Chapter Summaries

After a warm call with Kiana, Theresa and the others continued the Hyperion’s drills until the ship’s orbit began to deviate and Theresa collapsed. She awoke in a familiar classroom with Himeko beside her, leaving the cause of the scene unclear.

• Kiana told Theresa and the others that Durandal’s Valkyrie training was exhausting, while Theresa felt reassured by Kiana’s cheerful, more mature behavior.
• Einstein and Theresa discussed Kiana’s growth, while Bronya reflected on the Starter Trio’s future and the possibility of new protagonists in Part Two.
• During a routine drill, Ai-chan reported that the Hyperion’s lunar orbit was deviating, so Theresa ordered the ship to return to Inverse Business’s Space Station.
• Theresa suddenly became dizzy and collapsed on the bridge before the screen went dark.
• Theresa woke in a classroom wearing her Valkyrie Armor and saw Himeko, who spoke to her as if they were at school.

Theresa realized she was dreaming after the classroom vanished, and an Otto-like subconscious manifestation explained what had happened. Mei then heard Raven’s explanation of the Stigmata Project, which would move the dreams of people unable to awaken stigmata into a collective dream world while New Humans continued civilization in reality.

• Theresa mistook her dream of daily life with Himeko for reality until the spinning top fell and the classroom disappeared.
• An Otto-like manifestation told Theresa she had broken through a layer of her subconscious and discovered she was dreaming.
• Mei met Raven beyond the Gate, where Raven described the Stigmata Project and its transformation of humanity and the world.
• Mo Li clarified that the project would place the minds of people unable to awaken stigmata into a shared dream realm while New Humans built a new civilization in the material world.
• The players debated whether the Stigmata Project preserved civilization by redefining humanity or denied humanity by prioritizing civilization over human existence.

The players reconsidered why Kevin chose the Stigmata Project, recognizing it as a desperate response to Finality even though it contradicted Elysia’s ideals. Theresa explored her dream with Otto’s guidance, and the chapter ended as they found themselves at Otto’s final resting place beneath the Imaginary Tree.

• The players debated the Stigmata Project and realized Kevin had pursued it because the Previous Era had been powerless against Finality.
• Theresa confirmed with Otto that she was trapped in a dream and learned that finding its flaw meant confronting one of her weaknesses.
• Theresa encountered an A-Series Replica and Parvati, while Otto warned her that more enemies might appear.
• Otto described himself as the kind half of Otto Apocalypse within Theresa’s consciousness, and the players questioned whether he was a contingency Otto had left behind.
• Theresa and Otto went to St. Freya’s Central Cathedral, where Theresa recalled losing Himeko after Kiana was affected by the Herrscher’s power.
• Instead of reaching the secret place beneath the school, Theresa found Otto’s final resting place, with red earth and the Imaginary Tree in the distance.

Theresa learned that her dream had become entangled with the Imaginary and used Vishnu to devour the illusion, beginning with Otto. Afterward, she watched Otto fade away, while the livestream audience continued to believe he was a contingency Otto had left to help his granddaughter.

• Theresa asked Otto whether their surroundings were a dream or the real Imaginary Space, and Otto suggested that dreams were merging or that the Imaginary was eroding her body.
• Otto guided Theresa to realize that Vishnu could devour the illusion and other dreams, and the game began a battle against Otto.
• Theresa defeated Otto without resistance, and Otto encouraged her to grow stronger as Vishnu.
• Theresa asked what would happen to Otto, and he said he would return to the dreamer when the dream ended.
• Theresa struggled to speak to Otto before he disappeared, while the livestream audience speculated that he was a contingency left to help her.

Theresa dreamed of Otto and took his final words as a chance to say goodbye, while Mei and Raven parted ways with a duel after Mei left World Serpent. The chapter ended with their friendship giving way to the conflict between their opposing sides.

• Otto comforted Theresa in her dream, then vanished after calling the real Otto a complete fool.
• Players watching Mei's livestream believed the dream figure was the real Otto saying farewell to Theresa.
• Mei and Raven wandered through dream Sky Dome City, where Raven invited Mei for a drink and Mei ordered milk.
• Raven recalled meeting Mei in Sky Dome City and challenged her to a farewell duel.
• Raven told Mei that leaving World Serpent had made them enemies, and the two fought in a sparring match.

