I'm Not a Flame-Chaser

The information in this document is quite simple: it contains data on a Valkyrie of Schicksal named... Anna Saniyat.

Anna Saniyat, A-rank Valkyrie belonging to Schicksal, is the captain of the Snow Lotus Squad and is currently stationed in the Coral Island area.

Lin was also surprised by who sent the message.

The message ended with a strange signature—Red Old.

Lin recognized who it was at first glance. He had studied the relevant religious stories. "Red" refers to the great red dragon, while "Old" refers to the old snake. It was a code name that combined one part of the two names, namely Abaddon Yama Demon.

Did Yan Luo send him Anna's information?

This conveys two messages: first, she and her companions are very likely in Schicksal, and may even have reached a cooperation agreement with Schicksal; second, Schicksal is aware of Kiana's movements.

This veiled message made Lin Pin frown and ponder for a long time. Recalling the words that Yan Luo left behind before he departed, he thought of a possibility.

Yan Luo and her "companions" may simply be cooperating; no, Yan Luo may be forced into cooperation.

What exactly are they trying to do...?

"Oh dear, Yan Luo- chan, what are you doing with Schicksal's computer? Oh, I get it, I get it. When I was a kid, I also wanted a super powerful computer to play games. It's just a pity that I had too many childhood memories, and I've almost forgotten which one it was."

Yan Luo calmly and unhurriedly shut down the computer that had sent the message, then turned to the man wearing a black mask and said, "First of all, if you continue to call me that, I'll turn you into real sauce. Secondly, didn't you die when you were a child because you were mentally challenged and lost your footing and fell from the building?"

"If I had fallen to my death, would I still be standing here?"

"Congratulations on reversing the timeline and overcoming the Grandfather Paradox," Yan Luo coldly mocked. "Next, you should commit suicide to verify the solidity of the timeline."

"So that's how it is... what a size."

Ignoring the chattering man beside her, Yan Luo's gaze was somewhat gloomy. Sending Anna's information to Lin was not only to convey intelligence to him, but also as a way of showing her pity for the man who died in the gap of the imaginary numbers while trying to save Lin.

As for what happens next...

The man stopped speaking. He pretended to be interested and looked behind them. A Blond Knight Princess Sashuang, holding a silver-white spear, stared at the two of them with a serious expression on her handsome face.

What she was most interested in was the Black Abyss White Flower, with its white scabbard and black blade, which was attached to Yan Luo's waist.

The "Rebirth" of the Sky: Chapter Forty-Four - Departure, Mount Taixu

"Who I am?

This sounds like a philosophical question, asking "me" first and then the outside world... But what is philosophy anyway? Why does "I" know these things?

Damn it, what is all this? My mind is a complete mess! What are all these things?! So many voices! Am I a pathetic mental patient?

What did you say? And why are you in my mind?

You say, "you" are "me"?

Then who am I?

"Fu... Hua..."

Inside the medical pod, a pair of bright red eyes quietly opened, their gaze piercing through the darkness.

"The plan has changed. Kiana, Bella, and... Lin." Tesla found it difficult to pronounce the awkward name, and besides, her first impression of Lin wasn't very good. Would a 50,000-year-old thing really have a relationship with a young girl from modern civilization?

Her stern gaze swept over the man who was completely covered up, then lingered for two seconds on Kiana, who was looking down shyly at her, before finally glancing casually at Bella looked completely bewildered.

Although Tesla and Kiana had only just met, she knew Kiana's father, Siegfried, and had also seen Kiana as a child. Strictly speaking, she was Kiana's elder. So, seeing the girl who was once smaller than her now having a man... who could be considered a lover or not, she felt like an old man seeing his daughter bring home a blond-haired boy.

The only saving grace was that this blond-haired kid didn't use that internet-savvy, slang-filled tone to tell her about the ghost car parked outside her house, but was at least a guy who seemed somewhat reliable.

Hopefully Kiana has met the right person... and hopefully Mei won't break down because of this.

However, she has no intention of vetting Kiana's potential partners, at least not right now.

"After leaving the Far East, we will rendezvous with the Hyperion. Bronya is also on the Hyperion."

"Hyperion?"

"What's wrong?"

Interrupted, Tesla glanced at Lin, who simply shook her head, so she continued, "Kiana, Bronya inherited Welt's Herrscher of Reason Core, and she has now become Herrscher just like you."

Kiana frowned, her delicate brows furrowing. "Bronya too..."

"Don't worry, her situation is much better than yours. At least there's no one inside her who's always thinking about her body...and no one around her either." Tesla looked at Lin meaningfully, but the latter met her gaze without caring. She exhaled, "But she needs to learn how to control Herrscher energy, just like you."

"That's exactly what I was thinking too." Kiana didn't catch Tesla's sarcasm towards Lin. She crossed her arms and said seriously, "I want to go to Mount Taixu to find the 'Great Void Sword Qi' left by the Class President."

