Humans are in chaos, despicable outsiders.

Wendy's green eyes stared at the three people in front of her, her tone tinged with annoyance.

"Then let me teach you a lesson!"

A blue storm began to rise from the white sea of ​​flowers, rushing towards the three of them.

“I should be saying that!” the white-haired girl retorted sharply.

"Miss Wendy, please believe us, you have only been corrupted by Honkai energy and lost your true nature!"

Mei shouted loudly at Wendy, who was about to attack them.

"Wait, Kiana. Bronya has a few words to say to Wendy."

The gray-haired girl temporarily stopped Kiana, who was about to rush forward and start a fight, and floated to the front of the trio, looking at Wendy.

"Don't come any closer! I don't want to, I don't want to talk to you, Bronya, don't come any closer!"

The Herrscher of Wind retreated somewhat hastily...

“Wendy, you always remind Bronya of a little sister named Seele from our time in the orphanage. Like Wendy, she was a strong yet gentle child…”

...

The gray-haired girl recounts her past in an attempt to influence Wendy.

Meanwhile, the four people outside the trial illusion watched the approaching anti-entropy aerial fleet in the distance of the dream world and whispered among themselves.

"Here, she will experience loss for the first time in a truly meaningful way, and feel powerless because of her own weakness and inability to protect others."

Snow looked at the unfolding events in the dream and spoke.

"Only by recognizing one's own insignificance and inadequacy can one truly take the first step towards growth. This is a trial that is destined to be full of hardship."

Su shook her head, seemingly recalling the past.

"But at least for now, none of this has happened yet. She should be thankful... at least she still has a chance to make amends in the real future."

Kevin frowned, and the imposing aura emanating from him made Celine, who was standing nearby, shrink back and hide behind Snow, peeking out at the "terrifying" older brother in front of her.

"Hmm, if we watch it all... will Kiana's body outside be unconscious for a whole day?"

Little Sirin raised a question that none of the people present had noticed before...

“Uh…” The group looked at each other in bewilderment.

"Ahem, Miss Jiuxiao and the others will take care of things outside. Besides, compressing nearly a year and a half into a single day is already the limit. Even the fastest human brain has its limits..."

Su broke the awkward atmosphere between them.

"That's good... Let's continue watching then." Kevin shook his head and looked back at...

.....

The battle in the illusion was about to end, and Wendy, panting, looked at Mei and Kiana, who were in no better shape.

"What a bunch of troublesome guys!" Wendy glared at the group in front of her and cursed loudly.

"Ha, being difficult to deal with is my greatest strength!"

Wiping the sweat from her brow, the white-haired girl looked at the Herrscher in front of her with a fierce expression, seemingly intending to entangle with Wendy for another round.

"Unfortunately, I don't have that kind of patience."

A voice that Kiana found somewhat familiar rang out.

A large number of Titan mechs appeared in front of the four. The Iron Fist of the Mech Love instantly knocked down the exhausted Herrscher of Wind, while Bronya, controlled by Cocolia, quickly defeated Mei and Kiana, who had been fighting for a long time.

They then left with the unconscious Third and Fourth Herrschers before Schicksal's reinforcements arrived.

"...Such a weak Herrscher." Kevin shook his head, giving Wendy a bad review after she was defeated in just a few matches, and SU nodded seriously.

"Indeed, she is embarrassing herself."

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The trials continued, and the future that was destined to unfold was presented to Kiana one by one. At this moment, she seemed to have almost forgotten the hermit's teachings, and impulsive emotions returned to her.

"Impulsiveness and impatience returned to her... The temporary loss of her companions robbed her of her composure and rationality... She didn't even bother to recall why this setback had occurred..."

Snow shook his head as he watched the girl venting her frustrations in the training grounds of St. Freya Academy.

“Don’t be too demanding, Snow. This is a normal reaction, you know? Kevin was like this back then. After his first mission, he was depressed for a long time in front of his fallen comrades.”

"In a sense, this is also a good thing, for my descendants."

Kevin ignored Sue's act of revealing her past embarrassing history and spoke to the girl.

"Now we can experience setbacks, lose comrades, and stand expressionless before our fallen comrades' graves, analyzing the gains, losses, and oversights of a war..."

"But in the eyes of others, we become monsters, bloodless and tearless monsters."

"...We cannot be too demanding of the soldiers after the battle; that is when they need to vent, whether it is the joy of victory or the pain of defeat."

Sue picked up where Kevin left off, and addressed the blonde girl—

"Child, you are very strong, so strong that you will never understand the true taste of failure... so you will always observe and demand things of them from the perspective of a strong person."

“But that’s impossible, they can’t do it. They are destined to face setbacks and failures. We have been like them, so we understand how she feels... This little girl needs to vent right now.”

"Does a different perspective determine a different understanding...? That would be asking too much of me."

