What were you doing before the end of the world? Are you going to be an assassin?

"Youyou and I have entered the interior of the Destroyer—"

Before the adventurers could cheer, Connor continued, "Now, before we find a way to stop this guy, the task of stopping the Destroyer and protecting Axel is up to you!"

The Highland Castle is only ten kilometers away from Axel, and the adventurers must buy enough time over these ten kilometers.

“If it’s just a delay…” Kazuma stepped forward, and after much persuasion from Megumin, he finally thought of a solution that might work.

"Let the creator create enough Earth Golems... Then Aqua, you should be able to try to crack it with your power... No, just block it, Aqua, you can definitely do it."

Without paying attention to how Aqua explained that she really couldn't do it, Kazuma then pointed at the two people with the highest firepower in the guild, Megumin and Wiz.

"Regardless of whether Aqua can do anything, using explosion magic to attack the Destroyer's legs, even if it doesn't blow it up, it can still change the terrain and have a delaying effect, right?"

Without mentioning what arrangements the Adventurer's Guild had made, Connor and Youyou had already reached the depths of the fortress inside the Destroyer's body.

A human skeleton was sitting imposingly on a toilet-shaped seat made of a bunch of metal pipes.

"What is this? This is it!"

113. Golden Apples that Want to Eat

Those were human remains that had turned into white bones. The researcher who occupied the mobile fortress was sitting alone on the toilet...chair in the middle of the room in the fortress filled with golems.

The sense of déjà vu was so strong that Connor subconsciously felt that if he kicked this broken fortress a few times, thousands of golden giants would appear and beat him up and then drag him away to fill the line.

But the bones never got up.

Connor called Yoyo over and pointed at the skeleton silently.

Youyou immediately understood and roughly sensed the magic power around the bones. After a while, nothing happened, and then Youyou said, "He's dead. Not to mention turning into an immortal monster, he didn't even have any regrets. It was so straightforward."

"There are no magic traps around..."

Connor also scanned the area with [Eagle Vision: Reveal] and provided double protection with Youyou.

Both of them saw a notebook buried among the messy documents on the table. It looked like a diary.

“He’s probably not a serious person.” Connor muttered, throwing the diary to Youyou and looking for something useful in the file.

"Eh? It's not good to read other people's diaries... Why do you say he wasn't a decent person?" Youyou took the diary in a panic. How did she determine that Bai Gu was not a decent person when he was alive?

"Who would write a diary? Youyou, what do you think a diary is used for?"

"I'm writing what's in my heart!" Youyou said as a matter of course.

“Can it still be called what’s in your heart if you write it down?”

Youyou: ...I used to be a little interested in other people's diaries, but now that you've said that, I'm totally gone! You're taking away my happiness!

Youyou put the diary away and studied the documents and design drawings on the table with Connor. It would be better to keep the diary for when she is alone at night, hoping that she would have forgotten what Connor said by then.

"Are these the plans and blueprints for the various weapons he developed?"

As he recalled, after Kazuma and the others broke through the mobile fortress, all their attention was focused on the diary, and no one cared about the documents and drawings on the desk.

It seemed... there was another joke here, but Connor couldn't remember it clearly at the moment.

Connor looked at the messy lines and annotations on the drawing. It didn't look like something that could be made by someone who could design a powerful mobile fortress destroyer. It looked more like someone who was gradually mastering the method of drawing technical drawings step by step.

From being unfamiliar in the beginning to being proficient later, the only thing that has not changed is the messy annotation style. It can be said to be the ultimate confidentiality method that only I can understand the annotation on the day I finish writing it, and even I cannot understand it three days after I finish writing it.

"Is this a boat?"

Youyou came over and looked at the various lines and blocks outlined on the construction drawing. She knew nothing about it except the part related to magic.

"Good eyesight, it could be a boat." Connor turned the drawing over, and now it finally became clear.

"What's so great about a boat? Can it be the same as the Destroyer? It's nothing more than putting golems and ballistas on land in the water..." Youyou prefers smaller ones that can be operated by one person or even with one hand.

Although the Destroyer is famous, the tradition of the Red Demon Clan is there, and it is destined to clash with large-scale strategic-level props.

