Chapter 419
"Waaaaaaahhhhhh!"
"Rosalia!!"
"It's okay, it's okay, I just almost fell!"
Seele was nearly scared out of her wits by Rosalia, and even Xing panicked and subconsciously took several steps forward.
Although Rosalia's current strength would allow her to easily escape even if she fell under the Improvised Wall.
After all, the Floating Honkai Beast do not have great strength, sharp claws, or even sharp blades like some Deadman. Their only means of attack is to charge, as their bodies are relatively round.
Rosalia and Liliya may not be particularly strong in other aspects, but they are exceptionally thick-skinned. They are not afraid of being hit by ordinary Floating Honkai Beast, let alone by Emperor-class Honkai Beast.
Even so, Seele and Ann were still startled.
"You better watch yourself!"
With Bronya dealing with those powerful Honkai Beast, the Floating Honkai Beast Valkyrie the Silver Wolf Squad and the Radiance Squad. The only thing that bothered them was their sheer number.
Even after being covered by Huohuo's terrifying firepower, the white waves showed no signs of diminishing.
"This number is far too many."
Xing thought they might be exhausted to death by these countless Honkai Beasts.
The continuously injected Honkai Energy is converted into bullets with a time-stopping effect. Although it only lasts for a short time, for Seele and A-Lynn Sisters, who work well together with her, that moment of pause is enough for them to plunder the life of the Honkai Beast.
At the same time, Xing used a long spear shaped like a clock hand to stab the giant Floating Honkai Beast next to her, which was indefinitely frozen in time.
After kicking several floating corpses off the Improvised Wall, Seele turned around and used her scythe imbued with the power of Wither to reap the life of the larger Honkai Beast next to Xing.
"Seele, we've gone a bit around the city walls."
"Liliya!!"
"Cute Big Boobs!"
Liliya leaped down from the Improvised Wall, dragging her chainsaw greatsword as she chased after the Honkai Beast that had bypassed the Improvised Wall.
The chainsaw greatsword barely touched the Honkai Beast's body before the high-frequency vibrations of the chainsaw tore the Honkai Beast's body in two.
Compared to the Silver Wolf Squad's well-coordinated fighting style, the Radiance Squad's fighting style is somewhat casual.
Wendy would occasionally shoot the Honkai Beast with a bow and arrow formed from the power of wind, and sometimes she would slash at the Honkai Beast with twin swords formed from wind. She would also occasionally gather the Honkai Beast in front of her together with a whirlwind.
"Don't even think about escaping!"
She smiled and took out a small stick inlaid with the Gem of Desire. As a candidate for Herrscher, Wendy had naturally come into contact with the Herrscher Core in advance. She also knew the possible consequences of her contact with the Herrscher core, especially since her fate in the parallel world seemed not so good.
But that doesn't stop her from fulfilling Aisha's wish. Since Aisha wants to get a spot in the Apocalypse Knights before graduation, she doesn't mind giving it her all for Aisha.
Countless Honkai Energy transformed into wind power, condensing into an energy ring above Wendy's head, manifesting her Herrscher identity, while a pair of emerald green wind wings unfurled behind her.
A temporary Herrscher Transformation device created using the design principles of the Key of Blankness — Wendy, the Herrscher of Wind —appears here.
485. One against three! I can brag about this for the rest of my life!
"... Did you still use it?"
Freya, who had already quietly left the Saintess, was now thousands of meters above the Saintess.
Sensing the abnormally rapid accumulation of Honkai Energy, she immediately knew what was happening below, and her gaze, which had been drawn to her, involuntarily shifted to the newly born Herrscher of Wind.
"Hey, can you show me a little respect?"
Although she couldn't sense the source of the gaze or pinpoint its location, Freya was certain, having experienced the same gaze before, that the person spying on her was the same 'spectator' who had silently watched her duel with Kevin three years ago.
With that, Freya waved her hand.
She hurriedly threw a hurricane-long spear, hundreds of meters long, at a place she found suspicious.
