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Chapter 25

"Mei! How are you feeling?" Ryoma swiftly walked over to his daughter who was inspecting herself.

"I am fine, father." The girl said with a slightly more serious tone. She was feeling overwhelmed! It's exactly what Seele said. The power boost was enormous.

"Good to hear." Her father at that moment went over and did it! He hugged her in relief, however, at that moment all of his hair went up, and got electrocuted!

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"My control over the energy is still abysmal," Mei explained with a slight blush. She was embarrassed, to say the least.

"I-It fine," Ryoma said with an actual stutter as he was feeling slightly airheaded from all that voltage flowing into him.

"That's already impressive. Normally once Herrscher descends the area gets so heavily infected by Honkai that no normal people can be in that place.

The area which used to be Berlin is just a single example." Welt Yang said as he walked over with the pair of scientists. They all were marvelling at Raiden Mei's Herrscher form.

"I can see that being a possibility… Though I can see the negative side of things as well. Such use of energy diminished raw fighting strength." Mei said that with crossed arms. Now that she can feel how much she has, the girl could deduce the best way to use such an amount of energy.

"Indeed. But you are considered 'rogue Herrscher' and you have no support from the Will of Honkai."

"So my reserves are limited. Still, from all my studies such use is a waste." Raiden Mei said with a small frown. She has confidence she could deal with 'proper' Herrscher. One could say that she is slightly drunk on her power and her strength is backing her up.

At that moment Raynold transformed and summoned his Scythe. He started to walk towards Mei.

"Mei, we are going to spar."

At that moment a grin appeared on her face. She looked like a grinning devil with those horns.

"I have been waiting for this!"

She said while gripping her sheathed Katana.

Then she lunged at him, her lunge was something no one could even comprehend. It was a blur of red thunder as one moment she was next to Anti-Entropy people the next moment she was in front of Raynold about to use one of the classic Samurai moves of unsheathing the blade. Also known as 'Iaijutsu'.

To answer back Raynold lifted his left hand and moved it forward…towards Mei's forehead. The Thunder Queen's eyes widened as she could not move anymore, she could not even resist!

"First Seele and now you. You girls still lack discipline." He said that with a little bit of anger which made Mei…panic!

At that moment he flicked her forehead. The sound of contact was extremely loud, telling how much force was behind it.

This made her sail away like a ragdoll and smash through rows and rows of trees…. Flying over half a kilometre before she was able to roll and land on her feet. Even then she skids back a few more metres.

That moment Mei stroked her forehead it was a dark red spot. She was hissing with pain! It hurts! Alot!

Seconds later Raynold followed and released a burst of black and red energy destroying all the trees and the ground in the area.

Everything that moment was gone and instead they had a huge circle of gravel, a field to use for their spar.

For a moment Mei looked around before getting very serious about this. It was time to show off that she has gotten stronger! Much stronger!

With a burst of red lightning, she dashed forward and proceeded to try to cut her trainer down. However, all of her swings would slow down and get intercepted which made her frown as she understood that he made the world heavier around him!

This even impacts her Thunder which should not be the case!

Eventually, after several more exchanges, she narrowed her eyes.

"You have studied Thunder to the point that it can get affected by your gravity. You did it to the point that you can pin me down with it!" The Thunder Queen said that with realisation as she stroked her forehead. She still feels that phantom pain there!

"Indeed. I have been studying your stigmata." He showed lightning cracking all over the scythe he was holding.

"I was practising Thunder. Regardless, now that you know I can counter your speed. What are you going to do?" Raynold said that while swirling his scythe ready to face her.

He needs her to use her sword, he needs exposure to a Core welder who uses a blade made from a concept. So that he could backtrack and remake his concepts into blades as well.

To his provocative words, she didn't say anything, instead she got into her samurai stance and proceeded to lunge at him. This time there was no fancy thunder or increase in speed.

Only basic swordsmanship. Raynold answered back in the same fashion only with his scythe.

This was the first time that Mei was facing her teacher with a weapon in hand and it was a rapid heartbeat-inducing thing. She was utterly nervous. Months of training in nothing more than him parrying her moves have made her all jumpy each time he swings back at her.

Though she swiftly got over it and proceeded to increase her speed of attacks.

Soon enough she was nothing more than a blur. For a regular person, it looked like she did a single swing but it was three swings.

This was where she started to get an upper hand because of the weapon departments.

But this is where things started to get insane as Raynold's scythe started to lose its scythe shape and started to chip down in size before it started to look like a weapon similar to a large sword.

Whatever upper hand she had was shaved down. Now she needs to dodge him using a sword!

Though she started to get annoyed as Mei realised that he used this opportunity to get better instead of just purely testing her.

For a moment her world has slowed down. Well, more like she got so much faster that everything became slowly her pair of floating hands manifested and charged up lots of energy.

