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Chapter 123: Herta: Is He Out of His Mind? · Oct 08, 2026

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101 Chapter 101: A Battle of Gods… Turns Into a Family Dispute? 2026-10-08
102 Chapter 102: The Tsaritsa’s Shock 2026-10-08
103 Chapter 103: The Cryo Archon: ’Your Inazuma Has Ayaka? My Snezhnaya Has the Maiden!’ 2026-10-08
104 Chapter 104: The Lady and the Harbinger Who Got Played 2026-10-08
105 Chapter 105: The Tsaritsa: ’Baalzebul, You Don’t Want to Just Watch Him Leave… Do You?’ 2026-10-08
106 Chapter 106: Furina, the Blonde That Fell from the Sky?! 2026-10-08
107 Chapter 107: Living with Ningguang, and Giving Her a Ring 2026-10-08
108 Chapter 108: Ningguang Feels Powerless Before the Might of the Cosmos 2026-10-08
109 Chapter 109: Taking In the Rich Lady Ningguang 2026-10-08
110 Chapter 110: Let Ei Go Beat Up Scaramouche 2026-10-08
111 Chapter 111: Ningguang’s Hint: I’m Already His Woman 2026-10-08
112 Chapter 112: Eula’s Overwhelming Sense of Justice… and Decision to Sit Back and Watch 2026-10-08
113 Chapter 113: Lumine: ’I Happen to Be Friends with a Fatui Harbinger!’ 2026-10-08
114 Chapter 114: Keqing and Ningguang Are Terrified 2026-10-08
115 Chapter 115: Little Duck: ’If I Told You Who My Parents Are, You’d Die of Shock!’ 2026-10-08
116 Chapter 116: The Tsaritsa: ’Have I Been Blind All Along?’ 2026-10-08
117 Chapter 117: The Upright Keqing Can’t Stay Tough Anymore 2026-10-08
118 Chapter 118: Has the Ice Goddess Become the Jilted One? 2026-10-08
119 Chapter 119: Arlecchino Can’t Keep a Straight Face 2026-10-08
120 Chapter 120: Focalors: Let Me Bully You First! 2026-10-08
121 Chapter 121: The Fox Priest’s Sarcasm, and Ningguang’s Shock 2026-10-08
122 Chapter 122: The Suspicious Herta Puppet 2026-10-08
123 Chapter 123: Herta: Is He Out of His Mind? 2026-10-08
124 Chapter 124: Lumine’s Helplessness, and Yelan’s Glimmer of Hope 2026-10-08
125 Chapter 125: Kokomi: Why Haven’t They Let Me Out Yet? 2026-10-08
126 Chapter 126: The Traveler Arrives in Inazuma 2026-10-08
127 Chapter 127: Lumine Gets Wanted the Moment She Arrives in Inazuma 2026-10-08
128 Chapter 128: The Shogun’s Little Temper and Her Advice 2026-10-08
129 Chapter 129: Herta: ’Let Me Study You!’ 2026-10-08
130 Chapter 130: Failed Poaching, and Herta’s Shock 2026-10-08
131 Chapter 131: Staffer: ’Are you sure this isn’t Lady Herta?’ 2026-10-08
132 Chapter 132: Herta: ’Let’s get married!’ 2026-10-08
133 Chapter 133: Herta’s Shamelessness 2026-10-08
134 Chapter 134: Topaz: ’Is This Guy Insane?’ 2026-10-08
135 Chapter 135: Topaz’s Shock 2026-10-08
136 Chapter 136: Topaz: ’Is it still too late to get plastic surgery?’ 2026-10-08
137 Chapter 137: Ruan Mei’s Invitation 2026-10-08
138 Chapter 138: The Disliked Ruan Mei 2026-10-08
139 Chapter 139: Topaz Feels Like She Boarded a Pirate Ship 2026-10-08
140 Chapter 140: Ruan Mei: ’It’s Ruan·Mei, Not ‘Soft Girl’!’ 2026-10-08
141 Chapter 141: Topaz: ’What kind of nickname is ‘Ranking Queen’ supposed to be?’ 2026-10-08
142 Chapter 142: Ruan Mei’s Overflowing Curiosity 2026-10-08
143 Chapter 143: The Possibility of Becoming the Next Swarm Aeon & Topaz Being Angrily Amused 2026-10-08
144 Chapter 144: Herta Can’t Bear to Let Him Leave 2026-10-08
145 Chapter 145: Herta: ’I’m a Real Mature Onee-san, Okay?!’ 2026-10-08
146 Chapter 146: Lumine: ’You’re damnable, you know that?!’ 2026-10-08
147 Chapter 147: Raiden Ei: ’You’re not allowed to think about other girls!’ 2026-10-08
148 Chapter 148: Yae Miko: ’Of course—don’t let benefits flow to outsiders.’ 2026-10-08
149 Chapter 149: Raiden Ei: ’You want me to socially die… in front of Makoto?!’ 2026-10-08
150 Chapter 150: Ningguang Wants to Be the Madam Boss 2026-10-08

Chapter 123: Chapter 123: Herta: Is He Out of His Mind?

”Interesting...”

The sudden intrusion had left Herta intrigued rather than alarmed.

