Chapter 24: Part (1): The Totem of the Sun

“Himeko, get out of the way!”

Kiana shouted, raising her hands and firing both the Desert Eagle and the Colt Python, two large-caliber pistols.

The gunshots were like thunder!

Moreover, Kiana’s slender arms possessed an inexplicable strength; her arms were as stable as fixed mechanical arms, allowing her to fire three shots at once within a second without the muzzles of either gun jumping.

The pale body was hit repeatedly. Perhaps the bullets could not penetrate his body and caused limited damage. But unlike a motorcycle, which he could grab with his hands, no matter how fast he went, he could not catch the bullets with one hand. The powerful kinetic energy created a lot of sparks when it hit his body, forcing him to retreat repeatedly!

“Kiana, hang in there!!”

The third person appeared—or rather, she had been there all along—riding alongside Kiana on the motorcycle that Uncle Wang from the convenience store treasured, chugging along.

She arrived and was the first to jump off the motorcycle with the grace of a doe.

But at this moment, she charged forward with her sword drawn, displaying an aggressive nature like a lioness!

He naturally saw Mei sprinting along the ground, and he recognized that Mei’s sprinting technique and footwork were the assassination footwork of the Japanese “Kamikaku” school. This footwork originated in the Sengoku period four hundred years ago and was created by Hattori Hanzo, a ninja who was loyal to Tokugawa Ieyasu at that time.

Besides espionage and assassination, ninjas at that time would also mingle among ordinary soldiers to participate in the melee on the battlefield. This kind of movement was a special gift that Hattori Hanzo prepared for Takeda Shingen’s cavalry. It kept the cavalry’s spears close to the ground, so that the blades aimed at the horse’s legs and arteries could always accurately sever the horse’s legs and cut the arteries.

From a tactical perspective, this is one of the most ferocious attack methods in assassination! Because it is easily seen through, yet there is nothing that can be done about it!

To Yao Bingling’s surprise, this seemingly pretty, gentle, and sweet-talking girl turned out to be incredibly ruthless! She went straight for the kill! And her eyes were as cold as the knife in her hand!

A flash of light, and Mei’s arm trembled violently!

The moment the blade touched his skin, the Valkyrie had the illusion of cutting through iron. The blade, which should have been able to cleave even pig bones, was stuck firmly in the neck of this pristine assassin. The blade was embedded half a centimeter into the flesh, and a small drop of blood flowed down the blade, only to be blocked by the bulging muscles inside, which, like the mouth of a monster, tightly gripped the blade of the katana!

“Varied?!”

Just as Mei cried out in surprise, the monster suddenly turned around. Unable to attack with its still-healing left hand, it rammed its entire shoulder into Mei’s chest.

A similar situation to what happened to Himeko occurred immediately to Mei’s chest. And because the area of ​​impact was much larger, Mei almost stopped breathing the moment she was hit by this pure white monster.

Her body was immediately sent flying backward.

The white monster tilted its head, and its entire body was propelled out by the powerful kinetic energy emanating from its head.

Kiana wasn’t idle; the moment she saw Mei get hit, she immediately unleashed a barrage of fire!

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Gunshots rang out like thunder! In just two seconds, both guns were emptied of bullets once again. Kiana’s superb marksmanship, and even the stability of her arms, ensured that all nine bullets from both guns hit the white monster perfectly once more!

Yao Bingling felt a violent jolt in his head, as if a grenade had exploded just three meters away from him while he was still in human form, leaving him dizzy and with tinnitus.

The bullets clattered and fell to the ground; they had hit his head. The tips of the bullets were all flattened from the impact, and they fell onto the hard, blackened ground with a little blood, gleaming slightly like brass in the reflection of the flames.

His skull, enhanced by Honkai energy, was so strong that even bullets couldn’t penetrate it!

[That brat is ruthless!]

Yao Bingling cursed inwardly. Of course, if it were any other time, he would probably be overjoyed to see Kiana use such marksmanship and relentless attacks to smash a single assassin, because that’s how you deal with Honkai – you have to be ruthless and use the darkest killer tactics!

However, when he himself experienced being shot in the head, he was quite depressed, even though he was mentally prepared.

He crouched down, picked up the small katana that Mei had dropped after he bumped into her, and with his body pressed to its limit, he unleashed superhuman speed as he charged toward Kiana.

Kiana’s ammo was empty; she needed to reload. She understood this, and so did the monster.

Kiana, however, threw away the two weapons in her hands without any hesitation, turned around and reached behind her. It was at this moment that Yao Bingling noticed that there was a large black handbag on her back.

A rather bad feeling crept into his mind.

His premonition immediately came true, and Yao Bingling’s eyes narrowed!

Kiana pulled an M4 Super90 from the bag, touted as the most powerful shotgun in the world! If his brain hadn’t been burned out by Honkai energy, he remembered this gun was supposed to be hidden in a secret compartment behind the wall? How did it end up on her!

[How did that brat find my armory?!]

Before he could even ponder the question, he had to dodge immediately. He knew all too well the power of that thing. Unlike the one he had when he first appeared, this gun had been upgraded by him. Its power was so great that it could pierce through an infantry fighting vehicle with a scatter shot from thirty meters away! At close range, even a tank-class Honkai Beast would be severely injured!

Kiana smiled, strode forward, and fired!

The steel balls fired from the shotgun formed a huge cone-shaped barrage. He couldn’t dodge it completely and was blasted away by this storm of steel. The spent cartridges hit the ground with a “crackling” sound.

Kiana was also jolted back several steps by the shot. When she regained her balance, she found that her hands were trembling uncontrollably. The powerful recoil at the moment she fired made her think that she had stopped a motorcycle with her bare hands!

