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

Kiana thrust the Spear of the Archon in her hand deeply into the frost-covered ground and managed to stabilize her body. In front of her was a gully formed by the force of the Spear of the Archon sliding all the way into the ground.

The girl was gasping for breath. She felt that her hands were almost numb because she had to stop herself from the impact. But she knew that if she didn't do this, Kevin would directly knock her out of the trial field, and this trial would still end in failure.

Standing in front of her was the one with the inscription [Savior] among the Fourteen Heroes of Chasing Fire. He was also recognized in this paradise as the hero who was closest to the ultimate goal of her journey, the last one with the inscription [Divine Shadow].

They once fought against the End together, and only Kevin was qualified to fight against the Last Herrscher together with Lucifer.

Not to mention, in Feng's memories that Kiana saw, in the life before Feng became a god, Kevin was the only spiritual pillar of mankind and an unquestionable hero.

Feng in the paradise promised herself that as long as she passed Kevin's test, he would fulfill his promise and open the trial of [Divine Shadow] to her.

And Kevin's trial... Without a doubt, it was completely not on the same level as the trials of the previous heroes who had to fight. Just like Kevin outside the Paradise used the Karma Demon on the first day of actual combat training with himself, Kevin in the Paradise had been waiting for him as a Karma Demon when he stepped into the door of [Salvation].

If Kevin's power is so high, then what level is Feng's power at?

Kevin, floating in the air, held the mutated Holy Fire Judge in one hand and slowly landed not far from Kiana. He said coldly, "Compared to the last time, you have indeed made some progress, but this little progress is not worth mentioning in the face of Honkai."

Kiana gritted her teeth. Her hands were shaking from the excessive force she had exerted before, but she still pulled the Spear of the Archon out of the ground beneath her feet.

Suddenly, she remembered the conversation she had with Feng on her birthday.

"Feng... why is this happening?"

"what why?"

"Why... are you so good to me? Knowing that I am the End... why are you so good to me that you would rather give up the chance to return with your real body and only appear in this world as a projection?"

She knew it, how could she not know it and not see it?

The look he gave to Alicia was always so gentle, and he treasured every moment of reuniting with his old friends. Not to mention, it was this kind of obsession that supported him through the past 50,000 years... and it was this kind of him who, when faced with the opportunity to come back, took the initiative to give up this chance and forced himself back to the original world.

Kiana didn't understand. If her predecessor was the end, Feng had no reason to be nice to her. She even felt a little scared when she heard Feng wishing her a happy birthday, because she... was afraid that she would lose all these one day.

Just like when she was a child, she went through three years of living without even knowing her own name, and finally got her own name on her 11th birthday, which made her finally feel that she was recognized by Siegfried. She regarded this as her 11th birthday gift, but in the rest of her life, she always felt uneasy about this name. There was always a voice in her heart telling her vaguely that this name did not belong to her.

And now, is she... using high-intensity training and missions like going to Sky City to numb herself and stop herself from thinking about the future that seems to be just around the corner?

Are all these things that I have now really mine?

In the future, as the predecessor of the End, will I end up repeating the mistakes of the previous era and once again become the End that is hostile to humans, and once again lose everything I have, just like fifty thousand years ago, when Feng, Kevin and others stood in front of me and raised their weapons against me for the future of mankind?

"Didn't I tell you? You need to find the answer to this question yourself. At least now is not the time to reveal it."

"So when will I know the answer?"

"Don't worry, Kiana. This answer may not be that important to you in the future. Of course, it is not something I can explain to you in a few words at this moment. You need to think about it and witness it yourself."

But this answer is very important to me now!

She said so in her heart, but when she looked into Feng's eyes, she didn't know how to start. She could only stare at Feng and express her dissatisfaction with his reply with her eyes.

She always remembered what this man said before. He had witnessed the miracle named Alicia, so he believed that the next miracle named Kiana would appear.

but……

Feng looked at the stubborn girl who refused to give up until he gave her a clear answer. After thinking for a while, he said, "Qiana, is this the life you want now? Or is this your own choice?"

Kiana was stunned. She didn't know why Feng suddenly asked this.

"You want to get further answers from me, so..." Feng looked at her and said slowly, "I look forward to the 'fire' ignited by your resistance, and I look forward to your struggle."

"My... struggle?"

