The Storm Rises Chapter 154: An Abnormal Destroyer Puppet
"Confirm that the location of the mana reaction location is being completed and are on the way quickly, please feel free to provide the relevant mana fluctuation signal to help complete the calibration."
A Night Blade Operation Team, stationed in the Shadow of the Royal City, close to the location of the "Destroyer" puppet, quickly rushed to the place where the magic fluctuation appeared after confirming the existence of this war weapon-level puppet that suddenly appeared in the Shadow of the Royal City.
"The magic fluctuations are very stable, the other party is not hiding his meaning, he is moving in a deep depth, and he is close to the "abyss", please do a good job of spiritual protection, be careful of mental pollution. ”
The members of the Night's Blade who are in charge of observation in the gathering point look at the point in the mana detection circle that is highly enriched in mana and is constantly spreading out mana fluctuations and moving slowly, and communicates its situation to the members of the action team briefly and efficiently.
"Received, I have brought mental protective equipment, I will wear it when I arrive nearby, and I can choose to destroy or intercept the Destroyer puppet according to the situation, please pay attention to update the new status at any time."
"No problem..."
Eleven members of the action team travel through the underground city of the Shadow of the Royal City, and the members responsible for exchanging information with the gathering point quickly exchange information with the help of communication crystals, and obtain the latest movements of the Destroyer puppet.
The lowered hood obscured their cheeks, and they marched in unison, in an orderly and high-speed manner, and no one would fail to provoke these members of the Night's Blade, even in the chaotic underground city in the shadows of the royal city.
Four mid-level formal knights wearing heavy armor, all of them are in the protection category, three rangers, in addition to having the strength of the corresponding middle-level formal knights, also specialize in agility and perception abilities, three mages, all of them are among the official mages, and one of them has also practiced simple witchcraft with talent.
The team leader, a high-ranking official knight about thirty years old, Gilbert Mann, the captain of the Operation Night Blade team with a face that looks a little older than his age, has all the skills that have been boiled out in life-and-death missions, and it is not a good knightly talent, but it has allowed the captain to break through in desperate situations again and again.
The heavy metal soles trampled on the fragile bricks of the underground city, but they didn't crush it, and they didn't even make much noise, and the eleven-man action team was an elite and versatile team sent by the Night's Blade to test and try to solve them, whether it was stealth marching or storming, they were first-class good at fighting.
There was a hint of doubt in Gilbert's eyes, although he had a wealth of mission experience, but the sudden appearance of the Destroyer puppet this time still surprised him, how did this high-end war weapon made by dwarves and goblins come to the shadow of the royal city in the frontal battlefield to resist damage and output...
The puppet was only hovering near the abyss, and according to the constant updates from the gathering point by the team member in charge of detection, the thing never left the location where it appeared, and the mana reaction had fallen silent after a powerful magic fluctuation.
"The first strong wave of mana is that the Destroyer puppet used their type-specific meltdown ray to destroy a target it was trying to destroy, and then went into standby because there were no more targets nearby."
Gilbert pondered the logic of the Destroyer's actions as he continued to travel to the target location, this puppet had a low-level AI-like logic core, which could make some simple judgments and plan actions, but it was still very stiff, and there was no way to make high-precision observations and make informed decisions without anyone to manipulate it.
With this in mind, after estimating the distance between him and the Destroyer puppet to a certain range, Gilbert ordered the team to stop briefly, and then took the pre-prepared magic guide item out of the backpack.
The metal bracket was unfolded and stood on the ground, and a translucent cube was taken from top of it by Gilbert, and the surface of the cube was densely woven with a metal filament-like structure, and finally the whole device began to operate after placing the magic crystal in the bracket.
A layer of stance is spread out around the device, this special anti-magic field, only for the magic used for remote control, although the current performance of this puppet does not look like someone is controlled, but Gilbert will not give someone a chance to suddenly control this puppet.
"The remote control magic shielding device has been placed, and the next thing to face should be just a puppet that has lost control and has simple intelligence, although the combat ability is strong, but it should not be difficult to deal with with your level, I wish you all the best"
The mana detection circle in the Gathering Point quickly detected an anti-magic field rising near it for the mana manipulation signal, and judging from the Gathering Point, this operation should not be difficult.
