Mentor Tesla had scolded Vill-V on purpose. She didn't want Vill-V interfering with her plan against the Herrscher.
As for Vill-V worrying about her? Give her a break. That lying little funding thief wouldn't possibly care about her life and death.
Still, she had to find a way to make Einstein cooperate.
"Alright, alright, Mentor Tesla, don't get worked up. As for me, Vill-V... I have my own plan."
"Vill-V, I need to remind you of something. The Herrscher of Reason is already right outside our door. We don't have time to listen to your—"
Boom—
The doors were blasted off their hinges. The Herrscher of Reason's armed train roared through the shattered wall and charged straight into the laboratory.
"Oh, don't worry, Mentor Tesla. Because... I've arrived as well."
Almost simultaneously with the armed train, Vill-V's entrance was even more extravagant than the Herrscher of Reason's.
Crack.
Like the crisp sound of ice splitting apart, a fissure flashing with icy blue light suddenly tore open in midair.
A heavily armored, steampunk-style locomotive burst through the crack with a blaring whistle, colliding head-on with the First Herrscher's armed train.
"Ah!" Seeing this, Tesla hurriedly dragged Einstein into the laboratory's safe zone, avoiding being caught in the crossfire.
If Vill-V truly started fighting the Herrscher of Reason here, then even the safe zone wouldn't be safe.
The safe zone had originally been prepared for accidents during black hole experiments. But a battle at the Herrscher level was clearly far more terrifying than a black hole mishap. Tesla and Einstein would undoubtedly die.
After all, they didn't possess the physical constitution of MOTH soldiers. Even MOTH soldiers would not survive the aftershocks of a battle at this level.
Inside the cockpit of the Cosmic Juggernaut, Vill-V was slightly excited. This was also her first time driving something this big. She planted her hands on her hips, lifted one leg, stepped onto the control panel, and waved her straw hat forward.
"Ahahaha! Charge forth, Cosmic Juggernaut!"
Of course, Vill-V had no intention of letting her beloved Cosmic Juggernaut be rammed by some scrap metal casually constructed by the Herrscher of Reason. She reached out and pulled the steam whistle lever.
With a melodious whistle, brilliant spatial particles once again diffused around the locomotive.
"Next stop... the Sea of Quanta..."
"Second Divine Key, First Output Level—Inverted Horizons!"
Tesla watched as the two massive trains were about to collide. At the critical moment, the front of the Cosmic Juggernaut opened another quantum gate. Wrapped in strange rippling distortions, both trains rushed inside simultaneously and vanished without a trace.
Left behind were only the dumbfounded Tesla and Einstein.
The gaping hole in the wall and the Pseudo Black Hole data instability warnings caused by spatial particles were the only proof that everything that had just happened was not an illusion.
"Haaah— I almost thought that bastard Vill-V was going to take the chance to commit regicide on her mentor."
Tesla patted her chest in relief. "That idiot is definitely going to call that scare a 'surprise' again. She never gives any warning."
Beneath her, Einstein said in an emotionless tone, "Dr. Tesla, you have gained another 0.3 kilograms."
"Are you looking to die, Chicken-Nest Head?!"
...
At the S-1 Laboratory, Dr. Mei stood beside the beacon transmitter, watching the spatial particles that had not yet fully dissipated and the blinking signal beacon.
"Vill-V... I hope you return safely. Humanity in this world still needs you."
...
Darkness.
Pitch-black, like an undersea tunnel—while the Cosmic Juggernaut continued advancing through this tunnel dripping with azure seawater.
This was the temporary bubble world created by the Cosmic Juggernaut's First Output Level, also known as Sumeru Mustard Seed.
At a speed unobservable in the macroscopic world, it would detach from the intrinsic world, carrying Vill-V and the Herrscher of Reason as it sank toward the depths of the Sea of Quanta.
The Imaginary Tree was the Herrscher's home ground...
There, a Herrscher could obtain a continuous supply of Honkai energy. Naturally, Vill-V would never bring the First Herrscher there. That would be no different from walking straight into a trap.
So Vill-V could not sail toward the Imaginary Tree. She could only bring the Herrscher into the Sea of Quanta.
As for why she refused to fight on Earth, that was because...
The one Vill-V was facing was not an ordinary First Herrscher.
She was the Herrscher of Reason—Planck.
Before becoming a Herrscher of Reason, she had also been a scientist.
Rumble—
Light illuminated the entire undersea tunnel, revealing countless Quantum Shadows clinging to its surface, waiting for an opportunity to ambush.
Quantum Shadows were "shadows" born from the Sea of Quanta. They were usually projections of real matter, or monsters born from memories.
Conventional weapons had limited effect against them. Only quantum weapons could truly kill them.
"Run them over, Krishna!"
Before the Eternal Key that governed space itself, these troublesome Quantum Shadows had only one fate—being devoured by the spatial rifts unfolded by the Cosmic Juggernaut.
Even those quantum monsters that slipped into other quantum spaces to evade the Cosmic Juggernaut's spatial assault encountered an even more terrifying enemy...
The Herrscher of Reason, Planck.
With a casual wave of her hand, the armed train spat out ten thousand golden rays, swallowing the merciless darkness whole.
Immediately afterward, space shattered like a mirror. Fission reactions spread across the entire undersea tunnel as the world itself began collapsing and exploding.
Destruction took only an instant. Those quantum monsters did not even have time to collapse before they were completely annihilated within that space. There was nowhere to flee. Together with the bubble world projection generated by the Pacific laboratory, they turned into a mirage-like shadow within the Sea of Quanta.
Fortunately, Vill-V was protected by the Cosmic Juggernaut's spatial authority and escaped the undersea tunnel unharmed.
Unlike Vill-V, the Herrscher of Reason did not wield dominion over space. What she had done was simply destroy this bubble world through sheer brute force.
Traveling through a bubble world was easy. But destroying one through violence alone—only Kevin the Sa had ever done such a thing before.
Although the name "bubble world" made it sound fragile, that was only in comparison to the Sea of Quanta.
In truth, as a closed universe capable of self-evolution, the durability of its "membrane" even exceeded that of a black hole.
Perhaps that comparison was still hard to grasp. Put more plainly—the Herrscher of Reason had erased an entire world with a single gesture.
Although this bubble world had only just been born and its "membrane" was highly unstable, it was nonetheless a genuine small world.
That was why Vill-V did not dare confront the Herrscher of Reason in the real world. When a scientist gained the means to implement her technology, destroying a world became frighteningly simple. The small Earth could not withstand their reckless experimentation.
Many people always naively believed that Herrschers were limited by the power output of their human hosts and therefore posed no great threat.
After all, no matter how strong one person was, how powerful could they really be?
But a power limit did not equal an ability limit.
Every Herrscher possessed limitless possibilities.
Just as the Herrscher of Sentience could challenge Kevin alone, the Herrscher of Reason could fight the Stigma-form Yae alone, and Kiana could battle the Pseudo God Otto.
Although there were amplifying factors involved in each case, one thing was undeniable—Herrschers had no so-called upper limit.
Their very existence...
Was meant to shatter humanity's understanding.
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