Mei defeated Raven, but collapsed after learning about New Atra and was drawn into a mysterious dream. The story then shifted to Kevin’s memories of the Previous Era, where Mei explained that Elysia’s existence was an extraordinarily unlikely miracle.

• Mei disarmed Raven’s Staff of the Underworld and pinned her down, settling their debt as Raven surrendered.
• Raven told Mei that New Atra was where people lived during the Stigmata Project, and Mei collapsed after hearing indistinct voices.
• A gentle voice reassured Raven that Mei and Raven no longer owed each other anything, then told the unconscious Mei she would drift to a distant shore and reunite with someone she cherished.
• The story shifted to Kevin’s memories from fifty thousand years earlier, recalling Mei’s childhood questions about life and the stars.
• Mei told Elysia that her type of Herrscher had a probability of only thirty to thirty-five consecutive zeroes after the decimal point, calling her existence an accidental escape from Finality.

Theresa learned from the Stigmata Will that Kevin’s Stigmata Project would let stigmata replace humanity, while humans lived on in dreams, and she opposed the plan. The chapter ended with the Stigmata Will beginning to explain the project’s wider consequences.

• Kevin spoke with Number Seventeen about carrying Finality’s authority and following their plan, leading players to suspect he might become the Finality Herrscher.
• Mei continued the story and showed Theresa meeting the Stigmata Will, an artificial consciousness within the Kaslana stigmata space.
• The Stigmata Will explained that the Stigmata Project had begun and that Theresa had reached the moon after devouring the dreams that ensnared others.
• The Stigmata Will revealed that ordinary people would dream in the Imaginary Gap while stigmata descended into reality and replaced them.
• Theresa understood that the project would preserve humanity in dreams while storybook characters lived in the real world, and she strongly opposed that outcome.
• The Stigmata Will began explaining that the project might let stigmata inherit human civilization and avert Finality’s Descent.

Theresa entered the Stigmata Space and confronted Kevin, who argued that the Stigmata Project was humanity’s only chance to defeat Honkai. Their disagreement led to a battle, and Kevin prepared to strike her with Finality Power.

• The Stigmata Will sent Theresa through a Gate to face a trial in the frozen Stigmata Space.
• Kevin appeared, explained that the Current Era’s Herrschers matched the Previous Era’s, and said World Serpent had to execute the Stigmata Project now.
• Theresa challenged Kevin’s claim that the Stigmata Project was humanity’s only way forward, calling its cost a life sentence for people.
• Kevin challenged Theresa to prove herself, and the battle began as Bronya took over the controls.
• Kevin spoke of humanity’s limits and the birds that escaped extinction before igniting black flames on his sword and preparing a strike imbued with Finality Power.

Kevin defeated the Stigmata Will and Theresa in the game, leaving viewers fearing Theresa had died. The story then revealed that Mobius had survived into the present and was meeting Prometheus as the AI prepared to become a Trojan program aimed at Finality.

• Kevin transformed into his Karma Demon form, defeated the Stigmata Will, and absorbed its final power into Theresa.
• Theresa fought Karma Demon Kevin, but the game forced her defeat, and Kevin struck her down with the Blade of Judgment.
• The game cut to Mobius, whose remains and failing life functions were revealed as she met Prometheus in a dark corridor.
• Mobius explained that Prometheus would become a Trojan program in Imaginary Space, creating the Imaginary Renormalization Group and stabilizing Herrscher authorities for the next era.
• Mobius told Prometheus that her consciousness would be consumed by the Renormalization Group unless someone awakened its sole backdoor, an act that would also mean the group's death.

Duck Duck and the audience learned that Prometheus had given Honkai its consciousness and helped make the current era’s Herrschers match those of the Previous Era. The Stigmata Project then transformed humanity and the world, and a preview announced the finale, leaving Duck Duck, Mei, Bronya, and the viewers reluctant to see Part One end.

• Mobius told Prometheus she preferred to give her a human name before darkness swallowed her, and the audience realized the conversation came from the Previous Era.
• Players connected Prometheus’s role as an artificial intelligence planted by the Previous Era to Elysia opening a path for her into Honkai.
• Duck Duck continued through the final stages of the livestream as the countdown showed people across the world falling asleep.
• At the countdown’s end, the Stigmata Project erased humanity from real-number space and remade people as part of the planet within a shared dream.
• Duck Duck played an animated preview showing Kevin, Mei, Elysia, the Flame-Chasers, Kiana, and herself, ending on a poster announcing Part One: Finale.
• Duck Duck ended the livestream, while Mei, Bronya, and the audience expressed reluctance to say goodbye to the story.

