The collapse started when Kiana came to the door

If, Yulandel really didn't lie.

That means... Siegfried didn't dare to think further.

This man, whose life was full of tragedy, instinctively began to deny it the moment he realized that possibility.

Rather than being given false hope and falling into deeper despair, Siegfried would rather not touch it in the first place.

But he didn't dare to completely deny Yulandel's words.

Although it was impossible for his biological daughter to survive under the circumstances seven years ago, but... what if?

He didn't dare to hold out hope for an incredible fantasy, but at the same time, he didn't want to loosen this only rope from the bottom of his heart. Such contradictory thoughts made Siegfried unable to utter a word. He just stood there motionless like a broken robot.

Finally, he couldn’t bear it any longer and broke the silence.

Siegfried, the will of the Holy Mark, came to the man with a complicated look and patted his shoulder: "As a man and a father, don't let your own daughter wait there for too long."

"I..." Siegfried opened his mouth and suddenly realized, "Wait, are you also..."

"That's what you think." Siegfried's stigmata showed a refreshing smile. He pushed Siegfried's shoulder hard and pushed the conflicted and anxious man in front of Yulandel without mercy. "Although at this time, relying on one's own strength to accept reality is what a man should do, but since we are all Siegfried Kaslana, it shouldn't be considered cheating if I let you push me."

With a sudden push from his other self, Siegfried staggered to Yulandel's front.

After barely stabilizing himself, Siegfried hurriedly straightened his back, like a child waiting to be scolded by his elders. He pulled the corners of his mouth, as if he wanted to smile at Yulandel, but he always felt that Yulandel's serious personality, which he knew, might not like others to be so careless towards her, so he forcibly twisted the corners of his mouth that had begun to rise back.

In the end, because of this tangled thought, Siegfried forced his face into a strange expression that looked like he was crying and laughing at the same time. It looked very funny: "Uh... that... well... hello? Long time no see? How have you been these years?"

Siegfried was in despair after saying this. What kind of stupid opening line is this? And why is my voice completely out of tune?

And you, a traitor, clearly said you would lend me your power. You are clearly Siegfried like me, but you took little Bianca away without caring about anything. You and her took turns looking at me and Yulandel, and you both covered your mouth and laughed! Wait! Why did Kiana go over there too? ! Come back and save your dad!

Yulandel adjusted her mood and looked at the sweaty Siegfried with a complicated expression. She pondered for a moment and said, "Although I have lived a good life over the years, you should leave these problems to [Yulandel] in this world."

"Ah! That's right, you are not the Yulandel of our world!" After hearing Yulandel's calm words, before Siegfried could think carefully about what this sentence meant, Kiana reacted first and said in astonishment: "Wait a minute, if that's the case, doesn't the Yulandel here know about this?"

"...No." Yulandel pondered for a moment and shook her head, "...If nothing unexpected happens, I think she should have known her life experience."

"Then why didn't she tell us?" Kiana scratched her head, looking puzzled. "Is it because of me?"

"That should be part of the reason," Yulandel said, "but I think the main reason is that she is a little confused and uneasy about how to face you...how to face her relatives."

"Wait, wait, wait, what are you talking about?" Siegfried, who had more and more question marks above his head, could no longer sit still after listening to the conversation between Yulandel and Kiana. He asked in confusion, "What is Yulandel in this world? Are there two Yulandel?

Yulandel glanced at Little Bianca, who puffed out her chest to show her presence, and said calmly, "Strictly speaking, there are three."

Chapter 4: Kiana Returns to the Hyperion (k)

In Hyperion's steel corridor, the sound of hurried footsteps continued to echo.

Theresa ran to the conference room, carrying her own Judas's oath, raised her short legs and kicked the automatic iron door that was opening horizontally.

"I'm talking to you! Kiana has been kidnapped for nearly forty-eight hours, how come you guys are still so leisurely?!" After kicking open the automatic iron door that had not yet opened, Theresa's face turned dark and she yelled at the people sitting in the conference room.

