Honkai Impact 3rd: My Days as a Captain in Schicksal

"No wonder I couldn't hear a sound; it can fly?" Keng Huo's pupils shrank, realizing that this opponent was far too troublesome. "Wait, if it really can fly, why didn't it attack me from high above? Could it only remain hovering?"

When you have doubts about an enemy's abilities, many people assume that the enemy is deliberately hiding their strength or trying to mislead you. But in reality, who would deliberately hide their strength in a life-or-death struggle? Especially someone who looks like an assassin, they should go all out when attacking, revealing all their trump cards and explosive power in an instant, using the strongest and most ferocious attack to kill the opponent in one blow. That is the true way of an assassin!

Once the other party is dead, your trump card remains your trump card, and no other living person knows it!

"So... it's not that I don't want to do it, it's that I can't..." Keng Huo sneered, a glint of shrewdness flashing in his eyes. "Then, I can probably guess your attack method..."

"Besides, you've exposed your biggest weakness... You must reveal yourself when you attack!"

Seeing that his attack had missed, the hovering assassin did not pursue, but instead gently raised his right hand to his mouth, making a gesture as if he were blowing away dust.

As if invisible threads were being blown into the air, Keng Huo suddenly found his movements becoming sluggish again. Just then, he saw layers upon layers of red threads emerging from the ground, as dense as a spider web, covering a large area of ​​the ground around him.

Keng Huo still did not choose to fight, but instead fled the opponent's home ground once again.

He weaved through the ruins, as if trying to shake off his pursuer. After changing direction several times, he stopped in a garage and carefully examined his previous injuries.

"Flesh and skin injuries, no damage to bones or internal organs." Keng Huo tried to move his back muscles. "Although I don't know if it's poisonous, since I haven't had any abnormal reactions so far, it should be non-toxic... Next, all I need to do is..."

Suddenly, a transparent figure, rippling like water, drifted into the small garage and silently stopped behind Keng Huo.

The transparent figure slowly raised her hand, and instantly, countless red threads grew wildly from the ground beneath her feet like a swarm of snakes. Her figure slowly emerged from the air, her cold red pupils staring at Keng Huo's back with the gaze one would give a dying man.

"Just wait until you walk right into my trap!" Suddenly, Keng Huo's figure went from extreme stillness to extreme movement. This sudden change left the assassin unable to react properly. She was preparing to attack, her entire body exposed, and she could only watch helplessly as Keng Huo crashed into her arms like a cannonball.

The assassin felt as if she had been run over head-on by a train. A burning, tearing sensation came from her abdomen. Before she knew it, a long knife had pierced through her chest and abdomen, pushing her backward at breakneck speed.

Suddenly, another huge impact came from behind. She could even feel the long knife stuck in her abdomen piercing through her body. She screamed and tried to use the threads to attack Keng Huo, but the dizziness from the violent impact made it impossible for her to concentrate on controlling the threads.

This time, Keng Huo showed no mercy. He pinned her firmly to the garage wall with the composite lancet, stepped on her with his right foot, and used the reaction force to perform a backflip and land steadily.

The assassin gripped the hilt of the knife with both hands and pulled it outwards with all his might, trying to break free of the knife's control, completely unaware of Keng Huo's next move.

After landing, Keng Huo did not continue the pursuit. Instead, he squatted slightly, lowered his upper body, and pressed his hands, which were now covered with a pair of snow-white, crystal-clear gauntlets, against the ground like tiger claws. His whole body was like a fully drawn bowstring, or a fierce tiger about to pounce on its prey.

The assassin vaguely seemed to hear the roar of a wild beast. She looked up in surprise, but could only see a human on all fours.

But the human gave her the feeling of a carnivorous beast eyeing her with predatory intent!

The roar gradually became clearer; it was... the roar of a fierce tiger!

Keng Huo's face flushed red as his blood surged. Centered on his waist and hips, his muscles, like a mechanical transmission device, twisted violently, and almost all the power of his muscles was transferred to his right fist. His entire right arm muscles bulged, veins popped out, and he flew almost in a straight line toward the assassin nailed to the wall.

