Collapse, survive

"Who the hell are you?!"

She hadn't noticed anything amiss with the world. After all, there was no information to be obtained from the vast snowfield, and the only breakthrough point was Fang Jie's side... Beneath his human form, the unfathomable darkness made her feel powerless.

“My name is Fang Jie. I come from outside your world. If you can’t understand, just think of me as an alien, like Qian Jie.”

Ling reacted more strongly to the name, but she eventually became more obedient and failed to grasp Fang Jie, wasting her limited energy. She was almost asleep again.

“I admit, human, you are more difficult to deal with than I thought. You have seized an opportunity.” Bell’s tone was disdainful and proud: “I can promise to let you go and join forces with me. Since you know me, you should understand how rare this opportunity is.”

Yes, the Herrscher of Corruption, after her birth, was a catastrophe that once destroyed the world. Whether it is biological, mechanical, supernatural or informational, her power can corrupt and use it for her own purposes.

"Join forces? To provide you with Honkai energy, or to offer you my body." Fang Jie shook his head: "Ling, times have changed. What I want to talk to you about is not these things, but a more sincere cooperation."

"Oh, what kind of cooperation?" Ling scoffed at this, secretly plotting a sneak attack.

Fang Jie was truly sincere: "Of course, it's about saving the world."

"..."

There was a moment of silence in the howling frosty wind. Ling, who had paused for a moment, never expected to hear such an invitation even today.

Are you inviting a Herrscher, a Herrscher who once destroyed civilization, to save the world?

Are you kidding me?

"This joke isn't funny at all, human! You've successfully angered me! Do you really think I can't do anything about you?"

While Fang Jie was sincerely trying to heal her, she had already eroded enough of his body, or at least enough to disturb his mind.

The nightmare is about to begin!

"I'm serious."

Fang Jie wouldn't lie to Kiana, nor would he lie to Himeko, but Rin...

I still can't.

However, since he's an idiot, it's okay to choose to tell more truths.

He'd had enough. It'd only been a few days, and even a Star Core Spirit was already... well, it was pretty early for a Star Core Spirit to have its body pierced, and it was already facing the Doomsday Beast right from the start.

He needs help, he needs teammates, the kind he can trust, and who aren't bad at the game.

Even equipment.

Himeko Murata is too weak; she definitely can't withstand Otto's persecution. Rin is different, completely different. She is the natural enemy of civilization. As long as she recovers her strength slightly and doesn't go after Kevin or Sue, it doesn't matter if she encounters Fu Hua!

This is exactly the kind of help he needs.

Having witnessed the destruction of a city, Fang Jie suddenly realized that perhaps he would bring a 'bad ending' to the world.

Even if he had only talked to Kiana a few more times when they first met, it might have disrupted her schedule and prevented him from stopping Raiden Mei from awakening immediately.

Then you lose a crucial piece of the puzzle for that ending.

Not to mention the explosive developments that followed.

This is not a game that can be smeared and done at will. It carries the weight of civilization. It cannot be a savior, nor should it destroy the world at will.

So when you have the opportunity to make a choice, don't let yourself regret it.

"Don't rush into action, Rin. I know you're thinking of continuing, but it's pointless. I can simply leave now, and we'll never see each other again... You may not care, but what about Yae Sakura? We shouldn't be enemies. I'm willing to sincerely break free from this prisoner's dilemma between us..."

"Who cares about that traitor!"

The black mist reconstructed a fox head, displaying an angry expression and terrifying crimson eyes. With its remaining power, Gu Chu unleashed a nightmare attack.

Because they are idiots, they don't need to think too much, and they squander their power and unleash their enormous destructive desires at will.

She had long ago decided to stop trusting anyone; that kind of trust was something she had long since severed from her own life.

Very scary.

But at this moment, something incredibly strange happened again. Ling was astonished to find that her power was useless against the opponent's defenses... It wasn't that it was completely useless, but rather that it wasn't very useful.

Since we can't even see his memories, we can't weave the corresponding nightmares.

Then let's start with Yae Village...

"I've already said I can leave right now. Reality can't stop me, let alone a dream."

Accompanied by something even darker than the fox's black mist, Fang Jie uttered these words with only his mouth showing before vanishing without a trace.

I don't like going to Yae Village.

"What on earth is going on? I'm going to kill you, I'll definitely kill you..."

However, even the Sacred Mark Space could not hold him.

Hey, I came in, I went out again, I came in again... Hit me, you idiot!

In the flashback, Fang Jie is still in Yae Village. This is not just a nightmare, but a real imaginary space constructed with the help of the Stigmata Space.

And, she sensed Rin's anger with a 'telepathic connection'; after becoming corrupted, she was already dominated by rage and hatred, and had not yet enjoyed Alicia's human blessing.

It was only because the world was still collapsing that she became more rational.

Well, after a few flirtations, he can't stay rational at all.

Pure killing intent and destructive urges were transmitted to Fang Jie through the remaining corrosive virus within his body, causing him—

What happened?

His doubt lasted only a moment; he immediately understood.

Just as Himeko Murata was more pioneering than him, Suzu... something even more wondrous happened to her.

At that moment, he shared Ling's vision and saw a special being.

Flames, endless flames, radiant flames, that dazzling gold rising up, piercing through the clouds, surrounding their gods, golden death, the ferocious sun of destruction.

