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Chapter 24

Raynold took his seat and ordered some tea.

The three people from Anti-Entropy did the same.

For a few minutes, there was complete silence before Welt Yang decided to speak.

"Your control over your power is utterly impeccable. I can't sense anything from you. You could easily pass as a regular human."

The brown-haired middle aged man said with an impressed tone. He never met anyone like that before!

"Honkai energy does everything in a circular motion. The reasons for that are something still foreign to me. Maybe because Earth is round? Or something else. I have no idea.

This is why Stigmatas that people awaken on their own have half-circle symbols to them."

As he said that he drew two Herrscher Stigmatas with his energy he made sure there was no intent behind it.

"Life and Death and this one is Thunder." He pointed at the symbols.

"I realised that a few years ago when I started to compress my energy into a core. I found out that energy is easy to bend as long as it involves circular motions."

"Interesting… We could use that…" The blue-haired girl noted that down. While the redhead crossed her arms and looked away. She wanted to say something smart but decided to stay quiet, she doesn't want to get roasted by a kid again.

"I see…though such refined energy manipulation it should not be easy? Honkai by nature is volatile."

"True. Though who decided it's volatile?"

As he said that he pointed his finger at the redhead girl and white and blue energy surrounded her.

This made her exclaim with shock as it was out of the blue.

"Uhh? What just happened? What did you do?" The scientist girl by the name of Tesla inspected herself.

"I fixed your issue."

"My issue?"

"The wild Honkai in your hands." He explained with a more specific tone.

This made her remove her gauntlets. Instead of dark purple veins, her hands were completely smooth! Dandy looking!

"Impressive…I assume this is your second concept you have." Welt said that while fixing his glasses this was very impressive!

"Indeed, the cycle of life. It includes life and death and much more in between. Though enough about the small talk. You want something from me, don't you? Anti-Entropy?" Raynold said that as he started to get his tea ready since the waitress brought it for him.

"Yes. Well, as you know we are an Anti-Honkai organisation. Originally we were part of Schicksal but because of certain events we defected from them."

"Let me guess… Human consciousness? I already know that they conduct very…questionable experiments just to fight off Honkai. Which is ridiculous."

All three of them sighed upon hearing that. For one, he finds it ridiculous… A Herrscher saying that Honkai and all its stuff is ridiculous…

How absurd is that?

"Yes, exactly, we rebelled against Otto and his madness, our goal is to save humanity from Honkai AND Schicksal," Welt said while tasting his tea.

Raynold that moment nodded, he expected that much.

"I assume you want me to join your merry band of rebels?"

"It would be…for the best. But knowing…your personality you won't."

"Oh?"

"Yes. You can be the neutral superpower or anything like that. As long as you weaken Honkai with your… shenanigans and don't help Otto with his madness we will help you in any way you want."

"I see… So you're telling me to do what I did already?" Raynold snorted with amusement while shaking his head.

"You could say that. My organisation is quite…concerned when you made contact with Otto."

"I see…so that's what it is."

Welt nodded, he hopes to learn what they discussed. Giving ammunition to Otto is something they don't want. That man is a wildcard who will do anything for something. They still don't know why he is doing all that!

"We wanted the Judgement of Shamash. Kaslana's Heirloom. My Kitten wanted her flaming toy. The Cultists didn't have it so we left.

I tried to educate that idiot with a basic understanding of Honkai but I doubt his dumb brain picked up what I was saying." Raynold said while shrugging his shoulders.

This made all three of them start to laugh.

The boy continued to shrug as he took another sip of his tea.

"You are the first ever person in this world who called the Overseer dumb. You do know that he is the one who built the majority if not all Schicksal technology?"

"Doesn't change the fact that he is dumb as a brick." The boy said while shaking his head.

"Regardless, I won't be joining the cultist group. The very idea makes me want to take a shower and just wash it off."

"Good to hear, if you want more dirt on Schicksal we are willing to assist you."

"Oh? Interesting. That reminds me you were there when Sirin was rampaging." Raynold said that he remembered that this guy was there when the 2nd Eruption happened!

"Sirin…haven't thought anyone will know Herrscher of Void's true name. It has been quite a while and much of it has been hushed up."

"Indeed. She did say a few things about that incident."

"""..."""

"You spoke with her?"

"She is my Kitten or more like her second personality in the form of her Void powers. We discuss things from time to time."

"Incredible…do you have means to pacify the anger in Herrscher's core?" Welt asked with realisation what this could mean!

"If I didn't I wouldn't be here to speak with you.

Regardless. We should make a deal or something. Mutual trade. I want anything related to stigmata and things related to 'Herrschers'.

In turn, I could teach a thing or two about my arts."

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Raynold was quite satisfied with 'trade' well it was more like people are giving him stuff for being himself.

After all…he will continue to do what he does all the time. He trains and he trains others.

