Chapter 978: Prologue to the Beginning and End (4)
——AD.3273——
"[The whole project, the end - cough cough cough! 】”
Boom - Click!
As soon as he left the Reiko transfer channel, Ryunosuke felt his breath suffocated, and then he saw the sky completely obscured by lead-gray clouds.
Before he could make any moves, Matthew had already placed the shield on the ground and activated the Noble Phantasm to improvise a small castle and its enclosure.
A two-man tall enclosure instantly rose along the edge of a pale blue magical barrier and closed into a complete shield above it, keeping out the smell of dust, rust, and tar.
"I thought I wouldn't come across a peculiar spot full of this smell after leaving London and the American continent, but it turned out to be a three-in-one? What is the era of heavy pollution in modern times? Ryunosuke snorted vigorously twice, drove the smell out of his nose, and then laughed at himself a little, and went to a few special spots with a good environment, and he was able to cultivate his sense of smell.
"Can't smell anything?" The projected Lin Hao shrugged his nose, as if he was selling cuteness.
"Hmm...... The current age is ...... 3273 AD? Matthew inquired for a long time, but after saying the words, she was also stunned, but this proved that she was looking at something from the script, and did not memorize all the information in her head from the beginning.
"Could it be that we have not been able to repair the future of human reason?" Ryunosuke guessed casually.
"There is a possibility that if a Heroic Spirit with the ability to create a special point has not used it since it obtained that ability, and has not used it until this era, it will create a special point that occurs at a time that does not exist, and normal restoration work will not be able to detect it." Matthew explained earnestly.
"In that case......" Ryunosuke looked at Yard, "Do you know what the situation is in here right now?" ”
"Even if I'm a search engine, I wouldn't know what hasn't happened yet," Yard complained, "but if I had given me a little time to do some research, I would have told you more." 】”
"Please." Ryunosuke took two steps back.
Zizizi——
The gray-white Yard's body once again rose with blue electricity, levitating and slowly rotating.
Looking at it as if it was about to short-circuit, Ryunosuke remembered his previous actions on the North American continent.
Clearly, he chose to help a third party: the "Native Americans" were not wrong, and he did not mention the role that Nightingale and Finn played in Lin Hao's recovery, but only the advantage of this force—that they had access to treatment.
Unlike the situation where the steam robots can only be repaired, and the Celtic servants cannot replenish their magic and can only be re-summoned, the Indians in their own camp who can be rescued by Nightingale and Finn as long as they do not die on the spot are in some ways more powerful than the other two forces.
As for the high-end combat power, on the robot side are Edison and Tesla, two power masters, while Celtic is running around in an ox cart Queen Maeve and somehow "Altered" and looks like a scorpion of the blackened Cú Chularin.
In contrast, the Native American side of Jeronimo, Finn, and Dilumudo combined was somewhat inadequate, and Nightingale did not listen to orders at all, and finally had to choose guerrilla warfare to wear down their strength.
After spending a lot of time doing this, the originally unfavored third party finally succeeded in the decisive battle between the two sides, and Ryunosuke's golden greatsword once again had an extra star.
As for Lin Hao, the servant she became that time was naturally not Princess Grannie, who had a relationship with Finn and Dilumudo, but Scáthach, the queen of the "Shadow Country" in Celtic mythology, but somehow she was mistaken by those two spearmen.
She seemed to be very angry that her Shadow Country was being misused, and that Cúchulainn was blackened by Maeve's influence, so she directly gave up her incarnation when she fought with it, and cast the [GateofSkye] full of death, and captured most of the Shadow Country and the black Scorpion-like Cuchulainn, otherwise she wouldn't have been able to win so happily.
What the? An army of robots over there? Because of the encounter with Finn, an expert in playing with water, most of them are scrapped, and a few very strong mechs are no different from scrap metal under the attack of Dilumudo's pair of "broken demons" and "attached unrepairable states".
Ryunosuke looked at Lin Hao's projection on the side while thinking, hoping that he could get along better this time.
