Symphony for the Insect Princess

"Chirp—click—self-destruction countdown—3—2—"

"Bullshit!"

Sedroon clenched his hands hard on the wreckage of the mechanical body, and red and black light enveloped it. With a sharp crackling sound, the wreckage was compressed into a metal ball only the size of a fist. The self-explosion that should have destroyed the entire square was only stopped at a muffled sound.

Destroyed.

But it is just Oshimir's "body".

Aisia and Charlotte should be dealing with Oshimir's true body. That is their job. In fact, Sedroon doesn't care whether they can succeed or not. As long as they can forcibly demolish this thing, it will be their victory.

"Our battle is coming up next. Are you ready, idiot girl?"

"Of course!" Qimila proudly puffed out her barren chest, "I can already shoot small flying knives! Isn't it amazing?"

"...I'm such a fucking idiot for counting on you."

Sedroon shook his head in frustration. Their leader, Ni, had positioned Qimila on the "outside," presumably hoping to capitalize on her explosive power when she went berserk. But if she wasn't berserk, she was completely useless, fortunately not holding them back.

"..."

No, now is not the time to think about that.

“—Ah! I feel it! This is a very dangerous premonition!”

Qimila suddenly looked up at the building in front of her, her eyes full of fear. Intuition never lies. This was the first time in her life that she felt such a serious sense of danger!

"Well, I felt it too without you telling me... hehe..."

Sedroon stuck out her bright red tongue and licked her lips. Even though she couldn't help but feel nervous at the moment, she was more excited. After all, the opportunity to fight with such a huge thing doesn't come every day.

It is definitely ten thousand times more exciting than killing a dragon.

"Don't let me down, Mobile Fortress Atlas..."

next moment,

This building, hundreds of meters high, changed its shape under the gaze of the two people.

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Half a day ago——

(This building? The whole thing? Is it Oshimir's 'weapon'!?)

(This is too generous...)

Charlotte and Qimila looked shocked, while Aisia and Sedroon were not very surprised, obviously they had noticed it before.

(Yes, if Aisia is Oshimir's 'most perfect' work, then this building is the work he 'put the most effort into')

Nellis affirmed.

(So ​​this building is a real fortress? But what does it do? Cannons that shoot wide-area magic?)

(I'm afraid it's even more exaggerated. Did you see it?)

(Wow, an image appeared in my mind!)

(I've let you wander around the building for the past two days just for this reason. You should have a general understanding of the internal structure.)

(But this drawing is clearly... a... human figure, right?)

Qimila asked in an uncertain tone, and Charlotte was equally confused.

The image that Nelris conveyed to their minds was an extremely huge human figure with four arms. The outline alone looked very ferocious, and was very different from this modern building full of technology.

(This is just a rough approximation of its true appearance, and is based on what Aisia saw in Oshimir's workshop)

What did Aisia see?

"There was a wall of that guy's workshop covered in posters," Asia recalled. "There were posters for Gundam, Space Battleship Yamato, EVA, and others like Godzilla, Macross, and Transformers... He even had a room dedicated to model toys."

(These all seem to be subculture products from Earth. Does Oshimier like these? Why do I feel like he's acting like a child?)

(If other people liked this, I could just laugh it off, but if it was Oshimir...)

(You mean he can actually build it?)

(Not "can" be made, but "has" been made)

And now-

Inside the Atlas Building, the main control room——

……

……

In the darkness, "he" regained consciousness.

At first, everything around him was pitch black, with no colors, sounds, smells, warmth or cold... nothing. It was not until "he" connected his consciousness with various sensors that served as his senses that the world took on its own form.

"...Sir? Lord Oshimir?"

"Don't stand so close to the microphone when you're shouting. I can hear you clearly."

A sound mixed with the rustling sound of electricity came out from the player. It didn't matter whether it sounded like Oshimir's original voice or not. Anyway, he had been relying on electronic synthesized sound for a long time.

"Are you conscious? Is there anything abnormal?" the assistants asked anxiously.

"Don't worry, I'm perfectly normal... It seems my daily 'hibernation' wasn't in vain. I've basically integrated completely."

"Great! This is definitely the greatest achievement in academia in the past century! All you have to do is—"

"Stop talking nonsense. What I need is tangible data rather than theory. But it just so happens..."

If Osimer was a complete person now, instead of a brain floating in nutrient solution, he would be smiling maliciously.

"There are two external enemies, and two rats invading from the inside. They're perfect for testing!"

Mobile Fortress Atlas—Attack!

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Author: Oshimir, please take it easy. Don't forget that this is a magical world...

Also, the battles against Oshimir and Riversta are large-scale boss battles divided into stages, which may be quite long. Those of you who don't like reading the battles that I worked so hard to write can wait and come back to read them when the game is released on February 1st.

Chapter 158 Mobile Fortress Atlas (Part )

Inside the Atlas

boom! ! !

