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How have you been lately, Yixia?
"You are... Sister Shu?!"
Shinonono no Tsukasa was both the developer and the only genius scientist capable of creating the IS core.
Ten years ago, she orchestrated the "White Knight Incident" and was hunted by the whole world, and her whereabouts were unknown for a long time. However, she did not expect to appear at this time, and even used "communication" methods.
"Sister Shu, where are you?! Why are you able to use communication? This is very serious—"
We'll talk about those things later. Right now, I have a very important task for you.
"What?"
【Immediately drive your white car to this island to get new equipment – it's all handmade for you!】
"Wait, don't you want to see Houki before that?!"
Faced with the noisy communication again, Ichika Orimura avoided Houki Shinonono's gaze: "Sorry, Houki..."
"...It's okay, I don't want to see her anyway."
Taking a deep breath and suppressing her disappointment, the girl took the lead: "Let's go. Although she's an annoying person, her skills are indeed the best in the world. We might need her power later."
"Ok!"
Relieved, before Ichika could explain to Rinne, the communication that had just been disconnected came through again. However, this time it wasn't the lively voice, but a serious voice with an undisguised urgency.
[Where are you now, Yixia?!]
"Chifuyu-nee?!"
[Whatever you're doing right now, leave the academy immediately—no, leave Japan, the farther the better!]
Even the slow-witted Ichika Orimura noticed something amiss at this moment. Despite the interference from a lot of noise, the terrifying explosions and shrieks from the other end of the communication channel never stopped. Thinking about Chifuyu Orimura's current location and the strange feeling that had just arisen in her heart, she thought, "What happened at the academy? Chifuyu-nee, where are you now?!"
[Leaving 'them', we've all been deceived—Zzz]
Listening blankly to the echoing noise of the gaps, an uncontrollable impulse rose in my heart. Just as Ichika Orihana could no longer bear it and was about to turn back, a bright red warning came from the white warning system.
P.S.: I've started a new book called "Dimensional Change," feel free to check it out if you're interested!
Metal Frenzy: Chapter 269 Echoes of Desire
As if disturbed by "fate," the particle beam that should have been perfectly centered was deflected by an unexpected factor at the last second, disappearing only as a molten hole in the energy jet port behind White.
Eve noticed this and frowned slightly. Just as she was about to point it out a second time, a whooshing sound came from behind her. Her central processing mechanism quickly calculated the damage she might suffer after taking this blow. With no other choice, she had to disperse the particles gathered at her fingertips and instead prioritize inputting the energy from the Rose Mother into the light wings behind her, narrowly avoiding the falling metal blade.
Even so, the girl's expression remained unchanged. After all, for her, it was just one more rat ahead of the priority elimination order, but the "White Knight" on the other side clearly did not think so.
"Walk--"
The shouts were clearly not directed at the enemy who was entangled in front of them and whose identity as "human" was questionable, but rather at Orimura Ichika and his group in the distance, who were just recovering from the series of shocking events.
"Get out of here, as far away as possible!"
"Sister Chifuyu——"
"Don't make me repeat it a second time!"
"..."
Frowning, Eve dispelled the energy at the tip of her fingertips for the second time. She was getting impatient with the rat in front of her who had repeatedly thwarted her. She still had a "mission" to complete.
[code: diffusion]
As the light burst forth, the White Knight did not react instinctively as most people would in the face of such a sudden event. Instead, he charged towards the direction of the light, uttering his final words—
"go!"
"Yinglinyiqi; Siwujiu is a leek, isn't it?!"
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"I'm sorry, Father..."
The mostly melted metal debris fell into the sea under the pull of gravity, leaving no trace except for the splashing water droplets. However, the girl who had done all this still felt uneasy, after all, this was the second time this had happened.
Okay, just don't lose them.
"Yes!"
With his back to the now calmed, chaotic sea, propelled by the reverse magnetic force, his figure sped forward and soon discovered a small island—an island that shouldn't exist.
Comparing the data and maps of this world, Eve was fairly certain that nothing existed here before except for seawater. However, what she was seeing now was quite different from what the data showed. What did this mean?
"abnormal……"
Silently repeating the words that "Father" always spoke, Eve felt a surge of joy within the program that ran on cold data. Realizing that she had encountered a small problem, Eve quickly brought the data fluctuations to a halt and went straight to the sky above the island.
