The Dimensional Book of Collapse

Chapter 10 Negotiation

"Ha! This little brat is my great aunt!?"

"Call the principal!"

Qin Mo walked over seeing the tied up Kiana with a look of disbelief.

"Don't look at Theresa's appearance. She is already 42 years old, four years older than your mother..."

Before Qin Mo could finish his words, Judas' chains let go of Kiana and tied her up in the direction of Qin Mo.

But before it got close to Qin Mo's body, Qin Mo dodged the attack of the chains as if he had predicted it, and then grabbed them all in his right hand wrapped in armed color.

The Key of Constraint, the Oath of Judah made using the core of the Ruler of Constraint, has the ability to invalidate Honkai energy. Qin Mo has always wanted to test whether it can only invalidate Honkai energy or can invalidate all supernatural powers like the Imagine Breaker.

But seeing as how neither the domineering aura nor the ripples in the body have any effect, it looks like it won't work.

"You actually grabbed Judas' chains with your bare hands. Who are you?"

Theresa did not continue to attack. In fact, the attack just now was just a playful one.

"I'm just an ordinary person who wants to fight against the collapse. How about the request I made before?"

Qin Mo let go of the chain in his hand, letting it be taken back, and asked Theresa.

"Become a student of St. Freya's Academy?"

Theresa turned her gaze to Raiden Mei: "Is this little girl the third Herrscher? Her name is Raiden Mei, right?"

"Raiden Mei, greetings to the principal."

Looking at the polite Raiden Mei, Theresa nodded: "She is a polite girl. She is better than I expected."

Then he looked at Bronya who had been silent on the side.

"Bronya's name is Bronya."

Theresa nodded. After all, it had only been one day since the Great Collapse, so a lot of the information collected was not very complete. Theresa just thought that Bronya was a lucky person who survived.

"Okay, I agree."

Theresa nodded: "However, I also have a request, that is, you must accept the supervision arranged by the school!"

"On this point, I have another request, no, or it would be more appropriate to say a trade."

Qin Mo suddenly spoke.

"What's wrong? You can't give in on this. Even though you're acting normal now, you can't guarantee that there won't be problems in the future."

Qin Mo could not deny what Theresa said but did not give a direct answer: "It's not a supervision issue, but a new deal. However, I want to talk to the principal alone."

"Alone? That is?"

Theresa looked at the others.

"Mei, you and Kiana and the others should go out first."

Mei wanted to say something, but then she realized she didn't know what to say, so she could only say: "Please be careful."

"Jizi, you should go out and wait for a while."

But there was one person who was dissatisfied with this request.

"Wait a minute! Auntie! Qin Mo said you know where the stinky daddy is, right?"

Before being kicked out again, Kiana finally remembered the purpose of her trip.

"Siegfried? I do know where he is."

Theresa looked down at Kiana and said, "But there is a condition if you want me to tell you! That is to become an A-level Valkyrie. Since you want to go to school here, then become a Valkyrie. As long as you become strong, I will tell you."

“Humph! I thought it was a request. As long as I am serious, I will become a Valkyrie or something else.”

Theresa nodded and said, "It's a good thing to have confidence. Jizi, take them to your dormitory first. I will talk to this brat."

Watching the others leave, Theresa sat down at the desk and looked at Qin Mo in front of her: "So, what is the deal you are talking about?"

"The Far East Branch, no, St. Freya Academy, the concept when it was founded, Theresa, do you still remember it?"

After everyone else left, Qin Mo sat down on the sofa beside him without any hesitation.

"idea?"

Theresa frowned, not knowing what Qin Mo wanted to say, but she still said, "St. Freya Academy was established to train Valkyries who fight for the good of the world. Is there any doubt about this?"

"Fight for all the good in the world? Haha..."

Qin Mo smiled: "This is obviously just a slogan of destiny, and if this is enough, Cecilia would not have proposed to establish the Far East Branch, to create the Saint Freya Academy where Valkyries can experience beauty and cherish their lives, and she would not have proposed to let her daughter, Kiana, go to school here."

"Although Cecilia is no longer here, you still managed to successfully establish this academy."

"..."

