Honkai Impact 3rd experience, starting with a thousand Herrschers

After all, this cycle system has truly driven Honkai to madness. If it weren't for the restrictions of the rules, they might have already used the power of the universe to crush this planet.

"We need to add another helper to deal with Raiden Mei, who might evolve into a Demon Lord... Damn it! This is Honkai Impact 2, there aren't just these few Herrschers here!"

Cheng Xing felt a chill run down his spine at the thought. He realized he had already attracted the attention of the Honkai, so who knew if the Honkai might have a few more Herrschers hidden behind them?

However, given the level of this world's collapsing consciousness, it shouldn't place such a high degree of importance on variables in a cycle, right? It's unlikely that they would resort to conspiracies and tricks for an ant that can be crushed at will.

The more I think about it, the more uncertain I feel.

While Cheng Xing was feeling lost and hesitant, the women in the room had already started chatting.

"Kiana, I want to ask, is your boyfriend the most important person to you right now?"

At this moment, Jiuxiao of Penglai Temple suddenly asked a question.

"Of course, but he's on par with that old bastard. If my aunt hadn't insisted that I get the A-rank Valkyrie certificate before she'd tell me where that old bastard was, I wouldn't be here right now."

"So, do you consider yourself the most important person to him?"

As he said this, a golden light suddenly appeared in Penglai Temple Jiuxiao's eyes, but none of the people present noticed it, including Cheng Xing, who was monitoring the situation, because he was distracted and did not notice it.

"...At least in this world, I should be the most important person to him."

Kiana hesitated for a moment before answering.

"Oh! I see. Thank you for telling me. I'm so sorry for asking such a private question."

Penglai Temple Nine Heavens maintained a calm and normal tone as he spoke.

Chapter 206: Countdown

After quickly buying groceries at the supermarket, Cheng Xing rushed back and casually looked at the other three people present, saying, "Oh dear, it's almost noon, so I'll just go and cook."

Penglai Temple Nine Heavens stood up at this moment and said directly, "No, no need to trouble you. I need to familiarize myself with the school environment. I'll go and check out the cafeteria. Thank you all for the invitation. I'll take my leave here."

"...Okay, come over if you need any help, we'll do our best to help you."

When Cheng Xing finished speaking, Penglai Temple Jiuxiao raised his head and met his gaze, his eyes seemingly filled with some unknown darkness.

"Really? Then please don't refuse if I need your help in the future."

"It depends on the situation."

"Wow, you're really genuine, senior. Well then, goodbye."

Penglaiji Jiuxiao smiled and waved his hand, then strode away. Himeko stood up at this moment, saying that she was worried about him wandering around and getting lost again, so she took her leave.

After the two left, Kiana turned around to look at Cheng Xing. Seeing his gloomy expression, she asked, "Is there something wrong with that guy?"

"There is a problem, and a very big problem."

Cheng Xing sat down next to Kiana, rubbing his temples with a headache, and then said, "That girl is very likely to ruin my plans at a crucial moment. The main problem is that I can't nip this trouble in the bud, otherwise the unchangeable factors and negative impacts will be too great. I can only let this inevitable time bomb stay by my side, at least I know when she will explode."

"If that's the case, then that's really troublesome. Are we really just going to wait and see, with no other way to solve this?"

"I really don't have any other ideas. After all, I've already exhausted all my wisdom to come up with this incredible plan. I'm not exactly a wise man myself."

Cheng Xing sighed and shook his head helplessly. Just then, he suddenly realized that Kiana was holding his hand. She looked at him with a firm gaze and said, "Don't worry, no matter what difficulties we encounter in the future, I will always stand by your side and face them together."

"…………Um."

Looking into Kiana's determined eyes, Cheng Xing remained silent for a long time before forcing a smile and nodding.

However, just as Cheng Xing was about to stand up and leave the table to go to the kitchen to finish lunch, everything around him suddenly went dark.

The once bright room was now incredibly dark, and Kiana, who had just been holding him, had vanished. The once clean and tidy table in front of him had been replaced by an old and dilapidated wooden table.

There seemed to be someone sitting opposite me.

Don't be nervous, this is just how I appear to the outside world.

