A woman holds a candlestick and walks up a narrow, steep staircase.

"Da da da!"

The shoes made a crisp sound when they stepped on the slate.

From the inside of the building, the stairs revolve to the top, which should be a tower from the internal structure.

Elena removed her armor and put on the robes of the priest of the Temple of Truth.

It really looks like a devout apostle guarding the temple.

When she went out, she put a linen-colored cloak on the outside of her robe to keep out the dust. Luhe's sword was still there, and only a hilt was exposed under the cloak.

Elena raised her head and walked up step by step.

This ladder is really too high.

Halfway through, you can't see the top when you look up, and it's pitch black when you look down, as if there is no bottom at all.

Elena didn't stop, she didn't say any words of admiration or complaints, she didn't fly with extraordinary power; she just kept going up, towards the top of the tower.

Finally, she reached the top of the tower.

"Crack!"

She put down the candlestick in her hand.

She rested her hands on the stone, and her eyes lit up a little under the reflection of the candlelight; however, when a gust of wind blew, the firelight was quickly extinguished and turned into wisps of smoke. .

Looking down from the top of the city, crystal lamps were lit everywhere in the darkness.

Buildings of different heights are stacked on top of each other. The upper half of these buildings flashes brightly under the light, and the lower half is plunged into darkness. Only by looking from afar can we see the faint candles and the house of the devil in the darkness.

Between the buildings, chain bridges, corridors, and tunnels run through the city.

This tower is the tallest building in the city. When Saint Tito once passed by here, he saw this tower connecting to the bottom of the sea and rising above the sea.

It used to be called the Jessel Tower.

It used to be the beacon and sign of the Jesser waterway in the Kingdom of Xiinsai, but now few people know the real name of this tower. The demons call it the Moon Tower.

Because when the other crystal lamps in the city go out, the lamp of this tower will come on.

And when it's bright, it looks like the moon.

Maybe there is another meaning.

Jesser was once known as the Prince of the Moon, and his name means moonlight.

Elena looked at the city, at the people walking out of the corridor, at the two figures sitting on the chain bridge chatting.

"People here have everything."

"They can also use miracles."

"Everyone here plays their role, they all know what to do and they all have their own responsibilities."

"so."

"I came back just to go back to my hometown?"

Elena crossed the distance of space, the distance of time, and finally returned to her hometown, Moyuan King City.

But when she came back, she didn't know what to do.

"What's the point of my coming back?"

There is no enemy here, no crisis.

Elena looked at her sword, the weapon she was best at; she could integrate with metal, swords and spears, she could transform into a metal titan, and she was born with a talent for fighting.

If there is an enemy in front of her, she dares to swing a sword no matter how powerful it is.

No matter how strong the opponent is, she can still fight with the opponent to the last moment, even if it turns into flesh and blood, she will cut off one of the opponent's arms.

Even the gods in the world, those so-called mythical existences.

In her eyes, there is only one god.

That is Insai.

Lederiki is her ancestor, and she is descended from the bloodline of the eldest son of King Lederiki.

But there was no need for her sword, only a temple; Elena finally found an answer that wasn't an answer, but at least she could convince herself.

"Maybe it didn't make sense at first, maybe coming back is a kind of meaning."

"It seems like a good life."

"Peace, peace, stability."

"It's been good for everyone."

Elena stood in the tower of Jessel for a while, and was about to go down, but when she was about to leave, she suddenly looked to the other side.

She bypassed the base wall supporting the large crystal lamp and came to the other end of the tower.

There is a strange monster there.

He was resting against the wall, as if asleep, lying motionless.

There is a strange machine beside the demon.

The machine had wings, a chain structure, wheels, and a fan behind it.

As Elena looked over, the lying metal doll felt something, moved suddenly, and immediately looked up at Elena.

After discovering who the other party was, he broke off his sleepy head with his hands and said formally to her.

"It turned out to be the Apostle Elena-sama!"

Elena looked at the machine and asked.

"What are you doing?"

Seeing that Elena was interested in his work, the demon immediately stood up and introduced Elena.

