I am Möbius's sister.

The second failure led Sirin to discover the reason for the failure: the Herrscher core encountered a problem when establishing a connection with the imaginary space, as if some force was blocking this process.

Sirin guessed that this might be the Honkai Will hindering her plans.

Chapter 151 Xilin Needs to Study Hard

In fact, Sirin's guess was quite correct. The Honkai Will blocked Sirin's process of creating the Herrscher Core. In fact, the Honkai Will originally planned to use the connection established between this Herrscher Core, which was about to be completed, and the Imaginary Space to manipulate the Herrscher Core to explode on the spot.

However, the system, which was observing from the shadows, intervened in time, and the confrontation between the two ended with the Honkai Will severing the connection to the Herrscher's core. Since the confrontation took place at a level that Sirin could not yet perceive, she did not sense the process of the confrontation, but only the result of the Honkai Will severing the connection.

For the Honkai Will, the outsider Sirin is the biggest destabilizing factor. Initially, when Sirin first arrived in this world, the Honkai Will didn't pay much attention to her. After all, there are so many worlds in this Imaginary Tree, and it's normal for outsiders to intrude into other worlds.

He only paid a brief look and then stopped paying attention. Although the arrival of outsiders would bring significant changes to the timeline itself, the ever-changing unknown was what interested Him. Moreover, weak outsiders would not cause changes to the timeline that would lead to an irreversible branching.

At most, it forked a little bit before being pulled back by the converging force of the world lines. But the Honkai Will never expected that this outsider would possess a mysterious and unpredictable power of extremely high grade. After Sirin gained the power of the Herrscher of the Void, the Honkai Will discovered that the world lines had forked to an almost irreversible state.

If that were all, it wouldn't be so bad. The main problem is that He discovered a small portion of His authority had been stolen by this guy. The Herrscher of the Void's ability is to manipulate imaginary space, a secondary authority derived from His primary authority. He can only manipulate a small part, not much. Once outside that world, he can no longer manipulate it, and the energy level limit of the Herrscher's core also greatly restricts the effectiveness of his authority.

But what's with Sirin? She didn't just acquire secondary powers like manipulating imaginary space; more accurately, she gained control over it. The former means using imaginary space as a tool, without ownership. The latter… is equivalent to acquiring ownership.

This is tantamount to touching upon its very essence. The Imaginary Space and the Imaginary Tree are of the same lineage. The Herrscher's power originates from the Imaginary Space, which is a derivative of the Imaginary Tree in every world. The Herrscher's power is rooted in the Imaginary Tree. The Honkai Will, on the other hand, is the manager, overseeing the power of the Imaginary Tree. It is both the gardener and the manager of the Imaginary Tree's property.

However, this property manager position does not have to be held by a single individual. But whoever owns the property must bear the responsibility of managing it, as well as the responsibility of pruning away the dead branches and withered leaves. This is the price to pay.

A thief has stolen a small portion of this property. Although it's only a small portion, it has already made the Honkai Will wary. If they can steal a little bit today, what will happen in the future? Won't they steal everything?

So He hastily strengthened the Third Herrscher through His relationship with His kin, intending to destroy Sirin and bring the world lines together.

However, Sirin's individual combat ability far exceeded His imagination. Her talent was so strong that it was rare. With the help of that mysterious power, even the enhanced Third Herrscher was killed.

The original rule that the stronger the civilization, the stronger the Honkai would become has been broken by Sirin. Now, the civilization isn't particularly strong, but its combat power is absurdly high, resulting in an incredibly powerful Honkai. While the rules may seem the same, they are fundamentally different. From any perspective, Sirin has been placed on the Honkai Will's kill list.

Unfortunately, He cannot intervene directly, otherwise He would have directly stepped in and annihilated the opponent.

Later, He discovered another reason why He had to kill Sirin. Although she only stole once and then stopped, an even more alarming phenomenon emerged: she could replicate those secondary authorities and trace them back to the original authorities.

This was entirely an ability that Sirin possessed innately. The fact that she accomplished something that was otherwise impossible astonished the Honkai Will. Moreover, she did it without relying on that mysterious power, demonstrating that Sirin, as an outsider, was truly exceptional.

This might not sound impressive, since such replication currently requires secondary authority to reverse the process. However, by mastering the authority of the imaginary space, one can completely access the core of the laws, namely the Tree of Imaginary Numbers, where the authority is quite comprehensive.

If Sirin were to replicate everything, she could probably become the third pole after the Imaginary Tree and the Sea of ​​Quanta. While that's currently impossible, caution is always necessary. In short, Sirin must die. Given the chance, He will do everything in His power to beat Sirin to death, and even finish her off after she's dead.

This failed attempt at underhanded tactics allowed Him to sense a portion of the mysterious external power emanating from Sirin. It was of a high rank, but it seemed too powerful to interfere with too much. This battle was fightable, and He decided to launch a major attack on Sirin within His control.

