Chapter 74

Chapter 74

"Huh - what a difficult opponent!" Saten Ruiko looked at the comatose Kiyama Harusi and sighed.

This is indeed the most powerful and difficult enemy she has ever encountered. If she hadn't had multiple abilities and almost no shortcomings, she might not have been able to defeat the opponent.

However, before she could figure out how to deal with the culprit of [Fantasy Controller], suddenly, the comatose Harusi Kiyama screamed in pain - "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" ! ” It was a painful roar that seemed to make her throat hoarse. Kiyama Chunsheng, who had been temporarily comatose due to lack of oxygen, was awakened by the pain, but at this time, she had no intention of escaping or resisting, but hugged her. His head was rolling all over the ground, his white coat and long chestnut hair were covered in dust, and he looked extremely embarrassed.

However, Saten Ruiko didn't notice the miserable condition of Kiyama Haruo at all. Her attention was attracted by the "thing" that emerged from Kiyama Haruo's head.

"What... is this?!" It was like a jellyfish, white, translucent, and tentacle-like. It gradually poured out from Kiyama Chunsheng's head, gathered in mid-air, and gradually condensed into a fetus. It looks like there are more than ten slender translucent tentacles connected behind it, and there is a halo on its head, which looks very weird and ferocious.

The fetus opened its eyes, revealing bulging, scarlet eyeballs, and the bestiality and hatred projected in its eyes were as real as they were real.

“Eaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah,” the newborn “baby” opened its bloody mouth and let out its first “cry”, accompanied by a violent shock wave. , the ear-piercing hiss of hundreds of decibels resounded for thousands of meters.

Saten Ruiko didn't care about the shock wave that was enough to blow away bricks and rocks, or even directly kill humans. She allowed the shock wave mixed with rocks and bricks to hit the surface of her skin without leaving even the slightest trace.

However, the harsh noise was so annoying that Saten Ruiko couldn't help but cover her ears.

After a long time, the monster finally stopped the noise pollution after venting its first roar after birth, "What is this...a monster coming out of the human body, and that halo...could it be an angel on the magic side? Right?" Zuo Tianleizi suddenly remembered some of the magic information that Fang Yuan had mentioned when he taught her, and he reminded her emphatically that once she met a guy with a halo above his head, it would be related to When it comes to existences related to angels, you must be careful and cautious.

But... isn't the appearance of this "angel" too low? Looking at the monster that looked like a deformed baby in mid-air, Saten Ruiko subconsciously rejected the judgment that it was an angel.

Well, it is obvious that although Saten Ruiko has some understanding of Christianity and magic, she does not understand it comprehensively.

If she were truly proficient in Christian scriptures from around the world, she would understand that the so-called angels were not bird-men with wings at the beginning, but were completely non-human indescribable existences - for example, in "The Angel" The archangel Metatron in "The Book of Promise" has 365,000 eyes and 36 pairs of wings. If there are so many eyes on one person, it will definitely be comparable to the Cthulhu series. The indescribable thing of a monster.

And the one in front of me is just a little more ferocious in appearance. It also has the most basic head, face, body and short limbs. Compared with that kind of monster with 360,000 eyes covering its whole body, it can be considered pretty and pretty. .

Out of caution, Saten Ruiko did not immediately attack the monster that had lowered (or should I say raised?) the average appearance of the angel, but to see what it wanted to do.

However, this monster, which looked like a crippled angel baby, just roamed around in mid-air without any purpose, and occasionally made a roar that sounded particularly terrifying. It did not look like a harmful monster.

Swish - Two figures suddenly appeared next to Saten Ruiko, but it was Shirai Kuroko leading Misaka Mikoto - or Misaka Mikoto drove Shirai Kuroko and arrived here.

"What...is going on?" As soon as the two of them appeared, their attention was directly attracted by the monster in mid-air, and they didn't even notice Kiyama Chunsheng lying on the ground.

"Saten-kun, what's going on? That monster in the sky, and that huge air flow barrier just now, what exactly happened here?" Kuroko Shirai asked questions like a machine gun as soon as he came, speaking fast and urgently.

