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Chapter 4017 Blood Moon Creation and Mechanical Giants
Chapter 4017 Blood Moon Creation and Mechanical Giants
Getting to the vicinity of the real-world "Spark" is not difficult; Shad can simply fly there after opening his eyes.
But he worried that if he let go of Vige's hand and went to the Holy See alone, he would no longer be able to sense the location of Vige's consciousness. As for carrying her body to the Holy See, that was even more impossible.
You can also project your consciousness into reality in a way similar to a projection.
"She" suddenly said, "The other me is the other side of my soul, and it still exists even when Shad is just an ideology."
"What should we do?"
She offered advice:
[Imitating the witch's current form of existence, a temporary "life shell" will be constructed using the power of the "Spark." To prevent the distortion of life force from affecting you, the "Spark" will only serve as a projection core; the "life shell" will still be based on your own soul and spiritual power.]
It sounds complicated, but Shad somehow knew what he should do. The resonance between the two sparks allowed him to reconnect with the knowledge of "creation of flesh and blood," and Vigo's current form also provided him with a reference.
The faint glow of the crimson moon appeared in his heart without him even realizing it, as if he were born knowing how to do it. When he "looked" at his right hand, the "spark" belonging to the outsider emerged in the darkness.
Shad pinched it between the index and middle fingers of both hands and rested it against his chest. He meditated on the moon, and the silver moon was intentionally tinged with red by him.
"Red Moon - Creation".
Drawn by the immense "source of fire," he channeled his own consciousness, radiating the crimson moonlight, into the fiery eye in his hand. Thus, the barrier between reality and consciousness was broken, and the witch appeared before him.
In reality, in the Arcadia region, the Church of Creation.
The rain fell like silver threads, slanting down and enveloping the mountain ridge in a hazy mist. The outline of the Papacy, however, did not become blurred. Instead, it resembled a giant beast lying dormant on the mountaintop, calmly dominating the entire high ground.
The Church of Creation's complex covers an area roughly the size of the entire upper city of Arcadia plus half of the lower city. The interior buildings are mainly gray and white stone structures, and the complex is laid out along a longitudinal axis, extending from the starting point of the steps at the foot of the mountain to the temple at the top of the ridge.
The iconic buildings, such as the Forging Tower, the Creation Forge, the Hall of Life, and the Mechanical Temple, are clearly visible even from a distance, while the wonder elements rippling above the Papacy can even produce visible golden ripples.
The rising terrain made the entire Vatican appear even more majestic. At this moment, nearly twenty minutes had passed since the loud noise. The Vatican complex seemed silent in the rain, but various colors of spiritual light were shining inside.
Abnormal fluctuations in elements, centered here, are sweeping across the entire region, causing the clouds above the area where the Vatican is located to display increasingly magnificent and distorted colors.
The rampaging, active mechanical beings are now battling people in every corner of the Vatican. The rhythmic clicking sounds of these mechanical lifeforms have become a nightmare, catching not only those investigating throughout the Vatican off guard, but also the followers of the "Lady of Creation" living within the Vatican completely unaware of what is happening.
When the loud noise from underground occurred, Iluna was inside the "Forging Tower" on the east side of the Holy See. The activation of that pure metal tower trapped her inside like a prison.
"Sunlight Gun!"
But the blinding golden lightning quickly shattered the side wall of the tower, and Iluna, flying in the rain, then saw that the entire tower had actually stood up.
The walls she blasted quickly regenerated, and every floor of the thirteen-story tower was changing due to activation. Countless machines bearing divine runes were modifying themselves inside, and by the time Iluna threw her next attack, the "Sunlight Gun," the tower already possessed at least forty mechanical arms.
Because it was suspected that the "Spark" had been moved out of the Vatican, no one could have predicted this situation. Iluna didn't have time to support the others and struggled with the tower for a while before receiving help from Gareth Sander, the "Thunder Fury," who was also a member of the Church of the Sun.
A deafening thunderbolt struck down from the dark clouds, turning the top eight floors of the tower into dust. The bottom five floors tried to deform and resist, but were firmly suppressed by the ring sorcerers besieging them on the ground.
When Iluna and Mr. Sand went to assist other areas of the Holy See, they discovered that the people of the [Creation Church] had also been attacked by those activated machines, and it seemed that no one was completely unaffected.
"So, who exactly caused this accident?"
Thanks to her "Balance" talent, Iluna immediately sensed the source of the twisted life force deep underground within the Holy See after the loud noise. She wanted to go and check on the situation, but she was constantly delayed by supporting others along the way.
The dark golden scales now hovered high in the sky, their unique balancing power completely suppressing the machines' rampage. Those still fighting continued to converge on Iluna amidst the sea of mechanical lifeforms; she couldn't spare the time to go underground alone.
Although in Shad's perception, this "source of fire" had inexplicably weakened considerably, it was still half of the powerful life force accumulated by certain people in the church over seven years, and the energy it contained could not be simply measured by numerical values.
