Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 770 Is he a good man?

Before starting this dangerous operation, in order to ensure that everything would go smoothly, in addition to the necessary dresses and carriages, Ling also commissioned Rorona to refine some magical props. Some of them were given to Nevile and Leticia who were responsible for the infiltration, including the devices they used to block the magic device signals, and the rest were left on the carriage as a backup. Now was the time to put them to use.

Under Rorona's instructions, Ling took out the alchemical props from the drawer under the seat, only to find that they were three walnut-like fruits, with the surface wrapped in gold, silver and dark green colors like stickers. Apart from that, there was nothing special about them.

Are we relying on these things to stop the enemy's pursuit?
Not only was Alice disappointed, thinking that Rolo Amon was just trying to fool her, but even Saint Shallia felt that this was not realistic, so she hesitated for a moment and said, "How about letting me use the thread of fate to interfere with the other party's cognition? Maybe I can find a chance to escape."

"No." The one who rejected this proposal was Ling Ge, and his reason was very good: the thread of fate only has a significant effect on ordinary people, and when used on enemies involved in the mysterious field, it will be weakened to varying degrees depending on the strength of the opponent's magic power. Although the magicians of the cult alliance are not good at magic, their various strange magic devices are even more difficult to deal with than magicians. If the problem cannot be completely solved, it is better to save it for use at a critical moment.

Besides, Ling Ge didn't think that Lorena would joke at such a critical moment. Every alchemical item she had brought out so far had indeed played an important role. Although some items looked childish at first glance, such as the fruits in front of him, the power of the girl's royal power should not be measured by appearance.

So he looked at Rorona and asked, "How do I use this?"

The latter raised his hand with a smile and made a throwing motion. Olvera quickly translated: "Lorana said that we should inject magic power first and then throw them out."

It's quite simple. It seems that all the props refined by Lorena are of this type.

Linger nodded, picked out the dark green fruit, and pinched it between his thumb and index finger. He stood by the window and waited for a while. After counting five numbers in his mind, he heard a sharp sound like metal clashing outside the carriage. Then, the carriage staggered suddenly, and the two white horses pulling the carriage were pushed by a strong impact and crashed in the other direction of the street. The passengers in the carriage also fell all over the place. Alice hit the wall again, covering her forehead and screaming in pain.

The sniper gunfire stopped for a while. Wade Locke, who was always maintaining the shield-type field generator and was responsible for covering Sally's shooting, lowered his head in confusion and asked, "What's wrong, Sally, don't stop shooting, and continue to suppress the enemy until the enemy's carriage stops."

The fog wall stretched across the center of the battlefield where the two sides were chasing and fighting. It was not fixed, but always moved with the carriage in front, protecting it from the impact of the battle like a real wall. The dark blue fires that flickered in the sky hit the fog wall, but they were like a stone sinking into the sea, without even a ripple, and were extinguished in it.

After the plug-in was activated, a dark silver light flashed in the dark red lens, like a silver line running through the entire display device of the visual assistance plug-in, automatically depicting and projecting the scene of the battlefield in front of Sally's eyes. In the buildings that flew by on the side of the street, blurry figures representing heat sources were moving in different postures. Some closed their doors and windows, while others were peeping through the curtains, with a look of doubt and uncertainty, obviously frightened by the increasingly fierce chase on the street.

Sally's finger, which was about to pull the trigger, suddenly stopped. She had lost sight of the carriage. There was only a seemingly insurmountable wall of fog in front of her. Even a sniper with superb skills could not hit the enemy without sight. But she did not panic. Instead, she grinned and said, "You think you can stop me with such a trick? Aren't you too arrogant?"

With the development of magic technology, there are complete means to deal with various emergencies. As elite arbitrators of the Balance of Order, the magic devices they are equipped with may not be the most advanced, but they are definitely the most comprehensive: anti-joint jump plug-ins for special terrain operations, shield-shaped field generators for dealing with high-magic enemies, shield generation plug-ins for dealing with a wide range of magic, various detonation devices for dealing with large-scale enemies... The magic system developed by colleagues in the Third Research Department with great effort is not just good-looking.

How can this be?

Thinking of this, Sally reached for the magic furnace at her waist and gently pressed the button of the "Life Form Perspective Plug-in". This is a small external plug-in type magic device, which mainly relies on the visual distance auxiliary plug-in she is wearing now. The so-called perspective is not real perspective, but by capturing the characteristics of the heat source, light reflection and magic reaction of the life form, it automatically generates the image of the enemy in the display lens. Therefore, simple visual occlusion will not work.

Even if the other party used some strange magic, the life form perspective plug-in can capture the other party's magic reaction to generate an image, instead of showing nothing as it is now. Unless the magic used by the other party does not leave traces of magic reaction, how could such a ridiculous thing happen? The absurdity of this matter is far greater than the residents of Westminster District seeing steel chariots and carriages fighting and chasing each other on the streets at night. Sally even thought that the plug-in was broken because she had not maintained it for too long?

