“Um…”

  Aleph woke up from his long sleep. His neck gave some popping sounds when he moved around. His head feels a lot lighter pared to before.

  He decided to throw all of his worries behind his back—for now, that is.

  “Kevin and Hua should have no problems. Su is the only o.”

  The first thing he did after regaining his memories was to look at Su’s situation.

  “He should be fine. I will try and find him ter. The Eight Herrscher will appear in five years. No, it should be shorter now.”

  Strangely enough, his memories of his past self became even clearer. It wasn’t wrong to say that he acquired a photographic memory of sorts.

  When Aleph presented his doubts to [Great Sage], he was able to have an answer.

  {Ahe colpse and recreation of the soul strengthe. This leads to aftereffects such as clearer memories and increased itive abilities.}

  “I have the [Sephira Crystal] inside me. Why don’t I feel anything?”

  {Ahe remaining two-fifths of the crystal could not be pensated as of the moment. Therefore, it only affect the soul.}

  Thinking of the [Bnk Sephira Crystal Fragments], a face came up to his mind.

  “Kurumi…”

  Their retionship wasn’t that plicated.

  A few years ago, Aleph’s bedroom mirror underwent some ges. He theorized it must’ve e from the reason he went to this world.

  The aforementioned mirror only had one ability: to ect worlds.

  The first perso oher side was her than Kurumi. The two talked through the mirror until Aleph discovered that he could physically visit the pce where she was.

  After some twist and turns, they entered someohey shouldn’t have and…

  “I died at that time… no. Great Sage, why was that not sidered as death?”

  Aleph knew Great Sage’s ability to ‘store’ his memories. It was something simir to a guide who will point out the correswer for you—at least for most things.

  If he asked something it had no clue about, or even asked it to predict the future, it wouldn’t be able to answer. Still, it knew a lot of things he couldn’t expin now.

  {Answer: A form of prote resent at that time. It spared you from experieng a true death.}

  “Where did it e from?”

  {Answer: It is unknown.}

  Upon hitting a wall, Aleph stopped pressing for answers. Instead, he decided to do the most urgent thing: to ‘test’ his limits.

  With the [Great Sage] around to analyze for him, he wouldn’t o hurt himself anymore.

  “The spri. Then, the strength. Resistance…”

  For the first time, Aleph felt the venience of ‘activating’ [Great Sage]. Within fifteen minutes, he received a detailed report about his physical limits. The two pieces of paper in his hands crified a lot of things he didn’t know about.

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  Physical Endurance: Will survive in a tank shell; will survive in a grenade; will survive in a close shotgun shot…

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  “I look more like the terminator now.”

  Seeing that he could resist tank shells and grenades on his own, the tips of his mouth twitched. heless, there are still things he could die from, such as missiles and high-grade rockets.

  “ take a gunshot to the head… These are some things I wouldn’t try.” He muttered. “How will I fare pared to the MANTISES…”

  Just as Aleph let out those words, [Great Sage] uedly came up.

  {Answer: By creating a theoretical model, the capabilities of MANTIS warriors are as follows…}

  “...What?”

  Aleph skimmed the ‘short report’ summarized by it. o their capabilities were the pertage of it being true.

  He brought up one of the reports it made.

  [MANTIS Warrior: Parvat

  [Potential Strength: Above Emperor-css Honkai Beast (1%), Emperor-css Honkai Beast (75%), Tempr-css Honkai Beast (90%), Chariot-css Honkai Beast (100%)]

  [Potential Power: Temperature Alteration (85%), Heat trol (45%), Molecur trol (10%)...]

  Although these data were filled with uainties, it showed Great Sage’s simution capabilities.

  Aleph remained silent until he no longer heard the voice of a taciturn girl.

  ‘This girl… She sounds like Bronya but is not. Could it be..?’

  The Previous Era put down a great fight against the Honkai. Their st stand was known as the Project S.A.V.E. Though, there were still several Projebsp;that went unnoticed.

  Prometheus, the still-prototype project of the First Institute, aimed to create an artificial intelligehat could predict everythied to honkai.

  That same artificial intelligence was the reason why the order and authorities of the Herrschers in the era didn’t ge.

  ‘A voice… If [Great Sage] acquired her voice, it would expin things.”

  Unfortunately, things ehere. Aleph didn’t know which world [Great Sage] came from.

  “That’s it.”

  After settling these things, Aleph set his sights on the five rewards he got when he killed the Herrscher instantly.

  [Achievement Unlocked: Godsyer]

  [Godsyer: Kill a Herrscher for the first time.]

  [Achievement Unlocked: The True No Sed Strike]

  [Mortal Hunter: Kill a Herrscher with one blow.]

  [Achievement Unlocked: God of Wind]

  [God of Wind: Kill a flying enemy by utilizing one’s speed.]

  [Achievement Unlocked: True Assassin]

  [True Assassin: Kill a formidable enemy while cealing one’s presence; must be done in one blow.]

  [Achievement Unlocked: Honored Knight]

  [Honored Knight: In a duel, kill a formidable oppo with a Holy Sword.]

  Unlike before, each of his achievements were grand.

  Unfortunately, it was just that Aleph’s capabilities far outranked a Herrscher. The Presence cealment, Sphere Boundary, Ratio Teique, and Juezhao created an overwhelming advantage against a newly-born Herrscher.

  The first two, moreover, perfectly hid his presenough to end everything irike. Without them, the battle would’ve persisted longer. Its ability to create ideal fluids threatened Aleph’s flight systems.

  That battle, iruest sense, was a lubsp;battle.

  [Perfeergy Box]

  [No Sed Strike]

  [Training Card: Hajime Kashimo]

  [Training Card: Sasaki Koujiro]

  [Seven Swords]

  “They… three of them came from Fate.”

  Aleph ughed off this small bsp;

  “No Sed Strike… It must be from that man, Li Shuwen.” He muttered. “Thewo cards…”

  He chose to mahe “training cards” first.

  Hum.

  Two silver cards appeared on top of his palm. It was quite a long card with two distinct silhouettes etched into their surfaces.

  When Aleph pinched one of them, two lines of text appeared in his sight.

  [Would you like to ehe training space (Sasaki Koujiro)?]

  [Cooldown: Five Days]

  “Hm…”

  He had a guess as to what the cards were for.

  “If I’m right…”

  He tried to calm down his acceleratibeat. He moved his attention to the two other things.

  Aleph took out the [No Sed Strike] first. It maed in the form of a book. The momeouched it, another line of text appeared in his eyes.

  [Insuffit Proficy to Proceed.]

  “Wait… This must be the final form of [Juezhao (Masterstrike)]. I o master it first?”

  Without finding success to [No Sed Strike], Aleph chose the [Seven Swords].

  This time, it wasn’t a physical thing. A mark appeared on the back of his hand.

  ‘A slot..?’

  Each of the seveical red lines represented a ‘slot’ to i a on inside a ‘space’. The red lines will turn golden once a slot is taken.

  Other than st ons, it has a fun of ‘strengthening’ them by half oaken out. This effect sts for ten seds. Each ‘on switch’ also has a cooldown of ten seds.

  ‘So the proper way to use this is to switch ons every ten seds…’

  With the switch meibsp;in the game about Honkai, Aleph was familiar with it.

  “Now, this energy box…”