Collapse City: Starting with the Production of an Anime Version of Honkai

"Ugh, Cecilia!" Elysia looked at Cecilia, who Otto had ordered to cease the rescue, with an expression of sorrow and struggle, like an angel who had seen through the suffering of the world.

"She's truly selfless and altruistic, but people with this kind of altruistic personality probably won't have a good ending in the later stages of the story." Mobius deliberately glanced at Yaqing, and only spoke her mind freely after seeing no particular expression on his face.

"Selfless altruism, does such a person really exist in reality?" Mei asked the soul-searching question.

Yaqing and Mobius turned their heads almost simultaneously, looking at Elysia who had stuffed her mouth like a hamster.

"Everyone's looking at me like that, I'll get shy?" Elysia turned her face away.

"Speaking of which, why is it that Valkyrie squads are fighting on the front lines against the Collapse? There's only one male warrior, Ziegfried?" Sakura wondered.

"Is there even a need to ask? It must be for someone's consideration of the box office." Mobius curled her lips.

"You could say it's for a part of it," Yaqing laughed, "The bigger part will have to wait until the movie of the Previous Era is released."

"Oh, listening to you, you don't just want to create a movie, you also want to create an IP?"

"What I originally wanted was the Collapse IP."

Chapter 35: Burning Frozen Earth

"Over the millennia, as human civilization has continued to develop, Honkai Beasts have also continued to evolve."

Otto's magnetic, gentlemanly voice acted as narration, explaining the basic settings of Honkai Beasts to the audience.

"In the second millennium AD, Honkai Beasts are no longer what they used to be."

"The shells of Honkai Beasts are very strong, and ordinary bullets cannot cause the slightest damage to them. To penetrate this shell, you need to use at least an anti-tank rocket. However, even if the shell is penetrated, facing Emperor-class Honkai Beasts over 10 meters tall—"

"Anti-tank rockets can only destroy a small part of their bodies."

Otto spoke of the cruelty of the battle between humans and Honkai Beasts. According to Destiny's data statistics, every time an Emperor-class Honkai Beast is eliminated, 5,000 fully armed soldiers must be sacrificed.

Therefore, using ordinary troops to deal with Honkai Beasts is tantamount to wasting lives and resources, but the Valkyrie squads that Destiny can invest in number only 500.

Under this huge difference in numbers, Otto's decision to carry out carpet bombing with heavy weapons before the Valkyrie squads entered the Siberian Snowfield was an extremely correct choice.

"Heavy weapons can kill Emperor-class Honkai Beasts." Mobius leaned on the back of the front seat and said, "Wouldn't it be enough to develop a large number of weapons? Even the Herrscher of the Void would feel the danger from a nuclear bomb."

Everyone could understand what Mobius meant, which was to use nuclear bombs to bombard the Herrschers to near death, but this required a premise. Mobius quickly found something wrong and said, "What if the Herrschers later can forcibly control the nuclear missile silos?"

Yaqing was dumbfounded, his eyes widened, and the expression on his face looking at Mobius was laughable, but he quickly restrained himself.

You're invincible, kid.

Yaqing thought to himself that he hadn't even let Mobius read the script.

"How is that possible?" Mobius waved her hand, "Since they can forcibly control the nuclear missile silos? Then what is their authority? An electromagnetic network?"

Mobius brushed aside Yaqing's tugging at the corner of her clothes and continued, "Now that Sirin has obtained the Herrscher of Thunder core, she hasn't shown the ability to master the network. If there really is a Herrscher who can control the nuclear missile silos, I, Mobius, will put on that set of clothes that Elysia gave me!"

Yaqing helplessly rubbed his forehead. Once Mobius got carried away, no one could stop her.

Elysia became excited instead: "Really! Mobius, have you finally figured it out? Do you want to put on the little skirt I gave you?~?"

Mobius smiled noncommittally: "Then Mobius-senpai, don't go back on your word."

Mobius had already noticed something was wrong at this time, but she still stubbornly said, "Never!"

Missiles drew arcs in the sky, and then, like raindrops, fell on the Siberian Snowfield. After an hour of frantic bombing, Destiny's arsenal was almost exhausted, and the Siberian Snowfield was completely transformed into burning frozen earth.

At 12:00 noon on February 16th, Otto ordered all Valkyrie squads to officially enter the Siberian Snowfield.

