Chapter 40: "Cecilia and Siegfried trapped, should I join?"

"Who? Who attacked me!?"

Using the power of the Herrscher of Death to instantly restore her body's condition. Sirin rose from the cold floor, and she looked around warily.

"No one? The woman has also left."

Uses the Herrscher of Wind's power to scan the surrounding area. Sirin, who did not find anyone's presence other than the presence of a large number of Honkai beasts, was getting more and more confused.

"Ahhh... maybe it's just the effect of the woman's attack before. Nyet, those bugs can always cheat everywhere!"

Gritting her teeth in annoyance. Sirin looked at the red colored feather left where Fu Hua was standing before, and she raised her eyebrows in interest.

"Oh, they left me a very interesting toy. Previously they used these feathers to invade and control my mind."

The Fenghuang Down Feather in Sirin's hand gradually turned a purple color.

"I guess... This Feather is now mine?" Sirin smiled sarcastically.

Playing with the Fenghuang Down feather in her hand. Sirin scanned the surrounding area once more, and she snorted in dissatisfaction.

"Alright, since you all gave me such an interesting toy, I'll let bugs like you live for a little while."

"Haha, all my loyal minions now dominated the entire plains. One of my beasts will find and kill them soon enough."

"Now it's time to test the new toy on someone!"

"Hmm~ who should it be~?"

Opening the one way portal, Sirin saw Cecilia and Siegfried with a playful smile.

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South of Siberia, S-1 Formation.

Commander Cecilia along with the Valkyries exterminated the Honkai beasts, and injured victims kept appearing among the valkyries.

Cecilia gave the order: "Kira, escort the wounded to our field hospitals in sector K-12."

"All other squads, are to cover Kira's retreat!"

Kira: "At once, Cecilia!"

Killed the Honkai beast in front of her, and turned around to follow captain Cecilia's instructions. Kira stopped moving, and she stared at the portal that had suddenly appeared behind Cecilia in panic.

"CECILIA! WATCH OUT!"

"Eh?"

Turn around to see what's really going on. A large hand shot out from within the portal, and Cecilia's consciousness suddenly grew dull.

Cecilia was brought into the portal without any resistance.

The spear-shaped Abyss Flower weapon in her hand fell to the ground.

"NO! NOO!!"

"CECILIA! NOOO!!!"

Kira could only scream frantically, not believing what she had just seen.

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North of Siberia, N-1 Formation.

"Damn it, that was so close! My attack only hit the back of its wing!"

Seeing Bella, a humanoid Honkai monster, slowly dragging her injured body away from him. Siegfried who had a body that had turned into a half-honkai beast due to the activator, was panting while holding the Cleaver of Shamash.

"I spent my entire strength to unleash that blow! If not for the activator, shamash would have turned me into a charred corpse!"

Siegfried who was exhausted, slowly stood up with great difficulty.

"Luckily i managed to bait this enemy away from the rest of my formation. That swing with the shamash would have accidentally killed a few of our own valkyries."

"Luckily, I managed to lure the enemy away from my formation. Shamash's current sword swing might be able to accidentally kill a few valkyries."

"Now Niggurath and the others can't help me. Me and her now have a race to recover and take the second strike first!"

Holding on to the Cleaver of Shamash tightly. Siegfried who had sharp instincts, suddenly felt something was wrong.

"Wait, THERE'S SOMETHING BEHIND ME!"

Haven't had time to react because his body was feeling very tired right now. A gigantic arm emerged from within the portal, and the hand made of imaginary energy casually gripped Siegfried's cloak.

"What the hell is this! It's that weird hands again!!"

When the purple feather of Fenghuang Down flashed in front of him. Siegfried's eye bags became heavy, and he began to lose consciousness.

"Get off... me..."

Without any struggle. Siegfried also enters the portal created by Sirin.

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The spire of the tower of Babylon.

Floats leisurely in the air. Sirin watches Bella who is dying through the portal.

Sirin glanced at her boredly.

"[You don't look very well at all, Bella.]"

Hearing Sirin's voice inside her mind, Bella panicked: "Apologies, my queen. Your servant was only careless!"

Bella laughed: "[Hah, are you glad that I helped out by testing my new toy?]"

Bella panicked: "Give your servant another chance, my queen! I shall wipe out the remaining insects in your name!"

"[Yeah Bella, just do whatever you want]."

Pulled her gaze back from Bella. Sirin who was hovering above the top of the Babylon tower, saw the mess she made, and she smiled.

"Good, those pesky insects will be wiped out in no time. God, did you see it? Your vision shall be realized soon."

Closed her eyes happily. Sirin who was waiting for Will of Honkai's response, the expression on her face slowly froze.

"Wait... God, can you hear me?"

Spoke, but had no response at all like before. Sirin suddenly opened her eyes in panic.

"Where are you, GOD!?!"

"Please God! ANSWER ME!"

"Your chosen servant is calling out to you!"

....

Did not get any answer at all from the god. Like an apostle who had been left behind, Sirin fell into a deep panic.

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"Now that was quite noisy."

K-423 scathingly comments at Sirin's deafening screams.

After she saved Cheng Lixue, and punched Sirin in the stomach until she vomited blood because of a personal grudge. The energy body made of honkai energy broke apart, and her body, which was composed of honkai energy, completely disappeared into thin air.

But even so, K-423 did not feel the least bit hurt.

Because she had found a new host.

That is, Sirin.

More precisely, she was now disguising herself as the stigmata on Sirin's back right now.

All of these things were able to work because she had assimilated Herrscher of Void's stigmata when Kiana was taken over by her in her own timeline. Because their stigmata have the same from, and authority, it is possible for the existence of K-423 to hide within it as the stigmata of Herrscher of Void.

"My plan was a success. Now I just need to maintain the remaining stigmata, as Sirin's herrscher core is taken one after another by Anti-Entropy."

"At a critical moment, I only need to change Cecilia's blood into Kaslana's blood for a few seconds using Herrscher of Reason's power, and giving her Herrscher of Death stigmata to drag her soul into the stigmata space of the kaslana family."

Thinking of the next plan. K-423 is unable to squint happily.

This tiring drama will soon be over.

"Oh, it seems that the pufferfish stopped screaming? Want to use the feather of Fenghuang Down? Then invite me in!"

K-423 eyes sparkled excitedly.