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

This was not just something the girl said casually due to her youthfulness, but a promise she made to herself.

What's more, even if he was young and frivolous, so what? The ancestors of the Shaniyat family could have been even more arrogant, raised their middle fingers to the so-called god, and beat him up at the same time.

However, perhaps I should have made a decision about that matter earlier...

Chapter 30 Angelica: They are all too weak

Destiny Oceania Branch.

"Hyperion has arrived at the area where the Desire Gem is reacting. The fifth team is preparing to land and retrieve the Desire Gem." Jizi said to the four Valkyries in front of her on the Hyperion, "Although you are all wearing Valkyrie armor for protection, I still want to remind you that even if it is just a fragment of the Herrscher Core of the Void, it still has powerful Honkai energy. If you find a Desire Gem but don't find a container, it is best to store it in a container first to avoid direct contact with the gem."

"Understood." Kiana and the other two nodded, except Angelica, who remained expressionless.

When the fifth team landed from Hyperion and arrived at the town with the reaction of the gem, Angelica stood beside Kiana and said, "Ivar directly came into contact with the Serenity Gem and is still recuperating."

"Mr. Ivar?" Kiana thought of the Shaniyat family member she met during the Singapore incident, and remembered how he collected the Serenity Gem under extremely high concentrations. Then she thought of what Siegfried had told her not long ago, that all the Shaniyat family members were crazy, and she became confused again.

On one side is his father, and on the other side is the reality that he has seen with his own eyes. Even if what he sees is not necessarily true sometimes, who can prove that it is not true?

[If I hadn't asked you to use the power of the Saint to temporarily heal Ivar, he would have died not long after he collected the Serenity Gem.]

"..."

"Ivar is old." Angelica said again.

"Old? But I clearly saw him..." Kiana didn't finish her words and fell silent again. She remembered that the average age of the Shanyat family was no more than 40 years old. If the average age of the Shanyat family members was no more than 40 years old, then Ivar could indeed be considered old...

"Don't worry, we are fully prepared this time. We have also brought spare containers. When we recover the Gems of Desire, it will definitely not be the same as last time." Kiana changed her tone.

Angelica just glanced at Kiana indifferently, then looked away.

She just associated the desire for the gem with the Serenity Gem. She was not really worried. Ivar's fighting ability was not strong among the cherubim, and his condition was not good at that time. It can only be said that direct contact with the Serenity Gem aggravated his condition.

As for myself, it wouldn't be a big problem to hold the Gem of Desire in my hands for a while.

After all... I should be considered a man-made pseudo-hermetic, right? The Serenity Gem I had recovered earlier was now in my body.

Although the price of gaining these powers is that his life span will not exceed 30 years according to the bishop's estimate, the issue of life span is not a problem at all in the eyes of the Shanyat family, especially for [Black Abyss], who has long been accustomed to it...

And she already understood all this before undergoing the transformation surgery.

The bishop has always regarded the experiment of the Serenity Gem as more important than the experiments of other gems. In fact, what he values ​​is only the creative power of the Ruler of Death represented by the Serenity Gem. Unfortunately, even if he successfully transplants the Serenity Gem, he will be powerless to resurrect the fiancée that the bishop wants to resurrect.

Before conducting the resurrection experiment on Kallen Kaslana, the bishop first found a few test subjects for her to practice on, but in the end, the test subjects who were resurrected only had active bodies but no thoughts.

This incident should have disappointed the bishop, but after seeing the experimental results, there was no disappointment on his face. He just congratulated her in a calm tone on her successful mastery of the power of the Serenity Gem. Soon after, the anti-entropy invasion broke out on Saint Freya's side, and the bishop asked her to come to protect and monitor K423.

"No matter what the situation is, we must prioritize K423's safety. We cannot allow her to have any more accidents. Siegfried's defection a few years ago must not happen again."

This was the order the bishop gave her.

"Kiana, you've become familiar with your new classmates so quickly..." Mei, who was walking in front, looked at Kiana and Angelica who were walking behind and talking with an ambiguous tone.

"Isn't that what Kiana is like? Mei-nee." Bronya walked in front and looked at the location of the Desire Gem shown on the instrument while helping Kiana divert Mei-nee's attention. "The location of the Desire Gem shown on the instrument is in front."

