FlameChasers

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With the whole group gathered, Elysia had asked something, leaving the rest confused, well except Thor as she discussed this with him beforehand.

"You. Want to name our team?" Kevin didn't see the point. Didn't they already have group names already? FireMoth, MANTIS, 1-5th Divisions and even a few other less conventional ones by the populace.

"Mmm. Mmm. Yeah. A cool name." Elysia's eyes sparkled as she jumped in place making dramatic poses, some were straight out of Jojo. 'Vill and Hua are responsible for that.'

Overwhelmed by the brightness, Kevin relented and gave her the go ahead.

"Yes!" She fist-pumped.

"Okay, listen up people, I thought long and hard about this…" She paused dramatically.

…

…

"–Well, say it. What's taking so long?" Su asked.

"Mou~ Fine, the name I came up with wasssss, FlameChasers."

"Flamechasers?" Mei thought about it, and strangely she thought it fit rather well.

"Yep~ We are FireMoth, so like Moths to a flame right? We are the Moths and the Herrschers are the flame. Perfect I know~" Elysia giggled.

Most had contemplative expressions, but soon thought she was right, it DOES make sense.

…

"So were flamechasers now?" Mobius asked. Elysia had just explained that only those with the MANTIS surgery will be considered FlameChasers as they are on the frontline face-to-face with Herrschers.

"Yep~ You Moby-Chan." Mobius clenched her fist at the nickname. "Kevin, Sakura and the soon to be Thor, Me, Eden, Su and Vill when we find a compatible Honkai. The rest are still unknown. Hua might when she turns 18, sorry Hime." Elysia gave Himeko an apologetic look.

"I know, I can't really do anything about it, the best I can do is train her better." Himeko, while reluctant, wouldn't purposely stop Hua when she's been dead set on becoming a MANTIS since she found out she was compatible enough.

…

Once Elysia had finished explaining, Eden stood up, "Moving from that. Which are we going with? ELFs or mass produced MANTIS?"

"..."

"Both?" Einstein asked.

"Both is good." Thor agreed.

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Behind the layers of reinforced glass, submerged in liquid, the corpse of Vishnu, an Emperor-Class beast that made its way to the high end of Judgement-Class. Growing by consuming its kin, adapting to attacks.

"It's everything I need right now." Thor put his palm against the glass.

He then looked down at his clothing, noting how it's similar to what he wore when getting his Soulium injection. His thoughts were interrupted by Mobius's calling.

"It's ready." Thor looked away from the Honkai and towards Mobius, her breathing was somewhat erratic, and her eyes screamed excitement.

"You really are obsessed with evolution Moby." Laughing to himself, Thor shook his head and stepped toward the chamber, 'At least it won't be painful.'

"So what? You might not understand it but I do. By taking on the traits of Vishnu, especially from what I saw fighting the thing. You could become the peak of everything.

Granted if you're given the time to, but with your strength right now? You'd be fine. Ahhh, I can't wait!" Her eyes glowed a bright green as she observed Thor, licking the bottom of her lip in the process.

"Who knew she could be this cute." He muttered, quiet enough that even Mobius's enhanced senses couldn't hear.

…

As Thor took his place in the chamber, a question came to Elysia's mind.

"If Thor fuses with Vishnu, will he get stronger than he already is? Will his Honkai reserves increase even more?" Shock evident in her tone.

"That's… a good thing right?" Eden who was standing beside didn't see any issues with that.

Elysia looked at Eden like she was stupid. A vein bulged in the songstress's head.

"What?" She snarled.

Elysia sighed before resting a hand on Eden's shoulder.

"Eden, my sister, listen, in case you don't know, we can use Honkai energy to increase our stamina in combat." Elysia paused and let Eden process the words before continuing, "That also means, we can use it for sexual stamina, and in case you haven't noticed, Thor never got tired, even you, me and Aura couldn't tire him." She watched as Eden's eyes bulged and her face turned red.

"W-we have Himeko and Vill though r-right? If we bring them with us next time maybe…" Her voice trailed off at the end, shoulders slumping.

"You don't even believe what you just said, do you?" Elysia's serious face soon turned vibrant.

"It just means Eden," Elysia then proceeded to whisper to her.

What she said was clearly something as Eden's face went redder and she immediately moved away from a now smug Elysia and ran out of the lab.

"Mou~ How can Eden be so pure, yet the complete opposite with Thor, truly a mystery, fufu~"

…

'This doesn't hurt as much as I thought.' Thor didn't even need to dull his pain receptors to numb the pain.

'Granted, the two growing horns on my head are mildly concerning, and the hardening skin… And the wings.' Soon Thor felt his body go through a quantitative change, for the second time.

'Soulium and Honkai genes are an insane combination–

My body is producing Honkai?' He couldn't be sure just yet, but each cell in his body started releasing Honkai energy, but his reserves weren't dropping, in fact they were increasing.

'I might just be a walking Honkai reactor at this point, I could probably contaminate the whole world with this much and still have more.' Making sure to control his immense increase in Honkai energy as to not kill everyone in the room, despite their own Honkai resistance.

