Collapse, survive

It transforms into the sun, or rather, a fireball.

It's a bit big.

A miniature sun, only the size of a planet, burned fiercely in the starry sky. It generated an incredible gravitational field that pulled the existing 'moon' into it, turning it into pure energy and swallowing it up completely, followed by a powerful explosion.

Loud noises and bright lights, flames and thunder engulfed everything.

Fang Jie can neither see nor hear anything.

But I can see it myself:

It's a self-destruction.

So Fang Jie saw it too.

"It's a massive self-destruction."

The magnificent star roar extinguished everything. After the impact dissipated, the 'moon', slowly repaired by the gathering energy of the 'destruction' destiny, caused the three star systems to become unbalanced, moving closer and closer to the sun, and self-destructed, ejecting most of the 'matter'.

The barely constructed 'Eternal Era' instantly switched to the 'Chaotic Era' and began to fly.

"Destruction, I understand."

Fang Jie grinned as he did this, a gesture that locals are very familiar with.

He gained a deeper understanding of destiny, where he was immortal, creating reality and erasing stars—walking alongside the Star God.

Regardless of its underlying principles, it's scientific.

In the Honkai, the Herrschers directly possess various infinite abilities, such as the Imaginary Singularity.

Wait a minute, Fang Jie looked at the 'Milky Way' again, comparing the manifestation of destiny with the knowledge he had only paid attention to before, which he didn't understand very well.

"It was essentially an ocean of extremely dense quasars. Its actual radius was smaller than the radius of its gravitational field, like a black hole, but it didn't become a black hole. I was at the boundary of its Schwarzschild radius."

Fang Jie suddenly burst into laughter. What an unscientific scientific star god! Interesting, very interesting indeed.

Or perhaps, this path of one's own destiny is simply a collection of things one knows and doesn't know.

"And these too, this is energy that can only be produced during a supernova explosion, these plasma polymers, these energy storms, these... she treasures antimatter..."

Does every pathfinder destined for destruction have a 'testing ground' equipped to this extent?

No, at least I was glanced at.

I provided you with a pure environment, gave you the knowledge to create the sun, and gave you... Although most of it was swallowed up by "myself" and then left to rot, Fang Jie has already gained a lot.

Putting aside the one that pretends to be the sun, this side of myself can even clumsily create an unstable little sun.

When we return to reality, there will likely be environmental limitations, including but not limited to the limitation of "equilibrium" and other objective limitations. How big an explosion you can create, how much energy you can release, and how much thermal efficiency you can achieve all depend on your practice and mastery of these.

Fang Jie finally understood.

Yeah, back to reality?

Fang Jie reflected on this matter, looked back at himself again, and surveyed the galaxy he had created with a detached perspective.

It will exist here, even if the Star God falls, even if it perishes, even if it changes its appearance.

Therefore,

Nameless people, people without fate.

I will remember all of this.

This is the path you should take.

"Let's go, leaving behind my name and surname. Let's set off again. Now, I am Fang Jie."

He suddenly thought of this out of the blue—no, he'd already said it.

No reason.

The black blood left behind by the ruptured corners of the eyes, which had burst open in an attempt to open them, resembled tear stains, a desperate blackness extracted from the original gray.

Fang Jie, in the snowfields of Beloborg, finally let his mind wander, and thus delved so deeply into the course of fate.

I will fly high into the sky, transform into the sun, and steal your light.

I will melt and fall into the sea.

I'm about to embark on a journey; I don't want the sun to set, I want to fly to higher places.

.

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P.S.: Good morning!

No, no, no, actually it's—

Chapter Seventeen: The Healthy Laughter Bell: So I Made My Move

"What happened?"

The world seemed to stand still, and everything took on a new look in an instant.

Black Fox Ah Ling bared her teeth loudly at the magnificent figure, unleashed a fireball at it, and then returned to reality in triumph.

A continuous stream of power is surging forth; it's not Honkai energy, but another kind of power. It's very good, very strong, and amazing.

So much so that Ah Ling even began to have room to think about philosophy.

'who I am? ’

Where am I?

What am I supposed to do?

All the past became clear in this moment; those painful memories became bearable, they became...enlightened.

Fifty thousand years ago, Rin, who was once a young girl, was suddenly told by others that she had become a being called a Herrscher.

Although she wasn't attacked immediately, the girl who willingly accepted the imprisonment of the Fire Moth for her sister's sake was still shot dead by soldiers without resistance in a specially made prison that was closed to only a select few.

Ugly, laughable, pathetic, but... let it be destroyed.

