Chen Luo had just finished grinding through 7 days of activities and wanted a rest period to take a break and digest what he had gained during these 7 days.
Due to her deal with Grey Serpent, Raven wouldn't get the villa unless she brought Chen Luo to World Serpent, so she didn't agree with Chen Luo's suggestion of resting for half a month before going to World Serpent.
In the end, after Raven humiliatingly handed over three [Raven's Ahoge Touching Vouchers] to Chen Luo, he finally agreed to go to World Serpent within 5 days or less.
"Chen Luo! Vengeance will be mine!" Watching Chen Luo store the three slips with her personal signature into his inventory, Raven said discontentedly to Chen Luo.
"Hey, don't say that. This is something we both agreed on willingly. Don't make it sound like I forced you." Sitting on the sofa, Chen Luo said proudly.
Chen Luo didn't immediately use one of these three slips but kept them for now. After all, it was foreseeable that opportunities to touch Raven's ahoge might only come three times in a lifetime, so naturally he needed to pick an auspicious day to slowly enjoy it.
Moreover, Chen Luo couldn't help but wonder if Elysia would be interested in these three slips?
When making the agreement with Raven, Chen Luo said only the slips matter, not the person.
Although Raven didn't know why Chen Luo said this, she agreed.
Although such an agreement gave a strangely familiar feeling, it was just touching an ahoge, so no big deal.
Besides, if Chen Luo wasn't willing to give them, no one could take these three slips from Chen Luo's inventory.
Even Chen Luo's Herrscher personality was denied access to opening the inventory, so who besides Chen Luo could open it?
As for whether Raven would immediately go back on her word...
"Alright, now give me my $2 million worth of gold." Raven reached out her hand to Chen Luo.
"Okay." As he spoke, Chen Luo used the weight unit display in his inventory interface to precisely take out $2 million worth of gold.
The generous Chen Luo even included a bag as a gift.
"Tch, after using each slip, return $1 million worth of gold to me. That's what you said, no going back on your word." Raven gave Chen Luo a discontented look before picking up the bag and heading out of the suite.
Since this was a World Serpent stronghold, there must be legitimate means to convert gold into money.
After all, a massive organization lurking in the world's shadows wasn't just for show.
Chen Luo calculated the $2 million using discounted gold prices, so if Raven sold it at market price, she could make quite a profit.
This was also one of the cadres' privileges.
Although generally, only Raven could make use of this privilege.
Among World Serpent's several cadres, Grey Serpent naturally could freely access the organization's entire wealth. Or perhaps only Grey Serpent knew exactly how much assets World Serpent had.
As a researcher, Jackal had her own research funds. She basically didn't need to spend money personally—any expenses could be pushed to research funds. Once funding came through, what couldn't she buy?
After watching Raven leave like this, Chen Luo summoned his bar door and walked inside.
As soon as Chen Luo entered, he saw the children celebrating wildly. Of course, children's wild celebrations weren't too serious—they were just eating more snacks than usual. No big deal.
When they saw Chen Luo appear, the children instinctively held their breath, like mischievous kids caught playing games by their parents.
Only after Chen Luo signaled they could ignore him did the children start celebrating again.
Chen Luo walked to the table where Yae Sakura and Rin were sitting, with the Herrscher of Sentience also there.
Yae Sakura still felt somewhat strange about Rin, but Rin kept sticking close to Yae Sakura—partly because Yae Sakura resembled her sister, and partly to express her apology by enthusiastically attending to Yae Sakura.
The reason Herrscher of Sentience sat here was just to avoid being mistaken for a child by these two.
Otherwise, the Herrscher of Sentience would have long gone to eat ice cream with spicy strips.
With Chen Luo also sitting there, all four people at this table were now present.
Chen Luo glanced around and couldn't help but complain inwardly: "Is this some kind of traitor Herrscher meeting?"
"Rin, you'll probably be able to see your sister in about two days." Chen Luo said this as soon as he sat down.