"Is it just in front? There are indeed quite a few Honkai beasts over there. Are they attracted by the Desire Gem?" Kiana looked forward, and suddenly a Charge-level Honkai beast rushed towards her. Kiana knocked it aside with a punch without even looking at it.

However, with the commotion caused by the appearance of a Honkai Beast, new Honkai Beasts began to appear around the Fifth Team and rushed towards them.

"Wait, the instrument shows that there is still life reaction there, but... the life reaction overlaps with the reaction of the Desire Gem..." Bronya said in a somewhat surprised tone, "Which means..."

"It's the carrier that has been transplanted with the Gem of Desire, right?" Kiana took the Thor's Hammer, the throne of the gods weapon given to her by the headquarters, and said, "Then Mei and Bronnia, you go and rescue them first. Leave the Honkai beasts here to me and Angelica."

Although she believed that Bronya would definitely not tell anyone about Mei, after all, Angelica could not be considered a member of the Fifth Team strictly speaking, nor was she on Theresa's side. It might not be a good thing to tell others that Mei had the Conquest Stone, so Kiana still continued Bronya's words.

Her inference made sense, because the reason why Dr. Maki defected from Singapore was that his granddaughter performed a Serenity Gem transplant operation and the operation failed, which led to his defection.

This way, it will not be easy for Angelica to become suspicious.

"But, Kiana..."

Mei subconsciously wanted to say something, but Bronya reached out and pulled Mei and said, "Sister Mei, let's go first. We can leave this to Kiana and Angelica. After all, they are real A-level Valkyries."

Seeing that Bronya seemed to want to say something, Mei looked at Kiana and Angelica who were already fighting with the Honkai beast with some reluctance, but finally chose to remain silent and followed Bronya to the building that emitted the reaction of the Desire Gem.

I can't catch up with Kiana here, and now I can't even fight together with her... Mei thought with resentment in her heart.

"Sister Mei, don't you want to ask Bronya why she did this?" Bronya said as she walked in front.

Mei was stunned for a moment, then pulled her mind away from her resentment and said after thinking for a while: "Is it because this is the most reasonable arrangement?"

"This is only one of the reasons." Bronya turned around and said, "In fact, according to Bronya's calculations, those Honkai beasts can be dealt with by an A-level Valkyrie and a B-level Valkyrie. But, Mei-sister, why do you think Angelica appeared in our team?"

"I remember the principal's explanation was that this was the request of the Shanyat family..." Mei said suddenly as if she had suddenly realized something, "So Bronya, what you mean is that Angelica was actually assigned by the Shanyat family to protect Kiana?"

"It could also be surveillance." Bronya said, "No matter what the situation is, she will not let Kiana out of her sight, so the task of clearing out the surrounding Honkai beasts and attracting firepower can only be completed by the two of them."

"Is that so..." Mei lowered her eyes, "If the Shaniyat family wanted to protect Kiana, why didn't they tell her anything? So Angelia's real purpose is to monitor Kiana?"

"Bronya doesn't know this either. She has been observing Angelica all this time, but Angelica has never contacted the headquarters. If she was monitoring her, she should have reported regularly." Bronya replied, "But it's possible that Bronya didn't notice it... Hmm? Mei-sister, we're here. Behind the wall in front is the Desire Gem we're looking for, or rather, the person who carries the Desire Gem."

Kiana here.

While Angelia easily killed a Temple-level Honkai Beast along with its shield beast, she turned her gaze to Kiana, silently evaluating Kiana's fighting style in her mind.

"The Kaslana family's gun fighting skills... are still half-baked... but they have a strong fighting talent. If they receive appropriate training, they should be able to compete with Bianca." Angelica commented in her heart, "Unfortunately, they are still too weak now."

Soon she no longer cared about these things. She had some understanding of Kiana's fighting ability. Judging from her current performance, she would still be able to subdue Kiana if necessary in the future.

How good Kiana is is not her concern, her task is only to ensure that the candidate for the container will not be harmed and cause flaws.

After evaluating Kiana in her heart, Angelica thought of Bronya and Mei again. She had actually observed these two B-rank Valkyries. Ivar always said that she was naive, but she just felt that it was unnecessary. Of course, she was not as good as Ivar at guessing people's inner thoughts and actions.

