Simulated Black Hole Uninterrupted

As Sabine Nicholas returned to reality, the light behind the final door gradually extinguished, and the rift between reality and dreams collapsed. But Enoshia and Walter Yang remained inside the body of the Herrscher of Frost.

Before the two of them lay what appeared to be a small river, except the water was not water—it was pure energy. After testing with his instruments, Walter discovered that it contained both Honkai Energy and another mysterious energy somewhat similar to it.

At the far end of their line of sight, the river forked. The main current, with a large flow, and a tributary, with a smaller flow, headed in two different directions.

"The energy inside the Herrscher's body is in chaos. Tesla and Ein should have already reached the same conclusion and formulated a plan. Since everyone except us has left the dream, based on our earlier speculation, they should have returned to reality. The people outside should be starting their actions soon." Walter held an instrument created with the Herrscher of Reason's authority in his right hand, carefully observing the constantly changing readings.

Enoshia took one look and felt her head itch, as if she were about to grow a brain. Though as the Herrscher of Corruption she had no language barriers and recognized every word on the instrument, when put together, she had no idea what they meant.

Let the professionals handle professional matters. She only needed to know that an attack was about to come from outside and that she needed to be prepared.

On the battlefield outside, the moment the black fog vanished, countless ice spears shot toward everyone again. All of them acted together, doing their utmost to prevent it from interfering with Sirin.

Sirin stood high in the sky. Blue, purple, and black light points revolved around her. The entire sky over Siberia changed color.

"I am the Herrscher, with conquest as my crown, commanding lightning to tear the sky, stars to fall, and thunderbolts to deliver divine punishment."

"I am the Herrscher, with desire as my authority, commanding gales to shatter the earth, clouds to roar, and rain to storm without cease."

"I am the Herrscher, with stillness as my mantle, commanding barren graves to bloom with flowers, life and death to cycle without end."

Lightning, gale winds, withering. Three different forces intertwined and spun together, eventually forming a lotus flower roughly the size of her body.

Using the Herrscher of Void's authority, Sirin teleported the lotus—the one she had condensed by consuming the most Honkai Energy since becoming a Herrscher—right next to it. She had chosen her timing well. Just as the lotus was sent to its side, it opened its massive mouth wide. Food delivered to its mouth—why wouldn't it eat? Without a second thought, it swallowed the lotus in one gulp.

Mm, crunchy, tasted like chicken. Except something seemed a bit off.

Dozens of seconds later, the Herrscher of Frost seemed to realize it had swallowed something terrible and tried to spit it out, but it was already too late.

With a dull sound, the lotus exploded inside its body. The wounds torn open by the energy shockwave healed rapidly, while the scattered energy was absorbed at high speed. Dozens of minutes later, like a balloon filled with air, its volume swelled dozens of times over. Though the Herrscher's movements had clearly slowed considerably, there was no sign of self-destruction.

Now there was one good piece of news and one bad. The good news: faced with energy right at its mouth, the Herrscher of Frost hadn't thought twice and successfully swallowed it.

The bad news: even with Sirin, who possessed four Herrscher Cores, unleashing her full power, it still hadn't reached the upper limit of what it could absorb. Like a person who has eaten too much and feels nauseous, the energy inside the Herrscher of Frost was now gradually leaking out.

Inside the Herrscher of Frost, the already turbulent river seemed to burst into a flash flood all at once. Though he had prepared, Walter, who was attached to the core, was swept downstream along with the Herrscher of Reason's core as it was carried away. The two were separated.

"In that case, let's divide and conquer." Though Walter Yang's situation was dire, as the one with the toughest life among everyone here, even if everyone outside got wiped out, he might still sit up and do crunches. So Enoshia wasn't worried about him at all. Unlike Walter Yang, she followed the tributary and flew in the other direction.

After an unknown amount of time, as the current gradually slowed, Walter came to a stop. He had been washed ashore like driftwood. Before him lay a vast lake.

"The energy gathered ahead, though not as turbulent in flow, has a decomposition ability dozens to hundreds of times stronger than ordinary Honkai Energy. If I think of this as a person, I'm currently... in its stomach?"

He knocked on the ground beneath his feet. Though extremely hard, it had a certain elasticity, covered in a layer of mucus that posed no danger to him. Observing closely with his instruments, the walls were covered in countless tiny holes invisible to the naked eye—very much like a stomach lining.

Destroying it from the inside, assisting the external attack while looking for a chance to escape—this was undoubtedly the best course of action. And the attack with the greatest destructive power at his disposal was undoubtedly that one move.

"Star of Eden, Zeroth Rated Power, Simulated Black Hole!"

Thank heavens. This time, the Simulated Black Hole wasn't interrupted and successfully activated. But compared to a real black hole, it wasn't just not very close—it was practically worlds apart. The black hole before him was only the size of a palm, giving off a feeling of "so small, so cute." Forget light—even an ordinary person could probably escape it.

But Walter Yang wasn't surprised. A Simulated Black Hole wasn't a real black hole after all. The opponent was the Herrscher of Rock. In theory, anything the Star of Eden could do, it could naturally do as well. If it wanted to counter his attack move for move, it would be easy. However much he increased gravity, it could simply decrease gravity by the same amount.

But even the Herrscher of Rock of the current civilization, facing a Zeroth Rated Power comparable to the Herrscher of Rock's own strength, would undoubtedly have to consume a tremendous amount of Honkai Energy. Consuming the Herrscher's Honkai Energy to pin down its movements and create conditions for others to deliver a fatal blow—that was what he intended to do.

After about a few minutes, the Simulated Black Hole suddenly expanded, growing from palm-sized to half the size of Walter.

"Could it be that due to the energy chaos, the Herrscher has an upper limit when using the Herrscher of Rock's authority? Or did the people outside do something?"

The next moment, the Simulated Black Hole instantly grew larger than Walter, with no sign of stopping. The lake-like energy, the stomach-wall-like ground, and everything around were all sucked in.

After some more time, Walter was astonished to find that the scene before him had changed. The unfamiliar landscape had transformed into the familiar Siberian snowfield.

Though at some distance, the Schicksal members had all driven their weapons into the ground, desperately resisting the Simulated Black Hole's pull, their faces twisted in pain.

Seeing the situation was wrong, Walter immediately stopped the Star of Eden. Nicholas and Shigure Kira, who had nearly been sucked in, collapsed to the ground, gasping for breath.

The Herrscher of Frost's originally skyscraper-sized body had been completely sucked into the Simulated Black Hole. Only a single Herrscher Core floated in the air. Walter Yang recognized it at a glance—it was the Herrscher of Rock's core.

But... wasn't it a Dual-Core Herrscher? Why was only the Herrscher of Rock's core here?

Siegfried's shout, like a thunderclap, jolted Old Yang out of his bewilderment:

"The Herrscher got away!"