The Northern Force led by Ziegfried soon encountered hundreds of surviving Honkai Beasts. After a bitter battle, Ziegfried seemed to sense something and looked up into the air.

In mid-air, Benares, dressed scantily, rested her hand on her chin, looking indifferently at the people below, gathering energy behind her.

The oppressive feeling brought by the large electromagnetic ball storm made Ziegfried unable to think. He ordered the entire team to retreat, pointing the muzzle of Judgement of Shamash directly at the dragon girl in the sky.

At the same time, in the Tower of Babylon, observing Benares' battle through the Herrscher of the Void's authority, Sirin expressed her disdain for Destiny's missile bombing. She said, "As long as I want, no matter how many Honkai Beasts there are, I can create them."

Just as Sirin was about to continue her actions, She suddenly noticed someone had come behind her. She turned her head and looked at Otto, Fu Hua, and Cheng Lixue who had come, and instantly understood that the so-called Valkyrie squads were just pawns used to attract her attention.

"Otto and the other two actually came to the big boss just like that?" Kevin couldn't understand Otto's operation.

"That's his confidence. It should be confidence in Fu Hua. After all, she's lived from 50,000 years ago to the current civilization. No one knows what methods she has," Mei analyzed.

"Confident that Fu Hua won't lose to a Herrscher..."

"Hua is actually so strong?!" Cat was shocked.

"Come, let this battlefield..."

"Cough cough."

Sakura's light cough interrupted Kalpas's spellcasting.

Faced with the arrival of Otto and the other two, Sirin raised a confident and inflated smile. She was feeling bored, and remembering that they were the ones who broke her puppets, Sirin said that killing them was more interesting than slaughtering puppets.

"You have to entertain me! ☆"

Otto and Cheng Lixue remained silent.

The honest Fu Hua, after hearing the other party say that she wanted to be entertained, honestly stood out according to the plan, her whole body lit up with a faint red light, and her gray-blue long hair suddenly turned white.

"Let me fight her alone. You and Lixue, stay out of it."

Hearing this, Sirin, feeling underestimated, angrily retorted, "So you beat Agatha, that good-for-nothing? Don't get cocky, you insect!"

Cheng Lixue, worried about whether Fu Hua could handle the Second Herrscher alone, asked Bishop Otto, "Are we really not going to help Shifu?"

"She's enough on her own."

Otto was supremely confident in Fu Hua's combat abilities.

Old friend, within the Feather of the Wind's domain, you can unleash your greatest power. Otto's inner thoughts were revealed to the audience.

When that power, lost for 500 years, returns to your body—

You will be the strongest person in this world.

"Old fossil, your character setting is actually the strongest person in the world?!" Little Knowledge hadn't been surprised for long before she became anxious. If Fu Hua was the strongest person in the world, how would she ever surpass her?

"Class Monitor is so cool!" Kiana's eyes sparkled.

"She's really becoming more and more like a pufferfish," Bronya said with a strange expression, but she didn't voice it.

"Class Monitor, go get that stinky Sirin crying, and teach her to stop acting tough!"

Kiana's words made Bronya realize she was simply overthinking things.

"By the way, Fu Hua, how old is Yaqing setting your character to be?" Theresa finally noticed something was wrong. "Why does the 'grandfather' in the story say you lost 500 years of power? Are you really some old monster?"

"Uh… Headmaster, that's not funny at all." The term "old monster" wounded the heart of this 20-year-old girl.

"Sorry, sorry." Theresa knew she had said the wrong thing, stuck out her tongue, and acted cute.

"Ugh, Auntie, how old are you? Stop trying to be cute!"

"Kiana!"

Chapter 36: A 50,000-Year-Old Wish

[The next moment, Fu Hua threw a punch.

Sirin, watching Fu Hua attack, relied on her Herrscher's arrogance and confidence in her authority, believing that no matter how fast or strong the punch was, human power could not penetrate the Herrscher's imaginary barrier.

But less than a second later, Sirin realized she was wrong. What came at her wasn't just the opponent's fist, but hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of golden fist shadows, falling like a storm.

The vast majority of the fist shadows didn't penetrate the Herrscher barrier, but still, one in ten thousand managed to pass through the gaps in the imaginary barrier. With Sirin unable to dodge at all, she was hit.

