After experiencing a day of work, Kiana dragged her exhausted...
Well, with her current strength, dealing with Honkai Beasts below Emperor-class was just a matter of annihilating them directly with a single easy strike.
For the current Kiana, the most tiring thing every day wasn't combat, but contacting people from other branches to get coordinates where the Honkai outbreaks occurred.
From the time she formally joined Schicksal until now, about three days had passed.
On the first day, she resolved all the Honkai Beast elimination missions belonging to the Oceania Branch.
On the second day, because Aaron hadn't woken up, the idle Kiana stayed in Aaron's office watching him sleep while instructing other members of the branch to collect missions related to slaying Honkai Beasts.
During this period, because she was too bored, Kiana took out a marker and directly started creating art on Aaron's face.
And Aaron still didn't wake up.
To be honest, if not for Aaron's breathing being even while he slept, looking like nothing was wrong at all, Kiana felt everyone would probably be panicking terribly.
When things go wrong, there must be a demon. For someone like Aaron who usually never showed any fatigue to sleep for so long, there was definitely a big problem no matter how you looked at it.
And the more troublesome part was that Kiana had power, but this power leaned more towards 'destruction'.
She could indeed rely on the power of her fusion bloodline and magical energy to easily heal injuries on her own body, but this didn't mean this method would work on others.
Magical energy, as a special energy, was too domineering. Even if Aaron had stronger power than Kiana, in his completely defenseless state, his body's defense capabilities would inevitably drop to a freezing point.
Ah, ah, this guy... Forget it, seeing as he usually saves people worry, I won't say anything.
After confirming that Aaron probably wouldn't wake up today either, Kiana helplessly left Aaron's office.
On the third day, taking the missions of other branches collected by those staff members yesterday, Kiana embarked on her journey again.
Although she didn't like the man named Otto, aside from Otto, most of the other members of Schicksal currently seemed to be warriors striving to fight against the Honkai.
And the current Kiana, after gaining power, also had a certain understanding of the strength comparison between Valkyries and Honkai Beasts.
Valkyries were divided into five ranks: S, A, B, C, and D. Only S, A, and B ranks could go onto the battlefield.
And this was just the rank permitted to go onto the battlefield to duel with Honkai Beasts and Zombies. In reality, the role a B-rank Valkyrie could play on the battlefield was truly too limited.
One aspect was the armament issue. Valkyries equipped with high-grade Valkyrie battlesuits were already in the minority, and in terms of weapons, there were very few Valkyries who could use [Soulium Weapons].
Most Valkyries relied on standard weapons and low-grade battlesuits, combined with the power of artificial Stigmata, to fight those Honkai Beasts.
Under these conditions, the casualty figures for Valkyries were not pretty.
And this was the result even after the two S-ranks from HQ routinely went out to sweep away Emperor-class beasts.
If an ordinary Valkyrie squad encountered an Emperor-class Honkai Beast, most of the time they would be easily killed by the Emperor-class before reinforcements could arrive.
Under these conditions, Kiana proactively solving most of a branch's combat missions in one day could be considered 'monster' level combat power in a sense.
Although warriors who chose to become Valkyries had mostly disregarded life and death, it was certainly a good thing if someone could help them eliminate those dangerous enemies.
Except for a very few warriors who fought to take revenge on the Honkai, everyone fought so that all of humanity could live a better life in the future.
The appearance of a powerful warrior was not only a good thing for the branch members but also a shot in the arm for warriors across all of Schicksal.
Just on the day Kiana obtained the mission targets from other branches, a little commotion appeared in other branches because of this.
The Kaslanas, as the clan of [Knights], had indeed been producing powerful warriors externally, but the gap between 'powerful' and 'powerful' was sometimes frighteningly large.
Before Siegfried defected back then, as a Divine Key wielder, his strength was already top three within Schicksal. But even a Siegfried like that didn't have such terrifying combat efficiency.
And fourteen years later, Siegfried's daughter hacked through Honkai Beasts in the mission areas of several branches in a single day...
For ordinary warriors, the appearance of a supernova was obviously a good thing.
