Universal Mechanic

Chapter 468

The time goes back to a few hours ago in a wilderness.

Fang Mengtie: It’s indeed very dangerous here.

As he spoke, Fang Mengtie chopped off the two front paws of the mutant lion that was flying towards him with one shot, and then pierced its head with another shot.

Ashtar: Yeah so it's a big help that you can help.

As he spoke, Asta pulled the trigger and an energy arrow flew towards the mutant vulture in the sky, breaking its wings and causing it to fall from the sky.

Fang Mengtie: It’s okay, just treat it as hunting food. But if this continues it will turn into a war of attrition and we don’t have any AOE skills.

As he spoke, Fang Mengtie kicked the mutant groundhog in front of him into pieces.

Asta: According to my experience, there must be a leader here. If we get rid of him, at least there won’t be any more enemies coming!

As he spoke, Asta swung his greatsword and cut the mutant tiger that was trying to break through in front of him into half in one breath.

Fang Mengtie: But before that, isn't your world too exaggerated? Basically, there are these alien beasts everywhere?

Asta: It's okay if you want to call them that, alien beasts, mutant beasts, servants of the world's will, etc., but in the end they are just beasts that only know how to destroy.

Fang Mengtie: Can’t we solve the source?

Asta: To solve it, we have to find the source first. Tsk, let’s talk about it later. The beasts that broke into the town have been dealt with, so we can get serious!

Fang Mengtie: I can finally be serious.

After saying that, Fang Mengtie's eyes lit up, he raised his lance, and rushed out like an arrow from a bow, directly tearing a hole in the army of mutant beasts in front of him.

Asta: Even without any armor, the Taotie can still move at such a fast speed. Its physical fitness is really amazing.

Finn: Now is not the time to lament about this, right? Her attacks will eat everything they touch, right? Wouldn't that mean we can't keep the materials?

Asta: Yes, that's right. Although she won't touch the corpses on the ground, it won't work if I ask her to destroy all the materials. So please lend me your power, both of you.

Finn: I want to hunt, but I have to race against time.

Ross: The hound has already dealt with the troublesome mentally attacking prey. You can use my power as you like.

Astha: Thank you.

After saying that, the crossbow and greatsword in Asta's hands changed. The crossbow was wrapped with illusory blue flames, and the sharp sword was flashing with the light of dusk.

Asta: Even without armor, he has this much power? I can't imagine what it will be like after it's released.

As Asta spoke, he swung his crossbow into the air and countless arrows turned into a rain of arrows and fell down. A few arrows accurately pierced the mutant beast's eyebrows, but most of the arrows were scattered on the ground.

Asta: It turns out that it is difficult to learn Charlotte. Forget it, let’s switch to the sword next.

After saying that, Asta used Ross's ability to come to the location of one of the energy arrows and swung the sword with all his strength. The mutant beast that was touched by the sword was cut in half easily like butter touching a heated knife.

Asta: The Dusk Fang is really sharp.

Finn: After all, it’s my secret weapon, so the basic test is now complete.

Asta: Yes, because the captain will absorb the energy and will be gone just by being near the Dusk Fang.

Finn: It's a despairing ability, but these guys don't have such a disgusting ability! Come on!

Ashtar: Yes, yes, yes.

As he spoke, Asta kept teleporting to the location of the energy arrow, swung his sword to kill the mutant beasts, and his speed began to gradually accelerate.

After half an hour.

Asta: It’s finally done. It was really troublesome to be careful about leaving behind the materials. By the way, Fang Mengtie, what are you eating now?

Fang Mengtie waved the half-person-length ham in his hand and said: Roasted ham, I was hungry so I just roasted a pig.

As he spoke, Fang Mengtie opened his mouth and ate the meat and bones together.

Asta: You ate it without even adding any seasoning. That's really heroic.

Fang Mengtie: I’m hungry. By the way, do you know why it turned out like this?

Asta: It seems that during the few days I was away, a few little brats wanted to prove themselves and ended up bringing this big trouble upon themselves.

Fang Mengtie: It’s really bad, but have you found the leader?

Ashtar: It’s a pity that we haven’t found any yet because there are too many of them.

As Asta said this, he looked at the large number of corpses that flooded the land.

Fang Mengtie: The initial estimate is about 100,000, right? We should let Xiao Mingqin follow us so that we don't have to eat such strange things.

As he spoke, Fang Mengtie ate the thing in his hand that looked like charcoal.

Ashtar: What is that? Black charcoal?

Fang Mengtie: It's pork! I just accidentally burnt it. Do you want to eat it? It has a nice crunchy texture.

Asta: ...I don't need it, but I'll pick out some good-looking ones for Xiao Mingqin as souvenirs.

Fang Mengtie: Ah, this is a good idea. I can also check where the problem is at the same time (can you feel the sight?).

