Action location: Zone Z, high-risk area in the uncontrolled area of ​​Changkong City

"High concentration of collapse threshold detected, please be careful."

"Then...what is that?"

Accompanied by a burst of exclamations from everyone in the team, huge waves appeared on the sea, and huge silver siliconized tentacles emerged from the waves, surrounding the Hela floating on the sea. This incident was encountered on the deck.

It was Bronya and her party who came to investigate.

"careful!"

Several huge tentacles attacked everyone on the deck. Upon seeing this, Bronya directly summoned the dimensional weapon-Heavy Rabbit, used defense mode, and deployed an AT force field for defense. Although this would not last long, it still could

I can resist it for a while.

"Senior Adam, can you think of something?"

Carol said anxiously.

"I'm ready to gather my strength."

Adam held the crimson giant sword in his hand, the sword's blade glowing with flames, preparing to counterattack the moment Bronya's barrier ended.

When Lin Qi and Rite were preparing to fight back, they suddenly discovered a huge round tumor like a silver bud floating on the sea, which was held up by tentacles. Rite motioned for everyone to look over there. The round tumor gradually unfolded,

A woman with dark blue medium-short hair had several silver siliconized tentacles connected to her back, closely connected to the silver flower buds, and the woman's position on the sea was not far away from them.

"Prepare to fight back!"

Bronya gave an order and removed the protective barrier. In an instant, the tentacles were all bounced away by the powerful energy erupted from the force field, and more turbulent waves appeared on the sea, hitting the Hela's force field.

Gradually losing sight of the woman's figure on the sea, Bronya controlled the heavily armored bunny to punch out, opening an air vortex. Adam's flame blade was mixed with Ritter's laser cannon and blasted out together.

"Boom."

The joint attack hit the woman not far above the waves, and exploded on the sea. The water spray turned into mist under such a fierce attack, and floated around the area where the explosion occurred.

"Here we go, all team members, line up!"

Bronya realized that the woman was coming towards them, reacted instantly, and launched a new protective stance to resist the figure flying from the fog.

"This level..."

The woman laughed contemptuously, and after looking at Bronya's horrified expression for a moment, she quickly ran back to the sea, and her tentacles rose from the sea again.

"It's too difficult to deal with. What on earth is that?" Lin Qi held a spear in his hand and said with a bit of fear.

Bronya responded: "It seems that like Ananya, she is a Herrscher."

The woman's true identity is a member of the New Arcadia Polaris Alliance, named "Tide" Potune Oslanger. Under the order of Agnes, she creates chaos here in advance, waiting for the destined person to take the bait and ambush her.

The place where they fought was at sea, and Potouñe was confident that she could complete the task assigned to her by Agnes and let all the people who were destined to die be buried at the bottom of the sea.

"team leader!"

Ritter noticed that the tentacle's attack was aimed at Bronya, so he shot back the tentacle that was still active.

"Don't take it lightly, it's here again!"

Just as the team members were fighting with Porto, a sharp roar suddenly came from the sky, a small airship passed over the crowd, and many Valkyries descended from the sky. They were the members of the eighth unit of the Valkyries, "Leng Feng"

, rushed here to provide support. After captain Timido arrived at the scene, he directed the Valkyries to attack the giant tentacles, while he rushed towards Bronya.

"Captain Bronya! Are you okay?"

Timido moved very quickly. She wore skate-like moving tools on her feet, sliding on the ground like shooting stars.

"I'm fine. Be careful. There's something a little off about the enemy this time."

Bronya suffered some minor injuries, which were caused when the woman attacked her just now. Bronya seemed to be much more powerful than Ananya. Although they were both simulating laws of Polaris.

However, there is also a big difference in strength between the Herrschers.

"Team members, prepare the artillery array! Attack the giant tentacles!"

Timido ordered the team members to fire at maximum power. However, the giant tentacles were too hard, and conventional anti-collapse weapons had no effect at all. They could only allow the silver siliconized skin to bounce the bullets away.

"If Rin were here..."

