"That divine envoy is indeed not a human being."
Behind the messy experimental table was the darker light in the depths of the room. The scattered scene and the smell of dust made Duan Qing frown slightly. He pushed away the magic power that was suspended in the air.
Various unknown alchemy artifacts and parts and materials, and Violet's soft and lazy voice with pride came to my ears: "To be precise, she is not a living thing, she should be a kind of structure."
"Are they robots?"
Looking at the body of the true envoy that had appeared once before but had been torn into pieces by Violet, Duan Qing's originally opened bright eyes gradually dimmed:
"Well, why do I feel like I've expected this?"
"Of course you have an impression. After all, you have been 'in the past' many times." Her fingers kept turning in front of her, and Violet's voice, which borrowed Nasia's voice, still seemed full of interest:
"Those guard-like beings that once appeared 'over there' - don't you think they are similar to them?"
"I fought with all my strength over there, how could I have time to notice such tiny details." Duan Qing rolled his eyes helplessly, and then there was a hint of thought in Duan Qing's answer.
Meaning: "But after what you said, it seems to be true... Are these so-called divine envoys really a force guarding that world?"
"Since he is the apostle of destiny, his form probably won't be that important."
The light of magic kept flashing between Violet's fingers, driving a body fragment floating in the air to float gently in the direction of her fiddling movements: "Since you are the creator who controls the entire world, 'over there'
You should be able to use all the materials that can make up this world at will. If you deduce everything based on the form of the divine envoy in front of you, you may not be able to get an accurate answer."
"One day, you might be able to meet 'me' as your enemy." Violet paused after saying this, and her expression became a little cute as she raised her finger: "Of course
Not the me now, but the me who was used as material 'over there'."
"If the other party has a will, this situation may really happen." He crossed his arms and let out a groan. Duan Qing's eyes also became a little deeper as he thought about it: "But from now on we
Judging from the encounters, that guy is just acting on his own instincts. He will not go beyond his responsibilities, nor will he have any evil thoughts."
"How can this be a bad taste? Don't you think I'm not strong?" She slapped Duan Qing's shoulder with her mouth curled up, and Violet frowned again: "And since the god in front of me is
Even though the envoy has already appeared here, do you still think it doesn’t have its own thoughts?”
"Regardless of the results of intelligent self-evolution, at least there must be external forces interfering with what happened this time."
Getting slightly closer again, Duan Qing carefully watched the female mechanical god in front of him who had been dismantled to only her face: "Those players - those adventurers like me, they must have blended in.
That side of the sacred mountain planned most of the actions including this attack."
"With them instigating and scheming behind the scenes, those so-called guardians of fate will sooner or later become their weapons and tools." Slightly poking the face of this divine envoy that was no different from a human, Duan Qing continued in a low voice: "
Unless we can strategically dominate Mount Kailash and wrest this power away from them, as we have promised before, this threat will always exist."
"I don't have any problem myself. After all, I have experience in dealing with such things." The frown slowly relaxed, and Violet shrugged her shoulders with a meaningless look: "But if
If it’s you guys, there’s nothing I can do.”
"Using magic exhaustion and magic suffocation to subdue the divine envoy is not a method we can use." Duan Qing let out a helpless smile, and then gradually stood up straight: "Strength.
The gap itself exists objectively and is expected to continue to exist for a long time. If we want to solve the problem between us and the power of these divine messengers——"
"I guess it will have to wait until a long, long time later."
Duan Qing couldn't help but think of the scenes that might appear after the virtual reality game of Free World develops in depth. Duan Qing's expressions and movements became silent until the body fragments of the god floating in the air in front of him continued to surround and touch each other.
And at a certain moment, when they gradually merged together under Violet's control, the gray-robed magician once again called his indulged thoughts back to reality: "Sorry, maybe it's not appropriate to mention it.
topic."
"It doesn't matter, I'm also very interested in it." Violet, who took advantage of the girl's figure, smiled and nodded gently: "I'm still waiting for you to say more about 'over there'. This is what everyone yearns for.
A normal thirst for knowledge for a great magician, isn't it?"
"No, let's go back to reality." Duan Qing shook his head helplessly, and his eyes fell back on the fully assembled divine envoy in front of him: "This thing... this divine envoy can still
Back to normal?"
"Of course, this is the privilege of the construct." Putting her hands on her hips and showing a dissatisfied expression, Violet squinted at Duan Qing's face: "Maybe you think my method is not mature enough to restore it to its original state.
To what extent, my cute little magic apprentice?"
"If it can be restored, we may be able to get some information and intelligence from the mouth of the divine envoy in front of us."
Duan Qing breathed a sigh of relief, and after being silent for a while again, he turned around with a serious expression: "Of course, safety is still the first priority - are you sure?"
"Who do you think you are talking to, little guy?" As if she was talking about her area of expertise, the look of confidence on Violet's face began to become more and more obvious: "I can recover now, but
——”
"Its state is still in the state it showed when it fought with me before. It only retains the most primitive mechanical logical thinking and the commands that need to be executed." The smile gradually faded a bit, and the great magician's girlish face
The white and tender face also looked dissatisfied at this time: "I haven't fully figured out how to rewrite and control the behavioral logic of this structure. Even if I wake it up now, it will probably still be the disobedient and violent angel."
