Chapter 246: The God of Thunder is Here!

"Hey, what are you doing!?"

Brenna was concentrating on piloting the Princess, when she suddenly felt a very icy sensation on the back of her neck, causing her to shiver instinctively.

She shrank her neck and looked at Yun Mu with some annoyance.

"Hoo."

Yun Mu exhaled a puff of cold air; she had just consumed a bottle of Frost Breath, and the effect could be described as immediate.

The only thing to be careful of was not to spray out the energy of the potion inside her body.

Otherwise, it wouldn't be cooling down, but rather freezing the entire cockpit solid.

"This is for you."

Yun Mu briefly explained the effect of the Frost Breath, then handed the bottle she had just pressed against the back of Brenna's neck to her.

"Is this thing always this temperature?" After listening to Yun Mu's explanation, Brenna took the potion bottle from her hand and touched the bottle body with some curiosity.

"I suppose so." Yun Mu didn't know much about alchemy-related knowledge, but as far as she knew.

Ever since Lucy handed the Frost Breath potion to her, this thing had always been this freezing temperature and had never gone down.

"Hiss."

Brenna looked at the potion bottle in her hand with bright eyes; no, to be precise, she was looking at the icy blue potion flowing inside the bottle.

Wasn't this the coolant she had been dreaming of?

Although the specific effects and the formula were hard to say, at least it was a direction.

If she could have a good discussion with Miss Lucy... "I love you, Miss Yun, you've been a huge help!" she thanked Yun Mu with rare excitement.

"Uh, oh..." Yun Mu hadn't expected her to be so happy and was stunned for a moment before reacting.

Seeing her like this, Brenna knew that she didn't understand what this potion meant to her.

But it didn't matter; she would know eventually, and Brenna had no intention of explaining right now.

She drank the potion, and the cold liquid slid smoothly down her throat to her stomach, instantly invigorating her spirit, which had been withered by the high heat inside the cockpit.

"Looks like I can further unleash the power."

Brenna turned up the power limiter on the Princess, and the output power of the entire mecha instantly increased by nearly 25%!

All the Scarlet Parasites blocking the way were either knocked flying or ground into meat paste; the scene was once very violent.

By comparison, those Scarlet Parasites couldn't break through the Princess's thick armored shell at all, not even leaving a single scratch.

Yun Mu thought of the monsters created by the Scarlet Cult again.

Although their combat ability was worse than the Scarlet Parasites, they could infect even inorganic mechas after their Self-Destruct.

Fortunately, Bishop Land didn't seem to have mastered this technology, or perhaps, to create such monsters, some kind of sacrificial Ritual had to be performed.

Or... did only that meatball summoned out have such an ability?

Just thinking about those overwhelming Scarlet Parasites, if they also possessed the ability to Self-Destruct and infect inorganic matter, her scalp would go numb.

Fortunately, these were just her imagination after all. "Speaking of which, this location." Yun Mu sat under Brenna, wrapped her arms around her waist, and looked left and right: "It feels somewhat familiar."

"The buildings around here, are we heading to the Painter Association?"

"You only just noticed?" Brenna was a bit surprised: "I thought you knew from the beginning."

"Er, I'm not very familiar with the streets of Frostfall City yet," Yun Mu defended herself.

She began to change the subject: "So, the explosion sound came from the Painter Association, you knew that from the start?"

"Mm." Brenna nodded: "That's also the reason I wanted to go over there; I thought you were the same as me..."

"This..." Yun Mu was a little embarrassed: "I just intended to go together because you were going there."

"Boom!"

Brenna was just about to say something when she was interrupted by a roar from afar. From their position, they could see a tall building collapsing, kicking up a large cloud of dust.

"Hoo, I'm going to accelerate, Miss Yun!" Brenna took a deep breath and pulled the control lever to the highest position in one go! The next second, the Princess's speed increased further, and as it ran, even the hard brick road was crushed into deep pits.

Clatter.

Amidst the ruins of the collapsed building, a huge scarlet tentacle stretched out, and Bishop Land stood up, looking somewhat disheveled, his gaze searching through the surrounding ruins.

He had just used the building here to block the long-range strikes of the Sunset, and Edward had been entangled with him on the first floor of a high-rise building.

During their fight, the attacks affected the load-bearing walls of the high-rise, causing the entire building to collapse.

