Of course, Aaron, who had just woken up, was completely unaware of the mess happening in the shadows or the events about to unfold.
Having just been rebuffed by a power suspected to be [Finality], Aaron certainly didn't dare to continue courting death this time.
Of course, after careful thought, he realized there was no need to court death either.
The only reason he attempted to return to the past was to find a way to rewrite the tragedy of that year.
But when it came down to it, he wasn't related to Otto or Kallen. The reason he tried to save Kallen was simply that doing so might make Otto let go of his obsession.
Now that this method wouldn't work, and this highly profitable deal couldn't be made...
Then he would just handle things however they needed to be handled.
From the time he obtained power until now, the time Aaron spent hesitating when killing enemies had become less and less.
The fundamental reason he thought about cooperating with Otto using non-combat means was that Otto truly had no bottom line.
Fighting someone with a bottom line, Aaron didn't have to worry about the other party involving innocent people.
Fighting an enemy with no bottom line but no ability to implicate innocents, Aaron didn't have to worry about the other party jumping over the wall in desperation and killing the hostages.
But Otto happened to be that kind of bitch who had no bottom line and the ability to kill hostages. For this reason, Aaron had actually considered the path of 'compromise' when thinking about his policy toward Otto.
However, now that the last road was blocked, Aaron had completely thought it through.
As someone who had read countless manga, Aaron should have known very well that compromising with villains would yield no good results.
In *Sea Tiger*, because Lan Meng had the ability to flip the table, Sea Tiger didn't kill Lan Meng immediately when he started causing trouble, which resulted in subsequent tragedies continuing to occur.
To be honest, Aaron still didn't know whether Sea Tiger holding back that punch in Heaven was correct or wrong.
But after he compromised, did Lan Meng restrain himself?
No, not at all.
Subsequently, because Lan Meng felt he could threaten Magnetic Field Masters who still had a bottom line, like Sea Tiger, Bai Shounan, and Tiandao, he caused even more trouble.
Aaron felt that if he really didn't know which side was right and which was wrong...
—Then at the very least, he should choose the side that felt more satisfying to himself!
When unable to distinguish whether compromising or not compromising was correct, choosing the side that felt best for him definitely wouldn't be wrong!
Of course, having this thought didn't mean he was going to turn into a Super Madman right now and go punch Otto's dog head off without preparation.
That was a course of action he would only take as a last resort. Now that Otto had actively backed down on the surface, Aaron didn't need to rush this moment.
Before Finality completely descended, he still had enough time to lay out his plans.
Let Higokumaru train the authority it should possess, and then step by step, use the Herrscher of Corruption's authority to slowly bring the weapon systems of all Schicksal branches under his control.
Schicksal only had so many weapons. As long as Aaron could use the power of the Herrscher of Corruption to control all these weapons, when that day came, Otto wouldn't have any weapons to use even if he wanted to flip the table.
Of course, besides the weapon systems, Otto's Soulium bodies couldn't be let off either.
Before Otto planned to make a move on Kiana, Aaron needed to seize this time to scout out exactly where those Soulium bodies Otto hid were located.
Destroying these Soulium bodies—Aaron certainly wouldn't do such a wasteful thing.
With so much Soulium, if forged into enough Valkyrie armaments, who knew how many Valkyries could be equipped.
After Valkyries had standard Soulium weapons, their efficiency in killing Honkai Beasts in battle would also increase accordingly.
With the increase in Valkyrie combat efficiency, their attrition rate would naturally decrease.
Moreover, if he were a bit more confident, the things Aaron needed to consider weren't limited to fighting the Honkai.
He hadn't forgotten that the threat of the 'Sky People' still existed in this world.
Back then, Welt destroyed the Sky People's vanguard star, but in the Post-Honkai Odyssey era, the Sky People dispatched new combat units to the vicinity of Earth.
At that time, humanity would still need sufficient power to counter the new threat.
To put it harshly, even if Aaron luckily pushed back the Herrscher of Finality in the future, he didn't think he would have much strength left to deal with threats after fighting Finality.
"Forget it... I haven't even won against Finality yet, what am I thinking so much for."
