Firefly, I want to be a Sanyo Hermit

"She is worthy of being the Valkyrie discovered by Lady Kiana herself." Anna exclaimed sincerely.

It was impossible for Anna to have no complaints about ranking second again.

However, the strength shown by Mei Raiden and Anna's own personality make it impossible for her to harbor any resentment towards Mei Raiden.

At most, she just complained about her bad luck...after all, she was indeed an old unlucky person.

"Raiden Mei, you are so amazing..." Wendy looked at Raiden Mei with admiration in her eyes.

"It's okay actually..." Raiden Mei scratched her cheek embarrassedly.

This is not Mei Raiden's modesty, because Mei Raiden herself knows very well that she is different from Anna and Wendy.

If Anna and Wendy are the 'player panels', then Mei Raiden, as a Herrscher, is the 'BOSS template'. It is only natural that her attributes are higher than Anna and Wendy.

As a 'BOSS', her strength should be the weakest.

Therefore, Mei Raiden will not be proud of such power.

"Come to think of it, since you have such power, have you ever thought about when you will graduate?" Anna suddenly asked Mei Raiden.

"Um... Anna class leader..." Hearing Anna's question, Wendy tapped Anna's arm with a subtle expression. "Raiden Mei has just entered the school."

"Oh, that's right." Anna blinked. "What about Wendy? Have you considered when you will graduate?"

"Eh?"

B.82 I am here to join this family

"I'm back." After class, Mei Raiden went straight home without staying for long.

"...Welcome." Xilin, who was almost fixed on the sofa, turned around when she heard someone coming back. When she saw Raiden Mei, she paused for a moment and uttered a very bland welcome.

"Good evening, Senior Xilin." Mei Raiden did not feel any dissatisfaction with Xilin's coldness.

"Yeah." Not expecting Mei Raiden to continue talking to her, Xilin stood up. "...How do you feel about your first day of class?"

Xilin found a topic very stiffly.

"Everyone in the class takes good care of me." After hearing Xilin's question, Mei Leidian put her bag on the hanger beside her and sat on the sofa. "Like Anna, Wendy..."

"Anna and Wendy?" Xilin raised her eyebrows after hearing these two names. "I know them. Kiana said they are very good."

"Senior Xilin also knows them." Raiden Mei tried to find a topic.

"Yeah." Xilin nodded slightly.

Then the atmosphere between them froze again.

"Ah, come to think of it." Raiden Mei was about to start a new topic. Since they were both Herrschers, the topic would be centered around Herrschers. "Sirin-senpai, do you have any special feelings after becoming a Herrscher?"

As if she felt that her description was too general, Mei Raiden thought for a moment before continuing.

"It's the use of power and various techniques."

"Yes." Xilin nodded. "Although these are very simple ways of using them, when you become a Herrscher, you will instinctively understand how to use your power."

"How to attack, how to defend...there will be a basic understanding."

Fortunately, Xilin is a college graduate after all, otherwise she might not know how to describe how she felt when she became a Herrscher.

"Is that so? That's good." Raiden Mei breathed a sigh of relief. "In fact, I recently discovered that after becoming a Herrscher, my body's instincts have been constantly guiding me."

The previous Mei Raiden was a 'human', and the swordsmanship she practiced was also 'human' swordsmanship.

After becoming a Herrscher, some of the structures of the body are different from those of humans, and it can perform more actions that far exceed the limits of the human body.

For example, you can turn your head 360 degrees without breaking any bones...

The gap between humans and Herrscher also has a great impact on swordsmanship.

And Mei Raiden could clearly feel that her body was guiding her consciousness to exert even more powerful power.

At the same time, it is also constantly influencing Raiden Mei's understanding of the concept of "Herrser".

"Hmm? Hmm." Xilin blinked in confusion at first, then nodded. "This is normal."

Although Sirin had never felt any guidance, as long as Sirin had seen Kiana using her power, she could directly replicate the way Kiana used her power.

Perhaps this could be considered a kind of guidance, so Xilin was not surprised by what Mei Raiden described.

"Speaking of which, Senior Sirin, do you know how strong Sister Kiana is?" Raiden Mei asked curiously. "I have become a Herrscher, but... I feel like I can't sense any aura from Sister Kiana."

