"What? Raven, are you very interested in other worlds?" Seeing Raven still staring at the door even after it closed, Chen Luo asked.
"Of course, after all, it's another world, isn't it?" Raven made no attempt to hide her curiosity.
"Um, Sister Sakura, what kind of alcohol do you like?" Rin cautiously asked Yae Sakura sitting beside her.
"Hmm?" Yae Sakura made a questioning sound.
"I want to ask Brother Luo for a glass of alcohol for you, as an apology." Rin said somewhat at a loss, twirling her hair with her finger.
"Then, some sake will be fine." After thinking for a moment, Yae Sakura said to the little girl who didn't know how to express her apology.
"Brother Luo, a glass of sake."
[Ding! You have a new commission!]
"Okay." Chen Luo nodded.
"And, Sakura, if you want anything, just tell me. As long as it's not too excessive, I'll satisfy you. Consider this your salary." Chen Luo simultaneously said to Yae Sakura.
"Salary?"
"It's like an official salary, monthly allowance, or something like that." Chen Luo wasn't very familiar with what ancient Japanese people called wages either.
"Master, you need not pay me a salary. Moreover, I don't really care about the salary; I just want to resurrect Kallen as soon as possible." Yae Sakura said humbly.
"No, you need one." Chen Luo said decisively.
Just kidding, if you don't want anything, how can I farm commissions from you? Could you cooperate a bit?
If everyone had Venti's good awareness of being used like wool, Chen Luo wouldn't have to find various ways to get benefits every day.
"If it is the master's command, then this humble one understands." Yae Sakura nodded gently.
Although originally a shrine maiden, Yae Sakura seemed to have quickly shifted her identity from shrine maiden to subordinate.
Actually, Chen Luo had been thinking that if Yae Sakura stubbornly refused to comply, once his Puppeteer skill reached Master level, he would transform her into Yae Kasumi.
Chess piece (Loyal Dog) Yae Kasumi...
With just Proficient rank skills, manipulating the soul was still somewhat difficult.
Of course, he could also have the Herrscher of Sentience alter her consciousness.
But being able to coexist peacefully was the best outcome now.
"Oh, right, Raven, I haven't introduced her to you yet. Her name is Rin." After resolving the matter with Yae Sakura, Chen Luo could finally relax a bit, then said to Raven.
"Rin... why does that name sound somewhat familiar?" Raven stroked her chin thoughtfully.
And not only did the name seem familiar, but the person also looked somewhat familiar.
"Big sister, are you the friend Brother Luo mentioned who knows my sister?" Upon Chen Luo's reminder, Rin came over.
"Your sister... who is your sister?" Raven asked.
"My sister is Sakura! A very powerful Fire Moth warrior." Rin said.
"Sakura! Your sister is Sakura! I remember now! I think I saw you in a photo Sakura showed me! You... you're still alive?" Raven's eyes slowly widened.
Raven hadn't remembered earlier purely because she hadn't dared to think in that direction.
According to what Sakura had told her, wasn't Rin just an ordinary person? How could she appear alive after 50,000 years?
How is that possible?
"You really do know my sister! Big sister, can you take me to find my sister?" Rin hugged Raven's arm and pleaded.
Since she knows my sister and looks so mature, she must be older than me. Calling her 'sister' isn't a loss.
"No, taking you to find your sister isn't a problem, but how can you prove you are who you say you are?" Raven had seen big scenes before, but nothing this big.
So Raven couldn't help but look towards Chen Luo for help.
"Raven, some things in the world are indeed very bizarre. Just like before meeting me, you wouldn't have believed other worlds exist, right?"
"That may be true... but 50,000 years..." Raven looked somewhat torn at the young girl clinging to her arm.
In the Elysian Realm, Raven and Sakura had a relatively good relationship, at least above friends.
If this person really was Sakura's sister, taking her back to World Serpent would be a duty not to be declined. But...
"Although Rin indeed isn't a MANTIS and theoretically shouldn't be able to survive 50,000 years, neither is Gray Serpent." Chen Luo, as if seeing Raven's dilemma, spoke again.
"But Gray Serpent is just an exception. Besides Gray Serpent, I've never seen a normal person live 50,000 years."
