Honkai: Man(Sludge) From Future

Noldrei left the stage, but the message and shock he delivered lingered.

Bishop Otto Apocalypse and Alliance Leader Yang had been in the Kengan Arena the whole time, and they had a general idea of Noldrei's next moves.

This upheaval was inevitable. Anyone trying to obstruct him would be ruthlessly suppressed using the very power of these humans.

These Kengan Association folks wouldn't be as obedient to the Japanese Government as ordinary people.

Since the government's words weren't effective, company leaders were even less so.

They should be thanking their lucky stars that these people hadn't directly used Stigmata BattleSuit force to start robbing.

With the power of Stigmata BattleSuits, past criminal investigation techniques would become obsolete. Any company not under Academy City's surveillance and management system was at risk of losing its wealth.

Otto hadn't expected Noldrei to push the credit onto Dr. Tesla. At this critical moment, Noldrei gave Tesla all the credit she deserved.

Although Noldrei was the first to create a living Stigmata, the subsequent bio-engineering was entirely created by Tesla. Tesla's contributions to making Stigmata BattleSuits widely available in Academy City were undeniable.

Bishop Otto had thought Noldrei was someone who didn't care about these trivial matters, but the current outcome was somewhat different. He publicly used Tesla as a shield in front of so many people.

"This is really cunning. He wants Tesla, that Herrscher, to bear the resentment of the Herrschers who might be born next."

Otto had never imagined that Noldrei could orchestrate such a delicate situation where Herrscher fights Herrscher. This was different from his idea of using love to move the Herrscher and have humanity control the Honkai.

Looking at the current situation, Dr. Tesla's state of being, intertwined with both love and desire, probably couldn't distinguish whether she was driven more by desire or the emotions derived from it.

Old Yang sighed, drenched in sweat. Just now, he had almost thought Noldrei was about to lead these Kengan Association people out to violently attack conservatives.

What Kengan Association was this? This was clearly Noldrei's Radical Association, specifically for letting radicals in to receive ideological re-education.

And people accustomed to struggle and gaining benefits through it would never be able to return to the ordinary life and production relations of common people.

He looked at Horikita Manabu, standing in the arena, and asked, "Is this young man the closest to the Fifth Stage Stigmata right now?"

"He is a rare and excellent individual, and someone I chose to work for me in Academy City."

Bishop Otto's judgment of people had always been excellent. Since he had chosen Horikita Manabu, it meant this person was qualified to stand out on this stage.

Old Yang was indeed a bit helpless. He felt Noldrei's standards for New Humans were too high.

Even an outstanding young man like Horikita Manabu was only stuck at Stage Four. Old Yang couldn't imagine what stage others would be stuck at.

"Don't worry too much about his classification of human spiritual levels. It's still better than Dr. Tesla using those outdated things, right?" Otto also felt that Tesla's engineering-minded brain wasn't suitable for doing spiritual level classifications. Noldrei, on the other hand, had chosen a method of classifying spiritual stages that was suitable for modern people.

Stigmata BattleSuits at Stage Four had already mastered the ability to alter physical reality. Horikita Manabu stood on the stage and utterly dominated everyone there.

And he became the best advertisement for the Kengan Association.

This combat power was completely in a league of its own. Soon, staff arranged by the arena brought out light firearms to fight Horikita Manabu.

"I'm not worried about that. I'm just wondering if Tesla's mental state is still alright."

Old Yang was worried about Dr. Tesla, who was becoming increasingly cooperative with Noldrei. This level of development and progress had completely built a bridge for communication between humans and the Imaginary Space.

"This batch of students are the luckiest ones, and if anyone in this batch falls behind later, it won't just be a lifetime of regret." Otto had already seen the social prototype Noldrei was shaping.

The Kengan Association's struggles were mostly for various kinds of Stigmata BattleSuits, and because these suits originated from different Valkyries, their Stigmata effects were also different.

Stigmata BattleSuits had become the largest equivalent in the Kengan Association, replacing paper currency. Paper money had become the least important thing here – it was too easy to counterfeit, and not even as stable as some encrypted digital currencies.

"Valkyrie combat styles, you've even taught him these things?"

Old Yang was genuinely envious that Otto could use Schicksal's centuries of accumulation to cultivate these Valkyries into superhumans in reality.

"It's just a small matter. It's best if he's willing to learn on his own. Compared to this, Anti-Entropy's unmanned mecha are even more excellent. But all these things are nothing compared to Tesla. That woman can even manipulate the power of Honkai fission."

Otto took a deep breath. Facing this kind of overpowered strength, he couldn't help but take the Herrscher's power to heart.

Otherwise, before you even meet a Herrscher, they might send a few Honkai fission bombs your way, and no matter how strong you are, it would be useless.

"I also didn't expect Tesla to even be able to miniaturize and reconstruct the Moonlight Throne. Her reconstruction speed is even faster than mine, the First Herrscher."

The only thing Alliance Leader Yang was relieved about was that Tesla still treated Anti-Entropy as a close friend. Otherwise, he would have suspected that Tesla had seen the mites on his face and was preparing to sterilize and disinfect him, the Alliance Leader.

"What do you think he will do next to guide the fermentation of public opinion?"

Old Yang couldn't help but ask, curious.

Honestly, it was impossible not to be curious.

Because, previously, no one had ever thought of using these abilities for fighting the Honkai to conversely influence the Honkai.

This was different from Otto's idea of using emotions to influence Herrschers, which had the precedent of the First Herrscher. But it was uncertain if that was due to the First Herrscher's own unique nature.

Noldrei's method, however, was completely different. He didn't trust human relationships in this era at all. So, he simply directly reconstructed them, using the conflict between old and new relationships to shape the personality symbols of the new Herrscher.

But Otto knew clearly that Noldrei didn't care whether the Honkai would bring destruction to humanity or not.

That future person friend of his was a similar existence.

"Public opinion will ferment on its own. What we should be paying attention to next are my poor, simple Valkyries."

Otto sighed, deeply regretting Schicksal's own Valkyries.

Many Valkyries were actually very simple-minded girls. Although some staff handled social affairs, most Valkyries on the front lines of battle were, on the contrary, simple-minded.

And simple-minded also meant… conservative.

Just then, Horikita Manabu walked down unscathed from facing the group wielding firearms in the arena.

Horikita Manabu had won his debut. His name would be hung at the highest point of the Kengan Association for the first time.

Unfortunately, he still hadn't gotten the chance to get close to the Academy City Council Chairman.