The Damselette raised her hand and pointed, and the flying fire butterflies flew through from behind her, carrying endless heat, corroding everything in their path.
"Boom boom boom!" The fire butterflies collided with the blades of death, immediately causing a violent explosion. The surging flames melted the ground, and the sharp air currents ripped off the roof.
The faint morning light streamed down through the broken hole in the factory roof, providing some illumination to the interior that had just lost its lights.
Before the spreading flames could dissipate, a Black Blade emerged from them. She attacked the Damselette below with a downward strike from above.
A dagger should be wielded with swift, rain-like strikes to suppress an enemy, leaving them no room to breathe. However, the Black Blade used it for a heavy, powerful downward chop.
Naturally, this slightly awkward attack was easily dodged by the Damselette.
But soon, the Damselette understood the Black Blade's intention. The Black Blade gripped the dagger with both hands and plunged it deep into the ground.
"Swish swish swish!" Countless sword qi composed of black flames swept out from the Black Blade as its center. Everything in the path of the black-red sword qi vanished, as if erased.
Fortunately, as the Third Harbinger, the Damselette's body was already incredibly powerful. Relying on her superhuman physical abilities, she still reacted and somewhat hastily jumped out of the sword qi's attack range.
The Black Blade pulled out the dagger deeply embedded in the ground and looked at the Damselette, whose steps were chaotic, with some surprise.
Would a Harbinger of the Fatui not know any combat techniques?
She shook her head, casting these distracting thoughts aside. She would know soon enough.
The Damselette kept retreating, her steps disorganized, her breathing erratic. It was as if she truly were a Damselette who had just escaped danger.
"Clack clack clack!" The retreating Damselette suddenly heard a light clinking sound of armor plates. And before her eyes, a light veil appeared—the light veil over the Black Blade's scales.
The other Black Blade, who had suddenly appeared behind the Damselette, showed no politeness. She grabbed the Damselette's slender waist and lifted her up.
Then came the same action as when Yu Jin executed the Doctor—the Black Blade raised her knee, laid the Damselette across it, and then raised the huge dagger and stabbed down forcefully!
The Black Blade's movements were smoother and more practiced than Yu Jin's. Lying horizontally on the Black Blade's bench-sized knee, the Damselette felt like Fish on a chopping board; even with immense strength, she couldn't exert it.
"Hmm?" The expected scene of blood splashing didn't occur. The Black Blade's dagger penetrated the Damselette's body, but she felt nothing.
The resistance of flesh, the tearing sound when cutting tissue… none of these! It was like stabbing into a mass of air.
"Hehe!" The Damselette let out a mischievous giggle, and then her figure dissolved into specks of light.
"I don't know what getting hurt is." A lighthearted, carefree laugh came, and the specks of light re-formed into the Damselette's figure, appearing in the distance.
After a brief skirmish, the Black Blades regrouped. They looked at the unharmed Damselette, contemplating their strategy.
"Not making a move? Then I'll go." Seeing the Black Blades remain motionless for a long time, the Damselette's first pair of wings flapped again.
Again, white feathers fell like rain, and then these feathers suddenly gained some kind of momentum, stabbing towards the Black Blades extremely quickly.
"Hiss—" The white feathers grew larger and larger, eventually igniting into flames. Fiery feathers danced everywhere, like flying swords piercing through the air.
The fiery feathers darted through the air, coordinating their attacks towards the Black Blades. However, it was clear that the Damselette hadn't considered the tricky nature of the Black Blades' invisibility.
Eleven figures suddenly vanished, and the large factory fell silent. Only the crackling sound of Burning flames remained.
Seeing this, the Damselette sensed carefully, only to find that she couldn't detect any aura.
So her second pair of wings flapped. If there was no target, then everything would be the target!
An invisible ripple echoed through the dilapidated factory. They seemed to be useless.
