Chapter 392
The fact that she couldn't coexist peacefully with her Herrscher Persona proves that she's been living too comfortably so far.
Aurora shook her head. After leading the two from the parallel world to visit the Honkai Energy weapon testing area of Nagoya City Experimental Site, she was going to lead them to visit the artificial Honkai Beast testing area of Nagoya City Experimental Site.
To be honest, Aurora now wants to join her second sister and adoptive mother's research group.
Both the customizable Stigmata Terminal [Alaya-Vijnana] and the highest-level Biological Enhancement Technology researched by the Previous Civilization Mei are excellent research topics.
Right now, she can only finish the work her sister assigned her and then hurry back to the research group.
Having such an outstanding older sister and an excellent adoptive mother must have been a lot of pressure for Aurora.
The title "Little Princess of Anti-Entropy" is just a nickname in their eyes, but Aurora herself sees it as a heavy responsibility.
Her adoptive father was a hero, a hero who silently protected the world before her sister was born.
His biological father was also a hero, even though he couldn't protect his wife and daughter. But he made the right choice in the fight against the Honkai.
Even though in everyone's eyes she has no worries, has two doting older sisters, loving adoptive parents who don't even plan to have children, and she doesn't even need to work hard to reach the finish line in other people's eyes.
What others see as the finish line is, for Aurora herself, an extremely high starting point, so high that she has to work a hundred or a thousand times harder than others to gain recognition.
Aurora let out a soft breath. Her disgust for Otto was genuine, and she was also somewhat angry at Kiki for her lack of ambition.
That being said, she and her two older sisters had the same idea: they did not intend to make the decision for Kiki.
"You're really amazing..."
Kiki, who came to Aurora's side, said sincerely.
Aurora glanced at her casually, then continued to lead the group in her cute voice, introducing them to the artificial Honkai Beast experimental field they were about to visit.
After giving her introduction, she whispered to her parallel world self.
"While you're not working hard, there are always others who are. I have two of the best older sisters in the world, and they're still working hard for my happiness and well-being. So what reason do I have not to work hard? Since I've worked hard, is it strange that I've achieved this result? By the way, Kiki, yesterday I noticed that the atmosphere between you and Mr. Welt and Ms. Tesla from the parallel world was a bit strange. What happened?"
Faced with Aurora's curiosity, Kiki suddenly gave a wry smile.
After learning about Aurora's background in this world, Welt Two from the parallel world was also considering starting a family with Tesla Two, and also with her. However, after he proposed it, he was first rejected by Tesla Two with a haughty attitude (and even took a rocket attack). Kiki was already 19 years old, also found it hard to accept this.
448. Hmph, sooner or later, I will overthrow the rule of my two older sisters.
Although Welt and Tesla are both good people, Kiki really can't accept the idea of starting a family with them.
After all, this is different from the situation where Aurora's custody fell into the hands of Welt and Tesla in this world when Aurora young.
In the parallel world they lived in, she was ultimately raised by Siegfried. She not only received the name 'Kiana' from this father, but she also inherited Kaslana's beliefs from Siegfried.
If we're talking about areas where he failed in his duties, Siegfried certainly had his share.
But Siegfried did try his best to be a good father.
However, Siegfried was not among the invited guests this time.
After Freya used Kevin's power to freeze the World Serpent base, she ignored the people inside.
Of course, she wasn't really abandoning Siegfried to his death at the base; it's just that Siegfried was already recovering from his injuries at the World Serpent base, and staying there now would be the same way.
Judging from the World Serpent Base's defensive capabilities, the ice released by Kevin could only freeze the outer perimeter of the base and would not have a significant impact on the interior. The base has enough supplies for about two months, and if they are frugal, it could even last the members inside for two and a half months.
After Kevin and the World Serpent base were thawed, Freya, as the victor, asked him for Siegfried, Kevin naturally did not refuse. Siegfried then transferred to Anti-Entropy -related medical facility to continue recuperating.
Given the current state of the parallel world, Siegfried would be quite safe.
After all, the outside world now only contains puppets that Freya has transformed and manipulated, and candidates that are being transformed and manipulated in the future.
Both the Valkyrie of Schicksal and the Anti-Entropy Executor have the authority to enter and exit the Dream World.
However, they enter and leave the Dream World to monitor the outside world and to observe the reactions of those who have not yet been transformed.
Freya was worried that someone inside might have a mental breakdown and that she would also contract narcolepsy and then act as if she were being manipulated, so she decided to take all of humanity with her.
There are quite a few people like this who harm others without benefiting themselves. Even though Freya had prepared several preventative measures, she was still a little worried, which is why she had the Valkyrie and Enforcers monitor the outside world.
Kiki looked conflicted. Although she had satisfied Aurora's curiosity, she did miss her father, Siegfried.
After all, the more you compare yourself to the world, the more you realize that you haven't tried anything so far.
Even a privileged girl like Aurora, who clearly doesn't need to work hard, still works harder than anyone else.
