Chapter 200

Elysia immediately flashed her signature cute smile, the kind she uses when her joke gets caught, "Oh dear, I was getting dressed this morning and suddenly found this in my closet! It's been so long since I've worn such a cute outfit, so I just couldn't help but want to do something that fits my image!"

But then she emphasized, "However, it's also true that I want to do something, you know? After all, I heard from Little Pardo that the food on Star of Light is terrible!"

"No, I think it's at least above the passing grade."

Ai Yi suddenly appeared, a big "X" popping up above her head, "And Doctor Ai Yue said that this level is enough."

"That's Ai Yue's problem, it's not your fault,"

Elysia immediately turned her attention to Ai Yue, "Food can heal the soul, relieve stress, and even provide inspiration! It's not just something to fill your stomach, you know?"

"You're right, from now on the meals at the base will be your responsibility."

Ai Yue waved his hand, not intending to dwell on these matters with Elysia. "But you just said you haven't worn this dress in a long time?"

Elysia nodded, somewhat puzzled as to why Ai Yue would suddenly bring this up. "Yes, what's wrong?"

"No wonder."

Ai Yue gave a subtle look, and pointed to the cutouts on both sides of Elysia's waist and abdomen, "They're a bit tight there..."

Realizing what Ai Yue was about to say, Elysia immediately pounced on him to cover his mouth. "Wow, you! You can't say those kinds of taboo things!"

Pardofelis watched the two of them bickering and couldn't help but show an expression of admiration. In the entire Moth to Fire, probably only Brother Yue would dare to say such things in front of Sister Ai Li. Otherwise, even if it were Kevin, he would probably be facing the magic crystal arrow next.

After the brief breakfast time, everything returned to normal. Elysia continued to play the role of maid, cleaning up the mess that didn't require her attention, while Ai Yue went to the laboratory to continue his previous research. Pardofelis followed behind Ai Yue, intending to find a corner in the laboratory to get a good night's sleep.

Just then, Pardofelis glanced at Elysia, who at the same time looked at her and gave her an encouraging look.

This immediately reminded Pardofelis of their conversation before going to sleep the previous night.

Because she has a lot of free time, Pardofelis is quite adept at surfing the internet, and she can always find out about the gossip on the Moth to Fire.

However, the information she could access was limited to what would be disseminated online, which seemed somewhat outdated compared to Elysia's vast network of connections.

After all, some information has already circulated among insiders for quite some time before it spreads online.

Therefore, Pardofelis heard all sorts of gossip from Elysia —she even heard from her that her former teammate was preparing to get married.

"Huh? When did this happen?"

Hearing a familiar name from Elysia's mouth gave Pardofelis a strange feeling. "How come I remember the last time I went back to eat with them, that girl was complaining about not being able to find a boyfriend? How come she's getting married in the blink of an eye?"

"It's about this Aberration Event. The other party is the local doctor who was in charge of taking in and managing them. Having had that experience, he didn't mind her identity as Fused Warrior, so their relationship naturally warmed up very quickly."

Elysia said as if reciting a familiar story, "I actually heard about this from Danzhu, but she heard it from Elwin, so it should be quite credible. You might receive an invitation soon."

"Elwin, then it must be true,"

Upon hearing the name of the undisputed gossip queen within the Moth to Fire, Pardofelis nodded, then revealed a half-annoyed expression, "That wretched girl, she didn't even tell me beforehand! I'm definitely going to feast on her at her wedding!"

"Perhaps they just don't know if you'd still be willing to go?"

Elysia chimed in, "Now that you know, why not take the initiative?"

Upon hearing this, Pardofelis fell silent again, and after a moment she murmured to herself, "Should I take the initiative? But how should I do it..."

Although it sounded like a response to the previous topic, Elysia could clearly hear what Pardofelis was really struggling with—after all, she had deliberately steered the conversation in this direction.

So she reached out and pinched Pardofelis's cheek. "No matter what, don't forget to be yourself, Phyllis."

"Be myself?"

"Yes, if you force yourself to imitate others, you'll eventually lose yourself."

Elysia said very seriously, "People like you because you are the one and only Pardofelis, not someone else's imitator, right?"

Hearing such straightforward praise, Pardofelis twitched her ears, slightly embarrassed. "But I still think it might be better to refer to other people's ways of doing things..."

That's just because you're trying to escape something.

Elysia said, "When people face things they are not sure about, they always want to rely on or depend on the strength of others to get through the difficulties, but some things are destined to be accomplished by oneself."

At this point, Elysia suddenly revealed a gentle smile, "Of course, there are ways to increase the success rate, you know?"

