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

Oh, yes... the story before that...

No matter how much she resisted or how much she didn't want to remember it, she still recalled the past story. Before she got her own name, on every birthday of hers, her father would go out drinking alone and would hardly say a word to her.

"Dad..." the girl called in a low voice.

The man heard her voice, he turned around, his eyes were terribly cold, as if he was not looking at his daughter: "Why did you come out?"

Ah, yes, that's right, just like I never knew how to call the spirit behind me, I always called it "you". Before I got my own name, my father also talked to me like this...

"Why are you unwilling to accept this fact?"

A female voice sounded in his ears.

What...facts?

"Why didn't Siegfried tell you your name until your 11th birthday? Why did Siegfried treat you indifferently for the first three years and not allow you to go out and fight Honkai beasts?"

"You actually have the answer in your heart all along, don't you?"

"You're just scared. You just don't want to admit it. You..."

The sound stopped abruptly at this moment.

At this moment, a hand seemed to be gently placed on the head of the girl with a somewhat empty look in her eyes, and she said in a voice that was enough to reassure her: "It's okay, Kiana... No matter what the final truth is, you are the Kiana I know. Other people's opinions can never determine what kind of person you are. Only you can decide who you are. Your future is at your feet, and it is up to you to create it."

The girl raised her head, wanting to see his appearance clearly, but the moment she raised her head, her dream came to an abrupt end.

Kiana opened her eyes and sat up in bed.

At this moment, her back was covered in cold sweat. Everything she saw in the dream seemed to be still vivid. She subconsciously hugged her legs tightly. After a long while, she said in her heart: "Are you... there?"

【I am here. 】

"Just now in my dream, it was your voice..."

【You haven't had a nightmare in a long time. 】

"Yeah, I haven't had a nightmare in a long time..."

【What happened during this period? 】

"I...I met someone from the Shaniyat family. She came to Saint Freya to give us the Valkyrie test. Her name is...Aili Shaniyat."

[…What’s her name? ]

"Ellie Shaniat...what's wrong? Do you know her?"

When a certain spirit behind the scenes asked again to confirm Ai Li's name, Kiana clearly felt his emotional fluctuations. He rarely had such drastic emotional fluctuations. As far as he could remember, the last time was because of his anger towards his father Siegfried. This time, his tone contained too many emotions.

There is definitely a connection between him and that Elly Shaniat.

[I guess, we know each other…]

"Is she your daughter? Or granddaughter or great-granddaughter?"

He is an elder of the Shaniyat family, and his age is definitely not young, and Ellie doesn't look more than 20 years old. Even if there is a connection between them, because someone said that he had been dead for a long time, and his voice sounded like he was in his prime, so the relationship between him and Ellie can only be that of father and daughter...

They can't be a couple...

[… Let’s skip this topic for now. I can only say that I really owe her a lot… There’s no need to bring it up again. ]

"..."

Is it because he died too early that he couldn't take care of his daughter? That's why he said he owed Ellie a lot?

That's right... He must have a family, unlike me...

So for him, am I a substitute? A substitute for his daughter, to make up for his regret of not being with his own child?

The suffocating feeling brought by the nightmare seemed to surge into my heart again.

She is very strong. She can survive alone after her father ran away from home and wander from Europe to the Far East. She can also be very fragile, so fragile that she is afraid that she is really alone.

[Don't think too much, you are not a substitute, at least for me, you never are. ]

"I didn't..."

The girl objected in her heart, but suddenly she remembered that there was a guy who could read minds, and it would be difficult to hide her thoughts from him, so after refuting, she fell silent, tacitly agreed with what he said, and admitted that he had seen through her heart.

The two of them were silent for a long time before Kiana whispered in her heart again: "Are you there?"

【I am here. 】

Kiana's mouth curled up a little, at least he had been by her side all the way, even though his sharp tongue often drove her crazy... She remembered that during the day, Ellie asked her if she really wanted to know what happened that year, to know what happened that caused her to lose her memory before the age of 8, and why her father Siegfried went from being one of the strongest fighters of Destiny to a traitor wanted by Destiny.

After hesitating for a long time, she told Ellie that she might not be qualified to know the truth yet.

Ellie didn't say much about this, but just said that even if she wanted to know now, she wouldn't tell her unless she got "excellent" in cultural subjects. Then she talked to Theresa for a while and left.

Perhaps it was because that guy was not around and I was already in a state of insecurity. And because I seemed to be only one step away from the truth that I dared not face, I had this nightmare tonight.

Kiana got out of bed. She was sweating coldly because of the nightmare. Now she was going to go outside to get some water and then have a good sleep. Anyway, he was online again and she didn't need to worry about having nightmares again.

