And in this conversation with Laura, Ophelia was also showing weakness, making Laura judge that she was too weak and intensifying Laura's psychological emotions, allowing Laura to become more and more aggressive.
"You are said to be the most conservative among the conservatives, but I'm afraid you... think the radicals are too conservative?" Night Owl whispered, while pulling the trigger of the sniper rifle in his hand.
The two Elite Titans around Amelia, who was fighting one against three, were destroyed with two gunshots, which shocked everyone.
Laura was caught off guard by this move. She pulled away and looked around. She looked at Amelia in doubt and asked, "Do you have a backup plan?"
Amelia did not comment, and Ophelia, who was protected in the center by several intelligence Valkyries, narrowed her eyes slightly, moved her gaze to the place where the gunshots were heard, and looked at Amelia again.
With the secret support of Night Owl, it was not difficult to deal with the remaining Titans. Soon the Valkyries surrounded Laura again.
"You are planning to be so cruel to your former classmate, Laura... you are so disappointing." Amelia said while pointing the gun at Laura's forehead.
"Ha... I lose. I didn't expect you guys to have a trick up your sleeve." Laura was pointed at by a gun, but she wasn't afraid at all. She walked forward and pressed her forehead against the muzzle of Amelia's gun and said, "But do you dare to shoot? Even if I intend to kill you, what then? Can you still kill me?"
Adelina was instantly furious when she heard this: "Don't think I really don't dare!"
"Then shoot." Laura sneered, "I'm standing right here, shoot me. I'm the daughter of the Anti-Entropy Executor, what can you do to me?"
Adelina's face twitched a few times, but she had to hold it back in the end. No matter how harsh she had been when she spoke before, after all, the person standing in front of her was a living person.
"Laura, are money and benefits so important to you?" Ophelia asked, "So important that you betrayed Saint Freya and killed your classmates?"
"What do you know? My life is not the same as yours. What if you win this time? I will still be a young lady when I go back, but you can't change your status as orphans."
"Really..." Ophelia lowered her eyes, "I'm sorry."
"Ophelia, why are you apologizing to this unlucky thing!" Adelina was almost mad. Sister, this guy was trying to kill you just now!
But the next second, a gunshot echoed in the basement of the church.
Laura stared at Ophelia with wide eyes. She didn't expect Ophelia to really shoot. She was the daughter of the Anti-Entropy Executor and the representative of Congress. How could Ophelia, a half-disabled orphan, dare...
"...I'm sincerely sorry that I wanted to take advantage of your pity in the beginning..."
Chapter 169: Herrscher of Rock
The office of the principal of St. Freya Academy.
"Principal Theresa, I still think that since we are all allies, it is not a good idea to be too calculative sometimes, right? We have a common enemy, destiny. Why can't Anti-Entropy and Saint Freya make some concessions to each other on some small matters?" Anti-Entropy's executor said to Theresa earnestly, "Besides, this matter is not a bad thing for Saint Freya. As long as they make some concessions, they can get more funds. In comparison, the concessions they made are not worth mentioning."
"Heh... the concessions we made are not worth mentioning?" Theresa sneered. "When Saint Freya was still subordinate to Heaven's Mandate, Heaven had no right to dictate to Saint Freya. I said, there is no room for negotiation on this matter. If this is the only purpose of your coming here today, please go back."
Although she said so, Theresa actually didn't think that these people came to Saint Freya just to argue with her about things that she had argued with countless times before. For this reason, she specially asked Amelia and Wendy to be in charge of these things. Amelia was Saint Freya's excellent intelligence-related Valkyrie, and Wendy was Saint Freya's strongest combatant besides herself. With them here, Saint Freya didn't have to worry for the time being...
Just as Theresa was thinking this, Saint Freya's collapse alarm suddenly sounded.
Theresa: "..."
Whatever you fear will come to you, right?
Theresa immediately stood up from her chair. Desdobia had already warned her, so this time the collapse must not be treated as an ordinary collapse, but... the collapse that gave birth to the Herrscher.
