Ex-Machina in Dimensional Travel

Although the girl herself is not a true servant, she is at least a sub-servant, and her physique is still stronger than the boy.

"Dear Da Vinci, please inform me in advance no matter what you do next time so that I can be prepared."

"Hey~"

The boy didn't have any complaints about this to Da Vinci. After all, the vehicle that saved them a lot of travel time was built by him.

"Woohoo! Pay attention to the road and don't look back at us while you're driving!"

Seeing that the driver actually turned around and made an expression to him while driving at high speed, Fujimaru Ritsuka's heart, which had just been relieved, rose to his throat again.

Even in this desert with nothing in sight and a good view, this shouldn't be done.

What if you bump into some Warcraft or get into a car accident?

Mashu and Da Vinci are servants after all, so they shouldn't be hurt, but he himself is a completely human being.

"Ah, don't worry, we will protect you."

"Don't worry, senior, I will protect you!"

The girl understood Fujimaru Ritsuka's concerns, and she comforted him solemnly.

"Shouldn't you say 'nothing will happen' at a time like this?!"

"Hmm~"

Da Vinci showed a sly smile, as if his previous words were simply to tease the boy.

"Don't worry, I actually installed an automatic driving function on this car~"

"Hey, what about you just now...?"

"I did open it myself just now, and I just turned on this function now."

Speaking of this, Leonardo da Vinci also winked playfully.

Because it was a convertible, the hot breeze blowing on the boy's cheeks made him lose most of his desire to complain.

It was only then that Fujimaru Ritsuka finally calmed down.

The whole journey was smooth except for the unexpected failure to get anything done with the Sun King.

"I don't know what Shuel, who separated from us, is doing now..."

The boy leaned on the back cushion and looked at the sky. In this brief peaceful environment, the figure of the doll could not help but appear in his mind again.

"I don't know, but if it's Shul, I feel like he's probably "fighting" with someone right now."

Recalling what the doll did in Chaldea, Leonardo da Vinci also made his own guess based on this.

“That’s a bit of a stereotype.”

"But the emergence of stereotypes is not without reason, isn't it~"

"That's true..."

Ritsuka Fujimaru didn't want to dwell on this topic for too long. After all, it was just a topic brought up to kill time, and Leonardo da Vinci's reason was exactly the same.

Time passed quickly. The performance of the vehicle made by Da Vinci was excellent enough that the boy didn't even feel how long he had been driving.

Soon, the shadow of a magnificent city slowly emerged on the distant horizon.

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Chapter 27 Intersection

"Okay, let's just switch to walking here."

"Ah."

Thousands of miles away from the magnificent holy city, Leonardo da Vinci stopped the vehicle.

After all, a car is an object that moves at high speed and moves in such a high-profile manner.

If you get too close to the city, you will easily be discovered by the soldiers stationed on the walls of the holy city.

As for why they were so sure that there would be soldiers?

It would be strange if there were no soldiers.

In order to avoid exposing their whereabouts in advance, Fujimaru Ritsuka and others finally chose to stop the car and approach in a low-key manner at Da Vinci's suggestion.

After everyone got off the car, Da Vinci put the temporary means of transportation he had made into his "item bag".

This is similar to the "magic/ability" in the backpack warehouse of the game protagonist, which really adds a lot of convenience to the journey of several people.

By the way, the travel supplies given by the Sun King were stored here by Leonardo da Vinci.

There is even a small hut filled with supplies and suitable for people to rest. If necessary, she can use it as a temporary resting place.

Of course, this house has a limited usage limit, so it is basically used for emergency purposes.

And these things are just the tip of the iceberg of Ms. Da Vinci. As a person known as omnipotent, she is not something that ordinary people can fully understand.

Although it is far away from the holy city, the scenery here is no longer the yellow sand that covers the sky and the ground.

They had left the vast desert area, but the ground beneath their feet was now devastated, as if it had experienced some devastating natural disaster.

The cracked ground, the charred earth, and the huge cracks that are slightly reddish and spread everywhere are lifeless, like a forbidden zone for life.

Fujimaru Ritsuka didn't know what was going on here. The magnificent and gorgeous holy city in the distance formed a sharp contrast with the dilapidated place here.

It was not until he walked out of the desert and saw the scenery outside the desert that he finally understood the meaning of "the place of the end" mentioned by Nieto.

Compared to the equally cruel desert that is swept by sandstorms, this barren and desolate land is even more desolate.

"Gulu..."

The young man swallowed dryly a few times, his eyes full of confusion.

He has been in this expression ever since he drove into this environment.

Even the joy of being able to reunite with Xuer was mostly dissipated by this.

The atmosphere of the entire team fell into a quiet silence.

