"Tiout!"
Feng Chen's speed returned to normal, and he tightened his grip on the Gem of Wisdom.
The Gem of Wisdom contained no Herrscher consciousness aimed at the destruction of human civilization, but there was another consciousness inside it.
"Looks like I'm not the only one skipping work. Teacher Yang, did you skip work too, just to come play in the Quantum Sea?"
The consciousness residing in the Gem of Wisdom belonged to the First Herrscher, Welt Yang.
At the same time, he was also St. Freya's history teacher and Feng Chen's colleague.
Of course, both of them were currently skipping work. If they really went back to being teachers, avoiding Theresa's nagging probably wouldn't be realistic.
But what mattered was their identities.
"I never expected you to be the one who obtained the Gem of Wisdom. That truly caught me off guard."
Of course, there weren't many people who could enter the Quantum Sea and discover the location of the Gem of Wisdom.
If someone really wanted to find it, Feng Chen had no idea how much effort it would take, because he hadn't needed to expend much effort at all.
"What exactly is World Serpent? Whoever reduced you to nothing but a Herrscher Core—I don't think letting it out of the real world would be a good idea."
To be fair, when Feng Chen arrived in the Honkai world, the game's story hadn't even reached the Quantum Sea yet. Naturally, he had no idea what World Serpent really was.
Moreover, Honkai couldn't be contacted from this space. So if he wanted to find out exactly what World Serpent was, Welt was the only lead he had.
"World Serpent is a dangerous organization that makes use of Honkai. Its members are spread throughout the real world and the Quantum