Although Elysia had protested, the tail was attached to Pardo, so there was clearly nothing she could do.
What relieved everyone, however, was that Mei had also started using Pardo as a combatant after an occasion when she had been forced to fight.
Although her final form was identical to Pardo's in the original worldline, this feline Honkai Beast clearly was not the one from the later stages, so Pardo's strength had improved considerably as well. Even against a Herrscher, provided it was one of the early ones, she was strong enough to hold her own for a while.
As such, Pardo could also lead teams in ordinary Honkai disasters. Combined with her luck, most dangers could be easily resolved.
Besides, she had Lingchen's gift to keep her safe, so there was no need to worry.
Griseo's abilities, meanwhile, had made tremendous progress. Not only had her ability to see a person's "colors" grown stronger, but the prophecies in her paintings-or rather, her portrayals of a person's possible futures-had also grown closer to the future. Most importantly, she could bring things out of her paintings to fight.
However, although Griseo had painted many times, Lingchen's image had never appeared.
Despite Lingchen's warning, the Eighth Herrscher still arrived in a way none of them could have known about.
Memetic contamination was Mei's definition of the Eighth Herrscher's power. Because Aponia had appeared early, although the general direction remained unchanged, the words used for its memetic contamination had changed. It used the personal pronouns "I, you, he/she/it" as its contamination words.
Countless people fell victim in an instant, and this was also the largest number of people Lingchen had taken away to date.
The Eighth Herrscher had lost its body in the outside world, along with almost all its ability to fight