Honkai: Man(Sludge) From Future

Professor Magi was a rather unlucky man.

In his early years, he believed in the Schicksal doctrine and sent many young boys and girls to the operating table. But when Otto experimented on his granddaughter, a single phrase, "For Kallen," shattered the old man's spirit.

Dude, could you have said that somewhere else?

Exposing his true motives in front of so many people, with Professor Magi having just lost his granddaughter, it was almost certain he would defect.

And so, Professor Magi defected. It was unknown if Otto had intentionally guided him to do so.

The next time he was seen, it was in Academy City.

And in just a few short months after his arrival, the public opinion within Schicksal had taken such a dramatic turn.

These Honkai-fighting Valkyries were no longer eager to strive for the cause of humanity. They were on the verge of unemployment.

This situation provided an opportunity for others to influence the thoughts of these young girls. All sorts of chaotic ideas and rumors began to surface.

Although the Valkyries were all part of the Schicksal family, and they could unite against a common enemy when the Honkai was a threat, they were not without their own internal conflicts.

Valkyrie rankings, battlefield priorities, who would be the cannon fodder, who would be the shield, who would provide support, and who would stay back.

As long as there was a division of labor, these situations would arise, and friction and conflict were inevitable.

The most direct benefit of this kind of competition was that if you were good, you were good; if you weren't, you weren't. A fight would settle it. This allowed such competitive conflicts to be resolved through force.

However, in Professor Magi's eyes, the operational logic of Academy City was completely different from Schicksal's. Here, the spirit determined all levels of hierarchy.

This old man saw it very clearly. The Stigmata was an excellent tool for classifying the strength of a person's spirit, completely different from the S, A, B, C ranking system that the Valkyries had been using for hundreds of years.

Therefore, the Valkyries couldn't quickly integrate into Academy City. And since they were all superwomen with immense power, it was even more unlikely that they would obediently bow down and listen to the Academy City Board of Directors.

"Ana, I want to ask for your help. Right now, Overseer Otto has almost completely abandoned the Valkyries below A-rank. He doesn't even have any intention of disciplining them, allowing those children from bureaucratic families to indoctrinate them. This will bring great harm to the entire human society. Contact with those people is even worse than going back to school."

"Ana, I've observed many Valkyries. You are one of the few who doesn't care about family background and doesn't place much importance on your Valkyrie identity. The name Schariac has not become a restraint for you. You also have few friends and rarely take the initiative to participate in struggles you are not good at."

"I need help. That woman, Cocolia, is not a qualified collaborator. And my theory of maintaining a normal human society is not popular with others. More than half of Anti-Entropy have become Dr. Tesla's followers. They have gone mad for the 'new world' they have discovered, that strange, boundless biological world."

Professor Magi's heart was filled with complicated emotions. He had personally witnessed the shattering of past scientific ethical baselines.

As an old man, he instinctively felt that such a world would lead to destruction, or at least, the destruction of the world as he knew it.

He wanted to gather a group of capable individuals who shared his ideology.

Ana was wavering. She did have a similar idea of "banding together for self-preservation," but with little understanding of society, she didn't have much of a real sense of it. For the first ten-plus years of her life, she had been a young lady raised from childhood. The ideological education she received stopped at "fighting the Honkai for humanity."

Now that humanity was fighting itself, Ana really didn't know what to do.

Seeing Ana's hesitation, Magi immediately played his trump card.

"Many of the grassroots staff from the original Nagazora City have been brought together by us. What we need to do is not to go against the upper echelons of Academy City, but to convey everyone's voices to them. At the very least, we can... slow down the changes in this world a little, so we can gradually adapt. We can't just kill everyone off at once, can we?"

"For example, this little girl you know, Miss Shiina, wasn't it? Isn't she the same as you? Can you bear to watch her become as lost as you in the future?"

"Academy City is becoming more and more chaotic, and there are even people constantly fanning the flames. In the future, everyone in Academy City will definitely need to unite to help each other."

Professor Magi had struck a chord with Ana. She subconsciously glanced at Shiina Mahiru. Mahiru also looked at her nervously, not even knowing how to interject and make a choice.

"I..." Shiina Mahiru really didn't know what to do. She didn't have the courage to go against the upper echelons of Academy City.

Ana knew what she was thinking when she saw her like this.

"I understand. I'll help you. But I won't use my Valkyrie powers to attack anyone. I can help you all protect yourselves."

The girl was truly naive. She didn't even realize what she was saying.

In this world, conflict is never something you can avoid just by wanting to protect yourself. Did Poland not want to protect itself back then? They still got beaten up all the same.

Ana wasn't sure how deep the vortex in Academy City was.

She asked curiously, "Which people are you talking about?"

Professor Magi explained, "Many of them are civil servants, former police officers, as well as many small research institutes that have moved here, and the original universities, middle schools, and elementary schools in Nagazora City. There are also many local residents, mostly small vendors. They didn't have much research capability in the original Nagazora City. These people were mostly involved in tourism and trade."

"Since the lockdown of Academy City, the tourism industry has basically lost all its economic sources, forcing these people to retrain and receive adult education from Academy City. And how could those scientific elites from Anti-Entropy possibly get along with these manual laborers..."

He sighed. "The education in Academy City is a complete mess right now. In just six months, the entire city has been rapidly sliding into chaos. In biotechnology, there's even a new... class gap."

"It's not a gap between the rich and the poor, but... a kind of spiritual... something that's hard for me to describe."

Professor Magi had tried the Stigma Battlesuit once, but the first stage had knocked him down because of the memory of his granddaughter dying in an experiment. It had nearly cost the old man his life.

He realized that there was some kind of invisible oppression behind it.

Before this oppression was fully revealed, the best course of action was to actively participate in mediating and slowing down its acceleration.

Clearly, Noldrei's new world did not give people time to prepare.

Like an infectious virus, it doesn't inform its host the moment it decides to mutate and become stronger.