Platinum's already bright eyes immediately widened even further. After feeling the strong wind rushing up from below and the immense sensation of weightlessness, even someone as calm as her shrieked in terror.
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— — — — — Bang!
After nearly four seconds of freefall, a landing sound echoed through the dark underground space.
Skadi didn't even bend her legs, smashing straight into the already dilapidated metal floor, directly breaking open the lowest deck.
Goki and Platinum, however, felt no impact—jumping upwards in a falling staircase to counteract kinetic energy is something normal humans can't do, but Skadi can!
"Ugh, ugh, couldn't you have told me before doing something like that?!"
Platinum's black-stockinged legs beneath her hot pants trembled incessantly. She stood up shakily, clearly still shaken.
Although Platinum was an assassin who often scaled walls and picked locks, she didn't know anything about a Leap of Faith! A normal person, without Originium Arts, falling dozens of meters to the ground at high speed would die!
While Platinum's little hooves were still weak, she saw Skadi pull half of her body out of the shattered heavy alloy plate, while Goki quickly surveyed their surroundings.
"Alright, I was wrong. I shouldn't have come with you two weirdos..."
However, before she could finish complaining, Platinum's horse ears perked up alertly, and Goki had already drawn his weapon.
"The smell of blood... so familiar, even the stench is identical."
Currently, the three were in the lowest track machinery section; more precisely, they had entered the tracks of the Mobile City.
The vast energy supplied by the upper Originium reactors, apart from a portion input above ground, was mostly transported downwards.
Goki looked around. Thousands of giant drive shafts and gears stood still, covering a wide space of hundreds of square meters. The largest transmission device was almost ten meters in diameter, and the thickness of the tracks was even taller than Goki's height—yet this was only the area controlling a small section of the moving track.
To an layman like Goki, these were nothing, but Goki was sure that if those inventive Geniuses from the Powderkeg Gang, or Nona Boa, who was currently in the Akahula Rainforest, were to see them, they would definitely be unable to resist licking them!
At least for this month, the entire track department would not be in motion, unless a natural disaster struck, no one had the right to make the Four Cities Alliance move.
However, this didn't mean there were no people here. Maintenance personnel had to endure high temperatures and scorching heat for daily routine maintenance.
But now, Goki almost instantly sensed the pervasive aura of death around them.
Flames rose, and the dim bottom level immediately brightened.
Soon, everyone discovered an innocent maintenance worker lying in the distance, the reflective strips on his uniform reflecting a brilliant firelight.
And on his head, two twisted, pale figures were pinning him to the ground, sucking streams of white light from his scalp.
Upon seeing the three entering the track department, these humanoid monsters immediately turned their heads towards them, their tentacles on their heads spreading like flowers, letting out a huge, threatening roar.
One of them stretched out a skinny arm and pounced towards Platinum, while the other cooperated, shooting pure white light from its hand, directly binding Platinum in place.
"Ugh, what is this—hey, help! What about the 'master' you talked about?!"
Platinum was a legitimate assassin from the Great Revolution, unlike the "assassins" in the Hall of Origin Heroes who had seen so many strange creatures. Although she instinctively drew her bow and notched an arrow, the next second, her body was fixed by that strange Spell, unable to move.
However, even so, Platinum was not afraid; she just called out pitifully to the person behind her.
"Now you know I'm your master, my Nona Maid?"
"Bang—"
The next second, a roar came from behind Platinum. The Mind-sucker pouncing on Platinum was hit in the face by a mercury bullet, stopping its advance.
Pfft—
Immediately, a spear, smoking faintly like a short halberd, pierced directly into the Mind-sucker's chrysanthemum-shaped head.
"The smell of blood is below, and there's more. Skadi, smash through the tracks!"
Sensing the enemy's position, Goki issued an order to Skadi, who had already turned into a storm.
"Understood!"
Skadi reacted quickly, drawing her heavy mechanical sword, leaping high, and splitting the Mind-sucker behind her vertically from its crown, directly dividing it in two.
The fierce assault did not stop; the mechanical sword continued to slash downwards, embedding itself into the high-strength alloy track capable of supporting a Mobile City.
Although Goki knew there must be a proper passage to their destination, time could no longer be wasted—in front of Skadi, the shortest distance between two points was a straight line!
Crack—crack crack.
Following Skadi's heavy blow, Goki didn't hesitate, scooping up Platinum beside him in a princess carry.
The next second, the metal floor beneath their feet split open, dropping the three into an already open crevice below.
— — — — — —
"Don't fall a third time... you pervert, who told you to carry me."
Sitting up from Goki's lap, the dusty Platinum brushed off her clothes, looked up at the ceiling, nearly ten meters from the ground below, and nodded.
The stale, foul smell clearly indicated that this place had not seen daylight for a long time.
"This should be it, deep underground beneath the Grand Knight Territory's central turning tracks, we've arrived at—whoa! Again?!"
But before Platinum could fully recover, a faint golden light streaked through the pitch-black underground cave, transforming into a rapier that stood before Platinum.
Upon seeing the person's face, Platinum's motion to draw an arrow and retaliate immediately slowed.
"You are—Shining?"
Soon, the rapier standing at Platinum's nose tip was immediately lowered.
From the darkness, a Sarkaz woman in a black robe slowly emerged.
"It seems... we are indeed striving for the same thing, Mr. Goki."
Shining sheathed her sword, looked at the three in front of her, and sighed softly.
Indeed, everything was exactly as Nightingale had said.
Fate... ever-changing, yet always the same.
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