Kuro no Maou

Episode 568: Shangri-La

An ancient black city stretches beneath a burning sky. Dancing on its streets, there is one poor red light.

"... the knights aren't coming after us."

"I wonder if you're out of the area in charge."

Lily and Lily - precisely Lily, the girl who keeps her true appearance, and Envy Ray, who imitates Lily's appearance, wrapped in The Fairy Connection (Oracle Field), which has changed to a red creepy shade.

Lily walks gracefully through the Enchantville Road piece. Envy Ray becomes the spirit body of translucent red light, drifting like a jellyfish and a fuyofuyo within the junction.

It hasn't been a few days since Lily started calling this evil spirit monster "Ray," but still, I was so used to not caring about its existence.

"I would have liked to have tried this power a little more."

Instead of the colour of fatigue, Lily's white face without a single sweat. Crunching boringly, she stroked her left eye gently turned black.

"I'll be back in a lot of time!

This is in the middle of a Rank 5 dungeon, God's Endangered Realm Avalon. Among them are tens of millions and countless ancient knights and the special monsters they can follow. There is never anything missing from the other person.

"Yeah, that too."

Lily, who answered with a flat voice, without a hint of feeling, rocked her back feathers small. The two pairs of light feathers that fairies hold are, however, now in much different shapes.

In a nutshell, a butterfly feather, would be.

The fairy feathers, formerly shaped like elongated leaves, were now spreading wide, as if they were going to bloom large circles of flowers. Bright crimson lights in the eyes colour the drooling, flowing, pitch-black lines that depict shapes and texts like black magpies.

I had somehow guessed that the light feathers of the disastrously beautiful fairy butterfly were the result of Lily hosting a monster named Envy Ray and accepting its power.

And in the worst dungeons where all the protections would be sealed, it was as if this was the optimal solution to the offense that it would exert tremendous power. It's not a blessing, it's a power supplied by a monster, so it's not subject to any constraints.

Or Lily, who is a righteous man and yet uses the power of a monster in him, has already...

"Mmm..."

"What's going on?

Ray asks Lily, in a relaxed tone, who suddenly stops and turns her sharp gaze backwards as she looks back.

"... nothing."

At the end of Lily's gaze is the huge defensive tower that leads to the walls. As the last defensive facility to defend the Imperial capital, the Great Wall is equipped with several defensive towers, one of them. It says' 21 'in large part in the numbers used even in modern times.

"Hmm."

With Ray's careless reply, Lily walks out again.

She makes her way down the alley in dignity, but she has never encountered an enemy until her next destination, and she has arrived safely.

"Are we going underground from here?

Lily, my leg stopped at one gate, in front of a building like.

A peek into the stone gates left open without a door revealed only the descending staircase that extended beneath the ground. Only the ceiling area is lit at equal intervals with light-emitting instruments that emit only blurry red light, and the destination of the stairs is invisible in darkness.

"There were underground streets, but I think this is where, uh, Metro, there's a ride like that"

"Vehicle?"

"Yeah! I'm running under the ground."

"Hmm, I'm not sure."

It doesn't make any sense to Lily how she runs in the dirt, but she stopped doing the barren act of asking Ray for an appropriate explanation for her young tone.

However, Ray, born of the Red Crystal Ball (Queen Beryl), created by the Fairy Queen in ancient times, seemed to possess an ancient knowledge, albeit a blur. In going on Avalon alone, that also helps a lot.

"Oh, this staircase, it's moving! Er, when you shed magic from the neighborhood..."

"Here?"

Lily stretches her fingertips toward a part like the cockpit hatch opening and closing panel that was on the back of Taurus, visible just beside the stairs.

"Eh!

And, when Ray screams, a red thunderlight emanates from Lily's fingertips to Russia, hitting the panel directly. Bachin! and the panels bounced and flew with the sound and glow of a correct burst of lightning attribute attack magic.

