Chapter 503
Seeing Aurora looking exhausted in the giant sensing device on the communication screen, Freya knew that Aurora probably hadn't left that sensing device since the interdimensional communication network was successfully established.
Aurora is clearly working hard in her own way. She knows the risks of keeping cross-border communication networks open, and even if the risks are not high, Aurora does not want any accidents to happen.
This younger sister, whom she was incredibly proud of, had never disappointed her.
"Sister Tesla, if that is Aurora's will, then we don't need to interfere with her. We just need to continue to trust her."
"Of course I believe in Aurora."
Tesla replied with a proud expression.
She was clearly more suitable than anyone else to be Aurora's mother, even though Cecilia was Aurora's mother by blood. But at this moment, she looked at Tesla with admiration.
"Tesla is a good mother."
"Suddenly I feel that entrusting Tesla to Welt was a bit of a waste."
"Einstein, you can't say that. Perhaps it was because of Welt that Tesla became a good mother."
Cecilia's exclamation resonated with Einstein, but Planck nearby, had a different opinion.
After all, the decades-long love affair between Tesla and Welt... or rather, between Tesla and Joachim's younger brother can be described as a case of 'filial piety turning sour' and 'motherly love turning sour'.
Freya nodded slightly, finding it particularly reasonable, as she and Rita were in a similar situation.
"Once we've locked onto the coordinates of this world, we'll send our troops over as soon as possible. By the way, how far along is the modification of the movement module?"
Then Freya inquired about something else.
"To enable cross-dimensional teleportation of mobile modules, we have accelerated the construction of the outer shell and teleportation device, but the residential area will take time..."
Einstein calmly gave his report, his eyes also showing a hint of longing for Tesla.
In a few days, the Abyss Civilization will send troops to be stationed in that parallel world, and Welt Joyce will then belong to the Moon Civilization.
"The residential area? It's been several months now, are the survivors getting used to it?"
"It's hard to say. Many survivors are still in a state of mental breakdown, and many young children are emotionally unstable because they witnessed their parents being killed."
Upon hearing Freya's question, Theresa looked somewhat ashamed and replied.
Freya entrusted the management of the Moon Civilization and the Alliance to her, but several months later, she still hadn't been able to resolve these issues.
"It's alright, that kind of injury is hard to heal even with time."
Freya said with a wry smile.
More than half a month later, when Freya asked Theresa the same question again, even though Freya already knew the answer, she still felt pain.
In fact, Freya herself consciously avoided the survivors of the Moon Civilization.
Perhaps some people think that the alliance deserves praise for doing everything it could to save more than ten million survivors, but Freya believes that their alliance has completely failed in its duty.
If it was the Schicksal that Freya and Theresa had just inherited, after Bishop Otto left, it would become the property of the Apolcalis Family, a private group belonging to Freya and Theresa.
Whether Freya continues to make Schicksal an international charitable organization or a private armed organization, it can only follow Freya and Theresa's ideas.
However, Freya and Theresa only wanted to use the Schicksal to protect important people and more innocent people, which led to the alliance between the Schicksal and the Anti-Entropy Organization.
Once the alliance, this community of shared interests, was established, it also meant that the organization was no longer a one-man show by the Apolcalis Family.
Freya was happy to relinquish her authority and focus her energy on scientific research, while Theresa, due to her personal charisma, gained everyone's support and became the most suitable leader.
After the World Serpent Organization also joined the Alliance, the Alliance, formed by the three major organizations fighting against the Honkai, is the tallest on this planet. If the sky were to fall, they would naturally be the ones to hold it up.
As a result, they spent a lot of time scheming against the World Security Council. Freya herself was also worried about leaving a bad impression on the Valkyrie, so she did not use her brainwashing ability, which made the problem that could have been easily solved drag on until FU managed to survive and make a comeback.
If she were more ruthless and decisive, and conquered the world sooner, she would have had plenty of time to find FU and Mei's first base.
