Honkai: Man(Sludge) From Future

Bronya still couldn't believe it; she was convinced Noldrei had peeked into her mind.

After all, if he could transform her body into a pony, looking at the memories in her head didn't seem like a big deal.

The main thing was that the Seele simulated by Noldrei was just too real, exactly the same as the Seele in her memories.

Even though she knew it was simulated by that scumbag Emperor, Bronya still received a large dose of Seele energy from it.

She started working even harder!

"Miss Rita, Seele today is also fragrant and soft. His Majesty the Emperor personally simulates the person in your heart, allowing you to choose your accompanying service, perfectly matching the image in your mind."

"Bronya has a better plan for future work, to further strengthen the supervision of the academy city..."

"Miss Rita, if you have any needs, you might as well come to His Majesty. He can satisfy everything you wouldn't even dare to imagine."

Rita closed the message sent by Bronya. She was starting to suspect that Bronya had been turned and become a double agent.

This little girl was actually trying to persuade her to come and play too, just like that strange woman who ran the restaurant.

But Rita also considered that Noldrei didn't seem to care at all whether he was being monitored. That person seemed to have a completely different 'way of communicating'.

Is what she's saying true? How strange...

Rita naturally knew about Noldrei's ability to transform at will. Theoretically, he could even transform into Durandal and deliver a powerful punch, and at the same time simulate all of Durandal's abilities.

Bronya's message emphasized how much Noldrei's transformed Seele resembled the original. If she didn't know it was fake from the start, she might have mistaken that Seele for the real one.

Rita imagined such a scene: if she were to recreate Durandal based on her memories, would she have the means to identify the parts of Durandal she didn't know?

She thought seriously about it and concluded that she simply couldn't do it.

Rita could only understand the Durandal she knew. Similarly, Bronya could only understand the little girl named Seele that she knew.

If Noldrei transformed into Durandal and then made the choices that Durandal would make in Rita's memory, then Rita could only temporarily treat him as the real Durandal.

This kind of excellent illusion wasn't a third-person perspective fabrication, but a direct manipulation of first-person perspective cognition.

It's impossible for people to recognize something outside of their own perception.

Noldrei's control over his subordinates is stronger than I imagined.

Rita felt some hesitation in her heart. She had already obtained enough information about Noldrei. But from a personal standpoint, she still didn't dare to get too close to him.

That feeling was exceptionally terrifying. It was this very feeling that had saved Rita countless times in her past battles.

Rita didn't know exactly what methods he used to control people.

It was different from the feeling she got from Archbishop Otto. Archbishop Otto's evil deeds were countless, but Rita knew that no one else could carry the banner of Schicksal except him. No one else could unite these Valkyries into a single force except him, so Rita could do many dirty deeds for Otto.

But Noldrei was different. The feeling was completely different.

In his eyes, Rita didn't think she was even human anymore, not even possessing the power to control her own life and death.

"When punishments are unknown, and power is immeasurable, then the people fear those above." [A quote emphasizing the effectiveness of unpredictable and overwhelming authority.]

It's like something described in a Lovecraftian novel: in such a vast and boundless universe, devoid of reason and purpose, the laws and concepts recognized and defined by humanity are meaningless.

As long as his power is maintained, outside of human cognition, then people will always be in awe of him.

Noldrei was right; the so-called evil gods are nothing more than the result of concepts instilled by humans.

It was the same feeling Rita had when facing Noldrei.

She didn't know where the bottom line of his power was, nor did she know the upper limit of his strength. When facing Noldrei, Rita could only cautiously have the people around him probe, trying to understand exactly what Noldrei was doing.

I wonder if that girl has realized anything. The commonly understood rationality is completely insufficient to deal with humans of this caliber.

Since Noldrei considered himself human, Rita would temporarily classify him within the scope of humanity.

She passed all this analysis information to Durandal.

Although Durandal was straightforward, she wasn't just a simple hot-blooded idiot.

She just rarely thought about these kinds of things. However, she always took matters related to her sister to heart.

"Rita, are you saying that he has some control over people's cognitive abilities? But I haven't seen him take any action in this regard. Why are you so worried, Rita?"

Durandal was a bit puzzled by this.

"Because there's a problem with the Kaslana Stigmata Space. The Kaslana Stigmata Space can hereditarily pass down the will of its owner, and there are very few families in this world whose stigmata organs can genetically form a bloodline."

Rita had seen a hint of a problem from the Stigmata Space that Noldrei had constructed.

Durandal carefully recalled the memories within the Stigmata Space. To her, these things seemed particularly strange, but she didn't understand exactly where this strangeness lay.

"Genes can store information, and that information is manifested in the world by the Imaginary Space in the form of Honkai and Stigmata. And the will within the Stigmata can be inherited, like the 'revenge against the Honkai' stigmata will in the Kaslana Space."

"But that doesn't mean that the only will in the space is 'revenge against the Honkai'. There are also other memories and wills preserved by the Kaslana family. It's just that they are suppressed in the face of the strongest will."

Durandal briefly described the situation within the Kaslana Stigmata Space. In her view, that place was like a space for training one's will. Success meant being able to control the wills of past heroes and obtain greater Imaginary Energy from the Stigmata.

This, in turn, allowed them to continue fighting the Honkai with even greater combat power.

Rita nodded and said, "Yes, but according to Noldrei's actions, he has turned the entire Stigmata Space upside down, devouring and integrating the will within the Stigmata Space, and then letting it overflow to infect people in reality... Huh?"

Rita suddenly paused for a moment, feeling like she had seen this kind of situation somewhere before.

Durandal pondered for a moment, seeming to have also thought of that possibility.

Overflowing will, thereby exerting influence on people in reality.

Durandal slapped her thigh and said in surprise, "Isn't that the Honkai?! Herrscher consciousness and pseudo-Herrschers are like that!"

After she finished speaking, she froze, looking at Rita with an uncertain expression.