Honkai: Strijder (Honkai Impact 3 Male MC)

"Chi You isn't dead yet."

Welt and Fu Hua's evaluations were mostly accurate, and Sigurd didn't add anything, just calmly stating another fact.

Welt and Fu Hua were both stunned.

Then, Fu Hua nodded thoughtfully. She had just fought on Chi You's body and witnessed the continuous birth of Honkai Beasts from it. It wasn't very surprising that such a body was still alive.

But Welt's hand trembled, almost spilling his tea, as he exclaimed in disbelief, "Most of its body is destroyed, but it's not dead? How is that possible!?"

"Its consciousness was sealed by Ji Lin and sank into the sea for over 5.000 years. Now, due to the high concentration of Honkai energy in the surrounding, it's stimulated once again and had woken up, having half of its body destroyed would just be an inconvenience to it, it only took time for it to come back."Hera, sipping her tea, raised her eyes and said calmly.

In this world, nothing is impossible.

Just like Fu Hua who is drinking tea with them today, she is someone who has died over and over again in the past, yet after each death, is able to come back without any issues.

The fact that Fu Hua is able to come back alive after dying is what brought her hope of the possibility of resurrecting Karen.

Hera smiled brightly as she held her tea cup.

Otherwise, she would have destroyed this world a long time ago.

A world without Karen is a world not worth living in.

Sigurd glanced at her, sighed softly, and said, "There's another piece of information that might be even worse."

"...Just say it."

Welt quickly calmed down and said calmly.

Sigurd glanced at the three of them, crossed his hands on the table, and said softly, "What if I told you that Chi You is still in its juvenile stage?"

The room fell silent, even Hera, who was holding her tea cup, didn't move, allowing the faint steam to linger in front of her.

"What evidence do you have?"

"Combined with Jackal's research results, I have data on 4048 lower-level Honkai Beasts and 17 Emperor-Class Honkai Beasts. Twenty-three minutes ago, I used the high-dimensional perspective ability of the 'Key of Thunder' to analyze Chi You's cells and genetic structure. To cut to the chase, I judge that Chi You is still in its juvenile stage and has enormous potential for continued growth. Currently, the evidence is only my analysis. If you want to confirm it yourself, you can collect samples and do the analysis."

Hera stroked her chin, pondered for a moment, and nodded slowly.

"Since it's you who said it, I believe it—"

"Wait! Honkai Beasts also have a growth period?"

Welt suddenly interrupted Hera's words and raised a question.

Then, both Sigurd and Hera turned their puzzled gazes to Welt.

"What's with you two—?"

Sigurd rubbed his forehead, letting out a long sigh.

Hera shook her head.

"How come anyone dares to let you be Anti-Entropy leader? You don't even know the basics."

Even your knowledge on Honkai Beasts isn't thorough; what can you use to fight against the Honkai? Your passion and dreams?

Their reactions made Welt inexplicably embarrassed: Could it be that this was common knowledge?

Sigurd glanced at him, seeing the obvious embarrassment on Welt's face, but at the end of the day, he was still his superior. Sigurd could only speak up to explain for him, "Anti-Entropy's technology focuses mainly on creating machinery that can convert Honkai Energy into natural energy, they also focus on creating robots and artificial intelligence, their knowledge regarding anything beside those 3 are basically nothing, which is understandable. Considering their goal, besides, Welt is the figurehead of Anti-Entropy, not its researcher."

"Calm down, I didn't say anything."

Hera spread her hands innocently and laughed.

Then, considering Welt's and Fu Hua ignorance—don't think that her silence while drinking tea means she knows, she's probably just pretending to know so she won't look like an idiot—Sigurd could only explain:

"Honkai Beasts are nurtured by Honkai Energy, which is vastly different from carbon-based life forms. However, they also have a growth cycle, although generally brief enough to be negligible—first, understand this concept. If you're interested, I can show you detailed data later, especially the unique peptide-based genetic sequences and enveloping shell-like skeletal cells, which have tremendous implications for mechanical structure improvements, it's simply—"

Just as Sigurd was starting to get interested, Welt and Fu Hua shook their heads in unison, decisively refusing:

"No need."

"I trust everything you said, Sigurd."

In synchronous refusal, the two exchanged a glance, expressing a mutual understanding—they were just lowly Herrscher/Fusion Warriors, the only thing that can do is fight, even if Sigurd spent ten years with them explaining it to them very slowly, they would still not understand it.

With a deadpan expression, Sigurd stared at the two with unblinking fish-like eyes, causing Fu Hua to take a sip of her tea in embarrassment and Welt to glance away in silence.

"Ah~ What a great tea."

"Huh? What a unique lamp."

"(?_?)..."

So Sigurd hated trying to teach people who prefer to solve their problems with only their brawn. Most of the time, it was just a waste of time with no meaningful reward on his end.

Giggle

Hera laughed with her shoulders trembling slightly, covering her mouth as her bright eyes curved into crescents.

Sigurd clicked his tongue and continued, "Anyway, without the birth of a new Herrsher since the last one, the Honkai Energy in the real world cannot be supplemented by the imaginary world. Even if it's massive, it's just water without roots. The Honkai Energy in the East Sea region has significantly declined after awakening Chi You and allowing it to undergo a round of size breakthrough. It won't be able to stand up again in the short term. But since it's still alive, and at such a size it's still in its juvenile stage, it signifies an unimaginable potential threat. We must come up with countermeasures."

Hera shrugged her shoulders, her eyes darting as she said, "At this point, if Chi You has fully recovered itself, it would become a Planet-Class Honkai Beasts, the second one in history. Dr. Mei from the previous era once proposed a hypothesis. The intensity of Honkai is directly related to the strength of civilization itself. In theory, as civilization continues to develop and ventures into space to harvest cosmic resources, the current Honkai Beasts that we have seen so far is barely an inconvenience for a civilization spanning the size of a galaxy, so there must be a Honkai Beast of a higher level, which are called the Planet-Class Honkai Beast, created to cause destruction to these high level civilization."

Hera's calm explanation opened Welt and Fu Hua's eyes once again. Though they hadn't seen any precedent, Hera's words were logical and reasonable.

After a moment of contemplation, he replied, "Generally speaking, the larger the species, the longer the growth cycle. I don't think Honkai Beasts would defy this law. So, a massive Honkai Beast comparable to a planet would take thousands of years to gestate and grow."

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