Chapter 469
Without affecting the main plan to modify the spaceship, Tesla only 'borrowed' a tiny bit of materials and a large amount of 'unnecessary' materials, and slightly changed the priority of a certain modification. This is why her 'crudely made' huge decisive weapon was able to be completed before several other spaceships.
However, the Welt Unit 1 has many problems. The biggest problem is insufficient firepower. For example, Einstein is currently in charge of operating the Welt Unit 1, although he is not a professional pilot of giant robots, also suffers from this fear of insufficient firepower.
The Welt Unit 1 only has one weapon called the Honkai Particle Hyper Railgun; its other means of attack is to use its sturdy 'little fists' to punch the enemy.
The massive weapon that had been in the lead since its debut, although it didn't fall down quickly like other Titan Mech in the fight against Honkai Beast, had its armor, which Tesla was so proud of, become pitted and its head was missing a large part.
Although the monitors for the Welt Unit 1 were not located on its head, the loss of most of its head increased the difficulty of controlling the Welt Unit 1.
Once the Honkai Beast gained intelligence, they no longer relied solely on brute force to determine victory. Instead, they gradually changed, learning not only how to utilize tactics and terrain but also how to make good use of their agile bodies.
"Einstein, how is she?"
"Yes, Welt Unit 1 is about to be defeated."
"W-What?!"
Tesla looked at the monitor screen in front of Einstein, at the massive weapon of war about to fall, and felt a sudden, suffocating pain.
"I think you should add more weapons next time, or add more combat methods."
Einstein sounded like both a complaint and a rational suggestion.
In the scene, the giant weapon of final battle Welt Unit 1, was almost besieged by all the Humanoid Honkai Beast on the battlefield. The scene was extremely tragic, and Tesla let out a scream like an animal on the verge of death.
This is probably similar to the situation of a figure collector seeing several cabinets of their figures smashed.
Meanwhile, before Tesla could return to the lab, Freya teleported to Kevin's side.
She naturally saw the 'enemy' she had anticipated, and there were also some Humanoid Honkai Beast manipulating the flow of time in the shadows. Freya was affected as soon as she stepped into them, and the already insufficient time became even more tense due to the passage of time.
Freya had no time to introduce herself to Mei and Himeko, who were holding Kevin back. As soon as she appeared, she took out the Herrscher's Spear the Void and launched an attack.
The Humanoid Honkai Beast manipulates the flow of time was the first to be severely injured, followed by Mei and Himeko being forced to stay away from Kevin.
"Freya?"
As time returned to normal, Kevin immediately noticed the change in the sky.
Or perhaps his attention was so focused on Mei and Himeko that he overlooked things he would normally notice.
"You big idiot, you've been tricked by FU."
"No, they are indeed Mei and Himeko."
Kevin knew what Freya was referring to, and he immediately retorted, which made Freya raise her eyebrows in annoyance.
"Are you blind? The two guys in front of you, except for their heads, no, except for their faces, are made of Honkai Beast flesh and blood. They are Humanoid Honkai Beast, no different from the Humanoid Honkai Beast we encountered before with heads of Rush-class Honkai Beast, Ice Boars, and Big Carapaces."
"That's not what I meant. Their bodies are indeed Honkai Beast, but they..."
"You mean souls? Sorry, I didn't sense any souls in them. Perhaps someone just created them using some soul information. Look, the Miss Kallen in our base is almost exactly the same as the original Miss Kallen. Her soul is made up of fragments of the original soul pieced together, her body is the original body that has been preserved for hundreds of years, and her memories were collected in a special way. But that bastard bishop still didn't admit that she was Kallen."
Freya said this while grabbing Kevin by the back of his collar. She didn't have time to waste words on this guy who had suddenly gone mad.
"Of course, if you insist that she is Mei, then wait until we take FU down, then you can take her to bed and talk to her slowly. The Kaslana Family tradition is 'to talk things out in bed'."
After Freya finished speaking, she took Kevin directly for space teleportation. Mei and Himeko, who were left behind, looked at each other and really didn't know where to start complaining.
The most crucial question is whether the Kaslana Family has such a strange tradition?
Mei tilted her head, full of doubt.
On the other side, Kevin, who had been dragged along by Freya to another location in mid-air, asked a question.
"Does my Kaslana family have such a tradition?"
Yes, there are.
Freya spouted nonsense with her eyes wide open, while gathering Honkai Energy to create a foothold in the air. But Kevin found it quite reasonable. If the person he was confronting was indeed Mei, then taking her to bed and talking to her slowly... no, finding an opportunity to talk to her slowly was indeed the right solution.
Kevin was almost led astray, shook off Freya's hand that was holding the back of his combat uniform collar with a speechless expression.
