What? My cheat code is making my own gold coins explode?

Zhao Si had no time to think about why Judah would grow to the same height as himself. He had already felt the power of constraint that the other party had simulated. Just as he was about to escape, electromagnetic fields from all directions enveloped Phoenix once again.

"This is a bird-catching tool prepared for you, as you love those little golden birds that fly around randomly."

Sirin didn't just sit idly at the top of the Tower of Babylon for more than two days; she had already thoroughly analyzed the Void Treasury she had taken from Otto Apocalypse.

As a favorite of the gods, the Second Herrscher, Sirin, received too much knowledge from the gods. Moreover, after casually erasing the AI ​​personality set up within the Void Archives, she was able to use all the knowledge stored within the Void Archives with her own mental power. Even without an index, she could find the knowledge she needed simply by scanning it with her will.

Since my own understanding is insufficient, I will let the Void Archives achieve the desired effect on my behalf, and all I need to do is supply Honkai energy to this Herrscher core from the pre-civilization era to activate it.

"The so-called Key of God can only be most effective when it is in the hands of God's agent."

Celine gracefully traversed the air, raising her right hand and casually wielding thirteen chain guns resembling Judas, as she pursued the struggling Phoenix within the electromagnetic cage she had created, spanning eight hundred meters in radius.

Although Sirin cannot currently alter Judah's purpose or change the main energy it seals, as long as the thirteen chain guns bind Phoenix, she can break through his I-field with the simulated binding power, leaving Sirin at her mercy.

"A bird caught in a cage, struggle as hard as you can!"

As the electromagnetic field contracted, the first golden chain spear wrapped around Phoenix's left arm, causing the golden machine to lurch and be bound by the remaining twelve chain spears that swarmed in, hanging it on a giant cross like Jesus on the crucifixion.

"Either I'm killed by you, or you become mine. Isn't that great?"

Just as Celine reached the cockpit door, the thirteen chain guns tightened their grip, and Phoenix had lost all will to struggle. He lowered his monitor and stared blankly at Celine, who was smiling.

A victor's smile appeared on her face as Xilin reached out to touch Phoenix's outer armor, and Zhao Si's voice pierced her heart:

"Hey! Sirin, you've become a New Type too, right?"

"So what? Have you realized you're using your status as one of our own to beg for mercy? It's fine, I can accept any pleas for mercy."

"Alright, very well then, New Type Destroyer System, come and taste this again."

The next moment, Phoenix's outer armor unfolded, and NT-D mode was activated:

"As always, Phase Two."

Chapter 32: Who says counterfeit goods are inferior to genuine products?

With its armor fully deployed, the entire machine expanded in size. The wing-like antenna on its head split into two on either side, resembling a bird spreading its wings. The facial shield also flipped up, revealing the Gundam-like face with its two eyes hidden inside the head. The exposed psycho-frame emitted a dazzling blue light.

Phoenix NT-D form.

When Sirin touched Phoenix, the NT-D system of the New Type automatically broke through the constraints of the simulated Judas, broke free from the thirteen golden chain guns in the exploding armor, and the DE armor that unfolded behind her flew off the machine and shot a beam of light towards Sirin from the top!

"Good! I knew it, this Judas-like imposter couldn't hold you back!"

Instead of being alarmed, Sirin was delighted. The beam shot out at sub-light speed, which should have been a sure hit, but Sirin, who foresaw the danger in advance, was able to dodge the trajectory of the beam just before it was fired. With the relentless pursuit of the DE armor, Sirin was forced to move away from Phoenix, and the latter took the opportunity to turn around and kick the simulated Judas's body to pieces, using the recoil to fly towards Sirin.

High in the sky, Sirin's spatial teleportation was already instantaneous with no recovery time. However, every time she reappeared, a beam of light would be waiting for her. Although Sirin could always activate the imaginary spatial teleportation damage first, the opponent's precise strikes still made Sirin feel somewhat frustrated.

"Your talent should be far inferior to mine."

"Beating you is enough!"

When the DE Armor was once again swatted away by the Hand of Imaginary Numbers, Zhao Si immediately recalled the DE Shield and installed it on Phoenix's arms. The entire psycho-frame of his body shone brightly. Amidst the shouts in the real and spiritual worlds, Phoenix used the I Field to withstand the spread of the Second Herrscher's Void Fire and swung his fists at the Second Herrscher!

"Has Zhao Si lost his mind? Such an attack can't do anything to me!"

Sirin casually created a spatial portal in front of her, large enough to accommodate Phoenix's arms and the DE shield they were connected to. At the same time, four hundred meters below and behind Sirin, a spatial passage opened, from which two fists gleaming with golden light emerged.

Zhao Si knew that if he didn't pull away soon, his arms might get sliced ​​into rocket punches.

