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

Kiana nodded inwardly, then looked at Ivar and said, "Um... Lord Ivar, I think I can help you."

"You?" Ivar glanced at Kiana and suddenly became interested and said, "Tell me, what do you need me to do?"

"Uh... just don't move."

Then, under Wraith's stunned gaze, Kiana reached out her hand and used her saintly power to help Ivar remove the traces of Honkai energy erosion left on his body.

Ivar moved his arms and confirmed that his side effects had been suppressed. This power was indeed the same as the power of Saint Cecilia...

"May the holy Alysia bless you, child." Ivar said, "Well, now that I have nothing to do, I have to ask that Maki where he hid that thing..."

Ivar's eyes suddenly shifted to the outside of the bar. He stood up from the bar and said, "It seems that there are still people who refuse to give up... Wraith, I'll leave the interrogation of the traitor to you. I'll go and settle the matter with that guy."

Before walking out of the bar, Ivar turned back and said to Wraith: "You didn't see anything that happened just now."

wraith: "..."

You really make me more curious about this mysterious lady! Could she be some eldest daughter of the Shanyiat family who is out there gaining experience?

Ivar walked out of the bar, holding the Indestructible Lake Light in his hand, and went to the corner of the alley where the bar was located. He saw Siegfried not far away, who looked even more embarrassed than before.

"I let you go before, but you became more and more demanding, Siegfried. Do you really think I can't kill you?" Ivar said coldly.

Siegfried narrowed his eyes. The side effects of the man-made collapse on Ivar were actually suppressed? However, the entire city is under martial law. If he were to fight with him again, the intelligence point operated by Tianming here would be exposed and attract international public opinion.

"If you need a container to store the Serenity Gem, you can use this. Not all anti-entropy people want to cause collapse in this city." Siegfried threw the box in his hand used to suppress the effect of the Serenity Gem, and Ivar reached out to catch it.

Ivar snorted coldly. If possible, he would fight Siegfried to the death at all costs, but... the side effects of injecting drugs to force artificial collapse were also very obvious. Although Kiana repaired the damage caused by the artificial collapse, the injuries she suffered after fighting for a whole night could not be repaired by the power of the saint.

Both he and Siegfried were at the end of their strength, but Siegfried still had the Heavenly Fire in his hand. If he forced himself to cause another artificial collapse, he might be able to kill Siegfried, but the price would probably be that he would also have to sacrifice himself.

If there were only the two of them here, Ivar would definitely do it without hesitation, but, in the bar not far away... it would be bad if the noise was too loud and attracted people out and saw it.

"You should thank K... Kiana." Ivar said and turned away. "Go away. I will let you go this time."

"Kiana... is she here too?"

"That has nothing to do with you, Siegfried Kaslana." Ivar turned around, "She is from the Shanyat family, and you are Shanyat's enemy."

Chapter 12: Sneer

Wraith's bar, Dr. Maki's room.

"It looks like you're awake, Dr. Maki."

Fu Hua, Qiana and Wraith all stood in the room, looking at the old man sitting silently on the bed.

"Dr. Maki, you need to understand that your defection led to the death of the three Valkyries of Destiny. The sin you committed is unforgivable. If you tell us the whereabouts of the [gem], perhaps you can offset some of your sins." Fu Hua pushed up his glasses and said.

"Uh...well, he won't tell you if you ask him so directly, right?" Wraith pulled the corner of his mouth speechlessly.

"I'm just stating the facts." Fu Hua said.

"Don't even think about getting the whereabouts of the Serenity Gem from me. I won't leave it to fate!" Dr. Maki said coldly.

"So you're going to help Anti-Entropy destroy this city?" Wraith frowned and said, "Do you know what Cocolia is going to do with the Serenity Gem?"

"Destroy this city..." Dr. Maki's pupils shrank, but he quickly denied it. "Even if Cocolia has this plan, the Serenity Gem is still kept in an underground safe by me and only I know the password. She can't get the Serenity Gem without making a big noise!"

"She doesn't need to open the underground safe." Fu Hua said calmly, "She just needs the Serenity Gem to stay there. What she wants is to artificially catalyze a great collapse to promote the birth of a new Herrscher and use it to control the power of the Herrscher."

Control the power of the Herrscher...

Kiana remembered the heart bomb on Mei. Although Mei changed back to a human from a Herrscher, she might still turn back into a third Herrscher under some special circumstances. In order to prevent Mei from causing heavy casualties and destruction after becoming a third Herrscher, Theresa installed a micro bomb on her heart. Mei herself agreed to this.

