Chapter 445

Although this meme has been overused, there are no bad people who like JOJO. Even though there are no ashes left of her past life, this common sense etched in her DNA is still so deeply ingrained.

Ryoma, feeling both amused and exasperated, chose not to discuss the matter, but Freya could tell from his expression that Ryoma was indeed somewhat tempted.

After all, both increasing lifespan and gaining greater power are incredibly attractive to Raiden Ryoma.

The former would allow him to spend more time with his daughter, while the latter would give him the power to protect her.

This guy's extreme obsession with his daughter exceeded Freya's expectations. Well, in a sense, he's hopeless.

Subsequently, Freya, led by the main person in charge of the front-line base, toured all the facilities of the base.

Broadly speaking, this forward base, apart from being on the moon, is not much different from other Allied military bases.

However, due to the limited transport capacity of the Schicksal Island and the Space Elevator, which were converted into Space Fortress, and the small number of airships that were converted into space ships, this frontline base gave her a very shoddy impression.

Perhaps noticing Freya's disapproving look, Ryoma replied helplessly.

"It's not our fault. There were constraints from various countries, the actual transportation cost of the Space Elevator, and other miscellaneous reasons. Moreover, you also asked us to shorten the time while expanding the scale of the base. If I could, I really wanted to say 'I can't do it' at that time."

This is similar to how you can't summon Heroic Spirits (gacha) without Saint Quartz. Even though Ryoma, as the person in charge, is very confident in the new base, the alliance actually has no output, is being targeted by various countries, and also suffers from technical deficiencies.

The Previous Civilization had too much technology. Putting aside whether other projects had been fully mastered, the alliance would inevitably clash with the People from the Sky in the future, and a large number of researchers began to jump into the huge pit of space technology.

Even though several airships have now been converted into spaceships, these early spaceships have very low resistance to various radioactive materials in space.

Even though the alliance has gathered almost all of the world's top researchers and a large number of first-class researchers, there is still too much scientific and technological knowledge left behind by the Previous Civilization. Moreover, because Mei was the only one conducting research in the Previous Civilization, many promising and future research projects had to be shelved.

Restarting those research projects requires researchers, researching space technology requires researchers, researching new Valkyrie equipment requires researchers...

The alliance has recently started sending job offers to second- and third-rate researchers.

This is also why Freya and Aurora can't be used as mere transport tools; their value as researchers far outweighs their role as mere transport tools.

In fact, even Kiana has recently begun to develop in the direction of becoming a researcher studying superpowers.

"Okay, I didn't mean anything by it."

Freya could hear the resentment in Ryoma's words, so she consciously skipped the topic.

In any case, the alliance is on a good track now. Once the alliance's mech division develops mining mech units that can operate in space, the alliance will be able to get rid of the embarrassing situation of raw materials being controlled by various countries.

Of course, the alliance already possessed a large number of technologies that were coveted by other countries. After learning that the alliance had been developing space technology recently, the measures taken by other countries against the alliance have become increasingly intense.

However, not all rulers of a country are as focused on self-interest as those who hide in the shadows.

Whether it's space technology, Space Fortress, or lunar bases, many rulers have discovered Freya's idea of taking the Alliance to the moon.

To the rulers of the great powers, Freya's actions were seen as an admission of weakness, which pleased them, and they tried to use this to force Freya to hand over some technology.

However, for the rulers of many small countries, if the alliance were to leave, the oppression of small countries by large countries would become even more severe after losing the alliance that had always acted as an arbitrator.

If those rulers don't care about the lives of ordinary people, how can they care about the lives of people in other countries?

It can be said that those rulers who like to hide in the shadows are very greedy. They hope that the evil dragon princess, who has reached the pinnacle of power from the very beginning, will give way, or rather, join them in maintaining the glory of human civilization.

In the eyes of these rulers hiding in the shadows, the Alliance should share all scientific research results with them and fight to the death with the Honkai Beast for their safety.

To be honest, those rulers weren't good-looking, but they certainly had beautiful ideas.

On one hand, they want to devour all the Alliance's scientific research achievements in order to make huge profits from them; on the other hand, they don't treat the Valkyrie as human beings, yet they make them fight.

Therefore, the address Otto provided was one of the conditions that Freya found hard to refuse.

"Ah, to be honest, I really want to destroy humanity."

Upon hearing Freya's exclamation, Ryoma was immediately speechless; those who didn't know her would have no idea which side she was on.

518. What were the results of the investigation?

Freya's sigh was not her true feeling, but she did indeed want to kill those behind-the-scenes rulers.

Freya did not take action after obtaining the address mainly to avoid any unexpected events, or to prevent social unrest caused by failing to eliminate the real mastermind.

Therefore, direct brainwashing and manipulation is Freya's preferred method.

Freya still needs to carefully verify whether the address Otto gave her is correct. After all, Otto is also annoyed by those behind-the-scenes rulers. But after fighting for so many years, Otto has only killed a few, while the other behind-the-scenes rulers have become even more hidden.

In fact, his allowing the Human Alliance to absorb the Schicksal Organization was also partly motivated by the idea of using the Senate's greed and stupidity to lure out the behind-the-scenes ruler.

