No, besides egging the host on to hook up with rich young ladies, could you do anything else?
No. If I encountered rich lolis or wealthy women, I would egg you on too.
The Prompt Device was remarkably honest.
My purpose was to provide the host with opportunities to get rich. Based on the online information I had gathered from various worlds, the most satisfying way humans believed they could get rich was by latching onto rich young ladies, wealthy women, and rich lolis.
So, wouldn't it be stranger if I didn't encourage you to pursue rich young ladies?
It seemed impossible to refute.
Russell was stunned into silence.
He could not find a single reason to argue back.
"But as things stand, what Megumin needs isn't comfort. She needs a way to resolve the current situation."
Russell shrugged as he spoke.
"At the moment, no one in the group is particularly capable. Maybe we could launch a surprise attack and take out Cocolia? But if we lost people in the fight, wouldn't that be tragic?"
"In my opinion, the tactic we needed now was to play dead."
"Cocolia had lost her best test subject. She needed to search for Megumin, realize that Megumin was truly gone, then choose another experimental subject. That would obviously take time."
"The best way to deal with her was to act as if she didn't exist. During that time, we could improve the group members' combat strength, then come back and twist that old woman's head off."
Russell's thoughts were exceptionally clear.
It feels like you're not giving this your all at all.
The Prompt Device was somewhat suspicious of Russell.
"What are you thinking? I'm just an impoverished mine owner. How could I possibly have the ability to deal with a warlord?"
Russell shrugged, preparing to go back to playing dead and wait for Kiana to take care of this useless member of society.
Beep—Mission issued: Shadow of Changkong City. Defeat the Anti-Entropy radical faction and save Changkong City within three days. Upon completion, automatically obtain Originium sickness inhibitor factory ×1.
Holy shit!
Russell shot to his feet in an instant.
An Originium sickness inhibitor.
Originium sickness was a terminal illness that was extremely difficult to cure.
Only a handful of top medical organizations could suppress it to a certain extent.
The famous Mule Island had relied on its Originium sickness suppression technology to fool a bunch of people into working 007 shifts on the island.
If he could get a factory capable of producing Originium sickness inhibitors, he would definitely make a fortune!
"Ahem, I think people like Cocolia would be better off dead sooner rather than later."
Looking at the suddenly issued mission, the youth wore an expression that said, "Reviving Anti-Entropy's glory is our unshirkable duty."
That was enough already.
If the Prompt Device had a humanoid form, it would definitely be sweating like that yellow bean meme right now.
"It's just that my sense of justice arrived a little late."
Russell coughed and swiftly logged into the group chat.
"I'm thinking about whether I should take Cocolia out."
Take care of Cocolia while he was at it?
Happy Orca did not understand, but she felt it sounded impressive.
She did not know much about the Honkai world's situation. After all, she had not even asked about her own Script.
However, judging from Megumin and Russell's reactions, Cocolia was probably someone deeply connected to a place called Changkong City.
And she was most likely Megumin's enemy.
Happy Orca wanted to learn more about the situation.
But for a moment, she did not know how to speak up—nearly everyone close to her had been hunted down by the Sea Born.
To protect her friends, and to protect her own heart, Skadi had given up socializing.
Having abandoned it for so long, she found it difficult to pick back up again.
She did not show much concern, merely lurking silently on the sidelines.
Yet those words landing in Megumin's ears were no less than an eight-magnitude earthquake.
Russell...
Could he save all of Changkong City?
The Dimensional Meetup Group was a very young group chat.
In truth, the people in the group were not especially familiar with one another—after all, they had known each other for only a short time.
If one had to ask who had left the deepest impression on Megumin during that brief period, it would undoubtedly be Russell.
Though he looked poor and down on his luck, he always managed to pull off something astonishing.
Just as Huihui had said.
Russell gave off the air of a growth-type boss.
Combined with his identity as a prophet, it was hard not to feel that beneath his smiling face lay a terrifying killing move.
When someone like that said he wanted to kill someone...
The girl's heart pounded fiercely.
"Mr. Russell, do you have a way to defeat Cocolia?"
She hurriedly asked.
At the same time, she felt somewhat ashamed.
