"Hah... ahead is the settlement established by the people who live in the forest. Every time winter approaches, it's the most difficult time for them. The withering and falling of the leaves makes their concealment from the air much weaker. It's been a year since I last came here. I wonder if this settlement is still around?"
Estée Lauder's tone carried a hint of melancholy. But if this settlement truly no longer existed, she wouldn't feel sad. Because her tears had long since run dry. Ever since she had gained a certain ability to protect herself and became a courier, Estée Lauder had witnessed the disappearance of no less than five tribes. From wailing in the beginning to facing it calmly now, she suppressed all her sorrow in the bottom of her heart, and her resentment towards the gods, the desire to overthrow them, grew a few degrees heavier. Other than that, there was nothing else they could do.
Estée Lauder led Aslan over a mountain peak. However, what came into view was rising black smoke. Estée Lauder's heart instantly grew heavy, because the area on fire was precisely her destination. From time to time, red beams of magical energy could be seen flashing across the sky. The red beams would disperse just before reaching the ground, but they still broke through the clouds.
Birds and animals living in the forest fled from it in a panic. From time to time, an explosion would be heard, kicking up a large amount of dust and trees.
A huge existence leaped out from the forest. It was entirely silver. A giant eye under a single screen was constantly observing its surroundings. The concentric circles of the eye looked a bit like a black-based, red-ringed Rinnegan. On the back of the humanoid figure was a pair of metal wings. The wings looked rather bulky, with the thrusters encased within them. This giant silver mecha did not have hands; its arms looked more like two special pincers. From the very center of those pincers, Aslan could also see an existence that looked like a firing port. As for what it could fire, it probably varied depending on the different types of mecha.
"A Divine Messenger..."
Upon seeing this existence, Estée Lauder couldn't help but grit her teeth. It was this kind of existence that had turned too many people into the playthings of the gods. Even Melusine couldn't help but poke her head out from Aslan's arms with curiosity.
Originally, Melusine could have returned to normal in a world like this. But it seemed that because all of the dragon's magical energy had been absorbed before coming to this world, the current Melusine had no way to change back into her human form. However, this era did not reject Melusine's full-power state, so she should be able to recover after a while.
Melusine's eyes lit up as she looked at this mecha, and she chirped twice at Aslan.
Aslan, of course, understood what his dragon meant. In fact, the current Aslan, after seeing the true form of this Divine Messenger, was also quite excited. In this world, he could finally complete the reinforcement of his Supreme Masterpiece once again. At the same time, the body modifications that Melusine wanted should also be able to be completed.
Most, most importantly, in this world, could he finally achieve the one thing he had always wanted to do?
Aslan's gaze fell on the distant sky. Looking into the distance, a corner of the sky had a magnificent light. That should be the abode of the gods in this world. In that case, in this world, could he finally pin Ares to the ground and dissect him? He really wanted to see how much difference there was between Ares and his own Supreme Masterpiece, Justice.
Aslan licked his lips. At the same time, he placed his gaze on the so-called Divine Messenger. Whether it was to save the people in the jungle or to research this world's so-called Divine Messenger, the current him should directly make a move, pin that Divine Messenger to the ground, and dissect it. Just thinking about it was so exciting.
Anyway, this area had already been discovered by the apostles of the gods. Anyway, he would have to clash with the gods later. Since that was the case, at least for this moment, there was no need to hide. Just charge up and fight!
Aslan directly pulled off the Supreme Masterpiece hanging around his neck. The crimson mecha once again rapidly unfolded. At the same time, Aslan extended his hand to Estée Lauder, letting her enter his cockpit. The entire mecha then rapidly broke through towards the forest.
At this moment, Estée Lauder was worried about the safety of the people in the forest. Therefore, although she was now inside the red mecha she had longed for, she didn't have much mind to observe it.
And in the forest, the Divine Messenger that was constantly capturing the fleeing humans naturally also noticed the crimson mecha rushing towards it at high speed. This so-called Divine Messenger naturally gave up on continuing to hunt the humans and prioritized preparing a counterattack in Aslan's direction. Its pincer-like hands opened, revealing cannon muzzles. What was loaded in the muzzles was not some device for firing magical energy rays, but an ordinary capture net. It was just that the capture net seemed to carry a special electric current. However, from the intensity of the current, it probably wouldn't have too much of an effect on the Supreme Masterpiece controlled by Aslan.
Two electrified capture nets were fired from the cannon muzzles. Faced with these, the Supreme Masterpiece just lifted its hands. Its arms rapidly transformed into disposable close-combat weapons, and at the same time, began to spin, entangling all the capture nets. With a forward swinging motion, the entangled capture nets, along with the disposable weapons, were thrown back at the silver-white mecha before it.
After the two crumpled iron nets smashed onto the outer shell of the silver mecha, they left two dents on its exterior. This made Aslan purse his lips. How should he put it? With this kind of equipment shell, his Supreme Masterpiece didn't even need to use a weapon to be able to tear this layer of skin off directly.
The so-called Divine Messenger seemed to have noticed that the mecha before it was taller than him. Its entire head, the scanning eye, rapidly contracted, and crimson magical energy began to condense.
How could Aslan let it finish preparing its attack? A compartment on the waist of the Supreme Masterpiece opened, and a throwing knife appeared in its hand. It was then quickly thrown forward. With the sound of metal being pierced, a flash of electric current went through the silver mecha's entire body. It then fell straight into the forest.
Aslan opened the cockpit and threw a storage capsule at the mecha that had fallen to the ground. He couldn't possibly dissect the Divine Messenger before him in this place. Who knew if the Divine Messenger had sent a message to the other surrounding Divine Messengers, or even to the gods, that it had encountered an enemy? Before his own preparations were complete, it was better not to clash with the gods if he could avoid it. Of course, even if they really did clash, it didn't matter. He could still run away.