Metamorphosis (4)
A fighter jet that appears from the side right after ejecting Hina’s seat. Aris, who was supposed to be sitting in the passenger seat, was nowhere to be seen.
It must have been after dropping Aris off at the first fortress. I heard the communication as if I had read Lennok’s thoughts.
[Looks like you left Hina well. I thought so too.]
“What does that mean?”
[No matter how I look at it, you seem to be very uncomfortable with the help of others. I thought he would try to handle this matter by himself somehow.]
“….”
[The same goes for the fortress raid you just captured. A three-pronged entry route established with your authorization. If we had lent our strength to one of them, it would not have been impossible to kill the three wardens and recapture the fortress.]
“But we couldn’t have prepared for a situation like this.”
[…] … .]
This time Palad kept his mouth shut.
“In the end, we didn’t know about the lieutenant general’s real purpose until right before the offensive operation began. The fact that he was trying to throw away his body and be reborn to become an 8th-level superpower, and that he was building two more fortresses.”
He knew that the National Guard and Gearside were not going to focus all their efforts on just one mobile fortress.
The size of the mobile fortress was too large and conspicuous to contain their wishes, and it was not so fast.
That’s why Lennok tried to prepare for any unexpected situation by handling the work as quickly as possible, but… … He hadn’t thought that Gearside would build two more forts and build them.
Palad drove the fighter without a word, then spoke another word through the communication network.
[I said I was a pilot. However, I wasn’t working as an agent from the beginning.]
“….”
[I was a pilot belonging to the National Defense Force’s mobile fortress combat squadron. Vice Admiral Treppen was my superior.]
“…Right.”
Lennok nodded, understanding why Pallad would say this at this point.
Certainly, Pallad’s actions during that time were too active to be simply because he was the deputy director of the agent.
The fact that he dared to drive a fighter, who was supposed to remain near the satellite city to collect all troops, proved that fact.
Koo Goo Goo!!
Two fighter jets galloping through the air. Only Palad’s voice can be heard quietly through the empty communication network.
[The lieutenant general must be at that fortress, one step away. You must know.]
“Did you know?”
A mobile fortress that steps from the back of the two fortresses.
Lennok identified the relatively disorganized fortress among those forts with his recently blossomed spatial awareness and set a goal.
Palad, in his own way, also seemed to know which fortress Treffen was located in.
[I only noticed it after checking the mobile fortress in the satellite city up close. What is there is not a fort originally used by the National Guard. It was probably something that was quickly completed with the help of Gearside at the construction site.]
The reason why the old and new parts were strangely mixed in the appearance of the fortress. That’s probably because they reassembled the remnants of a mobile fortress that had only been built.
The reason why the materials piled up on the deck looked strangely worn was probably because they were abandoned after the project was discontinued.
If you think about the unusual behavior of Barclay and the control room officials, there was a clue that the mobile fortress in the satellite city was not the fortress they originally used.
“If you were looking for a reactor and charging it, it must have been a relatively recently built fort.”
[The fortress in the satellite city is Unit 3. If Units 1 and 2, which were hidden after recharging the power source for the fortress, are now running… … .]
Lennok, who understood Palad’s words, nodded immediately.
“You mean the place where Lieutenant General Treppen is located is Unit 1?”
[He has served as the fortress commander for 20 years and has never left his position. Even if he now abandoned his body, his disposition would not go anywhere.]
“….”
Did he know the location of Fort Unit 1, which he used to use, through his experience as a pilot in the National Guard?
It seemed that his personal experience with Treffen and his time as a pilot suggested another answer to Palad.
[But that’s over now. I didn’t expect to say my last goodbye this way, but… … .]
At the same time as he said that, the missile detached from the bottom of Palad’s fighter jet fell to the ground in an instant.
Clap!!
[The time has come to put an end to a long-standing relationship.]
The missile, which fell obliquely following the speed and direction of the fighter, hit the rear fort deck directly.
Aaaaaaaaaaaa!!
It ignited a flame that was so magnificent.
