718 God Bless the Kingdom (1/2)
At the same time, it was noisy in the Royal Institute of Research.
From the sixth floor underground all the way up to the tenth floor, countless people were rushing about. The six elevators were running at full power, but the staircases were still full of people running up and down, sweating profusely.
Meanwhile, at the entrance of the freight elevator, a group of people almost started hitting each other while fighting over a position.
”Give way! Give way! Let the spare interface allocator go up first!”
”Get lost! I still have six units of codes of notes to upload!”
”Friends from the management division, do me a favor, let me move the music theory relay distribution valve up first, I'm almost late!”
”If you're late, go take the stairs!”
”The stairway has been blocked by the storage crystal from the third laboratory! It's even more jammed than the situation here!”
”It's too late! Open a hole in the floor first! Send the things down, and leave two people here to help me repair the floor!”
As one of the researchers said so, a rumble sounded.
The group of research musicians who would usually hide in the labs, never stepping out of the doors, had begun demolishing the building. In order to put the spare equipment in place, the group of researchers was already going crazy.
The building could be rebuilt anytime, but at the moment, if the equipment were to be delayed for five minutes, they would probably be trampled to death by an angry boss? Among the shrill cue tone, the atmosphere was solemn in the central control room, and hot sweat seeped out from all the musicians' foreheads.
”What are you dumbly waiting for? Check every single step again, I will hold you all responsible if any problems occur!” Newton rolled up his sleeves and revealed two hairy arms, like an old monkey jumping up and down due to being agitated by the heat.
Meanwhile, beside him, the burly prelate was silent, his eyes closed. But contrary to expectations, when they saw him acting this way, the remaining Chainsaw clergy all became more and more diligent, not daring to slack in the slightest bit, like they were under high pressure.
Unlike the Royal Institute of Research, which implemented a loose management system, the Chainsaw Fraternity had always been governed under classical canon law, and it was the cruelest version even. Such was the foundation that enabled the Fraternity to continue existing for centuries in the southern desert region. In other words, making a blunder at such a critical juncture was definitely not something that could be resolved by taking thirty lashes.
To put it bluntly, a barking dog doesn't bite. Blundering as an employee of the Institute of Research would at most result in a fine or being fired, or worse comes to worst, a prison sentence. But if a clergy of the Fraternity was to mess up, sorry…
Thinking of the blades hanging threateningly behind their heads, everyone immediately moved rapidly.
”The connection of the Net of Aether is free of problems.”
”The third level of authority has been granted!”
”The Royal Musicians are already in place!”
”The download application has been uploaded! The outer layer of the Net of Aether is operating. The aether quota for 4,000 official musicians is ready to be issued, and the sixth, eighth and ninth pools of aether are already in place!”
”The second verification is complete!”
Noisy reports sounded constantly.
The complicated processes advanced rapidly until no more sound was produced in the end. In the silence, Newton sat in his chair, sweat dripping from his forehead. Even though the preparations made were sufficient to the max, and none of the aspects posed any problem, he still couldn't dispel the panic and anxiety in his heart.
”Your Excellency, I remember that you qualify as a priest?” Newton looked at the giant beside him. ”Can you accept my prayers in place of God?”
”You may pray, but God won't listen.” The priest raised the signet ring containing a holy emblem on his finger and said calmly, ”We follow the will of destiny. As for the rest. It will suffice to just accept God's arrangement.”
Newton was stunned for a long time, then laughed self-mockingly. ”Then, I hope that He will arrange a good outcome for us.”
…
Amid the bangs that sounded one after another, Galahad's armor was the first to break through the three-layer wall. According to the map drawn by the musicians of the school of revelation, she advanced towards the base of the Frost Giants.
Against several Frost Giant Knights who had already reacted and were here to intercept the Anglo knights, the thin and short Galahad dodged their attacks in a manner that could almost be considered dexterous. The sword whistled as it struck, moving through the gap of the armor, and chopped off an arm.
Light armor was created with speed being its focus right from the start, and after removing the heavy layer of outer suspension armor, the speed was incredibly quick.
”Galahad! You are moving too fast! You have left the team! It's too dangerous! Come back!” Disregarding the orders of Geraint behind her, Galahad accelerated again, once again smashing through a layer of wall and broke into the armor workshop. Coming towards her were two Frost Knights who had just finished wearing their armor, but more were fixed on workbenches, having their armor put on them for the emergency with the help of several engineers!
In the rumble, Galahad jumped up, stepping on the shoulder of the Frost Giants and the walls, and pounced towards the workbenches at the back.