“What kind of weapons is that stinky old man using?!”

Even so, Kiana gritted her teeth and aimed with all her might at the white monster struggling to stand up, and fired again!

A flash of light appeared; it was more like the sound of an explosive device exploding than a gunshot, and the shockwave even sent dust flying from the ground!

That was a powerful recoil force strong enough to shatter the bones in both of her arms and dislocate them from the shoulder blades. It was also the most effective weapon to blast that monster, which had done absolutely no damage to her until now, to the ground, unable to even get up!

Indeed, after the white-clad assassin was hit by the first shot and sent flying, Kiana immediately followed up with more shots. The assassin didn’t even have a chance to struggle. Hot blood, a color between red and purple, splattered from his back and sides, hissing white smoke as it hit the ground.

Even small patches of blood mixed together and fell to the ground, immediately igniting into a sizable flame!

Kiana remained unmoved, mechanically and efficiently firing, reloading, firing, reloading! Scrap cartridges continuously tumbled from the chamber, falling to the ground with a “crackling” sound!

The shotgun was empty. Kiana didn’t even fire to test if there were any bullets left. She knew how many bullets were in the gun. Once she had enough, she smashed it against the blood-soaked back of the monster trying to get up without thinking. After knocking him off balance, she immediately pulled out two Uzi submachine guns from her bag.

This rapid-fire weapon, which theoretically has a rate of fire of 1,500 rounds per minute and a reload speed of only two steps, has long been the most popular weapon among terrorists and arms dealers in various countries.

Also in the Honkai Battlefield, it is the favorite weapon used by those elite warriors to sweep away the tide of suicide soldiers!

The bullets were already loaded and the safety had been released. The brass cartridge cases shot into the sky like popcorn, and a hail of bullets rained down on the wound on the monster’s back.

Bullets that shouldn’t have pierced his skin’s defenses all found their way into the wounds on his back thanks to Kiana’s precise marksmanship. They tore through his muscles, battered his bones, and burrowed into his internal organs like parasites implanted in a living body. The blood gushing from his back spontaneously combusted in mid-air, igniting the surrounding area like lava erupting from a volcano!

But Kiana quickly noticed the problem: the flames that were lit were not right!

Furthermore, the bullets she fired seemed to have no effect on him at all. Upon closer inspection, a spherical field appeared behind him. The fiery blood that should have sprayed and fallen to the ground was instead ignited within the spherical field, forming a high-temperature curtain.

The bullets pierced through the curtain upon impact, but were melted into molten iron that had no kinetic energy to cause any damage. The high temperature of the molten iron obviously could not cause much harm to the fiery monster. Although it could burn him, it could only leave metallic patterns like tattoos on his back. It should be noted that the regeneration ability of Honkai Beasts has always been a problem!

However, Kiana was unable to fire again. Based on her instincts from numerous battles during the Honkai Impact 3rd, she understood that this assassin possessed a rather strange but very powerful fire force, and that force had already begun to gather.

The air was thick with an increasingly intense burning smell, and behind the figure lying on the ground, the air seemed to be on fire.

A spherical field of flames surrounded him, its heat steadily increasing, radiating a scorching aura—a power beyond human comprehension.

For a moment, Kiana even thought she was on the edge of an active volcano, facing the scorching lava inside!

“Kiana, get down right now!”

Himeko Murata picked up the greatsword a few meters away from her, released the restriction, and the power reactor on the hilt suddenly erupted, roaring violently like a tank engine starting up! And it reached the critical value in an instant!

However, this time she didn’t use the sword for slashing; if she, already injured, went up to engage in close combat, she would only be a burden.

She understood this herself, so she roared and threw the sword, now freed from its restraints, like a bomb. The power reactor, which had reached its critical point, would be completely ignited at high temperatures, and the explosive force would be equivalent to a direct hit from a missile. No matter how strong the assassin was, with its human-shaped mass, it was impossible for him to withstand the bombardment of a missile unscathed!

The greatsword struck the top of the domain precisely, and everyone heard a sound like glass shattering. Then, the force itself shattered!

A surging, ocean-like flame radiated from a single point, spreading in all directions with a powerful shockwave! Kiana and Mei had both been warned, so they were the furthest away and the first to lie down, but Himeko, who had made a throwing motion, was also caught in the flames on her back despite being prepared.

“Aaaaaah!!!”

The intense flames burned away the back of the combat suit that the Destiny Organization claimed could fight in both intense heat and extreme cold almost instantly. Her skin was immediately ignited, and within half a second, she began to dehydrate and turn into a lifeless carbonized state.

Previously, because this was the epicenter of the explosion, there were no trees within a radius of nearly 100 meters, only blackened, charred branches and non-combustible ashes. But with this explosion, everything around was ignited again, the atmosphere was filled with flames, and the space was filled with high temperatures!

Kiana and Mei pressed their bodies tightly to the ground, afraid to look up or get up, silently and fearfully awaiting the trembling passage of death!

Kiana and the others heard screams, which came from Himeko. When they looked up, they saw Himeko lying motionless on the ground after falling from the flames. Kiana immediately tried to stand up, but Mei pressed her head down!

“Don’t get up!”

“But Himeko, she!”

“Don’t get up!”

Mei repeated the sentence, but her eyes were filled with pain as she looked at Himeko. Then, she was met with a scene that terrified her.

A figure emerged from the flames, pale as a corpse, its pupils burning with a brilliant gold. Its face seemed to crack the earth, with molten lava flowing from the fissures. A truly terrifying face!