HI3: I Don't Want to Be a Valkyrie

"Relax, Seele-sis is way too gentle to kill us."

"That's a relief!" Rozaliya breathed a sigh of ease.

"She might just eat us in one gulp though," Liliya added mischievously.

"W-what? Seele-sis eats people?" Rozaliya was genuinely startled.

"Just kidding, silly!"

"You little rascal!"

"Alright, let's focus—time to hunt down that formidable enemy!" Liliya hastily changed the subject.

-

As Rozaliya and Liliya ventured deeper, they encountered numerous skeletons and ghosts.

Upon seeing these spirits, Rozaliya and Liliya quickly strapped their Oaths of Judah to their backs.

The undead creatures, upon noticing the Oaths on the girls' backs, hastily retreated.

Those who couldn't escape in time instantly disintegrated under the holy light of the Oaths.

-

As they delved deeper, more deranged monsters began crawling into existence.

Yet as Rosaliya and Lilaya, both bearing the Oath of Judah, passed by, they terrified the zombies back into their holes.

It seemed like the Oath of Judah was a true wildcard... capable of exorcising even ghosts.

-

"Wow, what an enormous zombie dragon!"

Rozaliya and Liliya rushed to the enemy's target location, arriving in less than ten minutes.

Before them stood a colossal hundred-meter-long zombie black dragon, its presence filled with a palpable and overwhelming aura of decay.

However... the Twins' resistance rendered it all but ineffective.

"It's almost on par with the Emperor Class Honkai Beast, isn't it, Rozaliya?" Liliya observed, her demeanor turning more serious at the sight of the monstrous dragon.

"It doesn't matter. Even if it were Emperor Class... Rozaliya and Liliya together are the most powerful." Unfazed, Rozaliya maintained her trademark vibrant smile.

Liliya remained silent, her expression unreadable.

Just then, the recumbent black zombie dragon awoke, immediately noticing the two tiny specks nearby as it stirred.

With an ear-splitting roar, the dragon rose, its size dwarfing even Bella's.

"Let's go, Liliya!" Rozaliya shouted, hurling her Oath of Judah at the dragon while charging forward with Sleeping Beauty in hand.

"Understood," Liliya echoed, launching her own Oath of Judah.

Both Oaths spread wide, but... they failed to entrap the dragon, which effortlessly shrugged off the four-star Oaths' constraints.

Even the light spears fired from Judah seemed to cause minimal damage.

Eyeing the two diminutive figures charging towards it, the zombie dragon unleashed a blast of corrosive deathly breath.

Rozaliya and Liliya nimbly leaped aside, their agility on stunning display.

-

While the zombie dragon was still breathing fire, Liliya and Rozaliya had leaped behind it.

The two of them swung their great swords at its... toes... It was impossible; this zombie dragon was too big.

"Hurricane Whirl!"

The coordinated attack, executed like a dance, didn't do much harm to the zombie dragon. So Rozaliya decisively began spinning around.

Meanwhile, Liliya gathered power for a leap, landing directly above the zombie dragon.

"Lifting Snatch: Liliya won't disappoint her idiot sister! Instantaneous Thrust."

From her perch in the sky, Liliya plummeted towards the zombie dragon's nose.

The force of the Instantaneous Thrust collapsed the dragon's nose instantly, interrupting its breath and making the creature distinctly uncomfortable. Just as it was about to grab at Liliya on its nose, she had already jumped onto its back.

Down below, Rozaliya's spinning attacks grew increasingly effective with time, nearly severing the zombie dragon's two legs.

But...

"Rozaliya's head is spinning so much!"

Rozaliya had spun herself dizzy...

At that moment, Liliya appeared beside her, grabbed her, and flung her onto the zombie's back. Borrowing Liliya's momentum, Rozaliya drove her sword deep into the zombie dragon's spine.

-

As Liliya tossed Rozaliya onto the zombie dragon's back, its hind claw suddenly lunged for Liliya.

She swiftly shifted into a defensive stance, absorbing the zombie dragon's force before countering with a swift strike.

It's regenerated... This complicates things!

In that moment, Liliya watched in disbelief as the zombie dragon's nearly severed claw... fully restored itself.

Super Headbutt!

With Liliya at a loss for what to do next, Rozaliya dashed to the zombie dragon's head. She leaped, striking the dragon's skull with all her might and catching the beast flat on its back—with a defense even higher than that of the black dragon.

Indeed... even a zombie dragon's head couldn't withstand the might of Rozaliya's head-butt.

-

Not good!

As Rozaliya descended upon the zombie dragon's head, ready to deliver the final blow, the creature suddenly opened its mouth and lunged at her.

"I'll protect you, Rozaliya!"

Support Strike

With Rozaliya about to be gobbled up, Liliya materialized at her side. Tailed by her great sword, she executed a mid-air flip and slammed into the dragon's snout, forcing its jaws shut.

"Liliya..."

As Liliya approached, Rozaliya felt her strength surge once more.

