K424 of the Collapse World

(I can’t let a wicked person like you off too easily! I, the victim, have to personally “execute” you…)

At the same time, in another section of the medical department, the silver-haired girl peeked between the door and window, secretly peeking at the Valkyrie guards patrolling nearby, sighed, and left the window calmly.

"Hmph... Although you kept saying that you believed me this morning, Ms. Caroline is still a little suspicious of me. The number of guards in S-9 area has obviously increased. Is it to monitor me..."

The girl's expression was a little helpless, but soon she raised her head and smiled slightly, and her expression returned to her usual calmness.

"However, this is what a normal leader does. If it were me, I would also be suspicious when faced with such obvious evidence. It seems that Ms. Caroline is not as unreliable as she seems, Wendy."

However, after hearing Hillis's voice, the black-haired girl in the wheelchair still looked a little worried. She looked back at Hillis with flickering eyes and bit her lips gently.

"But Lady Shilis clearly did not leave the room all night. You are innocent! Dr. Weisen's accusation is definitely a false accusation!"

"Yeah, so Caroline is just keeping a little surveillance on me instead of sending me to a detention center. Anyway, don't worry. A person with a clear conscience has nothing to fear. Since I haven't done anything, why should I be afraid?"

"..."

"Okay, don't worry. Those Valkyries won't come in anyway, so let's just pretend they don't exist. Wendy, let's get started, right here."

As she spoke, the girl walked towards Wendy who was in the wheelchair, and leaned down in front of her, with their cheeks very close to each other.

"Eh?! Lady Shilis, are you...are you really determined to do this here?"

"Well, there's nowhere else to choose anyway, right? This room is pretty big, and the soundproofing is pretty good, so I think it's fine."

"But this is the medical area!"

"If I go somewhere else, the Valkyries who are watching me will definitely follow me. If someone else is watching me, Wendy will definitely get nervous and not be able to do well, right?"

"But......"

Seeing that Wendy was still hesitant, Shilis stood up impatiently and put her hand directly on the girl's shoulder.

"Why are you so scared? I won't eat you! It's just the usual Honkai training! Besides, this ward should be an isolation room, and the Honkai energy won't spread out. What's there to hesitate about?!"

"But there is no safety device here. What if something goes wrong with my control..."

Wendy had never dared to think of such a violation of the rules before, as she had to conduct Honkai energy manipulation training in the ward. But now, in front of this instructor, Shelis, she felt that she might be forced to make an exception...

"Just think of me as a safety device! If anything goes wrong, I will stop you personally. Let's start. This is an order~"

"Well......"

As expected, it started, Lady Shilis's tried and tested order to pressure people.

Wendy could only grumble like a little animal to express her dissatisfaction. Looking at the sophisticated instruments in the ward, she swallowed worriedly and began to carefully mobilize her own strength, trying her best to prevent the wind from spreading out and condense it all around her.

Seeing Wendy gradually getting into the state, Hillis also became a little more serious, ready to deal with any unexpected events during the process. Thinking of some of her interesting discoveries, the girl showed a meaningful smile on her face.

It seems that the water in this small New Zealand branch is not ordinary deep...

457 False Shadow

The ability of the fourth herrscher is to control the wind, and the power of wind is, in most cases, the thrust in the direction of the airflow. The operation of this power is still affected by the laws of physics.

If a certain degree of wind force can be concentrated into a point or a line, even a small wind force can produce extremely strong penetrating or cutting force. However, the flow of wind in nature is generally a large piece of air moving forward collectively. When the wind force is small, it does not have any killing power. In winter, when you are outdoors, you feel the pain of the wind blowing on your face, which is actually just because of the temperature, not because the wind has become "sharper".

However, when the power of wind can be specifically controlled, it is easy to do this. All you need to do is reduce the "thickness" of the wind. Wendy can now do this, which is the most basic skill for her. The maximum power she can exert now is to blow a force 6 wind in this room of about ten meters long and wide, which is only enough to shake a small tree outside. However, when this magnitude of wind is compressed into a thin blade shape, it is not difficult to cut metal...

Compared to cutting, the technique of making an object float with the help of rising air currents is much more difficult.

Since Visen was injured, Shilis has not encountered any unpleasant things in the past few days. Even as a suspect, her actions were not restricted, and the Valkyrie who was monitoring her only stood outside the ward and did not disturb her at all. The only change was that the training venue was changed to this isolation ward.

