Honkai Impact 3rd, a simulator of lifelong regret!

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The boy has been reunited with Velvi, and they are buried together beneath the ruins of the Spiral Workshop. Has the boy truly lived a fulfilling life?

Although there are regrets.

Although it's not perfect.

Although life is only a short twenty-odd years.

Unable to walk together with the one you love for a long time, to see all the flowers, all the grass, all the mountains, to see how the birds soar in the sky, and how the fish leap in the stream.

Unable to leave behind any offspring, unable to pass on this love that belonged only to the two of them to new life, unable to watch the next generation grow up vibrantly.

But this can also be called a perfect ending.

She was able to leave behind all the gifts at the last moment, to be buried with Velvi beneath the Spiral Workshop headquarters, and to accompany the girl who feared loneliness, who was alone in her fear, and who felt only darkness when she fell into the abyss.

The boy would never dislike such an ending.

Is it really necessary to live longer?

When you're all alone in the world, all you can feel is a constant, lingering regret.

Is it really necessary to leave behind offspring?

Is it really necessary to create a third party in a love that belongs only to two people, a love that only belongs to one person?

Under the calamity known as Honkai, even a longer life will only be covered in more dust. All the beauty and happiness will cease to exist, and perhaps even the time to travel together will be lost.

Dr. Mebius was so busy that he didn't even have time to sleep, relying entirely on his body after the fusion warrior surgery to keep going.

If Jiang Cheng and Wilvi were still alive, they would certainly be just as busy and exhausted, having to watch countless lives pass away before their eyes.

Could gentle boys and girls really conduct those cruel and heinous experiments like Möbius?

He is currently only the Sixth Herrscher, and it has only been a few years. There has been no time to rest or apprenticeship, and the pressure is so intense that it is difficult to breathe.

In this context, conceiving a new generation is essentially sending innocent lives into hell.

—The boy had done everything he could before he died.

It gave humanity the opportunity to fight against the Honkai, perfectly implemented protective measures against the Honkai, and left behind complete experimental notes.

People then only needed to study the experimental notes and data to deal with one enemy after another and resist one natural disaster after another.

The device known as the Key of God can grant people power equivalent to that of a Herrscher. The current disaster can definitely be overcome if we join forces.

This is already the limit that an ordinary teenager can achieve by giving his all.

In the end, I was nothing more than a voyeur who spied on a boy's life. I had no right to change anything. I had already pushed that boy away from me with ruthlessness, indifference, and stupidity.

—Wanting the boy to continue living is just a little bit of my whims. Does that mean I have to take the boy away from Wilvi?

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So, am I going to live like this, for decades or centuries to come in a world without Jiang Cheng, regretting that I never even hugged him?

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【die.】

[A word that has left a profound mark on human history.]

The word "fear," or rather, the fear of the primal instinct of life.

Because death signifies the end of everything.

Whatever one does in life is meaningless; even if one is remembered by others, it is essentially just the living trying to comfort themselves.

If the power of death were to become an ability...

There is probably no one in the world who is unafraid of fear.

[While they may not appear as powerful as Rin or Void at first glance, the former can utilize Honkai energy to create things akin to those of a creator god, while the latter possesses mobility unmatched by humans, making them the only adversaries to fight against.]

[Perhaps in terms of destructive range, it cannot compare to the Herrscher who wields fundamental forces and is capable of tearing apart global electromagnetic fields in an instant, triggering a massive explosion.]

However, in terms of the destructive power to life and civilization, it far surpasses all existing Herrschers, even those who directly cause natural disasters like climate change. The fear and oppression brought by the word "death" cannot compare.

[There might be clues to countering other Herrschers, relying on corresponding powers to match them.]

Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to fight death with a human body, especially when death occurs to the ultimate calamity known as the Herrscher.

[All life, even those seemingly eternal like towering mountains, will one day be worn away and die.]

Humans, being carbon-based life forms, have absolutely no idea whatsoever the possibility of fighting against death.

[This applies only to life forms that can be perceived.]

The power of death is indeed formidable, but for humans who have already mastered the technology of the Divine Keys and, aside from the unmodified Fifth Herrscher, can make basic use of the strength of the first four Herrschers, there is absolutely no need to foolishly engage in close combat.

After fully mastering the power of reason, the previously scarce resource problem was completely solved, and energy from the Honkai was virtually inexhaustible.

Previously, the main limitation was how to control it. Now, the power of reason can convert Honkai energy into resources. However, due to the pollution caused by Honkai energy, it is actually not used for things related to people's livelihoods or for individual occupations.

