Collapse, Kaslana's Way of Survival

"But I remember that you are from 500 years later. Could it be that the priest has found a way to travel through time?!" Karel blinked and then became a little excited.

"In that case, why don't you talk to the priest and ask him to take us with him to the future five hundred years from now? I've heard you tell me so many stories about the future five hundred years from now, and I've wanted to go see it for a long time!"

"How can it be so easy to travel through time? It can even be said to be impossible." Kaino rolled his eyes. "And remember I said that the history where I live is different from what happened here."

"You said that? Oh, I remember now." Karel nodded. "You seemed to have said that the priest there was a bad guy, Theresa was a 48-year-old woman, and Saint Karen was also judged and killed, not having a good end..."

"Well, Kainuo, is there a possibility..." Karel hesitated for a moment before continuing, "Is it possible that you didn't actually travel through time, but that the injury caused you..."

"You're crazy, aren't you?" Kainuo rolled his eyes. "Putting aside the fact that my memory is clear and my logic flows smoothly, the priest also examined me and said there's nothing wrong with me, right?"

"That's right, but..."

Karel was still a little conflicted.

"Forget it, let's talk later." Kainuo sighed and put the cutlery in his hand back into the kitchen.

"I'm going to the priest's place. I'll tell you when I'm done talking to him. Oh, and you're the one washing the dishes today!"

"Oh, come on, I'm the only one here?" Karel was startled, then looked at Kainuo with an embarrassed smile, "Um... Kainuo, you're not in a hurry to find a priest right now, right?"

"I'm not, I didn't, I'm in a hurry!"

Kainuo quickly rejected Karel's request for help, left the kitchen without looking back, and walked towards the priest's room on the second floor of the orphanage.

Chapter 9: There is an Immortal in Shenzhou named Chiyuan

"Father?"

He knocked twice on the door to indicate his arrival, then Kainuo opened the door and walked into the house.

"Hmm? Oh, Kaino, you're here."

Inside the house, the priest was sitting at a table tinkering with something. When he heard the door open, he turned sideways and walked back.

It was because the other party turned sideways that Kayno was able to see what the other party was fiddling with on the table.

A golden box.

"Father, hasn't Void Manifestations been repaired yet?"

Keno recognized the box; the priest had told him it was a divine key. And according to the other party's description of the divine key, repairing it would likely reveal the reason why Keno had arrived in this place five hundred years away from him.

"Not yet. I still haven't figured out the impact of the Herrscher of Corrosion's counterattack before being sealed again."

Having said this, the priest sighed involuntarily.

"If it were its creator or someone with sufficient knowledge of the Corrosion Ruler, then solving this problem shouldn't be difficult. But I'm not one of them, and the level of technology involved is too high."

"Although I can rely on the power of your stigmata to analyze it, it is still a long project."

"Father, you called me here to continue analyzing it? But I remember you said last time that further analysis wouldn't reveal any useful information."

Kaino expressed his doubts and looked down at his chest.

Ever since waking up in this orphanage, a stigmata mark has appeared on Keno's chest, probably a congenital stigmata.

The appearance of the stigmata is like two entangled snakes, and in the gap between the two snakes there is a hollow diamond-shaped square, making the entire stigmata look like a vertical eye.

It looks a bit weird and creepy.

However, although the appearance is not very pleasing, the benefits it brings to Keno are incredibly great.

First of all, there was the unique talent that he should have theoretically possessed, but had never shown before the awakening of the stigmata, which came from the Shaniyat and Kaslana bloodlines - superb Honkai resistance and adaptability, as well as terrifying strange strength.

Although there was no professional equipment in the orphanage, making it impossible to test Keno's resistance and adaptability to Honkai energy, when Honkai energy existed in his body, it not only did not cause Keno any discomfort, but even made him feel a little comfortable.

Judging from this point alone, Keno's two qualities are ridiculously high.

This can be understood as the Holy Scar returning the talent that originally belonged to Keno to him, which is understandable.

The next ability of the Holy Mark made Keno feel incomprehensible.

Analysis, projection and manufacturing; manipulation of imaginary space; control of lightning and magnetic fields; manipulation of fluids; control of low temperatures; control of creation and annihilation, and the ability to extract collapse energy directly from imaginary space.

Simply put, it is the ability of the first to sixth Herrschers, as well as the ability of all Herrschers to absorb Honkai energy.

During the play performance, the spotlights in the sky and the curtain that descended at the end were constructed by Kaino using his first ability.

He remembered that Siegfried had mentioned that the Second Herrscher Sirin had these six abilities at her peak, and because of this, he almost suspected that he was the clone created using Kiana's cells.

