Honkai Impact 3rd experience, starting with a thousand Herrschers

"Not at all. My own plan is still progressing steadily. Although the experimental data and intelligence we have collected are still in their early stages, they have still pointed us in several directions... I now truly see hope that humanity can defeat the Honkai."

Cheng Xing landed on Raiden's shoulder, then folded his wings, cleaned his feathers, and said, "If what I know is roughly consistent with this world, then what I remember is that Raiden Mei eventually accepted you and became the true Herrscher of Thunder."

"Really? That coward actually mustered the courage to accept the pain and sins I carried... No, without external factors, he would never have made that choice in his life. Let me guess that coward must have been in a desperate situation and was extremely pursuing power, and most likely it was for Kiana, right?"

"...Yes, that's basically it."

Cheng Xing was surprised that Lei Dianzhen could guess the whole story so quickly. As expected, he was the one who understood him best.

Raiden Shin realized that her guess was correct, but her face remained expressionless. In her eyes, this was a perfectly reasonable development. If this guy hadn't appeared in her world, Kiana would indeed have been the only light for her, since she herself was born from the heart of that coward.

I'm afraid that when faced with danger or when I need to seek power to protect that person, I will not hesitate to give it up.

However, she is no longer Raiden Mei.

When Raiden realized this, he turned his head and looked at the rather comical-looking parrot. The coldness in his eyes softened considerably, replaced by a strange tenderness.

After hesitating for a moment, she looked at the fluffy parrot and reached out to gently stroke it on her shoulder.

Cheng Xing felt the touch on his body and looked at Raiden Shin with a slight puzzlement. He noticed that the latter had a rare peaceful smile on his face. So petting a furry creature really can soothe the soul.

Raiden Mei and her two teammates arrived at their destination in just over ten minutes after traveling at full speed. Then, when she saw Raiden Makoto standing on the rooftop of a building not far away, touching the pirate-style parrot on his shoulder, Raiden Mei was completely stunned.

"Sigh! Two captains!"

Carol was the first to exclaim in amazement, and then she kept looking at the person in the distance and her captain. They were exactly the same! Apart from the different clothes and the fact that the one on the rooftop seemed a bit younger, they were practically the same person!

"Captain, do you perhaps have a twin sister?"

Raiden Mei completely ignored Carol's question and looked at Raiden Shin, who was staring at her, with trembling eyes, and said, "Who are you?"

"Long time no see, coward."

A bolt of purple lightning flashed past Raiden, who was originally standing on the rooftop of the building, and instantly appeared in front of the three-person team.

"Impossible! A long time ago...we! We became one person a long, long time ago!"

Raiden Mei had never lost her composure in front of her teammates, or rather, she had never lost her composure like this since Kiana sealed all the Honkai on the moon.

"Your opinion is not wrong either. There is indeed only one Herrscher of Thunder in this world, you are the only one. It's just that I come from another parallel world."

"Parallel...world?"

"That's right, but speaking of which, my world is much more exciting than yours. Just recently, we even communicated with the Honkai consciousness, and at the same time, we made the Herrscher of Corruption, who was about to revive, fall into a weakened state again... And I, who was supposed to stay in your body and become a high-level fusion material, have completely separated. Of course, I made a special trip to visit my father, and now I have my own name. Raiden Shin."

"This is my father's wish for me, hoping that I can live a real life that belongs to me."

Raiden Mei was somewhat confused by this sudden and enormous news. She covered her head and thought for a long time before finally figuring out the connections. Then she asked, "Okay, I can understand what happened next, but what's this about Honkai consciousness communication? Can the Honkai communicate?"

Upon hearing this question, Raiden Shin turned his gaze to the parrot still perched on his shoulder and asked, "So how long do you plan to keep this comical appearance?"

"Hey, didn't you think I looked funny when you touched me just now?"

Cheng Xing wasn't an idiot, so naturally he wouldn't say those words out loud. He just thought about it in his mind before falling to the ground and returning to his original form.