Aurora continued to introduce the situation of the artificial Honkai Beast experimental field to everyone at the front.
"Yes, just as I said before, by conducting experiments on the Honkai Beast researched by Ms. Jackal, Honkai Beast are bathed in high-intensity Honkai Energy will produce certain benign mutations, which can be simply described as an improvement in their life level, or [evolution]."
"Specifically, some Honkai Beast have become more aggressive, their claws have become sharper, their limbs have become stronger, and the most obvious change is in their size. The more powerful the Honkai Beast, the more you can judge it by its size."
"While small Honkai Beast are not necessarily weak, large Honkai Beast are generally very strong. Back when a certain bastard bishop was in power, a special task force was established to fight against giant Honkai Beast, which is what you know as the Assault Team."
Although the Assault Team in the parallel world had already died out, the Assault Team in this world not only survived but also prospered because of their good relationship with Freya, who was serving as the Acting Grand Bishop. Given Freya's habit of nepotism, the Assault Team naturally flourished.
Even as the first Valkyrie squad to use the Type-B Stigmata, the Assault Team still enjoy immense prestige within the League today.
Moreover, she is the vice principal of the St. Freya Academy.
Although St. Freya Academy is no longer the only institution in the Alliance that trains Valkyrie, the students who study at St. Freya are bound to be the backbone of the Alliance.
Aurora paused for a moment, waiting for the others to process this information.
It's common knowledge that Honkai Beast become stronger because of Honkai Energy, so they didn't have much time to process what Aurora had just said.
In fact, it was just a mutation; the words "evolution" and "abnormality" took them a little longer to figure out.
These two words were specifically used to emphasize the common sense they all knew, making Otto Two, Welt Two, and Tesla Two seriously consider whether there were other meanings.
"Then, under specific environmental simulations, to be precise, when attempting to create an environment with higher intensity Honkai Energy, the Honkai Beast underwent a radical transformation by condensing Honkai Energy."
At this point, Aurora finally revealed the most important project of this artificial Honkai Beast experimental field to these visitors from the parallel world.
She also turned on the large screen, which recorded the research results obtained by her during Freya's absence, as she inherited Freya's research project.
Since she was conducting research on an existing project, Aurora didn't think she was particularly outstanding.
However, when she presented her research findings, she still stunned Otto Two, Welt Two, and others.
While they were surprised that the Alliance of this world had developed a technology to evolve Honkai Beast, what truly astonished them was one of Freya's guesses in the research findings.
That is, would placing humans who have adapted to Honkai Energy in an environment with concentrated Honkai Energy them to evolve again?
Next to it was an arrow pointing directly at Kevin's sketch portrait, and next to the portrait was the label "Biological Enhancement Technology".
Don't assume that researching artificial Honkai Beast is just about researching artificial Honkai Beast; it could very well be just an experiment Freya used to verify a certain hypothesis.
In fact, Freya had no interest in raising any obedient Honkai Beast and then having the Valkyrie play the Digimon or Pokémon game.
It's not a matter of substandard technology, but rather that the so-called Digimon and Pokémon also require a lot of resources to grow. Although raising pets can transfer the risk to these pets, no matter how high these Honkai Beast grow, they will ultimately not benefit the Valkyrie.
Freya also knew that using unknown Biological Enhancement Technology would be dangerous. By combining the existing technology of Schicksal with the optimization technology she developed, although it was impossible to fully unleash the Valkyrie's potential, it allowed them to avoid risks.
Only by facing such enormous risks can the Valkyrie gain unimaginable power.
However, when Freya made this conjecture, she hadn't gone to the other world yet, and she hadn't even picked up this experimental site. It can only be said that she herself couldn't guarantee that she would definitely be able to obtain the Biological Enhancement Technology researched by Mei from Kevin.
Freya also suspected that Mei might have concentrated high-intensity Honkai Energy, causing its mass to undergo some kind of degradation, because the Fusion Warrior of the Previous Civilization were so powerful.
To verify this hypothesis, she noted the results of her experiments using small and large Honkai Beast her experimental log.
As a result, the smaller Honkai Beast were deliberately induced to grow in a way that did not follow the expected growth pattern, but their appearance became even more ferocious.
"Hiss, is this your research?"
Otto Two struggled to maintain his composure.
Ultimately, the greater the gap between his own world's K423 and this world's Aurora, the more Otto felt that he had no vision.
After all, while Aurora's living conditions in this world were good, it wasn't something Otto Two couldn't provide for her. Otto Two knew about Aurora's living conditions in this world, and it was precisely because of this that he began to question his own judgment.
Compared to a resurrected Second Herrscher, isn't K423, a researcher with such inspiration and talent, much better?
Over the long years, Otto Two came to understand one thing—that one person's strength is limited.
Otto Two had long wanted a satisfactory assistant, but unexpectedly, he finally found one, who turned out to be his nemesis.
