Collapse, survive

At this moment, his breathing, heartbeat, blood flow, metabolism, body temperature and other physiological functions are all ridiculously low, even more so than those of reptiles. It is a state of suspended animation that is more extreme than hibernation.

As for visual capture... how is he any different from a suicide soldier when he also exudes an aura of decay?

It is said that in the previous civilization, fusion warriors could use this ability to infiltrate the Honkai Beasts and be regarded as one of their own by the less intelligent Honkai Beasts.

If he doesn't move, he'll be seen as just another 'background object' like the tall buildings, the ground, and the trash cans.

As long as they don't block the way, hinder them, or expose themselves to intelligent individuals, they can coexist peacefully.

Peace and tranquility?

"what."

With a light laugh, Fang Jie looked at the group of assassins who had stopped moving because of his 'breathing' and were now facing him.

"Life is like a falling leaf, and all men must die."

Well, you still dare to speak up!

The previously uncertain assassins no longer regarded him as an inanimate object. Driven by their killing instincts, they pounced on him at a speed of 200 km/h, faster than the fastest land beast.

How terrifying! No wonder people keep developing suicide squads as weapons, constantly... creating monsters, arming monsters, training monsters, organizing monsters, transporting monsters, using monsters, commanding monsters...

The assassins were really fast.

But not fast enough.

Purple-black lightning flashed around Fang Jie's legs, and he instantly plunged into the group of assassins, leaving afterimages behind.

"One strike!"

There's no need for him to wield a baseball bat; that's too fragile. How could mere steel possibly penetrate a Honkai-enhanced assassin? This is a monster that requires a Valkyrie like Superman to deal with, and he wouldn't be entangled in the advanced technology of Honkai-enhanced weapons.

What he can strengthen is himself.

Thus, the hand formed by the five fingers slashed across the throat, striking the bones, which were harder than steel due to Honkai energy. Without any skillful butchering, the head was brutally and savagely severed.

Fang Jie was far more elegant than a beast-like assassin who would use his claws to tear open a man's chest.

"Double Strike!"

The encirclement had broken through the passage, but he had no intention of breaking out, regrouping, or charging repeatedly like cavalry charges to eliminate the group of assassins.

Because he's faster!

Not only is the straight-line sprint faster, but it's also more agile. The ground is shattered, and even the brand-new shoes that were just put on are innocently destroyed. The bare feet flash with lightning, supporting the explosive movement under the lightning speed.

—A turn!

Humans have two hands. When the five fingers form two blades that dance in a circular motion, they do not concern themselves with the neck, a vital part of humanoid creatures. When the hand and blade collide, blood and bone are destroyed upon contact.

With a series of swirling attacks, the sharp hand blades tore open the bodies of the assassins, exposing their writhing internal organs, before slicing, chopping, and cutting them apart.

In the blink of an eye, the group of assassins was wiped out.

But the battle is not over yet. Once exposed, it will be difficult to return to the peaceful state of being invisible, because even if you look like a suicide soldier, the Honkai Beasts' instinctive behavior of fighting against their own kind has been activated.

This can be called a self-defense attack!

The colossal tank-class vehicle, as tall as a skyscraper, charged forward. The 'slow' and 'low-speed' descriptions in the data are meant to be comparable to the Valkyries, and to the superhumans who pilot Valkyrie mechs and fighter jets with supersonic maneuvers.

In fact, it is faster than any major transportation hub, arriving with a thunderous roar like a train.

For this,

Three cuts are enough!

Making the judgment, Fang Jie crouched slightly, then jumped up at the moment of impact with the Honkai Beast. He was hit hard in mid-air, which looked quite bad.

Even though the hand strike shattered the Honkai Beast's shell, it gained a significant advantage.

But how long are his arms?

In comparison, this causes damage roughly equivalent to a human being pierced by a toothpick, while the Honkai Beasts, apart from their cores, have no vital organs. They can regenerate as long as they have enough Honkai energy, and the areas damaged by the cube's energy are constantly regenerating...

But he has already won.

Although he lacks the power of the locals' awakened Stigmata and doesn't have Kevin's talent to kill Honkai Beasts with a baseball bat, his direct combat ability against such a huge Honkai Beast is limited to defeating ordinary people and assassins. He excludes high-level assassins from Honkai Beasts smaller than ten meters. However, he is not without options.

It's not based on the 'discharge' you just acquired. This isn't really discharge; it's just a basic form of physical enhancement, like the energy of destiny. The electric flashes are just special effects.

Just like the special effects that follow.

Despite being hit hard, he wasn't smashed into a pulp. Instead, he pierced through the Honkai Beast's right hand, his five fingers spreading out as if the Honkai Beast's regenerating flesh was nothing.