Church of St. Freya.
Night Owl reacted the fastest after noticing something abnormal with Ophelia. He immediately used a sniper rifle to aim at Ophelia and fired several bullets, but before the bullets got close to Ophelia, they were bounced off by the anti-gravity field generated around her.
"The Ninth Herrscher is the Herrscher of Rock, and his authority is the manipulation of gravity..." Night Owl quickly went over the information about the Ninth Herrscher in his mind. Long before he came here, he had applied for the use of the Yellow Spring Staff from the Jackal, but judging from the current situation, it would be a wise choice for him not to bring the Yellow Spring Staff here.
He was very sure that Ophelia had discovered him, and he was even more certain that the moment Ophelia became wary of him, there was no chance that the Yellow Springs Rod would hit him.
To fight against the Herrscher, you have to be a Herrscher. If I bring the Staff of Hades with me when I come here, then this weapon will most likely be taken away by Ophelia and then used on Wendy.
What he had to do now was to estimate what state this Herrscher of Rock was in.
Night Owl's attack with a sniper rifle immediately alerted Amelia, but before she could move, she was forcibly bounced away by a force and hit the wall beside her, and then she was sucked to the wall like a magnet and could not move.
"Amelia!" Adelina shouted, and then she also felt a powerful gravity that directly pressed her and several other Valkyries to the ground, unable to move.
Seeing that his teammates had no way to provide support, Ye Xiao pondered for a moment and decided to retreat symbolically.
As he expected, he was locked in place by gravity before he had taken a few steps. Although the mechanical prostheses on his body could help him resist most of the effects of gravity, if he forcibly broke through the constraints of gravity, it would probably attract Ophelia's attention and increase the gravity control over him, so Night Owl stood still, just like everyone else.
Ophelia just glanced in the direction of the Night Owl and left. She didn't have much time, and she had to finish everything she had to do in the limited time.
After Ophelia left, Night Owl reported the situation to the other end of the headset: "The Ninth Herrscher still retains some humanity, and compared to the Herrscher of Stone in the data, her abilities seem to have changed a bit. In addition to the regular gravity field of the Planet of Eden, she can also use anti-gravity fields and precisely manipulate the gravity of a single object."
Although it is theoretically reasonable that the Herrscher of Stone, whose authority is gravity, would use an anti-gravity field, the information about the Herrscher of Stone does not mention that he would use an anti-gravity field.
After a pause, Night Owl took another look at the Herrscher reaction measuring device on his arm and continued to report: "The Herrscher of Rock seems to have a special Herrscher reaction concealment ability, or there may be something wrong with the device developed by the Jackal. From the time the Herrscher showed his authority to the time he left, the device did not respond at all."
This was also the important reason why Night Owl focused on suspecting Ophelia but could not find any evidence and could only keep paying attention, because the Herrscher Reaction Measurement Device he brought out from the World Serpent did not respond to Ophelia at all.
But he reacted to Wendy.
Night Owl was puzzled by this. He tried to move his body again and found that the gravity lock of the Stone Ruler still existed after the Stone Ruler left.
St. Freya's Campus.
Along with the appearance of the Herrscher of the Rock, the skeletons of the Void Tree Users and the Honkai Beasts also appeared. However, unlike the previous Honkai Beasts, these Honkai Beasts and the Void Tree Users showed no signs of actively attacking humans after their appearance. Instead, they wandered around the St. Freya Academy and only fought back when attacked.
"Xing, don't we really want to go to the basement of St. Freya's Church to check out the situation? I heard from Laura that that's the big thing that Anti-Entropy is going to do..." Rosalia followed behind Xing, looking at the Honkai beasts wandering in St. Freya and said, although those Honkai beasts showed no signs of attacking her, she was still eager to try.
This will slap the faces of those Saint Freya Valkyries who come to pick a fight with them every day. Let's see who is the one holding them back!