"What the hell happened here?"

In the end, it was Mashu who asked the question on behalf of the boy, because the same question was also filling her heart.

"Um……"

Leonardo da Vinci, who was walking at the head of the group, was also amazed by the appearance of the place.

After all, ordinary natural disasters should not reach this extent, and a natural disaster that can turn this place into this state should not be limited to this extent.

Moreover, there is still a lot of magic power remaining in this desolate land.

Leonardo da Vinci felt that this was more of a man-made disaster than a natural disaster.

But it was just speculation after all, and she couldn't say anything without substantial evidence.

After all, the situation of this singularity is too special to be understood by common sense.

Therefore, after pretending to think for a while, Leonardo da Vinci did not choose to answer, but just walked silently ahead of the team leader.

The group was moving very fast, and the blurry shadows on the horizon quickly became clearer.

Even with Nito's prior description, when the full picture of the holy city appeared in the boy's eyes, he couldn't help but widen his eyes.

His attention was drawn to the tall tower standing in the center of the holy city.

“Is this the Holy City?”

It was obviously still quite a distance away, but the sight of the tower that seemed to reach the sky really made him feel the prosperity of the city.

At this time, it was dusk and the sun was about to set. It was estimated that in a while, night would fall on this earth.

"Senior, look."

As the group moved forward, the walls of the holy city gradually disappeared from their sight.

At this moment, the two ladies who were servants, relying on their strong physique, saw a group of people gathered at the gate of the holy city from a distance.

But because the distance was still quite far, even as a servant with a stronger physique than ordinary people, Mashu could not see the appearance of those people clearly, and could only roughly see some of their clothes.

"Who are those people?"

The boy squinted his eyes hard, trying to see the blurry black shadows clearly.

It’s a pity that even Mashu couldn’t see it clearly, so how could Fujimaru Ritsuka, a normal person, see it clearly?

"Well, those people look like a group of refugees, but there are some people dressed as 'businessmen' among them."

Leonardo da Vinci, who had taken out a telescope at some point, directly told what he saw.

"I just don't know what they are doing when they gather there."

"Eh……"

"Is Xiuer in there?"

"no……"

Da Vinci twisted the lens in her hand and adjusted the focus of the picture. She did help the boy find the figure of the doll.

But unfortunately, no matter how hard she looked, she couldn't see that unique color.

"And if it was Xiuer, if he wanted to enter the holy city, he wouldn't just go in through the city gate, right?"

"Well, that's true."

Mashu nodded. After all, they had all witnessed Shul's magic. Apart from other things, the ability to transfer space without any conditions or restrictions, as long as one had coordinates, was hard to guard against.

They remembered that Mr. Bedivere was planning to go to this holy city, although he was intercepted by Shule.

But it was also for this reason that the latter chose to split up with Fujimaru Ritsuka and others, and head to the Holy City first with the Silver-Armed Knight.

"There are only a few guards at the city gate, but judging by their movements, they seem to be enforcing something."

Seeing that no other information could be obtained, Leonardo da Vinci retracted the telescope and turned to look at his companions behind him.

"I guess the child is already in the city now."

"I'm afraid she was responsible for the strange behavior of those soldiers."

Without any hesitation, Leonardo da Vinci made this inference directly.

"Hey, are you saying that Xiuer has gotten into trouble in there?"

Fujimaru Ritsuka suddenly became worried.

Don't get me wrong, he wasn't worried about Xuer's safety. After all, not to mention his combat ability, the other party was so mobile that it would be difficult to catch him if he wanted to run away.

What he was worried about was that Xuel would directly provoke a negotiable force into an enemy.

After all, although the Sun King's attitude towards them was not very good, it was not bad either.

In this case, the Holy City forces that Nieto mentioned as accepting refugees are probably not bad guys, right?

"I don't know, but this is probably the result."

Da Vinci spread his hands helplessly and said that Xiuer's behavior was so simple and easy to understand.

"Besides, there's no point in just worrying here."

"We should get to the city gate as soon as possible and ask someone. It would be better than just worrying about it now."

Leonardo da Vinci's suggestion was not without reason, and Fujimaru Ritsuka had no objection to it. After all, no matter how worried he was, he had to make his judgment based on the facts.

It is impossible to get an accurate answer by just guessing based on appearances here.

"Go, go."

The young man patted his chest and cheered himself up. The worry on his face immediately disappeared and a confident smile appeared again.

Then, before he could take a step.

A dazzling flash suddenly burst out from the tall tower in the distant holy city.

Before they could react to what was happening, a "black dot" broke through the wall from the flashing light.

"Eh?!"

The black dot flew very fast, and in almost the blink of an eye, it quickly enlarged in the eyes of several people.