Erin shattered into pieces.
Actually, if she hadn't instinctively raised her hand to block, things might have been better. But she did raise her hand, so all that was heard was a loud smash, and the 66.6 cm tall little puppet was kicked by the Brass Knight, breaking her entire body as arms and legs scattered across the ground, including her head flying away into the distance.
In any other setting, this scene would at least be a tragic exit due to sudden death. In fact, even Yu Sheng was shocked when he saw this, and after a brief mont of stunned silence, he almost jumped up: "I spent an hour assembling it!"
Hu Li, who was nearby, heard Yu Sheng's exclamation and scread: "Savior spent an hour assembling it!!"
Erin's head was still rolling on the floor, and upon overhearing Yu Sheng and Hu Li's clamor, she imdiately bellowed out: "Does that make any sense, does that make any sense...?"
As she babbled on, the tiny puppet head rolled to Yu Sheng's feet, looking up in a fury: "Are you people human?! In any normal story, if I'm like this, wouldn't you at least explode out of grief— even if you can't explode, shouldn't you pretend to be grieved?!"
Yu Sheng raised his hand, pointing at not far away at the continuously opening temporal rifts and batch after batch of mass-produced Erins being transported from the valley and firing everywhere— mass-produced puppets continuously being knocked down by the Brass Knights, so instantly teleporting back to the valley, while others getting shattered without ti for teleportation: "There's a whole pile of them more broken than you, can I be grieved over your four regints of backup bodies?"
"It's already five regints!" Erin shouted, then imdiately her eyes turned fiercely towards those Brass Knights, "I must retaliate now..."
At this mont, Yu Sheng was about to bend down to pick up the little puppet's head, thinking to recover so large chunks before the little thing's body is stepped into finer pieces, and hopefully assemble so parts later, but before he could act, he noticed strands of faint golden threads shimring in the mist—
Strands of golden threads, as if alive, swiftly "flowing" in the gloomy mist, emanating from each piece of Erin's shell, and almost instantly reconnecting the shattered shell into a whole, after which the puppet's body began to recombine quickly!
Previously, Yu Sheng had seen Erin use these golden threads to reassemble her limbs at ho, but the scene was clearly not as exaggerated back then!
And in just this blink of an eye, the Brass Knight who had shattered Erin also instantly reacted, the tall figure silently charged towards the puppet again, raising the heavy sword high, the decomposition force field on the sword twisting into a hazy glow through the mist.
At that mont, Erin's limbs were not fully reconnected, her loose body still wobbling on the ground, but the next second, she bizarrely flipped upright— like a marionette, the small body contorting into absurd angles, dragged by the golden threads in violation of physical laws, flashing into the air.
Next, a pile of golden threads wrapped around the Brass Knight's force field heavy sword, and the blade, capable of easily cutting through gold and stones, faced those "threads" thinner than hair, sparking with flas, the energy pipelines inside the blade began to overload rapidly, emitting burdenso sizzling sounds, and then with piercing tal tearing sounds, the heavy sword was directly shredded into countless fragnts by Erin's golden threads.
In the next mont, Erin flipped over onto the Brass Knight's back, climbing quickly while raising her hand, and the frying pan almost as large as her body flew to her hand out of thin air.
With a "clang," the pan fell, and the tall and hollow armor collapsed to the ground, splintering into pieces before hitting the ground, with a large amount of inactive black "mud" spilling from the fractured body.
Before the Knight fell, Erin had already quickly jumped onto the ground, and while steadying her less stable head, she rushed towards the nearest enemy, intermittently releasing golden threads, either disrupting opponents or moving herself, darting and leaping around like a swift golden lightning bolt.
Every mont she seed to adapt more to her "new" body, recalling more combat techniques, her speed increasingly fast, her reflexes sharper and quicker.
The only regret was the most effective move remained jumping up to smash the opponent's kneecaps with the frying pan— though she could jump higher, it was hard to dodge mid-air, making it easy for soone to swing her back to the ground.
The 66.6 cm tall puppet body ultimately had too many restrictions.
"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle—"
Dozens of tiny bloody needle darts sliced through the air, piercing into the gaps of a Brass Knight's armor, the knight struggled to hurl the heavy sword, shattering two puppets, even critically damaging a Shadow Wolf, but after a brief and violent struggle, the knight twitched all over and collapsed, rapidly disintegrating.
Actually, Yu Sheng also tried to temporarily control so lone Brass Knights with bloody needles and blood grenades, trying to see if he could wash away their cognition blockade within the mind with the blood-soaking thod, like how Luna was "rescued" previously, saving these people trapped in tal armor too, but attempts two or three tis failed.
