On how PhDs become human evil

"Something of practical significance?"

Everyone lowered their heads and began to think. However, after several dozen seconds of thought, they found that there seemed to be nothing to discuss. After all, everything on Rhodes Island was now fully mature and there was no way anything major could go wrong.

"Um... will the regular meeting still be held?" Warfarin asked.

"...I think we don't need to turn it on anymore."

No sooner had Kroos finished speaking than Warfarin stood up and walked towards the door. Since the meeting was canceled, she might as well go back and continue her research. The research on the Stone Mask was almost complete.

However, Warfarin was unable to leave.

"Ring ring ring!"

The phone rang suddenly, and everyone looked at Herag.

He took out his phone and answered, "It's me, what's up?.....What? Are you sure?...Okay, I understand, thanks for your help."

He put down his phone, let out a long sigh of relief, and a smile appeared on his weathered face: "Everyone, I think we have something to do."

"What did the Ministry of Defense report?" Amiya asked.

Hellagur is the Minister of Defense of Rhodes Island, and he is in charge of all defense affairs of Rhodes Island. Whenever there is any major event in the defense department, he is the first person to be notified.

"The Ministry of Defense has observed that the Doctor is in a bit of trouble. A group of people are trying to gang up on the Doctor, and there are quite a few powerful magical reactions among them."

Upon hearing this, everyone present immediately knew what to do. Their own PhD student was being bullied, how could they just sit there and do nothing? Of course, they had to go and join in the fun!

"Phew~~~ It's been twenty years since I've been active. I wonder if my body can still take the strain."

"SilverAsh, stop being modest. Tell me, how many times has your True Silver Slash destroyed the training room?"

"Hahaha!"

Rhodes Island is about to be reborn!

Section 435, Chapter 18: I can't even get a Brand with 60 gold? Are you kidding me!

Naples.

Having learned about Anti-Entropy from Siegfried, and just in case, Bai Jie brought Kiana here to investigate what arrangements the Honkai Will had made to deal with him.

Although he verbally declared he would utterly crush the Honkai Will, Bai Jie knew he couldn't truly eliminate a world's will, as doing so would mean destroying the entire world, including countless parallel worlds—something Bai Jie currently lacked the capability for. Therefore, Bai Jie remained highly wary of the Honkai Will's potential contingencies.

He is confident, but not arrogant; otherwise, he wouldn't have grown to where he is today.

Standing side by side with Kiana in Santa Lucia Bay, Bai Jie did not gaze at the beautiful seascape before him. Instead, he closed his eyes and focused all his energy on searching for the situation within Naples. If one looked closely, a rune emitting a faint glow had appeared between Bai Jie's eyebrows. Its function was to further enhance Bai Jie's already incredibly powerful mental strength—by a percentage.

In this way, Bai Jie can not only cover the entire Naples with his detection range, but also capture every movement within Naples.

Every movement or sound, literally.

"Hmm... there's too much information. We need to filter some out..."

Naples is the largest city in southern Italy, with an area of ​​117 square kilometers. The sheer volume of events happening in such a large city is countless, and the sheer amount of information is giving Bai Jie a headache.

His mental energy scanned the Naples area like a radar, and with each scan, Bai Jie's brows furrowed more. After nearly a thousand scans, Bai Jie finally opened his eyes.

"Well...."

The moment he opened his eyes, Bai Jie felt dizzy due to the excessive consumption of his mental energy, and Kiana quickly reached out to support him.

"Brother, are you alright?"

"Ah...it's okay, I'm just a little dizzy, I'll feel better after resting for a while."

As Bai Jie spoke, he reached up and wiped the rune from between his eyebrows, finally calming his buzzing brain.

Rubbing his temples, Bai Jie said, "Well, although I'm exhausted, I've finally figured out the situation in Naples. I didn't expect the Honkai Will to go this far."

"What do you mean?" Kiana frowned.

