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Chapter 5 - Chapter 5: Herta Treasure Appraisal

"Shhh——"

Although these mutant young Stings have the weakness of ice attributes, Ilu can easily kill them with one blade. However, for a while, she was still confused by their death explosions.

There is no way; if it were just a simple battle, she would not actually be inferior to these young Stings.

The problem is that it is not just these young Sting insects targeting her.

At a glance, the insects in the entire galaxy regard her as a target for encirclement and suppression. Dozens of True Stings of various shapes dive at full speed toward Ilu. It won't take long for them to fly right in front of her. During this period, she must shoot and aim at the Swarm King.

In other words, Ilu needs a good environment to aim her gun, but those secondary Stings shout, "Your Majesty the King," from time to time and rush at her, exploding crazily, so she can't free her hands to shoot.

"SM planner, look at these B Insects you designed; they are so annoying!"

Although the wing powder of the young-Stings has an irritating component, Ilu can be sure that her anger at this moment comes from deep within her heart, not because of any external influence.

Ha... What? You said that this is still a mechanic? No! This is not a mechanic; how could the dignified Glamoth Iron Cavalry Knight fall for such a trick, right? (Threat.jpg)

Ilu knew very well that if she didn't kill this Swarm King immediately, when the group of True Stings surrounded her, she would probably go down to hell to play the resurrection match.

In this situation, there is only a glimmer of hope.

"I can't stand it; I'll explode with you!" 

Thinking this, Ilu resolutely gave up killing the nearby insect swarms. She carried the sniper rifle [Severance] and flew at full speed toward the location of the Swarm King.

Even if she got hit by the self-destructing young-Stings, she didn't care; she strengthened her belief.

Since I can't aim, I won't aim. I'll just put the muzzle of the gun in your mouth and see where you can run!

"For her Majesty!"

Although Ilu didn't say this, in the eyes of the swarm, the message she released was probably this. After all, her behavior was no different from that of the young-Stings that just rushed up and exploded.

Even if their IQ was low, they could tell that the human in front of them wanted to die with their Swarm King, but they were powerless to stop it.

They could only watch the silver-white knight in front of them spread her elytra wings and turn into a blue extreme cold meteor that crashed into the dark red sky.

TThe light it emitted was like a firefly against the sun, but it was the latter that was terrified at this moment.

As a Propagation Emanator who had just been born, it had never seen such a scene before. It immediately ordered the nearby True Stings to come to protect the emperor, but Ilu's speed was obviously faster.

Before the True Stings that were supposed to protect the emperor could take their positions, she passed through many obstacles and came close to the Swarm King.

 "Sizzle--"

The terrifying high temperature burned the metal armor. Even with the protection of ultra-low temperature gas, Ilu in the mecha was not feeling well. At this moment, she felt that she's in a hot furnace and could faintly smell the burning flesh.

You must know that the enemy is not only a Swarm King but also the real giant red star. Being able to reach here is already the limit of what the Snow Fyrefly-V strategic infiltration armor can do. Even if it takes one more step forward, the mecha may melt due to overheating.

However, she does not need to take this step.

Because the distance is enough.

All the preparations are for this moment.

Raising the sniper rifle [Severance] in her hand, Ilu aimed the black muzzle at the dark red star in front of her, her expression indifferent.

"Stars, it's time to go out."

As her voice fell, a bullet made of ice crystals drew a blue track, passed through the burning surface of the star, and sank into the body of the Swarm King.

At this moment, the world suddenly became silent.

"Hmm?"

Ilu tilted her head and blinked, her big eyes full of confusion.

Strange; why no reaction?

Wait a minute...

Ilu could feel the surrounding heat decreasing rapidly, and the color of the dark red star in front of her became increasingly dim, as if something had erupted from the inside of the star and gradually spread outward.

Run!

Before her brain could react, her body had already reacted first. She turned around and flew in the direction she came from, ignoring the blockade of the True Stings behind her, just trying to get away from the dead star faster.

Soon, as the flames on the surface of the star gradually extinguished, a deep blue cold wave erupted from the inside of the Swarm King and spread in all directions at an extremely terrifying speed, turning everything into glaciers wherever it went. It soon froze the star-sized Propagation Emanator into a huge ice ball.

Although Ilu chose to stay away from the star immediately, in order to ensure that the shot just now hit the target, she was too close to the latter and was caught up by the cold wave before she could run far.

"Crack--"

At the moment of contact with the cold wave, the elytra of the Snow Fyrefly armor were instantly frozen, and Ilu, who stayed inside, could not escape.

The cold, close to absolute zero, penetrated the cockpit through the mecha and froze everything into ice.

In the dark, a special existence cast a gaze here, but Ilu had stopped thinking at this time and received the same treatment as the ultimate creature, Kars-sama, floating in outer space.

Time appeared to stop flowing at this moment.

With the rapid spread of the cold wave, this galaxy originally occupied by the Swarm was soon covered by ice and submerged in the waves of Remembrance, but the outside world knew nothing about it.

The entire galaxy fell into silence.

No one knew what happened here, and no one remembered her existence.

The war against Propagation continued, and the universe seemed to be no different from before.

Only 'that' sat in meditation in the center of the Pure Land, still recording all this tirelessly.

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Amber Era 2157, Herta Space Station, Containment Section.

"Well, it's okay that the thing is old; it's very open."

"It can be confirmed that this is an Iron Cavalry Knight from the Glamoth Empire. The model is a bit special. I haven't seen it before, but it should not be a replica..."

A doll-like girl with long, smooth light brown hair and a gorgeous black and purple dress walked around an abandoned silver mecha, occasionally getting close to observe it carefully. Not far behind her, the Express Crew stood aside, patiently waiting for the expert on rare objects to give the identification results.

Ms. Herta, member #83 of the [Genuis Society], is the human with the highest IQ on The Blue and is also a well-known collector of rare objects.

It is precisely because of this title of "collector of rare objects" that the Astral Express Crew chose to contact Herta as soon as they picked up this silver mecha and asked her to identify its identity.

As for why they picked it up from a pile of cosmic garbage floating in space... Himeko and Welt didn't intend to do so originally, but when March 7th saw the silver mecha frozen in the ice, her eyes lit up, and she insisted on picking it up, saying that the person inside might still be alive.

Although no matter how you look at it, the people inside are most likely dead.

After all, this is March 7th's request, and everyone naturally has to listen. In the end, Dan Heng took action to carry the abandoned mecha back to the Express.

But the problem is that after picking it up, it can't be left in the Express. The Express conductor, Pom, strongly protested against this. Finally, everyone discussed it and had to contact Herta to send the silver mecha to the space station.

You know, Ms. Herta is usually very busy. It is unimaginable for others to be able to spare time to identify strange objects for them. The Astral Express owes her a small favor.

"Hey~"

Noticing the gazes of everyone, March 7th playfully stuck out her tongue and made a face.

"You can't blame me for this. I was only thinking about saving people at that time and didn't think about it that much!"

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