Honkai Impact 3rd experience, starting with a thousand Herrschers

"Damn you, old man, why did you come down with us when you could have gone to heaven?"

"Bullshit! What would I do there? I'd rather go down to hell and have a good chat with those succubus ladies! More importantly, I wouldn't be satisfied if you heinous criminals weren't being tortured and crying for your mothers!"

"Ugh, you're absolutely awful!"

"Yeah, yeah, we're definitely going to pour you several cups of lava after we go down there!"

"Hahahaha! You idiots, I'll definitely get you all drunk first!"

This group of young people, who looked like recent college graduates, walked into the darkness. Their clothes were covered in blood and grime, but their smiles were so genuine.

No longer apathetic, no longer twisted and morbid, only now do they feel truly alive.

When Celine arrived at the cemetery, she waved her hand and lifted the tombstone, only to find that there was no body inside.

"You despicable humans, even to this very last moment, you will still deceive me?!"

The queen roared, unleashing the most devastating collapse in human history to date.

The Second Honkai Impact 3rd has arrived.

Chapter 52: Reward

"This simulation has ended and is generating an evaluation... You have received a new evaluation... person."

"In the depths of depravity and darkness, in the choice between the future and the present, you chose the moral bottom line of being human. Even though others may see it as a very emotional and wrong choice, you do not regret it to this day, because it is a choice that only a human being could make. For you, if in the end civilization must sacrifice children to achieve victory, then it is better to choose destruction."

"Your performance this time has shown some interest to the upper-level narrators, and you can now make a choice regarding the reward."

"The first reward is proof of identity in this world. After choosing this reward, you will become a native resident of this world, and you will not attract the attention or reaction of the higher-ups. Nothing you do will cause any excessive actions."

"The second reward is to solidify the power of the Herrscher by turning the dead souls into your own puppets, and to make those experimental subjects who have been sinking in hell for who knows how long into your thousand people."

Cheng Xing did not make a choice immediately. He just stared blankly at the world outside the window, watching the beautiful scenery illuminated by the sunlight.

All the experiences, the facts, and the unforgettable past are etched in my mind.

For a moment, he wanted to light a cigarette and just stand there blankly, not thinking about anything.

“Choose the first reward… For them, death is the best possible release; for us, it is best to bury that past in history.”

After choosing his reward, Cheng Xing said nothing more, went outside to buy some drinks, and then returned to his room.

He took out several glasses, poured a lot of drinks into them, then filled his own glass with ice-cold beer, and then clinked glasses with the glasses on the table before drinking it all in one gulp.

"Everything you did was right rationally, but utterly wrong emotionally. I don't know how to judge you; I feel like anything I say would be wrong. So, let's put all our words into this drink. So, you scum, let's toast to our past crimes!"

Cheng Xing drank one glass of alcohol after another. His actual alcohol tolerance was indeed not as strong as in the simulation. In addition, he was drinking on an empty stomach and drinking so fast. After just two bottles of ice-cold beer, he completely fell into a deep sleep.

When he opened his eyes from his sleep, clutching his head, he found that all the drinks in the glasses on the table had disappeared.

Cheng Xing also felt the Herrscher core beginning to condense within his body.

"Ha...a bunch of idiots."

Cheng Xing cursed under his breath, then went to his room, changed into new clothes, and his whole demeanor was completely different from yesterday.

He was like a gentle scholar, pursuing the future of humanity.

He was like a composed scholar, pondering the significance of the experiment.

He was like a scholar who had given up, waiting for his own redemption.

He was like a scholar driven by emotion, undermining rational answers.

He is one, ten, a hundred, a thousand.

He is him, he is it, he is her, and he could also be Him.

Meanwhile, Vyat, who was in the experimental base erasing the replicants of Varta Joyce, now had a golden glint in his eyes, and his actions became even more vivid.

He curiously observed the world, watching the individuals with the same attributes as his own body perish one by one, feeling life constantly reincarnating in death, feeling the surrounding air, feeling the surrounding earth, feeling the surrounding magnetic field.

Feeling those memories that belong to Walter Joyce.

Feeling part of the power belonging to the Lawgiver of Reason.

Vayte opened his hand and felt the tiny black hole emerging from his palm, the pressure within that tiny black hole was ten thousand times greater.

"Walter Joyce...Walter Yang...Walter. I seem to see the memories of three people, no, and also the memories of the original body. I seem to no longer be the puppet that needs to be controlled by distractions. I seem to have grasped my own threads and live in this world like a real person, with my own feelings and experiences, and with my own power to grow."

Am I like Cheng Xing reincarnated into my own body?

At this moment, the first thousand Herrschers of this generation are slowly being born.

