Witch Punk 2840

Chapter 319: Fall

Chapter 319: Fall (Part )

For a moment, she thought she was still unconscious and everything she saw was just an illusion, until she lowered her head and saw the shapeless pool of black mucus at her feet.

Despite the appearance, Zelul could still recognize that this was her attendant jellyfish. They were not like this originally, with graceful bodies that were crystal clear, but ever since the giant jellyfish appeared on the dome, all the attendant jellyfish had gone crazy, and their bodies had become ugly and bloated like this.

[Article 238 of the Knight's Code: After a battle, you should try your best to search for surviving comrades, rescue each other and re-form a combat team, and carry out the next action under the command of the highest-ranking officer.]

She pulled her feet out of the jellyfish's body and decided to search for survivors who might not exist at all.

But after taking a few steps, Zelul stopped again. She turned around, chanted the name of the contract, and a long sword made of flames appeared in her hand.

The blade swung down towards the body of the attendant jellyfish, and the flames enveloped the black mucus, quickly reducing it to ash. Before the flames went out, Zelul seemed to hear the jellyfish saying something to her, that strange but pleasant tone, exactly the same as when they first met.

But when she concentrated and held her breath, she did not hear the sound again. The ether wind whistled through the ruins, as if playing some kind of mournful music.

Zelul took one last look at the ashes that were gradually dispersing in the wind, then turned and left.

……

She first came to the trading area on the west side of the island, where the moth beasts landed and which was also the area most severely damaged.

As expected, there were no survivors, and even only a few intact buildings were left. Looking at the ruins before him, Zelul couldn't help but think back to three days ago.

At that time, she and her team members suddenly received an order informing them that the port on the west side of the island was attacked by the enemy and they needed to go to support immediately.

How dare someone attack the base camp where the Medusuzia Knights are stationed? And the port is also within the protection of the barrier, how did the enemy get in?
Although everyone had the same doubts in their hearts, orders were orders. With the assistance of their attendant jellyfish, they quickly put on their mechas and flew out of the fortress along the attack channel.

Then they saw the huge jellyfish hanging upside down on the dome, and the dark curtain that spread out from it, covering the island and the surrounding sea.

As for the island itself, the barrier used to isolate the ether wind and defend against foreign enemies had long disappeared without a trace.

Zelul was the first to recover from his shock, and loudly ordered everyone to stop being stunned and rush to the port for support as quickly as possible.

By the time they arrived, the enemy had already broken through the port's defenses and was slaughtering people in the trade zone. There were surprisingly many moth beasts, but they were the only ones. Most of those stationed in the trade zone were merchant witches and boatmen, who had good combat effectiveness. Logically, this one-sided situation should not have occurred.

But they soon found the reason - somehow, the power of the witch's contract was suppressed. Zelul saw with her own eyes that a "Pyroblast" flew only ten meters before it went out silently, and saw a crew member using the "Chopping" contract jump in front of the moth beast, but was torn in half by its claws in one round. The power of all the contracts was abnormally weak, and the power was even less than one-tenth of the original.

Fortunately, the performance of the knight mecha was not affected, perhaps because it was a contract creature summoned by the "Heineken Knight" contract, not the contract itself. At that time, Zelul did not have time to think about the reason. She quickly split the team into 10 groups, two people in each group, responsible for a block. After the team members received the order to attack, she also took her wingman into the battle.

In front of the well-trained jellyfish knights, the moth beasts were vulnerable. The difference in combat power between the two sides was beyond the level that could be made up by numbers. Zelul harvested the lives of the enemy like harvesting cloud wheat. In less than half an hour, the knight squad pushed the battle line back to the vicinity of the port.

Just when she thought everything was going well, a new message came through the attendant jellyfish:

"The Sword-granting Tower is in danger! All knights who receive this message should go to support immediately!"

The Sword-Giving Tower, where the Jellyfish Knights were enthroned, was also the headquarters of the Medusuzia Knights. A team of guards knights were stationed in the tower all year round. They had the most sophisticated mechas, the smartest jellyfish, and the most extensive combat experience. Any place on the island could be in danger, but not there.

Perhaps it was false news deliberately sent by the enemy in order to mislead us?

She couldn't help but think so. But she had never heard of moth beasts doing such things. Moreover, the information came from the attendant jellyfish, and the communication between jellyfish was based on the common consciousness of the tribe, the "virtual sea". Ordinary means, let alone interference, even sensing it was almost impossible.

But orders are orders, and Article 2 of the Code of Chivalry stipulates that knights should strictly follow orders issued by their superiors unless the order violates Article 1 of the Code of Chivalry.

