Honkai Impact: Dreams and the Holy Grail, but the Servant is Rei.

Then, [Stone Boss] noticed that the "blizzard" was moving slowly!

The joy in his eyes vanished, replaced by deep horror!

In the blizzard where visibility was only a few meters, the [Sevenfold Ring of Blazing Sky] hovered in front of Meng Weiyu and the other three. They were close together on a huge flying sword, which kept turning and dodging the white beams of light that were being swept towards them.

With the special vision provided by Caster [Xi Lian], all four of them gained the ability to see high-energy particle beams even in a "blizzard".

Thanks to the [Escape Sword] affix in the [Actor's Affix Box], which had reached level 110, otherwise even with their agility, they would have had difficulty dodging the incoming beams of light.

A single energy beam might be able to be blocked, but the enemy behind the scenes seems to know this, and most of the time it is two or three beams that advance simultaneously!

Their movement speed is extremely fast when the beam sweeps, comparable to a level 110 [Escape Sword] at full power!

Fortunately, these beams were emitted from different angles and positions. When she sensed that there was no way to avoid them, Meng Weiyu used the [Sevenfold Ring of Blazing Heaven] to break through and collide with one of the beams, thus avoiding being hit by them all at once.

Even so, it is necessary to rely on Caster [Xi Lian] to fully rewind in order to ensure that [Sevenfold Rings of Blazing Heaven] is not completely destroyed.

【Hanunu】 also played a crucial role. This werewolf from the Habek tribe seemed to have an extremely terrifying sense of danger. He kept giving directions and directing Meng Weiyu to use the 【Escape Sword】 to dodge the indiscriminate beams of light.

If the sniper who just died knew that not long ago, [Hanunu] only had the opportunity to lie in wait and prepare to snipe because Meng Weiyu had repaired the bunker-like barrier and didn't leave him enough firing ports to launch rockets, he would probably spit out a mouthful of blood...

"Damn it, there are more and more of these beams!" [Potio] said through gritted teeth. His damaged mechanical arm had just been repaired by Caster [Xilian] using time travel.

He was somewhat frustrated because he couldn't do much to help in this critical situation.

Xi Lian gently comforted the slightly irritable cowboy, while Meng Weiyu listened to Hanu Nu's commands and piloted the escape sword, all the while rapidly considering the next strategy.

The constantly moving "blizzard" was just a side pawn in his game, merely a way to sow discord among the enemies behind the scenes.

Before he transmigrated, he was always forced to come up with all sorts of ways to deal with his boss's unreasonable work demands, as a lowly laborer.

After his journey through time, he often had flashes of inspiration during several perilous situations.

But this time, he really couldn't think of a better way, unless...

Under the astonished gazes of Hanunu and Potio, Meng Weiyu made the flying sword come to an abrupt stop.

"Would you be willing to take a gamble with me?" He turned his head and looked directly into Caster [Xi Lian]'s eyes.

Chapter 77 Deceiving the Heavens (Part 2)

“Of course, no problem, buddy. You’re someone’s Master, after all.” Caster [Xi Lian] smiled gently.

"Thank you..." Meng Weiyu clenched her fist.

A hint of bitterness and struggle flashed in his eyes. In the end, he still had to place his own and Caster's fate on the wheel of life and death...

"Little guy, you want to play big? To make the little cutie behind the scenes suffer a lot?" Archer [Potio] suddenly became excited, revealing his sharp teeth.

“If my intuition is correct, our enemy is currently monitoring everything here via satellites high in the sky. You two don’t need to take any risks; our helpers are already on the move.” [Hanunu] said in a deep voice, speaking rapidly, while keeping a wary eye on the moving beam of light in the distance.

The leader of the Pinocchio rebellion keenly noticed that Meng Weiyu was asking Caster [Xi Lian], not himself and [Potio].

