Dr. Schrodinger felt that Noldrei was just making things up as he went along.
Was it possible that she was the legendary quantum life form, and those quantum shadows in the Sea of Quanta were just strange creatures similar to digital life AI?
However, Dr. Schrodinger did not win Noldrei's favor, simply because although she had the form of a quantum life form, her way of thinking was not much different from the humans of this world.
So in Noldrei's eyes, Dr. Schrodinger was just a human who had adopted a different way of survival, not much more advanced than Misteln.
She was assigned to another job, which was... repairing a locomotive.
Repairing a locomotive? Why would anyone want to repair something like that?
It was like how Noldrei also couldn't understand why the Second Divine Key was designed as a locomotive.
The existence of parallel worlds was like a fatal temptation held in Noldrei's hand, especially when he publicly announced to the world that Academy City had the ability to take everyone across.
Otto had also used this thing to determine Imaginary coordinates. He was able to accurately find the node of Kallen's fate on the Imaginary Tree and thus change the direction of destiny's development. The Second Divine Key had played a crucial role.
What they were currently repairing was the transit function of the Second Divine Key.
Any parallel world worth its salt knew that someone was engaging in the heinous act of "fishing for Herrschers" in the Sea of Quanta. The Honkai emissaries of various parallel worlds were all cursing Noldrei's shameless behavior.
Noldrei, relying on the foundation of the Divine Keys forged by the Previous Era, could observe parallel worlds and was causing trouble everywhere, harvesting the Herrscher powers of other worlds.
The Honkai of those other worlds probably never expected that they would encounter such a vicious sneak attack while they were just idling.
Especially since Noldrei was also bringing Honkai Cores and other Herrschers along to bully the Herrschers of other worlds. The Honkai over there were probably feeling wronged. We're all Honkai, why are we fighting amongst ourselves?
Wouldn't it be nice to happily destroy human civilization together?
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"It's truly astonishing. What are the other worlds like? I heard Otto changed Kallen's fate of dying and created a new worldline. Then he sold out the other world to... the Chairman. That's so awful."
Durandal had a look of pity in her eyes. She felt that the newly revived Kallen was having it rough. However, it wasn't impossible that he did it so Noldrei would solve the Honkai problem in that other world.
"It's very difficult to find a parallel world that is exactly the same as the past. Even if you check them one by one, there will be all sorts of discrepancies. The local worlds aren't without their own heroes; they certainly won't just hand over the authority of their world to you. But this world is different..."
Dr. Schrodinger observed the images transmitted from the Thousand-Realmed Chariot and said, "In this world, the time period before Kallen's death is exactly the same as our world. This means that anything we can replicate in our world can also be replicated in the other world."
"In other words, we have a new set of backup Divine Keys that we can retrieve at any time. Next, we need to take our world's Herrscher of Finality and seize the Honkai authority of the other world. How is Kiana doing?"
Dr. Schrodinger wasn't concerned about the fate of the other world. With Noldrei's abilities, repeating the process of taking over the Honkai would be very simple. Besides, the Otto of that era hadn't even matured yet. It was hard to say what the Otto of that time would be like.
Judging by the timeline, the Otto of that era was already experimenting on people with the Black Death. His hands weren't exactly clean.
"There's a strange feeling... Is this how Noldrei felt when he saw us?"
Durandal thought about what Noldrei had done after he first arrived. She suddenly realized that she was doing the same thing as Noldrei did back then, only the target had been switched to a parallel world.
"Are we going to spread new ideas in that era and advance human civilization?"
Durandal thought it probably wasn't that simple. Besides, Noldrei hadn't said how to deal with that parallel world.
"What are you thinking? In the 18th century, the confirmed population was only 800 million. Think about it. We're most likely going there to plunder the Honkai. According to the Imaginary energy calculations of the Academy City researchers, the energy required to transport a population across parallel worlds is far greater than the energy required to take humans to a terrestrial planet and reshape its ecosystem."
Dr. Schrodinger felt that Durandal was overthinking things. Capitalism? They hadn't even accumulated enough population to exploit. Noldrei probably didn't want to repeat the events of this world again. The Honkai of that world, still in its ignorant infancy, was Otto's gift to Noldrei.
"That's true. With our current abilities, finding a new terrestrial planet or even creating a new one with the power of the Herrscher of Finality is not a problem. There's no need to go to another world to plunder resources. I was thinking too simply."
Durandal had almost forgotten that her world had already passed the stage of mineral energy.
Dr. Schrodinger seemed to have thought of something else. "By the way, how is your father? I heard he's been a bit down lately?"
"Um, how should I put it..." Durandal was very embarrassed. She stammered out an explanation, "He doesn't seem to have gotten over the departure of the Android Cecilia yet. He can't distinguish between the real Cecilia and the Android one anymore."
"After all, the Android Cecilia took care of him for a while and helped lift his spirits a little. But then... well, you know what happened. The Android Cecilia sacrificed herself to complete the new Herrscher of the Void. So his situation isn't great right now. He's currently 'lingering among the flowers,' still trying to find the meaning of his life."
That's just too tragic! Dr. Schrodinger really didn't know what to say. A perfectly good Honkai warrior, crushed into this state first by Otto and then by Noldrei.
"But, it's not like he can't live. Kiana and I have been visiting him recently. His mental state is much better now. He's gradually receiving psychiatric treatment from Theresa."
Durandal's words made Dr. Schrodinger even more silent.
You call that 'much better'? Do you have a wrong understanding of what 'much better' means?
"Sigh, it's my first time being a daughter. I don't know how to take care of my father. But seeing his situation, I hope things will get better in the future."
Durandal didn't know that at this moment, Siegfried Kaslana was not wallowing in despair. After learning a very important piece of information, he had suddenly come up with an incredible idea.