The knight's lance 'Baihua', shaped like a cone formed from folded petals, glowed with a faint white light from its sharp silver cone under the surge of Honkai energy...
The faint white brilliance spread like watercolor on paper, and in just a few seconds, Shigure Kira's body was enveloped in white light....
"Heh!~" Shigure Kira gently raised the slender, silvery-white one-handed knight's lance in her left hand. Bathed in a brilliant white light, Kira looked like a celestial being.
She elegantly brandished the knight's lance 'Baihua', her movements slow and gentle, as she tapped the tip of the lance on the 'Judah's Oath' in front of Theresa...
Like a sharp needle piercing a balloon, the air suddenly hitched, and then a loud "**BANG!**" erupted... The power, completely concentrated at the tip of the lance, exploded from a single point without reservation...
"Lingering Fragrance..." Theresa grimaced and muttered with a forced smile... As expected... even though she was controlled by Honkai energy, the combat memories stored in her body remained... Theresa recognized this move, 'Lingering Fragrance'... after all, 'she' was the one who created it...
Theresa took the hit from Shigure Kira's 'Lingering Fragrance'. Her small body trembled with a continuous 'crack, crack...' of her bones shaking, but she still held firm behind 'Judah's Oath'.
After taking the 'Lingering Fragrance' attack, Theresa felt that she was in very bad shape. Also, for some unknown reason... her feet had been unknowingly frozen into the solid ice on the ground.
Moreover, the attack just now from 'Shigure Kira' was no less powerful than an attack from a true S-Rank Valkyrie...
A trickle of scarlet blood ran from the corner of Theresa's mouth. She was certain her internal organs had been damaged by the shock... This was a testament to Theresa's strong constitution. If it were an ordinary person... they would have been turned into meat paste...
"Not good! All units, attack the target and rescue Principal Theresa!" Murata Himeko became anxious seeing Theresa get injured at the first exchange... She hadn't expected this encounter to be so troublesome...
"I can't, Himeko, I can't move... I can't free my hands..." Kiana cried out helplessly, continuously firing at the ice needles that were automatically forming in mid-air and shooting towards them......
The moment they poked their heads out from under Bronya's shield, they would be hit by an attack like a downpour,
"Damn it!..." Himeko gritted her teeth, continuously swinging her Sunfire Greatsword to shatter the ice fragments flying at her. Risking getting hit by a few ice needles, she slowly took a few steps...
"Major Himeko, I can block the ice needles for a while... you guys can attack during that time." Li Xuan said, watching Theresa struggling to hold her ground with the golden cross, unable to fight back...
The small loli figure pressing against 'Judah's Oath' looked lonely and helpless...
'A real man can't hide behind a little loli... would that even be human?' Li Xuan, who firmly insisted he was not a lolicon, couldn't help but jump out and volunteer to be a human shield...
"Then I'll leave it to you..." Himeko couldn't help but take a few more glances at Li Xuan. The slight sense of distance she felt due to his unknown identity had dissipated quite a bit...
"Then get ready..." Li Xuan gritted his teeth and shouted to Himeko. The little Honkai energy he had in his body began to circulate rapidly. To strengthen the shield of his 'Xuanyuan Festive Garb', Li Xuan released the pure Honkai energy from his body, allowing the garb to absorb and convert it into a shield...
A shimmering golden-azure shield, like an eggshell, appeared in front of Li Xuan. The tangible energy shield could steadily block the ice needles' attacks even without Yae Sakura's help...
"Xuan-kun, let me go..." Yae Sakura said worriedly, holding Li Xuan's hand. If it were her, she was confident she could charge through the ice needles and bring Theresa back, although she might get injured...
"No... you don't have to act until I'm down..." Li Xuan patted Yae Sakura's hair and said with a somewhat stiff smile, "How can a guy always hide behind a girl..."
"...Why?..." Yae Sakura was a little confused...
"Himeko, get ready!..." Li Xuan decisively braced himself and charged into the swarm of ice needles. He shouted hoarsely to Himeko behind him. He had to be quick... he was afraid the courage he had just mustered would disappear...
The ice needles pelted his shield like raindrops on an umbrella in a storm... A continuous 'pitter-patter' of shattering sounds echoed as the shield's color grew fainter... a pile of shattered ice dust accumulated in front of Li Xuan...
"Kiana, Bronya, full power!" Himeko, following behind Li Xuan, shouted. She gritted her teeth, watching Principal Theresa being suppressed by 'Shigure Kira', and ferociously threw her Sunfire Greatsword like a javelin straight at 'Shigure Kira'...
"Roger.... Project Bunny 19C cannon charging complete... Fire!" The mecha hovering behind Bronya raised its giant left cannon, its muzzle glowing with an orange-red light... The next moment, an orange-red beam of light shot out...
"Gungnir..." Kiana gritted her teeth, concentrating all her strength to form a Valkyrie heavy cannon in front of her. The cannon's white casing opened with a mechanical whir... revealing a golden barrel within...
"Fire!" A golden energy beam shot out from the cannon's golden muzzle like a flashing meteor, heading straight for 'Shigure Kira'...
"**Roar roar!!**" Instinctively sensing danger, 'Shigure Kira' let out a roar and raised the black sword in her right hand... A jet-black light spread from 'Heiyuan' to cover her entire body...
"Faint... Aroma..." As time passed... the 'Honkai personality' controlling 'Shigure Kira' seemed to be growing clearer. She opened her mouth, and this time, instead of roaring like a beast, she spoke intermittently.
In an instant, an endless tide of black sword light erupted... The sword light, released from the [Holy Relic] 'Heiyuan'... planned to meet the full-power attacks of Himeko, Kiana, and the others head-on, without any tricks...
"**Clang!~**" The Sunfire Greatsword, weighing no less than 100 jin, was the first to make contact with the black sword light... The greatsword only dissipated a small amount of the black light before being flung aside like a stone hitting a wall. The two-meter-long blade spun and embedded itself in the ground...
The piercing black sword light, meeting no further resistance, collided with the beams of light released by Bronya and Kiana at full power...
It was like a moth to a flame, plunging in without hesitation.
(End of Chapter)