I was transported to a broken world, yet my dreams are connected to Star Iron?

　However, it wasn't until recently that Suzumo successfully drew this rare item—and after drawing it, Suzumo discovered that... Black Tower was right after all.

　After being transformed into a system creation, the function of the spacetime prism is reduced to a short line of description.

　[It can significantly improve the quality and quantity of any one of the user's abilities.]

　As for just how significant this increase is... Lingmo has no idea.

　However, she will find out soon.

　Seeing that Lingmo seemed to have taken out a strange little gadget, Durandal tilted her head but did not make any further moves.

　Just as she had thought, in principle, Durandal was unwilling to kill Suzuma. After all, Otto had really instilled a good moral compass in Durandal. As the strongest Valkyrie of Schicksal, and with a beautiful wife who often did dirty work for Schicksal, Durandal's reading privileges were enough to allow her to borrow all the true historical materials of the Second Honkai Impact.

　To be honest, if we disregard their differing stances, Durandal actually admires Suzuma quite a bit. Unfortunately, in many situations in the world, we can't ignore perspectives.

　Even though Durandal is the strongest Valkyrie in Schicksal, she is still bound by the safety of the entire world bubble on her shoulders, so she has no choice but to temporarily submit to Otto and be at his beck and call.

　However, precisely because Durandal's strength was too great, even with such a task, Otto gave Durandal a lot of freedom. For example, at this moment, Durandal decided to just keep Suzuma here... After all, in her understanding, the only person in the world who could currently challenge her was Otto, who had not yet shown his full strength.

　Although Lingmo is quite strong, her Star Armor Mode is still too... wait, what is this thing?

　To Durandal's astonishment, the True Self Mark-like stigma on Suzumo's chest emitted a faint yet highly penetrating pink light. After the girl crushed the strange object in her hand, this pink light spread from her chest down her entire body, eventually forming an exceptionally beautiful, wedding-like appearance.

　"...I only found out today that Magical Girl Teriri is a documentary."

　After a moment of silence, the silly goose slowly uttered a sentence.

　"Well……"

　Looking at her own human armor, which could be described as a minimalist and energy-efficient version, Suzumo subconsciously revealed a sweet smile.

　"Actually... I don't know why this is happening either. Maybe you can think of it as... a magical girl's magic?"

　When used as an item, the Space-Time Prism can only enhance the strength of one ability. After some analysis, Suzuma decisively chose Airi's Origin Power as the target for enhancement.

　After all, even if Suzuma enhances another form of erosion power, it will be difficult for her to gain the upper hand in the battle against Durandal. Therefore, it would be better to directly enhance Aili's Origin, which would then amplify Suzuma's erosion power once more.

　This is a classic example of stepping on one's own foot with the other.

　"So……"

　The girl gave Durandal a cute wink, then pointed the materialized past life blossoms in her hand at the sky.

　After the power of Origin was fully enhanced, Suzuma's personality also became somewhat "Airi-like" under the influence of the item.

　"Now it's time for just the two of you?"

　A flawless dome, seemingly capable of obscuring the entire floating island and composed entirely of layers of pink crystal, suddenly unfolded along with the arrow that Suzumo had fired.

　Then, a large number of crystal arrows that had been bouncing up and down in the dome began to fly towards Durandal as if they were free.

　Please accept this bouquet of flowers with gratitude.

　Meanwhile, someone who had been secretly observing almost spat out a mouthful of water.

　……

　"Uh... Grey Snake, are you alright?"

　Raven looked at the gray snake, which suddenly looked like it was about to crash, with some concern.

　After all, this journey of destiny was not a mission, but her personal decision, and Gray Serpent was just there to help.

　If this gray snake were to die here because of this, the raven would still feel guilty for... a few minutes, right?

　"I'm fine, I guess... I just saw some really surprising things."

　Gray Snake cleared his throat, silently turned off the recording device in his prosthetic eye, and returned to his usual appearance.

　Now he understands why Lord Kevin believed from the beginning that Lingmo was indeed the successor of the heroes.

　With this weapon, this ability, this voice and tone... if you said this was Lord Alicia herself, Gray Serpent would believe it one hundred percent.

　"To be honest, after seeing such power, I think Natasha, you probably won't have much of a chance to make a move."

　After a moment of silence, the gray snake couldn't help but speak.

　"That's true. After all, they're facing Otto. I don't think anyone can come up with a foolproof plan to deal with him."

　Recalling his experience during his last trip to London, Raven couldn't help but shrink back: "With my surprise force here, it can play a role in some unexpected ways."

