"I suddenly feel..."
"This locomotive should be something that belongs to me."
After hearing this sentence from Kiana, Mei didn't generate the thought that 'Kiana finally went crazy because the shock was too great'.
In fact, when Kiana mentioned this, Mei immediately remembered.
When she was moving towards this side carrying Bronya, she also had this kind of feeling.
For an instant, she felt that a certain something should be hers.
Only, this feeling disappeared immediately, so she treated it as an illusion at the time.
But now hearing Kiana say this, a thought suddenly popped up in Mei's mind.
Previously, she had used the power of Magnetic Field Rotation to listen to the conversation between Aaron and Kiana. At that time, the two mentioned that this thing was one of the twelve Divine Keys, the [Cosmic Juggernaut].
Divine Keys. These were powerful armaments created by the Previous Era Civilization using the Herrscher Cores of the Previous Era, Soulium, and other precious materials, combined with Previous Era technology.
The Judgment of Shamash held by Kiana's father was a combat-type Divine Key created using the Core of the Herrscher of Fire from the Previous Era and Soulium.
Now, both she and Kiana sensed 'something belongs to themselves', and what Kiana sensed was the Key of the Void (Cosmic Juggernaut).
Then reasoning backwards, what I sensed was the Key of Thunder, and then...
Kiana is the Herrscher of the Void??????????????
"Ahaha, Mei, you were scared by my comment just now, right?"
Kiana, completely understanding what Raiden Mei was shocked about, scratched the back of her head embarrassedly while gazing at the Cosmic Juggernaut.
"This lady doesn't want to find an excuse to snatch this thing, but... I just feel this thing should be mine."
"Without any reason?"
"That's right, without any reason—this really isn't me planning a robbery and saying these words."
Kiana... she wouldn't lie to me about this.
And her eyes right now indeed hold some confusion.
But...
No, that's wrong. It's wrong from the start.
Herrschers can sense each other's cores.
Before, when I was facing that Pseudo-Herrscher, I could sense the Pseudo-Herrscher Core in his body.
And after Uno appeared, I also sensed the core in Uno's body.
If Kiana were the Herrscher of the Void, having lived with her day and night for so long after I became a Herrscher, it's impossible for me not to detect the Core of the Herrscher of the Void in her body.
Moreover, judging from the intelligence Bronya mentioned, Cocolia told Bronya that the Herrscher of the Void died fourteen years ago.
Fourteen years ago... right, Mom and I saw those disasters back then; they were all caused by the Herrscher of the Void.
Schicksal covered up that massive Honkai War, pushing everything onto meteorites from outer space and other causes.
But the battle would only end if the Herrscher of the Void had died fourteen years ago.
Otherwise, a Herrscher of the Void who caused such a massive disaster couldn't possibly obediently surrender and say 'I'm not fighting anymore, I want to find my mom'.
The Herrscher of the Void is already dead.
Kiana is just Kiana. This is just a coincidence.
"Mei? What's wrong with you?"
"...No, I'm fine."
Shaking her head with a light smile, Mei casually tossed that thought, which looked quite funny, out of her brain.
"Even if you feel this is your thing, you can't take it away."
"We'd better leave quickly. If Schicksal comes, we won't be able to leave."
"No, this lady feels... I seem to know how to use this thing."
"Mei, follow me."
After forming several magical barriers in the air with magic, Kiana lightly leaped on them and jumped onto the Cosmic Juggernaut.
And after Raiden Mei arrived atop the Cosmic Juggernaut holding Bronya, Kiana gripped Shambhala tightly and gently placed her hand on top of the Cosmic Juggernaut.
Right now, she could feel that she could use the Divine Key before her eyes.
But because the prerequisite for using the Cosmic Juggernaut to perform a spatial jump was locking onto coordinates, Kiana felt an incomparable headache just glancing at those dense coordinates.
Wait, this feeling of a headache... is it really because I looked at these coordinates?
Forget it, this lady doesn't care anymore!
Kiana, holding Shambhala, forced the activation of the Cosmic Juggernaut's ability while reading the coordinates recorded by Shambhala.
In the next instant, under Kiana's manipulation, the three of them flew directly from above the evaporated River Thames in London to a barren wilderness.
"Everyone, phones."
"Got it." *2
After arriving here, the three of them smashed their phones on the spot and placed them on the ground, letting Mei use the power of Magnetic Field Rotation to crush them directly.
Mei, slightly using Honkai Energy, activated the power of Magnetic Field Rotation and used the mixed power to turn these phone fragments directly into dust.
"We've landed safely for the time being, but..."
