Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 1103: Strategic Success?
A beautiful girl appeared in the sky.

Her facial features are more delicate and soft than any heroine carefully portrayed by any writer in his works, as if several different styles are mixed in at the same time. Her clear blue eyes carry a kind of reservedness and indifference that is unique to noble people, her crescent-shaped eyebrows and slightly upturned mouth corners give people a kind of affinity like a spring breeze, her long, white silver hair lies softly behind her, her pointed ears tremble mischievously with the wind, giving people a lively and happy youthful feeling of a young girl in her prime. These very different temperaments blend together perfectly, as if they are one and inseparable.

The girl was wearing a pure white elegant long dress, the tiered hem of the skirt was adorned with intricate flower-like decorations, and the bow knot made of rose vines and rose branches at the waist perfectly set off her soft figure. Even the flourishes of patterns and decorations on the dress could not completely hide her calm and graceful curves. A pair of noble boots that seemed to appear only at banquets peeked out from under the hem of the skirt, and the metal buckles inlaid with cat's eyes, emeralds and jade stones shone like the sun.

On the Cloud Whale Sky Island, no one has ever seen such a mysterious and beautiful girl. Her appearance always makes people feel familiar, as if they can see some traces of déjà vu, but combined together, she becomes a person who has never been seen before. Perhaps only the six thin, delicate, and faintly rainbow-colored butterfly wings behind her can confirm her identity, but in everyone's impression, the only traveler fairies living on the Cloud Whale Sky Island seem to be the three sisters of the Fairy Deep Sleep Hotel, not this girl.

unless--

"what!"

The girl's pupils gradually focused, as if she had returned to the real world. She looked around and witnessed the battlefield full of gunfire. The first words she said destroyed her image: "I, I, I, I'm not in the kitchen, why am I here!?"

Metien and Leticia, who were still in the hotel, opened their mouths at the same time, because they both recognized that it was Shemi's voice.

But the next second, the girl's expression changed again, becoming calm, cold, and even a little disgusted: "Shami, I have always asked you to practice fairy magic well. Obviously you have never listened to me, so you exposed your ignorance in front of so many people. It really brings shame to our Levi'reyer family."

This is Shelia's voice.

"Okay, okay." The girl smiled and said, "After all, this is an advanced application technique of fairy magic. It's normal for Shemi to not be able to learn it at her age. There's no need to be too harsh on her."

"That's right!" The girl's mouth sank, and she said aggrievedly, "You never told me before, how could I know that fairy magic can be used in this way?"

"That's because the user needs to remain calm and composed in order to rely on the power of fairy magic to fuse three different souls into one body. If I tell you in advance, you'll either be too nervous to concentrate, or you'll brag loudly, wishing that everyone on the Cloud Whale Sky Island would know about it. Would that still be considered a secret weapon?"

The girl snorted coldly and did not continue to interrogate her youngest sister. Instead, she said, "In short, let's get to work first and talk later. If we delay the opportunity, I'm afraid Ling Ge will come to settle accounts with me later. Big sister?"

"Yes, I'm ready."

The girl nodded slightly and raised her hand. A magical, colorful power lingered at her fingertips. "I will control this power. Xie Mi, Xie Liya, you will assist me from the side!"

The proprietress, who was always gentle and kind, rarely used an imperative tone. Her expression suddenly became serious and she said in a deep voice: "This is the power of the Fairy Queen Titania. Xie Mi, Xie Liya, you must feel it well. Maybe you will be able to reproduce it in the future."

She first set her eyes on the huge anchors that were dragging the whales, and pointed her slender fingers into the air: "In the name of Lady Titania, cut the chains."

The colorful magic power surged instantly, turning into a holy sword that could penetrate the night. Its majestic, magnificent, and shocking brilliance even covered the sky above the entire Yunjingkong Island, shrouding everyone's figure in the hazy rainbow light. Compared with the holy sword, even the three traveler fairy sisters after the fusion seemed too small, but the proprietress Xiesta had a solemn expression, stretched out her hands to hold the hilt of the sword, and swung it hard. The scene looked like a tiny human trying to wield a giant's weapon, with a sense of magnificence and shock that was difficult to describe in words.