However, some consumables, and some weapons used to combat Honkai attacks, such as the Jiangcheng-modified nuclear bomb, are practically unlimited.

Honkai energy permeates the entire world; it can be used at any time.

[After multiple improvements, these large-scale weapons of mass destruction can inflict devastating damage on Earth with a level of shockwaves, regardless of the environment or the time required for reconstruction.]

[Using the power of emptiness to deploy large-scale weapons of reason, it is even possible to create barriers similar to imaginary space to isolate the development of collapse.]

Although the distance makes it difficult to achieve maximum effectiveness, under Mebius's research, the Fusion Warriors can compensate for this.

[Those known as Fusion Warriors, who can fight for a period of time even with extremely high concentrations of Honkai energy, are virtually immune to ranged weaponry and can barely withstand Honkai energy infection below 1000. They can effectively wear down the Herrscher's strength.]

Although the mortality rate of fusion warriors wasn't particularly high, the prison was practically empty.

For humanity, whose civilization has been relentlessly attacked and forced into a state of war preparedness, and who has been forced into authoritarianism and dictatorship in a way no one wanted to see, the so-called spiral of history has been trampled to the ground.

Those human rights activists are insignificant in the face of politicians who already feel threatened.

[The death rate of over 90% was forcibly pushed out in dozens of people, including a warrior named Kevin who possessed extremely strong individual combat abilities.]

[Kevin, in particular, displayed individual qualities hundreds of times greater than those of a normal person even before becoming a Fusion Warrior.]

[After being seen by Möbius, she was lured to his laboratory that very night and tricked into signing a contract of servitude; she almost never made it back.]

[Although this once sunny young man, now someone who shows no trace of emotion, might not dislike this behavior.]

For Kevin, who has now lost everything, nothing is more important than fighting the Honkai and the Herrscher.

"Whatever experiments are involved, use them all that can extract more power from this body."

"Don't worry about me caring about any aftereffects, or being afraid of becoming unrecognizable. I have no one left in this world to hug."

Kevin could now act without restraint in front of Mebius, who had completely transformed into a demon, presenting himself as a test subject—a test subject who could perfectly adapt to any number of surgeries and experiments.

【It doesn’t matter. 】

None of this matters anymore.

[Su, Mei, everyone...]

All of Kevin's friends, relatives, and companions, whom he could see, were buried beneath the electromagnetic field of Changkong City.

【revenge.】

This has become the norm for humanity.

The horrific deaths drove countless people to participate in experiments driven by a thirst for revenge, and their obsession and will to retaliate enabled them to survive experiments with extremely low success rates.

These warriors, who have lost everything, even when thrown into the most brutal battlefields, even when their very selves are on the verge of collapse, will fight with all their might against any Honkai Beast they see.

Compared to these utterly insane people, even Ao Mie, who was guarding his new home, was nothing special.

[Non-Tian has become the most frequently used Honkai Beast.]

This time, however, they couldn't find any enemies.

All they saw were ruins everywhere, the sunken Far East, and the Herrscher of Death kneeling on the ground, her Herrscher core taken from her.

[The Sixth Herrscher died under extremely mysterious circumstances, just like the Fifth Herrscher; what's even stranger is that this time, even her core was missing.]

[During the subsequent assessment by the Reconstruction Department, the damage caused by the opposing force was similar to that of the Fifth Herrscher, killing hundreds of millions of people upon its creation.]

This enraged the politicians who had pinned all their hopes on extending their lives through the Herrscher of Death's core.

At the same time, an uninvited guest arrived at the Neo-Mébius Laboratory, a super villa that had been a gift from the Flame Chaser.

The girl in pink gently knocked on the laboratory door.

The security guards lined up nearby, all of them fainting in the corridor, their blank and stiff expressions still retaining the relaxed and cheerful feeling they had when they were chatting.

Among them were two fusion warriors who had passed the experiment, neither of whom showed the slightest fear.

"Mobius..."

She called out lightly to the green-haired woman who was conducting experiments at the deepest part of the room, her full lips curving slightly upwards, her eyes flashing with a mixture of horror and anticipation.

"You're here."

Mebius was not surprised by this.

She simply put down the test tube in her hand, turned her head, and pushed up her cold glasses.

Its reflection revealed emotionless, emerald-green pupils.

Like a venomous snake lurking in the shadows.

Observing himself...

--prey.