Humans are in chaos, despicable outsiders.

Imotek licked the blood that had trickled from the corner of his mouth, swallowed it all back, and glared at the swaggering Snow Apocalypse in front of him.

"Oh dear! Thank you, dear 'me,' for still being stubborn—!!"

With a thud, the blond Snow, who had kicked the white-haired guy back again, curled his lip in boredom and looked at Imotek, who was getting up again and giving him the middle finger, with utter boredom.

"Tsk tsk tsk, why are you still wearing those Houmu panties—"

The blonde girl seemed to notice the glimpse of what was under Imotek's dress out of the corner of her eye, indicating that she was greatly impressed.

"Huh? Envious?! Jiuxiao helped me pick it out while we were shopping..."

Imotek seemed to have been reminded of something by Snow's taunts, and began a new round of highly efficient verbal attacks—and with excellent results.

“…”

"You bastard! Are you crazy?! You want to die?!"

In a sense, he did lose his composure. Enraged by Miss Imotek's breach of his defenses, Snow Apocalypse charged forward and began a new round of fighting with her.

"I'd like to see just how stubborn your mouth really is!!!"

"That's hilarious. At least Jiuxiao and I have a stronger relationship than your fancy but ineffective skills."

"You bastard—!"

Just as Snow, enraged, was about to slam Imotek into the asphalt, his attention was drawn to a loud commotion in the distance...

A pillar of light, accompanied by overwhelming sword intent, shot into the sky, transforming into a massive, translucent, crimson sword that stood erect in the air and crashed down upon a street in the city... It was unclear whether it struck some Miss End or Anna and Night Owl...

"—This is... the Sword God of the Void?"

"It seems they've contacted Anna Shaniat and Chen Tianwu..."

Having gained the upper hand in the fight, Snow pinned Imotek down, glanced up at the commotion in the distance, and muttered something under his breath—

"Hmm... putting everything else aside, at least the commotion they caused was quite a spectacle..."

Snow nodded and offered his opinion...

"Really?!"

However, Lord Imotek, who was pinned down by Lady Snow Apocalypse, had a different and unconventional idea—

"Since you like watching so much, then I'll let you watch as much as you want...!!!"

The white-haired girl, who had been continuously attacked by Snow for nearly half an hour, also looked at the astonishing sword intent rising from the ground in the distance, and a new idea came to her mind—

"Golden-haired loser! You've eaten 990,000 bolts of my Taixu Sword Qi! — Taixu Sword God, Divine Charm!!!"

Seeing the sword intent before him grow ever larger and its momentum surge, Snow Apocalypse sensed something was amiss—a feeling he hadn't felt in a long time.

"Where did you learn that trick???"

[Tsk, they've gone too far again!]

If I were to be hit in this current, nascent state of connection with the human subconscious...

[Wait... I've got it!!!!]

The two bird legs, which were fast asleep with their eyes half-closed, were suddenly pulled out—

"grown ups--?"

......

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"As expected, I really need to practice the Void Sword Qi more..."

Kiana, who was unleashing her ultimate attack to smash the minions, nodded in satisfaction as she looked at the Honkai Beasts and zombies that had been cleaved to pieces along the straight street.

"That's right, practice makes perfect."

"Hey? Class monitor, you're here—"

A dozen minutes earlier, Fu Hua, who had met up with Kiana and the other two at a certain location, greeted another old comrade-in-arms and then shared her conjecture—

"Let's listen to you, Hua—you're more familiar with the situation of the Herrschers in this era."

Sakura, who considered herself a newcomer to this era, naturally handed over the decision-making power to Hua.

"Hmm—okay, Sakura-nee, thank you for your trust—Bronya, could you help us find a man with black hair, black clothes, an Asian face, who is holding a girl dressed in a blue, white, and black wedding-style dress in the surveillance footage?"

Having received the approval of her former comrades, Fu Hua looked at Bronya, who was standing to the side, and made her request.

"An Asian man with black hair and black clothes, and a girl wearing a strangely colored wedding dress who might be being held by a man, right?"

"Yes."

“Then let Bronya handle it! We just need to access the surveillance systems that are still operational in the city—the blizzard hasn’t been in the city for very long, and the power system in Coral Isle City should be working normally.”

Bronya, head down, focused on operating the data terminal, quickly located the target Fu Hua had described—

"Have it!"

"Bronya, where are they?"

The crowd that had been waiting nearby quickly gathered around, staring at the terminal in Bronya's hand—

"......"

..........

"I understand the logic... but why did they crawl into a trash can???"

Kiana stared in shock at the surveillance footage of a guy named Chen Tianwu rummaging through a trash can, then jumping inside with his girlfriend to hide and evade a patrol of Titans—an astonishing feat.

"Maybe it's because I've found the feeling of coming home... or something?"

