[Lumine: Sounds kinda meow~]
'See! This is the fate of a traitor!'
Lumine, over in Teyvat, was gloating.
[Elysia: What happened?]
[Stelle: Literally what it sounds like. Me and my companions are surrounded by several hundred people!]
[Kiana: Are these hundreds of people all Pathstriders from your world?]
[Stelle: Not exactly.]
Several hundred Pathstriders…
Pathstriders aren't something you find everywhere. Anyone who steps onto a Path is one in millions.
If Belobog really had that many Pathstriders, would they still be holed up in this city?
They'd have long since braved the snow and founded a new city.
What would there even be to panic about then?
[Kiana: If it's just a few hundred ordinary people, do you think that's enough for Levi to fight?]
'One versus a hundred, advantage is on my side!'
[Stelle: Reporting to the group leader, they're not all ordinary people. There is still one Pathstrider among them.]
Facing Stelle's reply, Kiana calmly responded with a single line: [Is that enough for Levi to fight?]
Forget one Pathstrider, even if several hundred showed up, they wouldn't be Levi's match.
Having personally experienced what Levi's strength was like, Kiana was extremely confident about this.
'Wait!'
'That might be a bit too absolute.'
In Kiana's eyes, that guy was basically a super-sized ability amplifier, plus an automatic operation program.
The power he used mainly depended on how much power the possessed person themselves had.
If the possessed person were just an ordinary human, then it really wasn't certain how much strength he could unleash.
[Kiana: I'll take that back for now. Let's talk after you're done fighting.]
[Stelle: ...]
[You just completely destroyed my confidence…]
———
"What do we do now?"
Looking at the girl standing in front of them, facing off against their group, March 7th whispered to Dan Heng and Stelle.
When they first arrived and met that so-called Supreme Guardian, she thought it was going to be a cheerful Trailblazing journey.
But it still turned into this kind of situation.
They had only been here one day. Just slept once, and somehow became major criminals in Belobog.
If Cocolia hadn't deliberately tripped them up… no one would believe it.
Dan Heng's gaze swept over the crowd in front of them, locking onto a spot where the guard presence was thin, quietly waiting for the right moment.
Seeing this, Stelle couldn't care about anything else and directly @mentioned Levi in the group.
[Stelle: @Levi, help! When I was looking for the Stellaron, I got surrounded by the people of this world, over a hundred of them! There are only three of us on our side, including me. We can't win!]
[Stelle: Hurry and come save me! I'll give you my favorite drink, "Himeko coffee"!]
———
Kiana froze.
'Stelle's world also had someone named Himeko?'
Kiana wanted to ask about this person who shared the same name as Himeko, but the most urgent thing right now was helping Stelle deal with the current crisis.
Questions could wait until Stelle was safe.
———
Levi, who was handling Asta's commission, saw that someone had @mentioned him and summoned the chat group in his mind.
Looking at Stelle's message, the corner of his mouth twitched.
'What the hell do you mean your favorite drink, "Himeko coffee"?!'
'Why don't you just say you grew up drinking tainted milk powder!'
'You think I don't know what Himeko's coffee is like?'
After waiting for a while and hearing nothing from his system, it was clear that it also didn't consider "Himeko's coffee" to be a valid reward.
[Ding! Detected a help request from group member 'Stelle.' Chat group mission released!]
[Objective: Locate the Stellaron and complete the seal!]
[Introduction: The silver rails of the Astral Express that Stelle and her companions are riding have been corrupted by the Stellaron, making it impossible to warp and leave the current star system. In order to resolve the effects brought by the Stellaron, Stelle and her companions went together to the Stellaron's location with the intention of sealing it.]
However, an unexpected incident occurred. She and her companions are now being hunted and blocked by the soldiers there. Please help her complete the mission and leave that place.
[Reward: 40,000 points]
[Participants: Unlimited]
[Stelle: ! The chat group is this nice to me? I just asked Levi for help, and it directly issued a group mission?]
