Chapter 453

In Welt's view, the Illuminati would not share any benefits with the Far Eastern government at all; in fact, the Far Eastern government was the best scapegoat for this incident.

Faced with the enemy's indiscriminate firing in the city, Welt quickened his pace towards the deserted suburbs to avoid stray bullets harming civilians. Unlike the arrogant Saintess said one thing and did another, Welt also demonstrated through his actions that he did not want to involve ordinary people.

However, Welt's actions changed nothing; the fire from the Allied forces only intensified.

Cars parked on the roadside and buildings riddled with bullet holes were filled with the thick stench of blood. Those who hadn't been rendered unconscious by the anesthetic screamed, but their screams quickly turned into screams of agony, then into wails, and finally into silence...

Welt was thoroughly enraged by the actions of the Allied forces.

"You!!"

"It's Welt Young, keep firing!"

"Continuously deplete the opponent's energy. Don't worry about the target's safety; the opponent will protect the target even if it means sacrificing themselves."

"Given their character, they would never stand by and watch someone die; they would instead open fire on the surrounding buildings!"

The orders from his superiors made the Allied forces even more brutal, and even though Welt knew that they were trying to trip him up, he could not continue advancing into the deserted suburbs.

Welt opened his palm and clenched it tightly towards the Allied forces at the edge of his vision. Countless spatial portals swallowed the Allied forces' specially made bullets. Then, Welt returned the power to them intact.

Many soldiers fell, but even more soldiers poured into the road, firing all the crystal bullets made of Honkai crystal from their guns.

Facing the former First Herrscher, the soldiers showed no fear of sacrifice or pain, displaying a magnificent ode to human courage.

Indeed, in the eyes of most of the Allied soldiers, they were carrying out justice, killing the Herrscher in human form, and protecting the important Prophet.

"Deplete the opponent's energy and force them to deploy numerous barriers!"

"All fleets, listen up! Launch a saturation attack on the First Herrscher and the surrounding buildings. The Far East Government has given us permission to deploy lethal weapons."

Although a small number of soldiers strongly resisted such orders, the vast majority faithfully carried them out.

Amidst countless gunshots, cries, and screams, Welt could only deploy a larger barrier to block the special bullets.

A large number of specially designed bullets were blocked by the light blue barrier, but Welt also lost a lot of his power.

With his Herrscher- like hearing, Welt overheard the contents of Freya's communicator, which made him wonder why Freya was behaving so coldly.

In fact, ruthlessness is her greatest kindness.

As long as she shows no concern for the lives of the hostages, the enemy cannot use the hostages' lives to blackmail her.

Unfortunately Kiana, Freya could only protect ordinary people in this way. She wanted to distance herself from the Valkyrie and Kiana, but after trying to protect Valkyrie in this way for a few days, Freya herself couldn't take it anymore.

It can only be said that this method is more suitable for protecting strangers. It is precisely because Freya showed indifference to humans that her enemies could not threaten her with the lives of ordinary people.

"They really understand my personality."

Welt nudged the girl behind him, whose body was half-cooled, and said with a hint of helplessness.

Compared to Freya, who has lived a secluded life since becoming a researcher and only attends an annual charity event once a year, Welt has spent many years in disaster relief efforts.

It can be said that Welt's words and actions almost perfectly matched everyone's impression of a savior.

His kindness has now become a weakness that his enemies can exploit.

Of course, Welt is still grateful that the enemy is a regular coalition force, not some scoundrel, and at least they didn't kidnap innocent civilians to blackmail him.

If the Allied Forces really did that, Welt felt he would probably be disappointed in 'humanity' as well.

The area protected by the pale blue barrier is gradually decreasing. Countless specially made crystal bullets fall on the barrier, triggering a Honkai Energy eruption that is rapidly depleting Welt's power.

This leaves Welt in a dilemma, unable to retreat or advance.

"I'm afraid Freya, Siegfried, and Tesla will laugh at me for a while when I get back. I wonder where Kevin and Kiana are. I really hope they get here soon."

Currently, the enemy's firepower has not weakened at all; on the contrary, it has become even more intense, causing the Imaginary Barrier that Welt has erected to be rapidly depleted.

The coastal fleet had already launched dozens of missiles at the city, and Welt, who was transferring the missiles, turned several shades pale.

After losing his Herrscher Core, Welt could no longer serve as a combat unit for the Alliance, since his actual combat strength was now less than when he was a combat unit.

The Allied forces fired crystal bullets like they were free. Welt calculated the Honkai Energy he had consumed and the number of bullets blocked by the Imaginary Barrier. After calculating how many Honkai crystal the enemy had consumed in just over ten minutes, he imagined how many lives had been lost by civilians trying to mine this new type of Honkai crystal.

Ten minutes later, Welt found that the Imaginary Barrier he had created was becoming weaker and weaker, and was gradually unable to protect the surrounding buildings. Meanwhile, the Penglai Si Jiuxiao behind him had experienced a series of events in those short ten minutes: a brief period of lucidity, vomiting, shock, cessation of breathing, another brief period of lucidity, vomiting, shock, cessation of breathing again, and then another brief period of lucidity...

