Stray Chapter 77: It’s better to dance

For a long time before   , although it seemed that nothing happened on the bright side, in fact, it was turbulent in the dark, and the international community was more or less aware of it. huge waves.

   After all, Crusaders certainly cannot represent the entire magic side, but they are definitely behemoths in the mysterious world. When it is fully operational, the resources, funds, and various human and material resources mobilized are extremely huge

   And today's world is a closely connected whole, and these flows and movements cannot be concealed from the elites of various countries.

   This made many people vigilant, thinking that something big might happen, and some people saw it more clearly, and felt that they really smelled the smoke of war, so they made various preparations... just War has never come, and the international community is generally stable, with occasional conflicts.

   It seems that nothing has changed from before.

   What they don't know is that they are not neurotic, but guessing correctly, but it is not the surface society that is preparing for war, but the dark world, and it is not aimed at resources such as oil, but A war of annihilation against someone for the sake of faith.

   is just...

   Because now is the 21st century, after all, it is not the foolish era of the past.

  The times have changed, and now it is no longer just to talk about the will of the gods, to talk about glorified excuses, to launch "witch hunts", organize "crusades", religious It's time for the authority to reign supreme.

  Therefore

   Even if it was because of the new covenant sent by the Lord, which shocked the entire Crusaders and made them run wildly and quickly, they did not declare war on the whole world all at once.

   And this is not suitable, so they have been preparing for war for a long time, but they kept it secret. After everything was ready, they silently launched a surprise attack on the base camp on the science side, that is, Academy City. .

   must do everything in one battle and completely eradicate the enemy of God... Of course, it is best to eradicate all the elements that threaten the Christian religion.

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  The gleaming white light of the streetlights made the guns in the stagnant water sparkle.

   Lying in a puddle of puddles are the security guards who maintain the security of the Academy City. They were originally given the responsibility of guarding the gate. Whether it is people outside who want to come in or people inside want to go out, they are all Have to go through their heavy inspection.

  Just now...

  They fell to the ground and didn't move, not even a fingertip.

   The most advanced firearms in their hands, and the impact-resistant armor suits they wear, these things do not bring them any advantages. Just like the firearms in their hands have not had time to use, the advanced armor on the body also does not play any role. , they all fell.

   didn't even see the enemy's face.

   A thin woman was walking on the street in the rain. The sound of metal colliding came from her face. Except for her ears, her nose, lips, and eyelids were all pierced. She opened her lips and stretched out. After the tongue is out, a chain hangs down.

   Necklace-like thick chain links the tongue ring on the tip of the tongue, extending to the waist, with a decoration imitating a cross hanging on it.

  "Unpleasant feeling..."

  Ferocious storms hit from all directions, the woman frowned and looked at the silhouette shadow of the huge city looming ahead in the mist and darkness.

  The thunderstorm was too violent, it was obviously still noon, but the surroundings were already dark as night, not to mention the exaggeration of reaching out and not seeing the five fingers, but it is true that only the thunder light rolling in the gaps of the clouds can illuminate the earth for a moment during the day.

   But even so, the visibility of the surrounding environment is still too low and too low when the violent wind slammed down countless raindrops and splashed countless water mists...

   The wind in front of her didn't know what to do. Looking at the pitch-black rain curtain that made her unable to see the streets on both sides, she felt a sense of unease and irritability in her heart, which slightly diluted her previous joy and confidence.

   Even inexplicably worried, did he really arrive at Academy City, and was this thunderstorm a little too big? She always felt that something was not right, but she couldn't say it. Instead, she felt that she was worrying too much.

   This sense of contradiction and discord is the main source of inexplicable anxiety in women's subconscious.

  Impossible...

  This city must be destroyed today, and with that disgusting science, nothing can stop the glory of the Lord from shining here.

   Front Wind shook his head, strengthening his confidence, and at the same time picked up a walkie-talkie at his feet, which belonged to the guard who was brought down by her. She pressed the button with ease, and there was a murmur like electromagnetic interference, but it was very short, and it disappeared in less than half a second.

  The signal quickly became clear, and under the background sound like a rainy night, the voice of a strange man came from it:

  "Hey, what's wrong? Did something happen?"

   This is a guard who is not near the gate, so he was lucky enough to escape, but because of this, he also didn't know that the gate's guarding power had been completely destroyed, and thought it was a communication initiated by his companions.

