K424 of the Collapse World

"What is going on? Don't they know that we are still in Chiyou's body?"

"Don't worry about these things for now! Where is the passage to escape from this space? We have to leave here immediately. Miss Theresa cannot interfere with the decision of the headquarters!"

Shouting to the still confused Lillian, Claire exhaled and looked towards the black energy column in front of her. Just as she was about to call the girl inside, Shirley's voice came out slowly from it.

"I already know the situation, Claire. Take everyone away from here quickly. Otto should attack Chiyou's core. As long as we are a little far away from here, we will not be affected by those attacks."

Claire was slightly stunned when she heard Hillis' voice suddenly, and then she responded immediately.

"Did you hear that too? Shirley, in that case, let's hurry up..."

"I'm sorry, but I'm not leaving. I have things I have to do here."

The silver-haired girl softly rejected Claire's proposal without even leaving the dark fog. She just stayed where she was and spoke to Claire and the others. The girl's soft whisper echoed in the sealed space.

"What? Stay...?"

"Sister Shilis! You...?!"

Hearing her light words, the others looked at her in disbelief, but before these puzzled girls could start questioning, Shirley's voice rang out again.

"Don't worry, I'm not crazy, and I don't plan to sacrifice myself to save the world. Because if Chiyou's core is directly detonated, the huge amount of Honkai energy that will be leaked will inevitably trigger the Fourth Honkai. I can't let this happen... Don't worry, I am now a true Ruler of Constraints, and a mere energy bombardment cannot hurt me."

Shilis's seemingly reasonable words naturally could not easily convince these girls. However, Fu Hua keenly noticed one thing.

In what Shiris said just now, there was no mention of the other girl who was trapped in the black fog with her.

(I see, Xuanyuan has already... What a pity, it seems that there is no chance to say goodbye to her, but this is probably the result she longed for...)

Fu Hua's eyes dimmed, but soon she shook her head vigorously, walked forward, and stopped the others around her who were about to continue persuading Shirley.

"Master Fu Hua?"

"Leave everything to Shilis here. Since she is your leader, then obeying the orders of the commander is the basic principle of being a Valkyrie..."

"Hey~~ Lord Otto, can't we start yet? The main gun has been fully charged and can be fired at any time..."

In the operation room of the Glorious Covenant, the black-haired girl lazily half-lying on the control seat, skillfully controlling the operation of the main gun energy with one hand, and holding an unopened lollipop in her free left hand.

360 Annihilation of Chiyou>>

Otto asked her to keep charging the cannon, which made Huihuo temporarily unable to use both hands to open the candy's seal. As a result, the girl's face showed a little resentment.

"Don't worry, Xiao Huihuo, it's only ten minutes. After all, I have already promised my lovely niece. If I break my promise again, she will probably never forgive me..."

"Don't call me Little Huihuo! Don't you think your tone is disgusting? My dear Bishop. Come to think of it, even now, Miss Theresa doesn't seem to have forgiven you~"

Not paying any attention to the black-haired girl's rude behavior, Otto smiled and shook his head, resting his head on the armrest of the chair with one arm.

"But she didn't completely turn against me, did she? It was just a child's quarrel... If I give Theresa ten minutes to call back those little girls this time, she probably won't be as angry as she was fourteen years ago."

Hearing Otto's smiling voice coming from the terminal in front, Huihuo sighed expressionlessly, put the candy in his left hand back into the snack rack next to the operator's seat, and connected the fire control system of the Glorious Covenant with both hands.

"Even if we give them ten minutes, it won't be enough for those people in the big turtle's belly to retreat in time, right? Although Ningdi should be able to escape unscathed with her speed, the others in there will all die. Even if they are lucky and not killed by the main gun, they will still die from the explosive Honkai energy, right? Haha... Will Theresa accept this?"

As if she suddenly thought of something, the girl asked Otto indifferently, but then Otto's response made her frown.

