"The Seele Laboratory was not originally called the Seele Laboratory."
"At first, this was merely a deserted island. A woman named Ciora tried to build a big villa here to raise children, so it became Ciora Island."
"Later, no one knew where all the children living here had gone. The island was rented out and became a backup site responsible for the birth of Herrschers—the Seele Laboratory."
Brother pointed ahead as he spoke.
"As an experimental site, this place was undoubtedly shoddily built."
"Fortunately, the birth of a Herrscher mainly depended on the intensity of Honkai energy and whether the person at the center of the Honkai was qualified."
"Look, your colleague—the Herrscher of Flame—is about to be born."
As those words rang out,
flames evaporated the sea. Intense vapor condensed in the sky and turned into violent rain. The earth melted bit by bit beneath the high heat, yet even the endless downpour could not extinguish it...
The terrifying sight almost made Seele instinctively call upon the power of a Herrscher, preparing to defend herself as though facing an enemy.
Yet just as she was about to invoke that power, the flames rapidly drew back. The inferno that had seemed capable of destroying heaven and earth shrank to the scale of a mountain fire.
Amid the endless blaze, someone walked through the flames like a deity.
She was breathtakingly beautiful, with heroic brows and cold eyes. A military saber hung at her waist, and she wore a ceremonial military uniform. Her gaze was as sharp as a blade, as though it could pierce through every falsehood.
Was this her future companion?
A trace of timidity rose in the girl's heart. That majesty, like that of an imperial monarch, was truly intimidating.
Talulah.
The ruler of Victoria.
One of Terra's