Pardofelis, snapping out of her reverie, blinked as she gazed at the retreating figure ahead.

Elysia is right. The reason she wanted to imitate Mobius's style was simply because she was afraid of being rejected.

Because she was afraid that she was already fixed in Ai Yue's mind as a pet or some other image, which would prevent the relationship from changing further, she hoped to use other means to make a breakthrough.

However, I am different now!

After being taught by Elysia, Pardofelis felt full of confidence.

As she recalled Elysia's teachings, she followed Ai Yue into the laboratory.

Whether it was because of her habit of wanting to sleep after eating, or because the atmosphere in the laboratory was indeed easy to make people feel sleepy, Pardofelis couldn't help but yawn as soon as she entered the room.

Well, this is something that can't be rushed, so we have to take it slowly.

Pardofelis blinked, then decisively snuggled into Ai Yue's arms.

Now that things have come to this, I should just get some sleep.

Ai Yue naturally had no idea what the two of them had been exchanging behind his back, so although he felt that Pardofelis had been more clingy than usual these past two days, he didn't think too much about it.

After all, he really didn't have the energy to care about these things right now; the problem of Elysia alone was enough to give him a headache.

It took Ai Yue three days to completely analyze the part that Pardofelis had selected. This part of the content had an 85% overlap with the genetic information of the Eighth Herrscher. From this perspective, Ai Yue could conclude that Elysia also possessed the ability to manipulate mental powers.

Even based on the completeness of some information, theoretically, Elysia's version of mental power might be stronger than that of the Eighth Herrscher.

However, hidden within those varying 15 percent are something very important, something that Elysia is missing.

That is the true method to control mental power.

If we consider Elysia and the Eighth Herrscher as the same device, then their hardware performance is almost identical, and Elysia is even slightly stronger.

The key difference is that the Eighth Herrscher has the driver to make the device work, while Elysia does not.

This directly led to the Eighth Herrscher being able to use Herrscher authority through activation, while Elysia was completely unaware that she possessed such abilities.

However, writing a driver is not difficult for Ai Yue, not to mention that he also has the Herrscher Core of the Eighth Herrscher. With a slight adjustment to the Eighth Divine Key, it can become Elysia's "driver".

And the reality did not exceed Ai Yue's expectations.

How are you feeling?

Looking at Elysia, who had been silent for a long time in the laboratory, Ai Yue couldn't help but ask, "If there are any problems, please give feedback in time."

"Don't make a sound, I'm thinking."

Elysia shook her head slightly, then opened her eyes. "This... should be fine, right?"

She uttered the first half of her sentence, but the second half echoed directly in Ai Yue's mind, which meant that Elysia had initially mastered the power of the mind—it was just that her "voice" was a bit too loud.

"Could you please control your strength a bit?"

Ai Yue clutched his forehead, feeling the temperature of his brain rising. "This level of mental communication would have killed a normal person three times over!"

"Sorry, sorry, let me adjust it."

Elysia immediately looked apologetic. "How about this?"

"That's too weak."

Sensing the faint voice in his mind, Ai Yue couldn't help but sigh. He walked over and placed his hand on the Divine Keys. "In short, I will guide you."

As one of the top five experts in proficiency with the Eighth Divine Key, Ai Yue's understanding of mental powers is far superior to that of Elysia, with whom he has just met.

With Ai Yue's guidance, Elysia gradually became more proficient. She was not only able to communicate mentally with Dr. Mei, who was far away at the headquarters of the Moth to Fire, but also, at Ai Yue's urging, tried to unleash her mental powers at full power.

In just a brief instant, Elysia's mental power directly covered almost half of the Earth's surface. More than 800,000 people were momentarily stunned for one-twentieth of a second. Although this was insignificant compared to the total population, it was enough to prove that Elysia's version of mental power was no less than that of the Eighth Herrscher.

Unfortunately, Elysia's mental strength was still insufficient, so she could not sustain it. This full power only lasted for a moment before she had to stop, and even the crystals embedded in the Divine Keys dimmed considerably.

As an extension of Elysia's mental power, she was obviously consuming the energy accumulated in the Herrscher Core; otherwise, even if her brain were completely drained, she wouldn't be able to do such a thing.

At this moment, Elysia was also covering her head, looking somewhat uncomfortable. "It's so swollen... It felt like countless people's consciousnesses flooded into my brain just now, ugh..."

Ai Yue helped her up, a subtle smile on his face, "It's normal. This is the consequence of mental contact. You'll get used to it."

