Apocalypse Gachapon - Chapter 1907: Dawn

The crystal-clear glass was full of amber liquid. Faint gas continuously bubbled up from within, causing an elegant fragrance to ripple around continuously.

Below was the beautiful scenery of End City. Behind was the final struggle of the Novice battlefield.

For the Queen of Reina Star, Ningji Huamei, the battle itself actually could not arouse much interest in her.

Having lived for a long time, she had seen many things. Having once participated in the Battle of Despair, she could not feel the slightest ripple from this degree of bloodshed and the passing of lives.

She preferred to focus her gaze on the beautiful scenery within the city.

“This young man from the Su Clan is not bad.”

Beside her, Ningji Huamei’s maid refilled the Queen’s glass with that fine wine while watching the battle situation on the light screen and speaking.

“The complete version of the Light Array has over several hundred array eyes, right? It’s not simple to set up, and its power is quite good too.”

Ningji Huamei looked at the huge clock tower in the center of End City, smiled, and did not speak.

The maid also sat down beside her, though she was clearly more interested in everything happening on the light screen.

“Your Majesty, what’s so good about this unchanging scenery? I think these little guys are quite interesting.”

In principle, for a maid to speak like this to one of the most powerful individuals among the cosmic races was great disrespect.

But those who knew a little about Reina Star knew that this maid was no simple maid. She had been intensively trained from the beginning, in all aspects, even often receiving training comparable to that of the Queen’s successor.

From birth, she was the Queen’s shadow, the Queen’s guard, the Queen’s assistant, and also the Queen’s friend.

From life to death, it continued always.

The maid’s status was exceptionally high within the entire Reina Star system. It couldn’t be said she was second only to one and above all others, but she could definitely rank within the top ten.

“It was never a fair fight from the start. What’s so interesting about it?”

“Is this the reason you stopped our own people from participating?”

“No, I just wanted our people to adapt to the parasites as much as possible, not to their own kind.”

Ningji Huamei drank the wine in her glass in one gulp and continued looking into the distance. After a long while, she said, “Ana, tell me, if I went to challenge the Great Elder of the Gurui Star Race now, who would win?”

The maid Ana stood up abruptly, looking very displeased at Ning Ji Huamei. “Your Majesty, have you gone mad? How could you have such an idea?”

“The King of Huo’er Star, Zhen Ka; the Great Elder of the Gurui Star Race, Cheng Lan Gao; the Clan Leader of the Su Clan, Lai Su; plus me. Don’t you want to know who is number one?” Ningji Huamei looked calmly at her maid and asked, then added, “Don’t you want to compete with that dwarf from the Talos Red Dwarves, that old stubborn from the Sheke Star, that gloomy fellow from the Gold and Silver Island, and those few others?”

“I do not!”

The maid’s voice rose several notches, and her expression worsened.

“Why? At our level, perhaps only between life and death can we improve again. Don’t you want to see what that realm and level that the cosmic races have never set foot in is like?”

“I do not!”

The maid gave a firm, negative reply once again.

Afterwards, she walked two circles on the spacious and exquisite balcony, looking at one of the most powerful lives among the cosmic races, and said, “Your Majesty, this kind of thinking is very dangerous.”

“You know, all those things and speculations said outside mean nothing to us. The difference between you and those few is actually just a tiny line. If you fought, it would most likely end in mutual destruction. Your differences are not enough to determine a clear winner. Your idea has no meaning.”

“And once you are lost, do you know what the Reina Star faction would face?”

The maid grew increasingly agitated as she spoke.

“And, Your Majesty,” the maid said, “this is the first time in so many years that we have seen a glimmer of hope. You cannot be so irresponsible.”

The Queen listened quietly. The flesh and blood flying on the light screen behind her could not capture her attention at all. She just looked at this city that belonged to her, silent for a long time.

“A glimmer of hope?” Ningji Huamei murmured. “Or perhaps the last trace of delirium before falling into the abyss.”

“Ana, relay my command. From now on, Reina Star enters a comprehensive combat readiness stage.”

Behind her, the maid stood woodenly.

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“Energy array damage level fifteen percent!”

“No, it’s already twenty percent!”

“The incubation layer has been breached! Release the cortex, enter core defense mode!”

“Damage level thirty percent!”

The people of the Su Clan continuously shouted out the current situation of the Light Array, telling the people defending inside that they were one step closer to death.

After the initial light blades caused large-scale casualties to the opponents, the people outside became much more cautious. Because the Light Array was also a long-famous array of the Su Clan, although outsiders did not know how to set it up, they were at least familiar with some of its information. Those who understood would share their knowledge with others, including attack methods, array characteristics, and lethality estimates.

Although these were also just experiences, basically equivalent to guesses, at least they were no longer completely ignorant about the energy array.

So, after the initial light blades, following various races that used piled-up lives to break through the first layer, the breakthrough to the second layer became more cautious.

Of course, this was only relative. Lives were still being lost as if they cost nothing.

Under heavy pressure, the Light Array’s second wave of attacks was being maintained. No longer light blades, but light pillars flying all over the sky, constantly smashing towards targets. At the same time, strands of light threads separated from the ‘skeleton’ light pillars of the energy array, surrounding every defender.

These light threads seemed useless, but they would always suddenly extend at certain moments to assist the defenders. Once they hit a target, they would immediately cause it to fall into a brief, stiff state, which was the best opportunity to kill the opponent.

One minute into the battle, the first layer was breached, at the cost of dozens of Novices and three mature warriors dead.

But by the ten-minute mark, even though the second layer was as precarious as a small boat in stormy waves, it still had not broken. Outside the entire Light Array, warriors were gathered in more than one circle, without the slightest gap.

By this time, the attackers had again left over thirty corpses, among which seven were mature warriors.

This was directly related to the defenders beginning to participate in the defense personally.

And these defenders had also paid a price.

The Star-Eye Clan warrior and one Novice had already become mincemeat.

“Damage level forty percent!”

At the fifteen-minute mark, the second layer of the Light Array was officially broken.