The assassin's crimson pupils contracted sharply. Only now, having just drawn the long sword, did she realize something she had never considered before.

She is the prey!

Like a cannonball firing, Keng Huo's right fist slammed into the assassin's chest, shattering her ribs and piercing her body with unstoppable force, even collapsing the wall behind her.

Tiger Cannon Fist!

In Xingyi Five Elements Fist, the Pi Quan (劈拳, Splitting Fist) is like an axe, the Beng Quan (崩拳, Crushing Fist) is like an arrow, the Zuan Quan (钻拳, Drilling Fist) is like a cone, the Heng Quan (横拳, Horizontal Fist) is like a beam, and the Pao Quan (炮拳, Cannon Fist), as the name suggests, is like a cannon and should be the most powerful of the five elements. The 'Tiger Cannon Fist' is created by combining the tiger form and the cannon fist, and its power is even greater. However, because it has too many openings and is difficult to stop after it is launched, it is difficult to use in actual combat. But once it is launched, it is a powerful strike that can turn the tide of battle!

Even with Keng Huo's physical prowess, he needed to rest after unleashing that punch.

Keng Huo slowly pulled his right arm out of the lifeless body of the assassin, panting slightly, and wiped his hands with the other man's clothes.

“Invisibility isn’t complete invisibility. In this garage with only one entrance, they can tell if you’re here just by looking at the entrance…” Keng Huo casually swung his arm, trying to relieve the soreness from the Tiger Cannon Fist that concentrated all the power he could unleash in an instant. “And every time you attacked, it was right behind me. Once or twice is one thing, but the third time… do you think I’m stupid? You may have some intelligence, but your combat skills are just too terrible…”

Before Keng Huo could finish speaking, he suddenly felt a sense of threat rising slowly from the corpse in front of him. An energy was gathering and surging within the body, seemingly about to...

boom--

In his haste, Keng Huo only had time to curl up his body and use his limbs to shield himself from most of the impact. He was then blown out of the garage like a rocket that had been set ablaze.

It's the kind of firecracker that's placed horizontally.

Keng Huo felt like his whole body was about to fall apart. Luckily, he wasn't blown into the wreckage of the building by the explosion. Instead, he was blasted into the canopy of a tree. The soft branches of this lush tree absorbed most of the impact, saving him from the tragic fate of becoming a pile of rotten flesh stuck to the wall.

Keng Huo hurriedly rubbed himself against his body, unzipped his sportswear, and carefully checked the lining of the clothes.

Seeing that the special material made from Honkai Beast skin remained intact, Keng Huo finally breathed a sigh of relief: "Luckily, I was smart... I stayed up all night to make a complete set of equipment, regardless of quality, otherwise I might have really been caught off guard this time..."

Keng Huo adjusted his breathing, jumped down from the treetop, and returned to the garage that had been blown up. After searching for a while, he finally found the composite lancet that had been blown away by the explosion and pinned to the wall across the street.

"Why does this knife like to stick to things so much?" Keng Huo muttered to himself, forcefully pulling the willow-leaf knife off.

“Speaking of that one just now… she was clearly from a high-level assassin group… Although her combat strength wasn’t at the high level, her abilities were really troublesome, so she could definitely be classified as a high-level group…” Keng Huo rubbed his chin. “Why have I never heard of this kind of assassin before? Is it a new breed?”

"It can turn invisible, it can launch sneak attacks, it's obviously quite intelligent..." Keng Huo turned around and looked at the garage that had become ruins. "Cunning as a demon, naturally gifted with intelligence, let's just call it the Netherworld Death Warrior."

Chapter 79 The Bizarre Summoning of Death Warriors

After Keng Huo cleared out the third wave of assassins who inexplicably appeared out of nowhere, he finally realized his predicament.

