Honkai Impact 3rd experience, starting with a thousand Herrschers

"Demon! Die!"

The man gripped the spear tightly, channeling his fierce strength into it before hurling it forth. The unstoppable spear pierced the scarecrow's frail body with ease.

"Atres".

Cheng Xing immediately recognized the powerful man in front of him as the famous Pan Sen.

For the first time, Cheng Xing encountered a creature without fear. He didn't know if he was too weak to see through the protection in the heart, or if this mortal, who was comparable to a god, was truly without fear.

Cheng Xing was defeated, or rather, he simply retreated on his own. To Federico, a being without fear was utterly boring. He simply didn't want to fight this guy whose mind was only focused on battle, so he left this world.

"Simulation complete... Generating evaluation."

"You have been judged, the embodiment of fear."

"You have retained a wisp of consciousness and soul thanks to the protection of the system. You have been constantly working with and understanding the ancient fears. Eventually, you gained the ability to move in the outside world. You have lost interest in everything else. Fear is your only love. You constantly pursue fear and create fear. Killing is not your goal, but only a means. Fear is what you crave."

"Maybe you should try going back and seeing a therapist. Who knows, you might become your Harley Quinn? Hahahaha!"

"Reward received: Scarecrow".

Chapter Six: Kiana

In Changkong City, at Qianyu Academy, the Queen who wields lightning hovers high in the sky, looking down with an arrogant and contemptuous gaze at the Honkai Beasts and Death Warriors groveling at her feet.

However, this scene did not make her very happy. She looked back at the girl on the ground whose breathing was disordered but who was at least not in mortal danger, and her emotions were inexplicably irritable and complicated.

"That coward has truly fallen for her. Although he hates to admit it, we're essentially the same person. She can't bring herself to do it, and neither can I. What should we do?"

Just as Mei, in her Herrscher persona, was pondering how to deal with Kiana, a chilling feeling suddenly swept over her entire body, making her hair stand on end, as if something extremely terrifying had appeared.

The Herrscher of Thunder was immediately terrified. She spread out a large amount of electromagnetic waves to probe the surroundings and at the same time commanded the Honkai Beasts and Death Warriors under her control to search for anything in the vicinity. However, no matter how much she searched and probed, she found nothing strange.

"Quack quack..."

As the Herrscher of Thunder listened to the noisy cawing of the crows around her, her irritation and unease intensified. She felt inexplicably afraid when she looked at the black crows with bright red eyes standing on the power lines staring at her.

When she realized that she had actually felt fear towards these tiny creatures, she felt a strange sense of shame and anger, and then she commanded lightning to turn all the crows that were watching her into ashes.

After the crows died, the annoying cawing of crows finally disappeared, and the entire city of Changkong became silent again.

The various noises emitted by the Honkai Beasts and the Death Knights disappeared, and even their figures vanished without a trace, as if they had mysteriously disappeared.

The Herrscher of Thunder's unease reached its peak at this moment. She subconsciously reached for Kiana's body lying on the ground, whether this was an action to seek psychological comfort or not was unknown.

But when she searched, she found that the body of the girl lying on the ground had disappeared, and even the corpse of the filthy ant that had tried to approach Kiana earlier was gone.

In this vast academy, she was the only living being present at that moment.

The Herrscher of Thunder felt a strange sense of nausea about everything around her, as if something was lurking in the shadows watching her.

She looked around and realized that something in the shadows seemed to be watching her. She swung a bolt of lightning and shattered the corner of the shadow, but found nothing. However, that disgusting feeling of being stared at suddenly reappeared behind her.

An indescribable fear and nausea swept over the Herrscher of Thunder's heart. She went mad and used lightning to destroy everything around her, completely disregarding the damage to her body and the amount of Honkai energy she had. She simply vented her anger until everything around her was reduced to rubble.

When she had exhausted most of the destructive energy within her body, panting and able to open up everything around her, the indescribable fear in her heart was somewhat relieved.

And just then, a scarecrow suddenly appeared in front of her?

The scarecrow looked like a crudely made item cobbled together from straw and some dry branches, and it swayed precariously in the wind, as if it could be blown to the ground at any moment. It was so fragile.

