Encouraged by Bronya's leading by example, the new recruits burst out with unprecedented strong fighting spirit. However, the enemies were simply too many. After a fierce life-and-death struggle, although they finally won, nearly half of their personnel were lost.
Bronya was completely bloodshot in the eyes. Seeing a squad of Everwinter Shades fleeing in panic, she didn't hesitate to chase after them with her gun.
Eighteen subordinates whose hands and feet were still fairly intact also resolutely followed in Bronya's steps.
But the principle of "do not pursue a cornered enemy" applies everywhere. Bronya and her group, advancing deep alone, quickly fell into heavy encirclement.
Although their morale was high and their small cosmos fully erupted, this was not a hot-blooded shounen manga.
Even when they fought until ammunition and supplies were exhausted, enemies still kept pouring in endlessly from all directions.
"Retreat quickly, whoever can live counts as one!" Bronya made a snap decision, ordering her subordinates to form a spearhead formation, with herself as the tip, and began breaking through toward the enemy's flank.
This wave of enemies was weaker in combat strength, but Bronya and her group's stamina was severely depleted.
Added to the long time spent in the icy snow, hypothermia had already appeared. Although they luckily broke through, only nine comrades were left.
Regretful tears kept welling up, quickly freezing into frost at the corners of her eyes. Bronya bit her lips tightly, firmly charging at the very front. She had to at least bring the rest back, and then kneel down and apologize properly.
Maybe it was because of excessive overdraft, maybe because the frost blurred her vision, Bronya lost balance going downhill and kept tumbling down.
By coincidence, a rift monster wielding a sharp blade happened to be right in Bronya's rolling path.
"Watch out!" The soldier closest to Bronya pounced forward without hesitation, trying to use his own body to block the fatal strike for Bronya.
Zzzt!
Suddenly, a purple lightning bolt tore through the snowstorm, smashing the rift monster into pieces. Acheron rushed into the encircling rift monsters together with Vera.
"Hey, are you still alive!" Emiya pulled Bronya out from the snow pile. Seeing her eyes rolled white, on the verge of collapse, he frowned tightly.
Losing consciousness in the icy snow was more dangerous than being wounded. Not daring to hesitate too much, Emiya covered his hand with mana and quickly slapped Bronya twice across the cheeks, making her pale little face instantly flush red.
Actually, simply putting his hand on Bronya's face and releasing mana could have achieved the same effect.
But touching the face of a girl he just met would more easily cause misunderstanding. Direct slaps were better. And slaps came with true damage, making one even more awake.
"What are you doing!"
Covering her now swollen face, Bronya sucked in a sharp breath of pain. Instinctively she wanted to fight back, but when her gaze met Emiya's clear eyes and she felt his firm, warm embrace, Bronya had the strange sense she had forgotten something.
'Eh, wasn't I being chased by countless rift monsters? Where did this man pop out from?'
'Could it be I'm already dead? But then why can I still feel pain?'
"No good, her consciousness still isn't clear. Looks like I need to use more strength."
Emiya helplessly shook his head, raised his hand, and prepared to slap Bronya twice more to try rescuing her. Fortunately, three Silvermane Guards reacted in time and tightly grabbed his hand.
The other Silvermane Guards all drew their weapons, glaring at Emiya with hostility. If it weren't for Acheron and Vera killing rift monsters at such a terrifying speed, the Guards would have already rushed over to beat Emiya up.
"Fine, actually in my hometown, this method is especially effective for patients who are unconscious." Emiya awkwardly scratched his head.
"By the way, where are you from? Why are you here, did you come sightseeing?"
"Eh? You actually don't even know about the Silvermane Guards?" The Guards were dumbfounded.
"To tell the truth, you might not believe it, but we are actually aliens. When we happened to pass by this planet, we crash-landed."
Time goes back three years. Although the Stellaron Hunter incident was extremely dangerous, luckily the three of Emiya survived unscathed.
Vera not only obtained an upgraded Godslaying Spear, but also picked up a Stellaron.
The conditions for space jump were fulfilled. The three were transported by the system into the Honkai Universe.
Because it was the first Guardian, the energy required was very little. So Emiya and the others' destination was a planet still in the cold weapons era, and the monsters that needed to be hunted was very weak. Vera casually knocked it dead with a swing of the Godslaying Spear.
The task was completed too quickly, so the three suddenly had free time. Acheron and Vera went roaming every day, sightseeing and eating delicacies. Emiya instead spent big money to find a pancake master to learn how to make cakes.
This pancake master was called Danny. He was very short and not handsome. People often jokingly called him "three-inch Ding, valley tree bark."
Yet such Danny had a famously beautiful wife within ten miles around, thanks entirely to his unrivaled pancake-making skill.
Although Danny only sold pancakes, his attainments in pastries were very high. With Emiya's avant-garde knowledge guiding him, he quickly developed dozens, even hundreds, of new pastries.
The two, as both teacher and friend, got up early each day to sell pancakes together, returned late under the stars to research pastry knowledge together, living a flavorful life.
Once a man's vision broadens, his heart also broadens. So later, when Danny's wife betrayed him, he did not show much heartbreak. He even brought Emiya along to give the green turtle cakes as a gift.
In less than three years, Danny became the richest gentleman for ten miles around. Danny's strong and fierce younger brother, persuaded by Emiya, also returned home to enjoy peace. Only then did Emiya feel satisfied and leave the Honkai world.
Perhaps because the newbie protection period was over, this time when jumping back to the Aeon Universe, Emiya, Acheron, and Vera, together with the newly born Guardian Zoe, were directly thrown into the vast snow.
The system only briefly explained the history of Jarilo VI and then ignored Emiya again.
Emiya, Acheron, and Vera didn't mind. Their resistance to extreme cold was abnormally strong. But Zoe couldn't withstand such a harsh environment.
The first born Guardian Zoe had long pink hair down to her knees and big lively blue eyes, practically a beauty embryo. But this beauty less than 1.3 meters tall needed an extremely long time to grow up.
Zoe not only looked weak, but her constitution, compared to Guardians, was also frail and delicate.
The first Guardian was already weak, and the Stellaron that created her had been drained too much energy by Vera, causing Zoe's physique to not even surpass ordinary humans by much.
Helpless, the four could only dig a cave nearby in the snowy mountains, waiting for Zoe to make anti-cold potions before seeking this planet's only human city, Belobog.
Things happened just like that. In order to catch fluffy pet snow wolves, the three of Emiya crossed more than a dozen mountains. As a result, Bronya's group also happened to be chased here.
Emiya took out the tiger skin Danny's brother had forced into his hands before departure, tightly wrapped Bronya in it, carried her on his shoulder, and while leading the Silvermane Guards to his camp, he leisurely told the background story he had prepared.
"Our homeland of four siblings was completely destroyed by the Antimatter Legion. When escaping near this planet, we were even attacked by especially huge terrifying monsters…"
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