An elongated spire built in the middle of the deck of a rapidly burning fortress.
On top of it, a man wearing an iron mask looks up at the sky alone.
As soon as Lennok saw it, he pressed the eject button on the instrument panel and pulled the seat lever without hesitation.
Bang!
Lennok’s body, which had been ejected from the middle of the ejected seat, soared into the air.
It spins one wheel backwards and falls to the ground as it is.
The effects of the strong wind and gravity were delicately mitigated by shields and magic, and the wizard’s body fluttered in his coat and fell onto the fortress deck.
Woooooo!!
On the deck, where the heat from Pallad’s missiles has not yet gone.
Lennok stood up and slowly looked up at the spire in the center of the deck.
The man wearing a thick iron mask withdraws his gaze towards the sky and throws it down again.
[…] … .]
Lennok, who confirmed the dazzling eyes shining through the iron mask, immediately raised his mana and laughed.
“Lieutenant General Treffen. It’s the first time I’ve seen your face in person.”
* * *
Woooooooooooo!!
Thousands of meters up in the sky, deafening.
Hina screamed as she clenched tightly to a blade at her waist, then hiccuped when she saw something that suddenly appeared in front of her eyes.
“Hyak?!”
“You shouldn’t be so surprised to see people.”
What appeared in Hina’s eyes was Aris, who was falling down with her golden hair fluttering with her legs slightly together.
She, who was traveling in Palad’s fighter jet, was ejected at the same time as Hina and fell from the sky.
“Ah, it was Aris-sama….”
“I think Agent was thrown around the same time as me. Am I wrong?”
The parachute backpack tied over the fluttering shirt was still unopened, but Aris’ face showed no fear.
While pressing down on her hair with one hand, she only faced the approaching ground with a cold expression.
Hina inadvertently admired that courage, but nodded her head obediently.
“you’re right.”
“Then you’ve been entrusted with a fort located close to the two of us… … .”
Saying that, Aris glanced down at the faraway ground.
In the middle of the fast-approaching desert area.
Two mobile forts running over it without hesitation. Among them, wasn’t it that the two people were dedicated to the moving fortress in a relatively close place?
If it was reasonable, it would be reasonable in its own way, but Aris’ face looked somewhat dull.
“Hmm….”
“Even if I don’t like it….”
Instead of answering, Aris raises her blue eyes and silently scans Hina’s whole body up and down.
In the aftermath of the [Goddess of Thunder], her whole body glows bright blue.
Hina doesn’t seem to be aware of the magical action that takes place inside her body, but Aris could guess how desperate the level of augmentation magic that was applied to her body had reached.
It does not stop at simply amplifying physical abilities, but elaborately stimulates the central nervous system to raise the reaction speed and magic response to a whole different level.
Even if the strength and speed of the whole body are abnormally amplified, mental enhancement is enough to perfectly handle the temporarily increased strength.
If it was a spell that was perfectly tailored to her body, it would be proof that he had already performed a similar spell on Hina several times.
And it was obvious who the person who performed the ceremony was.
Aris muttered as she crossed her arms with her eyes narrowed.
“It’s also award-winning….”
“…yes?”
“The fortress is getting closer. As soon as we go down, we start.”
Aris, who casually brushed off Hina’s question, looked away.
“When calculating the strength of the agent’s augmented muscular strength and magic power, the time it takes to cover half of the deck is approximately 13 seconds… … . In the meantime, go around as close as possible and drive the enemies on the deck to one place.”
“I see.”
Clap!
Hina replied while clutching the sword at her waist.
As the fort neared, her senses could see the enemy crawling out onto the deck.
A completely different magical power and appearance from the National Defense Forces they have been dealing with.
It’s not enough to have their whole bodies remodeled into machines, so it’s creepy to see them looking up at each other with different outfits and powers in their hands.
They were probably members of Gearside, who were behind the National Guard. And they must have been the ones who directed the construction of the two forts.
Even though there are more than a few hundred meters of distance left, they have already sensed this side and are waiting to intercept it.
