Symphony for the Insect Princess

“Oooooohhhh—”

Pili Kara crackle, crackle, ding-dong, dong-dong, dong-dong!

“Ooo ...

Looking at the wonder of the century in front of him, Sedroon couldn't help but shout out loud. Although he had already imagined how powerful this thing was, he never expected it to be so cool!

The Atlas Tower rose from the ground, its exterior walls cracked with dense cracks. Based on these cracks, the outer layers split apart and expanded outward, like an intricate flower in full bloom! The ends and base of the building peeled away, revealing millions of petal-like structures that formed two legs and four arms. Large swathes of curtain wall moved across the chest, abdomen, and six limbs to form an outer layer of armor, even lining it with muscle lines! The center trunk rose, forming an inverted trapezoid, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom. The displaced portions gathered at the waist and shoulders to form a skirt and shoulder armor, resembling billions of stacked steel scales!

"Torso - Limbs - External Armament - Construction - Head Control - Construction -"

A cold mechanical sound emanated from within the fortress, and simultaneously, the spire-like structures atop the building coalesced, reorganizing into the colossus's head! Its head resembled an ancient knight's helmet, while the wires dangling from the back resembled a knight's unkempt hair. The scarlet vortex in the center of the helmet, nearly ten meters in diameter, was its single eye!

"Arm—Confirm—Gunblade—"

Finally, the building's reorganization fused all its extra parts with one of its four arms, completely merging with the elbow at its base. Its tip transformed into two massive side-by-side muzzles, resembling the structure of a double-barreled shotgun. But between the barrels grew a slender blade, its surface crackling with electricity!

“███████████—”

So far,

The mobile fortress Atlas finally revealed its full appearance.

Overall height——217m

Total weight: ≥0 (with anti-gravity module) ~23700t (main body) ~41800t (with equipment)

Sensor range: 331km (main body mechanical sensing) ~??? (Using wide-area magic sensing)

thrust--???

Standing fully erect, Atlas looked like a deity descending from the earth, towering over the world. Historically, the tallest giants were only a little over seventy meters tall, and even ancient dragons, including their tails, barely reached two hundred meters. In terms of overall size, only ancient dragon ancestors and the behemoths of the ocean depths could rival Atlas. Ordinary people had to strain their heads to even see him in full.

Its single, swirling scarlet eye was eerie and mysterious. Its four arms reached to its knees, and its legs were like towering pillars. Simply standing there, it blotted out the starry sky created by Riversta. Magic particles emanated from the cracks in its body like a dazzling rainbow. Though it remained motionless, the pressure it quietly emanated was no less than that of a true sage.

"Wow... wow wow wow... this is really too exaggerated..."

"What an exaggeration! This is awesome!"

Faced with this scene, Sezoang and Qiumila reacted differently. Qiumila's legs had begun to tremble, while Sezoang was already eager to try.

“███████████—██████—████—”

Atlas made an indescribable sound, reminiscent of the breathing of a giant sea beast. Its single eye glowed brightly red, and the armor patterns all over its body emitted a deep blue light. Every structure on its torso repeatedly opened and closed, like a newborn baby gradually getting used to its own body.

Then--

“█████…█████!!!!!!”

boom! ! ! !

Without warning, Atlas suddenly stepped forward, his towering leg stomping down upon the two men! His iron limbs easily broke the sound barrier, the rumble of the air piercing their eardrums. Even such a simple movement caused the earth to tremble! A massive shadow enveloped the two men, and just before landing, a flash of light revealed that Sedraon, carrying Qimila, appeared a hundred meters away!

But the shockwave from the giant's foot still reached them, sending them flying. The plaza in front of the building was reduced to ruins! Cracks split and ripped apart, radiating outward in dozens of deep gullies, sinking every skyscraper it touched into the ground! The earth shook relentlessly, and the raging wind swept everything on the road into the air. Resistance was futile in the face of such sheer force!

however--

"Floating territory!!!"

Sedroon skipped the chant and directly released the wide-area gravity control magic, stabilizing his body in the strong wind and shock wave. At the same time, he wrapped the chattering Qimila with wind magic and threw her towards the uncollapsed building in the distance!

"If you're of no use, just stay back there!"

"I want to help too!"

"Be the fucking obedient! Don't you know execution magic? If you want something to do, then slowly gather your strength!!!"

"Hey hey hey, I'll try my best——"

Her voice was drowned out by the rumbling of the wind. The moment after throwing Qimila, Atlas unleashed a powerful punch at Sedroon! Its punches were incredibly fast for such a large body. Top boxers could deliver three complete punches per second. This might not seem like an exaggeration for a human, but if the arm length were multiplied by a hundred, the speed of the punches would surpass the speed of sound!

but,

"That's what I want..."

Thedroon laughed wildly,

"It would be boring otherwise!"

Without fear, we face the mobile fortress.

"Asia Charlotte, you guys better hurry up, or I'll tear you apart before you even destroy the core, hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!"

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Welcome to watch: Nier's friends' Gundam disassembly tutorial

Chapter 159 Mobile Fortress Atlas (Part )

"Are you serious?"

"Yes, I'm serious, Nier. Please let me be responsible for dealing with Oshimir's true body directly."

This was a conversation between Aisia and Nelris a day ago.

She volunteered to deal with Oshimir personally.

"That's not impossible. In that case... I'll arrange for Sedraon and Qimila to contain Atlas from the outside, while you and Charlotte destroy the core from the inside."

