In the past, Bai Xier had more control over her body. At least when she was very forceful in trying to take back her body, Hei Xier would not go against her will and forcibly occupy her body.
But now, their personality swapping is firmly sealed by the fake book, and Seele's own power certainly cannot break through the mysterious system's blockade.
And that's how it happened.
"Oh, don't be so nervous. It's a good opportunity to rescue Lilia and Rosalia." Seele said nonchalantly, holding the small box that Bai Chen had sealed the imaginary space in her hand.
She wasn't very afraid of Bai Chen, or rather, she wasn't very afraid of the Herrscher of the Void, because her ability was quantum, and not in the scientific sense, but rather a gift from the Sea of Quanta.
She can travel through different spaces in a quantum manner. This travel does not follow the laws of physics in a general sense. Just as she is trapped in the quantum sea and cannot get out, she can also travel through the various spaces in the real world without being disturbed by the different spaces.
In short, because her ability system is incompatible with the Herrscher of the Void, she felt that the Herrscher of the Void's spatial abilities could not trap her. Under such circumstances, even if she couldn't win, she could at least escape.
This is why Bai Chen, when assessing combat strength, felt that Seele could even hold her own against the current Herrschers. The basic premise of the Honkai world is an Imaginary Tree growing on the Sea of Quanta. All beings in the real world, including the Herrschers, rely on the Imaginary Tree. However, Seele, who has come to the real world, is a rare exception, using power from the Sea of Quanta.
Without a precise comparison, it's difficult to say whether Seele, who has fully unleashed her power, or the weakened Herrscher, is stronger.
But stealing from others is wrong! Especially from Lilia and Rosalia, and from such terrifying Herrschers!
"Oh, don't be afraid, don't be afraid. Just keep an eye on things, I'll handle everything." Seele was unusually confident.
Quantum travel is incredibly fast; Seele is like a swordfish speeding across the ocean, cutting through waves and overcoming all obstacles. However, the hunters are quickly closing in.
Riding on the painted creature created by Gretsch, Raven had one arm around her waist and the other hand reaching behind her back to pull out a strangely shaped rifle.
This is not a Divine Key, but a special sniper rifle manufactured using World Serpent's unique technology. The rifle's chamber is currently loaded with rifle bullets with bullet heads ground from Honkai crystals. It also contains one-time-use volatile Stigmata and a dissociation solution that suppresses Honkai energy.
While it generally doesn't harm humans, it's highly effective against special quantum-attribute Honkai Beasts and all quantum creatures born from the Quantum Sea. This is a new weapon developed by World Serpent to rescue its Lord from the Quantum Sea. After three generations of testing in the laboratory, the fourth-generation anti-quantum suppression bullet is now loaded into the chamber.
As a mercenary, Raven always keeps all the special ammunition she can get her hands on at her base for every mission, and she has been carrying a pack of such bullets with her ever since she met Seele yesterday.
"The last time I saw this kind of quantum creature was in the experimental field. Quantum creatures should not have intelligence. I wonder where this weird kid was found..."
Raven adjusted the scope of her rifle, aiming the muzzle at the shadow rushing down the street below. The rifle could only hold five bullets, each very expensive, and none of them could penetrate physical armor. She wanted to take advantage of Seele's lack of awareness and force her out of stealth with a single shot.
The flying creatures created by Gretchen were no slower than Seele's, and soon, the ravens in the sky found the perfect moment to shoot.
Honkai energy surged, and blazing red flames burned on the gun barrel, violently firing the bullets out of the gun.
"Don't underestimate the power of technology!"
Raven is an exceptionally skilled marksman. To adapt to the Divine Key, the Seven Thunders of Purification, which allows her to use only one bullet, she constantly trains her shooting abilities. Even the world's best special forces soldiers cannot match her.
Seele, on the other hand, was a pitiful child who was forced into the Sea of Quanta before graduating from elementary school due to a cruel experiment, and had not seen anyone for years. Even though Black Seele possessed some knowledge from the innate Stigmata, she was far less experienced than Raven.
