Chapter 447

"So, what are Mei- sama and Bronya- sama's thoughts?"

Seeing that Freya had already said so much, it's no wonder that Rita was curious about their thoughts.

"As for Mei, her mind is all on Aurora; she's not interested in her father's remarriage partner at all..."

"If Lord Ryoma finds out, Ryoma 'll probably be quite upset."

"Ahem, I still managed to get her thoughts out of her. She also hopes that her father can find a suitable partner to remarry, so that he can spend less time focusing on her."

"That's true. Most daughters would hate those super-obsessed daughters. As a result, because Ryoma- sama thought the gap between himself and his daughter was getting deeper, he became even more extreme, which made Mei even more repulsed. It's a vicious cycle."

Rita said, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

520. I will definitely pay attention, and I promise not to use Kevin first.

While the gossip surrounding Ryoma and Cocolia is certainly entertaining, the priority for the current alliance is conquering the Previous Civilization building on the far side of the moon.

The Valkyrie and Fusion Warrior who joined the main force of this operation assembled at the lunar base, and logistics and support personnel were also in place.

Nowadays, the Alliance rarely performs defensive duties, as a large portion of its forces have been freed up from the Honkai battlefields in various locations.

Value arises from demand. As countries gradually demonstrate their technologies for combating Honkai Beast, even if fighting Humanoid Honkai Beast is difficult, it also indicates that they no longer need Valkyrie.

Although Otto provided the countries with this technology, he only accelerated their research into Previous Civilization technologies. The violent dismantling of Pre-Civilization Ruins within their borders by various countries in recent years, along with the underhanded actions of the Illuminati, the coalition of the countries' behind-the-scenes rulers, all indicate that the time for the countries to take action against the alliance is approaching.

Freya imposed strict restrictions on the Valkyrie trained by various countries, both to hinder their research progress and to slow down the arrival of this situation.

As it turned out, receiving the finished products provided by Freya did not satisfy this group of people.

With the establishment of the World Security Council, although the Light Will not step into the limelight, they will push out scapegoats.

Even an accidental killing of a member of the World Security Council by Valkyrie was enough to prompt nations to unite and attack the Alliance.

Such a dire situation nearly drove Theresa, who had been working to ease tensions between the alliance and other countries, to despair. For several days in a row, her long silver hair seemed to lose its luster.

On the same day that half of the alliance's fighting force and residents had been relocated to the lunar base, Freya launched a battle for the lunar city—

"In the past, a calamity called Honkai has caused us endless suffering, invading our homes time and time again!!"

In Hall One of the lunar frontline base, Theresa delivers a pre-battle speech from a high platform.

Although Freya could also deliver the pre-war speech, doing so would suppress the prestige that Theresa had painstakingly built up.

"They transformed into disaster, into behemoths, into demons, murdering our loved ones and destroying our cities! They thought suffering would instill fear in us, and brutality would make us tremble! But they were wrong! The warriors of the Alliance will never yield!!"

As Theresa delivered her pre-war speech on stage, the people backstage couldn't help but discuss among themselves.

"As expected of Lady Theresa, even I feel a sense of resonance."

"Tsk."

Cocolia and Ryoma's relationship is clearly still the same, and has not progressed despite the increasingly heated gossip.

"Even without Freya, she can manage the league well."

"Although he is a clone, he has inherited Kaslana's spirit very well."

SU and Kevin, stationed in Changkong City, are monitoring events on the moon via a screen. Left behind by Freya, they have to deal with the reactions of various countries.

The alliance spent a month building the logistics and equipment for the lunar base and deployed half of its combat power to the moon. It would also immediately commit the remaining combat power should the battle reach a stalemate.

At that time, the alliance will inevitably fall into a state of depleted combat power, which may attract attacks from wolves and tigers.

Freya and Rita sat together on the scaffolding above Hall One, in the best spot to watch Theresa's speech.

From this vantage point, Freya naturally noticed Otto gazing at the petite figure in the distance, and the complex expression on his face.

