"Mei! What are you doing!"
Kiana watched in shock as Mei personally stabbed the saber into Takatsuki's back.
"Did that guy come out again?!"
Seeing Raiden Mei's sudden abnormal behavior and the red glow in her eyes, Kiana's first reaction was that the Herrscher consciousness within Mei had awakened.
Takatsuki grabbed the sharp blade that had pierced his chest with his hand, and looking at this unfamiliar and sharp blade, he realized something.
"This is… Dio's subordinate!"
"Hahaha! That's right! I am the Stand Anubis, a subordinate of Lord Dio!"
Raiden Mei, holding the magnificent katana, had a crazed look on her face.
Anubis's Stand is a Stand without a physical body, because its original body was the swordsmith who forged this saber. After the swordsmith died, the Stand attached itself to this saber, or rather, this saber became the Stand's physical body.
It has the ability to tempt people's hearts. After being touched, it can also control the holder's mind and enhance the holder's strength and speed. The saber itself is also incredibly sharp, able to cut through metal like mud, and it can also choose to pass through living or dead objects without causing any harm.
"What! Anubis! Mei, wake up!"
Kiana still vaguely remembered some of the information Takatsuki had previously mentioned about Stands, but not completely. Prompted by Takatsuki, she realized that Mei was not being controlled by her internal Herrscher consciousness awakening, but by that saber.
Kiana immediately went up to try and snatch the saber from Mei's hand without another word.
"Hahaha! One down already! Lord Dio! Watch me eliminate all the enemies blocking your path one by one!"
"Excellent! As long as we follow the prophecy, we will be invincible!"
Nearby, Oingo and Boingo, unable to rest easy, jumped out from behind the wall. Oingo carried Boingo on his shoulder: "This is our invincible combination! The Oingo Boingo Brothers!"
Endol also followed behind the two. There were too many people in Aswan, and from a distance, it was impossible to distinguish who was who just by footsteps. Endol had no choice but to come to the scene himself to precisely control his Stand.
But now, it seemed, as these two living treasures had said, the outcome was already decided.
He clearly heard the sound of flesh being pierced, and the sound of a large amount of blood splattering on the ground.
"Raiden Mei" dodged Kiana's hand, while the knife in her hand tore through Takatsuki's body. A large amount of blood splattered on her face, but she remained unmoved.
"The most dangerous Takatsuki has been dealt with. Next…"
Just after uttering the harsh words, Anubis felt that something was wrong. He originally wanted to control Raiden Mei to raise the knife in her hand and point it at Kiana, but he felt his body was very stiff: "What… what's going on… I can't move…"
"No! Not that I can't move! This woman! She actually broke free from my control!"
"How is that possible!!!"
Anubis's appearance emerged on the knife, and he finally saw with his own eyes that purple electric arcs flickered on the hand gripping his hilt, and the pupils of the hand's owner had changed from their original color to blood red.
It was not the red light controlled by him, but it had completely turned blood red.
"Is it you… the one controlling the coward's body."
The blood-red pupils looked indifferently at the phantom appearing on the knife. Purple electric arcs continuously increased on her body. Unlike Mei's uncontrolled power leakage, the Herrscher of Thunder's electric arcs were genuinely controlled.
Anubis looked at the Herrscher of Thunder in front of him. Although he had no body, he felt a chill spreading down his back.
Compared to just now, in his eyes, Raiden Mei at this moment seemed like a completely different person, enveloped by a strange aura.
If Dio's aura was profound and evil, then this woman in front of him was like a queen reigning over the world.
Unlike Dio's inhuman charisma and unfathomable mystery, this woman was simply strong! Extremely strong! So strong that just being in front of her made him feel like he was going to die!
No! Not going to die! He was already dead!!!
Anubis discovered that after just that one sentence, his blade began to decompose.
The Herrscher of Thunder was not good at precise control of electromagnetic force; what she was best at was overwhelming others with sheer power!
