Chapter 123
"Thanks."
K422 immediately moved in the direction the Valkyrie had pointed.
A large number of Honkai Beast also gather there.
"The public made reports, and then there were the disappearing Honkai Beast... I see. It seems that the disappearing Honkai Beast were all secretly captured by Shencheng Medicine."
Heading towards the injured Valkyrie and the civilians, K422 precisely spread anti-Honkai wave to erase the Honkai Energy eroding the civilians, while also keeping an eye on the situation in other areas.
In fact, it has been proven that Shencheng Medicine really has serious problems.
The local branches had just launched their offensive when they were immediately hampered, with large numbers of Honkai Beast even being released in the bustling city.
According to the database, the founder of Shencheng Medicine was named Jackal, and he was an Egyptian.
Judging by her race, she must be quite good at playing cards...
Normally, who would flip the table like that right from the start? She had only just begun to have the intelligence forces investigate, and the other side was already so eager to Schicksal.
K422 couldn't understand Jackal's move at all.
Normally, Jackal could have easily shifted all the blame to the Sky City branch, or fabricated a story that Shencheng Medicine had been sidelined.
K422 never intended to find anything at Shencheng Medicine.
The other party's counterattack essentially told her that the entire Shencheng Medicine was problematic.
They clearly had an attitude of simply doing whatever they wanted.
I'm not going to play any more stealth or counter-stealth games with you. It would be a waste of K422's plan to gather intelligence first.
K422 and the Valkyrie of the intelligence unit were caught off guard precisely because of this.
"Moreover, that mecha unit looks very similar to the mecha of the Anti-Entropy organization. It seems that... there are quite a few World Serpent members in Anti-Entropy as well."
As she sighed, a Ballista-class Honkai Beast on a distant building hurled a massive burning sphere toward her location.
K422 raised its hand and gripped the massive burning sphere tightly, instantly extinguishing the flames that had streaked across the air in a fierce line of fire.
K422 slowly loosened his grip, easily catching the huge sphere, which was icy cold and five or six meters in diameter.
The evacuating civilians and Valkyrie were stunned by the incongruous sight of K422 carrying a giant sphere with her tiny body.
However, something even more shocking was about to happen.
K422 looked at the Honkai Beast on the distant building, gently tossed the sphere forward, and then punched it with all her might.
The giant sphere slammed into the Ballista-class Honkai Beast like a cannonball, obliterating half of its body.
133. So what's with all the retaliatory effort?
There is no scene more speechless than this simple and brutal one.
K422 shook her right hand, and with this punch, she deflected the ball thrown by the Ballista-class Honkai Beast as if it were a cannonball, causing her hand to sting a little.
However, the effect was remarkable.
K422 successfully attracted the attention of the Honkai Beast and the mech forces.
Since Valkyrie are biological individuals fighting against Honkai Beast, they are naturally powerless against the mech forces released by Shencheng Medicine.
The Valkyrie of Lewis's squad were quickly suppressed by the Jaeger unit's firepower. Only Siegfried was able to move through the Jaeger unit while simultaneously striking its weak points with Heavenly Fire Sacred Judgment.
"Haha, bring as many as you want!!"
Another member of his Father's Sorrow Alliance was an authority in the mech unit.
Siegfried, a fan of giant humanoid weapons, naturally wouldn't miss this rare opportunity to have in-depth exchanges with the other party on humanoid weapons and mecha units. Therefore, he was very clear about the weaknesses of this kind of mecha unit that resembled Titan Mech.
However, the K422 has a very simple way of countering mech units.
Or to put it simply and directly.
Even without the Dawn Glory, K422, having awakened the power of the Herrscher of Flames, can still convert Honkai Energy into thermal energy.
Even if the conversion efficiency is slightly slow, a large number of Armor Piercing Flame Spear condense above her.
When facing a large number of massive mechs, the Armor Piercing Flame Spear can hit the target almost without any special aiming.
The ultra-high temperature Armor Piercing Flame Spear, upon penetrating the mech, caused flames to expand from the inside out, burning away all electronic circuitry.
