Thousand-Person Ruler's Personal Opinion

Then, the book seemed to be hooked by a steel pipe. No matter how hard Kiana stomped, she couldn't move forward.

"Hm?"

Kiana turned her head and saw Anqi sitting upright, staring intently at Fu Hua as she walked out of the classroom. Anqi was holding Kiana's schoolbag with one hand.

"Hiyah!"

Kiana used all her strength, her small face flushed red, trying to pull her schoolbag out. However, Anqi's small hand was as unmoving as a statue cast in iron.

Tired, Kiana squatted down and rolled her eyes.

"What do you want?"

"Let's go, accompany me to intercept her!"

"I don't want to! I want to find Mei! I haven't seen Mei in ages!"

"Two strawberry cakes."

"Hey, what are you talking about? Do you think this little bit can tempt this young lady? I'm telling you, Mei is my..."

"Three. And I'll sleep in your room tonight, reluctantly acting as your hug pillow."

"Deal! I know the class monitor's usual route after school. Come on, I'll take you on a shortcut!"

Both parties shook hands amicably, reaching a win-win agreement. Then, Kiana enthusiastically pointed out the route.

Five minutes later, Fu Hua was walking on the road towards the library.

She stopped by a landscaped bush by the roadside.

"Sigh, Kiana, Anqi, what do you need me for?"

Fu Hua's expression was calm as she let out a soft sigh.

The next second, two adorable little heads indeed popped out from the bushes.

Anqi's face was serious, Kiana's was grinning. Both had some green grass and leaves on their heads, clearly having waited there in advance.

Then, under the gaze of Fu Hua and Kiana, Anqi stood in front of Fu Hua, brushed off the grass and leaves from her body, bowed, and held out a thick envelope with both hands.

"Teach me martial arts!"

"Uh, before that, I'd like to know what this is?"

"A gift for becoming my disciple. It's all my salary so far! And I'll hand it over on time every month until I graduate!"

Anqi maintained her bowing posture, looked up, her small face serious, and said in a soft, sincere voice.

"You, you really don't have to do this."

Fu Hua was momentarily speechless.

She felt the sincerity, but she had never seen such a way of expressing sincerity in her memory.

Fu Hua clenched her fist, brought it to her mouth, and coughed lightly.

"Cough, treating money like dirt is a very good quality. Uh, but, that... In any case, what I know is just some basic martial arts, it's all family heritage, nothing special. Instead of looking for me, you'd be better off practicing the basic physical techniques in combat class."

Fu Hua refused somewhat helplessly.

It wasn't that she was hoarding her skills.

The basic physical techniques developed by Otto were a highly simplified general version derived from her ultimate techniques. In terms of tempering the physique and controlling Honkai Energy, they were already sufficient for use by high-level Valkyries.

As for the true ultimate techniques, they required a talent that would exclude over 99% of people. Fu Hua was rather pessimistic about it, not believing Anqi would be an exception. Moreover, her current spy identity was not suitable for revealing too much power.

Anqi took a deep breath. She had been tailing Fu Hua for more than half a month, but Fu Hua had gotten used to it, rendering all her efforts over this period useless. She had reached her limit of tolerance for such an unyielding and introverted personality.

"(￣^￣)ゞ Hmph!"

Anqi straightened up, walked aggressively in front of Fu Hua, and with a "snap," placed the envelope into Fu Hua's hand, saying indignantly, "Take it! I'll be waiting for you at the training ground tomorrow morning! Kiana, let's go."

"Oh! Goodbye, Class Monitor~~"

Fu Hua stood in place, looking blankly at the slender backs of the two girls as they quickly ran away.

After a long while, she blinked, looked at the envelope in her hand, and said hesitantly, "I didn't agree to anything either, Anqi..."

However, Anqi, who should have heard this, had already cunningly disappeared without a trace.

'We've got the wrong approach! The Upper Immortal has never been an proactive person! She's always been very passive, just like when Kiana pulled her back when she was sealing Little Herrscher!'

'The Upper Immortal is the uke, the uke!'

'To learn Kiana's recklessness, that's the correct problem-solving approach!'

Anqi and the others made a painful decision, deeply regretting their mistakes over the past period.

It had been several months. If they had found the right direction earlier, given Anqi's competitive nature, who knew how many true skills she would have learned by now.

"I knew I had to go in strong! If I'm tough enough, she'll keep backing down until she teaches me the Sword God technique!"

"Finally, my thoughts are clear. Alright, starting tomorrow, we're going to drain the Upper Immortal's martial arts inventory dry!"

"Anqi, fight!"

Anqi nestled in Kiana's soft, fragrant embrace, her eyes lazily closing as she drifted off to sleep with anticipation for tomorrow.

But tonight, she had a strange dream.

The dream was set in a vast, snowy white space. Anqi's mind wasn't very clear, and she instinctively walked forward.

Until she saw an exquisite, beautiful crystal throne, unoccupied.

Walking around the throne, a graceful girl with silver hair spread across the ground sat leaning against the back of the crystal throne, holding a bag of chips in one hand and a handheld game console in the other.

Anqi peeked out from the side of the throne. The girl seemed to sense something and turned her head to look at Anqi.

"..." x2

They stared at each other, and the entire world fell into an unnerving silence.

This girl had golden eyes etched with a cross pattern, and a cute, beautiful face exactly like Kiana's. Crumbs from a mouthful of chips clung to the corner of her mouth. Upon seeing Anqi, her expression shifted rapidly, and she soon exuded a chilling killing intent.