Whoever this mysterious hacker was, he had effortlessly slipped into her systems and edited the Simulated Universe.

From the precision of his work alone, she could already tell— this wasn’t some ordinary intruder.

This was another Genius.

Which one, though?

She couldn’t say.

There were more than eighty of them in the Genius Society.

Even she didn’t have the patience to cross-check them one by one.

For now, her only clue was the hijacked puppet standing before her.

Suddenly, the puppet’s eyes lit up again.

”Right! I’ve decided—I’m going to build a space station.

Same scale as yours.

Think of it as payment for helping you improve the Simulated Universe.

You cover the materials.”

And before Herta could even respond— the puppet went offline again.

Gone.

”Materials, huh?”

Herta shrugged, completely unbothered.

”Asta! Start ordering supplies.”

”Wait—what?!” Asta blinked in disbelief.

”Ms. Herta, that was an intruder! You’re really going to fund his space station?”

Sure, the price of raw materials wasn’t astronomical, and she could afford it—barely.

But this was still no small favor.

And to a hacker, no less!

”An intruder?” Herta arched a brow.

”So what? He improved my Simulated Universe. I’m rewarding him!”

Her tone was matter-of-fact, as if that explained everything.

Truthfully, she wasn’t angry—she was challenged.

If this really was another Genius, then Herta’s competitive spirit burned hotter than ever.

Whoever he was, she would find him.

And if it took giving him an entire space station to lure him out?

So be it.

Someone capable of expanding the Simulated Universe so drastically

was a peer worth having— perhaps even a partner in uncovering the secrets of the Aeons.

Despite her arrogance, Herta was one of the more reasonable Geniuses.

She understood the law of equivalent exchange:

You give to gain.

She turned toward the Simulated Universe terminal.

Time to analyze what the intruder had changed.

Ten hours later— she was still analyzing.

And the more she looked, the more her jaw dropped.

It wasn’t an ”update.”

It was an evolution.

From a simple blocky simulation... to a fully dynamic virtual cosmos.

By all logic, the memory load should’ve crashed the servers entirely.

Yet through a series of optimizations, it balanced perfectly on the edge of stability— just enough, without exploding.

One byte more, and it would’ve collapsed.

That kind of precision was terrifying.

If she could learn this technique, she’d no longer need massive terminals for future upgrades.

Just as she was about to peek into the source code— a red warning message blinked into view:

[This code is protected under private patent. Unauthorized access is prohibited.]

Herta: ”...What the—?!”

She gritted her teeth.

You smug little...

Unwilling to give up, she tried inspecting other sections.

But every single new module— every tweak, every inserted line— was sealed behind unbreakable firewalls.

Two and a half hours later, she finally slammed her hands down in defeat.

Ninety percent of the new system was locked.

She could still edit her own original work, but everything else was inaccessible.

”He’s insane, isn’t he?!” she yelled.

”Seriously, what kind of lunatic spends this much time adding security locks instead of content?!

If you’re going to patent it, at least leave a payment link!

What good’s a secret if you won’t even sell it?!”

Her furious rant echoed through the lab.

Meanwhile, far across the network, Screwllum had also gone silent.

The moment someone used Herta’s credentials, he’d begun observing quietly.

After reviewing the results, he had reached his own conclusion:

”This person is a Genius... and one whose intellect surpasses even mine.”

The level of refinement in the updated Simulated Universe was beyond anything the current Genius Society had achieved.

He sent Herta a private message:

Screwllum: ”Ms. Herta, I think you owe us an explanation.

The Simulated Universe isn’t yours alone, after all.”

Herta: ”My account got hacked. What do you expect me to do?”

She didn’t seem remotely apologetic.

In fact, she was more amused than anything.

The Simulated Universe was a shared research project between four Geniuses, a tool for studying the nature of the Aeons.

If someone had made it better— then that was a good thing.

Who cared who technically ”owned” it?

Well... aside from the fact that every new feature was now locked behind someone else’s firewall.

That part did make her grind her teeth.

”Fine,” she muttered.

”If I can’t hack the Simulated Universe, I’ll find a loophole in the puppet he hijacked instead.”

No matter how deep the mystery went, she was determined to unmask him.

And when the materials for that promised ”space station” were ready— she’d have her meeting, one way or another.

Back in Inazuma, within the dream machine chamber of the Tenshukaku, several dormant bodies rested— including Yelan’s.

The moment she stepped into Inazuma, she had been drawn into the dream.

Su Ran, out of courtesy, had brought her unconscious body back safely.

He now stood beside a glowing array of circuits and etheric cores.

”This Sentinel Array sure eats through resources...” he muttered.

”Still, I have to hand it to the Aeon of Erudition—he really was generous.”

Without the Aeon of Knowledge’s support, he could never have scouted so many cosmic regions— nor located the Herta Space Station so quickly.

Now, with the Aeon’s computing power lent to him, his inventions ran smoother than ever.

”Am I the first one he’s ever shared processing power with?”

Probably.

Blessings were one thing.

But computing power—that was the Aeon’s own essence.

For the Aeon to lend it freely meant only one thing:

Su Ran’s value, in the eyes of a god, had reached an entirely new level.

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