At the critical moment, Blade, who had been offline for a long time, finally rushed to the battlefield. Together with another fully armed heavy-armored warrior, he forcefully blocked the attack of the Godslaying Spear.
Not far away, a scantily dressed female archer pulled her longbow into a full moon. The arrow shot out with dazzling light, like lightning, straight toward the Godslaying Spear.
Zzzt! Zzzt!
As the arrow traveled, its power kept climbing higher and higher. Even space itself seemed unable to withstand such destructive force, splitting open with cracks flashing with thunder.
"Come back."
Vera sensed that arrow was extraordinary and immediately reached out to summon the Godslaying Spear back.
But Kemp suddenly darted out from who knows where, tightly hugging the Godslaying Spear for just an instant. And in that instant of delay, the arrow finally struck the Godslaying Spear.
BOOM!
Rumble! Rumble!
The arrow kept pushing the Godslaying Spear forward nonstop, until it crashed straight into one of the satellites.
The terrifying explosion swept out violent gales in all directions. An entire satellite was actually blown to pieces in this attack. The arrow's power was terrifying to such an extent.
At the same time, two fully armed battleships, each over 500 meters long, finally arrived at the battlefield's edge.
Countless black cannon muzzles aimed at the skeleton army and opened fire. In an instant, smoke and flames filled the air, and the skeleton army's numbers began to shrink rapidly.
"You restrain the target, I only have one arrow left!" the female archer shouted loudly, once again starting to charge her power.
"Go, avenge our brothers!"
"Today is the day we face death without fear!"
"Do it, all in!"
As many as two hundred and fifty fully armed Stellaron Hunters leapt out from the battleships, baring fangs and brandishing claws as they charged at Vera.
The skeleton army wanted to support, but the battleships' cannons spewed fire nonstop, forcefully blocking their advance.
Vera calmly stood up from the palm of Desolate Skull. At the same time, the Godslaying Spear was summoned again and flew back.
What made people click their tongues in shock was that Kemp still had his eyes wide open, death-gripping the Godslaying Spear.
Most of his body had been blown apart, and even his remaining upper body was badly damaged. But one could see flesh buds and bone growing rapidly.
Clearly, before long, he would be alive again.
Vera shook the Godslaying Spear and flung Kemp off. Originally, she intended to give Kemp the final blow, but in the end she didn't strike.
Not only because killing him would require using the Godslaying Spear's original power, which could very likely expose the system, but also because this guy had eyes similar to Emiya's.
If he was left alive, Emiya would also be happy.
"Desolate Skull, they should have no more reinforcements. Make your move."
"Yes." Desolate Skull nodded respectfully, then raised his huge white-bone right hand toward the sky, softly murmuring an obscure, hard-to-understand incantation.
Crackle!
A thunderbolt with a diameter of a hundred meters appeared out of thin air. Before anyone could react, the thunder crossed space and struck the female archer who was concentrating on charging.
After the dazzling flash, nothing was left on the scene. The female archer had actually been directly vaporized. Her longbow was also pulled into a rift by Desolate Skull.
"Ahhh! I'll kill you, I'll kill you!"
The Stellaron Hunters' eyes split wide with rage. They all broke through their limits, raising their speed again as they charged at Vera.
The two battleships also turned their cannons, both aiming straight at Desolate Skull's massive skull head.
"Shield." Desolate Skull calmly pressed his hands together. A huge shield instantly appeared, covering both himself and Vera.
Taking advantage of this moment, Vera once again took out the Stellaron from the battleship that the Stellaron Hunters had hidden, drawing out part of its power and sending it into the Godslaying Spear.
The Godslaying Spear shone with dazzling light. A rift extending for a hundred miles abruptly appeared and swallowed the two battleships.
Dense dragon roars echoed from far to near within the rift, another batch of skeletal dragon knights had arrived at the battlefield.
This battle was fought until heaven and earth grew dark, corpses piled everywhere. Stellaron, in the center of the battlefield, ultimately couldn't withstand this calamity and ended with shattering into fragments, once again proving the accuracy of Elio's prophecy.
"It's done, I finally finished parsing it!"
Seeing that only thirteen Stellaron Hunters remained, all covered in wounds and about to be drowned in the tidal wave of the skeleton army, Silver Wolf's excited voice finally rang out.
The long-lost Ether Editing ability successfully activated. The dozen or so survivors instantly disappeared from the spot.
"Desolate Skull, locate her coordinates." Vera wiped the blood streaming endlessly down her face, gritted her teeth, and prepared to open another rift, intending to kill off the rest as well.
"Enough, Vera." Emiya's weak voice sounded. Vera didn't dare delay. She quickly ordered Desolate Skull to open the rift and carefully welcomed Emiya out.
Thanks to the distant sheath of Avalon, although Emiya's skin and flesh were still torn, the hole in his heart was already being filled by squirming flesh buds, and his heart and organs had been restored.
It was just that Emiya's body had overdrafted far too much energy. To truly regain his mobility would still take quite some time.
"You can't absorb more Stellaron energy. Your body can't handle it." Emiya raised his hand in distress and gently caressed Vera's crack-filled cheek.
"The Stellaron energy must be saved for the Guardian who is about to be born. Kafka also saved my life, so let's spare her for now."
"Mm, I'll listen to you." Vera pouted, tears as big as beans streaming nonstop.
"Has Acheron been found? That guy won't have gotten lost in the darkness again and cried in fright, right…" Emiya's voice grew weaker and weaker. He was about to fall asleep again, but he still worried about that trash immortal.
"Rest assured and sleep. Lady Acheron's coordinates have already been locked. We'll go fetch her right away." Vera gently embraced Emiya in her arms and also drifted into deep sleep.
The warriors who were still roaring in celebration seemed to sense this quiet atmosphere. One by one, they fell silent, silently picking up the corpses left behind by the Stellaron Hunters beside them, and walked into the rift.
Desolate Skull stared at the two tightly leaning against each other. His blood-red eyes flickered nonstop, as if caught in intense thought. In the end, it turned into a heavy sigh.
He carefully stretched out his hand, cupped the two of them in his palm, and flew toward Acheron's coordinates.
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[Three Years Later, the Planet Jarilo VI]
Jarilo VI, originally named Jarilo, was a planet named after the war god of spring, Jarilo. This place had once been full of spring vitality, birds singing and flowers blooming.
However, with the arrival of the Antimatter Legion and the Stellaron, civilization quickly declined. Blue Jarilo was covered in white snow.
With the help of the Preservation Aeon, Qlipoth, the first builders barely managed to establish humanity's last city, Belobog.
Bronya, as the adopted daughter of Great Guardian Cocolia, could have enjoyed a life of privilege in the city.
But since childhood she had vowed to become the Great Guardian's successor and lead the people to live the life they wanted.
Through the strictest education, Bronya not only mastered the elegant manners and affinity required of a successor, but also gained extremely powerful combat ability.
She joined the Silvermane Guards, going out with the soldiers to slay rift monsters and defend Belobog's peace and safety.
In the blink of an eye, the season of rift monster swarms arrived again. Battles raged everywhere on the frontlines.
Bronya finally obtained her first chance to lead an army into battle. All her soldiers were newly joined Silvermane Guards, while the enemy was a sudden massive influx of rift monsters into the northern ruins.
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