"It's a machine I made, but I haven't figured out what it's called yet."

The demon puppet fiddled with the chains and pedals that had not yet been installed.

"Look!"

"As long as the pedal is empty, the chain turns and drives the wheels behind it."

"Then the last fan blade will turn."

Elena: "And then what?"

The demon said excitedly, "Then?"

"Then you can fly."

When he said this, it was very relaxed, with a hint of show off.

As if to say.

Such a simple principle, such an obvious thing.

You can't see it?

The former Elena might be able to see through the principles of such things easily, but now she has almost forgotten everything.

According to his words, Elena looked at this strange machine again. Although she didn't understand the principle, she seemed to understand what the other party wanted to create.

"It turns out you wanted to build a flying tool."

"It's just that this place is so big. You can walk. What's the use of flying?"

The demon shook his head: "Of course it's not used in the city, but outside."

"I'm going to fly on it!"

"Fly out of this darkness!"

"Jump out of the boundless sand sea."

After Elena heard the words of the demon, there was finally a look of interest on her eyebrows.

She took two steps forward. The demon was a little short, two heads shorter than Elena, and could only reach her chest.

In addition, Elena's own aura was arrogant, causing the demon to take two steps back involuntarily.

In this way, the distance becomes the same again.

The other party leaned directly against the wall, as if there were some kind of beast in front of him.

Elena stopped: "It's okay, I'm a little interested in what you said."

"But I have a doubt, how do you get over the storm outside?"

"Neither this machine of yours, nor yourself, could have made it through that terrible storm."

The puppet didn't know why he was afraid of the apostle Elena in front of him, it seemed like an instinct; it seemed that many years ago, the other party walked towards him in such a fierce manner, and he was like a kid who was caught, at a loss.

But as soon as Elena asked a question, he stood up straight and answered as solemnly as a trained soldier.

"I found out long ago."

"Every time the city floats up, the storm does not appear immediately, there is a short period of time."

"And the storm starts from the inside and then spreads outward, pushing everything outside to the outside."

"so."

"I just need to calculate the time and leave early."

"Rush out of the city at that moment, as long as I'm fast enough, I'll be able to rush out; even the initial pressure of the storm will help me push me out."

The devil said his plans and plans, which sounded a bit risky, but it also made people feel a little moved.

Elena asked him, "What if I didn't rush out, wouldn't that put my life on the line?"

He said: "I think the success rate is very high, at least it's worth a try."

Facing Elena, he said a little embarrassedly.

"and."

"At present, my aircraft has never flown, not even out of this darkness, let alone anything else."

"Let it fly first, let's talk about it!"

Elena looked at his machine and said something.

"I like your idea."

The demon puppet was excited, and Elena's words seemed to hit him in the depths of his heart, and he was very eager for the affirmation of others.

Especially, this is Elena.

"Lord Elena!"

"You think we should go out too, don't you?"

"The outside world is so big, why should we stay here!"

"We used to have many cities and many companions, why should we stay here now."

Elena didn't know why he was so excited. He wasn't so excited when he saw him, but he danced because he recognized his idea.

But what the demon said made Elena moved.

She asked the other party, "When will your machine be ready?"

"Need my help? Or are you missing something?"

All the demon puppet wanted was approval, and he was full of energy at the moment.

"Do not!"

"I don't lack anything, I already planned it."

He fiddled with his bag, pulling out one tool after another.

"Soon, soon, I'll do it soon."

"I have already designed it and the parts have been made. I came here to assemble it here."

"Because this is the highest place in the city and the most suitable place to take off, I am going to build a platform here and fly down from it."

The demon puppet chattered: "Ms. Elena!"

"I'll show it to you then and watch me fly on it and fly into the sky."

The demon puppet called out this title unconsciously.

The name of Ms. Elena, ordinary people would not call her that, and they are not qualified to call her that.

Unless this person and Elena used to have a very familiar relationship.

It was her former student, or a junior.

For example, the Evil God of Original Sin.

The former third-generation apprentice of the Sanctuary of Truth, he called him Lady Elena.