But for the Branch Directors of other branches, the implications of this matter were a bit complex.
In the branches of Schicksal other than HQ, those who could climb to the position of Branch Director were no pushovers...
Oh, except for Theresa. She was appointed by fiat; whether she was a pushover or not, no one could pull her down.
Her backer was Overseer Otto. Even if someone dared not to give Theresa face, they wouldn't dare to act rashly in front of Overseer Otto.
Setting Theresa aside, when the Branch Directors of other branches received the message from the Oceania Branch saying 'preparing to help solve combat missions', they all thought this was a probe against Overseer Otto led by the new Oceania Branch Director's faction.
On the third day, after Kiana swept through the mission areas of several branches alone with incredibly terrifying speed, this group of people couldn't laugh anymore.
Intelligence on the Key of the Void had already circulated throughout Schicksal, and the power Kiana displayed this day was actually no less than an entire Immortal Blades squad.
Yes, in the eyes of those Branch Directors, Kiana's benchmark wasn't Durandal, but the squad commanded by Durandal.
In their view, Kiana's advantage was even greater.
As long as there were coordinates where the Honkai appeared, she could fly over directly using the Key of the Void to fight.
She herself had the strength to easily kill Emperor-class beasts, and on this basis, other Honkai Beasts and Zombies couldn't pose any threat to her at all.
Because she was from the Kaslana clan, her resistance to Honkai energy was extremely strong.
At the same time, because she also had the bloodline of the Schariac clan, her control over Honkai energy was also terrifying.
Her stamina was stronger than ordinary people, and there was no need to worry about endurance.
One person possessed the combat power of an elite squad, and this wasn't all.
When Durandal led her Immortal Blades out on a campaign, they still needed time for movement.
But Kiana Kaslana didn't need such trouble to make a move.
The Key of the Void allowed her to appear at any location at any time.
This piece of intelligence contained two layers of meaning.
The first layer was—she could appear on any battlefield and sweep away enemies as a savior.
There was nothing bad about this.
At least on the surface, these Branch Directors couldn't pick any faults with this layer of meaning.
But the second layer of meaning wasn't so good.
If Kiana could fly to the Honkai Beasts and hack them to death with a sword, then she could similarly, given the corresponding coordinates...
Fly to other branches and blow their heads off with a gun!
This was the most terrifying thing, okay!
On the night of the third day, although this group of people didn't hold any internal small meetings in secret, they all simultaneously and tacitly reached a consensus.
This was a threat.
Undoubtedly, this was a naked threat!
There was open strife and veiled struggle between Overseer Otto and the Oceania Branch, and the Oceania Branch had already explicitly told us using the most direct means—be smart at a time like this.
If anyone dared to act recklessly, the gun would hit the bird that pokes its head out. Maybe the next morning, some terrible big news like 'The head of XX Branch Director fell to the ground, still wearing a peaceful smile before death' would appear within Schicksal.
Therefore, on the fourth day, which was the day Aaron woke up, when Raiden Mei went out on a mission with Kiana, she found that the cooperation from other branches seemed to have improved a lot.
If yesterday the other party still had a feeling of 'ignoring them', then today was completely different.
The Valkyries from other branches responsible for interfacing directly with them were already full of reverence in their attitude.
This was nothing much. The two, possessing powerful strength, knew very well that this world, to put it bluntly, respected the strong.
Kiana had already demonstrated sufficiently powerful strength, so it wasn't strange for others to be polite.
But some branches actually had their Branch Director come over to bow and greet them politely... No, we just came to solve the Honkai problem; they don't need to be this moved, right???
No, that's not right. This isn't being moved.
Although Mei's magnetic field fundamentals were as substandard as Aaron's, even if she couldn't use Magnetic Field Rotation to easily read the other party's inner thoughts, she could still see some emotions the other party tried to hide in their eyes.
Fear, grievance... Wait a minute, we didn't do anything to you, right?
If these people were afraid of me because I'm a Herrscher, that would be fine, but what the hell is the feeling of grievance?
