Starting as the Behind-the-Scenes Boss in the Honkai World Chapter 44

"What is Anti-Entropy? And what is Anti-Entropy?"

Seele, the illiterate girl, frowned, her face full of confusion.

Cocolia had never explained her identity within Anti-Entropy to these children.

"Didn't Cocolia-kyu tell you?" Shi Hen kindly explained, "Cocolia-kyu is a high-level executive of Anti-Entropy, and you are her subordinates, so naturally, you are also members of Anti-Entropy."

"Then what does that have to do with me!?"

Seele frowned.

She hated these troublesome things.

"Uh..." Shi Hen felt that this personality's comprehension ability was worrying. "Simply put, just as you obey Cocolia-kyu, you must also obey my orders."

"Huh? Are you kidding me?"

Seele retorted, anger appearing on her face.

This guy first sent a bunch of people to kill her and Big Sister, and now he's saying he's even bigger than Mama Cocolia and wants her to obey him. Would she believe such a thing?

If she couldn't kill him, she would have already poked a hundred and eight holes in Shi Hen.

"I'm serious," Shi Hen shook his head. "You are members of Anti-Entropy, so you naturally have to obey my orders."

"You..." She wanted to curse him out, but remembering how easily he had crushed her attack, Seele quickly calmed down. "Then go find Mama Cocolia!"

The girl felt she had come up with a good plan.

"You actually have quite a bit of brains."

Shi Hen said in surprise.

The other party had actually grasped the crux of the problem.

Seele: "..."

She felt insulted.

"But unfortunately, Cocolia-kyu is busy dealing with another assassination." Shi Hen sighed regretfully, then explained, "By the way, that was also arranged by me."

"Are you crazy!?"

Seele couldn't help but curse.

Who would send people to assassinate their own subordinates?

Bang!

With a finger poke to the girl's forehead, Shi Hen sent Seele flying back several meters. He said calmly, "Little girl, didn't Cocolia-kyu teach you that some things shouldn't be said carelessly?"

"..." Rubbing her forehead, Seele's face showed intense anger. "What exactly do you want!?"

First sending people to kill them, then spouting a bunch of nonsensical words, she felt like she was going crazy.

"Seele Vollerei, your power is too great."

Speaking softly, Shi Hen instantly flashed in front of the girl, his fingertip glowing with white light as he touched the Stigmata on her chest.

"You..."

Just as she was about to retort, Seele was shocked to realize she couldn't exert any strength at all, as if she were being pinned down by countless arms.

"Sorry, it's too dangerous to let you move freely, so I must seal you now."

Shi Hen said with an extremely sincere voice. A massive amount of Honkai Energy instantly surged into the girl's body, seeping into every cell of Seele's body, firmly sealing that special gene.

For ordinary people, being infused with such a quantity of Honkai Energy would only result in death.

But for a Stigmata holder like Seele, she had the ability to contain this Honkai Energy.

Of course, it was only containment.

To bear such a vast amount of Honkai Energy, the channels through which her body circulated Honkai Energy would be completely paralyzed.

In other words, Seele would no longer be able to use the power of the Stigmata.

"You... bastard!"

With her last bit of strength, Seele cursed, and her consciousness immediately fell into darkness. Her body slumped forward, leaning against Shi Hen.

Chapter 50: A Transaction

His fingertip withdrew from the girl's chest. Looking at the white ring surrounding the red Stigmata pattern, Shi Hen nodded with satisfaction.

"Phew~ This way, this unlucky kid won't fall into the sea."

Shi Hen let out a long breath.

Even for him, manipulating such a vast amount of Honkai Energy at once was... quite easy.

If even Raiden Ryoma could seal Mei's Stigmata, Shi Hen could naturally do the same.

Although Natural Stigmata was a gift from the previous civilization to this era, this gift contained poison.

To give a simple example, if Seele's Stigmata ability was S-class, then her own physical fitness was only D or C.

Once she unleashed the power of the Stigmata, she would be finished herself.

This was the true reason she would turn into a quantum state during the X-10 experiment, and also why Raiden Ryoma chose to seal Mei's Stigmata.

If the host isn't strong enough, using a Stigmata is like a small cart trying to pull a large load; the body will collapse first.

As for the X-10 experiment... according to Cocolia, the experiment's goal was to find the key to the human body adapting to Honkai Energy and to improve the human body's adaptability to Honkai.

This explanation might be a bit difficult to understand, but if rephrased, it would be crystal clear.

Promoting Stigmata gene expression.

The X-10 experiment itself was part of the Stigmata Project.

For others, this experiment could indeed increase the human body's adaptability to Honkai Energy, despite the inherent dangers.

But for Seele... it was probably like forcing the Stigmata, which could have developed normally, to its limit, compelling the girl to bear a power she shouldn't have at her age.

Something the Raiden family couldn't even escape from, and you still dared to run straight into it.