Realizing his thoughts were running wild, Aaron smiled bitterly and directly interrupted this line of thinking.
He hadn't killed Otto yet, nor had he won against the Honkai. Under these circumstances, thinking about the Sky People was nonsense.
Do what needs to be done. Let's finish the things he can do right now one by one first.
Going to Anti-Entropy to warn them about The Deep (Haiyuan City)... that wasn't urgent.
Aaron hadn't forgotten the reason he chose the Oceania Branch as his base.
There were several main reasons for choosing the Oceania Branch as a base.
The first reason—the technological level of the Oceania Branch was among the best in all of Schicksal.
In Aaron's view, even if Otto withdrew all those high-tech personnel, he wouldn't go so far as to pack up the machines and ship them away on the spot.
That would be too ugly.
Otto was essentially a shameless and heartless person, but currently, to stabilize Aaron, he would still pretend to be magnanimous on some small matters.
Facts also proved that Aaron's conjecture wasn't wrong—those advanced experimental instruments were indeed kept within the Oceania Branch.
With these instruments preserved, when Dr. Magi could appear in the real world in physical form, Aaron wouldn't need to go to other branches to rob instruments.
Of course, this reason was a secondary one.
Actually, the more important reason lay in the fact that the Fourth Herrscher, the [Herrscher of Wind] Wendy, was currently in the Oceania Branch.
Because of Otto's two Artificial Herrscher experiments last year, the human hosts of the two experiments, [Lin] and [Wendy], lost things that were incomparably important to them respectively.
Lin didn't need mentioning; if not for her soul fragment attaching to the Gem of Serenity and being stored by Aaron inside the Demon Castle, she would be completely dead by now.
And Wendy was slightly better off than Lin—at least she wasn't dead yet.
As a potential stock judged at age thirteen to be a [future S-rank Valkyrie], Wendy naturally had a much higher compatibility rate with the gem than Lin.
Precisely for this reason, Wendy was able to survive this experiment.
She survived at the cost of paralysis in both legs.
Of course, Aaron, who had seen the subsequent plot, knew that this unlucky child indeed had potential.
After that experiment, the Gem of Desire existed on Wendy's legs in a bizarre state. While paralyzing her legs, it also stabilized the gem on her legs.
For this reason, Wendy became a vessel housing the gem while maintaining her self-personality.
Originally, an unlucky child like Wendy who was duped into doing experiments should be considered a hero who heroically sacrificed herself for humanity's cause against the Honkai, no matter how you looked at it.
But judging from the situation Aaron currently understood, her treatment in the base...
At the very least, her treatment was definitely not the treatment a 'hero' should have.
"I say, what exactly is going on here?"
Before meeting Wendy, Aaron found the original Oceania Branch Director, who was now his nominal deputy.
"What weird things did you say to this child before I came here?"
"Boss! I'm sorry! I was wrong!"
Thinking of his past actions, this man went *thud*, kneeling before Aaron in a 'Fierce Tiger Lands on Ground' pose.
"But we really had no choice! This was all done on Overseer Otto's orders!"
"No... I'm not blaming you either."
Using magnetic field power to lift this trembling man up, Aaron leaned against the wall and spoke indifferently to the man beside him.
"We're all just wage earners. I know you can't stop your direct superior when he acts like a moron. When I asked others, they at most just shook their heads and revealed expressions that something wasn't right. As the person directly responsible for Wendy, tell me, how exactly do you treat her usually?"
"This... gaslighting, I guess—don't glare at me like that! We agreed that wage earners would understand each other!"
After being glared at by Aaron, the Vice-Branch Director stammered out everything he had done during this period.
After Wendy was pitted by Otto's experiment to the point of being unable to walk, Otto let Wendy recuperate in the Oceania Branch.
Only, at the same time, Otto secretly instructed the then-Oceania Branch Director to constantly instill some unfriendly information into Wendy.
Including but not limited to 'How could you be so shameful to cause the experiment to fail', 'A thing wasting the gem might as well die early and reincarnate early', 'The face of our Oceania Branch has been lost by you', 'And you call yourself a genius girl with this? Might as well have died in the experiment to save the gem from being trapped in your body now', and other such words.
