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Chapter 178: Herta: ’Do you realize that’s a crime?!’ · Oct 08, 2026

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151 Chapter 151: The Girls Shocked by the Vastness of the Universe 2026-10-08
152 Chapter 152: Ningguang & Yae Miko’s Shared Question 2026-10-08
153 Chapter 153: The Narcissistic Herta Deals a Psychological Blow to Ningguang 2026-10-08
154 Chapter 154: Herta & Ei: ’I Don’t Argue With Children.’ 2026-10-08
155 Chapter 155: Herta: ’Do You Even Have a Brain?’ 2026-10-08
156 Chapter 156: A Depressed Raiden Ei, and a Terrified Kamisato Ayaka 2026-10-08
157 Chapter 157: Herta, Incorrigible as Always 2026-10-08
158 Chapter 158: Ningguang: ’We’re Punching WAY Above Our Weight, Folks!’ 2026-10-08
159 Chapter 159: The Tsaritsa Is Outdated Again 2026-10-08
160 Chapter 160: Childe, Fighting for the Tsaritsa’s Happiness 2026-10-08
161 Chapter 161: Miss Yelan, Whose Courage Truly Knows No Bounds 2026-10-08
162 Chapter 162: Bad Woman Yelan: ’Hmph! Can we negotiate?’ 2026-10-08
163 Chapter 163: Yelan: ’Was that on purpose… or a mistake?’ 2026-10-08
164 Chapter 164: Yelan: ’What? Ningguang… defected?’ 2026-10-08
165 Chapter 165: Yae Miko: ’So? Does my fluffy tail feel nice?’ 2026-10-08
166 Chapter 166: Would the Tsaritsa Cry and Throw a Tantrum? 2026-10-08
167 Chapter 167: Yae Miko: ’If we’re ranking narcissists, I’m only second place!’ 2026-10-08
168 Chapter 168: Yae Miko: ’I’m climbing the social ladder too!’ 2026-10-08
169 Chapter 169: Lumine’s Straight Back Almost Bent 2026-10-08
170 Chapter 170: Childe Learns the Truth of the Geo Archon 2026-10-08
171 Chapter 171: Herta: ’Of course I forgave him!’ 2026-10-08
172 Chapter 172: Herta: ’A scumbag who toys with feelings!’ 2026-10-08
173 Chapter 173: Ningguang, Wrongly Accused 2026-10-08
174 Chapter 174: Sandrone: ’I just got injected— and now you say it’s poison?!’ 2026-10-08
175 Chapter 175: Sandrone: ’Even if I die, I won’t beg you!’ 2026-10-08
176 Chapter 176: The Tsaritsa: I Have It and She Doesn’t… I Win BIG! 2026-10-08
177 Chapter 177: The Tsaritsa’s Expectations 2026-10-08
178 Chapter 178: Herta: ’Do you realize that’s a crime?!’ 2026-10-08
179 Chapter 179: Herta Gets Checkmated: ’At most you could beat five of me!’ 2026-10-08
180 Chapter 180: Herta, Who Gets Bullied and Lets It Happen 2026-10-08
181 Chapter 181: Ningguang: ’We really ARE country bumpkins now.’ 2026-10-08
182 Chapter 182: Raiden Ei: ’Don’t go! I’ll… I’ll take care of you!’ 2026-10-08
183 Chapter 183: Raiden Makoto: ’So… you prefer me over Ei?’ 2026-10-08
184 Chapter 184: Ei, Fully Bamboozled 2026-10-08
185 Chapter 185: Ayaka vs. Beidou: A Battle of Pride 2026-10-08
186 Chapter 186: Lumine: ’I Actually Have a Pretty Big Background!’ 2026-10-08
187 Chapter 187: Ayaka Wants Something She Can Brag About 2026-10-08
188 Chapter 188: The Raiden Shogun Who Pushes All the Blame Away 2026-10-08
189 Chapter 189: Ganyu’s Best Line: ’…Huh?’ 2026-10-08
190 Chapter 190: Ningguang’s Ambition: ’Liyue Shall Have Only My Voice’ 2026-10-08
191 Chapter 191: Keqing, Whose Priorities Are Uniquely Her Own 2026-10-08
192 Chapter 192: Yoimiya, Who Just Wants to See Little Ei 2026-10-08
193 Chapter 193: Ayaka Wants to Be Cherished 2026-10-08
194 Chapter 194: Ayaka Doesn’t Want to Be Noticed 2026-10-08
195 Chapter 195: Raiden Ei’s Judgment 2026-10-08
196 Chapter 196: Super-Brave Lumine: ’I’ve Come to Defeat You, Raiden Shogun!’ 2026-10-08
197 Chapter 197: Raiden Ei: ’I Will Bury You Inside the Statue of the God!’ 2026-10-08
198 Chapter 198: Lumine: ’Why Are You Preparing a Cenotaph for Me?!’ 2026-10-08
199 Chapter 199: Lumine: ’Raiden… Little General?’ 2026-10-08
200 Chapter 200: The Breeding Envoy That Terrified the Gods 2026-10-08

Chapter 178: Chapter 178: Herta: “Do you realize that’s a crime?!”

