What? My cheat code is making my own gold coins explode?

Texas took a bite of the cake.

"I've never understood your sense of humor."

In Syracuse, the two wolves spent an ordinary afternoon sitting outside a café.

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

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Chapter 19: Without cause, why are all colors so indistinct?

The four pseudo-Herrschers who were originally going to wreak havoc on Earth were actually thrown out on the Moon to deal with me?

A thousand meters away from the battlefield between Welt Yang and the Second Herrscher, on the lunar surface, Zhao Si was using the Exia Gundam's consistently high mobility to evade the attacks of the four pseudo-Herrschers.

Well, that sounds pretty terrifying. Four pseudo-Herrschers with partial powers are attacking me! Four of them!

However, upon closer examination, the only one who truly poses a threat to her is the pseudo-Herrscher of Thunder. As long as the opponent releases a wide-area electromagnetic pulse field, Exusiai must break away and avoid it. Even with GN particles covering her body, being hit by an EMP will still be very uncomfortable.

Not to mention that the Celestials' mechs seem to all have a weakness to lightning. Every time they are captured and subjected to electrotherapy, nine times out of ten they are the kind of prisoners who can't escape, and the pilots are also electrocuted. Zhao Si felt that his body was too weak to withstand such electrotherapy.

As for the pseudo-Herrscher of Flame, its power essentially manipulates molecular motion to a violent degree, which allows it to gather a ball of flame that it can control at will, even on the surface of the moon.

If they can team up with the pseudo-Herrscher of Wind who creates ideal fluids, the two of them can indeed pose a certain threat to the Exia Gundam when they use poke.

The wind fanned the flames, creating an ideal fluid that accelerated the violent movement of molecules, giving Zhao Si a huge attack. With the full-area EMP covering and surrounding him, Zhao Si had even devised a tactic to kill himself.

Unfortunately, these pseudo-Herrschers created by Sirin at will do not surpass Sirin herself in intelligence.

Sirin, a girl in her early teens, has never seen anything like the world. The ruins are full of theoretical knowledge. The opponent can throw stones at Earth to threaten the First Herrscher into appearing. Zhao Si thinks that this is the most brilliant idea that the opponent could come up with in his brain, which has been soaked in Honkai energy a hundred or eighty times.

As for why Zhao Si, with Veda's assistance, had a well-developed plan in mind but still couldn't defeat these four pseudo-Herrschers, the reason lies in the last pseudo-Herrscher of Death, whose presence was not very prominent.

It's very simple. Whenever Zhao Si tries to fire from a distance or engage in close combat, the pseudo-Herrscher of Death is always the first to rush up and take the hits. Then, within the domain deployed by the pseudo-Herrscher of Death, the GN energy bullets are exhausted before they can even hit the target, and the remaining physical blades are also dented and uneven.

Even though a surge of electrical energy would pass through Zhao Si's mind before he was touched by the opponent's domain, the undisguised aggressive desire emanating from the four pseudo-Herrschers made it impossible for Zhao Si to distinguish which pseudo-Herrscher the sudden sensation corresponded to.

"Tsk, this is getting a bit troublesome."

Walter Yang was still trying to restrain the Second Herrscher, leading him around in circles, away from the center of the ruins where Alahato was located.

Inside the ruins, Siegfried Kaslana, who has the strongest resistance to Honkai energy, is collecting Soul Steel Coins from the previous civilization.

"Is a quick victory the only option?"

Zhao Si looked at the four pseudo-law users who still hadn't been defeated after five minutes, and made a decision in his heart.

The Three Reds are not a protective charm; they are meaningless if you don't use them when you need them.

"Trans-Am!"

Zhao Si roared in the cockpit, and the three red systems that unlocked the receiver's voiceprint were activated. The conveyor belt that transmitted GN particles quickly turned dangerously red, and the GN particles floating around the machine were controlled to the surface of the armor at a high concentration.

Even the four pseudo-Herrschers, who had little intelligence, seemed to sense some kind of threat at this moment. They huddled together, exerted their respective powers, and prepared to meet the enemy's attack.

However, Zhao Si would not rush forward recklessly. The GN physical sword in Exusiai's right hand shone with a dangerous crimson light. As Zhao Si pushed the control stick with all his might, the movement speed of the three-red Exusiai directly exceeded Mach 20!

It took less than 0.02 seconds for him to reach the four pseudo-Herrschers. When the four pseudo-Herrschers' power attacks simultaneously slammed into the Exusiai in front of him, he found that she was just a series of red afterimages—

The next moment, the four pseudo-Herrschers, whose faces were sculpted by Sirin to resemble their deceased companions, were killed by the GN physical sword. Even the pseudo-Herrscher cores inside could not withstand this simple horizontal slash and dissipated on the surface of the moon.

"There are 2 minutes and 58 seconds left in the three-red time limit. I should have known better than to waste the previous five minutes testing these four pseudo-Herrschers. It was a waste of time."

The Herrschers possess limitless potential, a privilege afforded to those who are favored by Honkai. This is something that someone like Zhao Si, who is merely a pilot of a mobile suit, cannot enjoy.

But from another perspective, if we can't solve the ever-changing powers, then we can solve the problem of the Herrschers who use those powers. As long as it's fast enough that the Herrschers don't have time to activate their powers, that's fine.

"Let me see your limits, Exia Gundam!"

