In the ruins of Nagazora City.
The Third Herrscher floated in the air, staring down at the combat personnel below with emotionless eyes.
With just one wave of her hand, hundreds and thousands of Honkai Beasts gathered around her, wrapping her tightly in a thick shield.
“This is… the Herrscher is actually using Honkai Beasts as meat shields?”
Ato was a little surprised when he saw this scene, but then he remembered how the Herrscher had been using Honkai Beasts earlier to wear down the warriors’ stamina, and he understood.
“Elysia, with your power, can you shoot through?”
Elysia looked at the dense mass of Honkai Beasts and did not feel very confident either.
“I’ll try!”
The moment she finished speaking, Elysia raised the bow in her hands.
This was a weapon made by Yuji himself.
At the same time, it had been specially made by Yuji to cover up Elysia’s special power.
A pink arrow appeared.
As Elysia continuously poured Honkai Energy into it, she released her hand.
The arrow turned into a streak of light just like before and pierced through the swarm of Honkai Beasts.
Unfortunately, before it could reach the inside, it was blocked by the Honkai Beasts.
“It won’t work. The Honkai Beasts are still moving. They’re greatly blocking my attacks!”
Even Elysia couldn’t do it?
Then he could only rely on his spatial teleportation.
Yuji looked at the shield formed by Honkai Beasts in the sky and thought to himself.
“Elysia, you just keep shooting. Leave the rest to me!”
“Understood!”
As one arrow after another was shot out, Yuji locked onto the Herrscher’s position and directly teleported Elysia’s arrows right next to the Herrscher.
“Did it work…”
Yuji felt something was wrong.
The entire swarm of Honkai Beasts still seemed to show no reaction.
“No, according to my senses, it clearly hit.”
Even if the other team members were curious about what Yuji had done, they would not show it directly.
Getting distracted in battle was a big taboo.
“Human, this power… you have seized the authority of a god!”
Inside the swarm of Honkai Beasts, the Herrscher had been hit in the shoulder by the sudden arrow.
It was just a little short of the core.
The Third Herrscher sensed the spatial authority and immediately realized that the Second Herrscher’s authority had already been seized by Yuji.
“What bullshit authority of a god? Whatever I grabbed is mine!”
Yuji replied disdainfully.
He discovered that the Herrscher had already started using electromagnetic interference to disrupt space.
The area near the Herrscher could no longer be sensed.
This Herrscher was like a turtle hiding in its shell.
It seemed he could only teleport all the Honkai Beasts away first, Yuji thought.
“Elysia, next I’m going to teleport all those Honkai Beasts away. The Herrscher is left to you!”
After saying that, he directly opened the Imaginary Space.
Together with all the surrounding Honkai Beasts, he entered the Imaginary Space, completely ignoring the consumption of Honkai Energy.
Elysia watched Yuji enter the Imaginary Space and firmly nodded.
When she discovered that the Herrscher possessed intelligence, she had still been a little interested in her.
But the moment she saw the Herrscher, those completely emotionless eyes made Elysia understand that having intelligence and having emotions were two different things.
“Herrscher, next is the battle between you and me!”
Inside the Imaginary Space, Yuji watched as hundreds and thousands of Honkai Beasts all charged toward him.
“Just a bunch of lower-tier Honkai Beasts. Imprison!”
Yuji waved his hand.
The space around all the Honkai Beasts was locked, making them completely unable to move.
In that instant, one Subspace Ribbon after another appeared.
The sharp Subspace Ribbons swept across and completely wiped out all the Honkai Beasts in front of him.
“What a pity. The upper limit of this authority’s output isn’t high. Even though it has the ability to communicate with the Honkai Energy inside the Imaginary Space, that only means infinite mana.”
Many high-level spatial operations were limited by the output ceiling.
Only the Herrscher of the Void who had fully entered the Imaginary Space was complete.
That was why Yuji had specifically teleported the Honkai Beasts into the Imaginary Space to deal with them.
This was a drawback of the Herrscher authority, limited by the Cocoon of Finality…?
Wait, why could he not sense the Cocoon of Finality?
“Is it because my position is illegitimate?”
Yuji carefully thought.
As for the Third Herrscher, she would not be a match for Elysia.
Without the Honkai Beasts as meat shields, a Herrscher who only had authority was still a glass cannon.
Forget it.
First help Elysia defeat the Herrscher.
He could investigate the rest later.
On Elysia’s side, she was using her exquisite technique to continuously launch attacks.
Every shot was locking down the Herrscher’s movement.
The electric lights released by the Herrscher did not hit Elysia even once.
Her movements were extremely flexible, just like an elegant butterfly.
You never knew where she would land next.
However, if one carefully observed, the Herrscher had been continuously dodging and destroying Elysia’s attacks.
Even against the attacks from Ato and the other warriors, she only slightly avoided them.
“In this situation, if we want to quickly eliminate the Third Herrscher, we still need an extremely strong fatal blow.”
“If this drags on any longer, the range of the Honkai radiation will only grow larger and larger!”
Yuji watched from a nearby building.
Elysia launched attacks from time to time.
“No matter how the original Third Herrscher died, with the reaction speed and destructive power of the Herrscher of Thunder, taking her down really requires a lot of effort.”
This Herrscher was clearly very strong, yet she kept making a whole series of steady moves.
Yuji’s mind was still active, but his hands did not stop.
He took out the Severing Bow from the system space.
