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

　"Oh? It seems that Bishop Otto thinks I am qualified."

　Lingmo couldn't help but be curious: "However... I'm quite surprised that Your Excellency was able to 'die' from Cecilia's hands so quickly. It's quite an achievement for your acting skills."

　"Haha, you flatter me. Those who know me well know that I have always had a strong desire to perform."

　Otto chuckled: "Although facing three S-rank Valkyries at the same time did make me a bit embarrassed, including one I didn't expect... fortunately, none of them knew much about my Soul Steel body, so I easily fooled them."

　"However, we might need to speed things up a bit, otherwise, once Miss Lixue notices something's wrong... Heh, I've never been 'chased' by so many girls in a physical sense before."

　"So, Ms. Suzumo, I'll get straight to the point. Now that things have come to this, if I said we could put aside our past grievances and cooperate again... what do you think of this proposal?"

　"not so good."

　Lingmo refused without even thinking.

　"You rejected her so quickly... Although I had already guessed this would be the result, Miss Suzuma's decisiveness still makes me a little sad."

　Otto sighed softly: "However, if I'm not mistaken, the reason you refused so decisively is actually because of the people around you, such as... Sirin and the others, right?"

　"After all, based on my observations of you, you should be someone similar to my old friend Fu Hua, someone who is quite indifferent to his own life and death. If I were to categorize the reasons why you rejected me, your own attitude probably accounts for less than 10%?"

　"Your observation is quite accurate. So, since you've come to this conclusion, you should also be well aware that no matter whether you can persuade me or not, your attitude towards me won't change in any decisive way, right?"

　"Yes, that's why I just feel a little sorry."

　Otto shrugged: "If you hadn't been the first to be discovered by the Babylonian Laboratory, you might already be... the chosen one to become the next bishop."

　"Who wants that lousy spot anyway..."

　Thinking of the armor that a certain white-haired loli got after the main story ended, Suzumo shuddered violently.

　In a sense, Theresa's life was no better than the chaotic harem ending she suffered after her first playthrough.

　"Yes, this seat is indeed not easy to sit in."

　Otto nodded in empathy, then glanced down at the time.

　"Very well, it's about time... Well then, thank you, Miss Suzumo, for chatting with me for so long. How about we get down to business now?"

　"What a coincidence, are you also stalling for time?"

　Lingmo smiled knowingly: "Me too..."

　"How about I guess... Kiana isn't actually on the central floating island right now, but in the weapons lab?"

　"You guessed right, Miss Suzumo."

　Otto clapped his hands and nodded in agreement: "K423 and Sirin were indeed not in Heimdall or the central floating island from the beginning, but on the small, inconspicuous weapons laboratory on the connecting path between the two."

　"Now that we've come this far, why don't you guess why I placed her there?"

　"To delay the time it takes for me to find Kiana?"

　"I'll keep you in suspense for now regarding that."

　Otto smiled slightly, not denying Lingmo's answer: "However, as a courtesy, let me also play this guessing game with Miss Lingmo."

　"For example, I suspect that Miss Suzuma's real trump card, and the reason she's willing to stall for time with me, is... Miss Sirin has already been resurrected and is residing in Kiana's body, which is... what I observed before, Kiana's so-called 'second personality,' right?"

　"Yes."

　Lingmo nodded without hesitation: "When did you guess?"

　"I had suspected it for a while, but I wasn't sure until I saw Cecilia alive and kicking."

　Otto gave a wry smile: "No wonder Miss Suzumo has always been so confident of victory. With such a trump card, anyone would think my plan is a joke."

　"Fortunately though... my plan is not that simple after all."

　As she spoke, a "Valkyrie Armor" that Suzuka had never seen before but looked somewhat familiar began to emerge from under Otto's clothes and quickly assembled on Otto's body.

　“When Rita’s probe yielded no results, I already anticipated that K423’s situation was probably not as simple as I had imagined. Therefore, when I brought her back to the Destiny headquarters, I specifically left a backup plan.”

　"To be precise, this is also the first reason why I placed her in the weapons laboratory..."

　Suddenly, a faint energy fluctuation that was strangely familiar to Lingmo appeared in Otto's hand. Then, without hesitation, he pressed the black and white ball of light in his hand against his chest.

　“I didn’t implant the Tranquility Gem into K423. Instead, I injected her with a large amount of Honkai energy and a ‘replica Death Herald Core’ that I had recorded during the Second Honkai Impact. This amount of work could be easily completed even outside of Heimdall’s Lab or the Central Floating Island. As for the real Tranquility Gem…”

　Black mist appeared on Otto's hand, exactly the same as when the Black Abyss White Flower was released.

