A Man in Honkai, This Narration Is Wrong / Honkai Volume: The Grind Dog Path
Author: Old Moon
Synopsis:
After transmigrating to Changkong City in the Honkai world and learning that it was early 2014, just before the Third Honkai Outbreak, Lin Yu chose a path.
As long as grinding didn't kill him, he would grind himself to death.
Damn Honkai, today, I'm going to grind you to death!
The second day after transmigrating to the Honkai world.
System Host, there are budding young beauties here like Kiana, Mei, and Bronya, as well as mature, alluring—
Shut up. Do not disturb my Dao heart.
Although he had out-grinded the Herrscher of Thunder, it still wasn't enough. Keep grinding.
The fortieth day after transmigrating to the Honkai world.
Today, he out-grinded Chiyou, but it was all thanks to last-hitting. Not enough. Keep grinding.
The eighty-fifth day after transmigrating to the Honkai world.
Today, he bisected Kevin at the waist, but it still wasn't enough. Keep grinding.
The one hundred and fifteenth day after transmigrating to the Honkai world.
Although Otto had already been executed, he died without the chance to become a False God. Whatever. Keep grinding.
On the two hundred and thirty-sixth day after transmigrating to the Honkai world, Lin Yu, who had been grinding for eight months, stood in the Imaginary Space and watched the Cocoon of Finality before him, a faint smile curling at his lips.
"Yo, Cocoon. Are you ready?"
"Now, I'm going to 'embrace' you!"
Information
Current Protagonist Skill/Item Summary
Starting Skills
Basic Cooking—After receiving guidance from an expert, you had mastered cooking skills surpassing most of your peers ahead of time.
Beginner Honkai Resistance—After your body was modified, you could ensure that you would not instantly turn into a Meele upon encountering Honkai.
Intermediate Unarmed Combat—After receiving training, you had mastered unarmed combat skills to a certain degree.
Intermediate Weapon Proficiency—After receiving training, you had mastered weapon usage skills to a certain degree.
Intermediate Hacking—Ordinary electronic defense systems could no longer stump you.
Volume One
Takeoff! Takeoff! What a Wonderful Start!
Five minutes had passed since he had been run over and killed by Truck-kun.
But now, the young man named Lin Yu realized...
He seemed not to be dead after all?
The intense pain from being hit by Truck-kun had completely faded from his body.
If that memory had not left such a deep impression on him, he might even have thought that he was simply too tired and had experienced some bizarre hallucination.
??????. Looking at this unfamiliar room, you had actually already thought of one possibility. Death, a brand-new environment—without a doubt, you had transmigrated!
What the hell?
After hearing the voice that had suddenly appeared in his mind, Lin Yu felt that he might truly be hallucinating.
And what was with this ???????? Could it be that I really transmigrated, and the world I transmigrated into is Dou...
Transmigration—oh, what a clichéd word. But after calming down, you could already vaguely feel a trace of excitement in your heart.
Give me a break. Excited, my ass.
Right now, I just want to go home and drink my iced cola.
However, the voice in Lin Yu's mind ignored his internal complaints and continued speaking to itself.
For those with ordinary social relationships, transmigrating to another world after death meant being forever separated from family and friends. But you did not need to care about such trivial matters.
After all, you were an orphan with no parents and no close friends. From this perspective, you had already taken the first step toward invincibility!
Wow, I've had enough.
It's true that I have no parents and no friends, but anyone with even a little emotional intelligence wouldn't say something so punchable the moment they met me.
After getting to his feet in irritation, Lin Yu walked into the bathroom of the unfamiliar house and carefully examined his reflection in the mirror.
Then, looking at himself in the mirror, he froze slightly.
Lin Yu's current face had only undergone minor adjustments compared to his previous one, but those slight changes to his features had elevated him from a merely somewhat handsome young man to several levels above that.
Oh, behold this peerless face, enough to make every young woman fall for you. Looking at this face, you secretly swore that everything you had failed to obtain in your previous life, you would reclaim in this one with this face.
No, why does that make it sound like I'm planning to live off women with my looks?
Who exactly are you, anyway? Can you stop talking only inside my head? Is it really that hard to come out and meet me?
The moment Lin Yu said that, the strange voice fell silent.
In its place, a line of English appeared in his vision.
CAST IN THE NAME OF GOD, YE NOT GUILTY
Before Lin Yu could understand what the English sentence meant, it vanished from his sight.
