Herrscher of Domination: The Overtime Crew! / My Advice? Just Lie Back and Take It, Dear! ...

Immediately, everyone silently took a half step back, after all, the ability to directly control consciousness sounded terrifying!

However, this seems somewhat similar to the Herrscher of Reason!

Chapter 426: The Herrscher of Domination, the Overtime Workers!

Ultimately, at Mobius's suggestion, Klein tested his ability to control consciousness on Danzhu and Cangxuan, and the results were remarkable!

However, unlike the Herrscher of Reason, Klein's control over consciousness is equivalent to directly controlling the other party's consciousness and body, while the Herrscher of Reason directly modifies consciousness!

In other words, Klein wants to maintain control over his target, he must continuously apply the power of the Herrscher of Domination to that target, and...

The maximum number is only one thousand people. If there are more than one thousand people, the power to control the situation will become very weak!

The Herrscher of Reason directly modifies the consciousness and cognition of the target, much like the thought imprint in The Three-Body Problem. Once the cognition is modified by the Herrscher of Reason, the effect will continue indefinitely. Unless the Herrscher of Reason modifies it back, the person whose cognition has been modified will never be able to change back!

Moreover, compared to the limitation of Herrscher of Domination, the power of the Herrscher of Reason has no limit on the number of people, and the scope it covers is also enormous. Therefore, given enough time, the Herrscher of Reason could completely alter the consciousness of all humanity.

It's a pity that the Herrscher of Reason the Previous Era were exposed too quickly, leading to the collapse of the Lesser Lawgivers before they could even begin their endeavors!

"Waaaaah..."

As the experiment ended, Cangxuan and Danzhu returned to normal, but they still cried out in grievance because...

That feeling just now was truly despair!

At first, that feeling of not wanting to work but having to work because your body had to, that feeling of being perfectly conscious but completely unable to control your body, was truly...

Utterly hopeless!

So no matter how Klein, it was no use. After all, when this girl made her move, she did so without any hesitation. Therefore, Danzhu Cangxuan suspected that Klein was settling a personal score!

"Alright, alright, don't be angry anymore. I'll treat you to milk tea..."

In the end, Ling Xi managed to appease these two little devils with milk tea, although...

Ling Xi also thought Klein had done a great job. These two girls usually liked to slack off, but now that they have Klein's authority, let's see who in the Flame-Chasing Moths will dare to slack off in the future...

However, to be fair, after acquiring the powerful authority of Herrscher of Domination of Klein's first thought was to find someone to work overtime for him, rather than...

Ahem, to be honest, this ability is far superior to time-stopping or hypnosis, hmm...

Because the Thousand-Man Herrscher have been completely eliminated, and the only remaining Thousand-Man Herrscher, Klein, has absorbed all the Thousand Law Core, there are no Thousand-Man Herrscher now, only the Herrscher of Domination!

However, Klein, even as the Herrscher of Domination, still retains human consciousness and can use his immense power to forcibly force those who are slacking off to work overtime, so...

Klein be considered Herrscher on the human side, while the entire Previous Era...

Seele, myself, Klein —it seems three Herrscher have already betrayed the Honkai, hmm...

From this perspective, it seems that the Herrscher of the Previous Era were not entirely incapable of turning enemies into friends.

Thinking about this, Ling Xi felt much more confident about the future Twelfth Herrscher. With Seele and Klein's examples, perhaps future humans wouldn't be unable to accept Rin's existence. Although, under her protection, Rin wouldn't need human approval, only her own approval!

With this, the incident involving the Tenth Herrscher and the Herrscher of Domination has come to a complete end, and humanity... has once again achieved victory!

After the incident involving the Tenth Herrscher, all the employees of Flame-Chasing Moths seemed to become more positive and motivated. The previous tendency to slack off was completely gone. Why?

That happened during one of Cangxuan and Danzhu's experiments. The two of them messed up again, but fearing Mobius's anger, they decided to just give Mobius a quick fix. However, when uploading, they accidentally uploaded the video to the official website, and so...

The whole world knows about Danzhu and Cangxuan's slacking off, and of course, Mobius knows too!

However, even so, Mobius did not punish the two. He simply asked Klein to do a small favor, to control the twins, and then to strictly enforce the eight-hour workday!

That means eight hours of work, eight hours of sleep, and eight hours of overtime, for a whole week...

Finally, Danzhu and Cangxuan deeply realized their mistakes, conducted a strict self-criticism, and promised that they would never slack off again!

From then on, everyone in the entire Flame-Chasing Moths organization became serious about their work and resolutely refused to slack off!

After all, if you slack off, then... Hello, comrade, I think I've seen you on Klein's control list before!

"Wow, I never expected Klein to have such a deterrent effect."

