My days as a Simulation Herrscher since the Honkai Impact

"Lilia, you've betrayed us!"

“Idiot Rosalia, Cocolia’s mother can’t beat a Herrscher, she can’t save you at all,” Lilia replied, squinting.

She had long known that Bai Chen's power as a Herrscher was far beyond what Cocolia could currently contend with; all they could do was obediently follow orders. In fact, let alone Bai Chen, even Sirin was beyond Cocolia's ability to handle, since she didn't possess a second Moon Throne.

"But we have effort and courage, a mere Herrscher... mmm..."

Before Rosalia could finish speaking, a towel appeared in her mouth, forcing all the words she was about to say back down into her stomach.

“Lilia, take this money and push your sister out so she can enjoy the scenery of Sky City.”

Bai Chen produced a thick wad of cash, placed it in Lilia's hand, ruffled her hair, and at the same time rubbed her little horn.

"You can buy whatever you want, play with whatever you want, but you can't give it to your sister, and you can't untie the ropes binding her. If I find out, you and your sister will be punished together," Bai Chen said with a smile.

"Ugh! Ugh! Ugh!" Rosalia's eyes widened as she struggled frantically, seemingly trying to say something, but unfortunately the towel was stuffed in so tightly that she couldn't utter a single word.

Lilia felt the money in her hand was incredibly heavy, and a cool sensation flowed down her hair from the large hand above her. She could only obediently nod, while secretly vowing in her heart that no matter what happened, she would never untie the ropes binding her sister.

With a small handbag and some money tucked inside, Lilia pushed her sister in her wheelchair out to the night market.

After the two disappeared through the door, Bai Chen sat back on the sofa and stretched lazily.

A lot happened today, and even he felt a bit tired after all the busyness.

Fortunately, the situation on all sides has stabilized now. All he needs to do now is wait for things to develop and then take Kiana into battle. Unlike Pokémon players who have to consider the order in which they deploy their Pokémon, he only has Kiana, so he can just watch her fight her way through the battlefield.

"Speaking of which, what about Mei, who wants to defeat Kiana and take her back? She went to Changkong City to absorb Honkai energy. I wonder if things will go smoothly for her."

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Under the cover of night, an entropy-reversing aircraft landed on the roof of a collapsed building, on a tarmac that was still relatively intact.

Two girls with long swords at their waists stepped out of the aircraft; they were Mei and Sakura.

"This city is different from all the ones we've seen along the way. How did it become so dilapidated?" Sakura asked in confusion.

"Because a Herrscher once appeared here. When the Herrscher was born, it triggered the Great Honkai Impact. The Honkai energy created countless Honkai Beasts and turned most of the people in the city into zombies. After the Great Honkai Impact ended, there was still a strong amount of Honkai energy left here, making it unsuitable for ordinary humans to live in. So it was completely abandoned, and no one is willing to come here to build houses or renovate facilities anymore," Mei answered in a low voice.

"Oh, I see, you must be that Herrscher." As a fusion warrior, Sakura was completely oblivious to subtlety.

"Yes, this is where the Herrscher of Thunder was born, and it is also the place where the Herrscher of Thunder's power is most likely to be restored."

Mei walked forward, wanting to return to the place in Changkong City where she had transformed into the Herrscher of Thunder, based on the direction in her memory.

Since joining St. Freya Academy, she has never returned to Changkong City. She never expected that after so many years, the once prosperous city would have fallen into such a state of ruin.

The ground was covered in stagnant, foul-smelling water, knee-high weeds, all sorts of insects, and frogs leaping among the puddles and grass. Occasionally, you could even spot a wild rabbit or two. The once prosperous city had now been completely transformed into a desolate paradise of nature.

"This is Honkai..." Mei couldn't help but mutter to herself.

Sakura followed closely behind him and expressed a different opinion: "This is the Honkai? It's too weak. It even left you with intact land, where weeds and wild animals can still grow."

"What we faced at that time was the desolation after the nuclear explosion."

Chapter 42 Mei, Standing in the Sky

A single strike is enough to destroy a city; immense power; immortal life; even capable of fighting in outer space; terrifying malice lurking among the masses; and a madness that threatens to destroy all of humanity upon its appearance.

On the ruins of Changkong City, two girls walked slowly in the night. One of them, with long fox ears and flowing hair, recounted her memories of the past.

"These are the Herrschers we face, the Honkai we face. Although I don't know why you are like this now, perhaps this will be your future as well," Sakura concluded.

Mei listened silently. The Herrscher that Sakura was talking about was completely different from the Herrscher she knew. She still remembered the Herrscher Wendy that she met when she was retrieving the Gem of Desire with Kiana and Bronya. That was the first time she had met someone who was also a Herrscher besides herself.

