Honkai: It’s broken, I have become the Herrscher of Corrosion?

After the Korosten incident, Theresa had consulted Fu Hua, who was also a fusion warrior, about the man-made collapse. Coincidentally, like Kosmo, Theresa's super mutation factor came from Vishnu. The biggest difference between the two was that the Vishnu factor in Theresa's body had not devoured other Honkai beasts, and was only at the Emperor level when it was discovered.

The Vishnu in Kosmo's body had grown to the Judgment Level when he was killed, and devoured a large number of Honkai Beasts in the Chimera Project. He was finally identified as the End of Dharma Level by the Fire Moth.

Fu Hua had already described to her in detail what the Kosmo would look like after the artificial collapse. So after the artificial collapse was actually used, Theresa immediately closed her eyes and began to imagine wildly.

(…Is it over? But…after experiencing the complete “man-made collapse”, I’m afraid I’m no longer the same as before. I wonder if Rita and the others will still recognize me after I return?)

Of course, this thought only flashed through her mind. Theresa knew that Kevin must be standing in front of her safely at this moment, and she had only blocked an attack.

Theresa slowly opened her eyes. What she saw was not the claws she had imagined. It was a pair of young girls' hands. The fingers were long and slender, and the nails were round. Just like all people approaching adulthood.

She had seen such scenes in her dreams countless times, but she had never thought that she would actually realize this wish that had long been buried deep in her memory under such circumstances.

(Have I grown up?)

The gift forgotten by fate would unexpectedly return to her in this way after being forgotten for decades. Even at such a critical moment, the girl still felt at a loss whether to laugh or cry.

(Does this count as... everyone being overprotective of me?)

Watching the icicles falling like raindrops, Theresa's eyes became more determined:

"Come on Kevin, our battle has just begun!"

The moon. A silver-grey desert with a surface area of ​​3800 million square kilometers, a dead wasteland more than four times the size of the Sahara. In this uninhabited corner of the planet, an ancient mechanical lifeform is staring at the big screen in front of it. In addition to being able to observe the situation around the world, there is also a constantly jumping countdown in the upper right corner of the screen.

Twenty-five minutes left.

The moon is high in the sky in Canghai City, and people who have been busy all day are falling into sweet dreams one after another.

Twenty minutes countdown.

The lights in Tianqiong City are just coming on, and the streets and alleys are filled with the happy smell of hot pot and malatang.

Countdown to fifteen minutes.

Moscow is about to usher in the evening rush hour after get off work, and the subway stations, which seem deserted at the moment, will soon be filled with crowded crowds of people.

Ten minutes countdown.

Belgrade's Oriental Street is enjoying a warm afternoon, and the comfortable cats are stretching lazily in the sunlight.

Countdown to five minutes.

In the summer of the southern hemisphere, Saint Fontaine was hit by a rare heavy rain. People who were not used to dark clouds even mistook it for a solar eclipse.

Countdown three minutes.

It was another quiet morning in New York City. A traveling painter sat on the lawn of Central Park, preparing to open a brand new sketchbook.

One minute countdown.

At the foot of Havana’s Morro Castle, early-rising children are receiving instruction from a martial arts master, clumsily but seriously practicing every move of Shenzhou boxing.

The countdown is over.

It happened in an instant.

The world was empty, nothing. Then, things that had been there before reappeared, as if nothing had changed. But it was only an illusion.

Mountains, oceans, rivers, cities, and even Hyperion 380,000 kilometers away... everything began to change and reorganize under the new rules.

The tiny humans who were in it have long disappeared——

They turned into mountains, turned into oceans, they merged into the planet itself, in the shared dream brought about by the "Stigmata Project".

"The earth is like a leaf. It grows before flowers and fruits, and builds up a living planet. Compared with it, all animal and plant life is just a parasitic life."

Gray Snake was not surprised by such a change, but recited a few of his favorite prose poems leisurely as usual.

He remembered that the author had said in another chapter:

"When manual laborers gaze into the fire at night, they purify themselves by throwing into it the messy and vulgar thoughts that they have generated during the day."

He looked at the statistics on the computer screen. These extremely trivial data were almost useless, but because they were quite complete, they also had a certain metaphysical value.

"If a person does not engage in any business, he will never achieve tranquility. Just by giving up, people will never be able to achieve success."

"Alas. The most difficult profession in the world should be a poet, right? To surpass all the glories of the past with one's own efforts... In any era, this is something that only geniuses can do.

...People like me can only say a few jingles to complement the clown when performing comedies for children."

After cleaning the room briefly, he returned to his computer screen and started deleting a batch of unnecessary files. One of them was a promotional video that he had devoted months of hard work to - but it was declared abandoned without ever being used.

...But he was not frustrated. He just played video games briskly while listening to his own magnetic recording for the last time through the headset.

"Good evening, human friends all over the world. I am Gray Snake, the temporary spokesperson for the World Serpent. I'm sorry to take up your time to watch or listen to other programs."

"In the next few minutes, I will tell you as briefly and concisely as possible how the fate of humanity and the planet has changed dramatically in the past few hours."

"In fact, thanks to the secret efforts of the snakes in our world, the disaster called "collapse" has completely disappeared on Earth. If you have felt unwell during the day just past...

Please don't worry, this is just a small side effect of our efforts to exorcise the "Honkai Impact". Your lives will not be threatened - not only that, they will also merge into an ocean of thought, into the spiritual Adam. "

"The real and ugly world will lose its meaning to you, and the eternal and sweet dream will become everyone's only reality. You will break free from the shackles of "time"; your dreams will connect with each other and build a true miracle that transcends everything. Bless you. The legendary paradise is quietly coming at this moment... and everyone who hears this gospel will gain the proof of "eternal life" in an incomparably real way."

The voice in the video ended here. Gray Snake laughed at himself and tapped the screen to completely destroy the source file of this video. The fruits of several months of labor were gone. However, at this moment, he felt fortunate that he always took on the most unique job among all the gray snakes.

"Taking care of children...is much more interesting than fighting and killing."