"Isn't it broken?

"Yes, I'm fine!?

As he defended Ray's childish excuse, shortly afterwards, the stairs made a noise with gowns, moving out.

"It's really moving...... I see, just get on with this, and you're wacky enough to carry me down there on your own"

Slowly at the better speed, Lily quickly understands the convenient features when she sees the stairs moving downward to flow.

It is a lazy feature, that it can go up and down the stairs automatically, but because it makes it possible to do so, it would also be one of the evidence that ancient magic technology was going much further than it is now.

With that in mind, Lily rode an automatic moving staircase and was transported to a deep underground.

"... finally, the exit."

Lily, who understood that a vehicle that traveled underground, instead of digging through the earth like a mole, was something that was huge and going through a large tunnel, continued to walk extensively through an underground tunnel through which a vehicle that would otherwise run faster than a horse.

It was dark in the tunnel and, even without a knight's patrol, it had been transformed into a nest of unencumbered undead monsters, centered on the slightest evil spirit (Ghost). Shame on you, what an uninteresting road to keep crushing someone in one hand who leaks all the shady grudges through the dark underground passage.

Ray finally said, "Here it is!" and told me the exit, and Lily was free from dark boredom.

"Isn't it possible that this place has gone out?

Lily's query is not about getting back to the ground, again before climbing the equally long stairs automatically.

That's because of the different sights from the ancient streets that have gone on.

"Yeah, I'm still in there."

See, and innocently, the more Ray points to heaven, the more it does remain a disastrous red sky pattern. There was no doubt that this place was within the walls of Avalon.

Apparently, by passing through the Metro tunnel, he bypassed the Demon King's Castle in the center and left in the opposite position to the main gate.

The offensive by the Adventurer begins at the main entrance, which serves as the starting point, and continues straight into the centre. As a result, it has been inhibited by the walls of the aristocratic city, so much so that the investigation has not proceeded, to say the least, with regard to the city centre, which naturally falls behind the castle of the Demon King from the main gate.

Therefore, the tunnel that Lily came through was relatively safe to go around the back, creating a new route. Most of all, Lily is more concerned about the sight that spreads in front of her than about the discovery.

"This place is more of a battlefield than a ruin..."

Unlike the cities within the walls that leave their appearance as it is at the time, this was a doomed city, mostly turned into a pile of rubble. If we walk out of the dark ruins, we will soon see that they were not only weathered by the passage of time, but were obviously destroyed by combat, as in the ancient ruins found throughout the continent.

The collapsed building, of course, can be seen wearing a crater slightly on the ground. If you observe it even more carefully, you will also notice that the remains of a large broken machine can be seen there, unlike the rubble of a building.

If we think that those that faintly preserve the prototype are the hands and feet of a giant human form, we go to the conclusion that this was the battlefield of a contending giant with a man-made weapon like Taurus.

Ray exclaimed as he continued to walk through a city of vain ruins, contemplating ancient wars that cost him non-standard magic technology compared to modern times.

"There it is! There it is, Lily!

Go to your destination, get there. It is what Ray calls' paradise '.

Lily didn't dare ask what it was. I'm not going anywhere else. Above all, I was convinced that before she led, there was a place worthy of the test of love imposed on me.

Fulfilling that, the intuition was right.

"Sounds like a very pleasant place... I can feel it, a lot of joy and excitement"

In a nutshell, a castle, would be. A high iron fence continues to be so wide that the edges are invisible that it clearly represents the boundary with the abandoned city.

Its boundaries remain intact, and the buildings that stand side by side are all strange things of different design, as if they were a different world from the ancient streets. Now all the inside of the fence remained intact in the shape of the day, just as only that space had escaped the war fire.

The city's boulevard, from which Lily stands, directly behind it, perhaps centrally located, shows a bright white castle as it shines at once in this dungeon coloured with black and red.

