The Amber Sword

The Book of the Earth flies flat to Magdalene's chest, and the pages flick, and she slowly lifts her head, reflecting in her eyes the view above the entire battlefield. Two halo rings rose from her left and right, as if the invisible force lifted her long hair, and a mechanical stubborn sound rang over the battlefield:

“Please select a goal--”

In front of Her Royal Highness the Sister Princess appeared simultaneously a virtual screen in light blue that was invisible to four bystanders. The first layer of light filters out all the flying dust and smoke on the battlefield, the sound of slaughter and the blood of the flying dance. The second layer highlights all active units, distinguishes between enemies, and calculates motion trajectories. The third layer of light screen lists topographical data - distance and elevation - for the entire battlefield from left to right.

When the last layer of light overlays the last light screen, the Gaia tissue logo appears on the light screen, rotating 180 degrees counterclockwise, and the black and white dragon-shaped crest representing Martha and the Dragon of Dusk separates from each other, with a huge pale grey shadow over Magdalene's eyes.

Although this is not the first time that the Book of the Earth has been manipulated, Magdalene cannot help but marvel at its power every time.

“Please select a target, Titan GX-013.” The sound of the machine repeats itself again.

“I'm Magdalene.” The nun stubbornly repeats.

“As you wish, Your Excellency Magdalene.” The sound of that machine repeats itself.

Magdalene's eyes solidified right in the center of the battlefield.

She quickly reported three readings. This seemed to be a simple task, but Andrea and others had succeeded for a month, simply to enable Princess Magdalene to identify the equivalents under the coordinates, and the goddess of war had to correct her misguided worldview of the past.

Of course...

While Magdalene is still adamant at this moment that the Golden Flame Path has opened an era with three other wise men - after the Battle of the Saints, the stars above the sky have been rewritten and the gods no longer care for the world - where people carefully follow the path of their forefathers, and even though some have fallen, most people still adhere to the right faith.

But like some memories in her veins, she finally accepted everything she had seen and heard since the Battle of Finhotus - including the strange words Andrea had told her.

“This is what you call the law," Andrea said to him, referring to her past, to the power corresponding to the Book of the Earth: "It does symbolize a part of the truth of the world, but more importantly, it is man-made rules. ”

At that time Magdalene revealed an apparently incomprehensible divine colour, and she opened her mouth slightly, as if she had heard something unbelievable: "But that was the rule set by the gods, and it was under Lord Martha's law that Warnde gained his life! ”

“Whoever sets the rules, it's just one of them, and it's not necessarily true, otherwise the gods wouldn't have made such a big difference -”

Andrea clearly hesitated to say something like this: "We gain strength from it and in turn maintain our order, but its consumption is so high that in the end we cannot afford it, so we have to restart the world once and for all..."

“What is a mortal?” Referring to this term, Magdalene noticed the apparent irony of the young girl's tone: “Oh, mortal is hope. Some people are tired of this game, but more people don't want to change, you don't understand our contradictions, and the gods aren't noble, which is helpless, of course. ”

Andrea took a sigh of relief: “In comparison, I prefer the moment, even though countless people have sacrificed themselves, even myself, and the Commander - each of us could sacrifice every moment, but at least there is hope that without those endless pushes and peels, the lives and values of the warriors will be reflected on the battlefield. ”

Normally, Magdalene could not understand Andrea's self-sarcasm. But she heard at least a little bit about it - whether Andrea or Her Majesty the Sovereign Queen of Madara, or Mr. Brando, or even those who disgusted her - like the Cruz Empress, who fought for that unknown glimmer of hope.

Although, according to Andrea, it was just a struggle.

While Magdalene cannot understand whether that purpose is despicable, noble or worthless, she simply needs to understand that at this moment everyone's destiny is linked to the existence of life and death in the world, and that even if it were her, she would not be able to remain outside.

And that's exactly why she's determined to take Andrea's orders to join this team.

Perhaps the only thing Magdalene wonders about each other during that time - every time Andrea talks about Brando, there's always a different kind of emotion for the 'Commander'.

She understands that it is not love between a man and a woman or love alone, but a hope for the future that is rare for these twilight goddess of war girls.

What kind of secrets does Mr. Brando have?

Magdalene thinks like this from time to time, although she never gets an answer to that question. In her view, this young knight, who claims to be from the Karasou Heights, is a standard Eruin nobleman, but there are times when there is so much disobedience, but when it really breaks her heart, the other person seems to have inherited the ancient spirit of honesty and nobility.

She sometimes had to compare Brando to the ‘nobleman' who had died in the Battle of Ambethel, although she was reluctant to admit that even before the gentleman had revealed his face to her, he was no better than the Count.

“Confirm goals. ”

Finally, Magdalene silently abandoned all unnecessary emotions, and Sandalwood whispered the words.

When she said that, she felt that an unknown feeling had dissipated from herself, which was like a huge sense of loss. She never felt so strange to herself for a moment - she couldn't help but think: "Is she Her Royal Highness the Princess of Antobulo, the devout believer who follows the rules and never dares to challenge tradition and authority, or the more real self in front of her - a Titan from an ancient civilization? ”

The powerful power of the Heart of the Dragon runs beneath the chest of the Princess, and the resonance of a steady pulse seems to answer this question in silence.

“Griffin...” Magdall muttered to himself: “Where exactly should I go and why should the world be like this? ”

But that mechanical voice doesn't take into account the complex emotions in her heart.

It simply replied: “The range of strikes has been confirmed. ”

Then repeat with a more stubborn voice: "Transfer permissions to the original core network, strike full, countdown, 4, 3, 2, 1…”

This additional instruction draws Her Royal Highness the Sister back from her complex thoughts. When she was practicing with Andrea and others, she never had this situation. “Wait, why did you transfer permissions?” Magdalene asked with some anxiety - she was not familiar with the Book of the Earth or even with her own power, which suddenly caused her to panic.

But the worst didn't happen, and the sound of the mechanical stupidity didn't actually answer her questions.

In the dark sky, what Brando had seen earlier, like clouds, suddenly separated a line from it, and then three spots were lit from south to north in turn - although the three clusters of star-like light from the ground were very close to each other. But in fact, the distance between them is enough to cover dozens or even hundreds of miles.

Then a faint light descends from the sky.

The scene was so striking on a pitch-black battlefield that it even attracted the attention of Phoenix Fire and Fanche and others, as well as a deeper look further away from the battlefield.

After the light is perpendicular to the ground.

Suddenly a dull noise was heard above the ground, and the battlefield was cut off from far and close, in three successive pieces, under the calm gaze of Magdal, who had abandoned all feelings.

It was not an exaggerated adjective, but the entire plain belt before the hill, completely fractured, in a squeaky noise, formed three huge sedimentation belts.

And then there was the name of the spell, which she wrote word for word: "Highest — ruling." ”

Aloz is struggling with the divine devourer. The monster screamed horribly and tried to strike back with four arms as she ripped off the white plate on the monster's face and revealed the bloody muscle tissue behind it - but her paws sank suddenly under the surprised gaze of Little Mother Dragon, losing cross with one of her paws.

Because at that moment they were suddenly separated from each other by their own forces.

It was a demarcated border between the dragon and that terrible monster, who survived and lost all of its foothold - a vast body that began to lean back and fall into a cloud of smoke.

No physical ground sinks slowly in sharp noises, like an ark that is being overturned, and the grid that makes up the ground suddenly bends and sharps over the plain, slowly folding down.

And what goes down is thousands of void monsters.

……