You Pig...

In Elysia's puzzled gaze, Jiang Qiao took back his own body.

Well, it seemed like something to be happy about. After all, while trapping bad Jiang Qiao in her body was relatively safe, because he was so unruly, she often ended up exploding with anger at the jerk.

However—Jiang Qiao's next action, after taking back his body, made Elysia's eyes widen. In her bewildered gaze, Jiang Qiao leaned down towards Wendy, getting extremely close to the pink-haired girl's lips.

"Wh-Wh-What are you doing?!"

Elysia clearly hadn't expected things to develop this way. Seeing the man and woman pressed together, her face rapidly heating up, she blushed half in shyness and half in anger, questioning him.

But the next moment, [Jiang Qiao] was gently pushed away, and Wendy, who had been lying on the ground with her eyes closed, slowly opened them, revealing slightly red eyes—a physical change adjusted by Jiang Qiao.

Of course, it would be more appropriate to call the current Wendy [Wendy].

"As you can see, replenishing this body's deficit." [Wendy] slowly sat up, twisting her pale wrists. Her beautiful face was incredibly calm as she described what she was doing in a slightly cool, girlish voice.

"What kind of Honkai energy replenishment requires that?!"

"Well, yeah... Normally, 'mana transfer' requires negative-distance bodily fluid exchange." [TN: "Negative distance" is a euphemism for intimate physical contact.]

"B-Bodily fluid exchange!?" The already disgruntled Elysia's mind raced with wild imaginations upon hearing this, and then she blushed—No way! Absolutely not!

If that were the case, it was better like this. At least Jiang Qiao had already done this kind of thing with other cute girls more than once.

If one day it really became unavoidable to do this kind of thing, at least I, Elysia, should get the first taste!

"Just kidding~"

The girl smiled slightly, tilting her head and sticking out her tongue.

Although it might not be appropriate to say this, it still needs to be somewhat 'scientific'.

After all, this body was lacking Honkai energy... While other Herrschers' bodies, made of Honkai energy, could indeed supply Honkai energy through 'bodily fluid exchange,' scientifically speaking, this method was obviously too inefficient.

Jiang Qiao had no interest in it either.

It's like an electrical outlet and a plug.

That primitive method is just a socket and a hole.

His method was different—representing the exchange of flesh with the above principle, it was as if Jiang Qiao, as the plug, directly filled the socket. No need for the socket hole, the entire body was already filled by 'Jiang Qiao'.

"Although using a Herrscher core would be more efficient, this level is more or less enough." Pale hands clenched into a fist, feeling this body that hadn't been 'logged in' for a long time. [Wendy] was adapting while also making a proper assessment.

For Herrschers, the best sources of energy were Herrscher cores and—high-powered Honkai energy reactors. Sirin's rise to power was based on the latter.

But because of the scarcity of Honkai energy, and because this body was completely depleted and unable to condense a Herrscher core, it needed another source of Honkai.

To this end, Jiang Qiao chose to use a portion of his Origin power to extract Honkai energy from the Origin space to internally fill this body, and—he happened to have another very useful thing on hand.

The power of the Path of 'Elation'.

Although Honkai and Path power were very different, because they were from the same worldview, their basic composition was [Imaginary Energy].

The power of the Imaginary, the energy supply of the Origin space, and the power extracted and transformed from the Path of Elation, rapidly filled this depleted shell.

Not much, but enough.

"So, Wendy, tell me what happened."

Wendy nodded slightly, glancing sideways at her body—now it had a different owner.

In this body, the other party would be unable to maintain consciousness due to depletion, but for his own human body, there was clearly no such concern. Therefore, the moment the exchange was completed, she had actually already woken up.

"..."

Wendy fell into a brief silence, but from her expression, Jiang Qiao understood that the former did indeed know something, and the result was as expected.

"It's Seele...!"

—A familiar name. Jiang Qiao had been 'suffering' not long ago, but it was clear that Wendy was not referring to the Blue Wendy with the unfriendly sleeping posture, but the Blue Wendy of this era.

The Herrscher of Death who, in the Sixth Great Honkai Eruption, caused millions of casualties because of Kevin's momentary soft-heartedness.

However, because of Jiang Qiao's appearance, Cocoon's change to the Honkai method clearly made this development different from the original.

The source of these black mists of decay was indeed the girl named Seele, but—she was not the perpetrator, but the 'victim'.

The Honkai's method of existence as an 'epidemic' made Seele, who was originally acquainted with Wendy and had a very friendly relationship, the initial carrier of the 'black mist of decay'.

The black mist of decay originated from her body—then absorbed Honkai energy and expanded uncontrollably, eventually engulfing the entire ARK City.

Although Wendy noticed something was wrong, it was already too late.

