When They Were Heroes, Part 38

Otto clenched his fists, manipulating one of the missiles to fly in another direction.

Bai Ge, his gaze fixed on the sky, immediately noticed the missile whose trajectory had changed.

He looked at the missile flying into the distance with confusion, as if it were about to attack some other target.

"Otto!!!"

Suddenly realizing something, Bai Ge's eyes widened in disbelief. He once again desperately pushed the already overloaded Herrscher of the Void core, fully capturing the trajectory of the fission bomb.

Bai Ge already understood where the missile was headed.

Block Town.

It was the first town they visited after leaving Babylon Laboratory with Sirin and the others, and it was also the town where Bronya's mother was located!

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Chapter Forty-Six: You Should Be Treated Gently by This World (Seeking support for the new book)

Block Town.

"Bronya, my child, you must be born safely and grow up healthy and strong. Hehe~ I've been feeling much better lately, and Mom will work hard to give birth to you."

Alexandra Pavlovna Zaychik, this beautiful silver-haired pregnant woman, was taking a stroll by the street because she heard that walking more was good for the fetus.

Alexandra was in a very good mood.

She had met some very good children today, and incredibly, her physical condition had improved significantly since meeting those children.

Minor ailments she usually had had completely disappeared, and she felt energetic in everything she did.

Although she didn't know why, Alexandra thought perhaps it was because she had treated those children kindly, and God had rewarded her.

"Bronya, Bronya, Mom can't wait to see you~" Alexandra murmured the name she had prepared for the baby.

She wholeheartedly prayed and blessed her child, hoping she would be born smoothly into this world, grow up healthy, make good friends in the future, find a career she loved, and a person she loved, and live a happy and beautiful life... It must be said that this mother thought very far ahead.

However, at this moment.

"Hey, what's that?"

Someone on the street suddenly looked at the sky in terror. The others immediately followed his gaze, and then everyone fell into a panic.

"A missile, that's a missile!!"

"Oh my god, a missile is flying towards us!"

"No, no, I don't want to die yet!"

"Damn it! Why is this happening!"

Unreasonable death suddenly descended.

Mrs. Alexandra looked at the horizon blankly. She saw a missile flying towards the town, and despair appeared on her face.

It wasn't because she was about to die, but because of her unborn daughter.

Even though she knew it was futile, she instinctively shielded her belly with her hands.

But even if people could unleash several times their potential in times of crisis, allowing a frail woman to lift a heavy car, it was absolutely impossible to stop a missile from falling.

The townspeople shouted in despair.

Some people knelt on the ground in resignation.

Some people hugged their families.

Some people roared angrily at the missile.

All Alexandra could do at this moment was pray.

[God, please don't do this. I beg you, save my child. I'll pay any price, it doesn't matter. As long as my child, as long as Bronya can live, I'll do anything!]

It was as if Heaven had heard her prayer and was moved by her maternal love.

A miracle had truly happened!

A black hole with a golden rim suddenly appeared in the sky, and the missile flew straight into it and disappeared.

The next second, the strange black hole rapidly shrunk and finally disappeared as well.

"..."

The town fell silent.

Soon, the people erupted into deafening cheers.

"We're alive, we're alive!"

"What just happened?"

"Thank God! Thank God!"

"Yes, it must have been God who saved us!"

The people of the town couldn't think of any other explanation; it could indeed only be described as a miracle.

Having narrowly escaped death, they all knelt on the ground.

Everyone repeatedly kowtowed in the direction where the 'black hole' miracle had disappeared, expressing their gratitude.

Alexandra was still in a daze.

Everything had happened too suddenly. The crisis of death had arrived abruptly, only to vanish just as quickly.

She slumped to the ground, her heart still pounding with lingering fear.

Yet, for some reason, the image of a young boy inexplicably surfaced in Alexandra's mind.

"Bai Ge—!!!"

Sirin watched in despair as the boy fell from the sky.

The people of Block Town didn't know.

They didn't know that the one who had just saved them, the one they treated as a god, was actually a young boy. Even less did they know that this boy was now on the verge of perishing.

Bai Ge had used the Herrscher of the Void's authority to its limit, forcibly opening a portal tens of thousands of meters away to intercept the missile.

Even at his peak, such an action would have been pushing the boundaries of a Herrscher's power. To do so when he was already utterly exhausted was even more so.

After catching the Honkai Energy fission bomb, Bai Ge no longer had the strength to teleport it elsewhere. Thus, the fission bomb detonated within the imaginary space he controlled, and this... was almost equivalent to being hit directly by Bai Ge himself.

Fortunately, that was the last missile.

Schicksal's armory could no longer launch another missile, but... this final missile had still accomplished Otto's objective.

The Valkyries present watched with their own eyes as the angel who had saved them was shot down by humanity's arrow.

The boy's blood splattered like rain, and he himself was about to fall to the earth.

"Catch him, Black Abyss White Flower!!"

Cecilia fiercely threw the Black Abyss White Flower, and the next second, green vines erupted from the ground, catching Bai Ge.

She herself immediately rushed over, trembling as she channeled the Divine Key in her hand, continuously injecting Honkai Energy in an attempt to heal the boy with the Flower's power.

But it was already futile.

"How could this happen? This is too much. No, it can't be. There's still time, there's still time! Black Abyss White Flower, I don't care if I have to use all my blood and Honkai Energy, please save him, you must save him!"

His breathing was faint, almost imperceptible, and his heart had already stopped beating. The accumulated injuries within his young body made Cecilia's heart ache as if being sliced by a knife.

"No, it'll be okay. Please open your eyes, Bai Ge, Bai Ge! We promised, we promised we'd always be together from now on, that we'd have a happy life. So please, open your eyes. Please, don't leave me, Sirin!"

"Master, how could this happen? Humans, humans, it's all your fault! It's because of you that my Master is... No, no, Master's core has already..."

Not just Cecilia, but Sirin and Bella, everyone present, surrounded him at that moment.

The Valkyries looked at Bai Ge in Cecilia's arms with regret and self-blame, desperately praying for him to open his eyes. They were willing to offer everything they had as atonement.

As if receiving their hopes, Bai Ge actually slowly opened his eyes.

"Sirin, Bella, everyone... Are you all okay? Are you hurt?" This was the first thing he said.

"!!!" xN

Everyone felt their hearts shatter at that moment, tears uncontrollably spilling from their eyes.

They didn't know what to say, but each of them desperately wanted to hold this boy close, to protect him, to heal him, and to never let him suffer any harm again.

Even though they didn't know Bai Ge, they were all absolutely certain—this boy should never have been treated this way! He deserved all the good things in the world!

Yet, such an angelic boy had been forced to become a Herrscher. This world must have gone wrong somewhere to have hurt him to this extent!

Guilt filled the hearts of these Valkyries. They hated themselves for having been his enemy before, for having done such shameful and hateful things!

"Idiot, idiot! We're fine. Everyone is protected by you, but... why did you save us? Bai Ge, you could have dodged it yourself! We're not worth it, truly not worth you doing this."

"...It's good that everyone is alright."