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Chapter 434 A Cunning Scheme Visible to the Naked Eye

As it turns out, La Fria was indeed a bait that the mage craftsman had no choice but to take.

After the two had settled the girl who had returned to normal and stepped back onto the island, groups of fully armed mechanical dolls appeared one after another. As soon as they saw people, they immediately pulled the triggers and attacked the two.

"Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang...!"

Gunfire continued to erupt across the island, creating a hail of bullets and adding to the smell of gunpowder on this land that had almost been scorched.

Unfortunately, this formidable army meant nothing to Azer and La Fria.

"Pfft!" "Pfft!" "Pfft!"...

The silver short blades flashed through the air like lightning. Some hovered in front of Aize, creating spatial rifts to block the incoming hail of bullets, while others grazed past the incoming bullets, severing the mechanical puppets mounted on machine guns and mercilessly cutting them into piles of metal fragments.

"The daughter of the gods dwells within me, the protector of the army, the age of the sword, the pusher of death will ultimately bring victory!"

On the other side, La Fria was singing a beautiful prayer.

As she chanted, the gun she had just pulled from her body was covered in flashes of light, forming a blade of light several meters long.

It was an extremely dazzling and holy light, a weapon composed of pure light.

In the Kingdom of Aldeqia, there is a world-renowned, cutting-edge knight equipment system called the Artisan System.

That is a tactical support weapon that can temporarily elevate a weapon's spirit level to the level of a holy sword, giving the weapon powerful strength and magical effects.

Through this system, the knights who receive support will all receive a simulated holy sword. Although it is only a weapon that temporarily becomes a holy sword, the light it emits can still keep ordinary demons away, and can even inflict terrible damage on demons and suppress their regenerative abilities.

Thanks to the Artisan System, the Holy Ring Knights of the Kingdom of Aldeqia have achieved numerous military exploits, earning them the title of the natural enemy of the demon race.

However, to use the Artisan System to create a simulated holy sword, one must rely on a large amount of spiritual energy supplied by the Spirit Furnace.

However, the royal women of Aldeqia who act as mediums can summon spirits into their bodies, allowing them to use the simulated holy sword without the need for a spirit furnace, and with a purer and more powerful force.

At this moment, La Fria used her spell gun as a medium to enhance its spiritual power with the power of the elves, sublimating it into a simulated holy sword.

"That's enough, mechanical doll."

Wielding the simulated holy sword, La Fria abandoned her previous style of fighting from a distance using a spell-type gun and actively closed the distance with the mechanical doll.

The mechanical dolls swept towards her, but were blocked by the flashes of light that enveloped their entire bodies.

Despite the overwhelming hail of bullets, La Fria charged swiftly towards the mechanical puppets, her simulated holy sword tracing a path even more dazzling and brilliant than the silver short blade of Azer's Hundred-Type Heavy Armor Demon-Slaying Blade, as she slashed at the enemy.

"Pfft!" "Pfft!" "Pfft!"...

The mechanical doll struck by the simulated holy sword had its armor as flimsy as paper, offering no resistance whatsoever. It was cleaved in two and scattered on the ground.

Although these mechanical puppets were not demons, they were just a bunch of scrap metal, so naturally they couldn't stop the attack of the simulated holy sword and were easily cut down.

If Azer's War God Armor cut through these mechanical dolls as smoothly as slicing butter, then Nara Fria's simulated holy sword cut through them as if slicing fruit.

Under such circumstances, the mechanical dolls that appeared one after another from the deserted island were all destroyed without exception.

However, these mechanical puppets were just grunts, unable to even cause any trouble for Azera Fria.

The truly formidable enemy was that figure that suddenly flew in from the other side of the island.

"Kyriiiiiiiiiiii——!"

Ugly wings, ugly body markings, an ugly mask—the being known as the Fake Angel reappeared before Azer and La Fria, showering them with a deluge of light.

Faced with this divine attack that had the effect of dispelling magic, La Fria dared not use her spirit magic to fight back, and even Aize dared not use his ghost magic to defend against it. The two of them quickly dodged.

"Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang...!"

In an instant, the surface of the deserted island was ravaged once again, with explosions occurring one after another, burning everything to ashes.

While dodging using the technique of Instant Step, Aize gripped the jet-black straight sword in his hand, pouring a great deal of spiritual power into the blade.

"A thousand swords stood on the earth, forming a fortress to defend against the enemy. All the swords were lost, but one sword was obtained from the tail of the giant serpent!"

The sound of the Kusanagi Sword resounded from within the blade, awakening the power to absorb the unorthodox traits of the barbarians and make them one's own.

"This is the Kusanagi Sword, a divine steel that can rival a thousand swords!"

Aize suddenly vanished into space, activated the Resonance, and appeared before the fake angel.

"Pfft!"

The Kusanagi Sword struck down like a bolt of black lightning, but instead of touching the fake angel in the higher dimension, it completely absorbed the superdimensional membrane surrounding it.

At this moment, the Kusanagi Sword used its thieving nature to steal the False Angel's ability to hide itself in a higher dimension and merge with itself.

Thanks to this, the black blade of the Kusanagi Sword turned into a dazzling gold, and the energy it emitted transformed into higher-dimensional energy.

After fusing the power of dimensions with itself, the Ama-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi gained a new ability—Dimensional Severing.

"Pfft!"

In the next instant, the black blade slashed through the superdimensional membrane surrounding the fake angel with remarkable ease, allowing the blade to touch the girl's body.

"break!"

With the roar of the Kusanagi Sword, the power of exorcism eliminated the angelic imitation and spirit evolution spell on the girl's body, causing her wings, patterns, and mask to disappear completely, just like the previous fake angel.

"pretty."

La Fria, who was waiting for Azer on the ground, clapped her hands upon seeing this scene.

"Once you have experience fighting an enemy, you'll be able to defeat them quickly and efficiently. If you're willing to become a knight, you'd probably be the most valiant and skilled warrior on the battlefield, right?"

La Fria's gaze toward Aize grew increasingly appreciative.

“It’s nothing.” Aize led the girl to La Fria and said calmly, “These so-called angels just have some special abilities. As long as you have a way to deal with them, they are not difficult to handle.”

Therefore, this time, Aize didn't even need the White Dragon Emperor's wings of light or the Hundred Style Heavy Armor Demon-Slaying Blade; the Ame-no-Murakumo was enough to deal with them.

"I really want to introduce you to my father."

La Freya expressed her feelings.

"no."

Aize immediately refused.

He didn't want to be hunted down by the doting king, even though he wasn't afraid.

"There's no need to refuse so bluntly, is there?"

La Fria, however, became somewhat agitated.

"Let's go, let's keep moving forward."

Aize ignored La Fria.

This internationally renowned princess, beautiful as she is, is undeniably cunning. Despite it being their first meeting, she acted like an instant friend, constantly teasing him to the point of making him roll his eyes.

If it weren't for the significant impact her appearance had on him when they first met, he would have tied her up with ropes just like he did with Kirasaka Sayaka.

La Freya, perhaps sensing this, became even more enthusiastic about teasing him, making him almost want to strip him naked again.

The two bickered and played around all the way, encountering several groups of mechanical puppets and two more fake angels.

"Ken-sei Yase... that guy really does something outrageous."

Seeing the appearance of one fake angel after another, La Fria lost interest in teasing Aize and her tone became displeased for the first time.

There's no way around it; every additional fake angel that appears proves that Kenjiro Yase, the former court magic engineer of the Kingdom of Aldeqia, has altered an innocent girl.

This is nothing short of taboo human experimentation, no wonder La Folia was in a bad mood.

"This is probably not all."

Azer summoned a chimera and had it carry the unconscious girl to the beach.

All the fake angels that Azer had dealt with gathered there, protected by Azer's several magical beasts.

"There must be at least three more fake angels like this, right?"

La Freya spoke in a deep voice.

