Necromancer, but pre-collapse civilization

　However, Quanzhou Port

　Officials had already prepared for the worst.

　Upon their urgent request for assistance, the nearest garrison acted swiftly, boarding a special train and rushing to Quanzhou Port day and night.

　Moros showed rare goodwill towards the negotiation experts sent by the Quanzhou Port authorities.

　He has done what he needed to do.

　He had achieved his goal, and Moros had no intention of engaging in a direct conflict with this powerful nation unless absolutely necessary.

　This does not bring him enough benefit.

Chapter 56 Farewell to the Past and the First Great Collapse

　Negotiations between Moros and the Quanzhou Port authorities proceeded exceptionally smoothly, as neither side intended to escalate the conflict further.

　Without paying any additional price, simply by guaranteeing his departure from Quanzhou Port, Moros managed to avert the controversy surrounding this assassination attempt.

　Of course, this is only a temporary calm from the official perspective of Quanzhou Port.

　For higher-level decision-makers, this incident is not yet over.

　However, Moros had no intention of waiting for a higher-ranking official envoy.

　After reaching an agreement with the Quanzhou Port authorities, Moros left Quanzhou Port that very night and disappeared from the sight of the local government.

　Even though this land possesses the world's most advanced surveillance technology, it still appears pale and powerless in the face of Moros, an exemplary spellcaster who is proficient in illusion magic and spatial teleportation, and is powerless to keep track of his whereabouts.

　Having shaken off the official pursuit, Moros began to wander freely in this country, which was remarkably similar to the land he had lived in before his transmigration.

　Moros wandered through the bustling streets and quiet alleys of the city, observing people's daily lives and listening to their laughter, as if searching for some kind of familiar feeling.

　However, he was ultimately disappointed.

　On a sunny afternoon, Moros stood in front of a familiar yet unfamiliar neighborhood.

　This was the place where he lived before he traveled through time, and it is also the place he deeply misses.

　However, the area has now been transformed into a beautiful park, and the residential buildings are long gone.

　He gazed at the lush green grass and the children playing, a complex mix of emotions welling up inside him.

　It's not the same world anymore.

　With a soft sigh, Moros decided to leave this place filled with memories.

　He casually opened a demiplane passage leading to the cemetery territory, ignoring the surprised looks and shouts of the ordinary people around him, and stepped into the slowly rotating, dark blue vortex.

　After passing through the deep and mysterious demiplane passage, Moros finally set foot on the gloomy lands of the Cemetery Territory.

　He walked straight toward the Level 5 Magic Guild, ignoring the crowds of undead soldiers outside the main camp walls and the occasional roars of the ghost dragons in the city.

　Although the Necropolis faction boasts one of the fastest formation rates of combat power among the nine factions in the world of Ashan, this advantage comes at a heavy price.

　The cemetery city is filled with negative energy and has a gloomy and eerie atmosphere, making it one of the two most uninhabitable areas, alongside hellish cities covered in volcanoes.

　However, for Moros, this environment will not become an obstacle for him to improve himself in the magic guild.

　Magic is omnipotent.

　Within the magic guild, the environment has become extremely suitable for human habitation due to the influence of various constant spells.

　Of course, this requires ignoring the distinctive cemetery scenery outside the window, and the skeletons that serve as attendants.

　The reason behind this is easy to understand.

　The origin of the Cemetery faction is actually the result of the Academy faction's (Silver City) cruel persecution of necromancers.

　After suffering defeat and being expelled from the war that swept through the Silver City, this group of mages who specialized in necromancy decided to establish their own faction, the Necropolis.

　Looking back at history, when these early necromancers were building the basic template for the cemetery city, many of them had not yet completed the "Endless Night Ritual" to transform into bloodless and tearless liches.

　In this context, the interior environment of their daily magical guild would certainly not be the same as that of the cemetery city.

　After navigating the winding passageway, bathed in the soft glow of the magic lamps enchanted with [Eternal Flame], Moros arrived at the library's entrance.

　Reaching out, he gently pushed open the library door, and a vast ocean of knowledge came into view.

　Before Raymond's eyes stretched an endless expanse of books. These were not ordinary books, but magical tomes and spellbooks containing profound magical knowledge.

　These books were neatly arranged on bookshelves, where dazzling magical runes flowed continuously, firmly protecting the books placed on them.

　Moreover, the sheer number of these magical tomes was so great that even with the library's space expanded by magic, it was still difficult to accommodate all the books; they were piled up like mountains, filling every inch of space.

　Moros believed that if he could truly master the contents of these magical tomes...

　The knowledge recorded therein would be nothing to boast about achieving a high level of legendary status.

