***
–Shhhhhh–
***ALERT, ALERT, HONKAI ENERGY–
"Mei!" Kevin called out as he burst into the control room with Su, behind Thor and Mobius.
"Give me a second!" A second later Mei focused on the monitor in front of her and brought up nearby camera footage from the point of impact onto the main display.
"..."
A plane of ice, a whole city froze. People became sculptures, all killed in less than a second, even some honkai got caught in the radius.
Above it all the camera caught a woman floating silently above the city.
The room fell silent, with only the alarm blaring in the background.
–Shhhhhh–
Meanwhile the rest of the group arrived, along with Vill, Klein, Aurora, Einstein and Hua.
All but Klein gasped when they saw the feed.
Klein and Su both quickly took a seat in the empty chairs beside Mei and got to work.
"Honkai level?" Thor asked Su calmly.
Su's hands moved over the keys and seconds later a purple graphic appeared next to the footage.
[5,241 - 5,266 Honkai Watts]
The personnel working on logistics felt despair at that number, it was more than the 4th's by almost double and was still climbing.
Thor tapped his elbow thinking.
"Aurora." Thor turned to her and she turned to him.
"You handle the–" Su Interrupted him.
"Shit! Thor." They all look at the new feeds that popped up as multiple Judgement class Honkai have appeared all over the globe.
'So this was why.' Thor had wondered what the point was to raise the maximum ambient Honkai energy was for other than to make a stronger Herrscher, 'But it was for this. To make stronger Honkai beasts that can't be handled by our soldiers.'
He started to wonder if the Honkai was a gestalt sentient being, but quickly threw that thought out as he took command over the operation.
"Elysia, Eden. Take the two judgement–classes in Europe." He said without turning back. They nodded seriously before rushing to the armoury to grab their weapons.
He then addressed Kevin and Mobius. "Kevin, head to America and deal with the flaming snake. Mobius, take Vill along with you to Japan and deal with the carnivorous Honkai that's eating its own." Mobius yanked Vill by the collar along with her to the workshop.
"Himeko, you coordinate with Einstein and Hua to deal with the Templar outbreaks in Chile and the Philippines." Hua was surprised that Thor would send her out, but she quickly understood that they were already spread thin.
"Lastly, Aura. You've got the Herrscher."
–Zap–
Aurora left for the Herrscher immediately.
Thor sighed, then noticed Mei's stare.
Mei looked at Thor. "And you?"
He pointed to the image showing four Judgement-class. "I'll take those four."
–Zap–
He also left, leaving only the personnel to man the control room and communications across all bases.
***
–Whoosh–
As a freezing wind swept past her, the white–haired Herrscher let out a sigh of relief. "Peace."
Her gaze wandered to the city beneath her, she was satisfied with her work. She gave a giggle before saying, "I've always wanted to make Ice sculptures."
As she was appreciating her work, she suddenly felt a meteor of Honkai energy approaching her rapidly.
At first she was cautious of the unknown variable, but then she felt something within that storm of energy.
'Another Herrscher?' Her mind soon turned to rage.
"Traitor!" She yelled. She then propelled herself towards the 'traitor' to meet her head-on.
–Boom–
She broke the sound barrier as she shot off, pulling a freezing storm with her.
***
Kevin -
–Cackle–
"Well ain't you a tough one." Kevin smirked at the snake that was writhing below him. He rested his great sword on his shoulder still coated in Honkai.
"Hmm?" He noticed it began to regenerate from his flurry of cuts and slashes. He jumped from his ice pillar and raised his blade up, gripping it tightly with both hands.
"You think I'd just let you regenerate?!" He yelled. He then put more Honkai energy into his blade, his eyes gleamed, muscles tensing. Gritting his teeth as he brought the sword down on the snake's massive body.
It tried to slither its way out of the blade's path, but Kevin had pinned it in place with Ice pillars, restricting its movements just long enough for his attack to connect.
"Piss off." His blade made contact with the body, cutting through its scales like a hot knife through butter.
–Shing–
Cleaving the body in two, a blade of Honkai shoots outwards slicing through the empty city, buildings crumbled and exploded, grunt–level beasts were vaporised, then finally colliding with a cliff face.
–KABOOM–
The resulting explosion made the cliff vanish as Kevin sweat dropped at his lack of control.
"Haha. Maybe no-one will notice." He scratched his cheek.
His hopes were dashed as Su's voice came through the comms.
[Oh we noticed, we caught it in 16K as well.] Su joked as Kevin shivered at the thought of Thor finding out.
