The Honkai Beast, awakened from beneath the frozen earth, felt Honkai energy begin to circulate within its revitalized body. The once-dim spikes protruding from its body were now illuminated one by one by the vast circulating Honkai energy, lighting up the sharp edges where Honkai energy crystals and its shell met...
Standing on the Honkai Beast's head, 'Shigure Kira', whose mind was now linked with the beast, controlled it to prepare an attack... A giant claw, gleaming with a metallic silver luster, slammed down viciously towards the sakura-colored figure...
Yae Sakura's charging steps came to a sudden halt as she leaped into the air... The next moment, the silver claw slammed into the ground with a loud "BANG!!", sending up a thick shower of ice shards and scattering debris...
"Ha!~" This is the feeling.... The slight breeze from her jump and the fierce wind from the giant claw in front of her swept up Yae Sakura's long sakura-colored hair, strands of it dancing in the wind...
"Aaargh!...." As Yae Sakura descended from mid-air, she landed right on the Honkai Beast's giant claw. Wielding 'Danying', she ran up the claw towards the beast's head, her golden, slitted pupils shining brightly...
A faint pink glow flickered on the katana named 'Danying'. If Li Xuan were here to see this... he would definitely question his worldview again... because that was clearly the legendary 'sword qi'!
"Roar!!" The Honkai Beast suddenly opened its giant ice-blue mouth and roared. Shigure Kira, standing on its head, also anticipated Yae Sakura's intentions... Her opponent was going to attack her.
The giant ice beast had actually died during the Second Honkai War, killed by Shigure Kira's own hands. However, because its body had been perfectly preserved, frozen in ice, coupled with the ability of the Holy Relic [Abyss Flower] to reverse life and death, the Honkai Beast was resurrected. If Shigure Kira herself were injured, the Honkai energy could not be converted into life force through her hands, and the Honkai Beast would just become a corpse again...
"Bang, bang!!" The ice beast raised its other giant claw and slammed it down on Yae Sakura, who was rapidly approaching its head... It would not let her get close...
"..." Unable to dodge in time, Yae Sakura raised 'Danying'. The Honkai energy in her body was compressed by the 'Familiar Core' and sent into 'Danying'. A pink light rapidly formed a crescent-shaped glow on the blade...
'Wildflower Rupture!' From a village 500 years ago... the ultimate technique of the Yae family, who were both shrine maidens serving the gods and guardians of the village, was now revealed to the world once more...
The Honkai energy from Yae Sakura's body dissipated outwards, the pink energy twisting under some kind of will, transforming into sakura petals... They were petals made entirely of energy, seemingly tangible yet incredibly sharp.... Countless petals swirled, fluttering around 'Danying'...
Then... Yae Sakura thrust forward with all her might towards the giant claw that was descending like Mount Tai... As 'Danying' thrust out, sakura petals danced, gracefully meeting the attack...
"Boom!!" The glowing katana and the giant claw collided. The giant claw, weighing over 100 kilograms, was halted in its descent by Yae Sakura's attack. A dazzling light exploded from beneath the claw...
"Cough, cough..." Yae Sakura absorbed the immense force transmitted to her body in mid-air and landed steadily on the snow in a crouch... The shockwave from the energy explosion made her cough a few times... 'Is it still not enough on my own?…'
"Kiana! Bronya! Attack the Honkai Beast's head as much as you can! And cover for Mei!..." Theresa shouted as she forcefully threw the cross in her hand. "Target! Shigure Kira!"
'Judah's Oath' plunged into the ground unimpeded. Theresa wielded a Spear of Light and threw it, but the golden spear was casually swatted away by the Honkai Beast's claw... The Spear of Light didn't hit the beast, as its claws were almost entirely covered in silver and black shells...
Although 'Judah's Oath' possessed the power of restraint... that was contingent on being able to pierce the shell... While the grayish shell of an ordinary Honkai Beast couldn't withstand the Spear of Light, this beast's claw shell seemed to be made entirely of metal, so much so that even a strike from the Spear of Light couldn't break through...
"Major Himeko! I don't care what you do!... Just hold down that thing's left claw!" Theresa said in a commanding tone. Having witnessed Yae Sakura's swordsmanship, which was even faster than Mei's, she already had an idea...
"Yeah, yeah... you're the boss here..." Himeko said nonchalantly, a wild smile on her lips. "I guess I'll just have to risk my old life today...."
"Mei! Do your best to attract the Honkai Beast's attention..." Theresa, having been through countless battles, made a simple strategic deployment, giving everyone their tasks...
"Yae Sakura... I'm counting on you for Shigure Kira..." Theresa, walking towards the Honkai Beast with Himeko, patted Yae Sakura's shoulder and said softly, "I can only create one chance for you..."
"Get ready! The operation starts now!" Theresa charged towards the Honkai Beast's right claw, wielding a Spear of Light. Opposite her, Himeko dragged her heavy Sunfire Greatsword, the tip of the sword leaving a deep scar in the snow...
"Roar!... Thud!!" The dragon-like Honkai Beast slammed its huge, ferocious head into the ground like a hammer, sending shockwaves radiating out from beneath it...
"Damn it..." Himeko and Theresa, caught by the sudden shockwave, had no choice but to lower themselves, steadying themselves on the ground to keep from falling...
"Bang, bang!!" Slender, orange-red laser beams and bullets with various 'special functions' exploded on the Honkai Beast's head... especially the white-haired furball's bullets... Who knows what arms dealer she bought them from, but they came with all sorts of effects... Upon impact, some bullets exploded like grenades, some instantly froze into ice... and some even turned into a pool of black, unknown liquid on contact...
