Chapter 87: Bad Woman
A quantum light flashed by, and Silver Wolf teleported a Shadow of the Guardian in front of the Stellar Core.
The Stellar Core was overjoyed and charged toward the Shadow of the Guardian. Without Cocolia as a real vessel, it could only reluctantly use a Realm Splitting Creature as a vessel.
“Not a chance! Ice Wall!”
March 7th stomped her foot, and an ice wall rose between the Stellar Core and the Shadow of the Guardian.
The thick ice wall was far more solid than an ice prison.
“Da da da~”
A barrage of bullets carrying Imaginary Energy shattered March 7th’s ice wall, and the Stellar Core directly crashed into the Shadow of the Guardian.
While Kafka was attacking, Jing Yuan sent a water dragon rushing toward Kafka.
Kafka tapped her toes and dodged Jing Yuan’s attack, then fired a provocative shot at March 7th.
“Young girl, your opponent is me.”
“Hmph, this young lady knew it. I’ve been prepared for a while—come at me!” March 7th mustered her courage and hurled an Ice Crystal at Kafka.
Kafka shot the Ice Crystal with her gun, flipped her wrist, and purple threads enveloped Jing Yuan.
“Go on, attack March 7th.”
What does controlling Jing Yuan have to do with me, Meng Huaifeng?
Meng Huaifeng’s control over Jing Yuan clearly took priority over Kafka’s domination. Jing Yuan did not attack March 7th as Kafka wished; instead, Meng Huaifeng controlled him to continue attacking Kafka.
“It really doesn’t work, huh? I really hate opponents like you.” Kafka drew her mysterious purple long saber and shattered all of Jing Yuan and March 7th’s attacks.
“Catch!” March 7th skillfully condensed a spear from Six Phases Ice and tossed it to Jing Yuan.
Jing Yuan caught the ice spear, shook out a spear flower, and thrust it toward Kafka.
Cloud Chant Technique is a spell that can only be used based on bloodline. Meng Huaifeng himself couldn’t learn it, so controlling Jing Yuan to use it felt a bit unfamiliar. It was still stronger to use Cloud Rider spear technique.
Kafka was masterful with both gun and sword, switching between gun and saber at times, attacking from near or far, elegantly and calmly handling the duo’s assaults.
Purple light occasionally emanated from Kafka’s pupils. March 7th’s eyes suddenly blurred, and an ice spike shot toward Jing Yuan.
Fortunately, Jing Yuan also had a shield released by March 7th. The ice only spread across half his shoulder before stopping.
However, Jing Yuan was still affected by the attack, pausing for a moment. Kafka unhesitatingly slashed her saber at his waist.
A huge wound appeared, but not a drop of blood flowed out.
“Ah? Huai Feng, sorry, I… I didn’t mean to! I was clearly attacking Kafka, how could…” March 7th was at a loss, on the verge of tears.
Meng Huaifeng consumed Imaginary Energy, and the wound on Jing Yuan’s body healed in an instant.
“Don’t panic. This is just an energy body I created with my Soul Skill. It can recover by consuming energy. You must have fallen victim to Kafka’s psychological suggestion. Be more careful from now on.” Jing Yuan acted as if he hadn’t been injured at all and continued attacking Kafka.
March 7th finally relaxed, glaring furiously at Kafka as the power of her spells rose another level.
However, strength couldn’t be improved by anger alone. There was a huge gap in strength between Kafka and the two. Kafka handled their attacks with ease, without even using any of the powerful abilities of hers that the Interstellar Peace Corporation had exposed.
At the same time, the Stellar Core, fused with the Shadow of the Guardian, released massive amounts of Imaginary Energy. Affected by its Cold Wave trait, the Shadow of the Guardian’s body transformed into an Ice Crystal construct. The surging violent Imaginary Energy had already surpassed the Imaginary Energy within the star.
As the Shadow of the Guardian raised its hand, countless ice spears fell from the sky toward A Xing, Bronya, and Seele.
