You asked for healing, but wrote Honkai Impact 3rd? Chapter 10

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Chapter 14: Tears of Heaven—A Divine Artifact That Always Gets Frozen by Kevin

The introduction mentioned that this story is dedicated to the Thirteen Heroes of Fire, but right now Su Nian is writing along Kevin's storyline, chronicling his personal experiences.

As for the other twelve characters, Su Nian should arrange for them to interact with Kevin.

"Not many named characters have appeared so far. Those who have joined now, or will join in the future—that girl might be one of them."

The battlefield is certainly dangerous, but for her to be here, what kind of person is she?

Su Nian hadn't thought that far ahead at all. Kevin indeed had dealings with the other twelve Heroes.

But not too many. The Thirteen Heroes of Fire weren't all friends with each other.

Only Elysia achieved the feat of being on good terms with everyone.

The reason, ultimately, was their differences in personality.

After undergoing the Hypermutation Surgery, Kevin changed—he nearly sealed his heart in ice.

But this wasn't numbness toward the present, nor was it a drastic shift in his character.

Even though he couldn't embrace the one he loved, could hardly feel the care of his friends, he still hadn't changed.

Kevin remained the same as always.

The pity was this side effect. Without it, the savior Kevin might have been like the Kevin of this peaceful world...

The Kevin of this world should be sunny and cheerful, with plenty of friends, right?

Thinking this far, Su Nian still wrote down this somewhat "torturing-the-protagonist" setting.

Regardless of the outcome, regardless of the process, this was what Kevin bore. It couldn't be erased just because it was uncomfortable.

[While gaining immense power, Kevin also endured the side effects of the Hypermutation Surgery.] [The side effects of the Hypermutation Surgery caused Kevin's body to remain at -30°C year-round.] [This was beyond his control; anyone who got close would be frostbitten.] [This time, the Herrscher was eliminated, but the gloom in Kevin's heart still hadn't dissipated.] [From the start of the Sixth Honkai Outbreak to the end of the Seventh, Kevin seemed to grow colder and colder.] [Seeing all this, the pink-haired girl Elysia took the initiative to organize an event—Kevin's birthday banquet.] [That day, the future leader of the Moth of the Fire and the first seven Flame Chasers of the Moth gathered together for such a trivial reason.]

Though it was a relatively ordinary affair, it held extraordinary significance in Kevin's heart.

In his final moments in the hibernation pod, Kevin recalled this warm and beautiful time.

In Kevin's memories, that time was described like this:

Amid the joyful clamor, under everyone's gaze, he leaned down and blew out all the candle flames.

The light vanished, and the noise faded with it. Between them, there seemed to be some strange understanding. Darkness gradually enveloped the world, and no one lit the lamps again.

Slowly, the man's eyes adjusted to the dark.

In the blurry world, he vaguely saw the transparent glass hatch and heard the monotonous sounds of instruments. Beyond that, nothing else.

For Kevin, this wasn't something he could just brush aside.

This was also Elysia's charm. She was always like this—loving everyone, with a maiden's delicate thoughts, carefully looking after each person.

A girl like this...

When she got the blade, it hurt so much.

MiHoYo's blade technique: Tragedy is destroying beautiful things for others to see.

MiHoYo's blade technique, advanced: For things already known to be destroyed, we can make them even more beautiful.

Elysia getting the blade was miHoYo's despicable use of the second technique!

"Kevin's birthday banquet... might be one of the rare happy moments for him now, right?"

Recalling that game CG, everyone on it was smiling happily, carefree, as if the Honkai had never descended.

Su Nian muttered to himself. If anyone was watching the livestream right now, they should have noticed his reproduction of miHoYo's blade technique.

On the setting of Kevin's body temperature, the fact that someone would get frostbitten already hinted at the outcome between him and Mei.

Su Nian just didn't spell it out.

If you read carefully, you could deduce it yourself.

The online audience at this moment, catching the scent, began to panic.

This story really isn't right!

It's really, really not right!

If the earlier parts could be explained away as worldbuilding and plot necessity—everything useful for the protagonist—

Then killing off Himiko? The audience could still accept that. To Kevin, she was just a colleague with little screen time.

And Su Nian hadn't even introduced Hua yet. The knife was still hidden, not yet striking the viewers directly.

But this body temperature setting... the problem was already showing cracks.

It was affecting Kevin's daily life.

[This setting... how are they going to handle romance?]

[Don't worry, technology is this advanced already. A mere side effect—just develop it further and it'll be solved.]

[Yeah, the male lead and female lead are definitely bound by an unshakable bond. I was overreacting.]

[Right, right. They're just not together yet. The ending will definitely have them surrounded by children and grandchildren. That's how it always goes.]

But this story's trajectory was different from others. Different from what they guessed.

They absolutely could not have foreseen it.

Naively, they still thought this side effect was nothing more than a trial set by Su Nian to prove the bond between the male and female leads...

Once they got through it, the future would surely be harmonious and beautiful.

No one could guess the ending of this story before the Herrscher of the End appeared.

After all...

Even if they once fell into despair, no matter how great the price humanity paid...

