In a Different World with a Smartphone Chapter 353: Aerial Battle, and Miscalculation.

(Note: the second part of the title is actually misread if properly translated, but that sounds kinda weird, so I changed it. Theyre close in meaning anyway.)

Dont tell me Youre the real Magicraft King?

Precisely. The humanoid-type golem over there was a puppet that served as my substitute. I had transferred my brain to this place, and escaped the yoke known as a physical body since ten years ago.

To think he had already abandoned his humanity a long time ago Within Hekatonkheires forehead, the brain floating within the emerald-green solution shook lightly.

The thing hes doing is the same as Professor Babylon in a way. Its just, while the professor transferred her consciousness into an artificial lifeform made from a combination of magic and technology, the Magicraft King transplanted his brain into the body of a Legacy golem.

Well, considering he needs another fifty extra auxiliary brains to control that body, its clear that the level of his techniques is far below that of Professor Babylons.

Kakaka. As expected, even someone like you are astonished, no?

No, not really?

Mu?

While I was surprised by that appearancewith his brain hanging out in the open and allthe act itself isnt very surprising. Something like cyborgs are often-used materials in sci-fi stories anyway.

Well, its true that when you see one of them in front of you, you do feel somewhat unsettled.

Eh, whatever, really.

I aimed Brunhild which was loaded with a [Explosion]-enchanted bullet, and pulled the trigger without hesitation.

A large explosion occurred at the forehead area of Hekatonkheire. However, when the smokes cleared, what showed itself was the same brain as before, suspended in the emerald-green solution without any injuries.

Mu.

Kakaka! Dont underestimate Hekatonkheire! The armor of this thing completely nullifies any magic!

When I took a closer look, countless small patterns were drawn in a dense manner on Hekatonkheires armor. Its a form of magic engraving, huh. It seems to have been carved to the last detail in order to maximize its magic defense.

Considering its purpose as a weapon used in the ancient war between golems, instead of anti- magic users, its design was probably to counter skill-holding golems. More like, old man, thats not your achievement.

Reload.

I changed all bullets to regular ones and pulled the trigger again.

However, with *gakin* sounds, the bullets hit something right before reaching Hekatonkheire and were deflected.

Tch, as I expected. Theres a protective wall in place similar to my [Shield]. Its at a level where I cant penetrate it with Brunhild. Probably, itd be hard with Yae and Hildas swords as well. No matter how sharp the edge is, using a shaving razor to handle a whole tuna is going to be pretty tough.

Suddenly, a series of rumbling sound came from the floor again; we immediately looked around us in vigilance. We can probably handle anything that comes at us; however, if its something were seeing for the first time, thered be an unavoidable lag in our response time.

Even though Im gradually becoming a god, its not like my thinking ability increased as well. If I did something like keeping [Accel] constantly active and boosting my reaction speed that way, I probably wouldnt have let my magic power be sucked out that easily back then.

And while its an obvious thought, Id like to excuse myself from living life constantly in a broken speed.

The loud sound of something breaking apart resounded within the underground factory. Right after that, as if in a chain reaction, breaking sounds came from all over the place.

Hekatonkheire had began moving from its spot underneath the floor. Is it planning to break through the factory like this!?

Kakaka! Its finally time to say farewell to this cramped space, eh!

Oi! This is directly under the castle, you know! Theres a huge number of people above!

What about them? Would you take care to not step on ants when you walk? What a weird sensibility.

Kuh, this geezer, he already abandoned his identity as a human mentally.

The large eye-like part on its forehead as well as the smaller ones on the side of its head closed, and when they reopened, the Q-crystals and the Magicraft Kings brain was nowhere to be seen. Did they move to someplace deeper within the golem?

Well, thats an obvious move. As if anyone would leave those obvious weak points hanging in the open like that.

Hekatonkheire began moving. Things in the factory are breaking apart one by one from the reactive force. Its dangerous to stay here any longer; theres no telling when the ceiling may collapse on us entirely.

[Teleport]!

I hugged Yae and Hilda close to me and transferred to a place in Eisengards capital.

The destination of the [Teleport] was on top of the roof of the tallest building in the capital, south of the castle. From here, we can get a good view of the castle.

The tower which looked like a ships crows nest was raising smoke and looking like it was about to collapse at any moment. The figures of people escaping from the castle can be seen from here.

