Chapter 14: The Evacuation of the Castle (Part II)
But there was no voice answering Xana's question. Originally, this necklace only played the role of a medium between Xana and Arastel's body, but now after Xana, who is a projection of this world, came to this world, this necklace has become an ordinary artifact, and it no longer houses Arastel's consciousness.
But in fact, even if Arastel is next to Xana, most of the time only Xana herself is projected. Although the projection phenomenon is now in a state of constant destruction in an incremental way, there is still an upper limit to the strength of projection.
It's strange that the existence of the Heavenly Tribulation Arastel can be directly projected, and I don't know how many times the upper limit of the projection's strength will be.
"Arastelle?"
Xia Na asked again, and now the Red World Demon King who had been in contract with her had long since disappeared.
Although Xana could feel that the necklace she was wearing on her chest still had some of Arastre's power, allowing Xana to perform a fiery transformation, it was clear that the necklace had become an ordinary object.
“……”
Xana is obviously not the one to panic because of such a thing. Since Arastel didn't reply, it was best to take the initiative to investigate the surrounding situation first.
As a result, Xana soon dug up the half-rocket hammer buried in the rubble. When the explosives were first detonated, it was obvious that places such as the arsenal were under Kerr's heavy care, so most of the armaments were blown to shreds, and the rocket hammer could not be used at all.
After looking at the rocket hammer for a while, Xia Na could only sigh, shook her head helplessly, and threw the rocket hammer away.
As a result, Xana, who had nothing to find for the next ten minutes, simply decided to go down the mountain. With Xia Na's strength, she naturally didn't need to be as careful as Zhou Yuan when she went down the mountain, and she stepped on the wooden steps and ran all the way down. After descending to the bottom of the mountain and losing the dark clouds' eyesight, Shana, who has excellent eyesight, naturally saw the city of Munich from a distance.
Even putting aside the technology, the absolute huge gap between Xana's world and this world, the unique architectural style of the city of Munich is something that Xana has never seen before, and the city directly attracts Xana's attention.
After about half an hour, Xana made it all the way to Munich. The security check routinely swept Xia Na's body, and it was impossible for Xia Na's katana to be scanned out and let Xia Na enter the city.
And after Xana entered the city, even Xana was amazed by the prosperity of the city.
There are no Red World's Disciples to fight with here, there are just methodical lives, and technology that is absolutely prosperous compared to Xana's world.
Here, however, it is a completely different concept from the crumbling castle Eichenwald or the world that Xana lived in before.
Xana looked around curiously as she walked around the city when she unconsciously felt hungry.
After all, Xana had only eaten a piece of pineapple bread before, but it was hard work to go down the mountain or hike to Munich. And it is natural that Xia Na, who has not transformed, has consumed too much physical strength.
Soon, Xana was drawn to a familiar smell.
It's pineapple bread, and it's freshly baked, with an enticing aroma. And following this taste, Xana naturally found a small shop.
This shop is not a big store, and it only sells some alcohol on weekdays, but the pineapple bread in the store is a must. Not only is the crust crispy and the inside fluffy, but the bread is filled with a filling made from pineapple pulp, so the bread at this shop has always been very popular with locals, and it is often in short supply.
But even if Xana wants to eat it again, she can only stare at the bread, but there is nothing she can do, after all, Xana has no money. When other people buy bread, they can use their mobile phones to gently swipe the cash register in front of them, but ...... Xana apparently doesn't even have that kind of phone.
"Well, you want this, don't you? This one is for you. ”
A black-clad figure with a pair of black and white swords behind her appeared in front of Xana, holding a steaming loaf of bread in her hand. Xana originally wanted to refuse, but when she saw the bread table that had been snapped up and the hot bread in front of her, she still took it.
Kirito sighed and scratched his head. It seems that this is the target of this projection phenomenon, but you don't have to do it yourself, this is obviously a harmless type that can be communicated. Otherwise, I should have gone up and snatched it a long time ago.
This kind of projection only needs to go to Overwatch to register, and after Overwatch allocates a mobile phone that allows her to live a normal life, she can live a normal life.
Kirito, who thought that his task was complete and was about to breathe a sigh of relief, looked up, but he happened to see the figure of several people sitting around a table opposite Xana.
Among them, the person with Kirito's back to Kirito knows, is the host of the auction house, the high-ranking cadre of Black Claw, Chloe!
Kirito was shocked, and quickly changed a hooded cloak from the menu that could hide his appearance, and replaced the iconic black and white double sword as well. After everything was taken care of, Kirito sat next to Xana, quietly listening to the conversation of several members of the Black Claw.
"How?"
Chloe asked the ice-blue short sniper on the side, Shino Asada.
Kirito didn't show SAO at all when he projected, and as a result, Kirito naturally didn't recognize the sniper. However, this did not prevent Kirito from eavesdropping on their next conversation.
Gales is dead, and the whole of Eichenwald is in ruins, with no way to use the elevator, and all the people inside are gone. ”
"Sure enough...... As I got from the passers-by, the Crusaders had all withdrawn," Chloe sighed, "and we're afraid we're going to have to run for nothing this time." It's just that Baldridge, the old man, definitely doesn't have the decisiveness to abandon the city and flee directly......"
"The problem is likely to be with the new Ballridge apprentice," the Soaring Intelligent Machine said, "if anyone can change Baldridge's decision......
"Well, that's probably how it should be...... Anyway, there was a mistake in the plan, and I had to report it to the woman as soon as possible. ”
Chloe nodded, stood up, and walked out the door. And Kirito, who bowed his head next to him and pretended to close his eyes, was already in a cold sweat.
Of course he knew Chloe's strength...... I also know the consequences of being exposed by this guy! But fortunately, looking at it like this, I haven't been revealed.