Mei Raiden wasn't quite sure how to describe it.

She could feel Xilin's aura from her body, and that kind of strength didn't seem very strong...but this should just be an illusion.

After all, Xilin has been a Herrscher for more than ten years, so her strength must be very strong.

And according to Xilin's feeling of "not being able to feel a strong aura", Kiana's aura could not be felt at all.

"Her? I don't know." Xilin shook her head. "That guy is an outlier. There's no point in comparing him to her."

"Eh?" Mei Raiden blinked in confusion.

"To put it simply, we 'serious' Herrschers usually go through three stages... 'Elemental Body', 'Herscher', and 'Perfect'." Sirin explained her experience as a Herrscher to Raiden Mei.

The 'elemental body' has the power of a Herrscher, but its strength is very weak. It is possible that it will be defeated even against an A-rank Valkyrie.

The Herrscher absorbed a large amount of Honkai energy and possessed the Herrscher Core, which allowed it to connect directly to the Imaginary Space. However, the Herrscher has not yet completed its transformation in all aspects. Although its strength is not bad, it is not very strong either.

'Complete' After a short period of settling, when the Houkai energy level in the body reaches its limit, the Herrscher Core will be completely liberated.

At this point, the Herrscher can be said to be a max-level character, with attributes maxed out and all skill trees unlocked.

However, unlocking the skill tree does not mean that the Herrscher can use it directly. After all, there are many moves that the Herrscher can use but does not know how to use them.

As for the special stage called 'metamorphosis', Xilin herself doesn't quite understand this concept.

In Xilin's opinion, 'Metamorphosis' is actually the same as 'Perfection' in terms of power, and both have a 100% synchronization rate with their own Herrscher cores.

"So there are so many 'realms'..." After listening to Xilin's description, Mei Lei Dian showed a look of understanding but also a little confusion. "Then... Senior Xilin, you said that Sister Kiana is an alien, is it because Sister Kiana has completed the transformation?"

"No." Xilin shook her head. "In fact, you should be able to feel it yourself."

Xilin's eyes, which had golden circles inside, were staring at Raiden Mei.

"You should have completed your metamorphosis... um... there's no need to be so specific about the Herrscher and the like." Xilin said, crossing her arms.

"Uh..." Raiden Mei scratched her cheek embarrassedly.

"The difference between Kiana and the average Herrscher is that she has three powers instead of just one." Silin gestured with the number 'three'. "Power of the Void, Power of Fire, and Power of Death. So she is many times more powerful than the average Herrscher."

"Is that so?" Mei Raiden's eyes widened in surprise. "Mastering three powers... Sister Kiana is really amazing."

In fact, Mei Raiden was a little confused about why she became a Herrscher.

Although I was indeed disturbed by the collapse at the beginning, all kinds of emotions were magnified several times.

But when she entered the dome, she did not encounter any difficulties as Kiana said.

If the difficulty described by Kiana is like climbing Mount Everest, then the "difficulty" encountered by Mei Raiden herself is like accidentally getting hit in the face by a spider silk when opening the door to go home.

"It seems... this is really my problem..." Mei Raiden didn't think that Kiana would exaggerate the facts for no reason, so the danger of becoming a Herrscher was indeed as Kiana described, and the reason why she was so relaxed... might be because she was special in some way.

B.83 Sirin and Kiana

"Come to think of it, Senior Sirin and Sister Kiana have known each other for a long time, right?" Kiana is not at home now, and Raiden Mei and Sirin don't know each other very well, so there are not many topics to talk about.

But Xilin is a socially anxious person, and to a large extent she acts as a topic terminator.

And Mei Raiden is not a very talkative person.

Mei Raiden has to work hard to find topics to talk about with Celine, and even if she finally finds a topic, it is very likely that Celine will end it in just two or three sentences.

However, Mei Raiden was not dissatisfied with this.

Because Mei Raiden could also see that the reason why Xilin had nothing to talk about with her was not because they had nothing to talk about, nor was it because Xilin hated her.

It was simply because neither she nor Xilin were the type to be good at chatting.

"Long time?" Xilin muttered twice when Mei Raiden mentioned this. "Up to now, I have known her for thirteen years."

