"Ling, how are you feeling? Is the Herrscher consciousness still affecting you?" Sakura asked worriedly.
"I'm fine. The Herrscher consciousness is behaving itself now and hasn't said anything else!" Ling shook her head. She felt that the Erosion Herrscher seemed to have suffered a blow, perhaps because of Kevin. It had awakened, only to be instantly defeated by Kevin in a single move. It was probably feeling a little shut down.
"Big Sis, why didn't you kill me? Aren't I a Herrscher?"
In Ling's view, Herrschers were villains who destroyed the world—the enemies of humanity.
"Silly girl, I won't reject you just because you're a Herrscher!" Sakura helplessly tapped Ling on the head.
"What's so bad about being a Herrscher? Humans have limits, so not being human is a pretty good choice too!" Zhang Wei said with a smile.
Mobius nodded in agreement. Humans had limits, and in her eyes, the special nature of Herrschers made them a more perfect form of humanity.
"Look at all of us. In a sense, none of us can really be considered purely human anymore!" Zhang Wei said, pointing at the Flame-Chasers.
He himself was a special human lifeform nurtured by the Hyperion. Although his organs and such were no different from those of ordinary humans, his level of life was higher than that of humanity.
As for Fusion Warriors, they had fused with Honkai Beast genes. In the society of that era, they had been rejected and regarded as freaks, since they were no longer truly human. Sakura's long donkey ears, Cosmo's horns, and Pardo's ears and tail were all features normal people should not have possessed.
Flame-Chasers: "..."
Sakura touched her ears. Cosmo subtly touched his horns, while Pardo touched her tail.
Well, when all was said and done, they really were