The collapse started when Kiana came to the door

After realizing that the power he had accumulated was enough to intervene and change the original plot, the [Captain] forced his way into the Valkyries' vision in a rather high-profile manner.

Himeko didn’t die; the Herrscher of the Sky’s arrival didn’t stop the massive collapse that enveloped the entire Eurasian continent; Gray Snake and Cocolia didn’t attract Theresa and the others to the Eye of the Abyss; and Raiden Mei certainly wouldn’t join the World Snake because of Kiana’s situation…

Since he hoped that tragedy would not happen again and wanted his beloved Valkyries to live happily, as the captain, he was of course mentally prepared to carry the burden for them.

It is also for this reason that in the original world, Li Shubai, as the [Captain], became stronger and stronger while blocking those knives bit by bit.

From the beginning, it only came with an initial plug-in called Hyperion; later, he was able to rely on the power of [Captain] to send the high and mighty Queen down to the mortal world, and then he grabbed her waist and beat her to the point where she had to shrink back into the depths of consciousness; then he faced Yulandel who wanted to help Bishop Otto take away Kiana, and they fought back and forth; then, together with Destiny, without taking the lives of the two Herrschers, he tied up Anna and Chen Tianwu, who had become Herrschers, to the test benches of Dr. Einstein and Tesla; he used Taoism to convince the Herrscher of Consciousness and then killed thousands of Herrschers; after finding the trembling Herrscher of Corrosion on the Internet, he touched the traces left by the Herrscher of Corrosion and led a large group of people along the network cable to the World Serpent's lair, forcing Kevin to directly order Yutu to immediately launch the Stigmata Plan.

Except for Otto, Kevin and End, in the first reincarnation, Li Shubai, who developed the captain's power to the limit, hardly encountered any real challenges. Thanks to his unparalleled behavior and experience until the end, except for Valkyries such as Yulandel, Rita, Fu Hua and Theresa who had already grown to a certain limit, Kiana, Raiden Mei and Bronya had hardly ever faced difficulties that could truly threaten their lives.

No matter how strictly you train yourself, actual combat and training are two completely different concepts after all.

Therefore, although Kiana, Raiden Mei, and Bronya have tried very hard, after someone taller than them blocked a series of knives and carried the burden for them, as a price, the three Valkyries, who should have fully mastered the power of the Herrscher long ago, were unable to do so until the end.

However, it is true that everything will turn around when it reaches its extreme, and everything that prospers will decline when it reaches its peak.

Even Li Shubai, who had been reminding himself that he was indeed very strong, but not omnipotent, was numbed by the continuous vigilance and fear of the enemy after the continuous victories and triumphs.

It was precisely because the continuous victories numbed Li Shubai's vigilance that in the first reincarnation, when faced with the truth of the [End], he was helpless and paid the first price.

But after paying the first price and the time of my world and that world being completely out of sync—

Neither Li Shubai before nor after he lost his memories could have expected that, apart from Yulandel [Gengen Knight], Rita [Dizzy Starthorn], Theresa [Twilight Knight], Bronya [Hersher of Reason], as well as [Valkyrie Swift Feather] and [Hersher of Knowledge], who had violated his orders and used their authority as crew members to forcibly return to the Hyperion before he left that world, in the world less than three years after he left, Kiana and Raiden Mei, who had not even mastered the power of the Herrscher in that world, had actually used the power of the Cocoon of the End to perform a [Metamorphosis] that had never been performed before as [Hersher of the End] and [Hersher of the Origin] respectively.

A man's destiny is his character.

After someone taller than them takes the initiative to help them through the storm, they may become more immature and weaker than their selves in another world because they have never experienced the true ordeal of life and death. But as long as Kiana is still Kiana and Raiden Mei is still Raiden Mei, even in a peaceful world, they will still take a completely different path from their selves in another world, but end up on the same path, because of their own personalities.

What's more, for them, [peace] and [satisfaction] are far from being equal.

It was not the first time that Kiana [Hersher of the End] and Mei Raiden [Hersher of the Origin] regretted not being able to return to the Hyperion at that time.

