Omniscient First-Person’s Viewpoint

EP.297 A world made of gears – 4

Rumble. The sawtooth of the bullet rotated violently and scratched the groove one after another. It accelerates in an instant along a uniform groove and then flies right in front of me in the blink of an eye.

Still, from what I can see, it’s not as fast as Historia’s Qigong bullets. However, if it is hit by a heavy gear, the amount of impact will be enormous.

‘shoulder.’

But my ability is mind reading. I figured out where I was aiming and avoided it one step ahead. Where my shoulder used to be, a cogwheel whirls past me.

If it were Historia, it would hit right after launch, so she would never be able to dodge it.

‘One avoids. It’s a decent skill… how about a hundred?’

what?

Dozens and hundreds of gears crawled up Maximilien’s body. The sight just looks like bugs covering the body. The cog wheel that went up to his shoulder went down the ridge of his body. The cogs that reached the wrist in line with the five were loaded into the bowgun one after another and accelerated along the groove as before.

Drurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Now there is nothing to aim for. I plan on swinging my arms to scatter the gears. Indiscriminate rampage relying on one’s own strength without any psychological warfare. If that’s the case, you can’t even use mind reading.

Chit. If you are a technician, you have to fight with fierce psychological warfare and a trump card like this! Instead of fighting an unwinnable fight, I called my faithful punching bag.

“Oh!”

“bruise!”

The dog king answered my call.

Aji, who had climbed the top of the steel beetle, jumped at me without even having time to catch his breath. The head of Aji who arrived in front of me moved quickly. The flying cogwheel disappears as if being sucked into Aji’s mouth.

Every time Aji munched his cheek, it made a crackling sound. Sparks fly from the crevices of your teeth. Each gear Maximilien uses is at least level 4 alchemy steel, but in front of Aji’s teeth, it’s just a bit hard dog gum.

No matter how many times he shot, Maximilien had two hands. Aji picks out the one flying towards me like a ghost and chews it up.

The rampage is over. After spitting out the last cog, Aji stiffened his tail and let out a long howl.

“Awww!”

dog king. Man’s old friends still sided with me. Even if he couldn’t bite Maximillian, at least he would protect me from dying.

how is it This is the power of the king of humans

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Maximilien muttered a little and spread his hands.

Doo doo doo doo. My feet tremble. The steel beetle vibrates violently. Aji was frightened by the sudden earthquake.

“Wow! Wow! move the ground! earthquake!”

“It is not an earthquake! The steel beetle shakes!”

“bruise? beetles?”

“no. It’s an earthquake!”

After roughly answering Aji’s question, I found the source of the shaking. The steel beetle did not move.

For me, who simply lacks the size of my strength, a huge mass weapon is more difficult than anything else. I have not tried so far because Maximilien was careless, but if a steel beetle were to lunge at me, I should feel a great threat to my life.

So I climbed on top of the steel beetle and restrained Maximilien from moving.

“I’m sure it’s blocking it, but how…?”

That was answered kindly by Maximilien.

“The steel beetle stores a lot of spare gears in case of an emergency. You, who can’t reach that far, don’t seem to be able to control it.”

The only cogs allowed to me are ‘contact’.

If two gears are interlocked, in fact, it is no different from one large gear. Because the principle of operation is the same. Therefore, I can control the gears interlocking with each other, and I even attacked Maximilien using that property.

However, it does not reach the things that are scattered in disorder. Because it has nothing to do with me now.

However, Maximilien, who is not bound by conditions like me, can command it towards it. For example like this.

“The cogs move like this!”

The identity of the cause of the shaking was soon revealed.

Hundreds and thousands of gears roll along the side of the steel beetle. It doesn’t move in tandem. It just ‘turns’ and rolls like a normal wheel. without any control whatsoever.

It seems that thousands of ants are flocking to it. Violence driven by numbers.

“Can the dog king save you again?”

damn. If you touch it, you should be able to stop the rotation, but it’s not one or two, and the speed attached to it as it rolls hits me as it is. We have to intercept it before it comes.

I shouted with the feeling of grabbing at least a straw.

“Oh! Kick everything!”

“…Muhh.”

Aji made the world’s stupid face. You’re dumbfounded by impossible demands. The dog’s intelligence won’t come up with a way to overcome it.

Humans have to play an active role here.

take out the card clover. A pattern containing single-use magic. It is one last move to protect my life that I cherished and cherished until the end.

Magic is irreversible. Unlike tools, magic once used cannot be recovered. If clover is used, it causes a permanent loss of my property. Even now that I have decided to write, my hands are shaking.

Still, it’s better than dying. I’m not even going to take it to the grave.

I swiped the card with all my magic. The sealed magic power responds to my magic power and emits light. He picked up the card with two fingers, emitting bluish magic light.

“set.”

The military ritual magic is based on black magic that uses the body as a medium of sacrifice. Although my body takes damage, it is easy and quick to activate. A simple chant consumes the mana in the body and creates a useful phenomenon.

And there is the opposite concept of white magic. This is a classic magic that draws out a phenomenon by drawing a magic circle using an object containing magical power as a medium.

As a classic, it has a good assortment, but it is difficult to use it in real life, because it is slow to activate and requires a high degree of skill because it needs to draw magic from something else. On top of that, the term “classic” fits perfectly in the sense that only people with plenty of money and time can enjoy it, as things with magical powers are expensive.

However, there are people in the world who value their bodies more than money, and I am one of those people.

