K424 of the Collapse World

"..."

Under the surprised eyes of the two Valkyries, Rita, who appeared out of thin air five meters away, silently withdrew her slender hand and stood in the standard maid's posture again.

"I'm sorry to have embarrassed you, Lord Yulandel."

Folding her hands on her lower abdomen, she bowed gracefully, looked at the blonde girl standing in front of her, and greeted her with a smile.

"..."

Looking at the congressman lying at her feet, the blonde girl resisted the urge to kick him again, walked around the unconscious man, and also went towards the maid.

"Are you okay, Rita?"

"Thank you for your concern. I'm fine."

Yulandel nodded, glanced at the two Valkyries who were shivering in each other's arms not far away, and turned her gaze back to the maid in front of her.

"Rita, now that you've seen me, why are you in such a hurry to take action? I was just planning to help you deal with this idiot."

"Haha~ This is just a small matter, don't bother Lord Youlandel. Besides, if you take action, there will definitely be a gentleman with a severe concussion who will be rushed to the medical center. Although I don't care about the safety of a certain gentleman, the bishop doesn't want us to alert the enemy."

"Hmm... In your eyes, did I hit you so hard? But it's true that I was planning to hit you hard just now..."

Looking at Rita's half-smile, Yulandel rubbed her hair a little embarrassedly and curled the ends of her hair with her fingers, but soon returned to her serious state.

"These guys really came to see you, Rita."

"Also? Lord Yulandel, could it be that you also..."

"That's right, but they didn't dare to attack me so blatantly. They just sent an inspector to test my attitude, but I drove him away directly."

As if she had thought of something funny, Yulandel raised the corner of her mouth slightly, and walked towards the two trembling Valkyries with her arms folded.

"But I didn't expect that those guys would dare to arrest you directly while they were playing that trick on me... Rita, are you usually too gentle?"

"Lord Yulandel, this matter has nothing to do with them..."

"I know."

As she spoke, Yulandel approached the two uneasy Valkyries, and touched the tops of the girls' heads in their eyes filled with fear.

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"Someone will take care of the idiot lying on the ground. The two of you who are transferred to the Immortal Blade troops do not need to return to the Senate Guard from today on. Report directly to RC-04 area."

"Lord You...Lord Youlandel! This..."

"It doesn't matter. I still have the authority to dispatch B-rank Valkyries."

The blonde girl waved her hand and directly decided the fate of the two girls. At this time, noticing the teasing look of the maid next to her, Youlan Daier blushed and could not help but look away.

"Don't get me wrong, they are not infected by the Herrscher. I just don't want normal people to be persecuted anymore..."

"Lord Youlandel is so gentle~"

Rita praised sincerely, without any hint of ridicule in her sincere tone. But the next moment, she changed the subject, and her gentle voice became a little more serious.

"But, in fact, that's what I was planning just now. The Senate has been infiltrated by the Herrscher puppets, and I'm afraid that most of the senators have been influenced by the Herrscher of the Heart. Under such circumstances, these unaware marginalized people are the most likely to be in danger. We should provide protection to the best of our ability."

"By the way, how are the imprisoned Valkyries doing?"

"Most of them are healthy and normal Valkyries. Among them, a few do have abnormal brain waves. They were probably brainwashed by the Herrscher after being imprisoned."

Hearing this, the blonde girl was stunned, with a chill in her eyes.

"If they continue like this, they will be turned into slaves of the Herrscher by those guys sooner or later! Rita, did Bishop Otto say...?"

"The bishop has given us a new mission, Lord Yulandel."

Rita took out a terminal calmly, looked at the blonde girl who seemed a little dissatisfied, and lowered her voice a little.

"The Herrscher of the Heart's cognitive rewriting is different from the will erosion of Honkai energy. As long as part of the victim's memory is erased, they can return to normal."

"But this is the case..."

"As long as the Herrscher of the Heart is destroyed, the source of will control can be ended. Lord Yulandel, offense is the best defense. This is what you said yourself."

"Okay, so Lord Otto's disappearance was to find the Herrscher and send me.

We go and destroy her? But if we leave, what will happen to the Destiny Headquarters?"

"Please rest assured, Lady Maria and Lady Angelica will protect the destiny."

Calling up the task information on the terminal, the maid smiled faintly.

"Also, although our mission is to defeat the Herrscher, we are only assisting them."

"ah......?"

laugh......

Blood beads oozed from the torn skin surface, squeezed into abstract irregular shapes, slowly suspended in the almost stagnant air, as if the law of gravity had failed...