The Oceania Branch Director wasn't a fool either. He knew very well what kind of result saying these words to a person with a Herrscher Core in their body might induce.
But the problem was, what he said didn't count!
Otto directly told him excuses like 'This is a trial', 'We must believe in Wendy's will', 'She can resist these destructive wills, so we need to temper her and give her a hand'.
Although he knew these were all excuses Otto made up, the Branch Director dared not harbor any resistance to Otto's statements anymore.
If his boss wanted to do something, no one could stop it.
In this situation, Otto being willing to spend time finding reasons to brush him off was already giving him face.
If he chose to be disobedient and cause trouble at this time... well, Schicksal didn't lack him as a Branch Director.
So during this period, this former Branch Director could only stimulate Wendy's heart with those words while in a state of passive slowdown.
"...Although I've known what kind of person Otto is for a long time, seeing it with my own eyes, I finally understand. This bastard is a first-rate beast."
Glancing at the man sweating profusely, Aaron said with a helpless smile.
"You know you'll die if a Herrscher appears, right?"
"Right. But if I disobey or plan to leak secrets, I'll also die. Being killed immediately by the Overseer for disobedience, or being obedient and taking a gamble to see if Wendy can hold on—if it were you, which would you choose?"
"Of course the third option—choose neither. If Otto forces me, I'll punch his dog head off."
"So that's your choice. And regrettably, we have no choice."
Seeming to sense that Aaron really didn't intend to blame him, the man relaxed slightly and lit a cigarette.
"Maybe you don't have a good impression of us Schicksal people, thinking we are idiots aiding a tyrant. But sometimes, after coming in with the idea of fighting the Honkai, we become involuntary."
"Especially after staying in Schicksal for a long time... Heh, Boss, you snatched the gem in Singapore before; I'll use that incident as an example."
"Dr. Magi, one of the heads of Schicksal's research labs. He was a big favorite under Overseer Otto, one of the geniuses appointed by Overseer Otto."
"Such a person, whether in right to speak or status, was much higher than ordinary Branch Directors like us. And the result?"
"Lord Overseer found his granddaughter suitable for experiments and tricked the little girl away for experiments. After Magi's granddaughter died, he rebelled too—and then he died."
"Even people of such high status who are truly useful to the organization are pitted by Lord Overseer just like that. Tell me, when us folks face Lord Overseer's demolition, how many dare to say 'This order is too unreasonable, I won't do it'—the grass on the graves of those who dared to say that is probably fivezhang high."
"True enough... Hah, people are all involuntary."
"And Otto's idea... Hmph, I can only say his idea isn't without reason. It's just that this move of his didn't take the safety of the entire Oceania into consideration."
What Otto pursued was an Artificial Herrscher who possessed human consciousness but could use the power of a Herrscher.
And under this premise, his actions weren't hard to understand.
A Herrscher, just force it out first.
As for whether it could turn back... that depended on fate.
It was like this when he had Dr. Magi take the Gem of Serenity away in 2014.
And almost at the same time, when he chose to use this bizarre method to catalyze the manifestation of Wendy's Herrscher will, it was the same.
Wendy had proven with facts that she indeed had the qualifications to become a Herrscher.
For so many years, Otto took various Valkyries to experiment with the three gems in turns, and only Wendy was able to trap the gem inside her body after the experiment failed, instead of being turned to ash by the gem on the spot.
In other words, after so many years, she was the only one who survived this terrifying experiment.
From this point of view, it wasn't hard to understand why Otto valued her.
Before taking action, Aaron felt he still had to find a way to eliminate some restless factors.
Killing Wendy—this option naturally didn't exist.
This child did nothing wrong.
She was recommended by Theresa to become a test subject. In other words, before the experiment began, she didn't understand what she was about to face at all.
To be reasonable, Wendy was younger than Bronya. In other words, Wendy, who was duped into participating in the experiment at the end of 2013, probably had the mindset of a middle schooler at the time.
When Aaron was a middle schooler... he felt he wasn't much harder to fool than the current Wendy.