I threw the card right before the light exploded. The thrown card is 5 clubs. It flies through the air and lands in the middle of the cog wheel. For a moment, the card spun like a top against a cogwheel.

However, a thin card is too fragile to fight against steel. Especially if the numbers are different. The spinning card was eventually buried by the waves of steel…

Now. I held out my finger and shouted the starter word.

“Aqus Ritter!”

The clover 5 contains an enhanced version of the condensation magic used by the military.

It collects water in the air that reacts to mana. Ordinary condensation magic is good if you collect water to quench your thirst, but mine is a special product, so it is somewhat forced. To give a rough description of how forcible it is, even water vapor can instantly crystallize.

After the light flashed, a white storm raged. Magical power spreads in all directions like a spider’s web and pulls the water it has captured. Ice crystals made in an instant grabbed the rolling gear.

It contains magic that will turn a human into an ice statue if used on it. It would be quite difficult since it restricted the movement of the cogs.

As I expected, Maximilien was quite taken aback.

“Magic?! no way…!”

…although the direction was a bit different.

‘Only with that?’

There was the sound of ice crunching in all directions. Although covered in ice, the self-rotating cogs did not stop. It scrapes and gnaws at the ice that blocks its way. Shattered pieces of ice glistened.

It wasn’t long before most of the gears broke through the icy ground.

The time my magic earned was about 3 seconds. Even that was largely due to the gears slipping on the ice and rolling in vain.

Maximilien shouted, hiding his disappointment.

“Is that the number of hoards you hid? Is it just magic? You should know that magic cannot beat unique magic!”

Who writes because they don’t know? Because that’s the only thing I can use! I don’t have a unique magic! There can’t be anything unique to the king of men!

Doesn’t the janjaeju work against the yukjangseong-eul? I’ll have to be satisfied with the 3 seconds I saved. I’ve been running away all this while. Leaving the back to Aji.

“Ajiya leaves the rest!”

“bruise! Crack! bruise!”

I heard cries of pain from behind, but I don’t know. Aji snatched the cogwheel like a rat, but he cried out when he was hit by the cogwheel fired by Maximilien from time to time.

The most dangerous thing for me is the gear that Maximilien shoots. Therefore, getting out of the line of fire is a top priority. Reaching the edge, he threw himself and clung to the side.

I was breathing a sigh of relief when I heard the sound of a spinning gear. I looked up and saw dozens of gears chasing me along the edge.

Oh, you useless fellow! You missed a few!

“Chit! Really tenacious!”

Gears tumbled towards me. I just leave everything to my own weight and jump towards me, but even that alone is tricky for me. Not only does it hurt, but if it falls from the shock, the steel beetle is put under Maximilien’s control again.

That should be stopped. If Maximilien regains control of the Steel Beetle, even Ajiro won’t be able to respond.

On the side, I ran, stepping on bumps. Cogwheels pour down behind your back. I barely dodged it, but a few of them fell on my cloak and caught me, throwing my body backwards. A cog wheel rolls over it, taking advantage of the gap in its posture.

I quickly raised my hand and grabbed the cogwheel.

A rapidly spinning gear is like a commendation. If you hold it with your bare hands, your grip will be torn by the rotational force. In fact, I wrapped the cloak all around.

Before the sawtooth tore me apart, Maximilien’s unique magic canceled the rotation. As soon as the cog wheel, which had been rampaging while pulling the cloak, became calm as soon as it touched my hand, it became nice and wrapped around my hand.

However, even if you cancel the rotation, you cannot cancel the speed attached before it. I felt a heavy jolt in my arm. It feels like holding a ball kicked by someone with all their might.

“How can you control the rotation without permission but not the inertia? Are you saying that if you just follow the concept of the cogs, the rest doesn’t matter? Something is irrational, but…”

Because it is irrational, it is unique. Chet. Compared to unique magic, which imposes its own rules on the world, mind reading is nothing. Who doesn’t give better abilities…

Wait. it’s a rule I might be able to use this

I fiddled with the cogs. I was going to just throw it away, but if I do, it will keep chasing me. He grumbled and inserted the cog wheel he had grabbed into a suitable place on the wall. The cogs have become so quiet. I ran away, dodging or catching the gears falling one after another.

After running away for a while, Maximilien’s thoughts came from above.

‘King of the Dog This sure bothers me. It doesn’t try to attack me, but the gears are carefully breaking each one. If you come into contact with it, you will be reversed by the human king. If you don’t make contact, the dog king will block you. It’s tricky.’

It’s not just me who’s picky. It’s a little comforting.

‘If there is no steel beetle, it is impossible to subdue the king of beasts, but the king of men is sealing the steel beetle.

Maybe the only piece that can break this situation. Maximilien belatedly recalled its existence.

Butterfly the king of cats.

“The King of Cats!”

It’s too late to realize, Maximilien.

I didn’t forget the butterflies from the beginning.

“Butterflies don’t come.”

thump thump.

The sound of boots stuck in the concrete floor could be heard. Iron hit the dry ground, adding a slightly stretched beat.

Her black hair, in a long plait, swayed behind her. He approaches with a strangely powerless gait, with a languid and tired expression on his face.

Eyes that look tired and stressed. But at this moment she will be very happy.

“Whoa-.”

It was because one of the magical herb cigars was bitten in his mouth. Not an ordinary item, but a special product made from the leaves of the World Tree.

Historia, who let out a long smoke, muttered with a hazy expression.

“I like this… My arm doesn’t hurt and my head is cool. I feel like I’m full of energy again…”