Anime Crossover: The Small Workshop System's Aggressive Feeding

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Zenjima and the others have spent two and a half years here.

"boom!"

A 30-story building was severed in half by a tremendous force, and the upper half of the building crashed down on the Zenjima sisters, Maki and Mai, with a piercing whistle.

"Zhenyi!"

"understand!"

With a low shout, Maki's feet exploded, propelling her into the air in a manner defying the laws of physics. This was the [Moon Walk] technique from the "Six Styles." Her body flashed through the air a few times before appearing beside the falling building, her leg muscles bulging, gathering immense power, and she slammed her foot into the building.

Meanwhile, Mai had already created distance. In her hand was no longer the revolver she used to carry, but a uniquely designed sniper rifle crafted using the Council's technology. This gun required no physical bullets; it used her magical energy directly as its power source, constructing high-density magical projectiles. She didn't aim at the building, but rather at the opposite direction of Maki's kick point.

"【Armor-Piercing Type III Construct】!"

A blue energy projectile was fired, hitting its target precisely. A push and a pull, two forces acting simultaneously on the massive building. The behemoth, large enough to crush an entire city block, was abruptly altered in its trajectory, grazing the sisters' scalps before crashing into a distant open space, kicking up a cloud of dust.

"Well done!" Maki flipped in the air, landed steadily, and gave her sister a thumbs up.

A long-lost, genuine smile appeared on Zhenyi's face. Before entering this place, she couldn't have imagined she could do such a thing. Her magical power was only enough to construct one bullet a day, and its power was quite limited. But after the soul optimization and energy circulation system provided by Zhou Ye, her total magical power and recovery speed increased more than a hundredfold, and the power and efficiency of her construction techniques underwent a qualitative change. She was no longer the little sister who could only hold everyone back.

Their opponent was a magical beast that resembled a giant spider. Its corrosive spider silk could easily dissolve even top-grade magical artifacts.

"Open the second gate, the Rest Gate!"

Maki gave a low shout, and green energy steam rose from her body. The improved version of "Eight Gates Formation," optimized by the council, eliminated most of the damage to the body, becoming a pure energy amplification technology.

Maki's speed instantly broke the sound barrier, her figure leaving afterimages in the spiderweb-like streets. She didn't use any cursed tools, because she herself was the strongest weapon. The ultimate physical body bound by heaven and curse, combined with the energy burst of "Eight Gates" and the three-dimensional mobility techniques of "Six Styles," transformed her into a perfect killing machine.

The beast's eight compound eyes were completely unable to lock onto her movements.

"【Storm Kick】!"

As Maki moved at high speed, she unleashed a kick, a blue slashing wave appearing out of thin air, precisely severing one of the monster's limbs. Before the monster could even utter a roar, she had already appeared at another angle, delivering another [Storm Kick].

"Mai, its belly!"

Maki shouted through the tactical communicator.

"Roger that!"

Zhenyi had already found a sniping position on a high-rise building in the distance. Through the tactical goggles, she could clearly see the fleeting attack window that her sister had created for her.

She took a deep breath and poured all her magical power into the next bullet.

"【Construction Spell: Sky Nail】!"

This time, instead of blue light bullets, the gun barrel focused on a long nail that shimmered with golden light and seemed to be made of physical energy.

"call out--"

The spike disappeared from the muzzle of the gun, and in the next instant, it pierced through hundreds of meters, passing right through the monster's soft belly and pinning it firmly to the ground.

Maki seized the opportunity, her figure flashing like lightning as she appeared above the monster's head.

"Fifth Gate, the Gate of Closure, open!"

An even more violent burst of blue energy steam erupted.

"[Finger Pistol Barrage]!"

Her fingers, hard as diamonds, stabbed repeatedly at the monster's head with a speed too fast for the naked eye to perceive. Each stab was like a small armor-piercing bullet, shattering the monster's hard carapace.

Finally, with a muffled bang, the monster's head exploded completely.

