Bzzt! Slash! Crack!
Red lightning sparked as Mei swung Yamato its blade slicing through Chariot-class Honkai beasts. Their armored bodies fell apart. Seraph-class beasts dropped from the sky their twisted wings torn by her strikes. As a Herrscher Mei was way stronger than these weak Honkai beasts. It didn't take her long to take them all down.
Mei turned to the zombies. She didn't want to kill them so she swung Yamato's sheathed end breaking their legs with quick precise hits. They collapsed unable to stand their purple-lined bodies writhing but no longer a threat.
Looking around she saw no more Honkai beasts or zombies. She exhaled calming herself for a moment her lightning fading slightly.
Then she looked up squinting her eyes. High in the sky Kiana floated her yellow eyes glowing with focus. Seraph beasts swooped at her but Sora controlled half of Kiana's body her Void powers tearing through them with void lasers.
"That's really smart Kiana focusing while Sora defends her" Mei murmured with a small smile.
But now wasn't the time to admire Kiana's strategy. Mei had her own work. She needed to save the people who survived the initial explosions and the honkai radiation before zombies or Honkai beasts killed them.
With a flash of lightning Mei vanished from her spot leaving only a trail of red sparks behind.
Meanwhile, in another part of the city
Siegfried could be seen shooting a lot of Honkai Beasts with his Judgment of Shamash. At first, he wanted to tell Kiana and the others that he needed to leave for a pretty far place because he had some business.
But who would have thought that as soon as he stepped into the city, he could see two giant explosions filled with Honkai radiation? If Reina hadn't fixed his body and absorbed the Honkai inside of him, this much Honkai radiation would definitely have killed him.
But his body was free from Honkai thanks to Reina's treatment, so he'd been helping the survivors leave the city while killing a lot of Honkai Beasts.
"Looks like vacation is over." Another shot from the Judgment of Shamash rang out, killing another Honkai Beast.
"Over here! Keep running, don't stop! If anyone falls while running, don't stop to help-let me handle it!" he shouted to the people he was protecting.
The people running past him shouted their thanks without stopping, and he kept going with them, protecting their backs with his guns.
"I hope you have a plan for this, Reina," he murmured to himself, glancing in the direction of the apartment where Reina and Kiana were.
Seeing how Reina knew this was going to happen, he hoped she had a solution for it. Because what kind of crazy person decides to nuke a city with Honkai radiation just to awaken a Herrscher?
While Siegfried covers that part of the city, Mei, with her Herrscher of Thunder powers and lightning-fast speed, zips around saving everyone she can.
She appears, slashing a Honkai Beast to save a group of people, then vanishes again. She reappears, kicking a zombie into a horde of others to clear a path for people to escape, then disappears once more. She shows up again, picking up multiple people trapped inside a collapsed building, going back and forth because she can only carry a few at a time, then vanishes after everyone's out of the building.
Mei and Siegfried are working hard to save people and kill as many Honkai Beasts as they can, but unfortunately, the Honkai Beasts keep spawning as long as the Honkai energy in the city remains high.
Luckily, Mei can control her own Honkai energy, keeping it from leaking out of her body and using it only for her lightning-fast movements.
Up in the sky, Kiana stands in the air, looking down at the entire city from her height.
"I think this is enough. Do you think it's enough, Sora?" she says.
"[Probably a little bit more. Just keep absorbing as much as you can,]" Sora's voice echoes inside her head as Kiana's left arm moves, controlled by Sora, to attack another Seraph Honkai Beast.
"It's taking too long! Too many people are losing their lives if we keep this up!" Kiana says, watching from above. Even though Mei and her old man are doing their best, it's basically impossible for just the two of them to cover this massive city.
And then there's Yuna. Kiana's really worried about her since they lost contact after the explosion. They need to find her fast.
"[Well, you can use it right now, but with the city's size and area, we can only hold it for half an hour at most,]" Sora says.
