"Mr. Ato, you've been relieved of duty."
The base commander finally waited for this moment, gloating with delight.
"Hmph, I hope you know what you're doing?"
Ato said in a low voice.
Executing wrong orders was tantamount to sending one's soldiers to die.
A Demon God?
Is that an existence you can touch?
A swarm of ants attempting to measure the stars.
"Heh, no need for Mr. Ato's concern. We have our own arrangements."
"I'm taking my team members with me."
Ato didn't look again—just a person destined to die anyway.
"As you wish."
The base commander sneered. Anyway, when they returned, Ato would still face being relieved, confined, and permanently barred from returning to special operations.
"Hmph!"
Ato didn't respond.
Raising her right hand, she waved.
Team members immediately formed ranks and boarded the aircraft.
"Elysia..."
In the corner of the cabin, Ato silently took out her phone and edited a message.
Feeling it wasn't safe enough, she called several times through the communicator.
Ato was this kind of person. During the Fifth Eruption, out of conscience, she told her temporarily formed team members about the organization's 'suicide mission.'
The result was that team members fled one after anotherg.
Ato believed that fleeing from such meaningless suicide missions was nothing shameful.
But unfortunately, during the Ninth Eruption, Ato still executed the suicide mission, sacrificing herself to avoid more deaths—not even her body remained.
MEI felt guilty because of this.
Facing a Demon God they absolutely couldn't win against, nuclear weapons might not even work—purely sending people to die.
The key point was this wasn't even dealing with Honkai.
But rather extending their demonic claws toward friends.
Moreover, once nuclear weapons were launched, Elysia wouldn't survive either.
She refused to execute the order.
...
"Target, Herrscher of the Void."
"Coordinates E: 13552... N: 6816."
"First round, nuclear weapons, carpet bombing."
"Countdown, 10... 9..."
Base soldiers immediately mobilized, preparing to launch nuclear weapons.
First, three waves of dense missile clusters led the way.
One was to clear the area.
Two was to provide cover for the nuclear weapons.
After tens of thousands of cluster missiles swept through densely, six nuclear warheads successively rose into the air, lined up in order, flying toward Ryuga.
To monopolize Ryuga's life-and-death-reversing flames, Fire MOTH had already been blinded by greed.
Poor base soldiers still actually thought they were bombing the Herrscher.
Completely used as pawns.
Ato's gaze grew increasingly cold. Although she had contacted Elysia, she didn't know if it was still in time.
...
Too late.
Ryuga had already mounted World-Ender and taken to the sky.
Dragon wings spread, crossing tens of thousands of meters of airspace in an instant.
Elysia and the Herrscher of the Void were both long-range, quite a distance apart.
Plus explosions everywhere—Elysia's shouting couldn't be heard at all.
The Herrscher of the Void detected danger.
More accurately, when Ryuga attacked her companion Honkai beast, she detected it.
Originally, she wanted to flee.
But after seeing the 'traitor' appear.
The first reaction was naturally to eliminate the traitor.
But now, Ryuga not only killed it but also used unknown power to reconstruct her companion Honkai beast.
Moreover, that companion beast's strength leaped beyond hers.
Ryuga's strength scared her badly.
Not flee and wait to be blasted?
Herrschers had no brains, but weren't brain-dead. The three surrounding her were all stronger than her—stupidly charging in not knowing when to die?
Why fight if you can't win?
Run!
In an instant, completely releasing the Herrscher power within, the earth beneath her feet crumbled with a boom.
Earth veins surged, rubble rising into the sky.
Massive rocks transformed into an entire sky-covering floating stone forest.
Immediately after, the Herrscher of the Void raised her hand and suddenly pressed down.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Giant stones fell like meteors, wrapped in rolling fire waves, viciously smashing toward the dragon and person chasing from behind.
Meteorites rained from the sky.
The earth continuously collapsed and cracked under impact, like doomsday descending.
The Herrscher of the Void had not a trace of hesitation, not looking back as she sped away.
Her earlier intense battle with Elysia had consumed nearly all her Honkai energy.
Seriously injured, stamina nearly exhausted.
Finally managed to forcibly tear open a spatial gate—without hesitation, she leaped through, her figure instantly vanishing.
