Endless Silver Machine

The tallest broadcast tower building in the capital has been covered with thick emerald green vines, but it has not yet tilted under the support of the Optimus Prime.

Oleifer stood on the top of the tower without any shelter, holding the hilt of the rapier hanging on his waist with his right hand, staring at the royal capital that was already filled with emerald green magic products in his field of vision.

"Even if you do this, you still won't come to see me?"

Her murmurs were drowned in the roaring winds under the howling gloomy sky at the top of the tower.

At this time, the sound of multiple footsteps walking on cracked tiles came from behind her. Oleifeel didn't think too much, maybe the people from the royal capital were catching up. She turned around while stroking her hair that was blown by the wind.

But when he saw the tall figure, Oleifer's disappointed expression suddenly brightened. It was obviously the person he had been thinking about just now, but when he actually appeared in front of him, he was very surprised.

"Senior Gurley..."

"Hey, Oleifer."

The tall figure who climbed to the top of this minaret was a middle-aged man wearing beachwear, flat slippers, and a wide-brimmed leather hat on a June day when it might rain at any time.

He was not at all moved by the dilapidated environment at the top of the tower, as if he came here just to see Orefhel and casually raised his hand to say hello.

When Oleifer saw the middle-aged man, she only showed surprise with her mouth slightly open. After the middle-aged man called her name in a familiar voice, Oleifer woke up as if from a dream.

She did not hesitate to use the capital of the Tebiri Kingdom as a sacrifice, in order to make him notice that the person she was here was none other than Gurley, the predecessor of the Holy See in the past.

"Senior Gurley, you finally..."

Oleifeel's gloomy expression swept away, and a happy smile appeared on her delicate cheeks.

However, after seeing the girl coming out from behind Gurli, Oleifer's expression suddenly became much stiffer.

Until just now, Oleifer's attention had been completely attracted by the dreaming Gurley, and he completely ignored the girl next to him with messy silver-gray slightly curly hair who looked about the same age as Wei Xi. .

Such a petite girl stood next to the burly and muscular Gurley, just like Beauty and the Beast, revealing a sense of harmony amidst the incongruity.

"Excuse me, who is she?"

"Should I introduce her as my other daughter?" Gurley generously touched the girl's head with his rough hands, "Her name is Ya, and she comes from a slum like you."

"..." Orefiel silently took out the thin sword from his waist, "It seems that I was abandoned by Senior Gurli."

Seeing this, Yaya, who had been watching Orefhel, broke away from Guli's touch, and bright red claws extended from her fingertips.

A race that can freely control magic power as thick as blood, and anyone with a little knowledge can see through Miyabi's identity at a glance.

"It turns out she's not human. The aliens in the slums are all abandoned children and exiles who entered the country illegally. Shouldn't Senior Gurley hand her over to the local law enforcement bureau?"

Orefiel pointed straight at Miyabi's rapier and a blue magical light flowed through it. Unlike the emerald green magic power of the Mimicry Magic Costume, Orefiel's own magic power is the same color as her eyes.

"Or, Senior Gurley...am I not enough?"

"Orefiel, I have wanted to tell you for a long time that you have never understood me."

Even though Orefiel showed obvious hostility towards Ya's existence, Gurli remained unmoved and just talked about what Ya didn't know in a hurry. Only Gree himself and Orefiel could remember it. The past.

"I didn't leave the Holy See because you were too weak. As for why I took the blame and resigned after the failure of that mission, it was not to protect you. It can only be said that I happened to have decided not to do it at that time. I just found a suitable reason to quit."

As he spoke, Gurley took out a cigarette from his beachwear and lit it leisurely. It seems that on some days when he was not drinking, he fell into the bad habit of smoking.

Perhaps it was Gurley's words that brought back Oleifer's memories, as the blue eyes that looked at Gurley showed complicated emotions.

Gurley held the cigarette in the corner of his mouth, took a deep breath, then held the cigarette between his fingers and blew out a thin stream of smoke.

"When you were young, I took you out of the slums, became your guardian, and helped you find a place in the Holy See. I have watched you grow up to this day. I have never thought that I did something wrong. Looking at you now, you have changed Being so beautiful and reaching my previous position, if you think about it this way, I should be considered a successful and good father, right?"

Gurley laughed cynically while holding a cigarette in his mouth. Ya looked up at her adoptive father in confusion and said something she didn't understand.

But Oleife couldn't laugh. Not only was she unable to laugh, but every word Gurley said brought back memories of the past, times that had become memories. The time that I thought would last forever was suddenly interrupted. This is not a pain that can be laughed off.