“It’s impossible for me to be ambushed three times in a row without noticing anything… The only explanation is…” Keng Huo gently pulled his willow-leaf knife from the kneeling assassin in front of him, and the archer assassin slowly fell to the ground with Keng Huo’s movement. “Summon the assassins…”

Because it's impossible for it to be such a coincidence every time. Keng Huo's proud stealth skills and counter-surveillance capabilities could be seen through by a few ordinary assassins. Maybe once is a coincidence, but what about three times?

Moreover, each time the assassins appeared, it was always a scythe-wielding assassin and an archer assassin. They appeared without the assassin's noticing, as if they had appeared out of thin air beside him.

Keng Huo was well aware of his current situation.

A summoner was lurking in the shadows, watching him, seeing him as her next prey; he had only sensed her presence, but had no idea where she was, and even if he did, it wouldn't matter, as the summoner could teleport away at any time...

In such a complex terrain as a city ruin, catching a summoner who is as slippery as an eel is incredibly difficult.

This is the natural home ground for summoning assassins.

Keng Huo sighed softly. If he didn't deal with that summoning assassin, he would likely face her constant harassment along the way, and might even attract those small communities when he passed by them...

"We have to find a way to get rid of her..." Keng Huo carefully wiped his knife clean on the assassin's body and sheathed it. "The buildings ahead are relatively open. If we can lure her there, we can finish her off there..."

“Since the other side can always find my location, there’s no point in me deliberately hiding. I might as well openly occupy a high point for reconnaissance… The Dandelion didn’t detect this summoning assassin before, probably for some reason…” Keng Huo released the Dandelion and activated its low-altitude reconnaissance mode, allowing it to transmit the low-altitude images captured by the camera to the monitoring screen on his personal data terminal.

As he carefully examined and analyzed each building, he suddenly noticed a very strange house.

The house was located on a high slope by the road to the north. It looked somewhat different, but he couldn't quite put his finger on what was different. Yet, a strong intuition told him that there seemed to be something wrong with the style of this house...

Keng Huo pondered in his heart, unable to suppress his inner confusion. In the end, he decided to go and investigate the house. He climbed onto the gap in the wall and steadily climbed onto the roof of the house. Like an owl perched on a tree branch, he vigilantly looked around.

"Anyway, there's nothing suspicious about the other houses, so why don't we go take a look first..." Keng Huo muttered to himself. Instead of jumping off the houses, he leaped between the rooftops of the closely spaced houses like a hurdler, running towards the house as if it were flat ground.

Before he could even get close to the bottom of the slope, two dark figures suddenly flew out from both sides of his target building and sped toward him.

"No way? Such good luck? You can just guess and you'll win?" Keng Huo stared dumbfounded at the two iconic coffins flying towards him, wondering if he had a knack for jinxing things. He charged towards the two dark figures without dodging or avoiding them, and with a wave of his hands, a dagger and a willow-leaf knife appeared in his hands.

Perhaps due to a lack of clear understanding of Keng Huo's speed, or perhaps due to his panic, he exposed a weakness. The two coffins landed far too close to Keng Huo. By the time Keng Huo reached the roof where the coffins were supposed to land, they had only just touched the roof. At the same time, the two coffins transformed into visible streams of energy, rapidly flowing into the roof. With the injection of Honkai energy, vortex-like energy ripples appeared at the point where the coffins landed. Two hands suddenly emerged from these vortices, which seemed capable of sucking the attention of onlookers with a single glance.

But Keng Huo will not give them any chance.

Almost at the same time their heads emerged from the vortex, Keng Huo, like a predator hidden in the grass finally revealing its fangs, lowered its body and flashed past the two assassins like a whirlwind.

What followed were two jets of blood gushing out like springs and two heads flying off.

The two corpses, like toys that have lost their power, let go of their hands that were holding onto the edge of the vortex, and the headless bodies silently slid back into the vortex.

A hint of confusion crossed Keng Huo's mind. It seemed there was some detail he hadn't noticed, but he didn't have time to think about it. He had to seize the opportunity before the summoner had summoned a new coffin to get close to her, and then kill her before she could escape!