"I hope so." Gilbert nodded calmly, the current situation is quite smooth, from the time the magic fluctuation of the puppet was discovered to the present, it still has not moved on a large scale, only hovering near the location where it appeared, but it has always been cautious, which still makes Gilbert maintain a considerable degree of restraint in optimism.
"The cultists of the Night Lady prayed to release the magic that can be released at the moment, and the magic from the Night Lady in the Shadow of the Royal City is much more effective than that from the outside world, and the Dark Blessing magic has a good shielding effect on all detection methods."
Gilbert ordered the Night Lady's followers to unleash their magic and began to pray at the same time, and after the Night Lady's faith was extended to the Night's Blade, many of the Night's Blade members stationed in the Shadow of the Royal City quickly chose this faith.
Because they knew something about the Night Church, it certainly didn't hurt to believe in this god, and they soon discovered that while using the Night Lady's magic in the Shadows of the Royal City was more powerful and convenient, the members of the Night Blade were much quicker to gain the ability to perform magic than the rest of the Assassin Guild and other people who also spontaneously chose to believe in the Night Lady.
It seems that the Night Lady approves of the members of the Night Blade more, this has nothing to do with the Night Lady, a somewhat lazy god, and the most important thing is that Wang Yu uses the Night Sky Tree to make adjustments.
The Night's Edge is a very potential development object for the Night Lady's faith, with a sufficient base and a good guaranteed character, it is a very good choice to develop the members of the Night Blade as a follower of the Night Lady.
Therefore, Wang Yu used a simple "Void Programming" to allocate some of the resources of the Night Sky Tree to the members of the Night Blade, as long as it is logically detected to be a member of the Night Blade, he will get the preferential treatment of releasing magic and mastering more magic skills, and it is also thanks to Wang Yu's operation that the followers of the Night Lady in the Night Blade are growing rapidly.
Half of the members of the team led by Gilbert, including him, are believers in the Night Lady, and because they are in the shadow of the royal city, the power of the Night Lady is particularly simple for them, and in a short period of time, Gilbert can already cast the three-ring magic spell, and the other five team members can also use the two-ring magic spell.
The Night Lady's primary magical power is Masking, and the magic they unleash is the same effect, Shadowing.
Their prayers and the spiritual power that linked to the Night Sky Tree were detected, and the power of the Night Sky Tree passed through the block left by Wang Yu and gave an extra portion of the power to the members of the Night Blade.
The surrounding darkness squirmed, and under the effect of these five two-ring magic and one three-ring magic spell, it was like gaining life, wrapping around everyone in the action team, and the darkness hid the existence of these people in the endless darkness.
"Keep going."
In Gilbert's calm words, the team began the final leg of their journey.
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The platform outside the cliff cavern carved out by the Grey Dwarves stood, where the Destroyer Puppet stood, and after a single molten ray destroyed all the Grey Dwarves, it came to a standstill, the light in the cracks of the metal body flickered on and off, alternating between dark and light as if breathing, and the two crystals on the head were also in a synchronized cycle of light and extinction.
The metal body moved under the power of the internal mana, a precursor to the detection of an attack, but there was nothing around the empty platform that could be identified as a target by the powerful puppet.
It may be that there are some small glitches in the internal logic core that caused this misidentification.
The rotating metal body spun back on its own, falling into a standby state where it had lost its target.
But soon, the Destroyer puppet's body began to have a small metal grinding sound on all parts of its body, and the puppet began to make frequent micro-movements, turning its neck and then turning back, clenching its intricately constructed five fingers into a fist and then unfurling...
The state of the whole puppet is very weird, as if there is an invisible hand playing with this powerful puppet, playing with a special toy, the logic core judges that there is a problem with the entire puppet's body, and after a few seconds of the light frequency of the light that is bright and extinguished, the light on the surface of the puppet disappears for a short time, which is a manifestation of the logic core's choice to run again.
"Quack..."Within seconds of the dimming of the light, the glow of magical power reappeared on the surface of the Destroyer's body, but the state of the puppet had changed significantly.
The raised metal arm was not placed on top of anything, but in front of the two crystals that the puppet could call its face, and the mechanical metal puppet behaved somewhat beyond its original function, and it seemed to have developed some kind of curiosity about its body.
