The Current Era existed atop the Previous Era’s efforts. They ied numerous advao the point the signifit people in the former achieved things the Previous Era could not.
For Aleph, Elysia’s sacrifice was the most signifit o isn’t wrong to say there wouldn’t be the Current Era he knew if it hadn’t happened.
Thus, he was willing to reveal a lot of his cards if it meant verting the Herrscher into their ally.
Unfortunately, he only had ohing that could “vince” her…
Psshk-!
Shatter-!
…his fists.
The Herrscher of Ina’s Alter Ego—enacted her pn. The entire building they were on turned into a sculpture. She easily made it colpse, building more distance away from Aleph.
Shatter-!
Her body fell down among the fragments of ice. The same went for Aleph, but he received several ice pilrs that grew out of nowhere. It pushed him back away from her.
‘It worked!’
At this point, she uood she o maintain a rge distand snipe from afar. That was the most viable way she could win. Once he es close to her, it would be game over.
The ever-increasing honkai energy out of her core gave her enough fidenbsp;
She was the chosehe Herald of its Will!
‘Such a world… should!’
A soldier.
A civilian.
A politi.
Everything was a matter of social strata. The soldiers were sent to dangerous areas, while the civilians suffered from the politis’ bad decisions. The tter caused numerous disasters for the former two.
Still, they were part of a system. They kept the world running, that despite their mistakes and selfishness, good outes still came from them.
Anna herself witnessed how she ged strike teams more than a dozen times. The person she knew for a few years could wound up as a corpse the mission.
If that was how it was…
If the world tolerates such a twisted order…
‘From this city… and beyond. I will—’
BOOM-!
A loud soni resounded several dozeers away from her. The five ice pilrs she created to push Aleph out—striking in all dires at once—were broken by a trace of pure bbsp;energy. Cracks appeared all over their bodies before they shattered.
For the third time, she met that gaze.
A gaze enough to let her know of the terrors inside him.
‘Why are herrschers harder to talk to here?!’
Aleph’s body was in a horizontal position. He shifted his body’s weight, making it so that he was freefalliically, with his feet fag the ground.
‘Blink is gone. I o close the distance.’
Numerous means came into his mind.
He didn’t remain idle after three months. Kashimo’s guidanbsp; gave him ideas regarding the teiques in his world.
There was aremely advanbsp;teique known as “Bck Fsh”. It could only be done when a spatial distortion of sorts was dohrough the fine trol of cursed energy. It results in an amplified impact upon hit.
Using the [Cursed Sword] and [Blindfold] duo, his cursed energy trol was at aremely high level. In the end, Aleph was able to master this advanbsp;knowledge.
Not only that, he could also use it at will, catg Kashimo off guard.
{Result: The most viable path has beeed.}
A blue path appeared in Aleph’s sight. It was roughly sixty pert simir to what he thought of doing.
‘The more we fight, the more she learns about her power. I o break this stalemate.’
He mentally sed his list of rewards throughout the time he gained [Achievement Hunter]. He didn’t have time to do this until now due to how sudden his findings with the herrscher was.
‘Hm..? I still have that. Kyrie Eleison.’
In an instant, Great Sage made a diagnostic check.
{Result: The selected teique has a great effect when it es to soul-based entities. It has aremely limited effe normal bodies.}
‘...It’s good enough. If it works even by a little bit, that’s good.’
Aleph was dead set on ving her.
*****
Sundown Alley.
Iy of Justice’s prosperous facade y a se known as a slum. However, due to the city’s prosperity, it was far from the ordinary slum. Sundown Alley is the pce where 90% of the city’s criminal dealings go. It wasn’t wrong to say it was a hotspot for criminals and the likes.
That included people living in poverty… as well as those who couldn’t feed themselves.
If it weren’t for the fact it was already tangled with the is of numerous iial people, it wouldn’t have existed in the first pce.
heless, the city made sure to pce a distanbsp;between it and the city itself. That was the reason behind the abando of several residential areas.
Add to that them being far away from the Fire MOTH branch…
It was only now that the eruption of honkai energy was felt.
Bam-!
Bam-!
The sounds of loud banging echoed within a warehouse. It is filled with smuggled goods—mostly ed goods—that were supposed to be shipped out now. The she of food supplies and the mass panic buying gave rise to these business opportunities.
Who could’ve expected there was a thief lying amongst all these goods?
“Hum..?”
The girl deftly wiped the saliva on her mouth. She was jolted awake by the loud banging of metal. She looked at her surroundings, only to find out it was ing from outside.
“Phew… I thought I was caught!” She gave a pat on her chest. Her eyes narrowed on the warehouse door. “Really, what are their problems?! They gave me a heart attack!”
Rumble-!
BAM-!
The ground shook. It was so evident that the girl atop tless metal tainers nearly lost her footing.
The banging sound outside stopped after that.
“What’s going on..?”
She skillfully hopped from one taio another before she arrived on the highest point of the warehouse. She nimbly climbed on the ventition system before stig a portion of her head outside the vent.
The sight she saw startled her.
The hustle and bustle of the city was far away from them. Their distance was more than fifteen kilometers away from each other. Still, the silhouettes of buildings could be clearly seen from here.
“What is that..?”
It was a tall gcier, far taller than a twenty storey-tall building. The girl couldimate its size, but it was very tall. The hing that caught her attention was the huge cloud of dust.
Only then did she realize ohing:
“I feel like it’s missing a few buildings…”
Just then, the sound of a rocket came close to her ears. The girl’s pupils narrowed as she met gazes with “it”—a humanoid robot straight out of a sce fiovie.
{“Oh, here I thought it was familiar.”}
A girl’s voice came out of the flying “robot”.
A few moments ter, the girl pinpointed whose voice it was.
“It’s you! That magi!”
