This Chat Group's Vibe is a Bit Off

Couldn't they use a more civilized way to solve problems?!

Damn it. He had originally planned to hide, wait for Qianyi to return to the Honkai world, then take the opportunity to transfer his consciousness and find one of Otto's remaining bodies to use. Sooner or later, he could make a comeback. But the current situation clearly wouldn't allow him to play dead.

Void Archive figured that if it kept hiding, this group might actually dismantle it, so it could only take the initiative to appear.

"My friend, I feel that we can talk this out..." Void Archive appeared in the form of a blond man, but the moment it opened its mouth, Kiana blew its face apart with a Void Spear.

"I hate that face." Kiana looked displeased. "Qianyi, is there any way to change its appearance? I want a beautiful-girl model."

Qianyi pulled out Ksitigarbha and asked, "Any other requirements?"

"White hair, a mature woman, and most importantly, I want—big boobs!" Kiana shouted excitedly, raising both hands and constantly gesturing in the air to indicate the cup size she wanted.

"Are you making a wish to me or something?!" Qianyi was speechless.

He had just been polite, yet Kiana had actually started making wishes. What a mood-killer. Take the mature woman and big boobs away from me.

"Come on, Ling, show it what you can do!"

As Ksitigarbha unleashed its corrosive power, Void Archive felt as though countless noisy voices were ringing in its ears. Its eyes widened in horror, and its entire body trembled. Its mind and consciousness were being altered, overwritten, and corroded bit by bit.

With only that brief contact, Void Archive had already begun to collapse. The authority of corrosion countered it far too perfectly. All its abilities, whether mimicry or the knowledge it had stored, were like a high school girl in a doujin plot running into a blond delinquent before Ksitigarbha. When it became Ksitigarbha's captive wasn't determined by how long it could hold out, but by when Ksitigarbha decided to screw it.

"Wait! No! Stop, please! I'll do anything! Don't—don't use Ksitigarbha on me! I know many things—the entirety of the Previous Civilization, everything Otto prepared to revive Kallen, and information about the Herrscher of Finality! Right, right, there's something you'll definitely be interested in, it's about Prometheus... Aaaaaaah—!!!!!"

Void Archive screamed in terror and fury, trembling wildly like He Chenguang strapped to an electric chair. Qianyi ignored it completely, using Ksitigarbha to corrode the programs within her body, then redesigning those programs according to his will. Under his conscious control, Void Archive's appearance gradually began to change.

Before long, Void Archive was completely defeated. Both her body and consciousness had undergone earth-shaking changes.

"Fool. Once I've dealt with you, I can learn all that anyway." Qianyi pulled out Ksitigarbha. Void Archive had already switched from Otto's universally despised appearance to that of a gentle, beautiful mature woman.

It was just that this appearance was a little different from what Qianyi had envisioned.

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Good heavens, wasn't this a grown-up version of Bronya? Why wasn't it Illya from the Fate series, the one he wanted? Ling, what were you doing?

Koschei looked at Void Archive on the ground with mixed feelings, thinking that it was fortunate he had surrendered in time back then. Otherwise, he might be in the same state now.

Sigh, this was what happened to those who couldn't read the situation.

Wouldn't it have been better to come out early, kowtow, and be these people's dog? Being Lord Qianyi's dog was an honor. So many people wanted it and still couldn't get the chance.

"Isn't that Bronya?" Kiana looked at Void Archive, who lay on the ground convulsing wildly and making scissors gestures, clearly suffering from some kind of program malfunction. She silently glanced at Qianyi. "Don't tell me you have some special feelings for that little shrimp."

"That's wrong! I actually wanted an appearance like Illya's! It must be because Void Archive shouted Prometheus at the end, which made me think of Bronya. You innately evil Void Archive, you're just as evil as Otto!" Qianyi defended himself.

"Illya, wasn't she a child?" Toyokawa Shoko said, then added, "Though she seemed to be legal."

The entire room fell silent.

After a long while, Seele finally whispered, "I remember that Bronya on Kiana's side is legal too, isn't she? She just looks a little petite?"

Talulah nodded. No wonder Qianyi had rushed all the way over to beat her up last night, looking like he wanted to strangle her to death on the spot. So he didn't like the Aibrana sisters' type—he liked them even smaller.

She had been careless.