"Wow, according to you, Rin isn't a normal person either. She was the Herrscher of Corruption! Yes, that's right, the very Herrscher of Corruption who almost destroyed the Previous Era civilization."
After the Herrscher of Binding, humanity was beaten down to only three cities.
And the Herrscher of Corruption destroyed the remaining three cities as well.
For a time, only 31,200 people remained in humanity's last base.
Moreover, as the Herrscher of Corruption was an ultimate virus with self-awareness, it could control humans, beasts, and machines alike.
The remaining humans almost had to sever their civilization to seal the Herrscher of Corruption in the black box.
Without the biological chips inside them, sacrificing almost all electronic terminals truly meant almost severing civilization.
Can you imagine how real-world humans would live without electricity and all electronic devices?
Forget all electronic devices; even just losing a mobile phone would make you feel like dying within two days.
So, saying Rin destroyed a world wasn't wrong at all.
Hearing Chen Luo's words, Raven's body instantly trembled.
Herrscher of Corruption? Corruption!!
Raven suddenly realized the other had been holding her arm for quite some time.
As if sensing Raven's emotions, Rin instantly released Raven's arm and raised her hands to show she hadn't done anything.
"Ah, but you can rest assured now. Besides a little ability to control fire, she no longer has the Herrscher of Corruption's abilities." Only after seeing Raven get frightened did Chen Luo come out to explain.
After all, the Rin's Herrscher of Corruption abilities had been plundered by Chen Luo.
"You didn't say that earlier?" Raven, who had been badly startled, glared at Chen Luo.
Wasn't this guy probably deliberately trying to see me make a fool of myself?
"You didn't ask, so why should I say anything?"
"But I see you're still somewhat hesitant now. How about this: why don't you go ask Gray Serpent? Just warn him that if he doesn't believe it, I'll go and finish him off!" Chen Luo said with a sinister tone.
With the Herrscher of Corruption's authority, Chen Luo was quite adept at dealing with Gray Serpent, who had who knows how many clones.
Gray Serpent's hacking skills are high, but can they compare to the Herrscher of Corruption's skills?
Gray Serpent's true form is a form of collective consciousness, possessing numerous identical individuals. The consciousnesses of these bodies are all concentrated in one consciousness network, sharing the same memories.
For others, dealing with Gray Serpent, who has countless clones, is very difficult.
But for the Herrscher of Corruption, if you truly have a collective consciousness, then you're truly finished.
Of course, the most important thing is that even if Chen Luo can't find Gray Serpent to eliminate him now, Chen Luo can always go back to the past to finish him off.
If Chen Luo were to sabotage when Mobius was modifying Gray Serpent, the other would definitely be done for.
"I really feel like the relationship between you and Gray Serpent is indescribable and unclear?" Raven was truly perplexed.
Weren't you saying not long ago that Gray Serpent might know you, but you hadn't met Gray Serpent yet?
"Oh, right, Raven, have you forgotten something?" Chen Luo glanced meaningfully at the Third Divine Key in its slingshot form in her hand.
"...No way. Didn't you say you wanted to use the Third Divine Key to deal with a pseudo-Herrscher? Now that the Yae Sakura has become your subordinate, what else do you need it for?" Raven couldn't help but ask.
"What's it to you? I said I needed it for an hour, and you agreed. The hour isn't up yet, so why can't I keep using it?" Chen Luo unceremoniously reached out his hand to demand the Third Divine Key from Raven.
"Fine." Helpless, Raven could only comply because Chen Luo made sense.
Only after obtaining the Third Divine Key did Chen Luo show a satisfied smile.
After all, Chen Luo had only analyzed about 30% of the Third Divine Key's blueprint so far.
Chen Luo hadn't held the Third Divine Key for very long, so it was normal for the analysis progress to be low.
This Third Divine Key was much more troublesome to analyze than Project bunny.
Especially the Herrscher core inside felt very troublesome.
Every time he thought of this, Chen Luo had to praise Furniture Mastery.
But after careful estimation, an hour should be enough for Chen Luo to completely memorize the Third Divine Key's blueprint.
"Alright, we should head out too. Staying in this bar isn't a long-term solution." With the Third Divine Key in hand and having already gotten what he could from these people with no more benefits to gain, Chen Luo started ushering everyone out.
