Constantine saw Catherine decapitating Maximus. She grabbed the giant beast's retorted scream and raised the head high. The broken neck that was singed by the power sword was still dripping with foul-smelling black blood.
.This head alone was not much lighter than her weight. Even if it did not include the deformed forehead, its size was far larger than the width of her shoulders, but she still easily lifted it up with one hand.
"I dedicate this head to my Lord. He is the supreme king of the human race, the guardian of human civilization and the savior of humankind's continuation." After she finished speaking, she put the head next to her feet, and then walked aside to chop it.
After decapitating Blackcard Burt, she repeated what she said before. "My lord has accepted the sacrifice." After she finished speaking, the body of the giant beast turned into black sand and slid in along the sloping deck.
Under the orange-red hot metal, only the head still retains flesh and blood. She looked at Constantine and inserted the long sword burning with white flame into the scabbard, "Our mission is not completed yet."
Constantine ignored Catherine's overly ritualized actions and words, and looked around him warily.
"Why do we come back here?" said the leader of the guards. "No matter how long we spend here, it is only a moment in the material universe, but the control of Black Card Burt and Maximus
The etheric creatures have been expelled, and there is no reason for us to stay here."
"Our master has many secrets, and words alone cannot fully express his thoughts. But as an artificial human born from the brilliance of our master's soul, I can answer your questions, or in other words, I am answering your questions on his behalf.
." Catherine's expression was calm, far less noisy than before her body was destroyed, as if she had become more mature after being soaked in ether. "That ether entity is destined to be present at the heat death of the universe, and we cannot be there.
Destroy it completely now. Only at the far end of the arrow of time can we completely destroy it, never destroy it now."
“Why do we do what we do?”
"In order to change the present." Catherine frowned, "Yes, we have to change the future to change the present."
"We are going to kill it." The battle sisters walked out of the shadows. The black power armor inlaid with golden lilies and roses still had dried blood and scorch marks from plasma overload. She reflexively pressed
Turning the trigger of the chain saw sword, the single-molecule saw teeth rotate slowly and gradually heat up. The smell of hot metal is almost exactly the same as the molten iron under the crack in the deck. "Kill it until every atom in the universe stops moving until gravity
Ineffective until time is no longer distorted by gravity. We are going to the end of time, and our Lord will send us there to kill it in the endless cold of the universe."
Constantine chewed on the memories he had glimpsed.
He had to agree with Catherine. Everything arranged by the emperor had its meaning. It seemed that every detail of the Battle of Attilan was included in his calculations. There is no doubt that this is an extremely computationally intensive project, just like
Figure out the trajectory of every atom in the star. "I know where it is." The Praetorian Commander forced himself to extract relevant information from those chaotic memories. This time he did not abandon Maximus's memory, but
Look closely at the protagonist of this classical tragedy. "I know its true name, but that name cannot be pronounced with human vocal cords."
"My lord has arranged the thread of fate." Catherine stepped forward, stepping on the black sand transformed by the giant beast's body with her steel high heels. Compared with the androids, Catherine, who was born as a human, is much shorter.
Next to her, she looked even more petite. "You will guide us on our journey, Constantine."
"He is a human being."
"Yes, but he is also the greatest human being. This does not prevent us from worshiping Him and respecting Him. He is the savior of the human race, there is no doubt about it." Vera took off her helmet. She had encountered something like this in the basement of a human smuggler.
Starvation and abuse, I have witnessed the most horrific atrocities committed by humans on their own kind, leaving irreversible scars on the body. Even the medical system of the Eternal City cannot completely repair the physical trauma. But compared to
Despite the physical scars, the girls who were brought into the Eternal City at that time encountered greater mental problems. "If I had not stood by His side, I would have been disappointed with mankind, because I have experienced the pain of the human race.
Malice. If His mercy had been delayed, I would have been violated by those scum, skinned off, and eviscerated. I should have been disappointed in humanity, and I should have been malicious to everything around me."
The panic on her face had long been replaced by perseverance and courage. Vera's eyes widened wildly, and Constantine saw the emperor's power overflowing from her eyes. He didn't know whether it was Vera or the emperor who was talking to him now.
On the other side. "I understand that His fight for the survival of the human race is an extremely magnificent cause. No justice in this world can be higher than His ideal, and no sacrifice can be greater than His sacrifice. I have been in
His name was called in the basement, so He sent an angel to save me, and He allowed me to see the future."
The leader of the Praetorian Guard had no doubts about the emperor's power. He was just confused about the emperor's choice of Catherine and Vera. In his opinion, there was no one more suitable to be the executor of this task than the Praetorian Guard. Because the Praetorian Guard would always
Stay focused, but in the monastery of the Sisterhood, the performance of those human girls and even artificial people is much inferior to that of the Praetorian Guards and genetically modified warriors - Catherine and Vera do not have a complete physical universe. They only
It's just a ghost, the soul of a warrior salvaged by the emperor from an outer dimension. It lives entirely on the emperor's memory of them. If the person who comes into contact with them is not a modified Imperial Guard, they won't even be able to leave the relevant memory. To be precise, even if
Even Constantine himself was not sure that he could remember the names of the battle sisters who fought alongside him after escaping from the dream.
Vera's seemingly calm enthusiasm made it difficult for Constantine to accept.
"You are closer to Him than I am, and His brilliance shines on you... Just like the projection of a three-dimensional model on a two-dimensional plane, you now are just a projection reflected on this moment in a long life...