"Could you maybe–"
[Nope.] Su gave the final blow to Kevin's hopes before the ground below Kevin's feet started to tremble.
–Rumble–
He glanced at what should be the corpse of the Honkai beast only to notice that on the cut off end a new head had emerged.
"Oh, Come on!" He shouted in frustration as he leaned back and dodged a tail swipe.
Leaping back and landing on a nearby mountain of rubble, he grumbles to himself. "Now I have to fight two of these bastards!"
He readied his blade and jumped back into action.
***
Elysia & Eden -
"A Bull?" Just arriving in Prague, Elysia notices the shape of one of the rampaging honkai. Eden beside her stares up at the flying inferno.
They soon glance at each other. "Swap?" Eden asks.
"Swap." Elysia nods.
They both leap in opposite directions going after a beast each.
Eden's hands spew flames to propel her towards her target, while Elysia ran along the rooftops of Prague getting into position with her bow in hand.
The bull-shaped Honkai notices the incoming projectile that is Eden and leaps up to intercept her, surprising her greatly as she barely evades to its left and giving a strong water imbued kick to its side, launching it westward.
As it flew through the air, it finally landed, crushing the buildings below it to pancakes.
Eden shot towards it like a bullet, not giving it a chance to recover.
While the beast tried to flip itself back over, Eden was already above it and brought down an axe kick onto its exposed body.
–BOOM–
…
"Mou~ Can't let our songstress have all the fun." Elysia giggles while pulling back three pink honkai arrows aiming up at the flying beast.
"Gotcha~" She releases the arrows as they shimmer through the air towards the unsuspecting beast.
As they got closer the beast noticed the attack and swerved to avoid the arrows, only for the arrows to change direction locked onto the beast.
–KABOOM–
A cloud of smoke had formed around the beast, but quickly it was dispersed to reveal another bird type Honkai beast, Elysia noticed how its body had been damaged and was slowly repairing itself.
"Hoh, must be a glass cannon." She readied another 3 arrows and muttered to herself, "Please don't have a second phase–" over and over again as she released them.
***
Mobius & Vill -
As they witnessed the beast eat another of its own, it let out a roar along with a strong Honkai aura.
–ROARRR–
"This might be bad Mobius." Vill was still trying to charge the particle cannon that they had to transport here so she was not too useful right now.
Mobius was analysing the beast with scrutiny trying to figure out why it's getting stronger from devouring other beasts.
"Yes… This could become a problem soon." With that the tips of Mobius's hair take on a blackish tint, her Honkai energy begins to rise as the space around her trembles.
She grips her spear tightly and shoots forward towards the carnivorous beast. She makes sure to cut up any beast in her path giving Vill an easier time while her particle cannon charges.
"Hahahaha!" Her maniacal grin and laughter resound on the battlefield.
As she approaches the beast her grin widens as she jumps to stab her spear into it from behind.
–BAM–
Before she knew it Mobius was 'Backhanded' by the beast.
–Crash– –Crash– –Crash–
–BOOM–
After going through multiple buildings she finally stops after impacting the side of some tower.
Still a little drowsy Mobius gets herself out of the crater, then picks back up her spear.
–Whoosh–
"Damn it." Mobius rolls to the side avoiding the beast's attack at her previous position.
–Boom–
She uses her speed to zip around to the beast's left side and stabs her spear into its side before it could react.
It let out a pained roar and attacked Mobius trying to eat her there and then.
She releases the spear and uppercuts its head throwing it airborne, she also yanks her spear out before it was out of reach.
–Vmmm–
–BAM–
A large beam of Honkai hits the airborne beast, sending it tumbling.
Mobius looks back and sees Vill holding a larger Honkai Cannon, which she then drops before giving Mobius a thumbs up.
***
"They're holding their own pretty well." Thor murmurs to himself.
"Isn't it obvious? You trained them father." AURORA appears in the corner of the screen while pushing her glass upwards as they glimmer.
"They could barely deal with the Emperor–Class a little while back, let alone Judgement–class." He deadpans while AURORA giggles nervously.
Thor sighs before tilting his head to the side and grabs the Honkai knights spear, then sends lightning through it frying the beast.
Putting the tablet away he stands up and looks down at the four Judgement-Class honkai corpses he just used as a seat.
"Stronger than the other ones." He then felt for Aurora's energy spike and vanished.
–Zap–
'I'd rather her not get herself killed.' He then remembered that Alter will help her if needed.
***
A/N: So I tried my hand at editing for once, some parts were either just bad or the grammar was just ass. So other than a bit of proof-reading I did some editing as well.