"Direct hit, Bravo-02, well done." In the lobby on the first floor of the command tower, the three members of the Bravo team had already deployed an ambush array, and hit Babel Blade with the under-hook grenade the moment she opened the door. The explosion caused by the armor-piercing grenade spread smoke and dust all over half of the lobby, and Babel Blade was silent in an instant. "Bravo-03, you will be the vanguard and go confirm the kill." Bravo-01 held the gun calmly. Although that armor-piercing grenade could basically shatter any factor shield, he was not naive enough to think that the enemy, the top combat force of the Academi Federation, [Blade of Babel], would be solved so easily. "Bravo-02, continue to provide cover." "Got it." "Understood." Bravo-03 walked slowly towards the smoke, rifle in hand. The hall was silent, the only sounds coming from his footsteps and the occasional explosion outside the command tower. They should have joined the defense formation directly to help the soldiers at the door resist the Blade of Babel Tower, but after feeling the huge gap in strength, Bravo-01 finally made the decision to ambush. So, they had to endure the pain in their hearts and let the soldiers outside the tower be killed one by one. But all this is worth it. As long as the command tower has not fallen and as long as General Aleph is still alive, there is still hope for this war. Just as Bravo-03 was thinking this, 02's roar came from behind him:
"03!! On your side!!" Bravo-03 turned around suddenly, but it was too late. A slender figure tore through the smoke and leaped towards Bravo-03. 03 immediately pulled the trigger of the grenade under the gun, but just before the grenade was about to be launched, Perlis's fully charged factor energy butterfly knife cut into 03's gun barrel. "boom!!!!!!" The grenade detonation caused by the factor burst out in the gun barrel, directly blowing Bravo-03 to pieces. Perlis used the factor shield to block the explosion at almost zero distance, and remained intact. "How can it be--" Bravo-02 was frightened by this crazy fighting style. By the time he reacted, Perlis had teleported in front of him with a flash of red light, and the butterfly knife spinning on her fingertips cut towards his neck. "Ahem..." Bravo-02 fell to the ground, holding his neck, and unstoppable blood gushed out of the wound. Perlis slowly turned to Bravo-01, who was aiming his gun at her with an extremely serious look. From Bravo-01's perspective, two battle-hardened elite teammates were almost instantly annihilated by the white-haired girl, and he didn't even have the chance to react and provide support. This was something he had never seen before. The overwhelming power of the Blade of Babel. "I know who you are... You are [Pure White Fireworks]..." Bravo-01 took a deep breath and stared at Perlis who was slowly approaching him. The white-haired girl didn't seem to want to talk. Her pretty face was blank, as if all these actions were just to complete the homework assigned by the teacher. Bravo-01 was somewhat dissatisfied with Perlis' silence. After all, silence was the greatest contempt. "Hey...you guy, can you speak? Did the Federation cut off your tongue?" "I can speak..." Perlis spoke softly, with a thin layer of mist covering her blood-red eyes, "But..." "But what?" "I don't talk to the dead." Red light burst out, and Perlis leaped towards Bravo-01, who at the same time pressed the button of the grenade launcher. A grenade was ejected with flames, heading straight for the girl's face. In an instant, time seemed to slow down. Perlis' blood-red eyes silently watched the grenade flying towards her in a straight line. She adjusted her posture, lowered her slender body very low, and then slipped under the grenade.