Faced with this situation, Lin Qi seemed to think of Rin who was restricted from participating in the battle due to Bronya's order. If Rin were there, Hypernetus's flying blade would be able to kill all the tentacles easily. But

Bronya did not regret it. After Timido helped her deal with the wound on her arm as suggested, she launched the attack mode of the heavily equipped bunny and set it up on the deck to form a siege tank.

"Captain, do you want to..."

"This is the only way."

When Timido ordered the evacuation of the Valkyrie members, the siege cannons were already fired at the group of tentacles. The powerful blasting energy exploded between the tentacles, causing the tentacles to break and fall into the deep sea.

Gradually, Botu Nie in the sea seemed to have part of her body cut off, and she jumped straight out of the sea. With the huge waves rising, everyone was able to see her whole face clearly.

Half of her body, the connected silver flower bones, grew in the body of a huge giant octopus Honkaimon. She waved her severed limbs and struggled on the sea. Wave after wave of waves appeared, causing the Hela to start to vibrate.

, the external protective stance also showed signs of instability. A terrifying and vague sound mixed with mechanical sounds came from the mouth of the giant octopus. The sound was so loud that her voice could be heard within ten miles.

Roar.

"How dare you...How dare you! Hurt me!"

This Herrscher is so huge that when viewed from a distance by everyone on the Hela, it looks like a small mountain.

"That guy... what kind of monster is he?"

Carol looked at the giant octopus-like Honkaimon in front of her and was stunned.

When Bronya disengaged the siege cannon mode and entered the cooling period, the giant Honkaimon made a move. It raised the largest tentacle that had not yet broken. The front part of the tentacle was condensed with a blue light, which seemed to be

To attack.

"Hela's protective force field can no longer hold up. This kind of attack will break through the force field in one go. Timido, I leave it to you."

After accepting Bronya's order, Timido jumped into the sea, slid on the sea surface, and headed towards the giant octopus monster. Her movements were very brisk, like a ballet dancer in the water.

He jumped onto the giant tentacle, kicked it out, and cut off the tip of the giant tentacle. The laser cannon he just fired also hit him because of the breakage of the firing part.

"Ahhhh!!"

With a roar from Botu, the entire octopus monster fell into the sea.

"So...so amazing. Senior Timiduo is really amazing." Lin Qi exclaimed.

Bronya also knew that Timido's strength had grown significantly during this period, and she smiled happily when she saw her outstanding performance.

When Timido came back, I was about to praise her, but the threshold value of the Honkai energy detector Bronya carried only increased.

Soon, the giant octopus jumped out of the sea again. This time it no longer appeared a few hundred meters away from the Hela, but was close to the Hela, surrounding the Hela with its newly grown tentacles.

Grab it with your tentacles.

"How dare you hurt me... unforgivable!"

Potu showed a painful expression, with veins popping out on his originally stern face, looking angry. He leaned his human-shaped upper body over to confront everyone.

"Who are you? Why are you attacking us on the sea?" Bronya asked her very calmly.

But Botuna did not answer her, but instead wrapped some of the new tentacles of her giant body behind everyone, and attacked the Hela, making hysterical sounds at the same time.

"Go to hell, go to hell, go to hell!!"

The plywood of the Hela was slapped by a giant tentacle, and the hull vibrated violently, causing the people on the ship to sway around and grab the nearest fixed object to prevent falling into the sea. The Herrscher-like attack had not yet

Stop. Her main target was Bronya, who had injured herself not long ago. She grabbed one end of the Hela with her giant tentacles, trying to turn the entire ship over and let them fall into the sea.

New Arcadia Building Headquarters for North America

Just when Portuna attacked Bronya and the others, Ace found Agnes who was walking in the corridor.

"Agnes."

"What's up?"

"I heard that you did some inhumane things to the Tide."

Ace said it bluntly.

"What inhumane thing? I just want to stimulate her potential."

Agnes tried to pretend to be stupid and pass the test. Ace's expression seemed to be terrifyingly cold, and he asked: "You know her powers, but you still want to take advantage of them?"