Kiana Kaslana, who was fast asleep in bed, opened her eyes at this moment, her originally sky-blue pupils now covered in gold.

Sirin's consciousness actually took over Kiana's body while she was sleeping. Why wasn't Kiana still asleep as in the story?

Xilin looked in the direction where Cheng Xing was and a smile appeared on her lips.

“Uncle, Celine has been a good girl. After causing a ruckus and being defeated, I became a good girl. I've been waiting, waiting for you to appear. The gods told me you weren't dead, so I kept waiting and waiting, and finally, I saw you.”

“But Sirin can’t see you right now. The consciousness of Kiana Kaslana is completely taking over this body. I don’t want to use the body of this ungrateful traitor to be with you.”

"Uncle, wait for me. You must wait for me, okay? I will definitely build a beautiful candy house, and then bring everyone back to listen to your stories by the fireplace. Celine will hold on to you tightly and won't let you get away again! I won't be fooled by you again."

Kiana stared blankly at herself as she sat up, looking around in a daze. After confirming that it was still seven or eight in the morning, she lay back down and continued to sleep soundly. Today was a rare weekend, a day meant for sleeping in.

Cheng Xing had already boarded a plane bound for Shenzhou. Before boarding, he called Bronya and asked her to keep an eye on Kiana's condition.

If something like a personality shift or eye color change happens, be sure to tell yourself about it. As for the story behind it, we can talk about it after we meet in person.

"After all, it's just a story that people will hate."

Cheng Xing gazed at the clouds outside the window and murmured to himself.

Chapter 53: Sirin's Autobiography

Kiana was different today. Unlike before, she didn't clung to Mei so tightly, as if they wanted to never be apart. Instead, she found a secluded corner, stroked the grass beneath her, felt the warmth of the sunlight on her skin, and whispered something.

"Is this what Uncle was talking about, the feeling of being under the warm sun? On a leisurely afternoon, people enjoy the warmth of the sun shining on their bodies. Unlike the sun on the snow-covered plains, which, even though it is bright, is still filled with coldness."

Kiana, with her golden eyes, looked at the voice hiding behind the tree and said, "No need to hide anymore, come out, Bronya."

Bronya frowned slightly, floated out from behind the tree, looked at Kiana who was completely different from the paramecium she knew, and asked, "Who are you?"

"My name is Xilin, Cheng Xilin."

Sirin smiled and continued, "I am the Herrscher of the Void who triggered the Second Honkai Impact, I am the experimental subject of the Tower of Babel, I am the girl who was saved by Cheng Xing... but I am definitely not Kiana Kaslana."

"Cheng Xing..."

When Bronya heard her lover's name, she knew that the consequences of time travel had probably resurfaced.

“I know about your relationship with Cheng Xing, but don’t rush. Sit down and let’s talk slowly. I can tell you anything you want to know. That consciousness is still asleep. We have about an hour to talk.”

As Celine finished speaking, she looked up at the slightly glaring sun and said with a smile, "Uncle was right. When the warm sun shines on a person's body, it makes them feel lazy, which is why that guy slept so soundly."

Bronya sat down next to Sirin. The two girls didn't ask anything right away, but simply enjoyed the warmth of the sunlight on their bodies.

"Where should we begin? Let's start with the construction of the Tower of Babel. Although I never went to school growing up, my uncle told me many stories, and after becoming a Herrscher, I also received the knowledge I wanted from the gods."

"The Tower of Babel was built out of humanity's resistance against the Honkai. At that time, the Valkyries did not yet possess powerful combat abilities; each of them was merely an ordinary person who had undergone training..."

Celine began to tell her story of the past.

From the initial reasons for the establishment of the Tower of Babel laboratory and its subsequent process, to how Cheng Xing brought her into the laboratory, how the two met, how they accompanied each other, and how they relied on each other.

And the fact that Cheng Xing died in the end due to his emotional resistance and the fact that he took the blame for the experiment.

Finally, he became the Herrscher of the Void and destroyed that evil place. However, when he went to the burial ground, he did not find the body of the only person he could rely on.

"At that time, I felt that even in death, those humans were still deceiving me. I was completely consumed by the desire to destroy. I vowed to destroy everything in this world to accompany my loved ones in death."

Xilin sat on the bench, swinging her legs, her smile unchanged despite the story.

"Then humanity united all its forces to fight against me. Well, there was the couple Siegfried and Cecilia, representing human power, and also the First Herrscher, Welt, who betrayed us. Their power was immense. At one point, I thought I was about to be defeated. Before I was defeated, I fled to the moon and accepted the guidance of the gods."

“I gained some knowledge and a truth: Cheng Xing did not die. My uncle, my beloved, is a person who travels through time. When he dies in the past or future, he does not really die; he simply returns to his own time as if waking up from a dream.”

