A Bunch of Scheming Old Bastards / The Rampaging Pufferfish

"... nothingness is the only peaceful paradise."

"What do you have left besides believing in this?"

"A raging hymn to the truth of all things."

"My music, which reigns supreme above 0 and 1!"

Having broken free from the constraints of space, Ouma Mana chanted almost hysterically. Crimson virus crystals formed a flower-like altar, and a magnificent and enormous black inverted cross crashed down from the sky!

Chapter 351, Section 368: A Bunch of Sly Old Men

"Boom!"

Amidst the deafening explosion, smoke and dust billowed up, and several feet of snow, mixed with frozen soil, rose into the air before gently falling back down.

The Honkai Beast within a three-mile radius had already fled far away; the unlucky ones that were slow to run were basically turned into corpses and fertilizer.

Whoosh! Pale-faced Ouma Mana knelt on the ground, the surrounding purplish-red crystal walls gradually shattering.

When she saw Kevin, whose sword combo had been interrupted, struggling to flap his wings and fall into the snow, Ouma Mana rushed forward, picked him up, and only then did she breathe a sigh of relief.

However, as the yandere girl turned her gaze, a pair of fair fingers and hands first caught her eye in the huge crater hundreds of meters in diameter ahead.

"Damn it, how dare they hurt me! Kill them all! Kill them all!"

With her clothes torn, Sirin slowly stood up, a trickle of blood oozing from her left forehead. Like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, she screeched through gritted teeth at Kevin and the other man.

With the help of spatial forces, those raised hands tore the Cross of Suffering to shreds.

It seems we misjudged one thing: Sirin, who possesses the Herrscher Core— Space, Flame, Storm, Death, and Thunder—is not Lord-class being at all, but rather— King-class!

Who said anyone can bully this pufferfish? Screw you!

Theresa and Siegfried, two near- S-class Valkyrie wielding [Key of God], five A-class Valkyrie, one Lord-class Herrscher, plus himself, who is only slightly weaker than Siegfried— such a luxurious lineup still ended up being easy prey!

I really don't know how my nominal mother, Cecilia, managed to find the right opportunity to take down this monster.

Close combat and lack of experience in fighting enemies are Sirin's only two weaknesses, while Kevin's timing is impeccable.

Unfortunately, this fusion of the eleven-hit sword technique, the Ave Maria, the Kaslana Family's fighting style, and the ultimate output of Judgment Mode ultimately failed due to Ouma Mana's obstruction.

Enraged, Sirin slowly rose into the air, her right hand outstretched, causing the space around Kevin and Celine to compress towards the center.

Dad, I'll let you have your way then. It's just a form of address anyway. Sorry about what happens next...

Kevin, who had collapsed into Ouma Mana's arms, closed his eyes and sighed. His broken bones automatically reset and his torn muscles healed rapidly. At the same time, he began to consider various evacuation plans.

In fact, long before rushing to Siegfried's aid, he had already injected himself with a T-Virus healing agent as a precaution, and now it has indeed come in handy.

In this situation, a direct confrontation is out of the question, but escaping offers a slight chance of victory.

I've said it countless times: betray your teammates. This time, it really came true. So, it's not always easy to get something for nothing. Dad, may you have good luck...

At that moment, Ouma Mana, whose face was full of determination, felt a tingling sensation in her palm and immediately felt relieved.

"You all deserve to die!"

Sirin clenched her right hand as if crushing something, and Ouma Mana immediately concentrated her Honkai energy into a fixed point, breaking through the spatial constraints.

Kevin, who had been feigning death, wrapped his arms around Ouma Mana waist, and his black and white wings flapped wildly, instantly creating a distance of several miles.

At the same time, Sirin, who had been focusing all her attention on Kevin and the other person, suddenly felt a chill run down her spine as she felt a terrifying tearing force coming from the ground.

Then, the body that was suspended in the air was swatted towards the frozen ground as if by a giant fly swatter.

Just as Sirin came to her senses and prepared to manipulate space and storms to stabilize her falling body, a ghostly figure instantly teleported to the waist axis responsible for her balance.

Amidst the roars of tigers and leopards echoing from the air and joints, a pair of fists attacked like a violent storm.

"Inch Force - Chaotic Thunder! Inch Force - Thunderclap!"

The terrifying explosive force slammed Sirin into the frozen ground dozens of meters deep, and then the figure leaped forward and roared again as it exerted its strength.

"Inch-force: Rock-shattering! Inch-force: Mountain-collapse!"