This minor injury was, of course, nothing to him; as long as he consumed vitality, he could recover in minutes.

But Edward was different; with tens to hundreds of tons of wall falling down, even a Master-level Transcendental couldn't be unscathed.

Of course, the possibility of being smashed to death also existed, but the probability was very low.

Bishop Land didn't believe that the man who galloped across the Shattered Star Sea would die in such a dramatic way.

"... Hmph."

A mocking smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and Bishop Land turned abruptly, his huge scarlet tentacle smashing into a piece of wreckage behind him!

"Bang!!"

Edward dodged to the side with a calm expression, then slashed his sword at Bishop Land's left arm!

Whoosh! The longsword wreathed in Ghost Fire easily cut through flesh and blood, and the air was mixed with a burnt smell.

Damn it, doesn't using the Ghost Ship's ability require a price?

He had been observing for a long time and couldn't see at all what the price for driving these Ghost Fires was.

Moreover, once the body was entangled by the flames, it would spread continuously; he could only control his flesh to voluntarily abandon the burnt parts. If this continued, he would sooner or later be exhausted by those Ghost Fires.

However, what Bishop Land didn't know was that opposite him, Edward was also cursing internally.

Of course, using the Ghost Ship's Ghost Fire required a price, and the price for the Sunset was simple: it was burning.

Everything related to himself could be used as fuel for the Ghost Fire, whether it was emotions, memories, or lifespan.

Edward, of course, wouldn't choose to burn these things; what he burned was his own wealth.

Every strike of his blade was burning through the money he had painstakingly saved up over these years!

Yet he had to run into a bastard with such tenacious vitality as Bishop Land, who wouldn't die no matter how much he burned him.

His assets had already shrunk by more than half!

Thinking of this, Edward's eyes turned blood-red with heartache, and his attacks became increasingly violent.

And just as both of them were cursing in their hearts, a stuttering, rumbling sound came toward them.

Furthermore, the target making the sound seemed to be getting closer and closer to them: "Bang, bang, bang, bang."

Soon, a tall, grey-black mecha holding a sword and shield rushed out from the street corner. Upon seeing Bishop Land and Edward, the Mecha Pilot seemed to freeze for a moment, then immediately manipulated the four 188mm Cannons on its back to extend from the mecha's shoulder and neck area.

"Bang!!"

The massive shield was planted into the ground, the entire Princess mecha shifted its center of gravity downward, and two thick, grey-black supports extended from both sides of its waist to brace against the ground, preventing the recoil from the cannons from causing the mecha to Overturn.

The next second.

"Boom, boom, boom, boom!!"

The four 188mm Cannons fired rhythmically in turns; before Bishop Land could even react, he was hit square in the face by the fierce firepower.

The shockwave generated by the explosion even caused him to be briefly Stunned.

"."

Edward silently shed two drops of cold sweat; he moved backward Immovable and without drawing attention, terrified that the unknown Steam Mecha might also fire a few shots at him.

However, he was clearly overthinking it; the one piloting the mecha was none other than Brenna, who had rushed over with Yun Mu.

Although she did not recognize the identity of that monster, she did recognize Edward.

There was no need to say what to do; she immediately manipulated the Princess, extended the four 188mm Cannons, and unleashed a volley aimed straight at Bishop Land's face! "Roar!!"

A roar that sounded inhuman erupted from the smoke and dust. Under the control of the Parasite within, Bishop Land's heavily damaged body charged out from the smoke and slammed headlong into the Princess's shield.

"Clang!!"

Sounds good, right? A good sound means a good head!

The Princess's supports hadn't even been retracted yet; if the opponent could really knock it over like this, it would be too terrifying.

As for Brenna, after seeing Bishop Land's head at the very top of the monster, she froze for a moment, then immediately manipulated the mecha, gripped the shield, lifted it, and delivered a shield bash! "Bang!"

With the Princess's tens of tons of arm strength, a single strike sent Bishop Land's body Retreating several steps.

The massive tentacles slid comically to stabilize the body, then Brenna retracted the two support struts on the Princess's back and manipulated the mecha's longsword to hack at Bishop Land's head at the top layer!

At this moment, Bishop Land finally recovered from the Stun; he hurriedly snatched back control of his body, and several Scarlet tentacles actually clamped onto the sword blade as if catching a blade with bare hands.

