We've Done It--Are You Satisfied with That?
Not only that, he even entered the Stigmata Space and summoned Rin, who was slacking off in Yae Village.
"Huh? What's up with you all of a sudden?"
After scanning her surroundings, Ling asked, puzzled.
"This doesn't look like an enemy attack at all—and if it were an enemy attack, you wouldn't have made me come out."
"Ring, I'm serious, you have to help me this time."
After completing the link between the Divine Key and the Blank Key, Lin Yu spoke to Ling very seriously.
"Regardless of what you think, killing Otto would only bring benefits and no harm to either of us."
"Never forget that this old man loves his fiancée, and you were the Herrscher who almost killed him and injured his fiancée. If he has the chance, he will never let you go."
"Hey, your fiancée?"
Suzu, who had been staying in Yae Village for the past few days, suddenly revealed a malicious smile.
"Haha, he loved her so deeply, but in the end, his fiancée was still tricked away by Yae Sakura."
"Is a mere green-haired turtle worth 'Warrior Lin Yu' treating so cautiously?"
Seeing Ling clearly mocking Otto, Lin Yu choked up.
Wow, is this fox really that floating monster?
It feels like Rin's character design has gone completely awry.
"Okay, objectively speaking, he is indeed a green-haired turtle, but..."
"—Even if he is a green-haired turtle, he is still the strongest green-haired turtle in the world!"
"If you want to laugh at him, you'll have to wait until he's dead—then I'll laugh with you!"
"Now, let's get down to business—Go!"
"Alright, alright, let's get down to business."
At this moment, Ling naturally walked to Lin Yu's side and pressed her newly acquired body tightly against Lin Yu's body.
Lin Yu, who hadn't expected Ling to do this at all, couldn't help but sigh as he felt the soft sensation coming from behind him...
—As expected of Sakura's younger sister, she's grown quite big in every way as she's grown up.
"Okay, don't get distracted."
After taking Lin Yu's hand, Lin Yu in an annoyed tone.
"It's not a bad thing that you've connected Jizo Mitama with the Blank Key. With me, the master of the core, guiding it, and with the enhancement of the Blank Key, this should make up for some of the shortcomings of you and me not knowing how to use the power of erosion."
"I'll leave that aside for now, but..."
At this moment, Lin Yu looked back at Ling with a suspicious gaze.
"You're Erosion Herrscher, aren't you? You've forgotten how to use your powers?"
"Nonsense, fifty thousand years have passed. My consciousness remembers everything from the past, but under the influence of the Honkai, the hatred in my heart has become my greatest obsession. As for the rest..."
At this point, Ling coughed twice.
"Some people forget things from the past after ten years. It's normal that I'll forget how to use my powers most efficiently after fifty thousand years, right?"
If that were the case, you wouldn't have had such a strong corrosive effect on others five hundred years ago.
I have a feeling that it was the micro- Honkai that caused you to make a small mistake at a crucial moment.
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Chapter 275. We've done it—are you satisfied now?
Ten minutes later
After using the power of the Erosion Herrscher to corrupt Schicksal's computer, Lin Yu and Ling reluctantly deactivated the power ten minutes later.
Even though Rin's power at this moment is far inferior to her peak state when she had Honkai Support, Schicksal's technology is still based on what the Fire Moth had left over.
With her abilities, it wouldn't be difficult for her to retrieve a program and complete the intrusion.
However, this task is not difficult to complete, but there is one very important prerequisite.
That is—the [Rebirth] program is still on the computer at the Schicksal Headquarters.
For Otto, leaving the [Rebirth] program at Schicksal Headquarters was actually the safest option.
In this world, there are very few people who are capable of completely breaching the Schicksal Firewall, and there are almost none who can bypass the Schicksal Firewall and find the Rebirth Program.
Moreover, if the Rebirth Program is at the Schicksal Headquarters, and assuming that the computers at the Schicksal Headquarters remain independent from the outside world, it would not only require technical expertise to hack into the core of Schicksal's computers and extract the Rebirth Program, but also require the hacker himself to come to the headquarters first.
As a result, since Otto himself was not at the Schicksal Headquarters, he cowardly transferred the Rebirth Program, leaving behind a fake that was indistinguishable from the real thing.
If the expert in charge of hacking into the computer this time hadn't been the [Corrosion Herrscher], Lin Yu wouldn't have even been able to discover that the thing Otto hid was fake, even if he had just been holding the Jizo Mitama.
He should not be underestimated.
In terms of causing trouble and surviving, this old dog has always been a top-tier character.
"So, what do we do now?"
After letting go of Lin Yu's hand quite naturally, Ling slowly walked from behind Lin Yu to his side.
"Not only is this Rebirth Program fake, but that green-haired turtle also deleted all the records of the transfer program."
"If you want to get rid of him completely, the only way is to try to erode his soul steel body and make him spit out the location of the program."
"This is so troublesome..."
After putting away the Jizo Mitama and the Blank Key, Lin Yu said helplessly.
"In the end, we still have to lure this guy out..."
"Tch, he'll definitely show his face, but who knows what he'll bring with him next time."
"Why are you worrying about these things so much?"
Seeing the visible resentment on Lin Yu's face, Ling said with great confusion.
"With your strength, let alone that green-haired turtle, even Kevin can't beat you anymore."
"He can't even beat you, shouldn't he be afraid of you? Why do you seem to be the one afraid of him?"
Yes, why is that?
Damn it, that scoundrel is an old dog. It's no use beating him.
