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

　……

　On the other side, in the dormitory area.

　"Yes, Lixue, you're right. Bishop Otto most likely did come to St. Freya."

　As Fu Hua washed the blood off her hands, she took off her sweat-soaked shirt and put on another close-fitting nightgown that outlined her healthy body curves. She was completely unaware of Li Xue's increasingly flushed face on the other end of the video call.

　"However, he didn't inform me of anything. Perhaps it's because I'm entangled with three Herrscher of Reason clones and it's really hard for me to get away."

　"But isn't the biggest problem that Bishop Otto hasn't said anything...? The task he entrusted to you, Master..."

　"Don't worry, I have my own assessment of Kiana's situation."

　Fu Hua paused for a moment, then said, "As long as Kiana doesn't exhibit any obvious Herrscher of Law or lose control before my eyes, I will disregard Otto's orders. However, if she shows the same symptoms of suspected loss of control she had a few years ago... I will also have to be responsible for the other students at St. Freya."

　"After all, a target who could become a Herrscher at any time, just the Honkai energy radiation emitted during that process could potentially harm these children who haven't fully grown up yet. If that really happens, bringing her back to Schicksal is indeed the only option available."

　"Yes, I understand your difficulties, Master, and I won't make things difficult for you."

　Ritsuki nodded and said, "If it really comes to that, Salome and I will stay by Kiana's side every step of the way. Captain Cecilia's daughter has already passed away, and I can't let her other daughter also..."

　"Lixue, you've grown up so much..."

　Seeing Li Xue's resolute expression, Fu Hua's expression couldn't help but show more relief.

　"However, haven't you been giving lectures at St. Freya for a while now? I'm still an outstanding student and get to sit in the front row, so I'd like to hear more of your lectures..."

　"Well, this... I've been quite busy with things at the Heavenly Mandate headquarters lately, and I really can't get away. Goodbye, Master!"

　The girl's resolute expression instantly crumbled into embarrassment, and she fled in panic.

　Chapter 100 Gray Serpent: If they're not allies I like, I'll just abandon them.

　In the early morning, on a private jet belonging to Anti-Entropy.

　"Isn't Cocolia being a bit too cowardly... just abandoning Mei Company in the Far East like that?"

　Looking at the information sent back by Bella and Raiden Ryoma, Suzuma asked with some doubt.

　"If I remember correctly, the combat strength over there should be quite high. Putting aside the regular mechs, I remember there was at least one Skyfather and one Peacekeeper there."

　"Theoretically speaking, what she did should be called cutting off her tail to survive."

　Ai Yin looked at the intelligence report and pondered, "Mei Company is actually a bargaining chip she's throwing out to lure us in, or rather, a chip to buy us time."

　"Anti-Entropy with an Alliance Leader and Anti-Entropy without an Alliance Leader are two different concepts. Under the Alliance Leader's call, Anti-Entropy would not have any radical or conservative factions at all. However... as the leader of the radical faction, her behavior is indeed somewhat unreasonable."

　"After all, Walter's previous signals should have been quite clear, and he even saved her life from Otto. If she were to come to the leader for leniency and disband the so-called radical faction at this time, it wouldn't be impossible for us to allow her to retain most of her strength and continue to be a powerful executor in Anti-Entropy after a thorough investigation."

　"However, she chose to abandon half of her wealth in order to buy herself time and not surrender immediately... This situation is quite strange."

　"unless……"

　"Ugh."

　Tesla sighed: "Unless, she has an absolutely compelling reason not to surrender, and I can probably guess that reason."

　"If they surrender to us, we will definitely conduct a thorough investigation of Cocolia's forces. After all, we certainly won't continue to hand over control of mechs with large-scale destructive power like the Father to Cocolia. And the key is this investigation process."

　"Hey, do you remember? In Titan's quantum technology, there was a part of the key technology that was first broken through by Cocolia's 'research and development team'. At the time, we were wondering for a long time where Cocolia got her research and development team. It couldn't be that she poached people after the collapse of the Soviet Union, could it?"

　"You mean..."