"Zhao Shao, you won't understand. In order to kill those people in Tianming, I have tried my best to find a way for you."

"Is this also your method of torturing 'Tide' and 'Commander'?"

As soon as Ace said these words, Agnes's dagger had already reached her neck, pressing firmly against her throat.

"If you want to make money, you have to do what I say. Before I achieve my goal, shut up."

Ace did not answer. She knew that Agnes was a sinister and cunning person. After several founders of the New Arcadia headquarters disappeared, he took over the power and caused trouble in the New Arcadia Technology.

It turns out that "Tide" Botu's Herrscher-like ability can only be triggered when she suffers physical damage. In order to turn her into a monster, Agnes locked her in a place and continued to torture her with pain.

, causing her body and spirit to gradually collapse, and then sent someone to dump the unconscious Botu into the deep sea in Zone Z, a dangerous zone near Changkong City.

In this way, Potune has lost her mind. Out of the instinct to protect herself, she has to destroy all living creatures close to her. Ace knows what he did to Ananya and Potune, as under Agnes

The second-in-command must not allow him to threaten me like this.

So, Ace launched a counterattack. She quickly hit Agnes in the face with an elbow, but Agnes dodged it. Then, she raised her legs and swept around, only to find that Agnes had stopped her hand.

"I recognize your strength and mind, Miss Belenna." Agnes said while slowly wiping the dagger.

"As the former Tianming Valkyrie, you must also want to ask them for an explanation. However, I trust you quite a lot. After all, you don't need me to worry about it."

"I'm not your pawn." Ace said as he put on an attack stance.

When Agnes saw this, she just smiled sinisterly and walked away.

Although both parties also know what they want from the other party, Ace will not let Agnes control him like this. After all, in addition to him having the final say in the New Arcadia Company, he also has a lot of say.

.

However, other people in the Polaris Alliance probably don't have her status. After accepting the transformation of the Herrsister, they almost all became Agnes' tools.

In addition to "Hidden Dragon" Zhou Huan being killed by Aiden, Dr. Edward, "Commander" Ananya and "Mechanic" Brownie's defeat in the battle against Destiny made their status in Agnes' heart slightly smaller.

dropped a lot.

Ananya was also driven crazy by Agnes' unique torture. At this time, she had lost all her skin. After being blown to pieces by Bronya's siege cannon, her body was very tightly connected by sutures. It looked like

It looks like a mummy crawling out of a tomb.

She locked herself in her room all day long, holding a doll that looked like Bronya in her hand and torturing it with nails and a wooden hammer.

"Bronya Bronya Bronya!! You deserve to die!!"

Today, she was frantically using this method to resolve her pain.

Action location: Zone Z, high-risk area in the uncontrolled area of ​​Changkong City

"team leader!"

On the other side, Bronya was picked up high by a giant tentacle pinched by Porto and hung in the air. The giant octopus Honkaimon exposed its huge sucker-shaped mouth at the bottom, preparing to swallow her into its belly.

When Adam saw this, he jumped up from the ground, raised the flaming red sword, and cut off the tentacles with one sword, saving Bronya.

But this also caused Botuna to focus on him. Before he could hold Bronya to the ground, he was dodged by a giant tentacle and fell into the seabed.

"Adam!!!"

Upon seeing this, Carol saved Bronya and at the same time, she also waved her giant iron fist to attack the giant octopus, but Potato's reaction was faster, and her huge size did not affect her advantage in fighting in the sea.

"Let's all die!"

Before Carol's iron fist got close to Botu, Botu pinched her with one of his tentacles and lifted her up like a chicken.

Bronya was regarded as the main target by Potu. Not long ago, he launched a fierce offensive against her with his tentacles, hitting her with whip after whip. Finally, Bronya's protective force field could not be resisted.

He was crushed and fell to the ground exhausted.

After Timido settled Bronya, he ordered all members of the Valkyrie unit to attack and prepare to rescue Carol.

It seems that they can only let the headquarters provide long-range artillery support, Timido thought to herself, but if they do this, they may not be able to protect themselves.