A hurricane spear formed by the immense power of the wind pierced through the sea surface, and the resulting Sea Dragon directly blasted out sunken ships from the seabed, skeletons that had finally seen the sky after hundreds of years, and also a white-robed girl with an expressionless face.
"Whoa—"
Seeing that the white-robed girl made no move, the hurricane formed by the wind around her immediately dissipated, Freya couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.
Although the Herrscher of Wind's abilities are not known for their power, Freya's expression turned somewhat serious as the wind was so easily dispelled, and she immediately confronted the expressionless white-robed girl.
The white-robed girl's face remained expressionless as she calmly watched the ocean- Honkai Beast attack the island where the Saintess had landed.
At this moment, on the island where the Saintess had landed, Wendy had completed her Herrscher transformation and successfully transferred the power of the Herrscher of Wind to herself temporarily.
Although it wasn't her first time, it still made her a little nervous.
A halo symbolizing the Herrscher Authority of Wind appeared above her head. After completing her Herrscher Transformation, Wendy immediately sensed the boundary of the Imaginary Space and the almost infinite Honkai Energy existing on the other side of the boundary.
Wendy smiled slightly, slowly raising her hands, a feeling of omnipotence filling her entire body.
The emerald halo above its head emitted a dazzling light, as if to illuminate the perpetually gloomy Devil's Triangle Sea Area.
The little stick that was used to transform has now become a uniquely shaped belt, and the Gem of Desire that was originally embedded in the stick is now embedded in the very center of the belt.
Wendy glanced at her current appearance. Her original Radiance Squad uniform had been replaced by a light gauze dress, with a long skirt that stretched out continuously. Behind her, emerald green wind wings stirred the flow of all the winds in the world.
As Wendy slowly rose into the air, she felt like a god covering the earth. She reached out her hand towards the endless Honkai Beast and squeezed it tightly as if she were holding something.
The Thousand Winds transformed into millions of arrows, sweeping directly across the white waves. Hundreds of thousands, even millions of Honkai Beast died instantly, without even having time to utter a wail. The Thousand Winds, transformed into millions of arrows, continued to rage, sweeping up the shattered corpses of ocean Honkai Beast one after another.
At this moment, the entire flow of the Devil's Triangle Sea Area was under the control of Wendy's will.
Her destructive power in a short period of time even surpassed that of Huohuo, who was best at dealing area damage, leaving the entire Silver Wolf Squad dumbfounded.
Seele took out a small stick inlaid with the Gem of Serenity, hesitating whether she should also transform into Herrscher.
Just as the Radiance Squad wanted to demonstrate their strength to Freya during this operation, the Silver Wolf Squad had the same idea.
Although Bronya prefers to compete with Bianca, from the perspective of rivals, the Radiance Squad is the only one that can compete with the Silver Wolf Squad.
Both have someone Freya favors, and both are considered potential Herrscher candidates. Furthermore, both Huohuo and Bronya are exceptionally powerful among the 13th generation trainees.
Bronya, with the strongest firepower, is so powerful that even Emperor-class Honkai Beast only needs one shot to headshot her. If one shot doesn't hit her head, it's just a matter of taking another shot.
Although Huohuo's AoE damage is relatively average compared to Bronya's ability to deal hundreds of thousands or millions of damage in a matter of seconds, she mostly kills rare variants, a small number of Emperor Honkai hidden among other Honkai Beast, or Emperor-class Honkai Beast.
Huohuo, possessing the most ferocious firepower, has the ability to kill large numbers of Honkai Beast. He alone possesses area-of-effect firepower comparable to that of Floating Battleship. Most importantly, Huohuo's Stigmata power can be enhanced on the Floating Battleship.
Seele originally thought that the Silver Wolf Squad and the Radiance Squad would still be in competition, but she did not expect that the Radiance Squad would use the Herrscher candidate first, which undoubtedly gave them the first advantage in this operation.
When Seele received the transformation gadget from Freya, Seele learned about its Aurora Freya Tesla, Seele also realized her own limits.
