Collapse, survive

They had only lost tools whose cost and time were far less than those of the Valkyries; how could they possibly back down?

This world has suffered from the Great Collapse and once opposed the apostles of that incredible God. It can accept defeat and failure, but in order to achieve final victory, it must unravel the incredible phenomenon before it.

Something that seems incomprehensible must have a plausible explanation. They would do anything to get even a little feedback and conduct targeted research.

Tianming quickly mobilized, with scientists spreading across the sea to conduct close-up research and a suicide squad rushing into the rain to gain more information than dozens of satellites in the sky could lock onto the location.

"Boom boom boom!"

The probing attacks never stopped, trying to achieve the effect of 'at least consuming it,' even if everything disappeared in the rain.

They're just sitting ducks.

We also have cutting-edge technology—

As a silver-white spaceship sped through the blockade, the blockade forces, already identified as friendly forces, quickly made way, allowing it to reach the rain curtain without hindrance and stop immediately.

"This is the Undying Blade squad of the Destiny Valkyrie unit, currently on a military mission. Please report your situation."

With a pleasant yet solemn voice, all the temporarily gathered intelligence came together and was received by the girls.

"The situation looks dire. Has Lady Theresa already rushed in?"

"How brave!"

"Perhaps the key individual has already been found."

While receiving all the intelligence, the girls also kept a close eye on the rainstorm attack.

"All attacks that get close to the target will be unobservable, which is hard to call defense. It's more like any attack can be neutralized. After the particle cannon at full power output of the warship hit us, we detected a little bit of faint matrix-like ripples. It's obvious that there is a barrier around Oceania. This is a brand new imaginary shield that is beyond our imagination!"

"It's practically absolute defense. No matter which direction you look, there's no blind spot. All our weapons are rendered useless!"

"Is it really impossible to cause even the slightest harm?"

Beautiful fireworks kept rising into the sky, a sight caused by the intense missile bombardment.

Unlike normal bombardment, it didn't hit anything, and it didn't even try to detonate in the rain. Instead, it detonated in the air beforehand, otherwise there would have been no fireworks.

All of these explosions were neutralized by the rain.

Accelerated particle cannons, electromagnetic railguns, shipborne cannons, missile launchers, high-altitude bombing from bombers, continental-based shore-based laser defense weapons...

Continuous explosions, blinding flashes of light, billowing smoke, and scorching heat waves...

It was clearly just a live target, but fate, and people beyond fate, desperately wanted to hurt that target, even just a little bit!

As a result, they used increasingly larger and larger-scale attacks until they had tried all the weapons.

Another large, seemingly special squadron of fighter jets pressed in, bombing and firing at the area, but to no avail.

One of them didn't stop circling, charging headlong into the rain.

The fighter jets disappeared as if struck by some uncontrollable force, vanishing without any external signal.

According to the suicide squad who swam out, it didn't disappear, but went out of control. It couldn't even self-destruct in mid-air, and the pilot couldn't eject either. These technological creations no longer obeyed any of their commands and simply landed and crashed into the ground... Because it wasn't far from the shore, it was enough to glide, and the pilot could manually exit the capsule and swim ashore.

The treatment was much better than that of the Flying Swallow.

Not just airplanes, but in the rain-soaked landscape where entry is permitted but exit is not, the most reliable mode of transportation is the bicycle, a tool that relies solely on human power and does not depend on any intelligent technology.

Bamboo rafts will do, but who has the right people to be part of the rapid reaction force that arrives on the battlefield first? They even have intelligent lifeboats.

Therefore, they can only swim out in the most primitive way to transmit intelligence.

In the fight against Honkai, speed is life; if you're reduced to relying entirely on physical strength... you'd need a Valkyrie-level physique.

The military forces currently mobilized make it seem to outsiders that Destiny is at war with Anti-Entropy again, and not in the Americas, but in Oceania... Well, that makes sense, since this is where Destiny established its branch to contain Anti-Entropy.

