“No!”
Theresa felt as if her words had stepped on some landmine of the girl’s.
The petite black-haired girl suddenly lifted her head, her eyes shimmering with a hint of tears.
“I have combat power!
I want to fight with you!”
The girl grabbed Theresa’s hem tightly, looking very much like she wouldn’t let go unless she agreed.
“Fine, then stay close to me.”
“Her ability is vines and the deadly poison attached to them, but don’t worry, Judah will protect you.”
Looking at the girl’s expression and thinking back to how the girl had called out her name earlier, Theresa already had some guesses in her mind.
Selia brought her hands together, and a layer of bright yellow shield was also applied to Theresa.
[By the way, why did you make the manifested Honkai Energy bright yellow?]
“To pay tribute to a certain old man who goes for walks.
My goal is to one day make a peace sign in front of my own tombstone just like him.” Selia answered in her heart.
[You’re still thinking about killing yourself off?
Your goal is to make others regret it for the rest of their lives, huh?
Truly like you.]
At this moment, on the playground, Theresa, having received Selia’s buff, rushed forward again.
At the same time, the fully deployed Oath of Judah shot out twelve light spears.
Part of them protected Selia’s location, and the other part attacked along with Theresa, helping Theresa block the vines around her.
Selia, however, did not rashly step forward to join the melee.
After all, Theresa was handling it with ease because she was an S-rank Valkyrie, and fighting a Pseudo-Herrscher was naturally easy for her.
With her own B-rank Valkyrie melee level, if she got too close, it wasn’t certain who would be beating whom.
So, Selia put away the scythe blade of Crescent Rose and began to snipe at the roots of the vines approaching Theresa.
These vines were extremely thick, and even with Selia’s half-baked level, she could easily hit them at such a close distance.
The situation seemed to be tilting continuously toward Theresa’s side.
The interference of the vines couldn’t break through the blockade of the light spears and the sniper rifle, and Yuna, as a student, was completely being beaten up by Theresa in close combat.
However, Yuna didn’t seem to think so.
“I have to admit, you are indeed very strong.
It seems that without relying on a sneak attack, I really couldn’t defeat you at all.”
Yuna supported herself on the ground with one hand, and the vines on her body seemed to droop down.
Theresa’s attacks indeed seemed to have caused her considerable damage.
“However, the me of today is different from before!”
“Just yesterday, I felt the Pseudo-Herrscher fluctuation nearby that had been interfering with me suddenly disappear for some reason.”
“After the interference disappeared, no one in the vicinity could stop me from absorbing Honkai Energy anymore, and my ability has finally achieved an unparalleled evolution.”
“Haven’t you realized it yet?
You’ve already been poisoned!”
A flicker of panic appeared in Theresa’s eyes: “Could it be, the floral scent from just now…”
“But, I already noticed it?”
“?” × 2
Theresa and Yuna both looked at the black-haired girl curled up in the back.
Seeing their gaze, Selia tilted her head in feigned confusion: “Why wouldn’t I notice?
Don’t you think that in a city that has already turned into ruins, that strange floral scent of yours seems a bit out of place?”
“Plus, Theresa said your ability is poison and vines.
Wouldn’t it be abnormal not to think of the connection between them?”
Ignoring Theresa, who was blushing furiously beside her, Selia continued to say to Yuna: “Didn’t you notice?
Oh, right, you never touched Theresa the whole time, so you really wouldn’t have noticed.”
Selia poked the bright yellow shield in front of her, which seemed very elastic: “This shield isn’t an energy field shield, but a filtration shield with a physical form.
Whether it’s the poison in the air or the poisonous Honkai Energy, isn’t it fine as long as I isolate it all?”
“You… you wretch!”
Her trump card for a comeback had been seen through by Selia.
If looks could kill, Yuna’s gaze at this moment would probably have shredded Selia hundreds of times.
“Even if I die, I’m taking you with me!”
With a roar, Yuna’s body began to gradually dissipate, reverting into the most primitive Honkai Energy.
After all, a Pseudo-Herrscher is a phenomenon that appears when Honkai Energy accumulates to a certain extent.
Accompanying Yuna’s dissipation were the vines that began to riot.
Although Yuna was in a state of rage, she hadn’t completely lost her sanity.
Knowing that the poison was useless, Yuna focused her target on the vines themselves.
Under the catalysis of Yuna sacrificing her life, these vines grew wildly as if they had eaten fertilizer, lunging toward Selia in the back.
But obviously, Theresa’s movements were faster.
Having long since seen that Yuna’s state was wrong, Theresa had already retreated to Selia’s side in advance.
Seeing this, Theresa directly opened Judah and pushed Selia toward the inside of Judah.
“Theresa?
What are you doing?”
“You get in there first!” Although Theresa wasn’t very smart, her ancestral Kaslana super strength left Selia with no power to resist.
“These vines can’t break through the defense of Soulium.
You hide inside the Oath of Judah first.
I’m an S-rank Valkyrie; these piddling vines can’t cause me any trouble!”
“I don’t believe a word of it!”
Selia directly activated her speed talent after Elite 1, twisted her body, slipped out from Theresa’s side, and then gave Theresa a hard kick, sending her into Judah.
“I have my own way to avoid these vines.
You just take care of yourself; stop thinking about self-sacrifice all day!”
The girl’s voice sounded a bit strained, clearly angered by Theresa’s actions.
As she spoke, with a familiar blue light, the girl disappeared in front of Theresa.
“Oh no, did I step on a landmine again…” Theresa recalled the girl’s exasperated appearance just now and felt a bit apologetic.
“I’ll apologize to her after these vines stop rioting.
I don’t even know her name yet…”
Inside the System Space at this moment.
“Perfect.
I knew it.
The more experienced a person is, the more they trust their own knowledge base and judgment.”
Selia waved her hand excitedly and said triumphantly to the System: “Look, didn’t I tell you?
Theresa would make up a whole backstory for me based on her understanding of the Sea of Quanta and Bubble Universe.
Look at that apologetic look in her eyes.”
[Boss Selia is quite the trickster.]
[However, you aren’t planning to leave yourself half-dead in front of her, making her regret it for the rest of her life, are you?]
Selia looked at the System with an indescribable expression: “You call me a trickster, yet you seem to understand this quite well yourself.”
“However, it’s unnecessary.
That would be too deliberate.
In the current situation, as long as I go out, explain things clearly to Theresa, and then express that I’m homeless, getting a position at St.
Freya Academy will be a breeze.”
“The only issue is to try my best not to let Otto notice me…
Unlike Theresa or Anti-Entropy, Otto’s research into the Imaginary Tree system is not something I can fool.”
[However, as the Host contacts The Trio, entering Otto’s line of sight is inevitable, especially since Fu Hua is still Otto’s eyes and ears during this period.]
“As for that…
I only have some preliminary ideas.
How I’ll actually do it depends on which Operator my first character card will be after entering the academy.”