If you act so recklessly, who else but you would die?

Therefore, Cocolia's understanding of Honkai was extremely superficial; she never understood what true Honkai was.

"Please stay away from my daughter!"

Cocolia, finally arriving, roared, a large-caliber pistol firmly aimed at Shi Hen's head.

"I hate it when people point guns at my head the most."

Looking up at the dark muzzle seven or eight meters away, Shi Hen said calmly.

"Then don't blame me for being impolite."

Cocolia said coldly, clearly not in the mood to exchange lines with Shi Hen, and chose to pull the trigger directly.

Bang!

A gunshot rang out, and the metal bullet shot out from the muzzle, heading straight for Shi Hen's forehead, and then... it bounced off without even leaving a scratch on the mask.

Cocolia: "..."

The scene immediately became awkward.

"Lady Cocolia, I just saved your daughter from these people."

Shi Hen, being considerate, spoke up to ease the tension, pointing at the downed special forces soldiers.

"You think I'd believe that!?"

Glancing at the wounds of those special forces soldiers, Cocolia, while not understanding what weapons caused them, believed they were definitely not the work of the masked man in front of her.

In her confusion, Cocolia saw another figure she was all too familiar with.

"Bronya!?" she cried out, rushing to the gray-haired girl's side, embracing her blood-stained body and weeping uncontrollably, "I'm sorry, Mom is late..."

If only she could have arrived a little sooner...

"..." Looking at the grieving blonde woman, Shi Hen felt it necessary to clarify, "She's just been shot dozens of times, it's hardly a fatal wound, she won't die."

Cocolia: "..."

Do you even hear what you're saying?

While bullet wounds are a general term, and the severity varies depending on the firearm model and bullet caliber, even thinking with one's backside, it's obvious that the weapons used by these special forces personnel couldn't be ordinary ones.

Weapons of this caliber would make even a single hit very troublesome, let alone dozens of bullets.

Looking at the pile of blood-stained bullets nearby, Cocolia felt an unbearable heartache.

She had sworn to protect every child, but now she could only watch Bronya die before her... Huh? Bronya actually seems to be breathing?

Holding the girl tightly and feeling her body gently rise and fall with her breath, Cocolia was a little stunned.

Could someone really survive being hit by so many bullets?

Having started interacting with Honkai too late, Cocolia, still a novice in the Honkai world, found this incomprehensible.

"Bronya has great potential; she will surely become a major general in my Anti-Entropy."

Seeing Cocolia finally calm down, Shi Hen said approvingly.

"I've never seen you in Anti-Entropy!"

While holding Bronya, Cocolia immediately became vigilant.

The mask, the white robe... these features were conspicuous, but since neither Schicksal's nor Anti-Entropy's wanted posters had updated the hair color of [Welt Yang], Cocolia didn't recognize that the person in front of her was the new leader of Anti-Entropy personally appointed by Schicksal.

From this perspective, Leona and those Valkyries had at least shown some chivalry by not completely exposing Shi Hen.

Of course, it was also possible that they didn't know what white hair meant in this world.

Seeing the distance in the blonde woman's eyes, Shi Hen couldn't help but get a headache and could only introduce himself first: "I am Welt Yang, your new leader of Anti-Entropy."

This was personally certified by Otto.

"Are you joking with me?"

Cocolia's face immediately showed anger.

Does Schicksal's designated leader of Anti-Entropy even have any recognition within Anti-Entropy itself?

"This is a transaction," Shi Hen shook his head. "Help me become the leader of Anti-Entropy, and I can let you take charge of Anti-Entropy."

After all, Anti-Entropy would be handed over to Cocolia in a few years anyway. This investment of his was guaranteed to be profitable.

"..." Hearing Shi Hen's words, Cocolia paused for a moment before shaking her head after a while. "Sorry, but I cannot accept such a transaction."

Heaven knows what the other party's objective was.

It's easy to invite a god, but hard to send one away. She didn't want to invite a powerful enemy.

Moreover, if she really did something like this, she would probably be expelled from Anti-Entropy herself.

"It seems that Madam Cocolia has lost her mind," Shi Hen sighed, and a wisp of white light appeared at his fingertip. "Then, let Madam Cocolia witness my art first."

Art?

As Cocolia was wondering, she saw the white light from Shi Hen's fingertip shoot out.

BOOM—

With an explosion, a hillside twenty to thirty meters high in the distance was leveled. Rolling snowflakes fell from higher up, covering the barren land.

Gulp~

Cocolia couldn't help but swallow her saliva, her scalp tingling.

An attack of this magnitude with just a wave of his hand...

Was this monster truly still human?

It would probably take a Titan unit a considerable amount of time to level a hillside even with concentrated fire, but how long did this Welt take?

Less than three seconds.

In other words, the firepower provided by this one person surpassed that of an entire mecha unit!