"During this period of time, we have all seen the training you have undergone. I can confidently tell you that I am proud of all your performance so far. But I also hope that you can find the meaning of your battle, know what you are going to do and know how you should do it, so that you don't have to be so cautious."

She was silent, waiting for his next words.

"I've told you that you can be more willful. Don't ask me if you are qualified. If I say you are, then of course you are." Feng reached out and patted her head gently. "You don't need to ask yourself over and over again in your heart whether you are qualified to get all this. No matter what your identity is in the past or in the future, the person standing in front of me at this moment is a human named Kiana Kaslana."

“…But not everyone thinks this way, right?”

"What Mobius and the others said... Ha, that's true, after all... But I believe that one day you will prove yourself to them. Besides, Kiana, what do you think of Mia and the others?"

"Mia..."

She thought of the deputy Feng arranged for her during her trip to Sky City, and those Shaniyat. As Shaniyat from the Black Abyss who were active on the shadow side of Destiny, they did not care too much about their identities. Mia was one of Otto's students. She knew her identity as K423 before becoming his deputy, but she still did not look at her differently because of it.

"If Mia and the others, as Black Abyss, are not shy about this kind of thing, then... what about Bianca? Is there any false concern and enthusiasm in her eyes when she looks at you?"

"..."

"You can be more willful and don't have to be so cautious all the time. You deserve to be loved, whether in Shaniyat or in Saint Freya before."

"What if I end up becoming the End?"

Feng's eyes became playful: "Why, do you want to fight with me now?"

"..."

A certain wicked and smoking Shanyat ancestor spread his hands indifferently: "The worst result is just a replay of the End War, right? Anyway, I am here now. No matter what the final result will be, you are just Kiana Kaslana now, nothing more."

Kiana came back to her senses from her memories and turned her gaze to Kevin.

"More willful?... That's right. After all, you have always been willful, always like this." Kiana took a deep breath and once again got ready for fighting.

Kevin looked at her and raised the Skyfire in his hand again.

Outside the trial field of [Salvation].

Feng and Alicia stood together on a floating tower not far away, looking at Kiana who was fighting with Kevin again.

"Kiana has tried really hard." Alicia said with one hand on her chin, "But... why do I feel like there's something wrong with her current direction?"

"At least her will to fight is very strong now." Feng said, "As for the direction... I feel like there is nothing wrong with it. Her will to fight against Honkai has never wavered."

"No, I don't mean in this direction... Come to think of it, Feng, what do you think outside of Paradise?" Alicia asked. "After all, according to what you said at the beginning, the Herrscher who came to Paradise should be the Herrscher of Thunder, not Kiana and Sirin."

Feng thought for a while and said, "I think that the answer to this question, whether you are in the paradise or outside the paradise, you already have a general idea in your heart, right?"

"uh-huh?"

"I have never been a person who blindly believes in the so-called 'fate'. I first met you and followed your back and chased your footsteps because of you in the story. But I finally liked you and had a feeling called 'love' for you because of everything we experienced together. I witnessed it with my eyes and my heart." Feng crossed his arms and moved his eyes from the trial field to the somewhat illusory sky in the paradise. "I probably think so too outside the paradise."

Alicia smiled mysteriously when she heard this: "So, what kind of answer will you give to Kiana's current performance in the paradise?"

"Hmph..." Feng laughed softly. He raised his hand, and a star-shaped tetrahedron that looked somewhat unreal appeared in his hand, quietly emitting a deep and mysterious light. "The answer... isn't it obvious?"

In the trial field.

Kevin looked at Kiana. He knew that Feng had put safety measures on Kiana. Once Kiana was attacked fatally, she would be directly teleported out of the trial field and back to the paradise. So this was one of the reasons why he took the Sky Fire and activated the Karma Demon at the beginning of the trial. After all, Feng was there to back him up, so he didn't have to be tied up.

According to his judgment, Kiana was just holding on with her last breath, and her body did not support her to continue fighting with him like this.

But the girl in front of him was too stubborn. She would not give up until the insurance measures Feng gave her were used up.

With Feng as their backup, the two Kaslanas became somewhat willful.

Her will is worthy of recognition, but there is no point in continuing this battle, so just... end it with one strike.

