Honkai: Man(Sludge) From Future

'Hmm? Where is this?'

'I seem to be, like, a little off...'

The Herrscher of the Void was wandering in a vast white space.

Rather than wandering, it was more like she was floating with only a head.

This place was neither like the sea of consciousness inside Kiana's head, nor did it seem to be the same as the place where she had met the Honkai consciousness.

She couldn't describe the wonder of this place. She just felt that it had a reassuring feeling.

'Right, is this the place where Sirin was hypnotized in her dream?!'

'No, this is...'

'The Stigmata Space!'

The Herrscher of the Void realized what this place was. She remembered very clearly that this was the Stigmata Space.

'I can get to this place even with just a head left?'

She couldn't figure it out. She could only wander in this Stigmata Space.

'Strange. Do Herrschers also dream?'

'Is there something wrong with this Stigmata Space...?'

The Herrscher of the Void moved her eyes to the top of her head, and then she saw the most incredible thing.

"I'm so hungry..."

"I'm so hungry... I'm so hungry..."

"I'm so hungry... I'm so hungry... I'm so hungry..."

Twisted chaos was wantonly devouring the Stigmata Space. A white-haired man was constantly resisting the black tentacles that were constantly invading from all directions in the Stigmata Space.

On the tentacles were countless inorganic crystals. The layers upon layers of tentacles were twisted together, forming a huge sphere. A huge eyeball was condensed from the sphere as the tentacles wriggled.

That eyeball was constantly looking around this Stigmata Space.

Then, this thing was constantly devouring every part of the Stigmata Space as if it was eating chocolate.

Yes, it was constantly devouring this Stigmata Space as if it was eating chocolate.

And that white-haired man was fighting these tentacles with a greatsword that looked similar to Siegfried's.

However...

It was useless. Those tentacles were part of this Stigmata Space.

It was the Stigmata Space.

The Stigmata Space was constantly self-devouring itself.

"I'm so hungry—!"

Voices mixed with various human languages echoed in the Stigmata Space. Huge fangs were condensed around the giant eye formed by the tentacles.

It was both an eye and a mouth, both perception and action, both production and demand...

'How can there be something like this?!'

'How can there be something like this in the Stigmata Space?'

'Isn't this where genetic information is hidden? Why...'

'That's not right...'

The Herrscher of the Void remembered that someone had tampered with Kiana's body, turning Kiana into his kindred.

Moreover, the Herrscher of the Void also knew a crucial piece of information.

Future people's bodies didn't dream.

If they didn't dream, they couldn't enter the Stigmata Space.

If they didn't dream, they wouldn't be affected by the Will of Stigmata.

If they didn't dream...

They would devour the world of dreams from reality and completely turn it into a life need in reality.

Because they could do whatever they wanted, they didn't need fantasies and dreams.

This was what future humans were like.

The Herrscher of the Void remembered that she wasn't a future person, but she had occupied the last important piece of original flesh on Kiana's body.

The brain!

So, she, as a Herrscher consciousness, could actually dream!

So, she had entered this Stigmata Space while she was returning with Siegfried.

And the one fighting this Stigmata Space was the Will of Stigmata here.

'What's going on? The Will of Stigmata and the Stigmata Space are fighting each other?'

'And this new Stigmata Space doesn't seem... normal at all...'

'It's like that man.'

The Herrscher of the Void still remembered the incident where Noldrei had tricked her into reality.

Kiana's new body didn't dream, so the Herrscher of the Void couldn't see the outside world through Kiana's body.

Then he guided Kiana's consciousness to further enter the "body of a future person."

The rest was simple. Noldrei then tricked her, this Herrscher consciousness, into reality and then cut off all of her functions except for her brain.

Even the energy consumed by the Herrscher of the Void's brain was mainly supplied by Noldrei's body.

He had even thoughtfully installed limbs for her. These limbs could even be inserted into the nerves of many animals, allowing her to parasitize on these creatures.

If she had to say who was more chaotic and terrifying, the Herrscher of the Void thought that Noldrei was at least a thousand times more terrifying than Otto.

And this Will of Stigmata, on the other hand...

Looked exactly like Noldrei.

No, it was that Noldrei had chosen an appearance that was exactly like his.

This man's expression was much less than Noldrei's. He looked like a stone-faced person at first glance.

His gaze fell on the brain that had entered the Stigmata Space. He flashed over, dodged the attack of the huge monster, and left the battle area with the brain.

The Herrscher of the Void had never expected that she would one day be treated as a "person" of the Kaslana family.

The Herrscher of the Void was taken to a safe open space.

Around her were various strange buildings and inorganic fragments that looked like glass refractions.

"You're a Herrscher? Why are you like this? Where are the people of the Kaslana family?"

The Will of Stigmata didn't seem to know what had happened to Kiana. His work here was as usual...

Uh, to take revenge on the Honkai?

But before taking revenge, he needed to understand what had happened to the Kaslana family.

Why had this kind of grotesque thing been born in the Stigmata Space of the entire Kaslana family?

"That, it's the genetic information of a future person."

"..."

The Will of Stigmata was thinking seriously and then fell into a strange silence.

"He modified the bloodline of the descendants of the Kaslana family and then injected the genetic information of a future person after recombining their genes."

This sounded like Kiana had been rap*d by someone, but from a certain result, it couldn't be said to be wrong.

After all, Kiana now had the entire human gene bank in her body.

"I roughly understand. Something out of control must have happened in the outside world."

"Not only that, but even I, a Herrscher, have been turned into this. I didn't expect that genetic information could even infiltrate the world of dreams from the outside."

The Herrscher of the Void didn't mind communicating with this Will of Stigmata. She was also looking for a way to turn herself into a "normal person."

It was really a dog's life. She, a Herrscher, was actually looking for a way to become a normal person.

"Then why did the Stigmata Space become like this? The purpose of the Stigmata is to directly connect human will with the imaginary space. This kind of thing shouldn't exist in the imaginary space."

"That's human will, or rather, that's Kiana Kaslana's will." The Herrscher of the Void explained simply. This explanation immediately stunned the Will of Stigmata.

The Will of Stigmata, who looked exactly like Noldrei, was in a state of CPU overload.

He glanced at this Herrscher consciousness, which at least still had a human-like brain.

Then he thought about that so-called human will outside...

Was there a bug somewhere in this world?

The Will of Stigmata had brought all the people with the Kaslana family bloodline here in order to examine the Stigmata Space, but this situation seemed to be a bit different from what he had imagined.