coobybook Chapter 431 Our St. Freya is full of traitors.
Chapter 431 Our St. Freya is full of traitors.
The howling wind whipped up the waves and frantically tore at the gray scarf around Walter Young's neck. He pressed down hard on the scarf, which was almost blown off his neck by the wind, and slowly walked towards the four people.
At first glance, he appears to be the kind, approachable, and handsome middle-aged man with glasses that you'd see anywhere—if you ignored the Star of Eden in his hand and the little black hole around Wendy.
At this moment, those tiny black spheres are hovering around Wendy, trying to devour every wisp of air that spills out.
"Walter? He's the Herrscher of Reason?!"
A shocked Rita muttered to herself, and in a moment of disarray, she pulled Durandal into battle mode.
"Everyone be careful, we might be in a bit of trouble..."
Rita never imagined that St. Freya's history teacher, the author of the Houmu comics, was actually the leader of their destined nemesis, Anti-Entropy?!
No wonder Bishop Otto ordered me to go to St. Freya to catch the traitor; it turns out there's a big fish, a great white shark, here! And I didn't even notice it several times... But then again, even when he came up to me claiming to be a Herrscher, I probably just took it as a joke, right? Heaven knows this Herrscher of Reason, who's older than Theresa, looks so young!
Considering the "thousands of cockroaches" theory, if you find a great white shark underwater in the Far East branch, then there must be countless small fish in the water!
Are there a bunch of traitors in the Far East branch?
If Sora and Kiana knew what Rita was thinking, they'd probably say something like: "Our St. Freya is full of traitors..."
Filled with self-reproach, guilt, and anger, Rita already held her scythe. Bursting with fighting spirit, she gracefully bowed to Walter, her smile as cold as iron.
It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter at all. A good maid knows how to mend the fence after the sheep are lost. As long as we fight and defeat, or even capture, the Lawbringer of Reason here, then all the mistakes don't matter!
"The leader of Anti-Entropy is actually lurking in the Far East branch... Indeed, Bishop Otto's worries were correct."
Unperturbed, Walter gently adjusted his glasses. The Star of Eden slowly spun in his palm, radiating a purple light. This was not only to maintain his control over Wendy, but also to guard against Durandal and Rita.
"Gentlemen, let's not worry about such trivial matters as infiltration at this time. Compared to my identity, I think we have a more pressing issue to deal with."
Walter's gaze fell on Wendy, who was struggling.
"The power of the Fourth Herrscher is on the verge of going berserk. If left unchecked, the first to suffer will be the entire New Zealand, and then the storm will affect Australia and even the Pacific island nations... Gentlemen, you don't want to see that outcome, do you?"
Rita and Durandal's wine-red eyes were filled with vigilance.
"How about this, we'll have a temporary truce: Gentlemen, I need time to establish a complete blockade—fifteen minutes, I need fifteen minutes. If you're willing, during this time, don't allow any external interference..."
Rita's smile deepened, but the chill in her eyes intensified.
"Oh? You mean, you want us to believe that an anti-entropy leader who has been lying in wait for many years, after mastering the target, will sit down with us and talk about the ownership of the target?"
The strongest Valkyrie of Destiny and her lieutenant raised their weapons together, the tips of their spears pointing directly at Welt.
"Um, you two, I think Uncle Yang..."
Although something felt off, Qiong felt she should intervene and try to prevent the two sides from fighting.
But at that moment, the air around Wendy, who had been ignored, suddenly made a loud noise, as if she had been frightened by Old Yang. Four huge, semi-transparent cyan wings condensed behind her.
"Something's not right, this intensity..."
Walter frowned slightly. The rotation speed of Eden's Star quietly increased, and more black holes appeared in the void, attempting to weave a denser gravitational cage. But at that moment, Rita moved.
"Rita, what are you doing!"
Rita's scythe, Skadi of Frost, drew an arc of ice in the air, heading straight for Welt, who was preparing to reinforce the seal.
But the scythe only struck the suddenly materialized steel plate. Thirty centimeters thick composite armor was constructed out of thin air in a fraction of a second, the frost colliding with the metal producing a piercing sound.
"I regret to inform you, 'Herrscher of Reason.' Bishop Otto's order to us is 'to subdue and capture the Fourth Herrscher.'"
Realizing her initial attack had failed, Rita retreated rapidly, lightly touching the sand with her toes, and in an instant, she was ten steps away again.
“Professor Welt… no, the Herrscher of Reason!”
Kiana, belatedly realizing the problem, only understood the issue after Rita and Welt clashed: although she had learned from her own people that Welt was the leader of Anti-Entropy, her current identity was that of the Valkyrie of Schicksal…
Should she point the gun at the teacher?
Anyway, let's at least make it look convincing. With that thought, Kiana, "shocked," stirred up her inner emotions—glaring at this history class devil who routinely arrested her and tattled on her to her aunt.
"You teach us to fight against the Honkai, yet you yourself are a Herrscher?"
"Power itself is neither good nor evil, Kiana."
Old Yang's voice remained calm.
“For example, the wind can destroy homes and also drive windmills… Your friend Mei is the same; lightning can be energy or it can bring destruction… The key lies in the person who wields the power and the path they choose.”
"In that case, please come with us back to the headquarters of Destiny, and have a good discussion with Bishop Otto about the path you have chosen..."
The moment Rita finished speaking, Durandal also moved.
There were no dazzling lights or shadows, no prelude to charging up. She simply jogged forward, and with the help of the Shining Knight's thrusters, she transformed into a pure white-gold meteor, tearing through the air and turbulent wind pressure as she rushed towards Welt.