As expected, the anti-quantum suppression bullet struck Seele hard, causing the attached stigmata to shatter and the solution to evaporate, forcibly pulling Seele out of her quantum stealth state.
"Cough cough, what is this thing..."
Fortunately, after being enhanced by the innate stigmata, Seele's body was able to withstand direct fire from weapons such as bombs and rockets. The anti-quantum suppression bullets, whose functionality far outweighed their lethality, could not cause her any real direct damage.
But in the sky, Gretsch saw the thief below being knocked out, and with a few light taps of her paintbrush in the air, four enormous creations from the painting immediately crashed down on Seele.
An armored knight wielding a greatsword, a strange nun wearing a beautiful dress but with two huge scythes growing from her wrists, a monster crawling on the ground with sharp claws, and an angel with wings on its back.
These are Gretchen's paintings, her dreams, and her friends. They will never betray Gretchen and will carry out their master's will to bring the thief to justice.
Raven leaped down from the air, inserting a new magazine into her rifle. This magazine wasn't filled with low-damage suppression rounds, but rather with Honkai energy armor-piercing rounds specifically designed to kill Honkai Beasts and Valkyries.
Theoretically speaking, this thing can even kill an Emperor-level Honkai Beast with a single shot, provided you first dig out its core and shoot right next to it.
"Bang bang bang!"
Raven fired its gun in mid-air, each shot aimed at Seele's calf. After all, Seele didn't look very old, and she didn't want the child to die here.
Her hands transformed into enormous, blood-red claws, and beneath her feet rose a red swamp, as deep as the deepest marsh. From within the swamp, countless enormous, viscous tentacles extended from below, sweeping outwards in an instant. Hundreds upon hundreds of tentacles not only deflected the bullets fired by the raven but also kept Gretchen's friends at bay.
The monster with the weakest defense was slightly injured, leaving behind a few drops of bright red paint.
"Seele likes toys like you because it's so satisfying to take you apart, and you don't get complained about by that whiny coward in her head!"
After confirming that the creatures in these paintings were not real living beings, and that even if they were damaged, all that would remain were paint, Seele smiled happily.
She unleashed her power without restraint on the street, pushing aside pedestrians and buildings beneath her feet in a quantum quagmire. Those that couldn't be pushed aside were absorbed and devoured. At the same time, more and more tentacles waved in the sky, starting a few meters, then growing to tens of meters, and eventually reaching lengths of over a hundred meters.
She was completely enveloped in tentacles, as if she had transformed into the most terrifying villainous tentacle monster in a magical girl anime, wielding her demonic claws with unbridled abandon towards the pitiful Gretsch and Raven.
Raven held her rifle and fired a few shots before realizing that the weapon was useless against such a huge monster. She didn't have many bullets on her, which were only good for dealing with smaller enemies. Now, the only useful ones were the few grenades on her waist that weren't very effective.
Of course, Raven wasn't someone who relied on firearms. She turned around, took the folding bow and arrows from her waist, and used the Honkai energy to make arrows that were driven into the ground. Each arrow turned into a powerful incendiary, burning one waving tentacle after another to ashes.
Gretchen's friends are not comparable to ordinary Honkai Beasts. As one of the most successful Fusion Warriors in the past, her creations also possess power equivalent to that of ordinary Fusion Warriors.
In particular, she can bestow her power upon these creations, imprinting them with special markings!
In the sky, standing on the back of a butterfly, Gretchen's paintbrush transformed into a giant cross, which she hurled downwards. From the cross, primary colors of Honkai energy surged in all directions, instantly staining every tentacle Seele had created.
"The stars are twinkling!"
The girl's clear voice echoed between heaven and earth.
A huge, star-like pattern appeared behind her, and after the pattern appeared, all the tentacles that were stained with paint became fragile and even cracked.
