Waltz of the Night.
Back at the Schicksal Headquarters, Lin Yu looked at Fu Hua beside him, her face full of worry, and could only think...
Sigh, Kevin is still an honest and kind person.
Although he had become much stronger in that one day for some reason, he really didn't expect Kevin to be instantly killed by him before they fought today.
Kevin, an honest and kind man, was actually tricked by Lin Yu in this final battle because he trusted Lin Yu too much.
It's fortunate that Lin Yu didn't really intend to kill him, otherwise Kevin would have been completely finished in today's battle.
Of course, now that Lin Yu has revealed some things, he's starting to have a headache.
Looking at the woman in front of him, who was clearly angry, Lin Yu felt...
—Alas, I really shouldn't have let Master know about this.
Having just listened to Lin Yu's plan, Fu Hua was currently suppressing the Herrscher of Reason who wanted to cause trouble while pondering...
—Or maybe she could just cause a scene with the Herrscher of Reason today.
"Master, I don't think you need to be so nervous."
How dare you say that!
Seeing Lin Yu's grinning face, Fu Hua was immediately annoyed and said.
"It's perfectly fine if you think the Stigmata Plan is no good. We all know that the project is rotten and will hurt a lot of people."
"But the problem is—how is your plan any better than the Stigmata Plan!"
[That's right, old fogey, stop messing around and let me out. Let's both curse that stinking apprentice together!!!]
"Ah, about this..."
After a moment's thought, Lin Yu looked at Fu Hua with great curiosity and asked her directly.
"You ask what the difference is, but the difference is clearly very obvious to the naked eye, isn't it?"
"I can't hold back anymore!"
Faced with Lin Yu, who was clearly pretending to be stupid, the Herrscher of Reason, in the instant that Fu Hua was half-dead with anger, directly seized control of the body, grabbed Lin Yu 'Lin Yu collar, and roared at him.
"You worthless brat! Of all the things to learn, you had to choose to learn Kevin!"
"He planned to use himself to steal the power of the Herrscher of Finality while carrying out the Stigmata Plan, and then bear that power bit by bit—and you're even crazier than him!"
"Ah, about this..."
Looking at the Herrscher of Reason in front of him, who was clearly in a hurry, Lin Yu smiled and said.
"I don't think either Kevin or I are stupid."
"Besides, isn't this just a tentative plan? If the plan goes smoothly..."
"I don't care, I don't care, I don't care! You just can't do this—"
Before the Herrscher of Reason could finish her tantrum, she suddenly stopped talking.
It wasn't that she heard Lin Yu say anything that calmed her down, it was mainly...
The next second, Lin Yu pushed her to the ground and forcibly kissed her on the spot.
After their lips parted, Lin Yu whispered in the ear of the Herrscher of Reason.
"Alright, I know the masters are very uneasy, but please believe me."
"This plan is infinitely more reliable than any other plan, and there will be no casualties—including me."
"If the masters are still uneasy, I will continue to soothe their hearts until they are completely at ease."
"However, please keep this a secret from others, as I'll probably be very busy in the coming days."
"You..."
After regaining control of her body, Fu Hua looked into Lin Yu's eyes and was certain that his attitude was sincere.
Although she had been deceived by Otto and his scoundrel apprentice many times in her life, this time...
Don't believe those outdated ideas!
No, I think we should still trust Lin Yu.
He's definitely going to do something reckless!
But even if we stop him, he will still act recklessly.
[You—you're the Crimson Heron Immortal! We're the ones in power, why are you acting like a submissive wife?!]
He's already very tired, at least for now...
"I understand, but right now, I feel..."
Fu Hua, who had forcefully reversed the offensive, now rode on Lin Yu whispered something to him.
"The person who needs to de-stress is not me, but you."
"I know you didn't reveal the whole plan at the World Serpent base just now, so..."
"I will keep this a secret for you, but at the same time, you must tell me the whole plan."
Meanwhile, the World Serpent Base
Inside the World Serpent's base, Kevin gazed at his 'brother', Elysian Realm Kevin, silently awaiting his response.
