Humans are in chaos, despicable outsiders.

"Haha, he deserved it! Joyce, remember to give that blondie a top kick, and knock his teeth out!"

It seems... that Dr. Lobster is still quite irritable.

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Meanwhile, high in the sky above, aboard the Nibelungen, flying stealthily and silently, Jiuxiao ended a communication and turned to look at the members of the Theocracy Squad below the bridge.

"Just now, Theresa Apocalypse, the head of the Far East branch, announced her defection and launched a rebellion."

Silence fell over the area below the bridge as all the crew members turned to look at Jiuxiao, awaiting further instructions from the acting captain.

"According to the instructions from the headquarters of Destiny, we need to intercept the Hermes, where Branch Manager Theresa is currently located, and persuade her to return."

The Valkyries below remained silent, awaiting Jiuxiao's next command.

"Tch, boring..."

Looking at the quiet bridge, Jiu Xiao curled her lip in boredom and issued her real command—

"Theocratic forces, the entire army, target the Destiny Branch! What I mean is—it's perfectly normal for us to try and break up a fight inside headquarters!"

Wuhu!

Cheers erupted from the crowd below.

"Ahem, quiet down!"

Jiuxiao temporarily interrupted the cheers below.

"I know some of you new recruits have a lot of complaints about headquarters, but you still have reservations about jumping in the archbishop's face, after all, we lack a legitimate and orthodox claim—"

"So here I'm going to tell you something about your real captain, the S-rank Valkyrie Snow, although most of you have never seen her—"

"The captain of the Theocracy Squad's full name is Snow Apocalypse, the archbishop's own daughter, yes, his own daughter! We have a perfectly legitimate claim to this—!!!"

"How could there be a bishop who lasts five hundred years?! Warriors of destiny, assemble the troops, let's charge!!!"

Chapter 149 The Alliance Leader is popular everywhere he goes. (jpg)

The headquarters of Destiny is located approximately 40 nautical miles above the airspace of the headquarters.

The air transport ship Hermes, belonging to the Far East Branch, is constantly entangled with the swarming Honkai Beasts and firing defensive satellites as it rushes towards Schicksal's third spaceport.

"Damn it, there are too many Honkai Beasts! At this rate, we won't be able to hold out until the Hermes, the third spaceport of Schicksal, crashes! Theresa! You'd better have come up with a good plan!"

Just as Himeko Murata loudly warned Theresa that the situation on the warship was very bad, the whistling missiles and explosions enveloped the mobile defense satellites that were roaring in the sky and the Honkai Beasts that were running rampant on the warship's deck. The Honkai Beasts that were entangled with the Valkyries and could not be covered by artillery fire were carefully swallowed up by miniature black holes.

"Hmm? Theresa, where did you find this group of helpers?"

Watching the crumbling bio-force vanish like snowflakes under the sudden barrage of anti-entropy mechanical forces, Himeko, now with some free time, began to look around; then she spotted a young man.

—With indigo hair and eyes, dressed in casual clothes, hands in pockets, and a pair of headphones emblazoned with the Anti-Entropy logo hanging around the man's neck, he looked seriously at the Titan forces still engaged in battle around him.

"A member of Anti-Entropy? He's quite handsome... Can I get your contact information, bro?"

Having nothing to do for the time being, Himeko looked at the Honkai Beasts and defense satellites still being bombarded by artillery fire, shrugged helplessly, and decisively chose to flirt with a guy.

"By the timeline... I'm almost seventy years old... esteemed lady."

[I've had enough of being your grandfather! You bunch of Valkyries of Destiny, why are you all trying to flirt with men?!]

Joyce roared inwardly. Unable to bear the atmosphere at St. Freya Academy, the Alliance Leader decisively suggested going to support Theresa and the others, but they still couldn't escape the calamity.

"Over seventy years old??? You... buddy, are you serious??? You look like you're only in your early twenties at most—"

Himeko looked at the man in front of her with suspicion and disbelief, then seemed to realize something and showed an expression of sudden understanding.

"I've heard that some of the current executors in Anti-Entropy were elders who existed even before Anti-Entropy was founded... It seems this... old man? Is he one of these respectable elders?"

"Old man..."

Joyce twitched her lips and reluctantly accepted the title.

Himeko, who was sizing up the young-looking man, suddenly realized something was wrong—

Meanwhile, Mei, who had been fighting alongside Himeko, also came over. After looking at Joyce for a while, she suddenly remembered something and quietly whispered in Himeko's ear:

"Himeko-sensei...this gentleman looks a lot like that perverted hooded man who attacked the academy two years ago..."

"Yes, Mei, I noticed. Don't panic. Let me test him first. At least he just helped us, so he can be considered an ally for now."

Himeko turned her head and responded softly to Mei's words, then looked at the indigo-haired man staring at the warhammer in the distance and greeted him again.

"Would you like to introduce yourself, sir? I am Himeko Murata, a teacher at St. Freya Academy in the Far East Branch. So, what is your name, sir, who has come to support us?"

"Just call me Joyce, Walter Joyce—"

As soon as the man finished speaking, Mei, who was standing behind Himeko, looked like she had seen a ghost. The girl had heard this name from her father in the past, and her father always looked respectful when he mentioned this name.

【Walter Joyce】The first leader of Anti-Entropy, the first Herrscher—the first Herrscher of this generation to fight for humanity, and one of the founders of Anti-Entropy.

Unfortunately, Himeko, who had her back to Mei, didn't see her student's expression, and Mei, faced with the two already exchanging words, didn't know how to interrupt them.

