Actually, Kiana, who was spouting nonsense before, had long since returned to normal.
After all, when it comes to numerical values, she is also a proper "stat monster," and her various attributes have already reached the pinnacle of the [D-Rank Valkyrie] stipulated by the system.
If not for her [Level] being stuck, her attributes should have been even higher.
It can even be said more specifically that Leo's success today, aside from his own hard work and sweat, relied entirely on her assistance!
Therefore, she was actually feigning defeat, and naturally, she watched how Leo handled Raiden Mei and MEI.
——He really knows how to coax people!
Of course, the "coaxing" she referred to here was naturally not just Leo toward Raiden Mei and MEI, but also toward her.
Although she was feigning defeat before, she really almost fell for it.
There was no helping it; after experiencing the previous accident, it was hard for her not to be moved emotionally.
In her mind, it was full of images of Leo descending like a divine soldier, suddenly appearing in front of her.
Precisely because of this, her defense was naturally full of holes, practically just short of defecting directly to the enemy.
What was more fatal was that Leo had quite a few sweet words for her, things like——
"I leave the future battles to you."
"Although saying we are destined to be defeated right now is somewhat discouraging, it is truly my honor to live and die with you."
"In the past, I could only watch you fight alone through the screen, unable to even give you a warm hug, but now, I will do my utmost to fight for you, for our better future!"
"Kiana... love you!"
In short, they were all words with the "heavy gravity" attribute maxed out, just short of asking her one more sentence... shall we form a band for a lifetime?
So, if not for her competitive spirit making her put up a final struggle, she would also have been completely defeated like Raiden Mei and MEI.
——This guy is really too skilled!
Puffing up her cheeks slightly, for a moment she didn't know whether to be happy or angry... glib-tongued, not serious at all!
It was just that as she stared at Leo in a trance, she also attracted Leo's gaze.
"If you keep looking at me like this, I'll get shy~"
Although he said that, Leo instead displayed all the details of his operations right in front of Kiana.
"You guy..."
Facing Leo's actions, Kiana's pretty face couldn't help but turn even ruddier.
"I thought you would pretend for a while longer."
Wearing armor, Leo came before Kiana. Every step he took was somewhat "earth-shaking and tottering."
"Y-You knew?"
Hearing Leo say this, Kiana couldn't help revealing a slightly surprised look.
"How could I not discover it?"
Revealing a gentle gaze, Leo smiled and said: "After all, how many nights do you think we have fought together?"
"If I couldn't even tell whether you were truly defeated or feigning defeat, wouldn't I be too much of a failure as your comrade-in-arms?"
After speaking, he looked at Kiana with a teasing expression.
"Don't use such strange phrasing!"
Uttering a coquettish complaint at Leo, Kiana's pretty face couldn't help becoming even redder.
"Is there anything wrong with what I said?"
Feigning innocence, Leo couldn't help spreading his hands and shrugging his shoulders very naturally.
"Y-You..."
Facing Leo's rhetorical question, Kiana really couldn't say a single word. She could only turn her face away helplessly, daring not to face MEI's suffering anymore.
"Heh~"
Seeing this, Leo couldn't help letting out a triumphant laugh.
Finally——
"Mmph!"
With a muffled groan, MEI collapsed. Just like Raiden Mei, she had completely blacked out. She probably wouldn't remember tonight's events... and even if she could remember, she, or rather they, would absolutely not want to recall it!
And now, the only enemy Leo had to face was Kiana.
"Are you satisfied now?"
Looking down from above, Kiana looked at Leo with a face full of displeased disdain.
Hands on her hips, she sank her qi into her dantian, trying hard to stabilize her center of gravity.
However——
"If it's you guys, no matter how much we do, I won't be satisfied."
After speaking, Leo shook his head with a face full of helplessness.
"Y-You... you really are direct!"
Facing this statement from Leo, Kiana was naturally even more "indignant."
Thus, she could only try even harder to prove herself.
But even so, before Leo's absolute strength, she still couldn't shake the opponent in the slightest.
No matter how hard she tried, there was always a very far distance between her and Leo.
Just like when discussing real combat, if she had the same numerical values as Leo, it would be impossible for Leo to beat her right now.