　It's not impossible to break through the limits of the hero panel and raise your level to over 40.

　It should be noted that the library of this magic guild contains all the knowledge of the entire Ashan World Cemetery faction.

　In the world of Ashan, nine factions jointly govern the prime material plane.

　Even if a god were to descend, he would still have to act within the rules of these nine factions.

　This power, capable of subduing even genuine deities, clearly far surpasses the realm achievable by the Destiny Legend (level 40).

　It is worth mentioning that among the nine factions, the Necropolis faction has the second largest reserve of magical knowledge after the Academy faction (Silver City), and its richness and profundity are truly astonishing.

　After all, these two factions rely entirely on the power of magic to stand alongside other factions in the world.

　Moros approached the only pair of tables and chairs, gently pulled out the backrest of the chair, and then sat down.

　His gaze then fell on the desk in front of him, where the magic tome he hadn't been able to finish reading last time was placed.

　The pages of the book lay open quietly, exactly the part he had last read, as if waiting for his return.

　"Whoo~"

　Taking a deep breath, Moros gently stroked the pages and began to delve deeper into this magical tome that recorded [Necromancy], a level of magic even more advanced than that of an expert.

　Just as Moros was completely absorbed in the ocean of knowledge, the city where a Honkai Energy Research Institute was located on the continent of Mu was hit by its first Great Honkai.

　Collapse.

　A catastrophic phenomenon that emerges with the progress of civilization, its manifestations are elusive, including war, disease, climate disasters, comet impacts...

　Any catastrophic phenomenon can be a manifestation of collapse.

　However, among the many ordinary Honkai events, the Great Honkai is undoubtedly the most unique and terrifying.

　The reason is simple: every major collapse gives birth to a chosen messenger—the Herrscher.

　This time, the Herrscher who descended upon the continent of Mu is the First Herrscher, the Herrscher of Reason, who wields the power to create structures.

　Unlike the Herrschers of the post-civilization era, that is, the era of the Honkai Impact 3 main storyline, in this era later known as the pre-civilization era, the Herrschers are staunch enemies of civilization.

　Without the sacrifice of the Primordial Herrscher, Alicia, the Herrschers, the apostles of the Cocoon of the End, would not have deviated from their stance.

　They will diligently fulfill their sacred duty—to destroy human civilization.

　PS:

　I've created a group; all book lovers are welcome to join.

　Answer: Moros

Chapter 57 The Great Collapse and the Herrscher of Reason

　While the Herrschers descending during the Great Honkai Impact are certainly terrifying, the greatest harm the Great Honkai Impact inflicts on humanity is the burst of Honkai energy that occurs when it arrives.

　A sudden burst of purple light erupted on the bustling city streets.

　As the purple lights flickered, visible Honkai energy transformed into a tide, sweeping across the entire city.

　Countless humans were reduced to ashes in this Honkai energy frenzy, while the few survivors, possessing a slight resistance to Honkai energy, were transformed into non-human monsters known as "Dead Soldiers".

　In pre-civilization times, there were no Stigmata, and men could also be infected by Honkai energy.

　However, due to the relative weakness of men in terms of Honkai energy resistance, most of them can only become zombies, somewhere between corpses and undead.

　If it were just assassins and zombies, the situation would still be relatively controllable. What really caused the situation to spiral out of control were the beasts infected by Honkai energy and the Honkai beasts that were entirely formed from Honkai energy.

　The former is manageable. Although the beast-type Honkai Beasts are stronger than ordinary zombies and assassins, they are still just so-so and can be easily dealt with by firearms and other individual weapons.

　But the latter could cost the lives of those survivors who had withstood the Honkai energy tide during the Great Honkai's impending collapse thanks to their superior Honkai energy resistance.

　Even the lowest-level Honkai Beast, the Rush-class Honkai Beast, is not something an ordinary human can defeat.

　It's important to know that the Assault-class Honkai Beasts can take advantage of the complex terrain of cities and engage in close combat with fighter jets.

　Their carapaces can easily withstand ordinary assault rifle bullets, and their speed during a charge can even break the sound barrier.

　In terms of destructive power, the Rush-class Honkai Beast is a standard house-destroying beast.

　This is just a beginner among the Honkai Beasts.

　Above the Assault-class Honkai Beasts are even more powerful and terrifying beings such as the Knight-class, Ballista-class, Chariot-class, Temple-class, and Honkai Emperor.

　Take the tank-class Honkai Beast, which is extremely common among Honkai Beasts, as an example.