Originally, there was a Fourth Generation Valkyrie Armor called Vermilion Knight: Eclipse: Eclipse in Schicksal's laboratory. However, Vermilion Knight: Eclipse: Eclipse was a product of combining the core Gem of Calamity of the Herrscher Core of Flame with the Key of Blankness created by Mei.
It is considered one of the earlier Fourth Generation Armor and is the prototype for most Valkyrie Armor today.
The Key of Blankness created by Mei possesses immense power, but as the price for obtaining such power, the user of the Key of Blankness naturally bears an even greater burden.
It is said that in the Previous Civilization era, Mei suffered almost incurable damage after using the Key of Blankness just once.
Freya and Tesla absorbed Mei's design philosophy, but made up for the original flaw of the Key of Blankness in not being able to limit the use of Herrscher power. Of course, it cannot be said that the ability of the Key of Blankness is a flaw.
After all, the Key of Blankness's unlimited use of Herrscher power is not a burden for Freya, Aurora, and Kiana, who possess Herrscher bodies. However, since they can use Herrscher power without limit, the Key of Blankness's greatest function is just a useless feature for them.
For those who cannot bear the unlimited use of Herrscher power by the Key of Blankness, the Key of Blankness is a terrifying suicide tool that can make you a hero for a second.
To use a game analogy, it's like using a cheat code, allowing your game character to deal hundreds of millions of damage in an instant. As the price for gaining such power, your game character is naturally rendered useless.
Mei is undoubtedly a genius. Through the Key of Blankness, she combined a person with the Herrscher Core, thus successfully opening a passage to the Imaginary Space, allowing the user equipped with the Key of Blankness to gain abilities comparable to those of Herrscher in a short period of time.
The main reason why the power of the Divine Key is no weaker than that of the Herrscher, but its duration is far shorter, is that the Divine Key is driven by the Herrscher Core.
The Herrscher Core, which was made into Divine Key, cannot open the channel of the Imaginary Space on its own. Therefore, the total energy of the Divine Key is limited by the Honkai Energy within the Herrscher Core.
Although the Honkai Energy in the Herrscher Core can be replenished over time after it is depleted, it cannot use the Honkai Energy in the Imaginary Space without restriction like a true Herrscher. Therefore, even if Mei increases the power of the Divine Key as much as possible, the Divine Key cannot be equated with a true Herrscher.
Freya and Tesla had studied the principles of the Key of Blankness, so when creating this so-called Herrscher transformation device, they restricted the Key of Blankness's original function of using Honkai Energy without restriction. In addition, they adopted a completely external design, unlike the Key of Blankness, so that the connection between the user and the Herrscher Core could be severed at will.
This means that Wendy, who uses the Herrscher Transformation Device to gain the Herrscher Authority of Wind, is not much different from the real Herrscher of Wind now, but she can only maintain this state for less than a minute. If it exceeds a minute, or if her mental fluctuations become abnormal, the emergency closing device of the transformation device will be triggered.
That's right, the transformation time of the Herrscher transformation device is even shorter than that of the ××Man who fights small monsters.
Ultimately, this so-called Herrscher transformation device was just a small tool used by Freya and Tesla to collect data, specifically to gather information on the changes that occurred during the Herrscher Transformation process of Herrscher.
Freya had no intention of putting her lovely Valkyrie at risk of being affected by Honkai Consciousness just for the sake of one or two Artificial Herrscher or newly created Herrscher.
However, Wendy, who had turned the Devil's Triangle Sea Area into her own controlled wind domain, was utterly indiscriminately slaughtered.
Even though her time as Herrscher was limited, the Herrscher Authority she gained were genuine.
The sheer number of ocean Honkai Beast before her was terrifying, but after hundreds of millions of ocean Honkai Beast had been killed or wounded, Wendy noticed that the Honkai Beast tide, which had previously resembled a white wave, seemed to have shrunk considerably.
—55.4 seconds!!
Wendy remembers the longest she ever transformed into Herrscher, and how strong her feeling of omnipotence was at that moment, and how weak and helpless she felt afterwards.
This is an inevitable backlash.
Fortunately, this side effect only lasts for two or three days.
