Witch Punk 2840

Chapter 310 Rescue
Perhaps it was a coincidence, or perhaps it was telepathy, but when Feng looked up, he saw a flash of crimson light, and then two huge red balls of light appeared on the black jellyfish's body. A few seconds later, thunder was heard, mixed with painful screams.

Maple quickly reached out her hands and covered the triangular cat ears on her head to protect her overly sensitive hearing. Her sister's attack was successful, but she didn't know whether the "Silk Curtain" would really open as they expected, but she couldn't confirm the answer. On both sides of her vision, the moth beasts had caught up, and after staying for a moment, they were like a pair of pliers, clamping towards the girl who was surrounded in the middle.

Chanting "Continuous Flame Explosion", activating "Synchronous Strengthening", and rolling sideways downward at the same time - Maple completed three actions in an instant, dodging the enemy's attack and shooting down a moth beast. Unfortunately, this was of no substantive significance. There were too many enemies, and the fight only lasted a few seconds. "Synchronous Strengthening" played its first role, followed by the second, third... The pain from the attack became more and more obvious, which was a sign that the effect of the contract was about to reach its limit. After killing two moth beasts with "Continuous Flame Explosion" again, Maple's body suddenly leaned back and rushed towards the briefly exposed gap above.

If she's lucky, maybe she could break out of the encirclement with this one move... She suddenly increased the magic power output from her tail, and the ramjet thrusters that had already been operating to their limit let out a desperate roar, pushing her to climb.

Ten meters, five meters, three, two——

She succeeded, and managed to slip through before the enemy could fill the gap. The nearest moth beast swung its arm blade, but only hit the end of the thruster, making a dull "bang" sound, and failed to stop her climb.

Maple looked back at the dense swarm of moth beasts below and breathed a sigh of relief. Even though she knew she was doomed to die, she hoped that she could at least die a little later. Now that she had distanced herself from the moth beasts again, even if the enemy turned around immediately, it would take several minutes for them to catch up with her again and surround her.

This means that I can live a few more minutes, and maybe I can take this opportunity to talk to my sister a few more words...

boom! !

The explosion interrupted her thoughts, and at the same time, there was a sharp pain in her right leg. Maple lowered her head and found that the thruster on her right leg had disappeared. The originally smooth skin was covered with fine wounds and red burn marks. Not far below, the wreckage of the thruster was burning and falling. Maple suddenly realized that it was the attack she received before breaking out of the encirclement!

When "Synchronous Enhancement" was close to failure, the slash did damage the thruster and eventually caused it to explode during high-speed operation. The little effect of "Synchronous Enhancement" that was left was also consumed in this explosion.

What's even more fatal is that Maple remembered that he once heard an engineer say that since the design of the WS-1 thruster was not yet mature, the overall thrust-to-weight ratio of the Strike Witches was not high. Once one of the thrusters failed, she would fall like a stone due to the insufficient thrust-to-weight ratio.

Like now...

And dense swarms of moth beasts were swooping down from below.

In at most a dozen seconds, the two sides would meet, and by then, she would be torn into pieces in an instant.

That's it for now.

Maple closed his eyes, feeling the weightlessness of falling and waiting for death to come.

……

……

But suddenly, she heard a familiar whistle coming from far away, followed by an explosion. Maple opened her eyes in confusion and saw fireballs flying into the moth beasts and exploding continuously. Before she could react, her body suddenly stopped falling, and her knees and shoulders were supported by arms, and she was picked up.

Maple looked up in surprise and blurted out: "Sister - uh, captain?!"

Contrary to what she imagined, the person who caught her was Saniya.

"I'm so sorry, the person who saved you was not your sister." The girl with short white hair said with a smile.

"Huh?! No!" Feng denied hastily. "Why are you here, Captain?!"

"Of course I'm here to save you. Since I'm your captain, how can I watch you go to your death?"

