Otto clenched his left fist and swung. His punch landed directly beneath Raven's left breast. The bewildered girl rolled her eyes back as the sudden blow stopped her heart, and she passed out on the spot.
No one could have expected someone to suddenly fall from the sky and punch them.
With that one punch, Raven's soft body collapsed against Otto. A sweet scent drifted into his nose, and Otto reached out and grabbed the thing strapped to Raven's back.
It was a dark purple sniper rifle.
This sniper rifle was Raiden Mei's predecessor, the Third Divine Key: Judgement of Shamash.
The Third Divine Key: Judgement of Shamash has been delivered. Please accept it, Host.
He regained control of his body.
But Otto was dumbfounded too. The system's actions had left him completely stunned.
Knocking out the original owner meant the item became his. That logic was sound enough.
But System, you actually used someone else's belongings as my reward? Have you no shame?
Looking at Judgement of Shamash in his hand and the unconscious girl, only one thought surfaced in Otto's mind—thank goodness he hadn't drawn the Feather of Dust held by Fu Hua.
Otherwise, Schicksal would be attending a funeral feast tomorrow.
What was Honkai?
Honkai was a trial bestowed upon worlds by the transcendent existence known as the Imaginary Tree.
Worlds that passed the Honkai trial would ascend, while those that failed would fall from the Imaginary Tree into the Sea of Quanta, forming one shattered World Bubble after another.
Within a world, Honkai primarily manifested as a cyclical natural disaster.
Its outbreaks were entirely unpredictable, and its forms impossible to determine. Yet one thing was certain: when Honkai erupted, it released an efficient and dangerous energy—Honkai Energy.
At first, it usually appeared through disasters such as earthquakes, typhoons, and plagues. But once civilization developed to a certain point, entities known as "Herrschers" could emerge within disaster zones.
Herrschers were apostles of Honkai, and their mission was to eliminate humanity.
But humanity would not simply await death. They established organizations to fight Honkai together, and publicly, there were two major organizations opposing it.
Schicksal and Anti-Entropy.
Otto Apocalypse was the current leader of Schicksal.
Yet the Bishop of Schicksal, who stood above countless others, was currently standing outside the washroom, tossing in leather jackets, leather pants, belts, cloaks, accessories, and the girl's intimate clothing before shutting the door.
Suspicious lights flickered in the room, while the girl named Raven still lay unconscious on the only large bed.
Where there was light, there was inevitably darkness.
In the Honkai World, beyond Schicksal and Anti-Entropy, an ancient organization called World Serpent also lurked in the shadows. Its leader, Kevin Kaslana, was indisputably the strongest person in this world beneath the Herrscher of the End.
And Raven, lying on the bed, was a World Serpent executive. For the time being, she could be considered an enemy of Schicksal, though those rats had hidden themselves well and had not yet been discovered by Schicksal at this point.
But Otto had the script!
Being granted the Key of Thunder was enough to prove that Raven held an extraordinary position within World Serpent, so Otto gave her the most basic respect.
Right now, Raven did not have a scrap of cloth on her body.
It was not that Otto had been overcome by lust. It was just that being able to casually find a dagger on Raven's body with every touch had frightened him a little.
Who knew how many weapons Raven had hidden on her? Otto was afraid he might miss something, so he simply took everything off.
There was no helping it. It was all for his own safety.
After Otto had fallen from the sky and punched Raven, he carried her into this suspicious-looking breeding hotel and rented a room. After the system controlled him to jump off the floating island and knock Raven out with one punch, he had no idea how to return to Schicksal Headquarters.
He did not possess Otto's memories, so Otto decided to wait—wait for Schicksal to send someone to bring him back.
Schicksal had to notice something as major as their Bishop jumping off an island, right?
They would notice, right? They definitely would, right? They had to notice!!!
And the reason he brought Raven along to rent a room was equally simple. If he took the Divine Key and ran, wouldn't that be the same as telling World Serpent that he had no one backing him, inviting them to hurry up and capture him while he was alone?
The Bishop of Schicksal could not flee before battle!
The price of fleeing might be getting captured by World Serpent, then subjected to inhuman interrogation and experiments, before finally being brainwashed into a breeding machine that endlessly produced Apocalypse family bloodlines.
So he could not chicken out. Even if he was truly terrified, as long as he acted like he had something up his sleeve, World Serpent would not dare act rashly.
He just needed to stall for time.
So Fu Hua, Rita, Amber, Durandal, hurry up and come take me home.
Otto: ＞﹏＜
After sighing silently, Otto looked at Raven, who was still unconscious on the bed. Full breasts, perky hips, long legs—she was a genuinely sexy beauty. As expected of a woman who could form the Crow-Mei pairing with Mei in the future.
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Who could refuse two pairs of long legs lined up together?
After looking a few times, Otto shifted his gaze away because his current body was not a proper body.
The fact that he had jumped from the sky without injury proved this was not a normal human body. Otto's current body was made from a special material called Soul Steel. Though it usually looked no different from an ordinary human body, it could not even carry out normal reproductive functions.
In other words.
The sage state was Otto's permanent skill.
Staring at beautiful legs for too long was nothing but torture.
He was forced to have no worldly desires whatsoever.
He was tired. Let it all be destroyed. One day, This Bishop would definitely switch to a usable body.
Otto turned off the lights in the room that teased the limits of male rationality, then walked to the window and pulled the curtains open slightly, allowing light from outside to slip in so the room would not be dark enough to hide his hand from sight.
After finishing all that, Otto casually picked up a bottle of red wine and a wineglass from the cabinet, sat in a chair against the wall, and leisurely poured himself a glass.