As everyone's gazes gathered on him, their eyes strange, Qianyi began to sweat profusely. This suffocating feeling, like being coiled around by a python...

Where was the Horn God? Where was the Horn God? What was the Horn God doing? Why wasn't it coming out to destroy Ursus and save him from this situation?

"Ahem." Noticing Qianyi's awkward predicament, Koschei coughed twice and shifted the topic. "Yesterday, while inventorying the nobles' assets, I found quite a few assets of unknown origin. Among them was a considerable amount of gold. I would like to hear the plans of all you esteemed individuals regarding how this wealth should be used."

The moment they heard there was gold, everyone's attention immediately shifted away, and Qianyi breathed a sigh of relief.

Koschei, you innately kind Black Serpent.

Qianyi followed up and steered the conversation away. "With so much gold, how should we use it?"

"Forge a Golden Toilet. My tail is troublesome, and there isn't a suitable model in the palace," Talulah said.

Qianyi fell silent for several seconds before asking again, "No, I mean, with this much gold, where would it be most appropriate to use it?"

"Make a Golden Toilet," Talulah repeated.

"Your Majesty, extravagance in monuments ruins a nation," Koschei reminded her.

Talulah thought about it and felt that it was indeed inappropriate, so she changed her answer. "Then invest all of it into the plan to purchase Star Destroyers. Ursus needs to strengthen its national power."

Koschei immediately made the decision. "I say Your Majesty has great insight. Ursus truly does need a Golden Toilet."

The matter of the Golden Toilet was immediately placed on the agenda.

With the assistance of Big Duck-version Void Archive, the atmosphere in Ursus took on an entirely new look. Talulah, the New Emperor of Ursus, went from processing countless documents every day to—being a group emperor, occasionally interrogating Void Archive and Koschei.

A few minor riots did occur over matters such as Infected people being elevated to nobility, but they were resolved the instant any signs emerged. After all, the Infected swung their clubs very quickly, and with great force. The tens of thousands of protesting citizens gathered in Saint-Junburg were instantly beaten until they wailed for their parents.

When you said the Infected should be granted equal rights, everyone said, "How can filthy Infected be the same as us commoners?" But if you said the Infected would become nobles and ride on the commoners' heads, everyone thought it was quite good to grant the Infected Imperial citizenship.

Everything in Ursus was flourishing, but there was one regrettable issue...

"Why are Kazimierz and Leithanien between Victoria and Ursus?!" Qianyi had never imagined Ursus's geographical position could be this terrible.

If they wanted to attack Victoria, Kazimierz and Leithanien stood in the way.

It was clearly unrealistic to bypass those two countries to attack Victoria. Moreover, unlike Ursus, they couldn't pull off a blitz attack on the opposing emperor and leave the enemy realizing, only after reacting, that all their upper ranks had been replaced.

Because Victoria didn't have an emperor at all. It didn't even have any decent upper ranks.

Some might say, weren't the Eight Dukes part of Victoria's upper echelon?

But that was exactly what made it so hard to stomach.

Of the Eight Dukes, one had already gone with the late emperor, two had been elbowed to death by Big Teacher, and of the remaining five, one wanted to become emperor and establish his own state, one intended to take Tara and declare independence, one was a Gaulish noble who wanted to elbow Victoria to death even in death, one was a border commander practically guaranteed to die first at the slightest disturbance, and the last had some shady connection with Leithanien—a pure oddity rarer than the winter lotus of a snowy mountain.

As for Regent King Theresis, he was a pure-blooded Sarkaz. If anything happened, he would absolutely sell out this bunch of Felines first, then see whether there was anything in Londinium worth looting and take it all. By the time you arrived, Londinium might be left with nothing but the land itself. Big Teacher would have picked everything else clean.

Damn it, how had Victoria ended up like this?

The mighty Sun Never Sets Empire had actually become like the early days of Tang Sanzang and his disciples, ready to break up at any moment. If Vina's grandfather came back to life and saw the country he had personally built turn out like this, he would probably wish he had shot Vina's father onto the wall back then, wondering how he had produced such a brain-dead son.

Talulah studied the strategic map and analyzed, "It truly isn't favorable to go to war with Victoria in the short term. If we start a war rashly, we may end up facing the combined assault of Leithanien, Kazimierz, and Victoria at the same time. We might even draw Yan's army in, leaving us attacked from both front and rear."

