Starting with the Herrscher, mowing down enemies without equal.

An Yu: "No need, you're on the list too." (Wu)

lecturer:"……"

Conductor: "It's not time for infighting yet. Everyone, keep quiet and prioritize dealing with external threats."

Boom boom boom!

The sudden knocking startled Velvi, who had returned to the workshop and automatically switched to expert mode. Who would come looking for her at this hour?

Before she could respond, the scholar automatically logged in and forcibly cut her off.

Experts: "@Scholars, @An Yu, @Conductors?"

An Yu: "Take a break, we don't need you anymore, you're such a mechanical idiot."

An Yu: "I haven't been out to eat for days."

Chef: "Wait? Haven't you been filling in for me while I'm cooking these past few days?"

Conductor: "It was the scholar who took over; she needed to continuously observe and calculate."

chef:"……"

The message board fell silent again for the time being.

The current internal plan is clear: time will be dominated by "scholars".

This strategy was agreed upon by most of the personalities, because when dealing with the current complex situation, especially when studying the Honkai and Alicia's anomalies, the Mystic Scholar is indeed the most professional and reliable among all the personalities.

Mystic scholar, mechanical expert, great magician, chef, lecturer, the powerful Type 5, the Herrscher An Yu, and the deepest self.

This is all the personalities the conductor knows, plus her, making a total of nine, which is the most reasonable and effortless distribution [as originally stated].

"Long time no see, my proud Miss Velvey, so focused on the stars~"

An Yu pushed open the door and sat down casually on the toolbox beside her.

There is a reason why the scholar is the dominant personality type: it is due to a series of illogical events that have occurred since Alicia came to power.

The scholar's full name is the Mystic Scholar, also known as the Virvier who overlooks the stars. She is a Virvier who has no concept of race, no hierarchy, and is only interested in truth and mystery itself.

"Enough with the small talk, what brings you here?"

The scholar lowered his eyes.

Alicia's performance was so perfect that the appearance of the second Herrscher who could communicate with her made her think of many more things.

Cooperate, and win twice.

"I want to retrieve the Herrscher Core."

An Yu's voice was calm, but the inherent power of the Lawgiver made him easily overthink things.

He seemed to know how he got involved in the game, but now only one thing was unclear: what exactly was his role in gaining this qualification?

A lucky one? Or did I also have a part in history?

To be honest, An Yu's mind was a bit of a mess because he considered himself a time traveler, so how did he end up with past and present lives?

Scholar Velvi was taken aback: "So the Herrschers really like to joke? That's something new to me."

She crossed her arms to support her head, appearing exceptionally focused.

"As a second choice, I'd like to participate in the creation of the Divine Key."

An Yu shrugged.

Scholar Velvi remained silent. In fact, this request was also impossible, since the Herrscher had already exposed his target.

An Yu is after the core of the Herrscher, but transactions should always be fair.

"You may not be a core member."

"make a deal."

An Yu understood all of Wilvi's precautions. In any case, it was just a feint. Wilvi shouldn't overthink it. Just prepare a whole bunch of backup plans...

Even though mental cocoons are very strong, sometimes you really can't guess what a lunatic is thinking.

"Let's continue our cooperation."

The scholar, Velvet, took up the most time because everyone knew that she was indeed the most reliable of all Velvet personalities when it came to researching Honkai.

If Alicia and the others won't tell the truth, then Velvi will have to find it herself.

For Velvi, collaborating with the Lawyers was simply a case of significantly increased risk in the risk assessment.

"If the Lawyer represents the embodiment of a civilization's sins or flaws."

Suddenly, Velvi spoke, as if talking to herself, yet also as if asking An Yu: "So, what kind of identity is Alicia playing now?"

She was reminded of the doctrine of original sin in some religious texts, though she didn't intend to apply it rigidly.

But what if the source of the collapse wasn't judged by simple destruction, but by a complex mechanism that humanity hasn't yet understood?

"Jesus?"

An Yu subconsciously replied, then couldn't help but laugh herself. ∧ˇ∈三‰零/∞∈＆

However, Alicia has indeed been a little different these past few times.

Velvi blinked: "I mean, let's conduct a thought experiment: without a 'goddess' like Alicia, who possesses absolute power and prestige to forcibly guide us, how would humanity have survived these Honkai events?"

"It should be violence, forcibly inciting human unity through hatred, followed by Mebius's and others' advanced plans, but it may not be in time."

An Yu did not deny that, after all, even now, violence is still the primary method.

However, if it weren't for those baseless grievances, perhaps Alicia's current approach would be correct, because without those grievances, the need for violence doesn't seem very high.

But then again, this is a dream, and the order in which the Herrschers appear is fixed. Of course, Alicia has time to resolve each issue one by one. Under normal circumstances, how could anyone handle things so perfectly?

"Violence is a good means."

“In many mythological metaphors…” Velvi whispered, “the fate of the angels who carry out the final judgment… what is it again?”

Volume 1: Chapter 177 (175) Do you like looking at the stars?

If the source of the collapse is not simply seeking to destroy humanity, then does the other side hope that humanity will overcome these cycles of calamity through violence, or are there other, better ways?

