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Ning immediately stepped into the magic circle's range and communicated with it using her feet. The magic circle reacted to her magic power, emitting an incredibly intense light. Ning then immediately rewrote the magic circle's contents, quickly completing its reconstruction and turning it into a magic circle that would explode once triggered.
"Done." Ning finished the last stroke, ending the communication with the magic circle. "Let's go back...tsk...were we discovered?"
After Ning completed the reconstruction of the magic circle, the door to the ritual chamber opened, and the four ghosts immediately rushed in.
Chapter 56 Three Holy Swords
""flash"!"
Om-!
Li reacted immediately, releasing the 'Flash' spell to temporarily blind the ghosts, then walked over and tripped them.
""lethargy"."
Ning cooperated with her to approach the stumbling ghosts, using a suggestion to make them fall asleep, and then quickly stood up.
"It's starting to look more like it," Ning teased her. "At least it's not like before, all talk and no action."
"I can change too, okay?" Li retorted. "I'm already prepared to be hostile to humans. Alright, stop hesitating, let's go."
"Ah."
Ning nodded and left the ritual chamber with Li. What would happen in the end was no longer their concern. The hero summoning ritual had lost its original purpose, and their goal had been achieved.
While keeping an eye out for anyone discovering them, Li and Ning quickly left the depths of the church. Everything went so smoothly that Ning felt something was amiss. Just as Li was about to activate the 'teleportation' to leave, they were ambushed.
boom!boom!
"—! 'Space Freeze'!"
Two gunshots rang out, and Li immediately canceled the 'Teleport' spell and rewrote it into the 'Time Freeze' spell, freezing the space and time around her and Ning. The two bullets stopped at the very edge of the spell's range.
"Tsk, such a quick reaction?"
"Hahahaha, so even Hervia has her off days."
"Uncle, you're too noisy..."
"Huh? Where is it..."
Two women and a man walked over noisily, all wearing green hats and white clothes. They were "ghosts," but unlike the rookies, they were elites.
Moreover, they all carried very unique items.
The aloof young girl wore a small crown to hold her ponytail in place and held something that looked like a gun. The trench coat-clad loli held a short scepter adorned with dazzling patterns. The middle-aged man with a mustache stood there carrying a flagpole.
"'Magic Eye'."
'Hervia, female, 19 years old, level 94. Zanaba, male, 29 years old, level 108. Ailan, female, 16 years old, level 64.'
Aside from the loli, the other two were both considered to be above average among ordinary humans, but what caught Li's attention were not the loli, but those three unique things.
"Unable to identify."
"Unable to identify."
"Unable to identify."
Li still remembered that the last time she encountered "inability to distinguish" was with Xia Que, so the situation was quite obvious. There were three holy swords, and blocking their path were three ghosts wielding the holy swords.
"Ah, hello beautiful ladies." Zanoba came out, waved, and greeted them with a smile. "It's rather rude of me, but I'd like to invite you two to sit down and have a cup of tea with me. Oh, I forgot to mention, we're the guards here. If we see anyone suspicious, we absolutely cannot let them go. So, would you mind coming over?"
The other party was smiling, but Keli didn't feel any smile at all. She didn't know how her magic had been seen through, but there was no doubt that if she went with them, that would be the only outcome.
"What did you see?" Ning asked telepathically.
"You might not believe me..." Li gestured to her with his eyes, "There are three holy swords, and three that cannot be identified."
"Tsk, this is terrible..." Ning frowned.
"Can you finish this quickly?" Hevia said impatiently. "I know what you just did. If you cooperate a little now, we can ask the king for your forgiveness and let you die with your bodies intact."
"Ha... It's been busy here too. We were all getting ready to go on the expedition, but then this happened." Ailan yawned, showing no sign of tension. "Uncle, can we begin now? I'm so sleepy..."
These three ghosts clearly have no intention of letting the two of them go, and they are even more warlike than Li had imagined. If she were to use her Word of Power to open the teleportation now, it would definitely be stopped.
"There's no other way..." Ning shrugged. "Let's get started then, we're in a hurry too..."
"Oh, what a pity, they're not cooperating at all." Zanoba looked disappointed, then immediately went into battle mode. "Girls! Let's go!"
Bang bang bang!
As Zanoba's voice faded, Hevia immediately fired three shots, with Ailan following closely behind like a nimble kitten. Hevia then used her half-dragon transformation, unleashing her hidden dragon nature. Her dragon wings unfurled, a flap of them creating a gust of wind that deflected the three bullets off their original paths.
Li had assumed that Ailan was a magician, but to her surprise, Ailan quickly closed in and swung her short staff at Li's head. Li instinctively screamed, but instead of calming down, Ailan unleashed a dragon's breath. Startled, Ailan immediately rolled behind Li to avoid the breath.
