As a fiery red beam pierced through the Mass Collective Ship's body, the enormous monster instantly turned into fireworks blooming in space.
"Fireworks bursting into bloom, blooming in the night sky..."
Watching the fireworks outside the window, Fang Zheng softly hummed a few lines, then turned around and grinned at the others.
"Well? See? I told you it'd be easy."
If not for obtaining that core, Fang Zheng would not even have needed to waste so much time. He could have blasted this piece of junk apart face-to-face with a single shot—no matter how large it was, before the First Flame, was it not just firewood?
"Hmph."
Hearing Fang Zheng speak, Tesla turned away with an annoyed snort, too lazy to pay him any attention. The others exchanged silent looks, while Einstein studied the scene before them with considerable interest.
"So, you mean... you saw Guardians from the Imaginary Tree inside the core?"
"That's right."
Fang Zheng gave Tesla a curious glance. Although he had no idea what she was sulking about, he turned back and explained it to the other three.
"I sensed something similar to a Herrscher aura from those things. The intensity of their Honkai Energy was not high enough, but it was obvious that they and the Herrschers should come from the same source."
Fang Zheng was referring to the clockwork-like robots he had encountered in that enormous castle, as well as the spider-like puppet hanging upside down from the ceiling. They were clearly artificial constructs, similar in nature to autonomous defense robots and completely unlike Honkai Beasts. They also bore obvious signs of being controlled.
"We never found anything like this before, did we?"
"With a Herrscher's body, something that large could not fit inside anyway, right?"
Fang Zheng shrugged. He had not encountered anything