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Chapter 562 The Reaper's Trace
After evading the Foundation's frantic hunt, Duanmuhuai opened the portal, slipped back to the battleship, and began to study this card carefully.

"Hmm...Mechanical descendant, what kind of card is this?"

Looking at the soul card in front of him, Duanmuhuai felt a little bit heartbroken, he knew the meaning of mechanical descending.To put it simply, it’s like many stories where the protagonist group fights the final BOSS at a disadvantage, and then on the verge of annihilation, the protagonist’s courage and love moved the heavens or something, and then suddenly the heavens sent divine power to the protagonist group. Player resurrection + BUFF, then weaken the BOSS, and then the protagonist group Jedi comeback.

This kind of behavior is called "Mechanical Desperation". Simply put, at the last moment, an unreasonable and illogical thing suddenly appeared inexplicably, forcibly changing the final ending of the story.

So when Duanmuhuai first heard about the mechanical descending spirit, he always thought it might be some kind of mechanical device or relic.

But I didn’t expect…………

It's actually a follower card?

That's right, this is what Duanmuhuai was worried about. The behavior of [Mechanical Goddess] itself was nothing, but as a follower card, it meant that she had self-awareness, and that would be troublesome.

Because in this way, it is completely impossible for you to know who she will help!

If she helps the protagonist, it will be a successful comeback from PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds under the pressure of the boss.

If she helps the boss, it will be the boss who is about to be destroyed under the siege of the protagonist group, "hahahaha, this is my escape route", and then come back.

It can be seen from this that the Mechanic Goddess is a double-edged sword, if it is simply a relic or some kind of technology, it will be fine.

But it's actually a Servant... This is very troublesome.

No wonder there is a sealed word below. It seems that even the Foundation is obviously worried about letting this kind of self-aware killer out to run around.

Do you want to unseal it?

Staring at the card in front of him, Duanmu Huai hesitated for a moment.

Get rid of it, after all... She has to be the reality anchor!
【Seal lifted】

As Duanmu Huai's thoughts turned, the next moment, the soul card in his hand trembled instantly, and the next moment, the original black and white card was dyed with colorful colors. At the same time, the card in Duanmu Huai's eyes The card effect has also changed again.

【Mechagod (Legend)】

【Consumption: 5】

【Attack: 4】

【Defense: 5】

[Effect: (entrance song) Give your main fighter the special effect of "Whenever you use a creation card, reduce the heat consumption of subspace by 10%"]

【I am the god of machinery that controls cause and effect. If you want to make the world more stable, or bring about greater chaos, everything is your freedom... Come on, what do you want? 】

"I rely on?!"

Seeing the effect of this card, Duanmu Huai was stunned.

Although the effect of this card seems very simple, only a short sentence, but in Duanmuhuai's view, it is simply... raped!

At this time, we need to review again. As a soul walker, Duanmuhuai's subspace heat has an upper limit, and most of the summoned objects he summons will consume heat.It's just that because of the effect of [subspace armor], Duanmuhuai's subspace heat consumption of all summons is halved, so he can maintain enough soul card activities most of the time.

现在端木槐拥有并且一直维持在场的卡牌有【奥姬丝（6-3）】【萝蕾娜（3-2）】【安（8-4）】【古蕾雅（8-4）】【菲琳（3-2）】【蜜亚（2-1）】【库库璐（3-2）】【奥黛儿（6-3）】，至于在母舰上常驻的人偶，由于属于亚空间碎片的范围，所以不算在消耗之内，常驻的基本就是这些，大约占据了端木槐40.00%的亚空间热量限度，剩下的60.00%，端木槐主要是留下用来在特殊时期召唤一些灵魂卡牌或者释放魔法的。

After all, although [Sky City] + [Shenwei's Relic] is indeed a magic tool for clearing the field, it also consumes a lot of subspace heat, so some must be set aside in advance.

However, with the effect of [Mechanical Fall], it's completely different!
Duanmuhuai's puppet cards are all zero consumption, and according to the effect of [Mechanical God], every time Duanmuhuai plays a creation card, it will reduce 10% of subspace heat consumption, which means that as long as Duanmu Huai played a bunch of creation cards with zero consumption, then he could directly reduce his subspace heat to zero!
This also means that he can summon a large number of cards with high consumption and high damage!

