Chapter 354

As they spoke.

The air battleship had already arrived at its destination.

The endlessly surging darkness of night, as if alive, squirmed and writhed, seemingly refusing everything.

On the bridge, one could clearly see the darkness as if given form and substance, constantly surging and rolling, emitting a heart-palpitating sense of oppression.

——Light also emerged around the battleship.

——At the part making contact with the darkness first, there were traces flashing like a shield.

Like an icebreaker, as the hull advanced, the darkness ahead and all around was also forcibly repelled, creating an environment similar to a "vacuum bubble".

Along with that tsundere-flavored little-sister voice, the ship AI also reported in real-time the battleship's energy consumption, shield capacity, pressure endured... and a whole series of relevant data.

Very stable, very solid.

Even though one could feel the harshness of the outside environment, like an alien world already to the point where humans cannot survive, the powerful defense completely blocked the outside erosion.

Energy supply had almost no change, and there was no shield overload situation either,

Judging by this rate of loss, if there are no accidents, the battleship can completely stay in this dark environment for a long time.

There is quite a feeling of "let the wind blow and rain beat, I stroll leisurely in the courtyard".

Under normal circumstances, everyone should be paying attention to the performance of this upgraded and remodeled nano warship Fraxinus.

After all, they are all crew members, all working on this ship to make a living, and it is foreseeable that in the future they will still have to rely on the battleship for air combat, with forces inside or outside the planet...

This kind of thing related to their livelihood and lives, naturally deserves attention.

However...

Because of the ship AI's little-sister voice, at this time everyone's attention unavoidably went off-track instead.

Everyone's expressions were very subtle, listening to that serious voice reporting key data, exhibiting that tsundere flavor full of vigor.

This feeling... is just weird.

——It always makes one feel this battleship is about to transform any moment...

——Transform not into a Gundam, but a fleet girl.

Perhaps Kannazuki Kyōhei would feel overjoyed about this, after all he's a pervert, only right now he's still lying in the ship's medical bay.

For this kind of situation with no obvious injuries, just pure excessive exhaustion, the medical Realizer's effect is relatively not that intuitive.

At least things like fractures, open wounds, severed arms or legs...

Just fix them directly with PS.

Kotori Itsuka pouted, sitting in her captain's seat, expression also appearing very subtle.

She felt it was too strange, secretly made up her mind to definitely replace this ship AI's voice pack afterwards... what Zhutong Ayana, never even heard of her.

"Incoming hostile strike detected, hostile unit locked..."

At this time, the ship AI's prompt appeared again.

"Whether to activate auto-counter mode, Simulated Noble Phantasm Interception System charging complete, Ancient Nuclear Warhead in launch-ready state..."

Entering this dark environment, the pressure suffered was judged as the harsh influence of the outside environment's climate.

After all, the ideal form after the upgrade and remodel is a nano warship that can even execute alien planet missions.

Not all planets have a mild climate environment like Earth, extreme low pressure, super storms, acidic poisonous mist...

But environmental erosion is acceptable, that kind of conscious hostile strike naturally immediately aroused the ship AI's high alert and targeted hostility.

"Wait, what is a Simulated Noble Phantasm? And what is an Ancient Nuclear Warhead?"

The Commander widened his eyes, feeling he had heard something strange.

"That's why I said, to you Fraxinus is completely an unfamiliar ship..."

Xia Zhi said with a smile, "I added quite a few modules to it... cough cough, expanded some very interesting function modules."

"What function modules?"

"Some little toys, things I collected during training long ago, also relied on them quite a bit, though they're useless to me now..."

He spoke with a rather sentimental tone, inexplicably giving a feeling of reminiscing about the glorious years of the past.

They are indeed toys now.

Besides the Holy Sword and Holy Lance still being effective, the vast majority of Noble Phantasms basically can no longer enter his discerning eye.

Or rather, it would have to be rule-breaking Noble Phantasms like "Grand Singularity · Crown Time Temple · Solomon" or "Retrograde Canal · Genesis Light Years", those would fall into the category he still wants to collect for his encyclopedia.

As for the rest, necessity isn't that great.

Of course, if you insist on playing with them it's still possible, just like some weak equipment and skills existing in games, as long as the mechanism isn't inherently destined to be hopeless, players always have ways to create miracles in other aspects.

When it comes down to it, an existence that can fire a 0th Circle "Fire Arrow" with the power of a stellar jet...

Cannot be easily restricted.

Rather, the Analyst lady standing at the side couldn't help but look up at him, pondering silently in her heart.

Such a person also had a time when he needed training, collected what he considered toys, and relied on the power of those toys?

Then does that mean——

The other party also had a period relatively not so miraculous, not so powerful, relatively speaking still a mortal?

"Cancel auto-counter, lock target first, then activate 'W·F·D'..."

Xia Zhi calmly issued the command, switching the operation mode to manual control.

"W·F·D" is one of the modules he configured for the Noble Phantasm Interception System, prototype coming from Ai Di Sheng's EX Rank Noble Phantasm——

World·Faith·Domination.

Fantasy Domination carried out through Ai Di Sheng's three great inventions of his lifetime.

