A newcomer joined the group chat—the fourth Morien.
Within the Shared Space, the four Moriens had already completed their sharing.
The three Moriens gathered around the newly arrived fourth Morien, whispering among themselves.
"You can't really be considered human anymore, can you?"
"You're already a Monster, right?"
Honkai: Star Rail Morien and Lord of Mysteries Morien chimed in, one after the other.
"Yep," the fourth Morien answered. "But don't you think you guys look like you're bullying me right now?"
"We are bullying you. Can't you tell?" Jujutsu Morien placed both hands on his shoulders and gave him a shake. "We're partners of Justice, of course we have to bully Monsters mercilessly."
"Haha." The newly arrived Morien laughed twice, and the fluorescent patterns on his face visibly eased.
He came from the world of One-Punch Man.
After transmigrating, he had arrived in the uninhabited district of Z City.
Like the other Moriens, he instinctively used a mask and Entropy Loss to lower his presence. During his first two days, he avoided the Monsters scattered throughout Z City. Then, after accidentally spotting a bald man in a yellow bodysuit, he followed him into the only place in Z City that could barely be considered safe.
Saitama's apartment.
As it happened, Monsters appeared frequently in that area, prompting most of the original residents to move away. Z City had thus become an uninhabited district.
Morien had stayed there for several days, using the free water and electricity, until he entered the Synchronization Space.
"And then you became the Lonely Monster because you were too lonely." Honkai: Star Rail Morien summarized. "Yeah, the worldview of One-Punch Man can be even more idealistic than Honkai: Star Rail sometimes."
"That's true. Sometimes, people even turn into fruit Monsters because they like a certain fruit too much," One-Punch Morien replied.
"Like strawberry Monsters and durian Monsters."
"That's way too arbitrary."
"Your Monsterification was pretty arbitrary too, wasn't it?"
Lord of Mysteries Morien quipped.
"It was alright." One-Punch Morien blinked. "At least it was an extreme emotion, and it was probably also influenced by the Path of Propagation."
"That's true."
After more than a week since transmigrating, One-Punch Morien had completed his "Monsterification" in the world of One-Punch Man.
He gained a body far stronger than an ordinary person's, along with an ability unique to himself.
It was called: "Déjà Vu."
Its effect was to make others subconsciously mistake Morien for someone they had a good relationship with.
However, judging by One-Punch Morien's abilities, it could currently only affect relatively weak ordinary people. It had basically no effect on Monsters.
Stronger ordinary people or those with firmer willpower could partially resist it as well.
Because he was too lonely, he had gained an ability that made others subconsciously not reject him.
Jujutsu Morien smiled and said:
"Anyway, no matter what, I finally have the guts to take a look at what comes next."
At this moment, the Moriens' strength had been further enhanced.
Jujutsu Morien's understanding of how to use Cursed Energy, Lord of Mysteries Morien's advancement, and One-Punch Morien's arrival.
And also...
Honkai: Star Rail Morien gave a thumbs-up.
"According to my research, I discovered that in worlds other than the Lord of Mysteries World, it's almost impossible to make charms or use Ritual Magic."
"In mysticism, the creation of charms can mostly be divided into two categories. One is praying to deities and performing rituals; the other is engraving deity-related symbols, honorific names, spirit numbers, and so on onto the charms."
"The same goes for Ritual Magic."
He glanced at Jujutsu Morien and One-Punch Morien.
"But half our worlds have no gods. There's nothing to engrave, and no deities can answer our prayers."
"My world has a god," One-Punch Morien indicated.
"That god..." Honkai: Star Rail Morien frowned. "Doesn't count, right?"
"Does it count?"
"It doesn't, right?"
"Anyway, that means that apart from the very few rituals that rely only on our own Spirituality, our Mystery Pryer ability to quickly set up rituals is as good as nonexistent."
"You can't put it like that." Lord of Mysteries Morien raised his hand. "I find it pretty great when I use it myself."
Unfortunately, none of his other selves were willing to pay him any attention.
"Until I discovered this."
Honkai: Star Rail Morien smiled and pointed at the mask hanging from the side of his face.
The other Moriens all nodded.
After all, they had synchronized their memories. Listening to Honkai: Star Rail Morien talk was only to ease the discomfort he felt from going so long without anyone to converse with.
"We can use the mask's status to pray to ourselves and answer ourselves."
"Everyone can give it a try later."
Honorific names were actually easy to resolve. Since they were each the only transmigrator in their respective worlds, they only needed to add titles like "simultaneous transmigrator," "Propagation," "Mystery Pryer," "transmigrator," and "Mask of Elation" to their honorific names to point fairly well at themselves.
Of course, it could still point to someone other than themselves.
So, to ensure precise targeting, Honkai: Star Rail Morien added a little more description.
He expanded each segment of the three-part honorific name to dozens of words.
"But this honorific name sounds way too unimpressive, doesn't it?" One-Punch Morien joined the conversation smoothly.
"True." The other Moriens nodded.
What normal person recited an honorific name hundreds of words long during an Incantation, as if chanting a spell?
"We could make the final segment 'World-Spanning Royal Insect,'" Jujutsu Morien suggested.
"That's not bad, but it could easily point to other Royal Insects," Honkai: Star Rail Morien replied.
There were quite a few Royal Insects in the Honkai: Star Rail World, though no one knew how many were still alive.
If it pointed to another Royal Insect, Honkai: Star Rail Morien would have a hard time escaping.
Although the Moriens dared to call themselves Royal Insects, they had not truly received recognition from the Swarm or Tayzzyronth, the Aeon of Propagation.
Morien might be able to crush weaklings in the Jujutsu World and use Synchronized Propagation to utterly overwhelm Haruta Shigemo.
But if he encountered a real Royal Insect, Morien could only serve as a speed bump.
Oh, no.
Morien and the galaxy he was in could only serve as speed bumps.
After all, Morien did not even dare imagine how lonely a Royal Insect that had survived alone until now after the fall of the Aeon of Propagation would be.
And to a Royal Insect, loneliness equaled strength.
"For now, let's see whether the Fortune-Concealing Insect Lineage I created can appear in other worlds," Jujutsu Morien said.
"We swallowed Mystery Pryer whole, but we'll have to actually start learning and digesting Melee Scholar."
"I can go learn Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist from Bang." One-Punch Morien raised his hand.
Previously, he had stayed in Z-City because he had been too afraid to go outside at all.
Now that he had some strength, taking a walk outside was not impossible.
If One-Punch Morien at the beginning had only been a Wolf-level Monster that was "barely threatening," then now he could be considered a Demon-level Monster that "might paralyze an entire town."
"Come to think of it, does digestion through acting in other worlds really work for Potions?" Honkai: Star Rail Morien raised a question.
That question immediately stumped the other three Moriens.
"I don't know. The Sequence 9 Potion was digested the moment it entered my mouth. It'll probably have to owe me several hundred times the digestion progress," Lord of Mysteries Morien made a boastful remark that would make every Sequence 9 want to punch him.
"Then we can only try it." Jujutsu Morien said, "Practice produces true knowledge."
"Alright."
"OK."
"Sure."