Glory Amidst the Light

Floating Base

The starlight spilled across the silver Metal Platform, while drifting clouds rose and fell along the edges of the enormous machinery.

Bang--

The blood-soaked girl violently tore open the sealed hatch from the inside, raised her head, and looked at the stars in the sky.

"We're out?"

She gripped a folded metal scythe and casually tossed the monster, now reduced to half a body, back into the compartment.

The creature's flesh-and-blood body decayed in midair, rapidly vanishing.

The girl turned her head and glanced behind her.

The corridor beneath the bright lights was covered in vivid bloodstains, yet there was not a single intact corpse.

She lowered her head and looked at her pale palm, covered in blood.

Those corpses had ultimately all become her strength.

The girl's gaze finally fell on the sealed coffin floating not far behind her.

At that moment, she finally understood where her power had come from.

She did not know whether that invisible power came from the saint-like girl within the coffin or from some even more distant existence.

But she knew that all of this was probably connected to Hao Yi Gege.

In a world filled with extraordinary powers and great might, no one would bestow their favor upon a Little Girl like her, someone who had nothing, except that person.

After arriving at this Floating Base, the girl in the coffin had appeared only at the beginning. She had stood beside Lin Chichi and taught her a certain fighting technique for wielding power.

Not long after that, she seemed to have fallen into slumber for some reason. Since then, the sealed coffin had never opened again, merely floating behind Lin Chichi.

Lin Chichi was not particularly gifted at fighting, but she forced herself to remember every move the girl in