Hearing the agonizing shrieks of these scumbags, Sirin felt her mood instantly brighten up.
A short distance away, a few lab guards happened to walk over, only to run right into the sight of the researchers wailing on the ground and Sirin staring back at them with glowing eyes.
Before the guards could even react, Sirin raised her hand and made another invisible snip in midair.
“AAAAAAGHHHHHH!”
The guards immediately collapsed, clutching their groins and howling in pain.
Even battle-hardened soldiers were completely helpless against such terrifying, localized agony.
Sirin glanced up at the surveillance camera on the ceiling.
“Pew?”
The wiring inside the camera shorted out just a tiny bit, immediately frying the device and cutting off all video signals.
“My, my.
Whether it’s humans or electronic gadgets, they really are super fragile.
Just a tiny little cut is more than enough~”
“Hum-hum~ Hum-hum-hum~ Hum~”
Sirin telekinetically snatched the access cards off the researchers and guards, hummed a cheerful little tune, and continued walking forward.
Of course, Sirin didn’t forget to finish the job.
She severed their spinal nerves, rendering their bodies completely paralyzed from the neck down, and then sliced open their internal arteries beneath the skin.
The incisions were small, but hey—bleeding out internally still counts!
Before long, Sirin reaped a small harvest of Honkai energy.
Beep.
She swiped an access card to open the massive door ahead.
“Pew?”
Before stepping through, Sirin pointed her finger at the camera behind the door.
On the surveillance monitor, everything looked completely normal—no one walked by, and the door never opened.
In reality, the camera was recording a totally different location.
Sirin had placed a tiny spatial portal right in front of the lens, connecting it to another hallway.
Since almost every floor of the containment facility looked identical anyway, all Sirin had to do was drop a miniature spatial gate in front of any camera pointing at her.
The Honkai energy consumed by this trick was so miniscule it was practically zero.
Just like that, Sirin strolled out of the lowest level of the containment facility without a hitch.
Babylon Labs was massive, with its core powered by a colossal Honkai reactor.
Sirin was in no rush to drain the Honkai energy just yet.
After all, her “buffet” was right there—it wasn’t gonna run away.
She could eat whenever she wanted.
Right now, her plan was to take total control of Babylon Labs so that Schicksal wouldn’t notice anything wrong before she finished consuming all the Honkai energy.
Furthermore, there was the ambient Honkai energy rising outside Babylon Labs due to her awakening.
She couldn’t let all that precious energy go to waste on useless Honkai Beasts.
“Hmm, I should probably keep Bella around.
She’s pretty cute, after all~”
After thinking it over, Sirin decided to let Benares hatch too.
As the Queen, she definitely needed a cool, powerful mount and personal guardian!
Technically speaking, when Bronya was born earlier, she also had an accompanying entity—Gray Wind, whom Bronya had created.
It was just that Gray Wind didn’t mess around with Honkai energy.
“Still, I can’t let Bella hatch out in the wild, can I?”
Closing her eyes, Sirin quickly sensed Benares gestating nearby.
With a wave of her hand, she opened a portal about the size of a person.
At this point, the egg was still fairly small—about two meters tall.
Sirin glanced at the animals nearby that were being corrupted by Honkai energy and turning into semi-Honkai beasts.
She promptly ordered these half-beasts to push Benares’ egg through the portal and into Babylon Labs.
With the Honkai reactor here serving as cover, she didn’t have to worry about Schicksal picking up the Honkai energy spike.
As for those half-beasts?
Sirin sucked up every last drop of their Honkai energy, of course.
Leaving energy to useless mobs was a total waste—better off giving it all to the Queen!
“Bella-bella, come out in human form first~”
Sirin stroked Benares’ egg, sending an order directly into the Honkai energy inside.
She instructed Benares to shape her body into the human form Sirin remembered.
Crack.
Compared to her dragon form, a human body was much less hassle and far simpler to condense.
Shortly after Sirin gave the command, a crisp cracking sound echoed from the egg.
Sirin watched Benares’ birth with keen interest.
“My…
Queen…”
Bella dropped to one knee before Sirin, her voice faltering slightly as she adjusted to speaking.
Benares’ human form looked exactly like the Bella in Sirin’s memories: long grey hair, striking sky-blue eyes as clear as a lake, a white top with flowing tails, sleek black hot pants revealing plenty of fair skin, and white thigh-high stockings.
