Apocalyptic Rebirth: With a repairman system space, she rises again.-Chapter 588: A quick battle.

They slid through the water vessel and landed in the sea. The transition was instant. Through her visor, Sunshine saw the carnage. The soldiers were killing off other creatures easily but not the deep-sea burners.

The behemoth creatures were setting the sea on fire, making it hard for anything out of a mask to breathe.

[ Warning: Three hostiles approaching from your six o’clock. Speed.]

"Nine! Behind us!" Sunshine spun in the water. The suit felt like a second skin, surprisingly fluid, she raised her arm and aimed at the creatures. She shot at each with precision that was decided by the glove.

It was a Hail Mary.

Sunshine was banking on the new technology being able to destroy an ancient creature. The arrows which were as thin as a little finger went through flesh and flesh started to dissolve. "Oh, thank God." Sunshine whispered.

Nine was flailing, his legs kicking in opposite directions like a confused frog. "I can’t swim_ water is too thick! Why is it so thick?! It’s like swimming in gravy!"

"Calm down! Breathe....I don’t not have time for this." Sunshine shot at another creature with one hand and pulled Nine with another.

[Incoming, one sky drifter.]

"Nine! Use the gloves, just hold out your hands and let the gloves do the rest."

The beast lunged, its jaw unhinging to reveal rows of needle-teeth. Nine panicked, thrusting his hands forward and screaming like a ghost on the night. An arrow erupted from his glove. The water sizzled. The creature didn’t just stop; it was blasted backward, its translucent skin turning a murky, scorched brown.

Little by little, it started to dissolve into nothing.

Nine froze. "Whoa. Did I do that? I felt like a lightning bolt."

"Yes! Now keep doing it! I’m heading for the center!"

Those in the command center saw the intruders. Two creatures that were not part of the fighting formation they had arranged. "Who are those idiots!" The commander barked.

The Glacian soldiers in the water were a little too busy to care.

"Get those idiots out!" The commander barked again.

One Glacian soldier responded. "Sir they just killed a stem shark, a sky drifter and a burner."

"Oh!" The commander was surprised. "Follow their lead."

Sunshine did not expect Glacian soldiers to approach her. She kicked off, using the suit’s built-in thrusters. Her arrows did not stop shooting everything that dared to show her its teeth. She felt like a superhero, right up until a second a deep-sea burner slammed into her side.

"Oof!" The air left her lungs. She tumbled through the water, seeing flashes of black and blue.

"Sunshine!" Nine’s voice crackled. He was starting to get the hang of it, looking less like a drowning frog and more like a floating turret. "Stay away from the big ones! They have_ wait, do they have wings? Oh, can they fly?"

Sunshine regained her balance. "I’m fine! Just... unexpected physical contact."

She looked up. A group of Glacian soldiers were pinned against a reef. One of them, couldn’t have been older than twenty, was reaching for an unconscious comrade. A deep-sea burner was circling above him, preparing for a dive.

"Not today, buddy," Sunshine muttered. She aimed her right glove. She dialed the intensity up and charged it with current.

The pulse that left her hand was a solid beam of white-hot energy. It cut through the water, vaporizing a path of bubbles and hitting the deep-sea burner square in the chest. It disintegrated into ash.

"Woah!" Those in the command center cheered.

The young soldier looked up, seeing the black-suited figure hovering above him. Sunshine gave him a thumbs-up, which felt a bit ridiculous in the middle of a war zone, but hey, morale was important.

The water was a chaotic swirl of silt and bubbles, but the orange glow of the Deep Sea Burners cut through the gloom. Their bodies vibrating with a heat that made the water around them shimmer and hiss.

"Only one left, its circling back!" Nine yelled over the comms, his voice tight with a mix of adrenaline and his ongoing, deep-seated resentment of being in the water.

"Hold your position, Nine! I will deal with it." Sunshine shouted back. She braced her feet against a jagged outcrop of coral, her matte-black Glacian suit humming as it fought to stabilize her against the strong thermal currents.

Nearby, a squad of Glacian soldiers watched in stunned silence. Their own weapons_ heavy, enchanted fire releasers_ were mostly useless against the Burners’ high-speed evasion. But as they watched the girl in the black suit, they saw something they couldn’t explain.

Sunshine raised her arms, Ala’s specialized gloves pulsing with a terrifying, rhythmic light.

"Targeting... now!"

She didn’t just fire; she twirled, moving like a cyclone in the water. Easily, she took out the last Burner, and this eliminated sixty percent of the danger. Now, all that was left was the other mammoth scattered creatures floating around.

Sunshine jumped on to the back of what looked like a whale. She held on to a ridge on its back with one hand and went on a slaughter rampage.

"She’s... she’s amazing." A Glacian soldier whispered.

The commander was even more mesmerized. "What weapon is she using? It’s not one of ours."

"Who cares?" Another replied. "Let’s just join the fight and clean up what is left. The Burners are dead; the rest are easy to kill."

The Glacian soldiers poured into the water, circling the sea creatures from all sides. The water that had turned orange started turning red.

All the trembling was quelled. Creature parts floated from the bottom to the surface, very slowly. Sunshine swam through the water, shifting pieces of wreckage aside, hunting for smaller creatures.

For them, she did not even need to use the gloves. Her ice abilities were enough to get the job done. And the beacon...she grimaced. What was she going to do about it? The easiest option was to drop it in the water and let the Glacians find it.

They could blame Xylos directly and leave her out of it. Maybe she could get away with it and nobody, but Nine would ever know.