[Welt-One's Rage]: Sometimes people make irrational choices when extremely angry, but sometimes these choices are not wrong. Welt-One wants that despicable vixen to lose everything and be transformed into a puppet.
Reward: 300 Primogems + Random Item
"Of course, I accept your commission." Feeling the anger transmitted from Welt-One, Chen Luo smiled pleasantly.
Not accepting a commission would be foolish.
Especially one so aligned with his own thoughts.
After all, Cocolia is not a good person. She was the one who triggered the Third Honkai Impact, and even planned to trigger another major impact in Singapore not long after.
Millions of lives, lost due to a single decision.
Treating the lives of millions in a city as toys, as experimental subjects—if Chen Luo had to say, sentencing her to death wouldn't be excessive.
It's just a pity that Anti-Entropy ultimately only gave her imprisonment as punishment.
Of course, the same goes for Otto.
Otto's merits and faults cannot be simply calculated, but overall, he has both merits and faults.
But Cocolia... you really don't see her doing anything proper.
Wendy was also killed by this woman.
Wendy had already been persuaded to surrender by Bronya, but then Cocolia pulled the rug out from under them, manipulating the chip inside Bronya to make her attack Wendy.
The result was that Wendy, who "might" have become an asset for humanity, was killed.
Cocolia, you have done every evil deed.
So, Cocolia might be a not-bad mother, but she is definitely not a good person.
Or rather, she isn't even a good mother. After all, would a good mother use her own children for human experiments?
As for whether Chen Luo can accomplish this commission...
Well, it's a commission. Accept it first, then talk.
"This task is slightly difficult. It's not that transforming Cocolia into a puppet is hard; the main difficulty is catching Cocolia." After accepting the commission, Chen Luo stroked his chin and said.
If you only analyze Cocolia's combat power, Chen Luo could beat her to her knees with one hand. After all, Cocolia has never been a character defined by her personal martial prowess.
Although Cocolia is a soldier and has high combat power among ordinary people, she's still just an ordinary person.
Never mind Chen Luo; even Welt-One could pin her down firmly. Of course, one cannot rule out Cocolia carrying some dangerous things for self-defense, like a quantum mech.
"So the reason this 3-star commission's reward can reach 300 Primogems isn't because fighting Cocolia is the main point; finding Cocolia is the main point," Chen Luo muttered.
Right now, among the three people nearby, one is unconscious and a semi-puppet, and the other is his puppet, so Chen Luo had no intention of hiding anything.
Most importantly, the area was indeed filled with surveillance, but the Herrscher of Corruption's authority isn't just for show.
If Cocolia has the ability to eavesdrop on his words, Chen Luo would teach her Meta-Morph Surgery.
The Talent Panel's commission difficulty and reward judgment are quite fair, comprehensively considering the obsession and desire of the commission issuer, the commissioner's strength, and the completion difficulty of the target.
Disregarding any external factors, the difficulty of turning Cocolia into a puppet is quite high.
But fortunately, there are two ready-made spies at hand.
With this semi-puppetized Sin, although Chen Luo cannot influence her thoughts, he can use the "threads" to grasp all the intelligence she has seen without her noticing.
And this Welt is even more of a traitor among traitors.
"Hey, Welt, do you want me to personally turn Cocolia into a puppet? Or do you want to personally turn her into a puppet?" Chen Luo asked in a highly tempting tone.
"What did you say?" Welt instantly raised his head.
"You have the ability to let me... personally turn her, turn Cocolia, into a puppet?" Welt-One's tone held surprise mixed with a thread of excitement.
"Of course, why not? It just requires a little bit of Honkai energy... After all, as the Herrscher of Domination, how could I not have the standard-issue Thousand Herrscher Core?" Chen Luo couldn't help but laugh.
"But this also requires your help," Chen Luo said.
"Sir, whatever help you need, please speak freely," Welt-One said respectfully.
Although Chen Luo hadn't changed his thinking, he had made him understand his own identity and the necessary respectful attitude towards himself.
After all, the arrogant and domineering Welt-One really isn't very likable. That's a fact.
"Alright, then come with me. Let's blow up the Honkai energy reactor at ME Corp." Chen Luo stood up from Sin's back, then tapped the back of her head again, causing her, who should have woken up in a few minutes, to fall back into deep sleep.