"Idiot! Do you just do whatever others ask you to do?! Would you jump off a building if I told you to?!" Xing cursed coldly, "We entered Saint Freya under the direct order of the Anti-Entropy Leader. The only one who can give us orders is the Anti-Entropy Leader, you know? The daughter of a mere executor is nothing!"
During this time, Xing has been in contact with the undercover agents of Anti-Entropy lurking in Saint Freya, and then she found that in addition to some things about the Valkyrie of Saint Freya's internal intelligence department brought by Brenna, other Anti-Entropy undercover agents seemed to have their own ideas.
For example, Laura always hinted that she was going to do some "big business" with Rosalia and others, trying to stir up conflicts between herself and Saint Freya, and was also trying to find out about Cocolia's mother. The news brought by Brenna repeatedly emphasized that we must not act rashly.
Through the different statements and attitudes of the Anti-Entropy undercover agents, as well as the mission that Walter told them when he arranged for them to enter Saint Freya, Xing guessed something.
Although she was an executor who was pushed to the stage by Cocolia through connections, Xing was not an idiot. She could see that the degree of internal division within Anti-Entropy was probably even greater than when Cocolia's mother was still around.
When Mother Cocolia was still alive, the main contradiction within Anti-Entropy was the contradiction between conservatives and reformists, but all contradictions were suppressed after Mother Cocolia brought out the Walter clone. But now... the leader of Anti-Entropy is in charge of Anti-Entropy, and the executors below have begun their own actions.
For Xing, Cocolia, who was the support for the children in the orphanage, is no longer with us, the next Anti-Entropy leader Bronya has gone to the World Serpent, and those executors have been blatantly asking for news about Cocolia's "legacy" while Walter is still alive, which all indicates how difficult their current situation is.
Rosalia and Lilia are both too stupid. Now Xing is the only one who can take on the responsibility among the children in the orphanage, so no matter how violent she is, she has to be extremely cautious.
Without backup, everyone in the orphanage is like a hungry wolves seeing a piece of fat meat in the eyes of those who have ulterior motives. If they stay in St. Freya, those people dare not provoke Theresa openly, but what will happen if they leave St. Freya?
Laura's so-called plan will undoubtedly catalyze the split between Saint Freya and Anti-Entropy, which is obviously contrary to the measures and ideas taken by the Anti-Entropy leader.
If you think about it this way, you have to guess the purpose of those guys.
Once Saint Freya and Anti-Entropy break up, she and Rosalia will inevitably be ruthlessly driven out of Saint Freya by Theresa. Then they can only return to Anti-Entropy, back to the Anti-Entropy that is torn apart and surrounded by wolves.
Lilia wasn't as naive as her sister Rosalia, but she also had a hard time understanding the current situation, so she was more inclined to let Xing make the decision, even though both she and Rosalia were a little at odds with Xing and had clashed with him earlier: "So, what are we going to do next?"
Xing observed the situation around her and was just about to go to St. Freya's Church to capture the anti-entropy undercover who was ready to take action and throw him to Theresa to complete the cutting in advance. Suddenly, her subconscious mind warned her that there was danger. A huge black shadow enveloped her, and before she could react, the dark blade was about to fall.
At the critical moment, Rosalia reacted faster and stood in front, using her greatsword to help Xing take the blow. The huge impact force made Rosalia's body, which had been strengthened as a fusion warrior, feel severe pain. If this sword had landed on Xing, there was no doubt that she would have turned into a wooden stick.
Xing reacted quickly and distanced herself from him, while Lilia immediately stepped forward to repel the monster wielding the giant sword.
"Hey, Rosalia, are you okay?" Xing said while staring at the monster that appeared.
She was familiar with the nihilism of the Void Tree God Skeleton. Why did the other Honkai beasts and Void Tree User Skeletons not take any action, but this Void Tree God Skeleton targeted them?
"It hurts so much..." Rosalia said with a sad face, "My tail and hands don't feel like mine anymore."