After all, no matter how many high-consumption soul cards are played, as long as the effect of [Machinarium] remains, Duanmuhuai's subspace calorie consumption can basically be zero forever!This is simply equivalent to the fact that the mage can keep zooming in without consuming MP. Such a cool ability——Damn, it really deserves to be a mechanical descendant. Any boss hit by this move will have to overturn!
In the game, the biggest headache for soulwalker players is not that they don't have enough soul cards, but that it is difficult to play out all the expensive cards at once.After all, the more powerful the card, the higher the consumption. Like Duanmu Huai's [Dimensional Transcendence], if it weren't for the special feature that can reduce consumption through magic power increase, he would not be able to play at all.Moreover, those powerful cards have high consumption, and the consumption is in the upper double digits at every turn—it is directly three digits in the subspace heat conversion, and players have to weigh it before playing.

This is the same as a mage casting magic, MP is limited, if you cast all the explosion magic in one breath, you will be lying on the ground and being picked up by someone.

But now, with this effect, Duanmuhuai can directly play [Sword Rain] or [Frozen Storm] at the beginning without worrying about consumption.

The so-called "opening the Jiaotong University to show friendship", anyway, my consumption is zero, so I can enlarge my tricks any way I want.

"call!"

Thinking of this, Duanmu Huai chose to summon without hesitation.Immediately after that, the soul card in his hand disappeared in an instant, and then, a huge steel coffin slowly emerged out of thin air and landed in front of Duanmu Huai, and then... there was no more.

"???"

what's the situation?
Looking at the coffin in front of him, Duanmu Huai was stunned, obviously the card was a beautiful woman, why did you give me a coffin?

Do I have to open it myself?

Duanmu Huai also did what he said, and directly reached out, grabbed the lid of the coffin, and then pulled it hard—it couldn't be pulled.

【Titre—————】

At the same time, Duanmu Huai's eyes also appeared the system's notification sound.

[Warning: Not meeting the conditions, do not wake up]

“………………???”

what's going on?
I have lifted the seal, you tell me that I cannot wake up? ? ?

And what the hell is not eligible? ? ?

But having said that, the so-called [Mechanical Goddess] was originally a product that only appeared at the end of the drama—well, you won’t tell me that this guy will only wake up when I challenge the four peddlers.

So what do I need her for now.

Looking at this, Duanmu Huai was speechless.

After finally getting a god card, it turned out that it couldn't be used because it didn't meet the conditions. Could it be that the foundation is actually like this.If it's what I think, then the Mechagod will only wake up in the Foundation when the world is destroyed...

Hey, forget it, at least this card is in your hand, right?

Duanmuhuai comforted himself, and silently put away the [Mechanical Goddess], it's better than nothing.

"Owner."

Just then, Augis walked in.

"Hey, Augis, have you been free recently?"

"It's very free, so I've been reading."

After all, Duanmuhuai didn't take her to the new instance, and Augis was really free.

"Sorry, this copy is a bit troublesome, let's talk about it next time."

"Yes... Mia has sent a message that they have discovered the traces of the Reaper fleet."

"Oh?"

Hearing this, Duanmu Huai's face became serious.

When Duanmuhuai came to the combat command room, Mia and others were already waiting there.

"Have you discovered the Reaper fleet?"

"Yes, the current preliminary estimate should be [-], which should be the early-stage troops."

"Oh, the number is quite a lot... How many warships are there in the Inquisition's fleet?"

"Currently about [-] ships."

"Time is a little tight, but there is no way."

Hearing Miya's answer, Duanmu Huai frowned, but there was nothing he could do. After all, building a warship in reality is not as simple and convenient as in the game, and it can be generated directly with one click.If it weren't for Maria's optimization of the manufacturing process, the time would probably have been even longer.Fortunately, there are not many galaxies currently occupied by the Star Federation. As long as the Inquisition takes action, it is still enough to protect most of the human galaxies.

