Chapter 212: "Born with curse"

When Bronya came into contact with the memory fragment, her childhood memory replayed in her mind.

There is an uncle named Maxim who has looked after her since childhood. That day, he told her a story about the Ural mountains and also gave her a birthday present of a matryoshka doll.

After that...

The sound of missiles came.

Destroying everything.

Bronya: "...."

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Exit the memory fragment, and return to the original place. Bronya could see Prometheus who was still waiting her with folded arms.

"Congratulations, the first step has been successful. Next, do the same, and after absorbing everything, you will be able to leave this place."

Without much nonsense, Bronya immediately summoned project bunny, and she aimed the big hand cannon at prometheus.

Prometheus tilted her head, not understanding: "Hm, I feel strange. Is it time to betray and keep my mouth shut? Do you still suspect me?"

"That's what Bronya should be asking. What are you planning?"

Prometheus was still confused: "Plan? From your aggressive tone, it seems like there are some factors that made you change your opinion about me. We might have misunderstood, can you explain it to me?"

Facing a logical and calm AI. Bronya's anger also began to subside, and she told her what she had found in there.

"Misteln isn't coming?"

"Yes, this is different from what you were talking about earlier. Bronya has been waiting there for hours. If Bronya doesn't find a way out, then Bronya will be trapped there forever."

Knowing from Bronya's mouth that the memory fragments she entered were slowly turning into a cage that could trap her, prometheus stroked her smooth chin, thinking.

Deciding to act directly, and sink her program into one of the existing memory fragments. Prometheus opened her eyes again.

"Ah, it turns out that's how it is. Misteln has betrayed me. This is truly an unexpected surprise."

Bronya was confused: "Aren't you two friends?"

Prometheus shook her head: "Friend? There are only interests between us. She was the first person to discover my whereabouts, and the only person I can work with."

"Even though it is still unknown what kind of motive caused her to betray me, her motive is no longer important. From now on you must hurry."

"Misteln used the power of the stigma project to corrupt the core herrscher of Reason, and currently she is separating that power from the herrscher core."

"You mean Misteln wants to seize the power of the Herrscher of Reason?" Bronya became serious.

Prometheus shook her head.

"Maybe, but I don't think so. Rather than usurping, her current actions are like trying to separate the power of the Herrscher of Reason from you."

"Isn't that the same thing?"

Prometheus wanted to open her mouth to reply back. But looked at Bronya's face silently, and after that began to understand Misteln's feelings. Prometheus couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

"There are some things that are difficult to put into words. Instead of continuing to speculate, why don't you find out for yourself?"

"Misteln planted her information to corrupt your herrscher core. As long as you clear the abnormal fragments, everything will be restored."

Looked at prometheus seriously, and began to withdraw project bunny from threat mode. For the last time, Bronya decided to trust her once again.

"So what should Bronya do?"

"Do the same as you did before. Get ready, I will send you deeper into the herrscher core to look for abnormal fragments."

Holding Prometheus hand, and felt a moment of dizziness. When Bronya opened her eyes again, she had arrived in a strange place.

They are currently within the herrscher core. Thousands of memory fragments from 300,000 people were floating everywhere in the shape of a door.

Occasionally, there was a silhouette of Misteln that entered the memory fragments. Like a virus, the memory fragment was instantly destroyed, and several Misteln figures began to spread out to search for other memory fragments.

If left unchecked, the 300,000 consciousnesses at the core of the Herrscher of Reason will be destroyed and become [seeds of idea] by Hare, and Bronya will be trapped here forever.

"Quite diligent too." Prometheus makes a joke at the wrong time.

Without wasting time. Bronya followed one of Misteln's silhouettes, and she entered the memory fragments together.

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"This place... Why does Bronya have a physical body?"

Prometheus explained: "This is Misteln's memory. She used the power of project stigma to enter, and you also used the power of Herrscher of Reason to enter. Because your powers are the same, this reaction will cause the memory fragments to become solid."

"Well, I would suggest it's better to watch it first before go."

Bronya was confused: "Why? Is there a reason?"

Prometheus sighed.

"I just want to make you understand, and see a process of the soul being distorted."

"After all, you two are princesses of Siberia. You all, children of the Ural mountains."

"If possible, I don't want to make her be your enemy."

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Entering the memory fragment, and could see a white-haired woman, sitting helplessly in the snow with empty eyes. The idea that had just been born, looked around her in fear.

Around her, there was only destruction everywhere.

This is all her doing.

"No... It's not... because me..."

"I am not..."

As special stigmata, crystallizations, Ideas, and miracles born from the destruction in 2000 in Siberia. This woman didn't need to study like a human to understand what was happening here.

Transcription allows her to immediately understand things. Even though she was just born, she was already fluent in human language, understood what was right and wrong, and was also somewhat familiar with her own origins.

Including, with what happened in this place.

...

Otto explains:

"Cecilia, do you know what the stigmata curse is?"

"Unlike the Kaslana family, whose power comes from hereditary genetic factors. The Schariac family is the result of gene mutation, or you could say from [strange information]."

"The Schariac family's power was a contradiction from the start. There were those who were strong and could control honkai energy, they could become warriors. Meanwhile, there were those who could weaken honkai energy, and they became doctors."

"Of course, over hundreds of years of optimization, the Schariac blood currently in your body is the most stable."

"By using your blood you can purify most of the honkai energy with a high concentration. However, sometimes there is also a mutation."

"In the place where you died, you could have created a pure land free from Honkai..."

"Or..."

"Making hell."

....

"...."

Of course, Otto's speculation never came to pass. Cecilia sacrificed herself in Siberia, and used half of her own blood to save many people.

...That's how it should be.

But this is not a question with one answer. Rather, it is a twofold answer.

Cecilia did create a temporary holy land to protect everyone.

But....

As [Idea] that was born after Cecilia died, and the crystallization of Schariac's stigmata when the Imaginary space touched reality...

"No... It's not because of me..."

She turned to the place she was born, and saw the path she had desperately walked. With a trembling, shrill voice, and scarcely able to put into words, she traced her way back, to find out what had happened before.

But, she still couldn't cure this disaster from the start.

She... was a disaster itself.