"We have been suffering its attacks and enduring its harm! We have lost our loved ones because of it. Now, it's time to say 'no' to it!!"

"Today, we will prove our efforts and hard work. Today marks the first step in our counterattack! Since the alliance's inception, we have been preparing and honing our skills for this moment! We want to tell it that humanity will never compromise!! Only to the death!!"

Theresa's speech was full of her true feelings, which is why it was so moving and resonated with the Valkyrie and Fusion Warrior —something Otto could not do.

Otto gave a pre-war speech during the Second Eruption. His speech was very moving, but many Valkyrie did not know how much sincerity was in his speech. The reason they fought was simply because they had no other choice but to fight.

More importantly, standing in front of them are Cecilia Schariac, the strongest Valkyrie of Schicksal, and Cheng Lixue, the strongest Valkyrie of Rank A. Their appeal even surpasses that of Otto.

Theresa gritted her teeth. She wished she could join the battle, but having been in an administrative position for too long, her actual combat strength was no longer comparable to that of active Valkyrie and Fusion Warrior.

Not to mention that the current combat units are basically Welt, even if we consider Welt as the unit, most Valkyrie possess power equal to that of Welt. Not to mention the Artificial Herrscher, each of whom possesses power far exceeding that of Welt.

With their complete powers and Herrscher qualifications, they are inherently more suitable to inherit the power of the Herrscher Welt, who was hastily made a Hermeneutics. In particular, Welt's own power was inherited by Bronya, and he was even surpassed by Bronya not long afterward.

Welt did not participate in this competition. Although he still retained some Herrscher power after losing his Herrscher Core, his own strength had dropped to the 0.2 watt level, which meant that he failed to pass the main force team's assessment.

After all, the main force requires 0.5 watts of combat power. Welt's physical fitness has also declined to some extent after losing the Herrscher Core. This is actually a good thing, since he managed to get Tesla pregnant after his fitness declined.

However, this is not good news for research institutions. Tesla is almost their flagship product, and with the "pregnancy brain" phenomenon affecting them for three years, Tesla is essentially rendered useless.

In particular, she recently had a brilliant idea: to build a fully automated infant care Titan Mech. Almost half of the research department fought desperately to stop her, and they finally managed to prevent her from modifying the core program of the space-type Titan Mech prototype.

Simply put, Welt not only failed to become a key player in this competition, but also seriously hampered the alliance.

Of course, everyone is happy to hear that Tesla is pregnant.

The Valkyrie and Fusion Warrior in Hall One roared, just as Theresa had said in her speech, that their only way to stop fighting Honkai was to die.

There is no good or evil, no self-interest involved; this is a battle for survival.

After Theresa's pre-battle speech, both the Valkyrie and the Fusion Warrior entered a state of readiness for battle.

A large number of weapons of war have been advanced, after all, they are about to attack a city and try to preserve its integrity as much as possible, which undoubtedly increases the difficulty of the battle.

After her speech, Theresa immediately contacted the follow-up forces on the ground, requesting them to be on standby 24 hours a day and ready to enter the emergency-activated space portal to reach the moon at any time.

In fact, if the Alliance base were to remove its protective shield, it would be found that Changkong City was much emptier, many important facilities had disappeared, and a large number of people had vanished.

If one could see inside the protective shield of the lunar frontline base, one would find that the originally rudimentary lunar frontline base has now become three-dimensional and full, with not only a large number of facilities, but also the area it originally occupied has expanded several times.

Although Ryoma and Cocolia caused some interesting gossip, leaving the two somewhat helpless, they did not neglect their work for a moment, shortening the project originally scheduled to be completed in one and a half months to one month.

"In short, SU, you need to be careful. If the Illuminati really makes a move, or if the World Security Council declares war, I will allow you to use Kevin."

"Yes, yes, I will definitely pay attention, and I promise not to use Kevin first."

While Theresa was making contact, Freya also made contact with SU.

On one hand, there is the Alliance's crucial battle for lunar cities, and on the other hand, they are concerned about the current movements of the Illuminati.