"At that time, the consciousness of the self merged with the consciousness of the Herrscher. We did not want the world to be completely destroyed because we wanted to reach the future where our loved ones were."

"But we were not willing to let the humans who had inflicted so much pain on us pass through this trial so easily. So I used the knowledge I had learned, as well as the Herrscher Gem I brought from the moon, to bring what can be called the most terrifying Second Honkai Impact in history to this world. I used the corpses of my dead comrades to make them into pseudo-Herrschers, and sent them to cause destruction all over the world."

"Then, as expected, the humans defeated those pseudo-Herrschers, retrieved the Herrscher Gems, and came to the Siberian Plains to face the final me."

"They sent another powerful figure, a woman named Fu Hua, who seemed to possess the power to control consciousness. She wanted to seal me into a beautiful dream to defeat me. In that dream, Siegfried and Cecilia became my parents... You could say I spent a wonderful past immersed in the fulfillment of my father's and mother's love. But that powerful figure probably never imagined that even in that hell on earth, where everyone had given up their principles, there was still one person who held fast to their true self. That's why I can't forget that person."

“But that person doesn’t exist in that illusion, so I knew from the beginning that it was just a dream. I experienced a wonderful time in the dream, but I also knew that I couldn’t get too caught up in it. My uncle said that candy is delicious, but eating too much will cause cavities and make it too cloying, so we have to learn to restrain ourselves.”

"I awoke from a dream and used the power of the Herrscher of the Void to shatter and randomly piece together the entire space of Siberia. Those powerful humans who want to find me must traverse through these shattered and randomly pieced-together time-space corridors."

"Without spatial power, their attempt to find me through randomness is nothing but wishful thinking. Just as I was gathering my strength to continue inflicting pain on this world, that man raised his greatsword... The greatsword in his hand unleashed an extremely terrifying power, directly shattering all the spatial channels I had set up and carving out a path straight to me."

"The firelight was exceptionally bright. I saw his determination—a determination to protect this world and those he loved. At that moment, I acknowledged their efforts, and I recognized the determination humanity had shown for themselves and for this world. Perhaps that's why the First Herrscher stood on humanity's side—because humanity had passed his trial?"

"The trials I wanted to see, the results I wanted to see, have all come to pass, so at that moment I finally chose to stop resisting. I was embraced by that woman, who thought that her love had triumphed over the Herrscher, but actually I just felt that their hearts had passed the trial."

"Then the man named Otto Apocalypse dropped a nuclear bomb, burying everything on this sinful land. But in reality, that man was probably afraid of the power Siegfried had displayed and wanted to destroy him. Cecilia sacrificed herself with the spear in her hand in order to save her man and most of the people on this land."

"I have witnessed the deepest evil in this world, and the malice that humanity has unleashed in its struggle for survival. But at the same time, I have also seen the beauty of humanity, and the determination to sacrifice oneself to save others."

"My uncle told me when he told me stories that the world is never beautiful, but it is definitely not completely dark either. Truly strong people are those who, after knowing the evil and darkness of the world, still choose to love it. Because they also see the glimmers of starlight shining in the darkness, which is the humanity called beauty."

"Since the Great Age, I have been sleeping in this body created by Otto using my genes and those of the real Kiana Kaslana. From the beginning, I could have completely covered this body with my consciousness, but I did not do so because I wanted to use this body to see what other scenery this world has to offer."

"The man named Siegfried rescued this body, but his daughter also sacrificed herself. I saw it; the man was filled with remorse and drank heavily every day, not even caring about the experimental subject he had just rescued. But then this small body stood up in front of the injured man, picked up a weapon, and tried to protect him."

"Look, this is humanity. Contradictory and chaotic."

"The man acknowledged that the clone was his daughter and gave her the name of his deceased daughter. Later, I wanted to test how much this man loved his daughter, so I took over the body again and deliberately lost to him. I saw the determination that man showed in the battle, and the light of the sword drawn by the one I loved."

"At that time, I realized that the man named Siegfried, like Cheng Xing, loved the people he cherished."

"At that time, I will be completely integrated with myself, and there will be no more such thing as Herrscher personality and human personality. Love and hate will be united at this moment, and that will be the real Sirin."

"And the new consciousness that was born in this body is Kiana Kaslana, a consciousness that is different from ours, having accepted the love of Siegfried and Cecilia."

"And also, I have all the memories of this body... including the future you don't know about!"

Sirin could already sense that this body was about to awaken. She smiled and said to Bronya beside her, "This time I've been awake for a while. If this continues, I, as a Herrscher, will begin to consume this body. Oh, by the way, the reason I wanted to give myself the surname Cheng."

"Of course, it's because I want to be his wife!"