Chapter 460
After all, Fu Hua only used that Dream Deep Dive Device twice.
To others, Fu Hua's first use turned her into Herrscher, and her second use landed her in the emergency room shortly afterward, making her a definite cursed item.
Freya rolled her eyes at the Jackal, annoyed.
"You still have the nerve to call yourself a researcher? You actually believe in this kind of idealistic stuff?"
"..."
Faced with a 'boss' who uses idealism to rewrite reality, Jackal opened his mouth, feeling that things were really too difficult for him.
537. Let me seek the truth of this world.
Regardless of whether the Dream Deep Dive Device is cursed, Freya must make the necessary preparations if she wants to enter the dream realm of Penglai Si Jiuxiao.
Users with consciousness-based abilities can invade the consciousness and dreams of others, but without the aid of equipment, their own consciousness is completely unprepared.
You can invade other people's consciousness, but your own consciousness is also very likely to be eroded by others.
If Freya were to invade the dream of Penglai Si Jiuxiao without any precautions, she might be Honkai Energy. Even though she has strong Honkai Energy, the resistance of a consciousness has its limits.
The reason for using the Dream Deep Dive device is precisely for safety reasons.
Freya immediately instructed the Jackal to prepare the dream-deep diving device, while she gave Penglai Si Jiuxiao a brief physical examination.
"As expected, the dream has been corrupted by Honkai Energy..."
Looking at the girl on the operating table, whose body was covered in purple stripes and whose skin had turned light purple, Freya made her judgment.
In a sense, Penglai Si Jiuxiao is indeed dead; her bodily functions have almost ceased.
However, her consciousness remained active, which allowed the medical Valkyrie to awaken the life response of Penglai Si Jiuxiao.
To use a game analogy, Penglai Si Jiuxiao's current state is like a game character whose health bar is empty. However, due to her distorted will, it's as if the game is lagging, and giving the empty health bar a healing potion will restore it.
No matter how many healing potions Penglai Si Jiuxiao was given, her health bar continued to drop to zero.
"Willpower exceeding limits, this... should be the fourth one."
It is undoubtedly very difficult to distort reality with one's own will, but once the will succeeds in distorting reality, it can turn the impossible into the possible and the non-existent into the existent.
Freya had many feelings. In her mind, Fu Hua and SU had always been candidates for exceeding the limit of willpower. Now Fu Hua had indeed exceeded the limit of willpower, but she had encountered an enemy who was also somewhat troublesome for those with the limit of willpower.
Freya had already guessed what Fu Hua had encountered in her own consciousness space.
However, SU's consciousness power has never been able to be transformed into willpower. Not to mention exceeding the limit of willpower, she has not even reached the edge of exceeding the limit. On the contrary, Valkyrie, including Bianca, are standing on the edge of exceeding the limit of willpower.
"Unfortunately, Kiana and Aurora stupid."
Freya didn't have much to complain about regarding her older and younger sisters.
Ultimately, the threshold for willpower to surpass its limits is very high, but for some people, there is no threshold at all.
In fact, the children Freya secretly adopts every year, even if they are just ordinary people, all possess a will that is close to breaking through the limits.
Their condition almost perfectly embodies the meaning of the phrase "disabled but determined".
Unfortunately, having a strong will is not enough to distort reality with willpower; it can only be said that they are indeed more likely to reach the limit of willpower than ordinary people.
"Heaven is about to bestow a great responsibility upon this person..."
Upon seeing the face of the Penglai Si Jiuxiao, Freya murmured a traditional Shenzhou proverb.
She discovered that Penglai Si Jiuxiao's will exceeding its limit was not without reason. He met many of the conditions to be the protagonist, his dream was connected to a parallel world, and the Honkai Energy seeping from the dream also made her sense that the parallel world was extraordinary.
This situation greatly helped Freya summarize the system of will.
Freya did use other training methods to cultivate Valkyrie with strong willpower systems; it's just that she used almost every method she could think of.
Of course, she was reluctant to use some of the more cruel methods, but many members of the Dark Rose Squad met this condition.
After all, the members of the Dark Rose Squad, apart from those Deadman were infected by Freya's Honkai Energy, were terminally ill children secretly taken in by Freya.
With a mortality rate of nearly 80%, Freya transformed half of the terminally ill children into Artificial Herrscher.
Although these Artificial Herrscher possess only secondary powers, such as the Tenth Divine Key which only controls a portion of the energy, they are still the main force of the Dark Rose Squad. The children who survived without becoming Artificial Herrscher possess exceptional willpower, but due to their increasingly frail bodies, many can only perform clerical work.