It was boring during this period anyway, and in order to prevent encountering resistance from the other two people when it was necessary to take Kiana away in the future, Angelica still observed and evaluated the two people. She had also looked at their identities before coming, but because it was Theresa who handed them over, and Theresa had a history of concealing Kiana's existence from the Shaniyat family, Angelica did not believe all the information in the file.

The final conclusion is that there is no threat.

Although Mei Raiden's last name, Raiden, reminds her of an Anti-Entropy executor who was targeted by the Shanyat family, his name was Raiden Ryuma. There was infighting within the Anti-Entropy family in Cocolia, and the Shanyat family was targeting Anti-Entropy, so it would not hurt for them to get rid of an Anti-Entropy executor.

Unfortunately, after Raiden Ryuma was imprisoned, he was immediately taken away by the anti-entropy executors in North America. In addition, Raiden Ryuma's own combat power was not low, so the Shanyiat family's assassination attempt on him finally failed.

As for the family of Lei Dian Long Ma, it was found that he had a daughter, but because there was still an executor in the Far East, and that executor had a close relationship with the family, the Shanyiat family could not be too arrogant in the Far East. In addition, there was no need to specifically target a child, so at the instruction of Bishop Otto, the matter was not investigated further.

"Could it be the daughter of Thunder Ryuma?" Angelica thought to herself.

But it doesn't matter whether it is or not. In Angelica's eyes, Mei is still too weak. She can be subdued easily. If she becomes a hindrance at that time, it will be the same if she takes action again. Out of suspicion about Theresa, the probability that Mei Raiden is the daughter of Raiden Ryoma is still very high.

As for Bronya, the existence behind her called "Heavy Armor Bunny" is somewhat similar to the Titan developed by Cocolia that can use quantum power to hide. Moreover, when I was observing her, she seemed to be observing me. Unlike Raiden Mei, this Bronya seemed to have received professional training before...

Is it because his legs are crippled that he is like this? Anyway, he is still very weak.

Judging from the performance of these two people so far, even if they were combined, he could easily defeat them without using the power of the Serenity Gem or artificial collapse.

The reason why Angelica had no hostility towards Mei and Bronya was, on the one hand, that she felt that they were both too weak and she could ignore them, and on the other hand, she was also concerned about Kiana. If she was hostile towards them, Kiana, who had a good relationship with them, might become hostile towards her. If she attacked them, she would inevitably fight with Kiana. Although she would definitely win, if Kiana was hurt and something went wrong, it would be difficult for her to explain herself.

After the Serenity Gem experiment was over, the Bishop's attention to Bianca and Kiana increased to a new level. For the sake of the Shaniyat family's long-cherished wish, he certainly could not be careless at all.

Therefore, Angelica simply turned a blind eye to the suspicious identities of Mei and Bronya and pretended not to care.

After clearing out the besieged Honkai beasts with Kiana, the two immediately went to meet up with Bronya and Mei.

Seeing the girl being pushed in a wheelchair by the Heavy-Armored Bunny, Kiana recognized her identity at a glance: "Are you... Wendy?"

On the way here, Theresa showed Wendy's information to the four people, hoping that if they met Wendy, they would bring her back to Saint Freya together.

And now Wendy appeared here, which meant that she was the container that desired the gem.

"Well, you two must be the Kiana and Angelica sisters that Bronya and I talked about." Wendy, who was sitting in a wheelchair, smiled and said, "Hello, thank you for coming here to save me."

"You're welcome. This is our mission." Kiana replied with a smile.

Angelica just looked at Wendy coldly. As a cherub of the Black Abyss, she could tell that the girl in front of her was disguising her intentions, but she did not point it out.

In her eyes, Wendy was still too weak to cause any trouble.

Chapter 31 Xi'er

On the way back to Hyperion.

The Heavy-Armored Bunny pushed the wheelchair, Kiana and Angelica walked in front on guard, and Bronya looked at Wendy from time to time. From the previous communication, she thought Wendy was a gentle girl. In addition, Wendy's appearance was somewhat similar to the one in her memory, which made Bronya want to care about Wendy a little more.

