K424 of the Collapse World

Noticing Kerry's gaze, the girl with purple-gray hair tilted her head and raised her other hand to greet him.

Hearing her address him, Kerry subconsciously wanted to refute, but suddenly realized that there was nothing wrong with the other party's address, so he scratched his head awkwardly and nodded in return to the girl.

"Long time no see... Lord Benares."

Judgement-level Honkai Beast, Benares. Having lived in St. Freya Academy for a while, Kerry naturally knew this powerful Honkai Beast that could transform into a human form. Back then, when he first disguised himself and sneaked into St. Freya to look for Kiana, he was sent to the detention room by Miss Bella...

"So, Bella, Ms. Himeko, and I will take turns to be on duty in the experimental area of ​​the ME company, but today, it just so happens that the two of us are here together."

Yaezakura smiled, turned around and walked to the damaged particle metal layer at the entrance of the isolation room, blocking the only exit.

She just stood there and didn't seem to have any intention of taking action.

"Ms. Yaezakura, what equipment are you wearing?"

Looking at the close-fitting armor and short kimono on the cherry-haired girl, Keri couldn't help but ask. In the past, when he saw Yae Sakura in the academy, this girl always wore her ancient costume that looked like a shrine maiden's costume. And now, this kind of dress with light armor as the lining and a modern short kimono on the outside is the first time he has seen it.

The metallic armor and combat boots, paired with long socks and a light ice-blue short kimono, may seem a little strange at first glance, but for some reason, this combination really suits the girl's temperament.

"Equipment? Ah... This is the combat suit designed for me by Mr. Raiden Ryoma. It was not completed until today. This time, Bella and I came to Changkong City to debug these equipment. However, the alarm sounded just after we arrived at the test site... Miss Kerry, do you like my clothes? If so, I can ask the president to make a similar one for you."

"...Thank you, but that's not necessary!"

Facing Kerry's helpless look, Yae Sakura deliberately turned around, the soft hem of her kimono swaying slightly along with her long hair. Although their interaction without any tension was quite inappropriate, the two girls who came as reinforcements did have the leeway to do so.

After seeing Yaezakura and Benares, Kerry had already relaxed. However, looking at the cracked metal space in front of him and remembering Fenrir's unfathomable strength in the past, he still felt a little uneasy.

"Anyway, I'll leave this to you. But my teacher... Fenrir is really strong! So, there's no need for us to take the risk of catching her. As long as we can hold her here, we can suppress her again with the collar after the system in the isolation room is repaired..."

"That's not necessary, Mr. Kerry."

At this time, Benares's cold voice sounded quietly, interrupting Kerry's words. The next moment, the dragon limbs constructed from energy slowly dispersed, turning into Honkai energy and returning to the girl's body.

In the relatively narrow shelter, in order to avoid causing large-scale damage to the surrounding environment, she can only release part of her body to fight. However, it is not necessary to fight with her body. Even in her current human form, her strength is not enough.

How much discount will be given.

Walking directly into the isolation center, Benares looked at the wolf-eared girl squatting in the corner, breathing slightly. He opened his palms, and twisted and fluctuating blue arcs of electricity began to explode between her fingers.

"I'm sorry, but assisting Saint Freya and the ME Society is the master's order to contain the 11-r individual, 'Fenrir'. If you insist on resisting, I will be your opponent."

"..."

Charlotte remained silent. With her speed and reaction, Benares's attack would not hit her. However, even if she avoided the sudden attack, the current situation was really troublesome.

(A combination of a Judgment-level Honkai Beast and a Pseudo-Hershersman? But, that donkey-eared guy has a weird aura... Hmph, but he's just a Pseudo-Hershersman at best, the same existence as Yuno. The only threat is the strongest Honkai Beast...)

"Miss Charlotte! What...what are they going to do?"

493 Benares's Abilities >>

The trembling sound in her ears brought Charlotte back to her senses. She saw the young man lying in a mess not far away, looking at the two girls blocking the exit, his slightly broken eyes filled with confusion and fear.

