On how PhDs become human evil

(Since the Honkai Impact began, has South America lost more than 30 million people? What a terrifying rate of destruction...)

Otto's heart, which had been beating for five hundred years, accelerated once again. He truly could not imagine that even with the technology and magical support provided by Bai Jie, South America had already suffered such damage. If it weren't for Bai Jie... South America would probably have been destroyed.

No matter how powerful Destiny is, it is still just an organization with only a few hundred Valkyries under its command, and even fewer who can go to the battlefield. It is absolutely impossible for it to have the spare capacity to support other places.

"I thank you from the bottom of my heart, Doctor."

[This is Fafnir, has command received this?]

Suddenly, Bai Jie's voice rang out in the command center, and then Bai Jie's face appeared on the big screen.

The Herrscher of Wind, Herrscher of Thunder, and Herrscher of Metal who appeared in Siberia have all been defeated, and their cores have been recovered. However, the Snow Wolf Squad has suffered losses; please send reinforcements.

The three Herrschers have been defeated?

Upon hearing this news, there was a moment of silence in the command center. They were still busy dealing with the massive collapses happening all over the world, so how could Bai Jie have already taken care of three Herrschers?

"Doctor, have you really defeated three Herrschers?" Otto broke the silence in the command center.

[Do I need to lie at such a crucial moment? Instead, hurry up and send someone over! Shigure Kira and Shub Nicholas are seriously injured; they're on my heels right now!]

"I understand, Doctor. Please hold out for another thirty minutes and gather your nearest Russian branch. They will send someone over."

[Fafner received.]

Bai Jie cut off the communication after he finished speaking, but a few seconds later, another communication came in.

[This is Chen and Cecilia. We have suppressed the Herrscher of Death that appeared in France. Please report the location of the nearest Herrscher.]

If Bai Jie's news was a heavy blow, then this news was nothing short of a bolt from the blue.

"Lord Chen and Lady Cecilia? When did you two launch your attack?!"

It's no wonder the staff were surprised, because just an hour ago they were still in the residential area of ​​the Fate/stay night floating island! And now they've received news that they've taken down the Herrscher of Death. Their actions were incredibly fast!

"Thank you for your hard work, Chen and Cecilia. The next Herrscher is in Egypt and is currently moving towards the Mediterranean region. The African branch is resisting, but they should only be able to hold out for an hour."

[Chen received, proceeding immediately to the Mediterranean region—Hoshiguma! Chashao Cat, you two stay here to deal with the Honkai Beasts! —I told you not to call me Chashao Cat, you pink-faced dragon! Believe me or not, I'll smash you with my meteor hammer!]

(Could that voice just now have been...?)

(No mistake, it's the owner of Swire...)

(She can actually wield a meteor hammer?!)

Swire's name is known to everyone within Schicksal. After all, Lungmen Hot Springs, where she works as the mascot, is the best vacation spot selected by Schicksal. Eighty percent of the staff will go to Lungmen Hot Springs whenever they have a long vacation, while the remaining twenty percent go because they don't have the money.

So, in Destiny's eyes, Swire was just a landlady who ran a hot spring inn, but now she suddenly blurted out that she could use a meteor hammer... well, her image has been shattered.

Seeing the staff below who were inexplicably starting to look dejected, Otto coughed irritably: "Ahem! Everyone, please concentrate on your work. This is wartime."

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Just as the Destiny, Anti-Entropy, and numerous Herrschers were locked in a fierce battle on Earth, a spaceship landed steadily on the lunar surface, 380,000 kilometers away from Earth.

"We're here. Need an assistant?" Tsukasa Kadoya, dressed in a spacesuit, turned to look at the person next to him.

"No, this is enough. You go back to Earth. Leave this to me."

The voice that rang out was a deep male voice, giving the initial impression of a middle-aged or elderly man who had held a high position for many years. And indeed, that was the case; sitting next to Tsukasa Kadoya was an elderly man who was nearly seventy years old.

Unlike Tsukasa Kadoya, he was not wearing a spacesuit.

