Amid the steam of the industrial revolution, mysteries surge beneath the surface. Cults and secret societies seek the extraordinary in the shadows, while hidden gods gaze upon humanity from the hea...
Chapter 715: Compassion for the World
In Buserit in the false history, within the borders of the non-existent dynasty, somewhere in a windswept valley, a tall building stood.
This building originally belonged to a wealthy businessman. When this valley was still a mine, the businessman who bought the mining rights built such a large building here as his residence. After the minerals were mined, this place was idle again until more than half a year ago, when someone bought it again.
At this moment, the buildings in the canyon have intact walls and tiles, and are clean and tidy. From time to time, people in long robes walk through them. In front of the gate, there are camels eating feed with large and small bags hanging on their bodies. They are obviously used to transport supplies. All the traces here indicate that there seem to be traces of long-term human life here.
Deep inside the tall building, in a spacious secret room without windows but with extremely bright light, Vanya, dressed in a simple white dress, was kneeling on a complicated magic circle. At this moment, she closed her eyes tightly, breathing heavily and sweating profusely, and there were many rashes on the exposed skin.
With a painful expression, Vanya mobilized the altar and her own strength while gasping for breath to heal herself. Surrounded by a soft golden light, the pain on Vanya's expression began to gradually ease, and the rash on her body began to slowly disappear.
"Huh... Huh... How is it? Miss Dorothea, how is the result this time?" Vanya, who was obviously very weak, was breathing heavily, wiping the sweat off her face while speaking to Dorothy, who was sitting in front of the experimental table on the other side. Dorothy, who was wearing a white coat and a pair of glasses, also turned around and spoke.
"Very good... This mutation has almost enhanced the traits we need, and has almost reached the expected requirements." Dorothy said as she took off her glasses, looked at Vanya in front of her solemnly and said with a smile.
"The data has reached the standard. Our experiment is complete. Now it's time to return to reality."
"Really... finally... it's finally done. In this way, everyone is finally saved..." Hearing Dorothy's words, the weak Vanya let out a long sigh and a smile of great joy bloomed on her face. Her whole body relaxed, as if a stone that had been weighing on her heart for a long time had fallen to the ground.
"Well, thank you for your hard work during this period, Vanya... Thank you..." Dorothy said solemnly as she looked at the weak nun in front of her, while Vanya shook her head and continued.
"This is what I should do. Speaking of gratitude, I should actually thank you, Miss Dorothea, for giving me this opportunity to save so many people. If I had to watch so many lives die in pain due to the evil disease and could do nothing, I would probably live in the shadow forever... It is the great Aka who gave me this opportunity...
"Oh, and Sister Evi... If it weren't for the altar and instruments she provided, I probably wouldn't have made it this far. The Holy Church has also been supporting me all the way until now..."
Vanya said this to Dorothy seriously, and Dorothy responded by waving her hand after listening to her words.
"Okay... we won't say any more now. You should take a good rest. After you have recovered for a while, we will go out together and face that monster and that plague again in the 'real' world..."
"Yeah!" Listening to Dorothy's words, Vanya in the magic circle nodded seriously.
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In the Buserit Desert in the dark night, a battle between creatures and steel, fire and decay, destruction and rebirth is still going on. After Dorothy and Vanya left, Evie, who was left alone in the real history, manipulated her steel body and continued to suppress Amyaba with a destructive artillery bombardment.
At this moment, Evie was suspended in the air at an altitude of about 1,500 meters. Below her, it had turned into a large green cloud. In the continuous battle, the scale of the iron fungus released by Amayaba had reached an astonishing level. The scale of the fungus fog, from the air pollution caused by the factory emissions, expanded to the meteorological grade fog. A huge amount of green fungus fog continued to sink on the ground and extended to the sky, gradually rising to a height of 1,000 meters, slowly approaching the height where Evie was. At this moment, looking down from Evie's hull, you can see a large fungus fog layer like a sea of clouds. This approaching fungus fog layer made Evie feel a sense of urgency.