As long as Kevin was here, there was still hope.

He was still here, so hope remained.

No viewer thought Kevin would lose.

After all, who would write so much, only to craft an ending where they couldn't defeat the End?

Every Herrscher before the End had been overcome through various methods. Countless warriors had been sacrificed... but in the end, humanity still won.

The ending of this story was so heartwarming!

[After a Herrscher dies, their core drops. Within the core lies their Authority, which can be used by humanity.]

[The Divine Key project has also advanced. Using the core of the Herrscher of Flames, Vill-V forged a greatsword, naming it Tears of Heaven.]

[Inheriting the powerful Authority of the Herrscher of Flames, Moth of the Fire now has only one person who can wield it.]

[Kevin gained the ability to control ice and snow from the surgery. Tears of Heaven could only be controlled by Kevin, so it was naturally given to him.]

It looked like Kevin was being handed a cheat code, but that wasn't the case.

A weapon becomes Kevin's weapon because Kevin can easily break it...

The first time Kevin picked up Tears of Heaven, his overwhelming presence was already on display.

Chapter 15 had too many plot holes dug.

[Tears of Heaven is undoubtedly a powerful Divine Key. To limit its power, the core of the Herrscher of Flames is usually split into two fragments, placed within twin guns.]

[Its 0th-Rated Output: the Herrscher cores at the safety catches of the twin guns are joined together. The guns extend and transform, forming the hilt. A blazing pillar of molten-gold flame surges skyward, condensing into the blade. This usage method is called Tears of Heaven—Unsheathed.]

[The price of this power is heavy. When Tears of Heaven is unsheathed, the user is also burned to ashes.]

[As the name Tears of Heaven suggests, it brings equal destruction to all things.]

[The unique side effect of the Hypermutation Surgery makes him impervious to high temperatures. This Divine Key can only be wielded for extended periods by Kevin alone.]

If Tears of Heaven were used by someone else, the players all knew the consequences.

In the game, this weapon had an extremely high ownership rate, but its usage rate was another story.

The weapon's active skill consumed a massive amount of HP, greatly reducing the margin for error in combat. One slip-up could lead to the character's death. Combined with the story setting...

Tears of Heaven earned another name: Tears of Self-Sacrifice.

And the Jie Mie form, with 150% output, was Kevin's "signature weapon."

After finishing this segment of the story, Su Nian prepared a new page specifically for the Divine Keys, titled "Divine Key Chapter."

They would also be used by people in the current civilization, with plenty of screen time, as relics of the Previous Civilization.

She wrote out the Divine Key card for Tears of Heaven alone, copying the content she had just written onto it.

But there was no rush to write out all the Divine Keys.

Su Nian remembered that the completion order of the Divine Keys wasn't exactly the same. She could introduce them slowly later, corresponding to their users.

Still, for the sake of order, she pre-assigned numbers and reserved slots, arranging them by the order in which the Herrschers appeared.

Su Nian continued to ponder the battles to come.

From now on, for every Honkai Outbreak except the "Tragedy of Binding," Kevin could indeed strike with the force of thunder and claim victory.

The Eighth Honkai Outbreak. To prevent himself from falling under the Herrscher's special ability, Kevin sought out Aponia and requested the Law of Retribution that would ensure he never fell asleep...

And all of this was a necessary sacrifice to eliminate the Honkai.

But even Kevin, who represented the hope of humanity and had always fought on the front lines, could hardly predict the sudden arrival of the Honkai.

The later Herrschers were too powerful—once born, they could directly unleash large-scale destruction. Even if Kevin could deal with them, he couldn't appear at the scene in time.

What followed was nothing but the cruelty of the Honkai and the terror of the Herrschers...

Every victory was merely a veneer draped over failure, making humanity look less miserable.

No matter how Kevin tried to turn the tide, he could not save the crumbling edifice of the Previous Civilization.

When the final Herrscher of The End appeared, the previous Herrschers seemed like nothing more than childish squabbles.

It was an enemy too powerful to defeat—at least, the Previous Civilization had no way to counter it.

[Eighth Honkai Outbreak. The Herrscher born this time is the Herrscher of Consciousness, capable of manipulating others' minds.]

[Using a Meme Weapon to create Meme Contamination, anyone who saw a word polluted by it would have their spirit infected and fall into a dream controlled by the Herrscher.]

[This Herrscher did not engage in large-scale destruction. Instead, it cleverly used the internet. Within a month, over two million people worldwide had fallen into "sleeping sickness." Due to the overwhelming numbers, countless patients could not receive help and could only die quietly in their dreams.]

"In terms of consciousness, Kevin had no means to counter it."

Even someone as powerful as Kevin was helpless against such a peculiar enemy.

His strength lay in the physical body.

Physical might was of no use against the mind—after all, judging by past performance, the Divine Key Feather of Dust, forged from the core of the Eighth Herrscher, could, in Fu Hua's hands, trap Sirin in an illusion.

Kevin was even more susceptible to falling into the trap of sweet dreams.

Dreams always gave people what they wanted.

And those who managed to stay awake saw only another boundless nightmare.