Hen: Can't Anyone Keep It Under Control?

"So you didn't even spare the Divine Key, is that it?" Mobius said to Zhu Yufeng in the video, somewhat speechless. She really didn't expect that there would be consciousness inside the Divine Key, which was already in a "dead" state. Logically speaking, the Herrscher Core made into Divine Key are all inanimate objects that have lost their vitality and can only serve as a key to temporarily obtain limited Herrscher Authority by connecting to the Cocoon of Finality. But then it came to Zhu Yufeng...

The consciousness of the Sixth Herrscher was left in the Divine Key, and the consciousness of the Eleventh Herrscher was also left in the Divine Key.

This guy finally didn't even spare the Divine Key. Is the next one going to be the Honkai Beast?

The thought had barely crossed his mind when Mobius suppressed it. After all, Divine Key is at least a human consciousness, right? Honkai Beast don't even have a basic human form anymore, it can't be that bad...

"I also want to know, will another Honkai Beast pop up next, saying that it was fused with me in its past life and gained human-like thoughts and observed me for a long time..." Zhu Yufeng said numbly. He already has the Divine Key, so he wouldn't be surprised if another Honkai Beast. Besides, who said Honkai Beast don't have human forms? A certain pufferfish's Bebe Dragon, a certain Kiana fan's Jana, don't they all have human forms?

Standing next to Zhu Yufeng, Elysia glanced at Zhu Yufeng and then pinched his waist.

This is outrageous. He already has enough fans, and Lilith, who is also Herrscher like himself, is already a headache enough. Now, a Divine Key has appeared, and he wants a Honkai Beast?

Has her rival begun to transcend the realm of human form?

I shouldn't have believed him, but what Feng said made so much sense... Anyway, I'll just have to kill him first!

Mobius's eyes twitched upon hearing this answer. She then silently pondered whether Honkai Beast could possibly understand human thought and the plausibility of Zhu Yufeng's guess. She really didn't want any more inexplicable or even inhuman things to appear. Weren't there enough people already?

And speaking of understanding human thought... someone's Companion Honkai Beast seems to be quite human-like, the kind that's incredibly mischievous. Just now, it pulled a huge stunt on Hen...

"The construction of the Divine Key was not under my jurisdiction; it was basically led by May and Vill-V. Speaking of which, I'm still very interested in the Key of Blankness that May was able to create," Mobius said. "Therefore, I cannot give a definite answer as to why the Herrscher's consciousness remains within the Divine Key. The Sixth Divine Key and Eleventh Divine Key were both created by Vill-V herself, so she should know more about this."

As for what happened with Hen, we'll talk about it later; it's not really necessary anyway.

"Indeed..." Zhu Yufeng nodded thoughtfully, recalling the Eleventh Divine Key, the Key of Binding, Divine Grace Judgment. It was indeed he who had Vill-V to make it, and it was handed over to him after it was made. As for the Key of Blankness, he didn't have a deep understanding of it. He only knew that it could be used to use Herrscher Authority by loading Herrscher Core, and temporarily become a Herrscher- like being. Mei had used herself as an experiment to prove the ability of the Key of Blankness, but it was this use of the Key of Blankness that caused extremely serious and irreversible damage to her body.

As a transmigrator, he was naturally aware of this matter. Therefore, before the annihilation campaign against the Tenth Herrscher was launched, and before he was transferred to Afi's City to carry out the plan to suppress the Rebel Army, he had actually considered refusing to take on this mission. However, before he could put it into action, May sent a message to Kevin.

"The Fallen Angel Squad and Kevin must leave the Fire Moth in order to lure the snake out of its hole."

At that time, just a few days after Lilith confessed her feelings to him, he led the Fallen Angel Squad to defeat Kevin for the first time in a direct confrontation, solidifying the reputation of the Fire Moth as the strongest anti- Honkai combat squad.

After annihilating all the Rebel Army, he was ordered by his superiors to stay in Afyangqi with his team, ostensibly to provide a cover for the resistance.

