Warfare Augmented Intelligent Frame Unit

Chapter 136 - Cyber Dragon

Chapter 136 - Cyber Dragon

It had been strangely quiet—at least between the two girls—since they both got a taste of my fists. Not that the battlefield itself was silent; far from it. The air vibrated with the thunderous blasts of railguns and the searing shrieks of beam rifles, while distant explosions lit up the skies like angry stars. The battle above, far beyond the stratosphere, raged on with unrelenting fury.

But Myrrh and Michelle... they hadn't said a word. Not to each other, not to me. After activating their Frame Units for the second time, both of them had become completely locked in, their eyes laser-focused on the swarms of Cosmic Beasts swarming in the upper atmosphere.

Each time a Rail Cannon fired, it tore through the sky with a roar, kicking out shockwaves that rumbled through the clouds. After her fifth shot, Myrrh disengaged her weapon, letting the heavy cannon fall with a metallic clang. She turned to me, eyes urgent.

"Zaft, reload!" she barked—but then winced, realizing her tone had snapped. Her stern expression softened, and she gave a small bow. "...Please, oh kind Sir."

I gave her a reassuring nod and tapped the holographic interface of my WEEB System. Blue circuits surged along my arm, pulsing like veins of living energy.

"Rail Cannon, Equip!"

A fresh cannon materialized beside her with a shimmer of hard light. Myrrh grabbed it without hesitation, pivoting back to her stance and continuing to snipe distant targets with inhuman precision—each shot cracking through the upper atmosphere, even from nearly a hundred kilometers away.

Michelle, on the other hand, fired her final shot and let her own cannon crash to the ground beside her. She hadn't said a single word since I socked her earlier and left that unsightly lump on her forehead. The silence from her stung more than I expected. A knot of guilt twisted in my gut.

So, swallowing my pride, I took a step closer and decided to be the gentleman—for once—and offered her a hand.

"Reload?" I asked, my finger hovering over the WEEB System's holographic interface.

"Yes, daddy," Michelle replied—flat, expressionless, like she was reading off a script.

"W-what?!" I sputtered, my voice cracking from a mix of surprise and secondhand embarrassment.

Before I could even process what just happened, a deafening boom split the sky like thunder cracking across steel. The ground trembled beneath our feet. All of us froze, eyes scanning the sky. Confused murmurs rippled through our ranks—until one WAIFU shouted, panic lining her voice:

"Look! The skies!"

All heads turned upward.

A jagged rift had torn itself across the heavens—a colossal crack stretching across the atmosphere like shattered glass. And at the heart of it... was a swirling black hole, a gateway. From within, a dark tide surged forth.

Swarms of Cosmic Beasts poured out like a living flood, a nightmarish migration. There were millions—too many. Even the Vanguard stationed in orbit wouldn't be enough to plug that breach.

"Cosmic Beasts are breaching the troposphere!" another WAIFU called out through the comms, her voice tight with urgency.

Then one of them descended—a chimera of nightmares. It had the muscular body and snarling face of a lion, the broad wingspan of a raptor, and a tail that slithered like a serpent. When it opened its gaping maw, dozens of slimy, writhing tentacles erupted from within, squirming and reaching for something unseen.

"&8t81&Y*&%$!" the creature roared in an unholy, glitched tongue—language warped by cosmic interference.

In that instant, seven more portals ignited across the sky like dark stars being born.