Because of their close contact, she was also affected by the black mist of decay—it should be known that this was an 'epidemic'.

It was not something that could be avoided simply by 'avoiding contact,' but could spread and develop through human-to-human transmission.

Because the power of the Herrscher of Death had two sides.

Decay and Creation.

Decay corresponded to the black mist of decay, which would cause things to age and decay, while the power of creation would promote the 'evolution' of other harmful things in the body.

Although they would eventually decay like the body's owner, this 'evolution' undoubtedly accelerated the death of the pathogen.

The infected Wendy was attacked from both inside and outside, rapidly consuming her already scarce Honkai energy.

Without much time to think or call for help, she could only make such a risky decision, using all her Honkai energy to build a wind wall to protect the people, and then rely on the Herrscher body created by Jiang Qiao to withstand the attack of the power of decay and creation.

Even so, Wendy still failed to protect all the people. The number of people who died because of this sudden Major Honkai Eruption was probably hundreds of thousands.

After listening to everything Wendy had to say, a pale hand gently landed on her face. Like a bird soaring in the sky, the girl had now shed her disguise and returned to the body's proper posture. The girl comforted her gently:

"You did well, really... You did very well, Wendy."

Looking at the gentle girl, Wendy blushed slightly. The only problem might be that she felt a little strange and awkward after realizing that it was her own body.

Elysia, on the side, was relieved to see this scene, but she couldn't help but puff out her cheeks, feeling a little jealous—sob, this bad guy had never praised me, Elysia, like this!!

I want to be praised more too!

Wendy was somewhat intoxicated by the girl's gentleness, but the next moment she remembered something, looking at Jiang Qiao, who was using her body, with a pleading tone:

"Seele... Please save her."

Because the incident happened suddenly, and she quickly fell into a coma, Wendy obviously didn't have time to take care of Seele. Therefore, the latter was still in the area covered by the black mist, her life or death unknown.

She knew that she definitely couldn't save Seele, but if it were this man... then, the one who saved her would definitely be able to save Seele, right?

Even if it was just a very slim hope, Wendy prayed so.

"Of course~ Leave it to me."

The girl smiled, her bright smile like the sun in the clear sky, dazzling and desirable.

Then, he said reassuring words:

"Next, I will solve all of this."

The energetic voice was full of confidence and the certainty that nothing would be difficult.

"But next, I need you and the Valkyries of the Fourth Squad to manage the people."

"No problem! Leave it to me!"

Wendy's voice was full of energy and confidence. After a period of training, she was no longer the withdrawn girl she used to be.

Seeing that Wendy had been assigned a task, Elysia, who was standing nearby, spoke urgently:

"Me, me! What about me, Jiang Qiao!"

She hadn't come with Jiang Qiao just to be a decoration!

Although being beautiful was indeed a specialty of beautiful girls, if she did nothing... wouldn't that make me, Elysia, look useless!

"You pig... cough, you go with Wendy to manage the people." Looking at the expectant pink-haired Fat Woman, [Wendy] almost blurted out, but fortunately reacted in time, quickly correcting herself, and giving a seemingly decent task assignment.

"Huh?" Elysia pouted slightly, dissatisfied.

Are you brushing me, Elysia, off?! You're definitely brushing me, Elysia, off!?

Elysia is going to get angry!

...Fine, I, Elysia, will go, okay?

Although she was dissatisfied with such a simple and perfunctory arrangement, Elysia, who felt that doing something was better than doing nothing and didn't want to cause trouble for Jiang Qiao, could only puff out her cheeks and reluctantly go out with Wendy.

[Wendy], standing on the roof, watched the two of them leave, then turned to face the sky. A hint of depth appeared in her green eyes.

He said softly:

"Then, it's time for me to make a move."

The Honkai energy obtained from the three parties was filling this body bit by bit, and an invisible wind also rippled out, clothing the girl in the attire of a divine messenger—green wings like a clear sky unfolded.

The next moment—

"Crack—!"

A sound like glass shattering—its source was the wings behind [Wendy], who was currently in Herrscher form.

The shattered green wings turned into mystical light patterns, and at this moment, Jiang Qiao had once again changed his posture—'Molting'

Although the lack of a fusion material would be somewhat insufficient, as long as that part was filled with the power of the Saintess and the power of Origin, it wouldn't be a problem.

The power reached its maximum at a certain moment, and at this time, [Wendy] looked down at ARK City, which was shrouded in black mist, and even the atmosphere and ocean currents expanding towards the outer sea, a smile appeared on her lips.

'Boom—!'

The manipulation of fluids acted on this entire sea area.

Under the joint action of the girl in the sky and the Fourth Divine Key in space.

Humans were able to glimpse a mythical scene—the seawater was rolled up into the sky, and the seawater from the surrounding sea area poured down into the dry seabed!