Mei slowly opened her eyes, her gaze incredibly calm, then the blade in her hand transformed into lightning and vanished.
Crack—!
The sound of shattering glass rang out.
A long, narrow crack appeared where the Mantis was, and it was torn apart by the blade's light and the spatial rift.
Buzz—!
Just then, the Imaginary Energy in this area surged dramatically, similar to what happened with Bronya.
A towering, golden-glowing stone giant phantom appeared above Mei.
Qlipoth, the Preservation.
After Qlipoth appeared, it glanced indifferently at the spatial rift, then turned its head to look at Mei.
"Hiss—"
Qlipoth let out a steam-like rumble, as if saying something.
Then it raised the hammer in its hand and brought it down on the not-so-large spatial rift.
The narrow crack was repaired in an instant, as good as new.
Buzz—Hiss—
After Qlipoth made two more sounds while looking at Mei, it slowly disappeared.
"..."
Mei probably understood what it meant.
It was telling her not to cut open space so casually; it was very busy.
"Does this count as me being glanced at too...?"
Mei's mouth twitched slightly, and she complained with a hint of helplessness.
She was glanced at, but didn't become an Emanator—
Though Mei didn't need to become an Emanator anyway.
The upper limit of her current power was no less than that of an Emanator, and in the end, she might even be able to rival or surpass an Aeon.
This was still a conservative estimate.
After Qlipoth left, Mei also returned to the battleship she was guarding.
At the same time, she fully felt her current power... Rita's guarded location.
"It seems our guests have arrived."
Rita gently waved her scythe, her fingertips brushing her lips, her voice soft and alluring.
"Then let Rita bring everyone equal... death..."
A cold glint flashed in Rita's eyes, and petals of death silently bloomed among the insect swarm.
The wooden branches on the bodies of the Mantis-Humanoids that touched the petals withered instantly, their life force mercilessly stripped away.
In the face of extreme vitality, Rita's death was clearly superior.
In just an instant, all the Mantis-Humanoids withered away, leaving only one human-looking insectoid with a much older face alive.
"Cough, cough... How can such power exist...?"
The human insectoid clutched its mouth, coughing violently.
This power was the complete opposite of Abundance; it was extreme decay, death itself... The power of Abundance within him was almost depleted after that single blow.
This didn't seem like ordinary Path energy.
Instead, it was a variant of Imaginary Energy, a type of authority driven by more corrosive energy at its core.
The Mantis-Humanoids themselves originated from the swarm, blessed by Abundance, and were extremely sensitive to Imaginary Energy.
"It seems the clean-up wasn't very thorough. As a maid, I've truly been negligent."
"What!?"
Hearing the soft voice by his ear, he instinctively tried to fly away, but his wings, imbued with the power of Abundance, had lost their vitality and couldn't lift off.
Soon, his compound eyes saw his own inverted body.
"..."
After being decapitated, the power of decay quickly consumed him entirely. Before long, his body was covered in vibrant rosemary flowers.
"The language of rosemary flowers is remembrance and commemoration, but in a certain sense, it also represents death."
Rita elegantly lifted the hem of her skirt, then flew towards the battleship she was guarding.
At the same time, within Rita, Kiana's divine aura had completely integrated into her core, generating a divine aura unique to Rita.
Meanwhile, in the Path of Equilibrium.
A being with clasped hands, a body spiraling inward, and opposing red and blue energy spheres rotating at its center, silently watched Rita.
The Equilibrium, Hoo.
It saw two opposing forces of life and death within Rita's body.
And this opposition, in a way, was also a form of equilibrium.
But Rita, who possessed this power, or rather, this group of people with nearly identical energy properties to Rita,
were subtly influencing a certain balance in this universe... Hoo slightly turned its head, looking towards another part of the Path of Equilibrium. A crimson light flickered, and Nous appeared in Hoo's line of sight.
Thus, the two Aeons, without any communication, both continued to gaze towards Griseo... Himeko's guarded location.
"I'll use you guys to test this power."
Himeko's right hand made a grasping motion, and a giant flame sword, resembling the Blade of Eternal Tribulation, condensed from her hand.
Now, her body had completely healed due to her Herrscher transformation, no longer suffering from the Honkai energy erosion of the artificial Stigmata.
And facing this disgusting swarm of bugs, in the vast environment of the universe, she wanted to test how much stronger her current strength was compared to before.
As Himeko used her authority to manipulate the intense movement of molecules, making the surrounding space incredibly hot.
Eventually, the space in this area became somewhat distorted due to the temperature, and the Mantis-Humanoids were all roasted into dried insects by the scorching heat.
Only one entirely blue insectoid was still standing, surrounded by a ring of bubbles.
"Quite capable, huh..."
Himeko raised an eyebrow slightly, then a smile curved her lips, and orange-red flames ignited around her, quickly transforming her into a fireball with the temperature of a star.
The fireball that Himeko had become suddenly rushed towards the blue insectoid, which was too weak to dodge due to the high temperature of its bubble.
Boom—
After the impact, a violent explosion erupted centered on the blue insectoid.
The shockwave of the explosion even affected nearby uninhabited planets, causing their orbits to shift slightly.
"Whew~ It seems these bugs aren't as hard to fight as Honkai Beasts. Have I become too strong?"
The fireball dissipated, and Himeko, her hair burning with orange flames, looked completely relaxed.
Like the others before her, Himeko, after using her authority, absorbed the divine aura and entered the initial stage of divine energy mastery.
However, Himeko didn't attract the gaze of an Aeon like the others, but instead calmly concluded the battle.
After waiting a while longer and seeing no more Mantis-Humanoids, she also returned to the battleship... Meanwhile, Shiki's side was even more direct. She sat cross-legged in the void, propping her chin as she looked at the insectoids pierced by countless chains.
These insectoids were instantly shattered of all consciousness by her Taixu Hand, the moment they rushed forward.
Now they were just hollow husks without souls.
"Eh! I got it!"
Shiki suddenly thought of an idea.
Flying quickly to the insectoid suspected of being the leader of this swarm, Shiki used her consciousness authority to extract its memories.
After reviewing them, Shiki showed a look of 'as expected,' and then became somewhat eager to try something.
"If I go straight for the core, wouldn't these bugs be done for?"
Without further ado, Shiki controlled a group of Mantis-Humanoids and headed straight for their nest.
As Shiki laughed wildly along the way, the divine energy within her body was activated and fused.
Shiki, having entered the initial stage of divine aura, saw her strength further enhanced.
"!!!"
Shiki, mid-flight, suddenly stopped.
Because she felt the energy here suddenly surge violently, as if it was a premonition of some existence appearing.
Sure enough, an emperor's phantom made of crystal mirrors appeared above, silently watching her.
"Are you that Aeon?"
If Shiki wasn't mistaken, that should be Fuli, the Aeon of Remembrance, whom Fu Hua had learned about from the old man's memories, in Shiki's own memories.
As a powerful surge of Imaginary Energy poured in, Shiki's already strong aura continued to climb.
Thus, Kiana's first Emanator was born.
Shiki, the Emanator of Remembrance.
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