The air whistled past his ears. Feeling his body's rapid descent, Ming Yu's pupils constricted slightly, his black eyes firmly fixed on the giant white elephant below.
As if it had noticed the anomaly in the sky, Ganesha tilted its head back and roared. It opened its massive maw and fired a purple beam of light.
Compared to the few Valkyries on the ground, Ming Yu, descending from the sky, was undoubtedly a greater threat. The faint aura of the Key of Corruption and the Key of Domination he exuded made even it, an Emperor-class Honkai Beast, feel a sense of dread.
Seeing Ganesha's action, the expression under Ming Yu's silver mask did not change in the slightest. With a slight shudder of the six wings of light on his back, his body shifted sideways, dodging the attack.
Estimating the distance to the ground, Ming Yu drew Ice Epiphyllum from his waist with his left hand. The Lunar Abyss Armor responded in kind, glowing with a faint blue light.
With a low shout, Ming Yu's body, still in mid-air, flipped rapidly. Ice Epiphyllum cut arcs of light through the air, and five deep blue slashes of Sword Qi shot out.
The five scattered slashes of Sword Qi landed around Ganesha, and in an instant, five twenty-meter-high ice walls rose up, trapping the Emperor-class Honkai Beast in the center, like a cage of ice.
As the ice prison took shape, a swift sound of breaking air came from above. It was Ming Yu, who had suddenly accelerated, streaking through the sky like a silver and cyan meteor.
Looking at the ice walls that had abruptly risen beside her, and then at the figure rapidly descending from the sky, Edna couldn't help but be shocked.
It was only then that she vaguely understood what Rebecca had meant earlier.
Before the subjugation of Ganesha began, shouldn't the two squads normally discuss tactics together?
Cooperation was secondary; at the very least, they shouldn't interfere with each other.
But from that person's actions, it seemed he intended to start the battle immediately. And with that unstoppable posture, it looked like he was going to take on the Emperor-class Honkai Beast all by himself!
"Don't just stand there gawking, we still have work to do!"
Rebecca said with a smile, patting Edna on the shoulder.
Within the range of the ice walls, besides the Emperor-class Ganesha, there were also many lower-class Honkai Beasts. Since Ming Yu had chosen to take on Ganesha alone, Storm Squad was responsible for clearing out these minions to ensure that Ming Yu's fight with the Emperor-class Honkai Beast would not be interrupted.
Watching Ming Yu charge straight for Ganesha, a few complex emotions flashed in Rebecca's eyes. In a daze, she seemed to see that invincible cyan figure from behind.
What a pity...
Sighing softly, she led Storm Squad back into the fray.
In any case, Ming Yu was ultimately a guest force. The Oceania Branch didn't have a tradition of standing by and watching while their allies fought.
Looking at the white elephant that was rapidly growing larger in his vision, Ming Yu's gaze sharpened, the longsword in his hand aimed firmly at Ganesha's head.
Using the inertia from his high speed, Jizo Mitama slashed towards Ganesha like a black bolt of lightning, the sword wind it carried kicking up a violent gale.
As if sensing the threat from Ming Yu, Ganesha stomped its four feet. Its massive body was surprisingly agile, and in an instant, it shifted several meters backward, dodging the attack range of Jizo Mitama.
Lowering its head with a roar, Ganesha raised its head defiantly, its two long tusks thrusting upwards towards Ming Yu's body, as if wanting to test their strength against the black longsword that gave it a sense of threat.
*Clang!*
Jizo Mitama clashed violently with Ganesha's tusks, creating the sound of metal on metal, and blinding sparks flew continuously.
On one side was a Divine Key, the pinnacle of human technology. On the other, the hardest tusks of an Emperor-class Honkai Beast. Black and white, small and large, the contrast between the two was so stark!
A heart-stopping cutting sound rang out. The black longsword held for only a moment before piercing through, and half of Ganesha's tusk fell to the ground.
Looking at the uneven break on the Honkai Beast's tusk and feeling the tremor from his right hand, Ming Yu couldn't help but be secretly astonished.
In past battles, Jizo Mitama could easily slice through even the sword-like carapace of a Honkai Emperor. And this time, even with the huge advantage of his altitude, he had only barely managed to sever Ganesha's tusk.
If he relied on his own strength alone, he probably would have had a hard time even breaking through Ganesha's carapace.
Ganesha, a Superior-class Honkai Beast, was on a completely different level from those lower-class Honkai Beasts!
Staring at Ganesha's massive body, which possessed a kind of rugged beauty, the expression under Ming Yu's mask grew more solemn. This Emperor-class Honkai Beast was much stronger than he had imagined.
Facing the roaring Ganesha, enraged by its broken tusk, Ming Yu took a half-step back with his right foot, held Ice Epiphyllum horizontally in front of him with his left hand, and slightly lowered Jizo Mitama in his right.
Ming Yu took a deep breath. The patterns on his Lunar Abyss Armor lit up one by one, and the three pairs of illusory light wings grew more solid.
Concentrating his essence, energy, and spirit, Ming Yu's aura continued to rise. He was ready to go all out.
Truth be told, this was the first time Ming Yu had faced a mature Emperor-class Honkai Beast. And this was also the stage for him to prove himself.
Shortly after the Singapore Incident, Ming Yu had been granted the authority by Schicksal HQ to engage in combat within the Oceania Branch's jurisdiction.
Perhaps it was to balance the strength of the various branches, or perhaps Otto wanted to make a statement to the Far East Branch. Ming Yu, who was clearly in the Far East Branch's chain of command, now had the authority to take on missions for the Oceania Branch.
A squad establishment granted directly by Schicksal HQ, a chain of command belonging to the Far East Branch, and combat authority in the Oceania Branch. Inverse Feather, as an elite squad, was now connected to three of Schicksal's combat sequences at once.
Faced with this clearly irregular transfer, Theresa did not object. After a delay of three days, she silently signed her name on the document.
And this joint mission was Inverse Feather Squad's first mission in the Oceania region!
Looking down at the human before it, Ganesha roared. Surging Honkai Energy transformed into a violent gale that swept outwards, pushing the surrounding lower-class Honkai Beasts back several meters. The five towering ice walls instantly developed numerous cracks.
Feeling the might of the Emperor-class Honkai Beast, Rebecca couldn't help but look towards Ganesha's massive body, and towards the man standing before it.
Looking at that determined figure, Rebecca felt a strange sense of nostalgia, and a hint of anticipation grew in her eyes.
Although she had seen many Emperor-class Honkai Beasts before, the number of Valkyries who could defeat one single-handedly was few and far between. This Ming Yu, the fourth S-rank Valkyrie candidate who had been in the spotlight for the past few months, might just become the third person she had ever seen do it.
Ignoring Ganesha's intimidating pressure, Ming Yu stomped his left foot heavily on the ground. He thrust his right sword forward, and an unstoppable, sharp Blade Intent erupted from his body.
His body moved with the sword. Ming Yu shot forward like an arrow released from a bowstring, the glint of black at its tip so dazzling.
His sword, like the wind.
His momentum, like thunder.