[Why lack confidence?]
Elio was actually somewhat surprised by his question.
[Didn't you say you could do anything?]
It seemed surprised to hear this sentence coming from Leon's mouth.
"That depends on whether I want to do it."
Leon glanced at it. "'Swarm Emperor,' huh."
Hmm, related to an "Aeon." It sounds quite challenging.
This high-difficulty stage...
For Leon, helping out a bit wasn't out of the question.
"If I happen to run into it, I'll take action."
He considered Elio's commission accepted.
Just adding a pendant, who doesn't have dreams?
Moreover, according to it, the theory of a Swarm in Penacony was also unfounded.
You have to know, the Swarm has no intelligence.
Their brains are filled only with propagation, aggression, and seizure.
They have absolutely no concept of "turtling and farming safely"; they are only driven by desire to incite chaos.
Unless someone assisted them, even if there really were Swarm in Penacony, they couldn't have hidden for so long without being discovered.
Elio said:
The "The Propagation" filling Penacony was left behind by a Glamoth Iron Cavalry.
The Iron Cavalry's memories caused the Memoria-filled space of Asdana...
To manifest Meme monsters in the form of "The Propagation."
These are creations of "Remembrance," not the Swarm in the true sense.
This also meant that apart from "Ephemera's" coronation,
Leon didn't have much to busy himself with in Penacony, which was somewhat boring.
Since the commission Elio spoke of...
Concerned "Ephemera's" coronation and the "Swarm Emperor."
Then Leon didn't mind helping this girl named Firefly escape her fate a bit.
Saving the suffering and resolving difficulties, that is what makes a long-life traveler.
[I like you.]
Elio said this after Leon agreed.
"I don't do furries." Leon told it to get lost.
[If "Terminus" is a furry, won't you explode?]
A black cat is an iconic avatar, brother.
"The strong must always be unique."
Leon had always been double-standard; he had a different set of standards for people with high stats.
Commonly known as, changing faces without cost.
[I'm leaving. When you see that girl later, don't say I've been here.]
Elio had nothing to say, walking away slowly with cat steps.
"Riddlers who like to pretend to be profound every day, screw you."
Don't say it has been here...
In short, isn't it just not to destroy its style among its own members?
Rumble!
Intense sounds came to his ears, as if someone was fighting nearby.
Leon cast his gaze toward the source of the sound.
Ignoring Elio, he strode toward there.
If nothing unexpected happened, the person Elio spoke of was over there.
One of the members of the Stellaron Hunters.
...
Penacony, Primal Memory Zone.
"..."
A Glamoth veteran fell into silence looking at the Swarm corpses before her.
"'The Propagation'...?"
Firefly voiced out uncertainly.
"Why is there Swarm in Penacony?"
The Land of Dreams.
No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a place where the Swarm would appear.
What, could it be that someone's dream is related to "The Propagation"?
"No, this isn't the Swarm."
She saw the remains of the True Stings that were just lying at Sam's feet directly vanish on the spot the next second, revealing the essence that constituted them.
"Phantoms formed by 'Memoria'?"
No wonder they were so weak.
Firefly muttered to herself; she was not entirely ignorant of Penacony's special points.
"Is the fear of the Swarm among the people of Penacony ingrained to this extent?"
Beneath the mecha, the girl frowned slightly.
Unless this is someone's dreamscape, and the "Memoria" existing here is wrapped by her memories, causing it to be directly twisted into the appearance of "The Propagation."
Otherwise, if "Memoria" wants to normally constitute ordinary Memes,
It would require an exceptionally large number of people to have corresponding memories of it.
As far as she knew, Penacony had only experienced one Swarm Disaster.
That Swarm Disaster came fast and went fast.
The people currently in Penacony are mostly tourists who came because of the title "Land of Dreams."
Logically speaking, it is impossible for so many people to know about the Swarm Disaster. Rather, the matter wasn't even spread, otherwise Penacony's reputation would have had issues long ago.
The conditions for "Memoria" to autonomously constitute Memes are fundamentally not met.
But why do Memes in the appearance of "True Stings" still appear?
"Something is wrong."
This was Firefly's first judgment.
She scanned around; apart from her, there was no second person.
"Let's look further ahead."
If things go smoothly, perhaps I can find the reason why the Swarm appears here.
Thinking this, Firefly stepped forward.