A middle schooler fighting for the world became an experimental subject without knowing the specific situation.
After the experiment failed, she had to be treated like a time bomb and a monster by the people around her.
Moreover, after the experiment failed, Wendy, who was originally a genius girl, had her legs crippled.
Originally possessing S-rank aptitude, on that day, she not only had everything taken away but also became a monster in the eyes of others.
Under these circumstances, Wendy actually lasted three years in the Oceania Branch before being transformed into a Herrscher...
Mn, looking at it this way, her will was already frighteningly firm.
Then this is great.
I don't have much time, so I'll just give her a strong dose.
After seeing a strange man walk into her room, Wendy glanced at him and made no further movements.
Aaron didn't know what Wendy's original personality was like.
But now, having lost everything, there was obviously not much light in Wendy's eyes.
Her kind heart was suppressing her desire for destruction; this was good.
But now, what Aaron prepared to do was attempt to completely liberate this demon imprisoned by Wendy.
That Wendy could maintain herself for three years under the interference of the Honkai Will in this state already showed that her mind was firm enough.
Then, rather than letting Wendy be tortured by the Honkai Will for three years before completely transforming into a Herrscher craving destruction, it was better to give her a strong dose right now while her consciousness was still clear.
"Excuse me, are you... the new Branch Director?"
In the end, Wendy chose to speak first.
"I'm sorry, you can see my current state. Please forgive me for being unable to salute you."
"This..."
Glancing at the old-fashioned wheelchair Wendy was sitting in, Aaron couldn't help but ask.
"They couldn't even bear to provide you with a good wheelchair?"
"...This isn't the former Branch Director's fault."
A flash of anger passed through her eyes, and Wendy said helplessly to Aaron.
"Although the former Branch Director didn't say much, I know they don't want me running around."
"After all, my identity is quite special now. Rather than a Valkyrie, I'm more like a monster that will turn into a Herrscher at any moment."
"If it were me, I wouldn't want a 'monster' running around either."
To be honest, being mentally prepared, Wendy's perception of herself was extremely mature and rational.
It was just that this maturity and rationality made one feel incomparably heartbroken.
She shouldn't have been discriminated against and imprisoned in this semi-crippled state.
And the culprit who caused all this...
Unforgivable, Otto.
I actually thought about joining hands with this kind of person before... Hah, joining hands.
People who join hands with that man can't have a good end.
"Branch Director, why are you showing that expression?"
Wendy's mind wasn't meticulous, but the anger revealed on Aaron's face at this moment was truly too obvious.
"To defeat the Honkai, someone always has to pay the price. I just can't walk, that's all..."
"Compared to those colleagues who lost their lives, I'm already very lucky."
"Ah, I can't stand it anymore."
After a long sigh, Aaron dialed Kiana's number and said directly to her.
"Kiana, follow the plan and teleport me and this child to the uninhabited area."
"Aaron... are you sure you want to do this?"
On the other end of the phone, Kiana said very nervously.
"Isn't doing this bad?"
Just an hour ago, the awakened Aaron made a decision after understanding Wendy's situation.
And Kiana's first reaction after learning of the decision Aaron made was—Aaron is indeed too tired.
Because he was too tired, even after sleeping for three days, his consciousness was still in an unclear state.
Otherwise, he absolutely wouldn't have stated such a reckless plan.
Teleporting Wendy, who had the Gem of Desire in her body, and Aaron to an uninhabited area together, then having Aaron guide Wendy to completely transform into a Herrscher, and finally having Aaron attack the Herrscher to directly suppress the Herrscher personality from a physical level...
This plan looked unreliable no matter how you looked at it!
Although Mei's Herrscher personality was suppressed back like this, this was still very unreliable!
Can something like a Herrscher personality really be suppressed by beating up the Herrscher's physical body?
Kiana felt she was already reckless sometimes.
But now, after confirming Aaron wasn't joking, she felt she was simply outclassed.
Aaron usually looked more rational than anyone, but now the probability of him acting crazy seemed to be getting higher and higher...
Sure enough, was it because his usual pressure was too great that led him to become more and more extreme?