And in turn, Anti-Entropy will allow him to access their networks to look for more stigmata or other curious information. After all, the world he is in right now is the ruins of a previous civilization.

While he always is dissing the last civilization they did give him his Kitten and some cool toys with even cooler names.

So they barely get a passing grade from him.

Regardless his curiosity is piqued about these toys and who made them. If he finds out his or her name he will recruit that person to make even more badass stuff.

As he returned to his training field his eyebrow went up as he saw Bronya floating in the air.

She noticed him and quickly and very happily exclaimed.

"Ray! Check this out!"

"...You are using Ki to float…"

"Yep! I think this is an even better means to train my energy!" The ash-coloured girl proudly said that. After all, she constantly needs to emit enough energy to sustain herself in the air!

"Yes, I can see that. Good job. You are making the energy focus under you to support your weight. This is a great way to improve your balance and much more."

Honestly, he never thought about this. He never needed to learn the means to float. His very concept allows him to float. Same with his Kitten.

So he was never bothered by this. But it appears Bronya was the first one to learn about other capacities of Ki.

"Yes. This is great!" As she said that she started to float around. Though she very quickly runs out of juice.

Raynold walked over to her side and channelled some of his Ki into her which made her slightly blush. His energy always makes her all giddy and warm.

"Try again."

"R-Right!"

After a while, Seele and Mei ended up learning his little trick to fly.

It was quite something else for Seele who never bothered to achieve complete flight. She could do it in a semi-gliding capacity. But this was the first time where she can float for an excessive amount of time.

Though for Mei…Mei was a strange case as she should do this almost immediately.

This leads to Bronya telling him that it's most likely related to her being able to do it because she would wield electromagnetism in the future. A perk for unlocking her concept.

Thinking about this…he realised that Thunder would be quite something else once he adds to his arsenal as well.

Regardless, once again his kitten was annoyed that he was surrounded by these females while she was left out!

For the first time in her life, she was annoyed that she was too powerful AND her concept was broken!

Still, she was able to hog him after all of the girls learned to float on their own.

After all, they were cultivating together and sharing their concepts!

Honestly, now that she thought about it…doesn't this sound quite intimate?

Their consciousness and energies merge…

At that moment her cheeks exploded dark red!

'Wow… isn't this even more intimate than kissing!?'

[You better keep this discovery to yourself, imagine if Ray misunderstood this and created a less intimate version of this.]

'R-Right!!!'

~~~~~~Later~~~~~~

Over 3 months have passed since Raynold's invasion and his meeting with Anti-Entropy.

As always… Nothing has changed…though many wanted to meet him or at least see him. However, what he did to Schicksal only made them change their minds at the very last second.

Many regular people, mostly adults, decided to wait until he was an adult. They believe that as an adult he would not throw a temper tantrum as he did with Schicksal.

Regardless of that, Raynold didn't care. Instead, he focused on training Mei and it was finally time for her to become a Golden Core cultivator.

For such an occasion, her father, Raiden Ryoma called forth Anti-Entropy. More specifically, Welt Yang and his two top scientists witnessed such a grand thing.

For such things, Raynold always uses Siberia instead of his house. For obvious reasons that he will want to spar with Mei afterward.

"Her energy is reaching a critical point," Tesla said while checking the laptop. She followed Raynold's suggestion and only focused on Honkai and not the altered Honkai she already had in her body.

She decided to keep her mouth shut and not mention that both energies were Honkai. The boy operates on a different wavelength she is going to keep at that.

"Yes. She gathered enough of it." Raynold said that with crossed hands. He felt the air for a bit. It had a static undertone.

This was even more obvious for the regular people who were getting antsy about it.

Soon enough the dark purple-haired girl started to float and glow.

That moment her hair got longer and turned pitch dark, and the hair tips turned into a much brighter deep purple. Though the most distinctive part about her was two dark red horns that came out from her forehead.

Her clothes were black and red mixed with some white though the most distinctive things were arm protectors which were red and distinctive samurai armour-like.

A katana manifested from pure red thunder as it turned into a red and dark purple.

This was not all as a pair of red armoured huge hands manifested to her sides…one was holding a huge sheathed katana.

'Oh? Curious…how curious so pseudo avatars do exist…'

Raynold didn't expect to see a natural manifestation like this! It appears Raiden Mei wanted such a thing at a subconscious level.

'Is it perhaps related to the fact that she comes from Japan where Shinto is still a thing? That Gods are part of a natural phenomenon?'

The boy thought curiously as Mei opened her eyes and they were no longer blue but purple with red hexagons for pupils. It was a sign of true Herrscher.

Slowly the girl landed on the ground. Even though she was standing on the ground her long hair was not touching the ground. It was floating in the most literal sense… Sign of electromagnetism…regardless of the ground.

"And so… the 5th Herrscher is born… On the side of Humanity." Welt Yang said with a small smile on his lips.

It was something he had not expected to see in his life…yet he did…and he knows it's not the end…there will be more in the future!