Such a large military force is enough for them to wage a world war, so the commotion here alarmed many major powers. Soon they received good news: it wasn't Destiny fighting Anti-Entropy, but rather a suspected Great Collapse...

This scale?

Even though the people of the Honkai Impact 3rd world have experienced great events, Siberia is still watching over everyone from the snowy plains, and the days when stars fell from the sky are still vivid in their minds...

No!!!

That's why Otto transferred Theresa away. Even after Raiden Mei's containment of Changkong City failed and Cocolia was eyeing St. Freya Academy, Otto still mobilized the Undying Blade.

Even if Cocolia is daring, she wouldn't cause trouble under these circumstances.

Right.

"Lady Durandal, Lady Fu Hua, it seems we'll have to walk this path ourselves from now on."

The elegant maid Rita was not afraid of the bad news that came her way, and she believed that the highest level of technology she possessed would not be as powerless as ordinary technological creations.

After all, Lady Theresa had already rushed in, hadn't she?

"Yes, Rita, but we can't be sure exactly where the key is."

Durandal, of course, understood as well; as she watched the fleets firing freely, she saw their powerlessness.

What's the point of blindly unleashing firepower like this? We don't even know where the key points are; do we expect to sink Oceania?

It's possible, but that should be a last resort.

Fu Hua understood her thoughts, and even... she felt a strange familiarity with this kind of scene.

"Waiting for the suicide squad that's still scouting is too slow. We must break in. Our top priority is to find the key."

"Take these hastily made signal flares with you. It's been confirmed internally that communication is difficult in the rain, and relying on visual inspection is actually the most efficient method."

The three Valkyries easily reached a consensus, but they needed to be well-prepared.

Ah, such rudimentary and thorough preparation.

But it doesn't matter, because Rita absolutely trusts 'S' rank, whether it's Lady Theresa or Lady Durandal, she trusts them all the same.

As for you, Rank A, what's the point of you coming here? Is it to rescue Himeko Murata who was captured, and to support Lady Theresa?

Then I acknowledge your willingness to take the risk.

Fu Hua, who was being scrutinized, had no objections.

……

……

The perspective returns to the present.

Entering the rain curtain, unlike those below 'S' rank, she flew easily while wearing the Godslayer Armor. After observing the Oceania residents who were actually safe within the rain curtain, Rita felt a little better.

'The Far East branch's encirclement and suppression campaign doesn't seem to have angered the aliens; they seem to be quite friendly...'

'However, there's still the Far Eastern Fox Demon. The Oceania branch is paralyzed and frozen, so the relationship between the two cannot yet be confirmed. But this rain curtain must be aliens, though they probably didn't pay attention to our attack, otherwise they would have retaliated long ago.'

'This doesn't seem like something to be happy about, does it? They treat our actions as nothing, and I actually feel uneasy about it!'

So Rita was just in a slightly better mood, but her fighting spirit remained unchanged.

And, witnessing Theresa's tragic state—utterly enraged!

"Rita Losweiser".

Fang Jie looked at the newcomer.

He certainly knew someone had trespassed into his territory, just as he knew someone was always tickling him from the outside.

So what?

He's not the same as before when he only had a mere 800 HW of Honkai energy; now he has a full 999 HW!

It's not that a core appears in a certain part of the body as a connection point. Instead, it's that every particle is connected to the imaginary space by the holy marks that are integrated into the body's cells and genes and connect consciousness and soul. Every corner of them can draw on the Honkai energy of this power every second.

In other words, the reality distortion field he spread out is theoretically capable of counteracting the Honkai energy output at this level at every point of its current strength.

It means that it doesn't even reveal a single bit of the power level of the Honkai energy that can be detected.

Even if Destiny launches a Honkai Fission Bomb, it also carries an Entropy-reversing silver bullet along with it...

Fang Jie accepted the mere threat of a nuclear explosion.

Uncle Yang's advice included the admonition to "make as much of a scene as possible, and do everything you can to protect yourself."

