Honkai Impact 3: Deadwood

"whispering sound!"

Realizing that the other party was playing a trick, Xilin quickly turned around and opened the space barrier, and a heavy blow hit it.

On the other side of the barrier, a human figure emerged from the shadow and slashed down on the barrier several times at an extremely fast speed. Before the several sword energies remaining on the barrier dissipated, she threw the sword in her hand to the side and made a swift straight stab with her left hand.

The stab with the authority of the "Key of God" and the sword energy just now acted on the barrier at the same time, and the barrier suddenly made an ominous sound.

Just as the sword was about to pierce through the barrier and Xilin was preparing to accumulate energy to shock the opponent away, the boy's figure suddenly disappeared from her sight, leaving only the black sword blade still stuck in the barrier in front of her.

"Cun Jin - open the sky!!"

The voice beside her ear made Xilin turn her head and look to the side. She saw that the opponent with empty hands had landed beside her after another space teleportation and punched her hard on the waist.

"Uh-huh!?"

Xilin was caught off guard by a punch before she could defend herself. Although the power of this punch was not very high due to Zhi's physical strength, with the help of Fu Hua's superb martial arts, Xilin was still knocked several meters away.

"..."

Fu Hua, who had succeeded, shook off her old friend's right hand which was numb from the burns, and then reached out to call back the black sword blade that was still in the space barrier.

"How dare you tease me!"

Seeing the other party calmly raising the sword in his hand again, Xilin, who had already been hit, became completely furious as if she had been humiliated: "I will make you pay the price!!!"

Xilin roared and summoned dozens of golden holes around her again, and the human opposite her also prepared to attack again when seeing this.

However, even with the blessing of "Yu Duchen", in Fu Hua's opinion, the old friend's body had endured too much pain that no mortal should be able to endure.

Their limbs were numb and their five senses were malfunctioning. If they continued like this, even if they continued to delay time, defeat would still be inevitable.

Seeing those Sub-Sky Spears, which were denser than raindrops, shooting out from the holes beside the Herrscher and flying towards him again, dense beads of sweat fell from the Captain's face as they were washed away by the heavy rain.

Just when Fu Hua was racking her brains over how to help her old friend escape, the Burning Sun Flame suddenly descended from the sky without warning, like the setting sun in the Divine Court. It completely evaporated the surrounding rain and easily burned those Sub-Sky Spears into ashes.

"This is!?"

Quick and sharp footsteps sounded from behind Fu Hua, and a figure in red armor came running out of the heavy rain.

The figure exerted force on his heels and easily leaped high into the air against the direction of the rain. He jumped over Fu Hua's head and fell towards the Herrscher in the distance. At the same time, he swung the giant god-killing sword wrapped in blazing flames at it with all his strength.

Faced with this sudden attack, Xilin somehow felt a sense of déjà vu. She subconsciously deployed a space barrier without even thinking about it. As she expected, the barrier was instantly burned by the hot flames flowing on it, and after several cracks appeared, it completely shattered.

As if she had anticipated it, Xilin hid in the hole behind her the moment the barrier shattered, and distanced herself from the opponent.

"What's going on! I've been having this annoying feeling since just now. What on earth is going on!?"

Staring at the red-haired woman in brand new red armor who was falling down with a light movement in front of her, that weird feeling finally began to fully explode in Xilin's heart.

She always felt that she had seen such a scene somewhere, but no matter where she searched in her memory, she could not find any memory related to it.

“Damn it, what the hell is going on! This feeling…what on earth is this feeling!?”

In the distance, the woman with long crimson hair ignored the nonsense that the Herrscher was talking about, and swung the greatsword in her hand, which was glowing orange-red and evaporating the rain that fell on the sword. She turned her head and cast her gaze at the "young man" behind her: "Hey, Captain, sorry for the wait!"

"Major Himeko?"

Along with the familiar voice, what appeared in the boy's red eyes was the figure of a companion that both he and she were very familiar with.

"Hmm~ How's it going, Captain? I'm not late, am I? How's the situation?"

"…Major, you arrived just in time. Thank you for your help."

"Hmm? Captain, why do I feel like the way you speak is a little... and..."

The woman in red armor said as she glanced at Fu Hua who was lying in the heavy rain and blood in the distance. Suddenly, a sharp pain flashed through her heart: "Captain, could it be that Fu Hua!?"

"Don't worry, I'm fine, Major."

"?"

There was an obvious flash of doubt in the golden eyes. Upon hearing the voice, Ji Zi retracted her gaze, looked carefully at the "young man" behind her, and looked at him again.

Perhaps it was because they had known each other for a long time, and soon, the boy's figure cleverly overlapped with the figure of one of her friends in her eyes: "Fu...Hua?"

"Yes, it's me."

The young man behind him answered seriously.

"??? Am I really late? I feel like I missed a very important scene? Captain, no, Fu Hua, you...?"

"It's a long story. Anyway, the captain is still in a coma, and my body is seriously injured and I can't move. I have no choice but to borrow his body temporarily."

"I see…"

After listening to this, Ji Zi's doubts did not diminish much, but considering that now was not a good time for small talk, she nodded as if she understood.

"Ahem, okay! Leave this to me, Captain... Fu Hua, you should retreat with your body first. I will teach this disobedient student a lesson!"

"No, the Herrscher is very difficult to deal with. One more person will give us a better chance of winning."

"Eh? But..."

"If it were the captain, he wouldn't abandon the major and run away by himself. Besides...if we don't find a way to defeat her, it will be useless if we just run away."

"What if it's the captain...? Hehe..."

As if moved by these words, Ji Zi smiled refreshingly, and no longer insisted on Fu Hua retreating, but instead cast her gaze towards the "Hersher" in the distance... her student, Kiana.

In the distance, Xilin was still confused by the strange feeling in her heart. She looked at the woman in red armor opposite her. Before the Herrscher's keen perception of Honkai became aware of it, she seemed to have subconsciously discovered that there was one of her core elements in the armor - the flame of plague.

In any case, we must first take back the "Plague Gem".

After fruitless thinking, Xilin came to the conclusion that regardless of those trivial strange feelings, now that she had lost the chance to get back the "Conquest Gem", she urgently needed to take back the next core that once belonged to her to provide herself with more power than would ever be exhausted.

In this way, the woman holding the giant sword stood side by side with "Fu Hua" who also held a sword, and Xilin also made full preparations to give priority to regaining the "Plague Gem".