Collapse Iron Live Broadcast Connects All Worlds, Scares Away Wuzhan at the Beginning

The evening breeze lifted her long hair, which fluttered like silk woven by moonlight, drawing soft arcs under the starry sky. “But it sometimes covers my eyes, and I’ve been having some trouble lately… I’m also debating whether to tie it up.”

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Konosuba: God's blessing on this wonderful world.

"She's so pretty."

Kazuma tilted his head back and couldn't help but murmur.

At the same time, the other male adventurers in the guild all expressed the same sentiment.

It's not simply a compliment to the girl's appearance, but an expression of her innocence and gentleness, as even after countless battles on the battlefield, she can still stop for a wild flower.

Aqua snapped back to her senses, realizing she had almost been captivated by Liuying's smile. She quickly rushed forward, grabbed Kazuma's shoulders, and shook him vigorously: "Hey, Kazuma! Don't be fooled by this woman! She's a soldier who kills without blinking an eye!"

"What do you mean by killing without blinking an eye?" Kazuma slapped Aqua's hand away. "I only see a truly kind woman who punishes evildoers and is so kindhearted that she can't bear to see them suffer. She simply captures her opponents and sends them packing."

Aqua said with disgust: "Why don't you listen to what you are saying? If someone doesn't know, they would think you have been bewitched by a succubus."

“Please don’t compare Miss Firefly with the rouge and powder of a succubus.” Kazuma spread his hands. “And, Aqua, don’t criticize me either. When the gold dust’s past was revealed in the sky, and that slave owner said the gold dust was only worth 60 red copper coins… who said he wanted to work for a month and save up enough to buy the gold dust?”

“I, I…” Aqua stuttered, “It’s impossible for me to actually buy it! Besides… I want to buy the gold dust so that I can successfully defeat the Demon King! The reason I have this idea is because of you, Kazuma?!”

"Hey, hey! No matter how you look at it, it's all your fault, useless goddess!?"

The two began to chatter and quarrel in the guild again, but the adventurers on the side completely ignored them, as if they were in another world - they were still staring at the girl in the sky, intoxicated and sighing heartfeltly.

"She's so pretty..."

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The camera panned to the Royal Guard mecha. The girl with glasses smiled and said, "Your turn now. Are you really not going to say anything?"

It lowered its arms, as if about to speak, when the communicator beside its ear chimed. It paused for a second, then said, "Communications restored. Article 8 of the Grammer Military Code states that surviving knights must return to their ranks."

"Liuying raised her head, her gaze fixed on the battle-torn flag beside her."

She reached out and gently tore off two relatively intact pieces of the tattered cloth. She used one as a headband and folded the other between her fingers into a slightly crude bow, carefully pinning it in her hair.

The girl with glasses patted her shoulder gently: "It looks great and suits you very well."

"It was time to say goodbye, and the few of them had to return to the battlefield after a brief rest. The white-haired boy had already transformed into mechas with them again and leaped into the sky: "Next battlefield, I hope to see the stars."

"Will we meet again?"

“Probably not.”

“What if the war is over?”

"…Then we should be able to recognize each other, right?"

"Looking at the three flames flying in the sky, Firefly-V on the ground unleashed its transformation. When the flames dissipated, a woman with the same white hair walked out."

She stood quietly in the morning breeze, watching the distant dawn gradually encroach on the night's territory, dyeing the sky a gradient of blue. She narrowed her eyes, and the corners of her mouth finally raised a faint arc.

“Want to say something…”

"Then, wish us a triumphant return, shall we?"

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Cut the red eyes.

"It seems... the war they were talking about is over."

Inside the Night Raid headquarters, Marin's eyes flickered with relief when she saw the dawn rising in the sky. She leaned over the table and said, "I just don't know where they are now. Didn't Liuying take the initiative to look for them?"

"Oh? Myne... why do you think their war is over?" Chelsea put down the small cake in her hand and glanced sideways at the pink-haired girl beside her.

"The result is obvious. Look, Liuying is free." Marin stretched out her hand and counted on her fingers. "She can fall in love, shop, travel, and enjoy delicious food... Without the constraints of Grammer's military regulations, as long as she completely overcomes her entropy, she will be no different from an ordinary person. Isn't this what it's like after the war?"

