Foundation Exusiai, Containment Breach! Chapter 43

The Ultramarines stared blankly as she went out into space without any protection, hardly believing their eyes.

Her slender figure overlapped with the burning river of stars beyond the window.

The shadow cast by the Battle Moon engulfed her, yet only made her outline shine brighter, as though countless supernovas were collapsing within her petite body.

"I'm going to—" She raised her magic wand, and the ball of light gathering at its tip dyed the entire bridge blood-red. "Smash the moon—"

"—to pieces!!"

The magical girl's hostility alone filled every Ork with fear from the depths of their hearts!

It seemed they had provoked a monster!

The magical girl raised her wand high and began to chant.

"Miracles and magic exist! They really do exist!!!"

She cried out, and the light from her wand shone ever brighter, instantly becoming the focal point of the entire battle.

Queen of Hatred's magic circle abruptly blossomed in the void, piercing the gloom of the battlefield like an exploding supernova.

Countless rainbow streams burst from her petite body, interweaving in the vacuum into a colossal magic circle several kilometers wide. Every line within it flowed with a torrent of magic powerful enough to tear apart the laws of physics.

The Battle Moon's orbital defense systems flashed frantically. Thousands upon thousands of gravity weapons turned their muzzles toward her, only to melt into molten iron the instant they took aim.

The point of light condensing at the center of the magic circle had become so scorching that even the stars dimmed before it.

"Believe in miracles, sorrowful people! I will save you!"

With her childish yet star-shaking cry, the rainbow torrent erupted.

Rumble—!

Under the dazzling seven-colored radiance, the Ultramarines, the Blood Ravens, and even Xiao Huasheng could not help narrowing their eyes as they watched the brilliant sight.

Wherever that beam of magical energy, more than three hundred meters in diameter, passed, space itself warped into rainbow-colored cracks.

The Battle Moon's thick armor vaporized like butter. Its fortress installations were pierced in an instant, while the sea of lava was thrown up into towering golden-red waves thousands of meters high by the magical aftershock.

The entire Battle Moon shuddered violently, and the struck hemisphere lit up with a glare bright enough to burn the retina.

When the light finally faded somewhat, a massive hole with molten metal flowing around its edges had punched straight through the moon's core, wide enough to swallow an entire hive city.

Through that savage wound, its internal structures could be seen, torn apart by the magical aftershock.

The wreckage of Ork warships tumbled through the vacuum, with countless Greenskins falling out.

And metal waterfalls spewed from the breach, solidifying into strange crystalline formations in space.

The magical girl's skirt still drifted gently in the weightless environment, while the residual magic in her hair dyed all the scattered warship debris within several kilometers pink.

She slowly lowered her wand, looked at the steadily collapsing wound she had carved into the celestial body, and suddenly let out an adorable sneeze.

"Ah-choo!" Rubbing her nose, she turned around. The tips of her magic boots tapped lightly against the void, leaving a trail of starlit footprints behind her. "Um, do you have any hot cocoa? Using so much magic made me a little cold. I think I need to warm up. Hehe, just kidding~"

She stuck out her little tongue at Xiao Huasheng behind her and gave her a V sign.

Even in battle, a magical girl must not forget to be cute.

That was very important!

But even so, no one could ignore the destruction she had caused.

Before her hung the melted-through Battle Moon, hollowed out like some vision of hell. It formed an eerie sight amid the galaxy.

Standing by the window, Xiao Huasheng gave her a V sign as well.

Returning the gesture.

The interaction between the two girls made the Ultramarines feel as though they had been transported to another age.

Were these two really human?

Everyone, Lend Me Your Strength!? [7th Update]

Whether they were Orks or forces of the Imperium.

Anyone who saw this scene turned their attention toward it.

There was no other reason.

That magical girl, shining so brilliantly that it seemed she wanted the whole world to see her pose, was simply impossible to ignore.

Holding her magic wand, she flashed from place to place, rescuing the human fleet.

"I'll blast you all to pieces!" she laughed as she fired.

Only when fighting against "evil" did she truly feel what it meant to be alive.

Sure enough, she had been born to save the world.

Queen of Hatred thought so with all her heart.

Every fleet witnessed this scene.

When they saw the magical girl truly bringing them hope, they began to roar wildly.

"The Emperor is with us!"

"The Emperor's living saint!"

"Aaaaaah!"

Whether they were burly men in the fleet or the struggling servitors.

The moment they saw such a shining existence descend into their world like an angel.

In that instant.

The gloomy darkness that this dark universe had long bred within their hearts was suddenly swept away.

All they could see was the adorable magical girl beating up the Orks.

At the same time, when she fought the Orks, her voice seemed to possess a strange penetrating power.

