Who Isn't a Herrscher

"What do you mean?" Luo Mio asked, confused. "According to what you just said, those golden fragments are also part of my 'soul'."

"That's right, they are indeed part of your 'soul', but it's best if you don't touch them right now."

Luo Mio understood the implication in his words.

"Me right now?"

"Yes."

"Why?"

"Do you remember the question you asked earlier?"

"'The rampage eleven years ago...'"

"!" Luo Mio startled.

"What exactly do you mean? It's really annoying when you tease me like this."

The Herrscher Luo Mio looked at him with sharp eyes.

"Do you know?"

"Your current 'Character Carrier' doesn't just contain the teacher, the System, you, and me as a personality!"

"?" Luo Mio was shocked. The Herrscher Luo Mio's words sent a chill down his spine.

"You mean..."

"There's a third personality in my body, besides you and me!?"

The Herrscher Luo Mio slowly nodded.

"Yes."

Chapter 42: Leaving Space

Besides Luo Mio and the Herrscher Luo Mio's third personality!

Luo Mio recalled when Saikyo Neine became his guardian, he had asked her and Shinguji Kuroko.

What the situation was like during his rampage eleven years ago.

Shinguji Kuroko shook her head at the time and said.

"When Neine and I arrived, the area was filled with Magic Knights who had collapsed from the purple energy emanating from your rampage. You were standing alone in the center of the ruins."

Shinguji Kuroko lit a cigarette.

"Terrifying pressure slammed against our magic shields like a torrent."

"Your gaze towards us was like that of a wild beast, filled with destructive desire – fierce, sharp, and violent."

"At that time, Neine and I could only trap you with our combined abilities, but we had no way to awaken you."

"Then, not long after, the purple energy in your body began to slowly dissipate, your consciousness gradually fell into a slumber until you were completely asleep."

Luo Mio asked, "What about before my rampage? What happened?"

Shinguji Kuroko shook her head, indicating she didn't know.

Because all the Magic Knights who had collapsed seemed to have amnesia and had no idea what had happened.

"The rampage eleven years ago, the one who took over your body and consciousness was the third personality."

"And when Wallenstein deliberately caused you to rampage earlier, he was also preparing to awaken 'him', but I forcefully used my abilities to keep him in a deep slumber and then pushed him back in."

"'Pushed him back...' " Luo Mio's mouth twitched slightly, then his expression turned serious as he asked, "Then, from your tone, it seems you know the true identity of that third personality?"

The Herrscher Luo Mio's golden eyes, filled with destructive aura, looked at the mysterious 'sapling' that had caused Luo Mio's soul to shatter.

"That third personality is different from me. If I am a personality consciousness born from a Herrscher Core,"

"Then the third personality is..."

The Herrscher Luo Mio slowly turned his golden eyes towards Luo Mio.

"A new Herrscher personality born from your 'Character Carrier'!"

Luo Mio's mouth fell open, his eyes twitching.

"A Herrscher personality born from within me..."

Luo Mio looked down in shock, his furrowed brow showing his inner turmoil.

The Herrscher Luo Mio said.

"When the Honkai erupts and the Honkai Energy reaches over 1000 HW, there is a certain chance that a Herrscher will be born at the location of the Honkai outbreak."

"And the Honkai Energy intensity within your 'Character Carrier' has long surpassed 1000, 2000 HW."

"The commotion eleven years ago also happened under an accidental circumstance that caused the Honkai Energy within you to go berserk, and a Herrscher personality was born within you."

"An accidental circumstance?" Luo Mio looked up at the Herrscher Luo Mio.

"Eleven years ago, someone used the remaining Golden Debris to implant it into your body."

"Remaining Golden Debris..."

"You must have felt it. Whenever Golden Debris gets close to you, the Honkai Energy within you surges out like a madman."

Indeed... Before, after Wallenstein took out the Golden Debris, the Honkai Energy and the Honkai Energy that had transformed into Magic Power both went berserk and tried to surge out of my body.

