"Whoa! Nero, how did you do that?!"
Watching Nero flying beside them on a chainsaw, March's eyes were practically sparkling.
The little Stellaron baby was also extremely excited, staring at the chainsaw under Nero's feet and starting to imagine what it would be like to fly while standing on a baseball bat.
As for Seele and Bronya, the shock was written all over their faces as well. As natives of Jarilo-VI, when had they ever seen a scene like this?
Aside from Nero himself, the calmest person present was the well-informed Teacher Dan Heng.
On the Xianzhou, people capable of sword flight were not exactly rare, but someone who could do it this easily was indeed hard to find.
If he were to use that power, doing something like this wouldn't be difficult either.
"It's very simple, just use the wind to hold yourself up," Nero said in a matter-of-fact tone. In truth, he couldn't really explain how he did it either. He just naturally knew how, the same way that after receiving a skill from the system, he could naturally use it proficiently, as easily as moving his own arm.
And because he had experience with sword flight before, his control over direction and speed had improved quite a bit this time.
Although the last time he flew on a sword it ended in a sword disaster, failure is the mother of success. One time to learn, two times to get familiar… now Nero could already grasp sword flight techniques fairly well.
"You just do this and this, then that and that, and you can fly," Nero said to March.
"Huh? What?" March blinked blankly.
"Aiya, just like this and this, then that and that!" As he spoke, Nero demonstrated various poses on the chainsaw.
For things he couldn't explain clearly, Nero hoped to rely on body language to get the point across.
However, the result was not ideal, because the people on the mine cart were even more confused.
"What, what exactly is 'this and that'?" The Stellaron baby, who wanted to try bat flight, was getting anxious.
"Hmm…"
Nero started thinking, but still didn't know how to explain it, so he said, "How about this, you two come up here. Maybe once you experience it in person, you'll understand."
"Huh?" March froze for a moment.
"I'll go first, I'll go first!" Stelle shouted, reaching out her hand.
Nero grabbed Stelle's hand. The two of them pulled together, one pulling and one jumping, and immediately dragged Stelle up onto the chainsaw.
"Whoa!"
Although Stelle still didn't know how to fly on a bat, feeling the speed of flight and the wind brushing past her face felt amazing.
Seeing Stelle already up there, March also reached out to Nero. Repeating the same motion, March successfully stood on the chainsaw as well.
Luckily, this chainsaw removed from Gearwolf was long enough, standing three people on it was no problem.
After realizing that she couldn't learn this flashy-looking technique, Seele shifted her attention elsewhere.
She observed the tunnel and looked ahead, discovering that the mine cart tracks were about to end.
"We're here. At the bottom of the inner mining area, we need to go left!"
"Got it. I'll help slow the mine cart down," Nero nodded, then said to March and Stelle, "Stand steady. If you can't, grab onto me."
The next moment, Nero suddenly accelerated, shooting forward on the chainsaw at an even faster speed.
Stelle and March both wobbled slightly from the sudden acceleration, but quickly steadied themselves. However, in the very next moment, they had no choice but to grab Nero's shoulders.
Stelle grabbed Nero, and March grabbed Stelle…
After overtaking the mine cart, Nero quickly reached the end of the tracks. Then, using sword flight to move sideways, he made a huge drifting turn at the end of the rails.
That move almost flung both Stelle and March off.
At the same time as the drift, a powerful gust of wind surged forward, blowing toward the speeding mine cart.
Under the effect of this wind, the mine cart's speed really did slow down.
Then the entire cart came to a steady stop at the end of the tracks.
Nero glanced in the direction Seele had pointed out earlier. From here, he could see the grand, spectacular geomarrow vein, as well as the situation below in the mining area.
There were a total of three figures standing there.
Two were robots, and one was a human girl.
One of the two robots was the same model as the Grizzly that Nero had previously defeated with a single strike. The other was even taller, with a majestic build and a more human-like appearance, it was even wearing pants and leather shoes, with a dark brown leather military coat draped over its upper body.
"Target spotted! Let's go!"
Nero turned direction on the chainsaw and flew straight out.
Seeing that these three troublemakers had charged out directly, Dan Heng had no choice but to hurry after them.
He quickly estimated the height and distance, then summoned his long spear, Cloud-Piercer, and threw it out with one thrust.
The next moment, Dan Heng leaped up and landed on Cloud-Piercer.
Although he didn't use that power, he achieved spear flight in another way.
And because the force of his throw was strong enough, under the brief burst of speed, Dan Heng even caught up to Nero flying on the sword.
In the end, only the two local natives of Jarilo-VI were left on the mine cart, staring at each other.
"Let's go too!"
Seele called out, then without another word grabbed Bronya's hand and jumped out.
In that instant, Seele's figure became unstable, as if she were a phantom rising into the real world, ready to collapse into another world at any moment.
At the same time, in this state, Seele burst out with incredible speed, leaving behind a series of afterimages. Every step she took while running looked as if it were stirring ripples across the surface of the sea.
Before Bronya could even react, she was already being carried away at a run, considering that dragging her would slow them down and might injure Bronya, Seele chose a rather straightforward method.
At the same time, below in the mining area.
In front of the massive geomarrow vein.
Grizzly stood farther back on guard, while the imposing robot and the human girl stood one step closer to the front.
The human girl had the same white long hair as Nero, but she was barefoot, wearing a red woolen coat, its style similar to the coat worn by the imposing robot beside her.
The human girl's name was Clara, and the nearly five-meter-tall giant robot beside her was the big shot known to the people of the Underworld as Svarog.
Clara's expression was timid. She raised her head and looked at the geomarrow vein in front of her.
The girl's voice was clear and gentle, like goose feathers drifting down with heavy snow, "This vein… everyone is fighting over it…"
Clara turned around and looked up at Svarog.
"Mr. Svarog, look, such a huge vein. Clara has never seen so much geomarrow…"