However, perhaps because she was not the original Herrscher, perhaps because the girl herself was unwilling to fight, or perhaps for some reason she did not know, in any case, the battle was not particularly difficult.

The Herrscher of the Void, Sirin, who appeared later, was very strong. The Moon Throne could not defeat her, and even Himeko's whereabouts are still unknown. However, she was only powerful to a limited extent and was not so powerful that people felt helpless or completely hopeless.

"But I feel that the Herrscher of Thunder doesn't seem to have as much power as you described," Mei said softly.

She has the most say in this matter, after all, she is the Herrscher of Thunder herself. Although she has been suppressing the will of the Herrscher of Thunder within her body and keeping it dormant, this just shows that the Herrscher's will is not as terrible as Sakura said.

“That’s your good fortune.” Sakura looked at Mei and could only say that.

"However, the Herrscher who summoned me is indeed very interesting. According to the data we observed, the Imaginary Tree is a towering tree that does not flow backward and can only grow upward. Yet, the Herrscher, who was born in the Imaginary Tree, found a way to defy this."

"Couldn't the Herrscher of the Void in your era do this?" Mei jumped off a boulder and released several arcs of electricity from her hand, paralyzing the two small Honkai Beasts below the boulder.

Sakura followed suit and jumped down. The invisible blade brought with it an extremely cold atmosphere, instantly slicing the paralyzed Honkai Beast into several pieces of hard ice crystals.

"No, absolutely not. If he can even reverse the flow of the Tree of Imaginary Numbers, then wouldn't we be unable to kill him in terms of time? Unless we find other ways to manipulate time, he is simply an invincible enemy."

"In fact, the Herrscher of the Void was the most difficult Herrscher to deal with before the Restraint. If it weren't for his anger, and his extreme contempt and arrogance towards humanity, he would rather die in battle than retreat in front of those insignificant mortals. With the power of the Herrscher of the Void, he could have completely devoured the human world little by little and dragged down the entire civilization."

Sakura recalled the information from those memories, the nameless warriors who died fighting against the Herrschers, and gently exhaled a breath of air carrying crystalline icy mist.

“You know what? I can’t die. When I was summoned, I was told that if I suffered a fatal injury, my time would be reversed to the moment before I was summoned. If that power were put on him, ha, with your abilities, you would never be able to defeat that Herrscher, and you could only watch helplessly as he destroyed everything.”

"But now, the Herrscher who possesses this power is actually standing on the same side as you, fighting against the Honkai..."

Her cherry-pink hair seemed to glow in the night, which was not an illusion, but a side effect left on her body after undergoing the fusion warrior modification surgery.

This fusion warrior from the previous era had witnessed the gradual decline of human civilization until the very moment before her own burial. She gave Mei a complex smile that was difficult to describe.

"Even I can't help but feel jealous of you all," she said.

A silence fell between them. Sakura was never one to talk much, and Mei only spoke more when she was with Kiana. They had said everything they needed to say, and they didn't know what else to talk about.

Only the occasional Honkai Beast that bursts forth breaks the silence. Sakura fully demonstrates her power, which surpasses that of an ordinary S-rank Valkyrie. Throughout the entire process, she is not seen drawing her sword, yet countless cold blades that seem to freeze even time appear on the Honkai Beasts.

The limbs froze into ice before they fell, and shattered into pieces upon impact. The corpses stretched along the path the two had taken, resembling a path paved with ice crystals.

Perhaps because it was night, or perhaps because no one really lived in this ruined city anymore, the Honkai Beasts were no threat. The damaged roads were easily leaped over by the two inhuman Valkyries with a little effort.

The journey was smooth and there were no detours. In this way, Mei quickly arrived at her destination.

This place once appeared to be a school, but where the school playground should have been is now just a bottomless, enormous pit. The surrounding school buildings have long since collapsed, with only one wall stubbornly standing the last.

Mei stood atop the ruins with a touch of nostalgia. It was here that she met Kiana. Back then, they were both very young. Kiana was a beautiful girl who loved to laugh and play, and sometimes her noise even gave Mei a headache.

Several years have passed, and she has returned here. She had fled here before to avoid the fact that she had become the Herrscher of Thunder, but now she has returned to reclaim the power of the Herrscher of Thunder.

They left in pairs, but returned alone. I wonder if Kiana will still have a smile on her face if she sees her again.

I suppose we'll never see it again...

"Have you thought it through? Once you take this step, there's no going back." Sakura crossed her arms and silently watched the Honkai energy gathering in the deep pit below.