After Rin's death, pain, anger, and the Herrscher core—

Childhood is gone, and decay is upon us.

With an air of supreme dominance, darkness enveloped humanity's remaining embers and annihilated them all, personally severing the foundation of previous civilizations. Even if the end came after that, it was merely a place to reincarnate on Earth...

Even her sister could only make Rin, who was eroding the Herrscher's form, waver for a moment longer.

Then he was sealed away by Dr. May.

There was nothing she could do; her sister had swayed her again.

After that, she was sealed in a black box, existing for over 50,000 years, unaware of the passage of time, filled with hatred for humanity.

After that, she accidentally broke free from the seal and met Yae Sakura, who looked just like her older sister and was also disappointed in humanity, and who made her happy.

But that Karen... that blond guy truly deserves to die.

But this resentment stopped there and did not grow any further.

Recalling Karen again, Rin unexpectedly discovered... that she seemed to be following the light just like many familiar people in her memory.

So putting aside personal grudges, Karen... is right.

Why do I think this way now?

But why did I think that way in the past?

'I am the bell, and I am also erosion.'

'I have finally broken free of the seal and returned to the human world.'

'I want to...kill humanity...destroy civilization...'

The great dream has now ended.

"enough!"

The bell easily broke free—no, it destroyed those things that had been clinging to it.

The thoughts that should have been taken for granted came to an end. The hatred no longer clung to her as before. All Rin wanted now was a free body...

No, it's no longer needed, probably.

With a single thought, she stretched out her hands, gazing at her tiny palms, feeling her own undeniable presence... Yes, I don't need you anymore, Yae Sakura!

Looking back, she was sleeping peacefully despite her serious injuries, almost as if she were dead!

"waste."

Seeing her miserable state, Ling was momentarily stunned, recalling how she had once planned to make the foreign blonde Karen despair and then, in revenge, devour her...

I felt a little ashamed.

Strange thoughts. Am I not normal?

Thinking this, she instinctively, just as she skillfully used the power of erosion to destroy the previous civilization, used the new power to reshape Yae Sakura's body.

It's very simple, just do this first, and then do that.

—Power, I command you!

As a result, Yae Sakura's body underwent cellular remodeling in an instant. No matter what kind of injury or disability occurred in her body, as long as either her brain or heart was not damaged, she could recover through cellular remodeling.

This is what Rin got from that useless pseudo-Herrscher. Did that brat and that hot-tempered woman really think they could stop her from taking action? Let them all be corrupted.

But that kid is a bit strange; nothing works on him.

And why can't I feel that furious woman I've almost completely corrupted anymore? That doesn't make sense. Even if it doesn't work on that kid, he's still been corrupted to some extent.

Where am I, really?

The clever Bell was a little irritable. After all, this godforsaken place didn't even have Honkai energy; it was like someone who needed to breathe had fallen into the sea.

Having already adapted efficiently to this starry sea, Ling continued to delve deeper into treating Yae Sakura—retrieving the pseudo-Herrscher core that she and Yae Sakura had coexisted with, grabbing it in one swift motion, and refining it instantly.

It's very simple, just do it this way or that way.

— Understand, decompose, reconstruct!

They could be freely disassembled and reassembled into two things: the Herrscher Core and the Stigmata.

The latter, which she cherished, was returned to Yae Sakura, sustaining her life force in this icy, desolate, and eerie place.

Suzumoto wanted to retrieve the former, but...

"Not a good thing."

Although she doesn't understand many things yet, she knows whether she's a good Herrscher or not, especially when it comes to the Herrscher Core.

"There is."

Suddenly, a bright light appeared before her eyes. The power of the black fox, Ah Ling, flowed, activating the process of forging the Divine Key that had been set up in her core as early as the pre-civilization era.

This requires not only the Herrscher core, but also her true form, the very essence sealed within the damaged black box.

But at this moment, Ling was able to easily break free from all of this, and with a backhand, she forged those so-called fundamentals into the Key of God, turned the black box into a scabbard, and drew a knife from it.

The last divine key of the pre-civilization, the key of erosion—Jizo Mitama!

Staring at it, Ling couldn't help but purse her lips: "So weak."

Only her inherited Corruption ability is worth noting, but she already possessed it, and she doesn't even need the Herrscher core to unleash new power.

What does this knife mean to her? She can do everything it can, and she's even stronger!

Let's just destroy it.

Thinking this through, Ling couldn't bring herself to do it, after all...

"never mind."

He casually tossed it to... It wasn't Yae Sakura; it was impossible for him to toss it to her. She would find it unacceptable.