Soon, a girl with silver-gray spiral twin-tails opened her eyes before him, and her appearance was exactly like Bronya from his memory.
After opening her eyes, she spoke in a milky tone: "Bronya, awaiting orders."
While Lucius looked at the secondary personality before him, he kept his eyes fixed on the system interface, but unfortunately, the system interface had no reaction.
Lucius sighed and waved his hand. The Bronya before him dissipated, leaving only the Herrscher core floating in the air.
"As expected, it doesn't work."
Although this system was rather foolish, it did have a strict set of criteria for character determination.
Kevin and MEI were essentially counterparts of Kiana and Mei, similar flowers in two cycles. He couldn't just randomly find someone, change their appearance and name, and have them be judged as a counterpart.
Otherwise, with his transformation abilities, he wouldn't mind guest-starring as Bronya himself, but unfortunately, the system didn't recognize it.
This perhaps involved some ethereal yet truly existing concept of fate in this world, just like what a certain leader from the Land of Light said: Bronya must be Bronya!
However, although the attempt failed, Lucius wasn't disappointed, or rather, he had anticipated this result all along.
Before this, Lucius had thought of many ideas to piece together the character of Bronya, but found that many were unworkable.
For example, using the First Herrscher's remains to create a clone.
But a clone would only be another person with the same appearance and genes, and couldn't count as a counterpart.
Or trying to explore the Sea of Quanta to see if he could fish out a Bronya from a world bubble.
But accessing the Sea of Quanta itself was a difficult problem, not to mention finding another Bronya would be like finding a needle in a haystack.
Where could he find another Bronya that met the requirements?
"Eh~ I actually do have an idea."
As everyone knows, in the rules of the Honkai world, person = consciousness + vessel.
The First Herrscher of this era was Bronya's counterpart. Although her consciousness dissipated the moment she died, her body as a vessel still remained!
So if he just found a Bronya's consciousness to stuff into it, wouldn't he get a complete Bronya?
And coincidentally, while he indeed had no way to obtain a complete Bronya, if it was just Bronya's consciousness, he actually had a method.
Thinking of this, he looked at his system inventory and found the A-rank Stigmata Selection Box, choosing Bronya's stigmata.
Stigmata were a segment of genetic information, but in a sense, they could also be considered true life—another self existing in stigmata space.
Lucius's inspiration actually came from Seele fifty thousand years later. Since Black Seele, the stigmata Seele, counted as part of Seele's character, then according to this broken system's blatant copying of the game system's judgment, why wouldn't stigmata Bronya count as Bronya?
Now, Bronya's consciousness was already available. What was missing was a matching vessel.
And this was why he had come to find Mobius to obtain the location of the First Herrscher's remains.
The thought flashed through his mind, but Lucius's hands didn't stop moving. Before him, a spatial rift was torn open out of thin air.
Lucius held the Herrscher core in one hand and walked into the spatial rift without hesitation.
With the recreated authority of the Herrscher of the Void, he didn't even need to break through the defenses set up by Fire Moth. He quickly arrived at where the First Herrscher's remains were sealed.
In Lucius's vision, a petite girl with silver-gray hair was quietly frozen in a stasis field, completely lifeless.
Her body was already badly damaged, as if it had been bombarded by weapons of mass destruction. The overall mass lost was probably at least one-third.
This was just a broken corpse.
Lucius's gaze swept over the remains, revealing a disappointed expression.
"As expected, the Herrscher core isn't here."
Although he had guessed this result from Mobius's resentment, not being able to obtain the Herrscher of Reason's core still left him feeling somewhat disappointed.
With the Herrscher of Reason authority he currently possessed, he could create a core with his bare hands, but once the experience card's time ran out, his power and authority would be reclaimed by the system. At that point, the Herrscher core he created would just be a crystal containing enough Honkai energy without any authority.
The cores left behind after a Herrscher's death were different—they retained the corresponding Herrscher's authority. If he could obtain one, he could ask Vill-V to craft it into a Divine Key.
"What a shame..."
Lucius sighed and casually tossed the Herrscher of Reason core in his hand.
This core glowing with pale blue light spun several times before him, then passed through the stasis field and merged into the First Herrscher's broken remains.
The next moment, the Herrscher of Reason's power to construct all things activated.
The First Herrscher's broken remains began to be restored out of thin air. In the blink of an eye, the missing parts of the body were completely repaired.
Then, accompanied by faint movements in the chest cavity, the heart that had long stopped beating burst forth again, and blood began to flow throughout the body following the heartbeat.
