Thankfully, Not a Galgame Character

It's no exaggeration to say that the battle against the Herrscher of Legion was the most difficult Lee had ever encountered.

Although individual members of the Herrscher of Legion didn't possess the overwhelming power of previous Herrschers, Legion Herrschers with a shared will and seamless coordination, attacking with different abilities, posed a threat far greater than any previous Herrscher.

And Lee, on the other hand, lacked her once-proud physical prowess. The Herrscher of Sentience core, which had been integrated with her body, was severely restricted. She could only rely on external objects like the Blank Key to maintain her combat effectiveness.

Fortunately, Pardofelis was truly reliable. Apart from the Judgement of Shamash in Kevin's hands, she had practically cleaned out all the other combat-capable Divine Keys. The Seven Thunders of Retribution, the Clockmaker, the Abyss Flower, and Star of Eden... relying on the power of technology, extensive combat experience, and invincible combat endurance, Lee single-handedly left all Legion Herrschers forever on this small island.

But such a miraculous feat naturally came at a price.

First was the damage sustained in battle. The attacks of the Herrscher of Legion had almost completely replaced Lee's body from top to bottom.

Originally, some parts were still human flesh, but now they had completely become proliferated tissue regenerated with Soulium mixed in. Apart from her appearance, it could basically be said that Lee had nothing to do with humans anymore.

Secondly, there was the burden of the Blank Key itself. This Divine Key was designed to sacrifice most of the user's protection in exchange for higher amplification efficiency.

Lee had consecutively loaded four different Herrscher cores in a very short time and fought at maximum power. Even the Blank Key itself was almost melted due to overload, let alone Lee.

The good news was that she hadn't become useless due to being too seriously injured. The bad news was that the side effects were somewhat subtle.

Originally, after undergoing the artificial Herrscher surgery, Lee went from controlling her body like a human to indirectly controlling her body, which had been made into a tool, through the Herrscher of Sentience core.

This dulled her body's various sensory responses, the most significant of which was pain.

The reason she didn't change her expression when Kosma pierced her, and didn't even blink when she cut the flesh off her finger with a knife in front of Rin, was not only because of pain control. Another reason was that she really couldn't feel pain.

And now, things had taken a turn in the opposite direction.

The impact of excessive Honkai energy had caused Lee's body to be completely overreactive to Honkai energy. This directly led to Lee receiving sensations far beyond the range of normal people when she used the Herrscher of Sentience core to control her body.

Sound, light... Originally, just normal conversation, but now, to Lee, it felt like her ears were directly placed on an airplane engine during takeoff.

The most obvious was pain—but since Lee had pain control, it didn't matter.

It could only be said that it was fortunate that Honkai Impact 3rd was not an R-18 game, otherwise Lee felt that this side effect would be disastrous...

But overall, everything was not a big deal for Lee. She directly spent one million energy points to buy a new trait: [Abnormal Status Control].

The price was indeed not low, but it was not expensive for the current Lee. After all, the incident caused by the Herrscher of Legion had contributed no less than three million energy points to her this time!

She just didn't know what state her dear lambs were in right now.

Staying in a specially made soundproof rehabilitation room, Lee pretended to be getting used to her hypersensitive body.

Everything was fine with her, but the situation outside was much more exciting.

"Kalpas has already demolished the fourth base, and he'll be here soon..."

In the command room, Su tiredly rubbed his temples.

Some time had passed since the Herrscher of Legion incident ended, but the related impact had not subsided.

After investigation, it was found that more than 70% of all members of the Herrscher of Legion had the same characteristic—they were all people who had once been injected with the [Holy Blood] medicine made from Lee's bone marrow.

These people were spread all over the world, involved in all walks of life, and often held critical and influential positions. It was precisely because so many important figures were members of the Herrscher of Legion that Fire Moth had been so powerless in the face of the chaos created by the Herrscher.

Orders were sent down, but the leaders below were all on the other side. It was difficult to send people to resolve the risks, but the local snakes were also all on the other side...

Now, although the Herrscher of Legion had been killed by Lee, the lack of so many important figures was undoubtedly another heavy blow to the already precarious stability of humanity.

The only thing to be happy about was probably that, without the Herrscher of Legion taking the lead in causing trouble, public opinion had finally gradually subsided.

The large-scale demonstrations that started at every turn were also slowly decreasing... But unfortunately, although Fire Moth had announced the truth of the Herrscher of Legion incident, a considerable number of people still firmly believed that this was just Su and Mei protecting Lee, one of their own.

But in general, the external crisis was gone. However, the internal crisis was constantly expanding.

The biggest problem at the moment was—Kalpas.

Kalpas himself didn't go online and rarely watched TV. He usually didn't chat with others about gossip. Plus, the location he was stationed at was quite remote, so those large-scale demonstrations had never appeared before him.

So during the entire Herrscher of Legion incident, he actually had no idea what had happened.

But unfortunately, after the incident ended, two Fire Moth soldiers mentioned it while chatting, and the keywords were overheard by Kalpas, who happened to be passing by. So, after a [friendly] exchange, he successfully learned the full picture of what he had missed.

Then, Fire Moth's demolition expert, Kalpas, emerged.

He didn't bother those civilians. Kalpas's anger was directed at Fire Moth—more precisely, at Su and those who doubted Lee, even restricting her core and imprisoning her, causing her to face the Herrscher of Legion alone and almost die.

Of course, Kalpas wanted to tear them to pieces. Unfortunately, the shackles Lee had previously placed on him prevented him from attacking his companions.

He didn't think these people who casually doubted and hurt Lee were his companions. But unfortunately, Lee's supplementary condition at the time was that 'her companions were Kalpas's companions,' which directly caused Kalpas's fists to be unable to strike when he came before them.

Because Lee still considered them companions.

So the furious Kalpas chose to help Fire Moth with demolition, thereby forcing Su and the others to act—after all, it was only said that he couldn't attack his companions, not that he couldn't fight back against his companions!