Firefly, I want to be a Sanyo Hermit

C.124 Fingers... not so good

"Eh? [Cocoon of the End] actually has this kind of mechanism? And... [Stigma Factor Activating Potion] is actually one of the elements of civilization transformation?"

After listening to Xilin's description, Qiana fell into deep thought.

However, Kiana soon understood some of the problems.

[Stigmata] is a very magical thing. It can store memories, weapons, power and many other things, and can even be passed down through blood.

In other words, if a family's [Holy Mark] is passed down all the time and used correctly, then the things in the [Holy Mark] will become more and more, and it will become a heritage.

The [Stigma Factor Activation Potion] will urge the [Stigma Owner] to awaken...

Once the awakening is completed, the lifespan will become extremely long. At least Kiana has no idea what the upper limit of the lifespan of the [Stigma Awakener] is.

With the existence of these powerful, long-lived, and knowledgeable people, no matter whether they choose to become scholars, guardians, or just play badly, they will eventually become the foundation of civilization...

To a certain extent, it will indeed lead to the transformation of civilization.

Perhaps this is how [Cocoon of the End] judged it...

And if the [Stigma Factor Supplement Potion] they are developing is successfully developed, it will be possible to achieve immortality for everyone...

In that case, for [Cocoon of the End], civilization may have completed its transformation...

It's just that civilization is not that simple, and humans are not that simple either...

In any case, in Kiana's understanding, modern humans are not yet able to bear the gift (curse) of immortality.

At least until now, every immortal that Kiana has met has absolute faith...but such faith itself is difficult to possess. After all, they are souls that have witnessed the end of the world but still retain hope.

"Kiana, do you have any ideas?" Seeing that Kiana seemed to be thinking about something, Xilin asked. "If you can't think of anything, why not tell me."

Xilin doesn't think she is much smarter than Kiana... Although Xilin is easily inflated, she is actually quite self-aware, especially after going to school.

After all, some things cannot be solved by inflating confidence, such as math problems...

"I don't know." Kiana shook her head, not to fool Xilin, but because Kiana really didn't know what she was thinking at the moment.

At that moment, countless thoughts flashed through her mind, but she did not grasp them.

So she seemed to have thought a lot just now, but she didn't have any really useful ideas at all.

"...All right."

"Oh, by the way...the system mentioned the Honkai upgrade. Will the Honkai beasts and Herrscher be further upgraded next?" Kiana pursed her lips.

The Honkai beasts are now somewhat difficult to deal with.

Although the current Valkyries of Sentence have undergone the implantation of improved versions of artificial stigmata, they do not feel discomfort when driving Honkai energy, thus indirectly improving their combat effectiveness.

But the disguised improvement is just a disguise... Although the Valkyries can still cope with it with their current strength, there will occasionally be situations that require support.

If the collapse gets further advanced...

"After the Honkai upgrade, only the Honkai beasts and the Herrscher's 'Initial' have become stronger, and there is a higher probability of high-level Honkai beasts being born, but the upper limit of these Honkai beasts has not changed for the time being." After asking the system, Xilin said to Kiana.

To put it simply, the strongest Honkai beasts at present, apart from the [upper level], namely the [Emperor level], [Judgment level], and [End of Law level], the strongest among the [lower level] is actually the [Honkai Emperor] and species of this kind, such as the [Ice Emperor] and the [Sandstorm Emperor].

What the system means is that the strongest of the current lower-level Honkai beasts will still not surpass this level, but the probability of giving birth to high-level Honkai beasts such as the [Tree of Sighs] and [Space-Time Tearer] has increased.

"Is that so?" Kiana said she understood.

However...even the [Emperor of Honkai] is actually a very troublesome existence.

For ordinary Valkyries, the appearance of a [Honkai Emperor] type Valkyrie generally requires two A-level and three B-level Valkyries to work together and defeat it through precise tactical configuration.

Tianming actually wants to improve this situation, but there is really no other way.

In fact, if the performance of the [Third Generation Valkyrie Armor] is fully utilized, then even a single A-rank Valkyrie can defeat the [Honkai Emperor]...

But here lies the problem. The actual performance of the [Third Generation Valkyrie Armor] is definitely not bad, but most of the Valkyries, even the A-class Valkyries, can only exert about 70% of its performance...

