Chapter 2430 Tartarus (2077 in One More Night!)
Ellie has always been swift and resolute in her work, so she called Xuecai directly the next morning and asked the latter to bring a big box to the No. 12 artificial island.
"Senior, do I need to stay?"
At this moment, Yukina also learned about the "Shadow Time" from Ellie, and she was quite surprised that such a strange thing would appear, so she naturally wanted to stay and investigate.
"Of course there is no problem. You can try it. It will be better if you can move around during movie time."
Of course Ellie doesn't mind Yukina staying. In fact, if Yukina can stay, it will certainly help them explore the tower, but the strange shadow time is really challenging, and Ellie is not sure. Whether Yukina can successfully carry out activities in movie time.
So it just depends.
"Miss Allie, what is this?"
At this time, Kirijo Mizuru also came over, and looked at the metal box next to Yukina, which was only a head shorter than her, and couldn't help being stunned for a moment. This box looks no different from an ordinary suitcase, except that it is much larger, and its appearance is full of a sense of technology...
"Oh, this is the weapon I'm going to use... I prepared it last night, and it should look pretty good now."
While speaking, Ellie stretched out her finger, and lightly pressed a place on the top of the box that resembled a fingerprint reader, and then heard a soft "poof", and the metal box that seemed to be in one piece suddenly collapsed layer by layer. Split it apart, and then displayed the contents inside to everyone.
Including shotguns, grenades, sniper rifles, grenade guns…………
"this is……………"
Looking at the box that looked like a small arsenal in front of her, Mizuru Kirijo was stunned, and Yukina next to her was also dizzy for a while. She didn't expect that the things she dragged all the way here were actually such dangers. thing!
"Sometimes, I still believe in firepower superiority."
Ellie stretched out her hand and stuffed a handful of weapons into her cloak. It looked like a magician conjured magic, but in fact, for her who can now freely manipulate time and space, nothing more than It is the result of putting Flander's "dimension transfer" ability into practical use.
Even if abilities and magic can't directly affect those shadow monsters, they can still be used as assistance.
After traveling through so many worlds, Ellie has long learned to find a good way to fight in any situation.
If it wasn't for the fact that ordinary machines couldn't move in Shadow Time, Ellie would have brought hundreds of temple guards over and wiped out that Tartarus for you.
But since the physical attack is effective, then strengthen the physical attack to the limit.
Lack of firepower? This is also called a problem?
After packing all the weapons in the box, Ellie stretched out her hand, took out a cane from the box, weighed it, and nodded with satisfaction.
When fighting the third primogenitor, Ellie discovered that even if the transforming elves use wolf swordsmanship to attack, their height is still a flaw——— wolf swordsmanship requires more height and strength than just being handsome, but is a practical need.
At present, Ellie's height is only a little taller than the little girls around Fangzheng, barely reaching the passing line, and it is still too difficult to wield the big sword.
However, Fangzheng has traveled through several worlds after all, and soon thought of a solution to the problem.
If the undead team can't resist, then it's the same to use Yanan hunters to resist?
Compared with wolf swordsmanship, Yanan Hunter's fighting style does not require so much height and strength, and it is a little more flexible, and it is more suitable for a petite character like Ellie.
So Ellie let the robots in Higra's Glory start working overnight, and manufactured a large number of weapons. In addition to firearms, it was this freely retractable cane sword that Fangzheng had obtained in the world of Yanan.
Looking at Ellie who was fully armed, Kirijo Mizuru was also dumbfounded. She had never seen an attacking mage before, but what does this kind of attacking mage mean to Kirijo Mizuru... It seems that she is different from everyone else. Too much the same.
In any case, this at least gave Kirijo Mizuru a sense of security. You must know that their S.E.E.S branch does not have such good treatment and authority. Now that she sees so many powerful weapons, she feels much more at ease.
Soon, one day passed, and in the middle of the next night, Airi and others arrived at the place where Tartarus appeared under the leadership of Kirijo Mizuru and Sanada Akihiko.
"This is it? Isn't this a school?"