The pure white castle is much smaller than the Royal Castle of Sparda or the Fortress of Galahad. What bothers me, however, is that it is a castle, but not a suitable building for defense. It looks as if the aim is to make it look overdecorated and flashy, as if the royal family boasts its own glory. But it would be strange of the ancient design not to look nasty.

On a spotless, bright white outer wall, the roof of a tall, stretched spire is bright blue. Furthermore, the castle, lit up with colorful light, somewhere tempts the mind.

"Come on, let's go!

Lily walks out so Ray can pull her arm.

The main entrance, like the castle, is a look-alike emphasis and is not a robust creation that seems very likely to prevent enemy intrusion. Just like the automatic staircase in the basement, if you let the magic flow as Ray says, it opens on its own.

Diving through the gate, there was an open, in fact, uninterrupted vast garden in front of him.

"The flowers are withered, aren't they? Too bad."

"You just have to bloom from now on."

From the large fountain visible in the centre, flower beds and objects spread in circles. It seems lonely without a single round of flowers, but I can imagine its finished beauty from a stunning garden.

Numerous buildings were visible from the garden in front of the main gate, surrounding the castle from left to right. Luxurious buildings, like the finest hotels and temples. Some of them are circular and fighting-field.

But there are also many strange things that you can't imagine using as if they were a tower with a pendulum, such as a giant disc vertical. A mysterious object in which only a few large teacups are likely to be put in, or a doll lined up in a circle mimicking a horse and carriage that also leads to modern times, or a worn out mansion in which only one or more ghosts are likely to live, among all the small and beautiful buildings.

Lily has no idea what sense the Ellord royalty or ancient nobility living in that castle made of this place.

I don't know, strange, fun. Even minus the bright future imagination that this is where Chrono and I are going to be alone in paradise, my heart gets excited.

In fact, the ancients who visited here laughed at each other and were delighted. Walking in this, it does stimulate telepathy, even though the emotions of the old man, his residual thoughts, that are stained with the land itself, are abated. It cannot be a curse because it is the opposite of negative emotions such as resentment. Places like that are good for building temples.

"Nice place. It looks like we could make a nice paradise here."

"Yeah! The fairy queen came here to visit with someone she loves, too, because it's a place of memories!

The sight must have been watched by the women who, with the thought of weeping blood, became the raw material for that 'red crystal sphere (Queen Beryl)'.

Apparently this was a heaven of love, where only those who won the harsh war of love are allowed to enter.

I see, indeed, here, deserves it.

"But the real reason you brought me here... is that."

"Is that it?"

To Ray, who squeezes his eyes, Lily points her finger.

Beyond that lies not the iconic pure white castle, but further behind. Lying black the size of a mountain, huge, too huge, something.

I saw that too big silhouette in the distance, and I thought, no way. But when I look up close, I have to believe it.

Yes, it was a giant ship.

"That's a strange thing. This shouldn't have been an ancient place or an ocean, but I can't believe there's such a big ship."

An ancient giant ship that feeds the bottom of the ship deep into the earth and maintains almost upright. The total length would be very close to 500 meters. The bridge, the part to be called, is as tall and large as one castle is on as it should be at the earliest. It is likely to exceed 100 metres, even if measured from the deck, such as towering areas when stretching through heaven.

I live in the woods, and I've never even seen the ocean. Lily is the reason I'm done with the feeling of a "big ship". Even with a ship named after the Navy's proud giant battleship, which is home to a modern ocean nation facing the sea, it is not far from here. Ten times the size would still not be enough.

Lily looked up satisfied with the black supermassive ship that showed the difference between ancient and modern times and its overwhelming magic technology in various ways.

"Oh, this is, uh, this is called" Spacecraft. "

"Are you flying in the sky? The ship?"

"Yeah, I'll fly! I don't think I can fly this anymore."

"That's too bad, it would be nice if we could pick up Chrono now"

If it was the same power system as Taurus, it was Lily who felt like she could go.

