Honkai Impact 3, but I’m Amamiya Ren!

Since she cannot take shortcuts by using attribute insight, Amamiya Ren can only use the most simple method and rely on her own experience and judgment to choose tactics against the enemy.

"Come back for now, Arsen...it's your turn, Huodou!"

The pitch-black cursed flame shot out from the hands of the personality mask Arsene, detonating the violent flame balls that attacked Amamiya Ren behind him one by one, preventing any attack from getting past its defense line.

After receiving the order from Amamiya Ren, Arsen, who was wearing a bright red dress, slowly faded in the air, and finally turned into a white spirit bird mask and flew back to Amamiya Ren's cheek.

Amamiya Ren raised his hand, and with a graceful and neat movement, he took off the white mask from his face again, and with a shake of his wrist, he threw the spirit bird mask out again.

The temperature around suddenly rose to the extreme, and in the leaping high-heat waves, the personality mask of Goto, which was shaped like a golden-red saber-toothed tiger, suddenly appeared in front of Amamiya Ren.

As a personality mask with fire attribute, when faced with the huge amount of explosive flame balls fired from the sky by Kiriyukumaru, Kara seemed to be able to handle it with more ease than Arsene, who was even stronger than Kara.

The Huodou, which has extremely high resistance to fire, seemed to be like a fish in water when facing the rain of explosive flames shot from the Feiyukumaru. It allowed the explosive flames to bombard its body surface without suffering any damage.

The only thing was that the body was inevitably forced back a distance from its original position due to the continuous bombardment of the explosive flame ball.

"Anyway, we have to put Yae Sakura in a safe place first... I don't know if Hato's dream shield can carry one more person."

Since Yae Sakura is not the shadow in the palace but her own ghost, Amamiya Ren cannot just leave her alone and let her lie helplessly on the cruel battlefield full of flames of war.

The safest place in the palace right now is, of course, the dazzling purple protective shield that Hato deployed when summoning the Personality Mask.

However, Amamiya Ren didn't know whether Yuto could accommodate other people in the protective shield.

Moreover, Yaesakura's current condition is unclear. If she wakes up and is still in the enemy's state, then Hatagu who faces Yaesakura in the protective shield will be in danger.

Just when Amamiya Ren was about to call on Hato to drop the dazzling purple protective shield from the sky and place Yaezakura behind the protective shield to act as a shield.

Yaezakura, who was leaning softly on Amamiya Ren's chest, let out a somewhat rapid gasp. She had woken up at some point, and her slender white jade hands gently grasped the collar of Amamiya Ren's shirt on her chest, successfully attracting Amamiya Ren's attention.

"Are you awake? That's great. It looks like you've finally returned to normal."

After realizing that Yaezakura had woken up, Amamiya Ren's body suddenly tensed up for a moment.

However, after seeing Yaesakura's extremely weak expression and her clear blue pupils again, Amamiya Ren slowly relaxed and greeted Yaesakura who was leaning in his arms.

"I'm sorry, this is all Sakura's fault. It was Sakura who involved Mr. Joker..."

Chapter 44: Not Even a Moment of Mourn for Yaezakura's Death

"It has nothing to do with you. I am standing on this battlefield with my own will... You are very weak now, so you'd better hide well. Leave the battle to me, Yutu Shiyuan and the others."

While Amamiya Ren was talking to Yae Sakura in his arms, he did not relax his control over the personality mask Kaguya, and gave it one combat order after another in his mind.

The Huotou let out a deafening roar, and its huge golden and red body was burning with raging flames. The output power of the entire personality mask doubled.

After completing its own strengthening, Huodou's ferocious and sharp claws suddenly stabbed towards the huge white fox Feiyuwan with great force.

With the assistance of Armored Hato and Kallen, the powerful claw attack of the personality mask Kaguya fell on the white fox body of Higashimaru without reservation.

However, Huodou's full-strength claw attack with a burning attack only pushed Feiyuwan back a dozen meters and left a shallow blood mark on her body. It did not cause enough damage to her, but instead made Feiyuwan even more angry.

As Feiyumaru ignored the attacks from Armored Hato and Kallen, he used his five thick fox tails to tightly wrap around the golden-red body of the Goto like ropes, and madly poured corrosive energy into the Goto's body.