Perhaps the Brass Knights and the Artificial Saintess had different mind models (the twelve knights beside Luna back then were bundled as her "Companion Mind" and transferred into the Soul Wilderness), or perhaps these knights used so "new techniques," the cultists of the Venerate Saints Monastery further purged the basic humanity of these "soldiers"— anyway, when Yu Sheng tried to wash away the shackles within the Brass Knights' minds, the only thing he heard was a chaotic din, even the Dead Communication couldn't be established.
An increasing number of Brass Knights fearless in attacking and the chaotic battlefield environnt obviously didn't allow him to try much more— he could only, like Luna, not think too much about how these knights ca to be, but instead focus on solving the enemies at the scene.
Just at that mont, Hu Li, who possessed keen perception, seed to have suddenly discovered sothing. She quickly fired a burst of Foxfire towards the open space in the distance (not forgetting the "da-da-da" sound in between), then took a few swift steps to Yu Sheng's side, saying: "Savior! It's narrowing again on both sides!"
Yu Sheng raised his hand and fired several blood needles to block the actions of two Brass Knights, simultaneously looking up toward the sides of the Dark Alley.
The mist had unknowingly begun to thin.
The alley, which had previously widened drastically as the mist thickened, was now restoring to its original state. The buildings on either side began creeping closer like staggering giant beasts, and the stone-paved ground that had been stretched and deford was visibly rging beneath the moss-covered walls.
The Shadow Wolves began to retract their line of defense, and so mass-produced puppets were also forced to retreat back to the valley. Luna leapt down from a nearby building rooftop, killing a Brass Knight mid-air, and landed in front of Yu Sheng on his left, cautiously raised a hand in front: "Space, warped."
A low, heavy, grinding sound reached everyone's ears. At this mont, stimulated by the combat stance, Little Red Riding Hood had popped out a pair of wolf ears. The strange and low sound suddenly made her dizzy, forcing her to hurriedly cover her ears, though her two hands weren't enough. Flustered, she finally found a suitable gesture to barely cover her four ears with both hands.
Hu Li was simpler; she just plucked her two ears off her head and threw them into her tail.
At the sa ti the changes occurred in the Dark Alley, the Brass Knights also halted their attack in unison.
It did not seem like they received an order to cease fire, but more like they, impacted by the environnt, fell into a state of confusion and bewildernt.
The buildings on both sides of the alley further contracted, so Brass Knights vanished right before everyone's eyes into the crushing walls—not so much swallowed by the buildings, but more like returned to another ti and space.
The remaining Brass Knights finally began to retreat—they staggered back through the increasingly thinning mist, and before the concealed force field reactivated, so of the Brass Knights seed to have been transferred elsewhere.
Before the last enemy disappeared, Yu Sheng swiftly raised his hand and fired two blood needles at the armor.
He didn't know if these two blood needles would be detected by the controllers behind the Brass Knights, nor was he sure if the faint traces of blood could have any effect—it was purely reflex, a habit from laying fungal mats…
Afterward, the Dark Alley returned to normal—at least back to the state when Yu Sheng and the others first entered.
Thin mist lingered over the streets, the narrow alley quieted down as if the Brass Knights who seed to have erged from nowhere had never appeared, only the residual burnt scent and the shattered mass-produced puppets and armor fragnts on the street proving that the earlier events were not an illusion.
Erin sent the remaining mass-productions back to the valley, and then rushed towards Yu Sheng with clanging steps while dragging a frying pan, climbing up his body skillfully while muttering: "That's it? Where do they co from, out of nowhere..."
This ti Yu Sheng finally understood how this little creature could climb him so fast even with a frying pan the size of herself—apparently she tied the pan to her shoulders with several thin golden threads like a backpack.
Whoever said Erin wasn't smart? She just doesn't like to use her brain often.
Hu Li also approached, holding a big tail like a gunman who had just dueled and blowing the blue smoke from its tip. After reaching Yu Sheng, she put her ears back and shook them: "Savior, I used Divine Sense to scan the alley earlier. When those 'knights' disappeared, the entire alley was full of unstable energy fields, but I feel the source is not in the alley."
"Not in the alley..."
Listening to the fox girl, Yu Sheng furrowed his brows in thought.
But a rustling sound quickly interrupted his thoughts.
Following the sound, he saw a thick shadow slowly flow from the entrance of the old bookstore, rolling forward to squeeze outside, countless eyes emitting white light from its inside, followed by a bunch of cat ears poking from the edges.
The "cats" erged, seems those "invaders" truly departed.
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