"Roar!!" The Honkai Beast, completely fed up with the incessant harassment from the devious attacks of modern 'technology', finally raised its head... One moment it was lasers, the next it was exploding bullets... Even if the Honkai Beast's hard shell could withstand it... 'Shigure Kira' had no way to block them...
Helpless, the Honkai Beast raised its head again to create distance from the long-range attackers Bronya and Kiana, preventing them from getting a clear shot at 'Shigure Kira'...
"Auntie Himeko, hurry up!" Theresa deliberately shouted. She had already seen a crack in the eggshell... 'As I thought, it's not completely covered in shell…'
"You damn old hag! I'm at least 10 years younger than you!" Himeko's face flushed red as she furiously lifted the Sunfire Greatsword in her hands. The two-meter-long blade slashed down viciously at the Honkai Beast's left claw...
"Clang!" As expected, Himeko's Sunfire Greatsword didn't cut through the shell of the Honkai Beast's claw, leaving only a shallow white mark on it... and using gravity to press the claw to the ground...
"Aaargh!!" Himeko forcefully lifted the Sunfire Greatsword again, shouting loudly... The full power of an A-Rank Valkyrie was on display at this moment. Before the Honkai Beast could lift its claw, she aimed the sharp tip of the Sunfire Greatsword at the gap between the scale-like shells and thrust down with all her might...
The sharp Sunfire Greatsword pierced through the soft flesh under the claw's shell along the gap between the scales... The greatsword acted like a nail, pinning the claw firmly to the ground...
The greatsword had also accidentally shattered a few of the weaker scales at the edge of the shell...
"Roar!!" The Honkai Beast roared in fury, but there was nothing it could do... It couldn't pull its claw out... After all, a claw isn't a hand, and it didn't dare lower its head to bite, with two people on the other side ready to take cheap shots...
"Heh!!" Theresa let out a soft, somewhat cute-sounding shout. The Spear of Light in her hand and the other eleven Spears of Light from 'Judah's Oath' behind her fanned out like a peacock's tail. This time, the Spears of Light didn't miss. All of them deviously stabbed into the gaps between the scale-like armor...
The result was obvious... The Honkai Beast's right claw was in an even more miserable state than its left... pinned to the ground by twelve Spears of Light... If the Honkai Beast could still feel pain, it would probably be crying out...
"Roar!!" The Honkai Beast seemed to have been angered by the attacks of these 'mortals'. It opened its large, ice-blue mouth towards the group... The blade-like ice-blue Honkai energy crystals on the sides of its head and the ice-blue Honkai energy crystals on its body began to glow... with a green light...
"Not good.... Mei! Get its attention! Be careful!" Theresa, pressing down hard on the Honkai Beast's right claw, turned her head and shouted to Mei, who was not far behind her... She had a feeling what was about to happen...
"Okay, Principal Theresa..." Mei said loudly, looking at the behemoth's body...
The body of the ice-dragon-like Honkai Beast began to glow with green light... Even the original ice-blue crystals on its body, and the washbasin-sized Honkai energy crystal on its head with the remains of a longsword stuck in it, began to glow green...
A shocking scene unfolded before them... In front of the Honkai Beast's ice-blue mouth... a huge amount of Honkai energy gathered, forming an energy orb... just like the attack a dragon from Western mythology was about to unleash... Dragon's Breath.
The next moment, the Honkai Beast's mouth aimed at Theresa and Himeko, and the energy orb turned into an ice-blue laser beam, shooting straight towards its own helplessly trapped claws...
"...Ha!" Mei forcefully threw the Prototype Pulse Tachi in her hand, a standard-issue weapon at St. Freya High School... The tachi flew in an arc... and managed to block the path of the laser beam...
Although the tachi was instantly turned into scrap metal by the Honkai Beast's breath, it managed to attract its attention, causing its head to inadvertently lift slightly in Mei's direction...
"..." Theresa and Himeko looked at the ground behind them, which had been turned into a molten mess by the laser... Cold sweat dripped down their backs. It was the fear of a close brush with death...
"Now's the time! Go, Yae Sakura!" Theresa suppressed the lingering fear from her brush with death, shouting to the person behind her with slightly teary eyes... If this didn't work... then they could all just die...
"Mm..." Yae Sakura, who was holding 'Danying' and had already adjusted herself to her peak state, suddenly opened her golden eyes. Her figure instantly disappeared from its original spot... her speed had reached its absolute limit.
A sakura-like figure rushed towards the Honkai Beast like a gust of wind... her high-speed movement even kicking up ice and stone fragments.
"Hey.... don't step on my head!" Himeko cried out in exasperation... Yae Sakura had silently leaped high into the air, using Himeko's right shoulder and head as a springboard to launch herself to the end of the giant claw... which was the Honkai Beast's head... and the source of everything.
'Honkai Beasts are so big...' Such random thoughts would always pop into Yae Sakura's mind... Every time she faced a body so much larger than a human's, she felt like she was facing the heavens and the earth... It was a feeling of powerlessness...
But... she couldn't lose... 500 years ago, she lost once... and lost everything... This time, even if she had to risk her life, she would not lose...
On the blade of 'Danying', the sakura-colored tachi, countless sakura petals swirled... The 'Familiar Core' absorbed all the surrounding Honkai energy at maximum output... creating a Honkai energy vacuum within a two-meter radius of Yae Sakura...
Yae Sakura could already see the woman standing on the Honkai Beast. Her golden eyes met hers without fear... Her cherry-like lips moved, and she spoke softly, word by word...
"With this strike, let's settle this!"
From bottom to top, a scarlet light shone...
(End of this chapter)