Chapter 159 – 1. Talos, and the Spear and Shield (13)
Kwak! Kwagagang!!
The punches and kicks were unable to tear through the air, so the air at the end of the fist was compressed to the limit, turning into plasma and scorching, and a shockwave rang out.
It is already a tactical weapon disguised as a punch and kick.
In fact, considering that YuRia herself was originally treated as a strategic weapon in her own world, she looked terribly weak, but even that alone was a gigantic violence that could not be resisted by Crimson Ant, who in this world is called an unstoppable catastrophe to humans.
As if the guns were being fired in succession, a roaring sound rang out, and the result was no different from the guns falling.
The ants that were directly hit exploded to such an extent that even their bodies could not be found, and other ants were blown away by the enormous shockwave and aftermath, and at least one or two places on their bodies were likely to fall off.
Even if luckily, the limbs were blown off intact, they couldn’t come to their senses in the shock, and they got tangled up among their fellow countrymen and hindered the advance.
Kwaaang -!! Kwaaaaang!!
If Yuria was the cruiser’s bombardment, which was continuously driven through numerous small-caliber guns, Roa’s sword attack was a single shot from the large-caliber guns fired from the battleship.
Talos, controlled by Loa, slaughtered the Crimson Ants while wielding a massive, blunt greatsword made with the mandibles of Crimson Ant intertwined with the fingers of Talos, which Yuria had improvised by gathering the mandibles of Crimson Ants in this battlefield.
Indeed, the speed at which they slaughtered the ants was terrifying, and I was under the illusion that the two of them would be able to kill all the ants at this rate.
The ants heading to this place were a very small part of the whole. Even the ants, a very small part of it, couldn’t see the end.
It has already killed over thousands of ants, but the number does not seem to have decreased.
There was still no end to the ants coming out of the forest darkly, and Loa, who had been swinging her sword endlessly at the sight of such endless ants, made a tired expression.
“It’s crazy. Do these guys have no thoughts?”
“Actually none. They have no fear, they just regard everything but their own as prey.”
“Is this the only way the delay operation works?”
If this is the case, it won’t be a day or two, but only a few hours.
“You shouldn’t think that today is all the time you earn. It’s our job to delay the ants for as long as possible until the refugees reach the capital by delaying them for hours and degrees every day like this.”
Compared to the speed of the ants, the refugees’ speed was relatively very slow, so eventually they would eventually catch up.
That’s why mom and dad were dealing with ants here at this moment.
The siblings, who supplied energy to Talos and connected the loa’s aura to Talos so that they could control Talos, sulked as they saw her mother steadily taking care of Crimson Ant’s mandibles even in the midst of frantically slaughtering Crimson Ant. Cold sweat flowed.
It was because it was like watching the women who were clinging to the market while taking care of household chores.
Even from her mother’s point of view, she seemed to feel that her big chin was of great value, although she did not know about other parts.
Of course, that didn’t mean he was just collecting money for housekeeping.
Like throwing daggers, the mandibles, engulfed in psychic energy, flew through the sky like cannonballs with even sharper sharpness than they originally possessed and landed on Crimson Ant’s head one after another.
However, if the question is whether the mandibles are being collected only for use as an impromptu weapon, how can I explain the mandibles that unknowingly slip into the subspace gates installed in Talos…
My father must have noticed that too, so his expression was a little strange.
“Come to think of it, even in the past, it seems like she wasn’t like Yuria, but she seemed to like collecting things.”
Even when she lived alone, she was Yuria, who had a lot of stored meat.
As long as she doesn’t harm the forest even when she lives with Loa.
And even if it wasn’t to the point of rotting more than necessary, if it was within the limits of my physical condition, I would implicitly pile up this and that in the house.
It was only then that she was busy living, so she doesn’t notice much, and Yuria has good skills as well. She thought that Yuria was indebted to her, but it seemed that this kind of temperament had existed since before.
And it seems that it has become even more tenacious now that there are children to be responsible for, not just herself and Yuria.
Even as she swung her sword restlessly, Roa looked at her Yuria.
She felt like Talos, whom she controlled, as well as Yuria, were like living natural disasters.
She was dying, and she had a tremendous power that could not be compared to those of the old days.
Even this is a small power that cannot be compared to the original power.
Roa, who snorted in the past when even the dragon said it was nothing in front of him, recalled the incident and his face turned slightly red.
Yuria wondered why she couldn’t believe herself when she really only told the truth.
She couldn’t pick up the spilled water and put it back, even though she had to regret it belatedly.
All that matters now is that she spends more time catching more ants than she does in this spot.
“How much more time can I buy here?”
“I don’t know about mom, but we and dad need to eat and rest, and Talos needs maintenance, so we should rest at least 5 hours a day. We should also sleep.”
“But… If mom is a bit overworked, she doesn’t take a break for a few days, and even if she fights, there’s no problem, but the real problem is that mom is the only one who knows how to maintain Talos.”
“In the end, even my mother will have to free up about three hours in order to maintain Talos.”