Before coming to Penacony, Elio told her.
If everything went without surprises,
Then the Entropy Loss Syndrome on her body could be successfully resolved in this operation.
When she first received this news.
Firefly was surprised and astonished.
One must know, the reason why the few of them traveled with Elio, formed the organization named Stellaron Hunters to work together, and obeyed its orders to act according to the script.
Was all because they had their own things they were pursuing,
And Elio promised them a future where they would get what they wished for.
Blade seeks death, while Firefly seeks life.
She originally thought this future would take a long time to arrive, but she didn't expect it to come so quickly.
Firefly piloted Sam and continued forward, thoughts surging in her heart.
Every time she went on a mission,
The script Elio gave them would only have a scant few sentences.
It was never detailed enough to tell how to take every step; mostly, there was room for free performance.
This time was no exception.
Elio only told Firefly:
She has hope to get what she wishes for in Penacony.
But he didn't say exactly how she would get what she wished for, which made one's heart itch.
She didn't know if it was an illusion, but Firefly always felt Elio was a bit strange this time.
Because Elio rarely used the word "hope."
It usually prepared the good ending, bad ending, and remedial measures, all three, so the scripts that came out were also certain.
Words like "hope," which are no different from "possible" or "maybe."
Are rarely used by it to report things like scripts.
But this time it used it, and she didn't know why.
It couldn't be that it didn't know, right?
Firefly felt it was unlikely that anyone could evade Elio's "Terminus" simulation.
Although Elio couldn't be called omnipotent, calling him omniscient was completely problem-free.
Is there really a fate in this world that it cannot see?
Firefly felt it was impossible.
Thinking this, Firefly arrived in another space with her thoughts wandering.
Clang, clang, clang!
Just entering this space, the intense sound of fighting immediately attracted her attention.
Scorching high heat pounced on her face, carrying an innate familiarity.
Firefly put away her wandering thoughts, and after coming back to her senses, subconsciously cast her gaze toward the source of the sound.
Then, the scene happening before her eyes made her stunned.
The eyes beneath Sam's faceplate also contracted in an instant.
A Glamoth Iron Cavalry was fighting with a man carrying a longbow.
What was surprising was.
That man, relying solely on his physical body, was fighting back and forth with the Iron Cavalry, a war weapon, and was even in a crushing upper hand the whole time.
And facing the high-temperature flames carried between the Iron Cavalry's fists and feet, he could extinguish them by just gently raising his hand.
From this point, one could see the man's power.
Using the word "fighting" was not accurate; for the man, this was basically just playing house.
Holding back, just not wanting to finish it at once.
Thud—
A sound of collapse, the Iron Cavalry was kicked flying directly by the man.
The Iron Cavalry flying out directly smashed a big hole in the wall that caught her behind.
Dust rose everywhere, and the rubble of the wall fell, submerging the Iron Cavalry.
A moment later, a silver-white mecha arm reached out from the rubble pile.
The Iron Cavalry, unwilling to admit defeat just like that, pushed away the stones pressing on her.
Standing up again, revealing her sorry figure at this time.
Electric currents flashing due to mechanism overload appeared on the Iron Cavalry's body along with crackling sounds.
Obviously, just a kick that couldn't be more ordinary.
Glamoth's proud war weapon was defeated directly just like this.
Reaching the limit of near-death.
The Iron Cavalry lowered her body slightly, clenched her fist, and orange-red flames ignited from her body in the blink of an eye.
Powerful energy fluctuations overflowed from the Iron Cavalry.
The next second, she moved, attacking the man again with full output power!
The man had no reaction, only clenching his fist to return the favor.
At the same time, a faint fluctuation of Imaginary energy flashed past his body.
It seemed he intended to go fist against fist with the Iron Cavalry to decide the winner.
Seeing this scene, Firefly's body moved subconsciously.
The moment she rushed out, bright green transparent double wings appeared from behind Sam!
Without any hesitation,
Firefly directly activated the "Complete Combustion" state.
This was her full power, an exorbitant buff exchanged by burning her own life.
It could bring a massive increase in intensity.
"Complete Combustion."
The form she unlocked through epiphany, unlocking the restriction Glamoth intentionally placed on the Iron Cavalry.
To embrace that power existing at the genetic level—
"The Propagation"!
But this power naturally was not without cost.
To obtain power from this Path of "The Propagation," what is indispensable?
