The Master of the Strange Realm

Then, the brass-colored beam of light flooded Jenkins' position, and even turned the vines under his feet into metal. But before the metal vines spread downward, they were destroyed by more wriggling vines below.

But there was no trace of Jenkins on the destroyed metal, and even the five balls disappeared.

The gear man looked at the broken sword flying in the air, which proved that Jenkins was still nearby. The sensor organ sensed the sound of breaking air from behind, and immediately swung his left arm, and then perfectly hit the flying metal ball to the distance that could not be seen in the sky.

"It's amazing, at such a close distance, I didn't even sense that the attacking object was my own creation."

The gear man said, and when he saw that Jenkins had not yet appeared, he stretched out his left arm and aimed it downward. The left arm was transformed into a flame-breathing mouth, and a raging flame spewed out from it, trying to burn the vines grown by Jenkins.

Wet plants are not easy to catch fire, but the flame of the differential engine is not an ordinary fire. The sea of ​​fire covered the Civic Square almost instantly, and the vines that continued to grow made the flames not extinguish for a long time.

The flames obscured the moonlight, and the body of the gear man in the air was reflected in a fiery red.

A strange sound came from below again, and this time it had no time to react, and its left leg was destroyed by its own metal ball. All four balls flew out of the sea of ​​fire, surrounding the gear man as if threatening Jenkins just now.

"Savior William, do you know how to use these weapons?"

It said to the sea of ​​fire below.

"Of course I know."

The sound really came from below, and the gear man wanted to land immediately, but the four balls surrounding it, just like before, vaguely resonated. Unique runes appeared on the surface of the metal ball, the runes were sharp and angular, without any rounded arcs.

The resonating sphere once again started the confinement effect, and the gear man was not panicked:

"If you want to rely on this alone..."

A hole appeared at the center of its eyebrows, and four brass chains stretched out, connecting the four metal balls in turn.

The control of the sphere was immediately easier, and the gear man kept this strange appearance and descended into the sea of ​​fire, feeling the ability to fully descend, catching Jenkins's trace.

"Do you really think I can't fly?"

A voice suddenly appeared above, it was Jenkins' voice. But the gear man did not look up to meet the enemy. It did not sense the existence of any large creatures above, so it thought that it was Jenkins in the sea of ​​fire playing tricks.

So, the pigeon that Jenkins turned into landed directly on the head of the gear man.

The bronze light flickered again.

Although he has not learned to fly yet, it is not difficult for Jenkins to become a flying animal. Moreover, after becoming a creature like a pigeon, the volume of space occupied will also become smaller, which can effectively avoid being detected.

This is of course impossible for the differential machine itself, but it is enough to deal with the gear man.

The flashing of bronze light means that Jenkins is trying to transform the gear man into a machine controlled by himself again, and the gear man also chooses to self-destruct again at the first time.

"Do you think I will let you explode again?"

The pigeon said, turning into a purple-gold light ball and returning to the appearance of Jenkins. With a wave of his hand, the broken blade of the magic sword flew over and directly pierced the gear man's chest.

The sound of beeping was stopped.

But it was not over yet. The original complete gear man immediately broke into a pile of small gears and fell from the air to the sea of ​​fire below, leaving only the small half-metal head controlled by Jenkins. But without a complete body, the half metal head was completely useless.

Jenkins threw it away casually, and then took out the spiral sword to melt them.

Due to the temporary disappearance of the gear man, the burning flames gradually extinguished. Jenkins was lifted up to the sky by the vines again, and lowered his head to check the small gears falling down.

The single power of the broken gears was also weakened. He wanted to regroup, but was surrounded by the growing vines. When the gear man flew into the air again relying on the steam thrust on his back, its "thickness" was only a quarter of the original.

"If you disintegrate once more, I guess you're really done. So, do you want to use a one-shot method to make the final blow against me?"

Jenkins asked across the sky, and the gear man nodded without saying too much.

It disintegrated and deformed again in the air, transforming from a human form into a flying sword. The sword body is made up of countless running small gears, so dense that there is almost no gap, but if you look closely, you can see that the whole is rotating. There are still jet holes on the hilt, relying on the gushing of steam to maintain its hovering in the air.

Seeing this, Jenkins held the spiral sword tightly with both hands. The blazing flames on the sword body could no longer be distinguished whether it was the flame of the spiral sword itself or the fire of Jenkins's gift.

The gear sword slowly changed direction under the night sky, and the blade flashing with black spiritual light pointed in the direction of Jenkins. As the last ray of flame on the square disappeared, the gear sword under the moonlight stabbed down at Jenkins' head.