Obviously, he didn't think that this wall of fog could interfere with Sally's sniping. The latter hesitated for a moment, then briefly described what had just happened, saying that she was not slacking off, but the opponent's methods were too weird, and she didn't know how to crack them for a while.

Ling Ge, who was well prepared, held onto the edge of the car window. Although his body swayed a bit, he did not fall. He had already figured out the enemy sniper's shooting frequency and knew that he would be safe in the next five seconds, so he did not hesitate to reach out of the car window with the hand holding the fruit, injected a little magic power into it, and threw it in the direction of the magic armored vehicle.

In the lens of the sight-assist plug-in, beyond the thick wall of fog, it was still dark and nothing was displayed.

The law and order in Westminster was undoubtedly the best among the thirty-two administrative districts of Lonwittin. When had such a ridiculous thing ever happened? Iron chariots and carriages were chasing each other on the avenue, bat-winged vampires were fighting with knights in silver armor, and they even used guns and weapons that they had never heard of... Could it be that he hadn't woken up yet, and the scene he saw was just an illusion?
Many people thought so. Sally knew that the aftermath of this incident would keep many of her colleagues busy for a while, but at this moment she was no longer interested in what had not happened yet. Instead, she shouted in confusion, "Huh?"

The moment the fruit fell to the ground, accompanied by a crisp sound drowned out by the sound of gunfire and rumble, the shell cracked, and then a cloud of dark green fog spurted out from the cracks in the fruit and quickly spread to the entire street. In a blink of an eye, a heavy and thick wall of fog was formed between the galloping carriage and the pursuing magic armored vehicle. The fog on the surface of the fog wall seemed like a living creature. Even after it took shape, it did not stabilize, but kept wriggling and flowing, like some overly sticky dark green liquid, blocking the view from the other side of the fog wall.

The passengers in the carriage could not see the scene outside, but Nevile and Michelle who were fighting could see it clearly. They saw the dark green fruit drawing a beautiful arc in the flashing gunfire, accurately avoiding every bullet from the continuous magic machine gun, and falling on the street.

Wade was stunned after hearing her explanation. Sally didn't believe that there was magic in the world that could completely cover up the traces of magical reactions because she had never been exposed to the essence of the world, but Wade, as a candidate philosopher, was already qualified to access some confidential information within the association. As far as he knew, the magic used by the seven witches who were trusted by the leader and were responsible for commanding the important agencies of the association had similar properties.

However, although their magic is powerful, it seems to have serious side effects. Once it lasts too long, they will enter an uncontrollable rampage state and indiscriminately attack all life within the range - and not only life, but also matter, souls, thoughts and existence can be wiped out.

For this reason, the seven witches had to restrain their power all the time and try to avoid the harm caused by the rampage state. Even if they had to release this power when they had to, they would strictly follow the time limit and never exceed it. It was not until the late Steam Holy War that the philosopher Laue discovered the magic metal complex diffraction crystal, and the magic research institute used the unique properties of this magic metal to develop the Creation Saint Machine series of constructed mechas. They finally found an external shell suitable for carrying their overly powerful power. Despite this, the loss of magic power during the transmission process still exists, and in addition to the complex diffraction crystal, the other two magic metals, Orichalcum and Mithril, also have an upper limit on their conduction capacity. Therefore, how much power the constructed mechas can exert from the seven witches is still a mystery to this day.

Wade's immediate superior, the Grand Judge of the Balance of Order, Her Majesty the Witch of Fear, Her Majesty the Fearful, last took action in the Void Root Swamp two months ago, and it took less than half a minute to kill the leader of Silver Moon, the notorious Gundaruf. Unfortunately, Wade had another mission at that time and could not participate in this operation, but as a candidate philosopher, as long as he did not make a big mistake in the future and had no intention of being transferred from his post, he would be transferred to the Fearful Gate sooner or later, and perhaps then he would be able to see the witch's terrifying strength with his own eyes.

But these are off-topic. What puzzles Wade the most is why the magic used by the other party has the same properties as the magic used by the witches?
This is probably the most unique property in the world, and it even violates the most basic laws of magic.

Could it be that the person in the carriage is also...

Wade was shocked by his own thoughts and quickly shook his head to put them behind him. He just felt that he was too anxious to come up with such a ridiculous and bold idea.

These mental activities seemed like a long process, but reflected in reality, it took only a second. After he came to his senses, he said to Sally, "Since the life form perspective plug-in is not working, you can temporarily change your target and suppress the vampire together with Michelle."

Unlike the carriage hiding behind the fog wall, although Nevill also wanted to leave the battlefield, Michelle kept sticking to her and cooperating with Aegir's artillery suppression to prevent her from escaping. If she could be forced into a desperate situation, perhaps the people in the carriage would consider the life and death of their companions and turn back to rescue them?

