"H-how can this be?!"
Kiana felt an unimaginable force binding her tightly.
No matter how she struggled, she couldn't break free.
The strange energy in the man's hand seemed to be manipulating the very earth around them, trapping Kiana completely.
"Come here!"
With a flick of the young man's wrist, Kiana was sent flying towards him, like Wolverine being controlled by Magneto.
"Tell me everything you know about the Third Herrscher. Now. Or in the next second, I'll snap your neck."
The young man, like a classic movie villain, said this while choking Kiana.
"In your dreams!"
Even with her throat constricted, Kiana's eyes burned with defiance.
The moment the man's grip loosened slightly, Kiana's leg shot out, aiming a powerful kick at his stomach.
But the young man just sneered at her attempt.
BOOM!
With a loud crash, Kiana was thrown more than ten meters away, landing heavily on the ground.
"Pathetic. A mere Valkyrie thinks she can harm me? If I weren't trying to get information on the Third Herrscher, you'd already be dead."
The young man exuded an incredible aura of madness, his demeanor now completely different from before, utterly unhinged.
If you ignored the fact that he was covered in glue and feces and reeked to high heaven, he might have actually looked like a boss.
"Cough, cough!"
Kiana, who had been slammed to the ground, coughed violently.
Before she could even get up, the strange energy reappeared in the young man's hand, lifting her into the air once more.
"I'll give you one last chance. Are you going to talk or not?"
The young man said coldly, his eyes filled with a crazed killing intent.
"Damn it... I... will never talk!"
Just as Kiana felt like she was about to be choked to death, several missiles suddenly shot towards the young man.
Alerted to the missiles, the young man quickly raised his other hand to form a barrier, intercepting them.
In that instant, a figure wreathed in lightning flashed past him, rescuing Kiana from his grasp.
"Oh?"
The young man looked on with some surprise. In the distance, Mei and Bronya had appeared in front of Kiana, protectively shielding her.
"Kiana, are you alright?"
Mei asked Kiana, carefully checking her over, afraid she might be missing a limb.
"Mei~"
Seeing Mei, Kiana immediately started to look aggrieved.
She looked just like a kindergartener who had been bullied by other kids.
All that was missing was her tattling to her parents.
"Don't cry, don't cry. What happened?"
Mei quickly asked Kiana.
The two of them had been passing by when they heard a strange noise.
When they rushed over, they saw Kiana being attacked by this strange man.
They still had no idea what was going on.
"It's this bad guy! He's an intruder! He said he wants to capture Mei!"
With her backup having arrived, Kiana pointed at the young man and started explaining.
"An intruder?! And he's after me?"
Mei was completely stunned.
Was this ever going to end?
She had just been besieged by Anti-Entropy, then beaten up by a corrupted Bronya, and now this? Another one?
Mei felt the urge to complain.
No matter how good-natured she was, for them to keep coming after her again and again was just too much.
And this time, the guy looked like a complete psycho.
The smell coming off him was exactly like a beggar who had been living in a garbage dump for months.
Even if you were going to capture someone, couldn't you at least send someone who was mentally stable?
Or was Anti-Entropy completely out of people now?
"The Third Herrscher... and... so it's you, the traitor!"
On the other side, the young man had also recognized Mei.
But what interested him more was Bronya.
"Huh? Bronya, you know this man who's covered in... whatever that is?"
Hearing the man call Bronya a traitor, Kiana immediately leaned in closer.
To think this beggar-like guy was actually an acquaintance of Bronya's.
"No, no, The Bronya does not know such a person. He must be mistaken."
Bronya frantically shook her head, denying any connection.
Even if she did know him, she had to pretend she didn't right now.
If she admitted to knowing a guy who looked like a beggar, she'd probably be laughed at by a certain idiot for a whole month.
"Hehehe, a mere traitor, and you don't even recognize your own Sovereign."
The young man then used his hand, which was covered in all sorts of strange liquids, to slick his hair back into a pompadour.
Well, now Bronya recognized him. This was really the Sovereign?
"Bronya, he said he's the Sovereign of Anti-Entropy? Are all your sovereigns like this?"
Kiana asked Bronya with a look of disgust.
Although she wasn't a big fan of Schicksal's Overseer, at least Otto was a handsome blond man.
How was it that when it came to their competitor, the leader was a beggar?
No wonder Bronya had defected.
Even Mei was now looking at Bronya with sympathy.
If she had to work under someone like this, she'd probably be tempted to kill herself.
"Uhh..."
Bronya really wanted to deny it.
But alas, that was what Cocolia had told her, so Bronya naturally assumed this man was her Sovereign.
In the end, it was because the current trio had never seen the real Sovereign of Anti-Entropy.
And the real Sovereign, Welt, hadn't shown his face in years. So naturally, besides the higher-ups, no one else knew what he looked like.
And since Cocolia had told Bronya this man was the Sovereign, then he must be the Sovereign.
But right now, Bronya really didn't want to admit that this man was the Sovereign of Anti-Entropy.
"Who cares what kind of Sovereign he is! He dared to come after Mei! Bronya, let's get him!"
Kiana didn't care about any of that. She drew her pistols and prepared to charge in with Bronya.
Mei also drew her weapon.
But facing the three of them, the self-proclaimed Anti-Entropy Sovereign, who was already enraged by their words, unleashed an astonishing power.
RUMBLE!
With an immense gravitational pressure, the trio were slammed to the ground before they could even take a single step.
"Heh, hahahaha! Do you see?! This is the power of the Anti-Entropy Sovereign! How dare you defy me, the one who wields the power of the Herrscher of Reason?!"
Seeing the three of them pinned to the ground, the young man let out a wild, arrogant laugh.
But before he could finish laughing, a size 42 shoe slammed into his face, sending him flying.
"What?!"
Before the young man could react, he felt a foot grinding into his face.
"I say, a mere clone daring to bully my Valkyries? Are you tired of living?"
Just then, in the nearby grove, a path had been forcibly cleared by some unknown power.
And Mo Wang was now staring down at the 'trash' under his foot with a murderous expression.
At this moment, he looked like a completely different person from the usual slacker king.