"So, what do you want to do, Xiao Huihuo? Do you feel guilty about killing those Valkyries? This is really rare. If you want to let those Valkyries survive, that's also possible. With just a word from you, I can delay the main gun firing..."

"..."

Facing the girl's mixed mockery

Facing the look of ridicule and disgust, Otto waved his hand lightly, and the same unchanging hypocritical smile appeared on his face again.

"Haha... I was just joking. Don't make that expression. I know that in your eyes, the lives of those irrelevant people are probably not as important as the desserts around you."

"Since you know this, please stop saying such nonsense. Thanks to you, I am now so sick that I can't eat anything. How are you going to compensate me, Bishop?"

"I don't believe you can't eat...Okay, let's get back to the point. Just make sure the attack lands on Chiyou's core part, and don't worry about the leaked Honkai energy. After all, with that girl's personality, she won't watch her friends die in the Honkai... She will definitely stop the uncontrolled Honkai energy from erupting, so we don't need to worry about that."

Moreover, even if Honkai breaks out, it is not a big deal in Otto's opinion.

"That guy?"

When Huihuo heard the person mentioned in Otto's words, he raised his eyebrows and there was a little more interest in his eyes.

"The extra experiment subject K-424 from "Sirin Project EX". You should have heard about her deeds."

"Well, that's natural... Well, Your Excellency the Bishop, since you have already planned it, then I have no problem with it. Now... timeup~ ten minutes are up..."

As Hui Huo laughed softly, the fire control linker that her hands were holding tightly began to emit a warning glow...

At this moment, in the central area of ​​Chiyou, a huge purple sphere was hanging in the sky like the sun, emitting ominous purple-black mist. The black energy column composed of collapse energy still stood in the center of the stone platform, also slightly emitting dangerous corrosive black mist. Everything was the same as before, except that the girls who were originally standing around were now completely missing.

The others finally obeyed Shiris's orders and retreated towards the edge of Chiyou's body. After all, an artillery attack that was enough to completely destroy such a huge core of collapse would surely turn ordinary people into ashes if they were slightly affected. At this level, the bodies of these ordinary Valkyries were not much stronger than those of ordinary people.

Judas's oath was inserted into the diffuse black fog. The huge cross, which was originally full of golden light, had become dim. At this moment, Judas, who had completely become a carrier of Honkai energy, had purple lines crisscrossing on its surface, like the body of a Honkai creature that had been corroded...

The silver-haired girl sat quietly on the ground, leaning against the purple-gold cross covered with traces of erosion, silently looking at the black-haired girl who was completely imprisoned by the phantom of the golden chain in front of her. There was still a trace of nostalgia in her eyes that had regained her calm.

After being completely eroded by the Honkai, Ji Xuanyuan had lost the ability to stay awake. Shiris had to use her restraining power to suppress Ji Xuanyuan who was controlled by the Honkai.

She no longer tried to save the girl. After being completely eroded by Chiyou's special collapse, if Chiyou's core was destroyed, the girl would disappear with it...

"Hmm...is it finally here?"

As if she sensed something, the girl raised her head and looked at the purple sphere in the sky.

"How surprising! It seems that you have already guessed that I would do this... I feel a little uncomfortable. In your plan, did you take my Herrscherization into account from the beginning? How is this possible..."

The girl snorted and stood up. The next moment, the top of the dark sealed space was covered by dazzling light amidst the extremely shocking sound of collapse!

Then, a powerful beam of blazing white energy blasted down in an instant, hitting the huge purple sphere directly below! In less than half a second, the originally indestructible purple sphere was immediately covered with cracks, and it broke into pieces with a crisp shattering sound. The next moment, the stable solid-state collapse energy boiled up and began to spread wildly around!

The beam that shattered Chiyou's core continued to fall, directly covering the silver-haired girl standing below it. However, facing this terrifying energy that was enough to completely annihilate the rocks, Shilis was not moved at all. Under the counteraction of the restraining force, this terrifying energy could not hurt her at all.