"Hmm...it's a beautiful thought indeed." Chelsea blinked, a meaningful smile appearing at the corner of her lips. "But, Myne...is there another possibility?"

"What's possible?"

"Perhaps, the war never truly ended." Chelsea waved the fork in her hand gently. "Perhaps... all her comrades were killed, and she was the only one who survived. And now, all the young men and women who accompanied her have also disappeared in the flames of war."

The smile on Marin's face froze instantly.

"You woman! How could you say such cold-blooded words?" Marin rushed forward angrily and grabbed Chelsea's collar. "You are not insinuating about us, are you? Huh?"

"You violent girl..." Despite being treated roughly, Chelsea still managed a decent smile. "I was just posing my hypothesis. It's up to you to apply it to reality. Besides, if you really want to survive this battle, you can't just take it out on your teammates, okay?"

"Humph!"

Myne was so angry that she let go of Chelsea and turned around to glare at her coldly: "Just wait and see, I will definitely survive... with Tatsumi."

Chapter 427: Grammer's Embers (I)

“Forward! Forward…!”

“Repeat! Requesting support!”

"In the cockpit, Liuying's breathing was heavy and broken."

"Sweat trickled down her forehead, leaving winding trails on her pale cheeks. Her eyes, however, seemed to have been drained of all their light, leaving only bottomless voids."

"Requesting support!"

"Command, Firefly Team 4 has spotted the Queen!"

““Repeat, requesting support—”

“Forward! Forward!”

"The noisy communication signals exploded in her ears, like a sharp knife, piercing her nerves again and again. There were roars and anger in those voices. She couldn't even distinguish which ones were real calls for help and which ones were just hallucinations that lingered in her mind."

"Outside the mech, the insect swarm that covered the sky and sun continued to devour everything aimlessly... and the artillery fire continued to roar."

She gritted her teeth and used the mecha's artillery fire to kill several stinging insects that were charging at her. The insects' sticky body fluids evaporated instantly, leaving only a vague layer of dark red.

“Haaa…haaa…”

"Her rapid breathing echoed in the sealed cockpit. But just as she was adjusting, a huge impact suddenly came from all directions. Countless insect swarms slammed into her mech, knocking her to the ground."

At that crucial moment, a mech charged from beside them, its fire exploding in a brilliant orange-red blaze amidst the insect swarm. It turned back to Liuying and said, "Stand up! The target is just ahead, keep breaking through!"

Liuying finally recovered from her trance: "Yes!"

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One Piece.

"Is this a universal locust plague?"

The swarm of insects in the sky was like a rolling dark red tsunami, almost breaking through the sky and covering the entire sky. The creepy rustling sound filled the sky and earth, making Blackbeard's scalp numb.

Is that... hell?

Although he had watched the locust plague from a star's perspective in the simulated universe, this was his first time participating in the fight against the insects as a "resistance force." He had previously imagined crushing the insects with the black hole of the Dark-Dark Fruit, but now it seemed... even if these insects lined up for him to kill, he probably wouldn't be able to finish them all in his lifetime.

The swarm is endless, and humans are experiencing casualties every second.

…But isn’t [breeding] dead?

But after a moment's thought, he quickly dismissed his suspicions: "No, the locust plague ended long ago—otherwise, our world would have been devoured. Breeding is dead. This isn't a locust plague, it's its offspring."

Badgers' eyes widened. "Offspring? Can offspring from [breeding] achieve this effect?"

Kuzan nodded. "...It seems that the Zerg has always been a major threat in the universe. This military organization called Grammer is responsible for fighting the Zerg. But I didn't expect that a mecha of Sam's level is just an ordinary combat unit in Grammer. This is really..."

Kuzan swallowed the word "exaggeration" in his throat. He was also a former admiral. If someone told him that admirals of his or Akainu's caliber could only serve as soldiers in other empires... then how powerful could that empire be?

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"Artillery fire plowed burning furrows across the scorched earth. The small mecha unit Liuying was a member of struggled to advance amidst the insect swarm."

"Stay in formation! Cover on the left wing!"

"Countless cavalrymen fell before her eyes."