　"To be honest, given the current situation, the effect we just had was quite unexpected..."

　Gray Snake paused for a moment, then said, "It just took three groups of people by surprise at the same time."

　"Haha... Miss Cheng Lixue's incident was just an accident. If I had known Otto was so ruthless, I wouldn't have let her go to watch the live broadcast..."

　The raven looked away somewhat guiltily.

　"If I had known Otto would act so decisively, I would have just used the Seven Thunders of Purification to shoot him... Anyway, this thing can only fire one shot. If I could have seriously injured Otto back then, it would have freed up at least three or four combatants for Suzuma's side."

　"Unfortunately, Otto later directly unleashed all the Holy Blood of Heimdall Laboratory... Now, let alone the Seven Lightning of Purification, even the Herrscher of Thunder himself couldn't do anything to him."

　"But even if you severely injure Durandal here, it probably wouldn't be a good choice, would it?"

　Gray Snake looked at Raven, who had already pulled out the Seven Thunders of Purification, and asked with some doubt.

　"I didn't intend to make a move; I just wanted to watch the show using the Seven Thunders of Purification's sniper scope."

　The raven replied without looking up.

　"In short, as a way of repaying the kindness of Sirin and Suzumo in saving my brother's life back then, I will do my best to protect their safety until I die or they die."

　Chapter 211 Lingmo: What do you mean by "Aili's 'emotional debt' has come to haunt me"?

　"Here, here~?"

　Meanwhile, the fierce battle on the central floating island continues.

　However, with the help of the spacetime prism, Suzuma's combat power increased at a rapid pace.

　After all, if giving this ability to someone else is like allowing them to access your future power, then when Suzuma uses it, it's more like reclaiming her past power.

　At least Suzuma could use these primordial powers, which were amplified by the spacetime prism, with complete ease and without any awkwardness.

　However, Durandal on the other side wasn't having such a comfortable time.

　"call……"

　With another flick of her flame-encased spear, Durandal shattered the crystal arrows fired by her opponent, and gasped for breath.

　She had to admit that she had indeed underestimated Suzuma's strength... This level of combat pressure required Durandal to take it completely seriously. After all, even Bishop Otto was roughly at this level in Durandal's estimation of his strength.

　She could win, but the victory would be hard-won—this was the conclusion Durandal reached after first encountering Suzuma's power.

　However, if Durandal thought she could win the battle at the beginning, she no longer thought so after a few minutes.

　Because she discovered a more serious problem.

　The Black Abyss White Flower in her hand... seemed a little unresponsive.

　Previously, due to Bishop Otto's request for a "sneak attack," and because Durandal had not shown any intention of going all out, she used the Star Armor's own lance in battle—which could be long or short, disassembled, and even used as an arrow, making it very useful.

　However, after fighting for a while, Durandal decisively switched her weapon back to the Black Abyss White Flower. After all, Suzuma's strength was not to be underestimated, and if she did not go all out, there was even a possibility that she would lose the battle.

　However, this change was not a big deal. Soon, Durandal discovered a problem—the Black Abyss White Flower in her hand seemed to be conveying a sense of resistance to her, as if it was very averse to attacking Lingmo.

　When she first discovered the problem, Durandal thought she was being harassed by Suzuma's mental attack. After all, Otto had told her that Suzuma had the ability to perceive mental states, and Durandal, who had met the Forerunner [Su] long ago, was naturally familiar with this ability.

　However, after carefully perceiving it for a moment, Durandal realized that she seemed to be mistaken, yet not entirely wrong.

　Hei Yuan Bai Hua was indeed resisting her attack on Ling Mo, but this resistance was not entirely complete; it seemed to carry a hint of resentment, as well as some irritability and grievance.

　This completely baffled our straight-laced, clueless girl.

　She usually uses the Black Abyss White Flower just fine, and no one has ever told her that this weapon requires psychological counseling. What's more, this kind of strange psychological counseling is something that Rita is probably much better at than she is.

　And why?

　Although Durandal is known for her strength, her intelligence and knowledge are quite good. She clearly remembered that in the history of the Second Honkai Impact, Suzuma should not have had many opportunities to see the Black Abyss White Flower, let alone use this weapon. She had never even touched it. Why would the Black Abyss White Flower have such complicated feelings for Suzuma?

　After several clashes of weapons, Durandal's brain was about to overload.

　If the setting weren't so inappropriate, she really wanted to ask Lingmo on the spot what was going on.

　"Hmmmm~"

　Just as Durandal was caught in a dilemma, Lingmo took the initiative to stop her attack.