The feeling at this moment is as if a sharp knife is stabbing into the chest, with the tip of the knife against the outer membrane of the heart. If it moves forward just a little further, it will be enough to end my life.

What consequences might arise from judging a stranger based on self-righteous stereotypes?

After arriving in this remote city in South Asia, Monica had not considered such issues, or rather, as the Tenth Ruler, she did not need to worry about these irrelevant trivial matters.

Although the essence of the Tenth Herrscher, the Herrscher of Domination, is a "Legion Herrscher" that divides the power of Herrscher into 1000 individuals, its individual power is still far greater than that of an emperor-level Honkai beast, and it also possesses fragments of the power of the law. This strength is the source of her self-confidence.

The brain waves of all Rulers are connected to each other, forming a highly efficient intelligence capability and division of labor and action capability. As one of them, Monica chose the mission target that was closest to her...

Find the powerful Honkai creatures hiding here and bring them into your Herrscher Alliance.

Seems simple enough, doesn’t it?

It is nothing more than taming a ferocious beast or persuading a wise pseudo-herrscher. For a herrscher, this is naturally easy.

However, the goddess of fate always likes to play pranks, making those who think they see through everything taste the bitter taste of defeat, just like Monica who is full of confidence at this moment. Before falling into this step, she would never have thought that she would meet "that existence".

"Ugh...why...what?!"

The skin and flesh were torn apart by gravity, and the bones creaked under the heavy pressure; after half of the skin was torn off, the almost unrecognizable woman was controlled in mid-air by some force. She opened her eyes wildly and screamed hysterically, and her bloodshot eyeballs seemed to burst at the next moment.

--puff

The tall woman put her five fingers together, and with her ordinary movements, Monica's right arm made a disgusting squeezing sound. The dark red energy field blended the crushed flesh, blood and bones together, and the bloody muscle tissue seemed to be stretched like noodles, becoming thin and long in the squeezing sound...

“Uh uh…! Damn… you are a traitor too…”

"traitor?"

Following the low female voice, a young woman with gray-brown curly hair walked forward and looked at Monica, whose eyes were bloodshot, with an expressionless face.

"I have never been loyal to anyone, so how can I talk about betrayal?"

“You’re asking even though you already know the answer… Who answered your prayers? Who gave you the power?! Being chosen by the will of Honkai is such a great blessing, but you actually sided with those ants and pests…”

"Heh...ridiculous. So you thought I would save those tiny ants?"

As the expressionless woman suddenly sneered, Monica was stunned on the spot, and the next moment, an expression of incomprehensible confusion appeared on her face.

"Then why did you..."

"Humph."

Before she finished her words, Monica's question was interrupted by the woman's cold snort. The next moment, the space around her began to twist, and the dark red energy field instantly turned into pure black, tearing and devouring everything around it in the spiral distorted gravitational field.

Monica, who was at the center of the force field, disappeared into the darkness the moment the space was distorted. In fact, the woman's ability was only activated for a moment, and only released a very slight energy fluctuation.

The result was a circular airspace with a radius of ten meters, surrounded by torn soil and bricks, and buildings that were distorted into abstract paintings by the collapsed force field...

"I am only loyal to myself. No one can make me submit to others, ever!"

Turning and leaving this strange ruin, the woman's whisper drifted in the wind as a belated answer.

"I will only use this power for myself."

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After killing the Herrscher who came to negotiate, the woman left the area. However, the Herrschers were not familiar with each other's abilities, and she could never have imagined that the silencing of the Herrscher in order to cover up her whereabouts would directly lead to her exposure.

The Tenth Herrscher, the Herrscher of Domination, is not just a group of 1000 weak Herrscher-like creatures, but a whole made up of many individuals. They share information through brainwave connections.

At the moment of death, the remaining individuals received what she saw and heard before her death.

Although no one knows the woman's final answer, the information she previously revealed is enough to analyze some intelligence.

As allies of the Ruler of Rule, Lindy and Chloe naturally received this information.

"Just as I expected, the Ninth Herrscher has other plans."

In the stairwell of an abandoned building, Lindy, the Herrscher of the Heart, listened to the story of a female Herrscher of Domination beside her, and her expression became subtle.

In order to avoid being pursued by a powerful Valkyrie, they had to move their base several times in order to increase the completion rate of their plan as much as possible before their whereabouts were completely exposed.

And now, unexpected new situations, or new opportunities, are before them...

Chloe held his chin with an impatient look, his eyes brimming with anger.