"Act with ease, I know what I'm doing."
"...Then go easy on her."
Glancing at the little girl in the wheelchair through the surveillance system, Kiana felt a bit unwilling to 'aid a tyrant'.
This child looked about the same age as Seele; she looked like a middle schooler no matter how you looked at it...
Okay, as an A-rank Valkyrie, Wendy's mentality was definitely much more mature than an ordinary middle schooler after undergoing professional training.
But no matter how mature she was, she was still a little girl not yet fifteen.
Thinking of what Aaron was preparing to do, Kiana felt...
—She had to follow and take a look.
"Kiana, if you want to follow, then follow."
Seeing Kiana's hesitant look, Mei said softly to Kiana.
"I'll watch over the base here; I won't let enemies have a chance to invade."
"...Mn, actually it shouldn't take long for Aaron to finish this matter. This lady doesn't quite believe enemies would attack right at this time."
Kiana, with a conflicted expression on her face, whispered to Mei.
"Mei, don't you want to go over and take a look?"
"...What's there to see about this kind of thing."
And I've already been beaten by Aaron.
Beaten twice, even.
Because of my immaturity back then, I failed to suppress the Herrscher personality inside me, nearly causing a disaster in Fuyuki City.
"Then this lady won't worry about you—I'm counting on you to watch the house."
After saying this, Kiana immediately manipulated the power of the Key of the Void, teleporting herself, Aaron, and Wendy simultaneously to the uninhabited island Aaron had selected before.
Aaron's plan had similarities to Cocolia's plan in Singapore.
They both prepared to induce a large-scale Honkai eruption, letting the Herrscher descend before suppressing it.
Only, unlike Cocolia's behavior of 'piling up human lives to create a Herrscher', Aaron, who already knew who might become a Herrscher, could directly find an open place for the subsequent Honkai eruption to occur after discovering the Herrscher candidate.
In this situation, even if a large-scale Honkai eruption unfolded in this area, it wouldn't affect those innocent civilians.
"Um, Branch Director..."
Wendy, who was teleported to the uninhabited island by Kiana, naturally wasn't mentally prepared.
After looking around at the surrounding environment, she immediately determined that this spatial transfer event couldn't be separated from the man in front of her.
"Even if you are the Branch Director, making a move on a girl under fifteen just after meeting is too lousy."
"Oh, still using such words to mask the uneasiness in your heart? Your psychological quality is indeed strong enough."
Discovering that Wendy's mindset hadn't shown signs of collapse yet, Aaron suppressed the reluctance in his heart and walked toward the girl step by step with a cold face.
"Overseer Otto's method was ultimately too lukewarm."
"Branch Director, what do you mean..."
"I mean, waiting for the gem to sprout inside you is indeed too lukewarm—we don't have that much time to waste on you alone right now."
Aaron, exercising his hands and feet, continued to sneer.
"Anyway, the Artificial Herrscher experiment technology is already mature. Rather than waiting for you to complete domination over the gem, it's better to kill you, take out the gem inside you, and put this gem into someone else's body."
"...Leaving aside the fact that it's hard to remove a gem without physical form right now, I think the higher-ups shouldn't be in such a rush."
Sliding the wheelchair back a step, Wendy pretended to be calm and said to Aaron.
"Please give me a little more time. I will work hard to dominate this gem."
"I said it already, brat, we don't have much time. Fighting the Honkai isn't playing house; I don't have time to waste on you."
At this moment, Aaron unabashedly revealed his killing intent.
Even though Wendy could feel that this killing intent wasn't targeted at her, she still felt her breath hitch.
Terrifying!
This aura... even Teacher Theresa never gave me such a terrifying feeling!
And, this killing intent is so heavy!
He... is he really planning to kill me?!
Clearly... clearly I've worked so hard!
Clearly I did nothing wrong!
The one at fault isn't me, but... yes, Overseer Otto!
If not for him forcibly executing such a terrible plan, I wouldn't have been recommended as a test subject at all!
I hate it so much... why is it me!
I'm clearly still trying hard to control the gem, why not give me a little more time? Why think about killing me right now!
I hate it!
