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

For the students of Saint Freya, before Theresa announced the independence of the Far East Branch, Saint Freya had always been a subordinate organization of Mandate, and Anti-Entropy had always been the enemy of Mandate. Coupled with the catalysis of the Anti-Entropy attack and the subsequent situation where Anti-Entropy fell behind in the battle between Mandate and Mandate, Saint Freya had begun to feel uneasy and questioned about Theresa's alliance with Anti-Entropy.

Sometimes, the more you know, the worse it is. Just like the Valkyrie of the Intelligence Department, due to being exposed to too much intelligence, she began to question the practices of Destiny and accepted the concept of Anti-Entropy, thus betraying Destiny and becoming an undercover agent of Anti-Entropy. The same is true for Saint Freya's Intelligence Department Valkyrie.

After Anti-Entropy and Saint Freya formed an alliance, with the current tense global Honkai Impact 3rd situation, both Destiny and Anti-Entropy were busy dealing with and analyzing the newly emerged virtual tree skeletons. Saint Freya's existence became very important to Anti-Entropy. The countries that supported them on the Anti-Entropy side began to constantly put pressure on Anti-Entropy and negotiate with Theresa at the same time, trying to intervene in Saint Freya's education system.

Although all of these were pushed back by Theresa with a tougher attitude, it does not mean that they will not hinder the development of Saint Freya. For example, there may be some problems with the materials of the training facilities today, or something needed tomorrow may be missing. After all, without the support of Destiny, Saint Freya's daily resources must all be provided by neutral countries or countries under the jurisdiction of Anti-Entropy.

Why do they support Anti-Entropy? Because Anti-Entropy is an organization that resists the destiny. With Anti-Entropy as their banner, they don't have to listen to the command of the destiny and act according to the breath of the destiny. Now Saint Freya, who has allied with Anti-Entropy, is independent of Anti-Entropy and is not under their control, which will naturally arouse the hostility of those guys.

Especially now that the global collapse is intensifying, Anti-Entropy has to withstand the pressure to develop new technology to fight against the Void Tree's users, and Saint Freya is the existence that those guys have to rely on. They are afraid that Saint Freya will seize more voice and become the next Destiny.

Even if Theresa didn't have this idea at all, there is a saying, "It's never important whether you have this idea or not. What matters is that you can do it, and this is your fault."

Theresa's personality is a little too gentle. She won't vent the pressure to others, but will bear it all by herself, until one day, she can no longer bear the pressure...

But Theresa was a stubborn person. She believed that fate was wrong and resolutely drew a line between herself and fate, or Otto.

After all, it was impossible for Theresa to accomplish these tasks alone, so those intelligence Valkyries decided to rebel against Saint Freya.

They knew too much. Although Otto scoffed at Theresa's educational philosophy, to those Valkyries, Saint Freya was their home, and Theresa was a parent loved by everyone.

So they contacted the people of Destiny and proposed that Saint Freya return to Destiny. In exchange, they would completely separate Anti-Entropy from Saint Freya.

In their eyes, only by returning to destiny can the principal no longer have to be busy fighting the Honkai while having to endure the humiliation in front of those bastards, and only then can Saint Freya return to her original life.

In addition, radicals and conservatives began to split among these rebellious Valkyries.

The conservatives wanted to deal with the matter peacefully, try to complete the separation with Anti-Entropy in a peaceful way, and let Anti-Entropy withdraw on their own initiative. However, the radicals had a different opinion... They planned to resort to force directly, to make Saint Freya and Anti-Entropy break up in the most direct and overt way.

Regardless of which faction they belong to, their ultimate goal is to cause Saint Freya to break up with Anti-Entropy, leaving Theresa with no way out and she must bow to destiny and return to her destiny.

All I can say is that Anti-Entropy and Saint Freya are not doing very well right now.

The elders of Anti-Entropy have to face pressure from Congress and the fight against Honkai, while Saint Freya has to face the pressure of intensified internal divisions and conflicts and external interference.

As for destiny? At least for now, things are going well.

Otto plans to take advantage of this opportunity to step back and leave most of the things to other people to handle, hoping that some restless people will be attracted.

And this is indeed the case. Some people have indeed begun to stir, but with the example of the Apocalis family in mind, they dare not act rashly before officially confirming Otto's specific situation.

"Otto!"

Kallen's voice sounded, and along with the sound of the laboratory door opening and closing, Otto looked towards the door.

Kallen placed a temporary container in front of Otto: "This is what I encountered when I went to clean up the Houkai this time. It... seems to be a little different from the Hollow Tree User Corpse that appeared before."