Massive Honkai Energy was converted into electromagnetic force, continuously decomposing the long knife in her hand.
The Herrscher of Thunder, due to her immense power, could not precisely control her own strength, so much so that in the Honkai World, an electromagnetic barrier would automatically form around her, decomposing anyone or anything that approached into molecules.
In just the time it took for a single sentence, this electromagnetic barrier had already formed.
Without looking at Anubis's main body, which had already begun to decompose, the Herrscher of Thunder looked at Takatsuki lying on the ground.
The wound in his heart caused blood to gush out uncontrollably, forming a large puddle on the ground.
"Humans, how unsightly. Did he really just die like that?"
The Herrscher of Thunder ignored Kiana, who was on guard after discovering the Herrscher of Thunder, and walked towards Takatsuki.
"Stop right there, young lady! What do you want to do! And return Mei to me!"
Kiana immediately blocked the Herrscher of Thunder's path to Takatsuki upon seeing her actions.
The Herrscher of Thunder gave Kiana a cold glance, and a white figure suddenly rushed out from her body, punching Kiana.
"!!!"
Seeing the Herrscher of Thunder skillfully use Crazy Diamond, Kiana also immediately summoned her The Hand.
Unfortunately, The Hand's power primarily lay in its ability to erase space. The Stand's own speed and strength were not strong, but Kiana dared not use that power when fighting the Herrscher of Thunder, who possessed Mei's body. After exchanging blows with the A-rank in both power and speed Crazy Diamond, The Hand was undeniably sent flying with a single punch.
Ignoring Kiana, who was also sent flying, the Herrscher of Thunder continued to walk towards Takatsuki's "corpse."
And Anubis grew increasingly terrified. He completely didn't understand what was happening now. The mental strength of the Queen in front of him was something he had never heard of.
Even Lord Dio could not compare to her, and his unfailingly effective mental control ability was like an ant trying to shake a tree when facing this Queen.
Anubis could not act on his own; he could only rely on mental control to possess others as his vessels. However, without the ability to control the wielder, he was just an ordinary tool.
"Help! Where are the others!"
Anubis looked towards where the others were hiding and saw three figures lying on the ground.
Oingo and Boingo, after jumping out to show off, had piled up on the ground in a human pyramid, and Endol was leaning against the wall.
"How could this happen!"
Anubis did not know that the moment the Herrscher of Thunder woke up, she used electromagnetic force to stun everyone nearby who did not have Honkai Energy adaptability, leaving only Kiana, who had Honkai Energy adaptability, and Anubis, who had no physical body, as survivors.
And at this moment, his blade had already been half-decomposed by the raw electromagnetic force. The Herrscher of Thunder alone was about to wipe out all the enemies in this attack.
"How unsightly, you said you would always be there."
Her tone was devoid of emotion. The Herrscher of Thunder half-knelt and helped Takatsuki's "corpse" up.
But the other hand, gripping the hilt tighter and tighter, and the accelerating decomposition of Anubis, both proved that her heart was not as calm as her tone.
Crazy Diamond punched the rushing Kiana away again, and Anubis's vessel completely disappeared from this world. The Herrscher of Thunder used her free hand to gently wipe the blood from Takatsuki's face: "Since that's the case, then let this world be buried with you."
"Please don't do that…"
Suddenly, Takatsuki opened his eyes and grabbed the Herrscher of Thunder's hand that was on his face.
"Cough cough… Although I can't die, that last hit of yours made me feel like my brain was melting."
Takatsuki coughed up some blood and sat up under the Herrscher of Thunder's somewhat surprised and delighted gaze. The Dog Talisman granted him the concept of immortality, but this immortality neither defended against blades nor granted immunity to lightning, and it couldn't even remove the weakness from massive blood loss.
The Herrscher of Thunder's full-area AOE upon her appearance stunned everyone nearby without Honkai Energy adaptability, including Takatsuki, who had absolutely no adaptability at all!