In an instant, the ground churned, and the miserable Second Herrscher desperately switched to a defensive stance, piling up layers of energy barriers, yet still unable to shake off the pursuer.

Arriving like the wind, following like a shadow! A single, powerful strike amidst the clouds!

With silver hair and bloodshot eyes, adorned with a crimson bird feather headdress and dressed in a red and white battle robe, the majestic young woman resembled a goddess or fairy from an ancient painting. With nimble hands, she swept forward, each punch aimed at a vital spot.

"Don't underestimate me! I'm a shrewd guy..."

Sirin, barely managing to pull herself away, roared angrily, but as soon as she opened her mouth, her breath caught in her throat. The female warrior moved with incredible speed, appearing in front of the Second Herrscher, and using her waist as a pivot, unleashed a powerful punch that struck the girl's wide-open abdomen.

Inch-force - Heaven-opening!

As chaos shattered and the world began to emerge, the Spatial Barrier Sirin was so proud of crumbled layer by layer, and her petite body crashed to the ground like a cannonball.

In a daze, as she fell, Sirin saw that she was surrounded by fiery red feathers, which were very beautiful. She even vaguely heard the calls of her childhood playmates and her mother.

The First Herrscher, Welt, used ten thousand times the gravity to bind Sirin first, followed by the Immortal Vermillion Bird, Fu Hua, who exploited the Herrscher of Void's weakness in close combat and charged in.

Finally, the weakened Sirin was blasted into the area covered by the Key of God [Feathered Dust], and her consciousness was controlled—it was perfect!

Damn it, those old bastards were here a while ago! They were just waiting for the opportunity that Zhenming and I risked our lives to create!

After swindling so many people, it's my turn to be swindled today; it's just karma.

I'll write this down in a notebook and settle it later.

Right now, escaping is the priority; staying and watching the show might just lead to an even faster death.

After all, he abducted a Herrscher and now poses a threat to Anti-Entropy and Schicksal. Who knows what they're planning?

More importantly, Fu Hua has arrived, the [Dome] is on the verge of collapse, and the Archbishop of Schicksal Otto of Destiny is probably not far off.

According to that guy's logic, any uncontrollable variable deserves to die.

[Schicksal] didn't care about Kevin's previous wealth, but now that the power he holds has surfaced, if Otto sets his sights on him, things will likely turn out badly.

Therefore, it's best to slip away first, and then wait for an opportunity to act.

With Theresa and Siegfried around, Otto probably won't target Welt first, so there's no need to offer incense to this Lord Alliance Leader, right?

Kevin glanced back at the fading five-colored aurora in Northern Siberia, then cleared his mind and prepared to cross Siberia and fly towards Shenzhou to temporarily avoid the storm.

However, halfway there, his body gradually grew cold, and the bones that had been reset broke again. He eventually fell sideways and crashed headfirst into a sparse coniferous forest.

"Darling!"

Ouma Mana scrambled to her feet from the snow and rushed to Kevin's side, ready to pick him up.

"I advise you not to move him, otherwise his bones will damage his internal organs, and he'll die even faster..."

As she softly offered her advice, a silver-haired woman dressed in a black battle suit with gold patterns, wielding a large knight's lance with Silver Blade and a black handle, slowly stepped out.

"It was you who did this!"

Ouma Mana, recalling Kevin's fall, subconsciously mistook the mysterious man before her for a suspect, and in her anger, a blood-red scythe materialized from her palm.

"So you really are Herrscher? Sorry..."

Cecilia, the captain of the Snow Wolf Squad who arrived late, also regarded Ouma Mana as the culprit who caused the Honkai disaster, and slightly raised the lance [Black Abyss White Flower] in her hand.

Just as their auras clashed, Kevin, who had regained some consciousness under the physical cooling effect of the snowflakes, reached out his hands and immediately grabbed the thigh beside him, stopping the impending battle.

"Cecilia... Mother... take us... to B..."

However, before Kevin could finish speaking, he completely fainted, leaving the two women staring at each other in bewilderment.

P. S.: By the way, what about Cecilia? Let's have a poll here. Speak honestly, and don't cause trouble.

1. Elders

2. Friends

3. My dear wife, I love you.

Chapter 352 The Rampage of the Pufferfish (Section 369)

Northern Siberia.

The Titan Mecha belonging to [Anti-Entropy] were violently dismantled into scattered pieces, leaving giant craters everywhere on the ground, and even half of the Babylon Tower collapsed.