Raising his hand, he channeled his magic, conjuring a magical map in mid-air that projected a three-dimensional image of the entire city of Naples before their eyes.

Bai Jie moved the 3D image slightly and used magic to mark several red dots in different places. He said, "Based on what I just detected, these places are emitting very obvious magical fluctuations, and the scale is quite large. They should be some kind of barrier."

"A barrier? Is something hidden inside?"

“No, there are people inside,” Bai Jie said. “After scanning with my mental power, I also scanned with my thermal perception. There is no doubt that there are people hidden in these places, or at the very least, living beings.”

"And coincidentally, I actually felt that these magical fluctuations were very familiar."

The unique energy within the Honkai world is Honkai energy. Although some parallel worlds have developed magical civilizations due to Bai Jie, this world has not reached that level yet. Therefore, these magical fluctuations could not possibly be something that originally existed in this world.

At present, only Bai Jie in the world can use magic. However, Bai Jie has never made any arrangements in Naples. So the answer is obvious - there are other people from another world who can also use magic who have come to this world.

As Bai Jie said, he was very familiar with these magical powers. After reverse-analyzing these magical power fluctuations and deriving the constituent formulas, Bai Jie unexpectedly discovered that the formulas themselves actually came from the Type-Moon world.

People from the Type-Moon world who came from another world, right at this critical juncture when he and the Will of Honkai were about to go to war, Bai Jie probably knew who they were.

(Fujimaru Ritsuka, although I knew we were both capable of traveling between dimensions, and that we would meet again someday, I never expected it to be so soon.)

As for why Fujimaru Ritsuka appeared in this world, Bai Jie could guess to some extent. He had already retrieved the information about Chaldea from his own mind, since he possessed knowledge of the entire Type-Moon world.

"After saving humanity, you've started saving another world. I must say, Fujimaru Ritsuka, you really know how to keep yourself busy."

With a wry smile, Bai Jie straightened his back and said, "Get ready, Kiana. We might be going to have a full-scale war with the Honkai in the next couple of days, and I might not have the resources to help you then."

"Don't underestimate me, brother. I'm no longer that little girl who needs your protection."

As she said this, Kiana touched her chest, where six differently colored emblems were imprinted on her body like tattoos.

During the time of World Serpent, Kiana not only learned how to control the power of the Herrscher of the Void, but also took the opportunity to collect the Gem of Desire, the Gem of Tranquility, and the Gem of Plague. Including the Gem of Conquest and the Herrscher Core of the Second Herrscher that she already had in her body, Kiana now has a total of five Herrscher Cores in her body. She is only one Herrscher Core of the Herrscher of Reason away from being at her peak during the Second Honkai Impact.

In addition, Kiana often uses Kevin, the strongest warrior of the previous civilization, as her sparring partner in World Serpent. With Fu Hua as her technical advisor, in terms of pure combat power, Kiana has already surpassed the S-class Valkyrie and is approaching the level of Fu Hua in her prime.

"So, brother, just go for it and don't worry about me at all."

Kiana patted her beloved older brother hard on the back.

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In an apartment in Naples, Fujimaru Ritsuka sat on the sofa, her face looking rather grim.

She had just sensed it; an extremely powerful mental force was scanning back and forth throughout the Naples area. She immediately realized that this was Bai Jie's doing, since apart from him, Fujimaru Ritsuka couldn't think of anyone else in the world with such powerful mental force.

"Ah, I still have to fight Senior Bai Jie. Can't we just shake hands and make peace? -- Well, I know that's impossible. Strictly speaking, I'm the villain this time."

With a wry smile, Fujimaru Ritsuka activated the communication device on her wrist: "Doctor, Da Vinci-chan, we can proceed with the spirit transfer now. I've been exposed, so send everyone over."

Fujimaru Ritsuka: Sorry, senpai, I have a lot of people here, so I might as well use them.

Section 436, Question 19: Am I afraid of being outnumbered?

