The Herrscher of Corruption, she was born in the crevice between life and death, subsisting on information and data, able to switch between a data form and a physical form. Just as her name implies, she can corrupt data, corrupt living beings, and corrupt and control anything she wishes to corrupt.
There are only two ways to defeat the Herrscher of Corruption. Either trap her in a certain data region and then erase the entire dataspace along with it, or force her to transform into a physical entity and eliminate her on a physical level.
In order to trap the Herrscher of Corruption in dataspace, Yiselian initiated the Global Connection plan, linking all the world's dataspaces together. As long as the Herrscher transforms into a data form, she will definitely be within the Global Connection.
But they still couldn't do anything about the Herrscher of Corruption. Yiselian couldn't just erase the entire Global Connection, nor could she afford to. Once the Global Connection was completely erased, not only would the Herrscher of Corruption be eliminated, but all the data and information of the current civilization would also be destroyed.
Yiselian, Nagamitsu, and the others could only continuously perform regional deletions and lures, driving the Herrscher of Corruption to a designated area, then deleting the trapped area to eliminate her.
Their idea was good, but the Herrscher of Corruption didn't fall for it at all. The Herrscher of Corruption split and copied herself into countless copies, occupying various parts of the dataspace.
Due to the fall of Anti-Entropy, Welt brought Tesla, Einstein, and others to St. Freya High School.
They didn't know how long the newly established communications would last. If the corruption wasn't resolved, it was only a matter of time before Schicksal fell as well. After all, Schicksal HQ's technology was far beyond the rest of the world by many years, but if it couldn't withstand the corruption's attack, it would only be aiding the enemy.
Otto completely cut off all connections between Schicksal HQ's floating island and the outside world. After backing up all data to the Void Archives, he switched to a Soulium combat body and brought Nagamitsu, Durandal, and others to St. Freya High School as well.
Otto and Welt, the leaders of the two major organizations, met on the Hyperion, though the atmosphere was not very pleasant.
Looking at Otto's feigned gentle and refined appearance, Welt found it hard to control himself from punching him. But as long as Otto didn't come over and dance on the tiger's mouth, Welt felt he had to prioritize the bigger picture.
Otto really wanted to tease Welt, but with a crowd of people watching the two great leaders, Otto didn't want to bring trouble upon himself and then get into a fight with Welt. He was afraid that if he didn't control his strength, he might accidentally blow old Yang's candle-in-the-wind body apart with a single punch.
More than Welt, what Otto found incomprehensible and frightening was that Yae Sakura seemed to have lost her mind as well.
During the strategy meeting, when the participating Yae Sakura saw Otto, she walked up to him with a confused look, sniffed him, and then froze on the spot.
Just as everyone was wondering what Yae Sakura was going to do, she swung her sword straight down at Otto. If it weren't for the fact that Otto's body was made of Soulium and he reacted quickly, he would have nearly been sliced up by this crazy woman.
Although Kallen and Judah eventually managed to pull Yae Sakura away, Otto was certain that if Yae Sakura got another chance to strike him, she would absolutely dare to slice him up immediately.
Otto dared to dance on the tiger's mouth in front of Welt because Welt knew the world couldn't be without Otto, so he always endured and didn't start a war with him. But Yae Sakura was different; she was insane.
After Yae Sakura was led away, the atmosphere of the meeting became even more tense. Forgetting about the Herrscher of Corruption for now, everyone from the headquarters was now staring intently at Theresa and the members of St. Freya High School she represented.
Theresa slammed her small hand on the table and shouted, "Let me be clear, Yae Sakura has a problem with her head. She does not represent St. Freya High School!"
"Is that so?" Tesla, who loved to stir up trouble, stood in front of Theresa with her mechanical fists, also confronting the people from Schicksal HQ. "I say, Theresa, you should just rebel and join us."
Theresa pushed Tesla aside and couldn't help but roll her eyes. She was doing just fine in Schicksal, and her grandfather was the Overseer. She'd have to be crazy to rebel.
At this moment, Yiselian cautiously ran to Theresa's side and whispered in her ear, "Don't believe Tesla! If you join Anti-Entropy, you'll starve three days out of nine, work 24 hours a day, and... Sin Mal and Rozaliya bully me every day."
"Hey, what are you talking about, Yiselian! You're part of Anti-Entropy too!" Just as Tesla was about to argue, Einstein gave her a look that shut her up immediately.
Theresa turned to look at Himeko and Yiselian, giving Himeko a meaningful glance. Himeko immediately understood and came over to drag Yiselian away.
As Himeko led Yiselian away, she leaned in close to her ear and said with a smile, "I'll tell you a secret. Sin Mal is right here at St. Freya High School. If you don't work hard, we'll let her out."
"No, please don't—"
As Yiselian was dragged away by Himeko, Einstein covered her face and walked over with a helpless expression, grabbing Tesla by her pigtails and dragging her away as well.
Those two clowns, Yiselian and Tesla, didn't even consider the current situation. Einstein felt so tired.
Although Yiselian was also an Executor, due to her timid personality, she was basically treated as a subordinate by the domineering Cocolia. Einstein felt that rather than letting Yiselian return to Anti-Entropy and be strung up to work by Cocolia, which would only increase Cocolia's power, it was better to leave her at St. Freya High School where she could be at ease.
(Yiselian: Sorry, but I don't want to go back! Anti-Entropy has nothing, I can't even conduct experiments as I please! St. Freya High School is much better, I've already been shaped into Theresa's form!)
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Outside the conference room, Kallen took Yae Sakura's sword, while Judah bound Yae Sakura's hands.
"Are you crazy, Yae Sakura?! What are you doing? Are you trying to kill Otto?" Kallen questioned Yae Sakura.
"Yes, I want to cut him down. It's utterly nauseating."
Yae Sakura paused for a moment, then looked at Judah and shouted at her, "How did Theresa not realize back then why a Divine Key like you would have an old friend! Luocha is Otto!"
"Hmm... is there a problem with that?"
Judah tightened the chains on Yae Sakura. She didn't understand why Yae Sakura wanted to cut Otto down when Otto hadn't even come to attack her.
"You bastard, my innocence! You can die with Otto!" Yae Sakura lunged forward and bit down on Judah.
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Otto waved his hand for the Valkyries to sheathe their weapons. They were all on the same side, there was no need for blades to be drawn.
But as for the matter with Yae Sakura, Otto would settle the score after the Herrscher of Corruption was dealt with.
Finally, after discussion, it was decided to split into two groups and fight on two fronts.
One group would use Fenghuang Down to enter the dataspace and fight the corruption. It would be best if they could kill her directly, but if not, they would force her to manifest into a physical body and leave the dataspace.
The other group would lie in wait in the real world, ready to kill the Herrscher of Corruption the moment she manifested into a physical body.