The island is not large, at least compared to Japan, which was half-submerged not long ago. Even without nuclear bombs to shake the plate, the "Spirit Heart Cannon" under the "Amplification" device could wipe it out of the Pacific Ocean at maximum power output. However, this would cut off the trail, so Eve would not do that.
After hesitating for a moment, she still chose to land, even though the act itself meant danger, because only by doing so could she gather as much intelligence as possible... the "abnormal intelligence" that "Father" needed.
It made a slight sound when it touched the ground. The long-lost hardness gave Eve a strange feeling. She quickly eliminated this unnecessary feeling and started the search module on her body. Before long, she found an unusual location.
—Traces of IS.
Even humans, with their size and weight, would inevitably give away their location if they moved through such dense jungle, let alone an IS that is much larger.
Following the traces left by the three IS movements, Eve quickly found a path forward and discovered a situation that she wasn't sure should be called "anomaly".
This should have been reported immediately, but considering the "results" that might be gained and the praise she would receive when she presented it to her "father," the girl impulsively chose to keep it a secret. Subsequently, she found her target.
It's clear they were waiting for her too.
They would surround her and wait for her to follow the clues into a "trap" so crude that even a wild beast couldn't catch her, and then deliver a fatal blow.
No matter how many times Eve simulated it within the central mechanism, she couldn't see any possibility of being harmed by this ridiculous trap. So she calmly stepped into it, raising her fingertips—
One minute and seventeen seconds later.
As expected, the calculations were completely correct. Even the "amplification device" at an altitude of over 50,000 meters hadn't been activated at all. The energy provided by Our Lady of the Rose was more than enough for Eve to easily deal with the three fragile rats. However, she wasted a little time gathering more information and couldn't kill them. Now, it was time for the "harvest"...
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"Cough cough... Ring... sound..."
Looking painfully at her childhood friend, who was pale and unable to move, not far away, Ichika Orimura felt resentment for the first time.
This includes the unreasonable and ruthless methods of this mysterious being who suddenly appeared, the fact that she provided Shino no Tsukasa with a weapon that was useless and delayed her escape, and her own powerlessness.
As the "mysterious being" with wings woven from light approached Shinonono Houki, the resentment rooted in his heart began to shift to another extreme...
"Kill you……"
To prevent what is about to happen, he must kill her beforehand—
"I'll kill you..."
How do I kill her?
—With strength
"Kill you—"
What power?
—The Power of IS
"I'll kill you—"
How to obtain it?
—Give it your all!
"I'll kill you—!!!"
Extreme resentment transformed into extreme desire—a desire to wreak havoc and slaughter the powerful opponent before him. Responding to this desire, the once pure white IS was stained with a deep crimson, like the color of a nightmare returning from the depths of hell.
Without time to savor the sudden surge of power into her body, Ichika Orimura, driven to madness, responded to the call of her instincts and roared as she charged toward the enemy ahead.
An unbelievable speed.
"Bang!"
P.S.: A few things to note about the new book: First, I'll be quite free during my senior year of college—so I'll have time to update. Second, I'll be very busy after my senior year ends, and I don't know how much free time I'll have to write after I start working. There are many things I might never have the chance to write again if I don't do it now.
Metal Frenzy: Chapter 270 Analysis of IS Principles and Mechanisms
The automatically deployed barrier prevented the girl from being smashed into a bloody mess by the impact force of nearly 20,000 tons; however, the terrifying force accompanying it still tugged at her, throwing her backward. As she tried to regain her balance, the shadow above her fell again—
"Thump—!!!"
The violent impact seemed to shake the island itself, with many tree branches being torn into the air and then falling back down. Only the terrifying figure standing in the center of the depression remained unchanged, only breathing heavily.
"Huff...huff...I'll...kill...you—!"
Facing the unresponsive figure below, "Ichika Orimura" swung her clenched fist and slammed it down.
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"Similar to a kind of mental stress."
After dozens of hours of research and deciphering the IS that had been disassembled into hundreds of parts, they finally reached a conclusion.
"Clearly, the current technological level of this planet is far from capable of producing such a conceptual weapon, let alone by a single person. Therefore, its appearance must be caused by some kind of 'anomaly'."
