"Finally... the last floor." Li Xuan said to himself with a sigh of relief. The ammunition for the 'Horn of Heimdall' in front of him had long been used up...
However... the new turret had brought excellent results. One shell exploding in the dense crowd of Honkai Zombies was naturally an incredible effect... What made Li Xuan wonder was that his blood seemed to have a particularly strong effect in attracting Honkai Zombies ever since Nagazora City. In the beginning... there were several times he was almost cornered by a horde of Honkai Zombies.
"There's not much time left... I need to end this quickly." Li Xuan glanced at the toy box in front of him, which had run out of ammo on the 31st floor and had transformed into the six-star weapon [Dione's Blizzard] on the 32nd, only to run out of ammo again... Li Xuan felt that time was getting tight...
He knew that [Seele's Toy Box] could only change form for ten minutes at a time, there was a time limit... and five minutes had already passed... which meant Li Xuan only had five minutes left. To deal with the pile of Honkai Zombies and the 'Blazing Lightning' on the 33rd floor in five minutes... was not an easy task.
'I have to go all out...' Li Xuan's right hand gently touched the turret in front of him. He suddenly raised his head and looked towards the main stage... where Principal Theresa was surely watching him.
'Get ready...' Li Xuan mouthed silently. He knew she would understand his meaning... after all, Li Xuan had told Theresa about this beforehand...
"Sigh~.... I still have to go all out." On the main stage, Theresa swayed her short legs and muttered to herself. A virtual 3D window popped up in front of her, and she lightly tapped it, saying, "Lower the transparency of the outer wall to the minimum..."
With a casual adjustment from Theresa, the transparent walls surrounding the competition grounds suddenly turned pitch black. The audience, who had been watching with great interest, was instantly blinded. It was pitch black... they couldn't see anything...
"Is there a power outage?!" said a student who hadn't reacted.
"Why does it always go dark right at the climax?!" said a frank and outspoken girl.
"Why can't I see my brother anymore?..." This was a certain clueless familiar sister who had come to join the fun...
At this moment, Li Xuan was in no mood to think about the students outside... He looked at the pile of Honkai Zombies that had appeared before him, especially the 'Blazing Lightning' standing behind the horde, with a heavy heart...
To be honest, Li Xuan absolutely did not believe that the difficulty of the final floor was set according to the level of a first-year student... Just one 'Blazing Lightning' could only be dealt with by a B-Rank Valkyrie or above...
"Show your fangs!... O, Judah's Oath." Li Xuan's right hand gently touched the golden cross that had silently appeared before him. The crisp sound of a mechanism echoed from within the cross. Two gun mounts unfolded from the sides of the cross, like a golden beast baring its golden fangs...
"Here you go!..." Li Xuan directly took a 'Spear of Light' from the gun mount, weighed it in his hand, and threw it. The golden spear cut through the air, the shockwave it created parting the rain... The spear, glinting with a hint of golden light, cleanly pierced through the body of a Guardian Honkai Zombie....
"Come on... let's hurt each other..." Li Xuan slowly walked in front of 'Judah's Oath' and said with a smile, his eyes narrowed fearlessly... The remaining eleven 'Spears of Light' from 'Judah's Oath' behind him shot out automatically...
These spears contained high-concentration obsidian. Honkai creatures hit by them would be imprisoned... there was no other outcome, unless... it was a Herrscher...
At this moment, although no one in the audience could see what happened after Li Xuan reached the 33rd floor, the people on the main stage could still see everything...
"This, this..." Murata Himeko had a 'I've seen a ghost' expression. She slightly opened her mouth and looked at Theresa beside her, her eyes filled with shock... Her mind began to run wild, even imagining the consequences if this were to be exposed...
'Shocking! The untold secret between a Schicksal branch commander and a student...' That kind of gossip...
"Theresa, you lent 'Judah's Oath' to Li Xuan?!" Himeko couldn't help but say. This counted as cheating, right?!
"..... No, I didn't..." Theresa looked at Himeko's 'I knew it' expression, sighed, and said with an old and calm demeanor, "This is Li Xuan's ability... That is his 'Judah's Oath'...."
"Huh?!" A certain unmarried young woman (anyone under 44 is considered young) with a B92 bust size was completely bewildered...
"Beep beep!~" Just as Theresa was about to tell Himeko something about Li Xuan, the 3D virtual screen in front of her suddenly flickered and emitted an urgent sound...
"What is it?..." Himeko, her attention drawn, asked curiously as she looked at her screen.
"Hmm, a former student suddenly sent me a private message. I remember that person became a special agent and an archaeologist... Why are they suddenly looking for me now? It's not going to be any trouble, is it?..." Theresa complained, but her eyes were still gentle and even held a hint of joy...
As a principal... there was nothing more rewarding than watching the students she had sheltered grow up to become capable adults, right?
"..." After opening the private message, Theresa's expression changed with just one glance... She read the message with a serious face, fell silent in thought for a moment, then turned her head and asked the bewildered Himeko with a grave expression.
"Himeko, are there any available Valkyrie squads in the Far East Branch?" Theresa said with a frown.
"Huh?! Valkyrie squads?..." Himeko also frowned. She thought carefully and said, "There happen to be no free squads these few days... Most of them took on various missions after submitting their previous ones the day before yesterday... and those missions aren't easy to complete in a short time... special area reconnaissance, commercial transport, supply storage, eliminating Honkai Zombies... We're short-staffed."
"Is that so..." Theresa sighed helplessly. Was she just going to give up on this... You know, if the branch obtained data from various ruins or from their old rival 'Anti-Entropy', they could submit it to headquarters and receive more resources for development!
In fact, this was also a system of survival of the fittest, which was why... the African branch had been unable to develop all these years, not even having a single 'Hyperion'-class battleship...
"....Wait..." Theresa saw a certain someone's slaughter on the screen, and she suddenly turned her head and said with a smile, "It seems our competition this time is going to end early..."
(End of this chapter)