"The ritual of creating angels is the application of poison, which makes the candidates who are fake angels kill each other. The victor swallows the psychic core of the loser and incorporates it into his own body. The one born at the end is the best individual, the real created angel."

"According to the experimental records preserved in Aldeqia, at least seven fake angels are needed to complete a real replica angel."

"Humans are born with seven psionic centers, plus six more that are swallowed by those who have defeated their kind, making a total of thirteen psionic centers, with thirty connecting paths between them."

"This is the minimum number of psionic centers required for a human to advance their spiritual level by one rank."

Once one of the seven fake angels survives to the end and is incorporated into the spiritual energy center of the other six fake angels, the spiritual center within that fake angel, which has been enhanced to the maximum limit of the human body through magic, will have the possibility of spiritual evolution without exceeding the spiritual capacity of the physical body, thus becoming an angel who is closer to God than a human.

This is the process of creating the model angel.

"It really does resemble the Feast of Flames."

Aize said this.

"The Fourth Ancestor's resurrection ritual?" La Fria nodded and said, "The two are indeed similar. Both involve the victor devouring the power of the vanquished, concentrating the power of all the bases into one person, thereby achieving the final life leap and life evolution."

The Feast of Flames was a battle between the twelve original bodies, which ultimately gave birth to a unique individual with twelve familiars, who became the Fourth Progenitor.

The Forged Angel is the result of seven fake angels killing each other, ultimately giving birth to a unique individual with thirteen spiritual centers, who is the Forged Angel.

Although there are some minor differences, the general process is indeed very similar.

"There are three remaining fake angels, and one of them is Ye Se?"

La Fria did not respond to Aize's mutterings this time.

Because the two of them had already crossed the entire uninhabited island and reached the shore on the other side.

"Has it reached the end?"

Aize frowned.

The island, with a maximum diameter of less than two kilometers, can be walked around by an ordinary person in about half a day. Azer and La Fria could walk straight through from one end to the other in even less time.

Aside from encountering a bunch of mechanical dolls and a few fake angels, the two didn't encounter anything else.

For example, the target of this trip is Natsune Haze.

"Could it be not here, but on the other side of the island?"

As Azer was thinking this, Ra Fleuria pointed to the sea.

“Aize, there.”

Upon hearing this, Aize raised his head and looked at the sea not far away.

There, a ship was moored.

It was a commercial cargo ship whose hull showed signs of aging.

"Judging from the markings on that ship, they were made by a mage, right?"

La Freya's eyesight was remarkably good; she was even able to see the markings on the ship's hull.

"It seems we've found it."

Aize checked it again, and then said this.

"Then let's..."

Just as La Freya was about to say something, Aize suddenly tackled her to the ground.

"Om..."

The next second, a flash of light passed through the spot where La Fria had been a second before and landed on the ground.

"Bang!!!"

The moment the flash touched the ground, it triggered a massive explosion, sending dust and debris flying into the air, creating a wave of fire and a shockwave.

"Another attack...?!"

La Fria immediately drew her spell gun.

“No.” Aize shook his head and said, “This attack is not aimed at us.”

Indeed, this attack was not aimed at Azer and La Fria.

Because, on the sea ahead, streaks of light kept flashing by, not heading this way, but flying towards the surrounding sea, bombarding the surface and creating huge waves of water.

The source of the flash was two girls wearing identical close-combat suits, with the same ugly wings, the same eerie patterns, and the same evil masks.

They were indeed two fake angels.

Two fake angels were engaged in a fierce battle on the sea, unleashing flashes of light with every move they made, ravaging and destroying their surroundings.

"Isn't this the proper ritual procedure for creating an angel?"

Aize narrowed his eyes, his gaze drawn to one of the two fake angels.

Although the other party was wearing a mask, a combat suit, and had ugly wings and markings, Aize still managed to catch a glimpse of a head of silver hair fluttering in the wind during its high-speed flight.

Aize's gaze then locked onto this person.

"Finally found……"

(End of this chapter)