The high-explosive grenade blasted the thick metal gate open with the most brutal force, and the next moment, dozens of battle golems pounced. Each one was extremely ferocious, like a random patchwork of solid metal parts, lacking even the most basic human form, but simply killing machines designed for mass production and high efficiency.

boom! ! !

To them, such opponents are of course no different from pigs to be slaughtered.

Skeletons and zombies poured endlessly from the vast purple-black magic circle, charging at the golem with hoarse roars, clashes raging in the narrow passageway. Both sides knew neither pain nor death. They wouldn't stop even if an arm was torn off, wouldn't stop even if a leg was broken, wouldn't stop even if their head was chopped off. Soon, the ground was littered with the remains of metal, bone, and flesh.

And Aisia—

"Charlotte, squat down with your head in your hands."

“——Huh?”

Bang! ! ! ! !

A pineapple-like object thrown by Asia landed in the center of the battle and exploded, sending blasts of air and countless fragments scattering in all directions. This alone wasn't enough to defeat the resilient puppets, but all the fragments would explode a second time upon contact, and the fragments from that second explosion would explode a third time. After a series of loud explosions, the puppets were completely destroyed, and even the passage was blown twice as wide.

"...What was that just now?"

"Ordinary F-1 fragmentation grenade, a very old model."

"I don't know much about grenades, but ordinary ones won't explode violently and continuously, right?"

"Well, who knows? Your summons were taking too long to fight, so I had to take action."

"But you blew my zombies and skeletons into pieces too."

"I'm sorry, but you don't really care anyway, right?"

"That's true."

Charlotte shrugged and continued on with Asia. They consulted the map they'd memorized so well, carefully sensing any new enemies. Asia, having taken a shot of stamina-boosting medication, moved at a brisk pace. Charlotte, sitting sideways on the back of the zombie wolf, kept pace with Asia.

At this time-

BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Varied--"

"This vibration? Could it be——"

The ground beneath their feet—no, the entire Atlas Tower—began to shake! The entire building rose, and simultaneously, a complex internal reconstruction began! Unlike the usual shifting of rooms and reorganization of interior space, this was a complete and utter transformation! The passageway where Charlotte and Asia stood instantly disintegrated into a sea of ​​parts. Every floorboard and every wall tile was reconstructed into a myriad of components, from oversized nuts to completely unconventional mechanical structures!

"Tsk!"

A huge hole appeared under the feet of the two men. Looking down, they saw flying gears and bearings of all sizes, as well as layers of curtain walls made up of dense wires and overly complex motors. If they fell in, they would be minced into meat paste in an instant!

"Mechanical transmission, fluid transmission, and electric transmission are all used together? And it's modular—wait, are all the modules connected by magic circles? Using magic as a channel to transmit carriers to integrate computing clusters? And can ether lines be arranged like this? How exactly—"

It was a perfect fusion of technology from other worlds and Maya's magical engineering. It was seamless, and the combination of all modules was based on geometric aesthetics. Aisia couldn't help but stare in amazement.

"What are you daydreaming about?"

A zombie bat flew under Asia and lifted her up to prevent her from falling. Charlotte shouted to her anxiously.

"It's too dangerous here! There's a pipe over there that looks like a maintenance passage. Let's go in through there!"

"Wait, let me take another look... This place... should be the defensive midfielder position, right? Then we have to go up further, and it will take quite a detour..."

"Wait until we get to a safer place!"

Charlotte had already reached the entrance. When Aisia came to her senses, she saw this and was about to stop her.

"Wait, idiot! That's—"

Boom! ! !

An extremely huge cylinder suddenly shot out from the pipe, and the next moment a giant amethyst-like skeleton hand appeared in front of Charlotte and forcibly caught it!

"...I was just about to tell you there's supposed to be an oversized piston right there."

"...You should have said it earlier."

Charlotte's face turned pale. She was really shocked by the power of just one piston impact.

Seeing what she was thinking, Asia shrugged and said, "The piston bears the gas pressure generated by the fuel explosion and transmits it to the connecting rod to drive the crankshaft. It's like the heart of the engine. You can imagine the power it contains. It's surprising that you can catch it."

As if to echo Asia, giant pistons popped out from the countless pipes above their heads, moving at high speed with deafening clatters. The slightest touch would have smashed them into a pulp.

"Then where should we go...it seems like there's no other way here."

"You've been a good person for too long, Charlotte. Guess what Cedroon would say if he were here?"

"...cut a path?"

"Bingo~"

The shotgun roared, and every small steel ball that burst out of the bullet was an explosive, opening a large hole in the wall of the pit - but the surrounding parts immediately began to fill the hole at an astonishing speed.

Will it repair itself?

"Let's go before this hole is blocked!"

"Ok!"

Target, the main control room, where Oshimir's real body is!

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The alchemy city of Okomi.

As the battlefield between the Star Sage and the Insect Demon King moved to an altitude of 5,000 meters and all civilians were evacuated, the place became silent.

Too quiet.

Like the eve of a volcanic eruption.

Then--

"Oh--"

Rumble, rumble, rumble!