Temperature Control in Academy City

Once you try to get off the ground and launch an attack on a bun-head high in the sky, you will immediately be suppressed by the thick gas and unable to move.

To get back to the point, in the face of absolute dominance of atmospheric control, the simple accumulation of numbers will not be enough to change the situation of the battle.

Natsume, who was well aware of this, was already in an invincible position from the very beginning of this combat.

With atomic destruction in one hand and atmospheric manipulation in the other, the attack and defense displayed by Natsume Sonoko at this moment seemed perfect, perfectly fitting the image of a legion-level psychic.

And in the Academy City, perhaps only those with white hair who don't buy into this can ignore it.

However, even such a Natsume Sonoko, when faced with the endless stream of invaders that almost filled the entire small park, finally had an unnatural blush on her face, which was the result of the massive consumption of computing power.

"There are more and more alienated people gathering in the park."

"It's understandable that there were a lot of people in the first wave, but there were still hundreds of people in the second wave. By the third wave, the total number had doubled. Now there are at least more than 400 people gathered around the park."

"Neither of the two Tokiwadai has this many people."

Shaking his tired brain, a guy with a bun on his head felt that this was really outrageous.

She actually hadn't fully rested yet, after all, she was too tired from reading the "formula" information of Feng Zhan.

But no matter how you look at it, today's public security is unexpectedly bad, as so many invaders have been able to break into the Academy City.

I don't mean to blame the security guard teacher, I just find it a little unbelievable.

"You need to work harder."

Natsume Sonoko silently encouraged herself, and then glared at the increasing number of aliens without fear.

She had already made up her mind that no matter how many people came, she would send them all to the security building without leaving a single one behind.

She is fighting with such determination.

In an ordinary park that smelled of green grass, an unlucky camphor tree was split in half by an atomic collapse that had not yet exhausted its power, and it just happened to hit a security robot that was spinning in circles and spraying fire.

Although there were some minor problems, a guy with a ball head was working hard to help these guys perform surgery using a sharp scalpel formed by barrier electrons.

The large octopus tentacles that were alive and kicking fell to the ground, giving one the feeling of having arrived at a seafood wholesale center.

On the other side, the security teachers who used the capture grenade also began to capture some prisoners, controlling the firepower output of the security robots and gradually clearing out a safe buffer area.

Together with the mutants frozen by Natsume, the large number of invaders seemed to be being quickly eliminated.

However, this feeling of rapid progress gave Natsume Sonoko a sense of insecurity.

She always felt that the way these alienated people looked at her seemed to be getting stranger and stranger, as if there was gradually something more than anger in them.

And this feeling became more and more obvious after the aliens in the entire park were gradually cleared out.

Standing right above a mutant that was frozen into an ice sculpture, Natsume Sonoko stared at the other's blood-red eyes with some concern.

Although she really wanted to say that she also had such red eyes and there was nothing to be proud of, at this moment, Natsume Sonoko became a little quiet.

She found that in the space around her, these broken tentacles gradually turned into the blue spores she had seen before. Even the defeated mutants began to ooze out spores, and within a second or two, they spread across almost the entire park.

But because the air around her was firmly controlled by someone, even with a very short reaction time, it was enough for Natsume Sonoko to grasp the situation.

"Want to parasite me? I already knew that."

A smug expression instantly appeared on Natsume Sonoko's face.

She had already known about this strange existence between matter and energy.

However, what surprised Natsume Sonoko was that these spores suddenly underwent some strange changes that could only be discovered in phase observation, which manifested in the physical universe as an endless white fluorescence.

At various locations in the Academy City, magical lines suddenly lit up that seemed to be connected to each other, transcending the barriers of space and geography, projecting an unknown force into the small park.

"what is this?"

Natsume Sonoko suddenly felt her head go blurry and she had no time to react before her body was directly enveloped by the fluorescent light.

"You're awake, Hitomi."

On an ordinary night in the mountains in summer, the sound of frogs croaking was heard one after another, and a strange girl was clumsily tending to the campfire in front of her.