While the two were talking, an origami wolf climbed onto Fang Mengtie's shoulder and hid in her long hair, allowing the two of them to communicate mentally.

Asta: (It seems that this guy is the mastermind. My hound can lock the location. Can you rush over? I can also teleport over.)

Fang Mengtie: (This distance can be achieved with armor.)

Asta: (It’s obviously half the length of the Great Wall.)

Fang Mengtie: (Although the taste is not very good, the energy consumed in this meat is quite a lot.)

Ashtar: (Then let’s get started.)

Fang Mengtie: (Understood.)

After saying that, Fang Mengtie grasped the hilt of the sword and turned into a red light and flew out.

Asta teleported directly to the destination and put a sword to the opponent's throat.

Varied!

Asta: Don't move, you have been peeking at us since just now, right?

As Asta said this, he threw out a spell card that turned into handcuffs and bound the other person's hands.

Tsk!

The cloaked woman raised her leg and kicked forward in an attempt to escape, but was grabbed by Asta and thrown to the ground. Then Asta threw out the spell card again to tie up her legs.

Asta: Be honest!

Asta had only said half of his words when a spear suddenly flew towards him, forcing him to swing his sword to defend himself. However, the spear did not fly away, but with the sound of breaking glass, blue liquid flowed out of the spear tip.

As soon as Asta saw the blue liquid, he quickly let go of the sword in his hand. The next second, both the spear and his sword were frozen!

Ashtar: Alchemical potion?

As Asta spoke, he used his crossbow to continuously fire energy arrows to break the flying test tubes, causing the alchemical potion to spill onto the ground. However, even so, the alchemical potion on the other side continued to be thrown at him as if it were free.

Asta: Why does this style of throwing alchemical potions like water balls seem so familiar?

However, just as Asta was about to use the armor and grasp the Royal Knight Spear Sword.

What? It wouldn't be fair if you used armor!

As she spoke, a woman wearing a wide windbreaker with a hood came out.

Asta: It's you, Riki.

As he spoke, Asta lowered his crossbow.

Luo Mengli said as she lifted her hood to reveal her long hair that looked like glass.

Luo Mengli: I didn’t expect that the first person to be found was not Xiaoyao but you, Asta.

Asta: It’s quite ironic that Luo Xiaoyao has been looking for you for who knows how long. By the way, where is Fang Mengtie?

Luo Mengli: Unlike you, she recognized me at first sight, so I threw some snacks for her to eat aside.

Asta: I thought so too. By the way, are you in cahoots with this guy?

As he spoke, Asta pointed at the cloaked woman on the ground.

Luo Mengli: Strictly speaking, we are in the same group. Let me introduce you. This is my apprentice. Please help me remove her restraints. I will also help you remove the effects of the alchemical potion on your weapon.

Asta: Ok but before that answer me a question, who among us is the most mentally disturbed?

Luo Mengli threw a bottle of alchemy potion at him and shouted: Get lost! I don't want to be struck by lightning!

Asta dodged the test tube and said: Okay, so the nuclear evil uranium obstacle is definitely one of us.

After saying that, Asta snapped his fingers to cancel the effect of the spell card.

Luo Mengli returned the weapon to Asta and said, "Are you really not going to be struck by lightning like this?" Oh, no, to be honest, you really won't be struck by lightning.

Asta took the sword and said, "Right? But why are you here?"

Luo Mengli: Well, where should I start? After I woke up decades ago, I have been traveling to various planets. Fortunately, although my equipment has been damaged after being in the space-time rift for too long, it is still there and can be used.

Ashtar: How did you get out? I woke up in the wilderness of this planet.

Luo Mengli: I'm much worse off than you. I was suddenly thrown onto an asteroid! It even hit my face!

As she spoke, Luo Mengli took out a stone slab with her face printed on it.

Asta said with a twitching mouth: ...You actually cut it off?

Luo Mengli looked at Asta's expression with satisfaction and put the stone tablet away while saying

Luo Mengli: After all, it is a rare souvenir.

Asta: You really like collecting some strange things as always. By the way, you haven’t told me why you are here.

Luo Mengli: I’m here to help, look at this.

As she spoke, Luo Mengli took out an ordinary ID card from the sleeve of her coat and showed it to Asta.

Asta took a look and said: You are the same Eden style as me, but have you ever thought about going to find Lilith?

Luo Mengli: There is no chance. After all, Lilith's identity is too special. I have no chance to get close to her, not to mention that she may not help me.

Asta: I don't think so, but have you been around here all these years?

Luo Mengli: After all, Xiaoyao will definitely run around to find me. If I were to run around with him, we would definitely pass by each other constantly.

Ashtar: That is indeed very likely.

Luo Mengli: Right? But let's get back to business. I'm here to help solve the problem of those mutated beasts.

Ashtar: I think so, but is it possible? I can prepare relevant materials if necessary.

