The Songstress Goddess Zero / A Growing Motherly Heart

Kevin chuckled lightly, but his eyes held a deeper meaning.

"Utterly boring..."

Ling casually placed the Matryoshka doll on the roof of the car, his tone disdainful.

"Well, in this era, our civilization is relatively advanced. Basic material needs can be met, most people can distinguish right from wrong, and gratitude is a natural part of life..."

"We're not perfect, but we try our best to live life to the fullest, and you'll fall in love with this place..."

Kevin released his embrace, tossed a coin, and walked away.

Zero, with her right hand braced against the car roof, nimbly leaped into the vehicle. As the Diva's figure disappeared, the Matryoshka doll beside her also vanished without a trace.

As expected, to build favorability, you have to slowly boil the frog in water...

Does this... count as sacrificing myself for humanity? It seems so...

Kevin caught the coin, poured a few mints from the box in his pocket, popped them into his mouth and chewed them, feeling quite pleased with himself.

For a moment, he seemed to be moved by his own greatness and holiness.

Just as someone was indulging in shameless self-satisfaction, snowstorms swept across the distance, causing the car to bounce constantly even on a smooth road.

"Sir, the ground is shaking violently; a large force of Honkai Beast is approaching!"

A young Russian man, a former border guard, hurriedly Kevin via radio, carrying military binoculars.

It feels like those previous Honkai Beast squads were more like scouts; now they've encountered a regular army?

With our limited manpower, we can only manage a small appetizer like dessert; the main course... is that...?

Just as Kevin was deep in thought, a terrifying purplish-red beam of light, more than ten meters in diameter, swept across the sky above everyone's heads and crashed into a location about 20 kilometers ahead like a comet falling to earth.

In an instant, the seven layers of mirror-like Energy Shield were pried open one by one, and the refracted purplish-red light successively leveled the nearby mountain peaks.

At the fault line, eerie purplish-red crystals spread and grew, causing the nearby coniferous forests to wither and die. Wild animals forced out of the forests roared madly and transformed into the appearance of Honkai Beast.

However, the success rate is quite dismal; most bodies completely crystallize and subsequently explode and die.

Oh no, something's happened at the B-17 military supply depot!

Kevin looked back at the towering Babylon Tower in the North, where he saw traces resembling a vacuum trajectory, and hissed in shock.

The Red Queen's race has always followed a path of technological evolution. If she were to take charge, it wouldn't be impossible for her to upgrade the Babylon Tower with technology and create a super weapon powered by Honkai energy!

After all, the Honkai energy reactor in the Babylon Laboratory is capable of supporting enormous energy consumption.

It seems that not only was the news brought by Theresa and her duo crucial, but the Honkai army of the Babylon Tower also indeed faced a power vacuum.

Break through! Break through as quickly as possible! Survive this wave, then immediately organize your forces for a "Scalpel Operation"!

Kevin's eyes sharpened as he summoned Theresa, the Valkyrie had recovered half of her strength, and charged towards the assembled Honkai Beast regular army.

While he wasn't particularly outstanding in conventional group military operations, Kevin's keen battlefield instincts made him quite adept at infiltrating and utilizing small elite units.

Meanwhile, the Babylon Tower.

The Red Queen stood on the top floor, a cold, sinister smile on her face. With a slight wave of her right hand, the Honkai energy reactor, gradually began to dissipate heat.

"Your Highness, the [Antimatter Honkai Cannon] at full power has breached the energy shield of the B-17 military supply depot..."

"However, the [dome] sealing off the Siberia region has reduced the continuous output rate of Honkai energy by 25%, and instability in the spatial energy matrix has occurred in several areas, including B4 and D1..."

"Based on data calculations, it will take at least 12 hours before the [Antimatter Honkai Cannon] meets the launch requirements..."

An experimental subject, determined to take revenge on the world, went up to the top floor to report, carrying a tablet computer.

"The main force of Schicksal has not yet assembled; we must eliminate those who know the truth as soon as possible! Her Majesty the Queen's plan to rule cannot afford to fail!"

"Order them to press forward!"

The Red Queen stretched her joints, opened the command channel, and issued the attack signal to her troops.

B-17 military supply depot, nano-metal high wall defense line.

The Honkai Beast, having been driven back once again, split into two groups like a tide. In the center, two teams of little girls, clad in silver nanometal armor with strange patterns appearing on their bare skin, took to the air riding on Charge-type Honkai Beast.

This is... Valkyrie! How is this possible!

The people on the city wall were dumbfounded until the little girls whose arm armor had materialized into Tactical Sword rushed into the position and coldly took away the lives of nearly a hundred people in one fell swoop. Only then did they wake up from their dream.

P. S.: I've been saving up some drafts these past few days, and I'll set a fixed update time of 6 AM to make it easier for everyone to follow the story.