Keng Huo was like a bolt of lightning, flying between the high and low rooftops and the collapsed buildings. As he approached, the summoner seemed to become more anxious, and two more coffins flew out. However, the summoned assassins were no different from the previous ones. One was pierced through the skull by Keng Huo's dart, and the other had its neck cleanly snapped by Keng Huo and thrown off the roof.

"She didn't run away?" Keng Huo's doubts deepened. "Maybe she just used teleportation to catch up and hasn't caught her breath yet..."

While he was thinking, Keng Huo's hands had already gripped the wall of the suspicious house. With a strong pull, he climbed up the wall to the second-floor window as if ignoring gravity.

Just as he reached out and grabbed the windowsill, Keng Huo suddenly realized why he had felt this house was so different.

clean.

It is very clean.

How could there be such spotless windows in this long-abandoned city ruin?

Its garden was not overgrown with weeds, but looked as if it had been trimmed.

Its main structure is relatively well preserved, and from the outside, it looks like an ordinary residential house.

But the most abnormal thing is that such an ordinary house is placed in the middle of such an apocalyptic scene!

Keng Huo's mind raced, and he changed his initial strategy. He pulled a dark, round object from his pocket, unzipped it, smashed the window, and threw it into the room.

These were weapons he had secretly hidden away, thinking they might come in handy someday, but he never expected them to be so useful here.

He had previously refused Himeko's equipment support because he was afraid they would discover his secret from the wear and tear on his equipment and the amount of weapons and ammunition he used, and that secret was his pocket.

The sorcerers of Shenzhou are most skilled at using various artifacts to combat the collapse. They use different equipment to adapt to different battle situations and unleash different abilities to always gain the upper hand over their enemies.

This indirectly requires alchemists to carry a large number of items with them, especially those wandering alchemists who roam all over the land. They must carry their own cauldrons, weapons, jade pendants or crystals of will, as well as various materials for crafting equipment or medicines stripped from the bodies of Honkai Beasts.

How did they manage to carry so much stuff? They relied on techniques passed down from ancient immortals.

It was a technique called "inscription," which resembled a kind of writing or simply a set of symbols. The alchemists did not know the principles behind it, only its function. By piecing together different inscriptions, they could create arrays with magical effects. These arrays of inscriptions were then engraved on objects, and activated by the alchemist's own or the crystallization of a strong will, different effects would be produced.

However, throughout history, as many alchemists died in battle, the inscriptions from the legendary immortals were continuously lost. Some inscriptions are no longer recognized for their function, and no one knows how to activate them.

Keng Huo's knowledge of inscriptions was also very limited.

But no matter how few there are, there is one inscription that will never be lost, because as long as there are alchemists in this world, it will definitely be used.

The inscription means "Mount Sumeru turns into a mustard seed".

Sumeru is infinitely large, while a mustard seed is infinitely small. By reducing something infinitely large to something infinitely small, it can be placed in a very small container and carried with one's person. This is one of the fundamental principles for alchemists to make a living.

No matter when or where, the alchemists always had ample logistical support.

·

Keng Huo let go, quickly jumped down from the wall, and without pausing, ran along the edge of the house towards the other side.

Tactical deception is a trick he often uses.

But just as he ran to the other side of the house, the loud explosion did not occur inside the house, but outside.

It seems the summoner threw the grenade?

Keng Huo's confusion deepened. Whether from the perspective of biological instinct or tactical strategy, the first reaction of a creature when it senses danger is to flee. How could there be such an operation as risking danger to throw out foreign objects?

Imagine a venomous snake gets into your house. Your first reaction would be to run out of the house and ensure your safety before calling the police, right? People who think about catching the snake and throwing it out first rarely have the chance to pass on their genes...

But this gave Keng Huo an opportunity. The fact that the assassin threw the grenade allowed him to pinpoint the location of the assassin. He then climbed up the wall to the second floor, attempting to launch a surprise attack from a place the assassin hadn't anticipated.

But when he climbed into the room through the second-floor window, he paused for a moment.