In Shiris's eyes, which were slightly filled with golden light particles, she could clearly see the unstable collapse energy mixed in with the bombardment energy...

In just a moment, the girl locked onto the uncontrolled Houkai energy that was enough to cause a disaster. She remained in the air, and flew directly upwards against the rushing energy torrent, ignoring the terrible high temperature and shock waves in the energy. Then, countless golden energies turned into chains and extended from the cross shadow behind her. Thousands of energy chains were like a net, capturing the energy that was slightly dissipating outwards and sealing it all in the golden cage formed by the chains.

"This is the end... the ancient Honkai beast,

Now, don’t even think about reviving. Sleep forever at the bottom of the sea!”

The power of the Herrscher of Constraint was fully activated, and the seal array formed by the chains glowed with a strong light! After losing the core as a carrier, these runaway uncontrolled Honkai energy soon stagnated and shrank under the suppression of the Herrscher of Constraint, and finally disappeared completely...

361 Negotiation Decision

Above the sky of the East China Sea, Theresa stood at the edge of the Hyperion deck, silently watching as the Glorious Covenant fired its artillery fire. Then, a beam of energy that pierced down like a sharp sword pierced through Chi You's back armor and nailed its huge body to the sea surface.

Compared to Chi You's huge body that spanned tens of thousands of meters, this beam of light seemed a little too slender. However, the place it hit was the pit that was previously eroded by Hill's energy. The high-intensity energy beam easily penetrated Chi You's body without the protection of the outer shell, and reached its core directly through the calculated trajectory.

Looking down from the sky, the bombardment of the Glorious Covenant barely caused any blast or smoke, and the fleeting energy beams subsided. At the same time, the prehistoric behemoth that had been persevering towards the coastline also quietly stopped its steps, as if it had lost its mind, and completely stopped.

"It has been destroyed...Chiyou's core."

Theresa closed her eyes and talked to herself. From the time the cannon was charged to the time it was fired, she had been staring at the glorious covenant above the sea and sky, praying in her heart that the girls would return safely. And now, after the battleship's main gun finally fired, she, who had been nervous all along, fell into an unusual calm...

Theresa's voice was transmitted to Hyperion's command terminal through the communication channel that had not been closed. The communicator in charge of observation did not notice the girl's unusual tone, and still did his usual job, conscientiously sorting out the current intelligence and sending it to Theresa.

"I'm sorry, it's not clear yet. The energy interference field caused by the powerful bombardment is quite serious. We are currently unable to find out the condition inside Chiyou's body. However, the predicted value of the surrounding Honkai energy has indeed decreased..."

"...!"

After hearing the serious voice of the communicator, Theresa came back to her senses, and the confusion in her blue eyes was instantly replaced by anxiety and worry. She leaned down and tried hard to find the "small pit" on Chiyou's back.

"Tell me, those Valkyries fighting outside...how is their retreat going?"

"According to statistics, all the Valkyrie squads 06 to 14 that carried out the airborne operation, including Kiana Kaslana and Raiden Mei from the fifth squad, have been recovered, except for some of the casualties of the squad. In addition, the non-staff combatant, a member registered as Xier Fuleai, did not board the ship in time. However, the location coordinates of her terminal are shown at the edge of Chiyou's body, so she should not have been affected by the energy."

"That's it."

Hearing this, Theresa breathed a sigh of relief, but her frown did not relax.

"Well, actually..."

"Hmm? Any questions?"

Seeing Theresa getting nervous again, the corner of the communicator's mouth twitched. She turned around and glanced at the purple-haired girl standing between Kiana and Raiden Mei not far away, who looked unhappy. After a brief thought, she finally shook her head with a wry smile.

"No, sorry, Lady Theresa... that shouldn't be an important situation to report, probably..."

