Humans are in chaos, despicable outsiders.

Undoubtedly, these people will choose to retire or be transferred after this battle. In their eyes, the Onomia and Cocolia have become, in a sense, the embodiment of misfortune and bad luck.

"Tsk tsk tsk, the meaning of Onomia is clearly 'order', but now it has become the embodiment of misfortune—how ridiculous."

Wuni looked mockingly at the airship beneath his feet, as if he could already foresee its fate of being abandoned.

...

"Enough...this damn thing! Communications officer, contact Bronya now! Have her retrieve the Gem of Desire and its host—and preferably bring the Third Herrscher back too. I don't know when Raiden Mei, the daughter of the Anti-Entropy Executor, became a member of Schicksal!"

Having suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of an unidentified being claiming to be an apostle of God, Cocolia seems intent on venting her anger on Schicksal—

"Sir, the two support mechs we sent out earlier have been destroyed by the Valkyries of Destiny, one after the other... and one of the Valkyries of Destiny is advancing towards Miss Bronya's squad at full speed."

"Damn it—! It seems we have no choice but to use that technology—activate quantum teleportation and directly send five teams of Titans to intercept the support forces of Destiny. One team from each of the two small squads will be responsible for interception, and two teams will be responsible for intercepting the acting commander of the Divine Authority Force, Penglaiji Jiuxiao. Send the Godfather there too!"

"The last team is responsible for rescuing my daughter, move out immediately!"

After a brief moment of thought, Cocolia gave the order.

"understand!"

The crew members on the bridge, hoping to finish their work as soon as possible and go back to apply for retirement, took action.

Chapter 116 Yearning for Gems I shouldn't be on my lap, I should be in my hands

While Cocolia and the others were being manipulated by Bella and Fokin, Kiana and her group were rapidly advancing towards the designated rendezvous point. However, due to Wendy's wheelchair speed, their progress was not fast.

[Fokine's side has started making moves... Before long, Cocolia, in a desperate move, will forcibly take control of Bronya, and then send in Titan mechs, which we'll all crush.]

"At the very least, she'll bring Bronya back, find a topic to bring up the Gem of Desire, and then let her snatch it away. Understand, Wendy?"

Wuni whispered secrets to Wendy, plotting loudly.

[Okay, okay, just watch my performance. Seriously though, is it alright for us to keep this from them like this?]

Wendy glanced at Wuni, then pursed her lips at the trio of Kiana standing to the side.

Kiana already knew what Bronya was going to do. Raiden Mei is just a cook now, so it doesn't matter to her; Bronya is even less concerned, since she's going to be forced to become a wolf anyway...

Wuni looked at Wendy and rolled her eyes.

Miss Bronya seems a bit pitiful...

"That's hard to say. Cocolia's fleet is currently in the southeast. When the time comes, you can go over there, dismantle their ships until only the handbrakes remain, and then make them sail back."

Anyway, they're going to rescue Bronya eventually, so why don't you just choose to join them?

[Couldn't we just knock Miss Bronya unconscious and then figure out a solution...? She seems to be going through a lot of trouble right now.]

Wendy looked at Bronya, whose calm expression concealed a certain resistance, and felt a pang of sympathy.

[What's the use of knocking her unconscious... there will always be a next time, and the time after that—what we need to do is let her make her own real decision. The St. Freya Cathedral's underground brain science facility has plenty of rescue technology. Even if she burns the biochip in her brain, we can still bring her back. Besides, we have me and Fokin. What are you panicking about?]

Alright... I'm going to start my performance now... It feels like we're all actors.

Wendy shrugged and began to think about how to get started so she could pull out the gem of desire hidden on her person.

[Isn't that right...? That white-haired, single-ponytail Kaslana girl, she kept pretending to be stupid and I almost believed her.]

Alright... everyone here is an Oscar winner, so watch my performance.

...Wendy and Wuni's loud conspiracy came to an end.

--

"Hmm, Miss Kiana, you must have other missions or requests to come here specifically to rescue me... A disabled person like me is not worth a Valkyrie squad coming to rescue me."

Wendy looked gently at Kiana, who was leading the way, with a hint of confusion on her face.

"Uh...it's that one..."

Kiana looked somewhat embarrassed, as if she didn't know to bring it up specifically.

“It’s alright, Miss Kiana... Just say what you want, I... I don’t mind.”

Wendy, seeing Kiana's conflicted expression, seemed to understand something and sighed deeply.

"Sigh... We're here to find the Gem of Desire. A few weeks ago, the Far East Branch recovered an aerial warship called the Moon Throne from Canghai City. It has a distinctly anti-entropy style and mentioned four key keys on board."

"According to the intelligence and research departments, one of the keys is the Lust Gem... the one you have in your hand, Miss Wendy... in your hand!???"

Kiana stared wide-eyed at the emerald green gem in front of her, which Wendy was currently retrieving from a cleavage in her white dress, now lying quietly in the girl's hand.

"Hmm... Miss Kiana, are you looking for this...?"

Wendy's tone was filled with curiosity and eagerness.

"Wait a minute??? Wasn't the Gem of Desire implanted in your thigh, Miss Wendy, because of Destiny's experiment...?"

Kiana stared incredulously at the object in the green-haired girl's hand—an object that shouldn't exist there—before Wendy could explain it to her... An emergency communication was made to one of Kiana's private channels.

"Kiana, have you found Wendy? I've detected a giant storm forming..." The voice on the channel sounded urgent.