"Uh-well, that monster in the sky came out of Haruso Kiyama's head. I don't know anything else!" Saten Ruiko didn't know what to do except explain the origin of the monster in the sky. Explaining how he, a Level 0, had just faced off against the multi-talented Haruo Kiyama, he could only vaguely say "I don't know anything" in an attempt to pass the test in a cute way.

Only then did Kuroko Shirai and Mikoto Misaka notice the figure lying on the ground. Although it was gray and gray, it was indeed Haruo Kiyama.

"Uh-huh--anyway, after this is over, you have to explain today's events carefully. Now let's see how to deal with that monster in the sky. The security guards are about to arrive. We have to restrain it and don't let it go. It wanders off to other places."

Although he knew that Saten Ruiko was definitely not telling the truth, now was not the time to inquire carefully. The top priority was to resolve the trouble caused by Haruso Kiyama.

"I can kill a monster of this level with just one strike!" Misaka Mikoto might not be cruel enough to kill people, but if she wanted to kill the ugly monsters floating in the sky, she would be able to kill them. Show no mercy.

Before Saten Ruiko could say anything to stop it, the quick-handed Dengeki Princess fired a railgun, instantly piercing the monster's body and blasting a large hole through the front and back.

"...Misaka-san, I didn't even say that this monster doesn't seem to be planning to cause damage..." Saten Ruiko's reminder was still too late.

The beaten monster seemed to be immortal. It recovered from its injuries in an instant, and extra limbs proliferated from the original wounds, making it look even uglier.

Moreover, the monster that was attacked was like an enraged beast, with scarlet eyes filled with real hatred, staring at the few living people on the ground. In the next moment, countless ice blades, water knives, and air cannons, It shot out from the monster and rushed towards the people on the ground.

PS: Today’s third update, this doesn’t count as a pigeon! ')291'\u003eChapter 290 Damaged Treatment Procedure \u0026 Saten Ruiko's Dominance

"Get out of the way!" Facing the dozens of attacks that hit her head and face, Misaka Mikoto immediately realized that she seemed to have stung a hornet's nest, and immediately called for others to evacuate together.

Fortunately, except for Misaka Mikoto herself, who is at Level 5, the remaining two companions here are one who is the most mobile space user, and the other is a cheating player who is actually stronger than her, so there is no need for them. She warned and immediately withdrew from the monster's attack range.

In fact, Saten Ruiko still had time to take away Kiyama Harusi who was lying on the ground, lest she die in such a confused way under an indiscriminate attack.

boom--! Boom boom boom boom boom——! ! ! Violent shaking sounds resounded in this abandoned real estate area, and the faint vibrations could even be felt by pedestrians a few blocks away.

"It's really an exaggeration..." Kuroko Shirai sighed as he looked at the messy bombing site.

"Well -" At this moment, Chunsheng Kishan, who was in a coma, groaned and woke up.

"That's..." She had just woken up and was being carried by Saten Ruiko on her shoulders. She raised her head with some difficulty and saw the monster raging in the sky.

"Hehe, hehehe, hahahaha!!! It's so amazing! I didn't expect that such a monster would be produced. If you publish it in the academic world, you will definitely win an award!" Harusi Kiyama, who has the temperament of a mad scientist, said with a smile. , making Saten Ruiko, who was carrying her, frown upon hearing this.

"What's going on? Do you know what that thing in the sky is?" the girl asked in a stern tone.

"Oh, the [Fantasy Controller] network has escaped my control. It is no longer possible to take back the lives of those children and restore everyone to normal. It is all over..." Kiyama Harusi seemed to be answering, but also seemed to be talking to himself. Said to himself.

"Child... what child?" Since she had not had much verbal communication with Haruso Kiyama, and no documents related to the ability crystallization experiment were found in her residence, Saten Ruiko had no idea that Haruso Kiyama had made such a big deal. The original reason for the incident was completely unknown to her so-called "child".

"Hey, I'm so depressed when I'm talking to myself! Tell me clearly, what's going on?" Saten Ruiko jumped far away from the battlefield, not caring about herself. It was such a trivial matter that his ability was exposed in the eyes of others. He threw Chunsheng Kiyama from his shoulders and grabbed the opponent's shoulders and asked.

