Honkai Impact 3rd experience, starting with a thousand Herrschers

After revealing a mischievous smile, Sirin closed her eyes. When she opened them again, her golden pupils had returned to sky blue.

Kiana yawned, looked at Bronya beside her, and rubbed her eyes sleepily, saying, "Mmm, that was a really good sleep! Sleeping in this kind of weather is so comfortable... Bronya, what time is it?"

"It's almost noon."

"Oh, I haven't had lunch yet! Please, Mei, save me some!"

Kiana waved her hands and ran away quickly.

Bronya watched Kiana leave and muttered to herself, "Is Cheng Xing your only one? In this respect, I have indeed lost."

Bronya has Seele, who is just as important as family to her, but in Sirin's heart, Cheng Xing is her only family and lover.

"But Bronya isn't so easy to lose."

Bronya didn't think she would lose. After all, she never intended to have that man all to herself from the beginning, and she was the only one who had personally eaten the dishes he made. She was also the first woman he had personally acknowledged.

Chapter 54: Cherry Blossom Reincarnation

After arriving in Shenzhou, Cheng Xing did not stay there for long. He simply checked the situation and his accommodation before boarding another plane.

He went to Siberia.

Since the second collapse, various small-scale collapses have frequently occurred on this snowfield, so not many people live here.

Cheng Xing directly manipulated gravity, flying over the snowy landscape, ignoring the various Honkai Beasts below, and arrived directly at the location of the Tower of Babel in his memory.

There was nothing left in that place; all you could see was a vast expanse of snow.

Cheng Xing arrived at a small grove of trees, searched for a while, and after sweeping away the snow covering the area, he finally saw a towering tombstone.

The writing on it may have been blurred due to the wind and snow, and it is no longer possible to read what it says, but it is indeed a tombstone.

Cheng Xing didn't say much, but closed his eyes and walked backward according to his memory. Before long, he arrived at the gate of the Tower of Babel in his memory.

Those sins that had long been buried in the past seemed to have crossed time and caught up with me, and I could almost smell the thick stench of blood.

To be precise, it wasn't that we caught up with ourselves, but rather that we caught up with those scumbags who are still suffering in hell.

Cheng Xing took out a lot of alcohol from his backpack. He had bought all of these on the way, and he didn't know what brands they were, but he didn't need the money now.

Cheng Xing poured all the wine onto the ground in front of him. The strong smell of alcohol filled his nose, and the smell that was originally unpleasant to him was now somewhat intoxicating.

After pouring all the alcohol onto the snow, Cheng Xing inexplicably produced a match in his hand, which spontaneously combusted. He threw it onto the snow in front of him, and it immediately burst into flames.

Cheng Xing didn't say anything. After doing what he had to do last, he turned and left.

Only the flames still burning on that patch of snow remained.

"I'm so bored!"

Cheng Xing slumped onto his sofa, feeling utterly powerless as he stared at the games displayed on his screen. It was all Kallen Fantasy! Why was Kallen Fantasy the most visually stunning game of this era? Weren't there any other games that could compare?

In fact, this is the most popular game on the market.

"Damn Otto, you're one thing to suppress the development of civilization, but why do you have to suppress the development of games too? Do you want your Kallen Fantasy to stay at the top of the charts forever? You bastard!"

While the possibility of Kallen Fantasy is indeed high, for Cheng Xing, who knows the prototypes of the characters in the game, it's full of flaws and he simply can't play it.

Moreover, the plot is too clichéd, and while the action is commendable, it's still not as good as Ghost Cry.

In short, Cheng Xing is very bored right now, and Bronya hasn't reported any news about Sirin, which is making him a little anxious lately.

"This doesn't make sense. Based on past experience, it's really unreasonable for the Queen not to come out now. What exactly happened? Bronya hasn't reported anything to me. Could it be that Sirin is sleeping too soundly this time?"

Just as Cheng Xing was beginning to consider whether he should take his work seriously because he was bored, his phone suddenly rang.

When he saw that the caller ID showed Bronya, he perked up immediately. Sure enough, Kiana was having problems after all.

“Cheng Xing, we detected traces of a pseudo-Herrscher in Changkong City. The headmaster has already gone there, but for some reason, we lost communication. So I would like to ask you to go and find her.”

"Changkong City... a pseudo-Herrscher... Sakura Samsara?"

When Cheng Xing realized which time period this was, he was still a little confused. Several months had passed since the trio started school. Was this the kind of plot that should be happening at this time?

Never mind, I don't know what to do anyway, might as well go tease Laodaowan.

After accepting his girlfriend's request, Cheng Xing reminded her again to keep an eye on Kiana's condition before leaving.

In Changkong City, Theresa wandered breathlessly through the city's ruins, feeling the toxins relentlessly eroding her body. If she didn't receive treatment soon, she feared she would lose consciousness.

If one loses consciousness in such a place, coupled with the corrosive effects of toxins in the body, one might really be doomed here.

"What should we do now? The communicator is also unusable because of the battle just now. What should we do?"

"He confidently said he could handle it easily, but who would have thought he'd collapse here?"

In the end, Theresa could not resist the corrosive effects of the toxins in her body and collapsed on the road. However, before she completely lost consciousness, she seemed to see a pink figure appear at the end of her sight.

A pink-haired woman dressed as a priestess, with pink...donkey ears or rabbit ears on her head, came to Theresa's side. Looking at her petite face, she exclaimed in surprise, "Could this woman be a descendant of Kallen?"

The priestess picked the girl up from the ground and immediately found a relatively quiet place to check on the girl's condition.

"What kind of toxin is this that's so corrosive? What should we do?"