With puzzling thoughts, Mei fought alongside Kiana for a day, and only then did she inform Hell of these thoughts.
"Senior Hell, I don't quite understand. Kiana and I should be assisting companions from the same organization, right?"
"Why would they show that kind of expression?"
[Well, you might not have realized what it is you are doing right now.]
After hearing Raiden Mei's description, Hell was truly a bit amused.
[In your eyes, you are helping others in the same organization solve the troubles in their hands.]
"In our eyes... You mean, in the eyes of others, what we are doing doesn't mean this?"
[Correct. Two very strong little girls, having just arrived in a big organization, help a bunch of people do a whole lot of life-threatening missions—guess how the mid-to-upper management of that organization would view your actions?]
"Um... Are we buying people's hearts?"
[This answer isn't too stupid, but it cannot be considered the correct answer.]
"This... aside from buying people's hearts, I can't think of other answers."
[For the lower-to-mid-level warriors, you swept away those enemies that might threaten their lives; this is indeed buying people's hearts.]
[But for the mid-to-upper-level management personnel, your behavior is undoubtedly a demonstration of force.]
[A strong dragon doesn't crush the local snake. You made a move and finished the missions that were incomparably difficult for them. To this group of people, this is undoubtedly 'two little girls demonstrating force'.]
[Especially you two. When you made your move, I estimate you had absolutely no thought of holding back. Now, I guess the entire Schicksal knows that two little girls possess power stronger than the entire combat force of one or two branches combined.]
[When excessively powerful strength appears within a branch, the internal balance of an organization like Schicksal, composed of multiple branches, will tilt.]
[And if this power is displayed by that branch, then the situation is even worse.]
[To put it simply, it's your Oceania Branch fighting for the right to speak. To put it broadly...]
"To put it broadly?"
[You are warning them: be obedient. Today we can casually hack those Honkai Beasts to death, so tomorrow we can casually hack other disobedient people to death at any time.]
"Eh?"
"Eh?????????"
"We absolutely don't have that kind of thought!"
Glancing with incomparable shock at Kiana, who was drinking a beverage beside her after returning to the branch, Mei said with absolute certainty.
"I wouldn't do that, and Kiana definitely wouldn't do that!"
"We aren't that kind of people!"
[Well said, but meaningless.]
[Mei, the heart is hidden behind the belly. On what basis do you expect those who don't understand you to believe you just went to do good deeds?]
Reminded by Hell's words, Mei recalled things from when she was still a student.
She really didn't have any thought of flaunting her family wealth back then.
But those classmates around her just felt that some things Mei did at the time were flaunting wealth, showing off that her status was different from theirs.
This was a huge misunderstanding, but few believed Mei even when she wanted to explain.
Now that this kind of thing appeared on her again, Mei felt that stifling feeling from back then descend upon her once more.
"Senior Hell, could it be that our method is wrong?"
"Kiana and I launched operations so quickly, ultimately hoping that those Valkyries fighting the Honkai would suffer fewer casualties. Is this... also wrong?"
[There is naturally nothing wrong with this method, and the result caused isn't a bad thing either.]
"Being misunderstood... can that possibly be a good thing?"
[In a person's life, being misunderstood by others is inevitable. Even if both parties harbor correct thoughts, in many cases, both sides will be unable to understand the other's actions in the end due to conflicts existing between their respective thoughts and personal stances.]
[Ultimately, expecting everyone to understand all your actions is simply impossible. To put it harshly, if you really care about everyone's opinion, you won't be able to make everyone understand you even if you tire yourself to death.]
[For a person, the most important thing is whether they can achieve their goal through their own actions. What you are acting for, and whether your objective is achieved after the action—you should be very clear on this point yourself.]
Under Hell's admonishment, Mei indeed calmed down a lot compared to just now.
She and Kiana took action to kill Honkai Beasts, ultimately to save people earlier and reduce casualties.
And having resolved the Honkai incidents, they had achieved these goals.
Although being misunderstood made Mei a bit unhappy, ultimately, this indeed did no harm.