"Is that so? Then there's no need to say anything."

Hearing this, Theresa did not care about the communicator's hesitation. With so much work to do, she naturally had no time to pay attention to anything else.

"What's the status of the internal combat troops?"

"Major Wuliangta Jizi is in good condition. She is currently located in the tail area of ​​Chiyou and has not been affected by the bombardment. As for the others, we are trying to communicate with them. Although there is currently a lot of interference in the central area of ​​Chiyou, it can be basically guaranteed that their communication is still connectable..."

"Very good, continue trying to connect. If you have any news, contact me as soon as possible. Also, mobilize the remaining Valkyrie rescue teams to fish them out before the giant turtle's body sinks to the bottom of the sea!"

While calmly issuing orders, Theresa stared at the glorious covenant floating above Hyperion. After watching the last glimmer of light from the muzzle disappear completely, she took a deep breath, with a hint of unkindness in her expression.

"As for the rest, just ask Captain Jiuxiao. She will tell you what to do. Now, please move the Helios to the battleship landing pad. I will need it later."

"Understood, Lady Theresa."

After receiving the confirmation from the communicator, the light screen of the battleship command terminal disappeared. Theresa took a deep breath and started her personal terminal again. After searching for the nearby Destiny public communication channel, she pressed the channel name with the words "brillant-pakt" without hesitation.

"A communication request from the Valkyrie terminal has been detected. Please authenticate yourself.

 …”

"This is the Hyperion. I am Theresa Apokalis, the head of the Far East Branch. I am requesting temporary boarding permission from the Glorious Covenant."

"It's Lady Theresa. My apologies. Do you need me to connect you to Lord Otto's terminal......?"

"No need. I will talk to him face to face and clarify the matter. Just apply for boarding permission for me. With my identity and authority, it should be enough to board the flagship of Tianming, right?"

Theresa interrupted the operator coldly, her tone unusually cold. After saying this, she turned around and looked at the small transport ship slowly rising from the inside of the open helipad behind her, her blue pupils filled with frost.

(This time, it’s time to tell you everything clearly… Whether it was the incident with Cecilia, what I did to Kiana, or the harm to Shiris… If I continue to remain silent, how many more of these things will you do? My grandpa…)

"The vibration just now...has the headquarters' main gun destroyed Chiyou's core? Since I am not affected here, the headquarters should not intend to kill us. In this case, as long as they evacuate in time, nothing will happen."

Leaning against a broken stone wall, with the gorgeous golden sword casually thrown beside him, Ji Zi panted slightly while flipping through the terminal in her hand, skillfully searching for the combat information that she had missed due to the communication interruption.

In the large open space in front of her, there were scattered remains of hundreds of Honkai beasts! It was reasonable that all the Honkai beasts in the two suppression points close to each other would reach such a number. However, it was obvious that these high-level Honkai beasts located in the suppression points of Chi You's body were annihilated by this red-haired woman alone!

Among the Honkai creatures that formed the suppression point, there were many Honkai beasts with energy fluctuations close to the emperor level. However, these powerful Honkai beasts, without exception, all fell under Ji Zi's sword...

In 2012, the Emperor-level Honkai Beast "Ganesha" appeared in India, easily causing the death of two A-level Valkyries and seriously injuring 12 supporting Valkyries. Although it is far inferior to the Herrscher, the title of Emperor-level is by no means without reason. And now, multiple such dangerous Honkai Beasts were easily wiped out by Jizi who acted alone. For an ordinary A-level Valkyrie, such a record is unimaginable!

Even compared with the S-class Valkyries currently in service in the Destiny Organization, I'm afraid she is not much behind.

However, with the death of Chi You, the remains of these companion Honkai creatures slowly dissipated. Neither Saint Freya nor the Destiny Headquarters had the chance to see this shocking scene...

