Cyber Era Witch
Chapter 726 - 605: Decisive Battle

Chapter 726: Chapter 605: Decisive Battle

crossed the boundary, feeling both the temperature and the air she breathed had changed.

The surrounding woods were dense, the soil dry.

She saw the Great River Followers in their unique attire patrolling, while Jin Yuxiu squatted in the bushes, folding up her Mechanical Wings, and 102 hid beside Jin Yuxiu to observe.

The internal functions of 102’s Witch Armor could read brain waves and convert them into text, then turn the text into speech. She used this method to converse silently with Jin Yuxiu.

"They seem tense," 102 said.

"The anomaly is still expanding. Look at the distance," Jin Yuxiu’s armor had a similar function.

She stretched out her hand, pointing to the end.

At the distant riverbank, the Secret Ritual Group, known as the "Great River Followers," had at some point constructed a massive gate-shaped edifice, plastered with gray and adorned with gold leaf.

That gate was completely empty, leading neither to a building nor connecting to any corridors; it was entirely an arch-like existence.

Around the gate, sacrificial altars and statues were arrayed, along with a huge sacrificial pit filled with countless corpses.

On closer inspection, 102 also saw a large number of calcified remains; they might have been killing people here day after day... for decades.

"A portal?" 102 speculated.

"Very likely, although we’re not as skilled as the elders at dealing with mysticism, it’s quite obvious... that gate must be taken down, or closed," said Jin Yuxiu seriously.

"So big," 102 marveled, the gate was at least several dozen meters high! If the Great River Goddess were to walk through that gate with it atop her head, she too would be a giant!

"Have you noticed something off?" Jin Yuxiu asked.

"The sky has cleared," 102 looked up.

Hanging in the sky was a perpetual sun, warm and bright, completely at odds with the torrential rain outside.

"Yes... everything here is unnatural."

"I’ll go tell the others," 102 ran back.

She hit an invisible air wall at the edge, bouncing herself back and landing on her backside on the ground.

"I’ve tried already," Jin Yuxiu helped 102 up and hid again behind the trees, "You’ll have to wait for them to come; there’s no way to contact the outside from here. This... this is no longer the world we’re familiar with."

looked into the distance; the Golden Cicada River flowed quietly. A tributary of it ran through here, as wide and deep as the main body, originating from deep within the hills, silent and reflective, casting shimmering ripples. The two reconnaissance crafts sank in the river water, having been brought down by who knows what.

And there was...

A peacock!

102’s pupils shrank as she saw a giant peacock bathing in the river. It lay completely submerged in the water, motionless, as if asleep.

Indeed, its tail feathers were inscribed with forbidden knowledge! Fortunately, it wasn’t displaying its plumage right now, or 102 would have already gone mad.

Chilled to the bone, 102 firmly remembered this and warned Jin Yuxiu.

She turned her head and saw the rest of the group crossing the boundary one by one into the ruins, causing her to startle and quickly wave to warn them not to hurry.

The ruins were filled with the Great River Followers, at least a couple of thousand in number, with defensive emplacements everywhere, trenches and artillery positions, forming a solid defensive stronghold, not to be disturbed.

Seeing this, the members of the Intervention Army that arrived later immediately restrained their movements, so as not to disturb the peace and quiet of this great mystery.

But the Book Page Peacock in the river suddenly stirred to life!

It stretched out its claws from the river, as if it had sensed the approach of these people.

The Book Page Peacock crawled towards the shore and towards the direction where the Intervention Army entered, forcefully spreading its fan-shaped tail feathers!

All members of the "Great River Followers" Secret Ritual Group instinctively turned their heads to avoid it.

The Intervention Army members were caught off guard, with many of the special task force directly gazing upon the Book Page Peacock, witnessing the myriad of knowledge and memories recorded upon its colorful wings—

Blood streamed endlessly from their eyes!

The maddened soldiers let out screams, suddenly revealing their positions.

These sounds naturally alarmed the members of the Secret Ritual Group.

"Where did they come from?"

"Someone is disrupting the Great River Goddess!"

"Kill them!"

"The messenger has been angered!"

"Damn it!"

Seeing this, 102 wanted to fight, but as long as the Book Page Peacock remained there, displaying its feathers, it was difficult for them to initiate head-on combat.

According to the battle plan they had prepared, their Mirror Vehicles were also pushed into the battlefield, but they were quickly met with heavy fire, and the believers mercilessly attacked the Intervention Army as it entered the mystery.

A fierce battle was imminent, the Company’s united Intervention Army was about to clash with the "Great River Followers" Secret Ritual Group!

lowered her visor, closed her eyes, and began to read the battle information through a virtual imaging device.

With enough technological means, a series of cognitive hazards could be fended off.

"Fight!" 102 activated the wings on her back and broke into the midst of the battle.

...

Elsewhere, Masasuke Hazuki was in the medical department, looking over a magazine with Hosoda Yoshiyuki.

"Listen to how disdainful this sounds... ’One should think there are inherent distinctions of high and low, noble and ignoble at birth,’" Hosoda Yoshiyuki grumbled.

"Perhaps," Hazuki thought of Kojima Kanako. From birth, she was never meant to lose.

"You, of all people," Hosoda Yoshiyuki complained, "no one is nobler than anyone else, and if there is, we’ll pull him off his high horse!"

"Yes," Hazuki said, distracted.

"Nowadays, it’s mostly the poor who are duped into dying for the rich, and that’s the stupidest thing. Many things can be seen that way, I won’t. I’m going to kill those rich people," Hosoda Yoshiyuki muttered to himself.

"Where’s Snowball?" Hazuki asked, noticing the absence of Snowball.

"Haven’t seen her all day," Hosoda Yoshiyuki couldn’t find Snowball either.

Hazuki was waiting for the Old Poet to hack into the hotel and signal him, but he hadn’t received a message from the Old Poet. He couldn’t keep waiting endlessly and miss the opportunity.