The Moon is located 380,000 kilometers away from Earth.

On its other side, which cannot be observed from the ground, lies a cluster of ruins.

This is a group of ruins discovered during the Second Honkai Impact. When the Second Herrscher was born, this group of ruins released an extremely strong Honkai energy reaction. It was here that the Second Herrscher obtained four Herrscher Cores before returning to Earth, triggering the Great Honkai Impact 3rd in Siberia.

After the Second Collapse, both Schicksal and Anti-Entropy ceased their exploration of the far side of the moon. The secrets hidden within these ruins were simply too immense and unbearable for Schicksal and Anti-Entropy.

As the famous astronaut Neil Armstrong said, "That was one small step for mankind, one giant leap for humanity—one giant leap for mankind." (This is how it's described in the Honkai Impact 3rd manga.)

Now, after nearly twenty years of silence, human presence has reappeared on the far side of the moon.

She was a girl with long pink hair, dressed like an ancient Japanese shrine maiden, with a long sword with a dark red handle at her waist. The most eye-catching feature was undoubtedly the pair of fluffy ears on her head that looked like both donkey ears and rabbit ears.

This is definitely not a characteristic that humans would possess, and it is impossible for humans to move around on the moon in a vacuum environment without oxygen tanks. In fact, the girl is indeed not human.

After shaking hands and confirming that she was not an illusion, the girl instantly arrived on the moon, which was directly opposite Earth. Looking at the blue planet, she opened her arms, and a radiant light emanated from her, almost overshadowing the sunlight. In the light, her petite body, which was less than two meters tall, rapidly expanded, like a balloon being filled with gas.

"Om-!"

The radiance transformed into sparks and scattered. The girl, now gigantic, raised her hand and gazed at her palm. In her palm, the Earth lay quietly, like a small glass bead.

"ended."

The girl murmured and began to clench her fists. The immense pressure from space pressed down on the Earth from all directions. However, the Earth, located at the very center, was not crushed immediately. Instead, a layer of emerald light, like a protective shell, shone up and forcibly withstood the enormous pressure!

"I said, it must be inconvenient to be so big, how about you shrink a bit?"

Sound cannot travel in a vacuum, nor can it travel in the entire vacuum of space. Yet, someone spoke those words in the girl's ear, and in the next instant, two enormous magic circles covered her from above and below, with silver light cascading down from them like flower petals.

"——————"

The moment she was touched by the light, the girl's body shrank rapidly like a deflated balloon, shrinking to a size only two or three times larger than the Earth in just two or three seconds!

"Is this magic? I understand why God specifically gave me this new power."

As the girl spoke, she opened her arms, and an invisible domain immediately swept out from her center, shattering the two magic circles instantly.

A magic-free zone.

Before descending to the mortal realm, the girl's creator specially granted her a new ability, seemingly as a trump card to deal with someone.

"Ok?"

After unleashing the magic-suppressing domain and breaking the spell that shrunk her, the girl unexpectedly found herself no longer in outer space, but in an extremely desolate world.

Have I been teleported?

"Have you noticed? This is no longer the Honkai world."

The man's voice rang out again, and this time the girl found him.

He was a man who wielded both a black gun and a silver sword, with white, tousled hair and crimson eyes, and he looked somewhat thin.

Magic King, Bai Jie.

"If we were to fight in the original world, it would be easy to accidentally destroy the Earth, the Moon, or something like that. So, for safety's sake, I teleported you and me here together—the moment your attention was drawn to my magic circle."

Bai Jie said with a smile.

Tilting her head in confusion, the girl asked, "You should be held back by your allies from another world, so why are you here?"

"Ah, about that... Who told you I don't have any help? Don't let my appearance fool you, I actually have quite a few friends, and they're all very loyal. They all came over without me even having to say anything, which is why I was able to free up my hands to deal with you."

As he said this, Bai Jie recalled what had happened not long ago.

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