“I have no other choice. Not just for Kiana, but also for Bai Chen, that Herrscher. I know very well that if I don’t become the person he expects me to be, he will do everything in his power to force me onto the path he wants me to become.” Mei pressed one hand to her chest, feeling the throbbing below and the faint calls and desires within her body.

"He's a complete bastard. Once I regain my power, I'm going to beat him up and take Kiana back!"

The girl's delicate figure plummeted into the enormous void.

In the instant of her fall, she seemed to hear the personality of the Herrscher of Thunder reciting some kind of poetry in her ear.

From this point on, flowers will bloom and fade, life will rise and fall, but do not look back, for it will all remain as it was yesterday.

A thunderous roar erupted, its sound shaking the heavens.

Chapter 43 Mei Wants to Fight

That was lightning rolling backwards.

Purple lightning rose from the ground into the sky like a waterfall surging backwards. Brilliant light burst forth in all directions, and immense power was born from the Honkai energy. What was originally just an empty space covered by energy had now become a sea of ​​lightning.

The energy was absorbed and transformed. The girl, who had lost her Herrscher core, was greeted by a warm embrace, like being thrown into her mother's amniotic fluid, when she returned to the place where she was born.

Raiden Mei, the Third Herrscher, as a native Herrscher, has a door in her body that connects to the Imaginary Tree. That is the true source of Herrscher power, a backdoor left by the Honkai Will in the rules of the world for her beloved people.

At that moment, the door burst open, and surging Honkai energy gradually condensed into new Conquest Gems from within it.

In the distant Sky City, Kiana clutched her chest. She could clearly sense the changes within her body; one of the Herrscher cores, the Conqueror Gem, which was originally located within her, was gradually disappearing.

"Mea Yi..."

She knew very well what this meant; it meant that Mei had regained her Herrscher power, and the things she had been unwilling to face were finally becoming a reality.

"This is the door left by the Imaginary Tree... No wonder even the Herrschers cannot directly confront the Honkai; in the end, their lifeline is still in the hands of the Honkai will."

Bai Chen observed Mei's changes and said thoughtfully.

He also has a similar door inside his body, but behind the door is not the Tree of Imaginary Numbers, but his system.

He wasn't a Herrscher after all; he was merely a simulation of becoming one. His power had absolutely nothing to do with the Honkai; in fact, it was all granted by the system he carried.

This is also because he is somewhat afraid of the Honkai Will. He is a complete outsider in the Honkai world. He is not connected to the Imaginary Tree, but he can use the power of the Imaginary Number. He can change the world and use his powers without the permission of the Honkai Will. He even wants to overturn the world and leave not even a trace for the Honkai Will.

They are utterly wicked and heinous, like rats in a rice granary.

Mei's transformation will not stop because of these prying eyes. After the Conquest Gem re-condenses in her body, the Honkai patterns representing the Herrscher of Thunder spread across her body and spread from her back to her limbs. Wings formed from Honkai energy crystals also begin to gradually form. She is gradually transforming into her complete Herrscher form.

Noticing Mei's change below, Sakura, standing above the void, gradually tightened her grip on the hilt of her sword.

She wouldn't refuse Mei becoming the Herrscher of Thunder because she was confident enough that if it were a new Herrscher of this era, even if she were the only one, she would be enough to cut her down.

If the girl below retains her human mind after waking up, she will naturally not resist a Herrscher who stands with humanity. However, if she is corrupted by the Honkai will and becomes a cancer that threatens the human world, she will immediately eliminate this threat.

Just as she had done before.

The lightning below was converging more and more, while the cold air above was becoming increasingly solid.

As snowflakes and hail began to fall from the sky, the lightning finally subsided, and Mei, suspended in mid-air, opened her eyes again.

"your name!"

Sakura clearly saw that the awakened girl's eyes contained the color of lightning, her expression was confused, and her gaze was unfocused.

She couldn't be sure if the girl still had her original way of thinking.

"My...my name..."

Mei repeated Sakura's question, but the voice she used was not the girl's original tone.

The voice was a little hoarse, seemingly carrying a hint of indifference and anger.

"I am Raiden Mei, and I will... reclaim everything I have lost with lightning!"

Lightning surged, sparks flew, and purple lightning enveloped the girl's entire body, carrying her into the sky in an instant.

She was like a bolt of lightning, splitting the pitch-black night in two, as endless lightning storms rained down from the sky, gradually coalescing. It was a power unique to Raiden Mei; the flickering lightning gathered in her hand, like Zeus in mythology gripping the scepter of lightning.

Under the influence of Honkai energy, the ethereal lightning gradually condensed into a sharp longsword, the Key of Heavenly Punishment, a tailor-made weapon forged by the Herrscher of Thunder and contained within the core of the Herrscher.