I am a mindless machine.

Thinking this, Yun You's figure vanished from her spot in an instant. The next moment, the place where she had been standing was pierced by three Heavenly Strike attacks with approximately 100% power. The immense power of the energy even caused space itself to shatter.

However—it seems the plan will have to be implemented ahead of schedule.

[Individual identification code θ5w?02u345df2 — Requesting reconnection to the first command body of the θ link]

While searching for a potential breakthrough, the girl calmly murmured these words to herself, her face showing no sign of anxiety. The mechanical wings on her back emitted a roaring sound as they spewed forth concentrated elven energy, her body transforming into an arc of light as she weaved through the winged creatures. Her delicate, snow-white face remained expressionless.

—She hasn't lost yet.

Chapter Sixty-One: Intrusion

The battle situation was perilous.

Yun You manipulated her body, with a sharp whistling sound accompanying her at all times. Her petite body made several movements that seriously violated the laws of physics.

This is the fantasy species, Abant Heim, the nation of the Winged Ones. In terms of size, it is a floating continent, another world independent of the rest of the world.

As a result, for Yun You, who had been forcibly dragged to the very center by Jibril, flying away from the island directly became impossible. Moreover, to prevent her from leaving, the island itself would even change its terrain and scenery to interfere.

In this situation, even if Yun You were to fly at full speed by herself, it would probably take her quite some time to leave, not to mention—

Yunyou deployed her visual device, dodging the huge cube that suddenly appeared in front of her and blocked her movement, while looking at the things chasing behind her.

"Hehehe~ You'd better just obediently hand over your life~!"

"Just a piece of scrap metal whose special skill is monkey-like imitation—how dare he show up here! He has quite the nerve, huh~!"

"—I'll catch it! I'll catch it!—I'll tear it to pieces with my own hands!!"

The sounds of girls laughing and joking came from behind. If you didn't pay attention to the meaning of their words, they seemed like innocent girls playing simple games in a spacious garden. If you didn't pay special attention, you wouldn't even feel the murderous aura they exuded—they had long regarded killing as a daily occurrence.

After a sharp knife injures someone, does it really talk to itself in a melancholy tone?

From birth, they are high-performance weapons for killing—empty dolls—mere objects—who probably don't even understand what a soul is.

In a sense, they are also beings without hearts.

But thinking about those things now is meaningless... no, it is still meaningful.

Yunyou recalled what she remembered, and followed the flow of air—turning her body horizontally diagonally forward.

"Huh?? Where did everyone go???" At this moment, the Skywing creatures, who had been very close to her, realized that the target who should have been waiting for her attack had suddenly disappeared. They held the Sky Strike they had prepared but had lost the handle to strike with, and looked around blankly.

And at this moment—

"——【Pseudo-canon·Bloodbreaker】——【Combo·Slash】."

A soft, ghostly Wu dialect voice rang in their ears.

Then, crimson blood blossoms bloomed in the sky in an instant.

"Ugh...!"

Several Skywing creatures, their chests pierced through, let out painful groans as they plummeted to the ground like birds that had lost their momentum.

Barrel Roll – a modern aerial combat maneuver that uses rotation to reduce speed, thus achieving the tactical objective of bringing the enemy into view.

If one has no heart, cannot think, and only uses the simplest and most ruthless methods to accomplish everything, then calculating becomes far too easy.

However, usually speaking, their innate power alone is enough to crush all schemes and plots.

"(Calculations show that adding these four people has already taken away the combat ability of twenty-seven people.)"

Yun You silently said this in her heart.

She didn't kill those Skywings. A large hole in her chest was just a serious injury to them; as long as they received timely treatment, they were unlikely to be in any danger of dying.

Don't misunderstand, the reason she hasn't killed him yet isn't because of her promise to Riku. That kind of benevolent promise is only kept when one's own life isn't threatened. Right now, she's struggling to survive; how could she possibly care about her opponent's life or death?

However, she could not kill, nor dared to kill.

