Chapter 172: B-rank Valkyrie Meets the Strongest Fusion Warrior, Unable to Win Even With All Her Might
"Is this the architecture from the Previous Era? How fascinating!"
Walking amidst the grid-like structures formed by intertwining, spiraling towers, Mei looked around, her eyes sparkling, finding everything
"Probably. Here, you sometimes get this sense of a temporal fault line, a displacement. You can treat it as part of the fun."
Completely devoid of the wariness she usually showed the silver-haired girl, Raven walked with a lazy gait beside this naive young lady,
feeling a bit bored.
"Why aren't you moving?"
Seeing Mei suddenly stop and stare intently in a certain direction, Raven sighed inwardly, like an experienced leader guiding a troublesome newcomer.
"Miss Raven, did you just hear a scream?" Mei's willow-like brows slightly furrowed, expressing her confusion.
It sounded like the agonizing shriek a certain blue short-haired cat would make when injured. She had heard a similar sound from a certain large
'sci-fi fox' in the Stigmata Space not long ago, so how could she be hearing it again now, inside the Elysian Realm?
"Why does that sound a bit familiar?"
"It sounds like Kiana's voice?"
However, the sound was very faint and distant, so Mei wasn't sure.
"A scream?"
Raven quieted her mind and focused, but heard nothing. She shook her head:
"You're probably just too excited. There's no need to be so nervous; there's no penalty for failing the trial. At most, you'll just have to die
a few more times."
"'Die, die a few times?'" Mei gasped, her expression utterly horrified.
"I wonder if a young lady like you has ever played video games? You're currently like a game character 'running a dungeon'.
Normally, 'death' here won't cause you to actually die."
Raven explained casually: "The Elysian Realm is vast, precisely divided into many areas. Generally, it can be roughly split into
three sections."
"Our current location is a specially designed shallow area, a place specifically for visitors to undergo trials."
"Dying in the shallow area isn't a big deal. This is, after all, a world of consciousness and data. At most, you'll lose some mental
energy, and any trial stages you didn't pass will have to be replayed."
"Beyond the trial area is the Elysian Realm where the Flame-Chasers reside. In that area, you can't just die carelessly."
"Areas that even the Flame-Chasers haven't visited are collectively known as the Unknown Zone, the third section."
"I understand," Mei said, letting out a relaxed breath as she listened attentively to the veteran player's explanation.
The fleeting sound had been momentary; even after she focused her hearing, she didn't hear it again. It was probably an auditory hallucination
due to mental exhilaration.
But Mei quickly reacted, "Normal circumstances?"
So, there were abnormal circumstances?
Understanding Mei's gaze, Raven shrugged: "There are some special circumstances; it all depends on your luck.
If you're targeted by a certain green snake who likes to feign innocence, there's extreme risk even in the specially designed shallow area, let alone with the Herrscher of Corruption entering this time."
Raven had considered for a long time before deciding to come in, because with Absinthe around, even the Herrscher of Corruption couldn't harm her.
"This old lady can run to a parallel world!"
With this layer of insurance, Raven felt that she would basically not encounter any danger within the Elysian Realm!
"How reliable!"
"Myself!"
At the entrance to the upcoming trial area, the Kiana and the young Raiden Mei met the Blade King of the Realm, who had sniffed them out and rushed over.
"Yo, how's it going, D?"
A sweet, cheerful voice rang in their ears, as the pink-haired girl, like a fairy from a fairy tale, suddenly
bounced out and raised her hand in greeting.
Elysia felt a little regretful; there were two other cute, beautiful girls she hadn't managed to 'kidnap'!
One of them was even Kevin's descendant!
And the other...
Hopefully, 'that one' would go a little easy and not bully the cute beauty into tears.
Seeing that the two sisters at the foot of the mountain had more or less expressed their emotions, Silver Wing ended her conversation with Aponia.
Aponia felt that neither Rin nor Sakura, who had recalled those memories, would want to see her now,
so she turned and returned to the deepest depths.
Silver Wing strolled back to the cherry blossom grove at the foot of the mountain.
"Silver Wing-sama."
Seeing the figure approach, Sakura, holding Rin, walked up to the silver-haired beauty and bowed deeply:
Sakura had already heard the full story from Rin.
If it hadn't been for the person before them intervening, Rin would likely have been completely devoured by the Herrscher personality, which contained malice and hatred.
And even if the hatred could be eliminated, Rin's consciousness would be very difficult to preserve completely. It would be a newborn spirit with only a very small part of Rin's
memories, a purified Fihyomaru.
Silver Wing used miraculous means to completely separate Rin's will from Fihyomaru, which allowed Rin's personality to be preserved.
Silver Wing smiled slightly, then pressed Sakura's shoulder, helping her up: "Don't be so polite. Rin is so cute,
how could I possibly abandon her to her fate?"
"As for thanks, I've heard enough from Rin already."
Silver Wing gently rubbed the girl's little head: "You, as her sister, don't need to say it again."
Her ponytail swaying, the lively girl happily ran and skipped around the two of them. Under the sunlight, the circular
ring ornament tied behind her head reflected a dazzling golden light.
