Collapse, I'll Transform and Punch You Directly

It doesn't seem like I saw it. She only saw... the light!

"!!!!"

Chang Guang instantly let out a scream like a groundhog and, covering his eyes, immediately slumped to the ground!

"Who! Which son of a bitch used a flashbang! Calling me out in the middle of the night just to get flashed!?"

Chang Guang yelled in grief and indignation on the ground, his eyes sore and swollen. He had just fallen asleep! Was it a group of people!?

"Lord Chang Guang, please put these on."

Rita walked past Chang Guang as if nothing had happened, handing him the sunglasses in her hand.

Why did Rita know to guard against Bai Chen? Because Bai Chen had put on a show on the spaceship to headquarters.

Of course, he had also knocked out Bishop Otto, so he was prepared early.

"Thank you, Rita."

After taking the sunglasses, Chang Guang could barely see the scene. The closest people to him, wearing sunglasses like gangsters, were Otto and Rita.

"Lord Otto, you knew what was happening and didn't warn me?"

Chang Guang grumbled, gnashing his teeth.

"Chang Guang, I don't understand what you're saying at all."

Otto feigned ignorance, adjusting his sunglasses. It's a joke, how could I not share such a beautiful sight with everyone?

"Tsk."

Chang Guang stopped talking and looked towards the center of the laboratory. He wanted to see what this "bull" had done.

However, he saw a child, only thirteen or fourteen years old, tied to the experimental platform in the middle. The source of the flashing light was the Stigmata on his back, which was constantly changing its form.

"Bishop, is your important business with me to go back to your old ways and experiment on children?!"

Chang Guang's brows furrowed, and his tone became unfriendly.

"It seems my image in your minds has become like this."

Otto gave a bitter smile, then pointed at Bai Chen and continued, "I discussed cooperation with him, and he volunteered. Do you see his expression? Does it look like I forced him?"

Chang Guang looked in the direction Otto pointed. Indeed, he saw Bai Chen's delighted smile.

"Little brother Bai Chen, if you keep flashing like this, you'll delay today's experimental progress."

At the same time, Otto also reminded Bai Chen appropriately.

"Oh, okay."

Hearing that his boring time might be extended, Bai Chen stopped switching his Stigmata, and the dazzling light from the Stigmata gradually dimmed.

He was mainly bored. Hearing the screams of those around him under the light made him feel less bored.

"..."

Chang Guang leaned closer to observe the Stigmata on Bai Chen's body. It was quite different from the Stigmata he had discovered before! The patterns seemed to be integrated, yet also like three combined into one.

Then, he took the samples collected by the laboratory to observe them. The more he looked, the more shocked he became, and the more surprised he was!

This Stigmata was not a natural Stigmata in the traditional sense, but its function was no different from a natural Stigmata, and perhaps even better!

This guy had various forms of Stigmata. Depending on the situation, they might indeed be able to develop almost no negative side effects from artificial Stigmata!

"Little guy, what are you doing?"

After reading the data, Chang Guang asked Bai Chen excitedly, completely forgetting that Bai Chen had just flashed him.

"I have a secret weapon."

Bai Chen rolled his eyes internally. What else? A reward for beating up Black Jilin?

"It's okay if you don't say. Don't worry, the process you need to cooperate with today will end soon. The rest is for us researchers."

Not minding Bai Chen's secrecy, Chang Guang cheerfully moved the instruments on Bai Chen and let him down.

"How long will it take you to develop the next set of artificial Stigmata?"

Bai Chen asked Chang Guang curiously, stretching his stiff shoulders. Himeko's body was getting weaker day by day. The sooner the new artificial Stigmata could be developed, the sooner Himeko could be helped.

If none of that worked... then he would have to kill Himeko.

More precisely, like Yuno, destroy her physical body and then reshape a better one for her.

But this kind of thing involved ethics. If there was no other way, Bai Chen would not use such a method.

At that moment, in St. Freya, while Bai Chen was burning paper in front of Himeko's coffin, Himeko suddenly felt the hairs on her back stand on end.

What's going on? Is there a ghost in the middle of the night? Himeko glanced at Theresa next to her, who was burning paper with red eyes, and wondered if she should tell her.

Returning to headquarters, Bai Chen jumped in front of Otto and spread his hands.

"Old man, give me some gold."

"Hmm?"

Otto didn't quite know where Bai Chen was.

"No, Lord Bishop, if you want me to cooperate with your experiments, you should at least give me some weapons and armor. Even some pocket money would be fine. Otherwise, I'll report you for child labor."

Bai Chen stood with his hands on his hips, strongly condemning Otto's attempt to get free labor.

"My apologies. I will arrange for appropriate wages afterward."

Otto only then realized Bai Chen was asking for money. The main thing was that Bai Chen hadn't mentioned anything about money during their conversation on the way, and Otto thought Bai Chen wasn't interested in such things.

Chapter 74: You're Right, But This Is Kaslana

The next day, Bai Chen stared at the 500 yuan in his phone account and fell silent. How could they be so stingy?

Five hundred yuan? I should have gotten more than that just from all the blood they drew from me!

What can 500 yuan even buy? Enough spicy strips from outside the elementary school to fill a small truck?

"Lord Otto, aren't you a bit too stingy?"

Bai Chen held up his pinky finger to Otto on the communicator, looking down on him with contempt.

"He is my friend. It's just that children cannot handle so much money. The remaining amount will be handed over to your guardian."

Otto hadn't actually investigated who Bai Chen's guardian was because there was no need. He could just give it directly to Theresa, and he believed Theresa would keep the money safe.

Of course, Otto was also subtly getting back at Bai Chen. After all, why did Bai Chen keep joking about his underage status yesterday? He'd show him the suffering of being underage!