Although Kevin thought this was wishful thinking, Freya did indeed bear a great deal of responsibility for that crushing defeat.
Freya had always thought the saying "With great power comes great responsibility" was utterly ridiculous, but now that she was in a position where her every word and action could influence hundreds of millions of people, Freya suddenly realized that the saying was very true.
Ability is not a powerful force, but rather the ability to influence others, including but not limited to power and money; for this reason, the sense of responsibility that individuals need is even more important. Responsibility is not something that an individual is obligated to do, but rather a sense of responsibility for one's own power.
The phrase "With great power comes great responsibility" is easily used by others to morally blackmail people, but in Freya's eyes, it is more appropriate to interpret it as meaning that she should have as much responsibility as she has for her abilities.
Freya, as one of the Seven Archons of the Alliance and the protector of the Valkyrie, failed to fulfill the responsibilities of her position.
Freya felt guilty for failing to fulfill her responsibilities in her duties.
In fact, Freya prefers to keep the Valkyrie she cares about alive rather than fight against the Honkai.
Perhaps it was because she achieved this goal that she became lazy.
"In a few days, the Abyss Civilization will send out its troops, and that day will be our last chance to lock onto that world."
Freya was confident that locking onto the world's coordinates on that day would have a 100% success rate, but it would also allow the Abyss Civilization to discover their ulterior motives.
Although the Abyss Civilization and the Moon Civilization will not go to war for the time being, Freya has never believed that the Abyss Civilization and the Moon Civilization can get along peacefully.
The joint struggle against the People from the Sky Civilization itself is also another war between the Moon Civilization and the Abyss Civilization.
While Freya was exchanging information with her companions from the original world, Raiden Mei and Carole, who had returned to the Schicksal, a certain male Valkyrie, Welt and his adopted son also reported on their experiences in Saint-Fontaine.
Bishop Theresa redeployed a team of Valkyrie to guard outside Saint-Fontaine and immediately requested support from Freya.
The Schicksal lost a large number of combatants in the final battle and is now facing a severe shortage of manpower, which is why the Valkyrie squad includes Carole, who is still a student.
Freya agreed to Bishop Theresa's request. Unlike her plan to conquer the Abyss Civilization of this parallel world, Freya intended to unite the civilizations on this planet through other means.
The construction of the Quantized Valkyrie can accelerate the revival, but the development of technology will still bring about an increase in Honkai Energy. In fact, the Honkai Energy that was originally gradually disappearing over time is now showing signs of recovery.
Of course, 99 percent of the Honkai Energy on the entire planet is sealed on the moon. Even if the Honkai Energy increases again now, it cannot surpass the speed of technological development in a short period of time.
In just a few days, with the help of the Quantized Valkyrie, an automated defensive fortress was built around Saint-Fontaine.
Due to a shortage of manpower and limited funds, Bishop Theresa was unable to deploy troops in the weak points of the energy barrier surrounding Saint-Fontaine. Although she was eager to obtain the method for creating the Valkyrie of Construction, she also knew that there was no pure friendship between the two civilizations, and it was impossible to exchange such an important technology without equivalent benefits.
Freya can have the Valkyrie specializing in construction help Schicksal speed up the construction of some buildings, but she cannot reveal the methods of creating the Valkyrie to Bishop Theresa.
In reality, only Freya, Jackal, Einstein, and Theresa know the method for creating Valkyrie of the Construction type.
With the knowledge of the Honkai Side provided by Freya, Jackal and Einstein, one focusing on biological enhancement and the other on rules, created a new type of Valkyrie. As for Theresa, although she did not play a crucial role in the birth of the construction-type Valkyrie, she was the supreme commander of the Valkyrie and naturally had the right to know.
The construction-type Valkyrie were created to improve efficiency, especially during the Moon Civilization's conquest of parallel worlds, where they will play a crucial role in Valkyrie support.
Even so, Bishop Theresa had her share of troubles. As an observer, Freya felt the pain she herself had experienced through Bishop Theresa.