Kevin raised the Holy Judgment of Heavenly Fire in his hand. In an instant, the heat wave caused by the flames that erupted from the Holy Judgment of Heavenly Fire melted the ice centered on Kevin and gradually spread outward.

"Suppress the output power a little, reduce the transmission of Honkai energy a little..." Kevin was calculating in his mind how his next attack would not make too much noise, and then Klein came over to complain about how long it would take to repair the Paradise data.

At the same time, he also wanted to see whether Kiana's willpower could withstand the next blow. It didn't matter if she couldn't take it. Retreating was not cowardice and was not shameful. Appropriate retreat was for further progress in the future. It would be nice to scare her and let her experience for herself what it meant to be unreachable.

Because his next attack, even if it was not his full strength, could still be called:

The skyfire is unsheathed.

She probably wouldn't take it head-on. If she wanted to, Feng would teleport her away before the attack landed.

As Kevin thought about this, the Heavenly Fire in his hand finished charging. Then, he took a step forward and swung the blow that could burn everything at the girl not far away.

Contrary to Kevin's expectation, when this attack was launched, he keenly noticed that Kiana was not at all afraid of the unsheathed Skyfire, and rushed directly towards Skyfire.

"After this, Feng will probably criticize me for using the Skyfire on a junior..." This was Kevin's thought at this moment.

No, is there really someone with a head as hard as a nail who can catch the fire from heaven?

The corner of Alicia's eye twitched as she watched the fight, and then she looked at Feng. Feng looked up at the sky. Actually... before this, there might have been another Iron-Headed Kid who took Leo's flying kick...

The face catches the skyfire... Anyway, both sides think that they have their own backs and they just play with it, right? One dares to unsheathe the skyfire, and the other dares to catch the skyfire directly on his face.

Is this... a continuation of the Kaslana family?

However, Kevin's worry only lasted for a short moment, as he discovered that his attack did not seem to have the expected effect. In the flames, the girl did not withdraw from the battlefield due to the severe injury from the attack. Instead, she raised the sword in her hand in the flames, and then split the surging flames in it.

"This is..." Kevin narrowed his eyes slightly, "Herrscher of Fire?"

And Alicia turned her gaze to the star-shaped tetrahedron in Feng's hand.

Don't blame any of these three guys. One dares to let go, one dares to take over, and the other one will really cover the bottom...

Chapter 96 Purple Kite

World Serpent.

"Jackal, you called me here in such a hurry. It'd be better if you really have something important to do instead of wasting my time here." Raven said from behind the Jackal who was doing the experiment, "I don't have that much time to run errands for you all over the world."

"Heh..." The mask on the Jackal covered her expression. She turned her head slightly to look at Raven. "Raven, I think you should understand one thing. Although we have reached a deal on the surface, you should also know that in this deal, you are not my equal."

The raven let out a light "tsk". She was of course aware of what the Jackal meant. For the sake of the children in the "nest", the only person she could find in the world who could help her was the Jackal.

Neither Destiny nor Anti-Entropy have the ability to take care of those children, or rather, they have no reason to take care of them.

For Anti-Entropy, if they are conservatives, they may give the children the most basic care for humanitarian reasons. Compared with Destiny, Anti-Entropy conservatives can still be trusted in this regard. Raven is very clear that although Destiny has more complete Honkai energy treatment technology than Anti-Entropy, it is not actually the case...

If we send the children to Tianming, there's no guarantee that one day they will be used by Otto for experiments.

What's more, Tianming's technology is not as good as the World Snake which has the foundation of previous civilization. Going to Tianming is beyond his reach, but as for the World Snake, he can still say a few words.

So, she approached the Jackal and made a deal with him.

The Jackal is different from people like himself. Even though they are both cadres of the World Serpent, the Jackal has a master behind him after all. And he joined the World Serpent only because of the training and recommendation of the Gray Serpent.

"If I can contact Ziyuan from the Destiny team, I won't have to work with Jackal as his thug." Raven thought to himself.

The fact that the World Serpent also has an undercover agent in Tianming and that he holds a high position is not a secret to some cadres, but Raven only knows that there is such a person.

Just as she and Night Owl didn't know whether the cadre named Yutu existed or not, Ziyuan actually only had a little more information than Yutu. He would regularly pass on intelligence from within Tianming to World Snake. Before Tianming took any action, World Snake would take the lead in retracting its tentacles, leaving no trace for those who wanted to investigate.

