Editing Sorcery Hacker:Volume1 Phase5 (section)

===Part 5===

The trick itself was simple.

“A sky city can freely change direction while floating in the sky, so the cardinal directions are fairly meaningless. No matter how big it is, it’s floating up here like a kite, so it can be intentionally turned with the right methods,” explained Ayato Criminaltrophy while piloting his Armored Dragon. “We aren’t standing on the ground; we’re flying high above the surface of Celedileka. And at this altitude, the magnetic distortion renders compasses useless. There are plenty of ways of visually telling direction, but the simplest is to follow the paths set up in Water Castle Town Aquaria. If you’re following a path, you tend to assume you’re going straight. Human eyes are easily deceived like that.”

In other words…

“I am slowly rotating Sky City Celedileka. That should allow me to avoid the airships set up for us and slide us over toward the giant dragon.”

Of course, that was no easy task even with his Linkage Plug sword. Moving the sky city itself would require an absurdly high processing space and level.

Fortunately, he had a source for that right in front of him: Nirvelphany.

She was the ancient Demon Lord, a legendary being.

But there was still mana circulating through her body. Mana passed through living things as well. The healing magic that Teleria often used worked by controlling that flow to regulate the body’s condition.

No further explanation was needed.

The beautiful Demon Lord let go of the old man she held and tapped her index finger on the center of her forehead.

“Hack me,” said the Demon Lord.

All demons knew what she looked like, so the crimson dragon would avoid attacking the Armored Dragon she was riding.

If they brought the High Priest to the dragon, its extra-large attack would settle this.

“It does not matter if I have any power remaining inside my body. I still have the safety devices that were meant to restrain my massive power as the Demon Lord. When converted into your ‘levels’, I estimate it would reach 9999. It is useless to me at this point, but I imagine a professional Sorcery Hacker would recognize its value. Draw it out and use it as you like. If your blade can reach that far, then do not hold back. This should be enough to move the entire sky city.”

Resonating with Nirvelphany’s power required Level 9999 and acquiring that power would add another 9999.

If this worked, he would very nearly reach Level 20000.

He had secured more and more processing space by stabbing his blades into the sails and external propulsion devices of the various ships and boats, but he had not found anywhere to use it. The larger of those ships had provided as much as 100 or even 1000 each. His power had grown at an accelerated rate, so he was finally approaching the level of the legendary Demon Lord or the entire sky city.

So he spoke.

“I am a Sorcery Hacker. There’s nothing I can’t do.”

“Then let’s bring an end to all this tragedy. I am willing to have my entire body hacked for that.”