"Times have changed, Sir."
As Bronya's voice fell, the dual clustered beams fired with a boom!
The torrent of light roared, engulfing Fuli and the Tracer Phantom attacking from different directions!
Bronya, however, did not relax her vigilance. The eerie smile revealed by the phantom the instant before it was hit made her realize the opponent had other schemes.
"Project Bunny!" she shouted in a low voice.
A cold light slashed down at the girl's head, but was blocked by Project Bunny who rushed in front of her just in time.
Escape Dagger, teleport radius of ten meters, cooldown time of one minute.
The phantom used this move to dodge the bombardment and flash right in front of Bronya!
Project Bunny's mode switching takes time, depending on how complex the switched module is.
This slash was too fast. In her haste, Bronya didn't have time to switch to the corresponding defensive mode and could only order the main body of Project Bunny to go around the front to block.
Fortunately, it made it in time.
"So this is the real body?"
Locking her gaze firmly on the crystal-blue Fuli holding the dagger, the girl murmured to herself, feeling relieved.
"Guessed wrong, babe!"
A voice that should have been blasted to smithereens rang in Bronya's ear. Another Fuli, covered in smoke, appeared behind her completely unguarded back!
Right in the window period where Project Bunny was blocking the phantom's attack!
In many martial arts novels, before throwing a hidden weapon, one shouts "Watch out for the hidden weapon." This is not entirely out of Jianghu (Martial art World) honor, but also because some hidden weapons inflict little damage. If the technique is too covert, even if it hits the opponent, they might not feel pain due to adrenaline secretion, rendering it ineffective.
On the contrary, shouting openly is more likely to cause the opponent to reveal a flaw, creating favorable conditions for the subsequent attack.
Fuli was the same.
Neither he nor the Tracer Phantom were essentially anything but bait.
No matter how many targets there were, even if he used his trump card *Peerless Nine Turns* to split into nine paths (Fuli is ambidextrous), Bronya at this distance would not miss.
Because a multi-directional siege was already within the scenarios preset by the girl's precise calculations.
To defeat her, one must use some special means beyond her thinking mode.
So Fuli gave the Escape Dagger to the phantom, letting it teleport to dodge the bombardment and rush in front of Bronya.
He himself relied on the defensive shield of the Silver Haze Flower Seed to tank the attack, and while the girl's attention was diverted by the phantom, he quickly went around the back.
That's right, a mere phantom couldn't pose even the slightest threat to Project Bunny.
But after the series of combinations that happened in a short time just now, Bronya would instinctively think that the phantom charging in front of her was Fuli himself, and order Project Bunny to stand ready without thinking.
Thus, the girl's rear was wide open!
"!!!"
Fuli's sudden appearance undoubtedly stimulated Bronya.
Her pupils shrank slightly, but there wasn't much nervousness.
The girl's confidence came from the eight Star Stone shields quietly activated. With them, she could completely let Fuli hack with full force for ten seconds or so, and then, amidst his shocked and annoyed gaze, readjust Project Bunny to blast him until not even elementary particles remained.
Being inherently invincible is just like that. If you have the ability, go find a charming Anti-Entropy Enforcer old godmother too.
Regrettably, Fuli knew Bronya very well, perhaps even better than she knew herself right now.
"You said times have changed just now, right?"
He raised his long sword and slashed down.
Under the equally confident gazes of both, Mikazuki, bearing slight chips, struck the tangible force field shield. Amidst the gaze of one of them turning into horror, it 'penetrated' the invincible defense that even Silver Bullets would find hard to breach, like water blending with milk.
Fuli turned his wrist, and the back of the blade tapped lightly on the back of Bronya's neck.
The girl's vision went black. She staggered and persisted for a while, but eventually fell into a reasonably comfortable embrace.
The owner of the embrace brushed away the silver-gray bangs covering her smooth forehead, looked at that small face as lovely as an angel in slumber, and chuckled, "It's you who can't keep up with the version, little sister!"
When returning to the Nagazora urban area this morning, Kiana asked Fuli how he knocked out Susannah without triggering the Silver Haze Flower Seed.
The Silver Haze Flower Seed is a fairly advanced auto-sensing type; otherwise, Susannah's jeweler father wouldn't have bought it for his precious daughter as a self-defense item.
Fuli told her at the time that it was called the 'Avada Kedavra Punch', which was obviously brushing her off.
The real name of this move is "Divine Departure" (Kamusari), the only A-rank skill Fuli created himself in the previous playthrough.
During the battle with RIN, Fuli used many incomplete techniques similar to anti-giant beast combat methods.
These were all learned by observing others for free. Unfortunately, since they were not from the same system, he could only figure out twenty or thirty percent of them.
Engineering Cybernetics, written by the Shenzhou Five Divisions Nirvana Qian Lao (Tsien Hsue-shen), published by Sapphire Jiaotong University Press in 2007.
Setting aside which five divisions were so awesome to be equivalent to the great Qian Lao, this book describes a very interesting theory:
A complete set of B-rank industrial products, under reasonable and excellent configuration, can completely outperform A-rank industrial products in performance.
In that case, why not use this principle to integrate these chaotic and complex incomplete moves to create an ultimate skill unique to oneself?
Fuli in the previous playthrough thought so, and so he did.
And Divine Departure is the product based on this idea.
Divine Departure, A-rank active skill. Slashes at high speed wrapped in formless sword qi to attack the target. When attacking, the slash will penetrate any type and any rank of shield of the enemy to hit the main body directly.
A thousand moves and a hundred styles in one night, truly hearty and dripping with satisfaction!
Having said that, Divine Departure has the best effect only on the first strike. After the enemy reacts, the effect will be greatly discounted.
At the same time, it cannot deal with types with naturally amazing physical defense, such as RIN in her fox demon state, whose skin was so thick it couldn't be cut.
Even so, this sword technique is still recognized by the Honkai side as the strongest specification assassination art, and also the origin of the title "Divine Departure · Fuli".
Divine Departure, you don't depart (dodge), you are more awesome than God.
Bronya, who has Cocolia as a mother, felt she was more awesome than God, so she had her driver's license revoked by Fuli on the spot.
Laughable, wonder if she will cry and make a fuss after waking up.
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