"If I didn't know that the man in the clown mask was Otto, I would have actually been fooled." Kevin's mouth twitched. Schicksal's pre-battle speech was truly rousing, provided the one saying it wasn't Otto.
"People like him are the most terrifying," MEI said. Before you know Otto's true intentions, no one can predict his next move. Even if you think you know, it's only because Otto wants you to know.
Speaking of such people, MEI subconsciously looked at Yàqīng.
Even Mobius couldn't say she understood Yàqīng. When everyone thought he was gentle, he could have living people sunk into the cold sea without batting an eye. When everyone thought he was cold, he would silently fund Aponia's orphanage.
You couldn't define such people with good or evil, because they themselves stood at the precipice of both.
"MEI."
Yàqīng's voice interrupted MEI's gaze. It also attracted everyone's attention.
"Actually, people like that aren't terrifying. They are very simple, so simple that they only move towards a single goal, and they will stop at nothing to achieve it, not even caring about their own lives." Yàqīng's voice was calm, but it held a faint, excited tremor.
"Uh..."
The others looked at him strangely, half-afraid his next words would be: "Overseer Otto, lead us to XXXX again!"
...
"So inspiring, but why does it have to be that bastard Otto!!!" Welt Yang let out a sharp cry.
[After finishing the morale-boosting pre-battle speech, Overseer Otto didn't rest for a moment. Amber informed him of a communication from Anti-Entropy. Anti-Entropy stated they needed to keep Siegfried for another day because they had decoded Kaslana data from the Soulium brought back from the moon and needed Siegfried's DNA key to assist with the decryption.
From Anti-Entropy's brief words, Otto keenly sensed the absence of Welt and deduced that he had died on the moon. Swirling the red wine in his glass, although he regretted not getting the information firsthand, his current focus was still on the pseudo-Herrscher of Death.
Otto agreed to Einstein's request and at the same time ordered Amber not to let anyone disturb him. For tomorrow's battle, he needed to get this body into its best possible condition.]
"Is the pseudo-Herrscher of Death that important? Otto even chose to postpone dealing with the information left by the Previous Era." MEI frowned.
"The Herrscher of Death is extremely powerful," Yàqīng nodded and said. "Even the strongest warrior of the Previous Era could only fall silent when facing the Herrscher of Death."
"Hm?" MEI was shocked.
"Just kidding," Yàqīng smiled. "The authority of the Herrscher of Death might be a world-ending catastrophe for humanity, but for Otto, it is the dawn of a new day. The premise is, Otto has to see it as a ray of light."
MEI, Mobius, Vill-V, and Su were thoughtful, while the others were still watching the movie, especially Kevin, who was sitting closest to Yàqīng but wasn't thinking at all.
[Far away in an Anti-Entropy laboratory, Siegfried put on a data connector developed by Einstein, linking his brain to the Soulium database. As the data converted, the scene before Siegfried's eyes changed. The realistic scenery made him wonder if he had returned to the moon.
In front of him stood a young man holding the greatsword form of the Might of An-Utu. As the sword was slowly plunged into the lunar soil, eight figures lined up beside him, their faces obscured by darkness.
Through the glow of the An-Utu, one could vaguely make out that the person to the young man's left seemed to be Fu Hua, who had appeared earlier, while the person on the right was unrecognizable.
"What you are seeing now is the final battle of the Previous Era."
"Participating in this battle are the last eight remaining, most powerful warriors of human civilization."
"One of them seems to be the ancestor of the Kaslana family."
"And their opponent is the legendary, final, and strongest Herrscher—"
Siegfried saw a pair of giant hands reaching for the moon. He turned his head sharply and saw a white-haired girl standing in space, the Earth and the moon like toys in her palms.
Although this image had appeared before, it was different from what Sirin had seen. The color tone of the scene was darker, and the girl's eyes and the patterns on her body emitted a cold light.]
"The sense of pressure is so strong..." The smol cat was afraid online.
"Is this the final enemy that human civilization has to face?"
"I can't imagine how the people of the Previous Era managed to seal a part of Its power on the moon," Mobius glanced at MEI.
"That's Brother Kevin!" Rin pointed.
"And Fu Hua," Sakura said.
"The eight strongest remaining warriors of civilization... although it sounds very impressive, how tragic must the battle that followed have been?" As the voice of reason, MEI saw things from a different perspective than most.
[February 16, 2000. A Valkyrie squad led by Amber entered Novosibirsk, which was already enveloped in black fog. However, in the pitch-black darkness where one couldn't see their own hand, the pseudo-Herrscher of Death easily dealt with the Valkyrie squad. With a strange apology, she removed Amber's gas mask.
"How... how... is this possible... Lord... Otto... I..."
Having inhaled the black fog, Amber quickly lost consciousness.
The scene changed abruptly. A ginkgo leaf slowly drifted down onto still water. Cheng Lixue appeared, holding her sword with her eyes closed. The sword style she practiced, the Sword Style of Taixuan, was created by the Adeptus of Taixuan Mountain, a master known as Chiruan. It was divided into four realms: Still Water, Dustless, Clear Mirror, and Taixuan.
However, despite being a prodigy, Cheng Lixue was unable to enter the Dustless realm due to her inner demons. It was when she called out the word "Master" that Fu Hua smiled gently, unable to hide the sadness in her eyes, and then left without a word the next day.
For various reasons weighing on her heart, unable to enter the Dustless realm without exorcising her inner demons, she decided to use the pseudo-Herrscher of Flame to temper herself. With a fierce swing of the Tenth Divine Key, the Key of Sentience, in her hand, an endless stream of water formed a tornado of water blades that slashed towards the girl in the air.
"Take this sword strike!"
The pseudo-Herrscher of Flame was completely unfazed. The flames she controlled exceeded 5,000 degrees Celsius. With a single blow, the tornado of water blades instantly evaporated. Even the Key of Sentience couldn't withstand the high temperature, and the body of the sword cracked with a sharp sound.
At that moment, as if tired of playing, the pseudo-Herrscher fired a beam of extreme heat that pierced through Cheng Lixue's abdomen.]
"Old Timer, that kid was so nice, gentle and sensible, and she even respected you. Why didn't you acknowledge her?" Senti spoke up for Cheng Lixue.
"That's right, Class Rep. It hurts me to see Cheng Lixue like that," Kiana nodded vigorously.
"I don't know..." Fu Hua was also unclear about the past in the story, but she had a feeling. Looking at the sadness in her character's eyes, she said seriously, "If it were me, I would definitely teach her carefully."
"Uh... isn't Lixue-er already thirty? Compared to her, you guys are more like the children," Theresa scratched her head.
"What?!"
"To think that the strongest A-rank Valkyrie couldn't even last a single move against a Herrscher. It seems Otto overestimated them. A-rank Valkyries can't stop a Herrscher's advance at all," Mobius analyzed.
"And the Divine Key. Is the Tenth Divine Key the ability to control water? It seems a bit weak in its performance," Vill-V said. "Its power is far from that of the Star of Eden or Judah. Is it because of the person using it? Or is it the Divine Key itself?"
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