That guy's voice sounds like... Matsuoka?

"What's going on? Don't you usually communicate with me directly in your head? Why is this time different?"

Cheng Xing breathed a slight sigh of relief, then continued to sit at the table, calmly gazing at the person opposite him.

[That's because I myself no longer have the energy to communicate with you at that level. The reason I can talk to you now is mainly because I'm just a subroutine of the main system. This kind of situation only occurs when the main system is in extreme trouble and no longer able to take care of the host.]

"An extremely troublesome situation; has the collapsing consciousness of this world increased its output?"

[That's obviously the case, otherwise I wouldn't be here. Cheng Xing, we don't have much time left. You must prepare all your trump cards as soon as possible. The final battle, which was originally supposed to be delayed by a year or two, must be brought forward. Otherwise, I can't delay any longer.]

[I'm sorry about what happened in the other dimension. But it wasn't just to imprison you; there were other purposes as well. Hōraiji Kyuujō is a special person I specifically targeted at this point in time because the Honkai had paid too much attention to you.]

“I already know that, but the problem is that I can’t spare anyone else to deal with Raiden Mei, who could potentially become an enemy.”

[Then it's up to you... My time is running out. Even this level of communication is becoming unsustainable with this program. Remember! You only have one week left! If by then you haven't prepared your trump card, haven't made plans to fight against the Honkai God... I will ignore your opinions and take you away directly!]

"……I see."

Everything around him brightened up again, and he stretched as if he had just stood up from his chair. Kiana looked at him with some concern.

Cheng Xing didn't say much, but went to the kitchen to prepare lunch. After the two finished lunch together, Cheng Xing said that she had to go out for a while and then left.

Kiana didn't know where he had gone, only that he said he would be back tonight, but judging from his hurried appearance, he might be back very late.

"Sigh! I really don't know what he's preparing. When I ask him, he doesn't answer. At least if she had said something, I could have thought of a solution for her. Now I know nothing and can only worry about her. It's really..."

Kiana spoke somewhat unhappily. Although she knew that Cheng Xing might have his own considerations, his unwillingness to say anything was really annoying.

"Never mind, I'm a little sleepy after lunch. Hmm, I'll take a nap."

Kiana yawned and went back to her bedroom. As soon as she lay down on the bed, an overwhelming drowsiness overwhelmed her, leaving her with no ability to think and causing her to fall into a deep sleep.

After Kiana had been asleep for a short while, the bedroom door was suddenly opened by someone else.

For some unknown reason, Penglai Temple Nine-Shō appeared here. With her golden eyes, she calmly gazed at Kiana, who was lying on the bed and fast asleep.

Then he slowly walked forward and, with his right hand wrapped in bandages, took out a golden crystal from the void and placed it on Kiana. The crystal seemed to penetrate the surface of water and fell into Kiana's body, disappearing without a trace.

Kiana frowned at this moment, as if she had dreamt of something very unpleasant, and her face looked quite pale.

"Traitor, at the end of this cycle, continue to fight for me."

The Nine Heavens of Penglai Temple vanished into thin air.

The bedroom door, which had been open, had somehow been closed, and the room was now completely silent, as if nothing had ever happened.

Chapter 207: Night Talk

Kiana stretched and got out of bed. She rubbed her eyes and frowned slightly. She seemed to have had a very frightening nightmare, but no matter how hard she tried to recall the dream, she could only remember a blank scene.

"Hmm, I always feel like the content of the dream is important, but if I can't remember it, I'll just let it go. It's just a dream anyway."

Kiana didn't pay much attention to it, since it was just a dream that wasn't very important. But when she picked up her phone to check the time, she found that it was already 3 a.m.

"Ah! How could he have slept for so long?! So much time has passed, where is Cheng Xingren?!"

Kiana came out of the bedroom, looked around the dormitory, and found no signs of activity, which meant that the guy hadn't returned yet.

"Honestly! He said he'd be back soon, but it's already this late and he still isn't back. This guy is getting more and more unpunctual lately."

Kiana muttered to herself as she returned to her room, intending to get some more sleep and see if that guy would come back the next morning.