By the same token, the current her could only bow down in defeat in this aspect; there was completely no comparability with Leo.
Therefore, her entire process was——
One minute later, momentum flourishing, vowing to slay the dragon!
Five minutes later, although difficult, still persisting!
Ten minutes later, the heart to kill the thief, but no power to reverse heaven!
Half an hour later, save me save me, sob sob!
"Sigh..."
Looking at Kiana who was truly defeated this time, Leo tried hard to hold back his laughter, doing his best to let out a sigh.
——It really is a "Try Not to Laugh" challenge!
Tentatively, this could be considered his respect expressed for Kiana, this warrior, for daring to launch a charge against him.
It was just that in terms of results... how can the light of a firefly compete with the sun and moon?
Did the ant really think it could shake the big tree?
Kiana, you overestimated yourself too much!
...
After settling the three girls, Leo left the [blade space].
Although in reality, he was also surrounded by Kiana and MEI on the left and right, since the opponents' spirits were in the [blade space], as long as his movements weren't too large, he was still able to extract himself from between the two.
Finally, he came to the study and sat down.
To be honest, he still had many things he hadn't handled.
He hadn't processed the items dropped by the [Tyrant Old Lady] and the [Lord Shadow Ninja Zombie], and he also hadn't had time to look at the mission prize for saving Kiana back.
Before, his eyes were full of the girls.
It can only be said that his [rabbit head] was severely suppressed because of this accident.
Only until now that both the big head and small head were satisfied did he have the time to let the [rabbit head] lift its head again.
Thus——
"Two [D-Rank Licenses] plus two [Diaries]?"
Sorting through the [system space], he confirmed last night's harvest.
In addition——
"Eh? Why do I have 100k [Imaginary Energy]?"
Looking at [Imaginary Energy: 133414], he couldn't help being a bit dazed and hurriedly looked at [Tongzi]'s prompts.
Thus, he saw a densely packed row of [Imaginary Energy] prompts.
The [Imaginary Energy] obtained from these prompts was actually not much, but there was a huge quantity.
And... the time was when we fled that [75%] layer of space?
In other words, because those [shadow monsters] were incompetent, they were resolved by the monster bosses of that layer of space?
Facing such a surprise, he couldn't help feeling a wave of secret delight.
After all, those [shadow monsters] were truly troublesome. Aside from destroying the entire [Honkai Domain], he really couldn't think of a better way to kill the opponent.
There was no helping it; if the opponent really wanted to run, they could dive into the shadows at any time.
What was more fatal was that the opponent's quantity was extremely terrifying; as long as one ran away, he had no way to deal with the opponent.
Therefore, he had actually had a headache over this for a while. As a result, such a troublesome opponent was actually taken away by their own people. It was truly his fortune...
They even provided him with the [Imaginary Energy] to promote to [D-Rank]. This was truly bending one's back to the task until one's dying day!
Of course, even if he could promote to [D-Rank], he wasn't that happy.
After all, when he fled that layer of space before, he could clearly feel the terror of those monster bosses behind him.
One had to know, the current him already had quite decent numerical values, but under those auras, his numerical values were quite insufficient to look at. They belonged to existences where every single one could give him a one-nine split.
Kill him nine times in one minute; or even if they were serious, killing him wouldn't even be that slow!
In short——
"The burden is heavy and the road is long."
Throwing the excitement of being able to promote to [D-Rank] to the back of his mind for the time being, he looked at those two [Diaries] again.
The first one was full of sharp sword intent.
Undoubtedly, this belonged to [Lord Shadow Ninja Zombie].
And the second one, rather than a diary, was more like an account book.
It was still that guy; it was impossible for these people to really write diaries, so these diaries were all transformed by [Tongzi] based on the opponent's obsessions, naturally carrying the opponent's characteristics.
Only this time——
"It's actually memory fragments?"
Seeing [Tongzi]'s prompt of [Scene Demo Available], Leo couldn't help being somewhat surprised.
Originally he thought he would have to guess the content through the diary again.
But if he could watch it directly, that was naturally even better.
Thus, he first clicked open [Lord Shadow Ninja Zombie]'s diary.
"Hah!"
With a loud shout, a sword struck toward the top of his head.