He had countless opportunities to build a good relationship with her, and at the very least, he could have taken her in as his adopted daughter or goddaughter, just like Otto in this world.
"It belongs to my second older sister. I just pushed the experiment forward within her designed plan."
Aurora paused for a moment before answering Otto Two.
"It's alright... but it's already quite excellent."
Otto exclaimed sincerely.
Then, subconsciously, they make horizontal comparisons with the people involved in their own world.
The more you compare them, the more you realize that the gap between them is as huge as that between a soaring green dragon and a crawling Caterpie.
However, Otto Two's praise did not please Aurora. She frowned, glanced at Otto Two as if he were dirt, and then continued to act as a guide for these visitors from parallel worlds.
The two from the parallel world stared wide-eyed, completely dumbfounded.
They discovered that they had far underestimated the world's level.
They initially thought they had overestimated the world's level, but in reality, the laboratories and research institutes they visited in just three days opened their eyes to a whole new world.
Freya had planned to elevate the Valkyrie's life level long ago, but given Schicksal's mastery of Biological Enhancement Technology, achieving this goal was virtually impossible.
This led Freya's research to a dead end.
Even if Aurora conducted the experiment, it only verified Freya's conjecture, giving Freya, who had already arrived at this result through calculation, another substantial piece of evidence.
Freya resisted Kevin's Stigmata Activation Plan not only because the Stigmata Activation Plan merely distributed Honkai Energy to prevent the Herrscher of Finality from descending, but also because the so-called Stigmata Activation Plan resembled a kind of herd immunity theory, allowing patients to rely on their own constitution to resist the erosion of Honkai Energy.
Judging from the success rate of the Stigmata Activation Plan, it's almost as if Kevin abandoned 99.99% of humanity.
Freya's goal, from beginning to end, has always been to make the Valkyrie stronger.
Whether it's the erosion of Honkai Energy or some kind of epidemic brought about by Honkai Energy, rather than creating a treatment drug when the time comes, it's better to raise the Valkyrie's life level from the beginning, so that she is directly immune to all epidemics, including the erosion of Honkai Energy.
It's worth noting that Honkai triggered the Black Death hundreds of years ago and also caused highly deadly flu or plagues in several eras. Who can guarantee that Honkai won't create new viruses in the next few years?
Strengthening the Valkyrie's life level is a one-time solution; once the life level is increased, the Valkyrie will no longer be afraid of these minor attacks from the Honkai.
SU has experienced this firsthand. After the Third Honkai Eruption of the Previous Civilization, a Honkai Disease called Honkai disease began to spread, and SU, who became a doctor, was completely helpless in the face of such a disease.
At this time, Aurora, who was acting as a guide, continued to introduce the various experimental projects, large and small, at the Nagoya City Experimental Field to these twos.
Perhaps feeling that she had only done something insignificant, Aurora showed no arrogance. Of course, she would occasionally retort to Otto Two.
Even though there was no deep-seated hatred between her and Otto, it didn't stop Aurora loathing this man from the bottom of her heart, well, even if he was from a parallel world.
At this moment, she couldn't help but think of her other sister.
Her two older sisters were indeed the best sisters in the world, but Aurora was not without resentment. She also hoped to share the burden with her two sisters, but she was always treated like a child by them.
This is also what troubles Aurora. Even though she is now the assistant to the director of the First Research Institute and has presided over more than ten experimental projects, in the eyes of her two older sisters, she still has too many immature aspects.
(Hmph, sooner or later, I'll overthrow my two older sisters' rule, become the Grand Consul of the Alliance, and then make them stay home on vacation forever...)
"... Achoo!"
Kiana, who had just sneezed, looked puzzled.
Putting aside the fact that her original Revenge Flame were incredibly hot, the Loving Freeze she now possesses also makes her unafraid of the cold.
But she still couldn't help but sneeze a little.
"Perhaps, Aurora, or maybe Freya."
Kiana, who uses the name Freya Kaslana to operate outside the palace, is currently squinting as she examines the ruins before her.
Although the real Freya has returned from the parallel world, too much has happened in the three months she was away.
Kiana wasn't sure whether she should explain certain things to her second sister.
To be honest, she didn't want her sister to bear too much of a burden.
As the eldest sister, she should have protected her two younger sisters, but in reality, neither she nor the youngest sister could do without the protection of her second sister.
"However, there are indeed remnants of Honkai Energy here... You, expand the search area and ask the local residents what they have found."
Kiana commands several Valkyrie, Enforcers, and her own personal guard to carry out the operation.
At the same time, she opened her communication device and contacted Bianca, who was tracking the Enhanced Humanoid Honkai Beast.
"Bianca, I've arrived. Just like you said, this place has the Honkai Energy of different Humanoid Honkai Beast."
Although Kiana didn't know how Bianca was able to sense it, upon arriving at the scene, before even using the machine to check Honkai Energy, Kiana used her own abilities to sense different types of Honkai Energy at the scene.