Under the control of the lady boss, the rainbow holy sword moved slowly and heavily, and a perfect arc crossed the sky of Yunjing Sky Island. The pure, extreme, and gorgeous sword blade without any fireworks seemed not to be a weapon to kill people, but a work of art that could not be achieved by the aesthetics of living beings. It had the magic to make anyone stop their actions and hold their breath to appreciate it at any time and any place. However, behind this breathtaking beauty, there was a danger that they could not detect. Wherever the sword passed, everything was blank, whether it was grass, dust, soil, rocks, or the Sky Falcon and Lancer bodies traveling on the battlefield, they all disappeared silently.

Naturally, even the chains wrapped around the Cloud Whale Sky Island were no exception. This disappearance was not even physically cut off, but was wiped off the canvas, leaving only a blank space in the original place. A section of chain that was not affected by the sword stayed in the void for half a second before falling to the ground with a loud rumbling sound. The anchor and broken chain that pierced into the body of the Cloud Whale Sky Island stood alone on the ground, like a silent tombstone, witnessing a massacre more terrible than death. The effect it showed was so amazing that there was even a moment of dead silence on the battlefield. Everyone looking at the blank area couldn't help but feel a chill from the bottom of their hearts.

After a long period of stagnation, time finally resumed its flow. The severed chain flew back in the direction it came from under the action of inertia. The Iron Guardian, which had lost its power point, not only lost the fight, but also shook violently due to the strong reaction force. The whole ship was emitting a whine that seemed like a prelude to disintegration. At the same time, the Cloud Whale Sky Island, which had finally gotten rid of its restraints, suddenly burst out at a faster speed and flew to the outside of the battlefield at an astonishing speed. However, before that, it faced another obstacle.

"It's about to hit, Lingge!"

Iyeta screamed. Although the chains that bound the whale disappeared, the magic field surrounding the battlefield still existed. At this speed, Yunjing Sky Island would crash into the six-sided cage, and the end would probably be no better than being torn apart by the anchor. The pale-faced Angel tried to slow down subconsciously, but Linger gently pressed her hand and shook his head, saying, "Don't slow down, Iyeta, keep speeding up."

“But—” “Shesta will take care of it.”

As if to prove that the young man's words were not lies, the girl in the sky, who symbolized the Fairy Queen Titania, loosened her hand. The rainbow-colored holy sword flashed in the void, and then broke into a rainbow light that filled the sky and rose up. The girl reached out to the cage above her head, gently pinched her white thumb and index finger, and then twisted it, as if making a key to unlock it. The voice of the proprietress Shesta echoed in everyone's ears: "In the name of the Fairy Queen Titania, unlock the cage."

The rainbow light in the sky suddenly turned into a huge brass key, which ignored the obstruction of the cage, passed through the dark blue magic field to the outside world, and then turned upside down. There was clearly no gap on the closed hexahedron that could be inserted, but it seemed to have found the keyhole long ago. Under the control of an invisible hand, it accurately inserted the key and then twisted it gently.

There seemed to be a crisp click from the darkness. It was the sound of a lock being opened by a key, implying that the cage had been opened, freeing every soul trapped in it. Then the magic stand blocking the front of Yunjing Sky Island moved to the side in a strange way, just like a door being pushed open from the inside. The operators on the command ship were stunned - magic is an invisible thing, and the magic stand is composed of intangible high and low energy magic, how can it be manipulated like a real object?

However, the facts are in front of us. There are no more obstacles on the road ahead of Yunjing Sky Island. The only thing that makes people feel embarrassed is the Sky Falcon and Lancer troops who are still trying to land and fight even though the situation is hopeless. The fairy girl in the sky stopped and took a breath. It seems that using this power continuously is also a huge consumption for her. Finally, she pointed her finger at Yunjing Sky Island below, and uttered the last order in a firm and unquestionable tone: "In the name of the Fairy Queen Titania, Whale——"

"Become a real life."