Any target that enters within 100 meters of her, whether it's Honkai Beast or a mecha, will inevitably be hit by her Armor Piercing Flame Spear.
After several rounds of bombing, the mechs and Honkai Beast that had not even gotten within fifty meters of K422 were completely wiped out.
Meanwhile, more mech units formed an encirclement around her, clearly intending to saturate her with long-range firepower.
"Kiana, watch out!!"
After noticing the movements of most of the mechs in the mech unit, Siegfried quickly spoke up to remind them.
If it weren't for the many Honkai Beasts and mech units blocking his way, he would have already reached his daughter's side by now.
Although the opponent had just startled him by smashing the giant sphere with one hand and creating a cannonball effect, even the strongest Valkyrie would be exhausted and die from the endless bombardment when faced with the formation of the mech forces.
"Get out of here!!!"
Siegfried's twin pistols instantly transformed into a flaming greatsword, slicing the massive mech blocking his path in half.
"Oh."
K422 felt that this actually saved her some trouble.
She only bombed targets within 50 to 100 meters, but that doesn't mean that's all she could do.
Just like she used the giant sphere as a cannonball, she struck a target hundreds of meters away.
The optimal range for the Armor Piercing Flame Spear is 300 to 350 meters, because at this distance the K422 can fire without suppressing any enemy fire.
Of course, to achieve such full activation, relying solely on converting Honkai Energy is far less efficient than utilizing Dawn Glory.
Even so, K422 still has many ways to deal with mech units that are 200 meters away.
Watching them transform, the missile launchers were activated, and countless missiles were launched simultaneously. Then, the saturation firepower poured out like the hysterical laughter of an old woman.
Then, they fell into the countless portals that opened fifty meters away from K422.
This is the Herrscher of the Void's basic ability, Spatial Transfer.
The opened portal can not only teleport the user, but also the enemy.
Therefore, redirecting the opponent's attacks is a given.
K422 calmly watched as the countless portals she had opened disappeared after consuming the firepower of the Shencheng Medicine mech forces. Then, she opened countless portals around the Shencheng Medicine mech forces.
The artillery fire that had just been swallowed by the portal now surged out of it.
Shencheng Medicine's mech force immediately realized what it meant to reap what you sow.
K422 smirked, feeling that this was the perfect moment to play a bankruptcy anthem.
Siegfried's eyes twitched incessantly as he witnessed this scene.
He was very familiar with the Herrscher of the Void's abilities, after all, he had fought her several times and defeated her several times.
Meanwhile, the core of the shattered Herrscher of the Void has been implanted into the body of his third daughter. When her mind is unstable, the power of the Herrscher of the Void that she possesses will go out of control, and she has demonstrated this spatial transfer ability many times.
The artillery fire they launched was swallowed up and then returned intact.
The mech force that had formed an encirclement was crippled, and they even forgot to launch a second round of artillery fire. It was like a hysterical old woman being choked, her arrogant voice stuck in her throat.
K422 advanced calmly, her anti-Honkai wave Honkai Energy continuously dissipating within its radius of twenty meters...
Faced with her approach, the crippled mech unit had no idea how to proceed.
At this moment, Jackal, the founder of Shencheng Medicine, was at the Europe headquarters, with the words stuck in his throat. "What Schicksal Saintess, what Acting Grand Bishop, bah, their strength is nothing more than this."
Just a few dozen seconds earlier, she had said, "As expected, you're just a kid. Your vision is so limited. You only see the mechs in front of you. But the real main force has completed the encirclement. You're going to die." This statement directly contradicted her previous statement.
She immediately fell into self-doubt.
"How can it be so strong? What exactly is that ability?"
Just then, the screen in front of her, which displayed the industrial area of Shencheng Medicine in Sky City, suddenly switched to a black-clad man wearing a white mask with only one eye showing, holding an umbrella.
"Jackal, what are you doing?"
Just as Gray Serpent received a message from the leader of World Serpent informing him of the existence of the World Serpent Saintess, and was preparing to secretly infiltrate Europe, Shencheng Medicine clashed directly with the Schicksal.
