People are in Type-Moon, but they practice science

To be exact, it was a priest and four nuns. Judging from their skillful skills in climbing walls and flying over rooftops, they were undoubtedly members of the Agents' Corps.

The leader was naturally Father Hansa.

Ever since he tracked down the whereabouts of the dead apostle Testa, he has been tracking his movements. Along the way, he and his nun subordinates also followed the route that Testa might have taken and used the past to check whether Testa had "eaten" other humans to use as backup bodies.

As a result, his conjecture was unexpectedly met... People kept disappearing along the road that the Dead Apostles walked on, and it was most likely caused by Testa. However, even if Testa relied on the vitality of the Son of Fuhailin to recover in the battle in Naples, the number of bodies that his ability could accommodate should be limited.

Originally, according to the information from the church, the maximum number of clones that Jesta could move freely was about 6, but now it is impossible to determine.

"There's a problem! Isn't this Jesta just bluffing?" The subordinates speculated, "Maybe he deliberately created so many of them to make us afraid?"

Hansa said: "The chances are slim. We'd better assume the worst. This may be his real body count. Don't forget, Jesta doesn't know we will use the past vision. Besides, the concepts of the Dead Apostles are different from those of humans. According to the information of the church, Jesta has a very evil personality."

"One thing worth noting is that," said the older nun next to him, "except for a few civilians, most of those attacked by Jesta were magicians, the kind with almost no seals or inheritance, rather than magicians with a long history of accumulation."

"What's so strange about this?" Hansa, like the other nuns, could chat easily while running. "Professional magicians are difficult to deal with, so they specifically look for magicians with little strength. It can't be said that they are bullying the weak and afraid of the strong, but the methods of powerful magicians are unknown, and they may suffer losses when dealing with them. It's not worth it from the perspective of spending more time."

"Waste time......?" The nun thought of something. "Jest seems to be in a hurry to get here. Obviously, he could have taken a more covert and low-key way along the way. Here... the so-called Academy City, what on earth can attract him so much?"

Yes, the place where several people are about to arrive is Academy City.

In response to this, Father Hansa also heaved a long sigh. He fell from the tall building, and his feet landed on the ground, making only a slight sound. After him, several nuns fell down one after another.

"——About this, I have never figured it out. The so-called Academy City was built with great investment by the Japanese government in recent years. According to the information I received from the branch, the Academy City prohibits church-related personnel from entering. According to the reasons given by the relevant personnel for their refusal, they said that they do not welcome the spread of any foreign religious beliefs. As for community work, they also have their own nuns and other personnel to organize it."

"Oh, now that you mention it, I'm a little interested. This Academy City has its own nuns? Could it be that they will create some kind of belief for themselves? The God of Science and the Angel of Science?" One of the nuns joked, drawing the other nuns' agreement and sneers.

Hansa shook his head. He himself was not a believer in Christianity. He was trained as an agent since he was a child, but the old priest who adopted him, who was also his teacher Di Luo, found him in a mountain village destroyed by vampires.

So to some extent, his decision to become an agent to eliminate vampires was also a matter of fate, and faith was only something that was within the scope of his job. He never went to the casino to play outside of work hours without any psychological burden, and his image as a priest was completely ruined.

Several people began to walk on the spot. According to the requirements received from previous contacts, they were prohibited from moving at high altitudes in areas close to Academy City, otherwise they might be misunderstood as spying on Academy City's secrets.

The next step was to successfully pass the checkpoint inspection of Academy City. According to the results of the negotiations between the Holy Church and the government, they could move around in Academy City, but had to obey the arrangements of the internal community organizations.

"Oh, let me take a look at the arrangement," Father Hansa glanced at the temporary pass given to him by Academy City, which marked the place where he should "report" next, "School District 12, uh... Dusk Street Sanatorium?"

Hansa and the nuns around her looked strange. Not to mention why they were going to the sanatorium, volunteering for the old man and the old lady? And it was so late, whether the sanatorium would be open was also a question.