After parting ways with Mei in Changkong City, Kiana's desire for power deepened—not the destructive energy of Herrscher, but the power she could freely control. She would find Mei, use this power to protect the world, atone for her mistakes, and create a better world.

During their trip to Sky City, Fu Hua taught Kiana the Great Void Sword Qi in a dream. However, just like Kiana's half-baked gunfighting and Valkyrie fighting skills, she only learned half of the Great Void Sword Qi. After that, Fu Hua didn't have time to teach her anymore.

With Lin's corrections, physical techniques have shown some improvement, but ultimately, it is still necessary to completely control the Herrscher's energy through the Great Void Sword Qi.

Tesla thought it over and felt there was nothing wrong with it. She had originally planned to send Kiana and Bronya to the isolated island to try and free her from the Herrscher's control. Now that Kiana seemed to be on the right track, that was even better. So she nodded in agreement. "The Great Void Sword Qi... Alright, then you two go to Mount Taixu. I'll return to Anti-Entropy to handle some matters. We'll discuss the matter of Lin after you return..."

"Great Void Sword Qi." The deep voice beneath the mask was as cold and painful as hailstones hitting one's forehead in the freezing cold.

Tesla looked at him strangely. "What is it now?"

"I can too."

"...What?"

Amidst the curious stares of the others, Lin stretched out his right hand, which opened upwards. Crimson vortexes of energy surged from between his five fingers, gathering in his palm and gradually forming a sphere. Under his meticulous control, he sealed the destructive light and heat within a small sphere.

Kiana murmured, "This is what the Class President demonstrated..."

"You really are from 50,000 years ago." Tesla was now somewhat convinced of Lin's previous words, but her gaze still couldn't help but be strange. "The difference between people is really huge."

The people here refer to Kevin and Fu Hua.

"However, what you should learn is the essence of the Great Void Sword Qi, while I can only teach you the form, which is the sword moves."

Kiana paused, then asked, "You don't know how?"

"I can." Lin shook his head and crushed the energy ball in his hand. "I have already taught you how to control a large amount of Honkai Energy. The fact that you were able to break through the chains on your own proves that you have enough control over your own energy. But divine essence is not as simple as controlling Honkai Energy."

"The Divine Transformation is the ultimate of change. There is a sword even without a sword. The sword is formed by the divine, and the sword energy is formed on its own, thus connecting with the divine essence. The Divine Transformation the ultimate of change, the wonder of all things, which cannot be questioned by form. It has neither form nor needs form. This sword fills space, and this sword is space. Therefore, it is omnipresent and invincible."

"What is that? A mantra? In this day and age, do we still need mantras for practicing swordsmanship?" Tesla's eyes were just like Bella's. She was a scientist, and these things sounded very "unscientific".

Of course, she didn't know that the Great Void Sword Qi was actually born from science.

"This is the understanding of divine essence that the person who taught me the Great Void Sword Qi told me. I cannot teach you my 'feelings'; you can only learn divine essence through your own understanding."

Lin himself was a latecomer to the art, even less skilled than Kiana. At least Kiana was personally taught and instructed by Fu Hua, while Lin relied entirely on his body to sense the Great Void Sword Qi and then comprehend the Tai Xu Divine Essence through a nonsensical statement.

"In other words, we still have to go to Mount Taixu." Kiana couldn't help but sigh.

"How long have we been waiting?"

"It's not you, it's me."

"Hmph, fine, how long have you been waiting? He hasn't shown up since making his promise, I think he must be dead."

No, he is still alive.

"How can you believe he can live for 50,000 years?"

"No matter what you say, we can't go anywhere right now."

"Yes, that's right, he abandoned you, and someone else abandoned you here too. That's great, are you and I going to be stuck here forever..."

Suddenly, both voices fell silent.

Because they sensed the arrival of an uninvited guest.

The "Rebirth" of the Sky: Chapter Forty-Five - The Manifestation of the Herrscher of Reason

"Has Schicksal been attacked?"

Einstein was very surprised by the news. She quickly reviewed the relevant information. After the Changkong City incident, the investigations of each other had never stopped. Even if detailed intelligence could not be obtained, intelligence about the attack was easy to obtain.

"It wasn't made by the World Serpent..."

Various phenomena suggest that the World Serpent and Schicksal have reached some kind of ceasefire agreement, so the attack on Schicksal is probably not related to the World Serpent. As for Anti-Entropy, Einstein is currently leading the doves, so she naturally wouldn't attack Schicksal. In fact, Anti-Entropy's military strength is not comparable to Schicksal's at present. The leader Welt, has just escaped from the Quantum Sea and hasn't recovered yet. Moreover, it's unknown how much more that blond man is secretly preparing to deal with them.

So, on the surface, it's unlikely that the other two of the three major organizations are involved... Could it be that there's a traitor within their ranks?

Regardless, weakening the vital forces of Schicksal is something that Anti-Entropy is happy to see. However, Einstein had some inexplicable ominous premonition. She paced back and forth in front of the screen with her coffee cup in hand, her brows furrowed. Finally, she chose to do something.

