Moreover, the ordinary animal units such as bears, cows, and others in this area do not have a high priority that is 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, it would take 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 weird just now?

Four people, three hundred.

The resources used to create the Colossus of the Sword are 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.

Thinking in high speed—my brain is almost burning—and this conclusion should be the truth, my gut tells me. Although the answer was quickly found, there was nothing refreshing at all. On the contrary, an overwhelming horror came upon me, giving me goosebumps from my toes to my back.

The Under orld people are not just objects that can act, they have a real soul just like us real-world people, that is, Fluct Light. Moreover, even if they are turned into swords, Fluct Light will not stop moving as long as the physical body is present.

In other words, the people who became the various parts of the colossus are still conscious—even if they can't speak, they can't see, they can't hear.

Cardinal's body shuddered as if he had come to the same conclusion as me. 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 be protecting!!"

Immediately after, two exclamations rang out on my left side at the same time.

"People......? The people, that is, the people...... class?"

Eugeo 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.

The Administrator smiled as if reminiscing at the shock, horror, and anger of the four of us, and replied slowly:

"That's right. Eventually, Yu 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 with a snap, and continued:

"But, you're a little disappointed in me. 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 that stupid thing? The inhabitants to be protected. I'm not going to do those boring things for inferior creatures."

Administrator was still smiling, but I felt the air around her drop in temperature. Her mouth, with a smile like absolute zero, 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.

I don't know what to say.

This woman named Administrator - no, the spiritual aspect of this being is far from something I can comprehend. 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 the files contain.

During her conversation with Cardinal in the Great Library, she had stated that the principle of action imprinted in the Administrator's soul 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, conscious beings?

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 Administrator no longer sees humans as human beings.

"Ahh

The manager tilted his head and smiled, looking down at us from a distant height.

"Is it because this thing is transformed from a mere 300 Units that it scares you?"

"Actually said...... Only?"

Cardinal's accusations were out of order, and her enemies nodded happily:

"It's, it can only be said to be, a small part...... Bub. Do you think how many Fluct Lights broke before this puppet was finished? And it's just a prototype. In order to combat the annoying load experiments, the mass-produced type needs to be completed, well, I think it should be at least half."

"Half...... Yes......"

"Half is half. Half of the 80,000 Human Units exist in the human world...... That's 40,000 units. As long as there are these...... It's enough to repel the Dark Territory's invasion, and it can hit that side."

With these chilling words, the Administrator's silver pupils turned to the knight standing to my right.

"Well, so you're satisfied, little Alice? You can protect your cherished human world, right?"

Alice listened in silence to her mocking laughter.

Although I noticed that her hand holding the hilt of the Sword of the Golden Wood was trembling slightly, I couldn't tell if it was out of fear or anger.

In the end, what came out of her mouth was a question that had been suppressed to the limit.

「…… His Holiness the High Priest. I'm afraid you can't listen to people anymore. So, I'm asking you from the perspective of someone who is also a user of divine magic. Where is the owner of the thirty swords that made this doll?"

I was momentarily confused. The one who freed the memory of the thirty swords and made them into the Colossus was, of course, the Administrator himself. So, although contrary to the principle, I think that its owner should still be the High Priest.

However, Alice's next sentence overturned my speculation.

"The priest can't be the owner. Even if you break the principle that there is only one sword that can be used for complete control, you can't break it at all. Because - to carry out memory liberation, it is necessary to have a strong affection between the sword and the owner of the sword. Like me and the Kaneki sword, the other knights and their artifacts, or like Kirito and Yugeo and their swords. If the master doesn't love the sword, and if he is not loved by the sword, he can't do it at all! Priest, if the sword that makes up this puppet comes from the innocent people, you will never be loved by this sword!!"

With an awe-inspiring echo, Alice ended her questioning.

The space was silent again. But the Administrator's enigmatic laughter disrupted that once again.

"Hehehe...... Why is the young soul so delicate? The sentimental personality is as sweet and sour as the apple has just been plucked...... I really want to crush you into juice right now, and drink all the juice that is not left."

The silver mirror-like pupils shimmered with iridescent brilliance, indicating the excitement in his heart.

"Not yet, though. It's not that time yet...... little Alice, you're trying to say that I can't make these swords work beyond the imagination that actually exists, right? That's right. I don't have enough space in my storage area to record so many swords with high accuracy."

The colossus, made up of thirty swords, was still slowly moving towards the place where the High Priest pointed with a graceful posture.

In my understanding, Total Armed Domination is the skill in which the owner awakens various information about the appearance, texture, and weight of the weapon in his Fluct Light, and then uses commands to change the weapon with imagination.

In other words, in order to perform this spell, the owner must keep all the information about the sword in his memory.

If I were to have the Black Sword Armed with Total Domination, I would first have to make sure that the error between the sword's information A in the public memory repository called the Main Visualizer in the center of the Light-Cube cluster and the sword's information B in my Fluct Light was infinitesimus. Next, I can reproduce the change of information B that I imagined to information A, that is, affect other humans or objects. This logic is the same as the "transformation" that happened to me before.

Well, according to what the Administrator just said, her Light-Cube capacity should have been pressed to the limit by three hundred years of memory.