OBS Chapter 3985 The Out-of-Control [Active Metal]
Chapter 3985 The Out-of-Control [Active Metal]
Chapter 3985 The Out-of-Control [Active Metal]
Galina was originally scheduled to come to St. Teresa's Square this Sunday night, but due to unforeseen circumstances, she had to stay at the Jodel Palace.
So Luvia remained on the third floor to stargaze, while the Edwards ladies enjoyed the night alone with Shad.
"Meow!"
But in the dead of night, after all the lights in the entire room of No. 6 St. Teresa's Place had been turned off, Megan and Audrey, holding hands and each holding Shad's arm on either side, drifted off to sleep with him. Then, a cat's meow broke the silence of the night in the house.
Shad opened his eyes abruptly and locked onto the space before Megan and Audrey could react. He then appeared directly in Luvia's bedroom on the third floor.
As the two sisters, now dressed in their robes, left the bedroom, they saw Shad, still in his pajamas and holding a cat, heading downstairs with Luvia. They quickly followed.
"what happened?"
Luvia, who was on the third floor with Mia tonight, was also puzzled:
"It suddenly started barking, and it was barking towards the floor below. Let's go downstairs and take a look."
There was nothing wrong on the first floor, but when the four of them arrived at the basement, they immediately sensed an unusual whispering atmosphere.
Shad did not store any relics in the normal area of the basement, but when he summoned the Life Ring to open the hidden space, almost instantly a silver light rushed out from it.
The girls, who were prepared, immediately released shields. Audrey's shield was even a pink shield formed from the "Breeding Mark"—this mark would be on them tonight.
After a loud bang, the four of them saw that what had hit the shield was a pool of flowing, mercury-like substance. The substance slid quickly along the ground after hitting it, but was immediately frozen in place by Shad's freezing ray.
"Active metal?! This relic has gone out of control? How is that possible? This thing can go out of control in front of the ancient god statue? I didn't even open the containment container as Mr. Finch instructed."
To Xia De's surprise, there was another loud bang. The frozen metal broke free from the ice's restraints and shot up from the ground, transforming into a silver arrow that shot towards Xia De's right eye. However, it was immediately blasted away by the "Thunder Wave" and landed on the other side of the basement wall.
Even though Shad dared not unleash his full power to cast spells in his own basement, the silvery-white arcs of electricity still leaping across the metal surface deeply embedded in the wall nearly paralyzed it.
However, the liquid metal quickly regained control of the "body" by dispersing itself into hundreds of silver droplets. Instead of continuing to attack the four people, it rushed towards the basement gas pipe on the wall.
"Stop it!"
The greatest power of the relic [active metal] lies not in its own properties, but in the effect it exerts after being absorbed into mechanical equipment.
Shad, Megan, and Audrey all knew they absolutely couldn't let her touch any other metallic objects. As Luvia hurriedly ran towards the "hidden area," the two sisters, who were holding hands, suddenly slapped their other two hands together:
"Miraculous Technique: Edwards Sealing Technique!"
This is a spatial sealing technique that they created themselves based on their own circumstances and the research data left by their ancestors. Theoretically, only unique individuals with two souls can learn it.
In terms of its specific manifestation, a large golden book, bigger than a door panel, appeared out of thin air around the fine silver droplets after the pages were opened. Then, with a loud bang, it closed up, sealing all the [active metal] inside the book.
The silver droplets struggled and darted inside the giant book, but more and more runes appeared on the golden book, and the book itself continued to shrink in size.
When it shrinks to the size of a normal-sized book, the [active metal] inside the book's energized outer shell has been reassembled and, as if transformed from three-dimensional to two-dimensional, is printed onto the pages.
"This is a sealing technique we developed specifically for containing relics."
Megan smiled and said to Shad, Audrey reached out to take the beautiful golden book, but unexpectedly, at this moment, the silver liquid metal that had been calmed down suddenly became active again, instantly breaking free from the sealing spell of Miss Edwards and the others.
The relic was very close to Shad and the witches at this moment. The metallic light was as fast as real light, and it shot towards Shad's right eye again amidst the threatening "meow~" of the cat on Shad's shoulder.
The shields summoned by Audrey and Megan, and Shad's Nightfall sign, only briefly hindered it before it was pierced through. In the end, it simply passed through the swarm of fluttering red butterflies and then entered the black metal coffin that had appeared behind Shad at some unknown time.
"Thumbs - Coffin of the Underworld!"
The coffin closed, but before the black skeleton that appeared in the void embraced it, the metal coffin was completely stained silver-white by the [active metal].
Shad immediately sensed that the spell had failed due to the lack of a "target," and the coffin, now imbued with [active metal], lunged at Megan, who deftly dodged to the side—
Bang!
