People are in Type-Moon, but they practice science

To be precise, what is dazzling is the goddess sitting on the throne with her eyes closed as if she is sleeping.

[This is truly a feudal palace that transcends reality... No, they said that the population was transported here to be used as 'batteries'.] Bronya is an old hand after all. After being surprised for a while, she was the first to come to her senses. [Where is it? Or is the so-called 'frame' not that obvious?]

The two magicians had disappeared. It was unknown whether they had gone to report to the goddess. Bronya and the others did not intend to follow them. They looked around and found that there were still a large number of magicians moving around, carrying metal coffins. Some were transported in from outside, and some had already arrived at their destination - sent to the surrounding temples, and no one knew what operations would be performed on them.

[Coffin? Could that be the 'frame'? ]

Bronya and Raiden Mei looked at each other and exchanged information.

It seems that these magicians just put people in, and a large part of them have not had time to devote themselves to the "human battery" project.

Therefore, the next divergence point appears -

[Sister Mei... do you want to stop it? ]

Raiden Mei heard Bronya's question and placed her hand on the hilt of the knife, "Of course!"

So, we headed towards the coffins in the corner.

Rumbling--

What they didn't expect was that the vibration coming from under their feet was so strong that it disrupted their actions.

Is it an earthquake?

Rumble, rumble, rumble——

There is absolutely no intention of stopping.

The magicians seemed to be experiencing such a strong vibration for the first time. Many frames slipped from their hands.

No matter what external cause caused the earthquake, Bronya and the others failed, because suddenly from under the ground, a huge metal monster emerged from the gap between the invisible shadows - Finbaba, the guardian of the cedar forest.

It seemed to appear in order to maintain the stability of the underground space. But it didn't matter, because through the perception of special light and shadow, Humbaba had already locked onto two figures that it had never recognized in the underground space - Bronya and Raiden Mei.

"...!"

The two men clearly felt the chill of a life-threatening situation.

"action!"

Needless to say, Bronya and Raiden Mei each moved away from their positions.

At the same time, a huge colorful light wheel formed multiple shock waves, instantly destroying a large area of ​​underground space soil.

Countless screams were heard.

The magicians were affected.

But neither side of the battle cared about those people.

The metallic glow on Humbaba's body expanded like a chakra, and the damaged soil under his feet was quickly repaired.

"...?"

Question marks appeared above the two girls’ heads.

It was not because the ground was repaired quickly. It was because Humbaba's light shone on the floor and walls, and countless bricks, soil, and metal began to become chaotic.

The ground and walls squirmed like ripples, trembling and deforming violently like an open mouth or the digestive tract of a giant beast.

——The entire underground space came alive.

Chapter 446 Current Drive, Plasma Arc Cutting

The release of magic power (disaster) is a power that can create various disasters in the world for Finbaba, the 'Guardian of the Cedar Forest', or it can be said to be his supreme authority.

Typhoons, sandstorms, floods, earthquakes...all kinds of natural disasters known to ancient humans are included.

However, Humbaba, who was summoned in modern times and gained a huge mechanical body, was also positioned as the guardian of the "modern urban forest", and his magic release (disaster) was given a broader conceptual connotation.

For example, modern cities are facing the collapse of high-rise buildings and bridges, ground subsidence, factory explosions, underground tunnel collapses... Aren't these new disasters that humans need to face? Of course, just making a tunnel collapse can be done with a little preparation, let alone using magic. If it rises to the level of power, the operations that can be produced are far more than this.

In addition, this vast underground passage was originally built by Humbaba, who dug the transportation passage underground at an amazing speed and also helped Ishtar build the temple. Therefore, traces of Humbaba's magic were left everywhere, and the energy flow underground was far less frequent than on the ground, which made it almost unimpeded for Humbaba to use his power.

This is the condition for the underground maze disaster to occur.

Rumble——

The dull sound was accompanied by the flipping and deformation of the ground, which continued to rise like a dragon turning over and bulging, reaching the ceiling, while the top seemed to sink and decrease in height as a whole, like the mouth of a giant beast.

The bloody mouth bit towards Bronya and Raiden Mei.

Dodge!

Under the threat of death, the two were forced to make the best choice.

It is also the most passive option.

boom--!

The ceiling and the ground suddenly merged together, and the two girls had to separate in order to escape to a more open area.