　Don't be fooled by the seemingly harmless tank-class Honkai Beasts in the game; in reality, these colossal creatures, standing 10-20 meters tall, are a formidable opponent.

　Their armor is tough enough to withstand the 120mm smoothbore gun of mainstream main battle tanks, even when using the most advanced fin-stabilized discarding sabot armor-piercing rounds.

　It is also difficult to penetrate its frontal carapace.

　In addition to their powerful defense, the attack power of the tank-class Honkai Beasts is also astonishing.

　The force of their forward stomp is enough to destroy concrete surfaces and buildings within a radius of tens of meters, and when they leap high and crash down, they can crush a mainstream main battle tank into a pancake.

　What's even more disheartening is that these powerful Honkai Beasts, which seem like natural disasters to ordinary people, are actually just low-level Honkai Beasts in the Honkai Beast ranking system.

　Above them are even more unstoppable higher-level Honkai Beasts—Emperor-class Honkai Beasts and Judgment-class Honkai Beasts.

　Normally, Emperor-class and Judgment-class Honkai Beasts are extremely rare, but during the Great Honkai, Emperor-class Honkai Beasts may appear frequently.

　As for the Judgment-class Honkai Beasts, as the pinnacle of the Honkai Beast system, they generally appear as the companion Honkai Beasts of Herrschers.

　However, no trace of Judgment-class Honkai Beasts was found during the first Great Collapse of this era.

　The First Herrscher, Herrscher of Reason's companion Honkai Beast is merely an Emperor-class Honkai Beast that resembles a wild boar in appearance and possesses outstanding strength.

　That's right, this Emperor-class Honkai Beast is Parvati, commonly known as the "Ice Pig".

　Despite being only an Emperor-class Honkai Beast, Parvati, who can control the power of frost, can be considered a pig-type armored division.

　This giant, ice-blue, pig-shaped Honkai Beast roams the city's streets and alleys, hunting down every human it can find, along with other assassins and Honkai Beasts.

　The arrival of the first major collapse took everyone by surprise, and the fact that Pu's appearance caused severe damage to an important scientific research city shocked all those in the know.

　However, the glorious moment of the First Herrscher, the Herrscher of Reason, was limited to this.

　Because of Moros's previous surprise attack on the capital of Mu Continent using the Ghost Dragon, Mu Continent was extremely wary of such a sudden attack.

　In preparation for a possible second attack, the parliamentarians of Muda not only strengthened defenses in major cities, but also meticulously developed hundreds of contingency plans to ensure a swift and effective response to any unforeseen circumstances.

　Now, this plan, originally intended to create a "surprise" for Moros, has become the key to their fight against the Herrscher of Reason.

　After recovering from the initial chaos, the regular army of Mu Continent began to operate according to the previously established plan.

　Hundreds of cutting-edge military satellites in planetary geosynchronous orbits are expending precious fuel to adjust their orbits in order to ensure continuous monitoring of the cities affected by the Great Collapse.

　As orders were rapidly transmitted, air force bases across the Mu Continent suddenly became bustling with activity amidst piercing alarms.

　The tractor units steadily pulled multi-functional fighter jets and bombers out of the spacious hangar, and the ground crew quickly and precisely completed the final preparations for these steel behemoths, ensuring that they could take off and fight in the shortest possible time.

　Meanwhile, deep beneath the ocean abyss, the strategic nuclear submarine fleet that the Mu Continent was so proud of also received orders to be ready to launch a nuclear strike at any time.

　These colossal beasts lurking in the dark waters will become the last and most solid line of defense for the Mu Continent against the Great Collapse.

　The mobilization efficiency of Mu Continent exceeded everyone's expectations, which prevented the First Herrscher of Reason from completing many crucial preparatory tasks.

　Unlike the Herrschers who wield the authority of other gods, the combat power of this Herrscher of Reason, whose authority lies in understanding and reproducing the technological achievements of human civilization, is directly related to her preparations.

　After all, for a modern army, having sufficient logistical supplies is a completely different concept.

　The creations of the Herrscher of Reason do indeed possess the unique ability to continue fighting without relying on traditional logistical support, but this is entirely dependent on the Honkai energy provided by the Herrscher herself.

　With the firepower projection capabilities of modern armies, the Herrscher of Reason's Honkai energy can still be supplied in small-scale situations.

　Once He needs to create a large number of weapons and equipment, even powerful Herrschers from previous civilizations with long-range range would find it difficult to maintain such a massive Honkai energy output.

　Even if the Herrscher of Reason can barely maintain the use of Honkai energy to convert ammunition and fuel, prolonged consumption will quickly deplete its power, making it unable to continue creating new weapons and equipment.