"Let's go and take a look around first," Hansa said with a vague expression, "see where there is fun... I mean get familiar with the terrain."

The nuns knew that the priest was looking for a casino, but at this time they rarely agreed to the proposal.

However, they did not walk long before they stopped.

Hansa frowned. He sensed the aura of that thing. He looked at his subordinates beside him.

"Yes, it smells like a vampire."

"Well, the only problem is that the front seems to be blocked."

The nun felt something was wrong. "Academy City knows or is preparing to deal with the Vampires? ... No, they themselves are involved with the Vampires?"

"Don't make such accusations loudly," Hansa advised, "Let's go and take a look first."

One step, two steps, three steps——

[Warning, temporary citizen, Catholic Spanish Evangelical priest Hansa Serbandis, and four nuns from the same sect, this place has been blocked due to an experimental accident, and it is strictly forbidden to approach! ]

[Warning again,......]

A sudden sound was heard around them, and the Hansa people immediately realized that their actions were most likely being monitored.

"Excuse me," Hansa waved his hands and exchanged glances with the nun next to him. "We are just passing by out of curiosity for the first time. We are unfamiliar with the place. We will leave now."

Hansa and the nuns turned and left, and soon the warning disappeared.

The next moment, the nuns continued walking as usual, and the Hansa in the middle disappeared without a trace.

No one saw how he turned around. He dived towards the blockade as if he was flying close to the ground. There was a flash of fire under his feet. It was real fire, like the long flame of a rocket booster. One of his eyes was frantically scanning the surrounding terrain like a multi-functional observation machine.

However, what greeted him was a huge weapon HsPS-15.

Chapter 358 Please Calm Down

Compared to other agents, Father Hansa's body was not an ordinary human body. In order to be able to carry out combat operations against the Dead Apostles more effectively, he had undergone transformation over the past few decades, and now more than 70% of his body parts had been replaced with sanctified weapons.

In other words, he is a cyborg.

Thanks to this, Hansa can do things that Mapo's group of ordinary agents cannot do, such as his limbs can be incredibly extended one by one, his feet have flame thrusters, his arms can fire howitzers, and he can even run freely on a wall that is 90 degrees vertical to the ground.

He stepped on the ground with both feet, and ran straight towards the blockade area at a speed far beyond the speed of the agents beside him. At the same time, the thrusters on his feet made his speed far faster than before. In addition, his eyes were not ordinary human eyes, but artificial eyes made by magic transformation and processing of crystal.

Scanning with the artificial eye, the scene ahead was clearly visible - behind the blockade line, there were a large number of traces of battle on the broken road surface. Judging from the types of traces, most of them looked like hole-shaped cracks formed by guns and ammunition, as well as unknown irregular depressions.

And...an unknown entity that looks like a humanoid armor.

"That is... Academy City's secret weapon?"

Hansa had never known about the technological level of Academy City before, and that was not within his scope of knowledge. He just knew that it was more advanced... So Hansa decided to avoid this guy out of caution, and at the same time began to speculate whether this thing was real and what level it was... However, when the muzzle of the huge weapon turned towards him, he quickly understood the value of the technology.

[Temporary citizens who entered the blockade area without permission and knowingly violated the rules despite warnings...will be sentenced.]

A short burst of sparks came out of the muzzle.

"!" Hansa was startled. He had been prepared when the machine issued a warning sound. So when the bullet was fired from the gun, Hansa used his incredible body structure and multiple thrusters to complete a right-angle turn in mid-air that was almost contrary to inertia.

Boom——

While Hansa dodged in time, he used his artificial eye to observe behind him. There was an abandoned building wailing. The huge power penetrated the walls layer by layer, leaving horrifying scars. The pillars inside the building collapsed, and the roar of collapse continued to come to his ears.

"——What kind of super anti-material weapon is this?!"

Father Hansa felt in his heart that the weapons carried by the armor were not just for show, so he hurriedly chose to bypass it. However, before he could turn around, the huge weapon adjusted its mode again -

[The target is detected to be inconsistent with conventional biokinematics, and support for chaos guidance system calculation is requested...]