Phoenix immediately responded to his idea. As the DE armor disengaged, the nozzles on his body adjusted their positions. Just before Sirin tightened the space gate, the entire machine leaned back and pulled out its arms. The psycho-frames on his feet immediately released blue psycho-powered light blades, directly severing Sirin's imaginary hand that lunged forward.

"Wait, behind me... oh no!"

The next moment, a golden greatsword wreathed in flames slammed down from directly below Phoenix, and a strong push propelled Zhao Si upwards. At the same time, the armored DE support frame on Phoenix's backpack was severed by the sword, and the image behind the cockpit of the entire Zhou Tian was damaged, resulting in the cockpit losing nearly a quarter of its field of vision.

"An enlarged Divine Key again, is it the Judgment of Heavenly Fire this time?!"

Zhao Si stared at the slightly distorted image on the screen, where a simulated Heavenly Fire Greatsword, accompanied by flames, was being trampled under Xilin's feet. The entire sword was fifteen meters long, which made his expression even more solemn.

Unlike the previous Judah's Oath sword, Sirin's body actually contains the core of the current civilization's Herrscher of Flame. With the blessing of her authority, the output of this Heavenly Fire Greatsword is no different from the genuine article.

In battle, compared to developing a Herrscher core from scratch, it is obviously faster to use an existing Divine Key mold to simulate and reproduce the original ability.

That sneak attack just now directly shattered the I-force field that Phoenix had deployed around its machine, and destroyed some of the cameras behind it as well. Even if Zhao Si noticed it, he didn't have time to react, as his attention was focused on Sirin's frontal attack and he didn't have time to shift it.

Such an attack only works once, but Zhao Si knows that with the data calculations from the Void Archives and the five Herrscher cores within her body, Sirin can use at least five true Divine Keys. Although she can only switch between them each time, their difficulty far exceeds that of the Moon.

In the blink of an eye, Zhao Si made a decision. Phoenix did not retreat but advanced. As he swooped down, he gripped the hilt of the beam sword behind him with his right hand. In the instant he drew it out, the I-force field constrained the high-energy Milovsky particles emitted from the hilt of the beam sword. In the swing, it released a dazzling red arc, meeting Sirin's pseudo-heavenly fire greatsword head-on!

"Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz—"

Phoenix unleashed its power from all eight of its nozzles and its psycho-frame, determined to suppress the Heavenly Fire Greatsword beneath it. The moment the latter's leaping flames collided with the beam saber, a sharp, chilling collision sound rang out, igniting even more dazzling sparks. Even in broad daylight, this dazzling white light still filled Zhao Si's front screen.

"Second Herrscher, your progress is truly rapid. Killing you now is much more difficult than when you were using Exia."

"Oh, I'm so happy to hear you praise me like that☆~."

"I'm not happy at all!"

The exchange was fleeting, and the sword-to-sword clashes were also inconclusive. Phoenix's two pieces of armor DE that had previously detached from his arm rushed toward Sirin's back, but the beams of light shot out from them were intercepted and dissipated by the spatial traps set up around Sirin. Meanwhile, the Void Spear once again met the armor DE. One was inexhaustible, and the other was protected by the I-field and remained undamaged for a long battle.

At this moment, Xilin and Zhao Si were clashing on the front lines. The beam saber could not break through the Heavenly Fire Greatsword's offensive, and the Heavenly Fire Greatsword could not truly cut through the beam saber. They were also diverting their attention to controlling the floating components to bombard each other. Beams and flames flew in the sky. Five minutes later, it was still difficult to determine who was superior, and neither of them could gain an advantage.

The two, both possessing Newtype abilities, are equally adept at anticipating their opponent's moves, and their combat experience is also similar—both are complete novices.

"Tsk, I can't move my body freely at all, damn gravity!"

Looking at her surroundings, Xilin felt a sense of disgust. The freedom she felt in space was exhilarating, but back on Earth, she felt like she was in shackles, unable to even wield her fifteen-meter-long Heavenly Fire Greatsword with ease.

As she watched the beam saber slash at her once again, she used her Imaginary Hand to swing the Skyfire Greatsword to parry, just as the two were about to collide. Suddenly, the beam saber's laser disappeared, leaving only the bare hilt in Phoenix's hand.

"What? Phoenix's out of power... No way!"

A bolt of lightning flashed through Sirin's mind, and a portal opened behind her. She hurriedly dodged backward, but it was too late—

"call out--!"

Disconnecting the hilt of the beam that was parrying the Skyfire Greatsword, Phoenix followed up with a downward slash, and the dark firing port was aimed directly at Sirin's body. Immediately afterwards, Zhao Si decisively restored the Milovsky particle charging, and the beam, no longer constrained by the I-force field, shot out from the hilt!

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah!"

The Milovsky particles at maximum output enveloped Sirin's body like sparks of fireworks. The laser with the surface temperature of the sun and the DE armor that bypassed the encirclement of the Subspace Spear attacked from both sides, causing the spatial gate created by Sirin to become unstable and dissipate. Sirin herself was directly exposed to the high temperature baptism of the beam!