"According to the plan, it should be able to fly. Do you see the spider in the lower right corner?" Connor continued, "I'm afraid it was drawn according to the actual proportions. That thing is the Mobile Fortress Destroyer."

Youyou looked over carefully, and then couldn't help but gasp.

The Destroyer is already as big as a small castle, and next to this flying ship it is only the size of a normal spider, which means...

"It's ridiculously big... Can anyone really make it? Its energy source..." Just thinking about the energy needed to send such a big thing into the sky, Youyou couldn't help but feel his scalp tingling.

Fortunately, the chief designer of the Mobile Fortress Destroyer died in the fortress, otherwise if this kind of thing were to spread out, especially if it got into the hands of the Demon King's army, it would be really fatal.

"And this Gundam..." Connor turned to the next picture and almost choked on his saliva.

"How high is it?" Youyou thought Connor was reporting some data and asked curiously.

“This giant humanoid golem is eighteen meters tall and weighs eighty tons. It’s equipped with a heavy magic cannon and can easily defeat an army…” Connor said in confusion as he looked at the things in the painting. The fact that he could produce these drawings that did not belong to this world one after another, even if they were just non-standard hand-drawn drawings, proved his identity as a researcher, a reincarnated hero like Kazuma.

Not only spaceships and Gundams, Connor also saw an elemental summon made of light and lightning, a red and silver color... Ultraman, a super beast made by splicing monsters together... a stitched monster, a humanoid armor with insect characteristics...

boom--

The mobile fortress's forward pace paused, as if it had encountered some resistance.

Connor guessed that the Destroyer had advanced to the vicinity of Axel and was being blocked by the second line of defense, so he put away all the documents and drawings, intending to think about them carefully after he got out.

After packing up all the things with text on them, Connor and Youyou followed the traces of more intense magic power and walked deeper into the Big Spider Fortress.

"Is this really a weapon that someone can make?" Youyou asked in a low voice after coming back to her senses. Just by looking at the descriptions of those weapons, she had a feeling that the end of the world was approaching. Humans are much more terrifying than the Demon King's army, right?

The castle was very dark, so Connor had no choice but to hold up the Apple of Eden, which had been glowing since its evolution, as a lamp and search for the source of magic slowly and carefully.

"Who knows?"

"Before you saw the Mobile Fortress Destroyer, would you have believed it was real?" Connor asked back. He had seen a little more than Youyou, who had just started traveling.

In the main world, I saw with my own eyes the Phantom Armor that could transform into a Gundam, and a giant dragon that could use magic. The firepower of the Phantom Armor was inferior to that of the Destroyer, but the giant dragon was roughly equal, but the fact that it could fly was enough to far outstrip the Destroyer in terms of mobility.

After getting these blueprints, Connor also had a little idea. What if he could make a similar one in the main world? In terms of magic technology, the main world is more popular than here.

hiss~

So hot!

The Apple of Eden, which had always been very obedient, became hot, as if it was not satisfied with Connor's slow pace, and it conveyed a strong desire.

It looks like he wants to eat.

114. My thoughts written in my diary

Axel's second line of defense.

"Aqua! Come on! You don't want to lose the house you just got and go back to sleeping in the stable, do you?"

"Aqua! You don't want to be sticky and have to squeeze into the public bathroom every day after defeating toads, do you?"

"Aqua, you don't want to..."

"Shut up! You NEET nerd! I'm already preparing!"

Aqua glanced at Kazuma in anger. Is it fun to poke the goddess's scar at this time? She is already releasing all her strength!

“Then listen to my instructions, ready – release!” Kazuma didn’t care. Aqua needed some stimulation at this time.

【Sacred Spell Break】!

Following Kazuma's order, Aqua also cast magic.

A complex magic circle appeared around Aqua, and a white ball of light appeared in her hand.

Kazuma, who was only a few steps away, could sense how much magic was gathered in Aqua, and it was the first time since he descended that he felt that Aqua could still be of some use.

Aqua stretched out her hand holding the ball of light and fired it in the direction of the Destroyer. The recoil almost blew up Aqua's skirt.

The adventurers in the open space cheered when they saw the ball of light shooting out from the city wall, and watched intently the effect of Aqua's magic.