Whoosh!
The First Herrscher's body in the stasis field suddenly opened its eyes, and pale blue light burst forth from them.
And in Lucius's mind, he simultaneously saw himself standing outside the stasis field and the First Herrscher's body within it.
Lucius looked at the system and found it still had no reaction.
"Tch... as expected, it doesn't work."
So, using the secondary personality to occupy the First Herrscher's body, he loaded Bronya's stigmata onto it.
And next came the most critical step.
Lucius deployed the Herrscher of Reason's authority. Through this power that analyzed all things, his gaze pierced through the strings of genetic information that constituted the stigmata, seeing a phantom projected into stigmata space through this genetic information.
It was a girl with Bronya's appearance but looked extremely ethereal. She was Bronya's stigmata personality.
Aside from certain heterogeneous stigmata, ordinary stigmata consciousness couldn't exist independently—at least the consciousness in the A-rank Bronya stigmata couldn't exist independently.
If he just stuffed it into this body, it would probably dissipate immediately. To make it exist, he needed to complete something like a reversal of the Stigmata Project.
So, borrowing the recreated power of the Herrscher of the Void, Lucius reached out his hand, grasped the Bronya in stigmata space across an unknown distance, and pulled her out.
At the same time, he stuffed his secondary personality into the original stigmata space. The stigmata space and the real world underwent a reversal.
"Having the stigmata consciousness exist in place of the person in reality, rounding up, I've basically completed a Stigmata Project, haven't I?"
Feeling the secondary personality settle into silence, Lucius looked at the First Herrscher's body that had already opened its eyes in the stasis field.
Bronya counterpart's body + Bronya's stigmata personality = Pinduoduo version of Bronya. Lucius was willing to call her—Assembled Duck.
And at the same time, the long-dormant system panel finally had a reaction.
...
"This time we've thoroughly offended Mobius. That madwoman probably won't let us off."
In a sealed room, several officials were conducting a secret meeting.
Although it felt great when taking the money, once they actually received it, they discovered they now had to face Mobius's fury.
This scientist held a pivotal position in both the United Government and Fire Moth, and she was also a mad scientist with a notorious reputation.
If she really decided to fight them to the death over this matter...
The several people exchanged glances. Thinking of those terrible rumors about Mobius, they all shivered.
At this moment, someone suggested:
"How about we each contribute some money to share with her?"
But as soon as he said this, he was met with cold stares from the others.
"This money was obtained through my own abilities. Why should I share it with her?!"
Although Mobius was terrifying, when they thought about the money leaving their hands, they felt Mobius didn't seem quite so scary after all.
"We didn't push the responsibility onto her. We just made one of her subordinates take the fall."
"No matter how crazy she is, she can't possibly fight us to the death over a mere assistant, right?"
The several people thought about it and found this indeed seemed to be the case.
"Regardless, let's finalize the crimes of that assistant first to prevent complications..."
"Bang bang bang!"
Before he could finish speaking, a knocking sound came from the door.
Everyone frowned, showing displeasure.
One of them stood up, yanked open the door, and yelled outside: "I gave orders that during the meeting, don't..."
His words gradually stopped.
Because he discovered that standing outside wasn't his subordinate, but a small girl with silver-gray spiral twin-tails.
She wore punk-style clothing, had goggles on her forehead, and seemed to be chewing bubble gum.
"Uncle, step back two steps. I'll give you something good that'll guarantee to make you fly~!"
"Oh, okay... wait, whose kid are you?!"
The man instinctively stepped back two steps, then realized that with his strict instructions, how could a little girl possibly make it to his conference room?
But as soon as his words left his mouth, he saw two spheres bearing a strange yellow rabbit appear out of thin air in the girl's hands, and she threw them at him.
"Catch, Uncle."
The man instinctively caught them. Just as he was about to yell angrily, he immediately realized something was wrong with the spheres in his hands.
Because no matter how he looked at them, these things seemed like... grenades?
At that moment he saw that the girl had two pull rings on her fingers and was looking at him with a grin.
The man's face instantly turned deathly pale. He shrieked and was about to throw them out.
However, the girl outside had already grasped the door handle first.
"Bang!" The door closed.
"Ah! Ahhh!!! BOOM!!!"
Screams accompanied by a roar exploded inside the conference room.
Outside the conference room, the silver-gray-haired girl watched the roof being blown off and some unknown organization flying into the sky.
She blew a bubble with her gum.
"Bro, you're really flying now~"
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