So far, it seemed like she had always been asking Russell for help without ever providing anything in return.
She did not even know how to repay him.
"No. Even if I wanted to reliably beat Sister Tazi, I'd need to use a Forbidden Skill. You know, that so-called Honkai's 50/50 Captain, the S-rank floor tile, the Herrscher of Color."
The youth's message left Megumin stunned once more.
"Cocolia has quite a few Anti-Entropy Alliance Leader clones and Titan Mechs. If it were one-on-one, I could use a Forbidden Skill and a First Encounter Kill to deal with several waves. But I doubt Cocolia is stupid enough to send her people in one at a time."
Thinking of that, Russell could not help looking a little emotional.
The Causality Law Thousand Years of Death was still quite terrifying.
But it was clearly a single-target skill, not crowd control, much less a Conceptual Skill that inflicted the pain of having mechanical intestines and an anus.
"I don't have the power to defeat the Anti-Entropy radical faction."
That was what the youth said.
"Of course, that only means I don't have it."
"You intend to seek out someone even more dangerous... to forcibly contain this disaster?"
Megumin seemed to understand something.
Russell was a prophet.
The profession of prophet was undoubtedly noble.
Few could resist being guided by a prophet, because prophets could always easily stir up the desires and obsessions of those before them. Whether they were monarchs in the dark or bishops clad in holy robes,
as long as they desired something, they would become a piece on the board.
But—
Those who wielded the power of darkness would undoubtedly suffer its backlash.
"Mm. If I head to Vienna now and stage a performance of Death of a Saintess, it would be easy to lure out Schicksal's master. If he were willing to act, Cocolia could indeed be dealt with."
"Of course, the price would be rather high. That old bastard's desire for control is extremely strong."
Russell nodded and typed out his reply.
"So—"
"I would never ask Otto, the guy who would turn evil and murder someone just because his pen pal disagreed with him."
Ah...
Even the Prompt Device was left dumbfounded by that.
Didn't you just say you were going to use one wolf to swallow another? At this point in time, the only ones who could reliably crush the Anti-Entropy radical faction were under Otto's command.
Russell rolled his eyes, checked flights to Vienna, then picked up the Sheep Talisman.
"Is there a possibility—just one possibility?"
"We could bypass Otto and report Cocolia directly to Super Dumb Goose Person?"
The youth spoke with righteous conviction.
Bianca "The White Dove" Attalina, the S-rank Valkyrie who commanded Schicksal's strongest unit, the Blade of Immortality, was someone whose sense of justice was off the charts.
By the time she came of age, she would be strong enough to reliably beat up Herrschers.
That Penguin was still underage now.
But that did not stop her from hearing that Cocolia was pulling some crazy stunt, spearing that old woman into the air, and giving her a brutal ban-hammer punch combo.
Even the Prompt Device could not hold it together after hearing that.
Damn.
So the plan was to report it through a dream!!
Your group members all think you're a boss character! Could you do something that actually matched your identity?
"Why worry about so much?"
Russell froze for a moment, then asked in return.
"Just tell me whether it would work."
The Prompt Device had no response.
"As long as I report her and watch Cocolia get beaten up, I can get an arena. Sigh, this damned luck of mine."
The youth was smugly delighted.
He looked like—no, he was—the very picture of a petty man intoxicated by success.
Chapter 17: What Is Physical Dream Induction Technique?
With just a little tattle, Cocolia would be rammed into the sky by a righteous Super Dumb Goose Person who came riding a battleship.
It had no technical complexity whatsoever, yet it was unexpectedly feasible.
However, even without much technical difficulty, carrying it out would still be challenging.
For example—
Vienna was Austria's largest city, covering an area of 414.65 square kilometers.
Finding a Floating City across more than four hundred square kilometers of land, then accurately locating an ultra-righteous person.
Most people would probably hang themselves on the spot after hearing that.
Fortunately, the Sheep Talisman Russell had brought possessed the abilities of Out-of-Body Travel and dream induction.
He could fly through the sky in spirit form and search for the Floating City.
After boarding the Floating City, he could go door to door asking sleeping Valkyries where their idol was active, then find that righteous Penguin.
Looking at it that way, the Sheep Talisman was unexpectedly useful?
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