Looking at the small skeleton that fell on the deck, the ancient city said dumbly. There were only skeletons, but a tiny fraction of the "sages". Not a single drop of the liquid metal lifeform that was supposed to be the flesh and blood of the artificial "gods" was included.

"Moham!"

Yukina looked at her feet. Further down the damaged hull of the ferry -

"The 'Sage' attacked the ship...... It's not ...... to target me or Natsuon-chan! ”

"Is the target seawater?"

Nina let out a cry of surprise.

"Bastard!" Gu Gu's face suddenly turned pale.

Seawater contains precious metals like uranium, the total amount of which is said to be hundreds of thousands or even tens of millions of tons. It is an artificial island reserve, which cannot be compared to the huge number.

In order to resurrect the Sage, the amount of metal should be easily collected with the power of the Sage, which means that no one can stop the Sage from resurrecting!

"Click, click, click, world, become a part of the whole me."

Running through the hull of the ferry, huge clumps of "sage's spiritual blood" emerge from the sea.

It swallowed the golden skeleton that had fallen on the floor and finally acquired its full human form.

Become a giant with a body height of six or seven meters-

"Don't succeed ——!"

The ancient city gave the order to attack the beast, and almost at the same time, the golden giant let out a flash of light—

Two huge forces collided fiercely together!

……

"Hmm...... Uh......"

Encased in a soft, crimson liquid, Yukina regained her consciousness.

When I opened my eyes, I saw the cracks in the destroyed deck, as well as the blue sky. It was as if he had fallen from a crack and lost consciousness.

Dust was scattered all around, and the destroyed hull was still shrouded in heat. It is estimated that the duration of the coma is two or three minutes at most. Not much time should have passed since the explosion.

However, the surrounding situation has changed dramatically.

The hull of the ferry, which seems to be a quarter of the way from the bow, is broken back and forth. Although the students who took refuge behind the hull should be fine, it is only a matter of time before the ship sinks if it continues.

And the movements of the "sage" are also of concern. There is also an ancient city that confronts the "sage" head-on-

"Senior——!

Yukina suddenly reacted and propped herself up.

The five senses were normal, the body was basically uninjured, and the silver spear was also tightly held in his hand. Although he fell from the deck seven or eight meters high, the crimson liquid seemed to cushion it a little.

"Is this the 'spiritual blood of the sage'......? Miss Nina? ”

After discovering the identity of the liquid, Yukina is confused.

I'm afraid that at the moment when the ancient city clashed with the "sage", Nina turned her ** back into liquid metal to shelter Yukina and them. Yukina should be able to be harmless because of this.

However, Nina does not respond to Yukina's call, which makes Yukina feel uneasy.

"Natsuon-chan ......? Great......"

Right next to Yukina, lying Natsune, who was unconscious.

She also had no obvious injuries, but like Yukina, she was unconscious from the impact of the explosion. After confirming that Natsune's breathing sound was not abnormal, Yukina stroked her chest with relief

Then in the next moment, Yukina was kicked from peace of mind to despair.

"Learn ...... Long? ”

In the light that shone through the rift in the deck, she saw the back of the ancient city. Maintaining the posture of liberating the beast, his movements were still, and his body was motionless there—

"Senior!? Please cheer up, senior! ”

Yukina ran from the side, and then lost her speech in a daze.

What appeared in front of her was just a metal bronze statue that looked like an ancient city.

Exactly what happened, it was already obvious without even thinking about it. It is the attack of Amazuka mercury. At the moment when the attention of the ancient city was occupied by the "sage", Amazuka sneaked up from the side and used a material reorganization on the ancient city. The immortal vampire True Ancestor was powerless because it turned into metal.

"How could it be...... Such...... Senior......"

Yukina fell to her knees at the feet of the ancient city.

So far, Yukina has witnessed the mortal wounds of the ancient city many times, and each time he has come back to life like a nobody. All of this is due to the anomalous regenerative abilities possessed by the True Ancestor.

Even if he was seriously injured by a vampire of the "old generation" who would die on the spot, the True Ancestor would not die. If you ask why, you can only say that it is a curse, an immortal curse imposed by the gods—

But this is not the case with the current state of the ancient city. The ancient city was not killed, it was just turned into something else, unable to think or act on its own, just turned into a mass of metal.

If you are not killed, you cannot be resurrected.

This is a theory that is simple enough. But it is precisely because of simplicity that there is no way to avoid this theory. Then the ancient city will live forever as a metal object, as it is now.

"This kind of thing—"

Yukina bit her lip tightly and grasped the silver spear. If the "Snow Wolf" can neutralize the magic power, it may be able to save the current ancient city. Although the vibration wave of the godhead will hurt the ** of the ancient city, the ancient city has also been resurrected from that kind of injury before. As long as he can return to the flesh, he should be able to save him.

"Why!?"

However, even with the glowing spear spire past, the appearance of the ancient city remained unchanged. He was still a lead-colored clump of lead, not moving, and showing no signs of starting to regenerate.