Facing the direction of the Herrscher of Thunder, he pulled out an arrow.
This arrow was specially made by Yuji using high-temperature-resistant materials.
Yuji directly used the ability of Flame Control and attached flames to the arrow.
Watching Elysia’s attacks, he predicted the landing point of the Third Herrscher.
“Whoosh—!”
The arrow attached with flames shot straight toward the Herrscher.
The Herrscher truly did not expect another arrow to be shot at this moment.
After hastily dodging, another portal appeared.
A sound of flesh being pierced came.
That was the sound of the Herrscher being hit by the arrow.
And the flames attached to the arrow were not that simple.
If it was only simple attachment, it would not deserve the gold rank.
The moment it touched the Herrscher, the previously suppressed flames immediately erupted.
No matter how the Herrscher resisted, she could not extinguish them.
“Elysia, now!”
Elysia also understood that this was the best opportunity.
She directly concentrated her power and aimed at the Herrscher of Thunder.
“Whoosh—!”
Another streak of light pierced through the Herrscher’s body.
Before dying, the completely emotionless face of the Herrscher of Thunder suddenly smiled.
Her eyes locked onto Yuji who was approaching.
“God… has already set his eyes on you!”
After saying that, the last of her power poured out.
“Yu!”
Yuji subconsciously twisted the space of that attack, changing its spatial trajectory so that it hit the area next to him.
Yuji turned his head and saw that the attack had directly turned the side into molecular state.
Cold sweat almost flowed out.
Damn it, no martial ethics at all.
Sneak attacking a teenager like me!
Although even if this attack truly hit him, he would not die.
He still remembered that he had two chances left to avoid lethal attacks.
Looking at the Herrscher who had completely lost her life force, Ato let out a breath of relief.
“Is it over?”
“Not yet. The Honkai Beasts and Death Soldiers still haven’t been dealt with. Not to mention we still need to rescue the people who are still alive.”
“Ato, take your people and go support those who are holding back Shesha.”
“As for Elysia…”
Yuji looked at Elysia who was acting pitiful and could not help but feel a headache.
“Come with me to bring the Third Herrscher back to the Flame-Chasers.”
“Alright…”
Yuji and Elysia dealt with the Third Herrscher’s corpse, then used spatial teleportation to return to the Flame-Chasers.
The whole series of operations left Elysia completely stunned.
“Wow, Yu, how did you do that? Teach me, teach me!”
“It’s very simple. Just do this, then that.”
“What do you mean this and that?”
Elysia completely did not understand what Yuji was saying.
Oh, sorry.
Yuji had forgotten that Elysia had never gone to school.
Next was waiting for the Flame-Chasers to clean up the remaining mess.
Yuji found Mobius and temporarily placed the remains of the Third Herrscher in the First Research Institute.
He knew that the remains of the Third Herrscher would definitely be coveted by a group of people, but so what?
He had contributed the most.
He had broken the Thunder Herrscher’s shield (even if it was a meat shield), and he had also staggered the Thunder Herrscher.
Without him, Elysia would still have needed some more time to reach the killing line.
“Compared to the Third Herrscher, right now I want to research you more～ My dear Yu, tell me, how exactly did you do it～”
Mobius licked her lips, moved closer to Yuji, and held onto him without letting go.
What could Yuji do?
The person had already delivered herself to his door.
Not kissing her would make it seem like he couldn’t do it.
“Mmh…!”
After a long time, Mobius gave Yuji a white look.
“If you don’t want to say it, then don’t. Why are you putting your hands all over me? There’s still one more thing. How are you going to deal with those higher-ups?”
“Secretly taking the Second Herrscher Core, even doing those things, privately going onto the battlefield, and after defeating the Herrscher privately keeping the remains—these are all serious crimes～”
“As long as you beg me and let me research you a little, I’ll help you deal with the higher-ups. How about it～”
As she spoke, Mobius buried Yuji’s arm tightly into her body, breathing softly against his ear.
“Not interested. I already have an idea.”
Yuji showed no intention of falling for it.
He had already thought of what to do long ago, because Vill-V had actively contacted him.
After that, he could bring out the Divine Keys Project.
Then Yuji looked at Mobius and said with a smile, “Rather than that, I have a plan here. Are you interested?”
On the other side, the now-safe MEI was sitting on a plane returning to the Flame-Chasers, praying in her heart that Yuji was completely unharmed.
Not long ago, Kevyn had also joined the Flame-Chasers just like in the original, as a warrior.
Although the original “he” had joined because of MEI, now it was “she,” not “he,” so she had come to the Flame-Chasers for another person.
MEI and Kevyn also sat together.
On the plane, she kept watching the updates sent by Mobius.
“Strange, why hasn’t the Doctor sent any message yet? Has the Third Herrscher already been defeated?”
MEI could never have imagined that Yuji, who had originally still been in Nagazora City, had already returned to the Flame-Chasers.
“What’s wrong, Kevyn? You look distracted.”
“Ah, it’s nothing. I just feel a little nervous.”
“Relax. Being nervous is normal. Once you arrive at the Flame-Chasers, you’ll find that the people inside are actually pretty good.” (Some people excluded)
After hearing MEI’s words, Kevyn took a few deep breaths and returned to her carefree appearance.
But she always felt like she had forgotten something.
In the refugee camp, a tall woman was looking worriedly at the ruins.
“Kevyn, you must not get into any trouble.”