It was only a few months for Einstei she mao see the drastic ges Aleph went through within those five months. Be it the mutation he underwent to bee far strohan most humans or the teology he kept making, she saw them all.
That was the reason why she felt that Aleph would most likely participate in the Herscherr fight.
Click-!
Click-!
Click-!
The metallic footsteps rang throughout the abandoned hangar.
“DEF 2 was decred while you were preparing. The airspace around the Far West ti is urict surveilnce.”
“I got it. I asked someone for help.” He replied.
“I will be setting off.”
Swoosh-!
The only sou within the hangar was her sighs.
*****
“O-oh?! You are pletely serious this time, no?!”
“Yes, that’s right.”
Aleph’s mouth twitched as he heard the response oher side.
“What kind of perf—I mean, what are you pnning to do?”
“Observe some data closely.”
He recalled the times he spent with Vill-V.
At first, she was normal. He couldn’t see why Mobius called her “crazy”. Everything remained like that until three months ago.
From her taciturn and professional to became a rowdy ohe ges were too drastic for Aleph to not notiything.
These ges tinued as she went from being rowdy to cssical before reverting back to her professional self.
It was also at that moment did he realize that Vill-V has Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID).
“ you sneak into the emergency els?”
“The one from the first institute? Sure, wait a moment.”
A while ter, Aleph’s GUI indicated the e of the -link.
Beep-!
“Adamson One is down. Visuals haven’t been firmed.”
“Fifteen firmed casualties over the st minute. Proceed to the alternative pn.”
Clear shot of the fourth Herscherr was captured. Run through the identity cheow!”
The chaoti-link made him uand the gravity of the situation.
‘The Fourth Herscherr is flying over the Western Airspace…’
“It’s too… ugh, noisy. I lowered the overall volume. Hope you don’t mind.”
“No, I don’t.”
A while ter, the “identity checks” came back.
“Alice, 29, the headmaster of an orphanage. Highest educational attai is college, maj in Visual Arts…”
Aleph heard some sighs of relief oher side.
Knowing that the Herscherr this time didn’t have any educational attais on sce, it has a disadvantage when it es to grasping her power.
“Well, she was a magi at a troupe? Iing.” Vill-V spoke. “If there is something they are good at, it would be their magic.”
“Magic? Wait…”
An answer came at the tip of his tongue.
“Vill-V, please check the honkai energy readings over the st fifteen minutes. Start at the point in.”
“I’m already on it.”
Aleph was currently flying at the speed of a fighter jet as he spoke with her. Estimating his speed, it would take him an hour and a half to reach the fourth Herscherr.
“Check this out!”
A graph resented in his GUI. It was simir to a weather report. Several areas were uhe dark red spots, while the surrounding ones were in the e hue. The image was dynamic as it showed the ges within the area.
“...There.”
The movements were paused the moment he spoke.
In the readings, a dark red lireaked into the area of the e hue. It appeared in a sed.
“A strong tornado. It’s fshy enough to take our attention. But, it won’t fool the ones iH for long.”
“I’m going in the dire of the red streak. If I’m correct…”
Aleph made a series of predis and marked the path ahead of him.
Just then, Vill-V spoke up and corrected some of his suggestions.
“The most effective way is to have someoh simir minds. Am I not correct?”
“You are correct.”
“Aw, that’s it? I thought you’ll py along with me!”
Even for Aleph’s carefreeness, Vill-V’s sudden ges in attitude was enough to e his energy. Just the Vill-V who liked to act as a magi made his mouth twitch several times a minute.
He suddenly thought of something and smiled inside his helmet.
“You want a performance, right? I’ll give you one.”
*****
An hour and a half had passed sihe beginning of the fourth major eruption.
Simir to Aleph’s expectations, Fire MOTH soon noticed the abnormality of the tornado. The suspi of the fourth Herscherr not being ihe rge tornado made them split their troops. A portioo the tornado while the others began trag where the fourth Herscherr ‘might’ have headed to.
After one hour, they discovered that the ‘upper ceiling’ of the tornado was reached. It wouldn’t be strong enough to wipe out a ti as most feared.
Due to the strength of the tornado, it couldn’t be ‘wiped out’ by explosives as of the moment. It resulted in Fire MOTH waiting for a ce to deal with it.
“A rge energy reading is up ahead.”
“It couldn’t hide any longer…”
Aleph stopped flying. He used his GUI’s zoom-in fun to better see the small silhouette in the sky.
It was a woman with blonde hair. Her long hair swayed down her waist as fshes of wind appeared every now and then.
At that moment, the woman looked straight in his dire.
“What the…”
The sense of ‘danger’, characterized by brief spikes of unease, became increasingly stronger.
Hum-!
Aleph didn’t hesitate and turned on his APS. The lines of purple glowed beh his skinsuit. At the same time, a bck-purple energy came out of him. They looked like bck fmes that bzed uhe night sky.
Sensing the ‘danger’ slowly disappearing, he heaved a sigh of relief.
“Herscherrs are that sharp? No wo took a dozen nukes just to wear out one…”
“...How did you do that?! It turned away from you! I thought you were about to fight…”
“There’s a city underh. I ’t do anything about the honkai energy, but I leave the others with a sliver of hope…”
On his way, Aleph saw a lot of destroyed cities. It was fortuhe honkai beasts were split up—ohering around the tornado while the rest followed the Herscherr’s trace.
Still, the honkai energy emitted by the Herscherr was enough to single handedly turhree cities they passed like Sapphire City. tless undeads already ied them, with the honkai beasts dealing the finishing blow.
It wasn’t an exaggeration to say that the fourth Herscherr’s damage went beyond the scope of the third Herscherr.
Click-!
A line was dra his shoulder bdes. A tattered bck cloak came out of the partment and surrounded Aleph.
Immediately, his presence became even weaker.
Sssh-!
The pin silver sword was uhed.
“Juezhao…” (Masterstrike…)
A sed silhouette soon streaked in the sky.