To some extent, this serves as a warning to the current civilization: if humanity wants to overcome the collapse, it needs to undergo many more trials.

I'm not here to be a test taker with you; I'm here to be an examiner.

Eleven pseudo-divine keys are in stock, ready for use, along with one genuine Jizo Soul, both at the limit of the two civilizations' Herrschers before their ascension; there are also pseudo-Tengen level artificial stigmata, whose output, apart from their willpower attribute, is in no way inferior to that of a true Tengen person; and the truly terrifying one, like the Saha, is connected to the imaginary number like the cocoon, the Walk with God.

'I even just licked Vishnu factor.'

He gazed at the invincible Tako-nee, who was furious yet kept her distance and remained remarkably calm, not wearing a maid outfit—younger and more naive, but that didn't diminish her naivety.

However, since they weren't very familiar with each other, Fang Jie didn't intend to let loose with her; he just looked down on her.

"Looks like destiny has finally come to challenge me. How slow, I'm getting bored waiting."

Rita remained silent and quietly walked away.

Arguing is pointless; the opponent is a formidable foe capable of defeating Lady Theresa.

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Rita Losweather, a Schicksal 'S' rank Valkyrie, wears the prototype fourth-generation Valkyrie Godslayer Armor, a particle stream dispersion specialized armor, and attacks in the Azure Knight Moon Soul form.

It symbolizes the terrifying side of the moon, spreading its life-destroying coldness across the earth like moonlight, bringing despair to all things...

Look at the frozen seas and cities we've passed through; they're similar stand-ins.

She wouldn't act rashly; she would simply stall for time, wait for her companions to gather, and she would surely be able to avenge Lady Theresa.

Extremely vigilant and wary of the formidable enemy before them, they could not discern who was stronger or weaker from appearance alone, but in the world of Honkai Impact 3rd, according to general theory, there are far more Valkyries!

Yae Sakura stepped forward, poised to strike the fleeing Valkyrie.

She was clearly in a bad mood.

"Wait a minute, this is not an opponent you should be dealing with."

Fang Jie stopped her; that would be too cruel.

That's even more cruel than having Clarind, who was guarding Funina, beat up a small sea crab by the roadside. Let me do it.

He reached out and summoned segments of ice arrows that seemed to grow from the void beside him. He didn't need a bow; he wasn't going to be so formalistic as to celebrate the 7th of March.

"Loose the arrows! Loose the arrows!"

Arrows rained down, covering the area in which Rita had flown, leaving her nowhere to escape...

His face seemed to possess a unique mocking power. Rita, who originally intended to hold her ground and wait for reinforcements... could not bear it any longer. A chilling slash came straight at her like a ghost, and the phantom spirit moved forward like moonlight.

Wherever it goes, everything is covered in frost.

—Skadi of the Frost!

On the night of the first frost, everything freezes into ice and turns into frost and snow, with only a new moon appearing in the darkness.

What arrow rain? Its attack power is only at the level of 'hail' or 'blizzard'. Do you really expect it to pose any obstacle to a dignified 'S' rank Valkyrie?

It tore through the rain of arrows, slashing down in a swift motion.

The refrigerator's owner was unstoppable and would solve the problem...

"It's useless!"

An ice shield blocked the slash, but it was shattered and the attack was thwarted.

Fang Jie casually waved his hand, and another giant shield appeared. He raised the shield to cover himself and charged forward.

They rushed forward, stepping on ice blocks that appeared out of nowhere.

"what?"

Rita's gaze changed.

Although it looks ordinary, its defense is so much stronger than the attack... And thinking about it carefully, the ice is also very illogical, and no one found that he was carrying a flying device, yet he was able to travel through the sky without external force.

Law maker!

No, there was no Herrscher Honkai energy reaction.

Rita became more cautious.

This guy has condensed Honkai energy to its limit, to the point that it can withstand the attack of her dignified 'S' class, and even her Godslayer Armor.

"Not bad, but... that's all."