Because only in this way can she study as a student of St. Freya Academy.

I heard that the great collapse that turned Mei into the Third Herrscher seemed to be triggered by the Cocolians...

Then there was Ivar Shaniyat, whom I had just met. According to him, the Shaniyat family was besieged by Cocolia's Titan troops in Singapore. Although no one died, the losses were considerable.

And during the Jiuyou incident, the girl named Xing also took orders directly from Cocolia...

"Now I feel that woman is annoying just by hearing her name..." Kiana said in her heart.

"What? This is impossible!" Dr. Maki seemed to think that this was a lie made up by Wraith. "How dare she? This is a big city for humans! Countless people live here! How dare she?!"

"You talk as if it's the first day you met the anti-entropy executor." Wraith said solemnly. She was already thinking in her mind that if there was no breakthrough on Dr. Makey's side, she would have to rely on the Destiny intelligence personnel operating in other places. If necessary, she might have to go back to the Queen's Hotel.

Dr. Maki remained silent, as if he no longer wanted to speak.

"The Shaniyat family is also investigating this. Although they suffered heavy losses in last night's operation, they are more than capable of finding the whereabouts of the Serenity Gem among their active personnel. Dr. Maki, tell us before we get the location of the Serenity Gem. This is your last chance," Wraith continued.

Dr. Markey remained silent.

"By the way, squad leader, what is the Tranquility Gem?" Kiana asked curiously. She didn't understand from the beginning. Everyone was talking about the Tranquility Gem, but she didn't know what it was. It was just that she seemed to have heard the word "gem" somewhere, but she couldn't remember it for a while.

"It is one of the fragments of the Herrscher core that appeared in the body of the Second Herrscher more than ten years ago." Fu Hua said briefly, "Both Tianming and Anti-Entropy are studying the fragments of the Herrscher core of the Second Herrscher."

"I see..." Kiana thought.

[Isn't the name of the Herrscher core in Mei's body that turns her into a Herrscher the Conqueror Gem? ]

"Ah, that's it, I almost forgot..."

"Oh, right." Kiana looked at Dr. Maki and remembered something, "Um... Dr. Maki, what was in the syringe you took last night? I clearly didn't sense any hostility from you."

Dr. Maki looked up at Kiana and explained straightforwardly: "That is a drug I developed. It can neutralize the Honkai energy in your body and repair the body tissues damaged by the Honkai energy. As long as you continue to inject this drug, you can turn back into an ordinary girl. You don't have to... fight Honkai anymore."

"Become a normal girl again... and unable to fight Honkai? But, as a Valkyrie, it's my duty to fight Honkai, isn't it?" Kiana asked again.

At the same time, she said in her heart: "Whether it is Kaslana or Shaniyat, our duty is to fight against Honkai and protect mankind."

"Fighting Honkai is the duty of the Valkyries..." Dr. Maki's face suddenly became ferocious, "Why should you girls risk your lives to fight Honkai?!"

He stood up from the bed excitedly: "I have obeyed Otto's orders for more than 40 years, transformed countless girls into Valkyries and sent them to the battlefield. They also died one by one. In the end, even my granddaughter died in front of me!"

He clenched his fists again and said, "It was then that I realized how evil what I did was, so I developed this potion and stole the gem. I will use everything I have to stop Otto from continuing to persecute you girls!"

There was an eerie silence in the room.

After a while, a voice sounded in Kiana's mind.

【ridiculous.】

"……What's wrong?"

[For more than 40 years, he watched countless Valkyries sacrifice themselves, but in the end, it was because of the death of his granddaughter that he felt that what he had done before was wrong. Don’t you think... this is ridiculous and funny? In the final analysis, this is just his selfishness. If his granddaughter hadn’t died, he would never have had such thoughts. ]

[It's just a self-righteous feeling of being touched and a self-righteous awakening. ]

[Fighting the Honkai requires a high price...]

Before the final judgment of the previous civilization, in every great collapse, at least tens of thousands of warriors died from the erosion of collapse energy or were killed by collapse beasts. And the number of successful warrior fusion technology, which the civilization was most proud of, was only one in a thousand, and none of the failures survived.

There is still a difference between Valkyrie and Fusion Warrior. Valkyrie relies on the artificial stigmata created by Otto to fight. She is much weaker than Fusion Warrior, but the probability of failure is extremely low.

People are selfish... Unless the price falls on their heads, they won't reflect on their actions.