Therefore, even if we continue to develop new Valkyrie armor, it is actually meaningless, because no matter how strong the armor is, the Valkyrie cannot exert their true performance, which is a complete waste.

Because of these reasons...Tianming's combat effectiveness has stagnated to a certain extent.

Whether it is weapons, armor or the Valkyrie herself, they cannot be further improved due to rigid conditions.

Unless Kiana's department can develop a [Stigma Factor Supplement Potion] to allow the Valkyries' artificial stigmata to be further improved or even transformed into natural stigmata, these difficulties can be resolved.

"Ha... one trouble after another is coming." Kiana sighed deeply. "And... the initial strength of the Herrscher will also increase... this is a real trouble..."

Of course Kiana is not afraid of any Herrscher, and even if it's not Kiana, Sirin, Raiden Mei, Qibao...

It is not difficult for them to defeat the newly born Herrscher. It is no big deal even if the opponent has completed his metamorphosis at the beginning of his birth.

The only thing Kiana was worried about was the large-scale massacre that would occur after the birth of the Herrscher.

"But... in the 'original world', Wendy became a Herrscher because she wanted the Gem. Now there is no such thing... I don't know who the 'fourth Herrscher' will be..."

Although Sirin had mentioned before that Wendy and Anna had very high Herrscher qualities... Kiana didn't think it was a big problem.

The two children have become lovers and their emotions are quite stable. Moreover, Anna has awakened the stigmata before, so it is not easy for her to become a Herrscher.

However, Sirin mentioned it before, so Kiana also thought she should pay more attention to them.

"In the 'original world', the [Fourth Sequence Great Collapse] happened at the end of 2016... Although it is possible that it will happen earlier like Mei did this time, it shouldn't be too much earlier..."

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"The target fled to the northeast! Wendy!" Anna pulled the microphone to her lips and said loudly.

[The target is in sight, A-rank Valkyrie, Wendy...attack.] Wendy, who was standing on a high place, responded, and a series of data appeared in her goggles. Then Wendy suddenly jumped down from the tall building.

Several throwing knives surrounded her body, and the throwing knives controlled by the superconducting magnetic field gave Wendy the ability to float in the air.

Ordinary Valkyries are simply unable to control such weapons. Currently, in the entire Destiny, the only one who can use [Ring Blade] besides Wendy is the S-class Valkyrie, [Broommaster] Salome Jokanan.

The ring blade rotated, and Wendy fell from the sky on the flying knife, and several flying knives shot out at the same time.

The giant tiger with a sturdy shell and extremely sharp claws flew backwards after being hit by the flying knives.

However, Wendy did not hesitate at all because the opponent fell to the ground. She used the Honkai energy to control the flying knife and shot it out again, instantly cutting the tiger-form Honkai beast into several pieces.

Wendy heaved a sigh of relief only after she was sure the other party was completely dead.

"This is Wendy, the target has been silenced." Wendy tilted her head and nodded to the microphone next to her ear and spoke softly.

[Well done Wendy, the operation is over, please return to the base] The captain's voice came from the headset.

"receive."

【receive. 】

When Wendy heard some overlapping sounds, she knew someone was coming.

"Wendy!" The white-haired girl raised her hand and waved, smiling, and came to Wendy in two steps and one jump. "I saw it all~ Wendy has really become stronger. How can I catch up with you!"

Anna angrily hit Wendy.

Before coming to Manila, Anna thought that the stigmata had partially awakened and that she had power beyond Wendy.

But as time went on, Anna's growth rate slowed down again, but Wendy continued to grow at a steady pace.

Although Wendy's "growth rate" is not very high, Anna has only seen such stable growth in Kiana Yulandel Kaslana, who has become an S-class Valkyrie and the strongest in the new era.

"That's good." Wendy chuckled gently. "This way I can protect Anna."

"That's not good." Anna puffed up her cheeks. "I want to protect Wendy too..."

It has been more than a year since I came to Manila, and a lot of things have happened during this time.

Wendy grew from a small, chubby girl to 1.7 meters in a year, and her leg-to-body ratio is a little exaggerated. Her perfect model figure can definitely be described as 'big R and long legs'.

On the contrary, Anna... her growth seems to have stopped a long time ago, and her height has remained at 166cm. Although she has a good figure, but...