The spiral sword pulled out a dazzling flame in the air, and the ends of the two twisted metals turned to the sky. First, the blades of the two swords collided, and both of them had no sharp blades due to their structure.

The gear sword was also judged as a sword, and the gears on the blade immediately collapsed into useless metal debris. But then the gear sword in the air disintegrated again, and countless tiny gears rotated around the raised spiral sword, and small gears were attached to the sword body, suppressing the flames on the spiral sword in a blink of an eye.

"You think I wouldn't think of you doing this?"

The blazing flames hit the scattered gears with a near-explosion. The weakening of individual strength caused the gears closest to the sword to melt immediately and fall downwards like mosquitoes that were extinguished.

The only thing left was the gear at the hilt of the sword that had not yet been disassembled. Seeing this scene, I immediately wanted to escape back to the higher night sky.

"it's useless!"

Holding the sword in one hand, the other hand is pointed at the sky in a claw-like shape. The escaping gear felt the suction and slowly flew towards Jenkins' hand.

"If there were only this number of gears left, I could control them without direct contact."

The small gears moved downward little by little, and finally they all fit into Jenkins' hand, and changed from brass color to bronze color.

Instead of using the metal, Jenkins melted it away.

As the melted metal fell to the ground, it meant that the Gear Man was completely wiped out.

Although neither side used any powerful means in the fight just now, every move of the almost immortal World Tree and the robot with immortal gears could bring death to the opponent. At the level of an individual in human form, this is already a very fierce battle.

Although there are not many tricks, this is a real fight to the death. Even Jenkins in his current state doesn't want to fight like that again.

But this was not the end. At this moment, the ground finally began to shake.

Chapter 2218 Twenty-Four Demigods

Amidst the violent shaking of the ground, the vines covering the square were squirming, ready to face the next opponent at any time. Jenkins saw that his father had exited the square and stood watching at the street entrance into the square. Chocolate climbed up to the roof of the apartment building around the square, looking at Jenkins with his backpack on his feet.

Jenkins at the top of the vine had no time to deal with his cat. He controlled the plants under his feet and sent himself higher. Overlooking the entire city, the end of the sight is the darkness outside the city. After all, this is a strange place, and Nolan's boundary is the limit.

Within the boundaries of the strange realm, with the roar of the earthquake and the illumination of the two-color moonlight, black metal tentacles with spiral markings pierced the ground one by one and stretched from the ground to the sky.

The tentacles are made of metal, and a special calcining technique gives the formed metal surface regular patterns. But that pattern seems to have infinite malice, interfering with the normal rules of the world and transforming everything around it into a metallic form.

They danced through the house, carrying with them a large number of fragments of furniture and the remains of the house's ceiling, dancing wildly in the moonlight. The resonating spirit covers the entire area of ​​the strange realm.

The moonlight still shines here. Although the weather has not changed, the two round and scary moons still shine here, but the sky has become darker inexplicably.

Whispers, whispers caused by metal friction, came from deep underground. This is not a deliberately created atmosphere, it means that the Difference Engine is about to cross that threshold and achieve its most important step in sublimation.

One after another, the cylindrical tentacles almost occupied the night sky in a few breaths. It's like the entire city is built on a huge monster, and now the monster wakes up.

The vines under his feet tried their best to maintain balance, so that Jenkins would not feel the bumps due to the vibration of the ground. But the stability soon disappeared, because right below the Civic Square, violent metal tentacles also stretched out. After all, this is the center of the Difference Machine's body.

Metal dug through the ground and tangled with the vines Jenkins had grown. The texture of the black metal tentacles looks smooth, but in fact there are layers of spikes that are almost invisible to the naked eye. These metal layers kept scratching against the vines, twisting together with the vines and rising continuously.

The growth speed of the vines is limited, so all the vines in the square can only be mobilized to entangle them with the huge tentacles deep underground.

The two are constantly fighting, almost clinging to each other and constantly moving upward. Even the roots of the vines and the underground metal tentacles were stirred together, covering the surface of the square, giving the surface of the square a strange state of plant juice mixed with metal shavings.

The two tentacles extended upward, and finally, even under Jenkins' feet, two components of metal and vines appeared at the same time. So he lightly stamped his foot, and the growth of the vines and metal stopped at the same time, and they both became still.

At this moment, Jenkins stood on the top of what seemed to be a spiral mountain. Under his feet were metal and vines intertwined, forming a spiral mountain in a terrifying aesthetic form.