I certainly won't be killed by the Honkai Energy Fission Bomb like Joyce, but Otto would definitely throw the fission bomb if he were desperate.
The original Twilight of the Fool period of the Fool because his plan had reached its final stage.
But this timeline now...
The Void Key is in Kiana's hands.
Although Kiana suppressed her Herrscher Persona with Lin Yu's help, she clearly did not grow to the level of a late-game hero.
I don't know yet if I've managed to get my hands on the Otto beacon.
Otto failed to reach any of these key milestones, so the current Otto certainly doesn't have as much leeway as he did before his death in the original story.
Rather, it's more accurate to say that in Otto's eyes, Lin Yu is probably a super-enhanced version of Siegfried. If Lin Yu shows even the slightest weakness during the battle, giving Otto the feeling that "Lin Yu is already weakened," then what Lin Yu will face will probably not be just two Honkai Energy Fission Bomb.
That's not even the worst of it.
If the Honkai Energy Fission Bomb comes at him, as long as there aren't a lot of innocent victims where Lin Yu is, and he's still conscious, he can use the Quantum Teleportation System, Kiana's abilities, and the Divine Key to instantly teleport.
However, if Otto realizes that attacking Lin Yu is ineffective and shifts his focus to innocent civilians in other areas, forcing Lin Yu and his group to rescue those innocent people and thus revealing a weakness...
That's definitely something he would do.
Moreover, this old dog has a history of cooperating with the Honkai.
Honkai is causing trouble, Otto is causing trouble, and while Kevin might not cause trouble at this time, who knows what kind of chemical reaction will occur when those two powerful people join forces.
"Ah, I think I guessed it."
After forming a guess in her mind, Ling suddenly revealed a meaningful smile.
"You don't still think this is an illusion created by that Su guy, do you?"
"In Su's illusion, because you knew about the events that happened 50,000 years ago in advance, you had the means to deal with them and ultimately minimized the disaster."
"That's why you've always felt that 'if it were Lin Yu, he should be able to do the same thing,' right?"
"What an arrogant fellow. In our time, no one tried to liberate the sealed Herrscher, nor did such a troublesome guy stand against humanity."
"Under these circumstances, you still expect to do everything perfectly?"
The bell, which was staring at Lin Yu, suddenly let out a cold snort, and its figure began to slowly dissipate.
"I'll just keep watching. If you can't see your own strength and the strength of your enemy, and you blindly try to do things that you can't do at all, you'll drive yourself to your death sooner or later."
Listening to Ling's last words, Lin Yu knew that Ling was absolutely right.
Although Otto was far inferior to Lin Yu in terms of individual strength, he had not been wasting his time in the past five hundred years.
Otto, who had been preparing for the battle against the Honkai, secretly developed countless modern weapons.
Of course, during the Second Honkai Eruption, all the conventional weapons that were created by Otto's personal mistake, which resulted in powerful Herrscher, were eventually deployed to the front lines.
However, fourteen years have passed since that great war.
In these fourteen years, the military technology of the Schicksal has developed at an incredibly rapid pace.
Otto not only developed the Valkyrie Armor with the help of the Blank Key, thus eliminating the protective suits that the Valkyrie were still using from the Second Honkai Eruption to 2010, but also, in just a few years, he pushed the Valkyrie Armor to the fourth generation by climbing the technology tree.
Moreover, in the past ten years or so, Schicksal has also developed the Divine Machine Force, added the Nexus System to the Hyperion's weapon system, which can link with the Valkyrie and grant them life-saving abilities, and created a large number of Stigmata Weapon using Soul Steel.
Given these circumstances, Otto must have filled the previously empty armory to the brim.
If this guy were to imitate Lan Meng...
My head hurts so much.
Moreover, it's uncertain whether Otto will be aware of today's operation.
I still have a lot to do, but to lower Otto's guard...
Having thought of this, Lin Yu suddenly felt that there was no need for him to be busy with unnecessary things.
To put it bluntly, all he can do is insert the Jizo Mitama into the computer at the Schicksal Headquarters, or find Otto and insert the Jizo Mitama into Otto's ASS.
Now that Otto himself cannot be found, and the computers at Schicksal Headquarters have been searched by him and Rin, it's best to leave the rest to other professionals.
Schicksal is a huge team, and although Anti-Entropy was severely weakened by Cocolia, it can still be considered a large organization.
Rather than worrying about these problems alone, he'd rather leave them to his trusted companions.
He can now be considered a member of the Apocalypse clan.
The members of the Apocalypse clan must follow their ancestral teachings and be good at being hands-off managers.
Well, although the Apocalypse clan doesn't have this training, Otto and Theresa do it most of the time.
Otto aside his character issues, Otto actually did quite well in some aspects.
As a leader, it is reasonable and smart to delegate tasks to subordinates when there are things you don't need or can't handle yourself.
He wasn't needed to kill ordinary Honkai Beast, so he sent ordinary Valkyrie instead.
He couldn't come up with such a complex plan on his own, so he asked Changguang to plan several options for him, and then chose the one with the highest success rate.
As for when Otto needs to step in... that's usually a bad thing later on.
Now, if I want to lower Otto's guard, all I can do is...
Sigh, stop thinking so much, let's just get moving.
Meanwhile, somewhere in Schicksal, Yuno's communicator suddenly rang.
Then, Yuno communicator, looked at the text message Lin Yu had sent, and immediately showed a speechless expression on her face.
[No mole. The date is tomorrow; the meeting place will be decided later. — Lin Yu.]