Chapter 335, Section 352: Diva Goddess Zero

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

In the chaos, the snipers on the watchtower began to return fire, unleashing cone-shaped bullets from [Valkyrie's Spear], the purifying effect of [Gungnir], and a barrage of attacks.

However, hundreds of Charge-type Honkai Beast nearby constantly circled around the two Valkyrie teams, their job being to clear obstacles and block bullets.

"Swarm Mobile Armor"! Using small combat units as living outer defense systems, a tactic frequently used by the Red Queen when commanding her fleet!

"Boom!"

As if things weren't bad enough, the soldiers on the high wall hadn't even recovered from their shock when the wall beneath their feet began to tremble violently.

Three Temple-class and ten Chariot-class Honkai Beast collectively charged towards the selected metal walls in the east, west, and south sections. The shields, resembling giant battering rams, and the pointed knight's lances slammed into their designated positions one after another.

Some unlucky soldiers even accidentally fell off the city wall, screaming as they were swallowed up by the waves of Honkai Beast, turning into a pool of bloody mud on the ground that was impossible to recognize.

At this moment, the "Valkyrie" surrounding the living armor swooped down and, in one wave of attack, destroyed a third of the fifty watchtowers! The snipers and anti- Honkai weapons within were also completely destroyed.

Meanwhile, the Honkai Beast on the ground changed their formation again. Every two to three spherical Ballista-class Honkai Beast lay supine in groups, lifting up a Chariot-class Honkai Beast together.

Immediately, amidst flashes of electromagnetic sparks, they unleashed their power, hurling forty to fifty Chariot-class Honkai Beast into the fortress of the B-17 military supply station.

"Launch S-400 air defense missiles to intercept immediately!"

Seeing more than 40 Chariot-class Honkai Beast hurtling towards the civilian settlement, the radar tracked the flight path of more than a dozen missile vehicles, each locking onto their targets and almost emptying their remaining stockpile.

Immediately, explosions erupted in the air, but the surface-to-air missiles were quite ineffective against the heavily armored and resilient Chariot-class Honkai Beast, shooting down only two-thirds of the flying objects.

The remaining dozen or so Honkai Beast crashed into various corners of the refugee settlements. Due to the bombardment by anti-aircraft missiles, their flight paths became even more unpredictable, and they were almost evenly scattered across every area.

"Cocolia! Sir! Give the order!"

Remaining atop the city wall, the long-legged commander of the YoRHa Unit, responsible for strategizing operations, reached out and shook Cocolia awake from her daze; her expression was unusually serious.

Due to the sudden attack of the [Antimatter Honkai Cannon], the three-layer Energy Shield of the B-17 military fortress collapsed completely, and the more than 20 Arc Reactor embedded around it were also destroyed one after another.

Now, they are like helpless girls stripped naked, all their secrets and weaknesses completely exposed to the Honkai Beast army.

Today, the B-17 military fortress is infiltrated by Honkai Beast, and thousands of monsters are lurking outside. The bizarre Babylon Tower is even equipped with such terrifying long-range weapons.

All factors combined, it's a miracle the defenses didn't collapse.

Because the SCP Foundation, YoRHa Unit, and the Russian military are all mixed forces, it's difficult to say that they can trust each other. Only Cocolia command and direct them with ease!

"The YoRHa Unit split into two; the first force dispersed the horde of Honkai Beast that were breaching the walls! Their strategy was to engage in skirmishes rather than direct combat!"

"Don't you still have a few Variable Hover Armor? The second one, as the main force, must stop those little girls outside the high wall defense line!"

"All ground artillery units, fire continuously, using barrages as a short-term shield for the fortress!"

"The small mechs repaired by the SCP Foundation, along with the shield-wielding Americans, are wiping out the Honkai Beast that have been thrown into the fortress!"

"Ground-based conventional response forces are responsible for evacuating the population and using heavy weapons to drive the Honkai Beast to designated hunting areas!"

"All engineers, send out! Divide into groups and head to the storage location of the various Arc Reactor. Based on the holographic projection, have that American mechanic guide you on how to replace the core and activate the shields there!"

"We must be fully prepared before that thing fires a second time!"

Cocolia seemed to wake from a dream, clutching her hair and pacing back and forth on the city wall, muttering to herself. Meanwhile, the YoRHa Unit support combat robots hovering around her clearly transmitted each command to their respective units.

After these effective strategies were implemented, the chaotic ranks gradually returned to order.

But the good times didn't last long. Three Second-generation Sentinel Robot rose into the air, their dazzling laser beams, fierce storms, and razor-sharp Ice Blade sweeping across the nanometal wall.

In an instant, the metal walls could not keep up with the rate of destruction, and large sections of them broke and collapsed. Nearly a hundred people fell into the Honkai Beast horde, becoming scarlet marks on the snowfield.