The high heels on her delicate feet made her already tall, slender frame look even taller.
“Get up~” Sirin waved her hand.
“Yes, my Queen.”
Bella slowly stood up, forcing Sirin to tilt her head slightly up just to look at her.
Seeing this, Bella panicked and immediately started kneeling down again.
“Stand up!”
Sirin didn’t really mind, but she didn’t want Bella dropping to her knees every two seconds either.
“No more kneeling from now on!”
“Understood,” Bella replied with her head lowered, obeying her Queen’s every command without question.
“Carry me~”
“Understood…!”
Bella responded instinctively, but a wave of excitement quickly washed over her.
Carefully, Bella lifted Sirin up, holding her close against her chest and letting her sit comfortably on her arm.
“Bella-dragon, let me ride!
Over there!”
Sirin snuggled in comfortably and pointed Bella in the right direction.
“Yes, my Queen!”
Together—one dragon and one Herrscher—Bella quickly followed Sirin’s directions to the elevator leading to the upper floors.
Ding!
The elevator arrived at the main control area of Babylon Labs.
As the doors slid open, Bella carried Sirin out into the open.
Every researcher and manager in the main control room turned to look, freezing in sheer astonishment.
Snap!
Sirin casually snapped her fingers. Follow the newest chapters on novelping.com.
Earth-shattering screams of agony instantly erupted throughout the control room.
Meanwhile, right in front of the surveillance camera lenses, tiny spatial portals had automatically popped into existence a second prior.
“Over there~”
Sirin directed Bella over to the central command computer.
“Awesome, time for the experiment!”
With a flick of her hand, Sirin opened a rift into the Imaginary Space.
She expanded the rift rapidly, letting it move forward and devour the main computer whole.
The portal didn’t close—it stayed open, maintaining the connection.
Just like that, the command computer was assimilated into a part of the Imaginary Space itself.
“Perfect~”
Sirin smiled happily and nonchalantly took control of the main computer, which was now part of the Imaginary Space.
From this moment on, every security camera and monitoring system in Babylon Labs would only display what Sirin wanted people to see—including the video feeds transmitted back to Schicksal headquarters.
“Go forth~”
“Avenge yourselves~”
Sirin summoned the white spectral spirits—assimilated into the Imaginary Space—around her, whispering softly to them.
These white spirits were the bodies of the young girls who had previously sacrificed their lives for Sirin.
Their physical forms were now integrated into the Imaginary Space.
Although their consciousnesses remained asleep, their transformed bodies would carry out their vengeance with their own hands, wiping out every single human inside Babylon Labs.
Meanwhile, the sleeping consciousnesses of the girls undergoing transformation would witness this sweet revenge within their dreams.
Strictly speaking, Imaginary Space lifeforms were not traditional living beings; they were extensions of the Imaginary Space itself.
The Imaginary Space possessed no innate purpose, but as its master, Sirin had defined their purpose.
When the Imaginary Space assimilated the girls’ minds, Sirin preserved part of their memories while tweaking and softening the impact of their traumatic experiences.
Then, by injecting Honkai energy or other forms of energy into their bodies to serve as anchors in the physical realm, she created the new lifeforms she envisioned: Imaginary Space Lifeforms.
Because of this, what appeared in the real world were merely projections.
Whether they were destroyed or ran out of Honkai energy, they could regenerate almost instantly.
To truly kill them, one would either have to destroy the entire Imaginary Space or eliminate Sirin—the entity defining their existence.
“Now is the time of judgment!”
Sirin watched the girls’ massacre with eager enthusiasm.
One researcher after another met their demise at the hands of the spirits like something out of a horror movie.
But as far as Sirin was concerned, these scumbags got exactly what they deserved.
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…
“Long live the Queen!”
“Seriously though, when is miHoYo gonna buff the Herrscher of the Void?
Man…
whatever, these old characters are just relics of an older meta now.”
Ren cheered enthusiastically, though a wave of sadness quickly hit him as he remembered her current state in the game.
Man, it really brought tears to his eyes.
On the other side…
“The Queen?
Does he mean Sirin?”
Bronya’s eyebrows knitted together slightly, a bad feeling rising in her gut.
She wanted to make contact with Ren, but she couldn’t find a single trace of the game he was playing—Honkai: Civilization.
This made Bronya deeply suspicious, forcing her to proceed with extreme caution.