Clasping her hands together, Shiro thought of a blueprint that she had not used in years as the last time she had used it was for her friends.

  The tears that she tried to hold back were threatening to leak out as nanobots converged towards her palms.

  Creating a crystal, Shiro grabbed it with her hand before shattering it.

  The spray of nanobots launched themselves towards isilia as armour started to form around her body.

  [Mechanized Blade Saint MK 5]

  Feeling the familiar armour around her body, Isilia smiled as she crouched down and two thrusters appeared behind her.

  *BOOM!!!

  Shattering the ground beneath her, her body reappeared next to the enemy Queen as several swords materials next to her.

  Grabbing them, she twisted her body as red runes lit up on the blade.

  *PUCHI!!!!

  Cutting into the queen’s body, Isilia didn’t say anything as the dials on the guard of the sword rotated clockwise.

  The blades that cut into the queen suddenly morphed into gun barrels as Isilia pulled the trigger.

  *BANG!!!!

  Firing a blast inside the queen, Isilia watched as her body was flung back.

  Flicking her wrist, the gun barrel disassembled into several daggers.

  Making a seal with her hand, the daggers flared up with a golden aura as Shiro appeared above her.

  With two rail cannons mounted on her shoulders, Shiro sent out several nanotech wires which wrapped around the enemy queen, locking her in place.

  Activating her guns, several tier 6 magic circles appeared around the gun barrel as mana surged towards the barrel.

  Firing two shots, Isilia threw the blades towards the blast radius.

  "Inatrim!" She commanded as a barrier was formed using the blades as anchor pieces.

  With the explosion concentrated into a small area, the queen was being cooked while resisting against the initial impact.

  Landing in front of the barrier, Shiro summoned Silvanis as blood red circuits appeared on the blade.

  Activating her Divine Raiment, Shiro chose nanobots as the base while black armour wrapped around her dress.

  Following up with her boundary, her eyes turned cold as she cleaved towards the faint shadow of the queen. Thanks to the effects of her sword when paired with Error, all of her defences were essentially nullified.

  *BANG!!!!!!!!!

  Slamming her sword into her, Shiro could see a faint red flame within the queen’s body that was made from what seemed to be coding. Recognising it to be the source code, Shiro flickered in front of her and dragged her sword upwards.

  Feeling danger, the enemy queen immediately took a step back but both Li Jian and Nan Tian were waiting behind her.

  Brandishing their weapons, they stopped her retreat as Li Jian’s Spear pinned her against the ground.

  But before Shiro’s blade could hit her source code, her body split open as several dragon heads thrashed out and attacked them.

  Dodging the dragon heads, Shiro clicked her tongue when she saw the queen in the sky with a bloodied dress. Her nonchalant expression had already disappeared as she glared at the group with anger.

  Gritting her teeth, she raised her hand as several tier 7 magic circles appeared in the air and she disappeared with the crystal shattering which meant that she had given up on this city.

  Before she left, they managed to catch a glimpse of her true title since she was rather injured.

  [Arnea – Chimera Empress LVL 650]

  Widening her eyes, Shiro didn’t realise that they were actually against an Empress and not just a queen. Since she was an Empress class being herself, she knew the difference between them. If she had been at full strength they would have died without question.

  Thankfully, they fought her when she was at her weakest.

  But the danger wasn’t over yet as several tier 7 magic circles hung above them as they had the same power as her when she was in her demi god state.

  Taking a deep breath, Shiro slammed her hand against the ground as hundreds of rail cannons started to appear around the city as they were each reinforced with celestial path.

  Activating them simultaneously, she launched a barrage against the tier 7 magic circle in the sky.

  However, to her surprise, only the outside was chipped slightly as the main part of the magic circle stayed intact.

  Furrowing her brows, Shiro fired a second barrage but nothing happened.

  "This isn’t good. We might have to evacuate the city instead. This isn’t something we can destroy right now." Isilia frowned as Shiro agreed.