　After all, she wasn't in such a hurry as Durandal and Otto. Otto wanted to stall for time, and she wanted to stall for time with Otto as long as possible. The longer she stalled, the more full Sirin would be. If Kiana was rescued early and these two "big eaters" didn't get enough to eat, then they would have to go back to Anti-Entropy's base to replenish their Honkai energy.

　Therefore, after seeing that Durandal's expression was becoming increasingly strange, Suzuma considerately stopped her attack.

　"You seem to have something on your mind? If it's convenient, could you tell me about it?"

　"After all... a young girl's eyes always hold a lot of thoughts~ I've already noticed, haven't I? What's troubling you... seems to be related to me?"

　"While I appreciate your kindness, this is a battlefield."

　Durandal gripped the slightly trembling Black Abyss White Flower tightly, her voice tinged with doubt as she said, "I don't think it's a given that we should communicate right now, especially given our current position."

　"Position... it is indeed a very troublesome thing."

　Lingmo tilted her head: "But, a lovely girl shouldn't have her heart blocked from communicating because of such a strange reason, right?"

　"Right now, the entire central floating island is enveloped by their flawless dome. Even Otto can't monitor the situation of the central floating island by any means, can he?"

　"not to mention……"

　Lingmo put her hands behind her back, leaned forward slightly, and then revealed a bright smile: "The Black Abyss White Flower in your hand has already shaken so much that even others can detect the anomaly."

　……

　"Grey Snake, Suzumo said that Otto doesn't know what happened inside the central floating island, so why can we still see what's going on inside?"

　"To be precise, only you can see it. I was able to see what was happening inside through the electrical signal translation of the Seven Thunders of Purification. Didn't you notice that I turned off the recording function of my prosthetic eye a long time ago?"

　Gray Serpent replied calmly, "If Otto is also using the Mimicry of the Seven Thunders of Purification to observe, then he can actually observe it too. However, he is currently having some difficulty extricating himself, so naturally he cannot attend to the situation here with Suzumo."

　"I see. But speaking of the Seven Thunders of Purification..."

　Raven stroked the barrel of the Seven Thunders of Purification with some doubt: "You might not believe it, but the Seven Thunders of Purification... seems to be gloating."

　"That's about all I can glean from her emotions..."

　Seven Thunderbolts to Cleanse Sins: ??

　"Uh……"

　Looking at the simple expression that the raven had casually carved on the ground, Gray Snake's face showed a hint of embarrassment.

　After a moment, he looked around and then lowered his voice.

　"Actually... I roughly know what's going on."

　"As the master of the Seven Thunders of Purification, it's alright for you to know these secret histories, but please don't spread them. After all, these are 'unofficial histories' that I, from the previous civilization, collected from other people. If they are spread, it may damage the prestige of you venerable lords."

　"Don't worry, I'll keep my mouth shut and babble softly."

　The raven immediately pricked up its ears and made a zipper-like motion near its beak.

　"Cough cough..."

　Grey Serpent cleared his throat: "Natasha, I heard that you have a good relationship with the Lord of Eden in Paradise. Then you should know that the original owner of the weapon Black Abyss White Flower was actually Lord Alicia, right?"

　"Hmm, but it seems that Alicia gave up using this weapon later?"

　“That’s right, and the reason she gave up using the Black Abyss White Flower is... that the weapon isn’t good-looking enough and doesn’t match her style.”

　"what?"

　"Don't be surprised yet, this is just background information."

　Grey Serpent whispered, "In fact, when the Divine Key project was first launched, since the threat of Honkai was not so imminent, Lord Velvet often added some 'little tricks' when creating the Divine Keys."

　"This has led to the fact that most of the Divine Keys that were created in advance, or those that were planned in advance, were equipped with virtual personality systems of varying strengths, similar to those of the Armed Dolls—such as the Seven Thunders of Purification in your hand, or the Void Treasury."

　"And the Black Abyss White Flower is actually in this category as well."

　"According to unofficial historical records, the consciousness of Kuroiwa Shiroka is actually that of a girl, which leads to Kuroiwa Shiroka being selective about her users—she only accepts beautiful girls to use her, and the more beautiful the girl, the higher the compatibility."

　"It sounds like a unicorn from mythology..."

　Raven muttered, "But looking at it this way, wouldn't it be... that Alicia gave up using her back then..."

　"That's right. Based on this logic, Black Abyss White Flower must have been quite fond of Lord Alicia back then. After all, this Lord was recognized as being among the best in the previous civilization in terms of figure, appearance, and inner personal charm."