But this was just an illusion. As the ripples swept through the factory, a Black Blade's aura suddenly became unstable. This slight leakage of aura was immediately discovered by the fully focused Damselette.
"Whoosh!" A whistling wind came, and the fiery feathers flying in the air instantly turned into streaks of fire, stabbing towards the direction of the leaked aura.
"Clang clang clang!" The fiery feathers struck an empty spot, and a crisp metallic clanging sound was heard.
Two figures suddenly appeared in the empty space: one was the Black Blade whose aura had just leaked, and the other was another Black Blade.
The besieged Black Blade swung her dagger, and intense black flames solidified on the blade, forming a several-meter-long sharp edge.
Wherever the black flames swept, the fiery feathers instantly dissipated into the world. Even if a few escaped, they were blocked by the scales on the Black Blade's body.
Soon, the factory fell silent again. The Damselette looked at the few remaining fiery feathers in the sky, waved her fair hand, and they automatically dissipated into the world.
She looked at the two Black Blades who had returned to normal, raised her delicate eyebrows slightly, and asked curiously, "Swapping consciousness? You're so amazing!"
She looked like an innocent child meeting a novel toy.
"Hehe, you're not bad either, being able to temporarily halt thought. Most people would probably really fall into your hands." The Black Blade chuckled.
It was good that the worlds were different; they had never seen this kind of power before.
"Hehe, thank you for the compliment." The Damselette scratched her head, as if genuinely embarrassed by the Black Blade's praise.
The Black Blade looked at the smiling Damselette. Her eyes beneath the veil opened once and then closed tightly again, remaining unchanged thereafter.
If you can't see it, you don't know it. If you don't know it, you won't get hurt.
[We need to find a way to make her open her eyes, otherwise we can't fight.] Three looked at the still cheerful Damselette and thought to herself.
[If we can't fight, then so be it. The mission is complete, we've had enough fun, it's time to go back and report.] Alecto heard Three's words and also felt that the Damselette in front of her was very troublesome.
As soon as Alecto spoke, all the Black Blades extinguished their inner thoughts. The Big Sister's words were the most effective, besides Yu Jin's.
The Damselette seemed to have sensed something. She looked around and said with some regret, "Are you leaving?"
The Black Blade did not respond.
So the Damselette's smile widened even further, revealing her pearly white teeth clearly.
"You're so much fun, I won't let you go. Be my toys!"
Sometimes, an innocent and carefree Damselette also enjoys pranks.
Her third pair of wings flapped, and the Damselette clasped her hands together, looking up at the sky as if in prayer.
"Ha ah—, ah ah ah…"
A sacred yet sorrowful aria emanated from the Damselette's mouth.
The morning light was covered by the pure white glow around the Damselette. This light expanded, eventually extending beyond the factory, like a towering pillar of light.
Countless white feathers drifted down from inside and outside the pillar of light, like falling snow.
Everyone in Snezhnaya saw it; they saw this sacred pillar of light illuminate all darkness, and the morning light was so faint in comparison.
Everyone heard it; they heard this tear-inducing aria, and all sadness seemed to flow away with this beautiful song.
"Is this… The Damselette?" The Knave stood by the window, looking at the distant light that connected heaven and earth, a majestic power equal to that of a god.
The Black Blades at the center of the light stopped. The white light descended around them, and light feathers caressed their bodies.
Together, they took many things from the Black Blades.
The days spent with Yu Jin, the time redeemed by Yu Jin, the confusion when the world collapsed, the pain of torture after being separated, the tension of the Black Blade Night… All memories gradually faded in the white light. The Black Blades gradually became mere instincts; they forgot everything, forgot their names.
After everything was forgotten, the Black Blades returned to their original state.
Eleven blades, eleven blades forged in the fires of hell, knowing only how to kill.
The Black Blades' aura disappeared in the white light. This time, no one could find them anymore.
The Damselette is always innocent and carefree; sometimes she causes trouble without even realizing it.
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