Theresa, who was originally sitting on the desk, jumped down when Qin Mo was halfway through his speech and looked at Qin Mo, who was sitting on the sofa, at eye level.

"Who are you? Why do you know this?!"

Many people knew that Cecilia was the one who proposed Saint Freya's idea, and many people in Sentence who had participated in the Second Herrscher crusade knew it.

But the following words were completely a private agreement between Theresa and Cecilia.

"I have answered this question before. Of course, I am not mentioning this to expose your past, but to ask, Principal, do you think that Saint Freya has done what we agreed to do?"

Theresa crossed her arms and snorted.

"Isn't St. Freya Academy right here now?"

"Haha, that's not what I meant. Although you did give those Valkyries a superior living environment and let them enjoy the beauty of life while learning and training, in order to become Valkyries and not be eroded by Honkai energy, they had to carve artificial stigmata on their bodies."

"Although artificial stigmata can protect them from dying from ordinary Houkai energy erosion, they also have great side effects. Not only will they cause pain and shorten their lifespan, but they will also cause the body to collapse, right?"

Theresa looked into Qin Mo's eyes and didn't understand what Qin Mo meant by this. Although the artificial stigmata was a secret of Tianming, it was not surprising that the other party knew it. After all, he even knew about the private affairs between Cecilia and himself.

"So what do you want to say?"

"What I want to say is very simple. I can help them alleviate the pain caused by the stigmata and prolong their lifespan. Although I can't say that I can completely eliminate the side effects of the stigmata, I can strengthen their vitality and not let them be dragged to death by this thing."

Chapter 11: Saint Freya Villa

"New technology? This thing you are talking about is useless to me. Although I am the head of the Far East Branch, I don't understand technology."

"Of course not. If that were the case, I wouldn't have come to you. And I don't want to deal with your grandfather, the Archbishop of Heaven's Will. I think you should understand why."

Qin Mo shook his head and said, "What I am going to show you next is the power that comes from the most instinctive power of human beings, the miracle hidden in the human body, the Immortal Wave!"

"Xian Dao, Ripple?"

Just when Theresa was feeling strange, she saw Qin Mo take a deep breath, and a brilliant golden light bloomed in his palm.

After she cautiously blocked Judas in front of her, she realized: "No Honkai reaction? This is not Honkai? How did you do it?"

No matter how Theresa looked at it, Qin Mo did not have any mechanism in his hand that could emit light.

Qin Mo did not explain, but turned his head to look around, fixed his eyes on the fish tank next to him, and then stretched out his index finger and pointed at the water surface of the fish tank.

Theresa clearly saw the golden lightning-like thing wrapping up the fish tank, and then lifting the fish tank up with just one finger, without even grabbing it.

No! It wasn't the fish tank that was lifted up! It was the water inside that was lifted up. Even the goldfish in the water were not affected.

"This is it! How did you do it!?"

No matter how hard Theresa tried, she couldn't understand how Qin Mo did it. After all, she didn't feel any reaction to the Honkai energy, and the fish tank was hers, so there couldn't be any mechanism in it.

Theresa even ran over and put her hand deep into the water, only to withdraw her hand when she saw the goldfish being scared away by her hand.

Looking at the water stains on his hands, he fell into silence.

"This is the Immortal ripple, which can also be called ripple qigong. Its principle is to generate ripples in the blood through a specific breathing rhythm. The power generated is just like throwing a stone into the water to create ripples. The special breathing method can also generate ripples in the human body and thus generate powerful power."

Qin Mo put the water in his hand back into the fish tank and looked at Theresa: "The power of the ripples is not very lethal, but it is not a killing force, but comes from the vitality of the body. The ripples can dissolve pain, prolong life, and delay aging. Even if you are very old, you will not look old."

"Oh, you don't need this, Principal, but the other girls will probably care about it."

Theresa, who was struggling to understand Qin Mo's words, immediately got angry when she heard the following words: "So, talking about a woman's age is a taboo!"

He let out a long sigh: "But this is just your one-sided statement. I didn't see the other effects you mentioned."

Theresa has also become scheming, Qin Mo thought silently.

"That's true, but I have mastered more than one power as I travel around the world. The other one has an effect that can be seen with the naked eye."

