Honkai: Man(Sludge) From Future

Sirin was scared, but she didn't move to leave.

She rubbed the goosebumps on her arms, which had been raised by the cold air emanating from the Fifth Herrscher.

Unlike Kiana, Sirin didn't receive any special treatment from Noldrei.

Noldrei's tentacles stabilized Shiina Mahiru's life condition. This allowed Ana's mind to gradually relax, but at the same time, it opened up a crack, making her more susceptible to the corrosion and influence of the Honkai consciousness.

But soon, Ana's suffering ended, because Noldrei stripped the Stigma from her body.

Not everyone with a Stigma is a Herrscher, but a Herrscher will always have a corresponding Stigma.

"The condition of this Herrscher Core is different from what you've seen. It's more akin to the cores within those weapons."

Noldrei noticed something strange, but he quickly found the reason for the change in the Herrscher Core.

Tesla had told him that the structure of a Herrscher Core was closely related to its own nature.

The First Herrscher's core could be distributed throughout the molecular structure of the body. The Second Herrscher's core could be hidden in Imaginary Space. The Third Herrscher's core could even merge with electrons, and the Fourth Herrscher's core existed directly as a fluid within the body.

The Herrscher of Death's core was even stranger, a structural form condensed from an indistinct black mist, somewhat resembling the structure of a gas giant like Jupiter or Saturn.

And the Herrscher of Ice's core was like a dead singularity core, a purely solid object like a hard stone.

No wonder this Fifth Herrscher seemed so mediocre. Besides her own mental problems, it was likely related to the fact that her Herrscher Core was more stable compared to others.

"I see. It seems my idea is actually a good thing for her."

As the two bodies gradually took shape, Bella saw a situation similar to her own in them.

So I was an early experiment...

Bella had a new understanding of her own existence. The little dragon girl's fear of Noldrei's authority grew even deeper.

The new Herrscher's body structure was more akin to the pseudo-humanoid Honkai Beast, Bella's body.

Ana's mental state gradually stabilized. Her consciousness began to delve deeper into her own Stigma, and under the guidance of the living Stigma created by Noldrei, Shiina Mahiru arrived in the same Stigma Space as Ana.

Noldrei, naturally, didn't care what they would talk about after they met.

He cared about another existence.

After the two girls' consciousnesses had completely entered the Stigma Space, what would be left outside?

The Herrscher consciousness, of course.

The Fifth Herrscher immediately began to struggle, but it was useless.

Noldrei would not be as tolerant with her as he was with Raiden Mei.

He immediately transformed into a state of muddy flesh, piercing into the Fifth Herrscher's body like a flesh-and-blood root.

The Herrscher's wails echoed high above Academy City, the sound vibrating for hundreds of miles, heard by everyone in the city.

The first to hear it was Alliance Leader Yang. He shivered instinctively.

Perhaps it was the feeling of kinship that was triggered. He instinctively sensed the Herrscher consciousness wailing in agony.

What is he doing?

Yang couldn't understand the situation. Even Otto was curious about what Noldrei had done to the Fifth Herrscher.

Otto clicked his tongue in amazement. "Impressive. I've never heard a Herrscher consciousness wail like that before. Cheers!"

He raised his glass, wanting to toast the First Herrscher.

Yang ignored him, just frowning with worry about what Noldrei would do to the Herrscher.

Just as he thought, the Fifth Herrscher took off from the ground.

The Herrscher consciousness hadn't even had time to use its full power. It had just transformed into its proper Herrscher form when Noldrei carried it up into the sky.

The speed of its flight even surpassed the speed of the long-range weapons the Herrscher created.

The first thing it collided with was Tesla's lightning Throne.

This wasn't just a simple plasma light; it was a massive SELENE engine. The energy released by this SELENE was just being constrained by Tesla and released as a plasma ring.

Noldrei, wrapped around the completely collapsed Herrscher, slammed headfirst into the SELENE.

This was like a sheep falling into a pack of wolves.

The first thing the Fifth Herrscher faced was the SELENE's ruthless draining of her Honkai Energy.

As Tesla had said, the Fifth Herrscher's power was not enough to freeze the entire solar system. Her power was not even as strong as the SELENE created by Tesla.

Hachiman Hikigaya hadn't had time to fall from the sky yet. He had wanted to find a safe place to bypass this battle.

But the aftershocks of the battle's explosion sent him tumbling through the air.

He witnessed the most shocking scene of his life.

The core of the SELENE created by Tesla surveyed Academy City like an eye from the heavens. Around the SELENE were rings of plasma, rotating back and forth.

In its rotation, it looked like the image of a legendary Throne.

And at this moment, an unexpected being had drilled into the wheels of this massive chariot.

Before, Hachiman Hikigaya didn't believe in gods. Even that "friend" of his was telling him to believe in science.

But now, Hachiman was starting to believe in gods.

The Herrscher of Ice was like a person standing on a giant flower, and this person was like... like a ping-pong ball.

She fell into the rotation of the chariot's rings, constantly being whipped and bounced around by them.

She wanted to escape, but the terrifying SELENE directly sucked her dry of Honkai Energy. Without Honkai Energy, she was like a powerless electrical device, at Tesla's mercy.

So, in Hachiman's eyes, a strange life form was being endlessly tortured back and forth within that ring of light.

That's just too tragic...

Hachiman watched in amazement. He didn't dare to fall down now, afraid that he would accidentally become a target of torture as well.

It was thanks to his own body also being a SELENE that he wasn't forcibly drained of his Honkai Energy and dragged into the ring of light.

Sirin looked up at her comrade and instinctively swallowed.

"Is this how you treat your own kind?"

She couldn't help but ask Tesla.

We're all Herrschers, there's no need to bully like this, is there?

Tesla looked at Sirin in confusion and said, "What are you talking about? This thing, which hasn't fully evolved and can't even control its own transformations, is worthy of being my kind? I am the future evolutionary direction of humanity. When did Herrschers dare to try and associate with me?"

The Lobster Doctor looked Sirin up and down, squinting her eyes and asking, "Or are you saying you don't consider yourself human either?!"

"Of course I'm human! If I weren't human, how could I take revenge on humanity!"

Sirin immediately expressed her loyalty to humanity.

Bella was shocked.

Your Majesty! What's wrong, Your Majesty?!

Sirin knew nothing about any Honkai God, but she knew that a local official was more powerful than a distant magistrate.

A good Herrscher knows when to yield!