Honkai: Oh No, I’ve Become the Herrscher of Corruption?! - Chapter 142

“Star Calendar 4200… converting to the Honkai Impact 3 timeline… that would be roughly less than 4,000 years ago. After the era of Chiyou, according to Shenzhou’s history, it should be around the Xia Dynasty. Whether it was Siberia or South America back then, there were practically no people there, so it’s no surprise no records exist.”

Since the Huili clan was completely wiped out, Enoxia felt relieved. Even if she couldn’t locate Mei’s whereabouts, she no longer had to worry about her summoning a large group of Huili through some complicated means. After all, in terms of sheer power display, Honkai Impact 3 and Honkai: Star Rail are worlds apart. If a large number of Huili—a race of innate dual-pathstriders with supernatural abilities—showed up, the current Schicksal and Anti-Entropy would hardly stand a chance.

However, if Mei were to obtain a Herrscher core, the situation wouldn’t be much better. The combined power of the Abundance path + the Voracity path + Herrscher authority + an unknown special ability—just thinking about it was enough to make her scalp tingle.

“It’s almost certain she’ll become a Herrscher. Hopefully, she won’t appear until after 2015. That would give the world a few years to breathe, and by then, Old Ancestor Kevin would have emerged from the Sea of Quanta. Whether she becomes the Herrscher of Binding, the Herrscher of Sentience, or the Herrscher of Legion, we’ll at least have a fighting chance.”

From the memories of Wang and Chi, she learned that Mei didn’t have the ability to share dreams, so it was unlikely she could create illusions. If she were to become the Herrscher of Sentience, it might just make up her weakness.

Besides, the thought of the great Herrscher of Sentience being stillborn… No, that must not happen! Enoxia still wanted to tease her a little more.

But becoming the Herrscher of Sentience might be the easiest route.

If she were to obtain the core of the Herrscher of Legion, replacing the original “Mob”—then each of the 1,000 puppets would likely have the combined strength of a pseudo-Herrscher. The idea of 1,000 pseudo-Herrschers scattered around the world acting simultaneously made Enoxia shudder.

As for the Herrscher of Binding—needless to say, its authority was already incredibly overpowered. No matter what buffs were stacked on top, it would undoubtedly become a monstrously powerful entity.

“Huh? The rest of the memories have been sorted out too?”

Like Wang, Chi’s memories were also filled with a lot of incomprehensible content. Enoxia clearly had no patience for riddles, so she dismantled Chi’s memories and handed them over to her clones for analysis. She would only read them once the language and content had been translated into something she could understand.

The next part of the memory was from Chi’s perspective, watching the battle between Wang and Kevin—if that one-sided crushing could even be called a battle.

Like Wang, Chi couldn’t understand how such a person could exist on a planet where only small parts had entered the slave society era, most areas were still primitive, and there were no pathstriders. Watching the Judgement of Shamash burn Wang’s body, the most terrifying memory deep within resurfaced. Overwhelmed by fear, Chi disconnected from the shared consciousness with Wang.

“Oh… so that’s how it was. It’s clearly Siberia, but the ground near their battlefield was its original color. I thought it was because the fire attribute of Judgement of Shamash melted the snow plains. But from Chi’s perspective, it turns out Wang was a snow-eater.”

Unlike typical Abundance followers, as dual-pathstriders, the Huili clan could use Voracity to enhance Abundance and vice versa. Specifically, Wang absorbed the snow on the ground in Siberia to accelerate his recovery, ensuring his regeneration outpaced the burning damage of Judgement of Shamash.

It took Chi a long time to recover from its fear. It decided to eat something to calm its nerves, but just after swallowing a few trees, another person whose attire didn’t match the planet’s level of civilization appeared before it.

Learning from Wang’s mistake, Chi didn’t charge recklessly. Instead, it retreated and immediately cast an illusion on the narrow-eyed man before it.

Unfortunately, Su, a master of psychic abilities, detected the anomaly as soon as the surroundings changed. The Huili clan’s proud hunting illusion had failed yet again on Earth.

Though he broke the illusion, Su widened his eyes, his expression turning grave. He was already aware of Kevin’s situation and knew all too well the vast gap between himself and Kevin. Without a Divine Key for combat, he gazed up at Chi’s massive form, mentally preparing for a fierce battle.

When Chi realized its illusion had failed, it immediately used its Voracity ability, attempting to swallow the tiny figure whole.

But the next moment, it was astonished to find that the less-than-two-meter-tall figure, after unleashing a powerful surge of energy accompanied by a clear bird cry, transformed into a peacock. The fierce winds stirred by the peacock’s wings even forced Chi to step back.

This peacock was Su’s artificial metamorphosis form, derived from the supernatural factor of the Emperor-class Honkai beast, Mayuri.

Unlike the terrifying artificial metamorphosis of some MANTIS warriors, Su at this moment was covered in golden feathers, with long, emerald-green tail plumage, and emanated a soft glow. Aesthetically, he looked like a beautiful and noble bird.

【Karmic Wheel】

Before Chi could react, countless bodhi leaves appeared around them, and the entire area swiftly transformed into an emerald-green wheel.

Su closed his eyes, allowing his consciousness to descend, descend, into an bottomless abyss. As the wheel fluctuated, even the perception of time within the domain became distorted. Su’s expression was as though he had endured eternal calamities and achieved transcendence through them.

He saw it.

Before him was a pitch-black swamp, every bubbling patch composed of fear. Tracing effect back to cause, much like Enoxia 3,000 years later, Su witnessed the arrow of light shot by the Aeon of Hunt and the destruction of the Huili clan.

“A world on the brink of annihilation, frozen at the moment of its demise, repeating memories of endless time.”

“For me, for you, it represents ceaseless listening, contemplation, and remembrance.”

“Listen to the cries of life, its silence, its joys and sorrows, its reunions and partings.”

“Contemplate the birth of worlds, their dissolution, and their cyclic recurrence.”

“Remember our good deeds, our evils, down to the smallest detail.”

As a long-lived species, measured by Earth’s years, Chi had already lived for millennia.

The joys and sorrows, the rises and falls of those thousand years churned incessantly in its mind, its gaze gradually growing vacant.

Excluding his time in the Hibernation Pod, Su had also lived for a thousand years. He understood that once a lifeform’s lifespan extended too long, unless it stayed in one place like Higokumaru, the accumulation of emotions would inevitably far surpass that of short-lived species with lifespans under a century.

He used Chi’s long and rich life experiences to make this extraterrestrial lifeform, born with the gift of illusion, drown in its own past, unable to break free.