BOOM!!!
A massive explosion echoed through the entire café. Roy's body was blasted straight out of the epicenter, smashed violently into the wall, and embedded there.
In the original Arknights storyline, Roy's strength suggested that he was stronger than a single Silverlance Pegasus, but he needed to team up with another Platinum Seat to fight two Silverlance Pegasi. And roughly speaking, three Silverlance Pegasi were about equal to one Imperial Guard.
Now then—Platinum's current strength could be benchmarked against two Imperial Guards.
So how big was the gap between Roy and the present-day Platinum?
At this moment, staring at Platinum as she expressionlessly walked toward him step by step, Roy was drenched in cold sweat.
"In these final moments, is there anything you'd like to say?"
Platinum asked calmly as she looked at the superior who had exploited her countless times in the past.
"H-heh… can we reconcile?"
"At a time like this, aren't you joking?"
BOOM!!!
The thunderous roar rang out once more inside the café. Roy was sent flying again, crashing straight through the wall and slamming heavily onto the street outside, where he promptly passed out.
The Shadow Troops that had been standing by immediately moved in, restraining the unconscious Roy and teleporting him directly to a Kazimierz prison via the Shadow Kingdom.
And just like that, with the Shadow Troops' reconnaissance support, the Armorless Union didn't even last half a day. Under Platinum's method of systematically picking them off one by one, the entire organization was wiped out.
All high-ranking members were thrown into prison to await reform through labor, and all assets under their names were confiscated in full.
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Several days later, Kazimierz—inside a luxurious mansion.
An Xora opened the system interface. He first glanced at the shop, only to find that the monthly discount section hadn't refreshed with anything worthwhile. He closed the shop page and clicked into the World Travel interface.
It wasn't that An Xora intended to head to the One Punch Man world or the DanMachi world.
Rather, after conquering both Ursus and Kazimierz in succession, combined with the steady stream of points earned over recent months from Makima and Seele hunting Curses in the Jujutsu world, An Xora's accumulated points had once again surpassed the five-hundred-thousand mark—filling the progress bar required to open a new world.
Of those points:
Mebius and Talulah ruling Ursus had earned him 100,000 pointsConquering Kazimierz had earned 50,000 pointsDefeating Twenty-Finger Sukuna and Gojo Satoru during the Shibuya Incident in the Jujutsu world had yielded roughly 100,000 pointsAdded to that were points gained from the Wendigo Legion and the incorporated army groups defeating enemies along the wayAs well as Makima's Curse-hunting forces and Seele in the Jujutsu world, who contributed an average of 2,000–3,000 points per day
Altogether, the total had just reached the 500,000-point threshold.
In other words, An Xora could once again use an opportunity to open a new world and see what new options were available.
Against the backdrop of an infinite void, the map interface showed that the number of available new-world openings in the top-right corner had changed from 0 to 1. Meanwhile, the previously filled progress bar had been emptied and replaced with a new bar labeled 1,000,000 points.
An Xora wasn't surprised by the increased requirement—this had long been expected.
Looking at the four illuminated world nodes on the interface, he raised his hand and clicked Open New World.
Immediately, new lights flared up on the map, indicating that three new worlds had appeared.
Clicking on the nodes, An Xora checked their information.
The three new worlds were:
JoJo's Bizarre AdventureKonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!Genshin Impact
Staring at the three new options before him, An Xora fell into thought.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure—a world with an enormous gap between power ceilings and floors. Most Stand users' combat power would be fairly limited from An Xora's current perspective. Even many final bosses wouldn't be particularly impressive. Still, it was a knowing, entertaining world—one he could visit just for fun.
KonoSuba—a medieval fantasy world similar to DanMachi, also featuring gods. The gods there managed many worlds. While their overt combat power wasn't especially high, the waters still ran deep. Another world that would probably be fine to visit for amusement.
As for Genshin Impact…
"Good grief. I've already got Arknights and Honkai Impact—if I add Star Rail, will I have completed the set in this lifetime?"
In his previous life, An Xora had been a true Genshin–Rail–Arknights–Honkai–Fire veteran—a player who embodied the so-called Five-Element Alignment of gacha fandom. It seemed that after transmigrating, he might actually have the chance to complete that achievement all over again.
Though he was tempted to visit a new world right away, An Xora genuinely couldn't leave the Arknights world at the moment.
Because according to intelligence reports, Theresis—who had been entrenched in Victoria's capital, Londinium—had suddenly gone mad for reasons unknown. After frantically looting massive amounts of wealth and supplies from Londinium, he led all Sarkaz forces away and fled back to Kazdel.
This meant that Victoria's capital was now virtually undefended.
What An Xora and Talulah now had to face were only the armies of the remaining Victorian dukes.
For Talulah—who now controlled both Ursus and Kazimierz—this was a golden opportunity. With An Xora's approval, she could mobilize the Wendigo Legion and the army groups, march straight to Londinium, and complete her coronation there.
As for the rear, with the Doctor holding the fort, there was no need to worry about problems in the short term.
And once Talulah completed her coronation in Victoria, it would mean that Ursus, Victoria, and Kazimierz would effectively merge into one.
Out of the three, two were already among the most powerful nations on Terra. Once combined, they would form a superpower so terrifying that it would make every nation on Terra collectively bristle and enter full defensive posture.
At that point—aside from Yan, which had colossal beasts beneath its feet, and Aegir, which was busy fighting the Seaborn in the depths of the ocean, plus a few other outliers—every other nation would amount to nothing more than small fry.
What kind of spectacular scene would that be?
An Xora was very interested in seeing it for himself.
Thus, just as the armies were beginning to settle down after conquering Kazimierz, they were mobilized once again. Two army groups and the Wendigo Legion headed straight for Victoria's border.
The forces stationed along Victoria's frontier clearly hadn't expected Talulah to be this insane.
She had only just conquered Kazimierz a few days ago—and now she was already marching on Victoria?!
Seriously—who wages war like this?!
By the time the Victorian dukes received the news, they didn't even have time to react. When they finally began mobilizing their troops, the Ursus army groups and Wendigo Legion had already torn through the border defenses and were charging straight toward Victoria's capital, Londinium.
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