Chapter 248
The evil dragon princess did not regret breaking her own wings.
Watching her sisters flap their wings and fly away, her cry contained a blessing and a prayer.
Fly!
If you want to fly, then fly!
Happy, carefree, free—
Seeing Freya's serene smile, Bianca realized that the girl before him was far greater than he had imagined.
After all, she is more fleshed out, more real, and more worthy of my admiration than the evil dragon princess I had imagined.
Bianca also had no regrets about joining Schicksal.
I am incredibly grateful to have met Freya Schariac.
I don't know why, but I suddenly can't look the other person in the eye.
"Bianca? Are you alright?"
"I'm fine! Ah... I'm sorry, Your Acting Grand Bishop, I'm all right now! Please allow me to leave first."
As she spoke, Bianca, clutching her chest, fled from Freya and Rita as if running away.
Seeing Bianca's somewhat disheveled figure, Freya tilted her head in surprise, wondering what had suddenly happened to Bianca.
However, Rita's melancholy did not disappear because of Freya's answer.
"Lord Freya, let's carry out the plan to destroy the World Serpent and find a way to bring Kiana back."
"Okay... no, never mind." Freya subconsciously agreed, but quickly realized that if she continued to mess with the World Serpent Organization, she would probably be bitten on the arm by the young lady at night.
Even so, her subconscious answer did show that she missed her older sister very much.
"Rita, don't take it seriously. Kiana wants to integrate the power of the World Serpent, and we should support her."
"...Alright, since you say so, Lord Freya." Rita clearly knew that Freya was being somewhat insincere.
However, to truly eliminate the World Serpent organization, regardless of whether it is even possible to eliminate them, for Kiana who needs the World Serpent, eliminating the World Serpent would undoubtedly create a rift between the two sisters.
Freya could not afford that price.
I don't want to pay that price.
Rita abandoned her idea of forming a Valkyrie squad to bring Kiana back.
The two returned to the laboratory together. This time, Freya's mood had improved considerably. The depression she felt because of Otto had clearly disappeared during her conversation with Bianca.
Meanwhile, Bianca ran to the shower room next to the training room.
I turned on the tap and let the cold water from the showerhead pour down from my head to my feet, trying to cool down my burning cheeks.
Although this wasn't Bianca's first time meeting the evil dragon princess, it was the first time she had seen the evil dragon princess's true face up close.
Bianca always believed that Otto's adaptation of the true events was far removed from the facts.
The imposing Acting Grand Bishop standing on the high platform is completely different from the evil dragon princess in the story who is incredibly strong despite constantly experiencing setbacks.
Unexpectedly, the real-life figure who inspired the story far exceeded the artistic interpretation of the story.
Bianca did not suspect that the Acting Grand Bishop was lying to her.
Because there is absolutely no need for it.
He was just a lucky freshman who made it onto the other party's special list, and he had no value worth deceiving the Acting Grand Bishop.
But now, after learning the true thoughts of the Acting Grand Bishop.
She began to admire him even more.
She admired him even more.
The fairy tales told by Otto, who plays the attending physician, are full of tragedy.
A tragic beginning, a tragic process, and... an unknown ending that may or may not lead to another tragedy.
I want to help her.
I want to become her strength.
Such thoughts gradually filled her heart.
Bianca originally wanted to understand the prototype of the evil dragon princess she admired.
But at this moment, the object of her admiration has completely changed from the evil dragon princess to the Acting Grand Bishop of Schicksal.
After rinsing my face with cold water for a while, my burning cheeks finally cooled down.
But Bianca still didn't know why she suddenly couldn't look the Acting Grand Bishop in the eye.
"I'm not sick, am I?"
Unlike Bianca, who was struggling with her inner turmoil, Freya, back in the lab, immediately continued the environmental simulation experiments for the new antibody.
Neither the Imaginary Tree nor the Sea of Quantum are problems she can handle at present.
It's not like we should decide to cut down the Imaginary Tree just because Honkai is a mechanism that exists to constrain the development of the world. In any case, the reason the world can continue is because the Imaginary Tree provides the nutrients for the world's growth.