But the sudden appearance of this ordinary scarecrow caused the Herrscher of Thunder's mind to go blank. The sudden and immense fear completely overwhelmed her heart and mind, causing her to temporarily abandon the ability to think.

In that brief moment of opportunity, the scarecrow raised its hand and gently swung it, sending a scythe made of energy lightly slicing across the Herrscher of Thunder's body.

The scythe seemed illusory, slicing across the flesh without causing any damage or change, but it rendered the remaining Honkai energy within the Herrscher of Thunder immobile and dormant.

Then the Herrscher of Thunder witnessed a scene she would never forget: countless crows swirling around her, a tornado of crows constantly obscuring her vision, until finally only one crow with scarlet eyes remained, staring directly at her.

A familiar voice seemed to come from the crow's beak.

"Mei! I'm so hungry! Can I eat you?"

Then the crow opened its beak, and inside it were teeth that looked like those of a human.

That familiar, all-too-familiar girl's voice was coming from the beak of a strange crow. Could it be... could it be!

"Do not!!!!"

Mei collapsed and fell into a coma at that moment, while the Herrscher personality also temporarily fell into a deep sleep due to the cessation of Honkai energy and the intense mental shock.

Then, the crows inexplicably disappeared, turning into black feathers that slowly drifted down to the ground. The feathers then dissolved into water, leaving only an empty space completely destroyed by the Herrscher of Thunder.

The simple scarecrow now resembled Cheng Xing, except that he was holding the beautiful white-haired girl in his arms.

Kiana, however, had suddenly woken up. It was unclear when she had regained consciousness, but she was pressing her gun against Cheng Xing's forehead, looking at him with a serious expression, and asking him a question.

"Who are you?!"

Cheng Xing looked at the girl's terrified and bewildered expression, but his face remained unchanged. He simply said in a hoarse voice, "One, a scarecrow."

Then, Cheng Xing looked into the distance, where a gray-haired loli was aiming a sniper rifle at his forehead, ready to pull the trigger at any moment and shoot him through the skull.

But that was impossible, because a crow had already perched on the sniper scope.

After confirming that Bronya had also fainted from fright, Cheng Xing looked at Kiana in his arms and said, "Then I have repaid all the favors I owe. There is no need for a monster like me to continue our conversation. Let's say goodbye forever."

After saying that, Cheng Xing was about to leave when he found that his arm was firmly held by the latter. He turned around and looked at the white-haired girl who was staring intently at him.

"No, you are not a monster."

"Oh, after seeing what just happened, you still don't think I'm a monster."

Cheng Xing looked coldly at Kiana, who was staring directly at him.

“Those scenes were horrifying and frightening, but you absolutely did not harm us because of them… Cheng Xing, I don’t know why you have become like this, but I can hear your heart crying out, just like when I first met Mei, with a cold face but a plea for help in your heart.”

"Therefore, I cannot ignore my friend's cry for help!"

"Friends? When did we become friends?"

Kiana's face lit up with a bright smile as she said, "From the moment you were willing to come with me to such a dangerous place, and from the moment you were willing to risk everything to fulfill your promise, we became friends. Cheng Xing, I won't abandon you!"

Looking at the smiling girl in front of him, Cheng Xing inexplicably, truly inexplicably, burst into tears.

At that moment, he finally couldn't overcome something within himself and shed tears.

Chapter Seven: Trust

"Cry. I don't know why you're so sad, but Dad always says that when you're unhappy, a good cry will make you feel a lot better."

Kiana simply held Cheng Xing's hand and gently comforted him.

After venting his emotions, Cheng Xing stood up from the ground, wiped the tears and snot from his face, and resumed his unserious demeanor.

"Kiana, what you just said to me was so charming. If you hadn't already fallen for someone else, I would have done everything I could to win you over."

At this point, Cheng Xing shook his head helplessly, then pointed to Mei lying on the cold ground and said, "But you two were already destined for each other. You were willing to risk your life and death to come here for her, and the thing she feared most was losing you... Sigh, I don't want to be a cow."

Upon hearing Cheng Xing's words, Kiana immediately realized that Mei, whom she had been longing for, was lying on the ground, disheveled and unconscious.

