["We are indeed not bait..." After the woman said that, Tafira was the first to understand her meaning. "Our greater role is to hold her back."
"If it is as you say, that the Herrscher can only choose one target to judge at a time, or that there are unspeakable aftereffects while she is judging, then judging us will always have an impact on her."
"That will be the best time for you to intervene," the group of high-ranking officials said to the Snow Wolf Squad and the Fire Moth members sitting together.
"I'm sorry, I have one more question," At this moment, Rita, who was sitting upright in her seat, spoke to them. "We don't have information on how much time a Herrscher needs to judge a person.
"And according to the existing cases, all punishments are completed in an instant. And according to the information provided by the victims about the inside of the trial court..." Rita paused for a moment before speaking.
"You should know that it's difficult to count the time in that kind of space, whether it's another dimension or a mental space."
"Well... this is indeed a problem," the group of people fell into silence.
The Herrscher needed time to judge a person.
The minimum might only be a Planck time.
Such a short time consumption was definitely not what the high-ranking officials needed, because the scene could very well turn into the Herrscher handing out death sentences to everyone like she was chopping vegetables.
That wouldn't be a battle, but a joke.
They still needed someone who could compete with the Herrscher in terms of hard power, or someone who could hold her off when she was at her full strength, even if it was only temporary.
Cecilia held Theresa in her arms.
She was currently looking down, her gaze fixed on Theresa's cowlick, while also estimating whether she could pass the Herrscher's judgment like Siegfried and take on the role of temporarily holding off the full-power Herrscher.
According to the power of Siegfried's Heavenly Fire and that nuclear bomb, she should be able to hold her off.
Perhaps Bianka, who had frozen the nuclear bomb, could also do it. But unless it was absolutely necessary, Cecilia didn't want the child who resisted her own power to be the protector of everyone.
After all, the child's fragile psyche might be...
"If we need symmetrical strength on the front line, I think we don't need to worry," Theresa, sitting on Cecilia's lap, raised her hand. "The headquarters has indeed sent someone who can wrestle with the Herrscher.
"Logically speaking, we should have a few more people now..." The extra people Theresa was talking about were of course Fu Hua and Kallen and the others. Logically speaking, they should have arrived by now.
But for some reason, these people seemed to have lost contact.
On the contrary, Gu Chu, who was like a divine dragon whose head and tail could not be seen, had sent them a message that she was about to arrive.
It would probably be a few days. Gu Chu would be arriving soon... this person had come all the way from the Amazon rainforest on foot.
They had also tried to contact Otto through [Spark], but the information they received was that there was another problem with the base. However, Otto also told them not to worry and promised that reinforcements would arrive.
"I see," Theresa's words were the words of the Fire Moth. When she said this, the people present couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"Since someone can withstand the pressure from the front, I think we can let go of our hands and feet a little," the fat man suddenly said. "Since we don't have the data, why don't we collect the Herrscher's data on the spot?"
"That's easy for you to say," the thin old man with a monocle snorted coldly. "We've practically written 'this is a trick' on the Herrscher's face. Will she still obediently follow our plan?
"Having someone who can withstand the pressure from the front is not just good for us. At least, it's very normal for the Herrscher to make some rational choices after feeling the pressure."
"So we need a second 'bait'," Tafira lowered his eyes. "Someone she thinks is a threat to her, and who can react to when my judgment is over."
Reaction, this was a very serious problem.
No matter how capable the high-ranking officials were, they were ultimately ordinary humans. Their thinking reaction time was very short, but their physiological reaction time was very long. Among them, the fat were fat, the thin were thin, the old were half a foot in the grave, and the young... there were no young people.
And their opponent was the Herrscher. In the blink of an eye, she could slice them into mincemeat. So the moment the first set of data came out, the Herrscher would have a very short period of strength.
At that time, the Herrscher might launch a judgment on anyone.
She might follow their plan and continue to judge them as sinners. But as the old man with the monocle said, the Herrscher might make a rational choice and directly attack the few people who could truly threaten her.
In other words... among the members of the Snow Wolf Squad and the Fire Moth, there must be a sacrifice to voluntarily bear the Herrscher's second judgment.
"Let me do it," Cecilia did not hesitate this time. Since someone was bearing the greatest pressure, she could let go and deal with the Herrscher's judgment.
No one declined, and no one persuaded her, because everyone knew that this was the best solution.
Both Li Sushang and Theresa had their own follow-up missions to complete and could not die here. And Rita... she was in charge of winning over Bianka.
And with the first set of data, the remaining high-ranking officials would be able to react. If the situation was optimistic, the Herrscher's power would be in a long period of window.
...
If there was anything they hadn't calculated...
Theresa held the huge golden cross in her hand and sent Xiezhi flying with a full moon spin. Then she wiped the sweat from her face, panting.
"I really didn't expect the Sandstorm Emperor to be this person's companion Honkai beast..." Theresa panted, her whole body feeling uncomfortable from overexertion.
Salome stood beside Theresa, controlling her flying knives and fighting with Nicholas, who was temporarily holding the front, to keep Xiezhi from getting close to the battlefield of the Herrscher, Cecilia, and the others.
In the original plan, the three of them were also supposed to participate in the siege of the Herrscher. If they had participated, the Herrscher would not have been so successful now. She would have at least been injured.
The only free person was Shigure Kira, but she was also fully engaged in the siege of the Herrscher at this moment. She could only take a shot every now and then to help Theresa's side relieve the pressure.
"This feeling... it brings me back..." Theresa looked at the battlefields on both sides, and at Shigure Kira, who was taking potshots from time to time.
She suddenly felt like she was back at the Nagazora City train station a few months ago.