However, Aris, while looking at that figure, did not hesitate and immediately raised her magical energy and said.
“From about 200m around, we will open our guns to intercept us. I’ll close the bottom, so you can go in first and stir it in the meantime.”
“Aris-sama, then how…?”
“I have no intention of prolonging my time here either.”
Looking at Hina, Aris smiled and began to make hand signs with her hands folded.
Woooooooooooooo!!!!
At the same time, a huge amount of mana swirled around her body, causing the sand on the ground to wriggle wildly.
The seal of the summoning magic that is deployed and arranged with both hands emits light, and her powerful will is projected in an instant.
Right after that, the sand of the entire desert defies gravity and rises upside down, drawing the shape of a huge giant.
Koo Goo Goo Goo!!!
[Gwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!]
When the gigantic sand giant, well over dozens of meters in size, roared wildly, the air around the area shook like crazy and spread the sound in all directions.
Lennok was not the only one who accumulated knowledge and experience through repeated research on summoning magic.
Rather, Aris also improved her understanding of summoning magic while conducting research together with Lennok’s perspective of looking at summoning magic in a completely different way from the existing interpretation.
Summoning a summoned beast of this size is inherently difficult even for a powerful mage like her.
It would not be impossible to use an expedient while partially adjusting the environment and conditions with Lennok’s interpretation.
As a result, she succeeded in summoning a summoning beast that could only be summoned in the extreme environment of the desert to a level several orders of magnitude higher than the level of her summoning magic.
Only Hina, who couldn’t guess the story behind it, let out an astonished silence with her mouth wide open.
“Ahhh….”
“Let’s go fast.”
Percussion!!
Aris landed lightly on the sand giant’s shoulder, and at the same time the giant began to walk forward.
The summoned beast, created by combining the sands of the desert and endowing it with a will, advanced by scattering sand dust wildly in all directions.
Doo doo doo doo doo!!!
It is not even clear who the roaring sound that relentlessly resonates with the earth belongs to.
The two monsters, which far exceeded the size that humans could handle, advanced towards each other and only the impact emitted violently pounded the desert area.
The mobile fortress, which moved its steel legs restlessly and advanced forward, and the sand giant, who ran forward with a body of several tens of meters, collided as they were.
* * *
Koooooo!!
On the deck of the fort ablaze with missile explosions.
Lennok nodded as he checked the pile of supply boxes burning helplessly on deck.
Unlike the materials of Fortress Unit 3 that we saw in the satellite city, the boxes clearly showed signs of use.
Perhaps this fort is the very prototype used by the National Guard for 20 years.
[…] … .]
The man in the iron mask looked down at Lenok and stomped his foot lightly.
At the same time, his body moved as if it had disappeared, and in an instant he was standing right on the deck.
Kiyi Profit!!
Immediately after, a fighter landed on the deck behind Lennok.
The man in the iron mask looked at the fighter before Lennok and opened his mouth.
[You are very old Okon. What is that face?]
“It’s been a while, flight commander.”
Palad answered through the fighter’s speakers.
[Did you come to block me with that old and tired body? Dragging an abandoned fighter jet?]
A heavy laugh echoed through the mask.
[Stupid… … . How stupid… … . You haven’t changed at all like you were back then.]
“So you’ve changed a lot.”
The man fell silent at Palad’s plain reply.
“jeon…I believed that the squadron commander would not change. Everyone else thought so too. That’s why everyone agreed that you would rise to the position of commander.”
[…] … .]
“Because everyone believed that the captain would not change no matter how hard ordeal the Defense Force and the outer front faced.”
[I did my best to protect the military!!]
Ugh!!
A violent wave arose around him along with the man’s fierce shout.
The heat that flowed across the deck dissipated and disappeared in an instant.
[You are the ones who abandoned us while trying to fulfill your duty until the end, but are you saying that now…? … !!]]
The roar of a man whose resentment has not subsided. I couldn’t even imagine how thick the anger was in his chest.
However, Palad answered as he grabbed the control stick.