It must be said that, as expected of a Previous Civilization organization that had been able to outwit and outmaneuver Otto for a long time, Otto had indeed pinpointed the addresses of several core members.

However, before Freya could take action, the entire families of those core members had already perished.

Although this also reveals that the other party is at least a Fusion Warrior, after all, as an organization that manipulates the world behind the scenes, its core is composed of more than a dozen families, and such ruling families are above all else.

The fact that even someone of such a high status could be abandoned so readily proves that there is someone in the Illuminati whose status is even more exalted.

Freya and SU speculated that the other party, like most of the pioneers, had undergone life-extending modification surgery. Most of them underwent life-extending modification, or rather, it was a side effect of the Fusion Warrior modification surgery, which is why they were able to live from 50,000 years ago to the present.

Only the founder of the Illuminati, and a founder with real power, has the authority to decisively abandon core members.

However, there were many people who met these conditions. Mei did not restrict the outflow of technology at the time, and her research was almost entirely in the database of the Fire Moth. The life-extending technology itself was also a technology that Mei used to exchange for benefits. For those 'veterans' of the Fire Moth, the ability to extend life was enough to drive them crazy.

That being said, the requirements for life-extending technology are very high. The physical condition of the 'veterans' simply cannot withstand the modification, since life-extending technology itself is a side effect of Fusion Warrior.

The Alliance now uses optimized modification technology. Therefore, while Fusion Warrior can extend their lifespan, it is more about improving their combat capabilities, rather than achieving near-immortality like Kevin, Sue, and Fu Hua.

Mei is no naive girl who can stand out in the power struggle. Although she sometimes acts foolishly when facing Kevin, the life-extending technology she handed over has this kind of 'safety lock'.

However, Kevin and SU could not guarantee that other researchers at Fire Moth would use these technologies, since most of the Fire Moth researchers still obeyed the orders of the Fire Moth veterans.

However, the founder of the Illuminati was most likely Fusion Warrior underwent Mei modification surgery. In SU's view, even if the other researchers of the Fire Moth studied life-extending technology for the elders, it would be difficult to put it into practical use.

It's not that SU looks down on the researchers from the Previous Civilization. After all, the fact that those researchers could work with Mei is enough to prove that they were capable. If they were in the current civilization, they would probably be able to compete with Planck, Newton, and Edison. It's just that Mei is too strong.

Even with Tesla and Einstein's best efforts, they still lag far behind Mei, though they did solve the problem of life extension technology.

However, although they solved the problem, the Alliance's current technological level is not able to handle both situations at the same time as the Previous Civilization, so they adopted optimization technology, or rather, the Alliance's current technological level can only use simplified technology.

Even today, there is still a considerable gap between the two civilizations, mainly due to the lack of advanced hardware.

Even someone as carefree as Theresa never considered aiding the enemy.

It's important to understand that the parts and equipment currently used by the Alliance are manufactured by various countries. If the Alliance wants to perform the Fusion Warrior modification surgery of the Previous Civilization, it must upgrade the Alliance's existing equipment. As the Alliance relies on the products produced by various countries, it cannot avoid improving the technological level of those countries.

If it were the situation where countries had to rely on the military power of the alliance, what good would it do to improve the level of each country? The Valkyrie and Floating Battleship alone would be enough to suppress the dissent of each country.

However, now that the nations are being manipulated by the Illuminati behind the scenes, they are clearly highly aggressive towards the alliance, and improving their technological levels will only accelerate this process.

Although the alliance is developing its own processing plants and manufacturing stations, its current output cannot meet the needs of the entire alliance.

Ultimately, the Alliance is not a country, and neither are the original three organizations, Schicksal, Anti-Entropy, and World Serpent. This inevitably leads to the Alliance's abnormal development, which relies on the output of various countries.

Even with Tesla and Einstein, as well as a large number of top-notch researchers, the Alliance was unable to perfectly reproduce the super Fusion Warrior modification technology of the Previous Civilization. So it's not that the SU looked down on other researchers from the Previous Civilization.