Luo Mengli: It's really convenient to have your own people. After I came to this planet, I heard that there was a monster that could wipe out an army with just a crossbow. I was wondering if it was you. After all, you can't use the greatsword without Fen.

Asta: Because the contract is made like this. It’s not that it can’t be used, but it takes too much time and resources to reconnect it.

Luo Mengli: If I practice hard in this environment, I should be able to recover in half a year, right?

Asta: That consumes too many resources. It was only in recent years that we were able to maintain normal mass production of iron resources.

Luo Mengli: I see. So that’s how it is. There really are no resources for you to use. And with your personality, you would definitely refuse even if I offered them to you.

Asta: Anyway, I have recovered now and I was forced to use only the crossbow for so long that my strength has improved a bit. It’s just that I was beaten badly by the captain. It’s better to say that Charlotte and I couldn’t even beat Luo Yuan together.

Luo Mengli: Don't compare yourself to a guy who can kill gods when he's still human. Even Cang Yue, who is theoretically unkillable, would be in danger if he met him. And even if all of our knights come together, we can't beat him, right? I really don't believe he would neglect his own training.

Asta: ...Let's change the subject. It's better to talk about it somewhere else.

Luo Mengli: Then tell me about everyone’s situation while moving?

Asta: By the way, where is Fang Mengtie?

Luo Mengli: ...Maybe he was bored of our conversation and went for a walk nearby?

Asta: ...Forget it. Anyway, I have a spell card for her to use for communication. If anything happens, she can just go back to the little world at the end.

As they were talking, the two of them started walking towards the town. Of course, Luo Mengli did not forget to bring her apprentice with her.

An hour later, Asta's residence

Luo Mengli: There are quite a lot of things. It's really our style. However, I am quite interested in the artificial humans created using the Sword in the Stone.

Asta: You have to control yourself or the captain will be angry.

Luo Mengli: Don’t worry, I’m not a brainless lunatic. By the way, did you have any strange feelings when hunting?

Asta: No, even Ross didn't find anything special, but simple mutations shouldn't result in a mental series, right?

Luo Mengli: Of course, it would be fine if it was someone like Ross. Unless the individual's ability already has a certain strength, no matter how much they mutate, that ability won't suddenly become super-enhanced.

Asta: So there is a problem?

Luo Mengli: Of course, um, are there any historical records? I want to know the information about the first mutant.

Ashtar: This one isn’t difficult but there are a lot of them so it will take some time.

Luo Mengli: Hmm? I thought you were going to say the number was small? Generally speaking, it's like this.

Asta: That's a normal situation, but this is no ordinary mutant beast.

As he spoke, Asta took out a slightly torn notebook from the bookshelf and showed it to Luo Mengli.

Luo Mengli read the above content carefully: Leviathan, the sea beast? When it first appeared, it swallowed the first mutant creature observed by humans, the Kraken? It is presumed to be the first mutant creature. According to observations, it moves in the deep sea and sometimes exposes part of its huge body, which is suspected to be for breathing?

Luo Mengli: ...The content is quite mixed, as if it was selected from various materials.

Ashtar: Yes, this is the content selected from various materials. My version is the most accurate one at present.

Luo Mengli: Judging from the proportions of the illustration, this is a big guy, but according to the records, it is very likely that it can be communicated.

Ashtar: Maybe? But the problem is that this guy's range of activities is here and we are here now.

As Asta said this, he pointed to the map on the table.

Luo Mengli: ...It’s very far away.

Asta: Yes, and since this guy has been hiding in the deep sea, he must be prepared to dive.

Luo Mengli: Cang Yue is here, right? It should be possible to ask her to help.

Asta: Good idea. If it were Cang Yue, she would probably be very interested.

Luo Mengli: So it’s decided?

Asta: I have to ask the person’s opinion first and also let you meet with the others.

Luo Mengli: So do we need to open the space gate?

Asta: That's right... No way! ...As expected, even the internet is gone.

Luo Mengli: It seems that the space is blocked, right?

Asta: Yes, this is troublesome. It seems that we have to go to a place with Internet first. As long as there is Internet, we can contact other people.

Luo Mengli: The quality of things made by Lin Changye is still strong enough, but is there internet here?

Asta: We have to get here.

As Asta said this, he pointed to the mountains on the map.

Ashtar: This is the highest mountain nearby. There is a chance that we can connect to the satellites outside, which will be enough to send the message out!

Luo Mengli: Let’s go then. We should be able to reach the summit in less than a day.

Asta contacted Fang Mengtie and said: What should your apprentice do then?

Luo Mengli: She will continue to collect intelligence. Have you contacted Shangfang Mengtie?

Asta: Well, she is on the way. Let’s go too. Otherwise, she will arrive before we even leave the house and I haven’t told her the password yet.

Luo Mengli: I understand. Also, the endurance of your spell card is a bit poor.

Ashtar: Yes, yes, yes.