"As an excellent knight, when you discover that your lord is doing something treacherous and evil, it is completely normal to stab him in the back decisively."
【I believe you are a ghost.】
Kangna was not satisfied with John's explanation, but she couldn't think of any other reason, so she could only continue to follow him on the mountain road, knocking to death some weirdos in robes who jumped out from time to time.
[Are these...'monsters' also living people? Or, were they? And, if this is the afterlife, what about the other dead?] After looking at it for a while, Kangna couldn't help but ask.
"Others who died probably reincarnated after a spin. Maybe they didn't even spin and appeared here by chance. At least they have to have a certain degree of obsession and strength," John answered while cutting again.
A strange man who tried to shoot an arrow at him said: "Even if they were once living people, they must be fifty thousand years old."
[Reaper...?] Kangna asked.
"Of course it was those machines that did it," John replied: "When they come, not only life, technology and culture will be harvested, but also souls."
[In other words,] Kangna calmed down her thoughts: [The person who will appear in the 'Land of Shadows' must be a very powerful soul - did you hitchhike in with me? 】
"Yes," John admitted directly: "I will not die. Even if it meets the concept of 'death', it won't work if there is no 'soul' that can be sucked into the Kingdom of Shadows. Even if I forcefully enter the 'afterlife', I will still appear in the Kingdom of Shadows."
A place where there is nothing.”
[Hmm...] Kangna doesn't have any objections to this. As a bionic person, in a sense she cannot die, but why she has a soul is really strange: [In other words, you suspect that your wife is also here.
?]
"Maybe there, or maybe it's just an incarnation, but it's always right to meet." John nodded, as if he didn't intend to explain further.
Since she had agreed not to pursue any further questions, Kangna silently closed the dialog box.
At this time, the mountain road extended to a cliff. The valley below seemed very deep, but it was completely blocked by the black ash mist and could not be seen clearly.
[We seem to have walked out of the valley,] Kangna looked at the bottom of the cliff: [I don’t know what the scenery in this world is like. It’s too boring to only be able to see within a few dozen meters.]
"Do you want to take a look?" John glanced at the black fog.
[Is that okay? Do you know how to do magic?] As an android, Kangna's world view has skewed towards the mysterious side for who knows how far.
"It's not magic, it's just an ordinary roar." John smiled and opened his mouth to the thick fog in the mountains: "Lok Vah Koor (Open the Sky)!"
As three syllables that were difficult for Kangna to understand came out, there was a thunderbolt in the sky, and then the black mist surrounding the valley quickly moved away and disappeared like the ebbing tide of the sea, allowing her to see clearly what was going on around her.
The location they were in at the moment was a relatively ordinary barren mountain. There were buildings that looked like abandoned passes in some relatively narrow places, and there were some ruins similar to medieval houses or castles in the flatter places.
However, what really caught her eye was the continuous pure white snow-capped mountains that were revealed in the sky after the black mist subsided.
The only pity was that the sky was still dark, not showing the blue color she had in mind at all.
About ten seconds later, the turbulent black fog came back, once again compressing the visibility to a few tens of meters, making Kangna feel a little disappointed.
【you can……】
"No, there's no point in just seeing the scenery clearly, and we can't fly," John refused directly: "Besides, it's time to fight the BOSS."
hit what?
————
When the black fog briefly dispersed, Kangna saw the building at the end of the mountain road below her.
It was a huge circular stone platform like a Colosseum, surrounded by auditoriums made of the same material that had been damaged in many places.
Obviously, this is not going to be a Colosseum, because there is a person standing in the middle of the platform.
Maybe it's a person...
As John walked up to the man, Connor began to wonder if it was some kind of sculpture.
It looks like three meters high, and looks like a defeated warrior wearing classical heavy armor. He is kneeling on one knee, with the halberd in his hand hanging low, and a red sword blade nailed to his heart.
A long sword shaped like a curved spiral.
"If I pull out this sword and it suddenly turns into Nero, and then asks me if I am her Master, how should I answer?" John stared at the sword and said something incomprehensible.
Since she didn't understand John's slang, Kangna didn't answer. She just curiously looked at what looked like a dialog box at the foot of the statue. She saw it read:
【If you have friends in the past, fire is very useful.】
ha?
While Kangna was trying to understand this sentence, she looked up and found that John had stepped on the chest of the statue and pulled out the red spiral sword.
[No matter who did it, his methods must be very similar to yours, and he likes to expose people——]
"【Roar----!】"
Before Kangna could finish typing, the thing she thought was armor stood up straight, grabbed the halberd at hand, and gave John a fierce sweep.
clang!
John had already thrown the red spiral sword aside, and used his golden sword to block the heavy blow without even shaking.
Although there is no winner in this competition between the two sides, in terms of size, the giant armor is obviously slightly inferior.
"Well, is it a normal expansion?" John asked.
【How normal is this!】
The giant armor's attack had no effect, and he did not pursue or change his moves. Instead, he quickly retreated with agility that was not suitable for his size, then suddenly jumped up and made a slash with the long halberd.
"Since you don't have your own consciousness, there's nothing to say." John didn't dodge at all and rushed directly in the direction of the giant armor, reaching behind where it landed before it landed.
The giant armor hit the target with one blow, but it did not get stiff like those robed monsters. It twisted and waved its arms and was about to receive a sweep, when it heard a pop, and the tip of a golden sword penetrated from its chest.
He froze in place.
Stab - bang.
"It's not that I like to use this trick," John kicked down the giant armor, pulled out the golden sword, and then said to Kangna: "There are always enemies showing their backs in front of me, and I can't do anything about it."
Kangna originally wanted to make a mockery, but suddenly she discovered that the armor did not turn into ashes as expected. Instead, black viscous liquid began to spurt out from the gaps. They merged and solidified with each other, and finally formed a coiled line.
Wearing that giant armor, the black python was ten meters long and two meters thick. It opened its bloody mouth and let out a huge roar at John.
"[Gah——roar!]"
[Well, I guess it means, ‘Let’s see how you backstab this time’. 】
