Volume 1: Chapter 69: A Horror Story from Nagazora City

　　At this moment, under the ground.

　　Bronya, wearing a gas mask, sat on the soft fleshy ground.

　　The location of the Heavy-Armored Bunny showed that she was moving quickly underground in Nagazora City.

　　“Gah!”

　　There are small creatures playing around all around.

　　The gray-haired girl pinched the face of the child in her arms out of boredom.

　　Well, it's all too dreamy.

　　After discovering the large Houkai energy generator yesterday, Zerg and those small creatures—

　　Constructed a biological nest.

　　Tentacles that drink hot tea, tubes that move on their own, sausage queens that tell bedtime stories to creatures that Zerg calls worker bees, kings that read newspapers...

　　Then she couldn't resist the sleepiness yesterday and fell asleep next to Zerg.

　　After waking up——

　　I saw the nest getting bigger.

　　There are even some new creatures.

　　For example, there was a cockroach-like creature looking at her, with a long and flat body and a wide-open mouth. It was an unknown creature.

　　It's just that there aren't many of these two species.

　　When I woke up, creatures called springtails were...

　　Squeezed into...an indescribable position of some creature.

　　Forgive Bronya for not being able to describe that location.

　　Because the entrance looks like a chrysanthemum.

　　Not the chrysanthemum in botany, but… well, an adjective.

　　After seeing the little child also crawling in, she pinched her nose, put on a gas mask, and crawled in despite the psychological discomfort.

　　Because I was wearing a gas mask, I didn't smell anything.

　　It may also be because it has no taste.

　　However, Bronya did not want to experiment herself to find out what the truth was.

　　She adjusted the gas mask on her face, and said something muffled.

　　"Zerg, where are we going?"

　　There is an unknown light source illuminating the body of the creature.

　　Bronya didn't want to explore it anymore.

　　After all, the edifice of science has collapsed.

　　"Hmm... another place where Honkai energy is emitted?"

　　After building the hive, the swarm master directly ordered the swarm to prioritize the construction of tunnel worms, so that they could quickly raid other places where Honkai energy was emitted underground.

　　The Zerglings that left Kiana's house found more places where Honkai energy was emitted.

　　In order to occupy and connect these places, Nydus Worms are indispensable.

　　After one night of construction, the tunnel worm has connected several Honkai energy emission areas.

　　Now we are heading to the last place.

　　“…”

　　Mother Cocolia has set up what should be several large-scale Honkai energy generators in Nagazora City.

　　The index of the heavy-duty bunny showing the collapse energy is——

　　It has reached an extremely high value.

　　According to the information Bronya had learned in the past, this number was enough to give birth to a Herrscher.

　　Due to the interference of Honkai energy in the air, all the monitoring equipment on the ground stopped working.

　　But Bronya had previously retrieved some surveillance footage through physical communication.

　　The ground has become a hell.

　　Humans eroded by the Honkai either turned into rotten flesh and died directly, or were eroded into mindless monsters.

　　Some primary Honkai beasts also appeared in Nagazora City.

　　If we continue to leave it alone——

　　High-level death warriors and high-level Honkai beasts will appear one after another.

　　“…”

　　If Zerg and I could be faster, then we could...

　　She thought silently.

　　Bronya shook her head.

　　It's just self-consolation.

　　Now she can't contact Cocolia's mother either.

　　The Honkai energy index, which was enough to give birth to a Herrscher, seriously interfered with communications with the outside world.

　　We’ll talk about the mission of retrieving Raiden Mei later.

　　First go to the location of the last large-scale Honkai energy generator.

　　Help Zerg occupy that place, so that the Honkai Energy Index can be prevented from rising further.

　　Well, it’s just to make it easier to recycle Raiden Mei.

　　As the Honkai energy index continues to rise, it is extremely difficult to retrieve a Herrscher who may have awakened.

　　"Zerg, what are you looking at?"

　　Bronya noticed that the little child's eyes were focused on the empty space in front of him.

　　He blinked as if he was looking at something.

　　"Zerg is communicating with Kiana!"

　　The Swarm Master replied.

　　"?"

　　Kiana was the guy she didn't have time to send to the police station.

　　But now that the Honkai has broken out, how did Zerg get in touch with that guy?

　　Could this be another completely incomprehensible biotechnology?

　　Bronya was a little confused.

　　No, no, no, it should be the white-haired guy who survived as well?

　　If I remember correctly——

　　Before I left with Zerg, the white-haired guy was with the target, right?

　　"Hasn't Raiden Mei awakened yet to become a Herrscher?"

　　The gray-haired girl speculated.

　　Otherwise, how could the enemy of humanity, the Law-Bearer, allow a white-haired human to survive?

　　Theoretically, the Honkai energy overflowing from Nagazora City should be enough to give birth to a Herrscher.

　　And Raiden Mei is the target chosen by Cocolia's mother——

　　She didn't know where she got the information from, but she knew that a conquest gem had been implanted in Mei Raiden's body.

　　All it takes is a huge amount of Honkai energy to generate, and then there is a high probability that Raiden Mei will awaken and become a Herrscher.

　　As for why Cocolia's mother thought she could find her lost child through a Herrscher...

　　Bronya didn't know.

　　But in order to get her friend back, the girl chose to become an accomplice of a terrible conspiracy.

