Xina, Who Weighed Less Than Her Weapon

As for why it took several breaths to finish in one go... naturally, it was because the sniper rifle and its tripod weighed more than Xina could handle.

With Heavy Armor Bunny's help, Xina painstakingly set up the tripod and mounted the Large Sniper Rifle onto it.

"Let me see..." Xina followed the manual in the case and turned the energy output valve to level one, then casually picked a few Death Stalkers as targets and pulled the trigger.

Bang!

With a muffled boom, the ordinary scythe-wielding Death Stalker at the front was instantly blasted into pieces. A pale blue ball of energy exploded amid the Death Stalker horde behind it after shattering the target.

More than a dozen poor little Death Stalkers were frozen to the ground before they even saw what had attacked them.

Was this thing really a sniper rifle?!

Xina stared blankly at the Holy Spear Gear before her, seeming to gain a little more understanding of its bizarre power.

"Way to go, Captain." Mary drew the pistol from her waist, jogged over to the Death Stalkers frozen into ice sculptures, and put a bullet into each of their heads.

With Xina's single shot wiping out more than a dozen Death Stalkers as an example, the others joined the battle one after another.

In the end, with the help of the superhumanly strong Kaslana, the Death Stalkers quickly became dead bodies.

"Oh! All done! Nobody got hurt, right?" Xina asked with concern as she dismantled the equipment according to the manual.

"No, Captain." Mary shook her head.

"Hey, Rosa, why aren't you saying anything? Are you hurt?"

As she spoke, Mary quickly walked over to Rosa and waved a hand in front of her eyes.

"Hey! Ignoring me?" Mary circled behind Rosa, trying to observe the world from her perspective.

"Sigh..." For some reason, the sentimental Rosa let out a long sigh.

"Alright, don't waste time. We should head to our target point too." Xina closed the gun case, dragged it by its handle, and waved to Kiana and the others. "Kiana, we're heading to the sniper position. Take care! If you need long-range support, call me over the channel!"

"Mm, you take care too!" Mei nodded, watching Xina lead her team toward an abandoned high-rise not far away.

Fifteen minutes later...

"Captain, our sniper position is over there, right?" Rosa said happily, pointing at the building in the distance.

"Mm, that's right." Xina looked at the map projected from her wristwatch and estimated the distance in her head.

Thank goodness. Another ten minutes or so, and they'd reach the sniper position. Once they got there, she could rest on the rooftop. This little bit of walking had exhausted her.

"Captain, did you hear that? The other teams have all run into Honkai Beasts, but our route has been completely calm... Forget Honkai Beasts, we haven't even seen more than a couple of Death Stalkers." Mary pointed at her earpiece and remarked softly, "We're so lucky!"

"Right, we really are lucky." Xina's eye twitched a few times as she guiltily echoed her.

"That makes no sense. This is the Honkai Outbreak Core Zone. Even if Honkai Beasts were scarce, we shouldn't have failed to encounter a single one!" Rosa glanced around the eerily silent streets and couldn't help muttering, "There's nothing here. It's like someone deliberately chased all the Honkai Beasts away!"

"!" Xina—the Honkai Beast rancher—stiffened slightly. Then she turned around, curled her lips into a smile, and said, "Isn't it better without Honkai Beasts? Don't tell me you want to turn a corner and run into one like the other teams!"

"Um..." Rosa and Mary turned to look at each other, then said in unison, "Better not. We were just saying."

"That's more like it. We're so lucky—the other teams should be jealous of us."

With that, Xina turned and continued onward. She quickened her pace slightly along this stretch of road. Though to Valkyries with normal physical stamina, that increase was practically nonexistent... it didn't stop them from telling bad jokes as they walked.

By the time Xina reached their destination after listening to bad jokes for more than ten minutes, her face was as cold as ice, like a frozen fish pulled from a refrigerator.

How long had it been? Since becoming a Herrscher, how long had it been since she'd felt cold?

Yet today, these two Valkyries had embarrassed her so badly that she felt chilled to the bone.

Click, click!

The crisp sound of footsteps was especially clear inside the empty building. Xina walked over to the elevator and tentatively pressed the up button.

More than ten seconds passed, but the powerless elevator did not react in the slightest...

"The Safety Passage is clear!"

Mary kicked open the door to the Safety Passage. After taking just one glance inside, she determined there were no enemies within.

"The elevator's useless, Captain. Let's take the stairs! It's only fifty-five floors."

"Wait, how many floors did you say?!"

Hearing that terrifying number, Xina's lips began to tremble.

"Fifty-five floors! You wouldn't even break a sweat after climbing that many!" Mary drew her heavy sword and swung it twice, looking full of energy and excitement.

"Actually... I think... the five-story building next door is pretty nice too... How about we go next door..."

With that, Xina dragged her case and tried to head outside, only for her two teammates to block the doorway.

Xina now understood what Mary and Rosa were here for. She felt these two bodyguards had been specifically assigned by Theresa to stop her from slacking off whenever she saw a building was too tall to climb!

"Hey! What are you trying to do..." Xina crossed her arms over her chest and glared fiercely at her teammates.

"Captain, forgive us!" Mary and Rosa rushed to Xina's side. One carried the sniper rifle case, while the other slung Xina over her shoulder by the waist and sprinted toward the rooftop.

"Captain, you're so light! You weigh less than the equipment I'm carrying!"

Even while gripping a heavy sword and carrying Xina on her shoulder, Mary raced up the stairs without changing expression.

Xina was rather shocked by such outrageous physical prowess, and she couldn't help sighing inwardly: Could it be... that just anyone has so much better stamina than me? This is so irritating!