"At that time, I was thinking that there are countless slums in the Bisi Empire, and the number of children in the same situation as you is dozens or even hundreds of times. It is impossible for me to reach out and save everyone. Most of the time, I just watch with cold eyes. That's all. But there's no telling. You and Ya are people I happened to reach out to, and your life trajectories will undoubtedly change. The only place you can go if you follow me is the Holy See. Sometimes I just I'm wondering which kind of life the children need, between the orphanage and the Holy See. Oleife, do you think you are happy now?"

"I believe I have found the goal of life. This is the gift you gave me, Senior Gurley." Oleife raised the corner of his mouth bitterly, "I think it should be called happiness. I am used to it now." The identity of the Holy See is over. The premise is that Senior Gurley is still here."

"Orefiel, I didn't want you to take this kind of life for granted. In fact, I took you out of the slums so that you could find your own life goals, instead of following me and My experience naturally applies to you. I temporarily placed you in the Holy See just because I couldn't find anyone who could take care of the child. But at that time you said you wanted to stay by my side, and I just thought that at least this was not the case. It was a bad thing, so I agreed to it. Looking back now, I wish I had thought more about it at that time."

Oleifer was originally just a shadow created by the rapid development of the Bis Empire - an orphan in the slums, living a petty theft and fearful life like other children abandoned by their families. Every day I had to eat one meal but not the next, and I didn’t even know if I would be awake enough to face the next day.

Until one day, she reached out to Gurley, who happened to come here to perform the mission of the Holy See. After several twists and turns, she was adopted by him and brought back to the Holy See as his adopted daughter. As long as they are not illegal immigrants of a different race or exiles, ordinary abandoned children can obtain the same rights as ordinary citizens after having a guardian.

After that, Gurli taught her common sense as an ordinary person and how to fight.

——Because if you want to stay by my side, you must reach the same level as me. At that time, Gurley just wanted to motivate Oleifer to work harder, so he told her this.

And Oleifer showed her astonishing talent as she wished. Perhaps it was the hard work in the slums that gave her early training that ordinary people could not experience.

However, a month before she was to be awarded the uniform of the Blue Knight, she received a mission to search for members of the Nemesis Society. It was her first time working with Gurley, the designated captain, and it was also her last mission before being promoted to the Blue Knight, so she attached great importance to that operation.

However, due to various factors, the mission failed. Gurley took all the mistakes made by Orefhel on him and quit the Holy See. There was no resistance to Orefiel's promotion. One month after Gurley left the Holy See, he became the Blue Knight and stood in the position where Gurley once stood.

"Orefiel, you haven't thought about getting any fame or fortune, right? If you didn't want to stay by my side, you don't have to work so hard. It doesn't matter if you don't become a knight of the Holy See. To be honest, I still want to advise you now, O Leiffel, if staying in the Holy See doesn't make sense to you, you can do what I did at that time."

"But what about the child?" Orefiel pointed his thin sword at Ya beside Gree. Not to be outdone, Ya stared at the flashing sword tip with sharp eyes, "The child smells of blood, so that's it. Got what you call an 'ordinary life'?"

"Ya is a little different from you. She had already done a lot of things she shouldn't have done when she was in the slums. The local law enforcement bureau treated her as a dangerous person, but this child is very strong. The law enforcement bureau said that There is nothing we can do with her."

Gurley's cigarette had burned down to the filter. He threw the burned out cigarette holder onto the broken tiles at his feet and stamped it out with his feet.

"I brought her out to wash away the smell of blood on her body. But it seems difficult for people like us to strive for an ordinary life in such a world..." Gurry said meaningfully He looked at Oleifer and said, "It's the same for you and me."

"In this case, wouldn't Senior Gurley be too irresponsible! He clearly gave me hope and yet made me keep waiting with hope!"

"Now you are in the same position as me. Even if I am not by your side, you can survive on your own strength. I just opened a door for you."

Orefiel's hand holding the rapier began to tremble, but she shook her head vigorously as if to abandon the hesitation in her heart.

"But Senior Gurley is different! Even if to Senior Gurley I am just someone I happened to save, you are the whole world to me!"

Sensing the anger bursting out from Orefiel's body, Ya bowed her waist slightly. The difference between her and Orephiel is that the slum she lives in is more cruel than Orephiel, and the children there have more or less other people's blood on their hands.

Orefiel swooped down with her sword in hand. Her goal was originally to take Gridia away, but she seemed to have impulsively put Gridia in her line of attack.

At the same time, Ya swayed her long silver-gray hair and came into contact with her. The continuous stabs of the rapier left a blue trail in the air, instantly biting Ya's defense from different angles.

