What followed was a rare stretch of ordinary days, during which something interesting happened.
For example, Dr. Mobius, wanting to test just how far her "snake Shedding" could go, recklessly kept picking fights with Chrono.
After Chrono beat her from E rank all the way to A rank, Mobius left in complete satisfaction. Quite a few people in the Flame Chasers witnessed the whole thing.
Before long, a rumor began circulating within the Flame Chasers that Dr. Mobius and Chrono had an illegitimate daughter together.
And with someone fanning the flames, every member of the Flame Chasers soon came to share one belief:
If someone felt unwell, Mobius had done it. If something broke, Chrono had done it.
Seeing this, the readers laughed too. They did not even need to guess who that "someone" was.
But such peaceful days were always short-lived.
The Eleventh Herrscher descended.
And her appearance completely shattered humanity's hope of defeating Honkai.
Up to that point, every method humanity had used against Honkai relied on Honkai Energy. This was especially true of the Fusion Warriors, their greatest fighting force; in essence, they had already become humanoid Honkai Beasts.
The emergence of large numbers of Fusion Warriors had given people hope of defeating Honkai, but no one expected the Honkai God to play such a dirty trick and create a Herrscher utterly unlike any before her—the Herrscher of Binding.
The Herrscher of Binding was an anti-Honkai Herrscher. Her ability was simple: she created a barrier with a radius of one hundred kilometers. All Honkai Energy within it became completely invalid, while every other form of energy, including biological energy, was weakened as well.
The weapons and equipment made by the Flame Chasers would turn into piles of scrap metal the instant they entered the barrier.
But that