"Am I still too late?" Shun looked at the purple sun rising on the horizon. The Second Eruption had already broken out. Although the process might have differed slightly from what he had imagined, the result was still the same.
Not long after, he saw the baby dragon flying over from afar. The companion Honkai beast of the Herrscher of the Void was still Benares, so the possibility that the Second Herrscher was Sirin was already 99%.
However, the reason he had returned to this world so late was not without cause. Even though Elysia had used the Authority of Origin to give him another chance, he could not descend until the gap between the real world and the Imaginary opened.
But once it opened, he had probably arrived late anyway. However… looking at it now, the Second Eruption had just broken out and everything had not yet settled. Perhaps there was still room to salvage the situation.
He just didn't know what had happened afterward, how much time had passed, why Sirin had not listened to him and gone to Germany to find old man Otto, and what exactly had driven Sirin to become the Herrscher of the Void in despair.
These were all things Shun needed to figure out. In his hand, he was still holding the high-frequency particle spear that had killed him in the previous loop. Although it was standard-issue weaponry, it was more than enough to kill ordinary low-level Honkai beasts.
Additionally, his injuries had fully recovered. Although he still looked like Conan, at least the legs that Auntie Chen had taken away had returned, and he was now a normal person.
As for his physical condition, it could only be said that he had absorbed some of the Honkai energy that expanded outward during the Second Eruption. It wasn't much, but it was enough. Being able to beat an Olympic champion was sufficient.
"Sirin, wait for me…" To be honest, Shun was very worried. After all, she was a pufferfish. It would be normal if she got solo-cleared before he arrived.
In the original plot, if Otto hadn't come out to interfere, Sirin would probably have been crushed into Sirin sauce by the pseudo-black hole.
Conveniently, before he died, he had asked where this place was. Since the place where he had been a water ghost for half a year was the Moskva River, then the city in front of him with a "sun" hanging over its head—and definitely not Pyongyang—was naturally Moscow.
What he needed to do next was to follow the riverbank all the way into downtown Moscow, meet Sirin, and see if he could persuade her at least not to think about destroying the world. As long as Sirin didn't want to destroy the world, everything could still be salvaged. Humanity didn't necessarily have to be her enemy.
At the same time, somewhere in Europe, Schicksal Headquarters floating island cluster, First Airport.
Siegfried, Theresa, Cecilia, and little Kiana, who had just celebrated her second birthday not long ago, were sitting on a patch of grass, peacefully enjoying this tranquil moment.
Theresa and Cecilia were sitting on a bench discussing Siegfried's cooking skills.
"Next Saturday, don't forget to come to my house for dinner. Siegfried learned a new dish again." Cecilia leaned forward, seemingly very eager for Theresa to try her husband's cooking.
But as soon as Theresa thought about the time Siegfried had grilled pizza with Judgment of Shamash, she quickly waved her hands and said: "No need… for dinner."
At the same time, she complained in her heart, "The food Siegfried made last time was basically like charcoal… For Cecilia to be able to eat it, is it because of love, or is her sense of taste simply dull…"
Theresa glanced at Cecilia, who was gently watching Siegfried and Kiana playing on the grass.
"It's really peaceful. I hope these peaceful days can last a little longer." Not long after this flag was raised, a red-marked communication alert was projected in front of Theresa.
"This is… an emergency order from Grandpa." Theresa looked toward Cecilia and Siegfried and saw that both of them had grave expressions.
"You received it too?" The two nodded. Everything was understood without words.
One hour later, on the tarmac of Schicksal's First Airport, the current highest combat power of Schicksal had gathered.
"Captain, long time no see. All the old members of the former Snow Wolf Squad have assembled here." Cheng Lixue, Schicksal's strongest A-rank Valkyrie, nodded at Cecilia, who had arrived together with Siegfried and Theresa.
"Ara, I'm no longer the captain of the Snow Wolf Squad. Lixue, you should change how you address me." Cecilia felt a little embarrassed. Because of giving birth to Kiana, she had been on maternity leave for nearly three years. The strongest squad in Schicksal that she had originally led, the Snow Wolf Squad, had also been disbanded for this reason.
"This isn't the Captain's fault… If we have to blame someone?" Cheng Lixue looked at Siegfried with a displeased expression. As the guy who had stolen Cecilia away, Siegfried was not only the public enemy of Shigure Kira, but the entire Snow Wolf Squad and even all the Valkyries of Schicksal disliked him.
Siegfried knew he was in the wrong. Anyway, he had already won the beauty. He had a wife and daughter now. If they disliked him, so be it. Only he knew how happy these years had been.
While Cheng Lixue and Siegfried were confronting each other, a blue-haired girl had already thrown herself into Cecilia's arms, expressing her longing.
"Lady Cecilia! I missed you so much!" As Cecilia's number one fan, Shigure Kira took the opportunity to take full advantage. If one were to say who in Schicksal hated Siegfried the most, it was undoubtedly her.
A large part of Siegfried's bad reputation was thanks to her efforts.
Cecilia gently stroked Shigure Kira's blue hair. After having a child, the already gentle her now carried a maternal radiance in every move.
"Alright, alright. Kira, you're not young anymore. Why are you even more clingy than little Kiana?"
"Lady Cecilia~!"
Cecilia didn't know what to do with Shigure Kira and could only let her hug her while greeting the other team members.
"Nicholas, Salome, and Patrick, long time no see. How have you all been lately?"
Just as the former vice-captain Cheng Lixue had said, all members of the original Snow Wolf Squad had arrived, and they even included Siegfried and Theresa—the S-rank Valkyrie—and Siegfried, who possessed S-rank combat power.
It could be said that these people, plus Otto and Fu Hua, were the highest combat power Schicksal could currently field.
However, Otto only planned to test the Herrscher of the Void this time and definitely wouldn't go on the field himself so early. Unless it was extremely urgent, he wouldn't call Fu Hua to take action either.
And at this moment, where was the Herrscher of the Void, Sirin, who was being watched by the eyes of the entire world?
380,000 kilometers away from Earth, the blue-and-white giant dragon slowly landed.
"Is this the Moon?" Sirin looked at the desolate scene before her and combined it with the pictures she had seen in books.
On the far side of the Moon… there were actually man-made structures? Sirin stared at the huge stone buildings nearby and was momentarily lost in thought.
She had come here with Bella after releasing the Honkai beasts because she had felt a calling from this place.
"Bella, rest for a while. Your body is too big to go inside." Sirin gently stroked Benares and walked into the building alone.
She wanted to see exactly what that voice that had been calling her all along was.