Moreover, as Wendy overtook, some things seemed to be gradually changing...

"Emmm~ Then what I said before was wrong." Wendy tapped her lips.

Although this is an action that Wendy is more accustomed to, it was very cute when she did this action when she was petite.

But now...with that gradually mature face and fully mature body, it's really a bit of a special attack on Anna.

"We are both A-rank Valkyries, so it's not about who protects whom, but we can completely trust each other's backs." Wendy changed her words.

"Wendy has been becoming more and more smooth-talking lately. Who did she learn this from?" Anna was extremely happy in her heart when she heard Wendy's words, but she said it with a unwillingness to admit defeat.

"Is it oily?" Wendy touched her lips. "I learned all this on the forum."

The Tianming forum is full of people, and there are many things I can learn.

"Learning some weird things every day..." As Anna spoke, her voice gradually became smaller and finally disappeared.

Although Wendy also learned some unorthodox things, but... it's really comfortable...

Wendy has long fingers, and the weapon she uses is a ring blade, so she doesn't usually need to use her hands to operate it, so it feels really comfortable to touch...

That looks like me... Not only are my fingers a little shorter, but I also have calluses from years of sword practice.

Although the calluses on my hands fell off when I awakened the stigmata, over the past year...some thin calluses have grown back.

But thanks to these thin calluses, I don’t feel much pain when using weapons.

(It's just a little shorter than Wendy's.)

"What happened?" Wendy wondered, noticing that Anna on the other side looked a little depressed and stared at her hands for a while.

The exact opposite of what Anna thought...

While Anna liked Wendy's slender, long and soft hands, Wendy actually liked the slight calluses on Anna's hands.

Hands with thin calluses have a completely different sense of stimulation.

'Boom! '

Perhaps because they thought of a similar scene, Anna and Wendy looked at each other and a cloud of steam appeared on their heads at the same time.

"Well, well...we should go back!" Anna shouted loudly.

"Oh, yes." Wendy also responded.

The corpse of the tiger-shaped Honkai beast is still nearby!

"Come to think of it... In recent days, it seems that the probability of Honkai Beast appearing has increased... And they have also become stronger." Wendy looked at the fragments of the tiger-shaped Honkai Beast.

There is no need to worry about the corpses of these Honkai beasts. Within ten minutes or so, the Honkai energy will be completely inactivated, and then they will be decomposed and dissipated.

But what troubles Wendy is that recently, the Honkai beasts have become more numerous and stronger...

If it was one of those tiger-type Honkai beasts from before, Wendy's attack just now would have been enough to kill it instantly, without the need for a finishing blow.

Moreover...these so-called 'tiger-type Honkai beasts' are essentially the transformation of some cats with weak Honkai resistance.

Even after they turned into Honkai beasts, they were still familiar with the terrain of the city, and coupled with their powerful speed... Normally, they could not be caught without the cooperation of two people.

"It is said that Lady Kiana's [Biochemical Department] is working hard to research [Anti-Honkai Vaccines] for various animals. It only takes one vaccination, and the offspring of this cat will have enough resistance to the Honkai energy."

"Really? That's great, you're worthy of being Lady Kiana." Although Wendy was rescued by Theresa...but after really getting to know Theresa, the admiration for her no longer existed.

Compared to Theresa, Wendy really admires the one who has made great contributions to all mankind and is also the strongest being in the world today.

"Yes, you are worthy of being Lady Kiana." Anna also nodded repeatedly.

My recommendations are also those of my lover.

C.125 Destiny Level Combat Readiness

"It's almost time to go back." Letting go of Anna, whose cheeks were flushed, Wendy said with a vague look in her eyes.

"Well... let's go back." Anna nodded weakly.

Although they have been together for quite some time, even if it is just a normal kiss, not even a deep kiss, it will still make them blush.

"Let me drive." The two came to the motorcycle parking area, and Wendy got on first.

The super long legs drew an elegant arc in front of Anna's eyes and easily stepped onto the racing motorcycle.

Theoretically, racing motorcycles are not allowed on the road, but this is the Valkyrie's vehicle after all, and its speed performance is maximized... After all, the Valkyrie often needs to get to the scene of the incident as quickly as possible.

Therefore, only racing-type motorcycles that serve as the Valkyrie's mounts are allowed on the road.