Chapter 71

After putting some distance between himself and Vill-V, Mobius turned around and gave a mysterious smile, "Of course, it's because this isn't actually a shadow."

As Mobius finished speaking, the shadow instantly expanded and surged, transforming into a tangible black tide that completely engulfed Mobius.

Vill-V seemed to realize something as well, a hint of astonishment in her eyes. "No way, Ai Yue has already gone this far?"

A moment later, a black and green serpentine body suddenly burst out of the shadows and crawled towards the Herrscher Legion.

Of course, describing it as serpentine is not entirely accurate, because the front half of its body still retains a humanoid appearance, and it even holds a huge scepter in its hand.

At the top of the scepter is an ice-blue core.

"Hey, what's this again?"

Desdrobia was the first to notice the commotion and exclaimed in alarm, "Cosmo, be careful! A very strange Honkai Beast is heading towards you!"

"Don't worry, that should be Mobius's new research results,"

Elysia noticed this scene. "Don't worry too much. It seems that Mobius still retains his senses... right?"

"I'm perfectly clear-headed, and I don't need to worry about taking you all out with me."

Mobius's voice abruptly entered the Fused Warrior's communications. "Kevin, move to the left."

Kevin didn't speak, but instead rushed to the left as Mobius instructed. The Herrscher of Domination on his right saw that Kevin's back was wide open and immediately wanted to take the opportunity to launch a sneak attack, but at this moment, she heard her companion's warning to dodge.

The last thing he saw in his life was a dark green light shooting towards him from a distance.

The black, half-human giant serpent was now standing upright, and the dark green light that had plowed deep furrows in the ground was shot out from its mouth.

With a single strike, more than a hundred Herrscher of Domination were annihilated.

"What is this?!"

Even Cosmo couldn't help but exclaim in amazement. After all, Mobius's enormous size was visible even from the other side of the formation. "Wow, so cool!"

"Hmph, Bio-Armor, kid."

Mobius uttered a smug sound, "A completely new form obtained based on the re-editing and aberrant expression of the Fused Warrior's genetic evolutionary possibilities... tsk!"

Before she could finish speaking, Herrscher attacked her. Annoyed, Mobius immediately raised his scepter and launched countless ice spikes to bury her.

However, she had lost interest in showing off and instead glided towards the Herrscher Legion again. "Let's clean up these annoying guys first."

"I agree!"

Vill-V's voice came from above, "So everyone, get out of the way, a big bomb is coming!"

Mobius looked up and saw Vill-V hovering in the sky, carrying a set of pale purple flying devices. Beneath her, a giant object made entirely of pale purple was gradually taking shape.

That was a super missile that Vill-V created on the spot using the power of the Herrscher of Reason Core.

Although the vast majority of Herrscher of Domination have never met each other and can only be considered online friends to some extent, it doesn't matter, because they will soon become complete acquaintances—if it can be successfully detonated.

Unfortunately, the Herrscher could also see such a conspicuous target, so they did their best and finally succeeded in stopping Vill-V's plan.

"What a pity,"

Faced with the overwhelming barrage of attacks, Vill-V had no choice but to abandon her plan that would solve everything once and for all. But she quickly smiled and said, "In that case, I can only use Plan B!"

From her excited expression, it was clear that what Vill-V really wanted to use was Plan B.

After saying this, Vill-V took out a potion from her pouch and stuck it into her neck—it was the "Aponia's Embrace" that she had obtained from Ai Yue, which could enhance a person's mental strength.

Only with a sufficiently strong mental fortitude could she complete the "masterpiece" that only existed on paper.

On the ground, Cosmo looked up at the skeleton that Vill-V had woven in the air, and for a moment he stopped moving.

Even though he was sent flying the next second, he still kept his head tilted back, watching Vill-V's every move.

In the air, a huge humanoid metal skeleton is gradually taking shape.

"This is... way too cool!"

80

Chapter 80 But it's so cool.

Vill-V knew very well that it wouldn't matter whether she was there or not in this war.

Of the people present, Kevin and the others were the main force of the attack, Aponia was the guardian responsible for ensuring that their minds were not disturbed, and Mobius was there to test the new project invented by Ai Yue. As for herself, she actually had no need to go to the battlefield at all; she was simply thrown in by Ai Yue to make up the numbers.

However, precisely because of this, Ai Yue made no demands on her, simply handing over the Herrscher Core of the Herrscher of Reason her and telling her to play with it as she pleased.

Since Ai Yue has said so, there's no reason for Vill-V to be polite. That's why she's taking this opportunity to accomplish something that was originally impossible.

