A World Made of Cogs – 6
Even in such an unfavorable situation, Maximilien burns his heart out. I stuck my tongue out at the sight of not even thinking of leaving.
what is that Are you a hero somewhere? Why are you burning it so brightly?
I want to applaud Maximilian’s attitude to go beyond it without stopping even after he’s accomplished everything he wants to achieve. If life were a flame that would one day be extinguished, there would be no color left in his place of burning everything. Leaving the ashes of achromatic color on the ground, it will become the wind and fly away to the sky. Kya, life is fleeting, but it will be brilliant. All, applause.
However, when he remembers that his purpose is ‘I’, the hand that used to clap his hands vaguely goes to the back of his head. No matter how good the majesty is, if the fire tries to burn me, I have no choice but to run away. Or trample it out.
That’s the reason why Maximilien has no choice but to kill him even though he likes him. His wind will burn me.
Perhaps the king of evil, a strange being that I have never heard of.
I immediately responded.
“I have to fight! Leah. Remember the rule to lose if you allow touch?”
I asked him if he would remember because it was a story from a long time ago, but Historia answered bluntly.
“Hey. The rule you forcefully introduced to earn points when you first battled with me? don’t remember Somebody made a nonsensical suggestion, so I told him to give it a try, but he cowardly aimed only at the inside of his body, didn’t he? 𝑀𝑒𝑒 At that time, the drugs were so high that I really wanted to kill them.”
“It was worth worrying about memorizing even useless parts!”
While Historia was laughing out loud, her feet suddenly shook subtly. Maximilian came out with alchemy, trying to melt Historia’s feet into a swamp of brass. It was time for me to run away, noticing the hint.
thud. Historia’s feet slammed the steel beetle down. Gon qigong, the energy radiated under your feet spreads like an earthquake. The steel plate was slightly crushed, and some of the cogs fell off in the impact.
In order to use alchemy, the target object must be grasped close to perfection. If a transformation occurs in the middle of an attempt, alchemy will fail. This is the reason why it is difficult to use alchemy in practice.
Due to Historia’s footsteps, alchemy became null and void. Magical energy that has lost its direction evaporates.
Historia, who instinctively stabbed the greatest weakness of alchemy, asked about what she had done without much inspiration.
“why? Do that?”
“Not with you, but with the gakubyeong!”
Historia narrowed her eyes and asked.
“… Where do you want to touch an uncle like that?”
“I don’t really want to touch it, and that’s not my purpose in the first place! I have some sort of number, so if I put my hand on it, I can neutralize him!”
“Hey, that’s a joke. know. Because I saw it before.”
It’s because I sucked the drug, so the words don’t go through my brain and just come out. Maybe we should see the match sooner than before it gets worse.
“Okay, Leah? I’ll assist you and look for gaps. please!”
“Request? Ummm, barefoot?”
“Because I know!”
I’m smiling with my eyes in the midst of a rush, is that okay?
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Fortunately, my worries were in vain. Historia quickly approached Maximilian and pushed him hard.
Bang, bang, bang. Whenever fists and arms collide, the sound of steel collides with each other. Maximilian’s hand is a prosthetic made of steel, but I don’t know why Historia’s limbs make that sound.
Historia stretched out her arms and legs. Kwongak connected with qigong flows naturally and flows like water. When she stepped forward, Gong Qigong supported her whole body, and when she raised her fist, Qigong was expelled.
In comparison, Maximilian’s movements were systematic like clock hands. When Historia extends her fist, the cogs move at the correct speed and angle to block it. His arms and legs moved at a completely unexpected angle, knocking out Historia’s attack. While concentrating on defense like that, when he saw a gap, he aimed at and released the power he had accumulated all at once.
Without warning, his arms snapped apart and stretched about a meter. This is possible because the elbow and shoulder are cogs, not joints. A surprise attack that could not be understood without reading his thoughts aimed at Historia’s body.
‘As expected. It seemed to gather strength.’
But even if you’re not a mind reader, you can do some psychological warfare. Historia swung the gun she was holding. Grabbing the barrel, the gun became a great hammer. Historia slammed Maximilien’s arm with the handle.
cah ang.
The alchemy steel created by the military’s strongest alchemist collided with the military’s strongest qigong steel. The result was a draw after a fierce battle. When the force that overwhelms the weight collides, they bounce off in opposite directions.
But Historia’s gun isn’t actually a hammer. It’s just a barrel for shooting qigong, and grabbing and wielding it is a secondary use.
The qigong flashed from the gun he was holding. A blue flame flashed through Maximilian’s monocle.
Taang.
Maximilien’s head is tilted back by nearly 90 degrees. His body was pushed back by the bullets fired by the qigong.
But it didn’t fall. Historia lowered her posture and looked down.
‘You’re right. No, did you stop it?’
His monocle is broken and limp. He had a large bruise on his face. But he is still alive.