"suicide."

An Yu calmly added that the power of the Lawgiver of Knowledge gives him a natural sensitivity to concepts involving the spirit and faith.

"In some religious narratives, when the angels of judgment have violently cleansed the world of all original sins, they are unwilling or unable to bury all the sins accumulated by civilization through self-destruction in the end."

"It itself will become the greatest and final bearer of sin, thus... bringing about the final judgment upon itself and upon the entire civilization."

"If you insist on using a substitution, a brute-force approach will yield the highest reward, but it is also the most dangerous."

Of course, all of this is predicated on the premise that the Honkai mechanism can really apply such religious metaphors in such a crude way.

Velvi blinked again, her starry eyes sparkling: "Besides the Judgment Angel, what's the second way to clear the game?"

An Yu squinted. He had never thought about the religious aspect of it before, but with Wilvi's suggestion, it did seem like a viable line of thought.

"Jesus, as the innocent man in the Bible, will guide mankind to create instruments of judgment to cleanse themselves of sin."

However, An Yu quickly pursed her lips, thinking that such a statement was too far-fetched.

If we're talking about original sin, then An Yu can't figure out which one he represents. It's not that he's innocent, but An Yu clearly knows that he's guilty of all of them.

As long as you're a normal person, you're bound to have some of these traits: ~氿∞偲,聆潵、）⊙｝.

[Message Board]

An Yu: "I'm so bored. Chef, can you make a fragrant and soft strawberry cake? @Chef."

Chef: "Would you like to help me register as a student?"

The scholar said, "Go ahead, I want to eat too."

Scholars remain unsurprised by An Yu's existence and his interactions with other personalities.

The sincere and sublime atmosphere that permeates the current moth-to-a-flame movement and even the whole society is, in the eyes of scholars, extremely strange, even abnormal.

Vivi's personality is not suited to such a sincere environment. Her id might still be able to survive, but once it disintegrates, it will never be able to.

When everyone is united, even of one mind, there must be an opponent. It is perfectly normal for Virvi to choose to split herself.

This is what everyone thinks. Although it's strange to use "Herrscher" as a synonym, it is indeed a little more original than "Extreme Evil," since Alicia has really been searching for An Yu.

Scholar: "By the way, I've found the Eighth Herrscher."

An Yu: "Shocked!"

The Great Magician: "Oh? It seems this Eighth Herrscher is just another ordinary hurdle that Miss Alicia can easily overcome."

Scholar: "No, I have reached a cooperation agreement with him."

Model 5: "?"

Conductor: "?"

expert:"?"

An Yu: "?"

The Great Magician: "This isn't part of our original agreement, is it, dear scholar?" 〃々〈→≌

Scholar: "I know you will object, which is why I'm saying this now. The cooperation has been reached, and the current benefits are quite good. This is just an announcement."

Conductor: 6

Expert: "What conveniences did he offer that made you condescend to cooperate?"

Scholar: "Those who understand the laws of consciousness can delve into the depths of consciousness, even dissecting everything that constitutes consciousness, and incidentally analyze the specific source and cause of those resentments."

An Yu: "You can give it to me. Kill him and make it into a Divine Key, then I can use it."

Scholar: "...The Lawyer might cooperate, but you definitely won't."

As the personalities of Velvi, they knew very well what a person representing evil would do when that person appeared.

As a Herrscher, one might still hope that the other party, like Alicia, possesses the most basic humanity and can change with the events they experience.

And the evil personality...

An Yu: "Okay, okay, you're on the list too."

Conductor: "Now is not the time for infighting."

Scholar: "Getting back to the main point, based on the existing intelligence, there are currently two main possible speculations regarding Alicia and the current situation."

Scholar: "Firstly, Alicia is indeed a goddess who guided humanity through calamities. Those untraceable resentments are simply remnants of history and have nothing to do with her."

The Great Magician: "There's no need to explain this. If that were true, it would be too boring."

Expert: +1

Human beings should have their own pride, not the ignorance promoted by religions.

This future is too boring; Velvi really dislikes this outcome.

An Yu: "Then, what about the second one?"

Scholar: "We are just NPCs in the game, and the whole world is just a miniature world created by a higher-dimensional being. Alicia's current omniscience and omnipotence are because she has played the game many times and accumulated enough strategy experience."

An Yu: "..."

Lecturer: "An even more uninteresting guess."

Scholar: "My focus is different from yours. Even after I completely handed over control of this body, I still did not give up the habit of looking up at the stars."

An Yu: "What did you discover? Does the universe have an end? Or is there a problem with the physical constants?"

Scholar: "You could say that."

Scholar: "Although the constants in physics are perfectly normal no matter how you calculate them, there is something wrong with the starry sky."

Model Five: "Do you need me to kill Alicia?"

Scholar: "...You?"

The Great Magician: "If that's the case, then I'll have to think carefully about when it's time for the curtain call."

An Yu: "In my opinion, if it really is a game, we should find a way to find out who the players and administrators are, and then... kill them all."

Lecturer: "Actually, there's an even simpler way: confront Alicia directly."