……

At this moment, Sirin was unaware that the Honkai Will was lurking in the shadows, watching her intently, ready to tear her to pieces at any moment. She was still preparing to conduct the third experiment on the Herrscher of Creation Core. Just as she was about to gather Honkai energy, the system issued a warning to her in her mind and dispelled and neutralized the Honkai energy she had already gathered.

【Please, under no circumstances, conduct any more experiments that directly connect with the deepest layer of the Imaginary Space. The Honkai Will is secretly waiting for its chance. Just now, it tried to detonate the unfinished Herrscher Core in your possession through the established connection. If I hadn't stopped it in time, I'm afraid most of the Moths of Flame would have been wiped out.】

Upon hearing the system's warning in her mind, Sirin, who had been somewhat annoyed by the interruption of her experiment, instantly became slightly flustered. All her resentment vanished.

However, you don't need to panic too much. As long as you grow stronger, the Honkai Will will be trampled under your feet and become a stepping stone for you to ascend the throne.

"What should I do?" Sirin humbly asked the system in her heart.

[Start by learning physics, chemistry, geography, biology, and mathematics. A certain level of knowledge is needed to find effective ways to apply one's powers. You don't need a lot of knowledge, but you must have some, especially the powers of the Law of Reason.]

"Ah..." Upon hearing this, Xilin was stunned. No way, she had to study again... Well, although she didn't really want to study, in order to survive under the attack of the Honkai Will and to help those around her survive, she would just learn some knowledge. Anyway, the system said that she didn't need to learn too much, right?

You should only need to learn a little bit... right?

Chapter 152 Super-sized Honkai Beast!

Just as Sirin gave up on conducting the experiment again, Mebius, who had been in the small room, frowned deeply. There was such a strong Honkai energy reaction just now, how come it's all gone now?

What struck Mebius most astonishing was that these Honkai energy reactions vanished suddenly, yet she was certain they weren't absorbed by Sirin, as she hadn't detected any Honkai energy flowing into Sirin's body. It was as if the Honkai energy had evaporated into thin air—truly unbelievable.

Intrigued by this phenomenon, Möbius began examining and comparing the recorded data, trying to find the minute change. Energy couldn't simply disappear into thin air; it must have been transferred somewhere. And with such a transfer, there would naturally be a change in the amount of energy. What she needed to do now was find that minute change.

After a moment, Mebius noticed a detail: she observed that the indoor temperature after the Honkai energy reaction disappeared was two degrees higher than the indoor temperature before it disappeared.

Although it only increased by two degrees, it undoubtedly gave Mebius the answer to the sudden disappearance of the Honkai energy reaction—the Honkai energy had turned into heat.

But how is this done? What is the principle behind it? As far as she knows, Honkai energy is imaginary energy. While it is theoretically possible to convert this imaginary energy into real energy, it is completely impossible with current technology.

However, she happened to observe this phenomenon. Herrschers... they really are amazing...

Since Sirin was the only person in the room, Möbius naturally attributed the phenomenon to her. While this wasn't entirely wrong, in reality, Möbius was mistaken this time.

Even Mebius would never have imagined that such a magical thing as a system would exist.

After thinking for a while, Möbius prepared to release Sirin. The experiment was over, and it was time to proceed with the next one.

She wanted to verify her hypothesis—whether the phenomenon of Honkai energy being converted into heat was indeed Sirin's doing. If so, she believed that by studying Sirin's ability, humanity might one day be able to change its current helpless situation regarding Honkai phenomena.

Although Mebius is now 100% certain that Sirin possesses that ability, scientific evidence still needs to be proven.

……

Looking at Mebius, who had a strange smile on his face, Sirin couldn't help but feel a little flustered.

Möbius... he wouldn't be thinking of... having sex here..., would he...?

Although she had done this kind of thing in the operating room before, she absolutely did not want to go through it again... unless Möbius begged her...

"Cirin~" Mebius's voice was very charming, and this call made Sirin's ears go weak.

"Yes!" Sirin looked at Mebius with some unease; she was ready to give herself to him! Come on! Conquer me fiercely!

Thinking this, Xilin lowered her head shyly and said rather bashfully, "Um... Big sister... could you be a little gentler... after all, you still have work to do... I'm afraid you'll tire yourself out..."

Hearing Celine's words, Möbius's smile froze, followed by a mixture of amusement and exasperation. What did she mean by "I'm afraid you'll tire yourself out"? It sounded more like a provocation! She really didn't know how to talk. If she didn't have important business to attend to, she would have liked to give this disobedient little Celine a good talking-to right there and then.

"What are you talking about?" Mebius gently tapped Sirin's head. "Your head has been filled with 'Serena' all day. Sirin is such a terrible child. I just wanted you to participate in the next experiment, not to do this or that with me."