"Mei!!!"

Kiana immediately shouted and rushed over, picking up the unconscious Mei from the ground. After checking that there was nothing wrong with Mei's body, she breathed a sigh of relief. Then, looking at Mei's sleeping appearance, a strange smile appeared on her face.

"Mei looks pretty now too...hehehe..."

Cheng Xing suddenly realized that his previous emotions and words were a joke. He covered his face and shook his head helplessly, then looked at the scarecrow that was approaching in the distance.

Kiana, of course, wasn't completely in a madwoman's state. She noticed something scraping on the ground and looked over to see a scarecrow carrying a silver-haired loli, staggering towards them.

"Ugh! Why is there a second scarecrow! Cheng Xing, did you conjure this up?"

Kiana looked completely bewildered, just like the familiar paramecium from her memories.

"So what I saw before was just an illusion? Ah, it must be an illusion! Being healed by paramecia... this is just too ridiculous, hahaha, fate has really played a huge joke on me. Hmm, the Herrscher of Consciousness must have altered my consciousness, it's all..."

Kiana stared blankly at Cheng Xing, who was raising his right index finger, completely bewildered as to why he was making the "乆" gesture.

Of course, Cheng Xing didn't want to continue having this episode. After confirming that the Hyperion hadn't arrived for some unknown reason, he decided to lead everyone away from this place first. The gap left by the Herrscher of Thunder's unintentional killing of the Honkai Hands and the Death Soldier wouldn't last forever.

Some people might ask why those large groups of Honkai Beasts and zombies disappeared before?

In reality, they didn't really disappear; they were just deceiving the Herrscher of Thunder. Those guys still existed, but the previous series of subtle malice and fear caused the Herrscher of Thunder to subconsciously imagine what would happen next.

Then, as if she had lost her mind, she destroyed everything around her, almost affecting Cheng Xing, who had run quite a distance.

As for how powerful Cheng Xing is now, well, as long as someone has enough personal experience, a well-developed personality without any mental illness, a strong will, and nothing or no one they are strongly afraid of, he can basically beat them.

After all, the only reward he received was a scarecrow.

Essentially, it was just that Fiddlesticks randomly placed a ward in the bushes.

It is only because its specifications and power are so terrifying that an ordinary eye possesses this ability.

If we were to represent the data in a game-like way, he would currently be nothing more than a scarecrow that has just reached level six and has no equipment whatsoever.

Fortunately, Raiden Mei's mental state and personality are currently very unstable, and there is even a kind of conflict between the two personalities. Therefore, someone with mental problems like this is the best opponent for Cheng Xing right now.

Incidentally, this ability is useless against Honkai Beasts. At most, it only makes me fear those mindless creatures for a few seconds, just like in the game.

Those Honkai Beasts and Death Warriors are basically fearless. If it weren't for the fact that these guys have the mindset of a Herrscher of Fear, I wouldn't even be able to feel fear towards them.

And so, Cheng Xing carried the unconscious Bronya on his back, while Kiana carried Mei on her back, and the two began to flee the scene at top speed.

Come to think of it, in this environment of concentrated Honkai energy, I don't feel as much pain and nausea as before. The improvement brought by this scarecrow probably includes part of the energy adaptation.

In short, relying on his innate and powerful sense of direction, Cheng Xing managed to lead Kiana through a pile of ruins and monsters to the apartment where they had previously stayed.

"Cheng Xing, you're like a human GPS! You're amazing!"

Kiana gazed at the familiar apartment building ahead and couldn't help but sigh to Cheng Xing beside her.

"Ah, I've heard such praise from you many times, you don't need to repeat it."

Kiana smiled and said nothing more. Then the two of them found a fairly clean and tidy room and temporarily moved in with the two unconscious people.

Kiana placed Mei on the bed, covered her with a blanket, and then went to the living room. Looking at Cheng Xing, who was sitting on the sofa tidying up a crow's feathers, she asked curiously, "Cheng Xing, did you turn from a scarecrow into a person?"

"No."

Cheng Xing answered without any hesitation.

"How did you manage to scare Mei, who is so terrifying, into fainting? I'm really curious."