Next to her, a girl wearing a simple red and white shrine maiden costume and carrying a wooden short bow squinted her eyes lazily, looking as if she had not yet woken up.

Chapter 518: Great Imperial God

This world is full of beauty. Whether it is the priest who took care of her growing up, or her younger sister Tsubaki, they are both indispensable family members to the red and white priestess in front of her.

But as she grew up and began to understand the world, she found that it was full of mistakes and chaos.

At first it was just confusion in cognition and logic, then the frivolity and instability of the world itself, and later she found that even her own existence seemed untrustworthy.

As long as she uses her perception ability to continue exploring along the thread of history and time, and reads the patterns imprinted in the universe by human activities, she will be able to discover fragmented human history that looks like a pieced-together fruit plate but is still functioning normally.

The history of mankind and even the history of the universe in this universe was in a state of fault before a certain point in time.

This was in an almost irreconcilable contradiction with her understanding of history, because she did not believe that the long history of mankind was limited to just a few decades.

If one wants to understand the past of the universe before the fault, one can probably only try to read the information that transcends the universe and is recorded in the world itself.

What we are talking about here are not those ordinary phases that are inextricably linked to the real universe, but going deep into the world, reaching a place that records changes in world data and even formulates all existing laws.

To put it in a more fashionable way, it can probably be called the root layer.

Even the current Red and White Priestess would be amazed at the idea of ​​tracing back to the past through the root layer. It must be an astronomical amount of information being traced back.

The most important thing is that she is now unable to recognize the existence of the root layer, just as the fourth dimension does not exist to her.

But for now, this horrifying discovery that only remained at the cosmic level directly shattered all of the Red and White Priestess's concepts, and made her firmly grasp something called power, attempting to use her humble ability to resist to prove her own existence.

Once the universe itself can be easily reconstructed and history can be easily broken, does it mean that human existence is actually meaningless?

It was probably at this time that she turned into a strange nihilist, and even infected a certain girl with a bun hairstyle later.

Do I really exist?

Is everything real?

Is this the only length of the universe?

Just like the memories of the time travelers in her head, are they true or false, or is it just a meaningless fantasy of a madman?

And are those things called technology described in those memories really that good?

Movies, TV, games, and comics. If there really is such a beautiful world, how nice it would be to be able to live there without knowing anything.

To get back to the point, after discovering the historical fault, the girl named Hitomi gradually lost her interest in the supreme god in the religious legend, and even no longer regarded punishing that existence as her only goal.

I just want to finish the work at hand quickly so that everyone can live freely.

However, this is only a part of the existing historical records. The person who slowly opened his eyes at this moment, full of confusion and panic about everything around him, has long become the bun-haired girl who was previously shrouded in white fluorescence and didn't know what had happened to her.

"My eyes are better?"

Natsume Sonoko looked at the burning bonfire with slightly narrowed eyes somewhat uncomfortably and touched her cheek in surprise. The white gauze that had originally wrapped her cheek was no longer visible.

His face is chubby, and you can feel the flesh when you pinch it. It seems that he eats well.

But this is totally not herself. She has a simple bun on her hair, wears a pair of high-heeled clogs that are specially shortened, and wears a set of clothes that looks very old-fashioned.

The red and white were not matched at all, and the skirt was the type that was washed so much that it turned white, which was completely inconsistent with the look of a lady from Tokiwadai.

But dressing up is secondary. She doesn't have any requirements for clothes anyway, she just wants them to be clean.

the most important is...

"Where am I?"

Natsume Sonoko stood up suddenly, and became unsteady on her feet without noticing.

She found that she seemed to have grown a lot taller, and even her perspective on the world seemed to have changed. She was now at least 1.6 meters tall, exactly the same perspective as when she brought Zero in before.

"We are in the mountains of Tottori."

Glancing at the guy who suddenly started shouting, the girl who was a little shorter than him and wearing a gorgeous silk Japanese dress spoke calmly.

"That's good... a ghost."

Natsume Sonoko's nerves tensed up instantly, and she looked at the girl who was less than three meters away from her with great vigilance.

For some reason, she seemed to know this person.