They called back the group that was originally going to Mount Taixu.

There are undercurrents now, and at least one unknown Herrscher is missing. There are too many uncertainties.

However, the Hyperion's communications could not be established, as if the other end of the signal had entered another world.

My name is Lin. I'm a high school student living in Changkong City and attending Chienyu Academy. I have no sister, but I own a house, and my parents...

Etc.

Even though Lin had seen all sorts of ups and downs, when a certain scene or situation was repeated time and time again, his feelings were still somewhat complicated.

He stood alone on the rooftop, arms crossed, looking at the familiar scenery of Changkong City before him and the bustling scene of the Chienyu Academy below, and couldn't help but sigh.

The clouds overhead, shaped like seagulls, drifted slowly past the myriad wonders of the world, gently dispersed in the summer breeze.

Could it be that the people who attacked him had some particular bias towards this particular incident?

He could tell at a glance that he was definitely in the consciousness space. He had been pulled into different consciousness spaces by different people countless times, so he was very familiar with it.

Who is it this time, and what is their purpose...?

Lin remembered that he was holding Jizo Mitama before his consciousness disappeared. This was the only thing that puzzled him. Rin was also a rather special Herrscher in terms of consciousness, but now that he was being pulled into the consciousness space, Rin was completely unaware. Could it be that Rin was still asleep because she had exhausted too much energy, just like before?

Next, Kevin should come up to the rooftop and say something like, "The wind is really noisy today." Don't underestimate Lin's many experiences of losing and regaining his memory in the consciousness space. All those who attacked him in the past at the consciousness level will not let go of Kevin's entry points. No matter what, they will make him appear.

"Squeak."

The sound of a door opening came from behind her. Lin turned around without any emotional fluctuation, ready to greet Kevin...

"Lin, something's wrong."

"..."

Sometimes, encounters and reunions don't give people any time to react, like a boy meeting a girl, or like meeting a literary girl with translucent skin behind a school building dappled with midday sunlight and covered in ivy.

The appearance of this person was something Lin never expected.

Her light gray hair fluttered gently in the sunlight that gradually emerged as the wind blew by. Her bright red eyes, which should have been alluring, were instead filled with anxiety. Her school uniform from the Chienyu Academy awakened a hidden part of her memories.

"Chi... Saki?"

What appeared before Lin was the host body of the Herrscher of Reason from the Previous Civilization... no, it should be said that it was Qianqi, created by the consciousness of the Herrscher of Reason to disguise itself as the original host's consciousness.

This unexpected reunion took place in a conversation without any prior context.

But that's okay, everyone is living their own lives as the main character without any backstory.

"Although I'd love to express my feelings about not seeing you for 50,000 years, question you about why you haven't shown up since you abandoned me, and maybe even hug you and shed a couple of symbolic tears, unfortunately, the situation is different now. Let's get straight to the point." Qianqi bombarded Lin with a barrage of words, and she glanced at his expression for a second, but quickly composed herself after finding him as calm as ever. "First of all, this is the consciousness space, as you should already know."

Rather than being decisive, Qianqi got to the point too naturally. She walked to the railing at the edge of the rooftop, stood on tiptoe and looked down, muttering to herself.

"Then, the creator of this space of consciousness is the Herrscher of Reason."

"You?"

"It's not me, it's another Herrscher of Reason besides me. My consciousness has been sealed in the Herrscher Core of the Divine Key." Qianqi sighed. "In fact, my consciousness is already very weak. Hua used Feather of Dust to frequently divide his memories and disperse the Feather of Dust, which also caused my consciousness to gradually disperse and disappear. Now it's just attached to a few of the Feather of Dust."

"Besides you... are you one of the current Civilization's Herrscher of Reason?"

Lin also gets straight to the point; in just a few words from Qianqi, Lin has already deduced the cause and effect.

The memories of the period before entering the consciousness space are blurry, which is a common problem every time, but Lin still remembers memories from earlier times, such as separating from Tesla and their rendezvous with the Hyperion to go to Mount Taixu to find the Great Void Sword Qi left behind by Fu Hua.

From this, we can infer that Lin and his group were pulled into the consciousness space after arriving at Mount Taixu. Fu Hua left behind a lot of Feather of Dust on Mount Taixu, and the Great Void Sword Qi should also be sealed inside. Qianqi's consciousness is contained in part of the Feather of Dust.

The attackers were the Herrscher of Reason the present civilization. Unexpectedly, in just a few days, Herrscher were born one after another, which was dazzling.

"Yes, I am no match for her now. She possesses the full Herrscher Authority of Consciousness, and she came to retrieve the Feather of Dust from Mount Taixu to enhance her own abilities, so I must avoid her."

Qianqi said solemnly.

"She is also in the consciousness space. I will provide you with help in secret. I cannot contact her, otherwise I will be absorbed by her."

"What does she look like? What are her features?"