Honkai: Oh No, I’ve Become the Herrscher of Corruption?! - Chapter 88

(Switching to Sirin’s perspective…)

A Void Lance shot out, obliterating a deep-blue monster nearby.

“As long as I dodge the moment they attack and then kick them, these crabs turn from blue to two pale-gray ones… Bella, what was that called again?”

Sirin casually flung away a Severed Shadow, then picked up another one, turning to Bella, who was clearing entire waves of monsters with a single breath of dragonfire.

“My Queen, if I recall correctly, it’s called… collapsing from a superposition state to a collapsed state. It’s a unique trait of monsters from the Quantum Sea.”

Sirin irritably tore the Severed Shadow in her hands to pieces. When it came to the Quantum Sea and the Imaginary Tree, she was experiencing for the first time what it meant to “recognize every word individually, yet when they’re put together, it feels like it’s not even human language anymore.”

“From a mathematical perspective, the ‘Quantum Sea’ does not belong to the known four-dimensional spacetime but exists as a ‘folded plane’ parallel to our own. Unlike the ‘classical plane’ we inhabit, the ‘Quantum Sea’ is, on a large scale, ‘fragmented’—even basic physical parameters fluctuate with shifts in coordinates. However, within this fragmentation, there exist ‘stable islands’ anchored by ‘Aether Anchors’…”

Sirin: “ZZZ…”

In the end, it was Enoxia who provided “An Introduction to the Quantum Sea Even Sirin Can Understand.”

1. The Quantum Sea isn’t an actual sea—it’s a special space governed by unique laws. Under normal circumstances, entering it is extremely difficult.

2. Because it’s a special space, Sirin, as the Herrscher of the Void, is incredibly useful here.

3. Inside the Quantum Sea, you might encounter ‘Quantum Shadows’—think of them as special Honkai Beasts that even Sirin can’t summon.

4. Traveling through the Quantum Sea may lead you to ‘World Bubbles.’ Each bubble can be thought of as an ongoing ‘anime.’ The closer a bubble is to the ‘Home World’ (i.e., reality), the more its characters and events resemble those of the Home World. Entering a World Bubble as someone from the Home World is like breaking the fourth wall.

These explanations were neither scientific nor precise, but Sirin understood them instantly. After all, Enoxia wasn’t entering the Quantum Sea to conduct research.

Learning that she could be of help to Enoxia, Sirin was thrilled. Even though Enoxia assured her that, given her Herrscher-level combat abilities, the Quantum Shadows stood no chance against her, Sirin still wanted to test them out first. As a result, the mechs and Honkai Beasts in the Elysian Realm were replaced with quantum-attribute monsters.

At the end of the corridor, Sirin once again saw the [Spiral] emblem.

“Hmm… do we have to fight Vill-V?” The thought of battling a Flame-Chaser made Sirin and Bella hesitate for once—despite their usual eagerness for combat.

Aside from Elysia, who was obviously holding back, they had never won against any of the others: Kalpas, Sakura, Kosma, Kevin, Eden, or Hua.

Especially Hua. Her Garuda form brought back traumatic memories of the Second Honkai War—Sirin would finally knock her down, only for her to stand right back up. If the other Flame-Chasers made Sirin wary with their overwhelming offensive power, Hua crushed them with sheer endurance, breaking them both mentally and physically.

But since this was just a game and not a life-or-death battle—and Enoxia was supervising the data space to ensure no real danger—they steeled themselves and touched the anchor after a brief pause.

This time, they found themselves in what appeared to be an ordinary grassy field… except for the thing standing directly ahead.

“Are you… Vill-V?”

Sirin stared blankly at the monstrous figure before her—a giant spider-like creature with eight legs, six eyes, and an unsettlingly elongated body.

“Apologies, Miss Sirin, Miss Bella. I hope I didn’t startle you. I am Vill-V—Anti-Kevin Armament, Model No. 5, designed to control Vill-V’s forced Herrscher form. Miss Bella, your cooking has earned praise even from Su, proving you’ve surpassed genius. I hope you won’t hold back in the coming battle.”

This Vill-V spoke clearly, politely, and humbly. Despite her bizarre appearance, she left a decent first impression on Sirin. The only oddity was her painfully slow speech—if this were a five-minute timed challenge, her ‘brief’ introduction alone would eat up a full minute.

Sirin and Bella exchanged a glance, then immediately attacked. Void Lances and lightning spheres shot toward Vill-V from both sides.

In response, Vill-V’s body twitched, and several projectiles fired from her mouth—some intercepting Bella’s lightning spheres with ease, while the last one deflected Sirin’s Void Lance, sending it harmlessly off course.

Her entire body was a fusion of technology and horror. Weapons Sirin had never seen before emerged rapidly from her abdomen, tail, and head. Hundreds of multicolored beams shot toward the two from every conceivable angle.

Reacting instantly, Sirin teleported to Bella’s side and warped them both to a blind spot. Bella’s instincts screamed that any of those beams—regardless of color—could pierce straight through her defenses.

If the mechs deployed by the Herrscher of Reason back in Siberia had even half of Vill-V’s firepower, I’d have been turned into Swiss cheese long before that giant mech even appeared.

“As expected of the Herrscher of the Void. Now, I’ll get serious.”

Sirin’s heart skipped a beat. She tried to teleport next to Vill-V to seize the offensive, but Vill-V anticipated the move—leaping to a corner of the arena the moment Sirin activated her Herrscher authority, leaving her grasping at air.

Then, an even denser barrage rained down. Unlike before, each beam now seemed to move with its own intent—some disrupting, some sealing, others attacking outright.

The entire battlefield had become this spider’s web, every inch under Vill-V’s control. The moment Sirin teleported mid-air, she and Bella were sent crashing down. A storm of weapons, each with unique effects, pummeled them relentlessly. They couldn’t fight back—they couldn’t even flee in desperation.

In just two rounds of attacks, Sirin and Bella lay unconscious on the ground, utterly defeated. After their initial strike, they hadn’t landed a single hit on Vill-V.

As her consciousness faded, only one thought echoed in Sirin’s mind:

I’m supposed to be the Herrscher, the one who brings terror to human civilization. But compared to her—in both appearance and power—which of us is the real monster?