Of course, although it possesses the abilities of the first to sixth Herrschers, the actual abilities of the Stigmata are subtly different from them.

For example, regarding the issue of strength, according to Kaynor, the abilities corresponding to the first to sixth Herrschers are not of the same strength, but the first and sixth abilities are the strongest, and the strength of the second to fifth abilities decreases successively.

――The strength here refers to the maximum output and the efficiency of utilizing Honkai energy.

However, because there is no reference object, and Kayno himself has never truly used those abilities at maximum power, Kayno does not know how his abilities compare to those of a real Herrscher.

As for why it never ran at full power...

"Kaino, has the rate and maximum amount of Houkai energy you draw from imaginary space increased recently?"

The priest asked.

"No, it's still the same, it hasn't grown at all," Kainuo sighed. "Thanks to it, I can't reach maximum power output no matter what kind of power I use."

The stigmata allows Keno to ignore the concentration of Honkai energy in the surrounding area, and like a Herrscher, he can directly, steadily and quickly absorb Honkai energy from the imaginary space.

However, it seemed that precisely because of this additional stable way to obtain Honkai energy, even if Keno was soaking in the Honkai energy reaction pool, his absorption speed of Honkai energy might not be as fast as that of others in a normal environment.

After observation, the priest explained that the Herrscher does not rely on himself to absorb Honkai energy from the imaginary space, but relies on the Herrscher core in his body, while Kayno needs to rely on his own body to absorb it from the imaginary space.

Simply put, the human body is single-threaded, and drawing from the imaginary space directly and forcibly occupies Keno's thread, which makes him almost unable to draw from the outside world.

This is not a big deal in itself. After all, the efficiency of absorbing energy in this way is much higher than absorbing it from the outside world. After all, who would jump into a Honkai reactor for no reason?

But the problem with Siegfried is that not only can this thing not be turned off, but it also stops absorbing after reaching a certain concentration, and it can't actively absorb...

This makes Keno very suitable for medium to high intensity continuous combat, but he is likely to be completely defeated against top-level enemies.

If he could find a Herrscher core or something similar and place it inside his body, then perhaps he could free the dual-threaded Keno. Unfortunately, the core inside the Divine Key seemed inaccessible...

"You are already fourteen years old, and you possess six powers. Even if you go out alone, you will not be in any danger."

The priest said, "So I have a suggestion. Would you like to go to Shenzhou?"

"Shenzhou?" Kainuo was puzzled.

"Yes, Shenzhou." The priest nodded. "Unlike Europe, where Tianming is located, Shenzhou's use of Honkai energy in technology is not strong. However, they have their own unique system for how to absorb, store, and use Honkai energy from the outside world. Of course, they call Honkai energy "Zhenqi" there."

"If you can learn some ways to make better use of Honkai energy from Shenzhou, or learn some ways to absorb it, it will be very beneficial to you personally."

Kainuo hesitated for a moment, then nodded. Although he had developed a deep bond with his fellow orphans during his years at the orphanage, and felt a bit reluctant to leave, he would eventually leave and embark on his journey home.

Then it makes no difference whether you leave early or late.

"Then I'll leave tomorrow?"

"...Can you at least take some time to say goodbye to the children before you leave?"

The priest smiled and shook his head.

"Ahaha... I just don't know what to say. I haven't really said goodbye to anyone."

Kaino laughed awkwardly. He didn't know how long he would be gone this time. By the time he returned, all the children in the orphanage, except Theresa, would probably have been adopted.

But that wasn't necessarily the case. After all, Karel and the others seemed to share Theresa's desire to stay in the orphanage forever.

"You can decide the time of your departure. Besides that, I hope you can find the Red Kite Immortal while you are in Shenzhou."

"Red Kite Immortal?" Kainuo blinked. "I remember that in the first act of 'Saint Kallen', Saint Kallen was defeated by the Divine Immortal Red Kite..."

"Yes, that's right. The Red Kite Immortal, her use of Honkai energy is extremely sophisticated. Back then, she easily defeated the Eastern Expedition Army of the Destiny, as well as the Saint who held the Divine Key, the Oath of Judah. ​​If you want to learn how to absorb and control Honkai energy, then she or her students would be a good teacher."

"Not only that, it is said that the Red Kite Immortal has lived for a very long time, so his knowledge is probably not low."

The priest said, "The restoration of Void Ten Thousand Treasures is a long way off, but perhaps the Red Kite Immortal can help you find your way home."

"But don't take it too seriously. If you can find it, that's great. If not, forget it."

Having said this, the priest sighed.