Freya did not spare her care; rather, she gave hope to these terminally ill patients who would otherwise have been left to sit and wait to die or lie down and wait to die, thus changing their lives.
However, Freya's cruelest act was to subject terminally ill children with already fragile bodies to Artificial Herrscher modifications. This did indeed result in a small number of children not surviving the modifications. Even though Freya tried her best to reverse reality, several children did not survive, and the remaining modified failures became Deadman.
In fact, Freya was also looking for a way to turn the Deadman back into humans, but neither this world nor another parallel world was suitable as the site for this experiment.
You have to understand that just by conducting research on things like the consciousness world and the Key of Reason in parallel worlds, she had to brainwash and control the people in that parallel world, almost exhausting the resources of that world.
The two who returned to the parallel world have already begun work on landing on the moon, and after establishing a stable space channel between the Alliance and the parallel world, they frequently seek funding from the Alliance.
Frankly, this is one of the reasons why the league suddenly became poor.
So forget about research on turning Deadman back into humans; even Freya's own research on creating Valkyrie a willpower system had to be postponed due to funding shortages and other issues.
Freya instructed the medical Valkyrie beside her to continue the treatment and arranged for one of the medical Valkyrie to record the physical data and consciousness fluctuations of Penglai Si Jiuxiao. She felt that the data provided by Penglai Si Jiuxiao could accelerate her research progress on the will system.
"Lord Freya, you are ready."
"Alright, if there are any abnormalities, immediately shut down the Dream Deep Dive device."
"Yes!"
"Clear."
Upon hearing the Valkyrie' reply, Freya immediately went to the next room and lay down in a special life support pod.
"Lord Freya, I'm ready to activate the device."
"Jackal, if anything happens, remember to discuss it with Aurora first. The mental link between us sisters is very special, and she can keep track of my mental state at any time."
"Yes, Lord Freya."
Jackal didn't say much, nodded vigorously, and then activated the Dream Deep Dive Device.
For Freya, this was probably an experience similar to a VR game.
Soon, her consciousness crossed a passage and invaded the dream of Penglai Si Jiuxiao.
Standing amidst the ruins, Freya gazed at a spiral-shaped tower in the distance, the dark clouds obscuring the sky exuding a suffocating heaviness.
"... Let me seek the truth of this world."
538. We're doomed! We've been outmaneuvered!
Just as Freya used the Dream Deep Dive Device to reach another parallel world in her consciousness form, significant changes occurred on various battlefields of the Alliance.
It was as if the Honkai Consciousness knew that its greatest enemy had left this world, and began to launch a counterattack against the Alliance.
Bianca suddenly frowned. The Honkai Energy currently enveloping the Previous Civilization city was being absorbed in large quantities by the Key of Reason, and the previously controlled occupation had suddenly undergone an anomaly.
The follow-up troops, whose vanguard had been replaced, were instantly pushed back by the Honkai Beast that had been suppressing them. Seeing that the hard-won stable situation was showing signs of collapse, she put on that world-class golden armor once again.
Even Bianca, after a fierce battle, would not be without any depletion.
The Flower Starmap can restore mental energy, but the restoration speed is far slower than the rate at which the Flower Starmap itself is primarily consumed, and the main target of the Flower Starmap's consumption is Bianca.
Noticing that her reactions were a beat slower than normal, Bianca used her willpower to suppress her fatigue.
Although her will has not yet exceeded the limit, she has already shown signs of exceeding the limit.
Bianca, whose condition had instantly recovered, rushed into the center of the battlefield where the anomaly had occurred. There, she saw the elite Honkai Beast had been corrupted by the Herrscher of Finality Honkai Energy beginning to molt.
A large number of Honkai Beast turned to ashes on the spot during the molting process.
However, some Honkai Beast completed their molting process. After shedding their old skin, they appeared in a new form that was the common Humanoid Honkai Beast.
No, they are more like humanoid Humanoid Honkai Beast.
If the Humanoid Honkai Beast of the past were merely 'humanoid' in appearance, simply because their limbs and torso resembled those of a human, then the Humanoid Honkai Beast of today have an appearance that is almost indistinguishable from that of humans.
Dozens of white humanoid creatures with human faces, torsos, and limbs were born.
The moment they were born, they immediately launched an attack on the Valkyrie and Fusion Warrior around them. The powerful attack caught the Valkyrie and Fusion Warrior off guard, which caused the originally stable battle line to show signs of collapse.
The same situation occurred on Earth. With the Valkyrie 'Quantum Body reckless fighting style and the powerful assistance of the Artificial Herrscher, the Alliance finally gained the upper hand, but then this bizarre scene unfolded.
A large number of Humanoid Honkai Beast and Honkai Beast began to molt, and then this Honkai creature, which is more similar to humans, was born.
