Artifact

"Alina, my dear child, I know you have a lot of questions. But even I can't answer your question, because ...... Even we, who have been fighting them for a century, do not know what these ...... are."

"Huh?...... This...... How could it be ......

".

"It's weird, even funny—we've resisted for a hundred and two years, with more than a million dead and wounded, and we don't even know where the enemy is. "

Alina couldn't help but gasp: "It's been a hundred and two years of resistance...... Millions of dead and wounded ......".

Queen Yefna sighed, "So the Northern Xiongguo has been forced to expand northward, because the royal family is worried that even the Northern Magic Curia will not be able to suppress these ......words."

“демон？...... Demons?".

"Yes, Majin. We don't know much about these monsters, and for a long time, in addition to fighting for the lives of the magicians, modern weapons after the development of human technology have finally been able to regain some of our lost ground slightly. Well, about sixty or seventy years ago, we had bombers, tanks, machine guns...... Ordinary soldiers were able to truly join this protracted war of attrition. "

Alina was taken aback: "Sixty years ago...... Isn't that ......

".

Queen Yevna's voice lowered: "It was my mother, that is, your grandmother, who fought against the Shamans. Thanks to modern weapons, the Northern Magic Sect was able to mobilize most of its combat power and successfully exterminate the Shaman Sect. "

Alina nodded, she knew all this history, because Alina's father was ambushed by the Shamans during an operation about forty years later, and died of serious injuries - his lover then died in childbirth in loneliness, and the posthumous son was Alina!

Queen Yevna added: "We call the mirror you see the 'Odособаяточка), and the entire Tunguska region, centered on the Odculus, within a radius of a hundred kilometers, is designated as the 'Tunguska Blockade', or 'Tunguska Radius'...... This is a place where no one else can enter!".

When Alina heard this, she suddenly reacted: "Could it be ...... My brother spends most of the year in the Tunguska blockade?".

"The Knights of the Romanov and the Knights of the Apocalypse will alternately garrison within the Tunguska radius...... Thanks to the powerful combat power at the disposal of Xiao Qi, we were able to achieve an overwhelming advantage over these demons, and it was rare to maintain a stable life for twenty years. "

Alina understands why her brother is away from home half of the year, and why she has had no parents since she was born, only her brother.

Alina's older brother, Valery Chkalovsky (Валерий Чкаловский) is probably the only Romanov magician who does not have Romanov blood, but is recognized as a Romanov magician, even a respected and high-ranking Romanov magician.

Valery Chkalovsky was the adopted son of Alina's parents, and although he was not related by blood, this did not in any way prevent him from becoming a member of the Romanov family in the spiritual sense.

Chkalovsky has the nickname "Black Volga" that terrifies all enemies, and it is said that it comes from the fact that after following Hero Steel into the Tunguska radius, he slaughtered all living beings within more than one square kilometer (about one million square meters, about the size of one hundred and forty standard international football fields) in one fell swoop with the power of stigmata for the first time.

It is rumored that the bodily fluids of the monster mixed with the meat sauce turned into black sludge, staining Chkalovsky as a "black death", yes...... It's like the Volga River flowing in the dark night.

Now in his

early forties, Valery Chkalovsky is in the prime of life, serving as the head of the Romanov Order, and he is also recognized as the most powerful refining magician in the Northern Magical Church today.

Alina only knew that her brother was very strong, so strong that after everyone knew that she was Valery Chkalovsky's sister-in-law, no one from the princes and nobles or the magicians who were ruthless to the end and dragged to the sky did not become polite in an instant.

Originally...... My brother has been fighting against such a terrible enemy!

My brother's reputation is made!

However, according to Queen Yevna, with the increase in the combat power of the mages and the development of human technology, hasn't the demons within the radius of Tunguska been suppressed?

Then everything I saw in the secret room at the beginning didn't look like she was in control of the battle at all - it looked like a mad queen's desperate gamble at the end of her rope!

Otherwise...... How could anyone use the flesh and blood of their relatives to do such an experiment?!

Queen Yefna seemed to be able to fully perceive Alina's heart, and said slowly

"Alina, you must know that we have sacrificed too much to suppress the Tunguska Radius...... And these demon armies have also changed ......

."

Alina didn't understand: "Change?".

"There is a strange kind of guy in the army of demons, and only level 6 magic and above will cause substantial damage to them. Other words...... Even if the entire Northern Magic Sect were exhausted, only more than a hundred people of the refining level magicians and second-level magicians combined would be able to kill them......

."

"You mean...... These demons are able to ignore all damage below level 6 magic?...... Isn't that ...... 'Critical conservation' has been achieved?".

Critical conservation (постоянныеграницы) is a theorist based on an ancient legend that describes the existence of a single "one-of-a-kind" being in this time and space who can ignore magic – not dissolving, defending, resisting, neutralizing, or eliminating magic, but actually ignoring it.

Just as you can see and kill a person's body, but you can't grasp and imprison the will of the other person—as the famous saying goes, "No matter how powerful a gun is, you can't kill the will"—critical conservation refers to a "miracle state" that is beyond the natural world.

The so-called "miracle state" is the sign that can be felt by mortals as manifested by the only and all-powerful God in the orthodox religion.

So, in other words, in this time and space, the only being who can achieve critical conservation is the Lord.

With the exception of TA, all life forms, all known and unknown beings who can control and use magical power, cannot achieve "critical conservation".

All the magic power, even the slightest damage and influence, will inevitably remain on the giver and receiver.

And today, Queen Yevna actually said that there is a monster called "Demon Man" in this world, and they can ignore magic below level 6?!

You must know that the human who has achieved the mastery of the sixth level of magic is already the best among the magicians in the world!

At this point, Queen Yevna's voice became deeper and deeper:

"Critical conservation is not so ...... In other words, with our current technical means, it is not yet possible to conclusively confirm. But the strange thing is that we really don't perceive how the new type of Majin dissolves and eliminates magic below level six. However, some of the magic of nature can still produce some effects, such as freezing, sticking, melting, etc. "

"Although it has an effect, not being able to kill the demon is equivalent to invalidation. Therefore, after the bloody encounter on the road of magic research to defeat the enemy, there was a powerful voice in the Holy See at that time, and they wanted to use the ever-changing technology of mankind to solve the singularity and the threat of demons once and for all. "

"Oh my God! Alina...... You don't know what the hell we've done...... We have created weapons that cannot kill the enemy, but can kill all of humanity ......".

Alina heard Queen Yevna's choked voice and suddenly realized something.

What my aunt said, is it a nuclear weapon?!

Holy See...... No, the Northern Heroes used nuclear weapons against the demons?!