The creeping vines and metal are still fighting with each other under Jenkins' feet. The thick stems and leaves on the surface of the vines are like terrible external organs growing from the human body, and the dark lines on the metal surface are like open eyes.

They were still unwilling, but were bound by Jenkins' power. Jenkins looked up at the moonlight, not feeling the power of the moonlight and stars at all.

People in the treacherous realm disappeared inexplicably during the earthquake, as if the nature of the enchanted realm had changed in an instant. The rules of the world completely suppress the power of flesh and blood. Instead, the power of metal and machinery has the upper hand.

Dad was at the edge of the square, standing under the roof where the chocolate was, staring at Jenkins on the spiral with his mouth open. Before he could say anything, the suitcase in his hand suddenly emitted light:

"Finally here! You guys are so slow!"

Dad knelt down on one knee and carefully laid the suitcase flat on the ground, with the side with the holy emblem of the traveler facing upwards.

Chocolate on the rooftop poked his head down from the edge of the roof, trying to see what Dad was going to do while carefully protecting the area.

Dad whispered a prayer to the sage, and with a click, he carefully opened the buckles on both sides of the suitcase amid the tremors of the ground. After opening the box, Chocolate on the top saw that there was a big hole inside the box that connected to the bottom, as if there was a passage leading to the underground under the suitcase.

"Meow?"

Chocolate scratched his face with his little paws, and then a man's head came out of the big hole in the suitcase. Because you can only look upwards in the cave, before seeing the old man, Mr. Gilbert first saw the curious cat almost directly above him:

"Oh, sage! I saw Jenkins' cat! I saw Jenkins' cat! It's the little cat! Miss Miller said that as long as we see the cat, it proves that we are in the right place! Yes, it worked this time! I'm in!"

The (relatively) young demigod said loudly, and then was pulled out of the box by the collar of the old man. The ground was still shaking, and they quickly fixed the box to prevent it from leaving the ground.

After the first person appeared, Chocolate heard faint cheers and prayers from the other end of the cave. Then the second head also appeared in the cave and was pulled out by the old man and Mr. Gilbert together.

That's not all. The old gravekeeper's feet were still clamped with the straps of the coffin he often carried, so after pulling the old gravekeeper out of the box, he had to help him pull the coffin to the ground.

A steady stream of people entered the strange world from the suitcase in Daddy's hand. Even Chocolate couldn't tell where this suitcase that forcibly created a passage between the strange world and the material world came from.

People came out of the box one by one. The demigods who appeared first had already flown into the sky to help Jenkins suppress the rioting mechanical tentacles.

And the passage opened by the suitcase was not always connected to the outside world to let everyone in.

In the end, there were 24 people who entered the strange world, excluding Daddy. These 24 people were all demigods, but not all of them were demigods from the Orthodox Church. There were also three demigods from the Pseudo-God Church who came to the Sage Church to participate in negotiations.

After the black suitcase collapsed into a black dot and disappeared, the 24 people came to the sky together. Daddy was hurt because he lost the power of the evolution key, so he did not go with them, but stood under the roof where Chocolate was to prepare for support.

Chapter 2219 Ancient Spiritual Power

Of the 24 demigods who entered the strange world through the suitcase, Jenkins was familiar with most of them, but did not see Miss Befanna. Although these are not the strongest fighting force in the material world (someone needs to be outside to prevent being caught in one fell swoop after failure), they can be said to be the strongest support provided by the church to Jenkins.

"Don't get close to the square, go to the nodes far away from the square, and help suppress those tentacles that look different."

Jenkins said loudly on the spiral of metal and plants. His position is the center of the underground metal monster, but it is normal for mechanical life forms to have multiple nodes, so other positions also need to be suppressed.

Jenkins was not standing still just now. He controlled his power and tried his best to suppress the power of the core body of the differential machine buried deep underground, while trying to search for the location of the core of the differential machine.

But so far, nothing can be seen by the aura alone. Presumably, it is really necessary to completely defeat the "second stage of the differential machine" to see the core hidden in the deepest part of this strange world.

The demigods flew to various parts of the city according to Jenkins' request. As the aura of divine arts and rituals bloomed everywhere in "Nolan", the huge body that occupied the entire underground of the city was finally unable to concentrate all its strength to fight with Jenkins above the square.

The bronze light bloomed under Jenkins' feet. Even though he couldn't fully use the ability of [Theory of All Things] at this moment and summon the bronze book that was the key to his ability, he was able to release the power of the machine through plants after perfectly controlling the balance of life, death and machinery in the last strange realm.