Sin's mind belongs to herself, but Sin's body is under Chen Luo's control.
And in the end, Chen Luo ultimately made this choice.
Detonate the Honkai energy reactor at ME Corp to increase the overall Honkai energy concentration in Nagazora City.
Because the disappearance of Honkai energy in Nagazora City is, no matter how you look at it, not a good thing.
First, if the amount of Honkai energy is insufficient, Raiden Mei won't be able to become the Herrscher of Thunder smoothly later.
Second, if the Honkai energy in Nagazora City disappears, the Honkai beasts that automatically generate due to the Honkai environment will gradually vanish. St. Freya Academy would lose a training ground.
Third, if all the Honkai energy around Nagazora City disappears, then Honkai beasts and zombies wouldn't care where they go. Although they might gradually suffer from malnutrition due to the lower Honkai concentration, it's more likely that after the Honkai energy disappears, they would move towards other cities.
Because after the Honkai energy in Nagazora City disappears, this place would no longer be suitable for Honkai beasts and zombies to live in.
To use a more appropriate analogy: if a beehive is destroyed and the bees have nowhere to go, they will naturally choose other places to build a new hive, and might even attack all nearby creatures.
Of course, Nagazora City currently still maintains 2/5 of its original Honkai energy concentration, so the likelihood of the last scenario is small, but not nonexistent.
Actually, if Chen Luo had awakened as any Herrscher other than the Herrscher of Domination, he could have absorbed all the Honkai energy in Nagazora City himself. Along with his abilities, he could have stripped the skin and bones of all the zombies and Honkai beasts in the entire city, sucking them dry.
But unfortunately, the Herrscher Chen Luo became is the Herrscher of Domination. The individual combat power of the Herrscher of Domination's puppets isn't high to begin with, so the upper limit of Honkai energy absorption intensity for a Herrscher of Domination puppet is inferior to other Herrschers.
However, for Chen Luo, the Herrscher of Domination is more useful than other Herrschers.
"Hmm, right, Welt, have you noticed your power has increased?" Chen Luo suddenly asked.
"Uh, yes. I feel my physical fitness has subtly improved, and the output when using my gravity ability is also stronger. The multiple of gravity I can control has more than doubled compared to before." Hearing Chen Luo's question, Welt paused for a moment before nodding.
"That's not what I was asking... Ah, forget it. You can't feel it now, but you should be able to sense it when you fight someone." Chen Luo shook his head and stopped paying attention to Welt.
The reason Chen Luo asked was that after being transformed into a puppet by Chen Luo, Welt would naturally also enjoy the benefits Chen Luo provided.
Puppeteer: All damage caused by your own summons is increased by 60%.
Perhaps this effect can only be perceived more clearly during combat.
Of course, with the acquisition of the two puppets, Yae Sakura and Welt, Chen Luo also enjoyed the effect of his own Stigma: For each additional summon on your side, your own All Damage is increased by 20%, up to a maximum of 5 stacks.
It's just a shame that those semi-puppets aren't counted as summons.
Another point is that if Chen Luo leaves this world, this bonus will be canceled, both for the puppets and for Chen Luo, because effects are not universal between different worlds.
"Anti-Entropy's other aspects aside, this quantum armor technology is indeed quite good." Chen Luo praised Anti-Entropy as he walked through ME Corp.
This time, Cocolia seemed to have invested heavily, deploying quite a few armors capable of quantum stealth.
This kind of quantum armor is quite useful, but the cost of researching them was enormous.
This technology was obtained by Cocolia during the X-10 Experiment, which was the experiment involving Seele.
Because of this experiment, due to Seele's special nature and the experiment's own great danger, Seele's entire body was quantized, and thus trapped in the Sea of Quanta.
So, Cocolia isn't even a good mother.
Even though she later tried everything to make amends and rescue Seele, it still doesn't change this fact.
Laughable. If apologies were useful, what would we need police for?
"But unfortunately, they're mine now." While using the still-functional surveillance network spread throughout ME Corp, Chen Luo used the Herrscher of Corruption's authority to infect all these mechs.
As the ultimate virus, the Herrscher of Corruption is absolutely useful and the absolute authority in the electronic domain within the Honkai world.