[Just because his granddaughter died, he thought that destiny was wrong. Then what had he been doing for more than 40 years before that? Didn't he ever think about these things? These were not reasons for him to rebel against destiny. He just found a reason to go against Otto because of his granddaughter's death.]

"Even if you say so... isn't it a bit too much... I... I don't know if I am qualified to say this, but some of what he said may not be wrong. Not everyone is qualified to become a Valkyrie, just like Teacher Jizi... But she finally chose to become a Valkyrie, but the price is... Her health is getting worse and worse. If there is that kind of reagent, can Teacher Jizi recover her health?"

【…】

Just as Kiana was communicating with the spirit behind her, a voice came from the door.

"Before the development of artificial stigmata, hundreds to thousands of warriors died every year fighting against Honkai. After the development of artificial stigmata, this number dropped to less than a hundred." Ivar walked in from outside. "From ancient times to the present, the Shaniyat family and the Kaslana family have been the families standing on the front line against Honkai. Every generation of the Kaslana family has died from the backlash of the release of the Holy Judgment of Skyfire. The average survival age of the Shaniyat family is not even over 40 years old, and every generation of family heads has hardly lived past 50 years old."

Ivar stared coldly into Dr. Maki's eyes and said, "Without the artificial stigmata, do you want humans to return to their original state of fighting against the Honkai? More warriors will die in the fight against the Honkai and its erosion, and more expenses will be spent on training new warriors and providing pensions to the families of the fallen warriors. Dr. Maki, as the direct person in charge of the Third Institute of Destiny, you should know that the footsteps of the Honkai have been getting closer and closer since modern times, and the frequency of the Honkai is also increasing year by year. The Honkai is progressing, but should humans choose to regress at this time? Will the Honkai retreat because of human concessions?"

Ivar subconsciously took out a cigarette, and Wraith reminded him: "Lord Ivar, it's not a good idea to smoke here, right?"

Ivar paused, glanced at Kiana, put away his cigarette, and continued, "You know all of this very well, don't you, Dr. Maki? You keep saying that you don't want the girls to continue to be persecuted by Bishop Otto, but when you defected from the Mandate of Heaven, three Valkyries were killed by Anti-Entropy because of you. Is this what you call atonement? Don't tell me you weren't there and didn't see it. They gave you a chance, but you didn't give them one."

Dr. Maki bowed his head and said nothing.

"You think that the experiment of Destiny is inhumane, but how much better is the Anti-Entropy you cooperated with?" Ivar said in a mocking tone, "Cocolia wants to catalyze the birth of a great collapse here, sacrificing the people of a city just to catalyze a Herrscher. And before Singapore, in Changkong City in the Far East, it was she who catalyzed the third great collapse and promoted the birth of the Herrscher of Thunder. Even earlier, when Shaniyat destroyed the orphanage she opened, according to the investigation results of the Shaniyat family, many children died from her research on the stigmata and the Quantum Sea. With these previous records, you chose to cooperate with her."

Ivar paused and said something similar to a ghost behind the scenes: "What you said before was just to find a reason for yourself to go against Bishop Otto. The so-called salvation is just your own selfish desire."

After a long silence, Dr. Maki looked up at Ivar and said, "The Shaniyat family... yes, if you say this, there will be no room for rebuttal... but not everyone can be as noble as your ancestors."

"A hypocritical fellow like you is not qualified to mention the two Lords Lucifer and Alicia." Ivar frowned and turned to leave. "Take him with you. The location of the Serenity Gem has been discovered. Let him see with his own eyes what Cocolia is planning to do in this city!"

Before heading to the location of the Serenity Gem, a certain spirit behind the scenes suddenly spoke again.

[Kiana, what do you think Lucifer was thinking when he first set out on his journey to save the world? Was it to save the world? Was it to protect humanity?]

"Why are you talking about this all of a sudden? A hero like him must be..."

[No, some ancient books of the Shaniyat family have records that are different from the history you have learned. In those books, Lucifer did not embark on the journey of salvation because he loved humans. He embarked on the journey of salvation in order to protect Alicia and the people he loved.]

"..."

[In those books, Lucifer is not a god, but a human being.]

"Why are you telling me this?"

[I don't mean anything else. I just want to tell you not to be bound by the so-called deeds of your ancestors, and don't over-deify Lucifer. Even Lucifer has human feelings.]

"You will be beaten if you say that... in Shanyat's house, right?"

[Yeah, if I go back alive now, I will probably be beaten to death...]