Just as she was having a headache inside, a pink fox phantom appeared behind the shrine maiden. It spoke in a voice that was difficult to discern the gender of, saying, "Give up, Sakura. This little girl is beyond saving. She has been corrupted so deeply by the Herrscher's poison that no one can save her."

"No, as long as you give her my core, she can survive."

"Are you crazy? We'll both die if we do this! She's not Karen! Not the nun you loved so deeply 500 years ago! Besides, she might not even be Karen's descendant! There's absolutely no benefit to you doing this!"

The fox's voice sounded extremely panicked.

“I have lived long enough. I should have followed her and left 500 years ago. Now, time has changed, and the world has changed. Everything I was familiar with no longer exists in this world. Rather than living a miserable life, I should go and seek the other shore sooner.”

"Don't do anything rash! Don't do this! Give me your body, I have a way to save her, don't think like this!"

"I can no longer believe your words, you demon. Let us leave this world together forever!"

After saying this, the woman tried to take out the core from her body and give it to Theresa on the bed.

Just then, a man's voice suddenly came in.

"It seems I've arrived at just the right time."

Chapter 55: Let's Have Some Fun

Cheng Xing's sudden appearance startled both foxes.

Yae Sakura was simply provoked by the sudden appearance of someone she wasn't aware of.

Heiyuu felt a familiar aura emanating from this person—an aura that belonged to the Herrscher faction, just like his own. However, for some reason, this man gave him a contradictory feeling that was both strange and very familiar.

I feel like I've seen it before, but I don't remember it.

Looking at Theresa lying on the bed as if she had a high fever, Cheng Xing wondered why she was so weak, even though they were both S-class Valkyries.

Then Cheng Xing stepped forward and grasped the slightly warm hand. Through the analysis and reconstruction of part of the Herrscher of Reason's ability, he directly constructed antibodies in her body to counteract the toxin's erosion.

Theresa's high fever gradually subsided, and the expression on her face no longer showed so much pain.

"Who is your Excellency?"

Yae Sakura gripped the blade at her waist warily. She had a vague feeling that the man in front of her was filled with some kind of ominous premonition, as if a monster was standing in front of her disguised as a human, which was so incongruous.

"Ah, I was only asked to bring her back, but Miss Yae Sakura, you seem confused about the world 500 years in the future. Would you like to know Kallen Kaslana's fate?"

Cheng Xing looked at the pair of donkey ears on Yae Sakura's head, which looked just like the rabbits next door, and wondered what kind of fox could have such long ears.

[And why are the ears of that rabbit and that fox so long?]

"...Then thank you very much, sir. May I ask what kind of reward you would like?"

Yae Sakura knew that there was no such thing as a free lunch. Since others were willing to help her, they must want some kind of reward in return.

"Ah, what do I want? I want to talk to the fox behind you."

"Your Excellency, it is an extremely dangerous being, and it is very adept at bewitching people. This could be dangerous."

"Don't worry, it's just a chat with it about some past stories. If you're worried, you can listen in from the side."

The atmosphere between the two had eased somewhat. Yae Sakura lowered her hand from the hilt of her sword, then looked at Theresa lying peacefully on the bed, and asked with a complicated expression, "Is she a descendant of Kallen?"

"No, Kallen Kaslana never married anyone in her life. When she was arrested and brought back to the Schicksal headquarters, she was sentenced to be hanged. But on the day of her execution, a mysterious attack by Honkai Beasts suddenly broke out in the square, causing a large number of civilian deaths. She also died in the attack of Honkai Beasts while protecting innocent civilians."

After saying that, Cheng Xing looked at Yae Sakura's downcast eyes and sorrowful face and continued, "And the little girl lying on the bed is Kallen's clone."

"Clones?"

As a village girl from 500 years ago, Yae Sakura looked at Cheng Xing with a puzzled expression.

"Just think of it as a person cloned from Karen's body tissue. From a genetic point of view, they belong to the same kind of people."

"And the person who cloned Karen's body was her childhood sweetheart, who is now Archbishop Otto Apocalypse. Don't look at me with such surprise, I'm not wrong, that man has indeed lived for 500 years."

"This is truly astonishing."

This was the first time Yae Sakura had ever known that Kallen had a childhood friend who had lived for 500 years.

"The will, or rather obsession, that has sustained that man to this day is to resurrect Kallen. For the sake of resurrecting the saintess, who is like a redemption to him, that man is willing to give everything. He has spent 500 years planning, searching, and changing. So you two are actually rivals in love... although for His Holiness the Bishop, as long as Kallen is happy, he doesn't care at all."

Cheng Xing's expression was also full of emotion. Back when Otto's short story hadn't been released yet, he was certain that he would never shed a single tear for that damned guy. But after Apocalypse's story was broadcast, his eyes were filled with tears.

Otto! My pure love god of war!

Of course, it was good that Otto died.

"...Really? He's such a passionate man."

Yae Sakura's feelings became inexplicably complicated. She had spent 500 years in the seal with that fox spirit, and it was Kallen's existence that allowed her to endure 500 years of hardship. But now, is there someone else who has done the same?

All she wanted was to reunite with that person on the other side of death, but that man wanted to defy fate and bring Karen back to this world.

It's hard to say who was right and who was wrong, but Yae Sakura felt that the other person was at least more courageous than herself.

"This must be a highly confidential matter, sir. Thank you for telling me all this. Oh, may I ask your name, sir?"

"My name is Cheng Xing."

"Cheng Xing???"

The Hiyokumaru, which had been hiding all along, suddenly popped its head out at this moment. It looked at Cheng Xing with its fox head and asked as if it were talking to itself.

"I feel like I've heard this name somewhere before, but why can't I remember?"