From start to finish, the children loved the Heavenly Father who never left from the bottom of their hearts!
Tiamat looked at all this with misty eyes; how beautiful it was!
If she could achieve this step, would the children no longer hate her?
And would they no longer want to leave her embrace?
"Mother of Life?"
Ruan Mei looked at the being before her with strange eyes; it was simply the best interpretation of the mysteries of life. To some extent, Tiamat's own attainments in the Path of life even surpassed hers.
After all.
Having reached Tiamat's level, she had already become the highest portrayal of life; she had already attained the Dao herself!
The next step... "As long as I walk forward step by step, letting the life I create spread across the The Universe, and letting the trajectory of my own life dye the Great Universe..."
Ruan Mei murmured softly: "At that time, one can naturally occupy the source of the concept of life in the Great Universe and grasp the Life · Cosmic Truth..."
The path was clear and distinct.
The only problem was time.
Relying solely on Tiamat herself, the time needed for the life she created to spread across the Great Universe and achieve enlightenment in one step would likely be an astronomical figure... "You're right, Ruan Mei."
Hermes nodded in agreement with her view. In the Type-Moon World, outsiders are big shots, but can't many existences in this world also become big shots as long as they can jump out of the Type-Moon World?
In the Type-Moon World, Tiamat was merely a local planetary god, but once she came to the Honkai: Star Rail Universe, it was completely different!
With the source of life unoccupied, her future was bright!
"If it were just Tiamat alone, the time needed would indeed be long."
"But..."
"If we add you, it will be completely different!"
After Ruan Mei was no longer the seemingly gentle but actually cold and almost ruthless person she used to be, Hermes finally began to pour in resources, preparing to give her a push.
Tiamat was the ultimate [resource] Hermes had prepared for Ruan Mei!
Otherwise, how could a single session of Fishing the Heavens coincide exactly with fishing up Tiamat?
"Tiamat alone can only move forward slowly in the most clumsy manner; achieving enlightenment would be a distant dream."
Hermes gazed at Ruan Mei and said slowly: "And Ruan Mei alone has a shallow foundation, too little capital, and insufficient room for maneuver."
No matter what, even if Ruan Mei's talent was high, she was ultimately just a simple Destiny Walker of the Path of Erudition, not even an Envoy.
In terms of volume, she was too weak!
In this situation, even if Ruan Mei's plans were ingenious and her wisdom monstrous, the possibility of ascending to heaven in one step and achieving enlightenment in a single thought like Herta... it's not zero, but it's practically the same.
But if the two were added together... the situation would be completely different!
As for how to add them?
This was a problem Ruan Mei needed to solve herself; Hermes would no longer interfere.
The opportunity has already been given by Hermes!
If Ruan Mei couldn't even solve this small problem and could do nothing, how could she talk about achieving enlightenment in one step and attaining the Cosmic Truth?
Hermes couldn't very well create a Life · Cosmic Truth himself and then feed it directly to her, could he?
"...Thank you, my Lord of Heavenly Principles."
Ruan Mei gazed at the man before her, a soft look appearing in her eyes as she responded softly.
Naturally, Ruan Mei's way of addressing Hermes also silently changed.
What this represented was obviously self-evident.
Herta looked at Ruan Mei's expression, then turned to look at Hermes, her face twitching.
"Herta, what's wrong with you now?"
Hermes was a bit confused. "Am I not starting to tilt resources toward Ruan Mei as you requested?"
"What kind of act are you putting on now?"
This was the truth; if it hadn't been for Herta's repeated pushing and pulling, Hermes, even if he would have guided Ruan Mei, would not have invested such a huge cost.
To accurately fish Tiamat out from the infinite dimensions via Fishing the Heavens was no easy task.
On the surface, he only used a Philosopher's Stone as bait.
But in reality, to accurately fish Tiamat over, and to bribe and settle the Type-Moon Multiverse Heavenly Dao, he had secretly burned almost eighty percent of the latest version of the Philosopher's Stone he had accumulated. Such a price was by no means small—
After all, Tiamat was a genuine primordial mother, possessing the ceiling-level life authority of the Type-Moon World, and was one of the existences in the entire Type-Moon multiverse most likely to achieve the Cosmic Truth!
To make the Type-Moon Multiverse Heavenly Dao let go, it was indeed impossible without paying a price.
"I asked you to give Ruan Mei a hand, not to conquer Ruan Mei..."
Herta was also speechless. Look at Ruan Mei's heartfelt gentle appearance; was it normal?
She has never been this gentle even to me, her best friend!
According to her original intention, it was to invest a batch of the latest version of the Philosopher's Stone to improve Ruan Mei's foundation—
At least push her to the level of an Envoy first, right?
But the situation was completely different from what she had imagined!
"Just say if I put in effort and paid a price or not."
"Uh..."
Herta was stumped.
After all, she knew very well that to fish an existence like Tiamat—who was almost unique in the universe and had nearly infinite potential—out of her original universe, not to mention the difficulty of searching, Hermes likely really paid a high price just to bring her over smoothly!
After dismissing Herta, Ruan Mei, and the others, and exchanging some intentions with Screwllum and the others to get a satisfactory answer, Hermes shifted his gaze—
To Jade, Topaz, and Aventurine of the Interstellar Peace Corporation.
The three of them looked at each other and took a deep breath, calming their rapidly beating hearts.
This was a legendary existence that the Corporation had been defeated by without even meeting!
"Sorry for the wait."
Hermes looked gently at the three before him, naturally showing his goodwill. "Come sit here, let's have a drink together."
Regarding Jade, Topaz, Aventurine, and the other Ten Stonehearts, he had naturally researched them before trying to recruit them.
Their talents were beyond doubt; what was rare was that under the leadership of the Preservation Emissary Diamond, their conduct might not be exceptionally noble, but it was clearly quite different from the Interstellar Peace Corporation's usual style.
To be able to perform like this in the quagmire of the Corporation was indeed rare.
Of course, rare as it was, Hermes didn't actually care that much.
After all, in the whole Honkai: Star Rail Universe, people who are neither good nor evil but just in the middle are as numerous as the sands on a beach.
The key was that Hermes had an important plan that required them to fully utilize their talents to complete, which concerned some very important future schemes...
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