Actually, if nothing went wrong, one day should be enough. After all, after staying at this hotel for a while, Raven would take a flight back to World Serpent. Originally, the plane tickets were for two people—Chen Luo and Raven—but since Chen Luo couldn't go now, it was changed to Rin.
As for things like forging identities, that was quite easy for World Serpent.
"Yay!" Rin cheered.
"As for you, Yae Sakura... could you protect these children at the survivor base for now?" Chen Luo looked at Yae Sakura and said.
"Okay." Yae Sakura nodded.
Since Yae Sakura had nowhere to go anyway, she would just do whatever Chen Luo asked.
"Oh, right, take this." Chen Luo took out a card from his inventory and said.
"This is..." Yae Sakura asked after receiving the card Chen Luo handed over.
"St. Freya Academy Teacher's Certificate." Chen Luo said.
"Teacher's certificate?" Yae Sakura didn't quite understand this thing.
Or rather, a person from 500 years ago coming to modern times would find many things incomprehensible.
"In today's society, no matter what you do, you need certificates. Accountants need accounting certificates, translators need professional English certificates, mages... lawyers need lawyer certificates. And naturally, teachers need teaching certificates."
"I roughly understand what you're saying. This is proof of identity, right? So with this certificate, I can be a teacher? At St. Freya Academy?" Yae Sakura looked at this completely blank certificate and said.
"How could that be? A teaching certificate is just a qualification. If you want to be a teacher at St. Freya Academy, you still need professional knowledge. And you have to submit a resume—only after they're satisfied with your resume will they hire you as a teacher. How could you possibly become a teacher just by holding a teaching certificate picked up from who knows where?" Rin waved her hand to correct.
Rin's era wasn't much different from modern society; it was only in the final few years that technological explosion began. So although Rin was from tens of thousands of years ago, she was more suited to modern society than Yae Sakura, who was from just over 500 years ago.
"Of course you can. Anyone holding this certificate can become a teacher at St. Freya Academy. The prerequisite is you first need to press your fingerprint where the original photo would be." Chen Luo explained how to use this St. Freya Academy Teacher's Certificate.
"How is that possible, Brother Luo? Although Sister Yae Sakura hasn't read many books, you shouldn't deceive her. By common rationality, how could such a thing happen?" Rin said completely unbelievingly.
"Then by common rationality, a normal person couldn't possibly revive after more than 50,000 years of death. Why don't you try dying again and see if it works?" Chen Luo said irritably, looking at this being who was itself extremely contrary to common sense.
Laughable. You, a Herrscher of Corruption who has lived for over 50,000 years, are talking to me about common rationality?
"Uh... hehe, well, Brother Luo, you continue." Rin laughed twice before speaking timidly.
What Chen Luo said made quite some sense.
"But if I go to the school, what can I teach? Why should I go to school? Is there some mission you need to assign me?" After successfully making the photo on the teacher's certificate become her own following Chen Luo's instructions, Yae Sakura asked Chen Luo.
"Mission? No, no mission. Your mission is to live a good life of teaching and educating people at St. Freya Academy, and then help me out when I need you."
"Huh? But shouldn't I stay by your side to protect your safety?" Yae Sakura looked at Chen Luo worriedly.
How long has Yae Sakura known Chen Luo? So it's impossible to say Yae Sakura is extremely loyal to Chen Luo; it's just that Yae Sakura cannot disobey any of Chen Luo's commands.
But this concern isn't fake either—mainly because Yae Sakura is afraid that if Chen Luo gets himself killed, he won't be able to revive Kallen.
At least that's how it is for now.
"Don't worry about that. I don't have many other strengths, but I'm really fast at running."
Do you understand the value of teleport waypoints?
Do you understand the value of infinite revives?
Chen Luo could say he's already invincible in the Honkai world.
Because everyone Chen Luo can't defeat, can't catch up to Chen Luo.
Ahem, everyone who can't kill Chen Luo will eventually be worn down to death by him.
It's been less than half a month since Chen Luo obtained the Traveler talent. Expecting Chen Luo to become instantly invincible is really asking too much. He still can't defeat those he couldn't before, but not being able to defeat them doesn't mean he can't kill them.
