Translator: Atlas Studios
Editor: Atlas Studios
Who knew what was more terrifying than being dragged by a little superwoman for three hours at a speed of 210 kilometers per hour?
Let me tell you: it was being dragged by the same superwoman at a speed of 300 kilometers per hour.
Lin Xue and I were both amazed that we were still alive. In the beginning, I thought that I would be killed by the sheer air resistance I felt while traveling at three hundred kilometers per hour. However, the ability of the human race to cling onto dear life was really amazing. We were able to pull through—even though both of us were severely out-of-breath.
At that moment, we both felt incredibly dizzy; and our entire bodies were aching. Our core muscles felt like they had been reduced to mud. Each time we tried to move slightly, we would feel so much pain that we could only grit our teeth. After facing the raging winds that hit our faces and bodies for three hours at the speed of three hundred kilometers per hour, even the hairs on our skin were standing straight and slanting backward.
The skin and muscles on our faces looked like they had shifted from their original position; they looked much closer to our ears now, causing wrinkles to appear. Our eyes met, and we were both frightened by the stranger staring back at us.
“Your… little sister… is awesome…” Lin Xue stuttered.
“…It’s good to be alive…”
I really did not understand how Pandora—who was normally so concerned for my safety and security—could be so careless when it came to moments like these. Did she not understand that as a carbon-based being, her big brother could not be compared to Xyrin Apostles? Or was it that Pandora had already begun treating this as some sort of sick game?
Just thinking about the Lolita’s hidden violent character and strange interests, I found that very probable.
We rested for about ten minutes on the ground before Lin Xue and I finally struggled to get to our feet and survey the surroundings.
We were already at the edge of the forest. If we moved any further forward, we would see a deep valley. Explosions and roars kept echoing around us. Pandora, who was already in combat mode, quietly watched the bottom of the valley.
Lin Xue and I slowly walked to Pandora’s side like zombies and then looked down as well.
The moment we saw what lay below, we sucked in a long, deep breath.
Magic beasts… the entire valley was filled with all kinds of magic beasts! They were black and imposing like black coursing rivers. Although I did not know what they were called—from their huge size and their non-stop release of all kinds of magic that came complete with sounds and photo-electric effects, I could tell that just releasing any one of these magic beasts into the earth would cause a Godzilla-scale disaster.
Among the tens of thousands of magic beasts, there were about fifty Xyrin Warriors whose upper bodies had already transformed into huge weapons, so that they looked like humanoid war chariots. The glaring contrast reminded me of a small boat in a torrential flood on the verge of being flipped over at any second.
Even though the humanoid weapons had terrifying attacking and defensive powers—in the face of this huge group of formidable magic beasts, it was only a matter of time before they would perish. I even began to imagine these warriors being swallowed whole by the hungry magic beasts. I even thought about what it would look like when these magic beasts had stomach upsets… keke, I think too much.
Although it was our first time witnessing something like that, Lin Xue—who had no prior knowledge about the Xyrin Empire before this—was obviously more shocked than I was. She stared at the fifty futuristic warriors who were facing the magic beasts, and her eyes widened in shock. After a long time, she finally regained her composure. She turned to me, still looking like she was staring at a monster, and said, “Are you really the Emperor of the Xyrin Empire?”
I nodded.
“You’re not planning to conquer the world, are you?”
Pandora was listening by the side, and her eyes brightened when she heard this. Speaking of this, why was this little battle-crazed monster getting all excited?!
To prevent Lin Xue—whose mind was already running wild—from treating me as an enemy of the human race, I quickly tried to shift her focus to something else. I turned to Pandora and said, “Pandora, do you have a plan? There are so many magic beasts there. It won’t be easy to deal with them…”
Pandora nodded subtly and said, “They can be dealt with.”
…Were Xyrin Generals’ battle skills really that great?
Not only I, but Lin Xue also found it hard to believe. However, Pandora did not offer much else. Instead, she stretched out her hand and her ear. There was a soft static sound, and then the green mask disappeared from her face.
Under Lin Xue’s and my confused gaze, Pandora crossed both her hands in front of her chest and slowly bent her body down. At the same time, her body continued to emit static sounds. This showed that Pandora was trying very hard to gather huge amounts of energy.
This posture… why did she look like a character out of fighting games, charging up her attack?
After ten seconds, Pandora finally completed charging up her attack… keke, I mean, summoning energy. She stood upright all of a sudden and then flew up to a high of about half a meter from the ground. At the same time, little air-spurting slots appeared all over the silver-white battle armor on her body. They spurt high-temperature, powerful flames, which caused even me and Lin Xue to retreat several steps before the temperature became more bearable.
Pandora sucked in a deep breath. At once, three flashing red circular diagrams, which measured about ten meters in diameter each, appeared in the sky. They were distributed evenly about a meter in front of Pandora. These complex, circular diagrams made me wonder if they were the magic arrays that I often read about in fantasy novels.
Pandora screamed in a high-pitch tone (I am now very curious as to why she had to scream at the time.), and the three huge, red, and circular energy arrays became intensely bright. The next moment, dark-red light beams shot out of these the energy arrays, charging at the magic beasts in the valley with a low groaning that caused the hairs on the back of my neck to stand.
The blinding red light caused both Lin Xue and I to close our eyes at once. We could only hear loud, deafening crashes, and the terrifying screams of the magic beasts as they perished.
This blow immediately killed off one-third of the group of magic beasts. Incidentally, most of the valley was also destroyed.
At that moment, I finally understood why Pandora had to float up in the sky and activate the little air-spurting slots. Such a high-energy explosive attack would definitely come with powerful recoil. If she had been standing on the ground, the recoil alone would probably have destroyed the ground on which we were standing.
Lin Xue trembled as she said, “Chen Jun, will you really not fight the human race?”
I was on the verge of tears as I said, “Big Sister Lin, I am really a human…”
Pandora’s attack had a very obvious effect. The magic beasts, having been so powerfully attacked, immediately descended into chaos. No matter how intelligent they were, they were beasts after all. At that moment, they knew they were facing an undefeatable, powerful enemy. At once, they lost their urge to fight. Instead, they gathered together in what looked like a magic beast corps and began to admit defeat on all fronts.
Since more than half of the valley had already been destroyed, the tens of thousands of magic beasts could only escape in one direction. Throughout this entire process, countless magic beasts were trampled as well. It was a good thing that the fifty Xyrin Warriors had already floated up into the air, or this support we offered could have turned into a massacre.
Pandora had achieved huge merit. She quietly walked beside me, her silver-white armor revealing many cooling apertures; hot air flowed out of those apertures… this lass really was an energy-consuming machine.
I touched Pandora’s hair out of curiosity… it was scalding!
“Pandora, what was that move? It was incredibly powerful, wasn’t it?” I could not help but make this comment as I stared at the valley, which looked like it had just survived the end of the world.
Pandora raised a sign that she got from God-knows-where. The sign said ‘Helium Flash’.
After screaming earlier, this lass could no longer speak.
Helium Flash? I thought it would be called Lolita Lion’s Roar…
The magic beasts completely disappeared into the horizon, kicking up a bunch of dirt into the air as they ran. Then, the fifty Xyrin Warriors walked towards us, having escaped the clutches of death.