"No, no, no... it'll explode..."
Houraiji Kyuusyou hurriedly pulled the Star of Eden in her hand away from Kiana, not letting her touch it.
"This isn't something I figured out on my own. I still have a very, very long way to go in manipulating gravity. This is just a pseudo-black hole that I managed to create as a trick by studying the Star of Eden after receiving the core from Senior Welt. If it were a real black hole like Brother Ryn's... with my current strength and Honkai energy reserves... I could probably only use it to self-destruct with someone... taking down friend and foe alike, and finishing off the Earth along with them."
Houraiji Kyuusyou patted her chest, her heart still pounding with fear. The first time she experimented, the black hole went directly out of control... Luckily, she had prepared in advance and conducted the experiment by the sea. The black hole was too small, and its instability caused it to self-annihilate. Otherwise, Houraiji Kyuusyou felt that forget being a savior, she would have undoubtedly become the great demon king who destroyed the world.
"Huh? Don't you also have the core of the First Herrscher, the Authority to manipulate gravity? You can't control black holes at will?"
Ryn tilted his head in confusion. Houraiji Kyuusyou was so talented, she shouldn't have to rely solely on the Star of Eden!
"I've had the core for too short a time, there's no time for deeper development... and right now I haven't even figured out the core of the Herrscher of the Void..."
Houraiji Kyuusyou sighed helplessly. She was being hunted by Schicksal every day, and now with the identity of a Herrscher, it was already a blessing she hadn't been crusaded against... How could she have time to study her Authority...
"Besides..." Houraiji Kyuusyou raised her head, looking at Ryn with a mischievous expression. Then she ran forward excitedly, grabbed him by the collar, and yelled:
"You bastard, how can your Honkai energy reserves be thousands, tens of thousands of times greater than mine! If my Honkai energy reserve is a drop of water, then you, Ryn, are the vast ocean. We're both Herrschers, how can the gap be so huge?!"
Ryn thought for a moment. If Houraiji Kyuusyou hadn't mentioned it, he would have almost forgotten that the sheer amount of Honkai energy on his body alone was enough to blow up the Earth.
It was all due to his own diligent training! This was the result of hard work!
"It's simple. Find a place with enough energy, and slowly study Honkai energy. Then cultivate for a few tens of thousands of years, and you'll be about there!"
Ryn patted Houraiji Kyuusyou's shoulder with a look of confidence in her.
"Once you can warp fields to create black holes with your bare hands and manipulate gravity to stretch time, you'll find that for us, who have endless lifespans... getting stronger just requires hiding in a black hole and training hard for a few tens of thousands of years!
Can't beat an enemy? Then hide and train for tens of thousands of years. That way, you'll either outlive the enemy or become stronger than them and kill them!"
"Ah, this..."
Houraiji Kyuusyou scratched her head awkwardly. That way of putting it didn't seem to have any flaws!
But looking at her own Honkai energy, just throwing a black hole without relying on the Star of Eden would drain her dry...
Maintaining a black hole and accelerating time for tens of thousands of years... wouldn't that drain her into a human raisin first...
"What Ryn said seems to make a lot of sense..."
Kiana nodded thoughtfully.
What they lacked most now was time to get stronger. If there was enough time...
Wait a minute... time!
Kiana's eyes lit up instantly, and she jumped up on the spot in excitement as if she had a revelation.
"I've found it! I've thought of a way! Hahaha..."
"What did you think of?" Houraiji Kyuusyou looked in confusion at Kiana, who had suddenly burst into laughter.
"Something good... Come, come, come with me!"
Kiana grabbed Houraiji Kyuusyou's hand, pulled her to the side, and started whispering to her.
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"Kiana, what's wrong? What did you find?"
"I think I've understood the meaning of us coming to this world!"
"?"
"Time, it's time!"
Kiana excitedly grabbed Houraiji Kyuusyou's hand and said with a thrilled expression:
"Ryn, think about it! What we lack most right now is time. As long as we are given enough time to become stronger, for me to completely master the Power of the Saintess! For you and Mei to completely master the power of a Herrscher! Then our chances of defeating the Honkai will be solid!"
"But we don't have time..."
Houraiji Kyuusyou sighed. She also knew that time was very tight. When they first arrived in this inner world and learned that the flow of time here was different from the main world, Houraiji Kyuusyou and Kiana were ecstatic.
But when they discovered that this world had no Honkai energy and they couldn't continue to train, they immediately saw this inner world as a cage that bound them. They could only pin their hopes of getting stronger on finding this world's extraordinary power.
"Silly! According to my observations, that Brother Ryn of yours seems completely different from us. We all clearly use Honkai energy, and we can't feel any Honkai energy at all, but his energy seems to be endless. Not only are his own reserves tens of thousands of times greater than all of ours combined, but I can also feel the surrounding energy constantly pouring into his body to replenish itself.
And most importantly... from your conversation, he is already able to completely control black holes and can use them to accelerate time..."
Kiana rubbed her palms together, looking at Houraiji Kyuusyou as if she were some priceless treasure.
"Ryn, oh Ryn, my dear savior, when can you be like that too!"
"Uhh..."
Houraiji Kyuusyou awkwardly scratched her face with her finger, turning her head away, not daring to look Kiana in the eye.
What does she mean, when can I be like that!
First, a few years of cultivating Honkai energy, then a few more years of training Honkai energy control, then a few more years of studying time dilation theory and black hole effects with Yiselian...
"Probably... in a few decades, I'll be able to freely manipulate time, right?"
"? That long?" Kiana looked at Houraiji Kyuusyou in surprise, staring into her eyes to see if Houraiji Kyuusyou was just trying to brush her off.
Then Kiana pointed a small finger at Ryn and said to Houraiji Kyuusyou in confusion, "But I heard your Brother Ryn say that he only practiced for a month before he could control time and stuff!"
"Ah, this..."
Houraiji Kyuusyou spread her hands and gave up on the spot.
"But I haven't even finished high school... I still don't understand things like the theory of gravity...
Not to mention black holes, which physics has basically no research to explain right now. The only one who could release a black hole, Senior Welt, after passing the core to me, also..."
Houraiji Kyuusyou's eyes dimmed. She found it hard to judge Senior Welt, but he had indeed entrusted his life to her...
And she would never betray his expectations and his power.