Moreover, after infecting these mechs, Chen Luo didn't immediately seize control. Instead, he planted a seed inside each mech. After this operation concludes without losses, they would inevitably be taken back for maintenance and repairs. At that time, he could use Anti-Entropy's internal network to spread this virus to every mech.
Of course, this is the ideal scenario; reality might have some discrepancies.
But Chen Luo isn't worried about someone discovering this virus. Even if discovered, it's useless; they wouldn't even know how it was created.
After all, a corruption that even the Previous Civilization couldn't resist is still a bit beyond the scope for this civilization.
Before, Chen Luo wondered how to get the good stuff from the Anti-Entropy faction, or how to buy it cheapest. Now, thinking about it, why buy at all?
Once the Herrscher of Corruption's virus infects all of Anti-Entropy's assets, won't Anti-Entropy be just like his own backyard?
For Schicksal, an organization that relies mainly on Valkyries to fight the Honkai, Chen Luo currently doesn't have many completely countering methods. But for Anti-Entropy, an organization focused on high technology and mechs, Chen Luo, possessing the Herrscher of Corruption's authority, truly hard-counters them.
Buy? Buy what?
Mine, mine, it's all mine!
Welt? Anti-Entropy Sovereign? No, no, the Anti-Entropy Sovereign is me, Chen Luo!
Starting from just an ordinary intern member of the Anti-Entropy faction, making a counterattack to become the Anti-Entropy Sovereign.
This is Chen Luo's counterattack journey.
Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river, don't bully the young for being poor.
Welt is dead, long live Chen Luo!
A fine bird chooses a tree to roost upon; Chen Luo wished to serve a wise master, but could only sigh in vain.
Look at Chen Luo's current factions:
Anti-Entropy: Intern.
Schicksal: Cleaner for the Immortal Blades.
Honkai: Discount is only 8% off, not even enough to be a dual-core Herrscher.
Flame-Chasers: Chen Luo doesn't even know what position Mobius got for him now?
St. Freya Academy: An unknown staff member?
But it's not a big problem. See how Chen Luo is already close to successfully counterattacking one?
Since nobody values me, then I won't stand on ceremony.
If there's no wise master, then I will become the wise master.
After walking not far, Chen Luo, familiar with the path, followed Welt to the Honkai energy reactor.
The Honkai energy reactor at Nagazora City's ME Corp can be said to be ultra-high power; otherwise, it couldn't have triggered a major eruption.
Besides, Raiden Ryoma usually worked at this ME Corp, so naturally, the configuration had to be a bit higher.
Because of this, the Honkai energy reactor still had very sufficient Honkai energy.
"Hmm, enough for me to create one Herrscher core." Looking at the reactor before him, Chen Luo was quite satisfied.
"Herrscher core?" Welt, standing beside Chen Luo, couldn't help but ask.
"Yes, Welt. Don't forget your identity. You are now a qualified Herrscher of Domination puppet. Due to my special nature, a Herrscher core didn't generate inside you, but you still hold the Herrscher identity—a genuine Herrscher identity."
"And the Herrscher of Domination can create 1000 cores; isn't that very normal? So creating a Herrscher core isn't really troublesome. With this core, after you insert it into Cocolia's body, you can transform her into a puppet without me having to do it personally." Chen Luo said while pressing his hand against the Honkai energy reactor.
Simply put, this Herrscher core is a one-time puppet conversion device. After use, this Herrscher core will disappear, and the converted target will become a puppet.
However, due to the Herrscher of Domination's lackluster level, the strength of this Herrscher core isn't high. Trying to convert even Welt with this core would be somewhat difficult.
After all, although Welt is weak, he's weak among high-tier combatants. Beating an ordinary A-rank Valkyrie is still no problem.
Generally, such cases require Chen Luo's personal intervention.
"But although the conversion strength of this Herrscher core isn't high, Cocolia herself is weak."
It's true that after becoming the leader of the Anti-Entropy reformists, she carries very powerful and loyal quantum-capable mechs with her... but... this doesn't change the fact that her personal strength is frail.
Of course, ordinary people shouldn't provoke her; she was, after all, a Captain in the Russian Special Forces.
You'd get your stomach acid beaten out.