At this moment, Evi was suspended four or five hundred meters above the fungus mist layer, using the close defense system to intercept the increasing number of horny arrows and flying explosive insects shot out from the fungus mist, while pouring energy artillery fire below the fungus mist to suppress the completely monsterized Amayaba.
Evie's translucent virtual image was suspended on the Gothic spire of the bridge, staring at the sea of fungus fog below with a serious expression. The increasingly strong close defense pressure from below, coupled with the rising fungus fog layer, made Evie feel more and more pressure.
At this moment, she could actually relieve the pressure by increasing altitude, but she couldn't do that because if she increased altitude, she would not be able to effectively suppress Amayaba.
Because of Vanya's departure, Evey's temple ritual site lost its supporter, and Evey also lost the effective, accurate and wide-ranging life detection radar. Although she herself had a very powerful spiritual detection radar, it was only for spiritual purposes and was not specialized in detecting life forms.
The large area around Amaya is now filled with fungal mist with obvious spirituality. The spiritual reactions everywhere have seriously interfered with Evie's detection, because when she detects, she can see spiritual reactions everywhere and it is difficult to distinguish them at all.
If Evie was too high above the ground, her spiritual radar would only be able to detect a patch of the screen, with a huge amount of spiritual reactions gathered together, and she couldn't tell who was who. The altitude Evie was at now was the highest altitude her spiritual radar could effectively detect.
At this altitude, Evie was able to rely on relatively close-range detection to judge the area of fungus mist where the spiritual reaction was a mess, and determine which place had a high spiritual concentration and which place had a low spiritual concentration. She could then locate Amaya's relative position in the fungus mist and launch artillery fire. However, this altitude of less than two kilometers also made her more threatened by Amaya's counterattacks, and she began to feel increasingly powerless.
"Just a few minutes... almost..."
Watching the increasingly fierce attack from below, Evie's virtual image murmured solemnly. At this moment, in her heart she was silently recording a moment that Dorothy and the others had told her when they left not long ago. When that moment came, they would return with a solution to the monster before them.
During this period of waiting and suppression, Evie herself did not rely solely on the secondary guns to suppress Amyaba. At this moment, the ram of her bow had been opened again, revealing the muzzle of the huge cannon installed on the axis of the ship. Now light was emitting from the muzzle, and a cannon was brewing.
Evie's cannon is extremely powerful. Even if Amayaba has become like this, Evie is able to destroy most of it in one go. But the problem is that Amayaba has a huge spiritual supply and a high-speed regeneration. As long as she is left with a little room, she will quickly come back. Therefore, if Evie just fires a cannon at Amayaba, it will not completely solve the problem. The key to defeating Amayaba lies in Dorothy and Vanya who are about to return.
While Evi was accumulating cannon energy and continuing to suppress, Evi's spiritual radar suddenly detected that in the dense fungus mist below, the highly concentrated spiritual reaction of Amayaba's body suddenly began to move forward, rapidly approaching from the bottom of the fungus mist to the top, as if it suddenly took off from the spot and flew up!
"What……"
Just as Evie was feeling surprised, the sea of clouds and fungi mist below her suddenly broke open, and a huge monster rushed out from it. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a giant flying insect!
The whole body is covered with a brown-yellow keratinous shell that is dozens of meters long. Two pairs of translucent membrane worm wings with dense reticular patterns are flapping rapidly behind it. The rear end of the body, which is more than 150 meters long, is a fat abdomen like a sac. There are countless densely packed holes on the abdomen that make people feel nauseous because of claustrophobia. From these holes, countless flying wings burst out and countless fungal mist sprays out.
At the front end of the long insect body, there are several pairs of appendages. The front end is a pair of extremely huge chelicerae that are thirty or forty meters long. The front end of the chelicerae is a mantis-like sickle-like serrated blade, which is an exaggerated weapon made of solid keratin. At the front end of the insect body is a distorted huge human face, revealing the distorted and hideous face of Amayaba.
During the time it hid in the fungus mist, Amaya had grown and mutated significantly under Evie's firepower, and its body had become a giant flying insect, and it immediately flew up and launched a counterattack towards Evie.
