Disaster Simulator, global collapse begins.

"Next time, you'd rather get hurt yourself than not bring them back alive."

"Yes, Your Excellency!"

……

On the other side, the battlefield is between destiny and anti-entropy.

"Inch Force, Heaven-Splitting!"

Fu Hua punched the mecha, which instantly stopped moving.

On the surface, there was no damage, but inside it had been shattered into a pulp.

Rita, as if dancing, gracefully weaved through the gaps between dozens of mechs, her scythe flashing coldly, instantly spitting blood from the mechs that passed by, revealing the muscles beneath their mechanical shells.

Yes, flesh and blood.

After exchanging technology with Elke, Anti-Entropy acquired the technology.

The genes of animals and Honkai Beasts are used to create the Seed of Flesh and Blood. Then, all that is needed is to make a steel shell, which is like the exoskeleton of a crustacean, and then fill the Seed of Flesh and Blood into it.

Finally, place a small Honkai energy reactor, put these things into the culture medium, and they will grow into a Titan in a month.

This greatly reduces manufacturing costs, and this bio-mech doesn't require much maintenance. Minor injuries can heal on their own, and it also has the characteristics of Honkai Beasts, so it doesn't need to be fed or excreted.

It has too many advantages.

To put it simply, the cost of building one mechanical Titan can now produce ten flesh-and-blood Titans.

Even so, entropy reversal has a major problem—

We lack top-tier combat power!

Mass-produced flesh and blood titans have combat power roughly between B and A rank. If their numbers are increased, they are sufficient as a backbone force, but when faced with an S-rank Valkyrie, they are not even good enough to deplete the opponent's combat power.

Only Walter is considered half S-class, and he's the kind who fights for five minutes and then revives after two hours...

Not only Einstein and Tesla, but all those who practiced anti-entropy were aware of this problem.

Fortunately, there is now a solution for entropy reversal.

"It's time to activate our decisive weapon."

……

Himeko Murata rode her motorcycle and entered the campus after showing her ID to the guard at the gate.

Perhaps due to the butterfly effect, Himeko in this world joined Anti-Entropy in order to investigate the truth behind her father's death... Why did the director of the Destiny Saint 7308 Research Institute betray Destiny and go to the Anti-Entropy controlled area, and who killed him afterwards?

Today, her mission is to pick up a target and head to the base.

The teacher brought her goal to the office.

"Raiden Mei, come with me."

"I don't want to!" The girl with long purplish-black hair pushed her hand away.

"It's your father..."

Raiden Mei shook her head fiercely:

"I know! He doesn't care about my wishes at all. He just treats me as a tool to pilot a giant robot. I don't want to be a pilot, and I don't want to fight those monsters!"

In 1999, when Raiden Mei was 2 years old, her mother, who was also Raiden Ryoma's wife, became seriously ill with cancer.

At this point, the somewhat crazed Raiden Ryoma set his sights on the Herrscher core. After all, with the examples of the Alliance Leader and Oliveira, it was clear that anyone who became a Herrscher could be cured of any disease.

Coincidentally, at this moment, Anti-Entropy possesses the core of the Conqueror Gem, the Third Herrscher of Thunder.

The result was, of course, failure, which also created a monster and a great deal of chaos. The reformists used this as an opportunity to attack and seize ME from Raiden Ryoma.

Even Raiden Ryoma himself was placed under house arrest, so Raiden Mei in this world was raised by relatives from a young age and lived the life of an ordinary person.

The lack of parental love made her withdrawn.

This made her a prime target for bullying by some bad students; a child's evil is pure evil... Her unfortunate childhood experiences made her even more introverted and insecure.

Her fate took a dramatic turn after a physical examination when she was fourteen.

Her father, who had been out of contact for decades, led her to a base of Anti-Entropy, where she saw—a huge mechanical creature painted in purplish-black.

"This is the pinnacle of our anti-entropy technology, a Herrscher's shell built by human hands, the silver key to the realm of the gods!"

It turns out that after Raiden Ryoma was placed under house arrest.

During internal discussions within Anti-Entropy, it was decided that he would remain in charge of the artificial god project.

The previous generation's Key of the Void allowed the wearer to gain the power of a Herrscher for a short period of time, but at the cost of a great burden on both body and mind. This is how Dr. May died.

After helping Elke create the Reverse Key, Anti-Entropy's research on the Blank Key has reached a level comparable to that of the previous generation.

So they decided to take it a step further.

Create a blank key that is free of burden.

They used the same technology as the Flesh Titans to construct a massive cyborg, half-flesh and half-machine body, using its enormous size to shield the pilot from erosion. The entire plan had proceeded without any problems up to this point.

Until the test drive begins.

Most of the drivers went crazy, and the few who weren't, refused to take the test drive a second time!

It turns out that the Herrscher's corruption is divided into two parts: physical and mental.

The artificial gods they created could only block physical damage, while their spirits would still be affected by the will to collapse.

Resisting this influence is even more difficult than a person with a severe drug addiction trying to quit through willpower in a place where drugs are readily available. At least 99% of ordinary people who can't even quit masturbation have no chance of doing so.

This is merely an enlarged version of Walter, far from the perfect mech that Anti-Entropy desired.

So they continued their research.

Since the massive mechs can isolate the body from physical erosion, could creating a massive, fake soul protect the pilot's mind from being affected?

Thunder Dragon Horse began its research.

Unfortunately, unlike their mature mecha technology, Anti-Entropy has done very little research on the soul... After all, Old Yang is only a Herrscher of Reason, and there is no Herrscher of Knowledge to help them with their research.

The experiment reached a stalemate.

