Obtained Mark - Main. King of Fear (cont.)
In other words, without indexing permissions, Otto had no way to fully utilize the data in the Void Archive.
This clearly contradicts the claim that "Otto skillfully controls the level of technological development, suppressing civilization by suppressing technology, thereby suppressing the intensity of the Honkai." This is something many people consider an official setting.
That statement is pure nonsense.
Besides the fact that the Broken Sword Record setting I mentioned above clearly indicates that Otto had limited access to information, there is another important setting.
This is the setting of the Moon Shadow that I've mentioned several times in this book.
In the Moon Shadow setting, it is clearly stated that "in order to achieve this goal (referring to the resurrection of Kallen), Schicksal cannot eliminate the Honkai, but must allow the Honkai to develop."
Of course, after I mentioned this setting, I saw people in the comments defending Otto [Does Otto to Honkai conflict with Otto's suppression of the Honkai?].
I've already found the official illustrations, yet some people still say things that completely contradict the established story in an attempt to exonerate Otto.
Simba, Simba.
This statement was followed by the sentence, "[However, at the same time, we must always maintain our technology at a level that can suppress the Honkai, so that we will not be Honkai by the Honkai in return]."
It's estimated that Otto's idea of suppressing civilization and technology to prevent the Honkai is an evolution of this concept.
But is that what he really meant?
First, let's look at this passage.
Otto's goal was to revive Kallen.
What did he do to revive Kallen Otto? He allowed the Honkai to develop Honkai while maintaining technology at a level that could kill the Honkai.
The so-called "keeping one's technology at a level that can suppress the Honkai" has been passed down and eventually become "Otto suppressing the Honkai".
Then, as the story spread, it became that Emperor Otto successfully used ingenious means to develop advanced technology to suppress ordinary technology, thereby suppressing the strength of civilization and thus preventing the Honkai.
That's absolutely outrageous.
Is it possible that Otto basically ignored the level of external technology while also having limited access to internal technology?
Some people probably have no idea that Otto didn't obtain indexing access from the Void Archive, and assume that Otto already possessed all the data on the Void Archive, which is why he could gradually improve his technological capabilities...
—Bullshit, he's not that relaxed.
People who think this way have neither read the setting nor understand Otto as a person.
Otto wanted to revive Kallen, and even before he came up with his new plan, Otto still had expectations for the Herrscher of Death.
If he had the ability, he would definitely want the Honkai to develop to the point where he could have more opportunities to revive Kallen as soon as possible, instead of dragging it out for five hundred years as some people think, being overly cautious.
Returning to the previous topic, the fact that this concept has been distorted so much after being circulated several times is enough to show how outrageous some people's view of Otto is.
In the eyes of that group of people, Otto was a genius who never made mistakes, a strategist who planned and calculated everything, a master of language who could not lie but only mislead others with the truth, a guardian of the civilization that suppressed the Honkai five hundred years, a good boss whose merits outweighed his demerits and who was ridiculously good to his subordinates, and a super Otto who could Previous Civilization the wastes of the Previous Civilization (whom they thought were pretty useless) to kill indiscriminately.
Of course, these are the final Otto that are synthesized, and it is not to say that every person of this kind will agree with all of these Otto definitions.
But since we've already offended Otto's fans today, I think it's not a big deal to offend them a little more.
This is how they see Otto, and many authors even write it this way when creating derivative works [in fact, I can't say that my own book is completely free of these ideas].
But the problem is—this ridiculously off-the-charts fan-made Otto is completely different from the original Otto.
When I was creating this book as a derivative work, there were quite a few errors and additions, but overall it still leans towards being close to the original work.
Just because I wrote according to the original work doesn't mean I'm a "black" Otto, right?
The reason why the opening remarks were two thousand words long can be found in the sentence above.
(III) Main Text
By the time the Honkai arc ended, Otto had survived for approximately 1.58 million words in the book, making him arguably the final boss of the entire series [Cocoon is more of a background enemy, just a side note].
What exactly did I do that led to accusations of constantly criticizing Otto?
First, it describes him doing bad things, but these bad things are actually quite mild compared to what he did in the original story.
The phrase "gentle" here doesn't mean Otto was gentle; it means that after being cornered by Lin Yu, he had no other options and couldn't cause any more serious damage.
Secondly, the main characters, such as Lin Yu, expressed their dissatisfaction with Otto.
Some people think I'm padding the word count, promoting my own agenda, judging everything from a superior position, and slandering the hero Otto (the first two types of readers are quite numerous, and the latter two types are not entirely absent either).
Whether or not I pad the word count depends entirely on reader feedback. If readers think it's padded, there's no point in the author arguing. If everyone thinks I'm padding, then I accept it and it's no big deal.
There's no need to discuss the personal agenda involved; it certainly is—but which book dares to say it's completely free of personal agendas?
