Inside Adam's office, in the heart of Rose Redemption, five figures were comfortably seated on plush couches, while Adam himself presided from behind his ornate desk. The room was a blend of advanced technology and classic design, with holographic displays juxtaposed against antique bookshelves. The scent of old paper and ozone hung in the air.
"So, what's the deal today? Why do I even need to be here, considering I'm not even a transmigrator or reincarnator like all of you?" The question was laced with annoyance, delivered by a man with messy gray hair with singed ends. Rather than seeing his face, we see his mask. It is black and gold, with a shape resembling that of a Chariot's face. He seemed to constantly have fire around him when in battle and held canisters at his side. This was Kalpas, the volatile powerhouse of the group.
His outfit was chaotic and didn't have a consistent pattern to it. His left arm had a glove that extends into a gauntlet. The right was without a glove, opting for a cape that extends from his upper arm. He has huge spikes at his right shoulder as well. He wore a black shirt with white accents. His pants are also black. There are belts in various places: like his back, his pants, and his arms. One of these belts holds a few bullets.
"It's because today's meeting concerns you, Kalpas," a slender young man said, his voice smooth and melodic. Sunless, as he was known, was sitting on the couch in a relaxed pose, wearing a simple black tunic. The young man had skin as pale as flawless white jade, silky black hair, and eyes that were like two onyx gems. His delicate beauty was almost sublime.
"Sunless was right, Kalpas. Considering that you are the one who almost killed the experimental vipralopa-class honkai beast in the previous era and the one who killed it just last week, we need your take on it," the lady who said that calmly explained the reason to Kalpas, who just sighed and let go of the matter. Her voice was soothing, yet carried an undercurrent of authority.
She was an extraordinary female figure clad in a layered but unadorned black gown, with an iron crown upon Her head and a thin veil covering Her face, rendering Her features indistinct yet imbued with a tranquil beauty. Her body was studded with points of starlight. Pale wings sprouted from Her back, while two short, darkly furred arms each extended from under Her ribs and armpits, clutching a dusk-orange greatsword and a black, night-like scythe. Her exposed forearms and hands appeared like sculpted jade, cradling an illusory book formed of coiled feathered serpents. This was Aminises, the ancient scholar and strategist.
"So may we start the meeting? Me and Adam here are just waiting for your confirmations," another man said calmly. His face is that of ordinary looking man with brown hair, He is cloaked in a black trench coat, wears a pair of dark leather gloves, and holds a star-encrusted cane, while being surrounded by grayish-white fog. This was Klein Moretti, the enigmatic manipulator.
"Start it immediately! I'm getting bored here, ya know," a man said calmly, dressed in black armor that seemed to be splashed with blood. He had red hair that resembled fire, looking young and handsome. This was Medici, the impulsive warrior.
"As Medici said, let's start now, shall we. First things first, is that the experimental vipralopa-class has the ability of elemental manipulation and insane regeneration. It's durability is roughly as hard as that of an emperor class, but it mostly doesn't matter when its sheer regeneration is god-like," said a man who wore a simple white cloak and wore a silver cross, eyes as clear as a child's, and beneath His feet was a dense shadow, different from Him, with five heads. It seemed to be His, yet not His. This was Adam, the enigmatic leader.
"Adam's right, Azathoth had those abilities, though the fact that I managed to one-shot it now is a testament to the sheer fact that it was weakened due to Dino's attack," Kalpas pointed out, acknowledging the contribution of the younger generation.
"Your students are truly interesting, Adam. Even with the fact that their strength is mostly buffed by the honkai genes you gave them aside from your two first students they are by far stronger than any fighters we currently have excluding the executives like nephis, Chen Tianwu, and more," Aminises complimented Adam, who just smiled, while Sunless just sighed and annoyingly said.
"Still hated the fact that you named that white-haired girl, Nephis. The only similarities they had is the appearance anyways, their mindset, personalities, and experience are vastly different," Sunless said.
"Blame Klein for it he had the idea of naming the girl Nephis and be at least happy that the girl is slowly gaining strength by training!" Medici laughingly shouted as he stood up to go to the refrigerator to get some food. The scent of ozone briefly gave way to that of cheap instant noodles.
Klein just chuckled at sunless's glare of annoyance at him and just coughed lightly and calmly said
"Let's get back to the main topic shall we let's start with you students Adam can you give us status reports about them?" Klein's voice was like the rustling of old paper, a calming presence in the room.
Adam just smiled and calmly nodded and said in a calm tone
"The sixth transmigrator, Nava Arragon, is doing fine teaching her students, the main trio of the original destiny. Lan Yuan is doing fine too he has successfully advanced to s rank knight being one of the few s rank knights of schicksal's history. Dino Zazel is slowly regenerating the injury he sustained while forcefully using the zeroth rated power of the twin sword equinox. Pandora Paragon is training alongside the remaining students, Mammon, Flores, and Shane with our little owl, Chen Tianwu whom is training them in real combat."
"Now that I think about it won't destiny be diverted too much if little owl lived and didn't join world serpent?" Medici asked a question that has been bothering him for a while for which Adam didn't reply but aminises did
"Destiny has already been differed too much when all flame chasers except Elysia are still alive and Kevin Kaslana is much much stronger, whom we still have to fight due to Dr. Mei's death as sad at it is" Klein just nodded at her words and added
"Add the fact that Kevin is by now the amalgamation of all stigmata that has ever come into existence, were even lucky that kalpas is still able to contend with him due to his heart not being replaced and three new honkai beast was integrated into him, and still after all that all kalpas could do is hold him back for a long time and heavily injure him that Kevin could heal at any time, he would still lose to Kevin's almost divine strength" The weight of Kevin's power hung heavy in the air.
