At the entrance of a nameless gorge, a horde of demonized lifeforms that emitted black smoke was surrounding four girls.
“Sister Chen Qing… what should we do…?” Qianqian grabbed onto Chen Qing’s hand tightly as the terrifying sight in front of her made her feel helpless and lost.
Huge black boars with horns, fire-spewing rhinoceros, massive rabbit-like life-forms that looked like tanks, as well as some indescribable strange beasts surrounded the entrance to the gorge. The Abyss’ energy had made them lose their independent thought-process. These normally peace-loving creatures only had rage and urge to battle in their minds. They couldn’t wait to use their own energies to tear apart the four frail-looking lifeforms in front of them, to vent the pain they were feeling from the scalding effect of The Abyss energy in them.
Being surrounded by these strange creatures that were filled with killing aura, it was already no mean feat that Qianqian could still speak.
Chen Qing’s face was pale-white; however, she still tried her best to maintain calm. She patted Qianqian’s slightly trembling arm as she comforted, “Don’t be afraid. Didn’t these two sisters say they would protect us? They might have some way out of this.”
A few meters in front of Qianqian and Chen Qing, Ashidora and Ashita were suspended in mid-air as waves of powerful energy rippled in all directions, similarly bringing along an undisguised killing aura. It was precisely the twins’ presence that the demonized beasts around did not dare to act rashly. Although they were no longer lucid as The Abyss energy had corroded their minds, they still know how to maintain a distance with dangerous beings.
At this moment, Ashidora and Ashita were using their spiritual connection to discuss a strategy; they actually weren’t very confident in this situation.
Unlike other Xyrin Apostles that could basically be called strategic weapons, Ashidora and Ashita were actually not Apostles that were adept at direct combat. As commanders of the Spatial Defense and Spatial Attack Troops, they were special troops that had been enhanced to better manage and control space. Using their special connection, they could easily use spatial teleportation.
In many cases, the sisters were responsible for the transportation of soldiers. By opening a stable and wide spatial door that could speedily create a spatial transition window between two places, they could allow for the Empire’s armies to enter the battlefield in the shortest possible time. At the same time, they could also use their own spatial energy to complete urgent support missions that ordinary Xyrin Apostles could not accomplish.
This was also why when Qianqian’s ethereal beacon had suddenly been activated, only the two of them could immediately rush to Qianqian’s side. Pandora, on the other hand, had to prepare for a few minutes before starting spatial transition.
Although their powers were immense, it was unfortunate that it was not suitable for this kind of battle.
“Biphasic Positional Tremor could be used to obliterate this area,” Little Sister Ashidora suggested.
“We cannot ensure the safety of the two matrons,” Big Sister Ashita rebutted this suggestion. It was obvious that Xyrin Apostles were still unfamiliar with the human concept of social connections; she had actually called Chen Qing ‘matron’.
“If we use spatial transition at the same time, we could ensure that the matrons would not be hurt in any way,” Ashidora raised another idea.
“We cannot be certain how good the enemy is at prolonged battles; idea dismissed.”
“… I am out of ideas…” Ashidora stopped her mechanized thought-process, indicating she had no better suggestions.
It actually wasn’t hard for the twins to deal with these monsters. As Xyrin Apostles, Ashidora and Ashita naturally had ways to deal with all sorts of crises. As much as they didn’t have any techniques or skills to engage in direct combat, if they activated their spatial energy, its power was definitely not something that ordinary carbon-based beings could withstand. Even the most basic spatial turbulence teleportation could tear any material lifeform.
However, the crux was that Qianqian and Chen Qing—two frail ordinary humans—were here. Their bodies definitely would not be able to withstand the powerful energy blast from the fragmentation of space. This tied the twins’ hands: they couldn’t use powerful moves while ordinary ones would not be effective.
“Let’s activate the Corps Teleportation.” Big Sister Ashita’s voice suddenly rang out, shocking Ashidora.
“What? Big Sister, the Emperor would definitely kill me!”
After disengaging from her mechanized thought-process, Ashidora’s thought-process was evidently livelier now. She immediately thought of how one Emperor who was adamant against using military force would react if he knew that they deployed a huge Xyrin Corps.
Xyrin Apostles’ loyalties were unquestionable. However, this loyalty was now creating some problems for them: the Emperor’s order had been to protect both ladies’ safety; however, protecting them would require bringing in some soldiers. The problem was right when they had arrived on Earth, the Emperor had already given an order—banning them from deploying troops.
