The Valkyrie's Battlefield

Time rewound slightly.

Actually, from the very beginning, Otto had never considered the Snow Lotus Squad as a component of his overall plan.

In his eyes, the Snow Lotus Squad was just a tool that allowed him to stay here reasonably and conceal his true identity, nothing more.

With Anna seriously injured and unconscious, "Yuno" was naturally inconvenient to act alone, and the target might notice something was wrong and become alert – at least Otto thought that if it were him, he would definitely sense something amiss.

Therefore, to avoid trouble, he planned to let the Snow Lotus Squad, under the guise of "investigation," cover him as Yuno, and allow him to openly move around.

Other than that, the Snow Lotus Squad was no different from other Valkyrie squads active in Southeast Asia, and was not even qualified to be used by Otto to flush out the enemy.

But he didn't expect that before he could even actively guide them to act, Captain Jell of the Snow Lotus Squad actually approached him and invited "Yuno" to join her investigation.

Although Otto was slightly surprised by this, he was happy to see it happen.

After that, Jell's squad was extremely proactive in their actions. Although the results were always scarce, World Serpent was inherently deeply hidden and difficult to find. Therefore, in Otto's view, this situation of repeatedly returning empty-handed was perfectly normal.

But Jell didn't think so.

Perhaps it was because of her overly strong sense of responsibility, or perhaps it was simply because of the fearlessness of the ignorant.

In short, Otto personally saw that this captain, who was just an ordinary A-rank Valkyrie, not only did not feel discouraged after each day's setbacks, but instead became more and more motivated and acted more and more actively.

Seeing this, Otto couldn't help but smile wryly.

After that, he began to really hand over the leadership of the investigation to her, and instructed Amber to have headquarters provide her with a certain degree of support.

Then, Otto, as usual, once again retreated behind the scenes, quietly waiting for things to develop as he expected.

He believed that such a subordinate would not disappoint him…

"Phew… We're here, this is the last marked location."

The wildly roaring motorcycle, which had been speeding all the way, began to quiet down as it approached the target location, slowly decelerated, and then stopped by the side of the road.

Jell signaled "Yuno," who was sitting behind her, to get off, and then she also dismounted.

The wild ride all the way did not make Jell feel excited. On the contrary, she maintained the vigilance that a warrior should have from beginning to end.

Although she knew that "Yuno" probably didn't need it, Jell still took her weapon, carefully inspected it, and then gently hung it back in its original position. Only then did she begin to check her own equipment: weapons, communicator, and most importantly, the two-way transmission system.

"There's a good chance we'll encounter enemies later. You must listen to my commands and don't act on your own, understood?"

Jell said seriously to "Yuno," who blinked her grass-green eyes twice and nodded earnestly.

"That's good."

Jell put away her serious expression, revealed a gentle smile, reached out and gently ruffled "Yuno's" smooth black hair, and softly instructed,

"Later, if we encounter enemies that we can't handle, you must not be stubborn. Retreat immediately, leave here, and then call headquarters for support, understood?"

"Yuno" tilted her head and looked at her, her expression somewhat puzzled.

"I brought you here, so I have an obligation to send you back safely. Otherwise, I won't be able to answer to my partner…"

Jell showed a slightly helpless smile, and then her expression became serious again, and she said in a deep voice,

"This is an order!"

Jell knew that this was likely a trap, so she had to give a warning.

She believed that although the girl in front of her looked as immature and inexperienced as Anna, she believed that, as fellow Valkyries, they would not disappoint her.

"Yuno" thought for a moment and nodded earnestly.

"That's good, let's go."

Jell breathed a sigh of relief, and showed her a reassuring smile again. Only then did she put away all her expressions, turned around, held a gun in one hand, and a reversed blade in the other, taking the lead and stepping into this huge building.

"Yuno" followed Jell's instructions and obediently followed behind.

