The civilization before the collapse, heroes and heroes are reborn with me

Kiana thought so as she walked towards the snack street.

"Hi? Hello, are you a student of St. Freya Academy?" A pleasant voice sounded behind Kiana.

"Eh?" Kiana turned around and saw a girl with pink hair and a hood smiling and waving at her.

"Uh... well..." Kiana's eyes fell on the wall she had just climbed over. Did this girl see it directly? Then it seemed that she couldn't deny it...

"Excuse me, who are you..." Kiana was still planning to ask who this girl was, but she didn't think too much about the connection between this girl and the Shanyati family, because the test there had already started, and the tester from the Shanyati family must be on the scene and had no time to come out.

"You can just call me Ellie?" the girl said with a smile, her hands behind her back.

"Aili..." Kiana took a step back instantly and subconsciously looked at the girl in front of her. When she heard the name, her first reaction was the ancestor Ai Lishiya, her ancestor's ancestor.

"Huh? What's wrong? I'll be very sad if you look at me with that expression, right?" Ai Li said as she put on a very sad look, but her actions were a little too deliberate, so much so that Kiana was speechless.

"That... Miss Ellie, that's not what I meant..."

"Can you just call me Ellie?"

"Uh..." Kiana felt a little headache. I couldn't say that your name is very similar to the name of an ancestor in my memory, right? What if you are really that ancestor? Would it be disrespectful for me to call you that? Would the legendary Lucifer ancestor open his coffin and come to settle accounts with me?

But under the girl's expectant gaze, Kiana still said with some difficulty: "Aili..."

"Hmm?" Ellie responded, and then said, "I saw a lot of people coming to St. Freya's Academy today, just like the Valkyrie test before, so when I saw you coming out, I felt a little strange. Can you tell me why?"

"Well..." Kiana touched the back of her head, "I just happened to catch a cold, so I can't take part in the Valkyrie test today..."

I must be overthinking it. The stories of Ailiya's ancestors happened thousands of years ago. How could they still be here, appearing in front of me?

"That's a pity..." Ai Li smiled and said, "Come to think of it, I've already told you my name, can I ask yours?"

"My name? Kiana." Kiana thought about it and decided not to tell her last name. Ai Li didn't tell her last name anyway. "Just call me Kiana."

"Kiana... well, it's the name of the moonlight goddess. It's a good name." Ai Li's eyes became a little more meaningful. "However, since you are not feeling well, why don't you take a good rest instead of sneaking out of school to play?"

"I've been lying in bed with nothing to do... I can't even fall asleep..." Kiana said helplessly.

Ai Li smiled, then suddenly took a step forward and gently touched Kiana's forehead with hers. Kiana subconsciously stepped back because of Ai Li's action, but Ai Li's words seemed to have magic, making her stop: "Don't be afraid, this is fairy magic, it can cure all colds, okay?"

As he spoke, as if by magic, his body, which had been enveloped by a feeling of powerlessness, suddenly returned to normal.

"Eh?! Is everything really okay?" Kiana was a little surprised.

"Yes? The cold has been driven away?" Ellie said with a smile.

"Amazing……"

Kiana wanted to say something, but Ai Li raised a finger and gently placed it on her lips, then said lightly: "Now that your cold is healed, you can't miss the Valkyrie test, okay?"

Kiana: “!”

"Let me introduce myself again. I'm Elly Shaniat, and I'm the person in charge of this test. Kiana-san, you are not allowed to be absent from the test without special reasons, okay?"

Chapter 7 The Cruelty of the So-Called Truth

St. Freya Academy, training ground.

Theresa is panicking now, very panicking.

For some reason, Elly Shanyatid, a member of the Shanyatid family who came for the test this time, did not participate in watching the test of the Valkyries at the first time, but instead brought back Kiana who was supposed to be on sick leave from outside.

For a moment, Theresa even suspected that the medicine she gave Kiana was fake. That medicine was a drug that was being developed by Skyrim that could suppress the symptoms of Honkai energy erosion in the Valkyrie. The medicine that Himeko was using now was also of this type of medicine. If this type of medicine acted on a normal Valkyrie, it would make the normal Valkyrie unable to use Honkai energy in a short period of time and would develop symptoms similar to a cold.

