"Alas, Himeko and the others didn't reply to the message either. They must have been entangled by the Antimatter Legion..."
Putting her phone back in her pocket with a hint of disappointment, Ilu sighed, then took out her Iron Cavalry Transformation Sheath from the pocket tied around her waist. She paused, hesitating about something.
If the Snow Fyrefly-type Strategic Stealth Mech could be deployed, it might save more people from the Antimatter Legion.
But the problem is that if she intervenes now, it could affect the subsequent plot.
After all, her appearance is very similar to Firefly who is also a Glamoth Iron Cavalry Knight and she doesn't exist in the original plot.
No one knows what will happen if she goes out rashly at this time. If it affects the progress of the protagonist's birth, that would be bad.
"Boom!"
Just as Ilu was looking at the Iron Cavalry Transformation Sheath in her hand and hesitating about joining the battle, a loud noise suddenly came from the hatch at the end of the corridor.
A purple-black centaur monster kicked the door down, attracting the girl's attention.
Behind it, the Voidranger Trampler, the team leader, led more than a dozen Voidranger Predators into the corridor.
Upon seeing the silver-haired girl standing alone not far away, the leading Voidranger Trampler immediately pointed at her and ordered the nearby Voidranger Predators to attack Ilu.
"Huh..."
Looking at the dozen or so Voidranger Plunderers charging at her, along with the Voidranger Trampers and Void Stompers following behind, Ilu took a deep breath. She pressed the Iron Cavalry Transformation Sheath against her slightly bulging chest and spoke with a hint of helplessness in her tone.
"It seems that I have no choice. You've forced me to do it."
The monsters of the Antimatter Legion were already upon her. If she didn't transform now, the subsequent plot might really have nothing to do with her. She didn't want to see that ending.
So—
"Henshin!"
As Ilu's voice fell, the translucent elytra in her hand glowed with an icy blue light and quickly enveloped her whole body.
In the next second, the originally fragile silver-haired girl transformed into a silver-white mecha knight, except for the visor and chest, which were blue, emitting cold air that caused the water molecules in the surrounding air to condense into white snowflakes falling to the ground.
From this moment on, the identities of hunter and prey were exchanged.
"Dismember and——"
Bending her knees slightly to take a charging posture, Ilu quickly glanced around. After locking onto the positions of all enemy units, she revealed the mantis blade hidden in her arms.
The cold air spread over it, forming a highly lethal ultra-low temperature air blade on the outermost layer.
The next second, a blue light wing blossomed from the elytra behind the mecha, and then the girl zipped between the more than ten Voidrangers and Plunderers at a terrifying speed, almost impossible to capture with the naked eye.
The ultra-low temperature air blade on the mantis knife cut through them without resistance, and the residual coldness on the blade rapidly spread, freezing the remains of the group of Voidrangers into ice in the blink of an eye.
As for the remaining Voidrangers, although they were stronger than this group of miscellaneous soldiers, they still could not escape the fate of being killed by Ilu's blade.
"——Break!"
As soon as the words fell, the bodies of the Voidrangers fell lifelessly, breaking into pieces.
Since the mecha had just been activated, Ilu felt that her movements were slightly awkward and her strength had diminished.
However, these Voidrangers invading the space station were much weaker than she had anticipated, allowing her to easily annihilate them without effort.
"Hmm... No reply yet. Are they fighting the Doomsday Beast?"
After confirming that no Voidrangers remained alive nearby, Ilu took out her mobile phone and looked at the text message that still had no reply.
Then, she glanced toward the open hatch at the end of the corridor and muttered to herself, "Anyway, it's changed. I might as well go over there to make my presence known."
When she attacked this group of miscellaneous soldiers, she seized the opportunity to release the pressure that had been building for a long time.
She initially wanted to relax afterward, but perhaps influenced by the Snow Fyrefly Armor, she now had only one thing on her mind—fighting is so awesome!
She has to find someone to fight.
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At the same time, in Herta's base cabin, while the Express crew was busy dealing with the Antimatter Legion invading the main control compartment, Kafka and Silver Wolf took the opportunity to locate the Stellaron through many barriers.
"There is an independent protection system... It seems that for Herta, the [Stellaron] is not an ordinary collection."
"Did you extract it?"
"Of course. In the field of hacking, even the genius of Herta is no match for me."
"Okay, then I'll leave the preparation of the carrier to you."
...
"Wow, I can finally create a character."
As Kafka took out the Stellaron, the option to create a character appeared on the screen, and Jiahun finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Since she had never participated in the internal test, to avoid being clueless and relying on spoilers, she had read every line of dialogue in the plot carefully, even not missing the details of the map scenes, which put her progress in opening the map much behind other anchors.
Fortunately, everyone seemed quite accustomed to her pace of exploring maps, and she occasionally created some entertaining moments, gradually increasing the popularity of her livestream, which made Jiahun very pleased.
She took a moment to check the barrage, which was primarily discussing the choice between Stelle and Caelus.
[Stelle-chan is so cool; of course, I have to choose Stelle!]
[But he is Kevin! Who can refuse the unsheathing of Shamash?]
[Sorry, Caelus, I desire Stelle.]
"If it were me, I would choose Stelle."
After interacting with the barrage in the live broadcast room for a while, Jiahun finally chose the female carrier, X, and entered "Jiahun" in the nickname column.
After she pressed the confirmation button, Kafka on the screen stuffed the Stellaron in her hand into the body of the gray-haired girl. With a flash of light, everyone in the live broadcast room witnessed the birth of Galaxy Baseballer at that moment.
The next plot dialogue featured a reminiscence between Stelle and Kafka. Even those in the live broadcast room who had participated in the second test were confused by this dialogue, which seemed like a riddle, let alone Jiahun, who was playing this game for the first time.
"Huh?"
"What are they talking about? I don't understand..."
At this moment, her brain was overloaded, and she could only click on the dialogue box with a blank expression, just like the gray-haired girl in the game. Her attention was fully on Kafka's delicate face, leaving no time to consider other matters. She clicked on every option.
"Kafka is so pretty. I have to ask her a few more questions."
...
"How long will it take?"
After being treated as a light bulb by Kafka and Stelle for several minutes, Silver Wolf couldn't help but frown.
She looked down at the time and interrupted the two, speaking, "According to the script, the people from the Astral Express will be here soon. We shouldn't linger with them."
After that, she added with some annoyance, "Don't forget, we agreed to check out the containment section."
"Yeah, I know... right away. Wait for me."
Because of her short stature, Silver Wolf looked like an angry hamster at that moment.
Seeing her like this, Kafka realized that she had wasted too much time there. After bidding farewell to Stelle for the last time, she followed Silver Wolf.
"It's done; let's go."
After leaving the secret room where the Stellaron was hidden, the two took the elevator down to the containment section.
As the elevator approached its destination, Kafka suddenly spoke up and warned.
"Silver Wolf, this is where Herta stores rare items. Even if you see something that interests you, don't touch it."
"Don't worry. Elio said nothing will happen to us this time—at least not anything life-threatening."
"The [future] is predetermined, but the process is not. You wouldn't want Sam to come with a blade to rescue you from here, would you?"
"Well, the situation shouldn't be that dire..."
"Ka—"
Before Silver Wolf finished speaking, a biting cold wind rushed into the elevator room through the gap in the elevator door. The two looked at each other and immediately realized that something was wrong.
There might be an ambush outside!