It looked like it was just tofu.

what happened?

He actively released his resistance, and from the direction of his right hand, the Honkai energy erosion broke through Fang Jie's resistance in an instant. Or rather, he actively dispersed the life energy here, and with the determination to abandon his right hand, he activated his 'superpower'.

It's not about leaping into a new world and exiling it to the snowfield for further study, but rather a preparatory stage, a step of absorbing and recharging energy.

Therefore, the Honkai Beasts that should have defeated him in the two-dimensional world should have perished.

The Honkai Beast, which had been wreaking havoc with all its might, suddenly froze. Even its raised limbs, ready to stomp, stopped in mid-air. A terrifying devouring force swept over it in an instant. Honkai energy, no, all the energy in its body, was converging towards one point...

"Karakara-!"

The strange sound of ice forming was barely audible. What was more noteworthy was the energy within the Honkai Beast. Fang Jie, who had always resisted Honkai energy, a polluting energy, carelessly used his right hand to penetrate the beast's body, which was hard enough to withstand an orbital cannon, and began to absorb it.

The body transformed from Honkai energy, the silicon-based body capable of supporting such a massive mass, the body flowing with Honkai energy, was thus distorted.

"Karakara-!"

A body capable of easily tearing the earth apart, withstanding any military equipment of insufficient strength, and requiring a Valkyrie to burn her life force to defeat a monster, was 'touched' by a human hand and emitted a sound as if on the verge of death, a painful wail, and underwent irreversible deformation, resulting in bizarre bulges and dents.

"Ow!!"

The Honkai Beast, powerful enough to instill fear in anyone, let out a shrill scream!

Yes, it was screams of agony.

It is in pain, and therefore it is afraid; even monsters are not without pain.

The Honkai energy that was originally filling the body is being rapidly plundered! It's not even sparing other energies! Even the body is collapsing!

This enormous energy was completely absorbed into Fang Jie's body. He was like a bottomless pit. No, it should be said that his right hand was like a bottomless pit. The crystal patterns that spread with even more intense erosion the moment he came into contact with the Honkai energy, even after he dispersed his protection, stopped at his right hand and contained the enormous Honkai energy. Not only the Honkai Beast inside that was right next to him, but even the energy that permeated the air was absorbed.

Compared to the pure and free Destiny Energy, since the Pioneer is dead and even the Star God's gaze won't occur, you can absorb it at will, easily maxing out your SP to open up a new world, and passively enjoy physical enhancement, like rain nourishing the earth—compared to that, the erosive contact of this Honkai Energy brings a burning pain, no different from the extreme icy chill.

Without allowing any more body parts to roam and corrode, Fang Jie, who only wanted to abandon his right hand, drained the Honkai Beast dry in almost a second.

This is because his current understanding of time is usually limited to a minimum of a second.

In return, the progress bar on Kiana's icon in my mind advanced by an almost imperceptible amount, and it still had to be settled together with the part affected by the previous Great Collapse.

As the Honkai Beast, having lost its energy and unable to even bear its own weight, collapsed to the ground, Fang Jie, even though he was mentally prepared, was still momentarily bewildered.

It went very smoothly, that's true, but this efficiency... how much did he actually harvest with the boundary anchor...? Oh well, with such a large and powerful enterprise, how could it not be enough for him?

When I came to my senses, after coming into close contact with the massive Honkai energy, my right hand felt like it was on fire, as if I had suffered extreme frostbite. In the pain, I deliberately cut off the blood flow, paralyzing that part of the limb. The burning sensation was still there, and even when I let the energy of destiny cover it again, it was difficult to calm down.

That's why it's limited to the right hand; if it were used on the whole body... it would probably be too much.

Fortunately, everything went smoothly. Fang Jie was worried that if his right hand wasn't enough as a medium and the collapse into his brain was to occur... then he would definitely escape and wouldn't be able to absorb a single bit.

After all, he wasn't sure where the absorbed energy ultimately went, but the passive energy enhancement benefited his entire body.

Everything is going smoothly now, very smoothly.

"What? I also have Honkai energy resistance."

He looked at his right hand, which, even after actively dispersing its energy protection, was only continuously being eroded and had not been completely destroyed.

Being eroded is a minor problem. Even if it's irreversible, replacing it with a mechanical one or regenerating it is the same as not being injured. A sense of pride surged within him, this was his true power.

"call--"

He let out a luxurious breath, which should have been a breath of waste gas full of heat, but it was quite cold and took the form of white mist. The heat was absorbed the moment it left his body, and the breath turned into frost and landed on the ground.

It's just special effects.

The key lies in the extraction of energy. After testing, this energy includes, but is not limited to, kinetic energy, potential energy, chemical energy, internal energy, static energy, destiny energy, and destructive energy.