Not good! Hansa's sense of crisis was frantically alarming. Although he didn't understand what it was, he inexplicably felt that the next shot would hit him unreasonably and he couldn't dodge it!

He landed on the ground, and at the same time stepped to the side—

At this time, the weapon has automatically reloaded ammunition again, the muzzle is raised, and then deflected at a slight angle -

"Please stop."

A soft and quiet voice said.

The sound was so abrupt, interrupting the battle between the two sides.

——Ahh, what a reassuring voice.

Hansa couldn't help but think so in his mind. His vigilance, sense of crisis and all his calculations towards the huge weapon suddenly disappeared, and his hands and feet relaxed involuntarily.

After a moment of confusion, Hansa finally came to his senses. In front of him walked a tall nun with brown hair and bangs, next to her was a swordsman with a pair of, uh, rabbit ears? ..., and behind them were four familiar nuns, his subordinates.

The two people walking in front were talking in familiar low voices.

"Sakura...thank you for your understanding..."

"You're welcome... A wave of vampires has appeared here as well... All the school districts in Academy City are..."

"Do you need help? ...It's still under control...Thank you for your hard work."

In the low female voice, fragmented information poured into Hansa's ears, and then he remembered that he seemed to have been unilaterally suppressed by the armed forces suspected to be from the Academy City side. Then, judging from the voice, it should be this nun who prevented the situation from developing - ah, could it be... this is the nun who was originally supposed to pick them up?

Staring at the nun's expression, Hansa inexplicably thought of the Virgin Mary. This was the only face he could think of that was sufficiently divine and holy... Wait, this was a staff member of Academy City, why would he think this way?

"——Hello, clergy from the Holy Church. According to the decision of Academy City, I, the administrator of the Dusk Street Sanatorium, will be responsible for guiding you all." The brown-haired nun stopped in front of Hansa, then turned sideways and made a simple gesture. "My name is... Aponia. Like the others, I am a nun who strictly abides by the commandments. Although there were some minor frictions when I first arrived, I hope that you can stay safely in the sanatorium and accept the guidance of fate——"

Sister Aponia's tone was gentle and calm, as if she had some kind of unquestionable meaning. "Although Academy City is still under construction and the church facilities have yet to be repaired, there are simple prayer rooms and halls in the sanatorium, which can be used for prayer and worship without any difficulty."

Although he felt something was wrong with this nun, she was friendly and helped him, so Hansa had to respond in a friendly way: "Hahaha, thank you very much. When I first heard that you had your own nun, I was surprised. Now it seems that I was prejudiced. I think there is only one person in the church who can be compared with your demeanor."

"Thank you. Next, let's go this way to the 23rd School District," Aponiya guided the group. At the same time, she couldn't help but ask curiously, "There is only one person in the Holy Church?"

"Yes, I have only seen her appearance from afar... the lady called Kishouin Kiara, known as the 'Holy Mother'."

After that, it was a silent walk.

Several people from the Holy Church agreed to Aponia's arrangement without reservation, and seemed to have completely forgotten their original intention of coming here to explore the blockade area.

Next to everyone, Aponia looked up at the distant sky.

"That is--"

Chapter 359 You are the biggest secret of Academy City

"Is it about to begin? What a startling noise..." Aponia sensed the motionless air, his mental power transformed into tentacles and thin lines, extending towards the environment and amplifying his perception.

Huge, chaotic waves roared and exploded in the air - Aponia confirmed that the scale of this time was an unprecedented wave and tsunami, completely different from the usual rising tide of the spiritual force field, and next to her, several priests and nuns were completely unaware of it.

Because that was an unprecedented fluctuation of the AIM diffusion field - yes, Aponia was so sure that the awakening of every ability user would be handled by her ability, and as a result, she could sense and even penetrate into the alien phase formed by the AIM diffusion field in the entire city without relying on any instruments.