To put it bluntly, Theresa was almost going crazy.

Nearly two days have passed since the Hyperion was invaded by the four outsiders the day before yesterday, as it had not yet returned to the Destiny Floating Island immediately to deal with the post-war situation of Klosten after defeating Bishop Otto. As a result, Kiana completely lost contact while they were chasing them.

For Theresa, it would not be an exaggeration to say that these two days were torture.

Although Yulandel, who was liberated by the other party and returned to the Hyperion, said that when Kiana tried to use space transfer to take her away, the other party used some unknown means to forcibly take away the power of the sky. Therefore, after the four invaders chose to liberate them, in order to find out how they took away her power, she took the initiative to act with the four invaders during this period of time.

But apart from knowing this, no matter what kind of condition Kiana is in now, when she will be able to return to the Hyperion, and most importantly - what the ultimate goal of the four invaders is, for Theresa, all of this is in a state of complete unknown.

Of course, she would not blame Yulandel for such a thing. After all, Yulandel, who returned to the Hyperion, also said that in fact, the four invaders chose to release them without any regrets after borrowing Kiana's power. So, if Kiana wanted, she could return to Hyperion with Yulandel.

Although based on Theresa's understanding of Kiana, she could understand why she chose to follow the four invaders. If Theresa were in Kiana's shoes, she would most likely make the same choice as Kiana in order to guard against the possible threats that the four invaders might pose to the world.

After all, even though they had defeated Bishop Otto and had considerable experience in fighting against Herrschers, they had only encountered one case of the Herrscher of Domination.

If Kiana and Yulandel had chosen to return to the Hyperion when the four invaders chose to release them, it would also mean that the four invaders had completely escaped from the Hyperion's sight. Given Kiana's personality, it is understandable that she would not be willing to let the four invaders out of her sight after her abilities were temporarily taken away.

Perhaps one day in the future, after having worked in the position of Archbishop of Heaven's Mandate for a long enough time and having played enough political games, Theresa's mentality will change with the passage of time, and she will be able to judge the objective pros and cons of these things with an extremely cold and rational attitude.

But Theresa was ultimately unable to put the greater good of saving the world above Kiana's safety, so soon after Yulandel returned to the Hyperion, she immediately convened a brief meeting of all the crew members on the ship, but the final result was not satisfactory.

"If that person is really Alicia... there is no way she would hurt Kiana."

Just like this, as the longest-lived warrior on the entire Hyperion, the immortal who was once famous all over the world under the name of Red Kite, after Fu Hua expressed in a firm attitude that Kiana was not in personal danger, the emergency meeting that had just begun was hastily ended.

At the beginning, Theresa did relax temporarily because of Fu Hua's assurance. After all, for the people on the Hyperion, the two words "Fu Hua" alone can be equated with "reliable". Even if she has lost most of her combat ability due to the broken sword heart, the experience Fu Hua has gained in the fight against the Honkai for more than five thousand years is still a priceless treasure that no one else can touch.

According to Fu Hua's testimony, although she was not a researcher of the Fire Moth and had never attended the last banquet, she was not particularly clear about the specific purpose of Alicia's sacrifice of her life, nor did she know Alicia's exact identity. But there was at least one thing she understood.

——That is, Alicia is the only Herrscher in the last civilization era who has gained humanity and stood on the side of humanity.

In addition to Fu Hua who guaranteed Alicia, Yulandel who returned to the Hyperion seemed to be quite relieved about Kiana's safety. After all, based on Theresa's understanding of Yulandel, this strongest Valkyrie of destiny was upright and took everything very seriously. If she hadn't confirmed that Kiana was indeed not in danger, Yulandel would not have chosen to return to the Hyperion so decisively.

And when Theresa asked Yulandel why she was so sure that the four invaders would not harm Kiana, Yulandel said just one thing that left her speechless.

"You should still remember the blonde woman among the four invaders who looked exactly like me and was even equipped with the fourth-generation God-killing Armor, the Shining Knight, Moon Soul, right?"