After the livestream, Mo Li prepared for the upcoming Concert and the next Genshin Impact and Honkai Impact 3rd releases. Yun Jin arrived at the Studio with Professor Han, who was delighted to see Elysia, as Mo Li prepared to play Yun Jin’s song.

• MiHoYo-related videos about Raiden Shogun, Duck Duck’s gameplay, and Honkai Impact 3rd spread across video platforms after the livestream.
• Mo Li planned the Concert, Shenhe’s release and Mid-Autumn Festival event, while Duck Duck requested the later Honkai Impact 3rd scripts.
• The Concert venue closed to the public as tourists arrived in the city and the mayor celebrated the economic boost.
• Yun Jin returned to MiHoYo Studio with Professor Han, who searched for Elysia and brightened when she saw her.
• Mo Li said Professor Han should hear Yun Jin’s song, and an operatic melody began playing as he looked for Shennü Pi Guan.

Mo Li persuaded Professor Han that blending Peking opera with modern music could introduce opera to new audiences, and she accepted his reasoning after listening to “Shennü Pi Guan” again. She agreed to stay at the Studio with Yun Jin, where Yun Jin would record the song, story dubbing, and character voice lines for her upcoming Character Card.

• Professor Han listened to “Shennü Pi Guan” and questioned whether modernizing opera was a suitable way to promote it.
• Mo Li explained that cultural promotion needed to draw people in through familiar, appealing forms, while Eden argued that opera had to adapt to changing times.
• Mo Li compared the song’s approach to how Genshin Impact used players’ interest in familiar cultural elements to lead them toward Liyue and Dragon Country culture.
• Professor Han reconsidered the song, listened to it again, and praised how it showed the beauty of Peking opera vocals in a new way.
• Mo Li invited Professor Han and Yun Jin to stay at the Studio so Yun Jin could record the song, story dubbing, and character voice lines, and Professor Han asked about her Character Card and story.

Mo Li showed Professor Han Yun Jin’s carefully designed game model and animations, which impressed her and Elysia. He then reviewed Concert preparations and found Yun Jin playing holographic CS with Kiana and the others, asking how she liked it.

• Professor Han admired Yun Jin’s opera-inspired character design and Beijing Opera animations, while Elysia expressed interest in seeing Yun Jin perform on stage.
• Professor Han invited Elysia to watch videos of Yun Jin’s opera performances, and Mo Li left to discuss voice recording with Yun Jin.
• Rita told Mo Li that the Concert livestream contract was finalized and that the venue had been sealed off for rehearsal; Mo Li planned to take the girls there the next day.
• Mo Li reached the gaming area and found Kiana, Yun Jin, Kafka, and the others playing holographic CS.
• Mo Li asked Yun Jin how she liked playing games with Holographic Projection.

As the MiHoYo concert began, enormous crowds gathered outside the venue and were captivated by its music and holographic projection. Mo Li found that Eden and the mayor’s assistants had handled the preparations, leaving him surprisingly idle.

• Kiana took Yun Jin’s place in the game and challenged Kafka to a sniper duel while Mo Li watched.
• On concert day, huge crowds gathered around the venue, where Su Qian discussed Honkai Impact 3rd with fans while cosplaying Alvitr.
• The venue lights came on, Canon from Honkai Impact 3rd’s “Graduation Trip” played, and a giant holographic concert poster appeared above the venue.
• Streamers switched viewers to MiHoYo’s official livestream, whose aerial shots revealed the immense crowds surrounding the venue.
• Mo Li realized Eden, the mayor’s assistants, and Eden’s hired team had handled the concert preparations, leaving him with little to do.

Mo Li prepared for the Concert as crowds gathered inside and outside the venue. When he arranged for large screens so ticketless fans could watch nearby, Wanda Cinemas quickly lent equipment, and the chapter left the audience cheering as the show approached.

• Mo Li reassured himself that the mayor had arranged extra security and ambulances, then told Kafka that the Holographic Projection game was not ready for mass production.
• Ticketed audience members took their seats while fans who could not get in stayed outside to watch the livestream and hear the music.
• Mo Li noticed the crowd outside was nearly twice as large as the one inside and asked the mayor's assistant to arrange security and screens for them.
• Wanda Cinemas agreed to lend MiHoYo screens for free and began setting them up outside the venue.
• Fans inside and online cheered at MiHoYo's gesture as the Concert drew near.