"And in such a situation, the Honkai erupted, and a Herrscher personality was born from your body."

Finality Luo Mio looked at him.

(Of course, Void also manifested, though that little girl ran off.)

Luo Mio let out a breath and said calmly, "You mean, if I come into contact with or absorb Golden Debris again, that Herrscher personality will appear from within me and take over my consciousness, right?"

"Theoretically, yes."

"And compared to a Herrscher personality, I think that guy is more like a Honkai instinctual personality."

"Honkai personality..."

(Like a beast, full of destructive desire, fierce, sharp, brutal...)

And the negative emotions that washed over me every time my consciousness touched the Honkai Energy within me...

"He's not like me. I am a Herrscher personality born from a Herrscher Core, possessing intellect and reason."

"He is more like a personality born from the Honkai, only executing the will inherited from the Honkai, filled with a desire to destroy humanity and civilization."

After hearing his words, Luo Mio complained speechlessly, "Then what about you! You're my Herrscher personality, aren't you? Isn't your mission also to destroy and reset civilization?"

Finality Luo Mio tilted his head and chuckled.

"I am the fourteenth Herrscher of Finality, you know. The previous thirteen Herrschers haven't even been destroyed yet, so why should I go out?"

Luo Mio: "(.o_o)..."

What he said didn't seem wrong.

A Honkai personality...

"Ha..." Luo Mio sighed.

Troubles just kept coming one after another.

"Then this Honkai personality now, he..."

Before he could finish speaking, Finality Luo Mio interrupted directly.

"Was put to sleep within you by Teacher using Feather of the Dust."

"Hoo." Luo Mio let out a breath and said, "Teacher is still reliable. That darn System is just a useless tool besides giving out rewards."

"Indeed."

Outside Luo Mio's body, the small light orb suddenly sneezed.

Fu Hua's crimson eyes glanced at it.

"Machines can sneeze too?"

"From the current stage, as long as you don't touch that Golden Debris, that guy won't wake up."

Finality Luo Mio analyzed for Luo Mio.

"So we just leave him alone?" Luo Mio said after hearing this.

"Of course, there's another way."

"What is it?"

"Find the other half of your missing 'Core (Soul)'."

Luo Mio immediately retorted, "Isn't that in the deep Pacific Ocean?"

"Yes. The last time I manifested, I sensed it. It's at 10,000 meters deep in the Pacific Ocean."

"!" Ten thousand meters deep sea..."

"Hiss..."

Luo Mio's soul body gasped.

"This is a difficult problem, for me..."

Suddenly, Luo Mio felt as if his body had been struck, and he looked at his own body.

"This is..."

Luo Mio's soul was gradually becoming transparent.

"It seems your soul is gradually returning to your consciousness space,"

Finality Luo Mio said upon seeing this.

"Is that so..."

Luo Mio looked up at him.

"Thank..."

Before he could finish speaking, Luo Mio's figure vanished from the space.

Finality Luo Mio glanced at the spot where Luo Mio had disappeared, blinking its golden eyes.

Did I forget to tell him something?

Then, it turned its head towards the mysterious sapling behind it.

Ah...

I forgot to tell him the purpose of coming to this space.

Finality Luo Mio scratched its head.

Chapter 43: Light Beneath the Moonlight

Late at night, room 44 in the hotel.

Fu Hua's eyes, crimson like the morning sun, watched Luo Mio lying on the bed with worry.

The small light orb also floated quietly beside Fu Hua.

On the other side, a transparent blue field protected Ikki within it by his bed. A red and white feather, "Feather of the Dust," lay quietly on Ikki's head. A faint red light emanated from the feather, preventing Ikki from regaining consciousness for a short period.

The Honkai patterns on Luo Mio's body continuously emitted Honkai Energy. If not for the System and Fu Hua blocking it, the area within a ten-kilometer radius centered on the hotel would have likely become a Honkai paradise.

"This can't go on any longer."

Her beautiful crimson eyes stared intently at Luo Mio, who lay motionless on the bed.