"Ai-chan?"
Himeko walked onto the bridge, looking around with a deep frown, tentatively calling out, but received no response.
"Ai-chan isn't here? Or... does this Hyperion not have Ai-chan installed, or any other artificial intelligence?"
Himeko's expression grew puzzled.
When they had first entered, they hadn't heard any AI prompt sounds. Apart from the elevator and their own breathing and footsteps, the entire battleship was deathly silent.
"Maybe the database will have the answers we're looking for."
Xia Qi quickly walked to the control console. Looking at it, she felt inexplicably nervous.
This is my second gift, the Hyperion equipped with the Moonlight Throne...
Entering the Quantum Sea was also for it.
Xia Qi tapped the keyboard and opened the Hyperion's database.
The others immediately gathered around, staring at the screen, unconsciously holding their breath. Flanking Xia Qi were Kevin on her left and Himeko on her right, with Welt standing behind her.
Everyone else crowded in, trying to see.
The database expanded.
Xia Qi saw the control console's background change, displaying a series of images, all incredibly beautiful.
Kevin sharply caught sight of a familiar word.
But at that moment, no one paid it any attention. They looked instead at the other data modules.
Among them, the most conspicuous were a series of modules labeled Sortie, Valkyries, Weapons, and Divine Key Arsenal. Xia Qi looked at them with slight confusion.
Then, instinctively, she reached out to click the Valkyries module.
But just as it was about to expand, an error message popped up.
[Warning! General-purpose super AI Ai-chan Hyperion has gone offline! Data core damaged, some information lost!]
"..."
Xia Qi frowned deeply, a hint of confusion in her eyes.
"Lost data." Welt muttered softly from the side. "Hopefully, no critical information is missing."
Then the Valkyries module expanded. Within it, icons of many Valkyries appeared, each card containing their personal information and Valkyrie rank.
"Is that... the parallel world's me?!"
Kiana stared at her own icon, eyes wide.
She saw the familiar figure, but the Kiana in the icon was not the silver-haired, blue-eyed version she knew. In those bright blue eyes, each iris held a mysterious purple pupil, like a star.
The Herrscher of Finality?
Xia Qi subconsciously opened Kiana's icon.
It expanded, revealing a brief introduction.
[Kiana Kaslana
Valkyrie Rank: SSS
Valkyrie Title: Herrscher of Finality]
"?!"
Seeing "Herrscher of Finality," Kevin's gaze instantly turned ice cold, his presence pressing down on the room.
"Huh?!!"
Kiana stared at the Valkyrie title, her face full of shock.
"The other me... the Herrscher of Finality?!"
"What kind of joke is this?"
Everyone's gazes fell on Kiana, utterly shocked.
Everyone present, except Seele who had been trapped in the Quantum Sea and had not received much information, understood exactly what the Herrscher of Finality meant.
It was the final judgment...
"Kiana? How is that possible?"
Himeko stared at Kiana's bewildered expression, muttering to herself, her thoughts becoming chaotic.
"W-wait! The other me didn't look like that!"
Kiana quickly cried out. Even she, usually so carefree, now understood the gravity of the situation.
"..."
Xia Qi didn't answer. She exchanged a glance with Kevin, a quiet note of warning in her eyes, then turned back and continued scrolling.
Kiana's energy attributes and the general names of her skills were listed, but no detailed information, presumably to prevent data theft.
And at the very bottom of the entry, three words appeared in Kiana's status bar that made everyone's pupils contract.
[Deceased]
Instant silence fell over the room.
"Dead?"
Kiana looked blankly at those three cold words in the other her's status bar.
"How is that possible! Not to mention that the other me I saw before didn't look like this at all! And the other me only left a month ago!"
"Already deceased?"
Kevin muttered softly beside her, brow furrowed.
"..."
Xia Qi silently closed Kiana's icon and quickly opened the next one.
[Raiden Mei
Valkyrie Rank: SSS
Valkyrie Title: Herrscher of Origin
Current Valkyrie Status: Deceased]
The Raiden Mei in this icon was also completely different from the one they had seen before. She looked more powerful, holy, and mysterious, like a Valkyrie from mythology.
"How can this be?!"
Raiden Mei's eyes widened in disbelief.
"Herrscher of Origin?"
Kevin stared at the title, turned to look at Raiden Mei beside him, then at Kiana, and finally at Xia Qi.
Xia Qi quickly closed Raiden Mei's icon.
The next icon was her own.
Without hesitation, she expressionlessly reached out and opened it.
But the figure inside was also completely different from her current appearance.
[Bronya Zaychik
Valkyrie Rank: SSS
Valkyrie Title: Herrscher of Truth
Current Valkyrie Status: Deceased]
Seeing "Deceased" marked on Bronya's icon, everyone felt as if an invisible hand had closed around their hearts, making it hard to breathe.
"Bronya... confirms that she is still alive."
Xia Qi looked down at herself, her gaze confused and bewildered.
"Maybe... maybe this Hyperion is from a second parallel world?"
Raiden Mei stammered.
"No. If that were the case, the Hyperion couldn't have recognized Bronya's identity. And the Raiden Mei from the parallel world told us her world was destroyed. She also said the words 'one appears, the other will disappear,' remember?"
Himeko's voice was strained.
Everyone's eyes showed profound confusion.
Kevin stepped forward.
Among the many icons, he had spotted familiar faces.
He reached out and opened them one by one.
Xia Qi didn't stop him. She stood to the side, her face showing confusion and helplessness, as though she had lost her footing and was on the verge of collapse.
Among the icons Kevin opened, whet
her from Schicksal, Anti-Entropy, or World Serpent, even among the Thirteen Flame-Chasers, familiar names appeared.
But their status was invariably the same.
Deceased.
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