It passed cleanly through the force fields and directly into the minds of everyone watching her.

"I can hear everyone's voices!!"

Glittering brightly, she blasted an Ork warship apart, then raised a hand to greet the crew aboard a ship watching her. "Your support has given me strength! I'll do my best to destroy evil!"

But the good times did not last. The moment she finished speaking, a devastating beam erupted from the Battle Moon!

That crimson beam of destruction was like the fang of some ancient beast, instantly piercing the magical girl's slender body.

The Orks' most powerful gravity weapon erupted at that moment, and the torrent of space-warping energy completely swallowed her petite figure.

"Uwah—!"

The magical girl's scream became an invisible tremor in the vacuum.

Her pink dress carbonized in an instant, exposing the snow-white skin beneath, burned raw.

Glistening drops of blood seeped from her wounds, turning into a tragic necklace of rubies in the zero-gravity environment.

Yet she had taken head-on an attack powerful enough to destroy a human warship.

And still, she floated there stubbornly.

"I was careless, careless!"

The crew aboard the other Imperium vessels had time to look over now that the nearby Orks had all been dealt with by the magical girl.

Seeing her take that hit made everyone's hearts clench.

"Be careful!!"

"May the Emperor protect her!"

"No, no, no, no!!"

She heard the crowd's support, and her gaze gradually hardened.

"I... I can't fall yet..." Her trembling fingers clenched tightly around the broken wand. Beneath lashes stuck together by blood, her starry eyes still shone brightly. "Everyone... is watching me!"

With a shout, she pulled herself together.

Forcing her grievously wounded body to keep going.

Countless magic circles unfolded before her, layer upon layer, all facing the Battle Moon!

Dozens more targeting reticles lit up across the Battle Moon's surface.

WAAAGH energy gathered within the Orks' cannon muzzles, staining even the pitch-black void an ominous green.

The Orks' second volley was charging, and the energy readings made the bridge alarms shriek piercingly.

But the magical girl smiled.

She tore off a strip of her skirt and used the ragged ribbon to bind the wand to her mangled right hand.

Her blue hair had long since come undone, streaming through the dark universe like a battle flag.

"I am—" She aimed at the Battle Moon bristling with cannon muzzles as her magic burned wildly. "—a magical girl who's going to become a great hero!"

Just as the gravity weapons' volley was about to engulf her, a light brighter than the sun burst from the center of the magic circles.

Boom! Boom! Boom!!

Through the viewport, Xiao Huasheng felt as though she were truly watching a magical girl anime set against the backdrop of a space opera.

It was a beam clash!!

On the left, the Battle Moon let out an earth-shaking roar.

Every Ork cannon muzzle lit up with blinding green light at once, WAAAGH energy forming visible soundwaves in the vacuum.

Those filthy Greenskins frantically pounded their control panels, foul-smelling saliva spraying between their fangs as they roared in the most primitive manner.

"WAAAAAAGH!!!"

On the right, the magical girl's magic circles bloomed with rainbow light more dazzling than a nebula.

Her shredded skirt fluttered fiercely as she stared steadfastly at the incoming beams.

A tidal roar erupted from the human fleet. From officers on the bridges to servitors on the decks, everyone shouted with every ounce of strength they had.

"Come on! Don't lose!"

Those voices pierced the vacuum, becoming a tangible torrent of faith that surged toward the girl.

The two waves of sound collided in space.

The Orks' WAAAGH energy formed a green tide, warping even starlight wherever it passed.

Human faith, meanwhile, became golden motes of light that revolved around the magical girl like a galaxy.

Xiao Huasheng watched those motes sink into the girl's wounds, each one making her magic circles shine a little brighter.

She was stunned.

"Those cheers can really give her more power!"

This was a trait that had not been written into the files. So the power of faith really could strengthen Queen of Hatred's power.

Just like something written in a manga.

"Boom—"

The instant the Battle Moon's volley collided with the beams from the magic circles, the starlight across the entire sector dimmed.

The shockwave from the explosion vaporized all the nearby warship wreckage, even shoving the Battle Moon itself out of orbit.

But the beam on the right was gradually being forced backward.

It had even begun to sink into the beam fired by the Orks.

The magical girl's figure flickered in and out amid the energy currents. Half her wand had snapped, yet the remaining portion still shone stubbornly.

The Orks' roars grew increasingly crazed. They pounded their chests and rammed their heads against control panels, unconcerned even as green blood sprayed from their nostrils and ears.

Meanwhile, the human cries gradually fell into a single rhythm, the same beat echoing across every ship's communication channels.

This battlefield carved an image into the minds of everyone still alive, one they would never forget for the rest of their lives.

On the left was a boiling green hell; on the right, burning rainbow hope.