The tightly bound Huotou immediately began to struggle hard, but its golden and red body was still irresistibly stained with the dangerous dark red.

"Oh no, come back quickly, Huodou!"

He realized that his control over the personality mask Kaguya was gradually weakening, and that the control seemed to be taken away by Feiyukumaru as the dark red energy eroded him.

Amemiya Ren's eyes suddenly widened, and he immediately changed the evil spirit that was tied up by the five huge fox tails of Feiyukumaru into the form of a mask, and summoned it back into his palm.

After obtaining the personality mask of Kaguya, Amamiya Ren discovered that it possessed a passive skill called [Unyielding Fighting Spirit].

In other words, it is a special ability that allows one to revive once more in full strength after HP is reduced to zero.

That's why Amamiya Ren planned to use Huoto to engage in a war of attrition with Feiyukumaru, but he didn't expect that Huoto was completely defeated by Feiyukumaru before he could even use his passive skill of Indomitable Fighting Spirit.

Holding the white spirit bird mask symbolizing Huoto in his hand, Amamiya Ren discovered that half of the mask had been eroded into dark red, becoming a mask that was clearly half red and half white.

The evil and strange corrosive force exploded on the mask with a strong impact, causing Amamiya Ren and Yaezakura in his arms to fall to the ground.

"Ordinary shikigami can't fight against that guy... They can't fight against Feiyumaru. I knew it clearly after I recovered my memory, because Feiyumaru is my other half, another me."

Yaezakura lay on Amamiya Ren's thighs as she sat on the ground. She stretched out her delicate little hand forward and gently grasped Amamiya Ren's hand which was stretched towards her face, trying to summon back the white spirit bird mask representing Arsene.

"This matter was caused by Sakura. It was because Sakura opened the box that a big mistake was made, which led to the situation today... Although we have known each other for a short time, I can feel the determination in Mr. Joker's eyes and the pioneering spirit in his heart that forges ahead into the future."

Yaezakura exerted a little force with her slender white and delicate hands, and lying on her back on Amamiya Ren's thighs, she slowly clenched Amamiya Ren's palm, her blue eyes filled with a color called enlightenment.

"Sakura begs Mr. Joker to accept Sakura's power and allow this sinful body to become Mr. Joker's sharp blade. Only when Sakura becomes Mr. Joker's Shikigami can she resist the corrosive power of the Scarlet Prison Maru and cause her enough damage and fatal blows."

"Ah, although I really want to receive your power, but..."

Faced with Yaezakura's sincere request, Amamiya Ren could only blink silently, and for a moment she didn't know how to explain to Yaezakura.

Although Amamiya Ren had admitted her guessed identity as Onmyoji in order to deal with Yae Sakura, he was essentially a personality mask user, not a real Onmyoji.

Even if Yaezakura is not a living person but a ghost who has been dead for five hundred years, Amamiya Ren does not know how to turn the soul of a living person into her own personality mask.

"Since Mr. Joker has agreed, Sakura can rest assured."

After getting Amamiya Ren's approval, Yaezakura's weak and delicate face suddenly blossomed into a dreamy smile that was as beautiful as cherry blossoms and as fleeting as a falling cherry blossom.

In an instant, the delicate body of Yaezakura, who was held in Amamiya Ren's arms, suddenly became lighter, and her slender and well-proportioned body turned into a sky full of cherry-pink light spots, circling in front of Amamiya Ren.

Only the white fox mask hung on Yaezakura's waist did not disappear. Against the backdrop of cherry pink light spots, it slowly floated in the air in front of Amamiya Ren.

The cherry-colored light spots transformed from Yaezakura's body gathered inside the white fox mask in mid-air like swallows returning to their nests, and a cherry-colored three-magatama pattern was outlined in the center of the white fox mask's forehead.

“…Is this even possible? It actually turned into a mask?!”

Seeing that Yaesakura transformed herself into a personality mask and offered it to her before she even did anything, Amamiya Ren opened her eyes wide in shock.

"Forget it, we can't just sit there and wait for death when something happens - it's time to fight, Yaesakura!!"

Still on the battlefield, Amamiya Ren quickly put aside all unnecessary thoughts and reached out to grasp the white fox mask in front of her.