As we all know, while giant robots are cool and impressive, they are ultimately just creations in entertainment. From a rational perspective, it would be completely inappropriate to build such things in reality.

But then again, although it's inappropriate, it's really cool.

So Vill-V also really liked this kind of thing. She even planned out complete design blueprints for it. Now that there was an opportunity to create a giant robot without spending money or materials, how could she let it go?

And so, to everyone's astonishment, a giant robot, about eighteen meters tall, theoretically weighing sixty tons, and with cool wings on its back, slowly landed on the battlefield.

During this process, the Herrscher of Domination naturally wanted to repeat the same trick and destroy the robot before it was fully constructed. However, this time a semi-transparent energy shield blocked all these attacks.

"This time you knew to block it?"

Mobius, who was on the ground, also saw this scene and couldn't help but sneer, "This guy, he really didn't intend to solve it by dropping bombs."

Mobius didn't believe that with Vill-V's intelligence, she couldn't have foreseen that the Herrscher of Domination would retaliate in advance. Based on her understanding of Vill-V, the previous missile was merely a gesture to show that "I really was trying," in order to prevent Dr. Mei from finding an excuse to deduct her funding afterward.

In reality, Vill-V is now completely under Ai Yue's control, Dr. Mei can't get any funding from her at all. It can only be said that in the process of these two outwitting each other, they have long since internalized the concept of superficiality.

Of course, Mobius was similar in the past, but on the contrary, because Dr. Mei knew the importance of her experiments, she would usually try to keep her funding from higher-ups when problems arose.

With the giant robot landing, the situation once again tilted in favor of the Fused Warrior. The giant robot created by Vill-V was not just for show; it was equipped with everything from long-range weapons like beam rifles and funnels to melee weapons like beam swords and alloy shields. Even disregarding all of that, its sheer size alone was enough to crush many unlucky souls who couldn't get out of the way if it rolled on the ground.

Of course, such a fighting style would be detrimental to Vill-V's personal aesthetics, so she would definitely not do that.

"Isn't it cool! My 'original' robot!"

While firing at the enemy with two rifles, Vill-V boasted smugly over the comms channel, "It's a pity. It would be better if there was a worthy opponent. Right now, it feels like an adult bullying an ant. It's a bit boring."

"He is handsome, really."

Amid the chaos of the battlefield, only Elysia responded to Vill-V's words, "But you'd better be careful. Even if they're ants, they're not ordinary ants. If you're careless, you'll be in trouble."

Just as Elysia had said, the Herrscher of Domination was indeed somewhat confused in the face of the sudden appearance of the giant humanoid weapon, which gave Kevin and the others an opportunity. However, when they realized that the giant's attack did not seem to be very strong, they regained their composure.

Then, in less than three minutes, they completely destroyed the giant robot that Vill-V had created.

The sudden change caught even Vill-V's teammates off guard.

"Damn it, my Original Number One!"

Vill-V gritted her teeth and climbed out of the cockpit. Eight mechanical arms automatically extended from her back, and long needles popped out from the tips of the mechanical claws. "You guys, give me back the Original Number One!"

"How did it collapse?"

Cosmo's tone was no less sorrowful than Vill-V's, "Does this mean that giant robots really have no practical value in combat?"

"At least not in this kind of environment, kid."

Seeing that Vill-V had been thwarted, Mobius was clearly in a much better mood and was even willing to respond to Cosmo's question, "On Earth, it's better not to do such far-fetched things."

"Vill-V, be careful, this is a battlefield."

Seeing Vill-V swing the mechanical arm on her back and charge forward to fight the Herrscher of Domination, Elysia couldn't help but remind her, "You'd better rely more on the power of the Herrscher Core."

"Ah, this..."

Vill-V paused for a moment, then said awkwardly, "The core's energy is used up."

Others:?

"Oh dear, building such a large robot definitely requires energy!"

As if she could hear the unspoken doubts in the dead silence of the communication channel, Vill-V quickly explained, "I thought it was a rare opportunity, so of course I had to make the most of it... oh no, I mean, make the most of it. Who knew it would end up like this!"

"I can roughly imagine how you used up all your energy because of focusing on the details,"

Mobius sighed, "I have reason to suspect that even if that thing isn't destroyed by these guys, it won't last more than five minutes, right?"

Vill-V responded to Mobius's question with an awkward laugh.

"I understand now why May has been so tight-lipped about your funding, Vill-V,"

Elysia shook her head. "If you don't want Ai Yue to start restricting you too, it's best not to focus your attention on these things all the time, okay?"

