When Hill and Alex chased up the stairs on the third floor in the direction Anderson had fled, what they saw was completely beyond common sense. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

“…… Why...... Why ......"

They caught a glimpse of Anderson, muttering to himself, climbing up a ladder in desperation. But for Ciel and Alex, the prisoner himself no longer matters at this point, what matters is what the ladder is connected to.

-- It was a giant puppet about 20 meters tall.

From the outside, it was assumed that there were at least seven floors of the castle, but now it seems that there are only three floors - the area above the third floor that should have belonged to the fourth, fifth or sixth floors has been opened up into a space to accommodate the huge puppet.

The golem has a humanoid structure with a slightly worn white paintwork. The texture of the puppet is undoubtedly metallic, and the overall texture gives it a heavy and sharp texture. Anyone who sees it will not doubt that this huge thing can definitely stumble on a house with one foot. It is worth noting that the puppet's right hand is holding a giant sword more than ten meters long, while in the left hand, a cylindrical structure that is sunken into a black hole appears at the front end - no matter how you look at it, it looks like it will shoot out dangerous beams.

"Hey! What the hell is this Gundam-like thing! The style of painting is too strange! ”

Looking up at the metal object standing in front of her like a small mountain, Alex couldn't help but complain loudly.

"Looks, super handsome."

"Stupid! Now is not the time to be impressed! ”

By this time, Anderson had climbed into the cockpit of the giant puppet's head - judging from the existence of this cockpit, it was doubtful whether this thing could be called a "puppet" - and after his quick debugging, the golem's eyes glowed with a familiar red light.

"Ahh Oops! ”

Seeing this change, Alex suddenly felt bad. From the appearance alone, it can be seen that this giant puppet is by no means someone she and Ciel can deal with. I knew that I should have rushed up the ladder when the man was climbing the ladder...... Although she thinks so, the reality is that it has been activated, and Alex is helpless about what to do next.

With trepidation, Alex turned her head to look to the side.

"Hey, it's all this time, why do you still have a calm expression that knows your heart."

"My face has always been like this."

Ciel glanced at her lightly and said in a flat tone.

- That being said, Hill did have a certain degree of foreknowledge of the situation in front of him.

While he was still in Partridge's office, Hill had a vague understanding of the target's image based on the information available in the sources. There was no blood in the battle at the scene of the incident in the Shodo, there were no footprints around it except for the traces of the scene, and the trees next to it were also marked by the giants - that is, the caravan was taken away by a massive, flying thing that could subdue them all without injuring them, and in the process remained unscathed.

There are many characteristics that meet the first two points, but the last point is difficult to achieve. Even the dragon that Alex speculated could not have bled under the counterattack of twenty or thirty men, let alone ensure that the opponent met the same situation.

Along the way, Hill did not stop making inferences about the image of the prisoner. After ruling out the possibility of the prisoner's use of drugs (which he had confirmed during the on-site investigation), the more convincing explanation was that the prisoner was not bleeding at all. There are many races that match this physique, but if you add the condition of being huge and able to fly, you can't find an image that matches it within the scope of living beings.

A vague conjecture is naturally deduced. And after encountering the two puppets when entering the castle, the vague figure in Ciel's mind took on a concrete shape - a giant puppet.

Now that the answer is revealed, Hill has proven himself right, and is neither proud nor happy - these are two feelings that have so far been unrelated to him - for Hill, "correctness" is only an integral part of who he has always been, and a necessary "element" to maintain his existence.

The giant golem was fully operational, but it did not attack the two of them.

A loud voice rang out from above, and Alex and Ciel looked up to see the top of the castle slowly parting, slowly revealing the night sky above.

The giant golem slowly floated up—the contrast of the massive object floating that made one dizzy at the mere glance—and grew taller and higher, finally flying out of the opening above the castle.

"Ahh It fled! ”

Alex yelled at Ciel, hoping he would make the next decision.

It is still unknown whether it will be able to catch up, and it is uncertain whether it will win after catching up, but if it continues like this, there is no doubt that the mission will fail.

"It's to the west."

Ciel blinked, and Alex understood the meaning of the sentence without hindrance.

"Let's go! Hill. ”

The girl took his hand and ran downstairs.

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After about ten minutes of full progress, a giant golem standing firmly in the woods appeared in their field of vision.

"Is it really just to lure us out of the castle?"

As she ran, Alex shouted, her voice filled with underestimated anger.

In response, a giant golem swept across the greatsword.

After slicing more than a dozen trees one after another, a huge metal blade appeared in front of Alex's eyes.

"Goo!"

Alex's round shield didn't stop the greatsword's momentum at all, not even a moment's pause, the greatsword continued to slash through the trees in its previous trajectory, and Alex flew a few meters until her back hit a tree trunk.

"It hurts......"

Although there was no injury, the feeling of being hot in the back was real. Alex slowly touched the pain in her back with her left hand, while standing up with the sword in her right hand.

"If you look at it this way, it's still within the level of defense."

For the blow just now, Alex deliberately took it when she could dodge it. The purpose is to give a rough test of the puppet's strength as an experience for the next battle.

“…… Kill ...... Kill ...... Kill ......"

The giant golem's head makes a loud sound, and it seems that it has an additional function of amplifying sound.

"Ah~ This guy's mental state looks unstable......"

She responded with another slash.

Alex, who has roughly mastered the power and speed of the puppet slash, certainly has no reason to be hit again, although it is a horizontal slash, but there is still room to dodge.

As the massive blade swept a meter beside Alex, her body began to bend in the opposite direction, dodging the slash while lying on her back on the ground.

Passive defense and dodging were not the way to win, and after rolling to her feet, Alex ran closer to the golem again.

Although the danger was fraught, several successive attacks were successfully dodged by Alex.

Less than five meters away from the puppet, she was greeted with a slash.

Unlike the previous slash method, this time it is not a left-to-right sword, but a top-down sword.

That's it!

Alex froze in her heart, and dodged the sword while flipping on her side.

There is no doubt that the greatsword that did not hit its target was sunk deep in the earth due to the force of the slash and its own weight.

"Ciel!"

At the same time as Alex's voice rang out, a black figure had already skimmed over her. Hill, who had been following Alex, was waiting for this opportunity.

Although the giant sword in the giant puppet's hand is huge, its blade part is not unmistakably sharp. On the blade, which was only a few centimeters wide at the top, Hill ran up the sloping blade as if he were walking on the ground.

His speed was very fast, and the blade of the sword of about ten meters was swept by him in a few steps. When the golem finally pulled his greatsword from the ground, Ciel had already jumped one after another on the bulge of his metal forearm, and he was as dexterous as a bird in a steep plane with an angle close to 70.

With one last kick in the crook of the golem's arm, Ciel's entire body soared into the air and flew towards the giant golem's chest.

In the next moment, he stretched out his right hand at the outstretched puppet body.

"Theft—"

The moment the skill was activated, his hand pressed against the metal on the puppet's chest.

The target of the skill is the energy core of the puppet, which is hidden underneath by a thick layer of metal.