After some time, when Kevin of the Elysian Realm opened his eyes, a complex expression was clearly visible on his face.
How are you feeling?
"Lin Yu... he has truly blazed a new trail."
After saying this, a slight energy fluctuation appeared at the fingertips of the Elysian Realm Kevin.
"Zhenhua..."
"This special method of using power, combined with the special energy he gave us, allows us, the memory bodies who rely on Soul Steel Body to move, to use power far exceeding what we used to have."
When he first left Elysian Realm Kevin, although he had some of the original Kevin's memories and power usage techniques, was using a Soul Steel Body instead of Kevin's Chimera Body. Therefore, theoretically speaking, his strength was definitely far inferior to that of the original Kevin.
That's why Lin Yu had mentioned to some of them before that if needed, they could replace their Soul Steel Body with a corresponding physical body to move around.
But now, Elysian Realm Kevin feels that, putting aside some details of daily life, using the Soul Steel Body in battle might actually be more advantageous for him.
After the previous battle, in order to get Kevin and Elysia to hand over the back door and the Origin Power, Lin Yu directly revealed to everyone present the general method of using the [True Fusion] ability.
As the person most suitable to complete the True Fusion on site, Elysian Realm Kevin naturally asked Lin Yu to pour Dimensional Force into his body immediately, using his own body to verify whether Lin Yu's statement was correct.
Now he was certain that the True Fusion ability was indeed terrifyingly powerful.
Only by relying on the strength of Dimensional Force and the will of everything within the body to achieve unity of power can one complete the True Fusion.
True Fusion, which originally required the mecha and pilot to achieve human-machine integration, was naturally able to achieve [human-machine integration] when used by the Elysian Realm Kevin.
As for the difficulty, the True Fusion was not difficult for the Elysian Realm Kevin.
After learning about the power of True Fusion yesterday, Lin Yu used the characteristics of the Phantasm Lantern Barrier to enter a dream world and begin to study this power.
To avoid running out of time, he even used the Phantasm Lantern Barrier's ability to slow down time in his dreams.
The flow of time in dreams is inherently slower than that in reality. With the addition of the Phantasm Lantern Barrier, Lin Yu was able to study Dimensional Force and True Fusion for several years in just one night.
The reason he was able to defeat Kevin so easily today is because he had actually been plotting against him for several years last night.
After the battle, Lin Yu shared his analysis of the True Fusion ability and the details of this technique with everyone present.
As a genius warrior with rich experience and a thorough understanding of his own power, Elysian Realm Kevin is now the strongest among them besides Kevin himself. Under the Elysian Realm Vill-V's guidance, after understanding some of the details of the Soul Steel's structure, he easily completed the True Fusion with himself.
True Transformation, in essence, is true evolution. After completing True Transformation, Kevin could feel that the Honkai Energy, which was already difficult to erode Soul Steel, had a further reduced degree of erosion on Soul Steel.
"Hmm, if Kevin's perception is correct, then..."
After listening to Lin Yu's plan, Elysian Realm Tusu, who had been analyzing the current situation, showed a noticeable reduction in her worries.
"Mr. Lin Yu's plan is very simple. After taking away the back door's access and the Origin Herrscher's access, when the time is right, he can directly use the Power of Finality and the power of the Origin Herrscher as an opportunity to come to the Cocoon of Finality."
"After taking on the power of the Herrscher of Finality, he can attempt to achieve a 'True Fusion' with the cocoon, thus enabling him to operate as a 'human-machine unity' with the cocoon."
"But things are never that simple."
After abruptly and rudely interrupting Sue's speculation, Mobius said with a cold face.
"If Kevin is the one who bears the power, then after Kevin takes on the power of the Finality, his body will be constantly torn apart by the Power of Finality —okay, stop thinking about it."
Watching Elysian Realm Kevin crushed his own hand and then easily repaired it using Dimensional Force combined with his true transformation ability, Mobius continued irritably.
"Kevin can continuously repair his body by relying on a portion of the Honkai Beast power within the Chimera Power, while Lin Yu can also repair his body by using the power of True Transformation and Dimensional Force —I'll just say his repair ability is on par with the Chimera's."
