"Immediately retreated, the situation exceeded expectations. ”

Gigmont left his voice behind coldly, and in the black flames, the whole person had already withdrawn and rushed straight to Veryl.

"What?!" Bell was startled, but her fingers still hadn't penetrated the solid dark flames. Han Litai's staff struck sideways, blocking in front of Bell, who was about to catch up.

"Han Litai!!!

"Execute the order, this is the only way to work now!"

"How could she possibly stop that kind of thing?!" Bell yelled, and with a slap of the crossbow opened Han Litai's staff, dodging to support Gigmont, who was already close to Veryl.

"Gig is the head of the regiment, and Gremel would not be unaware of this. He didn't dare to harm Gig - if we don't retreat now, we don't have her identity, do you want to make some of the meaningful sacrifices meaningless?!

"Retreat!"

Han Litai let out a loud shout, and Bell stopped stiffly-

"How can they know how to sacrifice ......?"

Bell closed her eyes and rushed to the emergency channel, chopping and piercing countless battle mechs along the way, the black flames behind her radiated a strong and crazy heat, and under the morbid stimulation of high fever, she didn't know if her tears had been steamed dry before they could come out.

-- She must not be given a chance to recharge.

This is a precious number obtained from the dark creation of the Black Wings, even if the power created by Gremel exceeds that of these fourth-level powerhouses, it is impossible for him to reach the limit of his power in an instant. And the speed at which they charge, they are even slower than lifeforms.

So that's the only advantage. Gigmont flashed her dagger in the black flames, but the way enemies observed her attack was not limited to her eyes. And from the energy detectors that are everywhere all over her body. Even before the power poured out of the meridians, her attack path was already perceived by Veryl. She can only make herself faster - and there is a limit to human power. Machines don't.

She tried to defeat Veryl before her body reached its limit, but the first moment the two weapons collided, she knew it was a delusion. While she was relieved that they had managed to escape from the mech's pursuit on her orders, Gigmont felt a gloomy fate at the thought that it was also possible that the mech might kill her without even thinking about her identity after she understood it.

Veryl's pale blue aura of energy seemed to be far less powerful than Gigmont's black flames, but her silver scythe could effortlessly pierce through her dark power, whirling with the dagger in her hand with the incredible speed of her long weapon.

Despite Gigmont's experience, he couldn't match the massive amount of battle information in the Velier Library. Gradually, after understanding Gigmont's attack routine, Verrier switched to offense. The silver scythe continued to bounce off Gigmont's attacks, and the time it took to recharge was getting longer.

If it goes on like this, it won't take more than thirty seconds, and you will only have the power to parry.

"Veryl!"

It was an old voice, and Gigmont was startled, presumably this was Professor Grimmel, the man who wielded the high-end technology of the Black Wings.

At the same time, Veryl's movements, which had never been flawed or hindered in the battle, suddenly stopped, and her eyes, which had never shown a change in expression, seemed to show a look of surprise at this moment. But Gigmont didn't have time to think about that. She knew it might be the only chance.

The dagger in her hand was thrown away with her backhand, and the broken long knife fell back into her hand, and the silver light was wrapped in a mysterious black qi, like a ruthless electric light from the clouds. Directed at the energy trigger of Veryl, who was defenseless in his chest at the moment.

When his broken blade stabbed into Veryl's energy trigger, Gigmund even saw in her eyes the expression "incredible" that shouldn't have been on the machine.

But her blade only stabbed half a point, and her goal was not that.

The chips that would allow her to escape were on the platform above her. She threw away the long knife that was still in Veryl's heart, and the dark flames instantly engulfed Veryl as she fell to the ground. She lifted her up. Forcibly enduring the severe pain when his body was oppressed by the inertial force, the broken knife in his left hand met the surprised gaze of Grimmel under his reading glasses. Pointing to his throat.

For a moment, she thought she was so close to victory. Her mood was the same as that of Verille when she heard Grimmel call her name.

The energy trigger in Zino's heart still flashed a malfunctioning red light, but it didn't stop him from accumulating for a long time. The energy sword slashed down without any fancy, blue light filling her field of vision, then turning into darkness after being extremely bright.

