covered with dead branches and soil was cut directly, leaving deep sword marks, but it was unable to block the huge sword blade. Lunicia grasped the hilt with both hands and lifted it up suddenly.

when--!

A loud sound of metal collision came from the sword!

I will take measures, and the opponent will not sit still and wait for death. This kind of thing has been decided at the beginning of the battle. If the first attack fails, the next one will inevitably be more violent. The huge claws are put together and hit the giant sword of Lunicia directly like a huge drill!

A huge force was transmitted along the sword, directly pushing her body backwards. The armor on her feet plowed two deep grooves in the ground. Behind her, there was even a zombie that happened to be staying there and was smashed into pieces.

——What a great power!

Lunicia could not help but close one eye and clench her teeth. The huge force made her wrist numb, as if it was about to be dislocated. The feeling was even more violent than being hit head-on by the mechanical carriage. It was definitely not the power that the opponents she met during training could exert - this was not training, but a real life-and-death fight. Lunicia confirmed this fact again in her heart.

Then, he turned the giant sword sideways.

when!

The huge force came again, but this time it came from diagonally below. The monster could not only use its huge claws to attack, its feet were also equally sharp and powerful. A heavy kick directly lifted Lunicia's body upwards.

——No, we can’t let it control the rhythm!

Lunicia put her feet on the tree trunk behind her, using the recoil force to stabilize her retreating body. In her eyes, the huge monster was rushing towards her at a speed that was completely inconsistent with its appearance. It waved its huge claws, intending to blow off Lunicia's head with the next blow.

Lunicia lowered her body, and then still neither defended nor retreated. While avoiding the hurricane rising above her head, she swung the giant sword horizontally and swung it heavily in front of her. Then, a strange touch came from her fingers - this attack hit the target!

She could clearly see the situation in front of her. The opponent reacted quickly and tried to dodge the attack by jumping back quickly. However, it was still a beat too late. The blade of the giant sword lightly brushed the monster's abdomen, leaving a cut in the flesh. Sticky dark blood flowed out from there, but the cut was not deep enough and failed to directly rip open the belly.

However, we must not be careless, the second round of offense and defense has not yet ended.

The monster's figure slid to the side, and Lunicia's blade suddenly turned, with the blade pointing upwards.

The giant claw swung out, and the blade drew a vertical moon wheel.

when!

The sound of metal colliding violently made the entire forest tremble!

The speed and strength of the giant claws did not slow down too much. The sharp five claws cut through the trees in front of them, and the huge tree trunks fell to the ground with a loud bang. In a head-on battle of strength, Lunicia was completely unable to compare with the monster that surpassed humans in front of her. Her strength was too far behind it. This round of confrontation caused her body to fly backwards, knocking down the trees behind her one after another. She barely slowed down and stabilized her body.

From the corner of her eye, she saw that the knights were being suppressed by the zombies and were completely unable to move forward.

They brandished their weapons in textbook movements and coordinated with each other to fight back, but the zombies were surprisingly much stronger than they were when they were alive. The simple movements of the zombies, coupled with their considerable numbers, made it difficult for them to cope.

What's more, there is a strange person there who is not a zombie.

The long sword dripping with rotten soil had knocked Daniel and Morgan to the ground. One of them was beheaded and the other was cut in half. They both looked to have lost their lives. This made the already precarious defense even more difficult. It was only thanks to the fierce defense of "Giant Shield" Jesse that the defense did not collapse.

"Tsk——!"