Chapter 86: The Anti Honkai Forces

She looks at the group like a guillotine hanging on her head. After all, that's three Herrschers not one and even one needs multiple Rank-S Valkyries and quite a lot of sacrifice to defeat. However, her boss didn't send her to her death. She was sent ahead alone as messenger considering the Herrschers didn't exactly become violent and even fought amongst themselves a moment ago.

Her task is to establish contact and in the worst case scenario, sacrifice herself to stall the Herrschers. That's why the Schicksal Overseer even allows her to wear the Godsbane battlesuit. But, this suit suddenly malfunctioned and deactivated, much to her horror before it moved on its own as if controlled by someone else.

"Oh, she's from Saint Freya's Academy. She's good." Himeko heard the girl wearing a jacket like a coat, said. The man however looked at her oddly. In his eyes is confusion and longing with some pity.

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'Who is she?' Ray asked himself but couldn't find any. He is sure he never met this person before yet somewhere in his heart he felt sad, pity and longing at the Valkyrie.

'You sure it's not just another excuse to pick another woman? She looks hot though, so I don't blame you.' Venti said and sounded drunk with the way he talked. Ray ignores and walled off the drunkard from his mind and focuses on the present.

"Saint Freya's Academy?" I asked Kyuusyou.

"Yeah, a branch of Schicksal managed by Theresa Apocalypse, Otto's granddaughter, where they train Valkyries. I led one of the Herrscher there. Her name is Kiana Kaslana."

SAKURA and Himeko instantly look at Kyuusyou and blurt out the identity of another Herrscher casually. SAKURA of course still remembers her task from the previous era to become defender of humanity against Honkai. Himeko however is simply in shock of what she hears and has difficulty accepting the fact that such an innocent and lovable girl is supposed to be her nemesis.

'Ray.' He suddenly heard Artoria's telepathy and sensed her distress.

"Hmn? Who could give her trouble?" Ray said and turned to the big open land formerly filled with buildings but now reduced to rubbles while Artoria seems to be in battle against two people. One is a war goddess looking girl wielding a lance and another is a maid wielding a scythe.

"Oh, the Immortal Blades also arrived. They are the elite task force of Schicksal." Kyuusyou explained.

Artoria seems to be having trouble because she isn't trying to kill the two and only defending as they probably mistaken Artoria as an enemy.

I snapped my finger and 72 rhombus eyes appeared out of a small crimson swirl, replacing the rifles as the spell was changed and upgraded. When I swipe my hand forward, the eyes shoot beams of red lasers at them for distraction and then summon Artoria into her weapon form, armored arm along with her Rhongomyniad on my right arm.

Ray realized the target of this organization was him and the others with him. The honkai beast and zombies are mostly ignored because Artoria manages to lessen their numbers significantly by only blocking the city to prevent any of them escaping and forming a killzone around the city edge. The rest of the Valkyries and Mechs are gathered and surrounding his location and the warship in the sky providing support and information.

"Can't we negotiate this?" Ray asked Himeko who was helpless to answer but Kyuusyou answered instead. "I doubt they will be willing if they find out you have the Herrscher of Corruption. They will do whatever they can to kill you if that is their assumption."

SAKURA couldn't help but nod after remembering the power of Herrscher of Corruption. Biological or Mechanical body, object, anything can be affected by Herrscher of Corruption. In the previous era Herrscher of Corruption was able to easily hack the nuke all over the world and launch it against humanity regardless of how strong the defenses were.

"So it's either fight or flee then." Ray said and sighed before a smile entered his face. "I am also curious how great the power of this world is." He stated before his Divinity Domain burst out his own envelope a kilometer wide ground as his Undying Legion rose once again to his call.

"The Demon God Pillars probably overkill though." Ray rubs his chin while looking at the terror and awe his opponents gave.

'Dvalin, do you want to play? Dvalin?' Ray looked into the bracelet space and found the dragon still napping since the return from the Rank-S dungeon and had yet to wake up. But she quickly rouses from her sleep when hearing Ray calling for her.

'Ray?'

'Do you want to come out and play? There are plenty of enemies around. Though don't kill them for real.'

'Okay!' Her jaw spread open as if smiling cheerfully when she replied.

The bracelet glowed in green light as a wind suddenly gathered into a giant green sphere on top of Ray before it burst open, revealing Dvalin in her dragon form, roaring to announce her arrival with a cheerful tone to Ray but different for everyone else.

Then the army clashed while Dvalin was content with disturbing the warship fleets above with her wind, interrupting them from helping their allies on the ground.

"This…! What kind of herrscher power is this?" Himeko questioned the absurd abilities that Ray is showing that do not fit to any herrscher they studied before.

"Herrscher? He isn't a Herrscher. He is a god, the only being that defeated the Will of Honkai." Kyuusyou once again returns to her creepy chuckle like that of a crazy zealot.

Not just Himeko but Higyokumaru and SAKURA also stare at Ray in disbelief.

