Chapter 401: Just in Time

But seeing the scene before her, how could Penny possibly hold back?!

As she ran, her mind raced. There are four Honkai Beasts here—three Knight-class and one Temple-class... The Temple-class is the biggest threat. It falls somewhere between A-rank and B-rank. With my freezing stigmata, I'm confident I can hold it back for a while! As for whether that girl and her mother can survive, that's up to fate!

She had to go for it!

She had already done everything she could!!

Just as Penny dashed into the middle of the monsters, preparing to unleash frost and slow the Honkai Beasts within several hundred meters.

The middle-aged woman desperately threw her arms around the Honkai Beast's arm, which was thicker than her entire body, trying to draw its attention away from her daughter.

Rita still held the potted plant high above her head, sobbing uncontrollably. "Mom..."

Just as the Honkai Beast was about to kick the middle-aged woman beside it—the captive—and crush her into pulp.

Sizzle—

A brilliantly radiant streak of light shot up from the rooftop of a residential building.

The sudden development startled everyone!

They all looked up and saw that the beam split into four the instant it was fired, hurtling downward.

The Honkai Beasts were enraged. Just as they were about to roar, their enormous bodies suddenly froze, unable to move another inch.

Pfft... Pfft... Pfft... Pfft...

Only then did the sounds of the beams striking the Honkai Beasts slowly reach them.

The four beams had each pierced through the core inside one of the four Honkai Beasts.

Those cores were equivalent to a human brain.

Once pierced, they would die instantly.

"What... was that?!"

Penny breathed heavily as she looked at the four Honkai Beasts lying dead before her, then toward the rooftop of the