The captain ordered his Valkyrie not to return to Hyperion when he activated the reincarnation mechanism because he didn't know what impact [Reincarnation] would have on the Valkyrie on the Hyperion after resetting his time.

No matter what the unknown impact is, will it be direct death? Or will it be physically or mentally harmed? Even among these possibilities, there is also the possibility that there will be no impact at all. However, as a captain who has always helped his Valkyrie to withstand the ups and downs, he certainly will not allow his Valkyrie to fall into unknown danger because of his decision.

——That makes sense, but... not to mention that Li Shubai, who was activating the reincarnation device at that time, had no time to explain his orders. Even if he really told Kiana and the others this, they would probably ignore it without hesitation and follow him without saying a word.

In fact, all the Valkyries made the same choice, including Mei Raiden and Kiana. When Li Shubai was about to disappear, all the Valkyries wanted to disobey the captain's order and use their rights as crew members to forcibly return to the Hyperion.

The reason why Kiana and Mei Raiden failed was not because they hesitated, but simply because they did not fully master the power of being Herrschers. On the eve of the battle, they were selected as one of the few combat members who remained on Earth.

——It’s just a simple difference in space and strength.

It is conceivable how much they hated their own powerlessness and weakness after being left in this world.

Therefore, after the captain left that world, the story of that world still has a sequel.

Even in this world where Honkai has been completely defeated and is extremely safe for Valkyries like them, the effort and sweat that Mei Raiden and Kiana have put in to fully develop their own powers is even more abundant than when Honkai was still threatening humanity.

The captain must not be dead. How could he, such a powerful man, more powerful than Otto and Kevin, die in such an unclear way?

The captain must still be wandering somewhere outside the world.

I am his Valkyrie, and the Valkyrie that belongs only to him.

I must turn this imperfect story into what I want it to be.

In this way, even though the collapse of this world no longer threatens humanity, Kiana, who accepted the power of the Cocoon of the End and became the Herrscher of the End, still took the initiative to stay where the captain disappeared.

That is the moon.

Unlike the Kiana in the world of [Secondary Silver Wings], the Kiana in this world is not forced to stay on the moon due to objective conditions, and the Kiana in this world is not restricted in any freedom.

The power of the Herrscher of the End includes all thirteen powers, and Kiana was originally created by Otto based on the core of the Second Herrscher and the genes of Yulandel. Therefore, as the Herrscher of the Void in her former life, she naturally has unprecedented control over the power of space after becoming the Herrscher of the End.

On the moon, she continued to observe places in various parallel worlds that were exactly the same as here, hoping to discern the captain's presence from other worlds through the cracks in time and space, which had completely disappeared from this world.

Since the reincarnation mechanism called the End is placed on the surface of the moon, as long as Kiana [Herserer of the End] continues to observe the moons of various worlds, she will always be able to see and find the captain who takes the initiative to attack in a certain world to fight against Honkai and the End.

This time, she would not let the captain face the challenge of the end alone.

She has become the Herrscher of the End and is absolutely qualified to stand beside the captain!

"Wait - this feeling." A certain Kiana [Herser of the End] who sensed a certain breath from the tiny gap in time and space suddenly contracted her pupils, and an expression of ecstasy and excitement flew to her face, which looked more mature than [Herser of the Fire], in less than a millisecond, "Captain -!!!!"

Chapter 4 [Tianyuan Qiying] The Wrath of Yulan Daier (k)

The intrinsic world.

January 2014, 1, 9: PM Far Eastern Time.

—The Moon, Terminus Crater.

In the dark and silent wilderness, a floating battleship emitting faint light was docked above a huge pit.

Kevin and Su stood side by side on the stone bricks around the pit, silently looking at the center of the crater.

There are still about four years until the destined end. Now, when the end has not yet come and the Stigmata Project has not yet been launched, this desolate ruin without any vitality and energy has become a space filled with deathly silence and tranquility, with a strange sense of unreality.

Before being sealed into the depths of the Quantum Sea by Su's Sumeru Mustard Seed created by the Second God's Key, Kevin would use the power of the Second God's Key to send himself to the ruins of the End every year. Although such an act was only for an illusory promise and had no practical significance, after coming to the ruins of the End thousands of times and witnessing a whole day in this uninhabited wilderness, even after fifteen hundred years, Kevin could still easily grasp every detail of this ruins.