"Were any of them the same people I'd spoken to earlier? She realized this for the first time during the violent turbulence of the charge. Bright red warnings flashed repeatedly on the holographic screen, until a certain moment... the artillery fire and the noisy communication lines fell into an eerie silence."

"A shadow has fallen over the entire battlefield."

"She looked up and saw a mountain-like queen insect rising slowly from a crack in the earth's crust, like a living dark cloud. Behind it was an even denser swarm of insects, buzzing and pounced towards the crowd."

"During this round of insect swarms, Liuying watched helplessly as a comrade's mech was shattered by the swarm and fell to the ground like a dead leaf."

"Who's still alive? Cover me as I approach the Queen."

"An urgent mechanical sound came from behind her. Liuying turned around suddenly and saw a scarred mecha pressing a red button into her hand."

""This is……""

"'Activate immediately upon receiving the signal.'" The other party's voice was eerily calm, but the next second it turned and rushed into the insect swarm, weaving through the gunfire with nimble movements until it leaped and landed on the queen's segment—"

“Puff!”

"Sharp bone spikes suddenly shot out from the queen's limbs, piercing its mecha through and through. In a convulsive tremor, the dying pilot tore off the mecha's mask and threw it into the queen's carapace."

““Agreement passed… to implement scorched earth warfare…””

"For... Her Majesty the Queen!"

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Teyvat.

“It’s so heroic.”

"Ugh……"

On Mount Aozang, True Lord Liuyun Jiefeng sighed deeply. Although she had witnessed similar tragic scenes during the Demon God War, thousands of years had passed since then... The image of hell in the sky could not help but bring back those long-forgotten memories.

"I wonder if the little girl with glasses survived. I quite like her."

True Lord Xueyue Zhuyang shook his head. "...I'm afraid they're gone too. This Immortal has finally figured it out. These kids are just frontline soldiers in the Legion. They've been brainwashed into becoming pawns for the Queen's sacrifice. Without orders, they can't leave the cockpit until they die. How cruel."

In the face of the endless swarm of insects, life seemed to be abstracted into cold numbers. The swarm cared nothing about the extinction of individuals. Behind every death, thousands of new lives were born. Compared to them, the number of humans was insignificant.

"Without a company, an emissary... or even a genius willing to take action, these mechas alone... would be like an ant trying to shake a tree."

True Lord Lishui Dieshan flapped his wings. "But then again, since the insect swarm is so harmful, is there really no envoy willing to take action? Hunting patrols? Immortal boats? These insects are probably as harmful as [Abundant Harvest], right?"

"Immortal Ship? They're already locked in a life-and-death struggle with the Fertile People, and now with [Destruction] intervening, how can they possibly have the energy to fight the Zerg? However, the Grammer Empire's mechas are quite sophisticated, and I'd like to study them..."

"Liu Yun, you don't think you can develop a mecha like this, do you?"

Liu Yun pushed up his red-rimmed glasses and said, "Why not? After a hundred years of research, I might be able to make a replica... maybe even a better one than what they made—"

"Boom!"

Before he could finish his words, a deafening explosion echoed from the sky, as if the sky were about to collapse. The three immortals were blinded by the sudden, blinding white light, and only slowly opened their eyes after the explosion gradually dissipated.

“…W-What happened?”

Chapter 428: Grammer's Embers (Part 2)

"For Her Majesty the Queen."

"The lingering sound of machinery still vibrates in the smoke, and Liuying's fingertips have already pressed that scarlet button."

"The next second, the sky was torn apart in an instant—"

"A brilliant beam of light fell from the sky, piercing the center of the coordinates precisely."

"That beam of light was so bright, bright enough to illuminate the dark red sky, so bright that the queen's thick carapace turned transparent in a thousandth of a second, burned, and turned to ash, without even being able to emit a final hum."

"And then there was silence."

"Absolute, all-consuming silence."

"The world turned white. The shockwave spread out in a spherical shape. The moment Firefly's mecha touched the light, it was crushed into dust. When the light completely engulfed her, the mother insect's mountainous body disappeared. Thousands of insects burned like dead leaves, leaving not even ash."

"The darkness swallowed her."

"The swarm's limbs and torn armor turned to dust, falling upon the stars, like a silent snowfall across the universe."

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