This was a problem that was more complicated than whether a chicken or egg came first. At the very least, for these Xyrin twins that were not very good at adapting, this dilemma was unsolvable.
However, although they weren’t good at adapting, Ashidora still managed to find a good reason to summon the troops.
“Emperor Sandora has already activated her personal troops. According to the Xyrin code—once an Emperor uses his or her personal troops, that meant he or she has entered the highest battle-mode; and all nearby Xyrin Apostles that can be of assistance would automatically switch into battle-mode thinking. Also, my dear Little Sister, you have to learn how to suppress your passion for fighting; the Emperor would not like your character like this.”
Indeed, knowing that there was now a reason to deploy troops, Ashidora’s eyes had sparkled!
Without question, everyone Xyrin Apostle had a passion for battle deep inside them; it was just like a certain Lolita.
As such, Qianqian and Chen Qing were surprised as they saw that the twins in front of them started to take turns to shine.
This shine… it was just as if their bodies had received some image signal disturbances. They shook violently, twisted, changed shaped, and shone unstably. Accompanying this strange sight, the air around them started to crack like a broken mirror. This structure also started to grow bigger and bigger.
This process was very swift. As the two sisters took turns to shine—as one of them maintained calm, the other would become a phantom without a material body, vice-versa. After a mere five minutes, both sisters had already transformed into phantoms completely without form.
The demonized beasts seemed to sense that something terrifying was about to happen as they disorderly started to gather their energies, trying to interrupt the two strange girls’ actions. However, they were astounded to realize that the energy that they normally could easily gather was now extremely hard to control; it felt as if they were like a late-stage Parkinson’s Disease patient, trying to grab hold of a mudfish in the water. Although they could see it and could feel it, they just couldn’t grab hold of it. However they looked at it, it was a very difficult thing to accomplish.
Ashidora and Ashita looked at each other as they smiled and continued with their activation of spatial transition. As battle-hardened Xyrin commanders, how could they give the enemy a chance to attack them?
Finally, one huge oval-shaped black hole appeared in the midst of the demonized creatures. Steady, powerful sounds of metal striking metal could be heard as a powerful voice cried out, “For the Empire! War is Justice! Wherever our weapons point, there lies the Empire’s territory! Conquer, conquer, conquer!”
Qianqian and Chen Qing were utterly flabbergasted by this exaggerated appearance and the audacious war declaration.
This was Ashidora and Ashita’s power. They could cause spatial interference using their biphasic positional transition, to open a relatively wide spatial passageway. By the looks of it, this teleportation process that required five minutes to startup might appear less efficient than other Xyrin Commanders’ instantaneous summoning methods. However, the two could not be compared. That was because…
Ashidora and Ashita’s spatial passageway had no limit to it!
Other Xyrin Commanders perhaps could summon their troops immediately. However, their summons had an upper limit; once a certain number of beings or a certain amount of energy had passed through, the passageway would be forcibly closed. Even a top-notch Xyrin Apostle like Sandora could at most summon a thousand soldiers at once. However, Ashidora and Ashita’s passageway was a concrete positional passageway; as long as they did not proactively close it, they could even teleport over everything on one whole star over!
When Ding Dang and I rushed over, everything had already ended. Under the combined assault of thousands of Xyrin Warriors, only charred corpses of demonized beasts that had been killed by high-energy weapons littered the battlefield. The solid rocks around them had been transformed into soft sand by ionic storms, subsequently melting and forming into glass or other melted objects by the exposure to wave energy cannons.
A huge Xyrin Warrior holding onto two huge single-unit phase cannons was just keeping his weapons in his spatial storage. Behind him, parts of a dragon’s wing were falling from the skies, still spewing black smoke.
From the looks of it, Ashidora and Ashita had severely overestimated the strength of these demonized lifeforms.
Behind the front lines that these soldiers have formed, I saw a few Xyrin Warriors wearing silver battle robes suspended in midair with their hands wide open. They were maintaining a transparent shield that was just like foam. Qianqian and Big Sister were in the middle of this shield, holding each other tightly.
It was evident that these Xyrin Warriors had done a good job ensuring Qianqian and Big Sister’s safety. However, they had neglected the fragile mental faculties of human beings.
I pulled the fidgeting Ding Dang from my head and into my palm as I hurriedly walked towards Qianqian and Big Sister.