Endless Silver Machine

When Aika and the others did not know which level underground they had entered, a violent vibration suddenly came from above.

The pillars and ground supporting the underground space were shattered by the shaking.

"Lolo!"

"elder brother!"

Aika quickly moved towards Luoluo who was beside him, but the broken ground had already opened the distance between them.

In the end, he failed to grab Luo Luo's hand, and could only fall helplessly into the deeper darkness along with the broken rubble.

Continuously colliding with the falling broken rocks, accompanied by a pain as if the bones in his body were broken, Aika hit the ground under the buffer of defensive magic.

Huge boulders that could not withstand the force of his defensive magic were falling on his side, and the top of his head had turned into a dark hollow.

After falling from such a high place, I only broke a few bones. I don't know if this can be called lucky.

Aika supported the ground with the arm that was still free to move, and leaned her body's center of gravity on the boulder that had just fallen to the ground.

Luoluo was so close to him that he became out of reach at the moment of collapse.

Were Wei Xi and Ling also separated? I just didn't have time to look in their direction.

"Okay, it looks like you can still move your legs."

Aika stretched his legs. At least the leg bones should still maintain their original shape.

In the darkness, there was the sound of gravel being crushed. That kind of autonomous machinery can still move on this level.

The left hand seems to be dislocated, and only the right hand can still pick up the weapon.

Now I find it difficult to even move around, let alone run away.

Countless autonomous machines drove out of the darkness and surrounded the boulder Aika was leaning on.

"Please, I have to go find Luo Luo..."

Six floating cannons appeared around Aika.

He didn't know why he could use "Mechanical Alchemy" now. He didn't even have the idea of ​​using the ability.

"Fire Flame Eyes, is that you?"

The silver pistol in his right hand remained silent, and Aika didn't know if this was its answer.

Perhaps in exchange for one less gun, these six floating guns were obtained.

"That's enough, thank you..."

Aika didn't know if the Fiery Eye could hear his words, but he still thanked it sincerely.

"Mechanical Alchemy - Predator!"

Six floating cannons responded to Aika's call, surrounding him and rotating rapidly, and the silver magic beam turned into a light curtain as it rotated.

The light curtain quickly spread out in all directions with Aika as the center, and all the autonomous machines within the radius were destroyed.

The sound of gravel being crushed disappeared, at least not in this silent environment.

That kind of self-discipline machine must still be in stock somewhere, but it can't stay in the same place forever.

Aika thought this and just when she was about to move her steps, the floor under her feet suddenly sank a little.

He quickly raised his feet, but the vibration telling him that the mechanism was activated had already been heard.

The wall in front of him was suddenly blown away, and a four-legged magic machine crawled out of the broken wall.

If spiders were used to describe this magic machine, then its size was too huge, and Aika needed to raise her head to see its entirety.

But the appearance of this magic machine is definitely too similar to a spider.

Four mechanical legs supported a hemispherical turret that was less than one-tenth of the total volume. Several red light spots moved behind the mirror-like armor, like a spider's single eye.

Aika still remembers the huge machine that prepared this magic weapon, but the size of that machine was far from comparable to the one in front of him.

The red light spot finally stopped floating. It definitely didn't stop operating, but locked onto the target in front of it.

"Tsk..."

The second after Aika raised his leg, several red laser beams penetrated the position where he was standing.

The familiar scene made Aika's whole body heat up. This was not due to excitement or fear in facing a powerful opponent.

There was only pure anger in Aika's chest, angry for Luo Luo, who had once had such a laser beam pierce through his body at the slightest thought.

"Is the Bisi Empire studying this kind of thing all day long..."

With only the current weapons, Aika was unable to fight back, and he was also angry at being so powerless.

The second attack followed. The spider-like magic machine didn't even move its position. It only fired a laser beam from a floating red dot.

If his legs could still move freely, he wouldn't be forced into a situation where he could only escape.

Aika cursed her legs while looking for an opportunity to counterattack among the laser beams that were continuously fired.

At least a little closer...

"Scarlet Blade Spiral——"

The shouts mixed with the scattered rubble were not as shocking as the dawn of hope.

The laser shot from the hemispherical armor suddenly changed its direction and turned diagonally upward.

No, it didn't change the direction, but the entire body of the magic machine tilted.

The four legs of the spider-shaped magic machine seemed to be torn apart by the invisible space, and extremely rough fractures emerged.

Aika put the familiar voice behind her and rolled into the foot of the magic machine just as the laser beam shot toward the ceiling.

"Mechanical Alchemy - Predator!"

Six floating cannons simultaneously destroyed the hemispherical armor that continuously fired laser beams.

This huge magic machine finally stopped operating, and the red light spots were completely extinguished.

Because of the reckless action just now, Aika suffered several more wounds on his body.

"You are still so desperate. I really don't know why Her Royal Highness wants you so much."

The petite girl knight stepped out of the smoke, and it turned out to be a familiar figure to Aika.