Otto's gaze lingered on the wreckage in the container for only a moment, and then he looked at Kallen: "Kallen, were you injured when you were fighting it?"

Kallen was stunned for a moment, and then she said after a while: "It should be... not, right?"

After she broke it, she felt that it was different from the ones she usually encountered, so she brought it back immediately. And getting hurt should be commonplace for a Valkyrie, right? But... is Otto really caring about me?

"…If you are injured, no, even if you are not injured, you should still go get a check-up later. Even if it is just a minor injury, it should not be underestimated when facing an unknown enemy."

"Oh……"

Otto's gaze then shifted back to the wreckage in the container. Even though it was just wreckage, it was obvious that it was different from the regular virtual tree user skeletons he had encountered before. However, there was no trace of absurdism in it. The characteristics of the virtual tree user skeletons derived from absurdism were quite obvious, and Otto had also reminded Karin of this.

The Honkai is evolving, from the Honkai beasts at the beginning to the current Void Tree User Skeletons, and now the Void Tree User Skeletons have further mutated, which means...

Otto narrowed his eyes: "The next Herrscher is about to appear..."

“…Hershers?” Kallen, who was still wondering whether she was injured or not, looked at Otto. “It seems that the Herrshers of Knowledge has only appeared for less than a month?”

She knew that the second Herrscher appeared more than a decade ago, and even between the Herrscher of Ice and the Herrscher of Knowledge, the gap between them was not that long...

"Will the next Herrscher be more difficult to deal with than the Herrscher of Consciousness?" Kallen asked.

Otto was silent for a moment. How should he say this? In terms of strength alone, let alone the Herrscher of Rock who is about to appear, even if there is another Herrscher of Thousands, they will not be a match for the Herrscher of Knowledge... In terms of individual strength, the Herrscher of Knowledge should be considered the strongest Herrscher in this era except for the End. After all, her body is the forerunner of the previous civilization...

"It's okay, Kallen. Before the final sword of judgment falls, all of His apostles will be defeated one by one." Otto said, "These are not things you should think about now. Just leave them to me..."

"Why do you always say such things? I..." Karen bit her lip. It was always like this, and every time it made her feel powerless. Otto was always like this, with a sentence "I'll take care of everything" and left her where she was.

He braved the wind and rain and built a high wall for her, trying to keep the wind and rain out and leave her a piece of blue sky. However...she, who was surrounded by the wall, no longer wanted the so-called high wall, but wanted to walk with him.

She stretched out her hand, but the wall he had built was too high, so high that no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't reach him. She didn't even have a place to climb.

"I……"

The words she wanted to say were stuck in her throat. She didn't know what to do now. She had tried very hard to catch up with him, but...

Otto looked into Kallen's eyes without saying anything. Instead, he picked up the container, turned and walked to another unused container in his laboratory without looking at her again.

He didn't turn around until he heard the sound of the laboratory door opening and closing.

Kallen... why did you look at me? Why did you look at me with the eyes I once longed for? Hundreds of years have already separated us.

You are still the same you, but I am no longer the same me.

You should keep moving forward, your life still has infinite possibilities, but I have long been stuck in the past. If I cling to the past, I will no longer be able to step into the future.

This is not what I want...

"Heh... How long do you want to impress yourself? You are self-sacrificing, self-satisfying, and self-touching. The girl has taken the initiative. Who are you showing this to?"

Xukong Wanzang's sarcastic voice sounded.

"She shouldn't have kept her eyes on me." Otto simply replied.

Kallen, muster up your courage, muster the courage you once had when you rebelled against your destiny, break with the past and embrace the future.

Do you remember your dream? This era is good now. You will meet more people who are better than me and start all over again, just like when you were in the Far East.

I have never been worthy of your stopping for me. Perhaps our meeting was a mistake from the very beginning, but I don’t regret meeting you, because it was you who told me, when I was desperate about the world, that there were still people who were looking forward to me and who cared about me.

That was the first time I felt kindness from the world.

It's also my fault. It was my wishful thinking that made you unable to face the future. It's my fault. It's my stubbornness that made me unable to protect you even in the end.

So, don't look at me anymore.

Otto Apokalis, a despicable villain, a self-deceiving fool, was never worthy of Kallen Kaslana.

Outside the laboratory, Karen walked in the aisle of the Destiny Airport with her head down.

Otto, I have long lost the courage to move towards the future. I have always been deceiving myself by wanting to stay in the past. I have clearly chosen to accept death and escape the reality that I cannot change. It is you who brought me back to the world of the living from the other side of death, and it is you who pulled me from the past to the present.