The atmosphere on the moon is extremely thin. In addition to the geological changes caused by space itself, the erosion rate of buildings caused by wind and sand is less than one percent of that on Earth. Therefore, this piece of magnificent architecture left by the cutting-edge engineering technology of the pre-civilization era has retained a relatively intact appearance even after 50,000 years.

Of course, no matter how complete it looks, it is, after all, a building destroyed by the end that befell this place. Therefore, even if the Hyperion brings Mobius here in person, it is still not something that can be done in a short period of time to completely restore the Star Gate, a time-space transmission device.

However, the purpose of the Hyperion crew returning to the surface of the moon was not for the ruins destroyed by the End.

——About four hours ago, Ai-chan, who was loaded into the Second God's Key by Velvet, suddenly received an emergency communication from the Hyperion in the world where the captain was currently.

During that emergency communication, Theresa [Twilight Knight] uploaded the video footage recorded by Bronya [Secondary Silver Wing] in the form of a live broadcast directly to the Second God's Key. It was because after watching that video footage and learning that their captain seemed to be trying to prepare to accept the power of the end in his physical body, most of the Valkyries on the Hyperion simultaneously... exploded.

Among those Valkyries with explosive emotions, [Tianyuan Qiying] Yulandel's emotions fluctuated most violently.

Not long ago, Guanxing summoned her, [Dizzy Star Thorn] and Yulandel from the original world to the Key of God Pavilion in the deepest part of the Hyperion, and had an in-depth discussion on several very important things. Finally, relying on Guanxing's extraordinary thinking and logical ability and the abnormal phenomena of [Tianyuan Knight], [Dizzy Star Thorn] and [Twilight Knight] who belonged to the same world as them, she successfully outlined a relatively complete outline of the facts.

First of all, let's talk about the first question - what happened in the [first world] that the captain, [Tianyuan Qiying], [Liaoluan Xingji] and others experienced together? Why are these Valkyries from the [first world] on the Hyperion? In the beginning, why did they join the Hyperion?

Then, the second question.

In the crew information of the Hyperion, Theresa [Twilight Knight] should clearly be one of the first members to join the Hyperion after the captain came to this world, just like [Gengen Knight] and [Dizzy Starthorn]. However, why is she judged to be from the same world as [Comet Drive] and [Dawn Assault] when she should clearly belong to the future?

Finally, the third and most important question -

What did the captain of their family, the culprit who caused the above two problems, do in the first world he experienced? Why did the Hyperion have no record of all this? [Tianyuan Qiying][Liaoluan Xingji] Why did these Valkyries from the first world lose their memories of a certain period of time in their original world?

In response to these three questions, Guanxing conducted a detailed search in the existing database of the Hyperion and the remaining traces, and based on the psychology of the captain and the Valkyries, he successfully reproduced the most likely facts in front of [Tianyuan Qiying], [Liaoluan Xingthorn] and Yulandel of the original world.

The first question is the easiest to understand. Regardless of whether he lost his memory or not, the character and way of doing things of Li Shubai, the captain of these Valkyries, have not changed at all.

Although the specific principles are unclear, even if their captains have lost the memory of interacting with their Valkyries, they still understand, like and even dote on their Valkyries.

So, no matter what will happen in the future, whether the two sides are in opposition at the beginning, all the Valkyries on the Hyperion believe that as long as the captain is still Captain Shubai, after getting along with each other for a period of time, they will definitely become Captain Shubai's Valkyries willingly at some point in the future.

This is not only because they trust their captain, but also because, while trusting their captain, they also firmly believe in the feelings and bonds they have for their captain.

It is much more difficult to get an answer to the second question.

Although all the Valkyries have great trust in Captain Shubai, they have to admit that each of them does not have a complete understanding of Li Shubai.

The simplest point is that before Theresa [Twilight Knight] ordered to gather all the members on the Hyperion, except for Theresa [Twilight Knight] who was the acting captain and Guanxing, the biggest think tank on the Hyperion, most of the Valkyries did not even know the fact that there were themselves from another timeline and another world on the Hyperion.