Also, personally, Chen Luo wasn't too accustomed to entering the bar during the daytime.
Since Raven was the one who pushed the door open this time, the exit location wasn't at the base of the teaching building but on the rooftop.
"Wow, what happened here? You guys had quite the intense fight." Looking at the countless slash marks on the teaching building and the ground that looked like it had been plowed by a mad bull, Raven couldn't help but comment.
Since Raven had been inside the bar the whole time, she had no idea about the battle outside.
"And how did you go from two people before the fight to three people after?"
"And who is this person who looks so much like Hua? How did she suddenly appear behind me and pull me into the bar?" After completely exiting the Midnight Bar, Raven looked at the mess and finally couldn't hold back her questions, asking several at once.
"Don't ask. Just go with it." Since explaining would be very troublesome, Chen Luo chose not to explain.
"Roar!" Just then, a two-story-tall Chariot-class Honkai beast jumped out from some corner.
Raven instinctively wanted to use the Third Divine Key to kill it, but then she remembered the Third Divine Key was in Chen Luo's arms.
"Who's going to take it out?" Raven asked.
Although Raven phrased it as a question, she kept looking at the Third Divine Key in Chen Luo's arms, making her meaning quite clear.
You have the Third Divine Key; you deal with it.
"Deal with what? Haven't you noticed it doesn't intend to attack?" Chen Luo said, shooting a glance at Raven.
"Huh? That's true. What's going on? Why isn't it attacking?" After Chen Luo's reminder, Raven also noticed the situation.
After roaring once, the Chariot-class Honkai beast just stood there without advancing a step.
"That's because there's a Herrscher here." Chen Luo said.
Hearing Chen Luo's words, Raven looked towards Rin.
"Don't look at me. Brother Luo isn't talking about me; he's talking about himself." Rin shook her head and pointed at Chen Luo.
"Huh? You became a Herrscher? How?" Raven looked at Chen Luo in surprise.
Before being pulled into the bar, Raven had noticed something unusual about Chen Luo—a lot of Honkai energy seemed to be gathering around him as if it were free—she truly hadn't expected Chen Luo to become a Herrscher.
Moreover, this Herrscher Chen Luo seemed to have complete rationality, without showing that crazy desire to destroy the world and humanity.
"Simply put, I activated my Stigma, and then the Will of the Honkai felt that I and the Herrscher of Domination were a perfect match, so it gave me the Herrscher of Domination core." Chen Luo said helplessly.
And it's worth mentioning that after Chen Luo became the Herrscher of Domination, he found himself automatically joining the Honkai faction.
Although the 7-day event period has ended, according to the talent panel, the faction function is permanent in the Honkai Impact 3rd world, but it is limited to the Honkai Impact 3rd world.
Once back in Chen Luo's own world, there are no factions to speak of. Chen Luo joining certain organizations won't grant exchange privileges unless his main world also opens the faction function.
The data not being interconnected was something Chen Luo truly hadn't expected.
Schicksal, Anti-Entropy, Fire Moth, St. Freya Academy, and the Honkai faction.
Chen Luo is now truly a quintuple spy.
Luo, drifting for half his life...
And after joining the Honkai faction, the commodities Chen Luo could see were the authorities of those 14 Herrschers.
But how should I put it? The first 12 Herrscher authorities were completely no different from what Chen Luo remembered, but the 13th Herrscher was displayed as ■■, and the 14th Herrscher, that is the Herrscher of Finality, exchange option was even temporarily unavailable for exchange.
The talent panel displayed that to unlock the Herrscher of Finality exchange option, you need to collect all the authorities of the previous 13 Herrschers to unlock the exchange.
Dammit!
13 Herrscher authorities meant 130,000 Crystals. Where am I supposed to get that? Selling myself wouldn't be worth that much.
Of course, actually wanting to buy these authorities certainly wouldn't cost 10,000 Crystals each. For example, Raiden Mei's Herrscher of Thunder authority, the Herrscher of Sentience's authority, and the Herrscher of Void's authority, Chen Luo could exchange for them at a lower price.
And as for the Herrscher of Domination authority and the Herrscher of Corruption authority, Chen Luo already had them now and didn't need to exchange them at all.