What kind of trashy Vision is this?
If he wanted the Vision to break through, he still needed to focus his intentions on the Gem of Desire, aka the Herrscher of Wind core.
After settling his own affairs, Chen Luo reactivated his Herrscher Physique and turned off the option to block the Will of Honkai.
Because next, Chen Luo needed to use his Herrscher identity to handle some matters, so the Herrscher Physique was essential.
Simply using the Herrscher Physique to absorb Honkai energy was hard for the Will of Honkai to detect, and didn't require turning on this blocking feature.
But if he wanted to use his Herrscher identity to influence Honkai beasts, he would definitely be detected by the Will of Honkai.
If he both blocked the Will of Honkai and used his Herrscher identity to cause trouble, it would be strange if the Honkai faction's discount didn't decrease.
Just a few seconds after Chen Luo turned off the blocking, that familiar, faint sensation of being watched returned.
"Is this Will of Honkai really that idle? A complete peeping tom," Chen Luo complained inwardly.
Complaints aside, official business still had to be done. By activating the additional abilities that came with his Herrscher identity, Chen Luo began sensing the zombies and Honkai beasts in the surrounding area.
After confirming that there really weren't many Honkai beasts around the survivor base, Chen Luo began using his Herrscher authority to draw a circle around the survivor base. This meant Chen Luo was starting to demarcate the area around the survivor base as his own territory.
Although Chen Luo, as a Herrscher, couldn't influence Honkai beasts and zombies other than his own, he could still tell them not to come into this territory.
These were all unclaimed zombies. If Chen Luo was willing to put in the effort, he could turn them all into his own, but if he did that, where would he get Primogems?
After his Herrscher Physique was semi-conceptualized and his Herrscher authority became a talent, Chen Luo could now obtain Primogems by killing high-level Honkai beasts. This was what Chen Luo considered the biggest benefit of this modification.
Since Chen Luo was currently only a Herrscher of Domination, the circle of territory he could draw for himself, besides Chiba Academy, was only a very small area, just enough to encompass the survivor base and a small surrounding section.
"Alright, now the survivor base's safety isn't a concern. Time to go kill some Honkai beasts. Ahem, all of this is for the rise of the Honkai faction! Disguising myself as a Herrscher leaning towards those hateful humans, then striking at the critical moment. Just like the Herrscher of Domination did before."
Having accidentally spoken his inner thoughts aloud, Chen Luo could only fabricate a bigger lie to cover this reason.
[Ding! The discount for exchanging items in the Honkai faction is 6% off.]
"Ah... I always feel the task is long and the road is far," Chen Luo sighed.
Based on his understanding over time, favorability is the kind of thing that gets harder to gain the further you go.
Increasing favorability is easier in the early stages. If relying on personal achievements, Chen Luo could even start as high as 10% off or even 20% off.
For example, if it were a lolita, beast-ear, fox girl under 14 years old, with all buffs stacked, it really might start at 20% off.
But later it would become slower and slower.
Take Yuyuko, for instance. She reached 25% off in just a few days, but then several consecutive days of feeding didn't even increase the discount by another 0.1%.
Thinking this, Chen Luo took something out of his inventory and placed it on the rooftop platform of the building.
"This thing... I don't think I've ever used it," Chen Luo said, looking at the small unmanned floating warship in front of him.
Just this technology of Anti-Entropy for manufacturing unmanned warships would be enough to thrive in Chen Luo's world, of course limited to the normal world.
In the hidden world where all sorts of monsters and ghosts run rampant, dealing with a floating warship would be all too easy.
This time, Chen Luo didn't enter the warship. Instead, he placed his hand on the hull of the small, stealthy, unmanned floating warship.
Herrscher of Corruption authority... talent, activate.
The essence of the Herrscher of Corruption is a form of an ultimate virus, even capable of invading more than just machinery.
In an instant, the small unmanned stealth floating warship in front of Chen Luo was instantly corrupted.
"Hmm?" Chen Luo suddenly frowned.
Because he suddenly noticed something he hadn't paid attention to before.
This small floating warship actually had a backup measure besides remote control—a unique alarm and information location providing device.
Inside the inventory and the War Domain, this device wouldn't trigger, but once in reality, it would activate.
However, even the civilization of the Previous Era couldn't resist the control of the Herrscher of Corruption, let alone mere Anti-Entropy.
The alarm device was intercepted by Chen Luo before its information could be sent out.
"I always feel like this thing could be quite useful at certain times..." Chen Luo mused, stroking his chin.
This reminded Chen Luo of poor, unlucky Anti-Entropy again.
"Maybe I should go to ME Corp." Chen Luo suddenly remembered the place where, in a sense, he first met the Anti-Entropy members.
Chen Luo remembered that ME Corp still had a Honkai energy reactor. If he wasn't mistaken, that reactor probably hadn't been dismantled and removed yet, after all these past few days had seen all sorts of strange events happening.
Herrschers seemed to be popping up in Nagazora City. Dismantling a Honkai energy reactor was a major project.
It might be possible to conduct experiments at the old ME Corp site in Nagazora, but actually removing it would be very difficult, especially since the vast majority of Anti-Entropy's mechs had been snatched by Chen Luo.
However, what troubled Chen Luo a bit was that he hadn't set up a Teleport Waypoint there.
Chen Luo jumped up and landed on the floating warship, then gently patted it.
The floating warship, despite having no one operating it, began to slowly take off. Sitting on the warship, Chen Luo controlled it to fly towards ME Corp while simultaneously using the internal Anti-Entropy communication channel within the warship to begin infiltrating Anti-Entropy.
Honestly, Chen Luo always felt the Will of Honkai had some issues upstairs. If it had just let the Herrscher of Corruption appear first, the entire human civilization would have been unable to resist.
Although it seemed quite adaptive that the Herrscher authority granted by this Will of Honkai developed differently based on the situation, its brains just weren't up to par.
Since the Previous Era already had nuclear weapons, it meant that nations definitely had nuclear arms, and there were probably no fewer than two possessing them.
For humans to destroy the world was actually very simple; just launch nukes at various countries without restraint.
And this would indeed be very simple for the Herrscher of Corruption.
What does this say about the Will of Honkai?
It's like playing a card game, holding an absolutely fantastic hand but not going for the win, until the opponent unleashes a furious assault, and when the opponent has just one card left, you play your four Aces, then a straight, finally finishing with four 2s carrying two Jokers for the ultimate win.[1]
And in this era, the Will of Honkai was almost left without its pants after being successively tricked by a bunch of "freaks".
"If you're bold enough, the Honkai will go on maternity leave."
But... "bullying" a fool is against the law.
"Honkai God is truly too intelligent and wise, actually granting me the ability to plunder the authorities of other Herrschers. This gives me even more confidence in dealing with those traitor Herrschers," Chen Luo said with "full of confidence".
[Ding! The discount for exchanging items in the Honkai faction is 7% off.]
See, see? Chen Luo said she wasn't too bright.
Even the Herrscher of Sentience isn't this easy fool.
TL Note:
[1]: Referencing to fight the landlord card game