Time in a collapsing world

Francis talked with Yae Ri for a long time. The former showed goodwill and was not afraid of the other party's power. The latter also maintained her original attitude and told the other party some secrets about the Honkai beast.

The people of this era have already learned to cope with the devastation of the collapse, but they are still fragile, even with the Key of God.

Just like this attack, just a few Honkai beasts were able to easily break through their defenses. God knows what kind of miserable state this city will become when the real crisis comes.

The moon rises and sets, the moon rises and sets.

The people of Tianming spent several days clearing the battlefield in the city. After confirming that an area was completely safe, they directed the people who had temporarily settled outside the city to move in in batches, with civilians given priority.

Although the nobles had some objections, when they thought that there might still be terrible Honkai beasts lurking in the city, they had no choice but to be patient and let the lowly commoners test the waters first.

Francis rested for a few days and felt full of energy. He also wanted to bring the Valkyries to join in. It would take a long time to complete the inspection of such a big city with the current remnants of the army.

Whenever he thought of this, Francis couldn't help but turn his gaze towards Yae Ri who was hanging out with a group of little girls, wondering about the upper limit of this group's abilities.

"That's right, Uncle Francis."

Just as Francis was about to leave, he was stopped by Yae Li in the tent.

"The Holy Fire Judgement in your hand is fake, don't use it recklessly."

"..."

Francis looked at the old friend in his hand, who seemed both familiar and unfamiliar, and his face suddenly drooped.

He thought these people would be so kind as to return his weapons... turned out to be just wishful thinking?

Francis put his two guns back into the gun bag of his new clothes, waved his hand with his back to Yae Ri, and left with the Valkyries.

"Brother, what are we having for dinner today?"

Yae Rin held the bread that the Valkyries had just distributed, quietly approached Yae Ri and asked in a low voice.

"What do you want to eat?"

Yaegi looked at her with a smile.

"Hmm...grilled fish?"

"I want one small cake! No, two...six pieces!"

Kallen came closer, her blue eyes sparkling, as if she could smell the aroma of delicious food. Her stomach immediately growled, but she had just swallowed a dozen pieces of bread.

"Give me a piece of cake too, thank you brother~"

Yaezakura also joined in.

"Do you want it?"

After noting down everyone's needs, Yaeri looked at the Valkyries standing guard on the side. They were all people who had been taught the rules by Aponia before, so Yaeri was more casual in getting along with them.

Several Valkyries shook their heads, but one could not resist the temptation and carefully raised a finger, "Then...give me a piece of cake too?"

"No problem~"

Yaeri was like an omnipotent blue-skinned Doraemon. He turned around and had several plates of cake in his hands. Yae Rin's grilled fish was held between two fingers by him, and it was still steaming.

No matter how many times I see it, I still think this method is really magical...

Almost everyone present thought so.

Yaeri distributed the food, and those who received the food had a delicious meal.

Yaeri also ate a little casually and then went out.

"Brother, where are you going?"

Yaezakura asked as she chased out of the tent.

"Please help a little. Otherwise, if we rely on Uncle Francis and his family alone, it will take us a long time to live in the house again."

"Then... do you need my help too?"

"I appreciate your kindness, Sakura. Just have fun with Rin and the others. I'll be back soon."

Yae Ri disappeared from the crowd, took a step out in an unnoticed corner, and the next moment appeared on a well-preserved tower in the ruined city, which happened to be located in the middle of the city.

Looking into the distance, Yae Ri saw the knights and Valkyries who were cleaning up the corpses of Honkai beasts, as well as Francis and others who had arrived at the scene before him but had not yet arrived.

"Aponya is in charge of the killing, and I'm in charge of the burial. It's a very clear division of labor."

Yaeji muttered to himself, his black and white eyes sweeping across the city, as if he could see every corner, even the corpses of Honkai beasts blocked by obstacles were clearly visible to him.

A finger pointed out, and all the remaining Houkai energy on the corpses was guided by Yaeji, sucked into his fingers, and integrated into his body, but it was not completely absorbed. Instead, it was transferred to another opened up space.

Next, Yae Li turned her sight, and the ground beneath all the Honkai beast corpses became soft, and then swallowed up all the remaining gray-white objects like a bottomless swamp.

The Valkyries and Knights who were cleaning up the battlefield noticed this strange sight and immediately dared not take a step forward, fearing that they would become the same as the corpses of the Honkai beasts in the next moment.

"Shall we keep going, Captain?"

"..."

The Valkyrie subordinates of a certain team were waiting for orders, but the leading Valkyrie did not respond for a long time. Instead, she frowned and looked in a certain direction.

I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but I always feel like there seems to be a figure on the tall tower over there?

Shaking his head, "Stay where you are and observe, don't act rashly."

"Yes!"

This scene was happening in almost every corner of the city: the originally hard land seemed to suddenly become full of life, automatically helping people clean up the messy battlefield after the war.

Sink, blend in, bury...

After a series of operations, the city's land returned to normal, leaving only a ground that was so clean as if nothing had happened, and tense and alert witnesses.

The person who did all this just patted his butt and ran towards the front battlefield.

He would go and check on his teammates. If there were still any Honkai beasts left, he wouldn't mind stretching his muscles.

The moon is bright and the stars are sparse, at the last line of defense on the front battlefield.

The members of the Night Raid Team and the leader of the Valkyrie Corps were sitting around a campfire, chewing dry food, and around them were piles of corpses of Honkai beasts. They had no injuries on their bodies, but they had all lost their life.

Among the corpses, there were weapons emitting a strange purple light stuck in the ground, and an extremely strong sense of presence surrounded them.

"Let's leave as soon as we're done resting. I feel like we'll soon be eroded by the Honkai if we stay in this environment," Lizana suggested.

"You can go first. I still want to look for any survivors."

The Valkyrie leader shook her head. Although they received unexpected assistance in this war, the attacks suffered by the Valkyrie troops before this had already caused them to suffer heavy losses. Some of them died from the bites and trampling of Honkai beasts, while others were infected by the rich Honkai energy in the air and became dead soldiers.