After looking around slightly, Mei asked in confusion.
"Where... is this?"
"An uninhabited southern island. I don't know when Aaron came here to record the coordinates."
Kiana, carefully examining the surroundings, said angrily.
"That guy, exactly how many things did he do behind our backs!"
"With this thing, we can move to any place in the world..."
Recalling what just happened, Mei suddenly whispered.
"Then doesn't this mean that in the future if we want to go to the HQs of Anti-Entropy and Schicksal, we can also fly over using the Cosmic Juggernaut?"
"The prerequisite is that we know the coordinates of Schicksal HQ and Anti-Entropy HQ. And regarding their HQ locations... we don't know that."
Kiana, feeling that she had completed the connection with the Cosmic Juggernaut, said helplessly to Raiden Mei.
"The HQ coordinates of these two large organizations aren't intelligence that can be easily obtained in the first place, right?"
"If Sister Kiana wants to know, Bronya can try."
???
Hearing this sentence, the two looked at Bronya in shock simultaneously.
Although both knew Bronya had decent hacker skills and had already established a basic intelligence circulation channel, but...
The current situation was like the two feeling 'Bronya's elementary school grades are not bad, and as a result, Bronya turns around and tells the two she has already finished her Ph.D.', startling them incomparably.
You call this knowing a bit of hacker skills???
You call this a basic intelligence network???
"*Um*, just trying, Sister Kiana and Sister Mei shouldn't hold too much hope."
Under the slightly scary gaze of the two, Bronya immediately shrank her body back.
"Moreover, this matter also has risks. Bronya currently cannot guarantee whether, during intelligence reconnaissance, she will be countered by the opponent, leading to Bronya exposing flaws and implicating you guys."
"What implicating or not, we are companions. Companions who go through life and death together shouldn't care about such small things."
"No, the ones going through life and death are only you guys. Bronya... is still too weak."
Seeing the disappointment flash past Bronya's eyes, Kiana knew she said the wrong thing.
Bronya already felt guilty because she had been 'dragging them down', and as a result, the words she just said...
*Ahhh*, am I an idiot!
Change the topic, hurry up and change the topic... Right, haven't asked what Aaron is preparing to do yet.
"Don't be like this, Bronya."
After gently patting Bronya's head, Kiana immediately pretended to be calm and said.
"No need to care about these small matters. But since that guy isn't here, you should also talk about why you keep calling him 'Master', right?"
During these few months of getting along, Kiana and Mei roughly knew that Bronya stayed by Aaron's side temporarily because of a certain deal with him.
But because Bronya's experiences were too tragic, the two hadn't asked too much about these aspects during this time...
Wait.
Wrong.
Wasn't this lady supposed to change the topic?
Chatting about this topic feels like stabbing Bronya in the heart, then smiling while pulling the knife out and stabbing it back in!
In the next second, Kiana unsurprisingly saw Bronya's eyes become even more guilty.
"No, no, this lady didn't mean that..."
"Thank you, Sister Kiana."
No, wait, your look of 'she's clumsy but still thinking of me' makes me even more uneasy, okay!
And what do you mean clumsy, this lady is very smart, okay!
"Originally, Bronya shouldn't have hidden this matter for so long. So today, since it concerns Master's whereabouts, Bronya will tell you guys about this matter."
"The story starts from more than two years ago."
"Two years ago, Bronya was still a child soldier in Russia, and Bronya's mission at the time was to kill Mother Cocolia."
"Mother didn't kill Bronya who failed to assassinate her; instead, she kept Bronya and made Bronya her adopted daughter. It is precisely because of this that Bronya is grateful to her to this day."
"During the two years of being adopted by her, Bronya and the companions in the orphanage lived a life that, while austere, was very happy. Until... Mother Cocolia began conducting Project X-10."
"Project X-10 buried many companions, and Bronya also became one of the experimental subjects. But before Bronya underwent the experiment, Bronya's best friend Seele caused her body to enter the Sea of Quanta because of Experiment X-10."
"Bronya originally wanted to stay on that side to accompany her, but she pushed Bronya back and even gave Project Bunny to Bronya."
"It was also starting from that time that Bronya and Mother Cocolia began thinking of ways to save Seele."
"Stop, let me interrupt."
Having heard this part, Kiana felt she couldn't suppress her complaining soul anymore.
"After hearing this, why do I feel... your friend named Seele... was... *Mmph mmph mmph*—"
Awkwardly smiling while using magnetic field power to cover Kiana's mouth, Mei immediately said to Bronya.
"Bronya, don't mind Kiana, continue."
