Chapter 279: The Gate of Mercure
"You... who are you guys?!"
Szmek raised his head and looked at the white-haired girl who had not shown any unnecessary emotions from beginning to end, and shouted with a distorted face.
The long-haired girl had no habit of listening . After ignoring Szmek's endless insults, she leaped over to her companions.
"Let's go to the next place."
"Um."
The short-haired girl responded, and then she and the long-haired girl left the place through the hole that they had previously shattered.
They didn't even glance at the man and the blind girl standing next to them. They had seen many such poor people in the country.
Besides, they are combatants and do not have enough energy to treat these people.
Anyway, the nobles who bound them can no longer rise, so whether they can escape or not depends on their will and whether these people can break the shackles in their hearts.
With the departure of the two white-haired girls, the arena fell into silence again. The only sounds were the groans of the noble Szmek and the gradually spreading smell of blood.
"call……"
Seeing the two devil-like figures having left, the man who had been holding his breath finally let out the air that had been held in his chest.
Although the two girls seemed to be here to deal with the nobles, their cold-blooded killing still shocked him, a gladiator slave.
Only after the girls left did he dare to breathe freely.
"What...what happened?"
The blind girl asked weakly. As she couldn't see, she could only hear one wailing after another. She dared to speak only after the screams stopped.
"We...maybe we are free."
The man looked around and saw that the guards who were guarding them had fallen in a pool of blood, and the powerful magician had also lost his combat power.
The nobles who brought them fear were now even worse than pigs wallowing in the mud.
"Are you leaving?"
The man reached out and pulled up the blind girl, then looked towards the entrance which had not been destroyed yet.
Although the man wanted to kill the blind girl not long ago, and the blind girl knew that the man wanted to kill her, now, both of them did not mention the matter.
Because they both knew that it was an unavoidable choice.
The blind girl shook the man's hand and gave her answer without saying a word.
…
The bloody red washed the night of the kingdom.
That night, those pleasure-seeking nobles could never have imagined that in just one night, they would fall from the clouds into the quagmire.
By the time the church noticed all this, the patrolling garrisons had already been killed and the nobles had already been marked as prisoners.
"Damn it, what happened? Why are there invaders in the kingdom?"
The bishop, dressed in gorgeous robes, looked out the window at the peaceful night. His seemingly calm voice was filled with endless anger, mixed with a bit of panic.
"We... don't know either. The king asked us to report this to you, the Archbishop. The king has already gathered troops to stop them, and he also expressed the hope that you, the Archbishop, will send troops to support them as soon as possible."
The subordinates who arrived knelt on one knee in front of the archbishop and reported the message the king wanted them to convey.
"What about the academy?" The bishop withdrew his gaze from the darkness, "Are they not making any movement?"
"The academy has sent out magicians to suppress the invaders together with the garrison, but... no one has returned successfully."
Hearing this, the bishop staggered, felt dizzy, and almost fainted.
The subordinates next to him were very perceptive. They rushed forward to support the bishop and then helped him to a chair nearby.
After taking a few deep breaths, the bishop raised his cloudy eyes and spoke in a hoarse voice.
"Quick, do your best to cooperate with the kingdom's garrison. We must not let the invaders invade our country recklessly again."
The nobles are completely finished, so the next one is the king. When the king is gone, it will only be their church.
The Archbishop knew very well that these invaders were by no means comparable to the previous rebels. Their silent means of slaughter were obviously intended to completely occupy the kingdom.
Those invaders must not be allowed to get what they want, and Midgard can only allow their church to rule forever.
"yes!"
The subordinates who received the order withdrew and left. The archbishop lingered there for a while, then looked out the window at the sky which was gradually fading away to the darkness.
It's getting light.
…
At the same time, the YoRHa troops were like an old farmer weeding, methodically uprooting the nobles who had taken root within the kingdom.
Although the nobles all put up a certain amount of resistance, the strength of their resistance was not much stronger than a gentle breeze on the face of the YoRHa troops.
