Honkai Impact 3rd experience, starting with a thousand Herrschers

Gerald suddenly appeared beside Cheng Xing, and then, seeing the latter's inexplicably serious expression, smiled and said, "Don't be nervous, we just predicted something was going to happen, so we wanted to tell you."

"what's up?"

"The Third Herrscher is about to appear in Changkong City."

"what!"

Cheng Xing immediately became excited. He rushed forward, grabbed the man's collar, and hurriedly asked, "When!"

"ten……"

"10 days? 10 hours?"

"Nine……"

"grass!"

Without any hesitation, Cheng Xing transformed into black mist and left the research institute, immediately flying towards the distant school.

Gerald sat in a chair in the room, lit a cigarette, took a deep breath, and slowly uttered his last words.

"God gave me a crown, and used thunder and lightning as my bow and arrow to shatter all things and become the king of conquerors."

As soon as Cheng Xing landed, he sensed the Honkai energy that was inexplicably gathering throughout the city. He immediately spread his wings and flew towards the direction he sensed, where he saw Kevin talking to his girlfriend.

"Kevin!"

Kevin, who was talking to Mei, was startled when he heard someone call his name. He turned around and saw a black raven flying towards him at an unimaginable speed. In an instant, the raven transformed into the appearance of his friend.

This surreal scene stunned Kevin, who hadn't experienced much in his life. Just as he was about to ask what was going on, everything around him changed.

The sky darkened, and unknown thunder was brewing within it. The city was inexplicably shrouded in darkness, and a suffocating and terrifying atmosphere permeated the city.

Everyone looked up at the sky with some fear and unease. Then they saw a purple figure standing high in the sky, surrounded by lightning. Its purple pupils were cold and merciless, watching everything below.

Then the collapse of the entire city began to erupt. In that instant, the bodies of many people who had no resistance to collapse began to mutate. Their skin began to peel off, and their appearance began to twist. They screamed desperately, letting out unwilling and painful roars, but in the end, no miracle came. They turned into grotesque monsters.

These people couldn't even become combat units of the Honkai; they were just ordinary people whose bodies had been modified by Honkai energy and turned into zombies... cannon fodder, not even as good as suicide soldiers.

Of course, all sorts of other creatures also turned into Honkai Beasts.

Then the city began to fall apart. Some residents on the fringes were not immediately affected by the collapse. While they were panicking and at a loss, they were torn apart by a large number of mutated organisms.

However, the pain was only momentary, and soon it would not be so painful anymore. The Honkai energy was also eroding faster and faster, and many people may have become one of the monsters before they even had a chance to be torn apart by the monsters.

You see, this kind of death without any pain is actually a kind of redemption, isn't it? It's truly a wonderful way to cleanse oneself.

Cheng Xing commanded the black mist to envelop Kevin and Mei. He looked around at everything that was collapsing and being destroyed. When that city was destroyed, it didn't seem to be much different from this place.

It felt like I was witnessing humanity crumble like grass in the face of the Honkai once again, and I was powerless to put up any resistance.

Cheng Xing clenched his fists, gritting his teeth as he stared at the figure standing in the sky. He quickly led the two away to a research institute with relatively complete defenses, and then, ignoring everyone's gaze and advice, went directly to confront the Herrscher standing in the sky.

"I don't know if doing this will allow the souls of the dead to rest in peace, but I know that if I do nothing, I will go crazy."

"Is it always like this? Am I really only going to regret my incompetence and hate my powerlessness after everything has happened, and then try to make amends? This kind of belated remedy is completely meaningless!"

Cheng Xing stood before the purple figure, his eyes burning with hatred and rage.

In this world beyond the reach of ordinary people, he looked at the entire city's inhabitants, their souls weeping, shouting, and screaming in despair.

He could sense the fear of the entire city gradually seeping into his body; the oppressive atmosphere, the pain and despair of countless people before their deaths, were slowly influencing his consciousness.

Those souls are crying out, wondering why they are suffering in this way, why humans die so humbly and weakly.

Why? All I wanted was to do more work, to make sure my family could afford to eat. Why am I dying now?

Why? I just skipped a class, I simply don't like studying, so does God think I'm a bad kid and that I should just die naturally?

Why? I'm just working as a courier to support my child's education. Am I guilty? Why is God doing this?

why?

for…………

The doubts of the deceased and the thoughts of those who lived are constantly converging on Cheng Xing.

At this moment, Cheng Xing opened his mouth and spoke in a strangely hoarse and unsettling voice.

"A flock of crows...a storm."

The sky above the city was covered with crows.

Chapter 83: Drunkenness

The third law is gone.

Apart from Cheng Xing, no one knew how the Third Herrscher died. To outsiders, his body appeared to have died of natural causes, with no external wounds or internal damage.

But there was no sign of organ failure in the body, it was as if the heart had naturally stopped beating and the brain had naturally stopped functioning, which was unbelievable.

Cheng Xing handed over the corpse of the Third Herrscher, along with a Honkai Beast that appeared with the Herrscher and had a rather strange regenerative ability, to the laboratory.

He returned to his room, where a strange pain arose within him, constantly infecting him and altering his perceptions and consciousness.

That voice seemed to be constantly urging itself to create killing, to create despair, and to turn all that fear into its own sustenance!

"That's the most interesting thing. You should do that. You should learn to abandon those meaningless human bottom lines and do whatever you want, kill, possess, rob, and get everything you want!"

That hoarse voice was appearing in his mind. The voice sounded strangely familiar, but Cheng Xing didn't want to think about the source of that familiarity.

