Chat Group: Starting by Swapping Bodies with Elysia?

Five seconds was not even enough time for a father to save his daughter.

But ten seconds, however, was enough time to save an entire city.

In just ten short seconds, the shock that Jiang Qiao had given Elysia and the others was akin to participating in a season of The Brain.

At this moment, the three of them were completely dazed.

"Is... is it over just like that?"

Mei looked blankly at the countdown timer on the screen that had turned dim and the Honkai energy reactor that had lost its color, still feeling a bit incredulous.

What exactly had happened just now?

Although everything was right before their eyes, when they tried to recall it now, that unknown, unusually dazzling pink girl, seemed to have only shot an arrow.

Jiang Qiao smiled and comforted them:

"Okay, don't make those faces. I know you're all shocked, but let's wait until we leave this place to ask everything."

Even though Cocolia had left, this underground base was not a safe place.

"I'm guessing that someone will be here soon, and if we get caught, it won't be good~"

After all, she had just made a big commotion. She figured that by now, whether it was Schicksal or Anti-Entropy, or even the World Serpent lurking in the shadows, they had probably all noticed it.

The three of them didn't really understand what Jiang Qiao meant. They were still immersed in the scene of Jiang Qiao's actions just now, but Elysia and the others still subconsciously nodded, agreeing to Jiang Qiao's suggestion.

But as Kiana and the others were about to head towards the passage they had come through, Jiang Qiao stopped them with a smile and then said:

"Let's take a shortcut, I want to try out a new ability I just got~"

A shortcut? A new ability?

Kiana and Mei were naturally confused, and as for Elysia... The fairy lady, as she looked at herself, was completely unable to figure out what was going on.

She already couldn't understand those strange abilities from before, so how could there be any new ones?

Elysia was starting to question her existence. She remembered that Jiang Qiao was a newbie who didn't know anything. She even needed her to remind her how to use Honkai energy and to tell her about her own experiences.

But now, she suddenly had a feeling that she was the newbie.

No, no, no, that can't be right!

She was clearly the real Elysia, so how could the difference be so big compared to the fake Elysia, Jiang Qiao?

Confused and complicated emotions lingered in her heart as Elysia looked at her body, questioning her existence.

But at the same time, she was also very curious about what Jiang Qiao's shortcut and new abilities were.

"Don't blink, this is a fairy's magic—"

As three pairs of curious eyes watched, Jiang Qiao nodded with great satisfaction, and then, with a smile, raised her index finger and drew a... circle.

Huh?

What was that supposed to be?!

Looking at this, Kiana didn't think much of it. And the fairy lady, because of this, felt a sense of relief.

That had scared the fairy! She had merely drawn a circle in the air with Honkai energy. She could do that too!

The chubby lady regained some of her confidence. Although that transformation was pretty rare, that… okay, she really couldn't do that.

But other than that, the Jiang Qiao version of her was only slightly better at shooting arrows… she should be able to do that after putting in some effort. No, she could definitely do it!

A beautiful fairy would not accept defeat!

What's more, it was about the use of her own body.

If she lost this, wouldn't she, the original owner, be so embarrassed?

"Ah!"

Suddenly, Mei let out a cry.

Elysia, who had snapped out of it, looked at the circle and was instantly stunned.

On the other side of the circle, it was the Raiden Residence!

Kiana curiously reached out and tested it and found that there was no problem. She immediately ran over.

Then, she started to shout loudly:

"Wow, I went through a circle and I'm at Mei's house!"

"Hmm... it looks like I picked the right one."

Hearing this, [Elysia] nodded with satisfaction.

This was her first time using this ability. She had thought that it might even be off-course.

—That's right, this was the Herrscher of the Void's power.

Of course, don't misunderstand, Jiang Qiao hadn't ripped the Herrscher core from the Second Herrscher.

After all, if she handed in a Herrscher body that didn't have a Herrscher core, not only would that cause some trouble, if she swallowed the Herrscher of the Void's core, it would also cause the trait of the Herrscher of Origin, of being difficult to detect, to disappear.

That would be harmful to [Elysia]'s life, and there was no benefit to it.

So, after weighing the pros and cons, Jiang Qiao had, based on the status of the Herrscher of Origin, as the big boss, sliced off a small portion of the Herrscher of the Void's imaginary space manipulation ability from the core.

After all, the abilities of all Herrschers were actually reflections of the Finality's authority.

As the Herrscher closest to the Finality, the Herrscher of Origin could be a power-user and re-divide the authority to a certain extent.

However, this operation had to be done on the premise that the other party had lost the ability to resist, and wouldn't resist.

"Okay, if nothing's wrong, let's get moving~"

The dazed Elysia was pushed into the other side of the circle by the pink girl with a smile.

And just as the circle disappeared, a late figure finally arrived at the base's central area.

It was Fu Hua!

Although under Elysia's notification, Kyoko's fight with her didn't last for long.

But because she didn't have an access card and because a sudden surge of energy had caused many of the Moonbeam armor's functions to malfunction, her arrival speed at the base's central area was still inevitably slower.

When she arrived at the control room, all that she could see was that it had been abandoned and was empty.

Fu Hua, who had taken off her mask, looked at the base's central area, which clearly had traces of people but also of those who had recently left, and frowned.

She sighed and, feeling helpless, reported the situation here to Otto, who was far away at Schicksal Headquarters, through the restored Moonbeam internal network.

"But, that energy reaction just now... It feels so familiar."

The girl gently touched her forehead, trying to recall where that familiar feeling from the Honkai energy explosion had come from, but the memories she had burned away after using the Feather of Deliverance for so many years had made her memories of the distant past extremely blurry.

Even though recalling it made her head ache, she couldn't find where the source of this feeling of familiarity came from.

But for some reason, when that wave had swept over her, she had felt a hint of... nostalgia.

However, in Fu Hua's life, she had long since become accustomed to such feelings.

After all, there were countless things that she had already forgotten.

Just when she had given up on trying to remember,

Suddenly, something in her peripheral vision caught her attention.

—It was a pink, extremely fragmented, small crystal shard.