"Leaving aside your disregard for the Kaslana Family traditions, thank you this time. FU knows me too well. He knows that to deal with me, I don't need too many powerful enemies. All I need to do is have Mei appear in front of me, even if it's just an illusion, to hold me back."
Kevin shook his head, looked around, and asked.
"Where is this? Why are we stuck in mid-air? That crashed airship..."
Before Kevin could finish speaking, Freya showed a heartbroken expression.
The Alliance is truly impoverished right now. With resources tied up, they can only use the resources the Alliance has stored up in the past. To modify a single spaceship, they even have to dismantle two or three airships.
One of the Alliance's current airships is roughly equivalent to one-third of its future spaceships.
"That's our airship. Siegfried, Kiana, and Shiola are all fine. Kiana is capable of protecting them. If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have wasted any more words... I could have just taken you away."
Upon hearing Freya's words, Kevin instinctively imagined himself being taken away like that, and to avoid such a situation from happening in the future, he immediately retorted.
"It's not a matter of a few seconds. The key is that Siegfried is too weak. If he could hold out for a few more minutes, it would be enough for you to get here and I would have spotted them."
"..."
Freya felt that Kevin was shifting the blame, but Kevin also had a point. She hadn't wasted too much time. If there was any time lost, it was the time she was in the area affected by the special Humanoid Honkai Beast's ability, which was more than just a few minutes.
But if we're really talking about responsibility, Freya thinks Kevin, who was tricked and didn't even notice the change in the flow of time, should be held responsible.
In the end, she just glared at Kevin and said nothing more. Kevin, the number one brute, was necessary to thwart FU's plan.
She used teleportation again, this time transferring herself and Kevin to the ground.
Freya and Kevin immediately knew why the airship had been shot down. Standing in front of Kiana and Siegfried was Cecilia in Humanoid Honkai Beast form.
It must be said that the pure white bodysuit with the Holy Lily pattern, combined with Cecilia's beauty, does indeed affect someone's combat ability.
Although someone already possessed Cecilia's remnant consciousness from the Black Abyss White Flower version, and in recent years had even transferred consciousness to give Cecilia a clone body, Freya suspected that Siegfried would be unable to resist the allure of the Humanoid Honkai Beast version of Cecilia.
Yes, she thinks that's quite possible.
However, Siegfried was not the one truly affected; this slap in the face came very unexpectedly.
"Kiana, she's not your mother, stand up..."
Freya and Kevin, who were approaching, immediately saw the girl kneeling on the ground, devoid of any will to fight, like a helpless young animal in the biting cold wind.
549. Mom, please tell Fu for me that I've remembered this grudge.
Just as Otto could not truly revive Kallen no matter how much he pleaded, Kiana knew that the mother in the base was just an imposter pieced together from a remnant consciousness and a clone's body.
Kiana doesn't reject this kind of mother, or rather, that kind of attitude is more in line with Cecilia's ending.
She protected her husband with her own life, and she accepted death without any regrets.
If it weren't for their reluctance to part with Kiana and Siegfried, the remaining consciousness that remained in the Black Abyss White Flower wouldn't have accepted the clone's body.
In her view, her life had already ended, and she had no regrets; she was merely a consciousness on the verge of extinction.
However, with Freya's attachment first and Kiana's pleas to stay, she ultimately couldn't resist the temptation to live with her family.
When Cecilia revived as Humanoid Honkai Beast and stood in front of Kiana and Siegfried, it had a significant impact on the two of them.
The first to react was Siegfried. He didn't believe his wife would be an enemy of him and Kiana, so he immediately concluded that Cecilia in front of him was an imposter.
Cecilia, who was fighting him and Kiana, did not admit that she was an imposter, but she did admit in a very fake way that she was the real Cecilia Schariac.
Such a somewhat fake performance could not possibly fool everyone present, but it caused Siegfried and Kiana an even greater shock.
Only the real Cecilia would admit to being an imposter in such a setting. However, directly admitting to being an imposter would easily expose her as the real Cecilia. Therefore, she deliberately claimed to be the real Cecilia and then intentionally used her less-than-stellar acting skills to mislead people into thinking she was the imposter.
Kiana's emotions collapsed in an instant, forcing Siegfried to fight with all his might, ultimately causing the airship to crash.
"Kiana, she's not your mother. You see, if she were, I wouldn't have attacked her so violently!"
Kiana wasn't the one who suffered the most from fighting Cecilia, but Siegfried had to endure the pain as he attacked Cecilia, who stood in his way.
The Greatsword of Heavenly Fire in his hand clashed with the white spear in the opponent's hand several times in an instant. Taking advantage of the opponent's sudden pause, Siegfried did not hesitate to slash the Greatsword of Heavenly Fire into the opponent's armor.