Target acquisition! All remaining persons inside Eisengards castle!

Beginning acquisiti

Covering up the voice from my smartphone, large explosions occurred one after another within the castle. And then, gigantic mechanical wings appeared from within the flames and smoke.

Right now, that guy was trying to rise up onto the ground from its underground prison, while explosions and sounds of destruction echoed from all over the collapsing castle.

Acquisition finished.

Transfer everyone to the plains three kilometers from the capital! Activate [Mega Heal] right afterwards!

Roger.

Upon hearing the report from my smartphone, I immediately gave it further commands. I dont think I managed to save everyone. The ones who have already died, and ones who have some sort of protective talisman on them that prevents targeting via magic would be beyond my ability to help.

As if sneering at my thoughts, the central tower of the castle finally toppled, and disappeared in an explosion.

In exchange, the gigantic wings from before appeared from behind the smoke again, and cracks began appearing on the ground not just within the castle, but even on the roads connecting to it. Wait, what the Does its body reach all the way to the area underneath the castle town as well!?

Breaking through the cracks in the ground, a black twisted-looking metallic tail appeared. And not just one. Two, three, the number kept increasing. The vicinity of the castle already could not be seen clearly due to the billowing smoke as well as flames.

Kakaka! How pleasant! Truly the best feeling! I have finally surpassed those guys from the ancient civilizations! By my hands, the incomplete Hekatonkheire was completed! Kakakakaka!

From within the black smoke, the Magicraft Kings crazed-sounding voice could be heard. No, not just sounding, hes already gone truly mad.

From underneath the castle thats now wrapped in flames, at long last, that showed its full appearance.

Its body was entirely black with brass-colored lines running through it, and on its head were two sinister-looking large horns. On its face were eyes and a widely-opened mouth.

Four large arms extended out from its torso; at various other places, numerous smaller arms grew out of its body as well. On its back grew two large wings.

If I were to describe it, its a mechanical-looking multi-armed devil. Several long tails were attached to its body as well, and on the tips of those tails were snake-like heads.

With twirling motions like whips, those tails easily broke the ramparts of the castle to pieces. Seems like they have quite the power.

Still, it sure is big Isnt it around the same size as an advanced-class?

To think something like that was sleeping underneath that castle.

Touya-dono, we have to stop that! With our Frame Gears!

Ah While Reginleiv is inside my [Storage], yours are in Babylon so

Ah!?

Both Yaes Schwertleite and Hildas Siegrune are in Babylons Hangar, after all. I would have to jump back to Babylon back in the Surface World with a [Dimensional Transfer] if I want to use them.

I shouldve put the frames of the two of them in [Storage] as well if I knew this was gonna happen. Or more like, shouldnt I have just placed them inside the [Storage] enchanted on their engagement rings Oh well. It cant be helped, guess Ill

Now now now! Troubled, lost, in a big pinch! At times like those, answering your call, your reliable Onee-chan takes the stage-nano yo!

Waah!?

I was shocked by the sudden loud voice coming right besides me and almost fell off the roof we were on.

Over there was Karen nee-san, who was throwing her chest out with a *fuun* feeling. When the hell!?

Aneue-dono!?

Onee-sama!?

Yae and Hilda were looking at Karen nee-san with round eyes as well. Really, how much must you personify the word elusive before youre satisfied!? You arent even a person though!?

Karen nee-san, why are you here!?

My Onee-chan radar was beeping-no yo. Touya-kun was crying and in trouble, and I must go save him! Or something like that.

Whos crying, oi. That radar of yours must be broken, no, isnt it more like a Something fun is happening radar instead!?

And because of that, I brought Babylon over to this world as well. There.

Eh!?

While saying that, nee-san pointed towards an empty sky. Theres only a thin layer of clouds in that direction.

Theres nothing there

Use your [Divine Eye] and look-no yo.

Ah, right.

Babylons stealth function, huh. When I activated [Divine Eye], Babylon was indeed floating in the sky over there. More like, she transferred that entire thing over to this world? Thats still beyond me at the moment

Wait, shouldnt she have used divinity for this? Using the powers of a god to interfere in the human world should be (except me whos a trainee) forbidden

Isnt that Touya-kuns belonging-nano yo? Which means, its a belonging of the trainee god. So that means its not something which belongs to the human world, so its probably okay!