Is the experiment in the imaginary number area about to begin?

Although Aponia was walking with several people from the Holy Church, at the same time, the thread of her spirit had already penetrated into the realm of imaginary numbers.

‘Rumble—’

The first thing Aponya "heard" was a huge, noisy sound in the imaginary number area, as if something else had mixed in - hey, what was going on?

There was a strange wave that suddenly appeared in the imaginary world. This was something Aponya had never felt before. Even in the so-called scientific phase experiment, such heterogeneous waves should not exist. In other words, this was a strange intruder...

"——Aponia, don't act rashly!"

A voice that was also connected here stopped her from taking action.

"Ah, Mebius?"

"The situation is under control. The intruder is also part of the experiment... No, I decided to temporarily activate this intruder to 'expand the results'."

"......", Aponya felt uneasy about this, and finally she asked, "Did the chairman... agree to do this?"

"Don't worry, he agreed. As for backup plans, he has more than everyone here combined." Mobius seemed to have a special understanding of the chairman.

In response, Aponya nodded, she seemed to believe it, and decisively "logged out" of the imaginary number area.

In reality, several people from the Cathedral Church had been brought into the sanatorium by her. After seeing the prayer room and the living quarters, Father Hansa was particularly satisfied. Then he seemed to remember something and asked, "By the way, there shouldn't be any plans for the next night, right? A few of my men and I plan to move around freely-"

"I'm sorry," Aponya replied.

"Eh? ...Excuse me, what did you say, Your Excellency?"

"Sorry - next, please stay here and don't go anywhere else," the nun said in a gentle tone, saying something that could not be refused. "After all, the city will become very dangerous tonight."

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some time ago.

Outside the corporate zone, just as Kiana was about to be attacked by the Dead Apostle Zesta, a man suddenly broke in.

"--Stop!" The purple-haired little girl, Xilin, was like a little lamb suddenly entering the hunting scene of lions, tigers, jackals and wolves. Her expression and movements were no different from those of an ordinary little girl.

Thousands of tree branches stretched higher and higher, blocking out the sun, and Kiana, who continued to fight the giant monster without fear.

For her, this is a battlefield beyond her cognition, but the white-haired girl Kiana is the one who leads her into reality and is her only friend.

Xilin felt her body trembling. She didn't know how to help her friend overcome the predicament, but she still decided to do so. A voice in her heart told her that this was the only way to help her friend.

"Hey, hey! What are you doing?" Kiana said anxiously, "I told you not to come near here!"

"Oh, beautiful lady, did you see that?" Jesta's voices echoed around him. "What a touching yet annoying scene - self-sacrifice out of friendship, and then under the influence of the villain's power -"

“Shut up!” Kiana was fed up with this dead apostle. It would have been fine if he just said weird things, but he also attacked without mercy at the same time. It was simply a noise disturbance. She used her ability at high speed, teleported to Sirin and took her away.

"Oh, no, miss. How can a good show be interrupted halfway because of the intrusion of ignorant people?"

In fact, Jesta changed his target and set his sights on Xilin. He looked at the little girl curiously, but he could not feel the blood-sucking instinct from the girl. It was strange, wasn't the girl human?

Let’s try it out——

"Oops!" Kiana felt the density of the branches around her suddenly increase. There would be a noticeable delay in her and the others' teleportation, but if she didn't teleport, neither of them would be able to escape the branches' attack...

"Kiana, let me go!"

It was unknown where Silin got the courage from. In Kiana's eyes, she was just an ordinary girl, but she broke free from the embrace and faced the attack from behind.

“——!?” Kiana only had time to turn around, and then she saw an incredible scene——

Several branches pierced Xilin's skin easily and then quickly passed through her, but no blood flowed out, as if there was nothing inside.

The next moment, a sense of presence in the air "expanded" and instantly aimed at the surging branches. Xilin subconsciously pushed outward, and the countless arrogant branches seemed to have suffered a huge impact and were pushed back in the opposite direction.