Gunshots rang out in the basement. At the exit of the "hidden passage," Luvia, holding the "Gift Box of God" in one hand and the "One-Hit Kill Gun" in the other, raised the muzzle of her gun, while the metal coffin that had been hit directly crashed to the ground.
There was a clear bullet hole on the coffin lid, and after the coffin fell over, the metallic silver-white color on its surface faded as quickly as the tide receded.
The three of them immediately gathered carefully. After opening the coffin lid, they saw the pool of silvery-white liquid metal in a corner inside the coffin, wriggling and trying to move, but it was clear that it only had the ability to move slowly at this moment.
"They didn't die even after all that? No wonder it's a keepsake."
Luvia sighed softly.
When Shad received the One-Hit Kill Gun left to him by Violet and Theresa during the Battle of Fate, the gun only had three "Soul Bullets". This angel-level relic can only exert its best effect when "Soul Bullets" and relic bullets are present.
Those three bullets were never used in the subsequent major events. At the end of the Battle of Fate, Shad gave up the opportunity to fuse the [One-Hit Kill Gun], [One-Hit Pistol], and [Gun of Kindness] into one, making it probabilistically upgraded to an Unknown-level relic. After that, the [One-Hit Kill Gun] became one of the most dangerous relics in Shad's possession and was kept in the gift box.
Luvia ran into the hidden space just now, originally intending to take out the gift box to contain the out-of-control relics, but when she opened it to check the contents, she found this gun, which led to her shooting just now.
One of the three soul bullets was used up, and even though the [Active Metal] was out of control, it couldn't withstand the attack from this top-tier angel-level relic.
Luvia put the gift box down temporarily, then pointed her gun at the slowly writhing mass inside the coffin:
"Is this the first time an artifact has gone out of control in front of the ancient god statue? Luckily, Mia reminded us this time. If we hadn't noticed its anomaly in time, even if it couldn't break out of that space on its own, it would have been terrible if other artifacts had gone out of control as well."
"But how did it get out of control?"
Audrey was very puzzled:
"Luvia, did you check the containment container just now?"
"I checked it; the crystal tube was broken from the inside. The container itself is fine; it's as if this relic suddenly acquired a power that is no longer affected by containment procedures. Shad, you..."
Luvia and the witches all saw that Shad actually bent down and reached his hand towards the wriggling silver droplet. Luvia wanted to stop him, but then she remembered that Shad was always cautious and wouldn't do anything he wasn't sure of.
The [Active Metal] did indeed react to the approach of Shad's fingers, but the impact of the [One-Hit Kill Gun] was too great. This gun itself likely possessed a destiny power such as [Destruction]. The demon even wanted to use it to break the seal, so this gun was completely lethal to the out-of-control relic.
So Shad's hand safely touched the silver liquid metal, and "she" responded almost immediately:
[A "distorted spark of life" was sensed.]
Although he suspected it was a "calamity of creation," Shad still couldn't believe it:
"Could it be that the existence of the 'Spark of Life' allows this thing to go out of control in front of the statue of the ancient god? Can the combined power of the relic and the calamity suppress the remaining power of the ancient god?"
Her voice was very gentle:
[Perhaps only the power of an ancient god can counter the power of an ancient god; this relic itself likely possesses some kind of special property.]
【Active Metals】have the ability to indiscriminately revitalize metals under uncontrolled conditions, which is very similar to the "Spark of Life". But since it has been determined that tonight's problem is still due to the "Spark of Life", then in order to prevent all the metal appliances in the house from rebelling together, they absolutely cannot be allowed to continue to exist.
This "activation" is contagious.
Shad then informed Luvia, Megan, and Audrey, who were still on guard, that he had sensed something. However, when Shad tried to completely annihilate the "Active Metal" using the "Black Moon Mark" in conjunction with the "One-Hit Kill Gun," they all thought that they could seal the relic first to curb its contagiousness, rather than destroying it completely.
“Winnie said that the spark of life can only exist in machines infected with the ‘mechanical plague.’ Once the machine itself is destroyed, the spark will quickly disappear. This is a rare opportunity for us to study it directly.”
This is Luvia's opinion.
“Luvia is right, and the fact that [active metal] can actually break through the suppression of the ancient god statue is an extremely rare research case. I don’t think we should give up on such a goal easily.”
The metal is currently alive, but it lacks a soul. It can be taken to Green Lake Island, where it can be contained and sealed.
This is Megan's perspective, but the evidence that Megan and Audrey are not products of the same person's schizophrenia, but rather two different souls, is reflected in Audrey's different view this time:
“Shad, perhaps you could seek help from other beings, or have Luvia divine a more suitable course of action.”
The wise witch spoke, looking at the box that Luvia had placed down:
“If I remember correctly, just now when Megan suggested providing Viggo with something more essential than blood, and you refused, and I said ‘we don’t have enough yet,’ the clock had already struck midnight.”
So, it's a new Monday now, right?