First, an intelligence leak occurred within the Schicksal, causing most of the world to know that a group of enemies were targeting the seal on the moon. If these enemies succeeded, the Honkai would once again descend upon this world.
This caused widespread panic among the public, with some even taking to the streets and protesting across the sea against the Schicksal for failing to fulfill its responsibilities by not using its full strength to storm Saint-Fontaine.
Although Freya felt it wasn't appropriate to gloat at this time, Bishop Theresa had many similarities to the Theresa she knew, which made Freya subconsciously think of Theresa, who was always buried in a lot of documents, much of which Freya had pushed onto her.
Of course, Freya felt that she had not done enough, but in the eyes of others, Freya had already fulfilled her duty by providing knowledge about Honkai, but she had taken on too many responsibilities that were not hers.
The girl who scoffed at the saying "With great power comes great responsibility" in her heart was actually more committed to it than anyone else.
The girl who felt she was unfit to be Saintess was always seen as the most benevolent Saintess by others.
Although Freya did her best to help Bishop Theresa deal with the problem, Saint-Fontaine's energy barrier was not so easy to break. In the final battle, all the military bases of various countries were paralyzed, and various tactical missiles and wide-area weapons of mass destruction were aimed at their respective territories the moment the Herrscher of Corruption descended.
Compared to the Herrscher of a Thousand, the Herrscher of Corruption uses her corrosive abilities to control the weapons of various countries, causing far greater destruction to the world, not to mention the final sealing war.
In many countries that are recovering, incidents of vandalism and destruction have occurred. With these countries lacking even the military to maintain basic order, governments have turned to Bishop Theresa of the Schicksal for help.
During the restoration work, these national governments gave Bishop Theresa a lot of trouble. In their view, the Schicksal, which still had several Floating Battleship, was too dangerous. Such military power should be in the hands of world governments, not in the hands of a little girl.
Given that the Schicksal itself is already short-handed, it is naturally impossible for Bishop Theresa to spare any more manpower to help various countries. This is not because Bishop Theresa is unwilling, but because the Schicksal no longer has the capacity to do so.
Before Bishop Theresa could finish dealing with these troubles, Freya, as if adding insult to injury, told her even worse news.
—The Abyss Civilization has arrived.
588. Luckily, I brought some men with me, so I might as well finish you off right here.
This is indeed bad news.
In reality, not many people within the Schicksal knew that Freya and the others came from a parallel world, let alone knew much about the Abyss Civilization.
Freya and her group built a base in a city next to the Schicksal, which was also not widely known.
On the one hand, there was no one in the neighboring city, and on the other hand, the higher-ups of the Schicksal intentionally concealed their information.
While the Schicksal chose to conceal information to avoid causing unrest, few people knew about the arrival of the Abyss Civilization.
When a large number of humanoid Honkai Beast descended upon this world, Welt Joyce, the leader, looked at the girl in front of him with a mixture of surprise and joy.
Yes, when the Abyss Civilization chose to teleport to this world, Aurora successfully locked onto the coordinates of this world.
The Abyss Civilization sent a large number of humanoid Honkai Beast to this world, Freya also sent some people to this world.
Once Aurora or Freya can lock onto the world coordinates, it means that the two of them can freely teleport people and items to this parallel world.
The first group of invaders from the Abyss Civilization were greeted by none other than one of their top researchers and eighty Quantized Valkyrie.
"Einstein?"
Welt Joyce never expected Einstein to be in this world. Although he would become a member of the Moon Civilization after arriving in this parallel world, based on Freya and FU's previous conditions, the girl who appeared before him was indeed the object of his longing.
Welt shouted with an excited tone, as if he couldn't control his voice.
What are you doing here?!
Welt, who has lost his Herrscher Authority and only bears the title of 'Humanoid Honkai Beast of Reason Human', is actually not much different from an ordinary person transformed into a humanoid Honkai Beast.