Even when I write fan fiction, I will inadvertently express my own thoughts; this kind of personal interpretation is something that is hard to avoid in creative work.
The last two are pure nonsense.
Why do I say that?
Although what I said earlier was criticizing Otto, my evaluation of Otto actually highly overlaps with Otto's self-evaluation.
Otto was very clear about what kind of person he was, and in the Tale of the Twilight of the Fool, he explicitly emphasized what kind of bastard he was.
Some people want to say that Otto's evil deeds only started in the modern era, completely ignoring the sentence that Otto mentioned in his own narration in the story.
"To heal his unspeakable inner wounds, he betrayed all his comrades over a long period of five hundred years."
This assessment also sets the tone for the portrayal of Otto in the book.
He was a traitor from the start, and all those so-called merits of his are just a list of them.
A traitorous scoundrel deserves the fate that comes with betraying all of humanity; this was a predetermined plot from the very beginning.
Otto died peacefully after watching Kallen's plan to resurrect him succeed—I would never write such a plot before, and I never will.
Rationally speaking, after the protagonist arrived, he watched Otto carry out his plan step by step, and finally let Otto's plan get close to success.
Don't forget that Otto's plan has two parts. Changguang clearly stated that one of them is to sacrifice all of humanity, and the other is the "plan with lower sacrifice" that Otto mentioned. The plan with lower sacrifice has a 50% chance of being successfully executed.
Then, let's change our perspective— the False God arc created by Otto resulted in the complete extinction of ordinary people.
As for those who think, "Oh, it would be great to go back 500 years to prepare for war," or "This would increase the probability of successfully saving the world,"
If this theory holds true, are all the main characters idiots or bastards who are hindering the great Lord Otto from carrying out his plan?
I think a normal protagonist with sound values would never allow Otto to continue committing evil deeds when he has sufficient power.
The above is a rational statement.
The emotional ones don't have so many fancy details—does a dog breed even deserve that?
After causing so much harm and creating so many problems for five hundred years, do you still think you can die peacefully after fulfilling your wish?
If I were to write such a plot, I would feel like I'm trampling on the efforts of the heroes of Schicksal over the past five hundred years.
Okay, let's get back to the previous topic.
In my previous book, I did consider the possibility of Otto surviving and teaming up with the protagonist, but I gave up on that idea after only thirty seconds of thought.
This book never had that idea from the beginning; its tone was that Otto had to die.
Of course, for a short period after the book was published, my resentment... or rather, hatred towards the character Otto wasn't that strong.
There are many reasons why things turned out this way.
In terms of plot structure, this book is divided into the following chapters: [Escape from the Sky], [Chaos in the Nine Nether Netherworlds], [Invasion of Anti-Entropy], [Awakening of the Herrscher of Death], [Inheritance of England], [A Gift from Heaven], [Constraint Awakening Arc], [Twilight of the Fool], and [True Transformation of the Finality].
Let's go through them one by one, chapter by chapter.
(1) [Escape from the Sky Chapter]
Before I finished writing the "Escape from the Sky" chapter, I felt more and more that something was not quite right.
The prevailing view now is that most of the problems in the Third Honkai Outbreak were caused by Cocolia, while a small part of the problems were due to the Anti-Entropy trio failing to stop Cocolia.
There's no problem with this part. Although I have a good impression of Old Yang and Dr. Red and Blue, failing to stop Cocolia, which led to Cocolia creating the Third Honkai Outbreak, is indeed a sign of insufficient ability.
Before writing this book, my perspective was basically focused on the internal workings of Anti-Entropy.
But while writing this book, I realized something—what about Otto?
Oh, everyone thinks Otto Cocolia hit the jackpot this time. Just by watching Cocolia do evil, it seems like he can get a lot of things.
Ah, the problem is that Cocolia, a member of the Anti-Entropy group, caused this. What's wrong with Otto not stopping her?
At first, I really did hold this view, but upon reviewing it, I realized it was wrong.
Damn it, Schicksal is an anti- Honkai organization. Someone created artificial Honkai. Schicksal, as an anti- Honkai organization, has taken so much taxpayer money and recruited so many talents under the pretext of "fighting Honkai". When they knew that someone was going to cause trouble, they didn't understand and let the other party do it, which led to the deaths of millions of people by Cocolia. Is this reasonable?
Everyone is emphasizing the benefits Otto gained from this incident, but few people remember that as the archbishop/leader of Schicksal, the anti- Honkai organization, Otto had the responsibility and obligation to take action to stop someone from creating Honkai.
Of course, because Otto is a monster, everyone is used to him being a monster. So even people who don't like Otto have gotten used Otto this pattern and only see that Otto has benefited. They didn't see that his inaction before the Third Honkai Outbreak 3rd already meant that he had failed in his duty.
Those who praise Otto certainly won't deliberately emphasize Otto flaws.
This has led both those who like Otto and those who dislike Otto to completely forget one thing—that as the Archbishop of Schicksal, even sitting still and doing nothing while letting Cocolia take action would be a serious dereliction of duty.