As for those extraterrestrial aliens... then I'm sorry, everyone sweeps the snow in front of the door, don't worry about others' roofs.

"How long before they arrive?"

"From the current point of view, it is expected to be three months."

"very good."

Duanmuhuai snapped his fingers, then looked at the curly-haired little girl standing beside him.

"Lumière, prepare for the first step of the battle plan."

"...Really want to do this?"

Hearing Duanmu Huai's order, Lumière looked a bit embarrassed.In fact, Duanmuhuai has already made a plan to deal with the Reapers. One of the first steps is to let Lumiel hack into the Starlink network, and then send invitation letters to those influential aliens among humans to "invite" them Go to the land of those alien aliens, and use the hand of the Reaper to wipe them out.

"The Inquisition has always been, and will always be, human supremacist. We must not allow any heretic bastards who dare to sell human interests to trade with alien aliens to survive. If there is no such plan, I would have asked the night guards to hang them at the street lamp Come on, let's do it."

"……………I understand."

Lumiair nodded slightly, although she was also a little uneasy, but Duanmuhuai had already talked about this matter with her, and Lumiair herself knew which was more important.

Anyway, from a human point of view, she really doesn't need to feel sympathy for those traitors who are close to aliens.

"Connect me to the Star Alliance."

After Duanmuhuai gave the order, he spoke to Mia again, and soon, Li Longcheng's face appeared on the screen in front of him.

"It's been a long time, Mr. Duanmu, what have you been up to these days?"

"Busy what I should be busy with, but then again, now you have to be busy too."

"what do you mean……………?"

"There are still three months, and the reaper is coming."

"………………………Why?"

I have to say that Li Longcheng was shocked when he heard this.

"Are you sure?"

"My reconnaissance fleet has found traces of the Reapers. I will send you the information later, and you should be ready."

"However, three months is too short..."

It's no wonder that Li Longcheng panicked, after all... the news was too sudden.

"Currently we don't have enough warships..."

"It's useless for you to tell me this, talk to the reaper and see if they will give you a fair chance to compete."

"Uh... I know that, isn't there any other way to delay their progress?"

"Of course there is a way."

Duanmuhuai said indifferently, Li Longcheng's eyes lit up when he heard Duanmuhuai's words.

"You have a way?"

"Of course, just blow up the mass relays leading to other galaxies."

That's right, this is what Duanmuhuai came up with. The quality repeater and the castle were originally placed here by the harvesters to facilitate their own harvesting.As long as the mass relay is blown up, the Reapers will not be able to travel to other galaxies by high-speed rail, and can only rely on walking. This will naturally slow down their speed to some extent and buy more time for the Star Alliance.

"This... I understand."

Li Longcheng was not a fool either, he just froze for a moment, and immediately understood what Duanmuhuai meant.Indeed, although the emergence of mass repeaters facilitates the expansion of human territory, but in turn falls into the hands of the enemy, which becomes a sharp knife inserted into the heart of one's own people.

"Don't worry, without the quality repeater, I can provide you with better ones."

What Duanmu Huai said was naturally the Star Gate, and Li Longcheng was also relieved to hear this.

"I see. The Star Alliance will take action immediately... Regarding this matter, should we inform the Castle of God?"

"Notice."

Having said this, Duanmu Huai snorted coldly.

"So what if they know? Could it be that they can still create warships against the Reapers within three months? Besides, didn't Shepard warn them about the Reapers long ago? They didn't believe it, so You can’t say we’re lying.”

"I understand."

Li Longcheng nodded, and then cut off the communication—after all, the arrival of the reaper is a big event. Although the Star Alliance made preparations for it after Duanmuhuai reminded it at the beginning, when the last moment came, they still felt that they Lack of preparation.

"All right."

Watching Li Longcheng cut off the communication, Duanmuhuai also rubbed his hands and returned to his room.

I originally planned to put it away again, but now that [Machinarium] is available (although it can’t be used yet), it’s almost time to settle this dungeon to see if I can get some good things out for use. It's time to deal with the incoming Reaper army.

(End of this chapter)