Chapter 130

Because the K422 fired at the ground in front of it, the beam attack that pierced through more than a dozen layers of armor was angled towards the bottom layer.

K422 They could only jump down one level at a time, and soon they reached the bottom level, which had been severely burned by the fire.

"Sigh... it seems I shouldn't have used the Cannon of Flame."

Almost nothing was intact in the lowest level; expensive equipment was still burning everywhere, accompanied by unbearable thick smoke.

As for the Jackal that K422 had been dreaming of... she didn't die either.

She was protected by a Super Emperor Honkai. Although her clothes were almost completely burned off, because the Super Emperor Honkai had ice and snow properties, the Jackal only ended up fainting due to lack of oxygen under its protection.

However, this super- Emperor Honkai could not withstand the ensuing sea of fire.

The very bottom layer, in particular, instantly transformed into a giant furnace, a furnace powerful enough to roast Honkai Beast like the Super Emperor Honkai alive.

It's safe to say that the Jackal was incredibly lucky to survive.

Of course, this is also because the hole in K422 allows heat to dissipate to other floors.

However, this also resulted in the destruction of almost all the underground floors by the explosion, which will likely cause huge trouble for the recovery team.

"Anyway, we've caught the culprit... hehe."

K422 couldn't help but act cute towards the dozen or so Valkyrie behind her.

Because she was so cute, the dozen or so Valkyrie chose to forgive her. After all, they didn't know what kind of traps were hidden between the first basement level and the lowest underground level. K422's shot successfully dismantled all the traps on all the floors and greatly improved the Valkyrie's survival rate.

Of course, the recycling team will definitely have complaints.

The recycling team often encountered situations where Honkai Beast were cut into pieces by Valkyrie. Back then, it took several days to collect all the Honkai Beast corpses.

Looking at the unconscious culprit, K422 sighed slightly. Her failure to discover the mysterious figure who had targeted Theresa meant that she had only accomplished half of her objective.

However, I also tried two of her moves this time.

One is the "Cannon of Flame" based on the Flame Emperor, which may damage a Fire Sprite Type I every time it is activated.

One is the 'Freeze time' which finally stabilizes for two seconds, but it seems that the only way to improve this move is to start with the Herrscher of the Void's abilities.

"Fine, it's good to be halfway done. Big sister Jackal, just wait to be hehehehe."

K422 gave the unconscious Jackal a malicious, gleeful smile. At that moment, she seemed to be possessed by a gloomy priest and suddenly craved Mapo Tofu.

141. Otto is right.

The unconscious Jackal was taken away by the recycling team that rushed to the bottom floor.

The Cannon of Flame nearly destroyed all the traps on the underground floors. While this increased the survivability of the recovery team, they were unable to extract any useful data from the burning, expensive equipment.

But K422 did not come away empty-handed.

Whether it was due to the Jackal's excellent protection or the high quality of the USB drive itself, it ultimately ended up in K422's hands.

"Anyway, it was a worthwhile experience—"

K422 left with the Jackal retrieval team, and deliberately lingered in the open area with no cover for quite some time, but unfortunately failed to lure out the mysterious figure who was sniping Theresa.

"In this situation, either the other party has abandoned the Jackal, or they have taken other measures to rescue Jackal... However, I will not let Big Sister Jackal out of my sight. You continue to arrest the staff at the Shencheng Medicine headquarters, and you must strictly investigate every single staff member..."

"Receive."

"Receive!!"

The Valkyrie beside him responded, and then joined the other Valkyrie to continue the battle.

After issuing the order, K422 boarded Escort Ship and returned to port with the recovery team.

A pharmaceutical company that rose to prominence after the Second Eruption War, possessing both the technology to modify Honkai Beast and mechs similar to the Anti-Entropy organization, seems abnormal by all accounts.

K422 plans to delve deeper into the inside story of Shencheng Medicine.

The end of the battle at Shencheng Medicine's Europe headquarters also accelerated the fall of Shencheng Medicine's branches around the world.

The situation is very favorable according to Schicksal.

Upon returning to Schicksal Headquarters, Welt sent a message. In order to prevent the Jackal from escaping from under her nose, K422 decided to stay by his side at all times. She followed the recovery team while connecting to a video call.

