Honkai Simulator: Not for Kidnapping Herrschers!

When the Honkai source was found, Chen Ran was the first to locate the Fourth Herrscher and immediately went all out against it.

Then, that Herrscher played dirty and conjured a symbiotic Honkai Beast.

Right, he had almost forgotten the established fact that every Herrscher's birth comes with a symbiotic Honkai Beast.

The Fourth Herrscher's symbiotic Honkai Beast was a multi-eyed monster, resembling a gorilla with many eyes, and each eye could create vortices and storms.

And the Fourth Herrscher stood atop the Honkai Beast, wielding the raging winds.

Chen Ran said, "You keep that Honkai Beast busy for me, I'll handle the Herrscher."

Kevin frowned, "Are you sure you didn't mix that up?"

"Heh, you wouldn't know about this."

Chen Ran said, "New Herrschers are much easier to deal with than Honkai Beasts. Honkai Beasts appear with fixed strength, but Herrschers are different; they still need to adapt to their authority."

"So Kevin, you're carrying this time, I'll just be cheering '666'."

Kevin: "..."

What put Chen Ran and Kevin at ease was that the Herrscher did not leave the city.

The newly born Herrscher was not powerful and needed to absorb Honkai Energy to grow. And before the Herrscher could fully absorb the Honkai Energy, it was an opportunity for the Flame-Chaser to retrieve it.

Soon, Chen Ran and Kevin found the Herrscher and its symbiotic Honkai Beast, Vayu. Vayu was the temporary name the Flame-Chaser had just assigned, taken from South Asian mythology for convenience.

Incidentally, there were quite a few South Asians within the Flame-Chaser.

The Fourth Herrscher stood on Vayu's head, looking like a real-life combination of Beauty and the Beast.

However, the Herrscher before them possessed no consciousness. Chen Ran had fought her before and found that her body only had the desire to fight and destroy, making communication impossible.

So, awakening the Herrscher with love was not an option here.

Only the righteous iron fist would do.

"You take the gorilla, I'll take the beauty."

Chen Ran, holding the new weapon modified by Vill-V, aimed directly at the Fourth Herrscher.

"Let's test the power of my latest invention!"

The Wind Gun, manufactured based on fluid architecture, could condense powerful wind pressure in a short time, thereby creating fierce storms through air pressure differences, rapidly damaging fragile human body tissues and organs.

This had surpassed the scope of general-purpose weapons and was a new weapon specifically customized for him by Vill-V.

Kevin couldn't help but envy, "The engineering department really treats you well."

"Of course, I exude charm all over," Chen Ran chuckled, making it hard to tell if he was joking or being serious.

However, Kevin didn't mind; his weapon had also been upgraded by MEI.

After MEI finished her internship at the Sixth Material Institute, she had improved Kevin's weapon and combat suit performance, which was also why MEI recommended Kevin for the battlefield.

In short, he also received special treatment.

After Chen Ran used the wind pressure weapon, Kevin's machine gun also aimed at Vayu's eyes, and the intense laser directly hit, making the behemoth agitated.

It looked at Kevin, its mouth filled with storms, and spewed them out.

This was already close to the level of magic.

However, Kevin adjusted the machine gun again, and the surrounding temperature dropped sharply, causing the storm Vayu spewed out to be quelled in the low temperature.

Chen Ran clicked his tongue and aimed his weapon at the ground, using wind pressure to launch himself high into the air, rapidly approaching the Fourth Herrscher.

"As expected, Vill-V's equipment is so good. I finally understand why people spend money on games."

"Because if you don't spend money, you'll have to spend your life!"

He didn't tell Kevin that to get this weapon, Vill-V had drained him and himself dry, and he had even borrowed some funds from the First Research Institute.

Upon approaching the Fourth Herrscher, Chen Ran extended his other hand.

"Next, I'll show you what a storm is!"

He utilized the authority of the Herrscher of Wind to its extreme.

Invisible wind blades began to slice at the Herrscher.

Chapter 58: The Dawn of Wind

The strong wind did not cease.

But the Herrscher stopped her movements.

She instinctively dodged the invisible wind blades, yet found herself in an even more perilous situation.

Chen Ran had severed her connection to her symbiotic Honkai Beast.

Chen Ran's lips curved slightly, "Oh, you can't even match me with your authority? In that case, perhaps I should become this Herrscher myself."

The Herrscher did not speak.

Unlike Wendy, the Herrscher of Wind before him had no ability to communicate with people, not even basic interaction.

However, after Chen Ran spoke in a taunting tone, the girl who had become the Herrscher uttered a guttural syllable.

"Okay."

Chen Ran was slightly taken aback. "What did you say?"

"This is a gift... and also a curse."

Her words were somewhat muddled, making it difficult to discern. However, her subsequent actions stunned Chen Ran.

"An agent of God... merely a slave."

She suddenly attacked Chen Ran. He dodged instinctively and then counterattacked with the weapon in his hand.