   After all, this thunderstorm came quickly, urgently and suddenly, without the slightest precaution, it came down like this, shrouded the whole city, and any crime that happened in it was difficult to be caught in the first place. It is understandable that it was not found.

   "Aleister, you must be monitoring even this kind of channel at all times..." The wind in front said to himself, ignoring the guards on the opposite side.

  "You, what did you say? Wait, who are you?"

   But it's not a problem that she can solve by ignoring her, because Aleister didn't respond at all, and the guards on the opposite side felt a little puzzled when they heard her words, but because of professional habit, they were vigilant for the first time. stand up.

  "I'd be very happy if you would talk to me quickly."

   twitched the corners of his mouth, and the woman said so without the slightest hint of joy.

  "You, what nonsense are you talking about! I don't care if you are happy or not, Sato, what happened to Sato, why did the communicator fall into your hands!?"

   The guard on the opposite side confirmed that something must have happened, and began to roar loudly on the opposite side.

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   "Ah, are you going to pretend to be stupid? Don't you think I'm cheating on you... I tell you, I killed two of your general council members." The woman was silent for a while , trying to squeeze out a smile that seemed like a bamboo in his chest, and continued to say calmly.

  No, that's right, as long as she's not embarrassed, it's others who are embarrassed!

   However, the only response to her was the surrounding storm and the yelling of the guards on the opposite side

   "What? Killed two directors? You, you...you, you crazy woman, stand still and don't move! Hear you, I repeat, you have the right to remain silent, but from now on, Every word you say will become evidence in court..."

  click.

   The communicator was directly crushed by the terrible grip, and the wind in front pursed his lips tightly, only to feel a burning hot feeling on his face, and his body was shaking slightly.

   hateful, so hateful, **** Aleister actually dared to ignore her!

   This kind of feeling good about herself, feeling that the general situation is set, and wanting to say a few handsome and cruel words before completely destroying the enemy, but she didn't get any feedback from the enemy at all, and was directly ignored by the situation, which made her mentality Some collapse.

   Morale...

   If I knew earlier, I wouldn't try to contact that hateful guy. Wouldn't it be better to kill the past with arrogance as an absolute winner?

  "Damn, wait for me to see if you can be so arrogant when this city is destroyed..."

   The wind in front had a dark face, stomping on the ground hard, splashing water, and the figure quickly disappeared into the dark dense rain and wind, subconsciously feeling uneasy about the city before The apprehension, as well as the bad feeling instinctively presaged, were all left behind by her at this moment.

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  "Aleister, aren't you going to do something?"

   A female voice mixed with murmurs sounded in the windowless building, and Aiwass calmly asked the man who was floating on his head and feet in the test tube.

   Usually there is no lighting here, only the mechanical signal lights covering the four walls of the spacious room, emitting a faint light like a starry sky. It's just that at this time, they are intermittently emitting red rapid rays of light, illuminating this closed space.

The source of the    red warning lights is the constant pop-up windows on the screen one by one, corresponding to the collection of countless error signals. This means that every area of ​​Academy City is experiencing abnormal situations, and every area is falling and losing control.

   The winds ahead that break through a major access gate are but a tiny fraction of what constitutes an anomalous state of affairs.

  "Let's see..."

   is very rare, and the chairman's voice also showed a hint of headache and exhaustion.

   He also made a lot of preparations in order to deal with the war of the Crusaders, but now it seems that there are not many sudden thunderstorms that can be used. Of course, it is the battlefield magic launched by foreign invaders.

   But also at the moment when the thunderstorm fell, there was another kind of power, the sacred and terrifying breath overflowed silently, like a dark night soaked in ink, unknowingly also infecting the entire school Garden City distorts phenomenon and cause and effect.

  Crossists are well prepared, but they seem to have stepped into the trap of others?

  Aleister looked at one of the screens. Although the light was dim and the rain was mixed with the gust of wind, the ubiquitous stagnant loops allowed him to see more clearly. , In the city that has been infused and distorted by some kind of divine power, what kind of incompatible things have happened.

   That's something that doesn't exist and is heterogeneous.

   A spire-shaped building that stands in the dark night amid the raging storm and the roar of thunder. It is more magnificent than the entire city. It towers into the clouds, and the spire can't see the end at all, it seems to extend straight into it In the endless thick dark clouds.

   In the dark sky, the huge vortex is surrounded by rolling black rain clouds, and the terrifying lightning is walking in the clouds with the roar of thunder.