"Wrong. Yan can't spare the manpower. That place is full of giant beasts, Abyssals, and things like that. Besides, Sui is about to awaken. If they meddle in a war at a time like this, it's unclear whether anyone else will be in trouble, but Yan definitely will be." Qianyi opened a carton of fresh milk and drank it leisurely.

"Your Majesty has a point." Patriot, Alina, FrostNova, Aibrana, W, and the others diligently took notes.?? ?.

"So what should we do next?" Talulah asked.

"Eat, sleep, go to school," Qianyi replied.

"Huh?" Talulah was startled.

"What's there to be surprised about? People need to eat, people need to sleep, and students need to go to school." Qianyi explained.

The Reunion members were moved to tears. "Your Majesty!!!???"

Feeling that the Reunion she had built was about to turn into Qianyi's fan club, Talulah shook her head. Ignoring the voices around her, she asked seriously, "No, I mean the next operational deployment. Does eating, sleeping, and going to school count as a deployment?"

"What deployment do you think I should make?"

"A lightning strike on Victoria?"

"Can we take all of Victoria's territory after a lightning strike?"

"Apparently... no." Talulah felt that Victoria would most likely immediately collapse after such a strike.

"If we can't make progress and are just going to stay bogged down here, then my assessment is that we might as well go home and sleep. Actually, I've been secretly returning to my own world to attend school these past few days. I haven't missed a single class." Qianyi showed off his attendance record. Because of the Dimensional Chat Group's update, Travel Tickets were no longer single-use items. They had become time-based items like cloud gaming: the timer only started when you entered someone else's world and paused when you left.

"Hey! Wait! I had absolutely no idea about that!" Toyokawa Shoko shot to her feet, her little face pale.

"Actually, I've secretly gone back to torment Magical Girls too." Hiiragi Tina was about to show off photos of herself tormenting the Magical Girls, but Shoko beside her stopped her.

After stopping this Little Silver Worm, Shoko asked seriously, "Tina, you haven't gone back to school to study either, right?"

"I haven't attended a single class." Hiiragi Tina wore an innocent smile that made it clear she wouldn't be able to smile if she had attended even one class recently.

"Neither have I." Kiana wore the same smile.

"I don't even have school to attend," Seele chimed in.

That immediately made Shoko let out a huge sigh of relief.

Good. Qianyi was the odd one out. We were the normal ones.

How could anyone still think about going back to school while playing coloring games in another world? And he had secretly been grinding behind everyone's backs! Unforgivable!

As though he had seen through Shoko's thoughts, Qianyi defended himself. "When there's nothing to do, you have to return to normal life eventually. Rather than waste time deadlocked with other countries, we might as well return to our own worlds and see whether there are any crises to solve, or any items and powers that can improve our strength. In a few months, the Dimensional Chat Group's combat power will have inflated to planet-busting levels. When we come back, won't kicking Victoria to death be as easy as kicking a stray dog by the roadside? As for Kazimierz and Leithanien in between, if we remember them, we'll beat them up too. If we don't, they can become the Vatican. Meeting adjourned."

Just as Qianyi announced the end of the meeting and prepared to dismiss everyone, the meeting room door suddenly opened.

Frost brought news.

"Victoria's Regent King, Theresis, wishes to represent Victoria in signing a Non-Aggression Treaty with you and Ursus."

Theresis: Those Damn Transmigrators Have No Integrity!

"Victoria and Ursus don't share a border. Kazimierz and Leithanien lie between us. Why does Theresis want to sign a Non-Aggression Treaty with us?"

Talulah, leader of Reunion and Emperor of Ursus, voiced her doubt.

To gather troops from Saint-Junburg, crush across the frozen earth with a tide of steel, and advance upon Victoria, they would inevitably have to pass through Kazimierz's borders. Yet what they needed to cross was not merely a border in the geographical sense, but a Wall of Sighs standing between humanity and myth.

In that Realm divided by merchants' gold coins and knights' holy lances, the glory of the Kuranta divine folk still flowed in its bones and blood. The struggle between the Supervisory Council and the Merchants' Guild was merely a trace of bronze rust falling when a Pegasus mane brushed across towers built from piles of coins.