"As expected of you, Ni'er, who is considerate and understanding."

"Well, thank you for the compliment."

Nelris smiled her usual faint smile. Anyone else would have been stunned, but Aisha knew it was just her habitual behavior, not even a courtesy.

It's like a bug in human skin, doing its best to act like a human being, and it does it so vividly.

But Aisia didn't feel disgusted.

Nier is Nier.

This is how she is purest, most beautiful, and most captivating. Humanity is always flawed, and flaws keep us from perfection. Yet, without humanity, we become nothing more than beasts. Perhaps Nyrlis, insulated from humanity from the outset yet perfectly integrated into it, offers the perfect solution to this paradox.

Ah, Nier, my Nier.

My first love, my friend, my princess, my queen, my leader, my master, my beloved.

As long as I can see you, as long as I can be by your side, no matter——

Just when Aisia's delusion reached its peak, Nelris's question poured cold water on her.

"So, why? Are you so determined to kill your creator?"

"Uh……"

Aisia was startled, but she still put on her usual smile and said, "This has nothing to do with my personal likes and dislikes. As long as it can help Nier, I will find a way, even if it means killing the Great Sage."

"Answering an irrelevant question is also a kind of lie. You know I hate people lying to me."

"..."

An indescribable sense of oppression emanated from Nyrrhis. Her magical pressure was peculiar. It didn't directly oppress the body or mind, but rather a kind of torture that pierced the heart, and the inner torment was reflected in the body. It felt like... yes, like being crawled all over by countless small insects.

But Asia didn't hate this feeling.

Being suppressed and dominated from the inside out by such a beautiful being, this feeling not only did not disgust her, but instead... made her a little wet.

"Why do you want to kill Oshimir? And with your own hands?"

"because……"

"Because I'm disillusioned with him, right?"

"..."

Oops, oops, oops.

Seen through.

The indescribable sense of oppression emanating from Nellis grew stronger and stronger.

She even had the illusion that she was a small insect stuck in a spider web, and that Nelris was a poisonous spider with dazzling patterns.

But compared to that.

Having her thoughts seen through made her feel a little overwhelmed.

"I can understand that... You value the beauty of things so highly, but you find that the creator of your own creation doesn't conform to your aesthetics at all. You can't tolerate that your pursuit of beauty is created by such a person."

"..."

"The more you think about it, the more intolerable it becomes. The more you think about it, the more you find it unacceptable. You even start to loathe yourself for who you are, but you don't want to commit suicide... Well, I can understand that. Although for me, it doesn't matter where I came from, as long as I can live well."

As she spoke, Nelris shrugged, and the feeling of oppression disappeared.

But Aisia was still a little confused.

I nodded tentatively and left——

——At that moment, her words came from behind.

"Actually, I quite admire Oshimire. Especially after talking with him, I found that he and I have a lot in common."

There was no further news after that.

Asia didn't turn around either.

But his shoulders couldn't help but tremble slightly.

Nier, oh Nier, how cunning.

He actually said such words on purpose to provoke himself.

In this case,

Wouldn't that force me to completely kill Oshimir?

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The dense network of pipes was like a vast net covering the sky and the sun. Even after its deformation, the space inside the mobile fortress was still beyond imagination! Aisia violently demolished it all along the way. At first, she only used conventional weapons such as fragmentation grenades and explosive bullets (which was considered conventional for Aisia), then gradually upgraded to machine guns, then howitzers, and now-

A massive gate rose before them.

Next is the main control room, which is also the heart of the mobile fortress Atlas - where the power source is located, and also where Oshimir hides.

"...I don't understand this, but this thing is obviously not meant to be used in a confined space, right?"

"Of course I've calculated everything, nothing will happen!"

"Really?—Hey wait!"

boom! ! !

Asia's modified RPG roared, the noise echoing through the confined space. Charlotte quickly summoned an amethyst skeleton to protect herself. The projectile was followed by a series of overlapping magic circles, protecting the warhead while accelerating forward, finally blasting open the final gate.

But the destruction did not stop there. The hellish flames melted all the metals around, creating an ultra-high temperature field that was close to death. The carefully modulated magic circle confined this deadly field to a fixed spherical range, in which almost all matter could not exist stably due to the extremely high temperature!

Charlotte subconsciously shrank back. Light and heat were not suitable for necromancers, let alone undead creatures. From her perspective, it looked like a huge mass of light and fire slowly moving forward, completely blocking the way ahead.

Then he disappeared abruptly.

A blinding white engulfed the mass, and then countless white blocks came flooding in, covering the space they were in with a blanket of white. After a moment of intense dizziness, they found themselves in a completely empty space.

The ground is white.

The sky is also white.

Looking around, they saw white everywhere. It was obvious that they were no longer in the narrow passage. As the last obstacle was broken, they were sucked into the space behind the door.

This seems to be a space opened up by space expansion magic, and the effect is really a bit exaggerated.

and--

"Do you feel it, Aisia..."

"Of course, this amount of magical power fluctuations, I'm afraid..."

They looked around and saw nothing but a blank space, and the door they came in through had disappeared at some point.

Although it looked deserted, there was a strong sense of oppression, as if some extremely powerful being was hovering above them, looking down at them—

"Oshimir? You're right here!"

Asia suddenly shouted into the empty space.

"..."

Charlotte didn't say anything. A magic circle appeared under her feet. Countless ghosts emerged from it and spread around, trying to find Oshimir, but to no avail.