Other Paths are the practice of concepts.
But "The Propagation" is different.
Ranked first in this Path is the concept of the cluster, followed by the practice of the concept.
Or rather...
The cluster is the best practice of the "The Propagation" concept. After all, as the "Aeon" of this Path, the Insect Emperor Himself ascended because He craved his own kind.
There is strength in numbers; this is the best interpretation of this Path.
And in the present where there is no cluster for Firefly to return to or unite with.
Forcibly practicing "The Propagation,"
Attempting to steal power from the Path of "The Propagation."
Would only accelerate the "Entropy Loss Syndrome" and accelerate the arrival of her own death.
So, this is an act of burning one's life.
But Firefly had no choice. Her intuition as a warrior told her.
If she didn't pull out her final trump card to stop the fight between the two.
Then she would die under the man's fist along with that Iron Cavalry.
Just looking at the momentum and performance of the two, it was clearly the Iron Cavalry who should win no matter what.
But one must know, when fighting the Iron Cavalry just now.
The man didn't have any energy fluctuations on his body, while the Iron Cavalry carried them with every fist and kick.
That is to say, relying solely on his physical strength.
He directly crushed the Iron Cavalry's monster-like stats that rivaled the Swarm.
Now, he was using Imaginary energy.
Even if it was only a little bit, it was absolutely not something the Iron Cavalry could withstand!
With a swish, a moment of overflowing green flowing light flashed past!
Before the two's double fists collided, Sam flashed to the middle of them.
Firefly blocked right in front of the Iron Cavalry, facing the man's attack, raising her hands to overlap into an X!
Although even using "Complete Combustion," the final result wouldn't be much better.
It merely changed from ten deaths and no life to nine deaths and one life.
But at least there was a glimmer of survival, a hope to try.
Firefly had always thought she was the last Glamothian in the current galaxy.
And now seeing a colleague again, no matter what, she could absolutely not sit by and watch.
Watching helplessly as this last kind died.
Feeling the huge pressure close at hand, Firefly subconsciously gritted her teeth.
But what happened the next second exceeded her expectations...
She saw, the fist, stopped.
Stopped right before the center of Firefly.
Rumble!!!
And the accompanying fist wind staggered past the two Iron Cavalries and struck behind!
In but an instant,
The power directly destroyed more than half of the entire dreamscape!
Crack crack, slight shattering sounds rang in the silent space.
Silver fragments fell off Sam one by one.
Although it didn't hit the person directly, under the shockwave of the punch just now.
The Glamoth Iron Cavalry made with "The Propagation" as a specimen became fragmented.
The mecha parts that could no longer maintain their bond fell off Sam's body continuously, exposing half of the girl's cheek climbed by entropy loss patterns, and more than half of her fair body.
Leon looked at her calmly, with no reaction.
Firefly was somewhat sluggish; the feeling of facing death just now lingered in her heart and would not go away.
"...Thank you."
After a while, she thanked him.
She knew clearly that if the person in front of her hadn't stopped his hand for no reason just now in that instant.
It wouldn't have been as simple as the mecha being destroyed now.
That punch was enough to make both of them turn into flying ash on the spot.
Leon retracted his fist, having no reaction to her thanks.
Is this the person Elio wanted him to help?
From the entangled aura of "Terminus" on Firefly, he got the answer.
As for the evaluation of her person, Leon had only one sentence:
Break teams are a trap, kids, absolutely do not invest!
"Stellaron Hunter?"
He didn't bluntly point out Elio, but confirmed her identity in another way.
"...Mm."
Firefly didn't know why he asked this, but still answered obediently.
"Stellaron Hunter, Sam."
Her own life depended entirely on the other party's whim.
It was better to be obedient at this time, Firefly thought so.
"Glamoth Iron Cavalry, you and she both are?"
Both of them had very obvious auras of "The Propagation."
Leon had only heard Elio speak of it but had never seen a genuine Glamoth Iron Cavalry.
He only heard Elio say they were created to handle the Swarm.
Its members were one of the past members.
Since Firefly admitted her identity as a Stellaron Hunter, then the identity of Glamoth Iron Cavalry was also virtually admitted in silence.
Using genes of Propagation to create things to fight the Swarm?
Enemy and self from the same source, a bit interesting.
"...Yes."
Firefly answered every question, the girl's voice somewhat nervous.
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