Sneering –
Yard stopped spinning and discharging, and then spoke, "[In 2273, a full-scale nuclear war broke out on Earth, the exact cause of which cannot be determined, but it eventually led to the complete destruction of human civilization. 】”
'Huh?' Alayah's not a problem? And those magicians? Before Ryunosuke could complain about this background, Matthew asked worriedly.
"[Although there is no evidence, it is preliminarily inferred that he should be too busy to take care of himself," Yard said as he projected a virtual image of the earth in the air: "[Oil, coal, rare metals, all the minerals accumulated by the earth for five billion years have been mined, but mankind has still not been able to leave the home planet to start the space interstellar age, so they have set their sights on the wealth of their own people. 】”
"[If it is an outsider, or a small group of careerists who want to destroy the human race, of course 'Alayya' can send servants to stop it, but if the human being fights and wants to destroy himself, what can he do? Even if a strong man breaks his wrist and supports one side to destroy the other, how can he ensure that this half of the human race will not be divided into two factions to fight each other again? You know, the planet's resources are completely depleted. 】”
"As for the magicians and other transcendent beings, the power comes from the Alayya or the root itself, and only a few truly powerful have left Earth with their friends and disciples to find a new home. 】”
"How could it be ......" Matthew couldn't speak with his eyes wide open for a while, after all, he worked hard to save people, but it was still very shocking to find that it was all useless after hundreds of years.
Before Ryunosuke could persuade him, Lin Hao took the first step to speak: "But this is fake, we are in a 'peculiar point', and you didn't take the 'history' of the previous peculiar points seriously, why is this serious?" Is it just because it's in the 'future'? ”
"Senior......" Matthew seemed to understand a little, and his expression relaxed slightly.
Well done, this is more effective than what he was going to say "We are here to change this future", Ryunosuke nodded secretly, turned to Yard and asked, "So, what is the situation at this point in time?" ”
"[......Hmm]," Aad paused, and then said, "[At present, the forces of this wasteland are divided into three forces—]"
Dangdangdang.
At this moment, there was a knock on the door of the temporary castle, and at the same time the voice of a young woman was heard:
"The poor monk came from the Tang Dynasty in the east of the earth, went to the west to worship the Buddha and seek scriptures, the sky will be late passing by the treasure temple, can you borrow a night?"
Where is this like a treasure temple!
——[Three-legged, according to the desert, it is considered with great consideration]——
According to Ryunosuke's idea, it is the right thing to find the human gathering place in this wasteland as soon as possible and investigate how this peculiar point was formed.
Instead of receiving any strange female monks.
Yes, female monks.
The person who came to photograph the gate of this temporary fortress was a tall woman wearing a snow-white monk's robe, a bright yellow robe, an octagonal monk's hat, a gold-ringed tin staff in one hand, and a luggage package in the other.
Ryunosuke wanted to send her away with a sentence of "no fasting monk", but as if to match her sentence "It's getting late", the dark clouds that were originally just low and gray quickly turned black, and the breeze with the dim yellow sand dust gradually became fierce, and even the strange beast roar came from not far away, coupled with her kind expression of "if it's inconvenient, forget it", so that he couldn't say the words of refusal at all.
When returning to the inside of the castle, Ryunosuke found that Lin Hao's projection was gone, replaced by a little girl wearing a black night walker, a small cloak on her shoulders, a red scarf around her neck, and a kitten mask on her forehead, about ten years old, with purple hair and black skin, she was carrying a pair of gray-black daggers in her hand, and tilted her head cutely towards Ryunosuke:
"Brother~ Who is she?"
"Yes, ex-brother."
Lin Hao could have called his brother...... But Matthew, what are you doing with it?
"Her name is Westwalker, and she's a traveler, go and find a room for this girl to rest." Ryunosuke waved Matthew away with the Westwalker.
First of all, Ryunosuke didn't want to lead the way, and was going to stay to listen to Yard's scan of the world, and secondly, he didn't know the road either, after all, this was the castle that Maxiu had conjured, and it would be too strange if he was the master but didn't know the pattern.