“It’s a matter of eating… 」
Even now, from time to time, Yuria put her hand in her arms and took out the seasoned meat and fat parts of the animal and took out the smoked and dried ones to eat.
Ultra-high calorie jerky made exclusively for you.
“The biggest problem is that even if I eat a lot at once, I’m still a baby who needs to drink her mother’s milk often.”
At Tia’s words, Roa looked at the army of ants in front of him.
“Is it possible to pilot without Tia?”
「It will be very slow and it will be impossible to perform a sonic slash like now, but it will be possible.」
Loa asked him one last time.
“Then what if it’s just the three of you without me?”
At those words, the three children pondered for a while, then murmured.
“Because precision control and use of auras are impossible, sonic slashing is also impossible.”
“Someone needs to hold onto the main controller, so I guess I’ll have to give up the psychic energy boost.”
“Even if Tia replaces the main control, uhm… But do you want to touch it?”
Tia looked out at her short arms for a moment and let out a heavy sigh.
“Life… 」
“Uh, um… Mi, sorry?”
If you’re sorry, you’re sorry. What’s the question, son?
Anyway, even if one of the children falls out, it will be possible to fight even if the function is reduced, but if I fall out, even the battle is difficult?
“”Yes””
“It’s unfortunate, but it is.”
Roa, who had been fighting for a long time, slowly began to get thirsty.
Then, where did it come from, why did a tube fit in my mouth, and when I sucked it reflexively, water came up through the tube, so Roa thought that it had all sorts of special functions.
As soon as he thought that this could not be a mechanism to solve even errands inside, the appearance of the children in front of him and on his left and right changed strangely.
… No way?
“There is…”
“There is…”
“I’m sorry… 」
Yuria… What the hell did you make…
As a bonus, it was Yuria who also put seasoned jerky and cans in this small space.
Did she really make it so that even the time to eat and do errands is all about fighting…
Slash and swing, cut and swing.
As Roa kept swinging her sword mechanically, something suddenly came to mind at some point.
What Yuria said to Hosea and Joshua earlier. E=mc²
Did she say that mass is energy?
I still can’t understand exactly what the huge explosion that happened then is, but I’m sure the heavier the object, the more power it takes to wield and the stronger the power comes out.
And while swinging harder is important, the faster you swing, the stronger you become.
Both mass and velocity are forces.
At that moment, Loa’s swordsmanship changed.
I took a step.
Jin-Gak, who was powerfully thrust out, dug into the ground heavily and shook the ground, and the moment the sword was swung as it was, it swung with a flash without making any sound.
Even Loa, who swung the sword at the sight of a huge roar and flash sweeping the front at that moment when nothing happened. And Hosea and Joshua. Even Tia stared blankly at the sight with her mouth wide open, then glanced back at Roa.
“Dad… What the hell have you done?”
“What is it just now? Isn’t it similar to what we did back then?”
The slash of light that followed the sword’s trajectory literally burned everything together and stretched out, and the incandescent slash of the half-moon type extended several kilometers further before losing its power and disappearing.
Queek… Giggik…
After that blow a while ago, a strange sound began to echo from the aircraft.
“Anyway, it seems that the blow from earlier was too much for the aircraft.”
“But at this point, how many hours would I have earned?”
Hosea and Joshua sighed at the appearance of the ants who had completely disappeared from the terrain as they looked at the fields that were burning and boiling.
It was a more terrifying blow than any nuclear explosion.
Did you do all of this just by feeling?
Well, if you say you can do this by calculation, what the hell should I do?
“For now, let’s take a break and repair the aircraft.”
“I guess that would be good.”
Looking over there, even YuRia could be seen approaching this direction with a surprised expression on her face.
“What the hell did you do?”
Yuria asked while patting the surface of her aircraft with a puzzled expression.
“Come out at once”
If you ask me to come out, how the hell do I get out…
Putch –
At that moment, there was a sound like a wind leak, the magic that illuminated the surroundings was turned off, and the front armor plate opened, and hot heat leaked inside.
“Ugh?”
The heat, which seemed to be gaining weight at the moment, stopped at the level of heat, fortunately it wasn’t that much, and Roa stared blankly at the scene as he looked at the searing and haze of the earth.
Only then did Loa begin to realize what he had done.
So, what did he really do?
“Really, what have I done?”
“Come down first. It wasn’t designed to handle that much power, so there must have been problems here and there.”
At that, Roa came down from Talos, and soon Talos began to disintegrate here and there following Yuria’s gestures.
And looking at the unknown parts that smoked here and there, Roa pouted and broke into a cold sweat.
This inside looks like this, but I don’t know how to look at it.
And Yuria, who had been looking at it for a while, let out a sigh, and from the gate of the space, she piled up the big jaws of Crimson Ants she had accumulated so far, and started processing her right there on the spot.
Looking at the mandibles changing their shape like clay, Roa couldn’t figure out how YuRia was controlling the shape like kneading clay, but she gulped and swallowed as she watched the mandibles, which had been changing all over the place, become new parts.