The two sisters stood atop the monster's corpse, exchanging a smile. What had happened in the outside world was but a few short hours, yet within the "House of Time and True Gods," they had undergone nearly a year of intensive training. Their coordination had long transcended words, reaching a level of unspoken understanding on the soul. They were no longer the failed creations of the Zen family, but truly capable warriors standing alone.

The other training area has a completely different style.

Higashido Aoi was shirtless, his bronze muscles covered with hideous scars, but the expression on his face was one of extreme excitement.

"Hahahaha! Not enough! Not enough! Give me more!" He laughed wildly, punching a rhinoceros-shaped monster into the air, then clapped his hands together.

"【Unjust Game】!"

He switched places with another monster in the distance, narrowly avoiding a deadly energy breath.

"【Iron Body Unjust Righteous Fist】!"

He incorporated the defensive technique of "Six Styles" [Iron Block] into his attacks, making each punch both terrifyingly destructive and extremely defensive, clashing head-on with the monsters and causing the heavens and earth to split.

Miwa Kasumi appeared much more disheveled, but her gaze remained exceptionally resolute. She was clumsily dodging several flying magical beasts in the air using [Moonwalk]. Her [New Yin Flow Simplified Domain] wasn't large, but each time it was deployed, it precisely deflected the most lethal attacks.

"I can't... I'm useless now!" She gritted her teeth, swinging the knife in her hand faster and faster, more and more steadily.

In the very heart of the training ground, the battle had ended.

Yuki Tsukumo knelt on the ground, panting heavily. Her prized technique, which granted herself and her cursed artifacts "mass," was practically useless against her opponent. Her cursed artifact, the Phoenix Wheel, was now broken in two and lay nearby.

In front of her, Yotsuya Miko remained as quiet as ever, not even a single wrinkle on the hem of her school uniform.

"Miss Jiujiu, you've lost." Miko's voice was calm.

"Yes, it was a crushing defeat."

Yuki Tsukumo smiled bitterly, struggling to her feet. "I couldn't even... make you move an inch. What exactly is your domain?"

In the battle just now, Yuki Tsukumo felt as if she were trapped in a quagmire from which she could not escape. All her attacks, when they came within three meters of Miko's body, were neutralized, deflected, or even reversed by an invisible, incomprehensible force of rules. The punch she threw was as heavy as a meteorite, but it was like hitting cotton; the force was instantly absorbed and then bounced back from behind at a tricky angle, almost hitting her.

That's not sorcery, nor is it barrier magic; it's a higher level of direct interference with the rules of the world.

"That's not my power."

Seeing Zi shake her head, her gaze drifting into the distance with an almost religious devotion, she said, "It is a divine grace bestowed upon me by my Lord. My domain is called [Blindness]. Within its boundaries, all attacks that I cannot see are ineffective against me. And I can choose not to see anything."

Ninety-nine yogis's pupils suddenly contracted.

The ability to choose to "not see" anything? What idealism, what utterly illogical power! This is no longer a matter of combat skills; it's about altering reality!

"What...what is your world like?"

Yuki Tsukumo finally asked the question that had been lingering in her mind for so long.

Seeing that Zi thought for a moment, he began to tell the story in a calm tone.

"Where we are, there are real angels, demons, and fallen angels. The God of the Bible has only recently fallen, and his successor is one of our Lord's allies. Gods from various mythologies, such as Norse, Greek, and Indian, also have survivors. We have only recently ended a war against the EXE mechanical triad of advanced alien civilizations."

With each sentence spoken by Jianzi, the expression on Jiujiu Yuki's face froze a little more.

"The Mechanical Triads? What are those?"

"A data life form that feeds on devouring and formatting civilizations. They tried to completely transform our world into their database. If our Lord hadn't defeated them at the last moment, our world would now be a pile of lifeless 0s and 1s." Jianzi's tone finally showed a hint of emotion as she said this.