“So this is your answer? This moment when you abandon your men who gave their lives and run towards the fortress and ruin you have shared your whole life with?”
[…] … .]
“It’s over, flight commander. Don’t you know that none of this means anything? This is just a fuss.”
Perhaps this was not Treffen’s original plan.
The construction of two more forts with the help of Gearside was not for a reckless charge, but as a means of increasing the force and putting pressure on the city council.
However, the response of the agents led by Congressman Mayer in the city was too fast, and the moment when the defense forces were not ready to face the city’s combined forces.
And the moment when Colonel Villen, who had accepted Gearside’s body modification, was easily destroyed.
Treffen realized that the composition he had in mind had completely collapsed.
The only option left for him is to accept Gearside’s proposal, reconstruct his body entirely, and reach the 8th level.
And through him, he directly controlled the two forts and ran towards the original goal.
Faded intentions, shattered ideas. Failed plans and meaningless sacrifices. Now, what remains for Vice Admiral Wah Treppen?
[Shut your mouth
!
At the same time as the man Trepen’s desperate scream, the mobile fortress that had been running ceaselessly came to a halt and began to twist its body on the spot.
At the same time, the tens of millions of parts that were building the mobile fortress flowed out like screws, losing their original shape and drawing a huge sphere.
A gigantic mechanical sphere created by hugging Lennok and the floating Palad fighter on the deck. [
Microcosm of the inner world: Iron Machine
Spirit
Pass]
An annoying noise, like bugs gnawing everywhere.
Inside the circular mechanical sphere that confined Lennok, the noise made by the endless flow and rotation of a faraway number of parts echoes grandly like a chorus.
The inside of a sphere with a diameter large enough to contain a radius of several hundred meters.
Trefen roared atop a giant machine that began to assemble like a Buddha statue inside the sphere’s walls.
[It’s not over yet!!! Do you think it’s going to disappear like this!! I am Edmus Treffen, Commander of the Fortress of the National Guard!!!!]
Chiik!
“Deputy Director. This is a different story from what you said.”
Lennok lit a cigarette with a cigarette in his mouth and looked back at the palad in silence.
“The image of Lieutenant General Treffen wasn’t like this.”
The microcosm of Trepen, which was briefed in advance using the information power of Agent Deputy Director Palad Okon, was a force focused on defense related to ‘stop’.
So, while preparing for the battle with the lieutenant general, I had been thinking about the blade to pierce the defense, but what I see now is an image of a vast range that is close to the realm of magnetism.
No, it was questionable whether this steel prison, created by disassembling the entire mobile fortress, could really be called an image.
“…I’m sorry, but it’s the first time I’ve seen it, so I don’t know what to say.”
Palad, holding onto the steering wheel with a puzzled expression, responded.
“As far as I remember, Vice Admiral Treffen’s microcosm never looked like this. Didn’t the other wardens have similar powers even after undergoing body modification?”
“hmm…”
If so, could it be that the entire image was twisted and altered in the process of reconstructing the body?
I can’t even guess what kind of cost I have to endure to completely distort and degenerate the image that has already been imprinted.
But if all these sights… … What if trepenes are observed as they escape humans?
What if it is the result of reaching a new level by cutting off everything that builds a human being and throwing off the hierarchy?
Aaaaaaang!!
Hundreds of cannonballs rose from the surface of the mechanical sphere and spewed fire.
Lennok immediately erected a shield like a barrier, deflecting the pouring shells and increasing his mana.
“I’ll have to check how far I’ve come. Get off the fighter first.”
“What do you plan to do?”
“I can’t fight while caring about you in this chaos.”
Lennok turned to Palad and snapped his fingers.
A pencil extended from the end of his sleeve and fell into Palad’s hand.
Enakpil’s five fingers. Consumables that allow you to jump through space to escape from an urgent situation.
It was a piece of compensation that Palad himself had offered through the deal with Lennok.
“So just finish what I’m talking about quickly and run away.”
Genius Wizard Who Takes Medicine Chapter 323