Cheng Xing was sitting quietly by the sea, lost in thought. He had already prepared all the pieces he could, but he still lacked confidence in the face of the final trial.

If I lose my gamble, the people of this world will simply fall back into the cycle of reincarnation, and I will be resurrected in my own world at some point in time.

It was as if nothing had happened, as if nothing had changed, and everything I had done was meaningless.

And once he wins the gamble, the cycle of reincarnation will truly end... He can proudly raise his chest and tell his old friends and acquaintances, "I have seen a future where we can truly defeat the Honkai."

It just means sacrificing some things.

"I wonder when I started having such a big wish? I clearly remember that when I first came to this world, I just wanted to be an ordinary person who could develop peacefully. If Kiana hadn't unexpectedly entered my life and hadn't unexpectedly killed my newly transformed familiar female assassin, would I have ended up on a path of constant wandering and constantly subduing Honkai Beasts and assassins?"

"I won't get involved with those idiots, I won't gain my current power, I won't lose my original race, and I won't become so neurotic. I'll still be a selfish, self-centered ordinary person who just wants to make my life better... But at least I don't dislike this change in my current state."

"I still remember the most classic question: Do you want to be a coward for life or a hero for a few seconds? Whether in the past or now, I have only made one choice."

"I want to be a hero because it's so cool!"

As Cheng Xing spoke, he suddenly couldn't help but laugh, feeling as if he had inexplicably become sad again... After all, not everyone can face death directly, even if he has already experienced it.

"Actually, I've died many times, but every time I think about the scene of facing death, I still feel a little scared. Sigh, the embodiment of fear, I still have fear in my heart. Is this some kind of, well, joke? Look at Cheng Xing, he's really lame! So lame!"

Gana stood quietly behind Cheng Xing without saying a word. She knew that at this moment, all the man in front of her needed was someone to listen.

“Jana, after this is all over, I’m entrusting Kiana to your care. Just like we agreed before, if the plan fails, please continue to help her in the next cycle. If the plan succeeds, then everything will be as I predicted. She will be unable to resist looking at the thing I left behind, and at the same time, she will continue to lose some memories... Then you will be the one to take care of her.”

"Have you finished talking to yourself? I've made time for you, not to listen to your pointless ramblings. I just want to know if you're truly confident you can achieve what you want to do?"

"Oh, so you've started to care about me more often now?"

"It's just because if you die, she will be very sad, and I don't want to see that."

"To be honest, it's only a possibility; as for a sure thing, I certainly don't have any confidence in it."

"Then why did you do that? Even if you did nothing, humanity wouldn't lose to the Honkai. It would just go through countless cycles of reincarnation, undergo enough trials, and one day the Honkai would no longer be a challenge for humanity. You could have achieved a happy ending simply by doing nothing, but you insisted on gambling, on a possibility that was close to a dead end... I don't understand, I don't understand your thinking."

"Of course you don't understand human thought. After all, you are essentially a completely different creature from us humans. I don't mean to discriminate against you at all. It's just that you haven't experienced human education and don't have the values ​​that come with human knowledge. It's normal that you can't understand, and humans can't understand each other either."

"...That's why I love her so much."

"It's getting late again before I know it. I need to hurry back, otherwise Kiana will probably scold me when she wakes up in the morning and finds that I haven't returned yet."

"Thank you for listening to my ramblings."

"……You're welcome."

Cheng Xing smiled nonchalantly, then his body turned into a wisp of green smoke and disappeared from the spot.

Instead of immediately following her to St. Freya Academy to witness the peaceful life of her beloved, Janna, who was still in the same place, stood quietly by the sea, gazing at the scene that had appeared in his eyes before.

Many bubbles float on the calm sea, and within each bubble lies a person's life.

There was an ordinary person living an ordinary life. He calmly finished school, calmly found a job, calmly fell in love, and calmly got married.

Then he died in the engulfing collapse.

There was a man who went astray in his youth, but suddenly realized his mistakes in his young adulthood. He studied hard, worked hard, and tried his best to improve himself, all so that his paralyzed mother at home could live a good life and he could feel gratified by his own growth.

Then, just as he found a high-paying job and was about to save enough for a down payment on a house and get married, he died in the ensuing collapse.