Is fighting absolutely necessary?
Realizing that the negotiations had completely broken down, even Walter, who had been on guard all along, couldn't help but sigh helplessly.
Let's think positively. Although the negotiations were unsuccessful, he is still a seasoned Herald of Reason.
Almost at the same time Durandal took action, Walter slightly bent his index finger on the Star of Eden.
Click, click, click, click!
Four massive, thick barriers instantly rose from the ground, blocking Durandal's path. Each barrier's structure shifted and strengthened in an instant, its surface shimmering with honeycomb-like force field patterns designed to withstand impact. Logically, even Tesla's positronic hand cannon would have required considerable effort to dismantle them…
However, Durandal's spear tip did not hesitate in the slightest.
The composite armor was torn apart like paper by the Black Abyss White Flower, and the honeycomb force field exploded into countless points of light.
The four lines of defense were a joke; they only delayed Durandal for a mere three seconds before collapsing completely.
"Eden's Star!"
Realizing he had underestimated Durandal, Welt acted decisively. A new barrier silently appeared between Durandal and Welt. This time was different; it was a highly concentrated and controlled gravitational field, a defensive line that would require Kevin to exert considerable effort to overcome!
The reason I didn't use that move earlier was because...
In short, Durandal's sprint momentum was stopped by Welt, and it seems that this momentum can be maintained for a while, but Durandal was never alone from the beginning.
A fleeting image of Rita appeared silently to Walter's left, her scythe aimed directly at his left hand, which was maintaining the black hole.
"Uncle Yang, look to the left! Rita, no!"
Qiong Li shouted, his expression suddenly changing, and the Flame Spear and baseball bat reappeared in his hands—he couldn't care less about anything else. He was on the side of his own, regardless of right or wrong. Old Yang was clearly no match for him, so he had to go up and lend a hand!
"Qiong-kun, do you even know what you're saying?!"
Distracted, Rita's attack stalled, and Welt, alerted by Sora's warning, became prepared. Only Durandal's gravitational field showed extremely slight fluctuations due to Welt's shift in attention.
It's now!
Durandal's eyes flashed with a sharp light, and she thrust the jammed gun tip forward with a sudden movement.
Click!
The barrier emitted a cracking sound as it struggled to break under the strain.
Walter grunted, sliding back several meters, carving two deep furrows in the sand. The light of the Star of Eden flickered rapidly, instinctively withdrawing its restraints on the Herrscher of Wind, and focusing all its efforts on fighting Durandal.
boom--!
Without the Herrscher of Reason maintaining stability, the overburdened black holes disappeared, and a Honkai energy storm ten times more violent than before erupted from Wendy's center. Although the blue wind blades still indiscriminately cut through everything around them, this time the beach was ripped up, the seawater was swept back, and the clouds in the sky were churned into a huge vortex...
The four translucent blue wings behind Wendy became increasingly solid.
"Aaaaaah—!"
Wendy clutched her hair and let out a painful scream.
"Oops!"
Walter's expression changed, and he could no longer care about Durandal's threat. He withdrew Eden's Star and put it into full operation, trying to reweave the gravitational cage. However, the intensity of the storm, his own energy expenditure, and the presence of Durandal and Rita made the process extremely difficult.
When physical attacks failed, Lao Yang immediately switched to verbal tactics, attempting to briefly restrain Wendy.
“I understand your anger, Miss Wendy. To be corrupted by power, to be swept along by fate, to be seen as a monster by everything you once trusted… it’s not a pleasant feeling! But to let the Honkai dominate your will, to turn your pain into revenge against the whole world—this is not the way out, it’s just falling into a deeper void. Stop!”
"Nothingness? Haha... Hahaha!"
Wendy laughed as she took to the sky again; her laughter was sharp and hoarse, as if the wind was scraping against her.
"You make it sound so easy, Lord Leader of Anti-Entropy! You possess power, sitting high above as the leader of the mortal enemy of destiny, of course you can speak so eloquently! But who among you has ever seen my pain, my despair?! These legs that can't stand up, those nightmares that haunt me day and night, and... those eyes that looked at me, from expectation to fear, and finally only disgust!"
She suddenly spread her arms wide, and behind her, thousands of gusts of wind roared at a high frequency, causing the concentration of Honkai energy in the air to rise sharply, as if she were about to increase the intensity of this Honkai attack for the third time.
"Right now, all I want is to tear this twisted world apart! And you are the first sacrifices!"
Before the words were even finished, the surging seawater, mixed with highly compressed wind pressure, surged like a destructive waterfall, unleashing towering waves that crashed down upon everyone. Wherever it passed, space groaned under its immense weight, the beach was cleaved into bottomless trenches, and even light seemed to be distorted and swallowed up.
Faced with an attack (tsunami) powerful enough to flatten a city, Walter and Sora, who had rushed to Durandal's vicinity and were about to give the goose a whack on the back of the head, were both dumbfounded.
The Wind Herald has started playing in the water?
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On the chaotic edge of the battlefield, no one noticed that a mechanical "flying insect" hovered silently in the shadow of a reef due to the strong wind. Its compound eyes flickered with a faint red light, faithfully recording everything—Walter's actions, Durandal's attack, Wendy's second berserk state, and the reactions of the two "problem students" from the Far East Branch—and transmitting it in real time to the distant Destiny Floating Island through the Destiny System's encrypted channel.
There, the blond man swirled the wine in his glass, watching the moment Walter Yang was defeated by Durandal on the screen, and the scene of Sora, who was so loyal and righteous that she was preparing to ambush Durandal. A playful smile appeared on his lips.