... "AIM diffusion field aggregate?" After learning the nature of this monster from Kiyama Harusi, Saten Ruiko immediately understood its troublesomeness.

Visible enemies are easy to kill, but invisible opponents are difficult to defeat.

Although the "Fantasy Beast" born from the [Fantasy Controller] network in front of me seems to be a tangible and qualitative entity, its essence and foundation are the invisible and qualityless AIM diffusion force field dispersed in space, and its source is those Thousands of students who have used [Fantasy Master] alone can't really kill this fantasy beast no matter how many blows they inflict on it.

Judging from the final result of Misaka Mikoto's shockingly powerful railgun attack just now, this is obviously true.

"Is there no way to solve it?" Saten Ruiko asked reluctantly.

"..." Kishan Chunsheng was silent.

"...Don't you still have important things to do? If you allow the situation to continue to deteriorate, the upper echelons of Academy City will never let you go, so who will save those children?" In the brief conversation just now, , Kiyama Harusi also explained to Saten Ruiko that the reason why she developed [Fantasy Rider] was to save the children who were unconscious due to her experimental accident a few years ago.

However, her request to use the tree diagram designer was rejected 23 times in a row. In the end, she had to take a risk and came up with a way to replace the tree diagram designer with the computing power of the [Fantasy Controller] network.

Saten Ruiko finally knew that this woman who looked like a mad scientist actually had such a soft side.

"Children... well, if you want to destroy the 'Fantasy Beast', you must first destroy the [Fantasy Hand] network. When I developed the [Fantasy Hand], I also developed a healing program, which may be useful..." As he spoke, Haruki Kiyama took out a memory chip from the pocket of his tattered white coat.

However, when she saw the appearance of the chip, she stopped talking.

"... Broken?" Saten Ruiko looked at the obviously distorted and damaged memory chip in Haruki Kiyama's hand, and felt something was wrong in her heart - this couldn't be... crushed when she subdued Haruki Kiyama before... "..." Haruki Kiyama was also shocked by the fact that the chip was destroyed. She recalled her previous experience and said uncertainly: "This was probably accidentally broken when I was fighting you before. I should have hidden it more tightly. My habit of losing things is really terrible..." "... No backup?" Saten Ruiko continued to ask without giving up.

"After I knew my whereabouts were exposed, I deleted all the experimental data related to [Fantasy Hand], and the treatment program only kept this backup.

Although I still remember the general code of the treatment program, it will take at least a week to rewrite it..."　　Kiyama Haruki shook his head, and the answer he gave made Saten Ruiko's heart sink.

"...This is bad!"　　The girl looked back at Misaka Mikoto who was fighting over there, knowing that the situation was stable for the time being, but looking at the size of the fantasy beast, it was several times larger than when it first appeared. The unmanned buildings around it had also been destroyed by the battle between the two sides. Seeing that the scope of the battle was getting larger and larger, they didn't have much time left.

"Tsk! In that case..."　　Saten Ruiko turned around, stood up, looked down at Kiyama Haruo who was half lying on the ground and said: "You said that we only need to destroy the [Fantasy Hand] network. Now the treatment program is gone, so can we start directly from the inside of the network?"　　"Start... from the inside?"　　Kiyama Haruo didn't understand what Saten Ruiko meant at once.

"That is to say, I will actively connect my consciousness to the [Fantasy Hand] network, and then destroy the network itself from the inside - just like hackers can remotely modify local files through the network, as long as I clear all the brain wave interference related to the [Fantasy Hand] in the brains of all users, theoretically I can release the control of the [Fantasy Hand], right?" "How is this possible?!" Kimura Haruo was stunned by the imagination of the girl in front of him, and shook his head repeatedly: "Do you know what is in this fantasy beast? It is a collection of chaotic subconsciousness of thousands of users. The individual will cannot even stay awake in it. How is it possible..." "Nothing is impossible!" Saten Ruiko interrupted Kimura Haruo and said domineeringly: "They are just a group of scum who only know how to take shortcuts. I can take three times as much!"')292'\u003eChapter 291 The disciple with high expectations and poor skills \u0026 the master who came to the rescue

"You..." Before Kiyama Haruo could stop her, Saten Ruiko had already done what she said, took out the music player with the [Fantasy Hand] file, and put the earphones into her ears.