And then proceeded to pull out the sword and release a burst of a massive amount of crackling red energy.

For a regular person, it looked like everything happened in an instant.

Even Raynold didn't expect the girl out of anywhere to proceed to go fast…very fast.

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THIS CYCLE DOESN'T MAKE SENSE… NOTHING MAKES SENSE!

HONKAI LEVELS ARE FALLING

HERRSCHERS REBELLING IN DROVES

CLEANSING IS FAR BEHIND THE SCHEDULE

IDENTIFYING THE CAUSE

BEGINNING THE PURGE

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Mei looked with wide eyes as her attack was blocked by a diamond-like barrier around Raynold.

'What in the world is that!?'

She could not believe her attack which was faster than anything one could follow was stopped so effortlessly.

Though her attention was pulled away as Honkai's energies in the surroundings started to rush toward a single point.

The area where this energy has gathered has started to warp. Red lightning started to pulse in a circle like an area and started to manifest, space started to open up.

Something massive started to come out of it.

"A Honkai Beast?" Mei said with a confused look. What now!?

"Honkai has noticed that Herrschers are constantly rebelling against it," Welt said as he was about to pull out something.

This was something he had predicted and expected. It's about time that the Honkai should start to fight back.

"Enough!"

Raynold roared angrily as he looked at this thing.

Is this thing serious? Now? When he was having fun? When he is this close to repeating what Mei did to manifest her sword!?

He called forth all of his power!

At that moment everyone felt that they were going to suffocate. Regardless of who it was in the area. At that moment Mei realised that she was STILL considered utterly weak in front of him!

With a simple swirl, he stabbed his semi-scythe semi- looking sword into the ground. And did a dragon mouth hand motion with his hands before pulling back and starting to say iconic words towards the creature which started to pull itself out from whatever space it was.

It was a massive Kaiju-like being with a white carapace and purple-like veins running through its body. The amount of 'wild' Honkai energy it's emitting could kill all the regular people in the area.

Thankfully Kiana instantly was on the case as she used her Void powers to move all the regular people away.

This thing is classified as a 'Juggernaut Class' Honkai Beast.

Not that Raynold knew, or cared…

"Ka…me…ha…"

A white ball of energy started to gather between his hands, as that moment the ground beneath his feet cracked.

"ME…HAAA!!!"

Swiftly reaching critical mass Raynold pushed his hands forward and released a white-blush beam at the monster in front of him.

The funny thing was…

The creature had complete immunity against anything 'Herrscher' ; it would nullify any concept used against it.

However, what the boy used was not even a concept or Herrscher move…

It was just hype-compressed Honkai energy released in hyperdensity form.

A simple beam… slammed into the creature and started to push it.

A Simple beam that lifted the beast off its feet and sent it into space…

All the remaining people, who were ready to fight to the death, just moved their heads according to the movement of the beam.

They all looked at this with unreadable expressions; they simply couldn't understand what they were seeing… What in the world was that?

"There… all done. Now then we should return to the spar." Raynold said to Mei as he pulled out his weapon from the ground. At that moment he fixed up the cracked earth as well.

***BOOOM***

The sky brightened as the massive beam exploded in space.

Everyone was still looking at this with a sheer dumb look.

"Aren't…you going to rest after pulling such a move?" Mei said that as her hand shook. She doesn't feel like fighting after seeing that!

"No? I might have used half of my reserves, but I still have half of it left." He said while swirling his weapon. Doing some practice swings.

"I see…"

At that moment Raiden Mei stopped caring. She understood that he is an anomaly, something she should not compare or try to use common sense.

Nope, she will just do what he wants.

Without much hassle, she proceeded to attack him once again.

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"T-They are continuing with that spar!?" Tesla said while taking off her glasses and cleaning them off. She was about to call for a mech brigade for assistance.

It was not needed. That huge creature was only around for less than 1 minute before it was launched into space…

How ridiculous is that! Who would even believe such a thing?

"Of course they do! And I can't believe I finally saw it! The technique he has been talking about for a while! He said he needed a big fish to use it on. And I finally saw it!" Kiana Kaslana said with a gushing tone.

Seele and Bronya who were behind her slowly nodded their heads.

What they witnessed was in realms of freaking absurd but at same time very…fascinating.

"...You do realise that it was the biggest recorded Honkai beast in history? We don't even have a classification for it!" Tesla said with a huff.

"It's called Juggernaut Class, and such a thing only appeared a couple of times in ancient history. Once in the Previous Era. Well, it was the third time it happened now." Welt said while putting his hands back into his pockets he was baffled to see how such a thing was dealt with.

It's a good thing that he decided to be on friendly terms with this boy. He wouldn't want him as an enemy.