"Underestimated...... she muttered as she pressed the little sword on her chest.

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Ding-ding-ding-

Ding-ding-ding-ding-

The sound of neatness was like a stalactite falling downward, but upon closer inspection, it seemed to be the sound of metal striking from somewhere.

Opening her eyes, Gigmont was surprised to find that she was free within a certain radius, surrounded by arm-thick metal railings, but for a strong man like her, it was easy to break through such a prison.

It was precisely because the contradiction was so simple that she became suspicious. Jigmont carefully sensed the situation around her, and sure enough, layers of energy binding circles were embedded in the floor and ceiling, which was only three meters high, so that every bit of energy gathered in her body was absorbed into it. Perhaps because of some kind of malicious revenge, this magic array not only drained her power element, but also skillfully stripped her ability to resist.

She tried to move her body, and even though she felt a dizzy sensation that made her eyes shiver. Her body became extremely tired and weak, and even when she blinked her eyes, she felt a sore eyelid.

"They won't- want to do anything bad to me, will they?"

She smiled self-deprecatingly, since she had chosen to sacrifice herself to save her companions, she should have considered this dangerous situation. Only, if what is about to happen is true. Then the next time is undoubtedly more unbearable than waiting for death.

Her weak body made her feel powerless even to kill herself, and she examined her body with difficulty. There are no signs of violation. But that doesn't mean it won't in the future. To her surprise, the damage to her body during the battle had been repaired by some unknown means. But it doesn't seem to be a sign of magic. It's something more innovative.

Gigmont, like everyone else in the past, initially scoffed at the concept of science. But when she experienced the power and threat of the Black Wings, she forced herself to change her mind about science.

It's a terrifying force that is slower to work than magic, but has no limits to its development. It is the ultimate potential of all intelligent lifeforms, and if the civilization of Osiria as a whole wants to break through the shackles of current development, I am afraid that it will have to use science to replace magic.

As the clanging approached, his shadow appeared first in the narrow hallway without a door, followed by the steady, silent Gremel and the mechanical body protecting him.

Veryl's torn enveloping armor had been replaced. The energy trigger at the mouth of the heart has also been repaired, and the information about this battle has also been sorted out and stored on her hard drive. She still looked at Gigmund with emotionless eyes.

Perhaps because he had tried to attack Grimmel, Gigmont sensed a hint of hostility in Verill's mechanized retina.

"Miss Gigmont. Gremel asked gently.

Forcing himself to sit up from the cold bed, Gigmont gave him a cold eye.

"You came to the humble house in person as the head seat, what are you doing?"

Gigmont subconsciously touched her chest, and her mind turned white. Her most precious little sword was gone—and she was relieved that it must have been taken away as a weapon. In order to completely disarm her, her clothes have been changed all over her body, not even her underwear. Feel from somewhat damp hair. She figured that her entire body might have been carefully cleaned so that she could not miss any details of the weapons that might be hidden.

Dressed in her black-winged overalls, she struggled to sit up straight, and Gremel nodded as if she saw something. Her pressure was suddenly relaxed, and the invisible extraction of her strength was reduced, but there was still a long way to go before she could recover her strength.

She gasped hard. Stood up and looked down at Grimmel outside the confinement room at her height.

"Sue me one thing, those children you captured twenty years ago, and now—where are they?"

She didn't ask "what happened to them?". She asked "where are they?".

Why do you still stubbornly believe that they are still alive? Seven years without a word in law means that they are officially dead. Twenty years later, Gigmont still clings to the last vestiges of his innocence, hoping that he is still alive among his childhood friends and companions.

"Verille. Standby. ”

Glimeel commanded, and a flickering threatening halo of Verriel slung the scythe to her back without hesitation. Turning to stand still, the lights on his body flickered rapidly for a few seconds before all went out. Her eyes also closed for the first time in Gigmont's memory. Before that, she had never even seen Verrier or Zino blink.

"Right in front of you. Didn't you guess?"

Gigmont's only illusion was gone. She staggered to the wall of the cell, her hands gripping the cage fiercely.

