Chapter 268: The Decisive Battle between Steel and Ice (2)
What is happening in front of you is a battle between monsters (dragons) and monsters (dragons), and there is no room for mortals to intervene. Nearly 100 meters of bodies just collided with each other, which was enough to set off stormy waves in the air. The claw blows, wing membranes, and breath that followed, which seemed to other creatures to be nothing more than the act of stretching their bodies, were now disasters in nature.
Soon, the beautiful blue dragon was no longer entangled with the other party, she gathered her wings, and her body turned into a sharp cone, and she flew high into the air, and the snow-white crystal chips scattered in all directions with the sonic boom cloud produced by the continuous acceleration, and the silver war machine that followed behind her spewed flames from all parts of her body, so as to achieve equal speed, and spewed shining light on the way to catch up.
Ratchet her figure through the clouds, sometimes climbing, sometimes swooping and hovering, constantly dodging the oncoming artillery fire in a way that was completely inconsistent with the agility of her giant body. During this time, she did not fight back once, only unilaterally dodged the attack, but did not go too far, always kept a certain distance from each other, and continued to communicate with Hilda.
"Hmm...... Counting this time, it must be the fifth time we have played each other. Hilda, you...... It seems to be weaker than before. ”
The sound came from nowhere, and even though Raki kept flying faster than the speed of sound, she still conveyed the words to her opponent in a calm tone.
However, Hilda's side ignored it, and did not even react at all, just mechanically continued the fire, and all parts of her body began to change, making the barrage more dense and violent. Every shot was accurate, but it didn't touch Rachi's scales. Or rather, it's because it's too mediocre and accurate in attack patterns that it can't catch up with Raghi's speed.
"Hmm...... Crazy? No...... This feeling is, who is under the control of ......? Well, enough is enough. ”
From the perspective of others, they may not be equal in speed and strength, not to mention that Hilda is overwhelmingly dominant, but for some reason, Rachi's voice only exudes a completely inlifting sigh.
Because, Qingyuan Long was sure in his heart that the steel dragon chasing behind him at this moment was not his opponent at all, and in the next moment, Laqi finally sounded the horn of counterattack.
Unconsciously, Hilda, who only knew that she was blindly chasing, was surrounded by layers of fine debris of ice and snow, and these seemingly harmless drifting powders were incredibly frozen in mid-air at the same time. Then, countless stars held each other's crystal ice threads, and in the blink of an eye, they weaved a huge ice net.
Hilda's eyes were only on Rachi, who was unaware of the drastic changes in her surroundings and continued to push in a straight line in her opponent's direction, until her steel wings and ceramic-like body were tightly wrapped in a giant net. Like a moth caught in a spider's web, the steel dragon stalled instantly, its joints moving so unnaturally that it couldn't even turn its body to aim at its target.
The Skynet compiled by Raki is not an ordinary ice crystal, just like the barrier of [Incorruptible Ice], it is the product of condensing 'space'. Moreover, unlike the airtight plane of the defensive barrier, the grids seem to be loose, but they are connected to each other by an incomparably strong and geometric structure, and the ingenious mechanical conduction structure cannot break free in a short period of time even if it has the strength and mass of a dragon. Not only that, but even the more you struggle, the more you will be entangled by your own strength.
The obvious trap, if it had been Hilda's previous one, would not have been so smoothly tricked. But today, she didn't observe the surrounding environment at all, and she didn't have any rationality at all, just like those demonic beasts that had been transformed and controlled.
"Hmm...... It's time to stop falling asleep and wake up. Knock down the current kind of you, and I won't feel satisfied at all. ”
Raki spun around and rolled over to directly above Hilda, her mouth opening vertically downward, causing the cold dragon's breath to cascade down like a waterfall. The steel dragon, which was bound by the ice net, had no chance to dodge at all, only to see that the back armor that was directly hit by the dragon's breath was immediately covered with ice picks.
The direct damage caused by the physical impact, the stiffness of the joints and propulsion vents that froze early, and the weight exacerbated by the sheer stacking of ice crystals all contributed to the loss of Hilda's ability to stay in the air, falling downward under the influence of gravity.
However, Raki was not satisfied with this, she spread her ice wings and flapped her wings to accelerate, reversing the original chase and escape relationship, and after catching up with her free-falling opponent, she slammed the steel dragon's head with sharp dragon claws and inertia, causing her to smash to the ground at an even more alarming speed.
The moment Hilda hit the ground, the ground was crushed by the impact, forming a circular crater centered on her body, and the surrounding dirt sprayed into the air like a bombed column of water. It's hard to imagine anything in the world that could survive this blow.
"Hmm...... How's that going, isn't that sober?"
Raki, however, landed disapprerovingly to the edge of the crater, and asked the dust-covered Hilda in a bland, as if to say that it was just a greeting to the dragons.
