Collapse, survive

The initial requirements don't need to be too high; even armor that relies entirely on bio-energy will do. As long as Sato Yuno is betrayed, it's enough.

Don't misunderstand, Fang Jie means to introduce her to someone who can utilize her talents, a Stigmata Awakener who is capable of becoming the prototype of a Herrscher's Descendant. Before she becomes a pseudo-Herrscher, she is a rare commodity.

"So the question is, how do we sell them?"

First, setting aside fate, Otto is currently completely letting things unfold in Changkong City, acting as if he's not paying enough attention. Besides, if he were sold to Sato Yuno, she would most likely become a pseudo-Herrscher anyway.

The same applies to reverse entropy. Although it is the most convenient to contact, it is only for radicals. Obviously, this group of people can say, "I want the goods, but I don't want to pay the money."

St. Freya Academy is the best choice—it's close and has a bottom line. After all, Fang Jie isn't some kind of devil; he still wants to board the Star Train.

How can I contact St. Freya Academy?

Chapter Four: Rivers of Blood

Although I haven't experienced Li Mei's barbecue, cherry blossoms are quite common in Changkong City.

Fang Jie, who no longer eats anything out of desperation, tidied herself up, changed into a hoodie and jeans like A-Ge's, and strolled around on this day of falling cherry blossoms, exploring the city that had not yet collapsed and confirming feasible ways to contact her.

But he never expected that the city would give him such a short time.

"This feeling……"

He stared blankly in the direction of Qianyu Academy, sensing a massive, overwhelming burst of energy that instantly engulfed the entire city.

Energy perception is a completely new sense that Fang Jie, who survived even after landing on the snowfield, possesses. It's hard to call it a sense, but rather a feeling.

The city of Changkong was already filled with collapsing and rising energy, which broke through a certain limit at this moment and exploded.

Like a landslide, like a tsunami, a terrifying electromagnetic shockwave erupted with the burst of Honkai energy.

However, in visually captured images, the world suddenly 'drops frames' and seems to freeze.

A bolt of lightning, seemingly piercing the heavens and the earth, was born.

Then, a storm suddenly broke out!

The sky was shaking. It wasn't the wind; the once clear sky was suddenly transformed into a void where lightning pierced the atmosphere. The sea of ​​clouds churned and was torn apart. Countless clouds, mists, and dust particles collapsed and surged back into the void, layering and accumulating, all of which were tinged with a deep purple to black. A thousand thunderclaps erupted and converged in a corner of the sky. The sunlight that had just pierced through the void, blindingly brightening the world, was suddenly enveloped in darkness...

The clear distinction between the two creates an ordinary sunny day, and the sky that covers a corner of Changkong City.

Under this sky, Changkong City ushered in an extraordinary day.

And the whole world has ushered in a memorable day.

Humans are beings with souls, and corpses are the remains left after life activities cease. At the moment of death, the body that has lost its soul becomes no different from grass and trees.

At this moment, a great terror descended, leaving no vegetation behind.

The surroundings suddenly fell silent, so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

But this deathly silence lasted only a moment, and then it suddenly erupted!

Vehicles without drivers collided with each other, aircraft requiring human operation plummeted, the crackling of electric currents rendered all electrically charged precision industrial products unusable, the humming of various alarms, and the shattering sounds of objects falling to the ground—all these sounds, usually only occurring in accidental drops or slips, converged in an instant, creating a deafening cacophony... All the sounds of a momentary lapse in human capability, missing that crucial piece of the puzzle, were gathered together in a single instant!

For the survivors in Changkong City, this was the first cry of despair after the world's destruction!

"...Ah ...

I can't understand it, I can't imagine it, I can't accept it.

Screams mixed in with wails, and the sound of footsteps.

The sound of hurried footsteps reached the ears of every survivor. It was a familiar sound, hurried and impatient, like students rushing to the cafeteria hungry after class at noon.

However, however, it was by no means a harmless thing.

With its emotionless gray eyes, covered in blood and strange crystalline patterns, it limped yet moved with incredible speed, surpassing any wild beast. Like a zombie in a splatter movie, it pounced on the panicked survivors, eliciting horrific screams and splattering crimson liquid everywhere...

Rather than being reduced to ashes, this scene often involves a thick layer of blood, with chunks of muscle, like ripe fruit, violently peeled from the body and then crushed. Warm, smooth organs such as the liver, spleen, kidneys, and intestines, along with a fist-sized heart, are sprayed in all directions with rising heat. The crimson liquid is splashed everywhere like rain.

Although it resembles a zombie, it does not eat people. Many people are not even bitten to death, but are violently dismantled, crushed and ravaged by the zombies!

Yes, assassins.