Bronya dodged with difficulty while maintaining the Power of Harmony to enhance Seele and A Xing. Seele slashed down the ice spears aimed at Bronya one by one, while A Xing charged toward the Stellar Core through the hail of spears.
The Stellar Core fused with the Shadow of the Guardian, gaining powerful combat power, but defeating it would dissipate most of its 700 years of accumulated vast energy, leaving it powerless to resist.
Now facing A Xing’s attacks, it could no longer tank them with the Stellar Core’s indestructible nature. Every hit meant massive consumption of Imaginary Energy.
The Shadow of the Guardian was created by the Realm Splitting absorbing the memories of successive Supreme Guardians. The Stellar Core accepted the Shadow of the Guardian’s combat memories, and two ice spears appeared in its hands, flipping up and down to completely suppress A Xing.
Seele tried to help but was frozen by the Shadow of the Guardian the instant she revealed herself. If A Xing hadn’t burst with all his strength, she would have been at least seriously injured!
When the Stellar Core had no vessel, Seele and Bronya could still help, but now they couldn’t intervene in the battle between A Xing and the Stellar Core at all!
Even so, A Xing fighting the Stellar Core one-on-one to this extent was already impressive.
After all, in the Stellar Core Hunters’ original script, A Xing couldn’t even beat Cocolia, who hadn’t shown her final form yet, even with help from others…
March 7th watched the suppressed A Xing and gritted her teeth: “Huai Feng, go help A Xing. Kafka, this young lady will deal with her alone!”
Even the silly March 7th could see that Kafka had no intention of fighting them to the death; she was just purely stalling the two of them.
With Kafka’s strength, stalling one or two made no difference.
On A Xing’s side, though, whichever of them intervened could join forces with A Xing to suppress the Stellar Core.
Jing Yuan nodded, using Coiling Leap Technique to ignore Kafka’s attacks. While consuming energy to recover his body, he rushed toward A Xing’s battlefield.
“Listen to me, freeze her.”
Kafka flipped her wrist, and web-like purple threads enveloped March 7th. With domination plus Word Spirit Technique, March 7th unleashed Ice Seal Ten Thousand Miles, freezing Jing Yuan in place.
March 7th quickly recovered from Kafka’s control, waved her hand to remove the freeze, and looked awkwardly at Jing Yuan: “Um, I didn’t want to either. Go quickly.”
However, whenever Jing Yuan tried to go help A Xing, Kafka would control March 7th to freeze him.
March 7th was about to cry. I’m really not on the Stellar Core Hunters’ side!
Kafka, you really do bad deeds! Just picking on this young lady, huh?
“How about you go help? She can’t control me.” Jing Yuan said speechlessly.
“Okay, you hold her off.” March 7th had long wanted to avoid facing Kafka and immediately agreed, fleeing toward A Xing’s battlefield.
“No can do. Neither of you can leave.” Kafka casually dodged Jing Yuan’s attacks like strolling in a courtyard while firing her gun at March 7th.
However, March 7th was determined not to face Kafka again. She condensed layers of ice shields behind her and ran off headlong.
“Listen to me, come back.” Kafka said eerily.
March 7th, who had already run far, turned around and ran back. By the time she shook off the control, she was back where she started!
“Wah~”
Little March completely lost it. Bad woman!
Seeing March 7th’s aggrieved teary face, Meng Huaifeng sighed. If it weren’t just game characters over there, he would absolutely explode with Kafka, BGM starts, everyone socially dies together!
Dan Heng outside the planet looked angry. The small water dragon circling in his hand pounced toward the ground, growing larger and larger, turning into a thousand-meter-long giant dragon in the blink of an eye. In just two seconds, it was above Kafka’s head!
Dan Heng was mindful that March 7th was too close and didn’t dare make the water dragon’s power too great, worried about affecting her.
Kafka’s expression tightened, and several special grenades were detonated by Destiny power and thrown at the water dragon in the air.