Although she had made plans to sacrifice, she still remembered what Bronya once taught her, "the safety of her companions is higher than the mission," so she gave up the plan.

The giant monster in front of me is no less dangerous than the emperor-level Honkaimon, and even more dangerous than the emperor-level Honkaimon. Especially in the sea, this guy can regenerate infinitely and maintain high mobility.

This type of combat is an almost impossible opponent to defeat.

"Team members, follow me!"

After giving the order, everyone switched from long-range weapons to melee weapons, preparing to jump into the sea and fight with the big octopus on its body.

"Anyone who wants to hurt me will die!!"

Potoko roared and rolled up Hela high. The Valkyrie team members also jumped on it and ran towards its human part, which was Potoko, wanting to directly kill its body.

But at this moment, Botu's body began to shake violently, trying to get the Valkyries down. Many team members fell into the sea, and their lives were uncertain. Timido moved quickly, and she took the lead in coming to Botu.

Tu Zhen stepped forward and kicked out, but the attack was blocked by Potu Nian's extremely hard right hand.

The siliconized tissue covered her entire body except her face, making it difficult to fight with conventional weapons. Seeing that Botu was distracted and let go of Carol, Timido kicked her again, but still

Failed to penetrate enemy armor.

"Maggots!"

Potu roared, and many steel-hard spikes protruded from the buds connected to her huge body, attacking Timido.

Timido dodges quickly, jumps back and kicks, and the sharp blades installed on his feet cut off all the spikes.

On top of Botu's huge body, Timido was having a fierce battle with her body, while Ritter and Linqi looked after the unconscious Bronya, and could only look at what was in front of them helplessly.

This scene.

"Why doesn't the captain let Rin follow? Senior Ritter." Lin Qi asked.

Ritter thought for a while and replied: "After Rin experienced something like that, it is impossible to devote himself to this kind of battle. With such a monster, even if Rin can come, what can he do?

?”

While the two were still discussing, there was a sharp whistling sound in the sky, and Tianming's three cruisers were approaching here. It turned out that it was Timido's request for support that made Tianming send Youlandel.

A group of their Valkyries rushed over, standing in the sea with a golden glow, and hit the giant beast with a huge spear, causing it to let out a terrifying roar.

"Is Bronya okay?"

Wearing a Valkyrie uniform of silver knight armor, and holding the soul steel spear she was proud of - the Black Abyss White Flower, she landed on the deck of the Hela.

After seeing that Bronya was injured, he ordered Linqi and Ritter to take good care of her, and then launched the attack mode of Black Abyss White Flower, spread the golden archangel wings on his back, and faced this giant beast in the sea.

After seeing Youlandel, different from the crazy expression on his face before, he started to become frightened. He threw away Timidou, and his huge body gradually sank, trying to escape.

But Youlandel's spear was faster, and the golden spear rain fell from the sky and stuck on the sea surface, making it impossible for Potou Nie to escape. The giant beast's body twisted and struggled, and the golden light spear was fixed on the sea, just like

Like nails hammered into the wall, it is difficult to escape.

"Why! Why! I just don't want to get hurt! Don't kill me!!"

As golden flashes of light shot out from the tip of Black Abyss White Flower's spear, the giant beast was directly penetrated by such an attack. An obvious large hole was opened in the octopus's body. She fell into the sea without any struggle.

This incident ended briefly. With the support of Captain Hollander, the Herrscher-like "Tide" Botuna was annihilated. Bronya and Carol were seriously injured, and Adam fell into the sea.

, life or death is uncertain.

Tianming Maitreya City First Medical Hospital

Meiyi, who was still performing a secret mission in another place, heard the news, and after the mission was over, she hurried back to Tianming with Shizuru and the others to take care of Bronya and Carol, who were in charge of Dr. Edward.

Doctor Edward had just given Bronya simple treatment. At this time, Bronya was unconscious with a bandage on her head. According to the doctor's diagnosis, it was just because Bronya used too much energy.

