Chapter 49: Ice vs. Steel (Finale)

Remembering her recent battle with the three knights, Hilda was defeated. Helplessly, because she was not a warrior in the first place, even if she was filled with powerful weapons, she would not be able to make the most of them. But even if she was helpless, the Maid of Steel still regretted it.

Hilda's job as a maid is that she has been doing her duty to the best of her duties since she was adopted eight years ago and came to the land with her lord, Count Lutga, whether it is household chores or taking care of the lord and lady.

Perhaps, as a maid, she is good enough. With Hilda's ability, character, and appearance, it was more than enough for any high-ranking nobles in the upper part of the imperial capital, and even in the imperial city. It can be said that taking care of a poor lord in a small suburban town is of little use to her.

But Hilda had no intention of leaving the town. Because, she is deeply in love with the lord and the three young ladies.

Eight years ago, the turmoil in the imperial capital, the struggle for the succession to the throne, that sudden disaster involved many innocent people.

Hilda's family is one of the many victims, and the Imperial Army is going berserk in the lower city. The soldiers of the different factions slaughtered each other in the city while shouting for the eradication of the unstables, while the remaining red-eyed soldiers pointed their swords at the citizens of the imperial capital, who were originally the object of protection.

Hilda, who was sixteen at the time, was weak and helpless and could only sit on the edge of the burning rubble, crying powerlessly in this crazy world.

And just as she was about to be consumed by despair, the young knight of silver descended upon her. The knight's spear pierced the chest of the Imperial soldier, his pale blonde hair stained with blood, and his piercing gaze shot with unspeakable anger and anxiety. "Is it all right, can you stand up alone?" Even so, the young knight gave a gentle greeting to the strange girl whom he had never known, and extended a helping hand to her.

I believe that there is no girl in this world who will not be tempted by this. At that time, the young knight in Hilda's eyes was like a prince charming who had come to hell to rescue her, and in her mind, it was a fateful encounter.

After the turmoil ended, Lutga was knighted and went into seclusion to Celia. said that it was a reward, but in fact, anyone can see that this is a left-moving move. However, Lutga, who left the imperial capital with the triplets who were babies at the time, did not express any dissatisfaction with this, but seemed to have unloaded a burden.

In Hilda's eyes, the strong and gentle young man always had a deep pathos hidden in his expression. As for the reason, Hilda also heard a little. Flora - An imperial princess and knight, Lutega's colleague and partner, and his fiancée. And she died in that power struggle.

The three young ladies are said to be the widows left by Princess Flora. As for why the two did not get married until they gave birth to an heir, it may have a lot to do with the complicated situation at the time and Flora's sensitive royal status. As a result, Lutga lost his beloved, which is probably a major reason why he chose to leave the Knights, leave the sad land of the imperial capital, and choose to retreat to the countryside after the turmoil.

When I first came to Celia, it was a miserable place. Thieves are rampant, and the people are struggling to make a living. All the townspeople hid in their low houses and lived like refugees. Perhaps no nobleman would have been willing to govern such a place, but with the tireless efforts of Lutga, everything quickly improved.

In her daily life together on the frontier, Hilda gradually discovered many aspects of her vision of the perfect knight. Every day is messed up by her daughters.、Good at cooking but reckless in cleaning.,Approachable to the townspeople of the town.,Do everything yourself.。

Speaking of which, at the beginning, Lutga also spent all his wealth to take in many orphans in the town. The boys of that time now have a strong physique and are self-reliant in the town, while the girls almost all continue to work as maids in the lord's palace - just like Hilda.

In fact, everyone knows that there are only four people in the lord's mansion to take care of, and there is no need for so many servants at all, but even so, Count Lutga never mentioned who he would drive away, which became the biggest reason why he could not accumulate wealth as a lord.

Of course, Lutga did not keep these young maids by his side for some lewd purpose, as many other nobles do. On the contrary, it is even more incredible that Lutga has not attacked any maid for so many years.

Perhaps in this regard, everyone has the same good fantasies about Lutga as Hilda.