"So, Principal, what exactly happened back then?" Bronya asked Theresa on the communicator.

Theresa sighed deeply and said, "Two years ago, Skyman launched a secret research project, hoping to develop weapons that could rival the Herrscher through the Desire Gem. At that time, Wendy was the best Valkyrie in the Oceania branch, and I wrote a letter of recommendation for her to participate in this experiment. We were still in contact at the beginning, but not long after, the Oceania branch cut off contact between Wendy and me... As a result, I don't know the details."

When I came here, Theresa told me that Wendy was a graduate of St. Freya's, the best one among that class of St. Freya's graduates. She performed extremely well in the Oceania branch and was considered a seed that could become an S-class Valkyrie.

Perhaps this is the reason why Wendy participated in the experiment of craving gems half-passively and half-actively.

"A graduate of St. Freya's..." Kiana couldn't help but look at Wendy again. Wendy's age was about the same as the people who came to rescue her, or even younger. Now, she has graduated from St. Freya's for several years. One can imagine how outstanding Wendy was back then.

No wonder it is called the seed of the S-class Valkyrie.

"So... you didn't know anything about it, Principal?" Wendy looked a little strange, then she sighed softly and filled in the blanks of Theresa's mind. "Not long after I participated in the experiment with the Desire Gem, the Oceania branch's laboratory transplanted the Desire Gem into my calf bone. Unfortunately, I was not good enough to control the power of the Desire Gem, and then... I became what you see now. Because of the erosion of the Desire Gem, my legs were paralyzed."

Mei subconsciously glanced at Wendy's legs, then immediately looked away.

"Wendy... I'm sorry, I couldn't stop you from participating in this experiment." Theresa said apologetically.

"No, Principal, this is not your fault. I was the one who was determined to participate in this experiment. After all, as long as I control the power of the Desire Gem, there will be fewer sacrifices in the fight against the Honkai." Wendy smiled and said, and suddenly her tone changed, "Besides, even if I didn't volunteer at the time, I might have been forced to volunteer..."

"Eh?" Kiana was stunned, unable to react. Was it voluntary?

[The S-class Valkyries of Destiny are precious fighting forces, so of course they cannot take such a risk, but there are quite a few A-class Valkyries. If they want to conduct experiments, excellent A-class Valkyries are the best bases... No matter how excellent Wendy is, no matter how she is called the seed of an S-class Valkyrie, she was not an S-class Valkyrie at the time. I'm afraid she can't choose not to participate in this experiment if she wants to.]

Kiana thought of Dr. Maki's granddaughter again, and said in her heart: "Destiny and anti-entropy are actually the same..."

[…In order to fight against Honkai, there is always a price to pay. Didn’t Ivar say that? Although the Mandate of Heaven uses the Valkyries as its main fighting force, before the development of artificial stigmata, countless warriors died in the fight against Honkai every year. The appearance of the Valkyries with artificial stigmata has effectively reduced casualties.]

"I know... Anti-Entropy is firmly opposed to the way of artificial stigmata of destiny to forcibly create Valkyries, and instead turned its research direction to Titans, which have a lower utilization rate of Honkai energy. Although this has increased the consumption of funds, it has further reduced casualties. My aunt also agrees with Anti-Entropy's persistence..."

Before artificial stigmata were developed, Valkyries with natural stigmata were extremely rare, and they were mainly from the Shaniyat and Kaslana families. As a result, the Shaniyat and Kaslana families suffered particularly heavy casualties when fighting against the Honkai.

Kiana also knows this, so she maintains a neutral attitude towards the ideological dispute between Anti-Entropy and Destiny. And from what she has seen so far, the Valkyries who accept artificial stigmata all choose to do so voluntarily, taking Teacher Himeko as an example.

As for the Desire Gem experiment, Anti-Entropy doesn't seem to be much better than Destiny. Isn't Mei here now? It's just that one succeeded and the other failed.

Wait, speaking of failure, Dr. Machi said that if the experiment with the Serenity Gem failed, the person would die. What about the Desire Gem...

As if she had read Kiana's mind, Wendy continued, "After the Desire Gem was implanted in my calf, although I was unable to successfully control its power, it stabilized and would no longer cause any collapse. In order to preserve the Desire Gem, the Oceania branch changed me from a volunteer for the Desire Gem implantation experiment to a container for the Desire Gem."