The reason why Jell was increasingly convinced that this was a trap was because she recognized the location she had arrived at and the building she was about to enter:

The Philippine Arena, located in the urban area of Manila, is the largest indoor stadium in the entire Philippines, capable of accommodating more than 50,000 spectators.

In her spare time, Jell often took her team members here to watch games. Although the movements, speed, and strength of those athletes were nothing special in the eyes of these Valkyries, who were generally petite girls.

But these Valkyries were all young girls, and they were easily infected by the atmosphere here, integrating into it, cheering and cheering with other spectators.

In Jell's view, being able to see this simple and straightforward happiness every day was the best reward they could get for guarding this place.

But she never imagined that she would step into this place again at this time, in this way.

At this time, the dawn was just breaking, and the sky was gradually brightening. The arena was still closed.

But no matter how closed it was, there should still be many staff members for security, cleaning, and replenishing sports equipment. But Jell hadn't seen anyone since she entered here.

Not only that, the life detector was also unresponsive. The only few vital signs, apart from her comrades around her, were just a few points in the depths of the stadium.

At this delicate time and place, under this strange situation, the vital signs in the depths of this building were like blatant provocations and gauntlets, glaringly obvious.

"I'm here, if you have the guts, come in!"

"Bang!"

Jell unceremoniously broke the lock, kicked open the door, and stepped in. After confirming that there was no threat inside, she signaled "Yuno" behind her to follow.

The reason why she was so unscrupulous was because Jell understood that since this was a trap, the enemies in the depths must be secretly observing her every move.

So, instead of cautiously advancing and giving them a good laugh, she might as well announce her arrival in a grand manner!

And if she really misunderstood this stadium, making such a big commotion would naturally attract staff members to come and investigate, and there would be no need to investigate further.

"…"

After waiting for a long time, it was still quiet, and no one came out to investigate. For a moment, Jell didn't know if she should be disappointed.

Looking around, the dark corridor was dead silent, without any sound, only the slight sound of the air conditioner continuously operating. At this moment, it sounded like the breathing of a monster to Jell, opening its mouth, waiting for the prey to walk in.

"Playing tricks!"

Jell sneered and strode towards the depths of the passage. "Yuno" followed quietly behind.

Even though it was pitch black, Jell was a frequent visitor here and was very familiar with the structure of this building. Therefore, she easily went directly to the center of the venue – the arena.

As she expected, there were no obstacles along the way.

But the moment the two of them stepped out of the arena, "thump, thump, thump" sounds rang out from all directions in the venue. All the lights turned on one by one from far to near, making the place bright as day in a short time.

Jell hurriedly adjusted to the light, gripped her weapons, and looked around, but there was still no one.

"Welcome, guests from afar, I have been waiting for you here for a long time!"

Just then, a rather arrogant female voice came from the surround sound speakers, echoing repeatedly in this empty, spacious, and quiet indoor space, making people upset.

"Who are you people?"

Jell and "Yuno" stood back to back, vigilantly watching every corner where enemies might appear, and questioned loudly.

"What are your intentions?"

"Hmph, arrogant fools! You dare to offend us without even knowing who we are?"

Jackal, who was monitoring here remotely, snorted coldly and said disdainfully.

"As for intentions? You don't need to know, or rather, you will know soon – come, let me give you some gifts first, I hope you like them."

"What did you say…"

Jell was about to question her when suddenly, from every corner of her vision, hundreds of Deadman appeared, each holding their cold weapons, silently approaching the two girls.

In the depths of the passage, there were many more shadowy figures flickering, obviously the real number was far more than these hundreds.

The number of Deadman on the field was increasing rapidly.

As an A-rank Valkyrie, Jell was under great pressure for a time. She led Yuno to lean against a wall. It was better to be surrounded on three sides than on all four.

"These are the failures I've accumulated during this period. Don't worry, the number is not very large."

Jackal didn't bother to pay attention to the light blue-haired Valkyrie at all, her eyes greedily staring at "Yuno" on the screen, and said confidently.

"I hope you won't disappoint me~"

"Damn it, where are you, come out!"

