NIKKE, When the Milky Way Blossoms

Deprived by suffering.

dark,

It quickly engulfed consciousness.

Time and space vanished from the man's perception until a reminder, mixed with a large amount of electric current, rang out in the void of his consciousness.

[Increase...300.00%]

Boo!

A sound similar to a bubble being popped echoed softly in Phoenix's eyes, followed by two streams of thick blood squeezing out from his tear ducts, falling as blood tears.

then,

The invisible wave particles spread outward from the man's head at the speed of light, exactly nine hundred meters.

"what is this?"

Gazing at the floating Lecher that seemed to see through the wall, he sensed the three-dimensional map in his mind that could be rotated at will.

Alice, whose right eye had turned emerald green, slightly opened her small, lovely mouth and tentatively glanced at a machine tool.

Clang——!

A gunshot rang out, and Lecher, who was behind the machine tool, crashed to the ground. Half of his body was exposed to Alice's view due to the change in angle, giving the little girl a visual shock on a psychological level...

……

"Is this... the commander's perspective?"

Several bursts of fire pierced through the core of the Lecher behind the steel plate.

Mihara, who had easily pierced through the target, turned his head in disbelief to look at Yuni, Anis, Marian, and others not far away, whose right eyes had turned green.

And what about Anise?

After witnessing her teammates successfully shoot through the defense, she couldn't help but speak up, her tone surprisingly tinged with anger, complaining:

"Wait a minute, Commander, what kind of perception ability is this?!"

This……

It's clearly open!!!

Chapter 278 It's Normal to Not Use Riddles

What does it mean for Niki to have X-ray vision?

It's roughly equivalent to a fisherman knowing where the fish are and his mouth is watering, a racer knowing the ground friction index of every bend, and a boxer being able to see the health and stamina bars above his opponent's head.

To the untrained eye, it might seem like nothing special.

In reality, what may seem like a minor auxiliary ability can exponentially double the improvement of a professional's skills.

Especially for Alice, when this little girl, who could fire three seconds' worth of ammo and reload two seconds' worth of bullets, could clearly see the movements of every single Lecher, she made a decisive decision that left Nien utterly in awe.

—Close combat.

A petite pink figure suddenly flipped over the cover and plunged into Lecher's position.

Then, the silenced sniper rifles whistled repeatedly, each bullet destroying one Lecher core at close range and also piercing the mechanical joint of a Lecher behind it, or even destroying two Lecher cores in succession.

Meanwhile, Lecher's side became hesitant and stunned by Alice's high-speed charge.

They couldn't lock her down.

Because of the close proximity, Lecher, who was right next to Alice, didn't have time to rotate his gun to aim properly, not to mention that the little girl would intentionally try to find blind spots for them to shoot at close range.

Looking at the Lechers, who were a little further away, their view was blocked by their teammates' bodies. Every time they caught sight of the target and were about to lock on, Alice would disappear from their sight again in the next instant.

As for the outermost ring of Lechers... they truly couldn't even see where the enemy was.

Looking back, all I could see were the backsides of friendly forces.

"Nien! You rush in too, I'll cover you!"

Now that it was a matter of life and death, Rudmila naturally couldn't care less about Alice's safety and raised her gun to fire at Lecher on the left side of the passage.

At the same time, the firepower girl, who had just come to her senses, did not hesitate at all after hearing the order from Her Majesty the Queen. She picked up her shotgun, followed suit, rolled out of the machine tool cover, and plunged into Lecher's formation.

She knew Alice's movements perfectly well, just as Alice knew her exact location.

There will be absolutely no situation where either side accidentally harms the other.

……

……

Gudong!

The agony, as if his soul were being torn apart, forced the man to remove his night vision goggles and collapse to the ground, his face streaked with blood and tears.

Seeing the commander's appearance, Helen, who had no idea what had happened, immediately opened her eyes wide and struggled anxiously to get up from the cold metal floor tiles. With her severely weakened body, she dragged herself to Phoenix's side.

"second lieutenant……"

Memories flashed back to the day of Krau's capture, followed by the silent ostracism she faced from Mihara, Anis, and others, as well as the words that Labi had once spoken to her.

Immediately afterwards, Helen took the Florian sniper rifle from Phoenix, gritted her teeth, raised the muzzle, aimed at Lecher on the right side of the passage who was about to cross the machine tool, and pulled the trigger.

boom--! ! !

As the gunshot rang out, the Lecher that had tried to flank and launch a sneak attack burst into a blinding electrical spark, then tumbled helplessly off the transport track and crashed heavily to the ground.

"...This time, I will definitely protect you well."

The noblewoman, with artificial blood still trickling from her chest and abdomen, gently lowered her gun. After making the oath between her and the commander, she anxiously said:

What's wrong with your eyes?

"It's a small...small problem."

The man answered with difficulty, his voice trembling uncontrollably, and abnormal electrical activity in his brain causing his hands to shake wildly uncontrollably, like a patient having an epileptic seizure. Therefore, his words were naturally difficult for Helen to believe.

Within the sea of ​​consciousness, the mechanical tone of artificial intelligence continues on its own.

[Increase rates: 371.61%... 415.22%... 458.34%...]

suddenly!

When the consciousness map reached its maximum distance of 1675.02 meters, the artificial intelligence, which had been broadcasting, inexplicably showed signs of lag, something that had never happened before.

[Increase...increase...increase...ample...49...499.9...]

Sizzle—!

An unexpected electrical buzzing sound spontaneously generated in his brain, causing Phoenix to unconsciously let out a hoarse groan, letting the ethereal voice wander above his sea of ​​consciousness.

[So that's it—no wonder he has such incredible command skills.]

Are you Anique? Or Indivilla?

Hearing that voice, the man, who could barely maintain his senses, contradicted himself about the words he had just uttered and questioned sharply:

[Wait! Who are you?!]

【Queen.】

【! ! ! 】

There were no pretentious riddles, nor any boring, anonymous scripts. Even Phoenix himself didn't expect that his simple question, asked according to procedure, would elicit such a direct and unbiased answer to his confusion.

—Queen, Queen Lecher.

—That is, the former captain of the Goddess Force, the object of Xiao Cao's loyalty, Lilivis.

Strictly speaking, I am not Queen of the Lechers, but Queen of Heretics. The real Queen of the Lechers resides in outer space.

Who knew that Lillie Williams was too lazy to even pretend, and brazenly proved with her actions that she could read Phoenix's mind without any obstacles, and no thought of the person involved could escape her spying.

What do you want from me?

The lieutenant was equally shrewd. Seeing that the other party didn't seem to intend to kill him, he could guess with his toes that the other party had other plans.

After all, Lecher and the heretics were not from the same camp; it was ignorant humans who arbitrarily categorized them together.

Your awareness is insufficient.

Her Majesty the Queen coldly commented:

With your unique advantages of metal affinity, supernatural perception, and AI host, you should have been able to stand apart from humans, Lecher, Niki, and heretics, becoming a completely new life form and trying to save humanity on your own.

You didn't do that; you were unwilling to give up your human identity; you were bound by worldly morality.

This is not the kind of collaborator I need.

Let's be clear: riddle tellers can't find allies.

Phoenix remained unfazed by Lilywes's sarcastic remarks, even extracting crucial core ideas from her words.

--cooperate.

The man had a clear understanding of his own strength, and he remembered Lilyves' incredible feat of destroying hundreds of Lechers in a second during the ground war.

Now that she's become a heretic, that perverted woman's strength is no less than before. Why would a monster of that level need to cooperate with me?