People who came into contact with high concentrations of Honkai energy could also become "Pseudo-Herrschers," though they were far more likely to turn into zombies!
Pseudo-Herrschers often possessed powerful wills or bonds they could not let go of, which kept them from becoming zombies and instead turned them into even more powerful beings.
However... as she looked at the information before her, Himeko still felt that something was wrong!
"Zombies..."
No, this was only the Second Honkai Outbreak. It was not yet time for the Third Honkai Outbreak. How had these zombies appeared?
Himeko suddenly remembered that, in this era... zombies did not appear until the Third Honkai Outbreak. At this point in time... there should only have been Honkai Beasts, not zombies!
Although zombies had already appeared in the previous era, and Hiyamaru could even forcibly turn humans into zombies obedient to her, neither the First nor Second Honkai Outbreak had produced zombies in this era.
It was not until 2014, when the first wave of the Third Honkai Outbreak quietly descended upon a place in the Far Eastern Land, that "zombies," mutated from infected humans, became the tangible form of disaster in that Honkai Outbreak.
Only then did zombies officially become another type of monster unique to Honkai and Herrschers, distinct from Honkai Beasts.
During the Third Honkai Outbreak, starting from the Far Eastern Land... it spread across the entire world. Many people suddenly lost their minds for no apparent reason and became zombies.
Low-level zombies would bite and tear at humans like the undead, while high-level ones seemed to have gained Psychic abilities, possessing unimaginable powers. But regardless, they existed only to destroy.
There should still have been fourteen years until the Third Honkai Outbreak. The cute, gentle, virtuous, beautiful Third Herrscher, Mei, probably had not