In some cases, two individuals with the same identity will naturally merge into one when they arrive in the same world. For example, the last time the captain traveled through time, Kiana Kaslana from that world had the idea of ​​trying to lure the captain to her own world. This desire made her unconsciously send an application to join the Hyperion.

After both parties recognized each other, the moment she arrived at the Hyperion, she naturally merged with the [Herrser of the Fire] who was originally on the Hyperion, and awakened the [Herrser of the Fire]'s past memories.

In addition to the case of Kiana [Hersher of the Fire], the same is true for Theresa [Twilight Knight] who went to the captain's side to protect the captain's personal safety this time.

Obviously, at the time before heading to the Eye of the Abyss, Theresa should not have been able to fully awaken the full power of [Blood Knight·Moonlight] and reveal the form of [Twilight Knight], but [Twilight Knight] still became the same entity as Theresa of that world.

Although both [Blood Knight Moon Glory] and [Twilight Knight] are essentially just different forms of the same fourth-generation God Killer Armor, if Theresa had not handed the armor to Dr. Einstein for in-depth inspection and entrusted her to find out whether Otto had left a backdoor in the armor to monitor her, Theresa would not have had the opportunity to use Dr. Einstein's knowledge and technology to unlock the limitations of the Gleipnir system in the Moon Glory Armor at that time.

The complete opposite case to [Twilight Knight] and [Herrserker of the Fire] is [Arch Ranger].

Even though [Hersler of the Fire] went back to the past and arrived at the world where [Arch Ranger] was, and even met [Arch Ranger] face to face, the two Kiana Kaslanas showed no signs of becoming the same entity.

After comparing the differences between these two diametrically opposed cases, Stargazing arrived at the most likely answer with almost no effort.

Although [Arch Ranger] and [Hersler of Fire] are both Kiana Kaslana, the psychological and power differences between the two Kianas are too great. [Hersler of Fire] can freely call upon at least two types of Herrscher powers without bearing a burden beyond his limit, while [Arch Ranger] even has to rely on external forces from the Hyperion to unleash 80% of the Herrscher's power.

Unlike Kiana, for Theresa [Twilight Knight], removing the restrictions of the Moonlight Armor is a technical issue rather than a problem of strength and psychology. As long as there is a way to remove the restrictions of the Gleipnir system in the Moonlight Armor, any Theresa can freely exert the full power of [Twilight Knight].

Of course, even if this answer is the most likely, there is still the question of why Theresa from 2014 in the Eigenworld did not merge into the same entity with the [Twilight Knight] on the Hyperion.

But compared to other cases, the original world that the captain who lost his memory arrived at did not even have any example of fusion with the Valkyrie on the Hyperion. So if the occurrence of [fusion phenomenon] in other cases is due to whether there is a huge difference between the individuals that allows the world to recognize them as two individuals, the original world did not have even a single case of [fusion phenomenon]. It is more like the difference between the original world and other worlds in the dimension of the world.

After answering the first and second questions, the four people, led by Guanxing, discussed for a long time in the Key of God Pavilion, and finally came up with an answer that convinced them all and even made them feel an inexplicable sense of empathy.

First of all, among the Valkyries who came from the original world together with [Tianyuan Qiying] and [Liaoluan Xingji], there is also [Valkyrie Swift Feather] Fu Hua who possesses the Eighth God Key and the Herrscher of Consciousness who was born as a Herrscher.

But even they, like [Gengen Riders], have lost most of their memories about the end of the current civilization era and the Stigmata Plan. From this, we can see that the reason why several Valkyries in the original world lost part of their memories was not due to problems at the consciousness level.

The biggest possibility is that they had experienced this series of events before, but due to some external factors, they have become in a state of [not having experienced it yet].

This is what is called [deleted part of the time].

Who did this?

Is it the captain?

Impossible. Although the Valkyries would not deny that there might be unexpected situations where they would be in opposition to the Captain when they stood on different positions, at the same time, all the Valkyries did not believe that the Captain would seriously hurt them.