Furthermore, I don't think anyone would believe that "Otto wasn't inactive, he just didn't have the opportunity to deal with Cocolia." Even as Otto hater, I think that's pure nonsense. If I write that, a bunch of people will think I'm criticizing Otto's intelligence and abilities.
Judging from the fact that Otto's Ace Agent Ghost had already infiltrated the vicinity of Cocolia in the Moon Shadow, most of Cocolia's actions were probably carried out under Otto's nose.
After realizing this, my opinion of Otto worsened further.
Returning to the chapters within this book, the "Escape from the Sky" chapter is the most tightly packed.
As for why it's so tightly packed, I've moved a lot of characters who didn't appear in the original work here. Everyone's in motion, so how could it not be tight?
Although Lin Yu, who had not yet regained his memories, was affected by the hatred in his subconscious at the beginning, he was still acting in order to survive.
At this stage, Cocolia's misdeeds and Otto's indifference to Cocolia's misdeeds were one of the reasons why he was working himself to the bone.
If Cocolia hadn't caused trouble, the Third Honkai Outbreak Impact wouldn't have broken out so easily in Changkong City.
If Otto had taken Honkai -related issues seriously and done what a leader of an anti- Honkai organization should do, Cocolia's plan would never have had a chance to proceed.
Why does Lin Yu hate these two people so much? — Nonsense, the evil deeds of the bastard and the evil deeds of the eldest brother almost caused him to die outside, it would be strange if he hated them so much.
If you can't empathize, think about what it's like when your boss starts acting up at work, almost causing you to lose your job while you're working overtime until you're about to collapse. I think you should be able to feel something similar.
As for the Red, Blue, and Yang trio who failed to manage their subordinates, the heroes who risked their lives during the Second Honkai Eruption but failed to do their best, and the two bastards who Honkai /allowed the Honkai to develop, how can these two types of people be compared?
If a hero has flaws, then criticize them harshly. If they do something wrong, then I certainly won't object to your criticism.
But what kind of logic is it that people who vehemently criticize heroes are simultaneously showering praise on scoundrels who occasionally feign gentleness?
Don't think I'm just spouting nonsense. You can all see how many people are criticizing Anti-Entropy -Entropy while praising Otto for the achievements of Schicksal members. It's not just in this book; there are tons of these kinds of people in the Honkai 3rd fan fiction comment section.
In the "Escape from the Sky" chapter of this book, Otto's actions that were not shown at all in the original work are amplified [after all, the "Escape from the Sky" chapter is a story from a very long time ago. Otto entrusted this matter to Theresa, Theresa told Himeko to drive the Hyperion to fight the Herrscher of Herrscher of Thunder and told her to trust Himeko. It mainly focuses on the two of them, grandfather and granddaughter, having a brain fart].
After Lin Yu launched his operation, Otto, who had already placed Rita and Dumb Goose in ambush in Changkong City, intended to ensure K423's safety, but he didn't really do his best to stop Cocolia's actions.
While preserving some of his abilities and personality traits, it enhanced Otto's superficial benefits in the early stages.
Yes, on the surface, at least from the surface, Otto's early-game returns are ridiculously high.
Suddenly, I've almost finished collecting all the missing cards in my hand; I'm practically in a state where I only need the body of the five Egyptian envoys.
As for my opinion of Otto, I wasn't as extreme back then as I am now. It was only after I put myself in Lin Yu's shoes, this Schicksal soldier, that I realized how disgusting it was to serve under him.
Of course, even at this moment, my impression of Otto wasn't that bad.
(2) [The Chaos of the Nine Nether]
During the transitional storyline of the Nine Nether Netherworld Chaos arc, I saw someone mention that Otto suppressed the Honkai, so I posted the setting I found in chapter 73.
Then I witnessed just how much nonsense some people could spout in order to defend Otto.
Before Chapter 73, although my opinion of Otto had dropped considerably, it hadn't reached this point.
Oh, and by the way, when I first started playing Honkai 3rd three or four years ago, I had some really stupid ideas because I didn't understand the plot.
A typical example is the scene where "the sword of rebellion is raised to the sky." I felt that Himeko Theresa rushed things too quickly and didn't properly handle St. Freya and the Far East Branch. The people in the branch followed her, but suddenly they turned into rebels. They were so pitiful.
But I later realized what a stupid idea that was.
Himeko and Theresa rushed in too fast; this is something that should not be criticized but rather praised.
They defied Schicksal, but the question is, what was Schicksal doing at that time?
Otto took Kiana away and placed the Tranquility Gem inside Kiana body. He even filled Kiana with Honkai Energy in order to awaken Sirin.
Although Theresa seemed like an idiot who didn't know how dangerous Herrscher were during the Escape from the Sky arc, her decision to Schicksal Headquarters in the Last Lesson arc was correct.