Alicization Uniting by Reki Kawahara

Author:Reki Kawahara [Kawahara, Reki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy
Publisher: Yen On
Published: 2018-08-21T00:00:00+00:00

The silence was broken by Kirito’s hoarse mutter.

“A moving puppet…made of swords.”

His description of it in the common tongue must have been correct; Administrator’s smile widened, and she clapped her hands together.

“I should have realized that you would know your sacred language…excuse me, your ‘Ing-lesh.’ If you don’t want to be a knight, I can still make you a secretary—but only if you drop your sword, apologize for your transgressions, and promise your eternal loyalty to me.”

“Sadly, I have a hard time believing that you would trust my promise. Plus, I haven’t given up on this one yet.”

“I do not dislike this boldness of yours, but stupidity I cannot abide. Do you really think you can best my golem? Against a puppet whose each and every blade has the priority level of a Divine Object? The ultimate weapon of war, which I used every bit of my valuable memory space to construct…?”

Something about the term ultimate weapon stuck in Eugeo’s mind. Yes, it reminded him of what Vice Commander Fanatio had said—that the pontifex used a thousand mirrors to gather Solus’s light into a single point that could produce superheated flames without sacred arts. Fanatio had called it a “weapons experiment.”

So a weapon of war would refer to some tool with more potential power than any sacred art. Was this Sword Golem standing before them now the realized form of just such a weapon…?

Whatever Administrator might have registered from the looks on their faces, she now waved her right hand with a cold, cruel smile on her lips. “Now…fight, my golem. Destroy your enemies.”

And as though the giant had been waiting for just that command, its heart pulsed with purple light.

The four-legged monster issued a metallic roar and began to charge. Its size was not nearly as large as the clown of flames that Chudelkin had created earlier. But the freakish way its many joints scraped and creaked as it approached froze Eugeo’s heart with terror.

The golem swung its arms up high, each one made of three swords together. The quickest to react was Alice, who’d seemed paralyzed before this. Half a second after it moved, she was plunging forward, bravely meeting the monster’s swing.

“Yaaaaaah!!” Her scream was even sharper than the golem’s screeching. Her back arched as far as it could go as she wound up, clutching the Osmanthus Blade in both hands.

At that point, Kirito was moving, too. He leaped forward to his right, trying to circle around the golem. Eugeo was stock-still as of yet, too afraid to move, but he could at least attempt to discern what Kirito and Alice were doing.

They both suspected that if the golem had a weak point, it was where the backbone met its four legs—what would be the pelvis on a human. But it was too dangerous to attack the area head-on. So Alice was acting as a decoy to draw the golem’s attention—if it was conscious enough to have such a thing—while Kirito tried to sever the weak point from the side.

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