Because the god of war, Artesius, is currently on this island.

Unlike the Forging God and the Forest God, whose actions are limited by fear of being exploited, Yun You didn't think Alteshu would be afraid of anything and thus hesitate to act. And if Alteshu did act, even with just a slight movement of energy, Yun You was certain he would be dead.

That symbolizes the strongest and most supreme power.

However, Alteshu hasn't made a move yet. As for why, Yunyou doesn't understand, and can only speculate that it might be because she's not yet worthy of that man's attention, and he doesn't consider her an opponent—which is, of course, a good thing.

However, she couldn't guarantee that if she actually killed a Skywing on their territory, the God of War wouldn't still ignore her as much as he did now. So, until now, she hasn't killed a single person.

However, we can't let this drag on any longer.

The energy will eventually run out.

Yun You thought to herself. Using the Dragon Essence Seed's spacetime jump, she escaped this place again without leaving a trace—although the energy required to do so was roughly equivalent to a full-force Heavenly Strike from the Skywing Seed, she had no other choice.

If they didn't do this, they wouldn't be able to shake off those hundreds of Skywing creatures. They could easily catch up to Yun You, who was currently flying at supersonic speeds, simply by constantly shifting their spatial positions. Their method of movement was utterly incomprehensible.

The only way to escape the pursuit is to temporarily get out of their sight using even more absurd methods. However, since the entire area is filled with enemies, they will know immediately no matter where she runs. She can only buy herself a little time.

However, that's enough.

Yunyou thought about the communication link that had just disappeared into thin air, and calmly recited it in her mind again.

[Requesting a link again—]

【θ5w?02u345df2, Your machine is in a state of permanent disconnection. It has been determined that restoring your machine to a connected state would result in irreparable damage. Therefore, the connection request is rejected.】

For Yunyou, this was probably the first time she had ever heard someone else's voice in her mind. Although she had initiated the connection request following her body's memories, this special feeling was still too unfamiliar to her.

Unlike Shubi in the original work, who was disconnected due to several logical inconsistencies caused by observing the heart, Deevne (Yun You) was different. She was disconnected because she pushed her mecha's level to the limit, resulting in insufficient operating core.

This means that if they were to truly return and share all the data—likely all the Machine Races would become obsolete. This conclusion was reached based on the computational data of over ten thousand Machine Races, so Yunyou cannot return, even though she is an exception who is still able to function. However, given the Machine Races' logic-driven way of thinking, the risk is far too great.

Yunyou was well aware of this.

Her situation is different from that of Shubi in the original work. Even if she shows intense emotions here, she will probably still be rejected. Moreover, she is not capable of any intense emotional fluctuations.

As for making the other party understand that she was fighting against hundreds of Skywings, it would probably be dismissed as her being a broken machine, so all abnormal behavior was normal—otherwise, the Machine Races would have contacted her long ago during this year when she had made a name for herself among the various races.

and so--

A faint smile crept onto the girl's lips as she spoke again in a lighthearted tone.

Thanks for the reply, the connection is now established.

After all, it's always in a disconnected state, just like a phone scam. If the other side refuses to answer or communicate, even the most skilled scammer can't succeed.

But if the call goes through, even just a simple word can completely reverse the situation.

【————？！θ5w?02u345df2，What does your machine intend to do?】

Although the voice on the other end of the communication remained flat and monotonous, Yun You could clearly sense the wavering in the other person's words. This was an emotion that should never have appeared in someone who was a Mech.

This is to be expected, because Yun You is currently operating recklessly.

Unlike her previous life, back then she used a relatively high-performance civilian computer to accomplish various intrusion operations that were difficult for ordinary people to understand.

Now, she possesses genuine, generational advantages in her mecha.

She turned slightly, her crimson eyes sweeping over the Skywing races who had pursued her again, each wielding a terrifying, irregularly shaped energy entity. She prepared herself for the battle to continue. Numerous mechanical devices materialized on her petite, snow-white body. Each device contained an extremely concentrated amount of elven energy.