She opened the door and suddenly found that the dormitory lights were still on. She also heard the treadmill running and the sound of someone running. Kiana subconsciously glanced at the alarm clock on her bedside table, with a puzzled look on her face. No, it's three o'clock in the morning. Who is running here at this time instead of sleeping? Could it be that Bronya's leg has healed and she is trying to rehabilitate?

Kiana poked her head out slightly, and looked at Mei who was running on the treadmill with some surprise.

"Mei...she's running here in the middle of the night without sleeping?"

[Do you think everyone is like you and can eat whatever they want without gaining weight? Mei is a girl who loves beauty after all, and she has always been very concerned about her figure. ]

"Indeed, Mei always looks at my stomach from time to time when I eat..."

[Mei has been running secretly here late at night to maintain her figure. This must have been going on for more than a day or two. Do you still plan to continue fetching water? ]

Kiana silently retreated to her room and closed the door gently.

"No, since Mei is running at this time, she definitely doesn't want others to know. It's better not to disturb her."

[…You are a good kid, shall I praise you?]

"How can you say something like this that sounds like Ellie!"

[I think it sounds better to praise someone like this, and I'm not wrong. You are a good kid, and good kids need to be praised. Is that wrong?]

"……Thanks……"

[But... Kiana, I think I still need to tell you that sometimes you should think more about yourself and not always love others before loving yourself. ]

"Do I...have the qualifications to be so willful?"

【If I say you have it, you have it. 】

"Come on." Kiana rolled her eyes in her heart, "If you were capable of doing something, why would you be like this, a ghost who can't do anything but talk?"

But after hearing him say that, I did feel a little happy, well, just a little.

[You should go to bed early and have a good dream, so that you don’t lose energy to go to class the next day. ]

"I know, I know." Kiana responded as she quickly went to bed, "Good night."

【Good night, have a sweet dream. 】

Somewhere in space.

The smile on the black-haired young man's lips disappeared in an instant. He looked expressionlessly at the Herrscher who dared to be angry but not to speak, and said indifferently: "You really don't miss any opportunity to seize control of the body."

"This body was originally prepared for my return!" said the Herrscher of the Void unwillingly.

"For your return?" The young man said with some amusement, "If I didn't exist, then what you said might be a little credible, but now, are you really sure that this is prepared for your return?"

"Heh! You've been protecting her all this time. I was wondering why you cared so much about her. So, you also want to possess this body and return to the world once again, right?!"

"I just need a medium." The young man was not angry, but just said lightly, "She is herself, not a container for anyone. She is Kiana Kaslana, a member of the Shaniyat family."

"It's ridiculous, her name is fake, her past is fake too!"

"Indeed, if it really doesn't work, there's no problem in removing Kaslana and replacing her with Shaniyat. As for the past, it doesn't matter. Her future still belongs to her, and her present is real, and that's enough."

"It's just a high-sounding excuse... As long as there is a time when you are not with her, as long as you have not completely wiped me out, one day, I will return to the world again and kill all those hypocritical humans!"

"Unfortunately, that day will never come."

The young man waved his hand, and the figure of the Herrscher was dragged into the darkness in front of him by chains. He stood in this space, thinking alone.

In fact, he had already located the "coordinates" nearly ten years ago and could have come back with the help of the power of the Shaniyat family's stigmata, but that stupid thing happened at that time. He racked his brains but couldn't figure out why the kid fell from a height of thousands of meters.

Fusion warriors who are not at the Yingjie level don’t dare to play like this.

It was not until I read her memories that I realized that it was Siegfried who brought her into the Skyrim headquarters and then defected, and then was hit by Skyrim's automatic defense system, which led to the crash...

Siegfried, you are such a talent...Does Kevin know that his offspring is such a thing? What did Cecilia see in you?

To be on the safe side, and as he had no way of contacting the outside world at the time, and not knowing what adverse effects Siegfried's treason would have on the child, he simply sealed her memory and erased that past, waiting for her to grow up and then letting her choose whether to accept it or not.

The most direct result of doing this was that the time of his return was pushed back. It was not until the Herrscher of the Void awakened again that he found the "beacon" again and came back, but the channel was still unstable and disconnected from time to time.

After returning, Siegfried's affairs must be settled.

He shifted his gaze to Kiana, who had fallen asleep again. Looking at the girl's peaceful sleeping face, he sighed softly in his heart. He didn't expect that after so long, Siegfried was still the most vulnerable point in Kiana's heart, and could be easily broken by the Herrscher of the Void.

Besides, Kiana seemed to care too much about her interpersonal relationships. Although she didn't continue to ask about her relationship with Alicia, she just stopped asking, not that she didn't care.

Is it really because of her experiences in earlier years that she is afraid of the disappearance of her existing relationship?

By the way, was Alicia so perfunctory in revealing her identity as a civilized person? And how come it was such a coincidence that she came to see Kiana during the time when I was disconnected?