The X-Gene have completed their fusion and transformation!

Sarah, who was in charge of commanding a small team, stared at the crack in the wall to her left, took a deep breath, and looked gloomy. She had almost gotten herself killed.

The situation is getting worse and worse; the pace of technological advancement in human weaponry cannot keep up with the evolution and expansion of the Honkai Beast and Skynet Legion.

These three Second Generation Sentinel are roughly equivalent to two A-class Valkyrie, making it difficult to complete the extermination mission simply by sheer numbers.

Not to mention, the current B-17 military fortress is already short of troops.

Are we really going to wait for that thing to fire a second shot and wipe them all out in one fell swoop? Cocolia was exhausted, and her gaze towards the battlefield in mid-air was filled with reluctance.

They were just a bunch of innocent kids, why would the Honkai even exploit their ignorant souls!

However, Cocolia had already paid the price for her kindness once, and if she continued to dawdle, the entire B-17 military fortress would be destroyed.

The most urgent task is to figure out how long the cannon's cooldown period is, so that they can deal with it calmly.

After all, the psychological pressure caused by that thing is far greater than its actual destructive power.

"Based on the pressure-bearing limits of various metal types and previous energy fluctuation values, this thing will require at least 8-12 hours to cool down..."

Upon receiving the feedback, Commander Yoriha quickly reported the analysis from one of her intelligence agents to Cocolia.

But now, with the addition of Second-generation Sentinel Robot —mobile artillery platforms—the morale of the troops has plummeted, and the defensive line is on the verge of collapse.

A Second Generation Sentinel had briefly disabled this section of the city wall's firing point even turned its red Cyclops toward Cocolia.

At the moment when the energy accumulated to its peak, a greatsword burning with flames spun and cleaved the Second Generation Sentinel cleanly in two.

Meanwhile, a dozen or so black dots intruded into the Honkai Beast's ranks. Upon closer inspection, they turned out to be small convoys with little armed force.

This is like an ant rushing into a herd of mammoths—a reckless, suicidal attack.

The other surviving Second Generation Sentinel immediately turned his head, and a scarlet laser beam swept across the ground.

It's over! Cocolia's sorrow had barely begun to build when a strange chant, indistinguishable in language, echoed across the entire battlefield.

In an instant, the red flower buds surrounding the convoy bloomed under the laser light, and thousands of petals shot out in all directions.

Everything that was hit, whether it was Honkai Beast or Second Generation Sentinel, disintegrated instantly after dense Nordic Rune appeared on its wounds.

The obstacles in front of the convoy were cleared away, and most of the battlefield was emptied! The heavily Honkai Beast scattered and fled.

"ZERO! ZERO! ZERO!"

"The goddess has come to save us! Long live the Diva!"

The cheers emanating from the convoy echoed in the soldiers' ears. The survivors immediately transformed into fanatical believers, raising their arms and joining the celebration.

Chapter 336, Section 353: The Growing Heart of the Virgin Mary

At the forward position of the B-17 military fortress, hundreds of YoRHa Unit disembarked and landed, forming ranks and drawing their Tactical Sword to pay the highest respect to Kevin.

After a long absence, the tall, blond Commander, now exuding a sharper air, stepped to the front of the ranks and presented his sword, signifying the handover of command.

"Commander!"

Kevin didn't refuse, accepted the Tactical Sword, and naturally shouted a slogan, which was echoed by the group of very attractive YoRHa Unit girls.

The SCP Foundation's Fifth Task Force—"YoYa"—seems to be confirmed. The commander's lips curled into a slight smile, his satisfaction evident.

When he and the YoRHa Unit were welcomed into the fortress, the various factions had already crowded both sides of the road.

Although Commander-in-Chief Cocolia appeared reserved and dignified, he couldn't help but feel excited and even made a move to get closer to him.

"The Yoriha Task Force has conducted extensive search and rescue operations and located the enemy, and has laid an ambush outside the city as planned. The mission is complete, and we are here to report!"

Amid Cocolia's slightly surprised gaze, Kevin stepped forward and saluted the Commander with a humble posture.

Having weathered many storms, Cocolia hesitated for only a moment before subtly taking Kevin's hand and nodding with a smile.

Patrick noticed that the Russian military personnel and some scattered civilian self-help organizations gathered around also seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and the distance they had unconsciously created between themselves and Cocolia had unknowingly narrowed considerably.

It is human nature to seek advantage and avoid harm. No one present was stupid; they could naturally see that the arrival of this person had already caused almost all of the high-end military forces to side with him.

Adding to the devastating blow outside the city, if this person were to launch a coup to seize power, there would be a 70% chance of success, leading to another round of reshuffling.

Cocolia, whose attention was completely drawn to Kevin, was clearly unaware of this dangerous element.