Luring Kevin Away from the Mountain

Elysia had disappeared.

This was not good news for humanity. The remaining thirteen MANTIS Soldiers, plus Lee, were humanity's entire fighting force against the Honkai. Therefore, each one was an important pillar in the fight against the Honkai, especially Elysia, whose combat power could be firmly ranked in the top three.

However, she had disappeared without a trace, after taking on a Honkai beast cleaning mission that required her to leave the city, she never returned.

Lee showed great concern about this matter, and even expressed her desire to go out of the city to search for Elysia many times, but to no avail.

Humanity's days continued to advance in gloom.

Mei had calculated the time and place of the Herrscher of Finality's appearance and formulated a plan to fight the Herrscher of Finality. Soon, Kevin and Lee would lead the remaining MANTIS Soldiers to the moon to fight the Herrscher of Finality.

This could be said to be a do-or-die situation, because humanity did not have many backup plans to implement.

Although Mei had also proposed plans such as the Ark Project and the Project Stigma, which placed hope in the future and the universe, only two remained in the end.

One was the Stigmata Project, which had caused controversy before, and the other was Project Ember, which would spread the technology and culture of this civilization to the next civilization.

Lee had repeatedly stated that these plans were too pessimistic, but she ultimately didn't prevent their implementation. However, her efforts and advocacy had some effect. Most people, including the MANTIS Soldiers, didn't consider these two plans as the most important.

That was to fully prepare for the final battle with the Herrscher of Finality.

After all, although humanity's civilization and society were now crumbling, they still retained a weak spark – as long as they continued to struggle, humanity's hope still existed.

And what these people were thinking now, to be honest, was not very important to Lee.

There was only one thing she wanted to do now, and that was to carry out her own plan, and to kill all of these humans—

Kill them all.

But although humanity now seemed to be in dire straits, it still didn't mean that Lee could easily achieve this goal.

Indeed, after merging with Elysia's Herrscher Core, her strength had grown by leaps and bounds, but this strength might be enough to kill others, but it was still far from enough when facing Kevin.

This white-haired Tuna was indeed the protagonist of the world. As the only one who could fight the Herrscher of Finality, even if Lee now had two Herrscher Cores driving her, she still didn't have much chance of winning.

So in order for her plan to proceed smoothly, she had to find a way to lure Kevin away from this heavily fortified fortress.

And after precise calculations and adjustments, Lee finally set the date for her action.

It was known that it was impossible to defeat the Herrscher of Finality, so she could only act before civilization was cleaned up by the Herrscher of Finality.

The Thirteenth Herrscher, who would destroy civilization, was about to go online.

...

When Lee walked into Mei's laboratory, it was very deserted. In the monotonous pale light, only Mei's figure was busy.

After so many Honkai eruptions, humanity's scientific research talents had also suffered a terrible blow, especially during the Twelfth Herrscher incident, when Mobius and the staff of Mei's laboratory were completely wiped out.

The talent that could keep up with their scientific research had been completely cut off. Therefore, even these two great scientists had to do everything themselves.

"What are you busy with, Mei?"

Lee calmly walked to Mei's side. "Isn't everything that needs to be done already done?"

"The preparations for the battle against the Herrscher of Finality are indeed complete, but we must also consider the worst-case scenario."

Mei operated the complex machine in front of her. This thing, in Lee's view, always felt a bit like a scientific Frankenstein's incubator.

"If the attack on the Herrscher of Finality fails, how can we ensure that the next civilization can successfully implement our plans?" Mei adjusted her glasses and said calmly, "Before the plan is implemented, they need enough power to deal with the Honkai and Herrschers..... But we don't know if they will have warriors like you and Kevin."

"So, I think we should at least leave them with enough means to deal with the crisis."

"Is it to create artificial embryos or something using my and Kevin's genes?" Lee blinked. "But I have Soulium chimera bodies now, it's hard to say if I even have genes anymore."

"It's good that you don't object..... There are still samples of your blood from before, I saved some."

Lee watched Mei perform complex operations from the side until bubbles began to emerge in the incubator, and then, like a sci-fi horror movie, a baby's shape condensed.

"Is this my child?" Looking at the baby in the incubator, Lee asked doubtfully.

"Not really." Mei shook her head. "If I had to say, it's closer to a clone... It's just that some of Kevin's genes are mixed in." (She's just jealous—only Kevin's genes are compatible with Lee holy blood.)

"This child will be born with strong Honkai energy resistance, and this power will be passed down through bloodlines – they will become the sharp blade of the next civilization against the Honkai."

"I see....." Lee nodded gently and said nothing more.

The laboratory fell into silence. After a long time, Lee's voice was heard.

"I'm sorry, Mei."

Without any other movements, Lee silently turned and left the laboratory.

And behind her, Mei's eyes no longer had any light.

...

"News from Elysia...?"

When he received the mission from Mei, Kevin's expression was rarely serious.

Elysia's sudden disappearance had made everyone very tense, but although it was a happy thing to reconnect with her, another piece of information that came with it was not good news.

"Yes, the Herrscher of Finality will descend soon, perhaps it's her companion Honkai beast."

Mei, sitting behind her desk, said calmly. "It seems to have the ability to teleport through space. Elysia encountered it before and was dragged into the bottom of the sea..... Although it's not difficult for Elysia to leave alone, it's very troublesome for her to eliminate it alone, so I decided to send you to go with her to eliminate that Honkai beast."

"In Europe?"

Looking at the location of the mission marked on the map, Kevin frowned slightly.

If possible, he didn't want to leave this last city of humanity too far, but if such a powerful Honkai beast was not eliminated in advance, once it attacked the city when they were all on the moon to fight the Herrscher of Finality.....

"Understood, I will return with Elysia as soon as possible."

After careful consideration, Kevin decided to carry out this mission. It would only take a day to travel from here to Europe and back. With Lee and the other warriors here, there shouldn't be any major problems.