Looking at the Yueguangkan Academy in front of her, Xijian Qinyin asked curiously. Because she also has the qualifications to use Persona, she was persuaded by Atsuki Shuji and Kirijo Mizuru to join the S.E.E.S team. In addition, yesterday Yue Yu Yukari, who had a relationship with Airi and others, also followed, and Eri's little follower, Himeragi Yukina.
Everyone is fully armed at the moment, and Kirijo Mizuru is holding a Western sword—for some reason, the eldest lady seems to like to use a rapier as a weapon, which reminds Ellie of Asuna...
And Akihiko Sanada is wearing a pair of iron fist gloves --- I heard that he was a member of the boxing club in school, and he also has his own uniqueness in fighting.
Yue Yujiali is holding a bow and arrow. She is a member of the bow and arrow club and has certain strengths in this area. In fact, Ai Li originally asked her to use a gun, but Yue Yuyoujiali hesitated for a while and refused. This is also normal, unlike Airi who can directly summon Persona, Yue Yu Youjiali needs that gun as a summoner to be able to summon it, in case she is too nervous and takes the wrong gun, point the real gun at her forehead After a while... tsk tsk tsk, I really dare not think about that picture.
As for Xijian Qinyin, she is holding a long juvenile knife, which looks like a simplified version of the Guan Gong knife, which makes Ellie look at it curiously. You know, she still rarely sees this kind of weapon used by anyone. , I didn't expect this ordinary looking girl in front of me to have such experience.
"You'll know it when you look at it."
Facing Xijian Qinyin's question, Kirijo Mizuru didn't answer immediately, she just glanced at her watch.
"Time is up."
As Kirijo Mizuru's voice fell, the clock on her watch also reached twelve o'clock.
Immediately after that, the surrounding environment suddenly changed.
The miserable green hue covered everything, and the bright and huge moon emerged again, illuminating the artificial island in front of me with icy radiance, and the surroundings once again turned into a haunted house-like appearance, with bloodstains scattered on the ground, and... …
"Are you sure it's okay?"
Ellie stretched out her hand and knocked on the coffin beside her—it was Yukina, it seemed that she didn't have the luck of others.
"no problem."
Kirijo Mizuru nodded.
"Shadows will not attack these coffins, they will only attack people who wander in the shadow time, but the problem now is not this, you see..."
While talking, Kirijo Mizuru raised his head, and at the same time, in front of everyone, the building of Moonlight Hall Academy began to gradually distort and change.
It was a kind of change that was compressed and elongated like plasticine. At this moment, the twisting tall building seemed to be transformed into some kind of living big insect, lifting its body to face the night sky. Then, under the eyes of everyone, it turned into a twisted spire soaring into the sky.
Seeing this scene, Ai Li couldn't help raising her eyebrows, while Yue Yu Youjiali and Xi Jian Qinyin both showed surprised expressions.
"right here."
It wasn't until the transformation was over that Kirijo Mizuru stretched out his hand and pushed open the school gate.
"Be careful."
Pushing open the door, everyone walked into the tower slowly.
The tower in front of me was empty, except for a long staircase in the middle leading to the gate on the second floor, other than that, there was nothing here—huh? wrong?
When Ellie glanced around, she saw a blue door erected not far from the left side of the hall. Ellie seemed to have a little impression of this door. If she remembered correctly, when she summoned Persona last night , I have seen a similar door in the space called "Velvet Room".
Yet no one else seemed to notice this, except for one.
Seeing Xijian Qinyin walking to the door, Ellie looked around curiously, then pushed the door open, and then, Xijian Qinyin froze there without responding.
"What’s wrong with you?"
Seeing Xijian Qinyin was in a daze, Yue Yu walked over and patted her on the shoulder curiously, which brought the latter back to his senses as if he had just woken up from a dream, but she also seemed to realize that other people seemed to be I couldn't see the door, so I made a few words casually and put the matter aside.
"Then I'll leave it to you, Miss Ellie."
At this time, Kirijo Mizuru also came over, and put an earphone into Ellie's hand.