Rather, as someone with the identity of a Herrscher, even if she didn't take this action, she would be misunderstood by others in other aspects.
[And at this time, we have to talk about that brat. That brat doesn't speak particularly much usually, and when doing things, he often only considers whether the plan is completed. He, on the contrary, has never cared about how others view him.]
[Looking at it from this point, that brat sees things much more clearly than you. Compared to him, you are indeed still too immature from power to state of mind, Mei.]
...No, rather than that, Aaron is overly mature compared to his peers, right?
Recalling the man sound asleep in the office, Mei sighed helplessly.
I feel like normal university students wouldn't have his mentality either.
[People without family grow up very fast. After all, people without family have no one to rely on and can only rely on themselves to survive.]
[Whether it's you, the white-haired girl, or those two little girls. No matter how miserable your pasts were, you at least had family accompanying you by your side.]
[And judging by what that kid usually says, he didn't have many people he could talk to in the orphanage, and after coming out of the orphanage, he acted relying only on his own strength.]
[Under these circumstances, it's not strange at all that he is a bit more mature than his peers.]
"Although I feel like this brat's maturity is just a disguise..."
"Mei?"
Noticing Mei sighing helplessly, Kiana immediately asked with concern.
"What's wrong? Too tired today?"
"A little bit..."
My heart is indeed a bit tired.
Although what Senior Hell said made sense, the feeling of being misunderstood... was still uncomfortable after all.
"Kiana, did you feel anything wasn't quite right today?"
"Not quite right? That would be the looks in those people's eyes."
Sure enough, did Kiana notice those looks too?
"But those looks... Hah, it's nothing big anyway."
As a warrior who had fused with the Dante template, Kiana had already seen Dante's life experiences on the day she fused with the template.
Although she couldn't say she 'fully experienced the other party's experiences just by watching', at least for the current Kiana, some weird looks were no longer things that would attract her attention.
When Dante acted in the past, he had two identities: [Son of the Savior Sparda] and [Half-Demon].
When he acted as a Devil Hunter, he encountered plenty of weird looks.
But for Dante, he actually didn't care much about how others viewed him.
Most of the time, he only craved two things.
Solving those demons bringing disaster to the human world.
And letting himself live on with a comfortable attitude.
"Who cares how they view us? We just do what we want to do."
Gulping down the cold drink in her hand, Kiana said nonchalantly.
"We aren't acting for them either. We act to protect those powerless people, so they won't lose important things because of the Honkai."
"How those guys from other branches view us doesn't affect what we do or the results caused. Now that the Honkai Beasts are hacked by us and people are saved by us, isn't that enough?"
"...True enough."
[Also, Mei, although you are misunderstood now, in terms of results, this isn't a bad thing.]
"Mn... I've gotten over it."
"But what Senior Hell wants to say is a consideration in other aspects, right?"
[Mn. On the day that brat broke through to the Star level, you were still discussing how to create a new organization—you haven't forgotten this matter, right?]
"No."
"It's just that after that, when Aaron brought Seele out of the Sea of Quanta and joined Schicksal, we shelved this matter."
"After all, although we count as members of a Schicksal Branch now, Otto can't boss us around, so we didn't mention this again."
[Correct. Although you belong to one organization now, this is only in name.]
[In reality, anyone in the organization with a bit of brains knows very well that you joined Schicksal in the posture of 'collaborators'.]
[Then at a time like this, exactly how much power the collaborators possess is very important.]
[Why I said the result caused by your actions this time is no problem is also for this reason—you originally needed to display sufficiently powerful strength.]
[Sufficiently powerful strength certainly makes it easy for those management personnel to be more wary of you, but you aren't here to make friends with them anyway.]
[You and the white-haired girl have now displayed enough power to deter those petty people, so in the coming period, they naturally won't dare to have any bad ideas about you.]
[As for them having a bad impression of you because of these actions—Mei, do you still think their impression is important now?]
"Of course not."
"No wonder..."
"We always thought Aaron and Otto had reached an agreement."
"But looking at it now, that was just both sides taking a step back."