Among them, Shinonono Tsukasa, who claimed to have developed and was the only one capable of creating IS, was undoubtedly the most suspicious candidate. However, she disappeared, and even though Lin Yi had sunk half of Japan into the Pacific Ocean, she still did not come out, only leaking a little information.
At that time, Lin Yi had Eve continue to follow this clue, while he himself began to devote himself to the technical analysis of IS. With the help of the main god, who had restored a large amount of computing power, he finally cracked the truth.
As a conceptual weapon, IS's scientific basis is obviously too abnormal. It is quite abnormal that a small platform can easily transform an ordinary human girl into a powerful warrior capable of shaking the world order. Even if it uses weapons that are ahead of their time, the fact that the main operator is still an ordinary human girl will not change.
However, it seems that no IS operator in this world has ever collapsed due to the pressure, nor has there been any instance of an operator suddenly retiring during battle due to fear of injury or other reasons. At first, Lin Yi thought it was because IS had only been around for a short time, but now it seems to be entirely due to IS itself.
"It will take at least several hundred years for the technology to reach the concept of a single-person weapon platform, and even then, the users will only be warriors with strong wills, not a group of ordinary teenage girls... But if non-technological elements are mixed in, it makes sense."
IS operators are limited to women due to genetic or other reasons, simply because women's thinking is more emotionally driven than men's; in other words—
"They are more easily influenced by external factors."
This is especially true for teenage girls.
So they were chosen as IS operators... or more accurately, chosen as "being" IS operators.
Essentially, it wasn't the girls operating IS, but rather IS that used psychological stimulation to create the illusion that "this is possible" or "it can be accomplished," thereby confusing reality and creating technologies such as "absolute defense" and "energy field" that should never exist in this era. Of course, to make this lie more realistic, IS also incorporated some real technologies, such as the ability to fly.
After analyzing the essence of IS, Lin Yi also completely understood the strange point about Ichika Orimura.
It's impossible to say that this only man in the world who can control IS is "superior" to all other men in the world. Rather, to some extent, the opposite is true, because he is more susceptible to the influence and control of IS than any other human being in the world—whether male or female.
Lin Yi even began to doubt whether his existence was controlled by a "dark hand" or whether he was truly born from natural evolution.
Of course, whatever the answer to this question is, it no longer matters. Whether it was manipulated by a dark force or a natural evolution, the moment he stood before the Main God Space in opposition, his fate was already sealed.
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Facing the fist that "Ichika Orimura" swung down, the girl, who had been unresponsive, suddenly opened her eyes. However, her gaze was not directed at the fist that could completely shatter her data, but rather at the "amplification device" that had been fully charged, which spanned a distance of 53,000 meters.
"...shot"
“——————!!!”
As it turns out, the speed of light is always faster than the speed of flesh and blood, even though the speed of flesh and blood has been amplified by machinery. When "Ichika Orihachi" swung her fist and landed another 0.5mm, the blazing light projected from the near-Earth orbit of more than 53,000 meters had already shone on this land, and the area with a radius of more than five meters centered on the two rapidly evaporated and catalyzed.
The "beam of light" lasted for nearly seven seconds before slowly disappearing. At the bottom of the lava pool, which was more than fifty meters deep and covered with deep red flowing lava, Eve, who was barely hanging in mid-air, looked down at the last piece of white armor that had been scorched black by the high temperature and disappeared completely with a crisp cracking sound.
Suppressing the severe backlash from the energy depletion, fine lines spread across his body, but were quickly replaced by a different, incompatible "circuit".
—Magic circuit.
Things that shouldn't exist on a girl who is a mechanical life form were given to her again after Lin Yi obtained the Eye of Origin. It was precisely by relying on these mysterious magic circuits that Eve, who had lost her way after using the energy of the Rose Mother to its limit, regained "possibility".
If it were in the past, she would have been in the best-case scenario if she had overdrawn the energy of Our Lady of the Rose and fallen into a coma like this. In a more serious case, she might have "died" due to the rupture of the energy core. Instead, she was able to continue using magic even when the energy of Our Lady of the Rose was exhausted.
But it's just a matter of persistence. With the fusion of magic power only just beginning, it's impossible to fight using magic circuits that are completely different from ability circuits.
Having fully grasped this point, the girl propelled her dim, lifeless wings upwards.
Then, before she completely lost consciousness, she heard one last sound—
"thunder."