Before Elysia could reply, she suddenly froze. At the same time, another voice echoed in Ai Yue's mind, "Ai Yue? I just sensed a powerful spiritual force, no less intense than the former Eighth Herrscher. Did it come from your side?"

Clearly, only Aponia in the entire world has the ability to pinpoint a location in such a short time.

"Oh, it's nothing,"

Ai Yue and Elysia exchanged a glance and realized that the other had received the same message. "It's just an experiment, don't worry."

He had anticipated this would happen long before the experiment, so he had coordinated his statements with Elysia and wouldn't be exposed in front of Aponia.

"An experiment?"

Aponia paused for a moment before replying, "Do you need my help? Things involving mental power would be much easier with someone skilled guiding you, wouldn't they?"

"No need, it's just a simple experiment, I can handle it myself."

Ai Yue naturally couldn't agree to Aponia's request, so he brushed it off, saying, "You just do your thing."

"I see,"

Aponia didn't dwell on it any longer. "Then you should pay more attention. There are no trivial matters in the spiritual realm."

Once they had managed to fool Aponia, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief.

"All I knew before was that Aponia was the strongest psychic,"

Elysia's face showed a shocked expression, "But it wasn't until just now that I realized just how strong she is... This is too exaggerated, isn't it?"

"Why do you think I dared to behead the Eighth Herrscher back then?"

Ai Yue smiled and said, "In terms of sheer mental strength, all the mental ability users on Earth combined would probably be no match for Aponia."

"So it seems that spiritual powers aren't so necessary after all?"

Elysia looked at the Eighth Divine Key in her hand. "Is it still necessary to continue the experiment?"

"There's no need for that. After all, I only wanted to confirm whether there were any problems with my research."

Ai Yue took the Eighth Divine Key from Elysia and smiled confidently. "If this method really works, then perhaps we will be able to solve your problem soon."

Chapter 79 What have you guys come up with?

Elysia's performance has clearly confirmed Ai Yue's previous conclusion— Elysia does indeed possess the ability to manipulate Herrscher authority.

There are only three users of the Eighth Divine Key. Because its strategic value is not high at present, it is mostly held by Ai Yue, and only occasionally used by Hua to comprehend the "Divine Tone Project". Aponia only uses it on very rare occasions.

Of these three users, even the most powerful Aponia's performance with the Eighth Divine Key was far inferior to that of Elysia just now.

This is not to say that Aponia is unable to skillfully use the Eighth Divine Key, but quite the opposite—the opponent's spiritual power is so strong that the Eighth Divine Key can hardly provide a significant boost to it, so using it or not makes little difference to Aponia.

Moreover, due to the limitations of the Herrscher Core itself, even the Divine Keys can only simulate a few abilities of mental powers through pre-editing. Therefore, Ai Yue and others always seem to use them rather awkwardly.

However, Elysia is completely different. The mental power she uses with the modified Eighth Divine Key is far more flexible than Ai Yue and others, almost exactly the same as the original. Although the power she can exert is quite limited because she does not have the relevant knowledge, it is enough for Ai Yue as long as he can verify his conclusion.

Of course, it would be even better if Elysia could learn how to use her powers along with the abilities of other Herrscher.

Next, Ai Yue needs to verify another hypothesis—that is, how many kinds of Herrscher authority are hidden within Elysia's body?

The powers of the Eighth Herrscher may just be a starting point.

Elysia didn't know what Ai Yue was researching, but she was slightly disappointed by his decision to put away the Eighth Divine Key: "What a pity, I thought I could play with it a little longer."

"You were just feeling dizzy from the aftershocks of the mental shockwave, and now you're eager to try it again?"

Ai Yue gave her a chuckle and then explained, "Mental powers are still too dangerous for a novice. Unlike other Herrscher, you don't have the skills to use powers right away when you awaken. What if something goes wrong?"

So you're worried about me?

Elysia smiled and looked at Ai Yue, "You really do enjoy taking care of others as always."

"This is what a savior is like; you won't understand unless you're a savior,"

Ai Yue waved his hand, "Alright, you can go play now if there's nothing else."

"Hey, you call them back from afar when you need them, but kick them aside when you don't?"

Elysia immediately clutched her chest, a heartbroken expression on her face. "What a cruel and heartless man!"

"Stop putting on these pantomimes all the time, okay?"

Ai Yue, who had long been used to Alicia's teasing, sighed and joined in the complaint, "Besides, I was said to take care of people at first, but then I became ruthless and ruthless. Am I some kind of schizophrenic patient?"

"That's some kind of disguise,"