Rin linked arms with Sakura on one side and Silver Wing on the other. "Sister, tell me and Sister Silver Wing a bit about
the place where you live!"
She had directly scanned and located her sister's position, bringing Sister Silver Wing along by 'jumping' over; as for the shallow trial area and such, she hadn't even given it a glance.
With a voice full of doting affection, the once Scorpion assassin, who used to be like a drawn blade, now rarely showed a soft and elegant, reserved demeanor, not only similar to Yae Sakura in appearance, but also somewhat in temperament.
"Each of us Thirteen has their own area..."
As Sakura introduced, the three walked together.
Glancing at the composition of herself and the two sisters, Silver Wing inexplicably had the illusion that she was playing out Kallen's storyline.
Also, being linked arms with Rin, Silver Wing's consciousness focused on her mind, flipping to the weapon interface to check the information on Jizo Mitama.
She had brought Rin to the Elysian Realm with no other intentions, purely to reunite the two sisters.
She hadn't expected that this move would increase Jizo Mitama's intimacy by so much!
Human emotions towards others are not fixed, and thus cannot be precisely quantified, but they can be vaguely staged.
From the beginning of meeting to the bonding of souls, there are a total of ten stages. Reaching the sixth stage, "Sympathy of Form and Shadow," is enough
This stage might fail, but the seventh stage is guaranteed to awaken successfully.
Intimacy won't decrease after failure, but there's a cooldown period for awakening a Divine Key in the same weapon, so it's safer to try in the mid-to-late sixth stage.
Jizo Mitama's favorability has surpassed the wondrous yoyo she uses, currently the highest, at the late fifth stage.
The wondrous yoyo has just reached the fifth stage, while Abyss Flower and Seele are in the late fourth stage.
Jizo Mitama, with Rin as its spirit, has excellent innate conditions, surpassing the initial weapon in a short amount of time. Under the current BUG of two time flows, Jizo Mitama will surely be the first weapon to awaken its Divine Key.
Leaving Sakura's "home" and arriving at the Realm's public area, as they walked, at one point, all three simultaneously
stopped.
"That sound is... Kiana?" Rin blinked.
It was a very faint sound, but she was the Herrscher of Corruption. If Rin wanted to, she could directly activate a full map hack plus
a wall-hack in the Realm.
"It's Kevin's trial area... Is that visitor a blood descendant of the Kaslana family?"
Sakura possessed the Fusion Factor of [Yaksha], giving her an extraordinary perception of auras. The special nature of the Realm also
"Let's go see."
The white-haired girl from this era encountering memory construct Kevin... Silver Wing found it amusing!
"Quickly!"
"Quickly!"
"Just an old uncle, bring it on! I, this young lady, will never give up!"
"Wah-ah-ah-ah!"
"Uncle, are you even human? Don't you know you shouldn't hit people in the face? To a beautiful girl like me, how could you possibly bring yourself
to do it?"
"I surrender! I surrender! Uncle, stop hitting me!"
"This young lady will fight you to the bitter end!"
It seemed to be an unbearable outburst.
"Your forehand isn't refined, your backhand lacks power. A baseball bat isn't used like that."
A cold, merciless male voice. Kevin raised the bat in his hand and swept it powerfully, as if wielding a greatsword!
"Ah!"
Accompanied by a shrill scream, a miserable white-haired girl flew backward like a cannonball, like Tom being
sent flying by Spike, making a whooshing sound as she went.
Silver Wing, Rin, and Sakura, with incredibly high synchronization, took a large step to the side. Kiana's figure crashed through the wooden
house wall, leaving a human-shaped hole.
"This..." Sakura was a little surprised.
Among past visitors, Sakura had rarely seen Kevin personally act as a trial opponent, and it was also the first time she had seen
Kevin verbally comment on and guide a trial participant.
And, she hadn't expected Kevin to use a baseball bat.
"Wuwuwu, Silver Wing, Silver Wing, quickly save me!"
The white-haired girl rushed out from the human-shaped hole, pouncing into Silver Wing's embrace as if she had finally found a savior, tightly hugging the silver-haired beauty and crying.
The world was so cold; only Silver Wing's embrace could bring Kiana a little comfort.
"That uncle isn't human! He said a bunch of inexplicable things, then started hitting me!"
"But he kept hitting me even after I surrendered!"
Kiana frantically complained: "What kind of trial is this?!"
Actually, the white-haired girl belonged to the type who disliked studying and preferred to grow through practical combat, which was also a characteristic of most Kaslanas.
But even if she was highly inclined towards combat, encountering a monster uncle like this right from the start was just too much!
In fact, before Silver Wing arrived, Kiana had already been defeated many times. Fortunately, 'death' was allowed in the trial area,
and at first, Kiana was quite indignant.
When it came to baseball bat skills, she wouldn't lose to an uncle!
The result, naturally, was that a B-rank Valkyrie met the strongest Fusion Warrior, and even with all her might, she couldn't win.
She was utterly crushed and defeated by a master of the baseball bat over a dozen times, like being spawn-camped by a boss!
Chongchong declared she had no gaming experience whatsoever!
Then, her "I'm brave, I'm strong" mentality was shattered; she was beaten until she doubted life itself, and she completely chickened out.
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