From a certain perspective, the civilization on the Imaginary Tree and the Sea of Quantum are in an adversarial relationship.
However, these are all too far-fetched for the current Schicksal.
The sudden appearance of this binary opposition, with the tree and the sea competing against each other, feels like a sequel to a game to Freya, who only wants to develop her Schicksal and fight Honkai Beast. The setting is grand, but... when she can actually play it is anyone's guess, and we can only hope that the game company doesn't delay the release.
293. It really hurts so much I can't breathe.
Freya returned to the lab and continued her research on the new antibody with the Jackal.
For several days, they did not leave the Jackal, and a maid personally delivered their three meals to the laboratory, all in order to improve the new antibody as soon as possible.
The competing trees and the sea are too far removed from their current lives.
Therefore, Freya handed over the Second Divine Key, which was used to explore the Imaginary Tree and the Sea of Quantum, to Otto the next day.
Ultimately, the Schicksal needs a period of stable development and has countless experimental projects to conduct research. Freya naturally has no intention of mobilizing her valuable research personnel to study things like the Imaginary Tree and the Sea of Quantum. Such places are more suitable for Otto, a professional madman.
Just like a hero in an RPG game who has just left the starting village and needs to follow the village chief's orders to find treasure in the western cave, even if the ultimate goal of the game is to defeat the great demon king, it should be done step by step.
Without spending time leveling up or searching for legendary equipment, skipping all the important stages to arrive before the Great Demon King, what can a level one hero do against a level 999 Great Demon King?
Is it more reliable to rely on one's head?
The Previous Era, which created the Second Divine Key, failed to completely resolve the Honkai and the opposing Tree and Sea. How can the current civilization era, which has only just begun, have the courage to explore the Imaginary Tree and the Sea of Quantum?
After handing over the Second Divine Key, Freya felt much more at ease.
After all, just because something is not suitable for exploration does not mean that humanity should give up exploring.
To resolve the screening and correction of the Honkai, humanity must come into contact with the Imaginary Tree and the Sea of Quantum.
In the current civilization era, only Otto is the most suitable.
Although he was a madman, he was also the most powerful mind in the current civilization era.
Freya didn't want to completely abandon humanity's future, but she was also worried that Otto might misuse the Second Divine Key if she really handed it over.
Only at this moment did Freya hope that Kallen could be resurrected.
For several days in a row, Freya stayed in the laboratory doing research.
Based on data from various environmental simulations and volunteers who received the new antibody, this new antibody may soon be ready for mass production.
Meanwhile, the Schicksal and the Anti-Entropy Organization were developing quietly.
The World Serpent Organization, a hostile force, has encountered a minor problem.
The issue begins with the Gray Serpent bringing back the new antibody.
In order to obtain a new antibody from Acting Grand Bishop Schicksal Kiana (Apocalypse real Freya Schariac), the World Serpent Organization, which was willing to be beaten even if it backed down, had no choice but to trade the Second Divine Key.
Although the World Serpent Organization also lacks researchers capable of studying the Second Divine Key, keeping it in their possession wouldn't be of much use. However, trading it for six new antibodies would ultimately be a losing proposition.
The main ability of the Second Divine Key is to open spatial gates.
In addition to creating a gateway to the Imaginary Tree, it can also open a gateway to the Sea of Quantum. Its train locomotive shape is used to explore Imaginary Space and the Sea of Quantum, and even to observe parallel worlds on the Imaginary Tree.
Just to exchange for six new antibodies, he had to give up the most special one of the Divine Key. Gray Serpent was heartbroken and could hardly breathe.
Every time he recalled how he gritted his teeth and nodded in agreement to exchange the Second Divine Key for six new antibodies, the face beneath the mask gradually contorted into a ferocious expression, his throat seeming to spew fire with fury, silently demonstrating the hatred Gray Serpent felt for the Jackal at that moment.
The Jackal's betrayal had a profound impact on the World Serpent.
One of them was Gray Serpent's wrong decision. He misjudged that Freya would end the war so quickly and that Jackal would betray World Serpent so decisively.
Without Jackal, the World Serpent Organization's top researcher, the progress of several research projects undertaken by World Serpent organization has slowed down.
