Omniscient First-Person’s Viewpoint chapter 296

A World Made of Gears – 3

A huge steel arm approaching forward. It feels overwhelmingly heavy. The frightened body trembles uncontrollably.

‘Leave the saw blade, or hold it and take it. It’s easy. How will you respond?’

If I let go of the saw blade it will slap me in the head, and if I hold on to it, the steel arm will crush me. There is no right answer to the easy choice that the opponent forced.

I chose another option.

I put my finger inside the saw blade. Sharp on the outside but dull on the inside. He grabbed it carefully so as not to be cut, and stole Maximilian’s original magic and used it.

Unique Magic, Gear Maiden.

A world made of cog wheels. If you touch one, all the cogs in the series will move at the same time. There are no ‘imperfect’ concepts such as power, friction, or tooth wear.

In the world of cogs, there are only two.

turns, doesn’t turn

Maximilian took the time to pay attention to his arm and turned the saw blade in the opposite direction. my body swoops up Arms tremble from excessive pressure. The blade is not standing, but the feeling of being squeezed by the fingers is clear.

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Fortunately, thanks to the weak energy, I am not sick. Thanks, drug. I wish you all the best in the future.

‘Skillful. But that ability is originally mine.’

Maximilian wasn’t the only one watching. As soon as he looks at me through the monocle, the saw blade stops. As I climbed up, my body followed the inertia and floated in the air.

A dizzy feeling as if gravity had disappeared. But getting here is enough. He took out two cards from his pocket.

Diamonds 2 and 8. Versatile hooks and everything slender.

Attach the wire to the hook, and throw it towards the steel beetle. He pulled the hook on the cog wheel vigorously. I don’t have superhuman strength, but it’s enough to control the direction I fall.

The body draws a descending parabola to reach the side of the steel beetle. Before colliding, I reached out and stepped on the cog wheels. As soon as the foot touches it, Maximilian’s unique magic moves the cog wheel. Only the cogs I stepped on would turn upwards.

The cogwheel did its job well in its place. A cog wheel that looks like a giant waterwheel carries my weight and spins. It feels like my feet are tossing my body. I jumped up in stride while balancing. After all the tricks, I reached the steel beetle’s back.

I heard Maximilian’s voice behind me.

“You are good at linking. Even if you turn the gears, it’s a difficult skill to follow. Isn’t it just stealing unique magic?”

Immediately after I heard the voice, a huge hand slammed my side down. My feet shake in shock. I quickly retreated and saw a hand made of iron and cogs scratching a steel beetle. The sparks bounce off and the irregularities and irregularities mesh with each other. After some friction, the steel hand became one with the steel beetle.

Maximilian grabbed his arm and jumped up at once. I caught up with the height I had been struggling to climb up in just one second. to the point of being absurd.

“Anyway, you’re not the only one who can’t, what?”

“I’ve been living with cog wheels all my life. By comparison, you first used this ability a while ago. Is that the ability of a human king?”

Maybe it’s because of mind-reading, but let’s not say it. I nodded.

“Man is an animal that uses tools.”

“The king of men is the skillful use of all tools. Isn’t it just a story limited to tools? Alchemy and Qigong. All of them are very good.”

His gaze turned to my card. As an alchemist, I understood the essence of alchemy contained in my card at once.

“But compared to the skill level, the work is disappointing. It had no function, only the shape of alchemy steel. Is that all?”

Sheesh. Are you saying you know how much magic power it takes to grant a function through alchemy? Oh, you must know. You must be the strongest alchemist in the military.

If you add your magic power, I will make it even better. Groaning inwardly, I opened another card and asked.

“Can you show me something else?”

“You have to show it. If you want to stay alive.”

I’ll do it if you want Now, let’s start the magic show again… .

Trying to do it, Maximilien stretched out his arms without warning. A huge iron hand following his orders is about to grab me. If caught there, it will look like minced meat put in a grinder.

But where I set my feet was on a steel beetle. All feet are cog wheels. As before, turn the footrest so that your body moves… .

I tried to do it, but the cog wheel doesn’t move. The body that could not keep up with the accident staggered.

‘You can’t run away the same way. Like you, I can stop the cogs you move.’

It is very quick to understand the situation and respond to it. Even if it rots, it is fertile. Although I have overwhelming power, I gradually reduce my options and pressure them.

In the blink of an eye, iron grips covered his vision. Severely injured. If caught, there is no future. I have to avoid it, but I am staggering right now, having lost control of the footrest.

