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[Warning: Entropy loss has risen to 25%, approaching the personal critical threshold.]
Familiar, shimmering blue light, like the crackled patterns of porcelain, began to spread rapidly across her baby-soft skin.
Simultaneously, the aerial SAM armor she was piloting also began to burn intensely as if overloaded, with the temperature of the entire machine skyrocketing.
The physical pain that I've grown accustomed to is nothing to worry about, but the feeling of my body gradually disintegrating and my sense of existence slowly disappearing is the real terror.
But now, she's not even afraid of that anymore.
because……
She has a name now.
"For Prince Qiong!"
"Flash Leap!"
Ignoring the piercing alarm in the cockpit, Mari used the bursting flames to propel her armor and instantly dashed to a True Stinger.
The shoulder cannon locked on precisely, and the scorching energy beam instantly blasted his head into pieces.
Immediately afterwards, she delivered another fiery punch, completely crushing another insect that pounced on her.
Battle, bombing, tearing apart.
But the number of insect swarms was simply too much, so much that it was despairing.
The aerial Sam, known for its agility and long-range firepower, now has less and less room to maneuver.
Her speed in eliminating the swarm was far slower than the speed at which the insect horde spread.
Just as she was focusing all her efforts on dealing with the enemy in front, a powerful alien true stinger hidden among the cannon fodder quietly appeared under the cover of the nest insects.
"puff!"
Inside the cockpit, Mari spat out a mouthful of blood. The crimson blood splattered onto her fair but cracked skin, making her look both alluring and cruel.
The blow left a horrific penetrating wound in her right shoulder.
The alien True Stinger worm thrashed its long tail menacingly, flinging the Molten Knight, who was gradually losing power, away like a broken doll.
It's not that the Zerg are stupid and don't know how to finish off their prey, but rather that their stingers contain a neurotoxin that would kill most mammals instantly, and can guide nearby lower-level Zerg to thoroughly devour their dying prey.
Is this the end?
The toxins from the silverfish were rapidly eroding Mari, her consciousness was gradually fading, her body was no longer under her control, and the flames on her armor flickered like a candle in the wind.
The girl's helmet had long since shattered in the fierce battle, and her blood-stained white hair fell onto her burning armor, a sight both tragic and heroic.
Through blurred vision, grotesque insect shadows swarmed in.
"In the end... I still couldn't better protect Her Majesty the Empress... or Princess Qiong..."
With heavy eyelids as if weighed down by lead, Mari Makinami slowly closed her eyes, awaiting the end.
As the vision gradually darkened, a powerful and melodious song began to play.
"The wind howls, sand and gravel swirl, making each step forward so heavy?"
who is it?
Who is singing?
The song... comes from the heart.
This feeling is that of Her Majesty the Empress!
"But even if we lose everything, including our place of shelter today?"
"Will we also seek that hazy warmth, until the end of time?"
A place to live?
Grammer's Iron Cavalry, where is my refuge?
Is it an empire?
If it were before being given a name, AR-214 probably wouldn't have hesitated for a second.
But now, Mari Makinami cannot give a definitive answer.
A hazy warmth...
Your Highness...
Mari recalled the unfamiliar yet intense emotions that welled up in her heart when the young man taught her how to use a photographer; it was the most genuine feeling she had ever experienced in her life.
"What are we fighting for?"
For Her Majesty the Empress!
But why did they die?
why?
"Does eternity exist somewhere?"
Does eternity exist?
In that instant, countless images seemed to flash rapidly through the mind of the dying Mari Makinami.
Some of these memories belong to her, while others do not.
She saw herself and her companions attempt to pilot the Sam for the first time. The excruciating pain of the deep spinal cord signal transmission piercing her body swept over her entire body. Countless companions, unable to bear the pain and the entropy loss that followed, instantly collapsed and dissipated into brilliant but fleeting specks of light.
"Is someone reaching out an arm from over there?"
As this melodious song resonates in our hearts, the scene finally stops with Sora and 'himself' bathed in the brilliant afterglow of the sunset.
As the setting sun swayed in the gentle breeze, it illuminated the young man's face, which was somewhat obscured by the backlight. Strands of his gray wolf fur swayed in irregular, delicate arcs, and his lips parted slightly in a soft, gentle smile.
"Give me the chopstick rest (marry me soon)~"
"Will I be able to hold your hands one day?"
The young man's teasing words miraculously overlapped with the queen's singing.
A gentle breeze ruffled her hair as she gazed at the young man before her, her mind blank with an instinctive flutter.
The time, though only a fraction of a second, seems to be infinitely extended in the sensory experience.
