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“Correct And I need to reiterate this, we do not havemy core” Zero’s voice remained emotionless, without a hint of anxiety “Thus, I hope you can be fast about it”

“I understand” Nicole nodded before turning to face the tooden puppets They had taken on their respective stances As for Nicole, the energy blasters on her ar!

Tens of beaain The wooden puppet, like earlier, brandished its wooden sword to protect its body However, it was only capable of blocking off most of the beams The rest of the beah it, causing it to fall to the ground

After having knocked down one of the tooden puppets, Nicole turned her blasters’ muzzle to aim at the other one

So simple?

There was no expression on Tian Lie’s face However, there was a trace of doubt in his mind

The wooden swordsmen only kne to stand on the same spot and assuainst their eneed attacks, that person would be able to happily stand around and finish the fro that not even the Ion Pulse Sword could cut through and their swords y beams that Nicole had fired at them However, even if their opponent’s firepoas lesser when compared to the Floater mech armour, to passively allow the fully defeated in the end

This was a roadblock guarding the path toward Zero City’s core Tian Lie was unconvinced that this was all there was to passing this training stage

There must surely… … be more to it

Nicole quickly y beaed wooden puppet’s body fell to the ground, disintegrating into ashes Then, she turned around once lance

The four wooden puppets for the thirdinto the red circle

The size of the red circle expanded once more

This tiy blasters were aimed at the wooden puppet nearest to Nicole This time, however, the four wooden puppets did not simply stand in the same spot as the earlier ones

The instant Nicole locked down on one of the wooden puppets, the other three quickly eted wooden puppet and four swords were brandished, creating an iy beale one struck home All of them were deflected by the wooden swords covered in silvery lu, the four wooden puppets did not wait for it to cool down Instead, they split up into groups of two each and rushed Nicole froht side

“Zero?!”

Nicole was shocked In that critical moment, her mech armour’s thrusters blasted into action in an instant and she soared into the sky At the sanited as well

The four wooden puppets swung their swords in unison, drawing four silver arcs out However, their attacksat the eo

Nicole, having dodged the concerted attacks of the four wooden puppets, hovered in ilantly However, the anticipated attacks never came

No matter where Nicole fleard, the four wooden puppets would follow, their hands wielding their swords Their heads would always be fixed upward at Nicole And yet, they did not juy blasters were done cooling down Once again, she aimed at one of the wooden puppets and opened fire However, the four wooden puppets were always together The instant they noticed the lights gathering upon the energy blasters on the Floatertheir swords Nicole darted around in the sky without respite, changing her trajectory while she opened fire After having unleashed three barrages, not a single one of her energy bea on si down?”

Tian Lie, as standing there, had both his arms crossed before his chest He watched as the four wooden puppets ran around in circles after Nicole while brandishing their swords, their heads turned upward Suddenly, Tian Lie laughed out “You should be thankful that you are not wearing a skirt today”

“Shut up!” Nicole sent a fierce glare at Tian Lie

The Inspector of Thorned Flower Guild, the Angel Killer The iinally held within herand insurmountable…

In the battle to the death in the Tokyo instance dungeon, Chen Xiaolian’s guild had used everything they had in order to kill him Nicole even paid for it with her own life

However, no ined that she would put on the label of ‘annoying’ on Tian Lie

Seriously, what an annoyance!

Nicole took a deep breath before accessing her storage equipe cannon-like blaster appeared within her grasp

The body of the blaster was nearly twoshort The reason for that was itscircuits lines the surface of the blaster At the bottom part of the blaster, however, there were no handles Instead, there was only a base

“RX-87 Anti-matter Annihilation Ordnance?! Where the Hell did you swipe that fro the item in Nicole’s hand, even someone like Tian Lie could not help but blurt out

“The Hell do you care? Just stay right there and watch! And don’t talk so much nonsense!” Nicole snapped back

“The Anti-matter Annihilation Ordnance packs quite the punch It is several tier compared to the main cannon of the Thunderstor is sier, how do you plan on firing?” Tian Lie cast an aet who I a, the Floateroff her

The Floater mech armour that had peeled itself off her body did not transform back into its Floater form Instead, it quickly moved towards the Anti-matter Annihilation Ordnance in her hands They fused with it, leaving only the thrusters on Nicole’s body to keep her hovering in the sky

“The Floater can fuse with otherit and putting it under el Killer?”

Nicole cast another arrogant glance at Tian Lie as the Anti-matter Annihilation Ordnance in her hand released a flash of light

Particles of light slowly gathered at the muzzle position of the blaster After 10 seconds, a half-e doround beneath her

The instant the Anti-matter Annihilation Ordnance opened fire, the thrusters on Nicole’s back fired up as well, propelling her far away froht beneath her had faded away, the four wooden puppets there had vanished All that was left on the ground was a huge crater, one that occupied pretty much half of the area within the red circle As for the tiles on the surrounding area, they too, had been thrown into disarray by the i was a mess

“Simple” Nicole did not fly back down Instead, she raised the Anti- the smoke off the , there was still quite some distance between Nicole’s mouth and the muzzle of the blaster Thus, theaard

When she turned to look at Tian Lie, however, she saw that there was no excitement in his eyes