[You are not worried that those investors will steal your.]
[First of all, once they learn that this "human enhancement serum" can extend a person's lifespan to one hundred and fifty years, do you really think they'll be satisfied with that?]
[After all, humans are creatures of greed. Once they get something, they immediately want more.]
[And this is lifespan we're talking about.]
[Do you really think a mere one hundred and fifty years will satisfy them?]
[No. They will only want more.]
[What comes after one hundred and fifty years? Two hundred? Three hundred? Or even… immortality?]
[By every logic, your future research funding will only increase, never decrease.]
[Secondly, do they seriously think they can take your data, hand it to just anyone, and start producing the serum?]
[Well… actually, they can. The results would just be a little worse. To achieve the theoretical optimum, the formula has to be adjusted individually according to each person's genes.]
[So from here on out, they'll still have plenty to beg you for.]
[After having your thinking "enlightened" by that liaison's reaction, you set your sights on one clear goal: with this single product alone, you intend to feed off them for the rest of your life.]
[Of course, you are not the only one capable of formulating it. They could also ask Mobius to do it.]
[To that, your response is only two words: "Heh heh."]
[Setting aside whether she would even agree, even if she did, given what you know of her, she would most likely do exactly what you would—use this product to feed off them for the rest of their lives.]
[At that point, the investors would merely be serving a different master. Nothing of substance would change.]
[Still, if they truly managed to pull it off, then you'd admit defeat.]
[Sure enough, before long, your research funding arrives—and it is far more generous than before.]
[After that, higher-ups either come to you personally or send people in their place. Their attitudes grow more courteous and more ingratiating by the day.]
[They all want only one thing: for you to formulate the serum for them personally.]
[You proceed exactly according to plan, dangling them along and only "reluctantly" releasing one or two slots every so often.]
[Everything is going very smoothly.]
[And then, the Third Great Eruption breaks out. The location: Nagazora City.]
[The sudden eruption catches everyone completely off guard. Even more alarming, the Third Great Eruption is clearly wider in scale than the previous two.]
[Not only Nagazora City, but neighboring cities such as Canghai City and Tianqiong City are also affected. In fact, the entire East Asian region suffers its impact.]
[Even worse, throughout the affected area, all electromagnetic signals are subjected to intense interference, leaving the region in total silence. Fire Moth has no way of determining the exact situation inside.]
[Having learned bitter lessons from the Second Herrscher, Fire Moth is clearly much better prepared this time. Organized, well-trained military units equipped with anti-Honkai weapons are dispatched, tasked with clearing Honkai Beasts, gathering intelligence on the Third Herrscher, and—if possible—executing her.]
[At first, the army advances smoothly.]
[Against the newly upgraded Fire Moth forces, even Nagazora City—the very center of the eruption, crawling with wandering Honkai Beasts—is cleared with relative ease after a manageable number of casualties.]
[The outlying cities fare even better. Large numbers of fleeing civilians are rescued, and the disaster remains within controllable bounds.]
[But that smooth progress lasts only until the Herrscher makes her move.]
[At that moment, the sky abruptly darkens. With deafening thunder, countless massive bolts of lightning pour down like divine punishment, and entire military formations collapse like fields of wheat cut down in an instant.]
[They have not even caught sight of the Third Herrscher yet.]
[Before that overwhelming storm of lightning, tightly packed formations become the perfect targets.]
[The troops are forced to disperse into smaller squads in order to reduce the chance of being wiped out in a single strike.]
[But this creates a new problem: communications are unusable. That means each squad can only fight on its own, making coordinated action nearly impossible.]
[They must fend off endless waves of Honkai Beasts while also guarding against heavenly lightning that could strike at any moment. Every soldier is dancing on the edge of a blade.]
[Even so, some teams still manage, with immense difficulty, to break through layer after layer of obstacles and reach the center of the eruption.]
[And then, at last, they see the Third Herrscher.]
[It is the last thing they ever see.]
[Forget executing her. If they leave behind charred corpses, that already counts as fortunate. More often, the instant they meet her, they are reduced to ash.]
[Still, at the cost of devastating casualties, Fire Moth manages to transmit concrete intelligence on the Third Herrscher. She is ultimately designated as: Thunder.]
[Unlike the previous two Herrschers, the Herrscher of Thunder's attitude toward humanity is extremely… proactive. She does not wait to be attacked before retaliating as her predecessors did.]
[And because of that, humanity learns for the first time just how terrifying a Herrscher becomes when she is truly serious.]
[Fortunately, for reasons unknown, although the Herrscher of Thunder is "proactive," she is not overly proactive. At most, one could call it restrained aggression.]
[At the very least… she remains inside Nagazora City and does not leave, almost like a raid boss quietly waiting in her own territory for humanity to come challenge her. She appears to have a clearly defined aggro range.]
[This lets Fire Moth's upper echelon breathe a slight sigh of relief—but only a slight one.]
[After all, while this means they still have time to move troops, study countermeasures, develop tactics, and attempt a "raid strategy," they cannot place all their hopes on the enemy remaining cooperative.]
[Who knows when she might change her mind, leave Nagazora City, and begin truly ravaging the world?]
[Even setting aside the endless Honkai Beasts being spawned, the Herrscher of Thunder's individual combat display alone—the sky-filling lightning, the judgment that descends like heavenly punishment—is enough to call her a walking natural disaster.]
[Therefore, she must be eliminated as quickly as possible. The sooner, the better.]
[And yet, what is most telling is that Fire Moth's upper ranks still choose the same basic approach: simply sending more troops and more weapons. Meanwhile, Elysia—the hero who achieved great glory in the Second Eruption—receives no combat assignment and is not sent to the front.]
[In fact, when Elysia learns of the situation and volunteers to go herself, she is refused. People are even specifically assigned to persuade her otherwise, with reasons that sound perfectly noble on the surface.]
[For example: "Elysia, you are Fire Moth's symbol—the hero in the hearts of the people. If you die in battle, it will cause a devastating blow to morale."]
["We need you alive. That is more valuable than you fighting on the front lines." And so on.]
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