However, only Hilda, who had followed her all the way from the imperial capital, knew that until today, the faint sadness that the knight had been hanging on his face had never dissipated. He is still wholeheartedly in love with the deceased Princess Flora. But because of this, Hilda's love for him has become more and more inextricable.

Even if she can't show her heart in her life, even if she wants to give up her happiness as a woman, as long as she can stay by his side, she will be satisfied.

As a result, Lutega's cherished daughter is also an irreplaceable treasure for Hilda. She has always invested motherly love in the three of them, and vowed to give everything she has to protect them.

However, she is very weak, and in this cruel continent, she is just a weak woman with no strength. Soon after Lutga left the city, Celestia was attacked by bandits, and on the night she was humiliated and nearly killed, Hilda felt more remorse for her weakness than for the humiliation and pain she had endured in her body.

Again and again, she thought that if the real mother of the children, Princess Flora, beautiful and powerful enough to fight alongside Lutega, was here, she would not let the situation turn into what she was looking for.

In the end, Hilda survived and got her current body. It was a gift from Miss Eliser, and she was proud of it. She believes that this is the identification of the Cruznier family with themselves.

Even if it is difficult to realize her relationship, even if she cannot become the mother of the three young ladies, Hilda is still determined to give her voice to the family. This is to repay gratitude, but it is also self-satisfaction.

For this reason, Hilda is determined to gain power, and she is no longer satisfied with being a maid who is proficient in housework, but she wants to stand side by side with her beloved, whether it is a mountain of swords or a sea of fire.

So, Hilda put in the same effort.

Whenever she has time, she will go to Alize's research room to conduct simulated combat drills.

After countless high-intensity trainings, she is no longer what she used to be, perhaps because of her natural talent, and now her proficiency in the use of multiple weapons has far surpassed that of the fully automatic arms control module.

However, Hilda had to admit that the opponent in front of her was unprecedentedly strong, and it was beyond imagination.

The girl in white has the maneuverability to easily dodge the Grimm Cannon, and the defensive barrier that intercepts the magnetic path shelling, and even the high-frequency cutter cannot cut off her melee weapons.

Truth be told, there's no chance of winning at all.

But even if the war situation is not optimistic, it is not allowed for Hilda to admit defeat easily, you know, it is a vicious person who tried to kidnap his own young lady, he can't lose, he wants to replace Princess Flora and become their perfect "mother...... Even if you risk your life.

No, you can't risk your life. His beloved young ladies, including the maid sisters in the family, will be sad about this. This is not the outcome that Hilda wants, so...... There is only one way to go, to defeat the enemy in front of you who is stronger than you, and do your best to survive, using all possible means.

All she can do is calmly observe, think, and then figure out how to deal with it.

Hilda maintained a smooth maneuver, kept a mid-distance detour with Rakhi, and the demonized carbon steel stored in her body was enough to make a new Grimm Cannon.

While she is pouring barrage to induce, she is also accurately calculating the opponent's action pattern, and the track cannon will always deliver a precise strike at the right time.

It was still the same, no matter how many times she tried, the sharp shelling could not penetrate the icy "barrier". But despite this, Hilda did not find nothing.

There is a simple question in front of us - in terms of power alone, the Magnetic Rail Cannon is far superior to the Grimm Cannon. Why would the opponent deliberately avoid the Grimm's shot?

Comparing the two weapons, it is not difficult to find that the speed and power of the magnetic track cannon are overwhelmingly high, but the Green gun has the advantage of the rate of fire.

An astonishing barrage of 6,000 rounds per minute can make thousands of troops fall like cut weeds. A hypothesis can be proposed, for example, that the ice barrier, although capable of blocking ultra-high-powered single shells, cannot defend against continuous high-frequency concentrated fire.

After several rounds of the same pattern, Ratchee approached again and swung her twin swords at Hilda. This time, Hilda decisively removed the shaft of the Magnet Cannon and loaded the high-amplitude cutting blade to her left arm.