Without question, with Kazimierz serving as a buffer state, Victoria had no need to worry about Ursus suddenly dispatching an expeditionary army.

Unlike Talulah, Toyokawa Shoko, who recognized the Non-Aggression Treaty, wore a grave expression. "I have an inexplicable sense of déjà vu."

"I feel the same way." Hiiragi Tina nodded.

"Seele..." Qianyi had just been about to raise his arm at a forty-five-degree angle to have someone bring him a beer when Toyokawa Shoko pressed his hand down.

Looking at the solemn-faced girl, Qianyi blinked and defended himself. "Actually, I was trying to call Seele."

Hearing this utterly nonsensical excuse, the beautiful girl with wild hair laughed in anger. She had clearly seen that her companion had been about to raise his hand. As for what gesture he was making, all she could say was that those who knew, knew.

"Why are you calling me?" Seele, who had been lowering her head to wipe her scythe, looked up and pointed at herself, her face full of confusion.

"Because you'll be the overall commander for the next operation." Qianyi appointed Seele as the grand general on the spot.

"Huh? Overall commander? Me?" Seele was so startled that the scythe in her hand fell to the floor.

"Yes. With you here, our operation to attack Victoria will definitely succeed, because there is no Kazimierz in my heart." Qianyi teased.

"Kazimierz... is not an opponent that can be dealt with easily." Ursus hero Patriot suddenly spoke.

"Is this Kazimierz... really that strong?" Kiana did not really understand the strength of these countries.

"When the first beam of a searchlight pierced the fog, the neighing of the Silver Spear Pegasus suddenly erupted beneath Kazimierz's skies. Any will forged from iron and fire would be ground to dust by the Pegasus's wings and silver lances. Their knights needed only to dive, and an entire army group would destroy itself in despair." Patriot, who had once taken part in the war against Kazimierz, described the terror of those Pegasi.

Ursus had fought Kazimierz no fewer than ten times, losing only once—and that defeat had been caused by a Pegasus. A Golden Pegasus: war hero Cyril Lumia, Margaret Lumia's grandfather.

Alone, he had led the battered remnants of Kazimierz's forces, shattered by Ursus, through the army group Ursus took such pride in and fought his way to General Hlagg. Had Patriot, that legendary hero, not stopped him at the time, the generals in charge of the war against Kazimierz would most likely have died beneath the Golden Pegasus's lance.

"With the Golden Pegasus's speed, taking an enemy general's head amid ten thousand troops is an easy task. That is especially unfavorable for someone with high attack and low defense, whose body is his weakness." Patriot was practically calling out Qianyi by name.

All of Ursus's current prosperity rested upon this brilliant rising star. He was the overlord who could lead Ursus into a golden age and open a new future for the Infected. He absolutely should not risk himself over a mere Kazimierz. However...

"Let the Golden Pegasus come if she dares. I will make her flee in crushing defeat!" Qianyi swept out a hand. "Frost, let me hear Theresis's thoughts."

"Your will." Frost performed an Ursus salute and ordered a subordinate beside him to summon the envoy from Victoria.

As military boots stepped through the light refracted by the crystal chandeliers, Manfred finally arrived before the new Emperor of Ursus as he had wished. Yet everything was different from what he had imagined. In the scene he had foreseen, a noble Drac sat upon the throne, while the true manipulator who controlled everything stood at his side, receiving the prostrate worship of countless people. With a single glance, that person could make him kneel and submit.

But what he actually saw was a completely empty throne. A massive round table stood in the hall, covered with cheese, milk, candy, chocolate, jerky, and other foods. Everyone looked as though they had come for a picnic—those sitting had no proper posture, and neither did those standing. If not for the strategic map set off to the side like a decoration, he would have thought he had wandered into some sort of picnic party.

"Lord Manfred, please take a seat." Frost brought Manfred a chair and gestured for him to sit.

Manfred: "..."

What the hell? You people of New Ursus were actually giving an outside envoy—a Sarkaz, no less—a chair to sit on!? I'm an Infected!

I thought you would first try to cow me, make me kneel and listen to your speech. I had even prepared myself to argue my case and refuse to kneel. Yet you actually brought me a chair and told me to sit?!

At that moment, Qianyi suddenly called the name of the Sarkaz who had once worked under Manfred for a time: "Frost..."