Behind her, meteorites still continuously fell to the ground.
Elysia weaved and tumbled through the chaos of rocks, pink hair dancing lightly, extremely anxious.
Not because the Herrscher of the Void fled.
But because nuclear weapons were coming.
Ryuga!!
"Traitor!"
"I will definitely return."
Before the spatial gate closed, the Herrscher of the Void glared at Elysia, each word like a knife carved, resounding firmly.
Before her words finished, the teleportation gate boomed shut.
"She escaped?"
Ryuga caught up, but was also a bit late.
[Director Fu]: "@Desert Reaper, nuclear weapons are coming, run quickly, Ryuga."
[Istaroth]: "Nuclear weapons are coming, quickly use the time power I gave you. @Desert Reaper."
[Snowy Mountain Qingxin Melon]: "@Desert Reaper, run quickly."
[Jingliu]: "Run! @Desert Reaper."
Although they didn't know why Fire MOTH wanted to capture Ryuga, group friends immediately started @ing Ryuga after listening to Elysia.
Elysia had @ed him, but there was no response.
[13th Sect Master of Mount Yunjian]: "@Customer Service Pink Elf Miss, Ryuga probably closed @ notifications. Calling him in the group is useless."
"Then I understand."
Elysia immediately drew her bow and nocked an arrow, pink arrows shooting toward Ryuga's front.
Bang bang bang, exploding.
Crystal clear crystals formed two words: 「Nuclear Weapons」
"!!"
Ryuga hurriedly pulled World-Ender to a stop.
"Ryu—ga, run quickly—"
Elysia's anxious voice came from below.
She knew she couldn't outrun nuclear weapons.
With very little time remaining, only Ryuga could take her away from the desperate situation.
In the sky above, black dots were rapidly expanding.
However—
Ryuga just patted World-Ender.
The dragon wings boomed and flapped, its massive mountain-like body spinning sharply in mid-air.
Then, dragon claws furiously extended, toward the sky with one savage claw strike.
"RIIIP—"
The sky like fragile paper—a pitch-black rift spanning across the horizon was forcibly torn open, like the mouth of an abyss.
Tens of thousands of missiles were instantly sucked into the rift, not even making a sound.
Group friends widened their eyes.
Using orbital satellites to observe, all of Fire MOTH's higher-ups stood frozen in place, stunned.
The command room fell deathly silent.
...
At this time, six nuclear warheads came howling.
Fire MOTH's higher-ups perked up again.
The spatial rift had already faded.
And this level of natural disaster could easily kill Herrschers—the Canine God... was nothing special.
In the command room, all higher-ups stared deadly at the screen, not daring to blink.
The distance of tens of thousands of meters arrived in an instant.
Closer.
But...
The Canine God didn't move at all. On the contrary, he just patted the dragon beneath him.
Wings flapped, the dragon charged toward the nuclear weapons into the sky.
"Crazy!"
"Crazy!"
"He, what does he want to do?"
Somehow, Fire MOTH's higher-ups only felt chilled all over.
Group friends were also full of question marks.
Fu-Fu was even more scared and closed her eyes.
The nuclear weapons made contact.
But there wasn't a single sound.
World-Ender suddenly opened its dragon maw, like Pac-Man, one mouthful per nuke, one mouthful per nuke... until all six nuclear warheads were swallowed into its belly.
Bright white light shone through the membrane, bursting from deep within its belly, the entire dragon abdomen lighting up.
But, that was it.
Soon extinguished.
The world became incomparably silent.
Fire MOTH's higher-ups one after another staggered and collapsed to the ground, muttering: "It's over..."
Group friends: Are you kidding me?
Can you show some respect for nuclear weapons?
Those aren't jellybeans.
Your dragon, opening its mouth, one after another, stuffing them in its belly like chewing jellybeans?
At least dip them in sauce.
Elysia also had her little mouth in an O-shape, staring blankly, cutely adorable.
To be continued…
Guys, anyone who read the fic yesterday after its release, I would be grateful if you could re-read it. There were many issues with names that I missed, and now I have adjusted them after extensive research! I will also try my best to keep the same quality in the future as well!