"Mr. Welt, is there anything I can help you with?"

"Welcome back, Acting Grand Bishop. Excellent suppression ability."

Welt's praise surprised K422.

"Mr. Welt, you flatter me. I was just testing my abilities."

"I know, I've been following your battles, so I noticed this. You're not weak, and you even possess multiple Herrscher powers, but the actual effect of your attacks is far less than when you use the Ice power and snow or the Void power alone."

It was clearly a combination of the Ice power and the Void power, but the actual effect was only to freeze a space with a radius of twenty meters for two seconds.

Even the prototype of the third-generation Valkyrie Armor developed by Schicksal, Domain Armor: White Comet, has a three-second Time-space rupture. K422 clearly possesses the true power of Herrscher, but the effect it can exert is not as good as the black technology developed by Schicksal.

"Yes, because I have too many abilities..."

"... Perhaps I should take some time to train your abilities. Your current abilities are already very close to those of Herrscher, and the multiple Herrscher abilities mean that your future potential will definitely be higher than mine. However, you lack the time to hone those powers. When you can use all the powers skillfully, perhaps you can possess the power of Second Herrscher at their peak."

Welt couldn't help but sigh; the Second Eruption War was indeed a very tough one.

At first, it should have been a fight against the newly awakened Second Herrscher. Facing a Second Herrscher who hadn't read many books and didn't seem very smart, Welt used all his strength and the God-Slaying Weapon invented by Einstein to successfully defeat the Second Herrscher.

If it weren't for Otto, that troublemaker, the Second Eruption War would have ended by now.

When the Second Herrscher appeared as a five-core Herrscher, Welt was directly defeated, making the opponent a six-core Herrscher.

If it weren't for the combined efforts of Siegfried, Cecilia, and others, Welt wouldn't have been able to guarantee the outcome of the Second Eruption War, and perhaps humanity would have been destroyed by the Second Herrscher.

Welt's stomach ached at the thought that the K422 could reach this level.

K423, who should have been the vessel for the true power of the Second Herrscher, is still a child, with the innocent nature that a child should have.

I just passed the exam the day before yesterday and successfully transferred to a primary school in the far east.

Because the primary school was a private school sponsored by Raiden Ryoma, under his behind-the-scenes manipulation, the number of students in class K423 was not large, and her appearance did not attract the attention of others.

After all, Raiden Ryoma felt that this was still not safe, so he specially hired a makeup artist to do K423's makeup.

The more adorable K423 is naturally different from the imposing K422 that often appears on television.

The difference in temperament also led people to believe that K423 simply looked similar.

Raiden Ryoma's daughter, Raiden Mei, is far behind in her studies due to psychological trauma. She failed her previous exams and is currently unable to enroll in school.

Welt was unable to sense the Herrscher's aura from K423.

If K423 hadn't displayed the Herrscher of the Void's abilities when he went out of control at Anti-Entropy's base, and if he hadn't been able to sense the Herrscher Core within K423, Welt would have thought that K422 was the true vessel for the Second Herrscher's power, and that K423 was just a cute, silly kid.

"Although you are growing very fast, because you have so many abilities, your growth rate is divided among various abilities, so the growth rate of any single ability is not fast."

"But your Honkai Energy and manipulation power are overwhelming, which means that when you actually fight, you can easily defeat your enemies even if you only use the power of a single Herrscher."

Welt continued, "I know you're eager to get stronger, but right now, the best thing for you is to first get used to one Herrscher power, and then gradually combine several Herrscher powers together."

Welt, who offered his advice, quickly received a reply from K422.

"I understand. I'll leave it to Mr. Welt then. But for now, I need to make my first impression on a bunch of old guys. That's all."

After finishing his conversation, K422 ended the communication and then turned his gaze to the rarely seen Senate.

"What brings you members of the Senate?"

Meanwhile, Otto Apocalypse, who was following the full-scale war through internal channels, was filled with confusion.

Shencheng Medicine is a pharmaceutical company that has had close cooperation with Schicksal.

The Schicksal does have its own pharmaceutical company, but Otto doesn't mind sharing some of the profits with its partners.