The hard armor was sliced open like butter on a hot knife, and Cecilia's shoulder was also cleaved open at the same time, causing Siegfried's tears to stream down his face.
"My dear, it really is Cecilia."
With tears streaming down her face, Cecilia did not hesitate to plunge the white spear in her hand into Siegfried's shoulder.
But at this moment, Siegfried really couldn't hesitate. He knew that the Cecilia in front of him was the real Cecilia, but he couldn't show it in front of Kiana.
However, the more intense the battle became between the two, the more pain Kiana felt. How could she not understand her father's worries, how could she not understand her mother's state of mind? She knew what the consequences would be if her emotions collapsed.
Cecilia's purpose in appearing here was not to stop Siegfried and Kiana; simply by appearing in front of Kiana, she had already achieved the Honkai Consciousness's objective.
Whether it's Siegfried fighting Cecilia or Kiana fighting Cecilia, as long as Cecilia dies again in the end, it will cause Kiana to lose control and go berserk.
Freya was glad she returned at the right time; otherwise, she would have regretted it for the rest of her life. If the fighting had continued, Siegfried or Cecilia would have died, Kiana would have definitely broken down.
She acknowledged that the Cecilia in the base was her mother, but she also knew that the Cecilia in front of her was the real Cecilia.
Although she didn't know how the Honkai Consciousness did it, it did somehow resurrect Cecilia and the others as Humanoid Honkai Beast.
"We should go, Kiana, Father..."
Freya used short-range spatial teleportation to appear behind Kiana. Then, she gritted her teeth and threw a spear formed from Herrscher power at Cecilia. Countless invisible arms extended from the spatial passage behind her.
Imaginary claws, formed from the Imaginary Power, swiftly seized Kiana, Siegfried, Shiola, and the others who had escaped from the airship.
Although there were quite a few people, with Aurora assisting in the calculations at the base, Freya quickly teleported everyone present, along with Kevin was in the distance, back to the Alliance before finally stepping into the spatial portal.
Although Kiana and Siegfried struggled fiercely, they were ultimately dragged into the spatial tunnel by a large number of imaginary claws.
Before leaving, Freya wanted to teleport Cecilia back with her, so she raised her hand but quickly lowered it again.
"Mom, please tell Fu for me that I've remembered this grudge."
"Freya, I'm entrusting Kiana and Siegfried to your care."
Cecilia had barely finished speaking when she exploded like a lit firework.
The reason she attacked Siegfried so desperately was to die at Siegfried hands as an imposter, just so Kiana wouldn't see it.
This was the last bit of time Cecilia had managed to buy through her relentless resistance.
Siegfried clearly understood Cecilia's thoughts, but he ultimately overestimated his resolve. Instead of using the flaw Cecilia deliberately revealed to kill her, he made Kiana even more convinced that she was the real Cecilia.
"We will meet again..."
Fortunately, Kiana and Siegfried had already been pulled into the spatial passage, so they didn't witness such a cruel scene, but Freya knew that this was not the end.
Cecilia will inevitably reappear in the form of Humanoid Honkai Beast.
Freya also secretly remembered this grudge. She was a very vengeful person, and this grudge would not be forgotten for at least a hundred years.
"Freya, why didn't you bring your mother back too?"
Freya had just passed through the spatial passage when she was confronted by Kiana's questioning. Seeing the girl who had suddenly approached her and grabbed her collar, she sighed softly.
"I'm sorry, Kiana."
If Kiana's irrational roar hadn't brought her back to her senses, Freya would have been the one to lose her mind.
Kiana didn't see Cecilia's fate, but Freya witnessed it firsthand.
Cecilia's death was also a huge blow to Freya.
She is the backup vessel for the Herrscher of Finality, and she has a mental link with Kiana. If she loses control of her emotions, it could potentially cause Kiana to collapse as well.
Freya was relieved that Kiana was even more irrational than she was this time. She gently patted Kiana's shoulder, then hugged the girl in front of her who was crying her eyes out.
The fact that someone as strong as Kiana could become so vulnerable clearly shows that she understands everything.
Although she didn't have the same chemistry as Cecilia and Siegfried, Kiana, having experienced the Finality, naturally understood Cecilia's state at that time.
That's why she couldn't do anything; she knew very well that if she took any action, her mother would die in front of her.
Freya whispered words of comfort to Kiana. She knew there wasn't much time left, but she simply couldn't bear to leave Kiana like this.
"Freya, leave her to me..."
At this moment, Cecilia in the base was teleported to the ward by Aurora from the future.
Although she didn't understand what had happened, Cecilia knew her daughter was crying, and as a mother, it was her responsibility to comfort the injured cub.