The Herrscher of Reason was surprised by a random girl’s presenside the ship. Numerous rifles appeared out of nowhere before being poiowards her.

  “I don’t like talking much. Speak… or die.”

  “Oh.”

  Kurumi nodded slightly. It was clear she did not take the Herrscher seriously. This, in turn, wouhe tter’s ego.

  Click.

  “e on. I know nobody’s stupid enough to it suicide.”

  The Herrscher closed the hangar shut before creating a luxurious chair to sit on.

  “Hm… Fire MOTH? MANTIS? Emperor-css?” She kept asking. “I am not familiar with Fire MOTH’s higher-ups, but you should be ordered by one of them, no? Aren’t you angry at them? They sent you to your death.”

  In response, Kurumi listeo her words with a smile.

  “You are different. My previous enemies aren’t this talkative.”

  “...Alright, then. Bye.”

  Bang-!

  Bang-!

  Bang-!

  Bullets ricocheted off ihe hangar. Its toughness prevented any holes from being made.

  Thud-!

  g-!

  g-!

  Only a lifeless body coupled with dozens of bullets remained on the ground. Blood spilled from Kurumi’s corpse. Her eyes were wide open when she was shot.

  Just like that, the Herrscher did not care anymore.

  However, if she did pay attention, she would have noticed Kurumi’s strange look.

  The Herrscher girl was tinkering with a ade pistol in her hands when several es of Kurumi appeared out of the darkness.

  “Hm?!”

  She was alert enough to fire all of the rifles.

  “What is this..?”

  More Kurumis came out of the shadows. Her ‘bodies’ started piling up as the pu smell of blood filled the eransport ship.

  This creepy sight caused her mentality to begin colpsing.

  Looking at even more Kurumi es ing out of the piles of dead Kurumis, the Herrscher stood up from her seat.

  She was about to open the hangar when something rolled onto her feet. Simultaneously, no more Kurumis appeared.

  “Huh..?”

  It was a metallic silver ball. It didn’t have any noticeable features. Its mass was a bit heavy, but that was all.

  “Wait..?”

  The ball’s position did not ge. There weren’t any form of honkai energy on it.

  Yet…

  Its mass grew bigger.

  Everything took less than a sed. By the time the Herrscher could react…

  BAM-!

  The metallic ball colpsed the transport ship in one go. Akin to a paper holding a brick, it was torn apart with ease. The es’ dead bodies as well as a huge amount of blood soon followed.

  The Herrscher felt a sensation of weightlessness. A huge pang of headache came, followed by aremely ominous foreboding.

  “Ah..?”

  The st thing she saw was a small bck dot in the sky before falling asleep… forever.

  *****

  Two whole minutes.

  It was a brief time. When Kevin fought the aquatic emperor-css honkai beast, their chase took thirty minutes, simply due to its extremely huge body as well as annoying abilities.

  However, the Kevin of today is different.

  The Evolution Cube brought aremely huge increase. Aleph’s estimates pced the current Kevin just below the Kevin who received the Project Chimera. Evehat estimate was still unclear.

  Swoosh-!

  A huge cloud of steam tinuously emerged from the ruined city. It caused the visibility oreets to drop to areme low.

  heless…

  BAM-!

  Rumble-!

  The Herrscher of Fire, Rong, was sent flying several blocks away. Her body crashed into the burnt infrastructure. The moment these leftover t and steel bars came close to her viity, they melted into a red magma.

  The house where her body nded was no exception. She was left lying on the ground, which was tinuously being turned into magma.

  Su enviro left no effe Rong’s body.

  From the moment one bees a Herrscher, their body mutates and gains numerous capabilities transding humanity. This process occurs as they remain ected to the imaginary space.

  It was due to this fact that Rong did not think about the extreme heat surrounding her. Perhaps it was in sideration of her authority, but her resistao extreme temperatures was raised the highest. The rest of her capabilities couldn’t pare to it.

  Bam-!

  Suddenly, swathes of ice made of honkai energy desded upon her location. The extreme heat melted most of them, but there are still several ice shards that wounded her body.

  ‘This… It’s not just honkai energy.’

  She noticed something different every time she got attacked by Kevin. The tter was still able to pierce through her shields no matter what she did.

  Bam-!

  Bam-!

  Bam-!

  Kevi out three secutive attacks, with each f her back. Their situation became a stalemate.

  ‘Herrscher… They have a e to the imaginary space. Aleph called it infinite ammunition.’

  He did not stop attag while he thought.

  ‘I o get closer to her and use that.’

  Ever sihe Global Time Fracture System was created, Aleph asked Vill-V to implement it otlesuits used by Kevin and others. That, and several h-level MANTISes who are deemed to be trustworthy enough.

  Its quality also depended on the user themselves. The greater their honkai resistahe lohey could be ‘sped up’.

  Kevin’s was strong enough to tie with Elysia—slowing down one sed into five seds.

  Tightly grasping the Nitro Bde replica, he was about to charge when his intuition told him of something.

  g-!

  From being held downwards, he pced his greatsword over his shoulder. It blocked the tip of a scythe that threateo pierce his back.

  Kevin kicked off the ground and spun his body. During this, he blocked off yet atack. His feet sunk further into the ground. The assaint was, in tur flying away.

  g-!

  Bam-!

  A pathway briefly opened up by the impact revealed the girl who attacked him. Kevin's gaze met hers.

  ‘This girl…’

  tless images fshed in his mind before he locked on a memory.

  “Sixth Herrscher…”

  “...So you already khat.”

  Kevin was about to stall for time when a fming attack came behind his back. He was forced to deal with it.

  His sight was drowned in crimson. White steam came off even more intensely, creating aremely thick fog that would’ve killed any normal human who breathed on it.

  Bam-!

  Bam-!

  Bam-!

  Numerous explosions were set off around him. The ground was reduced to molten magma while his surroundings became extremely distorted due to the heat.

  By the time he freed himself from it, he was surprised to see the two Herrschers gone.

  He waited for a while and sed his surroundings, but to no avail. The only thi were ashes, magma, and severed parts of honkai beasts.

  “Was this the thing he warned us about? It’s really…”

  Destructive.