Because of a lack of researchers who can make definitive decisions, the World Serpent Organization has no choice but to honestly trade away the Second Divine Key.
Divine Key cannot be used for research are of no value to the World Serpent Organization.
The World Serpent Organization's only hope for a turnaround lies in the effectiveness of the new antibody.
If the new antibody becomes ineffective, then World Serpent will suffer a great loss, essentially giving someone a Divine Key for free, and it's even the Second Divine Key.
Unfortunately, the person in charge of this whole thing was Gray Serpent, so even if he wanted to shift the blame, there was no one to blame.
Gray Serpent must take responsibility for its failures, as the current members of World Serpent are very dissatisfied with the high-ranking officials.
Especially now, with the world serpents being suppressed by various countries, most of the original members of the World Serpent had high status in reality, but now they have nothing... They can only live like couch potatoes in an underground shelter built in the Previous Era in the Sahara Desert.
However, if their wish to banish the Honkai from this world could be fulfilled, the members of World Serpent, as followers of Kevin, would not hesitate to sacrifice their lives.
Rather than groveling, fearing the Honkai, doing nothing, and ultimately living a pathetic life filled with regret for failing to protect their families—the members of World Serpent would rather die on the spot for the plan to eliminate the Honkai.
The World Serpent Organization's current weakness has led to deep resentment among its lower-level members towards its leaders. Ultimately, the reason the World Serpent Organization has fallen into such a sorry state is that Jackal, one of its top leaders, directly betrayed it, and secondly, Gray Serpent, another top leader, made a wrong decision.
Jackal are undoubtedly the main reason for World Serpent's bad luck, and the Gray Serpent also deserves credit for World Serpent's rapid downfall.
This has led to increasing friction between the upper and lower groups within the World Serpent Organization.
In order to escape the current predicament of the World Serpent and to avenge the loss to the Acting Grand Bishop of Schicksal, countless World Serpent members have applied to become volunteers.
However, the Gray Serpent only brought back six new antibodies.
There are fewer than six people who can be selected as experimental subjects, since one or two new antibody samples need to be reserved for testing components.
Freya's new antibody is a hope not only for ordinary people, but also for the ancient organization World Serpent.
No matter how extreme the World Serpent Organization's actions may be.
They also temporarily ignored the fact that they were secretly forming mercenary groups to capture talented young children.
World Serpent is ultimately an organization that exists to destroy the Honkai.
Extreme practices and fanatical styles cannot change the fact that they stand on the opposite side of Honkai.
That being said, standing on the opposite side of Honkai does not mean standing on the side of the current civilization.
For Freya, who runs the Schicksal, the World Serpent Organization is a real nuisance. Most importantly, her younger sister ran away from home, and the World Serpent Organization is fully responsible for that.
Besides, the reason she relentlessly attacked him with her righteous indignation was simply due to World Serpent's own style.
Possessing technology that would make any nation envious, and like a snake lurking in the shadows, no nation could possibly trust this dubious organization.
Ultimately, World Serpent didn't achieve anything significant.
The Anti-Entropy organization has at least promoted the technological development of various countries, and has also created the tactic of suppressing Honkai Beast with firepower. Although the firepower consumed in suppressing Honkai Beast is enough for each country to invite three or four Valkyrie squad from the Schicksal, the Anti-Entropy organization has ultimately achieved some results.
Before the Schicksal exposed the World Serpent as a criminal force, which other organizations had heard of it?
The World Serpent Organization consists of believers and die-hards.
In some ways, people who hold such firm beliefs are no different from brainwashed cult followers.
When the Schicksal pressed its advantage, members of World Serpent, in an attempt to stop Schicksal, either destroyed cities or created chaos.
Flies don't land on eggs without cracks. If World Serpent is the world's number one organization fighting against Honkai, even if Freya wants to go to war with World Serpent, she has to consider the reactions of various countries.
What World Serpent is an opportunity to clear their name.
Whether it's collaborating with the Schicksal to expand the production of new antibodies, or using safer and more stable new antibodies to carry out Stigmata Project, it could instantly reverse their previously terrible reputation.
However.