"Thirteen years." Mei Raiden was slightly stunned when she heard this time.

Because if you count carefully, she and Kiana have known each other for thirteen years.

"How did Senior Sirin know Sister Kiana?" Raiden Mei asked curiously.

"..." Xilin fell silent.

"Uh..." Seeing Xilin's suddenly unhappy expression, Raiden Mei was a little confused. "Did I ask something I shouldn't have asked?"

"I don't know how to tell you, but to sum it up, she stopped me." Xilin said after thinking for a moment. "She stopped me from destroying humanity, so we met."

The experience in the "Babylon Laboratory" was extremely dark for Xilin, but this darkness was gradually buried in the past ten years.

Therefore, even if it was mentioned again now, Xilin no longer had the overwhelming hatred she had back then.

After all, all the participants of the "Babylon Laboratory" had been killed by Xilin, and even those researchers who escaped that night for various reasons were later packed up and sent to her by Otto.

Now in the entire Destiny, Otto is probably the only one who knows about and participates in the "Babylon Laboratory".

"Stop Senior Xilin from destroying humanity?" Mei Raiden's eyes widened in surprise. "Sure enough, Senior Xilin is very strong..."

Mei Raiden imagined that with the power of the Herrscher, if it was not stopped, it would indeed have the ability to destroy human civilization.

But Sirin needed Kiana to stop her, which shows that Sirin's strength should be beyond that of the people in the world at that time.

"Senior Sirin's aura is not strong, and Sister Kiana's aura is completely undetectable... As expected, just like what is said in those novels, when the gap is too big, you can't even feel the other person's aura." Raiden Mei nodded secretly in her heart.

"What? Aren't you curious about why I want to destroy humanity?" After waiting for a while, Xilin found that Raiden Mei didn't seem to have any intention of asking, so she asked with some surprise.

"I am actually a little curious." Mei Raiden answered truthfully. "But... I have also experienced the feeling of negative emotions being magnified when becoming a Herrscher. And Senior Sirin wants to destroy human civilization. That must be because of what happened to Senior Sirin before she became a Herrscher... Although I am a little curious, I don't want Senior Sirin to remember bad things."

"..." Xilin looked at Raiden Mei in surprise. 'How can this child be so gentle?'

Although at first Xilin thought that Mei Raiden was a person with a spoiled young lady's personality, after spending a few days with her, Xilin discovered that Mei Raiden was actually a gentle person at heart.

And now...

"It's not a 'very bad' thing actually." Xilin shook her head lightly and then briefly skipped over her past.

"Hmm..." Seeing that the atmosphere seemed to be cooling down again, Raiden Mei tried hard to find a topic. "By the way...what is the relationship between Senior Sirin and Sister Kiana?"

Mei Raiden was a little curious about this.

"What is my relationship with her?" Xilin opened her eyes wide and was a little stunned.

"Hmm? Senior Xilin?" Raiden Mei, who noticed that Xilin was in a daze, waved her hand in confusion.

"Oh..." Xilin shuddered. "My relationship with her should be... just ordinary... Anyway, there is no special relationship."

Because the relationship is somewhat complicated, yet simple, Xilin couldn't find a relationship to describe her and Kiana for a while.

'Friend' seems too simple, and 'best friend' seems a little weird.

"I see. I thought Senior Sirin and Sister Kiana had the same last name, so there is some deeper relationship between you two." There was a barely perceptible hint of joy in Raiden Mei's tone.

"This is just a last name that Otto filled in without my permission..." Celine told Raiden Mei what happened that year.

...

......

"Eh? There is such a thing?" Raiden Mei said with a very happy smile. "Sister Kiana actually invited Senior Sirin to eat cake without even bringing money? And she went into several unrelated stores in a row..."

"How should I put it..." Silin, who was talking about the past with Raiden Mei, raised a slight smile. "I can only say that these actions are very Kiana..."

Thinking of this, Xilin was suddenly stunned.

Thinking back carefully, Xilin found that it seemed that she had not seen the handsome yet silly guy for a long time...

I don't know when 'Stupid Kiana' disappeared.

"I see..." After a moment of realization, Xilin understood what was going on. "That guy...has grown up secretly..."

In many things, Kiana has become more stable.