Thus, blood vessels were faintly surging under the skin wrapped in vines and meadows, and the fins wrapped in rocks transformed into white stratum corneum. Every time it flapped its wings against the sky, it would stir up a thunderous storm. Its open mouth kept breathing out surging air, which gathered into a visible gale, sweeping across the sky. It even opened a pair of sapphire-like clear blue eyes on its head, and the vivid brilliance in them was definitely not the emotion that a dead object made of earth and stone could possess.

Yieta felt this most deeply, because when the whale came back to life, she immediately felt a wave of admiration, dependence and trust from the depths of her soul. It was a life she created with her own hands, and the creation and the creator had reached a spiritual unity. She even found that she did not need to rely on the power of the king to give it various instructions. At this moment, the angel lady's control of the whale was no longer just an extension of her arms, but an extension of her spirit.

I've had this feeling before. It was one night in Lunweiting City. After learning that Lingge and others might be in danger in the city, Yieta asked Shesta and Shelia to cast fairy magic on Yunjing Sky Island, making it truly alive. The two sides were in tune with each other, so they could arrive in a very short time and save their companions. Now the past is replaying, and the feeling is even stronger, because the fairy magic released by the two traveler fairies is obviously incomparable to the fairy magic released by the fairy queen Titania.

The newly born cloud whale let out a loud and long cry in the sea of ​​stars, and with just a lift of its body and a swing of its tail, it easily slammed the enemies surrounding it to the bottom of the sea, just like a whale in the sea breaking free from the chains of a whaling ship and easily throwing all the fishermen on its back behind it. Even though the fisherman's spear was still stuck in its back and the wound left by the fishhook was still oozing blood, there was nothing that could stop it from running towards freedom.

Under the silent but unwilling gaze, the whale flapped its white fins and flew away. Its wings set off waves visible to the naked eye in the sea of ​​stars. In just a moment, it left the battlefield and flew away. The Holy Cross's artillery beam came late. Although it washed the tide and ignited a sea of ​​red light, it was more like a farewell salute for the enemy, watching from afar.

"The Fairy Queen Titania is said to be the oldest deity of the fairy clan. She was born from the tears of the God of Creation. She controls the magic of all the fairies in the world, including the fairy magic of the traveler fairy clan." After escaping from danger, Lingge put down the telescope and said to Yieta behind him: "The magic of fairy magic lies in its unpredictable nature. It can create possibilities from impossibilities. The fairy magic used by Fairy Queen Titania is even more powerful because she can fix this unpredictable nature. In other words, it is to create certainty from possibilities."

Cutting off the chains, unlocking the cage, and even giving real life, these are all things that can be decided with a single word, but at the same time, this power is not so easy to replicate. Only the magical fairy magic of the traveler fairy can imitate a trace of the charm of the ancient fairy queen. There is a kind of amazing sense of fate in it, just as Ling Ge said just now, creating possibilities from the impossible, and then creating certainty from possibilities.

"If Miss Shesta wasn't a traveler fairy with three pairs of butterfly wings, I would never agree to such a risky action." The young man stared at the figure of the girl in the sky that was gradually separating and turning into three balls of light, and said, "If we are not careful, the souls of the three of them will completely merge. Fortunately, although they are connected in mind and work well together, they each have their own characteristics and distinct personalities, so they are not confused into one."

Yieta raised her head from behind Lingge, staring blankly at the battlefield that had been left far behind by the Cloud Whale, and said with some relief: "That was indeed bad, but we still succeeded, right, Lingge?"

"Ah."

The young man nodded slightly, and then said to himself silently in his heart: At least it is successful temporarily.

……

"Although it was a failure,"

At the same time, in the control room of the Star Cruiser's command ship, Commander Fisher said something that was roughly the same as the young man's idea, but the specific meaning was completely different: "But this is just a tactical failure."

He looked around and said to his subordinates who were still anxious, confused, bewildered and uneasy: "But strategically, we have succeeded."

"The rest of the battle will be left to that lord."

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