Elysia's Meeting (Continued)

Pardo said she is terrified right now.

"Alright, you're not in charge of the front line, so don't be so scared."

Liu Bai gently rubbed Pardo's head.

Actually, apart from Pardo, the others are also under a lot of pressure.

"Learn from your Sister Elysia how to relax. If you could learn even a third of Aili's mindset, I wouldn't need to give you advice now."

"I actually think that Sister Elysia seems to be under a lot of pressure?" Pardo scratched her head. She really felt that Elysia wasn't as relaxed as she appeared on the outside lately.

"Her? Under a lot of pressure?" Liu Bai was taken aback when he heard Pardo's words.

At the same time, Pardo's phone suddenly rang with a silly and cute ringtone.

"Oh, what a coincidence, Sister Elysia is looking for us."

Where to?

"Meeting room."

"Then let's go take a look—I'll head over first." Liu Bai's figure gradually disappeared.

"Hey—you're cheating, sir!"

"Good afternoon, Aili." Liu Bai had just moved to Aili's side when he saw Elysia sitting in the large chair in the conference room, lost in thought.

"Oh, good afternoon, Liu Bai! You saw the text message too?"

Elysia gave Liu Bai a bright smile.

"From what you're saying, it wasn't just sent to Pardo, but to quite a few people?"

"No, no, it was actually sent to our Flame-Chasers. It was also sent to Dr. Mei, but Dr. Mei might not be able to make it back in time."

"I see—" Liu Bai suddenly had a bad feeling. "What is the topic of this meeting?"

"Um... well... about the discussion on the humanity of Herrscher?" Elysia seemed a little uncomfortable.

"Why are we still discussing the Herrscher at a time like this?" Liu Bai asked, somewhat puzzled.

"Um... it's just a casual discussion... cough cough, we'll talk about the details when everyone arrives."

"It doesn't look like a good thing?"

"It's not that bad..." Elysia sighed, then shut her mouth, looking as if she was unwilling to continue.

Before long, everyone else arrived. As for Mei, who couldn't make it back, with Liu Bai there, it wasn't so important whether she could come back or not.

"Um, everyone, I have something to announce." Elysia looked at the seated crowd and stood up.

"Although it may sound abrupt, I have decided to sacrifice myself to bring another possibility to the future—the possibility of living in harmony with the Herrscher, or even fighting side by side."

"... Aili, what do you mean by that?" While the others were still confused, Mobius immediately became restless. "What do you mean by bringing possibilities to the future? We're not finished yet!"

Elysia was one of her few close friends, so Mobius naturally couldn't just stand by and watch her do something foolish.

"Stop talking about such useless things! What possibility is there? Is it even useful?"

"It's useful—Doctor, don't forget I'm Herrscher too." Elysia looked at Mobius very seriously.

Although she wasn't quite sure what her special effects were, her instincts as Herrscher told her that she was capable of doing it.

"Why does it have to be a sacrifice?" Liu Bai asked thoughtfully. "For Herrscher, these kinds of actions related to special effects mainly rely on the core, right? Also, could the rest of you please be quiet?"

After a brief moment of shock, Liu Bai remained calm and thought that Elysia might have gotten stuck on a futile idea.

"Although the core is the source of life and energy for the Herrscher, it doesn't mean that the Herrscher will necessarily die without the core. Moreover, what is required for this behavior? Does it have to be self-destruction? Or is it simply an enormous energy output that is practically an overdraft under normal conditions? Let's talk about this." Liu Bai remained calm and asked Elysia in an orderly manner.

"... Huh? This..."

Chapter 448 Bearing Humiliation and Heavy Burden

"Well..." Liu Bai's question left Elysia somewhat dumbfounded.

However, for Liu Bai, these questions actually came to him after a rapid brainstorming session following the initial shock.

There was nothing they could do; Elysia's words today were just too explosive, almost causing Liu Bai's brain to shut down—in fact, some people present had already started to shut down.

"Is this... really that important?"

"Of course it's important— Aili, do you think the idea that you can bring more humanity to the future Herrscher comes from an instinctive intuition?"

"Ah... um, is there a problem?"

"There's a problem, you could even say there's a big problem." Liu Bai looked at Elysia with the same expression he had when looking at Pardo. "Aili, you're always a step behind when it comes to your Herrscher identity—is it possible that this feeling of yours means you're actually Honkai 'authority dog'?"

The fact that Herrscher can influence the future sounds very suspicious—your level of authority is wrong!

The prerequisite for a brick to fly isn't just having great strength; you also need to have a brick! Otherwise, where will it fly to?

In Liu Bai's view, Elysia's current situation is like having the brick in her hand. Elysia herself can even feel which line she should throw the brick onto; all she lacks is the strength.

"No need to ask anymore. Under the Honkai system, even the cost is mainly Honkai Energy." Mobius's mind calmed down at this moment.

The Honkai energy system is very basic; there's no messy stuff like blood, spiritual energy, battle aura, or soul power. The foundation is Honkai Energy! What's more, Aili is the absolute darling of the Honkai system, the Herrscher!

