[After you demonstrated the clearance of the Herrscher of Reason to Vill-V, this Damselette, who was suspected of having a split personality, immediately agreed to your request.]
[Of course, your promise to help her hand-craft basic Materials also played a tiny bit of a role in this.]
[Regardless, the outcome was very satisfying to you.]
[You successfully recruited Vill-V into the organization.]
[At this point, you had gathered the three top world-class scientists of the Previous Era.]
[Following a set pattern, you inadvertently pointed out their research directions through casual chats with the three scientists.]
[Soon, Mobius, Vill-V, and Mei began to discuss related issues intensely.]
[For example: how to use a herrscher core to create weapons, extracting genes from Honkai Beasts to create super soldiers through surgery, and so on.]
[You believed that the Divine Keys and MANTISes you had long been eyeing would soon appear.]
[After all, who could refuse a Judgment of Shamash!]
[Not to mention the introduction you saw about it before your Transmigration.]
[‘Like the Incarnation of a god of destruction descending, only the light bursting from the death of a star can compete with its brilliance.
Only a body that surpasses a Mortal can withstand this endless destructive power.’]
[So, sorry about that, Kevin!]
[Of course, you also knew that fantasies are just fantasies; neither the Divine Keys nor the Super Transformation Surgery to become a MANTIS were projects that could be completed immediately.]
[At this moment, the most important thing for you was to deal with the born Herrschers as quickly as possible after the Third Honkai.]
[After all, the scope of the impact this time was far too vast, and the resulting casualties were even more terrifying.]
[If it couldn’t be settled quickly, it would be just like the original plot: the Flame-Chasers defeated the Herrscher, but by then, the Herrscher had already destroyed humanity.]
[Winning and winning…
until there was nothing left.]
[Fortunately, you knew a clear point in time: the Third Honkai breaks out after Kevin transfers to Chiba Academy.]
[And soon, you learned through the principal of Chiba Academy that a new transfer student had recently arrived at the school.]
[Then he began to describe his appearance: white hair, blue eyes, handsome and dashing.
Hearing this, you interrupted the gossiping principal, confirming the transfer student was undoubtedly Kevin.]
[And while you were nervously preparing to face the Third Great Honkai…]
[At this time within the Flame-Chasers, because the Herrschers born from the first two Honkai outbreaks were cleanly dealt with by you and Elysia…]
[Whether it was the exercise of clearance or the destruction caused, both were very limited, thus a trend of arrogance and indulgence was born.]
[After all, with Vill-V joining, the warriors of the Flame-Chasers’ combat department had upgraded their equipment; everyone had mastered individual exoskeleton armor, and facing a Honkai Beast alone was no longer an issue.]
[There were even some rumors that if another Herrscher appeared, there would be no need for Shiro and Elysia; the Flame-Chasers’ warriors could resolve it by mobilizing in full force.]
[You had long anticipated this situation.]
[Part of it might indeed be overconfidence, but a large part was also due to someone fueling the flames behind the scenes.]
[And the original Higher-ups took this opportunity to possess even more power.]
[Those in power dislike nothing more than having things under them that are not within their control.]
[And you had become the most restless thorn in the eyes of these Higher-ups.]
[If it were just having powerful combat strength, it wouldn’t be enough to make the Higher-ups uneasy; after all, they also had powerful assassination units in their hands.]
[The key was that the three major scientific giants all seemingly followed your orders.]
[So they wanted to use a ‘boiling the frog in warm water’ approach to gradually weaken your influence until they could remove you from the Flame-Chasers.]
[These actions of the Higher-ups made you resolve to unify the Flame-Chasers.]
[You decided that after dealing with the Third Herrscher, you would use Aponia’s ability to unify the Flame-Chasers.]
…Less than a year after Kevin transferred schools.
One day, at the Flame-Chasers headquarters.
The device responsible for detecting Honkai Energy suddenly began to ring violently.
Such a sharp increase in Honkai Energy manifested only one thing.
The Third Honkai has descended!
Changkong City!
The originally peaceful city life was suddenly swept up by the flames of war.
The city that never sleeps, which once Bloomed with the light of civilization, was destroyed in an instant.
Those products that condensed the wisdom of human Crystals were like fragile porcelain.
Before the Honkai, they couldn’t even cause a ripple.
Large swathes of the power grid were destroyed, and skyscrapers lasted less than a few minutes amidst the overwhelming tide of Honkai Beasts.
Burst after burst of explosions and ear-piercing shrieks constantly swept through the city.
In just a few seconds, a massive number of humans were killed or injured.
And this was just one city in the vast East Asia region swept by the Third Honkai.
Looking at that tiny figure floating above the sky.
At this moment, the personnel within the Flame-Chasers watching this scene via satellite were all stunned.
“What?!”
“The landing site of this large-scale Honkai disaster…”
“Is no longer a single city.”
“But has affected more than half of the East Asia region?!”
From the Honkai Energy concentration distribution map, one could see… Get faster updates on g.com.
With Changkong City and Canghai City as the centers.
Almost half of the East Asia region showed varying degrees of Honkai Energy reactions.
And unlike the usual small-scale Honkai disasters.
Honkai Energy of this concentration would inevitably give birth to Honkai Beasts even stronger than usual!
Even if all members of the Flame-Chasers were deployed, it would be difficult to rescue all the people in so many areas.
Not to mention, they still had to deal with the Herrscher who triggered the Honkai.
The captains of the various combat units knew very well that many civilians would die in this disaster.
After all, the number one target now was the Third Herrscher.
If she couldn’t be dealt with immediately, then what would be affected would likely not just be the East Asia region, but even the entire world.
Therefore, if the people wanted to be rescued, they could only pray not to be discovered by Honkai Beasts and luckily survive until the army dealt with the Third Herrscher.
But before dispatching the combat units to suppress her, they still fired missiles as usual, wanting to see the results.
If they could resolve the Third Herrscher, that would naturally be a cause for celebration; if not, at the very least, they could test her abilities.
However, before the missiles could even get close, they exploded in mid-air.
“A Herrscher who controls the power of lightning?”
Seeing the Herrscher use the power of lightning to destroy the missiles, the head of the combat department knew that most thermal weapons would not be effective against her.
At the same time, for the warriors going to suppress her, fighting the Herrscher of Thunder in close quarters was more akin to suicide.
At this moment, a message suddenly came through the communication equipment.
“Operation plan changed?!”
“The MANTISes who just completed their Super Transformation Surgery, Shiro and Elysia, will go to suppress the Third Herrscher!!
The target for the rest of the combat squads has been changed to rescuing disaster-stricken civilians?!”
“I know they’ve suppressed Herrschers before, but this one is clearly…”
“I heard that after successfully undergoing the Super Transformation Surgery and becoming MANTISes, they are incredibly strong compared to before.”
The sudden news caused the command center to explode into chaos…
On the other side, at the center of the Honkai outbreak.
It clearly should have been a two-on-one situation of justice ganging up.
But at this moment, it was a one-on-one duel between Shiro and the Herrscher of Thunder.
It wasn’t that Shiro had some kind of expert’s dignity.
It might be that the scope of the first two Honkai outbreaks wasn’t as wide as this one, so the Honkai Energy concentration didn’t reach the requirements to generate companion Honkai Beasts, or perhaps generating companion Honkai Beasts required a certain amount of time, and the first two Honkai were resolved too quickly.
This led to Shiro forgetting about the setting of companion Honkai Beasts.
So the current situation was Shiro fighting the Herrscher of Thunder, while Elysia fought the Herrscher of Thunder’s companion Honkai Beast.