Qin Mo silently switched the character card: "The ripples exist to extend the life of the Valkyries, so this power is to increase their survival rate. I call it Armament Haki!"

"Come on, attack me, Theresa!"

Qin Mo's arm was instantly wrapped in domineering aura and turned black.

"Attack? Good!"

I don’t know if it was for personal revenge, but Theresa pulled out a spear from Judas and stabbed it towards Qin Mo.

Ding!

The spear pressed against Qin Mo's palm without moving at all, and didn't even scratch the oily skin.

"This is Armament Haki. Haki is the power derived from the aura of the human body, which is transformed into substance. Armament Haki can increase defense and destructive power, and can also be transmitted to objects through the human body."

After blocking Theresa's attack, Qin Mo plucked a leaf from the potted plant nearby. The leaf was instantly wrapped in domineering aura and turned black, and then he used it as a blade to chop the flowerpot.

The originally fragile leaves actually tore a smooth cut in the flowerpot, just like being cut by a sharp blade.

"This is the increase in destructive power, how is it?"

Theresa put the spear in her hand back into place: "Is this your bargaining chip? If it's a deal, what do you want?"

"Let me make it clear first, the Far East Branch has no money. If you want money, you might as well go find Grandpa."

Qin Mo smiled and said, "Do you think I care about money? I only have three requests."

"First, you are not allowed to hand us over to the Tianming headquarters. We are not here for the name of Tianming, but for this Far East branch established by Cecilia's will, and for you."

Qin Mo still remembered what he often heard in his previous life: you can trust Theresa's character, but you cannot trust Theresa's IQ.

So he had to make an agreement in advance, and basically as long as the agreement was made, Theresa would not violate it.

"That's no problem. Since you are St. Freya's students, it is my duty as the principal to protect you. What about the second one?"

"The second is that you are forbidden to tell Alto about my situation. You can make up an excuse and say that I am an ordinary person who can have ripples and domineering."

In fact, Qin Mo revealed a lot of things along the way in order to seize the initiative. If he was in front of Otto, perhaps all his secrets would have been guessed. However, he felt much more at ease with Theresa and Jizi. It was not that he looked down on their IQ, but that Otto was too evil and scheming.

"That's not a problem either, what about the third one?"

"The third one is that Mei and I don't want to live in the dormitory!"

"Where can you live if not in the dormitory? We agreed that someone must supervise you, and you can't leave this island."

Qin Mo shook his head: "What I mean is, I need you to build a villa for us to live in. Of course, I have no objection to who you arrange to live in with us. Anyway, everyone can have their own room. Even if you, the school principal, live in it yourself, it's no problem."

"Ha! Villa?!"

Theresa jumped up immediately: "I, the principal, don't even have a villa to live in! St. Freya Academy doesn't have such a building either. Do you know how long it will take to build it from now on?"

"With Destiny's technology, it should be over within a week."

Seeing Qin Mo's ease, Theresa gritted her teeth and said, "Do you know how much it would cost to use Tianming's technology? The Far East Branch doesn't have that much money."

"I think if you sell the ripples and domineering, no, even if you just sell the ripples to your grandfather, maybe you don't have to sell it, just give it to him directly, and then act like a spoiled child, it doesn't matter how much money he wants, right?"

After hearing Qin Mo's words, Theresa thought about it seriously. As a woman in her forties, Theresa had no psychological pressure to act young, let alone act coquettishly.

After all, she only looks like she’s twelve, and Otto has always looked that way.

"Okay, I agree, but I also have a request and a question."

As long as he agreed, Qin Mo breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, in order to understand the protagonist's life experience, he had read other people's posts on the Internet that integrated the background of Honkai Impact 3rd. Otherwise, with his personality of skipping the game plot at the beginning, he really couldn't find a topic to create this mystery.

"It's a normal request. What is it?"

"I want you to be Saint Freya's teacher, responsible for teaching Ripple and Haki! Anyway, the previous request only asked you to join, but didn't say that you must be students."

Theresa looked smug, as if she had gotten some advantage.

"It's a reasonable request, I agree to it, but what about the problem?"