Welt had stopped breathing. For Herrscher, even if they stop breathing, their life will not end; it just creates a strange feeling.

Welt stopped breathing mainly because he didn't want to inhale the sour smell in the air.

Now, Welt has given up trying to understand the phenomenon of Penglai Si Jiuxiao dying and coming back to life, and dying again, and he has also given up trying to understand why the other party vomited at him for no reason after coming back to life.

There were plenty of places where he could vomit, but after his last moments of lucidity, he insisted on vomiting all over his shoulder.

Normally, Penglai Si Jiuxiao, whose body would have turned purple within twenty minutes, would have been cold and was just waiting for a professional team to bring a fine coffin to carry her away.

But suddenly she came back to life—no, she had a final burst of energy before death—and then died again after a while. Her breathing stopped, her body grew cold, her heart stopped beating, and then, after a long while, she transformed from a corpse back into a living person, and continued to repeat this cycle.

Normally, if a large area of a person's skin turns purple, they would be taken to their coffin. But someone like Penglai Si Jiuxiao, whose entire body turned purple and who was constantly teetering between life and death, made Welt feel inexplicably connected with this girl.

This also made Welt somewhat regretful that he gave away his Herrscher Core too early. On the one hand, it weakened his own strength. He, a powerful unit in the Alliance, couldn't even defeat an army of hundreds of thousands of ordinary people...

Well, we probably couldn't have won before.

It can only be said that human development is truly terrifying. Fortunately, Welt is better at defense, which allows him to stall for a few more hours.

On the other hand, Welt felt it was a real pity that the girl did not inherit his Herrscher of Reason Core. Right now, if the Herrscher Core of Herrscher of Reason Core were by his side, Welt could use it to save the girl's life.

Welt felt he could hold on, but the Penglai Si Jiuxiao behind him was not so sure.

Boom----!!

Boom! Boom!

At that moment, a huge airship flew in from a distance.

The giant airship that deliberately made noise was sending a signal to him on the ground.

Communications in the area have been disrupted, which has prevented the airship from locating its position. Fortunately, after being reminded by the other party, Welt immediately sent a signal back.

The low-powered version of the Heavenly Fire Sacred Judgment, transformed into a single-handed rapier, was placed on the bow created by Welt and shot into the sky.

For Welt, who has lost his Herrscher Core, he can no longer materialize the Divine Key. This is mainly because with his current power, he cannot fully demonstrate the power of the Divine Key. The low-powered Heavenly Fire Sacred Judgment is merely a signal flare with no real form.

The low-budget version of the one-handed rapier, the Heavenly Fire Sacred Judgment, exploded in mid-air, creating a scene where Siegfried was poking himself with the Greatsword of Heavenly Fire. This caused Siegfried, inside the airship, to touch his chest, completely bewildered.

Siegfried couldn't help but ask himself these three philosophical questions, "Who am I?", "Why am I being persecuted?", and "Why do you always persecute me?"

Siegfried set off the signal firework that signaled his suicide, Kevin, Kiana, and the others in the airship reacted immediately, while Siegfried was more than ten beats slower.

When he turned around to catch up with Kevin and Kiana, he suddenly tripped over his own feet and fell flat on his face, landing hard.

After finally managing to get up, they discovered that Kevin and Kiana had both jumped directly off the airship, and neither of them had brought any safety landing equipment, such as... a parachute.

Kevin and Kiana just parachuted in like that, making Siegfried cry out in his heart that he couldn't do it as a father; he wanted to jump down like that and be instantly eliminated.

When Kevin and Kiana landed, only Kiana managed to dissipate the impact as quickly as possible, having to bend her knees to absorb the force. Kevin, on the other hand, simply took a small step back with his left foot, channeling all his power into the ground.

In order to catch up with the two as soon as possible, Siegfried prepared to get a parachute, but he searched for a long time in the airship's cabin and could not find a parachute.

It's important to understand that due to the strong interference from the ground, if this airship gets too close, it might lose control and crash... The destructive power of an airship crashing in a densely populated city is no less than that of hundreds of missiles launched by warships from various countries all at once.

528. That's incredible! No, it's unbelievably strong!

Siegfried still couldn't find a parachute inside the ship's cabin, and in the end, he could only sit next to the open hatch and question his existence.

That's right, he thought Kevin deliberately didn't deploy a parachute on this airship. After all, who can't fly these days?

Siegfried, who couldn't fly, was extremely frustrated. Although everyone in the Alliance could fly, even if they didn't take off on their own, they could fly with the help of armor. However, Siegfried had forgotten to bring this kind of flight armor in his haste to leave, and since he himself had no ability to fly, if he were to fall freely from tens of thousands of meters in the air, he would only die on the spot.

Incidentally, very few people can withstand the impact of falling without special abilities or flying armor, relying solely on skill and physical strength, like Kevin and Kiana.

Siegfried was naturally not among them. Even if the airship's altitude decreased, he did not have the skill to counteract the impact of the fall. He would probably only break his leg if he tried to leap with all his might.