However, it is also not difficult to imagine that the function of the contents would be almost dead if we saw him just sedate the pitch-black hull to dissolve in the darkness. For one thing, if there's anything I can use, is it your word or something?

"But Ray didn't even know I was falling here."

"Really?

"Yes, I am."

"So what else do you know?

"This is the ship the Fairy Queen was on! So I know your name, too!

If Lily asked, Ray smiled and answered instantly.

"-" Shangri-La, "right. So, I need to know nothing else."

"Yeah, I don't know, I'm sorry"

"It's okay, just know the name is enough. Besides, if you were on this ship... hehe, I'm sure the fairy queen sent me a gift."

Thanks for the wonderful gift. Thank you, I will use it, and Lily prayed to the fairy god, even though she knew it would not arrive from here.

"Well, then, let's first try to defeat the Lord here and have him cede control -" Fairy Connection (Oracle Field) "- Full Open"

At that moment, a blue thunderlight pierces the Fairy Sect (Oracle Field), which increases the brilliance of crimson on Russia. Rather than thunder, it flew in as a band of light like Chrono's emitted 'Charged Particle Cannon (Plasma Blaster)'. From the signs of its brilliance and magic, it can be seen at a glance that it is equal to or more powerful than Chrono's sole.

If you are shot with so much destructive power and speed, most beings will be turned into extinguishing coal. Only a high-ranking dragon or a handful of monsters with excellent defense and resistance would be able to withstand a direct hit.

How Lily's "Fairy Connection (Oracle Field)" would pierce you if you were subjected to Matomo - but it went well with this Te attack.

The blue thunderbolt runoff that struck Lily to swallow twists and turns as she touches the crimson light. The tip of thunder was diverted toward heaven, and all its tremendous attack power was to be scattered unnecessarily into the red sky.

"That's a very powerful weapon. The performance of the difference between Taurus and Taurus, the boulder, is a real ancient weapon -" The Warrior's Machine (Night Frame). "

Dialogue is back to back, a satisfying thin and laughing lily. One giant figure is visible ahead of the black and green odd eye she stares at.

Since when did you show up there? Or did you keep standing there from the start?

The mountainous spaceship Shangri-La, stands dignified without hiding on its deck. Silhouettes are close to humans. A silhouette that is not inappropriate with a dimensional torso, like a taurus, but long hands and feet, slurring like a model. Now, the total length is better than ten meters.

White body in base color, armor helmet-like armor around you is blue. A steel knight with beautiful white and blue two-tone colors only quietly points a weapon toward Lily that emits a one-strike special thunderbolt.

The weapon held in your right hand is a gun, not a cane. Since it is somewhat similar in shape to the rifle used by Simon, Lily immediately assumed it was a kind of gun, rather than an evolutionary system.

Lily again thinks that Simon was a genius after all, etc. because he invents the same form of weapon as the main weapon of ancient civilization.

However, it was felt that having it in the left hand opposite to a gun was a shield, no matter how I saw it, in modern or ancient times, it would not be so different in the way weapons were.

Most of all, that's why I'm not very insulting.

Even Taurus, a mere work machine called the Heavy Machine (Power Loader), took so long to defeat. Standing in front of you is a real combat golem. It is a terrible weapon that specializes in only killing the ancient magic technique that has advanced.

Its strength is utterly unknown. Very, not the only person a person should stand up to.

But there's nothing to be afraid of or lost in Lily.

"Fine, because the heavier the trial, the more it's worth getting over"

Crimson red 'Fairy Boundary (Oracle Field)' mixed with black flaming colors in Russia. Shining in a disastrous red and black, Lily rose to the universe with fuzz, as she forgot the existence of gravity.

"Please, Chrono, give me a hand... you two will survive this test of love together"

Terribly beautiful, feathering butterfly feathers, Lily challenged the 'Warrior Machine (Night Frame)' from ancient times.