She Didn't Want to Compete with a Man for a Man, Thank You

"Isn't that Mu Continent guy a bit too arrogant?" Even after returning to the Fire Moth, Disaster was still dissatisfied with the young officer's remarks. "Everyone is fighting against the Honkai, how come this guy is acting superior?"

"...You'll get used to it," Kosma said.

As they were talking, everyone noticed Klein approaching, carrying a document. Seeing them return, she said, "Um... Elysia, Dr. Mobius needs to speak with you. Sakura, Pardofelis, Kevin, Kosma, and Hua, you can choose to come along... As for the others..."

Klein hesitated for a moment, then mimicked Mobius's tone and said, "Do whatever you want."

"Huh? Even Feng is being ostracized?" Lilith exclaimed in surprise. "So, does that mean I'll be spending some time alone with Feng from now on? Wow, I never expected Dr. Mobius to earn my respect so much!"

Everyone: "!"

As the archbishop of the Feng-Lilith Faction, Kevin naturally took the lead. "Since Mobius has said so, let's hurry up and go to her lab first. Maybe there's something important going on."

Disaster frowned, realizing something was amiss. "Huh? Why did they only invite Amo and not me? And wasn't it said that we could choose to come? Amo and Little Pardo can skip it too, right?"

"Disaster, you should know that, generally speaking, if you can choose to take a shot, then you must take it," Kevin said.

"Huh? Is that so?" Disaster looked at Kosma.

Kosma paused for a moment, then nodded.

(It's unlikely that Mobius called everyone over but not Feng; it seems she wants to say something related to Feng and Lilith, but she can't let them know...)

Elysia glanced at Kevin and then said, "Since Dr. Mobius has said so, then of course we have to go."

As for Kevin, hopefully he'll be more durable during the next scrimmage.

Before Disaster could say anything more, a slightly unfamiliar voice rang out. "Since neither of you has been asked to go to Dr. Mobius's laboratory, could you come with me?"

Everyone turned to look at the source of the voice and saw Mostima standing there with his arms crossed, looking at Lilith with a blank expression.

She wasn't confident she could get Maple out of the way and let Lilith meet Gianna alone. If she forcibly separated them under these circumstances, Lilith might truly harbor murderous intent towards Gianna, and the chances of her protecting Gianna from Lilith were practically zero. Although she was currently able to live with Gianna within the Fire Moth, mainly because she was valuable to Lilith and the World Serpent, but...

For a crazy woman like Lilith, it's better to have Maple by her side to keep an eye on her.

"Oh?" Lilith narrowed her eyes, her face still full of smiles. "Of course, no problem, Mostima. We're good friends, aren't we?"

Mostima's eye twitched, and she smiled through gritted teeth, saying, "Yes, we're good friends, so you're agreeing, right?"

"Feng, what do you think?" Lilith asked Zhu Yufeng with a smile.

"We do have the time for the next arrangement, so I don't mind," Zhu Yufeng said, looking at Mostima. He had been speculating about Mostima's purpose in coming and guessed that it was for Lilith's younger sister. He had felt something was amiss when Lilith suddenly suggested that she go to Sakura and Rin's house with him to play games with Rin.

Moreover, Mostima and Lilith have almost fallen out. After all, Lilith really messed with her badly, and she still came to find Lilith. It seems that there is no other reason than for Lilith's sister.

So the group parted ways. Zhu Yufeng and Lilith left with Mostima, while Elysia and the others went to the Mobius Laboratory. Disaster stood there, somewhat confused.

Why do I suddenly feel like I don't belong in this group anymore? I'm so curious. When Amo comes back, I'll definitely interrogate her properly. What's wrong with her not knowing anything? Why did she call everyone else over but leave her out? She's not someone who can't keep a secret, humph!

Zhu Yufeng and Lilith followed Mostima onto the bus heading to the family quarters, which further confirmed his suspicions.

Perhaps feeling uneasy that the three of them were silent, Mostima spoke up, "Lilith, I really never imagined that you could be so cold and vicious to your own sister."

"What? I have a sister?" Lilith asked in surprise.

Mostima: "..."

She hardened her fist, and if she weren't afraid she might lose, she would have slapped Lilith across the face.

Zhu Yufeng saw Mostima clench her fists, sighed inwardly, and decided to smooth things over. "... Lilith, let's stop joking around."

"Since you say so, Maple, then of course I'll listen to you~" Lilith shrugged. "However, what I just said was also the truth. I've never thought I had a sister... even if I did, it wouldn't be Gianna."

Zhu Yufeng sighed, thinking to himself that Lilith was clearly determined to fan the flames.