If I hadn't subconsciously pulled him back when I was dodging, this poor young man would have been beaten to pieces...

"What an unexpected development... They came to arrest me, but based on what you did before, I'm afraid those guys won't let you go either? Hehe... No matter in the organization, betrayers are always the most hateful."

Charlotte was on guard against the purple-haired girl in front of her, and a drop of cold sweat slid down her face. However, she still had the leisure to tease the young man beside her. Looking at his increasingly gloomy face, Charlotte smiled.

"However, even though you betrayed Anti-Entropy, you are still my partner. Just pray that I don't lose to those monsters over there..."

After saying that, Charlotte stood up, no longer paying attention to the young man beside her, and walked towards Benares who was standing opposite her with a calm and solemn expression.

"Hey, hey~ The claw that suddenly fell down just now was yours, right? Didn't you see that the inspector was standing next to me? Your indiscriminate attack almost killed an unrelated person."

"No mercy for betrayers."

"Well... it seems that there is no way out for you, brother. Judgment-level Honkai beast? Coincidentally, in a sense, I am the same as you..."

At this point, Charlotte took a fighting stance and stared fearlessly at the purple-haired girl. Her actions had already shown her choice. Benares no longer hesitated, and the lightning in his hand exploded. The dark blue lightning bolt rushed out like a wild horse, and in the blink of an eye, it completely engulfed Charlotte's figure!

As the highest-level Honkai beast, she controls the special Honkai energy of three elements - lightning, fire, and ice. Moreover, apart from her giant dragon body that is powerful enough to collapse mountains and split the earth, the multiple special attributes mutated from her Honkai energy are the symbol of her being a Judgment-level Honkai beast.

Watching the red-haired girl disappear in the lightning, the move seemed to have completely hit the target, but the next moment, Benares frowned slightly. Sure enough, before the lightning of these arcs dissipated, the red shadow had already rushed out against the torrent of lightning, and a heavy punch landed on Benares' abdomen in the blink of an eye!

———Bang! !

The sound of sonic booms and bombardments mixed together. Before the strong wind rippled, the translucent circular shock wave first spread outward from the two people, sweeping away the scattered mechanical debris around! Although the collapse energy could not be used during the suppression, Charlotte's pure physical strength was enough to tear the alloy plate with bare hands. Such strength, combined with high-end force-generating techniques, was enough to exert such terrible destructive power!

However, the moment after the heavy punch, Charlotte felt the unusual recoil and instantly realized something was wrong. However, before she could completely withdraw her momentum, she felt her wrist tighten.

"Immune to lightning?"

Grabbing Charlotte's fist with a nonchalant look, Benares said softly that the heavy punch that hit her abdomen just now seemed to have no effect at all, but Charlotte knew very well how heavy her full-strength blow just now was. It was enough to crack the crystal layer that served as a prison. How could this Honkai beast, which was still in its transformed state, be safe and sound?

"It seems that's not the case... Is it just the insulation property of the skin that has evolved? It seems that my mercy just now was unnecessary."

Benares muttered to himself, holding Charlotte's wrist tightly to prevent her from escaping. On the other side, Charlotte was surprised to find that in terms of pure physical strength, Benares was actually a little stronger than her! The gap between the two was like the difference in arm strength between a teenager and an adult. Although the gap was not a thousand miles, it was obvious that it was basically impossible for her to break free from Benares's grip by brute force...

However, the wolf will not sit still and wait for death.

Swish——! !

The purple-haired girl held her slender neck with her other hand.

Before that, Charlotte swung out her left claws! The sharp nails directly tore through Benares's dress, and huge claw marks were left from bottom to top on her lower abdomen to her chest! The scraps of fabric flew in the air. This attack was undoubtedly a complete hit, but Charlotte, who launched the attack, opened her eyes wide again...

How can it be!

Her sharp claws slashed across Benares' body, only damaging her casual clothes and leaving a few white marks on her fair skin! Was this the same claw that she had used to casually tear apart the anti-Honkai Impact crystalline layer just now?

Although Benares's defense as a Judgment-level Honkai beast wouldn't be too weak, this is really too exaggerated!