"But she killed our companions with her own hands, and that is an indisputable fact. Lindy, only a traitor of Honkai would do such a thing!"

"That's not necessarily true, Chloe. Based on what she said, I should be able to understand her thoughts more or less."

Lindy smiled, looked at the Herrscher of Fire with a frown on his face, and began to explain.

"From her tone of voice, we can tell that she also has the arrogance of a Herrscher, and she would not bother to lie to the weak. Assuming that she is telling the truth, then, it should not be difficult to understand what she meant by 'never pledged allegiance to anyone', right?"

"To us, not being loyal means being a rebel! If we go against the will of God, aren't we still traitors?!"

"Well, you're right, but she's obviously different from the betrayers who stand on the side of civilization."

Not caring about Chloe's questioning, Lindy continued speaking and once again threw out some information she had just heard.

"Although she betrayed her duties as a Herrscher just like the Herrscher of Restraint, she also has no good feelings towards humans, just like us. Combining these two points, it seems that we can already guess her plan."

Lindy didn't seem to be planning to reveal the answer directly. In response, Chloe shook his head helplessly and started to think about this problem with his few remaining brain cells.

"She obviously doesn't like humans, but she's unwilling to exterminate those ants... Could it be that she's an overly kind fool?"

"Haha...if she was really a kindhearted person, poor Miss Monica wouldn't have been thrown into the simulated black hole by her."

Although she felt somewhat helpless about Chloe's answer, Lindy did not laugh at her companion who was not good at thinking. She sighed slightly, and before she could explain, the Ruler next to her understood it first.

"Does she want to stay out of it?"

"Yeah, I think so too. However, we can't rule out other possibilities. For example, she has already joined the human side, and what she said is just disrupting our judgment."

As the Herrscher of the Heart who controls consciousness, Lindy's mind is not like other Herrschers, who are gradually taken over by endless madness and murderous intent, lose their ability to think logically and judge, and eventually turn into a beast that can only vent their killing instincts.

The hatred that cannot be let go is the only extreme dark side of her heart. Except for her instinctive arrogance, Lindy's psychology and thinking patterns are no different from those of normal people.

But that's all. In terms of wisdom and strategy, Lindy is destined to be inferior to the high-level commanders of the anti-Honkai organization. However, relying on the powerful ability of the Herrscher, she, who only knows a little about thinking and planning, is enough to become one of the most dangerous Herrschers!

"The Ninth Herrscher is probably a neutral person who has no intention of participating in the struggle between civilization and Honkai and acts only for personal gain."

As Lindy spoke, her eyes, which were gleaming with a faint blue light, narrowed.

"To deal with this kind of person, whether it's using coercion or deception, or explaining our common interests, I have countless ways to tie her to our chariot. However, this kind of maverick Herrscher is not suitable to be a companion..."

Chloe keenly noticed that the pink-haired girl's tone began to lower, and a malicious sneer appeared at the corner of her mouth.

"The confrontation between Honkai and civilization is not a war between nations. Choosing neutrality means being enemies of both Honkai and civilization. Even if we are flawless in dealing with them now, humans will not let a potential threat go."

Having said this, the girl suddenly smiled.

"Now that we have her whereabouts, why don't we make some use of this information before taking action?"

"Action? Miss Lindy, are you planning to..."

"We will not feel guilty about using those who are hostile to us. In addition, I just received information secretly passed on by my followers that the peripheral control of the Tianming headquarters has been basically completed. Now, it's time for us to wrap up."

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The girl regained her smile, grabbed the handrail of the stairs, and slowly stood up from the steps.

"A large number of high-level Valkyries have been detained at the Destiny Headquarters, and we have taken control of about half of the command structure..."

The Herrscher of the Heart said this, looking around at his companions and followers whose expressions changed.

His eyes sharpened.

"It may be a bit risky, but that neutral idiot will help us attract human firepower. Now is undoubtedly the best time to launch a surprise attack. If we wait until Tianming develops a way to crack my ability, all our efforts will be wasted. Even if we cannot destroy their resistance force in one go, we can weaken it on a large scale."

Although they have been focusing on secret planning, the power of the Herrscher herself is also necessary in this war. Her will alone cannot eliminate the cunning humans.

In the game with the civilization, they have the ability to overturn the table at any time. However, before that, Lindy decided to mess up the chessboard first. As long as there is enough infiltration, Chloe's power can wipe out the chaotic troops in one fell swoop; or eliminate most of them, leaving a part of the survivors...