He also knew that there was a hidden individual of the Tenth Herrscher among the higher-ups, and all the other Thousandth Herrscher were under the command of this individual. According to what Mei later told him when she personally fought against the Thousandth Herrscher, in her opinion, the greatest threat was not even Kevin but the Fallen Angel Squad. No matter how strong Kevin was, she was still just one person, and she obeyed Mei's orders without question. But the Fallen Angel Squad was different. They had strong teamwork capabilities and uninterrupted autonomy. Most importantly, the Fallen Angel Squad did not necessarily accept the orders of the higher-ups. Kevin could still exert pressure through Mei, but if the Fallen Angel Squad resisted orders, the higher-ups could do nothing about it.

This statement was later proven true. Zhu Yufeng completely ignored the decisions of the higher-ups and forcefully implemented the first plan, intending to consume civilians to offset the effect of the Divine Blessing Barrier. After the Fallen Angel Squad was wiped out, Zhu Yufeng was close to completing his Project: Ascend to Divinity. Kevin was no match for him. Who would dare to settle scores with him later?

Who can still restrain this last Fallen Angel?

After the Twelfth Herrscher Incident ended and he awoke, Mei came to see him alone. She first apologized to him, and then frankly admitted that she also feared and suspected him.

"You seem completely unsurprised?" Mei asked, looking at him with some surprise.

" In the Rebel Army, not a single person survived the entire Afian clan. When fighting against the Herrscher of Binding, the first thing they thought of, and even defied orders to eliminate, was to expend civilians. And now, even if I become one of the Flame-Chasers, I don't want to see Elysia again. The Discipline of Aponia have no effect on me. My humanity is growing weaker and weaker. I no longer have my former companions by my side... Kevin can no longer defeat me. You have no guarantee to confirm whether I will still fight for humanity, especially since I have already lost too much of my present self because of humanity."

Mei was silent for a moment before nodding and saying, "That's right, you're right... Even with Elysia, I don't completely trust her, but there's no doubt she's not an enemy of humanity, and it was because she established the Fourteen Schicksal that humanity maintained its last vestige of stability... But you're different, Feng. If you're still willing to be with Elysia... no, after what happened, even someone as cold-hearted as you are now, you won't easily forgive her..."

Mei's meaning is simple: in her view, Lilith is dead, and the last link between Zhu Yufeng and humanity cannot be Kevin or anyone else, but only Elysia, who rescued Zhu Yufeng from the ruins and became the source of his belief in his future battles. However, the Tragedy of Binding has basically severed this last link as well.

If Zhu Yufeng were to suddenly lose his temper, no one could stop him. Unlike Kevin and the others, she didn't believe on a whim that Zhu Yufeng would never be an enemy of humanity. In her view, Zhu Yufeng had already gone to such lengths because of humanity... Did he really still have a reason to fight for humanity?

"Mobius also told me before, she questioned me, why I still fight for humanity," Zhu Yufeng said calmly. "My answer was also very clear. I have indeed lost too much because of humanity, but in the process, I have also gained a lot, and I have lost them because of the Honkai. So... why do you think that humanity alone can make me let go of my hatred for the Honkai? Make me let go of this obsession? Simply put, if I am now an enemy of humanity, then what is the meaning of all my previous battles? I will never fall before defeating the Finality, because... I will not let the sacrifices of Lilith and the others, and all the efforts that Mobius and Vill-V have made so far, become a joke."

"So, regardless of your current view of humanity, at least you and we share a common goal: to defeat the Finality, right?" May asked. "And what happens after that?"

"Will I live that long?" Zhu Yufeng asked rhetorically.

Mei remained silent.

"Mei, instead of worrying about this, you should spend more time on Kevin." Zhu Yufeng lowered her eyes. "Your time is running out, isn't it?"

Mei was taken aback. "When did you...?"

"You don't need to know why I know this. I will ask Mobius to give up the time he has to research the drug to treat me, so that you can at least have more time to spend with Kevin," Zhu Yufeng said.

"Why..."

"Now you can rest assured, right? It's a win-win situation. A monster that lost its connection with humans is dead, and you and your loved one can have more time together..."

"You are not a monster, you are Maple, a warrior of the Fire Moth, the third seat of the Fourteen Schicksal..."

"I asked Vill-V this question before too: Am I a human, a god, or perhaps a ridiculous monster?" Zhu Yufeng raised his hand. "But this question is meaningless to me, because no matter what... never mind, there's nothing more to talk about. You have other projects, right? If you have some free time now, go spend some more time with Kevin, so you don't leave any regrets later."

Mei paused for a moment, then stood up, said "Good luck" and left.