Padofelis scratched her ear.

"found it!"

"Huh? Bronya, what did you find this time...?"

Kiana looked at Bronya with a puzzled expression, her face displaying a huge question mark...

"Bronya found Snow... and Kiana, the Imotek you mentioned in your chat before."

Duck held up the tablet in its hand and faced the crowd with the screen facing the screen.

The surveillance footage showed a blonde girl being chased and leaped around, but by swiping the screen and tilting the distant camera, one could see a white-haired girl maintaining her Taixu Sword Qi and wielding a 40-meter-long sword while chasing the blonde—neither of them appeared particularly composed...

The pursuer constantly dodged the incoming sword strikes by leaping left and right and using teleportation. Occasionally, when there was nowhere left to hide, two silver-haired children with expressions that were practically meme-worthy, wearing the "QWQ" face, would appear out of nowhere to take the hits...

Even through the video, those present could feel the mournful cry of the bird being held by its master by the leg—

[Stop fighting, you two—he's about to be beaten senseless!!!]

Bronya suddenly felt sorry for Miss Wuni, who always freeloaded at the academy...

"I think this is karma... for letting her steal Mei's snacks from me ( )"

Chapter 345 The cat is charging forward again.

"Anyway, are those two guys really alright...?"

Kiana and Fu Hua exchanged a glance, seemingly intending to confirm the direction of their operation.

"The disaster caused by that Herrscher is currently just a blizzard...it doesn't seem to have caused much damage yet—but those two have almost demolished three shopping streets..."

Kiana and Bronya, who had seen it all, along with the three fusion warriors with 50,000 years of experience, felt a chill run down their spines at the sight of the current situation—a feeling they hadn't experienced in a long time.

In the northwest, the battle between Penglai Temple's Jiuxiao, Kevin, and Qianjie and the Herrscher of the End, who appeared out of nowhere and started raging and asserting her presence, was still ongoing. In the city over there, the extreme cold brought by the Herrscher of Ice's power had been replaced by scorching heat, which had no effect whatsoever.... In fact, there were even reports of large-scale heatstroke in the northwest city.

And diagonally southeast... that super-giant sword, over 40 meters long, is visible to everyone without anyone needing to climb to the rooftop of a nearby building—

The accompanying roar of collapsing buildings was deafening...

"I suddenly have a feeling... the Great Collapse won't destroy this city, but the people who came here to save it, attracted by the Great Collapse, might very well tear the city down to nothing..."

As Kiana listened to the distant explosions and roars, along with the occasional extremely foul-mouthed curses, she suddenly began to question the meaning of life...

"Bronya, do you think there's any hope for humanity?"

"Technical adjustments... Kiana—these are all technical adjustments..."

Watching the commotion in the distance, Bronya, who was also beginning to wonder if the city would be torn to shreds by her own people in a chaotic battle, pondered for a long time before finally coming up with a reason—a technical adjustment—to comfort herself and Kiana...

"Alright, you two... stop having doubts—let's get ready to go."

Sakura interrupted their conversation, pulling them out of their depressed and stifling state.

"Hmm? Sakura-san and the class president have already decided where to go so quickly?"

Bronya looked at the pink-haired woman in front of her, seemingly somewhat confused.

“That’s right, hesitation is what will truly cause us to miss our chance—Hua and I have decided to continue with our original plan and pursue that Herrscher of Ice.”

"Hmm...that's right, we should tackle one problem at a time..."

Kiana nodded, then watched as the buildings in the distance collapsed, raising clouds of dust, and her eye twitched slightly...

"Hey... I hope these humanoid nukes are as aware of their destructive power as Kiana—"

Bronya's words had barely faded when, from the Destiny Experiment Field, located diagonally opposite the dust-filled city, the mighty light of the Heavenly Fire Annihilation soared into the sky...

"Sigh...at least I can stay somewhat awake—"

"The two groups fought in two different locations: one was the Destiny Experiment Field, which had no civilians whatsoever, and the other was a commercial district where everyone had been completely evacuated..."

"No matter how fiercely they fight, in the end it will just be a huge repair and reconstruction cost."

Fu Hua looked at the rising and falling waves on both sides and rubbed her temples with a headache.

"But the real headache is for our group... that unidentified young man led the Herrscher into a residential area."

"Squad Leader Fu Hua, Bronya has corrected the information—"

"Our Valkyrie at the operations base received two officers who were evacuated from the Schicksal Experiment Field—"

"According to their intelligence, the unidentified youth is Chen Tianwu, another executive of World Serpent, codenamed Night Owl. And the Herrscher is Anna Shaniat, the current captain of the Snow Lotus Squad, the Schicksal's garrison on Coral Island."

"It is understood that these two are a couple..."

"A couple...that explains why Pado saw that young man with a Herrscher earlier—"