The bronze light, which represented Jenkins' control over the machine, strengthened the power of the vines under his feet, allowing it to suppress the metal tentacles entangled with it in an instant.

Under the deep night sky, the colors of bronze and brass completely suppressed the glow of the moon. The forces belonging to the machine crushed each other, and the power of life also assisted one of them, and Jenkins took the advantage.

The surface of the vine showed some inexplicable straight lines, which were the patterns of circuits that Jenkins understood. The further strengthened power gave Jenkins an opportunity to take advantage of. Even if he just stood at the highest point and didn't move, such a fight was definitely more dangerous than a close combat with the gear man.

"Now! All living beings feel the same!"

The powerful soul force carried the majestic mental power and followed the double helix abnormal structure under his feet into the underground. The resonance caused by the mental power made the huge metal body that had not yet been fully unearthed feel the crisis. The tentacles dancing wildly under the moon, like crazy, stirred the air and sprayed deadly poisonous fog.

There was no fog, but the already dark night sky became even gloomier. The "lights of thousands of homes" in Nolan City at night gradually dimmed, just like the old photos that had lost their conspicuous colors. Because of the end of the first stage and the beginning of the second stage, the strange world also underwent some inexplicable changes.

Everything around him seemed to be covered with a layer of hazy mist, which was like the doomsday scene in the outside world. But the real world has not reached this point yet, and even the space seems to be corroded by the power of sin.

If Jenkins cannot defeat the Difference Machine, the real world will sooner or later become like this and fall into the deepest doomsday.

The "ability" used by the Gifter itself has characteristics different from rituals and any extraordinary effects. The [Spirit Empathy], which belongs to the same life ability, almost instantly empathizes with the emotions of the huge metal creature hidden underground under the effect of Jenkins' increasingly powerful soul.

Because it has emotions, Jenkins thinks it is a creature. But this is definitely not the core of the Difference Machine. The Difference Machine divides its already broken soul and gives a very small part of it to Jenkins' current enemy. It lacks the real core of the Difference Machine and is only the key body of the Difference Machine, but it is filled with a small amount of soul, and its power must not be underestimated.

A small amount of soul is enough to give birth to emotions, and this small amount of emotion is enough to be captured by Jenkins. As soon as the consciousness came into contact, the other party sent a message, as if it was set that as long as the consciousness was contacted, the message would be sent:

"Savior William, when facing my body, you used this power that can directly communicate with the soul. What method are you going to use to face my core?"

"Do you want to say that I was fooled again and used the key power in advance?"

"No, I just want to say that without this chip, your chance of winning has been reduced again."

"So you are so worried, I will start with your incomplete soul and find a way to defeat you."

The communication of consciousness only lasted for a moment, and the huge mechanical body was resisting Jenkins's consciousness communication, but with a small amount of soul power, it could not bounce off Jenkins's spiritual connection at all.

Only on the spiritual level, Jenkins had the upper hand, but on the material level, the mechanical body that felt the crisis almost instinctively released more power. The diffused gray fog has filled the entire city, and the divine light in the distance represents that the demigods of the church are trying their best to help Jenkins suppress the rioting metal monsters.

On the one hand, Jenkins tried to interfere with the enemy's control by relying on his spiritual power, and on the other hand, he took back the spiral sword and took out the cane. He held it with both hands and stabbed at the spiral "mountain" composed of double helix aliens under his feet.

The green light once again stimulated the vines to continuously attack the metal tentacles. The huge metal life form split from the differential machine was about to be completely defeated.

At this time, a loud bell sounded again in the distance. The sound seemed to come from the border of the strange world, and it resounded throughout the world in an instant.

Stimulated by the bell sound, the power of the huge metal creature buried deep underground suddenly increased. Jenkins didn't react and almost lost control of the double helix structure under his feet.

He felt a deeper and more ancient power penetrate into the body of this metal giant. Reflected in the level of soul and consciousness, Jenkins felt a huge spiritual power from the past.

One point that must be emphasized is that although the differential machine was a pure gear structure without soul in the past, it does not mean that it has never studied soul and spiritual power. The body of the differential machine after it was created was not actually very large, but in the past ten thousand years, it has continuously added new functional modules to itself, so the emergence of this spiritual power from ancient times is not incredible.

The spiritual power was almost perfectly integrated into the weak soul of the metal giant. Jenkins, who came into contact with it, immediately felt the helplessness, hesitation and despair in the spiritual power.

"What is it?"