In Bravo-01's eyes, the girl just flashed slightly and dodged the grenade. He didn't have time to wonder how Perlis dodged the grenade that was fired at a speed of 80 meters per second. He only saw a white shadow and the blade that was shining red. Is it over?...Bravo-01 closed his eyes silently, letting the god of death take his life. "clang--" The imagined death did not come as expected, but was replaced by a loud metal collision sound. Bravo-01 was blown back a few steps by a powerful shock wave and fell to the ground. When he opened his eyes, he saw the figure standing in front of him: [Rock] The tall figure of Aleph Stro was standing in front of him, holding a double-headed gun in his hand, and the silver tip of the gun was covered with a faint layer of blue factor energy. In front of Aleph, Perlis was slowly getting up from the ground and getting ready. What surprised Bravo-01 was that for the first time he saw a little wariness in the girl's red eyes that ignored everything. "Go to the top of the tower and support the command room." There was no room for doubt in Aleph's voice, and Bravo-01 nodded almost immediately, and ran towards the elevator at the back of the hall. Perlis wanted to stop him, but was suppressed by Aleph's aura. The golden pupils inlaid on his dark face seemed to have insight into everything, perfectly capturing Perlis' every move. "Perlis Hafgard..." Aleph's strong arms slowly turned the energy double-headed gun, and the tip of the energy gun made a dangerous roar in the air. "I've been waiting for you for a long time." ...... 1) Battle to Recapture Charon (Part 3) "Report, the Iron Curtain on the south side has fallen, and the city defense offensive has retreated to within the second ring." The flames of war turned the three iron curtains that had resisted for a full 48 hours into a pile of broken slag. The adjutant stared at the huge war machinery advancing towards the main road of the Charon Special Zone, his hands shaking. It seems that Academi won this battle in the end. "How long can we hold out?" the adjutant asked casually. He tried hard to be as strong as General Aleph, but he couldn't stop the trembling in his voice. "At most three hours, and this depends on our soldiers' continuous sacrifice." "Damn it." The adjutant slumped down in a chair. The floor-to-ceiling window in front of him reflected the scene of the war. All this absurdity suddenly made him feel exhausted. According to General Aleph's idea, they must resist until Akademi has to use the power of the Tower of Babel again to end the war, so as to remind all the people in the world who are intoxicated with false peace of a fact that they choose to forget: they are always sleeping under the range of the Tower of Babel. But now it seems that all this is unlikely. Academi's army has already broken through the Iron Curtain, and it is only a matter of time before they capture the command tower. "Where's Thebit's backup?" "No news, sir." The adjutant sighed and fell silent. The sound of fighting outside the window was getting louder and louder. As the battle line continued to retreat, the balance of victory seemed to have completely tipped over to the Academi side. The adjutant saw a multitude of instruments and maps, but they basically did not interest him. When the overwhelming force appeared, any desperate struggle seemed meaningless. After all, he was not Aleph Stro, and not everyone could return from hell like that man, and then turn the broken ideals picked up from the flames of hell into reality. The man with black skin and golden eyes was the most powerful person the adjutant had ever seen, but even if that man was as hard as a rock, the waves that an individual could stir up were like an egg hitting a stone in front of the destructive power of the Academi Federation, purely useless. Just as the adjutant was sinking into emptiness and despair, suddenly, the battlefield monitor hurriedly ran to his side:
"Report! The dynamics of the factor cloud on the Admir continent have shown abnormal levels." The adjutant stood up suddenly as if he had been given an injection of chicken blood and looked at the monitor: "show me." The monitoring team handed over a briefing board showing the weather map of the factor clouds in the Ademir continent. Under normal circumstances, the factor clouds should be evenly distributed in the sky, but at this moment, the number of factor clouds gathered around the Academi Federation suddenly began to decrease sharply. "Could it be..." The adjutant turned to look at the inspector who had a worried look on his face and sighed with relief. "Yes, it's the Tower of Babel that's charging." ...... "Have you been waiting for me for a long time?" Perlis looked at the tall man in front of her, her pretty face slightly frowned. "you know me?" "of course." Aleph smiled slightly, and his deep voice could be clearly heard in every corner of the hall even if it was not very loud. There was no ripple on his face, and the huge double-headed gun was easily turned by his strong right hand, as if it was just a thin bamboo pole. "How is it? Do you want to have a good chat with your uncle?" Uncle...Uncle? Chat? Perlis curled her lips helplessly. Needless to say, this was probably just an old tactic used by Aleph to delay time. After all, the longer the victory of the Academi Federation comes, the closer this traitor will be to his goal. Thinking of this, Perlis leaned down slightly, and the factor bracelet on her left hand spun at high speed: "No." With a flash of red light, Perlis used the potential energy of the factor to leap out, and the butterfly knife in her hand spun and