Honkai: It’s broken, I have become the Herrscher of Corrosion?

"The show isn't over yet, you can't leave early!"

Weird laughter came from all directions, and hundreds of puppets rushed over from all directions.

"Xi'er, please."

Bronya patted Seele in her arms gently, then jumped up. Hei Xi wiped her wet eyes and rushed to the coordinates provided by Bronya.

"Reload Bunny, Ride on"

【Ride on】

The motorcycle turned several circles in the air, and hundreds of floating guns appeared around her.

“Fire!”

All the floating guns fired at the same time, and all the puppets and randomly generated monsters that rushed up were blown away.

"This feeling is... No wonder I was always guided to attack them before..."

The attack was very effective, but a feeling of powerlessness immediately spread throughout Lonya's body. She discovered that the connection between herself and the core of the Ruler of Reason... was broken.

Although the core was still in her body, she was unable to use her Herrscher power, and it felt as if a piece of flesh had been cut out of her heart.

However, she achieved the desired result. When Bronya was firing at full power, Hei Xi attacked with all her strength, creating a big hole in the Domination Theater. Bronya barely managed to stabilize her body and escaped with her.

"Idiot, you rescued a monster, but it allowed us to gain the power of the Ruler of Reason. We are the ones who benefited anyway."

After leaving the Domination Theater, Bronya found herself alone outside the workshop she was responsible for investigating. Fatigue swept over her body. She leaned against the wall and immediately dialed the Anti-Entropy communication.

Back to an earlier time, after Bai Xi rushed into the workshop, she felt a strange dizziness, and then she found that her connection with Hei Xi had inexplicably disappeared.

After calling out many times without any response, Bai Xi realized that there must be something wrong with this workshop, and that he had most likely fallen into a trap set by the other party.

"If Seele and Bronya aren't around, I'm still a little scared..."

However, Bai Xi quickly adjusted his state and immediately contacted the doctor of Anti-Entropy.

"Xi'er, let me summarize. After the stigmata awakened, another Xi'er was born in your body. The moment you entered the workshop, you were fine, but your connection with the other Xi'er was severed, right?"

"Yes... that's what I mean, Doctor... do you believe what I say?"

She knew that it was normal to be doubted when she suddenly told people that there had always been another person inside her body. She might even be considered to be delusional.

"I was indeed skeptical at first, after all, your experience was too bizarre. But just now, we lost contact with Bronya, and confirmed that she is not in a normally observable space at the moment."

"Ugh!"

"When Kiana was in an unstable state, Anti-Entropy invented a device that could directly detect the Herrscher's core. Considering that we don't know what methods the other party has, in order to prevent the communication signal from being blocked, we let Bronya wear a similar device."

"According to our observations just now, Bronya is neither in the normal real world nor in the imaginary space. Instead, she has been transferred to a very special space."

"Since it is very special, it means that anything can happen. Xier, have you and the other Xier ever been separated?"

"...Just a few months ago, after entering the Quantum Ocean from the Eye of the Abyss, it was just that..."

"It's normal not to tell others such a secret. A space similar to the quantum sea... that makes sense..."

"Xi'er, the area near that workshop is most likely one of the entrances to that special space. Since the other Xi'er has no physical body, please don't leave yet. I will contact the leader and Ms. Theresa immediately."

"Ok."

Xier waited for several hours like this, until dawn, when she saw the familiar figure again in her spiritual space.

"Xi'er, I'm so glad you're okay!"

Bai Xi walked quickly forward and hugged her from behind.

Hei Xi's emotions fluctuated violently, but he never uttered a word.

"Ah, you seem to be very tired. Take a good rest first. Tell me what happened just now when you recover."

Bai Xi exited the spiritual space and immediately made contact with Einstein.

"...Are you okay over there? Bronya just got in touch with us. She said she and another Seele just entered the same space... Seele, we shouldn't stay in a dangerous place for too long. Now that we've confirmed it's safe, let's go back to the base and explain the specific situation in detail."

June 6, noon, Salt Lake City base.

Xier slept until she woke up naturally. She was a little uncomfortable with the day when there was no one to wake her up.

After lunch, she met Bronya on the way to the meeting room. The two exchanged messages while walking.

"Bronya is relieved that you are all okay."

In the conference room, they saw Einstein who had not slept all night, Walter and Theresa with serious expressions, and Tesla who was far away in Washington, holding a video conference with everyone.

"Since Dr. Tesla doesn't quite understand the situation, I'll give you a brief summary."

"Last night, Seele and Bronya entered a special space called the Domination Theater while investigating the workshop. In order to cover Seele's escape, Bronya attacked the puppets in the theater with all her might."

"As a result, although the Herrscher's Core is still in Bronya's body, she is unable to use the Herrscher's power."

"What! How could this happen?!"

"According to speculation, the opponent this time is most likely the Ruler of the current civilization. Now let Bronya explain the details."

"After Bronya entered the theater, the puppets inside launched verbal attacks, trying to break Bronya's psychological defenses by using distorted interpretations of Bronya's past experiences, and constantly guiding Bronya to attack them..."

More than half an hour later, Bronya told the story from beginning to end, but she did not specify the two Seeles and just used "Seele" instead.

"From what we can see so far, at least in the Domination Theater, the puppets' vicious words are not only intended to break through psychological defenses, but also have a certain degree of thought-inducing and mental control capabilities."

"According to the information left by the previous civilization, the Ruler of the Thousand is also known as the Ruler of the Thousand, and consists of a total of one thousand individuals... Although the enemies Seele and the others encountered are very different from the Ruler of the previous civilization, it is still the most likely answer."

"And based on their abilities, the next most likely target is... Kiana."