Seeing this, Brenna immediately let go of the hand gripping the longsword.

Then she clenched the mecha's palm and punched "Bang" into the monster's chest cavity!

The Parasite inside let out a howl of pain and immediately began to fight with Bishop Land for control of the body.

"Quiet!"

With an unknown Steam Mecha in front and Edward, who could control the Ghost Ship flames, behind, the Parasite inside was also constantly fighting him for control of the body.

Bishop Land only felt his blood pressure skyrocketing.

"Summon all the remaining Scarlet Parasites; it is time to let them sacrifice themselves for the Lord," he ordered the Parasite within.

"Skah!"

The Parasite inside agreed very readily; it understood Bishop Land's meaning.

However, the more Parasites it devoured, the more powerful its strength would become, and by then, control of the body would no longer be up to Bishop Land.

"Wukah!"

It emitted a special frequency call from its mouth, and almost all the Scarlet Parasites in Frostfall City became restless upon hearing this summons.

They even ignored the targets they were currently hunting and turned to fly toward the location where Bishop Land was.

"Not good, hurry and interrupt him!"

Seeing this movement, Edward knew this was some incredible move and hurriedly shouted.

"Bang, bang, bang!!"

The Sunset's Mortar fired frantically, and dozens of solid shells trailing ghost-green Ghost Fire smashed toward Bishop Land's location.

However, a large number of Scarlet Parasites obscured the entire sky, and the Sunset's Mortar shells could not break through the blockade of those dense swarms of insects at all.

After hearing Edward's shout, Brenna immediately dropped the Princess's supports, and the four thick cannons aimed at Bishop Land once again.

At the same time, Yun Mu opened the cockpit door, landed with a roll, and a phantom of a mecha drawn in Comic style emerged behind her.

【Thor Is Here!】

"Medical Transport ready!"

A silver-white craft with orange flames jetting from its sides appeared in the sky, carrying a tall, bipedal humanoid mecha beneath it.

With a "click" sound of unloading, the massive Thunder God Mecha landed, and its cockpit door opened toward Yun Mu.

However, the Medical Transport did not disappear; instead, it aimed at Edward's body and fired a beam of ghost-green healing light.

Under the illumination of the light, the wounds on Edward's body were actually healing rapidly.

"What is this thing?" Edward looked somewhat blankly at the flying machine floating above his head.

He naturally knew this was something summoned by Yun Mu's drawings; after all, he wasn't blind.

It was just that this method of remote healing was truly somewhat shocking... er, that doesn't sound right, anyway, it was very powerful.

As for Yun Mu, honestly, even she hadn't expected that the Medical Transport Plane could actually be used.

She clearly hadn't filled in any background information regarding the Medical Transport Plane! Could it be because this was a drawing she had created, so it could actively extract information from her mind? Yun Mu had no time to think about this question, because Bishop Land had already begun to consume the Scarlet Parasites on a large scale.

Under the active summons of the Parasite, those insects were like sliding into a chute, actively delivering themselves into the massive oral cavity in Bishop Land's abdomen.

Although no changes could be seen for the moment, letting the opponent continue like this was definitely not a good thing.

Full firepower!

Yun Mu sat in the cockpit of the Thunder God Mecha, her fingers rapidly tapping open the switches for each system.

【Punisher Cannon!】

【Thor's Hammer!】

By the way, the Punisher Cannon and the Gafulin Launcher cannot be used together.

Also, although both of these are anti-air weapons, as everyone knows, the greatest use of anti-air weapons is to fire horizontally to Sweep ground units.

Therefore, it is also very suitable for hitting infantry, tanks, and the like.

As for Thor's Hammer, this thing is the Thunder God Mecha's anti-ground weapon; it is equipped with a particle accelerator inside, capable of firing scorching particle beams to attack targets, or one can find a Medical Transport to replace the weapon module, swapping it for a special edition 330mm barrage cannon.

It is said that the warheads fired by Thor's Hammer have the greatest destructive power among the Empire's ground forces.

Of course, the power of this Thunder God summoned by Yun Mu is not as strong as in the settings; after all, her own strength is just so-so, and no matter how impressive the painting she creates is, it will not exceed her by too much.

"Boom!"

The next second, artillery fire covering the sky blanketed the area where Bishop Land was located.

(End of this chapter)