But why?

You stubbornly resurrected me, but refused to hold my hand again. Instead, you repeatedly tried to push me away, pushing me towards the future that I once escaped from, but you stayed in the past.

Otto, my only old friend in this world, my great inventor...

Tell me, what should I do?

Rita, who was passing by with documents in her hand and preparing to look for Otto: "..."

How did it become like this again? Didn't the relationship between the Bishop and Lady Kallen just get closer? Why did Lady Kallen show such an expression again? What did you do, Bishop?

Rita felt a stomachache for the first time. As the confidant of the Bishop and the military advisor of Lady Kallen, she saw everything and was really troubled by the awkward and strange relationship between the two.

She had thought that after Lady Kallen was resurrected, she would be furious about all the shit that the Bishop had done over the past few hundred years, and would punch the Bishop so hard that he couldn't get out, and then she would make sure that the Bishop didn't cause any more trouble, thus performing a love comedy unique to Destiny in daily life.

But why does it make her stomach hurt so much now?

By the way, do Senior Ivar and the others who also saw everything really have no ideas?

Ivar: "People are working overtime, don't bother."

Chapter 161 A sudden rain is coming

Shaniyat Stigmata Space.

"It seems you are quite used to being here, Feng."

At a table, Alicia put her hands on her chin and said to Feng who was sitting next to her.

"After all, for me now, the world is actually only different in terms of what can be touched and what cannot be touched." Feng said calmly, "I have always been able to observe the world through the Stigmata of Shaniyate."

"Really? In other words, you actually know everything that happened recently?" Alicia said, tilting her head.

Feng was silent for a moment, then corrected his previous words: "I won't go to see everything. As for what you said, this is the necessary price for the advancement of civilization. A baby in swaddling clothes will eventually learn to stand on his own."

"Hmm~ It seems that we are in tune with each other. I didn't even tell you what it was, but you knew what I was going to say." Alicia smiled and said, "So, Feng, what do you think? The world today has a lot of deviations from the stories you once told."

"Indeed... But these are just trivial matters. We don't need to interfere, and there is no need for us to interfere." Feng picked up the teacup in front of him and took a sip of tea before saying, "The Herrscher of Rock is about to appear, and after the Herrscher of Rock, the remaining Herrschers of Sequence will not be able to win by sheer force."

"Speaking of the Herrscher of Sequence, I remember very clearly that you said before that the Herrscher of Ice and the Herrscher of Rock awakened at about the same time, and that the Herrscher of Ice and the Herrscher of Rock seemed to have some special relationship?" Alicia said, "What's the situation now?"

"His eyes have already moved away from Night Owl. If it were me, I would not choose him as my apostle." Feng put down the teacup in his hand. "Perhaps at that time, He just wanted to use this opportunity to give the core of the Herrscher of Rock to the Herrscher of Ice to speed up the arrival of the end and make the Herrscher of Ice, who was still in a weak state at the time, even stronger, just like... the Herrscher of Void."

"After all, no matter how you look at it, that Night Owl is not a suitable choice. Judging from the final result, Night Owl is just a transit station for the Herrscher core." Lilith drank tea calmly, "He just happened to be there, and happened to have a weakness in his heart that allowed Honkai to break his heart and take advantage of the opportunity. As a Herrscher, his physical fitness is not as good as Walter Yang. Now with the interference of Feng, Honkai was blind enough to choose Anna as the Herrscher body before, and he won't be blind again to choose such a weak Herrscher."

"That's right..."

"By the way, Alicia, do you have nothing to do in World Snake all day?" Lilith leaned back. "It seems that you have been staying in the Stigmata Space recently and rarely go out. Or, after 50,000 years, have you turned yourself into a homebody?"

"Huh?" Alicia glanced at Lilith, "Aren't you staying in the Stigmata space all day and refusing to leave?"

"I'm not the Lord of the World Serpent. Look, I'm not even on the Shaniyat family tree." Lilith spread her hands, "I just have nothing to do. Besides, I'll be wherever Feng is. Anyway, the world is never worth it."

The corner of Alicia's eye twitched.

"Then I really don't have anything to do. Everything I need to do can be done in Shaniyat's stigmata space." Alicia said unhappily.

More importantly, why should she leave Lilith outside and stay with Feng inside? It was like this 50,000 years ago, and it will be like this 50,000 years later, right?

"It's up to you. You've been sleeping in the Future for thousands of years anyway, so it's normal to stay at home for a while." Lilith shrugged.