But to Mei, everyone here is trash.

"Don't underestimate them; after all, they managed to hide right under your noses for so long..."

"Hiding under our noses for so long isn't a feat. You see, Mei almost completely dismantled the data of the Previous Civilization to prevent the shelter from being uprooted. Even though the data in the ruins on the moon is the most complete, you know there's no information about the shelter in those ruins. Even Kevin and I don't know how many shelters are buried underground in this world."

SU didn't have any objection to Mei's actions; rather, he said that Mei's actions were the best way to maximize human survival.

Whether the survivors left on the Ark or those sleeping in shelters around the world, even if one side is discovered, it will not affect the other.

None of the survivors who left on the Ark knew the location of the shelter, and among the survivors who hid in the shelter, only the Fusion Warrior of the Fire Moth knew some of the inside information.

As for whether there are still any undiscovered shelters, SU and Kevin can say with certainty that there are.

But only Mei knows how many shelters there are and where they are.

"I think you are quite capable. Given the commotion you caused, I don't think the other side didn't notice, but they chose a completely different path from you."

"Yes, no matter what, the other party is definitely a member of the Fire Moth. As for whether they are Fusion Warrior modified by Mei or a member of the Fire Moth's old guard, we can only wait and see if we can catch them in this battle."

"Be careful. Rather than trying to catch them by the tail, once we successfully occupy the lunar city, there's no need to outwit them. Our goal then will be the stars and the sea!"

"..."

For some reason, when SU heard Freya talk about the stars and the sea, he thought of FU. As childhood friends, he had heard similar words from her countless times.

Statements such as "Our goal is the stars and the sea" and "The stars in the sky are all enemies" may not be entirely wrong in retrospect.

521. A girl named Penglai Si Jiuxiao possesses the potential to change the world.

The stars in the sky are all enemies... With the Milky Way and the universe as the targets of future exploration, the alliance will inevitably establish various relationships with extraterrestrial life.

The stars in the sky may have allies fighting against the Honkai, but more likely they are enemies fighting against each other.

In particular, the alien race currently known as the 'People from the Sky' is destined to be an enemy of the Alliance.

Hours later, on the far side of the moon, a battle for control of Previous Civilization city is about to erupt.

Bianca Durandal Atagina, the frontline commander, stood at the head of the column with her vice-commander, Sophia.

"Sophia? How is everyone else?"

"No problem. The space-based armor has been tested and there won't be any situation where excessive force causes it to break free from the moon's gravity."

At this point, Sophia was speechless. She remembered that a few days ago, several Valkyrie hadn't changed into their space-themed armor and had instead been jumping around outside the base, eventually turning themselves into space drifting objects.

Fortunately, the Valkyrie now physically strong and can survive in a vacuum for a relatively long time, thus holding out until Freya's rescue.

"Although the Valkyrie and Fusion Warrior can now move around in space, they will inevitably have difficulty moving without the assistance of specialized equipment."

Bianca, wearing her own world-class armor, scratched her cheek. Her own armor could move in the Imaginary Space and the Sea of Quantum, so she naturally didn't encounter this situation.

Space is not as complex as Imaginary Space and the Sea of Quantum, not to mention that after she is equipped with world-class armor, she can move around in Imaginary Space and the Sea of Quantum as if she were swimming.

Of course, the abilities of her world-class armor are different from those of her counterpart in the parallel world, perhaps due to the direction of her growth. In any case, her world-class armor, which Freya jokingly calls the 'Golden Cloth,' is specialized in the ability to roam through space.

It has been specialized in both penetrating space and moving through Imaginary Space and the Sea of Quantum.

In addition to the inherent characteristics of the World Bubble, SU also helped her integrate the power of the Holy Sword Durandal. SU spent a lot of time adjusting this World-class armor for Bianca, and naturally added some functions of the Second Divine Key to it. Bianca's World-class armor can be regarded as half of the Second Divine Key.

After that, Freya jokingly called SU 'Aries', but Bianca had no idea why.