"But Sister Mei..."
"Mei, what are you do—"
Shut up already!
After being glared at by Mei, Kiana, realizing what Mei meant, discovered she had said the wrong thing again.
What she wanted to say just now was actually 'your friend named Seele... was harmed like this by Cocolia'... Damn, could she not know this?
Saying this sentence would completely be sprinkling a handful of salt and pepper on Bronya's heart that had been stabbed twice.
"Bronya, it's fine. Besides, Bronya is inherently a sinner."
After taking a deep breath, Bronya continued speaking to the two.
"Because Mother felt the power of a Herrscher might be able to enter the Sea of Quanta, she guided the eruption of the Third Honkai. Originally, Bronya's mission was to go to Nagazora City to lock onto Sister Mei's coordinates, to facilitate Mother's capture."
"But in Nagazora City, Bronya didn't meet Sister Mei, but met Master instead."
"At that time, after meeting Master, Bronya sensed he might have some connection with Sister Mei, so I begged him to make a deal with Bronya, asking him to help Bronya."
"I don't know when Master knew of Bronya's thoughts. But judging from Bronya's speculation, Master intends to use the power of the Cosmic Juggernaut this time to enter the Sea of Quanta and help Bronya find traces of Seele..."
"It's all Bronya's fault. If Bronya hadn't reached that contract with Master, he wouldn't have to run this kind of risk..."
"Ah, forget about that."
Looking at the unignorable guilt on the young girl's face, Kiana interrupted the girl's repentant words very decisively.
"That guy looks like he handles everything thoroughly usually, but he likes to take risks like this at critical moments. Don't feel guilty towards him because of this kind of thing—anyway, this guy doesn't value his own safety himself, what use is it for us to care so much about his safety!"
"Let him go mess around! This lady can't be bothered to manage him anymore!"
*Hmm*, is it really like that?
After seeing Kiana close her eyes furiously, Bronya and Mei looked at each other, then shrugged helplessly at the same time.
Everyone knows what's up, so no need to say more.
"By the way, Sister Kiana. Speaking of this, Bronya has one more thing to say."
"Although Master used the Cosmic Juggernaut to enter the Sea of Quanta, and theoretically others can also use this operation to enter the Sea of Quanta, even if opening the door to enter the Sea of Quanta at the same place, the entry point may not necessarily be the same as the previous person who entered the Sea of Quanta like this."
"So, if we activate the Cosmic Juggernaut here... not only is there a high probability we won't find Master after going in, but there's also a possibility it leads to us all being trapped inside."
"When Master comes out and finds we all went in... he'll probably have to pinch his nose and go back into the Sea of Quanta to fish us back out..."
"What do you mean by that."
At this moment, Kiana seemed to hear the implication in Bronya's words and immediately said annoyedly.
"This lady said if I don't care about him, I don't care! Even if he drowns inside, this lady is too lazy to pay attention!"
Even if you say that, both Bronya and Sister Mei can tell you are worried to death right now.
But forget it, at least Sister Kiana is still in a calm state.
If she doesn't go in, then next... we just have to wait.
Master, please, you absolutely must not have any mishaps.
Otherwise, Bronya will never forgive you in this life... and even more so, will not forgive herself.
.....................
A few minutes ago. London.
After seeing the Emperor-class Honkai Beasts transformed from Gray Serpent wiped out, Raven completely dared not approach the battlefield by a fraction.
[Gray Serpent! Gray Serpent! You there!]
[Calm down, Raven. Just a dozen or so clones, if they exploded... then let them explode.]
After seeing the message sent by Gray Serpent, Raven let out a sigh of relief.
Although she also knew Gray Serpent's true body, that scene just now shocked her too much.
Those sword energies of Kiana easily slew a dozen Honkai Beasts. If that kind of destructive power hit Gray Serpent, god knows if he would just crash and die violently later.
Now that Gray Serpent sent a message, at least there was no need to worry.
That guy Hare never shows up. If Gray Serpent also crashed, then Raven... would ultimately only be able to face that husky Jackal every day?
Wow, don't want that kind of thing.
Although Jackal has great skill in scientific research, the problem is her great skill in research doesn't conflict with her usual attitude of spouting nonsense.
That girl likes to formulate plans that look like they can succeed, but upon closer thought, are full of holes.
If Gray Serpent were gone, and Raven had to cooperate with this person... Raven felt she'd be better off considering defecting to another organization.
Cooperating with someone whose tactical thinking is no good but likes to command, Raven felt she would only be pitted to death by her.