However, Kiana, who was brought back by Ai Li, was full of life and showed no symptoms of being affected by the drugs. I had specifically asked about Kiana's condition when Mei and Bronya came over before, and I was relieved when I learned that Kiana did show the above symptoms. I didn't expect that Kiana would run into the people from the Shanyiat family in the end.

Now that Kiana has no adverse symptoms, it is impossible to find any reason to prevent her from taking the test. What's more, before even coming here, Ai Li had already asked Kiana's name.

The name Kiana Kaslana is just as significant to the Shanyatid family as the previous Saint Cecilia Shanyatid. And the current Kiana... She is the direct proof of the "sin" committed by Siegfried. For the Shanyatid family, they can't wait to kill Siegfried. If the current Kiana appears in their sight...

Theresa could only try her best to calm herself down and watch how the situation developed.

At least this time the tester, Ellie Shaniat, is relatively young and seems to be a very easy-to-talk-to girl. Maybe things can turn around.

Theresa was sitting on the viewing platform, thinking this while turning her gaze to Bronya and Mei who were cheering for Kiana in the audience. She sighed helplessly in her heart. The better Kiana performed, the greater the chance that she would enter the Shanyiat family's field of vision.

Even though Kiana herself is innocent, her name is definitely not acceptable to everyone in the Shanyatid family. Siegfried gave the name of his daughter who was supposed to be dead to the current Kiana. Not to mention the eyes of the Shanyatid family who hated Siegfried to the core, Theresa herself wanted to beat Siegfried up.

That is why the Shaniyat family will never have any good feelings towards Kiana, the "name thief".

All he could do now was to hope that the mysterious Shanyat family member who taught Kiana Shanyat swordsmanship had high power and prestige in the family, high enough to suppress the name of Kiana Kaslana.

After all, Ellie Shanyatid came from the Greek branch of the Shanyatid family. Even he had never heard of such a person before today. Maybe she was assigned by the mysterious Shanyatid family, or Ellie might herself be a member of the mysterious Shanyatid family.

While Theresa was thinking of a countermeasure, she also glanced at Ellie beside her. She was still wearing a hood, and only her pink hair could be seen hanging outside. No one knew what she was thinking.

Theresa sighed in her heart once again and turned her gaze back to the training ground.

"Principal Theresa." Ai Li suddenly spoke in a soft voice, "This classmate Kiana...why did she enroll here?"

Theresa's heart sank. What was to come had to come... She could only bite the bullet and say, "I don't think St. Freya needs to tell you in detail how a student can enroll, right?"

"Kiana Kaslana... I don't need to say more about what this name means to the Shaniyat family, right?" Ellie said softly.

Theresa lowered her eyes, her expression becoming expressionless: "What do you want to do? Or rather, what does the Shanyat family want to do? She is just a child, she knows nothing."

"Indeed, she is just a child, but she has shouldered things that she shouldn't have shouldered." Ai Li sighed leisurely, "But, Principal Theresa, Siegfried must give an explanation to the Shanyat family, but does the Kiana who appears in front of us now really belong to her? Is her past true?"

"What do you mean?" Theresa asked. As for Kiana's past, Theresa only knew that Kiana wandered all the way from Europe to the Far East in search of Siegfried who ran away from home when she was 12 years old. Before that, she only knew that Siegfried was taking care of Kiana. Apart from that, Theresa knew nothing.

Because she didn't want to ask Kiana about these things too deeply...

"On the way back, she kept trying to ask me what kind of status Cecilia held in the Shanyat family, and how the Shanyat family viewed Cecilia..." Ellie's tone became a little vague, "She said that she had a head injury when she was 8 years old, which caused her to have no memory before the age of 8. She only heard Siegfried tell her about the things she had done with her parents before... But we all know that these don't actually belong to her, right?"

Siegfried!

What did you say to Kiana?!