“Well, but I still want to verify a vague guess, as it relates to whether we can gain the upper hand in future conflicts with the company.” Meng Weiyu shook her head at [Hanunu] and [Potio]. If this problem isn’t solved, reinforcements certainly won’t arrive in time before “Lazarina” is seriously injured.

As soon as he finished speaking, Meng Weiyu had no choice but to activate the [Escape Sword] again, carrying the four of them to dodge the white beam of light that was moving erratically.

In the conference room-like theater, someone used some special method to split the screen in two. The left side showed the scene of the command center where "Boss Stone" was located in the flagship, while the right side showed Meng Weiyu and her three companions constantly dodging and weaving on large flying swords in the "blizzard".

"I didn't expect that 'Boss Stone' would actually be playing himself," Ruler [Gopher Wood] said quietly, pushing up his black-rimmed glasses.

"This company's lackey didn't use laser weapons so recklessly during this period of history. It seems that the [Anti-Star Treasure - Pinocone] has given him quite a boost," [Mikhail] said coldly.

Throughout history, he and Hanunu's generation sacrificed too many comrades for the independence of Pinocchio!

They had a blood feud with the group of employees of Interstellar Peace Company represented by "Boss Stone"!

Mikhail sighed softly. If Hanunu had survived like him, this tough and decisive Habek werewolf probably wouldn't have had any economic or financial dealings with the company.

That's why, even knowing that what was playing on the screen was the Holy Grail War and not Pinocchio's past history, he sincerely hoped that the one who would win in the end wouldn't be Rider [Stone Boss].

Mikhail gazed at Gopher, who was intently watching the Holy Grail War from a distance, and his thoughts drifted to the distant past:

He was the one who resolutely opposed the new generation of executives who later temporarily reconciled with the company and transformed Pinocchio into a glitz and glamour-filled "celebration star."

Among the original veterans who survived, Ragvok Shar Mikhail was one of the few who was a conciliatory figure who considered the bigger picture and the interests of the people.

He and his former friend Gofemu were both easygoing people, to the point that Hanunu described him as "too weak, prone to compromise, and failing to nip conflicts in the bud."

If he had been more assertive towards outsiders back then, Gopher wouldn't have been attacked, lost his physical body, and had his personality drastically changed...

"There are a few parts of what you call the 'script' based on the history of Pinocchio, or the Holy Grail War, that I don't understand."

[Gofemu] noticed [Mikhail]'s gaze, but deliberately brought up a topic that had puzzled him before, turning his head to the young man who was quietly watching the screen not far away.

"Whether it was the initial encounter with the True Stinger swarm, or their later conflict with Hanunu due to their failure to collect rare memory essence, these events are inconsistent with the history of Pinocone." [Gofemu] looked at [Meng Weiyu] with a scrutinizing gaze.

"Then why was it necessary for 'Lazarina being' seriously injured?" he pressed.

"The Wisdom Star God, the All-Knowing One, has glanced at this Holy Grail; it is one of the many 'moments' in which He has anchored Him within it," the young man with black hair and white clothes said calmly.

As soon as he finished speaking, the whole room fell into dead silence. Even the screen lost its sound, leaving only the images playing continuously.

"Why would He do this? Is there something here that He can deduce?" After a long silence, [Gopherwood] said softly.

"I'm sorry, I don't know either, but after that, the Star God of Memory, Fu Li, also cast a glance at the Holy Grail." [Meng Weiyu] looked at the screen, her face still expressionless.

"The object of his gaze was none other than Miss 'Lazarina'!"

"【The Pure Child Without Leaks】..." 【Gopher Wood】 seemed to be deep in thought.

"I can't guarantee that, Mr. Gopher. After all, you, I, and Mr. Mikhail all know about this Holy Grail War and the nature of the Servants." [Meng Weiyu] sighed.

“Perhaps those two exist simply to witness the birth of a special envoy,” Mikhail said, looking at the young man, seemingly implying something.

