I Am a Saintess at Schicksal Chapter 42

Tesla, who hadn't left, calmly watched Welt's face, which was filled with guilt.

"I was too impulsive..."

The moment he discovered Otto was the mastermind behind the prolonged Second Eruption, he abandoned all his long-held bottom lines and principles.

When the Second Eruption first broke out, he and Siegfried confronted the Second Herrscher in the Siberian snowfields.

Facing modern weaponry replicated by the First Herrscher's abilities and an atomic bomb launched by Anti-Entropy, the child-like Second Herrscher was on the verge of death.

But it was precisely because Bishop Otto appeared and let the Second Herrscher escape that she obtained four Herrscher Cores on the moon, greatly increasing her power and prolonging the Second Eruption.

The Second Herrscher attacked Earth from the moon using four small meteorites, causing unprecedented tsunamis that devastated coastal cities.

Cities directly hit by the meteorites were vaporized, resulting in tens of millions of deaths worldwide. Afterward, the four simulated Herrschers created by the Second Herrscher also expanded casualties globally, not to mention the famine that followed the disasters.

The Second Eruption caused at least hundreds of millions of deaths.

These were grim numbers.

As a participant in the Second Eruption, Welt's Anti-Entropy organization also conducted relief efforts after the disaster, saving quite a few people.

But these were casualties that should never have happened.

If not for that golden-haired clown who suddenly appeared, the Second Eruption would never have escalated.

Welt searched for that golden-haired clown almost everywhere.

But he found no trace of him.

Welt took responsibility for the unnecessary casualties and tragedies of the Second Eruption.

If only he had been a little stronger back then.

If only he hadn't let the Second Herrscher escape.

If only he had been wary of that golden-haired clown.

Perhaps there wouldn't have been so many tragedies, so many deaths and injuries.

So, the moment he discovered the golden-haired clown was Otto, Welt realized his so-called bottom lines and principles were fragile.

If Otto hadn't produced the new Holy Blood, he might have allowed the simulated black hole to swallow the nine floating islands of Schicksal HQ.

"Don't overthink it, Joachim, you're the best."

Tesla knew Welt's personality.

She also knew Welt's current frustration.

Welt was very vulnerable at this moment, so perhaps he wanted to hear his real name more than his heroic title.

Tesla knew this, so she called out softly.

"Tesla, to kill an enemy who must be killed, would you abandon the beliefs you've always held?"

Faced with the question, Tesla was silent for a moment, then replied with a smile.

"If the one you want to kill is worth abandoning your lifelong beliefs for, then do it. I support you. No matter what kind of great villain you become afterward, I'll be by your side."

Tesla crouched beside Welt and held his hands.

"I don't know what you went through at Schicksal HQ, but I believe you are right."

"No, I was indeed too impulsive this time."

Welt closed his eyes and slowly exhaled.

In 1955, he inherited the hero's name, the Herrscher's core, and the mission to protect this world from the original First Herrscher, Walter Joyce.

Welt didn't need guilt or regret.

Joachim could show his vulnerable side to Tesla, but Welt didn't need to.

"Thank you, Tesla."

Welt withdrew his hands from Tesla's and placed them on her head.

"...Can you tell me what you went through?"

"Of course. But we need to bring Einstein and the others. Siegfried must also know about this, especially what we discovered at the Far East branch. We can't keep it from him."

After patting her head a few times, Welt stood up, leaning against Tesla.

Tesla nodded, but her expression suddenly became strange.

"Um, he's still going to punch you later."

"..."

Come to think of it, that was indeed a thing.

Welt felt a sudden headache.

Afterward, Welt and Tesla went to the airship control room and greeted the Anti-Entropy members inside.

"The transport ship docked at another port has deployed the Humo self-destruct robots. That should buy us some time."

Einstein glanced at the two of them and sighed before reporting on the withdrawal situation.

The Schicksal organization is preparing to close in, which means the floating battleship carrying seventy percent of Schicksal's Valkyries, along with the forces from Schicksal's various branches, will converge on Schicksal headquarters.

Many floating battleships have already returned to Schicksal headquarters and are forming pursuit fleets.

The performance of Schicksal's floating battleships surpasses their own, and once their battleship is locked down, a net will undoubtedly be cast around them. With Bishop Otto's style, he wouldn't hesitate to uncover Anti-Entropy's secret base.

Therefore, their retreat will be fraught with difficulties.

As for the organizations eyeing Schicksal's technology and Cecilia's daughter, Otto has likely already rounded them all up.

"It's a shame that ancient organization didn't show up."

Welt also paid close attention to that ancient organization.

However, they remained hidden in the shadows, like a serpent coiled in the dark. Their name was indeed World Serpent.

Outside the infirmary, Siegfried, anxiously awaiting the results, felt as if he had overlooked something.

He paced back and forth outside the infirmary, gazing through the battleship's windows at the many returning floating battleships heading towards Schicksal headquarters. Suddenly, a sharp pain pierced his heart.

