In the dance classroom, as the dance teacher beat the beat rhythmically, the girls moved their graceful figures and danced an ancient dance neatly.
This is a prayer dance dug out from ancient ruins. It is said to have the magical power to summon the gods to come.
"Okay, students performed very well, so let's take a five-minute intermission first."
When the dance was over, the teacher clapped his hands and announced.
As a result, the students who were sweating profusely breathed a sigh of relief. Most of them sat directly on the floor regardless of their appearance, and then started chatting among themselves.
"I'm so exhausted. This dance of praying to the gods is really complicated. It was really not easy for those ancient witch priests."
Some students expressed this sentiment.
"That's for sure. In religion, the ritual of worshiping gods is very important. If it wasn't complicated, how would the world know the piety of the priests?"
One student said with a laugh, mocking the dross of the old era.
This kind of ridicule immediately resonated with most of the students around him, and they all started laughing.
After all, the so-called Winter Empire is tens of thousands of years old. Who in the new era of the Alliance still believes in gods? Even children who have just entered kindergarten and have received enlightenment education know that in this world
There is no such thing as an omniscient and omnipotent god. Those who dare to call themselves gods are all false gods with ulterior motives. They are just liars who possess powerful power and pretend to be gods.
In the tens of thousands of years since the alliance was established, countless "extraterritorial evil gods" have descended into the world, but what's the result? Without exception, those false gods have all gone to the dissecting table of the Mechanicus and become the nourishment for magic equipment technology.
Well, from this point of view, they really need to thank these "gods" for their gifts. They dedicated their lives to nurturing the alliance.
In short, when it comes to faith and gods, the dance room is suddenly filled with a happy atmosphere. As members of the alliance, everyone has received the education of the Mechanicus since childhood. They all believe from the bottom of their hearts that only the science represented by the magic machine is the right way. Then
All religions and theologies are feudal dross. Only uncivilized primitive people would believe in that stuff.
However, some among the students did not laugh along with everyone else.
She was a blonde beauty.
Well, so-called beauties need to be compared. Even if everyone in the dance studio is a new human being who has been genetically optimized since birth, anyone in the old era would definitely be considered a beauty, but this
The blond girl with blue eyes is still the most beautiful among the people. She is so beautiful that she seems to be of a different race from everyone else.
Well, in fact, we are indeed not of the same race.
Because there are twelve blazing red wings growing on the girl's back, and a huge majestic halo like a crown floats above her head, she is truly an angel.
However, these days we can no longer talk about race, we should talk about ethnicity.
After all, there is only one race in name in the alliance, and that is humans.
Well, the laws of the alliance clearly stipulate that all races with human-like appearance are all humans. As for whether you are an angel, a demon, or a dragon, it is just a matter of race.
What, you said dragons don’t look like humans?
This is a bit politically incorrect. Be careful the dragons will sue you for discrimination. It’s not like you can’t take human form, so why aren’t you a human?
In short, in the alliance, all living beings are equal and everyone is human. This is the first rule and no one can violate it.
Besides, flesh and blood are weak. Anyway, everyone will mechanically ascend in the future. The differences between different ethnic groups are just temporary differences. In the end, everyone will reach the same destination by different paths.
In this world, only omnics are the right path.
"Elsa, what's wrong with you? Are you feeling uncomfortable?"
Some people also noticed the unsociable behavior of the angel girl, and suddenly asked with some concern.
Upon hearing this inquiry, everyone who was originally laughing also turned their attention to the angel girl named Elsa.
Young people are always a bit concerned about their appearance. With a good face, it is easy to become the center of the crowd, let alone a rare race like a girl or an angel. This is a big bonus, so, Elsa
She is not only the class president, but also the absolute center among the girls in the class.
At this time, the monitor did not laugh, and everyone did not dare to continue laughing for a while. They even began to worry that they and others had just said the wrong thing and made the monitor unhappy.
"Well, if you think about it carefully, it seems that the legendary Ice and Snow Empress who successfully summoned the gods through the dance of prayer and established the Winter Empire was also named Elsa."
A girl said this cautiously.
As a result, everyone looked at the monitor's expression more carefully.
Being watched by her classmates, the angel girl finally recovered from her distraction and noticed something strange about her classmates.
"Well, you misunderstood. I was just thinking about other things. I don't believe in any gods. As for the name, Elsa is a very common name. There are eight thousand Elsa's in the entire alliance, if not ten thousand.
, Besides, the name is just a code name, and it is randomly assigned by the system when you are born, so we cannot control it ourselves."
She smiled gently and explained.
As a result, the students felt relieved one after another.
In order to change the atmosphere, someone quickly changed the topic.
"By the way, tomorrow is the graduation ceremony, and it's time for the system to assign us vocations and families. I'm really looking forward to it."
And this sentence also successfully attracted the attention of girls.
In the alliance, after completing compulsory education, all citizens will be systematically awarded vocations at the graduation ceremony, and will also be assigned a partner. Both of these are important events in life, and it is impossible for everyone to ignore them.
However, the integration system that is the foundation of the alliance is absolutely correct, and it is also basic common sense that everyone in the alliance knows, so everyone is looking forward to it.
The system will calculate according to each person's conditions and personality, and then assign the most suitable vocational job. Similarly, the partner assigned by the system is definitely the most suitable person, there is no doubt about this.
However, everyone knows the truth, but after all, this is a major event related to their future, so the young girls are both looking forward to it and a little worried.
"Well, my grades have never been very good. I guess I won't be able to get any good vocation."
"I don't care about my calling. I can do anything, but I want a handsome boyfriend."
"Actually, I have someone I like, and I don't want to be assigned."
"Put it down, Hannah. Your so-called love is just hormonal restlessness. It is unreliable. True love depends on the allocation of the system, so that it can last long."