When she clicked the play button, the music she had heard once before came into her ears, and Saten Ruiko could feel that her mind seemed to be connected to a chaotic and noisy network.

In reality, Kiyama Haruo was stunned to see Saten Ruiko's fluent operation that could be called suicidal.

Seeing that Saten Ruiko did not faint at the first time, nor did she fall into the painful frenzy like she did before, but just opened her eyes with a little empty eyes, she couldn't help but ask worriedly: "This...this classmate? How are you?"　　——She still doesn't know Saten Ruiko's name.

"...I...I'm fine!"　　After several seconds, Saten Ruiko responded with difficulty, and a look of pain appeared on her face.

In fact, her current condition is indeed not very good.

Although she did not fall into a coma like ordinary users due to her special constitution of having an artificial spiritual base and thinking not limited to the brain, she was actually bearing the mental impact of thousands of chaotic consciousnesses.

Fortunately, Solomon's wisdom gave her an extremely powerful mind, which even allowed her to use her subconscious mind to combine intelligence to make a highly accurate deduction of the future. At the same time, she often used wide-area electromagnetic detection capabilities and had a lot of experience in receiving a large amount of information at the same time, so she managed to survive.

After slightly adapting to this irritable state where it seemed as if there were thousands of people shouting countless nonsense in her ears at all times, and she had to listen to it, Saten Ruiko tried her best to adjust her "perspective" and roughly figured out her current state.

She could feel that her consciousness was connected to a network composed of countless nodes, and she herself was one of these thousands of nodes.

In addition to all the information about ability calculation, circulating throughout the entire network are countless complex and chaotic emotional fragments, forming an emotional torrent that is enough to completely confuse a person's will, impacting her consciousness wave after wave.

Ignoring those negative senses as much as possible, Ruiko Saten spread her consciousness to other nodes in the network, trying to invade the consciousness of other users.

However, Ruiko Saten did not have the superpower of telepathy after all, and could not forcibly invade another person's consciousness - even if that person was in the same human brain network as her.

On the other hand, her attainments in information networks were only slightly better than those of ordinary people. It would be a delusion to want to easily invade a person's brain like a computer unless she had the hacker level of Hatsuharu Shikiri.

Whether from the perspective of the mind or the data network, she could not complete this extremely precise consciousness invasion operation.

Things were awkwardly stuck at the most critical step.

Although Ruiko Saten's computing power might be comparable to that of Accelerator, the current strongest ability user in Academy City, she had not undergone professional training for superpowers and did not have the level of knowledge accumulation of Accelerator.

Saten Ruiko couldn't delete the [Fantasy Hand] program from thousands of students' brains like the lolita control in the plot used Misaka 20001 as a medium to enter the Misaka network to check for viruses.

'Tsk, I miscalculated. I still need to find out some information invasion methods in the consciousness field in a short time...' Saten Ruiko knew that she was a little overconfident before. Although she could maintain a clear consciousness in the runaway [Fantasy Hand] network, she was still a little incapable of further deleting the [Fantasy Hand] program from other users' brains.

'Do you mean to give up just like that? But...' In reality, Saten Ruiko opened her eyes and looked at the increasingly fierce battlefield on the other side, feeling unwilling.

At this time, someone needs to save the situation.

…… [You are still too young! Forget it, let me help you! ] Suddenly, a familiar voice sounded in the girl's mind, instantly covering the torrent of distracting thoughts that had never stopped.

Saten Ruiko's eyes lit up, and she almost exclaimed: [Master! You're back! ] [Okay, don't be distracted, watch my operation and follow me! ] The long-lost voice said so.

Then the next moment, Saten Ruiko found that a force completely different from the "magic power" she usually used suddenly rushed out from her spiritual base, directly enveloping her thoughts and rushing into the deepest part of the runaway [Fantasy Hand] network, the virtual node formed by the subconscious information released by countless brain nodes, and the "center" of the network, the chaotic information body called "Fantasy Beast".