On the way, Kiana and the others did not encounter any effective interception from Anti-Entropy. Wraith explained that it was probably because in the battle last night, Cocolia dispatched almost all the Anti-Entropy mechas in the city to besiege the Shaniyat family, and then they were all dismantled by Ivar and others, which resulted in almost no effective defense force now.

Arriving in front of the password door, Ivar glanced at Dr. Maki who was still silent, and with the Indestructible Lake Light in his hand, he directly cut out a "door".

As soon as the gap was opened, high concentration of Honkai energy came directly in the face.

"Sure enough, Cocolia didn't take any protective measures, and even wanted to use this to further amplify the Honkai energy effect of the Serenity Gem." Wraith whispered.

"Cocolia..."

"You guys stay outside the door, stay away, I'm going in to retrieve the Serenity Gem." Ivar said and walked in.

Kiana subconsciously wanted to speak up to stop them, but she felt a little strange when she saw that Fu Hua and Wraith didn't seem to want to stop them. Dr. Maki saw her doubts and explained, "The Shaniyat family is born with a far superior resistance to Honkai than ordinary people, so everyone in the family will go to the battlefields to fight Honkai in different fields, ready to die... For the Shaniyat family, they came into the world because of the blessing of Alicia, and their death is a return to the Temple of Lucifer."

Therefore, the criticism of him by the Shaniyat family is the most irrefutable.

[In the final analysis, these are all bad habits passed down from Mavis... Or maybe Lucifer started it all. ]

"You're really going to be beaten to death by the Shaniyat family, right?!"

Chapter 13 [Black Abyss]

The mission in Singapore finally came to an end, and Kiana and Fu Hua boarded the plane back to Saint Freya.

She looked at the injection Dr. Maki had given her before he was taken away by Ivar. This was the last medicine he left behind that could heal Honkai damage. As for Dr. Maki's future treatment...

"He will probably be executed in secret." No emotion could be heard in Fu Hua's voice.

"Dr. Maki...at least I feel that he is not that bad..." Kiana said in a low voice.

"Didn't Colonel Ivar say that? His defection led to the death of three Valkyries, and until the very end he refused to do anything that could atone for his crime." Fu Hua pushed up her glasses and said, "Shenxian will show enough mercy to any traitor, but the premise is that the defector does not cause any harm to Shenxian. Dr. Maki took the Serenity Gem, an important strategic support for Shenxian, away from Shenxian, resulting in the death of three Valkyries. Later in Singapore, although he was unaware of it, he actually facilitated Cocolia's plan to drag the entire city into collapse."

[But if he can still provide value to Tianming, then he can still survive. But, Kiana, you can see that even if he realizes his mistakes, he has no intention of cooperating with Tianming anymore. ]

"So... my dad..."

[…Maybe one day, you can meet again, but at least at this stage, fate will not forgive him. Think of something good, Kiana. With this reagent in your hand, the damage caused by Honkai energy in Himeko can be saved.]

"But, relatively speaking, the price is that she will never be able to fight as a Valkyrie again, right?"

[This is also a necessary trade-off. She has already paid a lot to practice the path of the Valkyrie. It is time for her to completely shift her battlefield from fighting the Honkai to the academy. ]

"Ah."

After Kiana and others returned to Saint Freya, Ivar also returned to the Destiny Airport with Dr. Maki.

"Hey, you're back, Ivar." Otto sat on a chair, one hand supporting his chin, the other holding a red wine glass, and crossed his legs as he looked at Ivar. "It seems that this trip to Singapore was not very pleasant for you. The treatment cabin in the laboratory has been prepared for you."

Ivar glanced around and said, "My Lord Bishop, do the family heads know about K423?"

"I can only say that I know a little bit, such as the purpose of the birth of K423." Otto shrugged and said, "Why? Do you have any other ideas?"

"She is not like Siegfried. She looks carefree, but she is actually very thoughtful." Ivar said, "But unfortunately, she is still a little too kind."

"Really? But this is normal." Otto shook the red wine glass in his hand and said, "After all, she was admitted to the Far East school, which is known for its strict academic requirements, based on her grades. Although her grades at Theresa's school are a bit... It makes people feel like she did it on purpose."

"This is a good thing." Ivar thought of a Valkyrie who led a team to demolish an orphanage. "If a tribe member like Maria knew of her existence and knew that Siegfried gave her the name Kiana...it would definitely not be a good thing."

"After all, even in Shaniyat, not everyone can accept K423." Otto took a sip of the red wine in the glass and said, "In fact, in the eyes of some people, she may be just a clone in this life. So, you should also understand why I chose you to go to Singapore to carry out the mission, right?"