Then, a line of text that gave Lin Yu a very bad feeling replaced it and appeared before his eyes.
Ding! Congratulations, Host, for obtaining the "Randomly Thrown-Together Narration System" Version 0.1 beta!
Host meets binding conditions. Binding... Binding successful!
Ah, a cheat ability after transmigrating.
A cheat was nice and all, but that name... Why did it feel so unreliable?
Naturally, those words could not remain in Lin Yu's field of vision forever.
In fact, a few seconds later, Lin Yu saw the system's actual interface.
Of course, calling it an actual interface was generous. It only had Settings, Host Profile, and a bunch of locked options.
After opening Settings, he found two options: Unbind System and Disable Narration.
But both options were grayed out—if you won't let me use them, why even put them there???
After opening the Host Profile, Lin Yu felt that something was even more wrong.
Host Profile
Name: Lin Yu
Nationality: Shenzhou
Age: 18
Birthday: September 23, 1996
Current Skill List
Basic Cooking—After receiving guidance from an expert, you had mastered cooking skills surpassing most of your peers ahead of time.
Beginner Honkai Resistance—After your body was modified, you could ensure that you would not instantly turn into a Meele upon encountering Honkai.
Intermediate Unarmed Combat—After receiving training, you had mastered unarmed combat skills to a certain degree.
Intermediate Weapon Proficiency—After receiving training, you had mastered weapon usage skills to a certain degree.
Intermediate Hacking—Ordinary electronic defense systems could no longer stump you.
Several more skills were listed beneath these, but after seeing one particular skill, Lin Yu already felt that something was wrong.
Takeoff! Takeoff! As a transmigrator, you had already mastered so many practical skills from the very beginning of your transmigration!
Among them was even one of the most important skills in this world.
What a wonderful start! Looking at these skills, you felt that your life was about to reach its peak.
Well said, but one of the most important skills in this world...
Honkai Energy????????
What the hell?
The skill mentioned by the narration was actually the same one Lin Yu had noticed.
Honkai Energy Resistance. This skill itself was just an ordinary passive defensive skill.
The problem was that if this skill appeared on him, didn't that mean—this was the Honkai world?
The Honkai world was an extremely unfriendly world for ordinary people.
There existed a phenomenon known as Honkai in this world, and explaining it was complicated. Put simply, it existed to kill humanity.
As for that nonsense about the little Finality looking for friends, that was complete bullshit. How many ordinary people had died while the little Finality was searching for friends? Did that even need to be asked?
If it had been an ordinary world, Lin Yu might not have been so panicked.
But if this really was the Honkai world, then if a Honkai outbreak occurred near him, even if he did not turn into a Meele, he would be killed on the spot by any Honkai Beast that appeared nearby.
Damn it, I really drew the worst possible lot.
The worst possible lot? No, you did not actually think so.
There were budding young beauties like Kiana, Mei, and Bronya here, as well as mature, alluring older sisters like Himeko and Cocolia.
There was even the five-hundred-year-old Great Pillow Sword Immortal, the fifty-thousand-year-old Flat Immortal, the Blonde Goose with huge buns despite being only in her teens, and the Short Academy Head in her forties for you to choose from.
And if you wanted to play big, Honkai God Prometheus, the Soul Steel Body-Swapped Archbishop, and Cyborg Amber were also fine choices.
You felt yourself burning with passion!
No, no, no. Is causing trouble all you narration can do?
Leaving everything else aside, which one of those people is easy to deal with?
And what the hell do you mean, the Short Academy Head in her forties? If I laid a hand on Theresa, Otto would absolutely make me wish I were dead.
And laying a hand on Otto's Soul Steel body would be even more absurd. I think you just don't want me to have an easy life!
Calm down. First, I should determine where I am...
Changkong City! The place where fate begins! This is the perfect place for you to take your first step after transmigrating!
Celebrate!
Celebrate my ass!
Please, just say a little less, okay? (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻!
My Foolish Brother
Changkong City could indeed be considered the starting point of the Honkai world in a sense.
Back when miHoYo had still planned to make a game about pretty girls fighting zombies, Kiana, the protagonist of Honkai Gakuen 2, had fought her way out of Changkong City with a baseball bat in hand.
As for the legendary Honkai 1... that thing could not even be found anymore, so it didn't count!
The reason Lin Yu was so panicked now was simple.
If this was Honkai 2, then there was guaranteed to be a Herrscher of Thunder here.
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