At this moment, Tesla, with her red hair and twin ponytails, held the seriously injured and unconscious Welt, her lips tightly pressed together, her hateful gaze repeatedly piercing the blond man with long hair and a silver clown mask in front of her.

He suddenly appeared, severely injuring the unsuspecting Welt and destroying [Anti-Entropy]'s new Titan Mecha fleet, thus taking complete control of the battle.

Originally, with the Lord Alliance Leader's barely holding on, Tesla had a chance to escape, but she couldn't bear to watch the child she had watched grow up die for him.

Once, in order to free the North American Branch of Anti-Entropy -Entropy, the true First Herrscher Welt, Schicksal, was critically injured and died.

Even on his deathbed, he was still thinking about the safety of his old friend, and specially transplanted his Herrscher Core into this gentle child who changed his name to "Welt Yang".

Even if I die alone, it would be too lonely. I really can't abandon Welt again...

I'm sorry to have wasted your good intentions.

The eccentric scientist Tesla held Welt tightly in his arms, feeling both helpless and regretful.

However, once Mr. "The Clown" was certain that Welt and the other person had no chance of escape, he focused all his attention on his two spoils of war— the Second Herrscher Sirin, and the Red Queen.

After a brief questioning, "The Joker" made a grasping motion with his right hand, grabbed the Red Queen by the neck, and let out a sinister roar.

"What did you say! The technology of the time machine comes from the grace of [God]! The last prototype has been destroyed?!"

"Useless trash! Useless trash!"

With the Red Queen nodding in terror, the "clown," who had previously maintained an air of elegance, was now consumed by rage.

With a sudden burst of strength from his right hand, he ripped the girl's head off, and the headless body, still dripping with molten metal, was kicked into the Ruins of the Babylon Tower by the clown.

The Red Queen? Since she has no effect on changing the past or resurrecting Kallen, keeping her head—a head with a core processor—is enough!

Immediately, having temporarily vented some of his anger, the "Clown" cast his shattered hopes toward the Second Herrscher, who was trapped in an illusion under the manipulation of [Feathered Dust].

However, he infiltrated Sirin's consciousness, tempting the Second Herrscher to use the power of "Silent Death" from the five Herrscher Core to resurrect her own mother.

But after witnessing the whole process, the "clown" grabbed Sirin, who was lost in her fantasies, and questioned her, his voice hoarse with anger.

What kind of Herrscher Core of Death?! It's just an empty shell created based on memories, devoid of any soul! What's the difference between this and the Kallen clone I created using cloning technology?!

I've spent so much effort and waited for over five hundred years, and this is the result!

Just as the "clown" was frantically interrogating the hypnotized and dazed Sirin, a pristine white staircase stretched upwards before them.

In a brief shift of consciousness, the Joker found himself in a world of pure white, and on the throne in the center, a figure with an exact likeness to him slowly rose.

That is... [God]?! The original consciousness of the Honkai! The clown looked astonished, and his long-standing wariness in the fight against the Honkai made him take a slight step back.

What if Kallen could be resurrected and forced to submit to [God's] baptism?

But when he saw that [God] meant no harm, as if He were merely observing the ridiculous farce that humans, these ants, were continuing.

The clown couldn't help but smile, bowing humbly to [God], "Please give me an answer. Even if it requires sacrificing the world to resurrect Kallen, I will do it."

[God] extended his index finger and touched the "clown's" forehead. The blurry image of the sword blade, wreathed in flames, tearing through space was imprinted in his mind.

What is this? That's not what I want!

Unable to understand the meaning of the image, and after confirming that it had nothing to do with the resurrection of Kallen, the "clown" eagerly looked up and asked.

He didn't even need to speak; [God] had already understood the intentions he was conveying.

But this time, [God] laughed...

It was a contemptuous laugh, mocking humanity's overestimation of its own abilities and highlighting its own superiority.

The clown showed no anger, no resentment, only urgency—an urgency to know the answer!

But [God] had lost interest in conversation. With a casual wave of his right hand, the crimson feathers that filled Sirin's consciousness space burned to ashes one after another.

With the disturbance in the space of consciousness, "The Joker" was suddenly ejected.

If you promise to give Kallen back to me, I'm willing to be your henchman. Why won't you tell me the answer?

After the Joker regained consciousness, his body trembled slightly in extreme anger, and his inner cries went unanswered by [God].

"She's about to wake up, make a decision quickly!"