A total of five pces were struck by major honkai eruptions. Although it was extremely sudden, it was no longer ued. Fire MOTH’s experiences from the fifth eruption prompted them to e up with a series of termeasures.
The special transport ships, for example, were improved. Their maximum speed became Mach 70. Lower-leveled transport ships were also produced to aodate the growing numbers of high-level MANTISes.
“Reinforts will be—”
Buzz-!
Elysia’s earpiece was interrupted by a statioise. The clear sound of air resistance came to the forefront.
Swoosh-!
“Eh? This isn’t the flight fun?”
Her voice became high pitched as she tried to press a button on an or in her waist.
Click-!
A translut purple sphere surrounded her. It was an anti-honkai field, ironically fueled by honkai energy itself. Honkai energy was said to teract other honkai energy when used in a special manner—something Vill-V discovered a month ago.
Although, this wasn’t important.
“Then, this?”
She clicked another button.
Fwoosh-!
This time, Elysia felt the resistao the Earth’s pull. She was now flying in a literal sense.
“Fu…”
With the usual sensation of flyiurned, she desded into the city. Immediately, she was greeted by a pilr of light.
Buzz-!
Boom-!
The perpetrator of it, a mature woman who wore formal long sleeves, eagerly eyed Elysia's dire.
Moments ter, her ears that perceived ultrasonic sounds as well as numerous plicated application such as x-ray fed bae information:
Elysia dodged the attack.
“Miss Elysia…”
She was ner to Elysia. Before Aleph, Elysia was the one who dealt with high-level bat forces of the honkai. Her reputation amongst the entire Fire MOTH was huge.
Even whehing ened up to the public, she was the seost popur due to her lively personality aremely beautiful appearance.
‘pared to her… I don’t…’
A sense of inferiority arose from the depths of her mind. What followed were the times she attempted to kill herself.
She wasn’t a good person, but it could be argued that she wasn’t evil, either. She was what most would sider the ‘most average of the average’. She did not have any outstandiures, nor the talents she showed were excellent.
She was average.
The targeted harassment came out of the blue.
Her situation was tacitly ignored by everyohe few friends that she had left her. The tinued harassment wore her down.
Later on, she discovered that one of the thesis had been pgiarized. It was used to plete a crucial research reted to quantum meics. All of the harassment she received was to cause her i death—suicide.
‘No… I didn’t do anything wrong..!’
A strong hatred overwhelmed everything. Her eyes turned red at the thought of being hurt again.
‘They did it! THEY DID!’
The first thing she did the moment she awakened was to kill everyone in her researstitute. They specialized in researg electricity’s corretion to other research fields, hehe number of ways she tortured them numbered dozens.
“Hey~! That was a bad greeting, you know~?”
Elysia’s pyful voice came from her right.
“ we talk?” She asked.
“Hah… Then, what ? Persuade me to stop fighting? To turn myself in?!”
The woman’s answer was self-evident.
Boom-!
A dazzling purple bolt of lightning desded from the clouds. The artificially induced lightning in the cumulonimbus clouds desded tinuously.
Rumble-!
Bam-!
Boom-!
Each strike leveled a high-rise building. Its power was han an intertial missile. The thiess of the lightning bolts were measured in several meters.
The woman did not care about the undeads or the honkai beasts. She indiscriminately bombed everything around her.
While this se ensued, several arrows made of pink light headed to her dire.
Sou-!
BAM-!
A sound akin to a thundercloud resouhick dust clouds were kicked off on the woman’s surroundings.
When these dust partially cleared off, Elysia saherical purple light around the woman. It was this barrier that ed her attacks with ease.
“...It’s very simir.”
Elysia was the one who fought against the Herrscher of Thunder. Naturally, she wasn’t surprised when she saw this ‘ing barrier’ appear. When expined by Vill-V (in simple terms), it was akin to a shield that disies every matter it tacts—including energy forms.
Just as she was w how to deal with it, a ‘figure’ appeared out of nowhere. It was close to the woman.
In the moment, the woman disappeared alongside that figure.
“...”
Elysia’s heart sank. She knew who it was at first gnce.
Her thoughts remained unknown as silenihe ruined city.
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The fourth city.
Just like the other three, it was extremely devastated. Ten minutes of wantoru was enough to turn its inhabitants into undeads. Those who did not turn would be dealt with massive honkai beasts.
Boom-!
Aremely huge explosion occurred from the city’s ter. A circur shockwave came first before it swept across the infrastructures. They sooed due to the extreme temperature brought by it.
“Hah… This is refreshing.”
The girl had an urge to drink her favorite brand of tea. With a thought, a teacup appeared on her right hand. She grasped towards the blown city far from her. The transport ship that carried her did not reach Fire MOTH’s specialized ships, yet it was enough to remain unbothered by the aftershocks.
The hangar was kept open for the girl to look towards the city.
“Hm. One isn’t enough. Let’s double it down.”
Imosphere above it, a huge ‘outward shell’ was being structed out of thin air. What followed were its pos and substances.
Then…
BOOM-!
For the sed time, this city in the Mu ti was bombed. The aftershocks overpped with the previous ohus creating a heatwave that swept through the twenty kilometer radius of it.
Boom-!
Just then, several intertial ballistic missiles exploded a few kilometers away from her. The wind swept through ihe hangar, spilling the newly made tea on her hand.
“Tsk. I swear, I’m going to bomb the headquarters .”
Like the other chosen wielders of the Gem, she was both profit in her own field and possessed strong hatred towards humanity.
Just then…
Tap.
The girl rompted to look behind her.
“Oh~? It looks like you’re having fun~?”
A girl wearing bck-red gothic dress appeared out of nowhere.
*****
A/N: Five chapters debt, it is. I'll start to reduce them tomorrow.