The slightly more troublesome ones are the magicians who have mastered magic, but these magicians can only become sitting ducks in front of the auxiliary machines.
Tens of thousands of years of technological supremacy cannot be eliminated by magic alone.
Besides, there is no forbidden magic that can destroy the world, and the power of the singer that can destroy the world has not appeared yet.
The mastermind behind all of this was currently walking on the streets of the kingdom. The garrison troops that were originally on patrol were also called over because of the YoRHa troops.
Then they went to give experience to the YoR-Ya troops, but considering the strength of the kingdom's garrison, it couldn't even be considered as giving experience.
Any member of YoRHa can defeat a hundred of these medieval garrisons alone.
Looking at the horizon gradually breaking into the dawn, he sensed the nobles who had been completely eradicated in the kingdom, and the king who was currently resisting desperately but was still losing ground.
Xia Yu suddenly stopped, looked at the sky and muttered to himself.
"It's dawn."
…
“BOOM! BOOM!”
The lasers fired by the auxiliary machine detonated the garrison troops who fought desperately, and the kingdom castle, which symbolized the highest power, was also completely shattered by the bombing of the auxiliary machine.
The brown and yellow soil surged, and the expanding shock waves made the ant-like garrison completely powerless to resist, causing their armor and weapons to be completely shattered or even melted.
The YoRHa troops, who had already dealt with all the nobles of the kingdom, were now surrounding the castle of the kingdom and carrying out the final cleansing.
The church's headquarters was not in the center of the kingdom, so the Yo-Ya troops followed Xia Yu's orders and first dealt with the king and the castle in the middle.
Each member of YoRHa is roaming around the castle with their own auxiliary machine, gradually eroding the castle's last bit of resistance.
Although this resistance seemed futile to the YoRHa troops, they did not launch a rash attack in order to capture as many prisoners as possible alive.
"Where the hell are these guys from?"
"Stop them!"
"Damn it, why did you invade the kingdom? What has the kingdom done to you?"
On the king's side, who was caught in a trap, everyone's reactions were different, but most of them were panic, anger, and the like.
The next moment, a middle-aged man with extremely gorgeous clothes and a different identity from the people around him walked out. He wore a gorgeous crown on his head and looked calmly at the approaching YoRHa members.
"Who is the leader of your organization? I want to talk to him."
The king looked normal, and his calmness infected the panicked other royal members around him. The originally chaotic crowd seemed to have found a backbone, and they all looked at the king with hope.
However, the YoRHa member who was approaching had no intention of communicating. He took a step forward and swung the back of his sword to knock the confident king unconscious.
There was even some confidence left on the king's face even after he fainted, as if he believed that nothing would happen to him.
This scene shocked the other royal family members. They stared blankly at the king who had fainted, as if they were under a spell of immobilization. In the end, these people could not escape the fate of fainting.
The long night broke, and the light of dawn pierced the darkness of the kingdom.
In less than one night, all the nobles and the king in the kingdom had been captured by the YoRHa troops, and all the rebels were wiped out.
However, Xia Yu did not inform all the civilians immediately. After all, the most important church city had not been completely conquered yet.
As dawn was just breaking, Xia Yu led a group of YoRHa members to the church.
Perhaps the church had already known their purpose, and they did not encounter any obstacles on the way, and they all arrived at the church smoothly.
On the way there, many civilians looked at them curiously, but because every member of YoRHa was equipped with a weapon, no one dared to approach them and talk to them.
" Wow, it seems the church is prepared."
At the front of the team, Xia Yu looked at the empty church entrance and raised his eyebrows.
Although it looked like the church was afraid and ready to be killed, Xia Yu's spiritual perception was always open. He had already seen that the church was preparing to take the last resort.
It was a corridor with layers of enclosures, and at the end of the corridor was a huge dark arched door. This door was out of tune with the style of the Middle Ages and did not seem to be created in this world.
"The Mercure Gate?"
The moment he saw the door, Xia Yu recalled the comic about the Dragon Riders. The Mercure Gate had appeared in the comic "Utahime FIVE".