"Fall! Iron Bitch!"
Filled with anger and resentment, Amayaba transformed into a giant flying insect and swung its huge sickle-like claws at the front end, slashing towards Evie's ship. Evie's close-range defense system was able to deal with the opponent's flying explosive insects and keratin arrows, but it was completely unable to cope with such a large aerial monster. The close-range defense system's machine guns, small-caliber cannons and flamethrowers were simply unable to break Amayaba's solid keratin shell.
Fortunately, when Evi realized that Amoyaba was flying towards her, she had already begun to maneuver the ship. Before she was cut by the sickle on her forelimbs, she had already made the previously silent propulsion nozzles on the hull spew out blazing flames. These propulsion nozzles installed at the stern and both sides of Evi's ship gave Evi's ship, which was suspended in the air by some powerful anti-gravity device, strong additional power, allowing it to fly to a safe area, avoid Amoyaba's sickle attack, and quickly open up the distance.
After getting away from Amubaba, Evie aimed all the guns on his body at Amubaba and fired countless shells at the same time. Because Amubaba had rushed out of the fungus mist, Evie immediately chose to add a large number of physical bullets in this round of volleys. However, after seeing Evie firing, the countless flying winged explosive insects floating around Amubaba exploded one after another, and the holes on its body suddenly spewed out fungus mist more. For a moment, Amubaba's entire body was once again shrouded in fungus mist.
Due to the interference of the fungus mist, all the physical bullets fired by Evi were ineffective again. Only the energy bullets passed through the fungus mist and hit Amayaba, but the damage caused was extremely limited. Amayaba quickly shot back again, and then Amayaba continued to rush towards Evi, and Evi also increased the output of the propulsion nozzle to avoid it.
In this way, Amaya created fungus mist while flying, keeping himself wrapped in the fungus mist at all times while constantly rushing towards Evie and attacking Evie at close range.
Facing a large cloud of fungus mist flying towards Amaya, Evi showed excellent maneuverability. The 400-meter-long aerial giant ship was more flexible than the 100-200-meter-long force ship on the sea. It avoided Amaya's attacks with various strange maneuvers and counterattacked it all the time. The amplitude of many maneuvers was beyond the limit. If Evi was made of ordinary steel, it would have fallen apart in these maneuvers.
Just like that, two giants, each over a hundred meters long and weighing tens and hundreds of thousands of tons, engaged in a fierce hand-to-hand combat in the air. The fight between them was like a dogfight between old fighter planes, but both their size and firepower were much more outrageous.
In this series of aerial close combats, although Evie was not attacked head-on by Amoyaba, when Amoyaba flew past her, a lot of the iron bacteria on it flew onto Evie's hull. Although Evie's hull was made of high-strength extraordinary metal, it also showed signs of partial rust under the influence of Amoyaba's bacteria. This was the first time that Evie suffered damage in the battle with Amoyaba.
It began to rust, but at the moment Evie was not worried about her own situation, but her own cannon. After Amaya's body flew up to harass her, Evie's cannon, which had been accumulating power, became difficult to aim. You must know that Evie's cannon is an axial cannon, which is installed on the central axis inside the hull. The gun will fire to whichever direction the bow of the hull faces. There is no turret that can turn. Axis cannons are okay for fixed targets or slow targets, but it is extremely difficult to aim at a target like Amaya who moves fast and is always close to her for close combat. At this moment, Evie's axial cannon is almost charged, but it is difficult to aim at Amaya.
"It's really difficult..."
Facing Amoyaba who changed his tactics, Evie could not help but speak with a frown on her face. At this moment, she was not only fighting with Amoyaba, but also had a watch in her heart that kept track of the time. At this moment, the appointed time was about to come.
"I hope you have the ability to change this..."
At the moment when the watch ahead was about to reach the point, Evie suddenly began to adjust the many jet nozzles on his body, adjusted his direction, and rushed rapidly towards a coordinate in the air. The point where this coordinate was located was actually not very good in terms of tactical avoidance. Amyaba saw the flaw exposed by Evie at a glance.