190. The Missing Core
At this moment, Ian had transformed into a demon.
She had grown sharp fangs, and her pupils had also become beast-like. Two pairs of silver-white wings were just like a bat’s.
Her power had surged in a short time. If there were a device to measure her level now, it would discover that she was now level 87.
In other words, she could now even wrestle with a Cardinal.
When she clenched one hand, a silver long spear appeared. She threw it at the magic golem, and the ground behind her was shattered by the strong magical impact.
“Be careful, this is a [Berserker] class magic golem, the highest class!” Josan, who had at some point crawled behind Ian, said, covering the wound on his abdomen. His suit, because he had been rolling and crawling, was now tattered like a beggar’s. What was interesting was that his sunglasses were actually intact.
The next second, the magic golem, as expected, was extraordinary. After catching the magic spear, it directly crushed it. But this was Ian’s feint. She instantly flew in front of the magic golem and stabbed her magic sword into the magic golem’s neck, which was unprotected by armor.
“Boom—!”
An explosion occurred at the magic golem’s neck, and the tin can’s head was instantly blown askew. Ian grabbed the protruding part of the magic golem’s armor and struck its neck with her sword again.
“Its power core is in its chest, be careful!”
“What did you say?” Only then did Ian discover that the magic golem could still move after losing its head. She saw that the double blades were about to cut her.
Ian made a decisive decision. Seeing that she would be injured even if she escaped, she instantly gathered even greater power.
“Magic smoke, aid me—!”
The magic sword instantly exploded, and sparks flew everywhere. Josan squinted his eyes, and only after careful observation did he discover that it was actually Ian who had erupted with magic power in an instant and had cut off the alloy steel plate that was protecting the power core.
The magic golem was finally cut in half by a single slash and turned into a pile of scrap metal.
Ian descended from the sky, her body not stained with a single speck of dust.
“Hey, I told you I still had to rely on you, Ian!” Josan stood up, took a high-priced recovery pill, and chuckled.
“Oh, oh, oh—! No wonder Miss Ian has a noble temperament. It turns out to be such a noble bloodline!”
An excited voice came from behind. Ian looked over in surprise and discovered that Ezech, in a pool of blood, had taken off his helmet and was smiling.
He had slipped out of his armor as if a golden cicada had shed its skin. He patted the dust on the huge wound on his stomach, which had already stopped bleeding.
He didn’t even forget to take out the disinfectant he carried with him and spray it on his body to prevent the wound from getting infected!
Finally, he took out a bottle of perfume from the side pocket of his clothes and wiped it on his body.
“You…” Ian was speechless.
Leaving aside whether he could still stand after being pierced, Ian had for a moment thought that Josan would have one less heavyweight boss.
But not only had this Ezech not died, but he was also alive and kicking!
A bit too much.
“Oh, oh, oh! You… the legendary extinct evil demon actually still has descendants with humans. Although this bloodline has been diluted for several generations by despicable people, it is so dazzling!”
“Damn it…”
Ian was suddenly embarrassed.
She was indeed a mixed-blood, and the women in her family would usually have a second form that was good at fighting.
But her grandmother could still grow real wings, and in her generation, she could only use magic to conjure wings.
The good news was that she would no longer be considered to have a relationship with the demon race. The bad news was that the time in this combat state would greatly increase her desire to eat.
“I offer my deepest apologies for my previous rudeness, Miss Ian. Your bloodline is the only surviving evil demon in the world, and your mixed blood with humans is as beautiful as a brilliant gem!!” Ezech continued his speech.
“Now there’s a second person who knows your secret. How tragic,” Josan also smiled.
“But I’m sadder than you. This damned [Berserker] class magic golem cost me 30,000 gold coins. It was originally equivalent to the combat power of a 300-person Holy Knight squad, and it was also good at city security. I had originally wanted to use this to upgrade, but now it seems I’ve lost money.”
Ian shook her head. Actually, she didn’t care, and her heart was heavy.
The strongest meaning of a [Berserker] class magic golem was that it could be operated without anyone. It was said that this kind of magic golem had to be given orders by a specific person to complete its mission… It was simply a loyal warrior who never betrayed and had no training costs.
One thing she was concerned about was whether the ownership of this magic golem was in Josan’s hands.
“Josan, tell me the truth. Is this scholar really the guy who researches the magic golem’s core? You won’t even let me see the body?”
As if hearing the suspicion in Ian’s words, this time Josan didn’t say anything and pretended to wipe his sunglasses.
“That’s right, emotion drives behavior. A core that completes a command without anyone driving it can only be man-made! That core must be a soul thing!”
For some reason, even Ezech began to speak for Ian.
“You bastard, you haven’t used the legacy of forbidden magic, have you?”
“…”
“Alright, alright, you two, don’t look at me like that. I was just researching. Someone had previously used magic to copy the meat core of forbidden magic and turned it into a machine. I just bought that thing!”
What the meat core was, even Ezech knew.
At that time, to resist the demons, humanity had created a group of absolutely loyal troops.
That army had offered a part of their brains, which were fused by [forbidden magic] into a huge “mastermind,” which controlled the spirit of all the soldiers. Then, scientists from all walks of life would conduct various guidance and hypnosis experiments on the meat-mountain-like mastermind. Even after the war was over, the meat core and those controlled soldiers still existed, until one day the laboratory was burned down, which accelerated the extinction of forbidden magic.
At that time, the controlled soldiers would either lose their ability to move, or they would never be able to wake up, becoming one of the most heinous events in the early days of Delgon’s establishment.
“So there was no scholar at all, right?” Ian questioned. “This mansion is your private mansion, storing the mechanical core, and now the mechanical core has been stolen.”
Josan, seeing that his plan had been exposed, could only give up and nod his head:
“Yes, that core is the core that controls all the [Berserker] class magic golems.”
Suddenly, Ian’s and Ezech’s faces turned pale.
Ian’s brow furrowed slightly: “Then may I ask, besides you, who else can activate the core and control those magic golems?”
“I said only myself, damn it…”
“…”
“Then how many more [Berserker] class magic golems are there?”
“56.”
Before saying this number, the two gasped.
“If the core is a tool to control all the magic golems, then the one who got it will surely ahhh!”
In just the blink of an eye, Ian pulled the two of them by their arms, spread her wings, and flew into the sky with all her might.