The strength caused her to be exhausted at this time, and she would be fine after a few days of rest.

But Carol's condition is a bit serious. Because she was entangled by the tentacles for too long, her arm bones were broken in many places and several ribs were broken. She is still in the operating room waiting for her injuries to be treated. When Shizuru accompanied Meiji

When people came to check on the status of the team members, the anxious look on Mei Yi's face did not change at all.

She asked Dr. Edward about Carol's condition, and then anxiously waited outside the ward for the results in the operating room.

"Doctor, how is she doing?"

"It's not good. She has multiple fractures in her body, but I will try my best to treat her."

"Sorry, Carol, Adam...if I could be with you..."

"Oh, there's nothing we can do about it, Captain Mei. Since this is the personnel arrangement of the headquarters... the matter has come to this, so don't be too sad."

After Dr. Edward comforted Mei Yi for a few words, he went into the operating room for the operation. Mei Yi could only come to Bronya's ward and chatted with Bronya who woke up. Bronya showed a

With a frustrated and sad expression, he said to Mei:

"Sorry, Mei, I couldn't take care of them both."

"Don't say that, Bronya, I've heard everything. That enemy is indeed a bit difficult, and you tried your best."

"No, it's because I'm not strong enough. It would be great if I could use the power of the Lawyer of Reason like before..."

Bronya began to blame herself. For her, the injury to Meiyi's team members was actually her own responsibility due to her lack of ability, including Adam, who had followed her for a while.

"That's all in the past. Bronya is already working very hard now. I'm also very happy to see you being on your own... But, what happened to Adam..."

Speaking of Adam who fell into the sea, you can see the word "angry" written all over Mei Yi's face. After all, Adam and Carol have been with him the longest, and they are also the team members he trusts very much. Chela and

Jingliu and the two of them, because they were following their mission, did not carry out the clearing operation of Botu Nie in the past, so they did not encounter this kind of thing.

"Bronya, I would like to request a rescue operation from above. Can you lend me your Rin for a while?"

"That kid Rin has encountered a lot of things recently. I was afraid that his emotions would affect the mission, so I didn't let him perform the mission with us."

"That's it..."

Later, Mei learned from Bronya that Rin's mother was critically ill, so she seemed to understand Bronya's actions. At this time, Rin also learned that Bronya was seriously injured, and took Lin Qi with her.

Ritter and I came here to visit her.

"Captain! How are you?" Rin asked anxiously.

Bronya waved her hands to indicate that nothing was wrong with her, and then asked him to come to her bedside, put her face close to hers, and started talking to him in a low voice.

"Mei Yi wants you to go with her to search for the missing Adam. Can you go, or..."

"I'll go." Rin replied with a determined look.

After confirming that Rin was not as mentally affected as he thought, he gave him a few instructions and let them leave. He and Mei continued to chat.

"It seems that I was worrying too much. That child is much stronger than I thought."

"It seems that Bronya also understands how I felt back then. It's great."

"Sister Mei... Mei! Please don't say that."

Although Bronya became a little shy, she knew that what Mei said was true. She seemed to care about Rin a little too much.

"Then, Rin is left to you, Mei. Although I have put your team members in danger... please be sure to protect that child."

"That's not your problem, Bronya. This child Rin is very good. I believe he will not let you worry anymore."

Meiyi smiled and answered Bronya.

Although Bronya is not worried about Rin's strength, he is very powerful. After obtaining Hypernetus and Overlord Cells, his strength is obviously stronger than the two members of the same group, and he can even arm-wrestle with Shizuru. However,

, because she was worried that Rin's careless use of the Demon King Armor would shorten his lifespan, she was still worried that Rin would disregard his own safety because of this.

"Carol is getting better."

Mei noticed that Dr. Edward had finished his work, and he breathed a sigh of relief after seeing Carol being pushed onto a mobile stretcher and taken away by the doctors.

"Captain Bronya, my assistant just talked to me about something. I want her to come and talk to you in person."

Looking at Aiqia who stuck her head out from the door with an embarrassed expression, Bronya smiled and looked at her with kind eyes.

