Firefly looked at her hands through the armor, fully covered in silver-white metal, which were precisely the silver palms belonging to SAM.
Even though Firefly was a clone, she could still wield this mecha as naturally as her own arms.
Now Firefly’s confidence was back; any Ethereals were nothing more than a matter of a single slap!
Firefly just needed SAM to activate!
Then came the Scorched Earth Meteorite Strike, and after that, the Ethereals would be dead as a doornail!
SAM, activate!
Command: Flashfire Propulsion!
What was that?
Ethereal?
I thought it was a speed bump.
Go say that to my Skyfire Bombardment!
We are all living life to the fullest~ I’ve tried this hard!
There’s no way you’re still alive!
SAM circled around inside the Hollow, finally calming down from her excitement.
She bypassed to the other side of the battlefield between the Cunning Hares and Dulahan.
Seeing them fall into a hard battle, how could Firefly not go support them?
With a single leap into the sky, she was about to launch a Scorched Earth Meteorite Strike, only to find that SAM did not plunge straight into the battlefield according to the command.
“HQ, what is going on here?” Firefly asked hurriedly.
“HQ never said that this SAM Summoner could summon the real SAM, and without the power of the Path, how could she possibly unleash the strength of the real SAM.” Before she could finish listening, Firefly plummeted from high altitude.
“HQ, you’re unreliable!
Ah, ah!” Firefly screamed inwardly as she fell.
…
“Damn it!
It never ends!” After Nicole blocked a heavy blow for Anby, Nicole controlled the mechanism box from the rear to provide fire support.
Their conditions were both poor; they originally intended to grab the safe and leave, but that Ethereal kept entangling them relentlessly, making it impossible to get the safe at all.
At this moment, Billy checked his ammunition.
There wasn’t much ammo left.
If he couldn’t shatter the core of this Ethereal, he would be out of commission.
Every single one of his attacks was a precise shot, but the core of that Ethereal was simply too tough.
Right now, the only one capable of dealing effective output was Anby alone.
But Anby’s condition wasn’t good either.
She felt that her body wouldn’t hold up if she took one more heavy blow.
This Ethereal was exceptionally fierce.
Its successive blade slashes had all been blocked; how could it possibly have a good look on its face?
Seeing that their conditions were poor, it gathered its full strength and launched an attack at Nicole.
Anby was about to step up to catch that blade when suddenly something intervened in the battle.
That thing plummeted from the sky, smashing between the Ethereal and Nicole, instantly beating the Ethereal back.
The kicked-up dust and fog covered Nicole and Anby’s faces.
Seeing this situation, Billy rushed forward anxiously to help the two up, but when he saw the dust clear and the figure standing up from within, he was completely dumbfounded on the spot.
If there was anything Billy admired and loved the most, the starlight knight could rank first, but unfortunately, the starlight knight could now only rank second.
That full-body silver-white metal, that aesthetic full of power—Billy felt that a true knight ought to look just like this!
The three of them all looked at this suddenly appearing guy; was it obviously an Automaton?
Judging from both its appearance and voice, there was no doubt about it.
This was an Automaton just like Billy, but it looked so much stronger than this guy Billy.
Then, the head of this mecha lit up with a blue light.
He looked toward the Ethereals, and a voice full of mechanical texture rang out: “A monster?” Then he looked toward the Cunning Hares group, “Three people?” “Leave now, and no one will get hurt.” This sentence was obviously telling the three of them to leave, but Nicole was unwilling to just leave like this.
Looking at the lonely safe lying on the ground, she shouted loudly and made to pounce over.
“My safe!
That’s my safe!” SAM glanced at the safe on the ground and gently kicked it out of the battlefield with one action.
This action prompted the three of them to rush over to catch the safe, terrified that the contents inside might get bumped and broken.
Seeing SAM’s action, the Ethereal instantly grew furious.
The safe was its obsession; touching the safe could basically be said to be touching its life.
“Roar!” The Ethereal charged over holding its sword and shield.
Seeing the Ethereal quickly charge within three steps, Firefly controlled SAM to throw a simple punch.
It was this very punch that struck the Ethereal’s shield, knocking the Ethereal back more than five steps, and a terrifying dent appeared on the shield.
The Ethereal Dulahan knew well that blind defense could not break through its limits.