"Received~"

Sally's personality was simple. She always listened to the captain's words. She did whatever Wade told her to do. Therefore, she didn't feel frustrated after the mission failed. She happily turned the muzzle of the gun and locked the focus of the sight range auxiliary plug-in on the beautiful vampire lady. The opponent was very fast and flexible. He flapped a pair of black bat wings behind him, swooped in the sky, and was able to handle the dense firepower coverage with ease. If it weren't for Michelle's clinging, I'm afraid he would have escaped calmly long ago, right? But Michelle's clinging too tightly was not a good thing. At least it caused a lot of trouble for Sally's aiming. The magic energy protection layer on his body might be able to ignore the shooting of the continuous magic machine gun, but the magic device of the sniper rifle type, the bullet power is much greater than that. Sally didn't dare to use her teammates for experiments. She really hated Michelle, but she didn't hate him to the point of letting him die.

Then I have to aim more accurately. Michelle, stop jumping around. You always block my gun. Are you doing this on purpose?

The girl, who lacked a sense of tension, murmured while calibrating the distance and direction, trying to find a suitable opportunity to fire the next fatal bullet. But before she found such an opportunity, she suddenly saw something thrown from the other side of the fog wall, drawing a graceful arc on the battlefield, and gently fell to the ground.

That thing looks a little familiar.

Although it was dark, and the magic armored vehicle's rumbling speed stretched the light from the surrounding buildings and street lamps into blurred afterimages, Sally still saw the appearance of the things with the help of the sight-assisted plug-in: they were two fruits, one golden and one silver.

After Sally stopped shooting, Ling guessed that the fog wall created by the dark green fruit did work, so this time he did not hesitate and threw the remaining two fruits together, hoping that they would work again and ease the unfavorable situation for the countess who was in a tough battle.

The two fruits made a crisp crackling sound when they fell to the ground, and the shells soon cracked. Two seedlings, one gold and one silver, emerged from the cracked fruits. They seemed to be able to absorb air to grow. Once they appeared, they grew wildly at a speed visible to the naked eye. Under Sally's astonished gaze, the roots of the seedlings quickly expanded to the thickness of a giant python, twisting together to form aerial root-like tentacles, and the branches growing from the trunk entangled with each other and bloomed at the end, but what bloomed were not beautiful flowers, but pieces of golden and silver blades and pieces of steel shields.

In just a blink of an eye, two huge, fully armed ancient war trees took shape. Golden and silver vines hung down from the dense treetops, fluttering in the wind like human hair, and the outlines of facial features gradually twisted on the surface of the tough iron trunks. They roared angrily from their mouths, and two dark holes opened where the eyes should have been. They stared straight at the steel chariot that was rushing towards them, roaring: "No branches, no flowers and fruits, not even leaves... Cut off all of you ugly square things!!!"

Ah this!

Sally wanted to complain that you didn't either, but it was clear that the two ancient war trees would not listen to human explanations. Once they identified the enemy, they rushed forward without hesitation. They were obviously huge and had heavy tentacles, but their speed of movement was so fast that people could not react. The golden ancient war tree blocked the front of the magic armored vehicle, and slammed the road with the shield in its right hand, tearing a terrifying gully on this thick and hard street that had been poured with cement countless times. Thick and sharp stone pillars emerged from the gullies, like crisscrossing deer antler fences, stabbing at the speeding magic armored vehicle.

The deep blue flames from the continuous magic machine guns on both sides of the armored vehicle shattered some of the stone pillars, but more stone pillars emerged one after another, forcing Aegir to give up control of the firepower system and focus on operating the steering wheel, trying his best to avoid these sudden attacks from the ground.

On the other side, the silver ancient war tree rushed towards Michelle, and smashed down the tiny human with its gnarled left arm. When Michelle, who was concentrating on fighting with the countess, realized that this uninvited guest actually possessed terrifying power, it was already too late. An overwhelming force came from the connected blades, and he was thrown away in an instant. The silver ancient war tree chased after him relentlessly, and with a violent swing of its left arm, the blades growing from the end flew out like a storm, surrounding Michelle from top to bottom, left to right, so that he could only rely on the help of the anti-joint jump plug-in to keep dodging in this storm of blades, unable to continue to entangle Nevelle.

In an instant, the offensive and defensive forces diverged, and the party that took the initiative in pursuit fell into a passive situation.

Finally getting rid of these annoying guys, the Countess breathed a sigh of relief and gave an appreciative look to the black-haired young man who was fighting with the ancient war tree. "You are a good man, and you have the same temperament as Neo. Unfortunately, I am no longer old enough to be pursued, so I'd better leave this passionate offensive to other women. Goodbye."

She flapped her bat wings, turned and flew away, and in the blink of an eye she disappeared behind the thick wall of fog.

　Give me some meow
　　
　
(End of this chapter)