"What about the others?" she spat out dark questions word by word.

"Failed. Out of hundreds of people, only two succeeded. You've seen them all now, and they're survivors—"

"Bastard!!-"

Gigmont slammed the walls of the cage with what little force he had left, and a hoarse sound resounded through the small cage. "Is this alive?!This is surviving??!! they're all dead!!they're all dead!!Give me back the answer!!"

Grimmel faced Gigmont's anger without a hint of fear or flinching. Even her reaction seemed to have been controlled by him.

He sighed, "You've got the answer, what else do you need me to give you?"

Gigmont gripped the wall of the cell and slowly softened, she lowered her head and asked tremblingly:

"She-" she pointed to Verille, "and that cyborg named 'Zino...... theirs, theirs...... their prototype. Who is it?"

Grimmel looked into her eyes silently for a long time.

"This is top secret, and I have no right to sue you. ”

"Top secret?!" Gigmont moaned hysterically. "You're, you're here—"

"I'm not much of a leader. I'm just a scientist. Gremel turned to leave, and ordered Verill to turn on the phone. In less than three seconds, Verrier was back in shape, and she was close to Grimmel.

"Only Your Excellency the Commander-in-Chief has the authority to declassify top-secret information. I betrayed Orca, but I don't want to betray forever. Oh, and by the way, if you're aware of current affairs, then you know that you can't get out of here on your own, but you don't have to worry. I'm not a murderer, and besides, you'll be able to be here with your buddies soon. Until I fail, you don't have to worry about your life and you can still have some freedom. Remember, Your Excellency the Commander-in-Chief of the Cross Brigade. ”

With that, Grimmel departed without looking back, leaving Gigmont alone in a bottomless despair.

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She sincerely didn't want Bell and Han Litai to break into the protective circle again as recklessly as they came. Zino or Verrier alone is not something they can easily deal with, if two people go into battle together, with their personalities. If a few people don't die, they will never choose to surrender.

She sincerely hoped that they would uphold the same style as the Cross Brigades, understand the meaning and value of sacrifice, and cut off any hope of rescuing her. Then elect a new Crusader as soon as possible - the loss of a commander would be far from a disservice to the Crusaders.

The monotonous tinkling sounded for the first time in a long time. The constant drain of power had weakened her senses, but the sound still gave her a hard beat.

Is it Grimmel?

She didn't know where she was, and maybe Bell and they couldn't find any trace of her if they broke into the real room again. Not even the news of the battle could be transmitted here. There was no communication with the outside world, and even the staff who came to bring her food turned a deaf ear to her questions. A qiē is isolated. And if human beings, as social animals, fall into a state of complete isolation, the final result will undoubtedly be spiritual death.

The slow process of execution sent chills down the spine of the death-tested Gigmont.

A week of loneliness had caused her to hallucinate and auditory hallucinations regularly. She was in a vague consciousness that was half asleep and half awake. I always feel like I have returned to my childhood, when Grimmel had not yet captured children for inhumane human experiments, and at that time there were his own companions and boys who he longed for and loved, and he was ordinary and happy like all children in other regions.

On the streets on the outskirts of Cogears, the stunned images of her standing in front of a pool of blood with the small sword she was going to return to him kept coming back to her memory, tormenting her nerves. With only two or three hours of sleep a day, the head of the Cross Brigade was on the verge of collapse from mental exhaustion.

“DefenderSystemUnlock!”

The voice was a child's voice, which in itself was a supreme salvation for her. She hadn't heard a real human voice for many days, and even if she didn't know her own language, her vision was instantly clear.

Ruti stood in front of her, and his lovely appearance warmed Gigmont's heart. But this scene of her gratefulness was interrupted by Zino, who was standing in front of her through the cage.

"What are you doing here?"

Without saying a word, Zino reached for the small sword from his pocket.

"!!!" Gilgmont let out a low scream, reaching out without hesitation to snatch it back from Zino's hand, "You!—why did you give it back to me!"

Zino's words then shook her heart.

"I ...... I recognize it. ”

"What?"