According to the legend of this world, this door contains the knowledge and power of the old world. As long as you can open the door, you can gain the power to rule the world.
But no matter how you look at this legend, it seems like an imaginary dream.
Is the dog desperate?
Xia Yu used his spiritual sense to watch as the church members were about to use magic to blow open the first door, and he couldn't help but want to laugh.
Don't blame him for being so disrespectful. Just relying on those rotten sweet potatoes and stinky bird eggs from the church, you think you can open the door of Mercure?
In the comics, it took the power of four singers to open the third door of the Mercure Gate...
Wait, the third door?
The corners of Xia Yu's mouth condensed in mockery, and he suddenly remembered that the first two doors of the Mercurius Gate were not difficult to open, and could even be destroyed by magic. Only the third door was difficult to open.
So…
“Boom——!”
A loud bang suddenly sounded from inside the church, and the vibration caused the entire church to tremble.
In Xia Yu's perception, the first door of the Mercurius Gate had been blown open.
The YoRLea troops who heard the loud noise looked at Xia Yu, waiting for his next instruction.
"Forget it, you guys wait here first, I'll be back soon."
Realizing that the church members had already begun to gather strength to blow open the second door, Xia Yu sighed and waved to the YoR-Ya troops.
There is a person from the old era inside the second door. Of course, this old era is only what the people in the Dragon Back World know. In fact, the old era that the people in the Dragon Back World think of should be the future era.
After all, the ruins of the old world mentioned by the people of Dragonback World are the ruins of a technologically advanced city, which are also the future ruins of the NieR world.
The old human sleeping inside the second door was quite capable. At least the YoRHa members couldn't defeat him in a one-on-one duel.
Therefore, Xia Yu plans to deal with the old human personally. Behind the third door, there is darkness hidden. When the darkness merges with the power of the singer, a black flower of destruction will bloom.
As Xia Yu gave the order, the YoRHa member who was closer to him had just opened his mouth to ask a question, but Xia Yu had already disappeared on the spot in a flash.
Seeing that Xia Yu suddenly disappeared, the members of Yo-Ye were stunned for a moment, and then chose to obey orders and waited for Xia Yu's return at the door of the church.
Inside the church, a pure white corridor.
"Go on, blow open the door. According to legend, there are three doors in total in the Mercurius Gate, and behind the last door lies all the knowledge and power of the old world."
The archbishop standing at the ruins of the first door shouted with a ferocious look on his face.
He learned everything that happened yesterday from his subordinates. The mysterious organization wearing black skirts and eye masks eliminated all the garrisons and magicians who went to stop them without losing a single person.
Even at dawn, the king was captured by them.
And his guess was correct, the other party's next target was indeed their church.
After seeing the fighting power of the members of that organization, the Archbishop has given up the idea of a head-on confrontation. He cannot win, he simply cannot win.
Those women don't look like humans at all. Even humans with magic powers are not as powerful as those women.
But the Archbishop was unwilling to accept being killed just like that. He thought the Church City had existed for so many years since the beginning of the Age of Magic, so how could it be cut off here?
If the church is dissolved here, how can he face the archbishops of all generations?
Even if he had to use uncontrolled force, he would make the invaders return in defeat.
And this uncontrollable power is within the Mercurius Gate in front of us.
"fry!"
Following the order from the head bishop, the magician of the church suddenly shot the magic that had been accumulated for a long time towards the second door. The seemingly solid door was shattered by the powerful magic.
After waving away the dust, the bishop stepped in. He thought that behind the second door was the same as the first one, there was nothing.
But a figure suddenly came into his sight. It was a middle-aged man with a mechanical arm and a cloak.
The man seemed to be sleeping, but with the sound of the door being blown apart, he opened his eyes. There was no emotion in his eyes, as if he was an emotionless robot.
"This is……"
The High Bishop was stunned as he looked at the man sleeping behind the door in front of him. Why was there a man at the Gate of Mercure that hid the knowledge and power of the old world?