(Could it be...)

Suddenly, a terrible guess flashed through Charlotte's mind like a bolt from the blue!

Powerful high-level Honkai beasts will evolve their own unique abilities, and the upper limit of the number of such unique abilities is definitely not just one. Could it be that this Judgment-level Honkai beast that emerged in the second Honkai has abilities other than just changing elemental attributes?

(Could it be... inherent resistance to physical shock?)

When she transformed into a human form, part of the hard scales on Benares's dragon body turned into her skin, inheriting her original defensive capabilities. However, this was far from completely ineffective against Charlotte's attacks.

Well, if she also possessed the trait of shock resistance, combined with her original strong physical defense, it would make sense. The trait made her resistant to shock, but this meant that her resistance to energy attacks was slightly weaker. Otherwise, Charlotte couldn't imagine how such a monster could be defeated in the second collapse...

However, even if she saw through this, this situation was still overwhelmingly disadvantageous to Charlotte. Benares's impact resistance meant that most direct physical attacks had little effect on her, and with the Soul Steel Collar activated, Charlotte was unable to mobilize the Honkai energy to launch special energy attacks. If they were equal, she might be able to fight Benares, but now that she could only fight with her fists and feet, it was theoretically impossible for her to defeat Benares!

"It's over, 'Demon Wolf Fenrir'. Although this victory was unfair, this is my job now. Without the ability to use Honkai energy, you are nothing more than a useless wolf without fangs."

The purple-haired girl raised her hand again, and the ice that had quietly condensed turned into a sharp blade. As Charlotte's eyes slightly shrank, she fiercely chopped down at her shoulder...

494 The Destined End

The ice blade fell with a clear cracking sound, leaving a few pieces of frost on the metal ground under the feet of the two people.

The blow didn't land on Charlotte after all. Just before her arm was about to be cut off by the ice blade, the red-haired girl hardened her heart and crushed the bones of her right wrist! After the bones were crushed, her right hand, which became soft, easily escaped from Benares's grip and dodged to the side.

"Eh......?"

Even Benares was shocked by Charlotte's decisiveness, but the hesitation was only for a moment. The moment the red-haired girl escaped, blue dragon wings suddenly spread out from behind her, and suddenly expanded in the next moment, blocking the front like a roadblock. The tip of the giant wings directly touched the wall of the isolation room, completely blocking Charlotte's escape route!

As the half-dragon state was activated, armor reconstructed from dragon scales appeared on Benares' body, covering up the fair skin that was exposed after her clothes were torn.

Raising her arms that had turned into claws, her purple eyes locked onto the red-haired girl in front of her.

"You can't escape!"

Following the lightning and ice just now, this time, her wrists ignited with fierce red flames! As she pushed her hands forward, powerful flame energy dissipated, forming dense fireballs as it spread, bombarding Charlotte who had no way to escape from the crossfire of the dragon wings.

Next, the scene in front of him surprised Benares again. The injured red-haired girl faced the dense fireballs flying at her without dodging or avoiding them, and let them hit her! However, the energy fireballs that were enough to slightly melt the surrounding alloy walls did not even burn the corners of Charlotte's clothes! When colliding with the fireballs, it seemed as if there was an invisible barrier blocking her, discharging the heat energy to all directions...

"Unfortunately, fire happens to be my essential power... Just like your inherent physical resistance, I have the same immunity to fire. The only fire that can really hurt me is probably the Plague Fire of the Key of Destruction."

Charlotte said softly, lowering her right hand, which had turned completely purple, and secretly adjusted her breathing. After confirming that her right hand was completely unusable, her heart sank. The next moment, she ignored the successive fireballs and rushed towards Benares!

There is still a chance. The trump cards of both sides have been revealed, and I almost know how to deal with the attack of this dragon.

——Bang! !

The high-speed moving figure turned into an afterimage. Charlotte jumped up and threw a back kick while sprinting, but Benares blocked the attack with just one arm. The crystal wings that returned to their normal size in human form fluttered in the air and stopped.