"About 20 years ago, the Saint and I traveled to Shenzhou to try to find the Immortal in order to seal the Herrscher of Corrosion. However, when we arrived at the Immortal's former residence, we found it had been burned down and the Immortal had disappeared."

"In the end, the Saint and I had to deal with the Herrscher on our own. As a result, the Saint passed away two years later, and the Void Myriad Treasures was also damaged as a result."

Chapter 10 Farewell

Silent all night.

The next day, Kainuo got up early, and climbed out of bed when it was still light. Tiptoeing so as not to disturb Karel, who was lying in the other bed in the room, Kainuo pushed the door open and walked out.

"call."

With a long sigh, Kainuo left the orphanage. After strolling around the orphanage and cleaning out the nearby Honkai Beasts, Kainuo slipped into the woods on a nearby hillside.

With a casual wave of his hand, invisible wind blades flew out from Kainuo's hand and slashed towards the nearby small trees.

Chopping wood is Kainuo's job in the orphanage.

The orphanage opened by the priest does not exploit the children living there. In the past, tasks like chopping wood were done by Kayno after breakfast.

But it was already December, and the weather was getting colder. Before leaving, Kainuo planned to chop some more wood to help the orphanage through the winter, to prevent Karel, the only boy in the orphanage, from getting too tired after he left.

Karel wasn't born with a stigma like Keno. If the other guy were to chop wood in the middle of winter, he'd be frozen to death. And if he were to freeze to death, wouldn't someone else have to chop wood?

And Kainuo didn't want to change his decision to leave today, so he would pack his luggage during the day.

Thinking of this, Kayno released more wind blades.

Soon, Kainuo had chopped all the woods into firewood. Then, with another wave of his hand, a large black hole appeared under the chopped wood, swallowing it up and spitting it into the orphanage's warehouse.

"Get the job done!"

After stretching and relaxing, Keno set off on his journey home. Although he got up early, he had been chopping wood outside for so long that the orphanage would probably have started breakfast.

The orphanage is not like home. If you miss breakfast, your parents will thoughtfully prepare food for you.

...Ah, it seems like I'm the one who cooks at home?

"Hey, you guys have eaten already?"

As soon as he entered the door, Kainuo smelled a fragrance, and the dining table was already full of people.

"Kaino, where have you been? Karel said you were already up when he woke up this morning." Theresa spoke up first after seeing Kaino. "Come over quickly and have some sandwiches and soup."

"I got up early today, so I went to chop wood first."

After hearing Theresa's words, Kaino washed his hands with a high-speed rotating powerful wind and sat down to eat.

"So rich?"

Seeing the food on the table, Kainuo couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

The food was indeed only good in the form of sandwiches and soup, but unlike the simple breakfasts of the past, both the sandwiches and soup were filled with ingredients.

"The priest said he'll be going to town today to buy some more supplies for the winter, so he's brought out the remaining ingredients." Theresa replied with a smile, "So, not only breakfast, but lunch today will also be very sumptuous."

"I hope what you call a feast doesn't mean a bitter melon feast."

After casually replying, and ignoring Theresa's flushed face, Keno began his journey of eating.

"Children, there's something I need to tell you." After breakfast, the priest clapped his hands and said to the people who were clearing the tableware, "Kaino will be leaving the orphanage soon."

Everyone's movements suddenly stopped.

Kainuo stared at the priest blankly. "What's going on, Father? Why are you selling me out?"

"Hey, Keno, are you leaving?" Karel was the first to react, staring at him with wide eyes. "Have you found a home? When are you leaving? Will you come back to see us?"

Theresa, Michael and others are also ready to make a move.

"Stop, stop, stop, come one by one," Kainuo said hurriedly, truly afraid of being drowned in the vast sea of ​​people. "I haven't found my home yet. I followed the priest's advice and went to Shenzhou to find someone who might know how to get home. I'm not going home right now."

"So of course I'll come back. To me, Shenzhou and here aren't too far away. Putting aside the long distance, I'll probably come back to watch your performance next Christmas—as long as you don't perform 'Saint Karen,' which I've already seen several times."

"As for when to leave... I plan to leave today."

"Kaino, you're leaving today? How cunning! How would we have time to prepare a gift for you?"

Theresa crossed her arms, glared at Kayno, then looked at the priest. "Father, you know this too, right? After all, it was you who gave Kayno the advice. No wonder you decided to go shopping today. It turns out you were planning to have a nice meal before Kayno left."

Upon hearing this, the priest quickly raised his hands in surrender and said helplessly, "Little Theresa... Kayno did tell me, but I also specifically suggested that he wait a few days before leaving, okay?"

Theresa turned back to look at Keno.

"Aha, I didn't...want to give you a surprise?"