　"As you can see, I always carry it with me, and it is always ready for the core loading of the Blank Key."

　"Your trump card... is that all?"

　Lingmo didn't stop Otto's "transformation," but tilted her head and sneered, "Don't blame me for not reminding you, Durandal fought me for more than ten minutes just now, and still couldn't defeat me, huh?"

　"Ah, of course I know that."

　Otto faced his "weakness" without hesitation: "After all, even with all my skills, I can only manage to go toe-to-toe with Durandal in her Star Armor form. What's more, Cecilia has consumed most of my Holy Blood..."

　"However, Suzumo, have you ever considered that my current goal isn't to kill you, but to stall you?"

　"After all, looking at it this way, the Herrscher of Death's power to resurrect indefinitely, combined with the Soul Steel body and the Holy Blood used to seal abilities, isn't that quite fitting?"

　"Delaying my time?"

　Lingmo frowned slightly, a "Punk Lord's Greeting" appeared in her hand, and then, carried by a crystal arrow, she flew towards Otto without hesitation.

　“Miss Lingmo, things are different now. Even if you destroy my Soul Steel body on a large scale now, I won’t feel so bad.”

　Otto casually blocked the arrow that Suzumo shot at him, allowing Punk Lord's greeting ability to rapidly erode several well-hidden Soul Steel bodies.

　"And, I don't know if you've noticed something."

　“Since you stormed into Destiny, one important member of Destiny has not shown up, and I… have not used any of my usual powers.”

　"Miss Lingmo, why don't you guess... what her mission is?"

　……

　[Honkai energy injection in progress. Current remaining Honkai energy reserves in the reactor: 23%.]

　[Miss Amber, the Honkai energy injection rate has now dropped to a critical point. According to calculations, K423 will awaken in three minutes.]

　"oh, I understand now."

　Amber nodded expressionlessly: "Haven't you heard anything from the bishop yet?"

　[Currently, no. According to Otto's original plan, if he doesn't send any news, you'll need to wait until it's confirmed that K423's second personality is Sirin before proceeding with the next step.]

　【and many more……】

　Just then, the small golden cube floating beside the amber suddenly stopped and then said.

　[Otto has sent back news confirming that the other personality within K423 is indeed Sirin, who perished in the Second Honkai Impact... Miss Amber, you can begin the operation immediately.]

　"it is good."

　Amber took out a syringe from her pocket.

　However, although it is called a reagent, what flows in the syringe is not medicine at all, but a tube of shimmering silver fluid, or more accurately, a substance with properties similar to Soul Steel.

　After taking out the reagent, Amber plunged it into her neck without hesitation and pushed it down hard. Instantly, the girl's entire body trembled violently, and her eyes, which were covered by armor, turned completely into a dazzling silver.

　"The reagent—Genius has been fully absorbed, and Void Treasury is beginning to cover my armor."

　【clear. 】

　The small golden cube shimmered slightly, and a Valkyrie armor set that seemed to suit Amber's temperament extended up from the girl's ankles, covering all of her exposed skin.

　That's right, this is Otto's real trump card.

　By replicating and extracting the Genius from Durandal, Otto commissioned Changguang to create the reagent "Genius." The function of this reagent is simple: by parasitizing a large number of nanobeacons, it forces the subject to gain spatial perception ability for a period of time.

　The armor Amber was wearing at the moment was called "Extreme Knight Moon Sky," a fourth-generation Valkyrie armor from the same batch as armors such as Moon Soul, Moon Soul, and Moonlight.

　This was originally an all-terrain combat armor that Otto prepared for Kallen after she was resurrected, when he had not yet found a way to revive her. However, after he later obtained the real way to revive her, Otto made the armor and left it for Amber to use.

　As for the purpose of this armor at this moment... it's very simple: to protect Amber from death.

　After all, Amber will need to rely on the temporary spatial perception ability granted to her by [Genius], and simultaneously manipulate the two divine keys, the Thousand Realms One Vehicle and the Void Treasury Transformation, to spatially seal off Sirin.

　This was Otto's real plan.

　Since Kiana did not follow his idea of ​​gaining core dominance through mutual suppression, but instead obtained complete core control through the clever method of symbiosis.

　Otto naturally wanted to test whether this symbiotic Herrscher of the Void could meet his requirements.

　After all, even Schicksal hasn't made much progress in its research on the Herrscher core so far. Otto wasn't sure if Kiana and Sirin, now "two in one," could unleash the original abilities of the Herrscher of the Void.