Between the movements of the demon puppet, Elena suddenly saw a mark on his hand.

The moment this mark appeared, Elena noticed it.

The seal of the Temple of Truth.

When these demons were transformed, they kept a lot of things from the past, as if to warn them that some things should not be forgotten.

This seal can prove many things.

perhaps.

Long ago, he too was a student of the Temple of Truth, one of the priests.

Possibly, it was a student taught by Elena herself.

Elena asked the demon, "What's your name?"

The devil replied: "Thunder!"

Ray, referring to the sound of an explosion caused by lightning.

Elena raised her head and looked at the darkness above her head.

"Thunder?"

Is he really calling this name, or is he saying that he wants to turn into thunder and tear the darkness above his head.

Will this person in front of him become thunder from the darkness?

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Elena returned to the Temple of Insai, but she always remembered something about Ray.

When cleaning the temple and praying, she sometimes thinks.

Is Ray's aircraft ready?

this day.

Suddenly there was agitation outside, and all the guards in the palace rushed out.

One after another, the demon dolls walked up from the building and looked at the sky.

A strange machine flew down from the tower of Yesel, wobbly at first, but soon stabilized.

It hovers in the city, sometimes falling, sometimes flying high.

In the sky above the city circle after circle.

"Look!" The metal dolls pointed to the sky and sighed.

"It's that guy Ray, he's making his machine again." Someone saw the person on the machine and immediately recognized the other party.

"It's over, he will definitely be punished by the guards again." Someone saw the guards lining up from the palace.

The demon doll named Lei stepped on the pedals hard and controlled his aircraft to fly.

The wings swept through the wind, and the fan blades at the back were turning rapidly, making a humming sound.

This world in the dark also has air, and there will be sounds like breathing from all directions, and the wind comes from there.

Lei sensed the direction of the wind, adjusted his aircraft, and was constantly familiar with this machine.

He shouted excitedly.

Cheers, cheers.

"Ooh!"

"I'm flying~"

"I'm finally flying!"

"I can go out!"

Finally, he hovered in the middle of the city, shouting to those below.

"Ms Elena!"

"The great Lady Elena, the apostle of God Insai."

"I've lived up to your expectations, I've built the machine, and I'll really set sail on the last day of the month."

"When the time comes, please come and watch!"

Ray was overjoyed and excited.

His voice was trembling, like a child who was having fun.

But when he fell.

A group of guard puppets immediately surrounded him, then told him that he had been arrested for violating the city's ban and would be locked up for three days.

He was punished for getting too close to the palace and the inverted pyramid.

Fortunately, he didn't pass directly over the inverted pyramid, so it wasn't a big crime.

He seems to know this too.

When he was taken away by the guards, he was still smiling and indifferent.

Gu Ying

He knew how long the other party would lock him up, and he knew that he would be released soon.

When he was arrested, he was completely unaware of being arrested, and waved to the people around him like a hero.

"Look!"

"I'll make it, I'll fly out."

"I want to live under the sun."

"When the time comes, I'll be back, and I'll tell you what it's like outside and what it's like to live under the sun."

In the temple, Elena's spiritual power was released, and she could see Lei's every move from a distance.

Seeing his outrageous behavior, the corners of his mouth twitched.

But when she saw Lei really fly, Elena was still very happy for him.

The unsmiling she actually smiled, perhaps because she felt a kind of intimacy in this demon doll.

she intends.

Even if Lei was really trapped in the storm in the end, she would have rescued him.

A month in this era is many fewer days than in the first era, but the kingdom of demons has its own time calculation method.

On the last day of every month, this city buried in the deepest bottom of the endless sand sea will float up once, which is the scene that Oran had seen before.

Soon, the day will come.

At the top of the Jessel Tower, Ray is checking his craft.

Until the end, he didn't give his machine a name. He seemed to have a serious difficulty in choosing; and the name was not like data and machine.

It was Elena who said something, and it was called a flying machine.

Although Lei felt that the name was too common, in front of the great Lady Elena, he did not dare to say the word bad.

So the name of the aircraft was decided.