But Ning was already waiting for her behind. Without hesitation, Ning grabbed her foot and switched to his ability, using unimaginable strength to fling Ailan away. Zanova immediately ran to catch Ailan as she was thrown away, and Li followed after him, swinging her tail, but it was blocked by Zanova's spear.
"Haha!"
Under Zanoba's protection, Ailan struck Li in the chest with a palm imbued with a great deal of magic. As Li was knocked back, Hevia's crown lit up for a moment, and then she pulled the trigger, firing a bolt of red light.
Ning immediately used magic to create a mirror to block the light and reflect it back. When Hervia saw that the attack was ineffective, she immediately fired a second shot to cancel out the first one, and then switched her target to Ning.
After a brief moment of thought, Ning devised a route, shattered the mirrors with gravity magic, and then controlled them to shoot towards Hevia. During this time, Zanoba had already run up behind Ning, raising his spear flag high and aiming it at Ning's head.
"Go away!"
Li roughly flapped its wings and flew over, knocking Zanoba aside. Zanoba rolled twice before coming to a stop. Ailan immediately ran up from behind and used Zanoba's back as a springboard to jump high into the air, unleashing an earth-colored magic circle in mid-air.
Zanoba abruptly raised his spear flag and plunged it into the floor, unleashing a massive magical circle centered on it. Once this circle covered Ning's feet, Ning immediately found himself unable to move. At the same time, Hevia cast a wind shield spell with one hand, scattering the shards of glass to the ground. Then, she removed the Kingdom from her head, attached it to the muzzle of her spear, and unleashed a magical circle, gathering immense magical power.
“That’s enough, you two.” Zanoba chuckled.
"Alchemy: Sage Impact." "Collapsed Stone Platform."
A purple beam of magic was released with a roar, and the earth-colored magic circle on the ceiling lit up, releasing a huge stone platform before dissipating. Li, who was still flying in mid-air, immediately flew to Ning's side. At the same time, the beam of magic swept over them, and the stone platform fell heavily as the beam gradually weakened.
boom----!
The smoke filled the air, waking many believers. Zanoba picked up his flagpole, walked to the stone platform, and caught Ailan as he fell with one hand.
end
"Wow, you two went a little too far, didn't you?" Zanoba looked around at the carnage with a headache.
They've already wrecked this place; it'll cost a fortune to repair, and it'll probably take several months. I'm sure I'll get a scolding when I get back.
“That’s not important…” Ailan climbed onto his shoulder and sat down, tugging at his hair. “More important than that, hurry up, hurry up and open it to take a look.”
"well."
Following Ailan's instructions, Zanoba swung his spear at high speed, instantly shattering one of the rocks. Below lay the spot where Li and Ning had been, but they did not find their bodies.
"They ran away?" Hevia walked over and saw the open stone platform. "Ha, kids are such a nuisance. If it weren't for you, those two bugs would have been dead long ago."
"Do you want to die?!" Ailan was furious.
"Hey, are you looking for death, you little brat?"
"Alright, alright, you two calm down." Zanaba intervened to mediate. "We should go now, the army is waiting for us. Ailan, don't be angry, I'll give you candy when we get back, hurry up and use the 'Holy Sword'."
"--snort."
Ailan gave a cold snort, made a face at Hevia, then jumped off Zanoba's back, walked to a place where she could see the sky, raised her short scepter, which emitted a strong light as if summoning something.
Zanobba glanced at the spot again. He knew the two girls were still alive, though he didn't know how they had escaped from their clutches, but there was no doubt...
They will surely meet again on the battlefield.
"Wow, that scared me to death! Luckily, I made it in time!"
"Phew—thankfully there's another 'me' here."
Treasure Chest and Dragon King collapsed to the ground as if they had burned out, because they hadn't recovered from the shock.
"You really managed to do that," Ning said with a wry smile, pulling her up. "But well done, we've successfully broken away from the church."
Just at the critical moment, Dragon King Li and Treasure Chest Li, who were resting outside, connected. They simultaneously activated their 'teleportation,' one acting as the exit and the other as the entrance, pulling Ning out at the last second. They are now on the outskirts of the kingdom, where they pose no threat.
Even though this is all, and these people can't hurt Ning Shen, the problem is that dragging it out won't do them any good. Moreover, Li is not used to such high-intensity human combat, and she feels helpless even when using her own power.
Therefore, Li's decision was correct, but Ning did not expect it to be in such a special way. Perhaps she also needed to create a slime clone. That was what she was thinking.
“Then, let’s go back.” Li dusted off his clothes. “The other ‘me’ is going back too; our vacation is over.”
