Star Railway: The Last of the Grammer Riders

Chapter 196 "The Cleanser" Power Simulation - Feather-like Dust Crossing
"Ms. Black Tower, how certain are you about this information? And... who did you get this information from?" Dan Heng asked.

“I don’t know, all I know is that this message came from Onfaros. And his signature is ‘Erosion’,” Black Tower explained.

"Erosion?! She's come to Onpharos too?!" Everyone from Honkai Impact 3 was extremely shocked.

They hadn't expected that the Lesser Erosion was also among Onpharos.

"Is it someone we know?" Xing asked Kiana beside her.

"Hmm, if I'm not mistaken, she's probably the Herrscher of Erosion from our world," Kiana said after a moment's thought. "But I didn't expect Erosion to come here too... But if that's the case, does that mean she's with Teacher and Sister Alicia right now?"

“It’s very likely what Kiana said. And I saw the Herrscher of Corruption back in Pinoconn a while ago. The probability of her being in Onpharos is indeed very high,” Bronya added. 'And that girl is definitely plotting something… but… she’s definitely on our side.'

“Zzz…signal…zz…getting worse…you zzzz…be careful…make it quick…wake up…danger…find…the mastermind, punish…him.” Black Tower’s voice was gradually affected by signal interference until it was completely disconnected.

However, the information transmission was very clear.

"You've all heard the message. What are your thoughts on it?" Danheng asked the members of Onfaros after the communication ended.

"Assuming this Extinction Lord is so dangerous, it could have an impact on the world and even beyond. I...we will all help you." After listening to the conversation, Aglaia understood the seriousness of the situation.

However, she didn't completely believe it, after all, this information...

It's really too heavy.

Whether it's one's own world or someone else's testing ground.

It was still that so-called Great Lord of Annihilation who possessed the power to destroy the world.

These are all things that we have never seen and would only consider to be fictional.

Fortunately, no ordinary people heard this information.

After all, once Aglaia arrived, the commoners lost the desire to continue watching.

Everyone went to do their own thing.

Of course, it's also because it's too hot here.

And then there was the arrival of Dr. Feng Jin.

Moreover, several members of the Golden Clan also intentionally dispersed the crowd.

After all, the people in front of them came from outer space, and they were currently being contacted by their companions outside of Onphalos.

If ordinary people were to learn about extraterrestrial matters, it would surely cause a lot of trouble.

They are now very fortunate that they have already dispersed the civilians; otherwise, if they had known that there was something in Onpharos that could destroy it, the collapse and chaos of civilization would have begun.

However, what they didn't notice was...

Someone is eavesdropping.

Well... it's not that we didn't discover anything at all.

Aglaia's golden thread still received the information that someone was eavesdropping.

However, these people were not commoners, but members of the Senate.

To be precise, they were "purgers" secretly trained by some members of the Senate.

After receiving the message from the gold thread, Aglaia took action against the other party.

In an instant, the eavesdroppers were tied up.

“Gentlemen, your communications with the outside world have been overheard,” Aglaia warned.

"You were heard? But I didn't sense anyone around me..." Dan Heng said, frowning.

“Ms. Aglaia, you mean… those ‘cleansers’?” Xia Die asked, seemingly having thought of something.

“Yes, they are the ‘Purgers’ who were trained by the Senate from childhood,” Aglaia said, arms crossed.

"The Cleaners? Could it be... that the Senate trained them to deal with you Golden Clan?" Bronya said after thinking for a moment.

“Miss Bronya, you are very clever. Indeed, those ‘Purgers’ were created to deal with the Golden Blood.” Aglaia agreed. “But the Golden Blood are blessed with golden blood. Although they all have physical defects, their strength is far greater than that of ordinary people. Even the ‘Purgers’ used to deal with the Golden Blood cannot actually harm us. Their real purpose is… to make us attack and frame us, to portray us as ruthless demons.”

“Hmm…that’s definitely a well-intentioned scheme. Even if the assassination fails, being killed will still smear their reputation,” Bronya agreed, stroking her chin. “But now that they know about this, we can’t just let them go, can we? If we let them go like this, wouldn’t that just make things more difficult for ourselves?” Kiana added. “Sigh…thinking about it now, if only Class President and Xiao Shi were here. We could have just erased their memories, and things would have been much easier.”

"Manipulating memories? Your partner has such powerful abilities. It seems that befriending you was indeed the best choice we made..." Aglaia was somewhat shocked by Kiana's words, and also somewhat relieved that she had not become their enemy.

"Hmm, you idiot Kiana, haven't you forgotten something...? You also have the ability to read the universe."

"Oh dear... I just don't know how to use it... Although I learned the Taixu Sword God technique from the class monitor before, I don't know any of the powers of consciousness at all." Kiana scratched her head somewhat guiltily and awkwardly.

“Idiot Kiana… As expected of you… I remember Dr. Tesla tutored you, but you really didn’t remember a single thing…” Bronya said with a headache.

"As you know, I'm really bad at studying. I think this might be a problem with our Kaslana family," Kiana said with a hint of self-righteousness in her tone.

“If you’re not good at it, don’t blame it on genetics,” Kevin retorted. “Mei and I used to have excellent grades. We were always among the top students in school, truly deserving of the title of academic superstars.”

Hearing her ancestor say this, Kiana had no choice but to lower her head and play the victim.

“Bronya, your powers should be able to create feathers to cross the dust, right? Why don’t we entrust this task to you?” Kevin said to Bronya.

"Hmm, I'll give it a try. Power Simulation - Feathered Dust Crossing." Bronya tried it out and successfully created Feathered Dust Crossing using her power.

One by one, feathers burning with blue flames materialized from the void, and feathers landed on the "cleansers".

The "cleanser's" expression, which had been defiant to the death, suddenly became blank, as if he had forgotten something.

Then he saw the Golden Descendants' expressions turn ferocious again, but after realizing he was tied up, he began to resist even at the cost of his life.

Like a mad hyena.

Bronya found this scene quite interesting.

They continued to use the pseudo-feather dust on the "cleansers".

It can also be used as an opportunity to develop one's abilities.

She discovered that many of them had a mismatch between their consciousness and their "container," and had a strange sense of disconnect.

It's like being possessed.

So she tried to use her power to block out the consciousness of those who felt disconnected.

Then something unexpected happened.

Of the dozen or so people, five suddenly lost consciousness.

But only the two who looked younger woke up afterward.

But their eyes were filled with confusion.

They don't know the meaning of their existence.

It's like... falling into "nothingness".

This is normal, after all, the experience of becoming a "cleaner" is very cruel, and one's humanity may have been worn away or even replaced.

The fact that the two people are still conscious is because they are young, the time they were possessed was short, and their consciousness is strong enough.

Otherwise, the situation would be the same as the other three people.

After the attempt was completed, Bronya restored their consciousness and deleted the memory.

Looking at Bronya controlling the device, everyone assumed she was playing with a newly developed power.

However, her expression grew increasingly serious.

Everyone felt that something was amiss.

"Bronya, what's wrong?" Kiana asked seriously, abandoning her playful mood, when she saw that Bronya's expression wasn't good.

"These people are really interesting... Each one of them has been imprinted with a thought process, becoming someone else's puppet assassin. Five of them have had their consciousness possessed, and only two retain a sliver of consciousness, but it's not good; they've almost fallen into 'nothingness,'" Bronya explained with a cold laugh. "These Senate guys are really no good."

Hearing about the plight of these "cleaners," everyone felt a pang of pity.

(End of this chapter)