"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.

The pain and fear made Yukina tremble. Even so, she wrapped her hand around the back of the ancient city, smiled with all her strength and whispered in his ear,

"Senior...... Come on...... Hurry up, please ......."

As if lured by the murmur, Guru buried his teeth in Yukina's body.

From the lips of Yukina, who closed her eyes tightly, she let out a little breath (xie) -

……

"Ahh Bastard. It's ruthless enough! Gently wiped the blood from the corners of his mouth with his hand, and Gu Gu smiled unpleasantly.

Everywhere you look, you can see the surrounding scenes.

The hull of the cruise ship was torn apart, and the frozen sea surrounded it. What remains inside the ship is the shattered Nina's 'refining core'—

And—

Yukina, whose face was flushed, was falling weakly on the wrist of the ancient city.

"Did you save it again?" The ancient city sighed, feeling the breath of the girl in his arms.

Leaning on the ancient city, Yukina slowly opened her eyes. Looking up at the ancient city with a cold smile, he sighed as if he was relieved.

The sweet fragrance of her hair stimulated her nostrils, and Gucheng felt a little helpless. The shoulders of Yukina in her arms are so slender that you can't believe it. It feels like she's going to break if you push hard, so you can't touch her easily.

However, it was she who once again stopped the bloody storm (bao) movement in the ancient city!

"That's right...... What about Hase!? ”

Guru asked Yukina in his arms. At this moment, a humble voice came from behind the ancient city

"That...... I'm here to say. ”

When I turned back to the ancient city, I saw Haze sitting with a cowering hand for some reason. Natsune's cheeks, flushed, were eloquently arguing about what kind of scene she had witnessed.

"Natsuon-chan ......!? You see, you see...... Is it? ”

Yukina asked Natsune in a raised tone.

was seen by Xia Yin at the moment of blood sucking. Although it is obvious no matter how you think about it, it is really impossible to hide the shaking of the ancient city that is hiding that it is a vampire for the time being.

However, Xia Yin's reaction was slightly different from what they expected in the ancient city.

"Very ...... Terrible. Yuna-chan just had the feeling of an adult, and said. ”

Xia Yin said in a shy and slightly wistful tone.

Then Yukina "Huh! Crying out and froze his expression,

"So!"

"—Trivia later! No time. The Sage is about to be reborn. ”

Probably frustrated with Yukina's argument, Nina Adillad cried out. She gathered the remnants of a trace amount of "spiritual blood" residues, and finally regenerated a part of the **. This also means that Nina's "refining core" is still alive.

"Have you been found out?" smiled bitterly for a while, his bloodsucking behavior against the watcher had been completely exposed in front of Xia Yin, that is to say, his secret had been completely known by Haze Xia Yin!

……

Mission 1: Stop the activity of the artificial god 'Sage's Spiritual Blood'!

Rewards: 1000 equipment points, 1000 item points, 1000 skill points, and 1000 summon points!

Mission 2: Save the Great Alchemist, Nina Andrade!

Obtain the supreme sword skill 'Ten Thousand Swords Mastery'!

Mission 3: Awaken the Third Beast, the White Steel of Crystal!

Quest Reward: Level up the current system!

"Is it finally here?" the ancient city smiled coldly, "I've been waiting for you for a long time!" ”

As if in response to the words of the ancient city, a golden light struck from the ancient city's heads. That's the heavy metal particle cannon of the "Sage".

However, the ancient city waved his arm at the laser, and suddenly the particle laser beam began to disintegrate into the most basic atoms, completely dissipating into the air.

Gu Gu looked at the figure of the 'sage' above, and Gu Gu looked at him coldly and arrogantly, "You gave me such a big surprise, then I have to move a little bit, 'Sage'!" Don't just hang it there!! ”

At the same time, Xia Yin also hugged the reborn Nina on the side to her lap.

“…… Gu cheng...... Thou ......"

Nina looked up at the back of the ancient city and made a disturbed sound. Because she knows better than anyone the horrors of the "sage", the artificial "god" created by the alchemist's extreme use of the occult arts.

However, the ancient city just sneered and watched the 'sage' spit out (xie) arrogant words like a dream: "A mere artificial god, let me end all this!" From now on, it's the war of the Fourth True Ancestor! ”

"No, senior." Yukina brandished the silver spear, and the silver light flashed, and she stood in front of the ancient city. "It's our war!"

In the direction of her gaze stood a battered Amazuka Mercury. His eyes, having lost all purpose, only showed his hatred for the ancient city.