"As much as I want to disagree Kevin is too strong now were even lucky that su, Mobius, and aponia managed to seal him on the sea of quanta and weaken him for a bit" Kalpas just sighed and annoyingly replied
"The talk has diverted too much let's get back to normal rose redemption talks" Aminises calmly said as she tries to divert the attention of her fellow leaders of rose redemption
"The branch of eternal darkness is doing fine they had successfully infiltrated anti-entropy, shcicksal, and world serpent without anyone noticing it" Aminises said as she looks at Kalpas to continue the reports
"Tch, the branch of unending decimation is also doing fine they had been constantly practicing more even though they are only responsible for killing honkai beasts" Kalpas just annoyingly replied, his gaze fixed on some point beyond the holographic displays.
"The branch of god almighty is doing fine too they had started to progress on scientific stuffs and more things" Adam with a smile just innocently said
"The branch of calamity of destruction is in a state of training they had adapted military like training combining it with Spartan Like training they had been progressing fast" Medici said as he looked at Sunless who just sighed and calmly said
"The branch of exiled from light is fine too they had alongside eternal darkness infiltrated the major organizations" Sunless just looked at Klein as he finished telling his reports to which Klein just said
"The main base of lord of mysteries is as always doing fine gathering info's left and right doing some side quest here and there and has successfully stopped the prying eyes trying to gaze at rose redemption" as Klein finished his reports they had come back to talking in a normal way
"So, Adam, about Testarossa..." Klein said, breaking the easy atmosphere.
Adam sighed, "Yes, I know. She wants to meet. I'm going to meet her in 2 days"
"So you are finally going to meet her huh, what are you going to say to her?" Kalpas asked.
"I don't know, but I have a feeling that this is going to be a very long conversation" Adam replied.
Kalpas was silent before saying "Good luck then, you are going to need it"
Adam nodded as he looked at the holographic display, his expression unreadable. The meeting was over, but the real challenge was just beginning.
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In the training grounds of Rose Redemption, a sparring match was ongoing. The air was thick with the scent of sweat and ozone.
"You should try to dodge things than tank it, Mammon!" Chen Tianwu, or better called Owl, was instructing Pandora, Mammon, Flores, and Shane how to fight a real opponent other than a honkai beast.
Owl leaned forward to dodge Pandora's attempt to slice his head off and shot his gun 'Sloth' to stop Shane's attempt to pierce his stomach.
He sidestepped to dodge Mammons punch who fell face first on the ground and stepped on his head, he also catched the slash of flores's great sword aimed at his side and kicked Shane on the stomach whom tried to rush on him
"If this continues you would not even bring me to bring out the zeroth rated power of sloth or even make me use the ability of my honkai beast and stigmata, try harder!" Owl calmly said as he shot at Pandora who tried to sneak attack him on the back while throwing Flores on the wall.
Looking at the already unconscious kids he just sighed and reported the matter to Adam and let go continuing his info gathering work.
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At the clinic of the main base of Rose Redemption, Dino was sitting on the bed calmly talking to himself as if talking to someone else. He was troubled, his mind racing with questions.
"Hey, Testarossa, you still awake?" Dino asked.
'Why do you even need to wake me up? I'm literally almost asleep, what is it, Dino?' came a women voice from his mind whom only Dino could hear. The voice was sharp, sarcastic, and undeniably alluring.
"I have never asked you this, but you're a transmigrator, correct?" Dino asked as he stretches his arms sideways. He needed to know the truth, to understand his own past.
'Yeah, how many times did I say to you that I was a transmigrator, and yet you still don't remember?' Testarossa annoyingly said as she took control of Dino's body and let him fall asleep, finally being able to talk to Dino in his mind. The world swirled around him, fading into darkness.
What came into Dino's view as he woke up in his mind was an alluring lady with waist-long white hair and crimson red eyes. She wore a formal attire that is a teal-colored dress. Dino was stunned due to how beautiful the women in front of him was and add the fact that this is only the second time they met face to face the first time was when he was a child and that was already fifteen years ago.
"What? Flabbergasted due to my demonic beauty?" Saying it in a teasing tone Testarossa teleported Infront of Dino and took hold of his chin and made him look at her smiling face. Her crimson eyes sparkled with amusement.
Snapping out of it, Dino sighed to himself and stutteringly said, "N-no, I was just shocked that you suddenly forced us to meet each other again when the last time we met face to face was fifteen years ago." He was still trying to process everything, to reconcile the image in his mind with the reality before him.
The talk of Testarossa and Dino had just begun.
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Yo true visionary here I actually forgot to fix some parts here and there and only noticed it when a Portugal reader or something close to that all I know is he is a non English, said that my quality of writing dropped, at first I was like
"Yeah of course my writing would drop this is after all rushed"
But when I read it I actually noticed an unfixed part where Klein was confused on where the honkai beasts came from even though I wrote last chapter that they are the ones who created it so I have to fix that see ya in new year folks
Merry Christmas to y'all and happy new year