Poverty makes me capable of anything.

Draw and slash.

The gleaming blade shot straight toward Ella's neck with astonishing speed and with extreme abruptness.

Ella will be cut in half in the next second.

The female swordsman remained expressionless; she had long since lost all excitement from killing.

Ella was disappointed. According to her analysis, this woman should have met An Ran before.

She knew this person wouldn't speak when she saw the female swordsman's subtle movements.

Since that's the case, then let's kill them.

"Click—"

Ella was forced back several steps.

But the female swordsman who launched the sneak attack was completely dumbfounded.

How can this be?

Her swift strike was actually caught!

It was something that was pinched, not something that was blocked by risking injury.

Holy crap...

A wave of immense fear washed over her. A powerful force struck, and the female swordswoman found her sword being pulled away. It was too late for her to let go.

"puff--"

A powerful punch.

"what--"

The second punch sent her flying, falling with a piece of steel frame and disappearing from Ella's sight.

"Anran, Anran!"

Ella turned around and went to find Anran again.

……

"Bang bang bang-"

Three bullets missed in a row, and a sniper next to Heloise shook his head in frustration.

"This place is shaking so badly that it's impossible to aim."

"The tower is about to collapse completely. If we don't leave now, we'll all die here," someone said to Heloise.

The place where they stood was one of the four giant arms extending from the central tower, and also the most stable part of the entire hovering station. However, with the bombing and the impact of the tower collapsing, huge cracks began to appear on this giant arm, and it looked like it was about to be twisted into a pretzel by the force of the collapse.

Heloise watched silently as the shadow tumbled about in the dust. She wanted to make a move and cause some trouble for An Ran, but she knew she might end up losing her life there.

“Let’s go,” Heloise said.

Just as she was about to turn around, she suddenly saw several metal blocks flying toward the blurry figure with lightning speed. Just as they were about to hit it, another shadow rushed out from the side and blocked them.

"Bang" "Bang" "Bang"

"Ella!"

An Ran's eyes widened instantly as she stared at the petite figure that had suddenly appeared in front of her.

Several pieces of metal hit Ella's back, knocking her directly into Anran's arms.

Anran hugged Ella tightly, her face full of anxiety.

"Anran, Anran, I've finally found you. I'm so glad you're alright."

"I'm fine, how are you?" Anran looked at Ella anxiously as her body fell rapidly.

Even a mechanical body would feel uncomfortable after being hit like that a few times.

"No problem, because I've been consuming a lot of lignin recently, my internal structure hasn't suffered any major damage, and I'll recover quickly," Ella said.

My back is a little dented.

But now is not the time to consider such issues.

Anran and Ella were both falling. They were more than 100 meters from the ground, and there were countless sharp objects on the ground. Even with Anran's current stamina of 73 points, she would die from the fall.

If Ella were thrown out, Anran could pull her back using the jetpack. However, Ella, along with her equipment, weighs over 300 kilograms, which the jetpack cannot carry.

But Anran couldn't bring herself to throw Ella out.

An Ran's gaze fell on a platform that hadn't broken yet. She immediately swung out her grappling hook and activated her jetpack at full power. At this moment, every little bit of assistance she could get was a help.

"squeak--"

Even the grappling hook made of ligne alloy looked like it was about to deform after being subjected to such a huge instantaneous impact, and Anran felt as if her arm was about to be torn off. Just then, Ella suddenly grabbed the rope.

Using this momentum, the moment the grappling hook left its grasp, it safely glided towards the platform beside it.

"Puff-"

Roll, roll, roll...

Then he grabbed the edge of the platform.

"Huff huff huff—" Panting heavily with her head facing the sky, An Ran had just rolled around with Ella for more than a dozen times, and the two of them were almost rolled into one person. Finally, she managed to grab the railing and not fall.

At this moment, An Ran was in soreness all over her body and could barely move.

Ella was on top of her.

"Snapped……"

Another metal block hit Ella.

"Ella, are you alright?"

"It's okay, it's okay." Ella struggled to get up.

An Ran frowned as she looked at their status. Ella's armor had dropped from 1500 points to only 319.

An Ran's original 1675 health points have now dropped to 798, and her stamina to 812.

asshole.

He ended up with a lot of injuries, but all he got was a few experience points from the kills.

An Ran reached out to touch the remaining potion bottles from the powerful recovery set, but unfortunately, the bottles had already been smashed.

Emmm...

Anran quickly picked up the broken bottle and licked it a few times with her little tongue.

We cannot waste it.

The slight recovery effect at least temporarily reduces the soreness.

Anran stood up with Ella's help.

They were still dozens of meters above the ground, and if they looked up, they could see that the upper part of the tower had tilted by more than ten degrees. If it pressed down any further, it would collapse irreversibly.

The lower half of the tower also developed more and more cracks, and most importantly, all four outstretched giant arms broke off from the tower.

"Let's go quickly."

Anran grabbed Ella's arm so tightly that they couldn't be separated. After Ella nodded in agreement, she led Ella to jump quickly between the various platforms and soon arrived at a giant rotating arm.

The giant arm wasn't completely severed yet, so by running downhill like this, it could get as close to the ground as possible.

Despite being injured, An Ran quickly reached the edge of the giant arm at her current speed.

They were still over thirty meters above the ground. Before Anran could figure out how to get Ella down, a deafening roar behind her made her feel as if the whole world was about to vanish.

The upper half of the tower crashed down, one of its giant arms was crushed flat, and the energy contained in the scattered metal blocks was enough to pierce even the thickest steel plates.

There was no time to hesitate. An Ran glanced at her feet. This was the edge of Trading Post No. 3. Further away was a lake. If she threw Ella into the water, the damage would be much less.

"I'll make it up to you when we get back."

An Ran shouted loudly.

She suddenly picked up Ella and, with all her might, threw her out in a spinning throw.

Ella complied without resisting, believing that Anran would never harm her.

whoosh-

Like a cannonball, Ella fell face up into the water in a parabolic trajectory.

"Puff-"

The water splashed up incredibly high.

The instant Ella flew out, An Ran jumped out as well. With the barely controlled jetpack, she landed steadily where Ella had just entered the water.

"Pfft!"

This time, the splash was much smaller.

"Cuckoo..."

An Ran quickly sank to the bottom of the water. She was wearing the Rain Shadow Suit, which made her even more agile once she entered the water. After regaining control of her body, she quickly found Ella, who was sinking to the bottom.

It was actually a large pit at the bottom of the lake. The silt that had been washed away made the water extremely murky. When Anran swam over, he found Ella stuck in the silt like a radish, and he could barely see her head.

"Uuuuuuu..."

"Glug glug..." After struggling for a long time, they finally managed to pull Ella out. As they swam upwards, the mud on Ella's body was cleaned off. When the two of them surfaced from the water, they narrowly avoided a piece of metal that was thrown at them.

"We've finally landed safely," An Ran sighed.

This is really terrible; everything I brought has been lost.

Now only that car is left.

Speaking of cars, An Ran looked up at the collapsed tower and her face immediately turned green.

That location...

"Gurgle, gurgle..."

Anran almost sank to the bottom of the water with Ella.