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Tears of Heaven, a Divine Key Kevin could always freeze solid
The introduction had mentioned that this story was dedicated to the Thirteen Heroes of Fire, but Su Nian was currently following Kevin's storyline and writing about his personal experiences.
Then Su Nian should arrange for the other twelve characters to interact with Kevin as well.
"There aren't many named characters appearing right now. That girl who has already joined, or will join in the future, might be one of them."
A battlefield was bound to be dangerous, but if she could appear there, what kind of person was she?
Su Nian had not thought that much about it. Kevin really had interacted with the other twelve Flame-Chasers.
But not all that much. Not all of the Thirteen Heroes of Fire were friends with one another.
Only Elysia had achieved the feat of being friendly with everyone.
Ultimately, it came down to differences in their personalities.
The changes Kevin underwent after Hypermutation Surgery had practically frozen his heart.
But this was absolutely not numbness toward the current state of affairs, nor had Kevin's temperament changed drastically.
Even though he could not embrace the person he loved and struggled to feel the care of his friends, he had not changed.
Kevin remained the same as ever.
The unfortunate part was this side effect. Without it, Savior Kevin might have been like Kevin in this peaceful world...
Kevin in this world should have been cheerful and outgoing, with plenty of friends, right?
With that in mind, Su Nian still wrote down this somewhat "cruel-to-the-protagonist" setting.
No matter the outcome or the process, this was what Kevin carried. It could not be erased just because it was unsuitable.
While gaining immense power, Kevin also bore the side effects of Hypermutation Surgery.
The side effects caused by Hypermutation Surgery kept Kevin's body at -30°C all year round.
It was not something he could control. Anyone who approached him would suffer frostbite.
This time, they had eliminated the Herrscher, but the gloom in Kevin's heart still had not dispersed.
From the Sixth Honkai Outbreak to the end of the Seventh Honkai Outbreak, Kevin seemed to have grown colder and colder.
Seeing all this, the pink-haired girl Elysia spontaneously organized an event—Kevin's birthday party.
That day, the future leader of Moth of the Fire and its first seven Flame Chasers gathered together for such a trivial reason.
Though it was an ordinary matter by comparison, it held extraordinary meaning in Kevin's heart.
During his final moments in the hibernation pod, Kevin recalled that beautiful, warm time.
In Kevin's memories, that time went like this:
Amid cheerful clamor and under everyone's gaze, he bent down and blew out every candle.
The light vanished, and the noise went with it. There seemed to be some strange tacit understanding between them. Darkness gradually enveloped the world, and no one relit the lights.
Gradually, the man's eyes adjusted to the darkness.
In the blurred world, he vaguely saw the transparent glass cover of the pod and heard the monotonous sounds of machinery. There was nothing else.
For Kevin, this was not something he could simply brush aside.
That was also where Elysia's charm lay. She was always like this, loving everyone while retaining a girl's little thoughts, carefully looking after each person.
A girl like that...
Made people's hearts hurt all the more when she was struck down.
The miHoYo knife method: tragedy was showing people the destruction of beautiful things.
Advanced miHoYo knife method: for things everyone already knew had been destroyed, they could make them even more beautiful.
Elysia being struck down was miHoYo shamelessly using the second knife method!
"Kevin's birthday party... might have been one of the few happy moments in his life now, right?"
Remembering that game CG, everyone in it had been smiling so happily, carefree as if the Honkai had never descended.
Su Nian muttered to herself. If anyone were watching the stream now, they should have noticed that she was recreating the miHoYo knife method.
In the part about Kevin's body temperature, the fact that others could get frostbite already hinted at the outcome between him and Mei.
Su Nian simply had not spelled it out.
Anyone who paid close attention could deduce it themselves.
The online viewers caught the scent of trouble and began to panic.
There was really something wrong with this story!
Something seriously wrong!
The earlier content could still be explained as settings necessary for the worldbuilding and plot, settings that would all be useful to the protagonist.
They could still accept Himiko being struck down, because she was Kevin's colleague and did not have much screen time.
And Su Nian had yet to introduce Hua's existence, so the knife was still hidden and had not directly come out to hurt the audience.
But this body temperature setting... the problem had revealed its first signs.
It even affected Kevin's normal life.
This setting... what about the romance?
Don't panic. Technology had advanced this far already. It was just a side effect—give it more time to develop, and it would be solved.
Right, the protagonist and heroine were definitely devoted to each other. I overreacted.
Exactly, exactly. They just weren't together yet. The ending would definitely have them surrounded by children, just like everyone else.
But this story's plot direction was different from what they expected, different from everyone else's.
They could never have anticipated it.
Still innocent, they believed this side effect was merely a trial Su Nian had set up to test the relationship between the male and female leads...
As long as they overcame it, their future would surely be harmonious and happy.
No one could have guessed the ending of this story before the Herrscher of the End appeared.
After all...
Even when humanity had once fallen into despair and paid an enormous price...
As long as Kevin was here, there was hope for everything.
As long as he remained, hope remained.