Speaking of which, Kevin and May are quite close. May had only been gone a short while when Kevin came to see her again, and the first thing he said was still "I'm sorry"...

At the time, he didn't know what had happened. Only later did he realize that Mobius had revealed his side effects.

What he didn't know was that after Mei left, she ran into Kevin and said to Kevin, "I understand now why you all believe in him so much."

Later, when he was preparing to become a new lawyer, Mei also came over and suggested that Key of Blank could help him connect Imaginary Tree and create new possibilities.

The Key of Blank... strictly speaking, it is also a container, rather than acting as a key like the core of the law.

After all, the initial guess about the core of the Law was that it connected to the Imaginary Space, but later analysis of the ruins on the moon and various data showed that it actually connected to the Finality Cocoon.

However, the function of the Key of Blank as a container remains unchanged.

Back to the present, Elysia had already finished the discussion with Mobius about the arrangements after Seele's departure on her behalf. Feeling that there was nothing left for Zhu Yufeng to do, he remembered that it was Mobius who had taken the initiative to contact them.

So he asked, "By the way, Mobius, what brings you to us this time? Are you going to capture Yanluo and give him your film?"

Mobius then remembered the purpose of his initial contact, and said with a forced smile, "Rather than cutting up Yanluo, I think I'd rather cut up your Yuga right now."

Zhu Yufeng slowly typed a question mark. What happened to Yuga again? And it's been bothering Hen quite a bit lately. If Hen minded, he would have already... well, even if he minded, he couldn't do anything about Yuga...

"What's wrong with it?" Zhu Yufeng asked cautiously, while quickly contacting Yuga to find out what it had done. He felt like a parent whose child had gotten into trouble and was being called in by the teacher...

"Hehe..." Mobius stared at Zhu Yufeng and said, "It demolished half of the lunar base that Hen had just built, and then used its own ability to put the base back. Fortunately, there were no casualties."

Zhu Yufeng breathed a sigh of relief. That's it? That's all? What's so surprising about that? No one died, right? From the outcome, doesn't it mean Yuga did nothing at all?

Seeing Zhu Yufeng's relieved expression, Elysia and Mobius both felt a twitch at the corner of their eyes, and a thought flashed through their minds:

The personality of Companion Honkai Beast may indeed resemble that of its owner.

Did they do nothing at all? Did they even consider how Hen and the others felt after Yuga pulled this stunt?

Like master, like favorite!

After a moment of stunned silence, Mobius said, "You should really discipline Yuga a bit more. Don't let it scare people like this. If it really wants to cause trouble... then send it to fight the Maheshvara will appear soon!"

Although she was happy to see Hen suffer a lot of bad luck, Yuga shouldn't have pulled this stunt while Hen was contacting Griseo and Blanca, scaring Griseo and Blanca half to death...

No, Griseo didn't seem to have much of an expression... it was mainly Blanca who was scared.

But isn't the Maheshvara at the Dharma-ending Age? Yuga is only at the Judgment Level... Zhu Yufeng glanced at Mobius's expression, and thought, well, thinking about it carefully, Yuga really went too far this time, he deserves a beating...

"I'll go check on Griseo later. Yuga did it while Hen and Blanca were in contact." Mobius finished speaking and then ended the call.

Zhu Yufeng paused for a moment, then looked at Elysia and said, "Yuga might really need a good beating."

Moon.

With lightning speed, Yuga destroyed half of the lunar base in one strike. Then, while everyone was on high alert, it "repaired" the base it had destroyed, leaving everyone who had just hurriedly equipped themselves with weapons to prepare for battle stunned.

So this is what you've been up to all this time?

Hen stared blankly at the scenery outside the base. Yuga had run away immediately after finishing with He, leaving them standing there bewildered in the wind.

Yuga definitely knew that Yu and the others were all at the main base today, and there was no one at the place where Yuga attacked... You might think it showed hostility and was preparing to go to war with humans, but it "repaired" the base back.

Why is this Honkai Beast so mischievous?

He was quite perceptive; what might have been just a normal prank for Yuga was, as expected... Judgment-class Honkai Beast's prank was truly too much in the eyes of humans...

Is there no one who can do anything about it? He doesn't believe this Honkai Beast is wild; it must be the Companion Honkai Beast of that despicable, smoking Lawyer!