"So it was you, Valkyries."
At the sight of the Mechanical Angels, Hela looked slightly surprised, then gave a contemptuous smile. "What, you losers want to die again?"
"Hela!"
The Mechanical Angels seethed with fury. Little Hela raised the Night Sky Sword and shouted, "This time, they won't die, because I'll lead them into battle against you. Attack!"
"Sisters, the time for revenge has come!"
Brunhilde, now a Mechanical Angel, shouted, and all the Mechanical Angels beat their wings at once. Countless metal feathers, sharp as throwing knives, shot toward Hela in a dense barrage.
"You're courting death."
Hela roared, and countless black swords whistled out from around her. Every bladed feather in their path died, dissolving into nothingness.
However, all the black swords vanished as well. Hela frowned slightly. These Mechanical Angels were stronger than they had been as Valkyries. Otherwise, that volley would have killed at least a dozen of them.
"I'll take the lead. Support me."
Little Hela called out, then charged at Hela with the Night Sky Sword in her left hand and Thor's Hammer in her right.
Hela snorted. With a turn of her black sword, an enormous death vortex appeared, sucking Little Hela toward it.
Seeing this, the Mechanical Angels attacked Hela to distract her.
Little Hela seized the chance to form a lightning greatsword over a hundred meters long. She cleaved through the death vortex and continued her slash toward Hela.
"Shatter!"
Hela roared and shattered Little Hela's greatsword with a single strike. Just as she prepared to counterattack, the Mechanical Angels' bladed feathers came shooting at her again.
Under the combined assault of Little Hela and the Mechanical Angel Legion, even Hela was forced onto the defensive. She could no longer drive Little Hela back as relentlessly as before.
*I can't reveal