After thinking for a moment, Zeruel issued new orders to the entire team. She left half of the team in the trade zone to continue to maintain the front line, while she led the other half to the Sword-Giving Tower for support.

When they arrived, the moth beasts had already broken through the gate of the Sword-Giving Tower.

The fight took place in the sword-granting hall on the first floor. The wide hall was filled with moth beasts, and the broken limbs and blood stained the originally smooth mirror-like floor. Zelul was surprised to find that none of the guards knights were wearing mechas. The huge machines with intact appearance were tilted at the edge of the hall, covered with a pool of shapeless black colloid. As soon as he rushed into the hall, Zelul heard a guard knight shouting at them to take off their mechas immediately. This request was neither in line with the knight code nor common sense. Zelul even suspected that the other party was talking nonsense because of excessive mental pressure.

So she ignored it, and without her order, her teammates certainly wouldn't do that. They rushed into the moth beasts in mechas and started killing. At first, there was nothing unusual, but after just ten seconds, Zelul heard the screams of her teammates behind her.

She looked back and found that all the attendant jellyfish attached to their lower backs had undergone strange changes.

In order to control the mecha, the attendant jellyfish is an indispensable condition. During combat, it is attached to the knight's lower back, half of its tentacles are immersed in the knight's body, and the other half are connected to various parts of the mecha. The "Heineken Knight" summons a split mecha, including a pair of arm armor, a pair of leg armor, and a helmet covering both eyes. Each piece of armor has its own power. In theory, they should be able to move with the wearer's limbs while maintaining coordination with each other. However, in the initial experiments, users found that they could not drive these mechas normally.

After subsequent research, the researchers put forward a hypothesis - the original users of these armors can indeed use them as if they were their own arms, and they are likely to have some innate ability to exchange information with the armor, but the witch does not have this ability, so she cannot directly use the Heineken Knight mecha.

Therefore, a role is needed to act as a bridge between the witch and the mecha. It can convert the witch's consciousness into signals that the mecha can receive, and at the same time transmit the feedback signal from the mecha to the witch.

Fortunately, the witches of Medusuzea have long known of a creature suitable for this job and have established a close and good relationship with them - jellyfish.

With the large-scale application of Heineken Knight mecha, attendant jellyfish also came into being.

To the Jellyfish Knight, the jellyfish is as important as the Knight. Without the attendant jellyfish, the Knight will hardly be able to operate the mecha, and if the jellyfish shows any abnormality...

This was exactly what Zelul saw that day.

The attendant jellyfish, which were supposed to have transparent bodies, crystal clear and beautiful, suddenly turned into bloated and ugly ones with black juice flowing out. Then, they ignored the knights' orders, controlled the mechas like crazy, and launched indiscriminate attacks on all targets around them, whether they were enemies or friendly forces.

Zelul finally understood why the Royal Guard Knight asked them to take off their mechas, but it was too late. In the blink of an eye, several team members had fallen to the ground in the uncontrolled killing, and the rest were also in chaos, and the moth beasts were surrounding them again.

She hesitated for a moment, then threw the sword in her hand fiercely, the blade accurately pierced through the body of a mutant jellyfish, nailing it to the ground, and the mecha that had stripped the jellyfish finally stopped. Although it could no longer fight, at least it would not try to kill its teammates and itself. Zelul rushed over and pulled out the sword nailed to the ground. The jellyfish under the sword had died and turned into a pool of black mucus. She had no time to feel sad, and swung the sword again. The blade broke through the protective force field of another mecha and cut another mutant jellyfish in half.

“Zelul…”

A faint voice suddenly sounded in my mind.

She paused, hesitated for two seconds, and then reluctantly turned around - as expected, there was no luck, her attendant jellyfish also began to mutate.

The ugly black had already swallowed half of it. In just a few seconds, it would be completely...

“…Zelul…Kill me…Zelul…”

She "heard" the jellyfish speaking to her intermittently.

It was a strange but beautiful tone. Many years ago, when Zeruel had just become an apprentice knight and met her squire Jellyfish for the first time, the other party greeted her in this tone:

"Eh? Are you my master? Why do you look so weak? Eh... why don't you speak? You can't be really weak, can you? No way? No way?? Oh... it's my bad luck, but don't worry, from now on, I, Master Fireworks, will protect you..."

……

“…Kill me…Zelul…Please…Kill me…I don’t want to become…like this…”

Zelul watched helplessly as the fireworks were swallowed up bit by bit by the ugly black abscess, but he could not think of any countermeasures.

"..."

"..."

Finally, she roared and pierced the opponent's body with her sword.

(End of this chapter)

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