Yes, that's right.

As a result, the Administrator should not be able to easily detach from this room. And she and Cardinal are almost exactly equal practitioners. For Lin Yiyan and the others, as long as they cut down the time that cardinal had won to cancel out the enemy's divine technique, the victory would be decided, and this would become the case.

However, even when Cardinal was so rebuked, the faint smile of the High Priest did not dissipate.

"Four against one? …… No, that's a little bit wrong. Properly speaking, it should be...... Four against three hundred, including me. As soon as the sweet voice stopped, the Colossus of the Sword, which had been knocked into the air behind the High Priest, and almost completely destroyed the metal block, emitted a discordant sound capable of shattering the eardrums.

"What......" Cardinal whispered. In her opinion, the Colossus should have been completely powerless after being hit by a super fierce triple electric attack. Lin Yiyan also thought so.

However, the glimmer in the eyes of the Colossus, which had been on the verge of disappearing just a moment, now glowed with blue-white fire like two stars. Two murderous gazes shot straight at Lin Yiyan and the others, and the giant stood up with his hands on the ground as if all the damage had disappeared, his four legs poked deep into the floor, and he stood up with a dull roar.

Looking closely, the sword bones that had been struck by cardinal's lightning and scorched white smoke everywhere had also recovered at some point, blooming like a new product. While it is true that the high-priority weapons in this world have the ability to restore the Mandate of Heaven on their own, it must also be honestly put into the scabbard. It would take at least a whole day for the Mandate of Heaven to be restored to its maximum value, not to mention that the swords that made up the Colossus were just ornaments attached to the pillars.

Even if, as the Administrator said, all of those parts have artifact-level priority, there's no reason to restore them so quickly. However, the Sword Giant, standing behind the High Priest, exuded an extremely strong sense of oppression that even surpassed that before the lightning strike. If the energy produces such a colossus, it may be able to withstand the massive attack of the dark territory.

Standing in place, Lin Yiyan, who couldn't say a word, heard the voice of the young sage, "Yi Yan, Alice, and Yugeo retreat behind the old man!" Never come out! ”

Following the instructions, the first to hide behind Cardinal were the two people except Lin Yiyan. Alice's wound through her right chest was almost healed. She lost her golden breastplate, and the cyan knight's uniform inside became tattered, but her movements showed no signs of injury.

Alice, who straightened up and held the sword of the golden wood, asked Lin Yiyan in a low voice, "Yi Yan...... ...... this person is? ”

“…… The name is Cadinal. It was exiled by the administrator two hundred years ago, another high priest. ”

And it is also the counterpart of the administrator, the formatter. The one who returns the world to nothing with deep compassion. Of course, it can't be said so much. Looking at Alice, who showed a surprised expression, Lin Yiyan continued to explain, "It's okay, it's our companion." She was the one who helped Ugeo and me and guide us here. And she also loves the world from the bottom of her heart and is sad about it. ”

At least that's true. Although Alice still didn't understand, she nodded deeply as she put her left hand on her right chest where it was healed by cardinal's magical power, "I see." The advanced divine art is also a mirror that reflects the user's heart...... The technique that healed my fatal wound was very warm, so I believed her. ”

That's right, Lin Yiyan nodded with deep feeling. Even in the case of a preliminary healing technique that uses stereotyped commands, whether or not the caster infuses prayers from the heart when using it on others can make a huge difference in the other person's feelings.

Cardinal's healing is full of true love that gently embraces all suffering. Because of this, Lin Yiyan will look forward to and believe that her plan to return the whole world to nothing is still negotiable, but this is all after winning this battle.

What is the way to make the Colossus of Sword, which has completely lost its power, completely recover in an instant, and how to fight against it. You have to get through that first. The colossus with a glowing black and gold light is approaching this side little by little.

Cardinal, who was confronting him, set up his cane and showed no signs of relaxing, but this time he couldn't hit the Colossus with a massive spell to silence it as before. The moment Cardinal uses the technique to attack, the administrator should be wishful thinking.

Hurry up and think about it. This is the only thing Lin Yiyan can do now. The Sword Giant's self-healing ability should have been brought about by the Memory Liberation Technique. If this is the case, the original materials of the thirty swords that make up the body of the Colossus should have this property.