"I will be in charge of monitoring here. You can take other people up to check the situation. Mingyan knows the way, and he will tell you how to get there."
"OK."
After taking the headset, Ellie nodded, and then exchanged glances with the others.
"let's go."
What Kirijo Mizuru said was true. In this high tower they called "Tartaros", the number and threat of those shadows were indeed not at the same level as outside.
In the outside city, the shadows are basically two or three kittens. As long as there are enough people, it can be said that it is easy to deal with them. But after entering the tower, there are so many shadow monsters here that they are like guards, with three steps and one post and five steps and one sentry. Players are annoying.
"Gah———————————————————————!!!"
Along with the screams, I saw several shadow monsters pounced on both sides of the corridor again. They looked very strange, they looked like monsters in myths and legends, not only their appearances were distorted, but they were different from those they met last night. Different from those shadow monsters that only jump over to attack physically, these monsters can also use some magic-like abilities to attack.
At the beginning, Xijian Qinyin and Yue Yuyujiali, two rookies who had never been on the battlefield, were in a hurry, but after several consecutive battles, they gradually adapted to the battle. Facing the shadow in front of him, Xijian Qinyin raised his naginata and rushed forward together with Akihiko Sanada. Behind them, Yue Yuyu Jiali bent his bow and set an arrow, and shot it quickly into the body of a shadow monster. In the head, destroy it.
The three of them entangled with the shadow monsters in the front, while Airi was responsible for guarding the rear. These monsters are not as virtuous as the little monsters in RPG, and besides Ai Li who has rich combat experience, only Akihiko Sanada has dealt with shadows, and Yue Yu is composed of Jiali and Xijian Qinyin. They are all newbies and have no such awareness at all.
If it wasn't for Ellie's scruples about the rear, I'm afraid they would have been attacked several times already.
"Drink!"
Seeing the shadow monster flying in the air and rushing towards her, Ellie gave a light drink, and the cane sword in her hand suddenly split and stretched out, turning into a chain sword and directly knocking him down to the ground. At the same time, the other two monsters who looked like they were wearing crowns and cosmetic masks, with only their heads flying in the air, rushed towards Ellie from left to right.
Facing the enemy in front of her, Ellie raised the revolver in her left hand and aimed it at the air without hesitation. With her movements, a Tarot card emerged out of thin air and spun down.
"Persona!!"
While calling, Ellie pulled the trigger, and the Tarot cards that fell to the gun's muzzle at this moment also shattered. Immediately afterwards, Shidu appeared again with the white bear, wrapped in howling cold air, turned into a tornado-like frenzy and swept across the entire corridor, tearing all the shadow monsters that rushed over to pieces.
For Ellie, these shadow monsters are not a problem. If there are one or two alone, she can directly kill them with the gun in her hand and the cane sword. If there are too many enemies, she will summon Zhidu Nei to send a wave of AOE to wipe them all out. In this way, under the escort of Ellie, everyone soon came to the depths of the courtyard on the second floor.
"right here."
When he led everyone to the intersection, Akihiko Sanada couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, then he looked at Ellie and nodded gratefully to her.
"Thank you for your help, Miss Ellie, and the two of you too. Sure enough, it's easy to do things with people. When I came here alone, I was exhausted to death..."
"Understandable."
Ellie also nodded at what Sanada said. Judging from the number of shadow monsters they encountered just now, even four people fighting at the same time is enough. Sanada running here alone is indeed quite dangerous.
But now...
"Is this what you said?"
Walking forward, Ellie squinted her eyes and looked at the passage in front of her—from the outside, it seemed that this place was just a very ordinary passage. But under the dim light inside the passage, one can vaguely see the tumbling fog.
"That's right."
Akihiko Sanada nodded.
"It was like this when we came here before, and when it rains at night, the fog will dissipate and a gate will be replaced."
"A door......?"
Faced with Akihiko Sanada's answer, Airi frowned, staring at the fog in front of her eyes and thinking.
It seems that the situation is still complicated.