Yae Sakura, the Cutest in the World!

The moment Dong Moxuan finished speaking, Yae Sakura either had another flare-up of her injuries or something else happened. She failed to catch her breath, closed her eyes, and fell unconscious again.

Dong Moxuan: "..."

Looking at the pink-haired girl beneath him, Dong Moxuan fell into a dilemma.

Yae Sakura seemed to have passed out. What was he supposed to do?

Should he leave her here and go reunite with Mei and the others?

Although Changkong City no longer had many survivors, even if he left Yae Sakura here, some indescribable AVI-format incident probably wouldn't happen.

Yae Sakura was a Quasi-Herrscher herself, so the Honkai-infected creatures wouldn't be able to hurt her.

But Dong Moxuan had once been a captain, after all. He felt that leaving Yae Sakura like this was somewhat dishonorable.

Moreover, the power of a Quasi-Herrscher could not be casually ignored. Yae Sakura had been one of the reasons he came to Changkong City in the first place.

So, in the end, he had better find somewhere to settle this pink-haired Quasi-Herrscher down first!

With that thought, Dong Moxuan picked up the pink-haired fox in front of him and left.

Mm, so soft!

A few minutes later, Mei and the others arrived late, but they could no longer find any trace of the boy.

A dozen or so minutes earlier...

Changkong City, beside a certain ruin, a Valkyrie clad in blue-and-white armor swung her spear, wantonly unleashing her power in this city that had already been reduced to ruins.

She looked ahead and hurled her spear, blasting an area dozens of meters wide into pieces.

However, faced with such a result, the blonde Valkyrie showed not the slightest hint of delight.

She waved away the dust before her and looked at the empty ruins ahead, her eyes turning slightly solemn.

"Did it get away...?"

"But, a Quasi-Herrscher?"

"I never expected there to be an existence in Changkong City capable of injuring me!"

A wound several centimeters long on the blonde girl's lower abdomen was bleeding.

Although it was only a minor injury, it still demonstrated the extraordinary strength of the shrine maiden in the miko outfit.

However, the most important thing was...

"I was careless this time..."

As she spoke, the girl picked up the sacred golden polyhedron that the Quasi-Herrscher had sent flying earlier.

The polyhedron was extraordinarily sturdy. Even after taking a full-force attack from a Quasi-Herrscher, it had not sustained the slightest damage.

"Mm, fortunately, it wasn't damaged..."

This was the key Bishop Otto had given her to find that thing. If the enemy had damaged it because she had gotten carried away fighting, she wouldn't know how to explain it to that green—cough, blonde bishop.

After confirming that the polyhedron was undamaged, the blonde girl was about to put it back against her chest.

However, before she could carry out her plan, the polyhedron radiated a beam of light, directly knocking her hand away and floating into the air.

Then...

"Rumble!"

Accompanied by a thunderous roar, the ground beneath the girl's feet began to shake.

The golden polyhedron seemed to be resonating with something, continuously emitting waves of a certain frequency in all directions.

This process continued for more than ten seconds before the golden polyhedron seemed to have exhausted its energy and dropped to the ground.

"Was this thing... activated by the attack just now?"

Picking up the polyhedron, the girl muttered to herself in confusion.

"It seems something came out from beneath the river channel over there..."

The girl's powerful perception quickly told her where in Changkong City the change had occurred.

She tucked the polyhedron against her chest and prepared to head toward the source of the earthquake.

But just as she raised her foot, she seemed to sense something. She turned toward a corner of the ruins and shouted coldly, "Who's there?! Come out!"

"I'm coming out! I'm coming out right now! I mean no harm, so don't kill me!"

The moment the blonde girl finished speaking, a crisp female voice, timid to the extreme, came from behind the ruins.

A petite girl in a Gothic Lolita dress walked out from behind the ruins.

She held an exquisite ancient sword with a wooden scabbard in her hands, her head slightly lowered as she hardly dared to look at the transcendent existence before her, who seemed unbelievably terrifying to her.

"An ordinary person?"

Sensing the condition of the Black-haired Girl, the blonde girl's expression showed slight surprise.

She had never expected an ordinary person to have survived in Changkong City.

The girl did not look as though she possessed a Stigmata, so how had she resisted the erosion of Honkai Energy?

Just as the blonde Valkyrie was wondering about this, the exquisite ancient sword held in the Black-haired Girl's arms drew her attention.

Her expression became somewhat shocked.

The ancient sword was exceptionally ornate. A black gemstone was set into the pommel, resembling an eye opening in the abyss and making one feel a chill.

It was impossible to tell what material the hilt had been made of. It looked like some kind of jade.

Most crucially, the red crystal set in the center of the hilt contained Honkai Energy no weaker than that of a Herrscher.

It was this crystal that emitted a strange fluctuation, protecting the Black-haired Girl from the effects of the Honkai Energy in Changkong City.

Could this be... a Herrscher Core?

No, Herrscher Cores didn't feel like this.

Then... the core of an Emperor-class Honkai Beast?

No, the core of an Emperor-class Honkai Beast did not contain such powerful Honkai Energy.

After thinking for a long while without reaching a conclusion, the blonde girl did not obsess over it. Instead, she shifted her gaze to the scabbard.

Then, the expression on the blonde girl's face became shocked once again.

The scabbard looked unremarkable. Phoenix-like patterns were carved into it, and its overall appearance suggested that it had been made from fine red sandalwood.

However, the blonde girl's perception told her that the sword's scabbard had been entirely condensed from Honkai Energy solidified into physical form!

The blonde girl herself could condense Honkai Energy into physical form.

But to refine pure Honkai Energy, without a trace of impurities, into a scabbard and preserve it for so long...

Even as an S-rank Valkyrie of Schicksal, she could hardly imagine it.

Even Divine Keys were forged from the physical material known as "Soul Steel" combined with a "Herrscher Core."

A scabbard formed entirely from Honkai Energy...

Even with Schicksal's technology, it seemed unbelievable.

Looking at the ancient sword before her, the distracted blonde Valkyrie instinctively reached out to touch it, but the sword's aura cut her hand.

Was this sword... rejecting her?

When the Gothic Lolita-dressed girl saw the blonde woman get injured, her heart leaped. She was about to explain that the sword had moved on its own and that she had nothing to do with it.

However, the blonde girl spoke before she could.

"What is this sword called...? Where did you get it?"

The blonde girl looked at the ancient sword, her expression serious.

Seeing that the blonde girl did not seem to blame her, the Gothic Lolita-dressed girl hesitated for a while before answering timidly, "It... it's called the Taixu Divine Sword. My mother said she found it together with me in some graveyard."