[Correct. And just because that brat Aaron reached an agreement with the man named Otto doesn't mean others in this organization know or recognize this result.]
[If you didn't display sufficiently powerful strength and instead really started communicating with them politely like guests from the beginning... Hmph, in that case, you would instead be looked down upon by this group in the coming period.]
[People all bully the weak and fear the strong. Now, in their eyes, even if you are two little girls, you are two little girls who can annihilate a branch's combat power at any time.]
[Under these circumstances, who in the entire organization dares to blow their beard and stare at you?]
"...Sigh, although that's true, this is completely different from the way of getting along between 'organizational companions' in our conception."
[The way of getting along can be improved later, but if you lose the momentum at the start, this group of people will absolutely ride on top of your heads without hesitation.]
[In the past, when I was most powerless, I was also looked down upon by those two masters of mine. Only after I displayed power sufficient to make them dare not act rashly did they restrain their hostility toward me.]
"Senior Hell, you and your masters... was the relationship very bad?"
[Until I died, their relationship with me was very bad. If not for their power being insufficient to act rashly, they inevitably would have chosen to go to war with me.]
[But so what? Their power was just inferior to mine. So no matter how much they hated me, they didn't dare to say half a 'no' to my orders in front of me.]
"No, this kind of relationship is very unhealthy, right..."
[In chaotic times, not everything can be done under the premise of following rules.]
[Your father protected you too well, that's why you have these naive thoughts now.]
[If you were just an ordinary rich young lady, there would naturally be no problem having these naive and kind thoughts. But Mei, you have been forced to step onto this path.]
[To defeat the Honkai, you must use all available power around you. And regrettably, under this premise, some matters cannot be handled with such a gentle attitude.]
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World Serpent. A certain sub-base.
Three days had passed since the raid team led by Raven and Gray Serpent capsized.
In these three days, even Jackal, who always had a sharp tongue, dared not gossip about the experience of the two flipping their vehicle.
The reason was simple—no matter how low Jackal's EQ was, she wasn't so blind as to miss how angry Gray Serpent was right now.
Raven fell into Anti-Entropy's hands, and Gray Serpent also lost multiple clones in this failed raid.
Compared to these, the pile of Death Weavers manufactured by Jackal was instead the most insignificant loss.
Raven was an excellent employee of World Serpent. As the head cadre of World Serpent, Gray Serpent naturally wouldn't watch helplessly as she was tortured day and night after being taken away by Anti-Entropy...
Okay, Gray Serpent didn't even believe these words himself.
It was true Raven was an excellent employee, and it was true Gray Serpent wanted to fish her out. But the reason Gray Serpent wanted to fish Raven out was fundamentally because he worried Raven's mouth wasn't tight enough and she would spill all the intelligence she shouldn't spill.
And regrettably, as Raven's teacher in a sense, Gray Serpent was very clear on what choice Raven would make.
Raven definitely wouldn't spill any intelligence about World Serpent in the first few days.
This wasn't because she was loyal to World Serpent, but because Raven wasn't a fool.
She needed to let the other party know she had sufficient utility value.
Under this premise, the faster Raven spilled intelligence, the closer she naturally got to death.
Regardless of whether she decided to betray World Serpent, stalling for time was the thing Raven should do in the first few days of being captured.
But what about in the days that followed?
Raven's desire to survive was extremely strong, and Gray Serpent, knowing this, actually held a pessimistic attitude toward whether Raven could maintain loyalty to World Serpent in the days to follow.
Although Raven was a cadre of World Serpent, to put it bluntly, she was a mercenary who worked for money.
The Second Eruption fourteen years ago filled that woman with an obsession for living on.
If Raven determined that selling out World Serpent's intelligence could let her live, Raven would absolutely make choices that would greatly disappoint Gray Serpent.
So now, Gray Serpent had to do one thing within the golden window.
Fish Raven out from Anti-Entropy... Well, if he really couldn't fish her out, he could only settle for the next best thing.
If Raven really couldn't be saved, then Gray Serpent could only think of a way to silence her.
