Chapter 395: Ready

Watching someone's face turn pale, then green, Rita cautiously probed, "Lord Ren Yu, are you... all right?"

"I'm fine. I'm very well. I just want some peace and quiet."

The sun set, and the bright moon rose.

Soon, night fell.

Rita remained busy in the kitchen. Given how polite she was, Sie, the "mistress of the house," felt too embarrassed to send her away, so she enjoyed Rita's cooking once again.

In the middle of the night, driven by the thought that she had to improve her cooking and could never let herself be outdone by someone else, Sie hugged someone's arm and drifted comfortably into sleep.

The World Bubble where Yue Xia was.

Steven woke up once more.

This time, most of its injuries had healed.

Inside its body, the dark crystal prism resembling a Herrscher Core had recovered from its shattered, heavily damaged state to one that could barely function.

Compared to last time, Otto had greatly strengthened his methods of controlling Steven.

To keep this Honkai Beast from escaping, he had spared no expense. The entire floating-island laboratory was made of indestructible soul steel.

This isolation barrier of heavy soul steel could withstand continuous bombardment by modern humanity's most powerful weapon—a high-yield hydrogen bomb—for days and nights.

Not to mention the concentrated neural sedatives, neural anesthetics, and even highly effective hypnotics specially formulated for Honkai Beasts inside.

With these measures in place,

even if a hundred Emperor-class Honkai Beasts were thrown in, Otto had nothing to fear and was confident he could deal with them easily.

Furthermore, at the core of this experimental fortress were the Concentrated Honkai Energy Crystals Schicksal had mined around the world over the past century. If the test subject went berserk, these terrifying things—capable of sinking half the American continental plate—would be