Mage? Spell Engineer!.

Chapter 522: Are you greedy for Luo Xia’s body?

This god bowed to him as soon as he arrived? Rorschach was stunned, but he didn't feel any response.

Rorschach himself remembered that there was a silly fairy-tale TV drama in his previous life, in which the higher immortals saluted the lower immortals, and the people who received the salute would be punished by heaven.

He raised his head to look up at the highest sky. There was no change in the stars today. That was good. There would not be a wise immortal in this world who could inflict harm by bowing.

"Have you guessed that our meeting is a promise from the Most High?" Seeing Rorschach looking up at the sky, "Thoth II" nodded slightly: "You are indeed someone recognized by my Lord."

No, can I say that I was just distracted? Rorschach forced himself to keep his face straight and be as serious as possible. He nodded in response to the handsome man's bow, and then asked: "Your master? Does the great Thoth have a master?"

"Actually, you should be able to guess who it is."

Lord of Order? Rorschach only thought of it, but the other party immediately shook his head, as if to signal Rorschach not to say these syllables.

"You must be wondering why I'm chasing the Ship of Destruction." Obviously, the "Ship of Destruction" refers to the starship. At this time, Thoth's eyes also looked past Rorschach and followed its tail flames. "First, my Lord and I are very interested in it. Your intelligent creations always bring us surprises, just like a long time ago.
"Secondly, this place is really dangerous. If it was a great wizard wandering around, it would be fine, but they shouldn't be patrolling here too."

"We have solved the dangers of transmutation dust. Are there any other threats? Are they huge fragments of the Kingdom of God?" Rorschach also realized this. These large fragments are like reefs and glaciers. The most important thing is that perhaps there are still remnants of the order of the past Kingdom of God inside them.

The starship's protection is mainly against mixed divine power, that is, power without characteristics. If it mistakenly enters a field with strange rules or strong aura, it is questionable whether the starship can withstand the test.

"Not only that. In this space, just like where I am standing, there are many cracks beyond common sense, leading to unimaginable areas."

The more He spoke, the more interested Rorschach became: "You mean the symbolic plane? The scriptural plane? That's exactly our goal."

"In the past, such behavior was the most serious transgression, and prying into the authority and domain that should only belong to the gods. But now... it is not a big deal. However, I want to remind you that the world is a closed loop.

"I'm not talking about the spatial structure of the material world, but the entire symbolic order. Everything has a beginning and an end. They originate from one and will eventually return to one. Similarly, the highest heaven has its counterpart, which you once called 'hell' or 'the netherworld'. None of this is important. What's important is that it belongs to the symbolic underworld, corresponding to the sky above the highest heaven."

"And it belongs to the Earth Mother, right?"

The handsome man holding the burning sword agreed with Rorschach's intuition, but judging by his expression, he seemed a little dissatisfied with Rorschach calling the Mother Goddess by her name:

".We are still unable to determine which rifts will lead to the Netherworld. Thanks to my Lord's efforts, we can even say that all visible channels have been blocked. However, your ships are circling over and over again, and the direction of the laminar flow is disrupted by the vortex, making the potential dangerous rifts unpredictable."

Rorschach didn't expect that this was a "traffic policeman" who wanted to seize the starship for dangerous driving. But He was communicating with him patiently. Rorschach asked tentatively: "Is there no other way to avoid it? I can't stop other people on the ground from continuing to explore the starry sky."

The handsome man showed a happy expression, as if he was waiting for Rorschach to say this: "Yes. We can make a deal."

Why do I feel like I've been tricked? Was I His target from the beginning?

At this time, the man who called himself Thoth seemed a little younger. Although both of them were in the astral world, his hair moved without wind, and two tufts of golden hair stuck out behind his ears, like small wings. The flaming sword in his hand went out, revealing a staff with two snakes entwined around it. He raised the staff and said, "Although I am Thoth, another name of God is more well-known. As the patron saint of travelers, the protector of tricks and magic, I can make a deal with you and grant protection to all spellcasters who travel in the astral world.

"And you, Rorschach, you have a very nice body."

He smiled widely, and with eyes as young as Rorschach's, he looked up and down at the trading partner.

In a starship that has already sailed far away.

"Is it a coincidence that the big fragment stopped?" Cavendish wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

He repeatedly checked the surroundings and finally breathed a sigh of relief, thinking it was just a false alarm. Cavendish, who had no idea Rorschach was here, rubbed his eyes and asked, "Who's going to take my place?"

"Shouldn't we just follow the predetermined orbit?" The team members still didn't understand, but as soon as they finished speaking, the starship stumbled. It was the violent fluctuations of the transmutation laminar flow, which seemed to be about to overturn them. Cavendish, who had not relaxed for long, immediately returned to the driving seat to check the situation outside the transparent top shell.

so close!

The huge derivative passed by them, and it was the fluctuation of the transmutation dust that allowed them to avoid the source of danger without any maneuverability.

"Then I'll drive, Captain, you should take a rest." The team members immediately realized that this was not the time to be careless.

"No, we have to communicate with the ground station and ask them to put more crew members in the future, otherwise we will have to focus on driving."

They did not yet know that they had received the blessing and grace bestowed by God, and the starship continued to float in orbit, above the transmutation dust layer.

The day after "launch day".

The news of human creation soaring into the sky instantly occupied the headlines of Valois and Imperial newspapers, especially the newspapers published by the Empire. There was even no information related to the "Battle of the Rhine" because the pages were occupied by the news of the launch.

Strictly speaking, the battle was not completely over. The imperial army, whose strategic plan suffered a severe setback, awakened their turtle bloodline again. Each of them took out the issued engineer shovels and began to build trenches beautifully.

However, this time the Eastern Front Army built trenches no longer for the purpose of defensive counterattack, but to cover the orderly retreat of the main force and prevent the main force of the Republic from moving north. The retreating main force will move to the vicinity of the capital of the Empire as quickly as possible to participate in the pursuit and interception of the "Republic's uppercut".

It was this uppercut that brought the National Guard’s Western Front, led by Paul the Kid from Garsicogne, the closest they ever came to KOing the Empire.

On the other side, the almost forgotten "Holy Alliance" that invaded the southern part of the Valois Republic achieved some minor results, and then found that the big brother in the north seemed to be running away, and the attention of General Garisha, the "Iron Wall of the Republic", returned to the south.

This embarrassed the coalition forces that were trying to "recover" the glory of the gods in a large region. They all knew that without the restraint of the Empire Big Brother, they would never be able to take on the National Guard on their own.

(End of this chapter)