  "Let me try one more time though. It’s powerful but it doesn’t have divine energy which means that Arnea hasn’t reached demi god status. Well…… she hasn’t started to become a demi god yet." Shiro narrowed her eyes as she wanted to give it one more try. Only this time with her divine energy rather than mana.

  Closing her eyes, she focused her mind as golden runes lit up in her mana realm.

  Aiming her hand towards the tier 7 magic circles in the sky, Shior snapped her eyes open as she activated Divine Enchantment on her Celestial Path.

  [Celestial Path -> Mana Nullification]

  With her celestial path being upgraded for a short while, Shiro immediately used her divine energy to enhance the spell rather than make a new original spell since making divine energy spells were much harder than normal spells.

  Enhancing her rail cannons, there were now golden runes materialising on the barrel as a divine aura erupted out of each gun.

  Looking around in surprise, Isilia didn’t realise how much Shiro had improved since the last time that they had met in the library when she was disguising herself as Arwen.

  *BANG BANG BANG!!!

  Watching the barrage of golden energy which broke off a large chunk of the magic circle every time it hit, Isilia smiled softly as she leaned on a lamppost and glanced towards Nan Tian while Shiro was dealing with the magic circles since there was nothing that they can do right now.

  "So…… what’s your relationship with Ny? Or should I say Shiro." Isilia chuckled since Ny was the nickname that she had given for Shiro when they were together in Aria.

  "I’m pursuing her." Nan Tian replied truthfully since it wasn’t really anything to hide.

  "Oh my. You’re rather…… Hmm…… should I call you masochistic with Shiro’s habits?" Isilia asked with a raised eyebrow and glanced towards Shiro.

  "Just because I’m focusing on the spell doesn’t mean I can’t hear you!" Shiro retorted but she had a smile on her face since it reminded her of the good times she had with Isilia back in Aria.

  "I know. But I’m asking anyways. Speaking of which, I do hope that he didn’t fall in love with you after you hit his arse. Otherwise it would be rather awkward considering the fact that you hate masochists." Isilia laughed.

  "If his ass was hit by me do you really think he’d still be around." Shiro clicked her tongue.

  "Point taken. So it seems like she’s rather lenient towards you considering the fact that she hasn’t pierced you yet. Congratulations." Isilia patted Nan Tian’s shoulder as he wasn’t too sure about how to take the compliment.

  "Right then, there’s no danger of the spell activating now and the cannons are taking care of the rest of the magic circles autonomously. Why don’t we have that talk now." Shiro said Isilia nodded her head.

  "First of all, Li Jian, how the hell do you know her? From what the system had said, I could have just asked you and you would have led me to her." Shiro frowned as Li Jian glanced towards Isilia.

  "Mn…… How about we talk when we’re in a private spot. It seems like there are quite a few people that are approaching our current location." Isilia smiled as Shiro nodded her head.

  She could recognise one of the mana signals to belong to the dark elf that she had sparred against previously and knew that it was the government trying to make sense of what had happened.

  As expected, not too long later, Shiro saw Grangel flickering at the scene with a surprised expression.

  "Fancy seeing you here." Shiro smirked as Grangel blinked his eyes.

  "It seems like you have resolved the problem. I thank you on behalf of the government." Grangel smiled as he did a polite bow.

  "Oh my, Shiro’s actually getting along with authoritative figures now. Good job." Isilia smiled as she hugged Shiro from behind and stroked her hair.

  Feeling her prestige go down the drain in an instant, Shiro’s smile twitched.

  "Mn anyways we haven’t dealt with the queen just yet since she escaped but the anchor in this spot has already disappeared. All you need to do now is help the people that were dragged in and repair some of the damages I suppose. I hope that the government will take the queens more seriously after this." Shiro said with a serious expression.

  Nodding his head, Grangel looked at the destruction caused.

  "Don’t worry, I’ll make sure the old geezers at the top takes the threat seriously." Gangel replied as Shiro nodded her head.

  Opening a rift, she dragged Nan Tian, Li Jian and Isilia away from the scene so that they could talk in private.