  Aleister is very clear that there is the twenty-third school district, the location of the space elevator Endymion built by the Star Orbital Gate Company, but the scale of this project is huge, and it will take a long time. time to complete it.

   And...

   Even if it is completed, the planned space elevator should not be like this, it is beyond recognition.

   At least not this place, under the baptism of this devastating thunderstorm that seems like the end of the world, is looming in the endless darkness like a long night of violent storms, straight into the sky, as high as the sky, standing still... just like a legend The Tower of Chaos that wants to be "equal with God".

  "Not out of thin air, but from the future..."

  Iwass knew what Aleister was thinking about at the moment, and said.

   "I know, that's why I think... absurd." Aleister said lightly, "That is to say, if everything goes on, he will probably take over Endymion's project soon, And then remodel the project according to your own ideas, right?"

   "However, now, he has obviously lost the conditions to continue, and he shouldn't have a chance in the future, but this thing still appeared..."

   "Just because he did it in the "future", so this result is spreading toward the "past"? "

   After he said that, he looked at the many screens.

  There are too many unreasonable people and things, all kinds of heterogeneous beings, constantly walking out of the darkness of this city, so that he can't confirm that this is the trump card prepared by that person , or a strange phenomenon caused by the confusion of time and space.

   And on the tower in the twenty-third school district, there is a line of sight cast calmly.

   quietly overlooking this tiny city, tiny planet, and...

  The whole world is as small as dust.

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  Torrential rain poured down, in a thunderstorm that was as dark as night.

  The magician is not in a hurry, and he is discussing academic issues with the one-eyed girl in the research institute.

   "Have you seen "Dragon ×"? Is it the representative cartoon of Bird × Ming?" He asked enthusiastically.

   "No." Sitting behind the desk in Xia Ran's usual office, Othinus replied indifferently. An unpretentious notebook.

   One page is densely filled with lines of text, and the other page is hand-painted with mysterious and complicated patterns, as detailed as a product manual.

   casually turned a few pages, and the one-eyed girl narrowed her eyes slightly. This is a concept she is familiar with. The "Sacred Ten Times" practiced by Golden Dawn is mainly based on the ancient Egyptian system and the Kabbalah system. The order and the ten points of the tree of life correspond to each other.

   is just obviously different...

   To be precise, in this notebook, the tenth brother's practice foundation has been reversed, and the corresponding theory is not the Kabbalah Tree of Life, but the inverse Kabbalah Tree of Life.

   In the "Sacred Ten Times", human beings are in a separate "Kingdom (Mal Pants)", through twenty-two paths to ten circles, a journey of meditation until the "Kether".

  The so-called "Kether" symbolizes transcendence, the nature of God, transcends all lower-level understandings, and is completely unlimited in any case.

   And the content of the notes starts from "Materialism (Nahema)"...

   also passes through twenty-two diameters to ten circles...

   Until "Satan"...

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   looked back, Othinus took a deep look at someone, and quickly thought about what the person was implying.

   "I don't know..." Xia Ran was a little distressed, he gently reached out and knocked on the forehead, "This is troublesome, after all, this work is very long, I feel like I have to talk to you for a long time. It's been a long time."

   "No need, I already know the content of this work..." She closed her eyes slightly, and opened them again after a second, the one-eyed girl looked straight at the magician and said, "You just tell me Do what you want."

  "You have no soul..."

   whispered a word, Xia Ran coughed and said seriously: "Then I will say it directly, you should know the fusion technique inside, right?"

   For a moment, Othinus's mind flashed what she had just completed, from which she accurately retrieved relevant information, a strange secret spell, and danced a strange left and right through two people. Symmetrical dance, and then the two of them stretched out one finger of each hand to complete the fusion technique.

   A thick black line appeared on her forehead instantly, she shook her head decisively: "Don't even think about it, I will never do this kind of thing with you!"

  "Eh, why?"

  Xia Ran was stunned for a moment. Isn't that right?

   "It doesn't work anyway!" The one-eyed girl raised her voice.

   "Well, since you don't like to dance that shameful dance to fit in, then I have a backup plan here. Do you prefer earrings, rings, or necklaces?" Xia Ran sighed. Spreading his hands, he made a concession.

   Don't dance if you don't dance. Fortunately, he has always been cautious. While creating a dance technique for today's purpose, he also prepared an option similar to "fit earrings".

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Is    really stupid or just pretending to be stupid? Can this person figure out the main point? The question is not at all whether the way to fit is good... Othinus looked around and found that there was nothing in hand.