It gathered Ether energy on its blade, charged up its power, and launched another charge.
That slash carried matchless power and violent Ether energy as it hacked toward SAM.
Aside from a Void Hunter, no one could take this slash head-on.
But Firefly was neither a Void Hunter nor an ordinary person.
She was not among the options, so she was unselectable.
“You picked the wrong opponent.” SAM emitted a cold mechanical voice, catching the blade with one hand.
When the edge made contact with SAM’s palm, it failed to leave even the slightest injury on SAM’s hand; not even a single scratch could be managed.
Afterward, SAM clenched her palm, and that blade born alongside the Ethereal shattered as easily as glass.
Seeing this situation, the Ethereal’s core trembled.
Yet the attack did not stop; its arm was pinned, and its chest suddenly received a heavy punch, immediately followed by an elbow strike.
When the metallic iron elbow crashed into the Ether core, the core disintegrated like a piece of foam.
Perceiving that the entire Ethereal had lost its mobility and was dissipating into free-floating Ether particles, Firefly dropped the mutilated Ethereal and saw the Cunning Hares trio watching the battle from the sidelines.
In this state, she couldn’t say hello to them.
Firefly was about to leave to find a place to undo her transformation when Billy rushed forward and asked, “This knight who descended from the heavens!
Your name is…” Before Billy could ask anything else, SAM bounced up and flew high into the sky, then plummeted back toward the ground.
“He really…
he really was just a passing knight…” Billy felt somewhat regretful yet somewhat fanatical.
“Yeah, he came and went in a hurry like a meteor, as if solely to bring hope.” Anby picked up on Billy’s words; clearly, she was also curious about this knight who had saved their lives.
However, Nicole didn’t care much about this.
She called out to the two to leave this place; the safe was already in hand, and the commission could be completed very soon.
“Hurry up and go, what if that guy from just now finds out what’s in the safe and turns back?” The few of them left and were preparing to look for Eous nearby when they suddenly heard Belle’s voice.
“Over here, over here!
Nicole!” They saw Eous waving its short little arms, the whole Bangboo hopping up and down.
“Proxy!
You’ve recovered.” Seeing the utterly adorable Eous, Nicole knew the normal Proxy was back.
She scooped up Eous, “Proxy, we’ve got the commission target.
Once we find Firefly, we can head back!” Hearing Firefly’s name, Belle felt somewhat downcast, but she didn’t show it.
If Belle said that Firefly had already left the Hollow first, would the Cunning Hares folks be unhappy about such a thing?
Moreover, she had seen Firefly turn and leave with her own eyes.
She was somewhat worried, but Firefly possessed the ability to compute Hollow data in real-time, so she should be able to leave the Hollow smoothly, right?
Never mind that, Belle began to recount to them what had happened earlier in the Video Store.
It turned out that shortly after they entered the Hollow, Belle was popped out of the possession state.
After failing to restart the HDD system, she discovered it was a hacker intrusion.
After losing her account and luobo data, she finally shook off the hacker.
“That is to say…
you currently don’t have valid data to leave the Hollow?” “Yes…” Belle answered very crisply.
“However, that hacker said the thing inside the safe is a powerful Hollow tool capable of real-time computation inside the Hollow.
As long as we use that, we can travel through the Hollow unimpeded, but using this still requires your consent.” The Bangboo’s eyes looked at Nicole, while Nicole didn’t care whether this was the commission target or not; nothing else mattered more than her life.
“No problem, the password is 114514.” “If you can’t…
eh?” Belle was about to haggle a bit, not expecting Nicole to agree immediately.
“Then I’m going to open the safe.” Belle controlled Eous’s little hands to go punch in the password, and soon the safe opened, revealing a data disk inside.
Just as Belle was about to insert it into the interface on the Bangboo’s forehead, Nicole’s voice reached her ears.
“Proxy, we can trust you, right?” “Of course, you can always trust Phaethon!” Afterward, the Bangboo connected to the data, and a burst of light flashed across the Bangboo’s body.
At this moment, it looked like it had been popped out again, but the Bangboo was loading.
At this moment, Anby noticed something was wrong, “Where is Firefly?” Where is my such big Firefly?!
Just as Anby was about to look around for her, the sound of wheels rolling drifted over.
“Everyone, are you all right?” Firefly dragged her suitcase and walked up before the group.