In principle, the molecular structure of any substance is inhomogeneous, so if the material is physically fatigued by continuous high-frequency vibration, no matter how strong the material is, it will be easily cut like tofu.

But as a result, the blade, which maintained a high-frequency amplitude of thousands of hertz, was still the same as before, but it could not cause the slightest crack in the ice crystal double sword.

But it doesn't matter now, and all Hilda has to do is test her guesses. She forcibly reversed the direction of the Grimm, ignoring the damage to the joints caused by overheating and recoil of the barrel, and pulled the trigger close to the opponent.

Unable to dodge smoothly, Ratchee opened her shield of ice, but this time, after only holding on for less than ten seconds, the shield was pierced by the bullets of the Green Cannon. At the same time, it also verified that Hilda's guess was correct, that it was by no means an invincible defense.

Unfortunately, even though the shield was penetrated, the bullets from the Green Cannon failed to cause physical damage to the opponent's body. It looks human, but the skin of the girl in white is harder than steel. She was even able to completely ignore the damage of the Grimm Cannon and engage herself in a hard-hitting dogfight.

Hand-to-hand combat is disadvantageous because the opponent has the upper hand in terms of strength, and the frequency of attack of the dual swords is also higher than that of the one-handed blade. The Grimm Cannon can only interfere, but cannot deal effective damage. Even if the barrier is breached, it will return to its original state in as little as a second.

The only way to win now is to open the distance, and the Green Cannon will take the lead in breaking through the barrier, and then add the fatal blow of the Magnetic Cannon to the endeavor. But this is not easy, with the speed of the Green Cannon, it is impossible to catch up with the speed of the dragon wings. And even if you get your wish, there is no guarantee that the track cannon will definitely be able to defeat the opponent.

On the surface, the two entered a war of attrition that only benefited one-sidedly, and in the long run, it would only be the physically stronger Raki who would win in the end.

Hilda's pupils dilate and dilate at high speed – her eyes are high-magnification optical cameras, constantly filming and recording the subtle reactions of her opponents to various parts of their bodies, and handing the image data to the firearms control module for simultaneous analysis.

Finally, after five or six back and forth...... Hilda found a breakthrough. At the same moment, the original immutable war of attrition took a turn.

After another distance, the missile bay was ejected from the underside of the steel wings and exploded in the air. Dozens of sets of warheads did not lock onto their targets, they lost their inducibility and flew aimlessly around Laqi's surroundings and exploded.

In the light of the fire and the smoke, there were countless fine particles of glitter floating in the air.

Ratchee ignored the attacks that couldn't hit at all, and instead rushed straight at the maid with all her heart. This time, the maid did not have time to take out her rigid blade, but stayed at a certain height, holding her right hand firmly and firmly erecting the two sets of cannon sticks in her left hand.

Ratchei was puzzled, she thought it was a pointless move, and although the power of a single attack was great, it was not enough to penetrate the stagnant space. In her opinion, the opponent may have given up resistance. And Ratchet had no intention of killing her opponent, but at least she had to remove her dangerous arms - so as not to hurt Alice.

"Hmm...... Now the winner will be decided, humanity. ”

On the way to the sprint, Raki opens the barrier of pride and unleashes a declaration of victory.

"That's right, the winner is known, beautiful young lady. ”

Hilda pulls the trigger and smiles charmingly, while asserting her victory.

It was only a split second, and instead of spewing out a closed stream of light as usual, the Thermal Particle Cannon turned into countless trickles of heat and scattered them behind Raki like a new type of magic guide called the "Shower Head".

Even Ratchey couldn't realize what was happening behind her with the light-speed rays, and when she realized it, countless rays bounced back from her back, converging to a point with incredible precision, breaking through the impregnable barrier.

Almost at the same time, from the front, the projectile with a speed of nearly twenty kilometers per second leaked through the gaps pierced by countless beams of light as if it were threading a needle, and Laqi only felt a heat behind him, and the wing membrane of the dragon wing was pierced by the sound.

Having lost one of her wings, Ratche's body was unable to keep her balance, and finally, the dragon maid fell, making it the maid Hilda's first true victory.