Seeing the new atmosphere at the Flame-Chasing Moths, Mobius was somewhat gratified. Although he hadn't paid much attention to these things before, he knew that many people liked to slack off, which was normal and human nature.

However, there's nothing I can do about it, but now...

Ever since the news broke that Danzhu Cangxuan were forced to work overtime, almost no one in the entire Flame-Chasing Moths dared to slack off during work hours anymore. Dare to slack off? Overtime warning.

Ling Xi "..."

"Well, Senior Sister Klein's powers are quite in line with her personality."

Ling Xi pursed her lips, not knowing how to complain. The power of the Tenth Herrscher, a power meant for combat, was used by her senior sister in a whole new way!

However, to be honest, Ling Xi was very scared, because with her senior sister's power, she would probably be hung on a street lamp sooner or later!

"That's true."

Mobius stretched lazily and chuckled, "Ling Xi, wouldn't you say we've changed our destiny?"

While looking at Ling Xi, Mobius continued in a low voice, "After all, in the timeline you witnessed, all the Thousand-Man Herrscher were wiped out, but... in our timeline, although Klein became Thousand-Man Herrscher, he ultimately sided with us, and..."

"After she devoured all the Thousand Law Core, she became a true, fully-fledged Herrscher, and... she is a force on our side!"

"Of course it counts."

Ling Xi sighed and smiled slightly, "Actually, from the moment I met the Doctor, the history of this world was already changed. However, I remain pessimistic about the future of this civilization. After all, the previous Herrscher could be defeated, but the Herrscher of Finality..."

"Shh..."

Mobius placed his index finger directly on Ling Xi's lips and laughed, "That's for the future. What we should be thinking about now is the three Herrscher who haven't appeared before the Finality. The next Herrscher... is the Herrscher of Restraint, right?"

"Um!"

Ling Xi nodded slightly and said, "If I remember correctly, the Herrscher of Restraint is the Herrscher who caused the greatest loss to humanity, and it was after the Herrscher of Restraint that human civilization completely lost the ability to develop. From that point on, humanity had already lost!"

Chapter 427: My suggestion is to lie down, honey!

Mobius was not surprised by Ling Xi's words, since Ling Xi had already said this before.

"Do you think there's anything we can do to change this outcome?"

Mobius silently watched Ling Xi. Although she already knew about the power to Herrscher of Restraint, but...

Faced with this unsolvable opportunity, Mobius truly couldn't think of any potentially useful solutions this time!

Because the power of the Herrscher of Restraint is truly a bug; the binding field it releases can stop all energy within a radius of hundreds of kilometers centered on the Herrscher of Restraint, whether it's Honkai Energy, Imaginary Energy, or even life energy, in short...

Before the Herrscher of Restraint, all forms of energy will be suspended!

In other words, humans simply have no means of attack to get close to the Herrscher of Restraint, let alone kill him!

"No way."

Ling Xi shook her head slightly and said, "The Herrscher of Restraint's ability is to restrain all forms of energy around her. Therefore, no method under the rules can bypass her domain to attack her, including the power of the Herrscher of the Void!"

"In short, the Herrscher of Restraint should be considered the strongest Herrscher below the Finality, without exception!"

At this moment, Ling Xi possesses the power of multiple cores and Fused Warrior. Even when facing Kevin, Ling Xi is fully confident. As for the Herrscher, apart from the Finality and the Restraint, Ling Xi feels that he can now solo all the remaining Herrscher.

However, faced with the Herrscher of Restraint's unsolvable ability, even Ling Xi dared not say anything with certainty.

Because no matter how strong he is now, his power is ultimately based on the rules of this universe. Essentially, if he wants to kill Herrscher of Restraint, he must attack the Herrscher of Restraint. However...

The rule of the Herrscher of Restraint is that any energy that gets close to her is bound by her power, and since my ranged attacks are naturally formed from Honkai Energy, my attacks are completely useless!

As for approaching the Herrscher of Restraint to launch an attack...

Please, the Herrscher of Restraint can bind even life energy. Getting close... isn't that tantamount to suicide?

Therefore, as long as it is within the rules, humans have no means of attacking the Herrscher of Restraint.

"In that timeline you saw, how did humanity win?"

In the end, Mobius couldn't help but ask for an answer, because she really couldn't think of any way.

"Doctor, I think you can guess the answer yourself!"

Ling Xi did not answer directly this time, but said quietly, "No matter how powerful a Herrscher, her power has a limit. Just as Herrscher of Domination can only control a thousand people, once Herrscher Authority reaches its limit, it is equivalent to eliminating the Herrscher's power."

"Power, upper limit..."

Mobius only repeated the two words briefly, and then instantly understood what Ling Xi meant...

"Heh, so this is the truth: after the Herrscher of Restraint, humanity has completely lost the possibility of development?"

