When Their Hero Was in Honkai Impact 3rd, Part 32

Yet with Bai Ge having given her a full four Simulated Cores, while also occasionally using the Herrscher of the Void's powers to reposition her, she steadily suppressed the two of them.

However, which way the scales of victory would tip ultimately depended on the outcome of Bai Ge's battle against Fu Hua.

The two were already fighting fiercely.

And...

"Huh? It seems like it's not impossible for me to win."

Bai Ge was surprised to discover that he actually had a chance of winning.

Perhaps because he knew he was facing a Flame-Chaser of the Previous Era, he had regarded himself as the challenger from the very beginning. Without the slightest carelessness, and with a thorough understanding of Fu Hua's abilities, he had actually gained the upper hand.

Since getting close meant certain death, he just had to keep throwing abilities at her from afar. No matter how high your agility was, Warrior Fu, it still couldn't compare to spatial teleportation.

(But she still has one move that poses an enormous threat to me. If Fu Hua uses Feather of the Wind and disregards the excessive burning of her memories to unleash Great Void Sword God... yeah, I probably won't be able to block it...)

But it seemed like he could dodge it!

Bai Ge steeled himself.

As long as Fu Hua dared to use it, he would dare to run. Bai Ge refused to believe that, even if he ignored the massive consumption of Honkai Energy and teleported straight to the moon, he could still be struck by the Sword God.

Even if you, Valkyrie Hua, were absurdly strong and could slash me even after I ran to the moon, then... Bai Ge would just have to sacrifice the Honkai God in his head.

At worst, he would let her cut it.

It would only knock the Honkai God offline at most, and he would even thank her for it. That damn thing urged him every day to hurry up and destroy the world and wipe out humanity. It was annoying as hell.

Bai Ge: "Ah, so the advantage is actually on my side this time? I'm... pretty damn amazing."

Fu Hua: "This is troublesome."

Immortal Crimson Crane frowned. She had initially been completely confident, but she had never expected the Herrscher before her to be so cautious, not giving her even the slightest opportunity to get close.

If the stalemate continued, she would undoubtedly be the first to run out of strength. After all, unlike a Herrscher who could restore Honkai Energy from Imaginary Space through a Herrscher Core—

Once her Honkai Energy was depleted, relying on physical ability alone would make it difficult to fight this multi-core Herrscher.

(Master, be careful!)

"Hm?"

Bella's warning suddenly reached him. Without hesitation, Bai Ge immediately teleported himself ten meters away, barely evading the thrown black lance.

"Black Abyss of Black Abyss White Flower?"

"It actually dodged it."

Cecilia revealed a startled expression.

She clearly had not expected her thrown attack from Bai Ge's blind spot to be evaded. They did not know about the telepathic connection between a Herrscher and their accompanying Honkai Beast.

Seeing that Fu Hua could not take down the Herrscher of the Void, Cecilia decisively came to assist her.

They both understood that only by working together could they create an opportunity to defeat the young Herrscher before them.

However—

"Naive."

Bai Ge snorted disdainfully.

With the many powers he possessed, ordinary people could scarcely even breach his defenses. Leaving aside anything else, the shield of Ideal Fluid alone was already approaching the limits of physics.

"Not necessarily."

Cecilia smiled mysteriously. She actually sliced open her own arm, and the next second, the beautiful white-haired married woman scattered her blood toward Bai Ge.

In an instant, Bai Ge's shields shattered one after another.

"...Tch, I almost forgot about Holy Blood."

Bai Ge's eye twitched as he cursed himself for forgetting something so crucial. Sanya's Holy Blood could purge all Honkai Energy; it was an absolute Herrscher killer!

No matter how strong his shields were, they were still condensed from Honkai Energy. To Bai Ge, Cecilia's Holy Blood was like boiling water poured over snow.

And although Cecilia had been retired for many years after becoming a mother, she was still an S-Rank Valkyrie.

She would not let this opportunity pass.

"Now."

Holding Black Abyss White Flower, she charged toward Bai Ge.

The God Key containing the powers of creation and withering pierced through the Herrscher's body in an instant... or so it seemed.

"I told you, you can't win."

"What?!"

Cecilia's eyes widened in shock. Only then did she realize that her Black Abyss White Flower had been blocked by a spatial gate. It looked as though it had pierced the Herrscher of the Void, but it was actually a miss.

"No... no, this is bad. I'm dead."

Despair appeared on Cecilia's face.

She could already see the unavoidable Spear of the Void right before her eyes. At such an extremely close distance, even an S-Rank Valkyrie had no chance of dodging it.

"Kiana, Siegfried, I'm sorry..."

Just as Cecilia thought she was about to be pierced through and killed in the next second—

"Huh?"

"Off you go."

Bai Ge grabbed her slender arm and flung Cecilia away.

(Heh~ Mother-in-law is a good person. Can't hit her.)

Kiana's mother, Durandal's mother, and the Saintess who, in the original story, had been the only one to give Sirin warmth and motherly love—and who had ultimately saved all of Siberia with every drop of her blood.

There were many people Bai Ge wanted to save during this transmigration, and this married woman before him was undoubtedly one of them. Her priority even ranked just below Sirin's.

"Cecilia, are you all right?!"

"I-I'm fine. That Herrscher didn't hurt me just now. He only threw me away," Cecilia said, still shaken.

She was certain that if Bai Ge had intended to kill her just now, she would already have been impaled by that huge, thick Spear of the Void.

"What? What's going on here?" Theresa was stunned as well.

She dusted off her grime-covered nun's habit. After Cecilia had left earlier, she had faced Bella alone.

The result could only be described as a miserable beating.

If not for the S-Rank Valkyrie's Oath of Judas being powerful enough, Theresa felt that she would have been dead by now.

At the same time, Siegfried regained consciousness.

Fu Hua also temporarily stopped attacking.

"It is indeed strange. Although I can sense fighting intent from this Herrscher, he... doesn't seem to have any killing intent toward us."

As a Fusion Warrior who had survived from the Previous Civilization to the present day, Fu Hua's senses were undoubtedly extremely sharp.

When she had fought Bai Ge, she had noticed that although his attacks were strong, fierce, and relentless, he had only targeted her limbs rather than any vital areas.

It was as though he merely wanted to deprive her of her combat ability.

Rather than kill her.

"Master, these people really are strong."

"Yeah. We should look for a chance to slip away."

Although Bai Ge and Bella, master and servant, were both uninjured, Bai Ge knew perfectly well that there was no need for him to fight these people head-on. Besides... the only reason this fight had started was because of Siegfried.

However, just as he was about to secretly open a portal, pick up Sirin and the others, and make a run for it—

"Everyone, could you give me a moment?" A brown-haired man wearing glasses suddenly appeared.

Welt Yang, the Herrscher of Reason, had finally arrived at the scene. He held the Simulated Star of Eden in his hand, ready to deploy a gravity field at any moment.

"The First Herrscher!"

"Why is Anti-Entropy's leader here too?"

"What are you after this time?"

The situation instantly grew tense.

Everyone knew that Schicksal and Anti-Entropy were sworn enemies.

Now, Anti-Entropy's leader had come here alone. Combined with Schicksal's many top-tier fighters—and Bai Ge, the five-core Herrscher whose allegiance was unclear—

Well, this had turned into a three-way standoff.

Fortunately, while their current positions differed, everyone present was actually part of the future protagonist faction. None of the three sides were truly enemies; they were all the sort who could avoid conflict as long as they talked things out.

And after calming down, they were all willing to speak.