“Gen…General!”
When Gessar was about to return to the cabin, he heard his subordinate’s stuttering voice, looking extremely terrified.
Having a rather bad temper, he angrily shouted:
“What’s wrong?!”
Damn! Everyone making a fuss — his good mood from eliminating the Herrscher was completely ruined.
He had planned to have a good drink and play happily with the girls on the ship.
Looking impatiently, Gessar turned his head and his expression suddenly froze.
In the sky not far away, there was clearly a graceful figure.
The originally black-outside-green-inside hair color was now dyed pure dark green, while the Herrscher outfit had now transformed into snow-white ceremonial robes, fluttering in the violent airflow.
The large emerald gem bound by gold on her chest sparkled brilliantly. Her fair, full thighs extended downward, with precious golden leg rings on her right thigh and two smaller ankle bracelets on her slender ankle. On the other fair thigh, though without golden ornaments, there were glowing mystical blue patterns.
The girl wearing a black veil opened her eyes, revealing those divine eyes of emerald green.
The emerald wings had now completely disappeared without a trace, like a bird that had shed its wings.
And replacing them were the divine patterns on her back that made one’s heart tremble.
“Shedding wings, embracing rebirth.”
The black veil draped down along her lotus-white arms, covering her slender palms in their crossing. ‘She’ raised her hand to touch that violent airflow, feeling the surging power within her body — this was enough to overturn the entire world.
“This is a Herrscher?!”
Looking at the mystical girl who had embraced rebirth and stood in mid-air, Gessar, who had never seen the 4th Herrscher before, instantly understood this was the enemy they were supposed to eliminate but failed to eliminate. He felt a chill run down his spine — even humanity’s greatest achievement, the strongest nuclear weapon, hadn’t harmed this monster one bit. This fact brought genuine fear.
Twisting his somewhat bloated body, Gessar didn’t even have the courage to defile that pure form with his filthy gaze. He lost composure and loudly roared orders to his subordinate soldiers and even the warships he had brought:
“Kill her! Attack! Everyone attack!”
Fear and madness had made him ignore the fact that the girl in the sky had even withstood nuclear bombardment.
Roaring, this coward ran toward the ship’s cabin, as if being there could make him safer.
There was a voice in Gessar’s heart — absolutely cannot be caught by that monster, absolutely not!
It was the fear of encountering a natural predator.
“Boom!”
The nuclear submarine responsible for deploying nuclear weapons had already submerged into the sea. All they could rely on was this destroyer fleet they were aboard.
Aircraft carriers that served as sea airfields had no meaning in front of the Herrscher of Wind who could raise fierce winds.
Only the brilliant artillery fire of destroyers could bring this fleet from North American forces a humble sense of security.
But—
All of this was meaningless.
It wasn’t even enough to arouse the girl’s hostility. ‘She’ just glanced indifferently—like humans toying with insects, several destroyers forming the fleet were instantly overturned by terrifying airflow in a moment.
With just a flick of her little finger, the flagship Gessar was aboard was dragged in front of her by the airflow. Then, with a casual wave — like cutting through butter — the warship was dismembered and blood was scattered.
All of this happened in just an instant.
And that General Gessar barely managed to survive only because 【Wendy】 deliberately preserved him.
However, after witnessing how his fleet was dismembered and destroyed by the monster before him in just a few seconds, this usually arrogant and extremely proud general became incredibly fearful.
Then, before he could say any words of begging for mercy or cursing, the girl raised one index finger to her lips, making a shushing gesture.
“Don’t beg for mercy. That’s too ugly, and it would make me unable to resist killing you immediately.”
“Let’s play a game with Wendy. If you win, maybe Wendy will let you go.”
When General Gessar was feeling somewhat desperate, 【Wendy】’s words ignited hope in his heart.
But this hope quickly disappeared again. Playing games with such a monster — how could he possibly win?
“Don’t be so dejected. Accept it — you at least have a fifty percent chance. Give up, and you’ll have absolutely no hope. Hope is a good thing, you know.”
“…”
“Sigh, rarely being kind-hearted, but it seems I’ll be disappointed.”
Looking at the silent Gessar, the girl showed a somewhat dejected, regretful expression, as if she had lost an interesting toy.
“I’ll play! I’ll play!”
Feeling the deadly threat, the originally hesitating general nodded his head urgently.
“Very good.”
“Then the game begins.”
“Let’s play: Guess whether I’ll kill you or not. How about it, isn’t it exciting and interesting?”
“If you guess wrong, I’ll kill you immediately~”
At this moment, General Gessar’s mentality somewhat collapsed.
What the hell kind of game is this!
Although somewhat broken by 【Wendy】’s game, due to inner fear and that remaining hope, Gessar still held onto the lucky thought that maybe if he answered correctly, the other party wouldn’t kill him.
So he steeled himself and said:
“Yes.”
“Oh my, Wendy lost.”
“Since…”
He wanted to say, since you lost, shouldn’t you let me go?
But before he could even finish speaking, the next moment, Gessar was torn apart and ground to dust by terrifying airflow.
“Although I lost, you didn’t win either~”
Showing an extremely flamboyant, wanton smile, the current ‘Wendy’ looked incredibly evil.
But the next moment, the girl reached out and caught those extremely tiny particles following the airflow.
“Really, don’t take tormenting others as fun.”
【Wendy】 seemed to be talking to herself, saying this somewhat annoyedly.
The latter — a voice in her heart retorted dissatisfiedly:
“What’s the problem? He wasn’t a good person anyway!”
This was exactly Wendy!
— At the moment of nuclear explosion, 【Wendy】 used a similar method to dealing with Pavana, treating Wendy as a sacrifice as well. Of course… calling it a sacrifice, this was more like fusion material.
Fusing 【Wendy】, Wendy, and the Herrscher of Wind core in the 4th Divine Key, supplemented by partial Origin power connecting to The Cocoon.
What was finally obtained was Jiang Qiao’s current form.
— Molting Wings Wendy!
That fantasy that originally existed next door, supported by partial Origin authority connecting to part of the Herrscher of Finality’s Honkai energy, combined with three identical authorities stacking and being sublimated, resulted in this absolute power that could be called first under Finality.
And Wendy’s consciousness, having lost her body, also became part of this ultimate Wendy like Dark Seele, through the fusion of Herrscher cores.