“Boom!”
A violent explosion rang out. The water dragon’s form dispersed, Kafka retreated a few steps, and clutched her chest with a light cough.
“Angry, are we? As expected of the Dragon Lord of the Vidhyadhara. Impressive indeed. Looks like if I go too far, you’ll have to join the fray.” Kafka praised.
“Yay! Dan Heng, give this bad woman a good lesson!” March 7th cheered through her tears.
Kafka narrowed her eyes and looked at March 7th.
March 7th fearfully stepped back a few paces and said vigilantly: “Bad woman, what do you want? If you bully me again, Dan Heng will avenge me.”
“Blade is about to wake up soon. I’m sure he’ll be delighted.” Kafka chuckled lightly.
Dan Heng had already informed them of his past experiences, so March 7th naturally knew about the grudges between Blade and Dan Heng.
Although Dan Heng had untied the knot in his heart, March 7th didn’t want to make him sad either.
“Hmph, come on then, bad woman. I believe A Xing will definitely win!” March 7th gave up the idea of aiding A Xing with Jing Yuan.
This bad woman was dead set on not letting them help A Xing.
Bronya watched A Xing fighting bitterly for them, for Belobog, and inwardly hated her own weakness.
How exactly could she help?
Bronya noticed the Creation Engine that Welt and Meng Huaifeng had found a couple days ago in the distance, and her eyes lit up.
The Flame Spear was the key to controlling the Creation Engine. Bronya looked at the nearby embedded Flame Spear and rushed over to pull it out.
After a long time, the Flame Spear showed no reaction.
Bronya’s eyes dimmed slightly. Though she believed in Preservation, by a twist of fate, while commanding the Silvermane Guards in battle, she had unknowingly stepped onto the path of Harmony.
If she had enough time, she might gradually gain the Flame Spear’s recognition, but there was no time now.
“Bang!”
A Xing’s body heavily crashed beside Bronya.
The tough and sturdy A Xing rolled and stood back up. His golden pupils surged with battle intent as if burning.
The Shadow of the Guardian swung its arm, sending a dense barrage of ice spears toward A Xing.
A Xing swung his baseball bat to shatter the ice spears, when his peripheral vision suddenly caught Bronya beside him.
“Watch out!”
A Xing unhesitatingly blocked in front of Bronya. Hastily, an ice spear pierced his left shoulder.
Bronya stared dazedly at the steadfast figure in front of her, who seemed incredibly tall.
“Take it.” Bronya shoved the Flame Spear into A Xing’s hand.
She didn’t know why she did this, but it felt like A Xing, as a traveler, had shouldered the responsibility that locals couldn’t, fighting with all his might against the world-destroying scourge.
No one deserved the Flame Spear’s recognition more than A Xing—including her!
“What’s this?” A Xing was slightly stunned.
The Shadow of the Guardian hovered in the air, and a massive ice ball comparable to a satellite fell from the sky.
“Be buried in the ice and snow! This world deserves only destruction!”
The Stellar Core dropped the act and showed its hand—creating a New World was pure fiction!
“Clang!”
A hammer strike suddenly echoed through the universe. A new era had arrived.
“It worked, A Xing.” Kafka said softly with relief. This time, all the commotion hadn’t been in vain.
A scorching shield appeared in front of A Xing, blocking the huge ice ball.
The ice ball shattered completely, revealing A Xing, Bronya, and Seele below, completely unharmed.
“In the name of the Galaxy Bat Man, I command you to rise!” A Xing raised the Flame Spear high and shouted.
“Rumble~”
The brief earthquake from before reoccurred. Amid the earth-shaking tremors, a massive figure hundreds of meters tall stood up from afar, striding over in a few steps to stand silently behind A Xing.
A Xing flew into the air and stood atop the Creation Engine’s head, looking down condescendingly at the now minuscule Shadow of the Guardian, pointing its blazing spear tip at it.
“Now, let the second round begin!”