slashed towards Aleph - "clang!!" Aleph locked onto Perlis's attack almost instantly, and then used the handle of his double-headed gun to accurately catch Perlis's knife tip. The two of them were in a stalemate, and Aleph's huge strength made Perlis feel a little tired. It was the first time she looked at this traitor of the Academi Federation so closely: his dark skin was covered with some kind of primitive beauty. The golden pupils in his eyes were staring at Perlis, and a kind of peace from the heart was enveloping him. That is the indifference that comes from being on the battlefield for a long time. Aleph looked at the girl in front of him and laughed softly: "You are just like him, with a bad temper, aren't you?" Aleph's voice was still deep and strong, but this time it was obviously tinged with sarcasm. "Edward's little white flower?" Hearing her father's name, Perlis' pupils suddenly dilated. She suddenly slashed to the side of Aleph with a deflection, threw the butterfly knife into the air, held it in reverse, and swung it three times with all her might: "Dang——dang——dang——"
Aleph spun the double-headed gun in his hand, and the tip of the blade covered by the energy of the factor spun to accurately catch each of Perlis's cuts. Then, taking advantage of the slight delay caused by Perlis being bounced away, he punched her: "boom--" A high-speed and powerful punch hit Perlis's stomach, and the collision between the heavy punch and the factor shield created a spark. "Well..." Perlis covered her stomach and stumbled back a few steps in embarrassment. If it weren't for the factor shield covering her body that took the blow, Perlis would have been dead or injured. "What's wrong? Edward likes you very much." Aleph slowly turned the double-headed gun and looked at Perlis who was slowly recovering her stance. "Don't you want to talk to me about your father?" "Shut up..." Perlis said, leaning down. Edward's name ignited the anger in her heart like some kind of taboo. She leaped forward, the butterfly knife in her hand spinning at high speed to absorb the factor energy in the air - “Ding-ding-ding…” Inside the hall, the sound of metal colliding continued to burst out in the air, and flashes of fire burst out from the collision of swords. Aleph simply waved the double-headed gun in his hand very steadily and easily blocked every attack of Perlis. Perlis's attack began to lose some strength. The battle with the defense array and the ambush by the Bravo team had already consumed a lot of her energy. The Aleph in front of her was even more powerful than she had imagined. If this continued... "Hmm?" Aleph's golden eyes accurately caught the girl's momentary weakness. After blocking Perlis, the tip of the double-headed gun turned slightly, and then was fiercely inserted into the ground by his huge force. "Eh?" The ground between Perlis and Aleph was shattered by the insertion of the spear tip, and the entire spear tip was buried in the floor. The next second, Aleph kicked the spear hard, and the spear tip inserted into the ground cracked the ground and slashed towards Perlis from bottom to top. "Squeak..." The spear tip kicked out by Aleph hit Perlis's abdomen fiercely. The spear tip with strong factor energy shattered Perlis's factor shield with terrifying force almost instantly, throwing her backwards and falling against the wall in a mess. "Uh ah..ha..." Perlis groaned and rubbed her stomach, then climbed up with all her strength. The force of the spear tip kicked by Aleph was so great that Perlis still received a considerable impact even though her factor shield was shattered, but fortunately she did not suffer direct damage, otherwise she would probably be just a corpse now. "So, let's have a good chat, Little White Flower," Aleph continued to slowly rotate the double-headed gun in his hand and slowly approached Perlis, "Or are you willing to die as a dog of the Federation?" "...I have nothing to talk about with traitors," Perlis tried to get into position, the butterfly knife in her right hand stopped spinning and was held tightly in her hand, "If I kill you, this war will end." "Really... Do you think so..." Aleph chuckled softly, then shook his head slowly, "Your daughter doesn't seem as smart as you... Edward..." "Don't mention it again..." "Stop talking about your father? Have you never thought about how the famous [Red Shadow] Edward von Valantia died?" Aleph's voice suddenly became hysterical, which frightened Perlis. He had completely lost his previous calm demeanor, as if it was just a mask. "Do you think that Edward, a member of the Blade of Babel, could really be killed by some sissy noble from Wilkin? Bullshit." "It was Ivar Sekpas who killed your father." The air was filled with a brief silence, like a heavy hammer hitting her heart, and Perlis was a little dazed. "This is impossible..." Perlis murmured, her vision suddenly becoming blurry. The hand that stretched out from the icy rain, spanning eight years, hung in front of her eyes.
"You're lying to me..." "Oh, what? Being a dog of the Federation with your father's murderer is not so righteous?" The double-headed gun in Aleph's hand was spinning faster and faster, and the outline of the gun tip drew a blue halo. "【Scavenger】Ivar Sekepas, the third seat of the Blade of Babel... I'm sure it must have been a pleasure to spend so many years with him?" "Liar...you're trying to stall for time!" Perlis roared, her red eyes filled with murderous light again. She swung it slightly, and the factor bracelet began to spin at high speed, but it was not to charge the factor shield, but to slowly pour energy into the burst module.