Sophistry!? Did you just think of that right now!? Youre averting your eyes, you know!?

Eh, whatever. Its not like arguing about that will change anything. For now, after sending Yae and Hilda to Babylon via [Gate], I turned to look at Hekatonkheire which looked like its ready to begin rampaging.

Hekatonkheire opened its wings widely, and began floating upwards into the sky. Since its not doing anything physical like flapping its wings, its probably flying with the use of something like an anti-gravity field.

Tch, [Slip]s not gonna work on that. With that size, a [Prison] would become too weak to contain it, and opening a [Gate] to drop it somewhere else had also become impossible.

Well, if thats what youre going with, I have my own options as well.

Moving to an unpopulateddue to all the people escapingsquare within the capital, I called out my Frame Gear, Reginleiv from [Storage].

I immediately got into the cockpit, set my smartphone on the console, and started up Reginleiv.

The monitors around me began projecting the outside view. While capturing Hekatonkheire in the center of my vision, I sent magic power through the control sticks and made Reginleiv fly upwards.

Activate Fragarachs.

Fragarachs, activated.

With a *bakin* sound, the twelve crystal boards attached to Reginleivs back detached themselves. The long plate-shaped crystal boards began orbiting around Reginleiv like satellites.

Mode change: Sphere.

The plate-shaped crystals changed themselves into spheres. Twelve crystal spheres lined up in front of me like hour markings on a clock.

Go.

The twelve spheres turned into bullets and attacked Hekatonkheire; however, they crashed into an invisible barrier before reaching Hekatonkheire itself, and couldnt deal any damage.

Muu?

The Magicraft King, who had become the brain of Hekatonkheire, noticed me from that attack. I maneuvered Reginleiv to a spot above Hekatonkheires head.

You can really appreciate the size of that thing when looking from above, eh.

Kakaka. Is that the golem you found somewhere? I see, certainly its a rare one that Ive never seen anywhere else before. But, it will not match up to this Hekatonkheire.

Is that so? Personally, I think its far better than some useless antique with size as its only selling point, you know.

What impudence!

Hekatonkheire waved its wings slightly as it started approaching Reginleiv.

While dodging Hekatonkheires attacks, I made Reginleiv head towards an empty field some distance away from the capital. Ill draw Hekatonkheire over to a spacious area in the opposite direction from the plains I transferred the people in the castle to.

If its here, it should be fine for me to fight harder.

Mode change: Dagger.

The twelve crystal spheres around me split into four, and each of those pieces morphed into the shape of a dagger. Forty-eight crystal daggers began hovering around Reginleiv in a radial pattern.

Divinity bestowment. [Gladius].

The forty-eight daggers, clad in divinity, launched themselves towards Hekatonkheire simultaneously. Forty-eight sacred sparks of light assaulted the sinister-looking multi-armed devil.

Kakaka! Useless effort! Before Hekatonkheires protective barrier, that kind of, wh, at!?

Easily punching through Hekatonkheires invisible barrier, the crystal daggers pierced into its body.

To be honest, I think I can penetrate that barrier even without using divinity, but its troublesome to do that.

Wh, what is going on!? For Hekatonkheires protective barrier to be broken through! You bastard, what did you do!? Tell me!

No way.

The crystal daggers freely flying around in the sky punched hole after hole into Hekatonkheires body. However, due to the size of the opponent, the daggers cant deal enough damage to be considered decisive. Not only that

Self-regeneration

Within the Legacy golems, ones who can repair a certain degree of damage by themselves arent rare.

However, those should at most be able to handle things like surface injuries to the body, and by no means are they strong enough to deal with holes punctured through its entire torso or the like.

At that stage, its already similar to the super regeneration ability owned by [Fanatic Viola], the purple [Crown] serving the Lady of Madness, Luna Trieste.

Could its high regenerative powers have something to do with its size?

The holes opened up by [Gladius] on its body were closing by themselves. At least, the surface area definitely has a strong regeneration. I dont know about the insides, though.

Looking down on me, huh!?

From the palms of Hekatonkheires arms, beams of light shot out. Beams in the triple-digits assaulted Reginleiv from all sorts of angles.

Mode change: Reflector.

The forty-eight daggers combined into six crystal plates, and deflected the beams coming at me while circling Reginleiv.

The rain of beams kept coming without paus