Theresa felt her blood pressure soar at this moment. She instilled a past that did not belong to Kiana into Kiana, abandoned her when Kiana was 12 years old and made her wander from Europe to the Far East in order to find herself. Then she was caught in the Third Great Collapse and faced off against the newly born Third Herrscher.

Siegfried, what have you done?!

What would happen if Kiana knew one day that all this was fake? Could she really accept it?

"So... what do you want to do?" Theresa asked almost gritting her teeth, not only out of anger towards Siegfried, but also out of doubt about what Ellie said.

She was not sure what Ellie's attitude towards Kiana was now, but if the other party insisted on reporting Kiana's information to the Shanyiat family, she was afraid... she could only consider exposing the secrets under the Cathedral of St. Freya to protect Kiana.

That’s right, no matter how big a mistake Siegfried made, Kiana is innocent. However, facing the Shaniyat family who have gone crazy, they don’t care whether Kiana is innocent or not.

"Principal Theresa...even if I don't tell anyone about this, how long do you think you can keep it a secret?" Ellie asked slowly.

The moment Theresa heard the other party say this, her tense nerves relaxed a little. Ellie did not continue to ask her why she had concealed Kiana's information, which meant that there was still room for further discussion. In the other party's mind, she was still in a wavering stage as to whether to report Kiana's matter to the Shaniyat family.

"I can hide some things... some things..." Theresa whispered, "No matter what, Kiana is innocent."

"She is innocent, but isn't the other Kiana?" Ellie seemed to chuckle softly. What kind of meaning was contained in it, whether it was sarcasm or helplessness, Theresa didn't know.

"Another... Kiana? Is she still alive?" Theresa quickly extracted the key information.

"Didn't Bishop Otto tell you when you were about to defect with Siegfried?" Ellie said calmly, "The other Kiana is still alive and well."

"But why have I never seen it..."

"Just like I said before, I know, which means the Shanyati family knows that when Siegfried defected from Skyrim, his collaborator was you, Principal Theresa." Ellie turned her head and looked at Theresa with her azure eyes and said, "If it weren't for your sabotage that attracted Skyrim's attention, how could Siegfried sneak into Skyrim so easily and cause such a disaster? Over the years, the Shanyati family never mentioned it to you, but it doesn't mean they don't know, do you understand?"

Theresa pursed her lips. She knew that what Ellie said was right. When Siegfried defected from Scheiden, she, as his collaborator, was originally planning to defect from Scheiden with him and Kiana. However, she did not expect that she attracted attention to Siegfried, and Siegfried took Kiana and broke into the Scheiden Airport, and was finally shot down while escaping from Scheiden in a flying vehicle.

He had to stay in Tianming because Otto told him that Kiana was in his hands.

Over the years, she had never heard any more information about Kiana from her grandfather, and her hope for her survival had gradually faded. The reason that supported her to stay in Tianming was that she did not have the courage to completely break up with her grandfather.

And now, Ai Li told herself that the Shanyat family knew about what happened back then, and also told herself that the real Kiana was still alive...

Then, it was clear why the Shanyiat family did not tell me the relevant news. I... was also an accomplice in that incident. They just didn't tell me the relevant information about Kiana because I was Cecilia's best friend back then.

"How is she doing now?" Theresa asked with some difficulty.

"I'm sorry I can't tell you about this. After all, not everyone in the Shanyat family knows that she's alive. As for the details of what happened back then, only a few people, including the head of the family, Mr. Leopold, know about it." Ellie shrugged and said, "I'm just a little curious. If the real Kiana knew that her father gave her name to another person, and that her past life was also given to another person by her father, what would she think?"

Theresa was silent. She didn't know how to answer this question.

"They are both unfortunate children..." Ellie sighed softly and said, "Principal Theresa, I won't tell Mr. Leopold and the others about this, but you have to know that these two children will know about this one day, and they will have to face the truth one day."

"But not now..." Theresa whispered, "It would be too cruel for them..."

One was left behind by his biological father in the Destiny Airport, and his name was given to someone else. The other had a false past fabricated and was given a name that belonged to another person...