"Sister West, are you traveling alone? Aren't you afraid of the beasts on the road? ”
"Do you mean the giant mole, the venomous sand scorpion, or the deathclaw? On the contrary, they are more afraid of the poor monks, but the poor monks do not eat meat, so I don't know where their fear comes from. ”
After the voices of the two girls disappeared into the depths of the castle, Yade, who had transformed into Lin Hao's pair of daggers, spoke: "[It turned out to be a servant of the Caster job, although I would like to say that this is a good start, but judging from her real name, this journey may be full of disasters and difficulties. 】”
"Yes, at least ninety-nine eighty-one ......" Ryunosuke complained and continued to ask, "What about the results of your detection before?" ”
He asked, while glancing at Lin Hao, according to experience, every peculiarity she will obtain a servant incarnation by being a "Heroic Spirit", it seems that due to the problem of synchronization rate, most of the time she can't make her own will dominant, such as Joan of Arc, Nero, Illya, but because last time she took control from the "Heroic Spirit Lin Hao", when she became Skaha, there were many times when she made the cold queen fall into a natural state, maybe she finally launched the "Shadow Gate" The act of wiping out the combat power of Queen Maeve is not unrelated to this.
As if sensing Ryunosuke's gaze, Lin Hao, who was in the form of a little girl, spoke: "Brother, this incarnation is very strange, although the synchronization rate between me and her is not high, but she took the initiative to give up the dominance and hide in the corner of her heart, as if she was very used to it." ”
Yes, the only place to insist is to call yourself "brother", and Lin Hao himself hasn't noticed it yet.
"Understood, but she must have her own reasons for doing so," Ryunosuke nodded in understanding, then turned his gaze to the pair of daggers, "Yard?" ”
"[Well, as I said before, nuclear war destroyed 'civilization', but not 'life', and life on the surface has gradually adapted to it and evolved accordingly after the initial subsidence of radiation, and many of these races have even given birth to intelligence and language, which have been named 'Ali Hundred Species' by humans. Yard re-projected the illusory earth, but this time, faint and stubborn fires emerged from the otherwise gray dead silence above, which seemed to wander aimlessly.
"Humans?" Ryunosuke raised an eyebrow.
"Of course, if there are no humans in this world, then there will be no Alayya, and there will be no corresponding servants to be summoned," Yard added some more water-blue points of light to the illusory earth, and unlike the wandering firelight, these "water lights" tend to expand outward in a fixed place.
"[This is before the nuclear war, the human beings who took refuge in the shelter in advance are not much different from the quality of a thousand years ago, and even degraded because of the long-term underground residence, they are gradually leaving their respective shelters to redevelop civilization, but the pace is very small, after all, the industrial base does not exist. 】”
"Shall we help them rebuild their civilization? It's too hard, isn't it? Ryunosuke frowned as he looked at the territories that looked like a lot of stars, but actually accounted for less than one percent of the total area of the earth.
"[No, life will always find its way out, and our hasty assistance will only help the seedlings, in fact, it is not for nothing that we will appear in this position,] " Yard quickly zoomed in on the globe. The view of the vicinity of this temporary castle is projected.
The lower left side of the map is where Ryunosuke is at the moment, a vast desert, the right side of the map gradually turns into a rocky beach Gobi, and a large area of lofty mountains appears above the map.
Although it is too large to be seen due to its large proportions, all three of them have complexes of buildings in the center that are out of step with their surroundings.
Yard deliberately gave them an arrow sign: "[These three forces belong to 'Ramses II', who will accept both humans and the Alibai species, as long as they have reason to communicate, they will accept it, the 'Mountain Man', who does not accept the Alibai species, but will not specifically target them, and the 'Artoria Pendragon', who only accepts humans who have magical power and can summon followers.] 】”
"......" Ryunosuke was silent for a long time, looking at his golden sword: "So our mission is to defeat that inexplicable King Arthur?" ”
"[No, in fact, either side can, as long as the current stable state of the three-legged power collapses, the 'Camelot' of King Arthur will defeat the remnant of the other party with a devastating force. Yade deliberately smiled evilly: "[Hehe, then, how do you choose, 'Ya~Se~'?" 】”
…… You can kind of know why Grey likes to beat and scold her.