Damage from external enemies? That was impossible. With the captain's power, he could easily control the Hyperion to escape before the enemy he couldn't handle arrived.

The Valkyries know their captains very well. Although Li Shubai often claims that he will only act rationally based on the exchange of interests, the fact is that the captain has never put his Valkyries on the scale of interest exchange. He will not allow his Valkyries to face difficult enemies.

Therefore, there is only one possibility left.

The one who caused them to lose part of their time was not some formidable enemy or their captain, but the Valkyries themselves.

——Probably, when the [End] of the original world was approaching, the captain made some kind of forced choice in order to protect them. At the same time, the captain ordered his Valkyries to stay away from danger. However, because the captain had already exhausted his power in the fight against [End], when his Valkyries disobeyed the captain's orders and chose to face danger and challenges with him, he was unable to stop them, which led to the current situation.

After uncovering most of the truth, [Tianyuan Qiying] Yulandel no longer felt the slightest bit of dissatisfaction with the fact that she had lost part of her memory.

On the contrary, she was extremely grateful for the decision she made during that lost time.

Compared to such a trivial matter as losing part of her memory, being able to continue with her captain was the most correct choice she had made as a Valkyrie.

If she had been like the other Valkyries in that world who failed to return to the Hyperion at the last moment and completely missed the captain, perhaps, even if she defeated the Honkai, she would have spent the rest of the peaceful time in regret and remorse.

It was precisely because he and Guanxing had outlined the truth of what happened back then that after hearing that his captain was actually preparing to accept the power of the end alone, the mature and steady [Tengen Kiei] showed anger and excitement out of character.

Chapter 4: The two sides intertwined, a meeting by chance (k)

Of course, all members of the Hyperion have some degree of such anger.

But no matter how angry they were, they couldn't make the captain, who was still in a different world, change his mind.

Therefore, out of consideration for assisting the captain with means that they could also do, the members of the Hyperion came to the End of the Worlds ruins on the surface of the moon with the help of Kevin and Su.

At present, according to the conclusions drawn by researchers and Ying Jie from the last civilization era on the end, the complete [End] is divided into three parts.

Serial number 14, a Herrscher whose abilities far exceed the combined total of the previous thirteen Herrschers and who is tasked with eradicating human civilization.

The power of [The End] is determined by the powers possessed by the previous thirteen Herrschers.

And, after successfully wiping out human civilization, the Ruler of the End can activate the destiny mechanism to control human civilization and make it fall into a false reincarnation.

As of 2014, the number of powers that have appeared in the current era of civilization totals five.

Reason, emptiness, death, thunder, wind, fire.

Therefore, at this time, the only [End] that humans in the current civilized era can touch and touch is the last one -

The ruins of the End on the surface of the moon.

Originally, in principle, even if they came to the ruins of the End, they should not be able to observe the [End] in other worlds and timelines.

However, as part of the captain's abilities, the [Hyperion], which is directly linked to Li Shu, will become a link that spans infinite time and space.

According to the calculations of Velvi and Mebius, as long as Li Shubai tries to grasp the power of the end again with her own body, the ruins of the end where they are currently located can resonate to a certain extent with the end of the world where the captain is now located through the bond between Hyperion and the captain.

As long as they follow the resonance captured by the ruins of the end of this world and locate the captain's current time and space coordinates, the Hyperion will be able to reach the captain as quickly as possible with the assistance of the Second God's Key.

However, just when everyone focused their attention on the End Ruins, they ultimately failed to successfully wait for the captain's coordinates, but instead waited for something that made everyone's heart stop suddenly.

Kiana Kaslana [Herserer of the End] was in a terrible mood.

A huge amount of images and information poured into her brain through tiny cracks in space, just like all the water in the ocean suddenly poured into a cup with a capacity of only 100 milliliters.

In order to search for as much information as possible from other worlds, when searching for situations in other worlds, Kiana [Hersher of the End] will not open a space-time rift directly, but will first project her perception into the endless dimensions and search for information belonging to the captain from the perspective of an observer.

After all, even if she accepted the power of the end, Kiana [Hersher of the End] would not be able to continuously open space cracks between the worlds.