This truth was too cruel for the two girls.

"Then can you at least tell me whether the other Kiana is happy now, whether she is eating well or something?" Theresa asked in a pleading tone.

"Well, that's not something I know about." Ellie spread her hands, "But at least, she spends every day very seriously."

"Is that so... That's fine too..." Theresa lowered her eyes.

Suddenly, Theresa thought of something. Only a few people in the Shanyat family knew the details of what happened back then. That means at least those who knew about it had a high status in the Shanyat family. In addition to knowing these things, Ellie also chose to conceal Kiana's affairs. The person who taught Kiana the Shanyat swordsmanship that she met during her wandering...

"Aili, have you seen Kiana before...I mean, the Kiana who is taking the test here?" Theresa asked.

"No, today is the first time I met her." Ai Li said.

If it’s not her… then who could it be?

Theresa was full of doubts, but she didn't know how to ask.

And Ai Li had already shifted her gaze to the testing ground, and fell into deep thought as she watched Kiana fight the simulated enemy.

I had vaguely sensed his presence on Kiana before, and now that I was watching her fight, I could indeed see some of his presence in the battle back then...

The swordsmanship of the Shaniyat family did indeed originate from him. Although he had left long before that, his shadow was still left in the place where the heroic spirits of the past lives. He and his daughter stepped into it, and after coming out, they recorded some of his fighting methods and kept them in the Shaniyat family.

Of course, his swordsmanship actually benefited from the teachings of another pioneer, so after he and his daughter recorded these fighting methods and passed them on to the Shaniyat family, that pioneer also supplemented and corrected them.

And now, the Shaniyat family swordsmanship displayed by Kiana is closer to that person's own swordsmanship than what others have learned.

However, he only felt his presence on her body, but did not notice his existence...

The container...could it be the Kiana in front of me?

Several years ago, when Siegfried defected and the real Kiana was shot down from the aircraft, I could clearly feel his presence in that illusory dream garden. It was he who used the power of the stigmata of the Shaniyat family to protect Kiana at that moment, but after that, he disappeared again.

"Feng, where are you... I really... want to see you again..." she said to herself.

Chapter 8 I am here

The girl was walking in a desert. There was no sun in the sky above her head, but it was still daytime, a dead blue. The footprints behind her disappeared one by one as she walked forward, so that when she looked back she could not see the way she came.

There was an endless desert ahead of her, and she could not see anything except the desert.

There was no human figure, and no sound other than my own.

The desert was not hot, but it made the girl feel extremely suffocated.

She wanted to shout, but found that she couldn't open her mouth.

Or maybe she actually knew that even if she opened her mouth to speak, she would not get any response, and she could not hear any sound except her own.

She didn't know where she was going, and she didn't know what was waiting for her ahead.

Just walking forward mechanically, walking in suffocating despair.

She didn't know how long she had been walking, she only knew that the emptiness in her heart was gradually widening and despair was spreading.

Finally, she stopped, knelt in the desert, pressed her hands on her head and wanted to scream, but her dream was shattered at this moment.

When he opened his eyes again, what came into view was the small house where he and his father lived in Siberia.

At this moment, she was the only one in the hut, but the surrounding was no longer the terrifying desert. The crackling sound of firewood burning in the fireplace sounded like heavenly music to the girl.

She glanced around and her eyes fell on the calendar on the table. She walked forward and saw that the days that had passed had been crossed out, and today... was her birthday.

"My...birthday...?"

The girl murmured that the concept of birthday... brought back some good memories, as well as some not-so-good memories that she didn't want to recall.

On this day, she got her own name. On this day, she was forced to learn to survive on her own...

And before that...

As if in response to her memory, a pungent smell of alcohol rushed into her nostrils. The girl was stunned for a moment, then staggered towards the door.

A man with white hair and a stubble on his face was sitting outside the door, looking up at the endless starry sky above him. There were a pile of beer cans around him, and he also had an unfinished can of beer in his hand.

He seemed to be a little drunk and didn't notice his arrival.