At this time, Shencheng Medicine's headquarters in Europe was also surrounded by all the Valkyrie from the Schicksal Headquarters.
The whole of Europe was placed under strict blockade at this moment, with even the Schariac Family and Kaslana Family mobilized.
"Lord Gray Serpent?"
"I'm asking you a question. What are you doing?"
The single eye visible through the Gray Serpent mask was filled with rage. Had he not been worried that Shiola might not be able to adapt to the life of a mercenary and postponed the operation for a few days, he would likely have been trapped like a turtle in a jar by the Schicksal that had sealed off the border.
"Me? I'm fighting back against Schicksal."
"That's exactly what I'm asking: why retaliate against the Schicksal?"
Gray Serpent wanted to rub his throbbing forehead, but when he raised his hand, he remembered that he was wearing a mask.
How many years has it been since I've had a headache like this?
"Lord Gray Serpent, Schicksal has dispatched a large number of people to investigate the headquarters and all branches of Shencheng Medicine. I believe that Schicksal already has some suspicions about us, which is why we are launching a counterattack at this time and using the time gained to transfer important data."
The Jackal then explained the reason for his counterattack.
After all, Schicksal has already launched a worldwide investigation into Shencheng Medicine. Can she still pretend not to know?
The Gray Serpent on the screen covered its face behind its mask after hearing this.
Shencheng Medicine has been cooperating with Schicksal for many years and has committed countless fraudulent acts. Not only are there people from their World Serpent organization in the Asian Branch, but they also have people from their World Serpent organization infiltrating the branches in South America, Antarctica, Africa, and Oceania.
Even the Senate within the Schicksal Headquarters has a closer cooperative relationship with the World Serpent.
In other words, even if the intelligence forces did collect something unsettling, it would only expose the secrets of the Senate of Schicksal, or the collaboration between Schicksal's individual research institutes and Shencheng Medicine to conduct human experiments.
Shencheng Medicine is not clean.
But Schicksal is even dirtier.
Without the medicinal raw materials provided by Schicksal, Shencheng Medicine would not have been able to develop a variety of drugs to combat Honkai Energy infection.
Even if the intelligence forces of Schicksal conduct a thorough investigation, they will only find themselves in the investigation.
So let people investigate freely, let them see both the fake and real ledgers.
Kiana Apocalypse is just a young girl who has just taken over the position of Acting Grand Bishop. She is uneasy because Otto's deterrent power is gradually disappearing. What's wrong with her investigating the pharmaceutical company that works closely with Schicksal?
The mouth beneath the Gray Serpent mask opened and closed repeatedly, seemingly unsure of what to say to the Jackal.
Even if you were to completely dismantle Shencheng Medicine, it would just be a pharmaceutical company run by a woman named Jackal, who at most conducts human experiments.
In order to create new drugs to combat Honkai Energy infection, Shencheng Medicine' collaboration with Valkyrie from various branches to capture Honkai Beast is a perfectly normal practice.
The few pieces of information that the Schicksal couldn't discover were nothing more than Honkai Beast genetic modification technology and artificial Honkai Beast.
But naturally, Jackal carried such confidential documents with him.
So what are you even retaliating for?!
"You should find a way to evacuate. We'll have to give up on Shencheng Medicine."
Gray Serpent sighed; the Jackal had played a winning hand so poorly.
Normally, no matter how much they investigated, they wouldn't have found anything, but Jackal deliberately exposed the mech unit, and most importantly, it even had the World Serpent logo printed on it.
It's as if they're afraid others won't know that Shencheng Medicine is related to World Serpent.
If it weren't for the fact that there are so few capable cadres in the World Serpent right now, Gray Serpent would have already given up on Jackal, that idiot.
Now we need to send Shiola to rescue more people.
The more often Shiola takes action, the more likely she is to arouse suspicion.
"Yes, sir Gray Serpent. I will transfer the important data..."
Jackal hurriedly responded, but Gray Serpent had already cut off communication, and the screen switched back to the battlefield in Sky City's industrial zone.
"Little Archbishop of Schicksal, don't get too cocky! Even if the mech force is wiped out, I still have the modified Super Emperor Honkai!! Hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!"