　Similarly, this is one of the main reasons why Otto placed Kiana in the weapons laboratory—because the Thousand Worlds One Vehicle retrieved from London has always been stored here.

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　Bounty (4/9) ~

　Chapter 214 Lingmo: Otto, why don't you try to guess my trump card again?

　The prediction given by Void Archives was very accurate. Less than a minute after Amber had put on her equipment and was on high alert, Kiana slowly opened her eyes in the life support pod.

　However, to be precise, it was Xilinnu who opened her eyes.

　Kiana, how are you?

　"Everything is normal, Sister Sirin... I just feel a little dizzy."

　Kiana, who was in the core, yawned.

　"Relax, dizziness is normal, it will pass in a while. After all, you are not a native Herrscher, and accepting Honkai energy requires a gradual adaptation process. Moreover, once your spatial abilities are greatly enhanced in a short period of time, it is indeed easy to feel dizzy due to misperceptions of multidimensional space..."

　Sirin looked down at her chest. At this moment, there was still a piece of the "pseudo-death core" implanted by Otto in her body, which was used to activate the Herrscher core. However, in Kiana's body, this thing played a role exactly like the bomb in Mei's heart, purely to restrain herself.

　However, for the Herrscher of the Void, this kind of constraint is rather... ridiculous.

　Kiana casually tossed the excess items from her body into the imaginary space using teleportation. At this moment, Kiana seemed to have recovered somewhat, and asked with some curiosity, "It really will be fine in a little while... Sister Sirin, how did you know?"

　"It's written in the supplementary textbook left by the Black Tower. Don't be curious. Once you finish learning theoretical physics, you'll be studying the Black Tower's textbook right away."

　"Ah...maybe we should just forget about it then..."

　After giving Kiana's consciousness a sharp poke at its core, Sirin turned her gaze back to the outside world.

　After being infused with a large amount of Honkai energy, Kiana's body is no longer at the level she was used to. Therefore, if they continue to log in together as before, it may lead to a decrease in combat power. It would be better to let Sirin do it alone.

　Moreover... to be honest, without having to use Kiana's "Pain Ship" which requires careful calculation even when using a little Honkai energy, Sirin felt a bit "inflated" as she felt the power within her body.

　"It seems... Otto has prepared some welcoming ceremony for me."

　Seeing Amber standing guard outside, Sirin smiled.

　“I’m only targeting Otto, so… leave now and no one will get hurt; otherwise, you will die.”

　"I'm sorry, but this is His Holiness the Bishop's order, and besides, life isn't that important to me."

　Amber slightly raised her hand, and a series of strange rumbling sounds seemed to gradually rise from around her body.

　"Just follow orders... It doesn't matter, I don't blame you. In that case, I'll just go by myself."

　Sirin shrugged, then snapped her fingers lightly, and a portal appeared in front of her.

　“Leave? I’m sorry, Miss Sirin, you might be oversimplifying things a little.”

　Seeing that Sirin had already opened the portal, Amber did not stop her at all. Instead, she watched Sirin enter the portal, and then, less than a second later, Sirin reappeared in the same spot with a frown.

　"A...train?"

　Celine glanced around warily. Although it seemed like there was nothing there, she could sense that the entire area was anchored by a faintly visible train, and if she tried to force her way through…

　Sirin looked down at her chest. Although Kiana's chest was much larger than her previous fourteen-year-old, undeveloped body, Sirin felt that even with such frontal armor, it probably wouldn't be able to stop a train. "We are all trying our best to live."

　"The Second Divine Key, a Thousand Realms in One".

　Amber maintained her previous calm tone, seemingly completely unaware of the burden brought by Genius and Thousand Worlds: "I have even worse news for you. I actually have another one of these trains."

　"According to the power limit designed for the Divine Key, each use of the Divine Key at its maximum power is equivalent to the full-force attack of the corresponding Herrscher. Without considering my physical condition, the remaining Honkai energy reserves of this floating island are 23%, and the Honkai energy reserves of the adjacent floating islands are 58%."

　"In other words, before my body completely collapses, I can at least keep these two Divine Keys at their maximum power with the help of the Valkyrie Armor's life support system, and maintain a power output level close to twice that of yours to lock you off for more than an hour."

　"What's even more regrettable is that Durandal, the strongest Valkyrie of Schicksal, is currently besieging Suzuma with Bishop Otto. If you don't want the tragedy of watching Suzuma die during the Second Honkai Impact to repeat itself, I think you won't accept the option of being delayed by me for an hour."

　"And if I choose to break through your blockade, I would have to break through a spatial blockade that is nearly twice my maximum output, even after just reactivating my core?"