Cocolia's plan was actually very simple.
In the end, their Anti-Entropy side was on par with Schicksal in terms of lower-level combat strength.
But the problem was—the gap in upper-level combat strength was too great.
Anti-Entropy's upper-level combat power, to put it bluntly, was just the Sovereign, Welt Yang. The rest of the strength was just Titans and more Titans—was there any difference?
Siegfried was an ally of Anti-Entropy, that was true, but the one-armed man was no longer the world's strongest who had once saved the world.
The current situation was that Welt Yang was seriously injured and his whereabouts were usually unknown.
Siegfried was allied with Anti-Entropy, but his combat power was a shadow of its peak.
There was too great a gap in upper-level combat strength between Anti-Entropy and Schicksal. If anything went wrong, Schicksal could completely rely on its top-tier forces to gain a huge advantage.
Under these circumstances, Raiden Ryoma actually used the Gem of Conquest to seal Raiden Mei's Stigmata—could she, Cocolia, tolerate this?
If Raiden Mei could be awakened, allowing the Gem of Conquest to fully unleash its proper power, then Cocolia would only need to capture Raiden Mei to obtain a perfect Gem of Conquest.
Whether it was used on the Sky Father or the Moonlight Throne, it would be far more powerful than leaving the gem inside a little girl.
It was from that time that Cocolia began to plot against Raiden Ryoma.
Raiden Ryoma was a smart man and a competent businessman.
ME Corp was thriving under his leadership. If this continued, Raiden Ryoma's position in the organization would only become more stable.
However, his intelligence didn't mean he had no weaknesses.
By exploiting a flaw in Raiden Ryoma's business dealings, Cocolia successfully sent her old colleague to prison and seized control of ME Corp.
And Cocolia sending Raiden Ryoma to prison had another purpose besides taking over ME Corp.
According to the organization's data analysis, the awakening of a Herrscher required a suitable host, and the host's mood needed to be in despair or close to it.
Cocolia knew that Raiden Ryoma doted on his daughter. As long as he could act freely, it would be impossible for Cocolia to bypass Ryoma to attack Mei's spirit.
After destroying Raiden Mei's pillar of support, her mood would certainly not be as cheerful as before.
And by using a few small tricks, like coercion and bribery, to make the people around Raiden Mei start showing malice towards her, it was a foregone conclusion that Raiden Mei would step into despair step by step.
After contacting the students around Raiden Mei, Cocolia even found that without any coercion, just a little bribery was enough for the students who used to have a good relationship with Mei to show their fangs.
People are all jealous. After the object of their past jealousy has fallen, it's not strange for them to kick someone when they're down.
Originally, according to Cocolia's plan, she could just follow this pace and gradually force Raiden Mei to become a Herrscher.
But unfortunately, an accident happened.
First, Siegfried's daughter, Kiana Kaslana, appeared.
She chose to stand on Raiden Mei's side, which improved the slightly desperate girl's mood considerably.
If it were anyone else, Cocolia would have made a move against them long ago.
But... it had to be this girl.
Cocolia still hadn't forgotten that during the Second Eruption, she was on the verge of dying in the Honkai Eruption when a woman with snow-white hair saved her.
And according to her subsequent investigations, that woman's identity was Schicksal's strongest Valkyrie, and also the great hero who died in the Second Eruption.
The woman named Cecilia Schariac was Cocolia's savior, as well as Siegfried Kaslana's wife and Kiana Kaslana's mother.
No matter how ruthless Cocolia's methods were, she couldn't bring herself to kill her savior's daughter with a single stroke.
And the people she sent to warn her...
As expected of Lady Cecilia's daughter.
She was truly a fighter. Ten or so ordinary people would be easily taken care of by her, so Cocolia couldn't do anything in that regard.
What frustrated Cocolia even more was that it wasn't just Kiana; other elements obstructing her plan had also appeared.
Leo Ash.
This transfer student who had inexplicably appeared at Senba High School also disrupted Cocolia's plan.
He had helped Raiden Mei more than once, and just this morning, when Cocolia was preparing to have those female students intensify the pressure on Raiden Mei, Leo Ash directly intervened and beat them up.
It was precisely for this reason that Cocolia seized the opportunity when both Leo Ash and Kiana were away from school to mess with Raiden Mei's mind again.
The umbrella was destroyed by those brats.
The robber was someone she hired.
In addition, Cocolia had Anti-Entropy use electronic warfare to interfere with the signals in the area. Even if Raiden Mei wanted to contact these two, she would only fail because the call wouldn't go through.
Everything was ready, and now...
—As long as her mood worsens further, my plan is one step closer to success.
Schicksal's forces are increasing.
Tesla and Einstein, those two idiots, are still holding me back...
Tch, these people have no idea how serious this is.
In the face of saving humanity...
—What's a sacrifice of a few million lives!
In the commercial street, Leo Ash, who had completely lost Kiana, felt a major headache coming on.
He tried to contact Rita, but she didn't respond.
He searched the streets for a long time, asking a bunch of people, and more than one person had seen the white-haired girl. But by the time Leo Ash followed the directions they pointed—Kiana was so fast, there was no way he could see her.
Ah, this is a huge problem.
And Rita isn't replying to my messages. It seems she's probably busy.
And a matter that requires an S-rank Valkyrie like Rita to be deployed is, by any measure...
Has Anti-Entropy decided to stop hiding and make a move???
[Ding! Detected that the Host meets the conditions for receiving a reward. The reward has been sent to the system mailbox.]
Huh?
Wait??
What the???
Upon hearing the voice in his head, Leo Ash froze on the spot.
According to the System, I'll receive a reward when I overcome a survival crisis or am about to face a major crisis.
Overcome a survival crisis... I don't see how I just had a survival crisis.
So that means this reward is for the other reason.
No, wait, I've only lost track of Kiana for a short time, and you're already telling me a survival crisis is here?
That bastard Otto, just how petty is he about this stuff!
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