The Vixen's Gambit: Tonight We Hunt

"Kevin, it's still not too late to regret it."

In the control room, Lee barely managed to prop herself up and sat in front of the console, talking to Kevin, who was standing in the Stargate, ready to be teleported. "No one will laugh at you..... This suicidal behavior is meaningless."

"This matter is very meaningful to me." Kevin took a deep breath, his eyes full of seriousness.

".....I understand."

Knowing that it was impossible to dissuade him, Lee didn't say anything more and silently activated the Stargate switch.

In an instant, with the distortion of space, a Stargate-like light curtain was opened. As long as one stepped into this light curtain, they would arrive at the distant moon base in one step.

"This is a one-way street. It cannot be opened a second time until the influence of the Herrscher of Finality's power dissipates..... If you lose, you won't even have a place to escape."

"I will win."

Kevin said resolutely.

Even if he had no confidence in his heart, in order to give Lee confidence, he still made such a declaration of victory in advance.

".....Kevin."

"What is it?"

The abrupt call made Kevin a little puzzled. But the voice in the communication fell silent, and after a moment, it teased.

"Even if you really lose, I won't help you, okay?"

"I told you, I will win!"

A soft laugh came from the communication, and in the end, only a gentle blessing could be heard.

"Kevin, take care."

Take care..... Did she not want him to die?

Originally, Kevin was ready to perish together with the Herrscher of Finality, but now Lee's words made him hesitate a little.

The biggest reason for this was that he had previously taken Hua to the basement of The Great Hibernation and found a small baby in one of the pods. There was a note written by Lee next to it, presumably originally prepared for Elysia, who would wake up in the next era.

The note revealed the identity of this baby, an artificial human created by mixing Lee's genes with his own..... Although he understood that this was to create the best bloodline and physique to fight the Honkai, such a child still made Kevin feel shaken.

Even if it was an artificial human, this could still be considered his and Lee's child, right?

Kevin felt that it should be counted, even if he and Lee had hardly even held hands properly.

In that case, of course the child needed a father.....

Never mind, he'll talk about it later – after all, in front of the Herrscher of Finality, he might not even have a choice.

Carrying humanity's passion for miracles, Kevin stepped heavily into the Stargate.

...

".....He's gone."

As Kevin's figure disappeared into the light, the Stargate gradually closed, leaving only the empty machine room.

Lee sat in the control room, looking out at the empty scene through the glass with melancholy, and then barely stood up with all her strength, supporting herself on the console.

"Then I should start too....."

According to Lee's estimate, the probability of Kevin defeating the Herrscher of Finality was zero. Since that was the case, of course, she had to continue to prepare on the premise that Kevin would be defeated.

Preserve humanity's consciousness in the core, and release it in the next civilization..... It sounded good, but even if it really succeeded, so what?

Would the next civilization not face the Honkai?

So what needed to be done was not only to send the people of this civilization to the future, but also to leave true hope of defeating the Honkai for the future.

And what Lee was going to do now was something that Elysia had thought of after the Twelfth Herrscher incident.

After knocking down Elysia that day, Lee casually scanned her memory and found a very interesting thing – Elysia was not the Thirteenth Herrscher. In fact, she was the real First Herrscher.

The Honkai that appeared in the Vostok 51 Garden Colony back then was related to her. It was just that Elysia, who was still young at that time, did not undergo the same changes as the later Herrschers, and did not produce a Herrscher Core.

Lee felt that this was mostly because Elysia was a protagonist with 100% charge.

In short, what could be confirmed was that Elysia was a special Herrscher, so that her authority was also very special, and it was difficult to accurately summarize it in words. If she had to use one word to summarize it, it would probably be – wish fulfillment.

As long as Elysia was willing, she would be a woman who would never say the line "I can't do anything!". She could do anything.

Unfortunately, this authority still had some kind of inexplicable restriction, and it couldn't reach the level of Shoko, who could realize wishes that changed the world. Elysia could only make herself do it, not make herself a wishing machine.

And Elysia's plan at that time was to use her authority to pave the way for the human civilization of the next era. She couldn't eliminate the existence of the Honkai, but she could use her connection with the Honkai to make future Herrschers become like her, possessing human hearts and feelings.

Herrschers who understood human hearts might fight for humanity, and..... they could also realize what she had once said to Lee.

Miracles exist, and Herrschers can also have humanity.

Lee chose to spare the Twelfth Herrscher because she trusted her, which eventually led to that tragedy – she had betrayed Lee's trust, so she wanted to prevent similar situations from happening again.

Unfortunately, she didn't have time to do anything before she was called to the city by Lee, and then she was tricked out of her Herrscher Core and knocked unconscious and stuffed into The Great Hibernation.

Although Elysia had no way to complete this task, for the humans of the next civilization, making Herrschers possess humanity was undoubtedly a necessary task, otherwise Kiana, Mei, and these Herrscher protagonists might not even exist.....

So whether it was for public or private reasons, Lee had to take over this job.

The battle with Kevin had left Lee completely unable to fight now, but fortunately she still had a weak connection with Elysia's core. Although this small connection couldn't support her in battle, it was enough to allow her to use this self-destructive authority!

To change the existence of all future Herrschers as a Herrscher, how could this be a simple matter? Everything in the world has a price. If Elysia did this herself, she would probably dissipate directly in that consciousness space called Honkai.

But Lee had dual-core drive. Even if Elysia's core went into a cooling state and couldn't work, the Herrscher of Sentience Core would be enough to barely bring her back.

In addition, according to Mei and the others' previous plan, she could also conveniently stuff that artificial intelligence into it as the Honkai consciousness.....

So busy – but this was also the final cultivation before the harvest.

The Herrscher Core in her body began to run crazily in this already damaged and unusable body.

If Kevin was present, he would definitely stop this self-abusive behavior, so Lee did this specifically after Kevin left. She wasn't worried about not being able to get energy, after all, if she couldn't get it from Kevin, there were still the players.

As for Kevin..... Judging from the scenes foreseen in the future, there were even bigger surprises waiting for him~