Jell fired several shots, killing several Deadman who were approaching. She suddenly looked up and stared fiercely at a camera facing her, as if she was looking at the mastermind behind the scenes, and shouted angrily.

"Hiding your head and showing your tail, what kind of skill is that!"

"Hmph, boasting shamelessly, don't worry, you will see, as long as you can live until then."

Jackal said disdainfully, raised her hand slightly, and ordered indifferently.

"Kill them."

As soon as the order was given, the Deadman who had originally been slowly approaching suddenly broke free from some kind of chain, and rushed forward like wild beasts.

"Damn it!"

Jell gritted her teeth. Even though she didn't see any high-level Deadman at a glance, the number was too large.

The most crucial thing was that those guys were really able to create Deadman and control them, as Anna said!

In that case, she absolutely couldn't let those guys go!

Thinking of this, Jell shouted angrily,

"Yuno, get rid of them!"

At this moment, Jell only wanted to eliminate these mobs in front of her as quickly as possible, rush out from here, rush to the mastermind behind the scenes, and bring her to justice!

"Yuno" received the order, turned out from behind her, and rushed towards the Deadman group that was quickly surrounding and killing them.

Now was the best time to "show her value" to the audience hiding in the dark. Therefore, from this moment on, Otto completely stopped suppressing the impulse of the virtual personality, letting her indulge herself and "show her value" to the audience hiding in the dark.

"People of World Serpent, this should be what you want, right?"

He just didn't know if the arrogant hunter would still be so arrogant when she suddenly realized that she was the prey. Otto thought with a slight smile, looking forward to the following developments.

Otto's thoughts were fast, and "Yuno's" actions were no slower.

The moment she jumped out, she unreservedly extended dozens of thick and thin dark green vines from her body. She divided two or three to protect Jell.

The remaining vines shot out in all directions like hunting pythons, instantly crushing all the Deadman into grayish-white meat paste – if their body tissues could still be called "meat."

She even continued, stirring up most of the audience seats.

"…"

Seeing Yuno's wild fighting style at such close range for the first time, Jell was speechless for a moment, and couldn't help but think again: Is this a Valkyrie's fighting style?

If this inhuman state is allowed to continue, in the long run, Yuno, will you really still be yourself?

Jell was immediately worried about Yuno's future, but she didn't know what she could do about it.

"Good, good, good!"

Unlike Jell, who was in a complicated mood at the moment, Jackal's eyes lit up and she was very excited: Sure enough, this is what I want, an excellent experimental subject!

Since these enemies were not enough for her to warm up, she might as well not hide them, and release them all!

Jackal tapped a few times on the operation keyboard. Suddenly, dozens of hidden doors opened at the same time in the arena, and together with the original fixed passages, they spewed out thousands of Deadman more quickly. For a time, it almost seemed to fill the stadium.

"And you, go too!"

Jackal ordered excitedly.

"Boom!"

With her order, several large iron cages wrapped tightly and suspended from the ceiling fell down, and the dull landing sound was like a heavy hammer, shaking people's internal organs uncomfortably.

They kicked up a cloud of concrete fragments, and for a moment, dust and sand flew, and they also incidentally crushed a large number of Deadman – Jackal didn't care about this at all.

"Get rid of that annoying ant first!"

Jackal saw from the screen that the light blue-haired Valkyrie, leaning against the wall, was protected by Yuno's vines, wielding her sword and gun, wantonly slashing the dense Deadman around her, and rushing towards a large iron cage at an extremely fast speed.

"Since you're so eager to die, I'll grant your wish."

Jackal ordered漠然ly.

Meanwhile.

From the moment those huge cages fell, Jell knew that the situation was bad and that she had to stop those things from opening.

So, she rushed towards the large iron cage closest to her, while also calling out to "Yuno" to deal with the other iron cages as soon as possible.

But unfortunately, no matter how fast she was, she was not as fast as Jackal's command.

Sparks flashed "crackling" at the four corners of the iron cages, and then the four sides fell down with a bang.