At the end of the meeting, Yulandel said in a complicated tone: "Although this matter may seem a little strange when I say it myself, it may be different from what you guessed. The person who looks like me is neither a fake nor a replica like a clone. She is indeed me - the real Yulandel herself."

Well, not long after the "Seele" certified by "Seele", the "Yulandel" certified by "Yulandel" herself also came out. Although there are still subtle differences in the specific circumstances, for people who know about Seele - such as Bronya, being able to see a second case similar to Seele still makes them feel a lot.

In short, after hearing what Fu Hua and Yulandel said, Theresa put her heart, which had been on the verge of her throat, back into her chest and temporarily gave up the idea of ​​immediately mobilizing the Hyperion's crew to search for the four invaders and Kiana.

But after two days, Theresa, who felt more and more that something was wrong, finally became nervous again. After all, even if Alicia was once a comrade-in-arms whom Fu Hua trusted very much, that Yulandel was also the [real Yulandel] certified by Yulandel herself.

But who can guarantee that Alicia will still look the same as she did 50,000 years ago after such a long time? Who can guarantee that the so-called "real Yulandel" has the same personality as the Yulandel they know? Don't you see that Kevin, who fought side by side with Fu Hua 50,000 years ago, is now standing on the opposite side of them?

So, the more she thought about it, the more she felt something was wrong. She tried to gather the members of the Hyperion again to prepare for the second search for Kiana. But for some reason, after the last meeting, Fu Hua, Rita, Yulandel and even Bronya all showed an unexpectedly negative attitude towards Theresa's rather anxious request.

Although there was no overt protest or opposition, whenever Theresa wanted to mobilize the Hyperion crew, except for the well-behaved child Seele who probably felt bad for her being all alone, almost everyone else would find various excuses to avoid the question.

In short, it’s just one word: procrastination.

He had just become the Archbishop and had already experienced this situation where one or two of his colleagues were disobedient. To be honest, if Theresa hadn't known these Valkyries and comrades so well, and knew that most of them were kind-hearted and would never do anything tricky, she would have almost thought that she had offended them somewhere, so that everyone was trying to make things difficult for her.

But no matter what, Theresa couldn't just give up on Kiana. So after her soft and hard persuasion failed and she even allowed Rita, that bastard who took advantage of her, to take a lot of private photos, the furious Theresa finally used her power as archbishop for the first time after becoming the archbishop and forcibly summoned most of the front-line fighters of the Mandate to the conference room of the Hyperion.

As a result, just when she was finally able to gather the frontline fighters and was furious about the troubles that had happened in the past two days, she kicked open the door of the innocent meeting room before it could be opened, and started to curse -

"Ahahaha, ok, long time no see, aunt?"

——She saw Kiana Kaslana, who she was extremely worried about just a minute ago, mixed in with the front-line fighters she had summoned, with a flattering smile on her face and waving at her.

So Theresa, who had just cursed, fell silent.

Although Theresa was relieved to see Kiana appear in front of her safely, she always felt as if she had been fooled.

Thinking about how she had been running around for Kiana's affairs for the past two days, hitting walls everywhere, and even falling into Rita's schemes while unconscious, Theresa felt angry. She looked at the culprit who was hanging out with those people who had caused trouble for her and was now laughing at her in the conference room, and walked up to Kiana without saying a word.

She raised her head and looked at Kiana, who was a head taller than her. She was furious and stretched out her two short arms. She twisted the soft flesh on both sides of Kiana's face and pulled it to the sides. She grinned and tried to show the pressure of an elder to this restless niece: "You little bastard, you still remember to come back!? Do you know how worried we are about you these two days?! Your power as a Herrscher has been taken away temporarily, won't you come back to ask us for help?! Are the professional level of doctors like Einstein, Tesla and Changguang so untrustworthy?! Do I need to let you go deep into the enemy camp alone without caring about your own safety?! If anything happens to you, how am I going to explain to Siegfried and Cecilia?! Huh?!!"

