The Special Power of the Stigmata

At the moment that Griseo's body underwent the strange transformation, Ren had already sensed the change on her. A completely new power was quietly appearing, and it was feeding back to him through the Herrscher of Dominance's abilities.

It was an extremely complex energy system that stored and converted Honkai energy in a special way, ultimately forming something called a Stigmata space. And the Stigmata space wasn't completely independent. It would exchange power with an even larger Stigmata space through the Imaginary Space, gaining higher-dimensional abilities.

Rather than a power system, it was more like an inheritance.

Unfortunately, although the Stigmata had appeared on Griseo, as a puppet, her awakening wasn't complete after all. And, as a Herrscher, Ren couldn't deceive the managers of the higher-dimensional Stigmata space. He could only rely on the Stigmata's inherent power.

And this Stigmata felt very familiar to him, as if it was his by birth.

Could it be that Griseo actually carried Ren's genes, and that Jackal's Stigmata experiments had coincidentally activated the Stigmata that Ren himself was supposed to have?

This speculation was too bold. Ren didn't dare to think any further.

On the other side, looking at the Stigmata that had successfully appeared on Griseo's body, Jackal was filled with joy. She had finally gotten a good outcome from her heavily-invested resources. She was even more excited than Ren himself. However, before she could approach, a powerful force suddenly erupted, sending her flying.

The laboratory's equipment and tools were scattered all over the place. Jackal herself had almost fallen unconscious because of the blow, but as a veteran of disasters, Jackal naturally wouldn't be without any preparations. She immediately pressed the button on her body.

The assistants around her had already been completely turned into mindless Honkai Zombies by the Honkai energy, but they didn't even have the ability to get close to Griseo. Before they could even approach, they were all crushed by an invisible force.

"What a perfect weapon." Looking at the figure of Griseo easily slaughtering the Honkai Zombies, Jackal nodded with satisfaction. "But you should calm down first."

As she spoke, a thick mist began to spread around the laboratory. This was a specially-made HSN gas, which didn't harm ordinary human bodies, but would disrupt the Honkai energy inside Valkyries upon contact, causing them to completely lose their power.

Jackal had originally planned to use it when Schicksal's people had arrived, but since her experimental subject had lost control, she would naturally prioritize recovering her experimental subject.

Seeing that Griseo was standing there without moving, Jackal breathed a sigh of relief. At the same time, her special weapon had also arrived at the scene.

As the metal gate opened, the modified ultimate weapon that had been wrapped in the culture medium, the Death Weaver, finally appeared in the laboratory. It was Jackal's most satisfying killing weapon, created using the bodies of Schicksal Valkyries as materials combined with mechanical prosthetics to form a spider-like monster.

"Death Weaver, capture her." Jackal issued the command, while also standing up, and heading towards the exit. The gas here was getting thicker and thicker, and even she would be affected by it in a little while.

However, just as she opened the laboratory door, a black shadow shot out at an extremely fast speed. Jackal was shocked. Did her experimental subject still have the ability to move?

Unfortunately, before she could get an answer, she saw the Death Weaver, which had been smashed into the wall of the corridor. Its spider limbs were bent and twisted.

If only Griseo had truly awakened, Jackal would naturally have been able to suppress her, but the one controlling her now was a Herrscher.

"Big sister, good evening, the experiments that you did to me were really painful, you know." A childish and innocent voice echoed in the laboratory. Through the thick gas, Jackal couldn't see the girl's figure, but the ever-changing architecture around her made it clear that the monster she had created was now approaching her.

The light blue short hair moved without any wind, and the single crimson highlight was extremely eye-catching. Wearing a white lab coat that she had stolen from a researcher, Griseo was walking towards Jackal step by step, barefoot.

Fear finally appeared in Jackal's eyes. She gritted her teeth, and activated all of her weapons. The machine guns that had been installed on the wall spewed out fire, covering Griseo's location completely, but all the bullets stopped one meter away from her, as if they were blocked by an invisible wall.

"Is this the power of the Stigmata?"

No, actually, this is the power of a Herrscher.

Griseo's Stigmata was a power similar to telekinesis. It wasn't very strong on its own, but with the amplification of the Herrscher of Thousands, it had reached the peak of an A-rank Valkyrie. Jackal was a very strong researcher, but she wasn't a combat type. She didn't have a chance of winning against the current Griseo.

Crack—

Jackal's left leg suddenly broke, and with Griseo's continued crushing force, her lower leg gradually shattered and fractured.

"Damn it!" She cursed while fleeing extremely quickly. It was unknown what she had taken, but she quickly turned into a Honkai beast, and frantically ran towards the exit.

Lightly raising her right hand, a broken steel beam shot out, pinning Jackal, who had turned into a Honkai beast, to the wall.

At the same time, Ren had also discovered the limitations of Griseo's abilities. When he personally controlled her, he had to first exert his Dominance powers onto Griseo. Then, through Griseo's Stigmata, the Stigmata would then use the feedback from the Imaginary Space, to exert that power into reality.

In other words, there was a large delay. Therefore, if he wanted to use the power precisely, he had to control his own speed. If he moved too vigorously, he would easily lose control.

"Huh? Where did my big sister go? Why did she turn into a monster?" Pinned to the wall, Jackal was feeling anxious, and could only keep praying that Raven would quickly come to her rescue.

Fortunately, Raven didn't let her down. Red arrows shot towards Griseo, stopping her movements. Ren tried to use the surrounding debris to attack her, but his disadvantage of high latency was exposed before the agile Raven. Although Raven couldn't do anything to Ren either, it wasn't a problem for her to take Jackal away.

Oh well, I can't kill Jackal anyway. Torturing her a bit is enough. It's just payback for using me in her experiments.

Looking back at the bloody laboratory, Ren sighed. He wondered how many test subjects had endured brutal torture here.

Boom—

The laboratory was completely destroyed by the explosively released powers. And the power stored in the Stigmata was also completely depleted. Within the intense Honkai energy that erupted, countless people in the industrial district were infected by Honkai, turning into mindless Honkai Zombies. But since they were all personnel who had participated in the Stigmata Project, they had probably been prepared for a bad end.

Griseo stood in the collapsed building and burning flames. A space rift suddenly opened, and she walked in, returning to the Dominance Theater.

Outside of Heliopolis Life Sciences Pharmaceutical, Kiana, who had just infiltrated and bypassed the security robots, looked up at the place where the explosion had occurred.