The Infinite Journey of a Certain Flame

"Is this... a small town?"

Kiana looked into the distance and exclaimed in surprise.

After a long journey, they finally reached the edge of the forest.

Beyond the border lies a deserted town.

Well, it's not exactly deserted.

Looking out into the town, Kiana and Mei both spotted the shadows of many monsters.

Compared to the relatively monotonous zombies and Honkai Beasts in the forest, the monsters around the town are much more diverse.

There are Titan mechs, Thunder mechs, Wizard mechs, and more.

In addition to these, there is also the divine machine Heimdall.

Kiana and Mei once thought they had stumbled upon a secret branch of Anti-Entropy.

Extending from this, the two of them simultaneously guessed: "Could all of this be the work of anti-entropy?"

These mechs are just like the Honkai Beasts in the forest.

It pounced on any living person it saw.

[Encountering enemies, entering combat mode!]

"Again?"

With a moment of disorientation in the surrounding scenery, the two were teleported to the battle arena surrounded by fences.

Kiana shook her head, then smiled at Mei and the Bebe Dragon behind her.

Thus began the final battle for the two men and the dragon as they left the forest.

Chapter 4: Dai-Metal Gear: Buya Wolf, here we come!

The exit of the woods, the entrance to the town.

Battle is imminent.

The two, teleported to the battle arena, each displayed their unique abilities and charged into the formation first.

"Ready, ignite!"

Kiana deflected the three attacking Divine Mechs with a single sword strike, and then began to pursue the slowly drifting Wizard Mech.

Her movements were exceptionally swift, and her fiery supernatural ability had a clear restraining effect on mechs.

The mechs were thrown about in all directions, some even struggling to maintain their upright positions.

"Well done, Kiana."

Seeing this, Mei naturally couldn't remain indifferent, so she raised her katana and joined the fray.

Thunder and fire clashed, and the mechs were launched into the air for a long time without falling back down.

Because the battle was going too smoothly, Beibeilong, who was behind the two, was too big to fight back or just stand there watching. He just stood there dumbfounded, looking rather silly.

However, the mechs are not without their strengths.

As a tall, imposing white mech suddenly turned red, the atmosphere on the entire battlefield instantly heated up.

The berserk Heimdall charged forward with his sword, instantly closing in behind the two.

Fortunately, Bebe Dragon, who hadn't had a chance to make a move, finally had a chance to use his skills and began to fight Heimdall.

With her activating Ice Dragon Mode, the elements in the duel arena become even richer.

Red, gold, white.

Combined with the colors of the mech ammunition and energy waves, the entire duel arena instantly resembled a dye shop, creating quite a lively scene.

However, despite the excitement, the little girl cheering and drawing impromptu outside the duel arena was having a problem.

"Hmm, red, blue, and black... red, white..."

Greta held up her paintbrush and compared it to Kiana, then to the sky, and finally to the only remaining Thunder Mech.

Because the colors at the scene were too rich.

As a result, applying color to her work was quite troublesome and tedious.

Of course, if it were just inconvenience, that wouldn't be a big deal, but the most crucial issue is...

"Paint? Oh? We're running out of paint..."

After squandering a lot of paint, Gretchen finally discovered that she didn't have enough paint because she needed to apply so many colors.

Helpless, she could only use black paint to draw the general outline, and planned to add the colors back after the battle based on her memory.

While it might seem like hindsight is 20/20, there's nothing we can do about it.

After all, these colors are too common; they were used extensively in previous paintings, so they are not enough to be used now.

Grey was pondering this when she suddenly noticed a striking pink color on the rooftop at the other end of town: "Hmm?"

Perhaps because they had discovered her, the other person suddenly disappeared.

If it weren't for her good eyesight, Gretchen would have thought she was seeing things.

"That person... seems to be?"

Although she couldn't be sure, Gretchen felt that she was pretty close to the truth.

Did she also appear in this world?

Is she an enemy or a friend?

Two questions forced Gretchen to unveil her long-standing pretense and slowly spill the paint.

In a short while, the pigments slowly gathered and eventually transformed into strangely shaped monsters that stood behind Gretsch.

"Miss."

A dark-skinned figure, wielding two knives and wearing a loose-fitting dress, slowly bowed: "Is there anything we can do for you?"

"There seems to be someone suspicious in town. Go find her for me."

Greta was painting casually, her every move revealing a calmness completely out of character for her.

Perhaps for her, assigning tasks to her own work is neither embarrassing nor difficult.

After receiving the order, the one holding

The dark-skinned female figure wielding two swords slowly bowed.

"Yes, miss."

After saying this, the dozens of paint-made scroll monsters bypassed the town and rushed into it.

However, what awaited them was an empty town...

And then there are the pink-haired archers lurking in the shadows, impossible to guard against.

She stood atop the high building, bow in hand, aimed at the monster in the painting below: "Hmm~ Gretchen's little toys, nice to meet you~"

'Whoosh whoosh! '

With a whooshing sound as the arrow pierced the air, three [Minions] fell to the ground.

Once the unconscious corpses stopped moving, the dark figure wielding two swords discovered the crystalline arrows embedded in the heads of his three companions...

"hateful!"

Enraged, she transformed into a dark shadow and flew towards the rooftop...

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The entrance to the town.

Although Heimdall's obstruction caused some disruption to the rhythm of the battle due to the three Divine Machines, the battle was still somewhat chaotic.

But these are nothing compared to Kiana and Mei, two powerful players with extraordinary abilities.

After a futile battle, all the mechs were destroyed.

Kiana heard the notification sound: "[Battle won! Congratulations, host, you have obtained 3 paints.]"

"The rewards for battles in the town are actually higher? Does this mean the battles have become more difficult?"

Kiana thought to herself.

Then, she smiled at Mei and touched the Bebe Dragon that had helped in the battle.

Finally, we went to Gretchen's place to get more paint.

It was at this moment that she discovered that Gretsch had actually recorded the battle in the form of a painting on paper.

"Why are you writing all this down, Gretchen?"

"It was a spur-of-the-moment thing... I just couldn't help but write down anything I saw that looked nice." Gretchen rubbed her head and answered slowly.

Hearing her praise herself like that, Kiana chuckled in surprise.

I didn't expect this little girl to be so sweet-talking! Haha, she even remembered that I helped her collect so many paints.

With that in mind, Kiana turned her attention to the painting that had been left unfinished due to a lack of paint, adhering to the principle of reciprocity.

However, she sensed something was wrong at just one glance.

Although the painting basically recreates the scene of the battle, what's with that figure on the rooftop in the distance?

Could it be that someone is spying on this town, which seems to be full of monsters and mechs?

"Gresh, what's with this person? Did you add him?"

No...

While adding color to the pink fairy who had unexpectedly appeared, Gretchen explained to Kiana, "I just found this lady."

"she..."

Kiana couldn't see it very clearly at first, but after Gretsch colored it, she could see it clearly.

Isn't that Alicia?

Did she also come to this strange world?