　　"It seems that there is not enough Honkai energy..."

　　At least not enough to awaken a Herrscher.

　　It can't be that there is a second potential Herrscher appearing to snatch the Honkai energy -

　　[Ultimate Invincible Giant Cute Paramecium! : Let’s put Bronya’s matter aside for now. Zerg, I’ll come to you later! ]

　　At this moment, Kiana Kaslana resisted the urge to go directly to where Zerg was.

　　After all, there was a burden who provided her with food and she had to carry her along all the way.

　　The rich girl next door is already prepared to survive the apocalypse.

　　Mei Raiden, who was wearing casual clothes, held a -

　　A sharp sword.

　　The gleaming blade looked dangerous.

　　What does this woman want to do by bringing a sharpened sword?

　　The white-haired ball remained silent.

　　"Are you ready, Kiana?"

　　Mei Raiden got familiar with the feel of the sword, then she raised her eyebrows and looked at the white-haired ball standing at the door.

　　The other party was still in pajamas and had no weapon in her hands.

　　This sword was originally brought here to be used for other things.

　　I didn't expect to use it now.

　　“Bang!”

　　The door opposite was slammed shut.

　　When it opened again, Kiana Kaslana had changed her clothes and shoes.

　　"Give."

　　The black-haired lady next door immediately threw a baseball bat over.

　　This is what she found in her room.

　　Maybe the previous tenant forgot to take it with him when he moved out.

　　"I didn't expect you to be so well prepared, Miss Raiden Mei?"

　　Kiana Kaslana weighed the baseball bat—

　　Very suitable for knocking people out.

　　She vaguely saw the empty suitcase through the gap in the door opposite.

　　There seemed to be some cleaning supplies scattered on the ground.

　　“…”

　　Sap, sword, suitcase, cleaning supplies...

　　A rich lady can buy off the police with money and power...

　　The white-haired ball's expression became a little subtle.

　　"Why are you looking at me like that?"

　　Mei Raiden was very confused.

　　She found that Kiana looked at her as if she were a dangerous person.

　　"nothing."

　　Feeling the Honkai energy surging in his body, the white-haired ball is fearless!

　　She's just Raiden Mei, is it possible that she could suddenly explode and knock her to her knees?

　　Impossible things!

　　"I'll lead the way later, Kiana."

　　Although she didn't like Kiana who was competing with her for Zerg, Mei Raiden still said this.

　　She is not that kind of evil woman who does all kinds of evil.

　　As the daughter of the Raiden family, if you enjoy wealth and glory, you naturally have to bear the corresponding responsibilities.

　　After calming down, the young lady also remembered some things -

　　For example, some simple reports that her father accidentally left on his desk.

　　It mentions [Honkai], [Death Soldiers], [Honkai Beasts] and [Herrscher].

　　If nothing unexpected happens -

　　The so-called [collapse] broke out in Nagazora City.

　　Even though she didn't know the cause, she had to leave Nagazora City alive with the white-haired idiot behind her.

　　Also, Zerg is missing.

　　The eldest lady was a little anxious.

　　However, we can't be impatient at this time.

　　Because there's no use in being anxious.

　　"Miss, can you do this?"

　　Kiana raised her eyebrows slightly.

　　Eating a meal prepared by this woman can be considered as repaying her kindness.

　　Moreover, she felt that she had more combat experience and being a pioneer was a better choice.

　　It’s a pity that Skadi and Tallulah couldn’t come over.

　　I don't know what the two of them are doing.

　　@ but no response.

　　"Oh."

　　Is the level of Hokushin Ittoryu Menkyo Kaiden high enough?

　　Mei Raiden smiled confidently.

　　"step."

　　"step."

　　"step."

　　There were footsteps coming from below.

　　A creature is approaching.

　　At the same time, there was a roar approaching.

　　"The enemy is coming!"

　　Holding the katana tightly with both hands, Mei Raiden took a deep breath.

　　She positioned herself for the strike.

　　She was in a high position and was well-rested. Even if this was her first life-and-death fight, she would be the winner!

　　The pale head came into the eyes of the two girls.

　　The insane humanoid figure sensed the breath of life and suddenly became agitated.

　　"roar!"

　　A terrifying roar was heard.

　　The figure began to stumble up the stairs, trying to get closer to the two girls.

　　Mei Raiden's eyes narrowed.

　　Then--

　　“Boom!”

　　The pale figure fell down.

　　Its head hit the steps with a crisp sound.

　　“…”

　　Fell down?

　　The eldest lady was stunned.

　　Then the pale figure suddenly disappeared from sight.

　　The speed at which it disappeared... was as if it was being dragged away by some unknown entity beyond the field of vision.

　　"Gulp."

　　Mei Raiden swallowed her saliva.

　　Sometimes what is scary is not the monster, but the unknown horror.

　　It seems that there are other terrible things here.

　　"roar!"

　　In the stairwell below, the monster's roar suddenly stopped.

　　Along with this, there were other sounds -

　　“Crack!”

　　A crisp sound came from the stairwell somewhere far below, as if something was bitten off.

　　“Click…click…click…”

　　The sound of chewing followed.

　　It was like some living creature was eating.

　　The two girls looked at each other.

　　I found that the other person's face was a little pale.

　　…………