"Uh…" Li Xuan was at a loss, holding the Stone of Stellar Resonance. It was an undeniable fact that Kiana's guns had turned into these two girls only after touching his stone. But it was an accident, so it couldn't really be called 'summoning'. Besides, Mjolnir and Lucian's Secret were Kiana's weapons and had nothing to do with him. It was all because Kiana had been careless and messed with his stuff.
"Hah~~" Before Li Xuan could figure out how to respond, the blue-haired girl suddenly squinted and yawned, looking sleepy. "Phew~ I slept so well~~ Aah~ I really want to swing my lightning around a few times to stretch my bones!" The blue-haired girl swung her giant hammer again, carrying with it arcs of azure lightning.
"Finally free from the curse… It seems this is another era steeped in blood," Lucian's Secret said, her delicate nose twitching as she sniffed the air, taking in the bloody scent that excited her.
"My guns… they actually turned into girls!!" Kiana suddenly shouted, finally processing what had happened. For some reason, the corners of her mouth were suspiciously moist.
"Slept well?" Li Xuan noticed what the Sol girl had said and asked, confused. "Excuse me, Miss S-Sol, is that right?" Li Xuan asked respectfully. After all, it was clear this person was no simple character; she was as powerful as a god. The stray sparks of lightning from her giant hammer were enough to tear up the concrete ground.
"Mm, that's right~" the Sol girl said, pleased with Li Xuan's attitude. She puffed out her chest, placed her hands on her hips, and squinted her eyes.
"Uh… may I ask how you were summoned?" Li Xuan asked with a smile, drawing the attention of both Sol and Lucian.
THUD!! Sol casually set her giant hammer down. When it hit the ground, it sank in as if into a sponge, creating a large crater. The terrifying destructive power made everyone's temples throb. However, the perpetrator of this unintentional display of power didn't seem to notice. Instead, she exchanged a look with Lucian, and they both looked up at the sky, trying hard to remember.
"Uh… I remember there was a strange voice," Sol said, pressing a hand to her forehead as she recalled. "Mm, that's right…" Lucian also stroked her chin in agreement.
"…It said…" Sol closed her eyes, trying to remember the voice she had heard in a daze before she woke up. "…'Awaken… O heroic spirits sleeping in ancient legends.'"
"…'Break the chains of fate… escape from the abyss of reincarnation,'" Lucian continued for Sol, her voice filled with recollection.
"…'Awaken at this moment! O long-sung relics of myth!'" Sol and Lucian said in unison, as if they had recalled it at the same time with perfect timing.
"…Don't copy me, you demon (false god)!" They both turned their heads and snapped at each other, then turned away with a "Hmph!"
"…Mei, the Bronya just detected a Reality-warping field," Bronya Zaychik reported to Raiden Mei. "…A Reality-warping field? What's that?" Mei tilted her head, looking utterly adorable and clueless, which made Li Xuan—and, alright, Kiana too—stare at her, mesmerized.
"…The so-called Reality-warping field, according to the Bronya's system database, is when highly concentrated Honkai energy gathers to an extreme degree, creating a massive energy that warps and changes the rules of space and certain laws. And Li Xuan's Stone of Stellar Resonance exacerbated this phenomenon, even producing some unknown factor," Bronya Zaychik explained seriously. "The Bronya deduces that Mjolnir and Lucian's Secret were originally weapons that housed the power of ancient Divine Weapons. The warped field reawakened the consciousness of the ancient divine bodies, allowing them to descend again in the form of young women!" As expected of someone with a supercomputer, Bronya Zaychik instantly deduced her own theory.
Warping space… Does that mean it's possible to travel through space?! Upon hearing Bronya Zaychik's explanation of Honkai energy's effect on space, this thought uncontrollably surged in Li Xuan's mind.
"Who's copying you?! You flat-chested shorty!" Lucian, standing opposite Sol, said dismissively. She didn't think someone so small could have much power, so she didn't take her seriously.
"F-flat-chested! S-shorty?!" Hearing what Lucian called her, Sol lowered her head and fell silent, like the calm before a storm. But her ponytails, which were sparking with electricity and floating up in defiance of gravity, showed that her heart was anything but calm.
"Ha, haha…" Sol's expression twisted into a dark smile, a chilling sight to behold.
"…Accept the wrath of the gods! You wicked demon!" Sol roared in anger. She extended her slender arm, her gauntleted right hand gripping the giant hammer that stood upright on the ground, and lifted the terrifyingly heavy weapon with furious effort. Her divine power seemed to transform into thunder, and the giant hammer shone with lightning.
"All who stand in the way of my clan's revival shall be eliminated! The night is the true master of this world!" Lucian declared, not showing any weakness. The blood-red flames around her hands instantly swelled from the size of small snakes to that of giant pythons. The air around the flames seemed to be burning, distorting.
Sol lifted her giant hammer, her petite body leaping high into the air, and brought it crashing down on Lucian. Lucian's expression was like ice, unchanged. She thrust the blood-red flames in her hands forcefully towards the descending hammer.
The crackling of the lightning on the giant hammer and the booming sound of the burning blood-red flames drowned out all other noises. It was like a concert of thunder and fire, and together they played a song—a song of thunder and fire!