"What... what is this?"
SU, who was stationed at the Alliance headquarters, couldn't help but feel a chill run down his spine.
He used the Second Divine Key to observe countless worlds, but none of the parallel worlds were like this one.
"You've been tricked, Aurora! Wake up your sister! That Penglai Si Jiuxiao is bait!"
Tesla was shocked as she watched the changes on the battlefield through the screen, but then a flash of inspiration suddenly appeared in her mind.
"Ms. Tesla, what did you say?"
SU asked.
"Let's temporarily name these Honkai Beasts 'Honkai Beastman'. Their appearance still retains most of the characteristics of Honkai Beast, but we won't go into that for now. We also don't know how they were born. However, they should have originally possessed the potential to evolve into this form, but they have been suppressing this evolutionary instinct... Perhaps Freya is the one who is most able to restrain them."
"Freya? Wait a minute, you mean..."
After being reminded by Tesla, SU immediately connected the dots of the current situation and then exclaimed in surprise.
The timing of Penglai Si Jiuxiao's appearance was too coincidental, or rather, her appearance seemed to be deliberately intended to let the Alliance know about the existence of another parallel world.
Within the Alliance, only Freya and Aurora are capable of traversing parallel worlds and returning.
However, Freya is the only person who can enter a parallel world through dreams.
"Freya herself is a backup container for the Herrscher of Finality. Once her consciousness leaves the main body, that is to say, her body is likely to become the next signal tower for the Honkai Consciousness."
Just then, alarms blared like a torrential downpour within the alliance, leaving everyone momentarily speechless due to the seemingly incessant blaring.
Tesla opened her mouth, her gaze falling on the radar screen that suddenly popped up. It was the 'Star's Eye' used by the Alliance to monitor global Honkai reactions. It would sound an alarm whenever a large number of sudden and violent Honkai reactions were detected simultaneously, or when a large number of Honkai reactions were detected migrating, or when the Honkai Energy intensity in a certain area exceeded a certain level...
The former indicates that a large number of Honkai events occurred at the same time, requiring the Alliance to send out rescue teams for emergency treatment and handling; the middle indicates that Honkai Beast in medium to large settlements have moved away from the settlements; and the latter indicates that Herrscher has descended or Judgment-class Honkai Beast has been born.
Although the ocean isolates the Honkai reaction, making it difficult to detect the Honkai reaction on the seabed, most of the medium and large-sized Honkai Beast gathering places have always been under the Alliance's surveillance. This is why the Alliance was able to detect the large number of Honkai Beast attacking the Alliance in the first instance.
After all, once a large number of Honkai Beast leave the gathering place, it will trigger the alarm of the 'Star's Eye'.
However, right now, the radar screen of 'Star's Eye' shows a dense array of red dots.
"The wavelength is red, and it's all Honkai Beast... Australia has fallen, and Europe is being attacked by a large number of Honkai Beast... A large number of suspected Herrscher- level Honkai reactions have been detected."
The young female operator in the command center instinctively carried out her work, but she knew she didn't need to explain anything. Just seeing the densely packed red dots covering the world map was enough to tell her that the situation was terrible, especially Australia, which had been turned completely red.
If the situation on the moon was merely somewhat bad, then the situation on Earth was so bad that even the word "bad" wouldn't do it justice.
Countries were stunned by this sudden situation. A large number of military facilities were damaged, many high-ranking officials were assassinated, and even a few Honkai Beastman appeared in the headquarters of the World Security Council.
Meanwhile, upon hearing Tesla speak, Aurora immediately woke up her second sister, who had entered the parallel world, as requested by her adoptive mother.
Her consciousness entered the mental link with her sister, while Jackal walked to the Dream Deep Dive Device and woke Freya in the simplest way possible—that's right, the disconnection awakening method. She directly disconnected the power cord of the Dream Deep Dive Device.
However, Freya's consciousness did not immediately return to her body.
Aurora, who was trying to transmit information through a mental link, also entered a completely white space in the next moment.
"We're doomed! We've been tricked!"
Looking at the white humanoid figure in front of her, she decisively entered her Finality mode.
She might not be able to win in a fight, but she didn't intend to surrender so easily.
539. If I were still alive, I would truly be sorry.
Aurora, having been tricked, confronts the world's Honkai Consciousness, but Freya's situation is no better.
Freya, who has arrived in a parallel world via the Dream Deep Dive Device, is receiving a warm welcome from that world.
Thunder roared across the sky, and the radiant light of purification descended from heaven.
Freya was blasted several kilometers away and crashed heavily into a ruin. Amidst the billowing smoke and dust, she spat out a few times.