The golden giant floating in the air laugh......ed as if mocking everything in the world.

That was the order to tell the battle to begin.

……

The length of the "sage" has reached more than ten meters high.

Although the shape resembles a human, his ** has no eyes and no ears. The whole body is covered by smooth curves, like a sketch model placed in the art room. In addition, the silhouette made of the golden ratio makes it particularly beautiful.

Spheres similar to Nina's "cores" were buried all over his body, moving like eyeballs and staring coldly at the ground.

And the golden light churned like a flame in the bone-wide mouth.

"Click...... Click...... Click...... Stupidity...... Do you want to resist, incomplete beings? ”

The glow of the charged particles was released from his laughing mouth.

And the thunderous lion summoned by the ancient city knocked down the light.

"Shut up, you shit!"

The Sage "deformed his arm and wrist into a massive blade and slashed at the half-destroyed hull of the cruise ship." And it was a crimson two-horned beast that caught that blow. It unleashed an explosive shockwave that destroyed the tentacles of countless value-added "sages".

"I don't know what you think, but I do know that even if you were made to be 'perfect,' you're still sealed. Perhaps, in a way, you and I are the same. ”

The "sage's eyes" rolled all over his body to look at the ancient city.

"Click...... Click...... Incomprehensible. The incomplete logic of incomplete existence is incomprehensible to me. ”

"Really? I can't understand it..."Even so, the ancient city smiled, laughing unscrupulously, and said sarcastically, his eyes full of red blood, "Because, you are not perfect at all! ”

His body exuded a faint kingly aura that only belonged to the Fourth True Ancestor, and the ancient city was like a superior person, looking at him with the pity that only the strong have: "What about having an immortal **?" What if they have the power to rival the gods? Who acknowledges your existence! And who will approve of you? It's because you don't even have a heart. That's why it was sealed by humans. ”

"Not only are you imperfect, but you are weaker and more flawed than humans. That's why you're sealed away by tiny humans! ”

"Shut up, it's not enough to be an incomplete existence. I don't need to approve it at all. I am a complete being. ”

The "sage" waved his head violently as if he was about to wave the words of the ancient city. It's like an ignorant child who is obsessed with something.

However, the ancient city smiled again, and the ancient city looked directly at the so-called artificial god with cold eyes: "So, you will lose." Lose to me this incomplete existence! ”

The pupils, which were originally deep black, had been dyed crimson, and the ancient city looked at the artificial god with contempt. A powerful golden bolt of thunder began to emerge from his body~

On the frozen sea, the sword witch of the Lion King Mechanism was staring at Tenzuka.

The tentacles of the liquid metal turned into silky blades and struck Yukina at subsonic speed. But the graceful trajectory of the silver spear knocked down the attack one after another.

The tentacles of Amazuka, which had been severed by the "Snow Wolf" that had severed its magic, turned into simple metal flakes scattered on the ice.

“…… Even if you know you're just being used, do you still plan to fight? ”

Yukina asked the other party calmly. And the metal lifeform that called itself Amazuka Mercury regenerated its destroyed tentacles with force, and an empty smile appeared.

"I'm sorry, because I don't know what else to do."

"Amazuka mercury...... You've ......"

Looking at his chest, Yukina glanced away. The black gem that had been buried in Amazuka's chest had been badly damaged, and there were almost no prototypes left. With the slightest movement, its fragments will shatter.

"I'm scared...... I'm afraid I'm not going to be me anymore...... Who am I? What did you do to be born and what should you do!? ”

Tenzuka roared violently, blasting his right arm apart. Countless fragments flew out and hit Yukina like a shotshot. Yukina dodged the attack and shook her head as she said "I don't know".

"Probably...... Finding your answer is what it means to live as a human being! ”

“……！”

In a small amount of time, the uninterrupted attack of Amatsuka was interrupted for a while. And Yukina didn't let go of that moment, her lips quietly knitted a congratulatory message.

"The sword of the high god of the son of the lion is enshrined—"

The mana that swells up in Yukina's body is amplified by "Snow Wolf". The dazzling light released by the tip of its spear made the heavens collapse little by little.

"I see...... I ......"

Wrapped in pure white light, Amazuka muttered with a slightly soft expression.

He had no need to do anything for the "sage" at all. There is no need to harm a large number of human beings and make them sacrifice to get human **. Because from the moment he aspired to be human, he was able to exist as a human being. If he could have noticed this—