I hate you hypocrites!
Saying you want to fight the Honkai is basically just finding excuses for your own atrocities!
Under Aaron's emotional stimulation method, Wendy, who could originally barely maintain rationality, had her body completely dominated by the Honkai consciousness at this moment.
The God of Honkai, who originally could only constantly convey the [Will of Destruction] in her ear, immediately began to take the next stage of action after successfully dominating Wendy's body.
In an instant, centered on Wendy, a terrifying Honkai energy shockwave blasted out in all directions.
Accompanied by this shockwave, everything around was almost instantly annihilated by the Honkai energy.
Kiana, hiding in the dark, looked at the girl floating in midair and couldn't help but click her tongue.
Aaron, this guy, his acting skills are really rotten... even I can hear that your tone isn't right.
But for someone constantly battling the Honkai Will, these stiff words were enough as a catalyst.
At least now... this little sister named Wendy is truly angry.
"Kill you! I will absolutely kill you!"
After being completely dominated by the will of destruction, the girl named Wendy had already transformed into a [God's Apostle].
As the Gem of Desire condensed into a core within her body, Wendy, who completely dominated this core, utilized her authority to manipulate wind and floated into midair.
"Saying you want to fight the Honkai, saying there's no time—don't you want to fight the Honkai? Come on!"
"Now, I am the Honkai!"
Sigh, looks like she is ultimately still a brat.
No matter how rational and mature, her heart was already filled with dissatisfaction and resentment toward Schicksal's actions—but this is good, it makes it convenient for me to act.
If Wendy were really an overly rational child, I guess my verbal stimulation just now wouldn't have been enough to make her turn into a Herrscher.
It's hard to be a good person, and hard to be a bad person... let's finish work early.
Whether Herrscher personalities are all truly inflated, Aaron wasn't quite sure.
But Aaron believed that to make the Herrscher personality thoroughly terrified to the point of 'not daring to show its head', he had to defeat it in its prime.
Take the Herrscher of Thunder, whom he hammered twice before, as an example.
The first time Aaron blew up the Herrscher of Thunder, to some extent, it was mainly because the Herrscher of Thunder hadn't retrieved all her authorities at the time.
The Herrscher of Thunder, not in her prime, only felt 'unconvinced' even after being defeated by Aaron.
It was precisely for this reason that the Herrscher of Thunder wanted to kill Aaron again in Fuyuki City.
Of course, what happened later went without saying.
Aaron had been guarding against the Herrscher of Thunder, even actively suppressing his Current Push power which could break through at any time.
Relying on the two characteristics of [Fighting strong enemies] and [Breaking through by relying on the enemy's Magnetic Field Rotation power], Aaron successfully broke through to the power of 200,000 Horsepower Magnetic Field Rotation in one go.
Otherwise, with his talent, if he hadn't completed the breakthrough under those circumstances, the power he obtained after his first breakthrough absolutely couldn't have been this strong... Mn, looking at it this way, I have to thank Miss Queen of Thunder.
Just a pity there's no chance anymore. Look, after I blew her dog head off that time, she doesn't even come out to chat. What a pity, not even giving a chance for friendly exchange.
Anyway, if I want to make the Herrscher of Wind feel sufficient fear toward me this time, I can't use means like 'sneak attacks'.
I have to defeat her fair and square after her strength reaches its peak to achieve this effect.
"What's wrong, why aren't you moving?"
Looking at Aaron standing silent in place, Wendy, who had transformed into a Herrscher, sneered.
"Now you know fear? Hehe, it's useless to be afraid now!"
"Just slowly be sliced to death by my wind blades one by one in this terror!"
Kiana, still squatting in the dark, currently didn't understand why Aaron was standing there dumbstruck without moving a muscle.
But, Little Sister Wendy...
Do you really not realize that your current speech sounds very much like those third-rate villains?
"...You, why aren't you talking?"
At this moment, finally realizing Aaron wasn't afraid of her, Wendy suddenly roared at Aaron.
"Are you looking down on me! Damn it! You people are always like this, high and mighty, incomparably arrogant!"
"If you won't move, I'll make you move!"
