"…" Cocolia sat quietly before the large screen in the command room, her eyes closed in meditation. After staring at the screen for so long, she was a bit tired.
Besides…
Rumble… rumble… The screen echoed with a synchronized roar, mixed with the sound of collapsing rubble and houses. This was the sound of the Titan Mechas, now in Berserk state, rampaging through Nagazora City…
In fact, it wasn't just the 'Berserk Titan' that had a Berserk mode; every mecha developed by Anti-Entropy could enter a Berserk state. The difference between a regular Titan Mecha and a 'Berserk Titan' was the 'materials.'
Unlike the 'Berserk Titan', which was always in a Berserk state, whenever a regular Titan Mecha entered the 'Berserk' state to enhance all its capabilities, it also continuously shortened its own operational lifespan. In other words, any mecha that activated its 'Berserk' state was essentially destined for the scrap heap after deactivating it…
This was because entering the 'Berserk' state required the mecha's Honkai energy to operate at a high intensity, which was a double-edged sword for the body of a Titan Mecha made from ordinary materials. It hurt the enemy, but it also hurt itself… After all, Honkai energy corrodes ordinary materials. For a precision weapon like a Titan Mecha, losing even a single part would diminish its combat effectiveness.
"…" Cocolia opened her eyes and looked at the screen with a sigh. On it, the Titan Mechas were relentlessly pursuing a pink-haired girl who was hopping around like a rabbit, making her impossible to catch.
"Report!" a subordinate's voice suddenly called from behind her.
"What is it…" Cocolia turned her head in confusion to look at her subordinate, Xiyue.
"Commander! According to a report from our frontline observers…" Xiyue said with a grave expression, her face slightly panicked. "Schicksal has dispatched the A-Rank Valkyrie—'Murata Himeko'!"
"…" Cocolia's face darkened. As old rivals who had clashed many times, both openly and covertly, she certainly knew of Murata Himeko, the super-strong Valkyrie known as the 'Blade of the Hyperion'… Although she was only an A-Rank Valkyrie, her combat power… if it weren't for her lack of innate talent, she would have likely become an S-Rank Valkyrie long ago.
"Send another squad of Titan Mechas to intercept…" Cocolia said without expression.
"But… that won't be enough to stop her. At best, it will only delay her…"
"I know… I just need to buy some time."
"Yes, Commander!" Having received Cocolia's clear orders, Xiyue saluted, turned, and left to notify the subordinate departments.
"Sigh~" After a long while, a faint sigh echoed through the command room, only to be instantly drowned out by the surrounding clamor.
"…Here goes nothing!" After a short rest, Li Xuan's powerful physique had allowed him to recover a bit of his strength. At least he could stand up now.
He hadn't expected that overdrawing his Honkai energy would leave him so exhausted… Otherwise, he wouldn't have pushed himself to unleash his internal Honkai energy so desperately. The feeling was something he would never forget… even worse than being completely drained.
"I hope I get a weapon that can help… preferably a weapon…" Li Xuan muttered to himself, his expression grave as he fed his last two hundred and eighty crystals into the mirror-like Gate of Vows.
After consuming the Honkai Crystals, the Gate of Vows waited for a moment before its body began to tremble slightly. The patterns and runes on the Gate of Vows seemed to come alive, shimmering with a golden light.
The next moment, a beam of light burst forth from the Gate of Vows!
"Ah… it's purple…" Li Xuan said dejectedly, looking at the light before him. Although the light was dazzling, his right golden eye could still look at it directly, so he could clearly see the purple glow from the Gate of Vows.
The light slowly faded, revealing the equipment on the Gate of Vows.
As long as it's a weapon that can break through the mechas' armor, I won't be picky… Li Xuan prayed silently…
"…An emblem…" Li Xuan, now able to see the item on the Gate of Vows, murmured in disappointment. At any other time, he would have been happy, but without a weapon that could destroy the Titan Mecha's armor, no emblem or skill would be of any use…
"Sigh~" Li Xuan sighed in disappointment and grabbed the emblem from the Gate of Vows. It was crafted as if from silver, with two pairs of angel-like wings on its sides.
The moment his right hand touched the emblem, a stream of information instantly exploded in his mind…
"This, this is…" Li Xuan read the information in his mind, staring at the emblem in his hand in shock…
The name of the emblem was—'Gale Arts (High Tier)'!
At this moment, inside a Schicksal transport airship, Murata Himeko sat with a greatsword resting in her hands. It was the culmination of all current human wisdom—the god-slaying weapon 'Sunfire Greatsword'.
Suddenly, the airship came to an abrupt halt… nearly sending Himeko tumbling from her seat.
"Apologies, Major Himeko!" the pilot said, turning to Himeko apologetically.
"What's wrong?…" Himeko looked quizzically at the petite girl before her, and at the nameplate on her chest. "Yuri…?"
"Yes, Major, I'm Yuri!" The girl named Yuri seemed excited that the commander before her had remembered her name, but then a worried look appeared on her face. "Actually, Major Himeko… there are Anti-Entropy mechas ahead, blocking our path with artillery fire. The air, the airship can't get through…"
"Is that so…" Himeko said with a smile. She picked up the greatsword from her lap, stood up, and walked to the cabin door.
"Then this is where I get off…" Himeko turned her head and said teasingly to the small, cute girl, "Goodbye, my sweetheart~"
Pssh!~ The hatch of the airship, still high in the sky, was manually opened. As Yuri stared in a daze, Murata Himeko, clad in her Valkyrie armor, made a stylish leap out.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh~ The wind howled past Himeko's ears. She felt as if she could reach out and touch the white clouds. The ground below grew steadily closer in her vision.
"Here we are!" Himeko said softly. Her Valkyrie armor, 'Integration Core: Crimson', suddenly emitted a "pfft pfft!~" sound as jets of white air shot out from various parts of the armor, directly slowing her descent.
BOOM! With a thunderous roar, a crimson figure plummeted from the sky and slammed into the ground, instantly creating a large crater and sending rubble flying…
"Alright… come on, you Anti-Entropy scumbags!" A curvaceous figure slowly emerged from the dust. Murata Himeko, holding a greatsword with a blade that seemed to flow with molten magma, stared at the deep blue mechas in the distance with contempt.
The heat from the 'Sunfire Greatsword' caused the green grass at her feet to wither instantly. The greatsword, seemingly imbued with the aura of the Grim Reaper, was terrifying.
And Murata Himeko, wielding the greatsword, looked like a Valkyrie stepping out of a myth…