"That's right, who is still in love in this age? It's inefficient and unstable. System distribution is real."
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, it's still winter now, don't get too excited, okay? What's the point of being a man? It's the vocation that matters. I want to go to the Mechanicus and become an omnic nun."
"Put it down, why don't you dance more and more to pray to the gods, praying to the non-existent gods to bless you and be assigned a handsome man? Is the Mechanicus accessible to ordinary people? You are not Elsa-sama.
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The girls started chatting one after another and burst into laughter.
The girl named Elsa looked at everyone with a smile, but said nothing.
She was still thinking about the inexplicable feeling she had when she danced just now.
Well, she actually lied just now.
She probably might have actually sensed the "gods" through the dance of praying to the gods.
The girl was both surprised and curious about this.
What surprised her was that she didn't expect that the Mechanicus had studied it countless times and confirmed that the dance of praying to gods, which could only be regarded as aerobics and had no mystical power, was actually effective.
What she was curious about was what the "god" that she had just established contact with was.
To be honest, as a young person of the new era who grew up under the Alliance's Holy Hammer, Elsa did not believe in the so-called gods. Like her classmates, she also felt that they were just false gods who were pretentious.
But on the other hand, perhaps because she has the same name as the legendary Ice and Snow Empress, Elsa always has a special emotion for the legend about the empress and goddess of the Winter Empire.
She thought that everything needs to be viewed in the context of time. For the Alliance people, the goddess known as the "Lord of All Machines" may be just a false god from another world who possesses advanced mechanical knowledge, but for the people who are in the
For the empire in the barbaric era, those existences were indeed no different from gods, and the goddess did what a god should do. She led the group of primitive people to build a great empire.
In short, the girl still liked the story of the Winter Empire. She especially admired the relationship between the empress and the goddess, and felt that the relationship between gods and believers was unexpectedly romantic.
Of course, Elsa could only think about this idea in her heart. She would never dare to tell others. After all, girls also want to save face. If she said this kind of love-minded idea, she would only be laughed at by her classmates.
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Well, Elsa, Elsa, be normal and don't smoke everything just because the names are the same. That will only harm yourself.
The angel girl patted her cheek and forced herself to wake up.
Then, she also thought about the assignment of vocations and partners at tomorrow's graduation ceremony, and couldn't help but frown slightly.
She doesn't care about the distribution of her vocation. Her grades have always been excellent. According to past traditions, there is no big problem for her to enter the Mechanic Cult. Becoming a Mechanical Sister is a sure thing.
Just a companion...
Elsa felt that she didn't need a partner.
If she had to have a partner, she also hoped that like the Ice and Snow Emperor, she could get a goddess partner who could be like-minded and stay with her for the rest of her life, but that kind of partner probably didn't exist at all, right?
"Tsk, what age are we in? It's still mandatory to allocate partners. The system should be upgraded and updated. In the old days, people only formed families to reproduce offspring. But now it's so difficult to get the alliance's fertility certificate. How many families can we have?"
If you wait in line for several lifetimes, you may not have the right to have children, so how can you form a family?"
The angel girl complained in her heart about the rigidity of the system.
Of course, this kind of thing is just something to think about in your mind. After all, questioning the system is a serious crime in the alliance.
"Okay, it's break time, let's continue the class."
The bionic omnimonic dance teacher who was waiting on the side spoke on time and said this.
The classmates also helped each other to get up. They complained that the omnic teacher was too rigid. The five-minute break was really five minutes, not one second longer or less.
Elsa couldn't wait to stand up on her own, and then continued dancing to the teacher's rhythm.
As the dance continued, she slowly felt that her heart seemed to have established a connection with another existence. She could vaguely perceive a little information about the other person, such as...
The other party seems to be getting closer and closer to me.
She even roughly estimated her feelings, and Elsa felt that this unknown god might just be able to make it in time for her graduation ceremony tomorrow.
Suddenly, a little expectation rose in the angel girl's heart.
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On the other side, Dorothy was driving a car, oh, no, driving a broom.
She rode the Light Chaser's broom and galloped all the way across the wilderness.
This heavy-duty motorcycle-shaped broom given to me by Alice still looks a little out of place in the witch world, but now in the Omnic Wasteland, it doesn't feel out of place.
The otaku witch thought this while looking at the so-called "wasteland" around her.
Although she has long known that every world has its own laws, and there are also unique scenes inside the world, so no matter what kind of otherworldly scene you see, don’t be surprised, even if you see a talking cake, a singing cake, etc.
That's normal for chickens too.
However, theory is theory, and this was Dorothy's first time seeing a truly alien world.
This Omnic Wasteland really lives up to its name, it is a world of omnics.
The earth here is not soil, but some kind of special metal. It is a veritable earth of steel.
But even so, there are still "plants" growing on the ground, although those plants are all mechanical plants.
Well, there are mechanical grasses and mechanical trees everywhere.
Obviously they are machines made of steel, gears, engine oil and other elements, but the otaku witch can feel the vitality of life from these "plants". This can only be said to be really damning.
And if plants are like this, animals are naturally the same.
She has seen a lot of mechanical horses, mechanical cows, mechanical sheep, and mechanical wolves along the way.
Similarly, although they are obviously products similar to bionic machines, these animals give the otaku witch the feeling that they are also full of vitality.
Therefore, they cannot be regarded as mechanical creations. They are actually real mechanical creatures.
In short, in this world, a body of steel is normal, and a body of flesh and blood like hers may be a rarity.
"Forget it, let's go and see what has been calling me since the beginning. This bad inspiration keeps jumping around."
Dorothy followed the prompts of inspiration and chased towards the moving steel city not far away.