Bai Chen was relieved after hearing Otto's words. If the money wasn't going to Theresa, then it should be fine. He could ask Himeko for it when he got back.

As long as it didn't go to Theresa, with how much of a spendthrift she was, who knew if she'd secretly spend the money.

At St. Freya, Theresa and the others stood solemnly before the tombstone, their hearts heavy as they offered blessings and words of remembrance for Bai Chen.

Theresa placed the bouquet of flowers in her hand before the tombstone and suddenly received a message on her phone.

Upon checking, she saw that the headquarters had transferred five million funds to her, with the note "Bai Chen" attached.

"Does Grandpa also know about Bai Chen's departure?"

Theresa sadly accepted the transfer from headquarters, mistaking it for a gift from the organization.

"Bai Chen, are you available for the Herrscher of the Void transformation experiment?"

Otto wanted to see when Bai Chen would be free to cooperate with the experiment.

"I used up all my A-rank skills and the Herrscher of the Void transformation not too long ago. You should know this already. All my Herrscher authority is currently on cooldown. Give me a few more days."

It should be about four more days until the Skyward Ranger's cooldown was complete. With the Stigmata's enhancement at that time, it should be a perfect substitute for the Herrscher of the Void.

After their conversation, Bai Chen realized he had nothing to do at the moment. The data collection for the Stigmata research experiment was completed last night, and it wouldn't be needed again for a while.

He couldn't help with Otto's experiment either... Where was the "Thousand Realm Collapse" now?

Bai Chen only remembered that Otto's experiment required the "Thousand Realm Collapse," but he didn't know why it was needed, nor did he know if Otto currently possessed it. He couldn't recall any of it. Why?

Didn't I remember this not too long ago?

Bai Chen frustratingly smacked his head. Has my memory gotten worse again? Is this a side effect from last time?

With nothing to do, Bai Chen wandered aimlessly around headquarters. He couldn't possibly have come all this way only to lie around for several days, could he?

Let's go find the training grounds! It's not like I have to worry about my identity being exposed, and I can finally let loose.

After finishing her work for the day, Miss Rita had intended to go find Bai Chen directly, but she discovered he wasn't in his room at all.

After checking the surveillance, she found out that Bai Chen had followed the navigation to the training grounds.

Memory Battlefield: A special training facility developed by Schicksal. It can materialize enemies from the user's memories for training, and it can also allow users to access enemies from the memories of others within the Memory Battlefield.

As Rita approached the Memory Battlefield to look for Bai Chen, she heard the heated atmosphere within.

"Heavens! She can do that?!"

"So violent and powerful! Could she be another Durandal?"

"Speaking of which, don't you think the guy opposite her is even more outrageous? That thing doesn't look like something an A-rank Valkyrie could handle!"

As the surrounding Valkyries exclaimed, Rita's gaze also turned towards the eye-catching figure on the field.

Initially, she noticed a mechanical humanoid about four to five meters tall, with many gear design elements in its appearance.

This towering humanoid was currently darting around the training ground at an incredibly unreasonable speed. Valkyries with slightly weaker abilities couldn't even track its movements.

The target it was attacking was a white-haired girl? This girl looked somewhat familiar?

It looks like the protagonist from the game the Bishop was playing casually during history class a few days ago!

No! Isn't that the saint, Kallen, from the history textbooks?

Rita's eyes twitched violently. If she remembered correctly, Bishop Otto seemed to have some unclear relationship with this Kallen.

There was no need to guess; the fact that Kallen, who had died five hundred years ago, appeared here must be because Bai Chen had transformed.

At the other end of the training grounds, Otto had appeared there at some point. His face was no longer its usual composed self.

His expression was as dark as the bottom of a pot!

He knew very well that the Kallen before him was Bai Chen's transformation. He was absolutely certain that the person before him couldn't possibly be Kallen, but it was still infuriating!

I don't know why, but he even had a feeling that the Kallen before him was closer to Kallen than Kallen.

It's a tongue twister, isn't it? But it's the truth.

"Otto... is he really five hundred years old and so young?"

Kallen originally realized she was learning cooking from Chijie in a World Bubble. But the moment Bai Chen transformed, she seemed to feel something and actively returned to Bai Chen's body.

Upon returning, she saw Bai Chen intensely fighting the Imaginary Entity and also noticed Otto nearby.

"I feel like he's a bit chubby."

For some reason, Kallen felt this Otto was plumper than she remembered.

Bai Chen leaped into the air, dodging another charge from the Imaginary Entity, and then stomped on its greatsword.

Though it appeared to be a small, delicate foot, it carried an unparalleled immense force as it stepped on the greatsword!

As if a cannonball had exploded on the scene, a deafening roar followed, and the greatsword in the Imaginary Entity's hand was stomped into the ground, leaving only half of its blade exposed!

The Kaslana family, known for their monstrous strength, combined with the enhancement from the Stigmata, meant this was no Imaginary Entity that could be trifled with, especially one that had been killed by an unawakened Mei.

The Imaginary Entity was strong, but not strong enough!

Bai Chen waved his hand, and the Judas Vow appeared out of thin air in his grasp.

He swung the immensely large Judas, as if wielding a sledgehammer, unleashing gusts of wind and striking the Imaginary Entity at its waist!

In that instant, the arena erupted with the roar of shattering machinery! The once imposing Imaginary Entity was reduced to scrap, scattering everywhere like tattered debris!

The entire arena was silenced by the sheer brutality. Since Durandal mostly used a spear in combat, even Durandal hadn't displayed such violence in front of them!

Of course, it wasn't that Durandal couldn't do it, it was just that they hadn't witnessed it.

Chapter 75: Utilizing the Small World