When the plan goes awry, I panic and make a decision late. When fighting a strong man, even that brief break is fatal. Missing the only chance to overcome the crisis, a hand of steel swept over my body… .

‘Is this all?’

I think now is this opportunity.

Inducing vigilance, the view is now obscured. He stretched out his hand as if waiting.

Hundreds of cogs in front of you. Most of them are added simply to increase destructive power, but there are also important cogs that make up the basic skeleton. If you don’t know, you can’t tell them apart, but thanks to reading the designer’s thoughts, I know exactly.

I caught the target and took out a card.

1 diamond, pickpocket skewer. Take it in reverse water and insert it at an angle. It enters aiming at the cogwheel gap, then bends like a fishing rod under the pressure of the steel arm and bounces off. There was blood on his hands, but thanks to that, one cog was missing. Skeletons are visible beyond the skin.

It’s like pickpocketing. You have to peel it off and get your hands on the things that matter most. Without a second thought, I reached into it.

Maximilien can turn the cogs as much as he wants, but if that’s all he’s doing, he’s just idling. In order to wield force properly, you need a center of gravity that will serve as a fulcrum.

Naturally, the fulcrum is his body, and for that, Maximilian drove gears into every corner of his body.

In other words, that steel arm was connected to his body.

In other words, I can break his body through the cogs connected to him.

reach out

The cog wheel overflows. A wave of steel sweeps over my body. Rotation can be stopped, but it cannot even eliminate inertia. The speedy steel pounded my body heavily.

A little later, my whole body will be crushed. before that.

My fingertips touched the skeleton.

A hand made of steel that mimics a human body. From the distal end to the center of the skeletal frame, his ability is directed against it. The moving cog wheels stop one by one. Fingers, wrists, elbows, shoulders… All devices running in the joint were stopped one after another. And the steel arm he made ended there.

But the cogs don’t end there.

Maximilien shoved the flesh to attach the prosthetic arm, and put steel in his shoulder. On the surface of the abutment, there is a cog wheel to control the prosthetic hand. From there, he captures the network of cogs that stretched all over Maximilian’s body, which started anew.

“found.”

Even as my body was crushed by the steel, I clasped my hands tightly.

Unique Magic, Gear Maiden.

‘What’s going on? feeling… ?!’

By the time I realized it, it was already too late.

The subject is all the cogs connected to me. I command all of them, including those in Maximilian’s body. A command as powerful as it is easy to understand.

turn in reverse until it breaks.

‘—-!!!!’

The steel arm exploded.

The parts that made up the arm rotated randomly in different directions. Misalignment, torsion, dysfunction and runaway. The steel arm, which had all kinds of problems that could have occurred in the machinery, split into pieces and bounced in all directions.

The steel arm that was about to attack me broke into thousands of cogs and crashed. Although they are small in size, they are all alchemy steels of level 3 or higher. The high-density metal rips through the skin and hits the head. Some cogs even rode over my body.

The shock shook her body backwards. My back hurts when I hit the floor, and my arms are crushed all over. I’m sure the drug I took earlier is still there. It seems that my body feels a crisis and shouts an emergency.

Okay.

‘Cause I’m still alive

At the last moment, the explosion of the steel arm was huge. The shock was dispersed here and there as the bonding strength weakened. Thanks to this, the crisis of pressure death was reduced to a throbbing pain in the whole body. A very positive result.

the problem is.

“Yeah, that’s right! Now I know!”

Maximilian is still alive.

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Failed.

No, it was half successful. Maximilian’s prosthetic arm had disappeared, and his left body exposed was dyed bright red. The cog wheels inside the body run out of control, and the bleeding that occurs is visible from the outside of the skin.

But he didn’t die.

Maximilien saw exactly what I was trying to do and responded quickly. He barely saved his life, thanks to the cogs severing the bond before they changed their body. That’s a reflexive response. What a monster.

he opened his mouth Seeing the clear blood gushing out of his mouth, he looked as if he was still alive.

“You can only control cogs that touch your body. right?!”

… Even in the midst of near death, he recognized my weakness.

The old saying that power needs a center applies to me as well. My body must ‘contact’ with his own magic to steal his powers, or I can’t use them.

I don’t want to tell you that, so let’s take a look.

“No.”

“Are you trying to deceive the obvious? If only you could control cogs that don’t touch your body! My limbs must have already strangled me! Just like you tried a while ago!”