Tsukasa Kadoya wasn't surprised by the old man's answer: "Well, I thought so too. I'll head back then. You can return on your own after you've finished dealing with this, right?"

"A stupid question."

After opening the spaceship's hatch and arriving on the lunar surface, the old man's waist glowed with golden light, and a belt gradually appeared around his waist.

The moment this belt appeared, the entire moon began to tremble. The area within a radius of several hundred meters centered on the old man sank by several centimeters. Liquid that was very similar to magma continuously spewed out from the cracks in the ground, gradually forming an enormous clock.

"Transformation."

【A moment of blessing!】

[Supreme! Benevolent! Greatest! Strongest King! Ohma Zi-O!!]

Having reigned over the Kamen Rider world for fifty years, the most supreme and benevolent Time Demon King in history has descended!

"Come, let me see... what the end truly is!"

P.S.: Update

P.S.: I've been grinding Arknights so much I almost forgot about the update—I'm working myself to the bone for Ansel's swimsuit!

P.S.: Between Old Demon and the End, who do you think will win?

Section 174, Chapter 34: Sin and the Beast of the World

The Arctic Ocean, the northernmost region of the Earth.

With an area of ​​only 14.75 million square kilometers, less than 10% of the Pacific Ocean, it is the world's smallest, shallowest, and coldest ocean. Among the Greeks, it is known as the "ocean facing the constellation Ursa Major".

And now, Bai Jie is standing on the shore of this ocean.

"No wonder it's the northernmost place on Earth, it's freezing cold. Coming here in February was just asking for trouble... Okay, now I'm all alone, can I really manage?"

"—Kill the Herrscher lurking here."

An hour ago, after the Russian branch took away Shigure Kira and others who were seriously injured in the battle with the Metal Herrscher, Bai Jie separated from Kiryu Sento and Evolto. Although the Herrschers had been defeated, the Honkai Beasts that appeared with them after their birth were still there. In order to improve the efficiency of eliminating the Honkai Beasts, the three of them split into two groups to hunt down the Honkai Beasts.

Bai Jie pursued the Honkai Beast all the way here by himself. Although it is not a proper thing for someone to go so deep alone, on the way to kill the Honkai Beast, Bai Jie detected a Honkai energy reaction in the Arctic Ocean that was not much weaker than that of the Herrscher.

In order to find out the truth, Bai Jie still came here.

"Well, there are already more than a dozen Herrschers in the world, so it won't hurt if I find one more," Bai Jie said with a wry smile, then connected with Otto. "Otto, it's me, Fafnir."

[Fafner, the map shows you're in the Arctic Ocean. How did you manage to travel so far alone?]

"Well, in order to deal with the Honkai Beasts, I accidentally ran this far. How are things in the other places?"

[Thanks to you, the battles have all taken place over the ocean, causing almost no damage to the land. The casualty rate of the counter-offensive forces is still below 30%. Considering the Herrschers and Honkai as opponents, this result is already quite fortunate.]

Otto was right. In Bai Jie's memory, the Second Honkai Impact 3rd depleted Schicksal's heavy firepower arsenal right from the start, and the subsequent assault operation caused Schicksal even greater losses. Almost all of the A-rank Valkyries perished in Siberia, not to mention the B-rank Valkyries.

Originally, a single second Honkai Impact 3rd attack would have been enough to bring Schicksal and Anti-Entropy down, but now, facing multiple Herrschers descending at the same time, Schicksal and Anti-Entropy have not only survived but have even gained the upper hand!

"The advantage is only temporary. The Herrschers and Honkai will become stronger as the game progresses, so don't let your guard down, Otto."

I understand the threat of the Honkai better than you do; I don't need you to remind me. More importantly, when are you coming back?

"Already on my way back... I found a lone Honkai Beast, I'm taking my leave now."

After saying that, without waiting for Otto's reply, Bai Jie cut off the communication, a very obvious bitter smile and helplessness on his face.

A lone Honkai Beast? Indeed, Bai Jie found one, but...

"This can no longer be called a Honkai Beast..."