Subsequently, these different colored dyes reacted with each other, and the collision of different colors caused massive destruction, like an explosion, causing one fragile tentacle after another to shatter.
This is precisely the imprinting ability that heroes are so proud of.
Chapter Sixty-Eight: Arrest and New Research
It's like graduating with a doctorate, becoming a university professor, winning a world-class award, becoming a national Yangtze River Scholar, having your own project team and research topics, and having taught several students who also won awards. After achieving success and fame, you will want to write your own books and teaching materials.
The heroes of the previous generation also had their own core abilities that they were proud of. These abilities were organized into imprints, and the imprinting process of the whole system is the most suitable technique for heroes to have their abilities and to bring out their power.
Gretchen has her own unique Star Mark, which she developed using her paintbrush and paints. She used it without hesitation when capturing Seele.
The outer tentacles were all shattered by Gretchen's power, but it was precisely because of the tentacles' obstruction that Seele, who was inside, was not stained with paint.
"What the hell is this? Honkai energy can be used like this?" Seele, who was far from knowledgeable, was shocked by Gretsch's attack. She regenerated layer after layer of quantum shields, with blood-red shields surrounding her body to prevent herself from being tainted by that strange color.
Then she burrowed into the blood-red swamp underground, immersing herself in this ocean of quantum energy.
Raven sighed and released smoke from the flames around it, preparing to work with Gretchen's friends to quickly capture the little thief and take him back. Too much time wasted here, and without Bai Chen's spatial division, the area was already surrounded by onlookers, with flashes of light coming from all directions, making it look like a filming location.
Although the Honkai is a constant threat to human society, due to Schicksal's policies and the unspoken understanding among the people, ordinary citizens are unaware of the specifics of the Honkai or the potential threats from the Herrschers unless they are truly involved with it.
"Gresh, we need to speed things up. We can't let people keep watching here!"
One after another, fiery feathers were pinned to the ground. Although the smoke obscured the view of everyone around, this was not a long-term solution. The immediate priority was to quell the source of the disturbance as soon as possible.
Even more critically, the raven has already heard the alarms from the city's surveillance robots and security drones. If these machines get involved, the situation will quickly become uncontrollable.
However, just as the raven was getting anxious, Seele, who had already burrowed into the quantum quagmire, was suddenly thrown out by some force.
A golden spear shot out from the swamp, shoving Seele violently into the air.
The power of space surged, and the girl grabbed one end of space in her hand, twisting and pulling it like a slingshot, using the force of the slingshot to throw a sub-space spear into the air once again.
This is Kiana, who was put into the imaginary space by Bai Chen. Actually, it was Bai Chen's fault. Because he was casual, he added a lock to his spatial box. It was this lock that sealed Kiana, who could have come out on her own, inside. Only now has a way to get out been found.
Holding the box containing the imaginary space, Kiana, following Bai Chen's method, used Honkai energy to construct two chains, which she then used to bind Seele in the sky, following the Spear of the Void.
Black Seele realized that things were not going well. The people who had arrived were more powerful than she had expected. The strange paint, the bizarre creations, and the special bullets carried by the raven were not easy to deal with.
What's more, now that half a Herrscher has appeared, the box I worked so hard to snatch has fallen into the hands of the other side. So now the only option is to run away as soon as possible.
So Seele sank into the shadows again, trying to escape in quantum form, but unexpectedly, as soon as she entered quantum form, Raven fired a shot at the spot where she was diving.
At some point, Raven switched back to its special bullets designed for quantum beings. This shot, as always, was a foregone conclusion, directly pulling Seele out of her quantum state.
Caught off guard, Seele took a bath from the paint falling from the sky.
The three primary colors of pigment immediately reduced Seele's condition by nearly half. She felt completely powerless, and even moving around seemed difficult, let alone fighting.
Fortunately, Gretchen did not intend to kill Seele; she merely used paint to weaken her and did not trigger the subsequent explosive attack.