Self-moving monocular glasses. It was an artifact to see the invisible, and it was a protective gear he put his heart into creating to protect himself. The moment he sensed that the muzzle was shining, he brought his monoclear glasses to the bullet’s trajectory.
‘Is there not enough time to gather energy? I’m sorry. I thought I was well offended.’
It’s a pity for Historia. Anyway, in melee combat itself, Historia has the upper hand. Maximilien, who had no chance of winning in a fight, slid backwards and scraped the steel with his fingers. The pure white light was engraved deeply, and the iron plate was cut and turned over as if it had been cut with scissors.
Countless cogs sticking together, appearing as cracks. Maximilian reached out towards them.
Maximilian’s arm became a magnet. Thousands of cogs cling to him like a swarm of bees just by touching his hand. The cogs clinging to his arm got out of my control, and they spun around Maximilian’s arm to find its place. Each cog wheel remembers its position and moves to reassemble.
In an instant, Maximilien acquired a very large and functional mechanical arm. His fists are the size of Historia’s torso.
‘It’s strange… . I think my arms are bigger than before. Do you see anything in vain?’
Idiot. That’s right.
Tuk-bang, the mechanical arm stretched out and hit the front of Historia. It is several times bigger and several times longer than before. It’s not big enough to hit with a gun handle. Historia crossed her arms and ran backwards.
“… Ouch.”
It was when Historia staggered and was pushed backwards in a far-off shock.
it is now I quickly caught up in half a beat and shouted.
“Lea! 8 moves!”
Then Historia reacted reflexively.
Once upon a time, when I was in school. I had excellent writing skills and terrible practical skills. It’s my true ability. Anyway, the military will deprive you of opportunities if you don’t get good grades by the set standards.
So I teamed up with Historia to show off a match that was a few steps higher than my ability.
Decide on an action in advance, and when you say the number, you have to move accordingly. If you match the sum in advance, you can make even a third-rate performance look like a master’s match. This is because they do their best to move, instead of spending their spare time suspicious or wary of each other.
like now.
Historia stepped back and turned to the right with her left foot as an axis. At the same time, I also ran towards Historia’s back. A move that is sure to come crashing down soon. But for a moment, both twist and rub each other’s backs. At the moment of crossing, Historia pushes me with her shoulders and arms.
Thanks to this, my body bounced forward like a shooting star.
Much faster than before, but that doesn’t matter. Like it or not, Maximilien has no choice but to attach cogs to his arms because of his abilities. Alchemy is the art of changing substances. It needs power to move, and Maximilien, who has already been optimizing, has no other option than the cog wheel.
If so, the moment I touched it, it was a representation of the past. You can use his unique magic to reverse it, go up the cogwheel and break the inside of his body.
‘Things to be wary of than the director of Historia. The king of humans. His abilities are unreasonable only with that fragment.’
I stretched out my hand. His fingertips were about to touch Maximilian’s mechanical arm. When touched, it is irreversibly and reliably crushed. Because my ability is his ability.
‘You will go up the gears and attack me. Destroy me with my own power, I can’t even resist.’
Maximilian knew this all too well.
He used to face Historia, but through the monocle, he was looking at only me. Even though I suddenly popped out from behind Historia’s back, he continued to pay attention to me.
‘Then I’ll cut it off before it reaches you. Don’t let that power reach me.’
chit. I’m leaving.
I’ll have to redo the board.
waggle window. Maximilien separated the mechanical arm and his prosthetic arm. The cog wheels that could not get out of it so quickly that they could not get out made a squeaking noise and scratched the inner wall. Without even regretting what was made by consuming considerable magical power and cogwheels, he left behind with all his power. Without face or anything, they rolled away from me.
Cogs flew in front of my eyes. I immediately cried.
“No.2!”
Historia quickly grabbed my cloak. My body stops tall in the air, and my raised feet scratch the air. The mechanical arm collapsed right in front of me, but I avoided bumping it thanks to Historia pulling me in.
“Kek!”
Better to bump into it? The cloak pulls the neck and shoulders, suffocating.
After coughing a few times, I straightened my posture and said.
“If we go on like this, it will be a war of exhaustion. Leah, how much energy do you have left?”
“I don’t know… . If I do my best, I might be able to keep shooting.”
“Aren’t you strong enough?”
“Two feet.”
It means two feet are the end.
If it was perfect, the correct answer would be to continue the attrition battle. Maximilien uses the sirloin of a steel beetle as a material to make a pair of mechanical arms. There is also a ‘trap’ that I made while escaping earlier, so soon all the gears he will use will disappear.
But now we are close to our limit. We have to make a decision on our side, which is urgent.
“What’s your ultimate move?”
“If you give it strength, you can barely manage it.”
“Never close… . I’ll have to walk on it. Okay, this time I’ll try to make a gap.”
A commitment to brute force that has nothing to do with action. There is only the will to do something, without the power being given a choice.
This is normal. All animals live like this. Run and die, fight and die. Or they eat it wrong and get sick and die.
I don’t want to, but I still want to protect myself. I pulled a card out of my pocket.