Honkai: Man(Sludge) From Future

(Volume III: Elysia: Today's Humans Must Be So Cute, Right?)

How long has it been since the last Herrscher appeared?

A full year.

Raiden Mei even leveled up, but the Sixth Herrscher seemed to have vanished from the world, refusing to show its face.

"This is a disaster! It's been a year, why isn't the Sixth Herrscher showing up?"

Noldrei grimaced. He was now completely accustomed to the physiology of a primitive human. While his sense of aesthetics might be a bit off, spending too long in the outhouse eventually makes even shit seem fragrant.

The only real problem was Kiana, who'd been acting out like crazy in recent years. Her favorite thing to do was transform into people around her and go on wild escapades.

But those were minor issues. Lately, even Dr. Tesla was starting to get worried.

Tesla stared at the pile of high-concentration Honkai Energy cores on the table. These weren't exactly Herrscher Cores, but rather the cores of Judgment-class Honkai beasts, somewhat similar to Herrscher Cores but with significantly lower output.

Tesla had considered many solutions, like gathering all the Herrschers together and giving them a "fun" experience of increased Honkai Energy concentration.

But that didn't work at all, as if the Will of the Honkai had suddenly died.

Sirin hadn't been able to contact her "god" for a long time, perhaps she'd seen the changes in human development and cautiously gone into hiding.

After all, Noldrei's fishing skills were too strong. Who could have imagined that his ultimate goal was to turn the Herrschers into My Little Ponies?

The power brought by the Fifth Herrscher Core was energy transfer or slowing down the movement of matter. But energy doesn't appear or disappear out of thin air; it needs enough Honkai Energy to act as a medium for the Herrscher's energy output.

For Noldrei, this was completely useless. Consuming energy to transfer energy was no different from not transferring energy at all.

It was better to directly transform Honkai Energy into new energy.

Otherwise, how could Tesla's output be so high? Directly manipulating electrons had a far lower overall consumption than the Fifth Herrscher's conversion to cooling.

"There's no way around it. I feel like I can't summon the Sixth Herrscher. I've excavated so many ruins recently, but I haven't found a good solution to this problem. Wait, weren't the appearances of the Herrschers supposed to be very frequent?"

Tesla began to doubt. Could it be that the Honkai actually had a will? And it even knew how to play guerilla warfare?

"Forget it. Kiana... why are there so many news reports about furry rapes lately? Are there really so many furry enthusiasts in the Far East?"

Noldrei placed the blame on the sinners. His intention in turning these people into furries wasn't just a momentary whim.

The goal was to differentiate life forms with different external forms through human body modification, and to divide new classes based on the degree of freedom to modify oneself.

Those who could freely replace their body parts were one type of person, and those who couldn't were another.

Those who could freely change their appearance were one type of person, and those who couldn't were another.

Those who could freely change their gender were one type of person, and those who couldn't were another.

In simple terms, whoever could make more modifications to their own body would receive benefits and advantages, becoming more "noble," more "money," and achieving a higher social status!

Through genetic differentiation, the gap between people was made blatantly obvious.

At this stage, civilization had progressed to the point where your body was no longer your own.

As it turned out, Noldrei's ruling techniques were quite effective. Furries immediately became the underclass in the Far East.

In terms of ruling effect, it was quite successful.

Determining a person's social status based on their freedom to control their own body, the Academy City created by Noldrei could be said to be the most unique regime.

But he waved the banner of freedom, further promoting the development of this genetic civilization. The massive profit structure drove the entire human society towards extreme openness and freedom. It had an unsettling, dialectical beauty.

Kiana was also speechless about the furry rape problem. She explained, "We've already arranged for their reproductive systems to be removed, and they'll be allowed to take them back after they finish their sentence. But things aren't developing as we expected. Despite this, there are still many strange people trying to join the ranks of the sinners."

Noldrei initially made furry punishment to make people visually aware of how terrible it was to lose the freedom to modify themselves.

However, because he designed the special appearance of the furry, people thought this was not a punishment but a reward. This led more people to try to join the ranks of furries, so they actively became furry rapists and successfully turned into new furries.

"The people of the Far East are really crazy. What's so good about this furry faction? Their ears are still on their heads, and they have to specially cover them when going out in the rain, otherwise the rainwater will flow into their ears along the fur. Think about it, all that dirty rainwater gets into their ears, doesn't it feel disgusting?"

Noldrei completely didn't understand this special hobby. In his opinion, this kind of behavior that sacrifices functionality for one's own aesthetic was completely negative optimization. If you do it well, it's just a decoration, but they can't do it well and still want to play like this. They really have a tendency to be masochistic.

Yae Sakura frowned slightly, feeling like she was being personally attacked.

She was currently being forced to follow Kiana's actions. Given her pseudo-Herrscher status, it wasn't impossible for her to develop into a true Herrscher one day.

So, Sakura Yae was forcibly controlled by Kiana's side, becoming the crown princess's study companion.

Her ears would get waterlogged on rainy days, which often troubled her.

Also, to emphasize again, these aren't rabbit ears, they're fox ears.

Really? Anyway, her family doesn't believe it.

Yae Sakura was just a silent follower. She couldn't run away, nor could she do anything dangerous.

In this short year, Yae Sakura deeply realized that these people were more dangerous than Higokumaru.

This started when Kiana came back that day.

After Kiana returned home, Higokumaru tried to enter Kiana's body and erode her.

Then, there was no then.

Higokumaru never expected that the saying "there's always someone better" would happen to her.

Not only did she fail to erode the So Called "Herrscher", but she was almost eaten alive by Kiana in the Kaslana Stigma Space.

If she hadn't knelt down and begged for mercy in time, saying that she was just a small Previous Era Herrscher and still had research value,

You wouldn't be able to see the little fox Higokumaru now.

As the Herrscher of Corruption, her research value was actually the lowest.

Because Noldrei's side had a more efficient method of erosion than the Herrscher of Corruption.

Higokumaru's only research value was to compare the differences between the two Herrschers, one from the Previous Era and one alive in this era, and whether the Will of the Honkai had changed in these tens of thousands of years.

Changes did occur…

Higokumaru told Noldrei and the others that the Previous Era Honkai had no so-called god, no so-called Will of the Honkai.

That begs the question, who exactly was the entity talking to Sirin?