Siegfried didn't understand this feeling and began to worry about the upcoming pursuit battle that Schicksal headquarters was about to launch.

Theresa contacted him around this time.

Perhaps because he had acted without listening to Theresa's advice, and even worse, had acted alongside the Anti-Entropy organization, Siegfried didn't answer Theresa's call.

Watching the few floating battleships drawing closer to Schicksal headquarters, Siegfried had a nagging feeling that something he would regret was about to happen...

46. It's Simply Bad Taste

Valkyries and floating battleships belonging to Schicksal headquarters were returning one by one. Among them, several larger models of floating battleships hovered above the floating island.

The descending floating island was pulled by the floating battleships, halting its downward trajectory. Then, the backup anti-gravity engines beneath the floating island activated, and the island finally came to a standstill several hundred meters above the Mediterranean Sea.

Although this attack caused varying degrees of damage to the Nine Floating Islands, Asgard, which suffered the most severe damage, only had its outer shell breached, a few transport ports destroyed, and hundreds of casualties.

Otto was naturally disappointed that he couldn't seize the opportunity to obtain the new Holy Blood experimental data and lure out the hidden ancient organization, World Serpent.

After arranging the deployment of the upcoming pursuit battle, he hurried to that secret room.

Otto hadn't expected K422 to have gone to that room.

Although they obtained data on the use of Black Abyss White Flower, allowing her to obtain Black Abyss White Flower was clearly a mistake.

Unlike K422, who found the secret room by breaking through a wall to find a secret passage, Otto returned to his own room, opened the hidden passage within it, and easily accessed the secret passage.

Inside this room, K422 sat to the side, watching the young boy and girl playing on the grass.

She felt like she had been force-fed a belly full of dog food.

The white-haired girl, in particular, was very flirtatious, making the blonde-haired boy blush profusely.

Yes, it was the white-haired girl flirting with the boy.

Seeing this, K422 felt completely hopeless.

Bishop Otto would surely silence anyone to cover up this embarrassing past.

In reality, both the grass and the blue sky with white clouds were merely holographic projections. Thus, the boy was fake, the girl was fake, the grass was fake, and the blue sky and white clouds were also fake.

However, the recorded information might not be fake.

"Kallen Kaslana..."

K422's knowledge of her came from games.

Not many people knew of her.

It just so happened that she had some understanding of her.

After all, her appearance was so similar to hers, and after Aunt Theresa styled her hair into a thick braid, their resemblance increased even further. How could she not be curious about this person?

She had indeed obtained a lot of information from Aunt Theresa.

She was reportedly the captain of the Schicksal Valkyrie force 500 years ago, the strongest Valkyrie in Schicksal at that time.

Well, that wasn't surprising.

There were many women in Schicksal who aspired to become the strongest Valkyrie.

But in each era, only one person could become the strongest Valkyrie.

K422 believed she would be the next to become the strongest Valkyrie.

Kallen Kaslana possessed the characteristic white hair and blue eyes of the Kaslana family.

The Schariac family inherited apricot-colored hair, with only a few individuals possessing white hair.

It was said that the ancestors of the Schariac family's hair tips would turn white when using a Divine Key, perhaps an indication of their talent for manipulating Honkai Energy.

Of course, her white hair and blue eyes were not a hereditary trait of the Schariac family but leaned more towards the Kaslana family's inheritance.

Kallen Kaslana, as the strongest Valkyrie in Schicksal at the time, actually had limited records within the Schicksal organization, and she died very young, at only a little over twenty years old.

K422's understanding of her was limited to these facts.

But Kallen Kaslana was a figure from 500 years ago.

Bishop Otto's age has always been a secret, but now it seems he should also be a figure from 500 years ago. No, he should have lived from 500 years ago to the present day.

Old turtle, cough cough.

"..."

This secret might not be that astonishing.

It's just that within Schicksal headquarters, there's a secret room.

You don't need to think hard to know this belongs to Bishop Otto.

And the happy times of boys and girls playing should be what Bishop Otto misses the most.

He loved Kallen deeply.

Then K422 thought that Amber, whose entire body was modified into a prosthetic, looked like Theresa when she grew up, and Theresa's appearance was even more like the white-haired girl in front of her...

So why am I even making these connections?

Hopeless.

Might as well wait for death.

Serves you right for thinking nonsense, it was all baseless speculation anyway.

At this point, she even lost the desire to find True Kiana.

After all, based on her wild speculations, Bishop Otto's goal should be to resurrect Kallen.

Although she doesn't remember the technological system of her past life very clearly, this world clearly possesses black technology far beyond her past life.

At least she had never heard of Honkai Energy as a power source.

Yet the Schicksal organization already has mature Honkai Energy reactor technology.

And if Bishop Otto can live for 500 years, perhaps he can truly resurrect Kallen Kaslana.