Zhu Yufeng: Got You!
Looking at the somewhat uneasy SEELE in front of him, Zhu Yufeng also began to think about some things related to himself, about the Herrscher. In the time since the rebirth, he hadn't thought about it much, because he had a general understanding of his own powers, often communicated with his companion Honkai Beast Ugar, and Elysia was always by his side. Moreover, now he also had to deal with Lilith, who was suspected to be another Origin. He didn't think he was anything special.
Actually, he, along with Elysia and Lilith, were the three Herrscher who belonged to a special Herrscher.
At the same time... is it possible that he was too lazy to use his brain to think about anything else, and thought that it would be enough to just kill all the other Herrscher, so he didn't think about anything else?
In this life, he is no longer alone. He has Elysia, Lilith, Kevin, and the others by his side. They all know about his past and fight alongside him. So... he has chosen to trust them and has begun to adapt to this kind of life, no longer thinking about other interfering factors...
His reunion with Seele led him to gain a deeper understanding of the Herrscher born from the Cocoon of Finality. As a former Honkai Impact 3rd player, he had to reconsider this information.
The first thing he needed to think about was how he became Herrscher. He couldn't remember it, even though he had discussed it with Mobius. Mobius believed that although there was a possibility of theoretical success, it was not a guaranteed method. Moreover, the key information was with Admil from his previous life. What did Admil discover?
He remembered clearly what happened after he became Herrscher, his thoughts at the time, his mindset, and even the chuunibyou (middle school syndrome) quotes that he still wanted to bury himself in now.
The only thing missing is the memory of how she became Herrscher. It's like she had a dream in a daze, and after absorbing Honkai Energy, she became Herrscher.
Because he couldn't remember it, he only mentioned it to Mobius once in this life and didn't pay much attention to it.
He never had any desire to destroy anything. He clearly remembered his battle with the Finality after becoming Herrscher, and his thoughts remained the same: he wanted to transcend fate, defeat the Finality, defeat the Honkai, and at least... save the fate of the other twelve people.
Even in his most desperate moments, after the Fallen Angel Squad was wiped out in the Tragedy of Binding, all he felt in his heart was hatred for himself and for the Honkai.
He thought his goal had always been clear, but after the Tragedy of Binding, and after Elysia still chose suicide to release her power, just like the predetermined path, his purpose deviated somewhat.
Looking back now, wasn't that his last desperate act of madness?
Regardless of humanity's future or the world's fate, he staked his own life, loading it into the gun barrel, to seize as much Honkai Energy as possible needed for the Herrscher's birth before the Finality, bypassing the Cocoon of Finality, and connecting to the Imaginary Tree.
Whether humanity triumphs over the Honkai or not is irrelevant to him. At that moment, he appeared only as an enemy of the Honkai, or rather, as an enemy of the Finality, and had no other stance.
"Humanity has no right to award me a medal; I will crown myself. The world is unworthy of my recognition; I will bear all the consequences."
At that time... was that what he was thinking?
"It's alright. Maybe this kind of problem can be solved with a minor surgery to remove the Herrscher Core?" Lilith's voice temporarily diverted Zhu Yufeng's thoughts elsewhere.
Retrieving the Herrscher Core ... Lilith had reviewed her own memories, thought this was indeed a solution. The birth of the Herrscher Core signified the birth of this sequence of Herrscher, just like Fu Hua and Wendy in the current civilization, who became Herrscher simply by having fragments of Sirin's Herrscher Core implanted in them. Was Fu Hua still only half Herrscher before Kiana forcibly pushed her back into her original form? In the end, the Herrscher of Thunder was still considered to have been born, even though Fu Hua only truly awakened as the Herrscher of Thunder in the later Sinner's Elegy of the Sinner.
Wendy's death after the Gem of Desire was removed was also related to Cocolia's violent surgery and subsequent refusal to help her. Fu Hua was also on the verge of death after Ryūna forcibly took the Gem of Conquest, but she was saved by Anti-Entropy and immediately returned to the battlefield...