"Huh?" Upon hearing this, Sirin stared blankly at Mebius in front of her, feeling a little embarrassed. It turned out that she had been thinking abnormally. Forgive me, forgive me. It seems that she needs to reflect on herself. She can't get addicted to this kind of thing.

"Alright, time waits for no one. Let's go conduct the next experiment right away. I want to verify whether you can convert Honkai energy into heat energy and release it."

"Ah? Oh..."

……

half an hour later

Möbius frowned as he looked at the analysis report in front of him. How could this be? Sirin couldn't convert Honkai energy into heat. Could it be that the phenomenon was just a rare, special case and had nothing to do with Sirin?

After reviewing the analysis report several times, Möbius couldn't find anything wrong. Everything was perfect, and there shouldn't have been any problems.

Perhaps it really was just a coincidence, but since this phenomenon can occur, it proves that the conversion of Honkai energy into thermal energy is a achievable technology.

It seems she and Mei have another research project. Recently, global collapse disasters have become more and more frequent, and the observed global collapse energy concentration is also constantly rising. It's probably the fourth collapse that's coming soon.

However, Mebius wasn't very interested in this; she was only ever interested in research and Sirin.

Just as Mebius was pondering this, an alarm sounded from a loudspeaker in a corner of the ceiling.

[A super-sized Honkai Beast has appeared. All logistics and research personnel are requested to take refuge in underground fortresses as quickly as possible!]

[The announcement will be broadcast again...]

[Urgent Notice! All combat personnel, take your positions immediately! Proceed to the front lines at once!]

Hearing the sudden alarm, Sirin was stunned. What is a super-standard Honkai Beast? Are Honkai Beasts really this difficult to deal with? Judging from the way Flame Chaser is acting, it seems it's going to fight with all its might.

Wait... an Honkai Beast of an extraordinary level...

At this moment, Sirin suddenly remembered the evil plans she had seen in the cult's data center, one of which seemed to involve creating a high-level Honkai Beast.

Could it be that those cultists succeeded? This is troublesome. Should she intervene in the battle? Sirin looked at Möbius beside her.

Coincidentally, Mebius also looked at Sirin, and their eyes met in mid-air. They quickly understood each other's meaning.

“Go ahead, it’s a good opportunity to test out your new Herrscher of Reason abilities, which will also help expand your influence.” Mebius smiled slightly.

Seeing Möbius's smile, Sirin nodded. Since that was the case, she would reluctantly go and see if she could be of any help: "Then, I'll be going now, big sister."

"Go quickly and come back soon, remember to come back to do the experiment later!"

"okay."

After speaking, Sirin casually opened a portal and teleported herself to the landing pad of the Firemoth.

Chapter 153 The Terrifying Honkai Beast

When Sirin arrived at the Moth Chaser helipad, she naturally became the center of attention, after all, her way of making an appearance was quite unusual.

At this moment, the Moth of Fire soldiers were still lined up in place. Looking at these soldiers standing in neat rows, Sirin walked with her hands behind her back, nodding as if she were inspecting their superior.

"Hey, are you their commander?" Sirin approached a burly man, tilting her head back and asking arrogantly.

Although Celine was rude, the man dared not show the slightest dissatisfaction, because this seemingly petite and charming girl was far more capable than him. Although she did not yet hold a position, her reputation was extremely high, and her strength was also exceptionally formidable.

"Yes, sir! I am their commander!"

"Alright." Sirin coughed twice and said, "Tell me the location where that so-called super-level Honkai Beast appeared."

"Are you... going to fight personally?"

"Yes, is there a problem?" Sirin crossed her arms.

"But... the council can have you stay at headquarters, and they've already sent Lady Alicia to deal with the Honkai Beasts."

"What? Alicia went?" Sirin frowned slightly.

"I've been there for a while now," the man replied honestly.

“Then I have to go! Tell me the location, hurry up! As for those guys in the council, don’t worry, those good-for-nothings can’t do anything to me. Just say I told you to tell them. If you don’t tell me… hmph, you know the consequences.” Sirin sneered twice, threatening the other party.

The man was on the verge of tears. Why had this little rascal set his sights on him? He was now in a dilemma. Everyone in the Fire Moth knew that this little rascal and the Fire Moth Council were at odds, and the two factions were showing a tendency to divide and rule each other. However, this trend was contained through a subtle mutual compromise.

He was originally a member of the parliament, but now he'll probably have to switch sides and join Sirin's side.

The man gritted his teeth, made up his mind, and decided to switch jobs. Taking a deep breath, he told Sirin the exact location of the super-sized Honkai Beast.

Upon learning the location, Xilin immediately took out her phone to check the geographical location and latitude and longitude information of the place.

After completing the search, Sirin snapped her fingers and opened a portal to that place.

The officer only breathed a sigh of relief after Celine left.

……