The authority of the Herrscher of Wind was to manipulate and create Ideal Fluids, but for Wendy who had just obtained Herrscher authority, she obviously hadn't figured out how to use her authority to maximize lethality yet.
For Wendy, her most convenient attack method right now was using Honkai energy to blow wind and form wind blades to slice the opponent's body.
Seeing Aaron really not moving, the thoroughly anxious Wendy grasped at the void, directly causing dozens of wind blades to slash down at Aaron from all directions.
Even if she didn't know how to use specific authorities yet, Wendy was originally a genius Valkyrie.
Even if her body and mind were dominated by the Honkai, the combat skills she trained wouldn't just vanish.
This attack looked simple, but it sealed off Aaron's retreat from all attack angles in all directions.
And under every wind blade that looked easy to dodge, a second small wind blade was hidden—as long as the opponent dodged without noticing this, these wind blades would definitely slice the opponent's body easily.
Moreover, Wendy's mastery of her authority was constantly improving.
Even if she couldn't create the ideal perfect fluid in a short time, the wind blades she released would continue to significantly improve in cutting sharpness.
In Wendy's eyes, the man before her had already become a dead man.
Although she didn't know how he teleported himself to this place, now... was that still important?
Wendy, whose heart was already dominated by the Honkai, only wanted—to kill.
People of Schicksal, kill!
People who wronged her, also kill!
No... humans, all deserve to die!
Kill them all!
And now, the first person I want to kill is this annoying man!
Countless wind blades slashed down simultaneously from all directions. The man in front of Wendy was sliced into countless fragments just like that.
Mn, the scene in Wendy's eyes was indeed like this.
In her view, Aaron was really cut into pieces on the spot by her sudden attack.
But before she could be happy for long, she discovered that those fragments in front of her gradually turned into specks of starlight and dissipated before her eyes.
"This... is an afterimage?!"
After realizing this, Wendy discovered that she hadn't hit the enemy at all with that attack just now.
The enemy's speed was simply too fast. Before Wendy made her move, that man had already completed the evasion maneuver.
At the same time, because the opponent's movement technique was too fast, Wendy saw an afterimage left in place that was cut open by her attack.
"Not bad power, pity the speed is really about the same as a crawling turtle."
Behind Wendy, Aaron, sensing the Honkai energy intensity on Wendy still rising, said incomparably languidly.
"No matter how strong the power is, it's useless if the speed isn't fast enough to hit people. How about... you get a little faster?"
"You bastard!"
Facing Aaron's provocation, Wendy became even angrier.
But at the same time, after her anger, she didn't continue to increase the flight speed of her wind blades in response to Aaron's provocation.
Wendy knew very well that even if she increased the speed of the wind blades, she couldn't make them fast enough to hit the enemy in a short time.
Rather than increasing the speed of the wind blades, she might as well change her attack method.
The opponent's speed was indeed fast, but that strike the opponent just dodged was ultimately just a rapid short-distance displacement.
Then—if the surrounding space were all included in the attack range, could the opponent still make timely dodges non-stop?
Wendy didn't know the specific answer to this question.
But in her view, this idea was enough for her to try hard.
"Hmph, I can definitely be faster!"
Mouthing refuse-to-lose words, Wendy indeed summoned wind blades again to try and cut the enemy's body.
But only she herself knew that this time the wind blades were just a feint.
She didn't pour much power into these wind blades. After all, this time, Wendy's real killing move wasn't this wind blade move that would definitely be evaded.
But the giant tornadoes she summoned through her authority!
In an instant, three giant tornadoes had rolled up between heaven and earth.
In Wendy's eyes, after performing evasion maneuvers, Aaron's body was still surrounded by the three tornadoes.
The movement speed of these tornadoes was obviously far inferior to the flight speed of the wind blades, but the coverage area of the three tornadoes was simply too extensive.
In this situation, no matter how fast Aaron was, he had nowhere to dodge under the pincer attack of the tornadoes.
Once included in the attack range of the tornadoes, even if he had heaven-reaching abilities, his body would only be constantly ravaged by the tornadoes.
I won!
This battle is my victory!
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