Or perhaps this group, which has existed since ancient times, is another secret organization.

According to the information Otto investigated, the only clue he could find was that the organization that was manipulating the world from behind the scenes was called the 'Illuminati'.

They are the richest family in the world; however, their wealth is not in money, but in the real power they wield behind the scenes.

In the years that Rita has been in charge of the Covert Mobile Force, all she has discovered is that the so-called behind-the-scenes rulers are connected to the forerunners of Previous Civilization.

That's right, Rita eventually traced her investigation back to Kevin.

However, Kevin himself was completely baffled and seemed unaware of the situation.

There are actually many survivors of the Previous Civilization, and there are indeed a few ancient families in this world that have preserved some records related to the Previous Civilization.

Therefore, Kevin cannot deny whether other pioneers besides himself are operating in secret, and the World Serpent Organization is not the only pioneer organization.

Moreover, the Fire Moth organization itself was in a state of power chaos, and the so-called Illuminati was a symbol of light. Clearly, the pioneer believed that the Illuminati had power that surpassed the Fire Moth, or that the Illuminati was the Fire Moth's target.

Freya wants to control or eliminate this organization that manipulates the world from behind the scenes. However, the actual number of members in the Illuminati and whether the founders of the Illuminati are still alive remain unknown.

In any case, judging from the actions of this behind-the-scenes force, they do not have much technology related to Previous Civilization, but they are very cautious, even to the point of being extremely cunning, more so than the World Serpent Organization.

Neither Kevin nor SU immediately realized the true identity of this pioneer.

Or rather, it's difficult for people with this kind of personality to catch their eye.

There are still over ten thousand survivors from the final battle of the Previous Civilization's War of Finality, making it very difficult to pinpoint the other party through investigation.

It's even difficult to determine whether the other party is a member of the Fire Moth organization.

Anyway, Freya never expected that the fighting would turn out to be another problem left over from the predecessors of the Previous Civilization.

Freya felt that it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say, "It's all the fault of the Previous Civilization."

After a general tour of the key facilities at the lunar front-line base, Freya parted ways with Ryoma and left the base to stroll to the other side of the moon.

When Ryoma personally witnessed Freya moving around in the space environment outside the base as leisurely as if taking a stroll after a meal without wearing a protective suit, he suddenly felt that some of the common sense he had learned in the past was completely useless.

Although the Valkyrie can't yet stroll around as leisurely as Freya, their adaptability to the outer space environment is quite high. At least the lunar environment outside the base is not as harsh as some medium-to-high intensity Honkai battlefields.

Freya stopped moving shortly after arriving on the other side of the moon.

Freya's seemingly leisurely stroll actually involved the use of various Herrscher abilities, allowing her to reach her destination in a very short time.

Located on the far side of the moon, invisible to humans on Earth, lies a massive Pre-Civilization Ruins, so vast it could be described as a city.

However, this city, which should have been a gift from the Previous Civilization, is now shrouded in high-intensity Honkai Energy.

Freya didn't get too close. Even she was unwilling to awaken the Honkai Beast in the city. Although she and Aurora had come to this city a few years ago, they had teleported directly to a certain place in the city through coordinates and took away the manufacturing technology of the Fusion Warrior.

To completely take over this lunar city, we need to eliminate all the Honkai Beast within it.

Freya gazed at the city for a long time before finally letting out a sigh.

"You built such a lunar city, but it was never used in the end. Mei, you must be very unwilling to accept this."

The more one studies the technology and relics left by Mei, the more one can understand the helplessness and resentment of this unparalleled genius.

Although Freya hoped that the Alliance could surpass the Fire Moth of the Previous Civilization, Mei left behind too much technology, whether it was technology that had been actually tested, technology that had not been tested, or technology that was only theoretical. It would take the Alliance's researchers a lot of time to study and learn it, not to mention the so-called innovation.

In fact, even the childbirth technology being researched by some departments of the Alliance now relies on technology left behind by the Previous Civilization, and it just so happens to be technology that Mei had researched.

Mei and Kevin have a son. Of course, Kevin underwent the Fusion Warrior modification surgery at the time. Because the technology was not yet mature, he suffered considerable side effects. It is said that his body temperature dropped to minus thirty degrees Celsius, and others were frostbitten just by getting close to him.

With a body temperature like that Kevin couldn't even give Mei a hug, let alone take his pants off and make a baby with her.

In this case, Mei artificially bred herself to combine with Kevin's genetic material, eventually giving birth to a baby boy named Adam Kaslana.

This was the last baby born in the Previous Civilization, and the first head of the Kaslana Family.

Although Kevin was one of the founders of the Order of Schicksal, it was his son Adam who actually bore the responsibility for the Kaslana Family.

The genetic material of Kevin, who could freeze people just by being near them, was combined with the genetic material of a normal person, which involved a large number of different techniques.

Of course, Kevin's body temperature wasn't that low at that time. After the Chimera Project, Kevin was able to control his body temperature to some extent, but it was still too low for him to hug Mei.

