Bronya Raised Countless Pseudo Black Holes Behind Her, Yet Chose Not to Kill Rita and Leave Room for Mercy

She slowly raised her head. Something seemed to have lit up in her gray-blue eyes. That light was freezing cold, yet utterly steady, like a star slowly rising from the depths of the sea.

"Bronya, you don't need to teach me what a heart is," she said softly.

The next second, the air throughout the entire opera house seemed to have been sucked away. Behind Bronya, countless rays of light began to form from nothing—gears, formulas, mechanical structures, trajectories of Honkai Energy. Like a city built from the principles governing all things, they rose around her. That was the Authority of the Reason Law User.

"She understood," Chang Gongwei said quietly. "What Otto forced her to choose wasn't power, but 'belief.' Belief that her heart still existed. That belief was the key to unlocking the Reason Law User's true strength. He knew it all along. That was why he had Rita tear her apart."

"But he was doing it to stall for time." Tang Wulin's voice suddenly turned cold. "This battle had been slow from the start. Rita wasn't in a hurry to win, and Bronya wouldn't understand too quickly either. Her realization needed time. And every second of that process bought Otto more time. He used an opera house to drag both Bronya and Rita onto his own clock face."

"He can even use 'realization' to keep time," Dai Hao said through gritted teeth. "Just how thoroughly does he intend to consume everyone's growth?"

On the screen, Bronya abruptly raised both hands. The countless phantoms of principles behind her suddenly converged, becoming a single point of pitch-black light. It was like a drop of ink compressed to its limit, falling into the air before exploding with a roar—a Pseudo Black Hole. One, two, ten, a hundred, a thousand. Dense