For Honkai creatures derived from Honkai energy, Honkai energy is the source of their life activities. Fang Jie's efficient method of plundering energy is like the "Absorption Technique" in martial arts novels, which absorbs people's lives, and is even more brutal than the "Northern Darkness Divine Art".

Once touched, even those originally indestructible bodies constructed of Honkai energy turned into tofu blocks, began to collapse toward his right hand, and spread a layer of icy white frost until the body could no longer support its weight and spontaneously collapsed. Finally, it collapsed into a twisted shape, frozen in a shape that looked like it was struggling to stretch out its claws forward, wanting to attack something or wanting to escape something, and rolled away.

From square to round, it demonstrates the principle of stopping in one direction and moving in another!

Fang Jie broke free and shook off the icy obstruction on his hands. He needed to make contact to activate his ability, so the contact surface was the killing surface. However, the unavoidable icing phenomenon actually hindered his performance. One can imagine that if he went all out and used his whole body as the contact surface, he would freeze himself into a block of ice.

"Therefore, the primary objective should be to kill, not to drain energy; that should be the means. Let's give it a name, Divine Grace... never mind, Honkai Killer."

It is a true Honkai killer; once you come into contact with it, it is very difficult to escape. After all, Honkai energy attracts each other and flows spontaneously, just like heat spontaneously gathers in places with low temperatures. It gathers along with the phenomenon of 'entropy increase'.

The core of the law of entropy increase lies in the fact that heat always flows from a high-temperature object to a low-temperature object, and this process is irreversible, leading to an increase in the overall disorder of the system.

Therefore, the right-hand medium at which the solution begins to absorb energy is the point of maximum entropy increase, and also the singularity from which Honkai energy cannot escape, even if limited to the act and scope of contact.

Fang Jie can easily plunder all the Honkai energy, kinetic energy, potential energy, chemical energy, internal energy, and static energy within the Honkai Beasts that cannot control their internal energy by simply touching them and absorbing their energy, until they are reduced to wreckage.

Fang Jie withdrew his gaze from 'assessing' the effect of his ability on 'living things' and continued to look around.

There are also enemies.

It doesn't matter. If I can beat them, I'll kill them; if I can't, I'll kill them instantly; if neither works, I'll run away.

His legs crackled with electricity once more, a special effect that instantly boosted his speed and power to their limits, or rather, the opposite, propelling him toward the Honkai monsters, the even stronger Honkai Beasts.

"Back off, or die!"

The latter reacted just as resolutely; not one of them was a coward who tried to run away.

until--

"alien?!"

An incredulous shout of joy echoed in the wind.

Chapter Seven: This is no longer an ordinary Herrscher; Honkai Fission Missiles are being prepared.

"Haha! It really is you! You're still alive and well, aren't you!"

Kiana, all excited and wild, ran over, causing chaos in the ranks behind her.

Raiden Mei, and Bronya.

And, they brought along the Honkai Beasts that had been relentlessly pursuing them.

"Or, I'll kill myself in front of you?"

Fang Jie didn't know what to say, but seeing Kiana so cheerful, even more cheerful than before, made Dan Heng truly understand his feelings, especially considering that he hadn't even encountered the Star Core Spirit before.

He's actually not good at dealing with overly enthusiastic girls.

So they headed towards Kiana, amidst her cacophony of "Ahhhhh, don't come any closer! Run!"—Raiden Mei couldn't fight, Bronya was just coasting, and Kiana was no match for the giant Honkai beasts that could only run away.

—Honkai Killer!

Kiana's commotion finally stopped, and she turned around and stared blankly at the brutal scene, along with Raiden Mei and Bronya, who had silently retreated behind her.

"Idiot Kiana, who is he?"

Bronya initiated the communication with an inorganic-like voice.

"You're the idiot, you idiot Bronya!" Seeing that she didn't need to help, Kiana breathed a sigh of relief and calmed her breathing: "This is Fang Jie, a chuunibyou I met before. He said he came from outside the world, that he was an alien, and that he had superpowers... Well, it seems the superpowers are real."

If fighting ability counts as a superpower, then everyone here has superpowers.

Bronya had no objection to this, but aliens, from beyond this world...

Hmm, this is perfect to tell to that white-haired idiot Kiana.

After killing all the pursuing Honkai Beasts, Fang Jie returned to this place, not getting too close, and stood between Kiana.

"When a story ends, we always remember its beginning, as if everything has gone back to the way it was before."

"what?"

Kiana didn't quite understand why he was bringing this up at this time.

"What I mean is, it looks like you need help." Fang Jie didn't say much more and took the initiative to lead the way: "Let's go, I'll escort you out of Changkong City."

"Great! Let's all escape together!"