Any great power must pay a price.
Wendy remembered that it was during Freya's absence that she used the transformation device to transform under the guidance of Aurora and Tesla. Because she was so excited, she maintained the Herrscher of Wind mode for more than 59 seconds.
As a result of exceeding her physical limits by more than three seconds, she lost feeling in both feet for half a month, which made her feel a sense of lingering fear. During that time, she even saw another version of herself in a daze.
"21 seconds left..."
Countless wind spears, each tens of meters long, were hurled down from the sky. Wendy immediately abandoned the idea of killing the powerful individuals in the Honkai Beast horde and chose to expand her own killing range.
The falling wind spears began to spin, sweeping across the area like fiery wheels.
"17 seconds left."
Wendy counted down for herself.
At this moment, in the wind domain under her control, Wendy manipulated the flows that only she could see, creating hundreds of Sea Dragons.
As the terrifying Sea Dragon rose into the air, it brought even more drastic environmental changes, and a large number of marine Honkai Beast were literally drowned.
"5 seconds left!!"
Wendy called softly, raising her hands as if drawing a bow to shoot the moon, and the power of the wind condensed into a powerful wind arrow between them.
This arrow of wind traversed the Devil's Triangle Sea Area, completely detonating the hundreds of Sea Dragons and splitting the Devil's Triangle Sea Area into hundreds of pieces. Much of the seawater was swept into the sky and could only slowly descend, while a large number of Honkai Beast were trapped inside.
"Done! I'm going to die."
Feeling utterly hopeless after maintaining her Herrscher transformation for 56 seconds, Wendy was now being drained of her omnipotent power. Although she could extend it for another 2 or 3 seconds if she wanted, Wendy chose the option of being weak and powerless, without any particular strength, rather than having to lie in bed for half a month with numb legs.
"Besides, I'm not weak. I was able to hold off Bronya, Aurora, and Mei for more than ten minutes. I can brag about this for the rest of my life!"
The stronger Mei and Bronya performed, the more Wendy felt that her previous performance was something to brag about.
After saying that, Wendy, whose strength had been completely drained, fell directly from the sky, but she wasn't worried at all, as her teammates were all below.
Based on Lily and Kerr's calculations, Delta threw two special cushions directly towards the spot where Wendy was falling, then jumped to the side of the cushions. She then wielded her rapier and weaved through dozens of Honkai Beasts, quickly killing them. Just as Wendy landed on the cushions, she pulled out a single-person flight backpack, grabbed the bouncing Wendy, and retreated towards the Improvised Wall.
"Pretty!"
"This is amazing."
"How could she bring this too?!"
The members of the Silver Wolf Squad were speechless. After all, as the alliance grew stronger, there would naturally be more people slacking off within it.
There are too many geniuses in the weapons research department, which makes many researchers in the same department feel lost and directionless.
Then, the so-called Improvised Wall, special cushioning pads, and single-person flying backpacks appeared.
These are all rescue items suitable for Valkyrie to accept rescue missions. For example, if a Honkai event occurs in a certain area, the Valkyrie will receive a mission to exterminate Honkai Beast or to rescue the people in that area.
Valkyrie squad that lack confidence in their own abilities, or those that haven't yet been transformed into Type-B Valkyrie squad, often choose to accept rescue missions. This allows them to accumulate personal achievements while waiting for their own transformation into Type-B Valkyrie.
Most of the students in the 13th cohort were so confident that they were arrogant.
Wendy was like that, and so was Xing. These two little fools were very confident in their own abilities, so they naturally looked down on the so-called rescue mission.
When they saw Delta throw out the special cushioning pad that was almost used by the Valkyrie squad on a rescue mission, all the members of the Silver Wolf Squad looked at Aisha with a different focus.
They didn't think Delta had embarrassed the 13th cohort; on the contrary, they found her cautious and conservative style very distinctive.
Delta was originally unknown in issue 13, just a nobody.
Although she was no worse than the new batch of students, compared to the monster-level students of the 13th class, no, even compared to those monster-level students, she was at the very bottom of the class.