Life as a price? No way. If life is required as a price, it just means you haven't provided enough Honkai Energy!

"Uh... me, a privilege dog?" Elysia ignored Mobius and looked at Liu Bai with some disbelief.

She hadn't really thought about that.

"If you're not a privilege dog, then who is? Don't forget, although you call yourself the Herrscher of Human, you are actually the 'Origin' that is the opposite of 'The Finality'. Although there is a difference in theoretical magnitude, you should be comparable in terms of rank—if we look at the view that the Finality itself is flawed, you might even Finality in terms of rank." Liu Bai's gaze towards Aili turned into one of affection for Pardo.

What the Finality is this "End" reset? You can exploit any loophole you find.

Judging from Elysia's actions, it's likely that Aili from the original timeline made the same choice.

Looking at the current civilization, even including Sirin, none of the ambitious Herrscher and lost their minds. This shows that although this thing is a bit mysterious, it is indeed useful. It can be said that it has magnified the originally slim chance to a 50/50 level.

Sirin's desire to destroy the world stems from her genuine desire to destroy the world, not from being driven by the Honkai... She's open-minded and can give up at any time.

Well, this isn't something Sirin can brag about.

Even though they are both Herrscher of Domination of the Honkai Dimension, their humanity is actually ridiculously strong.

So it seems that Elysia's authority is very strong, really strong. With a little effort, the current civilization can break free from the Honkai's control; it's almost like feeding her a meal—although this "little effort" is not something that can be done casually.

And more importantly, that's 50,000 years later! The Honkai itself had been dormant for over 40,000 years, yet what Elysia left behind remained unbroken, and its effectiveness even seemed undiminished.

This can't even be simply summarized as a "privilege dog." To put it bluntly, this thing is more like a programmer. Okay, let's not go that far. Let's say it's like a programmer's precious daughter.

"Hmm... Liu Bai, you said I'm comparing myself to the Finality, but I feel like the gap between me and the Finality can't be summed up by just saying 'there's a theoretical difference in magnitude,' right? I feel like there's something wrong with me, given the magnitude difference between us."

Elysia rarely argued with Liu Bai, but judging from the implication, Elysia had already been persuaded by Liu Bai.

Maybe, perhaps, possibly... I really am a privileged user?

Seeing Elysia pondering and even looking convinced, most of the people present breathed a sigh of relief, but then they all thought of the same place as Elysia.

Since they simply need energy, could they provide it...? Apart from Kalpas, who seems indifferent to everything, they listened carefully to what Elysia said at the beginning, so they were all very concerned about the topic of Herrscher and humanity.

Then, the outspoken Pardo was the first to ask, "Master, if Sister Elysia only wants Honkai Energy, we still have many energy plants, right? Can we spare one or two?" The application of Honkai Energy in the Previous Era was so widespread that even Pardo wouldn't be wrong on this issue.

However, it was Mobius was the first to reject Pardo: "No, the energy plant and the Aili Honkai Energy that Ellie can use are two different things. They are not fundamentally different, nor can they be easily classified together."

Mobius's reasoning for this judgment is simple—in previous Herrscher invasions, the Energy Plant has never been attractive to any Herrscher.

Although Herrscher are obsessed with fighting, they would never mind improving their strength. The lack of attraction proves that Herrscher do not have the power to directly convert large amounts of "wild" energy. This is not some strange cultivation novel with any refining or refining concepts.

If Elysia could truly enhance her combat power by refining "wild" Honkai Energy, she wouldn't have let Pardo bring up this idea now.

Mei is certain that even if most people have to go to the shelter ahead of time, she should still let Elysia absorb energy vigorously in the factory. From the time Elysia revealed her identity until now, without exaggeration or bias, she has been staying in the energy factory with unlimited production capacity. She can definitely absorb a Herrscher of Origin of the Herrscher of Finality.

The Previous Era is currently lacking in everything except Honkai Energy.

But in reality, this is just wishful thinking... which is really frustrating.

"So, having come this far, there's really only one path left, isn't there?" Vil-V said somewhat helplessly. "Liu Bai's blessing—but I'm curious, if Liu Bai relies on his invulnerability, could he exploit a bug?"

"You mean you want to put Aili in a 'dead, but not completely dead' bug?" Mobius rolled his eyes at Vil-V. This guy's idea was a bit pretentious. If they really did that, Elysia would definitely die from exhaustion and become a useless person, only being kept alive by Liu Bai. If Liu Bai left, Elysia might just disappear like a bubble.

That means they have absolutely no ability to save themselves and can only rely on others to find a way to save them. But at this point, how can they save Elysia, whose life force has been reduced to negative levels? Transferring Honkai energy Honkai Energy not the problem, but the fear is that Elysia, who is only on her last breath, is like a broken gourd, leaking out as much Honkai Energy as you transfer in.

As for healing Honkai Energy... sorry, there isn't any. The only thing that comes close is Aponia, but putting aside whether her ability will even work, she's already ruined her own discipline. Vil-V is even thinking of getting Aponia a dedicated Stasis Pod.