After the previous incident in Sky City, the Jackal also tried to test Ziyuan because both Shaniyat and Tianming were involved in the incident, but Ziyuan just said, "That has nothing to do with me. It's the will of that person" and ignored the Jackal.

Yutu never participated in any of the World Snake's meetings, and her code name was never on the execution list of some plans. It seemed that she only existed on the list of World Snake's cadres. As for Ziyuan, although he was basically lurking during the meetings, he would also give the intelligence from Tianming.

Raven was certain that the Purple Kite must be a member of the Shanyatid family. After all, the Shanyatid family was not only one of the three major families that established the Destiny, but the Shanyatid family had also existed within the World Snake for a long time. The code name Purple Kite had even been on the list of cadres of the World Snake when the World Snake was founded.

I heard from Gray Snake that the group codenamed Purple Iris is not much younger than their group.

However, apart from this, Raven had no other way to obtain more information about Ziyuan, let alone cooperate with Ziyuan.

The Shaniyat Holy Blood of the Shaniyat family is the nemesis of Honkai. If the principle of the Shaniyat Holy Blood can be analyzed, or even if a little bit of high-purity holy blood can be obtained, some of the children in the "nest" will no longer have to rely on the jackal's medicine to stay alive.

However, the Shaniyat family has a very strict grasp of the Holy Blood, and all research related to the Holy Blood is conducted by Ziyuan.

This was really hard for Raven, as she knew that the people who could help the children were among the World Serpent's cadres, but she could only see them but not touch them.

As for the speculation about Zi Yuan's identity, Raven, Jackal and Night Owl all made speculations when they were chatting. Night Owl suspected that Zi Yuan's true identity was the bishop of Destiny, but Jackal scoffed at this. How could his own cadre become the boss of Destiny?

However, it is definitely true that Otto knew Ziyuan and had cooperated with her.

Raven thought that if the name of Purple Kite was as old as Gray Snake, then why couldn't Purple Kite's true form be the head of the Shanyat family of each generation? At the same time, Night Owl's speculation was not unreasonable. Although the cooperation between Purple Kite and Otto could explain why Otto had treated the Shanyat family well in the past five hundred years, Otto could also explain this if he was Purple Kite himself.

Especially Tianming's various actions. If Otto is Ziyuan himself, how could Ziyuan not know what Otto wants to do?

But... the only doubt in Night Owl's speculation is that, just like his own code name [Raven] was inherited from the previous generation of Raven, how did Otto get this code name from the previous generation of Purple Iris?

"Maybe I can exchange some information with Night Owl later. Although that guy is trying his best to contact the Shanyiat family, I have to admit that he is much better than me in this regard. He may be able to investigate some things." Raven thought.

Although Raven wanted to stay away from Night Owl, lest this guy one day provoke the Shanyiat family and bring blood to her side, she had to admit that although their starting points were different, she and Night Owl both wanted to find out Ziyuan's true identity in order to achieve the purpose of communication.

If the raven could contact Ziyuan, he would kick the jackal immediately.

It is true that the Jackal kept her promise to provide the children with therapeutic drugs, but she was also treating those children as her experimental subjects, and she never concealed her desire to conduct further experiments on those children.

This alone made Raven very dissatisfied.

But...if Ziyuan is really Otto...then it would be better to put the children in the World Snake.

Raven knew exactly what kind of guy Otto was. In order to kill the First Herrscher who disobeyed him, Otto could directly launch a Honkai energy fission bomb at the entire New York City in an attempt to connect the Herrscher and destroy New York together. In the second great Honkai, Otto interfered with the crusade against the Second Herrscher, causing the Second Herrscher to become stronger and bringing about huge damage.

And the experiments that Destiny conducted on the Serenity Gem...

Ziyuan shared some of the information with the Jackal. In order to release the power of the Sixth Herrscher, Otto sacrificed countless Valkyries, which directly led to the defection of Dr. Maki.

Although Raven himself looked down on Dr. Maki, Dr. Maki was the most active one in the Serenity Gem experiment. He asked Otto many times for more Valkyries to participate in the experiment. More than 90% of the experimental materials received by the World Serpent had Dr. Maki's signature. It was not until his granddaughter died in the experiment that this accomplice of Otto began to oppose Otto under the banner of justice.