And I am constantly researching myself...

Thinking of the treatment she had received before the collapse, Wendy could not help but close her hands subconsciously. She really hated it. She did not regret fighting for the safety of mankind as a Valkyrie, but she really hated those hypocrites of Tianming...

She remembered that she had told them that her mentor was Theresa Apokalis, the head of the Apokalis family among the three major families of the Destiny, but all she got in return was their ridicule. They said that Theresa didn't care about her life or death at all. She wanted to find Theresa to ask her, but the answer she got was that Theresa refused to contact her.

Then now, when she talked to Theresa again, she realized that Theresa was really unaware of this. She also did not forget the disdainful tone of the head of the Oceania branch when he mentioned Theresa. He believed that Theresa could become the head of the Far East branch and the head of the Apokalis family entirely because of Otto's favoritism.

He did not take Theresa's identity as the head of the Apokalis family seriously.

Among the three major families of Skyward, the head of the Kaslana family, Siegfried, defected with the Kaslana family's ancestral divine key, the Holy Fire Judge, causing the Kaslana family's status in Skyward to plummet. The Apokalis family was obsessed with power struggles, and Bishop Otto chose to stand idly by. The head of the family, Theresa, was also not taken seriously.

Only the Shaniyat family, this crazy family always adheres to the principle of being indifferent to life and death and fighting against opposition, no matter it is against Honkai or humans. If the head of the Oceania branch dares to say this to the head of the Shaniyat family and does not take the words of the Shaniyat family seriously, I am afraid that the Shaniyat family will come to him the next day for a "friendly" exchange.

Bronya looked at Wendy, and after listening to her story, she couldn't help but think of her own childhood, and especially of the girl who still made her feel uncomfortable and resentful towards the Shanyiat family.

"Xie'er..."

The girl named Xier in my memory always spoke softly when she was in the orphanage and was very gentle to everyone. But it was this gentleness that caused her to be bullied by Xing again and again, and her legs were also broken because of Xing.

However, there is one thing that still puzzles Bronya. Although Seele always looks gentle, for some reason, when she fainted that day because Xing crippled her legs, she saw Seele coming, and then... After that day, Xing would avoid Seele when she saw her, and she seemed like a different person. Of course, Bronya couldn't ask her, and if she asked Seele, Seele would say she didn't know. It seemed that only Xing knew what happened.

According to Bronya's speculation, it was very likely that Xing was beaten up by someone that day, and was beaten to the point where she had an extremely serious psychological trauma. The only person who could have done this at the time was Seele, but when Seele said she didn't know, her eyes were very confused and didn't seem fake. Seele said that when she came, she only saw the injured and unconscious Bronya, but didn't see Xing.

This is also very strange. Before I fainted, I clearly saw Xier arrive, and Xing was also there at the time, and she even provoked Xier...

Did I remember it wrong?

Shortly after that incident, Seele took the initiative to participate in the X-10 experiment in order to replace her disabled self, and the result... Seele completely disappeared in front of everyone and her whereabouts are unknown.

After the experiment failed, Cocolia frantically tried to recreate the situation at that time and wanted to find Xier back, but what followed was the Shaniyat family's raid. They destroyed the orphanage and all the experimental materials, making it impossible to replicate the experiment at that time.

In addition, a large number of children were injured or even died. The lively sisters Rosaria and Lilia were the most seriously injured among the living children. It was almost impossible to find a way to effectively treat them. At least before Bronya went on the mission to recover the Third Herrscher, they were still in a coma.

When encountering Xing during the Jiuyou incident, Xing didn't say how Rosaria and the others were doing, so Bronya didn't dare to ask.

This further led to an almost irreconcilable hatred between the Kokolia and Shaniyat families.

Bronya was also very conflicted about this. Did she hate Shaniat? It was impossible not to hate him. For Bronya, it was this family that extinguished her hope for Seele's return, and it was this family that hurt her friends in the orphanage.

But after meeting Kiana and knowing that she was also half Shanyat, Bronya began to become conflicted. Before this, the Shanyat family was like a demon in her eyes, but now...

It's just quite complicated.