"But I've become like this..." Maple shook her head. Black corrosion had occupied more than half of her body, and even half of her lovely face had turned into a cracked stone sculpture. Even if she wasn't killed by the moth beast, she wouldn't live long.

"It is because you have become like this that I want to send you out."

"Eh?"

"To find out what's going on with that strange jellyfish up there, you are important clues. How can I just leave you here and not care about you... Lord Xia Ye thinks so too."

"Huh? Has the contact with Lord Xia Ye been restored...ah, be careful below! They are catching up!" Although Saniya was in charging mode and the thrusters were at full power, she was still carrying one person with her. The group of moth beasts below were like a rising tide and soon caught up with her.

"Don't worry." Saniya said calmly. She pressed her fingers to her chest and chanted softly:

"Cts-tr-ph-Flm-"

Maple then noticed that above the mark left by Lord Xia Ye, there was another contract mark. As Saniya recited the witch's text, the mark disappeared. Then, behind Saniya, eight black flames suddenly bloomed!

They spread out like wings, each reaching hundreds of meters in length. In Maple's astonished eyes, countless witch flames fell from the eight wings, like crow feathers all over the sky, or like sudden raindrops. The moth beasts below suddenly turned into a sea of ​​fire, and hundreds, even thousands of moth beasts turned into ashes in an instant.

Saniya's flight posture also changed from climbing to level flight, and the dark rain of fire fell along the flight path, burning everything it touched. But in a moment, the seemingly endless moth beasts disappeared without a single one left, and in the sea of ​​clouds below, the rain of fire opened up a rectangular hole with a side length of several kilometers.

"This is the 'Flame of Disaster'. It is said that the city lord combined the 'City of Disaster' and the 'Flame of the Witch' to create a new contract. It can be regarded as a weakened version of the 'City of Disaster'." Saniya explained.

"Master Xiaye gave me one before the attack, just in case. I didn't expect it to be used... to disconnect your tail and thrusters."

"Eh? Okay..."

Maple pulled the tail out of the connection port of the thruster as instructed, and Saniya pried open the latch on the side of her thigh, took the thruster off the girl's leg, then let go and threw it out.

The weight in my arms suddenly became much lighter.

"The Silk Curtain has indeed opened a gap. I have authorized Olicia to serve as the acting captain and lead the fleet back home." Saniya said, "You need to catch up with them and leave here with them."

"Huh? But how can I..." Maple looked at his bare legs.

"use this."

Saniya reached her hand behind her waist, and when she took it back, there was a feather made of crimson lightning on her fingertips.

"This is Natsuya-sama's 'Thunder Feather' contract. It allows you to fly back, and at a much faster speed than a ramjet."

"Captain, you..."

"I'm going to save your sister."

After saying that, she didn't wait for Feng to answer, and directly pressed the feather on the other's lower back. The red arc of electricity spread out in all directions, and the electric current made the unsuspecting girl scream "Ah——". Saniya threw her out, and the two-meter-long lightning wings suddenly spread out, carrying Feng to the distance at an extremely fast speed.

Okay, one left.

While thinking, Saniya turned around and began to climb towards the upside-down jellyfish.

She clicked on the "Communication Debt" and reported: "Lord Xia Ye, Feng is on his way back. I need another 'Thunder Feather'."

A moment later, the reply came: "New feathers are being transmitted, it will take about two minutes."

Not long ago, Lord Xia Ye once again modified the contract agreement of the "communication debt". At the cost of giving up the function of multiple people communicating at the same time, he finally broke through the interference of the "Silk Curtain" and established a stable communication channel with her. The "Thunder Feather" was also transmitted through this channel.

However, a person can only hold one "Thunder Feather" at a time, and due to the limitation of transmission speed, it takes at least two minutes each time to complete the transmission of a feather.

The timing should be just right... Saniya thought to herself, if she spent two minutes to find Feng and used the new feather to send him out, as long as she was fast enough, she should be able to finish it before the gap closed.

(End of this chapter)