Ryan charged through the snow and ice.

Having an absolute disadvantage in numbers, they roared and rushed towards the large number of monsters that had painted the snow field black in the face of the magic blow above their heads.

Boom, boom –

The snow is churning.

Blood and sword, roar and roar, death and slash.

The battlefield was in shambles, and the magical beams that fell from the sky were like shooting stars, and the world was destroyed, and the dust was drowned out with a roar.

The large-scale blow of the magic weapon even does not hesitate to fall into the group of monsters summoned by the mutant.

"Forward!!"

Ryan roared in the smoke of gunpowder, and the holy sword burst into flames, like a bright light on the chaotic battlefield, becoming the direction that guided everyone.

"Heh... That's why I said this guy was a mess. ”

"The dwarves are always behind you!"

"The knights of Mount Cali obey orders! The whole army is marching forward! ”

The sky was overcast and black, the accumulated heavy rain had not yet fallen, and the white snowfield was full of smoke and dust, but the teams that had erected the barrier were struggling to rush forward.

Ryan wouldn't worry about the mana beams falling behind him, he trusted what they were doing, and he wouldn't waste the moment Ferrowe was attracting more attention at the moment.

What he wants to do is to weaken the other party's living force, and then-

Get closer to the behemoth.

……

Rear battlefield.

The massive barrier withstood a fiercer attack than the one ahead, and the ground shook violently.

Eloth and Ayinen took the place of the two who defended off, and Vimir was responsible for supplying the mana, and the team that had been stationed there also joined the defense.

Luo Wei walked further back, and the craftsmen were discussing in the snow.

"An ordinary stampede wouldn't have caused such a serious earthquake, is there some structure at the bottom of it that connects to the ground?"

"That's not right." Felica shook her head.

"This dense assault is spaced out by more than ten seconds in the middle of each time, and it needs time to fill up the mana?"

"That's not right." Felica continued to shake her head.

"Its attack landed almost missed, could it be that someone was in it to control the aiming?"

"No, next."

The craftsmen scratched their heads, and the inventions they used to observe were all sorts of strange things, including magic birds, leyline detection swords, earthquake amplitude hammers, and even magic devices tied to fishing hooks and flung out with fishing rods.

The ground under the barrier was still shaking, but the group was unaware of it, and even thought that the tremor was a little annoying that they couldn't see the symbols clearly.

When I was on the research bar, I was really a guy who didn't care about life or death.

Felica had been dismissing other people's opinions, but there were also some questions that left her unanswered and lost her thoughts.

Rowe didn't bother her.

Urging her doesn't bring results faster, and with Felica's knowledge of magic weapons, Rowe believes he won't be thinking here for no reason.

Eliminate the answers to those possibilities one by one, and the rest is close to the truth.

"How do I feel ......," John said, scratching his head, "unlike last time, this time the weapon feels like it's alive." ”

Alive?

The craftsmen glanced at each other, then at their improvised manuscripts, checking for similar information.

She sat there with her head off the thread, and she studied it for a long time, even using the extreme method of combining two manuscripts together.

No surprises.

Both copies are gone.

"Alive?"

Felica repeated these two words, and if the goddess of mechanics was in it, it was a conclusion that there was no level.

But she felt that there was a deliberate mention of a certain point, and she could faintly grasp it in her mind.

After closing her eyes, her expression froze slightly.

"I see."

She didn't bother to give the answer to the craftsman, and got up with a few manuscripts with beautiful handwriting.

"I'm going to inform ......"

As soon as he turned around, he almost bumped into Luo Wei, who was standing there, but the latter stepped back half a step to support her.

Felica was slightly stunned, and turned around, even at this time, her own machine girl didn't come up to help her.

“……”

Seeing her mood, Luo Wei pursed his lips and helped her up.

"I'll buy you clothes and household utensils when I go back."

Today's Marshal of Hoof, not only does no one listen to her orders, but there is almost no one who cares about her.

It's a bit miserable indeed.

Who knew that Kloss was so talented......

"Okay...... Filica bowed her head, "Let's get down to business, I understand the characteristics of the opponent's weapon." ”

After listening to the ensuing narration, Luo Wei fell silent for a moment.

Alive?

He also heard the discussion just now, and of course it didn't refer to the mechanic goddess.

Rather, the magic weapon itself is alive.

"You can understand that it's a large crafting machine, and they should have stuffed the corresponding mod into it."

Rowe looked back, the mountain-like thing was undoubtedly made of ore and metal, and even the original structure of the mineral was retained in many places, and the stone was not even cut, and there seemed to be moss growing on the surface in some places. Rather than exposing metal and gears like the Hooffire Empire, it's more like an ancient fortress that moves on its own.

And the driving core of it.

It turned out to be a clever machine girl?

"The advantage of this is that you can grow through knowledge, and the machine girl has a strong adaptability, and knows how to overcome her own disadvantages and drive the operation of the entire magic weapon." "But on the other hand, in terms of performance, the core is still a newly awakened form, and the cognitive level is very low. ”

"So......" Rowe narrowed.

Felica nodded.

"Her pause was to confirm the effect of the blow after the beam was released, so she stopped for more than ten seconds after each round."

“……”

Luo Wei condensed his expression, and Felica's inference gave people the feeling that the giant machine girl hit the human with magic, and at first glance, she didn't die, and then she hit again, and she didn't die, and continued.

In a sense.

The process of fighting them became a source of experience for her.

"How fast is she?"

"It's hard to say," Filica shook her head, "When Duomi was first activated, it took half a month to master the language ability, but if the mechanic goddess is also in it, I'm afraid it will ......"

It turned out to be so.

Rowe now knew why he had buried his magic weapon so far away.

The distance from the Sacred Mountain of Snow Waterfalls to the Crownless City.

It's how she grew up.