The silver spear slipped from Yukina's hands, which had lost her power, and fell at her feet.

“…… For something that was once transformed into metal by matter, there is no magic at work anymore. Even if the gun could neutralize the magic, it wouldn't make him change back to his original form. The ancient city there is no longer a vampire, just a metal in the shape of an ancient city. ”

In the ears of Yukina, who was stunned, there was a small sound that came from time to time. Yukina looked around slowly.

Then she saw Nina, who had only the upper half of her body left. The deep ruby on her chest was deeply fractured, half missing. It seems that the attack of the "sage" really caused her harm.

“…… Although it was only for a moment, the ancient city completely atomized the ferry, dodging the direct attack of the particle cannon in order to protect your friends. However, because of this, the ancient city itself was unable to avoid the attack of the next Tianzuka. ”

With that, Nina's body shattered. After deterioration, the liquid metal lifeform is no longer able to maintain the human form.

“…… The power of the concubine's body, just protecting you and Xia Yin is already the limit. Sorry ......"

In the end, there was only one sentence left, and Nina's words were interrupted. Her voice was no longer heard.

The "Sage" seems to have recovered the fragments of himself that had been knocked away by the attack on the ancient city. I'm sure I'll be back up in less than a few minutes.

Yukina reaches out to the fallen spear. However, he no longer had the strength to pick up that gun.

In any case, the "Snow Wolf" alone could not defend itself against the attack of the "Sage". What can be done when only Yukina is left?

However, the next moment, the entire ferry was completely frozen.

It's freezing magic—but the magicians or demons who can produce such violent phenomena have never even heard of it.

Wrong. There is only one exception - that is the strongest vampire in the world, the beast of the Fourth True Ancestor.

“…… It's ugly to be against scrap iron created by alchemists, boy. ”

Yukina, who was standing there, turned around because she heard the familiar girl's voice.

The owner of the voice is Nagisa Aka. But that detached and inhuman tone is clearly someone else.

Nagisa appeared out of nowhere, and walked to the metallized ancient city.

With her hair loose, she looks more mature than usual, and she is unleashing a creepy beauty.

"But I still appreciate the fact that I still want to protect this girl in the end."

Nagisa's slender fingertips touched the ancient city's chin. Then she grinned.

"I'll lend you a little bit of strength in this regard. Wake up, water spirit—"

Nagisa said as she put her lips on the ancient city's lips.

Yukina forgot to even blink, and stared blankly at the scene. I was so surprised that I couldn't breathe properly. And now Nagisa doesn't even seem to see Yukina next to her.

"What a superfluous thing, Agulola." When the girl touched the lips of the ancient city, the ancient city instantly changed back to its original state, and looked at the girl in front of her coldly and arrogantly, "It's not so easy for me to be defeated by just an artificial god!" ”

"Really?" The girl smiled coldly, "Then I'll wait and see!" ”

The girl turned her back again and left. But Yukina couldn't stop her.

Because at this time, the violent magic suddenly filled the atmosphere, and the hull of the cruise ship began to shake as a result.

"Learn, senior!?"

The source of the magic is the ancient city. Retrieving his body, he began to wield his magic indiscriminately. Unleashed a huge, overwhelming, and dense and destructive wave of mana—

"Could it be that the blood of the Fourth True Ancestor has occupied the self-consciousness ......!?"

Realizing the reason for the rampant operation of the ancient city, Yukina groaned.

It wasn't because the beast was furious because it was awakened by the ancient city's force, because the ancient city had already obtained the approval of the beast to recognize itself as the host, so the beast didn't bounce. What went berserk was the destructive factor in the blood of the Fourth True Ancestor!

"Uh......!"

There is no time to hesitate. Yukina clenched the "Snow Wolf". Then he pointed the sharpened silver tip of the spear at the heart of the ancient city.

No matter how fierce the magic of the Fourth True Ancestor was, Yukina's spear was still able to tear through it and reach the ancient city.

"-Senior!"

I'm sorry, muttered like this, and Yukina flashed her spear.

The huge torrent of magic was cut off in an instant. Seizing the moment of space, Yukina jumped into the arms of the ancient city. Then he wrapped his hand around the back of the ancient city that was standing defenselessly, and pressed his lips to the other's. From it was injected into his body was blood. It was bitten open by biting her lip and holding it in her mouth beforehand, and Yukina's own blood.

Since it's the ancient city that is making the vampire's power run wild, then just give him a little stimulation to awaken his blood-sucking urge.

"Huh......!?"

Although it was expected to a certain extent, the changes that took place in the ancient city were very dramatic.

was rudely hugged by the other party, and Yukina instantly held her breath. Then Guru put his lips on the lips of Yukina, who had become resistless. The kiss was so long that it was as if I wanted to taste every drop of Yukina's blood.

A chill crept up behind her back, and the strength receded from the stiff Yukina.

As if attracted by the scent of Yukira, Guro swooped down on her neck.

"Ah......h

A sound leaked from Yukina's mouth, and Guro pressed her sharp teeth against Yukina's snow-white neck, which was leaning back.