Nihilism retreated a distance and pointed the giant sword in his hand in the direction of Xing and the other two. The Xushu and the Hai, who were still sleepwalking, quickly started to move and gradually surrounded Xing and the other two.
Xing and Lilia surrounded Rosalia in the middle, staring at the surrounding Xu Shukai with vigilance.
The number of these virtual tree skeletons is beyond what they can handle, and there is also a nihilist watching them covetously.
"Tsk..." Xing squeezed the pocket watch hanging in front of her neck and whispered to Lilia, "Take Rosalia and remember to run to the principal's office at the right time. Don't look back and run as fast as you can! Remember, only the leader's orders are orders, and everyone else's words are bullshit!"
"Hey, we won't abandon..."
"Don't be stupid! Either you leave or die here together!" Xing gritted her teeth and said, "I still have something left by Cocolia's mother that can help you buy some time. Damn, this should have been used to deal with those Shaniyat..."
Lilia had already set her sights on Rosalia and began to think about how to pack Rosalia up and take her away.
Just as the virtual tree's skeletons were getting closer and closer, several wind blades fell from the sky and scattered all the virtual tree's skeletons like mopping-up soldiers.
Xing raised her head and saw Wendy spreading her wings as a Herrscher, floating in the air. Those wind blades were thrown by Wendy.
Wendy looked down at Xing and the others who were surrounded by the skeletons of the virtual tree users from the air, and then glanced at the other two nihilists who had just appeared. Now there were three nihilists here in total. What was going on? Now that the Herrscher had appeared, could they all sell nihilism wholesale?
Originally, Wendy saw that the Honkai beasts and the skeletons of the Void Tree had no desire to attack, so she had no intention of using the authority of the Herrscher. After all, she still had the experience of her authority being eroded by absurdism during the Taixu Mountain incident. If the Herrscher appeared this time and there was absurdism secretly watching him, it would be a loss if her authority was eroded when she used it.
But she soon discovered that Xing and others were receiving special care from the Void Tree's Envoy and Void Tree's God, which forced her to intervene.
After all, no matter how much he dislikes these three, they are still students accepted by the principal. Even if they were sent here by Anti-Entropy, he still has to protect them.
Wendy assessed how much effort she would need to put in dealing with the three nihilists, and landed next to Xing and the others, saying, "Leave them to me, you go to the principal."
As he was speaking, suddenly Saint Freya began to shake as if the earth was shaking. A giant virtual tree skeleton taller than a building showed its figure, with four pillar-like legs inserted into the ground. Its shadow covered most of Saint Freya, and a dark red light flickered in the center of the spire-like body where its four legs were connected.
"Is absurdism beginning to change into a behemoth?!" Wendy's pupils shrank, and she glanced at the three nihilists who were also covered in shadows. She suddenly felt that these three were really a bit low.
But why did the absurdism appear directly this time? Didn't it take a lot of time to appear before?
"Go and evacuate the other students and teachers, can you do it?" Wendy said after looking at Xing and the others.
"Ha... this thing is much smaller than Chi You, so... forget it, just consider it as a favor from me and a little help for you." Xing said to A Lin and her sister, "Let's go, let's get to work!"
Dean's Office.
The moment absurdism appeared, Theresa immediately left the office, prepared to conduct on-site inspections of the specific situation of absurdism, and arranged for the evacuation of students and teachers.
For a moment, the only people left in the office were the executor of Anti-Entropy and the councillor.
"Ha... this is really a godsend. They didn't even drive the people in the office out first, but went to deal with those monsters first..." The executor of Anti-Entropy looked at the absurdism outside the window with some fear. An ominous premonition enveloped him, but he thought that it was a rare opportunity to get some useful information from Theresa's office. He also had the quantized Titans around to protect him at any time, so he did not immediately follow Theresa's instructions to go to the evacuation area.
Suddenly, the window seemed to shatter, and a girl with aqua blue hair floated in from the window.
"You are……"
Chapter 170 Otto's Plan
Inverse entropy.