Humans with Honkai energy resistance will not be instantly annihilated by Honkai, but will be continuously eroded until they are transformed into mindless monsters that kill everything on instinct.

They feel no pain, are unafraid of death, and have greatly enhanced physical abilities.

After prolonged close contact with normal organisms, even the normally healthy organisms can become infected.

They even possess wisdom.

—The wisdom of killing!

After killing all the normal creatures in sight, it wanders around, searching until it finds something new to kill!

"...Haha...That's impossible...I'm dreaming...I'm having a nightmare!"

A hysterical roar echoed from a corner of the city, and a crazed woman laughed maniacally, crystalline patterns spreading across her body.

Willpower is not something ethereal or intangible; it is invaluable when needed. In life-or-death situations, a lack of willpower means certain death.

They left behind their mutilated bodies, as if they were suicide warriors.

Covered in blood, reeking of decay, with ashen skin and a vacant stare, hunting living people...

The next moment, she transformed into a new assassin, chasing after survivors with higher resistance, crushing and tearing them apart. Collapse gave it power, easily ripping apart fragile human bodies like cardboard boxes, scattering them everywhere, mixed with bright red juice, drawing hellish flowers on the pale city concrete.

Living, dying, order amidst chaos—compared to the highly urbanized past, the few remaining individuals are like ants trapped in a flood, blindly stumbling and screaming until they perish as assassins, or become one of them, and—

Died from Honkai Beasts.

"boom--"

Honkai energy has the property of mutual attraction; it will attract and gather together to give birth to powerful individuals. These monsters, which suddenly appear in the city like suicide soldiers and wreak havoc everywhere, have even greater violence than suicide soldiers and the same purpose.

They seek out living people, flatten tall buildings, and trample every survivor hiding within them.

No one knows or cares where the disaster started.

Once everyone who was still rational came to their senses, the only thing they needed to think about was—survival!

……

……

The piercing alarm wailed, and the well-trained Valkyrie felt a chill run down her spine for a moment, but that didn't stop her from leaping to the control panel and pressing the red button that could only be pressed in the most urgent situations.

She used almost all her strength to press it until it burst. After doing all this, she felt cold sweat all over her body. She looked at the specially made control panel and saw that she had pressed her handprint on it. She trembled without caring about it.

"Major, major collapse..."

So soon, after a series of efficient meetings, Hyperion set sail!

It wasn't any government agency that mobilized its military; the first to respond was the Hyperion, a floating battleship belonging to the branch of Destiny located in the Far East.

With a total length of 278.5 meters and a deck length of 182 meters, it can carry 50-200 combat personnel. It is powered by six nuclear furnaces and flies using the Leonov anti-gravity engine. It is a masterpiece forged by the most advanced Honkai science in mankind, and is also the personal floating battleship of Himeko Murata, an A-rank Valkyrie belonging to the Far East Branch St. Freya Academy.

Departing from the artificial island and moving at full speed, the pale hull, exuding a violent aesthetic, soon hovered high above Changkong City, observing the tragic scene of Changkong City, which had been completely cut off from the outside world at 10:00 AM today.

Needless to say, the Great Collapse itself is synonymous with the end of the world.

In the warship's central hub, a fully armed Valkyrie stood behind a control panel almost as tall as herself, only her small, white-haired head visible. Arms crossed, her face filled with anxiety, she kicked the thick steel control panel with a resounding groan of disbelief.

"What exactly are those anti-entropy guys doing?"

The Valkyrie has white hair and blue eyes, just like Kiana. Her medium-length hair, reaching her back, is tied into a ponytail and draped over her left shoulder. Her original nun-like Valkyrie uniform has been replaced with a magnificent Valkyrie armor. She carries a huge cross on her back. However, due to her short stature, she looks like a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl, even though she should be majestic.

— Theresa Apocalypse, Head of the Far East Branch of Destiny and Headmistress of St. Freya Academy.

At the same time, she is also a former S-class Valkyrie of Schicksal, a powerful figure who almost single-handedly killed the Second Herrscher during the Second Great Collapse.

But this didn't stop her from feeling terrible when facing the Great Collapse again.

"Grandpa, what exactly are you planning now?!"

Theresa's grandfather was none other than Archbishop Otto Apocalypse, who had reigned supreme for five hundred years.

The outbreak of the Third Great Collapse was not without warning. The Collapse energy reaction in Changkong City was already there, and HW had been increasing until it exceeded 1000 HW at this moment.

This is the limit. Once the concentration of Honkai energy reaches this limit, it becomes an environment conducive to the birth of a Herrscher. What starts as a minor, everyday Honkai event can escalate into a massive Honkai event that could destroy a civilization.

