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Chapter Eighty: The Truth of the Past

The scene shifts to a warm family setting, where Siegfried and his wife are preparing for their child Kiana's birthday—gifts, cake, and room decorations...

"Stop, stop! We were just fighting to the death, and now you're suddenly celebrating my birthday...? Hermit, isn't this a bit of a sudden change in style???"

Kiana pointed at her parents in the scene and complained loudly, then turned to look at the hermit with a face full of question marks.

"After Fu Hua's ultimate defeat, a portion of the Eighth Divine Key fell into the hands of the Second Herrscher... She captured Siegfried Kaslana and Schariac and threw them into the Feather Dust environment."

"However, the Second Herrscher doesn't seem to know the true purpose of Feather of Dew. She originally intended to create a terrifying dream for them... but it turned out like what you see..."

The hermit shrugged.

"And driven by jealousy, resentment, or some kind of desire and emotion that Sirin herself did not understand... the Second Herrscher Sirin also poured her own consciousness into it."

"Her inexplicable longing... was a longing for love..."

The hermit looked at Sirin, who was dressed in a black sailor uniform, and leaped into the dream, landing in front of Kiana's family's gate.

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"For Celine, the feather that she could not control seemed to respond to her true desire at this moment. Cecilia in the illusion treated her as her own daughter and gave her all the tenderness a mother has for her child."

"In this dream, she tasted the cake her mother used to buy for her again, and it tasted exactly the same."

"I felt the warmth of being held by my mother to fall asleep again at night..."

"Once again, I took to the streets accompanied by my loved ones..."

"Once again—protected by my mother."

The Hermit and Kiana watched as Cecilia, amidst the shattered glass of the exploding mall, held Celine and shielded her from all the debris.

“Your mother, Cecilia Schariac, was never deceived by this illusion from the beginning. All her feelings for this child were genuine. She regarded the Second Herrscher, Sirin, as her other daughter.”

"And then Celine heard someone say to her again."

"—lch liebe dich (I love you)"

The hermit uttered those words, which contained an invisible [magic].

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"This sentence sounds so familiar... Ugh! My head hurts..."

"Huff—huff—! Headaches can happen in dreams too... Hermit?"

"A hermit?!"

Kiana gasped for breath, recovering from her severe headache. She looked up, but the woman in the black and white combat suit with red swooshes, a hood, and a mask had vanished, leaving only her voice echoing in the air…

"It's time for the curtain to fall, child—"

"You have witnessed the beginning of all this—"

The scene begins to rotate.

As Bella falls, Sirin, feeling deceived, attacks Siegfried in the dream world.

Walter Young, hidden in the dream, reappears.

[Dr. Einstein, who is controlling Arahat, is attempting to extract the Conquest Gem and the Herrscher Core fragment belonging to Welt Yang that fell into the cockpit.]

[The Siegfried couple trapped in the Infinite Corridor...]

[Theresa, having unleashed Judah's zero power... enters the berserk state of Siegfried Kaslana]

And—the Second Herrscher, stripped of the Tranquility Gem and now running rampant, having lost her regenerative abilities.

"The Honkai energy within the Second Herrscher... has gone berserk?" Kiana stared incredulously at the towering pillar of Honkai energy before her.

"Having lost the regenerative ability of the Tranquility Gem, the Second Herrscher's body, which possesses multiple cores, has also reached its end. The Honkai energy released from her body will continue to spread until it devours half of the Asian continent."

The hermit's voice echoed through the space once more, but this time she seemed to intend to simply narrate the ending of the story for the girl.

"Columnar collapse energy continues to scatter in all directions... some of it crashes down on your parents."

"—Walter Yang, with only his core remaining, manipulated Alahato to create a shield for them, while his core fell into Siegfried's hands..."

"The two men were communicating in the space of consciousness. Yang encouraged your father, and he still has people he should protect, the people he cherishes most—"

"And your mother, listening to the casualty projections from their headquarters, made some kind of decision..."

"Mom? What is Mom going to do?!" Kiana looked at Cecilia nervously.

"The strongest Valkyrie of the Schariac family in this generation is special; the descendants of the Kaslana family have extremely high Honkai energy resistance, while Schariac has the ability to control Honkai energy."

"And your mother possessed an even more special ability under the transformation of the former Archbishop Otto Apocalypse."

"Her blood can neutralize Honkai energy, making it disappear completely... but as you've heard, it's blood, not anything else."

"Mom, she!"

"She unleashed another form of the Sixth Divine Key...at the cost of almost all of her blood..."