After all, truthfully speaking, only dead people wouldn't leak secrets.
For Gray Serpent, if there really was no chance to rescue Raven, he would absolutely kill Raven without hesitation.
And Raven also knew Gray Serpent was this kind of person, so once Raven realized she couldn't escape, she would absolutely choose to sell Gray Serpent in exchange for her own status.
"Jackal, next you... forget it, give me all the troops and transformation reagents in your hands."
"I prepared them for you days ago. But the problem is, we just crashed last time. If you lead the charge in again this time..."
"The worst result is just another batch of Death Weavers and my clones dying."
After saying this coldly, Gray Serpent looked at Jackal with scarlet electronic eyes.
"We are already at rock bottom. Can it get any worse than before?"
"If we continue to drag this out, Raven might really betray us. Our base coordinates being sold is just a matter of time. When Anti-Entropy comes knocking... oh, that might not be a big problem."
"But if Anti-Entropy calls Siegfried, Aaron, Kiana, and Raiden Mei all together, how many of our World Serpent bases can be kept then?"
"...So, why did we take the risk to go to Anti-Entropy to kidnap people in the first place?"
Thinking of Gray Serpent's previous plan, Jackal still couldn't hold back her complaint.
"That matter looked too risky no matter how you look at it. Now it's great; we've lost our family fortune."
"Not to mention failing to grab The Deep (Haiyuan City), we even lost the Key of Thunder. It doesn't matter if that bitch Raven dies, but our second Divine Key and massive amounts of classified intelligence are about to be gone."
"Who knows why that idiot Cocolia was so unreliable."
Thinking of that unreliable blonde woman, Gray Serpent's wrist suddenly emitted a terrifying rattling sound.
"She should have been the one most concerned about this matter. The result? She was discovered and countered, finally implicating... Forget it, I won't talk about it."
"It's not that there are absolutely no means to break the stalemate now. It just depends on whether the bait I scatter this time is enough to catch a big fish."
"Don't, you'd better stop fishing, I beg you."
Hearing Gray Serpent's words, Jackal took a step back with fear in her heart.
"I just feel that your fishing this time will result in the big fish dragging you directly into the water. Gray Serpent, our World Serpent currently cannot afford further massive losses. Please don't pull any more flashy operations."
"At a time like this, it won't do not to take a risk. Jackal, now is not yet the time when Anti-Entropy's combat power is at its highest."
"Their Sovereign Welt hasn't returned yet. If we wait for Welt to heal his injuries and return to Anti-Entropy, and they gain an extra Herrscher-level combatant then, we will really be powerless to salvage the situation."
Recalling the intelligence he investigated through the intelligence network these past few days, Gray Serpent spoke to Jackal with extreme speed.
"The coordinates of The Deep (Haiyuan City) that Cocolia gave us directly—I've already thrown them out."
"Hey! That place concerns the Liege... You, what do you mean?"
Jackal, who wanted to reprimand the other party, thought about it fiercely and suddenly felt the situation was wrong.
"The Deep is the ruins of the Mu Continent from fifty thousand years ago. This place is full of technology residues from the Previous Era, and it might even be possible to enter the Sea of Quanta, connect to the Imaginary Tree, and thereby obtain the authority of a god—don't look at me like that, fishing definitely requires exaggerating."
Shrugging helplessly, Gray Serpent added.
"At least The Deep is indeed the ruins of the Mu Continent, and as the technological holy land of the Previous Era, the Mu Continent indeed might have these things I mentioned—of course, the probability is very low."
"Well said. The problem is, do you think those small fry you catch can have any interference effect on Anti-Entropy?"
At this moment, the look Jackal gave Gray Serpent was becoming increasingly wrong.
After World Serpent experienced a huge blow, Jackal had sobered up a lot.
Looking at the miserable state of those two companions crashing, she recognized one thing—she indeed didn't know how to command.
If she knew how to command, she wouldn't have watched these two idiots go feed kills without even stopping them.
Precisely because of this, Jackal, who was originally full of nonsense, now felt that Gray Serpent might have really been driven crazy.