No viewer believed Kevin would lose.
After all, who would write so much only to give them an ending where they could not defeat The End?
The Herrschers before The End had been overcome through all sorts of methods. Though countless warriors had been sacrificed... humanity had ultimately achieved victory.
The ending of this story was simply too healing!
After a Herrscher died, it would drop a Herrscher Core containing its Authority, which humanity could use.
The Divine Key project had also progressed. Based on the core of the Herrscher of Flames, Vill-V created a greatsword and named it Tears of Heaven.
It inherited the formidable Authority of the Herrscher of Flames. In the current Moth of the Fire, only one person could wield it.
Kevin had gained the ability to control ice and snow through the surgery. Tears of Heaven could only be controlled by Kevin, so naturally it was given to him.
It looked as though Kevin had been forcibly given a cheat, but that was not the case.
The reason a weapon could become Kevin's weapon was because Kevin could easily snap it in half...
When Kevin first picked up Tears of Heaven, he had already shown a glimpse of his overwhelming presence.
Too Many Plot Holes Dug
Tears of Heaven was undoubtedly a powerful Divine Key. To limit its power, the core of the Herrscher of Flames was normally split into two fragments and placed within dual pistols.
Its Zeroth Rated Power linked the Herrscher Core fragments at the pistols' safeties. The dual guns extended and transformed into a sword hilt, while molten-gold flames of intense heat surged into the sky and condensed into a blade. This method of use was called Heavenly Fire Unsheathed.
The price of this power was equally grave. When Heavenly Fire Unsheathed was unleashed, it would burn its user to ashes as well.
As the name Tears of Heaven implied, it brought equal destruction to all things.
The unique side effect of Hypermutation Surgery made him unafraid of high temperatures. This Divine Key could only be wielded by Kevin for an extended period.
Players all knew what happened when Tears of Heaven was used by someone else.
In the game, this weapon had an extremely high ownership rate, but its usage rate was another matter entirely.
Its active weapon skill consumed a huge amount of HP, greatly reducing the margin for error. The slightest mistake could result in the character's death. Combined with the story setting...
Tears of Heaven gained another name: Heaven's Self-Execution.
And the 150% output Jie Mie form was even Kevin's "signature weapon."
After introducing all of this, Su Nian prepared a new page specifically for the Divine Keys and named it "Divine Key Arc."
They were also wielded by people in the Current Civilization and had plenty of scenes, as relics of the Previous Civilization.
She wrote a separate Divine Key card for Tears of Heaven and copied the content she had just written onto it.
But she was in no rush to write down every Divine Key.
Su Nian remembered that the order in which the Divine Keys had been completed was somewhat different. It would not be too late to introduce them gradually according to their wielders in the future.
Still, for the sake of convenience, she assigned numbers in advance and left placeholders, ordering them according to the sequence in which the Herrschers appeared.
Su Nian continued considering the battles to come.
Other than the Binding Tragedy, Kevin really could strike with thunderous force during every subsequent Honkai Outbreak and claim victory afterward.
During the Eighth Honkai Outbreak, in order to prevent himself from falling prey to the Herrscher's special ability, Kevin sought Aponia and received a Law of Retribution that would ensure he never slept...
And all of this was a necessary sacrifice made to eliminate the Honkai.
But even though Kevin, humanity's hope, constantly fought on the front lines, he still found sudden Honkai Outbreaks hard to predict.
The later Herrschers were too powerful. Once they were born, they could immediately cause widespread destruction. Even if Kevin could deal with them, he could not arrive at the scene at once.
The coming Honkai Outbreaks would contain nothing but the cruelty of Honkai and the terror of Herrschers...
One victory after another was merely a disguise draped over defeat, making humanity seem a little less miserable.
No matter how Kevin turned the tide, he could not save the crumbling edifice that was the Previous Civilization.
Once the final Herrscher of the End appeared, the previous Herrschers seemed like childish squabbles.
It was an enemy too powerful to defeat. At least, the Previous Civilization had no way to do so.
During the Eighth Honkai Outbreak, the Herrscher born this time was the Herrscher of Consciousness, capable of controlling other people's consciousness.
It used a Meme Weapon to create Meme Contamination. Once people saw words it had contaminated, their minds would be infected and they would fall into dreams under its control.
This Herrscher did not cause widespread destruction. Instead, it cleverly used the internet, and after one month, more than two million people worldwide fell into [Sleeping Sickness]. With so many victims, countless patients could not receive aid and could only quietly die in their dreams.
"In terms of consciousness, Kevin had no means to contend with it."
Even someone as powerful as Kevin was helpless against such a special enemy.
His strength lay in his body.
Physical strength offered no help against the mind. After all, judging from what had been shown, Feather of Dust, the Divine Key made from the core of the Eighth Herrscher, could make Sirin fall into an illusion when wielded by Fu Hua.
Kevin was even more susceptible to the trap of sweet dreams.
Dreams always gave them what they wanted.
And those who successfully remained awake saw another boundless nightmare.
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