In that instant, something incredibly warm seemed to bloom in her heart, and a strange throbbing sensation took root and sprouted, permeating her entire soul.
The next moment, her individual consciousness seemed to collapse and expand, merging into the vast ocean of consciousness that was boiling because of the song, and becoming one with the spirits of countless Grammer knights who were also in a state of intense resonance.
"I want--"
Mari suddenly opened her beautiful eyes, a blend of pink and blue.
"Protect him!"
She wanted to touch that hand again!
That warmth!
The confusion and despair disappeared, replaced by a tenacious and pure radiance that sprouted like a new bud.
The resonance from the Queen's soul, the harmonizing power of the Diva's microphone, awakens the latent power of the combat genes created based on the Zerg.
Her body is recovering at an astonishing rate due to multiple factors!
【My BGM, My Choice: When the song matches the current scene atmosphere or the emotional state of the object, it strengthens their positive will and greatly increases energy recovery, attack power, critical hit damage and various resistances.
It dispels negative interference, and the intensity of the amplification depends on the resonance rate between the user, the object, and the scene, potentially bringing about near-limit emotional outbursts and overclocked combat power.
The shoulder armor of the aerial Sam underwent a sci-fi-like transformation far beyond its design.
An unprecedented crimson flame burst forth violently from the reconstructed cannon muzzle, and the violent stream of thermal particles, like the light of judgment, instantly turned the battlefield thousands of meters in front of her into a scorching wasteland.
All the insect swarms that attempted to fly towards the direction of the Sky and the Queen were completely incinerated by this attack!
Mari wasn't the only one whose power surged under the resonance of the song.
The girl is just a microcosm.
The song echoed within the network of minds, and could be heard by any Grammer Knight, even across dozens of galaxies.
The leap in combat power has an effect that is related to the degree of emotional outburst.
However, it's a bit underhanded of Kianana to make the Iron Knights, whose lives have only been about fighting, experience the experiences of Titania and Sora.
You're using this to test your soldiers?
That iron-clad girl can't possibly stop this!
Countless eyes, gleaming with unwavering determination, opened simultaneously on various battlefields across the starry sea.
On Thrace alone, tens of thousands of Iron Cavalrymen unleashed their power and turned the tide of battle.
At this moment, the fireflies are also in an unprecedented network of resonance driven by the song.
Her feelings were incredibly complex, a mixture of pain and joy.
The good news is that tens of millions, even hundreds of millions, of our compatriots survived because of that outburst of emotion, killed even more insects, and fought with increasing ferocity.
A series of firestorms erupted from the swarms of insects crawling out of their nests deep within the earth.
The swarm of insects that blotted out the sky turned to ashes in the sea of fire, drifting into the deep space.
The painful thing is:
Aa ...
Liu Ying felt another consciousness within her soul screaming madly, futilely pounding against the invisible barrier that bound her.
"Waaaaah!"
"No!"
"Your Majesty!"
"Please keep singing... no, please stop!"
"Please... continue singing... but could you... stop?!"
The person was talking about the conflict between their left and right brain, sometimes crying their heart out and sometimes laughing with relief.
The reason for their relief is the same as mine: hundreds of millions of our compatriots have survived.
The reason for crying and pain is...
For every fellow countryman who gets excited by the song, I will have one more real rival in love!
As the only white moonlight in this life, Qiong shone throughout the entire mental network of the Grammer Iron Cavalry.
Holy crap!
Qiong, who was crushing a giant insect with a Sage Art: Mega Rasengan while holding a Leyura yo-yo, stood frozen in place, gazing at Kiniana singing loudly under the starry sky.
"Oh no! This is terrible!"
Kiana is the Dome, and Kiniana is half of the Dome. The feeling of having a part of one's consciousness taken and merged is very strange, something that carbon-based life forms simply cannot experience.
He couldn't manipulate Kiniana's behavior as easily as he could with other female bodies.
She has become an independent person.
Setting up some emotional build-up before detonating it to maximize the amplification brought by the singer's microphone—that was indeed Qiong's idea.
But Titania, I didn't ask you to use our dating memories as a prelude!
You've really put me in a terrible situation!
What if some girl in a motorcycle gets carried away with her emotions and knocks me unconscious, locks me in the basement?!
Although Titania was there, things shouldn't have gotten to this point.
But what if?
What if he has a hidden yandere side?!
As for Titania, she's incredibly cunning!
Maybe they did it on purpose.
After all, she is the Empress!
Regardless of who the clone Qiong is, she can transfer her mind to them, experiencing the whole process in an immersive way, and even taking control of their mind.