Gently placing the white fox mask decorated with cherry-colored magatama on her face, Amamiya Ren seemed to feel the warm body temperature of Yaezakura, and smelled the fragrant aroma like cherry blossoms. In her heart, she felt a sense of fulfillment and security that Yaezakura was with her.

As Amamiya Ren shouted in a deep voice, the white fox mask that carried Yae Sakura's soul flew out from his hand at high speed, and headed straight for the huge white fox Himekumaru who was fighting with Armored Hato and Kallen.

A familiar figure with slender cherry-pink fox ears, wearing a red and white shrine maiden costume, with long cherry-colored hair swaying in the wind and a cherry-red spirit sword tightly grasped in her hand, suddenly appeared in front of Feiyukumaru who had a stunned expression!

The one who rushed to the battlefield without even a moment of mourning for Yaesakura’s death was————

Persona Yaezakura!!!

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Next chapter, the death of Feiyuwan!

Chapter 45 This is the true meaning of [the act of founding a nation]!

"Sorry to have kept you waiting, Kallen. Let's fight side by side from now on!"

The sharp sword light suddenly spread out, and the cherry-red sword light instantly enveloped the entire world. The explosive flaming bombs violently fired from the Feiyuwan were completely shattered in an instant.

The cherry-colored shrine maiden in red and white shrine maiden costume stepped over the sparks scattered across the sky and landed nimbly and quickly next to Kallen Kaslana who was in the middle of a tough battle.

Looking at the extremely familiar beautiful face of the white-haired girl beside her, even though she was on a harsh battlefield at this moment, Yaesakura couldn't help but let out a gentle smile on her delicate face.

"Sakura! Are you finally back to normal?!"

Watching as Yaezakura's eyes were no longer filled with scarlet and violence, but returned to their usual gentle and clear blue beauty.

Kallen, who looked a little dusty due to the battle with Higashimaru, suddenly revealed a smile of joy from the bottom of her heart.

"Ya-jue-Sakura--!! What on earth did you do?!"

Yaesakura was stunned that Feiyumaru had lost all his strength because he was supposed to be possessed by herself, but now he became full of energy again.

However, after taking a closer look, Feiyumaru, who recognized Yaesakura's current condition, suddenly widened her scarlet fox eyes to the limit, and a roar full of anger came from her throat.

Ever since Kallen Kaslana used the power of the Key of Constraint to re-seal himself and the possessed Yae Sakura into the Soul Steel Black Box five hundred years ago, Hibarikumaru has been forced to begin a symbiotic relationship with Yae Sakura.

As five hundred years passed, the existence of Feiyumaru and Yaezakura became more and more entangled and inseparable, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that the two have become the same person.

This special holy scar space is supported not only by Yaezakura, but also by the power of the Herrscher of Corrosion, Feiyumaru.

If the seal is lifted one day, it will not be Yaesakura or Feiyumaru alone who walks out of the Soul Steel Black Box, but both of them will see the light of day together.

There is now a strange symbiotic state between Yaezakura and the Herrscher of Corrosion, Feiyukumaru.

However, just now, Yaezakura turned all her spirit and strength into a stigma, and gave it to Amamiya Ren, making herself the personality mask of Amamiya Ren.

Feiyukumaru, who is closely related to Yaezakura, suddenly felt that his strength had been lost to a greater extent at this moment, and he felt tired and weak for the first time in a long time.

"I see, there is actually such a method, Tianyuan Road... I didn't expect that Joker would choose such a difficult road full of thorns and bumps. Although it is difficult and arduous, the end of the road is also powerful enough, even enough to compete with the [Evil God]!"

Looking at the Sakura-colored priestess Yae Sakura who joined the battle with the spiritual sword Sakura Fubuki in hand, placing herself in the Joker's heart and closely connected with Amamiya Ren, she looked very powerful.

When Hata realized what happened between Yaezakura and Amamiya Ren, her blue-purple eyes became brighter.

"I seem to be gradually able to understand what Joker once said to me before, the meaning of the so-called "like the act of founding a country"."

Hatagi felt that she gradually understood everything.

The so-called Tianyuan Road is a thorny road that does not rely on a single stigma power that one possesses, but rather stacks the power of two or more stigmata layer by layer, using one's own original stigma power as the main body to guide and enhance power.