"So, I should know you. I used to be, I was a human being. Zino, whose appearance was frozen in age of less than twenty, replied in a mechanical flat voice, "I beg you, help me, and retrieve my original memories. Every day is only a day of training and fighting, and I don't think it's the only way of life in the world. ”

Gigmont felt a strange flame in her heart burn instantly, and for some reason, she suddenly had strength. Standing up haughtily, he asked him aloud:

"Are you willing to betray Grimmel and fight for your freedom and beliefs?"

When the General of the Cross Brigade asked such words, he knew that the answerer had only one choice.

"I do. I want to be myself. "No hesitation. Zino grabbed the energy sword in his hand, "I can get you out of here." Only I have the ability. But. Grimmel has a safety program in hand to erase my memories, and I must fight while I'm still who I am. Hurry up. ”

Zino waved his hand. The energy binding circle that had restrained Jigmont for many days suddenly failed, and the sudden resurgence of power caused her to fall to her knees in dizziness for a moment, and it took a few seconds for her brain to regain clarity, and she slowly stood up and walked out of the cell door with her dagger in hand. He waited for the strength around Gigmont to calm down before he looked away from her.

"Follow me, my image does not disappear from your view. ”

The sirens rang out, the cell door in front of her opened, and Zino reached out to return her dagger.

"Ruti, hold on to my shoulders. ”

The blade of energy roared out. The blue-white electric light followed the extremely conductive metal wall, destroying the surrounding restriction circle and surveillance equipment in an instant. Led by Zino, who was extremely familiar with the environment, Gigmont suddenly realized that her strength was so redundant, she subconsciously put down the dagger in her hand, and followed Zino in a daze, stunned as he dismantled the qiē mechanical combat device that blocked them.

In this way, passing through the labyrinthine metal corridor layer by layer, it is clearly a real yàn room suspended above the sky city, but I didn't expect such a complex internal structure. The information he had obtained was instantly overturned, and Gigmont felt that he was just a little girl in a trance, helplessly following behind Zino.

Really...... What a strange feeling? It's been years since she put herself in the position of a weaker, and she has forgotten what it feels like to be dependent on others? The long-lost sense of security in the weak reminded her of her own childhood, when her parents and many friends were there. At that time, I was just like other children, right?

"If- he's still here......"

Her muttering drowned out the chaos around her, and Gigmont noticed that the energy trigger on Zino's chest was not emitting the light it used to work, could it be that the energy trigger device had a time limit?

Blankly following behind Zino. In less than ten minutes, after destroying countless circles and combat devices along the way, the surrounding metal walls finally occasionally revealed some small glass windows. Through the glass windows. It is undoubtedly from the pure stratosphere, pure blue that only the color of the sky remains.

For a moment, she was even so moved that she wanted to shed tears and live a life in the sun. The cherishment of the sun can only be experienced by a prisoner like her who has been away from the day for a long time. The dagger in his hand swiped quickly beside him. Sweep away the splinters.

The passage at the end had already flashed with a light symbolizing freedom, but at this moment, Zino suddenly froze. Ruti, who was just lying on his shoulder, looked in the other direction with the same stern and even fearful gaze.

Zino silently opened the energy trigger at the mouth of his heart, and in an instant, golden energy escaped and spread all over his mechanized, cold body. The energy sword released a burst of blue-gold lightning, and the air around it emitted a pungent smell of ozone due to being ionized.

On the side of the tall metal wall, a huge gap exploded. The curly crackling sound of the exposed walls' curly steel bars and electrical circuits touching each other, the bright red light emitted from the background of the electronic screen in the dark corner, and the standard footsteps like piano corrections slowly sounded through the gaps.

Bright red eyes flashed with absolute obedience to fate, Zino's heart tightened for no reason, and the energy sword in his hand tightened a little, and the blade pointed at his only kind.

"Based on the dynamics and numerical analysis you express, your current behavior undoubtedly fits the definition of 'betrayal'. ”

Zino didn't answer, just stared into Veryl's eyes. A moment later, the deepest light that had reminded him for the first time of his past, called "humanity," was gone, and it was undoubtedly gone along with her memories of the past few days.