It is evident that if the surgery is performed properly, Herrscher Core is removed may not necessarily die; they may not even need a technical position or a recovery period.
By the way, let me complain again. As the Fourth Herrscher and the first boss to appear as Herrscher in the story, Wendy is really embarrassing... She actually fought three B-rank Valkyrie to a standstill. What does B-rank Valkyrie mean in the Previous Civilization? Even if we consider the normal Hua as an A-rank Valkyrie, B-rank Valkyrie is at most a water- Fusion Warrior like Fire Moth, not even counting the luck factor of Pardo's water-type. That's about it.
No wonder you weren't included in the superstring space.
Not to mention that Hua was in a severely weakened state at that time, but she was actually at the level of S-rank Valkyrie... Hua at full power... I wonder if the time when I retrieved Hua from her state of collapse and loss of control counts... Kevin estimated that even he would need to activate his Karma state to defeat and retrieve Hua without harming her, and as for himself, to save trouble, he would directly activate his Collapse state.
In conclusion, Hua is still quite strong, not at all as mediocre as she thought.
In other words, the fact that three warriors from the previous life, who weren't even lucky enough to be Pardo Water-type warriors, could fight a Herrscher to a standstill would make the Fire Moth of the Previous Civilization laugh in their dreams.
In this life, the Fourth Herrscher I fought was evenly matched with Jie Ge, but in the end, I managed to catch her off guard and kill her. What kind of person is Qianjie Jie? Even before the Restraint, when Fusion Warrior had organized units, Qianjie, before undergoing surgery, was the number one after Kevin and Elysia.
"Will taking out the Herrscher Core solve the problem?" Elysia asked with some doubt. This idea was a strange concept for her because no one had ever taken the Herrscher Core while the Herrscher was still alive; they always took it after killing the Herrscher.
Of course, it's not that Fire Moth didn't consider that removing the Herrscher Core would restore the Herrscher to normal; the key is finding a Herrscher who can be alive to remove the Herrscher Core!
The Fifth Herrscher never interacted with humans from beginning to end; whenever they met, it was as if they were enemies, their eyes blazing with hatred. The Sixth Herrscher is another story. The Seventh Herrscher was instantly killed by Kevin; before that, she had completely lost her mind and was unable to communicate. The Eighth Herrscher acted hostilely and caused large-scale destruction before being killed by Aponia. The Ninth Herrscher was just about to self-destruct after being found. The Tenth Herrscher, although able to communicate, was only focused on destroying human civilization; communicating with her made little difference. The Eleventh Herrscher was killed by herself; at that time, if she didn't kill her, she would die, so she had no choice. Before awakening, the Twelfth Herrscher didn't even look for the Herrscher Core; after awakening, she and her main body were locked in the Black Box.
In conclusion, it's not that the Fire Moth doesn't want to, but rather that it can't.
Apart from Elysia, none of the Herrscher are on the side of humanity. Who would obediently lie on the operating table and wait for you to extract the Herrscher Core? Unless they die, then they'll really behave.
"That depends on the skill level of the person performing the surgery. Also, I'm just suggesting a possibility. After all, it's still unknown whether the Herrscher of our current civilization can be equated with the Herrscher of the next civilization." Lilith shrugged and turned her gaze to Zhu Yufeng.
Elysia understood; she knew that in the next civilization, more than one Herrscher had their Herrscher Core extracted, and the survival rate was not 100%.
Zhu Yufeng snapped out of his thoughts, nodded, and said hesitantly, "Indeed, I cannot confirm whether there is a difference between the two civilizations' Herrscher under the influence of your power... Apart from the presence or absence of humanity, I cannot confirm whether there is any consistency in other aspects."
If Seele can truly save the Herrscher in this way, then the Herrscher the Void...
Hmm... Klein and Immer definitely need to be saved, but it's unlikely that Himiko will be saved. According to Hua's description, Himiko is more like Anna who was forcibly chosen as the Herrscher body and directly injected with Honkai Energy become a Herrscher without any warning signs.
