Honkai: Oh No, I’ve Become the Herrscher of Corruption?! - Chapter 162

Cocolia, who had just fully experienced the Mamba Mentality, was utterly stunned. She wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and struggled to get up from the ground.

“Cocolia, I remember 14 years ago, in Siberia, when you and Alexandra were fleeing and were saved by Cecilia… you weren’t this detestable back then.”

Seeing her past secrets being laid bare, Cocolia’s expression changed sharply: “You… just who are you!”

Enoxia looked towards a sweating Einstein nearby and made a ‘please’ gesture.

“Cocolia, her true identity… is the Herrscher of Corruption. Additionally, all our backup forces have lost contact.”

Gulp.

Cocolia swallowed a mouthful of bloody saliva. Staring at Enoxia’s youthful and lively face, she couldn’t believe this was true.

Unlike Schicksal, the Anti-Entropy’s combat focus was on mecha technology. Cocolia wasn’t the officer she was 14 years ago; she clearly knew that any number of mecha troops would be a joke before the Herrscher of Corruption, utterly meaningless except for increasing the enemy’s numbers.

“Cocolia, for Bronya’s sake, I can let you go this once. It’s the first time, and the last time. Someone with a weakness who doesn’t know their limits isn’t very smart.”

With those words, Enoxia slipped directly into the laboratory’s computer, right in front of everyone.

Enoxia was gone. Theresa understood that if they were determined to escape, she alone might not be able to stop them. It was better to do them a favor and let them go. Leave room for reconciliation, for future meetings. Perhaps in the future, she would need to cooperate with Anti-Entropy.

The vast laboratory was left with just the two of them again. The data terminal was right there, but Cocolia had already lost her edge. Crestfallen and covered in dust, she returned to headquarters with Einstein.

Meanwhile, several kilometers outside St. Freya Academy.

The clone of Welt Joyce (hereafter referred to as Walt II) carried Raiden Mei to the designated location but found no one waiting to receive them.

“What is Cocolia playing at? I can’t even reach Einstein. Do these Anti-Entropy people even have any respect for me, their leader?!”

Just then, Walt II suddenly felt a tingling numbness in his arm. By the time it subsided, he realized the Raiden Mei he had been holding had somehow flown up into the sky.

“Tch, kneel for me!”

Walt II spread his right hand and prepared to press down towards Raiden Mei in the air.

At that moment, dark clouds gathered in the sky. A flash of purple lightning struck down, instantly illuminating the entire artificial island as bright as day.

Left with no choice, Walt II could only temporarily switch from offense to defense, deploying a protective barrier.

“You wretched girl! Once I catch you, I’ll definitely… What?!”

Just as Walt II, thinking he had withstood Raiden Mei’s attack, revealed a ferocious expression, even more furious lightning, like a gigantic wave, began relentlessly pounding against his barrier. He was pinned down on the spot, utterly unable to move half a step.

“Heh, found it.”

As the terrifying lightning continuously battered the barrier, Raiden Mei deduced the energy distribution across the shield from the effects of her lightning. She immediately changed tactics, concentrating her attack on a single point.

The purple lightning transformed into a sharp blade, thrusting directly at the barrier’s weakest spot.

Watching the lightning blade pierce through his barrier, Walt II found it useless no matter how much more Honkai energy he poured in. He could only stomp his feet in place, consumed by helpless rage.

Crack, crack, BOOM!

As the lightning blade stabbed in, the deep blue barrier, like tempered glass struck by a blunt weapon, developed countless cracks before shattering into innumerable tiny fragments that scattered and vanished in the wind.

The moment the barrier failed, Raiden Mei kicked Walt II, sending him flying. As he struggled to get up from the ground, Raiden Mei pointed her right hand, and another thunderbolt struck down from the sky, directly hitting him and leaving his body charred black.

Because Walt II had been in a hurry when he snatched Raiden Mei, he hadn’t even had time to pick up the shoe that fell off when she struggled. Now, Raiden Mei, barefoot, walked over to Walt II and stepped on his face.

“The first Herrscher? This is it?”

Walt II was completely paralyzed, with no ability to resist. Despite the immense fury in his heart, he could only let Raiden Mei trample his body with her feet.

However, such an easy victory led Raiden Mei to celebrate too early. Just as she was immersed in the joy of dominating her enemy, a sudden pain shot through her chest, and a wave of weakness spread throughout her entire body.

Originally, to prevent Raiden Mei from herrscherizing, Schicksal had installed an inhibitor device near her heart. If it detected the Honkai energy concentration within her body exceeding a certain threshold, the device would start a 5-minute countdown.

If five minutes passed and Raiden Mei’s internal Honkai energy levels still hadn’t fallen below the threshold, the inhibitor would determine that she herself lacked the ability to suppress the Honkai energy. To prevent the herrscher’s power from causing destruction, the suppression protocol would activate directly.

From the moment the first lightning bolt struck until now, exactly five minutes had passed.

Under the influence of the suppression protocol, Raiden Mei collapsed to the ground, nearly all her strength gone. She could only inch away from Walt II, crawling slowly.

But Walt II’s recovery speed exceeded her expectations. Before she had crawled even a hundred meters, he was already back on his feet. He looked at Raiden Mei, his eyes seeming to spit fire.

“I don’t know what’s happening, but you seem terribly weak now… I’m the one laughing last! I am the final victor!”

Walt II, his expression maniacal, strolled leisurely over to Raiden Mei.

“You wretched woman! I originally planned to take you back, but I’ve changed my mind now. I will return the humiliation you gave me tenfold, a hundredfold! Then, while you’re still fully conscious, I’ll cut your body open and take the Core of the Herrscher of Thunder directly!”

Walt II raised his right hand and applied ten times gravity onto Raiden Mei.

Already severely weakened, Raiden Mei completely lost her ability to resist under the tenfold gravity. Her body was pressed flat against the ground, her muscles and bones beginning to twist.

But Walt II failed to notice that even though the Raiden Mei before him had lost the ability to use her herrscher authority, the originally clear night sky remained shrouded in dark clouds.

“You lifted your right foot first earlier… let’s start with the right foot, then…”

Walt II began narrowing the scope of the gravity field while simultaneously increasing its multiplier, intending to make Raiden Mei watch as her right foot was torn to shreds—bones, flesh, and all—under several dozen Gs. Once the pain subsided slightly, he would do the same to her left foot.

Mei closed her eyes. Even though she was mentally prepared, her heart had never beaten this fast. She realized that at this critical moment, the person occupying her thoughts was actually Kiana.

A sudden, furious roar surprised Raiden Mei. She opened her eyes to find her limbs still intact, while Walt II had been sent flying backwards. A massive red behemoth now loomed overhead between them. It was the very Judgement-class Honkai Beast that had been born because of Raiden Mei.

Raiden Mei’s expression instantly relaxed, and she slowly closed her eyes.

“After this… I leave it to you.”

“Where did this beast come from? Die!”

Walt II, furious and flustered, attempted to use gravity compression on the Judgement-class Honkai Beast before him. But it simply turned around and swatted its tail, sending him flying once more.

Getting up from the ground again, Walt II felt a sharp pain in his mouth. He spat out, and two teeth landed on the ground. Before he could even work himself into another rage, the Judgement-class Honkai Beast’s breath attack engulfed him completely.

Seeing no further movement from behind, the Honkai Beast scooped up the now unconscious Raiden Mei and flew off into the distance with her.