The so-called elders are like this. They are the ones who worry the most when children run away from home without permission and go missing. They are also the ones who get the most angry with them after the children are found.

"It hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts--! I'm sorry I hurt my aunt--" Knowing that her aunt was really scared because of her affairs during this period, Kiana did not dare to resist at all and made her expression look like (? ? ? ), crying out in pain while apologizing and begging for mercy to the ferocious Theresa.

"Tsk—" Looking at Kiana's extremely happy look of admitting her mistake, Theresa smacked her lips. After all, she couldn't harden her heart to seriously scold and blame this niece who had caused her so much heartache along the way.

"Forget it, as long as you're back safely." She loosened her fingers that were pinching the soft flesh on Kiana's face and said unhappily, "Now that you're back, tell me what happened. How was your power taken away? Also, who are those four invaders?"

"Fu Hua said that the pink-haired girl who looked like a fairy was a fusion warrior like her, and Yulandel believed that the person who looked like her was another real Yulandel. I heard from Bronya that the person who looked like Fu Hua seemed to be the Herrscher of Knowledge that you had faced once before? But even they don't know the details other than that." Theresa asked, "Since you chose to act with the four invaders, and changed your mind and returned to the Hyperion two days later, it means that you should have roughly figured out their specific situation, right? Don't tell me that you didn't do anything except make everyone worry for nothing."

"Uh..." Kiana's expression froze for a moment, and a hint of obvious confusion flashed in her eyes.

"Hmm?" Theresa's eyebrows jumped, she narrowed her eyes slightly, her face full of suspicion: "Why? Is there something you can't tell us? Everyone here is very curious and worried about your experience in the past two days. In addition, we also need to figure out whether the four invaders are a threat to us and the world. You went with them because you were worried about this, right? In that case, what are you hesitating about? You disappeared for two days inexplicably, no matter what, you should give me an explanation?"

Chapter 4: Kiana's Mission Report (k)

Explain? After hearing these two words, Kiana's already extremely stiff expression immediately escalated into constipation.

She swallowed quietly, her blue eyes rolled around a few times, and she turned her head slightly to look around calmly, trying to meet the eyes of other people in the meeting room. As a result, everyone, including Yulandel, was extremely perceptive and turned their faces away at the moment before Kiana's eyes met theirs. The deep meaning of their actions was of course self-evident -

——We have all helped you, who has been unable to return to the Hyperion, to drag Theresa into this situation. So at least after you return, you still have to figure out how to explain it to Theresa on your own.

Yes, when Kiana was following Li Shubai and the others to solve the Herrscher of Corrosion incident, she had already used space transfer to return to the Hyperion during her free time, and reported her safety to everyone except Theresa.

This is also the reason why the other members of the Hyperion have always responded to Theresa's summons with a passive and lazy attitude.

Although according to the agreement with Li Shubai, Kiana could not explain in detail to Fu Hua and the others the specific reasons why she had to leave temporarily, but since it has been confirmed that Kiana herself was not imprisoned and did not encounter any dangerous situation, Fu Hua and Bronya could only choose to cooperate with Kiana's behavior temporarily.

After all, with Kiana's power of mastering the complete power of the void, if she was determined to leave the Hyperion, even the strongest Valkyrie among them, Yulandel, might not be able to stop her successfully.

Fortunately, before Theresa's patience was about to reach its limit, Kiana finally returned to the Hyperion safely before they could no longer hold Theresa back. But at the same time, everyone, including Theresa, was extremely curious about what situation Kiana had encountered that forced her to leave the Hyperion in a hurry without even having time to explain.

"What are you looking at?" Although Kiana's little action was quite covert, it still didn't escape Theresa's eyes. She frowned and looked around suspiciously, but didn't find anyone meeting Kiana's gaze. So she could only focus her questioning gaze on Kiana's face again, and said in a calm but dangerous tone: "Is there anything that you can't even tell me?"

It was hard to tell whether there was anger mixed in that calm and indifferent voice, but judging from everyone present's understanding of Theresa, it was obvious that she was quite dissatisfied with Kiana's behavior of running away with a stranger without saying a word to them.