Ugh……

Forget it, missing out on it this time might not be a bad thing. Otherwise, if I were there at the time, I might really not be able to resist logging in, and that would make things even more troublesome...

Chapter 9: The Hunt

German-Danish border.

In a snowy forest, dozens of armed fighters surrounded the place.

The leading young man, holding a cigarette in his mouth, said to the other end of the communicator: "It has been confirmed that the three B-rank Valkyries who were chasing Dr. Maki are all dead. Judging from the traces of Honkai energy left at the scene, they are similar to the traces of Honkai energy confirmed before by the Herrscher of Reason... Heh, the person who helped Dr. Maki escape from the pursuit of Destiny, after thinking about it, no other organization can or dare to do this except Anti-Entropy, right?"

The voice of Otto Apokalis, the Bishop of Heaven's Will, rang out from the other end of the communicator: "Anti-Entropy... Hey, Ivar, which executive of Anti-Entropy do you think led this incident?"

The young man called Ivar turned his head and looked in the direction of America, and said in a nonchalant manner: "Maybe it was Cocolia, but it doesn't matter who it is, as long as it was done by the Anti-Entropy..."

His hand suddenly exerted force, crushing the pistol in his hand, and his eyes turned cold: "The Shaniyat family and Anti-Entropy will never stop fighting, no matter who it is, no matter what the reason... Since Dr. Maki has betrayed destiny and accepted the cooperation of Anti-Entropy, then, can the subsequent handling be handed over to us, Your Excellency the Bishop?"

"Oh, don't worry, Ivar. We have plenty of time and opportunity to settle the blood debt with Anti-Entropy. I do have other ideas about Dr. Maki's defection this time, but that doesn't mean I will let the Shaniyat family do nothing."

"What do you mean, Bishop?"

"Let's wait and see what tricks the Anti-Entropy mice are going to play this time... The Serenity Gem is not so easy to get."

After the communication was interrupted, Ivar glanced at the Valkyrie who was standing a little further away from him and seemed to be trembling because of his performance just now, and said: "What do you want to say?"

"Well... the scene has been cleaned up, and we have already collected the bodies of the three sacrificed Valkyries. Do you have any other instructions? Colonel Ivar?"

"No more, let's pack up." Ivar said lightly.

Originally, the Valkyrie system was intended to fight against the Honkai when Scimitar was first established. However, due to the development of civilization and the needs of the organization, Scimitar's Valkyrie system gradually evolved into an extremely comprehensive system, including public security coordination, logistics supply, intelligence investigation, infiltration and assassination... As long as it is to safeguard the interests of Scimitar and combat power is needed, there will be Valkyries.

Even a small number of Valkyries learn combat skills not against Honkai beasts, but against humans.

As one of the three major families of Tianming, the Shaniyat family developed more comprehensively and was also the first family to adopt a system of division of labor and cooperation in the planning field.

In addition, although it is about the Valkyrie system, it is also based on the fact that women in this world generally have a higher upper limit on the adaptability of Honkai energy than men, and are more tolerant of stigmata. As for men, except for the Kaslana family and the Shaniyat family, there are very few men who can fight Honkai on the front battlefield and adapt to the assistance of stigmata.

So in the end, the main force is still the Valkyrie.

Ivar Shaniat is one of the current leaders of the Intelligence Department of the Mandate of Heaven. In terms of the rating of the Valkyries who fight against Honkai, he is rated A. He mainly specializes in intelligence reconnaissance and collection, as well as assassination operations against humans.

After Siegfried Kaslana's defection several years ago, he was the person sent by the Shaniat family to hunt down Siegfried.

In fact, he had tracked down Siegfried's traces a long time ago, but for some reason, the head of the family and the bishop asked him to suspend the investigation and instead point the finger at Anti-Entropy.

"Boring..."

Far East, St. Freya Academy dormitory.

After a month, Himeko's injuries were finally repaired and she left the hospital. To celebrate her recovery, Kiana and others held a party for her in Himeko's dormitory that night.

"Wow, this is life... I can only drink purified water every day in the hospital, I'm almost bored to death!" Ji Zi smiled slightly tipsy while holding a beer can in her hand.

Theresa drank bitter melon juice and said speechlessly: "Ji Zi, for your health, please be moderate."

"Huh, so boring... As expected, older people are so conservative." Himeko leaned back in her chair and looked at Kiana who was eating the snacks prepared by Mei on the other side and said, "Don't you agree, Kiana?"

Kiana still had half a piece of dessert in her mouth. She wanted to nod to show her agreement, but then she thought of her unknown but probably not young spirit behind her, and said vaguely, "Not necessarily... young people are not necessarily unconservative. Isn't the class monitor like that?"