"Roar!"

What was inside were several seven or eight-meter-tall Honkai beasts, roaring and rushing over.

"Damn it…"

Seeing this, Jell knew that the other cages must contain similar things.

Although this stadium was extremely spacious, at this moment, it seemed that the mastermind behind the scenes had specially reserved this coliseum for these huge monsters…

Jell was secretly annoyed for a moment, and a little thankful that she hadn't brought her team members over. Otherwise, in this environment that was starting to become cramped with Honkai beasts, the casualties would probably be extremely heavy.

Fortunately…

Jell was thinking when she suddenly saw a Honkai beast like a small mountain roaring and pouncing towards her from the opened iron cage. She was instantly alarmed, didn't even think, and flew to the side to dodge, narrowly avoiding the huge monster.

"Heh, you really think highly of me!"

Jell thought bitterly, rolled several times on the ground, quickly got up, and incidentally killed several Deadman surrounding her.

"Whoosh! Whoosh!"

Several arrows with tricky angles brushed past her ears. Jell rolled over to dodge, fired her two guns repeatedly, and killed the several archer Deadman standing in the distance.

"Boom!"

Several vines swept over, sweeping away the remaining Deadman along with the Honkai beast.

The pressure on Jell was greatly reduced for a moment.

"Thanks, Yuno!"

Jell chuckled. But before she could catch her breath, two small and agile Chariot-class Honkai beasts flashed past the corner of her vision. She couldn't help but be startled, and turned her gaze to follow them.

Two flying Honkai beasts, one high and one low, their wings flashing with pink-purple light, pounced on Jell like a pair of crossed scissors!

Jell dodged one in a sorry state, pulled out the blade from her waist with one hand, and fiercely cut the other Honkai beast that crashed head-on into two halves!

Although she successfully dealt with it, Jell was also knocked back by this impact, temporarily losing her balance.

"Roar!"

From the depths of the opened large iron cage, a Knight-class Honkai beast suddenly rushed out, stepping with heavy rumbling steps, listening to the huge lance, the sharp tip of the spear pointing directly at Jell!

This series of events happened too quickly, and "Yuno" simply couldn't provide support in time.

"Damn it!"

At this moment of life and death, Jell didn't have time to dodge. She steeled her heart, threw down the blade in her hand, and took off her last weapon, the greatsword, from her back. This was originally the weapon she had prepared to deal with large Honkai beasts.

But at this time, Jell, who was still off-balance, had no way to counterattack. She just grabbed the greatsword with both hands and used the wide blade to block the deadly spear tip!

"Boom!"

The sword and spear collided, and Jell was hit like a truck, screamed miserably, and flew out.

At this time, "Yuno" finally arrived, reaching out several vines to catch her from the air and gently placing her on the ground.

"Hehe, you two are really close, aren't you?"

Jackal, who was quietly enjoying this good show from behind the screen in the distance, sneered disdainfully at this, and then suddenly ordered.

"Stan, it's your turn!"

Inside the stadium, at the highest point of the stands, there was a small cat with a peculiar coat color趴ing on the edge of the stands, its tail wagging back and forth boredly. Its big, round eyes were fixed on the extremely fierce battle below.

It knew that it wasn't its turn to act yet, but the master would need it to act sooner or later, because that was the meaning of its existence here.

Sure enough, very soon, it received Jackal's command.

"Meow…"

Stan stood up, shook its fur, and then jumped into the air. After a burst of bursting light, the originally quite cute little cat instantly transformed into a huge cat-shaped Honkai beast.

Stan remembered the pain when it was pierced by vines by the river. Its two pink-purple eyes stared intently at the girl covered in vines, and its huge claws, comparable to the size of an adult human, pounced on the girl wrapped in vines.

"Last time you caught me by surprise; this time it's my turn!"

At this time, "Yuno" was surrounded by several Honkai beasts, and was almost defenseless against the cat-type Honkai beast that suddenly attacked from above!