Chapter 39

May 11, 2008

"Wow, this is so incredible. Look Ryusuke, we are flying. The future is really incredible!"

"Ryusuke, are you sure this plane is safe? He's not going to fall, right?"

{ Hmph, being scared just by that? As expected from rednecks in the interior. }

Kallen and Yae Rin were very excited and concerned to see the city through the plane's window during the flight. They are watching the outside world through Ryusuke's eyes. For those who lived in a medieval time, traveling by plane can be considered as something out of a legend.

As for Herrscher of Corruption, she did not miss the opportunity to insult Yae Rin and Kallen. 

As to why Ryusuke is on a plane, it is because today he will start his plan to steal Serenity Gem today.

He decided to start his plan the day before the Serenity Gem experiment. A few hours ago Ryusuke left his house before the sun came up, he left without Yae Sakura noticing. He left a note for her saying that he went out to solve something important and that he would be back soon. 

After that Ryusuke went to the airport in the city of Nagazora and he calmly took a flight to Germany. The trip lasted four hours which made Ryusuke remember that this world is technologically more advanced than his past life world, as a plane trip between Japan and Germany would take at least 12 hours to complete your past life world. 

During the trip Ryusuke also used the power of Corruption to be completely invisible to the system, which was not difficult since it was just the system of a civilian airport, there was no difficulty in that. 

After that Ryusuke arrived at the German airport and he managed to get out of there after he gave a generous bribe to some airport security guards to let him pass without doing any asks him, after all he was an unaccompanied child without an adult around. 

When he left the airport he asked for a taxi and went to the limits of the German city he was in, along the way Ryusuke bought some local delicacies that he tried and found delicious. When he arrived at his destination he got out of the taxi and paid the driver a generous amount of money.

Ryusuke then started walking into a forest, this walk lasted 1 hour but he finally reached his destination. 

Just over 50 meters in front of him was a group of five women who were resting there, these women were rank-B Valkyries who were sent on a regular Honkai beast extermination mission. 

In 1952 the first Honkai eruption took place in Berlin, Germany, the city was destroyed and more than 300,000 people died, it was in this Honkai eruption that the first Herrscher of the Current Age was born. Even though more than 50 years have passed since the incident and the Honkai energy in the area has disappeared completely clean, some Honkai beasts still appear around to attack the others cities and that is why Schicksal regularly sends some squads of Valkyries to destroy Honkai beasts and clean up the area. 

Compared to Siberia, which was the site of the second Honkai eruption that happened 8 years ago, this place is very quiet. 

Ryusuke began to slowly approach the Valkyries group, he was using Binding's powers to control the light around him so that he was completely invisible and he was also completely hiding his Honkai energy.

During those three weeks he also tested Binding's powers, as they would be needed for infiltration. 3 years ago when he became invisible to surprise Herrscher of Corruption he was just a completely novice, but now it is capable of being completely invisible and can mix completely with the environment. 

Ryusuke stopped approaching them when he arrived 15 meters away, after which he waited 5 minutes and then a small Schicksal aircraft landed nearby. That aircraft looked like a helicopter only much bigger and more technological. The Valkyries entered the aircraft and Ryusuke accompanied them. 

'Ryusuke why are you doing this? I think you better not go with them. I don't know what happened to Schicksal in these five hundred years but I'm sure Schicksal is a very dangerous place for you.' Kallen warned him, she was very concerned about his safety.

'Don't worry Kallen-san, I already have everything planned. I'm going to Schicksal because they have something that I really need.' Ryusuke spoke to Kallen. 

'Ryusuke stealing is wrong, you must not approach Schicksal. Please stay away from them before...' Unfortunately, Kallen was unable to finish speaking as the aircraft has already taken off and headed for heaven. 

After a 40-minute trip Ryusuke finally got a glimpse of the place he is going to steal. 

Schicksal headquarters.

(image is here)

This headquarters is basically a flying fortress. 

'Hey, is that Schicksal headquarters? But how is this possible? '(Kallen )

'Wow, the future is incredible. There is even a city in heaven. (Yae Rin )

{ Hmph, as humans always love to show off for no reason. You can already imagine the gigantic amount of resources they need to spend to keep this pile of garbage floating in the sky. } (Herrscher of Corruption)

Kallen and Yae Rin were impressed and surprised that Schicksal's headquarters were floating in the sky. 

Herrscher of Corruption was surprised by this, although she complained and felt disdain for it, in her day Fire Moth did not make any floating base as they consider it a useless waste of resources. 

It didn't take long for the aircraft to land at the base. The Valkyries that left the aircraft were tired because of their mission and that is why they were not even suspicious that there was another passenger on that aircraft. 

'Great, the place of landing was the same as the one predicted so I just need to go down that corridor.' (Ryusuke )

In these last few days Ryusuke studied the plants at Schicksal's base, he already knows where Serenity Gem is being kept. After he crossed some corridors and went down some stairs, he also saw some Valkyries and some Schicksal scientists where he passed but no one noticed his presence.

And then after 1 hour of infiltration, Ryusuke finally arrived at the place where Serenity Gem is being kept. There was a large locked steel door blocking the entrance. 

After studying the Schicksal system, Ryusuke knows that on the other side of the door is Serenity Gem, and he also knows that no one in there because Serenity Gem exudes a lot of Honkai energy and even with all the isolation it is not safe to have a prolonged approach or it may end up resulting in death from Honkai disease. 

'Finally, now I just need to get Gem and get out of here silently.'

Ryusuke had already left some programs hidden in the Schicksal system to help him today. With these programs he will be able to open the door, disable the Serenity Gem security system and will be able to manipulate the surveillance system so that everyone believes Gem is still there. This will give him time so that he can get out of there smoothly without anyone noticing. 

But when Ryusuke was about to start the programs he felt two appearances approaching.

'What is it? The Honkai energy I feel from there is like robots, but I feel like they are different...' 

Ryusuke decided to step aside a little to see what was coming there. 

After a few seconds Ryusuke finally found out who the people were, they came here. He opened his eyes wide by surprise to see who he is. 

But the person who was most surprised to see the two people was...

'Otto?!!'

Kallen never imagined that she would see her childhood friend again after 500 years. 

The people there were Otto Apocalypse, Schicksal's Overseer. 

And Amber, she is Otto's assistant.