"I think that's fine. Reina said to wait for her until she comes back, so half an hour is definitely enough," Kiana replies.
After saying that, she stops absorbing the Honkai energy she's been gathering for the last three minutes.
Her body is now brimming with so much Honkai energy that she unleashes her full power. A bright yellow energy forms behind her back, along with glowing wings of energy.
Her bright yellow eyes scan the entire city as she creates a barrier to keep the Seraph Honkai Beasts from interrupting her.
She couldn't make a void barrier earlier because it would've blocked her from absorbing the Honkai energy around the city.
Raising her right arm upward in front of her, she says, "Let's do it, Sora!"
"[Just don't hold me back,]" Sora replies.
From the top of Kiana's palm, a yellow cube with a dark center appears, floating in the air.
"Make it as big as I can to cover the entire city," she murmurs to herself.
"Charge: Void Unleashed," she says, guiding the cube as she raises her right arm higher into the sky. The cube drifts upward, floating higher and higher passing the barrier Kiana created.
"[Good, just leave the rest to me,]" Sora says.
Kiana lets Sora take control of her body. With Sora in charge, the void power flows better. Then, with a flick of her fingers-
"Dimension Create..." Sora's low, echoing voice rings out as the cube begins to activate.
The cube glowed brightly its light spreading from high in the sky enveloping all of Nagazora City.
Mei and Siegfried noticed it looking up toward the source. Mei recognized Kiana's power instantly her eyes widening. Siegfried felt the Herrscher of Void's energy pulsing through the air knowing Kiana was doing something big.
"Now let's switch the location shall we~" Sora smirked her voice echoing in Kiana's body as the cube grew larger.
It expanded bigger and bigger until it covered the entire city inside its glowing walls. Every Honkai beast vanished along with the Honkai energy. The people infected with Honkai radiation turning into zombies disappeared too.
Mei vanished with them her lightning fading in a flash. But Sora left Siegfried behind not wanting him in the mix.
Sora had created a pocket dimension a perfect copy of Nagazora City. She pulled every Honkai beast and infected person into it leaving the uninfected safe from zombies and beasts.
"They disappeared!?" Siegfried stood alone looking around. No more Honkai beasts were in sight even though they kept spawning before. He'd kill one but five more would appear. Now everything was silent. The people stopped running looking around confused.
It felt peaceful again like nothing happened except for the ruined buildings around them.
Bzzt Bzzt Bzzt Siegfried's communicator vibrated. He answered it quickly.
"What happened over there? We can't detect any Honkai energy suddenly!" A girl's voice came through filled with confusion.
"I don't know either..." Siegfried said glancing toward where the cube's light had shone. "But it's probably gonna be fine."
"What do you mean it's gonna be fine!? I sent multiple mechs to the city and now it's suddenly fine?" the voice shouted.
Sighing Siegfried knew dealing with Tesla would be a pain. "I'm gonna tell you what happened later. See ya" he said cutting off the call.
"Wait Siegfried!" Tesla's voice faded as he ended it.
He put the communicator away and went back to searching for people trapped in the city.
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"[I didn't expect this. She managed to bring every single Honkai beast here without bringing the others]" Mei's other personality said clearly amazed that Sora and Kiana created a pocket dimension and selectively pulled only Honkai beasts and infected people into it.
"Well that's just Kiana. She's been working hard to learn this" Mei said with a smile before vanishing from her spot.
With no normal people around to help they could focus on Honkai beasts and wait for Reina to return.
But for now Mei needed to check on Kiana. Using a pocket dimension this big would definitely drain her.
Seconds later Mei soared high in the sky appearing beside Kiana.
"Kiana are you okay? You can rest if you're tired... Oh you're Sora? Sorry I thought you were Kiana" Mei said. At first she thought it was Kiana but up close she noticed Sora's different expression.
"This is bad..." Sora muttered suddenly.
"What? What did you just say?" Mei asked confused.
"Kiana you can feel that right?" Sora asked.