"...Forget it then." Duan Qing stared intently at the simple yet beautiful curves of the winged figure in front of him and his closed eyes that were almost the same as those of humans. After a long while, Duan Qing said hesitantly: "You keep your eyes closed.
Have you been studying this all the time you have been away from home?"
"This is the place with the strongest magic signal isolation effect in the Violet Tower. The feasibility of transformation is the highest in this place." Violet also lightly frowned: "Even if this structure cannot be cracked,
The command operation method of the body can at least prevent it from continuing to become the opponent's weapon."
"Speaking of which, not all constructs have such high self-disciplined operation authority." Collecting his relatively lacking alchemy knowledge, Duan Qing pointed in the direction of the construct: "Before observing
The performance of the hostile camps at the last moment of the Balish Conference shows that the loss of control of this divine envoy was not within their expectations. Is it rare for a structure to have autonomous consciousness?"
"Rather than saying that the structure at that time had its own consciousness, it would be more accurate to say that it 'lost consciousness'." After a pause while cleaning up her surroundings, Violet shook her head.
Head: "In the ancient magic era or even more distant eras, this highest-level product of magic and alchemy has almost the same consciousness expression as human beings. Although these magic techniques have been lost, few people can now glimpse them again.
Knowledge, but in the records that have been left behind, the magical structure with wisdom and self-awareness already has the ability to act disguised as real."
"There are only a few records of out-of-control structures left in the records." She separated the limbs of the structure in front of her again, and pointed at the location where the heart that a normal human being has should exist: "
After stripping away the spiritual camouflage carefully designed by their creators, only the most basic action logic and commands remain in the hearts of these machines, and they will no longer use human language and actions to process their own actions.
, so it can be clearly identified by us.”
"Yes, that's right, just like the construct you mentioned before."
Sensing the abnormalities in Duan Qing's gradually enlarging eyes, Violet's lips gradually turned upward: "I remember it was called Kyle II, right? Do you want to capture it and study it too?"
"I advise you not to have such thoughts. That place is not only its territory, but also has a large number of its kind that are as old and as powerful as it." Duan Qing replied unconsciously, originally wanting to continue persuading.
His voice suddenly froze in place: "And that place... huh?"
"Speaking of which, we are now on the route of the Wind Continent's leyline, right?" Duan Qing slowly took out his adventurer's manual, and once again showed a thoughtful expression: "The one who appeared in the underground laboratory
The two people...the intersection where the earth's veins converge is now almost certain to be the sacred mountain..."
"What's wrong?"
"Speaking of which, there is a problem that I have never paid attention to."
Facing Violet's question, Duan Qing slowly drew his gaze back to the construct: "Maybe this question is too common for you, so like you
The strong people have never cared about how these structures operate? Where do their energy supplies come from?"
"..."
"Without a way to replenish energy, they must have a power source or something, right?"
Seemingly aware of the abnormality, Violet fell into the same silence after Duan Qing's question. Duan Qing, who didn't care, was also talking to himself, and his fingers were moving up and down the map shown in the adventurer's manual.
Moving: "The ancient magic empire - or those magic structures produced in earlier periods, I don't know how many are left to this day, but are these so-called 'gods' sent by the sacred mountain following the rules?"
Are the tracks of the ley lines moving?"
"If you think about it a little more exaggeratedly: What is the relationship between the sacred mountain, which has various magical structures of 'gods', and the dynasty of the ancient magic period that once was located in the Wind Continent?" Duan Qing rubbed his chin.
He also became more and more certain: "That Lothrik, or the existence called the Rodrik Dynasty... Well, in my memory..."
"The Holy Mountain is a remnant of the Roderick dynasty?"
Sighing and coming to this conclusion, Violet's girlish and youthful eyebrows began to gradually relax: "This possibility is really surprising... If it is true, then it is suitable for us.
What’s your intention?”
"The people who went to visit the other party should have returned. I wonder if the mentor has contacted them." Duan Qing also nodded his head: "Excluding the influence of adventurers on the force, this information may allow us to
It has a great advantage in the confrontation with the sacred mountain."
"Although we borrowed this advantage." She said this inexplicably, and Violet smiled sheepishly: "But now, it is a bit too pretentious to say so."
"Nashia can be regarded as someone who has inherited the mantle of the God Envoy. It is not an exaggeration to use the word 'return' to describe it." Duan Qing sighed and shook his head: "We are going all the way.
Isn't it just to fulfill her wish?"
"——This is not a good thing."
Violet shook her head and glanced at Duan Qing, then walked towards the door of the room: "Although the great magician likes to pursue the unknown, the great magician will not restrict his freedom in order to pursue the unknown.
In our eyes, most of the so-called missions and responsibilities are just constraints and shackles."
"Just think of it as an adventurous mission that can be exchanged for rewards. If you want to get the answers we want, you have to pay something, right?" Duan Qing then put away his half-joking expression: "The question is what do we do?
Do you have the ability to complete the task, and whether you can afford the price? If you can't afford it - ahem."
"Sorry, I was too worried."
Facing the great magician in front of him who suddenly turned around and looked at him sideways with a smile on his face, Duan Qing scratched his head helplessly: "You should be completely sure, right?"
"certainly."
Throwing away her long black hair and white cloth robe, Violet turned around and walked forward again.
"Who do you think I am?"
This chapter has been completed!