Honkai Impact: The Dream Keeper

Just after the Herrscher of the Void summoned the Honkai Beasts, these Honkai Beasts engaged in battle with the mech forces. Menmo and the others also fought against the Honkai Beasts from time to time. After Menmo restrained one Honkai Beast, Bronya transformed into Faiz and protected Menmo from behind.

Not far from the group, there were some red mechs firing tens of thousands of missiles at the Herrscher of the Void. The Herrscher of the Void watched the missiles come at her silently. The next second, the Herrscher of the Void moved. With a snap of her fingers, a bunch of small black holes appeared in front of her. Then, the Herrscher of the Void manipulated the small black holes to retaliate against the group.

In an instant, the battlefield was devastated, all the mechs were destroyed, and although Menmo and the others were bombarded by missiles, they were only seriously injured and knelt on the ground. Menmo held his bleeding left hand with his right hand and looked at the Herrscher of the Void.

The Herrscher of the Void looked down at the devastation on the ground like a god. A dragon-shaped Honkai Beast appeared beside the Herrscher of the Void and stood in front of Men Mo and the others after landing.

The Herrscher of the Void stood high above the dragon-shaped Honkai Beast in the void, looking down at everyone as if they were ants.

Just as the Herrscher of the Void unleashed her skill to completely annihilate Menmo and the others, she was bound by an attack. Upon closer inspection, everyone saw that Theresa had arrived with her Judas to provide support.

"Are you all alright?" Theresa asked.

"It's alright, I won't die. My left hand is bleeding and a little painful, but it's not a big problem," Men Mo said.

"That's good, you've finally made it here," Theresa said.

"Why are you so slow?"

"You have the nerve to say that? After you saw Mei get into trouble, Zhang Qing and Yunshan summoned their contracted beasts and took you with them. I couldn't stop you," Theresa said.

Theresa then turned to Einstein and said, "Doctor, I made it, but Kiana..."

"A high concentration of Honkai energy was detected in Kiana's body, the value... 4458 HW. I really hope the detector is malfunctioning," Einstein said.

"Damn, that's really high..." Menmo sighed.

"And what about your fleet?" Theresa asked again.

"All 67 mechs in the advance team have lost their signal transmission," Einstein said.

“Because they were all wiped out,” Bronya said.

"Yes, but although the enemy's numbers have decreased, a large number of reinforcements are constantly joining the battlefield. The current situation cannot be considered optimistic," Einstein said.

“I understand… but we have no choice but to take the gamble…” Theresa said.

"As long as we can awaken Kiana's consciousness, we still have a chance to win," Qingmo said.

The four injured losers forced themselves to their feet, and Qingmo said, "We'll join in too."

“But your injuries…” Mei said, looking at the four of them with concern.

"It's just a minor injury, I won't die," Yunshan said, waving his hand.

"Henshin! x4"

As the sound rang out, Decade, Skull, Ryuki, and Knight appeared, once again engaging the Honkai Beasts in battle. Seeing their stubbornness, Theresa couldn't say anything, while Bronya and Mei transformed into Faiz and Gaim to join the fray.

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"Ha-ha-no, the injury seems to be a bit too serious, my strength is starting to drop rapidly." Men Mo said, holding his knife and forcing himself to stay upright.

"—Weak, insignificant, overestimating yourself, struggling in your death throes only hastens your demise. After all this time, you still don't understand this principle, little girl. Why do you still stand in my way?" The Herrscher of the Void said to Theresa.

"Stop talking nonsense! That body doesn't belong to you!" Theresa shouted.

"How laughable. This body is a vessel created for me by greedy humans. It is a sacrifice prepared for my birth," said the Herrscher of the Void.

"Hehehe... But even ants have their value. Watching your clumsy, puppet-like dance is not without its own amusement. Bella, go and give them some pointers on their moves." The Herrscher of the Void commanded the dragon-shaped Honkai Beast.

"Oh no! An attack is coming!" Bronya shouted.

"Damn it, my body is completely exhausted... Get moving!"

Bella unleashed a beam of energy towards the people below, and everyone instinctively closed their eyes as the attack approached.

"boom--"

After everyone noticed that the beam of light hadn't hit them, they opened their eyes and saw a bullet firmly blocking the beam of light in front of them.

"This... a single bullet, blocked the energy of a Honkai Beast with Herrscher power?" Theresa exclaimed in shock.

"Who ruined my plans?!" the Herrscher of the Void asked angrily.

"Da-da-da"

Footsteps came from behind Men Mo and the others. Upon hearing the footsteps, Men Mo couldn't help but smile, then plopped down on the ground to relax, and said to those behind him, "They're finally here, Long Qiao..."

"What? Long Qiao?" Qingmo and the others were all dumbfounded.

"Hey! Menmo, what do you mean by that?" Qingmo asked.

"Brother Mo...is he really...Brother Qiao?" Bronya couldn't help but ask.

"Hahaha, Brother Mo, you're not quite right..."

The voice came from behind, but it was the voice of someone in their thirties or forties, not the voice of a 20-year-old youth, though one could vaguely sense that it was the voice of that boy.

“Indeed, I was wrong. I should call you…Future…Ryuki.”

After speaking, Menmo and the others turned to look at the newcomer. They saw a man in full silver-white armor with a fox-head-shaped head slowly walking over.

"This is... an Extreme Fox?" Qingmo asked.

“That’s right…it really is Extreme Fox…long time no see…Old Mo…and everyone…”

The voice of a young man came from behind the mask. Then, after the fox deactivated its transformation, it revealed a face covered in scars, white hair tied in a low ponytail, silver cross-shaped earrings on both ears, a white ring on the ring finger of its left hand, and a white robe that was half-stained with scarlet blood.

"Yo... my name is Ryuu Takumi... but I'm the future Ryuu Takumi." The future Ryuu Takumi said with a smile, looking at everyone present, but his eyes were already filled with tears.

Then, Future Dragon Clever slowly walked up to Bronya, knelt down, and extended his calloused and scarred right hand to gently stroke Bronya's cheek. When Bronya looked at Future Dragon Clever from his hand, two lines of tears had already appeared on Future Dragon Clever's face.

“Long Qiao…? Are you Long Qiao from the future?” Bronya asked.

"Yes...it's been a long time, Bronya...and...I'm sorry..."

Looking at the girl in front of him, Future Longqiao choked up, and the next second he hugged Bronya and burst into tears. Bronya took out her right hand and gently stroked Future Longqiao's head to comfort her.

After a while, Future Dragon Clever stood up and looked at the Herrscher of the Void, saying, "Next... I will fight you!"