Even a Valkyrie like Durandal is no exception.
If Durandal fought Chen Luo, Chen Luo would be afraid of accidentally killing Durandal.
This is mainly because in that Honkai Terminator achievement, Durandal theoretically also belongs to the Honkai faction, falling within the special attack range.
For ordinary Valkyries with low adaptability who can barely use Honkai energy, Chen Luo isn't sure if they count as part of the Honkai faction, but Durandal, as a descendant of the Kaslana family, basically counts.
All MANTIS warriors belong to the Honkai faction's combat power. Even if each of them shouts about defeating the Honkai every day, they still belong to the Honkai faction because they have Honkai beast genes in their bodies.
Honkai Terminator means terminating all Honkai.
You, a Valkyrie who became so strong relying on Honkai energy, and a descendant of the Kaslana family, naturally cannot be completely separated from the Honkai.
Overall, among the many named existences in the Honkai world, Chen Luo may not be able to defeat them, but he can kill them.
So special attacks are really godly.
But when will I get a special attack against humans?
And even if he can't break their defense immediately, just throw them into the war domain, adjust the time flow—one second outside, ten years inside—wait a few hours before going in, Chen Luo doesn't believe they won't die.
But precisely because this Honkai Terminator effect is so brutal, Chen Luo turned off this executable kill skill to avoid accidentally touching the Herrscher of Sentience and killing her.
It's just a pity that in Chen Luo's main world, not everyone uses Honkai energy, or rather, there's simply no Honkai energy.
So if he wants to develop in the main world, it will still take considerable effort.
"Of course, there's another reason: I can't just take you to another world, right? After all, although I'm a traveler from another world, I eventually have to return home. A vacation can't last forever, right? So during this time when I return to my own world, you can teach students properly at St. Freya Academy." Chen Luo said to Yae Sakura.
If Chen Luo really brought Yae Sakura back, no amount of explaining would make it clear.
Where did this sudden appearance of a person come from?
"But I don't know much about modern knowledge. What can I teach?" Looking at the teacher's certificate with her portrait on it, Yae Sakura felt somewhat troubled.
Would she end up misleading students?
"You're so powerful—just teach them how to become stronger or how to fight. You can also teach them how to kill Honkai beasts and such. Of course, if possible, you could even teach them how to defeat Herrschers."
"Defeat Herrschers?" Before Yae Sakura could react, Rin beside her jumped in fright.
"Brother Luo, don't do anything rash! Why would you want to defeat yourself?"
"Are you out of your mind? I'm talking about defeating other Herrschers. And don't you think it's very interesting to have a pseudo-Herrscher teach a group of Herrschers how to kill Herrschers?" A gradually crazed smile appeared on Chen Luo's face.
Think about it—having a pseudo-Herrscher teach a group of not-yet-fully-grown Herrschers at the Far East Demon Cave[1] how to fight Herrschers is really very interesting.
As for using the St. Freya Academy teacher's certificate like this, Chen Luo actually doesn't care at all.
Chen Luo is only in his second year of high school—what kind of teacher could he be? Besides, Chen Luo still has a St. Freya Academy staff certificate, right?
Also, instead of enjoying summer vacation properly, going to teach students would be asking for trouble.
Especially when one of the students is Kiana Kaslana.
What kind of suffering is this?
And Chen Luo completely looks down on being a teacher—if he's going to do it, he'll go big.
Later... he'll get a St. Freya Academy principal certificate.
Of course, if Theresa really isn't willing to step down and make way for talent, then as a second choice, becoming the captain of the Hyperion would also work.
It's not just St. Freya Academy—there's also Anti-Entropy, Schicksal, World Serpent, MOTH, Honkai...
Hmph!!!
A true man stands between heaven and earth—how can he long remain under others?!!
TL Note:
[1]: Far East Demon Cave is a CN meme about St. Freya. Because St. Freya raised so many Herrschers, it is called that.