And there seems to be something wrong with this place.

When Natsume Sonoko began to sense the space around her, she was surprised to find that this did not seem to be a real place, let alone the mountains of Tottori.

As long as she recalls the previous relative spatial coordinates, her perception will immediately extend to where she wants to go.

Her body had been staying in the same small park, and its movements were constantly changing with her every move. However, everyone else in the park seemed to be unaware and just stood there in a daze.

At this time, the small park seemed to be shrouded in the light, completely separating the outside world from the inside.

It was as if this part of reality was overlapped, and some kind of split and replacement occurred at the location of the small park, causing her image to become what it is now.

"Come to think of it, it's been a long time since we last met, Hitomi."

The girl standing in front of the campfire spoke with a faint smile on her face.

Unlike before, when she cast her eyes on the world, she was always curious about all kinds of new things.

Perhaps curiosity was the first time she had felt such an obvious emotion since she was born, or maybe she was just tired of the monotonous life.

And now, it seems that the only thing in her eyes is this silly-looking girl.

"I am the main god of Neon Shinto. You can call me Sun Woman or Omikami."

"Based on my understanding of human society, I should show something called hatred towards you who sealed me."

"So in order to convey my hatred to you, I spent a lot of time studying human emotions. You have already felt it from those servants before."

Raising his chin expressionlessly, the Great God spoke in a serious tone.

Even though they have been downgraded to material life forms and have lived in the human world for such a long time, it is still difficult for them to learn human emotions. This is probably the limitation of phase life.

The servants can only be interfered with through the residual power that has been contaminated by the concept of monsters.

"Hey, what are you talking about all of a sudden?"

"And if you really want to hate someone, you should hate Miss Hitomi. And you don't need to drag so many people into invading Academy City."

Suddenly getting angry, a guy with a bun-haired look retorted with a stern face.

But she suddenly realized that she might have become that Hitomi.

"I just want to show you how angry I am and how much I care about this matter."

"And I'm very curious. I want to know what you did to me? What exactly is the Sealing Core?"

At this point, a light lit up in Omikami's eyes.

There are fewer and fewer things in the world that make her curious. The only thing that can maintain her lasting attraction is probably the rebellious priestess who sealed her and then forcibly occupied and transformed Takama-ga-hara.

But due to lack of emotion, he didn't even feel that the other party had offended him.

However, because she did not actually lose her status, but simply became the existence that people wanted her to become, even her instinctive desire to regain her status could not be realized.

The current Omikami is actually very bored and annoyed with everything. She really wants to find the guy who had nothing better to do than to bring her down to the human world, and then try to take revenge on him.

Chapter 519: The Creator God Exists

Terms such as "God" are not themselves the embodiment of a person, but are just metaphysical names rooted in religion.

If we really follow the naming method commonly used in the world of Magical Index, this Great God should be called an angel, and the power he possesses is also uniformly called the power of angels. This is probably because this world is in an era of rule by Christianity and its magic.

If we ignore the angel's status and her gorgeous human appearance, the girl in a gorgeous silk dress is just a large block of energy that can move and think, a miraculous life form composed of phase energy.

Sitting face to face, the light from the bonfire made their faces red.

In this wonderful and unreal scene that seems real and unreal, it still seems to conform to the physical laws of the real universe, which makes people sigh that the power that transcends time and space is so profound and terrifying.

With one hand holding a wooden stick and poking the flame, and the other hand resting on her knee supporting her head, Natsume Sonoko, who was supporting Hitomi's body, began to talk to the energy block lady.

Of course, she would never use this energy block term to describe Feng Zhan.

This is extremely rude, but Natsume simply doesn't have any favorable impression of the guy in front of him.

And Natsume no longer cares where she is now. Before the energy of those spores is consumed, or she takes the initiative to shake some of the other party's arrangements in the outside world, Natsume Sonoko feels that she will not be able to get out.

The great benefit that her perception ability brings her is that she will not lose her relative coordinates, and her body will clearly tell her where she is.

"It's unreasonable that you want to ruin my life just because of such a ridiculous reason."