But the four paintings showed no mercy. The greatsword slashed fiercely at Seele's claws, and the nun wielding two swords spat out a contaminated red ray, which Seele, unable to dodge, took a real hit from the ray attack.
Although the damage wasn't much, it still slowed Seele down further. If there were data showing her status right now, there would be no doubt that her movement speed had been reduced to a negative value.
I told you, don't go looking for trouble with them!
Bai Xier shouted in her mental world, but it was too late now, whether she regretted it or not.
"Why did you jump into the lion's den for no reason?" Kiana teleported behind Seele, holding a Honkai energy chain in her hand. Taking advantage of Seele's sluggishness, she tightly fastened the chain around Seele's body.
This chain, made with the power of the Herrscher of the Void, is more than just a simple chain; it's worn on the body. Not only does it prevent spatial movement, but it also restricts Seele's quantum transformation.
"Why? Why can the power of a Herrscher interfere with the abilities of the Sea of Quanta?" Seele asked in surprise after two unsuccessful attempts.
"Because being observed means being involved, being involved means being exploited, and being exploited means having value. Moreover, the experiments you underwent were not without experimental records; in the end, they were just the product of an experiment. If you think you are independent of the world and detached from it, you are truly looking at the sky from the bottom of a well."
The one who answered Seele was not Kiana, but Bai Chen, who had appeared beside her at some unknown time.
Bai Chen placed his hand on Kiana's chains, took control of them, and bound Seele tightly.
He casually plucked two hairs from the girl's head, then reached out and pinched her cheek, covering her with his Honkai energy and conducting a simple investigation.
"I have to say, Cocolia is quite capable. At least the experiment on you was very strange. I even suspect that the experiment cannot be called a failure. Maybe her original purpose was to completely transform you into a quantum-form intelligent being so that she could send you into the quantum sea."
Holding Xi'er in one hand, Bai Chen weighed her in his hand and said with satisfaction.
"However, you are mine now."
Chapter Sixty-Nine: Kiana is about to wreak havoc!
Bai Chen brought Seele back to the inn with almost no effort. The only consequence of this dramatic escape was that Kiana's kill record was increased by one.
It must be said that after actual teaching, Bai Chen discovered that although Kiana was not quick to grasp theoretical knowledge, she had a strong talent for practical application.
She was like a bank employee guarding the door of a vault. Although there was a treasure trove full of gold behind her, she didn't know the password to the door. Bai Chen didn't give her the password, but he gave her a drill to make a hole in the door, so she could steal the gold out little by little.
"Don't use your power recklessly anymore. Just wait for your duel with Mei tonight. Until I find a way to completely resolve the issue between you and Sirin, you should be careful about how often you use your abilities. After all, theoretically speaking, Sirin is the true master. If you are completely corrupted by her, it will be difficult to separate yourself from her."
Back at the hotel, Bai Chen said this to Kiana and sent her back to his room to catch up on sleep and recover from the disturbance caused by Sirin. He also told her to do some warm-up exercises in the afternoon before the battle.
As for the Arlene sisters, ignoring Rosalia's continued shouting, Bai Chen found them several 100-set practice tests for the holidays from a nearby middle school. This was the best choice he made after assessing the two sisters' knowledge base.
After very considerately tearing up the answer key, he locked the two of them back in the room.
"You can only go out to play when you finish the part I drew. All your phones, computers, and game consoles will be confiscated until then. And there will be a final test. If you don't pass, well..." Bai Chen smiled as he handed the test papers to the two happy sisters, outlining their study schedule.
As for Fischl, she escaped unscathed. In order to understand the connection between the Teyvat continent and the Honkai reality, Bai Chen needed to borrow the laboratory in Sky City from Destiny, and Fischl, as an important research subject, had to go along as well.
Of course, Seele, who was tied up, also went along, and her identity was naturally that of a guinea pig, as everyone knows.
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