"But have you ever thought about this—he can deal with physical damage, but can he avoid mental erosion?"
The cocoon is meant to embrace humanity; this was the conclusion Elysia reached before she died.
Knowing this conclusion, Kevin himself was well aware that Mobius's concerns were actually quite valid.
Regardless of what others think, even if a cocoon has no thoughts, it must still have some patterns of behavior.
Moreover, judging from the fact that Hua started the Kindling Project five thousand years ago, and then Chiyou emerged, the so-called invader Cocoon, which supposedly came to 'embrace humanity,' never intended for humanity to have an easy time in terms of its mechanism.
If Lin Yu and Cocoon were to undergo True Fusion, the most serious problem would arise.
The prelude to True Fusion requires five eras, and the era of "Water Fusion," which represents fusion, requires opposing forces and different races to put aside their hatred, coexist and prosper, and ultimately merge to reach a new realm.
Unfortunately, it was not a human who transcended this era, but Elysia, who possessed both the identities of Herrscher and a human at the time.
What's even more regrettable is that Lin Yu, as a Honkai guy whose entire family was killed by the Honkai and a vengeful ghost, is absolutely not going to make any 'reconciliation' with the Cocoon of Finality, the real culprit who killed his parents.
Not only would the difficulty of True Fusion increase if hatred could not be abandoned, but Lin Yu's mental pressure would also inevitably increase due to the fusion with the cocoon.
Like Kevin, he carried the burden of all humanity, but he also harbored even more radical emotions than Kevin. Considering this, Mobius's statement makes perfect sense.
Moreover, the backdoor can only be opened once. Once the backdoor is opened, the Flame-Chasers have no other way to open a new one.
In other words, from the moment Kevin gave Lin Yu the backdoor access, they had no other way out.
Although Lin Yu once said that even if the True Fusion failed, he would not let the Cocoon of Finality have an easy time, the problem is that even if Lin Yu dismantles a part of the cocoon, it is still the Cocoon of Finality.
The World Serpent's methods of stalling for time can only buy so much time. In this limited time, Su, who has already become familiar with the Anti-Entropy group, can only follow Lin Yu's backup plan and begin to mass-produce the Moonlight Throne.
This thing could have been developed decades ago, but it's only now that it's entering mass production...
Alas, Mr. Otto, if he had been a decent human being, we wouldn't be in such a rush.
As it turns out, although Mr. Lin Yu's plan has changed a lot, its essence remains the same.
He'll handle the Finality alone, then use the mass-produced Moonlight Throne as a backup plan; if things go wrong, he'll dismantle the cocoon...
—No wonder this looked so familiar; wasn't this what he did in his illusion?
At the time, I felt that it was a bit strange that Mr. Lin Yu had told the other members of the organization about his special barrier ability in advance in the illusion, and that he had developed the Moonlight Throne in advance with this ability and improved it into the Moonlight Throne Chariot.
Looking back now...
—Could it be that at that time, he was already using the illusion to conduct some research on combating the Finality?
Looking back on how she wanted to test Lin Yu, Su Zhen now finds herself a bit ridiculous.
This test-taker not only gave himself a perfect score on Su's test, but even added extra questions for himself.
Su had seen many curly dogs, but this was the first time he had ever seen one curled up like this.
Although Mobius analyzed the flaws in the plan, the problem was that no matter what Mobius said, everyone had actually noticed one thing.
The reason why Honkai is accelerating is ultimately because Honkai is [afraid]. So no matter how much they discuss it now...
—Based on the premise that Lin Yu has already made the Honkai [fear], Su feels that the probability of Lin Yu resolving the Cocoon of Finality is actually quite high.
The biggest problem with this matter, besides the remedial measures after failure, is another issue.
Mr. Lin Yu, if the plan succeeds...
—Are you really going to be able to get back to your family safely?
Chapter 343. The Waltz of the Night
In the period following that war, the three major organizations, Schicksal, Anti-Entropy, and World Serpent, united under the guidance of their respective leaders to resist the Honkai phenomena that appeared around the world.