"Mr. Joyce seems quite interested in these Honkai Beasts? It looks like you haven't seen them before?"

Unaware of the meaning of the name, Himeko Murata continued to probe the man in front of her.

"Ah...I really haven't seen it before..."

Joyce continued to look up at the scene he had never seen before in his "previous life," even though he had created it all—dense artillery fire swept across the equally dense horde of Honkai beasts, and steel creations born from the fusion of modern technology and technology from the previous era roared at their natural enemies, spitting out continuous tongues of fire to clear the way for the warships.

[As expected, it's some kind of clone... I've never seen a Honkai Beast before, but it claims to be over seventy years old, so perhaps it inherited some of the original owner's memories?]

Having completed her mental calculations, Himeko wore a knowing expression—but to confirm the last point, she still asked another question.

"Mr. Joyce, could you tell me how anti-entropy was initially developed?"

The man fell silent, a troubled expression on his face.

[So she only inherited a portion of the memories after all?] Our esteemed Himeko is going further and further astray by the wrong answer.

"Well, Mr. Joyce, is there something you're having trouble saying?"

Himeko changed her attitude and showed a somewhat concerned expression.

"Ah, there's nothing I can't hide... However, if you're asking me about Anti-Entropy's past... I truly don't know, because I was already dead back then..."

Seeing Himeko's bewildered expression, Joyce shook her head and uttered an answer that was incomprehensible to most people...

"Wait, what do you mean you're already dead???"

Himeko blurted out her question, and Mei, who had finally found an opportunity to chime in, also spoke up, interrupting Himeko's question—

"Mr. Walter Joyce... are you the one I imagined??"

Mei looked at the gentle-looking man in front of her with some uncertainty.

“Ah, I’ve heard Ai mention you… Miss Raiden Mei, if you’ve heard this name from your father—”

"Yes, I am the original leader of Anti-Entropy... the First Herrscher, Welt Joyce himself."

When the indigo-haired man uttered the title, he scratched his head somewhat embarrassedly. Having never truly held a high position, Joyce was told by Ai-in and Joachim after waking up that he was now the spiritual leader of a powerful force capable of defying destiny. For a moment, Joyce even felt that he was probably still asleep—until the man named Kevin made him shiver from the cold.

"Then why don't you have any memory of that time???"

Himeko, her face full of question marks, blurted out her question.

"Ah...that's a very long story."

Joyce gave a nostalgic look.

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Joyce conjured several chairs, indicating that the group could sit down and chat. Himeko and Mei no longer declined and readily took their seats, waiting for Mr. Joyce's story to ease their minds. After seeing the two ladies sit down, the man began to slowly recount his own story.

.....

"And so... in the very end... I and Reanna, the strongest Valkyrie of Schicksal at the time... stopped Otto from launching the Honkai fission bomb toward New York... and my last memory is of that child pressing my wound, trying to stop the bleeding, and crying incessantly..."

"—I gave him the core, including the meaning and mission contained in this surname; a human identity died."

The man's gaze softened, as if he were recalling the child crying beneath the collapsing Empire State Building.

“That child is the true leader of the Anti-Entropy Alliance... As for me, this old guy who has been sleeping in the core for over fifty years before being awakened... at most, I am just a spiritual symbol. To be honest, Joachim is more suitable as the leader of the Anti-Entropy Alliance... I haven’t done anything.”

The indigo-haired man shook his head and sighed.

"Well, Mr. Joyce, there's no need to say that... Your deeds are enough to call you a great person. It was your actions that saved the original members of Anti-Entropy, saved the people of New York at that time, and made Anti-Entropy what it is today, wasn't it? They came together because of you—"

Himeko looked at Joyce, who was sitting there shaking his head and sighing.

"..."

The man recalled the excited and boastful expressions on the faces of Ai Yin, Tesla, and Joachim as they took him on tours of familiar places after his return.

At that time, Joachim quietly approached him and, with a mysterious yet excited tone, introduced him to the newly rebuilt Empire State Building—

“Joyce, did you know that this rebuilt Empire State Building was funded by Anti-Entropy? And on the first foundation pile, people engraved your name in memory of you. You were the one who laid the foundation for this building.”

...

"When I returned, I saw the rebuilt Empire State Building, with my name engraved on its first foundation. I saw one of the most prosperous cities in the world, without the cries and panic of children I had seen before. I saw the long-lost smiles of my old friends and younger generations.... Perhaps—I really am not an ordinary person, as you say."

"Ugh... It's so embarrassing that a bunch of young people have to drive up to an old man like me...."

Joyce shook her head, raised her hand to rub her temples, and her headache started again.

"Hey, old man, you're not that old, are you? You've spent the last fifty years sleeping, so it doesn't count. You're not much older than us, at most in your early twenties or thirties, right?"

"Then you can just call me Joyce instead of 'old man'."

Walter Joyce, completely unpretentious, casually waved his hand and looked at the white-haired little nun who had arrived long ago behind Himeko and Mei.

"Yes, you are the Theresa that Ai-yin mentioned?"

Joyce turned her attention to the petite Dean St. Freya.

"That's right, you are Leader Joyce, aren't you?"

Theresa nodded in agreement and looked at Joyce, while the young man nodded in agreement as well.

"Thank you in advance for your assistance, but... why did Mr. Joyce come in person...?"

"Of course, I'm here to stop some real old geezer from causing trouble... That punch back then wasn't nearly enough."