Against Galahad's double swords striking down, the Frost Giant Knights. in the process of wearing their armor, were unable to fight back. They were slaughtered like chicks and suffered heavy losses immediately.
But more and more people rushed towards her, disregarding their own lives to slow her down and buying more time for the ones at the back…
Finally, in the loud noises, the knights had finished wearing their heavy power armor and surrounded her. In the short span of five minutes, the Knights of the Round Table could no longer be at ease.
In an instant, the tables were turned.
”The coat of arms is the emblem of the Head of the Knights of the Round Table. It seems that I have caught a big fish.” In the rumble of steel colliding, the Frost Giant Knight lifted the powered halberd and aimed it at Galahad's face. ”Now, it's time to pay the price!”
Thunder and lightning erupted from the top of the halberd. In the forlorn whistle, it broke through the air.
Christine took a step back, and the two swords spread like eagle wings. Against the enemy's attack, she took a step forward. Moving like thunder, she rushed forward, targeting the vital parts of the power furnace at the chest and the knight's face.
The Frost Giant snickered, and totally disregarded the attack. An attack of such a level couldn't even break through his outer armor.
When fighting against a knight wearing heavy power armor, a knight in light armor with no outer suspension armor at all was no match at all. But then, in the whistling sound, dozens of steel cabinets descended from the sky, falling apart upon landing. Only the huge cone-shaped instruments of harmonious melody were nailed into the earth.
Back when they were in the air, the instruments of harmonious melody were burned red due to overloading. And when they landed on the ground, they wedged into the earth like meteorites.
And as the rest of the armored knights destroyed the Asgardians' alchemy array, the enchantment enveloping the outer layer of the base finally collapsed.
At the very moment, a torrent of aether descended from the sky.
All the Knights of the Round Table heard a cold voice in their ears, overlapping together. The voice was so swift, yet so clear as if it was reverberating in their consciousness.
[Coherence achieved]
[Completion of connection agreement]
[First, second, and third handshakes successful]
[Net of Aether done connected]
[User identity code identified: Knights of the Round Table, interface allocation completed]
[Virtual array simulated]
[Installation of Vacuum Sun, the power source, completed]
[May God bless the kingdom and my emperor protect me!]
At the very moment, the mighty melody sounded from the sky and resounded through the stars.
Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1!
In the sonorous melody, the brilliance of the Chapter of the Golden Victory descended from the sky, turning into Firebird, and covered every armored knight.
In the blink of an eye, armors of Firebird were constructed, and the fiery flow of aether flow surged in the virtual alchemy circuit. Under the full coverage of the Net of Aether, every Knight of the Round Table was connected to the port and enveloped in the exterior armor formed by Firebird.
Boom! Among the brilliance of Firebird, the hurricane burst forth.
The iron-gray hurricane lingered on Galahad's armor, and the power halberd broke with a rumble and turned into metallic gravel. Countless pieces of shattered thunder leaped, but they couldn't seep into the hurricane defense of Galahad.
In just a moment of crossfire, the huge Frost Giant had been thoroughly pierced through, decomposed by the two blazing swords. The power furnace shattered with a rumble, the shock waves blew the giant's chest up, and blood spewed out.
It was like a dream.
Despite obviously being a power skeleton without any special features, it suddenly turned into a Round Table Armor that was even more powerful than an Archangel Armor.
Moreover, it was the famous hurricane of the iron wall—Galahad!
Was God kidding the Asgardians? Not only the Asgardians, but even the Knights of the Round Table themselves had not expected that they could be strengthened with Firebird.
The aether furnaces were upgraded to Vacuum Suns powered by the collision of music theory, and even the outer skeletons of the armors that had no protection were transformed into expensive Archangel Armors!
Not to mention the weapons in their hands that were transformed into alchemy weapons by the virtual array! No one would believe it if you were to tell them!
In the blink of an eye, hundreds of light-armored knights that were not even equipped with external suspension armor had become heavy-armored knights covered in Firebird armor!
No, it was even more incredible than that. Firebird was, in essence, a phenomenon formed by forcefully using one's tenacity to interfere with aether. It was visible yet incorporeal, and had no weight at all.
They were a group of armored knights with the defenses of heavy cavalry, yet their speed far exceeded that of light cavalry…
The Asgardians seemed to have seen a nightmare come true.
The fruit of the research the Royal Institute of Research of Anglo and the Chainsaw Fraternity did around the core layer of the Net of Aether in the past few months had finally been uploaded onto the Net of Aether at the moment, opening the ports to all the knights.
Mass-produced Knights of the Round Table!
”May my emperor protect me!” Under Geraint's roar, a rumble erupted from the mighty Firebird.