Boom--! ! ! The information torrent, which was thousands of times more turbulent than the previous emotional torrent, "collided" with Saten Ruiko's consciousness, but it was smashed to pieces in front of the "barrier" built by that unknown force, and could not interfere with Saten Ruiko's consciousness at all.

[This is a consciousness barrier made of spirit particles. Spirit particles and magic power are not much different in essence, but there are some differences. Although it can be said to be a kind of energy, it is closer to a pure conceptual information body and is also the basic "matter" that constitutes the spiritual foundation in your body. Compared with ordinary magic power, spirit particles have stronger interference in the consciousness and information levels. You will also learn how to use this power in the future, just like this——] Accompanied by the patient teaching voice in the consciousness, Saten Ruizi suddenly found that her consciousness was divided into thousands of parts in an instant, with the information body of the "Fantasy Beast" as the center, and each part rushed to a "node" in the peripheral network under the wrapping of a spirit particle barrier.

Under Fang Yuan's deliberate demonstration, Saten Ruizi clearly felt the power called "spirit particles" by the teacher, how to divide her thoughts into thousands of independent "threads" in an instant, and then show one after another consciousness-level data invasion methods in each "thread", silently penetrating the instinctive defense of the human brain and the data exchange protocol of the [Fantasy Hand] program, and invading the brains of all [Fantasy Hand] users at one time.

Then, she saw how each thread that invaded the "node" quickly scanned each consciousness that was in chaos, found the inharmonious parts, and turned them to the right direction - at the same time, it completely processed the brainwave mutations caused by [Fantasy Hand] in the brains of thousands of people, and left no sequelae! When thousands of spirit particles returned to the main consciousness with the separated consciousness threads, the thousands of "observation experiences" that flooded into the brain at once made Saten Ruiko dizzy.

"Hmm -" The girl shook her head, came back to her senses from the discomfort, and asked in disbelief: "Is it over?"')293'\u003eChapter 292 The Birth of the Storm Commander!

Saten Ruiko's question did not wait for a response.

Fang Yuan seemed to be just to solve her dilemma. After a brief appearance, he disappeared again, leaving no response to Saten Ruiko's call in her consciousness.

"...he left again..." The girl muttered this in disappointment, but finally shook her head, composed herself, and turned to look towards the battlefield.

"Eh? What's going on? I've already destroyed the [Fantasy Hand] network, why is this monster still here?"　　Saten Ruiko thought she could see the "Fantasy Beast" disintegrate in mid-air, but she didn't expect that the huge monster, which had grown to a height of more than ten stories, was still alive and kicking, fighting with Misaka Mikoto.

"You...really solved it?"　　Kiyama Haruo couldn't believe it. In just a moment, the girl in front of him really destroyed the [Fantasy Hand] network in such an incredible way? 　　But...　　Boom——! 　　On the battlefield, another beam of light from the railgun flashed, and a big hole was blasted out of the huge Fantasy Beast, but it did not regenerate like before.

"Sure enough, it is indeed disconnected..."　　Kiyama Haruo saw this scene, and finally believed that Saten Ruiko had indeed done it.

"I say, what's going on? I'm a master... I've already cleared the abnormalities in the brains of all [Fantasy Hand] users, why is this monster still here?!" Seeing that Kiyama Haruki didn't respond, Saten Ruiko couldn't help but ask again, and almost let it slip.

"The formed AIM force field aggregate already has a basis for existence and will not disperse on its own, but your previous efforts have been successful. The fantasy beast will no longer regenerate. Just knock it down and it will be fine!" Kiyama Haruki explained.

"Is that so!" Saten Ruiko nodded, and she understood.

She looked at Misaka Mikoto, who was already very tired, and decided to finish it herself. Well, she didn't deny that she wanted to show off her strength in front of her friends. Anyway, she probably couldn't hide it this time... Thinking of this, Saten Ruiko exerted a little force on her feet and instantly jumped to a height of dozens of meters. At the same time, she controlled the airflow to support her body, so that she could face the monster that was almost the size of a special effects monster.