As the stigmata further fit with her body, Ji Zi's power became stronger and stronger, especially after obtaining the Xuanyuan Sword, this power was once again multiplied. Moreover, unlike the situation of Shi Lisi at the beginning, Ji Xuanyuan's stigmata on Ji Zi's body did not need to mobilize all the energy to neutralize the erosion of the collapse. Therefore, the ancient knowledge preserved in the depths of the stigmata was also unsealed as the degree of fit increased.

However, the person involved did not pay attention to these at the moment. After the battle, Ji Zi just unbuttoned her collar, and after confirming that the golden rune in the center of her chest was completely extinguished, she breathed a sigh of relief and no longer used the extra combat uniform to cover the exposed chest of the fusion armor.

After all, after the instigator erased the words that made her too embarrassed to talk about, she put on more clothes on the exposed part of her chest armor just to cover up the stigmata that were too conspicuous. Regarding this matter, Jizi even suspected that Shilis had tattooed that word on her body in order to help her conceal the existence of the stigmata...

Soon, after the terminal was reconnected to the command system, Ji Zi dispelled the random thoughts in her mind. At this location, she could connect to the external Hyperion command terminal. With Ji Zi's authority, she could also view the previous battle records against Chi You. At this moment, she quickly browsed the complicated text data on the light screen. Although she remained calm on the surface, the slight trembling of her fingertips exposed the turbulent waves in her heart.

361 Negotiation Decision>>

"The 25th team was completely wiped out, and the remaining teams had a total of people killed. In addition, several people are still missing? Damn it! The casualties are so serious... If I had known this, I should have joined forces with the Tianming branch in Korea and the Philippines from the beginning..."

Looking up the battle damage information of Hyperion, Jizi couldn't help but clench her teeth, with a slightly ferocious expression. As the captain of Hyperion for several years, she and these Valkyries on the battleship are also familiar comrades. In a moment, so many people around her died in the battle, but she was unable to do anything for them. Even in the same battlefield, she knew nothing about their deaths. Such a sense of self-blame, especially for a responsible commander like her, is undoubtedly a torment that hits her heart directly.

However, at this moment, although she was very concerned about Hyperion's condition, Jizi still maintained basic calmness and did not act rashly. Since Hyperion had already indicated that a search and rescue team had been sent, she only had to stay where she was and wait for the response.

Without a plan, acting on your own would only bring trouble.

"Who?!"

The faint sound from the other side of the rock wall instantly put the vigilant woman into combat mode. However, after holding the greatsword in her hand, Ji Zi suddenly relaxed, looking at the short-haired girl with a frightened face not far away, and breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's you, Miss Claire. I was really surprised to see you suddenly appear so close to me..."

"We are the ones who are shocked, okay?! It's you who are distracted... The meeting point is here, right?"

Claire said unhappily and waved behind her, and the others immediately came out from the passage at the back. They were the exploration team that Shirley had temporarily organized before, and Fu Hua, whom they met by chance later.

"You're okay, Fu Hua. It looks like everyone has safely evacuated the bombardment site. Haha, the battle situation over there doesn't look optimistic either..."

Himeko smiled bitterly, and her gentle eyes swept over the dusty girls in front of her one by one. Fu Hua, Seele, and Asakura Miyuki, who had been dealing with the out-of-control Kiana before, now looked so miserable that it was horrible to look at, but fortunately their injuries were not serious. Bronya next to her didn't look too miserable, but when she saw the unconscious Kiana lying on the mechanical arm of the heavy-duty bunny, she frowned slightly, but didn't immediately ask what happened. The combat report and the like should be left until we return to Hyperion.

"......Um?"

However, after looking around, she couldn't find someone who was supposed to be in the team, and Ji Zi finally couldn't remain silent anymore.

"Wait, where is Shilis?! She should be your leader, why isn't she in the team?"

Jizi asked hurriedly, as if she had some guess, her eyes immediately became flustered. Hearing this, Claire looked at her companions around her and had to take a step forward.