So now things are a bit awkward. After realizing this, Aponia silently lowered her head.

"Anyway, Vil-V, stop suggesting dangerous things." Mobius said, giving Vil-V a disgruntled glare. Just because she's not your best friend doesn't mean you can bring this up so easily, huh?

Vil-V gave an innocent look and immediately stopped talking. She was just saying it. As it turns out, if the blessing doesn't work, exploiting a bug is also an option! Theoretically, the success rate of this bug-exploiting operation is 100% - of course, this is thanks to Liu Bai's simple and brutal invincibility mechanism. Even if Elysia spends all her money to become a blank slate and her health points become negative, as long as the host is Aili, Liu Bai can keep her alive.

Although it's extremely dangerous, the success rate is high. The real side effect is that it directly locks two people in— Elysia is ruined, and Liu Bai can't go to the moon to participate in the war.

However, Vil-V also realized that not only Mobius, but even Liu Bai himself didn't really consider this plan.

"Let's rely on the enhancement," Liu Bai sighed. "550%, more than five times, is that enough?"

"Um... I'm not really sure, but shall I give it a try?" Elysia scratched her face a little embarrassedly.

She was quite touched to see that these people were thinking of her.

However, when it comes to buffs, the 5.5x all-around buff she needs is a buff to her health and mana bars.

Even if you spend all your mana, you can still spend nine-tenths of your health bar without any problems... Well, actually, for Herrscher, without mana, the remaining health bar is useless.

The Herrscher are tough because they can use their mana bar as a health bar. Of course, there are limitations. Kevin's sword can cut Herrscher in half. There's no way around it; being cut in half means that their attack power far exceeds their defense, which is considered an instant death condition...

Conversely, if you can't achieve a physical instant death like "cut in half" or "headshot," which isn't something everyone can do, currently only Aili, Kevin, and Sakura can probably do it. Even Qian Jie, who has more Kalpas, can only catch one Herrscher and then brutally hack and beat them until the Herrscher is depleted, eventually destroying the Herrscher by hacking or beating them to pieces...

Elysia is willing to spend 90% of her mana because Herrscher have a fast mana regeneration rate; as long as she doesn't die on the spot, she can always recover.

"Five and a half times!" Several of the more assertive women present grimaced at the number.

To prevent these people from comparing themselves to each other, Liu Bai usually doesn't mention the specific increase in value, so these people don't really feel it clearly.

For someone like Elysia, whose power is increased by 5.5 times, the actual perceived increase in combat power is more than ten times. This includes things like health and mana bars, attack and defense speed, and even self-control, mana and health regeneration. If all of these are increased by 5.5 times, the actual combat power would not be worthy of the term "all-rounder" if it did not soar more than ten times. For this reason, the calculations of this group are actually not very accurate.

Previously, because everyone felt the numbers weren't very accurate, and they wouldn't answer when asked, these people had always felt quite confident. But now that Elysia had given them this number, those of them, especially those who could do math, did some calculations based on their usual practice and immediately started to panic.

According to this calculation, all of them would be around three to four times the normal rate, but this guy is at 5.5, which is just bizarre.

Okay, three to four times is not low. Based on this calculation, the figure for men is probably around two times.

(Should I ask Hua for a favor...?) Eden thought to himself. In matters of love, he, who had been with Liu Bai for over thirty years, had actually been outdone.

It's definitely because I didn't sleep with Liu Bai!

Incidentally, Mobius's ideas are now similar to Eden's.

"Brother, I feel the atmosphere has suddenly turned dangerous..." Kosma nudged Kevin with a subtle expression.

"Observe more, learn more," Kevin said with a straight face, without turning his head.

Isn't it normal for the atmosphere to become tense when discussing this kind of topic?

Don't make a fuss, just keep a low profile.

"... Doctor, could you please tone down your malice?" Elysia's lips twitched slightly. Although she was very proud, she was a little hesitant to show it, feeling that if she did, she would become public enemy number one.

"...OK."

After a brief silence, Mobius tried to adjust his mindset while glaring at Eden.

You better settle down! Don't think I don't know what you're thinking!

Eden looked up at the ceiling, pretending that Mobius wasn't there—just a nobody, not worth paying attention to.

"Aili, is it okay to try it here?" Just to be on the safe side, Mobius asked Elysia again, "Even if you feel you can do it, don't rush into it. It won't make a difference if you do it one more day."

Anyway, Liu Bai's skill can only be used once a day.

"Activate the Herrscher form directly," Liu Bai reminded him from the side.

Elysia doesn't really like activating her Herrscher form, but the Herrscher form does offer an advantage. Many people can fight Elysia in her normal state, but if Elysia activates her Herrscher form, those people can't fight her anymore.

"Good."

Elysia immediately agreed, and then pure white armor covered Elysia's body, with a crystal halo appearing behind her, holy and beautiful.

"Get serious, I'm about to give a blessing, three, two, one..."

Boom--!