"Well... besides having abundant energy, enough Honkai energy to go around, and plenty of time... there doesn't seem to be anything else here."
Houraiji Kyuusyou sat on the ground, bored. Ever since entering Ryn's black hole world, she, Kiana, and the others had been training in regions with different time flow rates.
In the past, she was always getting caught up in various incidents, either dealing with Honkai events, being chased by people from Schicksal, or, like now, following Kiana and falling into all sorts of Inner Worlds to start a grand adventure.
Although those days were full of excitement, with adrenaline pumping every day and the risk of being a beautiful girl again in sixteen years, compared to sitting here motionlessly in this black hole, absorbing Honkai energy to temper herself, it was a dreamlike, legendary life!
Suddenly, an emotionless, even overly flat warning voice sounded.
"Houraiji Kyuusyou, you're slacking off again!"
Duang—
With a clang, a baseball bat struck Houraiji Kyuusyou on the head, bending the bat out of shape.
Houraiji Kyuusyou's vision went black, her body uncontrollably fell over, her thoughts became hazy, and she almost passed out.
But her long period of training wasn't for nothing. Houraiji Kyuusyou came to her senses in just three seconds. She immediately clutched her head, writhing back and forth on the ground in pain.
"Ow, ow, ow—"
Bronya, holding Kiana's baseball bat, weighed it in her hand and then said to Houraiji Kyuusyou with a straight face:
"Houraiji Kyuusyou, this is the fifty-seventh time you've slacked off this month! That's more than double the twenty-five times you slacked off last month."
"Guh... You can't blame me... It's just so boring. Hisss—so painful. You bastard Bronya, why do you always hit so hard!
You damn Bronya, you must be getting revenge on me!"
Houraiji Kyuusyou clutched her head and squatted to the side, her small hand tentatively poking the bump Bronya had raised on her head, which made her grimace in pain.
"No, Bronya is very grateful to Houraiji Kyuusyou for helping with her training. She has no thought of revenge at all.
The reason she used a little more force was simply because Bronya has gotten stronger, very, very strong!"
Bronya set the baseball bat aside, then struck a super-duper strongman pose, showing Houraiji Kyuusyou her muscles, which were as hard as steel.
Bronya, who was supposed to be a petite and cute expressionless loli, was now an inverted triangle of a person, with clearly defined muscle lines and each muscle incredibly bulky.
But her head was still the same size as before. With her angelically cute face paired with muscles more exaggerated than a JoJo character's, Bronya now looked like the diamond barbie, Nezha, from "One Hundred Thousand Bad Jokes."
In the black hole world, there was no star like on Earth to provide light and heat. It all relied on a light source Ryn had left behind to illuminate the space.
And now, the light shone on Bronya's muscles, and the powerful muscles directly refracted the light, making Bronya glitter with golden light, very dazzling.
"Ah, the light from these muscles is so dazzling, my eyes! My eyes are going blind!!"
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Because Bronya's resistance to Honkai energy isn't particularly top-tier, especially compared to Herrschers like Houraiji Kyuusyou and Raiden Mei, or Kiana who has the Kaslana bloodline, Bronya needs to rest for a long time after absorbing a certain amount of Honkai energy.
In Ryn's black hole, although the time flow rate of the area is controllable, for the people involved, time still passes the same.
There is nothing here but Honkai energy and various strange energies. Instead of sitting idly and waiting for her body to absorb the Honkai energy, Bronya felt it was better to make good use of the time and train her body.
After all, strengthening her body could also increase her Honkai energy resistance, allowing her to accommodate more Honkai energy.
During one of Houraiji Kyuusyou's slacking sessions, she saw Bronya training her body. After asking for the reason, she remembered that when she was in Fire Moth, Ryn had also taught her a method for training her body.
So Houraiji Kyuusyou passed the method on to Bronya...
This was a training method that had nothing to do with talent, only requiring effort and time...
By striking, Honkai energy is driven into the practitioner's body, allowing every cell to contain enough Honkai energy until the cells are burst and torn apart by it.
By constantly repeating this process—Honkai energy entering the cells, cells being torn apart by Honkai energy, and then the fittest surviving while the unfit are eliminated—stronger cells are regenerated.
Relying on the practitioner's own adaptability and recovery, the body is made to constantly adapt to Honkai energy, expanding the upper limit of how much Honkai energy the body can accommodate.
Bronya felt this was very suitable for her, so she asked Houraiji Kyuusyou to help her with her training.
At that time, Bronya was overjoyed, thinking she had finally found her own training path and would no longer have to just watch from afar as Kiana and Mei fought on the front lines while she could only cheer for them.
But when the training began, and Houraiji Kyuusyou stood there with a grin, holding a large hammer in one hand and a baseball bat in the other, the smile that had just appeared on Bronya's face vanished.
Houraiji Kyuusyou: "Sorry, sorry, I don't have Brother Ryn's immense power, so I need some tools to help. Don't worry, Bronya, I'm training with this method myself. It absolutely won't kill... no, I mean, it won't hurt you!"
"No. Bronya suddenly feels that this training method is not suitable for Bronya. Bronya is going to find Kiana now. Bronya would rather train with Kiana..."
Watching Houraiji Kyuusyou approach like some vicious, body-dismembering murderer, Bronya frantically shook her head and kept backing away.
Finally, Bronya's left foot tripped over her right, and she almost fell... So she simply started scrambling on all fours, trying to escape from Houraiji Kyuusyou's clutches.
"It's really nothing, I'm using it myself, how could I trick you..."
"I said, get back here!"
Houraiji Kyuusyou extended her middle finger towards the fleeing Bronya, then beckoned towards herself.
In this environment full of Honkai energy, Houraiji Kyuusyou didn't need to be frugal and meticulously calculate her use of Honkai energy, so she did whatever was most convenient!
Bronya looked as if she had heard the news of Cocolia's death, her face filled with despair and a lack of will to live. Like a little rabbit caught by an invisible hand, her body moved uncontrollably, floating towards the great hammer in Houraiji Kyuusyou's hand.
"Big Sis Mei! Help! Houraiji Kyuusyou is trying to kill Bronya!!"
"Close your eyes, Bronya. Next, I will show you the 'Whatever-Feels-Good-Hammering-Method' that I developed after being chased and hammered by God Kiana for n rounds!"
"What the hell is that? Houraiji Kyuusyou, do you even know what you're doing?!"
"Guaranteed to work! Take this!"
Duang—
Crack—
"Aaaah! It's breaking, it's going to break! You bastard, didn't you hear the wail of Bronya's bones? My bones are about to break!"
"It's normal the first time. You'll be fine in your next life! Keep it up, Bronya!"
"You just said 'next life,' didn't you? This is murder, pure murder! Kiana! Mei! Help meeee!"
Duang—
Kiana and Mei heard Bronya's blood-curdling screams and both stopped their training to look in their direction...
They were about to shout and stop Houraiji Kyuusyou, but Houraiji Kyuusyou gave them an 'I've got this, you can relax' look.
"Uh... Is this... training?"
"Uhhh... But is this really okay?"
"It should... be fine, right?"
Kiana and Mei looked at each other, for a moment unsure whether to go and stop them or to stay far away to avoid being spattered with blood.