"Eh—well, whatever, I'm getting a little bored too."
The main operation has always been handled by Ryuo Riku, while the real Mimic is left to travel around, collecting materials along the way to bring home, thus expanding the scope of 'time-space magic'.
"Speaking of which... have you heard any strange noises?" Li suddenly stopped and asked.
“…Yes, and I already know the source.” Ning’s gaze was fixed on the sky.
Li looked at the sky in confusion. The sky still had two moons hanging in the sky as before. Was that so?
The twin moons were gradually obscured by something enormous, and the moonlight gradually dimmed. Li and Ning were both under an enormous shadow. That thing was there, flying in the air.
"this is……!"
There was more than one of these enormous things; they had completely taken over the sky, as if the end of the world had arrived. The streets of the kingdom were deserted; everyone had seen the thing in their homes.
Airships, those colossal structures that only exist in fantasy and science fiction, now appeared above the kingdom, advancing relentlessly. At the center of these airships, several distinctly different warships surrounded an even larger vessel—undoubtedly the mothership.
"Whoa... How did these things get here?" Treasure Chest Li stared in disbelief at the airships that had appeared out of nowhere.
Without warning, these warships appeared in the kingdom. Ning tried to recall where they came from, but couldn't find any clue. At the same time, a dragon soared into the night sky, roaring and threatening them, asserting its territory.
However, the warships ignored it. The bows of the warships closest to the dragon began to gather immense magical power, unleashing magical circles aimed at the dragon. Li didn't know what it was, but she felt a strong threat. The dragon must have felt it too, but instead of retreating, it swooped down towards the warships.
"No...no! Come back here!"
Li cried out in anguish, but it was too late; her voice could no longer reach Feilong.
Boom boom boom boom boom boom ————!
An unprecedented bombing roared through the silent country. Several thick beams of magical energy formed a torrent that swallowed the dragon whole. The magic dissipated, leaving nothing behind, absolutely nothing.
"how so……"
As the Dragon Queen, she witnessed the annihilation of her kin. Her instincts screamed, raged, and raged. On the verge of collapse, she slumped down, staring blankly at the things that filled the sky.
Suddenly, the mothership emitted light, forming a light screen. Ning saw the loli ghost, Ailan, who had just clashed with the church, in the light screen.
"Ahem," Ailan cleared her throat, then solemnly proclaimed, "Citizens of the Kingdom! Please do not let this cause unnecessary panic! This is our nation's new power! This is the power to defeat evil! My king regrets our defeat in the war, and in order to fight alongside the heroes once again, we have developed this new power! We call it 'Nakira'! As you can see, this is an aerial warship capable of crushing dragons! We will use this new power to vanquish the Demon King of this world! Long live the Kingdom—! All troops! March forth—!"
As Ailan's somewhat immature command rang out, all the 'Nakira' sprang into action, flying at an extremely fast speed to the front lines. At this rate, they would surely reach the front lines of the human-demon war in no time.
But is that really their goal?
Ning knew very well that this was a deception of the people under the guise of heroes. By raising the banner of heroes and using the great cause of defeating the Demon King, they began to travel to various parts of the world and begin their invasions using the warship called "Nakira".
So what can we do now? The disparity in power is so vast; it's obvious it's the work of the Holy Sword. Are we truly out of options? Even if we expose their actions against this evil kingdom, what then? Their absolute power is undeniable; where is the hope for this world...?
"It's not over yet...it's not over yet!"
Li stood up, her gaze fixed intently on the Nachira flying through the air. Yes, it wasn't over yet. Li believed in the significance of her birth into this new world, and in every step she had taken and every effort she had made until today.
She also possesses something that this world lacks.
"Let's go, Ning!"
Come on, no matter what, I will defeat you and this kingdom!
With the power that belongs only to me!
☆ Let's make some cutting-edge technology!
Prologue
Running, running without stopping, Xia Que didn't know why she was running, nor where she was going. Master… Hao Er said, just follow him closely, this is a top-secret mission.
But... is that really the case?
Why are Xia Que and Hao Er rushing through the dense forest, running non-stop? There are so many people there calling for a hero... why is she constantly moving away from them?
Isn't the mission of a hero to save lives and save the world?
"Xia Que...?" Hao Er sensed that Xia Que had stopped, and he had no choice but to stop as well.
He could no longer sense Lycia's presence, but even so, he couldn't let his guard down. There was still some distance to the sea, and he had to stop and rest for a while before he had to leave.
Hao'er walked up to Xia Que and asked, "What's wrong?"
Xia Que slowly raised her head and was startled when she saw that face. She was grieving, doubting, and in pain. Her dark eyes held a complex mix of emotions as she looked at Hao Er, her face contorted in a mournful expression.