The impact of the kick.

But this time, Charlotte on the other side was not caught by her again. Before Benares could counterattack, she relied on her body's high mobility to dodge the dragon claw's swing with precise movements, and punched Benares in the chest with her left hand. Under the defense of the dragon scale armor, such an attack was meaningless. However, taking advantage of Benares's instant stiffness, Charlotte exhaled, and then she raised her only remaining left hand, and used the same high-speed combo as Fu Hua's Thousand Stars, pouring down on the purple-haired girl like a storm!

"It's just as I expected, Miss Benares. Your strength is obviously stronger, and your speed is not much slower than mine. However, you don't seem to be good at this kind of close combat. Why is that?"

Charlotte, who had one arm disabled and could only fight with one hand, still had time to speak in the fierce battle. As for Benares, after being pulled into close combat, she was able to basically block Charlotte's attacks with her powerful claws and powerful dragon wings. However, the fists and kicks that occasionally broke through her defense and landed on her proved that she was at a disadvantage at the moment.

Although this kind of close combat in human form was not her forte, as a follower of the Herrscher, it was incredible that she could be forced to this point by a Honkai creature with sealed power.

At the end of the exit passage, Yaezakura, who was guarding the main gate, looked at the purple-haired girl who was gradually falling into disadvantage, slowly moved forward a step, and pressed down the hilt of Sakura Fubuki's sword with the thumb of her left hand...

However, after a brief hesitation, Yaezakura looked at Benares' increasingly serious expression, and finally put her hand down and continued to guard the door of the prison.

This friend probably doesn't want others to interfere in his battle. Besides, Charlotte, whose power of Honkai is sealed, can't hurt Benares at all. It's better to wait and see now. If something unexpected happens, it won't be too late to take action.

Thinking of this, she returned to her previous position and watched silently as before. Unlike her calmness, Kerry, who was sitting not far behind, was already beginning to feel uneasy as he watched the "anxious" battle situation.

"Ms. Yaezakura! Lord Benares is in a bad state. Are you going to take action?"

"Calm down, Chris. Bella won't be defeated so easily. Haven't you noticed? She has been attacked so many times, but there has never been a single wound on her body? Even if it were me, it would be difficult to cut through her scales without using that knife... So, just wait and see."

Gently stroking the handle of the spirit sword Sakura Fubuki, Yaezakura's tone was not nervous at all. The other black and red samurai sword with strange patterns hanging on her waist, although rarely used, was her strongest trump card...

The Key of Corrosion - Jizo's Soul, is undoubtedly the most bizarre and terrifying of the currently known Keys of God. Although it does not have the powerful direct destructive power of the Holy Fire Judgment and the Black Abyss White Flower, its ability to corrode and control everything like a virus is hard to guard against. The Twelfth Herrscher of the last era used his own Honkai energy to corrode the missile launch system of the Fire Moth Base and destroyed their last city with humanity's own nuclear missiles.

After obtaining the God's Key hidden in her own stigmata space, with its ability to erode reality, Yae Sakura has the ability to project her self-consciousness into the real world, and then use the power of Honkai energy to reshape her body and exist in the form of a pseudo-herrscher. And this knife, as the key to enter and exit the stigmata space, is left with her.

The power of the Pseudo-Hersker is not absolute. Although there are powerful Pseudo-Herskers like Yuno and the early Shiris, there are also weak ones who are only slightly stronger than high-level death warriors, and the latter also account for a large proportion. This is why Charlotte did not take Yae Sakura seriously. However, if she knew that this was the strongest Pseudo-Hersker who could use the Key of God and whose strength was not inferior to Yuno, I am afraid that from the very beginning, she would have considered surrendering instead of resisting.

"..."

A little further away from the battle, the young man who released Charlotte sat slumped in the corner, staring blankly at the two blurry figures that were intertwined in the fierce battle. That's right... blurry. Unlike the magnificent and grand battle he imagined, the close combat between these two Judgment-level Honkai beasts was completely beyond the dynamic vision of ordinary people.