Just as Cheng Xing's consciousness was fading, a guy suddenly appeared in front of him, then clapped his hands hard, and the loud clapping sound instantly snapped him back to his senses.

Cheng Xing sat on his bed, completely bewildered, not understanding what he had just experienced. He stiffly raised his head and looked at Jerak, who was standing in front of him.

"Sigh, kid, you're on the verge of collapse after absorbing the fear of an entire city?"

Jerac's familiar voice gave Cheng Xing a sense of security for some reason, like the comfort of an old friend who suddenly appears to talk to you when you are confused and lost.

"...Why couldn't we have known about the Herrscher's appearance sooner?"

Cheng Xing lowered his head in anguish, clutching his hair with both hands. If he had known about the Herrscher's appearance sooner, if he had noticed the Honkai sooner, he might have been able to stop this catastrophe of extinction.

"There are many things in this world that are beyond our control, and the resulting sacrifices and deaths are countless. You don't need to blame yourself like this. Instead of continuing to wallow in self-pity about things that are beyond your control, you should quickly tidy up your current mess and do what you can do."

Gerald pulled a bottle of vodka from his clothes. Looking at Cheng Xing, who was now disheveled and completely dejected, he smiled and said, "Although I said that earlier, you can't get over it so easily, so this is where the all-powerful alcohol comes in! Have some, you don't have anything to do right now, do you? Drinking this stuff can help you forget a lot of your worries! Isn't there an old saying from your Eastern tradition? 'What can dispel sorrow? Only wine.'"

"........."

Cheng Xing took the bottle of wine, opened the cap, and gulped it down.

The spicy liquid flowed from his throat into his stomach, and the sensation that rushed straight to his head made him momentarily dazed. Although he shouldn't be feeling this way given his current physical condition, perhaps he was just hypnotizing himself.

Sometimes, it's not the wine that makes you drunk, it's the person who gets drunk.

Mebius pounded anxiously on Cheng Xing's door. She desperately wanted to know what had happened! Why were there two people suddenly in the research institute? Why was there another Herrscher and Honkai Beast corpse in the institute? And why did Cheng Xing look so distraught just now? What had happened?

Things are moving way too fast! Who pressed the fast-forward button? No, wait, it must be the jump button!

Just drag the progress bar and then read the ending summary—what kind of narrative is this?!

Mebius continued knocking on the door. She felt something was very wrong with Chengxin's behavior, and if she hadn't kept a spare key out of respect for privacy, she would have been inside by now.

However, just as Mebius was getting more and more anxious and was about to force the door open, the door finally opened, but the person inside... was not Cheng Xing.

"I'm sorry, Dr. Möbius, that kid needs some peace and quiet right now, so could you give him some private time for the time being?"

A middle-aged man with a full beard, looking extremely slovenly and exuding an air of decadence, appeared behind the door.

"Who are you?!"

Mebius frowned, looking warily at the guy who had appeared out of nowhere.

“Me? I am part of that guy’s personality. Because we killed the Third Herrscher, our existence became more real. Some people have already been able to turn their consciousness into real individuals and appear in the world... but no one really wants to come out, so I became the one in charge.”

Gerald's tall 1.83-meter frame completely blocked the view behind the door, so Mebius couldn't see Cheng Xing lying on the bed looking drunk.

"Why should I believe you?"

"Sigh, even if you wanted to ask him something now, you wouldn't be able to get anything out of him. You see..."

Gerald turned to his side. Mebius looked at Cheng Xing, who was lying on the bed, completely drunk and unconscious, and at the smell of alcohol filling the room, and knew what had happened. He then looked at Gerald and asked, "I need an explanation."

"Alright, but you'll have to ask the guy lying in bed about that. After all, I haven't been in this world for very long, and I only have a few days left before I disappear..."

Before he could finish speaking, the guy mysteriously disappeared.

Mebius looked at Cheng Xing on the bed and his face couldn't help but wrinkle. Then, seeing his drunken state, he couldn't help but sigh, went over and took off his clothes, and then covered him with a blanket.

"...He really is a brat."

Möbius smiled helplessly, then drew the curtains and closed the door behind him as he left.

“Bronya…”

While drunk, Cheng Xing muttered the names of certain people.

“Cirin…”

"...Feder... Waaah!"

Before he could even speak, a hand covered his mouth.

"Hey kid, you can't just say that name out loud!"

Chapter 84: Fork in the Road

Cheng Xing covered his head and got out of bed. He felt that in his drunken state, he seemed to see three figures that were very important to him, but why were two of them underage girls?

There's even another reason why: it's a scarecrow standing in the field that makes people feel very uneasy.

"Strange, if those two people are particularly important to me, that's why they appear in my memory, but what is that scarecrow? Is it some kind of psychological trauma?"

Cheng Xing couldn't understand why he had seen such a terrifying scarecrow in his drunken stupor, but he couldn't remember what the scarecrow looked like, and he also couldn't seem to remember the names of the three figures.

Cheng Xing got out of bed and pulled back the closed curtains. The sunlight outside shone on him. The sun wasn't scorching yet at this time of year, making it the most comfortable time to shine on someone, warm and cozy.

His body gradually relaxed, and his mind, which had become twisted for various reasons, also relaxed. He no longer thought of that demonic whisper.

Cheng Xing suddenly wanted to fly up into the sky, to meet the person or god who created this tragedy that destroyed everything, and to ask Him why He did it.

But does that so-called god truly exist? And is he high above in the sky, judging all living beings with his merciless gaze?

Humanity once held that position; humans were the supreme rulers of the Earth's ecosystem. Perhaps, to other creatures on Earth, the technology that humans have demonstrated is a miracle of the gods.