Although Hilda was not originally a dragon, even if she was transformed by Arizar during her near death, she could still only be regarded as a 'magic guide weapon', but after several improvements, she obtained a core and power furnace comparable to dragonstone, and absorbed unknown technology and materials from the alien ark, so that both the core and body, including its mode of existence, have been infinitely close to the dragons.
"Quack, Whoa, Whoa——!!"
In fact, there was an earth-shattering roar from the center of the crater, which was not technically the sound of an animal coming from its vocal cords, but the roar of a mechanical engine or some other kind of gas-dispersing device. The steel dragon still stood up after the blow she had just suffered, and Hilda's recovery was not a feeling of 'barely struggling to get up', but an easier act.
The steel dragon, who had just risen from his feet, spread his legs and slammed into Raki with the momentum of flattening the mountain. It is true that Hilda is much stronger now than she was in her first confrontation with Ratchi a long time ago, and she has gained strength comparable to that of the Abyss Dragon. However, Raki is still convinced that she is weaker than before, too weak.
This time, instead of running away, Ratche, or using ice nets or other dragon magic, used her sculpturally beautiful limbs to take a brute force blow from the front.
Raki twisted her body in an uncanny, at least human-like way, using the long neck and tail that only dragons have, and threw Hilda over with ease, then grabbed her tail and swirled her wings like spinning tops, flicking the steel towards the ridge. The impact of the mountain caused the surface of the sand and rocks to collapse, turning into a turbid current that buried Hilda's massive body in it.
After all, having survived for thousands of years, Raki is far more proficient than her opponents in how to use the physical characteristics of the 'dragon' to fight, and even if her strength is equal, the difference in skill is like that of an adult and a child.
[Warning, warning, self-discipline to meet failure...... The combat capability of enemy units exceeds the expected range. The speed at which the body is damaged exceeds the speed at which the armor heals itself. Warning, warning-]
- For Atanis...... Crush the enemy...... Eliminate Threat ......
[It is recommended to improve combat efficiency.] Otherwise, it will be completely suppressed in three hundred seconds. 】
Even if Hilda has become like this, her basic operation method is the same as before, with the 'biological brain' as the main body acting and judgment, and the fire control module of the magic guide to assist in the calculations and make reasonable tactical suggestions.
However, now Hilda's consciousness is in a state of deep hypnosis, and her mental activity is extremely low, and she can only make the most primitive and simple instinctive reactions. To use an analogy, it's like sleepwalking. Of course, even in this state, Hilda still has the destructive power to rival the demon dragon, but with a monster of the same level as an opponent, such a drunken state has no chance of winning at all.
[Warning, warning-]
The firearms control module, at best, is an emotionless artificial intelligence that can only rely on calculations to derive data answers, select preset options, and make mechanical suggestions to Shirda.
However, in order to ensure Hilda's safety, Ariza added an 'insurance' when designing it. That is, when the 'biological brain' loses consciousness, or the thinking activity is low due to fatigue, the 'armament control module' will automatically shoot a certain frequency of biological electricity into the brain, and the effect is the same as 'system formatting', so that Hilda's consciousness can be restored to the ideal state.
This is a design concept that even the aliens of the Ark did not know, after all, for the race of metal lifeforms, the brains of carbon-based creatures are really full of mysterious and unknown territory. Because of this, when transforming Warcraft, they simply used their energy fields to manipulate their minds, let alone establish a cooperative relationship, and they didn't even think about enslaving.
In the final analysis, life forms that are completely different from oneself are regarded as pure tools, without the necessary wisdom. This is also the most fundamental reason why the Ark civilization will bring about its own demise, they lack respect and understanding for foreign races, stubborn, closed, self-righteous, but never reflect.
In fact, although Hilda is now under mind control, her mental activity is not low enough to touch the insurance. But...... Raghi is so strong that the 'Armed Control Module' has to make the judgment of 'activate insurance'.
- For, Yatanis...... Rout...... Woo, woo, woo, wow, wow——!!
Hilda's sleeping will was forcibly awakened by the pain of bioelectricity flowing through her cerebral cortex, and when she regained her senses and reopened her eyes, she was greeted by a chaotic plain and a cyan dragon towering not far away.
"Rachi...... Miss......
"Hmm...... Looks like I've woken up. ”
Hilda, who regained her senses, immediately searched for records from the storage wizard, trying to understand what had happened. But the opponent in front of her did not give her such a chance.
Without warning, the clear stream of light struck again, and just as she was about to strike, Hilda hurriedly turned on one side of the thruster, and the flames blew away the mud and rocks that had fallen from the mountain, and the steel giant rolled in a wrenched way to avoid the dragon's breath from Rachi.
"What are you doing, Miss Ratzy, it's not like we're fighting each other right now—"
"Hmm...... Don't talk nonsense, now that I'm awake, I'll get serious. ”