Ark: The Cycle of Light and Darkness

All puppet operators stopped attacking.

This is not an order from the doctor, but all the puppets are thinking mechanically and judge"continue attacking" as"unnecessary behavior".

Because the Sakaz swordsman in red is now entangled.

Not by Cross's crossbow, not by Gray Throat's feathers, or even... not by Fleur's temporary, fragile attack spell.

……It's a puppet.

More specifically, big locks.

At this moment, the ragdoll bear has become extremely huge, even taller than the ordinary brown bear. The huge ragdoll bear exudes an atmosphere of indescribable sadness, despair and terror, and is wielding a theoretical weapon. It was just a velvet fist filled with cotton, and it hit the swordsman beside him hard.

And it was this kind of fist that forced the swordsman to retreat continuously. Even when the knife in his hand was used to resist the claws of the puppet, it seemed to be resisting a giant rock with the strength of a thousand troops.

Sparks flew everywhere, this was the sound and appearance of gold and iron clashing, and it was not the way a man should fight with a puppet at all.

But such a funny thing happened...and the Muppets had the upper hand.

(Mr. Da Suo...is he really a living creature?)

Regardless of the fact that his wound was still aching, his special physique allowed such a serious injury to be healed instantly under Furong's medical spell.

The blood loss made the doctor's face pale. If the real Fleur was here, she would have screamed and ran up. However, the current Furong still kept an expressionless face and continued to release healing spells on the doctor.

The doctor didn't yell to stop, she just kept stopping like a machine.

But in the battlefield at this moment, the situation seems to have changed a little.

The big lock that had been unable to be conquered for a long time seemed to be getting a little impatient. The eyes embroidered with buttons began to leave some kind of red liquid at some point, as if two blood tears were hanging on the huge bear's face, and the eyes that were embroidered with buttons began to leave a red liquid. The handsome face made it even more terrifying.

The Sakaz swordsman has also been driven out of anger...or it can be said that he is making a final struggle.

The flames covered his blade, which was a bit more powerful than when he attacked the doctor and Migru. But the target at this moment was indeed the ragdoll bear in front of him that exuded ferocity and murderous intent.

"brush pull——""Roar……！"

The sword pointed forward, as if the person wielding the sword was attacking with all his might, and what faced the sword was a giant ragdoll bear with anger engraved on his entire body.

The earth-shaking sound echoed in the"room".

The doctor couldn't help but cover his ears and looked at the battlefield where the smoke and dust were blown up by the attacks from both sides.

The dust has settled.

(Disappeared?!)

The figures of a man and a bear seemed to have disappeared along with the smoke, but the traces carved by the blade on the ground remained unabated, indicating the battle that took place here not long ago.

The man's expression inside the hood was uncertain.

He stared at the traces of the battle and remained speechless for a long time.

(It's just an illusion... no, maybe it's mixed with puppetry or some kind of magic we don't know about, so it's so powerful?……）

（"troupe"、"castle"……Also,"Bacchus""……)

What kind of existence does all this mean to him, to Rhode Island, and even to the entire continent of Terra?

(God...)

The doctor's gaze moved to a corner of the battlefield not far away, where a dusty puppet lay alone on the ground.

He naturally recognized that this was the"Mr. Big Lock" who was entrusted to his care by the strange little Sakaz girl not long ago.

However, before I had time to take care of it, it had already been"taken care of" by it once.

Stepping forward quickly, the doctor picked up the puppet that saved his life. The puppet at this moment seemed to be dirtier and more tattered than when it was first handed over to him.

But the doctor carefully blew off the dust on the surface, and then held it in his arms.

Looking behind him with unobservable eyes, four operators...including"Migru" who had died in the previous challenge also reappeared.

This is roughly the rule of the game. Once you win the battle, you can get back what you lost.

But now, the doctor feels that the stuffed bear in his arms is much cuter than the puppets behind him.

"……Let's go."

After thinking about it carefully, it seems that I have nothing to say to the people behind me.

I don't like...at least now I don't like treating and using operators as machines, but the manager here seems to see this clearly and forces him to He forced himself to do this.

The doctor, who was not in a good mood, could only say something in a low voice, and then raised his legs to move to the next door.

What was waiting for him in the door? He didn't know, but he understood that he didn't There is no way out.

(It's just... it seems that he has forgotten something?)

The doctor doesn't want to think about it. If possible, he even wants to face those weird Dulin people again...

He has a lot of Originium ingots in his hand, at least maybe You can use money to buy yourself drunk and temporarily escape from this nightmarish castle.

However ,——

"I'm so hungry, my stomach has been growling for a long time. Can we go to the cafeteria? ……Why? Wait, this is not Rhode Island. Where is Xiao Ke now?"