"Misaka-senpai! Leave the rest to me! You retreat and rest for a while!" She shouted.

"Eh?" Misaka Mikoto, who had just dodged another tentacle attack, was panting. Suddenly, she heard a shout from behind her. She turned her head and was surprised to find that Saten Ruiko, who was supposed to be a powerless person, was standing in the air! 　　"Sister, be careful!" The shocking fact made Misaka Mikoto stop her movements, but the monsters as enemies would not cooperate to rest together. A thick translucent tentacle, accompanied by an invisible force field that was enough to smash rocks, chopped down on Misaka Mikoto's head, who was unable to dodge.

Fortunately, the loyal dog Shirai Kuroko took action in time, and brought Misaka Mikoto out of the monster's attack range under the space transfer.

"What's going on? How could Ruiko..." Misaka Mikoto was still immersed in the astonishment of "ordinary teammates suddenly transformed into powerful ability users", and even the fear of being beaten to death by the monster's tentacles was diluted.

"...I'm not very clear, but...Sister, do you still remember the bank explosion and the void explosion warning in the mall some time ago?" Shirai Kuroko was obviously not a nympho who only thought about how to turn sister all day long. She still had some IQ. Naturally, she thought of the previous incidents. Ruiko Saten seemed to be present. She didn't notice this at all at the time, but now she thinks that it was all her doing... "...I see..." After being reminded by Shirai Kuroko, Misaka Mikoto also thought of this, but new doubts came up: "But why did Ruiko hide her ability level?" However, before Shirai Kuroko gave any answer, Ruiko Saten on the other side had already started to fight, and the first move was a grand scene with magnificent momentum.

… After seeing Shirai Kuroko rescue Misaka Mikoto, Saten Ruiko breathed a sigh of relief, and her eyes turned more hostile to the monster in front of her.

“Wind!” Out of habitual instinct to hide information, Saten Ruiko did not intend to use other kinds of abilities, but once again used the wind control ability that had been used once before.

Speaking of which, the power to control the wind was actually only a very small part of the "SHAZAM" power given to her by Fang Yuan. Although Mercury's speed gave Saten Ruiko a strong affinity for the wind, if it were placed on an ordinary person, it would probably be at most the extent of being able to accelerate their own speed with the wind. It is almost impossible to control the atmosphere and stir up a storm as an aerodynamicist.

However, perhaps because Saten Ruiko's own potential ability is "aerodynamicist", her control over the wind is unexpectedly high. When she exerted her full strength to exert the power of wind control, she reached the level of Lv.5.

Just like now - A huge tornado that penetrates the sky and the earth rises from the ground, with a huge diameter of tens of meters wide, completely covering the fantasy beast that is more than ten stories high. The wind speed of more than 150 meters per second has exceeded the maximum wind speed that can be observed on the earth.

And this is not the limit. Under the urging of Saten Ruiko, the air vortex surrounding the monster continues to accelerate and soon approaches the speed of sound.

In such a powerful storm, it is futile for the fantasy beast to wave its tentacles to resist and counterattack.

The airflow at this time was like a real sharp blade. The moment it touched the monster's body, it cut off the flesh and blood formed by the AIM force field. In just a dozen seconds, the monster, which was originally the size of a building, had lost most of its proliferated flesh and blood, leaving only the initial and most core part, and continued to resist tenaciously.

"Oh? Can you still hold on?"　　Saten Ruiko raised her eyebrows in surprise.

"Then, I'll send you off with this blow!"　　Under the control of the girl's mind, part of the airflow broke away from the main body of the tornado and gathered directly above the fantasy beast in an absolutely unscientific movement mode, and continued to compress and gather under her will.

The diversion of the cyclone made the tornado weak for a while, but more atmosphere gathered from all corners of the entire Academy City and replenished it in the super tornado, and more high-speed airflow was separated from the airflow accelerated by the tornado, converging in the increasingly obvious compression area.

High-speed air currents in different directions collide and rub against each other, and the kinetic energy of the gas is quickly converted into the internal energy of molecular motion.

Then, at a certain moment, the spark ignites! 　　PS: The third update.

')294'\u003eChapter 293 The Eighth Level 5