As the Concert prepared to begin, Mo Li reassured the nervous performers backstage while viewers around the world tuned in. Eden opened the show with “Queen's Descent,” accompanied by a stunning holographic recreation of the animated short that left the audience spellbound.

• Kafka joked with Mo Li about whether his warm gestures were a scheme to win fans over, and Mo Li answered in Otto's distinctive tone.
• Elysia brought the nervous Kiana and other Studio girls to see Mo Li before the Concert, while Eden and Himeko went to prepare.
• At eight, the venue went dark, then Eden appeared onstage as the familiar login prompt played and the audience erupted in cheers.
• Eden began her first song, “Queen's Descent,” and her singing stirred the excited crowd.
• A holographic scene from the animated short appeared above the stage, with the Herrscher of the Void and Benares swooping over the audience before returning to the Queen.

Eden’s performance dazzled the audience with a massive Holographic Projection and Titan Mechs, while the spectacle caused some concertgoers to faint. After Eden’s song ended, the stage shifted into the Imaginary Space atmosphere as Himeko’s “The Last Lesson” began, leaving the audience bracing for the tragedy.

• Eden continued singing as Titan Mechs appeared among the audience and aimed their artillery at the projected Herrscher of the Void.
• The mechs fired at the Queen in time with Eden’s song, and a sudden pause followed by a finger snap led into the music’s explosive return.
• Overwhelmed audience members fainted around the venue, and staff carried them to ambulances as livestream viewers reacted in shock.
• Influential figures marveled at MiHoYo’s Holographic Projection technology, and Wanda Cinemas was especially eager to contact the company’s boss.
• After Eden’s song ended, the stage lights dimmed and returned with an Imaginary Space-like atmosphere as the piano prelude to “Nightglow” began.
• The audience recognized Himeko’s “The Last Lesson,” fell silent, and remembered her sacrifice.

Himeko performed “Nightglow,” moving the audience with her portrayal of her final battle and farewell to Kiana. After the song, Kiana hugged Himeko and went onstage for her own performance as the Concert livestream audience continued to grow.

• Himeko appeared onstage in battered armor and sang “Nightglow” as the venue’s projections recreated Imaginary Space.
• The audience cried out for Himeko, and she became tearful as she sang with greater feeling.
• The holographic walls shattered overhead, and the audience applauded Himeko’s performance.
• Backstage, Eden praised Himeko, and Kiana hugged her before heading onstage.
• The stage lights dimmed for the next performance as livestream viewership soared across platforms.

Kiana performed “Starfa11” as a reply to Himeko’s “The Last Lesson,” moving the audience with a spectacular recreation of Sky Dome City and her meteor-like ascent. The Concert left viewers emotionally swept up in Honkai Impact 3rd’s story, while newcomers asked why its songs affected fans so deeply.

• Viewers speculated that Eden would perform next as the stage lights came back on and “Starfa11” began.
• Mo Li had arranged for Kiana to sing “Starfa11” because the song served as Kiana’s response to Himeko.
• Kiana performed in Valkyrie Ranger armor, and the audience heard her gentle voice and recognized the song’s emotional connection to Himeko.
• The stage transformed into Sky Dome City as Kiana’s performance built to its chorus and the audience cheered.
• Kiana appeared in Void Archives Armor and flew skyward with the Honkai experiment bomb before a meteor-like explosion sent curtains of light over the audience.
• Viewers cried and celebrated in the venue and livestream, while newcomers asked why the game’s story and songs moved its fans so deeply.

Mo Li accepted CCTV Channel 6’s request to broadcast the Concert, and the national channel began airing it during Eden’s performance. As viewers at home discovered the broadcast, the Concert continued with the crowd cheering for the next act.

• Six Princess called Mo Li to request the Concert’s broadcasting rights, and he agreed to let CCTV Channel 6 connect its broadcast line.
• Mo Li told the girls not to inform the performers about the TV broadcast yet, and Durandal agreed to keep watch at the venue.
• Xu Qian’s family saw Channel 6 replace its movie with the Concert, recognized Eden, and watched as Xu Qian explained the event.
• Eden performed Seele’s animated short theme song, “Dua1-Ego,” while Mo Li and the Channel 6 crew connected the broadcast line.
• Blue lights and energetic electronic music filled the stage, and the Concert audience cheered as the next performance began.