The distorted field caused by the Honkai covered Academy City completely. The space was twisted and complex, and a high concentration of Honkai energy fog made it impossible to see the road.
Reaching Senba Academy was not as simple as imagined, and now someone was blocking the road leading to it.
Theresa stood in front of the group, not allowing them to pass.
Considering Theresa's height of 1.4 meters and Kukulkan's standing height of several tens of meters, it was like a child trying to stop a skyscraper from collapsing.
But apart from Ryn, no one dared to underestimate Theresa. Because both the Oath of Judah on her back and her seemingly delicate fists could smash the head of anyone except Ryn and Kukulkan within three seconds.
"I will not let you pass. Fighting Kiana is meaningless; there will be no result!"
"Principal Theresa, you were the one who chose to flee back then... Why are you coming out now to stop us? Or have you already joined the Herrscher's side?"
Bronya looked at Theresa with cold eyes. Bronya was not a Valkyrie, but she had studied at St. Freya for a time. So, she also held a grudge against Theresa.
The Valkyries were all weapons created to fight the Honkai. After Otto's tragic death, everyone was waiting for Theresa to take up the mantle again, but Theresa fled...
The leaderless Valkyries were lost and confused. They were used to following orders and arrangements. After the confusion of the Great Honkai Eruption and losing their leader, they were cut down by Kiana as easily as wheat.
If it weren't for Himeko gathering them and leading them away, those Valkyries might still be foolishly waiting at their posts for Theresa's return...
"Think whatever you want. In any case, I will not let you kill each other again and repeat the tragedy of the Great Honkai Eruption."
Theresa reached out and grabbed two of Judah's Lances, assuming a fighting stance.
Ryn jumped down from Kukulkan's head and stood in front of Theresa.
"Grand-aunt, you should know... you can't stop me."
"I know. But if you want to see Kiana, you'll have to step over my dead body!"
Theresa swung the lances, sweeping the ground in a circle, and then charged at Ryn.
"Why must you do this..."
Ryn grabbed the lance thrusting towards him, yanked it hard, and snatched it from Theresa's hand, then kicked her away.
Theresa spun twice in the air, adjusted her posture, and used the force of the blow to her advantage, turning around the moment she landed and charging again.
Bronya and Penglaiji Ryn raised their guns and fired continuously at Theresa, who easily dodged them. She even caught some of the bullets in her hand and threw them back at Bronya and Penglaiji Ryn.
Theresa didn't want to hurt them, but because of Ryn's presence, she knew she had to go all out from the start to stop them.
But it still wasn't enough. Even at full power, she was no match for Ryn, and now it wasn't just Ryn she had to face...
Kukulkan swung its tail, smashing it towards Theresa and creating a deep crater tens of meters wide in the ground.
But then, Kukulkan felt something grab its tail from underground...
Theresa was smashed into the ground by Kukulkan's tail whip, but she also took the opportunity to grab its tail.
With her feet planted firmly in the earth, Theresa held onto Kukulkan's tail and began to spin, swinging the hundreds-of-thousands-of-tons Kukulkan around and hurling it towards Ryn and the others.
(Don't question the monstrous strength of a Kaslana. Kevin withstood a black hole, Kallen used Judah to bind the Covenant of Radiance and pull it out of a black hole... no matter how you look at it, it's completely absurd.)
Although he felt a little sorry for Kukulkan, it could only blame itself for not being heavy enough to be swung around by Theresa...
Ryn jumped up and kicked Kukulkan in the back, sending it flying out of Academy City and beyond the atmosphere. Since it didn't want to face Kiana anyway, it might as well get lost.
"? Isn't that guy your companion!"
Theresa was stunned. According to her prediction, Ryn should have done his utmost to block for Penglaiji Ryn and the others and save Kukulkan. How did he end up kicking Kukulkan away? And it looked like that kick had broken Kukulkan's spine...
But Theresa couldn't be bothered with that now. Exerting hundreds of thousands of tons of force and lifting hundreds of thousands of tons were two different concepts. That move had tired her out considerably; it was basically a Pyrrhic victory.
Penglaiji Ryn looked up at the stars in the sky. The brightest and largest one was probably Kukulkan.
"Bro, is that guy okay?"
"Don't worry, I roughly estimate that guy has at least thirty cores. He won't die. Sending him out of the atmosphere to get some sun might even make him stronger the next time we see him."
Ryn picked up the Star Sword and walked to the panting Theresa, sticking the sword in the ground in front of her.
"Don't worry, the tragedy of the Great Honkai Eruption, where we killed each other, won't happen again. Because this is a battle that belongs to me and Penglaiji Ryn. And you all... are merely witnesses to this battle..."
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Theresa tugged at her shawl, feeling that Ryn's joke was a bit cold.
She looked up, about to question Ryn on what gave him the confidence to confront the Herrscher of Finality, Kiana, when she saw Ryn fumbling in his pocket and then taking out a Tianqi limited edition baseball bat.
Clang—
Ryn raised the baseball bat and knocked Theresa out with a single blow to the head.
A product of Tianqi is guaranteed to be of the highest quality, specializing in hitting Stigmata Consciousnesses.
Stigmata Kiana is a Stigmata Consciousness, and living beings like Theresa are also Stigmata Consciousnesses within this Stigmata Space of Penglaiji Ryn's. So it doesn't matter who you are; one whack with the bat and you're down.
Ryn picked up the petite Theresa. In the five years since the Great Honkai Eruption, Theresa had also endured a great deal of suffering...
As far as Ryn remembered, Theresa weighed thirty-eight kilograms, but now she probably only weighed thirty, and she reeked of alcohol...
Indeed, people all end up becoming the person they hate the most. Theresa hated how Himeko drank herself into a stupor every day, but now Theresa had become an even bigger alcoholic than Himeko...
It's just that her tolerance for alcohol hadn't improved at all. One sip and she was drunk, half a glass and she'd start a drunken rampage...
Then Ryn led Penglaiji Ryn and the others to Theresa's old nest in Academy City.
When Ryn came before, Kiana wasn't here, so the spatial distortion and dense fog caused by the Honkai in Academy City weren't severe, and Ryn could easily find Senba Academy's location.
But now, being able to find Theresa's old nest—the wine cellar—by feel alone was already quite an accomplishment.