Honkai Impact: Starting from Wandering with Kiana

"Kiana Kaslana, Raiden Mei, Bronya Zaychek, hello. We should all know about each other from the previous Erosion War. Now let me reintroduce myself. My name is Bianca Durandal Atagina. You can call me Durandal or Bianca, it's up to you. Jiuxiao has already given me your information. I will now provide you with targeted training."

Kiana, Mei, and Bronya: "Thank you for your help, Durandal."

Durandal nodded and then looked at Huihuo, expressing some surprise that Huihuo would also come.

"Is Huihuo also going to participate in special training?"

"No, I won't participate! I was dragged here!" Hui Huo waved his hands frantically, thinking that training with Bianca would be worse than killing her.

Durandal shook her head with a regretful look, glancing at Huihuo with a disappointed look that made Huihuo's skin crawl.

As for Jiuxiao… even a King-level Honkai Beast couldn't withstand my full-force punch, but Jiuxiao seemed completely unaffected. And Jiuxiao's fighting techniques—though I don't know their specifics, I can't defeat him.

Yulandel felt that if Jiuxiao came to challenge her to a fight, she would definitely be happy to oblige. But to ask her to train him was just making fun of her!

Durandal grew angrier the more she thought about it, then glared at Jiuxiao, turned around, and left with Kiana and the other two.

"Huh? What did I do..."

Jiuxiao shrugged, looking completely bewildered. Not only did Youlandail not greet him, but why did she glare at him like that…?

Hui Huo tugged at Jiu Xiao's collar, smiled sweetly, and said to him in a coquettish tone, "Now it's just the two of us, let's go play!"

"Train, train, and train some more. Striving to become stronger is what we should be doing now. What kind of behavior is it to be indulging in playing all day long!" Jiu Xiao shook off Hui Huo's hand and righteously rejected him.

“Alright, since Jiuxiao has said so…” Huihuo sighed helplessly, then waved his hand and summoned Sabayou, placing it in Jiuxiao’s hand.

"Otto said this is already the pinnacle of technological advancement, and he can't improve it any further. My strength relies entirely on my outer armor; as long as it can be upgraded, I can become even stronger. So, for the sake of your mistress becoming stronger, I'm handing her over to you!"

Jiuxiao picked up the sabayou, weighed it in his hand, and then put it back into Huihuo's hand.

"Instead of having me research this, it's better to hope that Iserline can use the Herrscher Core to upgrade you into a Divine Key in the future..."

"Also, you're not allowed to call yourselves mistresses! You're all my future wives, it's too offensive to call yourselves mistresses."

"Hmph, when are you going to marry us?" Hui Huo asked with a smile, feeling secretly pleased.

"Don't you know whether you're an adult or not?" Jiu Xiao pinched Hui Huo's nose in annoyance, then took her hand and walked out of the training room.

"Come on, let's not think about it anymore. The Destiny Headquarters has lots of delicious food, let's eat our fill today."

Huihu shook his hand, which was being held, and shouted happily:

"Great!"

"Tsk, you keep saying don't ignore yourself, but you still ignore everyone else too," Rita muttered awkwardly, then tidied up and left. "Speaking of delicious food, what should I make for Lady Bianca tonight…?"

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"The improvement of strength cannot be achieved in a single moment, but rather through continuous accumulation, from quantitative change to qualitative change..."

Durandal didn't want to train too intensely at the beginning, so she had Kiana and the others warm up first. While they were warming up, Durandal did the warm-up exercises with them and taught them her philosophy.

Kiana, who was in a hurry, quickly finished the task that Durandal had asked her to do, clapped her hands and said to Durandal with a smile, "Durandal, you're so long-winded, just like my class monitor Fu Hua!"

"Too verbose?!"

Durandal was a little hurt by Kiana's words, and then sincerely apologized to Kiana.

"I'm sorry, I made Kiana feel disgusted."

"No, no, no, that's not what I meant... Durandal, you don't need to apologize!" Kiana stammered, gesturing wildly. Durandal's sincerity only made Kiana feel embarrassed.

"Idiot Kiana..." Bronya, now a merciless吐槽姬 (tu cao ji, a term for someone who makes sarcastic or critical remarks), looked at Kiana with disdain.

Mei tapped Kiana on the head and made her apologize to Durandal. "I'm sorry, Durandal. Kiana is straightforward, so she doesn't always speak tactfully."

"It's alright... Since Kiana doesn't like it, I'll just say less. It looks like everyone's finished warming up, so let's begin our special training!"

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"Kiana, your strength and physical condition are far from what you should be at. Your daily training has been too lax."

Having been seen through by Durandal, Kiana fidgeted a little embarrassedly, but still stubbornly insisted, "My combat talent is quite strong! It's more than enough to make up for this..."