　Ai Yin pondered for a moment: "Did she receive funding from an external force?"

　"I'm afraid their connection is even deeper than that. Either the other side has something on Cocolia, or Cocolia would have betrayed them long ago."

　Tesla nodded: "But it doesn't really matter. We were going to take action against her anyway. If she really surrenders and disbands the radicals, we won't have any reason to take action."

　"Isn't this situation just perfect? ​​We'll soon find out what secrets Cocolia is hiding."

　……

　Meanwhile, at an anti-entropy base in North America.

　"What do you mean you're leaving?!"

　Looking at the expressionless gray snake in front of her, Cocolia was furious.

　"Before, you used my influence to do this and that for your World Serpents every day. Now that you've encountered a little difficulty, you want to unilaterally terminate the cooperation?"

　“Ms. Cocolia, it seems you have a slight problem with your understanding of ‘a little’.”

　Gray Serpent said unhurriedly, "For example, I would not consider being personally dealt with by the leader of the Anti-Entropy Alliance as 'a little difficulty'."

　"With the power of our World Serpent, helping you fight against Walter is indeed not a problem. However, you are clearly not worth that much. At this time, the Serpent will not expose itself in the open."

　"Won't be exposed? Do you think you can extricate yourselves from the situation if Walter wants to settle scores with me?"

　Cocolia sneered: "Or do you think I don't have information on the World Serpent and don't know your strengths and weaknesses?"

　"I'm sorry, you probably really don't know."

　Grey Serpent shrugged indifferently: "Since we've made it clear that we're 'abandoning' you, it means you no longer have any information that poses a threat to us... Or, think about it carefully. So far, besides knowing that World Serpent is searching for the Herrscher Core, what other information do you know? But isn't searching for the Herrscher Core the goal of every organization in the world?"

　"Or do you think that with your level of understanding, which treats the Walter clone as a T0-level combatant, you can figure out the true strength of the World Serpent?"

　"you!"

　"So please make sure you understand this yourself, Ms. Cocolia."

　The gray serpent ignored the two Titans beside Cocolia and walked straight past her: "All along, it has been you who asked the serpent for help, wanting the serpent to help you retrieve your lost daughter from the Sea of ​​Quanta, rather than the serpent asking you for help. Until now, you are not even qualified to be the serpent's true ally."

　"Oh right, I know you're probably hesitating right now, wondering whether to let the Titans fire, leave me here, and then use my head as a pledge of allegiance to Anti-Entropy... But don't blame me for not warning you, all the enhancement technology used by your Titans was provided by Serpent. If you don't want to paralyze all the Titans in your base at this point, you'd better not make any rash moves."

　"And, if you really miss your daughter, then I suggest you destroy all the data related to your cooperation with the World Serpent right now. If you are obedient enough, the Serpent... might be able to bring your daughter back."

　"Of course, by then your daughter will naturally become one of the snakes, but at least she will survive, right?"

　With a meaningful smile, the gray snake disappeared from Cocolia's sight without looking back.

　"hateful……"

　Cocolia clenched her fists tightly. She wanted to shoot Gray Serpent right now, but Gray Serpent's words just now were exactly what she wanted to hear.

　Because she truly dared not engage in a life-or-death struggle with the World Serpent, and the World Serpent was currently the organization in the world with the most in-depth research on the Sea of ​​Quanta. Although she had not gained a deep understanding of the World Serpent, Cocolia was still quite wary of this ancient organization.

　"Ms. Cocolia, radar has detected an anti-entropy aircraft heading towards our base. We've checked the identification number; it should belong to Dr. Einstein..."

　Just then, an adjutant knocked on the door and came in, bringing Cocolia the news she least wanted to hear.

　"As expected... I knew those two wouldn't let this opportunity pass."

　Cocolia slammed her fist on the glass in front of her, then quickly turned to her adjutant.

　"Now, execute contingency plan three: destroy all the data I previously marked. Be quick!"

　"And... open the incubation chambers in the underground experimental base and release all those 'Walter's' to buy time for the destruction of the data!"

　"Fang, option three?"