Indeed, as Yuria gradually recovered, she endlessly showed various talents that she hadn’t seen before.
Seeing the parts being replaced, for some reason Roa broke into a cold sweat.
It wasn’t just one or two, but it was gradually becoming a different aircraft from the beginning.
It’s not at the level of replacing existing parts, but something is changed, added, and changed…
Even the exterior armor was all changed to the material of Crimson Ant’s mandible, and even its appearance changed.
Even the temporary greatsword made by weaving Crimson Ant’s mandibles began to change into the same shape as Loa’s holy sword.
Her big jaw roughly connected to an aura and used as a substitute for a finger has now become like a real finger, and Roa just stared blankly at Yuria in the midst of everything changing in many ways.
“Isn’t this just a new thing?”
“The core parts remain the same”
In other words, it meant that everything was changed except for the core parts.
“A little while ago, based on that skill, I rebuilt it to suit Roa more. It will be difficult to use the same skill in succession, but if you use it for some time, you will be able to withstand it.”
Roa gave an awkward smile as she saw why YuRia was collecting a bunch of ant mandibles sparingly, but when she did, she ended up using them to remake her body.
Yuria, who made her own shield and attached it to Talos before she knew it, made her own kukri and swung it in the air several times, then she turned around and looked back at Loa.
“Look carefully”
“Huh?”
That moment.
The ink light gathered in her kukri that Yuria was holding, and it felt as if it was absorbing the light.
Loa felt as if the kukri had become infinitely heavy at that moment.
And sparkle!!
A flash of light cut through the air as if for an instant, and although the scale and degree were much smaller, the skill that the loa had created pierced the air and shot out.
“Alternatively, I don’t know how he used the swordsmanship that uses gravity, but how about seeing it? Do you think you know something more?”
“Gravity?”
“The inherent force and energy of all objects with mass. Everything is a force that pulls toward something heavier. It is the most powerful force and the weakest force. It is a force that is too far and a force that is closest.”
Roa couldn’t understand YuRia’s words.
“The reason why all objects are attracted to this earth is the force of gravity. Because this world is attracted to a huge mass.”
“…”
It’s the world
So, if something larger and heavier than this world appears, does this world also fall into it?
At that, Yuria pointed to the sky.
“It’s actually like the world is slowly falling towards the sun. But that’s it.”
Yuria immediately made one of the pieces of Crimson Ant’s mandible into a long thread, tied it to a stone, and started spinning it.
“Like this, this world is trying to run away, so the power to fall and the power to run away are exquisitely balanced and revolve around the sun. This stone is the world we live in, and I am the sun.”
What is Roa saying? She did and she came to a realization again.
I don’t know what the hell Roa realized from YuRia’s words, but she made a bright expression with clearer eyes.
“I think I know better how to use this power now.”
“I don’t know how Roa is doing, but I’m glad it helped.”
Not even Hosea or Joshua can figure out Loa’s ways. She looked at Loa with an expression that she couldn’t understand what or how she came to know, even if she was like Tia.
Other than that, Yuria imitated the shape of her loa’s holy sword and quickly threw a sword made from Crimson Ant’s mandible, and Loa, who held the sword kindly, took her stance.
There was a flash and the sword swung.
It was different from Yuria’s sword, which seemed to hold even the light, but the heavy sword slashed more sharply than when it cut through the air, and the slash of light flew away.
Further. Faster.
Without scattering the heat around, only holding the heat inside the slash.
“Is this really… The concept of martial arts that we’ve only heard about?”
Even as Yuria, this was really embarrassing.
By materializing the concept of infinity, the infinitely heavy sword, as if it contained the infinity of the earth, distorted and distorted the space as it was, and the infinitely compressed space within it caused a fault along the trajectory of the sword’s swing, becoming a huge slash.
Until now, Roa couldn’t hurt herself with her power, but now her skill is that she can even cut her suit and injure herself unless Yuria defends herself. No, she was a skill that could even cut herself into pieces.
Of course, her skills are so large and action-packed that it takes time to prepare, and unless it’s a surprise blow, it won’t be possible for people without intelligence like ants to hit her, but seeing Roa who has shown such tremendous progress, Yuria Somehow I felt proud.
“Are you feeling like a hero now?”
“Thank you”
But as it was, Roa slumped and sat down.
“Loa!?”
“Uh, uh… But I think it’s going to be difficult to overdo it.
Looking at Loa again, the aura in her body was literally sucked out.
Well, there’s no way that using such a technique with a human body wouldn’t come at a cost.
“Rather, it’s fortunate. Such technology can disrupt the world’s order, so if you use it too much, you might earn the world’s hatred.”
“Is it…”
YuRia smiled.
“Be careful when using Talos. When using Talos, borrow my power, but you may not know it well, but it consumes more power than you think.”
Oh wait…
So YuRia doesn’t mind using this level of strength?
YuRia just smiled brightly.
As if nothing was wrong with her.
She started to understand again.
She sang so much that the children said that their mother was strong.
All of her auras she possesses mean that, to Yuria, she is literally her dust.