She held a huge double-edged spear in her hand, and the spiral blades at both ends were the weapons that just tore apart the space.

"I also hope Lan Ming can let me go."

"Really, if I let you become a knight, I don't know how many accidents will happen."

"Is that your magic costume? It's so spectacular. No wonder it couldn't be taken out on the airship before."

When Aika and Charlotte clashed over a misunderstanding on the hijacked airship, Charlotte always fought with her bare hands.

Later, she told herself that it was inconvenient to take out her magic equipment on the airship, but she never said the reason.

Aika sat on the ground and gestured to his arm that he couldn't lift with the pistol in his right hand.

"I can't seem to move this arm. Can I ask you a favor?"

"Really..."

Aika had never learned the art of reattaching a dislocated arm on her own.

Charlotte muttered helplessly as she let go of her magic suit and walked to his side.

"It will hurt a little, just bear with it."

In fact, this kind of pain was not enough for Aika to scream.

After connecting Aika's arm, Charlotte sat down next to him.

Aika looked at her sitting next to her, wearing a knight's uniform, but it was also full of dust.

"Is it possible that you are also here to rob the prison?"

"You can tell just by looking at it...Don't talk to me, let me rest for a while..."

Charlotte hugged her knees and buried her face between her legs. She didn't even have the strength to answer Aika.

Aika doesn't know what happened to her before she got here, except that she heard from Thetis that she wasn't convicted.

But Aika has no intention of disturbing her now, and time doesn't allow it.

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The rest time Charlotte set for herself was less than one minute, and Aika proposed to take action together when she got up.

Unexpectedly, Charlotte agreed to his proposal without thinking that he was in the way.

"You're not the only one here, right? Where are the others?"

"Because of the shock just now, they were all dispersed, but they all seemed to be fine."

During the minute that Charlotte was resting, Aika used PDA to get in touch with three other scattered girls.

Ling and Wei Xi are together. They are not going deeper for the time being, but are going back up to the originally agreed-upon tower to wait for the meeting.

Luoluo also replied that she had no relationship, but Aika was still worried that she was alone, so she also asked her to return to the ground to join Ling and Wei Xi.

"There are probably only the two of us underground now. Do you know Lan Ming's specific location?"

"The person who helped me get here told me so."

Sure enough, there was help for her to come here, but it probably wasn't the Holy See, otherwise they would have acted together in the first place.

After learning Lan Ming's specific location from Xia Luo, the two teamed up again to move deeper into the prison.

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The Knights of the Iron Lion, a knightly order directly under the Empire that was ordered to capture the intruders, witnessed the artillery bombardment on the ground.

"The imperial army was still in the prison, and they actually used artillery on the ground?"

"The Senate doesn't know what's going on in its head right now, that it's possible for such an obvious act of abandonment to happen."

"Captain Del, what should we do now? It's obvious that we can't enter the prison as ordered."

The Knights are different from the Imperial Army and are fully commanded by the Knight Commander.

The Knights are also all composed of nobles, and those who have ideas about the Senate's actions will speak out directly.

They would not blindly become victims of the radical faction of the Senate, but would simply wait for instructions from their trusted knight leader.

"I will not let my men die inexplicably. As long as the aviation magic ship does not retreat, we will just sit back and watch."

Sanders Dell has commanded the Iron Lion Knights for two years, and has seen battlefields more tragic than the current situation.

As the second son of the "Del" family, this sturdy knight leader was a man who dared to act, so he won the emperor's respect.

When the emperor passed away, the Knights directly under the Empire were temporarily responsible to the Senate and Ziming Yiela, but this was only an assignment on paper.

The aviation guided ship conducted a second bombardment on the ground, and the Iron Lion Knights just stood by outside the bombardment range.

Just as the three bombardments began to accumulate energy, orange-red light pillars swept across the night sky.

The next second, the three aviation magic ships that were stuck in the air began to explode from the middle of the ship's body, turning into two falling fireballs against the dark background.

"Coming from that direction..."

Sanders Dell just turned and stood, his sight direction was the endless sea.

Rosenberg is not a city by the sea. The coastline is still eight thousand meters away from Rosenberg.

This certainly could not have been a bombardment fired from the shoreline, which was under Imperial surveillance.

This is a magical bombardment from eight thousand meters away.

"It's spectacular."

"That bombardment was quite powerful. All three aviation magic ships were shot down in one blow."

"It shouldn't be an enemy, right?"

"If it's an enemy, we can't stop this kind of bombardment, so let's just pray that it's not an enemy."

No one in the Knights was interested in the crashed aviation magic ship. They were on standby under the instructions of the Knights and just talked about the unknown bombardment.

"Some of you are right, even if it is the enemy, we are helpless against this kind of attack. But now that the threat from the air has disappeared, we are ready to go underground to search for infiltrators."

Sanders Dell waved the sword in his hand, ending the Iron Lion Knights' standby.

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