Specks of sunlight fell across Otto. With one leg crossed over the other, he swirled his glass as his emerald-like eyes watched the wine.
A faint sound came from the bed.
But Otto did not notice. He took a sip of red wine, then frowned.
"Tsk." Otto clicked his tongue softly.
He noticed that I woke up!
In the dim room, Raven, who had supposedly been unconscious, suddenly opened her rose-red eyes.
When Raven first woke up, she discovered that she was lying in a place that looked like a love hotel. With her exceptionally sharp hearing, she could even hear sounds from the neighboring room.
And she was not wearing any clothes. Raven hurriedly checked her body in panic. Fortunately, neither front nor back had been penetrated.
But before Raven could breathe a sigh of relief, she noticed that there was someone else in the room.
After secretly glancing at the handsome man pouring himself a drink, her heart nearly leaped out of her chest.
She recognized him at once. The man alone in the room with her was actually the Bishop of Schicksal, Otto!
Raven was a World Serpent executive. World Serpent was no stranger to Schicksal, and Otto, the Bishop of Schicksal, was an especially important target of their attention.
Otto was an exceptionally ruthless man. Beneath that extraordinarily handsome face lay the visage of a demon.
Now, she had been captured by Otto!
She was going to be interrogated, tortured, humiliated, trampled, and brainwashed!
No, no. Raven, who had risen from the ranks of mercenaries, calmed down. Schicksal did not know World Serpent existed, and Otto knew even less about her identity as a World Serpent executive, so he had no reason to capture her.
Perhaps there had been some misunderstanding.
Sir, I'm a law-abiding citizen.
Though she did not know what Otto wanted, now that he had noticed she was awake, she could not continue pretending to sleep.
Raven sat up on the bed, a look of confusion appearing in her rose-red eyes. She hugged a pillow to her chest, using it to cover the beautiful scenery of her body.
Otto slowly set down his wineglass. This wine tasted awful. Drinking something that tasted like horse piss truly disgraced his status as the Bishop of Schicksal.
Only then did he finally hear the movement from the bed.
Otto turned to look at Raven, who had sat up. His hands tightened slightly, and his heart pounded wildly.
Yet his face still wore a faint smile, without the slightest fluctuation of emotion.
He had carefully considered this expression. He felt that smiling made it easier to conceal his true emotions, and it also made people think he was unfathomable. So no matter what happened, all he needed to do was smile.
A dagger hidden behind a smile was always more frightening than a vicious face.
"Beautiful miss, you're awake."
Otto spoke with a smile. His gaze fell upon Raven, and Raven instinctively shrank back slightly, though she reminded herself not to panic.
Her belief was to "live well." How could she fall here? She had not even saved enough money to buy a villa on a private island yet!
"Y-you, hello." Remembering her goal, Raven calmed down again. Pretending to be somewhat afraid and confused, she asked, "You are?"
Seeing that Raven had not immediately attacked him, Otto breathed a sigh of relief. He stood up, placed his right hand over his chest, and gave Raven a slight, gentlemanly bow.
"Nice to meet you. My name is Otto Apocalypse."
"I'm Raven. Mr. Otto, your name sounds a little familiar somehow." Raven hugged the pillow tighter. She did not hide her name, since Raven was merely an alias she used publicly.
She would not underestimate Otto or Schicksal's capabilities. Since Otto had appeared before her, Schicksal had presumably already uncovered her public identity as a mercenary.
Seeing Raven pretend not to know him, Otto found it somewhat amusing. He was not an idiot. How could a World Serpent executive not know who the Bishop of Schicksal was?
His heart was pounding violently.
As expected, she had been intimidated by him.
But if they merely kept exchanging false pleasantries, flaws would eventually show.
So he needed to seize control of the conversation's rhythm.
"Miss Raven, do you think..."
Otto sat back down in his chair, his gaze falling on Raven's snowy-white thighs. Her crystalline toes curled slightly, making him want to cradle them in his hands and play with them.
Even though the pillow in her arms covered a large expanse of white skin, some things were far more alluring when hidden than when exposed.
Otto withdrew his gaze and continued with a smile.
"Who in this world can be called a hero?"
Raven froze for a moment. She did not understand why Otto was asking such a question.
In a love hotel, after the Bishop of Schicksal stripped me naked, he wanted to talk to me about who counted as a hero?
As he spoke, Otto reached out and grasped a dark purple katana beside him, then placed it across his knees and gently stroked it.
The moment she saw the katana, Raven's eye twitched.
That was her Third Divine Key: Judgement of Shamash.
Judgement of Shamash could take different forms in different people's hands. In her hands, it was a sniper rifle, while in Otto's hands, it had transformed into a katana.
Raven suddenly understood. She had probably been captured because of Judgement of Shamash. The Divine Key was in her possession, so Schicksal would certainly investigate where it came from.
If that was the reason, then she was actually still safe. As long as she did not resist and obediently cooperated with Schicksal, everything would be fine.
Still, seeing her gun take the form of another man's weapon gave Raven a strange feeling, as if her head had grown a little heavier.
Wuwuwu, my Judgement of Shamash.
As Otto stroked the katana, which felt excellent in his hand, he thought that Judgement of Shamash had been made using the Herrscher of Thunder from the Previous Era, while Mei was also the Herrscher of Thunder. By that logic, he was basically stroking Mei.
He did not wait for Raven to answer, instead answering himself directly.
"To me."
"Among all the heroes under heaven, only Kevin Kaslana and I deserve the name."
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