For the former, Schicksal only needs to deploy Valkyries, B-rank or A-rank, and they can be almost certain of success. Schicksal has similar branches stationed near the high-energy Honkai reactors built around the world to ensure that the Honkai disaster can be quelled.

The latter, even an S-rank wouldn't dare say it's a sure win, is a disaster that would make all branches of Destiny immediately agree to deploy the Honkai Fission Bomb in the Ultra-Long Sky City.

However, Archbishop Otto rejected the proposal and ordered Theresa to lead the Hyperion into action.

Having received the order, Theresa had already guessed that the disaster in Changkong City was not as simple as the 'accidental' birth of the Third Herrscher.

However, Theresa had no choice but to come. Even though she was a former S-class Valkyrie, she had no choice but to accept the disaster of the Great Collapse and rush to the battlefield.

Along with her capable assistant, Himeko Murata, one of only two A-rank Valkyries in the Far East Branch of Destiny, who is trying to find a partner before she turns thirty, they travel to Changkong City aboard the Hyperion airship.

"This is the Third Honkai Impact."

The towering, fiery woman (in contrast to Theresa) Himeko Murata also gazed upon the devastating scene of the city—ruins, wreckage, one of the cornerstones of human civilization marching toward its end.

A resolute glint flashed in her phoenix-like, heroic eyes, with golden pupils shining brightly, captivating yet devoid of her usual languor and allure. The one present here was the Valkyrie Himeko Murata.

As the true captain of the Hyperion, she was the one responsible for coordinating resources from all sides and summarizing the battle situation.

Looking at the intelligence gathered on the control panel, Himeko Murata said calmly, "Headmaster, it has been confirmed that there is a Herrscher in Changkong City who can manipulate electromagnetic forces. According to the data from the ancient civilization, the title of the third Herrscher has been tentatively set as the Herrscher of Thunder."

"So, apart from Berlin sixty-two years ago and Siberia fourteen years ago, another Herrscher has finally been born?"

Even though Theresa was mentally prepared, she still felt a sense of oppression. Recalling the past fourteen years ago when she fought the Herrscher of the Void alone and was beaten black and blue, she turned to look at the tall, fiery red figure beside her and said without wavering: "Himeko, the command of the scene is now in your hands."

He then carried Judah on his back and prepared to land in Changkong City.

"Hey, Theresa, stop right there!"

Himeko never expected her best friend to be so reckless.

Even in anxiety, one should not lose one's composure. One must know that the most effective way to detect Changkong City is through 'witnessing'. That terrifying electromagnetic shock destroyed all human technological products. It was the manifestation of the Third Herrscher of Thunder's power, which was empowered by Honkai and destroyed molecular chemical bonds.

Even Hyperion cannot resist it; it can only drift outside the electromagnetic field and provide the function of 'vehicle'.

It looks incredibly cool, but in reality, it's just a waste of time.

This is the Great Collapse. It's already this troublesome before we've even met the Herrscher, but this is the Great Collapse.

As for rescuing survivors.

Even though the Valkyries of Schicksal have always prioritized rescuing surviving civilians, which is a great achievement, when faced with a Great Honkai with a Honkai energy HW of over 1000, survival is Schicksal's only requirement for the Valkyries.

This is also a requirement that Theresa and Himeko both set for their subordinates.

But Theresa actually planned to land like this, clearly not intending to bring anyone with her, going alone!

Even if you went in like this during the second Great Collapse, that would be too reckless!

And what do you mean by handing over command to me? I can go with you too!

"You're the branch leader!" Himeko shouted.

"Come on, you know my command skills. I'm better at my own methods. In case of emergency, I'll deal with the Herrscher."

Without lingering, all that was left for Himeko and the Valkyries here was the sound of the hatch closing.

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Chapter Five: Life and Death

Yalilo, the name of the God of War in spring, is also the name of the frozen planet [Yalilo-VI].

It once had a glorious past, where even interstellar travel was commonplace, but its good fortune did not last long.

Nearly a thousand years ago, resources were depleted, a star core fell, and an antimatter army followed, until a cold wave descended, covering the earth in pure white... Numerous disasters completely buried the glorious but short-lived civilization of Arilol-VI, and the world entered an eternal winter.

Today, this name has been forgotten. The refugees who survived the cold wave have settled in a corner and built the city of Beloborg, a cold wave refuge. Thanks to the protection of the "Preservation", although the place is ravaged by wind and snow, humanity has survived and has managed to keep the light of civilization burning.

Once you cross the snowfield, you can see the entirety of Beloborg, humanity's last bastion against the cold, and the sanctuary of Kripper...

Even if Belloberg never sees a spring again.

"Cough cough cough..."