But before he could react, the owner of the body he was currently in nimbly received that strike, and with a crisp movement, struck down the wooden sword in the opponent's hand.
Vaguely, he couldn't help gaining some insight from this.
To be honest, just as [Bronya] had seen, he was truly a novice in the area of kendo.
It was just that because he could hone himself through life and death here, his combat experience rose particularly fast.
This was what gave [Bronya] that weird feeling of a veteran using novice abilities to fight.
Of course, actually [Raiden Mei] tried to teach Leo [Hokushin Ittō-ryū] every day, otherwise, his progress wouldn't be this fast.
But in the final analysis, he had only been in contact with this path for a few days. Being able to reach the current [Entering the Hall], completely relied on killing his way there.
As for his foundation, it was also force-fed by [Tongzi], not that he really had the background.
So now, experiencing kendo from a first-person perspective really allowed him to comprehend many things.
Or rather, many things he didn't understand before now had answers.
"In the future, perhaps I can let Mei teach me like this!"
Previously, [Raiden Mei] had always taught him as a student, but had never thought of possessing him.
Therefore, although his questions could be answered every time, [Raiden Mei] ultimately couldn't touch upon the questions he hadn't yet birthed.
But if [Raiden Mei] practiced the sword with this perspective, he could obtain answers while simultaneously birthing questions.
One had to know, the kendo the opponent was using right now was not [Hokushin Ittō-ryū], and it was much cruder compared to when he was [Lord Shadow Ninja Zombie], but it also benefited him greatly.
If it were changed to [Raiden Mei], he didn't know what level his [Hokushin Ittō-ryū] could grow to.
——[Raiden Mei]'s [Hokushin Ittō-ryū] had reached the level of [Menkyo Kaiden].
The so-called "[Menkyo Kaiden]", to put it simply, meant one could leave their master and accept disciples.
Precisely because of this, if not for the fact that [Raiden Mei] couldn't fight and could only serve as a [long sword] for Leo, utilizing Leo's numerical values, she could kill even more vigorously than Leo.
Paired with [Kiana], although the two of them dared not say they could directly slaughter their way through the entire [Honkai Domain], they would have no problem facing the vast majority of situations.
If not for Leo detecting those few terrifying auras, he was certain these two could really slaughter their way through.
It's just... is Mei's dead body really the final BOSS?
To be honest, he couldn't help becoming suspicious.
After all, those few auras already made him feel quite fatal. If the [Herrscher of Thunder] Mei was even superior, he felt he simply couldn't fight it; perhaps he really would have to ask for outside help!
——Mainly because time is not enough!
Even if they cleared all [Honkai Erosion Points], at most it would only delay the time to the original three months.
In other words, they had at most two months of improvement.
Don't look at how he improved so much all at once; this belonged to an accident within an accident, the enemy actively piecing together a complete form for [Kiana].
Otherwise, who knows how long it would have taken him to improve to such numerical values.
More importantly, [Kiana]'s [Soul] is in the [75%] area, which increases the difficulty for them even more.
If they went to find [Kiana]'s [Soul] via the normal route, just that [shadow monster] alone could make them get stuck.
Facing those endless shadows, even if they used their lives, it would be hard to kill their way past... This was still without considering the situation where the monster bosses behind the opponent killed their way out.
Then, even if they luckily defeated the [shadow monsters], and those monster bosses didn't come to trouble them.
The subsequent house monsters, that was also a big problem!
According to what [Kiana] said, this thing could create a "ghost wall"; who knows how long it would take them to successfully find [Kiana]'s [Soul].
And for [Kiana] to come out, that relied on numerical values.
But without the [Soul], she wouldn't have numerical values.
It could only be said, it was a loop!
In short... it was really a fluke.
Recalling all this, Leo couldn't help feeling a wave of rejoicing.
Of course, if it really didn't work, he could also seek help from the outside, but doing so would make him too passive; naturally, the current situation was better.
And just as he was thinking, the owner of the body he was in also finally defeated all the opponents.
And the next moment——
"What does it mean that the moon lit up?"
Following the body owner's perspective, he saw the sun outside suddenly being swallowed by the moon, and then it emitted a silver-white light full of chill!
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