"Let's not talk about this anymore."

Finally, Kevin ended the somewhat awkward farce, saying, "We're still on the battlefield, Vill-V. If you're not well-protected, don't rush to the front lines."

As he spoke, he raised his hand and cleaved the enemy in front of him in two with a single sword stroke. Just as he was about to rush to his next target, he saw a strange smile on the other person's face.

After such a long battle, Kevin finally heard the Herrscher of Domination speak, "I must admit, you are indeed quite powerful, but unfortunately..."

He raised his hand, pointed into the distance, and said with a triumphant tone, "This time, we won!"

81

Chapter 81 When did you produce this? I didn't use JPG.

In the experimental base of Star of Light, Ai Yue sat alone in the laboratory, busy with something.

He didn't pay attention to the situation on the battlefield because he believed that the Herrscher of Domination and his gang were no match for Kevin and his team. After all, the current Fused Warrior squad had Herrscher Core for weapons and armored systems for defense, so there was absolutely no reason for them to lose.

If all else fails, their armor system also carries a special mode, designed by Ai Yue based on the "Key of Blank," which allows people to communicate with the Cocoon of Finality using the Herrscher Core for a short period of time, thereby achieving the level of "becoming Herrscher."

Once you enter that state, you can truly unleash power comparable to Herrscher, instead of only being able to activate Herrscher's power in the simplest way through weapons, as you are now.

Although even Kevin could only last three minutes in the previous simulation, that was more than enough.

Even if the seven fully-formed Herrscher only last for three minutes, they could easily destroy more than five thousand Herrscher of Domination —not to mention that there wouldn't be that many left by then.

Unfortunately, this special mode is extremely selective. In the original work, only Dr. Mei was able to use it. Even though Vill-V was exceptionally talented, she could only barely create a replica. The reason was not that she lacked ability, but that the pilot herself was the problem.

Not just anyone can link to the Cocoon of Finality. The most crucial point is that the user must have the potential to become Herrscher. Dr. Mei is able to wield the Key of Blank precisely because, theoretically, she is very likely one of the candidates for the Third Herrscher.

If we analyze this by comparing figures from the Pre-Civilization with those from the current civilization, if Kevin's appearance hadn't changed May's original life trajectory, she might have actually become Herrscher during the Third Great Honkai.

However, this is just Ai Yue's personal speculation. The truth will probably only be known when the Cocoon of Finality is deciphered.

For now, let's finish the work at hand first.

As he was pondering, he suddenly felt a chill on his neck.

"Finally found you, Doctor Ai Yue!"

A sweet voice, tinged with venom, rang out from behind him. Ai Yue was violently thrown to the ground. Before he could react, a figure straddled him.

She was a girl who looked quite cute, but the distorted expression on her face ruined that cuteness, making her look somewhat ferocious. "Now, is there anyone who can come to save you?"

Faced with this situation, Ai Yue appeared quite relaxed. He merely glanced around before shaking his head and saying, "You only brought this many people? Are you looking down on me?"

Along with the girl in front of her, there were five other people in the laboratory. These people were four women and two men, of various races and from completely different age groups. They were clearly part of the Herrscher of Domination.

In the next instant, a gun appeared in Ai Yue's hand. At this distance, there was absolutely no possibility that Ai Yue would miss.

However, the moment he raised his hand, he suddenly froze in place, unable to move. Although it was clear that Ai Yue was exerting all his strength, his fingers just couldn't pull the trigger.

"He's just an ordinary person; I think there are too many of these people!"

The girl laughed somewhat arrogantly, "But you still reminded me. I know you have many tricks up your sleeve, so just in case—"

She waved.

The others quickly arrived and, while Ai Yue was immobilized by the spatial ability, removed all of his equipment and clothing, leaving him with only his underwear.

"Alright, what other tricks do you have up your sleeve?"

The girl clapped her hands with a smile, "I didn't realize you had such a good figure."

"So, what are you here for?"

Ai Yue frowned, looking confused about their purpose. "If we don't make a move soon, reinforcements might be arriving."

"Heh, what other tricks do you have up your sleeve?"

The girl looked disdainful, completely ignoring Ai Yue's threat. "Hand over the method to control Artificial Intelligence, and perhaps we can consider sparing your life."

While the individual IQs of the Herrscher of Domination may not be great, when ten thousand of them gather together, they are bound to come up with a couple of good ideas.

Therefore, they set their sights on Prometheus, the super Artificial Intelligence that had caused them so much suffering. If they could control this Artificial Intelligence, they could destroy human civilization even more easily.