Once a machine is given a "spark," when the intensity of the spark reaches a certain limit, it will cause the machine to undergo a fundamental transformation, resulting in changes to the metal material itself.
Iluna not only discovered that the shells of these mechanical lifeforms had acquired elemental resistance, but also that strange and ancient energy patterns were gradually emerging on the surface of the shells. She even observed that some powerful machines were beginning to transform into humanoid forms, and that flames could be faintly seen at their core.
"Is the story of the transforming machines that Shad told us a long time ago about going to come true?"
Emilia and Ellie weren't at the Vatican this afternoon; they were assigned to investigate a church in the city. Iluna wasn't sure if this was some kind of deliberate arrangement, but she knew the little unicorn and the pointy-eared elf should be arriving soon.
In Iluna's perception, the "source of fire" located deep underground is constantly moving upwards, and it is clear that the ring mages within the Holy See are already trying to restrict it.
Therefore, after Iluna discovered that the surface needed her power, she did not try to go deeper underground. Instead, she fought on the surface to get more people out of trouble as soon as possible, so that she could control the "Spark" later.
This was, after all, the Church of Creation. After the initial chaos, as the light of the Holy Symbol once again shone over the Church's sky, the power of the true God summoned by the devout believers, together with Iluna's power, steadily suppressed the animated machines.
No matter how turbulent the internal situation may be, this place is, after all, the headquarters of the Creation Church, one of the righteous churches.
Besides Gareth Sander, the "Thunder Fury" of the Church of the Sun, today Daniste, the "Red Moon Witch," Professor Miller Stewart, the "Iron Punisher" of the College of Scythes Medical School, and Miss Maria Ingram, the "Nightmare Witch" of the Church of Nature, are also conducting investigations at the Vatican.
Although Iluna was puzzled as to why none of the three 13-ring members of the [Creation Church] had shown up, she and the four 13-ring members had already basically cleared the ground battlefield and joined forces before the "Source of Fire" broke through the ground.
"I can already sense the other person's presence."
The people on the ground temporarily disregarded the losses caused by the previous battle and quickly cleared the area for the upcoming fight.
The ring mages below the high ring level retreated, the ninth and tenth ring mages tended to the wounded and maintained the Holy See's divine rituals, the eleventh and twelfth ring mages prepared for battle on the ground, while the chosen ones and the thirteenth ring mages flew in the air watching the trembling ground.
The ground shook more and more violently, and before anything actually broke through the soil, the ground turned reddish-brown, indicating that some extremely hot object was scorching the earth.
"coming!"
The metal drill bit first broke through the bricks and stones on the ground, and then the ground of the east garden of the church, which was already mostly damaged by the battle, bulged up, and a huge thing emerged.
"My God!"
Everyone present had previously thought that a ring sorcerer was trying to escape from underground to the surface with the "Spark," but what they saw now was a fifty-meter-tall metal golem emerging from the soil.
The golem was roughly humanoid, with a hollowed-out steam chamber in its chest, through which steam pipes crisscrossed like knotted blood vessels, and a pressure gauge trembling slightly on its copper casing. Intricate gear sets hung from its hips, and worm gears were wrapped around its waist, with drive shafts at its joints turning gently in the breeze.
Every inch of the armor was engraved with intricate, star-like runes, gleaming with a scorching golden luster in the raging flames. The heavy shoulder armor resembled two burning mountains, while the robust mechanical arm armor was nested in layers, with orange-red flames spewing from the joints.
The most eye-catching feature is the enormous "flame eye" embedded inside its chest. The eye is about five meters tall, and the energy of the life flame it emits causes the metal around the "fire source" to quickly transform into a wheel with strange runes that encompasses it, thereby more efficiently transferring energy to the entire body.
"When has our church ever manufactured anything like this? Mr. Gerald Delon, what are you trying to do?!"
The elderly Watson Wieden, the ten-ringed bronze-crowned bishop of the [Creation Church], who had rushed over, loudly questioned them. The thirteen-ringed bishops usually didn't participate in the church's troublesome administrative work because they all had their own affairs, while the "bronze-crowned bishops" were the highest leaders of the [Creation Church] on the secular level.
Gerald Delon, the 13th Ring "Construct Master" whose name he mentioned, was standing on the golem's shoulder at that moment.
The golem was assembled directly from tiny gears. At this moment, the various parts inside the golem, such as pipes, gears, bearings, and worm gears, are pumping the crimson flames from the huge "fire source" at the core to the entire golem.
As the animated golem broke through the ground, it had already undergone changes due to the "Spark," and was now further altering itself by absorbing the distorted life energy. Its metallic material, internal structure, and even energy transmission circuits were all evolving, making it increasingly resemble a living organism.
The full-power operation of the ignition source even transformed the life force, which shouldn't have been in a state of intense heat, into a physical flame. The firelight illuminated the rain-soaked mountain ridge and every face there.