The current Veryl is another Veryl who felt that there was no change in the past, a Veryl who can only detect changes if she has accumulated enough human bugs now.

The scythe lifted mechanically and efficiently, the dense energy of bright silver shining brighter as the energy trigger at her heart lit up.

"Zino, that's the 'Full Open Energy Trigger PLUS2', which has a 400-second energy trigger time...... If, wait tied—"

"I know. Zino reached out and let Ruti drop off his shoulder and place him at Gigmont's feet.

"If I don't defeat Veryl in three hundred and fifty seconds, I'll fail, and these precious memories will be erased, won't I?" he asked himself calmly, then turned to Veryl, "I'm sorry, Eleven-Verier, if you can understand my feelings, you can understand my betrayal. ”

"Enforce the memory reorganization procedure, please cooperate with Forty-Six. ”

Zino and Veryl's expressions became blank almost at the same time, and then the energy quickly condensed on the propulsion device loaded on her legs, and the strong wind pressure forced Gigmont to take a few steps back, and when she opened her eyes again, the golden-blue and silver storm was already mixed together, and the energy released by the chaotic electric light made her hair rise, and almost the entire vast space was ionized by the strong electric field released by the two of them's attacks.

She didn't know if she should help, but judging by the battle in which the two had almost already mastered each other's attack routines, it would only be a perfect draw between the two until Zino lost due to the end of the trigger's duration.

Gigmonton knew that the continuation of time would only bring disadvantage, and that would make the battle she was in the thick of that would be necessary. But judging from the impenetrable battle circle between the two, how should she intervene?

"Beware, Miss Gigmont!!"

Ruti, who had been carefully hiding in the corner, suddenly screamed, and the steps that Gigmont had just tried to take stopped.

"The electric field in the air is so dense that if you move too much, it will cause a very strong stride voltage! You'd better not move now!" said Ruti anxiously.

Even if Gigmont knew this, he would be able to dispel the effects of the electric field if he used all his strength. But first of all, let's not mention whether her intervention is beneficial to Zino's combat intervention, and besides, because she is free from the influence of the bondage circle, she is also in a very poor state at the moment, and there is still a big gap between her complete state. Theoretically, Veryl, who was desperately trying to block for a moment at her peak, as long as she focused a small part of her attention on her now weak self, I am afraid that she would not have a slightly better ending.

If Zino had been slightly distracted by her for the sake of his memory, the consequences would have been-

Zino ...... Was it for her own sake, or was it for the memories in her head that might be related to his past? If she was only for the sake of memory, would he, who had lived in a programmed monotonous mode of efficiency, abandon her when her value had been exhausted?

- But at least, she needs to grasp the present. Only he could get her out and dispel the threats of her friends because of her torment and his own impulses.

Verrier is a mechanical being, and her only weakness is that she doesn't know how to think in terms of human combat. In the words of the Cross Brigade, they do not understand the meaning of sacrifice.

"Zino! She doesn't know what an equivalent exchange is, what a sacrifice is! This is your chance! You have enough time to complete it!!"

Rutty looked at Gigmont in surprise, and Gigmont's eyes locked tightly on the circle of battle between the two men, as he leaped in small steps to avoid the threat of stride voltage. Sharp metal shards flew in all directions, and the powerful energy interference even prevented the automaton that was about to enter within ten meters of them from functioning properly.

Gigmont's voice faded into the crackling of the electric fire in an instant, and she nervously waited for whether the tide of battle would change as a result of her inform. Gigmont, who didn't know if he had heard his message through the deafening sound of electric sparks, waited nervously, the mixed golden-blue and silver still indistinguishable from each other, and the occasional splash of bladed light added several times the chaos to the dusty first-floor hall.

"Ruti, is there an energy trigger device that will never allow them to attack each other in the battle of the robots?"

Luti was startled, and Gigmont, who immediately got the answer, immediately raised his voice:

"I know you can't attack her energy trigger!!!, but if you have memories and emotions, then you can do it!"

The change happened immediately. (To be continued......)