NOVEL NEXT Chapter 40 (volume 2)
'How is it possible that Otto is here? 500 years have passed since our time... No, I have confused things. He must be just someone with the same face as Otto, there's no way Otto could have lived for another 500 years.' Kallen was surprised but she soon became convinced that the man she is seeing is not her childhood friend.
'And also, who is that woman? Is she a Kaslana? For some reason I feel that she looks very familiar but I can't say why I feel it.' Kallen thought when he saw Amber. Kallen just couldn't see her eyes because she was wearing a visor that hid her eyes.
As for Ryusuke, he didn't move. He was leaning against the hallway wall, using the powers of the Herrscher of Binding he was completely imperceptible.
The power of Binding allows you to control any type of energy.
With the energy control Ryusuke is able to control the temperature around him, he can lower or increase the temperature as he wishes. Right now he is controlling the temperature around him in a subtle way to stay on the same level as the environment.
He is also controlling the sound energy to hide any sound he makes.
And he is also invisible because he is controlling the light around him to make him invisible.
It can be said that he is very well hidden. Even rank-A Valkyries did not react when he passed them.
But even so Ryusuke did not dare to move, he did not dare to underestimate the man named Otto Apocalypse.
From what Ryusuke remembers from the game's story, Otto Apocalypse lived for more than 500 years using different methods, he initially used the sixth Divine Key, Abyss Flower, which was made with the Herrscher nucleus of the Death of the Previous Age to slow his aging, until finally he transferred his consciousness to a body made entirely of Soulium, he is now basically a human with a robot body. He is also able to transfer his consciousness to other bodies of Soulium that he prepared.
The only wish that made Otto continue to live for 500 years was his desire to revive Kallen Kaslana, his childhood friend. To fulfill this wish he will do anything, no matter what atrocities he needs to do to achieve that goal.
Otto is the leader of Schicksal and he has also done a lot of shit in order to revive Kallen Kaslana. The second Honkai war happened mainly because of him, at that time Sirin was almost being defeated by Welt Yang but then that son of a bitch appeared and shot Welt for the purpose of letting her escape to the moon where she managed completely awakening and acquiring new powers through the Will of Honkai, after which Sirin returned to the most powerful land she was before and she had an army of Honkai beasts, it was from there that the second Honkai war began. A lot of people died in that war.
In fact, Sirin's awakening as second Herrscher was also Otto's fault. Sirin was originally an innocent and naive little girl, but after she was tricked and taken to the Babylonian tower, one of Schicksal's laboratories, she was subjected to terrible and agonizing experiments, she saw each of her friends die because of those same experiments and they were treated as useless waste when they died. And Schicksal scientists have always said that their lives were of no value because they were orphans and that it was an honor for them to die there in that and experiment to benefit humanity.
Because of that, Sirin, who was once a good girl, had her heart completely stained with hatred against humanity. Who made Sirin a vindictive Herrscher who killed millions of people was not Honkai but humanity itself.
Otto was the one who gave the order to start research to improve Valkyries' artificial stigmas, and Sirin was one of the unfortunately guinea pigs for these experiments.
Otto Apocalypse may be a scientist with one of the most brilliant minds in the world, but he is also an insane son of a bitch who will not hesitate to do the worst things to achieve his goals.
And that is why Ryusuke is so afraid of him. He definitely doesn't want to be discovered by this man. And unfortunately revealing Kallen Kaslana's existence may not help you at all.
One of the things Otto Apocalypse did was create Kallen Kaslana clones, he was desperate to revive her. But when he saw the eyes of the first clone he understood something fundamental, that clone was not Kallen she was someone else, she did not have Kallen Kaslana's soul.
Otto had no means of understanding the truth about the soul through science. But even so he didn't give up he kept trying to do further research to revive Kallen.
If Ryusuke showed Kallen Kaslana that he is inside him to Otto then there was no way to predict how he would react. Would he consider her the real Kallen or would he consider her another scam? There was no way to know, and if he got angry the consequences would be dire for Ryusuke.
'Why did you come here right now? Just finish what you came to do here and get out of here.' Ryusuke was very nervous at the moment.
But at that moment Otto looked at Ryusuke's direction with a thoughtful expression while he put his hand on his chin.
At that moment Ryusuke was so scared that he didn't even dare to breathe.
Otto continued to stare in silence for a few more seconds.
"Otto-sama, did anything happen?" Amber asked him because she found his behavior a little strange.
"Oh, it was nothing Amber. I just thought I saw something strange there but it must have been just my imagination." Otto spoke as he turned and headed towards the steel door in the Serenity Gem room. Amber followed him.
But when Otto opened the steel door...
*BANG*
Otto turned and pulled the trigger on a golden pistol towards Ryusuke. He created a replica of the seventh Divine Key, the Judgement of Shamash in the form of a pistol.
The energy beam hit the wall 30 centimeters above Ryusuke's head.
"It must have been just my imagination. Come on Amber." Otto called for Amber and the two entered the room. The steel door closed.
After a few seconds and confirming that he was not being heard, Ryusuke took a sigh of relief.
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( Merry Christmas to all. )