After taking a few deep breaths, Mostima calmed her soaring blood pressure and said, "Since you've never treated her as your own sister, why did you reappear in her life?"

"Really?" Lilith feigned confusion and tilted her head.

Mostima's eyes twitched, then she walked up to Lilith and said coldly, "Don't tell me you didn't go to Sakura's house to play games with Rin on purpose."

"So what if it is? So what if it isn't?" Lilith shrugged.

Mostima turned her head away, trying to keep her voice down. "I don't care if you're doing this on purpose or not, Gianna really misses you right now. Even if it's just acting, for the sake of the help I gave you before, be a good older sister to her one last time..."

She knew that getting angry at Lilith was pointless; it would only embolden Lilith.

After hearing Mostima's words, it was as if a switch had been flipped. Lilith's relaxed and carefree smile vanished instantly, replaced by a mocking and indifferent expression. "I didn't expect you to actually care about her so much. I thought you would just throw her into the Fire Moth family quarters and then ignore her. After all, to you, she's just a burden and a hindrance, isn't she?"

"Think what you want." Mostima lowered his eyes.

On the other side.

"Mobius, you called us all here this time, but not Yu Feng, or rather Lilith. Is there something important that you have to keep from them?" Vill-V, who had been dragged out of the Spiral Workshop by Rovoc, said with narrowed eyes, "Don't tell me you've also been seduce by Kevin and are trying to create opportunities for them."

It's not impossible for Kevin to look at Mobius... There can never be too many people in the Feng-Lilith Faction!

Mobius glanced at her and retorted expressionlessly, "Even if I were reduced to watching surveillance footage and setting up eavesdropping devices every day, I would never be associated with this guy."

"Alright, alright, Sister Vill-V, Mobius, let's not talk about that for now. What's the matter?" Pardo asked.

Mobius tossed a report to Vill-V and then said, "Based on the analysis of Lilith's test results, she is currently, like Elysia and Yu Feng, an unawakened Herrscher."

"Huh?!" Everyone was a little surprised, but Elysia and Vill-V didn't seem too surprised.

"As long as Lilith doesn't have Yu Feng's Herrscher Core inside her, I think it's acceptable," Vill-V said. "After all, according to speculation, Lilith used the characteristics of the Honkai Beast Yanluo and the zero-level probability of Feather Dust to bind her consciousness with Yu Feng's. Yu Feng became Herrscher through the Project: Ascend to Divinity, and Lilith, whose consciousness was bound to his, was also affected and became Herrscher. This possibility is not nonexistent."

"That should be considered good news, right?" Mobius said calmly. "I didn't see any trace of a Herrscher Core in Lilith's data. It will be necessary to conduct a more detailed examination of Lilith afterward to confirm it."

"So... how exactly does the so-called Project: Ascend to Divinity work by human intervention to turn a person, or rather, the executor of the Chimera Project, into a Herrscher?" Sakura asked.

If we're talking about what Lilith and Zhu Yufeng have in common, it's that they're both executors of the Chimera Project, right?

Sakura didn't really understand the details of the Project: Ascend to Divinity. All she knew was that Zhu Yufeng had almost risked his life to obtain the Herrscher status, and that he ultimately perished because his body couldn't withstand the Honkai Energy. However, she was sure he could fight the Finality to the ends of the earth... Just how massive was the Honkai energy that even Zhu Yufeng, who had already surpassed Kevin and was the strongest Fusion Warrior and even a Herrscher at the time, Honkai Energy withstand?

Mobius didn't bother to hide anything and said directly, "Simply put, the Project: Ascend to Divinity is another form of the Stigmata Project that allows humanity to complete the process of advancement. The ultimate goal of the Stigmata Project is to greatly increase the upper limit of Honkai Energy everyone can bear, even to the level of the Herrscher. In this way, Honkai Energy can be accepted and absorbed by the Aura, Finality will no longer have the opportunity to be born."

"Then can we carry out this plan now?" Pardo tilted her head and said.

"The Stigmata Project ... its foundation is that Mei has incorporated all her life's knowledge into the genes of the next generation of humans, waiting for suitable individuals to awaken the power called Stigmata, which will enable them to withstand a large amount of Honkai Energy." Elysia lowered her eyes. "However... for now, the Stigmata Project doesn't even have the foundation to be implemented."

The next generation of humans will not be the same as the humans of this era.

From the moment of their birth, they were given gifts from the pre-Qin era. May gave them the possibility to adapt to Honkai, Elysia gave them the opportunity to retain their humanity when becoming Herrscher, Prometheus and Mobius ensured that the Herrscher of the next era would maintain the same order and abilities as the pre-Qin era, and pioneers like Kevin gave them knowledge of the pre-Qin era and hope for the future...