[What do I do now? Still stay in place and observe?]
[You've already turned tail and run, what's there to say. Run, watch your own safety.]
...This guy can monitor me through his own means even like this?
What a supervision team.
Knowing Gray Serpent could even monitor her actions, Raven was completely reassured.
[But speaking of which, you actually told me to watch my safety. Was the blow too big today, did you change your personality?]
[We've known each other for so long, you know perfectly well what kind of person I am. You are a hardworking and capable employee, Ciora. Unless you betray World Serpent, you will always be a good comrade of our World Serpent.]
Well said.
But the meaning of your sentence is 'Actually you are a useful tool, I'd have a headache if you died', right?
[Of course, these aren't the main points. The point is, we have already lost the Second Divine Key. In that case, the Third Divine Key must be preserved no matter what.]
You guy...
Forget it, an unsurprising answer.
[I know. Once the quantum teleportation system can be used normally, I'll immediately return to the organization HQ and meet up there.]
[Understood. I will have Jackal rush repairs on the quantum teleportation system.]
After interrupting the communication with Raven, a Gray Serpent clone somewhere looked at the monitor beside him.
Since just now, their quantum teleportation system here had malfunctioned.
The technology Cocolia gave was incomplete, but this malfunction wasn't caused by the technology being incomplete.
Damn it, have those two Red and Blue Fiends of the Conservative Faction finally started researching means to counter the quantum teleportation system?
That's right, it must be because of this reason.
The Conservative Faction has contact with Siegfried, and Kiana Kaslana is Siegfried's daughter.
Moreover, Raiden Mei is Raiden Ryoma's daughter. In other words, even without considering the Herrscher of Thunder and the Gem of Serenity, the Conservative Faction would inevitably pay attention to Aaron's intelligence like us.
No wonder. Is it because they realized their Anti-Entropy exclusive quantum teleportation system leaked out, so they started countering it here?
This time Jackal told me it could be fixed within a short time, but what about next time?
Those two women are undoubtedly geniuses.
For our World Serpent's plan, we must seize the opportunity to invite them to our side.
As for Cocolia... *hmph*, this woman is completely useless now.
Once the Anti-Entropy takeover plan succeeds, let's just make her hand over the key technologies.
Gray Serpent, who was originally still pondering future countermeasures, froze directly after seeing the image in the monitor at this time.
At the same time, Raven, who was at the scene, also froze directly after looking back at some point.
[Gray Serpent! Hey! What exactly is the situation now!]
[...Something big happened.]
Originally, according to Gray Serpent's calculation, even if Aaron and the others seized the Cosmic Juggernaut, they couldn't successfully take the Cosmic Juggernaut away; they could only rely on the power of the Cosmic Juggernaut to move to some places they wanted to go.
But just now, Aaron used the Cosmic Juggernaut to enter the Sea of Quanta... okay, that's not the main point. If this baleful star went to the Sea of Quanta to be a lone swimmer, he could worry a lot less.
The problem was, after that little girl named Kiana touched the Cosmic Juggernaut, why did she directly take her two companions and the Cosmic Juggernaut and disappear on the spot from London???
The Cosmic Juggernaut isn't something just anyone can use, hey!
Looking at the empty sky above the River Thames, Gray Serpent wanted to curse but couldn't get it out.
Divine Keys weren't things anyone could use in the first place.
The strongest armaments created by the Previous Era naturally could only be used by those with aptitude.
And according to Gray Serpent's memory, before the Liege and his best friend Su disappeared, the person holding the Cosmic Juggernaut was actually Su.
As a Psychic Fusion Warrior, only he could freely manipulate this Cosmic Juggernaut, which was incomparably troublesome to use, to execute Project Valuka left to him by Dr. MEI.
But now, this little girl from the Kaslana family could actually easily manipulate the Cosmic Juggernaut to teleport instantly...
Now it's bad.
Where do we go to find the Cosmic Juggernaut...
A carpet search is unrealistic. Compared to finding the Cosmic Juggernaut, finding people seems a bit more convenient.
True, the Kaslana family's little girl getting the Cosmic Juggernaut is better than Otto getting the Cosmic Juggernaut.
She and her dad had a falling out with Otto long ago.
Then when we meet her again, in the name of the Liege's subordinate, moving this little girl with emotion and reasoning with logic... feels like this move might not necessarily be useful.
But no matter what, treat a dead horse as a living horse.
No matter what, opportunities always have to be fought for by us.
The time left for this Era is not much.
No matter what, at least we have to invite Liege Kevin out of the Sea of Quanta before executing Project Stigma.
