Mobius said nothing, only reaching over to rub Klein's head.
To her, Klein was one of the few people in the world who could understand and support her. In her eyes, Klein was more than just an assistant—she was family.
That was why Mobius clearly understood what Klein had always feared, yet could do nothing about it. The smarter a person was, the more clearly they could realize just how terrifying the Honkai was as humanity's enemy.
"After the Seventh Great Honkai, that fear reached its peak. Although human civilization could still maintain a certain degree of peace and prosperity at the time, we all knew that the end of the world had arrived."
When Klein reached this point, she could not help shuddering, as if she had been overwhelmed by the terror in her memories. "A single Great Honkai caused more than ten million people to vanish, and the disasters brought by the Honkai only grew stronger. Humanity could do nothing but endure passively. One day, this civilization would be completely destroyed."
"But at that moment, you proved through your actions that such disasters could also be defeated."
Klein changed her tone and looked at Ai Yue again. "Doctor Ai Yue, have you seen the post-disaster statistics for the Eighth Great Honkai?"
"Uh, well..."
Ai Yue scratched his head. "No."
Things that had already happened were not important to Ai Yue. Humanity might need to summarize and learn from its past experiences, but he was an exception.
"The energy peak of the Eighth Great Honkai was 1.62 times that of the Seventh Great Honkai. Even the most optimistic predictions estimated that more than eight million people would die in the disaster."
Klein grew emotional. "Yet when everything was over, the final death toll was less than two hundred thousand!