"I hope so. Perhaps he can become the one who saves many planets." The young man wearing the Fool's Mask, which covered the upper half of his face, gave a self-deprecating look.

"Perhaps from the moment he was born, he was a clown bound by a script or fate, performing a farce."

Faced with an inevitable outcome, how far can you (the real me) go?

Dressed in white, Meng Weiyu continued watching the story unfold on the screen, a bitter feeling welling up inside her.

As the blizzard began to dissipate, the increasingly agitated Rider [Stone Boss] in the command center of the warship flagship instantly noticed the change and became excited.

"Has that young man lost his magic, or is he already dead?" He jumped up from his seat and began pacing back and forth in front of the giant screen.

In front of the company's lower-level employees, "Boss Stone" would not show such frivolous and unsteady behavior, but here, when there is no one, it is his throne that belongs only to him!

After anxiously waiting for several dozen seconds, he finally revealed a victorious expression.

He saw the Caster [Xi Lian] in Meng Weiyu's arms, turning into specks of light and disappearing, and saw the Archer [Potio] and [Hanunu] standing silently with their heads down.

This hypocrite was no villain who liked to waste words; he immediately mobilized all the satellites, preparing to launch a saturation attack on the location of the three!

But the next moment, he was horrified to find that he had lost contact with those satellites!

A ball of greenish-blue flame suddenly filled the entire large screen in front of him, and gave him the middle finger!

"Suiyang?!" The Stone Boss's pupils shrank to the size of pinpoints in that instant.

Chapter 78 Price

The unexpected turn of events left Boss Stone wide-eyed; he could hardly believe what he was seeing.

The greenish-blue flame creature almost filled the entire screen, with human facial features outlined in the center of the flame creature, its face full of contempt and mockery towards this company executive!

"Is it fun peeking from here? Want to come down and have some fun with me?"

It conjured two short, thick arms from flames, then defiantly raised its middle finger at [Stone Boss]!

At the same time, in the core command cabin of the warship flagship, all the screens were filled with snow-like black and white noise. They could no longer display the scenes that the satellite could monitor and emitted a piercing sound!

Under the shocked and heartbroken gaze of [Stone Boss], all the screens went out!

"assassin岁阳???"

“Don’t they already have one Assassin? How can one faction have two Assassins?!” [Stone Boss] muttered.

He staggered back several steps, looking disoriented, before finally managing to steady himself by pressing his hand against the seat.

"Could it be that Red Team's Rider?! That seemingly useless fox-woman judge?!" His incredulous expression deepened at the thought.

By emitting beams of light, those satellites also revealed their positions!

In his mind, the attack from tens of thousands of meters in the air would prevent most of the anti-company personnel on the ground from launching an attack.

However, numerous extraterrestrial forces participated in Pinocchio's war of independence, including, unexpectedly, the Servants summoned by the Red Faction!

Their arrival disrupted the company's previously overwhelming dominance, causing considerable trouble for "Boss Stone" and his men...

For example, that damned Suiyang and his master are a case in point. They actually took advantage of the fact that I was focused on Meng Weiyu and the other three to destroy the Starlink that I had worked so hard to build!

[Stone Boss] felt his heart bleeding, and at the same time he was so angry that he gritted his teeth.

As rootless and formless energy entities, most of the Suiyang usually feed on human emotions, and in the process of feeding, they can even influence human will.

Some special Suiyang believe that this way of obtaining energy is too inefficient. For example, the Suiyang [Red Star] recorded in the [Luofu] Immortal Ship transformed itself into a small star in order to capture the entire Immortal Ship!

It hunts along with the spaceship, coveting its immense energy!

The energy storage device of laser weapons is also a delicacy for Suiyang, who is also an energy body!

Even more deadly is that, as an entity that inherently contains high-energy particles, Suiyang can be considered the nemesis of high-tech equipment!

“My satellite…” [Stone Boss] murmured somewhat dazedly, seemingly still unable to accept this astronomical loss.