"It should be improved here. It should be thicker here. This calculation was a little inaccurate at the beginning."

"It's too late, that's all it takes."

"Should be enough."

Ray kept speaking his thoughts while checking his machine; he and Elena, who didn't say anything most of the time and always had a serious face, were completely different styles.

Elena seemed to think that he was noisy and broken, so she took the initiative to ask him a question.

"Why do you want to go out?"

"Did you want to go out from the beginning, or was it because of something?"

Ray stopped the movement of his hands and scratched his iron head.

"why?"

"It seems that such an idea suddenly emerged!"

Ray turned his head and looked at Elena grinning, as if he was smiling.

"But as soon as it appeared, it was completely unstoppable.

"One day I was walking on the covered bridge and the light was shining on me, and I suddenly had this idea."

The metal doll stood up, grabbed the tool and reached out to the sky.

He seemed to have returned to that day, and said excitedly.

"Look at it!"

"It's light."

"That light drowned me, that light is really bright, so warm, so bright."

"Under the power of light, darkness is so vulnerable that it is torn apart in an instant."

"I was like, why should I live in the dark?"

"I'm going outside, I'm going to live under the sun."

Female knight: "Is it bad here?"

"Although it's a little dark here, it's hard to see sunlight."

"But there's everything here. It's a land of no worries and no crisis."

Ray shook his head: "I can endure the darkness here, if..."

"I have never seen the sun."

"But when that light shines on me, it's different."

"I can't live in the dark anymore."

Lei put away the tools and put them into the package he was carrying.

At this time, an exception occurred.

The whole city seemed to be shaking slightly and seemed to be moving.

Ray knew immediately what was going to happen. The opportunity he had been waiting for had finally arrived, and he had spent so long for this day.

He boarded his aircraft, tied himself to it, and said to Elena.

"Ms Elena!"

"I'm leaving."

Elena seemed to be still thinking about what he just said, and only now raised her head and said something to him.

"You have some truth in what you say, but not everyone thinks so."

Ray: "So right now, I'm the only one on the aircraft."

"But when I come back, there will be more people."

"They don't want to leave, just because they don't know what it's like out there."

"What's wrong with wanting a better life, wanting to pursue the sunshine, wanting a better future?"

At this time, Ray didn't look like a teenager who was out of line at all, and really became a priest of the Temple of Truth.

"I don't do it, just because I don't dare to think about it."

Lei sat on the aircraft and patted his chest hard: "Right now, I'm just telling them that they should think about it this way."

The aircraft slid down from the tower of Yesel along the platform.

The aircraft circled over the city, and Ray sat on the aircraft and waved to Elena on the tower of Yesel.

Elena stood on the tower and looked at him, and the sight gave him great encouragement.

He flew around the giant tower and turned to a node.

Then.

The aircraft began to climb towards the sky.

Lei stepped on the pedal hard, and his body began to lean forward.

"Quick... quick..."

His eyes were full of anticipation, looking towards the darkness above.

Although the whole world is still shrouded in darkness, he knows it.

soon.

The light is coming.

He wants to break through the darkness and go to a bright world.

"quick!"

"The door is about to open."

Ray shouted out directly, he himself would soon hit the high barrier, if the exit did not open; but he seemed to have calculated when the door would open, without any fear.

finally.

A door opened up high, and it was still expanding.

The first beam of light shone down from above, tearing apart the boundless darkness.

The light shone on Ray and his craft.

At this time, he was the only protagonist in the darkness, and everyone's eyes were focused on him.

He broke through the door and appeared in the outside world.

Ray raised his head, bathed in the dazzling light.

He leaped over the horizon, looking at the world under the sun, at the boundless golden desert.

The clouds in the sky are white, and the earth is boundless.

The world has no boundaries, you can move in one direction, infinitely.

His mouth was wide open.

"outside world."

"I `m coming out."

He did not stop, but accelerated forward, he wanted to rush to the outer layer before the storm became strong.

He was full of expectations and he believed he would succeed.

He imagined the picture of the outside world, and imagined the scene of himself returning to the land of demons again.

only.