"Sister Mei!"

Bronya tumbled back with deft movements, thinking that the area near the temple platform would not be easily destroyed. However, Raiden Mei took the wrong direction.

The overlapping waves on the ground were like living things, obstructing Mei Raiden. To be more precise, they were like rolling waves, mixed with dangerous waves of divine energy, rare minerals, and metal objects.

One, two... ten, twenty... huge flows of matter covered the upper and lower parts, transferring and swallowing Raiden Mei and the place under her feet, and pushed her back to the depths of the originally long corridor in just three seconds.

“I’m fine—!”

At the critical moment, Mei Raiden thought she would lose control, but her heart gradually calmed down.

In his ears were the deadly screams coming from the air, the rumbling sound of a torrent of metal and stone that was gray and black but reflected the cold light of metal, and the almost inaudible cry of Bronya in the distance.

But this cry was quickly drowned out by the sound of gunfire, explosions, and screams in the vast space.

Blue arcs of electricity flashed around Raiden Mei's body, forming an electromagnetic field defense that caused repulsion due to insulating physics. Even so, the crude preparation was still no match for Humbaba's power and mass scale.

She was forced to move and be squeezed constantly in the dark corridor.

Except for the lightning, everything around became dark.

All that was left was the scattered drips of blood and the snapping sounds of broken limbs.

That was not caused by Mei Raiden's injury. It was the remains of other magicians' bodies. Following Ishtar's orders, Humbaba adopted the principle of eliminating enemies at all costs. Therefore, there was no setting of "turning off friendly fire". When he saw the enemy, he would beat him to death, regardless of whether it would affect others. Therefore, Faldius suffered a lot of losses in the past few days.

Mei Raiden was indescribably horrified at this for a moment, but after calming down, her movements became fierce. If she was so aggressive towards her own people, then the metal 'Fun Baba' would be even more aggressive towards an enemy like her. She had held back in the past because she was facing fragile humans, but if she didn't show her full strength against this super mecha, she would be courting death.

"bass--"

The sound of a blade being unsheathed. The electricity that had been contained in it suddenly expanded, forming a thick and dazzling lightning.

To describe it in one word, fast.

It was faster than Humbaba had expected.

Being able to sneak in unnoticed, it subconsciously believed that it was just a magician with skilled methods. The magician was also just a mortal body, and a sudden physical attack - let alone burying him alive by the movement of the earth's crust, a bullet - was enough to deal with it.

However, what Mei Raiden showed was an "ability" beyond cognition, or in other words, a supernatural power. A phenomenon that belongs to humans and has nothing to do with gods or other alien species.

The huge electric arc directly shattered the continuously surging "mudslide". Although it was only a part of it, it was enough to save Raiden Mei from being buried alive and crushed.

"call."

Watching the mudslides around her gradually slowing down, Raiden Mei's expression relaxed a little, but her knife-holding action remained unchanged.

She recalled the Hokushin Ittoryu she had learned, whose advantages lay in its excellent explosive power and speed. However, when she was at the Academy City headquarters, it was considered to be only suitable for dealing with humanoids, because it was a technique that targeted the weaknesses of the human body, and when facing a huge opponent, its advantages would be minimized. If she wanted to break away from the rut, she had to use her abilities flexibly.

Zila Zila.

——The electric current spreads throughout the body.

Faced with an unprecedented predicament and enemies she had never faced before, Mei Raiden began to stimulate her cells with electric current, accelerating the movement of molecular motors and muscle proteins in the cells and improving her physical fitness in all aspects. This was a method she rarely used. From her previous experience, this technique put a huge strain on the body and the time it could maintain the enhanced state was also very short.

——The shape of the dark shadow under his feet began to break down.

"boom!"

At the same time as a loud noise comparable to that of a thunder explosion was heard, the huge body of Humbaba unexpectedly emerged from the shadows - it judged that Raiden Mei's unknown ability was of an extremely high level and directly launched a sneak attack - in just a short moment, a rotating sharp drill emitting colorful rainbow light shot out from it at a high speed, followed by Humbaba's metal body that was so huge that it could crush the narrow space.

If Mei Raiden had not dodged, she would have been pierced through in that instant.

——Flash!

She disappeared from the spot at an even faster speed.

“AAAA——!!”

