Herrscher of Corruption

Herrscher of Corruption is a mist-like Honkai manifestation with the ability to mentally corrupt both living creatures and computers. It first manifested during the Previous Era and is the only Herrscher from this time to survive into the Current Era.
==Story==
===Divine Key===
The Herrscher first fully awakened after Rin's death, brought into being by her host's desire for vengeance in her final moments. It disintegrated the girl's body and turned it into a black mist containing Honkai Energy that could quickly turn people into Zombies.
The 12th Herrscher was believed to have the ability to project its own consciousness onto any object and control it freely. In reality, this Herrscher was actually a self-aware lethal virus that could infect anything biological and mechanical, driving its victims mad and turning them into Honkai Beasts. Within a minute of its awakening, it hijacked the MOTH base Rin was held in and launched all of its nuclear warheads at the last three remaining cities of the Previous Era, completely destroying them and reducing humanity's population to the 31,022 people that were still inside the base. The Herrscher also hijacked the base's defense systems and turned them against its creators, mortally injuring the previous era's Sakura in the process. Dr. MEI had to seal it into the black box before it could to destroy what little still remained of humanity.
===Other===
51,500 years later, the black box fell into Schicksal's hands, causing the Black Death. Eleanor Schariac injected a fragment of this Herrscher onto herself, becoming a large spider-like beast, and later got defeated by Kallen and Otto. After witnessing the inhumane experimentation of Schicksal using Crystal Disillusionment, Kallen stole the box and ran away in search of the Phoenix. Unable to receive help from the Celestial, Kallen continued her travels until she was later severely wounded and discovered near Yae Village by a kindly Yae Sakura, who was grieving her sister Yae Rin's death at the hands of her own village. However, Yae Sakura later unwittingly opened the box, releasing the Herrscher of Corruption and all its hate accumulated over the centuries. The Herrscher possessed Sakura, turning her into Hellmaru, a large fox beast that was later defeated and sealed by Kallen.
While both of them were sealed, the 12th Herrscher created a Stigmata realm, a recreation of Yae Village on the day Yae Rin was sacrificed. For the next 500 years, the Herrscher attempted to corrupt Sakura.
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