At the edge of his escape from the Demon Abyss King City, he suddenly stopped moving.

He found himself unable to move.

Like a machine that has lost its power.

His body was extremely stiff, as if frozen.

His head stiffly looked at his body, and rust marks appeared on the originally smooth and shiny metal doll body.

The rust was condensed layer by layer, and his consciousness became more and more blurred.

"Eh? What's wrong?"

"my body……"

"Why did it become like this?"

Ray didn't understand, he had never expected this situation before.

But he probably understood.

Failed myself.

Lei turned his head to look at the city in the dark, as if he wanted to see the figure on the giant tower.

He was very concerned about whether the other party showed a disappointed expression to him.

But it was so far away that he could see nothing.

He was a little sad, and felt that he was too embarrassed.

"The great Lady Elena!"

"I showed you a farce."

The words fell, and Lei fell into darkness.

Before the aircraft could dash into the storm, it began to fall from the sky.

Ray successfully rushed to the sky and successfully made his voice to the city.

Like a thunderstorm.

However, it was just thunder.

Not even the electric light that illuminates the world for a moment.

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The aircraft fell from a height.

It fell on the edge of the city that floated to the ground.

The terrifying storm raged outside, the black hurricane devoured everything, and terrifying shadows drifted in the dark hurricane.

The moment the aircraft fell, Elena's figure appeared on the edge of the city.

She walked to the crashed aircraft.

The aircraft has been broken into several pieces, and the metal dolls covered with rust are shallowly buried in the yellow sand.

Elena dug out the metal doll from the yellow sand and held out Lei, who was a little petite.

It's like holding a sleeping child.

Elena patted the sand off him: "Storm and darkness can't stop you, it's something else that's holding you back."

"Thunder!"

Elena is ready to rescue Ray from the storm when he is caught in it.

But she, like Ray, didn't think so.

What really stopped them from leaving here was not the black storm.

She placed Ray in front of his beloved craft, leaned against its flank, and then went to find his kit.

But while looking for the kit, Elena suddenly kicked over something.

"Clap!"

Elena looked over, only to find that it was the wreckage of a dilapidated aircraft.

She just got kicked.

It's the left wing of the aircraft.

It wasn't the one that crashed just now, but the one that fell on the edge of the city a long, long time ago.

Most of it was buried and decayed, leaving only one wing exposed.

This is the edge of the city, a very dangerous place, and few people usually want to come here.

Elena's consciousness swept further away.

Then I saw the wreckage of several aircraft buried under the yellow sand.

Elena suddenly understood.

It's not the first time Ray has left the city in a flying machine.

But he never once really left the darkness.

Elena's eyes looked into the depths of the kingdom of demons, towards the inverted pyramid.

"pyramid!"

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After a moment of light, the kingdom of demons fell into the depths of darkness again.

in the dark.

The inverted pyramid emitted circles of light, and the light passed over the puppet lying on the tower of Yesel.

The rust on the doll's body faded, and deep in the dead mind, the fire of consciousness flashed again.

After a long time, the puppet moved a little bit.

"what!"

"what!"

"Yeah!"

He opened his mouth and squeaked like a child.

After a long time, he had a general awareness. When he moved around, he saw the mark of the Temple of Truth on his arm.

"I...I...was"

"I'm Ray."

But except for this sentence.

He didn't even say anything else.

The metal doll stood up and walked down from the top of the tower.

He felt it.

In the distance, the center of the city.

There is something that attracts him~lightnovelpub.net~ He will return to the temple again and learn the writing from the writing tablet again.

Then go back to his workshop and re-learn the magic engraved in the depths of the demon's shell.

He will re-make friends, re-acquaint the kingdom of demons, re-hear those ancient myths and legends, and listen to others tell stories about the Knights of the Golden Helmet and the Apostles of God.

Maybe someday.

The light from the top of his head sprinkled on his body, reflecting a dazzling light.

He would make a shocking sound and dance and shout.

"Look at it!"

"There's light outside, so bright."

"This light is so beautiful, warm, bright, shining, I'm going to see where it comes from."

This is the life of the demon doll named Lei.