As Zhao Si muttered to himself, he continued to increase the speed of his mecha. He had only one goal: to kill the Second Herrscher!

Mach 22, Mach 23, Mach 24, Mach 25... The speed continued to climb, but with it came a significant reduction in the duration of Trans-AM. When it reached Mach 28, even the concentrated GN particles could not completely counteract the G-force, and the Trans-AM system had less than ten seconds left!

"Ha, that's enough."

In less than two seconds, the three-red Exusiai rushed into the combat range of Welt Yang and the Second Herrscher, completely reversing the previously one-sided battle.

Just moments ago, the Second Herrscher was casually crushing Welt Yang. But as soon as she caught a glimpse of a red light, before she could even react, a figure whose fusion frequency exceeded the limits of her naked eye pierced through her body below the neck with a massive sword blade!

“Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!”

The explosion of flesh and the spray of blood did not make a sound in the vacuum, but Sirin's painful screams entered Zhao Si's mind, like the mournful cry of a cuckoo. Here, it was no longer the arrogant Second Herrscher, but the little girl in the Tower of Babel who had suffered torture and inhumane experiments.

"Are you Xilin?"

In the brief moment Zhao Si was stunned, the corpse hanging on the GN sword immediately opened a spatial portal and fled. At the same time, the core of the Herrscher of Death was repairing the tattered body at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Damn it! Why would anyone have such a thought!"

"Warning! Warning! A massive fluctuation in imaginary space has been detected!"

"Then come on! Let's see if your hand can catch it, or if my Exia is fast enough!"

Layer upon layer of imaginary hands appeared on the path that Exia Gundam was bound to take. Whenever Exia deviated from the path, it would be intercepted by the catching imaginary hands.

But that's not enough! Every slight mistake can lead to disastrous consequences. Each failed interception means that Exusiai's sword is a thousand meters closer to the Second Herrscher!

"How is this possible? How is this possible!"

Sirin was once again terrified by this terrifying speed. Even though she broke free from Walter's entanglement and chose to open a spatial teleportation portal to avoid the crazed machine, the opponent could still unleash a sword strike powerful enough to sever the imaginary barrier the moment she stepped out of the spatial portal.

Where exactly did my whereabouts get exposed? Why is this piece of junk once again forcing me to flee in such a sorry state?

No, I was definitely not fleeing in a sorry state; it was just a strategic retreat!

"Life...life is power, life is what sustains this universe."

What's that sound? Is it that ant's voice again? Why can his voice enter my mind?

"You're taking lives so casually, that's going too far!"

7 seconds left.

"What could I do? Why didn't anyone come to my rescue when I was being tortured? Why was it only someone like you who came to kill me!"

"So what are you fighting for now? You're scum, a bastard who shouldn't live in this world!"

3 seconds left.

"I did it for God! God saved me, God revealed the truth to me!"

"No, there is no God in this world, and the end of death...is not God!"

1 seconds left.

Exia's physical blade was completely destroyed. Zhao Si manipulated the last beam sword hilt of the back skirt armor, which was fully charged into a beam dagger the moment it was thrust down!

"Then where can I go back to? I have nowhere left to go!"

"Save those words for the people you'll send to hell after they're dead!"

0 seconds remaining.

The three-red series has ended.

The Second Herrscher survived the final ten seconds of Exusiai's hunt by using spatial teleportation through continuous jumps.

"Ha, ha ...

The weak begged for mercy, while the strong bared their fangs once more. This time, Sirin's Imaginary Hand effortlessly crushed and twisted the entire machine, starting from the limbs, then the head, and finally the cockpit in the chest area.

"You think you're qualified to read my mind?"

As she said this, Sirin casually opened the cockpit door, revealing a listless young man inside. Herrscher's extraordinary senses told her that the young man in front of her was a year younger than herself in terms of physical age.

"How...how is this possible? Shouldn't someone like you be helping me?"

"I...I helped you, but who will help those you killed? A large portion of them are even younger than you!"

Zhao Si pulled out his last card-box gun and Celestial standard pistol, but they were unable to penetrate Sirin's imaginary barrier.

Faced with such behavior, Xilin felt only grief and indignation. Instinctively, she conjured five Void Spears to nail Zhao Si to his seat!

"Drink!"

Zoffy, hidden on Zhao Si, exerted his power again, blocking all the incoming Void Spears. Sirin, still unwilling to accept defeat, was about to reach for the golden card when another unexpected event occurred—

"Eden Star, Zero Rated Power Unleashed!"

"Get away from the boy!"

The pitch-black hole reappeared, and Walter Yang used repulsive force to fling Zhao Si and the GN behind him away, while the simulated black hole rushed towards the Second Herrscher.

The battle is not over yet.

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

P.S.: Next time, I'll go back to my hometown and take out my Phoenix first, because it's hard to take good photos without it.

Chapter 20: Phenex Gundam

Just one more shot.

With just one more move, he could eliminate this so-called Second Herrscher and avoid any further trouble.

[Is it really just one last push, dear host?]

"Isn't that right? As long as I stab this beam dagger, even if this Second Herrscher has the core of the Herrscher of Death, his physical body will still be vaporized by the beam."

[Oh dear, host, you really have a short memory. Have you even forgotten that a Herrscher's consciousness can reside in a Herrscher core?]

"..."