"Don't look at me like that, I have yet to understand what this Will of Honkai guy is or how strong he is." Ray denied the claim as he had yet to even find this Will of Honkai yet.

He looks at the war goddess looking girl who advances very fast against my Legion of Undying, crushing them with a twin blue spear that she can create out of energy. Sometimes she throws them and strikes with the power of a rocket or shoots them like an arrow. Every move is calculated without excess as she tears apart her enemies.

"I guess she is one of the organization's trump cards." I turned to Kyuusyou by reflex since she had been providing answers for most questions.

"Yes, she is Durandal or Bianka Ataegina. The strongest Rank-S Valkyrie of Schicksal or even the world." Kyuusyou confirmed.

Replying with a nod, Ray jumps off the half ruined apartment building to the ground to meet Durandal head on. The Valkyrie seems to understand the gesture and ignores the Wraiths that also ignore her and march toward Ray.

Immediately Ray was greeted with one of her spears that she threw and caused a sonic boom from how strong she threw it then followed by the second and third till she felt slight strain. But Ray, still nonchalant and a phantom of a flower bud appeared in their path before blooming into seven petaled flowers, resisting one after another spears that were thrown at Ray.

Durandal looks surprised and then slight fear is suppressed by steeled eyes looking at her opponent, willing to do anything she can to defeat him.

"Not even a word of greeting? Quite barbaric I should say." Ray said with faux disappointment. "Well, I do want to inform you that fighting with melee isn't my strong point as a head on before we start." Ray said as he intended to only duel instead of fighting to death unlike what Durandal is thinking in her mind.

Seeing that Durandal is silent instead of answering, Ray shrugged and waited for her to start her first move.

Durandal understands Ray's intention but her mind is confused because this isn't how Herrscher is supposed to act. She even starts to doubt this man is a Herrscher because of how different he is to a Herrscher. But the fact he is responsible for all these destruction didn't change and she made up her mind. She charged with her lance which her opponent did the same, copying her as if he wasn't serious about this exchange at all.

Her lance clashed with his grotesque looking lance. In the competition of power, she won as she managed to push him back slightly but wind suddenly erupted from the lance and burst, pushing her away and followed with a stab that caught her off guard but she managed to push her hand on the ground and tumble back to land on her feet.

"Hmn… So that is how strong I am without reinforcement." Ray said with intrigue while allowing Durandal to get back on her feet. Instead of a thanks, she scowled instead.

"Stop toying me around and fight me seriously." She scowled while staring at Ray with complicated emotions but also felt slight anger for not being taken seriously.

"If you said so." Ray said and vanished by the end of his sentence and Durandal opened her eyes wide in shock and tried to evade, barely making it as the lance almost pierced her waist from the back.

Just as she was about to make a sigh of relief for evading the attack, a burst of sharp red winds hit her point blank and threw her to a big pile of concrete and bricks.

(I forgot to say that Rhongomyniad's wind is red and Venti's is green.)

After a brief clash, Ray did find that his opponent actually had better techniques and martial arts than him but lacked punch in her attack to compete with him since he have a hax witn Reinforcement and endless mana drawing from the universe thanks to his True Magic.

All in all, quite great and his forces are already winning anyway. So, he might as well leave since there's nothing left to achieve here. He withdrew his forces and the group into Ars Paulina while Durandal was still laying on the pile. He did hit her quite strongly just now.

Seeing she is trying to climb off the pile. He bid her farewell for now. "See you next time." He said and casted Ars Paulina before he and the group with him vanished into thin air.

Durandal left gritting her teeth as she was defeated easily. But she calmed down when Rita, her deputy, came and told her their forces suffered very minimal losses with the majority only lightly injured and the worst being heavy injury, nothing that cannot be healed. Durandal concluded he was just playing around from the very start.

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With Himeko, the next morning.

"Are you sure with what you heard from them?"

"Yes, principal. The unmistakably stated they have Herrscher of Corruption in their fold and then another one is unidentified Herrscher along with the awakened Herrscher of Thunder."

The said principle is a little girl wearing a nun robe, sitting on her desk with chips and comic books around.

"I see. But our observations are correct; they aren't aggressive like the second Herrscher. The attack force personnel suffered no casualty, only the equipment." The principal muttered. "Hmn… do they state their goal?"

"No. But… I did heard one of the girl said the man isn't a Herrscher, but a god that can defeat the Will of Honkai." Himeko added, which in her opinion sounds ridiculous. The top personnel of the anti-honkai organization are aware of the existence of the Will of Honkai. The god and herrscher are merely its apostles.

"I see…" The principal nods before sighed and relaxes. "Thank you for your great effort, Major Himeko. You can be dismissed and rest for now. I have to submit a report to grandpa."

Himeko nods and leaves the room with a tired sigh too since after the battle last night, she and most others are busy cleaning up the battlefield and she only got a two hour short rest before she was called to submit her verbal report.

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