Watching Wendy flying up into the air and falling down again and again, Shilis began to wonder if she should change the training mode and start with something simpler. And instead of letting her learn to float and fly, wouldn't it be more effective to teach her to fight and attack first?

From the even and stable hurricane, it can be seen that Wendy's control is extremely good. However, it seems that due to her lack of proficiency, she easily makes mistakes when climbing, and then loses balance and falls directly.

bang...

The motor nerves in the girl's legs were completely damaged. When she fell, even if her feet touched the ground first, she could not stand on the ground like a normal person. Like a puppet, when her feet touched the ground, her knees bent at the same time, and then her whole body fell to the ground, shaking slightly in pain.

Shiris could have caught Wendy, but she didn't. She just sat aside and let the girl fall to the ground when she made a mistake, then urged her to get up and activate her ability again.

After all, if failure has no price, then training loses its original meaning. This is the case with Shilis herself. Because she has no normal sense of pain, she has never mastered normal fighting skills. Even after receiving training from Fu Hua, she only learned the power-generating techniques of boxing. She can ignore pain and possess the power of creation that can heal at high speed. Naturally, she will not take non-lethal attacks to heart.

Having had such personal experience, Shirley would not let Wendy make the same mistake. If she fell on the soft bed or in her arms, could this girl really control the wind perfectly?

However, it was somewhat painful to see Wendy falling down again and again with such a pitiful look on her face.

In this case......

"Okay Wendy, pause for a moment."

Hearing this, the girl, whose cheeks were already covered with a layer of sweat, stopped climbing. Although it was not yet the usual rest time, Wendy still obeyed Shirley's order seriously and just sat there waiting for instructions.

"Okay, go on."

The next moment, the silver-haired girl picked up an apple from the fruit bowl in the ward and threw it to her. Wendy caught it gently, with some confusion in her eyes. Did Lady Shilis think she was tired and let her rest for a while?

"Well, thank you..."

"Don't thank me yet. The training isn't over yet, and I didn't ask you to eat it right now."

As Hillary spoke, she reached out and took a lemon from the plate and tossed it in her hand.

"Although flying is a basic ability of a Herrscher, I think this training can be slowed down first. As I recall, you have already mastered the ability to compress the wind into a blade shape, right?"

"Ah."

"So... cut it open."

As she spoke, Shirley threw the lemon in her hand high into the air. Wendy raised her hand

Come, she waved her hand in the air, and a colorless ripple suddenly spread out along her hand blade, quickly flying towards the lemon in the air and cutting it off in mid-air!

Shirley took a step back to avoid the few drops of lemon juice falling from the air, raised her hands to catch the two halves of the lemon, and took a quick look at them.

Wendy's wind blade was a little inaccurate, and the two halves of the lemon were half large and half small, but the cut section was smooth. It seemed that her wind blade cohesion was perfectly controlled and did not disintegrate in the air.

"Very good. It seems that with your current level, you should be able to complete the training I envisioned."

Shirley nodded and put the lemon back on the table. She looked at Wendy who looked serious and pointed at the apple in her hand.

"Now, I'll peel the apple in your hand. Of course, you have to use your own abilities. Can you do it?"

"Well, there should be no problem."

"So confident? Then I'll add one more condition. You are not allowed to touch the apple with your hands. Instead, you have to use the rising air currents to keep the apple afloat before you peel it. Is that okay?"

"This...I can try."

Wendy didn't dare to make another solemn promise, fearing that the girl would add some additional conditions. She kept her legs in an M-shaped sitting position, exhaled and straightened her body, exerting an upward airflow on the apple. Unlike the effort she felt when she floated herself, the apple was easily fixed in the air.

Shilis saw this and nodded secretly. As expected, with Wendy's current absolute power level, it was still a bit difficult to float the weight of a human body. Lighter objects were more suitable for her to exercise her control. As for heavier objects, she would wait until she "grabbed" more power from the will of collapse.

"Well......"

The apple was hanging steadily in the air, but Wendy frowned slightly, because her other hand, which was stretched out, could not condense the wind blade that she had just made easily.

The next moment, Wendy stopped releasing the rising air currents, and the apple immediately fell down. At this time, a slightly waving arc-shaped transparent wind blade immediately appeared in her hands. Wendy looked at her hands, and seemed to understand something, and her eyes began to become solemn.