Just by existing there, everything in the world seems to turn to ashes.

It was an incredibly special being, one that ordinary people could hardly witness in its entirety, let alone glimpse. White hair, dark skin, a mutilated body, and massive wounds…

All I can remember are a pair of burning, golden, emotionless eyes, and the unspoken path He revealed, which can be understood simply by looking at Him:

The birth of the universe is an error; civilization is a cancer quietly rising among the vast stars; conflict is the only language spoken among intelligent beings. To correct this error and erase the stain on the universe, Nanook became the embodiment of entropy.

【destroy】

【Nanook】

Bell didn't understand what had happened, but some things changed from that moment on.

Power, endless power, power has returned once more.

Fang Jie understood what had happened, but he didn't understand...

The star god Nanuk, who walks a path of destruction, casts a glance upon powerful beings in every world who harbor destructive impulses, and marks them, bestowing upon them power.

This is a common occurrence in the galaxy. Devotees, warriors, seekers of knowledge, lost souls... there are always mortals who, intentionally or unintentionally, step onto the path of destiny governed by the star gods, and from then on become travelers on the path of destiny who practice their ideals.

Thus, Rin embarks on a path of destruction.

Fang Jie realized that he was in a bad situation.

It wasn't that he was surprised that even a glance from the Star God could be felt, nor was he shocked by the manifestation of destruction, which made him see himself, his own destiny. Therefore, he didn't understand:

"Why do I look so dark on that path of fate..."

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Chapter Sixteen: Embarking on the Path of Destiny, Transcending Everything

In the depths of this boundless destiny, gazing at his own face, now completely black...

When life leaves us speechless and we are unwilling to face it, silence is the only option.

Fang Jie looked at himself and fell into silence, just like the silence of Supreme Treasure in "A Chinese Odyssey" when he saw that he was actually a monkey after using the demon-revealing mirror.

Doubts, unraveling doubts, yet more doubts...

In the wilderness of Yalilo—VI, where there is no protection, all you can see is snow.

If you don't go inside and just observe, it's actually a stunningly beautiful landscape.

The size of a planet, the distance of a universe—not too long, not too short.

Based on the speed at which Akivili laid out the galactic orbits for the Milky Way, even a single person jumping—I mean, someone with the ability to survive in a vacuum, travel through space, and jump along the galactic orbits—could traverse a galaxy within 24 hours at speeds far exceeding the speed of light.

This is also the current mainstream speed of cargo spacecraft, typically those from large corporations that offer good quality at low prices.

This matter is unremarkable, yet it is as numerous as the stars in the sky.

The Milky Way is vast and can accommodate anything.

And this seemingly insignificant, numerous, and unremarkable journey, as vast as the stars, was first half of which Fang Jie remembered, a journey he had undertaken alone.

To be honest, there's no value in recording stories of 'long-distance travel' inside the atmosphere of a planet.

Even so, it is not an easy task for the other party to solve.

First, he has to be able to survive. Not survive in the snowfield, but survive in... the Milky Way.

Secondly, he must explore. Just as a mischievous calf can be captivated by tender grass, just as a newborn infant is filled with fear of the world. Running aimlessly, unaware of the omens lurking in the cumulonimbus clouds in the sky…

Unfortunately, it doesn't rain in Belleburg.

Unfortunately, the Milky Way, the Milky Way...

In a vast, mist-shrouded swampy jungle, there lives a group of hunters armed with guns, RPGs, flamethrowers, and even the Tsar Bomba, and who are hostile to each other—this is the Dark Forest.

And you are a squirrel in a tree hole, buried in a pine cone somewhere unknown—this is the Milky Way.

And so in the end, he had to stop. Stop at the finish line, which was already obvious and could be seen at a glance.

"Therefore, I had already stepped into [His] shadow without even realizing it."

Fang Jie broke the silence. He wasn't deceiving himself or pretending not to understand. He was sincere even to others, so how could he avoid his own feelings?

[Destruction] manifests, destiny is revealed, that ray of light unveils the fog.

Reveal the true face of what you possess, the face of true despair.

—The nameless, the lifeless,

Coming from the other side of the wasteland, adorned with the radiance of stars.

But the end of that light was not the sun, nor any star, but darkness engulfing everything; all the light you could see was merely the afterglow before it was swallowed up.

--【nothingness】

All things resist nothingness, all things rush toward nothingness, and all things become nothingness.

The vast, boundless snowfield, planets, universe, galaxy... above all things, for some unknown reason, at some unknown time, was thus drawn into [nothingness].

At that moment, time seemed to stand still.

Yes, time stood still.

Like an outsider, Yae Sakura slept quietly beside the bell that witnessed [destruction] and Fang Jie, becoming a sculpture.

Bell, possessing a strong resonance of "source energy," emotions, desires, will, soul... her impulsive anger and destructive source energy, all of it is like glass beads splashing out of a small fountain in a wishing well, splashing out ripples of footprints that begin on the path of destiny.

She hovered in mid-air amidst the black mist, snowflakes still falling in the cold frosty wind, frozen in mid-air.

The same applies to Fang Jie; he stands in a state of stagnation and immerses himself in a world of stagnation.

Everything in the universe, from the beginning of time.

It shattered with a crash.

The path to destruction is always marked by a magnificent, devastating crash...

An explosion occurred at this corner of fate.

A world was born.