Zhao Si did not let his guard down after his success. He added an I-field to the hilt of the beam sword to seal Sirin inside the beam sword and continue to roast her. Meanwhile, Phoenix added another mental energy blade with his left hand to stop the falling pseudo-heavenly fire greatsword.

The screen was filled with the red light emitted by the beam saber. When Zhao Si removed the beam saber, the previously scorched area was empty, and the two pieces of armor DE returned to his arms.

For a moment, the battlefield fell silent, as if the fierce battle just now was merely an illusion.

"Is it over? But where did the Second Herrscher's Herrscher Core go?"

Zhao Si controlled Phoenix to put the beam sword hilt back into the backpack, looked around, and found nothing unusual. However, the NT-D form did not exit, proving that Phoenix could still sense the brainwaves of the Second Herrscher.

"Of course, it's not over yet."

"under?!"

Phoenix looked down and, through the monitor, Zhao Si saw the sword, resembling a celestial fire greatsword, absorbing the surrounding soil and trees. To Zhao Si's astonishment, the First Divine Key was mimicking the form he knew best—

"That way, we're on equal footing, aren't we?"

"...You bastard, you bastard...get out of that machine!"

Phoenix's dive sounded as melodious as a bird's song, and what blocked his armored fist was a cone-shaped shield.

"Hahahaha! Now, the real showdown of Mobile Suit, Zhao Si!"

The mimicking golden mech propelled itself backward a hundred meters, leaving two streaks of its legs across the snow. Facing Phoenix, who had returned to the ground, Sirin, hidden within the mech's core, gleefully began to control the Mobile Suit that had once driven her to the brink of despair:

"Cirin, Exia Gundam, time to sortie!☆~"

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

P.S.: I overslept last night, I'm so sorry! (bowing repeatedly)

I'll try my best to write more later, bro.

Chapter 33: The Simulated Seven Swords Exia Gundam

Simulated Seven Swords Exia Gundam.

The basis of mimicry is all the combat data about the Seven Swords Exia Gundam recorded in the atmosphere by Void Archives, combined with the muscle memory of Sirin's body being destroyed and rebuilt time and time again when she was being chased by the Exia Gundam on the moon.

After waiting for more than two days at the top of the Tower of Babylon, Sirin combined the two to create the Seven Swords Exia Gundam, which only resembled it in appearance.

Only the exterior is similar, so there is nothing in the internal structure that is the same as the original. Whether it is the skeleton, the GN Drive, or the interior of the cockpit, it is impossible to reproduce them. In fact, Sirin does not even have a cockpit. She is just a brain-controlled machine in the center.

The only thing that's somewhat accurate is the movable hatch below the chest, because on the moon, it was here that Xilin tore open to see Zhao Si inside the cockpit.

The memory is quite vivid.

The Void Archives records three instances of Gundam Exia's intervention: assisting Valkyrie in defeating the Honkai Beast Tide, defeating the Judgment-class Honkai Beast Benares, and fighting the Second Herrscher, Sirin herself.

Even Sirin, with a little thought, knew that the first piece of data was obviously obtained by the Bishop of Destiny from his subordinates' combat recorders. After becoming interested, he went to the scene and had Void Archives record all the subsequent actions, probably hoping to study something from the technology that was so different from the current mainstream.

Otto Apocalypse, this guy, he gets all cocky the moment he sees a glimmer of hope, huh? Is that how you use that word? Anyway, he's like a mad dog, wanting to try everything, human experimentation, secretly recording Exusiai's battles, and now Sirin's benefited.

"You bastard, get out of Exia!"

On the snow, two Gundam mobile suits were fighting each other in the most primitive way, one punch for every two punches from the other.

Enraged, Zhao Si and Phoenix's entire psycho-frame glowed with blue light. In addition, Sirin's fabrication of the pseudo-Seven Swords Exusiai seemed to be a pure toy with the opponent, as she had no experience with it. As a result, the pseudo-Seven Swords Exusiai had been suppressed and forced to retreat repeatedly by Phoenix since its appearance.

But unlike the furious Zhao Si, Xilin was having a great time.

"Hehehe, no way! This is the Gundam Exia that killed me so badly I had nowhere to run. Don't you think it's a perfect match for me to be piloting it now?"

"I'm a match for your mother! What you're driving is nothing more than a Gundam knock-off!"

Phoenix's armored DE arms flew out and knocked down the Pseudo-Exusiai. Then, as he jumped to smash into the Pseudo-Exusiai, he was suddenly slapped aside by the Imaginary Hand that extended from the center of the Pseudo-Exusiai's body. With the support of the Imaginary Hand, the Pseudo-Exusiai completed the process of going from falling to standing up again.