He wasn't worried about his safety. Even if a few Red Team Servants infiltrated the area to assassinate him, they would have no chance of succeeding!

His location was more than a million kilometers away from the prison planet where the battle took place, which, in a way that Meng Weiyu was familiar with, was nearly three times the distance between the Earth and the Moon!

On this backward planet where technology is locked down by the Interstellar Peace Corporation, even with the addition of the extraterrestrial visitors and their followers, Hanunu and his companions are unable to create weapons capable of harming planetary warships far out in space.

He wasn't afraid of Suiyang on the screen. This planetary-level warship had extremely strong defenses inside, and most of his capable generals were stationed there long-term!

These capable employees have all signed a "voluntary lifelong commitment agreement." After their deaths, their estates will be donated to the company, and according to company regulations, they will use it to recruit new subordinates!

Thinking of this, Boss Stone breathed a slight sigh of relief. These losses belonged to the company. Although the former would cause the company's core management to lower their evaluation of him, he could still make a profit if handled properly!

This was something the company tacitly approved, and it was also a benefit that supervisor Oswaldo Schneider had secured for those cadres in the "Pioneer" sector.

After gaining a powerful boost, Rider [Stone Boss] forgot that the satellite, the recently crashed battleship, and the meritorious sniper were extensions of his Noble Phantasm, and instead treated them as the property of his company!

The latent effects of the [World-Defying Noble Phantasm - Pinocene] on him began to manifest. Unbeknownst to him, [Stone Boss] had already paid the price marked on his gift of fate!

As a Servant summoned by Rider, [Stone Boss] only remembers that he is currently in the past, in Pinocene. In the process of reclaiming Pinocene, he and other "time travelers" split into two camps and are playing a game called the Holy Grail War!

The thought of having a large sum of money at his disposal softened his expression, and he began to think about his next course of action.

At this moment, a suspicion that he had just overlooked resurfaced in his mind:

How did Suiyang manage to dive tens of thousands of meters into the air and destroy so many satellites and monitoring systems at the same time?

Among the extraterrestrials who oppose the company, none possess a means of teleporting to a designated target, such as the [Ether Editing] technique.

The summoned Rider [Luofu] Immortal Ship Judge does not have this ability, and [Hanunu] and others have also revealed their fighting styles in the previous battles.

"Could it be that carefree assassin, 'The Masked Fool'?!" Stone Boss thought of the blue-haired man who always lingered on the fringes of Hanunu's team and loved to crack jokes.

That guy called himself a consignment merchant. He didn't participate in battles much, but he always managed to come up with some strange and unusual things to "sell" to [Hanunu].

These oddly shaped and haphazardly functioning gadgets always caused his men a great deal of trouble!

"Let me introduce you. This is Mr. Assassin [Sambo Koski], the merchant who supplies us," [Hanunu] said to Meng Weiyu and Archer [Potio].

"Cough cough... Damn it, you should have warned us before you released the smoke bomb!" [Potio] complained. "And didn't the little guy on your back just use it? Why did you use it again?"

“There’s no other way, he’s not feeling well, so it’s good to have an extra layer of protection.” Assassin [Sangbo] scratched his head with one hand, while the other hand still firmly supported Meng Weiyu on his back.

He sensed the atmosphere was somewhat heavy and didn't joke around with Hanunu and the others as usual.

"Put me down, Mr. Sambo, I'm fine." Meng Weiyu stared blankly ahead at the empty space, her eyes somewhat unfocused.

Meng Weiyu wasn't actually sad at all; he was faking it!

Caster [Xi Lian] is currently appearing in the form of [memory] next to the system panel in his mind!

Chapter 79 [Standing Wave]

"Not bad, you acted quite convincingly." In the conference room-like screening room, Meng Weiyu, dressed in white and wearing the upper half of the Fool's Mask, commented calmly.

"Pretending?!"