Honkai Impact 3rd: Starting with creating an anime version of Honkai Impact 3rd

“Four years ago, when I first took over the research direction of Destiny, I discovered these disgusting parasites. I was furious, but killing them was not enough to atone for their sins, so I chose to stuff them into gasoline drums and sink them alive into the sea.”

For a moment, the people in the first two rows of the screening room stopped chatting.

"Aren't you afraid?"

"What are you afraid of? Uncle, you did the right thing!" Kiana was the first to support Yaqing, hugging him from behind.

“No parent with children would condone what those researchers did,” Mei chimed in in support.

"Grandpa...didn't he do anything about it?" Theresa asked.

“The Tianming Consortium’s subsidiaries are all over the world. It’s impossible for the president to know every single one of them. Besides, the president has already made arrangements…” Yaqing stopped midway through her sentence.

"What arrangements?" Theresa asked him curiously.

Not only Theresa, but also Shiyu Qiluo and the others looked at Yaqing with curiosity. They were at most mid-level employees at the Tianming headquarters, and they were very curious about the decisions made at some of the higher-ups.

To their surprise, Yaqing changed her tune, smiled knowingly, and said, "I won't tell you."

"I'm so angry! I want to punch him to death!" Theresa clenched her fists so tightly that the veins on her fair skin were clearly visible.

Kiana, looking at the experimental data on the computer, was both shocked and angry, and then called Cecilia over.

Cecilia was completely unaware of what the Tower of Babylon was doing behind the scenes, but she quickly connected the dots and realized that the Second Herrscher might not have come to the Babylon Laboratory just for the Honkai reactor.

“Cecilia, have you not dealt with the Second Herrscher yet?” Otto’s communication suddenly reached Cecilia.

"Bishop Otto?!"

"You haven't forgotten that you're fighting a Herrscher, have you?" Otto's tone was flippant. "The Honkai energy in the Babylonian Labs will make him even stronger. The longer it drags on, the lower your chances of winning will be."

"Of course I remember."

“There’s no time to waste with you now, Cecilia. I never fight a battle I can’t win. You’d better have a way to eliminate the Herrscher.” Otto’s tone was still light and playful, but it carried a hint of warning.

"If even you can't kill her, I'll launch a Honkai energy fission bomb to blow up the entire laboratory and the Herrscher together."

"What……"

"If you don't want me to do this, then bring me some good news."

"Yes……"

Otto's communications have ended.

Kiana was surprised that Otto was going to launch a missile to destroy the laboratory.

Cecilia comforted Kiana, saying that as long as she quickened her pace, she would be fine. She had her own plan to become the Second Herrscher, but she needed Kiana to do her a small favor for her.

"Please take the elevator you just used to, go to the underground power room, and turn off the power there. That way, I can open the path to the upper level."

North American Anti-Entropy Headquarters.

“Cecilia deliberately distracted Kiana, so she herself wasn’t very confident that she could defeat the Second Herrscher.” Einstein never let go of his coffee.

"What the hell is that bastard Otto up to now?! Sometimes, I really want to punch that bastard in the face." Dr. Tesla was still as irritable as ever.

"It's obvious he's up to something."

Walter Joyce glanced at Walter Young, who was leaning against the wall and looking up at his glasses, and said irritably, "You have no manners, neither standing nor sitting. What are you pretending to be so profound by leaning against the wall?"

Walter Young immediately lost his composure and obediently sat down next to Tesla.

Tesla mocked them without hesitation.

Even Einstein smiled.

On her way to the underground power room, Kiana suddenly remembered the voice in her dream saying that during the battle with the Second Herrscher, Schicksal launched missiles at them out of fear of Cecilia's defeat, and the situation she was facing now was exactly the same.

"How could this be... Could it be that Mom... No! I will never let this happen!"

Kiana searched for the power switch in the underground power room. Time passed slowly, and she found a piece of paper in the diary, but there was no power switch anywhere around.

"That's right! The diary... I wonder if there's any clue about the power switch in this diary entry?"

In desperation, Kiana pinned her hopes on a diary she had just found in the power room, but according to the diary's contents, this was not a power room at all, but a safe house.

"Mom clearly said this is Power City, she wouldn't be lying to me, would she...? Wait, no way..." Kiana had a thought.

"As expected, there was no power room at all. Cecilia deliberately tricked Kiana into going to the safe house in order to protect her."

"An admirable lady."

Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Origins of St. Freya Academy

Kiana practically sprinted back to the elevator and pressed the button several times, but the elevator showed no sign of starting. She anxiously looked up, as if she could see Cecilia through the ceiling.

"Please forgive me for lying to you, Kiana."

The message from Cecilia struck Kiana like a thunderbolt.

"Lady Cecilia?! Open the elevator immediately!"

The camera panned to the upper level, where Cecilia simply shook her head gently, her eyes filled with tenderness. She softly instructed Kiana to stay in the safe house, assuring her that even if the Honkai energy fission bomb destroyed the Babylon Laboratory, it wouldn't harm her.

Cecilia wants to defeat the Herrscher alone.

Kiana clearly disagreed, but Cecilia had already hung up on her.

The next moment, Kiana actually found the elevator key card near the elevator.

The plot unfolded in a very strange way, as if the elevator key had appeared out of nowhere, or as if it had been prepared specifically for Kiana, which quickly attracted the attention of some people.

However, those who knew the plot kept quiet, including Kiana herself.

[When Kiana arrived at the upper floor in the elevator, Cecilia had already died in battle. Amidst the Second Herrscher's mocking tone, Kiana opened her eyes again, only to find herself back in front of the elevator in the safe house.]

"Is the person behind this trying to get Kiana to save Cecilia?" As the movie plot unfolded, Mei overturned her initial assumption.

Mei's initial plan was to have Cecilia die in front of Kiana, causing Kiana to have a mental breakdown and have her body taken over by the virtual Sirin, or to have Otto inject the Herrscher of the Void core into her.

“It’s not that simple.” Mebius’s attention gradually shifted from Ya Qing to the movie. “If all that’s needed is to save Cecilia, then this whole segment won’t advance the plot at all.”

Mebius seemed to have thought of something.

Seeing Mebius's expression, Mei understood somewhat. "That's terrifying."

Kevin scratched his head, puzzled.

"Mei, what are you talking about? What's scary? This movie isn't scary at all."

"……nothing."

Kiana, realizing what was happening, didn't have time to think it through. There wasn't enough time to wait for the elevator, so she found a small passage under the bed in one of the rooms of the safe house and went through the passage to the outside of the laboratory.

Just as the Second Herrscher was about to kill Cecilia, Kiana finally arrived and fired a shot at her from behind. Cecilia seized the opportunity and plunged the Black Abyss White Flower into the Second Herrscher's body.

"Damn it!! You just wait!"

The Second Herald has disappeared.

“She escaped…” Cecilia breathed a sigh of relief.

“No, my thinking has gone down a dead end.” Mei shook her head slightly. “I’ve been thinking that Otto is the mastermind behind this, but it’s also possible that Sirin could influence this virtual space…”

Sirin didn't want to kill Cecilia?

Even in virtual space.

Mei put forward this conjecture.

Theresa, sitting in the front row on a soft chair, dangling her legs, looked very happy and smiled, saying, "Grandpa wasn't always doing bad things, he still gave Kiana the chance to save Cecilia."

"Excuse me for speaking frankly, Headmaster." Fu Hua, however, had another idea. "The Otto in the movie is not the same person as the real Otto. Judging from the plot of the first movie, he is the kind of person who will do anything to revive his lover."

“Otto?” Theresa looked at Fu Hua again with suspicion. Students at St. Freya Academy rarely called her by her first name; they usually addressed her as President Otto.

"Ah...hahaha..." Fu Hua laughed awkwardly.

Himeko glanced at Fu Hua thoughtfully.

Xiao Shi nudged Fu Hua with his elbow and whispered, "Old man, didn't you answer..."

Before he could finish speaking, Fu Hua covered his mouth.

"Lady Cecilia, please let me fight alongside you!"

"Kiana, it's dangerous here. Let's get back to the safe house quickly."

Both held their own opinions and couldn't convince each other until Kiana mentioned what her father had once told her: "You must give everything to protect the one you love most." Cecilia was finally persuaded by Kiana, but...

"Kiana... I'm only 24! Don't call me Mom, call me Sister! Okay?"

"Ouch! Ouch! Don't pinch me!"

The two of them followed the Second Herrscher's trail together. Inside the laboratory, they were besieged. After resolving the battle, Cecilia looked at the petri dishes filled with green liquid around the corridor.

"Those 'doctors,' in order to strengthen their Honkai energy resistance, stole their emotions and memories, turning them into puppets who could only obey orders and fight."

Cecilia absolutely disapproved of such behavior; in her view, what difference was there between this and killing them?