(How could it be...)

However, compared to Wendy's own surprise, Hillary had anticipated this situation.

(As expected, using two different forms of energy at the same time is like multitasking. It seems that this should be a big challenge for her...)

It sounds simple to do two things at once, but it is really difficult to do two things at the same time. Just like ordinary people cannot draw a circle with one hand and a square with the other, it is also difficult for Wendy to maintain the updraft while constructing the compressed wind blade.

"Keep trying, Wendy. Don't be constrained by human limitations! Remember, from the moment the Desire Gem enters your body, you are no longer an ordinary person. This kind of thing should be the most basic of the basics for beings like us."

As Silis spoke, she spread her hands. The next moment, arcs of lightning and fluctuating flames appeared on her left and right hands at the same time. Then, the flame gradually condensed into the shape of a lotus, and the arc of electricity also formed into a small thunder dragon, circling flexibly on the girl's fingertips, so fine that even every dragon scale could be clearly seen...

Wendy looked at this incredible scene and couldn't help but open her eyes wide. She was first amazed at Shirley's energy control ability. Not to mention using two energies at the same time, this precise structure and detailed transformation were completely beyond her current imagination.

Then, Wendy suddenly remembered that Lady Shilis was just a Valkyrie, so why could she control energy like a superpower? Could it be that this was also a necessary ability for an S-level Valkyrie?

At this level, can the Valkyrie, who can only survive by relying on artificial stigmata to resist erosion, also master the power of the Herrscher with a human body?

For a moment, the identity of an S-class Valkyrie became unfathomable in Wendy's eyes. She suddenly felt how foolish she was to have thought she could reach this level...

"......"

"What's wrong? Wendy, have you been stopped by the basic training? If you can't even use multiple forms of abilities at the same time, others can easily attack your defenseless body when you launch an attack!"

Wendy gritted her teeth, activated her ability again to float the apple, and raised one hand to create a wind blade. This time, as the wind blade began to condense, the rising air currents became unstable, and the floating apple began to sway and spin, and soon fell back to the ground again.

However, compared to the previous attempt where she was completely unable to release the wind blade, the second attempt allowed both forms of power to exist simultaneously. This obvious improvement surprised Shiris a little. However, she remained calm. If she wanted to praise her, she would save it until she had fully mastered this technique.

(Wendy's talent is indeed excellent. No wonder she can still

It's a pity that she was captured and dissected when she was a new Herrscher in the plot. But now it seems that in a few days, she will be able to fully master the power of the current stage, and then I will take her away from here.)

Shirley thought to herself, then turned around and walked to the other side of the room. Peeling apples for exercise was not dangerous, so the girl didn't have to stay in front of Wendy to prevent her from falling and getting hurt.

(However, I don’t know how Caroline’s investigation is going. If the murderer who hurt Visen has not been found yet, it would feel a bit strange for me, as a suspect, to leave without permission. Although Caroline forced Visen to "have a good rest" for a week, she probably wanted me to take this time to leave the Oceania branch, but...)

Hillis thought helplessly and sighed softly. Dr. Weisen's accusation of her as the murderer was probably not just a frame-up. Perhaps in Weisen's eyes, the one who did it was indeed "herself"...

According to the records of the Destiny Organization, the lifespan of a Valkyrie will not exceed thirty years.

After the age of 25, the Valkyrie's body's ability to resist corrosion will gradually weaken, and her abilities will also begin to decline. In this case, it is easier to be infected with Honkai energy when exposed to the Honkai environment. Once the corrosion rate exceeds the critical value, humans will become dead soldiers. This is common sense in the Honkai world. The same is true for the Valkyrie. When she is corroded by Honkai and turned into a walking corpse, the original person is already dead.

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However, this record is limited to those who maintain their Valkyrie status until death.

When the erosion rate of the body reaches a certain value, or the combat capability is seriously degraded, the Valkyrie can apply for retirement, use the Soul Steel Instrument to eliminate the Honkai energy in the body, remove the artificial stigmata, and then use drugs to regulate the body, so as to restore a certain life span. At this time, these former Valkyries who have lost the power of Honkai can engage in other work in the field, or even leave the destiny after signing a confidentiality agreement and spend the rest of their lives as ordinary people.

