Chapter 246: "The plan to move the Herrscher gem"

"You are better suited to lead Schicksal than I am."

"So Maria, please help me."

Hearing the self-deprecation in Thea's tone, Maria shook her head quickly.

Maria looked firmly into Thea's eyes.

"Please don't insult yourself Saintess Thea, you are a worthy leader, even more than me."

A leader can have flaws, but what is certain is that they always have a special charisma that no one can imitate.

Thea guided Schicksal to sign a partnership with Anti-Entropy, breaking the hatred of two large organizations that had been at blood feud for a long time.

If it had been replaced by her, perhaps currently she would still be in conflict with Anti-Entropy with small-scale and large-scale feuds.

The very ancient and most hidden World Serpent Organization, also only obeyed orders given by Thea.

This was also one that she could not imitate.

Apart from that, there is also overcoming the side effects of stigmata, create a safe area free of honkai, saving the world from various kinds of crises several times...

And many more.

Maria recalled the story that Amber had talked about Overseer Otto had also made an offer to Welt Joice to become the leader of Schicksal, replacing him.

The reason why Otto chose him was because Welt Joice had extraordinary individual charisma.

He is surrounded by amazing friends who have the same goals as he does.

Lieserl Albert Einstein, Frederica Nikola Tesla, Emma Planck, Schrödinger, Edison...

Now, this is Thea.

Looking at her back, Maria already knew why Otto chose Thea over her as the leader of Schicksal.

Maria does not harbor hatred.

She used to look up to Thea in awe because she was the daughter of her hero, Cecilia.

But now...

"Saintess Thea, please don't care about the opinions of outsiders, they don't know the sacrifices you have made. We Schicksal valkyries are always by your side."

"….I think, thanks?"

Thea smiled gently.

"But even though you praise me like that, I didn't change my mind. You have to lead Schicksal to replace me."

"Ehh...."

Maria looked like a deflated balloon.

Thea laughed.

"Don't worry, this is only for a while. I need time to improve my body condition. Later when we're done, we'll get an extra S-rank valkyrie."

"I know that the current me is really useless. I can't help much, that's why I can't stay silent."

The first thing Thea wanted to do was to stabilize her current body control.

Even though this body is not as strong as the original body in the Imaginary space, at least this body in the material plane can fight one on one against herrschers and other S-rank valkyries.

Thea still adheres to the principle that absolute power can solve any problem.

Regarding the Evil Vill-V which managed to break into her body, Thea could only be grateful because she had managed to find her weakness.

Anything that can't kill me will make me stronger.

"Besides, failure is a common thing in life. Don't let failure once be a reason for you not to get back up. Otherwise, you will disappoint me."

"I-I will work hard!"

"Hm, then cheer up!"

Thea patted Maria on the shoulder, and she left to begin her retreat.

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Three days passed after Maria became the person with the highest authority in Schicksal.

Based on the advice that Amber gave, Maria asked her hero, Cecilia, for help to replace Bianka as Fu Hua's bodyguard.

When Cecilia was still a Schicksal valkyrie, she was trained by Otto using Fenghuang Down feathers to train her illusion resistance.

Thanks to this training, on the second honkai war, Cecilia was very quick to realize that she had already entered the illusion made by Sirin.

Cecilia is the perfect person to deal with the herrscher of Sentience.

In addition, perhaps because Herrscher will soon appear, honkai impacts around the world are starting to become more frequent.

The quality of the Honkai beasts that appear is also starting to get higher. Emperor class honkai beasts that were rarely encountered, can now be seen everywhere.

Anti-Entropy tries to help by sending thousands of their Mecha Titans. Even though it was useless against high level Honkai beasts, this at least made Schicksal's work easier.

The S-rank Valkyries still had to be deployed, and Maria was busy all day ordering the Valkyries to deal with the Honkai Impact problem.

She didn't know how long the Honkai impact would end.

"We have spies?"

Seeing the message she got from the World Serpent special line, Maria frowned.

Spies within large organizations like Schicksal are commonplace. They even have hidden spies in Anti-Entropy.

Everyone will be peaceful and not disturb in an era of peace. But the problem is, if these spies are replaced with Herrscher of Domination dolls, then this will be a very serious problem.

The letter states that there are several [people] who intend to steal Herrscher's gems from their Schicksal headquarters.

This behavior closely parallels Herrscher of Domination's personality.

Maria discussed this issue with Amber seriously.

"I suspect that the World Serpent itself is a spy. After all, this organization is an organization that we know little about. But, it is not impossible that Herrscher of Domination's puppets have indeed infiltrated the base through our allies."

What Amber meant was the Anti-Entropy allied forces.

"You are right, we have checked in detail every valkyrie guarding the Herrscher gem. But there is a possibility that on the Anti-Entropy side they have an intruder."

Amber: "Then what do you want to do next? Shall we call Saintess Thea?"

After Thea woke up from her long sleep, she had installed technology in the form of a sensor that could detect the Herrscher of Domination nucleus in a person's body, everywhere in Schicksal.

The possibility of intrusion is very small.

But, it is not impossible.

In the previous era they also did the same thing, but in the end many important MOTH officials were dragged out of the headquarters to be executed.

Thinking that their enemy had minimal movement during these three months, Maria had to think about this spy threat seriously.

She made a decision.

"No, Saintess Thea has entrusted this matter to me, I don't want to disappoint her."

"I have a plan."

She wanted to move these two herrscher cores to a more hidden safe place.

Maria had thought this through carefully.

Apart from trying to clean up the scourges hiding in the corners of Schicksal, Maria also wanted to see who these spies were.

Schicksal, Anti-Entropy, World Serpent...

On the surface, these three organizations looked very harmonious when Thea was still there. But after Thea fell into a coma previously, some undercurrents had begun to emerge.

Several corrupt Anti-Entropy executives began to secretly covet Schicksal's resources. As for World Serpent, even though they behaved well from the start, Maria would not let go of her suspicions about an intelligence organization that even Schicksal couldn't detect.

Thea can trust everyone. But for her, all of them were very suspicious people.

Amber made a suggestion.

"There are several hidden bases that can be used to store herrscher cores. I can deploy dead valkyries to guard the bases, they have been trained by Schicksal secretly, and they are all 100% loyal to Schicksal."

"That will be very helpful."

"Then do you want to discuss the details further?"

"Sure, let's make that like this."