Chapter - 44
Moscow
Leone's steel legion was guarding the Russian capital as instructed by the Primarch and the Empress, their objective was to protect the city in case something were to happen to it, so far, nothing had since the conquest of the capital.
The civilians of the outskirts of the city have been evacuated for precursory measure...everything has been quiet until a pink bright light appeared on the horizon...soon followed by a horde of Honkai Beasts running towards the defense line.
The guardsmen aimed their weapons at the incoming threat but they weren't worried...because they were the weakest asset of the defense of the city...
A warhorn blasted across the land before silence returned...then another one from another point seemed to reply to the first...
Then the ground trembled with the rhythm of a heartbeat as a sound echoed louder and louder, the people inside the city left their houses to see what was the cause of such noise...and all of them found themselves overwhelmed by a mix of fear and awe.
It was towering in the sky, slowly positioning itself. The guardsmen looked up to it in awe
The Imperator-class titan, The Imperii Invicta, was on their side and it wasn't alone. On the horizon, another behemoth stood, its weapons already aimed at the horde, the Tyrannus Immortalem, the Warmonger-class titan.
The guardsmen saluted to the two machines before they created a sea of fire and destruction...within seconds, the horde was no more...
Siberia
The Imperial charge was cutting through the horse like a hot knife through butter. Anastasia stilled leading the charge along with her sisters and Legio Custodes...then she felt it...It was there, the Honkai God.
Anastasia looked to the tower, the presence was coming from there
"Najenda" She called in her sister's mind "I must go to the tower, take the lead"
"Okay!" Najenda replied before Anastasia teleported herself on top of the tower.
The Herrscher was floating up in air, above her there were several meteorites wrapped in fire pointed at them. Below her there Otto, a Valkyrie and the warrior that was with the Overseer back in Berlin...Fu Hua, although, her appearance was way different, she was wearing a white short Chinese dress. her hair was white with a few tinges of red.
The Empress raised her sword and as a result, the meteors exploded in mid-air before they could fall on the group of Valkyries. Otto and the Valkyrie with him turned around to stare at her in disbelief while Fu Hua seemed to be focused into doing some sort of prayer
'I must stop her here' Anastasia heard from the thoughts of the warrior 'I have no choice but to burn Fenghuang Down. Memories of friends long gone...the moments shared...the battles fought...Shall fade for this blade'
Anastasia felt a wave of immense power coming from the warrior...but she knew that it will fail
"Do not give something so precious to that God of hers" Anastasia voiced boomed inside Fu Hua's mind
Finally, Fu Hua turned around and saw who was standing behind her and grit her teeth "She must be stopped now!"
"And she will" Anastasia replied as she shoved away the ancient warrior.
Sirin stared at Anastasia's figure in disbelief for a few moments before feeling anger which didn't belong to her filling her being, she immediately understood who held such feeling...it was her God...
"You..." Sirin hissed as she clenched her fists "You are a child of the Anathema..."
Anastasia lifted herself from the ground as her wings started to shine brighter than before "It is Master of Mankind to you"
"YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE!" Sirin shouted as a feather appeared in her hand "AND NOW I'LL SHOW YOU WHAT WE'RE CAPABLE OF!"
Anastasia remained emotionless as a portal opened behind her, she looked at the group on the tower and with the blink of an eye they disappeared, she then looked at Sirin "Then I'll show you that our resolution is greater than your will" she muttered before disappearing into the portal.
Sirin started to laugh as Bella flew next to her and bowed "It is done Bella! Their Empress is GONE! GO! AND STRIKE DOWN THOSE HUMANS!"
Bella smiled "It will be done my queen" she said before flying towards the battlefield at incredible speed
When she arrived, she placed herself up in the air and started conjuring powerful balls of Honkai Energy and aimed for the titans, her bombardment didn't go unobserved since the titans started firing back at her but thanks to the blessing of her queen, she was able to avoid the shots. Each shot of her, was a heavy blow for the void shields of the machines, with patience, she will be able to destroy them.
Then everything came to a halt, Bella found herself falling down into the frontline, with immense pain coming from her side
"You were starting to be quite annoying" Najenda said as she stood a few meters away from Bella with her plasma cannon fuming a bit "Your queen will not save you now" she said darkly as she prepared her thunder hammer...
Sirin's dream world
Anastasia was driving a car in a city created to trap her and the others that Herrscher targeted, she could feel the rage of Sirin, this dreamworld was supposed to be a nightmarish realm but, thanks to her psychic abilities and experience with dreamworlds, she had no problem turning it into a happy one at the cost of many of her forces...but it was worth it especially since with this illusion she was able to see deep within Sirin's mind where her personality was still untouched by the corruption of the Honkai...and so far, she only found sadness and grief
The Honkai God appeared only in front of people who seemingly have given up in life and suffered immensely, it would offer them its power in exchange of slaughter...Anastasia was lucky because her father was with her but Sirin had no one and so she accepted God's offer...
But this meant that deep down, below that hatred and anger caused by the people who tortured her, she was a thirteen years old girl who was being drowned in sadness and grief, who lost her faith in humanity because of what happened and that desperately looked for the happiness she once had...