Of course, if the Abyss Civilization Humanoid Honkai Beast Civilization were more like half-human, half- Honkai Beast, half-orc figures, then the humanoid Honkai Beast living in the Abyss Civilization now only have one characteristic: very white skin. Otherwise, they are basically no different from humans.
Seeing Welt Joyce's pale face, Einstein was heartbroken.
Although the current Welt Joyce is not much different from the original one, except for his abnormally pale skin and loss of the power of the Herrscher of Reason, Einstein cannot help but think of those who sacrificed themselves because of Otto whenever he thinks of the Battle of New York.
This includes Welt Yang—the father of Joachim's younger brother.
The Battle of New York claimed too many lives, and the sacrifices of Nancy and Welt Joyce are something the elders of the Anti-Entropy organization will never forget.
"Welcome home."
Einstein knew Freya's terms of exchange with FU, so after Aurora locked onto the coordinates of this world, she volunteered to join the first group of smugglers.
It's important to know that this smuggling team wasn't just Quantized Valkyrie; it also included many Valkyrie themselves and researchers who directly arrived in this parallel world to fill the empty frontline base.
Of course, Einstein's presence here with 80 Quantized Valkyrie might have been partly an attempt to ambush the first transmigrators of the Abyss Civilization.
Since FU is the Honkai Consciousness of the original world, it is difficult for it to cross worlds. Only by causing significant damage to a world can it invade that world and assimilate the Honkai Consciousness of that world.
In FU's plan, the conquest of the heavens was to strengthen the Abyss Civilization. Once the Abyss Civilization was strong enough, it could violently destroy parallel worlds, thereby severely damaging the Honkai Consciousness of those worlds. It would then take advantage of the Honkai Consciousness to invade.
In name, this is assistance from the Honkai Consciousness of another world. However, the rules do not prohibit the Honkai Consciousness that provides assistance from eroding the Honkai Consciousness of that world.
FU is clearly adept at exploiting loopholes; he knows many underlying rules and has enough time and patience to slowly implement his plan.
It has to be said that this BOSS is extremely troublesome.
This is also why Freya abandoned her original world.
Freya originally intended to terraform the moon to create a planetary spaceship, but considering the situation in her original world, even if she created a planetary spaceship, she would not be able to avoid being constantly pursued by FU.
However, after Freya discovered content related to Honkai Consciousness in the Honkai knowledge she acquired, she suddenly realized that FU, as Honkai Consciousness, did not possess the ability to travel between worlds.
Or rather, as a Honkai Consciousness of a world, it has the authority to manage all the Honkai in that world's universe, not just the Honkai that is constantly entangled with Earth, but also the Honkai that originated from civilizations several star systems away, all of which are under FU's jurisdiction.
This means that the Moon Civilization, which is neighbors with the Abyss Civilization, is far from safe.
Who knows if FU will pretend that everyone is getting along well while secretly Planetary Honkai Beast from a star system hundreds of trillions of light-years away.
Don't forget that there is a Planetary Honkai Beast on Earth, which was attracted to that planet for some inexplicable reason.
Of course, even if FU cannot travel to parallel worlds, his most troublesome aspect is his cunning, not his powerful combat ability. Even if he stays in his original world, he can still contact troops that have arrived in parallel worlds.
Therefore, in Freya's view, transferring to another world is the most correct choice. Her goal is not just to transfer 1,200 people, but to send all 12 million people of the current Moon Civilization to this world and establish a new civilization of their own in this world.
At this moment, Einstein couldn't help but look Welt Joyce up and down.
"So that's why you're so weak. It turns out Freya guessed just right. Apart from Himeko's outstanding fighting ability, the others in your knock-off Espada are quite ordinary, especially you. You're just an empty shell."
The 'Reason Human Honkai Beast Reason' is just an ordinary person, except that its skin is a little pale.
Einstein didn't bother arguing with Welt Joyce.
In her opinion, whether Welt Joyce has power or not is completely unimportant now.