Snow nodded and looked back at the screen...

—While the group was talking, Kiana and Himeko had already infiltrated the ME Corporation building and started... smashing everything in sight.

Kevin and Sue turned their heads to look at Snow.

"Hmm... Snow, do soldiers of your generation have some misunderstanding about infiltration...?"

The silver-haired and white-haired youths looked at the three Valkyries smashing things around in the scene, and then thought of their past companion, a fusion warrior named Sakura, who was skilled in assassination and infiltration.

...

"Emmmm... No one saw me infiltrate, that's a third-rate assassin; killing everyone who saw me, that's a second-rate assassin; killing everyone I saw, that's a first-rate assassin..."

"—I went in, and no one came out alive. This is the work of a top-tier assassin."

Snow nodded seriously, watching the three Valkyries wreaking havoc on the screen, and praised them—

"They have the makings of master assassins!"

"You mean Kevin smashing this building to pieces with Skyfire is also considered infiltration?"

Sue's eye began to twitch.

"If there are no living witnesses, why isn't it considered infiltration?" The blonde girl glanced at Sue beside her curiously.

"Just like being the best doctor, you should kill all the enemies before they can hurt your teammates, so that no one can hurt my teammates."

"As a support, you need to kill the enemy faster than the main DPS. That's what makes a good support."

Snow nodded seriously, causing Su, a former doctor, and Kevin, the main DPS of the Fire Chaser, to twitch their eyebrows in a frenzy.

"Is it possible, Snow, my descendant? I mean, possibly, that you're not an assassin, not a doctor, not a support, but a berserker?"

This killer declaration, "No matter what my profession is, I'm going to kill you all," reminded the two of a problem child among the Fusion Warriors from the past.

"Absolutely impossible!"

Without the slightest hesitation, the blonde girl resolutely rejected the idea, and the three people in the scene began their final battle.

The giant robot named MSR-7 Father swung its arm and smashed down on the three people in the scene. The powerful Honkai energy bursting from its purple single eye made them a little flustered for a moment. However, the repetitive and clumsy attack pattern allowed the people in the scene to quickly adapt to the rhythm and gradually regain the advantage.

“This mech…” Kevin looked at the enormous mech in front of him, which was at least six stories tall, with a puzzled expression.

"They just used a single gemstone to make this huge piece of scrap metal?"

Kevin rubbed his chin, looking at the thing that could only clumsily smash things and shoot energy beams with some trouble.

Upon hearing this, the group realized something and turned their attention to Kevin, a Q-version doll that had also been projected into this white space to appease the child. At this moment, he was being rubbed by Xiao Xilin with a look of utter despair.

Then he turned back to look at the Father Mech in the scene, which looked huge but was actually just scrap metal.

"Hmm, the desire for gems as energy sounds impressive, but it's actually pretty weak... It's absurd to talk about using it to fight people. Even a C-rank Valkyrie could be defeated in a large enough space; attacking Honkai Beasts is even more absurd."

"There is no need for such a toy to fight a single Honkai Beast. Fighting a group of Honkai Beasts with such a cumbersome mech with a single attack pattern is a waste of this gem."

“Apart from a few low-level Honkai Beasts that can only walk on the ground, most high-level Honkai Beasts or mutated species have some degree of flight and levitation ability. I don’t see any practical combat value in this kind of cumbersome thing.”

"An armed dummy is far superior to this mech in terms of both battlefield effectiveness and manufacturing cost."

Kevin shook his head, scoffing at the bulky mech in the image.

"Hmm... I do think this thing is somewhat useful."

Snow offered a different idea from Kevin's.

"Oh? Tell me?"

"Everything else is pretty useless... but those big eyes on its head are quite nice. We can unscrew them and modify them into flashlights. Maybe one of those flashlights can even fire a light beam..."

"Using a gemstone as the power source for a flashlight and a mini beam cannon, you're not much better off."

"While there are indeed instances where enemy heads are twisted off and used as light bulbs and weapons... that's just a game, Miss Snow."

Su shook his head helplessly.

"It's at least better than this wasteful giant robot, which is a complete waste of alloys and energy."

Seeing the scene where the Heavenly Father was smashed to pieces by St. Freya's group not long after, Snow curled his lip in disdain.

"That's true."

Chapter 86 Benares

"Next comes the main event... Kiana will follow Theresa into the secret database hidden beneath the St. Freya Academy Cathedral... and then, in the illusion of the Second Honkai, the Second Herrscher's personality will fully awaken."

Snow paused noticeably at this point, and pursed his lips.

"How did she manage to sneak in? There are at least five types of security measures there... and a lot of physical barriers."

Hearing Snow's complaint, Sue stroked her chin and suggested a possibility—

"Snow, do you think it's possible that Ms. Theresa... forgot to close the door?"