In most cases, Theresa is a good teacher and elder who knows how to take care of the privacy of students and juniors. But it is obvious that if the so-called "privacy" has posed a safety hazard to Kiana, Theresa will not indulge Kiana to fool around with the situation she encountered again and again.

Would that strange boy be a threat to Kiana? Although Theresa didn't know whether the invaders had any subjective ill will towards them, after experiencing the past two days, Theresa could judge that their abilities were enough to pose a threat to the Hyperion and Destiny.

According to Yulandel's testimony, after leading her and Kiana away from the Hyperion, the strange man suddenly took out another "Oath of Judas" without any warning, which was even more terrifying than the Key of Binding he had. At least as far as Theresa knew, the Judas she had could not effectively restrain the Herrscher of the Void without releasing the Divine Grace Barrier, let alone Kiana who had already defeated the Herrscher of the Void.

Even if we exclude the strange man who was a blank in their intelligence system, the other three people following him were all more outrageous than the last.

The Yulandel certified by Yulandel, the Herrscher of Consciousness who in the present civilization era somehow regained another body of [Fu Hua] while Fu Hua herself was safe and sound, and the fairy lady who was second only to Kevin among the fusion warriors of the previous civilization... plus the unfathomable strange man who was suspected of freely manipulating multiple God's Keys, even if he was regarded as another form of Herrscher.

If the four of them wanted to harm the world, Theresa could assert without hesitation that, at a time when the World Serpent had not yet dissolved its alliance with Destiny, these four invaders were the biggest challenge Destiny had faced since its establishment.

"No, no." Perhaps sensing Theresa's determination to get to the bottom of the matter from her eyes, Kiana shrank her head and laughed awkwardly: "After all, this is a complicated matter. You have to give me some time to organize my words. Aunt, you know that I have never been very good at writing mission reports."

"...Sure." Theresa turned around and moved two chairs from under the conference table. She sat on one of the stools and waved to the other chair, indicating that Kiana should take a seat. "Since you can't organize your words all of a sudden, I can wait. The post-war disposal of Klosten has been almost completed. We need to wait until we return to the floating island to let Miss Amber help us with the further handover of the authority within the Mandate of Heaven. The various media that came to inspect and interview have almost all left in the past two days, so..."

Theresa spread her hands calmly as she spoke, with a meaningful smile on her young face: "Before we set off to return to the floating island of the Mandate Headquarters, I have plenty of time to accompany you to complete the report of this incident. This is probably the last time I will get your first-hand report. In the days to come, the documents you submit to me must first be screened and reviewed by Amber, so. Just think of it as letting me review your report for the last time before I officially become the Archbishop?"

"Uh..." It has to be said that although Theresa, like Kiana, inherited Kaslana's unique thick nerves, she was also the dean who single-handedly ran a large Valkyrie training academy, and she was really good at speaking polite words.

Just listening to Theresa's endless nagging, Kiana felt that she was really in a big head. She covered her forehead that was swollen and painful, and said with a sad face: "My dear aunt, we don't need to be so formal, right? I know I was wrong, can you calm down first?"

"Please call me the dean - or the acting captain." Theresa said expressionlessly, "Why should I be angry? Don't you want to sort out your words? This is great. My niece - no, our Valkyrie of destiny finally wants to take the initiative to give me a detailed report one day. I am so happy that I can't wait to be angry."

Kiana covered her face, and a low voice came out from between her fingers: "Are you still angry?"

Theresa put on a gentle smile like a kind teacher. "So, Kiana, do you want me to further standardize the word count and format of your report?"

"I'm sorry, I was wrong. Please forgive me. I will tell you everything right away. I hope you will have mercy on me, Auntie..." Kiana backed down immediately. She clasped her hands in front of herself with a flattering smile on her face.

Bang! Theresa slammed the conference table, her eyes wide open, "If you know, tell me now!"

