A/N: Here’s the reference pic of what he's wearing now.

  (Link: https:///r/Genshin_Impaents/1c7ttp3/designed_a_kimono_outfit_for_wanderer/)

  *****

  Drip.

  Drip.

  Drip.

  Aleph was woken up by the sensation of raindrops. They steadily fell on his face that was looking upwards to the sky.

  The first thing he saw was the dark and cloudy sky. It was a normal thuorm at first gnce, but he caught something else with his elemental sight.

  His thought processes moved at a god-like speed. Nanic matter could match up to him. Even meical beings did not have the same speed as him.

  However…

  "Ugh..!"

  Aleph closed his elemental sight. He tried his best to 'fet' what he had seen, but to no avail.

  "This again…"

  It wasn't his first time experieng something like this. When he sed the sixth Herrscher's traces, he actally stumbled into a 'white dot'. A small and unnoticeable thing overloaded Aleph's mind. All of the thoughts caused by the 'white dot' inated his mind, causing his extremely fast thought speed and elemental sight to backfire on him.

  Simply put, it was an information so plex it beloo a whole another level. His current level wasn't enough to let him ha on his own.

  Aleph stood up from the cold floor made of gray t. Raindrops tinued falling into his body.

  He looked at his clothing and saw an unfamiliar set of outfits. He was wearing a two-yered top sisting of a white kimono with blue ribbons and a tight-fitting bner shirt. He looked down and saw a dark-blue attern found at the edge of his kimono. A set of geta and tabi was worn on his feet, and a hakama to tie them all.

  "Hm… It's amazing."

  Su outfit would have hindered a person's ability to fight. Kimono was a formal outfit. Even Satoru chose to wear a haori, a loose jacket, to better fight against Sukuna.

  However, Aleph was different. His current strength was enough to fight most of his enemies with ease, more so when his outfit itself was imbued with the 'iructibility' factor.

  Snapping out of his thoughts, he recalled why he ehis instaer a month.

  "Modern Magic…"

  There had been huge ges right after he received the opportunity to learn magibsp;

  First was Great Sage. Its adaptability to it was off the charts. Aleph even discovered that he did not he so-called Magic Calcution Area (i.e., Magic Processor) due to how Great Sage alone could use magidepely.

  That's right, indepely.

  It was no longer an auxiliary support that provided detailed analysis during bat. It could now affect the battlefield with the magibsp;it was able to cast.

  Although, Aleph discovered that magibsp;did not have much effe him. ter Magie of the branches of modern magic, aimed to interfere with 'Magic Sequences' (i.e., the spells) using anic sequence.

  It did not have much meaning to him with his ralizing Domain avaible.

  There was also the Systematic Branch that altered weight, acceleration, vibration, and the likes. None of them could pare to the veniend power Star Rage demonstrated.

  As such, Aleph desighis instance as a pce to learn more about magic—to be specific, developing new magibsp;that could actually help him greatly.

  " I release my honkai energy here…"

  Aleph sed his surroundings. He was currently on the rooftop of a moderately tall building. What greeted his sight were the rows of closely-packed buildings filled with neon light. It was nothing short of the word 'cyberpunk'.

  Boom-!

  The sudden explosion attracted his attention. He looked up and saw a flying ship—akin to space cruisers—creating a bright red explosion.

  Bam-!

  Rumble-!

  Its fragments fell near his viity. It caused the ground to shake severely.

  It did here.

  Boom-!

  Boom-!

  RUMBLE-!

  The fall caused a massive rea. One by one, buildings exploded. The sheer amount of destru exteo Aleph.

  Soon, the ground supp his feet fell to the ground. His entire body floated mid-air.

  He silently watched over this ey, only to see more destru.

  "How many Amber Eras were there? Less thahen, verting it into our years… it sted between seven-hundred years up to two thousand years…"

  It was a terrifying number. Aleph khat the Previous Era only had less than ten years to fight against the Herrscher of the End. His interferenly made it shorter.

  "There's no Herrschers in this city. As for those monsters…"

  Unlike honkai beasts, it would be apt to call them 'shadow monsters'. Their bodies were dripping with bck fluids. They did not follow any regur shapes.

  Most importantly, he witnessed several living beings being devoured by the sticky bck fluid. Moments ter, the said living beings turned into monsters as well.

  While Aleph was looking for the enemy, a burning bright light appeared in the sky. Its length was exaggerated enough to go across aire city.

  {Result: The estimated length of the high-temperature fmes is eight thousand kilometers.}

  "..."

  For a moment, he fell silent.

  'Herrschers… They bsp;also do this.'

  The Ninth Herrscher popped up inside his mind. If it wasn't for humanity's swift as, the destru wouldn't have ended with the Mu ti.

  "Hm…"

  Buzz-!

  A somewhat metaphysical sound rang in his ears. Aleph k was reted to the information carried by what he sensed.

  Along the trail of crimson fmes, tless bolts of lightning appeared. They crawled to the fmes as they destroyed them one by one.

  The simirities the two phenomena exhibited lied in their source of energy.

  'Destructive… just like honkai energy. But there's something different.'

  Aleph could not put his finger on it. The energy carried by the monsters he saw as well as the fmes and lightning was simir to honkai energy, but different.

  "Sigh…"

  The two phenomena cut off the bck thunderclouds. The rain itself was stopped by their sheer power.

  heless, Aleph khat the lightning was losing. Perhaps it was inadequacy, or it was ck of trol, but the fmes remained burning brightly in the sky.

  A familiar sheath appeared in his hands. His left thumb, which was habitually pced on its handguard, was lifted.

  He looked at the long line of fmes in the sky. His cursed energy started verging into one point. Invisibly, a trail of bck dyed his bde—Albion's destru factor.

  "Ten thousand should be enough to deal with it."

  As his words fell, the world fell into silenbsp;

  It was unknown when, but a clear silver bde shone dimly amidst the darkness. Its tip was already pointed downwards, indig that the attack had been pleted. The eerie silence was enough to shut up all living beings who wit directly, if there were any.

  Buzz-!

  A deafening sound struck the ground. It was akin to a soni, which earheir attention in one go. The impact it produced was han a major earthquake oh.

  Fortunately, their buildings were built with teology far more advahah.

  "W-what is that..?"

  "What?"

  "That is—"

  At this moment, all the beings in this world saw an unimaginable bck crack more thahousand kilometers long.

  *****

  A/N: Remember how I said I would upload a chapter once I wake up? Welp, disaster struck. After being sleep deprived for a few days, I caught a flu. I will be resting for the time being, so except for the regur chapters (which will tinue), I won't be able to dish out the chapter debts for a while. I'll try to write one or two chapters within this week, though.