The golden fist shadows struck Sirin's pretty face hard, shocking her. In the moment of her wavering, the imaginary barrier also collapsed, and countless fist shadows struck her body. Although the damage wasn't high, it enraged Sirin.

"Get out of my way!"

Out of instinct, Sirin used her most destructive close-range ability—the authority of the Herrscher of Death. Everything in this black mist would be eroded away, but it couldn't erode the flames that had been burning on Fu Hua's fists for five thousand years.

"Cun! Jin! Opening the Heavens!"]

"Ah Hua is so strong! Even a six-core Herrscher has no power to fight back in front of Ah Hua!" Cat was excited, cat was shocked, cat was happy.

"This is a warrior from the Previous Era. It's simply crushing the current era's combat power. It's truly unimaginable how powerful the Final Herrscher was, to be able to fight nine of them alone and leave them with no way to retaliate," Mei said solemnly.

"How pathetic, I can imagine it," Mobius said lazily.

Mei was helpless. "Senior Mobius, is it really necessary for you to refute everything I say?"

"Hmph." Mobius snorted delicately.

[Having taken a direct hit from Cun Jin: Opening the Heavens, Sirin fell from the top of the Tower of Babylon. Fu Hua, without turning her head, said, "Lixue, lend me Ruoshui."

Sirin, lying on the ground, barely managed to get up, her head feeling like it was about to explode. She didn't understand what had happened at all, and her whole person fell into a state of self-doubt.

"I was defeated?! How is that possible!"

At this moment, a fiery red meteor fell from the top of the Tower of Babylon. Upon closer inspection, it was Fu Hua wielding a sword.

Sirin finally reacted, and anger filled her mind. Enraged, she raised her hand and mobilized the authority of the Herrscher of Wind, creating a huge mark on the surface of the Tower of Babylon with a wind blade.

However, it couldn't hit her opponent.

Fu Hua, unharmed, arrived on the ground. Looking at her figure, a familiar and hateful feeling occupied Sirin's heart—the feeling she had experienced every day before becoming a Herrscher, a feeling called fear.

At this moment, Sirin, trembling all over, had her Herrscher's pride shattered by the ant she recognized.

"Y-you… don't come any closer!"

The current Sirin didn't have the slightest appearance of a world-destroying Herrscher. She was like a little girl afraid of adults, hoping to use flames three times stronger than the Pseudo Herrscher of Flame to stop the other party's progress.

The flames of the Herrscher of Flame evoked Fu Hua's memories from 50,000 years ago.

At their first meeting, she was still a girl sitting with her knees drawn up, reaching out her hand to her—that was the path to salvation. But she became an enemy of humanity—that was the storm of world destruction. When the chains of impermanence descended with the storm, the flames were about to disappear completely.

The flames she controlled were enough to burn all of Australia, but they couldn't leave a single mark on the black armor of impermanence.]

"Himeko?!"

"Teacher Himeko?!"

"Aunt Himeko?!"

Seeing the memory scene of Fu Hua, everyone looked at the tipsy Himeko with surprise and uncertainty.

"Is that me?" Himeko, with drunken eyes, leaned close to Fu Hua. "Looks like I'm just a background character. That's normal, though."

"Hey, hey, Himeko, what are you doing! Don't take your clothes off!"

"Old fossil, you need to get her under control!"

"Uh..." Fu Hua didn't know what to say.

[That was a desire spanning fifty thousand years. For fifty millennia, Fu Hua had constantly pondered how to fight the Herrschers. Flame, Death, Void, Wind—she had long since found ways to counter each and every one of them.

Fu Hua raised Ruoshui in her hand, her fingertip tracing along the blade. Water swallows materialized behind her, taking the form of Taixu Sword Form, Sword Manifestation: Swift.

"No..."

In Sirin's wide, golden eyes filled with terror, Ruoshui pierced through her abdomen.]

"This is unplayable!" Sirin was itching to flip the table. A fifty-thousand-year-old fossil actually came to deal with a newly-born Herrscher who wasn't even 18 yet.

She wasn't so angry when she was just doing the voice acting without seeing the visuals, but now, seeing herself go through that sequence of inflating—raging—being frustrated—being terrified—being impaled, Sirin had never imagined it would be like this. She could already picture Kiana laughing at her.