Aleph wao stay true to his words—to observe the Herscherr up close. These past seven months, he didn’t have a ce to observe the corpses of the three Herscherrs within MOTH. Their biological activities as well as the so-called “Herscherr Cores” were a breakthrough point for him.

  “An hour… It’s roughly simir to the theorized process.” He muttered.

  The Herscherr's transformation undergoes several stages. The first one was the ‘appearance’ of their Herscherr Cores. It was the reason why major eruptions happened.

  These Herscherr Cores draw in numerous amounts of Honkai Energy out of nowhere, thus “creating” a Major Honkai Eruption.

  The sed phase was the ‘drawing phase’. The Herscherr will tinue abs honkai energy. The main reason why the fourth Herscherr mao fool the MOTHs was due to this.

  She waited until the surrounding Honkai Energy reached their maximum—to the point it couldn’t be detected as stably as before. The honkai energy’s effe teological means was only offsetted by imbuing the same honkai energy to dete instruments. It wasn’t fool-proof.

  Ohe Herscherr pletes the ‘drawing’ phase, it bees the time they could use their powers at full power. Although they might now know the applications, they were already eligible to use its upper ceiling.

  “What’s the current Honkai Scale readings?”

  “Hm… The average for the Far West is 300 HW. Iate you’re into… it’s roughly 1000 HW.”

  When Aleph heard Vill-V’s answer, he remembered what happened in the Far East. The entire ti saw a sharp increase to the Honkai Watt readings. In short, the state where he was in experienced a disaster on-par with the third Herscherr’s.

  If it wasn’t for his suit’s built-in shield to honkai energy, he would’ve had problems already.

  ‘If I fought her and won, the achievements would be bigger.’

  He saw the sharp ‘decrease’ to the achievements he could unlock. It was still numerous during his first few times, but it became more difficult to unloe. Aleph could only go out several times a month to lower his ces of being ‘discovered’.

  Until now, he was still uhe radar of Fire MOTH. Oein, Vill-V, Mei, and Mobius knew about his suit.

  ‘I'll have to give director Einstein a huge surprise.’

  The grip on Durandal only became stronger.

  ‘Herrschers are strong… but their bodies are simir to ordinary humans... at least on the early phase. They weren't exposed to enough honkai energy for long. I pull this off.’

  He made his decision.

  “Aleph! There’s a big one ing over!”

  The voi the -link broke him from his thoughts. The [SOUND ONLY] paurned into a captured satellite image.

  It was a honkai beast as tall as seven stories. Its fs made it simir to a horse. Everything on its path was destroyed as it charged in a straight line.

  “Emperor-css beast... Was it her apanying honkai beast?”

  “It’s most likely. The fuzzy readings made it difficult for honkai beasts below 1,000 HW to be detected.” She said before pining, “This smokes’s annoying, you know?!”

  Unlike Honkai Beasts, Herscherrs retaihe strength of a normal human. This was also the vulnerable point leveraged by Fire MOTH. Their main on was their ‘power’ to manipute physics.

  “I’ll do it.”

  “...Well.”

  Up until noh maintained a distanore thay kilometers away from the Herscherr. He was still gathering data with his nuclear suit’s indepe dete systems.

  The Emperor-css beast became his major . Its physical strength was far to pared to the Tempr-css beasts he fought. It’s easier to fight a Herrscherr via ambush than that honkai beast.

  Zoom–!

  The thrusters all over his suit made loud noises. Strangely enough, they were blocked by the [Sphere Boundary] and [Tattered Robe]. Uheir cealment, ventional physics was broken. No soundwaves notified the fourth Herscherr of his existence.

  Pssh-!

  Aleph held [Durandal] in a pierg stahe air in front of him was cut literally by the tip of the bde.

  Hum-!

  Cursed energy began ‘cirg’ on his palms down to Durandal. Aleph felt a strange sensation of the sword being ara part of his body. The cursed energy kept cirg, as if gathering momentum.

  Sooiced his flight speed being even faster. He looked with surprise at the sword in his hands.

  ‘Juezhao… So this is it.’

  The teique he learned back then was the Juezhao (i.e., Masterstrike). Its elementary form utilized momentum to gather enough force to create a deadly strike. With internal energy, its strength goes up by several notches.

  All the distrag thoughts in Aleph’s mind disappeared. Only the figure of the unsuspeg fourth Herscherr remained inside his mind. A divided ratio line appeared on her figure.

  A thin yer of green light surrounded her radius. His elemental sight told him of her invisible 'domain'. Unfortunately, its radius was far too small for her to sense Aleph. With his current acceleration, she would've been fihe momeered her radius.

  Three kilometers.

  Two kilometers.

  One kilometer.

  The maximum acceleration withiy kilometers gathered a strong momentum—that, as well as the killing strike, showed their full power.

  “Hum..?!”

  The fourth Herrscher’s eyes widened. Before she could react properly, the tip of the bde came on her chest; on the seventh division of the ratio line.

  Then…

  Psshk-!

  Sptter-!

  A huge shockwave inated from her position. Moments after the bde’s tip entered her chest, her body was subjected to the horrifying impact it held. Her internal ans only held on shortly before her torso imploded.

  [Achieve…]

  [Achieve…]

  [Achieve…]

  [Achieve…]

  [Achieve…]

  Swoosh-!

  It took a while before Aleph mao stop in the air. He bnkly stared at the bloodied Durandal in his hands as well as the falling ‘corpse’ of the Herscherr. Vill-V also joined him in this strange silence.

  “What… WHAT WAS THAT?! ALEPH?! HEY..!”

  “I… I don’t know.”

  “What…”

  Vill-V’s fused tone could be heard from the -link.

  “I don’t know. Really.”

  “...”

  “I didn’t expect… it’d be this easy.”

  True to his words, Aleph felt extremely fused in his mind.

  ‘What the hell?’

  ‘It’s just like that? The Herscherr was killed that easily?’

  ‘How? Am I really that strong?’

  Despite his fusioried his best to keep a grip on himself. His fusion was too bad to the point it overpowered any other emotion of his.

  Aleph flew to the ground. The pce where the Herrscher’s corpse fell was in a farm. It didn’t take long before he discovered it.

  k-!

  He saw the expression she had moments before her death. Her eyes were wide open as well as her mouth. The majority of her torso was hollow. Dark red blood tinued spilling from it. Her body lit into two halves with his attack.

  “Hm..?”

  With Aleph’s sharp eyesight, he soon noticed ‘something’ that kept giving off a sense of danger. It was a green orb that shone dimly. He looked at it and the Herrscher’s corpse before he knew what it was.

  ““Herrscherr Core.””

  Both he and Vill-V reized the item on the ground.

  Aleph, due to his fusion, instinctively picked up the Herrscherr Core on the ground for closer iion. It had been already studied thhly.

  Everything happened within a sed.

  The momeouched it—

  Buzz-!

  —his sciousness was transported in a pure white space.