"I...I'm also trying to find a way to contact Feng, okay?"

"Ah? Why do I feel like my daughter ran away after a disagreement, and Feng is gone too. She had no place to cry and make a fuss, so she simply gave up on herself and went into the [future] to sleep to escape reality, and then accidentally discovered that she could contact Feng through the [future]?" Lilith raised the corner of her mouth slightly, looking at Alicia with some amusement.

Alicia pouted and finally said, "...I didn't! I just finished what I had to do, and then went on to do what I wanted to do."

Having said that, Lilith was indeed right to some extent.

Alicia had long felt that there was an ambiguous connection between herself and Feng, but she couldn't find it no matter how hard she tried. At that time, civilization still needed guidance, and her two daughters were a concern, so Alicia couldn't let go of everything and make a desperate attempt to find traces of Feng.

The unexpected "death" of Lilith and Mavis not only dealt Alicia another blow, but also completely severed her attachment to the world. From then on, she escaped into the "future" and no longer cared about worldly affairs. The only ones who could contact her were Mobius and Eden.

"That's why they say good people don't live long, because they live too hard. They have to consider this and care about that. Sometimes it's better to lower your moral bottom line and enjoy a free life." Lilith laughed wantonly.

"But the world cannot be without good people..."

"What does that have to do with me? You were a good person, and you saw what the previous civilization looked like at the end. Do you want to do it again?"

Alicia held her forehead with her hand. She felt that it was a waste of time to talk about this with Lilith, a woman whose moral bottom line was as bottomless as the abyss. There was nothing Lilith could not do, except what she could not think of.

And, most importantly, what Lilith said was true, she couldn't refute it...

Feng drank tea silently. A beautiful day in the Stigmata space began with the daily bickering between the Siwon sisters. Just get used to it, just get used to it...

"Come to think of it, Theresa has been quite busy lately, and the relationship between Saint Freya and Anti-Entropy doesn't seem to be as good as you said at the beginning, Feng." Alicia simply changed the subject, lest she continue to argue with Lilith and she would want to tear something apart. "Now Saint Freya and Anti-Entropy each have their own internal and external troubles, while Destiny... forget it, there's nothing much to say about Destiny..."

"Eh? Why don't you say anything? I'm obviously interested in her, too." Lilith said mischievously, "For example, that Kallen Kaslana? I think you and her must have a lot in common."

Alicia: "..."

Hard, the fist is hard. You are bringing up this topic, right Lilith... You are still bringing this up. You are really my good sister when it comes to this. Didn't you say that the former civilization would help Feng to capture me? How come I didn't see Feng's actions at all, but you were the one who was trying to poach me?

"Oh, I don't know who was the one who didn't take the initiative at the beginning. If I had taken a wrong step, I wouldn't have been able to defeat Feng." Lilith looked up at the sky, "He had already crossed the finish line and was going to stand on the podium, but he gave up."

Alicia: "... Let's talk business."

"It's nothing serious. You can guess it. It's just that Saint Freya and Anti-Entropy have become the perfect breeding ground for the Tenth Herrscher. The main event will come after the Ninth Herrscher incident is over." Lilith spread her hands and said in a nonchalant tone, "Besides, He should hate 'traitors' too."

"If that's the case, shouldn't we do something? At least help Theresa?"

Lilith gave Alicia a thumbs up and said, "Well said, go ahead."

Alicia: "..."

Lilith tilted her head: "Why are you looking at me? This has nothing to do with me. I only have eyes for Feng. If you want to help, go ahead. I really don't mind leaving Feng and I some more time alone together."

Alicia felt her blood pressure rising. Finally, she decided to ignore Lilith and looked at Feng: "Feng, what do you think?"

There would be no result in discussing this matter with Lilith. On the contrary, Feng would really care, because Theresa was indeed an old friend of Feng, even if she had forgotten her. For Feng, it didn't matter whether she remembered her or not. He only knew that he couldn't bear to see Theresa being bullied by Honkai.

Feng lowered his eyes: "There is no need to wait for the Tenth Herrscher incident. He has already set his sights on Saint Freya, and the tentacles of absurdism have also spread to Saint Freya."

"That is to say, the Ninth Herrscher will..."

"It's not that it will appear in Saint Freya, but that it has already been born in Saint Freya." Feng gently stroked the teacup in his hand, "However, due to the influence of the Origin Authority, the suppression and invasion of absurdism, and the fact that Saint Freya already has a Herrscher in charge, the Herrscher of Rock did not awaken so quickly."