Shencheng Medicine is a private enterprise that actively aligned itself with the Schicksal after the Second Eruption War.

At the time, the founder Jackal, was a somewhat young and arrogant Egyptian.

However, when it came to cooperating with the Schicksal, she appeared quite submissive, as if she were willing to be a subordinate to the Schicksal.

Otto had investigated the pharmaceutical company, but with Kallen on his mind, he didn't pay much attention to this private enterprise that was willing to pay off the Schicksal.

There are so many companies willing to throw their Schicksal away; it's impossible for Otto to pay attention to every single one of them.

So, after the intelligence unit conducted a cursory investigation into the Jackal's background, they were dispatched to other locations.

"I never expected... that Shencheng Medicine would possess the technology to modify Honkai Beast."

Otto did possess the technology, but the benefits of modifying Honkai Beast were not significant. Like Anti-Entropy's Titan Mech, they were less cost-effective than the cheaper Valkyrie.

However, he was able to see mature modification technology in the modified Honkai Beast sent by Shencheng Medicine.

In other words, the Honkai Beast modification technology possessed by Shencheng Medicine is far from being a result that could be developed in just a few years.

Even the Valkyrie of Schicksal spent decades cultivating artificial antibodies and another decade creating artificial Stigmata.

Even he, who possesses the Void Archive of the void, is like this.

Therefore, the technology that Jackal possesses was clearly obtained from the ruins of Previous Civilization, or she had already been a researcher in some organization for a long time before she founded Shencheng Medicine.

Looking at the mechs brought back by the recycling team, Otto couldn't help but smile when he saw the Biting Serpent logo.

"So it was the World Serpent. I never expected this lurking snake to be hiding here. As expected of my lovely K422, it found the snake's exposed claws so easily and chopped them off. A snake should be without claws and crawl obediently on the ground... Don't try to become a dragon that can soar to the heavens."

Otto was in a very good mood at the moment.

Although his face was so blackened by the recent sniping incident involving Theresa that it looked like it had been smeared with ink, thankfully Theresa was not seriously injured.

"Amber, what do you think?"

"Otto is right."

The adjutant, Amber, gave a very calm answer. She stood quietly to the side, but her gaze kept drifting towards the child's body that Otto was currently using.

The blond boy with delicate features is the Soul Steel clone that Otto is using at this moment.

"It seems the Schicksal won't be completely destroyed by my adorable Little Princess for now. So let me go meet another Little Princess who, for some reason, makes my heart race..."

"Otto is right."

Amber continued to repeat the same dialogue.

At this moment, the blond boy's body liquefied into a silvery-gray metallic liquid, which continued to grow taller and outline the appearance of an adult.

"Otto, your clothes..."

"Ha, I never thought I'd be a doctor again."

Although Otto used Eleanor as a tool, there is no doubt that the girl did leave a trace in his memory—albeit only a tiny one.

At that time, the Honkai formed the Black Death that swept across Europe. When Otto was at his wit's end, he directly conducted human experiments and successfully saved the girl's life by increasing the dosage of the drug.

"You will remain here and wait for orders."

"Yes, ma'am."

After changing into clean clothes and a white coat, Otto walked out of the ward, and his appearance did not arouse any suspicion from anyone.

When Otto was seen, the doctors and nurses around him would gesture to him.

"Doctor, thank you for your hard work."

"Good afternoon, doctor."

Good afternoon, everyone.

Otto responded to each question, but no one noticed the few golden feathers that drifted down beside him.

While serving Acting Grand Bishop in K422, Otto experienced a special encounter while traveling in Shenzhou Sky City and even confronting the Shenzhou Tianqiong branch of Shencheng Medicine.

By hacking into the hospital's database, he became the attending physician for that special patient.

Otto didn't know why he was so enthusiastic about her, but he still chose to patiently accompany this young girl who had just woken up but had no memory of her.

"Doctor... Good afternoon."

The young blonde girl greeted Otto as he entered the ward.

"Good afternoon. After your temperature is checked, would you like to hear a story? This time I will tell the story of Jason and Medea."

"Okay, doctor, I'm looking forward to it."

The young girl obediently answered as she took the thermometer.