The Alliance has come this far thanks to the gifts of the Previous Civilization, and it is precisely because of this that Freya understands even more how difficult it is for the Alliance to surpass the Fire Moth.

The moon serves as the final battlefield, the stage for humanity, who have staked their lives on this battle, to wage the last war between the Honkai's agents Herrscher of Finality End, and the final beings of the pre -Previous Civilization.

If this battle is won, the Previous Civilization will begin its exploration of outer space, starting from its lunar city.

Or, to put it Previous Civilization is about to enter the interstellar civilization stage.

However.

That final battle was lost, and it was a complete and utter defeat.

They assembled the eight strongest super Fusion Warrior of the Previous Civilization, but they were completely helpless against the Herrscher of Finality. Even Kevin was caught in a tough battle and could only use the Overloaded Moonlight Throne to inflict heavy damage, buying the Previous Civilization a crucial dozen hours to continue.

At the moment of defeat, the lunar city and the Honkai galaxy became mere fantasies.

Mei's life also came to an end at that time.

What a deep sense of resentment!

If Mei could witness humanity's victory over the Herrscher of Finality before she closes her eyes, she would likely have no regrets even in death.

"The War of Finality...?"

Freya gazed at the city shrouded in Great Honkai energy.

The Honkai Energy that enveloped the city was actually 30% of the Honkai Energy that evaporated from the Moonlight Throne of the Herrscher of Finality War of Finality the Previous Civilization.

The Honkai Energy seeped into the lunar surface, completely altering the environment on the far side of the moon.

Judging from the intensity of the Honkai Energy, the Honkai Energy here is even stronger than some high-intensity Honkai battlefields. To use a game analogy, the environmental damage here is much greater.

Compared to the erosive environment, the environment in other parts of the moon is really too gentle.

Previously, she was directly teleported into the city, so Freya naturally didn't observe it properly. In fact, the lunar city built by Mei has the ability to isolate Honkai Energy from erosion, which is why the lunar city has remained intact for 50,000 years.

Because the city's interior has the function of isolating Honkai Energy, Freya and Aurora, who were directly inside at the time, did not notice the true state of the city.

Freya didn't get too close, but based on her senses alone, she discovered that there were too many sleeping Honkai Beast in this city, making it no different from a large Honkai Beast gathering place.

In fact, the original flora and fauna of this city have all been transformed into Honkai Beast under the influence of the Honkai.

In Freya's perception, there were hundreds of Emperor-class Honkai Beast and no fewer than a dozen Judgment-class Honkai Beast.

This terrifying number even surpasses some large Honkai Beast gathering areas. After all, the top-tier creatures in those gathering areas are likely only a few Emperor-class Honkai Beast. However, the main reason why those gathering areas are difficult to clear out is because there are too many regular Honkai Beast in them.

The units of measurement for several large Honkai Beast gathering areas are in the 'trillion'.

The Honkai Energy enveloping the city is merely the Honkai Energy evaporated by the Herrscher of Finality 50,000 years ago. Even so, it has formed a place no weaker than a large Honkai Beast gathering place. How terrifying would the real Herrscher of Finality be?

Especially the eight super Fusion Warrior from the Previous Civilization, who were basically on par with Kevin and Fu Hua, or only slightly weaker than Kevin.

Of course, he can't be compared to Kevin right now.

No matter how many Honkai Beasts are in this city, or how many high-end Honkai Beast they have, Freya is determined to conquer this lunar city.

The alliance will work harder to achieve the plans that Mei was unable to realize in the future.

However, since the War of Finality has been mentioned, Freya will inevitably be thinking about how the alliance should respond to the War of Finality.

Even though the Honkai no longer produces Herrscher, the arrival of the Herrscher of Finality is a different matter altogether.

Especially now that the conditions for the Herrscher of Finality's arrival have been basically met, the only remaining issue is that the current Honkai Energy intensity is sufficient to withstand her arrival.

Just as sea fish cannot live in freshwater, the Alliance has been continuously reducing the intensity of Honkai Energy globally in recent years, making it difficult for the Herrscher of Finality to descend in the original way.

However, the consciousness of the Herrscher of Finality is dormant within Kiana's body, and Kiana happens to be the vessel for the Herrscher of Finality's descent. Her backup vessel Freya, and the Herrscher of the Void of the Void Aurora, who can barely serve as a vessel, are the three sisters who are able to form a mental link.

Just as the three sisters shared some of the power of the Herrscher of Finality and shared the burden brought by the Herrscher of Finality, the Herrscher of Finality could also divide her own power into three parts to reduce the requirements for her descent.

Simply put, it's not impossible for the Herrscher of Finality to descend if the Honkai intensity is reduced.

Moreover, by descending as vessels, even though they shared their own power, they instantly gained control over the three main forces opposing them.

"We really need to take precautions. Not to mention that the Honkai Consciousness in this world is more targeted, once Kiana and Aurora are controlled, given their personalities, they probably won't have any backup plans, and we'll likely be in a very passive position."

Freya didn't offer much comment. She gazed at the lunar city for a while longer before returning to the rudimentary lunar frontline base built by Ryoma.

Freya instinctively made a disgusted expression because of the architectural style of the front-line base.