Perhaps in the eyes of Yae Sakura and Kerry, their fighting moves were quite exciting, but Suzuki could not appreciate those details. Witnessing this level of battle, he no longer felt any passion or excitement, and only awe and fear remained. Facing those shrill sonic booms, and the sharp shock waves and winds like razor blades, the young man knew very well that a trace of the aftermath of the battle could cost him his life...

494 Destined End >>

Is it that what I pursue is such a terrible thing?

There were two more blockers, one of whom hadn't made a move yet. It was obvious that Charlotte's chances of winning were low. If she was defeated, she would be thrown back into the cell. And she would also face punishment from the me company...

Do you regret it? Of course I do. Although I long for power, if

If he had known that his plan would end in failure, he would never have done such a reckless thing.

However, there is no regret medicine in the world. Now, except waiting for the winner between Charlotte and Benares, he has no other choice.

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"There are more and more gaps in blocking, Miss Benares."

Relying on her flexibility advantage to suppress Benares, Charlotte's heavy punches hit the girl one after another, targeting her weaknesses. However, the girl's gorgeous battle suit made of dragon scales did not leave any damage. Even though she was suppressed, Benares used this opportunity to entangle Charlotte tightly, preventing her from moving forward to the exit.

"What a straightforward attack... Oh~ Come to think of it, you were born during the Second Collapse, so in human terms, you are only about 15 years old now, right? No wonder you can only use such simple and childish moves~"

"..."

Charlotte showed an intriguing expression at the purple-haired girl's silence. Although her suppression of Benares was only superficial, this opponent had countless ways to reverse the situation. However, the environment restricted Benares's strength. If he used his strength wantonly in such an underground area, I'm afraid that the experimental area of ​​​​ME Society would collapse in an instant.

"In the past, you probably fought in your huge and clumsy dragon form, right? It's hard to change your fighting habits... Even if you transform into a flexible human form and have the same speed as me, you still can't adapt to such high-speed combat. Your lack of mobility is your biggest flaw."

"......Humph!"

Facing the impatient Benares, Charlotte dodged the claws with ease and hit her wrist with an extremely accurate punch, causing Benares to sway suddenly. Charlotte did not pursue the victory, but took advantage of this flaw to rush directly into Benares' arms, passing by this powerful humanoid Honkai Beast and rushing towards the exit of the isolation room!

Her original purpose was just to escape! Even if she could win a move in her area of ​​expertise, it would not cause any harm to Benares. As long as she escaped from Benares, this opponent with insufficient precision would not be able to track her easily.

As long as we break through this line of defense...

——Bang!

However, as she passed Benares, a white shadow suddenly covered Charlotte's sight! At some point, Benares materialized his dragon-shaped tail, and when she lost her balance, he used his hard tail to hit Charlotte hard, knocking her out again.

"Uh uh...it's not over yet!"

Charlotte suddenly opened her eyes while flying backwards, stretched out her sharp claws, grabbed the metal plate on the ground, and stopped her rapid backward flight after leaving five long scratches. Before Benares adjusted his posture, she burst out with strength again, bypassed the purple-haired girl and rushed towards the door of the isolation room exit.

She did this without any hesitation, nor did she look back at her companions who were still trapped in the cage.

(I’m sorry, Yuno-chan and Suzuki-san… I can’t even protect myself now, so I wish you good luck~)

Benares stumbled, and quickly spread his wings, using his wings to activate Honkai energy, fanning out a chaotic energy gale to try to stop Charlotte's escape. But the red-haired girl just stood up against the arcs and storms, lowered her body and continued to sprint, completely ignoring her body with traces of blood. Maintaining a high-speed movement, her figure bypassed Benares in an arc-shaped trajectory and headed straight for the exit guarded by Yaesakura.

It had only been five minutes since he triggered the alarm. There was a high probability that the intelligence officers of the ME Society had not yet completed the system repair. There was still time! Kerry had already lost his ability to fight. As long as he defeated the pseudo-hersr blocking the door, escaped from this isolation room, and got out of the effective range of the collar's signal, he would win!

“Wait for me…!”