”No interest.”

The Tsaritsa fell silent instantly.

She hadn’t expected Su Ran to reject her suggestion so decisively.

”Won’t you reconsider? That would make you the being above all life in Teyvat.”

At that point, even the Seven Archons would kneel at his feet.

What higher exaltation could there be?

”But if I already stand above the heavens,” Su Ran asked, ”why would I stoop down to become the heavens?”

The question stunned her.

What use was authority?

To him, ruling a land and wasting time managing it—was that a reward?

Why do you think Herta, after saving the Blue Planet a few times, never bothered governing anything?

It was simple: the job was thankless and boring.

When you possess power far beyond what’s needed to govern a single planet, why waste effort on tedious rulership?

Just like cultivators who retreat to spiritual mountains instead of running mortal kingdoms.

Liyue’s Adepti lived freely, yet the Archons?

Other than Venti who slacked off completely, none of the others lived freely—not even Zhongli, who still had to attend the Rite of Descension every year.

Su Ran’s explanation made the Tsaritsa realize—

He already stood above Celestia.

Why would such a being lower himself to manage a new world order?

”...I was being presumptuous.”

He had refused, but she didn’t lose heart.

”Then... could you at least take me to see that space station? I want to know just how tightly Celestia has bound Teyvat.”

On her own, she could not break the false sky.

No matter how reachable it looked, no one could surpass it.

Su Ran brought the Tsaritsa beyond the world.

It was the first time she saw the true vastness of the universe.

Compared to Teyvat, this was an ocean to a droplet.

When she turned back to look at the planet she had ruled all her life, she felt—for the first time—utterly small.

She had thought she was insignificant before Celestial Order...

But now, even the Celestials themselves seemed tiny in this infinity.

Then came the space station.

Its sheer scale and the strange distortions of space as they traveled shocked her; without Su Ran’s protection, she would have been lost forever.

Distances that seemed near were, in truth, impossibly far.

Only when she stood on the deck did she finally understand what ”technology a million years beyond Teyvat” meant.

As the Archon of Snezhnaya, she knew her nation’s science well.

She couldn’t dissect the principles, but she could analyze constructs.

Yet before her stretched something that defied all Teyvat’s logic—

No elemental energy, no ley-line resonance...

A system completely unlike anything known.

”You... got this for free?”

That scale, that sophistication—

This could be free?

Was the outside universe really this generous?

Her determination to rebel against Celestia only grew stronger.

If she didn’t resist, she would remain a frog at the bottom of the well forever.

The station was nearly complete—ready for use, just empty.

To Su Ran, that didn’t matter.

Even without contact with civilization, he could thrive.

With Erudition’s computational arrays monitoring the entire star system’s resource nodes, he could build automated collectors, expand production endlessly.

Resources were guaranteed.

Progress inevitable.

The Tsaritsa, overwhelmed, wandered the station—her eyes only growing brighter.

”Baal doesn’t know about this, does she?”

”She, her sister, her puppet General, and Liyue’s Ningguang all came to tour it not long ago.”

The Tsaritsa’s expression instantly dimmed.

Late.

She was late—

Later than Baal, later than Makoto, later even than Ningguang, a mortal.

...But at least now she knew.

She wouldn’t call it a loss.

She would call it a partial victory.

”What... is that little doll?”

On the vast deck stood a single petite figure—a marionette.

Moments later, Herta’s puppet avatar blinked online.

And immediately caught sight of a gray-haired Archon staring at her.

”What are you staring at? Never seen a puppet before?”

Her sudden activation startled the Tsaritsa; had her reflexes been slower, she might have attacked.

”Oh? A new face?” Herta floated closer. ”Another woman you picked up, huh?”

Seeing a face she didn’t recognize, she instantly assumed Su Ran had lured another girl here.

”No, to be exact,” Su Ran corrected, ”I knew her before those other women. She counts as... an old flame.”

Herta raised an eyebrow and inspected the Tsaritsa’s face.

She frowned slightly.

And that tiny frown made the Tsaritsa frown back, as if wondering why this puppet dared scrutinize her.

”This face... that little wolf cub...” Herta murmured.

”Don’t tell me that brat is your two’s child?”

The resemblance—

Too strong!

The turbine behind her, the eye color, the facial bone structure—

It was practically copy-paste!

”Oh? You noticed?” Su Ran stepped right into the act.

”That unfilial brat—so many years and not one visit to see his parents. Honestly shameful.”

The Tsaritsa froze.

Herta froze harder.

Something felt wrong.

Very wrong.

”But didn’t you say,” Herta asked slowly, staring at him and then at the Tsaritsa...

”That you’re only in your twenties?

Do you realize— that would make this a CRIME?!”

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