　The adjutant was taken aback: "Ms. Cocolia, in that case, you basically have no chance of survival with Anti-Entropy!"

　"boom!"

　Cocolia fired a shot directly at the ceiling.

　"Follow orders, or I'll aim the next shot straight at your head."

　"Yes!"

　Chapter 101 Tesla: I didn't do this for my XP clone, Walter!

　"Look, she has indeed chosen to put up a stubborn resistance."

　Walter sighed as he detected that the Titans below had already raised their cannons.

　"Lingmo, I'm leaving it to you."

　"Don't worry, it's just a cricket titan..."

　Lingmo snapped her fingers softly.

　Instantly, the Titans, which had been holding their cannons high, gathered below the plane like a well-trained honor guard, lining the way to welcome it.

　"No matter how many times I watch it, I can't help but marvel at how terrifying corruption is, especially for an organization like Anti-Entropy that relies primarily on technology..."

　Tesla looked at the rapidly increasing number of devices on its terminal and nervously wiped away a bead of sweat.

　"Then you'll probably be marveling at the power of the Herrscher of Reason later... oh no, maybe the Herrscher of Rock."

　Lingmo chuckled and a card appeared in her hand.

　“Mr. Walter, I’ll leave you to stand guard here. I’ve taken over the entire base’s intelligent systems. The planes and mechs are all disabled. If you want to escape, you’ll have to rely on your own two feet.”

　“I just took a look, and the only way out of this base is this bridge behind us. As long as you block this way, no one should be able to get out.”

　"Ah."

　Valte nodded, well aware that his physical condition couldn't support him fighting recklessly: "Then, I'll leave the safety of Ai-in and Tesla to you."

　"rest assured……"

　Suzuma crushed the card: "I will attack in the form of reliable Welt."

　……

　"Ms. Cocolia, the outer defenses can no longer hold!"

　"Didn't we say we'd send the clone army out?!"

　"This……"

　The messenger looked troubled: "The incubation chambers where they are stored have been locked since the beginning, and the control system is also locked. We had to shoot the incubation chambers to successfully rescue some clones, and they are now gathering outside."

　"Tsk, was it that guy who can control Titans again...?"

　Cocolia's fingers trembled slightly: "What about the data? How's the deletion going?"

　"This is progressing very smoothly!"

　The messenger immediately perked up: "The tech department says the progress is 99.9% complete! But we don't know why an icon called 'Pinduoduo' has appeared on the computer screen..."

　"Phew...that's good..."

　Cocolia breathed a sigh of relief: "Hurry up and send those clones out, as long as we can buy them a little more time..."

　"Goo!"

　Before Cocolia could finish speaking, the tightly closed door was suddenly kicked open, and a clone flew past Cocolia at an extremely fast speed before walking out the window and downstairs without looking back.

　"Delay it a little longer?"

　A somewhat childish but very cute voice rang out from outside the door: "Sure, I'll let you delete for another hour."

　"But... you'll have to find me more opponents."

　A girl with long, brown-to-pink hair, holding a fancy cane that seemed more decorative than practical, strolled leisurely in from outside.

　"Damn it, how could you...!"

　Before Cocolia could speak, Walter's standard irritable voice rang out from outside: "Behold my thousand times gravity—splat!"

　"Well said, here's your reward: a private room inside the black hole."

　Lingmo waved her hand dismissively, and a Walter clone, which had been compressed into a small ball by gravity, fell to the ground from the air.

　"You, you are..."

　Seeing her proud clone army being crushed like ants, Cocolia instinctively took a half step back.

　"Who I am is not important; what matters is what you want to do."

　With a flick of her wrist, Suzumo sent the terminal from Cocolia's hand flying toward her, which Suzumo then handed to Ein beside her: "Doctor, this is for you."

　"I've compiled all the information about her, both the deleted and the remaining parts. You can decide for yourselves after you've looked at it."

　"Thank you."

　Ai Yin nodded and quickly began to peruse the documents in her hand.

　"Deleted and not deleted?"

　Cocolia's eyes widened suddenly: "This is impossible, it was just now clearly..."