Devices that illuminate darkness, record vanished sounds, map the real world, making the world's secrets cease to exist.

Originally an effect that degrades the masses' faith in Mystery, but at this moment, its manifestation focuses more on the overt phenomenon.

At once!

The darkness was swept clean in one go!

After a certain field inexplicable by current technology unfolded, the thick, insoluble darkness of night on the sea surface was forcibly repelled, opening up a vast expanse.

Within it, a tangible dark cavity formed.

And the Reversal Angel floating within also manifested clearly.

Although merely in the very next moment, the other party seemed stimulated, directly launching an attack at the warship that had appeared in her vision.

—Dark light beams like a stormy barrage, bombarding the surroundings indiscriminately……

—Countless light swords, firing round after round of assaults at the target from every conceivable angle……

—And that main cannon using the Crown form as a large-caliber muzzle, unleashing a devastating bombardment at the enemy……

This splashed-out terrifying barrage, from group AOE to single-target strongest technique, all concentrated and poured onto Fraxinus's position in an instant.

Almost visibly to the naked eye, the warship's shield capacity began to drop rapidly.

The Angel of Extinction's destructive power is extreme, and after the Reversal fell and became a Demon King, it is like a super-evolution, its performance surpassing the original in every respect.

"Counterattack? Which mode should be used?"

Kotori Itsuka also grew anxious at once; the enemy's firepower was a bit terrifying, and she did not want to be shot down just like that.

"This……"

Xia Zhi mused for a moment, stroking his chin.

The Noble Phantasm interception system he had upgraded the warship with was basically applied using the template of the Shining Boat Vimana.

But there were also very many differences within it; for example, the attack modes of multiple weapons were replaced.

The bullets the ancient machine guns now fire — each round is a modified, lesser version of the "Chuan Ci Zhi Si Ci Qiang".

—Able to auto-track targets within range, pierce the heart, then burst barbs to penetrate the enemy from inside……

The attacks the ancient autocannons now fire — each shot possesses the power of a similarly modified, lesser version of the "Xuan Luo Hong Ni Jian".

—That legendary magic sword whose swung sword light easily sliced off three hills, famed as an Anti-Army Noble Phantasm for its high power and wide area capable of destroying even terrain together……

Although both carry the prefix "modified lesser version"……

After all, firing these conceptual munitions naturally cannot use fully formed Noble Phantasms every time; that would be far too wasteful.

Therefore, projecting them out and modifying them for use as one-time magecraft arrows is a comparatively reasonable substitute.

But……

Even with a fairly obvious weakening in individual round power, one cannot withstand them being fired at machine gun or even autocannon rates.

It feels like it would get very bloody; perhaps some symbolic low firepower should also be equipped, just to go through the motions when necessary.

"Wait, it seems…… it seems to have stopped?"

At this time, Kotori Itsuka let out another "Huh?".

And just as she said, the full-screen dark magic bullets, destruction cannonades, etc., abruptly froze without warning, then dissipated one after another.

Even the surrounding night darkness scattered away together, as if having lost the will that supported their distortion of reality.

Only leaving that which quietly suspends in the center, as if fallen asleep……

Two girls.

Like twins, one is a Spirit, one is a human.

And not far from the warship, a red-and-black figure quietly appeared, lifting her skirt hem in the shadows and bowing toward this side as if in greeting, her smile very bright.

"……"

"……"

The Commander girl raised an eyebrow, but after thinking, still waved a hand: "If they don't resist…… teleport them in."

Anyway, if the sky falls, a tall guy will hold it up.

She glanced at the new BOSS beside her; this fellow is obviously the tallest one.

………………

………………

A moment later.

"Tobiichi…… Origami……?"

Shido Itsuka spoke with some shock.

He saw the two girls teleported up, first feeling they looked somewhat familiar, then immediately recalled — this seems to be a girl from his school.

On that very day the world collapsed……

He was still in class at school, and a friend had told him this girl's name……

Hmm, should be this name, right? Memory isn't too clear; Shido Itsuka wasn't too sure for a moment, while simultaneously unable to help scrutinizing the two identical girls.

Could it be, they're twins?

One is a Spirit, the other a member of the Anti-Spirit Team?

Observing the vastly different Astral Dresses and Tactical Manifestation Devices on the two "Tobiichi Origami", he naturally gave rise to this reasonable guess.

—At the same time, there was also a faint sense of familiarity……

—It seems on that day, he seemed to have seen Tobiichi Origami's figure among that AST unit, just didn't have time to confirm……

"She's twins? The data didn't seem to say so."

At this time, Kotori Itsuka also frowned.

"Not twins, it's the same person, both of these are Tobiichi Origami——"

Kurumi Tokisaki, standing at the side, had returned to human form, her falling black long straight bangs covering half her eyes, looking every bit the young lady of a wealthy family.

Ever since boarding the ship, she had been staring fixedly at that calm youth beside her, unhurried, as if carefully observing something.

Until now, she finally spoke.

Seeing Mors People's attention drawn to her, this black long straight-haired young lady-like girl took a deep breath and said seriously:

"First, I must clarify one point: we come from another parallel world line……"

(Chapter End)