Wisen's lab assistant, Meryl Kazeren, is such a retired Valkyrie. She did not choose to leave Satori, but used the biology knowledge she had taken as an elective course to be admitted to the Imperial Research Institute of Satori again. After graduation, she joined the Oceania branch and became a researcher at the New Zealand Research Institute.

Meryl thought that as a retired Valkyrie, she would no longer have anything to do with fighting. But now, semi-voluntarily, she was going to challenge an S-class Valkyrie from the headquarters!

(Although Dr. Weisen is not a good person, if Miss Hillis really did such a thing...)

Thinking silently, she had to admit that even though she had entered middle age, she still retained a bit of her youthful passion. Weisen had suffered such a disaster and had nowhere to appeal. In this case, she was the only one who could help him...

(But Miss Shiris doesn't seem like someone who would do such a thing... Isn't it a bit too hasty to listen to the director's words?)

With mixed feelings, she came to the warehouse, used the key card given by Weissen to open the electronic door, and went to get the secret potion that was said to be able to invalidate Honkai energy.

The door lock system, which was set to silent mode in advance, did not make any warning sound. In order to avoid trouble as much as possible, she made sure that there was no one else around before she slipped into the warehouse and closed the door silently again.

She had already walked into the warehouse, but the induction lighting system did not light up. Looking at the dark space around her, Meryl frowned and was about to find the warehouse control console when a shrill scream suddenly sounded from the depths of the warehouse!

“No! Please, don’t… Ugh!!”

At that time, a familiar female voice was heard, and her tone was full of fear. At this moment, Meryl's mind moved, and her eyes immediately changed from the usual gentleness to sharpness, as if she had returned to the state of the Valkyrie period.

As a former Valkyrie, she possessed extraordinary psychological qualities. She did not rush into the depths of the warehouse rashly, nor did she turn around and run away in fear. Driven by curiosity, Meryl began to carefully pay attention to the obstacles ahead and quietly moved forward.

"Huh...Huh...you, what are you going to do? I'm just an ordinary researcher and have nothing to do with you. Why are you treating me like this?!"

At this time, the woman's voice sounded again, and her fear and confusion could be heard in her voice. Meryl suddenly became concerned. Why did she address the attacker as a respectful title?

"Hehe~ Why? Ms. Maya, as a research assistant, you are not qualified to enter this warehouse without permission. And now, you sneaked in here at night, your motives are not pure~"

Maya?!

Following a slightly younger but equally familiar voice, Meryl suddenly realized that the woman who was attacked was Maya, her colleague at the research institute! Then who could be the other attacker...

.

"Ah... please, I didn't do anything, I..."

"Hmph...little bitch, do you think I don't know that you secretly lied to your old lover Weisen?"

“Ah! How could you…?!”

"How would I know? It's not important! After hearing the conversation between me and Visen that morning, you ran to the treatment center and injected Wendy with the HSN inhibitor you prepared yourself, faking the signs of a fever, and even thought about blaming Christina when she was exposed? Do you think I really don't know these things?"

"No! I, I just... wuwu, spare my life!"

Meryl felt as if she had overheard something extraordinary, and at this moment, she finally found the area where the sound came from. She hid behind a shelf full of medicines and slowly poked her head out.

In the dim light of the exit sign, Meryl could roughly see two figures between the storage boxes in front of her. One of them was wearing a white coat and kneeling on the ground. Her right wrist was held by another person, and her whole arm was twisted unnaturally. The other person, wearing a long black windbreaker, stood under the dim indicator light. Under the light, she seemed to be able to see the light silver-white hair...

Is it Shiris? Really her?!

In all the years she has worked at the institute, Meryl has never seen a staff member with pure silver hair. This hair color is only possessed by the new headquarters specialist! Meryl opened her eyes wide and even breathed cautiously, fearing that her presence would be discovered by the powerful Valkyrie...

Was it disappointment or anger? Among the S-rank Valkyries that he revered, there was actually such a scum who abused his power!

Although she seemed to have her own reasons, this was not a reason for lynching. Meryl thought to herself, continuing to look over there. She had already decided to testify publicly and bring the murderer to justice!

"Don't worry, I won't kill you... I'll just make you look exactly like your old lover, that's all. Hehe~ As a price for hurting little Wendy, this should be considered light, right?"

"No! No... wuwu..."