[In the same year, the spaceship you were on arrived at the Moon, where you discovered the remnants of a civilization.]
[Upon analysis, it was determined that these ruins dated back anywhere from several hundred thousand to several million years.]
[Within the desolate structures, you found a somewhat damaged but still-functioning supercomputer and began to extract a wealth of data from its memory banks.]
[You discovered that the creators of this ancient civilization were not strange-looking aliens, but humans, identical to yourselves.]
[You also obtained fragmented information regarding the Herrschers.]
[The data foretold that the final Herrscher would be born on the far side of the Moon.
From there, it would descend upon the planet, triggering a large-scale Honkai outbreak that would infest the entire world.]
[Unfortunately, the records were sparse, containing only these few chilling details, along with some conceptual designs for Honkai Energy weapons developed by that long-dead civilization.]
[There was also data on the Herrschers they had faced.
A few of their descriptions matched the Herrschers you were currently fighting.]
[However, there was no specific visual data or any other identifying information for the prophesied Herrscher of Finality.]
[Still, this was a significant find.
The supercomputer was severely damaged, and more than half of the data that could still be accessed was corrupted or missing entirely.]
[Approximately half a year later, the Tenth Herrscher descended.
Its manifestation, however, was far more dramatic than that of the Eighth Herrscher.]
[The Tenth Herrscher was not a single entity but a collective consciousness born within a total of over ten thousand people.
The negative will that coalesced, however, was surprisingly weak.]
[Fortuitously, everyone had been instructed in the Meditation Method.
A majority of the hosts used it to easily sever the bonds of those negative emotions, seizing control and completely obtaining the power of the Herrscher Core for themselves.]
[A small number of individuals failed to block the interference of the negative will and were completely consumed, transforming into mindless Herrschers.]
[Those who successfully resisted became objects of envy for many; they had essentially obtained divine powers for free.]
[As for the remaining portion—over two thousand individuals whose consciousnesses failed to resist the Herrscher’s will—they immediately hid themselves, vanishing from the world without a trace.
Subsequent analysis indicated they had retreated into the Imaginary Space.]
[Piloting the locomotive built by Vill-V, you charged directly into the Imaginary Space.
There, suspended in the churning void, you saw a massive, surreal stage.]
[Those two thousand-plus Herrschers were gathered in what looked like a meeting room, holding a conference to discuss how to destroy the Sea of Quanta Frontline.]
[You changed your clothes, assumed a new face, and secretly blended into their ranks.
After listening to their plans, you decided it was time to play a few ‘heart-to-heart’ games with these new Herrschers.]
[The little game was very enjoyable.
[They launched an overwhelming, chaotic assault against you, but you walked through the storm of energy with calm composure, untouched.]
[When you ripped the heart from the first one, the look of pure terror that bloomed on the faces of the remaining Herrschers was, you had to admit, incredibly satisfying.]
[For these Herrschers, escape was absolutely impossible.
The overriding command they had received from their collective will was to take you down, forcing them to fight to the last.]
[Just to be safe, you had also secretly used your Magnetic Field Power to completely seal off the surrounding space.]
[With the area locked down, there was no elegant way to finish this.
The mass slaughter could only be done by ripping out their hearts, one by one.]
[This grim, heart-ripping game took you several days to complete before the locomotive finally crashed back out of the Imaginary Space.]
Inside the Taixu Laboratory, the simulation continued.
[You looked down at the harvest from your work over the past few days: a massive, shimmering pile of Herrscher Cores, roughly two thousand of them in total.]
[After thorough testing, you found that these mass-produced cores couldn’t compare to the genuine article.
Each one contained only about one-thousandth of the power of a true Herrscher Core.]
[To put it into perspective, any soldier who had successfully integrated the Third Gene Potion could easily crush one of these diluted cores.]
[You tossed the entire pile to Vill-V, instructing her to use them to manufacture new weapons.]
[You really couldn’t think of any other use for them.]
[After all, with the automated factory Prometheus had built using the First Herrscher’s core, you could create almost anything, so long as the programming and material science could keep up.
It was better to use these lesser cores for armaments.]
[You spent another ordinary New Year.]
[You are currently very dissatisfied with yourself.
Ever since your Magnetic Field Power awakened, you have been training it with all your might, relying on the ‘Heaven Rewards the Diligent’ trait to push your limits.]
[In the years since your awakening, although you have encountered no true bottlenecks, your Magnetic Field Power has only reached 200,000 Volts.]
[At your current level, you can only just manage to break through the atmosphere with your physical body and survive unprotected in the vacuum of space.]
[With your mastery of Total Realm and Flow Level, blowing up a moon-sized satellite should be possible.]
[You have also developed the Hell War God Mode, a technique that is essentially a form of thought-splitting.
You took a page out of Vill-V’s book for that one; her capacity for learning is truly frightening now.]
[Aside from that, you can’t do anything else.
For the first time, you feel that you are far, far too weak.]
[The Honkai arrive faster each time.
Half a year has passed since the Tenth Herrscher’s appearance, and theoretically, the Eleventh Herrscher should be descending soon.]
[You hugged Little Griseo, who was curled up in your arms.
Only she seemed to give you a genuine sense of warmth.]
[A few days after the New Year, Mei proposed the Moonlight Throne Project.
After listening to her explain the plan, you agreed immediately.]
[Just after the New Year celebrations concluded, the Eleventh Herrscher suddenly descended, materializing over North America.]
[The Eleventh Herrscher’s massive energy field spanned a 200-kilometer radius and did not expand further.]
[Several squads sent to probe the area reported that upon entry, they experienced extreme difficulty breathing as the Honkai Energy in their own bodies turned against them.
If they hadn’t been pulled back in time, they would have died inside.]
[After a moment of thought, you came up with a method.
All your research on so many Herrscher Cores and corpses was not for nothing.]
[You ordered a direct bombardment of the region with Honkai Energy Fission Bombs.]
[It had already been tested, after all; the weapon was designed to be completely targeted at all forms of energy.]
[Unsurprisingly, any residents inside the zone were already dead, so you might as well just drop the bombs.]
[You didn’t believe this Herrscher had an infinite energy supply.
You bombarded the area with over a dozen Honkai Energy Fission Bombs in rapid succession.]
[If anyone inside wasn’t dead after that, it would be impossible.
Absolutely impossible.]
[Mushroom clouds bloomed one after another over the landscape until the shimmering barrier finally vanished.]
[Just to be certain, you mobilized another batch of fission bombs and dropped a few more before personally entering the central area.]
[You reached the epicenter and found the Eleventh Herrscher.
She was a woman wearing a white, rather provocative version of a nun’s habit.]
[In your professional assessment, it wasn’t nearly as provocative as Aponia’s standard outfit.]
[Aponia claimed she wore a habit every day, but no matter how you looked at it, it didn’t resemble any nun’s habit you had ever seen.]
[‘Whose habit has a slit that goes all the way up to the base of the thigh?’ you mused.]
[Although these were all clothes designed by Eden, you had to admit that the garments she created were truly beautiful.]
[After passing the hottest months of July and August, you filmed another documentary about summer with Elysia.]
[This wasn’t the first time; you had filmed one with her the previous year as well.]
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