Opening and closing the metal fingers, it used its other hand to break the fingers of the palm, "Tsk! The metal let out a sharp roar under the great force, as if it did not know the power it possessed, and the power of this action was terrifying, and in the face of the powerful power of the Destroyer Puppet, his body was also seriously distorted and deformed.
The finger that had been snapped was twisted and distorted, and no matter how much the Destroyer Puppet tried to drive the finger again, it was no longer interested in the finger that had lost control, and the metal head with no observation function lowered like a human, as if observing its own body.
The arm stretched out, groping on top of his metal body, without the concept of strength, causing its groping to be neither light nor heavy, and the chest and other parts were sunken by the powerful force of the palm.
It has a joy-like emotion in its heart, it seems to have obtained something that can be called a body, although it does not seem to be the same as those bodies in memory, the world in front of it is fed back by the magic circuit in the alchemy structure in the body through the detection of magic power, it is a very abstract and monotonous picture, but it seems to be born to recognize this information, and it is natural to understand the meaning it represents.
Some jerkily stepped on their feet, the metal soles of their feet on the ground, leaving a crack in the rock from their heavy weight, and then the second step, which itself was somewhat slow and strange, began to become natural.
The Destroyer puppet seems to run a lot smoother after the reboot, but that's the weird part.
The Alchemy Logic Core itself is unable to smoothly manipulate this powerful puppet, and the sense of sluggishness and mechanics it exhibits is precisely due to the fact that the Logic Core is not enough to support the smooth manipulation of this body.
And at this moment, there is an unknown existence that has taken over the body of this alchemy puppet, which is obviously a mechanical structure, but this existence has naturally gained control of it, occupying a lifeless body, making it behave like a living human.
The head of the legs lifted up abruptly, and looked at the cavern left behind by the dark gray dwarf, the magic detection from the Destroyer puppet told it that it was empty, nothing, but in its own perception, there were eleven things that it was very disgusting.
These things were still in the cavern, different from it, different from its existence, and at the same time repelling its existence, and emotions called malice grew in its mind, and the thought of destroying these beings that disgusted it naturally appeared.
And along with this malice, there is a sudden increase in the magic reaction in the body of the Destroyer puppet, as if a person knows what his body can do, and the ability of this Destroyer puppet is naturally known to it, and it wants to destroy these beings with its own body.
The magic power was quickly charged, and the two crystals with a large number of inscriptions on the head were channeled into intense light and heat, and the energy generated by the magic power was suddenly vented, turning into a ray of destructive power and shooting straight into the interior of the cave.
"Defense!" Gilbert's order was given as soon as the Destroyer puppet began to recharge, and the Night Lady's veil somehow failed to work in front of the strange puppet, which suddenly launched an attack on the operation team.
"Dang!" The shields on all sides were erected, and the four heavily armored knights did not hesitate to block in front of the meltdown ray, and the defensive inner dives of the four people were also opened at the same time, deflecting, weakening, blocking, and reflecting, and the four internal dives that were almost completely born for defense were added to the shield.
The melt ray containing destructive power was slightly offset from the established direction under the action of the internal submarine, and the center with the strongest destructive power was offset from the shield's blocking range, and the part that hit the shield was further weakened and blocked, and in the process of being blocked, part of the energy was reflected, weakening and confronting itself.
Despite this, the power of the Melting Ray is still terrifying, and the special shield melts and cracks on the surface after being hit, but under the combined action of four different internal submarines, this is enough to clear a straight line in the military formation, and the powerful attack is successfully blocked, and the shield will never shatter for the duration of the Melting Ray!
"Hmm!" But just as the Melting Ray was about to end, a heavily armored soldier clutched his head in excruciation, feeling a wave of confusion eating away at his sanity, pain, madness, and gratuitous malice.
Noticing that something was wrong with the team, Gilbert immediately shifted his attention, and he immediately noticed that there was something abnormal, and the crystal attached to the back of his head that was used to provide mental protection had been shattered at the moment.
"Strong mental pollution, be careful!" The reminder in his mouth had already been said when he found that something was wrong, the intensity of mental pollution was a little higher than expected, and the protective device, which was complete ten seconds ago, had been shattered during the time when he didn't pay attention.
And his gaze swept over the other three shield-wielding team members, the crystals on the back of their heads were also full of cracks, and they were about to shatter, Albert's pupils vibrated uncontrollably, what kind of spiritual pollution was this!