Anqi remained motionless, clinging to the side of the crystal throne. She recognized this Queen, so beneath her expressionless little face, her heart was screaming like a groundhog.

Ah!!!

Chapter 57: Anqi: Charge!

"Boom!"

In the vast, snowy white consciousness space, Anqi was sprinting wildly, like a constantly warping golden lightning bolt.

From above, dark spatial rifts opened, like the muzzles of infinite cannons, firing countless terrifying silver spears.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The Void Spears chased Anqi like Death itself, relentlessly pursuing her.

Fortunately, Anqi's development of her own abilities had been continuous up to this point. Even with the vast difference in Honkai Energy, she could barely manage to maintain her evasion and dodging.

"Whoosh!"

A spear suddenly shot out from the front, a stroke of unexpected genius. Anqi's steps faltered, but her body continued to slide forward due to inertia, and she was about to be impaled by the spear.

Anqi's eyes scanned left and right, her expression placid, her heart extremely calm. In a flash, she spread her hands, and numerous threads wrapped around the Void Spears on all four sides, pulling herself up to avoid the fatal blow.

"You wild monkey, disappear!"

From above, the Queen of Void, furious, wiped the chip crumbs from the corner of her mouth. Then, she clapped her hands together, and hundreds upon thousands of Void Spears transformed into sharp ribbons, converging to cut towards Anqi in the middle.

Anqi frowned, looked up, and glanced expressionlessly at the enraged Queen of Void.

Sigh, she won't even let me speak, not even giving me a chance to kneel and beg for mercy!

I wouldn't go out and tell anyone that the Queen of Void is here playing games and eating chips all by herself, that she's a shut-in, right?

This seems to be escalating into a struggle for authority. So, did the Dominion Authority inadvertently play a role, pulling me to where the Herrscher of the Void is?

I wonder what kind of impact this kind of death will have on me?

Anqi sighed silently. A cool, sleek black skirt armor covered her body, and a dagger glowing with a faint blue light appeared in her hand.

Schicksal's B-rank Valkyrie, Anqi [Phantom Hunter Armor], has arrived in full glory!

"Die!"

Sirin sneered, clapping her hands together. The blade-like silver-white ribbons were closing in, about to crush Anqi in the middle.

Suddenly, an immense force transmitted through the ribbons to her hands.

"Hm?"

Sirin froze for a moment.

The next second, a powerful repulsive force erupted from within the ribbon-wrapped area, forcefully pushing open the converging Void Spear ribbons.

"What!?"

As Sirin exclaimed in surprise, she saw a delicate and beautiful doll-like little girl standing amidst the dense ribbons, raising her small hand and pointing at Sirin from afar.

"Oh Queen in the sky, witness the shattering of stars!"

Ninti's childish yet cold voice fell, and one miniature black hole after another appeared around Sirin. Chaotic gravity rapidly expanded, forming a powerful force that threatened to tear her to shreds.

Then, Ninti clenched her fist.

The miniature black holes suddenly expanded, turning Sirin's location into a death zone where gravity ran rampant, surely tearing anything within it into countless pieces, until it completely vanished?

"Boom!!!"

A world-shattering roar echoed throughout the consciousness world.

Afterward, Ninti took a slight breath and looked up, meeting the gaze of the Queen of Void, who had instinctively crossed her arms.

Sirin's delicate, smooth silver hair was disheveled by the black hole explosion from moments ago, and her elegant and beautiful Herrscher dress was also somewhat torn, appearing rather messy.

"That power... No, you're not that person, you are—a new Herrscher?"

Sirin lowered her hand, her rage and killing intent intensifying.

Even if they were her own kind, anyone who defiled the Queen's majesty deserved to die!

As Sirin raged, her peripheral vision caught a fleeting black shadow.

It was the Valkyrie Anqi in Phantom Hunter Armor, appearing behind her, a ghostly blue death dagger piercing through her head.

"Buzz—"

A spatial distortion black hole opened in an instant, sending Anqi, along with her blade, before Ninti.

Ninti caught Anqi with repulsive force.

At the same time, a massive black shadow appeared before Sirin, who had no time to revel in her momentary triumph.

The Titan's iron fist, like the head of a moving freight train, unceremoniously and overwhelmingly charged towards Sirin.

"Bang!"

Sirin was slammed into the ground, bending her knees to absorb the impact, creating a crater.

As she slowly rose into the air again, a legion was gathering opposite her.

Anqi, holding a long saber, Anqi, wielding twin swords, Anqi, fully armed with a long spear and cannon, about twenty different Anqi individuals walked step by step from behind the Phantom Anqi.

One by one, a full complement of one hundred Titan BT72s, like a hundred white giants, slowly descended upon this world.

Ninti hovered in the air, holding a Homonculus Doll in one hand and controlling an unstable, flickering black hole with the other, watching Sirin with cold indifference.

"How about a truce? We don't wish to conflict with you, Elder Sister." xn

The words were transmitted in unison from the mouths of the Anqi units and from within the mechanical giants.

Simultaneously, the sharpness of blades, the muzzles of thermal weapons, and the purple glow in the eyes of the Titan giants formed a suffocatingly powerful pressure.

This was all the combat power Anqi could muster: Ninti, whose power was second only to a Herrscher; one hundred Titans capable of overpowering an S-rank Valkyrie head-on; and over twenty Anqi individuals far more powerful than the Titans—all present, except for the five sleeping individuals, and the less powerful Young Lady Anqi and Cocolia Anqi.