When I first heard the natural recovery of the Mandate of Heaven, I thought of the giant tree Kigascida, which was the predecessor of the sword, but its super recovery power also came from the abundant supply of space resources in the forest. However, the space resources in this room had been depleted during the previous battle with Chudelkin, and it was impossible to recover instantaneously in any case. In other words, the basic material of the Colossus is not a natural material.

This way, the only possibilities left are creatures that have resilience without relying on spatial resources. However, Cardinal has previously said that the huge named monsters that used to exist in this world are all extinct. Moreover, the ordinary animals such as bears, cows, and other animals in this area are not high priority enough to produce that kind of power anyway. Even if 10,000 animals were transformed together, it would not be able to integrate the power of an artifact held by the knight. After all, beasts have very few mandates and short lifespans. There is a certain proportional relationship between priority and durability, and to make thirty weapons of that level, at least a thousand, no, it should be the destiny of tens of thousands of large animal uint......

Wait a minute. Did the administrator say something strange just now? Four people, three hundred. The resources used to create the Colossus of the Sword were not animal-type moving objects. It's the human unit, that is, the human beings who live in this world. And it took three hundred people, enough to completely destroy a small village.

The conclusion that the brain is almost scorched by speeding thinking should be the truth, and intuition tells it to itself. Although the answer was quickly found, there was nothing refreshing at all. On the contrary, the overwhelming terror hit Lin Yiyan, causing Lin Yiyan to get goosebumps from his toes to his back.

Under Orld people are not just objects that can act, they have a real soul, which is a fluct light, just like us in the real world. Moreover, even if they are turned into swords, they will not stop active as long as there is a fluct light.

In other words, the people who became the various parts of the colossus still retain consciousness even though they can't speak, can't see, can't hear. The small cardinal's body trembled, and it seemed that he had come to the same conclusion as Lin Yiyan. Holding the hand that held the staff tightly, it became strangely pale.

“…… You guy. There was no childishness in her hoarse words, but anger in them, "You guy. How do you make such a ...... Such an act of losing conscience! You're a ruler, aren't you!! Shouldn't the people who have been turned into sword puppets be the ones you should protect!! ”

Immediately after, two exclamations sounded on Lin Yiyan's left side at the same time.

"The people ......? The people, that is, the people...... Kind? Yugeo shook back and whispered.

"That monster...... Is it a human being? Alice groaned with her left hand on her chest that had been pierced before.

As if reminiscing about the shock, horror, and anger of Lin Yiyan and the others, the administrator smiled and slowly replied, "That's right. I finally noticed it. Originally, I was worried that if this continued, you would all die before you could figure it out. ”

The Absolute Ruler smiled innocently, clapped his hands, and continued, "Still, I am a little disappointed with you little fellow. I've been watching me for the past two hundred years, but I haven't fully understood me. Obviously, in a sense, I am still your mother's body. ”

“…… What a joke! You can see your completely corrupted old body clearly! ”

"Then why do you still say such stupid things? The inhabitants to be protected. I'm not going to do those boring things for inferior creatures. The administrator was still smiling, but Lin Yiyan felt that the temperature of the air around her was dropping rapidly. Her mouth with an absolute zero smile continued to utter cold, piercing words, "I'm the Dominant. The Nether only needs to be governed by my will. Whether it's a human form or a sword, it's not a big deal. ”

"You...... This guy ......" Cardinal's hoarse voice stopped.

Lin Yiyan didn't know what to say. No, the spiritual aspect of this existence is far beyond my comprehension. As her name suggests, she is a system administrator, and in her eyes the inhabitants of the human world are nothing more than data files that can be rewritten at will. In other words, it's like a real-world addict who keeps downloading a lot of files just to collect and organize them, and is indifferent to what they contain.

During her conversation with Cardinal in the Great Library, she had said that the principle of action imprinted in the soul of the Administrator was to maintain the status quo of the world. While this is not wrong, it is only a glimpse of the leopard.

In the old SAO world, the first generation of cardinal, which had no soul and was just a management program, did it really treat us players as human beings, that is, beings with consciousness?

The answer is no. We are nothing more than data files that are managed, selected, and eliminated. Quenella, a young girl from the past, may not be able to kill. However, the current administrator no longer sees humans as human beings.