"Oh..." Kiana said weakly, and then mercilessly dropped a bomb into the conference room that had briefly fallen into silence: "I went to fight the Herrscher of Corrosion with Captain Li Shubai these two days, who is the only boy among the four invaders."

“What—” Theresa stood up suddenly, “The Herrscher of Corrosion?! Has the Herrscher of Corrosion arrived?!”

The entire conference room was thrown into an uproar by this bombshell dropped by Kiana. Fu Hua, who had personally experienced the Herrscher of Corrosion fifty thousand years ago and had a deep understanding of how terrifying this Herrscher who could corrode and control all electronic equipment was, reacted almost immediately: "Wait, Kiana, during the two days you were away from the Hyperion, did you go with Alicia and the others to fight against the Herrscher of Corrosion?"

"Yeah." Kiana nodded. "Ah, but don't worry, the Herrscher of Corrosion has been successfully suppressed by us."

"...You defeated the Herrscher of Corrosion?" Fu Hua frowned deeply, "But as far as I know... it should be impossible for the Herrscher of Corrosion to die."

Just as there are subtle differences in power between the Rulers of the Previous Civilization Era and the Rulers of the Current Civilization Era; the Rulers of the Erosion in the Current Civilization Era are also, to a certain extent, not completely identical to the Rulers of the Erosion in the Previous Civilization Era.

But no matter how it changes, the [magnitude] of the power itself has long been fixed.

Usually, when Herrschers of the current civilization era gain stronger characteristics, characteristics on another level will also be weakened to a certain extent.

For example, before the powers of the Rulers of the Pre-Civilization Era were fully discerned, almost everyone believed that they were some kind of new Rulers of the Law.

The transparency of the body, the abnormal increase in speed, the shielding and falsification of signals, the local control of temperature - compared to ordinary Herrschers, the powers used by the Herrschers of Domination in the pre-civilization era were mostly simple abilities. They did not possess the powers of Herrschers in the true sense, but they also possessed a Herrscher core that was exactly the same as other Herrschers on the material level.

Compared with the Rulers of the previous civilization, the Rulers of the current civilization era can directly control the real power of the Herrscher by seizing the power of other people. It is also for this reason that in order to be able to gather into the final form of "mob" that can freely control the real power of the Herrscher at any time, most of them are just puppets with extremely poor action ability. Compared with the Rulers of the previous civilization era, their organizational ability and tacit understanding of action are not at the same level at all.

The situation is the same for the two different eras of erosion law practitioners.

For the Herrscher of Corrosion in the current civilized era, the destruction of the carrier means the extinction of the individual. Therefore, in the original timeline, as long as the Gray Snake cuts off the Gray Snake network, and then loads all the devices in the outside world that have been infected by the Herrscher of Corrosion onto itself, and finally - uses the Staff of Hades to suppress its Herrscher power and let the Raven [destroy] itself, the Herrscher of Corrosion will undoubtedly die.

It is not like the Herrscher of Erosion in the current civilization era, which has unparalleled control over data. Therefore, Dr. MEI used the central system of the Fire Moth as bait and placed its core in the main control computer. As a result, it ended up being sealed in a black box for tens of thousands of years.

In terms of the breadth of things that the power of erosion can reach and the degrees of freedom of physical properties, the Herrscher of Erosion in the previous civilization era is much stronger than the Herrscher of Erosion in the current civilization era.

For the Ruler of Erosion of the pre-civilization era, the destruction of the carrier was not a big deal at all. Rather, it was precisely because the carrier named [Ling] was destroyed that the Ruler of Erosion of the pre-civilization era, which broke out of the shell, was able to exert the power of erosion that was extremely threatening to everything.

Therefore, in Fu Hua's understanding, although the Herrscher of Corrosion can be sealed, it cannot be killed at all.

Kiana quickly answered Fu Hua's questions.

"We really failed to kill the Herrscher of Corrosion." She scratched her head and put on an expression as if she was recalling something: "However, under the Corrosion Key held by Captain Li Shubai, our Herrscher of Corrosion seemed to be corroded without much resistance..."