Mobius understood. He understood why Ling Xi said the Herrscher of Restraint would inflict such a terrifying blow on humanity. Because... it wasn't just the Herrscher of Restraint's choice, but also humanity's choice, or rather...

Humans simply have no choice!

After all, the powers of Herrscher have limits, so...

If we can't break the Herrscher's powers, we can only try to push them to their limits. And if we want to Herrscher of Restraint's powers to their limits, there's only one way...

Continuously release energy into it, whether it's Honkai Energy, chemical energy, or even... life energy. As long as it's energy, it can be released into the Herrscher of Restraint. When the Herrscher of Restraint's power to restrain energy reaches its limit, that will be the only opportunity for humanity to destroy it!

But the question now is, how much energy is needed to fill the power of the Herrscher of Restraint? A thousand people, ten thousand people, or billions of people?

To be honest, Mobius wasn't sure about this at first, but...

After hearing Ling Xi's explanation of the limits of Herrscher Authority, and recalling the history of another parallel universe that Ling Xi had mentioned before, in that parallel world, after the Herrscher of Restraint, by the time of the Twelfth Herrscher, humanity was reduced to only three cities and 30,000 people. Therefore...

Mobius had a rough idea of the limits of the Herrscher of Restraint's power...

However, due to the information Ling Xi provided, the actual number of surviving humans and Fused Warrior in his own timeline is clearly far greater than in that parallel universe. Therefore...

If the Herrscher of Restraint is the same as the Herrscher of Restraint in the parallel universe, then at least one hundred million humans in this universe should be able to survive. As for the Fused Warrior...

It probably won't be like another parallel universe where there are only thirteen left. At least it should be... maybe not four digits, but three digits shouldn't be too difficult!

With a population of 100 million and hundreds of Fused Warriors, humanity will not lose its potential for continued development, and civilization can continue to move forward!

As for other ways to defeat the Herrscher of Restraint, Mobius had considered them, but he couldn't think of any. Unless the rules could be broken, under the rules, what Ling Xi just said was the only way!

As for breaking the rules... ha, even the Herrscher are just using the rules to try and break them.

Unless humanity reaches the level of Zentradi technology, perhaps only a god could do it!

"By the way, Doctor, how are the follow-up plans going?"

Compared to the Herrscher would follow, Ling Xi was actually more concerned about the plans after the destruction of the previous human civilization. After all, it was impossible to confront the Finality, it was impossible in this lifetime. The only thing he could do was to find a way to survive in a Hibernation Pod until the new civilization era, and then find a way or cooperate with the scoundrel Otto to suppress the development of human civilian technology and slowly find a way to fight against the Finality!

As for Previous Era...

It can only be said that technological development has expanded too rapidly, and human capabilities simply cannot keep up!

Therefore, running away has always been Ling Xi's unwavering belief!

"That's about it."

Mobius didn't hide anything from Ling Xi, saying, "The Project Ark, the Project Fireseed, the Project Hengsha, and seven other projects are all being prepared according to schedule. The Hibernation Pod needed for the Project Fireseed are almost complete, and the Hibernation Pod needed for the Project Ark are also nearly ready, but..."

"The selection of personnel for Project Ark has not yet been decided because... this is very likely to be a journey without end, without future, and with no certainty!"

Chapter 428: Is this nun respectable?

After the Thousand-Man Herrscher were destroyed, humanity entered a brief period of peace.

Of course, it wasn't really peaceful, because even without the Herrscher, Honkai events of all levels continued to occur. Emperor-class Honkai Beast appeared almost every week, and occasionally Judgment-class Honkai Beast would also appear.

Therefore, Mobius also began a strategic retreat, almost completely abandoning the Southern Hemisphere except for the research institute in Antarctica, and leaving only three major safe zones for humanity in the Northern Hemisphere: Europe, Shenzhou, and North America. As for the regions outside these...

Honkai Beast have basically spread all over the area. It's not that humans don't have the ability to take them back, but the key problem is that they can't hold onto them after they take them back!

Although humanity currently possesses dozens of Fused Warriors with Honkai strength exceeding 2000HW, how many places in the world are there?

Therefore, apart from the three relatively high-value and densely populated areas mentioned above, the rest of the Earth has basically been shrouded in Honkai.

In terms of human technology, with the cooperation of Klein, the Herrscher of Domination, and the original Herrscher Core, May has successfully completed a virtual reality system. In other words, it is equivalent to Sword Art Online, but even more powerful because it can directly upload consciousness!

Of course, this technology is still in its infancy, much like the first creation of direct current by humankind; its significance far outweighs its practical application.

Ling Xi, on the other hand, was quite clear that, barring any unforeseen circumstances, this was likely the prototype of the Elysian Realm...

Elysian Realm...

Speaking of which, should I leave something behind in this Elysian Realm in the future? And give Mei a surprise?