Unlike humans who have a fragile reaction mechanism, after failing to launch a sneak attack on Raiden Mei, Finbaba directly adopted the next plan - its huge body created a sonic attack in a small space.

The sound waves with physical attack properties echoed repeatedly in the space, causing countless pieces of earth and rocks to be shattered by the vibration.

"Bah-"

The sharp thunder reappeared.

Mei Raiden's body flashed with lightning, not caring about the sound wave vibrations at all. She was originally good at speed, and under the effect of "electric current push", her speed was magnified to the extreme, and she was close to Humbaba in an instant. At the same time, a huge amount of electricity accumulated between her hands and radiated out through the special blade.

boom!

The interaction of electric current and heavy metal material produces a muffled sound that seems to cause a cardiac arrest.

Raiden Mei's surging muscle strength and the electric shock forced the huge body of Humbaba to fly directly. The underground space was instantly illuminated by the dazzling lightning, brighter than daylight. Humbaba flew backwards and kept knocking away the soil and rocks that blocked the way. Amidst the rumbling sound, a wide underground passage was "knocked" out.

“Ha…ha, huh…”

Mei Raiden opened her eyes wide and gripped the knife handle tightly with both hands.

When she chopped into Humbaba's body, she didn't feel how hard it was. On the contrary, her knife cut through it as if it were ordinary metal. However, the next moment after the cut, unknown energy surged out from the body, actually blocking her strength and strengthening it at a very fast speed - therefore, although she had used unprecedented speed and strength, she only left a deep wound and failed to cut it off completely.

What's more troublesome than this is——

My body aches.

It was extremely painful. Every cell seemed to be wailing. The electric current was constantly urging the cells to unleash greater potential, ignoring the pain caused by the accelerated movement of the cells.

"Well......!"

Mei Raiden endured the inhuman pain. She had to do her best to maintain her posture, otherwise her attacking movements would be distorted. She needed to increase her instantaneous attack power while her sword skills were reduced. No matter whether the energy protecting Humbaba was magic or something else, as long as she used higher lethality and faster speed to exceed the protection limit, it would be fine.

"AAAAA——"

There was a sound like an explosion in the distance. Humbaba began to move again and continued to transform. The charred and broken parts healed automatically like a movable individual, and then the enemy plan changed again. The colorful rainbow light wrapped around the spirit, forming a huge caliber energy heat ray cannon.

Shock waves and flames exploded.

The small space was instantly filled with destructive light and heat brought by the energy explosion.

wow-

However, a beam of knife light rushed ahead and not only escaped the center of the explosion at an alarming speed, but also cut into Humbaba's mechanical body with an extremely condensed plasma arc.

The feeling of cutting in was without any stagnation. Just like the feeling of cutting cheese, Raiden Mei easily used the ultra-high temperature arc to cut off nearly half of the metal body from Humbaba's mechanical body. Humbaba's right 'hands and feet' were also cut off along with the main body of the body.

The so-called plasma cutting uses a free arc (an arc that is not compressed under natural conditions) with a temperature of about 6,000 to 8,000 degrees Celsius. Raiden Mei's plasma arc cutting compresses the free arc into a plasma arc, concentrates the energy of the conductive cross section of the plasma arc, forms a completely ionized state, and the arc temperature reaches tens of thousands of degrees Celsius.

"Soon-"

Raiden Mei didn't give the opponent a chance to breathe, and after one slash, she slashed again.

However, Finbaba, who was injured for the first time, burst into spirit and divine power. His body, which was cut in half, emitted rainbow halos and burst into flames, causing the trajectory of the knife to deviate.

呲——

The huge mechanical monster escaped from the shadows and disappeared.

Only a piece of metal with a smooth cut surface fell to the corner of the wall. That was the part that Raiden Mei had just chopped off.

'Where did the monster go?'

Raiden Mei stepped forward, "No, we must defeat it as soon as possible, otherwise it will be dangerous if it runs to Bronya."

The AIM jammer is on Bronya's side, but there is also a "Goddess" there. Mei Raiden doesn't dare to bet on how long the AIM jammer can last before the support from Academy City arrives.

Moreover, the 'Electric Current Push' enhanced state has a limited duration.

"Ok?"

Mei Raiden carefully observed the piece of metal in the corner.

"It seems to be moving. Is it in the direction...upwards?"