Kevin and Kiana, who had abandoned Siegfried, quickly intervened in the battlefield, and their arrival finally relieved Welt.

Since losing his Herrscher Core, Welt gradually became weaker, but he never regretted it.

Whether it was Bronya inheriting the Herrscher of Reason Core, or his wife Tesla becoming pregnant, these were things that brought him joy.

Besides, what if I become weak?

It's enough that my companions who fight alongside me against the Honkai are strong.

Although Freya often teased him about his savior-like personality, Welt never considered himself a savior. He simply did his best as a human being to help those in need.

"You've come..."

Carrying the repeatedly deceased Penglai Si Jiuxiao on his back, Welt said weakly.

Even though defense was Welt's forte, he quickly exhausted his strength while facing enemies using special bullets and constantly launching missiles at the city, and also had to protect innocent people from being affected.

"Mr. Welt, are you alright?"

Kiana, standing on the white frozen ground, transformed the entire city into a landscape of Siberia permafrost with a single breath as she approached Welt.

The soldiers, armed with weapons, were thrown into chaos. Suddenly, the scene before them transformed into a landscape of swirling snow, causing their minds to gradually go blank.

They didn't feel the slightest bit of cold, but the chaotic snowflakes, the frozen city, and the permafrost on the ground made them feel that the scene before them was not an illusion.

The soldiers' minds were gradually going blank. Some of them had already realized that their limbs were becoming immobile, their blood was flowing very slowly, and their breath was condensing into frost in the air... The snowstorm they were seeing was undoubtedly real.

However, none of them felt the chill of the wind and snow, but their blood, bodies, and even consciousness were frozen.

This is called—mind freeze.

Kiana did not create ice and snow in reality. Although she had the power to freeze the city, it would also affect a large number of innocent people.

That's why Kiana used a portion of the Feather of Dust's power and amplified her own power through Feather of Dust.

As the user of the Divine Key of Feather of Dust, Kiana is naturally able to unleash the power of Feather of Dust.

Kiana's Feather of Dust is not the same as Immortal Fu Hua's Feather of Dust, but rather Feather of Dust from a Fu Hua universe.

Inherited Fu Hua 2's Feather of Dust and learned how to use Feather of Dust from Immortal Fu Hua, allowing Kiana, who is not good at mental attacks, to have a super-wide range attack that can instantly subdue ordinary people.

A mind-freezing attack that can freeze the minds of most enemies within range; enemies whose minds are frozen will stop all their actions.

Seeing the large number of soldiers drop their weapons and stand there dumbfounded, Kiana smiled slightly.

Even if the number of enemies is large, ordinary people's mental strength is simply no match for the attack of mind freezing.

"Kiana, above..."

Standing in a city where there was no snow, no frozen buildings, and no white permafrost, Kevin couldn't help but remind them.

In this smoke-filled city, Kiana did indeed easily subdue a large number of enemies, but that does not mean the battle for the Penglai Si Jiuxiao has ended.

The sky was illuminated.

A warhead, clearly capable of widespread destruction, was falling from the sky, tearing through the clouds with a massive Honkai Energy reaction.

"Honkai Energy fission bomb! Those bastards!"

"No wonder when we checked the inventory a few years ago, we found that the inventory of Honkai Energy fission bomb did not match. It seems that there are quite a few such strange things happening within the Alliance."

Kiana, looking up, naturally saw the massive warhead descending, and her expression immediately turned serious. Kevin, standing to the side, couldn't help but comment on something.

Kevin had had enough of the bitter consequences of such internal corruption, which made him now deeply disgusted with enemies who used such underhanded methods.

The act of launching Honkai Energy fission bomb at the city itself implies that the Illuminati behind the scenes, and even the World Security Council they established, do not regard the ordinary people in the city as human beings at all.

The most crucial point is that, in order to move a Honkai Energy fission bomb warhead out of the Alliance's sight, there must be a mole within the Alliance who can provide assistance to outsiders.

"It shouldn't have been Freya who sold it; she wouldn't sell this kind of thing."

Just as the bullets were about to fall from the sky, Kiana took a big step back and stood in front of Welt and Penglai Si Jiuxiao.

She figured she probably wouldn't be able to resist this thing, so she could only hand the task over to Kevin.

To be precise, Kiana wasn't unable to stop the Honkai Energy fission bomb, but rather unable to prevent the Honkai Energy fission bomb from causing further destruction after she had managed to stop it.

Kevin tilted his head, a sheepish smile appearing on his face.

"I don't suspect Freya. Given her character, she would never do anything to aid the enemy. I'm just suspicious of Cocolia, or other high-ranking officials."

"Master, Aunt Cocolia n't possibly do that either. Aunt Cocolia is Freya and Rita's direct subordinate. She has no reason to secretly sell this thing."

Kevin raised the high-quality replica of the Greatsword of Heavenly Fire and swung it forcefully at the falling Honkai Energy fission bomb, while speaking to Kiana. Kiana shrugged, eliminating one answer for him.