When Aqiya saw that everyone was paying attention to her, she crept in. While looking around in a panic, she tried to hide behind Dr. Edward. Doctor Edward noticed that Aqiya was hiding behind him.

With a timid look on his face, he chuckled secretly and said to everyone:

"Then I'm leaving, I won't disturb you anymore."

After Dr. Edward left, Aqia kept her head down, rubbing her fingers constantly, not daring to say a word.

"Aqiya."

"yes!!"

After Bronya called her, she quickly raised her head and responded, startling both of them.

"Just tell me if you have anything to say. You have also been with me as a Valkyrie for a few months. If there is anything you are embarrassed about, why can't you tell it to Sister Bronya?"

"I...I..."

Next to her, Mei also tried to encourage this girl who looked almost exactly like Kiana, but Aikiya was different from the Kiana they had in mind, and was a very shy person.

"I want to go with you!"

She said this.

Bronya showed a surprised expression at first, and then smiled kindly. She motioned for Aqia to come to her, and then took her hand.

"If it is true...then welcome back, Second Lieutenant Aqiya."

"yes!"

After Meiyi asked Bronya to have a good rest, she started busy with her own affairs. For her, she was very anxious after hearing about the accident that happened to her team member Adam.

Although she was sure that Adam fell into the sea, she knew from her previous experience of being desperately saved by Adam that Adam would never die easily because of this.

Therefore, she decided to apply to Hollander to go to the sea in Area Z to find Adam's whereabouts.

The members who performed this mission included Rin and Shizuru from Bronya's unit, Ekia who had just returned to the seventh unit, and Chera from her own unit, a total of five people. As for the first team of the Dawn Special Operations

, that is, the group headed by Youlandel suffered heavy losses. During the crusade against Portonie, the eighth unit belonging to the Valkyrie combat force lost many D-level and C-level Valkyrie operations.

combat team member.

The operation was expected to start tomorrow. Mei Yi didn't get a good sleep all night. After all, she was also worried about Adam's whereabouts.

Meeting point for the next day: Hyperion 5th Airport

"Good morning, Captain Mei."

Arriving at the meeting point, the fifth Hyperion Airport, Shizuru was already waiting for her with Aqia and Rin. But, unlike usual, she also saw the three of them leaning against the wall behind them.

The man in black with a bandage on his side looks like he is dozing off - Aiden.

"Ah, you are...the one that day..."

When Aiden heard Mei Yi's voice, he raised his head and noticed her, so he quickly straightened up his manners so as not to reveal his identity.

"This is the Aiden I mentioned to Captain Mei, the former member of the New Arcadia North Star Alliance, 'Doctor' Aiden."

"Nice to meet you."

The reason why Dr. Edward, also known as Aiden, came this time was very simple. He was worried about Aqiya. As his assistant and his childhood friend, Aqiya had been following him for a long time. The purpose of his following this time

, just to see if Aqiya would lose anything like she did in the battle against Ananya that day.

Although Aqia briefly served in the Bronya army for a period of time, at that time, Aqia was only doing simple work such as logistics.

"I contacted Aiden. He knew the situation there when he was an executive in New Arcadia, so I asked for his help."

Rin began to explain to Mei and Mei the reason why Aiden appeared here. In fact, both he and Aiden knew it well-after all, Aiden's true identity was Dr. Edward.

"Mr. Aiden, tell me, the giant beast that Bronya and the others encountered yesterday was a member of the Polaris Alliance. Is it true?"

"It's completely true. The enemy you encountered is the Herrscher codenamed 'Tide'. She has very terrifying abilities. The more damage she receives, the bigger her size will become. In the end, she may

It will cause large-scale collapse disasters, so we cannot leave it alone."

Aiden answered honestly and told all the information about "Tide".

Some time ago, after Aiden and Agnes broke up, his sister Ace was also targeted in New Arcadia. However, because Ace's follow-up work was well done, Agnes wanted to cause trouble for her.

Can't do it either.
Chapter completed!