Chapter 211: EXTRA. GATES 4.
Yan Cijin smiles a completely breathtaking and confident smile. "Of course. But I am choosing the dinner place this time since you made me eat that weird spicy squid yesterday."
"Deal," Bai Li grins her eyes sparkling with absolute adoration. She leans in and gives Yan Cijin a quick firm kiss on the lips. "Let us go save the world so I can get back to holding your hand."
When they arrive at the coastal defense base the atmosphere is incredibly grim and chaotic. Hundreds of high ranking hunters are running around shouting orders and preparing weapons. Tanks and artillery are lined up along the beaches and helicopters are filling the sky. But the moment Bai Li and Yan Cijin step out of their transport vehicle the entire base falls completely silent. It is actually kind of crazy how much power they hold just by existing. The commanders immediately rush over trying to give them tactical readouts and strategy maps but Bai Li just waves them off without even looking at the papers.
"Do not bother with the complicated stuff," Bai Li says her voice carrying easily over the roar of the ocean and the military engines. She is standing tall and relaxed with one hand casually resting on her hip and the other gently holding Yan Cijin’s hand. "Keep your people back. My wife and I will handle the frontline. Just clean up whatever falls past us."
Before the commanders can even argue that a two person vanguard is literal suicide against a World Class Gate Bai Li and Yan Cijin are already moving. The battle that follows instantly becomes the stuff of absolute legends. The news helicopters manage to catch it all on camera and broadcast it live to the entire terrified world. The moment the massive Gate fully opens the sky literally tears apart. Entire mountain sized monsters drop from the portal. They are massive grotesque beasts made of shadowy scales and jagged bone armor. Some of them have wings that cause hurricanes when they flap and others have jaws large enough to swallow entire skyscrapers whole. The sheer roar of the monsters shakes the foundations of the city miles away.
But they do not even get a chance to reach the shoreline.
Yan Cijin steps forward first. Her elegant regal aura completely takes over. She raises both of her hands and her SS rank power explodes outward in a shockwave of brilliant emerald and gold light. The ocean surface litraly blooms. Massive ethereal vines thick as city blocks erupt from the water and wrap around the falling monsters like iron chains. Gigantic glowing lotus flowers blossom in mid air their petals sharp as razor blades slicing through the bone armor of the beasts with terrifying grace. She controls the battlefield like a masterful conductor leading a symphony of beautiful destruction. Every movement she makes is precise and devastating.
And then there is Bai Li.
While the world watches in absolute awe reality itself seems to bend around Bai Li’s mysterious abilities. Nobody watching still has any clue what she actually does. She does not shoot lasers or summon fire. She just moves and the world simply breaks apart to accomodate her. A dragon the size of a battleship dives directly at Yan Cijin but before it can even get close Bai Li just casually points a finger at it. Space itself seems to twist and shatter like broken glass and the massive monster just ceases to exist. It does not explode or bleed it just vanishes into absolute nothingness leaving a massive void in the air. Bai Li dances through the sky using unseen footholds her movements incredibly fast and completely entirely impossible to track.
Even Yan Cijin despite being her wife has never asked about the true nature of Bai Li’s power. She does not care if it is space manipulation or time magic or reality warping. She never asked because she trusts Bai Li completely. She knows that whatever power Bai Li holds she will only ever use it to protect the people she loves.
The two women fight with a perfect synchronization born not from years of military training but from years of deeply loving each other. Every single movement complements the other’s perfectly. When Yan Cijin binds a group of monsters with her glowing vines Bai Li is already there shattering them into dust. When Bai Li drops from the sky to avoid a massive energy blast Yan Cijin has a soft cushion of floral energy waiting to catch her. Every glance they share across the chaotic battlefield carries silent understanding. And during every single dangerous moment Bai Li always instinctively places herself directly between Yan Cijin and any potential harm. She acts like an impenetrable shield ensuring nothing even gets close to her wife.
The impossible World Class Gate that scientists predicted would take an entire army weeks to clear is completely annihilated in less than forty five minutes.
The vortex collapses in on itself with a deafening screech and the sky slowly returns to a peaceful blue. The ocean calms down and the massive corpses of the monsters sink beneath the waves or dissolve into magical energy. Silence falls over the coastal base for a long stunned moment before absolutely everyone erupts into insane deafening cheers. Humanity celebrates another impossible miracle. The news anchors are litraly crying on television praising the supreme power of the SSS ranked hero and her beautiful wife.
But down on the beach Bai Li could not possibly care less about the cheering crowds or the cameras or the fact that she just saved millions of lives. She is currently having a total internal crisis because Yan Cijin scraped her hand.
During the very last moments of the battle a tiny fragment of bone armor had chipped off a falling monster and managed to graze the back of Yan Cijin’s left hand before Bai Li could completely disintegrate it. It is a tiny scratch. It barely even qualifies as a papercut. There is a single drop of blood and nothing more. But Bai Li is staring at it like somebody just shot her wife in the chest.
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TO BE CONTINUED.