Klein and Immer are unclear, but as someone who has fought Michael firsthand, he can confirm that Michael gave him that hug in his final moments out of his own will. Even excluding emotional factors, rationally speaking, why would a Herrscher, or rather, what reason would they have to give the person who killed them a normal hug in the last moment of their life?
That was the last blow she could deliver. For the Herrscher of Binding, she wasn't already dead at that point, so she could have released her powers on herself, at least taking her with her.
But she didn't.
Her eyes, once as blue as the sky after rain, have turned golden, but her gaze remains gentle.
Speaking of which, that final hug from Michael... it seems similar to Himiko's last smile before being instantly killed by Kevin? Kevin became depressed because of it, and his own obsession became even more insane afterward.
Even now, he didn't want to hear Michael's nagging, but that didn't stop him from saving Michael.
But... in that case, wouldn't Seele, as the first Herrscher from the Previous Civilization to have her Herrscher Core extracted, become an experimental subject? There's no precedent for this, and there might not even be enough time for Mobius to confirm. It's questionable how long Seele, with her even more eccentric personality, could hold out.
Whether they are black or white Seele, they are twins, and losing one of them would be a huge blow to the other. In some ways, they are equally vulnerable.
From the perspective of modern civilization, Bai hope might be stronger, while Hei hope, who is afraid of loneliness, is the one most likely to break down.
Not to mention...
"To extract the Herrscher Core, we first need to find Herrscher Core." Zhu Yufeng took out the Herrscher monitoring device created by the Fire Moth. "Look, there's still no Herrscher signal appearing on it. This monitoring device was created based on the Fire Moth's research on Herrscher Core; it can specifically detect Herrscher Core fluctuations..."
"Do the Herrscher of Rock and the Thousandth Herrscher have anything to say?" Lilith easily provided a counterexample.
Zhu Yufeng remained silent. The Herrscher of Rock was indeed... Thousandth Herrscher... Shouldn't it be that they were too weak to be detected?
"In short, we need to find a way to get SEELE to Mobius first..." Zhu Yufeng pondered, "Otherwise, it's all just empty talk."
But how do you find this reason?
I can't expect Mobius to follow me around after I take on the observation mission, can I? What about the equipment? Where will I get the equipment? What about the safety measures?
Zhu Yufeng glanced at Seele, who looked worried, took a deep breath, and then said, "Don't worry, Seele, no matter which version of you it is, we will do our best to help you."
But besides that, he didn't know what he should do or how to do it, because this was truly beyond his ability to handle...
"Mmm." Seele nodded obediently. "As I said before, even though my older brother is a bit of a blockhead, he's always very reliable."
"If I were reliable, would I still be the same person in my past life?" Zhu Yufeng thought to himself. "Besides, why does this 'blockhead' seem a bit off from my understanding of Hei Xi? At least there's usually a 'dead' or something before it, right?"
"Speaking of which, don't you have any memories of being Herrscher after that?" Zhu Yufeng asked. It was strange. If Bai Seele didn't have any memories of that after that, how did she retain her memories of her previous life?
Just like the lecturer personality of Vill-V, once it's gone, it's gone. Even after everything was replaced, in the end, only those eight personalities remained.
"Actually... there's a little..." Seele said somewhat embarrassedly, "But I woke up for much less time than the other one. After I found out we were all here, I realized she had been here the whole time..."
Before becoming Herrscher, was the personality that consumed the most energy the most, SEELE? Zhu Yufeng wondered to himself.
"Do you have a way to communicate with her again now?" Zhu Yufeng asked again.
"No..." Seele said, looking down sadly, "She hasn't said a word. No matter how much I try to contact her, she just won't speak... but I can still feel her presence..."
Zhu Yufeng thought for a moment, then said, "Then please pass on a message to her for me."
Seele looked up at Zhu Yufeng, Zhu Yufeng slowly said, "Is it because you were spying on me in your past life that you're afraid to come out?"
seele. "?"
Seele was stunned for a moment, then her expression changed instantly, and she pounced on him, baring her teeth and claws. "You blockhead, who are you calling a spy!"
A rare sly smile appeared on Zhu Yufeng's face, as if he were manipulating the situation!