"Saint Freya has lost contact with the outside world. According to the existing Honkai energy detection equipment, Saint Freya has indeed collapsed, and... it is very likely that a Herrscher has been born." Einstein said with his arms folded across his chest and his eyes lowered. "A member of Congress and an executor of Anti-Entropy are also there, but..."
"They deserved to die." Tesla curled his lips and said, "Although they died at Saint Freya's place, the next thing... Oh, Joachim, you may be in trouble."
Walter frowned and said nothing.
The executor of Anti-Entropy and a congressman died in the collapse of Saint Freya. For those people, this might be a good opportunity. They can have various reasons to try to intervene in Saint Freya, whether it is the post-disaster reconstruction of Saint Freya or putting pressure on themselves, the leader of Anti-Entropy.
But now, Walter is no longer concerned about the survival of Anti-Entropy. The elders who once founded Anti-Entropy have gradually lost their voice in it. The sacred ideals that once shone brightly have now decayed. The future of mankind lies in the next generation, but this next generation will not appear again and should not appear in today's Anti-Entropy.
So what Walter is considering is those undercover agents who are still willing to believe in Anti-Entropy’s former ideals. How to properly deal with them is also a problem.
"No matter what, we have to find out what is happening in Saint Freya now." Walter said, "What is the action of Tianming?"
"According to the intelligence sent by the undercover agent at the Sky Mandate, the moment the Honkai broke out in Saint Freya, Sky Mandate sent the Valkyrie troops to Saint Freya. According to the time and route, Sky Mandate's support troops will arrive at Saint Freya in half an hour at most." Einstein said, "Even if Congress wants to use this to intervene in Saint Freya's affairs, they will have no chance if Sky Mandate rushes to Saint Freya first."
After all, the reason given by Tianming was very legitimate. Fighting against Honkai and Herrscher was the common goal of all mankind. No one could refute Tianming's reason.
"So what should we do next?" Tesla looked at Walter.
Walter pushed his glasses, and the lenses reflected light, making it difficult to see his expression at the moment.
"...Ain, Tesla, I'll ask you to pay attention to the actions of Congress and other executors. You must keep the control of Hephaestus in your own hands, and you must not slack off in the security of the surrounding Titans."
"And you, Joachim?"
Walter shifted his gaze to the window: "I'm going to Saint Freya next to meet someone."
"Meet someone? Theresa?" Tesla was a little confused. "But Theresa may be dissatisfied with us now, and... that's too dangerous, Joachim. Now you don't have the core of the Ruler of Reason. What if something unexpected happens..."
"Don't worry, Tesla, I know what's going on. Besides, the person I want to see is not Theresa." Walter said softly.
Tesla still didn't quite understand, but Einstein on the side seemed to have guessed something. He sighed softly and looked at Walter with a complicated expression. To be able to make such a choice, Walter must have gone through a fierce struggle in his heart.
If the situation had not come to this, he would not be willing to do so, but in fact, he had no choice.
"You will be there too, won't you, Otto..."
Walter narrowed his eyes and thought so in his heart.
Although no one knows what Otto is planning after resurrecting Kallen, based on the experience of dealing with Otto over the years and combined with the last Taixu Mountain incident, Otto will probably still arrive at the forefront of the Honkai in person this time to get what he needs.
Besides, Otto must be waiting for him to come over.
Otto in Destiny is probably well aware of the current situation of anti-entropy.
With Anti-Entropy's current state, when they see Otto again, huh... there's no doubt that he will be sarcastic to them. The organization that was once established by a group of idealistic people to fight against Honkai and the tyrant in the sky has now become what they once hated the most. Ideals have been eroded by greed, and the dragon slayer has become a dragon before he even slayed the dragon. In the eyes of Otto, who has lived for five hundred years and witnessed all the changes that Anti-Entropy has undergone over the past few decades, there is probably nothing that can make him laugh at himself and the people who once established Anti-Entropy more than this.
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