Raiden Ryoma thought of the byproduct of the experiment he conducted to save his wife—that enormous tumor that almost turned into a monster that became the Herrscher of Thunder.

The tumor was embedded into the body of the artificial god.

The subsequent experiment revealed that the psychological effects were still present.

It's just that before, people were turned into inhuman madmen; now, they're just ordinary madmen.

Perhaps this can be considered a kind of progress?

……

Chapter 87 The Artificial God Strikes!

Further investigation by Anti-Entropy revealed that the reason for the drivers' madness was the mental link established between them.

In order to fully unleash the combat power of the artificial god, the pilot's control method cannot be a hand crank or anything like that, but rather the same as the Umbrella's global infiltration program, which remotely controls clone bodies.

This technology was originally developed by the anti-entropy team.

Further research revealed that this mech seems to possess some kind of living characteristic, capable of choosing its own pilot.

To address this, Reverse Entropy has developed a rapid screening kit for eligible individuals, available throughout North America and all controlled areas, to screen individuals during free medical checkups.

The results showed that the most compatible match was Raiden Ryoma's daughter, Raiden Mei!

Upon hearing this news, Raiden Ryoma laughed wildly. He suddenly felt that his plan to resurrect his wife had not failed, or at least had succeeded in part. His wife's soul was still protecting their child.

And so, Raiden Mei, who was only fourteen years old at the time, sat in the cockpit of the artificial god.

Darkness, claustrophobia.

Something warm and viscous liquid rose up and submerged her.

I can't breathe!

Cough cough... After choking a couple of times, Raiden Mei discovered that she could actually breathe normally in this liquid. Then she felt herself being stretched, growing bigger like an inflating balloon.

It was by no means a pleasant experience, but she could endure it in order to meet the expectations of her father, whom she hadn't seen in a long time.

I snapped out of my daze and opened my eyes.

The father in front of her had shrunk to the size of an insect. He stood behind a thick glass curtain wall and issued a series of commands to her.

"Stand up... Okay, now take a few steps."

Because it was a machine, its center of gravity was slightly different from that of a human. Mei lost her balance and fell to the ground.

boom--!

Raiden Mei was surprised to discover that she, who was controlling the giant robot, could also feel pain!

"What are you doing? How come you can't even walk anymore?"

She was in some pain and hadn't yet gotten up when she was met not with her father's comfort, but with a questioning.

Although Anti-Entropy has tried its best to adjust the center of gravity and structure of the artificial god in order to reduce the difficulty of driving, in reality, those subtle differences can cause great confusion for the brain that is already accustomed to normal bodily movements.

Of course, those who don't personally drive the Thunder Dragon Horse would have no idea about these details.

In the following years, Raiden Mei was occasionally picked up from her regular classes to participate in training. Sometimes she fought Honkai Beasts captured by Anti-Entropy in the base, and sometimes she trained in simulation chambers and combat skills.

There was a meeting within Anti-Entropy about whether to let her drop out of school and train her to work full-time as a driver.

The proposal was rejected by Raiden Ryoma alone. Even under house arrest, he still retained some rights... and a backup plan to fight the reformers to the death.

"I will never allow you to deprive her of her right to enjoy campus life!"

Raiden Ryoma definitely loves his daughter, but he doesn't know how to express it. He feels guilty for neglecting Mei over the years and wants to make up for it, but the long separation has made him feel unfamiliar with how to express his fatherly love...

Therefore, he subconsciously incorporated his own childhood experiences and his father's parenting style into the story.

His school life was easy and happy. As the eldest son of the Raiden family and the successor of the Hokushin Ittō-ryū style, even in a private aristocratic school, no one dared to bully or harass him.

Coupled with his handsome appearance, he was a pampered young master since childhood, the prince that ordinary girls fantasized about.

Therefore, he believed that Raiden Mei's school life was also easy and happy, and that even if it meant falling out with the reformists, he would protect her right to continue her studies.

Unexpectedly, this act of kindness brought Mei even greater pain.

Already a loner and introverted girl, she was often taken away by mysterious people, leading to various stories of time travel circulating among her classmates.

For example, she has certain illnesses...

For example, dirty deals between adults...

Even worse things happen. Children's imaginations are the most boundless, and when this creativity is amplified with malice, it makes you want to smash that brat's head through the internet cable.

Raiden Ryoma and Mei lack communication.

In his memory, his father always played the role of a strict father, so he was also very strict with Mei.

The worst thing in education is to force things into a mold. Back then, with his family's wealth and the praise of those around him, Raiden Ryoma would have become a spoiled brat without his father's stern rebuke, and would never have achieved what he has today. But what Mei needs now is care and encouragement...

Lack of communication is often the source of tragedy.

Over the years, Raiden Mei has shown amazing talent, making great progress and achievements in fighting skills, inheriting the Hokushin Ittō-ryū style, and piloting the artificial god.

Thus, Ryoma's unreliable father became even more certain of the correctness of his strict parenting style.

Even though the relationship between father and daughter had reached a freezing point.

“Sigh, I’m doing this for her own good.” Thunder Dragon Horse’s eyes were filled with love as he gently stroked the artificial god’s shell. “When she grows up, she’ll understand my good intentions as a father… You agree with me, right, my dear?”

……

“I don’t need to train anymore!” Mei shook her head.

“Today is not training,” Himeko said seriously. “It’s a real S-rank battle against Schicksal.”

"Your father asked me to pass on a message to you: only when you defeat the S-class Valkyrie of Destiny can the artificial god project be proven to have achieved a stage of success."

"He will be proud of you and will cook you a meal himself."

Upon hearing this, Mei's eyes suddenly reddened.

"Okay, I'll go!"

The motorcycle carrying Mei passed through layers of strict security checks.