At the same time, the responses are processed in the mind.

[What are you planning to do? ...Of course, I'm going to forcefully tell you what love really is.]

Chapter Sixty-Two: The Next Move

What is an opportunity?

Those were introductory books for naive toddlers. They were the fuse that ignited the powder keg. They were the first words that made the tape recorder start repeating—and they didn't even have to be a concrete thing, but rather an abstract concept.

The information provided by Yunyou serves as such a catalyst.

"......."

Surrounded by the pleasant, delicate voices of the Skywing race, Yun You maintained a blank expression as she dealt with the attacks. Like a leaf in a storm, she moved gracefully with the wind (Sky Strike), easily dodging attacks that would have seriously injured her even if she had only been lightly grazed.

However, these Skywing races, being called god-slaying weapons, were certainly not fools. Although they lacked the learning abilities of the Mech races, upon realizing that their attacks (Sky Strike) couldn't hit the girl, they tacitly stopped their energy-consuming actions. They condensed and gathered their spirits into weapons—bows, swords, blades, scythes, hammers... and so on. Countless weapons, constantly emanating a dangerous aura, appeared in their slender palms and were tightly gripped by them.

Then, working together, they formed a dense encirclement and charged towards the girl with excited smiles.

In truth, they were genuinely unaccustomed to facing enemies as small as a girl. Normally, lower races like the Forest Elves could be dealt with by a single Sky Strike, while races stronger than them, such as the Dragon Elves and Giants, were enormous. In such cases, gathering more people and pooling their power for a larger Sky Strike would suffice. At most, a few more of the latter would die in the process.

However, as weapons, they themselves have a very weak sense of death, or rather, they don't even have the awareness that they are alive.

This is troublesome. Yun You's eyes narrowed as she looked at the Skywing race swarming forward with weapons, and then—decisively disappeared from the spot again.

"【Dian Kai】—【Pseudo-Dian·Deceptive Play】—Time and Space Jump."

In an instant, the surrounding scenery changed rapidly. Because of the addition of a spell that could deceive the entire world, the Skywing Clan, who was originally on guard against the girl using time-space jump to escape, was also stunned for a moment, which allowed Yun You to successfully disappear.

There's no way to fight in that kind of situation. As the saying goes, two fists can't beat four hands, let alone more than four hundred hands. Besides, Yun You's advantage is mainly in combat skills. In terms of pure spirit quantity, she only has about seventy Skywing species, while she is facing hundreds or even thousands of Skywing species.

A head-on confrontation is a sure way to lose, but that doesn't mean you should run away.

"Wow, she's disappeared again—where did she go this time?"

"Anyway, Abang-kun will tell us the enemy's location soon, so let's just wait here for now. If we rashly chase after them, they'll just get picked off by that evil spirit again~ Hehe."

"Speaking of which, she's actually quite formidable! — After we kill her, we'll offer her head to the master or hang it in the hall!"

Seeing Yun You disappear from their sight, the remaining Skywing race didn't panic. Instead, they chatted happily. This seemingly careless move was actually the most sensible choice. Since this was their home turf, there was no need to waste any more effort.

—But they still understand too little about their enemies.

"—!?"

In the next instant, the blue-white light waves, like a gluttonous beast with its mouth wide open, directly engulfed the entire space.

"【Battle Report】A total of 107 people have now lost their combat ability... Even if it was a surprise attack designed to make them think I wouldn't use long-range attacks, it could only injure this many people. Are all the Skywing race monsters...?"

In the darkness of the distance, Yun You unloaded the oversized transport beam cannon and threw it on the ground, muttering to himself before flying away from the area again.

This method probably won't work next time.

Even though Yun You appears to be handling the situation with ease, it doesn't change the fact that she's in grave danger. Only fifteen minutes have passed since the battle began, and she's already feeling significant pressure. She can't reuse tricks, and using time travel consumes too much energy.

If the fight continues, Yunyou will lose... and then die.