After all...
The person who can save this world is indeed only our World Serpent's Liege, Kevin.
......................
Inside the Hyperion, Theresa looked at London not far away, feeling only agitation in her heart.
She originally didn't want to come on this mission to London.
But when Otto authorized her departure this time, he didn't use the Overseer's authority, but told Theresa something very helplessly.
Kiana, who had been recuperating, found an opportunity to escape from Schicksal.
And this time, Kiana was in London and might be besieged.
After hearing this sentence, how could Theresa sit still? She directly told Otto she would drive the Hyperion over, and then cut off communications.
And the reason Theresa chose to charge towards London was indeed because of Kiana, but this was completely different from the reason Otto conceived.
Just over a month ago, Anti-Entropy dispatched a Pseudo-Herrscher to attack St. Freya Academy.
Although Himeko led the Valkyrie squad to surround that Pseudo-Herrscher in the end, that Pseudo-Herrscher retreated directly before officially engaging the main force.
And Theresa received other missions at that time.
Otto, worried that the precious data in the St. Freya Academy underground church would be obtained by the enemy, asked Theresa, a former S-Rank Valkyrie, to go to the underground church to defeat the enemy.
On that day, she met Anti-Entropy's Executor Cocolia and Lieserl Albert Einstein.
Cocolia at the time stated very confidently that the Oath of Judah, as a weapon to suppress Honkai Energy, had no effect on Titans.
And Theresa used facts to tell Cocolia one thing—she thought too much for granted.
When she casually dismantled a few Titans and was preparing to kill Cocolia in passing, Einstein actively proposed a piece of news that shook Theresa.
Underground Cathedral. The data finally stored here was unknown even to Theresa's clearance level.
And when Einstein opened the core area of the central underground church, what was displayed before Theresa was a large number of white-haired clones.
On the display screen near the culture tank, a name not unfamiliar to Theresa was written.
Siren—this was the name of the Second Herrscher, Sirin.
Siren Project. This was the plan Otto claimed to the public was for researching the Void Herrscher's authorities.
The [Time Fracture Device] built into Valkyrie armor was one of the research results after Otto studied Sirin's abilities.
But after seeing these white-haired clones, under Einstein's prompt, Theresa suddenly realized something.
These clones bore a few similarities to Kiana's appearance when she was young.
"Mr. Otto cannot hear the words here, and precisely because of this, I want to chat with you here."
"Ms. Theresa, the core of the Siren Project is not researching the Second Herrscher's corpse to utilize her abilities to assist Schicksal in opposing the Honkai."
"What Overseer Otto really intends to do is to make the Second Herrscher, Sirin, 'resurrect' again. And now, his plan, to a certain extent, has already been completed."
To tell the truth, Dr. Einstein's words actually had no evidence.
But considering her grandfather's actions... Theresa felt this possibility wasn't non-existent.
She was originally an experimental subject. Only after Otto suddenly developed affection for her did she become [Theresa Apocalypse].
Someone with the same experience as her was Amber, who was like a sister to her.
Of the two experimental subjects slaughtering each other in the laboratory back then, one became the head of the Apocalypse family, and the other became Otto's personal secretary.
Not just them.
Cecilia, at that time, was forced to participate in Project Holy Blood.
Her body was also modified... thinking about it this way, the probability of Grandpa doing this kind of thing really isn't small.
But why does Grandpa want to resurrect the Herrscher of the Void?!
The Herrscher of the Void caused such a massive disaster back then. If she resurrected... the world would fall into chaos again, right?!
"Back then when we agreed with Mr. Siegfried to bring Kiana out of Schicksal, because of Kiana's pleading, he brought out an experimental subject."
"And according to the intelligence Mr. Siegfried told us recently, the real Kiana was seriously injured after being pursued back then, and has now lost her memory. And the other experimental subject was raised by Siegfried as an adopted daughter for several years."
"Of course, now her name is also Kiana Kaslana."
"Because the real Kiana even had her appearance altered, if you see Kiana Kaslana in the outside world now, she is that experimental subject saved by Siegfried back then."
"Mr. Otto never cares about other people's lives, but Ms. Theresa, you are different from him."
"We of Anti-Entropy believe in you, so we told you this intelligence. As for how to act, that is your business."
That day, Theresa, who obtained this intelligence, let go of Einstein and Cocolia whom she had the chance to defeat.
And now, after receiving Otto's mission, Theresa's heart was completely in turmoil.
Siegfried's adopted daughter is the resurrected Herrscher of the Void...
Now, if I meet that 'Kiana', what exactly should I do?