"Uh, Jiuxiao? We've found Miss Wendy. She's in stable condition right now, but..."

The white-haired girl's voice was interrupted by Jiu Xiao's urgent tone on the other end of the call—

"Found them? What do they look like? Describe it... Then I'll suggest you either abandon them there and run, or the whole team find a pillar to hug... because that storm is currently heading towards your side..."

"Uh, she has green hair with some gold ornaments, and is wearing a white evening gown-like dress with gold accessories... She also has a gold leg ring on her right thigh... and two on her ankle. Also... Emmm... compared to Wendy in Himeko's photos, the Wendy we see... seems a bit underdeveloped for her age..."

Kiana walked to the side and whispered a reply to Jiuxiao, glancing sideways at Wendy sitting in the wheelchair.

Silence fell on the other end of the communication.

"Speak up, Jiuxiao... what's wrong?" Kiana thought there was a signal problem with the communication after a long silence.

"I have some bad news..."

After a long silence, Jiuxiao sent out these words through the communication.

"Oh? I do have some good news... Never mind, you go first, Jiuxiao."

"That Miss Wendy next to you could probably stand up at any moment and lift you all up to the ozone layer—she's a Herrscher, and a very strong one at that, ridiculously strong. Even if your sister activated her Gurren Lagann and maxed out her buffs, she couldn't do anything about it..."

"Uh, why?" Kiana was clearly taken aback.

"Are you sure you want to fight a Herrscher whose normal movement speed is measured in Mach? She could send both of you flying with a single blast..."

"Uh... I have some good news, do you want to hear it?"

"What good news?"

This time it was Jiuxiao's turn on the other end of the communication.

"The Gem of Desire is now in Wendy's hands... instead of being kept on her lap..."

"ha???!"

Jiuxiao on the other end of the communication was completely stunned.

Chapter 117 The Troubled Anti-Entropy Radicals

On the other end of the communication, Jiu Xiao, who was holding the terminal, was stunned for a moment, then suddenly dodged the Titan's fist from behind and shattered the Titan blocking his way with a single sword stroke.

"Tsk tsk tsk, no sportsmanship, just stealing and cheating... How come there are only two teams of Titans? Are you sending troops to free up population, preparing to convert mechanization into bio-engineering?"

The purple-haired Valkyrie glanced disdainfully at the two groups of Titans that had been reduced to rubble, and continued communicating—

"So you mean Wendy took the Desire Stone out... otherwise she wouldn't be holding it in her hand?"

The purple-haired girl's words carried a hint of confusion.

"I don't know, but the gem in Wendy's hand matches the characteristics I saw in my dream before, and it does contain a lot of Honkai energy. You're saying Wendy is a Herrscher now...?"

Kiana, on the other hand, also sounded puzzled.

"What was originally just a strong possibility has now become a confirmed fact—it seems that even the scientists at Destiny couldn't maintain the physical form of that gem in a normal, long-term way, so it was kept on Wendy's person until now, when it appeared in her hands in physical form."

"Only a Herrscher can use this method to completely remove the gem without harming the host's body."

"But shouldn't the Gem of Desire be the core after she becomes Herrscher of Reason... just like Mei? Why would she take out her own core...???"

After Jiuxiao's explanation, I feel like I have even more questions about Kiana.

"In fact, a Herrscher can reassemble their core. As long as their original consciousness does not die, their identity as an apostle of God will be anchored in this world."

"So she must have taken out the Gem of Desire and then reabsorbed a large amount of Honkai energy to condense a core."

"This also explains why there are so few high-level Honkai Beasts born from the very beginning of the Honkai outbreak in New Zealand until now; the Honkai energy has been extracted and re-formed into cores..."

Jiuxiao seemed to remember something, his lips twitched, and he muttered something under his breath.

"That squad guarding the New Zealand branch building was really unlucky... they ran into all the few high-level Honkai Beasts they had..."

"Jiuxiao, what are you muttering about... Never mind, why did Wendy take out her original core... Does that make sense?"

"That makes perfect sense. If it were the person I've dealt with before... if she didn't like the core being on her thigh, taking it out and finding another place to put it back would be the least of her worries. If she took it out and found the core's shape unattractive, then condensing a new one wouldn't be a problem either..."

As Kiana listened to Jiuxiao explaining to her in the communication just how willful this Herrscher was, her eye twitched as she glanced at Wendy, who was sitting in a wheelchair beside her, looking completely harmless.

[Hey, Wuni. We're not going to get recognized, are we...? I almost got myself into character.]

Wendy felt a slight panic as she watched Kiana walk away to answer a call, and then look at the girl whose eyes were becoming increasingly strange.

[Don't panic, Gil... They'd kill you. I just peeked into her memories—you were indeed recognized, but by the consort of the revered god. She'd seen you in this form in another world.]

Should we lay our cards on the table?

Wendy glanced at Wuni, seemingly intending to take the Raven Girl's advice.

"Now is not the time. That knight lady is actually a smart person. She won't recklessly reveal your identity now. Based on the information she has so far, it's highly likely that it will lead to a fight between us."

In a telepathic conversation, Wuni helps Wendy analyze the current situation.

Should I continue acting like this?

That's right, they won't do anything to us for the time being anyway.

Wuni gave Wendy a barely perceptible nod, and with Wuni's affirmation, Wendy felt reassured and calmed down to continue her performance.

...Meanwhile, on the other side of the two, Jiu Xiao and Kiana's phone call was also about to come to an end.