“You ambushed us, and that’s bad enough. But you nearly killed Aili, and you even had the audacity to impersonate Class Three. Don’t you know? The people from Class Three are the closest to me!”
As Yun Ruoxi spoke, her right hand, half-clenched, suddenly tightened into a fist, veins bulging on her forehead.
“You’re insulting the bond between us!”
“And besides… Even though we’re both among the top ten trainees, I’m ranked second only because I can’t get to Mo Yuan!”
Whoosh!
With the surge of powerful star energy, the intensity of her telekinesis shot up instantly.
Heishui, who had been able to force his way forward against the psychic pressure before, now found himself completely unable to move.
This was the first time he had encountered such a situation.
Even when he’d faced Yun Ruoxi in the arena, he’d still managed to hold his ground with his formidable physique for more than ten rounds.
He’d only barely lost in the end.
But this time, in front of Yun Ruoxi, he found himself utterly powerless.
This monster…
She’s grown even stronger!
Her rate of improvement far outpaces mine, and everyone else’s!
Heishui’s neck, under the grip of her telekinesis, began to twist uncontrollably to the right.
Sixty degrees!
Seventy degrees!
Eighty degrees! That was already the limit for a human, but his head still hadn’t stopped turning!
Eighty-five degrees!
Heishui’s eyes became bloodshot, and the black tentacles wrapped around his neck started to snap one after another.
Ninety degrees!
A look of pain surfaced on Heishui’s face!
“Xiao Xi!” Lin Zhen suddenly called out softly.
Yun Ruoxi, coming to her senses, waved her hand, and Heishui was flung dozens of meters away, as if struck by a giant hammer.
“This is just an assessment… There’s no need to kill anyone!” Lin Zhen finished, then repeated to Yun Ruoxi, “Don’t kill anyone!”
「Why do I feel like Xiao Xi is starting to go dark? She goes for the kill at the slightest provocation now.」
「True that. Maybe she’s been in the battle camp too long.」
「She can’t help it. Xing Ke’ai’s older sister is so strong, but Yun Ruoxi’s little sister is way too weak. Xiao Xi always has to protect her, so she’s changed a lot just to keep her safe.」
「Yeah, last time she almost died for Aili and then lost control.」
「Sigh, these sisters are sweet, but it’s just too tough for them.」
“Mm!”
Yun Ruoxi nodded silently, then turned to look at the others.
Wherever her gaze landed, all the remaining enemies lowered their weapons without hesitation and chose to surrender.
The gap was just too great.
Yun Ruoxi had single-handedly taken down dozens of ships; no one even knew how she managed that.
And after that, if you could call it a battle, neither Xing Ke’ai nor Heishui showed the slightest sign of running low on star energy.
Even if they refused to give up, defeat was the only outcome waiting for them.
“It’s over!” Shunying breathed a quiet sigh of relief, and the trainees beside her followed suit.
“Yeah, it’s over. But who would’ve thought that the situation we almost lost our lives for would be turned around by just one person? It’s unreal!”
“Unreal?” Shunying shook her head. “In the whole battle camp, only she and Mo Yuan can pull something like this off.”
“After all, one is a Perfect Awakened, the other has terrifying Yi Neng and even scarier analytical ability.”
“Until a third Perfect Awakened appears, they’ll always be opponents no trainee can contend with.”
“How can a Yinghuo compare with the bright moon?” That trainee suddenly blurted out a line of ancient poetry, then chuckled at herself.
「Are there Chinese people on the writing team or what? How does a conversation suddenly end up quoting Romance of the Three Kingdoms?」
「You haven’t been paying attention to earlier episodes, have you? There’s more than just this line—tons of idioms and proverbs all over the place. Even China experts might struggle with some of these. There must be quite a few Chinese people on the production team.」
「Does anyone know how this scene is translated in other language versions of ‘Stellar’? Since it’s a globally simulcast anime, it comes with dubs and subs in lots of languages.」
The fact that there were so many versions was exactly how so many new fans got hooked on “Stellar.”
Naturally, it also drew attention to the ambition of the production team.
They genuinely want to make “Stellar” a globally popular, phenomenon-level anime.
So many dubs, though.
For now, only the Chinese and Japanese versions are the most popular.
Fans of the latter know why; as for the former, it’s because the Chinese voice actress for Yun Ruoxi is especially adorable, and the others’ voices all sound so natural you can’t even tell it’s dubbed.
「I checked. The translation’s pretty good. The production team must have hired some top-notch translators.」
「A dozen translators? That’s a terrifying amount of cash at work.」
Lin Zhen looked at the silent Yun Ruoxi. “Xiao Xi, are you alright?”
“I’m fine.”
Yun Ruoxi forced a smile.
Anyone can see there’s something wrong with you.
Lin Zhen smiled wryly to himself.
Not to mention, Xiao Xi’s actions just now had genuinely worried him.
But this wasn’t the time or place for a serious talk.
Not only were there too many people around, but many trainees were injured and needed to be taken back to base for treatment as soon as possible.
Besides, although the atmosphere on this Xiao Xingxing let them move around without wearing the Weisheng Xitong, it wouldn’t last for long.
They needed to fix the ships and leave quickly.
“Once we’re back, do you have time to talk?” Lin Zhen smiled.
“No problem.” Yun Ruoxi smiled and nodded, her gaze at Lin Zhen remaining as clear as ever.
That helped Lin Zhen relax.
“Um, there’s one more thing. Xiao Xi, can I trouble you to lend us two ships first? We need to get our wounded back to base for treatment!”
Lin Zhen pointed at the wounded scattered everywhere, then at the ruined ships nearby, and shrugged helplessly.
“Hehe, that’s no problem.” Yun Ruoxi pressed a communication device on her wrist that looked like a watch, requesting two ships to dock for temporary use by Class Three and Class Five.
At the same time, after thanking Yun Ruoxi, Lin Zhen began gathering people to start repairing all the ships.
Although his star energy was low for now, even star pirates and adventurers knew a thing or two about ship repair, and every battle camp trainee was trained in it from the start.
A lot of the ships here were badly damaged, but with a bit of tinkering, gathering usable parts and using Lin Zhen’s Yi Neng for some basic repairs, maybe they could cobble together a few ships that would work temporarily.
As for the others, they’d have to leave them for now and come back later to haul them away.
After all, ships were just too valuable.
Even if most of the ships here were wrecked, they couldn’t just leave them behind like garbage.
But at this point, everyone from Class Three and Class Six tacitly avoided touching the wrecked ships belonging to Class Four and Class Five.
Because those were the spoils of war for Class Nine.
No matter how good Yun Ruoxi’s relationship with them was, she still had to think of her own class.
And as her friends, they had to keep Yun Ruoxi in mind, too; they couldn’t let her lead her squad here and get nothing for it.