Hatagi originally thought that Amamiya Ren's method of awakening the stigmata was a misguided approach, and that he had ended up in a dead end in his quest for a shortcut to power.

But looking at it now.

Although on the surface she had walked into a dead end, Amamiya Ren had already made up her mind to completely smash the wall at the end of the dead end, and continue to walk towards the distant end stubbornly, creating a path that belonged to her alone.

It is already a miracle to fully awaken the stigmata that one possesses. Even if you look at the entire world, there are no more than five people who can do this.

But in addition to fully awakening her own stigmata, Amamiya Ren also intended to awaken the power of other stigmata.

It was not until this moment that Hato fully understood why Amamiya Ren had been obsessed with exploring the so-called palace.

It is obvious that Amamiya Ren is trying to gain the recognition of the holy wills that exist in the holy space, so as to inherit the great power of those holy marks and then step into the way of Tianyuan!

This is different from the practice of taming a subordinate Honkai beast, which has little effect on improving one's own strength.

Just like establishing an unprecedented magnificent country, with the approval of the will of the stigmata, other stigmata are accommodated into the body to build a brand new system.

Even the strength of Amamiya Ren, which should have been unable to be improved, can be continuously improved with each and every stigma taken in.

One day, even if Amamiya Ren's physical fitness surpasses his personality mask, this is theoretically entirely possible!

In order to save the world, Kevin once put his life in the barrel of a gun and voluntarily performed the Chimera Project operation. Eventually, a huge group of beasts composed of Honkai beast factors formed in his body, and he gained enough strength to struggle and survive in front of the end.

In order to fight against Kevin and stop him from implementing the Stigmata Plan to seize human freedom, Amamiya Ren has also embarked on a similar yet different path, intending to create a country composed of the will of the Stigmata in her own mind.

This is the true meaning of founding a nation!

"Celebrate! The world-famous great thief Joker, who will shine in the future, has taken the first step on his road to saving the world. This is the moment when he is recognized and followed by the first personality mask, Yae Sakura!!"

As if cheering for Amamiya Ren's conquest of Yaezakura, the dream projection Yuto, wearing full purple and white armor, raised the spear in his hand high, and the gorgeous purple phantom clouds like a dream covered the blue sky.

Then, bursting out from the dreamlike purple cloud, a sky full of purple darts fell like a meteor shower.

The sharp purple darts that fell from the sky one after another continuously bombarded the huge white fox body of Feiyuwan, who was unable to dodge in time. Amid Feiyuwan's screams of pain, she was left with long and hideous scars.

"Very good, if we keep going like this, I think we can do it!"

Seeing that the momentum of Feiyuwan was obviously much weaker than at the beginning and no longer had the tremendous power it had before, Kallen's eyes suddenly lit up. She had already seen the hope of victory.

"Please, please try harder, Judas!"

Kallen placed her hands tightly on the cold soul steel cross of the Judas Oath, and she injected all the Houkai energy in her body into the Judas Oath in one go.

From the expansion box inside the Judas Oath, dozens of golden chain guns flashing with cold light were projected with great momentum.

The golden soul steel chains tightly bound Feiyuwan's huge white fox body, and some of the chain gun's spear tips were deeply nailed into the ground, locking Feiyuwan to the ground.

The remaining golden spear tips penetrated into Feiyuwan's body with unstoppable force, and with the power of the restraint key, they did their best to weaken Feiyuwan's ability to resist.

"Eightfold Fire Wall——Red Lotus Karma Fire!!"

Yaezakura slowly stood still and got ready. In the next moment, like falling cherry blossoms, Yaezakura's figure disappeared.

Then her figure suddenly appeared in front of the imprisoned and blocked Feiyumaru, the spiritual sword Yingfuxue in her hand was burning with blazing flames like red lotus, and in an instant she swung out hundreds of terrifying slashes.

The sword light of hellfire, which was attached with high temperature and blazing flames, slashed down as if it was going to chop up this space along with Feiyuwan's body.

When Yaesakura gracefully paused behind the five huge fox tails of Higashimaru that were drooping limply on the ground, she calmly put Sakura Fubuki's sword back into its sheath.