casings

After the combat meeting ended, about ten minutes passed.

During these ten minutes, one or more qualified masters have already landed on their respective <casings>, and are waiting by the side, waiting for orders, and entering them at any time to carry out the transfer of spirit particles.

Luo Zhen is also waiting next to his exclusive <casing>.

only…

"It's really annoying..."

Beside <Basket>, Luo Zhen muttered with displeasure on his face.

Next to her, Mash, who was also waiting by her <casing>, seemed to accept the fact.

"I didn't expect that senior would be excluded from Team A's roster."

Yes.

Luo Zhen is not in the list of Team A.

There are a total of nine master candidates who were already in Chaldea a month ago.

Team A will select the top eight players in the simulated battle.

In this way, one person will naturally be placed alone.

It's so hard to die, the one person who is alone is Luo Zhen.

"Who made the previous simulation battles of the seniors not serious?"

Matthew explained the reason somewhat helplessly.

This is the fundamental reason.

Although in this month, Luo Zhen has been more active than ever, and the simulated battles are almost full marks every time, but before that, Luo Zhen has never taken the simulated battles seriously, either he just got a pass, or he didn't even pass it at all. Getting it, even being absent and late sometimes, all of these are recorded in Chaldea's computer as real grades.

In this way, Luo Zhen's grades ranked last, and he successfully placed the order.

In fact, it doesn't matter whether you are alone or not.

Luo Zhen was also happy and relaxed with people from Team A helping him pave the way ahead.

However, Matthew was one of the members of Team A.

Let this girl who is afraid of fighting be the vanguard alone, and go to the singularity ahead of time, how can Luo Zhen feel at ease?

"It's okay, senior."

Seemingly seeing the worry in Luo Zhenxin's heart, Matthew said this very seriously.

"I will definitely pave the way for the seniors, and persist until the seniors arrive."

This is not to be brave, but to be strong.

Even though he was afraid of fighting, Matthew didn't intend to escape from fighting, let alone hide behind Rozen.

Facing this girl's strength, Luo Zhen couldn't say anything to refute.

"I can't help it..." Luo Zhen could only say to Matthew, "Then you have to be careful."

"Yes, I understand." Matthew nodded heavily.

Luo Zhen reluctantly put away his complaints, turned his head, and looked in the direction of the command room.

There, a group of Chaldean technicians were in full swing making the final adjustments of the spirit transfer, constantly manipulating various instruments.

Olga Marie also wandered among the technicians, giving instructions non-stop.

Luo Zhen took a look at this situation, then frowned.

"senior?"

Finding that Luo Zhen was abnormal again, Matthew couldn't help but make a sound.

But this time, Luo Zhen had no energy left to respond to Matthew.

Luo Zhen just stared in the direction of the command room with an extremely serious expression.

Because, there, a person that Luo Zhen had to care about disappeared.

"Where's Rafe...?"

It was Rafe.

After carefully searching the interior of the command room, Luo Zhen still couldn't find Leif.

This reminded Luo Zhen of the strange feeling he felt when he met Leif just now.

This feeling of something wrong, now with Leif's disappearance, is getting stronger and stronger in Luo Zhen's heart.

In the end, it grew to the point where Luo Zhen was restless.

"At such an important moment, how could that man suddenly disappear?"

One day in the future, Luo Zhen will definitely make such an evaluation of himself today.

"This is the first and last time I've ever traveled beyond my physical limits."

Because, no matter how exhausted and weak the body is, the anxiety in his heart still makes Luo Zhen run desperately towards the central control room. He is so anxious that he even has no spare energy to summon the familiar to travel instead, so he can only keep rushing forward.

After 240 seconds, the wall in the central area will be completely closed.

If he didn't rush to the central area before then, Luo Zhen would never be able to enter there again, let alone rush to that lovely junior.

Therefore, at this time, Luo Xin only had regrets in his heart.

Why did you leave the control room?

Why go looking for Rafe?

Obviously, he has made up his mind that he must stay by that girl's side.

If...if I'm still there...

"hateful…!"

Realizing that his thoughts started to become negative due to uneasiness and anxiety, Luo Zhen quickly shook his head, shaking off the negative emotions along with the sweat from his head.

Now is not the time to blame yourself.

Finding Matthew is the most important thing to do now.

Letting his body be driven by such emotions, Luo Zhen seemed to want to squeeze out all the strength in his body, and finally rushed to the front of the control room.

"laugh!"

The automatic door opened immediately with the sound of a siren, telling Luo Zhen that he caught up with him smoothly.

However, the scene that entered his eyes in the next moment made Luo Zhen stop involuntarily.

"——"

red.

Fiery red.

The control room, which used to be cold and full of mechanical feeling, is now covered by fiery red flames.

"Crack...crack..."

Small stones that had been scorched hot kept rolling in every corner.

"Boom..."

Concrete blocks fell from the ceiling with a muffled sound.

The entire control room was covered in flames like this, turning into ruins as if it had been completely blown up.

In such a situation, the siren is still sounding.

"It has been confirmed that the power part has stopped and the power generation is insufficient."

"Switch to the standby power supply, and an abnormality occurs. Please ask the staff to switch manually."

"There are still 90 seconds until the wall is completely closed. Staff stranded in the central area, please go to the second gate as soon as possible, please——"

Hearing this, Luo Zhen finally reacted.

"Matthew!"

Luo Zhen yelled at the surroundings, and rushed into the fire regardless of the rising temperature.

"Mash! Mash! Where are you!? Mash! Answer me if you hear it!"

Luo Zhen yelled and kept rushing in.

Along the way, Luo Zhen also saw <baskets> like pillars that were pushed down, slanting in every corner.

Luo Zhen looked for them one by one, but what he saw were the competent masters lying in the <basket> one by one.

It's just that they all passed out one by one.

Seeing this, Luo Zhen somewhat understood.

"When the fire broke out, had the competent masters already entered the <enclosure>?"

This is probably Olga Marie's order, right?

Although Luo Zhen ran out of the control room before the battle, with that woman's style, even if Luo Zhen was absent, she would not delay the important first battle because of Luo Zhen's problems alone, and she must have continued to give instructions in a rage , and let the preparations for the transfer of spirit particles begin.

Thanks to this, it seems that the competent masters who entered the <casket> did not die because of the sudden fire, and maintained their life activities through the protection of the <casket>.

"So…"

It is very likely that Matthew was among them and did not die because of the fire.

Thinking of this, Luo Zhen thanked Olga Marie for the first time, and turned to look for the location of Matthew's <casket>.

Unfortunately, this time, Luo Zhen guessed wrong.

"Fu!