As soon as he came into contact with the Destroyer, a thin film instantly appeared on the surface of the huge body, which was the defensive barrier that blocked Connor from sneaking in.

The same was true of the shaking that Connor and Yoyo felt inside.

"This is the Corona Ore?"

Connor and Youyou have arrived at the central part of the mobile fortress under the guidance of the [Apple of Eden]. The space here is very small and cannot accommodate many people.

In the center of the room, there is a small stone surrounded by an iron fence, which is constantly emitting a red light like a burning flame. That is the corona ore.

It seems that as long as the energy connection between the Corona Ore and the Fortress is cut off, the Fortress will stop on its own. Connor thought, but...how to get the Corona Ore out of the iron fence?

There is no doubt that there is a magic trap on the iron fence.

Moreover, Connor felt that if he were to design the mobile fortress, if someone sneaked into the power room at the core of the fortress, which was in front of the corona ore where he and Youyou were, he would definitely design a self-destruct device to blow up anyone who tried to steal the corona ore.

Or you don’t have to go through so much trouble. Just put a red button around and someone will press it out of curiosity.

"Fireball!"

"and many more!"

Yoyo was about to tentatively release a small fireball at the iron fence, but Connor quickly pressed down Yoyo's staff.

In Youyou's hands, there is no such thing as "low power". The power of intermediate magic is almost catching up with that of advanced magic. This fireball will definitely trigger something.

If this triggered some kind of self-destruction countdown, not only would he and Youyou be inside, but even the adventurers outside who were delaying with the second line of defense would have no chance of escaping.

Connor pressed his temple, the warnings from [Mind's Eye·False] still did not stop.

Connor rolled up a completely unrecognizable blueprint into a paper tube and carefully poked the iron fence with it.

However, just as they expected, a defensive barrier identical to the one protecting the entire mobile fortress lit up on the iron fence.

"No countdown to self-destruction?"

At this moment, Connor felt that he should go back to Gotham.

“I see. This is the last line of defense when we’re conquered, right?” Youyou patted his chest, took a step back and handed the stage to Connor.

"what?"

"You can chop it, just like outside!"

Use the [Shield Breaker] trait and the battle axe enchanted with [Armor Breaker] to chop down these iron fences... Connor asked Youyou to look through the diary first to see if there are any hints or other solutions.

It is already so difficult to break through a small piece of the huge defensive barrier outside. It must be even more difficult to break through this concentrated defensive barrier which is the last line of defense.

Connor clenched the battle axe in one hand, one hand forward and the other hand backward, bang!

"Here you go!"

The defensive barrier was as solid as a mountain, and the only crack that appeared returned to normal with the support of the corona ore.

call--

【Charge heavy attack】!

Connor swung the axe again, and Youyou had already finished reading the first page of the diary. Her expression was already quite subtle at this time.

"Some passages I couldn't understand, but others were just... very..."

"I'm chopping, can you read it?"

Amid the clanging of battle axes and the rumble from outside, Connor listened to Youyou reciting a few passages.

“Putting aside the parts you don’t understand, I would say that he is not a serious person, right?” Connor became more convinced of his own judgment.

As the sound of leisurely play came, he gradually remembered what fun was.

The chief designer of this fortress was simply forced into a difficult task by senior officials.

According to the designer's own words, he would not listen to his protests, even when he cried and apologized, and begged and pleaded. He would not resign, and after he pretended to be crazy and had his underwear stripped, the Destroyer Project was still launched.

It was made to look like a spider because he killed a spider with his drawing paper.

Connor: ...It's broken. I was just analyzing the blueprints with Youyou seriously...

So it’s all bullshit?

After soothing his numb hands, Connor decided not to cut the protective barrier that hadn't changed. He took the diary from Youyou and decided to read it himself. Maybe he could find something useful...

Ok?

Connor pointed to a few lines of small words in the large emotional paragraph and asked Youyou: "Didn't you read this paragraph?"

When Youyou saw which parts they were, she simply shook her head: “Those are the ones I don’t recognize.”

"I don't know what words or symbols are used to write it. School didn't teach us that when I was in school." Youyou seemed a little disappointed because she wasn't able to help.