…

The moment Elysia caught sight of Honkai energy managing to spill from Thor's body she stood up in shock. 'I-Isn't that more than m-me?!' Turning to Mobius, expecting at least something similar.

Contrary to Elysia's state of shock Mobius's reaction was… both unexpected, yet not surprising. Either way Elysia cringed slightly.

Mobius had this scary looking, facesplitting smile, the way her cheeks were slightly flushed and the gleam in her eyes was concerning to see.

'Not obsessed? Then explain that Klein?!'

After cursing Klein for clearly downplaying Mobius's obsession with the evolution of humanity, Elysia put her eyes back on Thor, occasionally taking peeks at the two horns, feeling a weird urge to want to touch them. 'I will ask him later.'

…

Finally hours later, Thor's transformation was complete. He had fully integrated the Vishnu Honkai gene with his own DNA that had already been altered somewhat with Soulium.

The seal to the chamber popped open and Thor took a step out.

'Maybe I should just float for now.' Remembering what happened last time, Thor just hovered slightly off the ground for now, at least until he can fully control his body again.

'But just to be safe'

"Feather" Casting his weightlessness rune he remains hovering.

He had also found that he could control his mutation, already retracting his horns and wings and his skin went back to normal.

"Thor!" Mobius came running out from the observation room yelling his name.

Despite her immense speed, to Thor she looked to be running normally, then to walking. 'Surely it can't be that powerful right??' If Vishnu had started as a judgement-class rather than emperor-class, Mobius and Vill might not have even beaten it the way they did.

And Thor wasn't even trying to enhance his senses, no lighting running through his body, no Honkai to enhance them, just his base state.

Mobius didn't stop, immediately she pulled her arm back, gathered honkai and clenched her fist, then thrust forward into his chest.

–BOOOM–

A tunnel of air formed behind Thor, most equipment that wasn't nailed down, and even some that were were ripped from their spots and flung crashing against the back wall. 

Yet Thor stood there completely unharmed. "You really didn't have to do that. What did the equipment do to you?"

Mobius ignored him as she was too focused on her own discovery.

"That hurt, like really hurt. That would have blown a hole through a judgement-classes shell." She murmured in awe.

Meanwhile Elysia came up next to them and stared up at Thor with a 100% super serious look.

"Yes Ellie?" He received no response, just her continued stare. Relenting he made his Horns reappear.

Elysia's expression faltered as her hand twitched as she slowly brought it up towards one of his horns.

Once she touched it, she felt satisfied while Mobius raised a brow at him. "So you can control your mutation?"

"Umu, a perk of the genes, Sakura and most likely anyone else might not be able to."

Putting a hand to her chin Mobius started to mutter quietly to herself, further study this, can Sakura do that?

So Thor was stuck hovering in place while Elysia rubbed his horns to her heart's content and Mobius entered her scientist mode.

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Wall of the Universe - 

"Is this where the anomaly has appeared?" The body of a woman had just pierced through the universe's barrier, fully entering the time looped universe.

"Oh, traces of other Herrschers? The test." Throwing back her black veil, her black eyes glow with a red hue, black tendrils spread out from behind her, she gestures to a desolate planet in the distance as the tendrils shoot forward at near lightspeed.

Spreading her arms out, her robe opens showing the millions of eyes lining the inside of it, more black tendrils emerge from her robe this time gathering at a point in front of her.

A swirling orb of giant purple and red energy starts to form, its size magnitudes of times larger than buildings, almost like a mini sun.

It then burst fourth in as a beam of energy, aimed directly towards the desolate planet.

The beam went straight through the planet's crust, through its core and out the otherside… with no resistance.

The beam died out as the woman stopped giving energy to it.

The planet had a city-sized hole through it.

From her perspective, cracks began to appear, the previously dark blue planet turned molten orange, glowing brighter by the second.

Finally the planet exploded, chunks of its molten remains spilling into the cosmos only to be caught by the very same tendrils she had sent there before.

"I could do with a nice snack." Near salivating, she commanded her tendrils to spread across the chunks colouring them black, soon the chunks became smaller until they vanished and the tendrils returned to her and vanished.

"A little tangey, but still sweet enough, the core tasted like that cream humans get from those creatu–animals." Even in all her time of existence she still hasn't had enough time to learn this human information. She had destroyed their planet too quickly.

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A/N: And that brings us to the end of the volume. This chapter did basically show Thor and his new abilities, including his mild case of adaptability he gained, yes he can also gain energy by devouring other Honkai, it will mostly be useless if it's below judgement class.

Also for those who know, yes that is Jyahnar, the Cthulhu version to be specific, taken a few liberties with her, but since I already decided to use the Honkai Gakuen version of the Honkai, I might as well bring in some planet class Honkai, but I won't buff enemies for no reason. Jyahnar is around the same level as a full potential death spot Herrscher of Origin.

Aka only the Herrscher of the End out does her and by a lot at that.

Anyway, gave Thor new powers, and balanced them hopefully. Thor will meet Griseo at some point soon. ELFs and mass weaker MANTIS's will be soon, Aponia, Pardo, Kosma and Kalpas will also appear very soon, at least I plan to.

Anyway Thanks for reading till now, see ya in a week or so.

Ciao