"You are!"

The three-person team naturally recognized Cheng Xing's appearance, since they had just met him before.

"I apologize for deceiving you all earlier. I am Cheng Xing, a traveler capable of traversing the world. Also, according to you, I am a thousand Herrschers or the Herrscher of Domination."

"Don't look at me so warily. I, the Herrscher of a Thousand, am a true traitor... Of course, the details would be too long to explain. Shin, didn't you have some questions you wanted to ask?"

Raiden Shin immediately asked, "I just want to ask, are you satisfied with the ending that idiot is left alone on the moon with all the Honkai?"

"...How could anyone be satisfied?"

"Ok, I see."

After hearing the reply, Raiden nodded and then had no more questions to ask.

"Raiden Mei, I hate you. To be honest, when I was first born, I felt a ton of negative emotions coming from you, and I genuinely wanted to destroy this world. And inside you, I saw what was happening outside and felt more and more... jealous. Jealous that you have real friends, jealous that you have your own light... while I can only stay in the dark corner of your heart, a pitiful monster that no one cares about."

"And this monster will do anything to help you when you need it. In the end, nobody will remember her, nobody will."

"However, compared to myself in this world, I am still much happier."

“I have him.”

Lei Dianzhen grabbed Cheng Xing by the collar, who was still watching the show, and pulled him so that their mouths were pressed tightly together.

Raiden Mei's eyes widened.

Cheng Xing's eyes were blank.

Actually, besides asking Raiden Mei questions, Raiden Shin also came to tell her, or rather, to show off, that he had also achieved his own salvation.

Chapter 148: The Plan

Feeling the softness between his lips, Cheng Xing's bewildered expression slowly turned into helplessness. In fact, he sometimes becomes passive when faced with a forceful opponent.

Or perhaps he's just someone who prefers to be passive.

This is why my good friend Wang Tian in college always teases me for being a repressed pervert... Thinking about it carefully, it seems like it's been a long time since we last met, and I've almost forgotten his voice and appearance.

Their lips parted, and Carol covered her face, but the gaps between her fingers couldn't hide her eyes. Although shy, she watched this wonderful scene with great curiosity.

Raiden Mei's expression was very complicated. Although this was another version of herself, or even another version of herself from a parallel world, the problem was that she was kissing someone who looked exactly like her. Why did she have the illusion that she was cheating on him?

That's really strange!

Adam: …………

"This is quite sudden."

"Since you've made preparations, you should wholeheartedly pursue your goals. As far as I know, there hasn't been any actual romantic behavior between you two, which means I might still have a chance."

For some reason, Lei Dian's eyes were filled with an aggressive gaze as he looked Cheng Xing up and down, which made the latter involuntarily clutch his clothes. He swore that this was the first time in his life that he had felt such a sense of crisis.

"Wait... between you two? This gentleman doesn't have a girlfriend, does he?"

Raiden Mei, who was standing to the side, immediately noticed something was off about Raiden Shin's words and asked with an extremely strange expression.

"Well, as far as I know, there seem to be three right now. But considering his personal circumstances, I can understand. Two of those three people were saved because of him, and as for the other one, well, I'd like to know how he got his hands on him."

Cheng Xing touched his nose somewhat awkwardly. Just then, the communication device hanging on Raiden Mei's waist suddenly rang.

After connecting to the communication device, a very familiar female voice came through, but compared to the lively and cute voice in my memory, it now revealed a lot of fatigue.

"Mei, what happened on your end? We detected an extremely powerful energy reaction here, and it's the power of a Herrscher. Add to that the lightning, did you encounter some kind of accident?"

“I’m sorry, Bishop Theresa, the situation here is a bit complicated for the time being. I will go back and draft an action report to submit.”

"It's good that you're alright," Theresa said, her tired figure seeming to breathe a sigh of relief. She continued, "It seems the situation in that city is quite complicated, forcing you to use your Herrscher abilities. Overworking yourself like that, I'm afraid your body isn't in the best condition right now. I've already sent a team to provide support, and Bronya will be joining you soon."