"In other words, the premise of the Stigmata Project is that we are once again facing the desperate situation of the annihilation of humanity, and once again gamble everything on the next Ming Dynasty," Mobius said. "Therefore, the methods that can be used to fight the Honkai now are not much different from the methods we used in the previous life: the Fusion Warrior Project, the Divine Key Project, and the Chimera Project."

"But we can't guarantee that if the Fusion Warrior Project is promoted too early, it will affect the abilities of the Herrscher that appear later," Vill-V continued. "The powers and order of the Herrscher are not fixed, only the Finality remains the same."

"I see... So what's the principle behind Brother Yu Feng's Project: Ascend to Divinity?" Pardo asked, scratching her head.

"Based on the body of Fusion Warrior, it is used as a valve for imaginary numbers to seize the authority of the Herrscher. Because it is directly connected to the source of Honkai, the Honkai Energy too enormous, so the physical qualities must be strengthened through the Chimera Project," Mobius said. "The complete theory and plan were completed by Admil and me, but... in the end, Yu Feng was less Herrscher and more... he was still a Fusion Warrior, but a Fusion Warrior with the Herrscher Authority."

"Then why did he become a natural Herrscher after this rebirth?" Sakura asked.

"I still don't understand this," Mobius said irritably. "And what I can say for sure is that Lilith and Yu Feng are the same. Before her rebirth, Lilith was a completely human being, but this time she also has the body of Herrscher."

"At least for now, we don't have to worry about seeing them together again," Vill-V said with a shrug.

Kai seemed somewhat disappointed upon hearing this.

"Feng's Herrscher Authority is similar to time, so what is Lilith's power?" Sakura asked. "Since she became Herrscher through the Project: Ascend to Divinity, just like Feng, her Herrscher Authority should have been shown during the Finality battle. Given her personality, she couldn't have just watched Feng fight the Finality battle without doing anything herself."

"That's also what I find strange. I've never seen Lilith's powers before," Mobius sighed. "However, that's not why I called you here today."

After a moment's thought, Vill-V's expression turned somewhat strange. "Mobius, are you suggesting... that Yu Feng might be another juvenile form of the Finality?"

Others: "???"

Ignoring the astonished expressions of the others, Vill-V began her reasoning. "As far as I know, even the Herrscher's Herrscher Core aren't directly connected to the Honkai origin. Instead, they connect to the Imaginary Root through a valve opened by the Cocoon of Finality. In other words, the essence of their powers is merely a projection of the Finality. And Mobius, you said the essence of the Project: Ascend to Divinity is to use the Fusion Warrior as a valve to directly connect to the Honkai origin. And Yu Feng's currently presumed powers are extremely similar to the presumed powers of the Finality. The Finality we face is merely a mechanism for executing reincarnation, and Yu Feng..."

"It could be the Finality that was originally going to befall our world," Mobius said.

"Wait, wait, wait a minute..." Pardo's little brain seemed a bit confused about the current situation. "Brother Yu Feng is the Finality? The one we have to defeat in the end is also the Finality? That means the enemy we have to defeat... is Brother Yu Feng? But... but... wasn't Brother Yu Feng human from the beginning?"

At this moment, Kosma had been silent until now, spoke up, "Mobius, do you mean that Feng was originally human, but now in this rebooted world, Feng has become Herrscher, which means that when the Finality descends, he will become the Finality?"

"Even so, he won't be our enemy." Elysia and Kevin almost simultaneously.

Afterwards, everyone looked at Yu Kevin with strange expressions, while Hua's eyes were full of respect. Was this the absolute trust that the leader and deputy leader of the Fourteen Schicksal of Chasing Fire had in their teammates? Well, this was the difference between a leader and an ordinary soldier. He should just be a good soldier and not let down the name of Flame-Chasers.

Kevin: "?"

Why are you looking at him? As Feng's good brother, he should have absolute trust in Feng!

Elysia: "..."

Although she knew Kevin didn't mean it that way, Mei's misunderstanding wasn't entirely unfounded. If she didn't know Kevin so well, she would also have thought that Kevin was a bit... uh...

She doesn't want to compete with another man for a man, thank you.

"So the problem lies with Lilith. What exactly is her power...? Apart from Elysia, you all participated in the War of Finality. Besides the spacetime phenomena, did you see any other unusual phenomena at that time?" Mobius withdrew his strange gaze from Kevin and mentally crossed out his plan to send someone to the operating table to become Kaiwen.