Shit, you’re so quick More than anything else, it is difficult to make decisions in that brief moment and react boldly.

“Isn’t that why you climbed the steel beetle? If you step out, the steel beetle with the wide-open streets will only obey my orders! Pretending to run away, the battlefield was moved here on purpose! Am I right?”

Now I have to admit He gently nodded his head.

“It’s not just that you’ve grown up with strength. Unlike Historia.”

“haha! That’s what I’m going to say. The King of Humans, although he said he lost most of his power, he is an absolute formidable opponent! I feel like I’m fighting myself!”

“I feel the same way. If you limit yourself to the concept of cogs, you are better than anyone else.”

He said it with his sincerity.

He is growing every moment. If it is limited to the concept of a cog wheel, it is Maximilian who has reached the pole of a human being. I thought that there was nowhere else to go, but even now, it develops even more.

“In a world made of cogs, you are the pinnacle of human beings. Every step you take is a step no one has ever taken. As you open up new horizons, it will soon become an area conquered by humans. Only in the field of ‘cogs’.”

That’s the greatest compliment I can give. It was also sincere without exaggeration.

Maximilien, who listened for a moment with a blank expression on his face, burst into laughter.

“Ha ha ha ha ha! Impressive! I’ve never needed anyone’s approval, but I’m more than happy with any compliment I’ve ever heard in my life! Indeed, this is the king of humans!”

“Well, I too have been kicked out of the human representative, so I don’t have any public confidence.”

“Can’t we get our strength back?”

“Ahaha. Because I don’t like it. Even so, I don’t do it with you. How do I know what you will do to my body?”

Even if it is a wish, my wish to control my body will not be granted. The most basic instinct of living things. The homeostasis to protect myself is still there.

The king of humans is a beast before he is a king.

“And I have more to tell you… I will tell you this right before I kill you.”

“There will be no chance of that. I have grasped your abilities. Stop trying to stop them from approaching.”

Maximilien raised the prosthetic arm of his left arm in an uncomfortable position. tickle, tickle. A prosthetic arm in the shape of an arm was reassembled, and a long groove was dug from the elbow to the back of the hand. It took the shape of a bowgun with the tip open.

No, it was the Bowgun itself.

A cog wheel the size of a fingernail rolled in on its own and settled into the groove. The small cog wheel idled, hanging from the groove at the command of Maximilien. Wiiying, the sound of the wind is so loud that it is hard to believe that it was made by tiny cogs. If I accelerate it along the groove, the cog will fly at me with a speed comparable to that of a bolt.

Maximilien pointed his hastily bowgun at me.

“Can I use the anti-tank qigong? Well, it doesn’t matter. There are enough bullets, so stop shooting until you run out. Now, if you have anything left to say, tell me.”

At first, I couldn’t use it because I lacked energy. Threatening people by pointing a gun at them? It’s a really good way to talk.

I grumbled and folded the cards. Ten clover per diamond. I made a deck with a total of eleven cards and shuffled them lightly.

“No. A magician’s trick is not to reveal even if a sword is in his throat. That’s why I don’t say it unless I’m a heavy-mouthed person. Like Lieutenant Colonel Evon, for example.”

Maximilian also remembered General Ebon, the lord of all things. he asked

“Lieutenant Colonel Ebon. It’s a name I miss. I heard he was in the abyss… .”

Then he blurted out. Maximilien recalled the information and immediately looked at me with subdued eyes.

“The person you spoke of with a heavy mouth is going to die soon. Did you kill him?”

“I didn’t kill him, he was there at the time. If you want to hear my eulogy, please die by my hand. I will listen to you until I die.”

“… Conversely, if I torture you to the point of death, I can hear you.”

“It’s a good attitude. Try it.”

Saying so, I grabbed the top card with both hands and pulled it out.

Diamond Queen. Queen of Thousands.

It was as if an unrealistically small folded blanket was unfolding. I wrapped the Queen of Thousands as a cloak. A warm feeling surrounds me.

Queen of Thousands. The finest fabrics that are a little warmer, a little tougher, and cover a little better. However, that’s not all. If that’s all, there’s no reason to praise her as the Queen of Thousands.

The true power of the Queen of Thousands is the power to confine magic. Even if it’s light, if it’s made of magical power, it’s completely locked in. Enough to present pitch-black darkness to vampires who hate light.

I declared with my collar closed.

“I will try my best to resist.”