"Actually, I have no problem."

"Alright, stop acting like my silly niece, pretending to be strong even when something's wrong. How could I not know the consequences of forcibly using a Herrscher ability in this situation? Okay, I have things to take care of, so I'll stop here for now."

Theresa hung up the phone as soon as she finished speaking, giving Raiden Mei no chance to explain further.

Upon hearing the news that Bronya was about to join them, Raiden immediately turned to look at Cheng Xing, who was standing to the side.

"Why are you looking at me? It's not the same person."

Cheng Xing looked puzzled. Why should he care so much about someone from a different world? To him, she was just a stranger who looked just like his girlfriend but had grown up a lot.

Why can't we just treat him normally and politely? Why is Raiden looking at me with such a strange expression?

"No, I was just thinking about some things."

Lei Dian was stroking his chin, seemingly deep in thought, while Cheng Xing, who could sense other people's emotions, actually saw a strange sense of pleasure in the former's heart.

"I have a feeling that something extremely bad is about to happen?"

Raiden Mei reluctantly put away her manual communicator, then looked at the two of them and said, "So, what are your thoughts now?"

"For now, we haven't decided whether to continue working together. After all, according to the law, the main mastermind will always come after you guys. Besides, I also need to find a place to kill some time."

Cheng Xing's original plan was simply to stay at that temporary base and continuously send out clones to study the artificially created monsters and obtain technological intelligence from the people in the sky.

Then, on the way to the Heavenly Demon City, he obtained more detailed information and theories from the Void Inquiry, as well as an analysis of that so-called world.

If possible, he would like to see for himself what the so-called heavenly beings look like, or whether he could instill fear in them.

If fear can be generated, can that fear be memeized and then spread and infect within such groups? Faced with this level of attack, how will the technology of the celestial beings react, and how much emotional energy and technological theory can one obtain and harvest from it?

I'm getting excited just thinking about it!

Anyway, this is a simulation, so no matter what, Cheng Xing won't die.

This is a good opportunity to test the true combat power of the people in the sky, so that we can also know what attitude and preparation we should have when we come into contact with this civilization in the future when we step into the universe.

Finally, the two changed to a three-person team and returned to the temporary base. However, the three of them could not rest there. After all, they still had to search for Welt's whereabouts. In addition to exploring why the city was deserted, their main purpose in coming here was to search for the mysterious disappearance of the First Herrscher.

The two behind him rested in the temporary base, while Raiden kept glancing at Cheng Xing, which made the latter feel a little uneasy.

What exactly are you planning to do?

Cheng Xing felt like he was being spied on, so he couldn't help but ask.

"I just wanted to try something, a really interesting one. Even though it might not bring any immediately good results, I think it would be very satisfying psychologically."

"...Let me guess you're not... planning to have Bronya from this world... bless us, are you?"

"........."

"Don't suddenly stop talking! Ugh, turning your head away at this moment makes me even more anxious!"

Chapter 149: Dialogue

As mentioned before, people always have to pay the price for their choices.

Cheng Xing felt the vomit churning inside his stomach, and looked at Raiden Shin with a slightly pained expression on his face as he communicated with the grown-up Bronya.

Just before, the three-person team found the child Walter had adopted and brought him back to the temporary base. They happened to run into the third team, who were there to meet up. Bronya was the temporary leader of the third team in this operation.

"So, you two are from another parallel world?"

As Bronya grew up, she possessed a height that far surpassed her past self and... became her enemy.

“That’s right. I’m one of this guy’s lovers right now. Don’t be surprised. He does have multiple lovers, and we all know about each other. It’s just that neither of us wants to give him up.”

Raiden Shin stood in front of Bronya, glanced at the giant human heart, then looked at Raiden Mei beside him, and nodded with considerable satisfaction.