It is a sure thing for the legion to intercept, and it is impossible to leave it alone, and the other side can take this opportunity to start mastering everything in this world and learn combat skills and tactics.

Rowe closed his eyes.

Should it be said that it is worthy of the seeds that have been planted for so many years, the craftsman does not really intend to go so far like an idiot, and be beaten all the way in vain.

"What are you going to do to inform the Legion to withdraw and prevent her from continuing to gain wisdom?"

Luo Wei pondered for two seconds, then quickly came up with an answer.

"No, you don't."

He opened his eyes and said coldly.

"Seeing through her intentions and responding will give her the impression that humans are smart. Rather than interrupt her growth, it's better to just let her learn and make her think that we don't know anything about it. ”

Filica: "......"

“…… You're such a sinister person. ”

However, there will be this kind of judgment, and he may also see that the other party's confused behavior of constantly stopping and observing is very likely to indicate that the goddess of mechanics did not personally guide him.

In other words, the current goddess can't do this, and after the huge cost of activating the weapon, she can only let it grow on its own, and the body is likely to fall into a deep sleep.

"What you can learn often depends on the level of your opponent," Rowe shrugged, "and it's a very reasonable tactic. ”

Ryan was only one step ahead of him, and it wasn't a good idea to stop now anyway, or at least to run into it and see the results.

Otherwise, for the large army that the Crownless City was waiting for, dispatching so many elites but not even daring to fight, that would undoubtedly be a major setback to morale.

Ryan must be well aware of this.

He charged with fearless faith.

"Heh......" Filica chuckled, suddenly feeling amused, "That's thanks to someone who has done so much to the Craftsmen's Guild that it has attracted most of the firepower. ”

"Are you talking about yourself," Luo Wei shook his head helplessly, "There is no one in the world who knows magic weapons better than you, and if I were a mechanic goddess, I would definitely have to guard against you and the other craftsmen." ”

"Then you are too exalted to me, how can I and other craftsmen alone attract seventy percent of the ......?"

Felica was stunned for a moment.

Luo Wei: "......"

Filica: "......"

The two looked at each other silently.

It's hard to make it happen, the magic guide weapon has been striking the rear.

Is it because they're both here...?

……

Battlefield ahead.

Ryan could faintly see the broad figure fighting at the feet of the huge weapon.

Marcus, who had been there since the beginning, armed with a huge axe and sword, slashed at the monsters in a row.

But his appearance is almost unrecognizable.

"Master Marcus!"

From the smoke and dust, the voice of Marshal Dong's mother, the slender red-haired figure didn't look real, but the words were enough to hear the anxiety.

Ryan didn't think much about it, the sword in his hand was guiding the people behind him, and he took a long step to get closer, and the flames crossed a distance of dozens of meters along the path.

"Firewing Red Lotus—"

Wings of fire spread out behind him for a short time, and Ryan was unable to fly with them, but was able to stay in the air for a short time.

"Slash!"

The flames attached to the blade of the sword, slashing through the soaring form in a wide area, and the surrounding monsters were burned to black coal, allowing Ryan to get close to Marcus's location.

However......

Clang!!

Subconsciously defending, the sword body was hit hard, and the incredible power made him suddenly fly upside down dozens of meters away, and for a moment he even thought of the fear of being dominated by Luo Wei in the White Harbor Town Arena.

"Uh...!"

Barely stopping his inertia, Ryan took a sword to deal with the monster approaching behind him, and straightened up with some difficulty, his arm numb from the shock.

If he's not mistaken......

What had just struck his sword was Marcus's giant axe.

How...... What's going on?

"Don't come any closer!"

Marcus's voice came again, clearly shouting towards him.

"He doesn't recognize you now!"

Whew-

A huge slashing wind tore through a height of hundreds of meters, and even those falling magic beams were slashed out in the air.

A huge void was cut into the battlefield.

Ryan was also able to see Marcus's appearance clearly.

His skin had become iron and blue like steel, covered in armor that didn't belong to him, and his muscles had swelled more than a circle compared to before.

Behind his ears, long black irregular curved horns grew.

“…… Marcus? ”

Ryan shouted strangely, and saw the corpses of the deviants lying densely on the ground, the earth staining the ground red.

But Marcus gives people the feeling that he is completely different from these deviants, as if he is a completely different existence, standing there as if there is no survivor in the surrounding realm.

“……”

Marcus turned around at this point.

From that face, Ryan could only see the killing, as if the god in charge of the slaughter had descended into the world, and on the ruthless and cold inhuman face, the eyes of the killing were glowing.

Looking at the sword, he seemed to understand something.

And as the two stared across the battlefield, the harsh wind blew away the smoke and dust around them, and Ryan's pupils shrank.

The bottom of the magic weapon was covered with huge black-red slash marks, left on the stones that should have been chopped into powder.

Marcus' Attack......

Can't break through the protection of the magic weapon?

Bang......

There was a muffled sound in the sky, and after a few scattered drops of heavy rain fell to the ground, the torrential rain poured down without warning, and the splashes blurred the outlines of each other's figures.

“……”

Ryan took a breath in the rain.

"Looks like we don't have much time, do we?"

……

Five minutes later.

The Legion squads that had caught up to clean up the mutants and each tried to attack the magic weapon, and saw Ryan holding the unconscious Marcus out of the rain.

"Ryan...... How did you get hurt so badly? ”

"I'm fine."

He looked up at the huge body with no end in sight, Marcus had tried most of them for them, and there was no doubt that they couldn't stop it here.

This is fundamentally the same thing as the weapons of the Hoof Fire Empire before.

"Prepare to evacuate back, or it won't be long before it ......"

Ryan was halfway through his speech when a trance-like and muffled voice came from above his head—

——

"What do I want?"

(End of chapter)