"Dan Heng and March 7th must have encountered some danger."
Looking at the overwhelming water curtain in the distance, Stelle held her Flame Lance and was desperately rushing toward her destination.
Although the three of them hadn't known each other for very long, their life-and-death experiences together in Belobog and the Xianzhou had made Stelle genuinely consider them companions from the bottom of her heart.
"I can see them - that's the two of them!" As Stelle's speed increased, the scene before her gradually became clearer.
She exerted force with both legs and leaped down from a high slope. Accompanied by a spray of snowflakes, Stelle arrived before the two with a heroic entrance pose.
"March! Dan Heng! I'm here!" She slowly stood up, pointing her long spear directly at the person before her, ready for an exhilarating battle.
The result...
"Y-Yang... Uncle Yang?"
Time rewinds to not long ago.
"How... impossible! How could I lose to these ants?" In a giant crater ten miles in diameter, the battered and dying Sirin looked at her palm, her eyes full of disbelief.
Just moments ago, her proud defensive measures had completely failed. The speed of opening portals couldn't match the opponent's water control speed, and her omnidirectional Subspace barriers had been directly shattered by ultra-high-frequency attacks.
At this moment, feeling her life ebbing away, her heart was filled with unwillingness.
"I don't want to die... I don't want to die!" Large tears slid down from the corners of Sirin's eyes. She staggered to her feet, and her fear of death made her just want to escape quickly.
But just then, an extremely strong gravitational force pressed her directly to the ground. A man walked through the air, looking down condescendingly at everything before him.
"The mighty Herrscher of the Void actually driven to such a desperate state by humans. But it doesn't matter anymore. Let your power serve me."
Ignoring Sirin's despairing gaze, Welt thrust his hand through her chest and extracted the core that symbolized spatial authority. Portals appeared behind him, and under the somewhat eerie illumination, the man's smile became increasingly unrestrained.
"That's... Uncle Yang?" Looking at Welt, whose demeanor had completely changed, March 7th said somewhat uncertainly.
"Quick! Get away from there!" A black-haired girl with a very gentle temperament shouted from the distance.
Then, seemingly to cover for the two, her two companions beside her began firing at Welt's direction.
"Project Bunny 19C!"
"Hehe~ Let's compete! Bronya will show you this young lady's strength!"
Looking at this sudden reinforcement, March 7th was still somewhat confused about what was happening, but Uncle Yang before her looked very ominous no matter how you looked at it, so March 7th decisively chose to follow her heart.
"Dan Heng, let's go quickly. This Uncle Yang really seems to be a villain," she walked to Dan Heng's side and said subtly. But for some reason, her companion before her seemed to completely ignore her.
"Hey... Dan Heng, are you listening?"
Somewhat dissatisfied, she lightly elbowed Dan Heng a few times, but gradually, looking at his chaotic eyes, March 7th seemed to notice something wrong.
Although he still had that cold expression, the grief about to overflow from his eyes was definitely not normal.
Fortunately, just then Stelle arrived.
The huge commotion instantly attracted everyone's attention, including Dan Heng, who was deep in memories.
Looking at that still-joking figure, the originally oppressive atmosphere immediately eased.
"Yang... Uncle Yang?" Stelle didn't understand what was happening, so seeing that familiar face, she froze in place for a moment, and the flames gathered on her Flame Lance gradually dissipated.
"That's not Uncle Yang - at least not the Uncle Yang we know. Anyway, let's run first!" Grabbing Stelle's wrist, March 7th forcibly pulled the two and began to flee.
This Uncle Yang was giving off an increasingly strong sense of oppression. Based on her self-proclaimed gaming expert experience, a big one should be coming.
Either an instant kill or a second phase - anyway, running first was never wrong.
However, regardless of what everyone was thinking, none of this affected a certain First Herrscher in the sky who had already finished absorbing the Herrscher core.
He raised his right hand and surveyed the crowd preparing to flee with the posture of a judge.
"Seeking benefits and avoiding harm, knowing how to flee - this is the most important instinct of animals."
"Flee then, just like I did back then, hiding here and there like wounded beasts, struggling to survive."
"...It's just that you have nowhere left to run."
After briefly listening to March 7th's explanation, Stelle nodded and roughly understood everything.
Swinging her spear to pierce through a mecha, Stelle looked back at Uncle Yang laughing maniacally in the sky and couldn't help but complain: "By the way, do you guys feel like this Uncle Yang seems a bit chuunibyou?"
"What time is it and you're still concerned about that?" Seemingly not expecting the topic to turn to such a strange place, March 7th tilted her head with a face full of helplessness.
But looking at Stelle's inquiring gaze, she couldn't help but start recalling everything from just now... "Hey, now that you mention it, it really does seem a bit..."
"You two..." Dan Heng was tired, but Dan Heng didn't want to say anything. He seemed to have gotten used to it. Whatever.
Using such large-scale Cloud-Hymn magic just now had made the hallucinations before his eyes increasingly severe. After forcing himself to deal with that purple-haired girl, he had even momentarily mistaken Mr. Welt for Sedition.
His current mental state was extremely worrying, and he indeed needed to rest properly.
But after all, this place wasn't a real space, so...
"Eh? What's this?" Looking at the world around them that had frozen again and their own dissipating bodies, everyone stared at each other with wide eyes.
At the same time, a message was also sent to everyone's panel.
[Herrscher of the Void Eliminated]
[Prerequisites detected as completed. Settlement will now commence.]
Just like playing a level-clearing game, after completing certain specific conditions, the game would automatically enter a cutscene, and this was basically the current situation.
In the blink of an eye, everyone's consciousness had been fixed into a petite body, and the scene had also shifted from that snowy plain to a sealed laboratory.
Through the reflection of the steel plate before them, they could see this girl had gray hair with two Roman curls hanging from the sides of her head. Red patterns spread like spider webs, adding an eerie beauty to her tender features.
This was precisely Bronya Zaychik, who had been mentioned in the previous question.
And before her was the one about to make his once-in-a-lifetime transcendence declaration - Anti-Entropy's Sovereign, Star of Eden manufacturer, the trial that would make people talk for a lifetime, Welt Yang: Transcendence Edition.