The mere collision of wind pressure seemed capable of tearing apart the surrounding airflow. Chen Ran instinctively pursued, while his other hand conjured a storm, directly shattering her wind field.

Surprisingly, this Herrscher had completely dropped all her defenses.

"This..."

A flicker of shock flashed in his pupils.

Until the young girl collapsed into his arms.

"We are of the same kind... I hope you can break the curse of our kind."

The Herrscher was dead.

Her end came in a way Chen Ran couldn't comprehend.

Her accompanying Honkai Beast, Vayu, fell into a frenzy because of this, but it was merely target practice for Kevin.

The storm gradually subsided. Kevin looked at Chen Ran, a hint of surprise in his eyes. "I didn't expect you to truly have the power to resolve Herrschers. It seems your progress has been immense."

Chen Ran paused and said, "Can I say that this Herrscher committed suicide?"

He hesitated for a moment, then told Kevin everything he had encountered.

Chen Ran then continued, "I want MEI to research this matter. She should be interested in this. As for headquarters... Kevin, please keep it a secret for me for now. Things haven't been too good at headquarters these past couple of days."

Kevin nodded. "You've heard about it too."

"Yeah, but the mission is over, and the 'evil wind' from headquarters can't reach us for now." Chen Ran let out a small sigh, but the doubts in his heart didn't lessen.

The Fourth Herrscher actually wasn't a puppet but had developed consciousness.

Or was it because he possessed a special authority that caused a resonance?

Was it the System's doing? Or Mobius's injection of the potion? Or both?

Despite wielding the authority of wind, Chen Ran felt no sense of security at this moment.

This feeling of a strange, misty fog, even though he had experienced the game's plot, he was still deeply mired in it.

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World Serpent, Elysian Realm.

Eden poured herself a drink and then said to Elysia beside her, "Elysia, would you like some?"

"Oh my, my dear Eden, now is hardly the time for drinking. Instead, I'm more curious if there's any popcorn or potato chips here, hmm?"

Undoubtedly, Elysia was watching a show.

Eden could only sigh softly at this.

Hua and Eden were also pulled over by her to watch the show.

Currently, Wendy, having vented her frustrations after a fight with Chrono, stood with Mobius, looking like a bickering couple.

"Tsk, I always thought Chen Ran was the most sincere person among the Flame-Chasers, but it seems I was thinking too highly of him," Mobius said with a hint of mockery. "But it's fine this way. After all, he's the man I've set my sights on, so he wouldn't be too naive."

Wendy said, "I want to know everything."

"Everything? What? His height and weight, or how long he lasts in bed?"

This person, who looked like a teenage girl, casually uttered words that could make one blush.

Although Wendy tried to maintain her composure, her cheeks couldn't help but turn red.

A thoughtful expression flickered in Mobius's eyes, and then a smile spread across her lips.

"Perhaps, we can cooperate."

She said, "I can help you return to the past, back to that era."

Mobius was trying to tempt her.

As a former Schicksal Valkyrie, Wendy still had her own judgment.

"Don't think I don't know that if it were truly possible to go back to the past at will, an entire era's civilization wouldn't have been destroyed. So, this must come with a price..."

A flicker of shock crossed her pupils.

Mobius picked up where she left off. "So, this must come with a price, and a very steep one at that."

"And this price is something ordinary people can hardly bear, let alone afford. But he can." She smiled. "Either he has ignored the rules of time, or he has become an agent of Honkai."

"Whichever possibility it is, what he can do, you can do too."

The Doctor unconsciously leaned closer to Wendy's ear and blew a puff of air. "You are also an agent of Honkai, aren't you?"

Wendy's pupils constricted slightly.

Then, Mobius continued to add weight to her heart.

"I forgot to tell you, if at that time, a Herrscher stood with humanity. Perhaps many tragedies could have been avoided."

"Hmm, from this point of view, I understand why he did it. It's just a pity that era was still buried."

It was obvious that Mobius was doing this intentionally.

She spoke of the tragedy of that era and maliciously attacked Wendy, calling her merely a tool for Chen Ran to save an era from tragedy.

She wouldn't hypocritically tell Wendy how much Chen Ran loved her; that wasn't Mobius's character.

On the contrary, a clumsy provocation was actually more effective.

At this moment, Wendy was undoubtedly lost. Bronya's previous words were like a curse, and Chen Ran's sudden disappearance, followed by the appearance of World Serpent, seemed to tell her that she was just a tool.

An extra memory that appeared in her mind was even more bizarre.

She became confused.

She yearned for the truth; she wanted to be helped.

She wanted to see Chen Ran!

The girl didn't know how much preparation was needed to travel through time, nor what price she would have to pay.

But her heart told her that she had to see Chen Ran.

She wanted a living Chen Ran, and she craved real answers.

This was the deepest desire in her heart, and she didn't care if she had to go against time.

A smile flickered across Mobius's lips. "You want to know the answer, right? I'll help you."

Wendy left with Mobius.