Beneath the sea surface floating with countless ice shards in front of Bai Jie, strangely shaped horns emerged, covered with moss and ice fragments, with seawater cascading down like a waterfall.

"AAAAAArrrrrr!!!!!"

The singing voice—I don't know why I had this thought, but Bai Jie truly regarded the sound that echoed between heaven and earth as a singing voice.

It was a song woven from languages ​​and tones that humans could not understand, and the instant the song began, a massive tsunami that blotted out the sky suddenly erupted from the Arctic Ocean and surged outwards!

This is not an exaggeration, but a literal description of something that blots out the sky! A colossal tsunami, hundreds of kilometers high, pressed down on Bai Jie like the upper jaw of a monstrous abyss beast! From a distance, it looked exactly like a giant beast opening its mouth to bite the earth in one gulp!

"Hey! Are you kidding me?! The Honkai Consciousness can even create something this big?!"

Bai Jie was so shocked that he could only say such things. For him, even the shock he felt when facing natural disasters in the past was not as great as what he was facing now.

Countless black horns burst forth from beneath the Arctic Ocean, piercing the sky as if trying to tear it apart, or like crane cables, pulling at the main body located beneath the Arctic Ocean.

The seawater was constantly pushed aside and surged onto the land, turning the vast ice field into an endless ocean, and the area of ​​the Arctic Ocean expanded by more than two times.

In the center of this boundless ocean, several black horns spiraled upwards, like the World Tree in Norse mythology.

Here comes the beast of humanity!

It wasn't transmitted through the air, but rather in a way similar to telepathy; some being directly projected its voice into Bai Jie's mind.

Bai Jie's body trembled, just as a commoner would kneel before an emperor. He had felt an urge to kneel simply from hearing the voice of that being.

"You...you are..."

In your words, I am Honkai.

Collapse?!

The person speaking to Bai Jie now is actually the Honkai consciousness itself?!

"I never expected the Honkai would actually come to talk to me personally. I'm truly flattered." Bai Jie's face showed a bitter expression. "Can't stand seeing their subordinates being defeated one by one, and are they planning to kill me, the mastermind, directly?"

Killing you... that's impossible for me now.

The collapse was unexpected by Bai Jie.

【O ferocious beast, you seem unaware of the uniqueness of your existence. Born within human consciousness, a malice that lives and dies alongside humanity—your existence has transformed into a virus, corroding this world】

In other words, I no longer hold the dominant position in the world you live in today.

"You no longer hold the reins?" Bai Jie frowned, then laughed, a merciless sneer. "Lying is really no fun at all, God. If you say you no longer hold the reins, why is the Honkai still happening?!"

The collapse is merely a self-regulating act by the world to expel you. As I've said before, your existence is no different from a virus; your mere presence is enough to erode this world.

A collection of the malice of six billion people, all the evil in this world.

Its existence is absolute evil, something that is absolutely unacceptable, even to the world—that is why it seeks to erode.

Using the malice of six billion people to erode the world, starting from the very foundation of the world, little by little, transforming it into an environment that can accept them.

What Bai Jie did on top of that was to introduce the concept of magic into this world, putting it on a completely different track from other parallel worlds, which made it even easier for all the evil in this world to erode it.

However, humans are social animals, and so is the world with humans as the main body. This world does not want to be an exception, so based on the basic functions of all the broken worlds, the world itself launched a collapse in an attempt to erase Bai Jie's existence. The result is what we see now - a continuous outbreak of collapse on a global scale!

【O ferocious beast, what appears before you is the final collapse of this world, a product that has extracted the concepts of monsters from many human mythologies and combined them into one, a truly ferocious beast】

Dragons, hundred-armed giants, nine-tailed foxes, monsters... all the characteristics of monsters from all over the world were embodied in the monsters before Bai Jie's eyes. The myths passed down by mankind had now become obstacles to human progress.

There are now two paths: defeat the beast before you, end the Honkai, and let the world continue on its own course. Or let the beast go, fulfilling its Honkai mission and destroying the world.