Except for Him, no one in this universe can transcend this narrow perspective. The destiny I tell you is in the more distant future, and He has already arranged your destiny, Constantine."
"Yes, I know." The guard commander responded calmly, seemingly unaffected by Vera's fanatical tone. "I know my mission. This is why He created me. He is not omniscient and omnipotent.
It’s just a computational model of a chaotic system, not a prophetic method.”
"In any case, this does not affect the performance of our duties." Catherine said, "Let's start now, we still have enemies to kill." Constantine opened his eyes, with a rare expression of doubt. "Why do you want to send my thoughts to
That future, my lord?" He frowned, trying to recall the scene he saw. However, he could not remember anything. Even the never-forgetting brain of the Praetorian Guard could not dig out the dry memory.
"Why can't I remember?" Constantine frowned deeper and deeper, "I only remember that I was standing in the middle of a battlefield, and you were standing next to me. I remember that there were many troops behind you.
…”
The deeper the guard commander dug into his memory, the more he saw. Every detail of that apocalyptic battlefield was in his memory, even if he didn't see anything. He remembered that he saw the Gundam
Hundreds of meters of war engines marched in groups under the setting sun. Genetically modified warriors wearing power armor that was obviously Earth technology but had never been seen before were holding a variety of standard weapons on the battlefield where the war was raging.
He was fighting with the vague etheric creatures on the ground. The soil on the ground had been soaked in the blood of humans and alien creatures, and the bloody mud was up to his ankles. On the other side of the battlefield, the etheric entity whose true name he knew was there.
Even though it was dressed in human skin, Constantine recognized it at a glance like a hunter.
【The future, that is one of the possibilities of the future.】
The emperor turned to look at the commander of the imperial guards.
[This universe may fall into heat death, or it may not; the etheric entity may be present, or it may not; the future you step into is just one of infinite possibilities, but one thing is an unchanging fact, that is
You have mastered its true name... The true name is a concept used to express the essence of something. As long as any existence is mastered by its true name, it is equivalent to losing its power. Compared with the taboo knowledge possessed by the etheric entity itself,
The future battlefield is too grand and the possibilities are too complex. It is the battlefield where the universe ends, and all our efforts are to win that war. Because you receive too much information, the brain activates itself.
Protection function. As long as you are willing, you can slowly recall all the details in the future. But...]
Constantine waited for the emperor to continue speaking, but he saw the emperor stretched out his hand and turned the key. Then he pulled out a hand wrapped in black armor out of thin air.
Lily, Constantine recognized the owner of this hand. As the emperor pulled hard, the artificial man who always had a smile on his face appeared out of thin air. The power armor on his body was clean and neat, with scented carbon.
The smell of fire.
"My lord." Catherine kissed the back of the emperor's hand as soon as she appeared, "I swear that I will chop off the heads of my enemies."
"Do you remember fighting alongside me?" Constantine asked.
"I remember, but that is the future to me, not the past." Catherine clenched her palms, and her other hand tightly grasped the hilt of the sword at her waist. Constantine discovered that the Catherine he saw was different from the Catherine he met in his dream.
They have completely different personalities, which made him very curious. "For me, the memory of that battle is like watching a movie. I did experience it personally, but the me who fought side by side with you is not who I am now."
The Catherine now projected into the material universe is the image of the Catherine in the dream reflected in the low-dimensional material universe. The Catherine seen by creatures in the material universe is the shadow of Catherine in the dream world, which is one aspect of her essence.
When she was an artificial human being, Catherine was very lively and active, often making some fun pranks, and was often favored by the emperor. But now what Constantine sees is that Catherine has been stripped of her sense of humor and appears to have an irritable personality - Constantine can
Understand Catherine's statement, but the knowledge he learned through the emperor's study has a more profound explanation for this phenomenon - however, those books did not explain the spiritual secret method used by the emperor to summon Catherine from the air.
It is not difficult to see from the expression of Master Hamil on the side that this behavior is beyond common sense.
Master Hamil knew Catherine.
In the early days of the establishment of the Eternal City, Karma Taj paid for a lot of necessary materials and manpower. As the emperor's original armed force, the Karma Taj Mystic had a lot of dealings with the Sisters. As the commander of the assault team, Catherine was an infantryman of the Sisters.
The leader of the armed forces, after the emperor came to power, Catherine also took on part of Kamathaj's original work, such as hunting down experimental animals that escaped from the laboratory, killing magical experimental materials, etc. Although she could not teach the sisterhood secrets.
Even though the emperor instilled many close combat techniques into the androids, they were not as good as the experience and practical skills accumulated by Kamathaj's many years of martial arts practice.
When Catherine died in the Battle of Finbul, almost all the Kama Taj mystics who had communicated with the androids knew the news. After all, it was the first time that the emperor independently solved the extradimensional crisis. However, the Hamil mage did not know
What was the nature of the artificial human that appeared in front of him at this moment? When he touched Catherine's shoulder armor in surprise, but it was not a phantom, the emperor created a material body based on a memory of Catherine. This can be said to be
The supreme achievement of alchemy. Others who want to imitate the corners of this arcana require extremely complex spells and rituals, unlike the emperor who can do it casually. This once again refreshed Master Hamil's understanding of the emperor's ability.
Knowing, because doing so not only requires a huge amount of etheric energy, but also requires extremely profound knowledge.