The ruins of the Previous Era were indeed full of temptation for those intelligence brokers and mercenaries in the inner world.
But even World Serpent fell into Anti-Entropy's hands. Jackal, having calmed down, didn't think those people could pose any threat to Anti-Entropy.
Even if they could sneak near The Deep, they would need sufficient strength to cause chaos, thereby giving World Serpent a chance to rescue Raven or silence her.
And this so-called sufficient strength...
Mn, the venue at The Deep was relatively large.
Unlike Anti-Entropy's HQ, because the venue there was large, sufficient defense lines could be deployed.
Therefore, under this condition, the prerequisite to cause a disturbance was—being able to beat a few Titans.
Damn, among those mercenaries drifting outside these days, how many could handle a few Titans?
Only Schicksal's Valkyries plus mecha squads were opponents for Titans. As for those outside...
"Oh, so that's it, I understand."
After realizing this point, Jackal suddenly had an epiphany.
"You want to fish for Otto?"
"Yes, otherwise what else can be done?"
Seeing that even Jackal realized this, the helplessness in Gray Serpent's tone became more obvious.
"We still don't know what exactly Otto is craving. But Anti-Entropy is his old rival. If he knows Anti-Entropy has such territory and even figured out the coordinates, I think there is still a probability he will choose to make a move."
"Gray Serpent, I feel I need to remind you."
"Even I can see this. Do you think Otto will obediently let you use him as a gun? Calm down a bit, this matter isn't that simple."
In this instant, Jackal felt the identities between her and Gray Serpent had completely swapped.
She calmed down and stopped talking trash or acting recklessly.
And now it was great; Gray Serpent had gone completely mad, acting even more recklessly than the old Jackal.
Is it that the average brain value of our World Serpent cadres is just this much? If one person becomes normal, the other will go crazy.
"First, you analyzed these things knowing the specific plan. Otto doesn't have a god's eye; he can't gain insight into all our thoughts."
"Of course, I don't intend to underestimate Otto. But for Otto, now that an opportunity to weaken the hostile faction's power has appeared, watching this opportunity slip by helplessly would be unlike his style."
"Otto might realize someone is using Schicksal to try and strike Anti-Entropy. But striking Anti-Entropy has no downsides for Otto—under this premise, the probability of him making a move is even greater."
Seeking hide from a tiger is not a good idea.
Jackal wanted to say this, but after thinking a little, she found she was actually almost persuaded by Gray Serpent.
"Of course I know this plan is a huge gamble, but the longer we drag, the greater the probability that Anti-Entropy will be prepared. The greater the probability Anti-Entropy is prepared, the higher the probability our World Serpent is finished."
"Hare is inconvenient to act now, and the Liege can't be rescued. Our odds of winning were getting lower and lower to begin with. If we don't think of a way to gamble at a time like this, then our World Serpent will only die a slow death."
Ah, ah, why did things turn out like this.
Jackal, completely persuaded by Gray Serpent, recalled the time from a while ago.
A while ago, their World Serpent had just started to notice Cocolia was unreliable.
But the World Serpent back then was still a giant lurking in the dark, not yet reduced to this current state.
No, fundamentally speaking, World Serpent had always been a well-lurking large organization.
Even Schicksal provided World Serpent with many conveniences without knowing it.
Everything, sure enough...
—It's all because of this woman, Cocolia!
Who exactly planned to cooperate with her back then!
Just because of cooperating with Cocolia, everything became this terrible now.
Originally, World Serpent could continue to lie dormant, preparing Project Stigma while watching Anti-Entropy and Schicksal fight each other, reaping the benefits.
But now, World Serpent instead had to pin its hopes on the low-probability event of 'Otto discovering that intelligence and sending troops to attack Anti-Entropy'.
Back then, Gray Serpent felt Cocolia was talent worth molding, and the X-10 Experiment data in her hands was useful to World Serpent, so Gray Serpent planned to further cooperate with her.
But looking at it now, if their World Serpent hadn't made that decision back then...
Maybe they wouldn't have fallen into this state at all!