“This world…” she paused, then continued,

"It's an anomaly sample that our Lord discovered in their backup database after defeating the three mechanical evil gods. According to the data, the curse power system of this world is a failed energy model that constantly generates bugs called curses, eventually causing the entire world system to collapse. Therefore, our Lord has decided... to carry out a repair and version update here."

Yuki Tsukumo was completely stunned.

The truth she spent her entire life searching for, the origin of magical power, the future of humanity... was, in the other party's words, merely a failed energy model, a bug waiting to be fixed.

She thought she was studying physics, but the other person told her that she was just studying how bugs in a game were generated, and that he was a programmer there to patch the game.

This kind of overwhelming attack was more shocking and disheartening to her than any defeat in a battle.

“So…” Yuki Tsukumo murmured to herself, “We…all of us are just…data?”

"Perhaps it was in the past. But after we came here in person, we found that you are real, not just some kind of data," Jianzi replied earnestly, looking at her.

"From the moment our Lord descended, you were no longer just data. He gave you a real and tangible existence, freeing you from that predetermined script that would lead to collapse. So, Miss Tsukumo, you are not building a future for a bunch of data, but laying the first brick for a truly new world."

After saying that, he saw Zi turn around and prepare to leave.

"Wait!" Yuki Tsukumo called out to her. "One last question. Your lord... Mr. Zhou Ye, what exactly... is he?"

Yotsuya Miko stopped, without turning around. She simply gazed up at the pure white sky and, in an almost dreamlike voice, whispered:

"He is... the walking truth, the end of all things. He is the only light for us who have been lost in the darkness for too long."

Chapter 363 Twilight in the Zen Temple

When Zenin Maki and Zenin Mayi stepped out of the "House of Time and Spirit," only two and a half days had passed in the outside world.

But their eyes, their temperament, and even every cell in their bodies have undergone earth-shattering changes.

Maki seemed to have grown even taller, her already agile figure now exuding an explosive sense of power. She wasn't carrying any cursed artifacts, only wearing a black, tight-fitting combat suit, her hands in her pockets, her expression indifferent. That power, originating from the heavens and the curse, was now perfectly internalized, no longer a flamboyant blade, but a restrained abyss.

May's transformation was even more striking. She cut her long hair, sporting a neat short cut, and her face no longer held the gloom and weakness of the past, replaced by a sharp confidence. On her back was a silver metal box, a "weapon arsenal" specially made for her by the council, capable of quickly disassembling and reassembling into different forms of cursed weapons.

The two sisters didn't say goodbye to anyone, but exchanged a glance the moment they left the council's temporary base.

All the words were contained in that one glance.

it's time.

Go and settle scores with that past of imprisonment, bullying, and contempt. Go and smash that rotten cage called "Zen Temple."

……

Zen-in family, a large estate located on the outskirts of Kyoto.

The atmosphere here was eerily oppressive. News of the General Headquarters' top brass being wiped out by the "Sky Council" had already reached them. Elder Chanyuan Shan, the family's representative to the General Headquarters, and several core members had all been stripped of their magical powers and rendered useless in that silent "trial."

The current head of the family, Zenin Naoya, known as the "Sorcerer Killer," is pacing back and forth in the Japanese-style room of the main house, feeling agitated.

"Just who is this Celestial Council? A bunch of monkeys who don't even have any spell power, how dare they attack us sorcerers!"

In frustration, he kicked over the low table next to him.

"And what about Gojo Satoru? Wasn't he sealed away? Why is he hanging out with that group of people!"

"Young Master Zhizai, now is not the time to lose your temper," an elder from a collateral branch advised.

"The most urgent task is to stabilize the family internally and at the same time find out the truth about that council. We can't be like Elder Shan and the others, acting in a muddle..."

Before he could finish speaking, a commotion and screams suddenly erupted outside the courtyard.

"Who goes there!" Naoya shouted sharply.

A tribesman on guard duty scrambled in, his face filled with terror:

"Master! Something terrible has happened! Maki... Maki and Mai, they... they've broken in!"

"what?"

Naoya was taken aback at first, then a twisted, sinister smile appeared on his face.