[Kiana: Don't be happy too soon. When it releases missions, it's usually because a group member might be facing a life-threatening situation.]
[Otherwise, you could just say anything and the chat group would hand out missions.]
[As the group leader, I would've long since started farming them nonstop.]
[Who knows, by now, all the prizes in that scammy gacha system might've already been drawn by me.]
[Be careful yourself. Don't end up dead before we even get there.]
———
"Teacher! I need to go to the bathroom!"
In the classroom, Kiana, wearing an eerie smile, suddenly raised her hand and shouted.
The teacher's eyes lit up. "Go quickly and come back slowly, ah no, I mean go quickly and come back quickly, student Kiana."
With permission granted, Kiana sprinted out of the classroom.
Elysia, meanwhile, continued curling up under her blanket, with no intention of joining the mission at all.
She still didn't understand Honkai energy, and she couldn't use it either. She was nothing more than an ordinary person.
Going to a world that sounded dangerous just from the description, it would be very easy to die accidentally.
Especially when Levi wasn't possessing her.
So, for her own safety, she decided to stay home and sleep.
[Stelle: !!!]
[Stelle: @Levi, don't go silent on me! Hurry up and help!]
Anyone can be missing, except the main DPS.
———
The gray-haired girl pulled her gaze away from Stelle's panicked expression and looked at the other two.
She opened her mouth, about to say something, when Dan Heng's eyes sharpened and he shouted, "Run!"
"Heh!"
"Ha!"
In an instant, the two who received the order pulled out their weapons.
March 7th fired her longbow into the crowd, while Stelle swung her bat at the Silvermane Guards' bodies.
The two followed behind Dan Heng, charging toward the spot where the guards were thinnest.
———
[Chat Group]
[Levi: Stop yelling! I'm finishing someone else's commission right now!]
[Levi: I'll come to you once I'm done!]
[Stelle: Don't wait until you're done! Just come over like this!]
While swinging her bat, Stelle urged him in the chat group.
'Why doesn't this Levi know how to read the room?'
'Can't he tell which situation is more urgent right now?'
[What did you just call me?]
[Brother Levi, Brother Levi! Hurry and come help your little bro!]
[Kiana: Hold on! I'm on my way to the bathroom right now!]
———
'What are you, some kind of superhero?'
'You need to go to the bathroom to transform?'
Watching the Silvermane Guards close in, Stelle felt like by the time they arrived, her body would already be cold.
"What are you spacing out for?! Run!"
An arm reached out from behind, grabbing her hand and taking off running.
While Stelle was dealing with the guards, Dan Heng and March 7th worked together to tear open a gap in the defensive line.
Only then were they able to slip out of the encirclement.
But there were far, far too many Silvermane Guards in the city, leaving them with only one route to escape.
"You don't think this road was deliberately left open for us, right? So we'd run straight into a dead end…"
Stelle had a strong premonition that this road led to a dead end.
The other two understood this as well, but they had no choice but to run.
They could only take it one step at a time.
Moments later, staring at the wall in front of them, Stelle couldn't help but curse.
"Damn it! It really is a dead end!"
The three stopped. Behind them, a series of footsteps rang out at the same time. They turned around.
The girl from earlier stood behind them, leading the group.
———
"Hope Stelle's okay…" Levi muttered softly, then sped up his typing.
["Hm? What did you say?"]
Asta, who had been distracted, froze. She felt like she'd heard a familiar name.
"I said, I hope my friend can hold on until I get there."
In just a few breaths, Levi completed the writing of the "Aeon Side Story." With the sound of a task being completed, another task trigger sound rang out.
Levi glanced at it and decisively clicked accept.
Asta, who had just regained control of her body, suddenly felt a faint pulling sensation around her.
She looked around, but there was nothing there. Her small mouth parted slightly, her expression puzzled.
The next second, her vision fell into darkness.
"Huh?"
"This lady has arrived, everyone move aside!"
"..."