The rapier and sharp claws splashed out magic fragments of two different colors in less than a few seconds of attack and defense. Orefiel used a preemptive rainstorm attack to temporarily suppress Miyabi who was on the defensive.

Finally, Ya's sharp dynamic vision caught the gap between the piercing rainstorm, and dense serrations appeared on the surface of the blood-red claws. The rapier was turned into a pair of toothed pliers just before it hit Yaya, and there was a slight change in Orefiel's expression.

And Ya took advantage of this gap to use her petite body to jump up with the rapier as a fulcrum, and flipped to Oleife's back in the blink of an eye.

It is most taboo to expose your back to the enemy in battle. At this time, Ya has completely reversed Olefica's previous advantage.

The reason why Yahui is regarded as a dangerous person by the local law enforcement bureau is because she possesses the natural fighting ability of vampires that is far stronger than that of humans.

But the sharp claw that Miyabi thrust out when he landed was blocked by the sword turned over his shoulder. At this time, Orefiel just raised the sword with his backhand after getting out of Ya's control, without even looking back at Ya's attack trajectory.

The rapier skill that Wei Xi called "very powerful" was not exaggerated because of admiration. When using his backhand sword to pick away Ya's sharp claws, Orefiel suddenly turned around with his left foot as the center of the circle, and the blue magic light wrapped in the rapier blade shone brighter and brighter.

"Illusion Sword Technique - Polygonal Hurricane!"

It is also a stab with a thin sword measured in milliseconds, but this time the sword wind is integrated with the natural element of wind, and at the same time, it turns into a tornado wrapped around a sharp swirling blade from an unknown direction and stabs in the direction of Ya.

Unable to dodge, Ya could only cross her arms and try to build a magic barrier to block the wind blade, but how could the hastily built defense be able to withstand the full blow of the blue knight. Ya crashed into the power distribution room not far from the top of the tower like a blown balloon.

"Stop it, Oleifer." Gree stopped calmly, probably because he knew Ya's self-healing ability, so he wasn't so worried, "You've seen it, right? It's the same child I brought out from that kind of place. , you are already much stronger than Ya. Even if Ya has the smell of blood, she will gradually get closer to ordinary children in ordinary life. If she doesn't want to fight, I will not let her get into contact with fighting. This is the most correct thing to do after reaching out to her."

Oleifer looked blankly at Ya, who was easily knocked away by her. She had no idea that the little girl who could stay with Guli would be so vulnerable.

"Orefiel, I have never forced you to stay in the Holy See. If you want to come back, I welcome you at any time. Now I still have some business contacts with the Holy See, so I know that you and another person have arrived here. We Do you still remember the Nemesis Society that we investigated together before?"

Gurley noticed a subtle change in the expression on Orefiel's side face.

"It seems that I may have guessed it right. The power to make other people's countries so troubled is obtained from their hands, right?"

Oleifer returned to his usual smile and slowly turned around. The passionate emotions before could no longer be seen in the blue eyes, only calmness mixed with sadness.

"My compatibility with the Mimicry Magic Suit seems to be surprisingly compatible...

She unbuttoned her blouse and her short skirt fell lightly to her feet. Even Gurley couldn't help but frown at her sudden move.

"This is a power that uses the life and magic power of all mimic magic equipment holders in the Kingdom of Tebiri as nutrients. It can't be stopped anymore..."

Finally, he untied his scarf and opened his clothes, exposing his pure white body to the windy air.

But Gurley didn't look away. He was not attracted by the girl's fair skin, but by the plant seed-like thing embedded in her chest.

"If we want to maintain the ability of this mimetic magic suit, we can't do it without reaching this level. Any magic machine needs the magic power of the holder to guide it, and I am its control source. But now it seems... I have It is difficult to control this mimicry magic outfit because it has absorbed far more magic power than I can control."

"Orefiel!"

At this time, Gurley showed a nervous expression for the first time.

Slender plant vines grew out of the seed buried in Oleifeel's chest. They were the same type of plant vines that were spreading to the surrounding area. They wrapped her whole body in them in the blink of an eye.

The actions of the Mimicry Magic Equipment don't just stop there. Based on the host, the plant vines that continuously emerged grew into a giant tree reaching the sky on the top of this minaret. As the core, Orefhel was restrained on the top of the giant tree as if he was being tortured, exposed. The body from the chest down was buried in the tree trunk.

"This is troublesome..."

As if in response to the loss of control of the magic power control source of Orephiel, the plant vines and blood-sucking thorns in the entire royal capital all became active, swarming and squirming like some legendary tentacle monster.

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