"The chaotic Honkai energy of the Second Herrscher disappeared under the neutralization of Cecilia's Holy Blood Release, while Siegfried incorporated Yang's core into the Judgment of Heavenly Fire, thus unleashing the true power of the Seventh Divine Key."

"True power... it's that sword on your back—!"

Kiana looked at Siegfried raising his greatsword and suddenly remembered that this was the alien greatsword that the Hermit carried.

"It is—Heavenly Fire: Cataclysmic Annihilation"

Siegfried shattered the core of the Second Herrscher, and the rampaging Honkai energy completely disappeared.

"Now, the curtain has come. Cecilia, the strongest Valkyrie of Destiny, has poured her last strength into the Black Abyss White Flower, creating the final barrier for your exhausted father, Siegfried."

"What is Mom going to do...?!" Kiana watched in a panic as the woman left the weapon beside her husband, turned around, and walked away into the distance.

“Ha—” The hermit’s voice rang out, sounding both mocking and lamenting.

"Hermit! What is Mom going to do?!"

She did not respond to the girl's question.

Meanwhile, Cecilia caught Sirin as she fell from the sky. She held Sirin and whispered something to the girl, a whisper that was originally only known to the purple-haired girl, but now it echoed loudly in the space.

“Cirin, poor child. In the illusion, I saw your loneliness and pain.”

"Back then, I really wanted to be your mother and make up for what you lost... Unfortunately, there was nothing I could change at that time."

"At least, in the end of your life—let you feel warmth."

“ich libe dich...”

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"At that time, the Archbishop of Schicksal, who detected that the Second Herrscher still had life signs, ordered all troops to retreat and launched Honkai energy fission bombs at the location of the Herrscher."

The hermit's voice rang out once more—

Kiana, who was staring blankly at Cecilia, was brought back to her senses.

"During the Second Honkai Impact, in the final battle against the Second Herrscher, only Siegfried and Welt Yang's Herrscher core survived... and your mother rests here."

"This is the truth of history... a completely different side from the Destiny textbook."

Chapter 81 The Beginning of Another Story

The past seems to have come to an end, and the illusion has fallen into darkness.

In the darkness, the hermit reappears and wanders among them, the firelight on his sword becoming the only source of light in the darkness, guiding Kiana forward.

The girl ran forward, chasing the light before her. She had many questions to ask the hermit ahead, and many unanswered questions.

However, in the darkness, the road beneath one's feet seemed to extend endlessly, and no matter how fast one ran, one could not catch up with the walking figure.

"Who are you? Why are you chasing after her?" a young man's voice asked from the darkness.

"I am Kiana Kaslana, and I... still have many questions I want to ask her!"

"Oh, alright... Miss Kiana, do you still remember your vow?"

After a brief pause, the voice continued to ask.

"Uh... my vow? What was my vow?! Why can't I remember it all of a sudden?!"

Kiana, startled and confused, stopped chasing the light...

After witnessing the end of the story, after hearing Cecilia's words "ich libe dich," and after experiencing a severe headache that she could feel even in her dreams, she seemed to have forgotten many things.

"If you can't remember your vow... you'll never catch up with her, she never stops for the lost."

The voice spoke again, offering a friendly reminder to the girl. In her vision, the hermit was walking further and further away, and the once bright sun was now reduced to a dim sliver of firelight.

"What was my vow, damn it! Remember it now!"

Kiana frantically scratched her hair, turning her once neatly combed hair into a mess.

"Look at that sword... Kiana, didn't you make a vow before that sword...?"

A girl's anxious and concerned voice rang out beside her. Kiana recognized the voice; it was the voice of Sirin, whom she had met once before.

"Looking at the sword?... A greatsword burning... a greatsword that dispels the darkness... a greatsword that illuminates the path ahead..."

At the girl's prompting, a glimmer of light flashed through the girl's mind.

"Thank you... Sirin—I will transform this imperfect world into the one I desire; this is my vow and my belief!"

The girl proclaimed loudly and took another step, chasing after the distant flames.

"What a kind child... Oh well, let's just say you passed the question."

The young man's voice rang out, his tone filled with helplessness towards the purple-haired little girl who had given the girl a hint.

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"So, Miss Kiana... if—your surname is no longer Kaslana... would you still keep this vow?"

The young man's questioning voice rang out again... and at this moment, the girl seemed to have forgotten her surname, and forgotten the certain driving force from her bloodline.

"...I will!" The simple and powerful answer, without the slightest hesitation, surprised Su, who was standing under the cherry blossom tree in the world of Blossoms, making him wonder if there was something wrong with his ability.