"[Definitely... Well it's expected with how much Honkai energy is in the city]" Kiana replied.
"[Let me take over for this one]" Kiana said to Sora.
Without answering Sora switched letting Kiana take control of the body.
"Kiana is that you now? What were you two talking about?" Mei asked noticing Kiana was back.
"Well..." Kiana said pointing toward the direction of Nagazora's mall.
Suddenly an earthquake shook the entire city. The already ruined tall buildings collapsed under the force sending clouds of smoke and dust across the pocket dimension.
"What happened?" Mei asked shocked.
Rumble! Crash!
Mei and Kiana heard the sound of destruction echoing from the distance as the earthquake shook the pocket dimension. Buildings crumbled sending more dust into the air.
Suddenly the Nagazora Mall exploded. Something massive burst out from its center. Giant green stems twisted around each other shooting high into the sky. Thick roots spread from the base crawling across the mall's ruins.
It was enormous almost as tall as the ME Corp building. Kiana and Mei stared their eyes wide. They could feel intense Honkai energy radiating from it.
Mei gripped Yamato her pink eyes narrowing. "What is that thing?" she whispered ready to move.
On top of the stems a massive flower bud sat unbloomed as the shaking stopped leaving the giant plant towering over the pocket dimension.
"[Huh that's new]" Sora said seeing the strange sight.
"It is. I've never seen that before. Good thing we're not in the real city anymore or that earthquake would've caused more deaths…" Kiana said looking down at the ruined city below.
"What should we do about that? I can feel the Honkai energy being sucked into that giant flower" Mei asked Kiana.
"Well what else? We need to destroy it before it finishes whatever it's doing" Kiana replied.
She summoned her guns gripping them tightly. But then she frowned. "I don't have much energy left… Creating this pocket dimension drained me. I'll support you Mei" she said to Mei beside her.
"Thanks. I'll focus on the big flower. You handle the Honkai beasts" Mei said.
Lightning sparked around Mei's body as she powered up. She unsheathed Yamato its purple blade gleaming. With a glance at Kiana she nodded ready to go.
"Alright let's go!" Kiana shouted.
They moved from their spot Mei leading the charge and Kiana covering her back.
The Honkai beasts below noticed them moving. But only the Seraph-class could fly. The others like Chariot-class were stuck on the ground unable to reach them.
Mei flew forward her lightning trailing as she charged toward the giant flower stems. Kiana ran behind her guns blazing as she shot down Seraph-class Honkai beasts their twisted wings crumbling.
The beasts swarmed trying to block Mei's path. She dodged their claws her pink eyes locked on the massive stems ahead.
The stems looked thick and tough nearly impossible to cut. Mei felt a flicker of worry wondering if her attack could even dent them.
"[Don't doubt yourself Mei. Just do it. Believe in Yamato. Reina gave it to you for a reason]" her other personality said pushing her forward.
Yamato responded its energy syncing with Mei's Honkai power. Lightning surged stronger and the uchigatana glowed brighter wrapped in a blazing aura of Herrscher of Thunder power.
Mei gripped the sword tighter her confidence surging. She was ready to strike the giant stems and slice them in half.
In a burst of lightning Mei moved so fast Kiana only saw a streak of red light. Mei vanished from sight too quick for even Kiana to track.
"Tsukuyomi's…" Mei murmured as she closed in on the giant stems unsheathing Yamato its blade blazing with power.
"Flash!" she shouted.
Mei moved like a red lightning bolt her Herrscher of Thunder power surging through Yamato. She slashed the giant stems in one swift motion. Nothing happened at first the massive plant standing still.
Then Mei appeared on the other side her pink eyes glowing. She sheathed Yamato with a calm click.
Red lightning erupted along the stems slicing deep into them. Sparks flashed across the cuts as the giant plant shuddered. The intense slash sent shockwaves through the pocket dimension the ground trembling as green debris fell from the wounds.
Mei stood steady catching her breath her lightning fading as she watched the giant flower trembling in the aftermath.