"Being overly arrogant is not a good thing. Blindly believing in one's talent without practicing and turning that talent into ability is a waste of that talent..."

Kiana, come and attack me! I will correct your mistakes through battle.

Durandal assumed a fighting stance, challenging Kiana to a duel.

"Underestimating me will lead to big trouble! Take this!"

Kiana charged straight at Durandal, delivering a flying kick when she was still two meters away from Durandal.

Then Kiana was knocked unconscious by Durandal's punch and fell to the ground.

Mei & Bronya: "..."

Durandal silently took out the Black Abyss White Flower and used it to heal Kiana.

After finishing, Durandal smiled and helped Kiana up, who had just woken up, saying, "It seems your talent doesn't compensate for your weaknesses as you said."

"This was a mistake! Let's try again!!"

"Alright, alright, I'll play with Kiana as many times as she wants."

Chapter 174 Damn it, Durandal is still chasing me!

It has to be said that Kiana is truly talented. The same attacks will no longer have much effect on Kiana. Although Kiana's physical abilities are not up to par and she can't dodge them, she already has several countermeasures.

Then Durandal changed tactics, and Invincible Kitty fell again.

But for Kiana, you can defeat me, but you can never subdue me.

Kiana was repeatedly knocked to the ground by Durandal, but after being healed by Durandal, the indomitable Kiana got up again and continued to attack Durandal.

Durandal grew happier as the fight progressed. She was delighted by Kiana's talent and also amused by how Kiana's pouty and defiant demeanor resembled a little kitten.

The Black Abyss White Flower can only repair physical damage; Kiana's mental state becomes increasingly exhausted, eventually rendering her unable to rise again.

Durandal led her aside, leaving Bronya to look after her, before turning back to continue Mei's training.

“Mei, you have a good will, but you are also a bit insecure. To be honest, the Herrscher of Thunder was so...so irritable back then? And you were so humble and gentle, which really surprised me.”

Durandal took two training katanas and handed one to Mei.

"The information Jiuxiao reported says that your swordsmanship has reached the level of mastery, but it is still just swordsmanship used by ordinary people... Do you want to reach the level of your ancestor, the legendary Kita-Shinobi Mei, Raiden Mei?"

"Although the Hokushin Ittō-ryū style lost its soul in its long history, I will create my own Hokushin Ittō-ryū style and reach the level of my predecessors' swordsmanship," Mei replied firmly.

Durandal and Mei stood facing each other, swords drawn, bowing to each other in the etiquette of Far Eastern swordsmanship. Without a referee or command, they simultaneously drew their swords and clashed.

Durandal looked at Mei's resolute gaze, a slight smile playing on her lips as she repelled Mei.

"Your momentum is quite good, but you're wrong about one thing."

"what?"

"Since you're going to develop your own swordsmanship, you can't just be content with being on par with your predecessors; you have to surpass them! Raiden Mei, you need to surpass Kitashita Mei's level of swordsmanship!"

Mei took a deep breath.

Yes, my swordsmanship talent is quite good... how can I be satisfied with just being on par with my predecessors? At that level, I won't be able to go all the way with Kiana and Jiuxiao.

"I will."

"With Black Abyss White Flower and the advanced medical measures at headquarters, as long as the head isn't severed, no injury is a problem!"

Raiden Mei, come on! I will be your opponent, your whetstone, and I will help you refine your swordsmanship to your fullest potential!

After speaking, Durandal stopped talking. Next, she was going to teach Mei all the sword techniques she knew.

No, it's not just swordsmanship... spears, longswords, staffs... everything Durandal knows, she'll use to train Mei.

For Durandal, knowledge is meant to be shared, and she is never stingy in passing on her skills. As long as you are willing to learn, Durandal is willing to teach.

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As for Bronya… Durandal is somewhat troubled.

Bronya was abducted as a child and trained as a child soldier, so her willpower, skills, and so on did not need to be further honed by Durandal.

After her brain and legs were damaged, Heavy Bunny became her primary means of combat. However, Heavy Bunny is a reconstructed power, and Durandal couldn't help Bronya with it.

But since Bronya also wants to become stronger and has come to her for special training, Durandal certainly can't just give up on Bronya like that.

Durandal had Bronya summon Heavy Bunny, then raised her spear and aimed it at her.

"Bronya, I'm sorry, I don't have many methods for your training. The usual methods won't work for you, so I'll have to use unconventional ones."

As a support role, you need to be familiar with all combat environments.

So think of me as an Emperor-class or Judgment-class Honkai Beast! Let me simulate the various battles you might encounter in the future!

After saying that, Durandal raised her spear and charged towards Bronya.

Bronya assessed the strength of both sides, then turned and ran.

"Bronya, don't run! Charge at my spear!"

"Durandal, I don't understand, this is too dangerous!"

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