Meeting each other's gaze, the two leapt into the air simultaneously, raising their great swords...

"Vodka Energy... Release!"

This ultimate attack, more powerful than the last, cleaved the hundred-meter-long zombie dragon in two, slicing it cleanly from head to tail.

-

"This time, Roza's performance was truly...perfect!"

"What dire foe at level 60? It just had thicker skin, but we still handled it with ease." Roza struck a pose, exuding an aura of boundless energy.

"Idiot Roza, the mission isn't completed yet..." Liliya observed the two halves of the undead dragon's corpse before them and replied sternly.

"What...?" Roza glanced at the quest and realized it indeed wasn't complete; the countdown was still ongoing, leaving them with only an hour remaining.

"But I thought it was already dead..." As Roza uttered these words, the previously bisected undead dragon unexpectedly reassembled itself, appearing significantly stronger than before.

"I should've known it wouldn't be that simple..."

Strong Foe: Undying Zombie Dragon (Level 70)

"As its name suggests, it can resurrect itself," Liliya explained expressionlessly, observing the now more powerful zombie dragon. "After dying once, its strength increases by 10 levels, making it level 70 now."

"How are we supposed to defeat it if it gets stronger the more we kill it? And time's running out! What kind of monstrous creature is this?"

"Let's continue..." After a moment's thought, Liliya watched the zombie dragon charging again and responded by leaping into the air, gathering energy.

"..." Resigned, Rozaliya followed suit and charged forward...

Half an hour later, the two of them, working in perfect harmony, managed to slay the zombie dragon once again.

However... as they gazed upon the dragon's resurgence,

the sheer force of its presence now overwhelmed both Rozaliya and Liliya, who were completely spent.

Overpowered Foe: Undying Zombie Dragon (Level 90)

Each death still incremented its level by 10, and this time it had doubled.

"Rozaliya..." Liliya suddenly turned to her.

"Yes, I understand!" Rozaliya took a deep breath, her eyes fixed on the zombie dragon, which was nearly fully recovered. The countdown stood at less than twenty minutes.

"Go with peace, Rozaliya! I'll bring you back."

With that, Liliya spun on her heel and darted away, not sparing a single moment for hesitation. In less than a minute, she had already put several kilometers between them.

"..." Watching Liliya's actions left Rozaliya speechless, a hint of discontentment creeping into her thoughts.

Though she knew Liliya's decision was the right one - if both of them perished, nothing would be accomplished; should just one die, the other could revive them - Rozaliya still couldn't shake off the feeling that something wasn't quite right.

Fine! she thought. Let's see if this works.

Rozaliya banished Sleeping Beauty from her mind and turned to face the colossal beast before her, now fully recovered and nearly three hundred meters in length.

This damn thing is a cheat-level dragon, she thought, shaking her head.

-

"Everyone has someone they want to protect. Rozaliya had many— mother Cocolia, Sister Bronya, and so on—but... the person she wanted to protect the most was her little sister, Liliya.

"So... for Liliya, Rozaliya would gladly give up her life!"

"Next, I will unleash a 6P attack at the cost of my life."

Rozaliya drew her greatsword... the most powerful divine keys, capable of divine destruction... The Cleaver of Shamash!

In the manga, Siegfried used Shamash unsheathed and didn't die immediately; he even had enough energy to speak. This was because his body contained both the Kaslana family's gene and another type of Honkai gene.

For others... or rather, the vast majority of people, they'd probably be dead even before drawing it.

Moreover, Shamash naturally leaks Honkai energy when used, injuring its wielder, let alone causing widespread fire damage.

Furthermore, Shamash, which can cleave through even the void itself, could only burn down one city of Babylon in the manga—it hadn't even approached its peak power.

Even against Sirin, if hit directly...

"One strike, one Herrscher" is no exaggeration.

Before her eyes, the perfectly revived zombie dragon came into view.

Rozaliya gripped the Cleaver of Shamash tightly and took a deep breath. Death was not an experience she relished.

Rosalia aligned the Herrscher cores embedded in the safety lock.

The restriction has been lifted...

As the Herrscher Core connected, the blade formed directly from the completed Herrscher Core itself...

A flaming greatsword materialized in Rozaliya's grasp.

Feeling the power radiating from the Cleaver of Shamash, even without use—merely holding it—Rozaliya sensed her Emperor-level body was on the verge of collapsing.

"Shamash Unleashed!!"

Gazing at the zombie dragon before her, Rozaliya channeled every ounce of her strength to strike it.

In an instant...

An intensely destructive inferno swept across everything. Rozaliya's body disintegrated instantly, while the zombie dragon ahead... couldn't withstand the flames for more than a few seconds, reduced to ashes in the blink of an eye.

(TL Note: Story end…roll credits)

The entire graveyard for the dead, larger than a modern metropolis beyond comprehension—and even areas several kilometers beyond it—were laid waste in an instant...

And yet... this was not Shamash's most powerful attack...