Outer Chapter: Out of Reach of Mortals
If it weren't for the polar night, maybe it would already be dawn.
Northern Lights Wheel Blockade - European direction.
Pure white with golden royal patterns, created by the Eleventh Cavalry's Mentor Schmidt. The Night Palace's exclusive flying ship - the Light Shuttle - quietly stagnated in the ice field at the foot of the iceberg, and the ship's hull shimmered. Light up the neighborhood.
Perhaps this is an odd description, but the first night of the polar night is over.
Looking at the already calm iceberg plain, it is hard to imagine that a few hours ago they were shaking at the moment when a huge light lit up from a distance and the entire Arctic seawater seemed to tremble, as if they were fragile and might collapse at any time.
The picture of magic weaving in front of them has long gone dark, which means that the battle far away at the North Pole has ended.
It is obviously very cold in the North Pole, but Klim stood on the ice field in front of the 'Light Shuttle' and looked at the darkness of the polar night but unexpectedly could not feel the cold.
There is only a deep sense of humiliation and helplessness that even hysterics don’t want to do.
Why on earth did I come here...
The white breath he exhaled blurred his vision in front of the entranced eyes that were not even sad. He had been standing here for nearly twenty hours, watching from the moment he arrived to the end.
He saw the crazy black shadow that was like a monster, firmly suppressing the four white shadows that besieged him, and he also saw the glory that could knock such a powerful figure into the ice sea that made people need to respect even their gaze. ;
He saw the big shots that the teacher had only mentioned unite to suppress the black and white giant mechas, and he also saw the darkness once again sweeping back from the ice sea with a more powerful and stable terror;
Watching the white shadow falling in an instant, watching the darkness rising into the sky, watching all the others being excluded from the battlefield...
Watching the final torrent of light collide with the icy siege.
Following Le Guin from China along the way, Krim has fully understood that this woman who is always calm, beautiful, gentle and polite is a true aristocrat in terms of character and temperament. She can solve any problem she has along the way with a wave of her hand. The power of the problem made it difficult for Krim to forget.
Even so, before setting foot on the light shuttle, the other party told him that she was the weakest person on this battlefield.
The weakest person...
Sometimes the most powerless thing is not the unknown, but understanding.
Because I understand how unreachable it is beyond the reach of real mortals, I feel even more helpless and hopeless that it cannot be reached.
Obviously he came to the North Pole because he wanted to know what that world was like, but after actually watching such a top-notch battle, giving Krim was not the satisfaction he wanted.
Why on earth did I come here...
With a long white breath, Krim took one last look at the night sky in the direction of the North Pole, preparing to return to the inside of the light shuttle. Otherwise, even with the thawing device given by the teacher, his hands and feet would be frozen to death.
Then at the moment Krim turned around, he suddenly saw white ‘meteors’ falling from the sky, one after another falling on the ice sheet and sea.
fell near him.
The splashing ice dust dissipated, revealing the figure of an old and gentle old man wearing a complex golden patterned robe. Behind him were a holy and beautiful woman, a tall and majestic man, and a rickety figure in a cloak.
It's not just their looks that are beyond ordinary people, there is a temperament in all of them that ordinary people don't and can never have.
"How is he, Silvis?"
The last white 'shooting star' fell to his side. After watching the majestic and beautiful woman smile at him and say thank you for your hard work, Krim heard the old, kind but noble and sacred old man at the head say He asked gently.
There was no condescending tone at all, just an equal inquiry. In Krim’s impression, all ‘that kind of people’ were like this.
Even when dealing with mortals, he will not be arrogant.
This is really sad.
"When he saw the last moment, he suddenly told me that he felt a little unwell.
So I arranged for him to rest in the room in the light shuttle. "
Looking at the old figure in front of him, Krim looked at his eyes with the wisdom of the vicissitudes of time and his own indifferent expression.
"Yeah, thank you for your action."
Somewhat flattered, Krim accepted the old man's thanks. He watched the group of them walk onto the light shuttle. Le Guin came to his side and said softly:
"I'm sorry, I couldn't make the agreement this time to let you witness the participants' battle with your own eyes."
Listening to her heartfelt apology, Krim shook his head gently, and a forced smile appeared on his pale face:
"No, that's not important anymore. Mr. Le Guin, you have shown me enough things..."
When he said this, he paused softly and let out a breath.
"I've seen your world with my own eyes."
Then he dispelled all the ecstasy on his face, raised a friendly smile and asked:
"So, Lord Le Guin, are we going to return to Europe now?"
"Wait a minute, there's another person."
"besides...?"
Krim was stunned for a moment. He looked at the figures walking onto the light shuttle. This was obviously everyone in the picture. Why was there still one person?
Then, at the moment when Krim was puzzled, the steady and huge hum of the mecha quickly came from a distance.
In the dark sky of the polar night, a huge figure with a magnificent sense of technology slowly appeared in his field of vision.
The future weapon flowing with majestic energy spread out into an angel-like one-sided wing. The magnificent and elegant fuselage descended from a very high altitude and stopped at a height that left Klim's mind blank.
The figure of a girl wearing only a pure white dress slowly fell from the mecha. On the way down, the black and white gothic skirt slowly appeared. Layers of gorgeous lace long sleeves and black stockings gradually covered her slender sleeves. long limbs,
The moment she stepped on the ice, her light blond shoulder-length hair was blowing in the wind, and what appeared on her feet was a pair of old-fashioned cowhide short boots.
"she...?"
For this girl who suddenly appeared, his words were stagnant and he didn't know what to say. Krim watched Le Guin hold his shoulders, watched the girl's back stepping onto the light shuttle, and sighed at him with her blue eyes. Smile and say:
"Let's go back."
After saying that, her stern white figure also walked towards the light shuttle.
For a moment, only Krim's figure was left standing on the ice field, and then he was awakened from his trance by the icy cold wind of the Arctic.
What was I thinking? No matter what happened, it was not something I could know.
The second before he stepped on the light shuttle, he turned around and looked at the dark, mysterious, magnificent and bright "Youye" mecha in mid-air. He was so distracted that he didn't know how to describe the beauty of this ultimate power of a technologist.
The uncontrollable yearning and longing in his eyes made the sadness in his heart grow uncontrollably.
But in the end, he forced himself to turn around and walk towards the light shuttle. The distance of less than a few hundred meters made it extremely difficult for him to walk.
He suddenly remembered what the dark figure said to him that night on the icebreaker.
-'As long as that's what you want...'-
-‘No matter how far out of reach you are, your efforts are not meaningless. ’-
Even if it is so out of reach, isn't it meaningless?
Holding back the inexplicable tears, Krim turned his head to look at Youye Mecha for the last time, gritted his teeth tightly and clenched his palms, and finally turned around with his eyes lowered, tripping over something without even looking at the road. fall.
But when he struggled to get up, he saw the person who tripped him...
It is a dark crystal half exposed through the ice.
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